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Are We Seeing History Repeat Itself?

Alan Caruba

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Thank Goodness There Has Never Been a Scandal With nObama

Look who suspended his subscription to The New York Times. When speaking at the University of Chicago Institute of Politics, Barack nObama's former adviser David Axelrod told the audience that nObama is an ethical man. An audience member had asked about the culture of lobbying in Washington, bringing up "This Town," a book by New York Times reporter Mark Leibovich that asserts the nObama administration failed to keep its promise to stay above the political fray. Axelrod said no, that was not the case. nObama is an ethical man, and there are rules in place to prevent that sort of thing. He continued, "And I'm proud of the fact that basically you have had an administration in this place for six years in which there hasn't been a major scandal. And I think that says a lot about the ethical strictures of this administration." No major scandal? Just today, New York Times investigative reporter James Risen promised to spend the rest of his life fighting to take back the freedom of the press nObama and Eric Holder destroyed. Let's not mention Benghazi, Fast and Furious and the IRS. No, according to Axelrod, there is no scandal. nObama is an ethical man. More... -The Patriot Post

EPA's New Regulations Will Cost Jobs

Whatever modest gains Barack nObama can claim in job creation, his EPA will strip away in the next few years. A new study by the Heritage Foundation finds that every state in the union will "experience overwhelmingly negative impacts" from the Environmental Protection Agency's push to regulate coal plants and motor vehicles. By 2030, the U.S. may lose a half a million jobs in the manufacturing sector and 45% of the jobs in the coal mining industry. But the EPA justifies its ecofascist decrees by saying the private sector is already investing in green energy. "The energy sector sees the writing on the wall," Liz Purchia, EPA press secretary, told the Daily Signal. "Businesses like Spectra Energy are investing billions in clean energy. And utilities like Exelon and Entergy are weaving climate considerations into business plans. This means more jobs, not less. We'll need thousands of American workers, in construction, transmission, and more, to make cleaner power a reality." What Purchia chalks up to be free market entrepreneurialism is more likely big business chasing government subsidies. Or they see the agenda the EPA has set since the 70s and plan accordingly. -The Patriot Post

Separation of Church and nObamaCare

Leftists are always eager to relegate faith to one's private life and keep church and state entirely separate. Until they're not. Any time they want to advocate wealth redistribution, same-sex marriage or even killing babies, they point to the Bible and say, "See, there's a verse about _____." Naturally, such exegesis is usually out of context or misapplied. Their latest Bible-thumping involves nObamaCare enrollment. Jeryl Bier of The Weekly Standard notes, "In an effort to sign up as many consumers as possible for insurance under the Affordable Care Act (or nObamacare), the nObama administration has gone to extraordinary lengths to partner with churches and other faith-based groups, even publishing sample church bulletin inserts, flyers, and scripts for announcements, as well as 'talking points.' These materials are part of the 'Second Sunday & Faith Weekend of Action Toolkit,' which is available on the website of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)." It goes so far in one instance as to cite I Corinthians 6:19, which says, "Your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit" -- and therefore you "must be insured." Good heavens, the hypocrisy! The party of "keep your laws off my body" is now misquoting Scripture to spiritualize a government mandate to buy insurance. -The Patriot Post

How nObama Debt Ranks as Share of GDP

Last fall, Barack nObama, who has already accumulated a staggering $7 trillion in debt, said, "All kinds of good stuff is happening. I mean, we have cut our deficit by more than half." Well, gee, that's great. Except it's egregiously deceiving. Most people interpret his statement to mean America's $18 trillion debt is now less than $9 trillion. What he actually means is that the amount of money perpetually added to the national debt has, at least temporarily, been slashed in half. Rather than $1 trillion in annual deficit spending, it's now only short of $500 billion. But how does public debt under nObama compare to previous administrations as a share of GDP? The Washington Examiner compiled a handy graph, which shows nObama comes second only to Franklin D. Roosevelt, whose ranking was largely driven by World War II. With public debt at 74.1% of GDP, nObama makes George W. Bush's 39.3% look relatively meager. In fairness, "Presidents do not have full control over the federal budget, so they don't deserve full responsibility for debt levels when they leave office," the Examiner's Jason Russell observes. Nevertheless, he continues, "[T]he veto pen is a major tool in budget debates, and the president deserves more credit or blame than any other individual." And just imagine the figure if nObama always got his way -- like his $4 trillion budget proposal. More... -The Patriot Post

Beware the Flintlock Gangs of New Jersey

New Jersey is throwing the book at retired teacher Gordon van Gilder. During a recent traffic stop, Gilder told the police officer searching his car that he had a pistol in the glove compartment of his vehicle -- an unloaded flintlock manufactured in the mid-1700s. The next day, the police department showed up at Gilder's home in force and arrested him. Now, Gilder faces a 10-year sentence in New Jersey state prison because, unlike federal law, the state makes no distinction between an antique firearm and a Saturday night special. Gilder promises to fight, saying the law is unjust. But in the meantime, he warns, "Beware of New Jersey. Don't come here. Don't live here." It's a gun law so unfair gun-grabber Michael Bloomberg should get behind its repeal. After all, he only wants to get guns out of the hands of young black and Hispanic males. As Gilder said, flintlocks are not exactly gangland's weapons of choice. -The Patriot Post

Like nObamacare? You Will Love nObamaNet

(Deroy Murdock) - In his relentless drive to leave no aspect of American life unmolested, nObama’s next stop is cyberspace. Having “reformed” U.S. medicine, nObama now aims to “repair” the World Wide Web. If you like nObamacare, you will love nObamaNet...On February 26, the Federal Communications Commission will vote on a “net neutrality” proposal to regulate broadband networks as if they were telephone monopolies from the days when copper wire was high tech. nObamaNet would let Uncle Sam intervene in the price, product-innovation, and capacity decisions of Internet Service Providers (ISPs). Net neutrality? Let’s call it net brutality. http://www.aim.org/guest-column/like-obamacare-you-will-love-obamanet/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=email021815&utm_medium=email

Top general: 'Islamists embedded in White House?'
(Greg Corombos) - In the wake of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, beheading 21 Coptic Christians in Libya, retired U.S. Air Force Gen. Tom McInerney is slamming the nObama administration for failing to take obvious military steps to destroy the terrorists...and identify radical Islam as the motivating factor for the atrocities committed throughout the region. McInerney is a Vietnam veteran and rose to the No. 3 position in the Air Force during his career in uniform. He is now a Fox News military analyst. “I think the air campaign is not nearly the intensity we needed,” McInerney said. “It’s not even an air campaign. It’s somewhere between seven and 15 sorties a day when we absolutely need upward of 100-200 sorties a day. I’m calling for 200. We need to be attacking the ISIS capital of Raqqa (Syria) 24/7. We need to close the highway between Raqqa and Mosul, Iraq.” http://www.wnd.com/2015/02/top-general-islamists-embedded-in-white-house/

Intel: ISIS planning attacks on U.S. soil

(Aaron Klein) - Interrogations of ISIS members captured in recent weeks in the Egyptian Sinai Peninsula Egyptian and information collected by Egyptian security forces indicate ISIS is planning ground offensives this spring and summer,,,aimed at taking over more territory across the Middle Eastern and Persian Gulf, a senior Egyptian intelligence official told WND. Some of the information indicates the new offensive will not be limited to the Arab world. Timed to coincide with its planned surge, ISIS is plotting possible attacks using cells abroad. ISIS and its jihadist allies could activate cells to carry attacks in Europe and possibly within the U.S., the senior Egyptian official warned. http://www.wnd.com/2015/02/intel-isis-planning-attacks-on-u-s-soil/

nObama’s Dumb Capital Gains Plan Is Going Nowhere

(Chris Edwards) - nObama’s worst idea is raising the top capital gains tax rate from 24 to 28 percent, which would come on top of his previous increase from 15 percent...Low capital gains tax rates are not some sort of unjustified loophole. We’ve had reduced rates virtually the entire time we’ve had an income tax, and for very good reasons. Low capital gains rates are crucially important for spurring entrepreneurship, investment, and growth. Recognizing that, nearly every other high-income nation has reduced capital gains tax rates. The average top long-term rate in the 34 Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) nations is just 18 percent, according to Tax Foundation. By contrast, the U.S. rate, including both federal and state taxes, would jump to 32 percent under the Obama plan — far higher than the rate in most other nations. “The plan outlined in his State of the Union address is anti-growth, anti-savings, and pro-complexity.” http://www.independentsentinel.com/thankfully-obamas-dumb-capital-gains-plan-is-going-nowhere/

nObama’s Anti-Netanyahu Boycott Is Collapsing

(Moshe Phillips and Benyamin Korn) - The final numbers are not yet in, but it seems clear that the White House-orchestrated campaign to boycott Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to Congress is collapsing...Despite two weeks of intense anti-Netanyahu leaks, insults, and pressure, the White House has so far succeeded in persuading only a handful of Democratic members of Congress to stay away from the speech. A grand total of two Senators and twelve Representatives have publicly announced that they are boycotting Israel’s prime minister. Assuming that those figures change only marginally in the days ahead, it will mean that 98% of the Senate and 95% of the House of Representatives will be in attendance. http://www.frontpagemag.com/2015/moshe-phillips-and-benyamin-korn/obamas-anti-netanyahu-boycott-is-collapsing/?utm_source=FrontPage+Magazine&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=d5dbd034d3-Mailchimp_FrontPageMag&utm_term=0_57e32c1dad-d5dbd034d3-156509103

Turkey's Davutoglu Still Wants a "New Middle East"

(Burak Bekdil) - When, in a recent speech, Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu pledged to defend all faiths, "even Buddhism," a Buddhist friend sent a message saying, "I understand we were wrong to feel safe from the wrath of Turkish Islamists' Sunni supremacy...Judging from how they wanted to crush every other faith, including different disciples of Islam, while faking to respect them I now worry about the Buddhist faith." Echoing the Buddhist friend's fear and commenting on Davutoglu's most recent remarks on the making of a new Middle East, an EU ambassador told this author in a telephone conversation: "I think we should be worried again." Fresh in the job but apparently full of hope, then foreign minister Davutoglu said in an October 2009 speech in Sarajevo: "As in the 16th Century, when the Ottoman Balkans were rising, we will once again make the Balkans, the Caucasus and the Middle East, together with Turkey, the centre of world politics in the future. That is the goal of Turkish foreign policy and we will achieve it." http://www.meforum.org/5041/turkey-davutoglu-still-wants-a-new-middle-east

The Silent Scream of the North Koreans

(ETHAN EPSTEIN) - Tuesday marked the one-year anniversary of the release of a United Nations’s Commission on Inquiry’s report on human rights in North Korea. The U.N. report laid out, in devastating detail, what we’ve known for all too long...Kim Jong-un’s dictatorship is the Westboro Baptist Church of regimes – almost comically evil. The regime’s “systematic, widespread and grave violations of human rights,” the report found, “entail extermination, murder, enslavement, torture, imprisonment, rape, forced abortions and other sexual violence, persecution on political, religious, racial and gender grounds, the forcible transfer of populations, the enforced disappearance of persons and the inhumane act of knowingly causing prolonged starvation.” And while 25,000 North Koreans have escaped to South Korea, and perhaps 200,000 North Koreans are in hiding in China, some 25 million North Koreans continue to suffer in silence, unable to communicate to the outside world because of their enslavement at the hands of their government. http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/silent-scream-north-koreans_858032.html?utm_campaign=Weekly%20Standard%3A%20Daily%20Digest&utm_source=Weekly%20Standard%3A%20Daily%20Digest%20-%2002%2F18%2F15&utm_medium=email

Foreign Donations to Clinton Foundation 'Unethical

(DANIEL HALPER) - Liberal commentator Juan Williams called the foreign donations to the Bill, Hilly, and Chelsea Clinton Foundation "rank influence peddling" and "unethical" in remarks today on Fox News...Williams pointed out, Hilly Clinton is being asked about her position on the Keystone XL pipeline at the same time she's accepting money from the company that wants to build the company. The Wall Street Journal, which broke the story, has more details on the foreign donations:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvhrPmhGEV8

WATCH Defeat Jihad Summit

(noisyroom..net) - This is the entire six-hour long “Defeat Jihad Summit” video. I highly recommend it. If you would like to watch individual segments, subscribe to the securefreedom YouTube channel and peruse the videos there...This invitation-only event will be conducted in a roundtable discussion format involving some 35 distinguished counter-jihadists. Among the eminent participants will be: Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, former U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, U.S. Senator Ted Cruz, Representatives Steven King and Mike Pompeo, Dutch parliamentarian Geert Wilders, Danish free speech advocate Lars Hedegaard and Britain’s Lord Malcolm Pearson. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xl-7nxBOWyU

Are We Seeing History Repeat Itself?

Alan Caruba

(factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com) - “Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it” is the famed quote of George Santayana, a Spanish philosopher (1863-1952). I am beginning to think that the world is making its way toward a future that repeats the horrors of the last century’s wars and earlier times when Europeans battled Islam to free Jerusalem, to protect their homelands in Europe, and to eject Muslims from Spain.

In his book, “Jihad in the West: Muslim Conquests from the 7th to the 21st Centuries” historian Paul Fregosi documented the history of Islam and its attacks on European nations, characterizing jihad as “essentially a permanent state of hostility that Islam maintains against the rest of the world.” It is a Muslim sacrament, a duty they must perform.

Occurring at the same time is the agenda of the global environmental movement and on February 4 Christina Figueres, the executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, said “This is probably the most difficult task we have ever given ourselves; which is to intentionally transform the economic development model, for the first time in human history."

"This is the first time in the history of mankind that we are setting ourselves the task of intentionally, within a defined period of time, to change the economic development model that has been reigning for the, at least, 150 years, since the industrial revolution.”

Figueres was wrong. The objective of the 1917 Communist revolution that began in Russia and Mao’s “Great Leap Forward”

(1958-1961) was the same that is now being openly embraced by the United Nations in 2015. The result of both was the death of millions.

Humanity is under attack from an Islam that intends to impose its barbaric seventh century Sharia law and from the environmental movement’s intention to end capitalism and replace it with the income distribution central to Communism.

Both spell a terrible future for the people of the world.

The President of the United States is devoted to pursuing both of these goals as the defender of Islam and the opponent of “income inequality.” We have twenty-two months to survive Barack nObama’s remaining time in office.

nObama was first elected on the promise to end the U.S. engagement in conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. After many years Americans welcomed the prospect of ceasing the loss of lives and billions those wars represented. With the rise of the Islamic State (ISIS) they are now seeing the true price of that policy. Just because we don’t want to fight a war doesn’t mean our enemy will cease to pursue it.

We are at a critical moment in time because it is evident that nObama wants to provide Iran the opportunity to build its own nuclear weapons arsenal. It is a time as well when the military capability of the U.S. has been diminished to what existed before the beginning of World War II. All of Europe and much of Asia would have fallen under the control of Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan if the U.S. had not stepped up to the task of defeating them.

Relentlessly, nObama has done everything he can to reduce the size of our military fighting force and the ships, planes and other weapons needed to protect our security or support that of our allies. He has withdrawn the U.S. from its position of global leadership and left behind allies that no longer trust us and enemies who no longer fear us.

Raymond Ibrahim of the Middle East Forum wrote on February 5 that “approximately 100 million Christians around the world are experiencing the persecution by Muslims of all races, nationalities, and socio-political circumstances.”

At the same time, we are witnessing a new exodus of Jews from Europe, mindful of the Holocaust in the 1940s. According to the Pew Research Center, as of 2013 the Jewish population worldwide was approximately 14 million. Just over 6 million reside in Israel, another 6 million are U.S. citizens, and the rest are in Europe and elsewhere around the world. What has not changed from the last century, however, is the level of anti-Semitism and it appears to be on the rise.

What we are witnessing is a full-scale attack on the West—Christianity and Judaism—and upon Western values of morality, democracy, and freedom.

Whether it will erupt in a new world war is unknown, but if history is a guide, we are moving in that direction.

http://factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com/2015/02/are-we-seeing-history-repeat-itself.html

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