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"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"
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Holocausts & Other Horrors
Burt Prelutsky
"Rise up together as one voice"
"Be careful where you stand"
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Fed election board in disarray - Fox News: “Democrats on the federal agency responsible for enforcing campaign finance law are being accused of taking a partisan turn, by voting to give liberal-leaning groups and campaigns a pass for alleged violations -- though the agency was tough on conservatives when they were under the microscope. The claims come as the Federal Election Commission prepares for a hearing on Wednesday that will examine, among other matters, the hot-button issue of whether it should regulate election-themed Internet videos -- an area that for years has been largely hands-off for the government.” -Fox News
AND NOW, A WORD FROM CHARLES…
“They spent the whole day pretending [the Paris attack] wasn't [anti-Semitic], which made them look silly…President [Francois Hollande] of France said that it was an egregious anti-Semitic act. What does it take? And why did they spend a whole day with this ridiculous pretense that it wasn't? Because, otherwise, it would have meant admitting that the president is not infallible and that he left out an adjective and he should have said kosher deli. That's all it took.” —Charles Krauthammer on “Special Report with Bret Baier” Watch here. -Fox News
“They spent the whole day pretending [the Paris attack] wasn't [anti-Semitic], which made them look silly…President [Francois Hollande] of France said that it was an egregious anti-Semitic act. What does it take? And why did they spend a whole day with this ridiculous pretense that it wasn't? Because, otherwise, it would have meant admitting that the president is not infallible and that he left out an adjective and he should have said kosher deli. That's all it took.” —Charles Krauthammer on “Special Report with Bret Baier” Watch here. -Fox News
Ukraine: Ukrainian government sources said that the rebels fired long range rockets at Kramatorsk on 10 February. The rocket fire killed at least eight people and injured 31. The apparent target was a military base. Ten of the injured were at that location. The other casualties occurred from rocket explosions in a residential area. Ukrainian officials said they confirmed that the rebels fired cluster munitions from the town of Horlivka, which they said is 80 kms from Kramatorsk. Press services reported that a Ukrainian battalion began an offensive northeast of Mariupol. The purpose of this operation is to disrupt a rebel force build-up.
Comment: Rebel forces held Kramatorsk last summer, until they were drive out in July. The attack on Kramatorsk is significant for several reasons. NightWatch believes this the second time the rebels have used long range rockets recently. The rebels also used them to attack Mariupol in January. They enlarge the battle space and target rear areas that the Ukrainians had considered safe. This attack reinforces the judgment that the rebels intend to take back the entire region, as their leaders vowed last month. The Ukrainian army had 300-mm and 220-mm long range multiple-round rockets and launchers in its inventory before the civil war. The Mariupol operation is a local
action to try to prevent another rebel attack. Neither the government nor rebel
forces appear disposed to accept a ceasefire soon. -NightWatch
Yemen: Press images today showed Shiite Houthi forces entering al-Bayda, the capital of al-Bayda governate in central Yemen, without resistance. This is their first attempt to expand control since the government resigned on 22 January. In a radio statement on 10 February, Abdel Malik al-Houthi, the movement's leader, warned foreign powers against meddling. The top Houthi leader in Sana'a, Saleh Ali al-Sammad, told the press that the Houthis want all factions to participate in the government. For now, a Revolutionary Committee makes executive decisions. The US State Department announced that it closed the US Embassy in Sana'a because of the unstable and unpredictable security situation.
Comment: The Houthi force that entered Bayda might have caught the local tribes by surprise. Local tribes in al-Bayda and Ma'rib oppose the Houthi regime in Sana'a. Ma'rib's tribes promised to defend their governate against the Houthis. The Houthis need to control Ma'rib because it is the primary oil producing region. At this point, the Yemen situation has moved closer to civil war. -NightWatch
Syria: The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights told the press that two days ago Syrian government forces began an offensive to clear non-jihadist rebels from the region southwest of Damascus. "The operation started two days ago and is very big," according to Rami Abdulrahman, who heads the Syrian monitoring group. Abdulrahman said the offensive aims to take back a triangle of rebel-held territory from rural areas southwest of Damascus to Deraa city to Quneitra.
Comment: This report has not been confirmed. -NightWatch
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U.S. aid being used to reward anti-Israel carnage
(onenewsnow.com) - In an interview with the Voice of Israel, reporter Edwin Black says the salaries to the families of the terrorists who are in Israeli jails represent more than 15 percent of the Palestinian Authority's budget... "They actually increased the salary based upon the number of months you serve or the number of years you serve in an Israeli prison, according to a published graduated scale," he explains. "And so the more carnage you commit, the more lives that are devastated, the [longer] is your prison term – and the longer your prison term, the higher is your compensation." Black says the practice of giving terrorist families this foreign aid money is approved at the highest level of the Palestinian Authority. http://onenewsnow.com/national-security/2015/02/09/report-us-aid-being-used-to-reward-anti-israel-carnage?utm_source=OneNewsNow&utm_medium=email&utm_term=16780278&utm_content=565493864984&utm_campaign=18050#.VNkl4cJ00zs
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McCon-nell Defeated: Senate Can’t Pass Bill to Defund Amnesty
(Caroline May) - With the House-passed Department of Homeland Security appropriations bill stalled in the Senate, the issue is now back in the House’s court, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McCon-nell (R-KY) told reporters Tuesday... “I think it’s clear we can’t go forward in the Senate, unless you all have heard something I haven’t and so the next move obviously is up to the House,” he said. Senate Democrats blocked debate on the DHS funding bill — which would fund all of DHS but defund President nObama’s executive amnesty — three times last week. http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/02/10/mcconnell-dhs-funding-stuck-in-the-senate-up-to-the-house/
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Will Saudi Prince Thwart Terror Probes?
(Cliff Kincaid) - CNN has a problem: one of its hosts, Michael Smerconish, is uncovering evidence about the Saudi role in 9/11. But a CNN analyst, Frances Townsend, has been rubbing elbows with one of the alleged Saudi financiers of al-Qaeda...Perhaps they ought to get together and compare notes. The strange story begins with Smerconish on his CNN show last Saturday interviewing attorney Sean Carter, who recently took a sworn statement from 9/11’s so-called 20th hijacker, Zacarias Moussaoui. Convicted terrorist Moussaoui, speaking from behind federal prison walls, had told Carter and other attorneys suing Saudi Arabia over its role in 9/11 that three major Saudi figures, Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, Prince Bandar bin Sultan and Prince Turki al-Faisal, were on a list of donors to al-Qaeda prior to 9/11. The Saudi regime flatly denied the allegations and dismissed Moussaoui as a lunatic. http://www.aim.org/aim-column/will-saudi-prince-thwart-terror-probes/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=email021115&utm_medium=email
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nObama’s Big Fat Greek Budget
(Daniel Greenfield) - In a speech at the Department of Homeland Security, nObama declared that he wants to “replace mindless austerity with smart investments that strengthen America”...Those “smart” investments scattered across a gargantuan $4 trillion budget include a $500 million Green Climate Fund for the Third World and $105 million to help the government build better websites. nObama is fond of putting the word “smart” in front of stupid ideas to make them seem less stupid. The $4 trillion budget is actually as stupid as the new left-wing Greek government elected on a platform of not paying its debts. This new government intends to replace the old policy of getting money in exchange for cutting spending with a new policy of not cutting spending and demanding money anyway. So far this new policy has been rejected by every country from Germany to China. http://www.aim.org/guest-column/obamas-big-fat-greek-budget/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=email021115&utm_medium=email
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Ben Shapiro: Why Jews Vote Leftist?
(TruthRevoltOriginals) - It’s too bad that they don’t realize that anti-semites will hate them just as much as if they were observant Jews... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5IqH7oJ9h4
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We Believe in the Rule of Law – It’s Federal Judges Who Don’t
(Bryan Fischer) - A federal judge’s ruling is not a “law.” It is a “ruling.” So, for example, when people refer to Roe v. Wade as “the law of the land,” they are simply mistaken...A “law” is something enacted by the elected representatives of the people (or by the people directly through referendum) and signed by the chief executive. A judge’s “ruling” is not therefore a “law.” Judges have no authority whatsoever to make law. They can issue rulings, but the power to make law is flatly prohibited to them. This is clear from the first words in the the first article of the Constitution. “All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.” http://barbwire.com/2015/02/11/0900-believe-rule-law-federal-judges-dont/#
(Bryan Fischer) - A federal judge’s ruling is not a “law.” It is a “ruling.” So, for example, when people refer to Roe v. Wade as “the law of the land,” they are simply mistaken...A “law” is something enacted by the elected representatives of the people (or by the people directly through referendum) and signed by the chief executive. A judge’s “ruling” is not therefore a “law.” Judges have no authority whatsoever to make law. They can issue rulings, but the power to make law is flatly prohibited to them. This is clear from the first words in the the first article of the Constitution. “All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.” http://barbwire.com/2015/02/11/0900-believe-rule-law-federal-judges-dont/#
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The Telltale nObama Budget
(FRED BARNES) - Democrats have moved to the left in the nObama era. And if the party’s base, President nObama, and Senator Elizabeth Warren have their way, they will move even further to the left in the next two years...Liberals will rejoice, but there’s a downside. The Democratic nominee will have a considerably harder time winning the presidency in 2016. The budget that nObama released last week reflects the shift. It is dominated by liberal policies that Democrats are eager to impose on the country: increased spending, higher taxes, government bigger in scope if not size, refusal to deal with the soaring cost of entitlements, minimal concern about the national debt. These policies were rejected by voters in November’s midterm elections—a nationwide disaster for Democrats. And as John Judis of National Journal argues persuasively in an article entitled “The Emerging Republican Advantage,” liberal policies have increasingly lost favor with working-class and middle-income Americans and with college graduates who don’t have a postgraduate degree. http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/telltale-obama-budget_841043.html?utm_source=newsletters&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=JVL+02_11_15
Lying Senate Snake Chuck Schumer Casts House Republicans Sleazy
(Rick Wells) - With the exception of the vermin who reside and operate within the White House, there are none among the ranks of government officials any sleazier, more corrupt or more staunchly un-American than Chuck Schumer (D-NY)...On Wednesday afternoon, the Senate snake crawled to the podium and delivered more of the customary partisan assaults on the minority in government who represent the wishes of the people, House Republicans. He was responding to a call from House Speaker John Boehner for Senators to “get off their ass and do something, other than to vote no” on the issue of DHS funding. Schumer portrayed House Republicans as “playing hostage,” probably some kind of elitist New York mobster wannabe game, something Americans by and large have never heard of, and “holding a gun to the head of America.” Schumer is accusing his opponents of doing exactly what his party is doing, a favorite lefty tactic. Hypocrisy is a staple of the socialist Democrats. http://www.rickwells.us/lying-senate-snake-chuck-schumer-casts-house-republicans-sleazy-un-american-democrats/
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Gen Paul Valleley – Bring In B-52’s – Coalition Is A Myth
(Rick Wells) - Retired Major General Paul Vallely has a few comments on the “president’s” request for an Authorization for the Use of Military Force by Congress under which he will supposedly “really fight ISIS this time.”...He has a lot to say about what needs to be done and the reality of our situation and it differs considerably from the picture painted by the White House and the associated rhetoric. Vallely says, “First of all you know, it’s a draft resolution. Number two, you never put a time limit when you’re at war. So when you announce you’re at war against an enemy then you have to have the strategy and you never announce your strategy of current, future operations.” Vallely says we need to get rid of the “boots on the ground” terminology, that it is not an accurate reflection of the role or of the size of a ground presence. What are needed are air-ground operations, eyes on the ground locating and fixing the targets for air strikes. He says, “You don’t need a lot of what we call conventional forces, armored brigades, infantry brigades. Use your Special Ops Forces just like we did early on in Afghanistan.”He adds, “I’d bring the b-52’s in just like we did in Afghanistan and I’ll tell you what that’ll put the fear of Allah in em.” http://www.rickwells.us/gen-paul-valleley-bring-in-b-52s-coalition-is-a-myth-and-stop-telegraphing-americas-punches/
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American Blood On nObama’s Hands – Know ISIS Hostages Were
(Rick Wells) - Katherine Herridge reports that the United States, including the White House, knew last May where all four of the now murdered Americans being held captive by ISIS were located...The information was complete to the point of identifying the specific building in which they were being held, but Hussein nObama refused to act to rescue them. Contrary to previous claims of vague or unspecific intelligence, Herridge’s sources state that the information even included building layouts and diagrams. nObama has said in the past that we didn’t have actionable intelligence; apparently the bar for action by this White House is extremely high, to the point of paralysis. She reports that there was a seven week delay in the time between when the information was first obtained until the belated action was finally undertaken. During that period of time ISIS became aware that the security of their facility had been compromised and removed and separated the four hostages. Herridge’s sources within the intelligence community described “a significant delay on behalf of the White House,” and a decision to wait for more intelligence prior to taking action. http://www.rickwells.us/american-blood-on-obamas-hands-knew-in-may-where-isis-hostages-were-held-refused-to-act/
Holocausts & Other Horrors
Burt Prelutsky
(burtprelutsky.com) - Just when you think every actor is a narcissistic nincompoop along comes Sir Ben (“Gandhi,” “Schindler’s List”) Kingsley, who sadly observed that Europe never grieved over the Holocaust. Asked if he thought it could ever happen again, he said, “Of course,” noting that Hitler once asked “Who remembers the Armenians?” referencing the first holocaust of the 20th century when 1.5 million Armenian Christians were slaughtered by the Islamic Turks.
Relating a personal anecdote, Kingsley reports that he was on the set of a Holocaust-related film being shot in Budapest when an elderly Hungarian passing by said, “It never happened, and if you don’t shut up it will happen again.”
As happens with great frequency, I received an email from a reader asking me as a Jewish conservative to explain why the majority of American Jews seem to “bow and scrape and kiss the behinds of all the people that want them dead.”
God knows I have spent years doing my best to explain this conundrum to non-Jews, even though I confess to being, if not entirely mystified, at least as angry and frustrated as anyone. The best I can do is point out that the Jews that my reader has in mind are really JINOs (Jews in name only). It partially explains why Hitler was as successful as he was. Many German Jews regarded themselves as loyal Germans, not as Jews, and stuck around until it was too late to escape. Some of them held the Jews from the Soviet Union, Poland, Hungary and Lithuania, in contempt, the way a great many Jews now regard Israelis. It’s not that American Jews aren’t religious, but that for 70% of them their religion is Liberalism.
I can sort of understand why certain Democrats don’t really care that nObama lied about the Affordable Care Act. I get why others aren’t troubled by the Benghazi cover-up or the IRS’s targeting conservatives. Once I accept the blind partisanship of liberals, I can even grasp why they don’t seem overly concerned with nObama’s exchanging major terrorists for an Army deserter or his allowing the EPA to enact thousands of job-killing regulations. With all that, it’s easy to see why so many liberals, including those in Congress, don’t object to nObama’s ignoring the Constitution entirely when it comes to immigration or revising nObamaCare.
What I can’t come to terms with is the fact that there are tens of millions of Democrats in the nation and hundreds more in Congress who don’t care about any of these things.
When liberals devote so little time to thinking rationally, it doesn’t seem fair that we conservatives have to spend so much time trying to figure out their motives. For instance, liberals have no trouble parroting nObama’s big lie about Gitmo serving as a major recruiting tool for terrorists, but neither he nor they ever seem to give a moment’s consideration to the part that allowing Islamic clerics to proselytize our prison population plays in the recruitment process.
But, then, the liberal academics at UC Santa Cruz chose Angela Davis, unrepentant communist, Black Panther supporter, anti-Semite and former Santa Cruz professor/propagandist, to speak on “Racism, Militarism and Poverty: From Ferguson to Palestine” at a Martin Luther King memorial service. Rumor has it that her address was drowned out by a loud whirring sound attributed to the reverend’s spinning in his grave.
Apparently when King said he believed that people should be judged by their character and not by their skin color, the nitwits who run things at UC Santa Cruz thought he was kidding.
Speaking of skin color, I wonder if Republican senators Orrin Hatch, Lindsay Graham and Jeff Flake, would be as anxious to confirm Loretta Lynch as the new Attorney General in spite of the fact that she has been personally endorsed by Barack nObama and Eric Holder, and has testified that she agrees that nObama had the constitutional authority to legalize five million illegal aliens, if she were white. It also makes me wonder if this trio of jackasses would also vote to confirm Eric Holder if nObama decides to appoint him to the Supreme Court.
Even though the next presidential election is still nearly two years away, it is never too early to start making plans. My plan is to get California’s Republicans re-settled in those states where we can make a difference. Although many people are surprised to hear that there are any Republicans in California, they’re overlooking how many people live in this state. At last count, with a population hovering around 40 million, there were 17.7 million registered voters in California.
Unfortunately, 43% of them are Democrats, only 28% Republicans. But even 28% of 17.7 million voters add up to five million Republicans, more than enough to swing elections in several states. Understand, I’m not volunteering to pull up stakes, feeling it’s my duty to report from the belly of the beast, but I would be happy to see to it that every other California Republican sacrifices great weather for the good of the nation.
It’s not just individuals who are getting the message. A friend who recently moved from the Midwest to Atlanta, reports that during his first two weeks in town he learned that Mercedes-Benz is moving to Atlanta from New Jersey, Porsche is coming down from New York, and Quintiles, a major clinical research lab, is relocating from Chicago.
Because I recently questioned the allocation of charitable contributions by the Wounded Warrior Project, I heard from a great many people asking how they could best help our wounded veterans. I believe the answer to that is the Fisher House. Its mission is to provide convenient free housing for the families of those vets undergoing hospitalization and therapy for their war-related injuries. And unlike the Wounded Warrior Project, Fisher House, modeling itself on the Salvation Army, relies almost exclusively on volunteers.
Fisher House realizes that the price of serving our nation often entails loss of limbs and eyesight, but it shouldn’t also involve separation from one’s loved ones any longer than is absolutely necessary.
A wise friend, Burt Roseman sent me something I’d like to share with all you conservative parents who are plagued with liberal, college-age, children. First, ask the kids whether they support nObama’s proposal to raise inheritance taxes. Next, rewrite your wills accordingly.
Finally, when I stopped for gas yesterday, I saw a sign on the pump that said “Mobil One – a fully synthetic motor oil.” Then I read it a second time to make certain I had read it correctly. I had.
So is it just me or isn’t that the equivalent of a Hollywood starlet boasting that her boobs are 100% silicone?
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