Tuesday PM ~ The Front Page Cover

The Front Page Cover
 2016             The turth is the gold of today 
AGHnzvDgAIc_dkrUO59jF21LrUmiQ79dA3RIshU-YlAdfSFPOhc54BmJs1OTRtvnrEX-cCbeiMVXdurlydL03p7YzXsWg_6cAavWTIOYU1PogQU4ftAjtXM=s0-d-e1-ft#%3Ca%20rel%3Dnofollow%20href=
Featuring:
The State of Our Union
Thomas Sowell
.
~~~
.
 nObama Ignores the Jobs Number That Really  Matters   Perhaps the economy has been good as Barack nObama claims, but is it resilient? On Friday, the chief executive used the Bureau of Labor Statistics' January Jobs Report to boast about his prowess of managing the U.S. economy. America has "the strongest, most durable economy in the world," nObama said. As proof, he pointed to the jobs report, which said the unemployment rate dipped to 4.9% — the lowest it has ever been in eight years — and the fact that the hourly wage increased 12 cents. nObama also pointed to more people buying health insurance and cheap oil prices as evidence that his economy was working. First, nObama cannot force people to buy health insurance then say it's a sign that his economy works. And as for cheap oil, nObama used his weekly address the next day to rail against "dirty fuels" and to push for greater government investment into green fuels — funded by a $10-a-barrel tax on the struggling oil industry. Meanwhile, the U-6 unemployment rate — a better measure of labor underutilization — skims along at 9.9%, and the labor force participation rate stands at a near-record low of 62.7%. Economists are now saying the economy is due for another recession, and we doubt the nObama administration's boast of eight years of job growth will prepare the nation for a downturn.  -The Patriot Post
.
 Doritos Super Bowl Ad Humanized the Unborn 
It's a free country. If a person or group doesn't like something, they can air their grievances, no matter how morally thin or ignorant they are. Without question, the Super Bowl is a cultural event, where a few die hard sports fans cheer on the game while the rest of us perk up from the seven-layer dip to watch the commercials. For example, NARAL Pro-Chose America took to Twitter to criticize Super Bowl ads that didn't conform to their leftist agenda. While the Willem Dafoe Snickers commercial earned chuckles, curmudge only NARAL decried the 30-second spot as "transphobic." But NARAL's Twitter-spew became disturbing when it leveled criticism against Doritos' advertisement featuring a couple seeing their unborn baby via ultrasound. The ad showed the baby in utero trying to reach for a Doritos chip held by his or her father, and NARAL saw it as pure propaganda. In response, the group wrote, "#NotBuyingIt — that @Doritos ad using #antichoice tactic of humanizing fetuses & sexist tropes of dads as clueless & moms as uptight." The tweet illustrates the lengths to which the pro-abortion crowd has to go to deny unborn children's personhood in order to justify killing them. To imply that the child has likes, a will and an interest in Doritos undermines the whole pro-abortion argument. What America saw as a clever, humous ad, NARAL saw as a threat to its twisted worldview.  -The Patriot Post
.
 $150,000 Is Chump Change for Hilly Clinton 
Hilly Clinton's acceptance of shady donations has lost her the environmental activist vote. Climate change activist group 350 Action published a video from a Clinton campaign event last week where 350 activists asked Clinton about the $150,000 her campaign accepted from the oil industry — an industry that has drawn particular ire from liberals. "Yeah, I don't even know what you're referring to," Clinton replied, "but Big Oil knows I'm not their friend, so I can't imagine. They must have put it in the wrong envelope. I've been very clear about that, and I want to take away all their subsidies." As 350 Action asked, Clinton doesn't know who funds her? Greenpeace also criticized Clinton's oil money. The ecofascist group pointed out another video where 350 Action followed up with Clinton, questioning her commitment to the "progressive" dream policy of campaign finance reform because of the donation. Clinton responded, "When you raise a $120 million, $150,000 isn't very much. Let's be honest."
          Not very much? For the vast majority of Americans, $150K is a lot of money. If her family really was as "dead broke" as she claimed it was upon leaving the White House, she'd know the value of $150,000 — or the $675,000 she was paid for speaking to Goldman Sachs. Instead, it shows she accepts money from anyone who waves a check, and her claim that she's a principled politician is both ridiculous and demonstrably false. If the oil industry wanted to change her campaign platform, it should have tripled its donation.   -The Patriot Post
.
AGHnzvDgAIc_dkrUO59jF21LrUmiQ79dA3RIshU-YlAdfSFPOhc54BmJs1OTRtvnrEX-cCbeiMVXdurlydL03p7YzXsWg_6cAavWTIOYU1PogQU4ftAjtXM=s0-d-e1-ft#%3Ca%20rel%3Dnofollow%20href=
.
nObama DHS scrubs records of hundreds
of Muslim terrorists
xxEgpawJ9S18vOLWNCxnTgGyGXiHbLl-VQKclf0PF_ucCVBWoxQiO6zeURke8Lqu-9Rl31GVFUbQPC2UmSlEQ1AyDoddE9oEwwIyYRoBHg=s0-d-e1-ft#%3Ca%20rel%3Dnofollow%20href= PAMELA GELLER
.
pLvvDzzZB0i6EVR1eyXdLV2UdlyMOxwAnSMTxWiSFVbT-pIISHlhxjG7846Y9twJc0o2cWVP7WpaX_aAc0xp1g=s0-d-e1-ft#%3Ca%20rel%3Dnofollow%20href=
.
{wnd.com} ~ Not only did the nObama administration scrub counter-terror programs of jihad and Islam, now we find out that his administration scrubbed the records of Muslim terrorists... If the enemedia were not aligned with the jihad force, this would be front-page news across the nation. An agent of the Department of Homeland Security, or DHS, for 15 years, Philip Haney, reported Friday that after the Christmas Day underwear bomber, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, tried to blow up a crowded passenger jet over Detroit, “President nObama threw the intelligence community under the bus for its failure to ‘connect the dots.’ He said, ‘This was not a failure to collect intelligence; it was a failure to integrate and understand the intelligence that we already had.'” Haney revealed: “Most Americans were unaware of the enormous damage to morale at the Department of Homeland Security, where I worked, his condemnation caused. His words infuriated many of us because we knew his administration had been engaged in a bureaucratic effort to destroy the raw material – the actual intelligence we had collected for years, and erase those dots. The dots constitute the intelligence needed to keep Americans safe, and the nObama administration was ordering they wiped away.” He is a dutied-low-down president we have ever had and most of America voted for him. Are you all happy now.        http://www.wnd.com/2016/02/obama-dhs-scrubs-records-of-hundreds-of-muslim-terrorists/
.
Insider Reveals Wells Fargo Is Preparing
for Complete Economic Collapse
Dave Hodges
.
LpXr6jdh-CBAKqQR5McVbAh3anDYNfJrM7g4bIE5oHhNqrM0OPwIuEH4ozfnt4ZoY-4dckFySPj0PNTbSoXBrIkpi-Wf7KWEIQdQrDNQLBFUBs3jOxHqAsxED7LWX6QVmg=s0-d-e1-ft#%3Ca%20rel%3Dnofollow%20href=
.
{thecommonsenseshow.com} ~ In the video below, released on February 7, 2016,  the whistle-blower of doom, says he’s a teller. Ray Charles could see that this is not true... The referenced person is not a teller. The source is sophisticated enough to use an untraceable proxy server and has economic knowledge far beyond a common employee of a bank. This person’s message is that of a prominent insider who has the know-how with regard to covering his tracks and providing highly detailed insider knowledge. How can ascertain these facts about the whistle-blower and the validity of his claims? In the past, I have written about the credit swap derivatives exposure and the topic got very little traction. So long as people are driving to work and have some food on the table, and there is no looming crisis, most Americans will have a case of tunnel vision due to the fact that most of only live for Friday and cannot see into the future. Many of us in the independent media and even knowledgeable and respected economists such as John Williams and Joseph Meyer are all saying that we are on the verge of a complete economic collapse. And it will almost assuredly begin with a collapse of the banks. How do I know, read on, the banks, themselves, have already told you as much.
.
Iran Infiltrates the West Bank
Khaled Abu Toameh
.
Ydd3yW3QyMTYpT7kLTeZmcunCn3sve3aeikhLvIdmDS31v9_RxNLGncPOOMTumWImkxPl7Drtn6k-rC8T48tWUQcs4t1=s0-d-e1-ft#%3Ca%20rel%3Dnofollow%20href=
.
{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ Emboldened by its nuclear deal with the world powers, Iran is already seeking to enfold in its embracing wings the Arab and Islamic region... Iran's capacity for intrusions having been starved by years of sanctions. Now, with the lifting of sanctions, Tehran's appetite for encroachment has been newly whetted -- and its bull's-eye is the West Bank. Iran has, in fact, been meddling for many years in the internal affairs of the greater region. It has been party to the civil wars in Yemen and Syria, and, through the Shiite Muslims living there, continues actively to undermine the stability of many Gulf states, including Saudi Arabia and Bahrain.        http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/7392/iran-west-bank-sabireen
.
The promise of Pay for Success
kVK3xhwwQzKC44P35Bq_BD5AjwnxF8vsf_5EXhfsTcZKd7RYDniNSIVyKsG05EwAQdkJHjcloPT9PS2yg2ZaPjM_LArdKearfNQIkf42u8tc_SnvoUKwFClQSpG9NEMcWEY8ioQPs76dZzh-_Eo-UDaA=s0-d-e1-ft#%3Ca%20rel%3Dnofollow%20href= Katharine B. Stevens
.
{aei.org} ~ The provision of social services in the U.S. is an expensive mess. In 2014, federal, state, and local governments together spent about $500 billion on welfare, $568 billion on Medicaid and over $950 billion on education... a total of over $2 trillion in a single year. Yet we have little evidence that those dollars are having an impact. Seventeen-year-olds’ reading and math achievement scores have remained flat for 40 years despite a 90 percent increase in public spending per student over that period. The U.S. poverty rate has barely changed since the 1970s, and if you’re raised poor you’re just as likely to stay poor as you were a half century ago. The bottom line is that decades of efforts and trillions of dollars in social spending have produced little improvement in the economic and social well-being of America’s neediest citizens. And now with the influx of nObama's immigration we are in real trouble.        http://www.aei.org/publication/the-promise-of-pay-for-success/?utm_source=paramount&utm_medium=email&utm_content=AEITODAY&utm_campaign=020816
.
GOP-Controlled Senate Is About to Approve
Another nObama Judge
BleIFgvoxjIW8AEQp-erSz5bHc26b5lAPDCHnPEhzZPrGMfMAYuUiE-fFsA7OQv6y2jsYGTJHocSUsi3POMAJcjMtap0igI2V-vZy-rhuFt7YchKHDwXuQ=s0-d-e1-ft#%3Ca%20rel%3Dnofollow%20href= Philip Wegmann
.
JTdEQzF6XjjCUTrneU7tTbJHpP062pYjL9Q90NnP9DtJFNukOup0anhYk94b1Uq-egHIqa0wqONIoREa2OlgVC8PPOHt_1aCSqv8fRoHfBB-Ws7sxSI27qQ=s0-d-e1-ft#%3Ca%20rel%3Dnofollow%20href=
Sen. Chuck Grassley
.
{dailysignal.com} ~ Though President Barack nObama’s time in office is drawing to a close, the Senate pipeline for judicial nominees remains open... On Monday, the Senate will consider Rebecca Ebinger for a lifetime judicial appointment as a district judge in Iowa. Sen. Chuck Grassley, chairman of the Judiciary Committee, has advocated for Ebinger and negotiated a deal for her confirmation. In December, the Iowa senator brokered the deal between Republican and Democrat leaders to advance five of nObama’s nominees to the Senate floor for a vote before President’s Day next Monday. Two of them are from Grassley’s home state.        http://dailysignal.com/2016/02/07/gop-controlled-senate-is-about-to-approve-another-obama-judge/?utm_source=heritagefoundation&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=morningbell&mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRovs6nKZKXonjHpfsX56%2BQpWqS%2BlMI%2F0ER3fOvrPUfGjI4ASMtjMa%2BTFAwTG5toziV8R7jHKM1t0sEQWBHm
.
nObama to Increase Military Spending,
Fears Russian Aggression
Natalie Myers
.
hwXsd6XKaLPG73akCf141oPXKU7gszfJZCl_yR1YxgYwgZXRq8GleQz0QJGXo9nwssOgkH7Pr2x_P4bifoYsb2LtosJFxxUm=s0-d-e1-ft#%3Ca%20rel%3Dnofollow%20href=
nObama decides to increase military spending
.
{punchingbagpost.com} ~ nObama recently revealed he would like to quadruple military spending in Europe in response to Russia’s intervention in Ukraine... nObama will announce this new spending plan, increasing the military budget in Europe to $3.4 billion, next week as he unveils his final budget in office. This plan represents nObama’s first admission that diplomacy efforts did not work when dealing with the Russia-Ukraine situation. The increase in spending would go towards “continuous U.S. armored brigade rotations” through Central and Eastern Europe, increased participation with NATO military forces and a heavier deployment of equipment and supplies. nObama also plans on calling upon NATO forces to join him in arming against Russia to protect other NATO allies. No mention of American military spending.
http://punchingbagpost.com/obama-to-increase-military-spending-fears-russian-aggression
.
The Next Administration's 
Immigration Crisis 
Michael Cutler
.
FXmyqjGmE1aa5MpWBFoRxuuczlDRdzf76CxAXTz2XsPgknWNc4DLgu0RhC0IU7Jba258SaL1Oh7AbrOuylpoTm_Fm9XQToHWPguuXWTQUP969xrlx57LntXC0Ct-wdI4wXZZrNRPPh-xoNoHZUDwenC9enzzRjx8wc5GhWAzrhKOM-_0NA=s0-d-e1-ft#%3Ca%20rel%3Dnofollow%20href=
.
{frontpagemag.com} ~ Immigration has finally emerged for the elections and the debates - particularly among the Republican candidates for the presidency... Donald slump-Trump opened the floodgates about this issue when he talked about building a wall on the U.S./Mexican government and deporting the criminals entering the United States from other countries. During several debates Senators Cruz and Rubio have come to verbal blows over immigration accusing each other of being weak on immigration. But immigration must be more that a slogan for a campaign and real solutions must be devised and then implemented. National security must be much more than a “sound bite”. However, it is my view that most journalists and most supposedly “scientific” polls continue to suppress any meaningful discussion about immigration and its true 
.
America’s Building A Border Fence –
It’s Just Not For America
C-lScxd82WcL7GiTVIP0E34Fr_3WXeoK7fyjIbDHIidrqzSX5EUk0X7z3RDH-XYPBU4ZsOVuz-lYpmXMPHZBJINRqvWqlto22Wq1InIP3C4XcUepRZ8ywK5r1tK-5aPOkUty_0hC7A8=s0-d-e1-ft#%3Ca%20rel%3Dnofollow%20href= Rick Wells
.
MOIyIdRE2WofxiEu7o0MF9ypisux0udYVqPtwHRdJVqhEO7yr-JlMdgESmrHHehqv2zUEf8zUVCFYgm9GExigEnFeAndV94YxWRr7GE0Fj8ZyPwhpBtiA3aZieUnxsCbMtO9vJKCFrM=s0-d-e1-ft#%3Ca%20rel%3Dnofollow%20href=
.
{constitutionrising.com} ~ America sits in an increasingly defenseless posture with an open border guarded by Border Patrol agents who have been warned by their superiors that they will be terminated if they enforce federal immigration law... They patrol a border that is only intermittently protected by mostly single-layer fencing in spite of a 2006 appropriation under the Secure Fence Act of 2006 that mandated completion of 700 miles of double layer fencing. We’re still waiting. It also required the DHS Secretary to “achieve and maintain operational control over the entire international land and maritime borders of the United States.” Since we’re now importing Central Americans and Islamists as pretend refugees, not enforcing immigration laws and disciplining border agents if they happen to inadvertently do so, we have no control, and it’s by design. The Secure Fence Act is just another of the multitude of laws that nObama and Johnson criminally violate on a daily basis.
.
Islamic State on rise in Libya: 
“Syria all over again”
Robert Spencer
.
-11yGTlF9TW2I1YHxACgvxFvdras1zzDaRuy0zGOFWkS6SdlNgSDRw1m3Sm0wSbNQpsEmqx5iGZdE3ts9GSQzNvFJgyxfY7CZ6ozGGF7mPXcA6_9GDooyAs=s0-d-e1-ft#%3Ca%20rel%3Dnofollow%20href=
.
{jihadwatch.org} ~ As Islamic State forces lose ground in Iraq and Syria, fighters loyal to the group have seized territory in oil-rich Libya... levying taxes at gunpoint and creating sanctuaries to launch possible attacks in North Africa and Europe, U.S. officials say. The Pentagon has sent special operations teams to gather intelligence and launched at least one airstrike. But the White House so far has resisted calls from some senior aides to escalate the U.S. military role in another Muslim country to counter the potential threat. Spy satellites and reconnaissance drones have shown the militants building fortifications around Sirte, on the central Mediterranean coast, and training bases for foreign fighters farther inland, the officials said.
.
America's impossible choice
kbz76EEUcE-FeJUyh5wcOY7RDLCjCN_EeXW4yO-VOMSZQdgYLBOW8s-bzUL8-4KIVYZ6FpONSK2uKSlk_kFSbNFYUTTLqHW_n_JX5vK2ApOa=s0-d-e1-ft#%3Ca%20rel%3Dnofollow%20href= Peter Lemiska
.
{renewamerica.com} ~ At no time in recent history has America's need for leadership been so desperate. Seventy percent of Americans believe the country is going in the wrong direction... That suggests the rest of the country is simply not paying attention. The problems we're facing are real. Every day, we're threatened by ruthless and determined Islamic terrorists. Many of them are now living among us, mostly because of weak immigration policies. Those same policies have also opened our doors to millions of illegal aliens, straining the social programs intended for Americans. The country's labor participation rate is at a 38-year low, with just 62 percent of our population either holding or seeking a job, all while we face a crumbling Social Security system and a $19 trillion national debt. Nearly 46 million Americans rely on food stamps, more than the entire population of Argentina, more than the population of Kenya. We are becoming a nation of addicts, as drug abuse explodes across the country, and we have become a deeply divided people, politically, racially, and socio-economically.
.
AGHnzvDgAIc_dkrUO59jF21LrUmiQ79dA3RIshU-YlAdfSFPOhc54BmJs1OTRtvnrEX-cCbeiMVXdurlydL03p7YzXsWg_6cAavWTIOYU1PogQU4ftAjtXM=s0-d-e1-ft#%3Ca%20rel%3Dnofollow%20href=
.
The State of Our Union
Thomas Sowell
.
Fz8xY9kibJeTXSzXLqEsgU7Eqn3Pl4n2-n5bTZ1GaY2jPoTBEFGwobTT6aJsbRXcihxM3EUhklBZzFxEjUAwa7kc01Ir3HzzchWYXFCA6hGnoq07kaSkW14pNI2KI7oFI5WfBgNklAWYWocJNX526UZ6fJI6l-HiTH8r6cB6ZPuffKUUzC1n=s0-d-e1-ft#%3Ca%20rel%3Dnofollow%20href=
.
{frontpagemag.com} ~ The best New Year's Resolution I ever made was to stop trying to reason with unreasonable people. That may be especially valuable during an election year.
.
With 4 of the 9 Supreme Court justices being more than 75 years old, the next president will probably be appointing replacements who can help determine the direction of American law well into the next generation. This is just one of the many very serious things that we can only hope the voters keep in mind, instead of voting on the basis of just one issue or on emotions.
.
Among the common phrases of the past that we seldom hear today is "None of your business." Apparently everything is other people's business these days, including the media's business and the government's business.
.
In this scientific age, it is amazing how many people act as if magic words can make realities vanish. For example, they talk as if behavioral differences between groups can be made to disappear by saying the magic word, "stereotypes." This fallacy affects everything from statistical claims of discrimination to admitting refugees with cultures hostile to our own.
.
After a famous naval victory in the War of 1812, Commodore O.H. Perry reported: "We have met the enemy and they are ours." After the Republican Congressional majority's repeated capitulations to the Democrats' minority, Congressional Republicans could say, "We have met the enemy and we are theirs."
.
The central non sequitur of the political left is that, because America has never lived up to its ideals, it is to be condemned and repudiated. But what society of human beings has ever lived up to all its ideals? Despite all its achievements, America is condemned by the left because it is not exempt from all the sins and failings found in societies around the world.
.
One of the apparently immortal fallacies is the belief that disarming peaceful people reduces violence. That fallacy underlies both national disarmament and gun control within nations.
.
In trying to come up with alternatives to the welfare state, even some staunch conservatives have created plans that exempt low-income people from paying taxes, or plans that provide some basic income to all, making it unnecessary to work. But exempting anyone from responsibility and reciprocity as members of society risks disaster for those individuals and for society.
.
Egalitarians never seem to understand that promoting economic equality in theory means promoting resentments and polarization in practice, making everyone worse off.
.
It is corruption if an elected official uses his office to get money for himself or for someone else. But judges can fine someone to pay a donation to some organization that the judge favors. Typically these are organizations on the left. But I am sure the left would see the problem if a conservative judge forced people to donate money to the National Rifle Association.
.
Someone is always parading statistics showing that some small number of people at the top of the income scale have more than some larger number of people at the bottom. But would we be better off if people like Bill Gates and Steve Jobs had never created things that widened our access to opportunities and enriched our lives, just because it also enriched theirs?
.
Some people are surprised at how many young people look favorably on socialism. But socialism is a wonderful-sounding idea. Those who have lived through the era of its disasters in the 20th century, or learned about them from history, are likely to see through the appearances to the reality. A young age prevents the former and our dumbed-down education prevents the latter.
.
E-mail me when people leave their comments –

You need to be a member of Command Center to add comments!

Join Command Center