The Front Page Cover
"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"
Featuring:
"nObama's Racist Pointman"
Burt Prelutsky
"Rise up together as one voice"
"Be careful where you stand"
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Will GOP Fight Amnesty?
Following in the footsteps of Hanoi John Kerry's famous "I was for it before I was against it" approach to governing, House Republicans voted Wednesday to defund Barack nObama's amnesty plan -- that is, after they voted in December to fund it. Lacking the anatomical necessities required to take a stand against the president's abuse of the executive office, Republican leadership last year opted to support nObama's amnesty plan through the "CRomnibus" bill that funded through Feb. 27 the Department of Homeland Security -- the agency responsible for carrying out nObama's immigration action. They justified the vote with the promise that, come this year, they'd vote to defund amnesty. Forever the optimists, they apparently believed Santa would bring them their long-lost backbone for Christmas. With February looming, Republican leadership has decided to drum up some courage and vote to halt the egregious executive overreach. And they're serious this time. No, really. Honest. Sort of. Well, maybe. Okay, maybe not so much. -The Patriot Post
A Bolt of Enlightening
One might think that with the phenomenal "success" of the Chevrolet Volt gas-electric car -- for the record, that's sarcasm -- we wouldn't see another General Motors (GM) foray into the quicksand of failed eco-car ventures for quite some time. Unfortunately, in the Kafka-esque world wrought by Barack nObama, one would be wrong. The perverse system of incentives and penalties set up by the economic rubes within the current regime is simply too strong for automakers to ignore. Witness GM's buffoonerific redux of its electric Edsel, the Volt, recast with a new, totally-thinking-out-of-the-box name, the ... ... "Bolt." Yeah. That's what we thought, too. To be sure, the Bolt promises to deliver a 200-mile-per-charge range, considerably better than the anemic 38-mile range of its impotent older brother. But at a time when gas prices have plummeted, putting another government-subsidized (to the tune of $7,500 per vehicle) eco-pipedream on the road doesn't seem to make sense -- or does it? We've lamented on numerous occasions this administration's willful disregard of economic reality in lieu of Pollyanna visions of zero-fuel-emission tomorrows and social-engineering agendas. This mindset is what brought GM to its knees before nObama's $10 billion auto industry bailout, resulting in its cynical renaming by the public as "Government Motors." But it gets worse: This delusion is also the reason domestic auto companies like GM produce things like the Volt and its progeny in the first place.
-The Patriot Post
MORE OF THE SAME: nOBAMA PROMISES TO STAY ON OFFENSE AGAINST GOP
We are told that President nObama promised his fellow Democrats in the Senate, who huddled this week in Baltimore to contemplate life in the minority, that he is “going to play offense” against the Republican-controlled Congress. This is hardly surprising, given that his response to every political setback in his presidency has been to escalate his conflict with his political rivals. Remember that this is a president who, even when he was riding high at the start of his term, has made it a priority to break and remake the Republican Party, opponents his top communications adviser said were not “worthy” of the moment. At every inflection point, nObama has sought to change his opponents, but shown little interest in changing how he, his administration or his party operates. This effort promises to be as much of a failure as all of the prior tries. -Fox News
We are told that President nObama promised his fellow Democrats in the Senate, who huddled this week in Baltimore to contemplate life in the minority, that he is “going to play offense” against the Republican-controlled Congress. This is hardly surprising, given that his response to every political setback in his presidency has been to escalate his conflict with his political rivals. Remember that this is a president who, even when he was riding high at the start of his term, has made it a priority to break and remake the Republican Party, opponents his top communications adviser said were not “worthy” of the moment. At every inflection point, nObama has sought to change his opponents, but shown little interest in changing how he, his administration or his party operates. This effort promises to be as much of a failure as all of the prior tries. -Fox News
Consider this: What would motivate a person to release from a prison camp Yemeni Islamist militants – battle hardened veterans – at the very moment the world is coming to grips with an audacious raid by Yemeni Islamist militants? Surely the president did not mean to further antagonize grieving allies. And surely he did not intend to further frighten an American public that our polls show to be deeply worried about Islamist raids and deeply skeptical of his commitment to the cause of stopping them. And now we see that terrorism has risen to the top of the stack of public concerns.
It seems more likely his intention was to send a message to Republicans in Congress who stated more clearly their goal to prevent the president from closing the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay. Much as we saw in summer of 2014 when the president continued to try to downplay the threat from ISIS, one suspects that public outrage will force a course correction for this administration soon as Democrats in Congress feel the heat from their own constituents. As the president tries to keep America focused on his agenda, Americans will be demanding that he focus on theirs. -Fox News
It seems more likely his intention was to send a message to Republicans in Congress who stated more clearly their goal to prevent the president from closing the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay. Much as we saw in summer of 2014 when the president continued to try to downplay the threat from ISIS, one suspects that public outrage will force a course correction for this administration soon as Democrats in Congress feel the heat from their own constituents. As the president tries to keep America focused on his agenda, Americans will be demanding that he focus on theirs. -Fox News
nObama to seek 7 percent spending hike - Bloomberg: “President Barack nObama will ask Congress for as much as $68 billion more than current budget limits in fiscal 2016, according to two people familiar with the administration’s proposal. The request sets up a fight with the Republican-led House and Senate over whether to reverse part of the spending limits that the U.S. Congress and the White House agreed to in fiscal deals earlier this decade.”
[‘We need to close the revolving door…’ - WashEx: “Former nObama economic adviser Gene Sperling has joined the investment firm PIMCO as an economic policy adviser…”]
[‘We need to close the revolving door…’ - WashEx: “Former nObama economic adviser Gene Sperling has joined the investment firm PIMCO as an economic policy adviser…”]
-Fox News
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ISIS Cell Busted in Israel
(Uzi Baruch and Tova Dvorin) - The Israel Security Agency (ISA or Shin Bet) has arrested seven Israeli Arabs, residents of the Galilee, for setting up an official Islamic State (ISIS) affiliate branch in Israel, it was cleared for publication Sunday...The Shin Bet said that the seven admitted that over the last year they had formed a Salafi jihadi group, which they later aligned with ISIS. One of them also admitted to purchasing weapons to commit terror attacks on Israelis, specifically against the security establishment and the Druze community, in ISIS's name. Several more Galilee residents were arrested in this context. http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/190106#.VLvaCZt00pk
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The Kelly File
(foxnews.com) - What is America's strategy for fighting the war on terror? Ret. Gen. Jack Keane weighs in... http://video.foxnews.com/v/3994309019001/what-is-americas-strategy-for-fighting-the-war-on-terror/?playlist_id=2694949842001#sp=show-clips
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The O'Reilly Factor
(foxnews.com) - Barack nObama, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Islam... http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/oreilly/index.html
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nObama Calls for $320 Billion in New Taxes
(Ryan Ellis) - On Saturday night the White House leaked the major tax hike details of the president's upcoming budget. The common theme is higher taxes on savings and investment, totaling $320 billion over the next ten years... "Democrats are demanding, yet again, tax increases on America. This never ends. When it comes to tax hikes Democrats are like a teenage boy on a prom date: they keep asking the same question different ways but always to the same point," said Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform. Here are the major tax increases in the President's upcoming budget: http://www.atr.org/obama-calls-320-billion-new-taxes
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nObama Moves to Advance U.N. Gun Ban Treaty
(Dan Weber of NRA-ILA) - When Barack nObama signed the U.N. Gun Ban Treaty last year, he invited global gun banners to carve up our constitutional freedom...Now nObama is using the full force of the international community to pressure our U.S. Senators into replacing our Second Amendment rights with U.N.-style gun control. Earlier this year, nObama conspired with the European Union to issue an international declaration demanding immediate “disarmament and arms control” under the United Nations Gun Ban Treaty. http://townhall.com/postrelease.html?prx_t=SKcBAxDgCAT+8DA
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We Shouldn’t Use “Islamic Terrorists” It Could Lead To Violence
(Walid Shoebat) - Occupy Wall Street supporter and Democratic congressman from Oakland, Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA) is suddenly concerned about preventing violence. During the OWS protests, her city was perhaps the most violent of all and she helped fan the flames...In 2009, Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA) cheered the appointment of Marxist Van Jones as nObama's Green Jobs czar. Lee was also one of the 70 members of Congress registered with the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) caucus, essentially outing herself as a communist. Communism is among the most violent and murderous of ideologies in existence. Nonetheless, when Lee was asked whether the nObama administration was right to avoid identifying Islamic terrorism as such, Lee fully embraced the idea and showed unmitigated support for nObama. http://freedomoutpost.com/2015/01/communist-congressman-shouldnt-use-term-islamic-terrorists-lead-violence/
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Egypt Warns U.S. About CAIR's Brotherhood Links
(atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com) - An Egyptian government website features a warning that the Muslim Brotherhood has a lobby in the U.S. disguised as civil society organizations...The United Arab Emirates has made similar statements and the U.S. Justice Department has confirmed the existence of a Muslim Brotherhood branch in America. The Egyptian government’s State Information Service has an entire section devoted to documenting the violence and terrorism of the Muslim Brotherhood. Egypt is furious with the U.S. for its stance on the Brotherhood. President El-Sisi told the Washington Post in December 2013, then as Defense Minister, that the U.S. has turned its back on Egypt and is misunderstanding the Islamist group. http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/pamela_geller/2015/01/egypt-warns-us-about-cairs-brotherhood-links.html#more
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Germany bans anti-Islamization rally, citing jihad terror threat
(Robert Spencer) - Muhammad Atta told the passengers on the flight he hijacked on September 11, 2001: “Stay quiet and you’ll be OK.” They weren’t. Nor will the Germans be: even if they silence protests against jihad terror, jihad terror will still come at them...German police banned a planned rally by the anti-Islamic PEGIDA movement and other public open-air gatherings in the eastern city of Dresden Monday, citing a terrorist threat. Dresden police said Sunday they had received information from federal and state counterparts indicating a “concrete threat” against the right-wing populist group “Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamization of the Occident.” http://www.jihadwatch.org/2015/01/germany-bans-anti-islamization-rally-citing-jihad-terror-threat?utm_source=Jihad+Watch+Daily+Digest&utm_campaign=842d7a23a3-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_ffcbf57bbb-842d7a23a3-123451509
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It's the President’s Policies—Not His Team’s Vision
(Roger Aronoff ) - It’s been a gradual process, but we welcome former New York Times columnist Leslie Gelb to the realization that President Barack nObama’s leadership has been disastrous for this country...Last October Gelb wrote, “While nObama inherited rather than caused many of the world’s current crises, his habitual complacency and passivity prevent him from mitigating or resolving them.” By November, Gelb had scathing criticism for nObama, writing for The Daily Beast that “The leak suggests that Mr. nObama remains blind to the principal cause of his foreign policy woes… he is the person most responsible for the absence of a U.S. foreign policy strategy, for policy zigs and zags, and for the loss of credibility and power. The essential fault lies not with the stars around him, however dim, but with himself.” http://www.aim.org/aim-column/its-the-presidents-policies-not-his-teams-vision/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=email011915&utm_medium=email
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Don’t ignore the writing on the wall
(Yoram Ettinger) - In 539 B.C.E., Babylonian King Belshazzar ignored the writing on the wall — as interpreted by the Prophet Daniel — and was, therefore, annihilated by the Persians (Daniel 5)...In 2015, Western civilizations must read the writing on the wall, desist from ambiguity, denial and political correctness and embrace clarity, realism and political incorrectness, in order to survive and overcome the clear and present lethal threat of Islamic takeover, which is gathering momentum via demographic, political and terroristic means.History proves that Western ambiguity and the refusal to identify enemies — due to ignorance, gullibility, oversimplification, appeasement, delusion and wishful thinking — have taken root, yielding major strategic setbacks and painful economic and human losses. When it comes to reading the writing on the wall, Western eyesight has been far from 20:20, dominated by modern day Belshazzars, ignoring modern day Daniels. http://www.aim.org/guest-column/dont-ignore-the-writing-on-the-wall/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=email011915&utm_medium=email
"nObama's Racist Pointman"
Burt Prelutsky
(burtprelutsky.com) - I know know that even six years into his presidency there are people who still see nObama in the exact same way he was presented to us in 2008 -- as the great uniter of blacks and whites. But, then, there are those who also approve of his foreign policy in the Middle East. Sometimes you merely have to accept innate stupidity as a part of the human condition and move on.
Among the legion of disasters one can lay at nObama’s feet, the racial antagonisms he has fostered might well stand out as his greatest failing. That’s because it’s the one he could have most easily avoided.
On other issues, one could, to a greater or lesser degree, blame his partisan politics. But because he was black, when it came to the racial divide, he was in the unique position of being able to bridge it in ways that no other president could. But instead of using the bridge, he blew it to smithereens by appointing one unrepentant racist, Eric Holder, to head up the Justice Department and he made another, Al Sharpton, his consigliore on racial matters.
Sharpton gained his initial fame back in the 1980s using the lies of a black teenage girl, Tawana Brawley, to denounce the NYPD. For those too young to remember, Ms. Brawley was afraid that her mother would ground her if she found out that Tawana had spent the weekend making whoopee with her boyfriend. So, instead, she concocted a sordid tale about being tossed in a trash dumpster after being raped by six New York City cops.
The lies worked to his advantage then and Sharpton has seen no reason to change his ways. He has merely revised the narrative. Back then, his stooge was a sexually precocious teenager; today, he uses a couple of black thugs as the innocent victims of police brutality in his tale of woe. But the motive now, as it was then, is simply to promote Al Sharpton as the conscience and spokesperson for black America.
For reasons I can’t fathom, race hustlers like Sharpton and Jesse Jackson are catnip for the media. Although they both speak as if their mouths, along with their brains, were full of mush, they have been the go-to guys on matters of race for the past several decades. In spite of his deficiencies as a public speaker, Sharpton even gets to host his own show on MSNBC. The fact that nobody watches MSNBC is no excuse, and his bosses at NBC shouldn’t be allowed to use that as an alibi for providing the putz with a megaphone.
When in December, Sharpton hosted an anti-police demonstration in Washington, D.C., he actually flew arsonist Joshua Williams, whom most of us had last seen on TV burning down the Quik Trip market in Berkeley, Missouri, so that he could address his fellow thugs.
Although Sharpton owes his current prominence to the likes of nObama and NY Mayor Bill De Blasio, he owes far more to Jesse Jackson. It was Jackson, after all, who taught him all he knows about corporate extortion.
At present, Sharpton is being paid by Colgate-Palmolive, Anheuser-Busch, Macy’s, Pfizer, Pepsi, GM, Walmart, Chase, Verizon, McDonald’s and MGM, among a great many other companies, for what the mob used to call “protection.” When Al Capone got paid off, it was to prevent a bomb being tossed through a tavern window. When Jackson receives a corporate donation to his Rainbow Coalition or Sharpton gets a donation to his National Action Network, it’s to prevent having a bunch of black stiffs parading for the TV cameras in front of their headquarters, claiming the companies engage in racist policies.
And because Sharpton gets to sit next to Barack nObama more often than Michelle does might also explain why he is still walking around a free man even though he’s in arrears to the IRS to the tune of $4.5 million.
For me, the biggest surprise is that Sharpton, who was a roly-poly guy back in the 1980s and is now so tiny he looks as if his neck is too skinny to hold up his head, never thought to market the Sharpton Diet. The change has been so dramatic, the weight loss so astounding, I thought at times he might actually disappear altogether. But, alas, that was only wishful thinking.
But that’s not my only wish when it comes to one of America’s three most odious race hustlers. My other wish, far-fetched as it might be, would be for all those companies who are currently being bled by Sharpton to receive thousands of angry letters and phone calls from customers threatening to take their business elsewhere if they continue to pay a shakedown artist who knows everything there is to know about extortion, except, that is, how to spell the word or pronounce it.
Among the legion of disasters one can lay at nObama’s feet, the racial antagonisms he has fostered might well stand out as his greatest failing. That’s because it’s the one he could have most easily avoided.
On other issues, one could, to a greater or lesser degree, blame his partisan politics. But because he was black, when it came to the racial divide, he was in the unique position of being able to bridge it in ways that no other president could. But instead of using the bridge, he blew it to smithereens by appointing one unrepentant racist, Eric Holder, to head up the Justice Department and he made another, Al Sharpton, his consigliore on racial matters.
Sharpton gained his initial fame back in the 1980s using the lies of a black teenage girl, Tawana Brawley, to denounce the NYPD. For those too young to remember, Ms. Brawley was afraid that her mother would ground her if she found out that Tawana had spent the weekend making whoopee with her boyfriend. So, instead, she concocted a sordid tale about being tossed in a trash dumpster after being raped by six New York City cops.
The lies worked to his advantage then and Sharpton has seen no reason to change his ways. He has merely revised the narrative. Back then, his stooge was a sexually precocious teenager; today, he uses a couple of black thugs as the innocent victims of police brutality in his tale of woe. But the motive now, as it was then, is simply to promote Al Sharpton as the conscience and spokesperson for black America.
For reasons I can’t fathom, race hustlers like Sharpton and Jesse Jackson are catnip for the media. Although they both speak as if their mouths, along with their brains, were full of mush, they have been the go-to guys on matters of race for the past several decades. In spite of his deficiencies as a public speaker, Sharpton even gets to host his own show on MSNBC. The fact that nobody watches MSNBC is no excuse, and his bosses at NBC shouldn’t be allowed to use that as an alibi for providing the putz with a megaphone.
When in December, Sharpton hosted an anti-police demonstration in Washington, D.C., he actually flew arsonist Joshua Williams, whom most of us had last seen on TV burning down the Quik Trip market in Berkeley, Missouri, so that he could address his fellow thugs.
Although Sharpton owes his current prominence to the likes of nObama and NY Mayor Bill De Blasio, he owes far more to Jesse Jackson. It was Jackson, after all, who taught him all he knows about corporate extortion.
At present, Sharpton is being paid by Colgate-Palmolive, Anheuser-Busch, Macy’s, Pfizer, Pepsi, GM, Walmart, Chase, Verizon, McDonald’s and MGM, among a great many other companies, for what the mob used to call “protection.” When Al Capone got paid off, it was to prevent a bomb being tossed through a tavern window. When Jackson receives a corporate donation to his Rainbow Coalition or Sharpton gets a donation to his National Action Network, it’s to prevent having a bunch of black stiffs parading for the TV cameras in front of their headquarters, claiming the companies engage in racist policies.
And because Sharpton gets to sit next to Barack nObama more often than Michelle does might also explain why he is still walking around a free man even though he’s in arrears to the IRS to the tune of $4.5 million.
For me, the biggest surprise is that Sharpton, who was a roly-poly guy back in the 1980s and is now so tiny he looks as if his neck is too skinny to hold up his head, never thought to market the Sharpton Diet. The change has been so dramatic, the weight loss so astounding, I thought at times he might actually disappear altogether. But, alas, that was only wishful thinking.
But that’s not my only wish when it comes to one of America’s three most odious race hustlers. My other wish, far-fetched as it might be, would be for all those companies who are currently being bled by Sharpton to receive thousands of angry letters and phone calls from customers threatening to take their business elsewhere if they continue to pay a shakedown artist who knows everything there is to know about extortion, except, that is, how to spell the word or pronounce it.
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