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Thursday evening round-up and Open Thread
Sorry for the long silence today. I had a standard-issue medical test done on me this morning and, while I passed with flying colors (I'm such an overachiever), the procedure knocked me off my pins and I'm only now getting back to something akin to normal.
I haven't yet had the chance to read today's news (which I think looks sort of like yesterday's news, right down to yet another air tragedy), but I have a ginormous backlog of links I gathered yesterday that I'd still like to share. So, fasten your seat belts and . . . we're off!
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Just an observation about Israel's efforts to rout Hamas in Gaza: Many, myself included, think that this is Israel's moment in Gaza. The ones who are openly supporting her incursion are all Israelis (as opposed to merely some Israelis), most Americans, European heads of state, the EU (!), and citizens of good will the world over. Heck, even the notorious anti-Israel Washington Post has another editorial denouncing Hamas and insisting that it must be disarmed before Israel gives up the fight.
The ones who are tacitly supporting her incursion are heads of state all over the Arab world who, scared by both Iran and ISIS and, as in Egypt's case, deeply hostile to the Muslim Brotherhood, are keeping silent or even castigating Hamas. The only ones who are opposed to Israel having the chance, once and for all, to destroy one of the world's most malignant terrorist organizations, are Barack Obama, John Kerry, and the hate-ridden Muslim and hard-Left rioters in European and American citizens.
** 2 **
At the end of my conversation with Sol Giggleweed, I added that, in a comparison between Hamas the Nazis, the Nazis are actually better than Hamas insofar as they revered their own women. My sister added another Nazi virtue that Hamas lacked: the Nazis did not use their own women and children as living, breathing defense systems.
Apropros this reverence for life, check out this Facebook post.
Indeed, even canine life comes in for care (in stark contrast to the Muslim world, which hates dogs and, at least in Pakistan, tortures them for fun):
** 3 **
Arabs, Muslims, and Leftists keep agitating for a return to Israel's pre-1967 borders. Rhymes with Right agrees in principle, but differs somewhat as to precisely which pre-1967 borders Israel should be returned.
** 4 **
I don't understand why America's multiculturalists aren't more up in arms about ISIS's blatant disrespect for Christian culture in Iraq. (And yes, I'm being very, very, very sarcastic there.)
** 5 **
Yet another article about the U.S. State Department's absolutely disgraceful failure to bring over to the U.S. the Afghani interpreters who now sit in the Taliban's cross hairs.
** 6 **
Yes, it's true. The University of Wisconsin at Madison is planning to move to race-based grading: Teachers are required to add a separate (and impliedly lower) bell curve for grading for non-whites. You'd think things such as this would bring non-whites to the realization that the Left thinks they're really stupid.
** 7 **
HBO no longer makes any pretense of hiding its hardcore DemProg credentials. Even its obscene, sex-obsessed vampires are DemProgs so, when they get the opportunity, they apparently used an imaginary Ted Cruz fundraising as the opportunity to engage in some foul-mouthed Republican and women bashing. Ted Cruz and his aide Amanda Carpenter, however, elegantly and easily show why mental midgets shouldn't tangle with people infinitely smarter than they are.
** 8 **
You know what happens to a socialized manufacturing sector? Nothing. It doesn't innovate, grow, or create wealth. Instead, as Venezuela has demonstrated for the umpteenth time, socialized manufacturing sectors collapse very badly. (Article is behind a Wall Street Journal pay wall.)
** 9 **
Should you be able to get behind that Wall Street Journal pay wall, you should also read Daniel Henninger's scathing denunciation of a president who is just too bored, busy, and important to deal with the crises popping up all over the place. He's not even trying to play crisis whack-a-mole. He's just walking away and looking for the next fundraising party.
If you can't get behind that pay wall, you can still read Mark Steyn on Obama's vanishing act, played across the backdrop of the endless rewind and replay in the Middle East.
** 10 **
Britain is mad at Russia because of the fact that pro-Russian fighters in Ukraine, armed with cutting edge Russian weapons, shot down Malaysian Airlines Flight 17. Of the almost 300 people who died, many were British subjects. Britain is so mad, in fact, that it's reviving the case of Alexander Litvinenko, a Putin critic who died very painfully in England from polonium poisoning.
** 11 **
One of my tawdry media indulgences is the Daily Mail, which is a combination of sleaze, trash, eccentric wonders, and actual cutting-edge news from all over the world. One of the things I've noticed lately in the Daily Mail is the number of young to middle-aged bankers who have been killing themselves or dying of mysterious circumstances. Zero Hedge has noticed too and obviously wondered whether it's just a coincidence that we're aware of because of world wide reporting or if something really weird is going on.
** 12 **
Planned Parenthood continues to teach Americans young women about sexual perversion. Says Ed Morrissey:
Planned Parenthood gets millions of dollars for sex education and other programs from the federal government, and the education they provide is exactly what those parents predicted. No 15-year-old needs instruction on how to let herself get handcuffed or tied to trees by her boyfriend as part of rational education about health and sex. If a 15-year-old even hinted that her boyfriend was pressing her to try these kinds of activities, that calls for an intervention, not a how-to for submission. The advice to watch pornos for further sex education threatens to distort the teen's sexuality for a lifetime, from a healthy expression of love and pleasure in the context of marriage to decades of being someone else's rag doll for exploitation.
This isn't education. It's indoctrination, and the cultivation of Planned Parenthood clients for the next 20 years. Planned Parenthood can continue to offer sex education, but it shouldn't get tax dollars to do so.
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Jonathan Turley, a Barack Obama voter and law professor, has made a name for himself of late by speaking out against the expanding administrative state. He sees the D.C. Circuit's Halbig decision, which confines Obamacare subsidies to state-established exchanges per the laws explicit language, as a very important one and contrasts it favorably against the 4th Circuits King decision, which ignored the statute's explicit, unambiguous language in favor of a "well, I think the legislature really wanted to do this" analysis:
At the heart of the conflict is a fundamentally different view of the role not just of federal courts but also of federal agencies. I have long been a critic of the rise of a type of fourth branch within our system. The Framers created a tripartite system based on three equal branches. The interrelation of the branches guarantees that no branch could govern alone and protects individual liberty by from the concentration of power in any one branch.
We now have a massive system of 15 departments, 69 agencies and 383 nonmilitary sub-agencies with almost three million employees. Citizens today are ten times more likely to be the subject of an agency court ruling than a federal court ruling. The vast majority of "laws" in this country are actually regulations promulgated by agencies, which tend to be practically insulated and removed from most citizens.
** 14 **
The government is still doing a fancy dance around Obamacare. Separate from the fact that the administrative branch went all legislative and re-wrote the statute to suit the Democrats' political purposes, the fact remains that the Exchange's only measurable success is getting people onto the exchange. Everything else . . . well, not so good.
** 15 **
Hundreds of California taxpayers and professors are upset about the fact that San Francisco State University used taxpayer funds for terrorist outreach. I agree with their anger. I'm only sorry that we don't live in a country that actually supports the rule of law. Since Hamas is a designated terrorist organization, in a law-abiding country, the federal government would have come down on SFSU and the errand faculty like a ton of federal bricks.
** 16 **
Back in the 1930s, the primary difference between Soviet Communism and German and Italian fascism was that the former nationalized businesses while the latter allowed them to exist (and profit), provided that they subordinated themselves to the government agenda. Jonah Goldberg, in talking about Elizabeth Warren's efforts to subordinate American business to the federal government DemProg agenda, never mentions 1930s era fascism, but I couldn't help noticing the structural similarities.
** 17 **
And while we're speaking of that cozy relationship between business and DemProgs, here's more on the federal government's policy of privatizing corporate profits (if they make a profit overseas, they keep it) and socializing their losses (if they lose money, taxpayers suck up the loss). You don't need to look overseas, of course. Obamacare is one big gift to the insurance industry. That makes it something everyone can hate: conservatives hate it because it brings health care under federal government control and socializes costs; Leftists hate it because these socialized costs are all funneled into the insurance company's pockets.
** 18 **
There's an old saying that, where there's smoke, there's fire. When it comes to the Obama White House and its efforts to hide all of its agents' emails, mails, documents, texts, etc., there's a new old saying: Where there's neither smoke nor fire, there's a cover-up. The most recent one involves Shirley Sherrod.
** 19 **
Trey Gowdy continues to be IRS Commissioner Koskinen's worst nightmare:
Gowdy must have been one hotshot trial lawyer.
** 20 **
Andrew Klavan takes a satirical look at one of the real security concerns flowing from the Obama-manufactured border (border? what border?) crisis:
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Saturday night round-up (the moron edition) and Open Thread
I did something today that I very seldom do: I went clothes shopping for myself. I spend an inordinate amount of time shopping for everyone else in the family, but between shopping fatigue, denial about my post-baby figure (although I'll concede I was too thin pre-babies), and the ridiculous amount of money clothes cost nowadays even on sale, there's no pleasure for me in the task.
My husband also reverts to totally stereotyped behavior. How stereotyped? Well, Dorothy Sayers was clearly writing about him way back in 1937:
"Why, it takes a man months and months to reconcile himself to a new hat. And just when you're preparing to send it to the jumble sale, he says, 'That's rather a nice hat you've got on, where did you get it?' And you say, 'My dear Henry, it's the one I had last year and you said made me look like an organ-grinder's monkey.' My brother-in-law says that every time, and it does make my sister so wild."
– Sayers, Dorothy L., Gaudy Night (Kindle Locations 904-908). Open Road Media.
As if he'd read the script, Mr. Bookworm was suddenly much taken both with my decade-old jeans (telling me the holes were "fashionable") and with the shirt that, when I bought it two years ago, he told me made me look as if I was dressing in a sack. Men!
Mr. Bookworm's new-found fondness for my old clothes notwithstanding, I do not find holes fashionable. I find them disreputable. So off I went, found a sympathetic saleswoman at Nordstrom, got my older child, the one with fashion sense, to help me out, and bought several new clothes and a couple of new pairs of shoes. Some will go back but most will stay with me. I cannot go around my solidly upper-middle-class Marin neighborhood looking like the bag lady's poorer sister.
After the harrowing experience of confronting myself in the dressing room mirror, spending more money on clothes in a day than I've spent in the past several years put together, and convincing my husband that the worn-out fashions of the last decade can use an update, I'm so ready to rest myself with political and social commentary. Here goes….
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You're probably au courant about this one already, but the Palestinians are back at it again, recycling the dead from other wars to suit their own propaganda purposes:
We see the crude trickery, but the Muslim, Leftist, and Neo-Nazi masses in Europe just see something to feed their already rabid antisemitism.
** 2 **
Among other things, the tragedy of MH17 reveals the horror of morons with hyper-destructive missiles.
** 3 **
I called it inappropriate laughter. Charles C. W. Cooke calls in insouciance. No matter the label, there's something dreadfully wrong with Obama's responses to the worldwide calamities that have been mounting during the second half of his presidency.
I also don't like the word "insouciance," which I think better applies to the incredibly courageous spy keeping his calm and humor even while facing discovery as he works to save his country. Obama's cavalier attitude and endless ill-timed guffaws have nothing to do with a stiff upper lip and everything to do with derangement, denial, or unseemly delight as he presides over America's downfall.
Perhaps, based solely upon his response to the MH17 attack, the right word for Obama should be moron, but I still think even that's too kind.
** 4 **
As their final revenge for having lost the Revolutionary War, the British are writing breathless puff pieces about Hillary Clinton. Indeed, the latest example is so breathless and puffy it's actually funny:
Throughout my interview with Hillary, she is fiercely engaged; her eyes—sparkly, wide, alert—remain firmly focused on me. She is warm, considered, talks slowly and thoughtfully and uses—consciously or not—tactics that put me at ease. She frequently answers my queries with the response: "Now, that's a great question", she litters her answers with colloquialisms that put us on a level and, listening back, I am struck by the amount of times she says, "You know". And of course there's that charming laugh. I can see that these natural skills make her the perfect diplomat, the ultimate leader.
Perhaps it's a parody, but it seems to be played straight. Incidentally, when I hear people repeatedly say "you know," I automatically deduct a few of the speaker's IQ points. I know that's unkind, because it's a verbal twitch unrelated to intelligence, but I hate verbal twitches. (For an antidote, see Weird Al's "Word Crimes.")
** 5 **
And if you admire Weird Al, as I do, he went on Fox (bravo!) to talk about grammar and internet marketing:
** 6 **
The way the media talks about Ted Kennedy, you'd think he was a saint. T. Becket Adams reminds us that, in fact, he was a sinner of the blackest kind. Forty-five years ago, what he did went beyond manslaughter, which would have been the charge had Mary Jo Kopechne's died the moment the car entered into the water. Instead, he embraced murder, because he deliberately left her alive in the car, and allowed her to die, slowly, agonizingly, and alone.
** 7 **
A few hours ago, I was about to write "I'd like to boycott Chase Bank for prying into employee's personal beliefs, but I can't, because I don't have a Chase account." Then, my husband tossed me an envelope from Chase saying "You need to do this" — with "this" being opening a checking and savings account so as to get $400. Mr. Bookworm, of course, supports all actions the gay rights movement perceives as necessary to advance the gay rights movement, so my arguments against Chase on oppression grounds are unavailing.
I think I actually will open the accounts. In six weeks, I'll get $400. Then I'll close the accounts, explaining why. That would be a rather lovely form of boycott if, as I hope, Chase manages to earn less than $400 on my money during that time.
** 8 **
Bjorn Lomborg accepts the CO2 anthropogenic climate change narrative. However, because he is not a moron who wants to the First World revert to a pre-industrial standard of living, he is willing to accept that the projections were wrong and that climate change is nowhere near the disaster promised.
Alternatively, the Left could be invested in their view of climate change simply because they are, in fact, morons.
** 9 **
Remember this: The GOP is not conservative. Some of its leading lights were behind the shameful attacks on Mississippi conservative Chris McDaniels. They were more interested in getting senile Thad Cochran reelected as their yes-man than in having an honest election, reducing racial tensions, and seeing a true conservative voice in the Senate.
** 10 **
The purpose behind lampooning an enemy is to make the enemy seem vulnerable. That's why a once-patriotic Hollywood worked overtime to create farces aimed at belittling the Nazis and the Japanese.
With that in mind, while I admire those who have created a satirical magazine about ISIS, I'm not sure what good it will do. After all, nobody who's fighting ISIS will be reading it. For the Christians being purged in Iraq, a little humor in the West is irrelevant. On the other hand, of course, it can't hurt to satirize ISIS, remind everyone that it's made of men who can bleed and die like the rest of us.
** 11 **
I have repeatedly cited here God's exhortation to "Choose Life." The DemProg obsession with death — abortions, euthanasia, death panels, etc. — is one of the reasons I've turned against it politically. The road that the DemProgs are traveling ultimately leads to the nihilism that is Hamas.
Hamas has raised a generation of people who see death as their greatest accomplishment, provided that they kill Jews along the way. On the subject of Hamas, David Goldman agrees with me, which means I'm really smart on this issue. Moreover, he says that Israel is the only nation in the Middle East, not to mention one of few nations in the world, to choose life.
** 12 **
The wonderful Evan Sayet has a new website. And on his new website, he has a very good post explaining why Jews vote Democrat. As he sees it, due to centuries of being persecuted by people who believed in Christianity, Jews have foolishly concluded that they'll be better served by people — i.e., Leftists — who believe nothing at all.
Of course, as we've discussed here, just because one doesn't believe in God doesn't mean one doesn't have a belief system. Indeed, history has shown us that there is no more rabid believer than the unbeliever.
What I said above does not do justice to Sayet's entire post. Please read the whole thing for insights into the sad fact that some of the world's smartest people consistently engage in one of the world's most foolhardy and dangerous practices, i.e., putting faith in the Left.
** 13 **
I'm sure I've stated in a recent post my belief that the problem with radical Islamists is that they're good at killing, but not at governing (which doesn't keep them from trying to govern for years, decades, or even centuries, even as the mounds of bodies pile up on their watch). Daveed Gartenstein-Ross and Amichai Magen make exactly the same point, only with actual data and analysis.
However, as long as their governance involves waging war solely on themselves, I don't see why we can't just stand back and watch the attrition happen. Unfortunately, hundreds, thousands, and even tens of thousands of innocents will have to die, but the sad historical fact is that, when Islam is involved, whether it's fighting itself or us, the innocents are always the first in line to go.
** 14 **
You know it, I know it, and others are figuring it out: A lot of so-called ADHD arises, not because of pesticides, climate change, or Bugs Bunny cartoons, but because kids, through no fault of their own, are forced to sit still all the time. Yes, they need to learn how to sit still, but they also have to move.
** 15 **
A retired border control agent gives some insight into the purpose behind immigration laws and the terrible damage that follows if the government refuses to protect its own border:
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Nobody has paid much attention to the Z Street case, a lawsuit that predates the eruption of the IRS scandal. Back in 2010, Z Street was a lone entity claiming that the IRS was deliberately discriminating against it because it's position regarding Israel (it supports it) was antithetical to Obama's position. Now, four years later, Z Street is finally getting discovery in that case, and this discovery may be the one pebble that, when moved, breaks open the entire dam. Here's hoping.
** 17 **
When the media talks about Israel, it lies. It's that simple, and the more established and elite the media (think New York Times and Washington Post), the worse the lies it tells. Here's a handy-dandy cheat sheet explaining the 8 biggest lies. Pull this out next time one of your Leftist friends posts an NYT or WaPo article hostile to Israel.
** 18 **
If you're in Chicago this Tuesday:
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Monday at dusk round-up and Open Thread
There's a study out saying that owning a dog will make you look 10 years younger. I've got two dogs. Does that mean I look 20 years younger? I doubt it, but I know that owning dogs makes me at least 20 years happier than the next person.
** 1 **
We've long suspected that Washington, D.C. is so disengaged from the rest of America as to be a separate country. The TSA has now made that suspicion official: at least one of its agents refused to recognize a D.C. driver's license.
** 2 **
Even as Hamas places its weapons caches and launchers in schools and hospitals, and tells its citizens to ignore the fliers that Israel sends out before bombing a terrorist location, this is what the Israeli Defense Forces do:
An Israeli women shared this online saying that on her way back home she heard the rocket sirens while sitting in her car. When she got out, soldiers from an IDF vehicle nearby gathered around the woman's son and protected him with their own bodies.
This is the true face of the Israel Defense Forces – protecting and preserving life.
** 3 **
Hillel Neuer has put together a very simple test so that you can determine whether you're truly interested in human rights or, instead, are just a garden-variety anti-Semite (or, as Neuer more politely phrases it "anti-Israel").
I think Obama falls in the second category:
** 4 **
My Watcher's Council comrade-in-arms, Snoopy the Goon, writes from the front lines in Israel, where the bombs are falling. It seems as if Israelis are finally saying "Enough! We must fight to win, not just to give Hamas time to re-arm."
Snoopy also caught what may be the most blatantly, stupidly anti-Israel headline the British Guardian newspaper has ever published. It's as if the Guardian was trying to out do Dry Bones without understanding that Dry Bones is satire:
** 5 **
The world has become very surreal when you find yourself periodically nodding in agreement with an Egyptian talk show host's assessment of Hamas:
** 6 **
My sister and I got around to talking about the changing nature of sex and sex crimes on college campuses. It used to be that boys and girls lived in separate facilities, their events were chaperoned, nice girls didn't drink, and nice boys didn't get drunk around nice girls. Now, they share bathrooms and shower stalls (go to 2:20 in this video, for example), sleep in the same rooms, get blotto drunk at parties, and hook up with just anybody. Then, when a girl has Sunday morning regrets after a drunken debauch on Saturday night, it's the boy who gets in trouble (or maybe the boys). As the mother of a future male college student, I think this stinks.
In criminal law, a person's drunkenness doesn't excuse bad acts. That is, you can't say "I didn't have the proper criminal intent because I was drunk." If you freely drank yourself to drunkenness, that decision to leave your rational mind behind is itself evidence of criminal intent.
I think that same standard should apply to women who willingly drink to the point of incoherence, only to discover later that they slept with someone they didn't like or, worse, that a bunch of equally drunk (although presumably still functional) guys had sex with her while she was unconscious. They should all be kicked off of campus, the whole drunken lot of them, rather than treating the woman as the victim and the men as the criminals. Once you start ejecting all of them, I bet the campus drinking culture will dry up pretty quickly.
But the campus is what it is now, which led me to say, half-jokingly, to my sister, "God help me, but I feel my son would be safer at college if I told him 'If you need to have sex, invest in condoms and go to a high-priced hooker. At least she probably won't scream rape the next day.'" I'm exaggerating, of course, because I find prostitution inherently demeaning and exploitative. Moreover, if the FBI has its way, prostitution will also be more dangerous than it needs to be.
** 7 **
Rolling Stone has uploaded a post identifying "The 5 Most Dangerous Guns in America." The post itself is too stupid to click through. What makes it worthwhile are the comments. Here's a sampling:
I can play the headline/no substance game too.
Top 5 Most dangerous Bears to watch out for this Summer
1.) Bears with teeth
2.) Bears with claws
3.) Large bears
4.) Small bears
5.) Medium sized bears
"Popular among handgun-owners, pistols are defined by their built-in barrel and short stock."
Oh man this sentence was hysterical. It seriously doesn't even make sense. Popular among handgun owners? They are handguns! Build in barrel? The barrels are removable, but I don't even think that's what you're referring to. Short stock? Pistols don't have a stock. If you were talking about cars, it would litterally read, "Popular among automobile owners, cars are defined by their built-in tires and short flatbeds."
Ignorance is required to write something this glaringly stupid.
Hey Kristen,
maybe you can do and article on the 3 most dangerous dog breeds.
1. Large
2. Medium
3. Small
Really…The article can simply be summed up with one sentence:
"Kristen Gwynne thinks guns are icky, because potato"
I'm glad to see Rolling Stone is hiring special needs writers.
I could do this for hours. Tons of the 1000+ comments are brilliant.
** 8 **
We've talked for years about the "hate speech" laws in England which are, instead, censorship laws. Those laws are moving to America. In Maryland, graffiti opposing illegal immigrants (without ever mentioning race) is being investigated as hate speech. I consider graffiti vandalism, but this is not a hate crime.
** 9 **
Obama's love-affair with himself is escalating. He is the hero in his own drama, with Americans alternating playing the roles of villainous foils or adoring fans. Ron Fournier suggests that this self-aggrandizing pose is unpresidential.
** 10 **
Aside from the occasional maudlin, belligerent forays into self-love or subject-specific Republican-hate, when it comes to Obama's speeches, when you've heard one, you've heard them all :
** 11 **
The Obama administration has tried to claim that the refugee crisis on our Southern border is because of some vague, inchoate violence somewhere down south there in that far-away Latin American place. This surprisingly indescribable, unspecifiable violence is apparently so bad that these children have to trek through several Latin American countries, all the way to Texas, in order to escape it. That's what the administration says. Will you be surprised to learn that this is untrue?
Saturday afternoon clean laundry round-up and Open Thread
After a month living with a broken washing machine, I finally got my new one today. I feel revitalized.
I also have a few things I'd like to share with you….
The problem with toppling taboos is that, once you've started, it's hard to justify stopping. Take incest, for example.
There's never been a relationship between incest and homosexuality other than the fact that societies have considered both taboo. While incest has a stronger justification for the taboo — genetic defects and child abuse — the fact remains that one can always work around those problems. Now that homosexuality is no longer taboo in the West, one Australian judge contends that the next taboo is ready to fall.
The judge therefore argues that the availability of birth control and laws against child abuse open the way to legalizing incest. For what it's worth, on my "real me" Facebook, everyone, regardless of political and sexual orientation, was revolted by the judge's suggestion.
Eric Peters, a 23-year-old veteran who earned the Purple Heart after being wounded in Afghanistan, is walking across the United States to bring awareness to the VA's cavalier treatment of vets with PTSD. While in Ohio, he visited with the Brimfield Police Department, which described Peters' journey. If you're interested in helping Peters during his journey, you can donate here.
One of the most shameful aspects of the Obama administration is the way in which it's abandoned people in Afghanistan who put themselves at tremendous risk to assist our United States forces. In addition to deadly delays, the State Department's malfeasance is such that it's now run out of visas entirely. No matter how good American troops are, they cannot fight and win if their own government undermines them and intentionally or negligently exposes their in-country allies to deadly risks.
At Legal Insurrection, a primer on the false "Pallywood" narratives that spring up the minute Israel defends herself against terrorist attacks.
I posted yesterday about the fact that those people who have health care courtesy of the Obamacare subsidy are happy, and I'm happy for them. The problem is that making insurance available to low-income people could have been done without the government taking over 1/6 of the U.S. economy; without the government intruding into individual healthcare decisions; without kicking people off of their insurance; without making insurance cost prohibitive for people who are paying full fare; and without the insane glitches the government-run system has.
As for that last point — those insane glitches — Debra Burlingame describes the fiasco attached to her "Child Dental" payments. It makes for painful reading.
Some innocents thought that, if Obama had a second term, he'd stop blaming George Bush, not to mention everyone and everything else, for problems and would, instead, take responsibility for failures. Hah!
Peter Wehner thinks Obama's psychology may prevent him from taking any responsibility for the ever-lengthening list of disasters on his watch. I think Wehner's right. One of the defining characteristics of a malignant narcissist is that things are never his fault. The black hole of insecurity that is at the core of this personality disorder is too well-defended ever to take the blame for anything.
It seems that Thomas Piketty's neo-Marxism just took another blow: He completely neglected to factor in his analyses drastic changes in American tax law that dramatically increased people's retirement funds.
If you feel like being inspired, someone created General Patton inspirational posters.
Or perhaps you take your inspiration with cream and sugar. That cryptic statement refers to the fact that the fuel that ran the Civil War may well have been coffee. And in that vein, I suspect that the fuel that ran WWII was cigarettes. So my question for you is this: What substance, if any, has fueled our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan?
If a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, Obama might indeed be as big-brained as his acolytes insist:
Mary Burke, the Democrat front runner in Wisconsin's gubernatorial race, also refuses to have her mind hobgoblined with any foolish consistency. That's why this limousine liberal is demanding an end to out-of-state donations, even as 30% of her own campaign comes from out-of-state donors.
Your "feel good" Tweet for today:
A rocket fired from Gaza today fell short and crashed into UNRWA warehouses. Now there is a massive fire. pic.twitter.com/wHmMIuzATQ
— IDF (@IDFSpokesperson) July 12, 2014
Here's some other feel good news: Iron Dome protected Tel Aviv from the three missiles fired at it earlier today.
And your delightfully silly video for the day:
(All ingredients used were hamster and hedgehog safe.)
And finally, a few posters:
Pulling no punches: Obama — The Anti-Israel President (VIDEO)
Monday afternoon round-up and Open Thread
We had a productive long weekend, in that we made some smart big purchases courtesy of 4th of July sales. I can't decide whether doing so was patriotic. On the whole, I'm inclined to think that anything I do right now to support the U.S. economy is patriotic. Yay, me!
And even more self-congratulatory huzzahs have to go to the incredible round-up I've got here:
America doesn't have a gun problem; it has a Chicago problem. (Obligatory announcement: Chicago has some of the strictest gun laws in the country, not to mention decades of Democrat Party governance.)
"No, women, you can't have it all," says . . . the female PepsiCo CEO. The fault lies not with our society, but with our biology, and that pesky little thing about having children who instinctively bond to Mommy.
Selwyn Duke carefully walks us through the media's endless obfuscation about the identity of a woman who stabbed a teacher to death in front of a class full of terrified five- and six-year-olds.
"Ebola" sounds like it should be some sort of lawn bowling game. Sadly, it's not. Instead, it's a deadly disease for which there is no cure or vaccination, and which is highly contagious if you're unlucky enough to catch some of the victim's bodily fluids (especially blood, which appears in prodigious amounts outside of the body when people die of a hemorrhagic fever). Even worse, it looks as if Ebola is primed to catch a plane to Europe or America sometime soon. If that doesn't put the fear of God into you, I don't know what will. My prediction, though, is that it makes its first appearance along the Obama-porous border to our south.
The VA always has the time and money for green projects and employee bonuses. It's had less of either for the veterans in its care (and the law denies these vets access to Medicare and civilian physicians). John Hawkins relates the appalling story of an Iraq veteran, only 31-years-old, whose digestive system has broken down but who cannot get any care whatsoever from the VA, leaving him at risk of starving to death. John ends his post with suggestions about things the public can do to help Joe Geoghagan.
I have to say that Joe has my sympathy. I almost starved to death many years ago when doctors kept diagnosing me with stress ulcers, when I was actually unable to tolerate the Pill. (Which is why I know how toxic the Pill is and why I'm so opposed to laws that allow school nurses to give it to 12 year olds.) I then threw up non-stop during both my pregnancies. The man is suffering and needs help.
One of my Leftist Facebook friends has vowed to boycott Walgreen's after having read a Bill Moyers article (to which I will not link) stating that Walgreens should be denied any voice in American politics because it moved its headquarters out of the U.S. It didn't seem to occur to my friend that, rather than boycotting Walgreens, we should lower taxes so as to entice existing corporations to stay in America and new corporations to come to America. Otherwise, we risk becoming France.
Jonathan Turley is a Leftist who's been mugged by reality. Surprisingly, considering his DemProg credentials, Turley (a law professor) has great reverence for the Constitution. He especially appreciates the balance of powers, something that forces the federal government into deliberation and compromise. He's therefore shocked and (dare I say it?) seemingly disgusted by Obama's insistence that he doesn't need no stinkin' Congress, a dictatorial pronouncement allied with the snotty taunt that Congress should "sue me."
The Economist is famously unfriendly to Israel. Nevertheless, it finally seems to be catching on to the fact that the Arab world's problems might be home-grown. It tags Islam as being at the core of the Arab world's problems, but then foolishly pretends that its illiberal economic and social policies are somehow separate from Islam. Still, I won't cavil too much, because it's a start.
I told you earlier that my Facebook friends having concluded that the Hobby Lobby ruling will lead to an all-out war against gays. While these morons (pardon my language, but it's true) are being useful idiots to the hard Left, there really is a war — a bloody war — being waged against gays. It won't surprise you, of course, to learn that this war is Islamic in nature, and it's taking place with increasing frequency on American soil.
David French perfectly encapsulates my approach, not just to law, but to all issues. It's just that, in my mind, this approach was always inchoate and amorphous, so much so that I never could have expressed it as well as he did:
As a Christian lawyer — even when I was engaged in the "commercial" practice of law rather than the nonprofit, constitutional work I do now — I always drew moral lines around my representations decisions. I was not going to use whatever meager talents God gave me to advance or celebrate causes or principles I knew to be wrong. In other words, I discriminated. But not on the basis of race, gender, disability, or sexual orientation, but rather on the basis of the action or legal principle the case would advance. I'd happily represent anyone, gay or straight, in a commercial contract dispute. I would not represent anyone, gay or straight, who wanted to sue to make divorce easier or broaden the definition of marriage beyond the union of one man and one woman. I'd represent an adulterous cad if the state violated his rights to free speech, but I wouldn't lift a finger to help him divorce his wife.
This distinction, between status and acts, or between and among different acts themselves, used to be a matter of common sense
Arabs in Israel like to eat their cake and have it too. This is not a good thing for Israel.
Here's a matched set: Liberals hate America and the College Board tries to un-teach high schoolers about America, so as to perpetuate this hatred.
It's funny to watch Jason Riley try to talk common sense to a HuffPo host on the subject of the damage Progressive laws have done to American blacks. The HuffPo host couldn't be more civil, but he keeps falling into cant and illogical "factual" digressions, with a perplexed Riley gamely trying to translate him into some sort of logical framework to which Riley can actually respond. Also, and no disrespect to Riley, but Riley sounds just like a truly super smart Urkel.
I'm not a Peggy Noonan fan but, as I've noted before, when she's good, she's extraordinarily good — and so it is with this column about the peculiar (and peculiarly dangerous) Obama presidency. Since I don't know if this is behind a pay wall (I'm always signed in to the WSJ), let me just give you a taste so you know what I'm talking about:
But I'm not sure people are noticing the sheer strangeness of how the president is responding to the lack of success around him. He once seemed a serious man. He wrote books, lectured on the Constitution. Now he seems unserious, frivolous, shallow. He hangs with celebrities, plays golf. His references to Congress are merely sarcastic: "So sue me." "They don't do anything except block me. And call me names. It can't be that much fun."
This is a president with 2½ years to go who shows every sign of running out the clock. Normally in a game you run out the clock when you're winning. He's running it out when he's losing.
All this is weird, unprecedented. The president shows no sign—none—of being overwhelmingly concerned and anxious at his predicaments or challenges. Every president before him would have been.
Instead he seems disinterested, disengaged almost to the point of disembodied. He is fatalistic, passive, minimalist.
Sen. Jeff Sessions has issued a stirring call to arms demanding that we restore our border integrity and security for the benefit of America and Americans.
When you're out of power, you develop solidarity with the guy next to you. Your long-term goals may be different, but in the short-term you both want power back. Things change dramatically when you suddenly achieve the power you want. All those former allies have the potential to become enemies, which is what's happening between Michelle Obama and those charged with feeding America's public school students.
What does it mean that the New York Times has discovered that Tom Steyer's money is filthy dirty with coal dust? I suspect that, because his heart's in the "right place" (i.e., supporting DemProg politicians), his money will never be too dirty for the Times.
I also wonder if the Times will report on the cooling trend seen in America's climate data? Duh! Dumb rhetorical question. Of course the Times won't.
I think James Cameron had one good move: The Terminator. Others think he made good movies up to and including The Titanic. Some will even praise him for Avatar. But when it comes to demanding that the whole world go vegan to fight global warming (except that the globe's not warming; see above), can anyone take him seriously anymore? Never mind. Another dumb rhetorical question. He is now and will remain a DemProg darling for saying what they want to hear.
Indeed, Cameron's climate views are now the only views the BBC will allow on air. I can no longer remember where I read it, but someone remarked that this is the same BBC that refused to give Churchill air time during the 1930s to talk about the rising danger from Germany and the terrible risks from British appeasement and pacifism.
It used to be that the only thing that the BBC had going for it was posh British accents. Now, with its egalitarian dive into the furthest realms of working class speech, it doesn't even have that cachet.
This is your body on socialized medicine:
A report published by the Royal College of Surgeons and Age UK shows that [British National Health Service] rationing is being extended to cover life-saving operations on elderly patients. A study found that in large parts of the country, hardly anyone above the age of 75 was receiving surgery for conditions such as breast cancer and gall bladder removal.
I've complained here about the bag bans taking over Marin. First they came for the plastic bags, and now they're zeroing in on the paper bags. They want to turn us all into crazy bag ladies, packing our groceries into petri dishes full of salmonella and e. coli. And of course you won't be at all surprised to learn that the "scientific" justification for these often dangerous inconveniences is total bunk.
Please don't forget Marine Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi, who rots in a Mexican prison while our president does nothing. No, wait, I'm wrong. Tahmooressi rots in a Mexican prison while our president welcomes hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens, many Mexican, into our country, and then disburses them — drugs, diseases, crime, and all — throughout America so that they cannot easily be sent back home. My Congress people are useless pieces of Leftist detritus, so I have no way of making a change, but if you're not stuck with the Feinsteins, Boxers, and Huffmans of this world, maybe you can do something.
The DiploMad has a his truly epic rant against Obama's "misadministration" on our Southern border. You really have to read it.
Some moronic Leftist went into Hobby Lobby, played with wooden alphabet blocks, took a photo, and is now touted as a hero by Planned Parenthood. Can I just say, morons, that Hobby Lobby never denied that women should be able to get birth control, something that's been a recognized right in America since 1965, when the Supreme Court handed down the Griswold decision?
I guess I can say it, but it won't make a difference. You can't gain any traction with people who argue this way:
Mid-day Sunday round-up and Open Thread
It's a ridiculously beautiful day here, the kind that screams out "God's in his Heaven, and all's right with the world." It's therefore quite discordant to read headlines and realize that God may be in his Heaven, but Obama is in the White House, the DemProgs are in charge of the Senate, our Southern border is broken, and the Middle East is catapulting back to the 7th century — and trying to take us with it.
Yikes! I'm going to be grateful to go to the laundromat with the piles of clothes my ailing washing machine can't handle. I have to leave quite soon, so let me throw a super quick round-up your way:
If you read only one thing today, read Mark Steyn's thoughts about the particular reason the IRS scandal is so appalling and why it ought to resonate among all Americans, not just those targeted in this particular scandal.
Kevin D. Williamson's article about the money to be had in politics is so good, I actually posted it on my "real me" Facebook page. I don't usually post things from conservative publications on Facebook, because DemProgs refuse to read things that don't come from sources they trust (i.e., the drive-by media). This one, though, raises such non-partisan issues I figured that even my DemProg friends will find something with which they agree in the article.
Kyle Smith on the DemProg's constant shtick about being poor. They are truly testing how far they can push Lincoln's saying that you can fool all of the people all of the time. Oh, wait! Lincoln didn't say that. That's just the DemProg's theory and they're working it really hard.
It's easy to deal with illegal aliens, and it doesn't require new law to do so. The current law gives the federal government all the power it needs to take care of the current situation. Matt Barber explains. I'll add to Barber's claim that a solid border isn't mean by pointing out that, as long as the U.S. provides a safety valve, corrupt Latin American governments have no incentive to reform. We allow the wound to fester endlessly without ever getting better.
A Church of England vicar who married his long-time boyfriend contends that this marriage was the "Christian" thing to do. Interestingly, he offers no theological justification for that conclusion. Could it be because there isn't a theological justification? There are a lot of good arguments in favor of gay marriage, but neither the Old nor the New Testament provide a basis for any such arguments:
You know how "the squeaky wheel gets the grease?" Not at the VA. If you're a squeaky wheel there, you're put on a list and given less, not more, care. When W. S. Gilbert had his Mikado sing about the "little list" he'd compiled to get rid of social irritants ("I don't think they'll be missed; I'm sure they won't be missed"), I'm pretty sure he was joking. The VA isn't.
If the Muslims take over the world, it won't just be Jews wearing yellow stars or hats. One imam in England has it all planned out and it involves everyone but good Muslims living as slaves within the nations they once controlled.
Of course Obama knows what the's doing in terms of
throwing fuel on the Middle Easter fire. [UPDATE: I un-linked this. Earl caught something I missed which is that, after a very credible analysis about what's going on in the Middle East, and ISIS's role in these developments, in the second-to-last paragraph, the linked article went off into wild antisemitic "Zionist" conspiracy theories.]
Tom Rogan is right: ISIS has a lot of problems. Its forte is killing, not management, and it won't be able to create a stable state. However, if ISIS gets control in Iraq and Libya, or even if it doesn't, its killing ways will still allow it to cause immeasurable destruction and suffering.
I love this line from Michael Goodwin's article about Obama's endless whining that people are mean to him: "There you have it: the presidential mind in Year 6. Don't cry for Argentina — cry for me!"
Saturday mid-day round-up and Open Thread
I'm just thankful that the washer wasn't doing a bleach load when it decided to break. And I'm thankful that the clothes were mostly rinsed of detergent (indeed, there was so little detergent in them that they weren't actually cleaned). And I'm thankful that I was able to wring the clothes out and that my dryer still works. All in all, a lot to be thankful for.
As for the being thankful about the news in Obama's America . . . well, not so much:
I cannot tell you how much I dread the thought of a possible Elizabeth Warren presidency. I've disliked and disrespected that woman for almost thirty years now. Nothing I've learned about her in the intervening years has changed my opinion. If you think Obama is bad, Warren will be just as bad in her own way.
Of course, I dread a Clinton presidency too. In that regard, I'm grateful for a new book that is again raising the charge that Hillary Clinton was fired for "writing fraudulent legal briefs, lying to investigators and confiscating public documents." The book is written by Jerry Zeifman, a serious Nixon partisan, but he was her boss at the time, so it will be interesting to see his support for this charge and Hillary's opposition, if any.
This Commentary Magazine article about the Leftist fight against moderate Muslims may be behind a pay wall for you, but if you can do so, please read it. This might whet your appetite:
After years of effort to promote the myth of a post 9/11 backlash against American Muslims, the left is breaking some new ground in the debate about terror. Instead of merely trying to make Americans feel guilty about defending themselves against radical Islamists, they have a new goal: banning the use of the term "moderate Muslim."
That's the conceit of a piece in The New Republic by Georgetown University's Nathan Lean in which he argues that to attempt to differentiate between Islamists who seek to pursue a war on the West and those Muslims who wish to live in peace with non-Muslims is itself an act of prejudice. For Lean, any effort to ascertain whether Muslims are supportive of the radical ideologues that have supported not only al-Qaeda but also other Islamist terror movements is wrong because it feeds the "Islamophobia" which he believes is at the core of all Western attitudes towards Muslims. In doing so, he is attempting not only to discourage efforts to combat the radicals but to delegitimize those Muslims who choose to speak up against the Islamists.
I'm familiar with that New Republic article because one of my "real me" Facebook friends posted it. I went ballistic and left a long comment noting that there's a huge difference between truly moderate Muslims, on the one hand, and, on the other hand, (a) the radicals and (b) the silent majority behind the radicals. If we don't make that distinction, we run the risk of two things: (a) having the bad guys metastasize even more because we're afraid to label them or (b) having things come to such a head that, when all distinctions are gone and the bad guys are ascendant, we turn on the good guys too. I completely shut down the burgeoning comment thread. No one had a word left to say after my rant.
If you can, please read Jonathan Tobin's analysis of the terrible harm this new Leftist tactic will cause in the West's existential war against radical Islam, a war the West barely won the first time, in the centuries spanning the 7th centuries when Islam burst out of the Arabian peninsula through the medieval Crusades that finally pushed Islam back a little bit, and that it barely won again the second time, in the 17th century when the Ottoman Turks made their way to the outskirts of Vienna. If we can't even name our enemy this time around, Islam will succeed.
The New York Times has examined its conscience and decided that it is pure; it did indeed report with sufficient weight and depth on the IRS scandal. Scott Johnson, at Power Line, begs to differ and has the facts to undermine the New York Times' self-serving, highly inaccurate exculpation.
Roger Simon thinks the liberal media is silent about things such as the IRS scandal because individual members of the media cannot bear to admit that everything they believed was wrong. I think Neo-Neocon is closer to the mark when she says that the media is silent about Obama's cascading failures and scandals because they still agree with his agenda wholeheartedly, and don't want anything to derail it. Or as she says, "I'm afraid what the Times is doing is ass-covering. They can't think of a way to spin Obama's abysmal failures any more (they do have certain standards, although those standards are pretty low), so they are silent." Yup.
Greg, at Rhymes with Right, explains how far Obama has deviated from the Constitution when it comes to the way in which he exercises his "executive" powers. Greg politely ascribes this to Obama's failure to understand the Constitution. I wouldn't be so nice. Obama fully understands the Constitution. He just doesn't agree with it. Democrats like what he's doing and are willing to destroy constitutional checks and balances to support his agenda, and Republicans understand precisely what Obama understands: As the nation's first sort-of black president, he can't be stopped.
Some political ads are better than others. This one, by Darius Foster, a black conservative, is one of the best. (Hat tip: Hot Air)
Andrew McCarthy excoriates John Boehner for going the weakling's route in his challenge to Obama's lawlessness, rather than using the full complement of weapons available to the House under the Constitution.
What I continue to find fascinating about the plan to put a suicide barrier under the Golden Gate Bridge, something that will cost almost $80 million dollars is that it's being advanced by the same crew of people who agree with Nancy Pelosi that abortion is "sacred ground." For example, one of the barrier's proponents is Tom Ammiano, a hard Left, political gay (as opposed to someone whose life is not defined by his sexual predilections) who makes Pelosi look moderate.
Ammiano supports all forms of abortion, including sex selection abortions. He also strongly believes that the public should pay for abortions: "In my 21 years in public office, I have been one of the strongest advocates for public funding of abortion services."
I don't get the logic of a man who says that the public must pay $79 million to prevent a statistically small number of suicides by people who desperately want to die, even as he even more zealous demands that the public pay even more money in order to enable the millions of abortions that kill infants who most certainly do not want to die.
Your health care provider is watching you. If you put a bottle of soda, a bag of sugar, a stick of butter or, Heaven forbid, a cigarette pack on your credit card or your grocery store club card, don't be surprised if you get a warning from your doctor, followed by the denial of care for which you previously paid by buying insurance.
One wishes that the same-sex marriage crowd, which insists that all couples who love each other should get the state's and the church's imprimatur of marriage, would get as excited about events in Pakistan. There a couple who married for love were beheaded by the bride's outraged family. The fact that you can't get the state's stamp of approval for same-sex love in America seems to pale a bit in importance when compared to love and death in the stone age world of Islamic/tribal countries across the Islamic swath of the Middle East.
It's Ramadan, so the United States Navy is warning troops in Bahrain to hide their day-time eating habits and, men and women both, to cover up when in public. I'm of two minds about this. Normally I would say that there's nothing wrong with the military behaving politely during a host country's religious festival. However, when the host country is Muslim, I never get the feeling that these actions are taken because of politeness and mutual respect. I always feel that they have more to do with dhimmitude and fear.
Check out Sultan Knish's "Friday afternoon roundup" to see a great anti-Hillary video. Also, you simply have to read an entire post that contains gems such as these:
The ongoing problem on the right is that it talks 'extremist' and legislates 'moderate' while the left talks 'moderate' and legislates 'extremist'.
That's a big part of why Obama is in the White House and conservatives are still struggling to make headway.
Obama isn't in the White House because Americans woke up Communist one morning. I know that "Free Stuff" is a popular theory, but people always liked free stuff. The larger welfare population helped shift the balance, but if Obama had been a non-viable candidate, there would have been no balance to shift and it would have done him as much good as it did Jesse Jackson or Dukakis.
Obama is in office because much of the country believes that he is a moderate and a centrist.
The left can get away with it because it talks centrist and lives radical. If the right is ever going to do better than another liberal Republican, its candidates are going to have to talk like liberal Republicans while legislating well to the right.
It is doable. Rand Paul has been doing the talking part well enough. Unfortunately he talks the talk so well because he actually is well to the left.
Do you believe IRS Commissioner John Koskinen's claim that ordinary taxpayers can pull a Lois Lerner and claim that their dog at their hard drive, with all their tax relevant documents on it? No, I don't either.
You know who Koskinen reminds me of? Lillian Hellman in the context of Mary McCarthy's famous Hellman put-down: "I once said in an interview that every word she writes is a lie, including 'and' and 'the.'"
Everyone is a'Twitter and a'Facebook about a Verizon ad claiming that it's parents who are at fault for the fact that there aren't more girls who are engineers. You see, they yell at their prepubescent daughters for committing acts of science instead of just being pretty. HuffPo did an entire post supporting the ad. The horror statistic is that, while 66% of 4th grade girls say that they like math and science, only 18% go on to become engineering majors.
I think that's a bunch of garbage. Through the process of raising a boy and a girl, not to mention being surrounded by boys and girls, and having once been a girl myself, I know what happens between 4th grade and high school/college. Science and math transform from simplistic, teacher directed classroom exercises to becoming hardcore, data-rich, formula-driven, highly analytic problems.
During 4th grade, when girls are infinitely better than boys at sitting down and following directions, they shine with simplistic problems. However, as boys finally mature, their brains click into gear and enjoy the higher level work while the majority (not all, but the majority) of girls dislike the mental effort and rote memorization of the STEM subjects and prefer softer subjects that engage the verbal, artistic, and emotional parts of their brain.
Is the above a gross generalization? Yes, up to a point. There's always a bell curve, with outliers, but the fact is that maturing girls draw away from STEM just as maturing boys are drawn to it — and this isn't because 21st century girls are told to shut up and be pretty, but because that's where their developing brains take them. And no, that's not science talking. That's living in the real world talking.
Use an obvious, albeit bloodthirsty metaphor opposing the party in power and end up in the mental hospital. Soviet Union? No. Obama's America.
And some pictures:
(Thanks to Earl and Sadie for their help assembling this round-up.)
The administration's puppets engage in Obama's familiar pattern of lies when trying to avoid the smoking gun Benghazi email
This post is about the administration's new tactic to get out from under the painful weight of the Ben Rhodes Benghazi email which establishes pretty definitively that the administration immediately began a cover-up after Ambassador Christopher Stevens, Sean Smith, Glen Doherty, and Tyrone S. Woods were murdered. But before I get to the administration's new tactic, let me quote at some length from a May 2008 post I wrote about Obama's unique approach to lies, which I think of as the "affirmative defense style of lying."
Obama is also a fairly compulsive liar, something that highlights myriad other problems. That is, whenever he's caught in a problematic situation (ah, those friends of his), rather than making a clean breast of it, or a good defense, he instead engages in a perfect storm of ever-spiraling affirmative defenses, with the common denominator always being that it's everyone's fault but Obamas.
For those who are not lawyers, let me explain what affirmative defenses are. A complaint contains allegations that the defendant committed myriad acts of wrongdoing. In response, the defendant does two things. First, he denies everything except his own name, and he'd deny that too, if he could. Next, he issues affirmative defenses, which concede the truth of the accusations, but deny that they have any legal or practical meaning.
As an example of how this plays out, imagine a complaint alleging that I smashed my car into a fence, destroying it. I'd start by saying, "No, I didn't." Then I'd begin the affirmative defenses: (1) "Okay, I did bring my car into contact with the fence, but I didn't actually hurt the fence." (2) "Okay, I hurt the fence, but I didn't hurt it badly enough to entitle its owner to any damages." (3) "Okay, I destroyed the fence, but it was falling down already, so it's really the owner's fault, so he gets no damages." And on and on, in a reductio ad absurdum stream of admissions and excuses.
These affirmative defense patterns have shown up with respect to some of Obama's nastiest little pieces of personal history. When Jeremiah Wright's sermons first surfaced, Obama denied knowing anything about them. When that denial failed, he claimed that he only had one or two exposures to this deranged level of hatred, so he didn't make much of it. When that denial failed, he conceded that he'd heard this stuff often over the years, but wasn't concerned about it, because he knew his pastor was a good man. (Which makes Obama either complicit in the statements or a fool.) Indeed, he even made a much-heralded speech about what a good man his pastor is. He then promised that he'd never abandon his beloved pastor. But when his pastor became dead weight, Obama dropped him so hard you could hear the thud.
The same pattern appeared when word got out about Obama's connection with two self-admitted, unrepentant, America-hating terrorists. (That would be William Ayer and Bernadine Dohrn, for anyone out of the loop here.) When caught, Obama again engaged in a perfect storm of affirmative defenses. (1) I don't know them. [A lie.] (2) Okay, I know them, but not well. [A lie.] (3) Okay, I know them well, but we're just good friends, not political fellow travelers. [A lie.] (4) Okay, we're more than just good friends, because we served on a Leftist board and I sought political advice from him. And on and on. With every lie, Obama concedes, and then comes forward with a new lie.
The same pattern emerges with Rezko, with Obama freely ranging from "I didn't know him," to "I never took favors from him," to "I didn't take big favors from him," to "I took a big favor from him, but I didn't know it was a big favor." It just goes ad nauseum, as if Obama is a machine, programmed to spew forth this endless flow of denial and concession. The guy is pathological in his inability to admit wrongdoing and his ability to prevaricate.
The question then becomes whether American voters will be happy with the constant barrage of Obama lies, and will be willing to travel Obama's incremental pathways to unpleasant truths, or if they're at last going to rebel and say "Who and what are you?" And if they finally get the truth, and it's pretty sure to be ugly will it matter?
I'd like to think that the truth will matter, just as I'd like to think that, for many Americans, the mere fact that he lied so compulsively will matter too. After all, that is one of the reasons they've grown to hate Hillary. My dream is that, no matter how perfectly polished and highly functional the Obama political machine is, the fact that Obama is still the core of that machine will be, in and of itself, an insurmountable problem for him.
In sum, Obama tells a whopper of a lie, and then backs off of it incrementally, always preserving some little space of credibility where his lie really doesn't, or shouldn't, matter.
With that in mind, please enjoy Ace's summary about the way in which the White House's Pravda-MSM press is trying to spin that smoking gun Benghazi email today:
We saw this script change in the case of Bill Clinton, after the revelation of the Blue Dress.
We saw this script change much more recently in the case of Obama's "If you like your insurance, you can keep your insurance lie," when the script flipped from "You're stupid and crazy to doubt Obama" to "Of course you can't keep your insurance, that's at the heart of the program's cost-control measures; you're stupid and crazy to have not realized this sooner!"
And now reliably thoughtless yabbering baboon Donnie Deutsch executes the pivot on Benghazi.
"What about the cover-up for the White House?" Scarborough interjected. "I've got everybody here apologizing for the White House. What about a cover-up, Donnie?"
"Why are you jumping to political strategy?" he continued. "So, tell me, what's the politics of the White House lying about something that we all know they're lying about?"
"You see the White House spokesperson lying on national television. You see an ABC Newsperson shocked that he's lying and treating the press corps like they're stupid. He says it's not about Benghazi. Republicans and conservatives have been called fools for a year now for saying this happened. They don't release it with the original the documents. They finally, reluctantly are forced to release it. Then you have the White House lying about it, saying it's not about Benghazi, and you're only reaction is, 'Hey, Republicans better not overreact to the cover-up?'"
"We, as voters, understand both Republicans and Democrats are political animals and are going to manage a crisis to their favor," Deutsch contested before he was interrupted.
"So, when Democrats cover something up, it's politics," Scarborough interjected. "When Republicans cover something up, it's a scandal." He closed by calling his co-hosts reaction to the White House's behavior a "disgrace."
So Scarborough says "we all know they're lying," and Deutsch finally — finally — does not dispute that, but instead chooses to recharacterize the acts of serial lying and cover-up as just some understandable political-animal crisis management.
For eighteen months the line from Obama — and therefore the line from the White House's communications shops at ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN — has been that Obama was not a "political animal," and certainly not on a matter of national security.
Now that the Blue Dress Proof of the emails are released, the defense changes to "Of course, this is all obvious, how stupid are you are for dwelling on obvious things."
Read the rest here.
Please remember: Malignant narcissists never lie. Whatever they need to say at a given moment is the truth at that given moment.
Please remember also that a greater is probably never in greater danger than when both the government and the media are either narcissistic or have embraced narcissistic tactics as standard operating procedure.
So, for many reasons — to avenge our dead, to strengthen our national security, and to purge our government of sociopaths — in answer to Hillary's timeless question about what difference this all makes, let me just say that it makes a Hell of a lot of difference.
Obama is an evil man, QED
I'm tired of pussy-footing around calling Obama merely dishonest, stupid, feral, leftist, etc. Let's call it like it is: the man is evil.
Only an evil man would say this (emphasis mine):
There are times where I as President of the United States am going to have different tactical perspectives than the Prime Minister of Israel and that is understandable. Because Israel cannot contract out its security in light of the history that the people of Israel understand all too well… But ultimately it is my view, from a tactical perspective, that we have to test out this proposition. It will make us stronger internationally, and it may possibly lead to a deal.
On its face, that statement looks merely stupid, but just the slightest bit of analysis reveals that it is a statement by a man who is morally corrupted to the point of evil. Let me explain:
Israel has been America's friend for decades. Iran has been remarkably clear that, when it achieves full nuclear weapon status, it will obliterate Israel. The apocalyptic strain of Shiite Islam that Iran practices is comfortable with the idea of a nuclear holocaust, especially because most of the Muslims in the line of fire are Sunnis, who are Shiites' ancient enemies.
When seen through the reality spectrum, as opposed to the evil spectrum, Israel and America should have identical interests. Israel wants to survive. And America, as Israel's longstanding friend, should want Israel to survive, just as America, as a humanist nation, shouldn't want to see a huge swath of the Middle East vanish under mushroom-shaped clouds.
So what does Obama say? He says, big-hearted guy that he is, that he understands that Israel and America will have "different tactical perspectives." And yeah, sure he also vaguely gets that Israelis don't want to be destroyed en masse. When push comes to shove, though, who cares about the Israelis' survival instinct. It's much more important that Obama gets a chance "to test out this proposition [letting Iran go nuclear]."
That is bad enough on its face, but please keep in mind that Obama is manifestly undeterred by the fact that every single proposition he's tested out thus far has failed: his economic propositions have failed, his healthcare propositions are failing in a way that could bring down the U.S. economy, his Arab Spring propositions have failed, his foreign policy propositions have failed — everything he touches fails.
That global failure leads to one of two conclusions: He's pathologically stupid, which I no longer believe; or all these failures are intentional, which makes him evil. Moreover, once one adds this new Iranian "test proposition" to Obama's list of known failures, you pretty much have proof of my theorem: Obama is an evil man, QED.
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The whole Iran-Munich moment has left me believing that Obama is much smarter than we realized. Even as he was lying to Israel about (a) having her back and (b) not negotiating with Iran, he created a box from which it's almost impossible for Israel to escape. There are only bad choices says Yossi Klein Halevi:
Israel's window of opportunity to launch an effective strike is closing. It is now measured in months, not years. The deal, worry Israelis, could further narrow that window.
Israelis note that the deal doesn't cover inspections of Iran's nuclear weaponization program, including fuses, timers and metallurgy, which will no doubt continue apace. And Israel takes for granted that the Iranians will persist in doing what they've done all along: lie and cheat, but this time under the cover of a deal. In every previous rounds of negotiations, after all, the Iranians continued building secret facilities. All of which could mean further reducing Israel's timetable for a strike.
If Israel concludes that its window is closing and does decide to strike, even while the deal remains in effect, it risks becoming an international pariah—in effect exchanging roles with Iran. On the morning after an Israeli strike, Israel could find itself alone, facing tens of thousands of missiles from Hezbollah and Iran launched against its home front.
During the first Obama administration, the urgent Israeli question was: Is he is a friend of the Jewish state? That question was largely resolved for many Israelis during the President's visit to Israel last March, when he won over much of the public by affirming the Jewish roots in the land of Israel and the indigenousness of Israel in the Middle East, as well as Israel's past efforts to make peace.
Now, though, Israelis are asking this: After eight years of President Obama, will the Middle East be a safer or more dangerous region for Israel?
For most Israelis the answer is self-evident. The turning point came this summer, when Obama hesitated to enforce his own red line over Syria. That was the moment that he lost the trust of the Israeli public on Iran.
This is chess on a malevolent scale. It was also probably a planned move. Never forget that the Los Angeles Times has hidden in its vaults a videotape of Obama speaking at a radical pro-Palestinian gathering. The fact that the LA Times refuses to release the video has long led people to assume that Obama says something along the lines of "I'll take care of Israel for you."
We at this blog knew that Obama was never a friend to Israel, and was always doing whatever he could to curry favor with Islamist regimes. (Witness his love affair with the Muslim Brotherhood.) It turns out that this wasn't just a feeling, but was a goal to which he committed himself, even though it required the use of fraud and chicanery. (And let's not forget the quite obviously faked "long form" birth certificate, which almost certainly hides the fact that the father about whom Obama dreamed in Bill Ayer's best-selling Obama autobiography probably wasn't his real father.)
Indeed, Obama's presidency is proving to have been built entirely on fraud. Not just lies, which are often merely self-exculpatory or self-aggrandizing, but on fraud, which is the deliberate use of lies and information withholding in order to get people to change their position to their detriment and to your benefit. He told Americans and Israelis lies, knowing that they were lies, for the specific purpose of getting both America and Israel to change their position to their detriment and to Obama's benefit.
In the case of Obamacare, the (knowing and known) lies were that (a) you could keep your plan; (b) you could keep your doctor; and (c) average insurance costs would drop $2,500 per year for a family. He told these lies to strip Americans of their insurance and pave the way for socialized medicine.
In the case of Israel, he repeatedly told Israel that (a) he would never abandon her and (b) he would work to end Iran's nuclear aspirations. These lies meant that Israel did not strike against Iran when the striking was relatively easy (as was the case in the strike against the Syrian nuclear facility). Now, as Halevi showed, even if Israel successfully strikes Iran, Hezbollah is on her border with thousands of missiles aimed at her. Moreover, having now struck this deal with Iran, Obama won't have America's back if she strikes; he'll join the chorus of disapproval isolating Israel.
In the past, when Israel had her back against the wall, she came out swinging. Thanks to Obama's fraud, her hands may well be tied.
Do you remember the headline horror of 9/11? I do. Since we were on the West Coast, we woke up in time to turn on the television and see the towers fall. I don't need to find words to tell you what that felt like because you were there and you remember. You felt it too — that sense of watching a train race towards a giant canyon, where the bridge is out, and there is nothing you can do to stop the inevitable carnage. Every day, I wake up now, grab my iPad, and, driven by a fierce compulsion, open it, expecting that Obamaworld will show me headlines fully equal to the despair and horror of 9/11.
UPDATE: The wonderful image that Matt Drudge used this morning comes from Jon Gabriel.


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