Here is his central point:
“We must always remember the greatest danger facing our world is the marriage of militant Islam with nuclear weapons.”
And if it is so, what should be done?
“The greatest danger facing our world”
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“Americans are beginning to understand that the politics of ‘hope and change’ has an enforcement arm that operates like an organized crime syndicate”
Those Lois Lerner emails that happened to have been accidentally deleted and could not be retrieved turn out to still exist and are being brought to light. So this is where matters now stand: IRS Being Investigated For Criminal Misconduct Surrounding Lois Lerner’s ‘Missing’ Emails
“The IRS was apparently given instruction to do whatever necessary to silence those who spoke out against the Obama Administration. It became a West Wing weapon of choice. As the nation’s only pro-liberty election integrity organization, True the Vote was marked for takedown by the IRS early in 2010, along with hundreds of other organizations that spoke openly about government corruption. It took a long time, too long, for the pieces to be put together, but Americans are beginning to understand that the politics of ‘hope and change’ has an enforcement arm that operates like an organized crime syndicate. The time for choosing is now,” True the Vote Founder Catherine Engelbrecht, who was targeted by the IRS and other government agencies, said in a statement about the new revelations. “Our elected officials need to stop playing politics and use the powers we’ve entrusted to them to restore the rule of law in Washington. Stop handing out bonuses and start sending law-breaking bureaucrats to jail. If Congress doesn’t have conviction enough to get the job done, then just turn out the lights, get off the payroll, go home, and get out of the way. Enough is enough. The American people will not be silenced.”
No doubt the media blackout on these developments continues.
Mostly about Scott Walker
This is mostly about Scott Walker but also a bit about Art Laffer and the economy.
First, to say that Obama doesn’t love America is as weak a truth as ever I have heard in politics. To leave as an open question whether he is a Christian is an absolute pussycat of a position. Because whatever is in his heart of hearts, the actions he takes help Islamists and harm both Israel and the United States. That is what matters. The rest is dross.
For Scott Walker, the nomination is now his to lose. Early early days, but he is a Republican from a Democrat state, his policies are being shaped along Tea Party lines and he is, so far, fearless in the face of the media.
He also has friends in the right places. This is an article by Lawrence Kudrow which notes the following which comes under the title, What Scott Walker Actually Said:
Yes, believe it or not, Wisconsin governor Scott Walker actually spoke at some length at the dinner this past week where Rudy Giuliani charged that President Obama doesn’t love America. All the hullabaloo went to Giuliani, but in terms of the Republican presidential race, a number of Scott Walker’s pointed comments about policy and politicians are not to be missed.
First a word about the dinner itself, which was generously backed by John Catsimatidis. It was the second event sponsored by the Committee to Unleash American Prosperity, a new group founded by Arthur Laffer, Steve Moore, Steve Forbes and myself.
And this is what they are seeking:
To maximize growth, jobs, opportunity and upward mobility, the U.S. must recapture the first principles of economic growth that were so successful in the 1960s, ‘80s and ’90s. Namely, pro-growth policies should seek a low-rate, broad-based flat tax, limited government spending, the lightest possible economic regulations, sound money and free trade.
The Reagan Revolution was not just about lower taxes. To restrict Reagan’s message to tax alone is to miss most of what was important. It is the entire matrix that is crucial. To focus on any one aspect is to miss the point. And I will emphasise that when Art Laffer led the supply-side revolution in the 1980s, he did it under the banner of Say’s Law, properly understood. Say’s Law is not about tax although it does help to explain why diverting spending away from governments is the key to growth.
As for Walker, he is first to rise above the crowd so will be taking most of the shots in these early days before the election in November 2016! These next two years will be an endurance test. But here is the final question.
Can Walker win? Arthur Laffer has known him for years and says he has matured enormously from his days as Milwaukee county executive. Others say he is the only Republican candidate with a record of winning many different elections, from local office, to state assemblyman, to three gubernatorial races in four years.
Walker is a superb retail politician, a trait that will serve him well in the early primaries. He has an uncanny knack of maintaining direct eye contact. At the dinner, rather than rushing out for an early-morning TV call, he insisted on talking to every person in the large crowd surrounding him.
The question now is whether he can develop from a tough state-union buster to a national politician who can modernize Reagan’s policies while maintaining the Gipper’s upbeat message of optimism and growth.
The Republicans need a strong message and a messenger to clarify the issues. This final bit is naturally what I find myself attracted to most of all:
Walker was also highly critical of President Obama’s conduct in the war against radical Islamism, and said the U.S. must wage a stronger battle in the air and on the ground against ISIS.
Meantime, one must simply endure and hope things can be held together until then.
Who’s in charge and what do they want?
If ever there was a book designed to make you appreciate how little one even knows of the times in which they live, it was Diana West’s epic American Betrayal. And in spite of the efforts to kill this book by people on what you would normally think of as on the conservative side of politics – the left has never had to lift so much as a finger to do the dirty work – it continues to make its way in the world. West has now put up a post of further reflections on her own book as she prepares the audio tape version: Rereading American Betrayal: Why Did Uncle Sam Keep Soviet Secret Agents a Secret?
The book is about the Roosevelt White House, but it is also about our own times right now. Maybe fifty years from now, if we are still as free then as we are today, some future Diana West may write the actual story of who Obama really is and what he was up to. In the meantime, you should read the book. There is nothing its equal anywhere in our political literature. But the real reason to read the book is so you can then follow the argument about the forces that have tried to destroy this book’s credibility on our side of the fence. When you have finally come to terms with all of that, you can wonder about what those political forces there are and where we are being led.
Why isn’t he questioning the President’s patriotism? Why isn’t everyone?
I don’t wish to be mean about a people from whence some of my best friends have come, but if this presentation from Rudolph Giuliani is a revelation to anyone, Americans are beyond naive, living in a complete fantasyland. I don’t think badly about someone because of the colour of their skin, but the colour of their skin is also not a reason to like or trust them. Obama was bad news from the start, and the only surprise to me has been how far and for how long he has been able to string people along. In fact, he continues to this minute. These mild criticisms from Rudolph Giuliani have nevertheless led to a series of death threats and hysteria in the media and across the left. Giuliani has therefore now responded.
Former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani adamantly defended Thursday his controversial criticism of President Obama, one day after saying he does “not believe that the president loves America.”
Giuliani made the remarks Wednesday at a private fundraiser for Republican Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, who is widely considered to be a prospective candidate for president in 2016. He added: “(Obama) doesn’t love you. And he doesn’t love me. He wasn’t brought up the way you were brought up and I was brought up through love of this country.”
The comments drew widespread criticism from Democrats and liberals.
But Thursday night on “The Kelly File,” when host Megyn Kelly asked Giuliani if he wished to apologize, the 2008 presidential candidate doubled down on his criticism.
“Not at all. I want to repeat it,” Giuliani said. “The reality is, from all that I can see of this president, all that I’ve heard of him, he apologizes for America, he criticizes America. … This is an American president I’ve never seen before.”
Giuliani said he doesn’t think Obama believes in American exceptionalism, citing the president’s remarks on police tactics in the wake of the Ferguson shooting, western atrocities in the name of religion and Obama’s longtime association with the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, a controversial Chicago pastor.
But, Kelly countered, “a lot of liberals don’t believe in American exceptionalism, but that doesn’t mean they don’t love America.”
“I don’t feel it,” Giuliani said. “I don’t feel this love of America (from Obama). I believe his initial approach is to criticize this country, and then afterwards to say a few nice things about it.”
Giuliani, however, said he wasn’t questioning the president’s patriotism.
What does a guy have to do to show that he hates America and supports radical Islam? He’s not going to tell you so you just have to work it out from what he does. It really is insane.
Please now read Mark Steyn.
Guess whose policies are anti-American, anti-Western, pro-Islamic
The “he” quoted below is a retired four-star admiral who commanded the U.S. Pacific Fleet during several Middle East flare ups. The title of the story is, Wartime admiral: Obama is ‘anti-American, pro-Islamic’. This is what he said.
“The Obama administration has a strategy. It is very simple. Any thinking American should be able to grasp it. It’s anti-American, anti-Western, it’s pro-Islamic, pro-Iranian, and pro-Muslim Brotherhood,” he said last week at a conference hosted by the conservative Center for Security Policy where he heads the military committee.
Won’t cause a ripple of notice, which is more incredible than anything else.
If he’s not the stupid one, then who is?
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Of course he’s the Manchurian candidate
Roger Simon has written an article in which he asks, Is Obama a Manchurian Candidate?. He says not because he wants to go one better:
I can’t believe I’m actually asking if Obama is a Manchurian candidate. I am so NOT into conspiracy theories. For me, it was always Oswald with the Mannlicher-Carcano in the Texas School Book Depository. The only conspiracy I ever believed in was the Black Sox Scandal. And yet… and yet….
No, I still don’t believe it. It’s simply not true. Barack Obama is not the Manchurian candidate. That’s just an excuse. The only problem is…
He’s worse.
I suppose you could say he’s not because he never was anything other than far left traitorous scum with no brainwashing required. Simon can thus write:
He can and is doing more damage without being one. A Manchurian candidate could be exposed (yes, and possibly could not). Barack Obama doesn’t need that. He and the media and the brainwashed public that elected him are destroying our country (and the West) all by themselves. They don’t need any secret conspirators in the back room. They’re all there in public view. And how.
And then there are the bill of particulars. These are actions that only an enemy of the United States would ever wish to endorse. No one interested in the health and welfare of the US would ever contemplate, never mind undertake, any of the following.
Obamacare and the sabotaging of the immigration system were bad enough, but they are absolutely trivial compared to what is going on now. We have the next thing to a jihadist in the White House only [come on, only the “next thing to”, not the absolute real thing in itself??]. From the inability to name Islamic terrorists as Islamic, to the failure to name Jews as the objects of homicidal anti-Semitism at a kosher market, to the complete omission of the word Christian when 21 Christians have their heads cut off (simultaneously!) for being Christian, we have in the Oval Office not only the worst president in the history of our country, we have the worst person to be president.
And now he is opening the door to a huge number of Syrian refugees, who knows how many of whom may be members of ISIS, al Qaeda or some group we haven’t even heard of yet. If I were a Christian or a Jew or even some sort of wishy-washy Muslim, I’d make sure your door was locked at night and you had exercised your Second Amendment rights.
And if this weren’t enough, Obama is colluding with the Iranian ayatollahs as if he were an Shiite imam, not only to help them get nuclear weapons, but to form a permanent alliance with the United States against the Sunni world. How insane is that! (As a side issue, answer this question: What is more important – whether Iran gets the bomb or whether Bibi Netanyahu speaks in front of Congress? Absolutely stupid question, isn’t it? Only our administration thinks it’s the latter.)
It’s much too precious to worry about the exact details of what a novel written more than fifty years ago specifically meant by a Manchurian candidate. And the candidate was not the soldier who had come back from Korea brainwashed by America’s enemies, but his step-father who was the actual candidate of the story, who fully and completely understood in whose interests he was acting, or if not him, then it was his all-American mother who knew perfectly well in every detail what was being done.
Obama is the Manchurian candidate, the one who is acting, no doubt in league with others, to take the American Republic down, in the interests of ayatollahs or some other equally sinister group who have backed Obama who give him their instructions, which he carries forward like the zombie presence he is. Who writes what shows up on his teleprompter, which he then duly reads? But still no one will say what needs to be said. It is still all about policy and not about who the American people, with their media, have elected president. You may fear for the future, but if no one will call Obama out, there is no fixing what has gone wrong.
Who do you really think is winning around here?
Remember 911. That was in 2001. Now it’s 2015 and this is where we are, from Drudge:
ISIS releases video of Egyptians slaughtered…
Christians beheaded…
Sisi warns of response…
Cairo dispatches bombers…
Prisoners paraded in cages ‘to be burned alive’…
SHOWDOWN: 4,000 American troops headed to Kuwait…
Netanyahu Ad Shows ISIS Asking Directions — to Jerusalem…
Yemen’s last Jews eye exodus…
And then there’s this:
Copenhagen Attacks Renew Debate About Safety of Jews…
I will merely state for the record, it’s not just the Jews they should be worried about the safety of.
“Security to stand up for ourselves and secure ourselves under our own sovereignty”
An Israeli election ad. The translation:
“Many people around the world ask me, ‘how does such a young country, such a small country, who is attacked by enemies at every turn – how does such a country reach such great achievements?” Netanyahu begins.
Netanyahu then related to a personal story, about his grandfather, Natan Netanyahu Mileikowsky.
“He stood at a train station in the heart of Europe at the end of the 19th century, along with his younger brother Yehuda – two yeshiva [Torah academy – ed.] students,” he recounted. “Suddenly, they saw many anti-Semitic thugs waving batons, screaming, ‘Death to Jews.”
“My grandfather turned to his brother and told him, ‘Run, Yehuda, run!’” he continued. “He tried to chase after the thugs to save his brother. They beat him until he lost consciousness.”
“They left him to die.”
“Before he lost consciousness, lying in his own blood, he thought to himself: ‘What a shame. The descendants of the Maccabees are lying here in mud, unable to defend themselves,” he continued. “He promised himself that if he would survive the night, he would bring his family to the Land of Israel and help build a new future for the Jewish people in Israel.”
Netanyahu then brought the scene back to the present-day.
“I am sitting here now as the Prime Minister of Israel because my grandfather kept his promise,” he said. “Here in the Land of Israel we have returned to what the Jewish nation did not have for thousands of years: security.”
“Security to stand up for ourselves and secure ourselves under our own sovereignty, to protect ourselves with our own power – security not just to survive, but to alloy one of the most advanced countries in the world,” he continued.
“We are a nation that aspires to peace – our hands are extended in peace to all who choose to grasp them,” he added.
“But to our enemies, I say: there is no baton, there is no rocket, there is nothing that can defeat us – because we are united in our faith and in our right to our land – the Land of Israel.”
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