What I call “Securitygate” — the release of the most intricate
details about the cyber war against Iran, the revelations about a Yemeni
double-agent, disclosures about covert operations in and against
Pakistan, intimate details about the Osama bin Laden raid and the trove
of information taken from his compound, and the Predator drone
assassination list and the president’s methodology in selecting targets —
is far more serious than either prior scandal. David Sanger and others
claim that all this was sort of in the public domain anyway; well, “sort
of” covers a lot of ground. We sort of knew about the cyber war against
Iran, but not to the detail that Sanger provides and not through the
direct agency of the Obama administration itself.
Here is the crux of the scandal: Obama is formulating a new policy of
avoiding overt unpopular engagements, while waging an unprecedented
covert war across the world. He’s afraid that the American people do not
fully appreciate these once-secret efforts and might in 2012 look only
at his mishaps in Afghanistan or his public confusion over Islamic
terror. Ergo, feed information to a Sanger or Ignatius so that they can
skillfully inform us, albeit with a bit of dramatic “shock” and
“surprise,” just how tough, brutal, and deadly Barack Obama really is.
Yet these disclosures will endanger our national security. Here is why Securitygate is a national outrage and goes to the heart of a free and civil society......
Reader, forget politics. Just digest the nature, theme, the timing, and
the damage of these disclosures. Do that and most of you will conclude
they are offenses to the security of the United States — or, in the
words of Barack Obama
on another matter, “unpatriotic.”
http://pjmedia.com/victordavishanson/the-scandal-of-our-age/?singlepage=true
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[Martin Bashir should lose his right to be on TV for doing the following news item on Romney, in my view. It is, however, typical of the hatred displayed by the Left, for they fear a loss of their power in this election. DO watch the short Video: MSNBC notes Romney’s bus tour with montage of exploding buses]: http://freebeacon.com/msnbc-splices-bus-explosions-into-segment-on-romney-bus-tour/
From Hot Air: Lest you doubt that they actually ran this, the
Washington Free Beacon
has posted its own copy of the same segment. The excuse here will be
that it’s just a jokey metaphor for how badly things can go on the
campaign trail, not any sort of death wish directed at Romney. Which may
be true — but remember, Bashir is among MSNBC’s most enthusiastic
practitioners of psychoanalyzing one’s political opponents to attribute
the worst possible motives to them.
If a Fox host used the same montage for an Obama bus trip, the
“metaphor” excuse would never, ever fly, and Bashir would be leading the
parade of righteous indignation. He’s a paradigm case of someone who
thinks his own shinola doesn’t stink even though, as you’re about to
see, the stench is overpowering.
http://hotair.com/archives/2012/06/15/video-msnbc-notes-romneys-bus-tour-with-montage-of-exploding-buses/
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If
the citizens of this Republic still took the Constitution seriously,
Obama would be impeached for his decision to unilaterally grant amnesty
to certain illegal aliens.
Article
1, Sec. 8 of the Constitution, which enumerates the power of Congress,
states that "Congress shall have the Power To... establish an [sic]
uniform Rule of Naturalization." Congress has passed numerous laws
pertaining to immigration and naturalization, including laws requiring
the deportation of illegals.
The role of the President, according to Article II, Sec. 3, is to "take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed." Obama's refusal to execute Congress's immigration laws
(or, for that matter, Congress's Defense of Marriage Act) is an
impeachable offense. Article II, Sec. 4 states that the President "shall
be removed from Office on Impeachment for... Treason, Bribery, or other
High Crimes and Misdemeanors." The deliberate failure to enforce valid
immigration law and allow hordes of foreigners to live and work in the
U.S. is, arguably, "treason," and doing so in an election year to
appease Hispanic voters could certainly be considered "bribery."
The
upshot of Obama's policy not only to allow hundreds of thousands of
illegals to live and work in the U.S. during a time of 8 to 10%
unemployment, but even worse, since the vast number of illegals we're
talking about are Hispanics eligible for affirmative-action preferences,
to actually get preferential treatment over native-born Americans.
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Republican Kansas Governor Sam Brownback signed a bill
aimed at keeping state courts and agencies from using Islamic or other
non-U.S. laws when making decisions, his office said on Friday, drawing
criticism from a national Muslim group.
The law has been dubbed the "sharia bill" because critics say
it targets the Islamic legal code. Sharia, or Islamic law, covers all
aspects of Muslim life, including religious obligations and financial
dealings. Opponents of state bans say they could nullify wills or legal
contracts between Muslims.
Supporters said the law will reassure foreigners in Kansas
that state laws and the U.S. Constitution would protect them. Opponents
said it singled out Muslims for ridicule and was unnecessary because
American laws prevail on U.S. soil.
[Inch by inch......] http://news.yahoo.com/kansas-governor-signs-bill-effectively-banning-islamic-law-234840632.html
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[Let me say that I have visited China. When we went to Chian we could not even barely see the nuclear power stacks due to the terrible smoke in the air from the burning of their corn crops. This photo below is not at all what that looked like, of course.] A couple days after residents in central Chinese provinces received
warnings they should stay inside due a mysterious yellow-grey haze, a
giant mushroom shaped cloud has also been spotted in the sky over
Beijing.
(Related: Is this mysterious, yellow haze in China really from burning straw?)
Officials said last week the haze was the result of burning straw —
an illegal but still practiced activity. The June 14 cloud on the other
hand is reported to be a
natural phenomenon created by clouds typically associated with thunderstorms.
Here are a
few photos of the cloud from China Daily:
Mushroom-shaped cloud over Beijing. (Photo: China Daily)
-- Let’s hope the explanation suffices. That’s because some citizens of
the Hunan, Hubei, Anhui, Jiangxi and Jiangsu provinces witnessing the
haze (not the cloud)
criticized the government’s explanation and two were
arrested for spreading rumors the haze was the result of a chemical plant malfunction.
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/natural-or-man-made-giant-mushroom-cloud-appears-over-beijing/
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Western governments, including the United States, appear to be
stepping up efforts to censor Internet search results and YouTube
videos, according to a
"transparency report" released by Google.
"It's alarming not only
because free expression is at risk, but because some of these requests
come from countries you might not suspect -- Western democracies not
typically associated with censorship," Dorothy Chou, a senior policy
analyst at Google,
wrote in a blog post on Sunday night.
In the last half of 2011, U.S. agencies asked Google to remove 6,192
individual pieces of content from its search results, blog posts or
archives of online videos, according to the report. That's up 718%
compared with the 757 such items that U.S. agencies asked Google to
remove in the six months prior.
http://www.cnn.com/2012/06/18/tech/web/google-transparency-report/index.html?hpt=hp_t1
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QUOTE----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A Taliban commander in northwest Pakistan has announced a ban on
polio vaccines for children as long as the United States continues its
campaign of drone strikes in the region, according to a statement by the
Taliban.
"Polio drops will be banned in North Waziristan until the drones strikes are stopped," said the statement, released Saturday.
"Almost every resident of
North Waziristan has become a mental patient because of the drone
strikes, which are worse than polio," the statement continued. "On one
hand, the U.S. spends millions of dollars to eliminate polio, while on
the other hand it kills hundreds with the help of its slave, Pakistan."
http://www.cnn.com/2012/06/18/world/asia/pakistan-taliban-polio/index.html
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The Obama administration’s key Catholic ally on its controversial
plan to require health insurers to provide free contraceptive coverage
is dropping support for the plan, potentially complicating the
president’s relations with Catholics in an election year.
The
Catholic Health Association,
which comprises 2,000 Catholic hospitals, health systems and related
organizations, said Friday that although it had initially supported what
the White House called a compromise on the contraception issue,
it is now “deeply concerned” about the plan and says the White House “has not relieved our initial concerns.”
http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2012/06/18/key-catholic-group-drops-support-for-white-house-contraception-plan/
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Facing
economic uncertainty, defense contractors are plotting to spur Congress to nix the automatic budget cuts set to begin next year.
The plan? Threaten to send out layoff notices — hundreds of thousands of them, right before Election Day.
Congress, industry leaders contend, has left them few options.
Federal law, they say, requires employers to give notice of 60 days to
workers facing layoffs.
For President
Barack Obama and
congressional incumbents, the timing couldn’t be worse. With the
automatic cuts, called sequestration, set to begin taking effect on Jan.
2, the layoff notices would have to be sent out by Nov. 2 — four days
before this fall’s elections.
http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=F40922B3-2016-4916-8BCE-C0574DCD0C75
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As I
noted on Friday,
campaign organizers for the Obama reelection campaign are called
"Fellows" and communicate on Twitter using the hashtag #fellows2012. But
did you know that they have an official crest?
"Become an organizing fellow, get your own family crest," reads a note on the campaign's Tumblr page.
The Obama "Fellowship" is a 12-week, volunteer program that takes place in the summer and fall of 2012.
http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/obama-organizing-fellows-get-their-own-crest/605636
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The maddening details of Obama’s DREAM Decree are becoming clearer. As
this CIS report notes,
1) The decree doesn’t just apply to illegal immigrants who were
“brought to this country by their parents.” It also would give work permits to
those who snuck across the border by themselves as teenagers. “Through no fault of their own” is a
talking point for DREAM proselytizers, not an actual legal requirement.
2) The same goes for the phrase
“and know only this country as home.” That’s a highly imaginative riff on the decree’s actual requirement, which is for 5 years “continuous residence.” It turns out
“continuous residence” doesn’t mean what you think it means.
“Immigration attorneys have been successful in getting immigration
courts to whittle this down to a point where it is almost meaningless,”
says CIS’s Jon Feere. As an illegal immigrant you can
go back during those five years–but, if precedent holds, in Janet Napolitano’s eyes you will still “know only this country as home.” …
Read more:
http://dailycaller.com/2012/06/18/the-maddening-details-of-the-dream-decree/#ixzz1yEmaDBCK
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Sources
on Capitol Hill praised the White House for “finally waking
up” to the fact that former National Security Council member Brett
McGurk was unfit to serve as the next ambassador to Iraq.
McGurk, who withdrew his name from consideration late Monday
afternoon, was caught in a series of leaked emails engaging in an affair
with a former
Wall Street Journal reporter while the duo were stationed in Iraq and he was serving as a senior Bush administration official.
The emails
raised questions about McGurk’s judgment and led to concerns that he could have been trading sensitive information for sexual favors.
“This nomination has been in free fall since the emails became
public,” said one GOP aide close to the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee, which was considering McGurk’s nomination.
http://freebeacon.com/obama-nominee-for-ambassador-to-iraq-withdraws-nomination/
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