Video of the Day: AZ Sheriff Tells Megyn Kelly He Has No Proof “Vitriol” Caused Shooting
Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik, a Democrat, used the news conference announcing the shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords as a partisan platform, blaming the deadly act on “vitriolic rhetoric.” In an interview on Sunday, the sheriff admitted he has no proof that rhetoric of any kind caused the shooting. Listen to the way he drops the Left’s talking points that foreign powers are financing conservative television commercials, and Republicans are “trying to block the attempts of” the Democrats and The Glorious One “to make this a better country.” He’s literally a partisan gunslinger.
Video of the Day: Chris Matthews, Release Obama’s Birth Certificate
Barack Nagin’s War on Terror
Ben Johnson, Floyd Reports
The media have already begun cranking up coverage of this weekend’s fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. That event marked the first serious deterioration of public support for George W. Bush, although New Orleans’ Ray Nagin was the mayor who failed his city and left his population stranded while school buses went unused. The media made sure Bush got the blame, and a year later, combined with increasing sectarian violence in Iraq and a handful of House corruption scandals (some since dismissed), that would hand the Democrats control of Congress. The retrospective is the media’s way of celebrating their victory.
We should not forget we’re also closing in on another anniversary: it has been nearly 10 years since the bombing of the U.S.S. Cole. Terrorists blew a hole in the side of the ship and killed 17 sailors just off the coast of Aden, Yemen, on October 12, 2000. One of the “alleged” bombers, Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, has been in U.S. custody since 2002. But the Obama administration just announced it is once again dropping all charges against him.
Eric Holder‘s Justice Department wrote in a brief, “no charges are either pending or contemplated with respect to al-Nashiri in the near future.” This is the second time the Obama administration has stopped al-Nashiri’s trial, halting a Guantanamo Bay hearing shortly after Obama came to power in February 2009.
The trial seemed to be moving along last November — more than nine years after the bombing and seven years after the suspect’s capture — when Holder testified “the Cole bombing…was an attack on a United States warship, and that, I think, is appropriately placed into the military commission setting.”
Obama did not call the trial off over lack of evidence. Capt. Kirk Lippold, commander of the Cole when it was bombed, said, “I am very confident, based upon what I have heard, that there is more than sufficient evidence linking him to the attack on Cole directly.” The Washington Post quoted an unnamed military man who explained why Obama quit: “It’s all politics at this point,” he said.
The case is of more than passing importance. Lippold told Fox News, “The war on terror began not on 9/11 but on 10/12.” In fact, it began even before that, with the bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993, the assault on the Khobar Towers in 1996, and the bombing of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998. The Cole bombing was the final push before 9/11. Bill Clinton’s response (or non-response) assured the worst terrorist attack in history would follow. In fact, Clinton had stalled the previous investigations into Islamic extremists’ attacks on America, because they undermined his foreign policy outreach to Iran (that sure paid off), and because they exposed his lie that his administration was eight years of “peace and prosperity.”
Now Barack Obama is following his footsteps and doing…nothing.
Obama is not prosecuting terrorists, not prosecuting the Black Panthers who intimidated Republican voters (or white Democrats, for that matter), not prosecuting illegal immigrants already set for deportation.
But he has instructed Eric Holder to sue the State of Arizona over its immigration bill and to legally harass Sheriff Joe Arpaio for doing the job Obama ought to be doing on the border.
Obama, Holder, and the Democrats have their priorities. Unfortunately, they aren’t America’s.
Cartoon: Post-Racial America
Obama’s Backward steps into Chaos
By Greg Reese, American Thinker
Barack Obama is leading our nation backwards into chaos parallel to the early years of 20th-century Russia. In the early 20th century, Bolshevik revolutionaries led by Vladimir Lenin pieced together a bureaucratic authority that quickly developed into a totalitarian government.
Barack Obama is laying the foundation step by step for a superstructure not unlike the apparatus by which the Soviet Union functioned. The bureaucratization of America is an attack on capitalism, the free market, the private sector, and ultimately private property ownership.
Obama, like Lenin, imposed government on the people and will systematically dismantle personal freedom. As more and more of the private sector is regulated and controlled by big government, all categories of society will fall under the umbrella of one central authority.
Lenin imposed upon Russia a Decree on the Suppression of Hostile Newspapers justifying a series of measures to stop all of the press that spoke out against the revolution.
Obama, once inaugurated into office, commenced a campaign to silence opposition opinion. White House staff and the president singled out private citizens, groups, and news agencies as illegitimate.
Another Very Bad Night for Obama, Democrats, and the Media
By C. Edmund Wright, American Thinker
The U.S. dollar and good news for Democrats have a lot in common these days. No matter how much of either liberals print, the absolute value keeps declining.
To be fair, the Jurassic media is actually half-right in their groupthink analysis that yesterday’s elections were more evidence that the prevailing mood in the country is simply anti-Washington. But the half they get wrong is very wrong indeed. As such, they were losers yesterday.
The biggest winners were Rand Paul’scampaign and the Tea Party movement/philosophy. The biggest losers were Barack Obama and the current far-left Democrat Congress and their notion of a large and intrusive government. Other losers include the political thinking of George W. Bush, Karl Rove, John McCain, and Bill Clinton.
As for the major parties, consider that the continued rebuke of "reach across the aisle" and "new tone" Republicanism is good news for a GOP that is rather rapidly finding its way.
Conversely, the rebuke of a sitting president and Congress — not to mention the entire governing philosophy of the Democrats — is potentially catastrophic for them. It was an awful night for liberals.
Obama’s disregard for media reaches new heights at nuclear summit
By Dana Milbank, Washington Post
World leaders arriving in Washington for President Obama’s Nuclear Security Summit must have felt for a moment that they had instead been transported to Soviet-era Moscow.
They entered a capital that had become a military encampment, with camo-wearing military police in Humvees and enough Army vehicles to make it look like a May Day parade on New York Avenue, where a bicyclist was killed Monday by a National Guard truck.
In the middle of it all was Obama — occupant of an office once informally known as “leader of the free world” — putting on a clinic for some of the world’s greatest dictators in how to circumvent a free press.
The only part of the summit, other than a post-meeting news conference, that was visible to the public was Obama’s eight-minute opening statement, which ended with the words: “I’m going to ask that we take a few moments to allow the press to exit before our first session.”
Reporters for foreign outlets, many operating in repressive countries, got the impression that the vaunted American freedoms are not all they’re cracked up to be.
Yasmeen Alamiri from the Saudi Press Agency got this lesson in press freedom when trying to cover Obama’s opening remarks as part of a limited press “pool”: “The foreign reporters/cameramen were escorted out in under two minutes, just as the leaders were about to begin, and Obama was going to make remarks. . . . Sorry, it is what it is.”
