LINKFEST 06-04-2010

OBAMA CATCH-ALL

Did Bill Clinton Pwn Barack Obama?

http://www.redstate.com/susannah/2010/05/31/did-bill-clinton-pwn-barack-obama/

+Interesting speculation. If true, it means Obama has a viper or two clutched to his breast.

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The Summer of Corruption Plot Thickens

http://townhall.com/columnists/MichelleMalkin/2010/06/04/the_summer_of_corruption_plot_thickens?page=full

+The moment - THE MOMENT - I saw Obama my hackles screamed "CROOK". And I have the intuitive people-sense of the basic bag-o-rocks. How can it be that others did not see this?

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Rahm’s unclean hands in getting Steve Israel to quit race against Gillibrand?

http://libertypundits.net/article/rahms-unclean-hand-in-getting-steve-israel-to-quit-race-against-gillibrand/

+The Obama administration is a fetid cesspool of reeking corruption.



LAMESTREAM MEDIA

FTC to “reinvent” journalism

http://hotair.com/archives/2010/06/02/ftc-to-reinvent-journalism/

+And doubtless the Obamedia head-bobbers will be gushing over this too...

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NBC Partners With Castro's Intelligence

http://townhall.com/columnists/HumbertoFontova/2010/06/02/nbc_partners_with_castros_intelligence

+Quote: "'The victory of socialism is well worth millions of atomic victims,' boasted Chef Guevara in November 1962." If the atheist socialists were willing to sacrifice millions, potentially including themselves, why do we doubt the jihadis will as well?

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Media Malpractice: Tom Brokaw's World Implodes

http://spectator.org/archives/2009/09/15/media-malpractice-tom-brokaws

+From 2009 but blistering in its indictment of the MSM

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What liberal media?

http://pajamasmedia.com/instapundit/100573/



OBAMACARE / MEDICOUP

ObamaCare's Ever-Rising Price Tag

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703561604575282482320389198.html?mod=djemEditorialPage_t

+Wait; the numbers presented to sell this monstrosity were wrong? *gasp*

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CBO Director Elmendorf Destroys A Core Presidential Health Care Argument

http://www.businessinsider.com/cbo-director-elmendorf-destroys-a-core-presidential-health-care-argument-2010-6#-1



WAR ON ISLAMOFASCISM

The Left and Islam: A love story

http://jewishworldreview.com/0610/west060410.php3

+The left and the jihadis are allied against America and the West.

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Islam and Truth

http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2010/06/islam-and-truth.html




NATIONAL SECURITY

Obama’s National Security Doctrine: Naive — Frighteningly So

http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/obamas-national-security-doctrine-naive/

+Be afraid. Be very afraid. How is it possible to NOT see that this man seeks harm for America?

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Inviting War

http://townhall.com/columnists/OliverNorth/2010/06/04/inviting_war

+Si vis pacem, para bellum. Something the left just does not grasp.

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Take Our Power — Please!

http://hotair.com/greenroom/archives/2010/06/03/take-our-power-please/

+Quote: "Without a positive, constructive, organizing view of national-security statecraft, nations are left to flail and overreact when the need for it arises. Such unpreparedness only promotes instability – and makes antidemocratic choices more likely down the road."

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Lincoln at Gaza

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/lincoln-gaza

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Iran One, Obama Nothing

http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/iran-one-obama-nothing/

+All we need now is the declaration of "peace in our time" and the 1930's reprise will be complete.



TEA PARTY / CONSTITUTION / REAL CONSERVATISM / FOUNDERS

Our Sacred Honor ... to Support and Defend

http://patriotpost.us/alexander/2008/11/14/our-sacred-honor-to-support-and-defend/



ECONOMY

95% of new jobs from Census hiring

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/06/95_of_new_jobs_from_census_hir.html

+Smoke and mirrors.

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Athens on the Potomac

http://american.com/archive/2010/june-2010/athens-on-the-potomac



THOSE PEACEFUL, ON THE UP-AND-UP, HONEST, ETHICAL, PATRIOTIC LIBERALS

The Rise of the Thug Left

http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/06/the_rise_of_the_thug_left.html

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The "Israel-Firsters" Slur Rears Its Ugly Head

http://legalinsurrection.blogspot.com/2010/06/israel-firsters-slur-rears-its-ugly.html

+Today's left: the home of bigotry.

and the embedded link:

From Me to Jews

http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/004/833ifcua.asp



ISRAEL & MIDDLE EAST

The problem more than lack of work on food

http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=1&eotf=1&u=http://www.steffen-jensen.dk/dan/blogartikler/134--mere-mangel-pa-arbejde-end-pa-mad/&sl=da&tl=en


+Piles of food. Piles. You know, when Israel left Gaza there were highly-efficient, operating hydroponic greenhouses producing enormous quantities of food. Now, they're dry husks used to mask tunnel entrances. Gaza could be the "Singapore of the eastern Mediterranean"... but it's the culture of the Palestinians that prevent it.

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The Convenient Villain

http://townhall.com/columnists/JonahGoldberg/2010/06/04/the_convenient_villain

+When a "non-violent protestor" says ZIP about the initialization of force BY PROTESTORS, can we call them a useful idiot now?

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Does the world—and the US—want Israel to survive?

http://neoneocon.com/2010/06/04/does-the-world-and-the-us-want-israel-to-survive/

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This comment on a Caroline Glick column is priceless:

http://www.carolineglick.com/e/2010/05/ending-israels-losing-streak.php#comment-53232

Personally, I think that of the vermin on that ship... half should have been chopped into shark-appetizer chum, and the rest thrown overboard whole as the live-and-kicking main course. Non-violent protests only work when the protestees have a conscience; had Ghandi tried his protests against the Nazis India's hero would have been another dead corpse, along with his fellow protestors.

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No evidence please, we're European

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2010/06/026458.php

and the embedded link:

Eurodeputies Publicly Berate Israeli Ambassador

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/eurodeputies-publicly-berate-israeli-ambassador-meet-privately-iranian-foreign-minister



CULTURE WARS (VERY BROAD CATCH-ALL)

Anti-Civilization

http://hotair.com/greenroom/archives/2010/06/02/anti-civilization/

+MUST READ! I particularly like this quote: "Anti-civilization can only succeed with the assistance of traitors from within the ranks of its civilized enemies… and it never has trouble finding them. Every society breeds people who refuse to see anti-civilization for what it is, rendering it invisible because it exists beyond the limits of their imaginations... Worst of all, every civilization produces those who eagerly cooperate in the task of burning them to the ground, with plans for rebuilding from the ashes tucked into their back pockets."



VDH, BOLTON, WILLIAMS, SOWELL, ELDER, ETC. - A CLASS BY THEMSELVES

VDH: The Year That Was

http://pajamasmedia.com/victordavishanson/our-1979/?singlepage=true

+Quote: "About every 30-40 years, democratic citizenries begin to become complacent. They assume their defenses are unnecessary if not destabilizing, and take away from more needed social services and income redistribution. Deterrence and preparedness are assumed in turn the stone-age tools of unsophisticated mind. The peace that follows from past victories and postwar deterrence is considered artificial, and can instead grow far more organically from professed good intentions and signs of magnanimity, if not apology. Philosopher kings assure the world of a new age to come, one in which a new human nature replaces the old Neanderthal pessimism." Hmm, sounds awwwwfully familiar!

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VDH: History Returns to Europe

http://victorhanson.com/articles/hanson060310.html

and a related one... those that fail to learn from history will be doomed to repeat it. Are we the new Carthage?

Never Give Up Your Weapons

http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/05/never_give_up_your_weapons.html

+Name me one society that has survived giving up its weapons in the face of an enemy that wants its destruction.