LINKFEST 06-19-2010

OBAMA CATCH-ALL

Obama's Assaults on Liberty Proceed Unabated

http://townhall.com/columnists/DavidLimbaugh/2010/06/15/obamas_assaults_on_liberty_proceed_unabated?page=full

+Tyrant in the making.

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The Ignoble Savage: Administration Zeroes Out Return to Moon

http://biglizards.net/blog/archives/2010/06/the_noble_legac.html

+Obama's commitment to American mediocrity and decline - MUST READ

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Does this guy know anybody who’s not an Marxist, socialist or America-hating radical?

http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/2010/06/shocker-obama-justice-nominee-says-9-11-was-not-an-act-of-war/

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Obama would rather the Gulf die than anger his Big Labor buddies [Darleen Click]

http://proteinwisdom.com/?p=19548



LAMESTREAM MEDIA


Media, Academia Destroying Themselves Over Israel

http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/media-academia-destroying-themselves-over-israel/?singlepage=true

+The problem is that too many people still accept what is said on TV as gospel

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Chris Matthews’ “Rise of The New Right”: Delusional Neo-Communist Propaganda

http://www.newsrealblog.com/2010/06/17/chris-matthews-rise-of-the-new-right-delusional-neo-communist-propaganda/

+Vermin.

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Beck-Bashing Author Admits He ‘Never Tried to Get in Touch With’ His Subject

http://www.newsrealblog.com/2010/06/04/beck-bashing-author-admits-he-never-tried-to-get-in-touch-with-his-subject/

+For the left, integrity and the truth are speed bumps.



OBAMACARE / MEDICOUP

Some people never learn. Unfortunately for us, it’s the Democrats, who think more marketing will help people swallow ObamaCare

http://hotair.com/greenroom/archives/2010/06/14/swallowobamacare/

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In love with socialized medicine

http://jewishworldreview.com/jeff/jacoby061710.php3

+Why can’t we ship proponents of this to Cuba?

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The Bad News About ObamaCare Keeps Piling Up

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704198004575310773636609374.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_BelowLEFTSecond

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Obama administration: Health-care mandates are taxes after all

http://hotair.com/archives/2010/06/18/obama-administration-health-care-mandates-are-taxes-after-all/

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New draft health-care regs: If you like your plan, you can’t necessarily keep your plan

http://hotair.com/archives/2010/06/11/new-draft-health-care-regs-if-you-like-your-plan-you-cant-necessarily-keep-your-plan/




IMMIGRATION

Muslim-owned hotel in New York offers easy citizenship "birth tourism"

http://www.jihadwatch.org/2010/06/muslim-hotel-in-new-york-offers-easy-citizenship-birth-tourism.html

+But nooooo, nobody would attempt to abuse US law like that.



RACE

Goodbye to One Man, One Vote

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

+Remember, the left has a vested interest in maintaining minority poverty and sense of victimhood.

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“National Science Foundation funds report calling health-care opponents racist”

http://proteinwisdom.com/?p=19540

+Thus proving that scientists can be as corrupt as anyone.



WAR ON ISLAMOFASCISM / DHIMMITUDE

Jordan: 20-year-old woman shot in the head by her brothers for marrying against her family's wishes

http://www.jihadwatch.org/2010/06/jordan-20-year-old-woman-shot-in-the-head-by-her-brothers-for-marrying-against-her-familys-wishes.html

+Just the sort of culture with whom we can negotiate on the up-and-up

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Who Gets the Benefit of the Doubt?

http://jewishworldreview.com/0610/ahlert061410.php3

+Quote: "I'd rather be a living bigot than a dead 'enlightened' thinker."

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I’ve Become an Enemy of the People for Speaking the Truth About Islam

http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/ive-become-an-enemy-of-the-people-in-norway-for-speaking-the-truth-about-islam/?singlepage=true

+Pre-emptive surrender; Stockholm Syndrome is right

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The New Yorker sneers at a freedom fighter

http://www.newsrealblog.com/2010/06/15/the-new-yorker-sneers-at-a-freedom-fighter/

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Women's Rights

http://snappedshot.com/turbo/1321-Womens-Rights.html

+I love it!

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Canadian Islamic Honor Killings for Embracing Western Culture

http://www.newsrealblog.com/2010/06/17/canadian-islamic-honor-killings-for-embracing-western-culture/

+Why is it so utterly impossible to convince leftists of this problem despite documented cases aplenty?

and

This Is Rare Courage

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/charen061810.php3



NATIONAL SECURITY

Parallels Between Present-Day Iran and Nazi Germany

http://article.nationalreview.com/435256/parallels-between-present-day-iran-and-nazi-germany/r-james-woolsey?page=1

+I have maintained for several years now that we are in an echo of the 1930's.

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China’s Military Threatens America: ‘We Will Hurt You’

http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/china%E2%80%99s-military-threatens-america-we-will-hurt-you/?singlepage=true

+Bowing and scraping to all the world's potentates crying "I'm sorry" doesn't win you points either.

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The Fatal Follies of Containment

http://pajamasmedia.com/michaelledeen/2010/06/17/the-fatal-follies-of-containment/

with three critical embedded links:

Iran and the Costs of Containment

http://article.nationalreview.com/433174/iran-and-the-costs-of-containment/michael-anton

and

Boxing Iran: A Case against Containment

http://article.nationalreview.com/436511/boxing-iran-a-case-against-containment/clifford-d-may?page=1

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Iran Cannot Be Contained

http://www.commentarymagazine.com/viewarticle.cfm/iran-cannot-be-contained-15462

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+“A nation that excels at dying will be blessed by Allah with a life of dignity and with eternal paradise,” said Muhammad al-Baltaji, deputy secretary general of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood’s parliamentary contingent and a passenger on the flotilla that recently attempted to land in Gaza. (Thanks to MEMRI for the translation.) Similarly and famously, Khomeini said: “We do not worship Iran, we worship Allah. For patriotism is another name for paganism. I say let this land [Iran] burn. I say let this land go up in smoke, provided Islam emerges triumphant in the rest of the world.”
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+And Obama thinks he can come to a mutually-agreeable solution? Or does he not think so, and accepts it?

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Paralyzing American Power

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



ECONOMY

Forget the Populist Rhetoric – We All Pay for Big Government

http://townhall.com/columnists/CarrieLukas/2010/06/14/forget_the_populist_rhetoric_–_we_all_pay_for_big_government

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Crude Politics

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704198004575311033371466938.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop

+The left has an agenda: green energy uber alles, no matter the impact, no matter the consequences to the economy

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Keynes' 'Animal Spirits'

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/06/keynes_animal_spirits.html

+I predicted that uncertainty created by politicians' constant meddling would do exactly this.

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Obama v BP

http://www.economist.com/node/16377269?story_id=16377269&source=features_box_main

+And others are noticing it too... what company will invest in America if it knows it can be a target outside the rule of law but subject to the President's whims?

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Slaves of the Ethereal Machine

http://hotair.com/greenroom/archives/2010/06/05/slaves-of-the-ethereal-machine/



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

Because they’re Better Than Us, example #6547

http://hotair.com/archives/2010/06/14/because-theyre-better-than-us-example-6547/

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When Democrats use a 527 to sockpuppet

http://proteinwisdom.com/?p=19499

+Lying, cheating scumbag leftists. But I repeat myself.

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The Left's Sexual Terrorism

http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/06/the_lefts_sexual_terrorism_1.html

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Survivors of Left-Wing Education Policy Speak Out

http://www.newsrealblog.com/2010/06/16/survivors-of-left-wing-education-policy-speak-out/

+I really think that the left looks longingly at these camps wishing they could do them here. Bill Ayers et al, Obama's buddies, spoke of the need for camps here in the US.

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Liberal hypocrisy wrapped in Philanthropy

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/06/liberal_hypocrisy_wrapped_in_p.html

+I love the smell of hypocrisy; smells like victory.

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Leftist Teacher Trashes the Uniform & Shames Her Profession in One Fell Swoop

http://www.newsrealblog.com/2010/06/17/leftist-teacher-trashes-the-uniform-shames-her-profession-in-one-fell-swoop/

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ACORN Manipulated Report That ‘Cleared’ ACORN

http://www.newsrealblog.com/2010/06/17/acorn-manipulated-report-that-cleared-acorn/

+Did you seriously expect anything else?

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Empathy Liberal Style: Not Worth A Bucket Of Spit

http://rightwingnews.com/2010/06/empathy-liberal-style-not-worth-a-bucket-of-spit/

+I read the screwtape letters once, years ago; I may need to revisit...

and an associated essay

Had Enough Therapy?

http://stuartschneiderman.blogspot.com/2010/05/mind-of-young-america.html






ISRAEL & MIDDLE EAST

Inconvenient Questions and Answers About Gaza

http://legalinsurrection.blogspot.com/2010/06/inconvenient-questions-and-answers.html

+Important. The graph the Economist provides is based on anecdotes from the Palestinians, who have - of course - no incentive to lie. ROFL.

and an embedded link

Behind the Headlines: The Israeli humanitarian lifeline to Gaza

http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/About+the+Ministry/Behind+the+Headlines/Israeli_humanitarian_lifeline_Gaza_25-May-2010.htm

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Turkish Jihad Flotilla: Anti-Israel Protesters Infiltrated By Pro-Israel Protesters

http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/202905.php

+Beautiful.

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Fact: Gaza is Not a Concentration Camp

http://www.newsrealblog.com/2010/06/16/fact-gaza-is-not-a-concentration-camp/

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He puts his money where his beliefs are

http://jewishworldreview.com/0510/jeru_real_estate.php3

+Excellent. Where do I invest? But you know what's interesting... the Palestinian death penalty for any Palestinian who sells to a Jew. Imagine the uproar if anywhere in the US had such a policy against, say, black people.

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Collective Punishment -- And Collective Guilt.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/06/collective_punishment_and_coll.html

+If only the big government morons could actually be forced to pay for their desires, while I get left alone!

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Obama and the Rising Mob Against Israel

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

+I hear echoes of the libs saying, like Gandhi, that the Jews should lay down and allow themselves to be killed to show their moral superiority

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MUST READ: If Israel goes down, we all go down

http://www.worldjewishcongress.org/en/main/showNews/id/9401



CULTURE WARS (VERY BROAD CATCH-ALL)

Social Issues vs. Fiscal Issues

http://townhall.com/columnists/PhyllisSchlafly/2010/06/15/social_issues_vs_fiscal_issues?page=full

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The Slave Mentality

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



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

VDH: Government by the Faculty Lounge

http://pajamasmedia.com/victordavishanson/government-by-the-faculty-lounge/?singlepage=true

+What was it that William F Buckley, Jr. said? Something about preferring to be governed by the first 100 names in the phone book than 100 Harvard faculty members?

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Sowell: Oil and Snake Oil

http://townhall.com/columnists/ThomasSowell/2010/06/15/oil_and_snake_oil?page=full

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Sowell: A golden age for ignorant power

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columns/A-golden-age-for-ignorant-power-95887054.html

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VDH: Raising Cain over Israel

http://victorhanson.com/articles/hanson061310.html

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VDH: ‘Bush Did it’ Is Not a Foreign Policy

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0610/hanson061710.php3

+Quote: Suddenly, allies such as democratic Colombia, Israel and India cannot count on our support in their rivalries with aggressive neighbors, while overt enemies such as Iran, Hamas and North Korea wonder whether a brief window has opened for aggrandizement without repercussions.