LINKFEST 06-25-2010

OBAMA CATCH-ALL

An Ineffective Thug

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2010/06/026575.php

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Is Obama's BP Shakedown an Impeachable Offense?

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

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The Scent Of Fear

http://wizbangblog.com/content/2010/06/21/the-scent-of-fear.php

+"Never let a crisis go to waste."

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Feds halt berm-building dredging off Louisiana coast

http://hotair.com/archives/2010/06/23/feds-halt-berm-building-dredging-by-louisiana/

+The stench of utter incompetence... or deliberate intent

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Walpin defeat means president can fire IGs at will

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/walpin-defeat-means-president-can-fire-igs-at-will-96714994.html

+The watchees are watching - and controlling - the watchers

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Mort Zuckerman: World Sees Obama as Incompetent and Amateur

http://www.usnews.com/articles/opinion/2010/06/18/mort-zuckerman-world-sees-obama-as-incompetent-and-amateur.html

+And a pushover.



LAMESTREAM MEDIA

Journalism's Worst Enemy in the World

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

+The fact that they praise this guy shows their true colors, and willful blindness

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Mika Brzezinski: I’m working with the White House on oil spill talking points

http://hotair.com/archives/2010/06/21/mika-brzezinski-im-working-with-the-white-house-on-oil-spill-talking-points/

+I'm not quite as forgiving as the writer.



CLIMATE CHANGE / GREEN

BREAKING: ‘Green’ Energy Company Threatens Economics Professor … with Package of Dismantled Bomb Parts

http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/breaking-green-energy-company-threatens-economics-professor-with-package-of-dismantled-bomb-parts/

+Outrageous! And the judge who ruled against Obama's drilling moratorium is getting death threats. Just WHO is the violent party?

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Solar Energy Oppresses Fish

http://www.moonbattery.com/archives/2010/06/solar-energy-op.html

+Unintended consequences - showing, once again, that there are no perfect solutions, only tradeoffs to be weighed



OBAMACARE / MEDICOUP

Get ready to lose your insurance

http://www.punditandpundette.com/2010/06/get-ready-to-lose-your-insurance.html



IMMIGRATION

Obama's Means to the Immigration Reform End

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

+If this is verifiable, can we please start impeachment proceedings for failure to protect the US?



RACE

Ghetto Racism

http://frontpagemag.com/2010/06/25/ghetto-racism/

+Powerful, and damning



WAR ON ISLAMOFASCISM / DHIMMITUDE

Hey Paris, just go ahead and surrender already

http://hotair.com/greenroom/archives/2010/06/21/hey-paris-just-go-ahead-and-surrender-already/

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Amerabia

http://www.redstate.com/mailloux/2010/06/23/amerabia/

+Creeping Sharia indeed. I was in Dearborn in 2008; some sections are more like the streets of some Arab country, complete with burkha-clad women everywhere, than an American city.



NATIONAL SECURITY

America, the weak horse by choice

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2010/06/026575.php

+No nation in history has ever deterred attack by groveling and weakening itself

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A reckless, graceless exit

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2010/06/026580.php

+With Obama as President no nation would be wise to be our ally or rely on us

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Stop the Defense Cut Bandwagon, Conservatives

http://www.newsrealblog.com/2010/06/19/stop-the-defense-cut-bandwagon-conservatives/

+If you want peace, prepare for war



TEA PARTY / CONSTITUTION / REAL CONSERVATISM / FOUNDERS

Olive Branch Politics

http://www.redstate.com/dwestlake/2010/06/22/olive-branch-politics/

+Damn right. This is a bar brawl, and accepting halfway multiple times only ends up with you losing everything eventually.

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2010 is America’s Thermopylae

http://www.redstate.com/laborunionreport/2010/06/19/2010-is-americas-thermopylae/

+If the Marxist hordes cannot be stopped now, they never will.

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The Secret of America

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

+Truly a MUST READ (and possible repeat)



ECONOMY

Toxic Citizens?

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704002104575290451594973266.html?mod=WSJEUROPE_hpp_MIDDLEFourthNews

+And another way to undermine our participation in the world economy



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

The Left Airbrushes History to Neuter America

http://www.newsrealblog.com/2010/06/20/the-left-airbrushes-history-to-neuter-america/

+Voltaire was right. And Orwell too.

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So Comfortable in Corruption, They Needn't Even Dissemble

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

+Brazen. And with their media protectors and their own as the watchmen, no wonder.

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Attacks on the Electoral College Gain Momentum

http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MmMyMDI4OTA0NDA3NTI2Y2Q0M2ZmMGZkMmM3MWNhMzk=

+Further concentrating power to population centers where the left dominates

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Airbrushing/Rewriting History – UPDATE

http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/theanchoress/2010/06/24/airbrushingrewriting-history/

+We have always been at war with Eurasia.

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Democrats: Free speech for me, not for thee

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/Democrats_-Free-speech-for-me_-not-for-thee-97108664.html

+And damn that pesky First Amendment

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Debunking a Pro-Gun Control Study Using Its Own Stats

http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/debunking-a-pro-gun-control-study-using-their-own-stats/?singlepage=true

+Conclusion first, analysis after.



ISRAEL & MIDDLE EAST

The Flotillas of Summer, The Guns of August

http://pajamasmedia.com/phyllischesler/2010/06/24/the-flotillas-of-summer-the-guns-of-august/

+The oldest hatred, rising again - to thunderous applause from the intelligensia and other "enlightened souls"

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Why Does Barack Obama Want Gazans to Live in Poverty?

http://www.newsrealblog.com/2010/06/19/why-does-barack-obama-want-gazans-to-live-in-poverty/

+The better to use as a weapon against Israel

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Remembering Neda Soltani

http://www.rantburg.com:8080/poparticle.php?ID=299254&D=2010-06-20&SO=&HC=4

+Martyr for freedom.

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Video: Arab Children Sing, "When We Die as Martyrs"

http://www.solomonia.com/blog/archive/2010/06/video-arab-children-sing-when-we-die-as/index.shtml

+Yeah, sure these people want peaceful co-existence



CULTURE WARS (VERY BROAD CATCH-ALL)

The Jews and the Bloody-Minded Professors

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

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Don't Throw Us into That Breyer Patch!

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

+There is no enemy of America the left will hesitate to embrace

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Authoritarian Moonbats Want to Take the Smile Out of Happy Meals

http://www.moonbattery.com/archives/2010/06/authoritarian-m.html

+Definition of a liberalism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, is doing something you don't approve of, and dammit, you need to get a law passed to stop them because you know better than they do!

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School Nanny Staters Say ‘No Best Friend For You’

http://hotair.com/greenroom/archives/2010/06/24/school-nanny-staters-say-%e2%80%98no-best-friend-for-you%e2%80%99/

+Quote: "For all their talk of individuality and alternative lifestyles and the like, the left wants nothing of the sort and they’ve extended that agenda to our schools. They do not want free thinkers. They want pack mentality. They don’t want individual freedom. They want sheep."



SOCIALISM AND CAPITALISM / LIBERTY AND STATISM

Confidence Waning in Obama, U.S. Outlook

http://proteinwisdom.com/?p=19677



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

Sowell: Degeneration of Democracy

http://townhall.com/columnists/ThomasSowell/2010/06/22/degeneration_of_democracy?page=full

And some analysis wrapped around:

http://moneyrunner.blogspot.com/2010/06/thomas-sowell-is-us-now-on-slippery.html

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Sowell: A Mind-Changing Page

http://townhall.com/columnists/ThomasSowell/2010/06/17/a_mind-changing_page

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Williams: Greed and the Greater Good

http://frontpagemag.com/2010/06/18/greed-and-the-greater-good/