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Six Suicidal Assumptions about Islam

1. Islam is about Muslims - no, Islam is about everyone. Islam has rules about everything, and that includes non-Muslims. 61% of the Koran is about non-Muslims. It has rules about whether or not Muslims should befriend non-Muslims; about how to treat non-Muslims captured in war; about whether non-Muslim women can be raped; the attitude to take towards the possessions of non-Muslims. Most of these rules are unfavourable or hostile toward non-Muslims.

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RedState Morning Briefing

For May 5, 2011

1. The Palin Foreign Policy Doctrine

In light of Obama's morally indefensible and dyslexic policies regarding Egypt, Iran, Israel, Libya, and Syria, it is important that our eventual presidential nominee articulate a bold distinction in the realm of foreign policy.

Conservative domestic policy doctrine is quite indubitable and lucid (except among many elected Republicans); limited government, free enterprise, protection of individual liberties, limitation of criminal liberties, secure borders, and a robust civil society. Foreign policy is more ambiguous because it is governed more by prudence than by doctrine. Even though the overarching principle of any foreign policy initiative is American exceptionalism, the murkiness of America's security interests has long blurred the distinction between divergent foreign policies.

During the Bush years, the distinction between "liberal" and "conservative" foreign policy was obfuscated even further due to President Bush's embrace of neoconservative principles such as democratization and human rights interventions. Also, the only opposition from the right which percolated into the media was the voices of those like Ron Paul and Pat Buchanan, who believed that our involvement in the Middle East and support of Israel served as the impetus for Islamic terror.

2. GOP House Intel Chair Thinks We Are No Better Than Animals

Representative Mike Rogers is the Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee. Clearly, "intelligence" is a term used very loosely, as his remarks regarding the release of Bin Laden photos make abundantly clear.

3. Visual Confirmation Denied. Obama Decides Against Releasing Bin Laden Photos.

These last few days have created feelings that many of us had forgotten in the 9+ years since the immediate aftermath of the September 11th attacks. I can't speak for everyone, but in the winter of 2001 after the feelings of horror and anger subsided, a feeling of pride, unity, and commonality overwhelmed me for months. I was the least partisan I'd ever been in my life. For a while, I would think to myself, "Hey self, the Democrats may be bumbling idiots that want to create a socialist utopia, but they're our bumbling idiots that want to create a socialist utopia." Unity was on the tips of everyone's tongues as national pride blanketed the country. Interestingly, those months following September 11th, the Bush administration made the wise choice to not squander and diminish that unity.

The Obama administration seems to have no such desire to do the same having decided for Americans what level of closure they can receive in regards to the bloody end of Usama Bin Laden.

4. Congress to Examine "Inappropriate" and "Devastating" Use of "Geronimo" Codename in bin Laden Mission

As if Congress had nothing more important to do, ABC News brings us word that Congress will hold hearings on the use of the code name Geronimo as a reference to Osama Bin Laden.

5. Spike The Ball - Hard!

When Barack Obama won election as President of The United States, he spent over $100 million on his inaugural bacchanalia. When he negotiated a contentious issue with Senator John Cornyn of Texas, his logical gravamen was "I won, and I will trump you on that!" Now, after shooting Osama Bin Ladin, he has an aversion to spiking the football. He has decided not to release the death photos of OBL in order to avoid inciting Muslim anger.

6. Boeing vs. Union-Controlled NLRB Heats Up

Following the union-controlled NLRB's attack on complaint against the Boeing Company's decision to open second 787 plant in South Carolina, politicians, pundits and free-market advocates have all criticized the NLRB's Acting General Counsel actions as an example of government overreach on behalf of union bosses.

In the nearly two weeks since the actions of the NLRB broke in the news, with the exception of a press release vowing to vigorously fight the NLRB's "legally frivolous" complaint, the company has been fairly quiet.

On Tuesday, the Boeing Company's Executive Vice President and General Counsel, J. Michael Luttig, sent the NLRB's Acting General Counsel Lafe Solomon a strongly worded letter.

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BLUEY & BURNETT: More oil means smaller deficit
 The Washington Times

Obama not releasing photos of dead bin Laden
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Clinton Leaves Door Open After Palestinian Deal
 The New York Times

White House deficit panel to meet amid skepticism
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HOLMES: Prejudices, double standards in Libya rationales
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by Lee Kaplan

Federal Judge allows California Imam with suspected links to Hezbollah back into US despite Homeland Security objections

CAIR involved in helping Imam Nabi Raza Mir return to US
By Lee Kaplan, investigator, communications director
 
Nabi Raza Mir (a.k.a. Nabi Raza Abidi) is the Imam of The Shia Association of the Bay Area (SABA) Mosque, an Islamic center located in the heart of the Silicon Valley, in San Jose, California. SABA's leadership has been known to endorse the anti-American Khomeinist regime in Iran and the activities of the Lebanon-based international terrorist group Hezbollah.

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The PALIN DOCTRINE on the Use of Force

By Ted Belman

On Sunday, Sarah Palin was the Keynote Speaker in Denver at an event to honour America's military families. Here's a transcript of the Palin Doctrine which she articulated there.

A lesson here then for effective use of force, as opposed to sending our troops on missions that are ill-defined. And it can be argued that our involvement elsewhere, say, in Libya, is an example of a lack of clarity.

See, these are deadly serious questions that we must ask ourselves when we contemplate sending Americans into harm's way. Our men and women in uniform deserve a clear understanding of U.S. positions on such a crucial decision.

I believe our criteria before we send our young men and women, America's finest, into harm's way, I believe that our criteria should be spelled out clearly when it comes to the use of our military force. I can tell you what I believe that criteria should be. I can tell you what it should be in five points:

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Mofaz: US has adopted Israel's targeted killing strategy

[Alan Dershowitz says this vidicates targeted killings]

By JPOST.COM STAFF

Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee chairman MK Shaul Mofaz (Kadima) on Tuesday said that the killing of Osama bin Laden bears witness to the fact that the US has adopted Israel's strategy of targeting terrorist leaders.
 
In an interview with Israel Radio, Mofaz said that the strategy was originally adopted by Israel following the murder of nine Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics.

Mofaz called on the government to increase targeted killings of Palestinian terrorist leaders, adding that the strategy had been successful in curtailing terrorist activities.

The former defense minister added that if terrorist activity continued to originate from the Gaza Strip, the leaders of Hamas should be made aware that they are potential targets for assassination and that such targeted killings are considered unquestionably legitimate.

On Monday, a US national security official told Reuters that...

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CANADA ELECTIONS: HARPER WINS A MAJORITY

By Ted Belman

This election was more of an earthquake than the conservative victory on Nov 2/10 in the US.

Not only did Harper's Conservatives win a solid majority of 167 seats, the Liberals were crushed down to 34 seats and the Bloc Quebecois was anialated and got only 4 seats. In the previous government they held 77 and 47 respectively.

A surprise wiinner was the NDP party which got 102 seats, a historic high. Enough to make them the official opposition. This is a Party of the Left. It is anti-Israel, anti-American and pro-Muslim. Most of its gains came rom Quebec which is antisemitic.

I should point out that the Liberals were lead by Michael Ignatieff, a former Harvard professor. He lost his own seat and destroyed the once vaunted Party of Pierre Trudeau.

My friend Peter Kent was re-elected by a wide margin in Thornhill which is on Toronto's northern border and contains the highest percentage of Jews. Ian Carmichael, another friend, was elected in Don Valley West...

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Did the GOP and the Dems collude on the eligibility question. UPDATED

Is Obama a "natural born citizen" or even a citizen?
 
By Ted Belman

It appears, a deal was cut in 2008 to validate both John McCain and Barack Obama as eligible for the position of President though it was likely, neither were.

I recently posted a video under the title Obama is clearly not constitutionally eligible to be President. While, in my opinion this title was accurate the video didn't necessarily substantiate it.

The video discusses all the clauses of Senate Resolution 511. It clearly stated that one must be a natural born citizen to be President and that this term was defined by the First Congress. Not quite.The First Congress, on March 26, 1790, approved an act that declared, "The children of citizens of the United States that may be born beyond sea, or outside the limits of the United States, shall be considered as natural-born citizens of the United States." But fivce years later it was repealed. But this statute did not constitute a...

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May 4, 2011

 What did the Pakistan Government know about the location of Osama bin Laden-and when did they know it?

Join us in calling on Congress to investigate!

 Sign our petition here

 

Did Pakistani officials know that Osama bin Laden was hiding out in their country? Were his whereabouts kept hidden from the U.S.? Since Pakistan receives billions in foreign aid from the United States, it is essential that our government determine the answers to these questions.

Please join us in signing the following petition calling on Congress to thoroughly investigate this matter. This is an urgent national security issue. Let's get to the bottom of this and make sure we are not funding a nation that would hide from us a terrorist so evil he has been "Public Enemy Number One" for years.

Following is the petition:

 

Osama bin Laden Hiding Out in Pakistan:
What Did Pakistan Officials Know
and When Did They Know It?

To Members of the 112^th United States Congress

We the undersigned join with the millions of Americans who are today asking, "How is it possible Osama bin Laden could have lived for five years in a million dollar compound in Pakistan without Pakistani officials knowing it?"

We are deeply disturbed by the revelations that terrorist enemy number one, Osama bin Laden, was discovered living peacefully less than one mile from an elite Pakistani military academy.

We are asking, "Were Pakistani officials negligent? Did some Pakistani officials know bin Laden was there and withhold this vital information from the U.S.?"

We join with Members of Congress who have raised similar questions, and are asking "Should we continue sending billions of dollars in foreign aid to Pakistan?"

In a time of fiscal crisis in America, we do not believe our nation can continue to give away billions of dollars a year in foreign aid to countries who demonstrate by their actions that they cannot be trusted to assist us in the war against Islamic terrorism.

Therefore, we call upon the Congress, through its pertinent committees, to investigate how bin Laden could have lived for so long under the noses of Pakistani officials, and to initiate appropriate sanctions such as cutting, suspending or ending foreign aid to Pakistan if it is determined Pakistan did not act as an ally in America's ten year search for Osama bin Laden.

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Wednesday, May 4, 2011

To: Friends & Supporters

From: Gary L. Bauer


BREAKING NEWS: NO BIN LADEN PHOTOS

CBS is reporting that President Obama has decided against releasing photos of Osama bin Laden's body to quiet skeptics who claim bin Laden is still alive or was killed years ago.

This decision is supported by House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers (R-MI), who said, "The risks of release outweigh the benefits. Conspiracy theorists around the world will just claim the photos are doctored anyway, and there is a real risk that releasing the photos will only serve to inflame public opinion in the Middle East."

At least three Republican senators -- Saxby Chambliss (GA), vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, as well as Kelly Ayotte (NH) and Scott Brown (MA), both members of the Senate Armed Services Committee -- have said publicly that they have seen "post-mortem photographs of bin Laden."


Border Security Is National Security

When it came time to authorize the mission to take out Osama bin Laden, President Obama had a simple decision to make: To do it or not. Fortunately, after 16 hours of consideration, he decided to do it. This was the right call for America's national security. But there are signs that the administration still doesn't get it when it comes to border security.

Yesterday, Sheriff Larry Dever of Cochise County, Arizona, testified before a House Homeland Security subcommittee about the administration's lack of seriousness about securing our border. Sheriff Dever made headlines last month when he said that the Border Patrol had directed its agents to stop arresting immigrants. Instead, he says they were ordered to "TBS" them - to tell the illegal immigrants to "Turn back South."

As Dever explained to Fox News, "This only causes more problems as the aliens ... don't just go back to Mexico and give up. They keep trying... This makes the job for agents more dangerous. Not only are the aliens more defiant, they also begin to feel like they can get away with breaking our federal laws." Dever noted that illegal immigrants who are detected but not apprehended are often considered to have been "turned back South."

America's porous Southern border is perhaps our greatest vulnerability. It allows Mexican drug cartels to run rampant in border states. It could also allow Islamic jihadists, who are increasing their presence in Latin America, to fulfill bin Laden's dream of decimating an American city.

As one columnist noted, "The government that tracked bin Laden to a compound in distant Pakistan and took him out ... could surely secure our border, too. The difference is our political leaders took their constitutional duty ... seriously when it came to finding bin Laden over there. They do not take it seriously when it comes to protecting our borders here."

Border security is an essential part of national security, and it must be taken seriously.


Imam Threatens Obama

If you need more evidence of the hate being spread throughout mosques in the Middle East, consider these comments from an imam at Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa Mosque:

"Today the dogs of the West are rejoicing at the killing one of the lions of Islam. ...We say to them, from Al-Aqsa Mosque, from the heart of the Caliphate, which, Allah willing, is soon to come: 'Dogs should not rejoice at the killing of lions. A country of dogs will always remain a country of dogs, while the lion remains a lion, even after it is killed.' ...We say (to Obama): 'You said yourself that you personally gave the order to kill Muslims. Know that the day will soon come when you will find yourself hanging from the gallows, next to little Bush...'"

Once again, I have to wonder what good President Obama or anyone else thinks could come from giving extremists like this a state.


House Votes On ObamaCare And Abortion Funding

House conservatives are continuing their efforts to defund ObamaCare and prevent taxpayer-funding of abortions. Last night, the House passed a bill to defund the mandatory spending required by ObamaCare to setup state healthcare exchanges. The bill passed 238-to-183, with the support of just five Democrats.

Some states have refused the federal money and others are refusing to spend their own funds on the health exchanges until the Supreme Court decides the constitutionality of ObamaCare. Later today, the House is expected to pass a bill defunding the construction of school-based health centers. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that the House bills will save taxpayers more than $14 billion.

Also today, the House will vote on H.R. 3, the No Taxpayer Funding of Abortion Act. The bill seeks to apply the Hyde Amendment against taxpayer funding of abortions in Medicaid to all aspects of the federal government, including ObamaCare.

Many pro-life advocates believe there are insufficient safeguards in ObamaCare to prevent taxpayer dollars from paying for abortions. The House-passed Stupak Amendment would have done so, but it was killed in the Senate. As you may recall, the president ultimately signed the Senate's version of the healthcare reform bill into law.

It's not likely that any of these bills will survive in Harry Reid's Senate. But even if they do, President Obama is threatening to veto all three of them.


Conservatives Sweep Canada

Here's a story that you may have missed in the past 48 hours. After years of big government socialism, it seems many Canadians have realized that liberalism doesn't work. Canadian voters went to the polls Monday and gave a resounding victory to Stephen Harper's Conservative Party.

Prior to Monday's election, Harper had the difficult job of leading a minority government. But after the votes were counted Monday, the Conservative Party had secured a solid majority of seats in the Canadian Parliament.

While Stephen Harper may not have Ronald Reagan's charisma, he held firm to his free market principles of lower taxes, smaller government and more freedom. Under his leadership, Canada today has one of the strongest economies among the G-7 nations. He ran on cutting taxes and spending, and he won big. Harper's victory is also encouraging because he is a staunch friend of Israel, as you can see from these remarks.

 

There is a reason why Jews who care about Israel, are more and more likely each year to be Republican. . Check out an unbelievably pathetic statement by  the NJDC (the National Jewish Democratic Council) , which could have come from the pen of Jimmy Carter or Jeremy Ben Ami of J-Street or a New York Times editorialist. .  The statement by David Harris, sees no problem in the Fatah Hamas reconciliation,   urges Bibi Netanyahu not to use this as an excuse to back out of peace talks that could lead to a two state solution, and seems to favor continued U.S funding of the P.A though Hamas, which mourned Bin Laden's death,  says it will never recognize Israel, and continues to call for Israel's destruction, is now part of the government.   Richard Baehr, American Thinker

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 Karl Denninger's Birth Certificate Update:

2011-05-01 Obama Birth Certificate #2.mp4

 

Editorial Exegesis

With Osama out of the picture...

"The killing of Osama bin Laden comes at a propitious moment in the history of the Middle East. ... Starting in Tunisia and spreading to Egypt, Syria and elsewhere, demonstrators have been energized by opposition to corruption and repression and a keen desire for jobs. Justice, modernity and democracy are very much earthly demands. As such, these movements contradict the aims of bin Laden and al Qaeda, whose goals are harsh and immovable regimes and a notion of freedom wholly at odds with these emerging Islamic societies. ... Yet al Qaeda's decline doesn't mean Muslim countries will embrace a recognizable form of liberal democracy or resist the pull of politicized Islam. Egypt offers an unsettling preview of what could emerge. Less than three months after the fall of the Mubarak regime, the caretaker government in Cairo has surprised with its radical shifts in foreign policy. Egypt has extended its hand to Iran and to the Palestinian terror group Hamas. ... A budding Arab democracy that wants the world to take it seriously should have little time for Hamas, much less the world's leading terror sponsor in Tehran. Hamas showed its true, if predictable, colors yesterday in its leader Ismail Haniyeh's response to bin Laden's killing: 'We condemn the assassination and the killing of an Arab holy warrior.' The Muslim Brotherhood, the best organized political group in Egypt, also condemned the bin Laden killing. ... The death of bin Laden disrupts but doesn't bring the death of bin Ladenism. Al Qaeda has a thriving franchise in Yemen and could gain other bases in the region -- for example, if Libya collapses into Somalia-like disarray. While bin Laden's death at least raises the possibility of the most extremist forms of Islam fading in the region, the early signs out of bellwether Egypt show how much close attention an interested world must still pay to these volatile nations." --The Wall Street Journal

 Upright

"No matter how often our leaders insist the enemy is al Qaeda and its destruction is our goal, the reality is different. We confront a larger array of adversaries who share such terrorists' goals -- the imposition worldwide of a politico-military-legal program they call shariah to be administered by a Caliph -- but pursue them via different, often stealthy means. Such enemies, including the Muslim Brotherhood, operate here as well as abroad. ... Ending the sort of obstruction of justice his department appears to have engaged in with respect to the prosecution of Brotherhood fronts and operatives is a good place to start the next phase of the War for the Free World." --founder and president of the Center for Security Policy, Frank Gaffney Jr.

"We are living in strange times indeed when it's not laughable to suggest that President Obama will be difficult to beat in 2012. Well, I'm not buying it, even considering any positive (but inevitably temporary) surge Obama may receive with Osama bin Laden's death. ... Provided Republicans don't forget they're in a fight for the survival of the nation and don't allow their stark policy differences with Obama to be diluted by failing to aggressively articulate their positions, 2012 will be the GOP's presidential election to lose." --columnist David Limbaugh

"The government that tracked bin Laden to a compound in distant Pakistan and took him out with an incredibly talented, trained and brave team of SEALs could surely secure our border, too. The difference is our political leaders took their constitutional duty to protect our country seriously when it came to finding bin Laden over there. They do not take it seriously when it comes to protecting our borders here." --columnist Terence Jeffrey

"So much of this administration's talk about energy sounds similar to a bull session in the faculty lounge, or what we would expect from lifelong bureaucrats and public functionaries who have never experienced long commutes or struggles in the harsher, profit-driven private workplace. Now the global economy is recovering and energy use is climbing, as the U.S. dollar sinks. The oil-rich Middle East is in chaos. And more than 2 billion people in India and China are desperate for imported oil. The result is that American gas prices are astronomical, and the public is furious and starting to demand relief from the administration. Its answer? Simple: Since re-election looms, the administration now insists that high energy prices are no longer good, but suddenly bad. And the evil oil companies are mostly to blame!" --historian Victor Davis Hanson

Insight

"The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him." --English writer G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936)

"It was self-serving politicians who convinced recent generations of Americans that we could all stand in a circle with our hands in each other's pockets and somehow get rich." --American radio broadcaster Paul Harvey (1918-2009)

The Demo-gogues

It's all about me: "Shortly after taking office I directed Leon Panetta, the director of the CIA, to make the killing or capture of [Osama] bin Laden the top priority. ... Last August, after years of painstaking work by our intelligence community, I was briefed on a possible lead to bin Laden. I met repeatedly with my national security team. I determined that we had enough intelligence to take action. Today, at my direction, the United States launched a targeted operation against that compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan." --Barack Obama

It's all about Obama: "This [the killing of Osama] was a direct result of President Obama's efforts to refocus on Afghanistan and Pakistan as a central battleground in our fight against terror. Over the past two and a half years, the Obama administration has significantly escalated our military, diplomatic intelligence and economic efforts to disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-Qa'ida." --Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV)

If Clinton had tried this might be valid: "If Bush had gotten Osama after Clinton had failed do you think [Congressman Eric] Cantor would have given Clinton credit and said: 'Oh good. Bush got Osama bin Laden, he showed the same vigilance as Bill Clinton?'" --Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) criticizing Eric Cantor for "politicizing" the death of Osama by thanking George Bush as well as Obama

Bizarre: "This is a country that was built by immigrants ... that became a superpower because of its immigrant population, and unless we continue to have immigrants, we cannot maintain as a superpower. Take a look at the big, old, industrial cities, Detroit, for example. They've got a great mayor, Mayor [Dave] Bing, but the population has left. You've got to do something about that. And if I were the federal government, assuming you could wave a magic wand and pull everybody together, you pass a law letting immigrants come in as long as they agreed to go to Detroit and live there for five or ten years. Start businesses, take jobs, whatever. ... You would populate Detroit overnight because half the world wants to come here."--New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg

Dezinformatsia

Wipe the drool off your chin: "Leading off tonight, the president who caught bin Laden. The triumph of justice over evil. ... Barack Obama. The cool hand directs the operation step by step. All this time, the crazies were talking birth certificates, he was working. Planning, leading, bringing America's strength and brains to the enemy hideaway. Tonight, we see how it worked from the inside. We see how Obama now looks from the outside. We weigh the impact in this country of what happened yesterday in far off Pakistan. Will this make the Republicans look for someone who can do what Obama can do? Or will they keep on celebrating the clown show? Will they stop enjoying their passion and go from cheering their buffoon parade to finding a real pick to put up against a proven master and commander?" --MSNBC's Chris Matthews

Party pooper: "It felt a little crazy, a bit much. Almost vulgar. When I saw that folks were celebrating in the streets at the news of bin Laden's death, my first reaction was a cringe. Remember how we all felt watching videos of those al-Qaeda guys dancing on Sept. 11? Are we simply creating star-spangled recruitment tapes for a new generation of terrorists killing in the name of their new martyr?" --Washington Post's Petula Dvorak

Counting chickens a little early: "This guarantees his re-election!" --radio talk-show host Don Imus, proclaiming that the death of bin Laden guarantees Obama another presidential term

It's all about Obama: "Another irony: this is the eighth anniversary, May 1st, of 'Mission Accomplished' in Iraq, the appearance by President George W. Bush on the Abraham Lincoln, that declaration, which we know was a premature declaration, became a controversy in itself. But Mission Accomplished became an iconic phrase in U.S. political policy and political parlance and now this could be President Obama coming out, and without literally saying it, having accomplished it, accomplished the mission that two American presidents tried before to capture or kill Osama bin Laden." --NBC's Andrea Mitchell

Newspulper Headlines:

It's Always in the Last Place You Look: "Bin Laden Was Found at Luxury Pakistan Compound" --Reuters

Out on a Limb: "Hillary Clinton: Osama bin Laden Death Doesn't End War on Terror" --Associated Press

Questions Nobody Is Asking:
"Killing Osama: Was It Legal?" --The New Yorker website
"Is It Proper to Celebrate Osama bin Laden's Death?" --Aish.com
"Why Are We So Happy Osama bin Laden Is Dead?" --DallasSouthNews.org

The Other Remains Were Buried at Sea: "Commander-in-Chief Keeps Cool Head" --Financial Times

Bottom Story of the Day: "Americans Care About Global Warming Even Less Than Before" --Gothamist.com

(Thanks to The Wall Street Journal's James Taranto)

Village Idiots

Possibly the dumbest thing ever said: "[Using enhanced interrogation techniques] just encourages more of it around the world and our soldiers have to endure it. And then the other thing is it's possible that a $6 million book deal would have worked just as well, you know what I mean? There are other ways to get information out of people, pay them off. Who knows what would have worked?" Joy Behar of "The View" (See the video and comment here.)

Over the top: "The president ... made what I believe was one of the most gutsiest calls of any president in recent memory." --White House counter-terrorism adviser John Brennan (Gutsy would be if Obama was point man on the assault against Osama, not making calls from his leather lounger.)

From the peanut gallery: "The monster we created-yes, WE-in the 1980s by ARMING, FUNDING, & TRAINING [Osama] in the art of terror agnst [sic] the USSR, finally had 2 b put down. Which reporter has the courage to say it? American-armed terrorist from the 80s, Osama bin Laden, was killed earlier today by America. This caps off disastrous few months 4 Al-Qaeda. Non-violent revolts in Egypt, Tunisia, elsewhere were Al-Qaeda's WORST nightmare. Now this." --several tweets from a twit, Michael Moore

Just keep spending: "Contrary to common misperception, the debt limit has never served as a constraint on future spending, nor would refusing to increase the debt limit reduce the obligations the country has incurred." --Treasury Secretary Timmy Geithner

Short Cuts

"Liberals are compassionate people. That's why they support abortion and oppose the death penalty. They figure it's best to kill a majority of black children before they are born. If they did not, a small minority of those black children would later commit homicide. Liberals are not just compassionate people. They're logical, too." --columnist Mike Adams

"Not too long ago, Barack Obama promised to double our exports. Democrats, who are always ready and eager to listen to fairy tales, ballyhooed the fatuous pronouncement and then begged to have Little Red Riding Hood read to them before they'd go to sleep. Republicans, on the other hand, all knew better. They knew that the only exports Obama has any chance of doubling will be American jobs." --columnist Burt Prelutsky

"Superman renounced his U.S. citizenship in Action Comics to pander to Iran's ruling regime. He wants to be seen as a global superhero. If Jimmy Carter couldn't rescue U.S. hostages from Teheran, Barack Obama will never get them out of the Fortress of Solitude." --comedian Argus Hamilton

"After releasing the birth certificate today, [Barack Obama] said 'There's work to be done, there are real problems in this country, and we don't have time for this silliness.' Then he and Michelle got on a plane and flew to Chicago to tape an episode of Oprah." --comedian Jay Leno

"I know some of you are concerned about when the Navy SEALs raided Osama's compound, whether he was then shot in the face in accordance with Islamic tradition. Well, don't worry; he absolutely was. The very last thing anyone wanted was for Osama to think while he was being killed, 'They're doing this to me because I'm Muslim!' Because, again, that would definitely not be true. So great care was taken, and he was shot in the face in a religiously respectful way. For instance, none of the Navy SEALs in the raid were eating a pork sandwich as they did it. And none of them had on them any depictions of Muhammad (PBUH). Also, the raid was done between prayer times -- not during! And when Osama was shot in the face, he was facing westward. I'm not sure that's actually religiously important, but if it is, then, yes, he was doing that. And when he was shot, the traditional Muslim expression of 'Allahu Akbar!' was shouted â€" except it was an English translation, so it was something like, 'Thank you, Jesus!'" --humor columnist Frank J. Fleming

Semper Vigilo, Fortis, Paratus et Fidelis!
The Patriot Post Editorial Team

 Tea Party Top Stories
for Wednesday, May 4th, 2011

May 04, 2011 06:13 am | Coach Collins

Kicking off his interminable campaign, President Barack Obama is running around the country flapping his lips that one answer to high gasoline prices is to spend money developing renewable energy sources.

Riiiiiiiight. We'll all drive windmill or solar powered cars. Obama would be more believable if he suddenly started wearing a cardigan sweater around the White House with a passel of "WIN" buttons pinned to its breast.

Wind and solar energy cost several times more per unit of energy than coal, ... Continue Reading:Obama's Green Energy Scam

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The Ten Inconvenient Truths that shape our new energy world order

By Matthew Hulbert  April 26, 2011

Analysts and decision-makers everywhere are trying to find their bearings in a world that has undergone a radical transformation in just a few months' time. Matthew Hulbert, Senior Fellow at the Centre for Security Studies (CSS) at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich, draws ten lessons from the recent perturbations on global oil markets plus one grand conclusion: forget about fundamentals. Politics is now what matters in the oil market.

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Let's Blame Speculators

by Walter E. Williams

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Here's a non-rocket science question: If you expect a reduced harvest of wheat, corn, rice or any other commodity some time in the future, what would be the wise thing to do about your consumption today? I bet that the average person would answer: Consume less now so that more will be available in the future.

But how in the world can people be encouraged to consume less now? Enter the futures market, which consists of a worldwide group of millions upon millions of traders, often called speculators. Speculators, betting on a future shortage, buy up wheat, corn and rice today in the hopes of making money selling it for a higher price when the bad harvest hits. As speculators buy more and more wheat, corn and rice, they drive up today's prices. As today's price gets higher, people consume less, but more importantly, people do the intelligent thing without bureaucratic edicts. The vital role of the futures trader, or speculator, is to allocate goods over different time periods. And, it's not just wheat, corn and rice that must be allocated over time but all commodities including oil.

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Dist Judge Nomination Cloture Vote today... make calls asap! John McConnell Unfit for a Lifetime Federal Judgeship

As most of you are aware, this afternoon the motion to invoke cloture on the nomination of John J. McConnell, Jr., to be United States District Judge for the District of Rhode Island was agreed to 63-33. We expect a vote on final confirmation this evening at 5:30pm.

 

Just prior to the cloture vote this afternoon Leader McConnell delivered remarks on the nomination, calling John McConnell unfit for a lifetime federal judgeship. I have posted those full remarks below.

 

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AG Eric Holder goes before House Judiciary Committee and House Oversight and Government Reform Committee

Friction Grows Between Lawmakers and DOJ Over 'Project Gunrunner' Probe

By William Lajeunesse

Published May 04, 2011 

| FoxNews.com

 

It started with one whistleblower, but now involves dozens of investigators, has created a standoff between the Department of Justice and lawmakers and threatens Mexico's diplomatic relationship with the United States.

 

Friction is growing over the probe into the failed "Project Gunrunner" program -- run by the Justice Department's Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms that intended to stop the flow of guns to criminals in Mexico. Whistleblowers claim the bureau actually encouraged the illegal sale of firearms to known criminals, then allowed those guns to be smuggled to Mexico and tracked.

On Tuesday, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) went after Attorney General Eric Holder for refusing to answer questions and subpoenas for documents that implicate who approved the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives project that allowed guns purchased illegally in U.S. to be smuggled into Mexico on behalf of the drug cartels with the knowledge and consent of the ATF.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/05/04/friction-grows-lawmakers...

 

Tuesday, May 3, 2011 17:09 ET

Palin cuts ties to Soros-linked aides

Lobbying firm of GOP foreign policy guru Randy Scheunemann parts ways with Sarah Palin

By Justin Elliott

Sandstein/AP

George Soros and Sarah Palin

The big Sarah Palin news today is that she has lost her longtime foreign policy adviser, Randy Scheunemann.

 

Scheunemann is a well-known neoconservative who worked for Jesse Helms and was intimately involved in the push for the Iraq war. He later became an aide to John McCain on the 2008 presidential campaign, where he met and linked up with Palin. He's been associated with her ever since.

 

The question is: Why did they Scheunemann, who runs the lobbying firm Orion Strategies, leave Palin now?

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5/04/2011 

Top Six Reasons We Got Osama bin Laden

Taking down Osama bin Laden was an achievement resulting from a culmination of a decade of national security policy. Soft power and diplomacy helped along the way, but it was hard power and military might that made it possible. President George W. Bush put the correct policies in place, including the PATRIOT Act, Gitmo and increased intelligence gathering. President Barack Obama was wise to continue executing many of the same strategies. Here are the main reasons we were able to take him out. 

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Obama Administration officials are demanding answers from Pakistan to questions about Osama bin Laden and his years-long residence in the Abbottabad compound.

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2011 On Pace to Be Deadliest Year So Far for U.S. Troops in Afghanistan
 
Feds Allow Illegal Aliens to Cross Border 14 Times Before Charging Them With Felony, Sheriff Tells Congress 

Obama Administration Won't Sue Utah Right Now - Maybe Later

Americans May Come to the Capitol 'With Pitchforks and Torches,' Senator Warns

Sen. Levin Doesn't Have 'Any Basis' to Believe Waterboarding Was Used to Track Bin Laden 

Muslim Funeral for Bin Laden Was 'Smart,' Says Sen. Graham 

Gallup: Far More Americans Credit Military Than Obama for Finding, Killing Bin Laden

DOJ Warns Law Enforcement: 'Bin Laden's Death Could Result in Retaliatory Attacks' 

Joan Rivers Drops F-Bomb on Red Carpet: 'Stop Campaigning' and 'Take Care of F****** Country' 

U.S. Waiting to See What Fatah-Hamas Gov't Looks Like 

Abbas Aide Says Hamas Doesn't Have to Recognize Israel

House Intel Chairman Urges Caution on Pakistan

Climate Activists Target States With Lawsuits; Atmosphere As a 'Public Trust' 

NYC Chooses Nissan Taxicabs, to Be Built in Mexico

White House Changes Its Story on Bin Laden Raid

Indonesian Terror Suspect Arrested in Abbottabad in January

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By Terence P. Jeffrey
 
Where's the Media Credit to Bush?
By L. Brent Bozell III

Meanwhile in Libya and Syria...
By Rich Galen


NEWSPAPER ROUNDUP:

Pelosi calls Bush, thanks him for his 'leadership role' in quest for bin Laden
President punts immigration reform issue to Congress; No plan of his own
Bipartisan effort to reach deal to control national debt stalls
White House plans push on lowering corporate tax rates
House Republicans pass piecemeal health care repeal bill
Efforts to get the economy going may devalue the dollar
Rep. Steny Hoyer pushes 'Make It in America' strategy
U.S. should legalize drugs to curb violence, former Mexican president says
Virginia Gov. McDonnell uses line-item veto to cut PBS funds
George W. Bush says no to Obama's Ground Zero invitation
In Iraq, assassinations are a nightly event
John Bolton op-ed: Israel's increasing vulnerability
Libya's rebel government asks for $3 billion in international loans
Americans 45 and older are new voting-age majority
World population to hit 10.1 billion by 2100
California weighs shorter school year as budgets wane

 May 04, 2011

Obama's War on Oil

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Policy Director for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published May 4, 2011 on The American Spectator website.

As a guest on a black radio talk show recently, I suggested that someone ask President Obama what his plan is for bringing down high gasoline prices.

What a gaffe that question would be. The current high gas prices, and more, are precisely the President's plan.

President Obama's Secretary of Energy is former Berkeley physics professor Steven Chu, who said in 2008, "Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe." We still have a way to go to achieve Secretary Chu's goal. The average price for a gallon of gas in Europe is over $8.

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Interrogation Not Litigation Led to Osama

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Jan LaRue was published May 4, 2011 on the American Thinker blog.

Osama bin Laden is dead because President Obama followed the rules of war and the policies and procedures left to him by President George W. Bush rather than the rules of civil procedure.

During a White House press briefing Sunday night, a senior administration official credited post-9/11 "detainees" with providing the links of information that led to bin Laden's $1 million compound in Pakistan. According to a transcript of the call, a senior administration official said:

"Detainees in the post-9/11 period flagged for us individuals who may have been providing direct support to bin Laden and his deputy, Zawahiri, after their escape from Afghanistan."

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Obama's Oily View of America

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published April 29, 2011 on The Washington Times website.

When Barack Obama is in flyover country, if you close your eyes, you can almost hear a moderate Republican on the stump. But when he's on the Left Coast, the real Obama surfaces, bristling with praise for confiscatory taxation, redistributing wealth and ever bigger government.

It was in San Francisco, after all, that he let slip his famous gaffe on April 6, 2008, about rural Pennsylvanians clinging to "guns and religion." And it was in San Francisco last week that he told a Democratic National Committee audience that America's greatness comes from government spending, not from God-given liberty, limited government and a market economy that produced the freest, wealthiest country in history.

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Why Paul Ryan's Medicare Is So Much Better Than Obama's

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Policy Director for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published April 28, 2011 on Forbes.com.

At his Facebook town hall campaign stop in Palo Alto, California on April 20, President Barack Obama lambasted the 2012 budget proposal of House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, which ultimately leads to a balanced budget without tax increases. Obama said regarding the Ryan budget plan, "No I don't think it is particularly courageous. Because...nothing is easier than solving a problem on the backs of people who are poor or people who are powerless or don't have a lobbyist or don't have clout."

But that is restrained compared to new Democrat National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who said regarding the Medicare reforms in Ryan's budget plan, "No longer would Medicare be a guarantee of health insurance coverage. Instead Medicare would become little more than a discount card. This plan would literally be a death trap for seniors."

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The Celebrity Apprentice Blinked

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Jan LaRue was published April 28, 2011 on the American Thinker blog.

After holding out for two-and-a-half years, President Obama released his mysteriously secreted long form "certificate of live birth" after being pressured to do so by Donald Trump, billionaire business mogul and star of "The Apprentice" TV show.

Obama said we've been "distracted" long enough by "sideshows and carnival barkers."

The disclosure raises a few million dollar questions.

What's the big secret? Comparing the long form "certificate of live birth" to the short form "certification of live birth," which has been posted online since the 2008 campaign, reveals the name of the birth hospital and the name of the "attendant."

This is what Obama spent substantial legal fees to keep hidden from public view, and then folded like a fearful apprentice after being bullied by the "boss" of a reality TV show?

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May 4, 2011 

On Wednesday's Program 

Does Obama deserve all the credit?

Now that the deed is done, jockeying for political credit is already raging. David Shuster took to liberal radio and gleefully explained how the President 'deserves all the credit' for taking Osama out, and needs to maximize political points. That's why he is very excited about Obama's decision to go visit Ground Zero - a move Glenn didn't think too fondly of.  Does Obama deserve all the credit? Glenn answers on radio today.  

George W. Bush declines Obama's ground zero invite - STORY. 

REPORT: President tells CBS he will not release Bin Laden photos - DETAILS.

Al Jazeera: Bin Laden death a 'murder'

Hillary Clinton, MSNBC hosts and many other liberal elite have been heaping praise on Al Jazeera in recent weeks. Al Jazeera's response to the news of Bin Laden's death, "Fomenting nationalism with murder," almost makes it seem like they don't like America (shocker!). Clinton has openly pined for our media to resemble Al Jazeera - is this the kind of anti-American drivel we can look forward to in the years to come from our press? Probably. Glenn reads some of the news on Bin Laden from Hillary Clinton's favorite news source on radio today.

Did waterboarding help catch OBL?

As Mediaite points out in this post, it should have been obvious that because info from 'detainees' led to the demise of OBL the question of waterboarding would inevitably come up. But the Obama administration is having an incredibly difficult time answering this question. Why? Probably because they are desperately trying to avoid the obvious 'yes' and give Bush policies credit and vindication. Deputy National Security Adviser Denis McDonough tried his level best to dance around giving Bush credit -- but like many before him (Panetta, Brennan, Carney) he FAILED. Did waterboarding help? You betcha. Furthermore, you'll never guess which country harbored a terrorist that provided key intel in the OBL takedown. Find out HERE. 

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NFL player in tweet trouble

Pittsburgh Steeler RB Rashard Mendenhall made the mistake of opening a Twitter account - and now he is paying the price. The death of Bin Laden and subsequent celebrations caused the star RB to start tweeting about how troubled he was over the celebrations. Many have questioned dancing in the streets over death, but Rashard really stepped in it when he defended Osama Bin Laden: "It's amazing how people can HATE a man they have never even heard speak. We've only heard one side..." Ouch. Believe it or not - Rashard's bad Tweet trip got even worse. Find out what else he posted HERE. 

Clueless Teens hit Google, ask: Who is Osama Bin Laden? STORY

Was it capture or kill?

There are conflicting reports coming out about the raid on Osama Bin Laden's compound Sunday, May 1st. A press conference yesterday provided more stunning details (such as Osama was surrounded by children aged 2-12) and that he was not holding a firearm at the time he was shot. People are now trying to spin this and label our Special Ops assault team as cold blooded killers. Pakistani media is reporting Osama's own daughter claims Osama was 'captured alive and shot dead by the U.S. Special Forces' during the first minutes of the operation. What really went down? Get all the latest details HERE. 

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