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Michelle Malkin An indignant President Obama complained last week, "I can't spend all of my time with my birth certificate plastered on my forehead." Fine. How about plastering a copy of his presidential oath of office there instead? The oath says to "preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States" — not international law or global diktats.

Case in point: Last week, Obama's State Department handed in America's first-ever report to the United Nations Commissioner for Human Rights. There is a section on "values and immigration," which essentially singles out Arizona's immigration enforcement law as a human rights deficiency "that is being addressed in a court action."

In response, Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer rightly blasted Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the Obama administration for succumbing to "internationalism run amok."

No one should be surprised, of course, that the Department of Blame America First is prostrating itself before the likes of repressive U.N. Human Rights Council members Libya, Cuba, Saudi Arabia and China. No one should be surprised that Obama's globalist panderers couldn't simply keep their mouths shut and refrain from trashing Americans with whom they disagree. [In fact, that is precisely Obama's modus operendi.]

The inclusion of Arizona in a politically correct catalog of human rights and wrongs is more than "downright offensive," as Brewer put it. It's a national travesty. [It is turning on a member of your family: tasteless and distasteful and embarrassing for those who have to witness it.]
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Aug

Conquest of Ground Zero

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Cordoba mosque

(above: the first Cordoba mosque built upon the oldest Catholic (Visigoth) church in Spain, St Sebastian)

Muslims have always built mosques on the sites of their conquests.
– The Prophet Muhammad himself made the Ka'aba, a pagan pantheon, into a mosque after he captured Mecca in 630 CE.
– The Al Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem was deliberately built near the Temple Mount, the holiest places in Judaism.
– The Ummayad mosque in Damascus was built on the site of the Church of Saint John.
– Babri mosque in Ayodhya, India was built by demolishing a Hindu temple at the site of Hinduism's Lord Rama's birthplace. They built mosques on the sites of thousands of temples throughout India.

The request to build a mosque near the site of the World Trade Center is not accidental. It is astute and deliberate, as is the decision to call the place Cordoba House. Cordoba is city in Spain that resonates mightily in Muslim history. It was the capital of the Islamic empire in Spain. It was the place where Islam established its first caliphate in Europe.

The Grand Cordoba Mosque was built where a Visigoth Christian church stood.
– Vinod Kumar

It takes a high IQ to evade the obvious, so it is no surprise the so-called "intelligentsia" are out in force, pointing fingers at us. They are really not so smart.

Meanwhile, we, the taxpayers, are paying for this imam to traipse around the globe while bad-mouthing us and getting funds together to built this monstrosity — which, btw, has re-branded itself a la Obama. It is now called Park51. But, bottom line is, a mosque is a mosque is a mosque.

The best predictor of the future is past behavior. Know your history. Know the history of your enemies.

All devout Muslims are certain that Islam will someday conquer Spain because Islam teaches that once a place has been absorbed into the ummah, the worldwide community of Islam, it must remain Muslim forever. If the infidels retake Cordoba and Spain, for instance, then Muslims are obliged to conquer it again.

Though they cannot be measured, symbols are powerful in every civilization, especially the Islamic one. New Yorkers should remember that before they blithely allow Cordoba House to be built in their town.
– Vinod Kumar

If this disputed mosque were built at Ground Zero, it would be a 15-story middle finger to America.

There is no question that Muslims have a right to build a mosque where they chose to. The real question is why they chose that particular location.

Can anyone in his right mind believe that this was intended to show solidarity with Americans, rather than solidarity with those who attacked America?

Wake up, grow a spine, read history, clean house.

– based upon article by Thomas Sowell

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Aug

Taxed Enough Already

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liar liar

Big Government has grabbed themselves more and more power in dictating to us what we can and cannot drive, eat, read, use, etc.

Government is growing. The private economy is shrinking. Economic growth has slowed to a crawl.

Obama and his legion of minions are taking more and more of our lives away from us, to regulate and tax, even down to what we choose to drink!

This past week new rules governing our credit cards kicked in, following passage of the Credit Card Accountability and Responsibility Act, signed into law last year.

The point of the CARD Act is to protect us consumers from the scheming bankers from whom we get our credit cards.

Have you checked your credit card interest rates?

Who will protect us from scheming politicians? From the power-grabbers? From the ego maniacs?

As usual, the Wolf-In-Chief cannot see beyond the end of his own nose and despite constant reminders that no one making less that $250,000 (or $200,000 – it keeps changing) will pay more in taxes — the taxes on the poorer people keep going up!

First it was the cigarette tax. Now who is affected here? Not those making more than $250,000!

Then his stupid credit card "reform" has resulted in all of us paying higher interest rates. Oh yeah, that's a big saving.

Healthcare "reform" has resulted in much higher insurance premiums for those who can least afford it.

Brace yourself for that insane Cap and Trade that will make you pay 10 times your current electric bill. Another great saving for us who make way less than $250,000.

And stop blaming the companies and business. It is your fault Obama, plain and simple.

Just leave us alone.

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Aug

Private Property is Private

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Joseph Phillips The right to private property was one of the central issues involved in the American Revolution. The colonists’ cries of “taxation without representation” were but protests of what they saw as an unjust taking of private property.

The founders, of course, did not understand property simply to mean one’s possessions. Property was understood to include the fruit of one’s labor; it included a man’s conscience—the things he believed and thought, and the ideals he held dear.

James Madison wrote that individuals have a property, “In their opinions and the free exercise of them.” As well as “a property of peculiar value in his religious opinions and in the profession and practice dictated by them.” In short, “as man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.”

Some Americans continue to share the belief that the right to private property is sacrosanct–other Americans, not so much.

In a 2001 radio interview, a young Barack Obama lamented that the Warren Court had not been more radical and had not addressed the redistribution of wealth, which is to say the redistribution of private property.

Obama continued to opine that the Constitution was a charter of “negative liberties,” which failed to declare, “What the federal or state government must do on your behalf.”

The truth is that when read through the lens of the Declaration, the Constitution lays out how the government will carry out its mission — protecting each citizen’s private property!

– read full article by Joseph C Phillips at Townhall

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Aug

Convoluted

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Mona Charen President Obama has a weakness for thinking in categories — compartmentalizing. For someone who provokes swoons among liberals for his great intellect, he has repeatedly evidenced an unsophisticated, one might even say simple-minded, view of the world: Workers good; bosses exploitative. Borrowers good; lenders bad. Patients good; insurance companies bad. Again and again, the president and his spokesmen have justified their expansions of government power as efforts to help those who "through no fault of their own" find themselves in difficulties.

Most politicians drag this "I'll take care of you" rhetoric out during campaigns, but Obama has institutionalized it in policy.He has a veritable Ph.D (piled high and deep) degree in it.

One of those piles — the Home Affordable Modification Program — was a total failure.

Recall that in February 2009, President Obama proposed to solve a "crisis unlike we've ever known." It wasn't, the president insisted, that anyone had made poor decisions — [of course not - let's not confuse the people with "accountability" here].

"It begins with a young family … They save up … They choose a home that feels like the perfect place to start a life. They secure a fixed-rate mortgage at a reasonable rate, and they make a down payment, and they make their mortgage payments each month. They are as responsible as anyone could ask them to be." But then someone loses a job, a spouse has his or her hours cut, or a child becomes sick.

Um, isn't that called "Life"? Life happens as a result of the decisions we make. Such a simple concept which frees us because we know we are in charge of our lives. Don't like your circumstances? Make different choices.

We live on the planet Earth, not in a bubble. One cannot protect people from"Life" — or their decisions — or the consequences of such decisions.

Neil Barofsky, the special inspector general for the Troubled Assets Relief Program (SIGTARP for those who speak Washingtonese) blasted the program in a July report:

"Treasury's refusal to provide meaningful goals for this important program is a fundamental failure of transparency and accountability that makes it far more difficult for the American people and their representatives in Congress to assess whether the program's benefits are worth its very substantial cost.

"The American people are essentially being asked to shoulder an additional $50 billion of national debt without being told, more than 16 months after the program's announcement, how many people Treasury hopes to actually help stay in their homes as a result of these expenditures, how many people are intended to be helped through other subprograms, and how the program is performing against those expectations and goals. Without such clearly defined standards, positive comments regarding the progress or success of HAMP are simply not credible, and the growing public suspicion that the program is an outright failure will continue to spread.

In contrast to the Obama morality play, the foreclosure crisis was not a conspiracy of the rich and powerful against dutiful homeowners reliably making their monthly payments. It was the result of multiple stupidity by government, bankers, and individuals. Obama's instinct to insulate people from the consequences of their bad decisions (and yes, sometimes bad luck) amounts to subsidizing failure. The results are coming in daily — persistent high unemployment, an anemic recovery, and billions upon billions of wasted taxpayer's money.

– based upon article by Mona Charen

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Aug

The Real Hatemongers

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Brent Bozell Last week, Dr. Laura Schlessinger announced on CNN that she was hanging up her headphones at the end of the year. If she could not exercise her freedom of speech, she said, she was not interested in the job.

Crazies on the Left had pounced on something that everyone with cable TV knows is true. The N-word is acceptable for black comedians on HBO, but it's not something you can ever, ever say if you're not black. Hypocrisy rules.

Reporters scream in protest over anyone calling Obama a socialist but they don't find anything scandalous in Left-wing radio hosts blaming conservatives for 9/11.

Mike Malloy shouted at his opponents on Jan. 19, 2010: "Do you not understand that the people you hold up as heroes bombed your goddamn country? Do you not understand that Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh and Bill O'Reilly are as complicit of the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attack as any one of the dumb-ass 15 who came from Saudi Arabia?"

Has any conservative ever said anything remotely similar to this?

He also claimed on April 19, 2010 that Beck and Limbaugh rejoiced over the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995: "This is what Beck and Limbaugh and the rest of these right-wing freaks want to see happen again. And again. And again. Endlessly."

Perhaps Malloy is granted an exception because he sounds clinically insane. He has claimed Rep. Michele Bachmann "would have gladly rounded up the Jews in Germany and shipped them off to death camps." He has claimed Cheney "must have feasted on a Jewish baby, or a Muslim baby." He has claimed that the mild-mannered Fred Barnes "is beyond crazy. I'm sure he eats children's arms or legs for afternoon snacks."

Then consider this: Malloy was a news writer for CNN for years. Schultz was awarded a platform on MSNBC for his hatred.

So who are the real liars and haters? Just check MSNBC, NBC, ABC, yada, yada, yada.

– Brent Bozell, Townhall