Jihad Coming to Haiti?

The Islamists are now taking advantage of the desperate state in which the Haitians have found themselves after their devastating eathquake last month. Sure, the Haitians could use food, water, and other assistance from all nations willing to deliver, but is it necessary to send the provisions via jihadists? The Haitian people have suffered enough, do we really want them to be subjected to the following?

Read from Creeping Sharia, via Jihad Watch:

Islamist groups set up camp in Haiti (video)

"'Why is wearing jeans and riding a moped without a headscarf now a problem for a woman in Banda Aceh, the Indonesian city devastated by the tsunami of December 2004?' The answer is sharia law. Could a similar disaster be headed to Haiti?

If you think it’s not possible, consider that numerous Islamist organizations are now operating on the ground in Haiti and at least one group that was active in Aceh, Islamic Relief USA, has established an Islamic administered camp in Haiti. See the image and video below.




Islamic Relief tent city in Haiti

The Ikhwan is represented in Haiti by unindicted co-conspirators to the largest Islamic terror financing trial in the U.S., ISNA, who is distributing funds and identifies other Islamist groups also on the ground in Haiti:


'The Islamic Medical Association of North America (IMANA), one of ISNA’s constituent organizations, already has a team of physicians operating on the ground. It will send another team by this weekend, and is forming more teams to go to Haiti. ISNA is sending $20,000 to IMANA to help meet the immediate need of medical care for the thousands of injured.

Islamic Relief USA aid workers are in Haiti distributing food and water. They are also assessing other projects to help the suffering. ISNA is sending $15,000 to Islamic Relief to help in their efforts on the ground.

Zakat Foundation of America has a team in Haiti distributing food, water and medical supplies. Even before the earthquake, Zakat Foundation had workers in Haiti supplying food to the hungry. ISNA is sending $15,000 to Zakat Foundation to facilitate their work.'


Who is AMANA?


'IMANA was named in a May 1991 Muslim Brotherhood document –titled “An Explanatory Memorandum on the General Strategic Goal for the Group in North America” — as one of the Brotherhood’s likeminded “organizations of our friends” who shared the common goal of destroying America and turning it into a Muslim nation.'


Also recall that zakat is intended in part to fund jihad. More on Islamic Relief USA below.

ICNA, the Islamic Circle of North America, another Islamist group with radical ties whose goal is to recruit converts to Islam through dawah, is also operating on the ground in Haiti. Through its Helping Hands USA subsidiary, ICNA will hold a fundraising telethon for Muslims to donate to Haiti. The group clarified all Haitian mosques are still standing.


'“We have set up our medical base camp with medicine and doctors. Even though we have more doctors and relief efforts are getting more organized, we are still working in emergency mode,” said Irfan Khurshid, Helping Hand USA Director of International Programs, who is coordinating relief efforts from Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

Alhamdulillah, there are four Masajids and one musallah where people pray and by the grace of Allah, all four Masajids are safe and standing.'


CNN aired a glowing segment on Islamic Relief USA, but failed to mention exactly who and what Islamic Relief USA is. From DtN:


'The aforementioned IRW-USA was incorporated in 1993. In addition to its California headquarters, it also maintains regional offices in Totowa, New Jersey, Washington, D.C. and Plano, Texas. The Registered Agent for its incorporation was Kazbek Soobzokov, the former attorney for terror operative Wajdi Ghunaim, who in 2006 called for violence against Jews, was deported from the United States, and was refused entry into Canada after it was discovered that he was a member of Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood.

In 1999, IRW’s main office (in England) received $50,000 from a Canadian group that the U.S. Treasury Department called “a bin Laden front.” According to Moscow’s Obshchaya Gazeta, IRW has collected and funneled millions of dollars to the Chechen terrorist rebels in Russia, who also have ties to al Qaeda.'


More from Militant Islam Monitor:


'MIM: According to Michelle Malkin, Islamic Relief in Burbank accepted $50,000 dollars from an alleged Bin Laden front group at it’s UK office:

Here is a quote from the book called “INVASION” How America still welcomes terrorists, criminals, and other foreign menances to our
shore.” By Michelle Malkin. page 18 “Buy a high tech ticket”

Data from the United States Department of Labor reveals that four Muslim charities under federal investigation for ties to terrorism
applied for high tech, or H1-B visas, on behalf of at least sixteen workers over the past years. Three of the charities-the Global Relief
Foundation of Bridgeview, Illinois, the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development in Richardson, Texas, and the Benevolence
International Foundation of Palos Heights, Illionois-had their assets frozen by the Treasury Department after September 11 attacks. The
fourth, Islamic Relief Worldwide in Burbank, California, accepted $50,000 from an alleged bin Laden front group at its British office, according to Treasury officials."'"

More here.

A Baby Before and After She Exited the Womb

I just finished watching a Duggars Family special dealing with the premature birth of baby #19. Michelle, the mother of 18 and the star of "19 Kids and Counting", was expecting her 19th child on March 18th, but due to preeclampsia, an emergency C-section was performed on December 10th. Baby Josie came over three months early and weighed in at only 1 lb. 6 oz. She is not yet out of the woods and currently weighs 2 lbs. 3 oz. Josie is not expected to be released from the hospital until March.

This premature birth is just more evidence against the notion that a baby is not a baby until exiting the mother's womb. The TLC special this evening filmed the birth and photos were shown of this tiny little baby. Other than her size, she resembled a newly born baby.

Josie came into this world three months early. Based on what the pro-abortion crowd says, if her mother had not had health problems and she had not been delivered prematurely, she would not yet be labeled a baby. That makes no sense whatsoever.

I saw photos of this child, and she clearly is a baby, a small one, but nevertheless, a baby. If she had been able to live the additional three months in her mother's womb, she still would look as she does at this point, like a baby because she is a baby.

The libs are so out to lunch on this issue. Josie was a baby on December 10th, and prior to that, before she exited the woman and after she exited the womb; it made no difference whatsoever.

Read about baby Josie's birth and recovery here.

Indoctrination with a Capital "I"

I am sick to my stomach. What happened to the America in which I grew up? Have I gone to sleep and woken to find out that I am living in Nazi Germany? Or is this just a nightmare? Nope, this is reality in an Obama nation.

Read from Atlas Shrugs:

ATLAS EXCLUSIVE: Obama Organizing in High School

"An Atlas reader, Chuck, has a student in the eleventh grade in an Ohio High School. Her government class passed out this propaganda recruiting paper so students could sign up as interns for Obama's Organizing for America (OFA is the former mybarackobama.com site.)

Obama is using our public school system to recruit for his Alinsky-inspired private army. Organizing for America is (and I quote) recruiting in our high schools to 'build on the movement that elected President Obama by empowering students across the country to help us bring about our agenda' ............of national socialism.

The Ohio High School is Perry Local in Massillon, Ohio.

This is incredible. And evil. Suffer the little children -- enlisted like SS youth. This is no accident. Obama is poisoning our public school system. He acts as if it's his own private breeding farm. Once again academic learning and achievement is hopelessly abandoned, and supplanted by radical leftist activism from the leftwing Alinsky indoctrinators in the perverse public school system.

Children must be advised to expose this ugly propaganda. Children must tell their parents how they are being used and manipulated. Parents, warn your kids. Better yet, home school.

Check out the recommended reading list page 4:


•Rules for Radicals, Saul Alinsky
•The New Organizers, Zack Exley
•Stir It Up: Lessons from Community Organizing and Advocacy, Rinku Sen
•Obama Field Organizers Plot a Miracle, Zack Exley, Huffington Post
•Dreams of My Father Chicago Chapters, Barack Hussein Obama

This internship program is geared towards the 2010 elections. Using our kids as their goons. Can you imagine if the Republicans attempted such a fascist stunt?

Remember the children singing heil Obama songs? The Obama youth regiment brigade.

How about being forced to listen to his creepy speech?

During the election he had those freaky kids parades.

And video after video of kids singing brainwashed tunes of Obama praise here and here.

Atlas had The Obama Childrens Book -- illustrations show rainbows, sunbeams and an aura around Obama. Rainbows and moonbeams -- got that?

Then the goosestepping kids for Obama -- a school project. And now this, high school pods for O.

And what will these "interns" be force fed? The mother's milk of the left -- anti-war agitation, anti-capitalism, Marx, Lenin, Ayers, Ellie Light activism, LGBT agenda promotion, global warming, pro-jihad, and illegal immigration. For starters.



He is using the public school system to to get kids 'on the ground - working to make the change we worked so hard for 2008'."


Go here for details on the 10-week indoctrination program.


"The Post-American Presidency: The Obama Administration's War on America

UPDATE: Chuck's daughter asked if there was a Republican option she was told that there was not.

UPDATE: I strongly urge readers to contact the school and voice their concern. Here is a 'contact' page for Perry High. This kind of brainwashing recruitment is unacceptable."


One Atlas reader said it best with the following comment:

"He ain't touching my kids. There will be hell to pay."

Al Qaeda's Latest Strategy

What will they think of next? Jihadists are so consumed with hatred for infidels that they are some of the most creative individuals on the face of the earth, which makes it increasingly more difficult to stay one step ahead of them.

With a bureaucratic government like we have in the U.S. and an obsession with political correctness, which is what made the brutal killings at Fort Hood possible, how much longer can we escape a full-blown attack on our country? After all, we must get it right 100% of the time, while our enemies only need to be successful once.

Read from Jihad Watch:

Jihadists plan attack with bombs inside their bodies, to foil new airport scanners

"As I wrote here in December: 'One thing we have seen over the years since 9/11 is that airport security is always one step behind the jihadists: after jihadist Richard Reid attempted to set off a bomb hidden in his shoes, we all have to take off our shoes and send them through security scanners. After a group of jihadists tried to sneak onto planes explosive chemicals hidden in drink bottles, we can't carry drinks through airport security terminals. Because Abdulmutallab attempted his jihad attack just before the plane landed, now we can't get up during the last hour of the flight. The one thing that the TSA should have learned, but hasn't, is that next time the jihadists will do something else, not just repeat what they did before. And even if every passenger were given a full body cavity search, they will find some way to get around it. But attempt a new approach based on sensible profiling? The TSA would rather fold up shop altogether.'

And just imagine if the Islamic jihadis turned all this energy and ingenuity to something constructive, instead of devoting it all to devising new ways to murder people.

'Terrorists "plan attack on Britain with bombs INSIDE their bodies" to foil new airport scanners,' by Christopher Leake for the Mail On Sunday, January 30 (thanks to Doug):


'Britain is facing a new Al Qaeda terror threat from suicide 'body bombers' with explosives surgically inserted inside them.

Until now, terrorists have attacked airlines, Underground trains and buses by secreting bombs in bags, shoes or underwear to avoid detection.

But an operation by MI5 has uncovered evidence that Al Qaeda is planning a new stage in its terror campaign by inserting 'surgical bombs' inside people for the first time.

Security services believe the move has been prompted by the recent introduction at airports of body scanners, which are designed to catch terrorists before they board flights.

It is understood MI5 became aware of the threat after observing increasingly vocal internet 'chatter' on Arab websites this year.

The warning comes in the wake of the failed attempt by London-educated Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab to blow up an airliner approaching Detroit on Christmas Day.

One security source said: "If the terrorists are talking about this, we need to be ready and do all we can to counter the threat."

A leading source added that male bombers would have the explosive secreted near their appendix or in their buttocks, while females would have the material placed inside their breasts in the same way as figure-enhancing implants.

Experts said the explosive PETN (Pentaerythritol Tetranitrate) would be placed in a plastic sachet inside the bomber's body before the wound was stitched up like a normal operation incision and allowed to heal.

A shaped charge of 8oz of PETN can penetrate five inches of armour and would easily blow a large hole in an airliner....'"


Don't you just love how Islam brings out the love in people?

Fitna to Be Shown in London

One of the most courageous men in the world is in a fight for his very future. The great warrior for freedom, Dutch politician Geert Wilders is on trial for insulting Islam. Though the outcome of his trial has not yet been determined, Wilders has reason to celebrate.

Read from Atlas Shrugs:

Go Geert! Freedom lover Wilders to Show FITNA in London in March

"If the West wins this war declared on its freedom by Islamic jihad, we all stand on the shoulders of Geert Wilders. He is singular. He stands alone.

Wilders to show Fitna in London in March


'Dutch MP Geert Wilders will travel to London on March 5 to show his short video compilation Fitna at the invitation of two members of the British upper house of parliament, the House of Lords.

Last February Wilders was refused entry to Britain to screen his film because the government said his presence would be a threat to public order.

But in October, a British immigration tribunal ruled Wilders should not have been refused entry.'


This is a triumph. The Muslims got Wilders banned when the dhimmi Home Office (the corrupt Jacqui Smith) caved to jihad pressure.

He fought back and won. Wilders is the free world's role model."

Her Creator Sees Her True Character

While the American Pravda fawns all over the physically fit and stylish First Lady Michelle Obama, I thought that we as Americans should become better acquainted with her and her beliefs.

What kind of woman and mother supports a procedure which "sucks the brains out of half-delivered babies?

During hubby's run for the 2004 U.S. Senate seat from Illinois, Michelle sent out a fund-raising letter in which she declared that "the partial birth abortion ban 'is clearly unconstitutional' and 'a flawed law.'

This is what our lovely First Lady defended:



Now, I realize that about one-half of Americans are pro-abortion, but the partial-birth abortion procedure is so horrifying that it is beyond belief that any compassionate human being could support such an act.

That's our First Lady for you, folks. When it comes right down to it, the fact that she was ashamed of our country prior to her husband's victorious run for president is mild in comparison to her abominable disregard for life and lack of concern for the suffering a baby undergoes during this gruesome act.

God help us! Americans may be caught up with Michelle's fine arms and her fashionable attire, but be assured that the God who created her, sees her true character.

The Audacity of Deception

Ladies and gentlemen, we done been scammed. A snake oil type salesman like none seen before has swindled the American people and now resides in the White House.

Read about twelve ways in which we have been scammed by President Obama, via the American Thinker:

From Camelot to Scamalot
By Jim Guirard

"For almost half a century, the romantic and noble label of John and Jackie Kennedy's 'Camelot' years in the White House has been an integral part of our political lexicon -- and a major asset to the once-liberal, now mostly left-illiberal Democratic National Party.

How ironic it is that in the late JFK's own state of Massachusetts, the voters who elected Republican State Senator Scott Brown to the U.S. Senate have laid the predicate for yet another presidential legacy label: the highly ignoble 'Scamalot' for the unfolding political lives of Barack Obama and his far-left entourage.

Faced with so many false assurances, exaggerated 'hopes,' and inflated assertions about not only Obama's health care takeover, but also his radical policies on energy, taxes, the national debt, unemployment, the environment, and the ongoing War on Terror, Bay State voters came to believe that the president is simply deceiving them -- to the point that they were routinely thinking, 'You lie.'

But using the somewhat softer term of 'scam,' let us paint a full picture of what is going on here. Let us pose the tough question: 'Does this charismatic, smooth-talking, and openly "progressive" (i.e., socialist) President Obama scam just a little, or does he truly scam a lot?' Consider, for example,

SCAM #1 -- He loudly asserts complete 'transparency,' but there is little or none -- e.g., his birthplace records, his Marxist parentage and upbringing, his school records from grammar to graduate, his passport records, his radical-left personal and professional associations, his deep association with the ACORN conspiracy, his Harvard Law Review and book-writing records, and his multiple far-left, non-vetted, unconfirmed, and largely unaccountable regulatory 'czars.'

SCAM #2 -- He continues to assure 'bipartisanship' and 'accountability,' but there is little of either, with most of his 'economic stimulus' legislation and 'TARP' funding -- and now the health care proposals -- crafted behind closed doors and with all of the Republicans (and all centrist and conservative Democrats, as well) actually locked out.

NOTE: Massachusetts voters seem to have decided that 'BUYpartisanship' might be a better spelling for the blatant vote-buying of several Senate Democrats (and probably as many House Democrats, as well) who are so servile as to be for sale.

SCAM #3 -- He promises not to sign any health care bill which 'adds a single dime to the deficit' -- but he deceitfully front-loads taxes and back-loads benefits to make it seem so, and he contrives multiple 'scoring' schemes which grossly underestimate hidden costs by trillions of such 'single dimes.'

SCAM #4 -- He pledges not to raise the taxes of anyone who earns less than such-and-such amount -- a number which keeps getting smaller and smaller -- and cynically labels $250-'stimulus' handouts as 'tax cuts for 95 percent of all taxpayers.'

SCAM #5 -- He has assured that there would no role (or positions of substantial influence) for 'lobbyists' in his administration, but he has made so many exceptions and end-runs as to render the original pledge a prima facie lie. (Surely, SEIU President Andy Stern, who virtually lives in the White House, would never 'lobby' the president on anything.)

SCAM #6 -- He pretends to have left the Liberation Theology church when he has merely distanced himself from a particularly radical minister -- while then appointing that minister's hand-picked and equally radical successor, Rev. Cecil Morris, to his Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Initiatives. Further, he has appointed a Cuban expatriate Liberation Theology theologian, Professor Miguel Diaz, as his ambassador to the Vatican.

SCAM #7 -- He claims not to be a socialist, but a 'progressive' instead -- when the latter has long been the radical left's codeword for the former, and even when such 'Death to America' socialists and communists as Fidel Castro, Hugo Chávez, and Daniel Ortega proudly claim the 'progressive' label as well.

SCAM #8 -- He talks of 'energy independence' but proposes multilayered policies of Less Energy at Higher Prices (LEAHP) -- all of which are devoted to a ruinously low 'carbon footprint' belief system which is itself a pseudo-religious scam, correctly being called by many the Branch Carbonian Cult.

SCAM #9 -- He embraces as 'scientific consensus' the junk science of anthropogenic global warming (AGW) and shamelessly rejects virtually all scientific evidence (re: solar cycles, cosmic winds, ocean currents, volcanic activity, etc.) to the contrary, just as the pseudo-scientific Branch Carbonians do.

SCAM #10 -- He promises 'jobs, jobs, jobs' while he relentlessly proposes -- in an apparent state of cognitive dissonance -- both the proactive outforcing of jobs and capital investment and the determined downforcing of most major domestic energy supplies.

SCAM #11 -- He repeatedly blames the ever-exploding budget deficits and the unending loss of jobs on 'the Bush economy we inherited' -- when it was clearly the Pelosi-Reid Congressional Economy of 2007-08 (with its promises of higher taxes and of radical 'carbon-footprint' crackdowns) that he inherited, which had already ended the de facto Bush Boom of the preceding three years, 2004-06.

SCAM #12 -- He cynically relabels global terrorism a 'man-caused disaster' and redefines al-Qaeda-inspired and trained enemy combatants as mere Miranda-protected 'criminals' -- and thereby tries to insulate himself and his legacy from ever having 'lost a war,' which, after all, was never a war in the first place.

Topping it all, he and his dedicated fellow progressives will continue in the media, in academia, and elsewhere to muddle the truth about all of the major scams listed above -- plus provide false or flippantly unreliable promises to end earmarking, to reduce deficit spending, to close Gitmo, to end corruption in high places, ad infinitum.

And they will do this by a wide variety of deceptive tactics, many of which come mainly from the late, great Marxist tactician of community organizing, Saul Alinsky, and his infamous Rules for Radicals handbook -- which the young Barack actually taught to fellow radicals in both classroom and streetwise, ACORN-style settings.

And so it is that Barack Obama's Scamalot army marches onward. As the French always say, 'Plus ça change, plus c'est la meme chose.' In this case, it will be the same old Big Brother dream of world socialism -- and it will remain so until we are finally able to flush the electoral toilets all across the nation later this year and again in 2012, as has so appropriately just happened in Massachusetts."

Rifqa's Parents Have Changed Their Minds

I knew this was too good to be true. The Rifqa Bary ordeal has begun once again, as her devout Muslim parents have changed their minds and want her returned. This poor girl's emotions must be on a rollercoaster.

Read the latest from Pamela Geller who has been all over this case from day one:

Rifqa Bary's parents and their CAIR-appointed attorney have reneged on the deal for dependency and instead want to go to trial.

"As I long suspected, Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas front CAIR had no intention of allowing an apostate from Islam to live freely as a glowing example to other Muslims dying to leave Islam.

An anonymous source tells me Rifqa wasn't told of the terrible development from her lawyers. She had to read the hijabed Heagney's account. I contend, yet again, that Rifqa is ill represented by an uninformed counsel chosen by John Stemberger. But I hear Stemberger inked his first book deal .... on Rifqa.

They are reopening the case, Rifqa should ask for a continuance and start fresh with knowledgeable legal counsel experienced in sharia law.

The CAIR appointed attorney knows where Rifqa lives; have they moved her to another foster home yet?

Agreement between Rifqa Bary, parents to settle conflict short-lived Meredith Hijab


'The parents - Mohamed and Aysha Bary - are withdrawing their consent to resolve the case. Rifqa and her parents agreed on Jan. 19 that she would stay in foster care and they would undergo counseling instead of beginning a dependency trial to determine where the 17-year-old should live. Rifqa turns 18 in August.

The motion says "the parents now believe the entire deal should be thrown out because of misrepresentation and fraudulent inducement." It adds that the Barys now object to all decisions made on Jan. 19 and want a trial on the dependency case.

Rifqa ran away in July, saying her father abused her and threatened to kill her for converting from Islam to Christianity. Authorities could not find any credible threats to her safety.

Franklin County Children Services promised it would protect Rifqa from the people who helped her run away and are trying to exploit her, but she's being allowed to talk to Blake and Beverly Lorenz, according to the motion filed yesterday by Omar Tarazi, attorney for the parents. The Lorenzes are the Florida pastor couple who housed Rifqa for more than two weeks after she ran away.

The motion says she is being allowed to attend "the very church that targeted her in the first place," but it does not name the church.'


Islam says NO CHURCH!


'Tarazi also wrote that Angela Lloyd, an attorney for Rifqa, knew or should have known of the contents of a "happy birthday, Daddy" card that she sent to Blake Lorenz on behalf of Rifqa. The motion says Rifqa has yet to talk to her parents.'


Who the h*** is that jihadi to tell a Christian girl she can't send a birthday card to people she loves? Wake up, America. Islam is eating you alive. This from the Lorenz affadavit:


'To my knowledge, Brian Smith is the only one who continues to have access to the post office box of Global Revolution Church. He has opened mail addressed to me personally. Instead of forwarding the mail to me without opening it, or even after opening it, he has apparently sent my mail to the attorneys for the father of Rifqa Bary in Ohio. Again, Brian Smith has done so without my consent. He has acted in a manner that is both untruthful, in filing many false statements in his affidavit, and in a manner to intentionally harm me, the reasons for which I can only speculate stem from concern that I had over his job while he worked at Global Revolution Church.'


CAIR accomplice Brian Smith is under indictment for allegedly stealing her legal defense donations. He is facing embezzlement, mail tampering and illegal wiretapping charges.


'Two separate motions ask the court to remove Lloyd as Rifqa's counsel and Bonnie Vangeloff as her guardian ad litem.

Tarazi also filed an emergency motion that all contact between Rifqa and those who "assisted in her unruly behavior" be prohibited because of a pending criminal investigation.'


This is sharia law in America.

I invited Rifqa Bary to speak at our CPAC event:

LET RIFQA SPEAK AT CPAC.

THIS IS AMERICA. THIS IS A FREE COUNTRY. WE ARE FREE TO SPEAK AND PRACTICE OUR RELIGION.

LET HER SPEAK.

Facebook Fatwa: RIFQA BARY IS THE ANTI-CHRIST 'Dajjal'

Frantic Facebook Jihad on Rifqa Bary: 'In Islam, yes, apostasy is the death penalty'

Facebook Fatwa Against Rifqa Bary: 'Don't Save Rifqa Bary Let Them Kill her'

Facebook Jihad on Rifqa Bary

Rifqa Bary Facebook Fatwa: 'We Need to Kill Her'

Hillary Waiting in the Wings?

As Barack Obama destroys his Democratic Party, will there be someone waiting in the wings to pick up the pieces in 2012? Someone like Hillary Clinton? It's improbable, but if things continue to deteriorate, it could become a reality. Jack Cafferty from CNN is already discussing such a scenario.

From Gateway Pundit:

It Has Begun… CNN’s Cafferty Urges Hillary to Challenge Obama in 2012 (Video)

"The return of Shrillary–
CNN’s Jack Cafferty urges Hillary Clinton to challenge Obama in 2012.
Freedom’s Lighthouse reported, via Free Republic:



Agreed. It’s the right thing to do. Hillary must revive her campaign and challenge Barack Obama before he destroys the democratic party… Or maybe it’s already too late for that?"

Democrats: "Tossing and Turning"

November 2, 2010: I predict a bloodbath.

Read from the Washington Examiner:

Democrats fall as fast as Nixon Republicans in 1974
By: Michael Barone

"Republican Scott Brown's victory in Massachusetts' special Senate election was for Democratic leaders a moment that can be described in two words, of which I will only print the first here, which is 'oh.'

Left-wing bloggers, liberal columnists and the stray Nobel Prize winner-turned polemicist are all urging Democrats in Congress to pass, somehow, some way, a health care bill, and many of them are calling for a second and even larger stimulus bill.

But Democrats in Congress are replying, as politicians are wont to do when challenged by party wingers, that their name is on the ballot. New York Times editorialists can opine that the Massachusetts result had nothing to do with opposition to health care, but their life's work is not in peril.

Democratic officeholders know theirs is. Some are heading for the hills. Four well-regarded veteran congressmen announced their surprise retirements in December; two longtime Democratic senators folded in January. Family concerns have suddenly become very pressing.

Others are holding out against the bloggers. Speaker Nancy Pelosi said that 'unease would be the gentlest word' to describe House Democrats' refusal to pass the Senate health care bill. Her elegant ears must have burned in that caucus meeting.

Sens. Evan Bayh and Blanche Lincoln, up for re-election in Indiana and Arkansas and facing by far the most negative poll numbers in their long political careers, let it be known that there was no way they would support the reconciliation process, requiring only 51 votes, to jam through a health care bill.

But more than health care legislation is in trouble. I have not seen a party's fortunes collapse so suddenly since Richard Nixon got caught up in the Watergate scandal and a president who carried 49 states was threatened with impeachment and removal from office.

The victory of a Democrat in the special election to fill Vice President Gerald Ford's House seat in February 1974 was a clear indication that the bottom had fallen out for the Republican Party. Brown's victory last week looks as if something similar has happened to the Democratic Party.

Many people ask me whether the Democrats are in as much trouble as they were in 1994. The numbers suggest they are in much deeper trouble, at least at this moment. Back in 1994 I wrote the first article in a nonpartisan publication suggesting that the Republicans had a serious chance to win the 40 seats necessary for a majority in the House. That article appeared in U.S. News & World Report in July 1994.

This year political handicapper Charlie Cook is writing in January, six months earlier in the cycle, that Republicans once again would capture the 40 seats they need for a majority if the House elections were held today. I concur. The generic vote question -- which party's candidates would you vote for in House elections -- is at least as favorable to Republicans as it was in the last month before the election in 1994.

Nothing is entirely static in politics, and opinions could change. Barack Obama could shift to the center, as Bill Clinton did after his party's thumping in 1994; the economy could visibly recover and start producing new jobs; a crisis like 9/11 and a good presidential response could boost the president and his party as 9/11 boosted George W. Bush and his party in 2001 and 2002.

But I sense that something more fundamental is at stake. Obama in his first year adopted the priorities of what pundit Joel Kotkin, a Democrat himself, calls the 'gentry liberals.' Obama called for addressing long-term issues like health care and supposed climate change. He and his economic advisers, like many analysts across the political spectrum, underestimated the rise in unemployment. Talk about 'green jobs' has proved to be just talk.

Obama's conciliatory foreign policy and his attempts to mollify terrorists have produced no perceptible positive responses and run against the grain of most American voters. Questioning the Christmas bomber for just 50 minutes and then reading him his Miranda rights has left Obama open to charges that his policies fail to protect the American people.

The cacophony of conflicting advice from left-wing bloggers, pundits and elected officials is a sign of a party in disarray, its central premises undermined by events. Massachusetts may have been a wake-up call enabling the Democrats to recover. But right now they're tossing and turning."

Hamas Supporters in Congress

Meet our representatives who are soft on Hamas.

Read from Joshua Pundit:

The Democrat Congressmen From Hamas

"Think Hamas and the Ikhwan (The Muslim Brotherhood) are just an overseas problem? Guess again.

Led by ex-Nation of Islam member and Minnesota congressman Keith Ellison, he and 53 other Democrat members of the House sent a letter to President Obama urging him to pressure Israel to unilaterally open its borders with Gaza.

Needless to say, there's absolutely no recognition of the attacks on Israel, which is why those borders were closed in the first place after Hamas took over the Strip in a violent coup that started the civil war between Hamas and Fatah.

To prove how anti-Israel and anti-Semitic this letter is, there's absolutely no mention of pressuring Egypt, a large recipient of US foreign aid to open Egypt's borders with Gaza or to stop building its new security barrier, which includes underground steel barriers to make tunnel smuggling more difficult.Only Israel is singled out.

That didn't stop J-Street and Peace Now from endorsing it, of course. But then, that's hardly surprising.

Many of the signatories have a long history of anti-Israel votes and statements, but another factoid that isn't surprising is that many of the signatories get substantial financial backing from CAIR, the Saudi-funded Muslim Brotherhood front that's been an unindicted co-conspirator in a number of terrorism trials.

Keith Ellison, John Conyers, Loretta Sanchez, Betty McCollum, Lois Capps, Bill Pascrell, Elijah Cummings, Bob Filner, Mike Honda, Barbara Lee, John Dingell, James Moran, Nick Rahall, Andre Carson, Mary Jo Kilroy, Carolyn Kilpatrick and Jim McDermott are among the top receivers of CAIR money in Congress.

Since CAIR receives substantial funding from the Saudis, this is yet another way for foreign funds to influence our politics.

McDermott, in fact was named CAIR's public official of the year and is on CAIR's top ten list of campaign cash recipients.

Ellison, an ex-Nation of Islam member who participated in the openly anti-Semitic Million Man March is particularly close to Nihad Awad, co-founder of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), whom he met almost two decades ago at the University of Minnesota. Awad is a well-known apologist for terrorism and was a founding member of the Islamic Association for Palestine (IAP), described by the U.S. government as a Hamas front organization.

This letter essentially is a CAIR project, and meets my essential test of anti-Semitism - it singles out Israel for demonization and demands that it adhere to standards and rules demanded of no other country.

It's also interesting to note the extremely high percentage of members of the Congressional Black Caucus on this list, 12 out of 54, almost one in four.

The Democratic party as a whole is not an anti-Israel or anti-Semitic group - far from it. But it's been obvious to me for some time that Jew hatred has a home there, and that it's both mainstream and tolerated.

Courtesy of Sultan Knish, here's a list of the representatives who signed on, along with links to the websites of their challengers in this year's elections. If you look at their records in general, the country would be well served by their absence from Congress."

Krauthammer: Obama's Only Talk of Terrorism in SOTU Was to Pretend Criticism Attacks His Patriotism

Love that Krauthammer. From Gateway Pundit:

"And after a year, and we’ve had three attacks – the Arkansas murder, the Ft. Hood massacre and the attack on the airliner – and he has almost practically nothing in the State of the Union on terrorism."

Is Obama's Nose Growing Longer?

I can't think of anything more infuriating than to find out you've been scammed. And that is just what is happening to Americans throughout this country. Based on recent poll results, people are waking up to the fact that they cannot believe a word that comes out of President Obama's mouth.

Read from Hot Air:

Post-SOTU poll shows disbelief among most voters on Obama claims

"Did Barack Obama sell Americans on his claims of progress in Wednesday night’s State of the Union speech? According to a Rasmussen poll released today, Obama didn’t get a 'good, solid B-plus' for honesty. Only a fifth of respondents believed that Obama cut taxes for 95% of Americans, and even Democrats couldn’t believe the 'two million jobs saved or created' fantasy:


'The president in the speech declared that his administration has cut taxes for 95% of Americans. He even chided Republicans for not applauding on that point. However, just 21% of voters nationwide believe that taxes have been cut for 95% of Americans. Most (53%) say it has not happened, and 26% are not sure. Other polling shows that nearly half the nation’s voters expect their own taxes to go up during the Obama years.

The president also asserted that “after two years of recession, the economy is growing again.” Just 35% of voters believe that statement is true, while 50% say it is false.

Obama claimed that steps taken by his team are responsible for putting two million people to work “who would otherwise be unemployed.” Just 27% of voters say that statement is true. Fifty-one percent (51%) say it’s false. …

As for the claim about two million jobs, 46% of Democrats say it’s true, while 77% of Republicans say it’s not. As for those not affiliated with either major party, 24% say it’s true, and 59% say it’s false.'


The 'saved or created' Porkulus fable gets some interesting results in the internals. Rasmussen mentions that only a plurality of Democrats believe that, and black voters by an even more anemic 38%, with 47% unsure. The only demographic that has a majority belief in that claim is self-professed liberals, 58% to 18% disbelief. In every age and income demographic, a majority or plurality reject that claim, including those who make less than $20K a year — where many of the potential hires for new jobs would come.

The numbers get worse for Obama on whether he accomplished what he set out to do in his first year. An overwhelming majority of 70% say no, including a plurality of Democrats (49%) and liberals (56%).

Overall, Obama is getting a good, solid F for achievements and honesty, but the SOTU speech did have one salutary effect: it momentarily increased the enthusiasm of Democrats. Before his speech, only 50% of Democrats strongly approved of Obama; in the two polling cycles after SOTU for Rasmussen’s daily tracking poll, that number increased to 65%. However, Rasmussen reports that the approval ratings of Republicans and independents didn’t change at all, which may indicate that Obama has done little to appeal to the center with this effort."


Caught in another lie, via Big Government:

Obama: We Had Nothing to Do With Cornhusker Kickback, Emanuel: Yes We Did
by Kristinn Taylor

"Rahm Emanuel: 'We were involved in the legislation all the way through.'

Video by Real Clear Politics

Hours before his embattled boss gave his first State of the Union address, White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel contradicted President Barack Obama’s claim made just two days before that he had nothing to do with the much maligned deal to get the vote of Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Nebraska) for the Senate’s healthcare bill just before Christmas.

Speaking to ABC News’ World News Tonight anchor Diane Sawyer in an exclusive interview on Monday, Obama denied being involved in what has come to be known as the 'Cornhusker Kickback'


SAWYER: A lot of people think you must say at the end of the day, this is not who I was in 2008, these deals with Nebraska, with Florida…

OBAMA: Let’s hold on a second, Diane. I mean, I think that this gets into a big mush. So let’s just clarify. I didn’t make a bunch of deals. There is a legislative process that is taking place in Congress and I am happy to own up to the fact that I have not changed Congress and how it operates the way I would have liked. So that’s point number one.


In an interview with CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric on Wednesday, Emanuel flatly stated that he and the Obama administration were heavily involved in the Cornhusker Kickback as well as the other deals that provoked outrage from the public and helped Republican Scott Brown win the U.S. Senate seat formerly held by the late Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts.


Couric: As you know, people were pretty disgusted by deals that were made up on Capitol Hill like the one given to Ben Nelson to win his support. If the White House was so involved, was this done with your blessing? But…

Emanuel: Look, we were involved in the legislation all the way through.

Couric: Were you involved in that?

Emanuel: Yeah. I’m not gonna go through all of it…

Couric: But in the Ben Nelson deal?

Emanuel: We were helpful in getting the bill off the Senate floor. And in retrospect the things – as I said to you just earlier, things you woulda done different.'


To repeat what Obama told Diane Sawyer about the Cornhusker Kickback:


'So let’s just clarify. I didn’t make a bunch of deals. There is a legislative process that is taking place in Congress and I am happy to own up to the fact that I have not changed Congress and how it operates the way I would have liked.'


The mainstream media has thus far ignored Obama being exposed as a liar by his own chief of staff. A few conservative outlets have noted a Washington Post article from December 20, 2009 that reported the involvement of Emanuel and other White House staff in the Senate negotiations. With Emanuel himself confirming the Obama administration’s involvement with the Cornhusker Kickback, Obama has some explaining to do. Well, he would if he were a Republican president."


More disbelief: 9% Expect Obama’s Spending Freeze To Have Big Impact on Deficit

Sarah Speaks

The former governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin, let's Obama have it regarding the inaccuracies in his SOTU speech. Go get him, girl!

From the woman the Left loves to hate, via Gateway Pundit:

Sarah Palin Obliterates [...] in Chief’s SOTU Address

"Just Words
This was brutal. It’s no wonder the state-run media and far left hate her so much. Sarah Palin smacks the [....] down a few notches after his confusing and insulting SOTU Address on Wednesday.
From her Facebook Page:


'Last night, the president spoke of the “credibility gap” between the public’s expectations of their leaders and what those leaders actually deliver. “Credibility gap” is a good way to describe the chasm between rhetoric and reality in the president’s address. The contradictions seemed endless.

He called for Democrats and Republicans to “work through our differences,” but last year he dismissed any notion of bipartisanship when he smugly told Republicans, “I won.”

He talked like a Washington “outsider,” but he runs Washington! He’s had everything any president could ask for – an overwhelming majority in Congress and a fawning press corps that feels tingles every time he speaks. There was nothing preventing him from pursuing “common sense” solutions all along. He didn’t pursue them because they weren’t his priorities, and he spent his speech blaming Republicans for the problems caused by his own policies.

He dared us to “let him know” if we have a better health care plan, but he refused to allow Republicans in on the negotiations or consider any ideas for real free market and patient-centered reforms. We’ve been “letting him know” our ideas for months from the town halls to the tea parties, but he isn’t interested in listening. Instead he keeps making the nonsensical claim that his massive trillion-dollar health care bill won’t increase the deficit.

Americans are suffering from job losses and lower wages, yet the president practically demanded applause when he mentioned tax cuts, as if allowing people to keep more of their own hard-earned money is an act of noblesse oblige. He claims that he cut taxes, but I must have missed that. I see his policies as paving the way for massive tax increases and inflation, which is the “hidden tax” that most hurts the poor and the elderly living on fixed incomes.

He condemned lobbyists, but his White House is filled with former lobbyists, and this has been a banner year for K Street with his stimulus bill, aka the Lobbyist’s Full Employment Act. He talked about a “deficit of trust” and the need to “do our work in the open,” but he chased away the C-SPAN cameras and cut deals with insurance industry lobbyists behind closed doors.

He spoke of doing what’s best for the next generation and not leaving our children with a “mountain of debt,” but under his watch this year, government spending is up by 22%, and his budget will triple our national debt.

He spoke of a spending freeze, but doesn’t he realize that each new program he’s proposing comes with a new price tag? A spending freeze is a nice idea, but it doesn’t address the root cause of the problem. We need a comprehensive examination of the role of government spending. The president’s deficit commission is little more than a bipartisan tax hike committee, lending political cover to raise taxes without seriously addressing the problem of spending.

He condemned bailouts, but he voted for them and then expanded and extended them. He praised the House’s financial reform bill, but where was Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae in that bill? He still hasn’t told us when we’ll be getting out of the auto and the mortgage industries. He praised small businesses, but he’s spent the past year as a friend to big corporations and their lobbyists, who always find a way to make government regulations work in their favor at the expense of their mom & pop competitors.

He praised the effectiveness of his stimulus bill, but then he called for another one – this time cleverly renamed a “jobs bill.” The first stimulus was sold to us as a jobs bill that would keep unemployment under 8%. We now have double digit unemployment with no end in sight. Why should we trust this new “jobs bill”?

He talked about “making tough decisions about opening new offshore areas for oil and gas development,” but apparently it’s still too tough for his Interior Secretary to move ahead with Virginia’s offshore oil and gas leases. If they’re dragging their feet on leases, how long will it take them to build “safe, clean nuclear power plants”? Meanwhile, he continued to emphasize “green jobs,” which require massive government subsidies for inefficient technologies that can’t survive on their own in the real world of the free market.

He spoke of supporting young girls in Afghanistan who want to go to school and young women in Iran who courageously protest in the streets, but where were his words of encouragement to the young girls of Afghanistan in his West Point speech? And where was his support for the young women of Iran when they were being gunned down in the streets of Tehran?…

Everything seems to be “unexpected” to this administration: unexpected job losses; unexpected housing numbers; unexpected political losses in Massachusetts, Virginia, and New Jersey. True leaders lead best when confronted with the unexpected. But instead of leading us, the president lectured us. He lectured Wall Street; he lectured Main Street; he lectured Congress; he even lectured our Supreme Court Justices.'"


Read another view on the SOTU speech.

Another Honor Killing in Jordan

I realize many Americans educated in a public school would have a difficult time locating Jordan on a map.

That being said, when I think of Jordan, I remember 4+ decades ago being stranded in an Amman hotel on my way home for vacation from boarding school. Due to a bad shamal flights were grounded, and my fellow students and I spent the night in Amman.

Back in those days, men would place their shoes outside their hotel room to be shined. With little adult supervision available, a few of my friends and I mischievously switched shoes from outside one hotel room to another, but on different floors.

I am happy to say I was not caught by authorities, or I would probably still be rotting in a Jordanian jail. Actually, if I remember correctly, in some Middle Eastern countries, prisoners are not even fed; the responsibility of feeding them falls to their families. In that case, I may have starved to death. Yet, look at the bright side, Diogenes, now you have someone with whom to spar.

I must admit it was fun reminiscing, but I would guess that anyone somewhat familiar with the Middle Eastern country, when it was brought to his attention, would immediately think of the now deceased King Hussein and his son and current monarch, King Abdullah, along with his beautiful western-looking and fashionable Palestinian wife Queen Rania.

The royal couple look and dress like any western couple. And isn't Jordan supposed to be a moderate Arab country? If so, that's kind of scary because honor killings are taking place in "moderate Jordan" just like they are in the more religious Saudi Arabia.

How can that be? It's simple. Where Islam exists, so too do honor killings because Sharia law calls for these types of crime when a family's honor has been tarnished.

Read about what is really going on behind the scenes in Jordan, via Jihad Watch:

Another honor killing in modern, moderate Jordan

"In 2003 the Jordanian Parliament voted down on Islamic grounds a provision designed to stiffen penalties for honor killings. Al-Jazeera reported that 'Islamists and conservatives said the laws violated religious traditions and would destroy families and values.'

'Jordanian jailed for sister's "honour killing,"' from AFP, January 29 (thanks to Maxwell):


AMMAN (AFP) - 'A Jordanian court sentenced a 19-year-old man to 10 years in jail for stabbing his sister to death in order to "cleanse the family honour," a judicial official said on Friday.

The defendant turned himself in to police after killing his 22-year-old sister last year for many unexplained absences from home, said the official who requested anonymity.

"The court sentenced the defendant to 15 years in prison for premeditated murder, but reduced the sentence to 10 years after the family dropped any legal claims" against him, the source said.

"The defendant killed his sister with knife stabs on April 5, 2009 to cleanse the family honour, because of her many absences from home," the official said. "He then turned himself over to the police."

Murder is punishable by death in Jordan but in so-called "honour" cases a court sometimes commutes or reduces sentences, particularly if the victim's family urges leniency.

Between 15 and 20 women are murdered in honour killings each year in Jordan despite government efforts to fight such crimes....'"


Oh, the joys of being a woman in Islam.

Who's Bankrupting Our Children's Future?

Yes, Bush spent money like a drunken sailor or a sober Democrat, and that was inexcusable, not to mention infuriating. Now, President Obama has followed in his footsteps, only at an increased pace, like one never seen before.

Will someone please wake up to the fact that all this debt is unsustainable? Apparently not, as every last Democrat in the Senate voted to increase our debt limit to a mere $14.3 trillion.

When reading the list below, notice that Scott Brown was not yet on the list. Also, take note because these are the individuals who are bankrupting our children and grandchildren, and they need to join the long list of unemployed Americans.

Read from Michelle Malkin:

Every Senate Democrat voted to raise debt limit to $14.3 trillion

"Every Senate Democrat voted to raise the debt limit to $14.3 trillion. The vote was 60-40 on straight partisan lines.

Let me repeat that — and let it be repeated loudly and often:

Every Senate Democrat voted to raise the debt limit to $14.3 trillion.

That’s $45,000 per American.

Here’s the roll call vote:



Can’t say it enough: There is no such thing as a 'moderate Democrat' in the Senate.

***

Question: Why is Democrat MA Sen. Paul Kirk still voting?

Reader D. Russel e-mails:

'Michelle:

An idea to focus the whole country on the continuing insanity of the Democrats. Energize citizens to send their Democrat senators an invoice… a bill to pay them back for deciding to place every man, woman and child in the US an additional $45,000.00 [in debt]. Better yet, make the invoice cumulative since the initial stimulus bill of Obama.'"

Swedish Jews Fleeing

The 1930s was a brutal period of anti-Semitism in much of Europe. Two generations later, thanks to the influx of Muslim immigrants, Europe is falling quickly into its past bigotry. The situation has gotten so bad in Sweden that Jews are fleeing from their persecutors.

Read from Jihad Watch:

Jews fleeing Sweden as Islamic antisemitism and Leftist Jew-hatred take deep root

"The antisemitism is coming from Leftists and Muslims -- although authorities, characteristically, blame right-wing groups. 'Jews flee Malmö as anti-Semitism grows,' from The Local, January 27 (thanks to C. Cantoni):


'Threats and harassment are becoming increasingly commonplace for Jewish residents in Malmö in southern Sweden, leading many Jews to leave the city out of fear for their safety.

"Threats against Jews have increased steadily in Malmö in recent years and many young Jewish families are choosing to leave the city," Fredrik Sieradzki of the Jewish Community of Malmö (Judiska Församlingen i Malmö) told The Local.

"Many feel that the community and local politicians have shown a lack of understanding for how the city's Jewish residents have been marginalized."

Last year there were 79 crimes against Jewish residents reported to the police in Malmö, roughly double the number reported in 2008, according to the Skånska Dagbladet newspaper.

"That probably doesn't tell the whole story because not everyone chose to make a report. Perhaps they fear they will add to an already infected situation," Susanne Gosenius, a hate crimes coordinator with the Skåne police, told the newspaper, which has published series of articles about the growing anti-Semitism in Malmö.

In addition, Jewish cemeteries and synagogues have repeatedly been defaced with anti-Semitic graffiti, and a chapel at another Jewish burial site in Malmö was firebombed in January of last year. [...]

Skånska Dagbladet highlighted the case of Marcus Eilenberg, a 32-year-old father of two who has decided to move to Israel.

"My children aren't safe here. It's going to get worse," he told the newspaper. [...]

He blamed part of the problem on passive local politicians who he believes have failed to openly distance themselves from anti-Semitism and refuse to act when members of the Jewish community find themselves under constant threat. [...]

When asked to explain why Jewish religious services often require security guards and even police protection, Reepalu said much of the violence directed toward Malmö's Jewish community come from members of extremist right-wing groups, a theory which baffles Sieradzki.

"I'm not saying we don't have problems with neo-Nazis, but the threats aren't as concrete," he explained.

"More often it's the far-left that commonly use Jews as a punching bag for their disdain toward the policies of Israel, even if Jews in Malmö have nothing to do with Israeli politics.

"It's shameful and regrettable that such a powerful politician could be so ignorant about the threats we face."

In addition to the far-left, Sieradzki said that a "very small segment" of the city's growing population of Muslim immigrants from Arab countries in the Middle East are also responsible for growing anti-Semitism.

"This is a small group of extremists who have decided to go after Jews wherever they are in the world and regardless of their relationship to Israel," he said....'"

Intentional Slight of Israel?

Israel has played a major role in the relief efforts in Haiti, with a state-of-the-art medical team, but the Jewish nation is receiving no recognition for its part from one particular world leader. The anti-semitic, anti-Zionist President Obama has omitted Israel when praising nations who have pitched in to help since the Haitian earthquake disaster.

Read from the American Thinker:

Obama slights Israeli efforts in Haiti
Rick Moran

"New Republic's Marty Peretz wonders about President Obama's leaving Israel off a list of countries contributing to the relief effort in Haiti.

Jen Rubin at Commentary:


'Marty Peretz catches Obama editing Israel out of the list of countries assisting in Haiti. "The fact is that, next to our country, Israel sent the largest contingent of trained rescue workers, doctors, and other medical personnel. ... So didn't Obama notice? [...] everybody noticed the deep Israeli involvement. I understand that Obama doesn't like Middle East narratives that do not contain ‘one side and the other side' equal valence. But he couldn't have that here. The Arabs don't care a fig, not for their impoverished and backward own, and certainly not for strangers. That's why their presence in Haiti amounted to a couple of bucks from Saudi Arabia and maybe from some other sheikhs. ... Yes, I think that the labors of the Israelis were edited out of Obama's speech, either by his speechwriters (who have made dissing Israel their forté) or by his own oh-so-delicate but dishonest censoring mechanism."'


As Rubin points out, even the cable nets noticed Israel's stellar response to the disaster. One has to think that Obama's leaving Israel off the list was deliberate and probably motivated by his overweaning desire to be 'even handed' in his dealings with nations in the Middle East.

It shows that even when it comes to disaster relief, the president will bend over backward to appease Israel's enemies.

Hat Tip: Ed Lasky"

"Who Are You Working For, Mr. Holder?"

Eric Holder is a disgrace and should not be America's top law enforcer, though he is a perfect fit for his boss. Holder's background in a law firm which supports terrorists should disqualify him from his job as attorney general because he is not concerned with America's best interests. Of course, neither is our president.

Read more about Holder and his past, via the American Thinker:

Questions raised about Holder appointees who defended GItmo prisoners
Jane Jamison

"It is well-documented that Eric Holder has a troubling conflict of interest as long as he is attorney general of the United States of America and head of the U.S. Justice Department. Holder is partner in a law firm, Covington & Burling, which has been representing 18 detainees at the Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba. Many of the clients are Yemeni nationals, countrymen of the very terrorists who just planned the Christmas day bombing attack on U.S. plane.

Today, the New York Post, in an editorial titled, 'Come Clean Mr. Holder,' reports that Holder has just hired two more employees in the Justice Department who have direct ties to terrorists and loony-goony radical groups.

New York Post editorial:


'It's just insane that a lawyer who defended Osama bin Laden's driver and bodyguard -- and who sought constitutional rights for terrorists -- could be one of the Obama administration's top legal officials.

But there's Neal Katyal, occupying a top perch at the Justice Department as the principal deputy solicitor general.

Then there's Jennifer Daskal -- who just months ago was an anti-Guantanamo activist. Now she's in Justice's National Security Division -- working on detainee issues.'


Senator Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) and the Senate Judiciary Committee have apparently been demanding answers for months from Holder's Department of Justice, to such questions as:

--Why was the Christmas Day bomber questioned for only 50 minutes before being granted American civilian rights, after which the suspect got a lawyer and immediately stopped talking about his terrorism training and future attacks?

--Why are detainees who have confessed to their crimes at Guantanamo being granted trials in U.S. courts?

--Who in the Department of Justice might have 'conflicts' of interest with known terrorist organizations or individuals?

Grassley's office has told the Post that it has received no answer from the attorney general's office. The Post says Holder's office says it will answer, 'very soon.' Even the liberal New York post editors say Holder's loyalty to the U.S. is suspect and he needs to explain himself immediately.

Last week, Israel National News reported that two Muslim professors who are members of the Muslim Brotherhood terrorist group are now being allowed to resume teaching at universities in the United States after years of being 'banned' by the Bush administration.


'The Barack Obama administration has decided to lift a ban preventing Muslim Scholar Professor Tariq Ramadan from entering the United States. Ramadan, an Egyptian currently living in Switzerland, is a leading member of Europe's Muslim Brotherhood branch and the grandson of the movement's founder Hassan al-Banna. The Muslim Brotherhood is the parent organization for Hamas and some of the groups that recently merged into al-Qaeda, including Ayman al Zawahiri's Egyptian Islamic Jihad.'


The mayor of New York City, Michael Bloomberg, is also parting ways with the attorney general's terrorist-friendly policies. Bloomberg was originally in FAVOR of holding the trial of 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in Manhattan. In the light of the potential $200 million cost of providing security and the strong criticism from 9/11 families and most of the rest of America, Bloomberg told the New York Times today he wants the trial held somewhere else.

Newsmax reports today the Obama administration, AG Holder in particular seem to be ignoring Al Qaida's moves and plans:


'A new report by retired longtime intelligence officer Rolf Mowatt-Larssen, who served as chief of the CIA's Weapons of Mass Destruction Department, accuses the U.S. government of seriously misreading al-Qaida's operational objectives.

"Al-Qaida's reasoning," according to Mowatt-Larssen's new report from Harvard's Kennedy School, "runs counter to analytic convention that equates the ease of acquisition of chemical, biological or radiological weapons with an increasing likelihood of terrorist use - i.e., a terrorist attack employing crude weapons is therefore more likely than an attack using a nuclear or large scale biological weapon."


The U.K. has been on 'severe' terrorism alert and the United States has recently elevated to critical after 'chatter' that Al Qaida was attempting another bombing attempt on an American plane. In a 48 hour period last week, 6 people on the 'no-fly' list were detained in various foreign airports and authorities were told to be on the lookout for female suicide bombers using American passports.

What is the U.S. Senate Judiciary committee going to do about Holder's anti-American policies and when?

How many more attacks on this country must take place?

Who are you working for, Mr. Holder? The chorus is getting louder."

The Bull in the China Closet

President Obama had his Pinocchio moments during last night's SOTU speech. This man can lie with a straight face like none other.

No lobbyists in policy-making jobs, eh? Your administration has plenty of them, Mr. President.

And what was that nonsense about drilling for oil and clean nuclear energy? Do you really expect us to believe that you would go along with any plans which are not part of your "green" agenda so as to help us become energy independent? That's easy to say when you know that you have a Congress which would not dream of utilizing our own natural resources.

Then we have some of President Obama's rude moments, like his assault on the Supreme Court justices, which was beyond disrespectful. Sure, he has every right to oppose any of their decisions, but to publicly blast the justices during a SOTU address when they are unable to defend themselves is both arrogant and rude. Obama tends to forget that the judicial branch of government is intended to have equal power to his executive branch.

Let us not forget the classic "blame Bush" for all that ails this country. Will this man EVER take responsibility for his own actions?

The most narcissitic president in American history was eager to talk about himself last night. In fact, "he said 'I' 96 times, and used 'my' or 'me' 18 times. Does he ever tire of listening to himself speak?

You would think that in a seventy minute speech, which was long enough to bore even the biggest of fans, that the president would have focused more on national security, but that takes a back seat to his domestic agenda. National security warranted only nine lousy minutes, with no mention whatsoever of civilian trials in NYC.

Speaking of Obama's domestic agenda, he plans on pushing through his "let grandma die" healthcare rationing bill and his Cap and Tax bill regardless of opposition from us common peons. He's full steam ahead, like a bull in a china closet.

Apparently, he learned nothing from the 1994 election blow to Democrats. If he continues at his present pace, there will be a bloodbath for Dems in November and deservedly so.

"Saul Alinsky and Karl Marx Are Not Our Founding Fathers"

Libs Freak over Tim Tebow Ad--UPDATED

Nothing is more important to liberals than their sacred abortion, except for maybe socialized medicine. Mess with their "right" to end the life of their offspring and you are a villain worse than Charles Manson. I would have said Che Guevara, but liberals love him: T-shirts, necklaces, bikinis, posters, etc.

The Left sure knows how to pick their heroes: George Tiller, Che Guevara, Mao Zedong, Joseph Stalin, and Fidel Castro. For more on Che, go here.

Read about a new villain in the land of liberalism. A young Christian college football play whose mother did the unthinkable. She dared to give birth to him when the doctors advised her to abort him. As a Christian, she refused to harm the life that God had created in her womb and trusted that God was ultimately in control.

On Super Bowl Sunday, this godly Heisman Trophy winner will be sharing the story of his birth with the American people in an ad during the Super Bowl. The party of death is enraged by this potentially powerful ad and is in hissy fit mode to stop it before it can reach the airwaves.

Read from Gateway Pundit:

Heartless Progressives Send Message to Tim Tebow: We Wish You Were Never Born

"They wish he was never born.
Heartless progressive women’s groups don’t want Heisman Trophy winner Tim Tebow to speak. They don’t want him to tell his story. They wish he was never born.

The Women’s Media Center and over 30 other liberal and women’s advocacy groups sent a letter to CBS urging the channel not to air a Super Bowl ad about Tim Tebow’s birth. The Heisman Trophy winner and Focus on the Family will air an ad during the game on Tim’s story.

Tim Tebow was born on August 14, 1987 in the Philippines to Bob and Pam Tebow, who were serving as Christian missionaries at the time. While pregnant Pam suffered a life-threatening infection with a pathogenic amoeba. Because of the drugs used to rouse her from a coma and to treat her dysentery, the fetus experienced a severe placental abruption. Doctors expected a stillbirth and recommended an abortion to protect her life. Pam carried Timothy to term, and both survived- via Wikipedia.

Now Tim Tebow wants to tell his story. He wants to air an ad at the Super Bowl. Earlier this week he responded to the attacks by progressives:



It’s not surprising that the progressives don’t want Tim to tell his wonderful story. They want his story hidden from the public. It disturbs progressives. It threatens them. It may persuade a woman to keep her baby.

Of course, this is not so surprising considering their past. Progressives have a history in genocidal movements and have a history of hiding this fact.
Founding Bloggers reported:


'When the Progressive movement in this country gained steam in the early twentieth century, they spawned the genocidal Eugenic movement which directly led to the Holocaust. That’s not an exaggeration either. American Progressives worked DIRECTLY with the Nazis in their quest for race purity.

Progressives own the Holocaust, a fact they conveniently ignore today. Funny how they make a big stink about everyone else owning up to their history, but when it comes to them, they are exempt from their own rules.'


And, of course, abortion was seen as one way for progressives to get rid of the undesirables.

Progressives don’t want you to know Tim Tebow’s story and they don’t want you to know their history. That’s part of their game.

These heartless progressives owe Tim Tebow and his mother an apology."


To think that these liberals like to call themselves "pro-choice", but that's far from true. They don't want women to have the right to "choose", only the right to abort. If choice was so important to them, why are they so horrified that Sarah Palin chose life when she found out that her baby had Down's Syndrome?

Speaking of Sarah, here is her response to the Tim Tebow controversy.

UPDATED: Hatemonger Joy Behar: Tim Tebow Could Just as Easily Been ‘Rapist Pedophile’:

Tax Cuts Increase Revenues to the Treasury

The Ivy League-educated geniuses in Washington, D.C. would like us all to believe that if they raise taxes on the rich that our deficits will be reduced. Sounds real good, except for one small problem. It doesn't work that way at all.

Strange as it may seem, increased taxes result in reduced revenues to the U.S. Treasury. On the other hand, tax cuts will bring about huge increases in revenues to our Treasury. Works every time it's tried.

A little lesson on what happens when taxes are raised on the rich from Glenn Beck. Pay particular attention starting at 6:00.



What would we do without Glenn Beck to educate us on a nightly basis? He’s doing the job the entire American Pravda should be doing: holding our government responsible to the American people.

A Mere 30%

President Obama has his work cut out for himself tonight. The magic of his fine soaring rhetoric has lots its touch. Americans have come back down to earth to realize that Obama is a mere mortal and not exactly effective or competent in getting the job done when it comes to our economic troubles, as well as in dealing with our enemies throughout this dangerous world.

The situation is so desperate for the president that when polled, only 30% of voters admit that they would vote to re-elect Obama. Yes, you read that right, a mere 30%.

Read from Gateway Pundit:

Only 30% of Voters Would Re-elect Obama

"That was quick.
Only 30% of voters would re-elect Barack Obama if the election were held today.
Vision Critical reported:


'Fewer respondents believe that their president inspires hope and has made progress in bringing change to America.

As Barack Obama marks his first anniversary as president, only three-in-ten Americans are ready to grant him another term in office, a new Angus Reid Public Opinion poll has found.

In the online survey of a representative national sample of 1,003 American adults, 30 per cent of respondents think Obama deserves to be re-elected as president in 2012, while two-in-five (39%) disagree and one third (32%) are not sure.

The proportion of Democrats who think Obama deserves a new term as president stands at 57 per cent, while only 21 per cent of Independents would give Obama a new mandate at this point.'"


Now, that's shocking that only 57% of Dems think Obama should be re-elected. Guess who's paying the closest attention to these dreadful numbers. Bill and Hillary Clinton. Could 2012 be looking brighter for the marriage made in a political boardroom?

Harper Shows Courage

Three cheers for Canadian Stephen Harper who has stopped funding UNRWA, the corrupt anti-Israeli UN organization which aids in the jihad by Palestinians.

Read from Atlas Shrugs:

Thank You, Harper, for Cutting off the Jizya: Canada has just become the first Western government to cut off aid to UNRWA

"As America continues to drop the ball as fighter for freedom and democracy, it is reassuring to see others pick up the slack. America has abdicated its divine role as the world's leading force for good and right under Obama's rule, and instead has aligned the country with the dark and evil axis.

We do not lead the way, and it is a dark time for proud Americans -- and worse yet for those across the globe who look to America as a beacon, a light unto the nations.

But Canada has taken up the slack under the brave stewardship of Stephen Harper. While Obama is busy removing Hamas from the terror list so that the jihad can be better funded, Harper is cutting off the snake.


'"Canada has just become the first Western government to cut off aid to UNRWA, the UN agency that runs Palestinian “refugee” camps and does so much to abuse and radicalize Palestinians and prevent any resolution of the conflict."

"Although UNWRA has long been a biased player in the Arab-Israeli conflict, it is seldom criticized for its incitement of anti-Israeli hatred and violence by Palestinians. It has funded textbooks that deny the right of Israel to exist and paid teachers who call on Palestinian children to push the Jewish state into the sea. It harbours radical Islamists and anti-Semites on its payroll and was even caught in 2004 using its own ambulances to ferry terrorists away from Israeli sites they had just attacked."'


More here (hat tip Sounder)

Over at The National Post:


'Since last fall, the federal Conservative government has been withdrawing taxpayer funding from non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that use their grants to take sides against Israel in the Middle East conflict. Now comes word that last week, Ottawa told the United Nations it would no longer fund the world body's Palestinian refugee agency. From now on, Canadian aid to Palestinians will be directed to specific projects. We will no longer give lump-sum aid to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNWRA), since most of that money simply goes straight into the Palestinian Authority's (PA) general treasury, where it might be used for humanitarian projects or might be used to arm and train terrorists.

This is a bold move for Ottawa, which is the first Western government to cut off funding for UNWRA.

Although UNWRA has long been a biased player in the Arab-Israeli conflict, it is seldom criticized for its incitement of anti-Israeli hatred and violence by Palestinians. It has funded textbooks that deny the right of Israel to exist and paid teachers who call on Palestinian children to push the Jewish state into the sea. It harbours radical Islamists and anti-Semites on its payroll and was even caught in 2004 using its own ambulances to ferry terrorists away from Israeli sites they had just attacked.

But most politicians and journalists consider UNWRA to be sacrosanct. Too many swallow whole the agency's assurances that it is not involved in promoting terrorism and anti-Israeli sentiments in the West Bank and Gaza. Criticism of it always elicits howls that UNWRA's mission is only to care for four million refugees in 59 camps and promote peace and understanding in the region.

So rather than get dragged into a public relations war with the UN and its acolytes, last week, before Prime Minister Stephen Harper shuffled his Cabinet, then-Treasury Board President Vic Toews informed UNWRA and the PA that from now on, Canadian aid would be earmarked to specific projects, chosen by Ottawa, such as food aid.

Ottawa also announced it would defund Alternatives, a Montreal NGO that two summers ago organized an education camp in Quebec, welcoming "500 motivated militants" from Lebanon, Iraq, "Palestine" and Venezuela.'"