Starting out with a Bang! – Introducting Matt Wilson
aving never written for a blog before and only having limited myself to 140 character updates on Twitter (@2MarineDad), I tossed and turned through the night in consideration of what is an appropriate first topic. Like any erstwhile author I want to capture your attention and hopefully hold it long enough to get you [...]
Obama vs. the Watchdogs
From my special report today in The American Spectator:Neil Barofsky is “SIGTARP,” the special investigator general whose job is to keep an eye on disbursement from the Troubled Assets Relief Program, the $3 trillion financial bailout that was rushed through…
The Rightosphere Reaction To The Mark Sanford Affair
My latest column for Pajamas Media is called, The Rightosphere Reaction To The Mark Sanford Affair. Here’s an excerpt from the column, The GOP – and conservatives in general – have taken the infidelity scandal involving South Carolina Governor Mark…
GM To Add More Car Lines No One Will Buy
But, don’t say that the Obama administration is not telling Government Motors what to do. Not because that is incorrect, but, just because they don’t want you to say it General Motors Corp will do the “heavy lifting” to help…
Mayor Daley of America
The notorious “Chicago Way” of political corruption seems to have arrived full-force in Washington, as both Michael Barone and John Kass observe in regard to the inspectors general who seem to be dropping like flies these days. Meanwhile, good-government activists…
Babs “Ma’am” Boxer Show Her Disdain for Our Military
– Scott Miller Nothing pisses me off more than a spiteful little dwarf liberal who can’t hid her contempt for the courageous men and women of our Armed forces. Watch the fat-ass little dwarf “Senator” from CA showing nothing but utter disdain for a decorated General: He showed a lot more restrain than I would have… I think a reply like: “Drop-dead you little troll” would have been more appropriate for the General to say
Obama Decries “Fear-Mongering” on Healthcare, as He Fear-Mongers Himself
– Scott Miller This guys is too much… the Statist is always in a hurry, and Obama is no different. As he races to socialize our healthcare system, today he is in front of the American Medical Association. From his speech we get these two headlines… this from the AP: Obama hits ‘fear-mongering’ on health care changes CHICAGO – Pushing again to get the health care system overhauled, President Barack Obama is arguing that people must beware of “scare tactics and fear-mongering” that have killed such efforts in the past. Obama said “we know there are those who will try to scuttle” the program no matter what. He said that “because these fear tactics have worked, things have kept getting worse.” Then there is this one from Reuters: Obama: Government could go broke if healthcare not fixed CHICAGO (Reuters) – President Barack Obama, making his case for healthcare reform to America’s doctors, said on Monday the U.S. government could suffer the same fate as troubled automaker General Motors and go broke if the healthcare system is not fixed. “When it comes to the cost of our health care,” Obama told the American Medical Association, “the status quo is unsustainable.” So in the same speech the Obamarxist on one hand decries “fear-mongering” by his opponents, and on the other hand fear-mongers himself. This from the guy who has perfected the art of political fear-mongering to get his agenda passed. Plus, note to Obama THE GOVERNMENT IS ALREADY FREAKIN’ BROKE!… or did you somehow miss your $2 trillion deficit?
Rev. Wright Speaks Up Again… Puts Obama Israel Policy in Perspective
– Scott Miller He’s baaaack… the racist, anti-Semite ‘father figure’ to Barack Obama made news today when he had this to say, from Fox News: Rev. Wright Says ‘Them Jews’ Won’t Let Obama Talk to Him In a racially charged interview, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright said that President Obama hasn’t spoken to him since they parted ways last year, because “them Jews aren’t going to let him talk to me.” He suggested White House advisers were keeping the two separate. “Them Jews aren’t going to let him talk to me. I told my baby daughter, that he’ll talk to me in five years when he’s a lame duck, or in eight years when he’s out of office,” Wright said, according to Virginia’s Daily Press. “They will not let him … talk to somebody who calls a spade what it is.” Obama left Wright’s Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago last year following the very public controversy over his inflammatory sermons. Wright sporadically has granted media interviews and made public appearances since. In the Daily Press article, he also claimed that the president did not send a delegation to the recent world racism conference in Geneva for fear of offending Jews. “Ethnic cleansing is going on in Gaza. Ethnic cleansing of the Zionist is a sin and a crime against humanity, and they don’t want Barack talking like that because that’s anti-Israel,” Wright said Folks, remember, this hate-monger was Obama’s preacher for 20 years. 20 FREAKIN’ YEARS Obama sat in the pews and listen to this racist spew his venom! But no… that had no impact on Obama’s views, or did it? The National Review Online had the best perspective I’ve read yet on Obama’s real views toward Israel, as he tipped his hand in his Cairo speech last week: The End of America’s Strategic Alliance with Israel? From an Israeli perspective, Pres. Barack Obama’s speech today in Cairo was deeply disturbing. Both rhetorically and programmatically, Obama’s speech was a renunciation of America’s strategic alliance with Israel. Rhetorically, Obama’s sugar coated the pathologies of the Islamic world — from the tyranny that characterizes its regimes, to the misogyny, xenophobia, Jew hatred, and general intolerance that characterizes its societies. In so doing he made clear that his idea of pressing the restart button with the Islamic world involves erasing the moral distinctions between the Islamic world and the free world. In contrast, Obama’s perverse characterization of Israel — of the sources of its legitimacy and of its behavior — made clear that he shares the Arab world’s view that there is something basically illegitimate about the Jewish state. In 1922 the League of Nations mandated Great Britain to facilitate the reconstitution of the Jewish commonwealth in the Land of Israel on both sides of the Jordan River. The international community’s decision to work towards the reestablishment of Jewish sovereignty in Israel owed to its recognition of the Jewish people’s legal, historic, and moral rights to our homeland. Arab propaganda finds this basic and fundamental truth inconvenient. So for the past 60 years, the Arabs have been advancing the fiction that Israel’s existence owes solely to European guilt over the Holocaust. As far as the Arabs are concerned, the Jews have no legal, historic, or moral right to what the Arabs see as Islamic land. In his address, while Obama admonished the Arabs for their pervasive Jew hatred and Holocaust denial, he effectively accepted and legitimized their view that Israel owes its existence to the Holocaust when he said, “the aspiration for a Jewish homeland is rooted in a tragic history that cannot be denied,” and then went on to talk about the Holocaust. Just as abominably, Obama compared Israel to Southern slave owners and Palestinians to black slaves in the antebellum south. He used the Arab euphemism “resistance” to discuss Palestinian terrorism, and generally ignored the fact that every Palestinian political faction is also a terrorist organization. In addition to his morally outrageous characterization of Israel and factually inaccurate account of its foundations, Obama struck out at the Jewish state through the two policies he outlined in his address. His first policy involves coercing Israel into barring all Jewish construction in Judea and Samaria (otherwise known as the West Bank), and Jerusalem. Obama claims that this policy will increase prospects for peace. But this is untrue. As Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas made clear in his Washington Post interview last week, Obama’s trenchant campaign against Jewish construction in these areas has convinced the Palestinians they have no reason to be flexible in their positions towards Israel. Indeed, Obama’s assault on Israeli construction and his unsubstantiated, bigoted claim that the presence of Jews in Judea, Samaria, and Jerusalem impedes progress towards peace ensures that there will be no agreement whatsoever between Israel and the Palestinians. After all, why would the Palestinians make a deal with Israel when they know that Obama will blame Israel for the absence of a peace agreement? Even more strategically devastating than his castigation of Israel as the villain in the Arab-Israel conflict is Obama’s stated policy towards Iran. In Cairo, Obama offered Iran nuclear energy in exchange for its nuclear-weapons program. This offer has been on the table since 2003 and has been repeatedly rejected by the Iranians. Indeed, they rejected it yet again last week. Obama must know that his policy will not lead to the hoped for change in Iran’s behavior. And since he must know this, the only rational explanation for his decision to adopt a policy he knows will fail is that he is comfortable with the idea of Iran becoming a nuclear power. And this is something that Israel cannot abide by. The only silver lining for Israelis from the president’s speech in Cairo and his general positions on the Middle East is that Obama has overplayed his hand. Far from bending to his will, a large majority of Israelis perceives Obama as a hostile force and has rallied in support of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu against the administration. This public support gives Netanyahu the maneuver room he needs to take the actions that Israel needs to take to defend against the prospect of a nuclear armed Iran and to assert its national rights and to defend itself against Palestinian terrorists and other Arab and non-Arab anti-Semites who wish it ill. “He’s like a father to me”, Obama said about Rev. Wright before he finally threw him under the bus. Really? What type of guy chooses to adopt a guy like that as a father figure? During the campaign, many of us were trying go get the Obama drones out there to open their eyes as to how radical Obama really was, but to no avail. We decided to check with Michelle Obama on this issue, and this is what she had to say:
Buying Cars From Chrysler And General Motors? No Thanks.
I’m not buying another car from Chryser or General Motors for the foreseeable future, despite the fact that I currently own a Dodge. There are good reasons for taking that position. At Chrysler, the UAW now owns more the 50%…
"Government Motors"? More Now Than Ever …
Politics and special interests now run General Motors – a company which should be making business decisions based on what is best for the company and its future and not what is best for some politician: Rep Barney Frank (D-Mass.)…
