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Slain Ferguson Girl Was A Life That Mattered

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Another life was lost in Ferguson this week, and hers was indisputably innocent. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports, “A 9-year-old girl doing homework on her mother’s bed was killed when someone fired shots into a Ferguson home Tuesday night, according to police and family. Jamyla Bolden’s grandmother said she ran into the bedroom after someone opened fire about 9:30 p.m. Jamyla’s mother was hit in the leg. Jamyla was fatally wounded. ‘I was holding her the whole time,’ the grandmother said of the child Wednesday. She did not want her name used because she feared for her safety. ‘I kept holding and holding her,’ the grandmother told the Post-Dispatch. ‘I still have her blood on my hands. She was still breathing. I was telling her to just breathe.’” Such senseless acts of violence are all too common in the St. Louis suburb where the radical group “Black Lives Matter” was born. Yet they’d rather protest and riot over the death of another man killed by police — after he pointed a gun at them. Just one man is marching for Jamyla. The police aren’t always blameless, of course, but the real blame lies with thugs who are young, male, urban and all too often black. To these killers, black lives don’t matter at all — not even the life of a nine-year-old girl. But there is a bit of good news: Ira DeWitt, wife of St. Louis Cardinals owner Bill DeWitt, is going to pay for the funeral. Rest in peace, Jamyla.

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EPA’s McCarthy Admits Clean Power Plan Hits Minorities Hardest

In June 2014, EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy said the Clean Power Plan, which the Obama administration finalized earlier this month, “is about environmental justice … because lower-income families and communities of color are hardest hit.” Why, then, is the EPA enacting standards that adversely affect minorities? Last week, McCarthy similarly remarked, “We know that low-income minority communities would be hardest hit.” But there was one important distinction: She wasn’t referring to environmental hazards but the plan itself. In other words, the EPA’s massive power grab, which ostensibly “is about environmental justice,” instead hurts those it’s supposedly intended to protect. That’s not the surprising part — independent studies have already warned about the consequences. What’s surprising is hearing the head of Barack Obama’s EPA admit it.

McCarthy counters by arguing that consumers will see substantial savings by 2030 and that the government intends to help minorities neutralize the initial impacts by giving states that invest in new and upcoming energy efficiency programs a 2-for-1 federal credit. But as The Daily Signal’s Nicolas Loris writes, existing energy efficiency programs have failed to live up to expectations. And just because the government wants to make purchasing decisions for you doesn’t mean consumers are better off: “Arguing that increasing energy prices with regulations will save money by forcing energy-efficient product purchases is equivalent to cutting employees' salaries and telling them that they will save money by shopping at Target. Just as the option to save money at Target existed before the pay cut, families and businesses already have an incentive to purchase energy-efficient products. When the government mandates efficiency, it removes that choice and makes consumers worse off.” No one is against energy efficiency, but that’s best attained through innovation in the free market. When the government gets involved, the results are bad for everyone.

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Los Angeles VA Found Shredding Unprocessed Claims

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Working off a tip, the VA’s inspector general in February sprung a surprise inspection on the VA Regional Office in Los Angeles. He found that employees were about to shred nine unprocessed claims that veterans filed with the agency. Of those claims, two of them were from homeless veterans who were seeking disability compensation, The Washington Times reports. Another was from a veteran who said he could not be employed because of the severity of his PTSD. In short, the VA’s action would have entrapped those veterans in a bureaucratic morass. The IG’s report could not verify that VA supervisors had ordered the paperwork destroyed, nor could it determine how many unprocessed claims passed through the shredder. In response to its findings, the IG made surprise inspections in 10 other VA offices to see if the paperwork problem is systematic. Secret wait lists are one thing. Document destruction and the resulting denial of care is another.

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About That Reset With Russia…

By Patriot Post Staff

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Barack Obama famously made resetting relations with Russia one of his very first foreign policy initiatives, even deploying then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for a ridiculous photo-op with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. (Lavrov can be seen in the photo above laughing in what could fairly be interpreted as genuine amusement that any U.S. president could be so naïve). Now, six years later, it’s apparent that we have indeed reset relations with Russia — to about 1977. From snapping up Crimea to fomenting insurrection in Ukraine to propping up Syria’s Bashar al-Assad, Vladimir Putin hasn’t missed an opportunity to poke us in the eye.

And now the latest such poke. This week, Russia and Iran announced the completion of a deal for the S-300 surface-to-air missile, one of the most capable such missiles in the world. Iran had originally attempted to acquire the S-300 in 2009, but Russia eventually backed out of the deal in the face of international pressure during the ongoing UN sanctions process over Iran’s nuclear program. But with sanctions now conveniently lifted thanks to Obama’s Iran deal, that same Sergei Lavrov has just wrapped up meetings with Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif in which the S-300 deal was confirmed.

The S-300 is a very low- to very high-altitude missile, able to intercept aircraft, cruise missiles and ballistic missiles out to nearly 200 miles. Iran has reportedly contracted for four battalions' worth at a cost of just under $1 billion, out of an annual defense budget estimated between $11-14 billion. Both Iran and Russia say the system will be delivered before the end of the year.

And we’re essentially paying for it with the $100 to $150 billion in sanctions relief through the deal.

Iran will almost certainly deploy two of the four battalions to cover its nuclear sites in central Iran and one battalion to protect Tehran. Each battalion comprises six launchers and a total of 24 missiles, plus a targeting radar, all of which are mobile. The S-300 will complicate enormously any attempt to fly into Iran’s airspace and attack its nuclear sites, which is Russia’s goal as well as Iran’s.

Why is Russia going through with this sale to a pariah nation like Iran? Partly because military systems are one of the very few Russian export items anyone wants to buy, but mainly because propping up those nations opposed to the United States has been Russian policy since 1945. As we said in 2009, Russian national interests were not going to change suddenly just because a neophyte in the Oval Office wished it were so — especially with a former KGB goon holding the reins of power in Russia. Anywhere Putin can cause headaches for the U.S. he will do so, which was obvious to everyone in 2009except the community organizer and his secretary of state. The S-300 deal is just the latest such move, but it won’t be the last. Reset, indeed.

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Charles Krauthammer: “Birthright citizenship is a symptom, not a cause. If you regain control of the border, the number of birthright babies fades to insignificance. The time and energy it would take to amend the Constitution are far more usefully deployed securing the border. Moreover, the real issue is not the birthright babies themselves, but the chain migration that follows. It turns one baby into an imported village. Chain migration, however, is not a constitutional right. It’s a result of statutes and regulations. These can be readily changed. That should be the focus, not a quixotic constitutional battle. … [I]t is estimated by the conservative American Action Forum that mass deportation would take about 20 years and cost about $500 billion for all the police, judges, lawyers and enforcement agents — and bus drivers! — needed to expel 11 million people. … [O]f course, it won’t ever happen. But because it’s the view of the Republican front-runner, every other candidate is now required to react. So instead of debating border security, guest-worker programs and sanctuary cities … they are forced into a debate about a repulsive fantasy. Which, for the Republican Party, is also political poison. Mitt Romney lost the Hispanic vote by 44 points and he was advocating only self-deportation. Now the party is discussing forced deportation. … Yes, I understand. The anger, the frustration, etc., etc., that Trump is channeling. But how are these alleviated by yelling ‘I’m mad as hell’ — and proceeding to elect Hillary Clinton?”

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Insight: “The ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle, home life, and perhaps the trade unions or local politics, he feels himself master of his fate. But otherwise he simply lies down and lets things happen to him.” —George Orwell

Upright: “Some laws that regulate legal immigration may need adjustment. But our immigration system is not broken. The politicians charged with enforcing it are. It is illegal to sneak across the border. It is illegal to overstay a visa. It is illegal to work in the United States unless you are a citizen, a legal permanent resident or have a visa that authorizes you to work. It is illegal to use a false or stolen Social Security Number, and it is illegal to use fraudulent documents to obtain work. But the laws that immigrants here illegally routinely violate are not routinely enforced — even in Washington, D.C., and its immediate surroundings.” —Terence Jeffrey

Amending the Constitution is unconstitutional? “It turns out that an amendment aiming to change the Constitution to end birthright citizenship for the children of immigrants — a move that squarely targets Latinos — could theoretically be found unconstitutional long before it could make it into the document in the first place.” —Huffington Post legal affairs writer Cristian Farias

Non Compos Mentis: “Britain built an empire on the slave trade. Germany perpetrated the greatest genocide in human history. Who says the Islamic State won’t be a U.S. ally someday? … [I]f Western history is any guide, the Islamic State could well be on its way to global legitimacy.” —former State Department advisor Rosa Brooks

Circling the wagons: “[Y]ou want me to indict and damn Hillary Clinton? I’m not going to do that.” —New York Times' Jeremy Peters

Late-night humor: “Hillary Clinton released an ad that emphasizes her humble economic background. In the ad she says, ‘Just 15 years ago, my family and I were evicted from our house.’” —Conan O'Brien

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Join us in daily prayer for our Patriots in uniform — Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, Marines and Coast Guardsmen — standing in harm’s way in defense of Liberty, and for their families.

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Police Raids On Islamic State Supporters in Europe After Secret Land Purchases

More on the ’Jewish Schindler’ Who is Rescuing Young Women and Girls from Islamic State Sex Slavery

Islamic State Executes “Spies Working for Crusader Coalition”: Muslims Tweet Photos, Cheer

NY Times “Shocked” “Perplexed” that Young Mississippi Muslim Couple Went Jihad

Muslim Militant ‘Gangs’ Fight to Control Streets in Europe

Sharia in Sudan: Women sentenced to lashes, fine for wearing trousers

Friends Of Hamas: Olive Bridge Fund, Lopatin Family Foundation, Leichtag Foundation

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Police Raids On Islamic State Supporters in Europe After Secret Land Purchases

More of the poisonous fruit of Clinton’s ill-advised decision to go to war in Bosnia alongside the mujahadeen.
For years I have been saying it: Most Americans still don’t know or understand the implications of America’s support of the jihad in Europe, but that’s exactly what Bill Clinton’s intervention in the Balkans was. Clinton sent American soldiers to fight alongside Bosnian mujahedeen against the Serb Christians in the Bosnia war.

Jihadists have been waging war ion Macedonia. Last month, five police officers were slaughtered and more than 30 injured by Albanian Muslims in Kumanovo is an ethnically mixed town located about 40 kilometers (25 miles) northeast of the capital Skopje, near the border with Kosovo and Serbia....

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More on the ’Jewish Schindler’ Who is Rescuing Young Women and Girls from Islamic State Sex Slavery

For months, I have been a vocal supporter of Steve Maman’s work rescuing girls from the devout Islamic State.

Please contribute to the fund to buy these girls freedom in these horrific slave auctions.
New York Times on Sex Slavery in Islam: “the Quran not only gave [ISIS] the right to rape — it condoned and encouraged it”

“’Jewish Schindler’ rescues Iraqi girls from slavery,” The Star, August 16, 2015
Montreal businessman Steve Maman is battling the Islamic State militant group with a campaign to free young women and girls from sexual captivity.

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Steve Maman, a Montreal businessman, launched a campaign last year to save girls and young women from captivity in the brutal hands of Islamic State...

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Islamic State Executes “Spies Working for Crusader Coalition”: Muslims Tweet Photos, Cheer

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And then this from Blazing Cat Fur:

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Today’s Atrocity For Allah

ISIS execute 3 spies. It’s the usual script, a “confession” followed by execution. This time multiple handgun shots to the head.

You may if you wish view the video here. Note it is hosted on a Jihadi site.

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NY Times “Shocked” “Perplexed” that Young Mississippi Muslim Couple Went Jihad

The New York Times, a Mississippi town, Mississippi University, everyone is “shocked” and “perplexed” that a young Muslim couple from the area would want to join the Islamic State. She was a cheerleader, an honor student, the daughter of a police officer and a member of the high school homecoming court who wanted to be a doctor. “Something must have happened to her,” Elizabeth Treloar, 18, said of Ms. Young, her friend. “She’s too levelheaded, too smart to do this.” What happened to her? She converted to Islam. And she was following the teachings of Islam.

On July 17, the day after a young Muslim man in Chattanooga, Tenn., fatally shot five United States servicemen, Ms. Young rejoiced, the affidavit...

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Muslim Militant ‘Gangs’ Fight to Control Streets in Europe

It’s a war being fought throughout many European cities. In Denmark, it’s Muslim armies versus bikers, often classified as “gang violence.”

At the rate President Obama is importing these same Muslim communities, we can expect the same war in the streets.

“Muslim and Gypsy Gangs Battle For Supremacy on Streets of Europe,” by Oliver Lane, Breibart, 16 Aug 2015
“Brutal and ruthless” Muslim, and “violent” Roma gypsy gangs are terrorising the streets of dozens of major European cities, as they vie for control of lucrative black market trade.

Running drug rings and pimping prostitutes, as well as owning legitimate street businesses can be worth tens of millions of euros a year – and more – to...

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Sharia in Sudan: Women sentenced to lashes, fine for wearing trousers

Sharia advocates in the US constantly lie to the American people about what sharia is and to whom it applies. They insist that it has to do only with Muslims. But this young woman is a Christian, charged under a Sudanese law forbidding “indecent dress” that is clearly sharia-based. Where are the feminists rushing to defend her? Too busy working up their next denunciation of “islamophobia”?

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“Sudanese woman sentenced to lashes, fine for wearing trousers,” by Laura Smith-Spark and Margot Haddad, CNN, August 14, 2015 (thanks to TheReligionofPeace.com):

(CNN)A young Christian woman has been sentenced by a court in Sudan to 20 lashes and a fine for “indecent dress,” her lawyer said. Her crime?...

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Friends Of Hamas: Olive Bridge Fund, Lopatin Family Foundation, Leichtag Foundation

The New Israel Fund is a proud, public backer of Breaking The Silence, an organization that has harmed Israel immensely worldwide. NIF raises more than $30 million annually from American Jews, and simply damages Israel with that money.

In addition to supporting a boycott, the people who fund NIF simply damage Israel in so many ways throughout the world. They are the definition of traitors.

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According to NGO Monitor, Breaking the Silence is “Active in promoting ‘war crimes’ charges against Israel. They focus on international audiences, including presentations in Europe – which helps encourage foreign nations to attempt to bring Israeli soldiers before International Criminal Courts. After the 2009 Gaza conflict, several...

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Saturday Night Cinema: Love Me Tonight

Tonight’s Saturday Night Cinema is a brilliant, groundbreaking musical that changed the way Hollywood makes such films. It’s an original, ingenious musical fantasy by Armenian-born Hollywood director Rouben Mamoulian. “It never neglects an opportunity to conjure with, the microphone or make the most of the camera.”

There are so many delicious moments — daybreak in Paris is a symphonic cacophony of city  sounds, almost like Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue.

The infectious theme song, “Isn’t it Romantic,” innovatively bounces from the lovestruck Maurice Chevalier to his tailor, a cab driver, a songwriter, soldiers, a town fiddler until it finds its way to the lips of the object of...

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Libya: ISIS executes 22, hangs them on crosses, burns Medical Center down, “A real massacre is taking place” 200 dead

The human toll and unimaginable fallout from Obama, the wrecking ball, continues. Was this Obama’s plan for Libya when he ousted Gaddafi? Where was the statecraft? What was the objective? The jihadis have wreaked havoc on that nation. Gaddafi not only contained the jihad threat in Libya, but in the region as well.

Obama’s “JV” team is taking over Libya.

Tripoli – Islamic State group jihadists have beheaded 12 people and hung them on crosses during a battle for the coastal city of Sirte, the national news agency LANA reported on Saturday.

The fighting for control of Sirte, hometown of slain dictator Muammar Gaddafi, has been raging since Tuesday, with one top Libyan diplomat warning of a “massacre”...

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Muslims on Twitter Cheer Explosions, Massive Fire at Texas Chemical Plant: “May Allah Burn America”

Explosions, fire rock Texas chemical plant – CBS News

CONROE, Texas — A series of explosions rocked an oil field chemical supply company north of Houston on Friday, setting off a three-alarm fire that sent a broad, dense column of thick, black smoke towering into the otherwise blue skies.

Authorities knew of no injuries from the explosions and blaze that erupted about 4:30 p.m., said Conroe Fire Marshal Mike Legoudes.

Firefighters took about two hours to bring the fire under control at the DrillChem plant on the eastern fringe of Conroe, about 40 miles north of Houston.

“The facility was empty at the time of the fire and we are thankful that no injuries have been reported,” said DrillChem CEO Brandon...

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Horrific moment ISIS throw two men off a roof for being gay – before they are stoned by baying mob including children

It is terrifying for gay people to live in a Muslim country that is under the sharia or even respectful of sharia law. What is so egregious is that openly gay men in the West like Anderson Cooper loudly and repeatedly condemn me for my counter jihad work and opposition to sharia. And he is hardly alone: the vast majority of gay organizations stand staunchly with their would-be executioners.

Sick.

“Horrific moment ISIS throw two men off a roof for being gay – before they are stoned by baying mob including children,” by Flora Drury, Mailonline, 14 August 2015

A gruesome video has emerged showing ISIS jihadists executing two men whose only crime’ was being gay.

The video shows two men being thrown to their deaths from a...

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Iran’s Supremo “not satisfied” with nuke deal, wants even more concessions

Obama and Kerry will no doubt jump to give him what he wants, but if they do, the opposition to the deal will grow even stronger than it already is. “Iranian hardliner: The supreme leader opposes the nuclear deal,” by Ali Akbar Dareini, Associated Press, August 15, 2015: TEHRAN, Iran — Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah […]

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Obama Willfully Supporting Al-Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood — on The Glazov Gang

On this new special edition of The Glazov Gang, I was joined by Nonie Darwish, the author of The Devil We Don’t Know. Nonie discussed Obama Willfully Supporting Al-Qaeda and Muslim Brotherhood, unveiling a Radical-in-Chief’s treachery against the American people. Don’t miss it! And make sure to watch this new brief episode, Help Keep The […]

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Shocker: Biden calls Chattanooga jihadist a “jihadist”

Crazy Joe was clearly going off script. Ash Carter articulated the Administration’s prevailing fantasy when he said that “officials may never know ‘what combination of disturbed mind, violent extremism and hateful ideology’ was behind the shooting.” “Biden Calls Chattanooga Shooter a ‘Perverted Jihadist,’” by Erik Schelzig, Associated Press, August 15, 2015: Vice President Joe Biden […]

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UK theatre self-censors, cancels play about Muslims joining jihad groups

In shattered, staggering, subjugated dhimmi Britain today, nothing can happen that might possibly offend Muslims, and so this play had to go — because, you see, all Muslims abhor and reject the hijacking of their religion by jihad groups, but some nonetheless take immense umbrage at anyone scrutinizing or opposing those “hijackers.” “She and writer […]

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Islamic State caliph held American hostage as sex slave

“The article went on to cite accounts that the prophet Muhammad ‘took four slave-girls as concubines,’ a purported religious basis for the practice.” Indeed it is, since Muhammad is for Muslims the supreme model for emulation (cf. Qur’an 33:21). The Qur’an also sanctions the practice, although unsurprisingly, the Post doesn’t mention that. It says that […]

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Islamic State takes Libyan port city

Its “refugee” incursions into Europe will now only intensify. Among the “refugees” will be untold numbers of jihadis. There is no telling how many Europeans will die violent deaths as a result. “Black flags on Europe’s doorstep: Inside ISIS’s new capital Sirte on Libya’s coast,” by Tom Batchelor, Sunday Express, August 15, 2015 (thanks to […]

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Pat Buchanan stands up for Obama against that mean Netanyahu

Pat Buchanan has for years been such a virulent opponent of Israel that he has frequently been accused of anti-Semitism, and this column condemning Benjamin Netanyahu for supposedly interfering in America’s internal affairs by opposing the Iran deal is not going to erase that impression. The paleocon Right hates Israel with such abiding passion that […]

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UK Muslima who joined Islamic State now “desperate to come home”

Shukee Begum and others like her left Britain in order to join an entity that considers itself to be at war with Britain and has vowed to destroy it. To allow such people back into the country is suicidal. And that is exactly what Britain appears to be. “British widow who left the UK to […]

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Osama’s son calls on Muslims to attack London, DC, Paris, Tel Aviv

Hamza bin Laden’s call demonstrates that al-Qaeda is competing with the Islamic State to be the first to sow large-scale bloodshed and destruction in Western cities. “Osama’s son calls on followers in Kabul, Baghdad, Gaza to wage jihad on the West,” Khaama Press, August 15, 2015: The son of the former Al Qaeda chief Osama […]

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Lebanon: Sunni Muslim cleric arrested, organized his followers to wage jihad against Shi’ites

“Witnesses at the time said machine guns and rockets were used – and when the army went to Mr Assir’s compound, it found heavy weapons and military-style uniforms.” But you know, they were machine guns, rockets and heavy weapons of peace. How did this Muslim cleric come to misunderstand the religion he had dedicated his […]

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Summertime on an open thread

Sweden Protecting Muslim Asylum Seekers After One Allegedly Beheads Victim Inside IKEA, IKEA responds by stopping knife sales

ISIS Leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi Repeatedly Raped American Hostage Kayla Mueller, Officials Say

Bin Laden’s Son calls for Attacks on Jewish American Targets, Washington, London, Paris and Tel Aviv

Muslim Refugee Convicted of Islamic Terrorism Charges in US

Mosqueing the Airport: Orlando Airport To Open $250,000 Mosque Room

More Muslim Threats on Twitter: “Obama will surely die soon, beheaded or shot by #Islamic State”

Islamic State posts list of 1,400 U.S. “targets”: “soon with the permission of Allah will strike at your necks in your own lands!”

Kidnapped Priest Killed, Chopped Up by ISIS as ‘Christians Used as a Form of Currency’

Obama Admin Moves to BLOCK Restitution for U.S. Victims of “Palestinian” Jihad

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“Summertime” is an aria composed in 1934 by George Gershwin for the 1935 opera Porgy and Bess. The lyrics are by DuBose Heyward, the author of the novel Porgy, on which the opera was based, although the song is also co-credited to Ira Gershwin.

“Without doubt … one of the finest songs the composer ever wrote … Gershwin’s highly evocative writing brilliantly mixes elements of jazz and the song styles of blacks in the southeast United States from the early twentieth century.”

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Sweden Protecting Muslim Asylum Seekers After One Allegedly Beheads Victim Inside IKEA, IKEA responds by stopping knife sales

How to stop beheadings by Muslim immigrants? Stop selling knives, of course.

And the Swedish government responded by beefing up security at all of the government-provided asylum housing.

Obama is working fiercely to repeat the monumental Muslim immigration mistakes of Europe. Support Rep. Brian Babin’s legislation, Resettlement Accountability National Security Act, H.R. 3314, which would immediately suspend Obama’s disastrous and dangerous refugee resettlement program, pending a complete review of its federal, state and local costs.

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“Sweden Protecting Asylum Seekers After One Allegedly Beheads Victim Inside IKEA, IKEA responds by stopping knife sales,” Truth Revolt, August 14, 2015

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ISIS Leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi Repeatedly Raped American Hostage Kayla Mueller, Officials Say

Obama has done nothing to stave off the rise of the global jihad.

Obama should be impeached on the grounds of depraved indifference.

ISIS Leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi Sexually Abused American Hostage Kayla Mueller, Officials Say
By James Gordon Meek, ABC News, WASHINGTON, D.C. — Aug 14, 2015

Kayla Mueller

Mueller’s family confirmed to ABC News that government officials have told them that their daughter, who would have turned 27 on Friday, was the victim of repeated sexual assaults by al-Baghdadi.

“We were told Kayla was tortured, that she was the property of al-Baghdadi. We were told that in June by the government,” Kayla’s parents, Carl and Marsha Mueller, told ABC News…

Al-Baghdadi, an Iraqi who calls himself “Caliph” as ruler of...

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Bin Laden’s Son calls for Attacks on Jewish American Targets, Washington, London, Paris and Tel Aviv

The more Obama retreats, the bolder and more brazen Muslim leaders become. Americans with half a brain know what’s coming. And it’s brutal.

Al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden and his son Hamza. (File photo)

“US Jewish institutions on alert after call for attacks from bin Laden’s son,” Jerusalem Post, August 13, 2015

The national Jewish community’s security arm asked Jewish institutions to be on the alert after Osama Bin Laden’s son called for attacks on Jewish American interests.

The Secure Community Network alert Friday said that Hamza bin Laden, who has ambitions to lead Al Qaeda, the terrorist organization founded by his father, posted an audio message calling “for the targeting of Jewish American interests globally.”

“Hamza also reportedly called for attacks on...

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Muslim Refugee Convicted of Islamic Terrorism Charges in US

Obama is bringing Muslim refugees into this country by the hundreds of thousands in his unceasing pursuit of the destruction of America.

“Uzbek Refugee Convicted of Terrorism Conspiracy Charge in US,” Associated Press, BOISE, Idaho — Aug 12, 2015

A federal jury in Idaho has convicted an Uzbek refugee of three terrorism-related charges after prosecutors said he worked to support a terrorist organization and gathered explosive materials in his Boise apartment.

Fazliddin Kurbanov, a Russian-speaking truck driver who fled Uzbekistan in 2009, was arrested two years ago by federal authorities who said he was determined to carry out an attack on U.S. soil. Prosecutors also said he tried to provide computer support and money to the...

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Mosqueing the Airport: Orlando Airport To Open $250,000 Mosque Room

We don’t see airports opening churches or synagogues. Airports generally have nondenominational prayer rooms for everyone. But the supremacism inherent in Islam dictates that non-Muslims cannot pray in mosques (non-Muslims can enter a mosque for proselytizing), hence their own special mosque room at Orlando Airport. Equality for all is a Western dictate that Islamic supremacists despise. Special rights for a special class —

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Clearly, officials at Orlando Airport sold out the taxpayer to the Dubai Dirham.

“Orlando Airport To Open $250,000 Muslim Prayer Room,” CBS local, August 12, 2015

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More Muslim Threats on Twitter: “Obama will surely die soon, beheaded or shot by #Islamic State”

Here’s today’s cache of pious Muslim messages. Savages with technology —

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Islamic State posts list of 1,400 U.S. “targets”: “soon with the permission of Allah will strike at your necks in your own lands!”

The fruit of President Obama’s anti-American jihad. Americans are not safe in our own homeland.

“[Islamic State] are continuing that message: You don’t have to come to Syria and Iraq, you can stay where you are, do something where you are.”

These lists are trying to spark Muslim attacks in the United States like the ones in Garland, Texas, and Chattanooga, Tennessee, in recent months.

Purported ISIS militants post list of 1,400 U.S. ‘targets’ By Dugald McConnell and Brian Todd, CNN, August 14, 2015

A group calling itself the Islamic State Hacking Division this week posted online a purported list of names and contacts for Americans it refers to as “targets,” according to officials.
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Kidnapped Priest Killed, Chopped Up by ISIS as ‘Christians Used as a Form of Currency’

The more monstrous and savage these Muslim supremacists become, the more the West submits to the sharia. Every gruesome act of jihad is met with the shaking fingers of Western leaders, repeating the inane mantra, “Islam is peace.”

If Western elites in the media, government, academia and even the Pope had demonized and targeted jihad instead of those who opposed it, we wouldn’t be in the terrible state we are in.

Human beings bought and sold. Girls as young as 11, raped, sold at sex slave auctions with the imprimatur of Islamic scriptures. The NY Times stopped shilling for Islam for a moment and finally reported yesterday that “the Quran not only gave [ISIS] the right to rape — it condoned and encouraged it.”
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Obama Admin Moves to BLOCK Restitution for U.S. Victims of “Palestinian” Jihad

Can the arrogant supremacist in the White House make it any clearer which side he is on? The administration claims that if this restitution is paid, the poor Palestinian Authority will go broke. It wouldn’t be a bad thing for those genocidal jihadis to go broke, but it’s completely unbelievable anyway: the U.S. and Europe showers the “Palestinians” with so much money, they could pay this judgment multiple times and not be facing any deficit.

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“Obama Admin Moves to Block Restitution for U.S. Terror Victims,” by Adam Kredo, Washington Free Beacon, August 13, 2015:

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Eventually, the Supreme Court will have to clarify the implications of its Obergefell v. Hodges ruling that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide. The dissenting judges warned that the ruling would call into question the free speech and religious rights in this country. And Jack Phillips, owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop, is the most recent proprietor to join the handful of small business owners the court ruled discriminatory because they refused to bake cakes or make floral arrangements for same-sex wedding ceremonies. On Thursday, the Colorado Court of Appeals upheld the decision handed down by the state’s Civil Right’s Commission, saying Phillips' speech and religion rights do not apply to this situation. “[T]o the extent that the public infers from a Masterpiece wedding cake a message celebrating same-sex marriage,” the court said, “that message is more likely to be attributed to the customer than to Masterpiece.” Phillips' lawyer, Nicolle Martin, said they plan on appealing the case to the Colorado Supreme Court. But it’s not the end of the road. How much religious liberty do Americans have after Obergefell? SCOTUS opened Pandora’s box, and it’s up to SCOTUS to close it.

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Cuba Wields the Soft Power in Dealings With U.S.

The American flag will fly above Havana for the first time in 54 years, as the United States opens its Cuban embassy today and resumes diplomatic relationships with the communist country. Relationship with the Castro regime is still tense. Despite never cashing the decades of rent checks for the use of Guantanamo Bay, Fidel Castro said Thursday the U.S. owes Cuba millions of dollars to compensate for what the Cuban economy lost because of the U.S. embargo. Nevertheless, Secretary of State John Kerry is in Cuba for the flag-raising ceremony. As the Washington Post editorial board says, the Obama administration took a heat gun to the frozen diplomatic relationship in hopes of building a relationship with the country, to exert America’s soft power on the oppressive government. So far, it seems the Castros have exerted more influence on the U.S. than the other way around. The U.S. government did not invite any of the Cuban dissidents struggling against communism and for freedom to the event. Kerry said on the Telemundo network, “That is a government-to-government moment, with very limited space, by the way, which is why we’re having the reception later in the day at which we can have a cross-section of civil society including some dissidents.” By meeting with dissidents in private, he’s cowing to the Castros' wishes. “Maybe Mr. Kerry can at least leave an empty chair at the ceremony to symbolize the people, and the values, that will be kept outside the fence,” the Post’s editors wrote.

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Bush, Odierno and Mustard Gas, Oh My!

Jeb Bush is going to struggle with his brother’s shadow and the question of Iraq for the rest of the campaign. That much was made clear again Thursday in a national security forum in Iowa, where Bush said that “taking out Saddam Hussein turned out to be a pretty good deal.” He’ll no doubt regret such a terrible sound bite. But for the record, Bush is exactly right about one thing he said Tuesday: Barack Obama’s “premature withdrawal was the fatal error, creating the void that ISIS moved in to fill.” He slammed Hillary Clinton, too: “Like the president himself, she had opposed the surge, then joined in claiming credit for its success, then stood by as that hard-won victory by American and allied forces was thrown away.” Bush was smart to go on offense, but his “good deal” comments may erase any forward progress, especially after his previous “knowing what we know now” fumble.

In related news, the Islamic State has mustard gas, which it used against Kurdish forces this week. The jihadis likely obtained the gas from Syria, so it would seem Obama’s deal with Vladimir Putin to dispose of such weapons didn’t work out so well. Witness the cascade of foreign policy failure.

Finally, Army Chief of Staff Gen. Ray Odierno retires today, and we remember his recent comments lamenting the rise of the Islamic State — a turn of events he says “might have been prevented” if the U.S. hadn’t abandoned Iraq. And in a departing op-ed, he warns that now is “no time to cut the U.S. Army.” He says, “We need a force of 490,000 as global dangers rise. It’s at 450,000 and heading down.” Think Obama will listen?

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Seventy years ago tomorrow, Japanese Emperor Hirohito broadcast to his people that he had accepted terms of surrender, thus effectively ending World War II. The news was received Aug. 14 in the U.S. The official treaty signing occurred on Sept. 2, 1945, aboard the USS Missouri, and that day is the official “VJ Day,” but today’s anniversary is worth remembering. On Aug. 6 and 9, respectively, the U.S. dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Doing so prevented a likely invasion of the Japanese main island, and thus saved hundreds of thousands of American lives. Today is a reminder that tyranny must be defeated, not appeased, if Liberty is to flourish.

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POW Flag: The New Symbol of Racism?

By Michael Swartz

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Like most leftists, author Rick Perlstein is not a fan of our nation’s efforts in Vietnam, despite the fact he was born in 1969 and, thus, too young to remember much of it himself. Thanks to an op-ed in the progressive Washington Spectator that was picked up by the now online-only Newsweek magazine, we’ve learned that a venerable symbol of that war was just another example of American racism.

Perlstein opens the article by saying, “You know that racist flag? The one that supposedly honors history but actually spreads a pernicious myth? And is useful only to venal right-wing politicians who wish to exploit hatred by calling it heritage? It’s past time to pull it down.”

“Oh, wait. You thought I was referring to the Confederate flag. Actually, I’m talking about the POW-MIA flag.”

Realizing the gravity of his words in the heated aftermath, both Perlstein and Washington Spectator editor Lou Dubose apologized for calling the POW-MIA flag racist. Perlstein admitted, “The word was over the top and not called for.” But his enlightenment didn’t happen before a firestorm of criticism rained down on him from conservative outlets like National Review and RedState.

On the other hand, those on the Left are still defending Perlstein, which isn’t completely surprising in this age of “everyone who disagrees with me is racist.”

As the article goes, it’s just more wailing and gnashing of teeth over events that played out while Perlstein was still in diapers. For example, he asserted, “Richard Nixon invented the cult of the ‘POW/MIA’ in order to justify the carnage in Vietnam in a way that rendered the United States as its sole victim.” He continued, “[Nixon] declared their treatment, and the enemy’s refusal to provide a list of their names, violations of the Geneva Conventions — the better to paint the North Vietnamese as uniquely cruel and inhumane. He also demanded the release of American prisoners as a precondition to ending the war.”

In other words, it was like almost every other war Americans have fought.

Yet Perlstein droned on, “Whenever Nixon or one of his minions talked about the problem, they tended to use the number 1,400. The number of actual prisoners, was about 550. The number of downed, missing pilots were spoken of, prima facia, as if they were missing, too, although almost all of them were certainly dead.”

“And in 1971 that damned flag went up.”

Yes, it’s that familiar black flag — not of war or nationalism, but remembrance. It makes one wonder if Perlstein has something against yellow ribbons, since that’s also been associated with remembrance in wartime thanks to a once-popular song.

The obvious question, though, is why now? It’s been four decades since we abandoned South Vietnam in disgrace, leaving it to the wolves of the Viet Cong. The legacy of protesting that war has been a lesson learned in how to turn public opinion against a just cause — a template the Left has followed all too well with the Long War against Jihadistan. The current regime doesn’t have the intestinal fortitude to wage that war. Aside from a fading recollection of 9/11, many Americans seem far more concerned about the latest dustup involving Donald Trump than our ongoing air war against the Islamic State that is the latest chapter in this epic struggle. One could answer that Perlstein is doing a pre-emptive strike against escalating in Iraq by alluding to Vietnam once again.

The answer may be much simpler than that, though. Perlstein has a book that’s just been re-released in paperback, and what better way to create buzz than to spin a new angle on old news. His article uses the leftist dog whistle of equating racism with the Confederate flag and applies it to a war we fought against others who don’t look like us — for others who don’t look like us, we might add.

When it comes to war, it might be the only flag that satisfies Perlstein is a white one. Or is that racist, too?

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Michael Reagan: “For some reason, many Republicans and conservatives have become their own worst enemies. If they don’t agree with 100 percent of everything a primary candidate says or does, they call him or her a ‘Republican in name only’ and they’re against them. It’s gotten totally nuts and self-defeating. … To make matters worse, if their favorite in the primary doesn’t win, many conservative Republicans won’t show up in the general election to vote for president. Ask Mitt Romney how that works out. Conservatives love to drop my father’s name and try to find candidates that act and think like he did. But they forget that Ronald Reagan was an 80-20 guy. He was happy to agree with 80 percent of a Republican candidate’s views because he knew that he’d never find someone with whom he agreed 100 percent. He didn’t make the perfect conservative the enemy of the good conservative. And he always, always, always supported the final choice of the Republican Party — even after they beat him in the primary. Finally, may I remind everyone that as governor, Ronald Reagan, the great conservative, raised taxes and signed an abortion bill. That would disqualify him as a RINO by today’s standards. Yet he was the best president in our lifetime.”

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Insight: “[F]or a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.” –Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

Class warfare flashback: “I say it is only reasonable to shift the [tax] burden to those most able to pay.” —Donald Trump, while proposing a 14.25% surtax on the wealthy in 1999

The BIG Lie: “If you think of Watts 50 years ago, if you think of South Central with Rodney King, all of the violence we have seen all the way to today in Baltimore and Ferguson has usually been sparked by police violence.” —Al Sharpton

Braying Jenny: “[Congress] called me back to testify on the IRS ‘scandal,’ and I too[k] the 5th again because [Republicans] had been so evil and dishonest in my lawyer’s dealings with them.” —Lois Lerner in an email dated March 6, 2014

Village Idiots: “I was never a political person — this whole fiasco has only made me lose all respect [for] politics and politicians. I am merely a pawn in [the Republicans'] game to take over the Senate.” —Lois Lerner in an email, June 2014

Belly laugh of the week: “There’s nothing criminal about [Hillary Clinton’s email investigation]. … I think she’s been completely truthful and this is an attempt by the Republicans to smear the front-runner early on. … [T]his, in fact, is nothing but a partisan witch hunt.” —Howard Dean

Late-night humor: “Bernie Sanders has now passed Hillary Clinton in the New Hampshire polls. It’s the first time anyone’s ever been passed by a guy in a Prius.” —Seth Meyers

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98 Members of Hollywood’s Powerful Judenrat Elite Back Obama’s Nuclear Pact

98 Jewish, progressive fat cats yet again side with Hussein, their “progressive” Messiah, the biggest Shiite Jihad/terror aider and abettor in modern history, against their fellow Jews, in their highly threatened, ancestral homeland.

They supported the jihadi in the White House, and instead of trying to repair the damage they have done, they have dug in their heels, and invariably dug our collective graves.

98 Prominent Hollywood Jews Back Iran Nuclear Deal in Open Letter (Exclusive)

In Israel, these self serving, self-loathing traitors are called “Yehudonim,” as in, submissive court Jews who bend under pressure to the gentile ruler (aka “Paritz”), many times, in full-hearted complicity and great...

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Muslima Beheading Threats: “filthy Kafira Pig Faced Pamela Gellar … hope your face hits the floor first when you lose your head”

Another devout Muslima.

The default action for all things unislamic is literally chopping heads off.  In this is the root of their supremacism. And we are told we must respect this culture of death and murder.

This ideology turns men into monsters. Anti-real. Blind. Evil.

It should be given no quarter. It is anti-human. Evil is made possible by the sanction you give it —  the media, academia, the Obama administration, withdraw your sanction.

UPDATE: And this on Google:

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More like Kyke propaganda billboard banned. Good job. And **** you Pamela ****. Love to cut your head off with a dull knife.
     
 

New York Times on Sex Slavery in Islam: “the Quran not only gave [ISIS] the right to rape — it condoned and encouraged it”

The New York Times has a lengthy piece on how the Islamic State cites Islamic theology to justify its brutal acts, claiming that the Koran “condones and encourages” raping women if they are not true believers of Islam.

he knelt beside the bed and prostrated himself in prayer before getting on top of her.

When it was over, he knelt to pray again, bookending the rape with acts of religious devotion.

“I kept telling him it hurts — please stop,” said the girl, whose body is so small an adult could circle her waist with two hands. “He told me that according to Islam he is allowed to rape an unbeliever. He said that by raping me, he is drawing closer to God”




It is stunning that it has taken taken...

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Mississippi ISIS Jihadi is Son of Immigrant Imam

“Muhammad appeared to have a good relationship with his father. He certainly wasn’t rejecting his father for practicing a bad or flawed version of Islam. And that’s telling too.” Yes, it is. What is being taught in that mosque? It should be investigated now, but probably law enforcement authorities are taking the father’s word for it that he is “shocked” that his son would try to join ISIS.

Imams at local mosques that jihadis attended are always “shocked.” But Muslims who attended U.S. mosques keep trying to join ISIS.

“Media Covers Up Mississippi Mosque Imam’s Role in ISIS Case,” by Daniel Greenfield, FrontPage, August 12, 2015 (thanks to TheReligionofPeace.com...

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Geller: 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Upholds Sharia, Bans Seattle Counter-Terror Ad

Every report on yesterday’s ruling is wrong. Every news report is factually incorrect on every level.

Geller: 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Upholds Sharia, Bans Seattle Counter-Terror Ad
By Pamela Geller, Breitbart News, August 12, 2015

The clowns on the 9th Circuit court have ruled that an FBI global terrorism ad poster cannot run because it might upset Muslims.This all started back in 2013, when the FBI was running a terrorism awareness campaign featuring bus ads depicting photos of sixteen of the world’s Most Wanted Terrorists.

This was a publicity campaign sponsored by the Joint Terrorism Task Force for the State Department’s Rewards for Justice (RFJ) program. The ad featured the world’s leading global terrorists....

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Teen Girl Accused of Trying to Join ISIS Is ‘Kind, Bubbly Person,’ Friend Says

Her friends, according to this ABC News story, just can’t understand why a “kind, bubbly person” would suddenly become “radical.” No mention is made in this article of Young’s conversion to Islam or of the influence of jihadi texts and teachings, but there is the key that unlocks this “mystery.” The mainstream media and law enforcement officials, however, will no doubt keep on scratching their heads and wondering what could possibly have been her motive.

“Teen Girl Accused of Trying to Join ISIS Is ‘Kind, Bubbly Person,’ Friend Says,” by Enjoli Francis and Emily Shapiro, ABC News, Aug 12, 2015:

A 19-year-old Mississippi student who is accused of attempting to travel...

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Islamic State murders 76 with bomb at market in Baghdad Shi’ite neighborhood

August 14, 2015 12:17 pm By Robert Spencer Leave a Comment

“The market in the Shi’ite neighborhood is one of the biggest in Baghdad selling wholesale food items. A Reuters witness at the site saw fruit and vegetables mixed with shrapnel littering the blood-soaked blast crater.” And the Islamic State jihadis were pleased with this act of piety and service to their god. “Islamic State claims […]
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Brooklyn: Muslim pleads guilty to aiding jihad terror group

August 14, 2015 10:28 am By Robert Spencer 2 Comments

“This case, like many others before it, has shown that the application of lawful surveillance can allow the United States government to detect and neutralize a terrorist in the United States.” And that lawful surveillance is just what Leftists and Islamic supremacists such as Linda Sarsour and the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations want to […]
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Mississippi Islamic State jihadi is son of imam

August 14, 2015 7:57 am By Robert Spencer 6 Comments

His father is shocked!, shocked! that his son would want to join the Islamic State, but as Daniel Greenfield points out here, the son doesn’t seem to have had a bad relationship with the father. Neither seems to have rejected the other for being a bad Muslim. Is it really likely that the son forsook […]
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Al-Qaeda top dog pledges to implement Sharia and continue jihad

August 13, 2015 4:37 pm By Robert Spencer 17 Comments

He pledged this in the process of pledging allegiance to Mullah Akhtar Mansour, the new Taliban top dog. But it raises yet again the ever-recurring question: why is it that those Muslims who are most concerned with Sharia and jihad are those who, according to all Western non-Muslim governing authorities, actually know nothing about Sharia […]
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9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Upholds Sharia, Bans Seattle Counter-Terror Ad

August 13, 2015 12:45 pm By Robert Spencer 25 Comments

It’s very strange. Eugene Volokh writes about this ruling in the Washington Post, in a piece entitled, “Transit agency may reject factually false ads.” What in our AFDI ad is factually false? Volokh quotes this from the ruling: Plaintiffs’ proposed ad states, in prominent text: “The FBI Is Offering Up To $25 Million Reward If […]
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Islamic State posts list of 1,400 U.S. targets

August 14, 2015 10:47 am By Robert Spencer 8 Comments

“We are extracting confidential data, and passing on your personal information to the soldiers of the khilafah, who soon with the permission of Allah will strike at your necks in your own lands!” As this article notes, they’re trying to inspire more lone wolf jihad attacks by individual Muslims — and because of the power […]
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Iran says the nuke deal will help it target Israel

August 14, 2015 8:37 am By Robert Spencer 12 Comments

Zarif isn’t even bothering to hide Iran’s intentions. The deal is done. He knows he has John Kerry in his pocket, and that nothing can stop the mullahs now. “Iran says the nuke deal will help it target Israel,” New York Post, August 13, 2015 (thanks to Eli): President Obama says his nuclear deal with […]
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Jamie Glazov Moment – Our Stockholm Syndrome With Islam

August 14, 2015 7:44 am By Jamie Glazov 2 Comments

In this new Jamie Glazov Moment, I discuss Our Stockholm Syndrome With Islam, wondering how long we will continue to empathize with — and defend — our abusers and potential executioners. And make sure to watch this new brief episode, Help Keep The Glazov Gang Alive, with producer Anni Cyrus, who explains why now, more […]
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Obama Admin Moves to Block Restitution for U.S. Terror Victims

August 13, 2015 2:53 pm By Robert Spencer 30 Comments

Whatever else Barack Obama may be, he is always consistent. Always on the side of Islamic supremacists, against Israel, and against effective counter-terror efforts. “Obama Admin Moves to Block Restitution for U.S. Terror Victims,” by Adam Kredo, Washington Free Beacon, August 13, 2015: The Obama administration has intervened in a landmark legal case brought by […]

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FBI: Teen Muslim Islamic State Recruit Praised Chattanooga Jihad Massacre

Obama is importing hundreds of thousands of Muslims from jihad nations. How many share Muhammad Oda Dakhlalla’s religious passion for slaughter and supremacism?

“Teen Would-Be Islamic State Recruit Praised Chattanooga Shooting, FBI Say,” BY: Morgan Chalfant, Free Beacon, August 11, 2015

A 19-year-old Mississippi resident recently charged by the FBI with attempting to join the Islamic State praised the attack on two Chattanooga military facilities last month that killed five U.S. servicemen.

ABC News reported that Jaelyn Delshaun Young of Starkville, Mississippi, celebrated the Chattanooga shootings in an online conversation with an undercover FBI agent.

“What makes me feel bette[r] after just watching the...

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Three fake “Islamophobic hate crimes” the media ran wild with

Faked hate has its own category here at Atlas; that’s how rampant these Islamic lies are in the media. Who can forget “One Million Hijabs” for murder victim Shaima Alawadi? Islamic supremacists blamed her death on “islamophobes,” but when the truth came out, that Shaima was honor-murdered by her husband, the Muslim community fell silent. This is typical.

When three Muslims were shot in a long-running parking dispute with a neighbor (who had said he preferred Muslims to Christians) the media ran wild, saying it was a “hate crime.” Even the jihadi in the White House shook his long, boneless finger at the American people.

Scores of attacks on mosques were attributed to...

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Photo: Leftist Canadian Prime Minister candidate Thomas Mulclair with Islamic supremacist, Jew-hating jihad supporter Nazih Khataba

The launch of the Canadian federal election occurred last week, and its significance reaches far beyond Canada itself.

There is no more firmly pro-Israel leader in the world today than Canadian Prime Minister Stephan Harper. However, despite a strong economy, low crime rate, and stability, this great Prime Minister is in a major electoral fight with Thomas Mulclair, the head of far-left socialist party called the NDP.

Here is a photo of Mulclair with the Islamic supremacist, Jew-hating jihad supporter Nazih Khataba. Khataba is the editor of the extremist publication Meshwar, and is on the board of directors of Palestinian House in Toronto. Khataba organizes anti-Israel rallies all over Toronto. Khataba also organized a counter-JDL protest...

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Islamic State Hacking Division Posts Military Names, Addresses, Phones: “Soon with the permission of Allah will strike at your necks in your own lands!”

The Islamic State Hacking Division has hacked and released military and government information info. Junaid Hussain is in on this — he’s a British jihadist believed to be in Syria who is part of ISIS  hacking division.

I am appalled at Obama’s indifference to the safety and security of our military while obsessively pursing a nuclear pact with the world’s largest state sponsor of terror. And we see the leftwing haters at the universities supporting jihad savage hate against Americans:

VIDEO: Berkeley Students Call Terrorist Attack on Chattanooga Soldiers ‘Legitimate’

We have to purge these seditious elements. And we have to do it fast.

[+] Target: United States Government And Military –...

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The Islamic State of America: White House in the Cross-Hairs

Obama is arming a jihad state with nukes — madness.

Obama is woefully unprepared to face the threat of ISIS: he CREATED the threat by leaving Iraq precipitously and giving an opportunity to this group. Instead, he provides cover to the savages, insisting that the Islamic State has nothing to do with Islam, despite its name, and despite ISIS’s explicit threats to the US.

His airstrikes were purely cosmetic and did nothing to stop ISIS.

He has armed the Syrian rebels — many of these arms fell into the hands of ISIS, and the Syrian rebels he armed have the same jihad goal that ISIS does. But in Iraq, these people he has supported and armed became the enemy.

The most dangerous threat to America is Obama’s next...

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California Muslim Pleads Guilty to Trying to Join Islamic State

Every day more American Muslims are fleeing to join the holy war to impose Islam on the world. Adam Dandach was stopped last July while trying to board a flight for Turkey. He told FBI agents that he was heading to Syria and planned to pledge allegiance and offer assistance to the Islamic State.

Dandach could face up to 25 years in federal prison when sentenced Jan. 11.

And the media says ….islamophobia is the problem.

It’s why we run ad campaigns across the country. Our ads are designed to increase awareness of the nature and magnitude of the jihad threat, and put an end to the denial and willful ignorance about that threat, so that the next President adopts effective counter-terror measures based on that realistic...

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Mississippi Muslims Charged for Trying to Wage Jihad Alongside the Islamic State

More daily reports of Muslims going jihad in America. Jihadis are slaughtering Americans on American soil — plots are thwarted weekly, sometimes daily. And the most important problem(s) facing Americans, according to a recent Gallup poll, are listed below.

Further proof of the pervasive tyranny of the enemedia in the information battle-space.

Federal Judge Denies Pair Bail Over Islamic State Charges
OXFORD, Miss. — By Jeff Amy, Associated Press, Aug 11, 2015

A young Mississippi couple who are charged with attempting to join the Islamic State were ordered held without bail Tuesday, pending federal grand jury action on the charges.

Warren Central High School senior homecoming maids are, front row from left, Jaelyn...

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Sweden: “Asylum Seekers” Deadly Knife Attack at IKEA, Mother and Son Murdered

Eritrean “asylum seekers” — next they’ll be describing the suspects this way: “men with green socks blew themselves up today …”

Two men have been arrested on suspicion of murder after the deadly knife attack at an IKEA warehouse in Sweden on Monday.

The victims, a mother, 55, and her 28-year-old son, died at the scene after being stabbed in the cutlery section of the store in Västerås, some 70 miles west of the Swedish capital Stockholm.

The suspects, aged 23 and 35, are both asylum seekers from Eritrea, staying in the same government-provided accommodation in the area, local media reports. (source)

Victims of jihad are bleeding out and all the elites are concerned with is scrubbing Islam.

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Pamela Geller, WND: Muslim world laughs at Obama’s 50-rebel force

In case you missed my column this week at WND:

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The Jerusalem Post reported Thursday that the Muslim world is laughing over the rapid disintegration of Obama’s pathetic 50-man “moderate” Syrian rebel force. Middle East analyst Ali Bakir said: “No one in the Arab world takes this program seriously; I mean you would need around 50 to 60 people to play paintball but definitely not to fight Islamic State.”

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UK: Two Muslim teachers beat 10-year-old boy with a stick for wrongly reciting the Koran

Stories like this come out periodically from mosques and madrassas in the West. This religion that commands violence against unbelievers and the beating of women from whom men “fear disobedience” (quran 4:34) creates a culture of violence that victimizes small children as well. These teachers are being prosecuted — that is good. But how many more like them are there, and when will any law enforcement official have the courage to speak up about the culture of violence that leads to this?

“Two Muslim teachers are facing jail after admitting beating a 10-year-old boy with a stick for wrongly reciting the Koran,” by Gemma Mullin, MailOnline, 10 August 2015 (thanks to TheReligionofPeace.com):

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Russia: Muslim gets four years prison for calling for jihad

August 12, 2015 12:25 pm By Robert Spencer Leave a Comment

“The man was also charged with making statements justifying the terrorist methods of fighting for Islam and the activities of illegal Islamist military groups in the Northern Caucasus and the Middle East.” Imagine if what all Western leaders tell us really were true: that all religions were equally likely to incite their adherents to violence. […]
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The Islamic State’s Egypt affiliate says it has beheaded Croatian hostage

August 12, 2015 11:14 am By Robert Spencer 2 Comments

Kidnapping infidels and releasing them for ransom or enslaving them, as well as killing them if that option is deemed most advantageous for the Muslims, is fully sanctioned in Islamic law: “As for the captives, the amir [ruler] has the choice of taking the most beneficial action of four possibilities: the first to put them […]
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Robert Spencer in FP: Obama “willfully” supporting al-Qaeda

August 12, 2015 9:07 am By Robert Spencer 8 Comments

In FrontPage this morning, I discuss some explosive revelations that nobody noticed: Editor’s note: The following is the first article in the FrontPage series “Obama’s Betrayals,” which will explore the president’s record of perfidy, malfeasance and crimes against the American people. As the Obama presidency enters its final stages, examples of this treachery are only becoming more numerous and brazen. “Obama’s […]
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“Where do the loyalties of two current Muslim members of Congress lie?”

August 12, 2015 8:06 am By Raymond Ibrahim 15 Comments

So asks the Daily Caller, and adds: “The Koran forbids allegiance to non-Muslim authority, preventing these congressmen from serving two masters at once. As the Koran dictates Islam is in a perpetual war against all infidels until a sharia-dominant world is established, which master do they then serve in this conflict?” “With Obama’s Help, Assembling Allah’s Domestic […]
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Dubai: Muslim let daughter drown rather than have strange men touch her

August 11, 2015 6:01 pm By Robert Spencer 48 Comments

The death of his daughter was preferable to violating Sharia restrictions. He assumed that Allah, “the compassionate, the merciful,” would be happier with him if he let his daughter die rather than bring dishonor on his family. This is an assumption deeply ingrained by the intransigence and preoccupation with hellfire and judgment that permeate the […]
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UK: Muslim teenager arrested twice in two months for alleged terror offenses

August 12, 2015 11:27 am By Robert Spencer 3 Comments

True to form for the mainstream media, no information is given about who these people are or what kind of terrorism they were trying to perpetrate. Imagine a newspaper on December 8, 1941 running a story saying that random men in airplanes had attacked Pearl Harbor, and that police were searching for a motive. It’s […]
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Islamic State posts Australian hit list after hacking addresses, mobile numbers

August 12, 2015 10:34 am By Robert Spencer 1 Comment

“None are believed to have served in the Middle East, or to have been particularly outspoken against Islamic State.” Those who cower in fear before the threat of the Islamic State should remember: there is no way to tell when or where they will strike. The proper response to them is not to live in […]
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Mississippi Islamic State recruit praised Chattanooga jihad massacre

August 12, 2015 8:51 am By Robert Spencer 5 Comments

Law enforcement officials and the mainstream media just can’t figure out a motive for the Chattanooga murder of five U.S. servicemen by a young Muslim who had spoken about seeking “martyrdom” and downloaded material by the slain jihadi imam Anwar al-Awlaki. Muslims inclined to jihad, however, are not so hesitant to see the Chattanooga massacre […]
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Obama’s failed Islam narrative

August 12, 2015 7:54 am By Raymond Ibrahim 5 Comments

“However, when State Department spokeswoman Mary Harf appeared on live television and asserted that the best way to defeat the Islamic State was by offering its members better ‘job opportunities,’ the idea that the State Department is run by fools became increasingly plausible.” “Critic Blasts Obama Narrative on Islam,” by F. Michael Maloof for WND, August 8, […]
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Australia: Muslim women complain that anti-terror laws make them too frightened to report domestic violence

August 11, 2015 4:59 pm By Robert Spencer 44 Comments

This bizarre bid for the ever-coveted victimhood status is based on the proposition that Australia’s anti-terror laws are “Islamophobic,” you see, and thus make Muslim women distrustful of Australian authorities, to the extent that they will not hurry to them to turn in their Muslim husbands for domestic abuse. This is

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New Jersey Muslim Arrested for Organizing ‘Small Army’ of ISIS Fighters in New York, New Jersey: Officials

Honor killing: Muslim let daughter drown rather than have strange men touch her, Dubai police claim

Devout Muslims on Twitter: “Better Execute Those US Filth Fast” “Our War with the Jews is an All-Out War” “Blood of Every Jew is Halal”

Misleading the Nation: Obama Signed Off on Iran’s Right to Nuclear Program in Secret 2011 Talks

Sickening new ISIS VIDEO reveals new method of execution: Ten prisoners made to kneel above bombs that have been buried in the ground

Unapologetic Lincoln Muslim professor calls Pamela Geller, Jews “dirty Jewish Zionist thugs” @ssnyderinq @phillydotcom agrees, makes his case

Islamic State executes 300 civil servants, at least 50 of those shot to death were women

Ayatollah Calls for Global Expulsion of Jews

Sweden: “There are areas, where Swedish law no longer exists”

UK: Another terror arrest, another BBC coverup

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New Jersey Muslim Arrested for Organizing ‘Small Army’ of ISIS Fighters in New York, New Jersey: Officials

Raising Muslim armies …. in America.

Local Man Accused of Trying to Organize ‘Small Army’ of ISIS Fighters in New York, New Jersey: Officials
By Jonathan Dienst and Joe Valiquette, NBC News, August 10,2015
A 20-year-old New Jersey man has been charged on terror-related counts for allegedly trying to help organize a “small army” of ISIS fighters in New York and the Garden State and for traveling overseas with the intent to join the terror group, federal prosecutors said Monday.

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Nader Saadeh, who lived in Rutherford until he left the country May 5, allegedly to join ISIS, was arrested Monday on charges of conspiring and attempting to provide material support to the terrorist organization, federal...

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Honor killing: Muslim let daughter drown rather than have strange men touch her, Dubai police claim

Islamic code of honor. Respect it!

The devout Muslim had said that he preferred to let her die rather than be touched by lifeguards after she got into difficulty.

“Moderate” Dubai……

“Man let daughter drown rather than have strange men touch her, Dubai police claim,” by Caroline Mortimer, The Independent, August 10, 2015 (thanks to DB):

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Devout Muslims on Twitter: “Better Execute Those US Filth Fast” “Our War with the Jews is an All-Out War” “Blood of Every Jew is Halal”

Citing quran chapter and verse — there is so much hatred and so many cries for blood on twitter, it’s hard to choose what to pull:

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Misleading the Nation: Obama Signed Off on Iran’s Right to Nuclear Program in Secret 2011 Talks

“At the time, a respected regional figure came to me as a mediator and explicitly said that U.S. President [Obama] had asked him to come to Tehran and present an American request for negotiations,” Khamenei disclosed. “The Americans told this mediator: ‘We want to solve the nuclear issue and lift sanctions within six months, while recognizing Iran as a nuclear power.’”

There is never any news that doesn’t expose Obama’s perfidy and contempt for the American people and our system of governance. Elected to serve, he has utterly inverted the concept. Obama believes that we serve him and his depraved “radical transformation” of the free world.

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Sickening new ISIS VIDEO reveals new method of execution: Ten prisoners made to kneel above bombs that have been buried in the ground

300 civil servants, 50 women — and this. Multiple reports daily. Obama’s “Junior Varsity” team continues its unprecedented slaughter. And the cowards in the West assure us that “it’s not Islamic,” as if that irrational declaration somehow makes it ….. all right?

Genocide, creed apartheid, Islamic misogyny, sex slavery are shrugged off by a dying West that bloviates about human rights and equality for all, but defers to the vicious sharia, the most extreme and brutal ideology on the face of the earth.

Sickening video reveals Isis’s new method of execution: Ten prisoners made to kneel above bombs that have been buried in the ground”

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Unapologetic Lincoln Muslim professor calls Pamela Geller, Jews “dirty Jewish Zionist thugs” @ssnyderinq @phillydotcom agrees, makes his case

Of course he won’t retract. Such ideological rhetoric and hatred has been normed by a sharia-adhering culture, and most particularly by academia. Islamic Jew-hatred goes under the guise of “palestinianism,” when it is actually nazism.

The author of the article, Susan Snyder, validates this vile professor’s hatred when she describes me as “anti-Muslim.” I am anti-jihad. But if she described me that way, people would think, “what’s wrong with that”? Snyder goes on to use the radical, fringe Southern Poverty Law Center to further smear me. Mind you, this is an article about a Muslim professor at an American university calling Jews, and me in particular, “dirty Jewish Zionist...

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Islamic State executes 300 civil servants, at least 50 of those shot to death were women

Obama’s “Junior Varsity” team continues its unprecedented slaughter. And the cowards in the West assure us that “it’s not Islamic,” as if that irrational declaration somehow makes it ….. all right?

Genocide, creed apartheid, Islamic misogyny, sex slavery are shrugged off by a dying West that bloviates about human rights and equality for all, but defers to the vicious sharia, the most extreme and brutal ideology on the face of the earth.

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Ayatollah Calls for Global Expulsion of Jews

Iran’s Friday Prayers leader, Ayatollah Mohammad Emami Kashani, an Islamic cleric whose position grants him enormous influence in Tehran and who is appointed directly by Iran’s Supreme Leader, called on Friday for the Muslim nations of the world to “unite and expel the Zionists from this region.”

And the “first Jewish President” says, “give ’em nukes!”
Obama say, “Iran could be a ‘very successful regional power.’” Yes, Mr. Obama, everyone is afraid of that.

The Islamic Republic of Iran has been making these bloody calls to annihilation almost daily, ever since the nuclear pact with America has been announced. There is no pretense, no charade. America is under the boot and Iran means...

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Sweden: “There are areas, where Swedish law no longer exists”

The blowback against this is not the no-go zones, but mentioning them or talking about them –– that outrages the elites.

Sweden: “There are areas, where Swedish law no longer exists” by Nicolai Sennels, News10, August 8, 2015:

Another situation report from Europe’s sick man. Sweden may be the first – and hopefully last – European country to succumb completely to Islamic violence and Muslim gangs.
Firemen extinguish a burning car in the Stockholm suburb of Kista after youths rioted in several different suburbs around Stockholm for a third executive night, late May 21, 2013. Some 200 youths hurled rocks at police and set cars ablaze in a suburb of the Swedish capital Stockholm on Tuesday, the second day of rioting triggered by an incident in which police shot and killed a man wielding a knife. (AP Photo/Scanipx Sweden, Fredrik Sandberg) SWEDEN OUT

Firemen extinguish a burning car in the Stockholm suburb of Kista after youths rioted in several different suburbs around Stockholm for a third executive night, late May 21, 2013. Some 200 youths hurled rocks at police and set cars ablaze in a suburb of the Swedish capital Stockholm on Tuesday, the second day of...

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UK: Another terror arrest, another BBC coverup

This is almost certainly a jihad terror arrest, but look at how it is reported. The BBC gives no hint of the guiding ideology behind this. It would be like reporting on December 7, 1941 that a group of men in airplanes had bombed Pearl Harbor, without giving a hint that they had come from Japan or were warriors of its empire. Madness.

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“Terror police arrest Birmingham man after ‘suspicious items’ found,” BBC, August 9, 2015:

A Birmingham man has been arrested on suspicion of the “commission, preparation or instigation” of acts of terrorism.

The man, 27, was detained on Sunday after “suspicious items” were found at his home in Naseby Road, police said.

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Header About Archives Resources Subscription Support Us Patriot Shop Daily Digest Aug. 7, 2015 Print Email Bigger Smaller THE FOUNDATION “[T]here are particular moments in public affairs, when the people stimulated by some irregular passion, or some illicit advantage, or misled by the artful misrepresentations of interested men, may call for measures which they themselves will afterwards be the most ready to lament and condemn.” —James Madison, Federalist No. 63, 1788 FEATURED RIGHT ANALYSIS Best of the First Republican Confab By Mark Alexander OK, the “debates” Thursday were endurance exercises, given the number of candidates on both the early and then prime-time stage. We heard from a lot of great Republicans, most of whom are conservatives and connect well with grassroots Patriots across the nation. Because, in both instances, they were answering different questions, there is not an easy “apples to apples” comparison but, as promised, I have compiled a handful of remarks from candidates on the prime-time stage that best represent their platforms. I commend Bret Baier, Megyn Kelly and Chris Wallace for asking many good and tough questions — which you would not have heard from CNN moderators if only Democrats were on stage. I note there were some fratricidal bait questions, but most of the candidates avoided attacking each other, and focused on the serious issues threatening Liberty — the result of Barack Obama’s failed domestic policies, and the abysmal failure of Obama/Clinton foreign policies. In the next 72 hours, the media will be saturated with polls, but as I noted Wednesday in my introduction for this first round matchup of Republicans, “Polls at this stage of a primary are not particularly relevant. I equate them with the weather in Alaska: If you don’t like it, wait 15 minutes.” But reputable polls are somewhat more relevant now that all the candidates have appeared on stage. I have only one observation about the debate between the second-tier candidates. In my assessment there was one candidate who absolutely shined above all others, and that would be Carly Fiorina, who has earned her way into the first tier. Among other things, she is the “corporate” alternative to Don Trump. The most consequential question of the whole night was the opener from Bret Baier, who asked for a show of hands from anyone who would not pledge their support for the eventual nominee and instead, run as an independent — and in all probability deliver the presidency to their Democrat opponent. As I noted in “The Trump Card” two weeks ago, “Trump has the potential of being a spoiler in 2016 if his populist campaign lasts beyond 2015 [because] he is a textbook pathological narcissist. He could launch a third ticket and hand the election to Hillary Clinton.” Predictably, Trump was the only person on stage who raised his hand in response to Baier’s question, and I will leave his supporters to consider the implications. So in order of their poll rankings entering the first debate, here are just a few remarks that say something significant about each candidate, followed by my own brief assessment of who gained ground on the main stage. (You can read a full annotated transcript of the debate is posted at The Washington Post.) Donald Trump: “I think the big problem this country has is being politically correct. … We don’t have time for tone. We have to go out and get the job done. … We need to build a wall, and it has to be built quickly. And I don’t mind having a big, beautiful door in that wall so that people to come into this country legally. … [A single-payer health care system] works in Canada, it works incredibly well in Scotland. … I gave to many people, before this, before two months ago, I was a businessman. I give to everybody. When they call, I give. And do you know what? When I need something from them two years later, three years later, I call them, they are there for me. I’ll tell you what, with Hillary Clinton, I said, ‘Be at my wedding,’ and she came to my wedding. You know why? She didn’t have a choice because I gave.” Note: I chose these remarks because Trump’s popularity is based almost solely on his indifference to “PC” and “tone.” However, the most telling thing about Trump was not in his answers, but in this question from Kelly: “Mr. Trump, in 1999, you said you were, quote, ‘very pro-choice,’ even supporting partial-birth abortion. You favored an assault weapons ban as well. In 2004, you said in most cases you identified as a Democrat. Even in this campaign, your critics say you often sound more like a Democrat than a Republican, calling several of your opponents on the stage things like clowns and puppets. When did you actually become a Republican?” In response, Trump said, “As far as being a Republican is concerned, I come from a place, New York City, which is virtually, I mean, it is almost exclusively Democrat. And I have really started to see some of the negatives.” Jeb Bush: “I’m going to have to earn this. Maybe the barrier — the bar’s even higher for me. That’s fine. I’ve got a record in Florida. I’m proud of my dad, and I’m certainly proud of my brother… I am my own man. I governed as a conservative, and I governed effectively. And the net effect was, during my eight years, 1.3 million jobs were created. We left the state better off because I applied conservative principles in a purple state the right way, and people rose up. … The new normal of 2% [GDP] that the Left is saying you can’t do anything about is so dangerous for our country. There’s six million people living in poverty today, more than when Barack Obama got elected. 6.5 million people are working part-time, most of whom want to work full-time. We’ve created rules and taxes on top of every aspiration of people, and the net result is we’re not growing fast, income is not growing. A 4% growth strategy means you fix a convoluted tax code. You get in and you change every aspect of regulations that are job killers. You get rid of ObamaCare and replace it with something that doesn’t suppress wages and kill jobs.” Scott Walker: “Let’s be clear, we should be talking about Hillary Clinton … because everywhere in the world that Hillary Clinton touched is more messed up today than before she and the president [came to power]. … It’s sad to think right now, but probably the Russian and Chinese government know more about Hillary Clinton’s email server than do the members of the United States Congress. … This is not just bad with Iran, this is bad with ISIS. It is tied together, and once and for all, we need a leader who’s going to stand up and do something about it.” Mike Huckabee: “It seems like this election has been a whole lot about a person who’s very high in the polls, that doesn’t have a clue about how to govern. A person who has been filled with scandals, and who could not lead. Of course, I’m talking about Hillary Clinton. … The problem is we have a Wall Street-to-Washington access of power that has controlled the political climate. The donor class feeds the political class who does the dance that the donor class wants. And the result is the federal government keeps getting bigger. Every person on this stage who has been a governor will tell that you the biggest fight they had was not the other party. Wasn’t even the legislature. It was the federal government, who continually put mandates on the states that we had to suck up and pay for. And the fact is there are a lot of things happening at the federal level that are absolutely beyond the jurisdiction of the Constitution.” Ben Carson: “America became a great nation early on not because it was flooded with politicians, but because it was flooded with people who understood the value of personal responsibility, hard work, creativity, innovation. And that’s what will get us on the right track now, as well. … If I was trying to destroy this country, what I would do is find a way to drive wedges between all the people, drive the debt to an unsustainable level, and then step off the stage as a world leader and let our enemies increase while we decreased our [military capability].” Ted Cruz: “I believe the American people are looking for someone to speak the truth. If you’re looking for someone to go to Washington, to go along to get along, to agree with the career politicians in both parties who get in bed with the lobbyists and special interests, then I ain’t your guy. … We see lots of ‘campaign conservatives.’ But if we’re going to win in 2016, we need a consistent conservative, someone who has been a fiscal conservative, a social conservative, a national security conservative. … We need a commander in chief that speaks the truth. We will not defeat radical Islamic terrorism so long as we have a president unwilling the utter the words ‘radical Islamic terrorism.’” Marco Rubio: “This election cannot be a résumé competition. It’s important to be qualified, but if this election is a résumé competition, then Hillary Clinton’s going to be the next president because she’s been in office and in government longer than anybody else running here tonight. … Here’s what this election better be about: This election better be about the future, not the past. It better be about the issues our nation and the world is facing today, not simply the issues we once faced. … God has blessed us. He has blessed the Republican Party with some very good candidates. The Democrats can’t even find one. … What I have advocated is that we pass law in this country that says all human life at every stage of its development is worthy of protection. In fact, I think that law already exists. It is called the Constitution of the United States. Future generations will look back at this history of our country and call us barbarians for murdering millions of babies who we never gave the chance to live. … I run for president because I believe that we can’t just save the American dream; we can expand it to reach more people and change more lives than ever before.” Rand Paul: “This is what’s wrong. [Mr. Trump] buys and sells politicians of all stripes… He’s already hedging his bet on the Clintons. He’s already hedging his bets because he’s used to buying politicians. … The Fourth Amendment was what we fought the Revolution over! John Adams said it was the spark that led to our war for independence, and I’m proud of standing for the Bill of Rights, and I will continue to stand for the Bill of Rights. … I don’t want my marriage or my guns registered in Washington.” Chris Christie: “I’m the only person on this stage who’s actually filed applications under the Patriot Act, who has gone before the … Foreign Intelligence Service court, who has prosecuted and investigated and jailed terrorists in this country after September 11th. … This is not theoretical to me. I went to the funerals. We lost friends of ours in the Trade Center that day. … I will make no apologies, ever, for protecting the lives and the safety of the American people. We have to give more tools to our folks to be able to do that, not fewer, and then trust those people and oversee them to do it the right way. … If we don’t deal with [entitlement reform], it will bankrupt our country or lead to massive tax increases — neither one that we want in this country.” John Kasich: “The court has ruled [on same-sex marriage], and I said we’ll accept it. And guess what, I just went to a wedding of a friend of mine who happens to be gay. Because somebody doesn’t think the way I do, doesn’t mean that I can’t care about them or can’t love them.” Finally, before giving my assessment of this first matchup, I am going to do what no other analyst will do today and disclose my own bias. I come into this first round thinking that the most competitive presidential ticket in 2016 would be Walker/Rubio. I am not set on that ticket. That being said, I have subjectively rated the performance of each candidate as either better than I expected, flat or worse than I expected, going into the debate. So in order of their poll rankings entering the first debate: Donald Trump, flat; Jeb Bush, flat; Scott Walker, flat; Mike Huckabee, better; Ben Carson, flat; Ted Cruz, better; Marco Rubio, better; Rand Paul, worse; Chris Christie, worse; and John Kasich, worse. Comment | Share TOP RIGHT HOOKS With Economy Running as Expected, Will Rates Rise? Welcome to the new normal. Just as The Wall Street Journal predicted, the U.S. added 215,000 jobs in July and the unemployment rate remained at 5.3%. For the last few months, the economy has been plodding along, adding 200,000 or so jobs every month, and if you were to tally the words used in the Bureau of Labor Statistics' press releases, “unchanged” would rank high. The labor force participation rate sits at 62.6% — with a record 93,770,000 Americans not working. The great machine of the American economy still has not begun to roar after the 2008 crash. Yet to the Federal Reserve Bank, there may be some encouraging numbers, enough for them to possibly pull the lever and raise interest rates in the coming months. According to BLS’s July jobs report, the U-6 measure of unemployment edged down 0.1 percentage point to 10.4% — a number well above pre-recession levels. Wages, an economic indicator lagging for months despite job growth, increased 5 cents to a $24.99 hourly wage for the average American worker. Furthermore, BLS revised up the jobs numbers for May and June, saying there were an additional 14,000 jobs added in those two months. This may be enough for the Fed to decide that it’s time raise interest rates. Fed Chairwoman Janet Yellen has news conferences scheduled for Sept. 12, Dec. 16 and March 16. Look for “unchanged” to change. Comment | Share Russia Hacks Pentagon, Which Can’t Find ‘Reset’ Button Russia is “our number one geopolitical foe,” Mitt Romney said repeatedly in 2012. Barack Obama dismissed it out of hand at the time, saying, “Russia is a regional power that is threatening some of its immediate neighbors, not out of strength, but out of weakness. Russia’s actions are a problem [but] they don’t pose the number one national security threat to the United States.” He both underestimated the problem and misstated Romney’s assertion. Instead, he and his administration — led in part by then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton — pursued a strategy of what they arrogantly called “smart power.” That included the infamous “reset” button Hillary presented to her Russian counterpart. She later boasted of it being a “brilliant stroke” that “succeeded.” But fast forward to today, and U.S. officials say Russia recently launched a “sophisticated cyberattack” against the Pentagon’s email system. Specifically, an unclassified system used by some 4,000 employees of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The attack was detected in July (though only just reported) and the network remains offline as the Pentagon works to seal the breach. Maybe they just need to fix it with another “reset” button. Comment | Share Texas' Voter ID Law Invalidated; but Is There a Silver Lining? A significant ruling was made this week regarding Texas' voter ID law, though there does appear to be somewhat of a silver lining. The Wall Street Journal has the lowdown: “A federal appeals court on Wednesday ruled Texas voter-identification requirements must be relaxed because they illegally obstruct blacks and Hispanics from casting ballots. But the decision, by the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans, also said a lower court erred in finding that the Texas Legislature intended its 2011 voter-ID law to harm minorities. The appeals court returned the case to the district judge to reconsider that question under standards more favorable to the state.” And that’s important. The Journal explains, “[A] finding [of discriminatory intent] can lead to the invalidation of the entire law. A finding of disparate impact, however, may result in a less stringent remedy, the court said. While it is possible the district court could still conclude the legislature intended to harm minorities, the Fifth Circuit suggested such a finding would be unlikely. So it laid out suggestions for a remedy the district judge could consider in addressing the voter-ID law’s impact on minorities while still respecting the legislature’s aim of reducing ‘the risk of in-person voter fraud by strengthening the forms of identification presented for voting.’” In summary, despite the Fifth Circuit striking down the law based on “disparate impact” nonsense, at least the judges didn’t perpetuate the myth that the law is intentionally racist. Let’s hope the lower court agrees. Comment | Share Share TODAY AT PATRIOTPOST.US ANALYSIS: Baltimore Homicide Spike Is the Harvest of Leftism Schumer Bucks Obama on Iran Before Running, Trump Asked Clinton for Advice SEC Creates Rule to Further Progressive’s Wage Agenda Three Arrested for Plotting Anti-Jade Helm Operation BEST OF RIGHT OPINION Charles Krauthammer: Just Who Is Helping Iran’s Hard-Liners? Mona Charen: The Core Dishonesty of Abortion Defenders Arnold Ahlert: Obama’s Lies About Bush and Iraq For more, visit Right Opinion. TOP HEADLINES Alabama Third State to Defund Planned Parenthood Pentagon’s Early Training of Syrian Rebels Seen as ‘Failure’ Liberal Seattle a Step Closer to New Gun Tax OPINION IN BRIEF Charles Krauthammer: “It is only because so many Democrats are defecting [from the Iran nuclear deal] that Obama gave [a] speech in the first place. And why he tried so mightily to turn the argument into a partisan issue — those warmongering Republicans attacking a president offering peace in our time. Obama stooped low, accusing the Republican caucus of making ‘common cause’ with the Iranian ‘hard-liners’ who shout ‘Death to America.’ Forget the gutter ad hominem. This is delusional. Does Obama really believe the Death-to-America hard-liners are some kind of KKK fringe? They are the government, for God’s sake — the entire state apparatus of the Islamic Republic from the Revolutionary Guards to the supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei who for decades have propagated, encouraged and applauded those very same ‘Death to America’ chants. Common cause with the Iranian hard-liners? Who more than Obama? For years, they conduct a rogue nuclear weapons program in defiance of multiple Security Council declarations of its illegality backed by sanctions and embargoes. Obama rewards them with a treaty that legitimates their entire nuclear program… With this agreement, this repressive, intolerant, aggressive, supremely anti-American regime — the chief exporter of terror in the world — is stronger and more entrenched than it has ever been. Common cause, indeed.” Comment | Share SHORT CUTS Insight: “We are students of words; we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) Upright: “I really don’t know if fiery debates like Thursday evening’s will wind up building interest and excitement in the Republican field, or wearing and tearing it down. I don’t know if we’ll look back on this as the beginning of a making or a breaking. Maybe the former. Anyway, it was alive. I wonder if Hillary Clinton is wondering how she can look alive.” —Peggy Noonan Alpha Jackass: “Essentially, when you watch [the GOP] debate, just imagine if you are one of the wealthiest people in this country and extremely greedy and selfish, and you’re going to have 10 candidates more or less talking about your needs and not the needs of the working people.” —Bernie Sanders Braying Jenny: “I’m tired of women being shamed and blamed and dismissed… When you attack Planned Parenthood, you attack women’s health. And when you attack women’s health, you attack America’s health.” —Hillary Clinton A hit from the Left: “I think [Jon] Stewart’s show demonstrated the decline and vacuity of contemporary comedy. I cannot stand that smug, snarky, superior tone. I hated the fact that young people were getting their news through that filter of sophomoric snark. … Stewart is certainly a highly successful TV personality, but I think he has debased political discourse.” —liberal academic dissident and feminist social critic Camille Paglia Late-night humor: “A new study came out and it finds that Michelle Obama’s ‘Let’s Move’ program may have caused people to actually gain weight. Apparently many mistook the slogan to mean, ‘Let’s move next door to a Cinnabon.’” —Conan O'Brien Comment | Share Semper Vigilans Fortis Paratus et Fidelis! Managing Editor Nate Jackson Join us in daily prayer for our Patriots in uniform — Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, Marines and Coast Guardsmen — standing in harm’s way in defense of Liberty, and for their families.

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Former DIA director: Obama White House made “willful decision” to support al-Qaeda and Muslim Brotherhood in Syria

August 8, 2015 10:24 am By Robert Spencer 18 Comments

Mehdi Hasan is a highly suspect analyst and Foreign Policy Journal appears to be a pro-jihad paleocon publication, and Al Jazeera is certainly a pro-jihad propaganda outlet. All that is noted, but if this transcript is accurate, former DIA director Michael Flynn is confirming that the Obama Administration knowingly decided to support al-Qaeda and the […]
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Lawyers for Minnesota jihad suspects say Islamic State not terror organization

August 8, 2015 9:49 am By Robert Spencer 8 Comments

“In one of several motions filed Friday in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis, the attorneys argued that despite its reputation for brutality, ISIL carries many characteristics of a government that tends to day-to-day business and that therefore criminal charges against the defendants are too broad.” Indeed. After all, during World War II, no one would […]
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Afghanistan: Jihadis murder 44, injure hundreds in wave of bombings

August 8, 2015 8:51 am By Robert Spencer 6 Comments

Once the U.S. troops are entirely gone or reduced to an insignificant symbolic presence, how long do you think the Kabul government will last before it is toppled and the Taliban is back in power? Months? Weeks? Days? The entire U.S. incursion into Afghanistan has been wrongheaded, mismanaged, goalless, rudderless, and monstrously wasteful. “44 dead, […]
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“The Islamic State is like a dream come true for me and all Muslim people”

August 8, 2015 8:29 am By Robert Spencer 5 Comments

If we had a sane and responsible government, John Kerry or Joe Biden or Jeh Johnson or some other official who has assured us that the Islamic State has nothing to do with Islam would explain why young Muslims in far-off Indonesia think that it is the embodiment of authentic Islam, and what their strategy […]
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Robert Spencer in PJM: Why doesn’t the Pope go to Syria?

August 8, 2015 7:56 am By Robert Spencer 11 Comments

In PJ Media, I discuss a good opportunity for “Muslim-Christian dialogue”: Let’s put the pope’s Muslim-Christian “dialogue” policy to the test. Here’s the perfect destination for the next papal trip: Raqqa, the de facto capital of the Islamic State’s caliphate. Last Sunday, Pope Francis called for the release of Gregorios Yohanna Ibrahim (the Syriac Orthodox […]
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Iraqi Christian: Islamic State jihadis blinded me after I refused to convert to Islam

August 8, 2015 10:02 am By Robert Spencer 7 Comments

The Qur’an says that “there is no compulsion in religion,” (2:256), but what constitutes “compulsion” is in the eye of the beholder. The institutionalized subjugation of the dhimma, with its regular humiliation and harassment, from which one can be freed for the simple price of converting to Islam, is not considered compulsion. Remember Steve Centanni […]
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Florida jihadi’s family: Plot “just another of Suarez’s harmless phases”

August 8, 2015 9:34 am By Robert Spencer 3 Comments

This weepy creepy puff piece from the Miami Herald presents Harlem Suarez, who hoped to commit mass murder with a jihad bomb on a Key West beach, as an innocent naif with only a glancing connection to reality, victimized in an entrapment scheme by “Islamophobic” FBI agents. The persistent problem with these claims of entrapment […]
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Jordanians “will join Islamic State because they learned in school that this is Islam”

August 8, 2015 8:41 am By Robert Spencer 5 Comments

“’Islamic State ideology is there, in our textbooks,’ said Zogan Obiedat, a former Education Ministry official who published a recent analysis of the texts. If Jordan were to be overrun by the militants, a large majority ‘will join IS because they learned in school that this is Islam,’ he said.” How did the textbooks in […]
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Ex-Soviet army officer who converted to Islam guilty on jihad terror charges

August 8, 2015 8:09 am By Robert Spencer 1 Comment

Why was Irek Hamidullin tried in a Virginia court? He is an enemy combatant. He was fighting the U.S. as part of the Taliban’s war against the U.S. If the U.S. had brought every Nazi officer it captured to the U.S. and made him stand trial, it would have slowed down the war effort, perhaps […]
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“We are committed to being active participants in our society, but it has to be on Islam’s terms”

August 8, 2015 7:45 am By Robert Spencer 7 Comments

Hizb ut-Tahrir’s statement is remarkable: it is a clear and unambiguous statement of a supremacist intent to replace Europe’s existing political system with an Islamic one. Authorities in Europe, however, continue relentlessly to ignore such statements and pretend that the vast majority of their Muslim populations oppose them. One month of Islam in Europe: “Sex […]

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Best of the First Republican Confab

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OK, the “debates” Thursday were endurance exercises, given the number of candidates on both the early and then prime-time stage. We heard from a lot of great Republicans, most of whom are conservatives and connect well with grassroots Patriots across the nation. Because, in both instances, they were answering different questions, there is not an easy “apples to apples” comparison but, as promised, I have compiled a handful of remarks from candidates on the prime-time stage that best represent their platforms.

I commend Bret Baier, Megyn Kelly and Chris Wallace for asking many good and tough questions — which you would not have heard from CNN moderators if only Democrats were on stage. I note there were some fratricidal bait questions, but most of the candidates avoided attacking each other, and focused on the serious issues threatening Liberty — the result of Barack Obama’s failed domestic policies, and the abysmal failure of Obama/Clinton foreign policies.

In the next 72 hours, the media will be saturated with polls, but as I noted Wednesday in my introduction for this first round matchup of Republicans, “Polls at this stage of a primary are not particularly relevant. I equate them with the weather in Alaska: If you don’t like it, wait 15 minutes.” But reputable polls are somewhat more relevant now that all the candidates have appeared on stage.

I have only one observation about the debate between the second-tier candidates. In my assessment there was one candidate who absolutely shined above all others, and that would be Carly Fiorina, who has earned her way into the first tier. Among other things, she is the “corporate” alternative to Don Trump.

The most consequential question of the whole night was the opener from Bret Baier, who asked for a show of hands from anyone who would not pledge their support for the eventual nominee and instead, run as an independent — and in all probability deliver the presidency to their Democrat opponent. As I noted in “The Trump Card” two weeks ago, “Trump has the potential of being a spoiler in 2016 if his populist campaign lasts beyond 2015 [because] he is a textbook pathological narcissist. He could launch a third ticket and hand the election to Hillary Clinton.”

Predictably, Trump was the only person on stage who raised his hand in response to Baier’s question, and I will leave his supporters to consider the implications.

So in order of their poll rankings entering the first debate, here are just a few remarks that say something significant about each candidate, followed by my own brief assessment of who gained ground on the main stage. (You can read a full annotated transcript of the debate is posted at The Washington Post.)

Donald Trump: “I think the big problem this country has is being politically correct. … We don’t have time for tone. We have to go out and get the job done. … We need to build a wall, and it has to be built quickly. And I don’t mind having a big, beautiful door in that wall so that people to come into this country legally. … [A single-payer health care system] works in Canada, it works incredibly well in Scotland. … I gave to many people, before this, before two months ago, I was a businessman. I give to everybody. When they call, I give. And do you know what? When I need something from them two years later, three years later, I call them, they are there for me. I’ll tell you what, with Hillary Clinton, I said, ‘Be at my wedding,’ and she came to my wedding. You know why? She didn’t have a choice because I gave.”

Note: I chose these remarks because Trump’s popularity is based almost solely on his indifference to “PC” and “tone.” However, the most telling thing about Trump was not in his answers, but in this question from Kelly: “Mr. Trump, in 1999, you said you were, quote, ‘very pro-choice,’ even supporting partial-birth abortion. You favored an assault weapons ban as well. In 2004, you said in most cases you identified as a Democrat. Even in this campaign, your critics say you often sound more like a Democrat than a Republican, calling several of your opponents on the stage things like clowns and puppets. When did you actually become a Republican?” In response, Trump said, “As far as being a Republican is concerned, I come from a place, New York City, which is virtually, I mean, it is almost exclusively Democrat. And I have really started to see some of the negatives.”

Jeb Bush: “I’m going to have to earn this. Maybe the barrier — the bar’s even higher for me. That’s fine. I’ve got a record in Florida. I’m proud of my dad, and I’m certainly proud of my brother… I am my own man. I governed as a conservative, and I governed effectively. And the net effect was, during my eight years, 1.3 million jobs were created. We left the state better off because I applied conservative principles in a purple state the right way, and people rose up. … The new normal of 2% [GDP] that the Left is saying you can’t do anything about is so dangerous for our country. There’s six million people living in poverty today, more than when Barack Obama got elected. 6.5 million people are working part-time, most of whom want to work full-time. We’ve created rules and taxes on top of every aspiration of people, and the net result is we’re not growing fast, income is not growing. A 4% growth strategy means you fix a convoluted tax code. You get in and you change every aspect of regulations that are job killers. You get rid of ObamaCare and replace it with something that doesn’t suppress wages and kill jobs.”

Scott Walker: “Let’s be clear, we should be talking about Hillary Clinton … because everywhere in the world that Hillary Clinton touched is more messed up today than before she and the president [came to power]. … It’s sad to think right now, but probably the Russian and Chinese government know more about Hillary Clinton’s email server than do the members of the United States Congress. … This is not just bad with Iran, this is bad with ISIS. It is tied together, and once and for all, we need a leader who’s going to stand up and do something about it.”

Mike Huckabee: “It seems like this election has been a whole lot about a person who’s very high in the polls, that doesn’t have a clue about how to govern. A person who has been filled with scandals, and who could not lead. Of course, I’m talking about Hillary Clinton. … The problem is we have a Wall Street-to-Washington access of power that has controlled the political climate. The donor class feeds the political class who does the dance that the donor class wants. And the result is the federal government keeps getting bigger. Every person on this stage who has been a governor will tell that you the biggest fight they had was not the other party. Wasn’t even the legislature. It was the federal government, who continually put mandates on the states that we had to suck up and pay for. And the fact is there are a lot of things happening at the federal level that are absolutely beyond the jurisdiction of the Constitution.”

Ben Carson: “America became a great nation early on not because it was flooded with politicians, but because it was flooded with people who understood the value of personal responsibility, hard work, creativity, innovation. And that’s what will get us on the right track now, as well. … If I was trying to destroy this country, what I would do is find a way to drive wedges between all the people, drive the debt to an unsustainable level, and then step off the stage as a world leader and let our enemies increase while we decreased our [military capability].”

Ted Cruz: “I believe the American people are looking for someone to speak the truth. If you’re looking for someone to go to Washington, to go along to get along, to agree with the career politicians in both parties who get in bed with the lobbyists and special interests, then I ain’t your guy. … We see lots of ‘campaign conservatives.’ But if we’re going to win in 2016, we need a consistent conservative, someone who has been a fiscal conservative, a social conservative, a national security conservative. … We need a commander in chief that speaks the truth. We will not defeat radical Islamic terrorism so long as we have a president unwilling the utter the words ‘radical Islamic terrorism.’”

Marco Rubio: “This election cannot be a résumé competition. It’s important to be qualified, but if this election is a résumé competition, then Hillary Clinton’s going to be the next president because she’s been in office and in government longer than anybody else running here tonight. … Here’s what this election better be about: This election better be about the future, not the past. It better be about the issues our nation and the world is facing today, not simply the issues we once faced. … God has blessed us. He has blessed the Republican Party with some very good candidates. The Democrats can’t even find one. … What I have advocated is that we pass law in this country that says all human life at every stage of its development is worthy of protection. In fact, I think that law already exists. It is called the Constitution of the United States. Future generations will look back at this history of our country and call us barbarians for murdering millions of babies who we never gave the chance to live. … I run for president because I believe that we can’t just save the American dream; we can expand it to reach more people and change more lives than ever before.”

Rand Paul: “This is what’s wrong. [Mr. Trump] buys and sells politicians of all stripes… He’s already hedging his bet on the Clintons. He’s already hedging his bets because he’s used to buying politicians. … The Fourth Amendment was what we fought the Revolution over! John Adams said it was the spark that led to our war for independence, and I’m proud of standing for the Bill of Rights, and I will continue to stand for the Bill of Rights. … I don’t want my marriage or my guns registered in Washington.”

Chris Christie: “I’m the only person on this stage who’s actually filed applications under the Patriot Act, who has gone before the … Foreign Intelligence Service court, who has prosecuted and investigated and jailed terrorists in this country after September 11th. … This is not theoretical to me. I went to the funerals. We lost friends of ours in the Trade Center that day. … I will make no apologies, ever, for protecting the lives and the safety of the American people. We have to give more tools to our folks to be able to do that, not fewer, and then trust those people and oversee them to do it the right way. … If we don’t deal with [entitlement reform], it will bankrupt our country or lead to massive tax increases — neither one that we want in this country.”

John Kasich: “The court has ruled [on same-sex marriage], and I said we’ll accept it. And guess what, I just went to a wedding of a friend of mine who happens to be gay. Because somebody doesn’t think the way I do, doesn’t mean that I can’t care about them or can’t love them.”

Finally, before giving my assessment of this first matchup, I am going to do what no other analyst will do today and disclose my own bias. I come into this first round thinking that the most competitive presidential ticket in 2016 would be Walker/Rubio. I am not set on that ticket. That being said, I have subjectively rated the performance of each candidate as either better than I expected, flat or worse than I expected, going into the debate.

So in order of their poll rankings entering the first debate: Donald Trump, flat; Jeb Bush, flat; Scott Walker, flat; Mike Huckabee, better; Ben Carson, flat; Ted Cruz, better; Marco Rubio, better; Rand Paul, worse; Chris Christie, worse; and John Kasich, worse.

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With Economy Running as Expected, Will Rates Rise?

Welcome to the new normal. Just as The Wall Street Journal predicted, the U.S. added 215,000 jobs in July and the unemployment rate remained at 5.3%. For the last few months, the economy has been plodding along, adding 200,000 or so jobs every month, and if you were to tally the words used in the Bureau of Labor Statistics' press releases, “unchanged” would rank high. The labor force participation rate sits at 62.6% — with a record 93,770,000 Americans not working. The great machine of the American economy still has not begun to roar after the 2008 crash. Yet to the Federal Reserve Bank, there may be some encouraging numbers, enough for them to possibly pull the lever and raise interest rates in the coming months. According to BLS’s July jobs report, the U-6 measure of unemployment edged down 0.1 percentage point to 10.4% — a number well above pre-recession levels. Wages, an economic indicator lagging for months despite job growth, increased 5 cents to a $24.99 hourly wage for the average American worker. Furthermore, BLS revised up the jobs numbers for May and June, saying there were an additional 14,000 jobs added in those two months. This may be enough for the Fed to decide that it’s time raise interest rates. Fed Chairwoman Janet Yellen has news conferences scheduled for Sept. 12, Dec. 16 and March 16. Look for “unchanged” to change.

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Russia Hacks Pentagon, Which Can’t Find ‘Reset’ Button

Russia is “our number one geopolitical foe,” Mitt Romney said repeatedly in 2012. Barack Obama dismissed it out of hand at the time, saying, “Russia is a regional power that is threatening some of its immediate neighbors, not out of strength, but out of weakness. Russia’s actions are a problem [but] they don’t pose the number one national security threat to the United States.” He both underestimated the problem and misstated Romney’s assertion. Instead, he and his administration — led in part by then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton — pursued a strategy of what they arrogantly called “smart power.” That included the infamous “reset” button Hillary presented to her Russian counterpart. She later boasted of it being a “brilliant stroke” that “succeeded.” But fast forward to today, and U.S. officials say Russia recently launched a “sophisticated cyberattack” against the Pentagon’s email system. Specifically, an unclassified system used by some 4,000 employees of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The attack was detected in July (though only just reported) and the network remains offline as the Pentagon works to seal the breach. Maybe they just need to fix it with another “reset” button.

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Texas' Voter ID Law Invalidated; but Is There a Silver Lining?

A significant ruling was made this week regarding Texas' voter ID law, though there does appear to be somewhat of a silver lining. The Wall Street Journal has the lowdown: “A federal appeals court on Wednesday ruled Texas voter-identification requirements must be relaxed because they illegally obstruct blacks and Hispanics from casting ballots. But the decision, by the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans, also said a lower court erred in finding that the Texas Legislature intended its 2011 voter-ID law to harm minorities. The appeals court returned the case to the district judge to reconsider that question under standards more favorable to the state.” And that’s important. The Journal explains, “[A] finding [of discriminatory intent] can lead to the invalidation of the entire law. A finding of disparate impact, however, may result in a less stringent remedy, the court said. While it is possible the district court could still conclude the legislature intended to harm minorities, the Fifth Circuit suggested such a finding would be unlikely. So it laid out suggestions for a remedy the district judge could consider in addressing the voter-ID law’s impact on minorities while still respecting the legislature’s aim of reducing ‘the risk of in-person voter fraud by strengthening the forms of identification presented for voting.’” In summary, despite the Fifth Circuit striking down the law based on “disparate impact” nonsense, at least the judges didn’t perpetuate the myth that the law is intentionally racist. Let’s hope the lower court agrees.

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Charles Krauthammer: “It is only because so many Democrats are defecting [from the Iran nuclear deal] that Obama gave [a] speech in the first place. And why he tried so mightily to turn the argument into a partisan issue — those warmongering Republicans attacking a president offering peace in our time. Obama stooped low, accusing the Republican caucus of making ‘common cause’ with the Iranian ‘hard-liners’ who shout ‘Death to America.’ Forget the gutter ad hominem. This is delusional. Does Obama really believe the Death-to-America hard-liners are some kind of KKK fringe? They are the government, for God’s sake — the entire state apparatus of the Islamic Republic from the Revolutionary Guards to the supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei who for decades have propagated, encouraged and applauded those very same ‘Death to America’ chants. Common cause with the Iranian hard-liners? Who more than Obama? For years, they conduct a rogue nuclear weapons program in defiance of multiple Security Council declarations of its illegality backed by sanctions and embargoes. Obama rewards them with a treaty that legitimates their entire nuclear program… With this agreement, this repressive, intolerant, aggressive, supremely anti-American regime — the chief exporter of terror in the world — is stronger and more entrenched than it has ever been. Common cause, indeed.”

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Insight: “We are students of words; we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

Upright: “I really don’t know if fiery debates like Thursday evening’s will wind up building interest and excitement in the Republican field, or wearing and tearing it down. I don’t know if we’ll look back on this as the beginning of a making or a breaking. Maybe the former. Anyway, it was alive. I wonder if Hillary Clinton is wondering how she can look alive.” —Peggy Noonan

Alpha Jackass: “Essentially, when you watch [the GOP] debate, just imagine if you are one of the wealthiest people in this country and extremely greedy and selfish, and you’re going to have 10 candidates more or less talking about your needs and not the needs of the working people.” —Bernie Sanders

Braying Jenny: “I’m tired of women being shamed and blamed and dismissed… When you attack Planned Parenthood, you attack women’s health. And when you attack women’s health, you attack America’s health.” —Hillary Clinton

A hit from the Left: “I think [Jon] Stewart’s show demonstrated the decline and vacuity of contemporary comedy. I cannot stand that smug, snarky, superior tone. I hated the fact that young people were getting their news through that filter of sophomoric snark. … Stewart is certainly a highly successful TV personality, but I think he has debased political discourse.” —liberal academic dissident and feminist social critic Camille Paglia

Late-night humor: “A new study came out and it finds that Michelle Obama’s ‘Let’s Move’ program may have caused people to actually gain weight. Apparently many mistook the slogan to mean, ‘Let’s move next door to a Cinnabon.’” —Conan O'Brien

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Polish convert to Islam: “We will hold mass executions in St. Peter’s Square”

The Islamic State has previously vowed: “We will conquer your Rome, break your crosses, and enslave your women, by the permission of Allah.” “Polish male convert for ISIS: You will die like all infidels,” RMF FM 24 (translated by Weronika Kania), August 5, 2015: National radio RMF FM has recently publicized parts of interview with […]

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Virginia: Muslim firefighter put on paid leave for saying of cops, “We have to start putting them in body bags”

Threaten the police, get a paid vacation. This apparently has to do not with jihad but with today’s rampant race-baiting and demonization of the police, but it is noteworthy that a man whose faith so often prescribes violence as a solution to problems would think of this as a solution to the problem of alleged […]

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Muslim cleric: A woman must not have sex with her slave; she can marry him, turning him into her master

Aside from the lurid details about Sheikh Mashhoor bin Hasan Al-Salman’s bordello Paradise and his view of marriage as a master/slave relationship, note how he takes slavery for granted. He never questions the idea that a woman might own a slave. Slavery is taken for granted in the Qur’an and Islamic law, and so even […]

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Mauritania frees senior Malian Islamic jihadist

“Freeing an individual of this calibre will obviously allow him to again take up his jihadist activities and continue to commit crimes.” Why did Mauritania free such a man? Could it be that the Mauritanian government is sympathetic to his cause? That seems obvious, but no Western government will face it or its implications. “Mauritania […]

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Jamie Glazov Moment – How Leftists Hate Muslims

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Islamic State threatens “to slaughter each infidel” in Germany and Austria

“In the newly released five-minute video, two German-speaking Islamic State (IS formerly ISIS/ISIL) extremists call on the European Muslims to join the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq, ‘to wage Jihad’ in Germany and Austria, and ‘to slaughter each infidel’ in their own houses and ‘everywhere.’” They have issued similar threats against the United States. […]

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Chattanooga Officer Won’t Be Charged

Lt. Cmdr. Tim White, the U.S. Navy officer who returned fire at the jihadi in the attack in Chattanooga, will not face charges, the Navy said Wednesday, contrary to some earlier reports. Military bases were on high alert at the time of the attack, and it’s possible White was viewed as taking his own initiative as the commanding officer. Such officers have more discretionary ability than their personnel do. As Mark Alexander noted, while the Navy will not be bringing charges against White, this does not preclude some other disciplinary action against him, and we will keep you posted. The ban on firearms at military installations is foolish and absurd, and given that Lt. Cmdr. White’s actions were heroic and saved lives we certainly hope the JAG review will determine no grounds for disciplinary action.

In related news, the FBI has issued an alert regarding threats to U.S. military families in Colorado and Wyoming. Reports indicate intimidation and harassment by “Middle Eastern males” has been a problem in the first half of this year. But we have an administration (and complicit media) more concerned with political correctness than identifying and countering the radical Islamic threat. Threatened families in Colorado should contact the FBI Fort Collins Resident Agency at (970) 663-1028. In Wyoming, contact the FBI Cheyenne Resident Agency at (307) 632-6224.

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Obama’s Clean Power Plan Targets Coal Industry

And just like that, the Obama administration assumes the kind of power that controls whole segments of the U.S. economy. Again. The Clean Power Plan will more than decimate the coal industry, as an American Action Forum report finds that this regulation will close 66 power plants, destroy 125,800 jobs and slash the coal industry by 48% by 2030. You’d think Americans would want some kind of input through Congress on a government decree of that scope, but that’s the creep of regulation for you. Already, the coal industry has lost 47,500 jobs since the beginning of Obama’s term. “These troubling figures are also static, one-time snapshots at industry employment,” writes AAF Director of Regulatory Policy Sam Batkins. “They hardly capture the true economic costs to the region and the local community of losing so many jobs so quickly. The PricewaterhouseCoopers study implying that one energy job supports 3.7 additional jobs hints at the total economic damage, but remaking an entire industry in one administration is no small feat.” But, to Obama, those union jobs are just collateral damage on his way to appease the envirofascists.

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Sometimes, People Are Punished for Sending Classified Email

Here’s an interesting contrast. On the one hand, we have a Marine officer who argues he was trying to warn of dire consequences and was subsequently punished for communicating classified material via an unclassified email network. On the other hand, Hillary Clinton — for no other reason than political expediency — appears to have routinely communicated similarly sensitive (and probably even more important) information via unclassified means and thinks she’s above reproach. Her lawyer’s recent claim that “nothing she sent was marked as classified” is about par for her defense. Of course it wasn’t marked as classified, since emails generated and circulated on unclassified networks — particularly personally operated ones — don’t even allow the option of choosing a classified label, unlike the classified networks that allow you to chose anything from “unclassified” up to the highest clearance for that network (usually “secret” with caveats). That said, while the comparison is instructive, we’re not particularly sympathetic to the Marine major. There’s probably more to the story and we don’t believe a panel of officers would arbitrarily seek to “retaliate” against him (as he alleges) because of his views. If they recommended discharge, he likely communicated more than just a warning of a potential threat. Just as Hillary almost certainly communicated more sensitive or classified information (not just documents) than she’ll ever admit.

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Obama’s Far Tougher on Political Opponents Than Iran

By Dan Gilmore

In the 1980s, the federal government’s nuclear energy program created a problem. In places like the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico, the government disposed its nuclear waste underground. Like any dump, it would eventually be sealed up and abandoned. But unlike a candy wrapper or a broken toaster, nuclear waste leaks radiation for hundreds of thousands of years before it reaches half-life. In the meantime, the government would post signs warning people away.

But what would the warning signs mean to humans 10,000 years in the future? Language evolves. Symbols change meaning. What could they use to communicate the danger that lay beneath? The urgency to warn future generations created a field called “nuclear semiotics.”

Contrast that to the flippancy with which Barack Obama approaches the Iranian deal supposedly ensuring nonproliferation of nuclear weapons.

Obama visited American University Wednesday to lobby for the Iran nuclear deal before jetting off to a Martha’s Vineyard vacation. He was ostensibly aiming to give the handful of undecided lawmakers something to think about over their August recess, but he didn’t appear to be interested in persuading anyone.

“After two years of negotiations, we have achieved a detailed arrangement that permanently prohibits Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon,” Obama said. Except his Iran deal makes two assumptions irreconcilable with human nature: That Iran doesn’t want the bomb and that weak-kneed bureaucratic oversight is a sufficient deterrent.

Iran agreed to halt nuclear research, allow some inspections and dispose of some of its nuclear reserves for 15 years in exchange for the lifting the economic sanctions levied against it. Iran will receive about $150 billion in sanctions relief over the next 16 months, which the mullahs probably aren’t going to use on education or building bridges.

Obama was divisive. To him, you either favor his deal, or you want “some sort of war.” It’s “not just the best choice among alternatives,” he boasted, “this is the strongest non-proliferation agreement ever negotiated.” Thanks to him, a Nobel Peace Prize winner.

No, sanctions are the alternative, not war.

If the deal falls apart, he warned, then Iran will have no check on its development of nuclear weapons. If lawmakers approve the deal, he promised, then Iran will comply. The world will be safe, he assures. He also told us if we liked our health insurance plan we could keep it.

We certainly know what Obama thinks of the domestic dissenters to his plan. “Many of the same people who argued for the war in Iraq are now making the case against the Iran nuclear deal,” Obama said. It’s more of the politically hostile, take-no-prisoners approach we’ve come to expect from this executive. His administration will sweat it out for two years across the table from Iran, but when it comes to people that have taken the same oath of office, the knives come out.

For Obama, the debate over this deal comes down to the enlightened moderates and the extremists. “Just because Iranian hardliners chant ‘death to America’ does not mean that that’s what all Iranians believe,” he lectured. “In fact, it’s those hardliners who are most comfortable with the status quo. It’s those hardliners chanting ‘death to America’ who have been most opposed to the deal. They are making a common cause with the Republican caucus.”

Not only is this a frighteningly new rhetorical low for Obama, Charles Krauthammer explains, “what is even worse here is how delusional he is.” Obama “is pretending that those who chant death to America are some kind of KKK fringe in Iran,” Krauthammer elaborated. “The people leading the chant are the Revolutionary Guard, the army, the parliamentary leaders and of course … the supreme leader himself in a speech he made just a few days after the signing of the agreement.”

This is the best Obama the Great Orator can muster. This is the speech that is supposed to highlight his legacy and mastery of politics. Seven years from when an Illinois senator wowed audiences, he’s reduced to conniving pot shots. The peace prize winner is virtually promising war. But then again, he’s not aiming for Republican support, or even skeptical Democrats — all he needs is a third of the House and Senate to back his deal.

Obama admits his deal isn’t perfect. Israel hates it. As for the billions of dollars released after the lifting of sanctions, he concedes, “[L]et’s stipulate that some of that money will flow to activities that we object to.” That would be supporting the terrorists of Hezbollah and Syria’s Assad regime, and generally extending Iranian hegemony. But what’s funding a little terrorism when Obama’s legacy is at stake?

And, by the way, the people getting that $150 billion are the people chanting “death to America.”

While Obama was strong-arming for his deal, Michael Singh, managing director of The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, was testifying to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee about it. Nuclear weapons development needs three things, Singh said: The ability to create fuel, a program to develop the weapons and a way to deliver the bomb to ground zero. Obama’s deal allows Iran to continue to enrich uranium, and it does nothing to curb the nation’s ballistic missile program. Furthermore, programs to develop the bomb “tend to be secretive by their very nature.”

Obama leaves America and the rest of the world with scant assurance that Iran will not pursue the bomb. For nonproliferation to hold, Iran has to have no desire for the weapon and the international community must be extremely vigilant for any violations.

In fact, the U.S. intelligence community says Iran is already sanitizing its military site at Parchin, a facility suspected of nuclear activity. And the State Department apparently has no idea what’s going on.

Obama made much in his speech about the courage it takes to pursue peace. But this isn’t courage; it’s the gripes and lectures of a petulant narcissist in pursuit of a legacy.

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Victor Davis Hanson: “There are lots of strange paradoxes in the current frenzied liberal dissection of past sins. One, a historic figure must be near perfect in all dimensions of his or her complex life to now pass progressive muster. That [Thomas] Jefferson is responsible for helping to establish many of the cherished human rights now enshrined in American life apparently cannot offset the transgression of having owned slaves. Two, today’s moral standards are always considered superior to those of the past. Ethical sense supposedly always improves with time. However, would American society of 1915 have allowed a federally supported agency such as Planned Parenthood to cut apart aborted fetuses to sell infant body parts? … The past is not simplistic ‘gotcha’ melodrama in which we convict figures of history by tabulating their sins on today’s moral scorecards. Instead, history is tragedy. It is complex. Moral assessments are dicey. With some humility, we must balance past and current ethical standards, as well as the elements of the good and the bad present in every life. And we must avoid cheap, politicized moralizing that often tells us more about the ethics and ignorance of today’s grand inquisitors than the targets of their inquisitions.”

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Insight: “The task of weaning various people and groups from the national nipple will not be easy. The sound of whines, bawls, screams and invective will fill the air as the agony of withdrawal pangs finds voice.” —columnist Linda Bowles (1952-2003)

Alpha Jackass: “I know it’s easy to play on people’s fears, to magnify threats, to compare any attempt at diplomacy to Munich. But none of these arguments hold up. They didn’t back in 2002 and 2003; they shouldn’t now. The same mindset, in many cases offered by the same people who seem to have no compunction with being repeatedly wrong, led to a war that did more to strengthen Iran, more to isolate the United States than anything we have done in the decades before or since.” —Barack Obama

Demo-gogues: “I recognize that Prime Minister Netanyahu disagrees — disagrees strongly. I do not doubt his sincerity. But I believe he is wrong. I believe the facts support this deal. I believe they are in America’s interest and Israel’s interest. And as President of the United States, it would be an abrogation of my constitutional duty to act against my best judgment simply because it causes temporary friction with a dear friend and ally.” —Barack Obama (This from the man who thought exchanging jihadi terrorists for deserter Bowe Bergdahl was good judgment.)

The BIG lie: “Let me just tell you this. We have talked to the experts. There is no way to hide your development of a nuclear bomb.” —Dick Durbin (He’s right. Once it explodes, the whole world knows it.)

Non Compos Mentis: “I don’t know [if Iran wants to wipe Israel off the map]. … They’ve signed on to an agreement where they say they’ll never try and make [a nuclear bomb] and we have a mechanism in place where we can prove that. So I don’t want to get locked into that debate. I think it’s a waste of time here.” —John Kerry

And last… “Hillary Clinton is having a bad week. Actually, we’ve discerned an emerging pattern: Every time a week has seven days, it turns out to be bad for Mrs. Clinton.” —James Taranto

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Stopping the Clean Power Plan Will Save $2.5 Trillion

After more than a year of waiting, Barack Obama this week unveiled the final iteration of the Clean Power Plan, the EPA’s biggest environmental regulation issued to date. According to EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy, the estimated annual cost by 2030 will be $8.4 billion. But as with all government estimates, that number largely omits a comprehensive examination of the economic toll. When it comes to Obama’s agenda, we’re usually talking figures in the trillions of dollars, and this particular regulation is no different. A Heritage Foundation study published last month found that, by 2030, the Clean Power Plan will result in “[a] loss of more than $2.5 trillion (inflation-adjusted) in aggregate gross domestic product (GDP).” On the one hand, you have McCarthy advertising $8.4 billion in annual costs — a relatively minor expense all things considered — while on the other hand, an independent study puts that figure at $2.5 trillion over the next 15 years. The disparity is huge, and it can’t be blamed on a rounding error. Nor is it right-wing think-tank conspiracy. Take ObamaCare, for instance. What was originally calculated by the Congressional Budget Office to cost American taxpayers less than $1 trillion over a decade ballooned to more than $2 trillion, according to new CBO figures. You’ll discover a familiar trend with any government program. That’s why the most important thing Republicans can do is put a stop to the Clean Power Plan before it truly gets started.

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Vacation Shows Obama Cocky in Iran Deal

The clock is winding down until Congress will vote in September to either approve or reject the nuclear deal the Obama administration struck with Iran. But despite nearly everyone in Washington taking vacation a month before the vote, the horse race must go on, and the speculation on how each lawmaker will vote is running rampant. House Republicans say they have enough votes to defeat the deal. Meanwhile, the Senate may be a handful of votes away from having a veto-proof consensus against the deal. The decision may come down to the heir to Democrat Senate leadership and supporter of Israel Chuck Schumer. As for Barack Obama, he’s confident that his foreign policy legacy is in the bag — at least for now. He will read a speech from a teleprompter at American University later today advocating the deal — echoing a speech John F. Kennedy made in 1963 — and then jet off to Martha’s Vineyard for a two-week vacation. In doing so, Obama is overestimating his oratorical chops and underestimating the opposition to the deal. Obama wants everyone to believe that if Congress rejects the deal war will come — illustrated by the fact that those who supported the Iraq war want this “peace” deal squashed. But Obama sits thousands of miles away from the situation. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Iran would return to the negotiation table if this deal is rejected “because they need this deal.”

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Hate Group Calls for Racial Violence — Where’s Obama?

The Nation of Islam was founded in 1930, and is now a wealthy and well-known black organization. But just how far out in left field is the group? They’re drunk and in the bleachers. Even the leftist Southern Poverty Law Center, which specializes in identifying so-called hate groups — most of which just happen to be conservative, or at least neo-Nazi so they can pin it on conservatives — lists the Nation of Islam as a hate group. SPLC says, “[I]ts bizarre theology of innate black superiority over whites — a belief system vehemently and consistently rejected by mainstream Muslims — and the deeply racist, anti-Semitic and anti-gay rhetoric of its leaders, including top minister Louis Farrakhan, have earned the NOI a prominent position in the ranks of organized hate.”

In the latest quote for the file, Farrakhan recently told a crowd at Miami’s Mt. Zion Baptist Church, “I’m looking for 10,000 in the midst of a million. Ten thousand fearless men who say death is sweeter than continued life under tyranny. Death is sweeter than continuing to live and bury our children while the white folks give our killers hamburgers. Death is sweeter than watching us slaughter each other to the joy of a 400-year-old enemy. Death is sweeter. The Quran teaches persecution is worse than slaughter. Then it says retaliation is prescribed in matters of the slain. Retaliation is a prescription from God to calm the breasts of those whose children have been slain. So if the federal government won’t intercede in our affairs, then we must rise up and kill those who kill us; stalk them and kill them and let them feel the pain of death that we are feeling!”

He’s talking about the deaths of a few black men at the hands of white police officers. And it sure sounds like he’s inciting violence. Will the Justice Department of Barack Obama, himself a disciple of hate, look into this?

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CMP Continues to Turn Up the Heat on Planned Parenthood

By Nate Jackson

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While Planned Parenthood’s $500 million in annual taxpayer funding survived a Senate vote Monday, there was a silver lining. In 2007, eight Republicans supported funding PP; Monday, just one did — Sen. Mark Kirk of Illinois. And there are still seven unreleased videos from the Center for Medical Progress (CMP) to turn up the political pressure. The fifth one dropped Tuesday.

On Monday, U.S. District Judge William Orrick, who raised $230,000 for Barack Obama, extended a temporary restraining order against the release of some video material until the end of the month. National Abortion Federation and its members claim they will suffer harassment and possibly violence due to their part in the videos, and a hearing will take place Aug. 27 on a possible permanent injunction.

According to The Hill, “A lawyer representing The Center for Medical Progress said it would abide by Orrick’s order, noting the materials barred from release in the ruling represented ‘a small percentage’ of its overall collection.” The delay also happens to ensure the videos stay in the news even longer.

In related news, federal Judge B. Lynn Winmill threw out an Idaho law prohibiting undercover video of agricultural facilities by animal-rights activists on the grounds that “food and worker safety are matters of public concern.” Is that any less true of the hundreds of thousands of babies aborted each year by an organization hauling in half a billion in taxpayer dollars?

And, so, the fifth video (GRAPHIC CONTENT WARNING).

It begins with PP President Cecile Richards insisting, “Planned Parenthood makes zero profit on any fetal tissue donations.”

But Melissa Farrell, director of research for Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast, explains that harvesting provides a good “revenue stream” for PP, which “contributes so much to our bottom line.” She notes, “If we alter our process, and we are able to obtain intact fetal cadavers, we can make it part of the budget that any dissections are ‘this,’ and splitting the specimens into different shipments is ‘this.’ It’s all just a matter of line items.”

In fact, she admitted, “[W]e deviate from our standard in order to” obtain intact specimens. Furthermore, “Some of our doctors in the past have projects and they’re collecting the specimens, so they do it in a way that they get the best specimens, so I know it can happen.”

Doesn’t sound like mere expense reimbursement, does it?

According to CMP, “The sale or purchase of human fetal tissue is a federal felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison or a fine of up to $500,000 (42 U.S.C. 289g-2). Federal law also requires that no alteration in the timing or method of abortion be done for the purposes of fetal tissue collection (42 U.S.C. 289g-1).”

It certainly seems clear from the video evidence that Planned Parenthood and other companies are engaged in illegal harvesting. Democrats in Congress will continue to look the other way and insist this is all about “women’s health,” but the truth is plain to see.

Finally, the video turns to the lab, where the undercover reporters ask for “fresh specimens” to determine their quality. A lab worker laughs, and says, “We had a really long day, and they’re all mixed up together in a bag.” She does manage to produce one of a set of 20-week-old twins (pulled from the freezer), and the technicians sort through lungs, intestines and limbs, while talking about how “organs come out really, really well — almost intact.”

If you aren’t appalled, you aren’t paying attention.

Project Lead David Daleiden elaborates on the significance: “This is now the fifth member of Planned Parenthood leadership discussing payments for aborted baby parts without any connection to actual costs of so-called tissue ‘donation.’ Planned Parenthood’s system-wide conspiracy to evade the law and make money off of aborted fetal tissue is now undeniable.” Daleiden continues, “Anyone who watches these videos knows that Planned Parenthood is engaged in barbaric practices and human rights abuses that must end. There is no reason for an organization that uses illegal abortion methods to sell baby parts and commit such atrocities against humanity to still receive over $500 million each year from taxpayers.”

Indeed, the videos reveal the banality of evil in a visceral way that the Left’s euphemisms deliberately attempt to obscure. It’s obvious that the Planned Parenthood workers know they’re dealing with something that’s at a minimum uncomfortable, because each videoed subject is at great pains to choose words carefully. And yet the technicians are calloused souls, who can laugh about body parts in a bag. There are seven more videos to go, and, if the pattern holds, they might be even worse.

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Walter Williams: “The uninformed assumption made by judges, lawyers and academics is that but for the fact of racial and sex discrimination, we all would be distributed across occupations, educational backgrounds and other socio-economic characteristics according to our percentages in the population. Such a vision is absolute nonsense. … According to a recent study conducted by Bond University in Australia, sharks are nine times likelier to attack and kill men than they are women. Such a disproportionality leads to only one conclusion: Sharks are sexist. Another disturbing sex disparity is that despite the fact that men are 50 percent of the population and so are women, men are struck by lightning six times as often as women. Of those killed by lightning, 82 percent are men. I wonder what whoever is in charge of lightning has against men. Differences are seen by many as signs of inequality. Nobel laureate Milton Friedman put it best: ‘A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.’ Equality in conjunction with the general rules of law is the only kind of equality conducive to liberty that can be secured without destroying liberty.”

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Insight: “Most Americans aren’t the sort of citizens the Founding Fathers expected; they are contented serfs. Far from being active critics of government, they assume that its might makes it right.” —columnist Joseph Sobran (1946-2010)

Desperate to reframe the debate: “It’s a war on women’s health, it’s not about abortion. Planned Parenthood spends 97% of its dollars on non-abortion related services. … They serve 2.7 million people in America every year, 500,000 of those happen to be Hispanic. It is a very important health care organization, and this attack started from the day Planned Parenthood was founded in 1916, when the founder of Planned Parenthood was arrested for trying to distribute birth control to poor women. So it’s a constant battle here. I can’t believe in this century we are still battling against women’s health.” —Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) (Planned Parenthood’s founder, Margaret Sanger, was a eugenicist — hardly someone to look up to.)

Alpha Jackass: “It’s our responsibility in the Senate to assure that American women have access to care. It’s our obligation to protect our wives, our sisters, our daughters, our granddaughters — protect them from the absurd policies of a Republican Party that’s lost its moral compass.” —Harry Reid on the GOP effort to defund Planned Parenthood

Demo-gogues: “I will defend Planned Parenthood. I think a lot of this attack, to be honest with you, comes from people who simply do not believe that a woman should have a right to control her own body. That’s the motive.” —Bernie Sanders, who added, “I have not seen the videos.” (The videos don’t exactly show a “woman’s body” being dissected in a petri dish and sold for spare parts, do they?)

And last… “Joe Biden was reported Friday seriously considering entering the race for the Democratic Party nomination for president. He doesn’t really need the job. After his term of office as vice president is over Joe Biden has a standing offer in Hollywood to play the villain in all the pepper spray commercials.” —Argus Hamilton

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August 5, 2015 9:30 am By Robert Spencer 1 Comment

Islamic jihadists took control of a large portion of Mali several years ago and established a Sharia state, but the French drove them out. They have, however, not given up. Ansar Dine means Helpers of the Religion. Not that this has anything to do with Islam. “10 soldiers killed in attack on Mali camp: military,” […]
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Kerry: Rejecting deal would be “screwing” the ayatollah

August 5, 2015 8:13 am By Robert Spencer 3 Comments

Kerry asserts here that the deal makes it “physically impossible” for Iran to make a nuclear bomb. If everything Kerry says in this interview were true, it is hard to see why the Israelis or the Republicans would have the slightest objection to the deal. Their reading of the agreement with Iran differs sharply from […]
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August 5, 2015 4:42 am By Robert Spencer 6 Comments

If and when lone jihadis murder more Americans, law enforcement and government officials will once again gather around and scratch their heads, saying they have no earthly idea what the killer’s motive could possibly have been. “Al Qaeda branch calls for new attacks against United States,” by Dugald McConnell and Brian Todd, CNN, August 4, […]
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August 4, 2015 3:37 pm By Ralph Sidway 14 Comments

“[Anas] Fouda, previously an executive producer at Al Jazeera Arabic (AJA), is managing the [new HuffPo Arabic] website in partnership with his old boss, former AJA director general Wadah Khanfar… Khanfar is the man who made Al Jazeera the Muslim Brotherhood mouthpiece that it is today.” Muslim Brotherhood and Islamist forces continue spreading their tentacles […]
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August 4, 2015 10:52 am By Robert Spencer 85 Comments

All religions are based on faith, but Islam is more actively opposed to the intellect and reason than the others. Contrast, for example, these two statements, the first from Christianity’s holy book, and the second from Islam’s: “Always be prepared to make a defense to any one who calls you to account for the hope […]
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UK jihad preacher Anjem Choudary charged with “inviting support” for Islamic State

August 5, 2015 8:27 am By Robert Spencer 15 Comments

Anjem Choudary has been preaching jihad openly for years, while the British authorities have been too busy hounding counter-jihadists (and banning foreign ones from the country) to do anything about it. They’re arresting him now? Has the heat gotten too much for David Cameron and Theresa May over their disgracefully supine response to Islamic jihad […]
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Jerusalem: Islamic jihadists injure 2 in Molotov cocktail attack

August 5, 2015 7:44 am By Robert Spencer 4 Comments

There will be much more of this in the coming days, as Muslim leaders in “Palestinian” areas are issuing increasingly frenzied calls for jihad. “Two injured in Molotov cocktail attack in Jerusalem,” Jerusalem Post, August 3, 2015: Two people were injured on Monday night in a firebomb attack near the Beit Hanina intersection in Jerusalem. […]
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Ethiopia jails 18 Muslims for plotting to create an Islamic state in the country

August 5, 2015 3:51 am By Robert Spencer 5 Comments

The Muslims who have been convicted are claiming that it was all unjust, a “kangaroo court,” that the government was railroading them for decrying its interference in religious matters. In other words, they are claiming victim status. What a new, bold, original strategy. “Ethiopia jails 18 Muslims over alleged terror,” Associated Press, August 3, 2015: […]
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CAIR-linked Hamas demands jihad suicide attacks against Jews

August 4, 2015 3:26 pm By Robert Spencer 12 Comments

This call follows the same pattern that jihadis always follow: point to an atrocity (real or wildly exaggerated or fabricated outright) and claim that jihad is needed so as to exact revenge. The poor jihadis never start a fight with anyone, you see, because of the absence of the caliphate: only the caliph, according to […]

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Aug. 4, 2015
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“The instrument by which [the government] must act are either the AUTHORITY of the laws or FORCE. If the first be destroyed, the last must be substituted; and where this becomes the ordinary instrument of government there is an end to liberty!” —Alexander Hamilton, Tully, No. 3, 1794

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Bill to Defund Planned Parenthood Dies in Senate

The Senate’s vote to defund Planned Parenthood seemed to be more about political optics than actually casting votes for the right thing. A bill that would have halted $500 million in annual federal funds from going to Planned Parenthood died when a procedural vote that required 60 votes fell short by seven. This raises questions: How serious are the Senate Republicans in protecting the lives of the unborn? Some GOP senators see this vote as testing the waters, possibly for a political cage fight come fall if the GOP gets enough backbone to attach a PP defunding measure to a spending bill and risk another government shutdown. Commentators like Leon H. Wolf see this vote as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell cowing to the slightest political pressure. By allowing the bill cosponsored by 45 Republicans to die on a procedure vote, McConnell allowed the status quo to remain and a handful of lawmakers were able to vote in a way that would please their constituencies. Meanwhile, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal canceled the contract between Planned Parenthood and Louisiana. Yes, changing the nation’s policy takes time — and the Center for Medical Progress has many more videos to prompt debate — but when the time comes for political courage, will McConnell’s Senate rise to the occasion?

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CORRECTION: In Monday’s Digest we inadvertently posted unedited notes in a Hook, rather than the finished analysis. The corrected content is here: Allen West: Navy to Prosecute White.

Bad Leadership Sours DHS Immigration Program

At the beginning of July, the Obama administration started its Priority Enforcement Program, a new approach to how the administration enforces the immigration laws, but it’s soured by DHS’s past immigration enforcement track record. It’s a failure in leadership: Local law enforcement and even groups that would have supported Obama’s immigration policies don’t trust his new enforcement effort. The supervising attorney for the Immigrant Legal Resource Center, Angie Junck, told The Washington Post, “We see this as DHS kind of rebranding to rebuild the trust they lost with a lot of local law enforcement agencies. We are very concerned that it will repeat the mistakes of the past.” Does anybody gladly work with Obama on anything any more? He’s lost so much trust. No wonder so many cities decided to go it alone and declare themselves sanctuary cities. Home rule is better than rule from a capricious federal government that is rewriting immigration law on the fly by “prioritizing” certain types of deportations. The Obama administration has exacerbated the problems with immigration by destroying the cooperation and trust between levels of government.

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Seattle CEO Experiences Fallout of $70K Minimum Wage

A Seattle CEO is learning firsthand the predictable outcomes that accompany minimum wage hikes. Dan Price, who heads Gravity Payments, a credit card processing firm, became an instant celebrity when he announced earlier this year that none of his 120 employees would earn less than $70,000 a year. In fact, he slashed his own salary of $1 million down to $70,000 to level the playing field. It was a kindhearted move, to be sure, but the ensuing months demonstrated the reality that such a minimum wage has far-reaching repercussions. According to former Gravity Financial Manager Maisey McMaster, Price “gave raises to people who have the least skills and are the least equipped to do the job, and the ones who were taking on the most didn’t get much of a bump.” The result? Two prominent-turned-disgruntled employees, including McMaster, called it quits. The other one, Grant Moran, intoned a similar frustration: “Now the people who were just clocking in and out were making the same as me. It shackles high performers to less motivated team members.” On top of that, The New York Times reports, “[A] few customers, dismayed by what they viewed as a political statement, withdrew their business. Others, anticipating a fee increase — despite repeated assurances to the contrary — also left.” And while Gravity Payments won the hearts of other business owners, “those accounts will not start paying off for at least another year,” the Times added. “To handle the flood, [Price] has already had to hire a dozen additional employees — now at a significantly higher cost — and is struggling to figure out whether more are needed without knowing for certain how long the bonanza will last.”

But the drama doesn’t end there. Gravity Payments co-founder Lucas Price, the brother of Dan, is suing the company, which is adding substantial legal costs. Hot Air’s Jazz Shaw put it best: “I’m sure Mr. Price is a very nice man and he clearly cares about people in general. But his move to push his generous nature into his business model is returning precisely the sort of results which the free market predicts.” The lesson here? Good intentions don’t always make for good policy.

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Obama’s Clean Power Plan Is Costly Political Theater

By Paul Albaugh

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On Monday, Barack Obama announced new rules for his long-dreaded Clean Power Plan. This past spring, we warned that Obama’s agenda to combat global warming would be finalized during the hottest days of summer. As with almost every other agenda under Obama, it’s even worse than expected — and all to prevent warming of 0.01 degrees Celsius.

Winston Churchill once said, “Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance and the gospel of envy. Its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.” And make no mistake: Obama’s plan has little or nothing to do with climate and everything to do with his social justice worldview, in which he wants to handicap the U.S. ostensibly to the benefit of the rest of the world.

Obama was originally set to unveil his new rules outside of the White House. However, due to the sweltering heat, he chose to move the announcement inside. Naturally, Leftmedia talkingheads couldn’t pass on the opportunity to blubber that “Mother Nature … was making his point for him.” But newsflash: It’s always hot in August. Clearly, the central planners were aiming for a bit of theatrics.

As for the details, according to The Wall Street Journal, the new rule “would require a 32% cut in power-plant carbon dioxide emissions by 2030 from 2005 levels, an increase from the 30% target proposed last year.” According to EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy, the estimated annual cost by 2030 will be $8.4 billion. But keep in mind that government estimates are always low.

The new regulations will require states to create a plan to reduce power-plant emissions in order to reach the nationwide carbon reduction target. The state compliance plans are supposed to be completed by 2018, and states should reach their first targets for reduction by 2022. If a state doesn’t comply, then it will be forced by the EPA to adopt a federal plan.

The Journal further notes, “The final rule calls for the nation to get 28% of its electricity from renewable resources by 2030, versus roughly 13% last year. Industry experts say cutting carbon emissions 32% by 2030 will require billions of dollars in investments for new transmission lines that accommodate more solar and wind power and new pipelines to feed natural-gas-fired power plants, as coal becomes less important as a fuel.”

However, new pipelines for natural gas won’t be necessary. Obama has called natural gas a “bridge fuel” and has hailed its use as a way for the nation to move away from coal in the quest toward renewable energy. But the final version of Obama’s plan does not increase the use of natural gas; it maintains current levels. So he’s slamming the door shut on coal, and, while he’s at it, stopping the expansion of the use of natural gas. Obama’s leaving no room for more jobs to be created in the private sector.

But hey, since there will be new regulations to enforce, the EPA will need more manpower. Indeed, Obama’s EPA announced that it will hire an additional 800 new regulators. Obviously, 15,000 EPA workers aren’t enough to enforce the proposed regulations. It just shows how much Obama cares about creating jobs, right? Washington jobs, that is, which by the way will assist in putting private sector companies out of business for not complying with EPA demands. This is not quite what we would call the American Dream.

Neither is the cost of complying with the EPA’s proposal. Obama once admitted that, under his plan, energy prices would necessarily skyrocket. A study by the Energy Information Administration confirms that’s exactly what’s happening. If Obama’s plan is implemented, electricity prices will rise on average 4%, though some higher estimates predict increases of 12%-17%. Regardless, Americans will pay more, which doesn’t bode well for those struggling to make ends meet.

Yet the issue of climate change is more important to Obama than those struggling today. He wants it to be part of his legacy of fundamentally transforming America. Ahead of the climate change summit in Paris later this year, he wants to be seen as leading the way on combating emissions. He wants to be seen as the leader who saved the planet from capitalism. In addition, as with all issues, he wants environmental stewardship to be a divisive political game.

Why is it that liberal elites in the Democratic Party are portrayed as the authorities on all things environment? Why is it that conservatives and members of the Republican Party are portrayed as anti-science deniers, as haters of the environment, as if we delight in destroying the planet?

The short answer is that it gives an additional platform for Democrats. It provides an agenda for more control over how we live our lives. It becomes a wedge issue to drive votes in elections. And it pits state sovereignty against federal authority.

Fortunately, at least for now, many state governments have resisted the EPA power plan and Obama’s climate change agenda. Many state governments have insisted they will not comply, as it will ruin their economies. The issue will likely make it to the courts, and we hope the Supreme Court will rebuke the EPA once again, as it did in Michigan v. EPA. Liberty depends on reigning in the EPA, not emissions.

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Thomas Sowell: “Many Republican voters are so disgusted with their party, especially over its repeated betrayals of them, and of the country, especially when it comes to immigration, that they are immediately attracted to anyone who voices the outrage they feel. Donald Trump has turned this opening phase of the 2016 primaries into The Donald Trump Show. All of this might be very entertaining, if this were not a crucial juncture in the history of the country and of the world. But, while all this political theater is going on, the world’s leading promoter of international terrorism — Iran — has gotten a ‘deal’ that all but guarantees that they will have nuclear bombs and, not just incidentally, intercontinental missiles to deliver them. … We can only hope that, somewhere among the many Republican candidates, there is someone who can, as president, make the hard decisions and take the hard steps required to undo the utter disaster that looms ahead, as a result of Barack Obama’s feckless foreign policies. If ever there was a time to carefully sift through all the aspiring Republican candidates, in hopes of finding just one who might be up to the superhuman task ahead, in order to head off a nuclear catastrophe, this is surely the time to look for a solid, wise and steadfast leader. A shoot-from-the-hip, bombastic show-off is the last thing we need or can afford.”

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Insight: “Our practical choice is not between a tax-cut deficit and a budgetary surplus. It is between two kinds of deficits: a chronic deficit of inertia, as the unwanted result of inadequate revenues and a restricted economy; or a temporary deficit of transition, resulting from a tax cut designed to boost the economy, increase tax revenues, and achieve … a budget surplus.” —John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)

Upright: “[A] deep-rooted culture of incompetence and corruption has made it virtually impossible for government to function fairly and efficiently. And because most government employees are shielded by layers of protection, they couldn’t care less. Never before in the history of this nation has there been a greater divide between a self-serving federal leviathan and millions of Americans… ‘Government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem,’ Ronald Reagan reminded us during his inaugural address in 1981. Nothing’s changed since then, with one exception: It’s gotten far worse.” —Arnold Ahlert

Demo-gogues: “We only get one home. We only get one planet. There is no plan B. I don’t want my grandkids to not be able to swim in Hawaii, or not to be able to climb a mountain and see a glacier, because we didn’t do something about it.” —Barack Obama

Non Compos Mentis: “The Koran teaches persecution is worse than slaughter. Then it says, retaliation is prescribed in matters of the slain. Retaliation is a prescription from God to calm the breaths of those whose children have been slain. So if the federal government will not intercede in [the] affairs [of black Americans], then we must rise up and kill those who kill us. Stalk them and kill them and let them feel the pain of death that we are feeling.” —Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan

The BIG lie: “This was a three-year effort by this fake group [Center for Medical Progress] to try to entrap doctors, and then splice and edit videos to make it look like they were doing something wrong, which they were not. … I think it’s really important to understand that [Congress' effort to defund Planned Parenthood] is about denying women access to health care in this country.” —Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards (Leave it to Ms. Richards to accuse CMP of splicing…)

And last… “Minnesota dentist Walter Palmer provoked world outrage for luring the popular Cecil the Lion off his African game preserve with a dead animal and then shooting him dead and beheading him. The entire world was horrified. It’s got ISIS seriously re-thinking their decision to take on white people.” —Argus Hamilton

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Malaysian mufti: “Islam is based on faith…Don’t make any remarks based on the intellect or logic”

August 4, 2015 10:52 am By Robert Spencer 21 Comments

All religions are based on faith, but Islam is more actively opposed to the intellect and reason than the others. Contrast, for example, these two statements, the first from Christianity’s holy book, and the second from Islam’s: “Always be prepared to make a defense to any one who calls you to account for the hope […]
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“I Will Always Remember Where I Was When Cecil The Lion Was Killed”

August 4, 2015 10:17 am By Robert Spencer 13 Comments

This is the state of the world today. “I Will Always Remember Where I Was When Cecil The Lion Was Killed,” Duffel Blog, August 3, 2015 (thanks to David): The following is an op-ed written by “Mohammed,” a Syrian War Refugee. I am sorry it is taking me so long to post my outrage over […]
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Muslim cleric: Jews paid doctors to “create and spread diseases”

August 4, 2015 9:33 am By Robert Spencer 10 Comments

The idea that the Jews would scheme in this way is founded upon the Qur’an: “And they (the disbelievers) schemed, and Allah schemed (against them): and Allah is the best of schemers.” (3:54) “Jews paid doctors to ‘create and spread diseases’ according to Islamic lesson in Al-Aqsa Mosque,” by Itamar Marcus, Palestinian Media Watch, August […]
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Islam: Fastest Shrinking Religion in the World (Part 3)

August 4, 2015 5:43 am By Ibn Warraq 3 Comments

PART THREE: APOSTASY IN ISLAMIC COUNTRIES. The very notion of apostasy has vanished from the West, where one would talk of being a lapsed Catholic or non-practising Christian rather than an apostate. There are certainly no penal sanctions for converting from Christianity to any other religion. In Islamic countries, on the other hand, the issue […]
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UK: Jihadi sentenced to 2 1/2 years released after 11 months

August 3, 2015 4:00 pm By Robert Spencer 18 Comments

“Sentencing, Judge Charles Wide QC told Ali he had made a ‘really determined attempt’ to evade justice. He said: ‘It is absolutely clear you are an extremist and you do support terrorism.’” Good thing he was released early. Maybe he can get a job in the Cameron government. “Extremist released: 31 months jail for terror […]
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Khamenei adviser: Inspectors’ “entry into our military sites is absolutely forbidden”

August 4, 2015 10:25 am By Robert Spencer 5 Comments

The Iran deal is an unmitigated disaster. Not only does it allow Iran to proceed with its nuclear program, but by the removal of economic sanctions, it finances that program. Obama has betrayed and endangered the entire free world. That is and will remain his true legacy. Note also Velayati’s threat to Israel, that key […]
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DHS warns: Jihadis could target airports, sensitive sites with drones

August 4, 2015 10:04 am By Robert Spencer 6 Comments

Not that the DHS called them “jihadis,” of course. The DHS appears to be very up on this threat from drones, but about who is operating them and why, and what their motives and goals are, they are completely in the dark, and willfully so. Consequently they will never be able to come up with […]
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Sweden: 30 grenade attacks in 6 months in Muslim-dominated Malmö

August 4, 2015 8:52 am By Nicolai Sennels 5 Comments

While the Swedish elite celebrates itself by calling the former Viking land a “humanitarian superpower” for letting in hundreds of thousands of Muslims within a handful of years, the country is falling apart. Recently there were four grenade explosions in Malmö, Sweden’s third largest city and famous for its high percentage of Muslim citizens, in […]
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DHS chief: Don’t call it “Islamic extremism,” it has nothing to do with Islam

August 4, 2015 5:18 am By Robert Spencer 20 Comments

Johnson has said this before, on more than one occasion. And despite manifesting an abysmal ignorance of the contents of the Qur’an, Johnson claims to have read it, and that it reminds him of quintessential American values. More proof that he hasn’t really read it. Graham’s point is excellent: “Even more disturbing (and once again, […]
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No Jihad in Gaza, Says George Washington U’s Nathan Brown

August 3, 2015 3:22 pm By Andrew Harrod 15 Comments

Current Middle East Studies Association (MESA) president and George Washington University political science professor Nathan Brown downplayed Hamas’s long history of terrorism on July 23 at the anti-Israel Jerusalem Fund think tank in Washington, DC. He and others on a panel titled “Gaza in Context: Broader Implications in the Palestinian Plight” claimed that the Islamic supremacism of Hamas and, increasingly, the Palestinian Authority (PA) is […]

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