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 Fear and Loathing at the Paris Climate Summit  

It's rarely a good thing when world leaders in a group think mood decide to act quickly. On Saturday, the "international community" who met at the UN Summit on Climate Change in Paris reached an agreement. Most of the world's leaders have pledged to lower their countries' emissions rates. The pressure is on for developed countries to pay out a collective $100 billion a year to poorer countries to help them adapt to a supposedly swiftly heating planet — a handout that will do nothing for the global thermostat.

          Indeed, the real climate agenda is not about climate at all, but rather an effort from the leftist elite to "level the economic playing field," giving countries like China and India a pass while shaming and bankrupting the United States. Case in point: Barack nObama's loathing and regulation of the fossil fuel industry is causing massive economic headaches for regions of the country whose lifeblood is black gold. "Forgive us for looking through the legacy smoke," wrote The Wall Street Journal editorial board, "but if climate change really does imperil the Earth, and we doubt it does, nothing coming out of a gaggle of governments and the United Nations will save it. What will help is human invention and the entrepreneurial spirit."

          While the best qualities of human resourcefulness are ignored (because they require Liberty), Secretary of State John hanoi-Kerry is appealing to the baser methods of human motivation to keep this accord in place. The man who once said climate change was a weapon of mass destruction wants to whip fellow countries towards the fight against nature with shame and international condemnation because it's "the most powerful weapon in many ways." Shame and mockery is all they've got left.  -The Patriot Post

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 After Sandy Hook, Americans Recognized Need for Guns  

The Left cannot fathom why mass shootings cause the number of gun purchases to rise. Today marks the third anniversary of the Sandy Hook massacre, where 26 elementary school children and their educators died at the hands of a mentally deranged man — one of the most horrific mass shootings in modern history. In the aftermath, Barack nObama and his gun-grabbing lemmings felt a sense of vigor. A handful of states like New York and Connecticut passed stricter gun laws. But the tragedy was not quite the tipping point they were after. According to a review by the Associated Press, more states than not have recognized the Second Amendment more fully, increasing the freedom of self-defense and the right to bear arms.

          Mississippi may consider a bill allowing churches to designate armed parishioners. Wisconsin eliminated a 24-hour waiting period. You don't need a permit to carry a concealed weapon in Kansas. For months, the FBI has been breaking records on how many times the National Instant Criminal Background Check System is used to check on a firearm purchaser.

          Meanwhile, gun control advocates like nObama spokesman Josh Earnest just don't get it. Last week, Earnest told reporters, "The more that we see this kind of violence on our streets, the more people go out and buy guns. That is both ironic and tragic." Why does he think this is? Does he honestly think more law-abiding people passing background checks want to jump into street violence? Instead, maybe, just maybe, Americans realize that as self-governing people they must ensure their own security — that more guns equal less crime.  -The Patriot Post

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 These Are Not the Weapons You're Looking For 

The Zero-Tolerance Empire strikes back. This time, a Houston seventh grader was informed he had to zip up his jacket to cover his Star Wars T-shirt because it portrayed a storm trooper holding a — gasp! — blaster. (It is called Star Wars, after all.) The boy's father was incredulous, saying, “It’s political correctness run amok. You’re talking about a Star Wars T-shirt, a week before the biggest movie of the year comes out. It has nothing to do with guns or making a stand. It’s just a Star Wars shirt.” Not to Sith dealing in absolutes school officials bound by zero-tolerance policies it isn't. The school's handbook lists potential violations of dress code. Among them are “symbols oriented toward violence.” And if there's anything more obnoxious than Jar Jar Binks, it's school officials who can't make rational decisions about school policy. But hey, at least the kid didn't chew his Pop Tart into a blaster. Administrators might have thrown him into the sarlacc pit for that one.   -The Patriot Post

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 Religious vs. Political Islam  

Americans take many things for granted. One of them is a rather brilliant decision made by the Founding Fathers, who were among the many settlers coming to the New World to escape religious oppression by state-affiliated faiths. The Founders decided that "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.” Hence, while people were free to worship as they please, church and state would remain separate entities. Islam makes no such distinction, and America is in desperate need of a forthright conversation regarding the differences between religious and political Islam.

          "Some Muslims come to the United States to practice their religion peacefully, and assimilate into the Western tradition of tolerance of other people’s liberties, including religious liberty — a tradition alien to the theocratic societies in which they grew up,“ writes National Review’s Andrew McCarthy, a former federal prosecutor who led the case against the 1993 World Trade Center bombers. "Others come here to champion sharia, Islam’s authoritarian societal framework and legal code, resisting assimilation into our pluralistic society. Since we want to both honor religious liberty and preserve the Constitution that enshrines and protects it, we have a dilemma.”

          Dilemma indeed. As McCarthy further explains, the overwhelming majority of people emigrating from Muslim-majority countries to Western nations are coming from societies where "Islam is a comprehensive ideological system that governs all human affairs, from political, economic, and military matters to interpersonal relations and even hygiene.” And while Islam does have religious tenets, McCarthy argues "these make up only a fraction of what is overwhelmingly a political ideology.”

          At the center of that political ideology is Sharia Law, a system of governance that embraces such concepts as discrimination against women, homosexuals and non-believers, the suppression of free speech and unfettered economic activity, and the denial of due process and protection against cruel and unusual punishment.  -The Patriot Post

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{GREG COROMBOS} ~ Secretary of State John hanoi-Kerry told the Paris climate conference that ending all U.S. carbon emissions, or even those in all the industrialized world, would do nothing to impact the climate... leading one of the top critics of the climate-change movement to call the speech additional proof that the effort is all about wealth redistribution. In another major development, the latest draft of the climate agreement does not include the creation of the International Climate Justice Tribunal, which would have been a U.N. agency that billed industrialized nations for the cleanup of natural disasters around the world. In hanoi-Kerry’s address to the conference, he made a push to get developing nations to make major commitments in reducing carbon emissions. However, his comments also gave considerable fuel to those who believe hanoi-Kerry and others are on a fool’s errand. “The fact is that even if every single American citizen biked to work, carpooled to school, used only solar panels to power their homes, if we each planted a dozen trees, if we somehow eliminated all our domestic greenhouse gas emissions, guess what? That still wouldn’t be enough to offset the carbon pollution from the rest of the world,” hanoi-Kerry said. He took a step further.        http://www.wnd.com/2015/12/climate-criminal-blows-whistle-its-just-about-the-money/

 McCon-nell Laying Ground Work For TPP Treachery...  

{constitutionrising.com} ~ Mitch McCon-nell is once again showing himself as the prostitute to the ruling class that he is. He’s the equivalent of the US Chamber of Commerce’s vibrating toy, one that has nothing but Energizers for them and looks nothing like a bunny... On Thursday McCon-nell announced that due to the anti-American nature of the toxic Trans-Pacific Partnership, it would have be to maneuvered through the Senate at a time when those purchased votes could be cast in defiance of the wishes of the American people with the least negative impact on the sellout Senators. No vote would be scheduled prior to the 2016 elections as the American people would see what is being done to them and likely respond by throwing his bums out. The vote will have to be delayed until after the election, in a lame duck session, so that those losers on their way out the door can give one final middle finger salute to America and those having just won reelection are temporarily beyond their reach.       http://constitutionrising.com/archives/23575

 Sen Jeff Sessions Urges Lawmakers To Rescind TPA, Vote On TPP...

{constitutionrising.com} ~ The harshest critic of the Trans-Pacific Partnership and it’s placement of the interests of foreigners and the money changer class ahead of the United States citizens is undeniably Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL)... He’s also been one of the few advocates for putting the economic well-being of American citizens and our nation first, including the access to good-paying jobs, the ability to earn a living wage, and the preservation of the endangered middle class. Senator Sessions opposed TPP and fast-track authority every step of the way earlier this year and is still working to put the American people first in the face of an onslaught against us by the corrupted members of Congress and the financial interests whom they serve. Recognizing the treachery that is afoot, including, most notably, among leaders and “respected” members of the Republican Party, Sessions posted an appeal. He asked that the people’s business be conducted in the light of day, away from the trickery, back room deals and complicity that has characterized the process to this point. On Friday Senator Sessions posted the following on his Senate website:       http://constitutionrising.com/archives/23581

 Pamela Geller – Critical Mass May Still Save America  

{constitutionrising.com} ~ After Time Magazine announced German Chancellor Angela Merkel as their “person of the year” for the destruction of Germany and Europe in facilitating the Islamic invasion... Pamela Geller offers her insight into just what Merkel has done and how she will be remembered by history. Geller described the declaration as being typical for Time, noting that they had also named Adolph Hitler the man of the year at one time. She said, “Merkel will go down as a key figure, a single figure in the destruction of Europe.” She says “This is one large conspiracy we’re witnessing and the media and academia and political elites are responsible for the destruction of the West. I mean, what Merkel did was unforgivable. That number’s going to be 2 million and they’ve reached the point of no return.” She continues, “And they’re heralding the Muslim invasion as quote, humanitarian crisis, well let me tell you something. They heralded the Islamic supremacist revolutions that destroyed the Middle East and is destroying Africa as quote, end quote ‘the Arab Spring.’”       http://constitutionrising.com/archives/23595

 See Something Say Nothing By CAIR, Islamists To “Shut People Up” 

{constitutionrising.com} ~ Jim Hanson, the Executive Vice President of the Center for Security Policy says that the reluctance to notify authorities of the suspicious activities of the San Bernardino killers was... “A rational response to a dedicated campaign by groups like CAIR and all of the rest of the Muslim Brotherhood front groups whose job is to shut people up talking about it. They want ‘see something say nothing to be the way Americans respond.’” Judge Pirro notes the lawsuit CAIR filed on behalf of Ahmed the Alarm Crock Terrorist Boy in Irving, Texas in the amount of $5 million dollars, naming Mayor Beth Van Duyne as a defendant. Hanson notes that he’s built briefcase bombs before and it was totally legitimate for this to have been handled as it was. It’s choreographed intimidation by the pro-Islamists intended to silence the resistance to their invasion. There’s also a history between CAIR and Van Duyne, as she had earlier been instrumental in their denial of being able to practice a separate Sharia Law within the city. A little Islamist revenge seems to have been at play in Ahmed’s target selection.

 Microaggression Hypocrisy On The World Stage 

{Herbert London} ~ Microaggression, or a slight intended or unintended, has influenced public discourse from universities to world leaders... Yet it is interesting to note some slights are acceptable and others are not. It is considered inappropriate to use an adjective such as militant or radical to modify the noun Islam. However, it is increasingly appropriate to use the expression Zionist aggression, even when most Israeli military activity is defensive – a retaliation for violence inflicted on the Jewish state. In university life any slight, however, trifling has been elevated to an issue of major significance. A Halloween costume became a matter for presidential intervention at Yale. When the president of the University of Missouri neglected to recognize a group of students at a homecoming parade, he was charged with insensitivity. Alas, the world hasn’t gone completely crazy. These microaggressions are part of a left-wing strategy to disrupt prevailing convention. It is as if Saul Alinksy’s “Rules for Radicals” was the playbook. Invented slights, exaggerated as normative insults, become the catalyst for disruption and disruption is the seedbed for revolution. These efforts at disruption are indeed mindless, but even mindlessness has a purpose.

 Dem Party is Broke – Wants Taxpayers to Fund Their 2016 Conv.  

{Jim Hoft} ~ The party of handouts want’s a taxpayer handout...  Democrat National Committee Chairperson Debbie Wasserman Schultz drafted a plan demanding US taxpayers fund the DNC convention next year. Already struggling with finances, the Democratic Party has drafted a plan to have taxpayers help pay about $20 million for next summer’s nominating convention, reversing a change Congress approved just a year ago. Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who is also a congresswoman from Florida, has drafted a bill to restore money that both parties used to receive from the federal government to help defray the costs of running their quadrennial conventions. Democrats are plain nuts. 

 Iran Withdrawing IRGC Forces From Syria as Tensions With Russia 

{David Daoud} ~ Iran has started to withdraw its elite Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) forces from Syria, the Saudi-aligned London-based daily Asharq Al-Awsat reported on Sunday... Among the reasons for the retreat cited in the report is the heavy losses suffered by Iran during the two months since Russia has begun conducting military operations there. According to the report, one Free Syrian Army officer claimed that tensions between the Russians and Iranians have been mounting, due to near-daily casualties incurred by the latter, purportedly as a result of the former’s pushing for increased ground operations. The officer said he learned of this while eavesdropping on their communications. Reports have also been circulating that the commander of the IRGC-Quds Force, Qassem Soleimani, was seriously wounded during a battle in Aleppo.

 Nonie Darwish: Why the U.S. should not take in Muslim immigrants  

{Pamela Geller} ~ Islamic turmoil never fails to dominate the headlines, and the West is yet again split on how to deal with the polarizing issue of Islamic immigration... But liberals can no longer afford to be motivated by only political short-term goals expressed with the usual shouting, name-calling and emotion. This issue can really hurt liberal and progressive causes, as well as conservative causes. Looking at the big picture of relocating populations, the first thing that comes to mind is that it should benefit and not hurt either the Muslim nations that are sending the immigrants out or Western nations that are absorbing the immigrants in. If by absorbing large numbers of moderate Muslims from Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan etc., are we really helping these nations to reform? The answer is no, and this is why.

 nObama is mishandling the terrorist threat, but so is the GOP  

 {Marc A. Thiessen} ~ While Republicans are rightly critical of President nObama’s mishandling of the terrorist threat, the GOP needs to do some introspection as well... Two recent bills approved by Congressional Republicans – the USA Freedom Act and the Defense Authorization bill – tie the hands of our intelligence and national security professionals as they struggle to protect the American people from terrorist attacks.

The Republican Congress recently passed the USA Freedom Act, placing new restrictions on the NSA’s terrorist surveillance capabilities.  Now, the Associated Press reports:

http://www.aei.org/publication/yes-obama-is-mishandling-the-terrorist-threat-but-so-is-the-gop/?utm_source=paramount&utm_medium=email&utm_content=AEITODAY&utm_campaign=121215

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President nObama’s Imaginary World

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{freedomsback.com} ~ President nObama lives in a world all his own. It’s a world in which he’s widely beloved but also misunderstood, a world in which everyone is racist except for those who support him, a world in which his foreign policy has been heroically successful and his domestic policy even more so. President nObama lives in Fantasyland.

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In this Fantasyland, it’s not enough for President nObama to define the world around him in self-serving fashion. He must define his enemies the same way. To that end, while visiting Paris for the Climate Change Summit that will supposedly usher in an era of global cooperation and environmental utopianism, nObama announced that he had finally found a way to defeat Islamic State. Talking about climate change, nObama said, was an “act of defiance that proves nothing will deter us … What greater rejection of those who would tear down our world than marshaling our best efforts to save it?”

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Not to be Debbie Downer, but nothing in ISIS’ plans suggests that they care deeply about preventing a bunch of self-important bureaucrats from meeting in well-stocked, toney hotels to destroy the Western economy on behalf of scientific chimeras. ISIS, in fact, probably adores the notion that the West will take itself down a couple economic pegs in order to redistribute the wealth. Certainly other Islamic terrorists have felt that way. Osama Bin Laden, for example, lamented that the West did not spend more money on climate change relief efforts, and stated according to Al Jazeera, “Speaking about climate change is not a matter of intellectual luxury — the phenomenon is an actual fact. All of the industrialized countries, especially the big ones, bear responsibility for the global warming crisis.”

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Regardless of ISIS’ feelings on global warming, they obviously don’t sit around in Raqqa lamenting that their plans have been defeated by those dastardly Westerners and their catered diplomatic lunches. But President nObama says they do. That’s because he crafts his own enemies based on who he wishes they were. nObama is thoroughly uncomfortable with the idea that those who wish to fight him are members of radical Islam. He wishes they were right-wing American ideologues. So he simply plays them off as such.

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nObama did the same thing with regard to the Iran nuclear deal. While handing Iran $150 billion in funding, opening their economy, and granting them a full nuclear weapons program in a decade, nObama claimed that the real enemies of peace were Republicans siding with Iranian hardliners. Never mind that those hardliners didn’t exist. nObama created them magically, and then made them Republicans.

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Barack nObama is a leftist hammer in search of a conservative nail. No matter who his enemies actually are, he’ll characterize them as American conservatives for purposes of whacking them over the head. ISIS may have slaughtered Westerners in Paris thanks to radical Islam, but nObama will never acknowledge that: instead, he’ll just claim that they’re essentially Ted Cruz in keffiyehs.

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This isn’t rare. Jackie Kennedy once lamented that her husband had been shot by a “silly little communist” rather than dying for civil rights; her allies quickly turned JFK’s assassination into a referendum on American conservatism. nObama’s doing the same thing now. He has chosen his enemies, and they don’t include ISIS. That means that if ISIS must be his enemy, he will simply wave his Fantasyland wand, and they will be transformed into the Republican enemies he so craves.

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The problem is, they won’t. They’ll just keep killing. Reality remains reality, no matter how much President nObama sprinkles fairy dust and claps his hands.

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http://freedomsback.com/ben-shapiro/president-obamas-imaginary-world/