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John Bolton – Expected Ten Terrorist Attacks Per Year Illustrates nObama’s Dismissive Attitude Towards Islamic Terrorism Is A Threat
Rick Wells
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'No Religion Is Responsible for Terrorism'
Speaking at the White House Summit on Countering Violent Extremism, Barack nObama denied Islam's influence in terrorism, though he started with a caveat of sorts: "Al-Qaida and ISIL and groups like it are desperate for legitimacy. They try to portray themselves as religious leaders -- holy warriors in defense of Islam. That’s why ISIL presumes to declare itself the 'Islamic State.' ... We must never accept the premise that they put forward, because it is a lie. ... Al-Qaida and ISIL do draw, selectively, from the Islamic texts. They do depend upon the misperception around the world that they speak in some fashion for people of the Muslim faith, that Islam is somehow inherently violent, that there is some sort of clash of civilizations." And then came the "but." He continued, "Of course, the terrorists do not speak for over a billion Muslims who reject their hateful ideology. They no more represent Islam than any madman who kills innocents in the name of God represents Christianity or Judaism or Buddhism or Hinduism. No religion is responsible for terrorism. People are responsible for violence and terrorism." And then he had the complete lack of self-awareness to say, "We can’t paper over problems, and we’re not going to solve this if we’re always just trying to be politically correct." In fact, his foolish political correctness can better be described as blinding Islamophilia, and it's dangerous. That's why he launched into a lecture about working to bring jobs to Jihadistan. A parting question: Why does he excuse Islam for terrorism but insists guns are responsible for shootings?
-The Patriot Post 
VA Secretary Strait Up Lied About Wait Time Firings
When Veteran Affairs Secretary Robert McDonald first took his position, he said he was going to clean house after the wait-time scandal left veterans without care. He had a list, and he was going to fire 1,000 VA employees. In an interview over the weekend, McDonald claimed the VA fired 60 people who manipulated wait times. The Washington Post fact-checked his claim, however, and found that only eight VA employees were fired, including just one executive. The VA's own spokesman James Hutton told Post, "Regarding the 60 figure, it is most accurate to say that 'VA has proposed disciplinary action related to data manipulation or patient care against more than 60 employees nationwide.' This takes into account the full range of accountability actions including admonishments, demotions, reprimands, and termination." Because of the VA's misleading report and its failure to speed up wait times, it has turned into a bureaucracy only concerned with keeping the bureaucracy in place -- and it will lie to do so. It's a good thing former nObama adviser David Axelrod says "there hasn’t been a major scandal" during nObama's administration, or vets would really be in trouble. -The Patriot Post
Veterans Affairs Touts 'I CARE'
The nObama administration continues to treat American veterans as more of a disgrace than as heroes. Despite the Department of Veterans Affairs being exposed for mistreating the very ones willing to sacrifice it all, the agency continues to sink deeper into controversy -- even as administrators promise reform. And what better way to encourage changes than with a cute acronym? "The embattled Veterans Affairs Department ... is reminding employees in a memo why they should care about their work," says The Washington Times. "The document circulating among employees is titled the 'I CARE Quick Reference' sheet, and it spells out the desired core values of the VA: integrity, commitment, advocacy, respect and excellence. The memo says the VA is 'a model of unrivaled excellence due to employees who are empowered, trusted by their leaders, and respected for their competence and dedication.'" No, really, that's what it claims. According to one anonymous employee, "Management has made a mockery of it." Concerned Veterans for America CEO Pete Hegseth added, "Adopting a catchy acronym and circulating a checklist is not enough. It's easy to put on an 'I CARE' pin, but it doesn't matter unless you actually demonstrate that care through your actions and the results you deliver." But government doesn't judge itself by standards, and that's the problem. Thanks to nObamaCare, we'll all experience just how much the government doesn't care. More... -The Patriot Post
Holder's Final Legacy: Civil Rights Charges for Ferguson
Attorney General Eric Holder needed some kind of retribution after the world watched Ferguson, Missouri, burn when the grand jury announced officer Darren Wilson would not be charged in the death of Michael Brown. The civil rights charges against the officer didn't stick, either, so Holder hinted this week that the Department of Justice may prosecute the city's police department for a culture of civil rights violations. A St. Louis nonprofit filed a federal lawsuit alleging Ferguson was keeping the coffers full by running something of a debtor's prison, so DOJ prosecutors met with the lawyers on that case. In a statement, Ferguson Mayor James Knowles said, "We believe this lawsuit is disturbing because it contains allegations that are not based on objective facts." But this is Holder's last hurrah, and "objective facts" don't matter. In the last few days before Loretta Lynch replaces Holder, he's going to come down on the Ferguson Police Department as if it was a police force controlled by the KKK during Reconstruction. More...
-The Patriot Post
Former NBA Star Lays Out Plan to Change Places Like Ferguson
When asked for his opinion on what happened in Ferguson, former NBA athlete Karl Malone told Huff Post Live that it's time for black communities to stop bemoaning race issues. For real change, "The Mailman" said those communities need to work on self-improvement instead of playing the race card. "We need to look in our mirror ourselves," he said, "stop waiting on someone to come march on our behalf, take ownership in our self, make our community better, and stop looking for a handout. Do something about it yourself that you can control. Stop using that excuse about race. I am sick and tired that every time you turn around, that's what we dangle." That kind of advice -- the message of hard work -- helped Malone deliver those 36,928 career points that landed him in the Basketball Hall of Fame, and it's advice anyone can take to heart. More... -The Patriot Post
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nObama: Republicans Are Aiding ISIS By Calling Them Islamic
(nicedeb) - The first paragraph of this Time article by Michael Scherer perfectly encapsulates this president’s M/O for the past six years... "The newest front in the American war against the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS) will not take place in the deserts of Syria, Iraq or Libya, but on the covers of the nation’s tabloids and the airwaves of its cable television jabfests. President nObama, with two speeches in as many days, has decided to take the battle to his conservative critics." Yes, the front in which this president is most willing to actually fight – is not in the Middle East against fanatical, head-bloodthirsty enemies who have declared war against Western civilization – it against in his own country, against his own fellow citizens. https://nicedeb.wordpress.com/2015/02/19/obama-republicans-are-aiding-isis-by-calling-them-islamic/
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nObama feeds 'the cult of stupidity'
(Erik Rush) - “We cannot kill our way out of this war. We need in the medium to longer term to go after the root causes that lead people to join these groups, whether it’s lack of opportunity for jobs …” – State Department representative Marie Harf...I wonder if others found the opening statement as curious as did I; this was the State Department’s Marie Harf discussing the administration’s policy in fighting the militant Muslim group ISIS in a recent interview with MSNBC’s Chris Matthews. It was my understanding that nations essentially did kill their way out of wars; you do enough damage to the other side (killing them and breaking their stuff), and either they give up, or the question is rendered academic. http://www.wnd.com/2015/02/obama-feeds-the-cult-of-stupidity/
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Cruz Says nObama Admin Is “Counterfeiting Immigration Documents”
(Warren Mass) - Senator Ted Cruz (shown, R-Texas), speaking two days after a federal judge issued an order blocking the the nObama administration’s implementation of executive actions that would grant amnesty to four million illegal immigrants...said the administration has gone beyond using “prosecutorial discretion” to enforce immigration law, and is now printing “counterfeit” work authorizations. Cruz made his comments during an interview with Fox News on February 18 in which he said, "One of the things the president has claimed, rather absurdly, is that the basis of his authority is “prosecutorial discretion.” That he’s simply choosing not to prosecute 4.5 million people here illegally. But what the district court concluded, quite rightly, is they’re doing far more than that. The administration is printing work authorizations. It is affirmatively acting in contravention of federal law. Basically, what it’s doing is counterfeiting immigration documents, because the work authorizations it’s printing are directly contrary to the text of the federal law. It is dangerous when the president ignores federal law. http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/immigration/item/20159-cruz-says-obama-administration-is-counterfeiting-immigration-documents?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_campaign=0ff83eaf38-The_Editors_Top_Picks_3_12_143_12_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8ca494f2d2-0ff83eaf38-289778381
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nObama Appoints Terrorist Supporter to New Counterterrorism Center
(pamelageller.com) - In 2013 an Egyptian magazine reported about Muslim Brotherhood infiltration of the nObama administration at the highest level. They wrote of Rashad Hussain that he “maintained close ties with people and groups that the magazine says comprise the Muslim Brotherhood network in America.”...In yet another stunning development in nObama’s plan to turn the war on terror over to the terrorists, he’s ramping up a counter-defense headed up by a terror-tied operative, Rashad Hussain. Over 80 people will staff the newly-empowered center. Rashad Hussain is a hafiz, one who has committed the Quran memory. He currently serves as nObama’s special envoy to the Organization of Islamic Cooperation. I wrote about Hussain’s ties to the Muslim Brotherhood back in 2010 when nObama first appointed him as special envoy to the Organization of Islamic Cooperation. http://pamelageller.com/2015/02/obama-appoints-terrorist-supporter-to-head-up-new-counterterrorism-messaging-center.html/
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Natural gas can be the energy policy that works
(Mark J. Perry) - An extraordinary economic and environmental success story is unfolding. It illustrates the cost of ignoring good news — in particular good news about the price collapse in Asia of liquefied natural gas driven by an abundance of U.S. shale gas — in favor of bad...When the success story is missed, so is the opportunity to shape energy policy on the basis of what works instead of focusing on what doesn’t. The impact of the shale revolution in the United States on global energy markets has been huge. Instead of relying on large amounts of foreign liquefied natural gas to compensate for a shortage of domestic production, the reverse has occurred. The U.S. now imports almost no LNG. http://www.aei.org/publication/natural-gas-can-energy-policy-works/?utm_source=bh&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=4741713
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nObama’s Summit of Jihad Denial
(Joseph Klein) - What is President nObama doing this week in the face of the unrelenting wave of jihadist-inspired terrorist attacks, the latest of which occurred in Copenhagen and on the bloodied Mediterranean shore of Libya while nObama played golf in California?...He is holding a politically correct summit conference on “countering violent extremism,” a three-day community circles talkfest beginning on February 17. Vice President loose lips Joe Biden kicked off the conference. National Security Advisor Susan Rice is delivering the closing address. In between these bookends are sessions discussing community-based ways to prevent violent extremism from taking root, including presentations on pilot programs in three cities where law enforcement officials are purportedly developing partnerships with Muslim community leaders — Boston, Minneapolis, and Los Angeles. http://www.frontpagemag.com/2015/joseph-klein/obamas-summit-of-jihad-denial/?utm_source=FrontPage+Magazine&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=dc768d6e9b-Mailchimp_FrontPageMag&utm_term=0_57e32c1dad-dc768d6e9b-156509103
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Secure the Border!
(Raymond Ibrahim) - In a move reminiscent of “ancient history,” Saudi Arabia is building a 600-mile-long “Great Wall” – a combined fence and ditch – to separate itself from the Islamic State to the north in Iraq...Plans for the 600-mile wall and ditch Saudi Arabia will build with Iraq in an effort to insulate itself from the chaos engulfing its neighbors. Much of the area on the Iraqi side is now controlled by Isil [the Islamic State], which regards the ultimate capture of Saudi Arabia, home to the “Two Holy Mosques” of Mecca and Medina, as a key goal…. http://www.frontpagemag.com/2015/raymond-ibrahim/secure-the-border/?utm_source=FrontPage+Magazine&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=dc768d6e9b-Mailchimp_FrontPageMag&utm_term=0_57e32c1dad-dc768d6e9b-156509103
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It Was Unconstitutional Before It Wasn’t: Dems in Their Own Words
(Genevieve Wood) - Hypocrisy is a given in Washington. So much so that Senate Democrats must believe no one notices just how much of it they are guilty of in their attempts to prevent Congress from funding the Department of Homeland Security...First, Democrats say they want to fund Homeland Security–yet they have filibustered any and all attempts by Republicans to even bring the bill up for debate. Second, while numerous Democratic senators have made public statements saying President nObama was wrong to take executive action to change the country’s immigration laws without consent from Congress, none of these folks now appear willing to vote for or even discuss the Department of Homeland Security funding bill that would prevent nObama’s executive amnesty plans from taking place. http://dailysignal.com/2015/02/18/unconstitutional-wasnt-democrats-words/?utm_source=heritagefoundation&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=morningbell&mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRoiu6XBZKXonjHpfsX56%2BQpWqS%2BlMI%2F0ER3fOvrPUfGjI4ES8prI%2BSLDwEYGJlv6SgFQrLBMa1ozrgOWxU%3D
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Libya's War on Christians
(Raymond Ibrahim) - The disputed fate of the 21 Coptic Christians abducted in Sirte, Libya is now clear and visible for all to see on video: while holding them down, Islamic State members shove their fingers in the Christians' eyes, crane their heads back, and slice away at their throats with knives...all in the name of Allah and Islam, all as the slaughtered call out on the "Lord Jesus Christ." Earlier, the BBC had falsely reported that 13 of these now slaughtered Copts were "released." (Such downplaying of Muslim persecution of Christians is, of course, standard for the BBC.) In the video, the lead executioner waves his dagger at the camera whileboasting of the Islamic State's savagery: http://www.meforum.org/5044/libya-war-on-Christians
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Just Who Has to Adjust in the Name of Tolerance?
(Phyllis Chesler) - Brookings Institution Center for Middle East Policy Fellow Shadi Hamid recently criticized the West as "illiberal" for refusing to accept the fact that Muslims, both in the West and globally, are different from Westerners...It was an unusual argument, one for which The Atlantic devoted 3,400 words. Although President nObama insists that the "fight against terrorism is not a religious war," Hamid seems to disagree with him. According to a variety of polls, Hamid is right. For example, while a 2009 Gallup poll shows European Muslims overwhelmingly reject violence, they are far more religious than those who live in secular Europe (France, England, and Germany), and are more strongly opposed to homosexuality than are secular Europeans. In addition, young, second or third generation European Muslim men favor veiling for women, polygamy, the execution of apostates, and favor prohibiting Muslim women from marrying non-Muslim men. http://www.investigativeproject.org/4780/guest-column-just-who-has-to-adjust-in-the-name
John Bolton – Expected Ten Terrorist Attacks Per Year Illustrates nObama’s Dismissive Attitude Towards Islamic Terrorism Is A Threat
Rick Wells
(rickwells.us) - With the cancellation of a popular German street carnival in the wake of the Copenhagen attacks, with credible information that Islamist were planning terrorist attacks on the popular event, which attracts 250,000 persons, John Bolton is asked for his take on just how do we in the West respond to this threat.
Ambassador John Bolton, in recognizing the many dangerous shortcomings of the regime in defense of our nation, says, “The first thing that a civilization has to do is understand it’s under attack. When you’re standing on the edge of the abyss in history, you can say ‘oh well that attack wasn’t that big, this one wasn’t that serious. You can act like the ‘president’ of the United States and say these are, you know, ‘random acts of violence in different places,’ or you can try and understand the pattern and try to act accordingly.”
He says, “I think the Europeans, who for decades have criticized the United States as being ‘such a violent society, so many murders and attacks with weapons,’ in the past few years have seen the level of violence all over Europe rise and I think have finally started to ask themselves why.”
He continues, saying, “So I think is, tragic though it may be, this is a wakeup call for Europe, for the United States. We had one on September the eleventh 2001; a lot of people seem to have forgotten it already. The question is whether we’re going to wake up and do something now or suffer something much more serious, perhaps with nuclear, biological or chemical weapons.”
Eric Shawn points out that the European authorities admit that they are overwhelmed with thousands of ISIS fighters, who possess Western passports having returned to their shores. He cites our own National Counterterrorism Center has predicted ten attacks per year inside the United States.
Bolton notes that “We are facing an ideology. It’s an ideology that is anti-Western and we’ve seen it manifest itself in outright anti-Semitic attacks and attempted murder. We’ve seen it directed against anybody who criticizes the ideology and the religion that these radicals hold and it’s about time we understand that. And if we do understand it then I think the steps to take going forward are pretty clear. This is a war that they’re waging against us. Not random acts of violence.
They compare the situation now to that of Jews in Nazi Germany when Hitler first started his rants against them, with Benjamin Netanyahu’s calls for Jews worldwide to come to Israel being illustrative of the serious risk of history once again repeating itself.
