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Obama Rewrites the Cold War
The President has a duty to stand up to the lies of our enemies.
By LIZ CHENEY

There are two different versions of the story of the end of the Cold War: the Russian version, and the truth. President Barack Obama endorsed the Russian version in Moscow last week.

Speaking to a group of students, our president explained it this way: “The American and Soviet armies were still massed in Europe, trained and ready to fight. The ideological trenches of the last century were roughly in place. Competition in everything from astrophysics to athletics was treated as a zero-sum game. If one person won, then the other person had to lose. And then within a few short years, the world as it was ceased to be. Make no mistake: This change did not come from any one nation. The Cold War reached a conclusion because of the actions of many nations over many years, and because the people of Russia and Eastern Europe stood up and decided that its end would be peaceful.”

The truth, of course, is that the Soviets ran a brutal, authoritarian regime. The KGB killed their opponents or dragged them off to the Gulag. There was no free press, no freedom of speech, no freedom of worship, no freedom of any kind. The basis of the Cold War was not “competition in astrophysics and athletics.” It was a global battle between tyranny and freedom. The Soviet “sphere of influence” was delineated by walls and barbed wire and tanks and secret police to prevent people from escaping. America was an unmatched force for good in the world during the Cold War. The Soviets were not. The Cold War ended not because the Soviets decided it should but because they were no match for the forces of freedom and the commitment of free nations to defend liberty and defeat Communism.

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I meant to post this yesterday, but didn’t get around to it.

Subject: Memorial Service: you’re invited.

We’re hearing a lot today about big splashy memorial services.

I want a nationwide memorial service for Darrell “Shifty” Powers.

Shifty volunteered for the airborne in WWII and served with Easy Company of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, part of the 101st Airborne Infantry. If you’ve seen Band of Brothers on HBO or the History Channel, you know Shifty. His character appears in all 10 episodes, and Shifty himself is interviewed in several of them.

I met Shifty in the Philadelphia airport several years ago. I didn’t know who he was at the time. I just saw an elderly gentleman having trouble reading his ticket. I offered to help, assured him that he was at the right gate, and noticed the “Screaming Eagle”, the symbol of the 101st Airborne, on his hat.

Making conversation, I asked him if he’d been in the 101st Airborne or if his son was serving. He said quietly that he had been in the 101st. I thanked him for his service, then asked him when he served, and how many jumps he made.

Quietly and humbly, he said “Well, I guess I signed up in 1941 or so, and was in until sometime in 1945 . . . ” at which point my heart skipped.

At that point, again, very humbly, he said “I made the 5 training jumps at Toccoa, and then jumped into Normandy . . . . do you know where Normandy is?” At this point my heart stopped.

I told him yes, I know exactly where Normandy was, and I know what D-Day was. At that point he said “I also made a second jump into Holland , into Arnhem .” I was standing with a genuine war hero . . . . and then I realized that it was June, just after the anniversary of D-Day.

I asked Shifty if he was on his way back from France , and he said “Yes. And it’s real sad because these days so few of the guys are left, and those that are, lots of them can’t make the trip.” My heart was in my throat and I didn’t know what to say.

I helped Shifty get onto the plane and then realized he was back in Coach, while I was in First Class. I sent the flight attendant back to get him and said that I wanted to switch seats. When Shifty came forward, I got up out of the seat and told him I wanted him to have it, that I’d take his in coach.

He said “No, son, you enjoy that seat. Just knowing that there are still some who remember what we did and still care is enough to make an old man very happy.” His eyes were filling up as he said it. And mine are brimming up now as I write this.

Shifty died on June 17 after fighting cancer.

There was no parade.

No big event in Staples Center .

No wall to wall back to back 24×7 news coverage.

No weeping fans on television.

And that’s not right.

Let’s give Shifty his own Memorial Service, online, in our own quiet way. Please forward this email to everyone you know. Especially to the veterans.

Rest in peace, Shifty.

“A nation without heroes is nothing.”

Roberto Clemente

• Rich Lowry believes a second stimulus would simply replicate the failures of the first.
• Even the AP has started to report on the President’s broken tax promises.
• The Wall Street Journal knows that a public health care options is just the first step to single payer.
• Karl Rove hopes we learned enough from the stimulus to not trust President Obama on health care.
• Paul Mirengoff determines that Sotomayor is more liberal than the average liberal.
• John Hinderaker wonders if pre-August 2008 Sarah Palin would have quit.
• Senator Barbara Boxer is starting to try to bury cap and trade.
• Our government is paying $18 million for a website redesign… seriously.
• Ace of Spades points out the wheel turns round and round.
• Brittany Fortier discusses next civil rights battle and eugenics.

• Senate Weighs Tax on Capital Gains – Ryan Donmoyer, Bloomberg
• Democrats Hoodwink the Health Lobby – Kimberley Strassel, WSJ
• Climate Change Punted Deeper into Fall – Lisa Lerer, Politico
• The Political Psychology of ‘Stimulus’ – David Hirshleifer, Psychology Today
• The Case for Doing Nothing – Jeffrey Miron, Real Clear Politics
• A Second Stimulus Package? Yikes! – Alan Reynolds, Forbes
• Few Economists Favor More Stimulus – Phil Izzo, WSJ
• The G-8 Economic Suicide Pact – IBD Editorial
• Jeff Flake vs. the Spending Robots – Chris Edwards, Cato Institute
• VIDEO: The Zimbabwean Trillion Dollar Campaign – YouTube

Obama is a moron, and he’s impulsive to boot. And you morons on the left thought Bush was a doofus. This guy beats the idiocy of Bush hands down and in spades. Asshat couldn’t make a sane decision if he was paid to do so! Oh wait, he is paid to do that, and thus far is a huge failure.

One word bitches: FAIL

Piddling Away Greatness
Dafydd ab Hugh

Today, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton — presumably speaking for her boss — doubled down on supporting erstwhile Honduran president and would-be dictator José Manuel Zelaya Rosales (a.k.a. Mel Zelaya) instead of rule of law in Honduras:

A day after failing to land in Honduras to confront the interim government that ousted him in a coup, Zelaya boarded a plane bound for Washington, where U.S. officials said he would meet with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

Zelaya told a news conference Monday night that he hopes to ensure U.S. support for diplomatic efforts to see him restored to power.

“Tomorrow we hope to get support for these pronouncements,” Zelaya said before heading to the airport in Managua.

Clinton and President Barack H. Obama superficially seem to be oblivious to the sequence of events that led to Zelaya’s arrest, removal from office, and voluntary exile… but are they really just misinformed? (The full timeline of events in Honduras make clear what really happened, which is the polar opposite of what our antique media tell us.)

I believe at first mere ignorance was exactly the problem: The first time the ongoing, fluid situation in Honduras was explained to Obama, I suspect that all he heard was, “Wugga-wugga liberal wigga wagga union supporter woggle boggle ousted by the military roggle doggle coup d’état.” He chose to stitch this muddle together into a narrative that reads, “The liberal, democratically elected President of Honduras was overthrown by a military junta.”

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It is time to cut our losses and the Democrats, along with any RINOs that are sucking up precious oxygen.

Stimulus fizzle has Democrats worried
by Ed Morrissey

And well they should.  Democrats put down an $800 billion bet and locked Republicans out of the room in placing it.  They know their party and their President completely owns the results — and those aren’t looking good at all.  And like any bad gambler, they want to double down on a lost hand:

Five months after Congress approved a massive package of spending and tax cuts aimed at reviving an ailing economy, the jobless rate is still climbing and the White House is scrambling to reassure an anxious public that President Obama’s prescription for economic recovery is on the right track.

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Here’s another good article. This one deals with reparations for slavery. I think it is ludicrous at best, divisive and a race war waiting to happen should it come to pass. I personally never owned a slave. My parents didn’t own any, and neither did their parents or their parents either. That’s four generations alone. I think that covers a good chunk of time. I am pretty sure that anyone reading this was never a slave either. Nor were your parents, or their parents. That’s three generations. So, when slavery was an issue in this country, none of my relatives owned any slaves. As a matter of fact, none of my relatives were even in the country. Why in the bloody hell should I have to pay for something that my family had absolutely nothing to do with? In essence it is another tax on the working class that happens to be white.

Pathetic.

40 Acres and a President
By L.E. Ikenga

During the election, despite having been portrayed as America’s first post-racial candidate, Barack Obama actually represented the complete opposite. With astonishing cunning and guile, a type that his opponents could have never imagined possible, Obama and his campaign unabashedly and tenaciously used race to goad Americans into believing that voting for him would right the wrongs of America’s racial history.

Obama audaciously rode on the coattails of black America’s historical circumstances in order to win the presidency. He deceived the nation into believing that he too was a “typical black person” and that a vote for him would offer a (painless) way for paying back all that whites had done to blacks and their ancestors. However, as one writer put it, “[Obama] steps into the benefits of black progress (like Harvard Law School) without having borne any of the burdens”. By polluting the election with the foul stench of payback politics, and by dumbing-down the “black experience” for the historically ignorant and apathetic, Barack Obama was able to win what I call the Reparations vote.

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When will White America be off the Hook for Sins of the Past?
By Lloyd Marcus

Oprah, a black woman, is the richest and most influential woman in America and possibly the world. Michael Jackson’s memorial service merited live coverage by a large number of television networks.

Did I mention that the president of the United States of America is a black man? With blacks only 13% of the U.S. population, none of these extraordinary black achievements could have happened without tremendous support from white America.

So, when will white America be off the hook for sins of the past? When will Democrat pitchmen and women, such as Janeane Garofalo, cease selling the myth that America is a racist country? When will Affirmative Action, which basically says blacks have been screwed in the past, so now it is fair to screw whites, end? When will so-called black leaders, such as Rev. Jeremiah Wright, quit poisoning the minds of blacks with hate and victim-hoodism by preaching that America is controlled by racist rich white people? What else has to happen for the “BIG LIE” to end?

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Senate Slavery Apology
by Walter E. Williams

Last month, the U.S. Senate unanimously passed Senate Resolution 26 “Apologizing for the enslavement and racial segregation of African-Americans.” The resolution ends with: “Disclaimer. — Nothing in this resolution (a) authorizes or supports any claim against the United States; or (b) serves as a settlement of any claim against the United States.” That means Congress apologizes but is not going to pay reparations, as least for now.

Members of the Congressional Black Caucus have expressed concerns about the disclaimer, thinking that it’s an attempt to stave off reparations claims from the descendants of slaves. Congressional Black Caucus Chairwoman Barbara Lee, D-Calif., said her organization is studying the language of the resolution and Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss, said “putting in a disclaimer takes away from the meaning of an apology. A number of us are prepared to vote against it in its present form. There are several members of the Progressive Caucus who feel the same way.”

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I haven’t weighed in on this, but I think this article pretty much sums it up.

Sarah Palin rocks. She has class, and she’s a true conservative, and a true American.

Palin and Sanford: A Tale of Two Governors
By Bruce Walker

Two Republican governors, both considered rising stars — the “next Reagan” — have been prominent in the news the last couple of weeks.  Mark Sanford and Sarah Palin are both conspicuously religious, both defenders of states’ rights, both unabashed conservatives, and both relatively young and attractive.  One of those two, Mark Sanford, lied to the people of South Carolina, lied to his wife, and had an illicit affair.  He is now, presumably, intending to remain Governor of South Carolina — at least until the Almighty, his wife, and enormous political pressure compels him to resign.  Sarah Palin has been the subject of odious slanders, hit with frivolous ethics charges, and remained committed to her family throughout.  She has resigned from office and only hints at what her political future may be.

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Stumbled on this over at Hot Air.

Wish this was more visible in the run up to the elections. It might have woke a few of the morons up.

On a more negative note, we bring back the Crap and Tax that was passed by the lemmings in Congress.

All of the assholes in Congress need to be fired. They are completely worthless and weak. Pathetic. The only interests they serve are their own.

Even the moron that “authored” the bill doesn’t know what the fuck is in the bill. Really? Good grief people! How the hell can you keep electing these morons?

Cap Taxes, Trade Congress
By Kyle-Anne Shiver

I’m all for cap ‘n trade; it’s a nifty idea.  Simply splendid.  Positively stupendous.  Brilliant beyond brilliant.

I just have a different take on the whole notion.  I prefer very stringent caps on taxes and spending, coupled with a 2010 trade-in of the entire U.S. Congress.

What in holy tarnation do those people think they’re getting paid to do?

While these Roman throwbacks attempt to save the planet, pagan style, so they can set up their Darwinian nirvana on earth, the rest of us have enough sense not to try to make the state our church.

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Liberals: Learning Nothing and Forgetting Nothing
By Christopher Chantrill

A liberal acquaintance couldn’t understand why conservatives are impatient with Obama.  Didn’t conservatives get enough of a chance with 30 years of Reagan and Bush, he asked?

OK, it’s true that conservatives did get some tax-rate cuts.  And we did win the cold war.  And we did roll back one social program, welfare, a little, for a while.

But conservatives look on the Obama administration so far and say: Liberals are like the French Bourbons — the royal house of France, Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, deposed in the French Revolution.

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Let’s cap and trade oxygen!
By James Lewis

Enough already with carbon cap and trade. I say let’s cap oxygen, and then tax any family that can’t achieve the Average Family Oxygen Target of 80% BOOTS (Before Obama Oxygen Trading Scheme). Remember, if you weren’t inhaling all that O2 you wouldn’t be belching out clouds of noxious CO2. Yuck. Yes, I know oil refineries smell bad and coal looks dirty. But none of that carbon would ever see the light of day if it weren’t for all the oxygen you suck in, you greed bucket. So let’s get down to root causes.

Here’s the goal. If we can only get five billion people around the world to breathe 20% less oxygen per person, we would Save the Planet from Global Warming. Just like that!

Twenty percent less O2 going into your body means 20% less CO2 out-gassing, atom-for-atom. It’s just like cutting down the world population by a billion polluting oxygen hogs.

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The government of Honduras rightfully squashed the dictator wannabe and was deported by the military on orders from the Honduran Supreme Court and Congress for his violations of the law and the Constitution.

Obama has a love affair with Hugo Chavez and the Hondurans suffer.

Obama’s leftist proclivities are killing not only America, but other countries as well. This man must be stopped. He is a danger to society as we know it. The only way to stop the insanity is to vote out all the Democrats that are running in the 2010 elections. It is the only way that America will again be balanced and not hard left as it is now.

Leading “Progressive” Describes Obama-Chavez Axis
By Cliff Kincaid

A leading member of the “Progressives for Obama” network is speculating, apparently with good reason, that the leftist governments of Barack Obama and Hugo Chavez have come to an understanding that Honduras should be turned over to anti-American forces allied with the Venezuelan communist ruler.

Tom Hayden, once known as Mr. Jane Fonda because of his marriage to the pro-communist actress, has written a piece for the Talking Points Memo website about “new diplomatic collaboration” between Obama-who swore an oath to represent American interests in foreign affairs-and Chavez, who represents the interests of Iran and the Castro brothers.

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Hondurans Plead for Balanced Coverage from International News Media
Press Release

WASHINGTON–Accuracy in Media editor Cliff Kincaid today published some of the messages he has received from Hondurans upset at the international media’s pro-Zelaya news coverage. He called for thorough, balanced reporting of events in Honduras, rather than acceptance of the ousted leader’s explanation that he was deposed in a “military coup.”

“The so-called ‘military coup’ in Honduras was a successful effort by Honduran patriots to preserve their constitutional system of government from an international alliance of communists and socialists backed by Iran,” Kincaid wrote in a column published at aim.org.

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Honduras Outraged by Obama-Chavez Alliance
By Cliff Kincaid

I continue to receive messages from Honduran citizens upset at the international media for their distorted coverage of the situation in the Central American country. The people support the ouster of Manuel “Mel” Zelaya, who is considered a puppet of Venezuelan Communist ruler Hugo Chavez. They are mystified that an American president would want to return this Chavez puppet to power in Honduras.

One Honduran wrote: “The recent action taken by our Congress is highly supported by several organizations in support of peace and democracy: the State General Attorney, the Supreme Court, the Armed Forces, the private organizations and especially many young people. Mr. Zelaya broke the law on several occasions even after the Supreme Court stated that it was illegal. He had no respect for our laws and our Constitution.

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