Tuesday, September 29, 2015

Meme Exposes BRUTAL TRUTH About Muslim Majority Countries

Meme Exposes BRUTAL TRUTH About Muslim Majority Countries:



From CNS News:

Nine of the 10 countries with the worst records for persecution of Christians have populations that are at least 50 percent Muslim, according to the assessment of persecution in the Open Doors USA’s World Watch List (WWL) 2015 and population information published by the State Department and the Central [...]
by Brittany Soares via The Federalist Papers



I wonder when we'll stop listening to Obama's insanity and actually face the truth.


Monday, September 28, 2015

At the U.N., Obama refuses to see the chaotic world he has made,

At the U.N., Obama refuses to see the chaotic world he has made, BreitbartJohn Hayward, September 28, 2015

President Obama’s address to the U.N. General Assembly on Monday morning was a rambling journey through a fantasy world where his foreign policy hasn’t been an unmitigated disaster.Perhaps the most bizarre moment came when he tried to tout his Libyan adventure as a success.
President Obama is still clinging to a romantic vision of the “Arab Spring” as a flourishing of democracy, despite all evidence to the contrary.  He’s giving the same foreign policy speeches he gave in 2009 because he can’t bear to live in the world he made.  He talks about filling vacuums and voids… but those voids are already filled, by hard characters with plans to make the most of the extraordinary opportunity Barack Obama afforded them.
by danmillerinpanama via warsclerotic

Majority of Americans Think Congress Is Corrupt, Out of Touch

Majority of Americans Think Congress Is Corrupt, Out of Touch:





Gallup writes:

Majorities of Americans view most members of Congress as corrupt, beholden to special interests and out of touch. This is not new and perhaps not even surprising, given the low esteem in which Americans hold the institution. But this cynicism is beginning to influence Americans’ views of their own federal representatives, not just the national legislature. Record or near-record numbers of U.S. adults say their local representative is out of touch and focused on serving special interests rather than their constituents.

Congress is under greater-than-usual stress, with the House speaker’s abrupt resignation and a possible government shutdown. Numerous members of Congress have cast this battle as a principled one, even if it results in disruptive outcomes such as a shutdown, or, as is apparently the case, the abrupt resignation of the top lawmaker in the House. But given the large proportion of Americans who believe members of Congress have far less altruistic motives, it is doubtful many Americans will see the showdown as a dispute over how best to serve the nation’s interests.
The post Majority of Americans Think Congress Is Corrupt, Out of Touch appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.

by Joe Schoffstall via Washington Free Beacon

Almost All Weather Data Doctored To Show Warming

Almost All Weather Data Doctored To Show Warming:



Because man-made climate change is at the center of liberals’ and environmentalists’ entire political ideology, it’s essential that the idea be considered fact.
Even if it’s not.
SO when numbers come in from weather stations around the country that either disprove the entire notion of “global warming” or “climate change,” something needs to [...]
by Robert Gehl via The Federalist Papers


Compassion for Refugees Should Not Mean Cultural Suicide

Compassion for Refugees Should Not Mean Cultural Suicide:

For those who are moved by the tragic story of individual refugees and are seeking to admit them in large measures, how many should we admit? How many will be enough? The president of the European Union wants the EU to accept 160,000, but what happens when that number barely meets the demand?
Remember, the refugees bring with them the same culture that caused the Middle East to spiral into chaos. Yes, many are victims, and they deserve compassion, aid, food, and shelter. But resettling large numbers of people who come into Western society with the desire to remake it in their image is neither in our interest nor appropriate to our cultural responsibility to succeeding generations.
Large numbers of Muslims have not acculturated into Western society. Our secular values, our historical concerns for individual liberty, and individual freedom stand at variance with a culture based on submission, misogyny, and triumphalism.
No nation can afford to open its doors to those who choose to be a people apart, absorbing the largess of a society, including its welfare, medical care, and education, while seeking to establish a parallel world. That’s not an immigration policy that advances a culture. It is one that causes its disintegration.
by Abraham H. Miller via The American Spectator

Sunday, September 27, 2015

Almost All US Temperature Data Used In Global Warming Models Is Estimated or Altered

Almost All US Temperature Data Used In Global Warming Models Is Estimated or Altered: (John Hinderaker)





As you can see, the temperatures are generally lowered by around .5 degree C until around 1965, when the fake warming trend begins. From that time on, recorded temperatures are reduced less, and then, in recent years, bumped up.
Why do the alarmists, lavishly funded by the world’s governments, persistently alter the data before they feed it into their computer programs? Because the raw data won’t get them where they are trying to go, to keep the money flowing. This is what you see if you just plot the temperatures that were recorded on thermometers here in the U.S. No warming:
No warming means no money. That is what fraud is always about in the end: money. Could someone please explain this to Pope Francis?
by John Hinderaker via Power Line





Why Socialism Always Fails

Why Socialism Always Fails: By Mark J. Perry

Socialism is the Big Lie of the last century. While it promised prosperity, equality, and security, it delivered poverty, misery, and tyranny. Equality was achieved only in the sense that everyone was equal in his or her misery.
In the same way that a Ponzi scheme or chain letter initially succeeds but eventually collapses, socialism may show early signs of success. But any accomplishments quickly fade as the fundamental deficiencies of central planning emerge. It is the initial illusion of success that gives government intervention its pernicious, seductive appeal. In the long run, socialism has always proven to be a formula for tyranny and misery.
As the former centrally planned economies move toward free markets, capitalism, and democracy, they look to the United States for guidance and support during the transition. With an unparalleled 250-year tradition of open markets and limited government, the United States is uniquely qualified to be the guiding light in the worldwide transition to freedom and liberty.
We have an obligation to continue to provide a framework of free markets and democracy for the global transition to freedom. Our responsibility to the rest of the world is to continue to fight the seductiveness of statism around the world and here at home. The seductive nature of statism continues to tempt and lure us into the Barmecidal illusion that the government can create wealth.
The temptress of socialism is constantly luring us with the offer: “give up a little of your freedom and I will give you a little more security.” As the experience of this century has demonstrated, the bargain is tempting but never pays off. We end up losing both our freedom and our security.
Programs like socialized medicine, welfare, Social Security, and minimum wage laws will continue to entice us because on the surface they appear to be expedient and beneficial. Those programs, like all socialist programs, will fail in the long run regardless of initial appearances. These programs are part of the Big Lie of socialism because they ignore the important role of incentives.
Socialism will remain a constant temptation. We must be vigilant in our fight against socialism not only around the globe but also here in the United States.
The failure of socialism inspired a worldwide renaissance of freedom and liberty. For the first time in the history of the world, the day is coming very soon when a majority of the people in the world will live in free societies or societies rapidly moving toward freedom.
Capitalism will play a major role in the global revival of liberty and prosperity because it nurtures the human spirit, inspires human creativity, and promotes the spirit of enterprise. By providing a powerful system of incentives that promote thrift, hard work, and efficiency, capitalism creates wealth.
The main difference between capitalism and socialism is this: Capitalism works.
Read more at FEE.org.



by noreply@blogger.com (directorblue) via Doug Ross @ Journal



Saturday, September 26, 2015

Syrians Who Are Not Really Syrians

Syrians Who Are Not Really Syrians:

Germany is reporting that about one-third of those "Syrian" refugees are not really Syrians. Another warning sign.

Another point: I am seeing too many pictures like the above where most of the people you see are young men of military age. We are being played for suckers, and our leaders (Europe-America) are not doing their basic duty of protecting us. Mark my word. Europeans and Americans will soon be dying on the streets of our own cities at the hands of these so-called refugees.
by Gary Fouse via FOUSESQUAWK

If Pope Francis Wants to Help the Poor, He Should Embrace Capitalism

If Pope Francis Wants to Help the Poor, He Should Embrace Capitalism:





As we have said before, many times, we are against crony capitalism and for capitalism not because “we just want to keep what’s ours.” Not because we feel some slavish devotion to an ethos of greed. (As some might call self interest.)  But because the voluntary exchange of goods and services, capitalism, is the economic vehicle which raises more out of poverty and provides the most opportunity for everyday people. Where one can do business without the government or the local lord or mafia boss taking all the profits people can build wealth. They can then in turn invest this wealth. Which then in turn creates new jobs and new wealth creation and so on.
Where people can’t do business in an honest way wealth aggregates with cronies and eventually the broader economic system stagnates. Contracts aren’t respected. Investment wains. Jobs aren’t created or disappear. The everyday person is worse off. This is the reality of big government, and it creates poverty.
To deny this seemingly obvious reality (at least to us) is to condemn many people to lives of economic despair and social marginalization. We know the Pope doesn’t want that.
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by Editor via AgainstCronyCapitalism.org

Friday, September 25, 2015

We have lost the courage to see things as they are

neo-neocon » Blog Archive » We have lost the courage to see things as they are:

"The line “We have lost the courage to see things as they are” leapt out at me when I read it. Ever since the Obama presidency began–actually, ever since some time during Obama’s first campaign for the presidency—there has been an almost constant “Emperor’s New Clothes” feeling about the public’s reaction to what he does.

In that letter, Lucas was like the child pointing and crying out that the emperor is naked. Now, as then, we cannot see what is in front of us. We cannot exercise common sense—which we should rename uncommon sense, because that’s what it has become. We cannot stick up for ourselves, cannot look out for our interests, and have given all of that up for a combination of self-righteous moral preening and a lack of critical thinking so profound that most people don’t even know what Obama has done and what it means.

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Thursday, September 24, 2015

Time to Dismantle the UN Human Rights Council

Time to Dismantle the UN Human Rights Council:





What makes the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) ignore such rights violations? The answer is simple: most of the member states of the Council are themselves the worst violators of rights of their own citizens, and they are trying to save each other
via Gatestone Institute

Wednesday, September 23, 2015

Hungarian bishop: Pope wrong in appealing for aid to sea of refugees; this is actually a Muslim invasion of Europe

Hungarian bishop: Pope wrong in appealing for aid to sea of refugees; this is actually a Muslim invasion of Europe:



Khaled Diab, call your office. Actually, “Believe me, don’t believe your lying eyes” types like Diab have their work cut out for them: despite their best efforts, reality becomes every day more difficult to ignore. In any case, if Laszlo Kiss-Rego were a bishop in the United States, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (led […]
by Robert Spencer via Jihad Watch

This ISIS Intel Was Intentionally Changed to Make Obama Look Good

This ISIS Intel Was Intentionally Changed to Make Obama Look Good:



What is the point of military analysts if they are being forced to alter their reports to appear as though their analysis is different than the truth?
That’s basically what is happening with regards to Intel on ISIS. Analysts were forced to alter their original analysis to make it look ‘better’ than what [...]
by Kimberly Morin via The Federalist Papers


Monday, September 21, 2015

Afghanistan Is A Cesspool, And It's Time We Left

Afghanistan Is A Cesspool, And It's Time We Left - Mark Nuckols - Page 1:

"The New York Times published a story today about U.S. policy in Afghanistan to turn a blind eye to “bacha bazi,” or “boy play.” You see, although Afghans stone to death women for adultery and beat people to death for blasphemy, keeping young boys chained up as sex slaves is an old and respected tribal custom. And our troops have been strictly warned not to intervene when senior Afghan military and police commanders want to indulge in their taste for pederasty.

Afghanistan is not only a military quagmire in which we are pointlessly bogged down. It is a moral cesspool, and being there at all is degrading and demoralizing for our brave soldiers and it is shameful that we are propping up that country’s corrupt and morally bankrupt ruling class. Our war in Afghanistan is probably militarily unwinnable. But were we to somehow succeed we would be keeping in power a wretched gang of thieves, drug dealers, rapists, child killers and pedophiles. If the alternative to these mutts is the Taliban, I say let the Taliban have Afghanistan and be rid of that miserable excuse of a country.

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'via Blog this'

Low Interest Rates Mask the Effects of Job-Killing Policies

Low Interest Rates Mask the Effects of Job-Killing Policies:

Seven years of relaxed monetary policies have caused U.S. household wealth to soar, but for most Americans this tremendous accumulation of wealth has not translated into robust wage growth.
In other words, while the Federal Reserve’s quantitative easing has not led to the consumer price inflation that many feared, it has led to asset price inflation. (The WSJ concludes by noting, ominously, that wealth-to-GDP ratios have only come close to their current level of 4.8 during notorious bubbles). Soaring household wealth levels aren’t a bad thing per se, but job growth, not asset price inflation, is the best way to promote economic growth.
by Jason Willick via The American Interest

"An Open Rant Aimed at Those Who Would Repeal the Second Amendment"

"An Open Rant Aimed at Those Who Would Repeal the Second Amendment":

Charles C. W. Cooke posts a very fine rant, indeed.

Related Robert VerBruggen calmly considers the question, "Do Guns Cause Violence?"



by Craig via Newmark's Door


"Anatomy of a failed liberal state"

"Anatomy of a failed liberal state":

Stephen Moore:

. . . Chicago is the canary in the coal mine when it comes to the government pension crisis. Pensions to retired teachers and state employees are bleeding the state dry. Since 2006, annual pension payments have grown tenfold, from $60 million to over $650 million. A state budget office spokesman tells me that “nearly one of three state tax dollars now goes to paying pensions for retired municipal and state employees.”

by Craig via Newmark's Door

Climate Change Ideology Destroyed by Two Graphs

Climate Change Ideology Destroyed by Two Graphs:

Weather expert Joe Bastardi has two graphs he would like to show the Pope, who has been concerning himself not with our souls but with reducing harmless CO2 emissions in accordance with leftist ideology.
But even if he could get Pope Francis to look at the graphs, it wouldn’t do any good. Climate change is not about improving the human condition, or even improving the climate. It is about imposing collectivism on behalf of an authoritarian oligarchy.
On tips from Torcer and Bodhisattva.
by Dave Blount via Moonbattery

Sunday, September 20, 2015

The Marines: We don’t want women fighting on the front lines

The Marines: We don’t want women fighting on the front lines:





Feminazi heads are exploding because the Marine Corps is expected to ask that women not be allowed to compete for several front-line combat jobs. Should women be kept out of
by Tiffiny Ruegner via John Hawkins' Right Wing News

Arizona Congressman Will Boycott Leftist Pope's Speech to Congress

Arizona Congressman Will Boycott Leftist Pope's Speech to Congress:

Ben Carson: I Would Not Want a Muslim President

Ben Carson: I Would Not Want a Muslim President:

Josef Stalin Meme Perfectly Explains The Rise Of Bernie Sanders, And It’s DEVASTATING

Josef Stalin Meme Perfectly Explains The Rise Of Bernie Sanders, And It’s DEVASTATING:



From Powerline:

The totalitarian tendencies of American liberals have long been evident. Liberals have pretty much given up on trying to convince those who disagree with them–that happens, I suppose, when you consistently lose arguments.
Now they want to have us arrested.

The latest [...]



by Jason W. Stevens via The Federalist Papers




Muslims of America terrorist training compounds

Muslims of America terrorist training compounds:

There are terror-training camps in at least 19 states in this country and we are doing next to nothing about it.
via American Thinker

The Bergdahl Case Gets Curiouser and Curiouser

The Bergdahl Case Gets Curiouser and Curiouser:

The uncomfortable but compelling suspicion arises that this entire fiasco is a setup that will allow the Army to escape the Bergdahl case without embarrassing President Obama.
via American Thinker

Saturday, September 19, 2015

FUNNY, THEY NEVER COMPLAINED WHEN ANDREW SULLIVAN WAS CLAIMING, REPEATEDLY, THAT TRIG PALIN WAS ACTU…

FUNNY, THEY NEVER COMPLAINED WHEN ANDREW SULLIVAN WAS CLAIMING, REPEATEDLY, THAT TRIG PALIN WAS ACTU…:

FUNNY, THEY NEVER COMPLAINED WHEN ANDREW SULLIVAN WAS CLAIMING, REPEATEDLY, THAT TRIG PALIN WAS ACTUALLY BRISTOL’S BABY: White House rips Trump over birther reaction.

See, you can’t persuasively pull the “have you no decency?” posture off when you so obviously have none yourself.
by Glenn Reynolds via Instapundit

DOES ANYBODY IN THE BELTWAY PERMA-BUREAUCRACY EVER LOSE HIS JOB? EPA Administrator: No One’s Lost …

DOES ANYBODY IN THE BELTWAY PERMA-BUREAUCRACY EVER LOSE HIS JOB? EPA Administrator: No One’s Lost …:

DOES ANYBODY IN THE BELTWAY PERMA-BUREAUCRACY EVER LOSE HIS JOB? EPA Administrator: No One’s Lost Their Job Over Agency’s Mine Spill.



by Ed Driscoll via Instapundit

Obama's Muslim identity

Obama's Muslim identity:

(Cliff Kincaid) - An ordinary citizen who identified President Barack Obama as a Muslim at a Donald Trump town hall meeting in New Hampshire showed that media brainwashing on the subject has been futile. The people understand that Obama asserts he is a Christian, but they just aren't buying it. Obama has done too many things to benefit Muslims to convince people that he is not one of them...
by Cliff Kincaid via RenewAmerica columns

Thursday, September 17, 2015

Donald J. Boudreaux: Pope Francis Misses The Sizable Moral Dimensions To Capitalism

Donald J. Boudreaux: Pope Francis Misses The Sizable Moral Dimensions To Capitalism:

Defending capitalism on practical grounds is easy: It is history's greatest force for raising the living standards of the masses. Prior to the Industrial Revolution, the average person lived on about $3 per day (reckoned in 2015 dollars), and each denizen of today's developing countries -- those places touched least by capitalism -- scrapes by on $7 per day. In contrast, the average person in today's market-oriented industrialized world lives on
via Investors.com


Former Director of Norway’s Nobel Institute Regrets Giving Peace Prize to Obama

Former Director of Norway’s Nobel Institute Regrets Giving Peace Prize to Obama:

Even the moonbats who pass out Nobel Peace Prizes to communist dictators, treasonous fools, Arab terrorists, and con artists have figured out that giving one to Barack Hussein came off like a sick joke:
by Dave Blount via Moonbattery


Hungary's migrant crisis: "This is the demography of an invading army"

Hungary's migrant crisis: "This is the demography of an invading army":

I talked with Hungarian-born George Igler of the Discourse Institute about what's happening in his homeland.
by Ezra Levant via The Rebel - Canada

The American Disease: I Deserve to Get Away with Anything and Everything, by Charles Hugh Smith

The American Disease: I Deserve to Get Away with Anything and Everything, by Charles Hugh Smith:

From Charles Hugh Smith, at oftwominds.com: The only thing as grandiose as this sense of entitlement is the hubris it engenders. Here’s the American Disease in a nutshell: entitlement and power means you never have to apologize for anything. Public relations might require a grudging, insincere quasi-apology, but the person with power can’t evince humility […]
by Robert Gore via STRAIGHT LINE LOGIC