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Disrespect for and trample on our Constitution

Posted by Boris Tiraspolsky on Saturday, July 04, 2009 12:03:10 AM

"You [Obama] continually show disrespect for and trample on our Constitution, especially when it bars you from enacting your most radical ideas."



How long till Obama is booted?
by Tom Sears

I'm wondering how long it will be before the word "impeachment" starts being bantered about? The list of reasons to expel Obama keeps getting longer and stronger, and this is only five months into his reign. Continued...
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The only president as naïve as our current president

Posted by Boris Tiraspolsky on Friday, July 03, 2009 12:57:07 AM
"Wilson, the only president as naïve as our current president, promised the peoples of Europe sovereignty, and then allowed France and Britain to create precisely the sort of polyglot nations like Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia, which made some sort of European war almost certain and a Carthaginian peace on Germany which made it very hard for noble Germans to win elections in Weimar Germany." 


President Woodrow Wilson
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How about this, President Obama? We win. They Lose.
By Bruce Walker

President Obama seems to be grappling with an approach to safely resolve the grave international problems of Iran and of North Korea.  He is floundering for the right tactics when what he needs is the right strategy.  As my friend Herb Meyer, who worked closely with Reagan in winning the Cold War, reminds us, Reagan's strategy was straightforward:  "How about this?  We win.  They lose."  Barry Goldwater put in much the same during the 1960s, when his Cold War strategy was summarized in his 1963 book title Why Not Victory? Continued...
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The message they are waiting for

Posted by Boris Tiraspolsky on Wednesday, July 01, 2009 1:17:40 AM
"At the 1976 Republican convention, having lost the nomination for president, Ronald Reagan was invited by President Ford to say a few words. This is how he closed: "Better than we have ever done before, we have got to quit talking to each other and about each other and go out and communicate to the world that we may be fewer in numbers than we have ever been, but we carry the message they are waiting for."  Reagan's advice is as good today as it was in 1976."



"Don't Tell Me It Can't Be Done"
by Newt Gingrich

Last week, I had the pleasure of addressing the Senate-House Annual Republican Dinner. The MC for the evening was actor Jon Voight. Before he spoke, a video tribute for Voight was shown, including clips of him playing Franklin Delano Roosevelt in a movie. Continued...
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Engine for our ultimate destruction

Posted by Boris Tiraspolsky on Tuesday, June 30, 2009 2:14:05 AM
"...nobody has yet explained civilization’s sudden unwillingness or inability to crush pathological growths that have sabotaged our collective sanity. The serious strategist, looking at society’s gradual surrender to one suicidal idea after another, says to himself: “An enemy could not have devised a better engine for our ultimate destruction.”



Why Most Things Do Not Matter
by J. R. Nyquist

Imagine you are on the Titanic, and the ship is sinking after sideswiping an iceberg. Does it matter if you need a haircut? Should you be worrying about your investments? Under life-and-death circumstances, only life seems to matter. The trivia that clogs our existence is swept away by the sudden realization of what is actually at stake. In this sense, true philosophy is found on the deck of the Titanic. It leads us to discover what really matters; that is to say, why most things actually do not matter. Continued...
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Increasingly hostile confrontation

Posted by Boris Tiraspolsky on Monday, June 29, 2009 3:21:41 PM
"A new ideological division now splits the region, what I call the Middle Eastern cold war. Its dynamics help explain an increasingly hostile confrontation between two blocs."



The Middle Eastern Cold War
by Daniel Pipes

A cold war is "the key to understanding the Middle East in the 21st century." So argue Yigal Carmon and three of his colleagues at the Middle East Media and Research Institute (MEMRI) in a recent study, "An Escalating Regional Cold War." Continued...
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What he says versus what he does

Posted by Boris Tiraspolsky on Friday, June 26, 2009 2:46:59 AM
"No one doubts Obama speaks exceedingly well; he uses soothing words that come across as reassuring and reasonable. The problem comes when you examine what he says versus what he does. And by that standard, Mr. Obama is turning out to be almost promiscuously misleading."



Still Decoding Obama
Peter Wehner 

I recently devoted a piece to trying to decode President Obama. In reading more of his comments, I’ve noticed a tendency that now almost qualifies as a reflex: the more strongly the president denies something — and especially, the more he mocks his critics and feigns amusement at what they say — the greater the odds are that he will do what he denies. Continued...
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If truth does not matter...

Posted by Boris Tiraspolsky on Wednesday, June 24, 2009 11:11:05 AM

"If truth does not matter, then the accumulation of truth which we call learning cannot matter either.  Public education and academia is simply re-education.  Children and college students are taught "facts" that round out political indoctrination. There was a time when education meant exposing growing minds to a universe of facts which supported conflicting opinions and grasping the thinking behind those opinions." 



The Murder of Civil Life
By Bruce Walker

The putrid comments by David Letterman about Sarah Palin and her daughter, and the dethronement of Carrie Prejean for the vice of honesty, bring home just how savagely civil life has been murdered by the Left.  We no longer have a civil public life.  It has been crushed between pinchers of enraged nihilism and fantasy causes.  "Feminists" or the Ladies Auxiliary of Marxist Enmity (LAME) should be threatening boycotts of the CBS or demanding the de-politicization of beauty contests, but that presumes LAME cares about women:  its disciples care only about venting their private fury towards an empty life. Continued...
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Understanding the power of this ideology

Posted by Boris Tiraspolsky on Wednesday, June 24, 2009 1:25:53 AM
"...the power of the religio-political narrative advanced by al Qaeda and its affiliates can be seen across a broad range of homegrown terrorist cases. Understanding the power of this ideology is an important starting point when asking how homegrown terrorists radicalize. Successfully countering it is, in turn, critical to winning the struggle against global terrorism."



How do they radicalize others?
By Daveed Gartenstein-Ross

The shooting in Arkansas last week that claimed the life of a 24-year-old soldier and the bomb plot that was disrupted in the Bronx in late May put questions about homegrown terrorism into sharp focus. Why do some Americans, like Arkansas shooter Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad, decide to take up arms against the society where they were born and raised? Continued...
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Something we can no longer avoid

Posted by Boris Tiraspolsky on Tuesday, June 23, 2009 7:30:48 AM

"The days immediately following 9/11 saw a glimmer of seriousness, a glimmer of redemption, but it was not sustained. It was quickly brushed aside and we were told to go forth and shop. Americans would continue to defeat their enemies by living better than their enemies – as we did during the Cold War. But I am sorry to say, real victories aren’t won in this way. Real victories are won by suffering and sacrifice. And this is something we have avoided, something we can no longer avoid. We can no longer sustain the shopping mall regime. We can no longer sustain our permissiveness."



Holding It Together
by J. R. Nyquist

What are we barreling toward?” asks Peggy Noonan in her latest book. “A difficult time, I think,” she says. Has this famous Washington speech-writer become a pessimist? Is she referring to economic hard times? No. She is referring to a future attack on the United States. Continued...
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The truth of the past

Posted by Boris Tiraspolsky on Sunday, June 21, 2009 6:18:24 AM

"This list of distortions could be easily expanded. President Obama, in elegant fashion, may casually invoke the means of politically correct history for the higher ends of contemporary reconciliation. But it is a bad habit. Eloquence and good intentions exempt no one from the truth of the past — President Obama included."


Clio, the muse of History

Our Historically Challenged President
A list of distortions.
By Victor Davis Hanson

In his speech last week in Cairo, President Obama proclaimed he was a “student of history.” But despite Barack Obama’s image as an Ivy League-educated intellectual, he lacks historical competency, in areas of both facts and interpretation. Continued...
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To implement utopia here on earth

Posted by Boris Tiraspolsky on Friday, June 19, 2009 1:47:13 AM

"The left is rejoicing at finally being able to implement utopia here on earth. A utopian vision that has consistently failed whenever it has been foisted upon a populace, either through charisma or brute force. But never mind. Obama's utopia will work, experts assure us."



62 Million Voiceless Americans
By Nancy Morgan

Is it still called debate when only one side controls the conversation? That's the question the 62 million Americans who didn't vote for Obama are asking themselves. Continued...
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Al-Qaeda is casing the U.S. border with Mexico

Posted by Boris Tiraspolsky on Thursday, June 18, 2009 2:07:28 AM
"On June 3rd Sara Carter and the Washington Times reported, “Al-Qaeda Eyes Anthrax Attack On U.S from Mexico.” The story is based on an Al-Qaeda recruitment video first broadcast back in February on Al Jazeera.  In it, Kuwaiti dissident Abdullah al-Nafisi tells a roomful of people that Al-Qaeda is currently casing the U.S. border with Mexico to see how they could smuggle weapons through border tunnels and into the U.S. (Relax fellas, you don’t need to crawl through tunnels. I can show you whole unguarded roads that go across the river and into the U.S. … unless you really like crawling.)"


One of unguarded roads that go across the river and into the U.S.

The Russians, Arabs, Drug Cartels and our Southern Border
by Chris Burgard

Border Ranchers and Texas Law Enforcement have been warning of such a threat for years. For a long while now, ranchers and sheriffs have been reporting incidents of Middle Eastern human smuggling. For some Texas ranchers, stumbling upon Somalis, Eritreans, Bangladeshis or Iraqis is no longer surprising. Zapata County Sheriff Sigfried Gonzales had to reach out to the Israeli Mossad in order to identify Jihadist mercenary patches that were sewn into the inside of clothing recovered in the Texas brush. Continued...
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Move toward 'soft tyranny'

Posted by Boris Tiraspolsky on Tuesday, June 16, 2009 1:25:05 AM
"No socialist government conducting the entire life and industry of the country could afford to allow free, sharp, or violently worded expressions of public discontent. They would have to fall back on some form of Gestapo, no doubt very humanely directed in the first instance." - Joseph Farah quotes Churchill to spotlight today's move toward 'soft tyranny'


Winston Churchill

Repeating the mistakes of the past
by Ideological Warrior of the Nation - Joseph Farah
 
As America plunges headlong into the socialist abyss, thinking it is actually discovering something new, it's time to examine some history and relearn the mistakes of the past. Continued...
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Enemy sometimes makes mistakes

Posted by Boris Tiraspolsky on Monday, June 15, 2009 2:52:25 AM
"Why did Khamene'i select Ahmadinejad to "win" the election? Why did he not chose a president-puppet who would present a smile to the world, including Obama, handle the economy competently, not rile the population, and whose selection would not inspire riots that might destabilize the regime? Has Khamene'i fallen under the spell of Ahmadinejad or does he have some clever ploy up his sleeve? Whatever the answer is, it baffles me. Put differently, the West makes plenty of mistakes, so it's a relief to learn that its enemy sometimes does likewise."



Assessing the Iranian Election
By Daniel Pipes
  
Better put, the Iranian "selection," as the exercise yesterday appears to have been window dressing for Spiritual Leader Ali Khamene'i, the real power in Iran, to re-appoint Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as president. According to the authorities, Ahmadinejad received 63 percent of the vote, Mir-Hossein Mousavi 35 percent, and the remaining two candidates each about 1 percent. Continued...
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Draw your own conclusions

Posted by Boris Tiraspolsky on Sunday, June 14, 2009 1:19:40 AM
"How does our country compare to the Romans of 216 B.C.? Take a look around. Observe what is said and done today. Then draw your own conclusions."


The Carthaginian commander Hannibal

A Great Nation?
by J. R. Nyquist

To understand who we are, historical references are useful. To know how a people will come through a crisis, look to those traits of character possessed by nations that have snatched victory from the jaws of defeat. How did they survive their ordeal? What lessons can we draw from their story? In August of 216 B.C. a catastrophe occurred in Italy. The Carthaginian commander Hannibal destroyed two Roman armies near a town called Cannae, in Apulia. The historian Polybius recorded that 70,000 Roman and allied infantry were killed in a single day, with 10,000 captured and “perhaps” 3,000 escaping alive. Continued...
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