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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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Masking the true nature of Shariah

Posted by Boris Tiraspolsky on Saturday, June 13, 2009 12:58:32 AM
"The [Obama's] Speech contained a number of statements about the laudable qualities of America, the need for freedom in the Muslim world, about women's rights and the desirability of peace.  But its preponderant and much more important message was one that could have been crafted by the Muslim Brotherhood:  America has a president who is, wittingly or not, advancing the Brotherhood's agenda of masking the true nature of Shariah and encouraging the West's submission to it."



Deciphering Obama in Cairo
By Frank Gaffney, Jr.
 
By and large, President Obama's address in Cairo has been well received in both the so-called "Muslim world" and by other audiences. Nobody may be happier with it, though, than the Muslim Brotherhood - the global organization that seeks to impose authoritative Islam's theo-political-legal program known as "Shariah" through stealthy means where violence ones are not practicable.  Egyptian Muslim Brothers were prominent among the guests in the audience at Cairo University and Brotherhood-associated organizations in America, like the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), have rapturously endorsed the speech. Continued...
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Obama's presumptive moral authority

Posted by Boris Tiraspolsky on Friday, June 12, 2009 1:32:13 AM
"He [Obama] is "shocked and outraged" at Tiller's killing but only "deeply saddened" by the Long killing. So, where exactly is the basis for his presumptive moral authority? There isn't any."



Comment by Iwojeemi on Barack Obama's 10 mistakes in Cairo
 
The recurring theme in so many of Obama's speeches is moral authority, usually the specific lack of it in the American Government, at least until he was elected, it seems. Continued...
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Misreading the national temperament

Posted by Boris Tiraspolsky on Wednesday, June 10, 2009 5:53:05 AM

"Perhaps they [Republicans] are worried about re-election more than the core issues. Their long record of misreading the national temperament, rolling over on leftist initiatives, and pushing the wrong candidates has alienated conservatives of all stripes."



May Posterity Forget You Were Our Countrymen
By Lance Fairchok

There is something about D.C. that saps the will and dulls the intellect of conservatives. Prolonged exposure makes them fretful and risk-averse, even timid with controversial issues. Rather than standing on the fundamental values that define American conservativism such as fiscal restraint, limited government, low taxes and free markets, they sidestep and tap-dance, befuddled by the "bi-partisan" opiates peddled by Socialist Democrats. Continued...
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The true motives of the Jihadists

Posted by Boris Tiraspolsky on Tuesday, June 09, 2009 3:21:38 AM
"This is a new type of threat which is penetrating the United States that we need to be aware of. Similarly, a local official told AP: "We believe that it's associated with his disagreement over the military operations." This is further evidence that authorities may not comprehend the true motives of the Jihadists. It is not about "disagreement over military operations." It is about indoctrination of individual U.S. citizens or residents to turn them against their own society for a much larger purpose."

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ARKANSAS' LONE JIHADIST: HOW ALONE IS HE?
By Walid Phares

In an armed attack outside the Army-Navy Career Center which handles recruiting, in Little Rock, AR, Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad, 23, killed one soldier wounded another. Muhammad, an American citizen who is a convert to Islam and previously known as Carlos Bledsoe, already had been under investigation by the FBI at the time of the shootings. He had traveled to Yemen, received indoctrination from radical clerics, according to a watch group, and possessed a false Somali passport. He was charged in the death of Pvt. William Long, 23, while a prosecutor said Muhammad admitted shooting Long and another soldier "because of what they had done to Muslims in the past." Continued...
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The art of sugaring words

Posted by Boris Tiraspolsky on Sunday, June 07, 2009 9:22:06 AM
"In brief, he [Obama] broke little new ground but raised to new heights the art of sugaring words in ways appealing to Islamists."



Assessing Obama's Cairo Speech
by Daniel Pipes

Barack Obama's mention of "seven million American Muslims" in the course of his rambling and complex six-thousand-word address to the Muslim world from Cairo symbolizes the whole message. Continued...
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Remembering the D-Day - June 6, 1944

Posted by Boris Tiraspolsky on Saturday, June 06, 2009 12:47:13 AM
D-Day is a term often used in military parlance to denote the day on which a combat attack or operation is to be initiated. By far, the best known D-Day is June 6, 1944 — the day on which the Battle of Normandy began — commencing the Western Allied effort to liberate mainland Europe from Nazi occupation during World War II.



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To end this once utopian experiment

Posted by Boris Tiraspolsky on Saturday, June 06, 2009 12:44:43 AM

"I am not arguing that in many cases affirmative action, the diversity industry, and identity policies do not result in some sort of understandable corrective action, or draw on the logic of recompense. Instead, I suggest that in far too many cases they simply do not-and that the exceptions, distortions, and inconsistencies associated with affirmative action and identity politics have now reached enough of a critical mass to end this once utopian experiment once and for all."



Lost in the Labyrinth of Race
By Victor Davis Hanson

The Sotomayor Nomination and the Politics of Racial Identity

One of the unexpected results of the Sotomayor nomination is a refocusing on the politics of racial identity and the fossilized institutions of affirmative action-or the belief that the U.S. government should use its vast power to ensure an equality of result rather than a fairness of opportunity. Continued...
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President Bush said...

Posted by Boris Tiraspolsky on Thursday, June 04, 2009 12:42:51 AM

"My call for our [Republican] party is to be open-minded."


President George W. Bush

President Bush said: "My call for our party is to be open-minded. Obviously, we got whipped in 2008. Republican leaders are re-examining both their message and their messengers. The party need not change its basic tenets such low taxes and a strong defense. There ought not be any litmus tests as to whether or not you can be a Republican."

Comment by Boris Tiraspolsky:

Dear President Bush! Your call for the Republican Party is right on time. I agree "Republican leaders must re-examine both their message and their messengers."
 
There is only one problem. Being "open minded" is not an IDEOLOGICAL PRINCIPLE necessary in U.S. Ideological Civil War with those who represent "wrong ideologies" destroying our Republic and the Constitution.
 
Regardless of how "open-minded" Republicans may be there are always more "open minded" Democrats out there. To withstand "wrong ideologies" one needs not just "to be open-minded", but the RIGHT IDEOLOGY.

Some time ago I wrote an article expressing ideas that in my view give a good chance for the Republican Party to become a party of Power again. Here is my article. Please, read. The Party of the Ideology of the U.S. Constitution
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Restricting speech about Islam

Posted by Boris Tiraspolsky on Tuesday, June 02, 2009 1:24:43 AM

"...it is not at all difficult to look down the path and see the day coming when it will Sharia provisions restricting speech about Islam will be in place in the United States of America, and it will be illegal to speak about the Islamic supremacist agenda."



Right now they're talking about restricting free speech in connection with dissent from the stimulus bill. Norm Eisen, special counsel to the president for ethics and government reform (of all things), writes this: "Update on Recovery Act Lobbying Rules: New Limits on Special Interest Influence," from the Whitehouse.gov Blog, May 29 (thanks to James): Continued...
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