The Nobel Peace Prize committee must be squirming. Barack Obama, their darling of 2008, who was awarded their coveted peacemaker of the world trophy barely into his first term of office and having done absolutely nothing to deserve it, is now eying yet another war he can send our soldiers into to die. Assad of Syria is providing the excuse, this time, and Obama is compulsively reacting as he usual does, much as the cowardly lion does in the Wizard of Oz. “Put ‘em up, put ‘em up,” threatens Barry O, Peacemaker. Now why, you might ask, is our devious president even considering sending our troops into a country that is no threat to us?
Young men sitting on a low concrete wall outside a 7/11 texting, playing video games, dissing each other – heads hanging down. School’s out. Summer’s in.
Army recruiters promising – dreams of valor, pay, signing bonuses, doing something that means something. Special Forces, uniforms, state of the art weapons, travel.
Young man nods, “I’m outta here,” and says goodbye to his friends.
He didn’t see the bomb that blew his truck into the air, didn’t hear the explosion. He was dead before the truck hit the ground. A one liner in the local paper. A picture in the local throw away. A good boy they said. Loved his friends. Strong. Good values. Wanted to serve his country – but how can serving in Afghanistan even remotely be considered a patriotic act?
Some said he didn’t mind being a mercenary. He saw a future for himself. Training he could use to get a job in civilian life, maybe start a family, be somebody.
He lived in our neighborhood. Went to our schools. Rode skateboards, smoked an occasional joint, hung out.
On the corner near his house friends who remember him amid bunches of flowers and signs – one from his girlfriend that read “you made flowers of my hours. Our time together was a bouquet.”
Red eyed parents talk to a local reporter as his girl friend cries. But what is there to say?
He’s now a number, a soldier who became a memory. Will we remember?
It’s hard enough to focus in the middle of home foreclosures, a world wide struggling economy, a continual bombardment of information thanks to technical advances. It’s hard enough to Stop. Look. And Listen. We are, however, what we choose to remember and who we choose to honor.
This young man’s death must not be forgotten for in forgetting we forget that we are part of the citizenry that sent him to the country where his life ended. In forgetting we forget that we must not be politically passive. If we forget we forget he was brother, son, friend of each of us.
There are many such stories. Too many, in fact. Let’s together bow our heads in their honor and commit together to not forget them.
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Sometimes a small incident says volumes about a large government agency. In this case the Environmental Protection Agency.
Around 1.45 PM on May 23, Ashville, North Carolina resident Larry Keller was in the midst of an international call which he had to cut short in order to answer his front door. He found two armed agents of the EPA who were accompanied by an Ashville Police officer. [More...]
The election of 2012 is critically important for our nation.
Will America actually entertain the idea of re-electing Barack Obama and, in the process, choose to go down the same pitted, embittered, socialistic dead end as Europe?
Or will we be brave, bold and bright enough to pick a new president and at least try to break from all the “change” that’s breaking us in two — or twelve? [More...]
Proudly not a career politician, Republican Kristi Noem was elected to serve as South Dakota’s lone Member of the U.S. House of Representatives on November 2, 2010. She serves on the Agriculture Committee, the Natural Resources Committee and the Education & Workforce Committee. She is also a freshman class liaison to the Republican House Leadership team.
“I am honored that my freshman class colleagues have put their trust in me to represent our historic class at the leadership table. The incoming freshman class of Representatives is large and diverse but we share many common goals including cutting wasteful spending, getting our economy back on track and making government smarter and more efficient. We didn’t come here to become Washington, we came here to change Washington,” said Noem. [More...]
Newt Gingrich knows that politics aren’t always pretty and winning is the name of the game so it comes as no surprise that Gingrich supports Mitt Romney for the very things he attacked him for a few months ago when they were adversaries.
On ‘Meet The Press’ Sunday Gingrich defended Romney from attacks made on his record at Bain Capital. “Bain as an issue doesn’t work because people look at it in balance,” he said “and they say, wait a second, yeah, you can pick a couple companies that lost. You can pick a lot of companies that succeeded. And as even as the governor of Massachusetts said last week, it is a good company.” [More...]
Remember that perverse 2009 video of the New Jersey school kids? Those innocent tykes, 6 or 7 years old, dancing and singing the praises of…Barack Hussein Obama?
The lyrics, outrageously manipulated to impress little children, featured this disturbing hook: “Barack Obama, mmm mmm good!” Campbell’s Soup must still be boiling.
That was an appalling presentation. Truly one of the most nauseatingly cultish ways in which Obama was presented — to kids yet — as an all-mighty being.
Michael Steele called it “the type of propaganda you would see in Stalin’s Russia or Kim Jong Il’s North Korea.” The then Chairman of the Republican National Committee, Steele was right. A Hitler youth pre-school might come to mind as well. [More...]
I don’t like mincing words, and I don’t respect those who do. I associate mincing words with tap-dancing around an issue and I really, really despise that. For all my many shortcomings, I am deeply committed to telling the truth. This was drilled into me by my parents, and I hold my kids to those same standards today. My spiritual beliefs teach me that just like love, perfect truth is unachievable for human beings. But like love, truth is a high and noble calling that we should choose to pursue. As a nation, there was a time in the not-too-distant past when we did exactly that. [More...]
This picture of an American woman has come to represent the pain our country went through during our Great Depression. I don’t believe she has ever been identified and almost certainly she is dead by now, as dead as the Spirit of America must have seemed to her and the two children holding on to her for support. What supported her during those years of no jobs, no food, no hope…anywhere? [More...]
The 2012 Republican National Convention will be held at the Tampa Bay Times Forum August 27-30, 2012, and we will be updating you on some of the significant people in the Republican Party you should keep an eye on. The Republican National Committee (RNC) will host 2,286 delegates and 2,125 alternate delegates from all 50 states, the District of Columbia and five territories.
The Chairman of the RNC, Reince Priebus, was elected on January 14, 2011. Priebus is a rising star in the Republican Party and before he took office he promised, “Less drama, more hard work, more results and more focus on winning.” [More...]
In interview after interview, Black people of every age respond to the question of who they will vote for in November, with “Obama.” The follow up question is “why?” and the answer, many times, is “’Cos he Black, like me.” There is no question that this is a stupid reason for voting for anyone, but it is not restricted to Blacks and Obama. Irish often vote for Irish, Jews for Jews, Italians for Italians, even though their candidate couldn’t run a used camel dealership in Saudi Arabia. [More...]
DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz has been pressing Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney to release his tax return, despite the fact that he has already released his 2010 return. However, Wasserman Schultz has refused to release her own return despite the request of her congressional opponent Karen Harrington. [More...]
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In
1952
President Truman
established one day a year as a
“National Day of Prayer.”
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In
1988
President Reagan
designated the
First Thursday in May of each year as
the National Dayof Prayer.
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In
June 2007
(then) Presidential Candidate
Barack Obama
declared
that the USA
“Was no longer a
Christian
nation.” [More...]
An Obituary printed in the London Times…..Absolutely Brilliant !!
Today we mourn the passing of a beloved old friend, Common Sense, who has been with us for many years. No one knows for sure how old he was, since his birth records were long ago lost in bureaucratic red tape. He will be remembered as having cultivated such valuable lessons as:
- Knowing when to come in out of the rain;
- Why the early bird gets the worm;
- Life isn’t always fair;
- And maybe it was my fault. [More...]
(Editors Note: The DC Post was conceived as an open forum, dedicated to exposing corruption and hypocrisy no matter who was doing the dirty deed. People interviewed for this article say that they will vote for some of these senate hopefuls, despite them not having revealed some pretty nasty details of their pasts. Are these the same people who will vote for Barack Obama in November, despite his refusal to reveal virtually any information on his own past? Just asking).
There are eight Republicans, three Democrats and two Independents currently running for the U.S. Senate that have bankruptcies, tax liens or criminal convictions in their past. Thirteen candidates have past bankruptcies or criminal records. [More...]
President Obama copes with the heat during a Memorial Day ceremony Monday. (Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images / May 28, 2012)
By Morgan LittleMay 30, 2012, 12:35 p.m.
Artur Davis, one of President Obama’s earliest supporters and a former co-chairman for his presidential campaign, announced Tuesday that he was leaving the Democratic Party for good. [More...]
“Military action is always an option. You never — and we haven’t in this case – removed options from the table. We do not believe that further militarization of the situation in Syria at this point is the right course of action. We believe that it would lead to greater chaos, greater carnage.”
– White House Press Secretary Jay Carney briefing reporters.
One of Barack Obama’s top campaign promises in 2008 was to mend relationships with America’s European allies, badly strained by the Iraq war.
Obama even campaigned in Europe, offering voters a foretaste of the fulfillment of the promise. When nearly 200,000 German’s gathered to hear candidate Obama in Berlin in July of that year, the message for American voters was that Obama could return the luster to the American brand overseas. [More...]
Is the Obama administration secretly negotiating treaties with globalist bodies, in violation of the Constitution? That’s the question on the minds of a number of political watchdogs, who argue that the White House is doing an end run around Congress and the American people in order to lock the country into agreements on the environment, fishing rights and even gun ownership with the United Nations (UN).
On Feb. 7, former Bill Clinton campaign manager Dick Morris dissected a host of international “sneaky treaties” that, he says, “Once signed and ratified, have the same status as constitutional law and cannot be altered or eclipsed by Congress or state legislatures. And their provisions must be enforced by U.S. courts.”
The most egregious of these would be U.S. membership in the International Criminal Court(ICC). This tribunal that has jurisdiction across the globe could prosecute elected U.S. leaders for entering into a war without UN approval. These “crimes of aggression”—even if approved by Congress under an official declaration of war—could still land the president or cabinet members in prison. The ICC’s reach supersedes the rulings of any U.S. court, thereby posing a serious threat to constitutionally-guaranteed trials by a jury of our peers.
A lesser-known aspect of this treaty involves, ironically, the use of America’s military to wage aggressions against those deemed war criminals by the ICC.
The Egyptian presidential election was held last week. No candidate received 50 percent of the vote, so a runoff will be held between the two leading candidates, Mohammed Morsi and Ahmed Shafiq. Morsi represented the Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party and received 25.3 percent of the vote, while Shafiq, a former Egyptian air force commander and the last prime minister to serve in Hosni Mubarak’s administration, received 24.9 percent. There were, of course, charges of irregularities, but in general the results made sense. The Islamist faction had done extremely well in the parliamentary election, and fear of an Islamist president caused the substantial Coptic community, among others, to support the candidate of the old regime, which had provided them at least some security. [More...]
By Caroline May – The Daily Caller 12:44 PM 05/22/2012
The small but vocal New Black Panther Party is woefully disappointed in President Barack Obama, and is openly implying that the best way to reach its goals is no longer through “the ballot” but through “the bullet.”
In the Spring edition of the New Black Panther Party (NBPP) newspaper — cover reading “The Ballot or The Bullet: which way for black people?” — NBPP Chairman Malik Zulu Shabazz breaks down the presidential election, concluding the Democratic Party is the “institutional pimp of Black peoples and the Black Nation” and that Obama has “been a real disappointment.” [More...]
Church and state — or at least politics and religion — clashed this week as a prominent synagogue withdrew a speaking invitation for U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz.
Wasserman Schultz, D-Weston, was to have spoken Friday at Temple Israel of Greater Miami on topics including Israel, social justice and religious freedom. The invitation was withdrawn Thursday after the resignation of Stanley Tate, a major donor and former president of the synagogue. [More...]
Unlike Bill Clinton, Barack Obama never tried to say he didn’t inhale.
In his 1995 memoir “Dreams of My Father,” Obama writes about smoking pot almost like Dr. Seuss wrote about eating green eggs and ham. As a high school kid, Obama wrote, he would smoke “in a white classmate’s sparkling new van,” he would smoke “in the dorm room of some brother” and he would smoke “on the beach with a couple of Hawaiian kids.”
He would smoke it here and there. He would smoke it anywhere. [More...]
Once upon a time, the largest U.S. cities were the envy of the entire world. Sadly, that is no longer the case. Sure, there are areas of New York City, Boston, Washington and Los Angeles that are still absolutely beautiful but for the most part our major cities are rapidly rotting and decaying. Cities such as Detroit, Cleveland, Baltimore, Memphis, New Orleans, St. Louis and Oakland were all once places where middle class American workers thrived and raised their families. Today, all of those cities are rapidly being transformed into cesspools of filth, decay and wretchedness. [More...]
At the end of World War Two, German Army generals denied any knowledge of the Holocaust and the massive atrocities committed on the Eastern front.
They were lying.
Between 1942 and 1945, British Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) recorded no fewer than 64,427 private conversations between captured German generals and other senior officers while held in the comfortable accommodations of Trent Park house in the north London suburb of Cockfosters.
As it turned out, the conversations were only of limited usefulness toward the conduct of the war, but they did supply a wealth of information on the nature of the Nazi regime and the actions and opinions of the highest ranking officers in the German military. [More...]
Barack Obama is the smartest man with the highest IQ ever to be elected to the presidency, historian Michael Beschloss told radio talk show host Don Imus in November of 2008.
“So what is his IQ?” Mr. Imus asked. Mr. Beschloss didn’t know. He was just assuming.
Many shared that assumption. Adjectives frequently applied to Mr. Obama are “smart” (278 million hits on Google), “intelligent” (62 million) and “brilliant” (24 million).
There is little evidence to support it. Mr. Obama went to Harvard, but so did George W. Bush, who some liberals consider dumber than dirt. The president won’t release his transcripts, so we can’t judge by his grades. Mr. Obama was president of the Harvard Law Review, but when he was selected, popularity mattered more than scholarship. [More...]
Just take a look at the “Community Organizer” from Chicago and his personal business accomplishments… If you can factually find some go ahead and send them to us and we will publish them.
JUST SOME REAL FACTS ABOUT THE REAL MITT ROMNEY THAT WE WILL NOT HEAR ABOUT FROM THE LAME STREAM MEDIA!
Mitt Romney:
• After going to both Harvard Business School and Harvard Law School simultaneously, he passed the Michigan bar, but never worked as an attorney.
• As a venture-capitalist, Romney’s first major business deal involved investing in a start-up office supply company with one store in Massachusetts that sold office supplies. That company, called Staples, now has over 2,000 stores and employs over 90,000 people.
• Romney or his company Bain Capital (using what became known as the “Bain Way”) would go on to perform the same kinds of business miracles again and again, with companies like Domino’s, Sealy, Brookstone, Weather Channel, Burger King, Warner Music Group, Dollarama, Home Depot Supply, and many others.
• Got your calculators handy? Let’s recap. [More...]
Why isn’t the U.S. economy in a depression right now? The number one reason is because the federal government has stolen more than five trillion dollars from future generations since Barack Obama was elected and has used that money to pump up our grossly inflated standard of living. Whether the federal government spends money wisely or foolishly, the truth is that the vast majority of it still ends up in the pockets of the American people who then use it to buy the things they need for their daily lives. If the U.S. government had not borrowed and spent an extra five trillion dollars that we did not have over the past several years, we would be in the middle of a rip-roaring economic depression right now. So any talk that Barack Obama is “improving the economy” is a total farce. It is a five trillion dollar lie. [More...]
Young Barack Obama
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