Month: September 2013

Five reasons Congress should think long and hard

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Posted by Andrea Shea King, the Radio Patriot Heritage Foundation’s The Foundry offers five critical questions that Congress should pose to President Obama before voting on his “disturbingly ad hoc and reactive” desire to jump into Syria, boots on the ground notwithstanding: “House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) both endorsed military action in Syria yesterday, but it’s unclear whether President Obama has sufficient support in Congress for a resolution authorizing such action.

Kerry & Dempsey Endorse The Pelosi Strategy On Syria

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By Steve Schippert, Formerly of ThreatsWatch It appears we are just going to have to approve President Obama’s Syria war plan so we “can find out what’s in it.” After all, that’s what Washington does now when something’s just too darn hard to explain.

U.N. Secretary Says U.S. Can’t Act Against Syria Without Security Council Permission

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Guest Post by Bookworm When he was a candidate in 2008, Barack Obama made it clear that, as he told the German people, he was a “citizen of the world.” During his first four years in the White House, as the Obama team boasted, this meant his management style consisted of “leading from behind.” A significant part of “leading from behind,” of course, was making American foreign policy subordinate to the United Nations.

Egypt Kills Local Al-Jazeera Affiliate And Other Muslim Brotherhood Outlets

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The Associated Press is reporting that Egypt has pulled the plug on Al-Jazeera, as well as other Muslim Brotherhood TV outlets in their nation: (AP) Egypt court bans Al-Jazeera TV affiliate CAIRO Egypt’s state news agency says a court has ordered Al-Jazeera’s local affiliate to stop broadcasting, along with three other stations known for their coverage of Muslim Brotherhood protests, saying that they had operated illegally.

Kerry Dining with “Hitler” Assad

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Guest Post by Mara Zebest Kerry went on national TV and declared that youtube videos were “proof” that Assad was Syria’s “Hitler.” Never mind that Syrian rebels could have used chemical warfare with or without Assad’s approval.

Obama’s Checklist for War

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Via Instapundit is Victor Davis Hanson on Obama’s Syria plan: “One of the problems that Barack Obama has in mounting an attack against the Assad regime is that the gambit violates every argument Barack Obama used against the Bush administration to establish his own anti-war candidacy.

Obama Commemorates Labor Day with Communist Promises and $23,000 Dinners.

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Written by The P/Oed Patriot During President Obama’s weekly address commemorating Labor Day, he seemed to channel Karl Marx as he laid out his ideas for building up the middle class: “That’s why, over the past month, I’ve traveled all across America, laying out my ideas for how we can build on the cornerstones of what it means to be middle class.

Canadian Free Press: Obama “Is A JERK”

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After Obama’s “Amateur Hour” speech yesterday, Syrians are celebrating a “historic American retreat” and declaring a victory as a result of Obama’s “hesitation and confusion”.