Simply put, it is downright offensive that the U.S. State Department included the State of Arizona and S.B. 1070 in a report to the United Nations Council on Human Rights, whose members include such renowned human rights “champions” as Cuba and Libya. Apparently, the federal government is trying to make an international human rights case out of S.B. 1070 on the heels of already filing a federal court case against the State of Arizona. The idea of our own American government submitting the duly enacted laws of a State of the United States to “review” by the United Nations is internationalism run amok and unconstitutional. Human rights as guaranteed by the United States and Arizona Constitutions are expressly protected in S.B. 1070 and defended vigorously by my Administration. In fact, the Department of Justice has correctly not included these so-called “human rights” issues in the current litigation against the State of Arizona.
via Arizona vs. United States & United Nations? | The Foundry: Conservative Policy News..
President Barack Obama’s Justice Department initiated a lawsuit against Maricopa County, Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio — frequently called “America’s Sheriff” by his admirers — on Thursday.
Many law enforcement officials recognize this lawsuit as part of what they term the “Obama political machine in action.” They claim that the U.S. government is targeting any and all individuals involved in enforcement of the state’s new immigration enforcement law.
via Sheriff Arpaio sued by Obama’s “political machine” – National Law Enforcement | Examiner.com.
Hate crimes directed against Muslims remain relatively rare, notwithstanding the notoriety gained by incidents such as recent vandalism at the Madera Islamic Center.
Jews, lesbians, gay men and Caucasians, among others, are all more frequently the target of hate crimes, FBI records show. Reported anti-Muslim crimes have declined over recent years, though they still exceed what occurred prior to the 9-11 terrorist attacks. [...]
In 2008, 105 hate crime incidents against Muslims were reported nationwide. There were 10 times as many incidents that were recorded as anti-Jewish during the same year, the most recent for which figures are available.
via Inconvenient Truth: 10 Times More Hate Crimes Against Jews Than Muslims | NewsBusters.org.
Audience laughs as he talks of annihilating Americans.
YouTube – Kuwaiti Professor Anthrax.
“There are thousands of Honor Killings worldwide each year”.
YouTube – Honor Killing – Iraqi Girl Stoned.
Jaime Suchlicki, director of the University of Miami’s Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies, said that Venezuela’s current problems of scarce supplies are very similar to those Cuba faced when Fidel Castro introduced the rationing card.
“The card emerged when goods began to become scarce,” Suchlicki said. “The government had seized many companies that did not work because the government managed them poorly. Then they decided to distribute groceries through those cards.”
And although the cards were introduced as a mechanism to deal with scarcities, Suchlicki said, they later became an instrument of control.
“People depended on the government to eat, and nothing gives you more power than having people depend on you to get their food quota,” he said.
via Venezuela introduces Cuba-like food card – Venezuela – MiamiHerald.com.
At least five freshman Democratic House members are running ads claiming they voted against the bank “bailout,” when in fact none was in Congress when the bill setting up the Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP, was enacted.
via Democratic Bailout Baloney | FactCheck.org.
This shift in perception — from Obama as political savior to Obama as creature of Washington — can be seen elsewhere. When Obama arrived in office in January ’09, his Gallup approval rating stood at 68%, a high for a newly elected leader not seen since John Kennedy in 1961. Today Obama’s job approval has been hovering in the mid-40s, which means that at least 1 in 4 Americans has changed his or her mind. The plunge has been particularly dramatic among independents, whites and those under age 30. With midterm elections just nine weeks off, instead of the generational transformation some Democrats predicted after 2008, the President’s party teeters on the brink of a broad setback in November, including the possible loss of both houses of Congress. By a 10-point margin, people say they will vote for Republicans over Democrats in Congress, the largest such gap ever recorded by Gallup.
via Obama Unpopular Ahead of Midterms: Will the GOP Benefit? – TIME.
There was a huge “Restoring Honor” rally at the steps of the Lincoln Memorial Saturday, but you couldn’t tell hours later given how clean the National Mall was. Compare that to the inauguration of Obama in November of 2008. The video comparison will amaze you.
And the left is supposed to be concerned about the environment?
via Will Media Notice How Clean Beck Rally Participants Left National Mall? | NewsBusters.org
On Friday, Ben Bernanke, chairman of the Fed, speaking in the measured tones of a man whose word choices can cause billions of dollars to move, acknowledged that the economy was weaker than hoped, while promising to consider new policies to invigorate it, should conditions worsen.
Yet even as vital signs weaken — plunging home sales, a bleak job market and, on Friday, confirmation that the quarterly rate of economic growth had slowed, to 1.6 percent — a sense has taken hold that government policy makers cannot deliver meaningful intervention. That is because nearly any proposed curative could risk adding to the national debt — a political nonstarter. The situation has left American fortunes pinned to an uncertain remedy: hoping that things somehow get better.
It increasingly seems as if the policy makers attending like physicians to the American economy are peering into their medical kits and coming up empty, their arsenal of pharmaceuticals largely exhausted and the few that remain deemed too experimental or laden with risky side effects. The patient — who started in critical care — was showing signs of improvement in the convalescent ward earlier this year, but has since deteriorated. The doctors cannot agree on a diagnosis, let alone administer an antidote with confidence.
via Policy Options Dwindle as Economic Fears Grow – NYTimes.com.
