What They Do & Say

The man is simply amazing.  His deceptions, omissions, half truths and lies roll of his lips as smooth as silk.  This catalogues at least 10 lies the president told the nation when he unilaterally (after promising Congress he would consult them, another lie) decided to change US policy towards Cuba.  http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2014/12/18/top-10-lies-in-obamas-cuba-speech/

Bypassing Congress by taking unconstitutional executive actions undermines the rule of law.   http://www.leanrightamerica.org/uncategorized/orders-memos-directives-obamas-deceptive-wordplay/

Sheriffs across the country strongly disagree with President Obama's unilateral and unlawful decision to grant amnesty for illegal aliens.  Quote: "“We’ve had 20-something-odd meetings in the White House this summer it’s reported, by stakeholders, primarily business and special interests groups. Not once has the [National] Sheriffs’ Association been invited.”  http://immigrationreform.com/2014/12/12/sheriffs-from-around-u-s-say-president-does-not-have-their-support/

For those who think the mainstream media is unbiased.  Read the insulting question this reporter asked Governor Rick Perry.   http://eaglerising.com/12529/msnbc-reporter-asks-rick-perry-hes-smart-enough-president/

This item notes the president's propensity to support tyrants and nations unfriendly to the US.  Quote: "Obama is America’s first postmodern president. If his predecessors tended to see the world in terms of good and evil, Obama sees the world in terms of victims and victimizers—with the United States often in the role of victimizer. In that view, long favored by the academic left that shaped a young Barack Obama, American foreign policy is one long train of abuses, marked by casual aggression and eager imperiousness."   http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/nonstop-appeasement_821870.html?page=1   This cartoon captures the presidents view of tyrants.  It is not what he says but what he does we need to pay attention to.  http://cdn1.eaglerising.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Cuba-Proped-600-LI.jpg  

This weak kneed journalist and a whole host of others seem not to know what the 1st Amendment means.   http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2014/12/19/journalist-first-amendment-rights-means-not-offending-the-north-korean-dictator-okay-n1934032?utm_source

In the case of this Islamic block of instruction what happened to separation of church of state in our public schools?  Where is the outcry?http://townhall.com/columnists/toddstarnes/2014/12/19/high-school-islamic-vocabulary-lesson-part-of-common-core-standards-n1934135

A display of common sense for a change.    http://humanevents.com/2014/12/19/appeals-court-strikes-down-federal-gun-law-as-unconstitutional/?

What do you think about this grossly improper behavior on the part of law enforcement?   http://www.westernjournalism.com/this-outraged-tea-party-mom-fought-back-against-abusive-badge-wearing-bullies-and-won-big/?

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Things From The World Of Science

What is wrong with dealing with the facts instead of opinions or feelings?   This government sponsored study points out that humans have nothing to do with the current California draught.  Quote: "While I agree with Hoerling that the science isn’t settled on the California drought, I would go a step further to claim that it isn’t settled on climate change as a whole. Studies like this one confirm that the left is more than willing to jump to conclusions on any weather disturbance they see. And as we’ve seen in their reaction to stories like Ferguson, liberals aren’t much for changing their minds even when all the evidence points to the contrary."   But the die-hard alarmists are in denial on this one. http://www.fixthisnation.com/conservative-breaking-news/fed-scientists-man-not-responsible-for-california-drought/

Continuing the climate change theme.  Why do people put themselves in a position where they can be easily refuted?   http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2014/12/fact_checking_clean_energy_climate_change_fact_sheet_tennessee.html   Here is another example.   http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2014/12/climate_change_claims_for_alabama_fall_short.html   Yet another.   http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2014/12/climate_change_polar_vortex_snowfall_atlanta.html

This highlights the empty side of the global warming argument.   http://townhall.com/columnists/debrajsaunders/2014/12/18/global-warming-empty-gestures-n1933410/page/full

This deals with the abuse of science for financial and political causes.  It is just one representative example.  This one addresses the decline in the bee population.  Quote: "As science writer Hank Campbell observes, all these campaigns reflect proven strategies “to manipulate science to achieve a political goal.” They follow the Saul Alinsky/Big Green script summarized by Madeleine Cosman: Select and vilify a target. Devise a “scientific study” that predicts a public health disaster. Release it to the media, before legitimate scientists can analyze and criticize it. Generate emotional headlines and public reactions. Develop a government “solution,” and intimidate legislatures or government regulators to impose it. Coerce manufacturers to stop making and selling the product."   And, "We need to let real science do its job, and stop jumping to conclusions or short-circuiting the process with politicized papers, anti-neonic campaigns and presidential memorandums. We need answers, not scapegoats. Otherwise, bee mortality problems are likely to spread, go untreated and get even worse, while neonic bans cause widespread crop failures and huge financial losses for farmers."    http://townhall.com/columnists/pauldriessen/2014/12/13/still-more-politicized-pseudoscience-n1931224/page/full

Regarding GMOs.  Shouldn't we care and take action to at least try to do something about this issue since neither Monsanto or the FDA care?   This is unbelievable.   http://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2014/12/18/monsanto-science-and-fraud-are-the-same-thing/ 

This item deals with the dominance of liberal social scientists in colleges and universities.  Quote: "I point this out not to score culture-war points, but because it's actually a serious problem. Social sciences and humanities cannot be completely divorced from the philosophy of those who practice it. And groupthink causes some questions not to be asked, and some answers not to be overly scrutinized. It is making our science worse. Anyone who cares about the advancement of knowledge and science should care about this problem."   http://theweek.com/article/index/273736/how-academias-liberal-bias-is-killing-social-science 

 

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The Muslim Dilemma

If you believe claims of those who declare that Islam is a peaceful religion you need to check this out.   http://eaglerising.com/12655/muslim-go-boom/

This item drives home the media bias against conservatives.  He is a Muslim.  You would think they would run to his defense.  Not this time because he has the wrong political affiliation.  He does not count or fit their narrative.   http://eaglerising.com/12658/muslim-student-attacked-liberals-silent-hes-conservative/

When dealing with Muslims, the need to be logical, truthful and deal with obvious facts is not part of the progressive thought process.  Exploiting tragedy is.   http://townhall.com/columnists/derekhunter/2014/12/18/progressives-cant-help-but-exploit-tragedy-n1933136/page/full

The illogical Islamic logic.  Kill Americans to save lives.   http://www.wnd.com/2014/12/isis-has-bizarre-reason-for-beheading-americans/

Another Muslim terrorist act.  This must stop.   http://humanevents.com/2014/12/15/hostage-crisis-in-sydney/?

Just the other day Muslim terrorists killed 130 innocent human beings.  You knew that but now check out this link.  More mayhem by followers of this so called peaceful religion.  Matters are escalating across the globe and progressives aid and abet them with their pacifying ploys and telling us to get a grip.  I am sick of it. http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2014/12/muslim_terrorists_kill_33_kidnap_over_100_in_nigeria.html

Not upset yet?  Check out this item.  http://freebeacon.com/national-security/islamic-state-penal-code-promises-crucifixion-lashing-for-unbelievers/   And now this.   http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2014/12/17/isis-slaughters-150-females-in-iraq-for-refusing-to-marry-have-sex-with-militants/

If this is true the Middle East and it's growing Islamic extremism is going mad.  http://www.wnd.com/2014/12/death-penalty-for-smuggling-bibles/

This is something that could be a future reality if the current wave of terrorism does not end.  http://www.fixthisnation.com/conservative-breaking-news/demographic-shift-when-muslims-outnumber-everyone/

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Worth Reading

Paul Greenberg provides a thoughtful review of the Senate's release of its review of the CIA's Enhanced Interrogation techniques.  It is fair and balanced. http://townhall.com/columnists/paulgreenberg/2014/12/17/when-the-big-news-isnt-news-n1933233/page/full

Eric Ericson makes sense of what Obama has done and continues to do.  Quote: "There is, however, one bit of irony. After a week of liberals bellyaching about the United States “torturing” terrorists, we have kowtowed to the terrorists of North Korea and bailed out the Cuban regime — a regime that jails gays, Christians, and dissidents and engages in physical torture and routine killing of any who dare oppose them."   http://www.redstate.com/2014/12/17/communists-win-the-day-frank-marshall-davis-would-be-proud-of-obama/

The history of government failures at the state and federal levels gets lost when the elites decide the government is better prepared to teach children "what they need to know" better than we do.  http://www.redstate.com/diary/okmaher/2014/12/17/cos-governor-says-cant-educate-children-well/

Yielding free speech to a two-bit dictator.   "Of course, you almost have to wonder why North Korea feels emboldened enough to rattle their sabre in the first place… Well, in the era of Obama we are supposed to “normalize” relations with oppressive (and murderous) Caribbean dictators, relax sanctions on nuclear ambitious anti-Semites, and gift wrap northern Iraq for a band of terrorists who thought Al Qaeda was too warm and cuddly."   http://finance.townhall.com/columnists/michaelschaus/2014/12/18/a-chubby-north-korean-dictator-brings-free-speech-to-a-halt-n1933455/page/full 

A most interesting piece.  Quote: "...international affairs blogger John Schindler, a former Naval War College professor in writing about his sense of political homelessness, with which I [author of the article] can very much identify. About the Democrats, he writes "Schindler is on to something here, something which few have acknowledged. The current trends in America, Wall Street getting richer, everyone else getting poorer, politicians of both parties feeding brazenly at Wall Street’s trough, the party of the Left in full blown attack gear not on inequality, which it has done nothing to address, but picking at and rubbing raw the scabs of identity politics—this can’t keep going on indefinitely without something really bad happening."   http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/abandoned-by-the-left/

What is happening to this country?  http://godfatherpolitics.com/19192/picture-families-105-police-officers-killed-line-duty-rioting-justcice/

Consider this as an example of a unilateral "dictator like" action.  http://eaglerising.com/12809/obama-listens-castro-changes-american-foreign-policy-without-consulting-congress/

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Constitution Check: Is Obama’s new immigration policy already in legal trouble?

The National Constitution Center’s constitutional literacy adviser, Lyle Denniston, explains how a federal judge’s ruling in Pittsburgh about President Obama’s immigration orders could be a sign of things to come.

THE STATEMENTS AT ISSUE:

“[President Obama’s] Executive Action crosses the line, constitutes legislation, and effectively changes the United States’ immigration policy. The President may only ‘take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed…’; he may not take any Executive Action that creates laws….President Obama’s unilateral legislative action violates the separation of powers provided for in the United States Constitution as well as the Take Care Clause, and therefore, is unconstitutional.”

– Excerpts from a ruling Tuesday by a federal judge in Pittsburgh, Arthur J. Schwab, declaring that the President had no constitutional authority to act on his own to order delays of deportation for more than 4 million undocumented immigrants.   This was the first court ruling on the validity of the November announcement of the sweeping new immigration regulations.

http://news.yahoo.com/constitution-check-obama-immigration-policy-already-legal-trouble-110211304.html 

Obama Has Issued Record Number of Presidential Memos

From overhauling the immigration system to imposing economic sanctions, President Obama has issued more presidential memoranda than any other president in history, according to a USA Today review.
Why is this significant? Well, because they’re nearly identical to executive orders in what they can accomplish and how they impact everyday Americans.

Like executive orders, presidential memoranda don't require action by Congress. They have the same force of law as executive orders and often have consequences just as far-reaching. And some of the most significant actions of the Obama presidency have come not by executive order but by presidential memoranda.
Obama has made prolific use of memoranda despite his own claims that he's used his executive power less than other presidents. "The truth is, even with all the actions I've taken this year, I'm issuing executive orders at the lowest rate in more than 100 years," Obama said in a speech in Austin last July. "So it's not clear how it is that Republicans didn't seem to mind when President Bush took more executive actions than I did."
Obama has issued 195 executive orders as of Tuesday. Published alongside them in the Federal Register are 198 presidential memoranda — all of which carry the same legal force as executive orders.

The difference, of course, is the messaging.

http://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2014/12/17/obama-making-record-use-of-presidential-memos-to-carry-out-policy-n1933396 

Worth Pondering

What ever happened to the old tried and true moral code?   http://spectator.org/articles/61230/self-enforcing-nature-old-moral-code-%E2%80%94-it%E2%80%99s-gone

This is a one way street.  http://eaglerising.com/12664/christian-man-asks-13-bakeries-make-pro-traditional-marriage-cake-gets-denied-every-time/

Want to know how to improve the economy.  He has it just right.  "The best fiscal policy reform would be dramatically shrinking the size of the federal government so that a far greater share of labor and capital in our economy could be allocated by market forces rather than by politicians and bureaucrats. Ideally, the federal government could be reduced to the limited “night watchman” functionsenvisioned by the Founding Fathers, in which case there would be no need for any broad-based tax."   http://finance.townhall.com/columnists/danieljmitchell/2014/12/17/the-case-against-the-irs-and-the-progressive-income-tax-n1932883/page/full

Unbelievable liberal hatred spewed.  Liberals should be embarrassed.  http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2014/12/08/dear-southerners-we-hate-you-we-really-hate-you/

The leftist liberal/media dilemma.   http://www.redstate.com/2014/12/16/the-moral-minority/  And, does this tell you where the reporting ethics of the media are?http://www.mrc.org/biasalerts/networks-dodge-news-judge-has-ruled-parts-obamas-executive-amnesty-unconstitutional   Another journalist reviews the decline of journalistic ethics.  Quote: 

"Contemporary journalists have become writers and commentators of a fictional narrative that has nothing to do with facts but that serves two overriding purposes: 1) Advance the biased liberal agenda they favor at the expense of truth, and 2) Sensationalize the story in ways that will boost ratings and ensure relevance in a hyper-competitive market."    http://patriotupdate.com/articles/ferguson-riots-breakdown-jounalistic-ethics/

Sometimes the courts do unconscionable things, too.  But this is a problem created by a city of Philadelphia mistake.   Quote:  "...let’s look at an unfortunate and sad story out of Philadelphia where a man named Nathan Lerner is being held responsible for a $280,772 tax bill that even city officials acknowledge is bogus. Commonwealth Court is requiring Lerner to pay the outstanding bill, even though the six-figure sum is purely imaginary."   http://patriotnewsdaily.com/fake-bills-and-scary-government/

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