[A Nation Beguiled] I have been broadcasting for 31 years and writing for longer than that. I do not recall ever saying on radio or in print that a president is doing lasting damage to our country. I did not like the presidencies of Jimmy Carter (the last Democrat I voted for) or Bill Clinton. Nor did I care for the "compassionate conservatism" of George W. Bush. In modern political parlance "compassionate" is a euphemism for ever-expanding government.
But I have never written or broadcast that our country was being seriously damaged by a president. So it is with great sadness that I write that President Barack Obama has done and continues to do major damage to America. The only question is whether this can ever be undone.
This is equally true domestically and internationally. Domestically, his policies have had a grave impact on the American economy. He has overseen the weakest recovery from a recession in modern American history.
He has mired the country in unprecedented levels of debt: about $6.5 trillion -- that is 6,500 billion -- in five years (this after calling his predecessor "unpatriotic" for adding nearly $5 trillion in eight years).
He has fashioned a country in which more Americans now receive government aid -- means-tested, let alone non-means-tested -- than work full-time.
He has no method of paying for this debt other than printing more money -- thereby surreptitiously taxing everyone through inflation, including the poor he claims to be helping, and cheapening the dollar to the point that some countries are talking about another reserve currency -- and saddling the next generations with enormous debts.
With his 2,500-page Affordable Care Act he has made it impossible for hundreds of thousands, soon millions, of Americans to keep their individual or employer-sponsored group health insurance; he has stymied American medical innovation with an utterly destructive tax on medical devices; and he has caused hundreds of thousands of workers to lose full-time jobs because of the health-care costs imposed by Obamacare on employers.
His Internal Revenue Service used its unparalleled power to stymie political dissent. No one has been held accountable.
His ambassador to Libya and three other Americans were murdered by terrorists in Benghazi, Libya. No one has been blamed. The only blame the Obama administration has leveled was on a videomaker in California who had nothing to do with the assault.
In this president's White House the buck stops nowhere.
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Champ will be gone in two years, but the Democrats who enabled him will remain. Ergo, no, the damage cannot be undone. In fact, Pelosi, Reid and friends will be working hard to preserve the damage done so far and to commit more.
[DAWN] Apparently, 'mob lynching is the worst kind of terrorism' -- at least that is what Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar seems to think.
Disregard terrorist groups attacking schools, hospitals, churches and mosques -- no, it is those angry men on the street who are the real terrorists.
Really? Nisar must have gotten carried away while condemning the latest lynching episode to happen in the country and in the heat of the moment decided that perhaps mob violence is worse than a suicide kaboom.
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[IsraelNationalNews] Economic issues had been identified as the top issue in the Israeli elections held on 17 March - with security issues trailing far behind.
The polls were confidently predicting a four seat difference in favour of the Zionist Camp over the current Likud-led Government and the possibility of a new Zionist Camp Government being formed. But, how Zionist is the "Zionist Camp"?
"In Israel's proportional representation system, in which parties are awarded seats in parliament based on the proportion of the vote that they receive, the ranking of the candidates on the slate becomes all-important as seats are filled from the top of the list. Top spots on the Labor list went to MKs with a social-justice and economic agenda, including former journalist Shelly Yacimovich, and Stav Shaffir and Itzik Shmuli, who were both prominent in the 2011 social justice protest movement.
Yacimovich finished first in the party vote, which will place her in the third spot on the slate, behind Labor Party leader Isaac Herzog and Tzipi Livni, the leader of Hatnuah, which is running on a joint ticket with Labor. Shaffir finished just behind Yacimovich, granting her the fourth slot...
Two of these top four Zionist Camp candidates have expressed viewpoints that are distinctly anti-Zionist. The Patrician
Prime Minister--in-waiting - Isaac Herzog -- aka Obama's bum boy
according to respected analyst Sarah Honig -- has voiced opposition to the term "Jewish State":
"The Jewish state expression is entirely mistaken," he says recurrently (and we have a recording to prove it: "because it creates the impression of a nationality that enjoys excessive privileges."
...Stav Shaffir, for example, refused to share a podium with the Likud's Yoav Kish because he is a reserve fighter pilot. She also thinks that "Hatikva is a racist national anthem."
...With 14% of the voters still undecided before election day - they could and did re-elect Netanyahu again - figuring out that improvements in economic and social justice conditions aren't worth a shekel if you are not alive to enjoy their undeniable benefits. Of course, there aren't actually benefits---the left's program is the same "bread & circuses" which bankrupted EU and the USA
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The Israeli people understand the threats very well. Obumble is not liked by the Israelis. He's tried to screw them at every turn. Seems there is a growing unity between the Israel and American people.
[IsraelNationalNews] I have to admit I was very pessimistic throughout this election day.
With all the knives out for Netanyahu and foreign money busing thousands of Arab students into polling stations, it was like a Yom Kippur War on all fronts, with ballots instead of bullets.
Well, that's democracy - you may well say.
But not when foreign governments and viscerally anti-Jewish fatcats and NGOs are blatantly undermining that democracy with public or tax-exempt funds.
It's a problem not limited to undermining Israel, as our elections of 2008 and 2012 amply demonstrate...
I'm glad that the Republican senate has launched its inquiry to track this money back to its shadowy sources with subpoena powers. Let these folks be exposed for what they are: vile anti-Semites who cannot stand to see Israel thriving as a bold, secure and independent Jewish state.
There's no doubt in my mind that many Israelis changed their vote as a protest against this egregious foreign interference in their most prized process as the region's only true democracy. Sometimes I read news from abroad and think: the World's last democracy
Whatever the coalition endgame and whatever issues you may have with Bibi Netanyahu ... and I have a few of my own ... there can be no doubt that this man is a real fighter. And in the world's most dangerous neighborhood boldness and steely resolve is more important than ever.
[ARABNEWS] I don't understand how an official like the US Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State... could say that Bashir al-Assad could be accepted because he needed him in the fight against the terrorist organization, Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (IS).
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It's part of the Iran negotiations. Celebrate Iranian holidays, you know, be nice to the mullahs.
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When has Lurch ever made a responsible statement? He along with every member of this regime should be in leg-irons breaking rocks for the next 50 yrs.
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Azealia is a racist if I ever heard one. Azealia, you can go to some Muslim or African paradise anytime if you don't like it here--nothing holding you back. I noticed you don't mind taking American money to support your life style.
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Let's see, I care what she thinks, because...uhm...nothing comes to mind.
A 23 yo, yeah, a real fount of wisdom and deep thought in a $5000 outfit with $10000 shoes.
Pfft!
Her handlers don't let her play outside because of the painful whistling noise from any wind.
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Banks, who was raised in New York City, continued, “Those little teenage girls who work at Kmart and have a racist grandma — that’s really America.”
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I suspect she's the type that will visit Africa only to find the locals treat her as a white and maybe in the dark recesses of her mind she'll realize they are not that far off.
It is all about culture, not race. And African American culture, however different and special, is closer to white culture than it is to African culture.
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[DAWN] Apparently, 'mob lynching is the worst kind of terrorism' -- at least that is what Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar seems to think.
[ARABNEWS] I don't understand how an official like the US Secretary of State 
