Mark Steyn: The End of Europe – America Alone (Parts 1-5) [Video]
June 21, 2012 by 2 Comments
Book Description:
In this, his first major book, Mark Steyn–probably the most widely read, and wittiest, columnist in the English-speaking world–takes on the great poison of the twenty-first century: the anti-Americanism that fuels both Old Europe and radical Islam. America, Steyn argues, will have to stand alone. The world will be divided between America and the rest; and for our sake America had better win.
From the Inside Flap:
Its the end of the world as we know it
Someday soon, you might wake up to the call to prayer from a muezzin. Europeans already are.And liberals will still tell you that “diversity is our strength”—while Talibanic enforcers cruise Greenwich Village burning books and barber shops, the Supreme Court decides sharia law doesnt violate the “separation of church and state,” and the Hollywood Left decides to give up on gay rights in favor of the much safer charms of polygamy.
If you think this cant happen, you havent been paying attention, as the hilarious, provocative, and brilliant Mark Steyn—the most popular conservative columnist in the English-speaking world—shows to devastating effect in this, his first and eagerly awaited new book on American and global politics.
The future, as Steyn shows, belongs to the fecund and the confident. And the Islamists are both, while the West—wedded to a multiculturalism that undercuts its own confidence, a welfare state that nudges it toward sloth and self-indulgence, and a childlessness that consigns it to oblivion—is looking ever more like the ruins of a civilization.
Europe, laments Steyn, is almost certainly a goner. The future, if the West has one, belongs to America alone—with maybe its cousins in brave Australia. But America can survive, prosper, and defend its freedom only if it continues to believe in itself, in the sturdier virtues of self-reliance (not government), in the centrality of family, and in the conviction that our country really is the worlds last best hope.
Steyn argues that, contra the liberal cultural relativists, America should proclaim the obvious: we do have a better government, religion, and culture than our enemies, and we should spread Americas influence around the world—for our own sake as well as theirs.
Mark Steyns America Alone is laugh-out-loud funny—but it will also change the way you look at the world. It is sure to be the most talked-about book of the year. [Read more…]
Obama Caught Lying Again: He Was a Member of ‘New Party,’ Says Kurtz
June 7, 2012 by 2 Comments
By Joel B. Pollak | June 7, 2012 | Breitbart News
Barack Obama was, in fact, a member of the socialist New Party in the 1990s and sought its endorsement for the Illinois senate–contrary to the misrepresentations of Obama’s presidential campaign in 2008, and in spite of the efforts of Politico’s Ben Smith to quash the story. Stanley Kurtz, author of Radical-in-Chief: Barack Obama and the Untold Story of American Socialism (2010), has released new “smoking gun” evidence at National Review Online. It is evidence that the mainstream media can no longer ignore–and Obama can no longer deny.
Ayers and Obama: What the Media Hid
June 4, 2012 by 4 Comments
By John Sexton | June 4, 2012 | Breitbart News
Obama’s connection to Bill Ayers, like his connection to Jeremiah Wright, briefly became a campaign issue in 2008. The Obama campaign was quick to distance the candidate from the 60’s domestic terrorist, even as blogs continued to dig up evidence connecting the two men. Eventually the issue became enough of a story that, on October 3rd, the NY Times weighed with a piece titled “Obama and ’60s Bomber: A Look Into Crossed Paths” by author Scott Shane. Looking back it’s clear that the Times’ story downplayed or overlooked some significant connections between the two men, connections which may have raised red flags for some voters.
The Vetting: Rabbi Arnold J. Wolf, The Socialist, Anti-Israel Rabbi Who Taught Obama What He ‘Knows’ About Judaism
June 4, 2012 by Leave a Comment
By Jeff Dunetz | June 4, 2012 | Breitbart News
Last Tuesday, Israel’s Haaretz newspaper reported that President Barack Obama told a group of visiting Jewish leaders that he “probably knows about Judaism more than any other president, because he read about it.” While that is certainly untrue, Obama continued, suggesting that he should not be questioned about his commitment to the Jewish state because “all his friends in Chicago were Jewish.”
That might very well be true. The question is which Jews? Meet Rabbi Arnold Jacob Wolf.
1996 AD: Obama Event Sponsored by Socialist Group
May 27, 2012 by Leave a Comment
By Aaron Klein | May 24, 2012 | WND
A 1996 print advertisement in a local Chicago newspaper shows President Obama was the speaker at an event sponsored and presented by the Democratic Socialists of America, the DSA.
Buzzfeed.com reporter Andrew Kaczynski posted on his Twitter account an image of the Hyde Park Herald ad for the Feb. 25, 1996, DSA event, billed as “the first townhall meeting on economic insecurity.”
WND first reported on the event in 2008.
Obama has shown evidence of a larger relationship with the DSA.
The Amateur: Barack Obama in the White House
May 14, 2012 by 1 Comment
By Ed Lasky | May 14, 2012 | American Thinker
Edward Klein’s new book on Barack Obama,The Amateur: Barack Obama in the White House, is a withering portrayal of a radical adrift, in over his head, drowning in his own incompetency — while being weighed down by a small circle of “advisers” who are compounding the problem of the Amateur in the White House.
Klein’s book begins with a talisman-like quote uttered by Barack Obama when his recently appointed Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner tried to boost Obama’s ego by telling him, “Your legacy is going to be preventing the second Great Depression.” To which Barack Obama responded, “That’s not enough for me.”
As all of America knows by now, Obama has aggressively sought to “fundamentally transform” America — one of the few promises he has kept from the days of 2008. Five trillion dollars of borrowing, ObamaCare passed over the objections of the majority of Americans through legislative legerdemain and special deals made with resistant politicians, failed stimulus, green programs failing left and right as taxpayers are left holding the bag, a recovery that is the most anemic on record, an America that has been sundered by the man who promises to unite us, America weaker abroad and at home — yes, America has been fundamentally transformed. Mission Accomplished.
But how and why did Obama succeed in such a catastrophic way? That is the question that Klein successfully answers in his extremely readable and enjoyable book, with enough spicy details to satisfy the craving of anyone interested in how President Obama and those closest to him have driven us to the condition we find ourselves in as we approach November.
One of the motifs that runs throughout the book is Barack Obama’s sheer level of incompetency. He has the fatal conceit of many politicians: an overweening ego. That may be a prerequisite for politicians and leaders, but when it is unleavened by a willingness to consider the views of others, it becomes a fatal conceit. And Obama has that trait in abundance.
Stories tumble out that reveal a man who believes he is all but omniscient — unwilling to give any credence to the views of others (especially but not limited to those across the aisle). Experts in management are interviewed who point out that he lacks essential qualities of leadership. Indeed, the book gets its title from an outburst from Bill Clinton, who was trying to encourage Hillary to take on Obama in the Democratic primary of 2012:
Obama doesn’t know how to be president. He doesn’t know how the world works. He’s incompetent. He’s…he’s…Barack Obama’s an amateur.
But Klein does not rest there. He delves into associates from Obama’s career in Cook County politics, his stint as a state senator, and his rise to the United States Senate. There is a common pattern: Obama likes to campaign, but once he is elected and actually starts working, his interest flags, and he starts looking for the next “big thing” — electorally speaking. He had few if any accomplishments or professional standing in any of his previous positions. Even when he served as a lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School, he avoided any encounters with other faculty who enjoyed discussing the law. His reluctance to engage them is revealing in and of itself, suggesting he had a reason for his lack of confidence.
His disdain toward working with others is manifest. He has gained a reputation over the last few years as being cold and distant, refusing to engage, as have other presidents, in the give-and-take of politics, in the social niceties that help grease the wheels in Washington. Liberal Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen recently advised him to read Robert Caro’s newest volume on the life of Lyndon Johnson as a primer on how to be president. Johnson, of course, was a master at pulling levers of power, but he also knew how to persuade individual politicians on both sides of the aisle to work with him on legislation. But, of course, LBJ also had the common touch and, having risen from humble beginnings, never considered it beneath him to work with those underneath him. Not so Barack Obama. He complained to foreign leaders that he had to waste time talking with “congressmen from Palookaville.” At another time, he switched locales and said he was tired of dealing with people from “Podunk.”
His campaign trail comments regarding small-town America as being populated by “bitter” people who cling to guns and Bibles was not a one-off. They are reflective of his views.
But the high and the mighty also come in for the Obama treatment. Klein reveals dismay among former Obama supporters who feel they have been mistreated, maligned, and thrown under the bus. Obama’s most generous early donors have been all but ignored; early mentors in the black business community have been sidelined if not completely ditched; people don’t hear from him or his staff unless a fundraiser is coming up. But there is more: Caroline Kennedy is angry at the way she and her family were used for campaign purposes in 2008 and then summarily dismissed and stored away like so many movie props have been (the latter is my description).
Even Oprah Winfrey has been stiff-armed by the Obamas. According to the book, Oprah took a big risk in supporting Obama in 2008 and campaigning for Obama in Iowa, being a big boost in his campaign. The ratings for her show weakened significantly (and her new network has been a huge disappointment). But when she has tried to visit the White House, she has been all but treated as persona non grata. Apparently, Michelle Obama is a possessive person who fears the influence Oprah may have over Barack Obama (more on this below). Oprah blames it on Michelle’s anti-obesity campaign. She is quoted as saying, “Michelle hates fat people and doesn’t want me waddling around the White House.” Klein digs up a quotation of Michelle Obama’s from a White House source that seems to confirm Oprah’s suspicion:
Oprah only wants to cash in using the White House as a backdrop for her show to perk up ratings. Oprah with her yo-yo dieting and huge girth, is a terrible role model. Kids will look at Oprah, who’s rich and famous and huge, and figure it’s okay to be fat.
Oprah, Caroline Kennedy, Pastor Jeremiah Wright (who merits a chapter), and Obama’s former long-time doctor (who feels Obama is distant and lacks feeling, passion, and humanity) all join a long list of people whom the Obamas have used, abused, and then cast aside once they moved into the White House.
Read the full article here.
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Civil Unrest: Liberals Most at Risk
April 25, 2012 by 2 Comments
By Erik Rush | April 25, 2012 | WND
Erik Rush is a columnist and author of sociopolitical fare. His latest book is “Negrophilia: From Slave Block to Pedestal – America’s Racial Obsession.” In 2007, he was the first to give national attention to the story of Sen. Barack Obama’s ties to militant Chicago preacher Rev. Jeremiah Wright, initiating a media feeding frenzy. Erik has appeared on Fox News’ “Hannity and Colmes,” CNN, and is a veteran of numerous radio appearances.
Exclusive: Erik Rush covers Obama ‘brainwashing’ of blacks, college kids
This week, President Obama toured select U.S. colleges touting a need for new student loan programs and extensions for low interest on student loans, as he accused congressional Republicans of wanting to raise student loan interest rates. The latter isn’t true, of course, but I suppose this goes hand-in-hand with the GOP’s desire to pollute air and water, let educationally at-risk children flounder and consign the elderly to a diet of Little Friskies. The campus stops, like so many of the president’s excursions, were sold as “official business.”
This “business” – which many commentators called campaign stops – was thus about as “official” as Sasha and Malia Obama were “senior staffers” on the first lady’s half-million-dollar jaunt to Africa last year. The abject fraudulence of these designations (made by Michelle Obama), as well as it calling child-labor laws into question, is of little concern to the administration.
But all this is par for the course; we know that the Obamas are corrupt, and we know that their arrogance, narcissism, hatred of America and ethnocentricity insists that they are deserving of every taxpayer dollar they squander.
What’s more important about the campus tour is that it is recognized as part of Obama’s strategy of provoking dissatisfaction and discord amongst a component of his base. While it is undeniable that the cost of higher education has become overly burdensome, once again, this has been in part by design, as was the rise in health-care costs: in order to cultivate an atmosphere in which carefully manipulated consumers would accept – or even demand – a government fix.
Obama’s provoking of dissatisfaction has already worked fairly well; although, to be fair, he has had a lot of help. His simpatico for George Zimmerman’s detractors (would-be assassins, really) relating to the Trayvon Martin shooting contributed to an increase in black-on-white crime. Most recently, a mob of approximately 20 blacks beat their white neighbor Matthew Owens nearly to death in Alabama. The violent overtones of the Occupy movement have definitely increased, as well as their activity in general, and – guess what – Occupy leaders have also begun to leverage the Trayvon Martin shooting to mobilize their followers against “the man.”
The common denominator between these factions of the base (college students and blacks, in this instance) is that they are among the most easily manipulated. The brainwashing of blacks is probably Democrats’ single most successful achievement, and college students – well, they’re a captive audience for largely socialist professors.
It is fortunate that conservatives have cyberspace in which to communicate; I shudder to think of the current circumstances if we did not. The knife cuts both ways, however, and activity on the left would be comical if it did not have such harmful potential. It would be difficult to believe if not seen for oneself. Militant homosexual bloggers have been harassing Christian conservatives on social media sites for a few years now, even stalking folks and petitioning employers to fire certain individuals. Now, they are beginning to rile the base with fraudulent accusations of secret social media groups that are dedicated to everything from the opposition of gay unions to murdering homosexuals.
Sadly, the percentage of people who see these things for what they are – textbook Marxist agitating – are probably few and far between.
Read the full article here.
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