Obama’s pride in Jimmy Hoffa emboldens hate mongers everywhere

Blame Barack Obama for the vitriol and hatred pouring in to letters to the editors and comment sections overnight for news sites like Canada Free Press (CFP).

Thuggish Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa told Obama over the weekend: “President Obama, this is your army. We are ready to march. Let’s take these son of bitches out and give America back to where we belong.”

Obama said he was “proud” of Hoffa after his hate-filled Tea Party attack.

Not only did the undocumented President of the United States of America tacitly approve of Hoffa calling the Mothers of all with whom he disagrees politically “bitches”, his stated pride of Hoffa’s vitriol emboldens leftwing hate mongers everywhere.

Shame on you, Obama, allowing your union cronies to refer to American mothers as “bitches”!

Read More at Canada Free Press By Judi McLeod, Canada Free Press

Three Fall Guys Won’t Make Fast and Furious Go Away

On Tuesday, Aug. 30, Kenneth Melson, then-acting director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), was reassigned because of his involvement in the gunrunning operation known as Fast and Furious. At the same time, it was announced that Dennis Burke, the U.S. attorney in Phoenix, was resigning his post due to his involvement in Fast and Furious, and that federal prosecutor Emory Hurley would be moved from “the criminal division in the U.S. attorney’s office in Phoenix” to the civil division.

In other words, after 2,500 guns were bought with illegal intent, transferred to various criminals of one type or another, and used to kill well over 1,100 people to date, the Department of Justice announces that they’re going to deal firmly with three people who were involved in the operation by reassigning them and/or accepting their resignations.

Wow. There are huge problems here.

For starters, it looks like these three are taking the fall for bigger fish higher up the administration food chain.

We know that ATF supervisors William McMahon and William Newell knew about Fast and Furious and were directly involved in it. And we also know beyond a shadow of a doubt that Attorney General Eric Holder knew about Operation Gunrunner, which ultimately morphed into Fast and Furious. He bragged about his involvement in Gunrunner during a speech in Mexico on April 2, 2009.

Read More at Human Events By AWR Hawkins, Human Events

Video: The Price of Government

U.S. Labor Secretary Hilda Solis Doesn’t Know Texas Has Largest Job Growth in U.S.

U.S. Labor Secretary Hilda Solis Doesn’t Know Texas Has Largest Job Growth in U.S. But She is Sure Texas Has Low Pay, Dangerous Work Conditions and a Lousy Education System.

Obama’s HUD Violated ACORN Funding Ban

Time after time, we have found that this administration cares not one whit about following basic laws. What does it mean for Congress to pass and the president to sign a law banning a corrupt organization and its affiliates from receiving federal funds? Apparently the Obama administration could care less. As you will recall, the Obama Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) awarded a grant of $79,819 to ACORN spin-off Affordable Housing Centers of America (AHCOA), despite the fact that Barack Obama signed the ACORN funding ban in October 2009. (And despite the fact that the organization was nailed for misappropriating taxpayer funds!)

We want to know how the HUD can justify this decision. So we filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit on August 19, 2011, against HUD to obtain records related to the department’s approval of AHCOA as an official “housing agency.”

Pursuant to our FOIA request filed on June 8, 2011, we want access to the following information:
Any and all records concerning or relating to the approval of Affordable Housing Centers of America (AHCOA) as a housing agency under Section 106(a)(2) of the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968. This request includes, but is not limited to, a copy of all HUD-9900 forms and supporting documentation submitted by, or on behalf of, AHCOA, as well as all records of communication regarding AHCOA’s approval.

Any and all records of all applications(s) for grants submitted by AHCOA to HUD.

Judicial Watch’s FOIA request was received by HUD on June 13, 2011, (according to postal records). The agency was required to respond by July 12, 2011. This is about as narrow and simple a document request that Judicial Watch makes. But as of August 19, 2011, the date of Judicial Watch’s complaint, HUD hasn’t turned over a single document, or even indicated when a response can be expected.

AHCOA was previously known as ACORN Housing Corporation, Inc., an ACORN offshoot. ACORN filed for bankruptcy on November 2, 2010. However, as we’ve pointed out many times in this space, the organization lives on in the form of numerous state organizations and various ACORN-allied entities, such as AHCOA.

Read More at Big Government By Tom Fitton, Big Government

What the Tea Party at Sea saw

I’m writing this column at 30,000 feet returning from WND’s Tea Party at Sea cruise to Alaska with Jerome Corsi, David Kupelian, Aaron Klein, Alan Keyes, Victoria Jackson, Floyd Brown, Molotov Mitchell, D.J. Dolce, Joe Miller and many other great speakers and guests.

While there were no Democrats to be noticed among the group, there wasn’t much excitement generated for hopes that Republicans would begin returning the country to constitutionally limited government beginning in 2012.

In fact, the consensus among the group was that House Republicans squandered the only chance to move Washington in that direction by raising the debt limit, thereby giving Barack Obama a blank check for the remainder of his first term.

Neither did Republicans help their cause in adding to their control of the House and gaining control of the Senate and White House with that remarkable cave to establishmentarianism and business as usual, concluded the group.

Thanks to Obama’s epic failure in the White House, polls show Republicans with historic approval numbers.

Read More at WND By Joseph Farah, WorldNetDaily

Jihadists plot to take over Libya

Jihadists among the Libyan rebels revealed plans last week on the Internet to subvert the post-Moammar Gadhafi government and create an Islamist state, according to U.S. intelligence agencies.

U.S. officials said spy agencies are stepping up surveillance of Islamist-oriented elements among Libyan rebels. A government report circulated Tuesday said extremists were observed “strategizing” on Internet forums about how to set up an Islamist state in Libya after the regime of Col. Gadhafi is defeated.

“Several forum participants have suggested that, following a transitional stage, the battle should turn against secularist rebels and members of the [rebels’] Transitional National Council,” the unclassified report stated.

Some U.S. officials sought to play down the remarks by noting that such Internet postings are not always accurate measures of jihadist plans.

The report said the jihadists’ strength and influence on the ground “are uncertain at this time.”

Read More at The Washington Times  By Bill Gertz, The Washington Times

Obama’s Arab Spring Buddies in Libya include jihadists, al Qaeda, & other Islamists

By Bill Gertz (Washington Times):

Jihadists among the Libyan rebels revealed plans last week on the Internet to subvert the post-Moammar Gadhafi government and create an Islamist state, according to U.S. intelligence agencies.

U.S. officials said spy agencies are stepping up surveillance of Islamist-oriented elements among Libyan rebels. A government report circulated Tuesday said extremists were observed “strategizing” on Internet forums about how to set up an Islamist state in Libya after the regime of Col. Gadhafi is defeated.

“Several forum participants have suggested that, following a transitional stage, the battle should turn against secularist rebels and members of the [rebels’] Transitional National Council,” the unclassified report stated.

Some U.S. officials sought to play down the remarks by noting that such Internet postings are not always accurate measures of jihadist plans.

The report said the jihadists’ strength and influence on the ground “are uncertain at this time.”

However, the report said the jihadist plotting coincided with the high-profile emergence of Abu Abdallah al-Sadiq, a former leader of the al Qaeda-linked Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) and now a leading rebel. He is currently known as Abdel Hakim al-Khulidi Belhaj and led rebels in overrunning Col. Gadhafi’s Tripoli compound.

A U.S. official familiar with intelligence reports on the region said there are concerns that some LIFG members remain committed to al Qaeda and others may be temporarily renouncing their ties to the terrorist group for “show.”

Read more at the Washington Times HERE.

Report: Palin speech to offer ‘full-throated defense of the Tea Party’

Although nobody knows yet whether former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin plans to announce her candidacy at her much-anticipated Iowa speech tomorrow at noon, details of the speech’s substance are beginning to emerge.

ABC’s Shushannah Walshe and Sheila Marikar report, citing unnamed sources, that Palin will offer a “full-throated defense of the Tea Party.”

“Regardless of what she decides to do, this rally is for the Tea Party to kick off this [presidential] campaign,” a source told ABC.

Palin’s speech is expected to focus on her…

Read More: The Hill

Strangers in Our Homeland

Summer is a time of strong memories. Memories of sunshine, lemonade, and bicycles flood our minds. Summertime is the season when our youth is so close we can almost reach out and touch it. This summer we have been extra reflective, the marriage of our first child and the contemplation of our parents mortality have only heightened our introspection. Because it is so integral to our lives, much of our analysis has focused on America and her changes.

Change is not always negative, but as we review the changes of the last decade, we are simply aghast at what has happened. It’s like comparing before and after snapshots of a person addicted to methamphetamines; the picture isn’t pretty. Hence, today we often feel like strangers in our homeland.

The social upheaval of the past decade has been beyond monumental, and it has resulted in a broken America, with a high number of dysfunctional and lost people. Like a colony of termites stealthily destroying the wooden beams of a house, liberalism has devastated the social fabric and consensus that made America the preeminent country in the world.

First, the rule of law is a fading…

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