Rep. West doubles down on communist ‘ideology’ of Progressive Caucus

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Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.) on Thursday maintained that “the strategy, the tactics, the ideology” of Progressive Caucus members in Congress are the same as those of the Communist Party.

“I’m just talking about the fact of the ideologies, the principles you believe in,” he said on CNN, urging others to “stand upon truth” and learn to identify the ideological motivations of members of Congress. “I’m calling it this: communist, progressive, Marxist, socialist, statist.”

Last week, West told a crowd of supporters in his home state that he believes “there’s about 78 to 81 members of the Democratic Party that are members of the Communist Party.” He went on to explain he was talking about the Congressional Progressive Caucus.

CPC Co-chairmen Raúl Grijalva (D-Ariz.) and Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) compared West’s remarks to those of former Sen. Joe McCarthy, who “divided Americans with name-calling and modern-day witch hunts that don’t advance policies to benefit people’s lives.” McCarthy was censured by the Senate for the tactics he used in his attempt to root out Soviet spies and sympathizers during the Cold War.

West has not backed off the comment. “I’m not going to back down. I’m not going to be afraid about the fact that I called a spade a spade,” he said Tuesday.

Read More at The Hill. By Alicia M. Cohn.

Zimmerman’s media lynching continues

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In this racially charged case, a man charged with the crime of defending himself is being tried, found guilty, and strung up by the media. Figuratively.

Second degree murder charges were leveled based on the prosecutor claiming that the accused, George Zimmerman was stalking Trayvon Martin. Never mind that the stalking statutes require a pattern of following the victim and this was a one shot deal. Also, how many stalkers call 911 to tell the police that they are stalking somebody?

Putting that aside, a Jeff Black article posted on MSNBC.com typifies why Zimmerman is swinging from a tree in the court of public opinion (emphases throughout are mine):

“Seminole County Circuit Judge Jessica Recksiedler took herself off George Zimmerman’s second-degree murder case on Wednesday because of a possible conflict of interest.”

The conflict of interest is that she is up for re-election and this is a political ticking time bomb.

“The new judge on the case is Judge Kenneth Lester Jr., a 15-year veteran who has heard death penalty cases, the Orlando Sentinel reported.”

Read More at American Thinker. By Dan Joppich.

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Obama Doubles Down On More Solyndras

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Green Energy: Another day and another set of layoffs at a Department of Energy-backed solar company and an electric-car maker funded with stimulus dollars. Yet the President wants to double down on green energy.

First Solar, a solar energy company that received a $1.46 billion loan guarantee from the Department of Energy, announced Monday it will lay off 2,000 workers worldwide. In December, First Solar laid off 100 employees at a Santa Clara , Calif., plant.

The DOE has committed the loan to a project in Riverside County, Calif., expected to create a whopping 15 permanent jobs and 550 construction jobs.

Contrast this boondoggle with the privately funded Keystone XL pipeline, delayed by President Obama over alleged environmental concerns, which would create 20,000 jobs initially and perhaps 10 times that over the life of the project. It will bring 800,000 barrels of oil daily to U.S. refineries, whether the sun shines or not.

Last Friday, Delaware Online reports, 12 more workers — including engineers and maintenance technicians — were laid off at Fisker Automotive’s plant in Wilmington, Del., an old General Motors facility.

Read More at investors.com.

Indonesian Source: Obama Would Have to Hunt for Dog Meat in Jakarta

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Fidogate has just gone international. Already the Left is defending Obama for eating dog meat on the grounds that his stepfather–who was Indonesian–wanted to share his culture and customs with him. But there’s just one problem with this: it wasn’t his culture or custom.

In fact, in Jakarta, where the Obamas lived with their Indonesian stepfather, Lolo Soetoro, dog meat is illegal. In the majority Muslim Indonesia, eating dog is forbidden among most ethnic groups in the islands, though a small, black market is said to exist for those looking for it. The only exception are the Batak people, principally of Northern Sumatra who eat it on holidays–but Obama’s stepfather, who was raised in West Java, isn’t a part of that ethnic group. Besides, the Obamas lived hundreds of miles and several islands away.

A diplomatic source close to the Indonesian delegation in the U.S. confirms that while dog is sometimes eaten in Indonesia, it is done so very rarely. “Obama had to go hunting for dog meat,” the source, who didn’t want to be identified, told me.

“I don’t know of anyone who eats it and frankly, I’m a little offended you would ask.”

Breitbart.com scoured Indonesian cook books. Not one mentions ways to prepare dog.

Read More at breitbart.com By Charles C. Johnson

Obama: al-Qaida terrorizes because of “poverty & ignorance, helplessness & despair”

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The 9-11 attacks were carried out because of a lack of “empathy” for others’ suffering on the part of al-Qaida, whose terrorist ideology “grows out of a climate of poverty and ignorance, helplessness and despair,” President Obama once explained in largely unreported comments eight days after the mega-terror attacks that rocked the nation.

Obama went on to imply the September 11th attacks were in part a result of U.S. policy, lecturing the American military to minimize civilian casualties in the Middle East and urging action opposing “bigotry or discrimination directed against neighbors and friends of Middle-Eastern descent.”

“Even as I hope for some measure of peace and comfort to the bereaved families, I must also hope that we, as a nation, draw some measure of wisdom from this tragedy,” Obama wrote in a piece about 9-11 published on Sept. 19, 2001, in Chicago’s Hyde Park Herald.

The politician continued: “Certain immediate lessons are clear, and we must act upon those lessons decisively. We need to step up security at our airports. We must re-examine the effectiveness of our intelligence networks and we must be resolute in identifying the perpetrators of these heinous acts and dismantling their organizations of destruction,” wrote Obama.

“We must also engage, however, in the more difficult task of understanding the sources of such madness. The essence of this tragedy, it seems to me, derives from a fundamental absence of empathy on the part of the attackers: an inability to imagine, or connect with, the humanity or suffering of others. Such a failure of empathy, such numbness to the pain of a child or the desperation of a parent is not innate; nor, history tells us, is it unique to a particular culture, religion or ethnicity. It may find expression in a particular brand of violence, it may be channeled by particular demagogues or fanatics.

Read More at Klein Online.

 

Revealed: US and British agencies sounded alarm about Obama’s ‘Anti-American’ and ‘Anti-white’ Father

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In his three years as U.S. president, Barack Obama has been dogged by claims he is not patriotic enough.

Last year he even had to publish his birth certificate to silence doubters who suggested he was not born an American.

Now it emerges that similar fears were expressed about his father, who was categorised with others as ‘anti-American and anti-white’ when he moved to the United States in 1959.

Mr Obama Snr had grown up in Kenya under British rule and aroused the fears of both colonial officers and American officials when he won a chance to study in Hawaii. The officials felt Kenyan students were ‘academically inferior’ with a ‘bad reputation’ for turning anti-American.

A memo from a British diplomat in Washington to Whitehall – released today by the National Archives in West London – sets out their concerns about the young Kenyans.

Read More at Daily Mail. By Claire Ellicott, Sam Greenhill, and Martin Robinson.

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Watchdog group sues for docs pertaining to Obama’s illegal alien uncle

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The conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch is suing the Department of Homeland Security for records pertaining to President Barack Obama’s illegal immigrant uncle Onyango Obama, aka “Uncle Omar.”

“It’s a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit and it asks what a lot of people are wondering, which is what was going on with the administration and its handling of Barack Obama’s Uncle’s [immigration] status,” Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton told The Daily Caller.

Onyango Obama was arrested in Farmington, Mass. in August on drunk driving charges. In March Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) said they would continue deportation proceedings for Obama, who was reportedly told to leave in 1992, but stayed in the U.S.

According to the Washington Times, after being booked for his August DUI, Onyongo Obama was asked about bail and said, “I think I will call the White House.”

In September Judicial Watch filed a FOIA request for documents from ICE, including “all records of communications, contacts and correspondence between ICE” and the following entities: the Framingham Police Department, the White House, the Executive Office of the President and the Justice Department.

Read More at The Daily Caller. By Caroline May.

Who Is To Blame For The GSA Scandal?

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Who should we tar and feather for the scandalous spending spree at that General Services Administration “conference” in Nevada two years ago?

Whose fault is it that a bunch of GSA bureaucrats wasted money on $44 breakfasts, a clown and a $75,000 bicycle-building exercise?

Not the GSA’s bosses. Not the Obama administration. I pin the blame on Watergate and Congress.

This week Congressional hearings all over Washington have been grilling past and current GSA officials about a $850,000 conference that blew thousands of dollars on things like a mind-reader and “yearbooks” and commemorative coins for the 300 participants.

Everyone from the president to Republican Congressman Darrell Issa of California has expressed outrage at the GSA, which manages the federal government’s property and purchases goods and services for other agencies.

Read More at Western Journalism By Michael Reagan

NBC Tries to Undermine Romney Handling of Hilary Rosen Attack

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On Monday’s NBC Nightly News, correspondent Peter Alexander played up comments Mitt Romney made at a fund-raiser in Florida about cutting government programs as if the GOP presidential candidate’s proposals were politically damaging, with the NBC correspondent asserting that Romney’s remarks “out of the view of cameras have caused a stir.” Alexander also suggested that the Romneys had been deceptive in their handling of Democratic strategist Hilary’s Rosen’s recent attack on Ann Romney as never having “worked a day in her life.”

Alexander began his report:

The former Massachusetts governor was chatting up fans this afternoon in the Boston heat, but it was his comments during a private fund-raiser this weekend in Florida out of the view of cameras that have caused a stir. While he’s resisted offering specifics publicly, Mitt Romney says one of his top priorities as President would be cutting the size of the federal government.

He continued:

But he revealed more details to donors Sunday, comments overheard by an NBC News producer standing in an area approved by police. Romney said he might cut, quote, “things like Housing and Urban Development, which my dad was head of. That might not be around later.”

Read More at Media Research Center. By Brad Wilmouth.

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Thanks To Obama, How Many Bankruptcy Filers Are Paying With Their Tax Refunds?

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Bled white and destroyed by Barack Obama’s “hope and change,” hundreds of thousands of Americans have been forced to use tax refunds to pay the filing costs of their bankruptcies. The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) reports that bankruptcy lawyers have seen an increase in personal bankruptcies filings which follow this pattern: many clients are filing bankruptcy soon after receiving their tax refunds.

This has been especially true since a law passed in 2005 made bankruptcy more costly and more difficult.  For some people,  in Barack Obama’s upside down America, as fast as money comes in, it goes to buy a bankruptcy file number. There are no plans for vacations or buying a new car for many people. As one bankruptcy lawyer explained the situation, “If people are expecting a big refund, they go as fast as they can to a tax preparer. They need the money so they can afford to file for bankruptcy.”

Filing costs that averaged around $ 921.00 before the law now cost most filers $1477 if not more. Of course, as usual, the big winners from this law are lawyers who get to charge higher fees based on more time spent to verify the facts presented by the individual seeking relief. The changes in the law were made to combat fraud, which is a worthy goal, but raising the filing fees has resulted in punishing many legitimate people who only want to have their debts cancelled so they can go on with their lives.

Read More at Western Journalism By Kevin “Coach” Collins

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