Thursday, March 31, 2011

This week on TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES TCM UNDERGROUND the Classic Horror, Thriller,

This week on TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES TCM UNDERGROUND the Classic Horror, Thriller, Suspense, Mystery, and Sci-fi Movies they are showcasing and that is recommended must watch if you have TCM are

Saturday April 02, 2011

 

2:00 AM

Secret Ceremony (1968) 2:00 AM C-109 min
TV-14  Secret Ceremony (1968) A tormented rich girl hires a prostitute to act as her mother. Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Mia Farrow, Robert Mitchum. Dir: Joseph Losey. C-109 min, TV-14 , CC             

 

4:00 AM
Daughters Of Satan (1972) 4:00 AM C-90 min
TV-MA  Daughters Of Satan (1972) After a man buys a painting of a witch that resembles his wife, his wife is possessed by the spirit of the witch and plans his murder. Cast: Tom Selleck, Barra Grant, Tani Phelps Guthrie. Dir: Hollingsworth Morse. C-90 min, TV-MA        

 
Carl Ray Louk

"FRIENDSHIP NEVER ENDS" SG-1996
"LET LOVE LEAD THE WAY" SG-2000
"THE PHOENIX SHALL RISE" SD
"EVEN A MAN WHO IS PURE IN HEART AND SAYS HIS PRAYERS BY NIGHT, MAY BECOME A WOLF WHEN THE WOLFBANE BLOOMS AND THE AUTUMN MOON IS BRIGHT." LT-1941
"FLESH OF MY FLESH; BLOOD OF MY BLOOD; KIN OF MY KIN WHEN SAY COME TO YOU, YOU SHALL CROSS LAND OR SEA TO DO MY BIDDING!" CVTD-1895
"FROM HELL'S HEART I STAB AT THEE, FOR HATE SAKE I SPIT MY LAST BREATH AT THEE" CA-1895 
"I HAVE BEEN, AND ALWAYS SHALL BE YOUR FRIEND" Spock 
"TRICK OR TREAT, TRICK OR TREAT CANDY IS DANDY BUT MURDER, OH MURDER, IS SO SWEET" CRL-2003 
"EYE OF NEWT, AND TOE OF FROG, WOOL OF BAT, AND TONGUE OF DOG ADDER'S FORK, BLIND-WORM'S STING, LIZARD'S LEG, AND OWLET'S WING. FOR A CHARM OF POWERFUL TROUBLE, LIKE A HELL-BROTH BOIL AND BABBLE. DOUBLE, DOUBLE, TOIL AND TROUBLE, FIRE BURN, AND CALDRON BUBBLE" WS

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This week on AMERICAN MOVIE CLASSICS Fear Friday Classic Horror, Thriller, Suspe

This week on AMERICAN MOVIE CLASSICS Fear Friday Classic Horror, Thriller, Suspense, Mystery, Sci-fi Movies they are showcasing and that is recommended must watch if you have AMC are.

 

Saturday April 02, 2011

 

1:00 am They
A student (Laura Regan) and her friends begin to have nightmares.

 

3:00 am The Day the World Ended
Geologist (Richard Denning), captain's daughter (Lori Nelson), others hide from nuke mutants.

 

4:45 am How to Make a Monster
Makeup man (Robert H. Harris) sends werewolf and Frankenstein to kill moguls

 
Carl Ray Louk

"FRIENDSHIP NEVER ENDS" SG-1996
"LET LOVE LEAD THE WAY" SG-2000
"THE PHOENIX SHALL RISE" SD
"EVEN A MAN WHO IS PURE IN HEART AND SAYS HIS PRAYERS BY NIGHT, MAY BECOME A WOLF WHEN THE WOLFBANE BLOOMS AND THE AUTUMN MOON IS BRIGHT." LT-1941
"FLESH OF MY FLESH; BLOOD OF MY BLOOD; KIN OF MY KIN WHEN SAY COME TO YOU, YOU SHALL CROSS LAND OR SEA TO DO MY BIDDING!" CVTD-1895
"FROM HELL'S HEART I STAB AT THEE, FOR HATE SAKE I SPIT MY LAST BREATH AT THEE" CA-1895 
"I HAVE BEEN, AND ALWAYS SHALL BE YOUR FRIEND" Spock 
"TRICK OR TREAT, TRICK OR TREAT CANDY IS DANDY BUT MURDER, OH MURDER, IS SO SWEET" CRL-2003 
"EYE OF NEWT, AND TOE OF FROG, WOOL OF BAT, AND TONGUE OF DOG ADDER'S FORK, BLIND-WORM'S STING, LIZARD'S LEG, AND OWLET'S WING. FOR A CHARM OF POWERFUL TROUBLE, LIKE A HELL-BROTH BOIL AND BABBLE. DOUBLE, DOUBLE, TOIL AND TROUBLE, FIRE BURN, AND CALDRON BUBBLE" WS

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March 30, 2011 Beck: Freedom Is Under Siege | Glenn Beck

  • March 30, 2011

    This is a rush transcript from "Glenn Beck," March 30, 2011. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated.

     

    GLENN BECK, HOST: I was in Texas this last weekend and I visited the Alamo. And I had the same feeling -- that's my wife and I this weekend, I still have that belly -- we were in Jerusalem and I had the same kind of feeling.

    The Alamo is so small. The Alamo held less than 200 Texans. And they held off Santa Anna's army for about -- that's about 2,400 people for 13 days. This is the place where Davy Crockett and Sam Bowie and William Travis all died fighting for liberty. It is an inspiring story.

    I feel, in many ways, we're in the same foundation with the Soros- funded Media Matters shutting down the truth, declaring guerilla warfare and sabotage against this network and this show. And, also, what Soros and his cronies are trying to do with Israel. I mean, when you see -- tomorrow, we're going to lay this all out on a timeline and this will boggle your mind how he is doing this.

    I feel the same way I think that Colonel Travis did when he wrote this letter. And I've shared this with you before. This is -- this letter is what he wrote when he was asking for -- he was asking for help. He was asking for people.

    And when he wrote it, he knew that it was probably too late. But this letter is one of the greatest letters in American history. And it's because of this letter that we have the slogan "Remember the Alamo," for what they did.

    I get the same feeling that Israel can sympathize with those who are at the Alamo. They are surrounded by enemies. Someone the other day called me General Custer and said, "You are surrounded my friend." That's OK. I knew I would be. That's all right.

    You have to stand. When you really truly believe something, you have to stand up.

    Tonight, I would like to -- if I may be so bold -- let me issue the same plea for Israel that Colonel Travis issued for the Alamo, for our values, for our country, for our families, for our liberty -- as William Travis did. If I may paraphrase poorly, what he wrote in the letter was to all Americans, I'd like to add, to all of those freedom lovers that hear or see me anywhere around the world. All over the planet, people are watching.

    Freedom in our country or your country is under siege. It has been taken continual bombardment and the enemy is about to demand a surrender. If you don't surrender, they will put whoever won't to the sword. That happens if the fort is taken.

    I have been on this programming answering those demands with the cannon shot and the flag of freedom still waves. I'm not going to surrender. I'm not going to retreat. I don't really care! I know what's true.

    But I call on you now in the name of liberty and patriotism and everything dear to the American character to come -- no matter where you are in the world -- to come to our aid, to come to the aid of freedom, to come to the aid of the people God called the Israelites, with all dispatch.

    The enemy is receiving reinforcements daily and is increasing in number. If this call is neglected, I'm determined to sustain myself as long as possible. And just like William Travis wrote in his letter, "Die like a soldier who never forgets what is due to his honor or that of his country, victory or death."

    William Barrett Travis wrote those words. But at the very end, he had a P.S. and it was just this: "The Lord is on our side."

    He went on to explain that there was there was multiplying of food.

    I'm just telling you, that you will see the Lord's hand. You will be defended because freedom doesn't belong to you and me, no matter where we are in the world. It doesn't matter to Israel or America or Australia or England or anyplace else. It doesn't belong to us as individuals. He loans us these rights for his purposes.

    Now, people would say where is -- where is another William Travis or a Davey Crockett or a George Washington? I've been looking for one for a while. People are asking, as I have been -- where is he? Where is Reagan?

    Where is Churchill? Where is anyone standing up daily for freedom and making the case?

    The answer is what it always has been -- it's you. But it's time for you to realize who you are and that you were born at this time with a purpose.

    I ask you now to come with all dispatch to the side of liberty. Join hands, link arms, no matter where on Earth you are watching me, anywhere in the world. It is time for you to stand. Not against an administration. Not against George Soros or anyone else. But stand up. Stand for our God, our freedom, and our families.

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Carl Ray Louk

"FRIENDSHIP NEVER ENDS" SG-1996
"LET LOVE LEAD THE WAY" SG-2000
"THE PHOENIX SHALL RISE" SD
"EVEN A MAN WHO IS PURE IN HEART AND SAYS HIS PRAYERS BY NIGHT, MAY BECOME A WOLF WHEN THE WOLFBANE BLOOMS AND THE AUTUMN MOON IS BRIGHT." LT-1941
"FLESH OF MY FLESH; BLOOD OF MY BLOOD; KIN OF MY KIN WHEN SAY COME TO YOU, YOU SHALL CROSS LAND OR SEA TO DO MY BIDDING!" CVTD-1895
"FROM HELL'S HEART I STAB AT THEE, FOR HATE SAKE I SPIT MY LAST BREATH AT THEE" CA-1895 
"I HAVE BEEN, AND ALWAYS SHALL BE YOUR FRIEND" Spock 
"TRICK OR TREAT, TRICK OR TREAT CANDY IS DANDY BUT MURDER, OH MURDER, IS SO SWEET" CRL-2003 
"EYE OF NEWT, AND TOE OF FROG, WOOL OF BAT, AND TONGUE OF DOG ADDER'S FORK, BLIND-WORM'S STING, LIZARD'S LEG, AND OWLET'S WING. FOR A CHARM OF POWERFUL TROUBLE, LIKE A HELL-BROTH BOIL AND BABBLE. DOUBLE, DOUBLE, TOIL AND TROUBLE, FIRE BURN, AND CALDRON BUBBLE" WS

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March 31, 2011 By Karl Rove Obama Bungles the Libya Speech The president seems

March 31, 2011

Obama Bungles the Libya Speech

The president seems irresolute and unreliable, even when doing the right thing.

Wars, even good ones, require worthy explanation and justification. Both were missing in President Obama's address to the nation on Monday night.

While the president's speech on Libya was adequate at times, what stood out were statements that were contradictory, confusing and outright untrue.

Mr. Obama said "an important strategic interest" was at risk in Libya. I believe that's so. But members of Mr. Obama's national security team send the opposite message.

The president insisted that America "took a series of swift steps in a matter of days." In fact, the administration dithered for over two weeks. Mr. Obama claimed, "At my direction, America led an effort" to create "a no-fly zone . . . to protect the Libyan people." In truth, the direction and leadership came from the French, the British, and even the Arab League. Thank goodness French President Nicolas Sarkozy and British Prime Minister David Cameron had the brass to push for bombing. Otherwise Mr. Obama still might be contemplating action, not taking it.

On Monday, the candidate who dismissed a coalition of 40 countries in Iraq became the president celebrating an alliance of only 15 nations operating in Libya. He also insisted the operation's command would move swiftly from America to NATO, to give the appearance of transferring the mission to a multinational body. Mr. Obama didn't remind the country that NATO is commanded by an American, Adm. James Stavridis. So the baton has been handed from an American general to an American admiral.

The president said, "I made it clear that Gadhafi had lost the confidence of his people and the legitimacy to lead, and I said that he needed to step down." But Mr. Obama still has offered no real strategy to bring about the Libyan dictator's removal. When an American president says someone should go, they really must. If they stay, America's credibility is undermined and adversaries are emboldened.

Mr. Obama also came out rhetorically for his predecessor's Freedom Agenda, saying America supports "freedom for people to express themselves and choose their leaders" throughout the region. That statement is at odds with what Mr. Obama said in June 2005, when he insisted "we cannot, and should not, foist our own vision of democracy" on the Middle East.

The president claimed he authorized military action after consulting the bipartisan leadership of Congress. Not quite. Mr. Obama made his decision Tuesday, then waited nearly three days before informing 18 members of Congress that bombing would commence—in 90 minutes! If Mr. Obama's predecessor had tried to pass that off as serious congressional "consultation," then-Senate Foreign Affairs Chairman Joe Biden would have called for impeachment hearings.

All this muddle adds to the sense that Mr. Obama is irresolute, weak and unreliable, even when doing the right thing.

Among a president's most important possessions is a reputation as a strong leader. A Gallup poll released yesterday found that 52% of Americans see President Obama "as a strong and decisive leader." That's down from 60% a year ago and 73% in April 2009. Only 17% in a March 22 Reuters/Ipsos poll saw Mr. Obama as a strong and decisive military leader.

The economy will dominate the 2012 presidential election, but national security issues will shape public attitudes about Mr. Obama as well. Issues eventually congeal to create an impression of a president's public character. Mr. Obama's problem is that his handling of foreign policy challenges like Libya adds to his image of weakness. As a general rule, strong leaders get re-elected; weak ones don't.

This is a chief executive who is willing America into a subordinate, non-leadership role in world affairs, who sees the United States as an ordinary nation. This is a potentially toxic political brew for any politician, but most especially for a commander in chief.

This article originally appeared on WSJ.com on Wednesday, March 30, 2011.

 
Carl Ray Louk

"FRIENDSHIP NEVER ENDS" SG-1996
"LET LOVE LEAD THE WAY" SG-2000
"THE PHOENIX SHALL RISE" SD
"EVEN A MAN WHO IS PURE IN HEART AND SAYS HIS PRAYERS BY NIGHT, MAY BECOME A WOLF WHEN THE WOLFBANE BLOOMS AND THE AUTUMN MOON IS BRIGHT." LT-1941
"FLESH OF MY FLESH; BLOOD OF MY BLOOD; KIN OF MY KIN WHEN SAY COME TO YOU, YOU SHALL CROSS LAND OR SEA TO DO MY BIDDING!" CVTD-1895
"FROM HELL'S HEART I STAB AT THEE, FOR HATE SAKE I SPIT MY LAST BREATH AT THEE" CA-1895 
"I HAVE BEEN, AND ALWAYS SHALL BE YOUR FRIEND" Spock 
"TRICK OR TREAT, TRICK OR TREAT CANDY IS DANDY BUT MURDER, OH MURDER, IS SO SWEET" CRL-2003 
"EYE OF NEWT, AND TOE OF FROG, WOOL OF BAT, AND TONGUE OF DOG ADDER'S FORK, BLIND-WORM'S STING, LIZARD'S LEG, AND OWLET'S WING. FOR A CHARM OF POWERFUL TROUBLE, LIKE A HELL-BROTH BOIL AND BABBLE. DOUBLE, DOUBLE, TOIL AND TROUBLE, FIRE BURN, AND CALDRON BUBBLE" WS

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Ann Coulter Obama Cried, Kids Died

Ann Coulter

Ann Coulter

Obama Cried, Kids Died

"Humanitarian" seems to be the Democrats' new word for "absolutely no national interest."

The Democrats were not so interested in a "humanitarian" intervention against a much more brutal dictator in Iraq. But, of course, taking out Saddam Hussein, a state sponsor of terrorism who harbored one of the perpetrators of the 1993 attack on the World Trade Center, would make Americans safer.

Democrats are furious whenever American boys (girls and gays) are put in harm's way -- unless the troops are on a mission that has nothing whatsoever to do with defending the United States.

Obama ignored the murder, imprisonment and torture of peaceful Iranian protesters demonstrating against Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's theft of an election in 2009. But he was hopping mad about Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak getting rough with a mob in Tahrir Square with less distinct objectives.

We knew what the Iranian students wanted: a stolen election overturned.

What did the Egyptians want? At the time, liberals angrily cited the high unemployment rate in Egypt as proof that Mubarak was a beast who must step down.

Have they, by any chance, seen the recent employment numbers for the U.S.? The only employment sectors showing any growth are Hollywood sober-living coaches and medical marijuana dispensaries. Are we one jobs report away from liberals rioting in the streets?

As The New York Times recently reported, since Mubarak stepped down, the driving force in the new government is the Muslim Brotherhood. America is worse off because Mubarak stepped down, which was Obama's exact foreign policy objective.

On Monday night, Obama gave a speech intended to explain America's mission and purpose in our new Libyan adventure. He said: "Some nations may be able to turn a blind eye to atrocities in other countries. The United States of America is different."

He forgot to add: "However, the United States of America will be turning a blind eye to atrocities in Syria, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Jordan, the Ivory Coast and Bahrain."

One searches in vain for a description of some American interest in supporting the rebels in Libya.

True, Gadhafi was responsible for numerous terrorist acts against Americans in the 1980s, including blowing up Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988, killing 270 people, including 189 Americans.

Soon after President Bush's 9/11 speech vowing to go to war not only with terrorists, but those who supported them, Gadhafi accepted responsibility for the Lockerbie bombing and paid the victims' families $8 million apiece.

After Bush invaded Iraq, Gadhafi suspended Libya's nuclear and chemical weapons program, inviting international inspectors to verify that the programs had been halted.

A few years after that, Gadhafi paid millions of dollars to the victims of other Libyan-sponsored terrorist attacks from the '80s. In return, President Bush granted Libya immunity from terror-related lawsuits.

Only Fox News' Bill O'Reilly thinks Obama is intervening in Libya to avenge the Lockerbie bombing.

However far off the mark Gadhafi is from being the Libyan George Washington, he poses no threat to the U.S. -- whereas the rebels we are supporting might.

But Democrats couldn't care less about the interests of their own country. Indeed, if there were the slightest possibility that our intervention in Libya would somehow benefit the United States, they would hysterically oppose it.

When it came to the Iraq War -- which actually served America's security interests -- Democrats demanded proof that Saddam Hussein was 10 minutes away from launching a first strike against the U.S. They denounced the Iraq War nonstop, wailing that Saddam hadn't hit us on 9/11 and that he posed no "imminent threat" to America.

What imminent threat does Libya pose to the U.S.? How will our interests be served by putting the rebels in charge?

Obama didn't even suggest the possibility that our Libyan intervention serves the nation's interest. Last weekend, his defense secretary, Robert Gates, said the uprising in Libya "was not a vital national interest to the United States, but it was an interest." So, not a vital interest, but an interest. Like scrapbooking, surfing or Justin Bieber.

When it came to Iraq, liberals proclaimed that invading a country "only" to produce a regime change was unjustifiable, contrary to international law, and a grievous affront to the peace-loving Europeans.

But they like regime change in Egypt, Libya -- and the Balkans. The last military incursion supported by liberals was Clinton's misadventure in the Balkans -- precisely because Slobodan Milosevic posed no conceivable threat to the United States.

Indeed, President Clinton bragged: "This is America at its best. We seek no territorial gain; we seek no political advantage." Democrats see our voluntary military supported by taxpayer dollars as their personal Salvation Army.

Self-interested behavior, such as deploying troops to serve the nation, is considered boorish in Manhattan salons.

The only just wars, liberals believe, are those in which the United States has no stake. Liberals warm to the idea of deploying expensive, taxpayer-funded military machinery and putting American troops in harm's way, but only for military incursions that serve absolutely no American interest.

Ann Coulter

Ann Coulter

Ann Coulter is a columnist and author of Guilty: Liberal Victims and Their Assault On America.

 
Carl Ray Louk

"FRIENDSHIP NEVER ENDS" SG-1996
"LET LOVE LEAD THE WAY" SG-2000
"THE PHOENIX SHALL RISE" SD
"EVEN A MAN WHO IS PURE IN HEART AND SAYS HIS PRAYERS BY NIGHT, MAY BECOME A WOLF WHEN THE WOLFBANE BLOOMS AND THE AUTUMN MOON IS BRIGHT." LT-1941
"FLESH OF MY FLESH; BLOOD OF MY BLOOD; KIN OF MY KIN WHEN SAY COME TO YOU, YOU SHALL CROSS LAND OR SEA TO DO MY BIDDING!" CVTD-1895
"FROM HELL'S HEART I STAB AT THEE, FOR HATE SAKE I SPIT MY LAST BREATH AT THEE" CA-1895 
"I HAVE BEEN, AND ALWAYS SHALL BE YOUR FRIEND" Spock 
"TRICK OR TREAT, TRICK OR TREAT CANDY IS DANDY BUT MURDER, OH MURDER, IS SO SWEET" CRL-2003 
"EYE OF NEWT, AND TOE OF FROG, WOOL OF BAT, AND TONGUE OF DOG ADDER'S FORK, BLIND-WORM'S STING, LIZARD'S LEG, AND OWLET'S WING. FOR A CHARM OF POWERFUL TROUBLE, LIKE A HELL-BROTH BOIL AND BABBLE. DOUBLE, DOUBLE, TOIL AND TROUBLE, FIRE BURN, AND CALDRON BUBBLE" WS

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Drill Here, Drill Now, Stop Rising Gas Prices

Tired of high gas prices? I wanted to share a petition with you that I (along with 1.6 million other Americans) have signed, asking Congress and President Obama to end the delays and roadblocks on drilling for domestic oil. I hope you will take a minute to sign as well.

Sign the 'Drill Here, Drill Now' petition at http://www.americansolutions.com/drill

Carl Louk

Wednesday, March 30, 2011

I bid you good noon.

I bid you good noon. Iam @ dialysis & hooked up. I have 4:23 left. I will becoming off around 5:10pm.

March 29, 2011 Beck: Who Stands With Israel? | Glenn Beck

  • March 29, 2011

    This is a rush transcript from "Glenn Beck," March 29, 2011. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated.

    GLENN BECK, HOST: Hello, America.

    A lot to do today -- I have never ever called for an opposing voice to be silenced. Not even Usama bin Laden. I believe it is better to have debate in the light of day. At least people can make an informed decision and it -- by challenging people, it makes people stronger.

    We can disagree. But it doesn't seem so anymore in America. Have the debate. Others cower.

    Right now, Soros and his billions of dollars are mounting what they describe as a guerilla war and sabotage on all of FOX News -- that's a quote -- and, of course, this program. I guess we're -- quoting them again -- "dangerous."

    Let me ask you, who is more dangerous to a free republic -- the one that supports open debate or the one that disguises himself, calls it an open society while trying to silence all debate?

    Of course, George Soros doesn't want my voice on the air. Of course, he wants you to sit down as well. Of course, he turns down our invite to be on the show, claiming that he would just be made to look like a foolish old man by me, which is -- couldn't be further from the truth.

    The only thing that would make Soros look foolish is his ideas spoken clearly out in the open, ideas that are wildly out of step with the American people, and I do believe becoming dangerous -- which is why he has to keep them in disguise. He has put together one serious operation. It's a serious operation that is on the wrong side of history.

    For example, do you know about the Soros-funded International Crisis Group? Look up the International Crisis Group. It is -- oh, it's quite amazing. And it seems to be right in the center of almost everything that is happening overseas, especially in Libya now and Egypt.

    International Crisis Group has consistently worked to support the group in the Middle East who want to establish an Islamic government, including the Muslim Brotherhood and even al Qaeda. There is a report that came out in June 2008, it's this one. It's entitled "Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood: Confrontation or Integration?"

    Guess what they decided would be best? It was put out by his group, the International Crisis Group -- who I believe he sits on the board and so did, so did ElBaradei for a while. Well, he resigned as soon as he got that call. Hmm.

    The report calls on Egypt's government and calls a crackdown of Egypt's government back then -- the crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood as, quote, "dangerously short-sighted," adding, "the regime should take preliminary steps to normalize the Muslim Brotherhood's participation in political life." Oh, had Mubarak only listened, had he only listened.

    Now, while Soros' group advocates for these radical groups, he then singles out Israel, calling them, I'm quoting, "the main stumbling block" to the transformation of the Middle East. He added in this report, "In reality, Israel has much to gain from the spread of democracy in the Middle East, as the United States has. But Israel is unlikely to recognize its own best interest, because the change is too sudden and carries too many risks."

    Isn't it good to have a grandpa or a great-great-great grandpa that will just take us all by the hand and just fix all of our problems because we're just too young or dumb to understand?

    Remember, George Soros says Israel is the main problem in the Middle East to transformation. Too scary for them.

    George Soros is also the guy that believes that this, quoting him, "The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States." Whoa!

    So, let's see if we have this right. Israel and the U.S. is an obstacle to what he and his groups believe should happen. Huh! You know who else thinks that? Osama bin Laden. Oh, I know, how about like Iran?

    Wait, we didn't stand up for people of Iran. That's a weird coincidence. It's almost like Iran, remember? They say we're the "Great Satan" and Israel is the little Satan and they're just using Satan while he's using obstacles. See?

    Now, what about Iran? Well, Iran -- they're a little different. They're spookier than even spooky dude. They want to wipe Israel off the map and they just produced a video saying that the Islamic messiah is on his way soon. Good, the messiah is coming? No. It's like it's opposite day reading "The Book of Revelation." Got it?

    How about the Muslim Brotherhood? The leaders who are openly talking about starting a war with Israel. I thought that they should be brought in the political fold.

    I want to pretend here for just a moment that the news is just a bunch of completely spontaneous unrelated events. No one is orchestrating anything! And that George Soros wants all the countries of the world to have a Jeffersonian Constitution and that there's is nobody on the planet that believes in the 12th Imam or the Mahdi that's going to behead all the unbelievers planet-wide. Or that the administration, let's blend -- let's pretend the administration hearts Israel, OK? And every child in every high school is as talented as all of the kids at that high school on "Glee."

    Now, with that in mind, let's look at the direction in the Middle East. Do you think it's headed toward, toward peaceful conclusion, to a happier world? Do you think it's going to end well or not so much? Are things happening that are beneficial to survival of Israel or not so much? Is there any leader in the world standing up for Israel or not so much?

    Yes, Bob, I'd have to go for not so much. Israel is under attack.

    And let me show you just a couple of things. OK. First of all, we have George Soros' powerful group and his players in the White House saying they're obstacles and also his players in the White House are pushing responsibility to protect that.

    But let's look here. Obama says that just last September, that we want a Palestinian state that it was possible within a year. Listen to this exactly.

    (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

    PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: When we come back here next year, we can have an agreement that will lead to a new member of the United Nations -- an independent, sovereign state of Palestine.

    (END VIDEO CLIP)

    BECK: When they meet, a year from that speech. So, a year from that speech would be September and 2011.

    Now, today we learn from an Israeli paper that an unnamed European diplomat has told them, quote, "International recognition of the Palestinian statehood appeared to be unavoidable in September." OK. So, September of 2011.

    Hamas is calling on the Arab League to stop Israel from exploiting regional instability to carry out massacres against Palestinians. Wait a minute. That one goes under the responsibility to protect -- which is this new George Soros/Cass Sunstein wife kind of thing. We'll get into that later. OK. Got it.

    Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas says he is willing to give up millions in U.S. aid to get just unity deal -- a unity deal with Hamas. Great. Great. OK. So, they're willing to negotiate.

    Reports this week also say that Abbas ordered lawmakers to complete a draft legislation for future state. So, in other words, draft the legislation to have an independent state within six months -- within six months that would be -- oh, yes, that would be the ninth month of this year.

    So, let's go with what else we know here. The U.N. is recognizing Palestinians as independent state. Yes. Yes. We got that one, too. Or this, or this, or this. All righty.

    Norwegian Socialist Party -- yes. Yes. They're calling for action now against Israel, military action. They're going to use responsibility to protect, I think.

    Muslim Brotherhood is now poised to grab power in Egypt and Libya. That's going to be great. They say that they're just ready to declare war against Israel.

    Oh, and one more thing that I'm sure is not a problem. Remember the president said last night that "I'm ready to turn it over to NATO. That's what I'm going to do because we've done our job." It's weird because just this morning -- I wonder if something happened overnight -- the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations -- wait for it, wait for it -- said, wait a minute, we're not going to turn it over to the NATO forces yet because we haven't decided if we're going to -- we haven't decided yet. I have no idea. Arm the rebels. No, no. Might, might not.

    That brings us to the "Responsibility to Protect" doctrine. This states that states have the right to protect the population. In fact, the responsibility to protect the populations from genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity and ethic cleansing.

    This apparently is what was happening in Libya. That's what we use, justification to wage kinetic military action against a country that, as Defense Secretary Gates said, was not vital interest to the United States. But we had a responsibility to protect.

    And that was an idea spawned by none other than Samantha Power. She is a White House aide and the wife of the most dangerous man in America, Cass Sunstein. I'm thinking about calling them the most dangerous couple of the year because she's now out in the press bragging that it was Obama who triggered the Libya uprising. What? I'm sorry.

  • Power, before being in the White House, explicitly stated how she would deal with Israel. Here she is.

    (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

    SAMANTHA POWER, WHITE HOUSE AIDE: What we need is a willingness to actually put something on the line and sort of helping the situation. And putting something on the line might mean alienating a domestic constituency of tremendous political and financial import; it may more crucially mean sacrificing -- or investing, I think more than sacrificing -- literally billions of dollars not in servicing Israel's, you know, military, but actually investing in the new state of Palestine, in investing billions of dollars it would probably take also to support I think what will have to be a mammoth protection force.

    Intervention is going to come under fierce criticism. But we have to think about lesser evils, especially when the human stakes are just becoming ever more pronounced.

    (END VIDEO CLIP)

    BECK: Too high. That bad, bad Israel. The "Responsibility to Protect" doctrine, it worked in Libya. And they're going to try it again against Israel, because the stakes are just too high.

    Back in 2009, they've already -- you know, they tried this in 2009. It didn't go well for them. No. No. You know who tried this? The U.N. official Robert Falk, said Israel was guilty of war crimes. Not self- defense after they attacked Gaza.

    In the letter that he wrote, from an interview from the Institute for Policy Studies. Institute for Policy Studies -- that is another George Soros group. Wow! It's the same one that came up with another report, begging Obama to rule by executive order. It was great.

    When they asked the slightly leading question about the killing of 1,300 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and if it could have been stopped by the U.N., the answer was: a strong general assembly resolution would have set the stage for follow-up and forcible resolutions, possibly, including mechanisms for holding Israeli officials accountable. And an arms embargo, or even deploys a cease-fire enforcement or protection force, perhaps based on the assembly's own embrace of the doctrine known as the "Responsibility to Protect." Hmm.

    You know, a couple of years ago, we could laugh this off because these are just some kooky progressives that we didn't think anybody listened to. But they're the ones calling the shots and, boy, they have been busy while we were asleep.

    It's pretty obvious, if you want to look at the facts, where the next shot is heading. I've asked this on the show a few times lately. Where is Churchill? Where is Reagan? Where is Lincoln? Where is Washington? Where is anybody?

    We got Soros. We got him. We got the president. We seem to have socialists everywhere, Brazil, everywhere.

    Where is the person standing up for freedom? Where is the person on the national stage standing up for Israel? Do you see him? I mean, really standing up?

    We got Benjamin Netanyahu, but that's pretty obvious.

    Tonight, I'd like to add my small little voice and make a declaration as clear as humanly possible that I know what time it is. I've done my home work. I'm also a spiritual guy.

    God is not going to hold us unaccountable for what we do or do not do, for what we say or do not say. We must stand and be clear. I stand with Israel. And where is anyone else?

    Now, it doesn't mean you blindly support everything they do. But you stand with them.

    Now, I know the blogs, especially the Soros blogs who are hiring more and more interns every day, they're creating jobs -- they're going to call me a fraud or crazy man or anti-Semitic Jew lover. I don't know how that is possible but they've tried it.

    But I will stand. I don't know how long it's going to take for the world to right itself, but I at least know where right is. And that is where I will stand.

    Each of us have to ask ourselves, do you stand with the people in this dog fight over in the Middle East -- do you stand with the people that are the most like Americans? They make mistakes. They do.

    We do, too. We suck sometimes as a country. Most times we don't. But we're at least trying to do the right thing. And so is Israel.

    Or do you stand with those who are teaching to hide, blackmail, rewrite history -- people who are trying to destabilize and create fear? I mean, if that's -- if that's where you are, what's the difference between you and a terrorist? I would rather stand with the surviving members of the Fogel family.

    I would rather teach my children the lessons of that brutal murder that were taught by surviving members. I'd much rather teach my children about this family and these lessons, than the lessons of those who hand out cake in celebration of those who killed that family.

    Name the country in the Middle East that has the values generally speaking that we have. I can only name one. Why are we standing with all of those against Israel?

    They tolerated more provocations than probably any other country in history, and despite having enough arsenal of nukes to obliterate their enemies. Believe me, they can take care of themselves. How many have they lobbed? Answer, zero.

    While everyone complains about the evils that Israel has done to the Arabs and then picks apart each tiny imperfection with their democracy -- democracy, by the way, a republic is ugly -- tens of millions of Arabs, tens of millions have suffered atrocities at the hands of their own countries. Gays are still tortured today and killed, bloggers jailed without cause, women humiliated, raped and murdered, dissidents killed, protesters shot, terrorist born, suicide bombers given by their mothers.

    But Israel is the evil one? That's the obstacle to peace?

    Let me ask you this, how many homosexuals have been stoned to death by the Israelis? How many adulterers have been buried up to their neck in sand and stoned to death in Israel? How many bloggers have been jailed without cause? How many terrorists are wearing a yarmulke?

    But now, the world is being led to the water that Israel is the evil one. And it's about to drink. Don't drink that water.

    They have measurably -- I know it's the Middle East -- they have immeasurably more freedom than any other Middle Eastern nation. Women are free to drive. Women and our daughters can walk alone in the street without being stoned or jailed. You can bring a Bible or a Koran into Israel.

    A woman can't walk down the street alone and be safe. And not because she's in a dangerous neighborhood, but because she walked alone without a man? How do you possibly stand with that country? How do you possibly stand with a group of people that say I'm going to kill you if you don't go to my faith?

    A country that treats women or people who are at all different like a dog, treats a woman as a piece of furniture or a sexual toy that can be raped. The courts will allow it.

    How is it that a country like ours actually listens to those evil people saying this is evil? And we believe it. How many Israelis have taken someone off the streets and then beheaded them on videotape just for political reasons?

    Our administration is siding with the wrong side. They are standing against good and encouraging evil in the Middle East. We are reprimanding the nation that is as flawed as we are and protecting the aggressors. We are protecting the killers and the terrorists. We have gone from a nation who was doing the wrong thing by siding with Mubarak to a nation who is doing an even greater evil by arming al-Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood which empowers Iran and also in the end destroys Israel.

    It is not difficult to tell good apart from evil. Let's start with some simple ideas: voting rights. Generally speaking, which is better, voting rights of Iran, Muslim Brotherhood, those who run al Qaeda? How about free speech? Rights of women? Rights of homosexuals? America and Israel or the people we seem to be siding with?

    I stand tonight with Israel.

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Michael Reagan A So-So Presidential Speech

Michael Reagan

Michael Reagan

A So-So Presidential Speech

If President Obama's address to the nation the other night was meant to keep the American people up-to-date on the situation in the Middle East, it missed its mark, leaving us in a state of confusion.

For starters, the president implicitly limited America's proven exceptionalism. We may be exceptional, he admits, but not in his opinion nearly enough to maintain our lead position as protectors of the rights of all people everywhere.

Why not? Why can't we remain the world's number-one champion and protector of all mankind's right to be free? Why can't we challenge leaders in such nations as Syria, Yemen and Bahrain and demand that they recognize the natural rights of their citizens?

Mr. Obama can't seem to make up his mind about our ultimate goal in Libya. He insists that we are not seeking regime change in Libya, just that we want Gadhafi out of there. He appears not to understand that wanting to oust Gadhafi from power in Libya is the same as wanting to effect regime change there.

We might wonder what would happen if -- despite all our efforts in bombing targets in Libya and arming the rebels seeking to oust him -- Gadhafi manages to remain in power. He's proven pretty adept in hanging on to the reins of power in the past, and it is reasonable to ask why we should not expect him to do so now.

And should he do so, what would be U.S. policy in dealing with the leader of this moderately oil-rich nation? Surely we couldn't simply ignore his presence as a leader of a sovereign nation in the heart of the Middle East. Like it nor not, we would have to find some way of co-existing with him just as we co-existed with the Soviet evil empire until it collapsed.

U.S. planes have been bombing Gadhafi's forces. We are giving arms to the rebels seeking to oust him from power, ignoring the fact that many of these rebels are the same people who have been fighting and killing members of our armed forces in Iraq. They are not our friends. They are our sworn enemies. And we're arming them and hoping that they will achieve power in Libya despite their proven hostility to the United States.

Are we nuts?

None of this makes sense. Mr. Obama's presidency thus far has been at the very least confused, especially in connection with his Middle East policy. He does not seem to grasp the realities of our situation vis-à-vis Libya. He seems to lack any long-range understanding of how our muddled policy there will turn out. Most disturbing has been the apparent change in our relationship with Israel, which faces a whole new set of threats since the revolt in Egypt and the change of leadership there.

As I have said previously, Gadhafi must go. But to make that happen in a way that will benefit America, President Obama needs to have a coherent plan, and he must be able to communicate the "big picture" to the American people.

One is forced to wonder if this nation can survive intact for the final two years of his term in office.

In Latin, the word is "oremus" -- it means "Let us pray."

Oremus!

Michael Reagan

Michael Reagan

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"FRIENDSHIP NEVER ENDS" SG-1996
"LET LOVE LEAD THE WAY" SG-2000
"THE PHOENIX SHALL RISE" SD
"EVEN A MAN WHO IS PURE IN HEART AND SAYS HIS PRAYERS BY NIGHT, MAY BECOME A WOLF WHEN THE WOLFBANE BLOOMS AND THE AUTUMN MOON IS BRIGHT." LT-1941
"FLESH OF MY FLESH; BLOOD OF MY BLOOD; KIN OF MY KIN WHEN SAY COME TO YOU, YOU SHALL CROSS LAND OR SEA TO DO MY BIDDING!" CVTD-1895
"FROM HELL'S HEART I STAB AT THEE, FOR HATE SAKE I SPIT MY LAST BREATH AT THEE" CA-1895 
"I HAVE BEEN, AND ALWAYS SHALL BE YOUR FRIEND" Spock 
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Walter E. Williams Department of Injustice

Walter E. Williams

Walter E. Williams

Department of Injustice

One of the requirements to become a Dayton, Ohio police officer is to successfully pass the city's two-part written examination. Applicants must correctly answer 57 of 86 questions on the first part (66 percent) and 73 of 102 (72 percent) on the second part. Dayton's Civil Service Board reported that 490 candidates passed the November 2010 written test, 57 of whom were black. About 231 of the roughly 1,100 test takers were black.

The U.S. Department of Justice, led by Attorney General Eric Holder, rejected the results of Dayton's Civil Service examination because not enough blacks passed. The DOJ has ordered the city to lower the passing score. The lowered passing grade requires candidates to answer 50 of 86 (58 percent) questions correctly on the first part and 64 of 102 (63 percent) of questions on the second. The DOJ-approved scoring policy requires potential police officers to earn the equivalent of an "F" on the first part and a "D" on the second. Based on the DOJ-imposed passing scores, a total of 748 people, 258 more than before, were reported passing the exam. Unreported was just how many of the 258 are black.

Keith Lander, chairman of the Dayton chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and Dayton NAACP president Derrick Forward condemned the DOJ actions.

Mr. Lander said, "Lowering the test score is insulting to black people," adding, "The DOJ is creating the perception that black people are dumb by lowering the score. It's not accomplishing anything."

Mr. Forward agreed and said, "The NAACP does not support individuals failing a test and then having the opportunity to be gainfully employed," adding, "If you lower the score for any group of people, you're not getting the best qualified people for the job."

I am pleased by the positions taken by Messrs. Lander and Forward. It is truly insulting to suggest that black people cannot meet the same standards as white people and somehow justice requires lower standards. Black performance on Dayton's Civil Service exam is really a message about fraudulent high school diplomas that many black students receive.

The National Assessment of Educational Progress, sometimes called the Nation's Report Card, tests students at the fourth and eighth grades in math, reading, science and writing. The 2009 eighth-grade scores in Ohio were: In math, 54 percent of whites and 14 percent of blacks tested proficient; 54 percent of whites were proficient in reading while 13 percent of blacks were; in science, 43 percent of white and 6 percent of blacks tested proficient; and in writing, 38 percent of whites tested proficient compared with 13 percent for blacks. This black/white education gap remains through high school completion, as seen by huge score differences in college entrance exams taken during the senior year.

There are a number of explanations for poor academic performance among black students, and they include students and parents who are indifferent, alien and hostile to the education process. There's often a poor education environment where thugs are permitted to make education all but impossible. There are often poorly performing teachers and administrators. These problems are masked by fraudulent grades followed by fraudulent diplomas. Grades are meant to convey information to students, parents and the outside world about academic performance. If a student is given A's and B's, when academic performance is really at the D and F levels, the student, his parents and employers are misled. Because black graduates see their grades and diplomas equal to that of white graduates, they and others will understandably see differences in treatment by employers or colleges as racial discrimination.

The most tragic consequence of the DOJ actions is that it brings into question legitimate black achievement and possibly sours race relations. Some Dayton white police officers might see their fellow black police officers as affirmative action hires and have less respect and possibly bear a grudge for assumed differences in treatment.

Walter E. Williams

Walter E. Williams

Dr. Williams serves on the faculty of George Mason University as John M. Olin Distinguished Professor of Economics and is the author of More Liberty Means Less Government: Our Founders Knew This Well.

 
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John Stossel Students Who Get It!

John Stossel

John Stossel

Students Who Get It!

I went to Princeton in 1969, where they taught me that government could solve the world's problems. Put the smartest people in a room, give them enough taxpayer money, and they will fix most everything. During those years, I heard nothing about an alternative.

How things have changed!

I recently spent time with several hundred college-aged people at a Students for Liberty conference in Washington, D.C. Here were hundreds of students who actually understand that government creates many of the problems, and freedom -- personal and economic liberty -- makes things better.

I appeared at the conference along with David Boaz of the Cato Institute. Here are some highlights.

Karina Zannat, a student at American University in Washington, D.C., said, "A lot of my professors seem to think that even when politicians spend money in seemingly wasteful ways, we should be OK with it because every dollar spent is one dollar that goes toward income for an American citizen."

This is a common canard known as the "broken window" fallacy. The 19th-century French free-market writer Frederic Bastiat exposed it with the story of a boy who breaks a shop window, prompting some townspeople to look at the bright side: fixing the window will stimulate economic activity in the town. The fallacy, of course, is that had the window not been broken, the shopkeeper would have spent the money in more productive ways.

People often commit this fallacy -- have a look at what's being written in the wake of Japan's tsunami.

Meg Patrick of George Mason University asked about the Austrian business cycle theory. How delightful to meet a student interested in that! This is Ludwig von Mises and F.A. Hayek's argument that when government inflates the money supply and holds down interest rates to create an economic boom, a bust, or recession, must follow because the prosperity is built on an artificial foundation.

Meg wanted to know if "the injection of fiscal stimulus into the economy (after the bust) disrupts the signals necessary to fix the current problem."

To which I replied: Sure does. The market is signaling that certain changes are needed, but stimulus spending interferes with those signals. If businesses are not allowed to fail, we don't get the market feedback we need.

David Boaz added: "If you get drunk, you have a hangover. I'm sure some of you have tried the theory: just keep drinking. But you can't keep drinking forever."

Ian Downie from the University of Virginia had a good question about spending: "Our congressional representatives have huge incentives to steal the wealth from the vast majority of the country and funnel it down to their constituents. What kind of systematic changes can we make to stop this perverse incentive machine?"

"The special interests are always there," Boaz said. "The challenge is to get the public interest -- the taxpayers -- to stick around after the election, to keep putting pressure on. And that is very difficult."

He went on to say we need constitutional limits on what government can do. We tried that, of course, but too many insiders have an incentive to interpret the limits so broadly that they are hardly limits at all. So government grows.

Grant Babcock, from the University of Pittsburgh, raised a good point: "If government grows in response to crises, what do we do? It seems like there is always another crisis on the horizon. It used to be international communism. Nowadays ... it's the threat of Islamist fundamentalism. ... Are we trapped?"

The media do keep inventing new crises. The global-warming crisis, the swine flu crisis, the pesticide crisis.

"The running-out-of-oil crisis," Boaz added.

Crisis is a friend of the state.

As Boaz pointed out, however, "sometimes there are crises that cause countries to go ... toward less government. New Zealand hit a crisis like that, and they actually reformed their economy. So there's at least the hope that the next crisis in the United States or Europe will cause people to say: 'This hasn't been working. We have to cut back.'"

After spending time with those students, I feel better about the future of America.

J

John Stossel

John Stossel

John Stossel is host of "Stossel" on the Fox Business Network. He's the author of "Give Me a Break" and of "Myth, Lies, and Downright Stupidity." To find out more about John Stossel, visit his site at johnstossel.com.

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Michelle Malkin Project Gunrunner: Obama's Stimulus-Funded Border Nightmare

Michelle Malkin

Michelle Malkin

Project Gunrunner: Obama's Stimulus-Funded Border Nightmare

Buried in Barack Obama's failed trillion-dollar stimulus program was a $10 million bloody border racket that has now cost American lives. This goes far beyond the usual waste, fraud and abuse underwritten by progressive profligacy. It's bloodstained government malfeasance overseen by anti-gun ideologues -- and now anti-gun ideologue Attorney General Eric Holder will "investigate."

Welcome to Project Gunrunner. Prepare for another Justice Department whitewash.

First, some background. Like so many border programs run amok, Project Gunrunner was the spawn of Beltway bipartisanship. It was established in 2005 as a pilot project under the Bush administration and run by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. The intended goal of the program's sting operations: stop illicit firearms trafficking along the Southwest border through close surveillance of undercover gun purchases and coordinated intervention with Mexico. The deadly result: federally sanctioned gunwalking of high-powered weapons from U.S. officials right into the hands of drug cartel killers.

By 2008, Project Gunrunner's bureaucratic fiefdom had expanded rapidly along the U.S.-Mexico border and into the nine U.S. consulates in Mexico. The office raked in $2 million more through the little-scrutinized Merida Initiative, which Hispanic vote-pandering Republicans rammed through in a war supplemental bill. Despite warnings from the DOJ inspector general that tracking and assessment measures needed improvement, the payroll exploded from a few dozen to more than 200 by 2009. Under the Obama administration, ATF reaped another $21.9 million to expand Project Gunrunner (nearly half from the stimulus boondoggle), and the White House has requested almost $12 million more in fiscal year 2011 appropriations for the program.

Project Gunrunner's reach and authority continues to grow despite dire, prolonged warnings from insiders and whistleblowers that countless monitored guns have been passed on to violent criminals without being intercepted as planned. Following up on leads first published at www.cleanupatf.org and the blogs of gun rights advocates David Codrea and Mike Vanderboegh, CBS News reported last month that Project Gunrunner "allegedly facilitated the delivery of thousands of guns into criminal hands."

One of those guns was used by Mexican gang thugs who murdered U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry last December. At least six veteran ATF agents and executives stepped forward to expose how ATF presided over the purchase of hundreds of high-powered rifles and pistols -- over the objection of the very private gun shops that the Obama administration's anti-gun zealots have vilified.

One whistleblower familiar with Project Gunrunner's Phoenix offshoot, dubbed "Operation Fast and Furious," told CBS News: "The numbers are over 2,500 on that case by the way. That's how many guns were sold -- including some 50-calibers they let walk." The weapon used in the Mexico slaying of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Special Agent Jaime Zapata has also been linked to Project Gunrunner surveillance operation subjects.

As investigative watchdog Republicans Sen. Charles Grassley and Rep. Darrell Issa step up pressure on the administration to come clean this week about who knew what and when, Obama denied any knowledge of Project Gunrunner on Spanish-language Univision TV. He blithely allowed that "there may be a situation here in which a serious mistake was made. If that's the case, then we'll find out and we'll hold someone accountable."

Coming from a man who appointed crime-coddling, accountability-evading, open-borders corruptocrat Eric Holder to uphold the law, that is a bloody, cruel joke.

Michelle Malkin

Michelle Malkin

Michelle Malkin is the author of "Culture of Corruption: Obama and his Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks & Cronies" (Regnery 2010).

 
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Thomas Sowell Measuring Force

Thomas Sowell

Thomas Sowell

Measuring Force

You don't just walk up to the local bully and slap him across the face. If you are determined to confront him, then you try to knock the living daylights out of him. Otherwise, you are better off to leave him alone.

Anyone who grew up in my old neighborhood in Harlem could have told you that. But Barack Obama didn't grow up in my old neighborhood. He had a much more genteel upbringing, including a fancy private school, in Hawaii.

Maybe that is why he thinks he can launch military operations against Moammar Qaddafi, while promising not to kill him and promising that no American ground troops will be used.

It is the old liberal illusion that you can measure out force with a teaspoon, not only in military operations micro-managed by civilians in Washington, like the Vietnam war, but also in domestic confrontations when the police are trying to control a rioting mob, and are being restrained by politicians, while the mob is restrained by nobody.

We went that route in the 1960s, and the results were not inspiring, either domestically or internationally.

The old saying, "When you strike at a king, you must kill him," is especially apt when it comes to attacking a widely recognized sponsor of international terrorism like Colonel Qaddafi. To attack him without destroying his regime is just asking for increased terrorism against Americans and America's allies. So is replacing him with insurgents who include other sponsors of terrorism.

President Obama's Monday night speech was long on rhetoric and short on logic. He said: "I believe that this movement of change cannot be turned back, and that we must stand alongside those who believe in the same core principles that have guided us."

Just what would lead him to conclude that this includes the largely unknown forces who are trying to seize power in Libya?

Too often in the past, going all the way back to the days of Woodrow Wilson, we have operated on the assumption that a bad government becomes better after the magic of "change." President Wilson said that we were fighting the First World War to make the way "safe for democracy." But what actually followed was the replacement of autocratic monarchies by totalitarian dictatorships that made previous despots pale by comparison.

The most charitable explanation for President Obama's incoherent policy in Libya-- if incoherence can be called a policy -- is that he suffers from the long-standing blind spot of the left when it comes to the use of force.

A less charitable and more likely explanation is that Obama is treating the war in Libya as he treats all sorts of other things, as actions designed above all to serve his own political interests and ideological visions. Whether it does even that depends on what the situation is like in Libya when the 2012 elections roll around.

As for the national interests of the United States of America, Barack Obama has never shown any great concern about that.

President Obama started alienating our staunchest allies, Britain and Israel, from his earliest days in office, while cozying up to our adversaries such as Russia and China, not to mention the Palestinians, who cheered when they saw on television the collapse of the World Trade Center on 9/11.

Many people in various parts of the political spectrum are expressing a sense of disappointment with Obama. But I have not felt the least bit disappointed.

Once in office, President Obama has done exactly what his whole history would lead you to expect him to do-- such as cutting the military budget and vastly expanding the welfare state.

He has by-passed the Constitution by appointing power-wielding "czars" who don't have to be confirmed by the Senate like Cabinet members, and now he has by-passed Congress by taking military actions based on authorization by the United Nations and the Arab League.

Those who expected his election to mark a new "post-racial" era may be the most disappointed. He has appointed people with a track record of race resentment promotion and bias, like Attorney General Eric Holder and Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor.

Disappointing? No. Disgusting? Yes. The only disappointment is with voters who voted their hopes and ignored his realities.

Thomas Sowell

Thomas Sowell

Thomas Sowell is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institute and author of The Housing Boom and Bust.

 
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