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		<title>The Suicidal Hashtags of the West</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2014 05:41:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ben Shapiro]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the age of Twitter bloodguilt, no evidence is necessary. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/twitter_2094423b.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-247682" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/twitter_2094423b-450x281.jpg" alt="twitter_2094423b" width="370" height="231" /></a>On Monday, Australian police stormed the Lindt Chocolate Cafe in Sydney, where an Islamist terrorist named Man Haron Monis had taken dozens of hostages and held them for 17 hours. Three people were killed, including Monis, and several others were wounded. Monis, an Iranian immigrant, had a long criminal record, including 40 charges for indecent and sexual assault, as well as an outstanding charge for accessory to murder in the killing of his ex-wife. Before his death, Monis requested an ISIS flag, and forced hostages to hold up the so-called Shahada flag, which proclaims in Arabic, &#8220;There Is No God But Allah, and Muhammad Is His Messenger.&#8221;</p>
<p>In response to this Islamist terror attack on a civilian hub in the center of their city, Australians all over the country took action: They tweeted with the hashtag #illridewithyou. This hashtag came from the mind of one Rachel Jacobs, who witnessed a Muslim woman removing her hijab on the local train after the news of the hostage situation broke. Jacobs tweeted, &#8220;I ran after her at the train station. I said &#8216;put it back on. I&#8217;ll walk with u&#8217;. She started to cry and hugged me for about a minute — then walked off alone.&#8221; Soon, the hashtag had been launched, and quickly trended globally.</p>
<p>Australia&#8217;s race discrimination commissioner, Tim Soutphommasane, added, &#8220;Let&#8217;s not allow fear, hatred and division to triumph.&#8221;</p>
<p>Yes, Australia has a race commissioner, but nobody who thinks it&#8217;s a bad idea to let Islamist fanatics immigrate, or to keep those same Islamist fanatics in jail after they&#8217;re charged in the stabbing of their ex-wives.</p>
<p>Priorities!</p>
<p>Never mind that nobody had said a word to the woman in the hijab — pre-emptive anti-Islamophobia was the first response to an Islamist taking Western hostages in a Western capital.</p>
<p>Across the globe, in the United States, two dueling hashtags debated the relative guilt of American law enforcement. After New York City man Eric Garner resisted arrest, and then died thanks to his pre-existing health conditions after being taken down by police, the hashtag #ICantBreathe went viral.</p>
<p>That hashtag fought for prominence with one dedicated to Michael Brown, the 18-year-old black man who was shot to death after attempting to take a gun from a police officer and charging the police officer: #HandsUpDontShoot. Never mind that the first hashtag was taken wildly out of context — Garner was not choked to death — and that the second was completely fictitious — autopsy showed Brown did not have his hands up when he was shot.</p>
<p>These hashtags aren&#8217;t just the work of lazy activists with nothing better to do. They&#8217;re signifiers of a suicidal west that believes it bears bloodguilt. No real allegations of Islamophobia or racism are necessary — those can be assumed. We immediately go into preliminary disassociation mode, attempting to demonstrate to our friends and neighbors that while our civilization may be Islamophobic and racist, we are not. After all, we even tweeted using the day&#8217;s popular hashtag!</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s the problem: Islamists don&#8217;t care about hashtags when they can take hostages and earn the sympathetic hashtags of others. Those who resist law enforcement or attack police officers outright are happy to do so when they become causes celebre, no matter what they do wrong.</p>
<p>The West has its evils. There are instances of racism and Islamophobia. Nobody with a brain would deny that. But to slander the West with a sort of communal guilt for an Original Sin, even as the West is under fire from those who would seek to destroy its civilizational foundations, is nothing less than barbaric.</p>
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		<title>To the Left, Lying About Rape Is Just Dandy</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2014 05:16:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ben Shapiro]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How Lena Dunham and the Rolling Stone do harm to actual rape victims. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/720x405-AP811265161227.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-247112" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/720x405-AP811265161227-389x350.jpg" alt="UVa Fraternity" width="319" height="287" /></a>This week, Rolling Stone printed an editor&#8217;s note retracting one of the most highly praised pieces of investigative journalism in its history. That piece, written by Sabrina Rubin Erdely, alleged that several members of the University of Virginia fraternity Phi Kappa Psi, had raped a 19-year-old student named Jackie, including with foreign objects, as she lay on a floor covered with broken glass. The article resulted in the university suspending the fraternity&#8217;s activities, and national outrage over the so-called &#8220;rape culture&#8221; on campus.</p>
<p>That rape culture supposedly leads to one in five women being sexually assaulted on campus — a faulty statistic from a poll that didn&#8217;t even ask women if they were raped or sexually assaulted, and instead defined sex while inebriated at any level as rape. With regard to reported rape, the federal government reports a rate of just 1.3 per 1,000 Americans. That is, of course, far too high. But it is not a rape culture by any plausible definition.</p>
<p>Nonetheless, the narrative of women as victims of brutish male society must be forwarded at all costs, for political purposes. If Americans are brutish sexists waiting to rape unsuspecting women, bigger government becomes a necessity. That&#8217;s why President Obama has cited that one-in-five statistic, and suggested that America experiences &#8220;quiet tolerance of sexual assault.&#8221;</p>
<p>In order to forward that narrative, all rape stories are treated as fact sans investigation of any kind. And so Jackie&#8217;s story of gang rape received plaudits across the media landscape.</p>
<p>Then it fell apart.</p>
<p>The Washington Post quickly debunked the story. According to the Post, the fraternity says there was no event the night Jackie was allegedly raped, Jackie&#8217;s friends &#8220;have not been able to verify key points in recent days,&#8221; and one of the men named in Jackie&#8217;s report stated that &#8220;he never met Jackie in person and never took her out on a date.&#8221;</p>
<p>As the Rolling Stone report collapsed, members of the left jumped to defend Jackie.</p>
<p>Sally Kohn of CNN.com tweeted that people should stop questioning Jackie&#8217;s story: &#8220;While aspects of UVA rape story now in question, still unsettles me that pouncing by skeptics mirrored sort of doubt rape victims often face.&#8221; Feminist Melissa McEwan wrote, &#8220;If Jackie&#8217;s story is partially or wholly untrue, it doesn&#8217;t validate the reasons for disbelieving her.&#8221;</p>
<p>Under this logic, Atticus Finch was the villain in &#8220;To Kill a Mockingbird.&#8221; After all, how dare he question the rape allegations of a victimized woman and defend Tom Robinson?</p>
<p>But for the left, it&#8217;s narrative first, facts second.</p>
<p>The same holds true regarding allegations made by HBO star Lena Dunham, who wrote of her own alleged rape at the hands of an Oberlin &#8220;college Republican&#8221; named Barry. When it turned out that Barry, a readily identifiable person from Dunham&#8217;s days at Oberlin, did not rape her, the media largely went silent; Dunham still has not spoken on the issue.</p>
<p>Narrative first. Facts second.</p>
<p>Here is the reality: All decent human beings believe that rape is evil. They also believe that false allegations of rape are wrong. These two positions are not mutually exclusive. They complement one another. False rape allegations do actual rape victims a tremendous disservice: to lump in false accusations of rape with true accusations of rape makes people more skeptical of rape victims generally, a horrible result. Rape should be taken seriously; rape accusations should be taken seriously. That means taking factual questions seriously, not merely throwing the word &#8220;rape&#8221; around casually, without evidence, and without regard for truth.</p>
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		<title>The Real Racist Conspiracy In Ferguson</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2014 05:56:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The disturbing level of community deceit that led to the false story of Michael Brown's death. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/ferguson-protesters.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-246562" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/ferguson-protesters-450x337.jpg" alt="ferguson-protesters" width="375" height="281" /></a>After a grand jury in St. Louis, Missouri, voted against the indictment of Officer Darren Wilson in the killing of 18-year-old black man Michael Brown, President Obama gave a short address to the nation. In it, he said he understood why some would feel disappointed at the verdict — an odd statement, given that all available evidence showed that Brown had robbed a convenience store, attacked Wilson in his vehicle, attempted to grab his gun and charged Wilson before Wilson shot him.</p>
<p>Then Obama dropped a doozy: &#8220;We need to recognize that this is not just an issue in Ferguson, this is an issue for America &#8230; there are problems and communities of color aren&#8217;t just making these problems up.&#8221;</p>
<p>Obama did not specify what problems he wanted to discuss. Nor did he explain why Ferguson&#8217;s issues were America&#8217;s. But the largest lie was the notion that &#8220;communities of color&#8221; don&#8217;t make problems up.</p>
<p>Because in Ferguson, that&#8217;s precisely what a community of color did.</p>
<p>In the immediate aftermath of the Brown shooting, grand jury documents show, witness intimidation and lying became the order of the day. Witness after witness told police that local thugs were intimidating those who had seen the events. One witness told police, according to the St. Louis Police Investigative Report, that threats &#8220;had been made to the residents of Canfield Green Apartment Complex.&#8221; This witness said that &#8220;notes had been posted on various apartment buildings threatening people not to talk to the police, and gunshots were still being fired every night.&#8221;</p>
<p>The witness wasn&#8217;t alone. Other witnesses stated that supposed witnesses were lying to the media about events, that others who had seen the events were &#8220;embellishing their stories&#8221; in order to convict Wilson.</p>
<p>One witness stated, &#8220;You have to understand the mentality of some of these young guys they have nothing to do. When they can latch on the something they embellish it because they want something to do.&#8221;</p>
<p>Some 16 witnesses testified that Brown&#8217;s hands were up when he was shot, which was factually false according to the autopsy. Another 12 witnesses said that Wilson shot Brown from behind — again, false according to the autopsy. One witness testified that Wilson used both a Taser and a gun — false. Another said that Brown had kneeled before Wilson shot him. When confronted with the fact that the physical evidence made such an account impossible, the witness acknowledged he hadn&#8217;t seen the event, and then asked if he could leave the grand jury because he was &#8220;uncomfortable.&#8221;</p>
<p>In 1964, Kitty Genovese was stabbed to death outside her apartment complex in New York. The entire nation gasped in horror when it learned that supposed witnesses had not called the police.</p>
<p>Fifty years later, the nation completely ignores the fact that an entire community apparently lied, facilitated lying or intimidated witnesses in order to put an innocent man behind bars, because he happened to be white. At least Kitty Genovese&#8217;s neighbors didn&#8217;t actually murder her. Members of the Ferguson community tried to murder Darren Wilson by putting him on death row. Meanwhile, President Obama and those in the media who played up the original narrative cheered them on.</p>
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		<title>The Ferguson Days of Rage</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2014 05:50:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why violence will be the outcome in the St. Louis suburb whether Wilson is indicted or not.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/ferguson-mike-brown.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-245585" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/ferguson-mike-brown-450x300.jpg" alt="ferguson-mike-brown" width="333" height="222" /></a>This week, America held its collective breath as it waited on the grand jury indictment verdict for Officer Darren Wilson. Wilson, you&#8217;ll recall, had the misfortune to run into 6&#8217;5&#8243;, 289-lb. Michael Brown, an 18-year-old black man who had just finished strong-arm robbing a convenience store. Wilson pulled Brown over as he and his accomplice walked in the middle of the street; all available evidence shows that Brown then pushed himself through the driver&#8217;s side window, punched Wilson, went for his gun, was shot in the hand, ran, turned around, charged Wilson, and was shot to death.</p>
<p>But that doesn&#8217;t matter. And it has never mattered. Because facts do not matter to those attempting to rectify what they perceive as an unjust universe. For those utopian visionaries &#8211; and, yes, violent thugs who rob stores are minions of the utopian visionaries — individuals do not exist. Individuals are merely stand-ins for groups. Wilson was a white cop; therefore, he was the Racist White Establishment. Brown was a black teenager; therefore, he was the Innocent Black Victim. The parts have already been written; Wilson was merely unlucky enough to land the starring role.</p>
<p>And so we expect riots no matter what the outcome of the indictment. Should Wilson escape indictment due to complete lack of evidence, the utopians and their rioting henchmen will attribute that acquittal to the Racist White Establishment. Should he be indicted, the utopians and their rioting henchmen will cite Wilson as merely the latest example of the Racist White Establishment. No matter the antecedent, the consequence has been determined in advance: rage, riots, recriminations.</p>
<p>If all of this sounds familiar, that&#8217;s because it is.</p>
<p>Alongside the anti-Racist White Establishment protesters taking to the streets in Ferguson in recent weeks, anti-Israel and pro-ISIS protesters have appeared. All utopian visionaries fighting the status quo — self-perceived victims — love their Days of Rage. And these Ragers don&#8217;t require evidence to incite their emotions. Evidence regarding individuals is for the reasonable; false stories of victims and villains are the fodder for Ragers.</p>
<p>Whether we&#8217;re watching thousands of Muslims across the world protest and riot over cartoons of Mohammed, or whether we&#8217;re watching hundreds of people in Ferguson riot over a media-manufactured story about a racial killing, Days of Rage provide the outlet for delusional anger. Radical Muslims need an external enemy to justify their own brutality; protesters in Ferguson need an external enemy to justify their own failure to make good in the freest country in the history of humanity.</p>
<p>Every society has its Ragers. The West&#8217;s suicidal impulse to humor those Ragers, however, spells the end of the West. When facts become secondary to emotion, truth dies. And a society that doesn&#8217;t value truth cannot survive. Calling out the National Guard in Ferguson while lending a sympathetic ear to the Ragers does little good, long-term. It merely staves off the inevitable surrender of the reasonable to the Ragers.</p>
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		<title>Lessons for the GOP for 2016</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2014 05:45:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An electoral ray of sunshine that could easily fade into a failed opportunity. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/capitolhill.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-244706" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/capitolhill-450x300.jpg" alt="As Deadline On Debt Reduction Impasse Looms, Super Committee Meets Over Weekend" width="309" height="206" /></a>On Tuesday, Republicans won a historic electoral victory, sweeping away a Democratic Senate, replacing Democratic governors in blue states like Massachusetts, Maryland and Illinois, and reversing Democratic state legislatures in Nevada, Colorado, Minnesota, New Mexico, Maine, West Virginia and New Hampshire. Republicans now control more state legislatures than they have at any point since the 1920s, and a bigger House majority than they have since 1928.</p>
<p>The celebratory mood for Republicans pervaded the country — a feeling of hope, lost since President Obama revealed himself to be just as radical as the right suspected, has returned. That hope isn&#8217;t vain — when a landslide of such proportion takes place, there is something to it. The question is whether Republicans can capitalize on their newfound opportunity and finally make a strong move toward winning the White House.</p>
<p>Therein lies the problem. Midterm elections have historically been poor predictors of presidential elections. That&#8217;s because the crowd that turns out for midterms does not mirror the crowd that turns out for presidential elections — those who turn out for midterms are more highly motivated and generally better informed. In 2010, for example, approximately 84 million Americans voted for in local Congressional race. In 2012, 108 million Americans voted in the same races. Republicans won about 45 million votes in the Congressional races in 2010, with Democrats coming in far behind at 39 million. In 2012, each party earned about 54 million votes. Of the additional 24 million voters who showed up to vote in Congressional races in 2012, 62.5 percent went for Democrats.</p>
<p>That means that Republicans must not sit on their laurels.</p>
<p>For many in the commentariat, that means that Republicans must push forward a compromising, bipartisan agenda.</p>
<p>That seems to be the general opinion of those on the political left, who despise Republicans and who, as the evening of Nov. 4 progressed, strongly resembled Arnold Toht at the end of &#8220;Raiders of the Lost Ark,&#8221; their faces falling with each result.</p>
<p>The truth is precisely the reverse. Republicans cannot be seen as the Party of No, as the GOP&#8217;s enemies would have it — but they do have an obligation to turn President Obama into the President of No. That means pushing easily comprehended, single-issue bills, short and clear and popular. If President Obama wants to veto those bills, that becomes his problem. But Republicans should not stop passing legislation between 2014 and 2016.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, Republicans must work to exploit holes in the Democratic base. In 2012, President Obama appealed heavily to minority groups for strong turnout; Hillary Clinton does not have the same minority appeal. That means she will focus strongly on winning single women, and driving them to the polls in large numbers. Republicans should therefore push national security issues, family freedom issues — and they have just the right faces to do that in Senator Joni Ernst, R-Iowa and Mia Love, R-Utah, among others.</p>
<p>Conservatives can see a ray of sunshine at last. Now they must work to ensure that the ray of sunshine doesn&#8217;t turn into another faded opportunity.</p>
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		<title>Turn Down for What?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2014 04:49:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why the freedom from consequences promised by the Left isn't everything it's cracked up to be. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/971827692.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-244017" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/971827692.jpg" alt="971827692" width="355" height="267" /></a>On the way to the airport the other day, my Uber driver, an elderly Russian chap, turned on a Top 40 radio station. Not being one to complain, I actually sat and listened to the lyrics. The song blasting through the speakers of the late-model Honda Civic was titled &#8220;Habits.&#8221; The singer, a young, presumably wealthy Swede named Tove Lo (actual name: Tove Nilsson), warbles about her need to visit sex clubs, do drugs, &#8220;binge on all my Twinkies, throw up in the tub.&#8221; She laments that she &#8220;drank up all my money.&#8221;</p>
<p>Why? Well, she explains, &#8220;You&#8217;re gone and I gotta stay high all the time.&#8221;</p>
<p>The next song featured a rapper named Lil Jon screaming loudly at the listener that it is &#8220;Fire up that loud, another round of shots. &#8230; TURN DOWN FOR WHAT!&#8221; Translation: We&#8217;re drunk and crazed, and we won&#8217;t stop being drunk and crazed. The music video, as described by creator Daniel Kwan explores, &#8220;this other universe where dudes are so pumped up on their own d***s — and they&#8217;re so into their testosterone — that the way that the show that is by breaking s*** with their d***s.&#8221; The video, which shows a young man crashing through ceilings and into furniture as his erect penis swivels wildly in his pants, currently has nearly 130 million views on YouTube.</p>
<p>No wonder Tove Lo needs to stay high all the time.</p>
<p>The end of Western civilization, it turns out, comes with both a bang and a whimper. The bang: endless sex, animalistic, primal, without strings. As Adam Levine whines, &#8220;Baby, I&#8217;m preying on you tonight, hunt you down, eat you alive, just like animals, animals, like animals.&#8221; In 1971, according to the National Survey of Young Women, 30.4 percent of young women aged 15-19 living in metropolitan areas reported having premarital sex. By 1979, that number was 49.8 percent. Today, 62 percent of young women overall have had premarital sex according to the Centers for Disease Control.</p>
<p>In 1950, men&#8217;s median age of first marriage stood at 22.8; today, it stands at 28.2. More people having sex younger, and without commitment is not a recipe for societal happiness.</p>
<p>Thus the whimper. In a culture in which emotional connections are degraded to the level of bovine rutting, is it any wonder that 9.2 percent of Americans — some 23.9 million people — have used an illicit drug in the past month, and that nearly a quarter of those aged 18-20 have done so? Or that nearly a third of men over the age of 12 and 16 percent of women have participated in binge drinking in the last month?</p>
<p>From what are these people running? Drugs and alcohol are an escape — but we are the most prosperous society on the planet. We are wealthier and healthier than any nation in history. So why the angst?</p>
<p>That question sticks in the craw of the materialists of the secular left, who insist that endless supplies of Soma and government-sponsored sex, complete with Malthusian belt — to borrow terms from Huxley — should bring happiness. Obviously, it doesn&#8217;t. America&#8217;s suicide rate recently hit a 25-year high. Suicide has surged among the middle-aged, those aged 35-64, jumping 30 percent from 1999 to 2010.</p>
<p>Turn down for what? For survival. Or we could just keep going to sex clubs, throwing up in the bathtub and drinking up all our money. After all, isn&#8217;t that what freedom from consequences — our God-given pursuit of happiness, according to the left — is all about?</p>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2014 04:47:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The folly of sidelining the conservative base. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/aaavote-here.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-243546" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/aaavote-here-450x337.jpg" alt="Americans Go To The Polls To Elect The Next U.S. President" width="331" height="248" /></a>A new poll this week shows 2012 presidential nominee and 2008 primary candidate Mitt Romney leading the field of potential 2016 Republican candidates. According to ABC News/Washington Post, 21 percent of Republican voters would vote for Romney in the primaries; Jeb Bush and Mike Huckabee tie at 10 percent, followed by Rand Paul, Chris Christie and Paul Ryan. Altogether, some 44 percent of Republican primary voters want an &#8220;establishment&#8221; candidate — by which we mean a candidate for whom social issues are secondary, immigration reform is primary and economics dominates.</p>
<p>The establishment donors on the coasts see this poll and believe that a consolidated funding effort mobilized behind the Chosen One (Romney, Bush, Christie or Ryan) could avoid a messy primary and keep the powder dry for a 2016 showdown with Hillary.</p>
<p>The conservative base knows this, and they groan.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s because the conservative base understands that what motivates them is not the marginal tax rate — nobody in the country knows, offhand, his or her effective tax rate — but values. And none of the top priorities for Republican donors match the fire-in-the-belly issues that motivate the folks who knock on doors, phone bank and provide the under-$50 donations that could power a Republican to victory.</p>
<p>The divide between the establishment and the base represents a divide between the wallet and the working man, the penthouse and the pews, the Ivy Leagues and the homeschools. Which is why Republican leadership quietly assures its top donors that should Republicans win the Senate, their first legislative push will encompass corporate tax reform and immigration reform.</p>
<p>They will not push primarily for border security, or for protection of religious freedom, or for repeal of Common Core. They will not use their opportunity to govern as an opportunity to draw contrast between conservatism and leftism. Instead, they will seek &#8220;common ground&#8221; in a vain attempt to show the American people that efficiency deserves re-election.</p>
<p>And the American people will go to sleep, conservatives will vomit in their mouths, and leftists will demonize Republicans all the same.</p>
<p>Conservatives understand that politics simply reflect underlying values. That&#8217;s why they are passionate. They don&#8217;t vote their pocketbooks. They vote their guts, and their guts tell them that leftism is immoral on the most basic level.</p>
<p>Republicans, on the other hand, believe that politics are just business by other means. That means that Republicans think Americans, left and right, share the same underlying values. That&#8217;s a lie, and it&#8217;s a self-defeating lie at that.</p>
<p>Until Republicans begin to appreciate the moral conflict between right and left, they will dishearten the right and provide easy targets for the left. The nominee won&#8217;t matter; elections won&#8217;t matter. And the alienation of the American conservative will deepen and broaden, until, one day, it bursts forth with a renewed fire that consumes the Republican Party whole.</p>
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		<title>A Bowla Ebola Idiocy</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2014 04:54:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why NBC's Nancy Snyderman violated her quarantine to quell a soup craving. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/1413172032725_wps_25_NBC_s_chief_medial_corres.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-243117" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/1413172032725_wps_25_NBC_s_chief_medial_corres-348x350.jpg" alt="1413172032725_wps_25_NBC_s_chief_medial_corres" width="247" height="248" /></a>On Monday, The Daily Mail reported that NBC&#8217;s chief medical correspondent, Nancy Snyderman, had a hankering for a bowl of soup from Peasant Grill in Hopewell Boro, New Jersey. So she hopped in her car with one of her crewmembers and headed over to the Grill. When she got to the restaurant, she had her crewmember run inside, grab the soup, and run back out.</p>
<p>There was only one problem: Both Snyderman and her crewmember were under mandatory quarantine for 21 days. That quarantine was a result of their journey to Liberia to cover the Ebola outbreak, a journey during which cameraman Ashoka Mukpo contracted the disease. The authorities made the quarantine mandatory after another of the crewmembers violated a voluntary quarantine last week.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s one thing for Liberian citizen Thomas Eric Duncan to carry around an Ebola-ridden woman, get on an airplane to Dallas, walk into a hospital with symptoms, and then walk out again. Such behavior can be attributed, at least in part, to ignorance. It&#8217;s another thing entirely for a highly educated medical professional to endanger those around her for some miso.</p>
<p>But that&#8217;s the world of the media, where the proper response to the possibility of contracting Ebola is, &#8220;Don&#8217;t you know who I am?&#8221; Double standards abound here; media members lather Americans into a frenzy over the threat of a disease that has, to date, claimed a grand total of one life in the United States. Then they go out for lunch in public after being told that they could be carrying the virus.</p>
<p>The Snyderman story is truly part of a broader egocentrism in the media. The media didn&#8217;t give one whit about the Internal Revenue Service targeting conservative non-profit applicants — but they went absolutely batty over the Department of Justice targeting reporters.</p>
<p>The media don&#8217;t seem to care very much about demands for transparency from the Obama administration by the American public — but they&#8217;re fighting mad about the Obama administration&#8217;s refusal to let them photograph him golfing. After all, it&#8217;s one thing for normal Americans to get stiffed, and quite another for our betters to feel the effects of government&#8217;s heavy hand.</p>
<p>The gap between the media elite and the general population has a deleterious impact on America&#8217;s political future. Media members seem to have no problem with incompetent government overreach so long as they prosper, which is why so few media members worry over Democratic proposals to limit First Amendment press freedoms to government-designated &#8220;journalists.&#8221;</p>
<p>The American people suffer thanks to this elitism. The days of the adversarial media are ending — most investigative journalism now falls to the blogosphere or the foreign press. The corrupt relationship between media and government means that Americans don&#8217;t find out about overreach and incompetence until far too late for them to do anything about it.</p>
<p>And so the gap grows. No wonder Snyderman went for soup while under quarantine. After all, it&#8217;s not like all those other customers work for NBC, or anything.</p>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2014 04:33:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[America's crisis of masculinity and its dangerous consequences. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/mans-fist.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-242612" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/mans-fist.jpg" alt="mans-fist" width="291" height="241" /></a>On Friday night, a Huntington Beach man, 43, was walking back to his car after the Los Angeles Angels played the Kansas City Royals in the American League Division Series. Three men accosted him, and then proceeded to beat him senseless. He is currently in critical condition at a local hospital after police found him unconscious.</p>
<p>I didn&#8217;t find the story particularly shocking, given that I took my father and two younger sisters to the Angels-Royals game on Thursday night. Throngs packed the stadium — the team announced the attendance at 43,321. We had bleacher seats, which sold for $68. The team must have also sold standing room tickets, since behind the bleachers — lines of fans stood three deep, watching the game.</p>
<p>When my family and I arrived at the game, the ushers had not cleared paths through the standing-room crowd for those who wanted to get to their seats. We gently edged our way toward the seats.</p>
<p>Which is when I heard a guy scream into my ear: &#8220;Why the f—- are you bumping me?&#8221;</p>
<p>I turned to face a young Hispanic man, wearing a long-sleeved flannel shirt (it was reportedly 93 degrees outside at the time), baggy jeans, an Angels cap cocked off at a bizarre angle, the brim unbent. He wore a close-cropped three-day stubble. He was approximately my height, but probably 20lbs. heavier than I. Two of his friends flanked him.</p>
<p>Though I hadn&#8217;t bumped, I quickly apologized — after all, what point is there in a confrontation at a sporting event?</p>
<p>My apology, however, was not accepted. &#8220;I said, why the f—- did you bump me?&#8221;</p>
<p>Again I apologized. When it became clear that this fellow had downed at least a few beers and had his mind set on some sort of violence, my sister grabbed my arm and we walked away. He glared at me the rest of the game. My sisters focused on reassuring me that getting into a physical fight with the dolt would have served no useful purpose, and could have ended in a 3-on-1 beating.</p>
<p>Which didn&#8217;t make me feel much better.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, this fellow wasn&#8217;t the only beer-soaked Neanderthal in the bleachers. When a Royals fan, who happened to be black, showed up with his girlfriend, two boozy white Angels fans screamed — with children in close proximity — &#8220;Go back to f—-ing Kansas City!&#8221;</p>
<p>It&#8217;s unlikely any of these charming folks were involved in the beating of the Huntington Beach man after Game 2 of the ALDS. But we now live in a society where young male barbarians are growing in number, their masculinity tied into useless aggression. More and more, young men seem to channel their aggressive instinct not into building, but into destroying — not into defending the innocent, particularly women and children, but into confrontations for no apparent reason other than demonstrating dominance.</p>
<p>Why?</p>
<p>As a society, we have robbed men of their protective missions. Men who seek to protect women and children are called anti-feminist, gender normative. Men have abandoned their responsibilities to the state. As for building things — well, there too, men have been told that to build is to act selfishly, without concern for the community. And young men have no male role models, since many of their fathers have abandoned them or abandoned true maleness in pursuit of vainglorious brutality. All of which leads to an increase in destruction by men without purpose, hemmed in only by the power of the state and the benefits of self-interest.</p>
<p>None of this is an excuse for barbarianism, of course. But it does help explain why masculinity used to center around acting like a gentleman, while now it centers around acting like a boor. The more we foster the barbarian mentality, the more barbaric society becomes.</p>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2014 04:51:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Obama's foreign policy of empty threats and pathetic wheedling. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Screen-Shot-2014-10-01-at-1.29.25-AM.png"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-242105" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Screen-Shot-2014-10-01-at-1.29.25-AM-383x350.png" alt="Screen Shot 2014-10-01 at 1.29.25 AM" width="326" height="298" /></a>Last week, President Obama spoke to the United Nations about the growing threat of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. In the course of that speech, he discussed a wide variety of threats to Western civilization, ranging from Ebola to global warming, from chaos in Syria to China&#8217;s incursions in the South China Sea. The speech seemed unfocused, meandering. But it held together thanks to one common thread: Barack Obama believes that words solve everything. Particularly his own.</p>
<p>Obama&#8217;s narcissism isn&#8217;t mere arrogance. It&#8217;s messianism. It&#8217;s pure faith that his verbiage can alter the course of history. &#8220;We are here,&#8221; Obama said, &#8220;because others realized that we gain more from cooperation than conquest.&#8221; Well, actually, no — the United Nations exists because evil nations were forced through conquest to admit that cooperation might be a more advantageous strategy.</p>
<p>&#8220;While small gains can be won at the barrel of a gun,&#8221; Obama said, &#8220;they will ultimately be turned back if enough voices support the freedom of nations and peoples to make their own decisions.&#8221; Not exactly — millions of voices in North Korea have not altered the fate of those stuck in the world&#8217;s largest gulag, nor have millions of voices in Iran freed them of the tyranny of the mullahs.</p>
<p>&#8220;The ideology of ISIL or al Qaeda or Boko Haram will wilt and die if it is consistently exposed, confronted, and refuted in the light of day,&#8221; Obama spouted. If good argument killed bad argument, Islamism wouldn&#8217;t be on the march, but on the ash heap of history. Global politics, it turns out, is not a Harvard Law mock trial.</p>
<p>&#8220;We believe that right makes might,&#8221; Obama summed up, &#8220;that bigger nations should not be able to bully smaller ones, that people should be able to choose their own future.&#8221; Hogwash would be too kind a word to describe this sort of highfaluting idiocy — if right made might, millions of Jews would still populate Europe.</p>
<p>In reality, right dictates that right arm itself — right must become might in order to emerge victorious. Americans know that.</p>
<p>Because Americans know that, Obama must occasionally bow to reality. And so, in the same speech in which Obama called for Russian, Chinese and Syrian conflicts to be resolved through diplomacy, he uttered the most un-Obamaesque comment of his entire presidency with regard to ISIS: &#8220;The only language understood by killers like this is the language of force.&#8221;</p>
<p>This is eminently true. It is also so far out of Obama&#8217;s wheelhouse that he almost strained an oblique in making that statement. And, in fact, when polling doesn&#8217;t apply to him, Obama is happy to pressure other nations not to use the language of force — in the same speech, Obama pressured Israel to negotiate with its enemies, even though its enemies are of the exact same ilk as ISIS. If Obama does not bear a striking animus for the Jewish state, the best that can be said is that he wants Israel to be on the cutting edge of Western civilization&#8217;s rhetoric-first throat-cutting. After all, Obama tells Israel, too many Israelis are &#8220;ready to abandon the hard work of peace.&#8221;</p>
<p>Yes, the hard work of peace. With people who want to slit their throats.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s the real Obama, not the puffed-chest commander-in-chief threatening to bomb virtually everyone in virtually every country in the Middle East.</p>
<p>And that&#8217;s the problem. Lack of foreign policy comes from lack of belief in the principled use of force. And so Obama, the messianic narcissist, vacillates between two extremes: empty threats and pathetic wheedling. Neither works.</p>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s 15 Worst Moments At The UN</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2014 04:57:41 +0000</pubDate>
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<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/obama-un-speech.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-241845" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/obama-un-speech-450x253.jpg" alt="obama-un-speech" width="342" height="192" /></a>Speaking at the United Nations on Wednesday, President Obama performed the signal feat of cramming his head so far up his own ass that his head actually emerged from his mouth again, thereby creating the first human Escher loop. His speech at the United Nations was chock-full of moronic platitudes, internal contradictions, and morally disgusting sentiments.</p>
<p>Here are the top fifteen:</p>
<p><strong>“Together, we have learned how to cure disease, and harness the power of the wind and sun.”</strong> Which is, of course, why disease remains rampant in Africa – so much so that Obama is sending 3,000 troops there to combat Ebola virus – and why America garners a whopping 4.13 percent of her electricity from wind and 0.23 percent from the sun. But the Godking hath reined global forces to his chariot, and shall ride the moonbeams!</p>
<p><strong>“We are here because others realized that we gain more from cooperation than conquest.”</strong> Well, no. We are here because civilized nations banded together to defeat Nazis and then communism, not because of some global revelation about the power of cooperation. This is a third grade rendition of history.</p>
<p><strong>“</strong><strong>We believe that <span style="text-decoration: underline;">right</span> makes might – that bigger nations should not be able to bully smaller ones; that people should be able to choose their own future.”</strong> If Obama believes this, he has the mental capacity of a chipmunk. Obviously, right does not make might. If it did, millions of Jews would still be living in Germany and Poland, the Soviet Empire never would have risen, and the Yazidis would be decimating ISIS. We actually believe that it is the duty of right to grow its defense capacity and then fight for its principles – both notions foreign to President Obama.</p>
<p><strong>“</strong><strong>While small gains can be won at the barrel of a gun, they will ultimately be turned back if enough voices support the freedom of nations and peoples to make their own decisions.”</strong> Again, no. Millions of voices have cried out for freedom in North Korea and China for decades, to no avail. It isn’t about raising voices. It’s about strategically outflanking evil nations and crippling their capacity to continue functioning.</p>
<p><strong>“My message to Iran’s leaders and people is simple: do not let this opportunity pass. We can reach a solution that meets your energy needs while assuring the world that your program is peaceful.“</strong> Iran’s mullahs are still laughing at this one.</p>
<p><strong>“America is and will continue to be a Pacific power, promoting peace, stability, and the free flow of commerce among nations. But we will insist that all nations abide by the rules of the road, and resolve their territorial disputes peacefully, consistent with international law.”</strong> The Chinese politburo is still laughing at this one.</p>
<p><strong>“On issue after issue, we cannot rely on a rule-book written for a different century.”</strong> Who wrote this rulebook? And why, if Obama is presenting a new rulebook, do his rules so closely conform to those of his leftist predecessors?</p>
<p><strong>“Islam teaches peace. Muslims the world over aspire to live with dignity and a sense of justice. And when it comes to America and Islam, there is no us and them – there is only <span style="text-decoration: underline;">us</span>, because millions of Muslim Americans are part of the fabric of our country.”</strong> Well, actually, there is a “them” – as in the <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2014/09/04/myth-tiny-radical-minority">huge portion</a> of Muslims who support the goals and aims of al Qaeda and ISIS.</p>
<p><strong>“The ideology of ISIL or al Qaeda or Boko Haram will wilt and die if it is consistently exposed, confronted, and refuted in the light of day.”</strong> Then why are we bombing them? Why not send pamphlets? (Note: to support this notion, Obama actually cited a sheikh who has endorsed murder of US soldiers in the Middle East.)</p>
<p><strong>“Next year, we should all be prepared to announce the concrete steps that we have taken to counter extremist ideologies&#8230;”</strong> Next year. Always next year.</p>
<p><strong>“There is nothing new about wars within religions. Christianity endured centuries of vicious sectarian conflict. Today, it is violence within Muslim communities that has become the source of so much human misery.”</strong> Nothing like citing history from centuries ago to downplay Muslim sectarian violence today.</p>
<p><strong>“But the only lasting solution to Syria’s civil war is political – an inclusive political transition that responds to the legitimate aspirations of all Syrian citizens, regardless of ethnicity or creed.”</strong> And what, pray tell, would this magical political solution look like, given that last year President Obama was busily telling the UN that Syrian dictator Bashar Assad must go, and this year is busily telling the UN we must bomb those who oppose Assad?</p>
<p><strong>“[T]he countries of the Arab and Muslim world must focus on the extraordinary potential of their people – especially the youth.”</strong> This would be a grand idea, except for the inconvenient fact that a disproportionate number of terrorists are Muslim and Arab youths. Oops.</p>
<p><strong>“No God condones this terror. No grievance justifies these actions. There can be no reasoning – no negotiation – with this brand of evil. The only language understood by killers like this is the language of force….the violence engulfing the region today has made too many Israelis ready to abandon the hard work of peace. But let’s be clear: the status quo in the West Bank and Gaza is not sustainable.”</strong> Self-defense for America, but not for the Jews, according to the President. The Jews must continue to pursue the “hard work of peace,” even if they’re experiencing rocket fire every day; America, however, can bomb the hell out of ISIS even if ISIS is located thousands of miles away and largely threatens other Muslims. The hypocrisy is rank, and moral equivocation repulsive.</p>
<p><strong>“In a summer marked by instability in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, I know the world also took notice of the small American city of Ferguson, Missouri – where a young man was killed, and a community was divided. So yes, we have our own racial and ethnic tensions.”</strong> Officer Darren Wilson can chat with the YouTube “Innocence of Muslims” filmmaker below the bus as he becomes a symbol of all American racial intolerance, despite complete lack of evidence. Thanks, Mr. President!</p>
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		<title>The Conversation We Won&#8217;t Have About Raising Men</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2014 04:30:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Inconvenient questions raised by the Ray Rice abuse scandal. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/RayRicePresser.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-241126" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/RayRicePresser-397x350.jpg" alt="RayRicePresser" width="319" height="281" /></a>On Thursday night, the Baltimore Ravens took on the Pittsburgh Steelers. The event carried national significance thanks to the Ravens&#8217; public-induced decision to cut running back Ray Rice after tape emerged of Rice clocking his then-fiancee in the head, knocking her out cold. CBS sportscaster James Brown utilized his pregame show to draw attention to the problem of domestic violence — and suggest widespread culpability for domestic violence. &#8220;Our language is important,&#8221; Brown suggested. &#8220;For instance, when a guy says, &#8216;You throw the ball like a girl&#8217; or &#8216;You&#8217;re a little sissy,&#8217; it reflects an attitude that devalues women, and attitudes will eventually manifest in some fashion.&#8221;</p>
<p>Brown wasn&#8217;t the only commentator to blame &#8220;The Sandlot&#8221; for Ray Rice&#8217;s horrifying Mike Tyson-esque blow to his future wife&#8217;s head. ESPN commentator Kate Fagan explained, &#8220;This is behavior that is happening at the grassroots level that is born through years of our culture like raising men to want to not be like women and using language like &#8216;sissy&#8217; and &#8216;you throw like a girl&#8217; that demean women. &#8230; [We need to focus on] really reprogramming how we raise men.&#8221;</p>
<p>Naturally, this talking point was celebrated far and wide by a mainstream press more interested in perpetuating the tenets of political correctness than in actually fighting domestic abuse. The real solution to domestic abuse is twofold: punishing it to the greatest possible extent, and yes, raising young men differently. But to state that the greatest risk factor for future domestic violence is insulting other boys as &#8220;throwing like girls&#8221; is pure idiocy. No man has ever hit a woman because she &#8220;throws like a girl.&#8221; But plenty of young men have hit women because they had no moral compass and did not believe in basic concepts of virtue — and plenty of young men lack such a moral compass and belief in virtue thanks to lack of male role models.</p>
<p>Teaching respect for women begins with ensuring that solid male influences models fill the lives of young men — men who respect women, cherish them, treasure them, and believe in protecting them. This is an unpopular stance, because it suggests that boys require men to raise them. Which they do. But that truth doesn&#8217;t fit the logic of the left, which seems to think that lack of fathers counts less than rhetorically bothersome phrases.</p>
<p>For leftists, the answer to domestic violence isn&#8217;t to deal with any of the issues that could lead boys to become abusing men. The answer, instead, is to lecture Americans about the use of the word &#8220;sissy&#8221; — not because that solves the problem, but because it makes those on the left feel warm and fuzzy inside. Similarly, the left will tell Americans that the name of the Washington Redskins matters far more to Native-Americans than the nearly half of Native-American youths who drop out of high school; they will explain that &#8220;microaggressions&#8221; are the true problem faced by blacks in America, not lack of education, poverty or unwed motherhood.</p>
<p>We extol the language police even as we castigate moral authorities. And so our problems grow worse. But at least we feel better about them.</p>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2014 04:56:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Obama's radical transformation hasn't stopped with America. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/world-on-fire-creative-commons.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-240660" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/world-on-fire-creative-commons.jpg" alt="world-on-fire-creative-commons" width="314" height="228" /></a>Barack Obama pledged to radically transform America when he took office. He didn&#8217;t stop at America. President Obama&#8217;s greatest legacy may be the radical reshaping of the global map.</p>
<p>Fast forward three years. Here&#8217;s where we stand.</p>
<p>Given Europe&#8217;s failure to stand up to Russian aggression in Crimea, Russia&#8217;s borders have expanded to include Eastern Ukraine, northern Kazakhstan and larger portions of Moldova. As of 2014, Russia had consolidated its hold on Transnistria, the Eastern region of Moldova, which is heavily Russian; Russia had annexed Crimea; Russia had placed troops inside Eastern Ukraine.</p>
<p>But it didn&#8217;t stop there. Russia began squeezing Georgia again, and pro-Russian regimes are consolidating their power in Kazakhstan and Belarus. Belarus asked the Russian government to place 15 warplanes inside the country in 2014; Kazakhstan got into a tiff with Russia over comments Putin made unsubtly suggesting a possible invasion of the country, then complied with Putin&#8217;s demands when the West did nothing.</p>
<p>Thus far, Putin has not invaded any NATO countries. But that could change, given the high Russian population in Latvia and Estonia.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, in the Middle East, Jordan&#8217;s kingdom has fallen, replaced by a radical Islamist regime. That Palestinian Arab regime has attempted to consolidate its power by forming an alliance with Hamas in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza. In Lebanon, the Iranians and Syrians have effectively annexed southern Lebanon. Israel&#8217;s only quiet border is now its southern border with Egypt.</p>
<p>In Syria, Bashar Assad has retained a measure of power by essentially conceding territory to ISIS in the eastern part of the country; after a halfhearted intervention against ISIS, the international community went quiet as ISIS formed its sought-after caliphate in eastern Syria and northern Iraq.</p>
<p>In response, Iran essentially invaded southern Iraq, and Turkey launched covert action against the Kurds in order to prevent the formation of a broader Kurdistan encompassing parts of Turkish territory.</p>
<p>With the withdrawal of the United States and its allies from Afghanistan, Pakistan has once again made its presence felt. The Taliban have effectively taken control of large swaths of territory, with the help of the Pakistani regime, which has shifted leadership but not position with regard to radical Islam.</p>
<p>In the most stunning international move, China has threatened full-scale annexation of Taiwan, barring access to the South China Sea from Western countries and cutting off Taiwan&#8217;s trade routes. The West has refused to leverage China, fearing financial retaliation. China has made similar moves against the Philippines.</p>
<p>Come 2017, this will be President Obama&#8217;s legacy: a world of redrawn borders, all to the benefit of some of the worst regimes on the planet. When America retreats from the world, its enemies expand.</p>
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		<title>Of Racial Delusions and Riots</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2014 04:30:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What's holding America back from preventing the next Ferguson. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/76934022_76934021.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-240121" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/76934022_76934021-450x321.jpg" alt="_76934022_76934021" width="320" height="228" /></a>Last week, as riots in Ferguson, Missouri decrescendoed and the country held its collective breath over the question of the indictment of Officer Darren Wilson in the shooting death of Michael Brown, rappers Diddy (formerly P. Diddy, formerly Puff Daddy, formerly Sean Combs), 2 Chainz, The Game, and Rick Ross, along with 10 of their fellows, released a song: &#8220;Don&#8217;t Shoot.&#8221;</p>
<p>The Game explained why he felt the necessity to record the song: &#8220;I am a black man with kids of my own that I love more than anything, and I cannot fathom a horrific tragedy like Michael Brown&#8217;s happening to them. This possibility has shaken me to my core.&#8221;</p>
<p>The lyrics of the song speak to a perverse view of race in America — a view reinforced day after day by a media dedicated to the proposition that American law enforcement maliciously targets black men at random. To this point, nobody knows the facts of the case in the Brown shooting. Nonetheless, the rappers label the shooting cold-blooded, first-degree murder. Because facts are unnecessary; only feelings are real. &#8220;God ain&#8217;t put us on the Earth to get murdered, it&#8217;s murder,&#8221; says one rapper, TGT. Another, The Game, raps, &#8220;They killin&#8217; teens, they killin&#8217; dreams, it&#8217;s murder.&#8221;</p>
<p>Next, Diddy launches into a listing of various black men killed under controversial circumstances. Some, like Emmett Till, were murdered in acts of pure and evil racism. But Diddy lumps together Till with Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown — and even Ezell Ford. Last week, the Los Angeles Police Department released the identities of the two police officers who shot Ford. One was Asian; the other was Hispanic. The Huffington Post did not even cover their races. The Los Angeles Times buried that relevant fact in paragraph 13 of their comprehensive story. But again, facts do not matter: Only a feeling of persecution matters.</p>
<p>Then Rick Ross sums up the generalized view of America created by media-stoked racial conflagrations like the Michael Brown situation: &#8220;Black men, we pay the toll, the price is your life, Uncle Sam want a slice, black dress code now we looting in the night, now we throwing Molotovs in this Holocaust.&#8221; A grand total of just under 100 young black men are killed by white police officers each year, according to statistics provided to the FBI by local police.</p>
<p>To compare police treatment of young black men to the Holocaust is not only statistically idiotic, but also morally dangerous.</p>
<p>Nonetheless, that is the view of police for many blacks: police as paramilitary white force out to target black men. When I was recently in the CNN green room with former Obama green jobs czar Van Jones, he and I got to talking about the Ferguson situation. I asked him why he believed there was such a racial gap in the interpretation of the situation. His answer: &#8220;You&#8217;re Jewish, right? Wouldn&#8217;t you jump to conclusions if you heard that the Nazis or Hamas had killed a Jew?&#8221;</p>
<p>Of course, not even Van Jones, Diddy, 2 Chainz, and the rest truly believe what they say about the police. All those who spout about a &#8220;Holocaust&#8221; by police against blacks would call 911 in approximately 3.5 seconds if their houses were robbed. But if we truly believe that America&#8217;s police forces are akin to Nazis or Islamic terrorists, there can be no decent solution. Fighting police would be a moral imperative, not a moral evil.</p>
<p>And therein lies the problem. The only real answer to the antipathy between large segments of the black community and police is threefold: first, taking seriously fact-based allegations of racism against the authorities, and investigating and prosecuting such allegations if well-founded; second, not jumping to conclusions about non-fact-based allegations; and third, lowering crime rates among young black men, thereby lowering interactions between police and young black men.</p>
<p>But those are not solutions backed by the racially delusional. Instead, they suggest an unending and circular &#8220;conversation&#8221; about race that goes something like this: Police sometimes shoot young black men; that&#8217;s because police are racist; therefore, those who resist police are not morally unjustified; rinse, wash, repeat.</p>
<p>Sadly, America&#8217;s media backs this second approach. And so we end up with damaging foolishness like &#8220;Don&#8217;t Shoot&#8221; infusing our pop culture and the snarky but empty-headed racial guilting of Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert invading our news. And nothing gets solved. We just get more hate, more rage and more violence.</p>
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		<title>Those Who Go Unsung</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2014 04:25:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An ordinary American who does the most important work of all. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/STC-students-raising-hands1-e1341850509801.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-239596" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/STC-students-raising-hands1-e1341850509801.jpg" alt="STC-students-raising-hands1-e1341850509801" width="275" height="225" /></a>The vast majority of Americans have never met Phil Weinberg.</p>
<p>But that isn&#8217;t because he&#8217;s unimportant. It&#8217;s because he is important. Like millions of Americans who toil largely in anonymity, participating daily in acts of courage and generosity, Phil has never been on CNN or Fox News; while he subscribes to The Wall Street Journal, he&#8217;s never had his picture dot pixelated. That&#8217;s because he, like so many other Americans, is too busy making the country work.</p>
<p>Phil was born at the Beth Israel Hospital in Boston in 1951, just down the block from Fenway Park, and grew up a diehard Red Sox fan (of course). He began working as a kid, selling papers on a street corner for eight cents a pop, shoveling snow for neighbors. He headed his junior congregation while still a kid at Hebrew school — where his future wife, Cheryl, saw him, although she had no clue she&#8217;d end up marrying the tall, goofy guy who was leading services.</p>
<p>Phil knew early on he wanted to be a teacher. He majored in education at Boston University, got another bachelor&#8217;s in Jewish education simultaneously at Hebrew University, and then studied Jewish history at Jewish Theological Seminary. He worked his way through college on work study as a janitor, flipped burgers and sold Drake&#8217;s cakes to other starving students. Phil actually met his wife, Cheryl, when they were both students at Hebrew College. They were best friend for six years. Then they realized what they had, and decided to get married. Their life was just beginning.</p>
<p>Phil and Cheryl moved down to Tampa, Florida, where Phil taught at a Hebrew day school. His teaching career took him back to Boston, then to El Paso, Texas, and finally to California — he earned two more master&#8217;s degrees in Texas and California. That&#8217;s where he got out of Jewish education and into general education at the Los Angeles Unified School District. One of the roughest school districts in the country, LAUSD is perennially underperforming; its student population includes some of the most poverty-stricken areas in the United States.</p>
<p>Phil jumped in with both feet. He taught special education, a self-contained class for children with specific learning disabilities — but since LAUSD was badly administered, the district threw all sorts of children in Phil&#8217;s classes, including autistic kids, developmental delays and emotionally disturbed children.</p>
<p>Despite the challenges of LAUSD&#8217;s administrative chaos, Phil sought to teach these kids, many of whom had parents who either couldn&#8217;t or wouldn&#8217;t raise their children. He taught the children, many of whom were immigrants to the country, patriotic songs, even though the district disapproved of such political incorrectness. He read them stories, making sure to play all the parts. He created specific goals and reports for each student.</p>
<p>These kids were his kids.</p>
<p>Phil and Cheryl were never able to conceive naturally, so they adopted a son. Their son was troubled, but they poured their heart and soul into raising him, just as they pour themselves into everything they did.</p>
<p>Phil is my uncle — not the brother of my mom or dad, but an adopted uncle. He is best friends with my father. And my father only has one rule for his friends: They must treat his children with kindness and generosity. Phil is the epitome of both.</p>
<p>My father always said as we were growing up that surrounding your children with good people is one of the chief tasks of a parent. My parents certainly did that with Phil. He is an intellectual, a brilliant man, well-read, soft-spoken. He always provides information, but he is never strident, never arrogant. He is a friend, an advisor, and a mentor. And he is never happier than when I or my sisters tell him about what we&#8217;re achieving and what battles we&#8217;re fighting.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m writing about Phil now because he&#8217;s in a hospital in California. He&#8217;s been battling cancer for several years; last week, he had a stroke. He&#8217;s still fighting, and he&#8217;ll still keep fighting. Because that&#8217;s what we do as Americans. We may never get our 15 minutes of fame. We may never get our headshot on cable television. But we will make the country work, teach the next generation, and do so because we are a generous and forgiving people, willing to slog in the trenches without fame or fortune.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s my uncle Phil.</p>
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		<title>The Great Racial Disconnect on Police</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2014 04:54:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The black community's distorted view of Ferguson — and how to fix it.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/MOSTP352-814_2014_000000_low.jpg-400x257.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-239024" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/MOSTP352-814_2014_000000_low.jpg-400x257.jpg" alt="MOSTP352-814_2014_000000_low.jpg-400x257" width="284" height="229" /></a>On Monday, Rasmussen released a poll of Americans regarding the guilt or innocence of Officer Darren Wilson, the police officer who shot unarmed 18-year-old black man Michael Brown six times in Ferguson, Missouri. Those polls show that 57 percent of black adults think that Wilson should be found guilty of murder; 56 percent of whites, by contrast, are undecided on the matter.</p>
<p>The latter position is the correct one. Witnesses, including one Dorian Johnson, claim that Brown was pulled over by Wilson, attacked by him and pulled into the car, ran, stopped when told to freeze by Wilson, held up his hands, and was then shot. Other witnesses — more than a dozen of them, according to local media — say that Brown attacked Wilson, went for Wilson&#8217;s gun, fled before being told to stop, then charged Wilson before being shot.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s what we do know: Despite original media reports labeling Brown a &#8220;gentle giant,&#8221; Brown and shooting witness Dorian Johnson did participate in a strong-arm robbery of a local convenience store. We know that despite original witness reports suggesting that Brown was shot in the back, he was not. We know that contemporaneous witness accounts caught on tape suggest that Brown charged at Wilson. And we know that a young black man is dead with six bullets in him at the hands of a white cop.</p>
<p>And to huge segments of the black community, that last fact is the only one that matters. The full facts do not matter to extremists in the black community and to their white leftist enablers, particularly in the media. A full 41 percent of black Americans believe that riots and looting represent &#8220;legitimate outrage.&#8221; Not protesting — riots and looting. Just 35 percent of blacks think that looters and rioters are criminals taking advantage of the situation.</p>
<p>There is a pattern here: a widespread belief in the black community that the justice system is rigged against them. That belief is not without basis — there is no question that America has a history of racism within the criminal justice community. By the same token, there is also no question that American law enforcement is the least racist it has ever been, by a long shot, and that racism within the law enforcement community is broadly considered unacceptable and vile.</p>
<p>But the belief in a racist justice system seems to have maintained its stranglehold inside the black community. That belief, taken to its extreme, means support for black criminality. It is no coincidence that during the O.J. Simpson trial, 60 percent of black Americans did not believe O.J. was guilty. It is also no coincidence that many white Americans perceive black support for murderers like O.J. Simpson and riots in Ferguson as support for lawlessness, and therefore pooh-pooh charges of police racism. When crying racism becomes crying wolf, it is hard to take such charges seriously.</p>
<p>The solution, however, lays neither in knee-jerk accusations of racism from the black community nor in immediate dismissals of individual accusations by the white community. It lies in continued targeting and prosecution of individual racists in the police community, of course — and far more importantly, it lies in less criminality within the black community. The high levels of crime in the black community contribute to heavier policing, which in turn reinforces perceptions of racial targeting; those perceptions then create resentment against police than ends too often in violent encounters and failure to report crime. And so the cycle starts anew.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s time to break the cycle. The only way to do that is to focus on the fact that police have no excuse to shoot anyone unless those people are committing criminal acts. On that we can all agree. Yes, we must arduously insist that police hold to that standard, and we must prosecute those who do not to the fullest extent of the law. But by the same token, we must insist that criminal acts stop — and to do that, we must move beyond simple anti-police sentiment.</p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2014 04:49:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An affliction that transcends politics or ideology. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/williams.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-238574" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/williams-407x350.jpg" alt="williams" width="235" height="202" /></a>Robin Williams&#8217; suicide this week shook up people across the political spectrum — and for good reason. When a highly successful, incredibly popular figure from our culture decides to take his own life, it feels as though suicide could happen to anyone.</p>
<p>It can&#8217;t.</p>
<p>Robin Williams reportedly suffered from mentally illness. He stated during an interview in 2006 that he hadn&#8217;t been formally diagnosed with depression or bipolar disorder, but stated, &#8220;Do I perform sometimes in a manic style? Yes. Am I manic all the time? No. Do I get sad? Oh yeah. Does it hit me hard? Oh yeah.&#8221; He added, &#8220;I get bummed, like I think a lot of us do at certain times. You look at the world and go, &#8216;Whoa.&#8217; Other moments you look and go, &#8216;Oh, things are OK.&#8217;&#8221; That same year, according to the Huffington Post, he explained the temptation of alcoholism — he had famously admitted to drug and alcohol addiction problems — to Diane Sawyer. &#8220;It&#8217;s the same voice thought that &#8230; you&#8217;re standing at a precipice and you look down, there&#8217;s a voice and it&#8217;s a little quiet voice that goes, &#8216;Jump.&#8217;&#8221;</p>
<p>Williams&#8217; death has spurred multiple writers and celebrities to announce their own struggles with such issues; virtually every family has suffered through the horrors of mental illness. My grandfather was diagnosed with bipolar disorder decades ago, and routinely battled suicidality until his introduction to lithium.</p>
<p>Raising awareness is praiseworthy &#8211; the stigma attached to getting help for mental illness should be wiped away as soon as possible.</p>
<p>By the same token, we ought to ensure that normalizing mental illness helps no one, and damages those who truly are mentally ill. The lack of awareness surrounding mental illness comes from two directions: first, those who pretend that mental illness represents a lack of willpower or dedication; second, those who pretend that serious mental illnesses are not mental illnesses at all, but representations of free thought and behavior.</p>
<p>Forty years ago, the first group predominated; today, the second does.</p>
<p>Forty years ago, men and women feared career destruction should rumors spread that they were seeing psychologists or psychiatrists. That fear has largely dissipated. But a new threat to the well-being of those suffering from mental illness has replaced the original threat: the threat of diversity campaigners leaving those with mental illness to suffer in the name of heterogeneity.</p>
<p>This is not to suggest that all of those who are &#8220;different&#8221; are mentally ill, or vice versa. But it is meant to suggest that we ought to consider the mental health of those who are homeless, rather than labeling them, in blanket fashion, advocates for free living spaces. It is meant to suggest that those who suffer from gender dysphoria may not be suffering from societal bigotry, but from something far deeper and more dangerous, and that physical mutilation and stumping for tolerance will not solve their problems.</p>
<p>In other words, if we are to recognize the importance of mental illness as a society, the left must stop papering over mental illness with platitudes about diversity, and the right must stop treating mental illness as a moral problem rather than a medical one. Those racked with mental anguish are crying out for our help. If we don&#8217;t hear them, it may be because too busy pushing political viewpoints rather than listening.</p>
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		<title>How the Media Craft Victory for Hamas</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2014 04:50:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Turning "balance" into a synonym for amorality. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/CNN.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-237945" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/CNN-450x262.jpg" alt="CNN" width="356" height="207" /></a>On Tuesday, CNN&#8217;s Wolf Blitzer hosted Hamas spokesman Osama Hamden. The week before, Hamdan labeled Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu &#8220;a new image of Hitler&#8221; on the network. But now, for some reason, Blitzer stumbled into a random act of journalism: He asked Hamdan about comments he had made suggesting that Jews used Christian blood in matza. Hamdan stumbled around and blamed the Jews for their action in Gaza.</p>
<p>Blitzer called Hamdan&#8217;s comments an &#8220;awful, awful smear.&#8221;</p>
<p>The very fact that this represented a unique moment in the media coverage of the Israel-Hamas Gaza war demonstrates the malpractice of the media. The first questions on the media&#8217;s collective tongue should have been: What does Hamas stand for? What are its goals? Why does it use women and children as human shields? Why does it hide military resources in civilian areas?</p>
<p>But that had to wait for a month.</p>
<p>In the meantime, CNN viewers saw an unending stream of dramatic images from Gaza of Palestinian Arab suffering: heavy blasts from Israeli ordinance, screaming women, bleeding children. Every so often, CNN punctuated its coverage with death toll statistics — never mentioning that it received those statistics from the Palestinians themselves, and neglecting to mention the Palestinians&#8217; regular practice of classifying dead terrorists as civilians. Then CNN asked questions about Israeli &#8220;proportionality&#8221; and wondered aloud about whether Israeli strikes were sufficiently &#8220;targeted.&#8221;</p>
<p>If you want to know why the conflict between the dramatically overpowering Israeli military and the sadistically brutal Hamas has continued for weeks, look no further than CNN and its like-minded media brethren.</p>
<p>Hamas&#8217; goals in this conflict did not include military victory; Hamas may be evil, but it is not stupid. Its main goal was to shore up its base by achieving small concessions from Israel and Egypt, as well as the Palestinian Authority; those concessions could only be achieved if Israel could be portrayed as an international aggressor against a terror group.</p>
<p>And that&#8217;s where the media manipulation came in. Hamas placed heavy restrictions on journalists and even threatened them. Hamas put women and children and mentally ill people in harm&#8217;s way for the cameras, and as a deterrent to Israeli military action.</p>
<p>And the media went right along with it, proclaiming balance all the way. When I was on CNN this week with Alisyn Camerota, she maintained that CNN provided balance by presenting &#8220;both sides,&#8221; to which I responded that presenting both sides in a battle between Hamas and Israel is not balance, but anti-Israel bias. No Western media member would, in 1944, have assumed that balance meant quoting both Winston Churchill and Julius Streicher. To do so would have been to forward propaganda.</p>
<p>But that is precisely what the media have done. They have turned balance into a synonym for amorality. In doing so, they have handed a propaganda victory to evil.</p>
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		<title>Obama: Troll Hard with a Vengeance</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2014 04:20:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Obama's real objective in threatening amnesty. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/obama-deficit-reduction.gi_.top_.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-237380" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/obama-deficit-reduction.gi_.top_.jpg" alt="obama-deficit-reduction.gi.top" width="250" height="205" /></a>This week, as I have been predicting for months, President Barack Obama announced that he would be considering unprecedented executive action to provide legal status for millions of illegal immigrants. His goal is not to solve the immigration crisis — you don&#8217;t grant legal status to 5 million illegal immigrants, then leave the back door wide open if you&#8217;re interested in solving the problem. His goal is not to help illegal immigrants — he instead leaves them in limbo by granting them temporary work permits, rather than blanket amnesty.</p>
<p>His goal is trolling.</p>
<p>Trolling is a practice whereby a person takes a deliberately indefensible position simply to draw passionate excess from an opponent. That is Obama&#8217;s goal here: He hopes for extreme language, impassioned opposition and eventually, impeachment.</p>
<p>This administration is hungry for impeachment. While no Republican leader in Congress has given even a smidgen of credibility to impeachment talk, the Obama administration has been fundraising off impeachment rumors. Last Friday, the White House said that it was not dismissing the possibility of a House impeachment; senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer said that Obama &#8220;would not discount the possibility.&#8221; Two weeks ago, Obama brought up the possibility of impeachment in order to mock it to his supporters. As Politico noted, &#8220;Who&#8217;s talking about impeachment? Barack Obama.&#8221;</p>
<p>Joe Trippi, a Democratic consultant, explained why Democrats love impeachment talk: &#8220;The more they talk about it, the more it has a red hot effect on their base. So if you can get the temperature just right, you&#8217;re turning out all your base voters, and Democrats don&#8217;t take it seriously, and it&#8217;s a good year for you. If that stove gets just a little too hot, and you lose control of it, you&#8217;re going to have every Democrat on the planet turning out to stop it.&#8221;</p>
<p>Obama trolls because he recognizes that trends cut against Democrats in 2014. If he believed that Democrats were well-positioned to win back the House of Representatives, he would threaten executive action and then call on Americans to give his party a majority.</p>
<p>Instead, he seeks to gin up outrage on the right and enthusiasm on the left. And he&#8217;ll use the lives of millions of Americans and non-Americans to do it. It&#8217;s a desperation play, but it&#8217;s his only play.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s because Obama has no capacity for compromise. His strategy has always been simple: govern when you have a majority; campaign when you don&#8217;t. And so, for the last several years, he&#8217;s spent significantly more time doing fundraisers than being president — and even when he&#8217;s being president, he&#8217;s simply setting up the next stop in his endless campaign.</p>
<p>So what should conservatives do? First off, they should stop talking impeachment. It&#8217;s a waste of time and effort. It serves no purpose. It is not principled to talk impeachment; it is idiotic. There are zero Democrats in the Senate who would vote to convict Obama and few Republicans.</p>
<p>Second, conservatives should point out that Obama does not have the country&#8217;s best interests in mind. He does not care about the fate of illegal immigrants — if he did, he&#8217;d stop incentivizing children to travel thousands of miles in the hands of coyotes, then offering uncertainty as to their status, incentivizing thousands more to do the same. He obviously does not care about the political climate of the country — if he did, he&#8217;d stop manipulating and start governing.</p>
<p>Finally, conservatives should ignore Obama. His rhetoric is unimportant. It is a distraction. They should focus instead on his actions, which are deliberately designed to undermine the country for his own political gain.</p>
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		<title>Why Vladimir Putin Is Kicking Barack Obama&#8217;s Behind</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2014 04:51:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ben Shapiro]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The "multipolar" world spirals out of control. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/topic-peplt007593.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-236884" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/topic-peplt007593-387x350.jpg" alt="Putin Views Russian Arms On Display At Expo" width="243" height="220" /></a>On Monday, four days after Vladimir Putin&#8217;s minions in Ukraine shot down a passenger airliner carrying 298 people, including an American citizen, President Barack Obama emerged from the White House to issue a statement. Scowling at the camera, Obama stated: &#8220;Russia has extraordinary influence over these separatists. No one denies that. Russia has urged them on. Russia has trained them.&#8221;</p>
<p>Finally, after fulminating for several minutes about the nastiness of the Russian government, Obama approached the predictable climax: threats of action.</p>
<p>Except that there were none.</p>
<p>Instead, Obama explained that if Russia were to ignore his warnings, it would &#8220;only further isolate itself from the international community, and the costs for Russia&#8217;s behavior will only continue to increase.&#8221;</p>
<p>To which Putin&#8217;s only rational response would be laughter.</p>
<p>This is a Western humiliation on an epic scale. Obama and Europe could wrongly and weakly pass off the invasion and annexation of Crimea as a historical anomaly brutally corrected. They could ignore the further invasion of eastern Ukraine, focusing instead on those naughty Israelis busily defending themselves against rocket attacks from Hamas terrorists.</p>
<p>But now, the West has told Putin, in no uncertain terms, that his people can hit a civilian aircraft with a missile, and that there will be no costs.</p>
<p>How can a second-rate power hold the United States and NATO over a barrel?</p>
<p>Vice President Joe Biden gave the answer in an interview with The New Yorker, albeit unwittingly (though that should go without saying, given Biden&#8217;s witlessness). While bragging about his gung-ho, macho political attitude, Biden related a story about meeting Putin — a story he pledged was &#8220;absolutely, positively&#8221; true, meaning there is a three in four chance it is complete fiction.</p>
<p>But, taking the vice president at his word, the story went like this. Biden met Putin at the Kremlin in 2011. They found themselves standing face to face. &#8220;I said, &#8216;Mr. Prime Minister, I&#8217;m looking into your eyes, and I don&#8217;t think you have a soul,&#8221; Biden related to interviewer.</p>
<p>&#8220;And he looked back at me, and he smiled, and he said, &#8216;We understand one another.&#8217; This is who this guy is.&#8221;</p>
<p>The last line from Biden is the key to the story: He sees Putin&#8217;s response as a defeat for Putin somehow, a denial of his humanity. Putin, Biden seems to be saying, is an inhuman James Bond villain — and for some reason, Biden thinks this widespread perception of Putin makes him weak.</p>
<p>But that&#8217;s Putin&#8217;s entire goal : He wants the West to believe he has no soul. While the West, like Biden, seeks to demonstrate its bigheartedness to Putin, with &#8220;reset&#8221; buttons and U.N. resolutions and G8 summits and Olympic Games, Putin seeks to demonstrate that he has no heart. He wants to be seen as cruel and inhuman. He wants everyone to know that he will never bluff and that he will always shoot first.</p>
<p>Obama, Biden and the European Union somehow believe that handwringing and moral proclamations will bring Putin into line. Putin knows strength — or, at least, the impression of intransigent steeliness — will bring the West into line. In a game of chicken, the man who openly puts a brick on the accelerator will always win.</p>
<p>Putin&#8217;s got the brick on the accelerator. He&#8217;s had quite a hot streak: Georgia, Syria, Iran and now Ukraine. The result will be a far more dangerous world, as potential Russian targets seek nuclear weapons to deter the bear, and as Putin speeds to consolidate his gains. Obama&#8217;s nuclear-free world, his multipolar United Nations geopolitics, spirals the toilet, thanks to his own utopian wishful thinking.</p>
<p>This is what happens when children play against adults on the world stage. This is what happens when starry-eyed post-Americans are given charge of Western leadership. Putin rolls on, evilly manipulating, grossly murdering. And Obama makes peeved faces as bodies smolder in Ukrainian fields.</p>
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