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		<title>Uncovering Obama&#8217;s IRS Enemies List</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2014 05:55:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Matthew Vadum]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thousands of pages of smoking gun documents remain in legal limbo.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/1207-obama-bush-tax-cuts_full_6001-600x350.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-246694" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/1207-obama-bush-tax-cuts_full_6001-600x350-450x324.jpg" alt="1207-obama-bush-tax-cuts_full_6001-600x350" width="315" height="227" /></a>More proof has emerged that President Obama is using the IRS as a weapon against his perceived enemies as the administration abruptly canceled the release of 2,500 damning documents reportedly showing that the IRS illegally shared taxpayer files with the White House.</p>
<p>The existence of the documents is yet more proof that Obama maintains an extensive enemies&#8217; list and that he treats the IRS as his personal plaything while he closely collaborates with senior IRS officials <a href="http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/item/16752-irs-officials-visited-white-house-over-150-times-during-period-of-scandal"><span style="color: #0433ff;">who have practically taken up residence</span></a> with him in the White House. To Obama, the IRS is an instrument of political repression and taxpayer terror. Although it isn&#8217;t exactly breaking news that Obama is doing Machiavellian things with the IRS that the nearly-impeached President Nixon only fantasized about doing, hard documentary evidence of wrongdoing has been slow in coming.</p>
<p>The abortive document dump comes as former IRS mandarin Lois Lerner remains at liberty. Instead of becoming a long-term guest of the Bureau of Prisons, the unrepentant left-wing Democratic activist continues to live a life of luxury in Bethesda, Md., a fancy suburb of Washington, D.C. Despite the severity of her crimes, she doesn&#8217;t even have to wear a monitoring anklet. She hasn&#8217;t even been charged with breaking the law, an oversight that may be corrected by the incoming Republican-dominated Congress.</p>
<p>With Lerner taking the lead, Obama&#8217;s IRS targeted conservative “social welfare” nonprofits seeking tax-exempt status under section 501c4 of the Internal Revenue Code. Evidence establishes that hundreds of groups affiliated with the Tea Party movement were bullied and intimidated from engaging in constitutionally protected political activism. The IRS also subjected conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status to heightened scrutiny, harassment, and extended processing delays that may have hindered their activities during previous election cycles.</p>
<p>But now the Obama administration, which barely acknowledges the historic electoral whooping it received last month, has placed the 2,500 documents that are <a href="http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/feds-balk-at-releasing-docs-showing-irs-sharing-tax-returns-with-white-house/article/2556890"><span style="color: #0433ff;">apparently not related</span></a> to Lerner&#8217;s escapades in limbo as it hides behind privacy laws that are supposed to protect taxpayers, as opposed to corrupt government officials.</p>
<p>The inspector general&#8217;s office for the U.S. Department of the Treasury is making the novel claim that privacy laws prevent the promised document release from taking place.</p>
<p>“All of the 2,043 pages of documents we have determined to be responsive were collected by the Secretary of the Treasury with respect to the determination of possible liability under Title 26 of the United States Code. These pages consist of return information protected by 26 U.S.C. § 6103 and may not be disclosed absent an express statutory exception,” the office indicated in a Dec. 1 letter.</p>
<p>The Treasury Department, which oversees the IRS, apparently hasn&#8217;t yet decided what to do with another 466 documents.</p>
<p>Dan Epstein, executive director of Cause of Action, was highly skeptical. Treasury is  using “sophisticated” lawyering to worm out of producing the documents.</p>
<p>Treasury Secretary Jack Lew acknowledges he is examining “potential liability” that his underlings violated the law by providing taxpayer information to the White House. Treasury is either “stonewalling” Cause of Action, or Lew “is incompetent” for only now getting around to investigating possible lawbreaking on a two-year-old case.</p>
<p>Asked about the case Tuesday, White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/12/03/watchdog-finds-thousands-docs-relating-to-improper-disclosure-taxpayer-data-to/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">claimed</span></a> he didn&#8217;t know about it. He said, apparently with a straight face, that the administration “very closely” follows rules shielding the IRS from political interference.</p>
<p>“I can tell you that, as a rule, that the Obama administration has been very rigorous in following all of the rules and regulations that govern proper communication between Treasury officials and White House officials and the Internal Revenue Service,” Earnest said.</p>
<p>Epstein says Earnest isn&#8217;t telling the truth. “We know for a fact that the IRS broke the law,” he said. “If there is any evidence that the White House requested (unauthorized taxpayer information), then people in the White House are going to be implicated,” he said.</p>
<p>The Treasury Department&#8217;s decision to stonewall just so happens to coincide with publication this week of a four-part series by the <a href="http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/feds-balk-at-releasing-docs-showing-irs-sharing-tax-returns-with-white-house/article/2556890"><span style="color: #0433ff;"><i>Washington Examiner</i></span></a> about the benefits and pitfalls of the federal inspectors-general system. The series details several occasions in which inspector generals &#8220;provided cover for agency managers seeking to avoid more rigorous evaluations.&#8221;</p>
<p>It goes without saying that Obama has been using the IRS improperly since he was sworn in as president. That&#8217;s the Chicago way.</p>
<p>Ask Catherine Engelbrecht, leader of the Houston-based good government group True the Vote. Since getting involved in the fight for ballot box integrity she has been <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/matthew-vadum/the-mounting-proof-of-an-irs-cover-up/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">subjected</span></a> to a slew of audits, surprise inspections, and all manner of bureaucratic harassment. Ask supporters of the Manassas, Va.-based Patrick Henry Center for Individual Liberty, whose tax-exempt charitable status was yanked by the IRS because it disseminated criticism of Democrats Hillary Clinton and John Kerry a decade ago.</p>
<p>Ask officials of the National Organization for Marriage (NOM). Obama&#8217;s IRS has admitted it illegally provided the group&#8217;s confidential donor information to its left-wing arch-enemy, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), which favors same-sex marriage. The IRS later agreed to settle a lawsuit by paying $50,000 in damages to NOM. The release of the tax filing, known as an IRS Form 990 was not the issue as such; in fact federal law requires 990s to be publicly disclosed.</p>
<p>But the IRS claimed one of its employees innocently neglected to redact the names and addresses of NOM’s donors before releasing the group&#8217;s amended 2008 Form 990 to an individual. The law requires groups like NOM to list top donors on Schedule B to the form. The information on Schedule B is supposed to be held in strictest confidence by the IRS. Unauthorized disclosure of confidential tax information is a felony that can lead to a five-year term of imprisonment, but Eric Holder’s Justice Department never got around to filing criminal charges in the case.</p>
<p>The egregious IRS leak allowed the HRC in February 2012 to post online NOM’s 2008 tax return and the names and contact information of NOM’s major donors, including Mitt Romney who became the Republican presidential nominee later that year. Making that normally confidential information public allowed progressive activists to harass and intimidate NOM’s donors, just as they had done in the wake of California’s Proposition 8 that affirmed traditional marriage in 2008. The most prominent victim of leftist venom was former Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich, who was forced out of his post because he dared to donate $1,000 to the “pro” traditional marriage side in the Prop 8 battle.</p>
<p>Left-wing activists call this kind of in-your-face harassment “accountability,” an Orwellian euphemism to be sure. Accountability actions focus on harassing and intimidating political enemies, disrupting their activities, and forcing them to waste resources dealing with activists’ provocations. It is a tactic of radical community organizers, open borders fanatics, and union goons. Taking a cue from Marxist theorist Herbert Marcuse, they want to shut down, humiliate, and silence those who fail to genuflect before their policy agenda.</p>
<p>Obama&#8217;s IRS is all about accountability, but not in the way that normal, patriotic Americans use the term.</p>
<p><em>*Clarification: Mr. Brendan Eich&#8217;s contribution in support of Proposition 8 was published by the Los Angeles Times using state public records and was a separate incident from the IRS&#8217;s illicit disclosure of NOM donors. </em></p>
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		<title>Condemnations and Double Standards</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2014 05:45:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ari Lieberman]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What if Israel had destroyed 800 homes in Gaza instead of the Egyptians? ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/u-s-state-department-spokesperson-jen-psaki.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-245399" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/u-s-state-department-spokesperson-jen-psaki-409x350.jpg" alt="u-s-state-department-spokesperson-jen-psaki" width="312" height="267" /></a>Let us engage in a brief thought experiment. Imagine three US service members disembarking off their ship docked in the Israeli port of Haifa. They paint the town but are suddenly and unexpectedly surrounded by a group of 12 or so hooligans, who yell epithets at them, call them “murderers,” throw garbage at them, rough them up and then place bags over their heads. Imagine further that the hoodlums are caught and arrested by Israeli authorities but are inexplicably released shortly thereafter.</p>
<p>Let us engage in another thought experiment. Imagine that Israel, under the pretext of ensuring its security, dynamites eight-hundred “Palestinian” homes. The Israelis argue that smuggling tunnels under some of those homes warrant drastic action and announce their intention to construct a barrier where those homes once stood, displacing ten-thousand residents.</p>
<p>These two incidents actually occurred but not in Israel. On November 12, in a sickening display of brute thuggery, three US sailors in Istanbul were <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/12/politics/turkey-navy-sailors-bags-over-heards/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">assaulted</span></a> by a group of Turkish nationalists. They were roughed up, humiliated, had bags stuffed over their heads and chased to chants of “Yankee go home.” Some of the suspects were apprehended and despite the fact that they showed little remorse, were inexplicably <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/11/13/turkish-nationalist-group-defiant-after-attack-on-us-navy-sailors/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">released</span></a> by Turkish authorities.</p>
<p>The second incident, involving the wanton <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/30/world/middleeast/egypt-sinai-peninsula-gaza-buffer-zone.html?_r=0"><span style="color: #0433ff;">destruction</span></a> of some eight-hundred homes and the displacement of some ten-thousand residents occurred in the Egyptian controlled part of Rafah that straddles the border between Sinai and the Hamas enclave of Gaza. It seems that the Egyptians had had enough of Hamas’s shenanigans and decided to act resolutely after as many as 31 Egyptian soldiers were killed in an attack that the Egyptian government blamed on Hamas.</p>
<p>Now let us return to our thought experiment. What was the State Department’s reaction to these two occurrences? In the latter example, there was simply no reaction, only silence. There were no condemnations from John Kerry, no claims by Jen Psaki that such drastic measures were disproportionate and no protests from Obama shills Ben Rhodes, <a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/lecturing-us-on-security-as-the-rockets-fly-in/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Phillip Gordon</span></a> and Josh Earnest that such sweeping actions amount to collective punishment, are a source of regional instability and present obstacles to peace.</p>
<p>In the former case, the State Department did issue a condemnation but that’s as far as it went. The hooligans responsible for the cowardly attack took their cues directly from their anti-American, Islamist government. During his 12-year reign, President Recep Erdogan worked tirelessly to create a toxic environment conducive to such base anti-American displays. More astonishingly was the muted response from the State Department after the charges against those responsible for the assault were <a href="http://www.voanews.com/content/assault-sailors-highlights-turkish-anger-us/2519444.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">dropped</span></a>. The lawless message Turkey is conveying to the United States is clear; your servicemen and women can be humiliated and assaulted on Turkish soil with impunity.</p>
<p>Had any of these incidents occurred in Israel, the State Department would have been up in arms. If there’s any doubt about that assertion, consider Jen Psaki’s comments concerning Israel’s decision to <a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/us-condemns-terrorist-home-demolition-directive/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">demolish the home</span></a> of a terrorist responsible for crushing a pedestrian with a stolen excavator in August.</p>
<p>Psaki condemned the Israeli decision stating that it amounted to “collective punishment.” In Psaki’s eyes, the destruction of 800 Rafah homes, most of which have no connection to illicit activity, suits the State Department just fine but the targeted demolition of a single home belonging to a confirmed depraved Palestinian terrorist amounts to “collective punishment.”</p>
<p>Now consider the administration’s lackadaisical response to the humiliation of its servicemen on Turkish soil and subsequent dropping of all charges against the culprits by Turkish prosecutors. The State Department’s silence on the matter is deafening. By contrast, when a Palestinian terrorist with U.S. citizenship was shot while throwing gasoline bombs at vehicular traffic, Obama’s State Department went into high gear expressing its “<a href="http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2014/10/233356.htm"><span style="color: #0433ff;">deepest condolences</span></a>” to the terrorist’s family and demanding a “speedy and transparent investigation” into the shooting.</p>
<p>It appears that the Obama administration, which treats friends like enemies and enemies like friends, has adopted one standard for Israel and another for the autocratic governments that surround it. While Russia invades Ukraine, Turkey absorbs chunks of Cyprus and China continues its ethnic cleansing and occupation of Tibet as well as creeping annexation of areas within the South and East China seas, the administration appears besotted by the idea of tearing Israel away from parts of its ancestral land and creating yet another hostile and dysfunctional Arab country right on Israel’s doorstep. The administration’s continued haranguing of one of its closest allies is indicative of the disdain Obama has for Israel and serves only to embolden its genocidal enemies.  But then again, maybe that’s precisely what he wants.</p>
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		<title>Why Obama Hates Netanyahu</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Israeli prime minster has become an honorary Republican.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/obama-evil-eye-2.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-244105" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/obama-evil-eye-2.jpg" alt="obama-evil-eye 2" width="297" height="232" /></a>Obama’s foreign policy was supposed to reboot America’s relationship with the rest of the world. Old allies would become people we occasionally talked to. Old enemies would become new allies. Goodbye Queen, hello Vladimir. Trade the Anglosphere for Latin America’s Marxist dictatorships. Replace allied governments in the Middle East with Islamists and call it a day for the Caliphate.</p>
<p>Very little of that went according to plan.</p>
<p>Obama is still stuck with Europe. The Middle East and Latin American leftists still hate America. The Arab Spring imploded. Japan, South Korea and India have conservative governments.</p>
<p>And then there’s Israel.</p>
<p>The original plan was to sideline Israel by focusing on the Muslim world. Instead of directly hammering Israel, the administration would transform the region around it. The American-Israeli relationship would implode not through conflict, but because the Muslim Brotherhood countries would take its place.</p>
<p>That didn’t work out too well. Instead of gracefully pivoting away, Obama loudly snubbed Netanyahu. A photo of him poking his finger in Netanyahu’s chest captured the atmosphere. Netanyahu delivered a speech that Congress cheered. And Obama came to see him as a domestic political opponent.</p>
<p>The torrent of anti-Israel leaks from the administration is a treatment usually reserved for political opponents. The snide remarks by White House spokesmen and the anonymous personal attacks on Netanyahu in the media echo domestic hate campaigns out of the White House like Operation Rushbo.</p>
<p>Netanyahu wasn’t just the leader of a country that the left hated. He had become an honorary Republican.</p>
<p>When Obama met with him, Netanyahu firmly but politely challenged him on policy. He has kept on doing so ever since, including during his most recent visit. At a time when most leaders had gotten the message about shunning Romney, Netanyahu was happy to give him a favorable reception. Netanyahu clearly wanted Romney to win and Obama clearly wished he could pull a Clinton and replace Netanyahu. But Netanyahu’s economic policies were working in exactly the same way that Obama’s weren’t.</p>
<p>The two men hate each other not only on a personal level, but also on a political level.</p>
<p>Netanyahu had successfully pushed through a modernization and privatization agenda that on this side of the ocean is associated with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper or Wisconsin governor Scott Walker. It’s likely what Romney would have done which is one more reason the two men got along so well. Obama’s visible loathing for Romney is of a piece with his hatred for Netanyahu.</p>
<p>He doesn’t just hate them. He hates what they stand for. That’s why Harper and Netanyahu get along so well. It’s part of why Obama and Netanyahu get along so badly.</p>
<p>But the bigger part of the conflict is neither personal nor political. Obama wanted to sideline Israel; instead he’s stuck dealing with it. Hillary’s lack of foreign policy ambition allowed the Jewish State to come through fairly well in Obama’s first term. For Hillary, being Secretary of State was just a stepping stone to the White House by making her rerun candidacy seem fresh. Her relationship with Israel was bad, but her first job was not to make any waves.</p>
<p>John Kerry ambitiously jumped into multiple foreign policy arenas. His bid for a deal between Israel and the PLO was a predictable disaster. And he took Obama along for the ride. It’s unknown if Obama blames Kerry for the mess that ensued when his proposals collapsed into war, but there’s little doubt that he now hates Netanyahu more than ever.</p>
<p>The war dragged Obama deep into the confusing political waters of the region. His attempt to back the Turkish and Qatari empowerment of Hamas in the negotiations ended with Egypt and the Saudis scoring a win. It was hardly Netanyahu’s fault that Obama once again chose to side with a state sponsor of terror, but it’s safer to blame Netanyahu for the humiliation than the leaders of Egypt and Saudi Arabia.</p>
<p>And then there’s Iran. Netanyahu remains the loudest voice against an Obama agreement to let Iran go nuclear. No matter how many talking heads defend the deal, he blows away all their hot air.</p>
<p>Not only did Obama fail to sideline Israel, but he’s stuck dealing with Netanyahu. And no matter how much he may view Netanyahu as an Israeli Romney, he can’t quite openly treat him like Romney because there are plenty of Jewish Democrats who still haven’t realized his true feelings for Israel.</p>
<p>Both men are stuck together. Egypt hates Obama more than it did before he overthrew its original government. Iraq and Syria are war zones. The Saudis are actively undermining Obama’s policies. Israel is still America’s best ally in the region and that interdependency frustrates him even more.</p>
<p>Obama wanted to destroy the American-Israeli relationship. Instead he’s entangled in it. He blames Netanyahu for the situation even though the mess is mostly of his own making.</p>
<p>Despite the myths about the vast powers of the lobby, Israel has never been at the heart of American foreign policy. And under Obama, it’s been on the outskirts in every sense of the word. Israel is back to being a major concern of American foreign policy mostly because of Obama’s massive failures in every other part of the region and Kerry’s belief that he could somehow succeed where everyone else failed.</p>
<p>Netanyahu’s presence reminds Obama of his own failures. If everything had gone according to plan, America would be experiencing a new age of amity with the Muslim world. Instead he’s stuck bombing Iraq and reaffirming the special relationship with Israel almost as if he were on Bush’s fourth term.</p>
<p>It’s not the way that the international flavor of Hope and Change was supposed to taste.</p>
<p>Obama hates Israel. He hates Netanyahu. And their continuing presence in Washington D.C. reminds him of his inability to transform American foreign policy. Their very existence humiliates him.</p>
<p>He knows that directly lashing out at Israel would alienate the Jewish supporters he still needs. Despite his effort to displace pro-Israel voices with J Street, the Jewish community is still pro-Israel. And so he resorts to passive aggressive behavior like snubbing the Israeli Defense Minister or anonymous officials in the administration taunting Netanyahu as a “coward” and “chickens__t” in the media.</p>
<p>It takes a courageous administration to anonymously call the leader of a tiny country a coward. It’s childish behavior, but this is an administration of children overseen by a man whose response to his opponent’s accurate reading of the world situation was to taunt him about the “1980s” and “horses and bayonets.”</p>
<p>While Obama’s people anonymously taunt Netanyahu as a coward, it’s their boss who acts like a coward, stabbing Israel in the back, slandering its leader anonymously through the media and then trying to sell himself to Jewish donors as the Jewish State’s best friend in the White House.</p>
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		<title>The Hell That Is the Obama White House</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2014 04:55:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Horowitz]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An agenda of destruction at home and abroad. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/635076891073252015奥巴马.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-238901" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/635076891073252015奥巴马.jpg" alt="635076891073252015奥巴马" width="291" height="246" /></a>Originally published by <a href="http://www.redstate.com/diary/davidhorowitz/2014/08/18/hell-obama-white-house/">RedState.com</a>. </em></p>
<p>Let me begin by acknowledging that this inspirational title is lifted from a tweet by screen actor James Woods. And now I will explicate his tweet.</p>
<p>Every sentient human being whose brain isn’t stuffed with ideological fairy dust can see that Obama is behind every major scandal of his administration from Benghazi to the I.R.S. disgrace. How can one know this? Because the culprits haven’t been fired. Moreover, if they are serial liars like Susan Rice, they’ve actually been promoted to posts where their loyalty to the criminal-in-chief can do America and its citizens even more damage, if that is possible.</p>
<p>A president faced with a scandal created by underlings behind his back would be naturally furious at their misbehavior, and want heads to roll. This didn’t happen in any of these scandals because their point of origin was the White House itself. Promoting the culprits is a way of keeping them quiet.</p>
<p>And what exactly is the I.R.S. scandal about — to take just one case? It’s a plan unprecedented in modern American politics to push the political system towards a one-party state by using the taxing authority of the government to cripple and destroy the political opposition. The administration’s campaign to promote voter fraud by opposing measures to stop it (and defaming them as “racist” is guided by the same intentions and desire.</p>
<p>And why shouldn’t Obama want to destroy the two-party system since he is also in utter contempt of the Constitutional framework, making law illegally, and defying an impotent Congress to stop him? Of course every radical, like Obama, hates the Constitutional framework because, as Madison explained in Federalist #10, it is designed to thwart “the wicked projects” of the left to redistribute income and destroy the free market.</p>
<p>The same desire to overwhelm and permanently suppress the opposition drives the war that Obama and the Democrats have conducted against America’s borders and therefore American sovereignty. Their plan is too flood the country with illegals of whatever stripe who will be grateful enough for the favor to win them elections and create a permanent majority in their favor. The immediate result of these efforts is that we have no secure southern border, and therefore no border; and therefore we have effectively invited criminals and terrorists to come across and do Americans harm.</p>
<p>Which brings us to the deepest level of Obama’s hell, which is his anti-American foreign policy. When Obama was re-elected in 2012, the very first thought I had was this: A lot of people are going to be dead because of this election. How disastrously right I was. Since their assault on George Bush and their sabotage of the war in Iraq, Obama and the Democrats have forged a power vacuum in Europe and even more dramatically in the Middle East, which nasty characters have predictably entered with ominous implications for the future security of all Americans.</p>
<p>Take one aspect of this epic default: Obama’s lack of response to the slaughter of Christians in Palestine, Egypt and Iraq. Hundreds of thousands of Christians have been slaughtered and driven from their homes in Iraq – over half a million by some counts. This is the oldest Christian community in the world dating back to the time of Christ. What was Obama’s response to this atrocity until a group of Yazvidi along with the Christians were trapped on a mountain side, and politics dictated he had to make some gesture. His response was to do and say nothing. Silence. Even his statement announcing minimal action to save the Yazvidi and the Christians mentioned the Christians once in passing while devoting a paragraph to the obscure Yazvidi.</p>
<p>What this unfeeling and cold response to the slaughter of Christians tells us is that Obama is a pretend Christian just the way he is a pretend American. What he is instead is a world class liar. That is because his real agendas are anti-American, anti-Christian, and anti-Jewish, and obviously and consistently pro America’s third world adversaries to whom he is always apologizing and whom he is always appeasing. Obama lies about his intentions and policies because he couldn’t survive politically if he told the truth.</p>
<p>The socialist plot against individual freedom called Obamacare was sold as a charitable attempt to cover the uninsured (which it doesn’t), to lower health insurance costs (which it doesn’t) and to allow patients to keep their doctor and their plan (which it doesn’t). What it actually does is to take away a major piece of the freedom that Americans once enjoyed – the freedom to choose their plan and their doctor, and not to have the government control their health care or have easy access to all their financial information.</p>
<p>This devious, deceitful, power hungry administration is just as James Woods described it. But it is also a mounting danger for all Americans. Thanks to his global retreat, the terrorists Obama falsely claims are “on the run” are in fact gathering their strength and their weapons of mass destruction until a day will come when they will cross our porous borders and show us what thyears of perfidy not only by Obama but by the whole Democratic Party have wrought.</p>
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		<title>Out-of-Control White House Pro-Hamas Rally Forces Evac of Israel Supporters</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Aug 2014 03:02:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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<p><a href="http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2014/08/breaking-israel-supporters-evacuated-under-police-protection-from-front-of-white-house/">As inside, so outside</a>.</p>
<p>Dan Merica, associate producer for CNN Politics has sent out a series of photos and reports on social media about Israel supporters being evacuated in police vans from in front of the White House after being surrounded by menacing Hamas supporters.</p>
<p>Merica was there covering a pro-Hamas rally by the communist terrorist support group ANSWER being held at Lafayette Park.</p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Marchers burn <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Israel?src=hash">#Israel</a> flag as they take to streets in massive DC rally for <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Gaza?src=hash">#Gaza</a> <a href="http://t.co/b0imvoO0BC">pic.twitter.com/b0imvoO0BC</a></p>
<p>&mdash; M. Scott Mahaskey (@smahaskey) <a href="https://twitter.com/smahaskey/statuses/495637792232595456">August 2, 2014</a></p></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Police surround, protect counter-protester after crowd grows around him during march for Gaza. <a href="http://t.co/nzZ4dI949V">pic.twitter.com/nzZ4dI949V</a></p>
<p>&mdash; M. Scott Mahaskey (@smahaskey) <a href="https://twitter.com/smahaskey/statuses/495653135625773059">August 2, 2014</a></p></blockquote>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s Fantasyland: The &#8216;Tranquil&#8217; Global Community</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2014 04:05:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ari Lieberman]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/98306894-1D6F-4746-8C06-78AC1C8FA5CF_mw1024_s_n.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-236558" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/98306894-1D6F-4746-8C06-78AC1C8FA5CF_mw1024_s_n-450x307.jpg" alt="98306894-1D6F-4746-8C06-78AC1C8FA5CF_mw1024_s_n" width="296" height="202" /></a>On July 14, White House press secretary Josh Earnest made a laughable and <a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/patrick-goodenough/wh-weve-substantially-improved-tranquility-global-community"><span style="color: #0433ff;">absurd statement</span></a> at his daily news briefing. Unfortunately, the statement wasn’t meant to amuse but rather highlighted how divorced from reality and steeped in fantasy President Obama has become.</p>
<p>Earnest noted the following; “I think that there have been a number of situations in which you’ve seen this administration intervene in a meaningful way, that has substantially furthered American interests and <i>substantially improved the, uh, you know, the – the tranquility of the global community</i>.” So according to Obama’s shill, the president has substantially improved the tranquility of the global community. It is as though a clueless Earnest had just emerged from an alternate reality where night is day and up is down. The statement was surreal and if the stakes weren’t so serious, it would actually be comical.</p>
<p>A brief check of the state of the world today and one quickly realizes that all is far from well. From Ukraine to the South China Sea, Venezuela to the Mideast, the world is in disorder and teetering on the brink. Some of these regional problems predate the age of Obama yet he is to blame for the leadership void that exacerbated existing problems and created others.</p>
<p>Take for example Iran, a country recognized as the world’s premiere state sponsor of terrorism. The Islamic Republic has quite easily duped the ostrich-like administration into believing that it is serious on rolling back its nuclear weapons program. It succeeded in getting the administration to reverse crippling sanctions that took years to formulate which in turn has provided the mullahs with badly needed cash to fuel their overseas operations and subversive activities.</p>
<p>While a clueless Obama negotiates with those who have <a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/iranians-will-cut-your-throat-ex-us-official-warns/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">mastered the art of negotiation</span></a>, it becomes quite evident that the president is completely out of his league. Moreover, the mullahs watched and drew appropriate conclusions as Obama drew and then withdrew his now laughable red line in the sand vis-à-vis Syria. In the meantime, the nuclear clock keeps ticking as the Iranians continue their determined march toward acquiring an atom bomb. Unless Israel intervenes, which seems likely given the administration’s impotence, it is a virtual certainty that the Iranians will acquire a nuclear weapon on Obama’s watch.</p>
<p>The president likes to tout his claimed dismantling of Assad’s chemical weapon stockpiles as a victory of sorts but here too he failed miserably. While some inventory was destroyed, Assad still maintains the means of production despite assurances that they too would be destroyed. Twelve Syrian chemical weapon production facilities slated for destruction are still operational and Assad does not appear to be in any mood to give them up. And why should he be afraid of repercussions? America’s deterrent capability was tossed out the window when Obama balked after Assad stomped over his imaginary red line. Indeed, Assad had the temerity to use <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/10796150/Syria-chemical-weapons-how-the-Telegraph-found-evidence-of-chlorine-and-ammonia-gas-bombs.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">poison gas</span></a> against his own people while he was ostensibly dismantling his CW program. What’s more, the CW dismantling deal required Assad’s cooperation which instantly transformed him from <a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/patrick-goodenough/kerry-disputes-chemical-weapons-deal-strengthened-assad"><span style="color: #0433ff;">international pariah to a responsible statesman</span></a> whose cooperation was critical to effectuating Obama’s pipe dreams.</p>
<p>The president’s vacillation in Syria, foot dragging on providing arms to moderate Syrian opposition groups and failure to follow through on promised military action in response to war crimes committed by Assad, directly and negatively impacted the course of the fighting there and marginalized the moderate opposition to the point where it has been overtaken by al-Nusra, ISIS and other extremist organizations. Obama squandered an opportunity just as he did in 2009 when pro-democracy Iranians took to the streets to demand free and fair elections, only to be crushed by the regime’s brutal police forces and <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/2009/06/19/basij-militia-allegedly-use-axes-daggers-to-attack-iranian-protesters/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Basij thugs</span></a> while the administration stood by in contemptible silence.</p>
<p>The same story unfolded in Venezuela, a country led by a tyrant who has allowed the Iranians to turn his country into a base of operations for narco-terror and other subversive activities. In early 2014, pro-democracy protestors fed up with government corruption, lack of freedom and an anemic economy took to the streets to demand change. Nicolás Maduro borrowed chapter and verse from his mullah pals and unleashed his goons armed with guns, clubs and chains to beat the opposition into submission as the administration remained stoic.</p>
<p>Venezuela is not some far-flung, backwater but sits in our own backyard and possesses one of the world’s largest oil and uranium deposits. But it appears that Obama is more concerned about a lone <a href="https://news.yahoo.com/us-profoundly-troubled-americans-beating-israeli-custody-204629191.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Palestinian provocateur</span></a> than the cries of 30,000,000 Venezuelans who demand freedom. The grim result of the administration’s stoicism in the face of Maduro’s brutality is that tyranny was allowed to prevail over freedom.</p>
<p>In Iraq, the administration dropped the ball and did not fully become cognizant of the ISIS threat until the Iraqi army unraveled and Iraq was effectively split into three. Iran now pulls the strings in eastern and southern Iraq while ISIS controls the western portion. The only good byproduct of Obama’s negligence was the enlargement and strengthening of the Kurdish enclave in northern Iraq but here too, the administration has managed to foul things up. Instead of giving the Kurds – loyal American allies – the political and military backing they so desperately need to stave off ISIS and other threats, Obama kowtowed to pressures from his thuggish Islamist buddy, Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, to forestall Kurdish moves toward independence.</p>
<p>In the South and East China Seas, America has allowed the Chinese to engage in creeping annexation of large swaths of areas believed to contain lucrative gas deposits and fishing grounds, abandoning our Japanese and Pilipino allies. As Charles Krauthammer points out, our actions in that region have left our allies <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/charles-krauthammer-woe-to-us-allies/2013/12/05/cdf511ca-5de1-11e3-bc56-c6ca94801fac_story.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">stunned and hanging</span></a>. Obama’s pusillanimous policies have only encouraged the Chinese to adopt a more aggressive posture in asserting their maritime claims which will invariably lead to more friction and instability.</p>
<p>And then of course there is Israel where Obama has acted in a shamefully perfidious manner against a longtime ally. As I detailed <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/ari-lieberman/the-white-house-stabs-israel-in-the-back-again/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">here</span></a> and <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/ari-lieberman/mr-president-where-is-your-outrage/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">here</span></a>, never in the history of international relations has an American ally been treated so shabbily. As Israel is under relentless bombardment from genocidal enemies, a ranking Obama official <a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/top-obama-official-blasts-israel-for-denying-palestinians-sovereignty-security-dignity/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">publicly blasted</span></a> the Jewish State for perceived wrongs. As world leaders from Canada, Australia, Germany, England and France – FRANCE! – called Prime Minister Netanyahu to express their support for Israel’s defensive measures, Obama dragged his heels and reluctantly called his nemesis to express faux support. Of course, the president’s nauseatingly fake expressions of support were qualified and accompanied by the perfunctory and sickening calls for “restraint.”  Life in Israel has grinded to a virtual halt, summer camps have been called off and neonatal wards have been moved into bomb shelters and Obama has the nerve to call for restraint.</p>
<p>The president likes to tout the fact that he’s a strong supporter of funding for Israel’s marvelous Iron Dome and Arrow missile defense systems to bolster his bogus pro-Israel credentials. What the president fails to note is that there is overwhelming bipartisan congressional support for development and funding of such systems and it would be political suicide for the president to halt funding for such projects. Moreover, the president is keenly aware that but for Iron Dome, Israel would by now have launched an all-out ground offensive to root out the sources of rocket fire and that the system is enabling Israel (for now) to maintain a defensive posture which is precisely what Obama wants but is not necessarily in Israel’s best interest.</p>
<p>What Obama won’t say is that this latest round of fighting was facilitated by his perfidious treatment of Israel. His relentless criticism of Israel, the Mideast’s only democracy, has only served to undermine an ally and harden the maximalist goals of Israel’s enemies. In essence, Obama torpedoed his own peace initiative.</p>
<p>Moreover, the president failed to condemn a so-called “national unity” government that witnessed a partnership forged between Hamas and the Palestinian Authority. Even after rockets began falling on Israel in early June, the State Department disingenuously insisted that the PA’s Abbas had no control over Hamas’s activities. That assertion was false as <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBoGq_xHL_U"><span style="color: #0433ff;">some reporters intimated</span></a> during a State Department briefing in early June. Even after the rocket fire intensified in July, the State Department’s automaton, Jen Psaki, continued to cling to this regurgitated prepackaged nonsense to the <a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2014/07/08/state_depts_psaki_no_evidence_that_hamas_plays_any_role_in_palestinian_government.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">utter disbelief</span></a> of seasoned reporters.</p>
<p>The world looks to the United States for leadership and moral clarity, both of which are sorely lacking in this administration. With his inept leadership and feckless foreign policy, Obama has allowed rogue states and terrorist entities to gain the upper hand and exert influence in regions previously thought to be secure. The world today is a much scarier and less tranquil place precisely because of Obama and his inability to adapt and veer from convoluted, preconceived notions ingrained into his mind by his early mentors and friends, Bill Ayers, Rashid Khalidi and Rev. Jeremiah Wright. As for Josh Earnest’s statement, I don’t know what’s more frightening, Obama’s global foreign policy failures or the fact that he actually believes his own hype.</p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2014 18:24:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA["How many dead veterans do you need before somebody asks the question within the White House?"]]></description>
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<p>I <a href="http://iowntheworld.com/blog/?p=235733#more-235733">suspect the real answer is </a>as many as they can get. After all veterans tend to vote Republicans. Like cutting Medicare, cutting Tricare and letting the VA kill vets is one way to kill off the voters least likely to vote<a href="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/pj-gladnick/2014/05/15/jake-tapper-explodes-wh-chief-staff-how-many-dead-veterans-do-you-need"> for the Democratic Party</a>.</p>
<p>Still<a href="http://therightscoop.com/how-many-dead-veterans-do-you-need-jake-tapper-grills-wh-chief-of-staff-over-handling-of-va-scandal/"> some questions are finally being asked</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>Today White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough kept defending the record of Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinkseki over his handling of the Veterans Administration hospitals scandal on CNN&#8217;s The Lead. Finally an increasingly agitated Jake Tapper grew frustrated with the excuses until he exploded in anger: &#8220;How Many Dead Veterans Do You Need?&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Jake Tapper is one of the few mainstream media people who still ask hard questions about Obama Inc. <a href="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/pj-gladnick/2014/05/15/jake-tapper-explodes-wh-chief-staff-how-many-dead-veterans-do-you-need">Here&#8217;s part of the transcript</a>.</p>
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<blockquote><p>TAPPER: How many stories like this, how many letters like this, how many dead veterans do you need before somebody asks the question within the White House, maybe this guy isn&#8217;t the best steward of these veterans?</p>
<p>MCDONOUGH: The question, Jake, is, are we doing everything we can every day to get the veterans the care and the opportunities that they deserve?</p>
<p>TAPPER: But you are not. This letter was sent a year ago. And you guys ignored it.</p>
<p>MCDONOUGH: And we have been working aggressively to ensure that not only is health care expanded, opportunities made more ready to our vets, but that people are held to account, as Ric is doing in this case. We will continue to do that.</p></blockquote>
<p>McDonough, a Center for American Progress player, like much of the rest of Obama Inc. is completely impermeable to shame, guilty or facts&#8230; the traditional tools of reporters in hard hitting interviews. He has his talking points about how things are getting better and will repeat them again and again.</p>
<p>And that&#8217;s Obama Inc. in microcosm. There is just no accountability.</p>
<blockquote><p>MCDONOUGH: You heard what Ric said to the Senate committee today, that, in this instance, there&#8217;s been more than 250 cases of people who have been held accountable for their actions. He can explain that in great detail. The president, as soon as he heard about this latest outrage in Phoenix, called Ric and said, you know what, Ric? I need to know exactly what happened. I need to know exactly the accountability measures that you have and that you can institute, and if it&#8217;s not enough, then let&#8217;s change it and make sure that we hold people to account.</p>
<p>TAPPER: But I&#8217;m telling you right now that happened in 2011 under Secretary Shinseki, and that person was not held accountable. The person got a perfect performance review and got a bonus. There are lots of examples like this.</p></blockquote>
<p>But Obama Inc. doesn&#8217;t care about facts. It tells blatant lies and tells them again and uses its political allied non-profits, e.g. CAP, to echo the lies to make it seem as if their big lie is a consensus.</p>
<p>Meanwhile veterans keep dying.</p>
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		<title>White House has a Media Monitor to Preemptively Kill Reporters&#8217; Stories</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2014 17:41:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Allen tracks journalists’ tweets and flags them in mass emails ]]></description>
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<p>It&#8217;s very creepy and very Cass Sunstein, though I have no idea if he was involved. Since reporters these days articulate what&#8217;s going through their minds on Twitter, it&#8217;s time to attack them, fact check them and even maybe target them based on their social media use.</p>
<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/when-the-white-house-hates-your-tweet-211857928.html">Disrupting stories before they&#8217;re even written is </a>much easier than damage control once they&#8217;re out there. It&#8217;s a bit Orwellian, but no doubt effective.</p>
<blockquote><p>For the Obama White House, tweets from reporters are a kind of early warning system. It’s up to Jessica Allen, 24, to sound the alarm.</p>
<p>Allen, whose official title is “media monitor,” tracks journalists’ tweets and flags them in mass emails that land in the in-boxes of more than 80 Obama aides, including chief of staff Denis McDonough, White House counsel Kathy Ruemmler, press secretary Jay Carney and senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer.</p>
<p>The result? Reporters who regularly cover Obama have become familiar with seemingly out-of-the-blue emails or telephone calls from officials taking issue with their tweets — often thoughtfully and constructively, sometimes with obscenity-laced yelps of outrage&#8230;</p>
<p>While White House communications staff track her alerts closely, other officials have been known to route her messages into email folders and check them just a couple of times a day, one Obama aide said&#8230;</p>
<p>Instead, she watches the Twitter feeds of influential reporters for comments the White House might view as inaccurate, incomplete or unfair, as well as clues for what they are reporting and how it might portray the president or the administration&#8230;</p>
<p>Interestingly, the White House doesn’t often respond to reporter tweets on Twitter, preferring instead to pick up the phone or send an off-the-record email — private, one-on-one communications.</p>
<p>Democratic officials said the White House’s informal guidelines call for staffers to jump in on Twitter itself in three circumstances: 1) If a Republican official is involved in the exchange, 2) if the White House wants to amplify a point it considers beneficial and 3) if it sees a confrontation with a reporter as politically useful and wants to escalate it&#8230;</p>
<p>Allen, who generally sends her first email of the day at 7 a.m., graduated from Northwestern University with a BA in political science (international affairs). Her honors thesis was entitled “Women&#8217;s Substantive Political Representation in Uganda,” according to her LinkedIn profile.</p>
<p>As a senior, she worked as press intern for Obama’s re-election campaign, rising to the post of media monitor before going on to work for his 2013 inauguration committee and then joining the administration.</p></blockquote>
<p>It&#8217;s doubtful that the timing of this story and some of Sharyl Attkisson&#8217;s recent remarks are a coincidence. Knox and Co. appear to be trying to humanize an minimize the White House&#8217;s media operation. To put a friendly and wonkish face on it. To put it into context as a mere clip service, instead of something resembling a dot com&#8217;s attempt at predicting and shaping customer behavior.</p>
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		<title>Life Under the Obama Doctrine</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2014 04:36:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why defying the White House is the only way to preserve the freedom of the Jewish people. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/obama_106.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-224678" alt="obama_106" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/obama_106-450x344.jpg" width="315" height="241" /></a>Originally published by the <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Column-One-Life-under-the-Obama-Doctrine-351093">Jerusalem Post</a>. </em></p>
<p>For most commentators, President Barack Obama’s biggest achievement in his four-nation tour of Asia was the enhanced defense treaty he signed with Philippine President Benigno Aquino. The pact permits US forces to operate on Philippine military bases and sets the conditions for joint training of US and Philippine forces, among other things.</p>
<p>There are two problems with the treaty, however.</p>
<p>And they reflect the basic problem with US foreign policy generally, five-and-a-half years into the Obama presidency.</p>
<p>First, there is the reason that the treaty became necessary.</p>
<p>The Philippines has been under attack by China since 2012 when China seized the Scarborough Shoal from the Philippines. Despite its mutual defense treaty with Manila, Washington did nothing.</p>
<p>This non-response emboldened China still further.</p>
<p>And today China is threatening the Second Thomas Shoal, another Philippine possession.</p>
<p>So, too, late last year China extended its Air Defense Identification Zone to include Japanese and South Korean airspace. The US responded to the aggressive move by recommending that its allies comply with China’s dictates.</p>
<p>The administration’s top priority in all these cases, as well as in the case of Beijing’s challenge to Japan’s control over the Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea, has been to avoid conflicts with China.</p>
<p>But American timidity and refusal to abide by US treaty obligations to the Philippines and Japan have had the opposite effect.</p>
<p>By not responding to Chinese aggression, far from moderating China’s behavior, the Obama administration emboldened it. And in so doing, it destroyed the US’s deterrent posture in Asia. As China’s increasingly belligerent behavior has made clear, Obama’s attempt to appease China was perceived in Beijing as a green light for further aggression, because the Chinese correctly determined that Obama would never make them pay a price for seizing territory and otherwise harming America’s Asian allies.</p>
<p>Under these circumstances, Obama had no choice but to sign an enhanced defense treaty with the Philippines.</p>
<p>Far from calming the situation, though, the treaty increases the chance of war between China and its neighbors. No one, least of all China’s leadership, is fooled by Obama’s whiny insistence that the defense pact isn’t directed against China. And now China, already itching for more confrontations, will feel compelled to respond strongly.</p>
<p>This brings us to the second problem with the Obama administration’s new assertiveness in Asia. It simply isn’t credible.</p>
<p>On Wednesday, The Hill reported that due to Obama’s cuts in defense spending, for four months in 2015, the US will have no aircraft carriers in Asia. In other words, even as Obama’s rhetoric signals a renewed US military commitment to its allies, Obama’s defense cuts empty his pledges of substance.</p>
<p>We already know Obama lacks the will to confront China. And his decision to downsize the US military ensures the US will lack good options for confronting it in the coming years.</p>
<p>During his joint press conference in Manila on Monday with Aquino, Ed Henry from Fox News asked Obama to explain his foreign policy doctrine.</p>
<p>“What do you think the Obama Doctrine is in terms of what your guiding principle is on all of these crises and how you answer those critics who say they think the doctrine is weakness.”</p>
<p>Obama responded with his signature peevishness.</p>
<p>Before launching into a 900-word assault on a series of straw men to whom he attributed positions that at best distorted and at worst willfully misrepresented the positions of his critics, Obama muttered, “Well, Ed, I doubt that I’m going to have time to lay out my entire foreign policy doctrine.”</p>
<p>One thing that Obama did have the time do was signal to the Philippines that the US is no longer a reliable ally. After touting the new defense pact in one sentence, Obama proceeded to explain in the next that his administration cannot be expected to honor any commitment to defend the Philippines militarily.</p>
<p>Obama’s bloviations demonstrated why Henry’s question was so important.</p>
<p>For five-and-a-half years, Obama has not given a straightforward presentation of his foreign policy.</p>
<p>Instead, he has tailored his foreign policy statements to what he thinks the public wishes to hear.</p>
<p>So for instance, in responding to Henry, Obama sounded an isolationist note, attacking imaginary critics for their automatic rush to arms in all circumstances.</p>
<p>Beyond being a gross mischaracterization of his critics, Obama’s remarks ignored the inconvenient fact that he sent US forces on a NATO mission to overthrow the regime of Muammar Gaddafi in Libya without congressional authorization.</p>
<p>No Republicans forced his hand. Since 2004, Gaddafi had posed no threat to US interests.</p>
<p>And in the aftermath of Obama’s unauthorized war in Libya, the US ambassador to Libya and three other Americans were killed in Benghazi.</p>
<p>Al-Qaida and other jihadist groups that benefited from NATO’s operation have taken over large swathes of the country and sunk it into ungovernable chaos. And the chaos and jihad in Libya has spread out to much of northern Africa, bringing death, forcible conversion, torture, arms proliferation and terror in its wake.</p>
<p>Although Obama’s 900-word rant obscured rather than explained his foreign policy doctrine, the Obama Doctrine is easily understood from his actual policies – including his military adventure in Libya.</p>
<p>If Ronald Reagan’s foreign policy doctrine was “Peace through strength,” Obama’s doctrine can be summed up in two sentences: “Speak loudly and carry no stick.” And “Be good to your enemies and bad to your allies.”</p>
<p>The defense treaty with the Philippines, like Obama’s bluster in Ukraine and Syria, is a sterling example of the first part of his doctrine.</p>
<p>And Obama’s obsequious policies toward China, Russia and Iran on the one hand, and his coldness toward Japan, South Korea, Poland, the Czech Republic, Ukraine and Israel on the other hand demonstrate the validity of the second part of his doctrine.</p>
<p>The reason that Obama has not shared his own doctrine with the American people is not because he can’t explain it in the course of one speech. It is because he knows that they won’t accept it.</p>
<p>For their part, the American people seem to have him figured out. According to a Wall Street Journal/NBC poll published on Wednesday, Obama’s approval rating for his handling of foreign policy is at an all-time low. Only 38 percent of Americans approve of his handling of foreign policy and 53% disapprove.</p>
<p>The same poll gave respondents two foreign policy doctrines and asked them to choose the one they preferred.</p>
<p>The first was, “We need a president who will present an image of America that has a more open approach and is willing to negotiate with friend and foe alike.”</p>
<p>The second was, “We need a president who will present an image of strength that shows America’s willingness to confront our enemies and stand up for our principles.”</p>
<p>Thirty-nine percent preferred the first policy course and 55% the second one. These numbers are nearly identical to the approval numbers for Obama’s foreign policy.</p>
<p>The problem for dissatisfied Americans as well as for endangered US allies is that it is highly unlikely that Obama will respond to rising disapproval of his actions abroad by changing course.</p>
<p>For America’s allies this reality requires them to carve out their own courses the best they can.</p>
<p>In Israel’s case, this involves first and foremost taking a less idealistic and more mercenary view of the world. This means not shrinking away from opportunities with the likes of Russia and China when they arise. And certainly it means not automatically siding with the Obama administration against them.</p>
<p>The Obama administration is reportedly angry with Israel for refusing to join America in scolding Russia for its aggression in Ukraine. But it is far from clear that the Obama White House offers Jerusalem a better option. To date, Obama has repaid Israel for its willingness to toe his line by undermining its core interests, publicly attacking it and seeking to subvert the elected government.</p>
<p>Israel has no interest in getting on Russia’s bad side in order to placate the Obama administration.</p>
<p>Nor is there any reason for Israel to obey the Obama administration’s demands for belligerent rhetoric when the next step of the Obama White House would doubtless be to turn around and castigate the “Israel lobby” for allegedly pushing the US toward war.</p>
<p>The same goes for China. There is no reason for Israel to jump into conflict with the growing Asian power. While Secretary of State John Kerry is egging on the Europeans to expand their trade war against Israel, China is assiduously expanding its trade with Israel. According to the Economy Ministry, next year Asia will surpass the US as Israel’s largest trading partner.</p>
<p>Then, of course, there is Iran. Out of loyalty and basic trust in the US’s strategic sanity, for the past decade, Israel has been willing to play second fiddle to the US in contending with Iran’s illicit nuclear weapons program. This was never a wise policy, but at least under the Bush administration it was an understandable mistake.</p>
<p>Since his first days in office, Obama has signaled clearly through his deeds that he had absolutely no interest in blocking Iran’s nuclear progress. On the contrary, Obama’s policies in the Middle East have consistently involved strengthening and legitimizing the Iranian regime and the Muslim Brotherhood at the expense of Israel and the less radical Sunni Arab states.</p>
<p>Out of habit, and in the hopes that something would change, Israel pretended away this reality and continued to follow Washington’s lead, limiting its goals to covert operations against Iran – that Obama leaked to the media – and lobbying Congress for sanctions that never had any chance of blocking Iran’s race to the nuclear finishing line.</p>
<p>Certainly since last November, when Obama signed his nuclear surrender to Iran, Israel has had no excuse for following the US’s lead on Iran. The deal’s sole effect is to enable Iran to become a nuclear power and a regional hegemon.</p>
<p>And so Israel must ignore it. Every day that Israel does not set back Iran’s nuclear progress brings Israel closer to being the subject of nuclear blackmail, Iranian-backed terrorism, and even nuclear Armageddon.</p>
<p>Obama may hide his doctrine behind petulance, populist canards and straw men, but it is clear enough. And that means that as far as Israel is concerned, its goal of securing its survival and prosperity for at least the next two-and-a-half years requires Jerusalem to act on its own and in the face of White House opposition.</p>
<p>It isn’t pleasant to defy the American president.</p>
<p>It isn’t easy. But in light of the Obama Doctrine, defying the White House is required to preserve the freedom of the Jewish people.</p>
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		<title>Valerie Jarrett, the CEO of Obama Inc.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2014 04:50:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The woman behind the curtain.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/jarrett_ny_092210.jpg"><img class=" wp-image-221349 alignleft" alt="jarrett_ny_092210" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/jarrett_ny_092210-450x350.jpg" width="315" height="245" /></a>For eight years, the media envisioned Dick Cheney as the ‘evil genius’ behind the Bush White House, but few in the media have wanted to take a long look at the ‘evil genius’ behind the Obama White House.</p>
<p>The populist grass roots myth died shortly after Obama was elected and while plenty of books have been written about the internal workings of the Obama campaign and administration, unlike the books written about Bush, they rarely inform mainstream media news coverage. When these books and articles come from within the media, the authors are not attacked and their work isn’t discredited, it simply gets compartmentalized into the wonksphere and away from daily news coverage.</p>
<p>This compartmentalization is the reason why media coverage of Obama remains largely unchanged and very little attention is paid to the non-cabinet level personalities who actually make policy. Colin Powell’s dissatisfaction with his lack of influence under Bush was widely covered, while <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/clinton-insider-reveals-obamas-foreign-policy-blunders/">Hillary Clinton’s was not</a>. The Powell implosion led the media to exaggerate the role of Dick Cheney, but no one asks who really had the final say on foreign policy under Obama if Hillary Clinton didn’t.</p>
<p>The Obama White House is a radical departure from previous administrations. It’s a permanent campaign, not just for the obvious reason that it is constantly using the tactics of the campaign, fundraising, attacking and performing, but also because it operates like a campaign reducing the traditional forms of an administration to formalities.</p>
<p>Cabinet members <a href="http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2013/11/locked-in-the-cabinet-99374.html#.Uydo9_lr7J8">have little influence</a>. Decisions are made by White House staffers, many from the Center for American Progress, who are the ones running the unaccountable permanent campaign.</p>
<p>There is no Obama administration. There is an Obama campaign. And that campaign is part of an organization built around a single figure; Obama Inc.</p>
<p>Obama Inc. has more in common with the type of organization built around a celebrity like Beyonce than a conventional political organization. It can handle everything from fundraising, branding to viral marketing, but like the inner circles of top celebrities, the most influential person in the organization is the one who can soothe, pamper and cater to the celebrity’s mercurial personality.</p>
<p>Valerie Jarrett’s role as CEO of Obama Inc. confuses those who expect a more conventional arrangement. Jarrett is less Dick Cheney and more Colonel Parker or Helen Kushnick; a powerful enigmatic figure ruthlessly dedicated to her star whose power comes from his dependency.</p>
<p>Obama is the star of Obama Inc., the grinning figure who goes out on stage and cracks jokes while selling overpriced health insurance to the country. Valerie Jarrett is his manager, confidante and gatekeeper. Officially Jarrett is a senior adviser with a defined title and function, but Obama Inc. does few things officially and unofficially, Jarrett has the last word on everything.</p>
<p>Jarrett merges the personal and the political. Obama may chat with numerous advisers, but it’s Valerie who goes back to eat with Michelle and the family. A cabinet member is lucky to catch Obama’s attention once. Valerie Jarrett has it full time, day or night, leading to her nickname of “Night Stalker.”</p>
<p>If Obama skips security briefings, it’s because they, like so much of the formal infrastructure of government, are there just for show. The real briefing will come from or through Jarrett and it will be massaged into the talking points that communicate only what she wants them to.</p>
<p>The aggressive approach that Obama Inc. has come to be known for is all Valerie. Bill Clinton’s sharp edge was Hillary. It was Hillary who kept the grudges of Clintonworld burning while Bill tried to work with his rivals and enemies. In Obama Inc, Valerie Jarrett occupies Hillary’s role, urging greater ideological fealty to the left and uncompromising attacks on the right, while dominating Obama in a way that Hillary never dominated Bill.</p>
<p>Valerie Jarrett got away with too much during her time in Chicago politics to have learned caution. Where more conventional Democrats would slow down, Valerie Jarrett speeds up; a successful career of corruption and leftist politics has given her a sense of political and moral invulnerability. But that doesn’t mean that Jarrett lacks skill; like her boss, what she lacks is a sense of responsibility.</p>
<p>Obama is a political dilettante whose skills are entirely people skills. Valerie Jarrett’s people skills are negligible and concentrated on only one person, but unlike her boss, protégé and adopted son, she has the endurance and drive to pursue an issue indefinitely.</p>
<p>Barack Obama isn’t driven. Throughout his entire adult life there have been people there to open doors for him. It seemed natural for him to let Valerie Jarrett drive his political career and his administration to do the things that he lacks the attention span or the focus to do.</p>
<p>In exchange, his administration represents Jarrett’s ideological vision of a hard left turn for the country.</p>
<p>Valerie Jarrett doesn’t always get her way. She managed to talk Obama out of going after Osama three times, <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/08/obamas_strange_dependence_on_valerie_jarrett.html">but eventually lost the argument</a>. But Jarrett has made her mark on the country and the world by winning more arguments than she loses by leveraging her unprecedented level of access to chip away at him with her personal knowledge of his weaknesses; what Michelle Obama described as his “soft spots”.</p>
<p>Valerie Jarrett’s strength is framing political arguments in personal terms. Through her that has also become Obama’s strength. For Obama, Jarrett and the rest of the left, the political is personal. And their bond is also political and personal.</p>
<p>Jarrett and Obama are both Third Culture activists with a background in the Muslim world and left-wing politics, who came up the ladder through their involvement with corrupt political non-profits and equally corrupt Chicago politics. Both have dipped their toes in the narrow interests of the urban black community while having political agendas that transcended theirs on a global scale. And both have deep wells of resentment.</p>
<p>Obama may be married to Michelle, but he is closer to Valerie. Jarrett protects him from his job by controlling access to him. As his gatekeeper, Jarrett controls everything from dinner invites to the czars who have more power than many cabinet members. And when each meeting ends, it’s Valerie Jarrett who privately provides the final summary and makes the concluding argument to Barack Obama.</p>
<p>By becoming the gatekeeper to the Oval Office, Valerie Jarrett has more control over domestic and foreign policy than anyone else making her the closest thing to the president. Obama may be the public face of Obama Inc., but when the cameras dim and the teleprompters are turned off, it’s Valerie Jarrett who calls the shots.</p>
<p>Obama may be reading a teleprompter on stage, but Valerie Jarrett is the woman behind the curtain.</p>
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		<title>Abbas to Obama: No &#8216;Peace&#8217; Without 26 Freed Terrorists</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2014 04:51:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[P. David Hornik]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Extortion attempt at the White House.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/2121664613.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-221238" alt="2121664613" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/2121664613-402x350.jpg" width="281" height="245" /></a>One wonders if, during his meeting with Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas at the White House on Monday (reports </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/obama-to-abbas-palestinians-must-take-risks-for-peace/">here</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> and <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Diplomacy-and-Politics/Abbas-to-Obama-Time-is-not-on-our-side-for-two-state-solution-345624">here</a>), President Obama ever felt he was being subjected to a shakedown. In front of the press, Abbas expressed his concern about Israel’s freeing of a fourth and last batch of 26 convicted Palestinian terrorists on the scheduled date, March 29, saying this would “give a very solid impression about the seriousness of the Israelis on the peace process.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">This latest “process,” which began for a nine-month period last July, is due to end—unless extended—in April. To put it mildly, it would not go over well in Israel, and certainly not in Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s coalition, if the prisoners were freed carte blanche, without even the talks’ continuation as a supposed recompense.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Abbas, of course, is under pressure from home to get the 26 sprung from jail. He is not under pressure to “make peace” with Israel, a Western concept foreign to the Palestinian population, which has been fed—under Abbas’s tutelage—a diet of pure hatred and delegitimization of Israel. </span></p>
<p>Abbas further pursued the shakedown effort by claiming the Palestinians had already recognized Israel in 1988 and 1993. It was an attempt to evade Israel’s demand for recognition as a Jewish state. It was also untrue.</p>
<p>As <a href="http://jcpa.org/article/arafat-jewish-state-setting-record-straight/">noted</a> by Alan Baker, a former legal adviser to the Israeli Foreign Ministry, the supposed 1988 recognition of Israel as a Jewish state by Yasser Arafat, Abbas’s predecessor, was rejected as totally inadequate by the U.S. at the time. As for 1993, at that time Arafat <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/davidhornik/the-oslo-process-and-the-jewish-state-issue/">purportedly recognized</a> Israel’s “right to exist”—but with no mention of its Jewish character.</p>
<p>That ongoing evasion has a simple basis: acknowledging Israel as a Jewish state would—albeit only semantically—entail an end to demands to flood it with “refugees.” It is something Abbas is <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-Ed-Contributors/Why-Abbas-thinks-Jewish-state-is-a-delusional-myth-345549">adamantly unwilling</a> to do—not even to promote that other supreme value of getting the convicted terrorists released.</p>
<p>It sounds, in other words, like a deadlock—as just about everyone knowledgeable in these matters predicted back when this latest “process” was getting underway.</p>
<p>Obama, for his part, praised Abbas as “someone who has renounced violence” and did not subject him to any of the <a href="http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-03-02/obama-to-israel-time-is-running-out">belligerent criticism</a> to which he subjected Netanyahu as he made his way to the White House two weeks ago.</p>
<p>Again, some things are predictable; no one expected the “violence-renouncing” Abbas, who earlier this month <a href="http://palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=135&amp;doc_id=10872">sent a wreath</a> to honor a suicide bomber who in 2002 killed eight people by blowing himself up on an Israeli bus, to catch any of the <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/03/25/president-allegedly-dumps-israeli-prime-minister-dinner/">special antagonism</a> Obama reserves for the Israeli leader.</p>
<p>A note of realism did seem to creep in when Obama called peace an “elusive goal” and said, “It’s very hard. It’s very challenging. We’re going to have to take some tough political decisions and risks if we’re able to move it forward.”</p>
<p>A few days earlier Israel’s straight-talking defense minister, Moshe Yaalon, <a href="http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=16171">put it bluntly</a> and—to his credit—undiplomatically when he said:</p>
<blockquote><p>Unfortunately, an agreement will not happen in my generation…. Abbas is a partner who takes, not a partner who gives. He is not a partner for a permanent peace agreement that includes recognition of Israel as the national state of the Jewish people. He just takes back prisoners….</p></blockquote>
<p>In other words, what is known as a shakedown. The next couple of weeks should tell which of two unpalatable possibilities faces Israel: the shakedown continues; or it ends, with the Palestinian Authority turning to the UN to wage diplomatic war against Israel, and Israel hardly assured of U.S. support.</p>
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		<title>Obama Admits White House Lied About Never Meeting Illegal Alien Uncle</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Dec 2013 21:16:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["Nobody spoke to the president," Carney said]]></description>
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<p>If you <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/theoval/2013/12/05/obama-onyango-obama-deportation-jay-carney/3881283/">believe Jay Carney, the original denial was issued</a> based on documentary evidence. Also if you believe Jay Carney, the moon is made of pure hopium and so is Barack Obama.</p>
<blockquote><p>Two years after saying President Obama had not met an uncle who faced deportation, the White House said Thursday that Obama lived briefly with him back during the 1980s.</p>
<p>White House spokesman Jay Carney said that Obama met Onyango Obama when he arrived in Cambridge, Mass., in the late 1980s to attend Harvard Law School; Obama stayed briefly with his uncle until his new apartment was ready.</p>
<p>Carney said the White House staff based its 2011 claim that the two had never met on documentary evidence, and had not asked Obama himself.</p>
<p>&#8220;Nobody spoke to the president,&#8221; Carney said, until he did so this week.</p></blockquote>
<p>Once again. Obama knew nothing. Just like he didn&#8217;t know anything about everything else.</p>
<p>Would a flat denial have been issued based on anything than the word of Obama or someone close to him? I doubt it.</p>
<blockquote><p>“Back when this arose, folks looked at the record, including the President’s book, and there was no evidence that they had met, and that was what was conveyed. Nobody spoke to the president,” Carney said.</p></blockquote>
<p>I doubt they issued a denial simply because of a lack of evidence of their meeting being in the book. Even Team Obama isn&#8217;t that casually sloppy.</p>
<blockquote><p>On Thursday, a White House official said the press office had not fully researched the relationship between the president and his uncle before telling the Globe that they had no record of the two meeting. This time, the press office asked the president directly, which they had not done in 2011.</p>
<p>“The president first met Omar Obama when he moved to Cambridge for law school,” said White House spokesman Eric Schultz. “The president did stay with him for a brief period of time until his apartment was ready. After that, they saw each other once every few months, but after law school they fell out of touch. The president has not seen him in 20 years, has not spoken with him in 10.”</p>
<p>Onyango Obama’s immigration case raised numerous concerns about a potential conflict of interest after his arrest in August 2011 for drunken driving in Framingham. The arrest revealed his outstanding deportation orders and his relationship to the president.</p>
<p>Shortly after his arrest, he told an officer, “I think I will call the White House.”</p>
<p>The White House said Obama’s immigration case was handled “without any interference from the president or the White House.”</p></blockquote>
<p>I&#8217;m sure we can believe them this time. Until documentary evidence proving otherwise comes to light.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s already been established that Omar Obama is more likely to tell the truth than Barack Obama about their relationship. So I&#8217;m going to go with the call to the White House.</p>
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		<title>Obama Operatives Begin Turning on Each Other</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Dec 2013 15:35:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["It’s Obama’s ‘no new taxes’ moment,” the official said]]></description>
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<p>Do you know what this ObamaCare mess needs? <a href="http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/191683-dems-admit-reboot-needs-stronger-team">More circular firing squad</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>Former administration officials and Democratic operatives say President Obama is ill-served by his current White House staff and must reboot his second term team following the disastrous ObamaCare rollout.</p>
<p>First-term insiders argue the White House’s weakness was defined by a lack of preparedness, messaging blunders and failure to keep the president informed.</p>
<p>They say Obama’s team lacks depth after the departures of longtime advisers David Axelrod, David Plouffe, Robert Gibbs and Patrick Gaspard, and suggest new people must be brought on.</p>
<p>“You basically have [White House senior adviser Dan] Pfeiffer and [deputy chief of staff] Rob Nabors running the show politically, and that’s it,” one former administration official said.</p>
<p>In their place are a host of officials, including White House chief of staff Denis McDonough, senior adviser David Simas, Pfeiffer and Nabors, all of whom have been involved in trying to navigate a political storm first triggered by the launch of a website that was not ready.</p></blockquote>
<p>There&#8217;s no denying that it&#8217;s amateur hour out there. McDonough was a CAP stooge rolled out to fill half a dozen roles none of which he appears to have any particular aptitude for.  Pfeiffer&#8217;s best skills are sneering and more sneering.</p>
<blockquote><p>But that&#8217;s really typical. Axelrod and Plouffe were experienced operators, but let&#8217;s not pretend that the ridiculous Gibbs had anything to bring to the table. Or that the same arrogance wouldn&#8217;t have led to the same results.</p>
<p>On Axelrod&#8217;s watch, Obama gave a speech defending a violent racist, said enough stupid things to pack an encyclopedia, including talking openly about wealth redistribution. They didn&#8217;t fix anything. The media did. The media is slightly less eager to fix things now. Though it&#8217;s still doing its part. But mostly the issue is that people have been hit in their pocketbooks now.</p>
<p>The first former official singled out Pfeiffer for criticism in the handling of that blunder, which led to repeated apologies by Obama as the White House struggled with the story.</p>
<p>“The thing that I hold Pfeiffer accountable for is, ‘If you like your plan, you can keep it,’ ” the former official said.</p>
<p>“I don’t know where the breakdown occurred on that, but it’s Obama’s ‘no new taxes’ moment,” the official said, referring to the broken promise that is widely seen as having cost President George H.W. Bush a second term.</p>
<p>The official said it was “hard to be polite” about the rollout: “It still escapes me how they f&#8212;ed up this badly on the president’s and the Democratic Party’s biggest legacy item in 20 years.”</p></blockquote>
<p>So throw Pfeiffer under the bus. But let&#8217;s not pretend that there was a stable of geniuses that could have averted this. Team Obama was always arrogant and heedless of consequences. It may have just run out of road.</p>
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		<title>What If Islamists Took Control of the White House?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Nov 2013 05:10:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What agenda would an Islamist U.S. president pursue?  ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/wh.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-211564" alt="wh" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/wh.jpg" width="275" height="183" /></a>Dear me, I worry so much about the future of our freedoms in the West, as so many begin to “submit” to the values and demands of radical Islam, or what is called “Islamism.”</p>
<p>The other day, I began to worry what would happen if the Islamists took over the American government and placed one of their own in the White House.</p>
<p>I started to think about the agenda that an Islamist president would fulfill.   Here are some of my thoughts:</p>
<p>[1] He would make it clear that the American Constitution and the history of American freedoms were no more exemplary than the history of Islam.   He would argue that America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition.   Instead, he would say, they overlap and share common principles.  He would be clear in his moral equivalence between America and the totalitarian Islamic regimes.   He might go so far as to say the “common principles” were justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.   And if he got away with comparing the American justice system and the tolerance of most Americans with the totalitarian justice systems of the Islamic states and with comparing American tolerance to the intolerance of peoples who riot and kill if they think political cartoons are offensive, then he would go further:  He would assure everyone that it is <i>Islam</i> that has demonstrated through words and deeds the possibility of religious tolerance and racial equality.   If the American people were too stupid to know about the persecution of Christians and Jews in Muslim countries (including the often-ignored fact of nearly a million Jews being expelled from Arab countries in the ‘40s and ‘50s), then that would just make his task all the easier.</p>
<p>[2] He would as quickly as possible give out important awards, like the Medal of Freedom, to those complicit with the goals of radical Islam, who head NGOs and United Nations bodies that support the notion that the Israelis are the new Nazis and the Palestinians are the new Jews.   And he would announce such awards on a date of symbolic significance to the Jews – Tisha B’Av, the historic day of mourning for the loss of the Jewish temples and the occurrence of other national tragedies, so that the Jews knew that he was putting them in their place, for the sooner they got the message, the better.</p>
<p>[3] He would make a quick symbolic snub to Eastern Europe so as to emphasize that the quid pro quo for Russian support of Islamists (outside the former U.S.S.R only, of course) would be the removal of defensive missiles from Poland.   He would drive home the point by not informing the Poles very much ahead of the announcement and would make the announcement on September 17, 2009, which everyone in Central Europe knew was the 60th anniversary of the Soviet invasion of Poland, followed by the annexation of eastern Poland to the USSR.   This would be another important symbolic act to show how in the future the world would be divided between radical Islam, Russia and China.</p>
<p>[4] To further the goals of Radical Islam, the U.S. must be dramatically weakened from the inside, including its once strong and proud economy.  He would have to create unheard of budget deficits.  He would make a budget that spends more than any other in history, creates the largest deficits in history and imposes the largest tax increases in history.  He would spend over a trillion dollars more each year than he took in, and would project a cumulative deficit within ten years of $14.29 trillion – more than the country’s GNP.  That way, the U.S. would end up being owned by China and other foreign lenders and the American people would be so preoccupied with their economic woes, and his governments lies about the terms of a socialized medical system, there would be little regard paid to the increasing rate of Islamification of its culture and freedoms.</p>
<p>[5] Any captured terrorists would be given civilian trials, with the same constitutional rights as American citizens, rather than giving them military trials like enemy soldiers receive.   This would show that Islamic terrorists are really the same as American citizens and would make it difficult to secure convictions.  It would also make it difficult to keep anti-terrorist measures secret, because they would be subject to pre-trial discovery of civilian trials.</p>
<p>[6] He would change many of the terms that are meant to suggest American values are superior to Islamic values.  He would downplay any sense that America is at war with radical Islam.  In fact, he would avoid using the term &#8220;Global War on Terror&#8221; [GWOT] and instead use &#8220;Overseas Contingency Operation.”</p>
<p>[7] He would refer to any terrorists that kill dozens of Americans on American soil not as “terrorists” or “murderers” or “agents of Islamism” but as mere “extremists” – making such killers no more evil than, say, right-wing Republicans.   He would not do anything to stop Islamists infiltrating the American military.</p>
<p>[8] He would assure Americans that acts of terrorism that obviously should be caught by American authorities, were in fact business as usual, and if he was on vacation during such incidents, he would not bother to return to work. That would show that not only were the terrorists winning but that was entirely normal.</p>
<p>[9] He would appoint an Iranian-born political associate without any special military, security or nuclear knowledge to be put in charge of secret negotiations with Iran and then pretend to make a deal with Iran to stop its nuclear weapon program (which nuclear weapons Iran has been promising since 1996 would be used against Israel, and even a few days before the deal was made, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei, who really rules Iran, said that the Jews of Israel “cannot be called humans, they are like animals, some of them” and that Israel was “the rabid dog of the region&#8221;). He would, in an act of appeasement that was Chamberlain-like, make an agreement that allowed Iran to keep all its centrifuges and proceed to make its nukes, with the sanctions that have finally begun to bite being eased in return for nothing at all.    He would allow the Parchin site and other secret military installation to be out of sight of the inspectors, allow for the possibility of “dirty bombs” using nuclear material probably through its terrorist arm, Hezbollah, allow it to keep up its production of centrifuges, and boost its stock of 3.5 percent enriched uranium, thereby accumulating enough material to enhance its capacity for producing enough weapons-grade uranium to break through to a nuclear bomb rapidly enough to defy detection by the IAEA or Western intelligence until it is too late.</p>
<p>[10] He would make it clear that Israel would be on its own (at least up until an Iranian first strike nuclear attack killed an estimated 200,000 Israelis) and he would delay the delivery of “bunker busting” bombs promised to be sold to Israel.  He would also delay delivery of helicopters and other military hardware so as to pressure Israel to do nothing in the face of a threatened nuclear war.</p>
<p>[11] He would have his secretary of state warn Israel that unless it gave into demands from a terrorist entity that teaches its children hatred and violence, Israel would end up with a Third Intifada, which presumably would be Israel’s fault.</p>
<p>[12] He would make Israel the object of his demands, and demand nothing from Arab countries or the Palestinians.  He would try to stop all Israeli settlement even within established cities, if they were on “disputed” lands.    He would thus create a situation where the Palestinians had no interest in compromise, since all demands were only made on the Israelis.</p>
<p>[13] He would befriend radical Islamist professors and Americans with records of terrorist violence against American institutions, so young Americans would know who he deemed worthy of the respect inherent in friendship, and they would understand the way of the future.</p>
<p>[14] He would make it clear that the only “radical” part of Islam is Al Qaeda, and therefore there is no threat to America from any other Muslims, who after all, as pointed out in point one above, are tolerant and followers of justice just like all Americans.</p>
<p>[15] He would court the Muslim Brotherhood, support it in Egypt and elsewhere, and allow its operatives to participate at the highest levels of American government.</p>
<p>Oh, dear.  I think we have a problem.</p>
<p><i>Howard Rotberg is a Canadian writer.  His latest book is TOLERism:  The Ideology Revealed.   He is also President of publisher Mantua Books  (www.mantuabooks.com).</i></p>
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<p>Don&#8217;t miss <strong>Josh Brewster&#8217;s</strong> video interview with <strong>Jamie Glazov</strong> about why the Obama administration reaches its hand out in solidarity to America&#8217;s adversaries:</p>
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		<title>Fox Takes Over Michelle Obama&#8217;s White House Garden</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Oct 2013 20:18:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Members of the Congressional Black Caucus have complained that the fox shouted racial slurs at them]]></description>
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<p>Not that Fox. <a href="http://www.ihatethemedia.com/fox-news-making-itself-at-home-on-white-house-grounds">An actual fox</a>. But we should probably still accuse it of racism and working for the Koch Brothers to be on the safe side.</p>
<blockquote><p>Squirrels frolic in the first lady&#8217;s vegetable garden, feasting on overgrown tomato vines. Bees are left to their own devices, their waxy cells dripping with uncollected honey. The birds have a field day with plants left to go to seed. And at dusk and dawn there comes the fox, treading gingerly through the long grass of the South Lawn.</p>
<p>&#8220;The wildlife that lives on the historic 18-acre campus—including a newly arrived fox now making a home at the White House—are having a field day,&#8221; Kohan reports. &#8220;Thanks to the shutdown, groundskeepers have given up on their efforts to catch the elusive creature, who showed up to live inside the White House gates more than two weeks ago. [The fox] has been spotted many times at dawn and dusk&#8221; according to the White House sources she says are &#8220;highly reliable and multiple.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>And anonymous of course. Because no one in the White House will go on the record about even a fox in the South Lawn. Still everyone is making the best of it.</p>
<p>Toure has already gone on MSNBC and compared the fox to the return of the Confederacy.</p>
<p>Chris Matthews has shaken his head and bemoaned a fox so racist that it doesn&#8217;t seem to understand the racial implications of invading the garden of Michelle Obama at a time when she&#8217;s under attack by FOX News.</p>
<p>Michael Moore is planning a documentary about the fox and the Koch Brothers blaming it for the destruction of the economy. So far he has three hours of footage of him screaming at a raccoon because none of his unpaid interns wanted to tell him he had the wrong species.</p>
<p>Alec Baldwin has called the fox a pig and Gabrielle Giffords has announced that she&#8217;s patching things up with the NRA in a bid to get the fox.</p>
<p>Members of the Congressional Black Caucus have complained that the fox shouted racial slurs at them while they were dropping by the White House.</p>
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		<title>Shutdown: Obama Has to Make Do With Only 1/4 of His 1,701 Person Staff</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Oct 2013 23:53:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="attachment_205955" style="width: 460px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Sept-11-Obama-white-house.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-205955" alt="&quot;I'm sorry. I'm going to have to let 1,200 of you go.&quot;" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Sept-11-Obama-white-house-450x299.jpg" width="450" height="299" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">&#8220;I&#8217;m sorry. I&#8217;m going to have to let 1,200 of you go.&#8221;</p></div>
<p>The horrors of the Government Shutdown were brought to life when we learned that Michelle Obama would be forced to limit her tweeting <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/government-shutdown-impacts-michelle-obamas-16-assistants-limiting-her-ability-to-tweet/">due to the effect of the shutdown on her 16 assistants</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1320111/government-shutdown-would-lay-three-quarters-obamas-staff">But it gets bigger than that</a>. Much bigger.</p>
<blockquote><p>A US government shutdown would mean President Barack Obama had fewer people to cook meals, do the laundry, clean the floors or change the light bulbs, according to a White House contingency plan.</p></blockquote>
<p>How many people does it take to change Obama&#8217;s light bulb?</p>
<blockquote><p>About three-quarters of president&#8217;s 1,701-person staff would be sent home.</p></blockquote>
<p>That&#8217;s still 436 people. Louis XIV probably had a smaller staff. And he needed someone to dress him. Is there an Executive Deputy White House Director in charge of dressing and wigging Obama?</p>
<p>Probably.</p>
<blockquote><p>White House decisions on the environment and drug policy might get postponed.</p></blockquote>
<p>Not White House decisions on the environment. Anything but that&#8230;</p>
<blockquote><p>The executive office of the president would designate about 436 employees as &#8220;excepted&#8221;, or exempt from being laid off, to perform their jobs. The remaining 1,265 employees would be sent home.</p></blockquote>
<p>Can&#8217;t they be sent home permanently?</p>
<blockquote><p>The president and Vice-President Joe Biden are exempt from such a furlough.</p></blockquote>
<p>If only. If only&#8230;</p>
<blockquote><p>Biden, who has a staff of 24, would have to make do with 12.</p></blockquote>
<p>Do we really need 24 people to service a completely useless man who has no reason to even get up in the morning unless an eagle drops a tortoise on Obama&#8217;s head?</p>
<blockquote><p>Of the 90 people who maintain the president&#8217;s family living quarters, only 15 would remain to provide &#8220;minimum maintenance and support</p></blockquote>
<p>Does it actually take 90 people to sweep the crumbs out of Obama&#8217;s bed and vacuum his bong? What if he only had to make do with only 15 servants?</p>
<p>Why he would be just like the rest of us ordinary people who only have a dozen servants to clean out our bedchambers, cook our meals and brush our teeth for us.</p>
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		<title>Israel&#8217;s Twenty-Year Nightmare</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Sep 2013 04:24:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Caroline Glick]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The horror of the Oslo Accords. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Oslo-victims-thumb-470x320-3132.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-204183" alt="Oslo victims-thumb-470x320-3132" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Oslo-victims-thumb-470x320-3132.jpg" width="260" height="177" /></a>Originally published in <a href="http://www.jpost.com/LandedPages/PrintArticle.aspx?id=326012">The Jerusalem Post.</a></i></p>
<p>Twenty years ago today, Israel&#8217;s so-called peace process with the PLO was officially ushered in at the White House Rose Garden.</p>
<p>A year or so later, when the death toll of Israeli victims of the massive terror offensive that the PLO organized shortly afterwards reached what then seemed unbearable heights, a popular call went out to &#8220;Put the Oslo Criminals on Trial.&#8221;</p>
<p>Needless to say, with Shimon Peres, the architect and godfather of the so-called peace process now serving as the President of Israel, nothing ever came of the call.</p>
<p>The demand for an accounting was not unprecedented. There was no reason, on the face of things for those who made it to be perceived as anything other than reasonably enraged, and responsible citizens insisting that those responsible for the largest, most destructive strategic error Israel has ever made pay a personal price for their actions.</p>
<p>Twenty years before that ceremony at the White House, Israel suffered the worst military defeat in its history.</p>
<p>Israel did win the Yom Kippur War, in the end. It was a sloppy, painful, tragic and costly win. Victory owed to tactical errors by the Syrians; to the unbelievable heroism, and dogged determination exhibited by the IDF&#8217;s junior officer corps and line soldiers, particularly on the Golan Heights; and to the emergency resupply of war materiel Israel received midway through the war from the United States.</p>
<p>Just as was the case twenty years later, when Israelis (having been introduced to the suicide bomber), decided their leaders had betrayed them; following the Yom Kippur War, the demobilized soldiers, the bereaved families and the general public demanded an accounting from the senior political leaders and the IDF brass that had led them down the vicious, deadly garden path.</p>
<p>After the Yom Kippur War, their demand was answered. The Agranat Commission was formed. And heads rolled. The prime minister, defense minister and IDF chief of general staff were all booted out. Other senior IDF commanders were relieved of their duties. And they deserved what they got.</p>
<p>And just to make sure we remember how ill-served we were by our leaders forty years ago, every year around Yom Kippur, the media gives an open mike to every maudlin, angry, and indignant story they can find. Every year new documentaries are produced. Every year, new books are published. And for the most part, they are interesting and worthwhile.</p>
<p>Nothing even vaguely resembling the now forty year-long accounting Israel has experienced with regard to the Yom Kippur War has occurred in relation to the so-called peace process with the Palestinians that is now twenty years old. No commission of inquiry was convened. No heads have rolled.</p>
<p>No television station has broadcast a serious documentary explaining the price Israel has paid on any level for a mistake that has cost us so dearly on every level. No one has given belated tribute to the millions of Israelis who foresaw the disaster that would befall us if we recognized the PLO.</p>
<p>And foresee it they did. And oppose it, they did. More than two million Israelis &#8211; or nearly half the country&#8217;s Jewish population in the early 1990s, and a third of the current Jewish population, have actively opposed the so-called Oslo accords and what followed.</p>
<p>As a portion of Israel&#8217;s population, the number of Israelis who took part in protests against the so-called peace process comprised the largest protest movement in history.</p>
<p>The public foresaw what was eminently foreseeable. Renowned intellectuals and decorated military leaders warned that the PLO was a terrorist organization that had no intention of making peace with Israel. They warned that the PLO would use every inch of land Israel transferred to its control as a forward base for terrorism against Israeli civilians. They warned that Yassir Arafat was a liar, a murderer and a Jew hater who would use all powers granted him to murder and legitimize the murder of Israeli civilians.</p>
<p>They warned that he was not interested in the least in establishing a Palestinian state, rather wanted only to oversee the dismemberment and destruction of our state, the Jewish state.</p>
<p>And for the past twenty years, their warnings were borne out by events every single day.</p>
<p>More than fifteen hundred Israelis have been murdered by Palestinian terrorists in the past twenty years. Scores of thousands of Israelis have been wounded or suffered the destruction of their families and their lives.</p>
<p>Diplomatically, Israel has paid an immeasurable price for the abject stupidity of our leaders&#8217; willful blindness to the rank phoniness of the PLO&#8217;s commitment to peaceful coexistence with Israel. The glaring obviousness of the danger of accepting the false historical narrative of our sworn enemies on our ability to defend ourselves internationally was so overwhelming that no one even bothered to mention it in the years before the so-called Oslo accord was concluded.</p>
<p>But today, after twenty years of self-induced diplomatic failure has rendered Israeli leaders and representatives incapable of defending the country, it is necessary to explain it.</p>
<p>The PLO falsely claims that the cause for instability and violence in the Middle East is the absence of a Palestinian state in the lands Israel took control over from Jordan and Egypt in the 1967 Six Day War.</p>
<p>Before the inauguration of the so-called peace process, Israel easily defended itself against this libel. After all, the PLO was established in 1964 &#8211; three years before Israel took control over Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria and Gaza. Its declared purpose was and remains the destruction of Israel, not the establishment of a Palestinian state on some of the territory Israel controls.</p>
<p>The absence of regional peace has nothing at all to do with Israel. It stems from the virulent Jew hatred that is endemic throughout the Islamic world. Due to this hatred Israel&#8217;s neighbors seek its destruction. The centrality of their irrational, obsessive desire to seek the eradication of the Jewish people and the Jewish state is the reason there has been no true peace between Israel and its neighbors &#8211; including its Palestinian neighbors. And because their hatred is irrational and all-encompassing, there is nothing Israel can do to appease them.</p>
<p>Israel was able to defend itself from the PLO&#8217;s lies to great effect before it accepted this terrorist organization as a legitimate actor and so accepted the legitimacy of its duplicitous narrative. But since it did, it has been unable to explain its actions, or increasingly, its right to exist at all. Because if the absence of a Palestinian state in Israel&#8217;s heartland, and its capital city is what stands behind all the bad behavior of the Arab world, then everything that Israel does that impinges even marginally on the establishment of such of state is immoral, destabilizing and dangerous.</p>
<p>This is why even Israel&#8217;s most skilled diplomats &#8211; to the extent they still operate in Israel&#8217;s PLO-besotted Foreign Ministry &#8212; cannot defend us. This is why a generation of Israeli leaders have zero to show for their efforts to defend this country. They are trapped in a policy discourse that is founded on anti-Israel lies.</p>
<p>Then there is our alliance with the United States. To legitimize the single most destructive action ever undertaken by an Israeli government, the Rabin-Peres government approached the Clinton administration and asked it to sponsor this objectively insane policy, strenuously opposed by half the country.</p>
<p>Bill Clinton was happy to oblige them. But once the Americans were on board, and placed US prestige behind a policy which, based as it was on lies, had no chance of success, Israel could not walk away.</p>
<p>Once the Americans supported a policy that half of the public &#8211; and now two-thirds of the public &#8211; opposed, Washington necessarily found itself siding with an ever shrinking minority of Israelis against the majority of the public. Consequently for the past twenty years, US decision makers have backed policies that have become progressively more anti-Israel.</p>
<p>From a domestic perspective, the phony peace process has taken an enormous toll on Israeli society and democracy. To defend such a move so strenuously and reasonably opposed by such a large portion of the public it was necessary to marginalize the public. And so we were subjected to a systematic effort to purge and discredit dissident voices from the senior and later junior ranks of the IDF, from the Foreign Ministry, (although Peres had done much of the work pruning responsible voices out of the  ministry in the previous decade), and from the Justice Ministry.</p>
<p>Responsible opponents in the public square were castigated as extremists and enemies of peace, little different from terrorists. A new vocabulary to hide reality &#8211; like calling terror victims, victims of peace &#8211; was invented.</p>
<p>Four times over the past twenty years &#8211; in 1994, 1995, 2000 and 2005 &#8211; the peace processors brought Israeli society to the brink of collapse. Lawful demonstrators and political activists &#8211; including minor children &#8211; were criminalized, and often jailed and put on trial for their civil disobedience. The corruption of Israel&#8217;s legal system, which applies laws unequally to various members of the public, depending on their political views was a direct outcome of Israel&#8217;s decision twenty years ago to embrace the PLO.</p>
<p>For the past twenty years, the party most responsible for Israel&#8217;s continued abidance by a strategy that has brought us nothing but disaster is the media. The reason that Peres was elected to the presidency rather than put out to pasture like Golda Meir is because the media lionized him as the greatest statesman of all time.</p>
<p>The reason that once in office non-leftist leaders embrace the positions of the radical Left, ignore the public, block every attempt to correct the damage that the Oslo accords have wrought, and embark on a new path is because they are no match for Channel 2 and all the rest.</p>
<p>Our media outlets run a constant stream of post-Zionist propaganda that has reduced our elected representatives&#8217; field of action to the size of a postage stamp. They ignore knowledgeable, well-spoken representatives of the majority. They regularly invite cognitively and aesthetically challenged nationalists to their studios to embarrass into silence the majority of viewers who share their opinions. Zionists are hired to high-profile but powerless positions to make the public feel uncomfortable about complaining that its views have no voice in the media.</p>
<p>Today the Obama administration plumbs the depths of strategic dysfunction. The Arab world empowers the most dangerous elements in country after country. The European Union treats Israel as a greater international outlaw than Iran, North Korea or Syria. Anti-Israel indoctrination is the norm on university campuses throughout the Western world. A new generation is coming of age that has never heard the truth about the Jewish state.</p>
<p>To contend with all this, the single most important step Israel must take is to end our twenty year nightmare with the PLO. As long as it continues, we will remain incapable of defending ourselves.</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Aug 2013 04:54:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Arnold Ahlert]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/4614936283_Obama_Corruption_answer_2_xlarge.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-201283" alt="4614936283_Obama_Corruption_answer_2_xlarge" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/4614936283_Obama_Corruption_answer_2_xlarge.jpg" width="280" height="203" /></a>Scandal after scandal, coupled with an ongoing contempt for the law and the Constitution, demonstrated by high-level officials and the president himself, point to one deeply troubling conclusion: the Obama administration may be the most corrupt administration ever inflicted on the American public. And while the mainstream media have done a remarkable job deflecting much of that reality, even they cannot keep up with the avalanche of disturbing revelations that arise, seemingly on a daily basis.</p>
<p>We begin with yet another report about the Fast and Furious gunrunning operation, courtesy of Sharyl Attkisson, one of the few remaining reporters who follows a story wherever it goes. Last Wednesday, three more F&amp;F weapons <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57598487/more-fast-and-furious-guns-surface-at-crimes-in-mexico/">turned</a> up at crime scenes in Mexico. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry and as many as 300 Mexican nationals, including teens at a birthday party, were slaughtered by those weapons. Yet the ensuing investigation was first thwarted by Eric Holder&#8217;s refusal to turn over critical documents to congressional investigators, earning him a contempt of Congress citation. It was followed by President Obama invoking executive privilege to prevent the same. Other documents reveal that Eric Holder <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-31727_162-20115038-10391695.html">lied</a> to Congress about when he first heard about the operation. The House Oversight Committee is currently suing for release of the material, but both Holder and Obama remain unscathed by this deadly debacle, even as the Terry family&#8217;s effort to <a href="http://foxnewsinsider.com/2013/06/03/brian-terrys-family-talks-fox-news-about-what-happened-fast-furious">find</a> out what really happened to their son has been ignored.</p>
<p>Holder&#8217;s duplicity regarding Fast and Furious is hardly an anomaly. On March 1, 2011, Holder <a href="http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/081613-667885-obama-presidency-leaves-a-lawless-legacy.htm?p=3">told</a> Congress that &#8220;decisions made in the New Black Panther Party (NBPP) case were made by career attorneys in the department.&#8221; It was subsequently revealed that an Obama appointee, Associate A.G. Thomas Perrelli, overruled a unanimous decision by DOJ attorneys who favored prosecuting NBPP members seen on videotape attempting to intimidate voters outside a Philadelphia polling station during the 2008 election.</p>
<p>Holder also &#8220;misled&#8221; Congress last June. &#8220;With regard to the potential prosecution of the press for the disclosure of material: that is not something I’ve ever been involved in, heard of or would think would be wise policy,” he <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2013/06/20/holder-i-didnt-lie-about-james-rosen/">said</a>. Yet it was subsequently revealed that Holder personally <a href="http://www.mediaite.com/online/eric-holder-signed-off-on-search-of-james-rosens-private-emails-nbc-reports/">signed off</a> on a warrant to investigate Fox New reporter James Rosen, allowing the DOJ to search Rosen&#8217;s email and phone records, as well as those of his family members.</p>
<p>The DOJ also secretly <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/13/us/justice-ap-phones">seized</a> the phone records of AP reporters and editors, claiming they only did so after making &#8220;every reasonable effort to obtain information through alternative means.&#8221; The timing of the investigation suggested the DOJ was looking into who leaked classified information about a plot to disrupt a second underwear bomber from blowing up a jetliner in Yemen. According to the <i>New York Times</i>, that was one of <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/14/us/phone-records-of-journalists-of-the-associated-press-seized-by-us.html?pagewanted=all">two leaks</a> Holder was investigating &#8220;after a spate of disclosures about the bomb plot, cyberwarfare against Iran, Mr. Obama’s procedures for putting terrorism suspects on a &#8216;kill list,&#8217; and the raid that killed Osama bin Laden.&#8221;</p>
<p>On Monday, the <i>Washington Times </i>offered the DOJ a big assist with regard to that second leak, <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/aug/18/trail-of-stuxnet-cyberwar-leak-to-author-leads-to-/">revealing</a> that &#8220;scores of State Department emails&#8221; show the Obama administration itself granted <i>Times</i> reporter David E. Sanger access to a series of high-level administration officials. Sanger then wrote a book about the American-Israeli effort to sabotage Iranian nuclear centrifuges with the Stuxnet virus.</p>
<p>As for the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, none other than Vice President Joe Biden <a href="http://www.worldtribune.com/2013/05/30/what-happened-to-seal-team-six-the-most-serious-scandal-of-all/">revealed</a> the involvement of SEAL Team 6 in that operation. Congress has <a href="http://thehill.com/homenews/house/313039-congress-to-probe-lethal-seal-crash">announced</a> an investigation into the subsequent deaths of 22 SEALs whose helicopter was shot down in Afghanistan in 2011. Part of that investigation will likely include the possibility that Biden&#8217;s shameless promotion of administration &#8220;toughness&#8221; may have made those SEALs targets. Additionally, misleading information provided by the Defense Department to family members of the slain SEALs indicates this scandal may be even bigger than Benghazi.</p>
<p>The ongoing investigation of the IRS&#8217;s targeting of conservative groups, which has expanded from &#8220;rogue agents&#8221; in Cincinnati all the way up to IRS Chief Counsel&#8211;one of two agency members appointed by the president&#8211;now <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/08/08/irs-scandal-hits-3-month-mark-where-accountability-mr-obama/">enters</a> its third month. It has also expanded beyond the IRS, as a series of previously undisclosed emails indicate the Federal Election Commission (FEC) may have been given taxpayer information in violation of federal law and the IRS regulations. Earlier this month House House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) <a href="http://thehill.com/video/in-the-news/315301-issa-to-subpoena-irs-documents">announced</a> he would subpoena IRS documents, because the agency was stonewalling investigators&#8217; requests, exactly as the DOJ did in the Fast and Furious scandal.</p>
<p>With regard to these scandals and others, the administration&#8217;s water-carriers in the media, as well as the president himself, have attempted to dismiss them as &#8220;phony&#8221; or &#8220;unnecessary distractions.&#8221; This &#8220;what difference at this point does it make&#8221; attitude, exemplified by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, is part of a well-established strategy by an administration convinced the attention span of the public can be undermined by both the volume of scandals, and the time it takes to unravel each one. Thus, for example, the <i>Washington Post&#8217;s</i> August 15 <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-broke-privacy-rules-thousands-of-times-per-year-audit-finds/2013/08/15/3310e554-05ca-11e3-a07f-49ddc7417125_story.html">revelation</a> that the NSA &#8220;has broken privacy rules or overstepped its legal authority thousands of times each year since Congress granted the agency broad new powers in 2008&#8243; overshadows the IRS scandal, which overshadows Navy SEAL scandal, which overshadows the Benghazi scandal, which overshadows Fast and Furious&#8211;all of which have been dismissed at one time or another as partisan witch hunts.</p>
<p>Yet even if one were to completely concede such a deplorable assertion, there is still no question whatsoever that administration officials have trampled on both the rule of law and the Constitution. Perhaps the most contemptible effort in that regard is President Obama&#8217;s transparently unconstitutional <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/george-will-obamas-unconstitutional-steps-worse-than-nixons/2013/08/14/e0bd6cb2-044a-11e3-9259-e2aafe5a5f84_story.html">effort</a> to suspend various parts of the Affordable Healthcare Act. How Americans feel about that piece of legislation is irrelevant. What&#8217;s relevant is that Congress passed the law, including the part that calls for its implementation beginning on Jan. 1, 2014, and the president signed it. There is no Constitutional way the president can simply choose to ignore sections of a law he doesn&#8217;t like, or go around Congress completely when they won&#8217;t kowtow to his agenda.</p>
<p>Yet that&#8217;s precisely what Obama and other administration officials have done. In 2012, the president unilaterally <a href="http://www.humanevents.com/2013/08/16/can-obama-write-his-own-laws/">decreed</a> that the same DREAM Act rejected by Congress 18 months earlier would be implemented for the children of illegal aliens. He also gutted part of the Welfare Reform Act of 1996, in clear violation of the statute. Obama is still ignoring a ruling by the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals and federal appeals courts in D.C. and Philadelphia, all of whom ruled his &#8220;recess&#8221; appointments to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) were unconstitutional.</p>
<p>And while the contempt for the law starts at the top, it is by no means limited to the president himself. On August 12, Eric Holder ordered his attorneys to stop <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/12/us/justice-dept-seeks-to-curtail-stiff-drug-sentences.html?pagewanted=all">seeking</a> mandatory sentences in low-level drug cases, by <i>deliberately withholding evidence</i> regarding the amount of drugs involved. Holder is also suing the state of Texas to pre-clear its latest election law, in complete defiance of the recent Supreme Court ruling that stated Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act is &#8220;unconstitutional&#8221; and that &#8220;the formula can no longer be used as a basis for subjecting jurisdiction to preclearance.&#8221; He is also pursuing civil rights violations against George Zimmerman, absent a shred of evidence for doing so.</p>
<p>Treasury Secretary Jack Lew is also demonstrating contempt for the law. A Daily Treasury Statement dated July 26 revealed the federal debt had <a href="http://cnsnews.com/news/article/70-straight-days-treasury-says-debt-stuck-exactly-1669939600000000">remained</a> at approximately  $16.7 trillion for 70 straight days, despite the reality that the federal deficit <a href="http://finance.townhall.com/columnists/morganbrittany/2013/08/19/jack-lews-extraordinary-measures-on-debt-just-cooking-the-books-n1667607/page/2">rose</a> by $98 billion in July. If the debt had continued to increase, it would have topped the debt limit imposed by Congress. Lew characterizes his effort to circumvent Congress as &#8220;extraordinary measures.&#8221; Yet any American company engaging in similarly “extraordinary” accounting procedures would be targeted for prosecution.</p>
<p>Newly appointed EPA head Gina McCarthy is also comfortable bypassing the Legislative Branch of government. McCarthy <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/aug/14/climate-change-obama-epa-plan-action-sans-congress/">announced</a> on August 14 that the EPA will unilaterally enact rules to combat global warming, despite the reality that a bill to establish a cap-and-trade system was rejected by Congress in 2009&#8211;when Democrats controlled both chambers of Congress.</p>
<p>Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is being <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/05/14/house-committee-to-probe-sebelius-soliciting-money-for-obamacare-sign-ups/">investigated</a> by Congress for soliciting donations from health organizations to promote Obamacare. In May, Senator Lamar Alexander (R-TN) <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/article/348582/sebelius%E2%80%99s-suspect-solicitations-katrina-trinko">explained</a> that such an effort might be yet another attempt to bypass Congress. “If she is raising money from private entities and coordinating with those entities to do something that Congress has refused to do, the Constitution doesn’t allow that and federal law makes it a criminal violation,” he told National Review.</p>
<p>Congress may have trouble getting to the truth. According to an Associated Press story published in June, Sebelius and a number of other administration officials have been <a href="http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/ap-administration-officials-using-secret-email-addresses/">using</a> &#8220;secret government email accounts they say are necessary to prevent their inboxes from being overwhelmed with unwanted messages.&#8221; Yet the AP further notes that, despite filing a Freedom of Information Act three months earlier, most agencies have failed to turn over such information, and that the Labor Department demanded more than $1 million for the account names. The AP pursued the story after it was discovered that former EPA head Lisa Jackson was conducting official business using a secret email account under the alias “Richard Windsor.”</p>
<p>And lest anyone think the practice may have been discontinued, the House Oversight Committee last Tuesday <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2013/08/13/lerner-used-personal-email-for-irs-business-say-lawmakers/">requested</a> that IRS official Lois Lerner turn over emails sent to, or from, her personal “<a href="http://msn.com/">msn.com</a>” account. “Through the course of the investigation, we have learned that you sent documents related to your official duties from your official IRS e-mail account to an <a href="http://msn.com/">msn.com</a> e-mail account labeled ‘Lois Home,’” a letter sent to Lerner states. “This raises some serious questions concerning your use of a non-official e-mail account to conduct official business.”</p>
<p>So much for the self-professed &#8220;most transparent administration in history.&#8221;</p>
<p>All of the above suggests the Obama administration is guided by one over-riding imperative: we’ll do whatever we want, and we dare someone to stop us. Since the media are more a part of the problem than the solution, that burden falls on the Judicial Branch of government, or the Republican Party. As mentioned above, Eric Holder is already ignoring a Supreme Court ruling regarding voting rights, and Obama will ignore the ruling on his illegal NLRB appointees until the Supreme Court <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/federal-eye/wp/2013/06/24/supreme-court-to-hear-case-on-obamas-nlrb-appointments/">hears</a> the case next term.</p>
<p>As for Republicans, investigations into the numerous administration scandals is ongoing, but best described as plodding. This is due in large part to the sheer volume of dubious activity they are tasked with investigating. But their reticence in certain areas, most notably House Speaker John Boehner&#8217;s (R-OH) <a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/global-affairs/terrorism/312539-conservatives-seek-to-put-pressure-on-boehner-with-60-foot-long-benghazi-petition">refusal</a> to appoint a Select Committee to investigate Benghazi, despite pressure from fellow Republicans, is deeply disturbing.</p>
<p>Yet their calculatingly reticent reaction to the president&#8217;s determination to ignore the law is beyond the pale. Perhaps the best encapsulation of the party&#8217;s unbearably pusillanimous attitude was <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/ABC_Univision/Politics/marco-rubio-immigration-reform-obama-executive-order/story?id=19948135">expressed</a> last week by Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) with regard to so-called comprehensive immigration reform. &#8220;I believe that this president will be tempted, if nothing happens in Congress, he will be tempted to issue an executive order as he did for the DREAM Act kids a year ago, where he basically legalizes 11 million people by the sign of a pen,&#8221; Rubio said in an interview last Tuesday.</p>
<p>In other words, give Obama what he wants because he&#8217;ll take it anyway. It is precisely this kind of capitulation that has millions of Americans wondering if there is anything Republicans will do to throttle any aspect of this administration&#8217;s illegal behavior. It is not an exaggeration to say the fate of the nation may depend on the answer to that question.</p>
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		<title>The White House&#8217;s Visas-for-Terrorists Program</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new report raises more questions than answers on why a known jihadist was allowed in the U.S. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/hani-nour-eddin.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-199847" alt="hani-nour-eddin" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/hani-nour-eddin-436x350.jpg" width="305" height="245" /></a>A new Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General (DHS OIG) report raises more questions than answers regarding the circumstances behind the approval of a visa for a known member of a group identified by the State Department as being a member of a Foreign Terrorist Organization.</p>
<p>In June 2012, Egyptian Hani Nour Eldin visited the United States as a member of an Egyptian parliamentary delegation to meet with U.S. government officials and business leaders. During the course of those meetings, Eldin raised with then Deputy National Security Adviser Denis McDonough the issue of the release of Omar Abdel Rahman, the Blind Sheikh, from federal prison for humanitarian reasons.</p>
<p>Eldin’s presence at all these meetings is peculiar because in 1993 he admitted to being a member of Gama’a al-Islamiyya. Gama’a al-Islamiyya is an Egyptian Islamist group first designated by the State Department as a Foreign Terrorist Organization in 1997. Gama’a al-Islamiyya has been <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Gama%27a_al-Islamiyya">linked, though indirectly,</a> to the assassination of Anwar Sadat. In the 1990s, the group was linked to a string of terrorist acts, including the murder of Egypt’s speaker of parliament and a 1995 attempted assassination of Hosni Mubarrak.</p>
<p>In 1993, Eldin was arrested after members of Gama’a al-Islamiyya got into a shoot-out with Egyptian security officials at a mosque. In a 1993 article that accompanied the arrest, Eldin denied his involvement in the shoot-out but proclaimed he was a member of Gama’a al-Islamiyya.</p>
<p>As such, the strictest reading of State Department protocols means that Eldin should have been denied a visa. After hearing complaints from New York Republican Congressman Peter King, the Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General did an audit of DHS efforts to screen members of Foreign Terrorist Organizations.</p>
<p>The <a href="http://www.oig.dhs.gov/assets/Mgmt/2013/OIG_13-103_Jul13.pdf">heavily redacted unclassified report absolves DHS</a> of any wrongdoing in this matter, and only recommends three cosmetic improvements to the process:</p>
<blockquote><p>We determined DHS has policies and procedures for admitting members of Foreign Terrorist Organizations into the United States, and collaborating with other departments and agencies when screening members of Foreign Terrorist Organizations and issuing inadmissibility waivers. DHS did not determine any derogatory information on Mr. Eldin prior to admitting him, and DHS followed established procedures for allowing Mr. Eldin into the United States. However, we identified operational challenges that may reduce the effectiveness of DHS’ visa security processes. We are making three recommendations to enhance DHS’ efforts to screen members of Foreign Terrorist Organizations. The Department concurred with all recommendations.</p></blockquote>
<p>According to the report, Eldin was determined not to be a member of a Foreign Terrorist Organization, but the reason behind this determination isn’t explained, and may very well be part of the redacted portion of the report.</p>
<p>In an email exchange with Front Page Magazine, DHS OIG only said cryptically that the scope of their audit didn’t include determining whether or not Eldin was a member of a Foreign Terrorist Organization and pointed out that such determinations aren’t only made by DHS but also by the State Department. The DHS OIG audit only looked into the performance of DHS in this matter.</p>
<p>If the State Department’s Office of Inspector General was also investigating the matter, such information would not be released to the press until the investigation was over.</p>
<p>Front Page Magazine reached out to the offices of Congressman Peter King, the House Homeland Security Committee, and the Senate Homeland Security Committee because all three received a copy of the audit, but all declined comment for this story.</p>
<p>In a 2012 article for the Daily Beast when this story first broke, a State Department spokesperson told Eli Lake that the State Department <a href="http:/">had no information that suggested that Eldin was a member of a Foreign Terrorist Organization</a>.</p>
<p>In the same 2012 article by Eli Lake (which was referenced repeatedly in the report), <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/06/21/member-of-egyptian-terror-group-goes-to-washington.html">Lake proclaims</a>, “Terrorists aren’t supposed to get visas. But Hani Nour Eldin was apparently invited to D.C. this week to meet with top officials. Did no one Google him?”</p>
<p>More than a year later it’s still not entirely clear why a known terrorist designated as such by the State Department was given a visa and allowed to meet with high ranking officials in the White House, giving him the ability to ask for the release of the mastermind of the first World Trade Center attack. This report seems to raise more questions than it answers.</p>
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		<title>50 Shades Of CIA</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Oleg Atbashian]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why reading erotic fiction out loud is now the top qualification for being a deputy CIA director. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/cia.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-194516" alt="cia" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/cia-450x299.jpg" width="270" height="179" /></a>President Obama, already known to his staff as a &#8220;<a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/09/10/Firestorm-Obama-Misses-Over-Half-His-Intelligence-Briefings-WH-Calls-Report-Hilarious" target="_blank">sophisticated&#8221; and &#8220;voracious&#8221; consumer of intelligence reports</a>, has just found a way to enhance his intelligence briefing experience even further, by choosing <a href="http://www.cosmopolitan.com/celebrity/news/avril-danica-haines" target="_blank">Avril Danica Haines</a>, whose resume includes <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/06/13/new-cia-2-pick-used-to-read-anne-rice-aloud-at-her-bookstore-s-erotica-night.html" target="_blank">reading erotic fiction out loud</a> to paying customers, as a new deputy CIA director.</p>
<p>Twenty years ago, after dropping out of a graduate program in physics, Haines co-owned a Baltimore book store, which featured regular &#8220;Erotica Nights&#8221; with readings of erotic prose over dinner (couples $30, singles $17). Apparently, the expertise she obtained in the process later qualified her to perform as a lawyer in the White House Counsel’s office in charge of the CIA&#8217;s undercover actions, now followed by the number-two position at the top spy agency, where she will be composing and reading provocative stories of crime and passion to the president directly.</p>
<p>This job was previously performed by <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/06/12/cia-deputy-director-morell-resigns/" target="_blank">Michael &#8220;Benghazi&#8221; Morell</a>, who resigned in disgrace after he was outed as the author of the scandalously indecent talking points on the 2012 attack on the U.S. consulate in Libya.</p>
<p>Avril Haines is likely to be a more competent replacement, given her know-how in motivating dirty old men <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/aug/10/executive-branch-porn-problem/" target="_blank">working in the Pentagon, ICE, Missile Defense Agency, TSA, Secret Service, and State Department</a>, to <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/09/29/workers-porn-surfing-rampant-federal-agency/" target="_blank">take their minds off internet porn</a> and actually interact with a live woman who has intimate knowledge of undercover operations, probing deeply together into the matter at hand. As an added bonus, President Obama is expected never again to miss <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-leadership/post/is-it-okay-for-president-obama-to-skip-some-daily-intelligence-briefings-share-your-thoughts/2012/09/11/4474e59c-fc26-11e1-b153-218509a954e1_blog.html" target="_blank">66 percent of daily intelligence meetings</a>.</p>
<p>Liberal policies have always been based on raw, knee-jerk emotions, best summed up in the title of a 1968 tune, &#8220;If it feels good, you know it can&#8217;t be wrong.&#8221; Taking the feel-good principle to a whole new level, this administration&#8217;s behavior has long resembled adventures of a sexually liberated woman in touch with her inner flower child; it stands to reason that they would eventually hire one. Expect more exciting foreign policy adventures driven by erotic sensations in response to international crises.</p>
<p>If the <a href="http://pjmedia.com/spengler/2013/06/18/syria-and-egypt-cant-be-fixed/" target="_blank">aftermath of the Arab Spring</a> is generating butterflies in the stomach, you know it can&#8217;t be wrong. In contrast, supporting the <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/05/07/mass-exodus-christians-from-muslim-world/" target="_blank">persecuted Christians in Egypt and elsewhere in the Muslim world</a> is a proven turnoff. But let&#8217;s try <a href="http://sago.com/2013/06/21/obama-to-send-u-s-troops-to-egypt-to-suppress-riots-against-muslim-brotherhood-regime/" target="_blank">sending U.S. troops to help suppress the opposition to Egypt&#8217;s Islamists regime</a> and see if causes a salacious tingling sensation. It does &#8211; let&#8217;s send even more troops! Let&#8217;s <a href="http://www.france24.com/en/20130622-us-military-presence-jordan-expands-1000-troops" target="_blank">send troops to Jordan</a> too. And let&#8217;s <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/06/13/us-confirms-chemical-weapons-syria/2420763/" target="_blank">give arms to Islamic fundamentalists in Syria</a>. Yes! It feels so good, it hurts!                        <wbr /></p>
<p>Political scientists may actually have an opportunity here to build an objective geopolitical scale by quantifying amorous body responses to international stimuli, ranging from Palestine&#8217;s aphrodisiac to Israel&#8217;s buzzkill. All other international entities, organizations, and movements can be arranged between these two extremes in the order of titillating magnitude: the ultimate liberal method of determining foreign policy, building alliances, and making permanent decisions based on fleeting emotions.</p>
<p>At a time when America is being screwed by just about every tyrannical, fundamentalist, and plutocratic international gangbanger, from China to Russia to the Middle East to Latin America, the appointment of an erotic aficionado to lead the nation&#8217;s top intelligence agency is quite symptomatic: if we can&#8217;t fight back, the next best thing is to get professional advice on how to lie back and enjoy the experience. Soft music and candlelight are optional.</p>
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