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Thursday, October 4, 2012
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Picking Winners and Losers?
California losers pick Obama
Victor Davis Hanson -- PJ Media -- October 1
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Victor Davis Hanson, Ph.D. Stanford (Bio)
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The Quiet Californians
The Obama Paradox
No state has suffered the last four years as much as has California — given that its progressive governor and legislative majorities serve as force multipliers for the Obama national agenda. We live in a 2X Obama state. And it is desirous for twelve or sixteen, not just four, more years in Washington.
The bluest state is polling at a 20 to 24 point lead for Barack Obama. Who cares that it is struggling with nearly 11% unemployment and facing a $16 billion budget shortfall? What does it matter that its public schools rated variously from 45th to 49th in the nation and that it is home to one-third of the nation's welfare recipients, forty percent of the nation's illegal aliens, and the largest prison population in the country? If Ohio supposedly has a million Obama-phones, I shudder to wonder how many are in California. [...]
I pick up the local paper: it has become a litany of rapes, murders, gang shootings, and molestations, peppered with drunk-driving fatalities and the uninsured and unlicensed who maim and kill routinely. The lurid tales of crime seem almost as if they come from a Sao Paulo suburb or the outskirts of Johannesburg. Yet the more violence, the more worry about insensitivity. [...]
How do sane people, without great wealth that might provide exemption from all this, cope? They tune out. |
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Los Angeles Daily News
Reconquista L.A.P.D. honcho won't turn over some illegals to ICE
 Los Angeles police will refuse to turn over some arrestees to federal immigration authorities under a new policy announced today by Chief Charlie Beck [buffoon shown at left]. -- Beck said the department won't honor Immigration and Customs Enforcement "detainer" requests for [illegal aliens] arrested for public nuisance offenses or low-grade misdemeanors... |
Anthony Martin -- The Examiner
Pundits across spectrum agree debate a game changer
 Common wisdom among political pundits prior to Wednesday night's debate between Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney and President Obama had it that Romney needed a game changer in this race, a moment side by side with Obama that would change perceptions and put the momentum on his side. -- He got it last night, according to pundits from across the political spectrum from liberal to conservative... |
NAFBPO Disturbing photos
Latest NAFBPO update from south of the border
 Piedras Negras, Coah., Mex. -- Five more gunmen have been killed in another shootout with the GATE unit. This a day after 4 bad guys were killed here. A vehicle and 2 rifles were seized. There have been increased clashes between police and gunmen in this border city across from Eagle Pass, Texas, since the escape of 131 prisoners from the prison here... |
Rick Oltman of The Immigration Tea Party -- The Examiner
Why didn't the 47% comment come up in last night's debate?
 Why didn't the 47% comment come up in last night's debate? Everybody is asking that question from the apoplectic Chris Matthews, to the superior Charles Krauthammer to Bill "Blinding Glimpse of the Bloody Obvious" O'Reilly. The people asking this question are obviously talking too much to each other and need to break out of their penthouse newsrooms... [More from Rick Oltman] |
Janice Kephart -- CIS.org sc
When tragedy is the hallmark of failed policy
 Mexican officials are confirming the arrest of two men in Mexico on Wednesday suspected in the death of a Border Patrol Agent. Reuters reports: "The two suspects detained in Mexico were arrested in a Mexican military operation in the city of Agua Prieta, in Mexico's northern Sonora state, a few miles (km) from the spot where Nicholas Ivie, 30, was shot dead", according to a Mexican Army officer... |
Star Parker -- Family Security Matters
To promote freedom abroad, practice it here
 Baseball player Yogi Berra once said, "You can see a lot just by looking" -- simple wisdom that President Barack Obama is not likely to heed. In order to see, you have to want to look at the truth that's actually out there. - With reality so different from how our president wishes to portray it, he has little interest in seeing things as they really are. -- The president delivered a "Kumbaya" appeal this past week... |
Gregory D. Lee -- Family Security Matters
California Democrats embrace criminals and illegal aliens
 Over the weekend, California Governor Jerry Brown signed two pieces of legislation that will satisfy his liberal constituents: convicted felons and illegal aliens. It makes conservatives like me cringe. -- Jerry, "Moonbeam" Brown signed SB9, allowing for the possibility of parole for 309 murderers who were convicted as juveniles and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole... |
Frank Gaffney, Jr. -- Family Security Matters
Obama lied after people died
 Suddenly, the President's new clothes seem embarrassingly transparent. The contention relentlessly promoted by Team Obama, to the effect that the Commander-in-Chief's performance with respect to foreign policy and national security was simply unassailable, is being seen for what it is: an utter fraud. -- The deal-breaker has been the accumulating evidence that President Obama and his subordinates... |
Family Security Matters
Obama's audio book culled of references to rabid communist
 You might recall TheBlaze's series of reports on Dr. Paul Kengor's powerful book, "The Communist," which offered a detailed account of the Communist Party ties of President Obama's longtime mentor, Frank Marshall Davis. "Frank," as he is referred to in Obama's memoir "Dreams From My Father," is mentioned multiple times in the print edition of the president's book, however, Kengor now reveals that all references to... |
Associated Press
Judge halts anti-fraud effort in New Mexico
 Republican Gov. Susana Martinez's administration agreed Wednesday to settle a lawsuit and not revive a plan to cancel the driver's licenses of immigrants who fail to verify whether they still live in the state. -- The administration announced the program last year but it was suspended by a state district court in Santa Fe after the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund filed a lawsuit... |
Daily Caller
U.S. importing welfare cases?
 The Department of Homeland Security missed their second deadline to explain the apparent dilution of immigration law barring those seeking entry to the United States from becoming “primarily dependent on the government for subsistence,” or a so-called public charge, to four GOP senators on Monday. -- The ranking Republicans on the Senate Finance, Agriculture, Budget, and Judiciary Committees have been pushing... |
Donald A. Collins -- VDare.com
Democrat puzzled by GOP silence on immigration policy moves
 Confusion reigns, predictions fly, commercials proliferate, but no one really is sure who will win the coveted Presidential elections despite ardent statements of certainty from many seasoned observers. Whoever wins may well rue his victory, given our pending problems. -- Meantime, in that state which so often leads in issue formulation (not necessarily for the better), Jerry Brown, the resurrected Democrat Governor, has just signed... |
Miami Herald
Obama appoints wife of Univision owner to UN diplomatic post
 President Barack Obama appointed Cheryl Saban, wife of the owner of Univision, as U.S. representative to the United Nations, according to reports from various news blogs. -- According to the Politico blog, Haim Saban, owner of the television network, backed Hillary Clinton in 2008, but during the summer donated $1 million to groups supporting the campaigns of Democrats. And according to another blog in Spanish of Yahoo... |
Carolina Journal -- Raleigh, NC
Holder's brother appears to be employing invaders
 U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder's brother, William Holder, apparently employs illegal foreign workers at one or more of the four McDonald's restaurants he and his wife Deborah purchased last year in Wake County, a Carolina Journal investigation has found. -- A CJ reporter made approximately 30 visits in September to observe and talk with workers at the restaurants... |
FenceViewer.com -- Hancock County, Maine
Feds arrest, deport yet another invader
 A Jamaican national who caught the attention of police earlier this summer was arrested by Federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents (ICE) Sept. 26 and taken out of town for deportation. -- Clive Tyrell, 35, was picked up by Officer Dustin Tierney at his workplace, Hinckley's Cottages, at the request of the ICE agents. -- "They interviewed him, determined he was in the country illegally..." |
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Mitt Romney dominated the critical first presidential debate Wednesday night, landing punch after punch on a noticeably subdued President Obama. -- The GOP nominee came into the evening needing to shake up the narrative of the race, and he appeared to succeed. -- Throughout the 90-minute debate in Denver, the first showdown of the presidential contest... [