tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-129484312024-03-07T15:26:01.241-08:00Chairman Ku's Little Blue Book<b>"10,000 years. . .10,000 years. . ."</b>
<i>Bai hua qi fang, bai jia zheng ming</i>: A hundred flowers bloom, a hundred schools of thought contend
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<b>Comments on History, Politics, Society, and Culture</b>Chairman Kuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00602366579114182913noreply@blogger.comBlogger2233125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12948431.post-17853066784605696612015-09-17T12:01:00.002-07:002015-09-17T12:01:13.950-07:00DEMOCRATS AND THE IRAN DEAL<a href="http://freebeacon.com/national-security/democrats-explain-the-iran-deal/">Democrats</a> are critical of the Iran deal but they stand behind the president in this agreement. The next few years will see if their gamble in supporting the president pays off.<br />
<span style="color: red;"><br />Top congressional Democrats have done a great job laying out the terms of the Iran nuclear deal, a Free Beacon SuperCut finds.<br /><br />These members of Congress explained how Iran will ramp up its campaign of terrorism and Middle East destabilization with funds gained through the nuclear deal. They expressed “concern”—grave concern, even—over key concessions such as the curtailment of inspections on Iran’s military sites, the removal of a ban on arms sales to Iran, and the 15-year sunset clause on restrictions to Iran’s ability to enrich nuclear material.<br /><br />Still, as other Democrats have unceasingly reminded us, the Iran deal was ultimately an inviolable vote of conscience for each member of Congress.</span>Chairman Kuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00602366579114182913noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12948431.post-63286975625408653542015-09-16T19:04:00.003-07:002015-09-16T19:13:41.614-07:00REPUBLICAN DEBATE, SEPTEMBER 2015Great lines:<br />
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<span style="color: red;"> Fiorina responded to Trump’s attack on her business career by attacking his. She said that Washington politicians had run up huge amounts of debt, and pointed out that Trump had done so in some of his business ventures in Atlantic City, N.J.<br /><br />“That is precisely the way you ran your companies. You ran up mountains of debt, as well as losses, using other people’s money,” Fiorina said. “Why should we trust you to manage the finances of this nation?”</span><br />
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Chairman Kuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00602366579114182913noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12948431.post-59277615481565185412015-09-15T11:02:00.001-07:002015-09-15T11:02:14.061-07:00WHO TO HOLD RESPONSIBLE FOR THE MIDDLE EAST REFUGEE CRISIS<a href="http://www.the-american-interest.com/2015/09/15/fecklessness-101/">The American Interest</a>. "Fecklessness 101." Did the Obama administration miss a chance to solve the Syrian crisis in 2012?<br />
<br /><span style="color: red;">Apparently the Obama administration turned down a Russian offer to dump Assad… because the Administration was sure he was going to fall on his own. The Guardian <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/15/west-ignored-russian-offer-in-2012-to-have-syrias-assad-step-aside?CMP=share_btn_tw">reports</a>:<br /><br />[Former Finnish president and Nobel peace prize laureate Martti] Ahtisaari held talks with envoys from the five permanent members of the UN security council in February 2012. He said that during those discussions, the Russian ambassador, Vitaly Churkin, laid out a three-point plan, which included a proposal for Assad to cede power at some point after peace talks had started between the regime and the opposition.But he said that the US, Britain and France were so convinced that the Syrian dictator was about to fall, they ignored the proposal.</span><br />
Glenn Reynolds. <i><a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2015/09/10/obama-hillary-clinton-middle-east-debacles-column/71949834/">USA Today</a></i>. "The Obama-Hillary Mideast Debacles."<br />
<span style="color: red;"><br />Obama <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/assad-must-go-obama-says/2011/08/18/gIQAelheOJ_story.html">initially called</a> for the removal of Syrian President Bashar Assad, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/27/world/middleeast/security-council-agrees-on-resolution-to-rid-syria-of-chemical-arms.html">only to back down</a> in the face of opposition from Vladimir Putin. Since then, the United States has postured a bit, but done nothing of consequence. The signal to our enemies: It’s safe to ignore us. The signal to our friends: It’s foolish to rely on us.<br /><br />Now, as the war in Syria has expanded — with the U.S. <a href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/covert-cia-mission-to-arm-syrian-rebels-goes-awry-1422329582">arming and supporting</a> various groups that have shown a disturbing tendency to take our guns and then switch sides — refugees are <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2015/09/09/syrian-refugee-crisis-american-role-increase-resettlement-column/71929100/">flooding</a> Europe. It is, as Ron Radosh correctly states, <a href="http://pjmedia.com/ronradosh/2015/09/07/barack-obamas-refugee-crisis/">Barack Obama’s refugee problem</a>.<br /><br />This would be bad enough if Syria were the Obama administration’s only foreign policy misstep, but instead it is merely representative of a larger problem. President Obama<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/01/20/four-months-ago-obama-called-yemens-war-on-terror-a-success-now-the-yemeni-government-may-fall/">bragged about Yemen</a> as a showpiece of his administration’s anti-terror program’s success; a few months later, Yemen was <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2015/02/12/militants-yemen-military/23280747/">taken over</a> by terrorists and now an ugly civil war, <a href="http://preview.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2015/09/05/saudi-troops-killed-yemen-rebel-attack/71766998/">featuring Saudi troops</a>, rages there. The administration’s responses, as even the Obama-friendly Vox.com notes, have been ”<a href="http://www.vox.com/2015/3/27/8299721/obama-yemen-quotes">cringe-worthy</a>.”</span>Chairman Kuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00602366579114182913noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12948431.post-901487016248167232015-09-13T18:48:00.000-07:002015-09-13T18:48:10.608-07:00THE REFUGEE CRISIS: FAILURE OF EUROPE, ARABS, AND ISLAMWalter Russell Mead. <a href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-roots-of-the-migration-crisis-1441995372">The Wall Street Journal</a>. "The Roots of the Migration Crisis."<br />
<br /><span style="color: red;">The Syrian refugee disaster is a result of the Middle East’s failure to grapple with modernity and Europe’s failure to defend its ideals.<br /><br />What we are witnessing today is a crisis of two civilizations: The Middle East and Europe are both facing deep cultural and political problems that they cannot solve. The intersection of their failures and shortcomings has made this crisis much more destructive and dangerous than it needed to be—and carries with it the risk of more instability and more war in a widening spiral.</span><div>
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<span style="color: red;">The crisis in the Middle East has to do with much more than the breakdown of order in Syria and Libya. It runs deeper than the poisonous sectarian and ethnic hatreds behind the series of wars stretching from Pakistan to North Africa. At bottom, we are witnessing the consequences of a civilization’s failure either to overcome or to accommodate the forces of modernity. One hundred years after the fall of the Ottoman Empire and 50 years after the French left Algeria, the Middle East has failed to build economies that allow ordinary people to live with dignity, has failed to build modern political institutions and has failed to carve out the place of honor and respect in world affairs that its peoples seek.</span><div>
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<span style="color: red;">"We are a nauseating nation," wrote the Saudi journalist 'Ali Sa'd Al-Moussa in Al-Watan on September 5, in reaction to images of Syrians and other refugees fleeing to Europe. The "nation" he was angrily condemning was not only Saudi Arabia, but the greater Arab world. It is a world, he lamented, "that kills people for their opinions or affiliation. Compare [this] to the parallel image: in the central train station in Munich, dozens of German citizens gather to welcome the first train arriving from Budapest carrying hundreds of immigrants...<br /><br />"Stop talking about the hypocrisy of [Western] morals and values, because reality exposes nothing but our own ugly countenance."</span>Chairman Kuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00602366579114182913noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12948431.post-3104382536415984952015-09-12T07:02:00.001-07:002015-09-12T07:02:29.997-07:00OBAMA SUPPORTERSIf this is the best Obama supporters can do, the president has a problem! Surely you would come prepared to say something his administration has accomplished.<br />
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<br />Chairman Kuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00602366579114182913noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12948431.post-9101749045971238012015-09-11T13:47:00.001-07:002015-09-11T13:47:57.722-07:00ANOTHER 9/11 ATTACK COMING?Former <a href="http://www.aol.com/article/2015/09/11/former-cia-and-dia-operatives-warn-of-another-9-11-attack/21234570/?icid=maing-fluid%7Cbon-btest2%7Cdl1%7Csec1_lnk2%26pLid%3D-632630361">U.S. intelligence officials</a> are giving the warning. Also an interesting interview with a former intelligence operative.<br />
<span style="color: red;"><br />The United States could be facing another 9/11 attack as factions grow deeper among the Taliban, al-Qaida and the Islamic State group, especially with the recently confirmed death of the Taliban's one-eyed leader Mullah Omar, according to a senior U.S. lawmaker, federal law enforcement and intelligence officials.<br /><br />The tensions between Islamic State group, also known as ISIS or ISIL, and the Taliban is as dangerous a national security threat to the United States as it was before the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, said Brian Fairchild, who spent two decades with the CIA and has testified before Congress on terrorism.</span>Chairman Kuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00602366579114182913noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12948431.post-38651463375567323822015-09-11T13:42:00.000-07:002015-09-18T13:18:47.539-07:00INTELLIGENCE BEING MANIPULATEDThe <i><a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/09/09/exclusive-50-spies-say-isis-intelligence-was-cooked.html">Daily Beast </a></i>is reporting that fifty intelligence analysts are saying the Obama administration is tinkering with their reports. . .a very serious charge. The Obama administration has been trying to paint a rosy picture, but the intelligence may not support this rosy view.<br />
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<span style="color: red;">More than 50 intelligence analysts working out of the U.S. military’s Central Command have formally complained that their reports on <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/features/isis.html">ISIS</a> and al Qaeda’s branch in Syria were being inappropriately altered by senior officials, The Daily Beast has learned.<br /><br />The complaints spurred the Pentagon’s inspector general to open an investigation into the alleged manipulation of intelligence. The fact that so many people complained suggests there are deep-rooted, systemic problems in how the U.S. military <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/06/17/the-war-on-isis-is-a-drone-war.html">command</a> charged with the war against the self-proclaimed Islamic State assesses intelligence.<br /><br />“The cancer was within the senior level of the intelligence command,” one defense official said.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">Is anyone really surprised by this? Remember all the complaints Democrats made about how the Bush administration manipulated intelligence in order to get us into war with Iraq over non-existent WMD’s? Official investigation after investigation showed they didn’t, but the false claim that “Bush lied and people died’ still haunts the memory of that war–and the sacrifice Americans made fighting and dying in it. </span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><br />It’s happening again. A White House fumbling with the violent mess of Iraq finds itself surrounded by mounting accusations that it’s played dirty games with intelligence. A Pentagon facing charges that its analysts have skewed assessments on Iraq to tell top policymakers what they want to hear, rather than what is really happening in that troubled country.<br /><br />If this sounds terribly familiar, it should. Only a dozen years after the George W. Bush White House was buffeted by allegations that it had “cherry-picked” intelligence to justify its 2003 invasion of Iraq, Barack Obama is facing similar accusations. Intelligence Community analysts alleged that, in the run-up to Operation Iraqi Freedom, they were pressured to exaggerate Saddam’s weapons of mass destruction. Now, analysts claim that they have been pushed to present Obama’s war against the Islamic State as more successful than it really is.<br /><br />Only the most optimistic Obama backers still portray that year-long air campaign (its proper name is <a href="http://www.defense.gov/News/Special-Reports/0814_Inherent-Resolve">Operation Inherent Resolve</a>) as adequate, and most security experts agree that the Islamic State is winning the war on the ground, thanks in part to an American-led air war that is bombing too little and too cautiously. There is no indication that Western airpower is anywhere near inflicting decisive pain on the Islamic State, while our Iraqi partners, who serve as the ground anvil for the U.S. airborne hammer, increasingly feel <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/27/world/middleeast/with-isis-in-crosshairs-us-holds-back-to-protect-civilians.html">left in the lurch</a> by Obama.</span></div>
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Chairman Kuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00602366579114182913noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12948431.post-738679462410229822015-09-11T08:20:00.000-07:002015-09-11T08:20:00.585-07:00CLINTON REFUSED TO GIVE OK TO KILL BIN LADEN<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Chairman Kuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00602366579114182913noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12948431.post-15481742332556187392015-09-09T13:46:00.000-07:002015-09-09T14:05:24.740-07:00KIM DAVIS Wow. An article advocating burning the Christian, Kim Davis, because of her stand on homosexual marriage. Michael Brendan Dougherty, <i><a href="http://theweek.com/articles/575247/burn-kim-davis">This Week</a></i>. "Burn Kim Davis."<br />
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<span style="color: red;">Any normal punishment rewards her with the comfort of solidarity from right-wing Christians, or her own sense of moral self-approval. Therefore the only way to avoid granting her such "martyrdom" is to actually martyr her. That's the really perverse thing about Christians who make a spectacle like this. The only way the state can really punish them is to inform them that their suffering is meaningless and proving that God doesn't exist by sending them to the darkness of oblivion in torment. Justice Kennedy has issued his theological bull; let Kentucky officials in defiance of it be put on a pyre.<br /><br />When the smoke settles there will be no GoFundMe campaign, save perhaps for a small carbon offset.</span><br />
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Chairman Kuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00602366579114182913noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12948431.post-87543070751505338712015-09-08T09:14:00.000-07:002015-09-11T08:30:27.558-07:00SYRIAN REFUGEE CRISIS: WHO IS TO BLAME?Roger Cohen. <i><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/11/opinion/roger-cohen-obamas-syrian-nightmare.html?_r=1">New York Times</a></i>. "Obama's Syrian Nightmare." (He does not mention Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden's roles.)<br />
<span style="color: red;"><br />Syria will be the biggest blot on the Obama presidency, a debacle of staggering proportions. For more than four years now, the war has festered. A country has been destroyed, four million Syrians are refugees, Islamic State has moved into the vacuum and President Bashar al-Assad still drops barrel bombs whose shrapnel and chlorine rip women and children to shreds.<br /><br />At multiple stages, if Obama could have mustered the will, the belief in American power, there were options. The Syrian aircraft dropping those barrel bombs could have been taken out. A safe area for refugees might have been created. Arming the rebels early and massively might have changed the course of the war. Counterfactuals, of course, don’t carry much weight. We will never know. We only know the facts of the Syrian nightmare now seeping, in various forms, into the West. Syria, broken, will be the rift that keeps on giving.<br /><br />In Libya, Obama bombed and abandoned. In Afghanistan, Obama surged and retreated. In Syria, Obama talked and wavered. He has been comfortable with the pinpoint use of force — the killing of Osama bin Laden for example — but uncomfortable with American military power.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">This may be the most surprising of President Obama’s foreign-policy legacies: not just that he presided over a humanitarian and cultural disaster of epochal proportions, but that he soothed the American people into feeling no responsibility for the tragedy.<br /><br />Starvation in Biafra a generation ago sparked a movement. Synagogues and churches a decade ago mobilized to relieve misery in Darfur. When the Taliban in 2001 <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/05/AR2011030504131.html">destroyed ancient statues</a> of Buddha at Bamiyan, the world was appalled at the lost heritage.<br /><br />When Obama pulled all U.S. troops out of Iraq, critics worried there would be instability; none envisioned the emergence of a full-blown terrorist state. When he <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/assad-must-go-obama-says/2011/08/18/gIQAelheOJ_story.html">announced in August 2011</a> that “the time has come for President Assad to step aside,” critics worried the words might prove empty — but few imagined the extent of the catastrophe: not just the savagery of chemical weapons and “barrel bombs,” but also the Islamic State’s recruitment of thousands of foreign fighters, its spread from Libya to Afghanistan, the danger to the U.S. homeland that has alarmed U.S. intelligence officials, the refugees destabilizing Europe.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">While many foreign leaders have spoken out, there is one who has said not a word. That leader, as you most probably can guess, is Barack Obama. And how could he? His policies, after all, have ended in this tragedy. It is, as <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-horrific-results-of-obamas-strategy-in-syria/2015/09/03/c16c117a-526c-11e5-933e-7d06c647a395_story.html">Michael Gerson</a> writes in a powerful Washington Post column, the result of his failure in Syria.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;"><br />This metastasizing catastrophe is not the result of famine or drought or disease. It is man-made and should have been prevented.<br /><br />But that would have required leaders with the moral conviction of Roosevelt and Churchill. Instead, America and Great Britain are led by frat boys.<br /><br />Barack Obama and David Cameron indulged themselves in the delusion that human nature had magically changed and the world would take care of itself while they gutted the arsenals of democracy.<br /><br />History will record their fecklessness, and that of France, Germany and the other once-great powers. That is, unless history itself is erased by the madmen of Islamic State.<br /><br />Not content to slaughter those they deem infidels and apostates, the would-be Hitlers are cleansing Syria and Iraq of its ancient temples and artifacts. They aim to control the past as well as the future.</span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><br />The Europeans, to be sure, are a pack of cynical hypocrites. If they had cared about Syrians, they might have sent a couple of brigades of soldiers to fight ISIS. But not a single European will risk his neck to prevent humanitarian catastrophe. The last time European soldiers got close to real trouble, in Srebrenica in 1995, Dutch peacekeepers stood aside while Bosnian Serbs massacred 8,000 Muslims.<br /><br />The horror has now piled up on Europe’s doorstep, thanks evidently to the skill of Turkish gangs who have turned the Turkey-to-Balkans smuggling route into a superhighway. Europe said and did nothing while the global refugee count exploded from 40 million in 2010 to 60 million in 2014, according to the UN High Commission on Refugees, but was shocked, shocked to find such people on its doorstep.</span><br />
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Lee Smith. <i><a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/obama-avoided-syria-action-help-iran-negotiations_1027276.html">The Weekly Standard</a></i>. "Obama Avoided Syrian Action to Help Iran Negotiations."<br />
<span style="color: red;"><br />Obama decided to steer clear of the Syrian conflict not just to avoid doing anything, but just as importantly, to avoid damaging Iranian interests in Syria. As Obama <a href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/obama-wrote-secret-letter-to-irans-khamenei-about-fighting-islamic-state-1415295291">wrote</a> Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei, “the U.S.’s military operations inside Syria aren’t targeted at Mr. Assad or his security forces.” Obama didn’t do anything to bring down Assad because he was afraid it might anger the Syrian president’s patrons in Iran, and getting a nuclear deal with Iran was Obama’s foreign policy priority. <br /><br />There is plenty that Obama might have done to support Syrian rebels— an opposition he <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/09/opinion/president-obama-thomas-l-friedman-iraq-and-world-affairs.html?_r=1">derided</a> as “former doctors, farmers, pharmacists”—without ever risking putting American forces on the ground in Syria. By 2013, all his national security cabinet officials—Leon Panetta, David Petraeus, Hillary Clinton, Susan Rice, Thomas Donilon, et al.—<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/23/world/middleeast/obamas-uncertain-path-amid-syria-bloodshed.html">argued</a> for supporting Syrian rebel units.<br /><br />Obama however kept his eyes on the prize: the Iran deal. Same when it came to enforcing the red line he drew against Assad’s use of chemical weapons. No one in their right mind believes that firing missiles on Assad regime facilities was likely to compel the White House to land forces in Syria. Obama’s concern rather was that if the United States signaled that it was no longer protecting Assad it might turn the balance of power against the Syrian regime. But that of course would anger the Iranians, and all Obama wanted was an accommodation with the regime—and now he has one in the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. </span></div>
Chairman Kuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00602366579114182913noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12948431.post-69686845007871522452015-05-28T07:11:00.001-07:002015-09-15T11:04:39.979-07:00CAMPAIGN ADVERTISING (?) FOR THE 2016 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONI may get overwhelmed with ads and I am sure I will miss some, but I thought I would start a collection of clever campaign ads.<br />
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BERNIE SANDERS<br />
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<li>From <a href="http://reason.com/blog/2015/05/27/introducing-the-bernie-sanders-save-the">Reason</a>. "Introducing the Bernie Sanders Save the Children Fund."</li>
<li><a href="http://pjmedia.com/diaryofamadvoter/2015/09/15/high-noon-carson-versus-trump/">Ben Carson</a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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the new John Wayne!</li>
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???Chairman Kuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00602366579114182913noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12948431.post-69928366344759545012015-05-27T18:47:00.000-07:002015-05-27T18:47:47.478-07:00SITUATION OF AMERICA IN THE WORLD<a href="http://www.foxnews.com/transcript/2015/05/27/bill-oreilly-war-and-peace-in-usa/">Bill O'Reilly</a> summarizes all of the problems facing American today because of the incompetence in Washington. He could probably add a few more.<br />
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Some O'Reilly comments:<br />
<ul>
<li><span style="color: red;">Even though President Obama promised to confront ISIS and downgrade it -- that has not happened.So while ISIS is burning human beings alive, Congresswoman Pelosi is concerned about the social media aspect of the struggle.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: red;">Harry Reid is blaming congress (Republican-controlled) for not doing more to support Obama against ISIS--></span>O'Reilly thinks this is crazy because many congressman are wanting a reluctant Obama to do more.</li>
<li><span style="color: red;">Recently Secretary of State John Kerry met with Putin promising him sanctions would be lifted if he promised to stop seizing more territory. That must have delighted Vlad Putin who I have nicknamed Vlad the invader as he saw once again the U.S.A. desperately trying to appease him.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: red;">China -- that country is now expanding in the specific, seizing territory that does not belong to it and developing its military in a dramatic way. China seeks to dominate Southeast Asia and understands it can now expand without any consequence from the West.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: red;">Next up: a phony nuke deal with Iran that will empower that villainous country. God help the next president of the United States.</span></li>
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Chairman Kuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00602366579114182913noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12948431.post-2073421155997297382015-05-21T09:08:00.000-07:002015-05-21T09:08:49.703-07:00SHEMITAH<div>
<span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Some people have excitedly sent me emails about the Shemitah (Leviticus 25) and its application to America as a result of reading Jonathan Cahn's book, <i>The Harbinger</i>, and watching him on TV. They believe wholeheartedly in what Cahn is saying, but I am a bit of a "Berean" and want to make sure it is not just a false hermeneutic.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">I have been trying to find if there is a biblical basis to Shemitah and other Old Testament prophecies for America today. I am a bit late in reading Jonathan Cahn's the <i>Harbinger</i>. It is not a well-written book, but he tries to build the case for God working in events in America based on a verse in Isaiah and 7 & 50 year cycles related to the jubilee years. America is in trouble but are his interpretations accurate? It is clear that God judges nations, but is America's judgment a result of prophecies in Isaiah written to the nation of Israel or more because we are a nation violating God's moral principles (Romans 1)?</span></span><br />
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I am also concerned because money and marketing are involved and in addition after doing some internet reading, some people are seeing signs in some strange things like the number "7" on a cow's face. It also strikes me a bit like the old "British Israelism" heresy that was using Old Testament verses to argue the British people descended from Israel and were finding Old Testament verses to support its case.</div>
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Here is an ad for a $20.00 DVD arguing Cahn's case: <a href="http://www.prophecynewswatch.com/featured.html" style="color: blue; cursor: pointer;" target="_blank">http://www.prophecynewswatch.com/featured.html</a>. But on YouTube you can see a number of interviews. He is a very good speaker.</div>
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Here are a couple of people who are questioning his biblical interpretation. These critics may be wrong, but they do point up issues and failures of the 7 year cycle to have any apparent consistent impact looking back into recent history.</div>
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<li><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="http://www.examiner.com/article/shemitah-year-of-2015-may-bring-financial-upheaval" style="color: blue; cursor: pointer;" target="_blank">http://www.examiner.com/article/shemitah-year-of-2015-may-bring-financial-upheaval</a></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="http://standupforthetruth.com/2014/09/will-christians-snookered-shemitah/" style="color: blue; cursor: pointer;" target="_blank">http://standupforthetruth.com/2014/09/will-christians-snookered-shemitah/</a></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="http://www.biblicalintegrity.org/2014/09/19/mystery-of-the-shemitah/" style="color: blue; cursor: pointer;" target="_blank">http://www.biblicalintegrity.org/2014/09/19/mystery-of-the-shemitah/</a></span></li>
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Chairman Kuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00602366579114182913noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12948431.post-44257679176285979082015-05-19T17:19:00.000-07:002015-05-19T17:19:02.507-07:00FALL OF RAMADI<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">This is a pivotal
turning point showing the failure of U.S. policy and also it is a slap in the
face to the U.S. soldiers who died there not to mention the tens of thousands
of Iraqis who have been and will be killed. Here is a summary of reports
on Ramadi’s takeover by ISIS (although it may be more than you want to read).
But it does show a wide consensus among policy analysts that the fall of
Ramadi is a disaster. Everything the administration has said and done is
quickly degenerating in the Middle East.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Democrats before the War
Started:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5p-qIq32m8">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5p-qIq32m8</a>
Before Bush Democrats were arguing
that Saddam was a threat.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="background: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;">Stop It, Liberals: Bush Didn’t Lie About Iraq Having WMDs:</span></b><span style="background: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;"> <i>The Daily Caller</i>. <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2015/05/18/stop-it-liberals-bush-didnt-lie-about-iraq-having-wmds/">http://dailycaller.com/2015/05/18/stop-it-liberals-bush-didnt-lie-about-iraq-having-wmds/</a>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">There is
plenty of criticism that can be leveled against George W. Bush’s decision to
invade Iraq in 2003, but he didn’t deliberately mislead the
country about Iraq possessing weapons of mass destruction (WMD).</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="background: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;">Obama: Don’t Stay in Iraq over Genocide:</span></b><span style="background: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;"> NBC News. <a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/id/19862711/ns/politics-decision_08/t/obama-dont-stay-iraq-over-genocide/#.VVtQrPlVikp"><b>http://www.nbcnews.com/id/19862711/ns/politics-decision_08/t/obama-dont-stay-iraq-over-</b>genocide/#.VVtQrPlVikp</a> From 2007.
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Democratic presidential
hopeful Barack Obama said Thursday the United States cannot use its military to
solve humanitarian problems and that preventing a potential genocide in Iraq
isn’t a good enough reason to keep U.S. forces there.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;">The Painful Loss of Ramadi:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;"> From the <i>Atlantic</i>.
<a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/05/the-painful-loss-of-ramadi/393566/">http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/05/the-painful-loss-of-ramadi/393566/</a>
Washington is arguing that Ramadi's fall is not a problem, but they
obviously have to defend the administration's decisions. </span><span style="background: white; font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;">Even
as the Islamic State takeover of the capital city of Iraq’s largest province
seemed nearly complete on Sunday, the Pentagon<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="http://www.france24.com/en/20150518-us-says-situation-ramadi-contested-after-claims-takeover?ns_campaign=reseaux_sociaux&ns_source=twitter&ns_mchannel=social&ns_linkname=editorial&aef_campaign_ref=partage_aef&aef_campaign_date=2015-05-18&dlvrit=66745"><span style="background: white; color: #458cd5; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">continued to argue</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white;"> </span><span style="background: white;">that the situation was still “fluid and contested.” That
assessment<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/police-military-retreat-from-key-iraqi-city-seized-by-islamic-state/2015/05/17/60e2da12-fc92-11e4-805c-c3f407e5a9e9_story.html"><span style="background: white; color: #458cd5; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">was countered</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white;"> </span><span style="background: white;">by reports that “</span>hundreds
of police personnel, soldiers and tribal fighters abandoned the city,” leaving
it and a<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/18/world/middleeast/isis-ramadi-iraq.html"><span style="color: #458cd5; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">“large store” of
American weapons</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>in
ISIS hands. The BBC<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-32777138"><span style="color: #458cd5; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">cited</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>a statement “purportedly from IS”
claiming that the city had been “purged.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;">It
was also a development that American officials not only didn’t prefer, but
evidently didn’t see coming a month ago, when a senior U.S. official<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/04/13/iraq-eyes-small-steps-for-big-gains-against-islamic-state/"><span style="color: #458cd5; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">told</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><em>Foreign Policy</em><span class="apple-converted-space"><i> </i></span>it was unlikely that Shiite militias would fight the Islamic
State in Anbar. The Iraqi government’s
growing reliance on Shiite militias to fight ISIS has the potential to
undermine American-trained Iraqi security forces. And the fall of Ramadi
despite a U.S. air campaign aimed at blunting ISIS’s momentum shows the limits
of the American strategy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="background: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;">The World Will Blame President Obama if Iraq
Falls: </span></b><span style="background: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;">From the National Journal. <a href="http://www.nationaljournal.com/white-house/the-world-will-blame-president-obama-if-iraq-falls-20140807">http://www.nationaljournal.com/white-house/the-world-will-blame-president-obama-if-iraq-falls-20140807</a> Not so sure this will happen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;">A decade later and
after millions of American dollars, thousands of casualties, and seemingly
hundreds of different policies, Iraq is very much broken. Even though he has
boasted of "ending" the U.S. role in the war and even though he
didn't create the situation, Obama very much owns the mess. And he finds
himself on a timetable not of his choosing and very much at odds with his policy</span>.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;">What Kind of Iraq Did Obama Inherit: </span></b><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;">Commentary</span></i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;">. <a href="https://www.commentarymagazine.com/2014/06/19/what-kind-of-iraq-did-obama-inherit/">https://www.commentarymagazine.com/2014/06/19/what-kind-of-iraq-did-obama-inherit/</a> In 2010 White House officials told Larry King
that things were going well in Iraq. So
it is not “Bush’s Fault.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;">A
fair-minded reading of the facts, I think, shows that when Mr. Obama was sworn
in, the Iraq war had more or less been won. Things were fragile to be sure. But
the errors that were made during the occupation of Iraq following the fall of
Saddam, which were extremely costly, were corrected in 2007. That was when
President Bush made what is in my estimation his most impressive decision. In
the face of enormous political opposition, with the nation weary of the war,
Mr. Bush implemented a new counterinsurgency strategy, dubbed the “surge” and
led by the estimable General David Petraeus. It resulted in startling gains.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;">To
sum up, then: post-surge, Iraq was making significant progress on virtually
every front. The Obama administration said as much. The president was not
engaged or eager to sign a new SOFA. A full withdrawal was the right decision.
His own top advisers admitted as much. The president had long argued he wanted
all American troops out of Iraq during his presidency, and he got his wish. He
met his goal.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="background: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;">Obama’s ISIS Strategy Takes a Hit:</span></b><span style="background: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;"> <i>The Hill</i>. <a href="http://thehill.com/policy/defense/242434-obamas-isis-strategy-takes-new-hit">http://thehill.com/policy/defense/242434-obamas-isis-strategy-takes-new-hit</a>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;">The
White House on Monday acknowledged the seizure represents a “setback” but
signaled it is unlikely to alter its approach to combatting ISIS, which relies
on U.S.-led airstrikes and training Iraqi security forces to fight the ground
war. </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="background: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;">Obama’s Middle East Policy is in a State of
Collapse:</span></b><span style="background: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;"> Powerline.
<a href="http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2015/05/obamas-middle-east-policy-is-in-a-state-of-collapse.php">http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2015/05/obamas-middle-east-policy-is-in-a-state-of-collapse.php</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">It seems as
though things couldn’t possibly get worse, but they almost certainly will. We
are seeing the fruit of a set of policies that were based on the false premise
that problems in the Middle East are mostly the fault of the United States. Not
only were such policies misbegotten, they have been executed incompetently. The
resulting collapse is occurring with sickening speed.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="background: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;">Pentagon:
Islam State on The Defensive, Just not in Ramadi: </span></b><span style="background: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;"> <i>Foreign Policy</i>. <a href="http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/05/18/pentagon-islamic-state-on-the-defensive-just-not-in-ramadi/">http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/05/18/pentagon-islamic-state-on-the-defensive-just-not-in-ramadi/</a> The Pentagon spins the situation, but where
do we have ISIL on the “defensive”?—Mosul has also fallen within the past year. What will happen if Baghdad falls? The Pentagon is shifting the blame to Iraqi
leaders, but the administration got rid of all of Bush’s Iraqi leaders for
these guys who they are now saying a bad leaders. Go figure.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="background: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;">Bob Gates:
“U.S. Has no Middle East Strategy “at all”: </span></b><span style="background: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;">Politico. <a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2015/05/robert-gates-us-no-middle-east-strategy-118083.html">http://www.politico.com/story/2015/05/robert-gates-us-no-middle-east-strategy-118083.html</a>
Gates says the US is playing it “day by
day”—this is not a strategy! What could
go wrong?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Angeles Times</i>. <a href="http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-terror-threat-20150518-story.html#page=1">http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-terror-threat-20150518-story.html#page=1</a>
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Chairman Kuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00602366579114182913noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12948431.post-30884859722477679932014-11-19T13:29:00.001-08:002014-11-19T13:29:39.338-08:00JEWISH STEREOTYPES<a href="http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/gallery/2014/nov/14/invention-jewish-nose/?insrc=hpss">Sara Lipton</a> writes about how Jews were stereotyped since the Middle Ages. . .big noses, certain clothing, etc. But the stereotypes change over time.<br />
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<br />Chairman Kuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00602366579114182913noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12948431.post-33580325373598148052014-11-10T09:04:00.001-08:002014-11-10T09:04:29.202-08:00AFFORDABLE CARE ACTThe charges of those opposing Obamacare have finally been proven. The architect, <a href="http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2014/11/obamacare-architect-admits-democrats-lied-to-stupid-americans-to-pass-obamacare-video/">Jonathan Gruber</a>, admits that language was used to mislead about the costs and impact of the law.Watch the video.<br />
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<span style="color: red;"><strong style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic;">Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage.</strong><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic;"> And, basically, call it </span><strong style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic;">the stupidity of the American voter</strong><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic;"> or whatever, but basically that was really </span><strong style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic;">very very critical to get the thing to pass.</strong><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic;"> And, you know, it’s the second best argument. I wish Mark was right we could make this transparent but I would rather have this law than not.”</span></span>Chairman Kuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00602366579114182913noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12948431.post-37040787877554607592014-11-05T08:35:00.002-08:002014-11-05T08:35:26.831-08:00THE NATION OF ISRAELA <a href="http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/article/jew-nations-global-demonization-israel">book review</a> of "How the UN Became Anti-Israel" by Joshua Muravchik. <br />
<span style="color: red;"><br />Can there be any doubt that Israel is the most reviled country in the world today? No other nation engenders as much scorn, whether measured in newspaper column inches, street protests, or computer pixels. The only aspect of the hatred more disturbing than its virulent omnipresence is how out of proportion it is to Israel’s real (and alleged) wrongdoing. North Korea functions as a vast gulag, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad deploys chemical weapons on children, and the Castro brothers have ruled despotically over their Cuban island fiefdom for five decades running, but none of these dictatorial regimes invite anywhere near the scrutiny, never mind spittle-flecked loathing, engendered by the Jewish democratic state. A majority of Europeans, according to polls, consider this tiny country of eight million people to be the greatest threat to world peace. An Israeli soldier fires a rubber bullet in the West Bank and it will generate venomous crowds in cities around the globe; Iranian paramilitary basij forces murder peaceful demonstrators in broad daylight and the world emits barely a peep of protest.<br /><br />Why the Jewish state generates such disproportionate anger is the subject of Joshua Muravchik’s thorough and careful study,</span>Chairman Kuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00602366579114182913noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12948431.post-28549989631692218492014-10-27T09:48:00.001-07:002014-10-27T09:48:02.824-07:00BUMBLING IN THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATIONHeadline from <a href="http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/10/susan-rice-chuck-hagel-team-of-bumblers-112208.html?ml=m_t1_2h#.VE51YvnF-Sq">Politico</a>; "Team of Bumblers? Are Susan Rice and Chuck Hagel equal to today’s new national-security challenges."<br />
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This is pretty tough criticism coming from the more liberal Politico. The response to the ISIS threat was clearly muddled.<br /><br /><span style="color: red;">Unfortunately, the White House failed to consult with the Pentagon—which would be doing most of the rolling back—on the timing or details of the announcement.<br /><br />According to multiple sources, behind the scenes a few things went badly awry in the launch of Obama’s new policy. First, the Pentagon was surprised by the president’s timing, according to a senior defense official. “We didn’t know it was going to be in the speech,” he said, referring to Obama’s Sept. 10 address to the nation. Second, the White House neglected to give Pentagon lawyers a chance to revise and approve the proposed legislative language before it went to the Hill, which is considered standard practice. Staffers working for Rep. Buck McKeon, the Republican chairman of the Armed Services Committee, said they were appalled by what they saw: language so sloppy that it failed to mention adequate protections against so-called “green-on-blue” attacks by trainees on American troops, and effectively left the Defense Department liable for funding the mission against the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL)—even though the president was telling members of Congress he didn’t need money for this new mission, since the Saudis were putting it up. “What came over would have not have been a mission the DoD could have executed,” says a senior Republican committee staffer.</span><div>
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Chairman Kuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00602366579114182913noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12948431.post-78075755229205362942014-10-16T07:31:00.000-07:002014-10-16T07:31:10.038-07:00ANGELA DAVISMemories. UCLA glorifies the memory of <a href="http://pjmedia.com/ronradosh/2014/10/14/uclas-new-cover-girl-guess-which-far-leftist-it-is/">Angela Davis</a>, an American communist from the 1960s and 1970s! It brought back memories of her being hosted in Prague by Communist Czechoslovakia in the early seventies. A friend told me how astounded a Czech limo driver was at her naivete about how wonderful things were in Communist Czechoslovakia when the average person was struggling to make it under Communism. Most Czechs living under Communism preferred what America had under Capitalism. She never experienced their lives, but only saw what the elite wanted her to see and experience.<br />
<br /><span style="color: red;">For those who can’t identify her, the photo depicts Angela Davis, the notorious former Communist Party USA leader who, beginning in the ’60s, molded together black nationalism with Marxism-Leninism. She created a heady brew for recruiting new cadre into the CP and the original Black Panther Party of Huey Newton.<br /><br />Some optimist! Davis believed in the triumph of Communism.<br /><br />For her loyalty to the Soviet Union and its foreign policies, in 1972 she was awarded a Lenin Centenary Medal in the Soviet Union, after which she spoke to thousands at an outdoor rally in Moscow. Next, speaking at a factory in Kirov, Davis praised the workers for not using “products of labor [to fuel] the irrational drive for capitalist profits as it is used in our country.”</span>Chairman Kuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00602366579114182913noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12948431.post-31648314406876765502014-10-16T07:22:00.004-07:002014-10-16T07:22:53.006-07:00YEMENThe situation in <a href="http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/10/who-lost-yemen-111907.html#.VD_SNvnF-Sp">Yemen</a> is often not covered by the media. Now it looks like the Obama administration has "lost Yemen" to radical Islamists.<br />
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<span style="color: red;">Nobody saw it coming. On Sept. 20, Yemen’s Huthi movement executed a political coup so stealthy that the world hardly noticed, and so momentous that local commentators are dividing modern Yemeni history into before and after the Huthi assent to power. The Huthis, a Shiite-led rebel group with a power base in Yemen’s far north, have been waiting for this moment since the early 2000s, when their civil rights campaign was forced to take up arms in self-defense.</span>Chairman Kuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00602366579114182913noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12948431.post-82039726499725633112014-10-16T07:19:00.002-07:002014-10-16T07:19:34.305-07:00OBAMA ADMINISTRATION GOES AFTER LEAKERSFrom <a href="http://boingboing.net/2014/10/15/obama-administration-has-secur.html">BoingBoing</a>: "Obama Administration Has Secured 526 Months of Jail Time for Leakers."<br />
<br /><span style="color: red;">Up until Obama's "most transparent administration", and throughout the entire history of the USA, national security leakers had received a total of 24 months of jail time. There are many more cases pending</span>.<div>
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From the <a href="http://dailysignal.com/2014/10/15/19-times-documents-went-missing-government-didnt-want-know/">Daily Signal</a>: "19 Times the Government Withheld Documents It Didn't Want You to See."</div>
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Chairman Kuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00602366579114182913noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12948431.post-3027941883556132372014-10-14T17:01:00.002-07:002014-10-14T17:04:47.997-07:00LIES OF OBAMA<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/marc-thiessen-obamas-blizzard-of-lies/2014/10/13/7acc3d22-52e4-11e4-892e-602188e70e9c_story.html">Mark A. Thiessen</a> at the <i>Washington Post </i>chronicles all of Obama's lies. He calls it a "culture of deceit."<br />
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<span style="color: red;">In 1996, the late, great New York Times columnist William Safire published a column, “<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1996/01/08/opinion/essay-blizzard-of-lies.html?gwh=6E86EA9EF2B8078BFE68B63DFD0BE48C&gwt=pay&assetType=opinion">Blizzard of lies</a>,” in which he laid out a series of falsehoods by Hillary Rodham Clinton and declared “Americans of all political persuasions are coming to the sad realization that our First Lady — a woman of undoubted talents who was a role model for many in her generation — is a congenital liar.”<br /><br />Today, Americans of all political stripes are coming to a similar, sad realization about our president. A recent Fox News poll asked Americans “<a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/04/16/fox-news-poll-many-voters-say-obama-lies-to-country-on-important-matters/">How often does Barack Obama lie to the country on important matters</a>?” Thirty-seven percent said “most of the time,” 24 percent said “some of the time,” and 20 percent said “only now and then.” Just 15% said “never.”<br /><br />Think about that: 81 percent of Americans believe that Obama lies to them at least “now and then” on “important matters.”</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">Numerous <a href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2014/10/10/355163296/labor-secretary-eyed-as-white-house-searches-to-replace-attorney-general">publications close to the White House</a> have reported that Labor Secretary Tom Perez has emerged as the leading candidate to replace Attorney General Eric Holder. That Perez has a documented and repeating history of dishonesty, racialism, and radicalism shows that this administration feels unrestrained by conventional political wisdom. That the White House is dropping his name before an election should demonstrate to every Republican that Obama is fundamentally transforming politics in corrosive ways that the GOP seems ill-equipped to contain.</span><div>
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Chairman Kuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00602366579114182913noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12948431.post-34409166930370101192014-10-14T12:36:00.002-07:002014-10-14T12:36:52.348-07:00U.S. HAS SILENT EBOLA CZARVery interesting story on <a href="http://thefederalist.com/2014/10/14/president-obama-already-has-an-ebola-czar-where-is-she/#.VD00GzVpH9w.facebook">Dr. Lurie</a>, an assistant secretary at the Department of Health & Human Services. It is her job to take the lead on Ebola and other infectious diseases but she has not uttered a word. And it appears no preparedness for anything has taken place in spite of the money Congress allocated. But it may be she is too busy giving Democrat donors sweet heart deals on government grants.<br />
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<span style="color: red;">See, in 2004, Congress passed <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/108/s15/text">The Project Bioshield Act</a>. The text of that legislation authorized up to $5,593,000,000 in new spending by NIH for the purpose of purchasing vaccines that would be used in the event of a bioterrorist attack. A major part of the plan was to allow stockpiling and distribution of vaccines.<br /><br />Just two years later, Congress passed the <a href="http://www.phe.gov/Preparedness/legal/pahpa/pages/default.aspx">Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Act</a>, which created a new <a href="http://www.hhs.gov/about/foa/osleadership/aspr.html">assistant secretary for preparedness and response</a> to oversee medical efforts and called for a National Health Security Strategy. The Act established<a href="http://www.phe.gov/about/barda/Pages/default.aspx">Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority</a> as the focal point within HHS for medical efforts to protect the American civilian population against naturally occurring threats to public health. It specifically says this authority was established to give “an integrated, systematic approach to the development and purchase of the necessary vaccines, drugs, therapies, and diagnostic tools for public health medical emergencies.”<br /><br />Last year, Congress passed the <a href="http://www.phe.gov/Preparedness/legal/pahpa/Pages/pahpra.aspx">Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Reauthorization Act of 2013</a> which keep the programs in effect for another five years.<br /><br />If you look at any of the information about these pieces of legislation or the office and authorities that were created, this brand new expansion of the federal government was sold to us specifically as a means to fight public health threats like Ebola. That was the entire point of why the office and authorities were created.</span>Chairman Kuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00602366579114182913noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12948431.post-32619714083659707522014-10-14T12:30:00.000-07:002014-10-14T12:30:11.789-07:00INFORMATION VOTERSAccording to Pew Research, <a href="http://cfif.org/v/index.php/commentary/54-state-of-affairs/2339-republicans-more-informed-than-democrats-according-to-pew-research">Republican voters</a> are more informed than Democrat voters.<br />
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<span style="color: red;">Out of 12 questions asked, Republicans outperformed both Democrats and Independents on 10. The differences were most pronounced on the questions regarding Common Core, fracking and where Shiites outnumber Sunnis, where the percentage of Republicans answering correctly outpaced Democrats by double digits. But Republicans also outperformed Democrats on questions centering on the federal minimum wage and the Fed Chairwoman, even though she's a Democrat appointed by Obama, while the minimum wage is Democrats' favorite wedge issue this election year to try to keep Harry Reid (D - Nevada) as the Senate Majority Leader. <br /><br />Democrats only outscored Republicans in naming the primary Ebola outbreak location and the federal poverty rate, but only by 2 and 5 percentage points, respectively. </span>Chairman Kuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00602366579114182913noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12948431.post-25669383544594750972014-10-13T07:31:00.000-07:002014-10-13T07:31:10.964-07:00WAR AGAINST ISISAccording to the left-wing <i><a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/war-against-isis-us-strategy-in-tatters-as-militants-march-on-9789230.html">Independent </a></i>Obama's ISIS bombing policy is not working. <br />
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<span style="color: red;">The US-led air attacks launched against Islamic State (also known as Isis) on 8 August in Iraq and 23 September in Syria have not worked. President Obama's plan to "degrade and destroy" Islamic State has not even begun to achieve success. In both Syria and Iraq, Isis is expanding its control rather than contracting.</span>Chairman Kuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00602366579114182913noreply@blogger.com0