Michelle Malkin: P.C. in the U.S.A.: A deadly, bipartisan infection
The violence at Fort Hood, President Obama told mourners on Tuesday, was “incomprehensible.” The “twisted logic that led to the tragedy,” he reiterated, may be “too hard to comprehend.” If the Bush administration suffered a systemic failure of imagination on homeland security, the Obama administration is suffering an willful failure of comprehension.
What exactly is so hard to comprehend? Fort Hood jihadist Nidal Hasan made his means, motives, and inspiration all too clear for those willing to see and hear. In his 2007 slide presentation to fellow Army doctors on “The Koranic World View As It Relates to Muslims in the Military,” Hasan spelled it out: “We love death more then (sic) you love life!” more…..
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Bloomberg: Emerson’s Farr Says U.S. Is Destroying Manufacturing
Emerson Electric Co. Chief Executive Officer David Farr said the U.S. government is hurting manufacturers with regulation and taxes and his company will continue to focus on growth overseas.
“Washington is doing everything in their manpower, capability, to destroy U.S. manufacturing,” Farr said today in Chicago at a Baird Industrial Outlook conference. “Cap and trade, medical reform, labor rules.”
Emerson, the maker of electrical equipment and InSinkErator garbage disposals with $20.9 billion in sales for the year ended September, will keep expanding in emerging markets, which represented 32 percent of revenue in 2009. About 36 percent of manufacturing is now in “best-cost countries” up from 21 percent in 2003, according to slides accompanying his speech.
Companies will create jobs in India and China, “places where people want the products and where the governments welcome you to actually do something,” Farr said. more…..
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Mary Katharine Ham: Who I Met at the Tea Party: A Veterans Day Tribute
When I attended Michele Bachmann’s impromptu rally against Pelosi’s health-care bill last week, I met a lot of just-plain-good folks. Media accounts ignored them in favor of a sprinkling of offensive signs, although the Huffington Post wasn’t able to muster even 12 offensive signs from the rally of more than 10K. At times, coverage suggested the animating emotion of every attendee was “hatred.” Irresponsible commentators multiplied offensive signs to fit their narrative—in Paul Krugman’s hands, one documented Holocaust sign at the rally became “large signs showing piles of bodies.”
If one cared to be fair to the attendees, however, it was easy to find a stream of kind, determined, involved, ordinary Americans. And, occasionally, a truly extraordinary one. more…..
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Washington Examiner: Climate bill’s ‘emergency provision’ gives Obama strong-man powers
Both the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade energy approved earlier this year and the version just okayed by Sen. Barbara Boxer’s Senate Environment and Public Works Committee’s Democrats (Republicans boycotted the vote) contains an obscure but nasty bureaucratic provision that requires President Obama to act like Venezuelan strong man Hugo Chavez.
Here’s how: The bills require a federal declaration of a “climate emergency” if world greenhouse gas levels reach 450 parts per million. Guess what? The Pacific Northwest National Lab says it is a virtual certainty that level will be reached within a few months. The bill then requires the president to “direct all Federal agencies to use existing statutory authority to take appropriate actions…to address shortfalls” in achieving needed greenhouse gas reductions. more…..
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Now that Newt Gingrich has once again partnered up with con-man race hustler Al Sharpton, this time for a ‘three-city “listening and learning” tour’ for education reform, Conservative Nation thought now might be a good time for a refresher course on what an absolute piece of human trash Al Sharpton really is.
This ‘partnership’, coming on the heels as it does of Gingrich’s disastrous endorsement of Dede Scozzafava in the NY-23 race, suggest that perhaps the best days of Newt’s political instincts are behind him.
Capitalism Magazine: Al Sharpton: The Democrat’s David Duke
…it is impossible to imagine, say, David Duke running for president as a Republican and not being shunned by every leading figure in the party. Impossible to imagine his campaign appearances being covered in news accounts that made no mention of his history in the Ku Klux Klan and his links to neo-Nazis. Impossible to imagine that he would be treated as just another candidate, albeit one with a “controversial” past. No one would roll over for Duke. Why are they rolling over for Sharpton?
After all, Sharpton’s rĂ©sumĂ© is at least as vile as Duke’s. more…..
Discover the networks: Al Sharpton:
- Racial agitator and Founder of the National Action Network
- Helped incite anti-Jewish riots in Crown Heights, New York in 1991 in which a Jewish student was murdered
- Convicted of libel for his role in the Tawana Brawley hoax
- Incited anti-Semites against Freddy’s Mart which was burned by one of Sharpton’s followers, killing seven people
- Democratic Party presidential candidate, 2004
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