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JB Williams, Canada Free Press.com

 

In an April 7, 2009 Department of Homeland Security (DHS) “declassified” report on the “Top Threats” to American security titled, Rightwing Extremism, DHS explains how our nation’s Founding Fathers would have certainly qualified for Obama’s definition of “domestic terrorists” and “rightwing extremists.”

 

In fact, most Americans qualify!

 

How hard is it to qualify as an “extreme rightwing radical domestic terrorist?” Not as hard as you might think…

 

DHS - Key Findings

Rightwing extremists may be gaining new recruits by playing on their fears about several emergent issues. The economic downturn and the election of the first African American president present unique drivers for rightwing radicalization and recruitment.

 

This is exactly how Obama’s DHS now defines “extreme rightwing radical domestic terrorist,” and this is officially the primary concern of Obama’s DHS. They are far less concerned with Al Qaeda, open borders, terror and drug trafficking, Iranian or North Korean nukes. It is the average American that they fear most! Read article.

 

Mark Alexander, Patriot Post.us

 

My fellow Patriot "right-wing extremists" (or as Barack Obama prefers to describe you, those "bitterly clinging to guns or religion"), it is no small irony that, in the same week the central government demands payment of any income tax they hadn't already withheld (read: "pilfered") from our paychecks for redistribution, we observe Patriots Day.

 

April 19th marks the 234th anniversary of the early morning ride of Paul Revere and William Dawes to Concord, Massachusetts, in order to warn John Hancock and Samuel Adams that British troops were coming to arrest them and seize their weapons. Revere was captured but Dawes and Samuel Prescott, who had joined them along the way, escaped and continued toward Concord. Dawes later fell from his horse, but Prescott, who knew the area well enough to navigate at night, made it to Concord in time to warn the Sons of Liberty.

 

Protests had been taking place since 1765 over increased taxation and other indignities, resulting most notably in the Boston Tea Party on December 16, 1773, when colonists boarded three ships in Boston Harbor and threw English tea overboard. The grievances against the imperial authorities were many, but they found their voice in one familiar phrase: "No taxation without representation." Read article.

 

Laurie Rothm NMJ.us

 

The over reach of this administration and president continues in bold Technicolor. Magically, the day before the national Tea Parties, we see a report released by Homeland Security identifying the new war on terror, the real danger (drum roll, please) returning vets, those who are against abortion, for state sovereignty, for less Government, less taxation, against illegal immigration and pro gun rights. I figure that would cover most of taxpaying America! This offensive, disconnected-from-reality dribble, reads like a declaration of war against decent American citizens. Our brave, loyal and courageous Vets are a danger? Oh that is rich!

 

The heat is building up to Lava and flying everywhere as the insult and insinuation of this report floods the country. Texas Rep. Lamar Smith states that this administration was painting “law-abiding Americans, including war veterans, as ‘extremists.’” Indiana Rep. Steve Buyer weighed in as well calling the implication against our troops as ‘inconceivable.’

 

Now for our usual moments of spin and therapy

 

As the boomerang of outrage hits Obama and his administration, Napolitano has defended the assessment and other statements by the agency. She has thrown in of course the psychobabble about valuing and supporting the troops...blah, blah, blah.

 

Yesterday, the nation started its wake up call and millions met, peacefully at thousands of Tea Parties. I spoke at the one in Spokane Wa, where there was 3-5000 there alone. We were all fed up to our gills and done being just angry while watching our Government violate our constitution, tax us to death, steal from future generations and continue to march against our freedoms! Read article.

 

Bobby Eberle, GopUSA.com

 

Thousands and thousands of people took to the streets on Wednesday, April 15 to send a message. They gathered in groups large and small, waving signs, shouting slogans, and calling for real change. Was this a one-time event or the start of something bigger? I'll look at it further, but one thing is clear, in many places across the country, people had to brave the wind, rain, and cold in order for their voices to be heard... and they still showed up.

 

On the other end of the spectrum was the behavior of the so-called mainstream media. Their actions, comments, and coverage of the tea party protests were beyond unprofessional. They showed in one brief day that there is no such thing as journalistic standards and that they will do everything they can to belittle the voice of concerned Americans if that voice runs counter to their left-wing agenda. Pathetic.

 

First, the good news. The Tax Day Tea Parties were a huge success. Hundreds of protest rallies occurred on Wednesday, ranging in size from the hundreds to the thousands. From the reports I received, the energy level was tremendously high. Read article.

Lee Culpepper, NMJ.us

 

As he rides along rounding up his vision of an egalitarian world, the president appears inclined to marshal the atrophy of America’s Judeo-Christian foundation. President Obama seems to believe the government has the power to redefine morality—often through political correctness—and he may be bent with enough audacity to attempt wrangling the nation’s hope from God. The president has wasted no time trying to cover America’s identity with his new brand of old, liberal ideas. His statement in Turkey regarding what “we” consider America today is a revised version of what he whistled in 2007:

 

“Whatever we once were, we're no longer a Christian nation. At least not just. We are also a Jewish nation, a Muslim nation, and a Buddhist nation, and a Hindu nation, and a nation of nonbelievers." (That’s six nations in case you were wondering.)

 

Last Monday, the president made some progress—the one way he seems most capable—through long-winded rhetoric. In his revised speech, the sharp-shooting speaker aimed to reunify the nation. Only a few months into his presidency and America is no longer the six Balkanized nations he declared two years ago. As of last Monday, “America is a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values.” The president habitually orates in vague, sweeping statements—and while he made an abstract reference to our “founding documents,” he failed to explain the specific ideals and values that bind us. Read article.

 

Victor Davis Hanson, NRO.com

 

At present the world is watching, probing, and digesting the Obama presidency. But it has already concluded that Obama is nourished by applause and will work to maintain it — not merely for personal gratification, but because he realizes that loud public endorsement is essential to his perpetual candidacy, given its absence of experience and sagacity.

 

Those abroad are also reassured that the American media, so heavily invested in hope and change, will do almost anything to transmogrify American embarrassments into Obama successes. Meanwhile, the contours of the new world order are clear. Iraq’s democrats are snubbed; Iran’s cutthroats are courted. A Saudi royal receives a bow; the British queen, a presumptuous squeeze — while her prime minister receives unplayable DVDs.

 

In short, we have a return of Jimmy Carter’s postnational idealism, but this time with the charismatic face of a Ronald Reagan. For 40 years we have had well-meaning moral equivalence, utopian pacifism, and multiculturalism taught in our schools, and we are now learning that all that was not just therapy, but has insidiously become our national gospel. Read article.

 

Riehl World View.com

 

Iran sentences dual citizenship journalist Roxana Saberi to eight years for spying. Moe Lane wants to see a strong response from Obama. I suppose they could use red highlights on the teleprompter for his speech. That's about as fiery a response as I would expect.

 

While the US government was busy warning police departments about the threat from Right-wing extremists, including veterans, at home, Obama is looking to change a policy that could ultimately allow aid to flow to Hamas. In essence, they could form a technocratic level of government above Hamas and Fatah in a unity government. That, while Hamas continues to marginalize and even kill Fatah elements in the Middle-east. Add in the notorious element of corruption and subterfuge by Hamas and US State Department incompetence and I think it's fair to say the result would likely be US tax dollars flowing to a terrorist group in the Middle-east. To believe anything else strikes me as incredibly naive.

 

But then that seems to sum up the foreign policy of the grinner in chief as he continues touring the world. Read article.

Morris & McGann, Vote.com

 

Sit in on a corporate board room struggling to come to grips with the new economic climate Obama has created. Do we expand? Create more jobs? Launch a new product line? Step up our marketing efforts? Ratchet up production?

               

But, wait a minute. The bigger our company gets, the closer we come to being "too big to fail," a "systemic risk." The nearer we are to intrusive government oversight, limits on executive pay, and regulators breathing down our necks. We better watch out. We may even get taken over. Stay small. Forget the new jobs.

               

An investor ponders where to put his 401 (k) retirement money. Should he invest in robust, growing companies? Firms with a bright future? But, be careful, they could get so big that they get taken over by the government and you lose your entire investment. Don't invest in firms that will fail, but stay away from those that will succeed too. Read article.

Nat Hentoff , JWR.com

 

By the end of April, up to more than 3 million black Muslims in Darfur will lose access to food, water and medicine. This after Sudan's genocide general, President Omar al-Bashir, expelled major international human rights organizations. With President Barack Obama saying "we have to avert an enormous humanitarian crisis," a letter has been sent directly to him (Sudan Tribune, April 3) by Hussein Abu Sharati, spokesman for a network of refugee-camps leaders.

 

"Mr. President," Abu Sharati wrote, "We need quick and immediate multilateral or unilateral intervention to save us from the imminent death: unconditional return of the international (humanitarian organizations) expelled by the regime ... (their expulsion) is the regime's final goal and the deadly blow to accelerate our death by slow motion through starvation, malnutrition and diseases." .

 

What has been Obama's reaction? He has sent yet another special envoy — former Air Force Gen. J. Scott Gration — who said in Khartoum on April 3 that he is there "to look, listen and learn," and hope that Sudan's government will respond "with a hand of friendship and help fill the gaps of humanitarian needs" (Sudan Tribune, April 4). I am old enough to remember my astonishment and despair when Neville Chamberlain offered his hand of conciliation to the original Hitler. . Read article.

 

Walter E. Williams, Townhall.com

 

Democracy and majority rule give an aura of legitimacy to acts that would otherwise be deemed tyranny. Think about it. How many decisions in our day-to-day lives would we like to be made through majority rule or the democratic process? How about the decision whether you should watch a football game on television or "Law and Order"?

 

What about whether you drive a Chevrolet or a Ford, or whether your Easter dinner is turkey or ham? Were such decisions made in the political arena, most of us would deem it tyranny. Why isn't it also tyranny for the democratic process to mandate what type of light bulbs we use, how many gallons of water to flush toilets or whether money should be taken out of our paycheck for retirement? Read article.

 

Editors, NRO.com

 

In a speech at Georgetown University on April 14, Pres. Barack Obama tried to explain how his economic policies “fit together in a single, overarching strategy.” The only constant we could discern, however, was the president’s desire to use the financial crisis to justify enormous expansions of government power.

 

Because the crisis is so dire, Obama explained, “we’ve had no choice but to attack all fronts.” His stimulus package, for instance, attacked the financial crisis — a crisis afflicting the banking sector — on the federal-building-construction front, the state-highway-slush-fund front, the green-energy-boondoggle front, etc.

 

The president repeated his line that the stimulus package will be responsible for “saving or creating 3.5 million jobs over the next two years.” Even pro-stimulus economists have admitted that that number is off by about a million. The truth is that we will never know how many jobs the stimulus has “created or saved” — economist Greg Mankiw has pointed out that the ambiguity of the phrasing is an “is an act of political genius” that allows the administration to define “saved” however it wants. But we doubt the stimulus will create or save any jobs, since the government cannot spend money without borrowing or taxing it out of the private sector. Read article.

 

Ronald D. Utt, Ph.D., RightSideNews.com

 

President Barack Obama's early comments on his opposition to suburban sprawl and his intention to alter the way Americans live and travel took a step closer to reality when he created an interdepartmental initiative on housing and transportation costs. A March press release issued by the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced a new interagency partnership to create "affordable, sustainable communities." Included among its many goals are projects to............ Read article.

 

Obama's union policy is poison for the US economy

Gerard Jackson, BrookesNews.Com

 

I recently called Obama a profoundly ignorant man, much to the chagrin of Democrats if my mail box is anything to go by. What is frightening about Obama's ignorance is the arrogance that accompanies it. But what else can we to expect from a person whose 'education' consisted of studying law and leftwing tracts.

 

Making it worse is his greatly inflated view of his own intelligence and abilities, which an equally ignorant and corrupt media has encouraged. His attitude to unions gives us an insight into his intellectual shortcomings. Read article.

 

Reuel Marc Gerecht, Online WSJ.com

 

'The United States is not at war with Islam and will never be. In fact, our partnership with the Muslim world is critical in rolling back a fringe ideology that people of all faiths reject."

 

So spoke President Barack Hussein Obama in Turkey last week. Following in the footsteps of the Bush administration, Mr. Obama wants to avoid labeling our enemy in religious terms. References to "Islamic terrorism," "Islamic radicalism," or "Islamic extremism" aren't in his speeches. "Jihad," too, has been banished from the official lexicon.

 

But if one visits the religious bookstores near Istanbul's Covered Bazaar, or mosque libraries of Turkish immigrants in Rotterdam, Brussels or Frankfurt, one can still find a cornucopia of radical Islamist literature. Go into the bookstores of Arab and Pakistani immigrant communities in Europe, or into the literary markets of the Arab world and the Indian subcontinent, and you'll find an even richer collection of militant Islamism. Read article.

 

Rich Lowry, NY Post.com

 

If every Obama-era negotiation is as clear-eyed and unsentimental as that over the fate of Capt. Richard Phillips, the nation's interests will be well-served.

 

President Obama approved negotiations with the Somali pirates holding Phillips, but authorized force should Phillips appear to be in imminent danger. When one of the pirates pointed his AK-47 at Phillips' back, snipers aboard the nearby USS Bainbridge took out the three pirates with three shots -- not a bullet wasted.

 

Suddenly, the headline The New York Times had run about the spectacle didn't seem so apt: "Standoff With Pirates Shows US Power Has Limits." Read article.

 

Gena Gorlin, The Undercurrent.com

 

Some say we finally have a President who is a thinker. Do we?

 

This enlightened strategy supposedly distinguishes Obama from his less cerebral predecessors. He is held in direct contrast to George W. Bush, who once said of himself, “I’m not a textbook player, I’m a gut player.”

 

Yet if one compares Obama’s positions with Bush’s, it’s the similarity in their intellectual approaches that is striking. Both make decisions on the basis of pragmatic, momentary considerations rather than an intellectually defined standard. Just as Bush employed a seemingly random grab bag set of strategies, going with his “gut,” so Obama is already switching positions on policy after policy.

 

For example, Obama had promised throughout his campaign to “immediately” begin withdrawing the troops once he became president. Then he changed his tune by maintaining that he would “refine” this policy based on advice from commanders on the ground. Liberal and conservative pundits alike observed that his position on Iraq had become well nigh indistinguishable from McCain’s. Read article.

 

Caroline Glick, Unveiling Taqiyya.Blogspot.com

 

Like it or not, the United States of America is no longer the world's policeman. This was the message of Barack Obama's presidential journey to Britain, France, the Czech Republic, Turkey and Iraq this past week.

 

Somewhere between apologizing for American history - both distant and recent; genuflecting before the unelected, bigoted “king” of Saudi Arabia; announcing that he will slash the US's nuclear arsenal, scrap much of America's missile defense programs and emasculate the US Navy; leaving Japan to face North Korea and China alone; telling the Czechs, Poles and their fellow former Soviet colonies, "Don't worry, be happy," as he leaves them to Moscow's tender mercies; humiliating Iraq's leaders while kowtowing to Iran; preparing for an open confrontation with Israel; and thanking Islam for its “great” [but apparently little-known] contribution to American history; President Obama made clear to the world's aggressors that America will not be confronting them for the foreseeable future. Whether they are aggressors like Russia, proliferators like North Korea, terror exporters like nuclear-armed Pakistan or would-be genocidal-terror-supporting nuclear states like Iran, today, under the new administration, none of them has any reason to fear Washington.

 

President Obama made clear to the world's aggressors that America will not be confronting them for the foreseeable future. Whether they are aggressors like Russia, proliferators like North Korea, terror exporters like nuclear-armed Pakistan or would-be genocidal-terror-supporting nuclear states like Iran, today, under the new administration, none of them has any reason to fear Washington. Read article.