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Aesquire
| Posted on Wednesday, February 18, 2015 - 02:47 pm: |
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Rich American companies do. Only makes sense to cover the bases. I've told my Union to do the same, but they usually don't. It's illegal to take bribes from foreign sources. In the case of the O and the Clintons, millions. |
Reindog
| Posted on Thursday, February 19, 2015 - 12:35 am: |
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Reindog
| Posted on Thursday, February 19, 2015 - 11:03 am: |
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Reindog
| Posted on Thursday, February 19, 2015 - 11:04 am: |
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Reindog
| Posted on Thursday, February 19, 2015 - 11:12 am: |
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We continue to ignore what VDH is saying at our own peril. Reliving the 1930s By Victor Davis Hanson · Feb. 19, 2015 World War II was the most destructive war in history. What caused it? The panic from the ongoing and worldwide Depression in the 1930s had empowered extremist movements the world over. Like-minded, violent dictators of otherwise quite different Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, Imperial Japan and Communist Soviet Union all wanted to attack their neighbors. Yet World War II could have been prevented had Western Europe united to deter Germany. Instead, France, Britain and the smaller European democracies appeased Hitler. The United States turned isolationist. The Soviet Union collaborated with the Third Reich. And Italy and Japan eventually joined it. The 1930s saw rampant anti-Semitism. Jews were blamed in fascist countries for the economic downturn. They were scapegoated in democracies for stirring up the fascists. The only safe havens for Jews from Europe were Jewish-settled Palestine and the United States. Does all this sound depressingly familiar? The aftershocks of the global financial meltdown of 2008 still paralyze the European Union while prompting all sorts of popular extremist movements and opportunistic terrorists. After the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, America has turned inward. The Depression and the lingering unhappiness over World War I did the same to Americans in the 1930s. Premodern monsters are on the move. The Islamic State is carving up Syria and Iraq to fashion a fascist caliphate. Vladimir Putin gobbles up his neighbors in Ossetia, Crimea and eastern Ukraine, in crude imitation of the way Germany once swallowed Austria, Czechoslovakia and Poland. Theocratic Iran is turning Yemen, Iraq and Lebanon into a new Iranian version of Japan’s old Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere. The Western response to all this? Likewise, similar to the 1930s. The NATO allies are terrified that Putin will next attack the NATO-member Baltic states – and that their own paralysis will mean the embarrassing end of the once-noble alliance. The United States has now fled from four Middle Eastern countries. It forfeited its post-surge victory in Iraq. It was chased out of Libya after the killings of Americans in Benghazi. American red lines quickly turned pink in Syria. U.S. Marines just laid down their weapons and flew out of the closed American embassy in Yemen. America has convinced its European partners to drop tough sanctions against Iran. In the manner of the Allies in 1938 at Munich, they prefer instead to charm Iran, in hopes it will stop making a nuclear bomb. The Islamic State has used almost a year of unchallenged aggression to remake the map of the Middle East. President Obama had variously dismissed it as a jayvee team or merely akin to the problems that big-city mayors face. Europeans pay out millions to ransom their citizens from radical Islamic hostage-beheaders. Americans handed over terrorist kingpins to get back a likely Army deserter. Then we come to the return of the Jewish question. Seventy years after the end of the Holocaust, Jews are once again leaving France. They have learned that weak governments either will not or cannot protect them from Islamic terrorists. In France, radical Islamists recently targeted a kosher market. In Denmark, they went after a synagogue. In South Africa, students demanded the expulsion of Jewish students from a university. A Jewish prosecutor who was investigating the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center in Argentina was found mysteriously murdered. Meanwhile, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is being blamed for stoking Middle Eastern tensions. Who cares that he resides over the region’s only true democracy, one that is stable and protects human rights? Obama administration aides have called him a coward and worse. President Obama has dismissed the radical Islamists' targeting of Jews in France merely as “randomly shoot[ing] a bunch of folks in a deli.” Putin, the Islamic State and Iran at first glance have as little in common as did Germany, Italy and Japan. But like the old Axis, they are all authoritarians that share a desire to attack their neighbors. And they all hate the West. The grandchildren of those who appeased the dictators of the 1930s once again prefer in the short-term to turn a blind eye to the current fascists. And the grandchildren of the survivors of the Holocaust once again get blamed. The 1930s should have taught us that aggressive autocrats do not have to like each other to share hatred of the West. The 1930s should have demonstrated to us that old-time American isolationism and the same old European appeasement will not prevent but only guarantee a war. And the 1930s should have reminded us that Jews are usually among the first – but not the last – to be targeted by terrorists, thugs and autocrats. http://patriotpost.us/opinion/33259 |
Sifo
| Posted on Thursday, February 19, 2015 - 11:18 am: |
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S2t_bama
| Posted on Thursday, February 19, 2015 - 03:42 pm: |
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The problem with this approach is that, even with full control of both houses and the White House, Obama couldn't solve unemployment problems in OUR country. How can he hope to affect such changes within ISIS infected countries??? Of course, he can't. It's up to the governments of those countries to determine the economic policies which will (partly) drive employment. If that doesn't fix it, and their population continue to adversely affect the world stage..... Well then we go to war and install a government that can keep their people from screwing with us. That's the modern, civilized way. In the old days before Christendom it would have been handled in much nastier ways. |
Court
| Posted on Thursday, February 19, 2015 - 04:47 pm: |
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>>>>It's illegal to take bribes from foreign sources. Bribes . . .yes. Contributions . . . well . ."kinda yes". Technically (the word that precedes most illegal acts by politicians) foreign nationals can't make campaign contributions. (a) Prohibition It shall be unlawful for— (1) a foreign national, directly or indirectly, to make— (A) a contribution or donation of money or other thing of value, or to make an express or implied promise to make a contribution or donation, in connection with a Federal, State, or local election; (B) a contribution or donation to a committee of a political party; or (C) an expenditure, independent expenditure, or disbursement for an electioneering communication (within the meaning of section 434 (f)(3) of this title); or (2) a person to solicit, accept, or receive a contribution or donation described in subparagraph (A) or (B) of paragraph (1) from a foreign national. (b) “Foreign national” defined As used in this section, the term “foreign national” means— (1) a foreign principal, as such term is defined by section 611 (b) of title 22, except that the term “foreign national” shall not include any individual who is a citizen of the United States; or (2) an individual who is not a citizen of the United States or a national of the United States (as defined in section 1101 (a)(22) of title 8) and who is not lawfully admitted for permanent residence, as defined by section 1101 (a)(20) of title 8. But . . . as an example (again, I am not foolish enough to think Republicans aren't doing this as well) if you happen to have a vehicle like, for example, The Clinton Foundation . . . all the rules go out the window. See this article from yesterday . . http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/ 2015/02/18/foreign-donations-to-hillary-clintons-f oundation-raise-major-ethical-questions/ |
Reindog
| Posted on Friday, February 20, 2015 - 10:47 am: |
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Reindog
| Posted on Friday, February 20, 2015 - 10:49 am: |
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The Obama administration is either insane or traitorous. Your pick. I choose both.
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Sifo
| Posted on Friday, February 20, 2015 - 11:13 am: |
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Reindog
| Posted on Saturday, February 21, 2015 - 01:23 am: |
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Mr. Hope and Change and who will "in five days will fundamentally change America" does NOT love America. This is obvious even to simpletons. Thank you Rudy for having the balls to state the obvious. America and the world is in serious trouble as a result of this most Neville of Nevilles.
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Pwnzor
| Posted on Saturday, February 21, 2015 - 08:36 am: |
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Rudy for president. Tom, you've always got the best cartoons... this thread keeps me from having to search the internet for them. |
Pnw_uly
| Posted on Saturday, February 21, 2015 - 11:33 am: |
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^ ^ ^ ^ This. . . This thread is a lot like Playboy from back in the day. . .The articles are so-so, put the pictures are great. . . |
Reindog
| Posted on Sunday, February 22, 2015 - 01:24 pm: |
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We ignore history at our own peril.
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Aesquire
| Posted on Sunday, February 22, 2015 - 04:50 pm: |
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http://dailycaller.com/2015/02/09/obama-hints-immi gration-will-drown-conservatism/ |
Aesquire
| Posted on Sunday, February 22, 2015 - 04:54 pm: |
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http://www.nationalreview.com/article/414163/progr essives-peculiar-sense-patriotism-jonah-goldberg?t arget=author&tid=897 The best thing Obama can seem to say about the country is that it elected him into office. Btw, I was called a racist today for telling someone I disagreed with Obama. I was then told I hated him. |
Ducbsa
| Posted on Monday, February 23, 2015 - 05:21 am: |
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http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2015/02/the- jihadi-jobs-program.php |
Reindog
| Posted on Monday, February 23, 2015 - 10:04 am: |
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Reindog
| Posted on Monday, February 23, 2015 - 10:06 am: |
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Sifo
| Posted on Monday, February 23, 2015 - 10:57 am: |
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Reindog
| Posted on Monday, February 23, 2015 - 11:39 am: |
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Sifo
| Posted on Tuesday, February 24, 2015 - 11:10 am: |
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Reindog
| Posted on Tuesday, February 24, 2015 - 02:46 pm: |
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Aesquire
| Posted on Wednesday, February 25, 2015 - 08:23 am: |
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http://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/2015/02/23/los ing-the-internet/ |
Reindog
| Posted on Wednesday, February 25, 2015 - 10:40 am: |
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As American "leadership" stumbles towards World War.
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Sifo
| Posted on Wednesday, February 25, 2015 - 10:47 am: |
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Reindog
| Posted on Wednesday, February 25, 2015 - 11:11 am: |
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"Just a heart beat away...." Good job, American voters.
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Patches
| Posted on Wednesday, February 25, 2015 - 12:17 pm: |
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The Rothschilds Control America https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wigDHjEwPuE |
Reindog
| Posted on Thursday, February 26, 2015 - 10:46 am: |
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I didn't understand Net Neutrality until the Obama Administration came out for it. Your TV shows in the future will buffer and free speech will be Government Controlled a la The Fairness Doctrine.
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