Monday, August 26, 2013

John Kerry to make statement on Syria at 2 pm... Updated: WMD DECLARED

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DRUDGE Headlines:

◼ WMD DECLARED - CBS



BOMBING 'IN DAYS'...
Israel distributes gas masks..
Russia: No Proof Syrian Gov't Behind Chemical Weapons Attack...
Force without UN 'blatant violation of int'l law'...
ASSAD: American military will 'fail' like in Vietnam...
Damascus, Tehran issue stark warning to Jerusalem...
Strikes would trigger 'chaos,' threaten world security...
Chemical attack evidence 'may have been destroyed'...
KERRY DECLARES WMD...
Chemical weapons 'undeniable'...
Obama 'undecided'...
Press corps blurs president's 'red line'...
Middle East alliances cracking...
Peace envoy Blair on super-yacht in Med...
POLL: 9% support military action...
Israel distributes gas masks...

◼ Fearing a U.S. strike, Syria warns of global "chaos" - CBS News/AP

Lucianne Headlines:
Syria: the moral case for military intervention is now overwhelming
Telegraph [UK], by Toby Young
David Cameron cuts short holiday over Syria crisis
Telegraph [UK], by Tim Ross
Syria will require more than cruise missiles
Washington Post, by Elliot A. Cohen

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◼ IDF intercept shows Syrian army used chemical weapons - HotAir

A minister in Benjamin Netanyahu’s Cabinet publicly asserted that Bashar al-Assad and his forces used chemical weapons, and not the rebels in the Damascus suburb, and used them on a mass scale. International Relations Minister Yuval Steintz said it was “crystal clear” that the Syrian army used chemical weapons in the attack last week, arguing that this demonstrates why it is important to stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons...

◼ House Dem: White House Credibility on the Line with Syria Red Line - Bridget Johnson/PJMedia

“I think, you know, the White House has drawn a red line. And in terms of the credibility of the White House, the cost of not acting now I think exceeds the cost of acting. But they have to be careful to do this in concert with our allies. They have to be careful to limit the scope of what they’re trying to achieve. They have to make sure they make it clear." --Rep. Adam Schiff



◼ Barack Obama Ready to Out Bush Bush - Larry Johnson/No Quarter

I wonder if the Nobel Committee now realizes how badly Barack Obama duped them. Did not do a goddamn thing and yet got the Nobel Peace Prize. Now, eight years later, Obama is going to try to start a war in Syria, using the pre-text of a highly questionable chemical weapon threat. But Obama’s impending use of military force is far more cynical and far more dangerous than anything George W. Bush did. A man of peace? I think not.

Bush at least believed, albeit foolishly, that removing the rule of Saddam Hussein would usher in the birth of democracy and justice in the Middle East. Totally delusional, but he believed it and the military action was backed by a myopic strategic vision.

Not so with Obama. His only reason to act is to deflect domestic political pressure. He does not like being perceived as weak and feckless. But he is weak and feckless. Pathetically weak at that. So now he will flex his military muscles and hit Syrian military sites. An act of war on par with Hitler’s invasion of Poland and Czechoslovakia. Entirely based on political theater. And he is egged on by three women–Valerie Jarrett, Susan Rice and Samantha Power. None of these ladies have a clue about military strategy or tactics. For them, it is all about the superficial and temporary demonstration of power.

◼ Syrian rebels used Sarin nerve gas, not Assad’s regime: U.N. official - Washington Times

Testimony from victims strongly suggests it was the rebels, not the Syrian government, that used Sarin nerve gas during a recent incident in the revolution-wracked nation, a senior U.N. diplomat said Monday.

Carla del Ponte, a member of the U.N. Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Syria, told Swiss TV there were “strong, concrete suspicions but not yet incontrovertible proof,” that rebels seeking to oust Syrian strongman Bashar al-Assad had used the nerve agent.
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OBAMA'S CAMPAIGN APPARATUS OFA Fail: No Immigration Reform Activists Show Up For Republican´s Town Hall

◼ Republicans are getting very little heat on comprehensive immigration reform at their August town halls, reports USA Today. - Debra Heine/Breitbart

One example cited is Rep. Frank LoBiondo, who represents a South Jersey congressional district with a large Hispanic population and farmlands that employ migrant workers. He said in an interview, "it's not coming up. It is a big issue nationally, but in this district it's just not something on people's minds."

LoBiondo is exactly the type of congressman immigration advocates like Senator Lindsey Graham said should be targeted over the August recess.

But people in his district are more concerned with "the economy, the implementation of Obama's health care law, unrest in the Middle East and even how to improve local infrastructure to ease traffic to the Jersey shore."
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Well, well, well. Shades of the IRS scandal.

◼ What’s missing from this gem of a story that typifies the Obama-loving media? - Jeffrey Lord/American Spectator

This…buried in an earlier-in-the-week news story from the Wall Street Journal about President Obama’s about-to-take-place tour of New York State colleges. Say again…that word would be colleges.
Wrote the WSJ, again, bold print provided:
Later Thursday, before he is scheduled to speak in Syracuse, Mr. Obama will meet privately with New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, according to an aide in the attorney general’s office.
So.

What do we have here?

The President of the United States — whose IRS is up to its eye-lids in a scandal involving the targeting of the President’s political enemies — spends the last few days touring colleges in New York State. The reason for this tour — the political point of it all — is summed up in this story by the New York Times headlined:
On Bus Tour, Obama Seeks to Shame Colleges Into Easing Costs
Then on Thursday, Obama himself meets “privately” with his buddy the Attorney General of New York, Eric Schneiderman.
Two days later? This headline in Politico:
N.Y. sues ‘Trump University’
Coincidence?
Right....someone has noticed:

If anybody out there thinks this lawsuit is anything else than a presidential vendetta to get another enemy on the White House list.…

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VIDEO: THOUSANDS LINE UP FOR MARK LEVIN BOOK SIGNING; CROWD CIRCLES TOWN...



◼ The Liberty Amendments: Restoring the American Republic at Amazon

◼ Mark Levin--#1 in All Categories - Joel Pollak//Breitbart

The week's results are in--and Mark Levin's The Liberty Amendments is ◼ #1 on the New York Times bestseller list in both the hardcover and combined hardcover and e-book categories. Not bad for a "radical" idea!

◼ Liberty Amendments debuts at #1 on NYT bestseller lists - Thomas Lifson/American Thinker
◼ Restoring federalism - Canada Free Press
◼ The Constitution's blueprint for liberty - Washington Times
◼ Levin Book #1 at NYT: "You can bet they're grinding teeth at the New York Times" - Jeffrey Lord/American Spectator
◼ Instapundit: I talk with Mark Levin about his new book, The Liberty Amendments: Restoring the American Republic. (Watch) - PJMedia
◼ The Liberty Amendments awakening the nation to the Constitution - Richard Mourdock
◼ USA TODAY BEST SELLER LIST - USA Today
◼ Bookscan - top of the list - Reuters
◼ WALL STREET JOURNAL BEST SELLER LIST - ABC News
◼ David Limbaugh: the battle to restore the republic has begun
◼ Calling Americans back to their Constitution - Ricochet
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SCHOOL YEAR 2013: Armed guards, cameras, door buzzers, card-swipe entry systems...

◼ Eight months after the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown left 26 people dead, many schools across the state are preparing to welcome students back from summer break with increased security measures in place. - The Courant

But which types of safety measures and how they should be funded has been a source of debate, with no clear consensus on the best way to protect children and staff members.
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Sunday, August 25, 2013

“This is one of the fundamental problems with progressives – it doesn’t matter how well something is already working, or how long it’s been working well — they’re always wanting change,” Barton said. “They’re always wanting to move forward or lean forward, and they want to leave the old things behind. Progressives are all about progress, after all. They want to implement the new, even if the old works well, and the new doesn’t.”



◼ DAVID BARTON EXPLAINS HOW COMMON CORE POSES ‘SERIOUS PROBLEMS FOR THE FUTURE OF THE REPUBLIC’ - Erica Ritz/The Blaze

Author and historian David Barton guest hosted the Glenn Beck Program on TheBlaze TV Friday, dedicating the hour to the controversial education guidelines known as “Common Core.”

“You’ve heard about it, and over the coming months it’ll be in the news even more as new parts of it continue to unfold,” Barton began. “Common Core is something that is not going away, even though it sure needs to… Today we are going to cover some of the new problems that have emerged since we covered this topic three months ago.”

The hour spanned issues from the lowering of academic standards to alarming data mining techniques.
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