Feds Threaten to Seize California Parks If Closed by Budget
Federal agents hunt for guns one house at a time
Obama could send 1,500 National Guard troops to Mexican border
ATF, ICE join forces to stop border gun traffic
US and Russia to cut nuclear arsenals by up to a half
Somehow, I doubt they'll follow through.
Pastor Rick Warren to address American Muslims
What pisses me off about this is that he's not dismissed as a liberal squish--most evangelicals still treat him as a great guy, one of their own. Makes me mad enough to spit.
Pentagon: Oshkosh 'clear winner' in $1.06B deal
Jobs are lost at a faster pace in June
2,000 cattle rotting on Texas Panhandle feedlot
The state has fined a Sudan feedlot for letting at least 2,000 dead cattle pile up and decompose, becoming a haven for flies and foul odors.
Steyn - THE STATE DESPOTIC
I say “Good King Barack,” but truly that does an injustice to ye medieval tyrants of yore. As Tocqueville wrote: “There was a time in Europe in which the law, as well as the consent of the people, clothed kings with a power almost without limits. But almost never did it happen that they made use of it.” His Majesty was an absolute tyrant—in theory. But in practice he was in his palace hundreds of miles away. A pantalooned emissary might come prancing into your dooryard once every half-decade and give you a hard time, but for the most part you got on with your life relatively undisturbed. “The details of social life and of individual existence ordinarily escaped his control,” wrote Tocqueville. But what would happen if administrative capability were to evolve to make it possible “to subject all of his subjects to the details of a uniform set of regulations”?
That moment has now arrived. And administrative despotism turns out to be very popular: Why, we need more standardized rules, from coast to coast—and on to the next coast. After all, if Europe can harmonize every trivial imposition on the citizen, why can’t the world?
Would it even be possible to hold the American revolution today? The Boston Tea Party? Imagine if George III had been able to sit in his palace across the ocean, look at the security-camera footage, press a button, and freeze the bank accounts of everyone there. Oh, well, we won’t be needing another revolt, will we? But the consequence of funding the metastasization of government through the confiscation of the fruits of the citizen’s labor is the remorseless shriveling of liberty.
DHS Cybersecurity Plan Will Involve NSA, Telecoms
The Obama administration will proceed with a Bush-era plan to use National Security Agency assistance in screening government computer traffic on private-sector networks, with AT&T as the likely test site, according to three current and former government officials.
Frozen chicken fugitive pleads guilty to fowl play
ROTFL! You win, Mr. (Ms?) Headline Writer. I clicked.
And the story itself is even weirder.
Should linking be illegal?
Those who wish to keep the internet free and open had best dust off their legal arguments. One of America's most influential conservative judges, Richard Posner, has proposed a ban on linking to online content without permission. The idea, he said in a blog post last week, is to prevent aggregators and bloggers from linking to newspaper websites without paying:
Expanding copyright law to bar online access to copyrighted materials without the copyright holder's consent, or to bar linking to or paraphrasing copyrighted materials without the copyright holder's consent, might be necessary to keep free riding on content financed by online newspapers from so impairing the incentive to create costly news-gathering operations that news services like Reuters and the Associated Press would become the only professional, nongovernmental sources of news and opinion.
Roger L. Simon : Is Obama “objectively pro-fascist”?
Yes. Next question?
Obama and George W. are on the same path
Both the left and the right were wrong. G.W. Bush proved himself to be a big government advocate who passed "No Child Left Behind" and a very expansive and costly Medicare drug option. He wanted to gently move us towards a global economy. Many liberal administrative and ex-corporate executives staffed his second term. The staff assisted him in executing a softer policy and a too-big-to-fail TARP bailout. He stated, in conjunction with President elect Obama, he had to act immediately to stave off financial collapse by suspending capitalism. He is a global internationalist who attempted to use his world, political and corporate friendships to forge a world order based on money, not on national interest.AMEN!
...Former President Bush's strategy was to blend into a global world order not to maintain America's exceptionalism. He understood that NAFTA, SPP (Security and Prosperity Partnership created in 2005 to form the North American Union) and amnesty are ways to undermine our sovereignty. Using this gradual step-by-step process our nationhood and constitution would be surgically dismantled.
President Obama has taken a different tactic. Instead of doing it piecemeal his approach is to make a frontal assault on capitalism and the American way. Everyday there is a different crisis he generates as an opportunity to make radical changes, to redistribute Americana's wealth and form a "new world disorder," with him as the new leader/statesman of all the world.
The difference between Bush and Obama is Bush was decaf coffee and Obama is super espresso but both are coffee.
You Don’t Carry Tear Gas When You Go To A Party
Iran says 20 killed in post-election turmoil
Iran reformists show fresh defiance against regime
Iran: EU lost qualification for nuclear talks
The Nighttime Chants Go On
Iran Accelerates Ballistic Missile Production
Ahmadinejad cancels trip to African summit
Russians Reject Iranian Satellite Launch Request
Russia not as willing to work with the Iranian Space Agency this time around
Tehran: U.S. enters Iran to lay pipeline
Iran complained U.S. combat forces operating in Iraq took over an oil field in western Iran, laying around 300 feet of pipeline.
Yah, combat forces laying pipeline. Somehow, I have my doubts.
Iran frees all but 1 British Embassy detainees
In Tehran, Shades of Tiananmen
The Iranian handling of the election looks more and more like the Chinese model: violent suppression followed by a concerted propaganda effort.
Clinton urged Obama to talk tough on Iran
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton urged President Obama for two days to toughen his language on Iran before he did so, and then was surprised when he condemned Iran's crackdown last week, administration officials say.
Iran’s reformists unite for long-haul campaign
Moussavi calls Iran's government illegitimate
Khatami denounces Iran election, arrests
British calls for diplomatic walkout from Iran are rejected by EU partners
British calls for a mass walkout of European Union ambassadors from Tehran were shot down by more cautious nations led by Germany and Italy yesterday.
"Cautious" being a euphemism for "chicken".
EU urges Iran to release British Embassy staff
Iran reports more protest arrests
'Iran trial' for UK embassy staff
Analysis: EU states deeply divided over Iran
Iranian Student Leader: 'First They Kill, Then They Count'
John R. Bolton - Time for an Israeli Strike?
Only those most theologically committed to negotiation still believe Iran will fully renounce its nuclear program. Unfortunately, the Obama administration has a "Plan B," which would allow Iran to have a "peaceful" civil nuclear power program while publicly "renouncing" the objective of nuclear weapons. Obama would define such an outcome as "success," even though in reality it would hardly be different from what Iran is doing and saying now. A "peaceful" uranium enrichment program, "peaceful" reactors such as Bushehr and "peaceful" heavy-water projects like that under construction at Arak leave Iran with an enormous breakout capability to produce nuclear weapons in very short order. And anyone who believes the Revolutionary Guard Corps will abandon its weaponization and ballistic missile programs probably believes that there was no fraud in Iran's June 12 election. See "huge credibility gap," supra.
Netanyahu: Our bond with the US is unbreakable
I'm afraid you shouldn't count on that, Bibi.
'Obama' Think-Tank: Israel Should Cede Jerusalem Sovereignty
Four weeks ago, CAP (Center for American Progress) held a panel discussion based on the premise that the Old City of Jerusalem is the main impediment in finding a solution to the Israel-Arab problem in the Holy Land. Michael Bell, a former Canadian Ambassador to Jordan, Egypt and Israel, presented a plan entitled the Jerusalem Old City Initiative. The plan does not call for the internationalization of Jerusalem -- but is not far off from that. It recommends that both Israel and a future state of Palestine appoint a third-party administrator that would run and police the city.
Lieberman: We Are Always Loved When We Make Concessions
Gaza: Hamas imposes 'Koran levy'
Lieberman: Settlements issue blown out of proportion
Muslim cleric: Muslims should visit Jerusalem
Senior Palestinian religious leader withdraws a previous fatwa, urges believers to visit holy city.
Palestinian Authority's Abbas: Hamas 'preparing a terrorist attack' against West Bank leadership
'U.S. can't get Arabs to commit to normal Israel ties'
Palestinian authority okays Dead Sea bid
Abbas aide: Obama is our last chance for two-state solution
"Obama is our saviour. He is realistic and pragmatic. He is not a dreamer," said Yasser Abed Rabbo, a senior aide to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
"He is our last chance," Abed Rabbo told the Geneva-based Le Temps newspaper, citing the growing Israeli colonies as an impediment to regional peace.
Israel sends subs through Suez Canal
‘Kristallnacht’ at Homesh: Arabs Burned Holy Books
Arabs raided the yeshiva of Homesh in Samaria on Wednesday and torched dozens of books of the Talmud and of the Five Books of Moses, leaving behind a pile of ashes. The arsonists ignored personal equipment, including beds, tables and chairs, and concentrated all their energies on Jewish texts.
Yemeni plane crash survivor tells father: 'Daddy, I don't know what happened'
The 14-year-old girl believed to be the lone survivor of Tuesday's jetliner crash in the Indian Ocean was thrown from the plane and into the waves, where she heard voices but saw no one in the darkness, her father told a French radio station today.
Attackers Blow Up Oil Pipeline In Yemen -Officials
Jordan to boost ties with Turkmenistan
Obama Increasing Aid to Jordan, Other Muslim States
Top US commander hails Turkey as major strategic partner
Turkey, Germany to sign submarine deal
Turkey court arrests colonel in alleged conspiracy
Turkey Adopts Civil-Military Reform
Turkey courted for South Stream pipeline
Nabucco gas intergovernment deal to be signed July 13
Yeah, I'll believe it when I see it built.
Turkey frees more Euphrates water for Iraq
Iraq far behind in mine clearance
War on terror used to target minorities: report
Iran eyes oil pipeline to Basra
Syria mends US, Arab ties as ally Iran in turmoil
Assad 'ready to meet Obama' in Syria
"We would like to welcome him in Syria, definitely. I am very clear about this," Assad told Sky News.
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"A big change comes when you make actions. An invitation is about dialogue, dialogue is about having common ground, a common vision. Then you have to make a plan then, later, you take action," he said.
800 Pakistani pilgrims stranded in Saudi Arabia?
Haha! Happy hajj!
German foreign minister lines up Mideast tour
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