Presidential Pipeline

What a great cartoon by Michael Ramirez!

Dismissing Important Stories

I like this Richard Baehr column at Israel Hayom that says that thanks to Donald Sterling, the proof of a Benghazi cover-up by the White House, and the disgraceful remarks about Israel by John Kerry were not the stories of the week and didn't get the attention they deserved. (Of course,  with our media protecting Obama, I doubt these would have made huge headlines even without Sterling!)

Do you think atrocities like this will receive as much publicity as Donald Sterling's remarks? I doubt it, unless some bimbos were there who recorded it: "Jihadists Execute 7 in Syria, 2 by Crucifixion."

Donald Sterling and Cliven Bundy are two old fools who got what they deserved, but it's not a matter of life and death -- Benghazi, Syria, and Israel are.

Serves Them Right!

From Hot Air, about this story: "Oklahoma death-row inmate dies of heart attack after botched execution.  'This could be a real turning point in the whole debate as people get disgusted by this sort of thing,' said one death-penalty opponent afterward. Could it? See for yourself what this degenerate did to earn himself a spot on the gurney and decide how disgusted you are. He raped the victim, shot her, and then had his cohorts bury her alive while she was bleeding out — and of the two men Oklahoma was set to execute last night, he’s arguably the lesser offender of the two. The other guy raped and killed … an infant. His execution’s now been stayed while Oklahoma figures out what went wrong with the drug cocktail they administered to the first inmate."  The only thing I'm disgusted about is that liberals actually expect us to care when the executions of animals like these aren't painless!  Why shouldn't they suffer?

Grandchild of the Holocaust

This simple and touching Holocaust Remembrance Day post is by Lara Dvora Berman, the grandchild of survivors.

Dog Day Afternoon

 

I am suffering from 24-hour TV sensory overload, so right now I'm looking at Elke Vogelsang's wonderful pictures of dogs rather than talk about the news. There -- don't you feel better already?

Ugly News

Here's another piece of encouraging economic news for you: "BLS: In 20% of American Families, No One Works."  That's 16,127,000 families! If Obama has his way, that figure will go even higher.

I feel the same way: "NBA legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar attacked the collective outrage emanating from America’s media over Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling’s alleged racist remarks, calling the publication of a private conversation 'sleazy' and wondering why earlier, more public manifestations of racism failed to similarly shock."  I think it's because of the tabloid-trash, reality-TV-type nature of this story, which has captured the imagination of people who secretly like that sort of thing.

True colors: Somehow, I don't think John Kerry's public remarks will get the sort of press coverage Sterling's private ones did. He was forced to apologize for calling Israel an apartheid state.  He was obviously against Israel before he was for her, and I don't accept his apology.

Defensive

I see that Obama went on the defensive today against critics of his awful foreign policy. Responding to Fox News's Ed Henry, he said, "Well, Ed, I doubt that I’m going to have time to lay out my entire foreign policy doctrine. And there are actually some complimentary pieces as well about my foreign policy, but I’m not sure you ran them."  Who wrote those complimentary pieces, the Palestinians?

The Indecent Lawsuit of the Day

Here's a headline for you: Driver sues boy she struck and killed.  "A Canadian woman who hit three teenage boys on bikes while driving, killing one and injuring the other two, is suing the dead teen for the emotional trauma she suffered." Get this -- the emotional trauma SHE suffered! Greedy, awful people like this should be ostracized by their communities -- but I don't think shame even works anymore, because there is no shame.  The lack of decency and the lack of normal responses to situations continue to grow in our "new normal" society, so prepare yourself for worse.

One Reason We Still Need Holocaust Remembrance Day

"Hamas Calls Holocaust ‘Made-Up Story’ Ahead of Yom HaShoah."  You expect this from terrorists like Hamas, but there are millions of other people who feel the same way.

Israel, Defend Yourself!

Gil Solomon writes that it's time for Israel to take off the gloves, and here's why:
"The Obama-brokered 'peace talks' have fallen in a heap due to three main issues.
1. The unrelenting demands by an enemy that did not enter the talks in good faith and which to this day continues with the indoctrination of its population to hate the Jews and Israel.
2. The unrelenting concessions demanded by a US administration which on many occasions could have been taken for the mouthpiece of the Palestinian Authority (PA).
3. The realization – finally having sunk in to diehard Israeli leftists – that indulging the PA’s never ending claims and fantasies any further would mean national suicide.                                                                   Defying the Obama-inspired 'talks' by refusing to release the third batch of murderers gives hope that Israel has had enough and is finally getting up off its knees.
Let the gloves to come off now and let Israel declare the Oslo Accords a tragic mistake that recognized a people who never existed in the annals of history and expose to the world – in clear and unambiguous language – the fiction that is the 'Palestinian' narrative.

Israel must declare that the current so called 'peace talks' are dead and buried, not just stopped, and that the PA’s day in the sun and limelight on the world stage is well and truly over."

Bravo! I wish I heard this sentiment more often. Now go read the rest of the column and applaud some more.