All Good
Only liberals look at blacks looting and say, See what white Americans made them do? (Anncoulter.com, 11/26/2014)
Ann Coulter argued that body cameras on police officers would "shut Al Sharpton down" in an interview on Monday's "Sean Hannity Show." (Breitbart.com, 12/1/2014)
Ingraham: Put body camera on Obama (foxnews.com, 12/2/2014)
The Key
“The true story came out from the grand jury testimony,” Barkley said, adding that he was made aware of “key forensic evidence, and several black witnesses that supported Officer Darren Wilson’s story…” He continued, “I can’t believe anything I hear on television anymore. And, that’s why I don’t like talking about race issues with the media anymore, because they (the media) love this stuff, and lead people to jump to conclusions. The media shouldn’t do that. They never do that when black people kill each other. ” (Hotair.com, 12/1/2014)
The wonderful Charles Barkley. The only braver blacks in America were the ones who testified before the Ferguson grand jury and corroborated the version of events told by Officer Wilson.
All the Facts
The Ferguson case, with its fiercely disputed facts, has posed a particular dilemma for Mr. Obama, forcing him to balance his sympathy for the anger it has aroused among African-Americans with his commitment to the rule of law. (New York Times, 12/2/2014)
Actually, New York Times, the facts are the facts. There are no longer two sets of "facts." And the "facts" are only "fiercely disputed" by those - like the New York Times - who refuse to recognize the truth and who want to make the death of Michael Brown into a civil rights issue instead of what it really was: an assault on a peace officer. The grand jury heard expert testimony from forensic specialists and from unimpeachable witnesses who - in telling the truth - put themselves at great risk. Now there are only the facts and discredited falsehoods.
JV
Earlier this year, President Obama likened the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria to a junior varsity basketball squad, a group that posed little of the threat once presented by Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda. (New York Times, 8/22/2014)
First Obama says you can keep your health care plan, then he says ISIS is not a threat. Does this guy get anything right?
Discharged
Ferguson police officials have said Mr. Brown and a friend were walking in the street when Officer Wilson stopped them. In an ensuing struggle, they said, Officer Wilson was hit in the face and Mr. Brown tried to take his gun, which discharged. Later, Officer Wilson shot Mr. Brown six times as the two men faced each other. (New York Times, 8/23/2014)
Weeks later, after writing countless stories reminding us every few sentences that Michael Brown was unarmed, the Times pens an article about police procedures in confrontational situations. Thirteen paragraphs in we finally hear the police side of the shooting. Of course the Times just says that the officer was "hit in the face" not that his eye socket was broken as others have reported.
If we were writing the first sentence quoted above we might have written it differently: Ferguson police officials have said Mr. Brown and a friend were illegally walking in the middle of the street high on marijuana after having robbed a convenience store when Officer Wilson stopped them.
He's Got the Fever
In part, of course, that depends on what Republicans do in the next two years. Mr. Obama has been frustrated by his inability, even after a decisive 2012 re-election victory, to “break the fever” of hard-core Republican opposition. With control of both chambers of Congress, Republicans might feel a greater responsibility to join Mr. Obama in governance by striking politically appealing compromises. (New York Times, 8/21/2014)
After George W. Bush was re-elected, Democrats immediately began advising him that now was the time to compromise. Whereupon HRH Ann Coulter said something to the effect of: "Compromise? Why should Bush compromise? He has Dems in a cage. He should be poking them with a stick!"
Anticipating a shellacking in the coming elections, Dems are already urging Republicans....to compromise!
Touchy
Darren Wilson, the Ferguson, Mo., police officer whose fatal shooting of Michael Brown touched off more than a week of demonstrations, suffered severe facial injuries, including an orbital (eye socket) fracture, and was nearly beaten unconscious by Brown moments before firing his gun, a source close to the department's top brass told FoxNews.com. (Foxnews.com, 8/20/2014)
And so it unfolds as it always does. A black teenager coming home from choir practice is killed by a racist white cop. Slowly we learn that the teen had marijuana in his system, had just robbed a convenience store and busted the cop's face. The details change slightly from incident to incident, but the basic pattern is the same. Maybe the cops should sue claiming racial profiling.....
Kill Them Before They Kill Us
But Foley is dead and his killers won't fail on their own. They will not fail because Barack Obama reached out his hand in peace on Inauguration Day. They will not fail because of a progressive vision that mankind has finally in the 21st century reached some higher level of being. Like every evil in human history, ISIS will stop only when it is forced to stop. This means only when enough of its fanatics have been killed. (Wall Street Journal, 8/21/2014)
Our favorite paragraph from today's WSJ editorial.
But the lesson of the last century is that a coalition of the willing forms only when America leads. The main reason that ISIS has advanced so far has been the U.S. failure to act against it. Mr. Obama's refusal to intervene in Syria created a breeding ground for jihadists. And his total withdrawal from Iraq in 2011 created a vacuum for those jihadists to spill over and occupy Sunni Iraq.
No, this is our favorite.
Even if Mr. Obama absolves himself and still blames George W. Bush for his Middle Eastern troubles, that does him and the world no good now. Disorder is spreading while he is the world's ostensible leader. ISIS is marching while he is Commander in Chief.
Or maybe this one...
It does not matter, the point is that the lesson that Liberals like Obama have not learned and may never learn is that evil exists in the world and it must be eradicated by force and only by force.
We have to kill them.
Withdrawal, reset buttons, and vacillation only allow the cancer of evil to spread until it is at our doorstep. We have seen that movie before.
Devil's Bargain
Economic growth is nonpartisan. But inner-city public education is totally partisan. Democratic politicians made a Faustian bargain with the teachers unions, and the souls carried away have been the black children in those doomed schools. (Daniel Henninger, Wall Street Journal, 8/20/2014)
Dems have sold their souls in exchange for the votes and campaign contributions of unions. That is a fact.
Liberal Story Template (Whenever a Black Teenager is Shot by a Cop)
In (city) last night an unarmed black teenager named (name) was shot by police. The teenager was unarmed. Witnesses said that the unarmed victim had his arms up and was surrendering. An autopsy will determine whether he was shot in the back (while unarmed). It is not known if the officer who shot unarmed (name), possibly in the back, was racist. Many people interviewed on the street said he probably was. To protest the violent death of unarmed (name) by an apparently racist patrolman, protesters began robbing liquor stores.
Friends of (name) described him as a peaceful person who only wanted to help others. They said that his passions included helping out at the local homeless shelter, saving stray cats and Bible study.
Holy men Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton flew into town together and held a joint service at the (name of church) church. While alternately praising each other's peaceful ministry, they called for calm and for an investigation into police racism, and in particular, the lawless shooting of unarmed black teenagers by racist cops. Attorney General Eric Holder said: "This just proves what I have been saying all along, this is a racist country."
Meanwhile in Chicago last night there were (number) deaths attributable to black-on-black violence.
(Just kidding about that last part, it is true but not reported.)
Swept Away
Yet at home, Mr. de Blasio, who swept into office on the promise that New York City could be governed from the left, is discovering that liberalism has its limits.
The mayor who shot to fame denouncing stop-and-frisk tactics and luxury condominiums is now defending hard-nosed policing and cutting deals with developers, bowing to the realities of leading an unruly city but also angering an activist left that propelled his rise to the Democratic elite. Impatience with the mayor is now spilling into outcry.
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“More and more, every day, they find this was a lot more complicated than they thought,” Bertha Lewis, a longtime friend of the mayor and the former chief executive of Acorn, said of the de Blasio administration. (New York Times, 8/20/2014)
Another Liberal disappoints!
(And yes indeed. Liberalism does have its limits!)
Unsolved
But Mitchell Moss, who teaches urban studies at New York University, said the mayor was wise to be cautious.
“Inequality is not something that a mayor of New York can solve, but public safety is,” he said. “You can never make the liberals happy. Because when you ask them what they want, the answer is always: M-O-R-E.” (New York Times, 8/20/2014)
Teacher of the Year!
Erosion
Comity has been eroding for years in Washington, a gridlocked swamp of a city where the 113th Congress is on track to become one of the least productive in history and the president is alienated from his own party. (New York Times, 8/19/2014)
As reported by the New York Times yesterday, Democrat senators and representatives cannot stand Obama.
