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LIVE AT FIVE: 12.17.13

Posted on | December 17, 2013 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
Judge Rips NSA Phone Snooping

Spy Central

District Court Judge grants injunction against phone snooping, stays injunction pending inevitable appeal
Related: Top tech execs meeting with Obama to push for surveillance limits

Putin Expected To Offer Financial Lifeline To Ukraine
No commitment to politically hazardous customs union, though

Socialist Bachelet Wins Chilean Runoff
Defeats center-right candidate for presidency 62-38



POLITICS
Senate Confirms Jeh Johnson As Homeland Security Chief

Meet the new boss…

Least qualified nominee cruises to 76-16 confirmation with endorsements from predecessors

Texas Congressmen Take Aim At Obamacare Navigators

Sen. Ayotte To Vote No On Budget Deal


Utah Governor Expresses Concern Over Polygamy Ruling

Corps Of Engineers Wasted $5.4 Million On Unusable Trash Incinerators

Sen. Sessions Fights Cuts To Veterans Benefits Ahead Of Budget Vote

Even The Employer-Insured Feeling The Shock Of Obamacare Changes

Pelosi Calls On Obama To Halt Deportations

Ethics Committee To Begin Probe of Rep. Radel



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Asian Crude Falls On Stimulus Speculation: NYMEX $97.37, Brent $109.21
Poll: Americans See End Of Stock Surge
Glaxo Bets A Billion On Indian Subsidiary
Euro Stands Tall, Dollar Wobbles Ahead Of Fed Meeting
Boeing Announces $10 Billion Buyback, Raises Dividend
GM Investing $1.3 Billion In Three Midwest Plants
Google Will Keep Robot Maker Boston Dynamics In Massachusetts
Facebook Gives Back With “Donate Now” Button
Amazon Really, Really Wants To Sell More Kindle Fire HDX Tablets
After AT&T Deal Fizzles, San Francisco Builds Its Own Free Wifi
Sprint Considering A T-Mobile Takeover? (Video)



SPORTS
Ravens Kick Lions In Nose, 18-16

Justin Tucker nailed six FG to give Baltimore the win

Record 61-yard FG seals Monday Night victory


MLB, NPB Reach Deal On Posting Fees

Pistons Hand Pacers First Home Loss


Crosby’s 19th Goal Propels Penguins Past Leafs

Beal Returns, Carries Wizards To Win Over Knicks

Kane Returns From Injury, Scores Game Winner As Jets Edge Blue Jackets

O’s Sign Nationals’ 2006 First-Rounder Chris Marrero



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Joan Fontaine Dies, 96

Won Oscar for her role in 1941’s “Suspicion”

Known for lifelong feud with sister Olivia de Havilland; died of natural causes


And The Rock Says…It’s Payday!

Judge Revokes Chris Brown’s Probation In Rihanna Assault


Fifty Shades Star Jamie Dornan Is A Dad

Charlie Sheen: Denise Richards RUINED Christmas

Jessica Simpson Drops Pounds From Second Baby

Former Disney Star Dylan Sprouse Admits Leaked Nude Pics Are Real

Jerry O’Connell And Rebecca Romijn’s Christmas Card Is Going To The Dogs



FOREIGNERS
Norks Commemmorate Second Anniversary Of Kim Jong Il’s Death
WFP: Syrians Have No Food Security
SecState Kerry Visits Philippines
Curfew In South Sudan Capitol After Reported Coup Attempt
Fake Interpreter At Mandela Memorial Linked To Brutal “Necklace” Murders
Car Bomb Hits Hezbollah Checkpoint In East Lebanon
Thai Opposition Debates Whether To Run In February Elections
Sinkiang Riot Leaves 16 Dead
Ukraine Opposition Calls For Big Protest As Yanukovich Heads For Moscow
Russia Moves Nuke-Capable Missiles To Polish, Lithuanian Borders
Protests In India Against Supreme Court Ruling On Gay Sex



BLOGS & STUFF
Michelle Malkin: Video – Udall Lied, Health Plans Died
Twitchy: “$40,000 Debt In A Stocking?” Toure Says There’s Already A Benevolent Black Man Who Gives Gifts To Kids
Chicks On The Right: And In More Awesome Obamacare News, The Washington Exchange Is Arbitrarily Debiting Checking Accounts
Michael Boskin: Obamacare’s Troubles Are Only Beginning
American Power: NH Democrats Send Tracker To Funeral To Dig Dirt On Sen. Ayotte
American Thinker: Did Rush Limbaugh Just Endorse iCongress?
Blackfive: Book Review – American Heroes: On the Homefront by LTC Oliver North
Blackmailers Don’t Shoot: Potheads Hurt Their Cause By What They Say
The Necropolitan Sentinel: They’re Always After Me Lucky Charms!
Don Surber: Daily Scoreboard, December 16
Jammie Wearing Fools: Denver Post Editor Offers Lame, Insulting Excuse For Removing “Socialist” From Description Of Accused Colorado Shooter
JustOneMinute: A Nation Of (Overlooked) Laws, Not Of Men
Pat Dollard: 2013 Ratings Champ Fox News Continues To Hammer Its Enemies
Protein Wisdom: IRS Now To Make Its Targeting Of TEA Parties Legal
Shot In The Dark: Gun Control PR Fail
The Jawa Report: Tolerance, I Do Not Think It Means What Islam Thinks It Means
The Lonely Conservative: Texas Governor Candidate Wendy Davis Campaigns In NY, Calls Texas “Toxic”
This Ain’t Hell: A-10 On The Chopping Block Again
Megan McArdle: No One At Ford Is Laughing Any More


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Category: Live at Five

Alabama Tea Party Leader Compares ObamaCare to ‘Lord of the Rings’

Posted on | December 16, 2013 | 32 Comments

Becky Gerritson, leader of the Wetumpka (Alabama) Tea Party, made headlines in June when she testified to Congress about how her organization was treated by the Internal Revenue Service. Monday, in a speech to a meeting of the Alabama 60-Plus Senior Association in Montgomery, Gerritson compared the fight against ObamaCare to the Lord of the Rings saga, an analogy in which President Obama is Sauron. Here is the text of her speech:

Hello. I’m Becky Gerritson. I’ve been asked to explain how Obamacare will affect you all in five minutes. I think I can do it in less than one.
Remember Lord of the Rings?
Well, we are all happy hobbits. Washington, DC is Mordor. Barack Obama is Sauron. Kathleen Sebelius is Sarumon. The hideous, despicable army of evil orcs would be the IRS. And the Affordable Care Act is their plan to reorganize the Shire.
That metaphor works for several reasons. I love it because it highlights a certainty that many of us would prefer to ignore: a battle is coming.
As natives of the Shire, we don’t like conflict. We like to work hard. We like to take care of our families. We like our churches. We like our communities. When we see a neighbor struggle, we like to band together and bear each other up.
But outside forces think they know better. They’ve announced their new edict. Very soon, they will commence its enforcement. And now, we are being forced to make a choice: submit or fight.
And what does submission require?
Obamacare may begin with health care, but it’s much more than that — more than your individual policy, more than a government takeover of 1/6th of the American economy.
Try not to focus on the politics of the moment. Forget about your personal relationship with your family doctor. Forget about broken promises. Forget about the technical failures of healthcare.gov. The real nightmare arrives when Obamacare starts to function properly.
Complying with Obamacare means that your tax dollars will directly fund abortions as of January 1st, 2014. It means that religious institutions will have to violate their consciences if they want to keep their doors open.
If the government orders you to kill a baby would you do it? No? Then why would you agree to pay someone else to do it?
What is religious freedom if the government can force you to violate your religious convictions?
Maybe you’re not religious. And maybe you don’t care about abortion. Are you comfortable with the government redefining freedom whenever they change their mind about the “greater good?”
That’s the most troubling aspect of Obamacare. It’s not just an enormous government welfare program that asks younger Americans to pay for the decisions of an older generation. Obamacare presents a competing system of values that cannot co-exist with our local values.
I like to make my own decisions about my life and family. But if I’m forced to deal with a collective, I would rather trust the strangers in this room than federal bureaucrats. And that is exactly what Obamacare forbids: individual decision-making and communities expressing local values. With Obamacare, the moral decision-making occurs in Washington. We just follow their orders. As such, Obamacare is the keystone to a fundamental transformation of our culture.
If you think I’m being dramatic, I urge you to remember the name Ezekial Emanuel. He’s the chief architect of Obamacare. He’s also the author of the Complete Lives system. That system is his blueprint for how health care dollars should be allocated to benefit the most productive in a society. He says his program will serve the “greatest good.” Emanuel believes that too much money is spent on the elderly. He also believes that children born with serious disabilities and illnesses siphon off more than their share of collective dollars that could be better spent elsewhere. In short, the Complete Lives system would focus health care expenditures to aid the most productive in society (roughly those between 18 and 50) at the expense of the elderly and the infirm.
When it comes to sick kids and grandparents, sometimes difficult decisions must be made. I think those decisions should be made by families. Obamacare will leave the decision to a panel of bureaucrats.
I believe that Obamacare will be deeply destructive — both to American health care and to American culture — but Obamacare is just a vessel. It is not nearly as sinister and threatening as the idea behind it: social justice. Over the last five years, you’ve heard the term “social justice” uttered by President Obama and his czars and czarinas somewhere around 14 billion times. The president can’t complete a sneeze without mentioning it.
As a concept, social justice means that we have an obligation to those less fortunate than us. On the surface, there’s nothing especially new about that. Christians and Jews believe something similar. We know that the poor will always be with us, and it is always our duty to reach out and be charitable.
I urge you not to fall for this. Christianity calls individuals to be generous to the less fortunate. Christianity is concerned with each individual soul. Though social justice cloaks itself in similar language, it asserts that some debt exists between one citizen and another. This is an enormous difference. Recipients of charity are grateful. Those who believe that they have been denied justice are not.
If social justice exists, where are the courts? If a debt exists between citizens, how much is owed? And who owes it? If these questions can’t be answered, then social justice is a fraud, and those who propagate it are promoting violence between citizens.
Obamacare was sold under the banner of social justice. In nearly every speech, President Obama suggests that part of the population has taken more than its fair share. Conversely, he is telling part of the population that they have been robbed. This is a morality fairy tale spun by a man who doesn’t understand the free market or respect American traditions.
I know the Shire, and I know Shire folk. We’re generous and hospitable to those in need. We’re happy to support charitable causes, near and far. But submitting to outsiders is not generosity. It’s surrender. And I won’t play a part in it.
As I said at the beginning, a battle is coming. If you’re interested in joining the resistence, we need your help.

Category: Alabama, Health Care, Tea Party

Reann Murphy, 9, Murdered in Ohio, Body Found Dumped in Trash Bin UPDATE: ‘Diminished Mental Capacity’

Posted on | December 16, 2013 | 63 Comments

Dan Riehl blogged about this case Sunday, and my immediate suspicion was that this wasn’t Jarrod Metsger’s first crime.

Criminals do not usually begin their careers with murder.

My hunch is that this suspect probably had a record of petty crimes — burglary, theft, drug possession, etc. — but maybe my usually inerrant hunches are wrong this time. At any rate, it’s a horrible crime:

An Ohio man who authorities believe killed a 9-year-old neighbor and dumped her body in a trash bin was ordered held on $1 million bond Monday pending another hearing next week.
Jerrod Metsker, 24, appeared for an arraignment before a Wayne County municipal court judge via video from jail. The county public defender was appointed to represent him on charges that he killed Reann Murphy, whose family lives across from him in a trailer park in Smithville, about 30 miles southwest of Akron.
A preliminary hearing was scheduled for Dec. 23. County prosecutor Daniel Lutz said the case could go to a grand jury on Friday if the evidence is processed in time.
Metsker was arrested Sunday, about 12 hours after deputies found Reann’s body in a trash bin near her home.
The girl was last seen Saturday night playing outdoors at the park. Her body was found about five hours after she was reported missing. . . .
Authorities have not offered a possible motive for her killing. Lutz said a coroner will determine the cause of death but that the girl was not shot or stabbed.

By process of elimination, if she was neither stabbed nor shot, the cause of death will be strangulation, suffocation or blunt force trauma. As for the motive, we shall see if Metsker (or Metsger, depending on which report you read) is charged with sexual assault, but that’s what the charge of “aggravated murder” usually means in such a case. This crime shook the whole community:

Friends, family and community members gathered Sunday evening at the pavilion in Apple Creek to remember the life of Reann Murphy, 9, who was found dead earlier in the day.
“There’s nothing I can say,” said Richard Murphy, Reann’s father, visibly shaken after a ceremony and candlelight vigil at the pavilion. . . .
“I hope our justice system does the right thing, regardless of the circumstances,” said Ken Murray, Reann’s uncle. “Our baby was murdered.”
Gary Lambert, a Mansfield pastor, said he made the trip over not because he had any answers.
“I wish I had words to stop the pain,” Lambert said. “Somewhere in the portals of heaven, she’s O.K. … if there’s any comfort tonight it’s that she’s O.K.”
Near the end of the remembrance, Reann’s cousin, Paula Watts, godmother Subrena Daughtery, and friend Sue Lazzaro remembered a girl who was a “daddy’s girl” and enjoyed things that challenged her.
“(Her father, Richard) lost his best friend,” Murray said.

News reports did not explain why Metsker was charged, and it’s quite likely he made incriminating statements to police. The background of the suspect and more facts about the crime are likely to be reported by Ohio media in the next couple of days.

UPDATE: Important details in the latest update:

A man accused of killing a 9-year-old neighbor and hiding her body in a trash bin had been building a snowman with her just hours before she was reported missing, investigators said Monday. . .
Investigators with the Wayne County Sheriff’s Office described Metsker as a family friend and neighbor. Capt. Douglas Hunter said Metsker has a “diminished mental capacity,” but he wouldn’t release information about a specific diagnosis.
People who live in the trailer park said Metsker would play outside with the neighborhood children and built a playhouse out of blankets alongside his home, where he’d spend time with youngsters less than half his age.
Reann and her mother had just moved into the trailer park a few months ago around the beginning of the school year, relatives said. . . .
The girl’s mother was at work Saturday afternoon while she was at home with her mother’s live-in boyfriend, Hunter said. She went outside to play in the snow and was with several other children in the trailer park’s courtyard, but the others went home, leaving Metsker alone with her, he said. . . .
Preliminary autopsy results showed the girl likely had been strangled with an unknown object, county coroner Dr. Amy Jolliff said.

So, “diminished mental capacity,” playing with children “less than half his age,” and he apparently strangled the girl.

How could this crime have been prevented?

UPDATE II: Further evidence of Jarrod Metsker’s “diminished mental capacity” can be seen on his Facebook page, where he is a fan of Miley Cyrus and Taylor Swift and such child-oriented shows as “iCarly” and “Spongebob Squarepants.”

UPDATE III: More from Dan Riehl:

I’m still not entirely willing to believe that this murder was (allegedly) this guy’s first crime. Surely, there were warning signs.

 

Category: Crime

Rule 5 Monday

Posted on | December 16, 2013 | 15 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Standard disclaimer: some of the following links are to photographs liable to cause unfavorable reactions from wives, girlfriends, boyfriends, fellow workers, bosses, Gender Studies majors, and other people in a position to make your life miserable or otherwise pollute your purity of essence.

Blogfodder kicks off the festivities this week with a sampling of Star Trek lovelies, followed by Randy’s Roundtable with Kelly Scern, Ninethy Miles From Tyranny with Morning Mistress, Hot Pick of the Late Night, and Girls With Guns. Subject to Change returns with some pix in the kitchen; meanwhile, Blackmailers Don’t Shoot’s Pretty Girls On A Thursday is all about beach volleyball. First Street Journal once again crosses the Rule 5 and milblogging streams with this post on the IDF.

EBL’s herd of heifers this week includes the 49ers cheerleaders, a farewell to the Snuggle House, South African women, The Sound Of Music live, Emmy Rossum, Carla Bruni, a paean to kale, and unofficial NY Giants cheerleaders.

A View From The Beach brings Merry Christmas from Nicola McLean, The Carla Bruni Honey Trap, A Silly Sex Post, Obamacare Schadenfreude Nipping At Your Nose, Russian Ginger Gets The Stuffing Beat Out Of Her, Chesapeake At The Crossroads, more Obamacare Schadenfreude, Rashida Jones and the Year Of The Very Visible Vagina, Why Chinese Kids Learn So Fast, Stormy Weather, and Many Fish Bite If You Got Good Bait.

Soylent Refuge inquires about the Wonder Woman casting before moving on to the Sunday coffee creamer, egg breakfast, some Aerosmith music, Monday Motivationer – Gone Fishin’, Tuesday Titillation Rachelle, More Chalk Needed, Humpday Hawtness Kennedy, Ginger Awesome, Falconsword Fursday Flashback Kathryn, Corsetcare Cascade, T-GIF Friday Leanna, Overnighty Juliette, and a weekend champagne cocktail.

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Barbara Palvin, his vintage babe is Shari Lewis, and the Sex In Advertising is by Victoria’s Secret. Also, obligatory 49ers cheerleader! Dustbury offers Helle Thorning-Schmidt and Rita Moreno, while at The Camp of the Saints, it’s Karla James and the Rule 5 News.

The DaleyGator’s DaleyBabes this week included Kaitlyn Leeb, Kim Loan, Emma K, Giselle Windecker, Hilarie Burton, Maggie Lawson, Daisy Marie, Melissa Grace, Emmy Rossum, and Chocolat Ikeda. Also, a double scoop of Saturday Beauty.

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery! Deadline to submit links to the Rule 5 Wombat mailbox for next week’s Rule 5 roundup is Saturday, December 21.


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Category: Rule 5

EPA Climate-Change Expert Admits ‘Historic’ Fraud for $900,000

Posted on | December 16, 2013 | 31 Comments

“I thought, ‘Oh my God, How could this possibly
have happened in this agency?’ . . . I’ve worked
for the government for 35 years. I’ve
never seen a situation like this.”

The story of John C. Beale,  the Environmental Protection Agency’s “highest-paid employee and a leading expert on climate change,” could be a stake through the heart of the global warming hoax comparable to the 2009 release of the “ClimateGate” e-mails.

Defenders of the climate-change “scientific consensus” will, of course, claim there is no larger significance to Beale’s bizarre fraud, in which he told his bosses he “was a CIA spy working in Pakistan so he could avoid doing his real job“:

Beyond Beale’s individual fate, his case raises larger questions about how he was able to get away with his admitted fraud for so long, according to federal and congressional investigators. Two new reports by the EPA inspector general’s office conclude that top officials at the agency “enabled” Beale by failing to verify any of his phony cover stories about CIA work, and failing to check on hundreds of thousands of dollars paid him in undeserved bonuses and travel expenses — including first-class trips to London where he stayed at five-star hotels and racked up thousands in bills for limos and taxis.
Until he retired in April after learning he was under federal investigation, Beale, an NYU grad with a masters from Princeton, was earning a salary and bonuses of $206,000 a year, making him the highest paid official at the EPA. He earned more money than Gina McCarthy, the agency’s administrator and, for years, his immediate boss, according to agency documents.
In September, Beale, who served as a “senior policy adviser” in the agency’s Office of Air and Radiation, pled guilty to defrauding the U.S. government out of nearly $900,000 since 2000.

Among his many lies, this one is classic:

He also claimed to be suffering from malaria that he got while serving in Vietnam. According to his lawyer’s filing, he didn’t have malaria and never served in Vietnam. He told the story to EPA officials so he could get special handicap parking at a garage near EPA headquarters.

So, the “senior policy advisor” is an admitted liar, but don’t worry: His lawyer says Beale is also crazy!

“With the help of his therapist,” wrote attorney John Kern, “Mr. Beale has come to recognize that, beyond the motive of greed, his theft and deception were animated by a highly self-destructive and dysfunctional need to engage in excessively reckless, risky behavior.” Kern also said Beale was driven “to manipulate those around him through the fabrication of grandiose narratives … that are fueled by his insecurities.”

In other words, a top EPA official was a corrupt liar because he was mentally ill — “highly self-destructive and dysfunctional” — but that is no reason (the global warming fanatics will assure us) to doubt the validity of their implausible hypothesis.

 


Category: Environmentalism, Global Warming, Scandal, Science

Homophobia: Pathology or Tautology?

Posted on | December 16, 2013 | 69 Comments

A good friend, who spent many years as an active lesbian, but then met and married a man, becoming a Christian wife and mother, absolutely hates the word “homophobia.”

The implied psychiatric diagnosis — that the person so labeled has an irrational fear or hatred of homosexuals — is absurd, and can probably be best understood as an act of revenge: Whereas the psychiatric community for decades categorized homosexuality as a mental illness, now gay activists seek payback by accusing heterosexuals of being in the throes of an abnormal psychological reaction.

Bullshit.

Hustle me no hustles and scam me no scams.

Only people with an idolatrous reverence for the ideological abstraction of “equality” — people willing to discard common sense and ignore plain facts of real life — could be fooled by this humbug. I don’t care if public opinion polls show that a majority of Americans are the kind of total chumps who are the natural prey of Nigerian scam spammers, you’re not going to run that kind of flimsy con on me.

Exactly who are the “experts” delivering these categorical diagnoses? What are their credentials? What is the basis of their authority to declare the most venerable traditions of Anglo-American law and Judeo-Christian morality a species of madness?

To wit: Who the fuck is Mark Joseph Stern?

Can a person oppose equal rights for gay people and not be, in some fundamental way, a homophobe? The answer seems to me to be a pretty obvious no. Opposition to gay marriage isn’t just some abstract principle with little practical effect. It’s a harmful belief with real-world consequences, and it has contributed immeasurable pain, sorrow, and suffering to the lives of gay people throughout history.

Hyperbole much? Stern blames the “suffering . . . of gay people throughout history” on opponents of a policy that had few if any advocates until the past couple of decades.

Of course, during most of human history (and for many millions of people even today), our entire Western notion of democratic “rights” had no meaning. But one can generally endorse the idea of democracy and the concept of individual rights without embracing the radical egalitarian mania to which Stern has evidently succumbed.

Men and women are fundamentally different. Therefore, the difference between heterosexuality and homosexuality cannot be wished away, as if it were irrelevant and, indeed, one might observe that male and female homosexuals are at least as different from each other as either of them are from heterosexuals. In fact, the “born that way” claims of biological determinism for homosexuality (employed as the premise of making homosexuality analogous to race, in terms of civil rights law) would seem to directly contradict the claims of feminists that the inherent biological differences between male and female are meaningless.

So which is it, egalitarians? Would you have us accept the biology-means-nothing argument for androgynous sexual equality, or would you have us accept the biology-is-everything argument that gay people are born with same-sex attraction? Perhaps you can reconcile the two claims, but forgive my street-smart skeptical hunch that you’re just being disingenuously opportunistic.

People need to wise up to these intellectual scams, and not let themselves be bamboozled by egalitarian con artists.

 

Category: Culture, Feminism, Gays, Intellectuals

Russia Reverting to Totalitarianism?

Posted on | December 16, 2013 | 18 Comments

Kim Zigfeld at American Thinker exposes how Russia’s state-controlled media are misreporting the Ukrainian uprising:

With every day that passes, ordinary Russians are more and more cut off from basic facts about the world, just as they were in Soviet times. . . .
All of the major broadcast TV networks are state-controlled in Russia, and the lies they told about the massive protests were amazingly bold. . . .
Instead of reporting that hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians had gathered in Kiev, as was the case, Russian TV told its viewers there were just a few hundred. Again and again, with no proof at all, Russian TV reported that the demonstrators had been bought and paid for by Russia’s enemies in the West. . . .

(Gosh, this kind of reminds me of how CNN and other pro-Obama media covered the Tea Party protests in 2009-2010.)

As the Economist puts it, Russian state TV, which Kiselyov charging at the lead and looking like “a caricature of a Soviet propagandist,” has been “churning out propaganda” lately to an extent that “would have made Soviet predecessors blush.” The magazine shows how Kiselyov “reversed and twisted the order of events” in Ukraine, lying to and deluding his fellow citizens to keep them mired in neo-Soviet darkness. . . .
If you tune in to Russia Today, the Kremlin’s English-language propaganda TV network, you see exactly the same kind of America-bashing that you saw from the USSR. American companies like Walmart are trashed, American values are smeared, and those who work against the American way of life are glorified.

This latter point is worth considering: Anti-American propaganda may actually be based on factual reporting. There are things our government does, especially in the area of foreign policy and national security, which we don’t necessarily endorse. However, these actions must be understood in an international context. What are our nation’s enemies and rivals doing? Our nation’s policies cannot be viewed in a vacuum, and especially we cannot permit propaganda by hostile powers to suggest that the United States is uniquely evil, so as to undermine our prestige, demoralize our citizens and weaken our defenses against aggressors.

Am I the only one who has noticed that Russia Today has been a reliable cheerleader for Julian Assange’s WikiLeaks, Bradley Manning, the Anonymous hackers and Edward Snowden?



You may be in favor of all that, but where are Russia’s Assanges, Mannings and Snowdens? Where are the hackers and “whistleblowers” exposing the secrets of America’s enemies?

It’s strange how people who think of themselves as cosmopolitan sophisticates — enlightened “world citizens” — are often so naive.

 


Category: Russia

In The Mailbox: 12.16.13

Posted on | December 16, 2013 | 6 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
First Street Journal: The Obvious, Unmentioned Problem
Proof Positive: Quiptoon Du Jour
Michelle Malkin: Culture Of Corruption – The Dems’ Dangerous DHS Pick
Twitchy: Martha McCallum Slams Obama, Funeral Selfie With Crushing Quote


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Power: Megyn Kelly Shines On Fox
American Thinker: Has The Catholic Bubble In Chicago Finally Burst?
Blackfive: Two Golden Knights Receive Soldiers’ Medal
Blackmailers Don’t Shoot: “The Hunger Games – Catching Fire” A Haterific, Spoilertastic Review
The Necropolitan Sentinel: Obamacare Watch – Happy Friday The 13th! Here’s Some Delays, Extensions, And General Dithering
Don Surber: Daily Scoreboard, December 13
Jammie Wearing Fools: SNL Goofs On Obama’s Mandela Memorial Fiasco
JustOneMinute: Peak Schadenfreude Alert
Pat Dollard: Issa Says Sebelius Pressuring Contractors To Defy Congressional Subpoenas
Protein Wisdom:“Dirty Jobs” Star Mike Rowe On The High Cost Of College
Shot In The Dark: Just A Few Dozen Things Missing
The Jawa Report: Danish PM Goes Basic Instinct On Obama
The Lonely Conservative: #WarOnWomen – Democrats Attack, Belittle Female Physician For Testifying About Obamacare
This Ain’t Hell: Stephen Kowalyshyn, Marine Sniper Phony
Megan McArdle: No Antibiotics, No Sexual Revolution


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