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RELEASING KILLERS = SUICIDE ...
WHOSE "HATE SPEECH" TO BE BANNED? ...
OBAMA'S WAY: "REDISTRIBUTE" POVERTY

So the man who is believed to have organized the terrorist attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, resulting in the murder of the U.S. Ambassador to Libya and three other Americans, had been imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay and released in 2007. Under the administration of George W. Bush.
     Bush ... Obama ... when, if ever, are we going to get a president who doesn't get played for a sucker by these murderous Muslims?! You let them out, this is what you get. In dealing with this bloodthirsty bunch, "tolerance" and "understanding" will get you killed.
     A MAJOR DIFFERENCE: It is not only the vow of Barack Obama but the stated, official position of the Democratic Party to close our prison facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, implying the release of ALL terrorists held there. A cynic might suggest that this constitutes further evidence that being a Democrat is a mental disorder.

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Working definition of "gaffe": When a politician accidentally tells the truth.

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Can somebody explain why even a sub-moron would think Obama's "foreign policy" is a success?
     The middle-east is aflame, Americans are being murdered by "allies" in Afghanistan, the Muslim world has gone mad, Putin is flexing his muscles, China is threatening war with Japan, etc., etc.
     If this is success, what would failure look like?

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Romney was right about society's leeches -- those who could help themselves, but would rather freeload. Michael Goodwin (NY Post) makes the essential points ...
     "A tape from a May fund-raiser is rocking the campaign because Romney was 'caught' accurately outlining our political polarization.
     "As a defining principle, almost-half the nation backing President Obama wants government to do more. The other half backs Romney because it knows the government already does too much. It is a financial fight, but also a cultural one. The entitlement mentality isn’t limited to those who earned or desperately need their country’s help.
     "We’re sinking because too many politicians like Obama think their job is to 'level the playing field' by confiscating wealth from some Americans and giving it to others. First, they take a big cut for themselves and their friends."

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More Muslim madness ...
     The Organization of Islamic Cooperation wants an international law against insulting a religion. This comes from adherents of a faith that calls for anyone NOT a member of THEIR religion to be forced to either (A) convert, (B) submit to their law and pay a special tax or (C) be killed.

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The problem with defining "hate speech" (or TV, videos, books, articles or movies) is that some people define it as simply telling the truth about them (E.g., you say you're a "progressive;" I say you're a communist, knowingly or not). This presents an insurmountable problem when a nation or jurisdiction tries to simultaneously retain but limit freedom of speech.

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The burning questions about current political polls: Are they, as many suspect, being churned out by the media to generate public opinion that Obama's a sure winner and thus discourage Romney voters? If so, could that backfire by causing some Obama voters to think, "My guy's won, so I don't need to vote?"
     One thing we DO know: Most are wildly over-sampling Democrats, which in itself is guaranteed to corrupt the results.

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While Obama and the Democrats demagogue for the dumb masses, Thomas Sowell recalls more intelligent Democrat presidents ...
     "Democratic presidents Woodrow Wilson and John F. Kennedy spoke plainly about the fact that higher tax rates on individuals and businesses did not automatically translate into higher tax revenues for the government. Beyond some point, high tax rates on those with high incomes simply led to those incomes being invested in tax-free bonds, with the revenue from those bonds being completely lost to the government — and the investments lost to the economy."
     In other words, investments that would create jobs.
     But don't expect Obama, Pelosi, Reid, et al, to discuss this with the ignorant oxen that make up their herd.

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In yesterday's screed, I wrote, "Redistribution" literally means, "I want to take money away from people who earn it and give it to people who didn't earn it."
      Scott suggests an alternative ...
 “I want to take money away from people who won’t vote for me and give it to people who will vote for me.”

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Followup to reports of heightened military activity in Israel:
Britain's daily Telegraph newspaper reports a "snap" (i.e., sudden) military exercise in Israel as tension builds not only over the Iran nuclear program but heightened concern about next-door Syria.

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The estimable Burt Prelutsky with a timeless quote and a brief agenda ...
     "William F. Buckley proved he could be both Solomon-like and pithy in his comments about those who infest the Left. One of my favorites was his observation that 'Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there ARE other views.'
     "We conservatives should never forget how absolutely worthless the GOP was from 2001-2007, when the Republicans controlled the White House and both houses of Congress. Aside from waging a war in Iraq, their only notable accomplishments were raising the national debt by several trillion dollars and kowtowing to the likes of Ted Kennedy and Russ Feingold.
     "Among the many things they did nothing about was improving health care. If all they had done was to pass legislation that enabled people to purchase their insurance across state borders and deny insurance companies the right to drop customers who took sick and actually needed health insurance, they could have spared us the agony of ObamaCare."

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Yes, a cynic might say this election, like most, is about identifying the evil of two lessers.

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Words worth remembering ...
      “By all accounts, he (Obama) too is a good husband and a good father and — thanks to lots of practice — a good golfer. Our problem is not that he’s a bad person. Our problem is that he’s a bad president." -- Senator Marco Rubio

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Mona Charen (Townhall.com) with a capsule take on why Obama is the bungling, inept president he is -- especially faced with today's crises in the middle-east ...
     "He believes in a more modest United States -- remember those bows -- because he comes from an intellectual tradition that is hostile to American power. His pastor and mentor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, expressed a common leftist view when he said after 9/11 that the attacks represented 'America's chickens coming home to roost.'
     "Mr. Obama's one-time green jobs czar, Van Jones, was of the same school, showing up at a radical leftist rally on September 12, 2001 and, amid the drum circles and curses, heaped on the nation that had just suffered an attack of unprecedented savagery and joined in the denunciations of the victim. 'It's the bombs that the government has been dropping around the world that are now blowing up inside the U.S. borders.'
     "As if the U.S. were in the habit of bombing nations just to throw its weight around, or for the sheer joy of dominating and hurting others. In fact, of the last six wars in which the United States was involved (Kuwait, Bosnia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya), four were undertaken to rescue Muslims and the other two (Afghanistan and Iraq) had the side benefit of liberating Muslims -- to what end remains an open question."

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Eric Holder's Justice Department investigates itself over the "Fast and Furious" gun-running debacle and finds that the boss -- Holder -- had nothing to do with it. We're shocked, stunned AND amazed ...

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Now that it's open news that MediaMatters, the George Soros-funded ultra-left propaganda mill, collaborates with Eric Holder's (In)Justice Department to promote racist and leftist policies, longtime listeners to me on ABC-San Francisco may recall that, at the end of my twenty-five years with ABC, I was under relentless, lying attack from the MediaMatters scumbags. And the station ownership caved in to them and asked me to apologize for totally true accusations I made about MediaMatters and their Mr. Moneybags, Soros. I refused, but management did issue a totally bogus apology, voiced by a company stooge. I knew right away that my days with the then-owners of ABC Radio were numbered, but stuck it out to a court fight -- and won.
     It was a classic case of media gutlessness.

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Today's GOOD news comes from a northern province of Iran where Hojatoleslam Ali Beheshti, one of those crazed Muslim fanatic preachers, accosted a woman who wasn't completely covered enough for his tastes. He began to lecture her ... and she beat the hell out of him. Put him in the hospital for three days.

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Jay Leno --
     "All over the world people are chanting, "Death to America." Except in China, where they're chanting, "Not until we get our
money back."
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