LEE RODGERSPANTS-ON-FIRE
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QUOTAS FOR WOMEN IN COMBAT? …
MANTI: DUMB, LIAR – OR BOTH?
QUOTAS FOR WOMEN IN COMBAT? …
MANTI: DUMB, LIAR – OR BOTH?
One rock-bottom certainty about the murders of four Americans, including our ambassador, by terrorists in Benghazi, Libya, is this: The Obama administration lied and lied and lied, repeatedly and knowingly, and continues to lie to the American people about a deadly serious event that occurred during Obama's re-election campaign. Little more need be known about the character of this whole pack of charlatans.
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Hillary said -- between smirks -- during the Congressional hearings,“there are other things that I prefer to do on Sunday mornings” than appear on the news interview TV shows. It's hard to imagine that she'd worry about dealing with tough questions. The shows on which Susan Rice appeared and repeated the lies about an obscure video causing the Benghazi murders have only softball questions for officials in the devious and deceiving Obama clique.
For the record, Hillary wasn't so reluctant to skip her Sunday morning cuddle with Bill after the “triumph” of the overthrow of Muammar Khadafy in Libya. When that happened and there was something to brag about, she was only too happy to spend her Sunday morning on “Meet the Press.”
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Jonah Goldberg (National Review Online) offers some perspective on Hillary's proclivity for prevarication …
“Just to be clear, Clinton lied and is still lying. When asked about the claim that the attack was sparked by a protest over a video, she responded, 'I did not say that it was about the video for Libya.”
“That’s simply untrue. When she stood by the caskets of the four Americans killed in Libya, she directly blamed an 'awful Internet video that we had nothing to do with.' Afterward, she reportedly told the father of Tyrone Woods, the former Navy SEAL who was killed in the attack, 'We will make sure the person who made that film is arrested and prosecuted.” Why tell the man that if the video had nothing to do with it?'
“Which brings us to the second part: the nature of the lie. Remember, not all lies are equally harmful. In this case, the U.S. government responded to the murder of four Americans by treating our constitutional rights as part of the problem.”
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Aaron Goldstein (The American Spectator) confronts the dismal prospect that Hillary gets away with, “What difference does it make?” …
“When Hillary Clinton told Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson “What difference does it make?” during the congressional hearing on the Benghazi attacks, she unveiled the slogan for her 2016 presidential campaign.
“It’s the story of her life.
“What difference does it make if Hillary was named after Sir Edmund Hillary six years BEFORE he climbed Mt. Everest?
“What difference does it make if Hillary wasn't really under sniper fire in Bosnia?
“What difference does it make that tens of thousands of civilians have been killed in Syria over the past two years? Assad is, after all, a 'reformer' in Hillary’s eyes.
“The reason Hillary can make such (utterances) is because none of her shortcomings seem to bother a majority of our populace who continue to hold her in high esteem.
“If Hillary can say 'what difference does it make' regarding how her fellow Americans were killed in Benghazi without most of us batting an eyelash then she quite reasonably has every expectation to take up residence in the White House in four years time.”
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The most laughable defense of Hillary at the hearings: When a Democrat Congressman digressed to applaud her for all the travels she's done to visit foreign countries. As if she'd actually accomplished something by racking up miles on taxpayer-paid aircraft.
After-thought: Can you imagine how much Michelle Obama must detest Hillary?
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Elaine Donnelly, President of the Center for Military Readiness offers this view of Pentagon plans to use women in combat roles …
"High, uncompromised standards are not compatible with recommendations of the Military Leadership Diversity Commission (MLDC), a largely-civilian Pentagon commission that has called for elimination of women's land combat exemptions in order to promote gender-based 'diversity metrics,' also known as 'quotas'.
“Despite current denials, training standards will have to be lowered to achieve the desired 'critical mass.' And as we have seen many times before, officials will deny gender-normed standards or disguise them with sophistries pretending that 'equal effort' is the same as 'equal results.'
“Gender-norming will not work in infantry battalions, but it will increase resentment and harm team cohesion and morale. These negative dynamics surely will increase problems of sexual misconduct, across both sides of the spectrum ranging from sexual abuse to inappropriate relationships.”
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Thomas Sowell weighs in on guns and anti-gun laws ...
"Nothing is easier than to disarm peaceful, law-abiding people. And nothing is harder than to disarm people who are neither — especially in a country with hundreds of millions of guns already out there, that are not going to rust away for centuries.
"When it was legal to buy a shotgun in London in the middle of the 20th century, there were very few armed robberies there. But, after British gun control zealots managed over the years to disarm virtually the entire law-abiding population, armed robberies became literally a hundred times more common. And murder rates rose.
"One can cherry-pick the factual studies, or cite some studies that have subsequently been discredited, but the great bulk of the studies show that gun control laws do not in fact control guns. On net balance, they do not save lives but cost lives.
"Gun control laws allow some people to vent their emotions, politicians to grandstand and self-righteous people to "make a statement" — but all at the cost of other people's lives."
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Any Republicans still doubt that Colin Powell was/is an opportunistic two-faced phony?
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Yesterday I was on KSCO with Rich Lieberman for an hour. I couldn't announce it in advance because it was uncertain that I'd be able to do it. However, if you're interested, it's available in a podcast on their website. Enter something like "KSCO podcasts" and your friendly neighborhood internet search engine will take you to it. It's about the third or fourth item down the list of available podcasts.
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The sports media are abuzz with speculation about whether Manti Te'o's imaginary girlfriend is going to affect his status in the NFL draft.
Ordinarily I'd say no. If a player can get the job done on the field, most NFL coaches probably wouldn't care if he regularly beat his mother. But it's hard to imagine that the inevitable razzing he'd be taking from opponents wouldn't affect his play negatively, and that prospect may be enough to deter some teams from using a high draft-choice to get him. And he was awful in the BCS championship game; Alabama ate him alive.
Bad enough that he looks like a chump if he was taken in by a hoax; worse that he continued to lie about it after (he says) he learned that it was a hoax.
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“The Marine Band confirmed it pretended to play the National Anthem while Beyonce lip-synced the song . She pretended to sing while the band pretended to play. Manti Te'o just hired them to perform at the memorial service for his imaginary girlfriend.” – Argus Hamilton
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Len the haiku master surveys the Dreamliner's complications …
Burning Batteries.
Boeing receives the Green Prize.
The big Green Weenie.
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Cindy Adams, NY Post –
“A balding man of about 35ish: 'On applications, a part says, ‘In an emergency, notify _____.’
“I always write in, ‘Doctor.’ What’s my mother going to do?”
"...and now, if you'll excuse me..."