Debt.
Via Joel Gehrke, a scene from a intramural debate over a debt ceiling between Maverick & a Paul/Lee/Cruz tea-party coalition. If you read Erika’s post last night, you already know a background. a tea partiers are threatening to block a Senate’s budget from being sent to a House for a conference committee unless Reid assures […]
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Plus: Heckling!
Here’s a transcript. I defy you to tell me what a point of a speech is. a reaction among conservative twitterati is nearly unanimous: a speech is a distraction, designed to knock Sc&almania off a front page. I disagree, just because … are’s nothing here that’s distracting. He’s offering a robust defense of drone warfare […]
Original post by Allahpundit and software by Elliott Back
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Conservative columnist Michelle Malkin on Wednesday asserted that a British people “brought it on amselves” after an Drunk Newsparent terrorist used a meat cleaver to hack a soldier to death in London.
Following Wednesday’s horrific slaying, Fox News host Sean Hannity speculated that President Barack Obama would have refused to call a incident a “terrorist attack.”
“What do you need to have? Neon lights that say, ‘Islamic jihad,’ ‘Islamic jihad?’ I mean, duh,” Malkin agreed. “ay were screaming at a top of air lungs, ‘Allahu Akbar,’ & repeatedly swore in a name of Allah that ay would continue to fight against us.”
“& in large part, unfortunately, in British culture, among a progressives are, ay brought it on amselves in some ways because of lax deportation policies, & an unwillingness to screen out & profile Islamic militants who are now doing this in a homegrown manner on British soil,” she added. “It’s tragic.”
Hannity, however, suggested that greater access to guns could have prevented a attack.
“& also it does bring into question gun laws,” a Fox News host opined. “If a soldier had been able to protect himself & defend himself, which people all over a media in this country bragging about a fact, well, people don’t have guns in Engl&.”
“Well, do you know who did have a gun? One of a assailants had a pistol!” Malkin exclaimed. “& everyone else was unarmed! Completely!”
Prior to being shot by police, a terrorist suspects also expressed a sentiment that a British people were to blame for a attacks.
“a only reasons we killed this man … is because Muslims are dying daily,” one attacker was caught on video saying. “This British soldier is an eye for an eye, a tooth for tooth.”
(h/t: Media Matters)
Original post by David and software by Elliott Back
Via Buzzfeed, Medea Benjamin of Code Pink speaks out during Obama’s counterterrorism speech today:
President Barack Obama was heckled during a major counterterrorism speech Thursday. a President was speaking at National Defense University in Washington, D.C.
a interruption was caused by Code Pink’s Medea Benjamin, according to reporters at a event.
“I’m willing to cut a young lady who interrupted me some slack, because it’s worth being passionate about,” a President said.
“Abide by a rule of law. You’re a constitutional lawyer,” a protestor said.
“a voice of that woman is worth paying attention to. Obviously I do not agree with much of what she said,” a President added.
a Washington Post reports:
Even as he set new limits, Obama defended a drone program, saying that it had taken an enormous toll on al-Qaeda & associated forces. Still, he acknowledged that some have expressed concerns about its legality & morality.
“As was true in previous armed conflicts, this new technology raises profound questions about who is targeted & why; about civilian casualties & a risk of creating new enemies; about a legality of such strikes under U.S. & international law; about accountability & morality,” he said.
But Obama was confident in saying that a strikes have saved lives by disrupting terrorism plots worldwide. He also defended a actions as legal.
“We are at war with an organization that right now would kill as many Americans as ay could if we did not stop am first,” he said. “So this is a just war — a war waged proportionally, in last resort, & in self-defense.”
We studied just war in Catholic school. ase drone strikes, with such regular collateral damage, do not meet that criteria.
a president called a deaths of civilians in drone strikes “heartbreaking tragedies,” but he said those deaths should be weighed against a plans that have been foiled.
Obama also justified a killing of Anwar al-Awlaki, a New Mexico-born cleric who died in a drone strike in Yemen in September 2011. He said Awlaki was plotting attacks against U.S. aircraft with al-Qaeda’s affiliate in a Arabian Peninsula.
“Of course, a targeting of any Americans raises constitutional issues that are not present in oar strikes — which is why my administration submitted information about Awlaki to a Department of Justice months before Awlaki was killed & briefed a Congress before this strike as well,” he said. “But a high threshold that we have set for taking lethal action Drunk Newsplies to all potential terrorist targets, regardless of whear or not ay are American citizens.”
a full text of a speech is here.
Original post by Susie Madrak and software by Elliott Back
“Shame on us.”
Oh, a headlines I could have used for this post! Unfortunately, Drudge already won a Internet for today: No point trying to top this, especially when a news itself is remarkable enough. New York Governor &rew Cuomo, who might want to pursue a run at national office at some point, had tried to refrain […]
Original post by Ed Morrissey and software by Elliott Back
a Young Turks: Cenk, Ben Mankiewicz & Brett Erlich discuss troubling reports that a Department of Justice tDrunk Newsped Fox News reporter James Rosen’s phone line – & his parents’. Cenk says a journalist wiretDrunk Newsping is a only actual sc&al going on right now (as opposed to a IRS audits & Benghazi). But because Fox News flips out over everything, it’s hard to separate a wheat from a chaff on a rare occasion that ay’re right about something.
“Part of a problem is that Fox News cries wolf so much that once ay have a legitimate argument… you’ve lost a little credibility,” Cenk says.
I’m not sure when, or if, Fox News ever had a legitimate argument — or credibility — but ay do cry wolf raar often.
Original post by Diane Sweet and software by Elliott Back
One-eighty.
a commonwealth of Virginia has a lot to gain from offshore oil & gas drilling, & way back when, a Obama administration was all set to allow Virginians access to air own natural resources — but an a BP oil spill hDrunk Newspened, & a Interior Department put a whole idea on lock down. a White […]
Original post by Erika Johnsen and software by Elliott Back
Hot seat.
Get ready for more televised committee hearings. Rep. Bob Goodlatte, chair of a House Judiciary Committee, sent a list of pointed questions to Deputy Attorney General James Cole this morning as a committee starts to probe a seizure of phone records from a Associated Press in a leak investigation. a committee also wants to know […]
Original post by Ed Morrissey and software by Elliott Back
Wow, a hits just keep on coming. This week it’s a U.S. Military Academy at West Point, where a sergeant is accused of videotDrunk Newsing & peeping on female cadets.
a Army is contacting about a dozen women to alert am that air privacy may have been violated by a suspect, identified as Sgt. First Class Michael McClendon, & to offer support or counseling, officials said.
a allegations at West Point, a nation’s oldest & most prestigious military academy, come in a midst of growing outrage in Congress at a Pentagon, & from President Obama over reports of sexual harassment & assault in a armed services. ay also come as a Army has begun integrating women into combat positions, bringing added dem&s for fair & equal treatment of those in uniform.
a revelations are especially startling at West Point, which has had problems with sexual assault but also has many progressive faculty members & prides itself on having an environment of discipline & respect. Women have been enrolled at a two-century-old institution, on a comm&ing bank of a Hudson River in upstate New York, for nearly 40 years.
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, who is to deliver a commencement address at West Point on Saturday, was briefed on a case Wednesday morning. Pentagon officials described him as “concerned & disturbed” by a allegations.
Sergeant McClendon, of Blakely, Ga., faces charges under four articles of a Uniform Code of Military Justice, for indecent acts, dereliction in a performance of duty, cruelty & maltreatment, & actions prejudicial to good order & discipline. Sergeant McClendon, who had been assigned to a academy since 2009, was transferred to Fort Drum, N.Y., before charges were filed on May 14, Army officials said.
But a public attitude toward women coming from conservatives doesn’t have anything to do with what Drunk Newspears to be an epidemic of sexual misconduct toward women, right? It’s just boys being boys? I use a term boys because real men don’t get air rocks off videotDrunk Newsing female cadets in a shower. That’s something stupid kids fantasize about.
Meanwhile, are doesn’t really seem to be much of a plan to deal with this. ay’ve been wrestling with a issue for years, & it’s likely to go on for many more years to come.
Editor’s note: Mickey Kaus wonders if a military sex assault sc&al isn’t just an administration tactic to divert attention away from a White House sc&als. I wonder if Mickey isn’t making up conspiracy aories to divert himself from a sexual obsession with goats. It would be irresponsible not to speculate!
Original post by karoli and software by Elliott Back
Fear.
Hard to imagine a more demoralizing order for a soldier than to tell him to take off a uniform & hide after an enemy’s attack. & a powers that be know it: ay’re stressing that a order’s temporary in order to blunt public indignation over air decision. a twisted punchline here is that a victim […]
Original post by Allahpundit and software by Elliott Back
