CNN Soledad O'Brien Repeats Liberal Blog Arguments During Debate With Romney Adviser

O'Brien was on screen looking at an article from the left-wing website Talking Points Memo to assist her in a debate with Romney campaign senior adviser Barbara Comstock.

U.S. anti-submarine warfare capabilities—facing cuts under Obama administration

Russian attack submarine sailed in Gulf of Mexico undetected for weeks, U.S. officials say.

It is only the second time since 2009 that a Russian attack submarine has patrolled so close to U.S. shores. U.S. anti-submarine warfare capabilities—forces are facing cuts under the Obama administration’s plan and they are inadequate now. The vessel was a nuclear-powered Akula-class attack submarine, one of Russia’s quietest submarines. “The Akula was built for one reason and one reason only: To kill U.S. Navy ballistic missile submarines and their crews,” said a second U.S. official. “Sending a nuclear-propelled submarine into the Gulf of Mexico-Caribbean region is another manifestation of President Putin demonstrating that Russia is still a player on the world’s political-military stage,” said naval analyst and submarine warfare specialist Norman Polmar. The latest submarine incursion in the Gulf further highlights the failure of the Obama administration’s “reset” policy of conciliatory actions designed to develop closer ties with Moscow.

Clinton's Chief of Staff on Ryan: ‘This Guy is Amazing.’

“Have any of you all met Paul Ryan? We should get him to come to the university. I’m telling you this guy is amazing. ... He is honest, he is straightforward, he is sincere. And the budget that he came forward with is just like Paul Ryan. It is a sensible, straightforward, serious budget and it cut the budget deficit just like we did, by $4 trillion. … The president as you remember, came out with a budget and I don’t think anybody took that budget very seriously. The Senate voted against it 97 to nothing."

National Weather Service Follows DHS In Huge Ammo Purchase

The NWS joins the DHW to seek "a solicitation for 46,000 rounds of hollow point bullets."

A solicitation which appears on the FedBizOpps website for the NWS asks for 16,000 rounds of .40 S&W jacketed hollow point (JHP) bullets, noted for their strength. The NWS is following its federal counterpart the DHS in securing large quantities of ammo. Back in March,Homeland Security purchased 450 million rounds of .40-caliber hollow point bullets. The DHS is also planning to purchase a further 750 million rounds of different types of ammo in a separate solicitation that also expires on August 20, including 357 mag rounds that are able to penetrate walls. The DHS recently put out an order for riot gear in preparation for the upcoming DNC, RNC and presidential inauguration. The U.S. Army is also busy buying similar equipment.

Civil Contempt of Congress Lawsuit Filed Against Stonewalling Attorney General

The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee filed acivil contempt of Congress lawsuit against Attorney General Eric Holder, arguing that the Obama administration is required by law to turn over the subpoenaed documents that relate to Operation “Fast and Furious.”

Specifically, the lawsuit asks that:

The executive privilege claim by Obama be declared invalid. Holder’s objection to the House records subpoena be rejected. The attorney general produce all records related to the Justice Department’s incorrect assertion in early 2011 that gun-walking did not take place.

Flashback: Andrew Klavan compares Paul Ryan & Obama

Paul Ryan’s greatest hits

Press for Hot Air from Obama

Obama endorses Ryan’s plan as “an entirely legitimate proposal.”

Obama himself once hailed Rep. Ryan’s plan as “an entirely legitimate proposal.”

“I think Paul [Ryan], for example, the head of the Budget Committee, has looked at the budget and has made a serious proposal. I’ve read it. I can tell you what’s in it. And there are some ideas in there that I would agree with but there are some ideas we should have a healthy debate about because I don’t agree with them,” said President Obama in 2010 at a GOP Retreat in Baltimore.

PAMELA GELLER ON ABC NEWS COVERING PRO-ISRAEL BUS ADS

NDAA: Lawsuit Hearing This Week

This week there is a hearing on the constitutionality of the unconstitutional NDAA. Section 1021 of the NDAA, which Obama signed into law on December 31 of last year, allows the government to lock up U.S. citizens indefinitely without a trial.

The Obama regime is appealing an injunction that judge Katherine Forrest issued against it in May. The injunction was in response to the lawsuit filed by Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Chris Hedges and others.

Tangerine Bolen is one the lead plaintiffs in the suit against the government and she penned a powerful piece for the UK’s Guardian. Here are some key quotes:

I am one of the lead plaintiffs in the civil lawsuit against the National Defense Authorization Act, which gives the president the power to hold any US citizen anywhere for as long as he wants, without charge or trial.

In a May hearing, Judge Katherine Forrest issued an injunction against it; this week, in a final hearing in New York City, US government lawyers asserted even more extreme powers – the right to disregard entirely the judge and the law. On Monday 6 August, Obama’s lawyers filed an appeal to the injunction – a profoundly important development that, as of this writing, has been scarcely reported.

Judge Forrest had ruled for a temporary injunction against an unconstitutional provision in this law, after government attorneys refused to provide assurances to the court that plaintiffs and others would not be indefinitely detained for engaging in first amendment activities. At that time, twice the government has refused to define what it means to be an “associated force”, and it claimed the right to refrain from offering any clear definition of this term, or clear boundaries of power under this law.

This past week’s hearing was even more terrifying. Government attorneys again, in this hearing, presented no evidence to support their position and brought forth no witnesses. Most incredibly, Obama’s attorneys refused to assure the court, when questioned, that the NDAA’s section 1021 – the provision that permits reporters and others who have not committed crimes to be detained without trial – has not been applied by the US government anywhere in the world after Judge Forrest’s injunction.

Organisation of Islamic Cooperation Unites Shia and Sunni

Ahmadinejad arrives in Saudi for Islamic summit

Jefferson's Koran, Extortion and War: Obama Promotes Islam for Ramadan Dinner

Obama enjoys promoting Islam, as he does every year, and as an example note his remarks for Iftar: "Islam -- like so many faiths -- is part of our national story. To promote Islam Obama refers to Jefferson's Koran as his example of Islam being part and parcel of America. However, every year he is wrong.

Jefferson had a Koran since he was learning the ways of Islam involved as the U.S. was in defending its interests for the first time internationally. Jefferson was involved in negotiations to pay extortion to Islamic states since they were impressing our sailors. Fortunately, saner heads prevailed and the American Marines, to counter Islamism, began fighting "to the shores of Tripoli."

Edited 60 MINUTES clip of Ryan talking about Medicare mom in Florida

Vonnegut High School Quote

Vonnegut High School Quote

Occupy Wall Street Rap Sheet & Comparison

Occupy Wall Street Rap Sheet & Comparison

How similar are the TEA Party and Occupy Wall Street?

‘OUR RIGHTS COME FROM NATURE AND GOD, NOT GOVERNMENT’: RYAN CHANNELS JOHN LOCKE

There was a rare, pure philosophical moment in Rep. Paul Ryan’s running mate announcement speech in Norfolk, Va. Saturday that should not be overlooked. The Wisconsin congressman waxed on the natural contract between government, man and God:

“But America is more than just a place…it’s an idea. It’s the only country founded on an idea. Our rights come from nature and God, not government. We promise equal opportunity, not equal outcomes. This idea is founded on the principles of liberty, freedom, free enterprise, self-determination and government by consent of the governed.”


Ryan’s speech was a conduit to some of the essential founding principles of the nation. In particular, the comments are a direct conceptual channeling of English philosopher John Locke.

Locke argued that because governments were instituted to protect the unalienable rights of individuals, they had no power other than what was necessary to protect such rights. In other words, a free and just government was necessarily a limited government. His sentiments were devoutly believed by the Founding Fathers and are reflected in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.

In Locke’s defining Second Treatise on Government, the he argued that “freedom of men under government is to have a standing rule to live by but as freedom of nature is, to be under no other restraint but the law of nature and God.”

Locke added further weight to the argument for natural rights as he argued against the subjugation of human beings in The State of Nature:

“For men being all the workmanship of one omnipotent and infinitely wise Maker; all the servants of one Sovereign Master, sent into the world by his order and about his business, they are his property whose workmanship they are, made to last during his, not one another’s, pleasure. And being furnished with like faculties, sharing all in one community of nature, there cannot be supposed any such subordination among us that may authorize us to destroy one another, as if we were made for one another’s uses, as the inferior ranks of creatures are for ours.”


Ryan followed up his Lockean statement by adding: “This idea is founded on the principles of liberty, freedom, free enterprise, self-determination and government by consent of the governed.”

Even on the point of consent of the governed, Locke can be consulted: In his writings on The Dissoloution of Government, Locke discusses the actions a society must take when a government steps outside the “limited powers” it is entitled to in order to change the government.

“The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property; and the end while they choose and authorise a legislative is that there may be laws made, and rules set, as guards and fences to the properties of all the society, to limit the power and moderate the dominion of every part and member of the society. For since it can never be supposed to be the will of the society that the legislative should have a power to destroy that which every one designs to secure by entering into society, and for which the people submitted themselves to legislators of their own making: whenever the legislators endeavour to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any farther obedience, and are left to the common refuge which God has provided for all men against force and violence.“

Ryan’s philosophy on the social contract between man and government has a firm grounding in the natural rights principles of John Locke and ergo the American Founders. It will be highly interesting to see these concepts drawn up in the political discourse and debate of the next few months, leading up to November.

During coverage of Ryan’s first speech as the vice presidential candidate, MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry added to her resume of controversial on-air remarks when she criticized Ryan for daring to quote the Declaration of Independence in his speech when declaring rights come from God and nature, and not from government.

“The thing I really have against him is actually how he and Gov. Romney have misused the Declaration of Independence,” said Harris-Perry Saturday. “I’m deeply irritated by their notion that the ‘pursuit of happiness’ means money for the richest and that we extricate the capacity of ordinary people to pursue happiness. When they say ‘God and nature give us our rights, not government,’ that is a lovely thing to say as a wealthy white man.”

Harris-Perry’s race-related criticism of Ryan for quoting a fundamental idea, upon which the entire nature of the U.S. government rests, has been met with media and public disapproval.

On “Real News From The Blaze” Tuesday, the panel was joined by Dr. Joseph Laconte of Kings College to explain why debate around this idea, that our rights are from God and nature, could spell trouble for the future of the nation should people ever see Government as the ultimate dispensor of rights.

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/real-news-from-the-blaze-left-attacks-paul-ryan-for-discussing-natural-rights/

Describing Ryan’s speech, NBC White House Correspondent Andrea Mitchell lamented: “He talked about rights coming from God and they don’t come from government.”

There is dissatisfaction on the left with the Constitution, and criticism of the Romney-Ryan Recovery is based on race.

When they say ‘God and nature give us our rights, not government,’ that is a lovely thing to say as a wealthy white man.”

MICHIGAN SCHOOL DISTRICT SOLD SCHOOL TO JIHAD-LINKED GROUP IN SWEETHEART DEAL

CITIZENS: PROBE SECRET DEAL WITH ISLAMISTS

In a statement of allegations, the Thomas More Law Center (TMLC) has exposed criminal corruption and cover‐up by a Michigan public school district in its no‐bid sale of a school to the Islamic Cultural Association (ICA), which is linked to terrorist supporting organizations.

Obama's Weakness Forces Israel's Hand

NETANYAHU HAS ‘ALMOST FINALLY’ MADE DECISION TO ATTACK IRAN NUKE PLANTS

The Great Liberal Lie: Jonah Goldberg on the Left's War on Words