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Sunday, June 29, 2014 Our Consensus Rulers Posted by Daniel Greenfield @ the Sultan Knish blog Every society is ruled by a consensus. The consensus rarely comes from the bottom up. Usually it's imposed from the top down. The consensus is what the people running things believe. It's their equivalent of common sense. The United States is not run by the voters. It's not run by the people. It's run by a consensus. That consensus is what the elites think is true. That consensus is not exactly the same among Democrats and Republicans, but it does overlap in significant ways....

Friday, June 27, 2014 Friday Afternoon Roundup - Can't Miss Posted by Daniel Greenfield @ the Sultan Knish blog  Tom Trento's amazing team have put together another video on my article, The Innocence of Hillary. A FEW QUICK THOUGHTS ON COCHRAN 1. Beating a Senate incumbent is still really hard. Even when the votes go your way, the incumbents have any number of dirty options at their disposal. It happened in Alaska. Now it happened again. The system itself is corrupt and winning an election means beating the system. The bigger the election, the harder the system pushes back. It's...

Thursday, June 26, 2014 An Ocean of Failure Posted by Daniel Greenfield @ the Sultan Knish blog "This was the moment," Barack Obama had told the cheering audience in St. Paul, Minnesota. "When we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless; this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal; this was the moment when we ended a war." St. Paul has an Ocean Street. It has an Ocean Spa and Salon. It even has an Oceanaire Seafood Room. It does not however have...

Tuesday, June 24, 2014 Election 2048 Posted by Daniel Greenfield @ the Sultan Knish blog Election Coverage 2048 - Al-CNN As the election of 2048 approaches, the candidates from both parties continue to exchange strong views on the issues that affect the lives of Americans. The Party of Democracy and Justice (Hezb-Al-Dimukratie-Wa'al Adalah) continues to maintain that the election will come down to social justice issues. “With 34 percent unemployment and the price of goat so far out of range of most working families that they have been forced to switch to chicken, it is time that our opponents stopped...

“This was the moment,” Barack Obama had told the cheering audience in St. Paul, Minnesota. “When we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless; this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal; this was the moment when we ended a war.” St. Paul has an Ocean Street. It has an Ocean Spa and Salon. It even has an Oceanaire Seafood Room. It does not however have an ocean. But with ObamaCare an unpopular subsidized failure, the few new jobs around being confined to...

Then a giant dog stuck its head through the window and ate all the servers.You expect this kind of thing from Enron. You don’t expect it from the IRS. But as it turns out, there isn’t much difference. The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) cancelled its longtime relationship with an email-storage contractor just weeks after ex-IRS official Lois Lerner’s computer crashed and shortly before other IRS officials’ computers allegedly crashed.Lois Lerner’s computer allegedly crashed in June 2011, just ten days after House Ways and Means Committee chairman Rep. Dave Camp first wrote a letter asking if the IRS was engaging in...

Officially this money is supposed to discourage illegal immigration, in reality it sends the message that if a lot of illegal aliens from your country come and create a crisis, the United States will send you huge piles of money.It encourages the very behavior that it claims to be discouraging. The White House announced $254.6 million in new aid for Central American countries today.The money will go toward returning unaccompanied minors who travel to the U.S. illegally to their families and fostering youth centered programs in their home countries, the White House said this afternoon.The assistance to the governments of...

Sunday, June 22, 2014 Hillary's War on Women Posted by Daniel Greenfield @ the Sultan Knish blog When the Roman Polanski rape case resurfaced, Whoopi Goldberg coined the term “rape-rape” to describe the difference between the kind of rape she opposed and the kind she was okay with because it had been perpetrated by someone she liked. In the political world the cases of Clarence Thomas and Bill Clinton showed how liberals delineated between the sexual harassment of men they approved of and disapproved of. Now the “Rape Rape” distinction is back with Bill’s wife. Last week liberal activists were...

Friday, June 20, 2014 Friday Afternoon Roundup - The Innocence of Hillary Posted by Daniel Greenfield @ the Sultan Knish blog THE MEANING OF 'IS' In “Hard Choices,” Hillary claims that there were “scores of attackers that night, almost certainly with differing motives. It is inaccurate to state that every single one of them was influenced by this hateful video. It is equally inaccurate to state that none of them were.” Since it’s impossible to disprove a negative, it would be equally inaccurate to state that none of the attackers were influenced by a frustrated passion for Hillary Clinton. Since...

Bill Bratton has destroyed his reputation in a short amount of time by becoming a mouthpiece for Bill de Blasio. Taking the job was a poor idea since crime rates had dropped so low that they were bound to rebound, especially under a pro-criminal mayor like De Blasio. All that Bratton had done is set himself up to take the blame and join the ranks of failed NYPD commissioners like Lee Brown who did what a liberal mayor wanted instead of fighting crime. So now it’s time to pander to Islam.

Tuesday, June 17, 2014 Green Energy for Dead Vets Posted by Daniel Greenfield @ the Sultan Knish blog Three years before Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric Shinseki would be forced out of his job because of the veterans who had died under him, he visited the Massachusetts National Cemetery. He wasn't there to see the men and women who had died because of him. While vets were dying, Obama and Shinseki had turned their attention to something truly important; seeing to it that all the cemeteries where they were being buried had wind or solar power. The Massachusetts National Cemetery...

Monday, June 16, 2014 The Problem Isn't Inequality, It's Subsidized Equality Posted by Daniel Greenfield @ the Sultan Knish blog On Monday, two millionaires showed off their latest inequality talking points as Obama used Elizabeth Warren's student loan bill to bash congressional Republicans. "If you're a big oil company, they'll go to bat for you," Obama sneered. "If you're a student, good luck." Good luck indeed. Warren's bill cynically piggybacks on a lower interest rate plan from last year that the House passed 392 to 31. The Republicans, who only care about oil companies, unlike Obama who doled out billions...

Friday, June 13, 2014 Friday Afternoon Roundup - Spare Change Posted by Daniel Greenfield @ the Sultan Knish blog Tom Trento and the United West present a video take on my take on the original American Taliban and his short pants. Before there was Bergdahl, there was Johnny...   CONTRARY TAKES - The real winner in Iraq may not be Al Qaeda, but Iran. Ir may just be Jihadist gossip, but ISIS appears to have an interesting working relationship with Assad and now Maliki behind the scenes, despite trying to massacre Shiites. The ISIS assault may be what Iran needs...

No one will be dragging a disabled guy into court over it. No movies will be made about it. No one will even be getting fired. Like a public school, Obama doesn’t fire people unless he really has no other choice.And not even then. Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) told Breitbart News on Monday that the CIA station chief in Afghanistan revealed to reporters through a White House e-mail is no longer serving at that post. “It was irresponsible enough to expose him and it’s my understanding that he had to leave,” Portman said. “I don’t know [if he’s out of...

Wednesday, June 11, 2014 Hey, Mr. Taliban Posted by Daniel Greenfield @ the Sultan Knish blog After presiding for six years over a war in which over 1,600 Americans were killed fighting the Taliban, Obama did not mention the enemy during his West Point Commencement Address. That wasn't unusual. Obama has a curious habit of avoiding the "T-word" in his official speeches. Even when delivering his Rose Garden speech about Bergdahl's return, the Taliban were never mentioned. Obama's mentions of the Taliban vary by context. When speaking to the military he will sometimes say that the United States is at...

Tuesday, June 10, 2014 Winning the War Posted by Daniel Greenfield @ the Sultan Knish blog The last President to have taken part in actual combat left office nearly twenty years ago. It's a little-remarked milestone buried amid a great deal of posturing by leaders who want to talk the talk without having walked the walk. Since then, we have gone from a draft dodger to a man who never had to bother dodging, a commentary on a generational shift from a period when military service was not alien to the Yale and Harvard campuses. Meanwhile, the country remains in...

Saturday, June 07, 2014 The Long March Through the Republican Party Posted by Daniel Greenfield @ the Sultan Knish blog The Tea Party's epitaph has been written. A confident Republican establishment is now prepared to possibly take the Senate in 2014 and then lose it again in 2016 to another wave of historical change. In its defense the establishment, a motley collection of men paid by special interest groups whose future involves lucrative lobbying and even more lucrative consulting for the midterm election of 2018 where they will run on opposition to HillaryCare, can point to all the stupid and...

Friday, June 06, 2014 Friday Afternoon Roundup - True Lies Posted by Daniel Greenfield @ the Sultan Knish blog TRAVEL DIARY OF AN AMERICAN PATRIOT Here’s John Kerry having a good time with Nabih Berri, the head of the Amal Movement, and speaker of the Hezbollah dominated Lebanese parliament. What better way to follow up the Taliban deal than to meet with another terrorist hijacker. Nabih Berri, the French-educated lawyer who is head of the Amal movement and the leading spokesman for Lebanon`s 1 million Shiites, was chief negotiator for the hijackers. It was on his order that the remaining...

Tuesday, June 03, 2014 Muslimsplaining Islamic Terrorism Away Posted by Daniel Greenfield @ the Sultan Knish blog As bloody bodies and smoke rise into the air after a cry of Allahu Akbar and a bomb detonation, each Muslim terrorist attack is followed by "Muslimsplaining" why the latest act of Islamic violence had nothing to do with Islam. Sometimes the Muslimsplainers are Muslims. Often they aren't even Muslims. When Boko Haram, an Islamic terrorist group aligned with Al Qaeda, kidnapped Nigerian girls, the media's Muslimsplainers sprang into action to explain why it had nothing to do with Islam. Time featured "5...

Monday, June 02, 2014 The Post-Achievement Politics of Obama and Hillary Posted by Daniel Greenfield @ the Sultan Knish blog Occasionally someone pranks an unwitting MSNBC panelist or a bunch of teenagers by asking them to name a single Hillary accomplishment. Even though Hillary has piled up more awards than Charles de Gaulle, nothing comes to mind. An editorial in the Chicago Tribune has the writer asking a group of Chicago leaders the same question about Obama's foreign policy. Silence follows. Obama and Hillary don't just suffer from a shortage of accomplishments. They're also burdened with a surplus of failures....