Hold Obama and the Democrats Accountable for the Terrorist Threat

From David Horowitz, at FrontPage Mag:

Since 1945 Republicans have not won the popular vote unless national security was the primary issue. But security issues were virtually absent from the 2008 and 2012 elections. This gave victories to Barack Obama, the most anti-military president in American history. Fortunately, the prospects for 2016 are looking marginally better because Republicans are now actually focusing on the fact that an anti-military presidency has ominous consequences for the 300 million Americans whose safety is the primary responsibility of the commander-in-chief.

That said, there is much to be desired in the Republican message, which is tepid, diffuse and easily missed. When Politico wrote a story about the recent change in Republican strategy it was all about the shift away from the tax-cutting emphasis of recent years, rather than towards the national security issue.

So let me describe the reality we are actually facing, which is a necessary preface to the way the Republican Party should be framing its strategy and should be emphasizing the dangers of having a Democratic president like Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton – or for that matter a Democratic Congress – leading us in wartime.

I will leave out of this wartime equation the threats from Russia and China, which Obama and the Democrats have done so much to foster. I will focus only on the threat posed by Islamic jihadists, who at this moment can easily penetrate the borders that Obama and the Democrats have done so much to wreck. And carry with them chemical and biological weapons, and – if Iran builds the bombs which Obama the Democrats have made almost inevitable – nuclear weapons as well.

This is easily the greatest terrorist threat in our history, far greater than what transpired before and after 9/11. ISIS, al Qaeda, Hezbollah, Hamas and other Islamic terrorist armies now control territory (and attendant resources) from Afghanistan through Iraq Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Mali, Somalia and other regions of Africa, Asia and the Middle East.

Why has this happened? Because Obama and the Democrats have waged a ten-year war against the war on terror, against American military strength, against an American presence in Afghanistan and Iraq, and against the very idea that Islamic forces have declared war on us. For ten years Democrats have been determined to treat terrorists as individual criminals, arrest them and try them in American courts where they will have all the protections of the American legal system that they are seeking to destroy. So hostile has Obama been to the very notion of a “War on Terror” that he has purged the very term from the official government vocabulary and replaced it with “overseas contingency operations” which describes exactly nothing.

To create the power vacuum which Islamic jihadists have filled, Obama had to defy the advice of his Secretary of Defense and his intelligence advisers. He did this in part by absenting himself from nearly half his daily intelligence briefings, and in part by saying no to absolutely crucial measures that his military staff proposed for countering the threat from ISIS and other terrorist groups. Obama saw to it that America would relinquish its military base in Iraq (a country that strategically borders on Afghanistan, Syria and Iran) or to keep the 20,000 American troops stationed there as his Secretary of Defense and Joint Chiefs of Staff urged him to do.

Obama hated the Iraq War so much that he was willing to betray all the American soldiers who gave their lives to keep Iraq out of the clutches of Iran and safe from the terrorist threat. If Obama had just listened to the advice of his military staff, there would be no ISIS today. Obama’s deliberate, calculated surrender of Iraq (and soon Afghanistan) and failure to stop Syria’s Assad when he crossed Obama’s red line is the greatest and gravest dereliction of duty in the history of the American presidency.

And make no mistake, Obama was not alone. For ten years the Democrats have been sabotaging the war on terror, beginning with their disgraceful scorched earth campaign against President Bush and the War in Iraq and continuing with their full-throated cry for the abandonment of Iraq after Bush had won the peace and contained the terrorist threat. Their support for Obama’s appeasement of Iran and Hamas, his support for the Muslim Brotherhood, and his diplomatic assault on Israel, America’s only true ally in the Middle East, is not only a national disgrace but the heart of the crisis that is looming on the international horizon.

If Republicans fail to articulate the sources of this crisis, and specifically to indict Obama, Hillary and the Democrats for their betrayal of America’s interests and their failure to protect the American people then Republicans electoral prospects will be dim, and with them, their country’s future.

Leftists Having Second Thoughts on 'Affirmative Consent' Laws

From KC Johnson, at Minding the Campus, "Liberals Begin to Doubt the New Anti-Rape Laws."

Blood Moon

At WSJ, "Photos: Total Eclipse of the MoonLunar Eclipse Brings ‘Blood Moon’ and Shadows to Asia, Americas."

Photos: A total lunar eclipse brings a ‘blood moon’ and shadows to the night's sky: http://t.co/9qSBVhoGwJ pic.twitter.com/GdlPrsNAXh
— WSJ Photos (@WSJphotos) October 8, 2014

Dodgers Failures Go Right to the Top

From Bill Plaschke, at the Los Angeles Times, "There's enough blame to go around for this Dodgers debacle":

From ownership on down, the Dodgers failed their fans and themselves...changes, big changes, are surely coming...

— Bill Plaschke (@BillPlaschke) October 8, 2014

For the 26th consecutive Dodgers season, the World Series won't be coming to town, and something needs to be said, and those words need to intially be about Walter and the ownership group, for this massive failure begins with them.

Guggenheim [Baseball Management] shamelessly hid the Dodgers from their fans this summer with a money grab from Time Warner Cable that prevented the team from being on television in 70% of Los Angeles households. Yet, for all the riches of that $8.35-billion contract, they refused to allow the trading of prospects for one simple arm that could have saved the Dodgers in October.

An effective starting pitcher would have prevented Kershaw from throwing Tuesday on three days' rest in a game in which he wearily gave up Matt Adams' three-run home run on his 102nd pitch.

An effective middle reliever would have allowed Manager Don Mattingly to relieve Kershaw not only before Adam's home run, but also before Matt Carpenter's three-run double sank Kershaw in the seventh inning of the series opener.

The team with the richest payroll in baseball history turned out to be a beautifully detailed Cadillac without any tires, a $240-million clunker that couldn't even finish the first October lap.

The failure continues with the baseball people, and that means General Manager Ned Colletti, who sat on a couch in the clubhouse early Friday evening and winced.

"It's always hard when you don't win,'' he said. "It tears me up.''

Colletti will take most of the heat here for failure to work within his bosses' philosophical constraints to somehow put together a group of decent relief pitchers. He is the one who rested the bullpen's future in the veteran arms of former All-Star closers Brian Wilson, Brandon League and Chris Perez, yet only two of the three even made the postseason roster, and neither Wilson nor League were trustworthy enough to use.

"It wasn't our bullpen that cost us this series," Colletti said. "Could they have been better? Sure, but when you have left-handed Cardinal hitters doing what they do, that's unreal.''

More.

Mia Farrow Waved a Greased Palm in Chevron Ecuador Case

At IBD:

Mia Farrow's Greased Palm http://t.co/RYATeawbG4 #tcot #tlot

— IBDeditorials (@IBDeditorials) October 7, 2014

Rackets: Celebrities have weighed in on lefty causes since Jane Fonda climbed atop the North Vietnamese gun. But new revelations about Mia Farrow dipping her palm in Ecuadoran oil — and cash — pretty well show what's going on.

It would probably be bearable to hear the vapid, views of Hollywood's finest if it were just a matter of stupid people issuing their opinions.

But when opinions become far-left activist causes and would not even be issued were it not for Third World dictatorship cash, then something else is going on.

Call it greased palms. The candidate for scrutiny who stands out, but isn't alone, is Mia Farrow, whose talent agency took $188,000 from the government of Ecuador, a supposedly neutral party in the dirtiest shakedown of a corporation ever attempted, the $9.5 billion lawsuit by activist NGOs against Chevron, over pollution in Ecuador it had nothing to do with.

Farrow took the cash and joined a celebrity cavalcade of supporters to dip her hands in what was probably Ecuadorean state company oil, waving them around and blaming Chevron for the spill on camera.

It was money well spent for the now-exposed plaintiffs, which forced Chevron to spend untold millions to defend itself against false charges that were subsequently thrown out by a U.S. judge as 100% fraudulent.

Farrow, on her Twitter feed, has insisted that she was just presenting her views and taking her speaking fees.

But she certainly didn't disclose the cash she took as performed her stunt, and it was only by Washington Free Beacon's digging and coverage by the New York Post this week that brought this act to light...

And don't miss Twitchy, "Mia Farrow under fire for role in defrauding Chevron of billions."

Dana Loesch Slams 'Douchebag' Critics of School Choice Decision

She's hilarious!

.@DLoesch makes a statement about homeschooling in an address to douchebags: http://t.co/wl0gKr4dum #DailyDana

— Dana (@DanaTheBlaze) October 8, 2014

Barack Obola

Via Czar Zellum:

I'm Barack Obola and I approve this ebola. @TwitchyTeam pic.twitter.com/ySfmNbootF
— 1984 BARACKOLYPSENOW (@CzarZellem) October 8, 2014

'If the election was held today, the Republicans would control the U.S. Senate...'

Here's Bret Baier, for Fox News, on new polling out from Anderson Robbins Research and Shaw & Company:



More, "Fox News Polls: Senate battleground races trending GOP, Roberts up in Kansas."

Obama Ebola Bumper Stickers Appear Around Los Angeles

I haven't seen one of these yet, but you gotta love it.

At Truth Revolt.

Doe-Eyed Jen Psaki Can't Find Successes of Iraq Security Forces in Her Notes

From Pamela Geller, "VIDEO: Obama’s Foreign Policy Successes":

If there was ever a video that summed up Obama’s presidency in a minute or less, it’s this one.

Stock Market Volatility

At WSJ, from this morning, "U.S. Stocks Tumble on Global Growth Worries: Dow Industrials Post Biggest One-Day Decline Since End of July."

And then after today's closing bell, "U.S. Stocks Rally After Fed Minutes: FOMC Minutes Point to Caution on Interest Rates":

Financial markets gave investors a case of whiplash Wednesday, as stocks and bonds surged and the dollar fell on news that suggested the Federal Reserve may move more cautiously raising interest rates.

The rally, which took stocks to their biggest gains of the year on heavy trading, reversed a 273-point selloff Tuesday sparked by worries about an economic slowdown in Europe.

A day later, some of the same factors—the eurozone’s sluggish growth and the strong dollar—unexpectedly provided the fuel for a rally as the minutes from the Fed’s latest policy meeting in September showed more focus on slowing growth overseas and lessening inflation pressures.

In recent weeks, financial markets have seesawed on changing expectations for the timing of any interest-rate increase by the Fed. While most investors expect the Fed to hold off until June of next year, the chance that the central bank could move sooner has at times spooked investors.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed 274.83 points, or 1.6%, to 16994.22, its largest point and percentage gain since December. The S&P 500 jumped 33.79 points, or 1.7%, to 1968.89, its strongest gain in nearly 12 months...

More.

Voter Anger, Anti-Incumbent Sentiment Portend Electoral Wave

It's an unusual environment this year. It's going to be an amazing election night, less than a month away now.

From Josh Kraushaar, at National Journal, "Bracing for a Political Wave":

This pervasive anti-Washington sentiment is a major reason why the Democrats' Senate majority is so tenuous. Incumbency is the party's bulwark, with strategists hoping that embattled senators will be able to utilize their well-defined brands to withstand a difficult environment. History would give them some comfort on that front. But 2014 is looking like it's no ordinary year. While Republican politicians bore the brunt of voter anger during the primaries, that same antipathy could cost Democrats in November.

VIDEO: Surveillance Camera Captures Mountain Lion on Top of Car in San Jose

I really don't want to bump into one of these big cats.

At KABC-TV Los Angeles, "SURVEILLANCE VIDEO CAPTURES MOUNTAIN LION ON SAN JOSE HOMEOWNER'S CAR."

Heteronormative Patriarchy is the Ultimate Slavery!

Another great piece, from Robert Stacy McCain, "What’s Up at Bryn Mawr?"

"Bryn Mawr, where lesbianism is certainly en vogue if not yet de rigueur." http://t.co/BwWhBRWp7z #feminism #tcot cc @ericowensdc

— Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) October 8, 2014

Kangaroo Fight!

Via CBS News This Morning:

Dallas Ebola Patient Thomas Duncan Has Died --- For Real This Time!

Or, for real at least, if we can trust ABC News:

JUST IN: Texas Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan has died
— ABC News (@ABC) October 8, 2014

PREVIOUSLY: "Report: Thomas Duncan Has Died; First U.S. Ebola Patient, Lied About Exposure to Disease - UPDATED!!"

MORE: All the big media outlets are reporting:

#BREAKING: Texas Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan dies: hospital spokesperson

— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) October 8, 2014

Thomas Eric Duncan, the Texas Ebola patient, died this morning http://t.co/9Wb7rHCNgR

— Washington Post (@washingtonpost) October 8, 2014

BREAKING: Texas Health reports death of Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan: http://t.co/DhDJOW5Sdm

— Bloomberg News (@BloombergNews) October 8, 2014

Thoughts with the family of Thomas Eric Duncan. May he rest in peace.

— Kate Snow (@tvkatesnow) October 8, 2014

Majority of Americans See Obama as Failure

At the Hill, "Poll: Most see Obama as a failure."

And the piece cited IBD:

Obama hits a new low in the IBD/TIPP Presidential Leadership Index, while 53% say he's failing as president http://t.co/3vWG5SUN95

— IBDeditorials (@IBDeditorials) October 7, 2014

Obama's Desultory Bombing Mission Won't Defeat #ISIS

From Frederick Kagan and Kimberly Kagan, at the Los Angeles Times, "U.S. strategy against Islamic State is too much air, not enough boots":

Air operations in Iraq and Syria have not stopped the advance of Islamic State. Despite the bombing, the Al Qaeda splinter group has launched a series of offensives in Iraq, gaining new ground in Anbar Province, and it has continued its offensive in Syria.

The desultory bombing mission — far too limited to merit being called an air campaign — has no chance of enabling local allies to eliminate Islamic State sanctuaries. It may not even be enough to keep Islamic State, also known as ISIS, from expanding. After 50 days of obvious failure, it's time to consider an approach that might work: Get American special forces on the ground with the Sunni Arabs themselves. The only other alternative is to resign ourselves to living with an Al Qaeda state and army.

Islamic State seized the Iraqi city of Mosul on June 10 with a multipronged assault supported by military vehicles. The offensive continued over days, destroying two Iraqi army divisions and driving on Baghdad.

The Iranian military responded at once — reports indicate that Quds Force Commander Qassem Suleimani was in Baghdad with advisors on June 12. Iranian advisors and proxies began flowing into Iraq immediately. The U.S. took no action until Aug. 8, nearly two months later, dropping a small number of bombs aimed at opening a corridor to allow besieged Yazidis to escape from certain death on Mt. Sinjar.

The U.S. has hit about 334 mostly tactical targets in both Syria and Iraq in the intervening 50-odd days. To put that number in perspective, the 76-day air campaign that toppled the Taliban in 2001 dropped 17,500 munitions on Afghanistan. Those bombs directly aided the advance of thousands of Afghan fighters supported by U.S. special operators capable both of advising them and of identifying and designating targets to hit. There are no U.S. special operators on the ground in Iraq or Syria, no pre-planned or prepared advance of Iraqi security forces, and no allies on the ground in Syria. This is not an air campaign.

Islamic State is an adaptable, smart enemy, and its fighters are dispersed through population centers, with an estimated 20,000 to 30,000 of them controlling an area the size of Maryland. Hitting a series of fixed targets such as bases and destroying small concentrations of vehicles will not defeat it. Rather, enabling the air campaign to do meaningful damage to the Islamic State army requires putting some U.S. troops into the Sunni Arab areas that Islamic State now holds. Special forces serving as forward air controllers can direct airstrikes to meaningful targets that are not observable by satellite and overflight...

Keep reading.

Remember, the Kagans have advocated for a ground deployment of at least 25,000 troops. See, "A Strategy to Defeat the Islamic State."

Giants Beat Nationals in Tense Game 4 of #NLDS

At the San Francisco Chronicle, "Giants edge Nationals 3-2 to win series, advance to NLCS."

I'm going to have to root for the Giants now. They're the only California team still in the playoffs, lol.

A wild pitch, a go-ahead run, and PANDAmonium ensues. #Postseason http://t.co/BjKov1tB6J

— MLB GIFS (@MLBGIFs) October 8, 2014

The @SFGiants have won SEVEN consecutive #postseason series: http://t.co/4umkVp29tH @USArmy #CLINCHTOBER pic.twitter.com/HX6HWkaLP5

— MLB (@MLB) October 8, 2014

Alessandra Ambrosio, Adriana Lima, Candice Swanepoel, Elsa Hosk, Lais Ribeiro and Lily Aldridge

In Vogue UK, via Victoria's Secret:

The 2014 Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show doesn’t head to London until this December, but British Vogue is already getting their Angel on. Acclaimed fashion photographer Patrick Demarchelier shot Alessandra Ambrosio, Adriana Lima, Candice Swanepoel, Elsa Hosk, Lais Ribeiro and Lily Aldridge in a stunning mix of haute couture and Victoria's Secret's upcoming Holiday 2014 collection. It's all in the November issue, on newsstands now. Here’s a snippet from the behind-the-scenes video...

'Since trolls actually derive pleasure from the suffering of others, engaging with them at all can be counter-productive...'

From Roger Dooley, at Forbes, "Internet Trolls Really Are Psychos."

I should follow his advice about avoiding engagement, but with my stalking hate-troll Walter James Casper III, the lulz are irresistible:

@AmPowerBlog Reppy :) pic.twitter.com/RZ16SkB9Ca

— The Mad Jewess (@MadJewessWoman) October 7, 2014

Former Chief of Defence Staff General Lord Richards: ISIS Airstrikes Won't Be Enough

Via Telegraph UK:

Stephen Collins Dead — UPDATED: Story Turns Out to Be False

At Twitchy, "‘Baywatch’ star reports: ‘7th Heaven’ dad Stephen Collins has committed suicide."

Added:

That guy from 7th Heaven lives right around the corner from me & just shot himself a few minutes ago...

— Donna D'Errico (@DonnaDErrico) October 8, 2014

That's all I know. The police have the street cordoned off and aren't even letting residents in..

— Donna D'Errico (@DonnaDErrico) October 8, 2014

pic.twitter.com/6kzwcQGsCX

— Donna D'Errico (@DonnaDErrico) October 8, 2014

More:

#BREAKINGNEWS: LAPD responding to reports of single gunshot at home owned by TV actor Stephen Collins http://t.co/ytX6HQJ3Bs

— ABC7 Eyewitness News (@ABC7) October 8, 2014

UPDATE: At CBS News:

.@LAPDHQ says gunshot report at actor #StephenCollins' #Tarzana home turned out to be false: http://t.co/NQLMKvGdBb. @breakingnews

— CBS Los Angeles (@CBSLA) October 8, 2014

And check Twitchy for updates as well.

Stephen Collins -- Cops Swarm Home After Suicide Report ... False Alarm http://t.co/pMVRo6t7uV

— TMZ (@TMZ) October 8, 2014

George Will Disinvited from Scripps College Speaking Engagement

This is quite a story, at National Review, "Scripps College Disinvited George Will from Speaking Series Focused on Different Views for Having Different Views."

And from Ed Morrissey, at Hot Air, "George Will speech at Scripps College canceled because of tolerance, or something":

This story begins almost four months ago, when Washington Post columnist George Will challenged the Obama administration’s attempts to use debunked data to push a narrative of an epidemic of sexual assaults on American college campuses. Will also criticized the expansion of the term “sexual assault” to a nearly meaningless definition, and the demand by the White House for colleges to use a minimal standard of evidence to “convict” the accused. For being one of the first to call foul on the Department of Education’s efforts, Will earned the ire of progressives and activists, and one newspaper stopped carrying his column when the controversy erupted over his opinion.

Since then, plenty of people have joined Will in questioning the actions, motives, and outcomes of the Obama administration’s insistence that a sexual assault epidemic has erupted and kangaroo campus courts are the remedy, including myself, and especially Ashe Schow at the Washington Examiner.  That emergence of a legitimate debate over what looks very much like a new McMartin Preschool-style witch hunt made little difference to Scripps College, which invited Will to deliver a speech — and then disinvited him...

More. Via Memeorandum.

Colleges really aren't places of diversity of thought. Perhaps they were at one time, but nowadays anyone who deviates from the hard-left ideological orthodoxy is not welcomed, and indeed will be demonized, excoriated, and boycotted.

The left is leading the closing of the American mind.

BONUS: Here's Will's offending column, at WaPo, from June, "Colleges become the victims of progressivism."

Sharyl Attkisson, Stonewalled: My Fight for Truth Against the Forces of Obstruction, Intimidation, and Harassment in Obama's Washington

Ms. Attkisson's book is out November 4th.

Pre-order at Amazon.

Harper Collins video about my book Stonewalled. Preorder now. (some proceeds to Brechner Center for Freedom of Info) https://t.co/k8MP1IgluR

— Sharyl Attkisson (@SharylAttkisson) October 3, 2014

The Left's Religion of Unhappiness

From Daniel Greenfield, at FrontPage Magazine, "The left doesn’t want to be happy; it wants you to be miserable."

Brenda Leyland Has Died

For whom the bell t(r)olls.

At London's Daily Mail, "Well-spoken middle-class woman is unmasked as online troll who now faces arrest after sending hate messages to parents of Madeleine McCann."

Also, "Internet troll who targeted McCanns found dead in hotel room days after fleeing home when she was revealed to be behind online campaign of vitriol," and "McCann troll 'sent thousands of hate tweets': Divorcee launched diatribes about Kate and Gerry's behaviour in aftermath of Madeleine's disappearance."

More at Independent UK, "Brenda Leyland dead: Madeleine McCann parents' 'troll' found dead after Sky News report."

Here's Sky News, "'Evil' Trolls In Hate Campaign Against McCanns."



More at BuzzFeed, "Read the Deleted Tweets Brenda Leyland Sent About the McCanns Before She Died."

From Guinea to Dallas: Tracing the Ebola Threat

At the Los Angeles Times:

If relatives of Marthalene Williams hadn't insisted that she had malaria, their Paynesville neighbor, Thomas Eric Duncan, might not have helped carry her to a taxi or accompanied them as they searched the capital for a hospital or clinic that would take her.

Four days later, on the afternoon of Sept. 19, Duncan arrived at Monrovia's airport to catch a flight to the United States, beginning with a connecting flight to Brussels. Like all travelers exiting the Ebola zone, Duncan's temperature was checked by a Liberian official who had been trained by CDC experts. Duncan's temperature was an unremarkable 97.3. He filled out a form crafted by the CDC and Liberian authorities to alert them to potential Ebola cases. It asks travelers whether they have had contact with people who might have Ebola.

It's not known whether Duncan suspected that Williams had Ebola, but health officials in Liberia say he did not disclose his encounter with her. He was waved onto the jet, and then spent several hours on a layover at the Brussels airport, a busy hub that last year handled more than 19 million passengers.

Duncan then flew out on United Flight 951 to Washington Dulles International Airport. He arrived about 2:30 p.m. on Sept. 20, then boarded United Flight 822, which landed in Dallas about 5:30 p.m.

From there, he got a ride in a private car to the northeast Dallas home of his girlfriend, a Liberian nursing-home worker named Louise Troh, the woman's daughter said.

RTWT.

From Hope and Change to Crash and Burn: The Death of the Obama Dream

From Matt Welch, at Reason, "From Lincoln to LBJ to Frank Underwood: Metaphors for the Obama presidency have gone from heroic to homicidal":

If you want to trace the downward trajectory of the dreams that liberals pinned on the enigmatic figure of Barack Obama, look no further than the presidential histories and political dramas through which they have filtered their understanding of his meteoric rise and drip-by-drip fall in popularity.

When the then-candidate for U.S. Senate burst on the national political stage at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, he put his historical analogy of choice right there in the opening paragraph: "On behalf of the great state of Illinois, crossroads of a nation, land of Lincoln, let me express my deep gratitude for the privilege of addressing this convention," he said. "Tonight is a particular honor for me because, let's face it, my presence on this stage is pretty unlikely."

Yes, Barack Obama was going to be the modern embodiment of Abraham Lincoln himself, fulfilling the long-delayed promise of America's racial reconciliation, in part by using his unusual-for-politics parentage as a springboard for uniting, not dividing. "There's not a liberal America and a conservative America; there is the United States of America," Obama said, in the speech's most celebrated passage. "There is not a black America and white America and Latino America and Asian America; there's the United States of America."

The address, written in Lincoln's hometown of Springfield, Illinois (the same place where Obama would later announce his candidacy for the White House), was an instant sensation. "I have to tell you, [there's] a little chill in my legs right now," MSNBC commentator Chris Matthews said. "That is an amazing moment in history right there. I have seen the first black president."

The ensuing presidency, and the last six years of American political life, have been so desultory that it's almost hard to remember how ubiquitous the now-laughable Lincoln comparison once was...

Keep reading.

'The Most Sexist Republican Ad of the Year'

"And it's awesome!"

At Truth Revolt.

Islamic State Advances on Kobani

At Reuters, "Street fighting rages in Syrian town as Islamic State moves in."

And from Jeffrey Goldberg, at the Atlantic, "'A Terrible Slaughter Is Coming' - On the Turkish border, the world stands idly by as ISIS threatens a massacre in a Syrian town."

Israel Black Flag Protest Against High Court Infiltrator Ruling

At Arutz Sheva:

Residents of working class Tel Aviv expressed their anguish and anger Sunday following the High Court decision striking down the Infiltrator Law, by marching with black flags.

Organizer May Golan said that the residents are taking down the Israeli flag and flying the black flag in protest of the dictatorship of “bagatz” – the Hebrew acronym for the High Court for Justice.

A week after the High Court controversially shot down the so-called "Infiltrator Law", which sought to tackle the problem of tens of thousands of illegal immigrants from Africa residing in Israel, the Interior Ministry appears to be pushing back by announcing plans to initiate new legislation in its place.

Joe Biden Apologizes ... And Apologizes ... And ... Wait for It! Another Apology Is in the Tank!

Dang, it's like an epidemic with this idiot.

And Biden was supposed to provide foreign policy "gravitas" back in 2008. Gee, how's that working out?

At Business Insider, "Joe Biden Is Apologizing Left and Right After His Weekend Gaffe."

Also at CBS News, "Biden apologizes for bashing Arab allies," and "Biden apologizes for gaffe that angered Mideast allies."

Check back for more apologies tomorrow, and the day after, and ...

Angels' Window of World Series Opportunity May Be Closing

At LAT, "Angels may be losing their window to play in the World Series":

Josh Hamilton now 0 for 11 in ALDS. Left men in scoring position each AB tonight. Season on line tonight. Enough?

— Bill Shaikin (@BillShaikin) October 6, 2014

The Angels are an old team, Mike Trout notwithstanding. Their window to excel should extend through next season. The competition might be tougher next season.

"You always want to do the most you can when you have the most leverage," pitcher C.J. Wilson said.

"Texas had a down year. Oakland had a rough September. We had a really good chance to get what we got, which was home-field advantage, and we didn't do anything with it."

The Angels control second baseman Howie Kendrick, third baseman David Freese, catcher Chris Iannetta, and closer Huston Street through 2015, and shortstop Erick Aybar through 2016. By the time the 2016 season opens, all five of those players will be 32.

According to Baseball America, the Angels have traded four of their top six prospects among position players over the past year. The Angels are in win-now mode, and the trades brought back Street, Freese and relievers Fernando Salas and Joe Thatcher.

But, of those six prospects, the two that remain are C.J. Cron, a designated hitter, and second baseman Alex Yarbrough, whose suspect fielding might limit him to DH.

Free agency? That is the source of the Angels' greatest challenge, since owner Arte Moreno's decisions to spend $375 million on Albert Pujols and Josh Hamilton stripped the team of the top draft choices necessary to rebuild the farm system and restricted the financial flexibility available to upgrade the major league roster.

On opening day 2016, Pujols will be 36, Hamilton 34, Wilson 35, Weaver 33. The Angels have all four under contract for 2016, for a total of $98 million.

Add another $40 million for Trout, Aybar and pitchers Garrett Richards and Joe Smith, and there's your core.

It is painfully apparent, then, that the Angels are likely to go as far as Trout, Pujols and Hamilton will take them.

Trout is the best player in baseball. Pujols is not close to that level anymore, but he can hit well enough to hold down the No. 3 spot in the batting order.

But what can the Angels expect from the enigmatic and oft-injured Hamilton?

"Who knows?" he said. "What do you think, I'm a fortune teller?"

Hamilton went hitless in the division series, homerless in his last 55 at-bats of the season. In his two seasons in Anaheim, he has hit .255 in 240 games, with a total of 31 home runs and 123 runs batted in.

"I wish I could tell you I was going to hit .330 with 130 [RBI] and 40 [homers] every year," he said.

The Coast Guard Told Him He Was Going to Have a Hard Time Pushing Through the Gulf Stream

The dude still had supplies of water and power bars, lol.

But the Coast Guard told the dude "you better come with us," heh.

CNN Reports Thomas Eric Duncan Receiving Experimental Ebola Drug Treatment

Actually, I don't see why officials were waiting so long to give him the experimental drugs. You'd think they were racist or something. Sheesh.

From Vaughan Sterling for CNN:

CNN BREAKING- Dallas #Ebola patient receiving experimental drug

— Vaughn Sterling (@vplus) October 6, 2014

More: "Officials at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Won't Discuss Thomas Eric Duncan's Treatment," and "Report: Thomas Duncan Has Died; First U.S. Ebola Patient, Lied About Exposure to Disease - UPDATED!!"

Alison Lundergan Grimes Lying About Support for Coal Industry

Of course she was caught.

Democrats are nothing but hypocritical liars.

At Free Beacon, "Grimes Staff Caught on Hidden Camera: She’s Lying About Support for Coal Industry":

U.S. Senate candidate Alison Lundergan Grimes is lying about her support for the state’s coal industry according to Kentucky Democrats, including members of her campaign team, who were captured on a hidden camera video.

The video, produced by conservative filmmaker James O’Keefe, shows five employees of the Grimes campaign and local Democratic Party affiliates speculating that the Democratic challenger to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) is only professing her support for the industry out of political expediency.

“If we can get her elected do you think she is going to do the right thing and she’s gonna try to wipe out that coal industry and go for better resources?” asks an undercover videographer in one segment of the video.

“I absolutely think she is,” responds Fayette County Democratic Party operative Gina Bess.

Also at Progressives Today, "O’Keefe Strikes Again! Senate Campaign For Democrat Alison Grimes Admits She’s Lying to Get Elected!"

How Globalization Brings the Latest African Infectious Pandemic to Your Neighborhood

At the Boston Globe:

As Ebola rages in West Africa, there is new recognition that global public health is now everyone’s concern http://t.co/eyz2Zvr3eB

— The Boston Globe (@BostonGlobe) October 6, 2014

Royals Sweep Angels in ALDS

I should have more about this over the next couple of days, but for now, man, what a disappointment.

And that's to take nothing away from Kansas City. Those boys are on fire.

And with that, the #Angels delete Lorde from all their iPods... #Royals

— Jen ® (@NatesMama1128) October 6, 2014

Angels’ World Series hopes come to an end in 8-3 loss to the Royals http://t.co/FqrCsQQwVc

— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) October 6, 2014

Weaponizing Ebola for Democrat Party Political Warfare

At Legal Insurrection, "Dems seek to weaponize Ebola politically."

Spectacular GoPro® Great White Shark Photo from South Africa

Great work from Amanda Brewer!

Photo of the Day! Amazing image from Amanda Brewer who is working to promote shark conservation in South Africa. pic.twitter.com/xt368fyaOg

— GoPro® (@GoPro) October 5, 2014

Sharyl Attkisson: 'The Media Waits for the Administration to Dictate the Agenda and Coverage'

Indeed.

At Breitbart.

Reminder: Democrats Are the Party of White Supremacy and Political Terrorism Against Black Americans

A great tweet!

#VotingMatters #KKK is the terrorist wing of the Democrat party. They just use abortion clinics today. more efficient pic.twitter.com/fijkLnnbeS

— O Bow Mao Truth Team (@BowMaoTruthTeam) October 6, 2014

Obama Official Praises Mosque of Oklahoma Beheader Alton Nolen

Beanfrompa tweets:

Obama Official Praises Mosque Of Oklahoma Beheader Alton Nolen http://t.co/jYEkaT3hIE #tcot #uniteblue #p2 #stoprush #disgusting #vile

— Beanfrompa (@BeanfromPa) October 6, 2014

@AmPowerBlog I know right? Unbelievable

— Beanfrompa (@BeanfromPa) October 6, 2014

@BeanfromPa Man. That is something.

— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) October 6, 2014

'Never let it be said that the president doesn't adapt to a changing situation on the ground...'

From Doug Ross, "Photographic Proof That President Obama is Finally Taking the Ebola Threat Seriously."

Obama is taking Ebola seriously: pic.twitter.com/wXsvU8GONS

— CounterMoonbat (@CounterMoonbat) October 2, 2014

Lily Aldridge

Wow!

This woman is in demand!

Click, zip, print! The Incredible Front-Close Sport Bra, this way: http://t.co/kHYMnBERVj pic.twitter.com/EyrkgKVN3W

— Victoria's Secret (@VictoriasSecret) October 1, 2014

@LilyAldridge was pictured strutting her stuff in a variety of sexy bikinis at the Red Sand beach in Maui, Hawaii pic.twitter.com/LM8tAEYF0B

— FashionistaUY (@FashionistaUY) October 3, 2014

#SupermodelHighlights : Best shot @LilyAldridge @AngelAlessandra @Lalaribeiro16 by Patrick Demarchelier Vogue UK pic.twitter.com/hqVLkeUOFg

— SUPERMODELS-ONLINE (@supermodelscom) October 5, 2014

#SupermodelHighhlights of the week: Most sexy http://t.co/r4svTmoW3v ! @LilyAldridge on shoot for #VSswim 2015. pic.twitter.com/jrVlTboAqU

— SUPERMODELS-ONLINE (@supermodelscom) October 5, 2014

Officials at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Won't Discuss Thomas Eric Duncan's Treatment

Well, it doesn't sound like it's going toO well for Mr. Duncan.

He's not getting experimental treatment, which seemed to do wonders for the Americans who were rushed back to the U.S. a few weeks back. So far officials are saying that the drugs "either are not available or could worsen his condition in the short term."

Yeah. Right.

At Dallas Morning News, "Ebola containment ‘going well’ in Dallas despite new monitoring glitch."

PREVIOUSLY: "Report: Thomas Duncan Has Died; First U.S. Ebola Patient, Lied About Exposure to Disease - UPDATED!!"

VIDEO: New Jersey Boy Dies from Enterovirus, First Fatality in Growing Infectious Threat

Man, infectious diseases might be the leading election issue one month from now, the way things are going.

At Reuters, "New Jersey boy's death is first linked directly to enterovirus."

Vigil Planned for Five Teenagers Killed in Fiery Irvine Crash

A really sad story, at the Los Angeles Times this morning, "Five killed, one seriously injured in Irvine freeway crash."

Also, "Teens killed in Irvine freeway crash recalled as 'good boys,' athletes," and "Two girls killed in Irvine crash identified by friends and family."

The driver, identified as 16-year-old Bradley Morales, did not have a driver's license.

Reminds me of the Newport Beach crash that killed five students at my son's high school, about a year ago.

CBS News has the report on the planned vigil:

Vigil Planned For 5 Teens Killed In Fiery Irvine Crash http://t.co/2F62Wcm9tA

— CBS Los Angeles (@CBSLA) October 6, 2014

WaPo's Got It Going On!

From David Carr, at NYT (via Mediagazer), "Washington Post Regains Its Place at the Table."

Even the New York Times has to marvel at the way the WaPo has been killing it in recent months: http://t.co/YIg9rKYhaZ

— Sonny Bunch (@SonnyBunch) October 6, 2014

Indigenous People Day!

Coming to a local public school district near you!

At Blazing Cat Fur, "Seattle school board replaces Columbus Day with Indigenous People Day."

And at Twitchy:

So Seattle is changin Columbus day to indigenous people day? WTF?? This country is goin to hell in a handcart

— Brad (@AlphaHunter72) October 5, 2014

Angels Fan Beaten in Parking Lot After Friday Night's Playoff Game

I'm just now seeing this, at KABC-7 Los Angeles, "ANGELS FAN BEATEN IN ANGEL STADIUM PARKING LOT - EYEWITNESS NEWS EXCLUSIVE":

ANAHEIM, Calif. (KABC) -- An Angels fan is in critical condition after being severely beaten in the parking lot of Angel Stadium after Friday night's playoff game.

Two witnesses, only identified as Sandra and her 15-year-old daughter, Morgan, spoke to Eyewitness News on Saturday about what they saw.

Both are diehard Angels fans. But they say they will never forget the brutal beating.

The vicious assault happened around 10:30 p.m. in the preferred parking lot outside Angel Stadium.

Sandra and Morgan said the victim and his cousin were leaving the game when the 43 year old was suddenly attacked from behind without warning.

"This man started running towards another, and just started beating this guy. He had two punches, the guy went down, he was out cold, and then he started beating his face really bad on the pavement," Sandra said.

The beating terrified Morgan.

"He continued to punch him while he was on the ground, and that's what got me a little bit upset and a little bit scared. When he had ran a few steps away and came back, I started to get even more worried. Is he going to come after me and my mom, or go to anyone around, a witness?" she said.

As the suspect ran off with two other men, Sandra and Morgan rushed to help the victim.

More.

BREAKING: BooMan, a.k.a Martin Longman, Has Not Died!

Well, no further word on Thomas Duncan yet, although I can report that BooMan, a.k.a Martin Longman, of the Booman Tribune, has not died.

It's been totally hush-hush over there regarding Martin's condition. Steve M. has been totally discreet with the information coming out of the Booman household. But here's Martin's comments at the blog the other day:

Hello folks.

As of about 12:30 I got my computer back and an internet connection.

So far, I've made a first-pass plow through my email and looked at what's been going on on the front-page.

I still have to wade through my Washington Monthly stuff, my Facebook and my Twitter.  Then I have to catch up on the news.

I had a bit of a health scare on the 17th and checked myself into the hospital.  I needed some R & R but I don't have any serious health issues.  I need to take better care of myself and be more careful about what I put in my body.  Beyond that, I don't really want to get into the details.

I'm sorry that I gave you all a bit of a scare, but I was pretty scared, too, and this is the price I pay for not being anonymous.

I'd like to thank everyone including especially Steve for stepping up to the plate and keeping this place humming.  How wonderful to see an old soul mate like Man Eegee come out of the woodwork to help us out!  That really brought a smile to my face. I love you, Manny.

And for everyone else who contributed, I can't thank you enough.  I truly know who my friends are.

It may take me a little bit to get back in the swing of things because I've been in a media blackout since the 17th, but I be back at full speed soon.

Thanks to everyone who reached out with concern.

So, what do we make of it? My guess is that Martin went on an epic drug and alcohol binge, probably involving cocaine and various amphetamines. He checked himself into the hospital after reaching the stage where you want to jump over the railings because you can't come down. So, yeah he does "need to take better care" of himself. Again, just guessing, but no doubt if the truth were to get out it'd be pretty embarrassing.



Also, while scrolling through the updates on Martin, Steve D., a.k.a No More Mister, revealed that he's 58-years-old and bisexual. However, he's married and has remained faithful to his wife. Why it was necessary to reveal that much personal information was not stated, but with leftists identity and victimology are crucial, so Steve D. no doubt had to get his authenticity bona fides out there into the arena.

But let's face it: Either way these idiots are all messed up and consequently you can rest assured that no one takes seriously the crap they post at their blogs.

Frankly, I was just checking in on Martin to get some lulz on his "Democrats are going to hold onto the Senate" hallucinations, heh.

No doubt we'll still be seeing some of those, so all is not lost.

CORRECTION: I confused "Steven D." with "Steve M." A thousand pardons! See, "My Bad! By Bad! Steve M. at No More Mister Is Not Bisexual — NTTAWWT!!"

Report: Thomas Duncan Has Died; First U.S. Ebola Patient, Lied About Exposure to Disease - UPDATED!!

UPDATE OCTOBER 8: All the big media outlets are now reporting that Duncan has died. See: "Dallas Ebola Patient Thomas Duncan Has Died --- For Real This Time!"

*****

This is being reported at Arutz Sheva, "First US Ebola Patient Dies":

Thomas A. Duncan, who became ill with Ebola after arriving from West Africa in Dallas two weeks ago, succumbed to the virus today (Sunday), reports Reuters. Duncan was fighting for his life at a Dallas hospital on today after his condition worsened to critical, according to the director of the US Centers for Disease Control.

The Dallas hospital that admitted him did not recognize the deadly disease at first and sent him home, only for him to return two days later by ambulance.

Reuters has not posted the latest news to its website. Here's what's up there now, "Ebola patient in Dallas 'fighting for his life' says CDC head."

The Obama-enabling press is going to delay full reporting on this story, to protect the Democrat Party from the massive backlash against its craven political capitulation to the epidemic.

Duncan lied to get into the country.

Ebola Patient in Dallas Lied on Screening Form, Liberian Airport Official Says http://t.co/UWK6acuDXn
— The New York Times (@nytimes) October 2, 2014

Expect updates.

UPDATE:

Heh, everybody's in a tizzy over this post. So, to be clear: There is no confirmation of Duncan's death beyond the Arutz Sheva report. Caleb Howe tweeted that so far the report of Duncan's death is a rumor:

I keep seeing people on Twitter saying Ebola patient Thomas Duncan is dead. According to his family and the hospital, that is a false rumor.
— Caleb Howe (@CalebHowe) October 5, 2014

@AmPowerBlog No. CNN talked to uncle though. Also Reuters doesn't seem to have any story saying he is dead.
— Caleb Howe (@CalebHowe) October 5, 2014

More later.

From the thread at Godlike Productions. Ain't it the truth:

"They don't want to let us know he's dead. Everyone is going to panic." http://t.co/3jbQCFVOGC #Ebola #ThomasEricDuncan #ThomasDuncan #DEMS
— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) October 6, 2014

Dallas Homeless Shelters 'Don't Have An Ebola Plan'

Lovely.

At Breitbart Texas.

Smokin' Sunday Roundup of the Roundups — And Some #Rule5 Too!

Let's get this party started with Pirate's Cove, "Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup," and "If All You See……is a wonderful tree sucking up all the carbon pollution from Other People’s fossil fueled vehicles, you might just be a Warmist."

At the Other McCain, "Don’t Do It, Ben Affleck!"

And at Dana Pico's, "Rule 5 Blogging: Basic Training and an #Ebola Rant."

Also at Conservative Hideout, "70% Of Obama’s Illegals Are No-Shows for ICE Appointments."

At Lonely Con, "Why Did The White House Have The Koch Brothers’ Tax Information?"

Biff Spackle, at Director Blue, "BRUTAL: The Plot Against the Middle Class."

From Regular Right Guy, "Labor Participation Hits 36-Year Low."

And Da Tech Guy, "The Super PAC war on Marilinda Garcia."

Now at iOWNTHEWORLD, "Cockamamie “Experimental” Vermont College Honors Cop Killer With Commencement Speech."

Also from Drunken Stepfather, "STEPLINKS OF THE DAY."

At the Mad Jewess, "Don't Talk to Me About Bad Things."

And from Proof Positive, "Hot Cheerleaders: 2-2 Niners vs. 2-2 Chiefs," and "*Best of the Web*."

Randy's Roundtable, "Hot Cheerleaders: The Texans visit the Cowboys today..."

Gator Doug has "The Daley Gator Babe."

And at Egotastic!, "Alyssa Barbara Canadian Hot Nipple Pokes in Sextastic Posing."

At Maggie's Farm, "Saturday morning links."

And from Blackmailers Don't Shoot, "Rule 5 Monday with Anna Kendrick."

More at Playboy, "FRISKY FRIDAY WINNERS: 10-03-14."

At 90 Miles From Tyranny, "Morning Mistress."

At Knuckledraggin', "Yay!!! Squishy boob hug!!!"

More from the Last Tradition, "Rule 5 Sunday – Mayoli Sena."

The Hostages, "Big Boob Friday."

At Classy Bro, "Bursting Out Tuesday Will Make Your Week Better."

Zoo Today, "This week, Rachel Williams and ZOO present... Awesome In Undies!"

Odie's, "Gone Fishing ~OR~ Rule 5 Woodsterman Style."

Double Trouble Two, "Random Hottie's .... ;-)."

Goodstuff's, "GOODSTUFFs BLOGGING MAGAZINE (158th Issue): Kate Mara, the all American girl, hosts this metablog."

In a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World has the "Friday Pinup."

BONUS: At Soylent Siberia, "MORNING CUPCAKES."

America is Stuck on Open-Borders Stupid

From Michelle Malkin, "Can we end the crazy diversity visa lottery yet?":

Ebola has reached our shores from Africa. Dozens of children are reportedly suffering paralysis from a deadly virus with unknown origins. Medical providers across the country have warned of a looming public health crisis as communicable diseases spread unmonitored and uncontrolled. Other countries are cracking down. But America is stuck on open-borders stupid.

The Diversity Visa (DV) program, to take just one glaring example of government insanity, is still going.

On October 1, the State Department opened the annual DV random lottery to applicants from around the world. Yes, it’s completely random like a Powerball drawing. Up to 55,000 lucky winners will snag permanent residency visas (green cards), which put them on the path to American citizenship ahead of millions of other foreigners patiently waiting to come to this country.

The green card lotto winners’ spouses and unmarried children under 21 all get golden tickets into the country, too, no matter where they were born.

Illegal aliens are eligible if a legal family member wins the jackpot. Applicants don’t even need a high school education. No outstanding abilities, training or job skills are necessary. A handful of countries are excluded if they no longer qualify as “underrepresented.” But if you come from a terror-sponsoring or terror-friendly nation — such as Iran, Syria, Sudan, North Korea and more than a dozen officially designated terror enablers on the State Department’s list — no worries. Thousands from these breeding grounds for jihad will walk through our front doors.

This is what happens when bipartisan panderers in Washington get their way. The visa lottery was championed by left-wing social engineer Sen. Ted Kennedy and signed into law by President George H. W. Bush in 1990 to admit more “underrepresented” immigrant minorities into the U.S. Although originally intended to give a leg up to Irish illegal aliens who had overstayed their visas, most of the winners now hail from non-Western terror hot spots and hostile territories.

You know who else will get in? Untold numbers of “diversity” petitioners from Liberia, Sierra Leone and other West African countries where the Ebola virus is epidemic. If you think the feds will ensure that foreign visa-seekers with communicable diseases stay out, think again. The State Department now allows applicants with HIV to apply and enter. Those who suffer from tuberculosis, leprosy or other afflictions “of public health significance” can apply for waivers.

Reports indicate that before his departure from Liberia to Texas last week, Ebola carrier Thomas Duncan lied at the airport about being in contact with someone exposed to the disease. So far, the White House refuses to impose any travel restrictions from West Africa. It’s also not clear whether the U.S. has re-screened West Africans who won last year’s DV game and are flying into the country now...

More.

Homosexual Rights Could Reshape Legacy of Supreme Court

I fully expect the Court to announce a national right to homosexual marriage. The justices had a chance last year to push back against the left's depraved homosexual agenda and caved. The ruling on California's Proposition 8 case was especially craven. I have no confidence that the Court will stand up for traditional values. Indeed, homosexual marriage has jumped the shark as far as I'm concerned. The left prevailed, by any means necessary. I do expect that the culture will shift back in favor of traditionalism (as is already happening, as per the Pew poll out recently on religion in public life), so it's way too early to rule out a comeback for decency and morality.

As I've said all along, the history of the abortion movement provides a classic case of common sense prevailing over the left's horrific culture of death. Given enough time, homosexuality will further destroy the foundations of the progressive consensus on same-sex licentiousness and decay. Common sense will prevail in time, especially should diseases such as HIV, now enormously overrepresented among young minority barebacking homosexuals, break out into an epidemic afflicting more and more of the general population.

But all of this takes times. We'll see how it goes.

Meanwhile, at WaPo, "As Supreme Court term begins, prospect of a gay-marriage ruling looms large":

The 10th edition of the Supreme Court under Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. begins work Monday with the prospect of a monumental ruling for gay rights that could serve as a surprising legacy of an otherwise increasingly conservative court.

Whether the justices will decide that the Constitution protects the right of same-sex couples to marry dominates expectations of the coming term; such a ruling would impart landmark status on a docket that so far lacks a blockbuster case.

And some say it would be a defining moment for a closely divided court that bears the chief justice’s name but is most heavily influenced by the justice in the middle: Anthony M. Kennedy, who has written the court’s most important decisions affording protection to gay Americans.

“If the court establishes a right to same-sex marriage . . . [it] will go down in history as one that was on the frontiers of establishing rights for gays and lesbians,” said David A. Strauss, a constitutional-law scholar at the University of Chicago.

“The rough idea would be that the Roberts court would be to the rights of gays and lesbians what the Warren court was on race issues.”

Keep reading.

Why Do We Assume That Asylum Seekers Have a Right to Resettlement in a First World Country?

"We" don't.

The left turns everything into a RACE and SOCIAL JUSTICE issue because our system is driven by all politics all the time, and the left's motivations are never based on humanitarianism but raw political power.

See iOWNTHEWORLD.

Lyvette Crespo May Have Murdered Her Husband as Revenge for His Alleged Extramarital Affairs

Look, this lady's alleging that she's a victim of domestic abuse so she can get away with murder. I doubted her story from the get go. Remember, the family had financial squabbles as well. She was constantly pestering her husband about money. I mean, who was the abuse victim here? Sheesh.

And now there's allegations of extramarital affairs, as well as claims that Lyvette Crespo sent threats to her slain husband's alleged lovers via text message.

I hope she's charged with murder.

At LAT, "Detectives look at Bell Gardens mayor's reported extramarital affairs."

And at CBS Los Angeles, "Only On 2: Were Explosive Text Messages Sent From Slain Mayor’s Wife to His Alleged Mistress?"

'It is a narcissistic delusion for liberals to believe that somehow we have caused Muslims to hate us when, in point of fact, the Koran and other Islamic scriptures command them to hate us...'

From Robert Stacy McCain, "They Want to Kill Us All":

We cannot negotiate with this hate. We cannot compromise with this hate. No policy of ours will permit us to co-exist in peace with this hate. We cannot choose peace when Islam chooses war, and we cannot hope that “tactical air strikes” will suffice to defeat their deadly hatred. The only option left to us is to give them war without limits, war without mercy, a determined, relentless and unceasing war that will not be satisfied with anything less than complete victory over these murdering Muslim monsters who want to kill us all.

RTWT.

'There is no level of depravity to which they will not sink...'

British Prime Minister David Cameron, referring to Islamic State, not the Democrat Party.

Peter Kassig's Parents Issue Plea for Son's Life in Video

And we know, sadly, it'll be for naught. Their son will be murdered, ruthlessly and mercilessly.

And the hostage Kassig, who was a humanitarian aid worker, converted to Islam and changed his name to Abdul-Rahman --- a lot of good that's going to do him.

At USA Today, "Parents of ISIL hostage issue video plea for son's life."

VIDEO: Dodgers-Cards Benches Clear After Yasiel Puig Hit by Pitch in 3rd Inning of #NLDS Game 1

A rough outing for the Dodgers yesterday.

At LAT, "Clayton Kershaw shanks it again for Dodgers in 10-9 loss to Cardinals."

And at USA Today, "Yasiel Puig hit by Adam Wainwright, benches clear."

Parenting as a Gen Xer: We’re the First Generation of Parents in the Age of iEverything

An interesting, if somewhat pathetic, piece, from Allison Slater Tate, at WaPo:

The truth is, my generation of parents are pioneers here, like it or not. We’re the last of the Mohicans. We can try as hard as we want to push back and to carve space into our children’s lives for treehouses and puzzles and Waldorf-style dolls, but in the end, our children will grow up with the whole world at their fingertips, courtesy of a touch screen, and they will have to learn how to find the balance between their cyber and real worlds. It is scary. I don’t think I even believe there is a “right way” to parent with technology. But acknowledging that what we are doing is unprecedented – that no study yet knows exactly what this iChildhood will look like when our children are full grown people – feels like an exhale of sorts.

RTWT.

Daily Kos: The Real Killer Isn't Ebola — It's Republicans Who Block Medicaid Expansion

Tom Johnson, at NewsBusters, who reads this bilge so you don't have to:

In a Thursday post, Daily Kos writer Jon Perr alleged that Republicans’ refusal to expand Medicaid in twenty-five states “might be the greatest act of political spite in modern American history” and claimed, citing research published earlier this year, that it could lead to more than 17,000 “needless deaths” annually.

Perr contrasted conservatives’ cavalier attitude toward that statistic with the “virulent strain of right-wing outrage” over Ebola and asserted that Americans can strengthen their health-care system by voting Democratic in next month's elections, thereby “kill[ing] the GOPer virus dead in its tracks.”

As the election nears, the left's extremism is ramping up exponentially. They're going to get crushed, and it's hurting already.

Jean-Claude 'Baby Doc' Duvalier Dead at 63

One of the most revolting dictators of my lifetime.

At the New York Times, "Jean-Claude Duvalier, ‘Baby Doc’ of Haiti, Dies at 63":

Jean-Claude Duvalier, a former president of Haiti known as Baby Doc who ruled the country with a bloody brutality and then shocked the country anew with a sudden return from a 25-year exile in 2011, died on Saturday.

Mr. Duvalier, 63, died of a heart attack at his home, his lawyer told The Associated Press. President Michel J. Martelly announced the death on Twitter.

Mr. Duvalier continued to defend what human rights workers called one of the most oppressive governments in the Western Hemisphere, following in the footsteps of his father, François, known as Papa Doc, who also died suddenly, in 1971. The son was 19 when he assumed the post “president for life,” as he and his father called it, becoming the youngest head of state at the time.

He never apologized for atrocities, including brutal crackdowns on opponents at the hands of the feared Tonton Macoutes, a civilian militia that left a thousand people, if not more, dead, disappeared or illegally detained in harsh prisons.

Indeed, he defended himself as victims of his government pursued cases in Haitian courts on charges of corruption and human rights abuses. Mr. Duvalier had appeared in court and calmly denied any wrongdoing and even asserted the country was better off when he ruled.

“Were there deaths and summary executions under your government?” a judge asked him at a hearing in March 2013.

“Deaths exist in all countries,” Mr. Duvalier replied almost inaudibly. “I didn’t intervene in the activities of the police.”

He regularly dined in restaurants in Port-au-Prince, Haiti’s capital, and attended events at the invitation of Mr. Martelly, whose administration has included relatives and allies of people associated with Mr. Duvalier.

This year, his old political party announced that it would field candidates in elections and opened an office, though analysts were not sure if it was a serious move or a thumb in the eye of the rival he loathed and who succeeded him, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, another formerly exiled president who also returned and still is a political force.

Mr. Duvalier fled the country in 1986, as political repression and worsening economic conditions set off violent unrest in what was then and still is the hemisphere’s poorest country. He asked France for asylum and the United States for the plane that would take him there, an American official said at the time.

His departure set the stage for democratic, though tumultuous, elections. Human rights groups have said that he looted Haiti’s treasury of millions of dollars and has largely lived off ill-gotten gains ever since.

His presence in the country, and the fact that he will now escape trial, appalled victims and human rights workers.

“On Duvalier’s death I’m thinking of the look in my mother’s eyes when she talks about her brother Joel who was disappeared by that dictator,” Patrick Gaspard, a Haitian-American who is the American ambassador to South Africa, said on Twitter. “News of the passing of Duvalier makes me honor my father and generations of Haitians who resisted that vicious dictatorship.”

More.

You CANNOT Be Serious?!! The Left's Islamic State Trutherism

“It takes five people to stage an event like this — two to be ‘parents’ — two to pose for cameras..one in a ninja outfit….and one to contact the media that does not bother checking who ANY of these other four people are.” --- Far-left whackjob Naomi Wolf, on Facebook.

See Ed Driscoll, "Out: Far Left 9/11 Truthers. In: Far Left ISIS Truthers."

Via Instapundit, who writes:

Sad to think that Naomi Wolf was a top adviser to Al Gore. We really dodged a bullet in 2000.

Man, did we ever!

'I'm sick and tired of minorities running our country!'

Says Charlotte Lucas, a co-founder, with her husband, of Lucas Oil Products.

At WRTV-6 Indianapolis‎, "Charlotte Lucas' Facebook rant about 'minorities' raises eyebrows."

And here's the drama, at AATTP, "Lucas Oil Vice President Unleashes Horrific Facebook Rant About ‘Minorities’ (Video)."

So, opining on Facebook that you're tired of godless minorities ramming their values (and repulsive food) down your throat is "horrific."

Oh the humanity!

High-Altitude Acrobatic Skydiving

Via Mudville Gazette:

Uh Oh: Texas Hospital Changes Account on Ebola Patient

It's amazing how politicized this infectious threat has become.

Seems to me that if the Obama administration truly cared about the health and safety of the American people, we'd have quarantined these infected individuals immediately and banned all flights from Liberia and other countries at the center of this abominable plague.

But no. The anti-American Obama-Dems don't want to seal the borders at all, lest that place in danger their immigration amnesty pathology.

This is how low the Democrats have taken this country. And you can truly understand then the public hatred of the president and his party. They're going to be crushed in the midterm elections, just barely over a month away.

In any case, at the Wall Street Journal, "Texas Hospital Changes Ebola Patient Account: Dallas Hospital Says Duncan’s Travel History Available to Doctors and Nurses":

DALLAS—A day after saying that doctors didn’t receive a Liberian patient’s travel history due to an electronics records glitch, the Dallas hospital that initially failed to admit the first person diagnosed with Ebola in the U.S. has changed its version of events, stating that information that he had come from Africa was in fact available to doctors.

Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas said in a terse clarification late Friday evening that Thomas Eric Duncan ’s travel history was available to physicians as well as nurses in its electronic health records when Mr. Duncan first arrived at the hospital’s emergency room on the night of Sept. 25, complaining that he felt ill.

That was a marked change from a statement sent out by the hospital late Thursday evening, which said that the hospital had “identified a flaw in the way the physician and nursing portions of our electronic health records interacted in this specific case,” which had prevented the physicians from seeing the information nurses collected from Mr. Duncan that he had recently arrived from Africa.

Doctors sent Mr. Duncan home with a prescription for antibiotics when he initially visited the hospital. He was only admitted to the hospital three days later, on Sept. 28, when he returned via ambulance after his symptoms had worsened. He was formally diagnosed with Ebola two days after that, on Sept. 30.

By that time, Mr. Duncan had come into close contact with emergency medical technicians, and five children he had been around had attended Dallas public schools Monday and Tuesday. One child also attended a middle school on Wednesday, school officials have said.

The hospital provided no further information about what took place during Mr. Duncan’s initial visit, raising questions about whether the facility had been on the lookout for potential cases of Ebola following warnings from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC had earlier cautioned hospitals that the outbreak of Ebola in West Africa, which has killed more than 3,000 people according to the World Health Organization, had increased the likelihood that patients from impacted countries would come to the U.S., and that early recognition of potential Ebola cases in America was critical.

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Plus, a roundup at Instapundit, "REMAIN CALM! ALL IS WELL! U.S. Officials Urge Calm in Face of Ebola Concerns."

Bwahaha! Hate-Addled Stalker Walter James Casper Cheers Blogger's Automated Anti-Splogger Take-Down of American Power!

After almost seven years of uninterrupted blogging, American Power was taken offline due to an erroneous flagging by Blogger's automated anti-splogger software system. Indeed, there was some major Google glitch last night while I was watching the Angels game. I had to go through extra security just to log onto my Chromebook (the login function asked for a phone number to text me an additional password). And it turns out that the blog was affected too. American Power was taken down.

Bob Belvedere tweeted:

@AmPowerBlog I'm getting this msg when I try to get to your site: 'the blog at http://t.co/HbZF8J2e5q has been removed'

— Bob Belvedere (@BobBelvedere) October 4, 2014

No big deal, actually. I didn't feel much like blogging anyway after the Eric Hosmer crushed that 11th inning home run. I hit the sack.

So, I was out cold at 5:33 this morning when Blogger sent this email:

Hello, We have received your appeal regarding your blog http://americanpowerblog.blogspot.com/. Upon further review we have determined that your blog was mistakenly marked as a TOS violator by our automated system and, as such, we have reinstated your blog. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused in the meantime and thank you for your patience as we completed our review process. Thank you for understanding. Sincerely, The Blogger Team.

I got up and checked my iPhone and American Power was already loaded in the phone's browser. I got some coffee at 7/11 and got back to my normal blogging routine --- to the bitter consternation of my obsessed hate-addled stalking troll Walter James Casper III, who tweeted:

Dude, where's my blog? #KARMALAND #bwahaha

— W. James Casper (@repsac3) October 4, 2014

The sick f-ker Repsac checks my blog multiple times per day, while denying his sick obsessive program of stalking and harassment.

Reppy's been consumed by ideological hatred --- and a deep psychotic personal animus against yours truly --- since 2008, when the dirtbag loser first started stalking me, in the comments at Biobrain's blog.

Oh well, perhaps Reppy will someday, at long last, seek out the psychiatric help he so badly needs.

Meanwhile, his decidedly odd cheering of Blogger's automated splog-flagging system reveals just how far Reppy's descended into the nihilist pit of deranged, demonological hatred.

Eric Hosmer Crushes Homer in 11th Inning, Crushing #Angels Home-Field Hopes

Hosmer's been on fire. He pounded that extra-innings triple off the wall against the A's, crushing Oakland's wild card hopes. And now he's crushed the Angels' hopes, as the Royals can clinch a trip to the American League championship on Sunday.

At the New York Post, "Royals show no signs of slowing down, beat Angels again."