Obama's 'Running Biggest Terrorist Operation That Exists...'

Wow, Obama's even getting thrashed by the most hardened America-hater, Noam Chomsky:

And Chomsky's also at the Guardian UK, "NSA surveillance is an attack on American citizens, says Noam Chomsky."

'Secure the Border, Period...'

I've been watching baseball all afternoon, the Dodgers at the Yankees, and now the Mariners at the Angels.

So I missed this Michelle Malkin live appearance on Hannity's tonight. She looks great.

And earlier, "The Amnesty Mob vs. America."

The Amnesty Mob vs. America

From Michelle Malkin:

You can try to put “conservative” lipstick on the lawless amnesty mob. In the end, however, it’s still a lawless mob. The big government/big business alliance to protect illegal immigration got a lot of mileage using foolish Republicans Marco Rubio and Paul Ryan as front men. But the true colors of the open-borders grievance-mongers always show through.

After America said no to a pork-filled security-undermining amnesty bill in 2007, the No Illegal Alien Left Behind lobbyists changed their overtly thuggish tactics. They put down their upside-down American flags, stopped wearing their commie Che Guevara T-shirts and cloaked their radical reconquista aspirations in the less divisive rhetoric of “reform” and “opportunity.”

It was all just an act, of course. Inevitably, the mask has slipped. Over the weekend, illegal alien protesters descended on the private residence of Kansas Secretary of State and immigration enforcement lawyer Kris Kobach. As Twitchy.com reported on Saturday, 300 amnesty activists marched into Kobach’s neighborhood and barged up his driveway and right onto his doorstep. It’s how the Alinskyite “community organizers” roll.

Shouting into a bullhorn and waving their fists from his front porch, the property rights-invaders dubbed Kobach “King of Hate” for his work representing border security activists and federal customs enforcement agents who are fighting the systemic sabotage of immigration law. Thankfully, Kobach, his wife and their four young daughters were not home at the time. (See The Right Scoop for interview with Kobach on Hannity.)

But the aggrieved amnesty demanders are not done yet. And Kobach is not the only one in their crosshairs.

After tea party activist turned Kansas state representative Amanda Grosserode condemned the mob action publicly on Facebook, racist insults and threats littered her page. Roberto Medina Ramirez wrote: “I’ll give her something to be disgusted about!” Doris Lynn Crouse Gent chimed in: “OMG! Maybe her drive should be next.” Matt S. Bashaw echoed the call: “Maybe her house should be next.” Facebook user Jude Robinson also ranted on Grosserode’s page: “Since Kobach steals taxpayer money spreading hate around the country, he deserves what he gets.”

Dennis Paul Romero left this message for Grosserode: “(N)azi kkk and she is proud of it.” A user writing as “Paul-says Fckmarkzuck” left death threats under Romero’s comment: “Gotta start killing all the Nazis. Politicans (sic), bankers, and priests. Cops, lawyers, and Judges. ASAP.” The same user added: “Just another b*tch that needs to die off already.” (Note: Many of these comments have now been deleted. Trying to cover their tracks.)

Continue reading.

They're freaks.

Alice Walker, Anti-Semitism, and BDS

Jonathan Tobin has an absolutely essential essay, "Alice Walker’s Undisguised Jew Hatred":

Any movement that treats one nation differently than any other and denies it—as BDS advocates do of Israel—the same right to exist and to self-defense that are not in question elsewhere is advocating prejudice. That’s why BDS, which advocates economic war against Israel and routinely calls for its destruction, is a form of anti-Semitism. But one needn’t resort to such arguments when it comes to Walker.

Alice Walker’s hatred of Jews, Judaism and Israel is so open and so vicious that there is no way even for those who are unsympathetic to Zionism to avoid the conclusion that the author is an anti-Semite. That’s why it is incumbent on those who have embraced her in the past as well as those institutions, like the 92nd Street Y, that have welcomed her as an honored guest and voice of reason to condemn her statements in an unqualified manner and to apologize for their role in promoting her crackpot theories. More to the point, she is an example of exactly why BDS advocates do not deserve to be treated as legitimate voices that deserve a place at the table either in the Jewish community or in public discussions of the Middle East.

And even that's being charitable.

Still, a great essay that should be read in full.

RELATED: "Alicia Keys Urged to Cancel 4th of July Concert in Israel."

James Gandolfini Has Died

This is just breaking:

Actor James Gandolfini, who played Tony Soprano on HBO's "The Sopranos," has died at age 51, HBO has confirmed.
— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) June 19, 2013

Man, he checked out early.

I'm 51. Gulp.
— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) June 19, 2013

I'll post some of the obituaries later...

The New York Times has an obit, "James Gandolfini, ‘Sopranos’ Star, Dies."

Also a Memeorandum thread now...

Dana Loesch Speech at Audit Abolish the IRS Rally on Capitol Hill

Man, I've never seen her quite this fired up.

And photos at Instapundit.

And at Town Hall, "Thousands of Tea Partiers Pack Capitol For 'Audit the IRS' Rally."

Obama Barely Clears 4,000 in Attendance at 2013 Berlin Speech

He's beaten down and abused, no longer the glorious redeem of 2008.

At the Weekly Standard, "Berlin Speech: 200,000 for Obama in 2008; Only 6,000 Today."

Six-thousand was the estimated turnout. Folks are reporting around 4,000 now, the washed up hack. See also, the Atlantic, "Berlin Looks a Lot Different to Obama in 2013 Than It Did in 2008." (At Memeorandum.)

'Why I Got My CCW Permit and Why You Should Too'

This is an essay from Mr. Mac at the Survivalist:

Over the last few months I have given it quite a bit of thought. Am I really that concerned about crime…we live in a pretty low-incident area. Was I on some ego trip? Was I trying to prove my masculinity? All of these may have had some minor influence, but, as I probed, I found that there were other, more significant motivations that sprung more from who I am as a man, and reflected certain core values that comprise my person. I’d like to put those down on paper.

1) I am both disturbed and frustrated by much of what I see in this country’s politics these days, and am often left wondering how to properly respond. It occurs to me that, as just one man, I have very little impact on this nation, just one voice out of 280,000 million. Yet, this country means a great deal to me. I lost my father to the Korean Conflict, all my uncles served in WWII, and I have studied and understand what unique and precious rights are afforded the citizens of this country I am privileged to live in.

Additionally, I hold as a strong value the opinion that every man and woman has the God-given right to be responsible for his or her own personal safety, that no one is obligated to be a victim, and that this right is not a privilege bestowed on me by some governmental entity. I also believe that, if a person of good character is willing to do the work necessary and takes the responsibility, then that person has the basic right to carry a defensive weapon. However, it seems that there are those in this country who disagree with me, who fear that I, and others like me, are a danger to society; that this freedom which is so basic to natural law and so thoroughly entrenched in the Constitution, must be taken from us.

These usurpers are even now furiously working to legislate that right out of existence. Mistakenly believing that this issue is “guns”, they feel quite comfortable trampling on my freedom. And so, it is to the anti-gun fascist, those who would deny me my rights as a free man and an American citizen that I am responding. It is in the spirit of those American’s before me who cried out “give me liberty, or give me death,” “damn the torpedoes,” and “let’s roll” that I acted. As a political statement, as an act of patriotism, as my way of hoisting the flag, and my finger, in enraged defiance of those despots who say I can’t, I got my permit to carry a gun; it was my patriotic duty.

That's an amazing essay that taps into the exact feelings I was having early this year when the gun control debate was peaking.

But read it all at the link (via Instapundit).

Latest Trend? Women Stripping Down for Group Photo Shots

This was even featured on GMA this morning (not my favorite, but my wife was watching ABC).

At the New York Post, "The latest girl-power trend? Getting naked in front of the camera for a sexy group photo shoot."

Also at London's Daily Mail, "The brides-to-be stripping off to pose nude with their girlfriends in risque 'boudoir bachelorette party' shoots."

Daniel Ellsberg and Glenn Greenwald on Piers Morgan Tonight

I caught some of this last night:

Russell Brand Slams Host Mika Brzezinski on 'Morning Joe'

This exchange has been getting a lot of attention.

Time to Worry About Fourth Amendment Rights?

ZoNation:

Remembering Journalist Michael Hastings

Well, I don't want to speak ill of the dead, but this is the guy who shived Gen. Stanley McChrystal. And for that, the dude's now a martyr to the leftist antiwar stab-the-troops-in-the-back cause.

At KTLA Los Angeles, "Journalist Michael Hastings Dies in Fiery Hollywood Crash."

Also at Rolling Stone, "Michael Hastings, 'Rolling Stone' Contributor, Dead at 33," and Foreign Policy, "Michael Hastings, 1980-2013."

And a flashback to 2010, at the Other McCain, "Gen. McChrystal Relieved of Command."

In the great scheme of things, Michael Hastings may have cost the U.S. clear victory in Afghanistan. See Kimberly Kagan, at the Weekly Standard, "A Winnable War."

And from my report, "Pentagon Clears Gen. Stanley McChrystal After Rolling Stone Hit Job":

What a tragedy. Progressives stabbed McCrystal in the back. Progressives stabbed the people of Afghanistan in the back. Progressives stabbed our uniformed men and women in the back. And they're currently destroying our nation from within and without. As Andrew  [Breitbart] said to the Trumka-Obama hordes in Madison: "Go to Hell."

Steve Gleason Accepts Apologies

At ESPN.

And at CNN, "Fired radio host admits he'd be offended by segment mocking ill player."

Marquese Scott

This guy is freakin' unreal, via my youngest son's YouTube playlist:

Dude From Greencastle, Indiana, Could Do Time for Bald Eagle Possession

Maybe he wasn't "saving" it.

Just capturing it, in fact.

At the Indianapolis Star, "Police seize bald eagle from Greencastle man."

The dude, Jeff Henry, posted all kinds of videos to his YouTube page, which is why he got busted, no doubt. See, "Bald Eagle Chick in rehab."

Hey, About That Hispanic Assimilation...

I think the view's a little different from the belly of the beast in Southern California.

This last couple of years I've been seeing more students than ever with English language difficulties at my college, and out and about around town it's like little Guadalajara everywhere you go.

In any case, FWIW, from the pro-amnesty editorial page at the Wall Street Journal, "America's Assimilating Hispanics."

RELATED: I'd say Samuel Huntington's "The Hispanic Challenge" is holding up pretty well, actually.

And the best of all is Victor Davis Hanson, "California at Twilight" (via Instapundit):

California has changed not due to race but due to culture, most prominently because the recent generation of immigrants from Latin America did not — as in the past, for the most part — come legally in manageable numbers and integrate under the host’s assimilationist paradigm. Instead, in the last three decades huge arrivals of illegal aliens from Mexico and Latin America saw Democrats as the party of multiculturalism, separatism, entitlements, open borders, non-enforcement of immigration laws, and eventually plentiful state employment.

Given the numbers, the multicultural paradigm of the salad bowl that focused on “diversity” rather than unity, and the massive new government assistance, how could the old American tonic of assimilation, intermarriage, and integration keep up with the new influxes? It could not.

RTWT.

BONUS: At Legal Insurrection, "O border fence, border fence! wherefore art thou border fence?"

Six-in-Ten Americans Oppose Arming Syrian Rebels

One of the key findings from the Pew Research poll out yesterday, "Public Remains Opposed to Arming Syrian Rebels: Six-in-Ten Say Opposition May Be No Better than Current Government."

The public is wise about this.

See the outstanding analysis from Rajan Menon, at the National Interest, "Obama's Confusing Syria Calculus":

The best forces fighting Assad are the radical Islamists, organized in such groups as Jabhat al-Nusra and Harakat Ahrar al-Sham. The Saudis and Qataris would be pleased to see them take power in Syria. They are backing them partly because Syria’s civil war is also a conflict between the Sunni Gulf monarchies and Shia Iran; each has Syrian proxies. But the United States should have no use for these groups and others of their ilk. Indeed, among the reasons the Obama administration wants to supply the resistance is to change the balance of forces within the opposition between the hard line Islamists and other groups, who are said to be secular, moderate, democratic and other good things besides. But sending arms into the complicated, confusing Syrian battlefield requires (or certainly should) that there be a high degree of confidence that the weapons will only get into the hands of those deemed to be good guys, and will stay there. The mechanisms by which this can be ensured are unclear.

Well, it can't be ensured.

We'd be essentially arming al Qaeda (through the al Nusra Front). Assad's extremely bad. But why back America's sworn enemies to oust him? It's bad choices all around in Syria.

Charles Saatchi Admits to Throat-Choking Assault of Wife Nigella Lawson

He was "cautioned for assault," but not charged with a crime.

That dude needs to be throttled is what it is.

At Mirror UK, "Nigella Lawson photos: Charles Saatchi reveals why he accepted police caution but makes no public apology."

PREVIOUSLY: "Nigella Lawson Attacked by Husband Charles Saatchi at Scott's Restaurant in Mayfair," and "BNP Leader Nick Griffin is One Sick Bastard."

Why Men Are Boycotting Marriage

Dr. Helen Smith, wife to Glenn Reynolds, is interviewed at the Wall Street Journal's Digital Network, via Instapundit.

The "Insta-Wife," as Glenn often calls her, has a new book, Men on Strike: Why Men Are Boycotting Marriage, Fatherhood, and the American Dream - and Why It Matters.