Katie Pavlich on Obama's International Embarrassment

With Emily Tisch Sussman on Hannity's last night:

Better Naked Than Burka

Well, I guess they have a point.

A FEMEN interview at Euronews.

And at Blazing Cat Fur, "'Femen Is Pornography' Say Facebook."

"The six-year old 'transgender girl' is actually a boy and the couple's 'daughter' is actually their son, but since this confused child thinks he is actually a girl, he now is a girl in the eyes of the media, and the son is now a daughter..."

A great piece from Michael Brown, at Town Hall, "This Battle is For Your Children's Future."

And at Pat Dollard, "Transgender First-Grader Wins Civil Rights Suit After Girls’ Bathroom Ban."

Parents of Trayvon Martin Devastated by Graphic Pictures in George Zimmerman Trial

A huge piece, with lots of photos, at London's Daily Mail, "Drama at George Zimmerman trial as Trayvon Martin's parents walk out of court after jury is shown graphic pictures of their son's body."

And in case you've not been following, Andrew Branca is blogging the trial at Legal Insurrection, "Zimmerman Trial Day 2 – Analysis of State’s Witnesses."

Here's yesterday's main entry as well, "Zimmerman Trial Day One – Analysis of State’s First Four Witnesses."

Hollywood Slaying Suspect Arrested 46 Times

How many times have I heard this story?

How many multiple times have the perps been in and out of jail, only to have these vile criminals murder another innocent?

At the Los Angeles Times, "Suspect in Hollywood stabbing had been arrested 46 times."

PREVIOUSLY: "Death of Christine Calderon Recalls Hollywood's Crime-Ridden Past."

Lacey Banghard on Curvy Women

A commentary piece, at the Sun UK, "We are sick of stick ... curvy is the new size 0: Page 3 beauty Lacey Banghard on model Chloe Hayward — a size 12."

Previous Lacey Banghard blogging at the link.

'Classic Reactionary Liberalism'

That's an interesting concept, via WFB, "Krauthammer: ‘Classic Reactionary Liberalism’ On Display After Voting Rights Act Decision."

Some background here, "Civil Rights Icon John Lewis: Supreme Court Put 'Dagger in Heart of Voting Rights Act...'"

Sarah Palin Slams Obama Tool David Plouffe on Twitter

Awesome.

At Twitchy, "‘Is this all a game to you?’: Sarah Palin slams David Plouffe and his ‘messiah’ Obama."

@davidplouffe Is this all a game to you and your ilk? Your messiah's "Transformation of America" is destruction of America.

— Sarah Palin (@SarahPalinUSA) June 25, 2013

NBC's Richard Engel: 'Just Back From #Syria ... Lots of Black Banners at Checkpoints...'

On Twitter:

Just back from #syria. Hardly saw rebel three star flags. Lots of black banners at checkpoints

— Richard Engel (@RichardEngel) June 25, 2013

Blake Hounshell forwarded to John McCain.

RELATED: At Telegraph UK, from last month, "Under the Black Flag of al-Qaeda, the Syrian City Rule by Gang of Extremists."

Well, once Obama has his way, the whole country will be ruled by al Qaeda.

Alan Dershowitz Trashes 'Anti-American' Glenn Greenwald

Well, it's about time somebody trashed him.

Via John Sexton at Breitbart:

Obama's Fading Foreign Policy Influence

From Bret Stephens, at the Wall Street Journal, "The Age of American Impotence":

... however the Snowden episode turns out (and don't be surprised if the Russians wind up handing him over in exchange for an unspecified American favor), what it mainly illustrates is that we are living in an age of American impotence. The Obama administration has decided it wants out from nettlesome foreign entanglements, and now finds itself surprised that it's running out of foreign influence.

That is the larger significance of last week's Afghan diplomatic debacle, in which the Taliban opened an office in Doha for the "Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan"—the name Mullah Omar grandiloquently gave his regime in Kabul before its 2001 downfall. Afghan President Hamid Karzai responded by shutting down negotiations with the U.S. over post-2014 security cooperation.

Now the U.S. finds itself in an amazing position. Merely to get the Taliban to the table for a bogus peace process, the administration agreed at Pakistan's urging to let Mullah Omar come to the table on his owns terms: no acceptance of the Afghan Constitution, no cease-fire with international forces, not even a formal pledge to never again allow Afghanistan to become a haven for international terrorism. The U.S. also agreed, according to Pakistani sources, to allow the terrorist Haqqani network—whose exploits include the 2011 siege of the U.S. Embassy in Kabul—a seat at the table.

Yet having legitimized Haqqani and given the Taliban everything it wanted in exchange for nothing, the U.S. finds itself being dumped by its own client government in Kabul, which can always turn to Iran as a substitute patron. Incredible: no peace, no peace process, no ally, no leverage and no moral standing, all in a single stroke. John Kerry is off to quite a start.

What's happening in Afghanistan is of a piece with the larger pattern of U.S. diplomacy. Iraq? The administration made the complete withdrawal of our troops a cornerstone of its first-term foreign policy, and now finds itself surprised that Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki won't lift a finger to prevent Iranian cargo planes from overflying his airspace en route to resupplying Bashar Assad's military. Syria? President Obama spent two years giving the country's civil war the widest berth, creating the power vacuum in which Iran, Hezbollah and Russia may soon achieve their strategic goals.

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Stephens' discussion of Snowden has been overtaken a bit by events. Snowden may be under arrest in Moscow, being interrogated and having his laptops stripped from him. More on that later. I'm just watching CNN and Fox News to keep up with developments.

Man, Debbie Wasserman Schultz is One Butt-Freakin' Fugly Woman!

I just saw this on Twitter, and man, the DNC Chair and Congresswoman is one gawd-awful lookin' dog. Notice Wasserman Schultz at left.

.@Instapundit Debbie Wasserman Schultz freeze frame at the video is hilarious. http://t.co/J61EvFjwHQ #Fugly
— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) June 25, 2013

It's from the Congressional Women's Softball Game. I'm sure there's a couple of Republican congressional hotties who aren't so butt-freakin' fugly!

Added: From the Mad Jewess, "Debbie Wasserman Schultz Gets A Serena Williams Make-Over By The Mad Jewess."Debbie Wasserman Schultz Gets a Serena Williams Make-Over by The Mad Jewess."

Civil Rights Icon John Lewis: Supreme Court Put 'Dagger in Heart of Voting Rights Act...'

Man, it's like the day Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated or something.

These civil rights icons really need to step into the 21st century. Poor baby.

At the Hill, "Civil rights icon Lewis: Justices don't know discrimination."

And man, check out the heavy drama at ABC News, "ABC NEWS SPECIAL REPORT: Supreme Court Strikes Down Key Portion of Voting Rights Act of 1965." Terry Moran's about to have a heart attack at the clip therein. Sheesh.

'Obama has chosen to bypass the representative branch of government, and declare anyone who disagrees with him to be evil and stupid...'

From Steve Goddard, at Real Climate, "The New Dictator."

More here, "Obama Escalates His Rhetoric Against Americans."

And at the Hill, "Obama mocks skeptics of climate change as ‘flat-Earth society’" (via Memeorandum). And the New York Times, "Obama Outlines Ambitious Plan to Cut Greenhouse Gases" (via Memeorandum).

President Dronekiller can go right around Congress. See National Journal, "What’s in Obama’s Climate Plan?"

If Only Our Foreign Enemies Were Republicans

From VDH, at Pajamas Media:

I cannot recall, in the last five years, Barack Obama ever identifying the Iranians, Hezbollah, or the late Hugo Chavez as among our “enemies,” in the fashion that he once urged Latino leaders to punish conservatives at the polls: “We’re gonna punish our enemies and we’re gonna reward our friends who stand with us on issues that are important to us.” If only the president would treat those who don’t like the United States in the same manner that he does those who do, he might bring great clarity to his now listless foreign policy. Indeed, why waste his rich vocabulary of teleprompted invective on fellow Americans, when there is an entire world out there that wishes the United States ill?

Well, O was gonna heal the waters so to speak, although that's not working out too well now.

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Yasiel Puig Lifts #Dodgers Playoff Hopes

I've been watching this guy. He's got some kinda magic spark, or so it seems.

At LAT, "Yasiel Puig leads Dodgers past Giants, 3-1, for rare three-game win streak":

As much entertainment as Yasiel Puig has provided in his three weeks with the Dodgers, his presence hasn't had a pronounced effect on the team's win-loss record.

Until now, perhaps.

By virtue of a 3-1 victory over the San Francisco Giants at Dodger Stadium on Monday, the Dodgers won three consecutive games for the first time since the opening week of the season.

Puig was a central figure in the triumph, as he hit his seventh home run in the first inning and drove in the go-ahead run in the eighth. The Dodgers (33-42) are 10-10 in games in which Puig has played and are eight games behind the first-place Arizona Diamondbacks in the National League West.

Meanwhile, the Giants fell to 38-38. The last time the Giants were .500 this late in the year was in 2008, their last losing season.

Until Monday night, the Dodgers had dropped five consecutive decisions to the Giants. And until the first inning, the Dodgers hadn't scored against Giants starter Madison Bumgarner in 16 consecutive innings.

Puig ended that streak right away, homering to the opposite field to put the Dodgers ahead, 1-0.

“Crazy stuff,” Manager Don Mattingly said.

RTWT.

Minnesota State Rep. Ryan Winkler Attacks Justice Clarence Thomas as 'Uncle Tom'

Wow.

Just wow.

At Twitchy, "Minn. state Rep. Ryan Winkler calls Clarence Thomas an Uncle Tom, claims he didn’t know it was offensive."

.@RepRyanWinkler Don't worry. That tweet is safe and sound. pic.twitter.com/gClffltNJj
— William J. Miller (@WilliamJMiller) June 25, 2013

The dude's a Democrat, if that needs to be added.

New Jersey Mom Savagely Beaten in Home Invasion Attack

At CBS News New York, "N.J. Mom Attacked, Brutally Beaten In Front Of 3-Year-Old In Own Home."

And London's Daily Mail, "Nanny cam catches mom's ruthless beating by home invader as daughter, 3, watches."

And it's a black dude. Drive the point home. This is one criminal black mofo.

LINKED: At iOWNTHEWORLD. Thanks!

Where Was President Obama on Sept. 11, 2012?

Robert Stacy McCain has an investigative report, at the American Spectator, "Where Was the President?":

Where was the president? This is a simple question, one to which the American people might reasonably expect an answer, but more than nine months after that deadly night, we still have not gotten a detailed answer and most in the media seem to have lost all interest in the question. White House correspondents have let themselves be played like chumps, treated like court stenographers whose job is to transcribe the administration’s talking points. No one seems to have tried to pin down Obama himself on this question — what, exactly, was he doing while Islamic terrorists brutally slaughtered four Americans? — and only rarely have any of the presidential henchmen been asked about it. One of the few exceptions to the media’s see-no-evil policy of voluntary ignorance occurred last month, when Chris Wallace of Fox News asked the president’s senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer about Benghazi.

Wallace began by reiterating what is known about Obama’s actions that day, saying the president “had a meeting with [Defense Secretary Leon] Panetta in the afternoon … [and] wanted them to deploy forces as soon as possible. The next time he shows up is that [Secretary of State] Hillary Clinton says she spoke to him at around 10 o’clock that night, after the attack at the consulate — not as it turned out, at the annex, but the attack at the consulate — had ended. Question: What did the president do the rest of that night to pursue Benghazi?”

Pfeiffer responded that “the president was kept up to date as it happened throughout the entire night, from the moment it started till the end.” Pfeiffer then proceeded to portray Obama as the helpless target of “a series of conspiracy theories the Republicans are spinning.” The adviser elaborated on the number of documents released and the congressional hearings held. What “we are going to do,” Pfeiffer said, is “to move forward and ensure it doesn’t happen again.” Wallace listened patiently to this lengthy evasion and then said: “With all due respect, you didn’t answer my question. What did the president do that night?”

Anyone who saw that memorable interview — and if you missed it, please click here to watch it on YouTube — knows what a reaction Wallace’s persistence provoked from the White House aide. Pfeiffer blustered with indignation at what he called an “offensive” suggestion “that the president didn’t take action” and huffed that “there’s no evidence to support” such a suggestion. Wallace remained calm and reiterated: “I’m simply asking a question. Where was he? What did he do?” Whatever the facts of the matter may be, Pfeiffer refused to answer specifically, and so the question lingers: Where was the president?

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Via the Other McCain, "Benghazi: The Unanswered Question."

Supreme Court's Ruling in Shelby v. Holder: 'It is one of the most important decisions in decades...'

From J. Christian Adams, at Pajamas Media, "Supreme Court Buries Section 5 of Voting Rights Act."

Via Glenn Reynolds, who has a roundup, at Instapundit.