Kurdish Women Guard Against #ISIS

Well, you do what you gotta do.

From Jenan Moussa, who's reporting from Iraq:

RT @HaraldDoornbos Kurdish women in Kobani-region in Kurdish controlled N- #Syria guard their village against ISIS: pic.twitter.com/Ob0zNYlS2i

— Jenan Moussa (@jenanmoussa) June 17, 2014

The Implosion of #Iraq

At Der Spiegel, "A Country Implodes: ISIS Pushes Iraq to the Brink":

The terror group ISIS has occupied vast portions of Syria and Iraq in the hopes of establishing a caliphate. The jihadists' success lays bare Iraq's disintegration and could ignite yet another civil war between Shiites and Sunnis in the country.

Masoud Ali, a tall, friendly man with a beard and green eyes, was a taxi driver in Mosul until a few days ago. He likes the desert, and he loves his wife and his yellow Nissan. He never paid much attention to politics until now. "Inshallah," he says. Whatever happens is God's will. But then fighters with the "Islamic State in Iraq and Syria," or ISIS, overran the city of two million.

An evening curfew has been in force in Mosul since last Monday, says Ali. He and his family heard gunshots near their apartment on Tuesday, and when Ali looked outside, he saw a dead body lying on the street. Then the rumors began. "They've occupied all government buildings and the airport," said a friend. "The power station and the water works, too," a neighbor added. There were television reports of banks being robbed, the release of thousands of prisoners and the confiscation of oil wells. A day later, Masoud Ali loaded his family into his car and stepped on the gas. As they drove away, they could see police uniforms and abandoned military vehicles in the ditch. Government troops, most of them Sunnis, had surrendered to the Sunni ISIS fighters.

Ali, like most residents of Mosul, is also a Sunni. He had heard the mayor calling for the citizens of Mosul to defend themselves against ISIS. "But why should I have defended myself?" he asks. "For the Shiite government? For Prime Minister Maliki, who oppresses the Sunnis?" He shakes his head. "The conflict has escalated because people in Iraq don't like the government anymore."

Keep reading.

Nice slideshow there as well.

L.A. County Judge Denies Occidental College Request to Seal Due Process Lawsuit

This is interesting, at LAT, "Judge denies Occidental request to seal suit over expulsion."

Background at Fox News, "Good grades, good home gets college student profiled as rapist, claims lawsuit."

#ISIS Parades Through Beiji, #Iraq

An ISIS video clip, c/o AP: "Raw: ISIL Militants Parade Through Beiji."

And at Gateway Pundit, "Report: ISIS Takes Control of Baiji Oil Refinery (Video)."

VIDEO: F/A-18 Super Hornets Launch from USS George H.W. Bush Amid #Iraq Crisis

Via the U.S. Navy on YouTube:



And at WVEC-TV ABC 13 Norfolk, "USS George H.W. Bush Arrives in Persian Gulf."

Blockbuster Video: Dick and Liz Cheney on #KellyFile — 'The Collapsing Obama Doctrine'

Here's the Cheneys Wall Street Journal op-ed, "Dick and Liz Cheney: Rarely Has a U.S. President Been So Wrong About So Much at the Expense of So Many."

And from tonight's Kelly File with Megyn Kelly, the interview:

Have you read Dick and Liz #Cheney’s powerful @WSJ editorial? They’re on #KellyFile at 9p ET to talk #Obama crises. pic.twitter.com/SjdZiaQuFF

— Megyn Kelly (@megynkelly) June 18, 2014

Somali-Canadian Farah Mohamed Shirdon of Calgary Joins #ISIS Jihad in Iraq

Via Blazing Cat Fur, "Mosaic of Diversity Alert: Farah Mohamed Shirdon of Calgary fighting with ISIS, threatens Canada in Jihadi vid."

Washington #Redskins Trademarks Canceled

I saw this early today at Legal Insurrection, "“Redskins” trademark cancelled by USPTO as “disparaging” — Are “Negro” and “Colored” next?"

And here's the Wall Street Journal's report, "U.S. Patent Office Cancels Washington Redskins Trademarks: Federal Agency Rules Redskins Name Disparages Native Americans."

And another unhinged leftist at MSNBC, race-baiting Joy Reid, "Joy Reid 'Warns' MSNBC Viewers That 'Racial Slur' Redskins Will Be Said During Segment."

VIDEO: On the Frontline of the Battle Against #ISIS Insurgents

Ruth Sherlock reports from Tal Afar:

And at Telegraph UK, "Iraq crisis: Saddam's men return to power in city once held by US."

Unhinged #MSNBC Blowhard Ed Schultz: 'Obama's Way is Working' in #Iraq

Heh, the world is literally burning down. Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Iraq, Ukraine. It all worked out just as planned, says the unhinged blowhard Ed Schultz.

It's like freakin' freak show.

At Free Beacon, "Big Eddie: ‘Obama’s Way is Working’ in Iraq."

British Glamour Model Jodie Gasson Shows Off Her Twin Peaks in Rocky Wilderness of the Desert

At Egotastic!, "Jodie Gasson Has Adventure In the Desert."

VIDEO: General David Petraeus Says #Iraq Must Defeat #ISIS Insurgency

The country need to unite against extremists and prevent a sectarian civil war.

At Telegraph UK, "General Petraeus: Iraq must unite against extremists."

Just 37 Percent of Americans Back President Obama's Handling of Foreign Policy

At the Wall Street Journal, "Poll Shows Erosion in President's Support Only 37% Back Obama's Handling of Foreign Policy, but Respondents Side With Him on Climate Change and Education."

At AoSHQ, "Chuck Todd: Given Grim Polling Showing 'Disaster' In Level of Support, Obama's Presidency is 'Over'."

Here's the video: "Chuck Todd: WSJ/NBC Poll 'Disaster for the President'."

#Iraq Battles for Control of Oil Refinery

At the Wall Street Journal, "Iraqi Government Forces Battle for Control of Major Oil Refinery Elite Counterterrorism Units Battle Islamist Rebels for Control of Baiji Refinery":

Iraq's counterterrorism units backed by other security forces and helicopter gunships were battling insurgents on Wednesday for control of the country's main oil refinery, trying to keep the fuel hub that supplies Baghdad from falling to a powerful week-old offensive by Sunni Muslim militants, Iraqi officials said.

The gunships bombarded positions of the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham fighters inside the refinery in the northern city of Beiji, a state oil official said.

Two fuel-storage tanks were in flames after hours of fighting that erupted before dawn on Wednesday, when ISIS militants attacked with mortars and machine guns, another state oil official said.  The refinery's several hundred employees fled the facility as it came under the latest assault in the weeklong siege of the oil hub.

A military spokesman, Gen. Qassim Atta, insisted on Iraqiya state television that the refinery was under full government control, contradicting oil ministry officials and others who said the oil facility was at least partly in insurgent hands. By late Wednesday, ISIS fighters had retreated from the refinery complex to an adjacent compound for employees, ministry officials said.

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Troop Backstabber Harry Reid Dismissed Iraq War as Lost in '07: Smirks at #ISIS Bloodbath Today

The treasonous Senate Majority Leader voted for 2002's Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq, but soon began stabbing American troops in the back by abandoning his support for the deployment.

Here's the New York Times report on Harry Reid from 2007, "Leading Democrat in Senate Tells Reporters, ‘This War Is Lost’." Just one more member of the cut-and-run Democrat Party of defeat.



And now the Los Angeles Times reports, "Senate leader Harry Reid rejects call for U.S. troop buildup in Iraq."

Also, see Robert Tracinski, at the Federalist, "Obama’s Wish-Fulfilling Prophecy in Iraq."

Communists Call Cops, Shut Down 'Right-Wing Blogger' at Portland State Open Public Meeting

This is excellent.

I know how the guy feels. I remember when ANSWER's Richard Becker got in my face when I went to take his photo at Los Angeles City College in 2009: He screamed, "What right-wing organization do you work for"?!! Later, the ANSWER thugs hit me with flag poles when I was covering their protest against the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq in 2010. I think they'd forgotten about me last year, when I covered the ANSWER march protesting police brutality in Anaheim.

But man, these goons up in Portland are even more over-the-top.

At the Salem-Keizer Sentinel, "Communists Shut Down Press: 'WE DON’T ALLOW RIGHT WING BLOGGERS TO TAPE OUR EVENTS'."

And at Truth Revolt, ""You're a f*****g piece of s**t!" — Socialist University Group Tries to Eject Blogger for Filming Public Meeting."

It's "right-wing blogger" Dan Sandini of Daylight Disinfectant.

Great work:

Prime Minister Cameron: #ISIS Planning to Attack Britain

At Telegraph UK, "Iraq crisis: Isis planning to attack Britain, says Cameron - live":

Latest developments and news from the Iraq crisis, where David Cameron has warned that Isis jihadists seeking to build an Islamic caliphate also plan to "attack us here at home in the United Kingdom."

Clarissa Ward on Growing Sectarian Violence in #Iraq

At CBS News "This Morning":

Dick and Liz Cheney: Rarely Has a U.S. President Been So Wrong About So Much at the Expense of So Many

At the Wall Street Journal, "The Collapsing Obama Doctrine" (at Memeorandum):

As the terrorists of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) threaten Baghdad, thousands of slaughtered Iraqis in their wake, it is worth recalling a few of President Obama's past statements about ISIS and al Qaeda. "If a J.V. team puts on Lakers' uniforms that doesn't make them Kobe Bryant" (January 2014). "[C]ore al Qaeda is on its heels, has been decimated" (August 2013). "So, let there be no doubt: The tide of war is receding" (September 2011).

Rarely has a U.S. president been so wrong about so much at the expense of so many. Too many times to count, Mr. Obama has told us he is "ending" the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan—as though wishing made it so. His rhetoric has now come crashing into reality. Watching the black-clad ISIS jihadists take territory once secured by American blood is final proof, if any were needed, that America's enemies are not "decimated." They are emboldened and on the march.

Keep reading at Memeorandum, and not especially the leftist heads exploding there.

#ISIS Moves Seized U.S. M-1 Abrams Tanks Into Syria

This is unreal.

It's like ISIS jihadists just asked for U.S. hardware and the Iraqis said "How much do you need"?

At Free Beacon, "ISIL Moving Seized U.S. Tanks, Humvees to Syria."