Blasphemy for Me, But Not For Thee

Blasphemy for Me, But Not For Thee | Washington Free Beacon
"Do liberals actually believe in the right to offend? 
Their attitude seems to me to be ambivalent at best. 
And this equivocation was apparent within hours of the attack, when news outlets censored or refused to publish the images for which the Charlie Hebdo editors were killed. 
Classifying satire or opinion as “hate speech” subject to regulation is not an aberration. 
It is commonplace.

Indeed, the outpouring of support for free speech in the aftermath of the Paris attack coincides with, and partially obscures, the degradation of speech rights in the West. 

Commencement last year was marked by universities revoking appearances by speakers Condoleezza Rice and Ayaan Hirsi Ali for no other reason than that mobs disagreed with the speakers’ points of view. I do not recall liberals rallying behind Condi and Hirsi Ali then.

Nor do I recall liberals standing up for the critics of global warming and evolutionary theory, of same-sex marriage and trans rights and women in combat, of riots in Ferguson and of Obama’s decision to amnesty millions of illegal immigrants. 

On the contrary: To dissent from the politically correct and conventional and fashionable is to invite rebuke, disdain, expulsion from polite society, to court the label of Islamophobe or denier or bigot or cisnormative or misogynist or racist or carrier of privilege and irredeemable micro-aggressor. 

For the right to offend to have any meaning, however, it cannot be limited to theistic religions. 

You must have the right to offend secular humanists, too.

Rand Paul Just Introduced a Bill That Will Cut Aid to Palestinians | John Hawkins' Right Wing News

Rand Paul Just Introduced a Bill That Will Cut Aid to Palestinians | John Hawkins' Right Wing News:

“We are currently sending roughly $400 million of U.S. taxpayer dollars to the Palestinian Authority,” Paul said. “Certainly, groups that threaten Israel cannot be allies of the U.S. I will continue to do everything in my power to make sure this president and this Congress stop treating Israel’s enemies as American allies.”

Former Haiti official: We have no idea where all that recovery money went

Former Haiti official: We have no idea where all that recovery money went | WashingtonExaminer.com
Nearly five years after a 7.0 magnitude quake killed hundreds of thousands of its citizens, Haiti’s recovery efforts remain muddled and confused, with the whereabouts of the billions of dollars pledged by the international community an apparent mystery to the country’s leaders.
“We don’t know where the money has gone,” Raymond Joseph, former ambassador of Haiti to the U.S., said Friday in an interview on Bloomberg’s “Market Makers.”
In 2010, Haiti was rocked by a deadly earthquake that claimed the lives of between 200,000 and 300,000 people.
In response to the tragedy, the international community pledged an estimated nine billion dollars in foreign aid to help Haiti's recovery efforts.
However, according to Joseph, much of the pledged cash never made it to Haiti. 
And the money that did make it to Haiti has mysteriously disappeared.

History for January 11

History for January 11 - On-This-Day.com
Alexander Hamilton 1755 - United States Founding Father, soldier, economist, political philosopher, one of America's first constitutional lawyers and the first United States Secretary of the Treasury, Carroll Shelby 1923, Rod Taylor 1930 


1770 - The first shipment of rhubarb was sent to the United States from London. 


1805 - The Michigan Territory was created. 


1815 - U.S. General Andrew Jackson achieved victory at the Battle of New Orleans. The War of 1812 had officially ended on December 24, 1814, with the signing of the Treaty of Ghent. The news of the signing had not reached British troops in time to prevent their attack on New Orleans. 


1922 - At Toronto General Hospital, Leonard Thompson became the first person to be successfully treated with insulin. 


1958 - "Seahunt" debuted on CBS-TV. The show was aired on the network for four years. 


1964 - U.S. Surgeon General Luther Terry released a report that said that smoking cigarettes was a definite health hazard. 


1973 - Owners of American League baseball teams voted to adopt the designated-hitter rule on a trial basis. 


1977 - France released Abu Daoud, a Palestinian suspected of involvement in the massacre of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich 
Olympics. 

Country Music Star Slams Left’s Pro-Muslim Agenda AND DEFENDS Gun Owners in One AWESOME Tweet

Country Music Star Slams Left’s Pro-Muslim Agenda AND DEFENDS Gun Owners in One AWESOME Tweet:

"Still, as President Obama conspicuously dodged citing Islam’s role in the slaughter, liberals worked to weave a flimsy narrative: it’s wrong to condemn a religion based on the actions of a few bad apples.

Though the left insists that it’s wrong to conclude that Islam, the religion at the heart of so much worldwide violence, is a religion of violence, country music star Travis Tritt reminded his Twitter followers that here in America, Americans exercising a constitutional right is routinely vilified based on the actions of a few."

Islamist ‘No-Go Zones’ in France Trained Terrorists in Charlie Hebdo Massacre, Says Expert

Islamist ‘No-Go Zones’ in France Trained Terrorists in Charlie Hebdo Massacre, Says Expert:

"Spencer, author of “The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades)” and “Did Muhammad Exist?: An Inquiry into Islam’s Obscure Origins,” explained that there are 751 “no-go zones,” according to French government statistics, where police and the state have no authority, but are ruled by Shariah Law. 

Spencer explained that the shooters in France grew up in the “no-go zones” where they don’t teach or abide by French laws, but observe Shariah that teaches that anyone who offends Muhammad must be murdered."

Obama’s remarks on Paris shooting ‘Shariah-compliant’

Obama’s remarks on Paris shooting ‘Shariah-compliant’:
"By refusing to associate the Paris terrorist attacks with Islam, President Obama is engaging in “Shariah compliant” speech, charges Joy Brighton, author of the 2014 book “Sharia-ism is Here: The Battle to Control Women; and Everyone Else.”
“President Obama defends free speech vehemently, and the press lauds him for this; however, he refuses to use the words “Islam,” “radical Islam,” “Muslim,” “jihad” or “Shariah” when condemning the Shariah-driven shootings in Paris,” she said.
In addition to Obama’s comments Wednesday in the immediate aftermath of the Paris shooting, Brighton referenced his speech to the United Nations General Assembly in New York Sept. 25, 2012, in which he said, “The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam.”
Not wanting to limit his remarks to Islam, Obama also addressed critics of Christianity and Judaism, saying,"...

What Can the West Do to Fight Radical Islam? Listen to Salman Rushdie’s Blunt Response. | Video | TheBlaze.com

What Can the West Do to Fight Radical Islam? Listen to Salman Rushdie’s Blunt Response. | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"When the Democratic strategist on the panel tried to make the point that the battle for the soul of Islam is being fought in the Muslim world and there’s nothing the West can do about it, Rushdie was quick with a rebuttal.

“What we can do is not give a f*****g inch” on free speech issues, Rushdie shot back, decrying the “‘but’ brigade” arguing Charlie Hebdo should not have published images of Muhammad."

First Navy SEAL Congressman in History: Obama Created Environment Where Islamic Terrorism Could Flourish

First Navy SEAL Congressman in History: Obama Created Environment Where Islamic Terrorism Could Flourish:

“There’s a reason why we’re in retreat everywhere across the globe, Congressman Zinke continued. “This administration has consistently acted from a viewpoint that you can negotiate with terrorism. You cannot negotiate with organizations that are based on an ideology whose core is to destroy the West and America,” he said.

Rep. Zinke told the Beacon that terrorist groups like ISIS can’t be defeated with Obama’s rhetoric. "

Chinese spend thousands persuading U.S. schools to promote their language, culture

Chinese spend thousands persuading U.S. schools to promote their language, culture « Watchdog.org
"In 2005, Chinese officials were trying to open a Confucius Institute at the University of Oklahoma and invited Paul Bell Jr., the then-College of Arts and Sciences dean, to fly to a conference in Beijing as “one of our special guests.”
...The Chinese paid more than $2,000 to fly Bell to China and an unknown amount more for lodging, records obtained by Watchdog.org under state open records laws show.
A year later, as he led to the effort to establish the institute on campus, the consulate again paid most of the travel expenses — also thousands of dollars — for Bell to fly to China and discuss implementation of the institute, records show.
Hanban covered airfare, accommodations, meals and tour expenses, the invitation noted.
In the past decade, the Chinese have opened hundreds of the institutes and classrooms in universities, high schools and even elementary schools in the United States and around the world in an attempt to teach Chinese language, culture and to increase cultural understanding.
But, as Watchdog.org reported in October, a growing number of academics caution the institutes are propaganda arms of the Chinese government."

Obama slammed for failing to visit Phoenix Veterans Affairs | WashingtonExaminer.com

Obama slammed for failing to visit Phoenix Veterans Affairs | WashingtonExaminer.com:

"It also spurred new criticism from Republicans, who along with vets groups, had called on Obama to visit the hospital located a mile from the school where he spoke.

“It is a testament to this president’s misplaced priorities that he would choose a photo op for his next executive action over visiting the VA hospital where veterans died on secret government waiting lists instead of getting care,” Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus said in a statement Thursday afternoon."

Venezuelans Throng Grocery Stores Under Military Protection

Venezuelans Throng Grocery Stores Under Military Protection - Bloomberg:
"Shoppers thronged grocery stores across Caracas today as deepening shortages led the government to put Venezuela’s food distribution under military protection.
Long lines, some stretching for blocks, formed outside grocery stores in the South American country’s capital as residents search for scarce basic items such as detergent and chicken.
“I’ve visited six stores already today looking for detergent -- I can’t find it anywhere,” said Lisbeth Elsa, a 27-year-old janitor, waiting in line outside a supermarket in eastern Caracas.
“We’re wearing our dirty clothes again because we can’t find it.
At this point I’ll buy whatever I can find.”
A dearth of foreign currency exacerbated by collapsing oil prices has led to shortages of imports from toilet paper to car batteries, and helped push annual inflation to 64 percent in November.
The lines will persist as long as price controls remain in place, Luis Vicente Leon, director of Caracas-based polling firm Datanalisis, said today in a telephone interview."

Muslims Avenge the Prophet - Eagle Rising

Muslims Avenge the Prophet - Eagle Rising:

"But, now, Obama's 'tween a rock and a hard place. People are getting wise to his cowardice and perfidy. He has to say something when a bunch of folks, who make their daily bread by poking fun at politics and general baloney, get shot up by jerks shouting "Allahu Akbar" ... or whatever it is cowards spew when they murder innocent strangers while avenging the Prophet.

So he offers up some lame and barely respectful sympathetic bromide and in another breath (maybe before the events of yesterday...I cannot fathom even him saying anything at all critical of  the French writers now ...or ever!) he says the writers at the satirical periodical should have been more "careful" or "judicial" or something lame-wristed like that. I only agree if Obama means the magazine in Paris should have been sandbagged and prickly with 50. caliber M-2s. "

These Are the Satirical French Cartoons the Gunmen Didn't Want You to See

These Are the Satirical French Cartoons the Gunmen Didn't Want You to See - Mic:

"We have avenged the prophet."
 Those five words, reportedly said by one of the masked gunmen during the massacre, are a horrifying coda to years of threats and attacks against French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.
On Wednesday morning, three men stormed its headquarters in Paris and killed as many as 12 people, including four famous cartoonists, and wounded several others in what's being called a terrorist attack of "exceptional barbarity" by the French government.
But what made Charlie Hebdo a target in the first place? 
In 2006, Charlie Hebdo, along with several other European newspapers, republished a Danish cartoon that caricatured the Islamic prophet Muhammad in a series of 12 pictures.
In one of them, Muhammad is depicted wearing a turban shaped like a bomb with a burning fuse.
The unflattering images sparked violent protests around the world.
Two Muslim organizations sued for "incitement to hatred," and the issue's executive editor, Philippe Val, was acquitted after he was taken to court.
The case was seen as an important test for freedom of expression in France."

Nebraska high court tosses Keystone XL challenge | WashingtonExaminer.com

Nebraska high court tosses Keystone XL challenge | WashingtonExaminer.com:

"Today’s court decision wipes out President Obama’s last excuse,” said Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Chairwoman Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska. “He’s had six years to approve a project that will increase U.S. energy supplies and create closer ties with our nearest ally and neighbor, and he’s refused to act. Regardless of whatever new excuse he may come up with, Congress is moving forward.”

Republicans and centrist Democrats want Obama to green light the pipeline because they say it will create jobs — the State Department forecast 35 permanent jobs and 42,100 temporary ones during the two-year construction phase — and strengthen energy security by getting supplies from Canada."

Hollande Daze :: SteynOnline

Hollande Daze :: SteynOnline:
"The French authorities killed three murderous savages yesterday.
That was the only good news on a day in which a third hostage siege began in Montpellier.
The bad news started at the top, with President Hollande's statement after the Charlie Hebdo slaughter and the Kosher grocery siege:

"Those who committed these acts have nothing to do with the Muslim religion."

Yeah, right. I would use my standard line on these occasions - "Allahu Akbar" is Arabic for "Nothing to see here" - but it's not quite as funny when the streets are full of cowards, phonies and opportunists waving candles and pencils and chanting "Je suis Charlie."
Because if you really were Charlie, if you really were one of the 17 Frenchmen and women slaughtered in the name of Allah in little more than 48 hours, you'd utterly despise a man who could stand up in public and utter those words."

My God, these people are morons-------Politically correct CNN refers to black hostage taker in France as ‘African American’

Politically correct CNN refers to black hostage taker in France as ‘African American’ | Twitchy

Long, ugly list of "screw the rest of ya"----Galen Institute Updates List of Changes to ObamaCare: Forty-six...so far

Galen Institute Updates List of Changes to ObamaCare: Forty-six...so far:
"The Galen Institute today released an updated version of its list of significant changes made to the Affordable Care Act by the Obama administration, the Congress, and the U.S. Supreme Court since the law was passed in March of 2010.
Today’s list includes four additional changes made by the Obama administration, most of them contrary to statutory language.
By our count, more than 46 significant changes have been made to the law: at least 28 that the administration has made unilaterally, 16 that Congress has passed and the president has signed, and 2 by the Supreme Court. Here are the latest additions:"

Yeah, we gotta control ourselves. Tell that to the Parisian Jews!-------NBC's Andrea Mitchell Frets Over Muslims 'Under Fire' in Europe

NBC's Andrea Mitchell Frets Over Muslims 'Under Fire' in Europe:

"One day after a brutal terrorist attack in Paris by Islamic radicals, MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell spent much of her Thursday show wringing her hands over Muslims in France and Europe being "under fire."
Talking to Muslim Minnesota Congressman Keith Ellison, Mitchell worried:
"This is a challenge for France, which has had a lot of negative legal actions and restrictive laws and a large Muslim community....What is the challenge as they approach this manhunt to not begin racial or religious profiling?"
 In a follow-up question, she proclaimed:
"And there were reports in the French press today that three mosques may have been targeted in some way, three mosques in France....it's really going to be incumbent upon French and world leaders and European leaders, where immigration and the Muslim population has been under fire.""

Read their book. The told us they want a religious war-----Le Pen May Gain as Magazine Attack Strains French Divide

Le Pen May Gain as Magazine Attack Strains French Divide - Businessweek:
France’s Front National leader Marine Le Pen pinned the blame for the killing of 12 people in Paris yesterday on Islamic radicals, as mainstream leaders tried to downplay the religious dimension of the attack.
While President Francois Hollande called for national unity in an attempt to deter the public from demonizing the country’s 5-million strong Muslim community, 
Le Pen said France has to confront the beliefs of the gunmen who stormed the offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.
“Time’s up for denial and hypocrisy,” Le Pen, who has railed against immigration, said in a video posted on her party’s website.
“The absolute rejection of Islamic fundamentalism must be proclaimed loudly and clearly.”

Want to See What It Looks Like When a World Leader Makes a Strong Statement on Terrorism? Here’s Canada’s Stephen Harper… | Video | TheBlaze.com

Want to See What It Looks Like When a World Leader Makes a Strong Statement on Terrorism? Here’s Canada’s Stephen Harper… | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"Speaking publicly for the first time since the tragedy, Harper did not mince words, telling Canadians, “The fact of the matter is this, ladies and gentlemen, that the international jihadist movement has declared war.” Adding, “They have declared war on anybody who does not think and act exactly as they wish would think and act.”

A very calm Harper talked about the radical islamists waging war on “a whole range of countries with which they are in contact.”

6 Times The Obama Administration Said Its Job Was to Promote Islam

6 Times The Obama Administration Said Its Job Was to Promote Islam - Breitbart
On Thursday, White House press secretary Josh Earnest announced that the Obama administration would prioritize fighting Islamophobia in the aftermath of the terrorist attack on Charlie Hebdo in France. 

Never mind that most Westerners aren’t Islamophobic, but rather gettingShotInTheFaceForExpressingMyOpinion-Phobic.

The real problem, according to the Obama administration, is lack of leadership in defending Islam:

There are some individuals that are using a peaceful religion and grossly distorting it, and trying to use its tenets to inspire people around the globe to carry out acts of violence. And we have enjoyed significant success in enlisting leaders in the Muslim community, like I said, both in the United States and around the world to condemn that kind of messaging, to condemn those efforts to radicalize individuals, and to be clear about what the tenets of Islam actually are.  And we’re going to redouble those efforts in the days and weeks ahead.

This, of course, is not the first time the Obama administration has discovered a duty to illuminate the inherent beauty and wonder of Islam. Over and over again, the Obama administration, in high culturally imperialist dudgeon, has attempted to explain to the world the true meaning of Islam.

Here are five other examples:

Smart phones! Is there ANYTHING they can't do??-----Digitsole - The first connected insole: Click, warm and track!

Digitsole - The first connected insole: Click, warm and track!:

The Digitsole is innovativeinteractiverevolutionarythe futureinnovative

Digitsole is the first connected, interactive, water-resistant, heated insole that can be 

Controlled via your smartphone. This innovative foot product is designed for your health and comfort. Available on Android and iOS, the dedicated Digitsole app is equipped with Bluetooth 4.0 connection so you can warm your feet and track your day with one easy click.

History for January 10 - On-This-Day.com

History for January 10 - On-This-Day.com
Ethan Allen 1738, Ray Bolger 1904, Jim Croce 1943  


Rod Stewart 1945, George Foreman 1949, Pat Benatar 1953 


1928 - The Soviet Union ordered the exile of Leon Trotsky. 


1946 - The first meeting of the United Nations General Assembly took place with 51 nations represented. 


1951 - Donald Howard Rogers piloted the first passenger jet on a trip from Chicago to New York City. 


1971 - "Masterpiece Theatre" premiered on PBS with host Alistair Cooke. The introduction drama series was "The First Churchills." 


1981 - In El Salvador, Marxist insurgents launched a "final offensive". 


1990 - Chinese Premier Li Peng ended martial law in Beijing after seven months. He said that crushing pro-democracy protests had saved China from "the abyss of misery." 


1994 - In Manassas, VA, Lorena Bobbitt went on trial. She had been charged with maliciously wounding her husband John. She was acquitted by reason of temporary insanity.