In one incendiary headline, the open border, amnesty fanatics at the Arizona Republic make the most egregious leap. Neo-Nazis rally against illegal immigration in Phoenix is the title of an article on a despicable, fringe hate group. The neo-Nazi group is not local but based out of Detroit and has been demonstrating in other states.
Channel 12, owned by Gannett, the parent company of the Arizona Republic, reported the clash at the Arizona State Capitol was based on opposition to race. The video is alongside the article.
The vile hate-mongers of the National Socialist Party certainly deserve to be viewed with contempt. But linking them to those who have legitimate concerns about border security and adherence to the law, is a leap of grotesque proportions that could only be made by the Arizona Republic and its cohorts.
No sooner had we celebrated the exit of Barack Obama’s Green Jobs Czar, Van Jones, because of his Communist connections, another off-the-wall Administration embarrassment surfaced. President Obama nominated for commissioner of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) a woman who signed a radical manifesto endorsing polygamy.
We thought our nation had settled the polygamy issue a century and a half ago, but this nomination makes it a 21st century controversy. Obama’s nominee for the EEOC, a lesbian law-school professor named Chai R. Feldblum, signed a 2006 manifesto endorsing polygamous households.
We may have to depend on the Republican Party to maintain government’s proper role in defining and protecting traditional marriage. The very first Platform adopted by the Republican Party, in 1856, condemned polygamy and slavery as the “twin relics of barbarism,” and the 2008 Republican Platform calls for “a constitutional amendment that fully protects marriage as a union of a man and a woman, so that judges cannot make other arrangements equivalent to it.”
Journalist and theologian, Paul L. Williams, Ph.D. who authors The Last Crusade website has written an excellent overview of Major Malik Nadal Hasan, 39, who opened fire on American troops at Fort Hood, Texas — in a murderous rampage that left 14 people dead and 30 people wounded. The carnage began as approximately 300 soldiers lined up to get vaccinations and have their eyes tested at a Soldier Readiness Center.
Hasan, a devout Muslim and Army psychiatrist, who openly condemned the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and was vocal in his support of global jihad, was never reprimanded for his anti-American tirades. At least six months ago, Hasan drew the attention of law enforcement officials due to Internet postings about suicide bombings and other threats, including posts that equated suicide bombers to soldiers who throw themselves on a grenade to save the lives of their comrades.
Soldiers reported that he shouted “Allahu Akbar!” — an Arabic phrase for “God is great!” – just prior to opening fire.
He is already getting the kid glove treatment by AP for his agitation over his impending military deployment. Mark Steyn notes that according to the MSM, it seems Hasan has a virulent case of Pre-Traumatic Stress Syndrome.
President Obama even issued a bizarre statement regarding the carnage: “We don’t know all the answers yet. And I would caution against jumping to conclusions until we have all the facts.”
Fourteen dead and 30 injured would be a damn good starting place in your fact-finding quest, Mr. President.
Voters in Maine repealed a state law yesterday that would have allowed same-sex couples to marry, dealing the gay rights movement a defeat in New England, the area of the country most supportive of homosexual issues.
Same-sex “marriage” has now lost in every single state in which it has been put to a popular vote. Gay-rights activists had hoped to buck that trend in Maine — known for its independent-minded electorate — and mounted an energetic, well-financed campaign.
But the people of Maine have obviously had enough and joined the 31 other states where the issue has lost when put to a popular vote of the people.
Faleh Hassan Almaleki, 48, accused of intentionally running over his daughter, Noor Almaleki, and Amal Edan Khalaf, 43, her boyfriend’s mother — because he thought his daughter brought shame to the family by becoming “too Westernized” — has now been jailed in her death.
Prosecutors are calling the October 20th attack of the 20-year-old woman an “honor killing.”
The family is Iraqi and practices the Muslim faith.
With an order to be finalized on Monday, President Obama is overturning a two-decades long U.S. ban restricting travel and immigration of people infected with HIV.
“If we want to be a global leader in combating HIV/AIDS, we need to act like it,” Obama said at the White House before signing a bill to extend the Ryan White HIV/AIDS program. Begun in 1990, the program provides medical care, medication and support services to about half a million people.
Obama said that in the “wake of widespread fear and ignorance about HIV,” the Department of Health and Human Services added the disease to the list of communicable diseases that disqualified a person from entering the U.S. The department attempted to reverse its decision in 1991 but was opposed by Congress, which in 1993 made HIV infection the only medical condition explicitly listed under immigration law as grounds for inadmissibility to the U.S.
Obama said the law has kept out thousands of students, tourists and refugees and complicated the adoption of children with HIV. No major international AIDS conference has been held in the U.S. since 1993, because HIV-positive activists and researchers cannot enter the country.
He said lifting the ban “is a step that will save lives” by encouraging people to get tested and to get treatment.
Yet on the White House website, Obama is quoted as saying “…one of our fellow citizens becomes infected every nine-and-a-half minutes…the epidemic affects all Americans…I am confident we can stop the spread of HIV and insure that those affected get the care and support they need.”
Without forward thinking innovators Charles Kline and Bill Duvall, information delivery would still be the purview of newspapers and broadcast media rather than the instant connections afforded each of us on our personal computers and cell phones.
Seeing Red AZ is particularly grateful to them and their colleagues for holding us captives without so much as a ransom note.
Did you know? “Barack Obama is the most powerful writer since Julius Caesar.”
So says Rocco Landesman of his boss. Obama nominated the Broadway theatre producer, minor league baseball team and racehorse owner, to chair the National Endowment for the Arts, an independent federal agency. In March, the group received an additional $50 million in “stimulus” funds.
Ed Morrissey at Hot Air refers to Rocco as the “Suck-Up award winner” as he reports on the guy’s brazen love affair with Barack Obama.
(Scroll down to NEA Chairman Rocco Landesman Keynote Address to 2009 Grantmakers in the Arts Conference October 21, 2009.)
Thisis from a 2008 speech to a congressional committee by Landesman’s predecessor: I am honored to come to you again to report on the state of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and to discuss the President’s Fiscal Year 2008 budget request for $128,412,000. We are pleased that the President’s budget contains an increase of $4 million for the NEA.
Slashing Medicare payments to hospitals that readmit ailing senior citizens — a component of the health care reform bill under consideration in Congress — could have serious consequences for the hospitals, including raising costs on hospitals an estimated $19 billion over 10 years, according to the American Hospital Association (AHA).
Montana Democrat Sen. Max Baucus’ version of the readmissions policy would penalize hospitals 20 percent of their Medicare reimbursement rates if patients are readmitted for the same condition, such as pneumonia or heart failure, within seven days and by 10 percent if readmitted within 15 days.
“Hospital leaders and clinicians who care for patients recognize that some readmissions can be prevented,” the AHA said.
“But there are a number of factors beyond the hospital’s control that affect whether a patient is readmitted, including the natural course of the disease, the limited availability of post-acute and ambulatory health care services, high levels of poverty among some hospitals’ patients, and a lack of community-based social services,” it added.
“If these factors are not accounted for, they will lead to payment penalties, inequities and other serious consequences–intended and unintended–for hospitals, particularly safety-net hospitals,” said the AHA.
We’ve read accounts of the Iraqi father living in Glendale, Arizona, who intentionally ran down his “westernized” daughter and her friend. What we haven’t heard is outrage from the American Islamic community. The silence is nearly as intolerable as the atrocities, since the calm appears to condone the contemptible behavior.
Family and friends of the victims told detectives that Faleh Hassan Almaleki, 48, had made threats toward his daughter because she was not living according to traditional Iraqi values.
The two women were transported to a Valley trauma center where Almaleki’s daughter, Noor Faleh Almaleki, 20, was reported to have life-threatening injuries. Amal Edan Khalaf, 43, suffered injuries that were not as severe.
Honor killings are commonplace in Islamic countries and have now been imported to the United States and other Western nations. Islam is the major religion in Iraq, practiced by an estimated 97 percent of the country’s citizens.
This site, the Middle East Quarterly, tells the horrible stories, providing facts and figures relating to these brutal crimes.