(CNSNews.com) – The timeline for U.S. troop withdrawal from Iraq remains on course, President Obama said Sunday as he hailed the country’s national election as a “milestone.”
 
“We will continue with the responsible removal of the United States forces from Iraq,” he said at the White House, confirming that “by the end of the next year, all U.S. troops will be out of Iraq.” More

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Lest we forget that Barack Hussein Obama has always been against that “milestone”.

By Dr. Richard L. Cravatts  

Noam Chomsky, who spoke at Boston University’s Jacob Sleeper Auditorium on March 2nd as part of the noxious Israeli Apartheid Week and a guest of Students for Justice in Palestine, clearly lives in an academic netherworld of political fantasies, conspiracies, and intellectually-imbecilic distortions of history and fact. As a result, MIT’s professor emeritus of linguistics has become a widely-known, eagerly-followed superstar of the Israel-hating, America-hating Left.

Slavish affection and apologetics for the murderous despots of the Soviet Union, Khmer Rouge, and Viet Cong

The explosive power of Chomsky’s animus for the imperialist West―Israel and the U.S. in particular―is only matched by his slavish affection and apologetics for the murderous despots of the Soviet Union, Khmer Rouge, and Viet Cong, whose barbarous excesses were in his mind, of course, predicated by the oppression and exploitation of the tyranny of Western democratic states.

If Chomsky’s vituperation against America has been a defining theme in his intellectual jihad, an obsessive, apoplectic hatred for Israel has more completely dominated his screeds and spurious scholarship. Like other anti-Zionists in the West and in the Arab world, Chomsky does not even recognize the legitimacy of Israel, believing that its very existence was, and is, a moral transgression against an indigenous people, and that the creation of Israel was “wrong and disastrous . . . There is not now and never will be democracy in Israel.” 

Jewish power is a repellant notion for Chomsky, just as the hegemonic might he ascribes to the terror states of Israel and America is the scourge of peace―not, of course, the destabilizing barbarism of Islamism. The existence of Israel not only subjugates the long-suffering Arabs, but is driving the entire globe toward annihilation, Chomsky suggested, using the image of Israel having succumbed into a kind of moral madness. Its very psychosis had become a source of power, and the exercise of that power would bring about global genocide. “Israel’s ‘secret weapon . . ,’” Chomsky wrote, evoking an apocalyptic vision, “is that it may behave in the manner of what have sometimes been called ‘crazy states’ in the international affairs literature . . . eventuating in a final solution from which few will escape.”

Chomsky denounces Israel’s identity as a Jewish state as being essentially racist on its face, and decries the very notion of its Jewishness as necessarily violating the concept of social equity by being exclusionary, elite, and, in David Duke’s words, ‘supremacist.’ While he is happy to, and regularly does, ignore the murder of Jews by Palestinians, Chomsky never hesitates to point to the perfidy of Israel, and its barbarous assault on their Arab neighbors who, in his socialist fantasies, wish for nothing more than to live in peace. He draws the perverse parallel between Israelis and Nazis so frequently in his writings that, to paraphrase the wry Professor Edward Alexander, he would be rendered nearly speechless if he was unable to use the epithet of Nazi against Israel in every sentence he utters.

If imperialism itself can be classified as a type of state-sponsored “terror,” as it regularly is in the morally-incoherent universe where Chomsky and other anti-Western thinkers reside, then it is quite simple to suggest, as Chomsky regularly does, an equivalence between the murderous acts of Hamas and Hezbollah who attempt to address perceived grievances and the legitimate self-defense of democracies whose citizens are under attack by murderous, non-state actors. Once someone has equated the rogue terror of one party with the legitimate acts of self-defense by sovereign nations, it is possible, and indeed inevitable, that he or she will start investing both actors with the same moral, and legal, standing.

Traveled to Beirut to Hezbollah’s headquarters to meet with its Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah

Chomsky’s optimism concerning the political aspirations of Hezbollah is equally as ludicrous. In 2006, when he traveled to Beirut to Hezbollah’s headquarters to meet with its Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, Chomsky was naturally impressed with the terrorist’s “reasoned argument and persuasive argument that [arms] should be in the hands of Hezbollah as a deterrent to potential aggression . . . .”  As for Chomsky’s “reasoned” Nasrallah, his lovely opinions concerning Israel and the Jews are widely known, including his view that Jews “are a cancer which is liable to spread again at any moment,” but “if they all gather in Israel, it will save us the trouble of going after them worldwide.” And in keeping with Chomsky’s own pathological obsession, Nasrallah has suggested that, since the Zionist regime is nothing but a blot on mankind, “there is no solution to the conflict in this region except with the disappearance of Israel.” That would seemingly but a perfect world for Professor Chomsky, but what would he then write about so fervently and with so much venomous enthusiasm?

Live via satellite from Manhattan, Moore spouted:

Chile had an earthquake this past week that was 500 times greater than the earthquake in Haiti. But here’s the big difference. In Chile, they have various — very serious regulations when it comes to building codes. So a thousand people died, sadly, but a thousand people died with a 500 times greater earthquake. And in Haiti, where there are no building codes, no regulations — a Republican’s paradise — a quarter of a million people died.

Haiti could better be characterized as an impoverished nation beset for decades by a corrupt socialist government.

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That anti-capitalist millionairass Michael Moore sure is a brilliant hunk O’ man. MMM MMM MMM. I mean, who knew that Haiti is a Republican’s unregulated paradise?  Only, according to Moore’s Marxist We’re-Here-From-The-Government-And-We’re-Here-To-Help-You comrades in the Obama administration that claim heavier people are bad for the economy, (yeah, those regulated people)  well, they want to government regulate his anti-capitalist big fat ass down to eating only the occasional yummy fat free cardboard cake if they have their way. Hmm, that might be a problem for Moore.  Oh well, no worries, there’s always that regulated Cuban paradise he’s so fond of.

Dawn Johnsen

(CNSNews.com) – The Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday voted 12-7 along party lines for the full Senate to cast an up-or-down vote on Dawn Johnsen to head the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel. It was the second time since President Obama first nominated Johnsen one year ago that the committee has approved her nomination.
 
Johnsen, a law professor at Indiana University, had to be re-nominated by President Barack Obama after the Senate failed to vote on her appointment before its winter recess.
 
The Office of Legal Counsel provides authoritative legal advice to the president and all the Executive Branch agencies, reviewing all executive orders and proclamations to be issued by the president, the Justice Department Web site says. The office also provides legal advice to the Executive Branch on all constitutional questions and reviews the constitutionality of pending legislation.

Republican committee members who oppose the nomination made it clear that they believe Johnsen’s past activism with liberal groups such as the American Civil Liberties Union and her pro-abortion stance disqualify her for the post.
 
“She has aggressively opposed even modest restrictions on abortion, such as partial birth abortion, and parental involvement,” Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) said at Thursday’s  hearing.
 
He cited a legal brief co-authored by Johnsen that said public facilities and public funding should be used for abortions.
 
“She made the argument that, quote, ‘legal abortion remains safer than childhood,’ end of quote.” Grassley said. “And that bans on abortion might undermine the 13^th Amendment, which bans slavery. And that, quote, ‘forced pregnancy requires a woman to provide continual physical service to the fetus in order to further the state’s asserted interest,’ end of quote.”

Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) voted against Johnsen’s nonimation by proxy on Thursday, issuing a statement to explain his opposition:  “Ms. Johnsen’s statements demonstrate a record of extremism and blatant partisanship on sensitive issues such as abortion and voting rights,” Coburn said. “As a strong pro-life advocate, physician, and originalist, I cannot, in good conscience, support her nomination.”
 
Republicans said Johnsen’s approach to national security also concerns them.

“As head of the Office of Legal Counsel, Johnsen would be the senior official responsible for making legal judgments in the war on terror,” Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) said. “But her alarming record should disqualify her from this crucial role.
 
“Her sweeping condemnations of counterterrorism policies have been factually and legally wrong — and clearly tinted through the lens of her leftist agenda,” Sessions added.
 
“Professor Johnsen has spent nearly 20 years using legal analysis advancing far-left causes, and often dismisses outright views with which she disagrees,” Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) said. “She has every right to be an ideological legal activist, but not as head of the Office of Legal Counsel. Democrats said for years that the Justice Department generally, and Office of Legal Counsel specifically, must be devoid of politics and ideology and Professor Johnsen fails that test.”

But Democrats argued that Johnsen is highly qualified for the position, given her service in the same office during the Clinton administration. They also said her liberal views don’t present a conflict.
 
“So what?” Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) said of the liberal opinions Johnsen has expressed in past papers and speeches. Feinstein said she believed Johnsen could still be objective in her new role. “It doesn’t mean that she cannot make the change,” Feinstein said.
 
“This is a very brilliant woman,” Feinstein said. “She has written some very strong writings. She happens to oppose the concept of the unitary executive, which many of us do.”
 
Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) said there is nothing wrong with Johnsen’s views on war. “As one of the 23 senators that voted against the war in Iraq, I guess I’m an anti-war activist,” Durbin said.
 
But Republicans – who were denied a request for a second hearing on Johnsen’s re-nomination – said the nominee’s stance on security and social issues are valid reasons for opposing her nomination.

“The selection of Dawn Johnsen to head the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel is one of the most partisan nominations the resident has made,” Sen. John Cornyn (R-Ariz.) said. “Given her troubling legal views on terrorism, her documented history of allowing political preferences to infect her legal positions, and her startling views on abortion, it should come as no surprise that her nomination once again did not receive a single Republican vote in the Judiciary Committee.”
 
“The Office of Legal Counsel is supposed to be objective and free from partisan motive,” Grassley said. “I’m concerned that Dawn Johnsen’s politics will inappropriately influence her legal analysis and severely undermine the neutrality of this important office.”

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Lots of  info on Johnsen from Discover The Networks

Van Jones, President Obama’s former “green jobs” czar and a newly appointed Princeton lecturer, has a history of sparking protests against universities and previously slammed non-activist students as “worthless people” obtaining “worthless degrees,” WND has learned.

Jones also implied a university education must help students become “revolutionaries.”

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Houston Chronicle

“The Big Enchilada!”

That’s how a spokesman for Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee described the endorsement that came the Democratic congresswoman’s way Saturday afternoon. No, it wasn’t from a senator or labor union, as important as those endorsements may be to the incumbent from the 18th Congressional district. This one, it turns out, was the biggest enchilada.

“Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee is a tireless champion for Houston’s working families,” President Barack Obama said in a statement released by the Jackson Lee campaign. “That’s why we need her back in Congress to help my efforts to bring real jobs back to Houston and the nation.”

What must make the president’s words especially galling to Jackson Lee’s challengers, City Council member Jarvis Johnson and local lawyer Sean Roberts, is that they challenged Jackson Lee in the first place in part because of her steadfast support of Hillary Clinton in the 2008 presidential race.

They maintained that most residents of the 18th were Obama supporters and Jackson Lee was thumbing her nose at them.

“I am grateful and humbled to receive this endorsement from President Obama,” said Jackson Lee in the press release. “When he asked me to campaign for him, I found it so rewarding to see the outpouring of support for the change he represented and now he is the change agent that America and Houston need today.”

Neither Johnson nor Roberts was immediately available for comment.

Dead Che

By Humberto Fontova  

You knew it was coming. Well, now you can carry around Che Guevara’s quotes on your IPhone—as just announced by the good folks at IPhone!

Alas, many of us, though not customer of this unquestionably hip product, suspect that most of Che Guevara’s hippest quotes are missing from this hippest of IPhones. Among those we fear were overlooked:

“My nostrils dilate while savoring the acrid odor of gunpowder and blood…Crazy with fury I will stain my rifle red while slaughtering any surrendered enemy that falls in my hands! With the deaths of my enemies I prepare my being for the sacred fight and join the triumphant proletariat with a bestial howl!” (From Che’s own diaries, later immortalized as The Motorcycles Diaries, though we note that executive producer Robert Redford “overlooked” this unquestionably dramatic citation for his movie.)
“Hatred as the central element of our struggle!…Hatred that is intransigent….Hatred so violent that it propels a human being beyond his natural limitations, making him violent and cold- blooded killing machine…We reject any peaceful approach. Violence is inevitable. To establish Socialism rivers of blood must flow!… The imperialist enemy must feel like a hunted animal wherever he moves. Thus we’ll destroy him! These hyenas (Americans) are fit only for extermination. We must keep our hatred alive and fan it to paroxysm! The victory of Socialism is well worth millions of atomic victims!” (thus spake the icon of flower-children)
“Don’t Shoot! I’m Che! I’m worth to you more alive than dead!”

The plea was whimpered with a Eddie Haskell-in-front-of June Cleaver-esque smile on Oct. 8th 1967 in Quebrada de Yuro, Bolivia, as Che dropped his fully-loaded weapons.  At the time, Che, dragging along his guerrilla charge Willi, was trying to slink away from a firefight when confronted by two Bolivian soldiers.
That’s exactly two flunky Communist guerrillas facing two Bolivian soldiers, by the way.  But then, Che’s bloodthirsty bluster (see above) always had a habit of evaporating when facing men (or boys) capable of defending themselves. His stock-in-trade was blasting their skulls apart from five feet while they were bound and gagged. (Amazingly, Steven Soderbergh and Benicio del Toro overlooked any depictions of such guaranteed drama in their recent movie.)
“The Negro is indolent and spends his money on frivolities and booze, whereas the European is forward-looking, organized and intelligent.”(as if Che had room to talk)
(“Viva Che!” bellowed Jesse Jackson while arm in arm with Fidel Castro in Havana in 1984. “I’m like Che with a bling!” sings rapper Jay Z.)
“The solutions to the world’s problems lie behind the Iron Curtain…..If the nuclear missiles had remained we would have fired them against the heart of the U.S. including New York City. The victory of socialism is well worth millions of atomic victims.” (look for Che t-shirts and any and all “Peace” demonstrations.)
“Mexicans are a rabble of illiterate Indians.” (Note the numerous Che T-shirts and banners at May Day demonstrations by Mexican immigrants)

“What will our Revolution would do for blacks?—why, we’ll do for blacks exactly what blacks did for the Cuban revolution. By which I mean:nothing!”

“The negro has maintained his racial purity by his well known habit of avoiding baths”

“Bolivian campesinos are simply Animalitos” (Note Bolivian President Evo Morales’ frequent genuflections to the ghost of Che Guevara and to his puppeteer, Fidel Castro.)
“Youth must refrain from ungrateful questioning of governmental mandates. Instead they must dedicate themselves to study, work and military service. The very spirit of rebellion is reprehensible. (“Che is our fifth band member!” Rage Against the Machine’s Tom Morello)

Che’s true legacy is simply one of terror, murder and sniveling cowardice

Che the Lionhearted’s image indeed belongs on college campuses. But it’s usually in the wrong places. He belongs in the marketing, PR, advertising – and especially – psychology departments. His lessons and history are fascinating and valuable, but only in light of Sigmund Freud or P.T. Barnum. “One born every minute,” Mr. Barnum? If only you’d lived to see the Che phenomenon. Actually, 10 are born every second.

Here’s a “guerrilla hero” who in real life never fought in a guerrilla war. When he finally brushed up against one, he was routed and surrendered while a sniveling, whimpering wreck.
Here’s a cold-blooded murderer who executed thousands without trial, who claimed that judicial evidence was an “unnecessary bourgeois detail,” who stressed that “revolutionaries must become cold-killing machines motivated by pure hate,” who stayed up till dawn for months at a time signing death warrants for innocent and honorable men, whose office in La Cabana had a window where he could watch the executions – and today his T-shirts adorn people who oppose capital punishment!

Here’s a humorless teetotaler, a plodding paper-pusher, a notorious killjoy and all-around fuddy-duddy – and you see his T-shirt on MTV’s Spring Break revelers! Perhaps competent psychologists (if any exist) will explain this some day.
Che excelled in one thing: mass murder of defenseless men. He was a Stalinist to the core, a plodding bureaucrat and a calm, cold-blooded – but again, never in actual battle – killer. Che’s true legacy is simply one of terror, murder and sniveling cowardice.

Yeah sure Michelle, we all love ya. Please don’t eat us.

Absolute Propaganda

Michelle Obama wears blinders, of sorts. That helps her to see the real America. As the first lady put it in an interview Saturday, the people she’s met and the causes she’s taken up have put her in touch with a side of the country far removed from the tempest of attack politics and nasty commentary, which she tries her best to shut out.

“Most of America isn’t like that and they’re tired of that,” she said. “You know, they want folks to get stuff done. The beauty of my job is that I get to see more of that America. And that feeds me.”

Her remark in the 2008 campaign that she was “really proud” of her country for the first time fed doubts in some quarters about whether she stood for mainstream values, to the point that she felt compelled to declare “I love this country” at the Democratic convention and emphasize her ordinary nature.

Those doubts about her appear to have subsided, she told host Mike Huckabee on Fox News, a network whose conservative commentators played no small part in raising questions about her patriotism in the campaign.

“I feel like the country has gotten to know me,” she said.

Polls suggest she is a more popular first lady than either Hillary Rodham Clinton or Laura Bush early in their husband’s administrations. Fully 71 percent expressed a favorable opinion of her in a Pew Research Center survey in November, while just 16 percent had an unfavorable view. Clinton’s negatives were almost twice as high early in her time as first lady.

Michelle Obama said she prefers to form impressions of what’s going on from her own experiences in and outside of Washington, and “I try to keep home kind of a news-free zone” apart from the newspaper clippings and headlines she sees.

That’s how she gets a different vantage point of America, she said. “It’s decent and it’s kind and it’s hopeful — and it’s critical and it’s demanding, but it’s courageous.”

And should there be any lingering question, she added: “I love my country. You can’t do this if you don’t.”

Relations between Fox and President Barack Obama’s White House have been frosty, but in Huckabee — a contender for the Republican presidential nomination in 2008 — she found a genial interviewer who heaped praise on her initiative to fight childhood obesity. Huckabee lost more than 100 pounds when he was Arkansas governor although he said it’s time to get back to work on his conditioning.

The Magic Negro and his lovely wife Michelle

CBS4 Denver

Tickets went on sale Tuesday for Sen. Michael Bennet’s campaign event featuring President Obama at the Fillmore Auditorium.
Tickets range in price from $25 for general admission to $100 for priority standing spots to $250 for balcony seating.

In addition to the Thursday afternoon fundraiser, which is scheduled to start at 2 p.m., Obama will also be speaking with Bennet a few hours later at the Sheraton in Denver. That early evening event is for high paying donors, with a single ticket costing $1,000.

Obama is making the trip as part of a swing across the West on behalf of Democratic Senate candidates. After Denver, Obama will head to Las Vegas for a Democratic Party fundraiser on Friday for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.

Earlier, the campaign manager for Bennet’s primary challenger, former House Speaker Andrew Romanoff, said the early visit is a signal of panic within the Bennet campaign.

Romanoff and Bennet were set to debate for the first time on Tuesday night at Denver’s Auraria Campus.

Bennet was appointed by Gov. Bill Ritter to fill the seat vacated by Ken Salazar after Obama nominated him to serve as interior secretary.

Obama’s last visit to Colorado was in the summer of 2009. He and his family were briefly in western Colorado as part of a tour of national parks. He spoke in Grand Junction.