#1
I'd wager few at the Claremont commencement or possibly even the cheeky speaker, could have provided a brief historical dissertation of the origins of Liberia and it's failure.
The puerile, bobbly headed members of academia seated behind ValJar was far more disturbing that anything she might have uttered.
#3
Champ, FLOTUS, ValJar, or Holder, the central theme of social and economic retribution is just below the surface. It is permanently woven into their psyche. They simply cannot help themselves.
#5
Not calling for death, just knock some sense into her - the way she has it done to her opponents, Chicago style. Its all her type ever understands in the end.
#6
Her neurons continue to snap freely in and about the gluteal fold which could perhaps indicate severe cranial dislocation. Best to let her continue to speak out, but simply keep our distance.
#3
Provided there is anything left to leave. Welcome to Kenya.
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#4
Saddam had a dream that he would one day build a Disney style monorail around the old walled city of Babylon for tourists. He thought he was the reincarnate of old Nebuchadnezzar. Hard to say what the Champ is planning with his NM property.
#5
President Obama on Wednesday will declare a national monument in southern New Mexico, delivering a win for environmentalists but angering ranchers and local law enforcement, who say the land restrictions will end up creating a safe haven for drug cartels to operate within the U.S.
As designed. First he give them weapons via Fast and Furious - now he gives them a clear and very wide path into the US.
#6
#4 Given the plot of land is near Las Cruces, maybe a recreation of the Indian killing of the Hispanic settlers the name is derived from.
Spanish explorers, including the famed Coronado, appeared on the scene by the early 1500s. At that time, the Spanish referred to the native inhabitants as Pueblos because of the villages or "pueblos" they built. In 1598, a trailblazer named Don Juan de Onate led Spanish colonists through Las Cruces on a route that became known as El Camino Real, or the Royal Highway.
Onate and his group were the first to travel a desolate, 90-mile stretch of desert that became known as Jornado del Muerto, or Journey of Death. This route provided a shorter path than the one that curved along the Rio Grande, but the hot and arid conditions claimed the lives of many of its travelers. In addition, Apaches attacked the wagon trains and killed the settlers who dared to cross their territory.
It was an Apache ambush on settlers that gave Las Cruces its name. When travelers from Taos were killed along the El Camino Real in 1830, the grieving survivors marked the graves with crosses. Thus, La Placita de Las Cruces, or the Place of the Crosses, became the frontier settlement of Las Cruces in 1849, when the first streets were marked with rawhide rope.
#8
What one president does by executive order the next president can undo by executive order. Obama wants only an ephemeral legacy? Not the way I would go about creating my legacy.
#9
The next real president should designate the entire island of Martha's Vineyard as a national monument and toss EVERYONE off it. Man that would be funny.
Putin may have recognized that playing with a chaotic civil war involves not only the risk of becoming hostage to the racketeering of maverick warlords but also the direct danger of spill-over into the critically unstable North Caucasus. Last week, he suddenly relieved Aleksandr Khloponin, his authoritative special envoy to the region, of his duties and created a new ministry for the North Caucasus similar to the one for Crimea established a few weeks ago (Novaya Gazeta, May 16). Most of the new appointees come from the military or Ministry of Interior, which indicates a change of strategy to a more forceful pacification of Dagestan and other hot spots, necessitated by the fact that resources for investing in far-fetched tourism projects and for buying the loyalty of local elites are becoming limited (see EDM, May 16; Nezavisimaya Gazeta, May 13). Simultaneously, a series of resignations (including Vladimir Kozhin, who served as the head of the Presidential Property Management Department since 2000) and criminal cases in the top echelons of law enforcement in Moscow showed that Putin has launched a severe reshuffling of the key elites (http://www.gazeta.ru/social/2014/05/12/6027941.shtml).
Back-pedaling on the Ukrainian crisis may indeed be the most reasonable course for the politically censured and economically vulnerable Russia, but it goes against the wave of wide-spread jingoism. Putins approval rating has sky-rocketed, but it can easily follow the trajectory of the unfortunate Proton-M and come crashing down as patriotic disillusion follows the pains of shrinking personal incomes. Caution can perhaps secure against really punishing sanctions, but key European states have acknowledged the risks associated with Russias export of corruption and will continue to put a squeeze on it. Large segments of the Russian middle classes have rallied around Putins counter-revolutionary flag. But as the heat of emergency dissipates, they are set to rediscover the lack of perspective in the environment of bureaucratic predation. On the road to Beijing, Putin has to come to some senses, but those can hardly help in restoring viability to his exhausted enterprise.
#1
Some Net Artics claim that the reason Putin has not yet sent in his RussArmy Boyz into East Ukraine is because he covertly desires a weak + chaotic Ukraine in order to prevent the latter from being "too successful" in attracting Western, International investments at the expence of Mama Russia's economy???
[The Blaze] First lady Michelle Obama is encouraging students to monitor their older relatives, friends and co-workers for any racially insensitive comments they might make, and to challenge those comments whenever they're made. Welcome to Oceania.
#4
We were told the same old line back in the 60s on campus. The real problem is those questioning those elders are now the new elders and they have indeed screwed up the opportunities and institutions that were passed on to them. "I meant well" is no foundation to build a future now so screwed.
#8
Or maybe its when you go off to college and you decide to join a sorority or fraternity, and you ask the question, how can we get more diversity in our next pledge class?
Oh yeah? Here's a little story for you, a true story. When I took my daughter to orientation at a certain California university we toured the dorms and guess what? All the dorms were segregated. Not because the white kids didn't want to live with minorities but because minorities didn't want to live with white kids. There was a white dorm, a gay dorm, a black dorm, a Pacific Islander dorm, a Latina dorm, etc. I remember feeling particularly unwelcome when we went into the Latina dorm. They stared at us in a most unfriendly manner. They wanted their own dorm and they didn't want us to be there. All of this was officially sanctioned by the so called progressive, liberal UC system of which your beloved Janet Napolitano is now president. Is Napolitano gonna do anything about it? Hell no, you racist bitch, because that's the way you want it. I should have pulled the plug right then and there and told my daughter we would not allow her to attend that school but I still believed in the UC system. Not any more. It is a corrupt, hypocritical institution. So my daughter attended one quarter there before she called us and begged us to come and take her home. She hated it. Can't say as I blame her.
#9
Cultural and social integration are only applicable to the free stuff, ie, unfettered academic admission, scholarships and gov't peanut butter. It's a gate that swings only one way. Once you're safely in, you're free to flip off the man at your earliest opportunity.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
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