Sen. Ted Cruz has released a dynamic new video featuring highlights of the senator's biggest moments.
Cruz encourages Republicans to stand for the rights enshrined in the Constitution, and to stand on principle.
"We can either choose to keep our head down, and not rock the boat, to not stand for anything, or we can stand for principle," the Texas Republican says in the video.
"Yes, we can," he concludes, echoing President Obama's 2008 campaign slogan.
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Cruz and this young, new breed of Pubs is our only hope. These old, careerist fok's in Washington have got to go! They are part of the problem, not the solution.
[AnNahar] Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is assured of winning Egypt's forthcoming presidential vote but at the cost of reviving the era of strongman rule as he faces a dilapidated economy and rising militancy.
Analysts say Field Marshal Sisi, who on Wednesday announced he was quitting the army to run for president, was certain to continue the crackdown on Islamists that started when he overthrew elected president Mohammed Morsi ...the former president of Egypt. A proponent of the One Man, One Vote, One Time principle, Morsi won election after the deposal of Hosni Mubarak and jumped to the conclusion it was his turn to be dictator... in July.
And, the experts say, with security issues likely to hamper Sisi from delivering on his promise of economic recovery, he could resort to repression more and more.
Sisi's widely-anticipated candidacy is being hailed by the millions of Egyptians who are weary of more than three years of turmoil since the Arab Spring overthrow of veteran strongman Hosni Mubarak ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... But it is likely to further inflame Islamist protests and worry those secular activists who fear a return to rule by military men and the strong-arm tactics of the Mubarak era.
Aside from Morsi, whose year in office deeply polarized the country, every Egyptian president has been drawn from, or installed by, the army.
Dressed in army fatigues for the last time in public, Sisi promised in a televised address to bolster the precarious economy and crush the "terrorism" that has surged since Morsi's overthrow.
Michele Dunne, a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for Peace, said Sisi's address suggested he would continue the crackdown on the Islamists that has made little headway in restoring stability.
"I didn't hear Field Marshal Sisi say anything in the initial speech to suggest there will be a shift in the security strategy," she said.
Since Morsi's overthrow, his supporters have staged weekly and at times violent protests, leading to the deaths of at least 1,400 people, mostly Islamists, in festivities with police.
Militants in the same period have killed more than 200 security personnel in bombing and shooting attacks.
Encouraged by many Egyptians who view the Islamists as destructive, the authorities have tossed in the clink You have the right to remain silent... some 15,000 people and placed thousands on trial.
"If the crackdown goes on and people continue to be killed every week, it will be difficult, perhaps impossible, to restore stability and get the economy on its feet," Dunne said.
The unrest has battered the economy, which is propped by billions of dollars in aid from friendly Gulf Arab states.
Regime human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... abuses and Islamist bad boy attacks on police are not new to Egypt, having marred Mubarak's three-decade presidency before his overthrow in a popular uprising in 2011.
But since Morsi's ouster they have surged to unprecedented levels, Dunne said.
"Egypt is now undergoing ... the worst terrorism in decades" said Dunne. "Human rights are right now in a much worse state than they were under Mubarak."
- 'No return to Mubarak' -
Sisi overthrew Morsi after millions erupted into the streets demanding the resignation of the Islamist president.
Sisi's aides said the military chief's intention was not to replace Morsi but that he had swayed by popular demand.
Despite assurances by Sisi's camp that the "Mubarak's era" would not be allowed to return, the cycle of violence and arrests is likely to continue, analysts say, as both the state and the Islamist opposition are equally opposed to serious compromise.
Prolonged unrest may hamper Sisi from delivering on his promise of economic recovery, but is unlikely to greatly erode his considerable support in the short term, said Shadi Hamid, an Egypt expert and fellow at the Brookings Institution.
"If he can't deliver, which he probably won't be able to, then he will have to rely on his arsenal of repression," Hamid said.
Egypt saw a breakdown in security following Mubarak's overthrow and under an interim military regime before Morsi's election in June 2012.
Many now view the army as the only institution that can rein in the turmoil, further pushing back the prospect of a strong civilian president who can control the military.
"It once more confirms that the military republic since 1952 is back with the same mentality; the idea of the military as the institution that defends the state," said Andrew Hammond, a Middle East analyst with the European Council on Foreign Relations.
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Now if we in the USA could be as brave to overthrow our dictator who is destroying our country like Morsi was doing to Egypt.
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Muslim and socialist don't want competition from a thriving productive middle class with their own priorities. One of their shared commonalities, like submission.
[Ynet] Weakness of US president's actions as measured against power of his words has sown cynicism in international arena and weakened Western World.
The Champ is beyond doubt a gifted orator. Speeches propelled him to the political limelight, speeches were decisive in landing him US presidential election victories and similarly, the venting of lofty thoughts secured him a Nobel Prize generally reserved for figures who have devoted decades of their lives to serving a civil or humanitarian cause.
Champs problem is his belief that international disputes can be solved with rhetoric that foreign policy can be staged like a political primary where the right speech rallies young and old, poor and rich, rabbis and imams behind a common struggle for peace and freedom. Shallow, sophomoric "rhetoric" and Marxist, utopian themes are all he has. There is nothing else. There never has been.
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This is not new. The conman always has his enablers. He can come back time after time to work his craft. What is different is he is allowed to continue. A really good conman moves on before he is caught. The difference here is he is a politician. An office he holds out of trust. He will never change.It is all he knows. He believes his own lies. Putin sees this and will walk all over him. The only proper solution is to have him removed from office. Even that might not be enough. His words are like the Medusa's head. You must cover your ears in his case.
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The only proper solution is to have him removed from office.
At the risk of sounding racist. Ninety plus percent of the African Americans voted for Champ. Some voted more than once. If Obama were impeached, due to criminality/incompetence, the country would never hear the end of it. Impeachment would be viewed as a legal lynching. The Republicans are not going to do anything about the situation. The Democrats are most certainly not going to either. Moreover, the press is completely enamored with "O." IMO were stuck with him until the next presidential election. The only hope for the country is that the makeup of the Senate will shift in 2014 and that the Pubs maintain control of the House. The Pubs might win control of the Senate but it is doubtful they will have a super majority. Even with control of the Senate, Obama can throw a wrench into the machinery of government with the veto and executive orders.
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Exactly correct JohnQC, and he [Champ] is keenly aware of it. He represents the zenith of Affirmative Action, entitlement, and stick to 'the man' intransigence.
I hope all those who sat at home and failed to vote, the guilt stricken white do-gooders, and feckless millennials who voted for him are up to the challenge of the next three years. It is going to be a very unpleasant ride.
It's a matter of perspective. The day America's first national cemetery was dedicated near a small Pennsylvania town, the main speaker was a gentleman named Edward Everett, renowned at the time as one of America's greatest orators.
Without going to Wikipedia, quote one line from his two-hour speech. :D
Mike
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I get that, Mike. Mr. Everett didn't have the benefit of a fawning media, the internet, cable channels, and a paid White House propaganda arm in MSM/MSNBC, BIRM
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The Pubs might win control of the Senate but it is doubtful they will have a super majority.
Don't need a super majority. With Harry Reid moved to the side, the Trunks can go back to the original process of the Legislative Branch and send the man individual funding bills for each department - or not. About the third or fourth one he vetoes in a petulant fit in demanding one all inclusive omnibus bill to fund it all, the more he'll paint himself into a position of either public humiliation or make a clear grasp for dictatorial rule. Given his personality, he'll try for the latter. The game is up then for his supporters. The facade will be gone. Even his MinTruth won't be able to cover it all up.
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P: Hello, President Obama?;
O: Yes.
P: This is Vlad Putin - howyadoin?
O: Not so well, my March Madness Brackets aren't working out so well, but at least "The Other Bear" (this is what I call Michelle when she is out of earsight, yuk, yuk), but how can I help you?
P: We're about to take over Poland. Just a little heads-up for you.
O: YOU CAN'T DO THAT! Valerie is in Hollywood and Hillary said she's not going to help me anymore.
P: Tough eggs bud'. Gonna' happen, er, maybe next week. We've got an Empire to put back together, you know what I mean?
O: But, you can't! Remember oceans no longer rising...cut off by Putin...
P: Look, Edward Snowden told a friend who told a friend, who, er, confessed to an associate of mine about how you guys were set up to fail in Benghazi. Would you like me to call...interrupted by Mr. Obama...
O: Now, now, lets not get hasty. Tell you what, we'll continue selling incredibly lousy insurance, and you and your friends enjoy the Bigos... Click Click
[SultanKnish] The post-American world will be many things, but multilateral isn't one of them. There will be no world government and international organizations will be good for little except sucking up the last drops of wealth and prestige of the United States. It will be a chaotic place with everyone out for themselves.
The Cold War map of the world divided into two camps was simple and clear. The post-American
world will be a much more ambiguous place. Instead of two global ideological alliances based around two world powers, there will be three post-ideological powers, no longer global in scope, and one worldwide ideological alliance.
The United States, Russia and China are post-ideological states. Russia and China have abandoned Communism. The United States is even abandoning nationalism; to say nothing of capitalism, democracy or freedom. Its rulers cling to scraps of global leftist ideology that isolate them from their own people.
Russia and China are run by powerful corrupt elites who emerged from the old Communist order to build economic oligarchies enforced by the ruthless use of force. The United States is increasingly run by an oligarchy of ideological bureaucrats, corrupt technocrats and leftist academics that has a distant resemblance to the USSR and the PRC; but its long march through the institutions hasn't turned fully totalitarian yet. That may be less than a generation away.
Russia, China and the United States are all demographically unstable. Russia and the United States are both on track to become majority-minority countries. China's demographic disaster will be the outcome of its one child policies, gender abortion and its war on the countryside. The United States will probably weather its demographic problems better than Russia or China, because the former faces a fatal Muslim demographic takeover and the latter a conflict that will tear its society apart, but like Russia and China, the demographic crisis in the United States will be exacerbated by the lack of common bonds to see it through a period of social stress.
Russia and China will fall back into their own history, collapse and isolationism for China, barbarian rule for Russia. The United States has no such history to fall back on and its elites have abandoned any meaningful national identity that doesn't rely on pop culture and liberal pieties.
There is little to unify Russia or China except greedy oligarchies playing at nationalism. It's an unconvincing nationalism because the sons and daughters of their elites spend more time abroad than at home and sometimes even hold American citizenship. The KGB oligarchs of Russia and the Communist princes of China are as globalist as any Eurocrat. They have few national commitments. Their goals are wealth and power for their families and associates.
Unfortunately there is even less to unify the United States after the left embraced multiculturalism at the expense of exceptionalism. The erosion of everything from free speech to the free market has reduced the American Dream from individual opportunity to vulgar exhibitionism. Uncontrolled immigration has imported masses of hostile populations everywhere from Nashville to Minneapolis radically changing quintessentially American cultures and replacing them with balkanized minority coalitions who have little in common except a mutual hostility against the United States.
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Why does it have to be post-American---there is all the difference in the world between being a sole (and not particularly sane) super-power and being powerless?
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Russia and the United States are both on track to become majority-minority countries.
Strange isn't it how Hispanics are treated as non-white in so many demographic projections? Hispania was the Roman name for the Iberian Peninsula, aka Spain and Portugal. If you check the European map, they're there. They certainly exported the culture and social caste order, versus that of Northern Europe, as well to the Americas.
#6
We Americans have to be rid of Obama, not just rid of, but have his programs thoroughly eradicated, and his memory destroyed, no more Obama anything, He's proven a sociopath, liar, and can't be trusted.
NOT "Because he's Black" Because h's not American, a Socialist Black Foreigner, and does NOT have America at heart, he's in it for the cash, not for America.
And that's a poor President.
Israel, look out.
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Actually, if you'll think out it RJ, Israel is a lot better off in bi-polar world.
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.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[AnNahar] Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is assured of winning Egypt's forthcoming presidential vote but at the cost of reviving the era of strongman rule as he faces a dilapidated economy and rising militancy.
