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ISIS executes three of its leaders for cowardice in Diyali
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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Jeremiah Wright's Daughter Is Sent to Prison
[THEGATEWAYPUNDIT] In September 2013, Jeri Wright, daughter of Reverend "God Damn America" Wright, and 12 other Democrats were charged with embezzling $16 million in Federal health grants that should have gone to AIDS charities and other programs for the poor and needy.

More than one of the defendants had direct ties to President Barack Obama
My friends, we live in the greatest nation in the history of the world. I hope you'll join with me as we try to change it...

In March 2014 Reverend Jeremiah Wright's daughter Jeri was found guilty on eleven counts that included money laundering and lying to federal agents.

This week US District Judge Sue E. Myerscough sent Jeri Wright to prison.
Posted by: Fred || 02/24/2015 12:34 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  That's a start. Keep heading up the chain. You'll get to Obumble eventually.
Posted by: DarthVader || 02/24/2015 12:53 Comments || Top||

#2  That robo-pen is going to be working overtime in two years on the long line of pardons for this cabal.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/24/2015 13:15 Comments || Top||

#3  and eventually won't be very long Darth.....except they'll cut the chain realllly short so Obastard has nothing to worry about.

Hell they never got to him with F&F, Benghazi, the IRS, etc.
Posted by: AlanC || 02/24/2015 13:17 Comments || Top||

#4  get the cash back too
Posted by: Frank G || 02/24/2015 19:50 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Ted Cruz just compared Obama to Richard Nixon
"We've had presidents in the past who have abused power. But when that has happened: When Richard Nixon abused power, Republican senators stood up to him and said, 'Mr. President, you've gone too far.' In fact, it was Republican senators who went to the Oval Office, ... and said, 'Mr. President, it's time for you to resign,'" Cruz recalled. 'What is strikingly missing are Democratic senators who have more commitment to the Constitution and rule of law than they do to their party.'"
No, I would not have voted for that fellow either.
Posted by: Hupineger Glomomp15048 || 02/24/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  It's true. It was Republicans that told Tricky Dick to resign.

Of course I bet Nixon is rolling in his grave. What Nixon did was parlor games compared to the blatant corruption of this administration and its wholesale play for pay schemes.
Posted by: Mystic || 02/24/2015 0:18 Comments || Top||

#2  Dick Nixon, before he dicks you!
Posted by: Raj || 02/24/2015 0:39 Comments || Top||

#3  Let's remember that in 1960 Nixon decided not to challenge Kennedy's blatant electoral rigging in order due to the damage it would have done to America and the comfort it would have given to its ennemies. So while he was not without hios sahedes of grey and even of black at the depth Nixon was a aptriot and a realtiavley hponorable man. I doubt this can be said from Obama
Posted by: JFM || 02/24/2015 4:36 Comments || Top||

#4  Comparing Obama to Nixon is an insult to Nixon.

RMN was a paragon of virtue compared to the power-mad, narcissistic tyrant who currently occupies the White House.
Posted by: Dave D. || 02/24/2015 7:29 Comments || Top||

#5  Those where Republicans. Today, you have RINOs who are basically Nixonian era Democrats who've been forced out of their party by the socialists. We don't call it the Beltway Party for nothing these days.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/24/2015 8:14 Comments || Top||

#6  #4 Comparing Obama to Nixon is an insult to Nixon.

IMO that the comparison ought to be more statist like Stalin or Hitler. Were this not the USA, he probably would give way to his more tyrannical impulses.
Posted by: JohnQC || 02/24/2015 10:29 Comments || Top||

#7  Nixon loved his country. There is no comparison.
Posted by: Jomorong Grineter1652 || 02/24/2015 11:03 Comments || Top||

#8  Nixon, eh? Once again, we are back to jowls.
Posted by: SteveS || 02/24/2015 12:22 Comments || Top||

#9  :)
Posted by: Shipman || 02/24/2015 14:13 Comments || Top||

#10  Nixon was a statist. One of more socialist Presidents after WW2.
Posted by: Lionel Thoth9784 || 02/24/2015 14:32 Comments || Top||

#11  Nixon seemed to understand world politics a bit better than champ. He was given a bad war to deal with and got us out with a strong South Vietnam capable of defending itself with minimal support (mostly financial). Of course the Dem congress screwed that up but that's not on Nixon.

Obama inherited a war that was winding down nicely and basically pulled the carpet out from everyone and let the whole place fall apart while blaming Bush. Sort of pathetic.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 02/24/2015 15:00 Comments || Top||

#12  He's jsut saying what a lot of us have been thinking all a long - thin skinned, enemies list, vindictive ...
Posted by: OldSpook || 02/24/2015 23:39 Comments || Top||


Government
Obama Vetoes Keystone Pipeline
Just don't make no damn sense to me.
Of course it doesn't -- you and I work for a living...
Posted by: DarthVader || 02/24/2015 15:59 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  As expected.

Keep sending him clean but popular bills and let him keep vetoing them.

Force the dhimocrats into an unpopular and hated position.
Posted by: DarthVader || 02/24/2015 16:01 Comments || Top||

#2  Maybe he thought he was signing his golf score card at the end of 18? Nah, it's for more donations from 'interested' interests.
Posted by: Mugsy Glink || 02/24/2015 17:26 Comments || Top||

#3  Unions hit hardest. [Not public service unions, but people who actually produce things via their sweat and labor that are fundamental to society - and tax revenue]
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/24/2015 17:29 Comments || Top||

#4  Boehner and McConnell just glad this is over so they can move on to fully funding and implementing amnesty.
Posted by: Iblis || 02/24/2015 17:53 Comments || Top||

#5  It is official, the Republic is finished. the grand experiment is put to rest. No to Keystone but yes to Amnesty with majorities in both the house and senate. Boner and Turkey-neck have been out smarted and out maneuvered by a community organizer.
Posted by: Airandee || 02/24/2015 18:58 Comments || Top||

#6  #3, Hoffa, et all will fall back into line and pull the Donk lever in 2016
Posted by: Frank G || 02/24/2015 19:02 Comments || Top||

#7  I recall Reagen pulled a lot of blue collar voters regardless of the mafia union management position.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/24/2015 19:11 Comments || Top||

#8  P2K, that's because Reagan actually went to places blue-collar people were and talked to them. He truly wanted to hear what their concerns were.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 02/24/2015 19:53 Comments || Top||

#9  Send it to him again, and again, and again. This is only the first time he'll see that bill, among many others, and the Democratic Party will be the losers for it, as the unions realize that he and his party are no longer their friends.
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/24/2015 21:42 Comments || Top||

#10  Agreed. Harry Reid (and Pelosi when that witch was in charge) kept tough decisions off Obama's plate and Democrats in general by gridlock and no amendments. Send it up again and again and reiterate why he won't sign it to AMERICAN WORKERS' detriment
Posted by: Frank G || 02/24/2015 21:47 Comments || Top||

#11  Again, the MORE ANARCHY-N-CHAOS, THE BETTER FOR "JUSTIFIED/VALID" BOTH OWG-NWO + GLOBAL FEDERAL UNIONS.

Amerika's OWG Globalist Co-Superpower MilPol or Geopol Siblings can rise to parity iff the post-Cold War, post-911 "Sole" Superpower US-n-Only-The-US doesn't unilaterally give up or fall back across the World.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 02/24/2015 22:24 Comments || Top||


Champ Plans Childish Attempt To Steal Netanyahu's Headlines During March Visit
[Yid with Lid] Like the high school girl who is plans her party on the same night as her chief rival's festivities, President Champ is planning to create "news events" to ensure Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu doesn't get the press it would normally receive.

According to the Associated Press, "the White House is mulling ways to undercut Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's upcoming trip to Washington and blunt his message that a potential nuclear deal with Iran is bad for Israel and the world."
Or will it be angry mulling over blunts and cheap wine ?
There are limits. Administration officials have discarded the idea of President Champ himself giving an Iran-related address to rebut the two speeches Netanyahu is to deliver during his early March visit. But other options remain on the table.

Among them: a presidential interview with a prominent journalist known for coverage of the rift between Champ and Netanyahu, multiple Sunday show television appearances by senior national security aides and a pointed snub of America's leading pro-Israel lobby, which is holding its annual meeting while Netanyahu is in Washington, according to the officials.

Perhaps the President will hold a sleep over at the White House for his favorite members of the press.
The Directorate of Distraction again working overtime.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/24/2015 05:11 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I know! A hashtag campaign!
Posted by: Frank G || 02/24/2015 7:34 Comments || Top||

#2  This is to basically give the media an excuse to totally ignore the speech.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 02/24/2015 8:24 Comments || Top||

#3  He acts like a bitch!
Posted by: chris || 02/24/2015 9:02 Comments || Top||

#4  He acts like the thin skinned, petty, narcissist he is.
Posted by: DarthVader || 02/24/2015 9:42 Comments || Top||

#5  He acts in character.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/24/2015 9:44 Comments || Top||

#6  How about a golf tournament?
Posted by: Raj || 02/24/2015 10:18 Comments || Top||

#7  A petty, petulant, vindictive child who somehow ended up in the White House and throws tantrums when he doesn't get his way. Pitiful excuse for a POTUS.
Posted by: JohnQC || 02/24/2015 10:37 Comments || Top||

#8  Yeah, won that bet, but the payout is so small.

Didn't Bill Nye just float this?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 02/24/2015 10:37 Comments || Top||

#9  The champ plans a Muslim golf outing; that is where folks meet at the country club and cut the heads off of drivers and 3 woods.
Posted by: Airandee || 02/24/2015 12:17 Comments || Top||

#10  I might as well have cut the head off my driver, for all the good it ever did me.
Posted by: Glenmore || 02/24/2015 13:01 Comments || Top||

#11  #9 LOL!
Posted by: SR-71 || 02/24/2015 13:22 Comments || Top||


VDH: President Franklin Delano Obama Addresses the Threat of 1930s Violent Extremism
[PJ Media] Imagine Obama as an American president in 1939.
Actually, it does feel like he's been in office that long.
"The United States has made significant gains in our struggle against violent extremism in Europe. We are watching carefully aggressions in Czechoslovakia, Austria, and in Eastern Europe. My diplomatic team has made it very clear that aggression against neighbors is inappropriate and unacceptable. We live in the 20th century, where the 19th century practice of changing borders by the use of force has no place in the present era.

"Let me be perfectly clear: Mr. Hitler is playing to a domestic audience. He adopts a sort of macho shtick, as a cut-up in the back of the class who appeals to disaffected countrymen. Our task is to demonstrate to Mr. Hitler that his current behavior is not really in his own interest, and brings neither security nor profit to Germany.

"As for acts of violence in Germany itself, we must express our worry to the German government over apparent extremism, but at the same time we must not overreact. As far as these sporadic attacks on random civilians, as, for example, during the recent Kristallnacht violence, we must keep things in perspective, when, for example, some terrorists randomly targeted some folks in a store. My job is sort of like a big-city mayor, to monitor these terrorist acts that are said to be done in the name of the German people. Let us not overreact and begin to listen to radio commentators who whip us up into a frenzy as if we were on the verge of war. We must not overestimate the SS, a sort of jayvee organization that remains a manageable problem.
Interesting analogy but one must remember, WWII did not begin in 1941. As far as their domestic agenda and socialist desire to have the gov't control virtually everything, there is little difference.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/24/2015 00:39 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
Posted by: Grampaw Wittlesbach5817 || 02/24/2015 8:52 Comments || Top||

#2  Deja vu all over again. Soft peddling on terrorism, whether it be Hitler or the Islamics, never works. We are in dangerous times at home and abroad.
Posted by: JohnQC || 02/24/2015 10:33 Comments || Top||



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Two weeks of WOT
Tue 2015-02-24
  ISIS executes three of its leaders for cowardice in Diyali
Mon 2015-02-23
  Libya: ISIS claims it bombed Iran envoy's residence
Sun 2015-02-22
  Hotel staffers arrested after deadly bombing
Sat 2015-02-21
  Dozens Dead in Shebab Attack on Mogadishu Hotel
Fri 2015-02-20
  45 dead in eastern Libya bombings, Islamic extremists claim responsibility
Thu 2015-02-19
  Rebels report death of 195 pro-Assad fighters in Aleppo
Wed 2015-02-18
  IS launches attack to regain Yazidi city of Shingal
Tue 2015-02-17
  Islamic State militants 'burn to death 45 in Iraq'
Mon 2015-02-16
  Egypt launches air strikes against IS militias in Libya
Sun 2015-02-15
  SECOND Copenhagen shooting at synagogue
Sat 2015-02-14
  21 Coptic Christians slaughtered in Libya
Fri 2015-02-13
  Thousands expected at funeral for 3 Muslims killed in US
Thu 2015-02-12
  France says it has dismantled 15 terrorist networks
Wed 2015-02-11
  4 Qaida Suspects Dead in Yemen Drone Strike
Tue 2015-02-10
  Obama, Family Confirm Death of IS Hostage Kayla Mueller


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