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To: Honey_Bee who wrote (2288)	4/15/2013 2:24:23 PM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 16547

The Predictable Liberal Assault on Ben Carson ............................................................................................. Townhall.com ^ \| April 15, 2013 \| Star Parker Dr. Ben Carson stepped into the national spotlight recently when, as speaker at the National Prayer Breakfast, to an audience that included President Obama, he was openly critical of the President’s approach to health care and his overall management of the nation’s economy. Carson, who is director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital, is a hero to many. His life story, rising from a Detroit ghetto to a life of accomplishment and distinction, is a story of American ideals on steroids. Those ideals say that America is about merit not circumstance. Your life, your achievements are the result of what you do and how you live, not where you came from. The hard history of blacks in America has always made it a challenge for them to accept this credo. Many still carry a sense that those ideals may be true for whites, but they never were true, and still aren’t true, for blacks. So in this context, Ben Carson’s story is particularly important. It’s making liberals nervous, and the attacks on him are starting. He’s now pulled out, under pressure, from giving the commencement address at Johns Hopkins University because some are unhappy with how, in an interview on Fox, he expressed his views regarding the importance of maintaining the integrity of traditional marriage. Blacks have known about Carson for years. I gave his book Gifted Hands to my daughters to read when they were little girls. A highly acclaimed made-for-TV movie about his life aired in 2009, with Dr. Carson played by Oscar-winning actor Cuba Gooding, Jr. But this story of personal responsibility, hard work and traditional values is becoming a political story. It is becoming political because Ben Carson’s American dream story, according to the liberal script, is not supposed to work for blacks. Ben Carson is the biggest threat to liberals since Bill Cosby got out of line at an NAACP banquet in Washington, DC in 2004. Cosby had the temerity to deliver tough, critical talk about what too many blacks are doing with the freedom that civil rights activists of the 1960’s fought to achieve. He contrasted the sixties generation with the new generation of black youth sitting in jail. “…..these are not political criminals. These are people going around stealing Coca Cola. People getting shot in the back of the head over a piece of pound cake.” Cosby attributed the chaos to breakdown in values, family, and personal responsibility. It’s the last thing the NAACP crowd wanted to hear that night and he paid a price. He was vilified and marginalized until he backed off. Liberals never take on what black conservatives actually say because they can’t. So the attacks become personal. Trillions of taxpayers’ dollars have been poured into black communities over the last half-century producing virtually no change in the incidence of black poverty. Yet, Ben Carson, through diligence and traditional values, achieved on his own what those trillions of dollars of government programs were supposed to deliver. Liberal black writer Ta-Nehisi Coates put the cards on the table in an article about Cosby which appeared in 2008 in The Atlantic magazine. The typical black conservative votes for Democrats, he notes, “not out of love for abortion rights.... but because he feels…. that the modern day GOP draws on support of people who hate him.” So stoking paranoia about racism has always been the strategy of liberals to fend off the political threat of conservative values that so many church-going blacks embrace. Predictably, Coates has produced a New York Times column on Carson, reducing this great man to the usual caricature of a black empty suit manipulated by white conservatives. Ben Carson is an accomplished and wealthy man. Americans, certainly black Americans, need him in public life more than he needs to be in public life. Let’s hope the left wing and the haters of traditional morality don’t succeed in making him conclude it’s not worth it.

To: Honey_Bee who wrote (2288)	4/16/2013 12:04:43 AM
From: joseffy	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 16547

Obama Won’t Call Boston Marathon Bomb Blasts a Terrorist Attack (Video) ............................................................................................. by Jim Hoft on Monday, April 15, 2013 thegatewaypundit.com Barack Obama delivered a short statement today on the Boston Marathon bomb blasts. He wouldn’t call it a terrorist attack. That’s just nuts. Obama also promised to bring the offenders to justice. Just like Benghazi.

To: Honey_Bee who wrote (2288)	4/16/2013 10:03:33 AM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 16547

Kermit Gosnell: Secret Hero of the Left ................................................................. By Jeannie DeAngelis April 16, 2013 americanthinker.com Until the right-to-choose community fell victim to what the late late-term abortionist George Tiller called " sloppy medicine," all was well in pro-choice America. Then, Dr. Kermit Gosnell, proprietor and chief abortionist at the Women's Medical Society, got busted and is now eligible for the death penalty after allegedly killing 41-year-old patient Karnamaya Mongar and murdering seven babies born alive in botched abortions. Countless Americans falsely believe that disposing of a pre-born infant is more about women's life choices than tiny crumpled corpses filling red biohazard bags. Therefore, without much resistance, every day in America, 3,500 babies are aborted, discarded, and promptly carted off to the crematorium. Now, much to the dismay of liberals, Gosnell's murder trial is providing an up-close guided tour of a " baby charnel house" and in the process is exposing those in denial to the harsh reality that, regardless of gestational status, abortion means that babies die excruciating deaths. It also means that, contrary to what Nancy Pelosi says, women in the throes of exercising the sacred right to choose occasionally muck up the works by dying on the floor. Thus far, Gosnell's wretched clinic, with its filthy speculums, jars filled with severed baby feet, and photos of female genitalia, has had a hard time piquing the interest of major news outlets. After all, racy, sexy murderess Jodi Arias is much more intriguing than some twisted biracial abortionist carrying out Margaret Sanger's eugenic ministry on vulnerable people of color. Isn't she? But despite the left trying to suppress it, hard truth is seeping into the public consciousness and revealing that the process of abortion is indeed what the late "Tiller the Killer" called "sloppy medicine." Therefore, in response to public outcry, the media is being forced to feign shock over Gosnell's flea-infested abattoir, which was home to stray felines that skulked about as women and babies lay dying on blood-stained examining tables covered with cat hair. In addition to the deplorable conditions of the clinic, the Gosnell trial has also addressed the topic of sedation and cervical dilation, as well as vomit, urine, rivers of blood, and the proper disposal of infant cadavers -- all of which, even in sterile settings, is ghastly. The truth is that whether the public wants to face it or not, what went on at 3801 Lancaster Avenue in West Philly is akin to the federally funded feticide that is supported by a proud pro-choice president and approved of by his equally proud pro-choice constituency. Yet even the most ardent pro-choice advocate would be hard-pressed to argue that flipping over a wriggling newborn and taking scissors to its spinal cord is not horrendous, but how much less painful is it for a 14-week-old fetus to writhe within its mother's womb for 24 hours while being scorched to death by saline? Or how different is it for a fragile infant to be torn apart by a suction device at 22 weeks in utero, or dismembered in the first trimester by a stainless steel scalpel? And wasn't it America's renowned champion of choice, Barack Obama, who once said that caring for a child born alive in a botched abortion undermines the "original intent" of the abortion? Hence, Kermit Gosnell's actions could merely have been the West Philly abortionist's way of adhering to Barack Obama's philosophy to respect the "original intent" of the woman's right to choose. Who can forget the indignant racially charged comments Barack Obama made after the shooting death of Trayvon Martin and the arrest of Harvard professor Henry Gates, Jr.? In defense of women, America's über-concerned president even found the time between tee-offs to dial up free-birth-control shill Sandra Fluke. Yet Kermit Gosnell packing a freezer with the body parts of fetuses has yet to elicit any response whatsoever from our self-appointed defender of minorities, women, and murdered children. Therefore, if the president -- who voted against the Born Alive Infants Protection Act as an Illinois senator -- really does see himself as the self-appointed savior of little ones, maybe he'll prove it by initiating a teary-eyed Sandy Hook-type memorial service for the butchered infants whose frail remains were jammed into Gosnell's freezer. Regardless of what Barack Obama chooses to do or not do, for lack of a better explanation, it could be that liberals have failed to speak up because deep down, some of them secretly admire Kermit Gosnell. After all, Kermit epitomizes the post-abortion rights mentality. The West Philly executioner even took time to master the "man-caused disaster" language of liberal-speak. Brilliantly, Gosnell was able to downplay the horror of squirming babies dropping into toilets by calling them "precipitations," and he referred to the brutal act of severing spinal cords as "ensuring fetal demise." Not only that, but wouldn't it be a tad hypocritical for a media that supports a president who insists on funneling millions of dollars into the coffers of Planned Parenthood to turn around and openly condemn Kermit Gosnell, who served his community by killing babies for profit under the guise of providing medical care to poor women? The only difference between the two is that Kermit's digs were a little rougher, his victims a little older, and his freezer packed with something other than orange juice and ice chips. So, based on the obvious lack of interest, it might be safe to assume that if poor black women and children should happen to die as the result of a botched abortion, the usually death-obsessed left isn't all that upset. Ultimately, Kermit Gosnell may end up being the abortion industry's sacrificial lamb and find himself living out his remaining years on death row. Meanwhile, what's certain is that the always-predictable left will likely argue that henceforth, legalized killing must be carried out in cheery, hygienic, government-regulated facilities. Then stricter mandates can be put in place to ensure that properly trained abortionists have mastered the fine art of ensuring that the mothers live and the babies destined for the biohazard bag emerge dead from the womb as intended.