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To: tejek who wrote (845772)3/27/2015 6:49:38 PM
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tejek's admittedly racist buddies were:

"Great guys and they knew things were not good for my family after my father died so they took me under their wing. I got to scuba dive and water ski and snow ski...........things I could not have done without their help. "

racists, and they took tejek under their wing to show him how they abused the Planet Earth. And he was grateful!



To: tejek who wrote (845772)3/27/2015 7:04:55 PM
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Ted, I'm not sure you really answered my question, or maybe I didn't understand your point. But I do know about the frat boy culture, and how they cater to affluent white boys. That kind of stuff turned me off.

In Cornell, the dorms were divided up into West Campus and North Campus. West Campus was right next to the frat houses, and they tended to have the white party boys there. North Campus is where the minorities hung out, especially Asians, blacks, and Hispanics. (The black dorm, Ujamaa, was in North Campus.) North Campus also had the only all-female dorm, called Balch. This dorm was popular among Asian girls who wanted to get away from the guy-girl fraternization (even though ironically that dorm had a LOT of guy visitors at any given point in time, including 3:00 AM).

Anyway, you seem to think that the problems with college fraternities all stem from the fact that they lack diversity, that it's still a rich white boy club. Even when they have minority members, those members are expected to conform to the white boy frat culture.

I can't argue with that characterization because it's actually true. But I can tell you that the problems with these frats aren't unique to them. You've heard of the binge drinking culture in Korea, haven't you? How is that any different from the frat boy culture here? At least here colleges are aware of the problems with frats and have been for decades. In Korea, the problems with their binge drinking culture have only become publicized in recent years.

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To: tejek who wrote (845772)3/27/2015 8:18:38 PM
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Emerging Iran deal as ‘incomprehensibly’ bad
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As Tehran hails ‘massive progress’ in talks, Jerusalem protests that regime ‘is working against American-Arab-Israeli interests without paying a price’


By Avi Issacharoff March 27, 2015
timesofisrael.com



As Iran hailed “massive progress” toward a deal on its nuclear program, an Israeli official described the terms of the looming agreement as “incomprehensibly” bad and rejected the Obama administration’s contention that it would keep the regime a year away from accumulating enough fissile material for a bomb.

Estimating that a framework deal would indeed be signed soon, and that a full agreement would follow in June, the official lamented the US-led negotiators’ apparent readiness to remove sanctions without Iran being required to halt its global terrorist activities, and listed a host of areas in which Tehran was working against American, Israeli and moderate Arab interests without being made to pay a price.

His comments underlined immense Israeli opposition to the emerging deal that saw Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lobby against it in Congress earlier this month to the abiding anger of the Obama Administration. Charged with forming a new government on Wednesday after winning the March 17 elections, Netanyahu vowed to patch up ties with the US, but insisted Israel would do everything to thwart the emerging Iranian nuclear deal, which he said was “an agreement that endangers us, our neighbors and the world.”

Speaking to the Times of Israel, the Israeli official, who insisted on anonymity, protested that “Iran will retain core capabilities,” under the emerging accord. While the Obama Administration “claims that the Iranians will remain a year away from enough fissile material for a bomb,” he added, “we don’t agree with this determination. It will be less time.

The official stressed, however, that Israel’s opposition and dismay related to the entire nature of the international negotiation and engagement with the regime in Tehran. “The more important question is, why allow them to be in this situation at all (with core nuclear capabilities intact)?” he asked. “The Iranians are not being required to reveal their secret military projects, their missile stocks are not being discussed, and nor is the terrorism they initiate.”

“Has anyone wondered why the Iranians need centrifuges at all?” the official demanded. “Or why they are not being ordered to stop their support for Islamic Jihad in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon?

“So yes,” he added, “for Israel, this is a bad deal.. The deal is bad because of its readiness to remove sanctions without any American demand from Iran to stop the terror. I estimate that we will have a framework deal soon, and after that a full agreement in June. This is incomprehensible.”

The official noted that “Iran is working today against American-Arab-Israeli interests without paying a price… They are in control in Baghdad, Beirut, Sana’a and Damascus. They toppled a pro-American ruler in Yemen, and are engaged in battles against Sunnis in Tikrit.”

Despite all this, the Israeli official protested, “the White House sees them as a solution and not as a problem. The administration’s weakness is broadcast across the entire region.

“Look at (the Obama Administration’s) new policy toward Syria. They let Bashar Assad survive, aren’t calling for him to step down, and are pursuing a policy of ‘If you can’t beat them, join them.’ You look at all this and reach the conclusion that a regional deal is being made here. That is, to say to the Iranians, ‘Come fight with us against the Islamic State, and in return we will not touch Assad or Iranian terror.”

As Iranian and American officials held further talks in Lausanne on Friday, a senior Iranian official told Reuters, “There has been massive progress on all the issues.” He added: “There are still disputes over two issues — R&D (research and development) and UN sanctions.”

Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, for his part, said “The talks are very difficult and very complicated.”

Zarif spoke shortly after his first meeting of the day with US Secretary of State John Kerry.

Zarif also sought Friday to dismiss concerns that his country’s preoccupation with the crisis in Yemen could pre-empt attempts to find common ground at nuclear talks with six world powers, saying the negotiations remained focused on sealing a deal.

Yemen is “the hot issue of the day” and has come up at the talks but “it doesn’t mean that we negotiated about it,” Zarif told reporters.

Saudi-led air strikes on Shiite rebels in Yemen are straining relations between the Sunni Gulf kingdom and predominantly Shiite Iran. Zarif said they “have to stop and everybody has to encourage dialogue and national reconciliation.”

Despite Iran’s concerns over Yemen, however, “our negotiations are confined to the nuclear” issue, he said.

The sides are hoping to narrow gaps in time to reach a preliminary deal by the end of the month. That would allow them to try and negotiate a comprehensive agreement by late June to put long-term curbs on Tehran’s nuclear activities in exchange for sanctions relief.

Iranian officials have been upbeat recently about the chances of making enough progress by Tuesday to permit them to proceed into the summer. But Zarif was less bullish Friday, saying only that he hoped the sides would come to a common understanding by next week.

The Obama administration has made an accord that lessens fear about Iran’s nuclear weapons potential a top foreign policy objective.

Reflecting Tehran’s interest in reaching a deal, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani sent a letter to President Barack Obama and the leaders of the other countries at the talks — Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany. His office said Friday the letters contained proposals on how to reach a deal, without elaborating. Rouhani also spoke to the leaders of Russia, France and Britain by phone.

The fate of a fortified underground bunker previously used for uranium enrichment appeared close to resolution. Officials have told The Associated Press that the U.S. may allow Iran to run hundreds of centrifuges at the formerly secret facility in exchange for limits on centrifuge work and research and development at other sites.

The trade-off would allow Iran to run several hundred of the devices at its Fordo facility, although the Iranians would not be allowed to do work that could lead to an atomic bomb and the site would be subject to international inspections.

In return, Iran would be required to scale back the number of centrifuges it runs at its Natanz facility and accept other restrictions on nuclear-related work.

Instead of uranium, which can be enriched to be the fissile core of a nuclear weapon, any centrifuges permitted at Fordo would be fed elements such as zinc, xenon or germanium for separating out isotopes used in medicine, industry or science, the officials said.

Read more: Israeli official brands emerging Iran deal as 'incomprehensibly' bad | The Times of Israel timesofisrael.com



To: tejek who wrote (845772)3/27/2015 8:19:58 PM
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Trey Gowdy: Hillary Clinton wiped her server clean
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Politico ^ | march 27, 2015 | By LAUREN FRENCH

Hillary Clinton wiped “clean” the private server housing emails from her tenure as secretary of state, the chairman of the House committee investigating the 2012 terrorist attacks in Benghazi said Friday.

“While it is not clear precisely when Secretary Clinton decided to permanently delete all emails from her server, it appears she made the decision after October 28, 2014, when the Department of State for the first time asked the Secretary to return her public record to the Department,” Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.), chairman of the Select Committee on Benghazi, said in a statement

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To: tejek who wrote (845772)3/27/2015 8:20:08 PM
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Destroying evidence is a crime ... but canckles gets a free pass .



To: tejek who wrote (845772)3/27/2015 8:26:41 PM
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Obama Keeps Americans In Exile, But Welcome Illegals

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The Daily Caller ^ | 03/27/2015 | Neil Munro




To: tejek who wrote (845772)3/27/2015 8:29:25 PM
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White House Clears Obama's Schedule For Iranian Nuclear Deal Next Week

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Townhall.com ^ | March 27, 2015 | Conn Carroll




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Wisconsin Teachers Union Fails At Defying State Law

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The Daily Caller ^ | 03/27/2015 | Connor D. Wolf

A Wisconsin court struck down a collective bargaining agreement between a local school district and its unions for violating the labor reform law known as Act 10, according to a statement released Friday.

Carrie Ann Glembocki and Kristi LaCroix, two teachers from the Kenosha School District, filed the lawsuit in 2013 to challenge a Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) which they argue violated Wisconsin state law. With legal assistance from the National Right to Work Foundation (NRTW) and the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty, the two have won the case.

“The court grants summary judgment in favor of the plaintiffs on their Second Cause of Action, finding the CBAs entered into by the union defendants during November of 2013, were contrary to the provisions of Act 10 and are therefore null and void,” the court’s decision, which was obtained by The Daily Caller News Foundation, declared last week.

During his first term, Gov. Scott Walker worked with the state’s Republican legislature to pass Act 10. The initiative significantly changed the collective bargaining process for most public employees within the state. It also required public unions to hold a renewal vote every couple years to determine if workers still wanted them. Labor unions and supporters adamantly opposed the law and even tried to get it repealed.

Republicans in the legislature went a step further in the past year when they passed a law which bans mandatory union dues as a condition of employment in the state.


“The lawsuit challenged bargaining agreements between the district and officials from the Kenosha Education Association union, the SEIU Local 168 union, and the AFSCME Local 2383 union,” a press release from NRTW detailed. “Those agreements required teachers and other district staff to pay union dues or fees to keep their jobs.”

As noted by a brief filed by the Plaintiffs, which was obtained by TheDCNF, they were able to come to a settlement with the school district but had to continue fighting the unions.

“The school district has now acknowledged that the CBAs are void” the brief noted. “However, the union defendants continued to seek enforcement of the CBAs. The plaintiffs therefore request a summary judgment declaring that the CBAs are void.”

Jeffrey Sweetland, an attorney for Local 168, noted that it wasn’t a complete victory for the Plaintiffs. Despite the court ruling in favor of the Act 10 argument, they did not side with the Plaintiffs when it came to allegations the unions violated state Antitrust laws.



“The court decided it was not a valid contract under Act 10,” Sweetland told TheDCNF. “But it they did not violate the Antitrust laws.”

Such laws are designed to control trusts or other monopolies in the hope of promoting competition in business. If the court found the unions violated such a law, they would have had to pay the Plaintiffs’ attorney fees.

“The reason they put that in was so they could get the unions to pay their attorney fees,”Sweetland added.

TheDCNF could not reach the Kenosha Education Association union and the AFSCME Local 2383 for comment.



To: tejek who wrote (845772)3/27/2015 9:44:39 PM
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Obama installing Islam leaders while Michelle and Susan Rice provide cover?

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Canada Free Press ^ | 03/27/2015 | Judi McLeod

The full-scale social engineering of President Barack Hussein Obama in the elections of countries where he has no business being seeks to install radical Islamists to power.

Even though it’s s a provable deadly blueprint that’s putting the West at great risk, no one is calling him on it.

Obama’s been on the trail of replacing Christian leaders with Islamic ones before he became president, starting with Kenya where he actively campaigned to elect Islamic defender Raila Odinga in 2007.

Obama got away with it because following a violent post-electoral crisis, Odinga took office as Prime Minister in April 2008,serving as supervisor and coordinator of a national unity coalition government. He came in second in Kenya’s 2013 presidential elections after garnering 5,340,546 votes which represented 43.28% of the total votes cast.

Millions revolted in Egypt when Obama’s so called Arab Spring led to the election of Muslim Brotherhood big gun Mohamed Morsi, and the subsequent election of Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has been the largest setback, next to Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s landslide victory to date.

No one paid Obama and his Marxist minions any attention when they backed Aassane Quattara against Christian challenger Laurent Gbagbo in the Ivory Coast election back in 2011. Obama congratulated Quattara on his election “victory” even though his troops slaughtered 1,000 Christians in a post-election bloodbath, warning Gbagbo to give up power.

Now it’s been revealed that Obama is obstructing the battle against Boko Haram to promote David Axelrod’s Nigerian Muslim client, retired Gen. Muhammad Buhair in tomorrow’s Nigerian election. ( James Simpson, AIM, March 24, 2015)

“The Nigerian presidential election is coming up Saturday, March 28, 2015. AKPD, the political consulting group founded by Obama confidante David Axelrod, is assisting Retired Gen. Muhammad Buhari, a Muslim presidential candidate from Muslim-dominated northern Nigeria, where Boko Haram was spawned and wields the most influence. Buhari is well-known throughout the country, having led as “Head-of-State” following a military coup in 1983. He was dislodged following another coup in 1985. (James Simpson, Accuracy in Media, March 24, 2015)

“Democracy is a recent phenomenon in Nigeria. With the exception of two short periods from its independence in 1960 to 1966, and the second republic from 1979 to 1983, the country was ruled by a string of military dictatorships between 1966 and 1999.

“Under the All Progressives Congress (APC) banner, Buhari is putting up a stiff challenge to the sitting president, Dr. Ebele Goodluck Jonathan who hails from Nigeria’s Christian south. Buhari was also the North’s presidential candidate in the last election held in 2011.”

Like Laurent Gbagbo in the western Ivory Coast, Goodluck Jonathan happens to be Christian.

“Axelrod is credited as the force behind President Obama’s election victories in 2008 and 2012. He served as Obama’s Senior Advisor until 2011. A well-placed Nigerian interviewed for this report who asked to remain unidentified says that influential Nigerians within and outside the government believe Obama deliberately undermined the war effort and sabotaged the Nigerian economy to make President Jonathan appear weak and ineffectual, and thus bolster the electoral prospects for AKPD’s client, Buhari. (Simpson)

There is no doubt that Obama’s Arab Spring is heading humanity toward nuclear winter.

Western experts should be taking a look at how Obama gets away with it.

It’s the cunning cabal who do his dirty work providing cover for him by slick diversions.


Simpson touches on the diversionary tactics of prime cabal member Michelle Obama:

“When the notorious Islamic terrorist group, Boko Haram, kidnapped 278 school girls from the town of Chibok in northeastern Nigeria last year, Michelle Obama began a Twitter hashtag campaign, #BringBackOurGirls. But behind the scenes, the Obama administration was undermining Nigeria’s efforts to take the battle to the terrorists. Obama refused to sell Nigeria arms and supplies critical to the fight, and stepped in to block other Western allies from doing so. The administration also denied Nigeria intelligence on Boko Haram from drones operating in the area.

While Boko Haram was kidnapping school girls, the U.S. cut petroleum purchases from Nigeria to zero, plunging the nation’s economy into turmoil and raising concerns about its ability to fund its battle against the terrorists. Nigeria responded by cancelling a military training agreement between the two countries.

“The prominent daily Nigerian Tribune cites an activist group, Move on Nigeria, complaining that the U.S. is fueling tension in Nigeria and has “continued to publicly magnify every challenge of the Nigerian government.”

“An anti-Buhari Nigerian blogger writing in the Western Post went further:

“In the last year, Nigeria sought aid from the White House for many initiatives, including the fight against Boko Haram.

“The Obama administration refused to do anything but play [sic] lip service to Nigeria’s requests. However, it used public and private channels to internationally magnify every failure Nigeria’s government experienced.

“In the last year, since the involvement of Axelrod’s firm, relations between the two nations have significantly deteriorated, with the US refusing to sell arms to Nigeria, a significant reduction in the purchase of Nigeria’s oil, and the cancellation of a military training agreement between Nigeria and the USA.

“In turn, the Buhari-led Nigerian opposition used the U.S. government’s position as validation for their claim that the Nigerian government was a failure.

“Nigerian officials seeking to purchase weapons, especially Cobra attack helicopters, were outraged at Obama’s refusal to allow these transactions. Nigeria’s ambassador to the U.S., Professor Adebowale Adefuye, stated publicly that:

“The U.S. government has up till today refused to grant Nigeria’s request to purchase lethal equipment that would have brought down the terrorists within a short time on the basis of the allegations that Nigeria’s defence forces have been violating human rights of Boko Haram suspects when captured or arrested.

“We find it difficult to understand how and why, in spite of the U.S. presence in Nigeria, with their sophisticated military technology, Boko Haram should be expanding and becoming more deadly.”

Then there’s Obama cunning cabal member, National Security Advisor Susan Rice who announced the death of Nigerian literary icon Chinua Achebe on Monday morning—two years after his actual death—in order to link to an online video of Obama speaking directly to the Nigerian public calling for free and fair elections this Saturday.

“Today is a somber day in Nigeria, as Chua Achebe was laid to rest in his native village, Rice wrote in an outrageous Tweet.

“Fact is, the late and lamented Achebe died in March of 2013, at age 82 in Boston following a brief illness. In May, an elaborate funeral was attended by loved ones, fans and admirers. There were trumpeters, dancing troupes and scores of dignitaries on hand to honor the much celebrated author when he was buried in his hometown of Ogidi—with no weeping, wailing or tweeting from Rice. ( Canada Free Press, March 24, 2015)


Machiavelli couldn’t have done any better than Michelle Obama and Susan Rice at the ready to launch diversionary publicity stunts that takes the spotlight off Obama when he needs it most.

Problem is that while Michelle Obama and Susan Rice were running away with the social network’s mega publicity, in diversionary tactics keeping his work in the dark, Barack Hussein Obama was working to replace foreign Christian leaders with fully-fledged Caliphate-seeking Islamists.



To: tejek who wrote (845772)3/27/2015 10:13:16 PM
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Iranian Dissidents Criticize Obama’s Nuclear Diplomacy
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Washington Free Beacon ^ | March 17, 2015




To: tejek who wrote (845772)3/27/2015 10:16:42 PM
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What are the chances Democrats keep Reid’s seat in 2016? Not great

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Hotair ^ | 03/27/2015 | NOAH ROTHMAN




To: tejek who wrote (845772)3/27/2015 10:17:39 PM
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Obama Lawyers Afraid to Go to Court on Email Scandal

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Judicial Watch ^ | 03-27-2015

The Obama administration’s fraud, misconduct and misrepresentation on the Hillary Clinton email scandal continues in federal court. Crafty, corrupt politicians realize that transparency and accountability go hand-in-hand. So that is why Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama (with the federal bureaucracies at their beck and call) have a personal and political interest in keeping their records away from the American people – even if it means violating the federal transparency law: the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).




To: tejek who wrote (845772)3/27/2015 10:25:35 PM
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The Old Man and the Sea of Black Mob Violence

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By Colin Flaherty
March 26, 2015


They didn’t count on the Old White Dude with a bat.

But when 55-year old Eddie Motley saw ten black people beating, stomping, kicking, and punching his neighbor and her two teenage boys, and laughing about it, he did not dial 911.

He grabbed a baseball bat and charged.

“Eddie hit the bat on the ground and told them to get off of us,” said Gina Herring, who was observing the assault from the fetal position amid a tangle of kicking boots in front of her Concord, North Carolina home. “If Eddie didn’t step in, I am sure my boys and I would be dead. I was the most scared I have ever been in my life.”

One of the attackers said he had a gun and was going to “blow my head off,” said Herring. “Another, a 14-year-old named Nijel, said ‘I’m tired of y’all white people killing my brothers,’ then he spit on me.”

Herring met Nijel and several other members of the mob three months before when she moved into the neighborhood. Her teenage boys had invited them over to play videogames.

“I made them all grilled cheese sandwiches,” Herring said. “But after they left, we discovered they had stolen several things from our house. So we did not invite them back.”

But they came back anyway, once trying to break in, not knowing that Herring’s son was at home.

Finally, after three months, on March 16, Nigel and a 16-year-old girl met Herring’s 14-year-old son at the bus stop, threatening him with violence. “They chased him to our house, saying ‘get that white boy, get that white boy,’” Herring said.

Herring’s other son ran outside to defend his younger brother. The group of two attackers swelled to ten, many much older. Gina Herring is now charged with a crime for trying to pull the attackers off her sons, before getting knocked to the ground herself.

Enter the Old White Dude with the bat. “I yelled, ‘Stop, stop,’” Motley told the local Fox affiliate. “But they would not stop.”

Several members of the mob, including 18-year-old Isaiah Faggert, let Mr. Motley know they did not appreciate his interference in what, up until then, was a standard case of black-on-white hyper-violence, involving characters with the standard Facebook posts glorifying – and bragging about – crime, violence, drugs, and the thug life.

On Faggert’s page, the grinning young man shows off his gold dental grill and tats. “Fear Me,” said one. All on full display when “they went to attack Motley and they busted out the windows on his car and house,” as Herring put it.

Mr. Motley then hit Mr. Faggert in the face with the bat, breaking his jaw and taking all the fight out of Faggert, and the other nine members of the mob as well. All with one swing.

That is when the media and public officials gathered around Motley and congratulated him for his heroism. For saving the damsel in distress from a case of wicked racial violence.

Oh, yeah – that last part did not happen.

In fact, when police arrived, they arrested Motley for assault. Ditto for Gina Herring. A couple of members of the mob were also served with warrants.

The local media ate it up, especially the TV news station with the anchor who is an active member of the National Association of Black Journalists, who took turns manufacturing outrage with the black reporter who could scarcely believe the bad things that had been visited on the angelic Mr. Faggert.

Soon after, Faggert’s mother got into the act. It was all a big misunderstanding, she said on Facebook. Her son was alternately trying to help his “little cousin” as Herring and her two boys beat them unmercifully. Or her son was trying rescue the Herring family from an unmerciful mob beating.

Either way, her son was the victim of a hate crime at the hands of the evil Eddie Motley, who targeted her son only because he was black. Another Trayvon. Another Michael Brown. This is a long list. And as for that mishmash of recent charges against him for drugs and violence, well, that’s easily explained, too – a result of more of the same racism relentlessly directed at black people.

She insists that Isaiah – Zay – was not an eager participant in another episode of black mob violence, the kind documented in that scintillating best-seller Don’t Make the Black Kids Angry: The hoax of black victimization and those who enable it.

The book has a chapter documenting victims of black mob violence charged with a crime after defending themselves.

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Yemen And The Collapse of Obama’s Middle East Policy

He has left the U.S. with few military options and little influence over allies or regional actors.

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By Tom Rogan
March 26, 2015

Excerpt:

‘Astounding.”

That was how ABC News’s Jon Karl reacted yesterday to Josh Earnest’s assertion that Yemen remains a model for counterterrorism.

In fact, Karl was so astounded that he asked Earnest to clarify.

The White House press secretary dutifully responded:


What the United States will do and has done is work to try to support the central government, build up the capacity of local fighters, and use our own technological and military capabilities to apply pressure on the extremists there.

There are a few problems with this strategy. First, Yemen’s “central government” no longer exists. Second, Yemen’s “local fighters” are divided between the Houthi rebels, al-Qaeda, and regional separatists. Third, with the CIA and Pentagon having evacuated Yemen, ground-level U.S. “military capabilities” are almost nonexistent.

Moreover, Yemen is now a regional war zone.

After all, a coalition of Sunni governments is now pursuing Operation “Storm of Resolve” (a title perhaps designed to repudiate President Obama’s “ steady resolve” strategy) to restore Yemen’s deposed president, Mansour Hadi.

To be sure, a movement of regional actors to check the Iranian-supported Houthi rebels seems positive. But there’s one problem. Beyond intelligence/logistics support, America isn’t directly involved. And that means the U.S. will have little influence over what the Sunni alliance actually does in Yemen.

And that leads to another problem.

*snip*

Yet, led by foreign-policy luminaries like Susan Rice, Ben Rhodes, and Valerie Jarrett (a.k.a. “the Oracle”), Obama is confident that his detachment is good strategy. Correspondingly, Earnest’s comments yesterday weren’t a symptom of political spin, but rather a signifier of immense, albeit genuine, delusion. The White House genuinely believes that Middle Eastern stability is best served by American hesitation.

Reality begs to disagree.

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