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Op-ed: 
Obama and the Democrats…NOT happy campers for sure 
By: Diane Sori

Tsk, tsk…the media anointed ‘savior’ of us all is nervous…very very nervous as the fallout from NOT only the disaster of the ObamaCare website roll-out hits home, but also because he’s now facing the ire of millions upon millions of Americans getting their ‘once happy with’ health insurance policies cancelled after being promised that they would be able to keep them. And add in that now infamous apology that was anything but…I mean an apology for getting caught does NOT equate to an apology for one of the worst laws…one of the highest taxes…ever to be imposed on ‘We the People’…and you have one very nervous and very unhappy man.

And now…and rightfully so…the credibility, competence, and above all else the honesty of the Obama presidency is being called into question all across America, with the oh so deserved fallout being that his job approval ratings are tanking fast…tanking as his numbers hit an all time low…falling into the mid to upper 30% range depending on whose poll you use.

But NOTHING makes our supposed ‘savior’ more nervous than the fact that come November 2014 all 435 House seats and 33 of the 100 Senate seats…including 21 now held by Democrats (with 5 incumbent Democrats retiring)…are up for grabs. Up for grabs while Barack HUSSEIN Obama’s own Democratic Party is starting to turn on him and distance themselves from both him and his namesake of a health care law.

So with Republicans doing the proverbial ‘happy dance’ as they’re coming out on top after the ObamaCare fiasco…a fiasco they have been warning the public about for years…and even after having been erroneously blamed for the recent government shutdown and for failing to defund ObamaCare outright during the last session of Congress…they now have a great chance of…if they play their cards right and continue to keep the issue of ObamaCare’s failures and Obama’s big LIE in the forefront of the news…NOT only keeping the House but taking back the Senate as well…thus rendering Barack HUSSEIN Obama politically impotent as his ‘lame duck’ presidency becomes his well deserved dreaded reality. And as an added bonus the Republicans could finally send ‘Prince’ Harry Reid, his Botox Queen Nancy Pelosi, and Obama’s Congressional little lapdog Debby Wasserman Schultz packing.

The Democrats know this even though they’re NOT actually admitting it…at least NOT in the media. But above all else they know ObamaCare is their political death knell so much so that some of their own…like Mary Landrieu of Louisiana who this week will introduce legislation calling for Obama to make good on his promise that those who like their policies can keep their policies and Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia who is working on a measure to put off the requirement for everyone to obtain insurance for a year by delaying the fine for non-compliance…are now jumping off the ObamaCare sinking ship and joining with Republicans in calling for its delay, especially of the individual mandate section which to date Obama seems NOT willing to compromise on.

However, being caught in the mother of all LIES…a LIE he cannot LIE his way out of…just might give Obama pause to reconsider his stubbornness in that matter…that is if he can put his narcissism and political posturing aside for a bit and stop his mouthpiece Jay Carney from saying ridiculous statements such as, “Every one of the Democrats who voted for this and believed in it and fought for it, and with the president, defended it against the constant assault by Republicans and outside opponents, continue to believe in it, and believe it’s the right thing to do”…maybe then he can see that ObamaCare needs some major overhauls if it is to succeed at all, otherwise it will surely implode from within.

And why…because even reconsidering the individual mandate does NOT alleviate the fact that ObamaCare’s main premise is fundamentally flawed and monetarily unsustainable for ObamaCare’s success relies solely on the participation of young people carrying the load for older Americans. Healthy young people do NOT have ‘throw away’ money to buy health insurance they most likely will NOT use strictly to support NOT only said older Americans…the ones who actually need insurance…but also to carry the burden ‘the sponges’ of our society place on our current health care system.

Most young working people are smart enough to know that ObamaCare is the straw that will break their financial backs.

And they're NOT only smart enough to know the financial pitfalls of ObamaCare and how it affects their wallets, but they’re also techno-savvy enough to know that a website costing six-figure millions+ of our taxpayer dollars to create that fails on day one signals further problems down the road with the concept and the program itself…problems that can and most likely will implode ObamaCare from within in a matter of time.

Problems like what happens when only the sickest Americans go into the ObamaCare exchanges (remember they cannot be turned down), with the cause and effect being that the number of claims and the cost of each claim will rise, and in turn premiums will have to be raised on the healthy young people who are funding the program to begin with.

NOT good…NOT good at all for the young healthy Americans who might have once considered signing onto ObamaCare will NO longer do so for as those who buy into the exchanges become older, sicker, and more expensive to carry, many carriers will leave ObamaCare altogether...leave because only the sickest who cannot afford to go elsewhere and those who get subsidies will sign on, and that scenario CANNOT monetarily sustain ObamaCare for very long.

So as we lead up to the 2014 mid-terms…the sad reality of facts and numbers that tell the truth about ObamaCare might just be the thing that turns the Senate back red…that is as long as the Republicans do NOT let Obama’s BIG LIE go to waste. And while folks continue to be nervous that they’ll be the next one to get an insurance cancellation notice in their mailboxes, guess what our miserable excuse of a president has been doing…jetting off to Florida for a weekend of golf when he should have been working on a way to get those cancelled back their policies…after all he said he was going to work on it during his apology 'song and dance' routine.

But then again that was a LIE too.

The awakening of the sheeple has begun...

A Class Act vs. A Classless Hack: Billy Graham vs. Barack Obama

Doug Giles / Townhall Columnist 

What a stark contrast I beheld this week between our Lyin’ King President, Barack Obama, and our American treasure, the Reverend Billy Graham.

Watching the ninety-five-year-old Graham’s final message to America via the Fox News Channel last Thursday night hammered me in three particular ways.

First off, as a self-professed hard-ass, I must admit that I was choked up by the testimonies of transformed lives of the black gent and the suicidal female twenty-something. Matter of fact, and I hate to admit this, I even started to tear up a bit and I haven’t teared up since my dad and my dog passed.

As an increasingly jaded little monkey that I’m becoming living in the Obamaland of lies and lawyer tricks, I was struck in my soul, once again, with the ever present reality of the power of God that’s afforded to folks who take responsibility for their jacked-up lives and repent and believe.

Yep, without a shrink, minus meds and without a day in rehab (imagine that) those who watched the Graham special got to see and hear, in living color, the raw power of God afforded to two contrite people who put their hope in God. It was simple and beautiful. Remember simplicity and beauty? I know … it’s tough to harken back that far, eh?

The second thing that smacked me upside my head and left me enamored was watching Reverend Graham pull off ninety-five years on this pebble with nary a scandal. Indeed, not a live man or dead woman were ever found in his bed. Billy belted out a life of character and integrity, a character and integrity that was pretty much a given to his generation. But to ours? Eh, not so much. His example of meaning what you say and saying what you mean made me want to do the time warp again because I’m really getting sick of the mountains of stercore tauri that we have to field nowadays.

Thirdly, I was also struck that Graham’s message over the last sixty-plus-years hasn’t deviated one angstrom. He hasn’t altered the gospel’s dispatch of calling sin, sin. He hasn’t dumbed it down so that he can get Oprah’s accolades. He’s still wielding the double-edged sword of law and grace, a message that hurts and heals in one fell swoop to them that have ears to hear. Yes, it was a blessing to see that Graham hasn’t changed the message to kiss the therapeutic backside of our narcissistic, politically correct culture. Score 1000 points for Graham.

As you can tell, the Billy Graham special was like a cold class of lemonade on a hot summer’s eve to this redneck. It was especially refreshing because I had just watched Megyn Kelly rip and strip Obama and his lackeys lie and trip over their tongues trying to explain away the whopper they sold America on multiple occasions, namely, "If you like your health care plan, you'll be able to keep your health care plan, period. No one will take it away, no matter what."

What a shameful disgrace Obama is to humanity, true leadership and to this great country.

Finally, I’d like to address this to God on behalf of those who love God and country; that is if he’s still listening to us. Here it goes: God, if you still like us and you haven’t already thoroughly written this nation off -- for which I wouldn't blame you at all -- that said, would you please give us more leaders like Billy Graham and no mas like Barack Obama? In Jesus’ name … Amen.

The Shocking True Story of Extortion 17 as told by a Navy SEAL’s Father

Mark Baisley/ Townhall Columnist

There was a time when America’s Commander-In-Chief held a certain poise, a refinement of manner, a humble je ne sais quoi. And nothing could be more important to the families of America’s soldiers than assurance that the lives of their sons and daughters are valued above everything except the liberty they defend. Aaron Carson Vaughn, a member of the elite SEAL Team VI special forces once wrote a note of assurance to his concerned parents about his chain of command saying, “They won’t let me die.”

This week, America honors her heroes in recognizing Veterans Day, including our brave SEALs. That virtuous moniker is actually an acronym for Sea, Air, And Land, indicating that these guys cover every quarter and every dimension. Members of the United States Navy SEALs are a special kind of human, incredibly smart athletes with unthinkable endurance and unimaginable tolerance for pain. The greatest attribute of a SEAL is devotion.

But in a brand new book, a tragic truth is revealed about the Obama Administration’s unrequited devotion from our most selfless of heroes. Aaron Carson Vaughn is honored by his heartbroken dad in Betrayed, The Shocking True Story of Extortion 17 as told by a Navy SEAL’s Father. The book chronicles the events that led to the death of Aaron Carson Vaughn and was authored by Billy Vaughn, with co-authors Monica Morrill and Cari Blake.

The book details the events of August 6, 2011 in Afghanistan surrounding the shooting down of an American Chinook helicopter that held the evocative name of “Extortion 17.”A high-value Al-Qaeda leader was pinned down in a village by U.S. Army Rangers. Three hours into the intense ground engagement, Extortion 17 was tasked to carry seventeen SEALs into the battle with the onerous task of capturing the Al-Qaeda leader alive.

The Chinook was operated by a crew of five from the National Guard and carried an additional 22 Navy personnel in support of the elite SEAL team. One Afghan interpreter was also on board and, just before taking off, seven Afghan commandos were curiously assigned to the final flight of Extortion 17.

As the Chinook approached its destination, the enemy could be seen running into a building with a tower that gave them an advantageous shooting position. The two Apache escort helicopters had all the visibility and firepower to resolve the battle before Extortion 17 delivered the SEAL team. But the Apaches were denied permission to attack.

Under the Obama Administration’s new rules of engagement, no strike could be made on that building without assurance that no civilians were inside. The enemy knows these rules, which is why they run into buildings where civilians may be located.

Under the protection of Obama rules, the enemy set up on the tower of the building and shot down Extortion 17 using three rocket-propelled grenades. The Chinook fell to the ground in a tremendous explosion, killing all 30 people on board.

The parents of those SEAL Team members who died were gathered for a briefing and were given hundreds of pages of information from the investigation of the event. Betrayed includes many pages of that original material; material that raised enough unsettling questions that Billy Vaughn wrote a book.

One question asked at the briefing was why, even in the minutes following the shoot-down of Extortion 17, America’s massive firepower was withheld. Three-star Admiral Robert Harward explained to the parents that a drone strike wasn’t used because, “we need to win their hearts and minds.”

Evidently, this policy of social politeness on the battlefront motivated the Obama Administration to relegate authority over American troops under Afghanistan command one year before the Extortion 17 crash, the greatest loss of U.S. military SEALs in a single incident. All knowledge, forethought, and mission planning for American troops within that country are under the joint oversight of the Operational Coordination Group, a command of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan.

Billy Vaughn, along with co-authors Monica Morrill and Cari Blake, have brought this story to their fellow countrymen because the American media does not. While George W. Bush was in office, we were treated to a steady drumbeat of casualty reports. But the silence of American media over the past five years has covered up the fact that far more of our troops have been killed and injured under the Obama Administration’s rules of engagement.

During the seven years of war in the Bush Administration, 630 Americans died in Afghanistan and 2,638 were wounded in action. During the first four years of the Obama Administration, 1,544 Americans have died in Afghanistan and 15,036 have been wounded in action.

In his most recent weekly message President Obama recognized veterans, saying, “As long as I’m your President, I will make it my mission to make sure that America has your back.” I encourage every American to have our veterans’ back by reading the book Betrayed, which you can find at www.specialopsbetrayed.com.

The steep reality is that history judges.Kindly or harshly, a didactic perspective will ultimately have its say.

Obama Accused of ‘Crimes Against Humanity’

By Raymond Ibrahim / From Jihad Watch

According to Egyptian newspaper El Watan, a group of Egyptian lawyers has submitted a complaint charging U.S. president Barrack Hussein Obama with crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Court.

The complaint charges Obama of being an accessory to the Muslim Brotherhood, which incited widespread violence in Egypt both before and after the June 30 Revolution.

Along with Obama, the complaint reproduced by El Watan mentions several Brotherhood members by name, beginning with the leader of the organization Muhammad Badie, and other top ranking leaders such as Mohamed al-Beltagy, Essam al-Erian, and Safwat Hegazi, adding that “Obama cooperated, incited, and assisted the armed elements of the Muslim Brotherhood in the commission of crimes against humanity in the period from 3/7/2013-8/18/2013, in the Arab Republic of Egypt.”

According to the published text, the complaint begins by quoting Article 7/1 of the Statute of the International Criminal Court, titled “Crimes against humanity,” which is reproduced below:

Article 7

Crimes against humanity

1. For the purpose of this Statute, “crime against humanity” means any of the following
acts when committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack directed against
any civilian population, with knowledge of the attack:
(a) Murder;
(b) Extermination;
(c) Enslavement;
(d) Deportation or forcible transfer of population;
(e) Imprisonment or other severe deprivation of physical liberty in violation of fundamental rules of international law;
(f) Torture;
(g) Rape, sexual slavery, enforced prostitution, forced pregnancy, enforced
sterilization, or any other form of sexual violence of comparable gravity;
(h) Persecution against any identifiable group or collectivity on political, racial,
national, ethnic, cultural, religious, gender as defined in paragraph 3, or other
grounds that are universally recognized as impermissible under international
law, in connection with any act referred to in this paragraph or any crime
within the jurisdiction of the Court;
(i) Enforced disappearance of persons;
(j) The crime of apartheid;
(k) Other inhumane acts of a similar character intentionally causing great
suffering, or serious injury to body or to mental or physical health.

Next, the complaint shows how Muslim Brotherhood leadership violated some of the above definitions, for example, by torturing, mutilating, raping, and killing Egyptians in their “sit in” camps (first reported here), with a highlight on the role the Brotherhood played in inciting violence and the killing of peaceful protesters around Itthadiya Palace back in December.

Above and beyond the accusations of crimes against humanity that the lawyer-drafted complaint cited by El Watan levels against the Brotherhood, one need only look to the fate of Egypt’s Christian minority, who were especially targeted by the Muslim Brotherhood—and thus, by extension, their supporter, Obama—to see numerous examples of nearly every aforementioned definition of crimes against humanity, as follows:

Religious Persecution and Apartheid (see h and j) 

Right after Morsi was ousted, the Muslim Brotherhood, including its supreme leader, Muhammad Badie, and its spiritual leader, Sheikh Yusuf Qaradawi, as well as several of the other Brotherhood members mentioned in the complaint, publicly scapegoated the Christian minority for daring to support the popular June 30 Revolution (that is, for acting like equal citizens as opposed to cowed dhimmis as required by Islamic law).  The aftermath of the atrocities committed against the Copts are well known (to those who do not exclusively rely on the so-called mainstream media), and include the torching, destroying, and plundering of at some 85 churches, some of which were ancient. Islam’s back flag was raised above some churches; anti-Christian graffiti littered the sides of other churches and Coptic homes.

Happy 238th Birthday Marines: 

A message from the Commandant of the Marine Corps

For 238 years, The United States Marine Corps has proudly served our great Nation with unfailing valor – bolstered by the enduring fortitude of our fellow Marines, our families, and our friends. This is why each year on November 10th, Marines from all generations gather together, in groups large and small, to celebrate the birthday of our Corps and to reflect on the proud legacy and warrior ethos we share. This is what unites us as Marines. From our first battle at New Providence to today in Afghanistan, Marines have always shown that they were made of tougher stuff – that when the enemy’s fire poured in from all angles, and the situation was grim, Marines unequivocally knew that their fellow Marines would stay behind their guns, fight courageously, and drive the enemy from the battlefield. We have always known hardship, fatigue, and pain…but we have never known what it is to lose a battle!

Marine of generations past built our reputation as the most disciplined and honorable warriors to ever set foot on a battlefield, and we have triumphed in every battle because our Corps has always focused on iron discipline and combat excellence. This is who we are…this is what we do! It matters not whether you carried an M-1, and M-14, or an M-16. It matters not whether you fought on a lonely island in the Pacific, assaulted a citadel in the jungle, or marched up to Baghdad. It matters not whether you are a grunt, a pilot or a loggie. What matters most is that, when the chips were down and things got tough, your fellow Marines could count on you to stand and fight…and fight we did!

This year, we celebrate the anniversary of several epic battles in our celebrated history: the 70th anniversary fo the 2nd Marine Division landing on Tarawa, the 45th anniversary of the Battle of Hue City, and the 10th anniversary of the “March Up” to Baghdad. Marines who fought in these legendary battles each made their mark upon the history of our Corps. They have passed a rich and illustrious legacy on to us – a much heralded reputation. It is ours to jealously guard, and it is up to us to make our own marks and thus proudly pass it on to the generations of Marines who will follow.

Sergeant Major Michael Barrett joins me in congratulating each of you. Because of you, your selfless service, and your many sacrifices, our Corps remains strong and ready to respond to any crisis. Throughout history, Marines have faced tough times and there will be tough times ahead, but there is no challenge we cannot overcome if we remain honorable and always faithful to our Nation, our Constitution and each other. Happy Birthday, Marines!

Semper Fidelis

James F. Amos
General, U.S. Marine Corps
Commandant of the Marine Corps