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Kagan spit in the eye of America's Armed Forces
Curt Levey, The Committee for Justice | | Realizing that the retirement of Justice Stevens threatened to leave the Supreme Court without a military veteran, the Committee for Justice and others urged President Obama to replace Stevens with someone who has "the military experience necessary to understand and evaluate the government's national security arguments." Most importantly, Justice Stevens himself talked recently about the importance of having "at least one person on the Court who had military experience." It was disappointing enough when the President showed no interest in this important concern. But in selecting Elena Kagan, Obama has chosen to replace the Court's last veteran with a nominee who essentially spit in the eye of America's armed forces. Kagan banished military recruiters from the Harvard Law School campus during a time of war, after pronouncing our armed forces guilty of "a moral injustice of the first order" for carrying out the Clinton Administration's "don't ask, don't tell" policy. Millions of Americans will be outraged when they learn that Obama has picked a Supreme Court nominee with a demonstrated hostility to the very armed forces that make our freedom and constitutional rights possible. But that's just one reason why President Obama is in for a more difficult confirmation fight than he bargained for when he chose Kagan. Kagan starts out with more than thirty votes against her confirmation to the High Court. Only seven Republican senators voted to confirm her as Solicitor General 14 months ago. Now she faces the less deferential standard applied to lifetime Supreme Court appointments, an emboldened Republican Party, nervous red state Democratic senators, and a public concerned about the nation's leftward drift. Added to that mix will be scrutiny of Kagan's out-of-the-mainstream views on gay rights, which are sure to generate controversy and vigorous opposition. Kagan's argument that "don't ask, don't tell" justifies kicking the military off campus was unanimously rejected by the Supreme Court in 2006, placing her to the left of even the Court's most liberal Justices on the issue of gay rights and the First Amendment. Moreover, Kagan allowed her obviously strong feelings about gay rights to interfere with her duties as Solicitor General. At least twice during the last year, in cases involving challenges to the Defense of Marriage Act and the "don't ask, don't tell policy," Kagan failed to vigorously defend federal law despite her institutional obligation and promise to senators to do so." | | Read More and Comment: |
 | -Nate Beeler, The Washington Examiner |
Obama's Dangerous Doubletalk
By Ken Klukowski, Fox News | | President Obama's commencement speech at the University of Michigan on May 1 would have been great, except that it so blatantly contradicts his actions that the speech was nothing short of Orwellian. This is only the latest example of where Obama's rhetoric is diametrically opposed to his policies, and included one of his favorite tactics to discredit his critics and advance his agenda. Last Saturday, the president spoke to new graduates in Ann Arbor about valuing dissent. He suggested those who listen to Rush Limbaugh or Glenn Beck visit liberal websites. Evidently appreciating that this would seem unbalanced, he also said that those who read the New York Times should try the Wall Street Journal on occasion. The president cited these as examples of valuing diversity. He concluded that, "the practice of listening to opposing voices is essential for effective citizenship." The president added, "You can disagree with a certain policy without demonizing the person who espouses it. You can question someone's views and their judgment without questioning their motives or their patriotism." He then criticizes those who use phrases such as "socialist" or "Soviet-style takeover" to describe his policies. President Obama's hypocrisy is simply breathless. These statements completely contradict his policies. First, what if such a descriptive term is appropriate? "Socialism" is where government controls the means of economic production to provide a certain minimum standard of living through basic entitlements, paid for through taxes and fees. You can refer to a particular law as embodying socialism without calling its supporters socialists. | | Read More and Comment: | Obama bemoans 'diversions' of IPod, Xbox era
AFP | | US President Barack Obama lamented Sunday that in the iPad and Xbox era, information had become a diversion that was imposing new strains on democracy, in his latest critique of modern media. Obama, who often chides journalists and cable news outlets for obsessing with political horse race coverage rather than serious issues, told a class of graduating university students that education was the key to progress. "You're coming of age in a 24/7 media environment that bombards us with all kinds of content and exposes us to all kinds of arguments, some of which don't always rank all that high on the truth meter," Obama said at Hampton University, Virginia. "With iPods and iPads and Xboxes and PlayStations, -- none of which I know how to work -- information becomes a distraction, a diversion, a form of entertainment, rather than a tool of empowerment, rather than the means of emancipation," Obama said. He bemoaned the fact that "some of the craziest claims can quickly claim traction," in the clamor of certain blogs and talk radio outlets. "All of this is not only putting new pressures on you, it is putting new pressures on our country and on our democracy." | | Read More and Comment: | One of Obama's closest friends part of federal probe
BY DAVE McKINNEY, Chicago Sun Times | | E-mails and other records of Dr. Eric Whitaker -- one of President Obama's best friends -- have been subpoenaed by a federal grand jury, the Chicago Sun-Times has learned. The investigation involves "faith-based initiatives" and health-awareness campaigns funded by the Illinois Department of Public Health when Whitaker ran the agency for former Gov. Rod Blagojevich, according to copies of subpoenas obtained under the state's Freedom of Information Act. Obama has said he recommended Whitaker for that job, which Whitaker landed in April 2003. The president's friend resigned in October 2007 to join Obama's wife, Michelle, as an executive at the University of Chicago Medical Center. On Friday, Whitaker defended his work as the state's former top health official, saying he developed "new methods" to help "African-American and other minority communities" get better medical care. "The faith-based outreach programs at issue in this inquiry were recognized during my tenure by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and others as national models for increasing awareness and preparedness planning for minority populations," Whitaker said in a statement. "The programs were functioning well when I left the department in 2007." | | Read More and Comment: | Poll: Obama has Lost Almost Half of his US Jewish Support
by Gil Ronen, Israel National News | | United States President Barack Obama has lost nearly half of his support among American Jews, a poll by the McLaughlin Group has shown. The US Jews polled were asked whether they would: (a) vote to re-elect Obama, or (b) consider voting for someone else. 42% said they would vote for Obama and 46%, a plurality, preferred the second answer. 12% said they did not know or refused to answer. In the Presidential elections of 2008, 78% of Jewish voters, or close to 8 out of 10, chose Obama. The McLaughlin poll held nearly 18 months later, in April 2010, appears to show that support is down to around 4 out of 10. The poll showed that key voter segments including Orthodox/Hassidic voters, Conservative voters, voters who have friends and family in Israel and those who have been to Israel, are all more likely to consider voting for someone other than Obama. Among Orthodox/Hassidic voters, 69% marked 'someone else' vs. 17% who marked 're-elect.' Among Conservative-affiliated voters the proportion was 50% to 38%. Among Reform Jews, a slim majority of 52% still supported Obama while 36% indicated they would consider someone else. Among Jews with family in Israel and those who had been to Israel, about 50% said they would consider someone else, while 41%-42% supported Obama. | | Read More and Comment: | NEW " DON'T TREAD ON ME NAVY JACK" FLAG | "This is one heavy duty flag printed on both sides.
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