Rudy Carrera

News never ends:

It’s getting to be embarrassing to be a conservative – By Stephen Bainbridge, ProfessorBainbridge.com. I used to enjoy the works of ‘The Professor of the Vines’. It’s patently obvious that, rather than being embarrassed of Conservatives, he is embarrassed to be one. The comment section is a rather enlightening read, more so than the article.

Democratic déja vu by John Podhoretz, New York Post. Both parties have horribly corrupt elements within them. It’s the Democratic Party’s turn to have a few of their rotten apples for to go to jail (no more reprimands for these bastards, as they actually need to pay for what they did like Duke Cunningham did).

Blood Already on Assange’s Hands (and the WikiLeaks-Gitmo Connection) by Mark Thiessen, The American. Mark Thiessen continues and continues (rightly) his onslaught against WikiLinks and their talking corpse, Julian Assange. And it looks like some in Congress feel the same way.

Pakistan’s leader says world losing Afghan war by Paisley Dodds, AP/Breitbart. If we lose, it will be no thank to Pakistan, who have proven to be two-faced rats playing a very dangerous game with both us and the Taliban.

Flare-up over tree accents Israel-Lebanon tension by Mark Lavie, AP. Read the propaganda version Lavie peddles. Then read what really happened here, courtesy of Omri Ceren, Breitbart.

Dana Milbank – I normally wouldn’t bother writing about a toad like this journalism school embarassment, but these two articles would shame a more serious newspaper to rid themselves of this goof.

Yet another impassioned plea to knock out WikiLeaks, this time by Mark Theissen of the Washington Post.

Julian Assange has made a serious error in judgement in releasing classified documents. Deputy National Counterintelligence Executive Kenneth E. deGraffenreid makes a great case for using a Special Operations Task Force to drag this cowardly bastard to face judgment for what he did.

So much to read, so little time to do it…

The threat from East Africa by Mark Thiessen, Washington Post. Thiessen discusses the worrying trend of Africa’s Al Qaeda clients are linking more strongly with their counterparts in the Arabian Peninsula.

Exit Tony Hayward by Nile Gardner, National Review. Gardner gives Hayward a line commonly used in this household: “Don’t let the door hit ya where the Good Lord split ya!” Brilliant as Hayward is purported to have been, he made a fool out of himself as BP’s very own gaffe machine. He gave Joe Biden a run for his money.

Oliver’s Sorry: ‘I Made a Clumsy Association About the Holocaust’ by Dylan Stableford, The Wrap. Oliver Stone is a poster-boy for Hollywood self-loathing antisemitism. He’s become a piss-poor director in the process. In a fair world, this would be the last straw for his career, but like Mel Gibson, he’ll keep clawing his way out of the cesspool.

Why Liberalism Is Dangerous by William Voegeli, National Review. It’s bad enough that liberals will lie through their teeth about current policy. It’s especially sickening to see them lie about their role in history. Orwellian speak never looked clearer.

Why the Left Hates Conservatives by Dennis Prager for National Review. See above. We call them on their lies, so it’s understandable that they have a psychopathic hatred of anything smacking of normalcy.

Russia Spies, America Apologizes by Mona Charen, National Review. Wow, the meme continues. What fool in either the CIA or State Department thought it wise to apologize to Russia, of all countries, about their spies we caught? November can’t come soon enough, nor can 2012.

How Smart Are We? by Thomas Sowell. Sowell asks a poignant question. The so-called elites who try to shape policy in this country don’t even have the intestinal fortitude to work a real job or run a business, yet have the temerity to brush off those they deem as lesser intellects, always to the ruin of the countries they wish to mold.

Dems fear GOP oversight of Obama administration by Byron York, Washington Examiner. All the hypocritical dirty dealing will come back to haunt the Democratic Party. May they suffer in the way the country has suffered under their leadership.

Jim Webb’s case against racial preferences by the Washington Examiner’s Editorial Board – Jim Webb may as well come back to the Republican Party, as the wackos of the far left will brand him a racist for talking frankly on race.

France declares war against al-Qaida by Elain Ganley, Associated Press. It took the murder of a humanitarian aid worker, a 78-year-old man, to get France motivated to cleanse Africa of this filth, but it looks like the French are finally serious about engaging a now well-defined enemy in the War on Terror.

The daily rigmarole:

Pakistan Aids Insurgency in Afghanistan, Reports Assert by Mark Mazzetti, Jane Perlez, Eric Schmitt and Andrew W. Lehren, New York Times. Ahhhh! The irresponsibility of the New York Times, The Guardian (no surprise there), Der Spiegel and Wikileaks know no bounds. Despite a lot of damage being done to our troops as well as strategic interests, the defense community need not panic totally. Ishmael Jones, Ed Whelan and Jonathan Foreman at National Review look for the silver lining, Will Heaven of the Telegraph wonders what uber-creep Julian Assuage’s game is, and Max Boot of Commentary Magazine thinks that the whole affair will be mostly forgotten about within a year.

Toward a more honest discussion of race by the Editorial Board of the Washington Examiner. Martin Luther King must be rolling over in his grave to see Democrats pretending to be Civil Rights heroes and Republicans cowing, allowing the party of the Klan to take away their mantle. We need a real discussion on race, and it needs to be done immediately.

On Democrats’ Lost Week by David Paul Kuhn, Real Clear Politics. This week has been an unmitigated disaster for the donkeys. A shame, that. They’ll end up alienating the country completely if they keep this trajectory.

Turkey in Cyprus vs. Israel in Gaza by Daniel Pipes for National Review. Pipes podcasts his article on Turkish hypocrisy against Israel when they haven’t peacefully settled their own situation with Cyprus yet.

The Ideology of Journalists: A Response to Jay Rosen by Marc Ambinder, Atlantic Magazine. Armbinder gives Rosen sage advice. After the JournoList scandal, he could use some ethics training.

Another slab of news beef for you to chow on…

Hollywood Babylon—For Ugly People By Michael C. Moynihan, Reason Magazine. Moynihan wonders why the press has fetishized its coverage of Andrew Breitbart and the NAACP debacle. One would figure that, with a flailing economy, two theaters in the War on Terror and a couple more to open in Yemen and East Africa soon enough (not to mention the North Korean hemerrhoid paining us), we’d have better things to talk about.

CNN Host Calls for Crackdown on ‘Bloggers’ in Wake of Sherrod Incident: ‘Something’s Going to Have to be Done Legally’ By Alana Goodman, NewsBusters. What utter worms. CNN have been busted so many times for lying (I still remember blogging about Eason Jordan on my old site, and the rubbish hasn’t quelled) that they have no credibility regarding bloggers or even news in general. Embarrassing.

China’s star blogger treads fine line By the Editorial Staff, AFP/Breitbart. Self-censorship is stifling the creativity of many of China’s best bloggers, including Han Han, who are getting fed up with the crushing intrusions of the government and weak-kneed publishers.

Without Stable Money, There Can Be No Trust By John Tamny, Forbes Magazine. World currencies are a mess. The most important one, the American dollar, is in danger of becoming redundant. Woe to the world economy if that happens, never mind how much we will suffer here in the U.S.

Opinion: Take Our Country Back — to What? By Michael Medved, AOL.com. A worthy question to ask, and one that should be pondered by Tea-Party members, Conservatives and our allies. Sloganeering has its place, but we have to define what that statement means or risk the sociopaths on the Left defining it for us.

Judge sharply questions federal argument against Arizona law By Liz Goodwin, The Upshot. The government has a very weak case in going after Arizona’s proposed immigration law. The judge in the case, Susan Bolton, will be picking the government’s case apart. Good on her.

Mika Brzezinski of MSNBC rips Paris report via YouTube. All of Mika Brzezinski’s past sins and stupid statements are forgiven. That was hott!

Charlie Rangel Is Toast By Tunku Varadarajan. Tunku glees in the dismantling of the old fart who sounds like Jackie Gleason. Good riddance to that thieving race-huckster!

American-Bred Terrorists Causing Alarm For Law Enforcement By Jason Ryan, Pierre Thomas, and Xorje Olivares, ABC World News. Behold the face of a traitor. You had better start pulling your heads out of your collective rear ends, Americans, because punks like this exist in lots of places.

Sharia Creeps By Andrew McCarthy, National Review Online. Read the story. It describes well the insidious nature of Islam creeping into the fabric of America. A racist scare tactic, you say? If only. Live around those people en masse, and then see how you like living under their rules.

Catching up with my colleagues:

Friendly Fire on Capitol Hill – By Karl Rove, Wall Street Journal. – There is a small-scale civil war inside the Democratic Party. President Obama has himself to blame. Karl Rove analyzes the situation for the WSJ.

Diversity and the Myth of White Privilege – By James Webb, Wall Street Journal. James Webb’s party-switch hurt Republicans and gave Democrats a credible voice in military matters. He is still a social conservative, and he’s reasonably honest. In this article, he put to rest the lie about ‘white privilege’, something that hasn’t existed in the way race hucksters have peddled it.

Faster Than a Speeding Blog – Editorial Board, New York Times – It must irk the crap out of the “Grey Lady” to have to give props to Glenn Beck for getting something right. He’s right more often than not, especially on how trigger-happy the administration was against Shirley Sherrod (and how the press was against Andrew Breitbard and Fox News, who had no dog in this fight).

From Buckley To Breitbart – By Scott Johnson, Powerline. The mantle of conservatism hasn’t been firmly held by anyone since the passing of William F. Buckley, Jr. Scott Johnson makes a cogent case for Breitbart being the mover and shaper of the new Conservative vision. Go, Andrew!

The Moral Naturalists – By David Brooks, New York Times. Brooks speaks of a movement in the science world that speaks of how we as humans are blessed with an innate sense of moralism. I think it’s a gift from God, but at least this isn’t some pathetic new-Atheist diatribe spouting the usual rubbish.

The Coming End Of Islamic Fascism In Iran – By Reza Kahlili, Forbes Magazine. Iran’s revolutionary movement, like all revolutionary movements sans ours (naturally), is based on a lie. The Ayatollah Khomeini told his followers they would have freedom. What they have now is a fascist/terrorist theocracy which is in the process of imploding. I pray someone take out Ahmadinejad and the monsters ruining Iran before Israel is forced to send a nuke up their duffs.

David Frum Is Silly – By James Taranto, Wall Street Journal. So says Taranto, Hugh Hewitt, Sarah Palin, Sean Hannity, Rush Limaugh, et cetera. He’s a smart man. He is also an ass. Comparing Breitbart to a hack like Dan Rather is embarrassing and rather unbecoming of a supposedly serious (but in reality snide) ‘conservative’.

Interesting tidbits from the past few days:

Moving in on Israel – By Abdullah Bozkurt, Today’s Zamaan. The unmitigated cheek of this propagandist posing as a journalist for Turkey’s paper of record! He huffs and puffs at Israel’s obstinance (!) for not apologizing to Turkey for a provoked attack on their sovereignty resulting in the deaths of 9 urchins. The one country thought to be the friend of the Jewish State has abandoned its longtime ally thanks to their leadership (and a press corps, apparently) wanting to steer closer to an Islamist sphere of influence. Turkey will rue this move, as it will be seen as a strategic blunder of massive proportions. Europe was right not to let these rascals into the EU.

Military matters – The editorial staff at Spectator Magazine. David Cameron is no Tony Blair. British conservatives see this as a good thing, as, though the former Prime Minister was a friend indeed to America (and particularly to President George W. Bush), he was working with a minuscule budget that could scarcely afford to be in either Iraq or Afghanistan. Cameron has a new, competent field leader, Sir David Richards. It is our hope that he let his choice do his job rather than cave in to political pressure from home. If Richards fails, it will be seen as a catastrophic blow to the credibility of Her Majesty’s forces worldwide.

Al-Shabaab’s Regionalization Strategy – By Georg-Sebastian Holzer, ISN. Al-Shahaab is doing everything it can to provoke open warfare across East Africa to their own ends. The West should obliterate them as quickly as possible before another theater of war opens up.

Syria’s decade of repression – By Nadim Houry, The Guardian. Shame on the reformers who were taking in by this tool. Bashar al-Assad is the son of the notorious Hafez al-Assad, who ruled the country with an iron first from 1971 to 2000. Did anyone honestly think the son of a monster would become a democrat overnight? Here’s a bit more on the plight of Syrian dissidents.

The End of Palestinian Democracy? – By Asaf Romirowsky and Jonathan Schanzer, The Weekly Standard. Why bother? Mahmoud Abbas has never had the intention of dealing directly with Israel. Fatah is a more feeble, more corrupt, though less terroristically-inclined version of Hamas, and neither are worth dealing with anymore. The whole idea of a Palestinian State is laughable until the citizens decide to get over their Jew-phobia and learn to work with their neighbors. Like it or not, Israel will never leave. Palestinians are going to have to get used to it.

Russia Optimistic – By Andranik Migranyan, National Interest. Russian happiness in the tack America is taking with her currently is not a good sign for America or Russia’s neighbors. President Obama has handed over the Baltics, Poland, the Czech Republic, Georgia and Azerbaijan over to Russian influence and has received nothing in return. This is a sign of a foolish man who has no clue of how to deal an old, tired, neutered Russian bear looking to make a comeback at his expense.

Elections in Burma (Myanmar) won’t be fair, but they will be significant – By Jim Della-Giacoma, Christian Science Monitor. A sham election as a stabilizer for Burmese politics? Ha! Della-Giacoma sees Burma as a lost cause, and figures it is best to reintegrate the recalcitrant state into the family of world nations. What a wicked thing to do. It shows the cowardliness of the Western world, and the lack of interest Asia has in promoting democracy near their homes.

End a Cold War Relic – By David Harris, New York Times. The ‘relic’ in question was set up to protect Soviet Jews who were being harassed by the government. Under Putin and Medvyedev’s leadership, not much has changed. Why on Earth would we want to take a tool like this away? I’m sure Mr. Harris has fond memories of the Soviets, but Russia has a lot of work to do in improving the lot of ethnic and religious minorities before this contract is thrown into History’s waste basket.

‘Politics unusual’ in East Asia – By P. S. Suryanarayana, The Hindu. The past few months has produced a radical change in leadership all over Asia and Australia. Let us hope this bodes well for the region.

More Amiri – By The Compass, Real Clear World. The case of Shahram Amiri, the defector (?) from Iran whose knowledge of their nuclear program proved to be useful to American interests, gets thrown under the bus and will be sent back to Iran. Expect to hear that he turns up dead within a few weeks.

Who will remember the Cheonan? – By William R. Hawkins, The Washington Times. North Korea does not understand the fineries of negotiation. It is high time East Asia take the little puke in Pyongyang to the woodshed once and for all.

And finally, here’s a piece from the lamentable Simon Tisdall of Foreign Policy Magazine. If you want to see what pusillanimous Euro-weenies think of us, here’s your chance to look and amuse yourself. Clueless, utterly clueless.

Ick. Disgusting. Unfortunately, sex scandals seem to go hand-in-hand with powerful A-type personalities.

Though I find him utterly distasteful, I really, truly hoped that if Al Gore had to break up with his wife Tipper, it would have truly been because they simply grew apart.

This is not to say I am being a “rah-rah” chorus for divorce. I’m a divorcee myself, and it is a grueling, painful ordeal best gone through my making as much peace with the ex as possible.

It turns out that Mr. Global Warming (or whatever his pet cause is called this week) was a letch. Byron York of the Washington Times has the gory details. Somewhere out there, Bill Clinton’s got to be cracking up.

Let us face facts. We have no ally in Afghanistan. We have a whore who will sell his rump to the highest bidder, and keep playing the game against both camps. One of the greatest tragedies Afghanistan ever faced happened on September 10, 2001, when Ahmad Shah Masood, an honorable ban who was sure to end up leading the country, was assassinated by Taliban posing as an interview crew. I would have rather seen Abdullah Abdullah win the last election cycle, but the Afghan people now get to taste the fruits, bitter and otherwise, of their decisions.

Ralph Peters lambastes the fool running Afghanistan in an article posted at Real Clear Politics.