NEW ALEXANDRIA- “As the door opened and shut several times, the constant business at the Bullseye gun shop shows how people respond to the instability of our culture with the pursuit of self-protection. Whether it is the concerns created by government lockdowns, the looming threat of gun reform, the fear another riot is around the corner, or concerns people have with their government, people tell Nathan Carey they are uneasy. "That unease is only increasing. People know the fight over gun control is only going to escalate that. It already has.”
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++++++++++++ America's updated version of the "Three Stooges." We now have two. Meet the New President of the United
States ... Barack Obama By Wayne Allyn Root |The opinions expressed
by columnists are their own and do not necessarily represent the views of
Townhall.com. Meet the New President of the United States ...
Barack Obama I've written thousands of columns and commentaries. This is
the most important I've ever written. This is my chance to play the modern-day Paul Revere.
"The commies are coming. The commies are coming." Yes, I am reporting
a communist takeover. But the leader of this attack is not who it appears to
be. Republicans, conservatives and capitalists are sick right
about now. We're in shock. We can't believe Donald Trump is no longer
president. We can't believe Americans voted against the greatest economy --
perhaps in history -- the greatest jobs picture ever, the greatest improvement
in middle-class incomes ever and the greatest economic comeback ever, which
Trump produced after the COVID-19 lockdown and economic collapse. Remember 33%
gross domestic product in Q3 2020? That was the biggest number in history. Who
would vote against all that? You'd have to be self-hating and suicidal. We also can't believe America voted for a feeble old man
with dementia who mumbles, who clearly signs executive orders without knowing
what he's signing and who says "we didn't have" a vaccine before he
became president, even though he got his two vaccine shots before he became
president. We all believe the election was rigged and stolen. We all
know the feeble old man now called "president" would be more at home
in an assisted living home than the White House. That man can't be our new
president. I have news for my fellow conservatives, Republicans,
capitalists and patriots: Joe Biden is not president. He's a puppet. Yes, we
have a new president. His name is ... Admit it. Now that I've said it out loud, it all makes
sense. Obama is the real president, back to finish the job with his third term. Biden's job was to stand there and look moderate and
credible and reasonable, so as not to scare voters. But Biden isn't the real
president. Obama is the man with the power. Look at the radical executive orders Biden has signed. They
all sound like Obama wrote them. This third term is "Obama Unmasked."
With Biden as the front man, Obama can finally be himself. Obama is able to do
all the radical things he never dared do as president. Look at the executive orders and new laws and policies
proposed: -- Open borders. No more border wall. Everyone gets in --
during a pandemic. Halt certain deportations. Legalize millions of illegal
aliens. Include illegal aliens in the U.S. census. Once into the country, give
them the right to bring all their relatives in, too, with no requirement for
education, skills or background checks. Ban the use of the word
"alien." Folks, this isn't Biden talking. This insanity is 100%
Obama. -- Make actions and economic policy about "racism"
"social justice" and "racial equity." Even climate change
is about "racism." -- Restart the Iran nuclear treaty. Give mullahs everything
they ever dreamed of and then some. Endanger our best friend Israel's existence
and get absolutely nothing in return. And, for good measure, wait over a month
into your presidency to call Israel's prime minister so the whole world knows
we no longer have Israel's back. -- Kill the lucrative U.S. energy industry and make us
dependent on foreign oil from our enemies again. Kill the Keystone XL pipeline.
Kill oil, coal, natural gas, fracking and even permits for drilling. Reenter
the Paris climate agreement while allowing China to pollute all it wants. This
will no doubt decimate our economy, kill millions of high-paying fossil fuel
jobs and make us dependent on green energy. -- Ban the use of the term "China virus." End the
trade war with China. Give China access to the U.S. energy grid. Even the players in Biden's Cabinet and staff are all Obama
retreads. Trust me, I was Obama's classmate at Columbia University. I
know how he thinks. I understand his plan. This has Obama's fingerprints all
over it. This is the Cloward-Piven plan we learned about at Columbia almost 40
years ago. This isn't Biden. This is the third term of Obama. In his
first two terms, Obama tried his best to destroy the economy, high-paying jobs,
health care, the U.S. energy industry, the great American middle class, our
relationship with Israel, American exceptionalism and capitalism itself. He
damaged us badly, but he fell short. Now he's back to finish the job. Wayne Allyn Root is a CEO, entrepreneur, best-selling
author, nationally syndicated talk show host on USA Radio Network at 6 p.m. to
9 p.m. EST/3 p.m. to 6 p.m. PST. And: WOW...Most U.S. Voters See Right Through Biden
What happened? >> In his hatred of Trump Biden erases many of Trump's successes and in the process diminishes America's prospects and security. ++++++++++++++++++++++ Candice and racism and the successful effort to intimidate and still voices. The Left has created a slew of terms such as “white guilt” and “white privilege” to collectively judge Americans by race. So is there actually systemic racism in our country? Carol Swain, Former Professor of Political Science and host of Be the People Podcast, and Candace Owens discuss. Click to watch! ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Is caving more effective than standing one's ground? Can Biden’s zeal to
deal work better than ‘maximum pressure’ The unsurprising announcement that the United States is ready to
sit down with Iran is worrisome because of the new administration team’s modest
goals and dismal negotiating record. By JONATHAN S. TOBIN If, as a New York Times headline noted,
Israel’s reaction to the news that the United States is ready to start talking
with Iran was “muted,” there was good reason for the low-key reaction. U.S.
Secretary of State Anthony Blinken’s announcement that
the administration would work with its European allies to restore the 2015 Iran
nuclear deal was a fulfillment of President Joe Biden’s campaign promises and
therefore an inevitable consequence of the 2020 election results. Israeli Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s response was to merely restate his stand opposing
Iran’s quest for nuclear weapons and a Western return to the flawed agreement. But underneath the
calm surface of relations between the two countries, which both governments are
trying to claim is as close as ever in the wake of the much-delayed phone
call from Biden to Netanyahu this week, is genuine anxiety.
Blinken’s signal to Iran, preceded as it was by a declaration that the United
States was formally withdrawing the demand made by the Trump administration
that the U.N. snapback sanctions on Iran due to its violation of its
commitments, made clear that the style of bargaining with Tehran that was
followed by the Obama administration—in which virtually all major and minor
figures in Biden’s foreign-policy team served—is now back in style. Which is to
say that if Biden and Blinken are dealing with Iran, the flow of concessions is
going in only one direction. On its face, the
prospect of America talking with Iran isn’t a problem. The Trump
administration spent four years trying to persuade and then pressure Iran into
new talks about the nuclear issue, as well as Tehran’s illegal missile
production, support of terrorism and regional adventurism. Contrary to the
inclinations of some of the most hawkish voices on the issue in both countries,
the aim of their “maximum pressure” campaign wasn’t regime change. It was to
put the screws to Iran’s economy in the hope that the Islamist regime would
realize that it was in its best interests to negotiate a new deal that would
fix the problems with the one that Obama negotiated. But the Iranians,
heeding the advice they got
from former Secretary of State John Kerry, chose not to talk with the Americans
in the hope that Trump would be defeated for re-election and replaced with a
Democrat pledged to return the United States to the nuclear pact. That bet paid
off with Biden’s victory. But rather than meekly falling into line with their
previous commitments, Tehran is coolly observing the new administration’s
behavior and hoping to score yet more diplomatic victories now that their
preferred negotiating partners are back in power. They have good reasons
to be optimistic. While the Biden
administration has at times sounded much tougher-minded about its goals with
respect to Iran, it has already demonstrated that it’s not likely to walk away
from negotiations if it doesn’t get what it wants. Biden and Blinken know the
real long-term problem isn’t restoring the nuclear agreement; it’s to forge a
new one, just as Trump was trying to do. While they continue to insist that the
pact Obama concluded was the best possible one that could have been made at the
time, they realize that the sunset clauses Iran had insisted upon mean that
they will expire by the end of this decade. Six years ago, the
moment when the already weak deal would expire seemed very far away. When Obama
managed to evade the constitutional requirement that the deal be approved by
two-thirds of the Senate—and got the pact confirmed by a backhand alternative
method in which all it took was one-third pulse one of either House of
Congress—critics tried in vain to point out the folly of leaving the job of
dealing with the threat to future administrations. Instead, Obama’s false
narrative, in which the only choices available to the United States were to embrace
the deal or go to war, prevailed. That’s why Biden and
Blinken’s obsession with restoring the old deal rather than pushing ahead with
one that would actually fix the problems Obama did not is so misguided. That mistake is only
compounded by the fact that Biden is already making concessions. Last week, the
White House took only 24 hours to back off the president’s pledge—made on
television during the Super Bowl pre-game programming—in which
he said sanctions wouldn’t be lifted until the Iranians came back into
compliance with the old deal. Now with Blinken declaring in advance of any talks that Washington is abandoning
efforts to snap back the sanctions that, by rights, should already be in place
due to the Iranians illegal nuclear activity, the pattern of negotiations that
took place between 2013 and 2015 is returning. In 2013, Iran was in a
position similar to now. Sanctions had brought its economy to its knees, and it
was forced to negotiate its nuclear future. But rather than pressing the
advantage that the West had achieved, Obama and Kerry began to concede every
point of their demands that sought to end Iran’s nuclear program. By the time
the deal was concluded, the Americans had given up on virtually every key
point—allowing Tehran to keep its nuclear program, advanced research and, most
astonishingly, agreed that the deal would completely expire within 15 years, at
which point the ayatollahs could have their bomb with Western acquiescence. Iranian Foreign
Minister Javad Zarif is hoping for the same sort of results. Given that most of
the personnel behind that disgraceful Western surrender—Blinken, Wendy
Sherman and Robert
Malley, all people who see diplomacy as an end in of itself, rather
than a means to a desired goal—are to be their counterparts in any future
talks, who can blame them for thinking that the sky’s the limit when it comes
to what they can get out of this feckless band of appeasers this time. That means they are
not only going to demand an end to sanctions to return to Obama’s terms, but
will insist on avoiding future demands about a new deal with sunset clauses or
anything about terror or missiles. If so, does anyone truly believe that Biden
would be willing to forgo a pyrrhic victory in the form of compliance with the
old deal in order to accomplish something that would actually avert the real
danger in the now not-so-distant future? At this point, Israel
and its Arab allies, who are also fearful of what more U.S. empowerment and
enrichment of Iran might mean for them, must wait to see if somehow the Biden
team can grow a spine as opposed to fulfilling all of Tehran’s wishes again. In the meantime,
Iranian allies and auxiliaries in Gaza and Lebanon continue to pose a real
threat of conflict in order in order to stop Israel from taking action against
Iran or its proxies on its own. Hamas and Hezbollah also know that the Biden
administration will, as Obama did, seek to restrain Israel rather than back it
up in such confrontations, as Trump did. Neither Congress,
which is in the hands of Democratic majorities, nor the mainstream media, which
remains dedicated to defending Biden, will seek to hold the president
accountable if, like Obama, he sees accepting a deal at any price to be more
expedient than actually defending American interests. In 2021, kicking the
can down the road on the nuclear issue is even a more dangerous policy than it
was in 2015. Zarif is counting on Biden to hand him another easy triumph. While
the die is not yet cast, there is little reason to believe that he will be
disappointed. And: Biden’s Art of the Iran
Concession The new U.S. Administration hopes giving up
leverage will get Tehran to talk. By The Editorial Board President Biden’s
stronger relationship with allies and partners could give him an advantage
over Donald Trump in
foreign affairs. But his Iran strategy will test whether appeasement with
friends produces better outcomes than standing strong alone. Mr. Trump upset Iran,
and America’s European allies, by leaving the 2015 nuclear deal and embarking
on a “maximum pressure” sanctions campaign. Mr. Biden has said Washington would
return to the accord and lift sanctions if Tehran returned to compliance, while
the Islamic Republic demanded the inverse. Someone has to blink. The White House hasn’t
given in entirely, but this week wasn’t encouraging. On Thursday Secretary of
State Antony Blinken said the U.S. is committed to resurrecting the nuclear
deal after a meeting with his French, German and British counterparts. Later,
the U.S. accepted a European offer to mediate with the Iranians, who have yet
to respond. Tehran ran circles
around Barack Obama’s negotiators, many of whom have returned to the Biden
Administration, so it wouldn’t be surprising if Iran now agrees to talks. Some
informal negotiations are inevitable, but this was an especially bad week for
the U.S. to take the plunge. After rockets hit a U.S.
base in Iraq this week, killing a contractor and wounding nine others,
including a U.S. service member, the State Department vowed that the U.S. would
“hold accountable those responsible.” An Iran-backed militia, with Tehran’s
implicit or explicit consent, is almost certainly to blame. Yet the U.S. has
responded with a major concession on Iran sanctions that will help empower such
groups. Tehran will reasonably think Mr. Biden is so eager for talks that he’ll
ignore attacks on Americans. The acting U.S.
ambassador to the United Nations also said that the U.S. will rescind Mr.
Trump’s claim that U.N. sanctions—including an arms embargo on Iran—had been
restored on Iran through the “snap-back” mechanism. This was controversial at
the U.N. last year, but Washington now has effectively acknowledged that Tehran
has the right to purchase advanced weapons. It’s a strange way to “hold
accountable” people trying to kill Americans. Earlier this week the
International Atomic Energy Agency confirmed that Iran had threatened to
drastically limit international monitoring of its nuclear activities. Mr.
Blinken and his European friends warned the Iranians “to consider the
consequences of such grave action.” But Iran’s leaders may be concluding that
Team Biden’s response to its violations is at most mild rhetorical displeasure.
Russia and China are watching closely.
The U.S. says it wants Iran
to return to the 2015 nuclear deal and then negotiate a follow-on agreement.
But Tehran says its goal is to return only to the 2015 deal—which pays Iran
billions to hold off on building a nuke for a few years while ignoring Iran’s
regional imperialism and its ballistic-missile program. The problem with the
art of concession is that it tends to lead to many more concessions—from the
U.S., not Iran ++++++++++++ Stop the investigation of corruption by taking legal but corrupt actions: Biden Fires Chicago U.S. Attorney Hot on the Trail of Democratic Corruption You’ve probably never heard of Chicago’s U.S. attorney John Lausch. For the last two years, he has been going after some of the biggest... Read More » +++++++++++++++++++++++ Sowell is one of my intellectual heroes and this is a repeat posting. You must read some of his writings:
Richard, “Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World” is a new one-hour documentary that traces Sowell’s journey from humble beginnings to becoming one of America’s most preeminent economists, prolific authors, and public intellectuals—and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution since 1980. Hosted by Jason Riley, a member of The Wall Street Journal editorial board, the one-hour program features insights from Sowell and interviews with his close friends and colleagues—revealing why this intensely private man is considered by many to be “one of the greatest minds of the past half-century.” You can watch the full documentary here for free.
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Let's hear it for a little reverse racism:
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