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November 15, 2015 · 2:07 pm

The Queen reigned supreme

When figuring out what people mean, it helps to listen to what they say. Why after decades into the global jihad, those on the Left are still struggling to fathom what motivates Jihadists, boggles my mind. They tell us in every other breath why they are waging Jihad against us. To pretend they are not acting out of religious motivations found in Islam, when they quote their religious references, down to the verse, means you’re either an idiot or you’re willing to put political correctness over national security. Taking the Islam out of global Jihad is like pretending Spam is really ham.

Last night, during the second Democratic presidential debate, none of the three Democratic presidential candidates could mention the Islamic motivation that’s central to global jihad. Queen Hillary waxed on and on, praising President Bush for not calling it a holy war. Sanders and O’Malley likewise would not mention Islam in connection to the terrorist attack in Paris. They also offered no real plan for how to defeat global jihadists.

If someone says they want to kill you because his religion compels him to , then a rational person would not argue about what that person believes, you’d take the appropriate measures to protect yourself. I take what they say, as what they mean and they keep demonstrating they will act on their beliefs. Good enough for me – you say you see it as a ‘holy war” and you want to kill me and annihilate my fellow countrymen – I believe you – done deal! If the respected legal and religious scholars in the Arab world sanction your global jihad, who am I to quibble with what is really “Islamic” and what isn’t?

The Queen reigned supreme in that debate and Sanders and O’Malley tiptoed around even disagreeing with her. O’Malley got the evil eye several times, so his name assuredly got etched onto the Clinton machine hit list. Same old, same old in the coronation process.

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November 14, 2015 · 4:47 pm

Known Wolves Involved

Patrick Poole at PJ Media once again gets right to the heart of the problem with this latest ISIS attack in Paris – it was another intelligence failure:

“One Paris Attacker Was Previously Known to French Authorities, Marks Fifth ‘Known Wolf’ Attack in France This Year ***UPDATED***”

Poole updated his story to include new information that the 3 suspects arrested in Belgium in connection to last night’s attacks were known to French intelligence. According to Poole, this attack brings the total of attacks in France by known wolves to 5:

This would make the fifth “known wolf” attack in France this year:
•The Kouachi brothers, one of whom had already served a prison sentence on terror charges, who attacked Charlie Hebdo in January
•A man who had been deported back to France from Turkey and who stabbed three police officers in front of a Jewish synagogue in February
•An Algerian computer student who prematurely shot himself prior to launching attacks on Parisian churches in April
•An attack in June on an American-based company by a former employee who beheaded his former boss and had been known for his Islamic radicalism since 2006

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November 14, 2015 · 2:54 pm

The Barbarians Are Inside, And There Are No Gates

As I write, Paris is under curfew for the first time since the German occupation, and the death toll from the multiple attacks stands at 158, the vast majority of them slaughtered during a concert at the Bataclan theatre, a delightful bit of 19th century

Source: The Barbarians Are Inside, And There Are No Gates

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November 14, 2015 · 9:19 am

Dead wrong… again!

President Obama discussed the threat of ISIS just yesterday morning in an interview with George Stephanopoulos. The takeaways, in his unparalleled counterfactual style, that jump out are he once again underestimates the threat and he proffers statements that within hours were proven demonstrably not only misguided, but dangerously dead wrong. The president insists ISIS is contained, in large part because of his insufficient, tepid military action in Iraq or perhaps his daring offensive move to send 50 Special Forces operators into Syria, which turned the tide, where he can claim that JV ISIS team is contained. Leonidas had 300 Spartans, but Obama, the military genius, only needs …….50.

Then the attack on Paris happened and once again the entire world sees that the JV team actually resides in the White House. Sadly, for the American people, we have not only a fool for a “leader”, we have a fearless leader from behind, whose cowardly hiding behind pathetic “narratives” (LIES), puts every one of us at risk. Yes, I believe his actions (and inactions) make him a grave national security threat.

Don’t expect him to admit he was wrong. No, no, no, he insists he has the best minds from the military working on his strategy and his team of advisors have been presenting ideas on how to fight ISIS. So, be prepared for him to throw them under the bus, despite the steady drumbeat of leaks from the Pentagon, relating how he does not follow any of their advice.

Here’s the ABC interview, so you can decide for yourself if he understands the threat.

To compound the problem, President Obama has escalated the refugee resettlement for tens of thousands of Syrian refugees.

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November 13, 2015 · 8:07 pm

An ominious bellwether

The news in Paris should serve as an ominous bellwether. Perhaps, Europeans will wake up to the threat they’ve invited into their countries. While the usual abettors of Islamic terror will take to the airwaves to make excuses and assure us that we must not resort to “Islamophobia”, the truth is until we recognize the malignancy within Islam, that lies deep in the heart of Islam, we cannot protect America. Jihad is not just some ISIS nutcases attacking us, jihad is sanctioned by Islamic legal scholars, as well as the foremost Islamic theologians. It is deep within Islam, not a fringe interpretation.

I had planned to wait until I finish this important book, but in light of tonight’s attack in Paris, I’m going to freely plug “Catastrophic Failure: Blindfolding America in the Face of Jihad” by Stephen Coughlin. President Obama’s administration has purged experts, like Coughlin, from key positions within our national security network and replaced them with false narrative promulgators from the Muslim Brotherhood ranks and academia. Coughlin writes:

“Consider what happens when the typical suicide operation occurs: We see the farewell video of the martyr giving his reasons for carrying out the attack. He is neither white-knuckled nor perspiring. He is calm and very collected. He is a man who has made a decision to die for what he believes in, a decision that— given his worldview— could reasonably be described as rational. Any threat doctrine capable of motivating people to undertake such actions has demonstrated a capacity to inspire intense commitment. Anyone who mocks this commitment or looks down on those able to inspire it is seriously underestimating the nature of the threat, as well as the capability and doctrine of its “soldiers.” The suicide attack occurs; we watch the carnage on the news. Later, news reports carry images of an entire town celebrating the suicide bomber’s becoming a shahid, often translated as martyr. But this is usually only half the story. What happens next is that the reporter will interview a terrorism expert in a book-lined office on a college campus or consult a senior U.S. government official in Washington and then tell viewers that what they just saw— and what Americans have seen for more than a decade— is not real, has nothing to do with Islam, and is too complicated to explain.

Again, the people killing us claim they do so to wage jihad in the cause of Allah, to impose Islamic law and reestablish the Caliphate. It is an unalterable fact that nearly all “violent extremists” with whom the United States is presently engaged in military operations make that very claim. Shahids define Islam as the basis for their motivation before carrying out their attack. This is true regardless of whether their understanding of Islam is correct and regardless of what percentage of Muslims globally agrees or disagrees with that doctrine. “Jihad in the cause of Allah” is what the enemy claims it is doing, to the exclusion of all other reasons, including “underlying causes” such as economic deprivation. The enemy doesn’t just make this claim. What the jihadis say they will do tracks exactly with what they do.”

Coughlin, Stephen (2015-05-04). Catastrophic Failure: Blindfolding America in the Face of Jihad (Kindle Locations 595-612). Center for Security Policy Press. Kindle Edition.

We should demand our government secure our borders immediately! Let’s for once learn from an attack on western civilization. There is no time for waiting for a 2016 presidential candidate to take the reins, no time for accepting our mealy-mouthed politicians making excuses. Americans need to realize that President Obama’s plans to bring in hordes of “refugees” will assuredly bring in more Islamists. The truth we must face is that Jeh Johnson, the Homeland Security director, lied to the American people when he assured us that these “refugees” will be thoroughly vetted. The US government possesses no viable way to vet people claiming to come from Syria, when the US government has no Syrian government to vet these Syrian passport holders and so many of these “refugees” assuredly are lying about their identities.

President Obama will try to downplay the Islamic terror threat to America. His minions will regale us with lectures about the dangers of “Islamophobia”, but they will not tell us the truth about Islamic terror. The time to save ourselves draws nigh.

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November 13, 2015 · 3:13 am

America’s future leaders

I read about this video at Malcolm’s blog, waka, waka, waka, so I clicked and watched Neil Cavuto tell Virginia, that sorry, there really is no Santa Claus. Virginia (in this case college student, million-student march organizer, Keely Mullen) insists that the “1%” will pay for the free college tuition, absolution of student debt and a $15 an hour wage for all campus jobs, she is demanding. Please note that stunned, deer-in-the-headlight moment at the 50 second mark, when Cavuto intrudes on her fairy tale visions. Sadly, for America, Mullen just might be representative of America’s best and brightest college students…….. our future leaders:

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October 30, 2015 · 11:47 am

Mutually assured destruction?

Here’s a response to a poster, Schmutzli, at the American Thinker this morning. The piece is by Steve McCann, “Behind the Benghazi Curtain”, in which he lays out the Clinton/Obama pact:

“If Hillary were to come clean and state that she was forced by Obama to go along with the Benghazi story as concocted by Obama and his staff for political expediency, then his long term legacy would rival that of Richard Nixon. Obama’s ego would never stand for that scenario. On the other hand, if the White House were to cooperate in throwing Hillary under the bus by pointing the finger of blame at her or undermining her bid for the Democratic nomination, her reputation would be in tatters for the rest of her life. Thus Benghazi is in effect a mutually assured destruction pact between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.

So at this juncture in American political history the question must be asked: How much has the potential mutual blackmail scenario played into Hillary’s run for President?”

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I responded to a comment and included what happened to me in 1998. I keep mentioning it in hopes that someone might actually listen to me and investigate. Here’s my comment:

susanholly Friday, October 30, 2015 10:40 AM

Yet, both Hillary Clinton and Obama will use The Constitution, if pushed, and it seems likely, with the Biden Rose Garden declaration, that the secret pact is a done deal – Obama has the power to pardon Hillary Clinton. I doubt it will reach that point, because it seems likely that if the FBI finds compelling evidence of criminal conduct, the Obama Justice Department will do another Lois Lerner.

You could see how Hillary avoided the press from the moment her private email server scandal broke, because the Clintons were caught off-guard with that revelation, and at first, I thought it looked like Hillary was relying mostly on her inner-circle of her girl’s club to cope with the scandal. That includes Abedin, Mills, Chelsea and a few others, but does not include Bill Clinton. As the scandal worsened, I believe that Hillary, in a reverse of their roles, had to turn to Bill Clinton to be the fixer. Since August, her campaign strategy changed dramatically and at this point she’s home free and she knows it – just look at her change from appearing cornered and furtive early in her campaign to now she’s laughing it up on late night TV.

I believe Bill Clinton, ironically, used the old boys club avenues of back room deals, to pave the way for the “first female President”, because she was too inept to fix the mess, she created, on her own. She rode his coattails to power, because he is the political genius in the family, not her.

From the many reports of the Clintons living separate lives since the Lewinsky scandal, to include reports that their staffers communicate and coordinate anything where they have to show up together, I wonder if Bill Clinton was even aware that she did all of her official business on his private server, that he had for the Clinton Foundation. The reports that he doesn’t use email would lead me to believe he might not have had any knowledge about that. Have any emails between Bill and Hillary ever come to light in the email disclosures?

With the Clintons there’s always one more, even more egregious scandal, in the offing. I was writing on the Excite message boards in 1998, during the Lewinsky scandal, under the user name “mhere”. I was attacked in my home. No one in my family would even listen to me, let alone believe my story, but it is the TRUTH. And I intend to expose every last detail of what happened to me. I wrote my story on my blog in 2013 and it is written in a light-hearted, snarky fashion, replete with pseudonyms, but every person in that story exists. Unlike the Clintons, I learned about the importance of what the Army calls “the 7 Ps”, so I have planned, since 1999, how to drag her to justice – following the law! I am a nobody homemaker, but I swore the oath to protect and defend The Constitution, from all enemies, both foreign and domestic, when I was a young soldier (Army journalist) and I will continue to fight to expose an attack on a private citizen (ME), instigated at the highest level of our government. I offered the real names of the “characters”, mentioned in my story, to several reporters over a year ago. No takers. So, I am using the comment sections on a few sites to mention my story and maybe someday, someone will actually investigate. https://libertybellediaries.com/messages-of-mhere/

Please do read about Steve McCann, as Schmutzli mentioned – it’s a story in the archives here at The American Thinker, called “Saved By Christmas”.

I can’t make anyone listen to me or believe me and in truth, FACTS should be what guides us on our path. Why I keep trying to expose what happened to me is not to get attention or some self-serving publicity, it’s because I believe she is unfit to ever serve as Commander-In-Chief of the US Armed Forces. I believe, that much like this current scandal where they’re scrambling for political survival, she came across an annoying poster on the Excite message boards who was mocking and making mincemeat of their ridiculous spin during the Lewinsky scandal. I noticed some of my lines being picked up by actual Republican political pundits, just as parts of my comments are being picked up on now and used by various pundits. The power of the Presidency cannot be used to attack private citizens!

I believe she sent her minions scurrying to find out who I am and I believe, they came across a retired general who hates my guts. I believe her minions fed him lies that I was some sort of threat to the President, which was a total lie. I was just a homemaker writing personal, political opinions on a message board. I have never had so much as a speeding ticket. I am a stickler about following the rules. And my husband and I do not own any firearms. We are law-abiding citizens. Most of my comments on those impeachment boards were about “No one is above the law” and “there’s no acceptable excuse for lying under oath”, but mostly I mocked their stupid arguments and I did refer to President Clinton as BJ Clinton, so assuredly that would anger Clinton “supporters”.

Let me expand on this retired general – he was forced to retire while serving in a foreign locale for President Clinton. The scuttlebutt that my husband, who was still an active duty Army Sergeant Major, heard at work, was that this general had to retire because of sexual misconduct, while serving in that foreign location, so assuredly he would be sympathetic to the President’s Lewinsky scandal. This general in the intervening years has become a reliable shill for the Democratic Party, up to the present, where he publicly offered support for President Obama’s Iran deal. I believe this general used other soldiers in the effort to silence me. We can not allow the Army to be used as a domestic partisan political tool – EVER!

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October 27, 2015 · 11:02 pm

All politics is local

This is a must read! Stella Morabito wrote an important piece in The Federalist:

Ask Not Who’s Running For President, Ask Who’s Running For School Board

Morabito explains:

There will be local elections throughout the nation next week. Please, folks, pay attention and vote, because these elections are about the very survival of local self-governance. They are at least as consequential as anything on the national stage, and probably more so.

Consider the following. When the school board of Fairfax County, Virginia, was set to vote on promoting the ideology of transgenderism in the schools last May, parents and citizens showed up in droves. They loudly protested the predictable outcomes of the move, which masqueraded as an anti-discrimination policy.

Such outcomes include abolishing children’s privacy in bathrooms and locker rooms and abolishing girls’ sports, which would be open to any male who claims to perceive himself as female. So the Fairfax County Public School (FCPS) policy also violates both the letter and spirit of Title IX. It also serves to divide and conquer families because it requires all students to openly reject anything they learned from their parents about human sexuality and human dignity that school bureaucrats deem in conflict with the policy.

The Fairfax school board imposed a transgender policy, by sleight of hand maneuvering, using local political cronies. Morabito continues:

It was a total ambush. The board voted 10-1 with one abstention to shove the policy down the throats of startled parents. There was no discussion and no consideration given to the concerns expressed. Instead, the parents were in effect smeared as intolerant bigots.

The ten board members voting in compliance with this federal harassment behaved like a bunch of cronies who seemed most interested in securing their places of privilege in a coming nomenklatura by regurgitating Orwellian-style talking points about “equality” and “non-discrimination.”

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October 16, 2015 · 12:02 pm