The origin of the Arab Spring did not begin on December 17th, 2010 in Tunisia with the self-immolation Mohamed Bouazizi.

Bouazizi’s decision to douse himself with gasoline and light himself on fire was an outcome of an economic and social reality in Tunisia at a very specific moment in time – the origin for that event happened many years earlier in Europe.

Understanding the earlier origin helps to set the stage to understand Libya in 2011,  the rise of al-Qaeda, and Obama’s short-sighted folly leading NATO intervention.

A basic tenet of humanity is freedom, a natural yearning to be free.  To be able to move, decide, act and strive, is as natural as the flow of water through the path of least resistance.

When Europe formed a collective Union there were multiple political, social, and socio-economic factors which aligned to create an environment where the formation was constructed.

A tireless movement of Fabian Socialists with a history of long-term strategy were behind the rise of the EU as a collective union.  (more…)

Comical in the extreme.   In an effort to stop the network from continual embarrassment MSNBC appoints Rich Stockwell to oversee pundit expressions.

(Via NRO)  MSNBC, the left-leaning cable-news network, has settled on one solution to its recent problems. It now has an executive reviewing scripts before they go on the air.

The role, which has fallen to Rich Stockwell, a former executive producer of The Ed Show and Countdown with Keith Olbermann who now oversees special projects at the network, was created as several of the network’s hosts have, to the embarrassment of network brass, conducted a master class in political incorrectness.

In recent months, Alec Baldwin, Martin Bashir, and, most recently, Melissa Harris-Perry have awkwardly crashed into the trinity of sexual orientation, gender, and race, leading many to wonder if there are any adults in charge at MSNBC. […] (more…)

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The apology by itself appears genuine, but also appears more apologetic for reflecting the truth behind almost all liberals.   They are, by ideological disposition, genuinely trapped in a life fraught with expressed hypocrisy.
Liberal advocacy is always, 100% of the time, structured around a ‘do as I say, not as I do’ advancement.   I have never met, nor witnessed, a modern liberal who actually walk their talk.

Subsequently, to me at least, this apology is more associated with an outcome of being called to the mat. Watch the entire video and toward the end you’ll see this is not an apology toward Mitt Romney, it’s an apology toward a mirror.

If a 15-year-old decided to murder a 14 and 13-year-old on Christmas day you might expect to see it widely reported in the news.     But in New Jersey the media carry a PC crime card which ideologically bars the reporter from admitting to, or writing about, the race of the suspected shooter.

You saw this last month when a man was shot at a New Jersey mall while shopping with his wife.   Even though there were rewards for information leading to the arrest of the suspects, the media would not give the general public a racial description.
Kyle Rogers has written about this New Jersey protocol before.   It is so openly identified the crime reporters have even admitted to censoring race from their news stories.
So for a 15-year-old to shoot and kill a 13, and 14-year-old because he felt “disrespected“, and still the media refuse to describe the suspect, yet again you can see the pattern of racial avoidance: (more…)

A well known and generous doctor, father to twelve children (three of the twelve are adopted), is devastated over the violent murder of his adopted daughter, by a younger adopted sibling.  The young woman was stabbed to death multiple times in front of other siblings in the kitchen of the family’s Washington Township, New Jersey home.
The alleged murderer, 17, is in police custody, charged with murder with a determination to be made by prosecutors within 30 days on whether or not to charge him as an adult.
The family is naturally – devastated – and grapples to understand what went so terribly wrong in what they describe as their “loving, close-knit family…..”
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During his 2009 Notre Dame speech  President Obama said the federal government should accommodate religious objections to parts of the law:

“Let’s honor the conscience of those who disagree with abortion and draft a sensible conscience clause. And make sure that all of our health care policies are grounded, not only in sound science, but also in clear ethics.”  – President Obama (2009)

The catholic group Little Sisters of the Poor received a temporary injunction from the Supreme Court protecting them from the controversial HHS contraceptive mandate. The injunction means that the Little Sisters would not be forced to sign and deliver forms authorizing and directing others to provide contraceptives, sterilizations and drugs and devices that cause abortions.

Now in 2014 President Obama appeals that injunction demanding the Little Sisters of The Poor should be forced to comply with the abortifacient service delivery approved within the ObamaCare.  (link)

RUSH LIMBAUGH […]  Now, last year, before HealthCare.gov opened for business, the Regime said they needed seven million before the end of the year, before this day. They needed seven million, and over the weekend they were doing hoops and making dances and having parties because they claimed that the corner had been turned and 2.1 million people had signed up.
So somebody said, “Well, wait, you said you needed seven million,” and they’re saying, “No, we didn’t,” but they did.  It’s on tape, it’s in print, but they’re just denying it.  “We didn’t say seven million! Nobody ever said seven million,” and in a political sense, the Republicans don’t know what to do with this.  Do you know how to deal with a liar?  It is a challenging thing to deal with a liar. But these people, this is a political party that just lies as a matter of course.
The problem with it is that the impressionable low-information people who vote for them believe all these lies, and then they create lives, circumstances, based on a series of lies.  And then standards begin to crumble, and then promises mean nothing, and then honor and integrity come to mean nothing, and then standards don’t exist.  And then there’s nothing accountable and nothing anybody can depend on.  So there aren’t any guardrails — and that’s where we are, in many ways, in our culture.  (more…)

UPDATE #2  The Mother, Billie Joe Howe-Fuller, of the attacked victim, now known to be Stephanie Nicole Fenner, is speaking out on social media platforms appearing quite upset that a racial prism is being used to outline this story:

[…]  this girl is my daughter and whomever started this racist shit are morons. We r not a racist family so don’t believe everything u read. At least the journal and cny although vague have all the facts correctly inatead of guessing at shit like these crazy people on tjose blogs.

Apparently Mrs Howe-Fuller is upset because in one of the comment sections of a local media report was a link where the story was discussed on a white-pride site StormFront.  Mrs Howe-Fuller and her daughter Stephanie have a culturally and racially diverse social network of friends and family.
In keeping with the diversity surrounding the family, the victim, Stephanie Nicole Fenner, also disputes the racial componentry:
Ms. Fenner also shares there was more than one fight and her attackers included a group of five.  (more…)