Petiton: Federal Investigation of West Point Grad’s Shooting by Las Vegas Cops

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Won't hold my breath.

I have signed a petition requesting a U.S. Department of Justice investigation of the Las Vegas Metropolitan (Metro) Police Department’s decades-long history of officer-involved shootings (OIS) and subsequent cover-ups. One of the more-egregious was the killing of West Point graduate and former Army officer Erik B. Scott, who was shot seven times by three Metro officers, when one mistook Erik’s BlackBerry cell phone for a firearm.

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Tom Landess, R.I.P.

Chronicles is very sad to report that our friend and longtime contributor Tom Landess has passed away of a sudden illness. A true man of letters, Dr. Landess wrote (and ghostwrote) hundreds of books and articles, as well as poetry. He was a student and friend of many of the Twelve Southerners and a brilliant storyteller. He will be missed tremendously. May God grant eternal rest to his soul, and peace and comfort to his loving wife.

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My Daily Caller Video debut: Cuz I said so

Milton Wolf

Obama Cooking the Books on Jobs Numbers?

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Fighting in armor

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New Revelation: Romney is a real Conservative!

See, it says so rite' cher'.

Meanwhile, another Buchanan – Bay Buchanan, who served on President Ronald Reagan’s campaign staff and as U.S. Treasurer – endorsed Romney on Friday, The Hill reports.

“If Americans want a real conservative in the White House, they need to look no farther than Mitt Romney,” she said in a statement.

Pat Buchanan: Romney’s Got it Locked Up

Loving Our Enemies

Via Cousin John

Crazy is beating your head against a wall to cure a headache. Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. Stupidity is continuously buying into the lies of a consistently duplicitous Federal government.

“We’re under attack because we love freedom, is why we’re under attack. And our enemy hates freedom. They hate and we love. We differ from our enemy because we love. We not only love our freedoms and love our values, we love life itself. Our enemy hates innocent life.” — George W. Bush, addressing schoolchildren, Sept. 23, 2002

Any discussion of Ron Paul as a GOP Presidential candidate inevitably begets rants from the paranoids about how Paul’s non-interventionist foreign policy would make America vulnerable to attacks from Iran or Islamic extremists from one Muslim nation or another.

Typical of the responses are irrational, fact-devoid screeds like these, taken from our comments section last week:

• “Ron Paul is truly a loose cannon , short sighted and ignorant of world relations . On one hand he is correct , we should worry about America . On the other , we MUST worry about the spread of nuclear weapons in the hands of a militant regime who has no compunctions about using them in order to advance their agenda . If this half senile old fool thinks for one instance that Iran would be justified in closing down the Straights to prevent sanctions he should not be seeking the Presidency . Those who defend him should stop and think what it would mean to listen to him an sit back ignoring this bunch of crazed Iranian leaders as they lead us to a war no one will survive . You Have Been Warned !”
• “Screw Ron Paul and Screw Iran. A vote for Paul will just Make it easier for the A-hole to get back in and finish his job of destroying the economy. As for Iran, they need to be taken out, NOW! They are a pus filled infection on this planet.”
• “Is Ron Paul a Jimmy Carter replica? He needs to be sent off and released on the Afghanistan/Pakistan border. As a life long registered Republican, I will vote for Obama if Ron Paul win the Republican nomination. Puttin would make for a better President than Ron.
  Ron is a total loser, a Bolshevik !!!!! How low has the Republican party gone, to have him a a presidential candidate. Disgraceful”

The truth is the U.S. policy of the past 50-plus years of meddling in the affairs of other countries by covertly backing coups, propping up friendly dictators and fighting proxy wars with Russia and China — using billions of dollars stolen from the American people — have only made the world a more dangerous place. Sadly, not more than three in 10 people seem to understand this. They’ve swallowed the lie that America’s overseas adventures are not empire building, they are simply making the world safe for democracy. They live in a state of confusion and cognitive dissonance.

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Fast Lane - The Shopping Carts

Roundabout via Cousin Colby

GUNSAMERICA: 2nd Amendment Voters Should Vote RON PAUL

By Paul Helinski

Ron Paul 2012

As the New Hampshire primary approaches nobody should question who the real 2nd Amendment candidate is. It is Ron Paul. The mainstream media is ignoring Ron Paul as a viable candidate, and many of them have come right out and admitted that they will skip over covering Ron Paul no matter how many votes he gets, but you can’t silence the people forever. I don’t expect that Ron Paul will win my former home state of New Hampshire. But if you plan to vote in a primary this election and you vote for anyone other than Ron Paul, be very clear that you are not voting for a Constitutional America, and you are not voting for 2nd Amendment freedom.

That is why I am just going to vote for Ron Paul, come what may.

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The Reality of Islam: Knowing the Real Enemy

Mike Scruggs

Just in case you were thinking that the Palestinians are not a serious threat to the continued existence of Israel, you might want to review some of the rhetoric spouted at a recent pro-Hamas rally in Gaza. On November 3, 2011, Al-aqsa TV aired coverage of the Gaza rally. The rally organizer was frank in his hatred for Jews and Israel, saying:

“Islamic Militants in Gaza: Allah’s teachings are the fire with which we harvest the skulls of the Jews…We move closer to Allah through blood, body parts, and martyrs.”

Here are some excerpts translated from the speaker’s long train of hatred for Jews and the State of Israel:

“Praise be to you our Lord (Muhammad), You have made our killing of the Jews an act of worship, through which we come closer to you.”

“Allah’s prayers upon you, our beloved Prophet. You have made your teachings into constitutions for us—the light with which we dissipate the darkness of the occupation, and the fire with which we harvest the skulls of the Jews.

“Yes, our beloved brothers, even though the entire world moves closer to Allah through fasting, through hunger, and through tears, we are a people that moves closer to Allah through blood, through body parts, through martyrs.”

“Oh sons of Palestine, oh sons of the Gaza Strip, oh mujahideen (holy warriors)—wage Jihad, wreak destruction, blow up and harvest the heads of the Zionists. Words are useless by now. The lie of peace is gone. Only weapons are of any use—the path of (recently killed) Yousuf and Ali, the path of martyrdom and Jihad. Only our wounds talk on our behalf. We speak nothing but the language of struggle, of Jihad, or rockets, of bombs, of cannons and of martyrdom-seekers. This is the language in which we talk and negotiate with the Zionist enemy.

“We say to the Zionists; Like a bad seed, we shall uproot you from our land, so that it can blossom in the light of the everlasting sun of our Jihad, and our invincible religion. Jerusalem is not yours—get out of it! Haifa is not yours—get out of it! Tel Aviv is not yours—get out of it! Oh Zionists, get out before we expel you. These are the words of the mujahideen (holy warriors)”

Two major political parties compete for power among the Palestinians: the terrorist groups Hamas and Fatah. Hamas was established by the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt as a way of making political and armed conflict against Israel. With the Muslim Brotherhood gaining power in Egypt, Israel’s survival has been jeopardized.

So far, President Obama has tried to solve the Middle East’s terrorist proclivities by reaching out to the Islamists. In domestic politics, he has tried to erase every sign that the United States is threatened by any form of Islamic terrorism. Even the “War on Terror” is out the door. Several past presidential administrations tried to disconnect any association with Islam and Jihad with terrorism. But the rhetoric that Islam is “a religion of peace and tolerance” is beginning to wear thin with the American people. Americans have become more realistic about the nature Islam. Far from peaceful and tolerant, the teachings of the Koran and Muhammad are filled with passages calling Muslims to dominate the world by whatever means necessary. Muhammad’s favorite method was the sword.

Nevertheless, the Obama administration is trying to ban any recognition that modern terrorism is closely liked to Islam, the Koran, and the teachings of Muhammad.

Fortunately, several Republican presidential candidates are now insisting that the American people should know the truth about Islam and Jihad.

In the January 7 New Hampshire Presidential Debate, candidate Rick Santorum first criticized the results of the President’s conciliatory approach to Islamic terrorists:

“He has been making mistakes at every turn in Iran, in Egypt, I would argue, Libya, Syria, Israel. All of these places, he has made mistakes on the ground that have shown the people in that region that we are the weak horse. That is something that cannot happen because it will cause events like you’re seeing in the Straits of Hormuz. There will be push, push. America is soft and so they can be pushed around.”

Then he took issue with the President’s extreme political correctness in denying the reality of Islam, strongly implying that Obama’s decision processes to get out of Iraq and Afghanistan were based on political correctness rather than truth:

“…you make that decision based on an analysis of understanding how virulent the threat of radical Islam is. And you confront that threat not just militarily, and importantly not just militarily. You confront it first by being honest with the American public about what this threat is. This president has sanitized every defense document, everything. There’s no — the — the word radical Islam doesn’t appear anywhere.

Why? Because we are fighting political correct (ness) — we’re trying to fight this politically correct war and not being honest with the American public as to who the enemy is, how virulent they are and why they hate us and what we must do to stop them.”

In 512 BC, when Chinese General Sun Tzu said that knowing your enemy is key to victory in war, he was speaking of knowing realities rather than political correct fiction.

The Reality of Islam Knowing the Real Enemy