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Breitbart hits NAACP with promised video of racism

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Changing Stance, Administration Now Defends Insurance Mandate as a Tax

via Changing Tune, Administration Defends Insurance Mandate as a Tax – NYTimes.com.

American politics has caught the British disease

via American politics has caught the British disease – Telegraph.

WHY THE SILENT TREATMENT? Share Post   PrintJuly 8, 2010 Posted by Paul at 11:13 AMAs Scott points out in the post immediately below, the news that President Obama tasked NASA head Bolden, as perhaps his foremost mission, with raising Muslim self-esteem is entirely absent from the New York Times and the Washington Post, as well as the nightly newscasts of ABC, NBC, and CBS. Why? Bill Otis argues, persuasively I think, that its because this news is potentially devastating to Obama:The reason the MSM has the lid on NASAs new “mission” to snuggle up to Islam in between decapitations and floggings is that it would be devastating to Obama if it became known. On the surface, the new NASA “mission” seems merely screwball, and thus a small story. But I think its a good deal more than that. It shows that Obamas thinking is unrecognizable to the average person. It also shows that hes unserious — frivolous, really — about something that made a generation of Baby Boomers take pride in their country. How many millions of people sat in their junior high auditoriums and watched the Alan Shepherd and John Glenn launches? How many millions more were up at midnight on July 20, 1969 to watch the first human being, an American, put his foot on the moon?When the domestic roots of skepticism about America and sometimes flat-out anti-Americanism were being laid — in the 60s assassinations, the Vietnam War, and the exposure of the countrys treatment of blacks — the one thing in which we all took pride was the space program. So for Obama, its now one thing that needs to be perverted. Making it a dumbed-down PR front for Islam is, in its way, a genius move for this purpose. But as the MSM recognizes by its silence, its a bridge too far.A lot of people out there havent heard of “American exceptionalism,” or, if they have, arent too sure of what it means. But they have a good intuition for it: It is, among other things, but quite importantly, the excitement and pride they felt when America did something the human race had wanted to do since it looked up at the night sky. Space exploration took on added luster for our generation because it was so in keeping with the natural optimism, bravado and energy of our youth.Under Obama, NASA has ended plans to go back to the moon, or go to Mars something also underreported. Budgets are tight, you know. Time to hunker down and lower our sights. But we can do Muslim outreach.This is a window on the kind of thinking Obama does. Were it widely known, it would be devastating: We will put away what has made the country a beacon, and act like the small, repentant ex-bully Obama takes us to be. Thus the rockets get mothballed as The Great Satan starts to make amends by printing comic books celebrating Arab contributions to trigonomety 4000 years ago, or whatever it was.”Youll be able to keep your own insurance” was the most important political lie of the last year. But NASAs new mission is the most revealing truth. The MSM understands this, which is why its been so resolute in keeping it out of sight.

via Power Line.