Who knew that American women are such helpless, pathetic losers? I had no idea how bad their situation really is until I met Julia, one of Barack Obama’s composite women. Okay, sure, she’s just a slide show artifact, but I have no doubt that her pathetic addiction to government assistance and support is based on hard scientific data. After all, this slide show was produced on behalf of a president who has restored Science to its rightful position at the pinnacle of American life.

Ladies, you should get down on your knees and…um…thank our Philosopher King-in-Chief for his beneficent largesse. Or maybe you should get good and damned mad over the condescending and contemptuous attitude toward you that's embodied in Julia: The Slide Show. Either way, you now know what Barry thinks of you.

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Great news for picky eaters! The former Borders building on Grape Road in Mishawaka, Indiana, is to be transformed into a Whole Foods market. Which got me wondering: How is it that with a major university (Notre Dame) in this area, we’ve not had a Whole Foods up to now? Organic fare is tres chic among with-it lefties, after all, and ND boasts a sizeable faculty…if you see what I mean…

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Earlier this week, five men, described by federal authorities as anarchists, were arrested in Cleveland for plotting to blow up a highway bridge linking two affluent suburbs to downtown Cleveland. The terroristic quintet was busted after attempting to procure C4 explosive from an undercover FBI informant.

Not surprisingly, it turns out that the five anarchists have links to the Occupy movement. An Occupy Cleveland organizer denied that they were acting on behalf of the group, and this is probably true. Occupy is kooky, angry and not infrequently violent, but to call it a terrorist group is a wild exaggeration.

Still, the Occupy movement has a big problem. Somewhat like Barack Obama in 2008, its appeal is broad but unfocused, its rhetoric stirring but vague. People see in it what they will, from student loan forgiveness all the way to violent revolution. And such lack of precision in a populist political movement benefits no one in the long run but committed extremists who know what they want.

Fanatics like the Cleveland Five are flocking to Occupy like flies to a piece of rotting meat. I predict that the movement as a whole will become angrier and more violent as these hardcore revolutionaries grow in numbers and influence.

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I’ve always considered Keith Olbermann to be a colossal jackass, but it must be admitted that he has his fans. From the UK Guardian:

Osama bin Laden pondered the merits of US television news channels as he considered how to extract the best propaganda benefit from the tenth anniversary of 9/11 last year, and concluded that CBS was "close to being unbiased".

 

But an American-born media adviser for al-Qaeda warned Bin Laden to beware of the broadcasters' "cunning methods" as he described Fox News as a channel in the "abyss" that should "die in anger", CNN as too close to the US government and MSNBC as questionable after it fired one of its most prominent presenters, Keith Olbermann.

MSNBC should count itself fortunate that it didn’t receive a visit from a suicide bomber after sacking Keith.

Also of interest are the terrorist group’s views on Fox News. It appears that there’s no daylight between American liberals and al-Qaeda on that subject.

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Updated: Friday, 4 May 2012 6:16 AM EDT

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Over at the American Spectator, Ben Stein has pointed out that Obama's Afghanistan speech this week (it gave Chris Matthews a thrill up his leg and put him in mind of Henry V at Agincourt) was exactly the same as the ones Richard Nixon delivered forty years ago about "Vietnamizing" the Vietnam War. He figures “Afghanization” of the Afghan War will work out about as well. Alas, I believe he’s right.

Stein concludes: “Can Mr. Obama really be that ignorant of history and reality? Yes, he can.” Uh-huh.

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Racial stereotyping is okay, I guess, when it's used by a progressive in a tight spot. Warren: My Grandfather Had High Cheekbones "Like All the Indians Do"

That's Elizabeth Warren, the celebrated one thirty-second Native American, digging deep in search of her roots. Don't think she's noticed the depth of the hole yet…

(Hat tip: the Weekly Standard.)

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Updated: Thursday, 3 May 2012 10:42 AM EDT

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Speaking of the Occupy movement, here's a prize example of what passes for rigorous analysis among Liz Warren's intellectual progeny: their weird and creepy obsession with Wells Fargo.

Now of course Wells Fargo is a bank and hence, in the eyes of the Occupy mob, the focus of evil in the modern world. But this particular bank is particularly hated. It’s engaged, you see, in a vast criminal conspiracy involving illegal immigrants—excuse me, undocumented quasi-citizens:

[W]hat really appears to vex the Left is the pervasive and effective fiction that Wells Fargo is involved in a vast conspiracy to lock up illegal immigrants and to expand dramatically the prison population for its own pecuniary gain…. They see the fact that Wells Fargo–backed mutual funds are used to build detention centers that hold illegal immigrants as, at best,  complicity in the “prison-industrial complex,” and, at worst, as profiteering from crime.

 

Some protesters have even gone so far as to allege that Wells Fargo cynically allows illegal immigrants to open bank accounts and then uses their money to ensure their internment in facilities such as Washington State’s Tacoma Detention Center. Indeed, so public has been the angst that on May Day of this year, Wells Fargo released a statement clarifying the situation. “We are a bank,” it read. “We accept deposits and make loans. It’s unfortunate that groups that are passionate about certain causes are making us out to be something we’re not in order to further a political or social agenda. The fact remains Wells Fargo plays no role in advocating a policy on immigration or the operation of private prisons.”

Huh? All this bears about as much relation to reality as The Protocols of the Elders of Zion—which no doubt has its fans in the Occupy movement. Nor does it even demonstrate internal logic. Why should Wells Fargo—or any bank—care whether illegal immigrants get locked up? Oh, right, because it’s an evil bank!

A tip of the hat to National Review’s Charles C.W. Cook for his excellent work reporting on this and other obsessions of the self-proclaimed Ninety-Nine Percent. What a bunch of idiots!

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It’s always fun to watch a progressive’s head go up on the ramparts of progressivism itself. Case in point: Elizabeth Warren, intellectual mommy of the Occupy movement, Massachusetts candidate for the US Senate and Native American role model. Oh, wait, scratch that last one…

The insufferably high-minded Warren has become embroiled in a mini-scandal reminiscent of the one that ended the career of Ward Churchill. It seems that Warren, who is all of one thirty-second Native American, used that faint tinge in her blood to get herself hired by Harvard law school as an officially certified minority. Between 1986 and 1995, she listed herself as Native American in a law school directory. When it ceased to serve her career, however, the Native American reference abruptly vanished. And now there’s some question about the accuracy of her claim to Native American ancestry.

Warren is the very model of a progressive scold. Her indignation over those greedy one-percenters who game the system for their own benefit knows no bounds. Who knew that she was painting a self-portrait?

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5/1/12: Violence in Seattle
In Seattle, more than a dozen protesters were arrested after violent attacks on local businesses. Seattle police recovered homemade incendiary devices from the scenes of the attacks. Vandals in Seattle smashed the entrances to the Niketown and American Apparel stores.

Not exactly the Paris Commune…

All in all, the Occupy movement failed to make much of an impression yesterday. And that fact leads me to predict that in the coming weeks and months the movement, such as it is, will grow ever more angry and violent. That, after all, is what unsupervised adolescent do when no one will pay attention to them.

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You wouldn’t think it was possible for the assassination of Osama bin Laden to become a net minus for Barack Obama, but our Warlord-in-Chief has managed that feat! Instead of acting with becoming modesty on the first anniversary of bin Laden’s dispatch to paradise, Barry couldn’t resist the temptation to brag. And like everything else surrounding this apology for a presidency, the operation that took out bin Laden was turned into a campaign event. Obama even went so far as to suggest that Mitt Romney wouldn’t have made the same tough call. The smirk that wreathed his face as he pronounced this slur—at a supposedly non-political White House event in the presence of the visiting Japanese Prime Minister—was painful to see. What a sophomoric jackass!

Now the inevitable has happened. As I can testify from personal knowledge, Obama is none too popular in the ranks of the armed forces. Criticism of him is muted for the most part—not least because troops can get into trouble for publically bum-rapping the Commander-in-Chief—but it’s always there in the background. But Obama’s behavior regarding the anniversary of the bin Laden operation has irritated former and current Navy SEALs. From the UK Daily Mail:

A serving SEAL Team member said: ‘Obama wasn’t in the field, at risk, carrying a gun. As president, at every turn he should be thanking the guys who put their lives on the line to do this. He does so in his official speeches because he speechwriters are smart.

 

‘But the more he tries to take the credit for it, the more the ground operators are saying, “Come on, man!” It really didn’t matter who was president. At the end of the day, they were going to go.’

At the end of the day this probably won’t amount to a big deal. But it’s a telling commentary on the pettiness and cynicism that fester behind Obama’s cool facade.

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