The Jewish holiday of Passover is now underway and the Obama White House has planned some Passover events. “Mainly, where they pass over any plans to support Israel,” says Jodi Miller. She also discusses the tightened Air Force security over its drone strike program and rising tensions with North Korea in this edition of NewsBusted.
Hugo Chavez just died, and many of us said “good riddance” to a tyrant who defrauded his own people, intimidated his political opposition and left his economy and country in disarray. Senator Rand Paul seemed to be reminding us: “Why would we want a tyrant in America, too?” Wayne Allyn Root from Personal Liberty Digest weighs in.
Sorry, Barry, but the Capitol is a “no-fly” zone. Hugo drops dead. And: Locusts/Gadflies, 2016! All this — plus — assault pastries in this edition of The Great Eight with Ben Crystal.
In this edition of Intellectual Froglegs, space ninja Joe Dan Gorman says the Obama administration is ruling through intimidation — not only attempting to silence its critics, but also to cowl the media and to enforce blind and rigid allegiance even among fellow Democrats. Gorman lauds Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul for his Senate filibuster and courageous stand against government tyranny.
For almost 13 hours on Wednesday, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) led a filibuster on the Senate floor that called attention to the Obama administration’s refusal to share its case for why the president can target and kill U.S. citizens without oversight. Joined by about a dozen different colleagues throughout the event, Paul hammered home questions surrounding positions advanced by President Barack Obama, Attorney General Eric Holder, and Obama’s nominee to head the CIA, John Brennan. The entire filibuster is viewable at C-SPAN’s website. H/T Reason TV
Before launching his historic filibuster against President Obama’s killer drones, Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul explained why he believes the drone program shreds the US Constitution by violating its commitments to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Meanwhile, Charles Kauthammer describes Paul’s filibuster as “a stroke of political genius.”
Remember all those bedrock moral principles that liberal pundits cited to attack President George W. Bush? Now that Bush is out, and President Obama is in office, these same talking heads are singing a different tune. Lee Doren takes stock of the shifting sands, and asks the $64,000 question: Did these liberals actually hold any principles dear or did they just covet power?
As news leaks about the US drone base in Saudi Arabia, now we’re learning that three American media outlets — The New York Times, Washington Post and Associated Press — have long known about the base, but withheld information from the public at the request of the Obama Administration. If Nixon had asked these same outlets to suppress the news, do you think they would have complied? Why is it they only hop into bed with so-called progressives like Obama?
During his Senate confirmation hearings, Secretary of State nominee John Kerry vowed to implement President Obama’s vision for the world. “What’s that? Like a chicken in every pot and an unmanned drone over every house,” wonders Ben Crystal in this week’s The Great Eight. He also shares his thoughts on Hillary Clinton’s Benghazi testimony and Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s anti-gun theatrics.
An investigation has been launched by Khartoum officials after a suspect vulture was reportedly found in Sudan tagged with an Israeli GPS chip and a leg band labeled “Israel Nature Service” and “Hebrew University, Jerusalem.” Khartoum’s media claimed that the device was capable of taking photos and sending them back to Jewish state; but Israel’s National Parks Service dismissed the allegation, saying that both the band and the GPS chip were nothing more than standard migration trackers.
