Gabor Steingart: Obama's Nice Guy Act Gets Him Nowhere on the World Stage

"When he entered office, US President Barack Obama promised to inject US foreign policy with a new tone of respect and diplomacy. His recent trip to Asia, however, showed that it's not working. A shift to Bush-style bluntness may be coming."

Mychal Massie: Dems' demographic must-haves

"In lessons inculcated down through recent generations, they have taught blacks in their stockyards to assault other blacks. It was blacks that pelted then Republican candidate Michael Steele with Oreo cookies. Even though Michael is a moderate Republican, he is still a Republican. And that means he must be destroyed – discrediting him would not be enough.

"Even those blacks who have behaved themselves and followed the party line are quickly and severely reminded they have a place – evidence Harold Ford, the Democrat from Tennessee who dared challenge Nancy Pelosi. Step out of line, forget their place, and the sting of the lash is swift and certain.

"Jesse Jackson, the race-baiting retinue in charge of latrine politics, publicly humiliated Rep. Arthur Davis, D-Ala., for daring not to vote along party lines on the health-care reform bill. 'You can't vote against health care and call yourself a black man,' Jackson said at a reception held by the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, of which Davis is a member. In essence, Jackson was telling him to vote the Democrat way, and to hell with what your constituents want – a heinous and morally opprobrious act by Jackson, but well in keeping with his character. Jackson's message was clear – don't step out of line.

"People for the American Way called conservative judicial nominee Miguel Estrada the Latino Clarence Thomas. Democrats in the Senate successfully stalled Estrada's nomination process until he finally withdrew his name. Alberto Reynaldo Gonzales, attorney general under President George W. Bush, was Hispanic and Mexican. Both Estrada and Gonzales came from humble backgrounds – yet they were visited with visceral attacks as not being Hispanic enough.

"But such was not the case with Obama or Justice Sonia Sotomayor. The credentials of Justice Thomas, Ken Blackwell, Dr. Walter Williams, Miguel Estrada and Alberto Gonzales will stand up to those of any liberal, be they black, white, Hispanic, other, or a Sotomayor. Liberal Democrats and their viremic minions castigate minorities, not singularly because they are minorities, but because they are conservative minorities – albeit this essayist argued that both Estrada and Gonzales were stealth Souters.

"Allowing their blacks and Hispanics to observe other blacks and Hispanics that do not think and vote the party line is a threat to Democrat rule. They can hide behind a mountain of rationale and denials, but the bottom line remains the same – don't let them get a taste of freedom, because if they do, Dems lose.

"It is for this reason that the liberal illuminati are so rapacious in their assault of Gov. Sarah Palin and her family. They want to send a message to all women that this is what they can expect if they 'go rogue.' The same can be said of the Republican illuminati pursuant to Gov. Palin, albeit their reasons for same are different.

"The politics of personal destruction is the viscous substance that lubricates their attack machine. They understand that they cannot afford even a marginal percentage-point shift from their three stocks.

"So, like their predecessors, they exact harsh retribution upon anyone who dares to stray. And in the absence of Nathan Bedford Forest, they have enlisted a baneful group of bandicoots, euphemistically called the press, to aid them."

Thomas Sowell: How politicians 'solve' problems

"No one will really understand politics until they understand that politicians are not trying to solve our problems. They are trying to solve their own problems – of which getting elected and re-elected are No. 1 and No. 2. Whatever is No. 3 is far behind."

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"What is stupid is believing that politicians are trying to solve our problems, instead of theirs."

Joseph Farah: Why sin cannot be condoned by state

"The issue Christians and Jews should be focused upon is whether it can ever be acceptable for the government to condone sin – or, worse yet, encourage it by making it a 'right.'

"I don't believe government can do that without dire consequences.

"In Romans 1:18-32, a Hebrew scholar named Shaul, known to Christians as the Apostle Paul, wrote the following:

"For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;

"Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them.

"For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:

"Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.

"Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

"And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.

"Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:

"Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.

"For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:

"And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.

"And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;

"Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,

"Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

"Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:

"Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.

"What is he saying here?

"He's saying something to which every Christian, every Jew and every American should pay close attention:

"* God has revealed to all men the difference between right and wrong. You may not like God's rules, but we are all without excuse as to what those rules are.

"* If you don't obey God's rules, your heart becomes darkened to the truth. You might think you know better than God, but you are actually a fool if you do.

"* When a whole society rejects the One True God and begins worshipping false gods, it opens the society up to judgment.

"* Those judgments include the following: more unrighteous behavior, sexual immorality, meanness, greed, envy, violence, conflict, lies, gossip, hate for God, pride, self-centeredness, mercilessness and disrespect for parents by children. Notice that No. 1 on that list is homosexuality. However, also notice, it's not just homosexuality, but an increase in those who take pleasure in the exhibition of homosexual behavior that comes as a judgment on a society rejecting God.

"Does this sound like any societies you know?

"America is being judged by God."

World Net Daily: American Music Awards become 'modern Sodom'

"The Telegraph reported the Federal Communications Commission was preparing for an onslaught of complaints over the graphic nature of the performance. The report said on Twitter and other Internet forums, watchers called the show 'disgustingly vulgar.'

"'Has ABC lost their minds? How on earth do they think airing this is OK?' wrote one forum participant."

Joe Kovacs: 'Saturday Night Live' scorches Obama policies

"NBC comedy show ruthless in satire of president's plans"

Brother X says: "Saturday Night Live is not a real comedy organization."

Bob Parks: Obama: The Kenyan Republican

"Many of us had no idea the Republican Party had it in them, but to devise and implement such a plan was ingenious. Think about it; party leadership acting totally inept while a charismatic young Democrat presidential candidate captures the imagination of the normally lethargic youth vote, captures the senior vote, women, and even sends a thrill up the leg of the media.

"And within a few short months after attaining the presidency, he conducts himself in a manner (personally and in office) that had not only invigorated his political opponents, but has them so energized they take to the streets and even march on The Capitol (more than once). One would have to conclude Barack Hussein Obama is either the most politically clueless president ever, or… is really a stealth Republican destroying the Democrat Party from within."