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Islam’s war on the world continues
“I don’t understand it. That would be like saying we weren’t at war with Nazis, because we were afraid to offend some Germans who may have been members of the Nazi Party but weren’t violent themselves.
We are at war with radical Islam, with an interpretation of Islam by a significant number of people around the world, who they believe now justifies them in killing those who don’t agree with their ideology.”
Read MoreHow social media views the Republican race
Dr. Carson and Donald Trump are also enjoying social media success. That’s why their candidacies seem to have legs. (To put the numbers above in perspective, President Obama has 45 million followers today.)
Read MoreHeal. Inspire. Revive.
Last night, Dr. Carson was Dr. Carson in the Republican debate. He clearly doesn’t grasp policy as well as the “insider” candidates. He has flip-flopped on issues several times. He is feeling his way on others.
But then Ben demonstrated why normal people love him. In his closing remarks, he identified the disease eating away at this great country:
Read MoreLiberal weapons are losing their edge
Just look at Obama’s mentors. He was tutored by a rogue’s gallery of anti-American mentors in his formative years:
Frank Marshall Davis was a communist and a pornographer. His sentiments were with the Soviet Union and Red China.
Roberto Unger is a philosopher, Brazilian politician, Obama’s former Harvard law professor, and a socialist.
Edward Said is Palestinian, an anti-colonialist, and anti-Israeli whom some say is a terrorist sympathizer.
Bill Ayers founded a communist underground group, The Weather Underground, that bombed public buildings and killed people.
The Reverend Jeremiah Wright was an anti-American, anti-Israeli preacher at the church Barack and Michelle Obama attended for two decades.
Read MoreInsiders vs. outsiders in the Republican polls
Outsiders Donald Trump and Ben Carson continue to lead beltway insiders Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz in the RealClearPolitics (RCP) average for the Republican nomination.
In Iowa, here’s how they stack up:
Read MoreThe truth about Ronald Reagan
In this presidential cycle with Obama deficits on full display, Reagan’s record is invoked to make the case that Obama’s profligacy isn’t so bad after all.
One of the most tired diatribes has been the one that says “Reagan drove up the deficits and it took Clinton to fix it.”
Read MoreDeficits during the Obama years
A Quiner’s Diner reader jumped to Barack Obama’s defense.
She cited information dispensed by the always ‘unbiased MSNBC’ (irony intended) to prove that it is Republicans, not Democrats, who are the profligate spenders of taxpayer money.
Read More“Jeb can fix it”
The Jeb Bush campaign has come up with a new campaign slogan:
“Jeb can fix it.”
Mistake.
Let’s start with the obvious. Fix what?
Read MoreGreat debate last night. Nice mix of lib bias and conservative substance.
You knew the media had their fangs out with the first question:
“What is your biggest weakness?”
Translation: why would you make a lousy president?
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