Watcher’s Council Nominations – Scary Monsters Edition

JoshuaPundit on Oct 31 2012 |  Nominations

Smart kid…he knows that with Obama, it’s all tricks and no treats for him! Especially not with $180,000 worth of debt to pay off he had no say in incurring.

Welcome to the Watcher’s Council, a blogging group consisting of some of the most incisive blogs in the ‘sphere, and the longest running group of its kind in existence. Every week, the members nominate two posts each, one written by themselves and one written by someone from outside the group for consideration by the whole Council.Then we vote on the best two posts, with the results appearing on Friday.

Council News:

First off, our condolences to those of our readers who got hit hard by Sandy.Some of our esteemed Council were caught in the storm as well, and here’s hoping for a swift return to normal and a speedy recovery for everyone.

This week, Ask Marion, The Pirate’s Cove, and Maggie’s Notebook took advantage of my generous offer of linkage and earned honorable mention status with some great pieces they submitted.

You can, too! Want to see your work appear on the Watcher’s Council homepage in our weekly contest listing? Didn’t get nominated by a Council member? No worries.

Simply head over to Joshuapundit and post the title a link to the piece you want considered along with an e-mail address ( which won’t be published) in the comments section no later than Monday 6PM PST in order to be considered for our honorable mention category. Then return the favor by creating a post on your site linking to the Watcher’s Council contest for the week when it comes out Wednesday morning.

It’s a great way of exposing your best work to Watcher’s Council readers and Council members. while grabbing the increased traffic and notoriety. And how good is that, eh?

So, let’s see what we have this week….

Council Submissions

• The Noisy Room – Presidential Depraved Indifference
• The Political Commentator – A must read psychological analysis of Barack Obama!
• The Colossus of Rhodey – Delusion
• The Independent Sentinel – What Four More Years of Obamacracy Will Look Like Pt. I
• Joshuapundit - Obama Agonistes: The Fiction Cracks On Benghazi
• Simply Jews – Speculating on Iran-Israel nuclear conflict: this way insanity waits
• GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD – Little Satan”s Sudan Raid
• Bookworm Room – Found it on Facebook: Jon Stewart and the problem with modern political discourse
• The Right Planet – Torches And Pitchforks
• The Razor – Ending Radio Silence
• VA Right! - The (Political) Storm of the Century
• The Glittering Eye -Is It Objective?
• Gay Patriot – The real problem with Obama’s 2008 race speech
• Rhymes With Right – NYT Castle Doctrine Article Exposes Liberal Hypocrisy
• The Mellow Jihadi – Malala Yousufzai, the Martin Luther King Jr of Pakistan

Honorable Mentions

• Ask Marion – Benghazi Alert: How Can Americans Trust a Commander in Chief Like This… With Our Country… Our Lives… Our Children and Grandchildren? We Cannot!
• Maggie’s Notebook – Are These The Last Days Of Great Britain?
• The Pirate’s Cove – Surprise! NY Times Calls For Big Government For A Big Storm

Non-Council Submissions

• Mark Steyn – Benghazi bungle requires act of urgent political hygiene submitted by The Noisy Room
• The American Civil Rights Union -Benghazi: Obama’s Actions Amount to a Shameful Dereliction of Duty submitted by The Political Commentator
• Buckhorn Road – Just in case you were unsure who the NEA supports for President.. submitted by The Colossus of Rhodey
• Michelle Malkin – What about the Camp Bastion attack? submitted by The Independent Sentinel
• Andre McCarthy – The Real Foreign Policy Failure submitted by Joshuapundit
• Yourish – Rocket fire from Gaza, bias from AP submitted by Simply Jews
• The Arabist – Nasser, the Muslim Brothers, and the Veil submitted by GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD
• The Anchoress-Benghazigate: What is being lied about, going unasked? submitted by Bookworm Room
• American Thinker – Stand Down Obama and Biden, Stand Down submitted by The Right Planet
• The People’s Cube – A Brief Time Out for Science: Obamacronium Explained submitted by The Razor
• Warner Todd Huston – Obama Pays Off Chicago and County $100 Million a Year Federal Waiver submitted by VA Right!
• Via Meadea – Nature and Nature’s God submitted by The Glittering Eye
• Works And Days -Why Liberals Think What They Do submitted by Gay Patriot
• Doug Ross – The Science Is Settled: Global Warming Responsible for Worst-Ever Storm to Hit New York submitted by Rhymes with Right
• Castra Praetoria – Marine Genes II submitted by The Mellow Jihadi
• Zero Hedge – A Modern Day Fuedal System For Real Estate submitted by The Watcher
• Hot Air – Dept. of Energy e-mails contradict Obama denials on another green energy failure submitted by The Watcher

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Benghazi Alert: How Can Americans Trust a Commander in Chief Like This… With Our Country… Our Lives… Our Children and Grandchildren? We Cannot!

Although many realized immediately that Benghazi was a terrorist attack and that the Obama administration knew about the attacks on 9/11 within hours if not beforehand, but the day after the last presidential debate of 2012, and every day since, we have learned of emails and additional details that broke the news definitively that the Obama administration watched our Embassy being attacked and our Ambassador and 3 other Americans being murdered in real time, yet they told groups and people who could have helped to stand down.  We also now know definitively that President Obama and Hillary Clinton lied to the American people as well as to the the parents of those killed in Benghazi… and that presidential candidate Mitt Romney, who was vilified by the Obama administration over his comments on the event, was right.

Video: Special Report Investigates: Death and Deceit In Benghazi with Bret Baier

Video: Greta Van Susteren with UN Ambassador Bolton on Benghazi Emails

Video: Benghazi Gate Analzyed & Exposed by Brigitte Gabriel, Tom McInerney, Kirk Lippold, & Gary Bernsten

Video:  Leaks, Lies, Libya…Lack of Leadership

If there was any question that President Obama was an amateur, incompetent or had no problem lying to the American people this event answers those questions and doubts.  President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s entire foreign policy has unraveled before our eyes since 9/11/2012.  If it was not so close to an election, they should be impeached… recalled… fired. But with election of 2012 being less than two weeks away, these events should seal the deal… yet the mainstream media is still protecting the president.

Senator McCain says Obama’s Libya handling is either a ‘massive coverup’ or gross incompetence verifying that President Obama is The Amateur many have accused him of being or The Great Destroyer believed of him by others.  Either way America is in trouble and we cannot survive another four years with Barack Hussein Obama at the helm.

Wake-up America… we cannot have a Commander in Chief (or a secretary of state) who watches Americans being killed in real time and does nothing, and then lies about it over and over again.  If America does not elect Mitt Romney after these events, on top of everything else we know… and don’t know about this president, there aren’t words to describe what history will say about us! Team Obama is doing everything possible to keep Benghazigate from unraveling before the election and the lap dog media is juggling for positions to help him, but thanks to Fox News, insiders and Charles Woods, the father of murdered Tyrone Woods, the truth is out there for those paying attention.  Help get the word out.  America’s life as a free and great nation and your children and grandchildren’s freedoms depend on Romney-Ryan winning on November 6th, 2012!

Father Of Slain SEAL Tyrone Woods Slams "Cowards" At White House

House Armed Services Committee Chair to Obama: Your Libya Remarks Sound ‘Implausible’

‘The Stories Keep Changing’: President Stonewalls Morning Joe’s Libya Questions

Saxby Chambliss Slams White House for Libya Emails

Benghazi Cover-up Alert: New Information Details Description in Uncovered Emails Show ‘Obama Administration Knew’ About Terrorist Involvement ‘as the Attack Happened’

Father of Murdered Ex-SEAL Rips Obama for Libya Deception

Father of SEAL Slain in Benghazi Attack Demands Answers as Grisly Details Emerge

Heart Of Darkness – The Real Benghazi Coverup

Republicans Slam Obama Over Benghazi Emails

More than 20 MILLION (yes, MILLION) weapons “outside of the [Libyan] government’s control

Forbes: White House Watched Benghazi Attacked And Didn’t Respond

Amb. John Bolton ‘On the Record’

Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld goes ‘On the Record’ on the new suspicions of an Obama administration cover-up in the Libyan US consulate attack

What does Mike Scheuer, former head of the Odama Bin Laden Issue Station think about how the White House has handled the Benghazi attack? Click to find out

Greta Van Susteren: Candy Crowley ‘Clumsy’ on Benghazi Debate Interjection

American Intelligence –> UPDATED INFO ON BENGHAZI ATTACK

Body of lies from Benghazi to Barack — Comprehensive investigative report

Colonel: Hillary Made Decision Not to Post Marines at Benghazi

The Media is the Real Enemy

Bombshell: Obama Administration Withdrew 16 Member Special Forces Team From Libya One Month Before Attack

Hillary Clinton Aide Tells Reporter To “F _ck Off” And “Have A Good Life”

Glenn Beck: Suggesting Libya Embassy Attack Was Planned — American People Being Set Up!

Hillary Clinton, the Law of Karma, and Shattered Dreams

All Starting to Unravel for Obama… and Hillary

Winston Churchill once said, “An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile hoping it will eat him last…

Acts of War

Disgrace in Benghazi

No Marines for Libyan Ambassador, Full Security Detail for Valerie Jarrett Vacation

REPORT: Obama administration was warned about attacks, did nothing – 9.14.12

We Can No Longer Trust a Beclowned American Media…

Day Late… Dollar Short… Spinner in Chief

U.S. Embassy Attacked: CNN Breaking News @ 14:06 EDST on 9/11, From Egypt… Then Libya, No Comments From Obama – Updated

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CNN's ‘Liberal’ Erin Burnett Takes Apart Obama... (VIDEO)

Video:  CNN's Erin Burnett Takes Apart Obama

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Forum – Is DOMA Unconstitutional?

JoshuaPundit on Oct 29 2012 at 12:36 am - The Council Forum

Last week, the New York State Appeals Court ruled that the Defense of Marriage Act was unconstitutional.

The ruling itself was based on a very narrow criteria, since there was a plaintiff that obviously suffered financial damages because of a spousal deduction she would otherwise have received on the estate tax on her deceased partner’s estate as a result. But with the Supreme Court set to rule on the Constitutionality of California’s Proposition 8, this week the Council addresses the question: Is DOMA unconstitutional? How will the recent ruling affect coming Supreme Court ruling on Same Sex Marriage?:

The Independent Sentinel: I don’t want the federal government involved in this at all. I prefer it be a states rights issue. I feel the same way about abortion. I am opposed to big government and I am against changing the constitution for social issues.

I think DOMA will be found unconstitutional but I think it should be found Constitutional on the basis of states rights and the right of people to choose.

I will become concerned about this issue if it begins to affect freedom of religion. Religions that only marry one man and one woman must be allowed to do so or I don’t think we can call ourselves free any longer.

I believe the only civil rights issue in this country is the abuse of African-Americans through slavery and decades of oppression. No other issue, not even an important social choice issue, should take away from that.

The Colossus of Rhodey: It seems the main problem the recent court ruling against DOMA has is with the law’s Section 3 which defines marriage *federally* as between a man and a woman. The ruling invoked “equal protection;” if the SCOTUS rules as the circuit court did, it will enshrine a right to collect benefits (from the feds) for legally married gay couples. BUT — it wouldn’t necessarily mean that the rest of DOMA would be stricken. The Act allows states to decide whether they want to recognize gay marriages (and those performed in other states), and a cursory reading of the Constitution’s Article IV shows that this part of the law *should be* constitutional re: the Full Faith and Credit Clause. The Clause notes that “And the Congress may by general Laws prescribe the Manner in which such Acts, Records and Proceedings shall be proved, and the Effect thereof.” In other words, those in favor of striking the entire law would have to demonstrate how Congress does *not* have the right to prescribe how its laws are enacted, or, in this case, why another state would *not* have the right to refuse to recognize a gay marriage performed in another state.

It will be difficult to guess what the SCOTUS will rule. If the states still get to decide the question of marriage, then could a gay couple still be able to collect federal benefits from a non-gay marriage state (if they were “married,” in a state which allowed such, but they didn’t actually *reside* in such a state)? If so, how and why? Or, can only those who were [gay] married in a state which allowed such unions be permitted to collect such benefits?

The Glittering Eye: There are two ways of answering that question. The answer in law is absolutely, positively not. But the practical answer is different. The practical answer is that whatever the currently sitting Supreme Court justices say is unconstitutional is unconstitutional.

I’m guessing that, considering that there’s a majority of sexual libertarians on the court,the present Court will strike down the DOMA.

The Noisy Room: Yes, DOMA is unconstitutional for the simple reason that its foundation premise, that government has any business moderating marriage, is fundamentally broken. DOMA falls into that broader fascist category of “good ideas enforced at gun point.” If a constitutional foundation can be found and established for the concept that government is somehow the appropriate arbiter of the act of marriage at all, then a case can be made for DOMA because to the degree that government brokers marriage, government must then define it. However, the constitution offers no support for what was at the time a cultural and religious construct which more modernly, has been annexed as one of the “proper functions” of government.

I don’t see any constitutional support for it and in fact, it plays into the concept that government can replace religion. And this is one of the greasier slopes on which one can embark. This goes further to a broader premise that government somehow owns “citizens,” or as the British prefer to call them, “subjects.” As the premise broadens, it encroaches on education (all your kids are belong to us) and “health and welfare.” We have to keep you healthy so you are productive, our revenue depends on it. This, then, “logically” flows into mandated morality, and while actual crime is a province of government, what you eat for breakfast, how you iron your shirts and with whom you spend your nights is not. See Atlas Shrugged.

So, although this is a blatant attempt to pander to the gay community by Obama, DOMA is not constitutional in my viewpoint. Marriage is a personal (or religious) act, not a government province.

Bookworm Room: Yes, I do believe that DOMA is unconstitutional. The Constitution does not contemplate marriage at a federal level. For that reason, it is a matter that, technically speaking, should be left to the states. Having said that, let’s get to the modern wrinkles. When the Constitution was ratified, the Founders could not have imagined same-sex marriage. It did not exist at the time. Had the notion existed, the Founders might have chosen to address marriage in the Constitution for one very specific reason: The full faith and credit clause, which obligates each state to recognize the duly passed laws of the other states. The problem with laws that provide fundamentally different definitions of marriage (such as those allowing polygamy or same sex marriage) is that, as people move from one state to another, they may be legally married in State A, but not in State B. Any subsequent property, child custody, or third party contract disputes become a nightmare.

With new definitions of marriage never imagined by the Founders, the correct way to deal with the issue is through a Constitutional amendment. If I could draft the amendment, I would remove “marriage” from government control and leave it solely to religious institutions to “marry” people. Government should have power over “civil unions,” and that power should be exercised in whatever way is most beneficial to advance state goals of economic stability, generational property transfers, and the overall best situation for children. Civil unions could certainly encompass same sex couples. I would be loath to extend civil unions to polygamy, though, because of the problems with economic stability and generational property transfers. (England, which legally recognizes polygamous marriages from Muslim countries, demonstrates that, in a Western culture, it’s hard for a single man to support multiple women. These polygamous families end up using welfare disproportionately.)

I’m deeply concerned that, if same sex “marriage” becomes a constitutional right, we’ll have a major constitutional clash between church and state, one that makes the current fight over funding abortion look like a kindergarten party. Think of it: In the Catholic faith, marriage is a sacrament. Can you imagine what will happen to the First Amendment freedom of religion if it crashes headlong into some new amendment mandating gay “marriage.” If, however, the state passes an amendment recognizing civil unions, churches can continue to marry whomever their doctrine recognizes.

Well, there you have it.

Make sure to tune in every Monday for the Watcher’s Forum. And remember, every Wednesday, the Council has its weekly contest with the members nominating two posts each, one written by themselves and one written by someone from outside the group for consideration by the whole Council. The votes are cast by the Council, and the results are posted on Friday morning.

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Prosecutors Gone Wild: The Inside Story of the Trial of Chuck Panici, John Gliottoni, and Louise Marshall

By TMH – the NoisyRoom

Kindle: Prosecutors Gone Wild: The Inside Story of the Trial of Chuck Panici, John Gliottoni, and Louise Marshall

Here is the first chapter for your reading pleasure:  

panici1

This book just came out today. It is by Michael Volpe and looks like a great read. Make sure you get your copy at Amazon.com. Here’s the book description:

At one time, Chuck Panici was an important person in suburbs directly south of Chicago. As mayor of the City of Chicago Heights, he entertained the likes of Ronald Reagan, George Bush and former Illinois Governor Jim Thompson (along with hundreds of lesser known politicians). He even became known by the monikor: “the boss of Southern Cook County.”

In 1993, all that came tumbling down. He was convicted of a number of corruption related charges including RICO charges. The trial appeared to be another textbook case of a powerful politician letting that power go to their head and eventually to corruption.

This trial also had the presence of Organized Crime. Panici was convicted on all counts.

For nearly two decades, the final word on this trial seemed to be the verdict. That is until now. In a thorough examination of the trial, this book will show the readers a whole new reality. It is a reality even the jury never saw. Finally, it’s time for the whole truth to be told.

Beyond that, this is the story of a man from humble beginnings who rose to great accomplishments.

What does it take to live an epic life? How about conquering the sports, business and political world before being falsely accused and convicted of a number of federal crimes and spending nearly ten years in a federal prison.

Finally, you live long enough so that at the end of your life, the whole entire story is told.

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The End of "Bill of Rights"

US Senate votes to end Bill of Rights,  authorizes military to occupy U.S. cities and detain Americans

Natural News:

In a stunning move that has civil libertarians stuttering with disbelief, the U.S. Senate has passed a bill that effectively ends the Bill of Rights in America.

This bill, passed late last night in a 93-7 vote, declares the entire USA to be a "battleground" upon which U.S. military forces can operate with impunity, overriding Posse Comitatus and granting the military the unchecked power to arrest, detain, interrogate and even assassinate U.S. citizens with impunity.

It's being called the most traitorous act ever witnessed in the Senate, and the language of the bill is cleverly designed to make you think it doesn't apply to Americans, but toward the end of the bill it essentially says it can apply to Americans "if we want it to."

Even WIRED magazine was outraged at this bill, reporting:

...the detention mandate to use indefinite military detention in terrorism cases isn’t limited to foreigners. It’s confusing, because two different sections of the bill seem to contradict each other, but in the judgment of the University of Texas’ Robert Chesney — a nonpartisan authority on military detention — “U.S. citizens are included in the grant of detention authority.”

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/12/senate-military-detention/

The passage of this law is nothing less than an outright declaration of WAR against the American People by the military-connected power elite. If this is signed into law, it will shred the remaining tenants of the Bill of Rights and unleash upon America a total military dictatorship, complete with secret arrests, secret prisons, unlawful interrogations, indefinite detainment without ever being charged with a crime, the torture of Americans and even the "legitimate assassination" of U.S. citizens right here on American soil!

If you have not yet woken up to the reality of the police state we've been warning you about, I hope you realize we are fast running out of time. Once this becomes law, you have no rights whatsoever in America -- no due process, no First Amendment speech rights, no right to remain silent, nothing.

Read my red alert warning on this urgent development at:  http://www.naturalnews.com/034291_SB_1867_war_on_terror.html

... and watch this urgent interview with Alex Jones of InfoWars.com at: http://www.infowars.com/stewart-rhodes-crossroads-ndaa-bill-is-pure-treason/

The mainstream media is engaged in a shameful and conspiratorial news blackout of this entire issue:http://www.businessinsider.com/the-medias-blackout-of-the-national-defense-authorization-act-is-shameful-2011-12

... and even the ACLU is outraged about this potential law:  http://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security/senate-rejects-amendment-banning-indefinite-detention

Are you getting all this? Do you realize America is about to be overrun by our own military?

The rule of law is about to be utterly destroyed. No due process. No legal representation. Not even a right to know what you're being charged with when you are (indefinitely) detained.

This is an urgent time for action to protest the overreaching military police state in America. Immediately call your representatives in Washington and urge your House members to reject this bill in the reconciliation phase with the Senate. Call the office of the President and urge Obama to veto this bill if it is passed by both houses.

Call your local newspapers and protest this outrageous and traitorous attempt to nullify the entire Bill of Rights.

Do not be fooled by the trolls and disinfo agents who claim this bill does not apply to U.S. citizens -- a fact which has already been established without question. If this is signed into law, military humvees will roll down the streets in U.S. cities, with gunpoint checkpoints, illegal arrests, secret torture operations and the outright murder of U.S. citizens right in their own home towns.

In observing all this, you might ask WHY is this happening right now? Why would the U.S. Senate deliberately nullify the Bill of Rights and seek to authorize military action on the streets of U.S. cities?

The answer, my friends, will not comfort you: A global economic collapse is coming, and once started, it will likely unleash a wave of social unrest and rioting that could burn many U.S. cities to the ground. The U.S. Senate is probably trying to rush authorization of the military to operate in American cities before the economic collapse arrives, thereby placing troops deep within the roughest U.S. cities where they stand a chance at halting the runaway riots that are sure to materialize when peoples' life savings vanish as the banks collapse.

Keep reading NaturalNews.com for updates on this situation. We will continue to cover the Eurozone economic crisis as well as this Senate bill 1867, which is not yet law. Our last-ditch hope would be for Obama to veto it. We'll issue a red alert if that action is needed...

And remember, folks, the Bill of Rights protects us all -- liberals, conservatives, libertarians, agnostics, Christians, Jews, everybody! If you lose the Bill of Rights, you lose America and all the freedoms many generations have fought for. Right now protecting the Bill of Rights is perhaps the single most important thing we can do for our collective futures.

All of us who have been screaming about the importance of the U.S. Constitution have been trying to protect YOU from exactly this kind of scenario. The whole purpose of the Bill of Rights is tolimit the power of government so that this kind of Senate action is never allowed.

MBY NOTE 

Not only has the Senate voted for this bill, while many Americans were SLEEPING, but another bill was passed under American's noses as the media has kept quiet concerning our freedom of speech.

Watch and wake up, these bills are being passed before the elections, and I wonder why, an economic collapse possibly?  Yes, but also the president/dictator is passing these laws to take over, possibly before the elections or before Romney is sworn into office February 2013.  

Suppressing Free Speech:  http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=7SGWH3kirzg&vq=medium  -  The Bill of Rights is about gone and the free speech in America is now gone.  America is NOW OFFICIALLY a FASCIST country and when the Bill of Rights is gone it will be officially a COMMUNIST country.

Get out there while you still have a chance… right now!  This is the most important election of your life time!!  Vote and promote Romney-Ryan.  If Obama wins again there will be no turning back!

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Saxby Chambliss Slams White House for Libya Emails

Politico (By KATIE GLUECK | 10/24/12 7:17 AM EDT):

A senior senator slammed the Obama administration on Wednesday and called for additional hearings on Libya after emails surfaced showing that White House officials knew within hours that an Islamic militant group was taking responsibility for the attacks on the Benghazi-based U.S. Consulate there.

“I don’t know what the White House’s problem has been through this whole thing,” said Sen. Saxby Chambliss, the vice chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, on Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends.” “Here’s what really concerns me: You’ve got four Americans dead, you’ve got an ambassador, a very important person in any administration, dead — and you don’t have the president out there getting briefed on a regular basis, you don’t have the president informing the public about what happened to four key Americans.”

The Georgia Republican’s comments came a day after a report from Reuters indicated that White House and State Department officials “were advised two hours after attackers assaulted the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi on Sept. 11 that an Islamic militant group had claimed credit for the attack,” according to official emails.

The question of when the Obama administration acknowledged that the attacks in Benghazi resulted from terrorism, rather than from “spontaneous” protests in response to an anti-Islam video, has been a point of contention between Republicans and Democrats for weeks, hitting a boiling point during the second presidential debate.

When asked whether he would pursue hearings on Libya as vice chairman of the select committee, Chambliss said, “we are,” adding that he and Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), who chairs the committee, have had “a couple of conversations about this.”

“I told her, I said I think we need to have an open hearing — which is unusual for us, most of ours are classified — but we need to have an open hearing, we need to get the intelligence officials in and just let them lay it out there,” Chambliss said. “This thing is getting more and more traction, more and more legs, and it’s getting uglier every day. And I think the thing we need to do is be honest with the American people — and say, here’s what we knew, here’s when we knew it, here’s what the president knew and when the president knew it.”

Three members of the Senate Armed Services Committee sent a letter to President Barack Obama Wednesday in the wake of the report, writing that “the American people deserve answers” to myriad questions surrounding the Benghazi attacks, and the administration’s response in the days and weeks after the Sept. 11 violence in Libya.

“These emails make clear that your Administration knew within two hours of the attack that it was a terrorist act and that Ansar al-Sharia, a Libyan militant group with links to Al-Qaeda, had claimed responsibility for it,” wrote Sens. John McCain, Lindsey Graham and Kelly Ayotte. “This latest revelation only adds to the confusion surrounding what you and your Administration knew about the attacks in Benghazi, when you knew it, and why you responded to those tragic events in the ways that you did.”

McCain (R-Ariz.), Graham (R-S.C.) and Ayotte (R-N.H.) have been especially vocal critics of the administration’s handling of Libya, making the rounds for weeks on morning talk shows and issuing statements demanding answers.

“We believe the American people deserve answers to these and other questions that you and your Administration still have not adequately answered,” they wrote.

Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.), the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, argued Wednesday that there were consequences to erroneously blaming the anti-Islam video for the attacks in Benghazi.

“And why this is important — not because who did what, when, is a problem here,” Rogers said on CNN’s “Starting Point.” “It’s about the fact that decisions were made, big policy decisions, including elevating the video that, if you…read those e-mails, nothing about the video, it elevated the video and actually caused more protests across the Middle East.”

He referenced protests that occurred in places like Tunisia in the days after the Benghazi attacks.

“What I believe happened…is that somebody saw something that they thought was the way that they wanted to talk about it, versus what the facts on the ground were,” Rogers said. “Because, think about it, even when that narrative was starting to develop, ‘Oh, this was spontaneous, it wasn’t planned, it wasn’t really a terrorist attack,’ on Sept. 13, we had another jihadist attack on an embassy in Tunisia….So you see this pattern of activity; it’s really hard to come to this conclusion that was just spontaneous, and just kind of happened. So that’s what we’re trying to figure out.”

Hillary Clinton… tap dancing and trying to save her political future said that the Republicans are cherry picking emails.  Read more at: Hillary Clinton urges caution on newly released emails detailing Libya attack. 

People in the know, people who were paying attention or just have good instincts, and most in the intelligence committee knew from day… no, moment one, that Benghazi was a terrorist attack and that Ambassador Stevens and the other men killed there were worried about their lives because of lack of security.  And nobody believed that the Benghazi attacks we spontaneous or had anything to do with an amateur hardly watched video.  There is no doubt much more to this cover-up and and what they are covering up and it will no doubt be long after the election before we get the details, if ever.  But Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney was right in his initial assessment, yet the media allowed the Team Obama demonize him.  Wake-up America… vote Romney-Ryan on November 6th. Team Obama is doing everything possible to keep Benghazigate from unraveling before the Election.

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Watcher’s Council Nominations – Horses And Bayonets Edition

JoshuaPundit on Oct 24 2012

To send President Obama’s snide little comment from last night’s debate right back at him, he needs to find out how our military actually works. He could start by talking to a Marine or a soldier who’s had his or her life saved because he or she knew how to put their bayonet training to use.

Or to the men of the 10th Mountain, some of whom I’m honored to be acquainted with, who participated in an amazing but undereported endeavor known as Operation Mountain Thrust. It involved them landing by helicopter on the side of a mountain to outflank the Taliban, a position the jihadist thought was inaccessible. Horses and donkeys were used to cart supplies in on a daily basis.

Welcome to the Watcher’s Council, a blogging group consisting of some of the most incisive blogs in the ‘sphere, and the longest running group of its kind in existence. Every week, the members nominate two posts each, one written by themselves and one written by someone from outside the group for consideration by the whole Council.Then we vote on the best two posts, with the results appearing on Friday.

Council News:

This week, The Grouch and The Pirate’s Cove took advantage of my generous offer of link whorage and earned honorable mention status with some excellent pieces they sent in.

You can, too! Want to see your work appear on the Watcher’s Council homepage in our weekly contest listing? Didn’t get nominated by a Council member? No worries.

Simply head over to Joshuapundit and post the title a link to the piece you want considered along with an e-mail address ( which won’t be published) in the comments section no later than Monday 6PM PST in order to be considered for our honorable mention category Then just return the favor by creating a post on your site linking to the Watcher’s Council contest for the week when it comes out Wednesday AM.

It’s a great way of exposing your best work to Watcher’s Council readers and Council members. while grabbing the increased traffic and notoriety. And how good is that, eh?

So, let’s see what we have this week….

Council Submissions

• The Right Planet – Mr. President, Here’s What Offends Me …
• The Noisy Room – A Red and Present Danger
• GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD – Austere Challenge 2012
• Joshuapundit - Heart Of Darkness – The Real Benghazi Coverup
• Simply Jews –  “Lomonosov or Zuckerberg?” or unbearable pain of a good priest
• The Colossus of Rhodey – Update to Education Notes Post
• Bookworm Room – Romney, even if he didn’t win the debate, walked out of the debate a winner
• The Independent Sentinel – Romney Ran Out the Clock to Victory During Third Debate
• Gay Patriot – Only people who call gay Republicans “faggots” sit on political left
• The Mellow Jihadi – The Appearance of Competence
• The Glittering Eye -The Endorsements Are Coming In
• VA Right! - From Strategy to Execution: Who Won the 2012 Presidential Debates?
• Rhymes With Right – Zero Tolerance Gone Crazy
• The Political Commentator – “Bar Stool Economics” helps to explain taxes Obama-style!
• The Razor – Rural Justice

Honorable Mentions

• The Grouch – Death Panels are HERE!
• The Pirate’s Cove – Hooray! With Two Weeks Left, Obama Finally Finds An Agenda

Non-Council Submissions

• Emmaus Ministries – Col. Davy Crockett on Government Welfare submitted by The Right Planet
• Sultan Knish – Obama’s Last Stand submitted by The Noisy Room
• Swampland – The Election’’s Real Foreign Policy Issue: War with Iran submitted by GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD
• Bing West – First, Aid the Living submitted by Joshuapundit
• BBC Watch – BBC interviewee’s support for Greta Berlin’s antisemitic videos submitted by Simply Jews
• The Guardian UK – Secret cinema gently subverts Saudi Arabia’s puritanism submitted by The Colossus of Rhodey
• White House Dossier -Romney’’s Brilliant Maneuver submitted by Bookworm Room
• Yid With Yid – Here Comes the Obama Hit Squad! submitted by The Independent Sentinel
• Commentary -War of the Late October Gaffes submitted by Gay Patriot
• Right Wing News – Interviewing Stephen Moore On The Truth About Opportunity, Taxes, and Wealth In America submitted by The Mellow Jihadi
• Glenn Greenwald/Comment Is Free – The remarkable, unfathomable ignorance of Debbie Wasserman Schultz submitted by The Glittering Eye
• Human Events – Obama’s “Horses and Bayonets” Insult Backfires submitted by VA Right!
• Prairie Pundit – Foreign election ‘observers’ warned to abide by Texas law submitted by Rhymes with Right
• The Investigative Project On Terrorism – A Red Carpet for Radicals at the White House submitted by The Watcher
• Seraphic Secret – Debate #3: The Statesman and the Community Agitator submitted by The Watcher

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A Red and Present Danger

By: Terresa Monroe-Hamilton - The Noisy Room

BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: This is my last election. And after my election, I have more flexibility.

DMITRY MEDVEDEV, RUSSIAN PRESIDENT: I understand you. I transmit this information to Vladimir…

This is the most important election of our lifetime – hands down. As our enemies from within and without gather to finish gutting the US military and our ability to protect the last, best hope in the free world, everything rides on the Mormon, Mitt Romney, or the Marxist, Barack Obama. My vote is for the Mormon who has morals, ethics and the business and foreign affairs experience to begin to right our adrift American Titanic and keep her from sinking. Even then, it’s going to be a rough ride, but at least we have a chance of surviving as the country we know and love.

This past week, researcher and author, Trevor Loudon, made an impassioned plea for Americans to look at what is really going on. To face the fact that China has just recently made an offer to the Australians that they are not supposed to refuse. The offer is simple… Choose. Choose between the declining, weakened power of the US or choose the rising red tide of China. China is threatening to become the world’s leading economic and military power. They are heavily training their military on the Fiji Islands off of New Zealand. They are preparing for war and conquest.

From Trevor Loudon:

Right now at the bottom of the South Pacific, a lot of people email me and they say, look, if Obama gets back in again, can we come and live in New Zealand? And I say, look, it’s a wonderful country, you’ll enjoy it, but really there is no where to run now. Just 1500 miles to the north of my country lie the beautiful Fijian Islands – great tourist destination, but they now have a Marxist government. The Chinese are training the Fijian military, building big hydro-electric dams on the islands. Fiji is basically now a Chinese client state.

Just a few months ago the Australian Minister Defense was up in China and a top Chinese official embarrassed him publicly. He said now is the time for Australia to choose. Do you stay under American protection or do you come under Chinese protection? And that is the kind of offer, the kind of protection that Tony Soprano would offer you. AND this would not have happened under Reagan, Bush or even Clinton.

And from OilPrice.com:

One of the more startling pronouncements in this vein occurred last week when Song Xiaojun, a former senior officer of the People’s Liberation Army, warned that Australia cannot juggle its relationships with the United States and China indefinitely and “Australia has to find a godfather sooner or later. Australia always has to depend on somebody else, whether it is to be the ‘son’ of the US or ‘son’ of China. (It) depends on who is more powerful, and based on the strategic environment.” Noting the rising importance of China as an export market Song added that Australia depended on exporting iron ore to China “to feed itself,” but “Frankly, it has not done well politically.”

What is also notable about Song’s remarks is that they coincided with Australian Foreign Minister Bob Carr’s first official visit to China, where Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi urged Australia to dismiss its alliance with the United States, a decades-old bipartisan and central pillar of the nation’s foreign policy, as “the time for Cold War alliances has passed.”

Russia held exercises last Friday, testing their nuclear arsenal for the first time since the end of the Soviet Union (which never really ended – it was only mostly dead and playing possum). Shift uniforms, scream Capitalism and shuffle the players – now done in reverse.

Iran is within weeks of having nuclear weapons and is already poking the badger of Israel, sending drones into their airspace. They want to control the Middle East and stand a good chance of doing so with a little help from the Muslim Brotherhood and Russia. In the meanwhile, they will further World War III and nuke Israel if they get an opening. Bring on the apocalypse.

Despots of a feather always flock together… It would seem that Obama’s biggest foreign fans are murdering asshats. So it is no surprise that Chavez, Castro and Putin have all endorsed Barack Obama. Why not? Better to gut the US military once and for all and then take America down for the count. Castro may be on his deathbed, but there are plenty to take his place. Chavez is busy helping Assad slaughter Syrians, which is in reality, helping Iran. And Putin is behind most of it, waiting in the wings to pick up the pieces. For dictators, it is indeed good times.

Obama was brought up by radicals and Communists. He was mentored by Communists. He has filled his positions of power and influence with Communists and radicals – many among them are with the Muslim Brotherhood. As his Secretary of Defense, he chose Leon Panetta who has many Communist ties and has always stated his primary purpose was to gut our military – exactly what the Communists in Russia have wanted forever and have financed in this country through Communistic peace front groups. If Obama gets four more years, our military, which has already been hugely reduced, will be neutered once and for all and when we are at our weakest, our enemies will descend. How do I know this? It is what I would do. I would weaken my opponent as much as I could and then go for the kill – it is Military Strategy for Dummies.

Not to vote, is to vote for Barack Obama and the end of America as we know her. It will be the final nail in our red, white and blue coffin. So, we must all vote and get everyone we know to vote for Romney – vote as if our lives and our children’s lives depend on it, because they do. I truly hope that Romney cleans Obama’s clock in the final debate on foreign policy and I am sure he will. Then on November 6th, 2012, God willing, let there be a landslide victory for Mitt Romney. Barack Obama is a red and present danger and must be defeated in November.

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Barack Obama and the Enemies Within

Watcher’s Council Nominations – Post Second Presidential Debate Edition - Was Obama Wearing an Ear Piece?

Did Obama Use an Earpiece for Cues at Debate?

KEEP LISTENING TO/WATCHING THE DEBATE YOU CAN SEE IT SO CLEAR THAT OBAMA PAUSES TO LISTEN FOR EARPIECE NEXT SENTENCE TO SAY.

OBAMA CANNOT SPEAK FOR HIMSELF. HE HAS GONE ON TONS OF VACATONS, TONS OF GOLF, AND TONS OF GAMBLING IN VEGAS.

OBAMA HAS NO CLUE WHAT IS GOING ON.

GET THIS OUT DAILY. AMERICA HAS TO WAKE UP! NOW WE ALL HAVE TO GET ON BOARD AND GET OUR VOTING OUT OF THE HANDS OF GEORGE SOROS OR WE ARE SUNK.

Ask Marion~

Watcher’s Council Nominations – Post Second Presidential Debate Edition

JoshuaPundit on Oct 17 2012

Welcome to the Watcher’s Council, a blogging group consisting of some of the most incisive blogs in the ‘sphere, and the longest running group of its kind in existence. Every week, the members nominate two posts each, one written by themselves and one written by someone from outside the group for consideration by the whole Council.Then we vote on the best two posts, with the results appearing on Friday.

This week’s contest is dedicated to Mitt Romney, for grace under pressure and for coming out on top in a two on one.

Council News:

This week, Right Truth , Maggie’s Notebook and The Pirate’s Cove took advantage of my generous offer of link whorage and earned honorable mention status.

You can, too! Want to see your work appear on the Watcher’s Council homepage in our weekly contest listing? Didn’t get nominated by a Council member? No worries.

Simply head over to Joshuapundit and post the title a link to the piece you want considered along with an e-mail address ( which won’t be published) in the comments section no later than Monday 6PM PST in order to be considered for our honorable mention category, and return the favor by creating a post on your site linking to the Watcher’s Council contest for the week.

It’s a great way of exposing your best work to Watcher’s Council readers and Council members. while grabbing the increased traffic and notoriety. And how good is that, eh?

So, let’s see what we have this week….

Council Submissions

• Joshuapundit - What The Reaction To The VP Debate Proves About The Left
• The Noisy Room – Cyber Smoke Screen
• The Independent Sentinel – False Benghazi Narrative Exposed, Bizarre Finger Pointing, a Leaderless White House
• The Razor – You Can’t End Racism by Being Racist
• The Political Commentator – What type of airline would Obama Air be?
• Simply Jews – Gideon Levy and the ugly act of not-rape
• GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD – Will Girl Power Save Pakistan?
• The Colossus of Rhodey – Hillary Clinton has more balls than Boss Obama
• The Right Planet – Fed Up with ‘Middle Class’
• VA Right! - Voters Find ‘Mitt the Monster’ a Complete Fabrication by the Left
• Gay Patriot – No, Mrs. Clinton didn’t fall on her sword over Benghazi
• The Glittering Eye - Why Unemployment Stays High, Simply Explained
• Rhymes With Right – Is Joe Biden Calling Catholic Bishops Liars?
• The Mellow Jihadi – Major Andrew Olmsted: Blogger, American Hero
• Bookworm Room – Found it on Facebook — Planned Parenthood’s attack on Paul Ryan

Honorable Mentions

• Right Truth – Accusations Fly In Continued In Benghazi-gate Scandal
• Maggie’s Notebook – Holder Seeks to Dismiss Fast And Furious Lawsuit
• The Pirate’s Cove – Oops: Another Obama Supported Green Energy Company Goes Belly Up

Non-Council Submissions

• Lara Logan – ‘We’re Being Lied to’ submitted by Joshuapundit
• Sultan Knish – The Odd Couple of Barack and Joe submitted by The Noisy Room
• Yid With Lid – Newsbusted: Pennsylvania Dems Holding Voter Registration Drives at Cemeteries submitted by The Independent Sentinel
• Huffington Post – Black People For Obama: African-American Support For Obama Called Prejudice, Blind Loyalty submitted by The Razor
• Israel Hayom - Alone, among neo-Nazis submitted by The Political Commentator
• The Commentator – The banal realities of Israel’s self-defence submitted by Simply Jews
• LSE – Germany and Israel: Is It Friendship? submitted by GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD
• Camile Paglia/WSj – How Capitalism Can Save Art submitted by The Colossus of Rhodey
• Allen West – Field Of Dreams submitted by The Right Planet
• Shark Tank – Wasserman Schultz’s ‘Mile-High’ Campaign Dilemma submitted by VA Right!
• The Corner/David Gelernter - Re: Biden Won on Points submitted by Gay Patriot
• Joshua Gans/Digitopoly – A Nobel Prize for Market Design submitted by The Glittering Eye
• Big Lizards – Obama’s October (yawn) Surprise? submitted by Rhymes with Right
• Amil Imani – Criminalizing The Defamation of Islam submitted by The Mellow Jihadi
• Gates And Vienna – Faceless In The Park submitted by The Watcher
• Dennis Prager – Joe Biden’s True Religion submitted by The Watcher

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