Politiks As Usual: In The News 2/23/14

Sex-Obsessed Lefty Horrified by 'Toxic Purity Culture'

NYC: More Black Babies Killed by Abortion Than Born 

Jimmy Fallon, Democrat Political Asset 
 
George W. Bush: I Have a Duty to War Vets
 
Michigan Democrat Threatens to Shut Down TV Stations Airing Anti-Obamacare Ad
 
CNN Cancels 'Piers Morgan Live'
 
Networks Ignore FCC Plan to Investigate Newsrooms
 
Former Justice Stevens: Change 2nd Amendment to Improve Constitution
 
NFL To Punish Use Of N-word
 
Girl Scout Sets Up Shop Outside A Marijuana Clinic
 
The de Blasio de Bacle: New NYC Mayor Off to a Hilariously Horrific Start
 
Bill Maher Confronts Maddow over MSNBC’s Christie Hysteria: ‘It’s Not Watergate!’

President George W. Bush on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

 

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Politiks As Usual: In The News 6/17/13

Environmental Advocates, Visitors Question Removal of BP Oil Cleaning Crews in Gulf

Plane Carrying George W. Bush Diverted After Smell of Smoke

ENDA and the Coming Wave of Lawsuits

Latest Liberal Talking Point: You're Obamaphobic

Obama: 'There Will Never Be a Substitute For' Fathers; Obama's DOJ: Children Don't Need Fathers

No Conservatives on Columbia School of Journalism Gay Marriage Panel 

TMI: John Stamos to Host Entire Show About ‘Losing Your Virginity’

Greenwald Slams Media for Backing Obama's Domestic Surveillance When They Opposed Bush's

Rubio: Obama's Inaction on Syria Led to 'Worst Possible Scenario'

Gender-Swapping 'Bathroom Bill' Passes Senate Committee in California

Obama’s ‘Social Innovation’ Slush Fund 

Morally Bankrupt President Barack Obama ‘Strongly Objects’ to Religious Liberty Amendment

Anyone who has paid attention to the white, liberal, anti-God agenda of the Obama administration shouldn't be surprised by this news:

The Obama Administration “strongly objects” to a proposed amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act that would have protected the religious rights of soldiers – including evangelical Christian service members who are facing growing hostility towards their religion.

The amendment was authored by Rep. John Fleming, R-La. It would have “required the Armed Forces to accommodate ‘actions and speech’ reflecting the conscience, moral, principles or religious beliefs of the member.”

The Obama Administration said the amendment would have a “significant adverse effect on good order, discipline, morale, and mission accomplishment.”

“With its statement, the White House is now endorsing military reprimands of members who keep a Bible on their desk or express a religious belief,” Fleming told Fox News. “This administration is aggressively hostile towards religious beliefs that it deems to be politically incorrect.”

Fleming introduced the amendment after a series of high-profile incidents involving attacks on religious liberty within the military- including an Air Force officer who was told to remove a Bible from his desk because it might give the impression he was endorsing a religion.

He said there are other reports of Christian service members and chaplains being punished for their faith.

• The Air Force censored a video created by a chaplain because it include the word “God.” The Air Force feared the word might offend Muslims and atheists.
• A service member received a “severe and possibly career-ending reprimand” for expressing his faith’s religious position about homosexuality in a personal religious blog.
• An enlisted service member received a career-ending punishment for sending personal invitations to his promotion party which mentioned that he would be providing Chick-fil-A sandwiches due to his respect for the Defense of Marriage Act.
• A senior military official at Fort Campbell sent out a lengthy email officially instructing officers to recognize “the religious right in America” as a “domestic hate group” akin to the KKK and Neo-Nazis because of its opposition to homosexual behavior.
• A chaplain was relieved of his command over a military chapel because, consistent with DOMA’s definition of marriage, he could not allow same-sex weddings to take place in the chapel.
• An enlisted service member was threatened and denied promotion by a senior NCO for expressing – during a personal conversation – his religious belief in support of traditional marriage.

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Four Years Later: George W. Bush Grows In Americans' Esteem

FoxNews.com:

When he left the White House in January 2009 after two tumultuous terms, President George W. Bush -- the only man to attain the presidency by virtue of a Supreme Court ruling and only the second son of a president to also serve as president -- was nursing an approval rating around 30 percent.

Four years later, however, public opinion has turned slowly but steadily in the former president’s direction. A nationwide Fox News poll conducted earlier this week now finds registered voters evenly split in their assessments of the 43rd president -- a verdict roughly equal to the esteem in which they hold his successor, President Obama.

As Bush prepares to attend the dedication of his presidential library in Austin, Texas, on Thursday, his increasing approval generally mirrors the trend for other former presidents, but Bush's turnaround is remarkable, given how low the numbers were when he left office. At his lowest, amid the dark days of the financial collapse in October 2008, only 23 percent rated Bush positively.

Throughout President Obama’s first term -- when the incumbent relentlessly blamed his predecessor for the state of the economy and a host of national security problems -- Bush, aside from promoting his 2010 memoir and giving a small number of paid speeches, mostly remained silent. This was in keeping with the practice of his father, George H.W. Bush, of never criticizing his successor, and it may partially explain the rise in esteem for the younger Bush.

“People are perhaps beginning to appreciate that President Bush, for all his Texas swagger, is a gentleman,” Fox News senior political analyst Brit Hume said.

“I wish that some of my fellow scholars, particularly historians and law professors and political scientists, would do what academics are supposed to do, which is to bide their time, do the actual research before proclaiming a presidency a failure,” said Stephen Knott, a U.S. Naval War College professor and author of a book about Bush. He described the Bush legacy as "unfinished."

“It takes a long time for documents, for oral history interviews, particularly classified documents, to emerge," Knott said. "And then you get a fuller, more complete picture of a presidency.”

Presidential historian Douglas Brinkley said he wasn't surprised by Bush's rising approval rating.

“We pummel presidents when they’re in the White House," said Brinkley, who's 2007 book "The Great Deluge" was critical of Bush's handling of the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. "We give them a hard time. Then they leave and they write a memoir that becomes an instant bestseller. Journalists ask softball questions, and then they open up a presidential library. And people forgive a lot of the mistakes and say, ‘Hey, he brought our country through some tough times.'"

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Politiks As Usual: In The News 4/22/13

 

Adam Carolla: Why Did Boston Bombing Get More Media Attention Than Texas Explosion? ‘Boston Is 3 People Dead…’

Fr. Marcel Guarnizo’s Rebuttal to Bill O’Reilly on Same-sex Marriage

Media Stumped: It's the Jihad, Stupid

No Indication Obama Will Visit Devastated West, Texas

Barack Obama’s $8 Trillion Output Gap

Erosion of Traditional Marriage Spreads

Slate Embraces Slippery Slope: Legalize Polygamy Too

Media Chorus to Silence Ted Cruz Growing Louder

Bill Clinton Honored by Gay Group Despite DOMA

Family Group: Proposed Scout Resolution Compromises Biblical Values 

George Bush Says Brother Jeb Best Man for the White House

Politiks As Usual: In The News 3/25/13

Court Shouldn't Rewrite Law On Gay Marriage

Stockton, California Heads To Bankrupt Court

Treasonous Obama Strikes Again 

Meningitis Spreading Via 'Gay' Sex

George W. Bush's Dog Paintings Continue to Impress

More Older Americans Using Marijuana

Politico Avoids Explaining Why Republican Senators Stopped Halligan Circuit Court Nomination

More Pastors Jumping Off the Rock into the Raging Waters

5 Ways To Forfeit Your Man Card

‘Sodomy: We All Have To Pay!’ Coulter Debate On ‘Nannying’ Devolves Into Battle Over Gay Bathhouses

The County Where No One's Gay

George W. Bush Will Not Be Attending Republican National Convention

Really no surprise here. The great 43rd President has said repeatedly that he's done with politics and has so far kept his word. Which is too bad for those like Bill O'Reilly who just can't accept that:

In news that should be surprising to no one, former president George W. Bush, who has been mostly keeping out of the public sphere since leaving office in 2009, will be staying out of the public sphere and not attending the Republican National Convention in Tampa next month. A spokesman for Bush confirmed the former president received an invitation to the event, but ended up declining.

Bush said in an interview earlier this week that he has no interest in getting back into politics or speaking out on current policy like other former presidents have. His absence from the convention is keeping in line with his principles.

“President Bush was grateful for the invitation,” his spokesman, Freddy Ford, said Friday in an email. He added that the 43rd president “is confident that Mitt Romney will be a great president. But he’s still enjoying his time off the political stage and respectfully declined the invitation to go to Tampa.”

George H.W. Bush is also staying away from the Tampa convention, but for personal health reasons.

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Politiks As Usual: In The News 7/9/12

CNN’s Candy Crowley Grills Obama Advisor Over Anti-Romney Attacks Rated False

Obama Downplays Weak Jobs Report; Romney Blames Him For It

The Tax Man Cometh to Police You on Obamacare

Global Warming Blame-ologists Play With Fire

Excellent: All GOP Governors Elected in 2010 Reduced Unemployment

John Boehner: Voters Need Not Love Mitt Romney

Oliver Stone Makes Another ‘Juvenile Fantasy of Bullets, Breasts and Bongs’

U.N. Proposes Global Taxes to Fund ‘Global Challenges’ Such As Climate Change 

Nasty and Crass -- Critics Love 'Louie'

Harvard Crimson Issues Correction for Using Pronoun, Says Only Proper Nouns Appropriate

Presbyterians Reject Redefinition Of Marriage

Video: George W. And The Warriors

Politiks As Usual: In The News 6/18/12

Rodney King Dead At 47

Romney Knocks 'Stopgap' Immigration Order, Won't Say Whether He'd Overturn It

  

African-Americans Increasingly Turn To Home-schooling

  

Surprise: More Illegal Immigrants Means More Competition For Jobs

  

The Scandal of Our Age

  

Obama Celebrates Anti-Police Riot Started at Mafia-Owned Bar for Transvestites

  

Obama’s Preemptive Strike for the Hispanic Vote

  

‘Game of Thrones’ Severed Bush Head a Giggle for Media

  

Glenn Beck to Launch Anti-'Glee' Show, Says He's 'Working with a Rapper'

  

Pro-Bailout Parties Take Majority in Greek Elections

  

Associated Press, 1987: 'Why Do Grown Men And Women Shout At President Reagan?'

Father's Day - A Good Time For Dads To Reflect, Change

China Apologizes to Woman Who Was Forced to Undergo Late-term Abortion

Politics As Usual: In The News 6/4/12

George Zimmerman Surrenders, Is Booked Into Florida Jail

Nigeria Seeks Answers To Fatal Crash

The False Promises Of Modern Liberalism

What's This? Obama Longs For GOP Rival Like McCain

Pelosi Predicts Scalia, Alito, Thomas or Roberts Will Side With Administration on Obamacare

Lori Lolo Jones says No-No To Sex, ‘Infuriates’ Entertainment Media

Gulp: Bloomberg’s Stunning Nanny State Overreach

Remember When the National Media Despised Recall Elections? California in 2003

Faith Leaders: Obama Losing Religious Vote

Assad: Syria Massacre Carried Out By 'Monsters'

Grading On A Curve

Bush and Obama at the White House: Why the yukfest? (+video)

Amnesty International Under Fire for Demanding Former President Bush's Arrest During Trip to Africa

Of course it's always funny watching which laws liberals like to hold up and pretend to care about. While the Bush Derangement Syndrome sufferers continue to harass the former President for having the audacity to give terrorists a hard time, they have no problem ignoring say, sanctuary cities who protect violent illegal aliens or a corrupt Obama administration that started an operation that led to the murder of a border patrol agent. But that's who they are and why they should never be taken seriously:

Former members of the George W. Bush administration assailed Amnesty International Thursday for demanding the former president's arrest while he and his family are in Africa, calling Amnesty's campaign at best a form of "harassment" and at worst a threat.


The world's largest human rights group said Thursday "there is enough evidence in the public domain" to justify Ethiopia, Tanzania or Zambia arresting the former president during his visit to the region on charges of committing "crimes under international law." The president is traveling in the three nations between Thursday and Monday to promote AIDS and cancer awareness.


"They've been trying to get any country where President Bush and Vice President Cheney visit to harass them wherever they go," former Justice Department attorney John Yoo said of Amnesty's actions.


"It could be taken as a call for violence against the president," said Brad Blakeman, a former Bush adviser who accompanied the former president to Africa in 2003.


Blakeman said Amnesty is just trying to "embarrass" the former president but the sustained campaign could be potentially dangerous.


"I think it's a threat upon ... the former president," he said.


The group said the three nations should investigate Bush's "alleged involvement in and responsibility for torture," referring to the Bush administration's use of waterboarding.


"All countries to which George W. Bush travels have an obligation to bring him to justice for his role in torture," said Matt Pollard, senior legal adviser for the American branch of AI.


But Bush officials said Amnesty's campaign at this point should be categorized as "harassment" -- particularly considering the purpose of Bush's visit.


"It shows how upside-down the human rights world is, where they're going after a president who's trying to save lives -- many, many lives. Why? Because they're upset about the treatment of three al Qaeda leaders in the war on terrorism," Yoo, who wrote memos that provided the legal basis for the CIA's Bush-era interrogation program, told FoxNews.com.

Video: George W. Bush Remembers 9/11

Newsbusters.org:

On Saturday, former President George W. Bush and his wife Laura honored the heroes of September 11th at the dedication of the Flight 93 National Memorial.


Shortly after, the Bush Center released a video in which the former President invited people to help commemorate the 10th anniversary of the attacks by contributing to a historical record for future generations.

Politiks As Usual: In The News 8/1/11

Debt Deal Vote Likely On Monday, Party Sources Say

Joe Biden Charges Secret Service Rent To Use Cottage Next To His Home

New York Times Reader Kills Dozens In Norway

Climate Change Alarmist Alarmed They're Wrong

CNN In The Tank For Gay Marriage

Woman Who Killed Kids At Center Of Custody Fight

Herman Cain Apologizes After Meeting With Muslim Leaders

UCLA's Tim Groseclose On 'How Liberal Media Bias Distorts The American Mind'

George W. Bush To Be In NYC To Mark 10th Anniversary Of 9/11

Adult Stem Cells Work Better, MSM Only Likes Embryonic Kind. Hmm.

Cancer-striken WTC Worker Gets $0 Settlement Check

Former President George W. Bush Declines President Obama's Invite to Ground Zero

FOXNews.com:

Former President George W. Bush declined an invitation from President Obama to join him on Thursday at New York City’s Ground Zero to meet with the families of 9/11 victims.


Bush appreciated the invitation, but “has chosen in his post-presidency to remain largely out of the spotlight,” David Sherzer, a Bush spokesman, said.


Ground Zero, the site of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks by Al Qaeda that felled the World Trade Center's Twin Towers, has turned into a rallying site since New Yorkers learned Usama bin Laden was killed Sunday during a raid by U.S. Navy SEALs.


Sherzer said Bush continues to celebrate this important victory in the war on terror with all Americans.

The right gesture by Barry, but I'm not at all surprised that Bush turned it down, that's not who he is. This should also kill the noise that Barry's been trying to take all the credit for killing bin Laden. Barry knows that once he got elected to the high chair he had no choice but to see the world for what it really is: pretty f--king dangerous. It's why he, like it or not, had to continue with every one of Bush's war policies, including waterboarding, which is turning out to be the reason why we finally got the man responsible for killing thousands on 9/11.

Politiks As Usual: In The News 4/4/11

George W. Bush Warns Of Fallout From Early Afghanistan Exit

AP Source: Katie Couric Leaving News Anchor Post

A Brutal Endgame In Cote d'Ivoire

Why Are Republicans Afraid Of Shutdown?

Snookipocalypse: The End Has Come

America's Marxist Media 

Rebecca Black . . . On Second Thought

Obama: 'No Amount of American Lives' Can Resolve 'Someone Else's Civil War'

HuffPo To NYTimes Mag: What In Huffpost Did You Consider 'Lefty'?

Herman Cain: Public Now Sees Obama's Weakness--He's Beatable in 2012

Ed Schultz: 'Why Are We Concerned With Who Gets Arms?'

George Soros Funded NPR in October 2000 -- For a Documentary on the 'Texas Death Machine' Under George W. Bush

Again, the NPR does not have a liberal agenda, no sirree, none whatsoever:

Matthew Boyle at the Daily Caller offered more Thursday on how NPR director of institutional giving Betsy Liley discussed with the fake Muslim front group MEAC how George Soros decided to obscure his large donation to NPR by opting against on-air announcements of his $1.8 million gift to place reporters in every state capital (perhaps complete with medical-marijuana information brochures).


But then Liley suggested to the MEAC impersonators this was not the first time Soros donated to NPR. In a classic example of Soros-enabled liberal bias, he funded a documentary about executions in the state of Texas -- on October 12, 2000! -- just as Texas Gov. George W. Bush was running for president. This was the day after Bush was questioned on the death penalty in Texas in a presidential debate. (Salon.com interviewed the documentarians under the headline "Inside the Texas Death Machine.")


This attempt at a public execution of the Bush for President campaign had multiple funders, according to the press release: "Witness to an Execution was funded in part by the Rockefeller Foundation, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Soros Foundation."


Certainly a press release is public notice of a Soros grant. But it's not as much notice as announcing the grant on NPR's air from coast to coast. From Boyle's account:


Liley brought up Soros and his nonprofit organization, the Open Society Institute, while discussing what kind of on-air publicity the Muslim Education Action Center (MEAC) Trust would want in exchange for its donation. Liley mentioned that Soros and his organization decided they didn't want on-air publicity for their donation to avoid conservatives' scrutiny.


"George Soros and the Open Society Institute gave us $1.8 million, and they have decided not to use on-air credits because of what's happening in Congress," Liley said. When the man she thought represented the fictitious Muslim Brotherhood front group asked her how Soros's donation and "what's happening in Congress," relate, Liley said conservatives tried to link Soros's donation to Williams's firing.

George W. Bush Boycotts Denver Convention, Citing Invite To Julian Assange

CBSLocal.com:

Former President George W. Bush has canceled plans to visit Denver. The former president made the decision after learning that Wikileaks founder Julian Assange was also invited to attend the same event.


Bush planned to speak at Saturday’s Young Presidents Organization’s “Global Leadership Summit” at the Convention Center on Saturday, Feb. 26, but backed out when he learned Assange was invited.
The annual conference attracts about 2,000 business leaders from 75 countries.


John Nicolakakis from South Africa told CBS4′s Tom Mustin that Bush’s decision was a disappointment.


“I do understand, but in the same breath he has let down a group of people who might have come just to see him,” said Nicolakakis.


Wikileaks has been criticized for releasing secret U.S. government and military documents.


Bush spokesman David Sherzer spoke to Mustin by phone. He said the former president “doesn’t want to share a forum with someone who has willfully and repeatedly done great harm to the interests of the United States.”

Good move Mr. President.

Liberal Media Feeling Themselves Over Barbara Bush Supporting Gay Marriage

First of all, I'm with Hot Air in asking what is the big deal about Barbara Bush "coming out" and supporting 'gay marriage' as opposed to her dad;s stance on it? Especially in a day and age where Dick Cheney has a gay daughter (who he supports) and where Meghan McCain goes on talk show after talk show opposing pretty much everything her famous Republican dad stands for? Only the liberal press is trying to make hay out of this.

But then I'll take it a step further and ask all the celebrities and wannabee celebrities who support "marriage equality" in the name of "marrying the person they love", where do they stand on polygamy? I mean, in a day and age where most people around the country are now supporting gay marriage, why don't any of these idiot gay activists show some real guts by taking their "activism" a step further and support a movement that over 50,000 people live by in the U.S . . . illegally? Really now, if marriage is a "civil right" as these nuts like to claim, then Barbara Bush and her ilk would really be supporting everyone's right to be married by getting behind the Mormons. Till then they're all cowards.

MSNBC Liberal Tool Norah O'Donnell: Bush's Book Is Popular Because He Was So Hated

Newsbusters.com:

Would you buy someone's memoir all because you hated the person?


That's the reason a Salon political writer gave MSNBC's Norah O'Donnell Friday for why George W. Bush's book is selling better than Bill Clinton's:

So Bush's unpopularity is the reason his book is so successful--yeah, that makes sense.