In other news…
Obamacare has so dominated the headlines it’s easy to neglect other important news. But there’s plenty of it:
I suppose this first one in connected with Obamacare, too, but it’s a different aspect of it. The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals has struck down the ACA’s birth-control mandate as violating business owners’ religious freedom. The case may ultimately go to the Supreme Court.
There has been a shooting at Los Angles airport in which several people were wounded (one critically) and a TSA agent killed. The shooter is reported to have been a white male who appeared to have been targeting TSA agents and who “pulled an assault rifle out of his bag, began to open fire in the terminal and proceeded to the TSA screening area.”
This is a nightmare scenario that’s not difficult to imagine, because the checkpoints for weapons are focused on preventing them from getting on an airplane, not the airport itself. Israel, needless to say, has different ways of dealing with these things.
Speaking of Israel—according to Caroline Glick, Israel needs to understand that Obama has and will lie to and betray it. A brief excerpt:
Since Obama first entered the White House, Netanyahu and his colleagues have used the term “strategic interests” as a euphemism for American pressure. By using the term in the context of the freeing of murderers, Netanyahu and Ya’alon made clear that the US has blackmailed Israel into keeping up concessions to the PLO despite the fact that the concessions demoralize the country, destabilize the government, embolden terrorists determined to murder still more Jews, and encourage Abbas to escalate his support for terrorism and his diplomatic war against Israel.
Read the whole thing.
And William Jacobson of Legal Insurrection covers the recent and depressing goings-on at Brown University.
Not surprised at all about that professor at Brown University, Marion Orr, apologizing for inviting Ray Kelly — from his page on the university’s website:
“He is currently gathering data for a study of the community organizing efforts of local affiliates of the Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF), a national network of local, community-based organizations founded by the late Saul Alinsky.”
While everyone is focusing on ACA little notice is being given to the major expansion of the Medicaid program to include single adults and non poor families. This is effectively national health care and a huge entitlement increase. It’s the camel’s nose under the tent.
Other news: Snowden met with Hans Christian Stré¶bele in Russia to make arrangemnets to come to Germany, presumably to tell the Germans how they have been betrayed by the US. Stré¶bele is a Green member of Parliament, whose main lifetime accomplishment was supporting the RAF terrorists, serving as their lawyer, and smuggling messages to and from them while they were in jail. In other words, one sleazebag meets another.
Point 2: According to a Washington Times piece yesterday, Obama will not attend the 150th Anniversary of the Gettysburg Address this year. On one hand, I am glad he won’t be there. On the other, this shows Obama’s feelings about America.
Regarding the LAX shooter, on an earlier thread at Ace’s, commenter “pep” replied to the headline “LAX Shooter Has Unidentified Strong Anti-Government Views” by noting:
What did the TSA do to that guy, feel up his girlfriend and confiscate all his imported wine and goods?
@Ymarsakar
That’s a question you can bet the MSM won’t ask.
It reminds me of little kids: one complains to the parent that “he hit me FOR NO REASON whatsoever.”
Sure…for no reason.
Apparently the shooter was a TSA employee.
Glick missed it: Barry’s threatening Bibi with an economic boycott that would destroy Israel’s economy.
Consequently, Bibi is compelled to kick the can down the road.
Barry bitterly resents AIPAC talking on the Hill. He fears a repeat of 2011.
All of this is sure to come to a head in 2014.
Iran is spooling up ever larger numbers of ultra-centrifuges.
The ONE disadvantage of U235 explosive: utilization of neutrons is very, very poor. The mass required is so large that it’s unsuitable for missile warheads.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS-6_Sapwood
The Sapwood/ R-7/ Semyorka was scaled large on the assumption that it should be able to throw either Uranium or Plutonium warheads.
By the time it reached operational status Hydrogen Bombs had been perfected, making the original schemes dated. The Wiki claims that the Sapwood never reached operational status. This is false. The USSR had a single Sapwood base in Estonia during the Cuban Missile Crisis. It had three (3) launch pads. (!) That’s it.
In contrast, America had hundreds of ICBMs and the vast air fleet of SAC.
So, Kennedy entered the crisis holding five-of-a-kind — and folded his hand.
If I remember correctly, Iran has no missile with Sapwood’s throw-weight.
Which is to say that Iran is working with a fury to produce its own Hydrogen bomb.
That Barry is foolish enough to permit Iran to get the Bomb should be enough reason to impeach him on the spot.
The mullahs have no intention of starting an atomic war next year. Instead, the Bomb will permit them to ramp up al Quds attacks far and wide. Their primary target is the Sunni — particularly the Wahhabists of KSA.
The break with Riyadh has occurred because the Arabs have finally figured out that Barry’s selling them down the river, which is unusual for an Arab.