The 9/11 monument in New Jersey you never heard about

Gee, our crack mainstream media must have accidentally dropped this story behind the vending machine.

Politics or Poppycock has a series of photos depicting a monument to the victims of 9/11 in Bayonne, New Jersey. He writes, "I'm stunned. I have never heard, seen or read anything about this. Isn't it wonderful to live in a country where the media controls what we should know?"

The monument is a gift to the people of America from the citizens of Russia signifying the importance of the war against global terrorism.

Oops. That face may be one of the reasons our beloved mainstream media "forgot" to report the story.

The impressive teardrop monument is truly striking.

The names of the victims of 9/11 are inscribed on a memorial wall.

Perhaps some enterprising reporter could let us know exactly what year this monument was installed.

They'll just have to remember not to call the hijackers "Islamists" or "terrorists", because I don't think President Obama approves of those terms.


Hat tip: Contrairimairi.

Photos: London Islamists commemorate 9/11 by burning U.S. flags, breaking moment of silence with megaphones, celebrating mass murder

Un-indicted co-conspirator CAIR hardest hit:

Islamic supremacism, triumphalism, and hurling insults against the soldiers who defend the rights they have chosen to mock and abuse...

"9/11 anniversary: Muslim protesters burn US flag outside embassy in London," by Andy Bloxam for the Telegraph, September 11:

A number of radical Islamic groups including Muslims Against Crusades (MAC) gathered outside the embassy on the 10th anniversary of the attacks.

The group of around 100 men shouted "USA terrorists", brandished anti-American placards and chanted through a loudhailer.

Several members of the Muslim groups made anti-American speeches following the flag burning.

One said: "You will always face suffering, you will always face humiliation, unless you withdraw your troops from Muslim lands."

Another declared that America had been "defeated in Iraq and defeated in Afghanistan".

Members of the group publicly burned a poppy on Armistice Day in a similar stunt.

True to form, legacy U.S. media completely ignored the death-worshipers' celebration in London.


Update: Report: Two EDL members stabbed by Islamists.

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Oh, my: even AP fact-checkers eviscerating Obama's speechifying

Unicorn-riding light-workers hardest hit.

President Barack Obama's promise Thursday that everything in his jobs plan will be paid for rests on highly iffy propositions... the plan he presented was conventional Washington rhetoric... It employs sleight-of-hand accounting.

OBAMA: "Everything in this bill will be paid for. Everything."

THE FACTS: Obama did not spell out exactly how he would pay for the measures... White House aides suggested that new deficit spending in the near-term to try to promote job creation would be paid for in the future...

OBAMA: "Everything in here is the kind of proposal that's been supported by both Democrats and Republicans, including many who sit here tonight."

THE FACTS: ...But Obama proposes paying for the plan in part with tax increases that have already generated stiff Republican opposition...

OBAMA: "It will not add to the deficit."

THE FACTS: It's hard to see how the program would not raise the deficit...

OBAMA: "The American Jobs Act answers the urgent need to create jobs right away."

THE FACTS: Not all of the president's major proposals are likely to yield quick job growth if adopted...

David Axelrod and the rest of the propagandists calling plays in the White House press room have to be concerned; even the Associated Press -- little more than Pravda to the White House's Politburo -- can't carry water for the President's headlong, Cloward-Piven-eque rush to the fiscal abyss any longer.


Hat tip: Memeorandum.

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What should have been today's headline in every newspaper in America

That is, if we had a real media in this country.



"It was the first time since 1945 that the government has reported a net monthly job change of zero."



After an exhausting nine days on Martha's Vineyard, followed by several campaign events, the President headed to Camp David yesterday for the long Labor Day weekend in order to golf, decompress and unwind.

Could the President be brought down by a single poll?

Larwyn points us to a James Taranto Best of the Web snippet which reads:

...an intriguing observation from reader Tim Magee: "Could the President be brought down by a single poll? How about Obama vs. Hillary Clinton among Democrats? I think she could win that poll, and I don't think Obama could recover, regardless of whether Mrs. Clinton ran."



Let's find out. Somebody please commission that poll.

Oh, my.



I shudder to think what that might do to the fragile ego of our Narcissist-in-Chief.

"Perry Panic" [Dan from New York]

Dan from New York:

WSJ, NOTABLE & QUOTABLE, SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Politico reporters Ben Smith and Maggie Haberman on liberals' 'Perry panic.'

Reporters Ben Smith and Maggie Haberman in Politico, Aug. 30:



[Rick] Perry panic has spread from the conference rooms of Washington, D.C., to the coffee shops of Brooklyn, with the realization that the conservative Texan could conceivably become the 45th president of the United States, a wave of alarm centering around Perry's drawling, small-town affect and stands on core cultural issues such as women's rights, gun control, the death penalty, and the separation of church and state. The epidemic of lefty angst isn't just a matter of specific Perry policies though; it goes to the heart of the liberal worldview. His smashing debut on the presidential stage suggests that the victory of an urban liberal Democrat, Barack Obama, wasn't a step toward a more progressive nation, but just a leftward swing of an increasingly wild pendulum, now poised to rocket to the right.



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At the rate they’re going, liberals (and some Republicans too) will be plum out of Perry canards even before primary season rolls around. Good.

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And cut down on my golfing photoshops of El Presidente, which could have triggered this unfortunate incident.

Photo: "Obama's 'Dukakis Tank' Moment"

That's what William Jacobson calls this gem:



When no one was looking, MOTUS captured this candid snapshot. Which proves, if nothing else, that the Commander-in-Chief can multitask.



"He's on his final hole. He's about 455 yards away, he's gonna hit about a 2 iron I think."

Gunwalker: Heard about the city officials in New Mexico who were smuggling guns to drug cartels in U.S. police cars?

Several city officials of the New Mexico border town of Columbus recently admitted they smuggled firearms and tactical gear to the La Linea drug cartel. And now, it turns out, that case may be linked to "Operation Fast and Furious", the malevolent Justice Department project that shipped thousands of murder weapons to Mexican drug gangs.

The Columbus gun smuggling case might be linked to a national case... The mayor, police chief and a trustee have all pled guilty to running guns to the Juarez drug cartel "La Linea".



At a hearing for police Chief Angelo Vega on Thursday, it was revealed that six of those weapons may be connected to "Operation Fast and Furious"[, ...] an ATF program that allowed thousands of guns to cross into Mexico so that federal agents could track them.



Now "Fast and Furious" is under investigation, because officials lost track of more than a third of the guns, many of which were linked to shootings.

Last month it was revealed that Columbus city officials were using the town's police cars and other equipment to run guns to the cartels.

The former mayor of a New Mexico border town pleaded guilty to gun smuggling charges four months after he was arrested in a federal sting.



On Tuesday, Eddie Espinoza, 51, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy, three counts of making false statements, and three counts of smuggling firearms from the United States.



The guilty plea means the former mayor of the village of Columbus could face up to 50 years in a federal prison.



In March, federal agents arrested Espinoza and several others, including Columbus Chief of Police Angelo Vega and village Trustee Blas Gutierrez.



Federal documents state the group smuggled more than 200 guns from New Mexico to the streets of Cíudad Juárez and Palomas, Chihuahua. The documents further state that at times the group used unmarked police cars registered to Columbus to smuggle the guns across the border... the guns [were connected] to at least eight murders in those cities.

Gunwalker is a bigger scandal than Watergate. American law enforcement officials have been killed by the weapons smuggled to the drug cartels by a rogue Justice Department.



If we had a real media in this country, a firestorm of outrage would have already been ignited among the electorate. And the most partisan Attorney General in American history -- Eric Holder -- would be testifying every day in front of Congress.

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Elijah Cummings (D-MD): Dissent Against Obama's Economic Policies Due to Opposition to Keynesian Economics and Racism, But Mostly Racism

Gee, this certainly appears to be a rational and original line of reasoning, which was just advanced by the renowned philosopher and economist Elijah Cummings:

There’s another thing the press seems to not get. A lot of African-Americans that I’ve talked to, most of them say that they ‘feel this President has been treated unfairly.’ They believe he has done every single thing in his power to try to create jobs, to try to make sure this economy moves forward...



...He’s gone against just fierce opposition. I think, I mean if you look at the evidence, that’s true. He’s accomplished a lot in the short time he’s been President. But the fact is, it has not been easy and will not continue to be easy...

Indeed.



For the Left's principled opposition to the Bush administration was predicated upon a careful analysis of facts, logic, history and reason.



After all, the National Socialist Democrats treated President Bush with such kid gloves.

Barack Obama, addressing his supporters: "I need you to go out and talk to your friends and talk to your neighbors. I want you to talk to them whether they are independent or whether they are Republican. I want you to argue with them and get in their face."

Nancy Pelosi, addressing anti-GOP protesters: "I'm a fan of disrupters! ...So I thank all of you who have spoken out for your courage, your point of view. All of it. Your advocacy is very American and very important."

Sen. Harry Reid constructively labeled President Bush "a liar", "a loser", and the "worst President ever".



Hmmm.



Elijah Cummings is a dolt and a race-baiter, not necessarily in that order.