A message from Dr. Alveda King

A message from Dr. Alveda King

You may be wondering if the American Dream is still alive. The answer is a resounding yes! The good news is that RESTORE THE DREAM 2015 is poised to help you advance the cause of American rights and liberty.

RTD is the brainchild of my friend Niger Innis who is the Executive Director of the TeaParty.Net. I'm honored to be a part of the team in an advisory capacity to address concerns about the seemingly downward spiral of our national security, stability of a healthy economy, moral turpitude and other concerns.

The problem? Too many Americans are obsessed with identity, race, and class warfare, while at the same time are offering America's disadvantaged urban communities more entitlement, more dysfunction, and more misery.

Decades of misguided policies have pushed America's poverty-stricken communities to the breaking point — and as we've recently seen in Ferguson, Missouri, these communities are about to explode.

If you could do something to reverse this downward spiral — before it's too late — would you take that opportunity to act right now? There is something you can do — join me and support The Restore the Dream campaign today!

From New York City to St. Louis and beyond, these past few months have seen a perilous escalation of tension. If we don't act now, the hot days of summer could see a simmering situation boil over. That's why we're redoubling our efforts now.

Your immediate support will help us reach out to our suffering brothers and sisters trapped in the paternalistic extremists' failed cycle of dependency politics.

People don't want or need a hand out — but a hand up!

The prosperity lost by African Americans and actually much of all middle class America under the current DC administration's failed leadership is a serious injustice. After record voter turnouts to support this administration, Many American people are, simply put, worse off than before.

That's why we're bringing the tried and true principles of economic and political independence to struggling American families and individuals through our Restore the Dream campaign. Sharing free market principles, personal empowerment, and motivation with our inner-city minority young people and neighborhoods — to live and grow and have dreams of their own — what could be a more fitting tribute to MLK's dream than this?

If you agree, I hope you'll step forward and join me in the indispensable work Restore the Dream, under Niger's leadership, is doing today.

From unemployment to foreclosures to falling income, to an iffy health care reform, this current administration has failed too many Americans — red and yellow, black and white — and all the while, people were and still are desperately seeking real solutions. That's what RTD aims to provide.

How do we do it? By showing how "Hope and Change" liberalism has failed the American people, especially in the Black community. By encouraging citizens to become captains of their own fate, to share with them how to vote for a better life, a better community, and a better country.

RTD is bringing this message of optimism and resourcefulness to action-based community unity events, in cities across America. There is no admission fee for these opportunities. Why? Because we want to give the people a gift of hope and transformation for elevation of quality of life.

This administration has failed the people with taxed-and-borrowed billions thrown at failed Big Government programs.

Your generous support to Restore the Dream will help my uncle's legacy live on.

Sincerely,
Dr. Alveda King

1701 Pennsylvania Ave, NW
Suite 300, PMB-433
Washington, DC 20006
United States

Income Fairness and justice are not easily determined

Fairness and justice are not easily determined

By Walter E. Williams

Oxfam reports that the richest 1 percent of people in the world own 48 percent of the world’s wealth. Many claim that we should be alarmed by income inequality because it hampers upward mobility. Others argue that because income is distributed so unevenly, justice and fairness require income redistribution.

Let’s look at fairness and justice.

What constitutes fairness and justice has been debated for centuries.

Widespread agreement has proved to be elusive at best. However, I think that an important part of an intelligent discussion about fairness and justice is the recognition that knowing results of a process cannot establish whether there is fairness or justice.

Take a simple example. Suppose Tom, Dick and Harry play a weekly game of poker. The game’s result is that Tom wins 75 percent of the time.

Dick and Harry, respectively, win 15 percent and 10 percent of the time.

Knowing the results of the game permits us to say absolutely nothing about whether there has been poker fairness or justice. Tom’s disproportionate winnings may be a result of his being an astute player or a clever cheater.

To determine whether there has been poker justice, we must ask process questions. Was there obedience to neutral game rules, such as those of Hoyle’s? Were the cards unmarked and dealt from the top of the deck?

Did the players play voluntarily? If the answers to these questions are affirmative, there was poker justice, regardless of the outcome, including Tom’s winning 75 percent of the time. Similarly, a person’s income is a result of something.

Knowing that one person’s yearly income is $500,000 and another’s is $12,000 tells us nothing about economic justice or fairness. To determine whether there has been economic justice, one has to ask process questions. Most people – including economists, much to their shame – who discuss income inequality fail to acknowledge or make explicit that income is a result of something. As such, a result cannot be used to determine fairness or justice.

To determine whether there has been economic justice or fairness, we must go beyond results and examine processes.

Let’s look at a couple of examples, among hundreds, of processes that cause economic unfairness. Taxi owner- operators can earn an annual income of $70,000 or more. Many people can manage to buy a car and the necessary items to become an owner operator for less than $30,000. Here’s the unfairness: In order for someone to operate a taxi legally, many cities require the owner to purchase a license, or medallion. In Philadelphia, Chicago, Boston and New York, medallions cost between $350,000 and $700,000. The effect of these licensing requirements is to close the market to most prospective entrants and thereby create economic injustice.

There have been instances in which managers of Housing and Urban Development low-income housing projects have wanted to repair dilapidated units by employing residents to perform some of the unskilled work, such as pulling out unsalvageable parts of the building and assisting skilled craftsmen. However, the Davis- Bacon Act, which covers federally financed or assisted construction, requires that the workers be paid union wages. If high union wages must be paid, the manager is forced to hire only skilled laborers, very few of whom are residents of the project.

That means these workers earn less.

It is economic injustice to deny a person who is ready, willing and able to work the opportunity to do so.

There are hundreds, possibly thousands, of examples in which the economic game is rigged. Instead of focusing on what’s claimed to be an unfair income distribution, we need to examine whether there is injustice in the rules of the economic game. But that’s whistlin’ “Dixie.” Politicians receive large financial contributions from vested interests to write laws that rig the economic game.

Impose burdens on people's faith and you get sued

RELIGIOUS-RIGHTS BILL PUTS TEETH IN 1ST AMENDMENT

Impose burdens on people's faith and you get sued

For the first time ever, a bill proposed in the Utah House of Representatives could place freedom of religion above other constitutionally protected rights and recognize religion as a defense against allegations of discrimination. That in truth should not be needed if we had an Honest, Constitutionally Educated, Apolitical Judiciary. Unfortunately that is not the case. Instead we have weasel-wording, shysters trying to undermine the RIGHTS of the Citizenry at every turn.

The "or prohibiting the free exercise thereof" portion has been abused by state and Federal Judges for decades and that should cease! Forcing someone to do something that is clearly against their Verifiable Beliefs should be a Crime.

Sponsored by LaVar Christensen, a Republican, and known as the Religious Liberty Recognition and Protection Act, HB 322, would allow people of faith to sue others for imposing on their beliefs.

The bill is a bid to give sweeping protection to religious liberties. Analysts say because it goes further than any other state, it may raise significant constitutional issues and be susceptible to a court challenge on multiple fronts.

One of the provisions requires “government and private individuals that impose a law or action that substantially burdens another’s religious liberty to balance certain requirements in order to lawfully enforce or recognize the law or action.”

“The proposed act may be subject to challenge in court because it expands religious protections to an extent not currently recognized by the courts,” wrote legislative attorney Eric Weeks in the memo obtained by the Salt Lake Tribune. “Consequently, it is impossible to effectively evaluate its constitutionality or its practical effect on the balance between civil rights and the free exercise of religion.”

“We are working closely and very carefully to make sure that these protections are fairly applied and balanced for the benefit of all,” said Christensen.

Because the measure restricts actions by private entities and individuals that might influence another person’s religious beliefs, many of Christensen’s colleagues are not in favor of the bill. Lawmakers are looking for a way to balance religious liberties and protections from employment and housing discrimination for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Utahns, after the LDS church called for a pairing of the two.

Top leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced last month they supported both the passage of statewide nondiscrimination protections for gay and lesbian Utahns and the religious freedom of those who oppose homosexuality. The LDS church is caught in an intensifying conflict between LGBT advocates and the religious right.

“We’d like something that reflects … the sentiment from the [LDS] church about how we treat everybody with respect and dignity,” said House Speaker Greg Hughes, R-Draper. “I believe we have a bill that is beginning a process.”

The analysis details numerous ways HB 322 goes beyond religious-freedom laws in any other state, including significantly expanding what constitutes a burden on an individual’s religious beliefs, in a way that “potentially extends religious freedom protections to arenas of public commerce, property, individual freedoms, and fundamental rights that have not traditionally been subject to religious exercise exemptions in this manner.”

By elevating religious protection above other rights, the bill may violate the equal-protection clause of the U.S. Constitution. [Not when other rights are allowed to trump religious rights routinely]

Senate President Wayne Niederhauser, another Republican, expressed concerns about whether Christensen was inclusive of other viewpoints in drafting his bill.

“My question would be: How involved was the LGBT community in that bill?” he asked. [why should they? [They are at the forefront of religious intolerance.]

Nearly 20 religious leaders joined Equality Utah Executive Director Troy Williams in asking the Utah Legislature to support Republican Sen. Steve Urquhart’s non-discrimination bill, SB 100, which offers protections for LGBT people from discrimination in employment and housing. Williams added the body should reject Christensen’s bill, which would recognize religion as a valid defense against claims of discrimination. [what he really is supporting is reverse discrimination against the religious.]

“His bill would allow employers and landlords to impose their faith on their workers and their tenants,” Williams said. “It would allow people to pick and choose what laws they want to follow.”

Christensen indicated he sincerely wants to make sure all persons are fully respected and protected in the vital areas of housing and employment. House and Senate Leaders say they’re likely to come up with a single bill that balances religious and LGBT protections. [why not include preferences like pedophiles, people that like to kill and polygamist?]

Legislative attorney Eric Weeks issued a memo detailing numerous ways Christensen’s law goes beyond any religious-freedom law in any other state. For example, HB 322 explicitly restricts actions by individuals and private entities that might impact another’s religious beliefs.

In essence, Christensen’s bill would allow a person of faith to sue another person or business if the religious person contends his or her beliefs have been burdened. And the church-goer would win the suit and be awarded damages unless the defendants could clear an exceptionally high bar — showing that the actions they are accused of taking were the only available to prevent a grave risk to public health and safety.

Senate Majority Whip Stuart Adams, Republican, who has a bill filed on religious liberties and will be central to the negotiations on the discrimination issue, said Christensen’s bill is “well-intentioned,” but talks are just beginning.

Christensen was a sponsor of Utah’s 2004 constitutional ban on same-sex marriage that was struck down by federal courts.

The Husband Store

The Husband Store

A store that sells new husbands has opened in Manchester, just off Deansgate where a woman may go to choose a husband. Among the instructions at the entrance is a description of how the store operates:

You may visit this store ONLY ONCE! There are six floors and the value of the products increase as the shopper ascends the flights. The shopper may choose any item from a particular floor, or may choose to go up to the next floor, but you cannot go back down except to exit the building!

So, a woman goes to the Husband Store to find a husband. On the first floor the sign on the door reads:

Floor 1 - These men Have Jobs

She is intrigued, but continues to the second floor, where the sign reads:

Floor 2 - These men Have Jobs and Love  Kids. ‘That’s nice,’ she thinks, ‘but I want more.’

So she continues upward. The third floor sign reads:

Floor 3 - These men Have Jobs, Love Kids, and are Extremely Good Looking.

'Wow,' she thinks, but feels compelled to keep going.

She goes to the fourth floor and the sign reads:

Floor 4 - These men Have Jobs, Love Kids, are Drop-dead Good Looking and Help With Housework…

'Oh, mercy me!' she exclaims, 'I can hardly stand it!' Still, she goes to the fifth floor and the sign reads:

Floor 5 - These men Have Jobs, Love Kids, are Drop-dead Gorgeous, Help with Housework, and Have a Strong Romantic Streak.

She is so tempted to stay, but she goes to the sixth floor, where the sign reads:

Floor  6 - You are visitor 31,456,012 to this floor. There are no men on this floor.. This floor exists solely as proof that women are impossible to please. Thank you for shopping at the Husband Store.

PLEASE NOTE:

To avoid gender bias charges, the store’s owner opened a New Wives store just across the street with the same rules.

The first floor has wives that love sex.

The second floor has wives that love sex and have money and like beer

The third, fourth, fifth and sixth floors have never been visited.

Is this willful blindness or just ignorance?

Dear Fellow American,

As Obama huddles in closed door meetings this week with Muslim American leaders and his Administration lies about secret meetings with the Muslim Brotherhood, one has to wonder if Obama really has his eyes targeted on the real problem facing our nation. In the face of mounting Islamic terror, is this willful blindness or just ignorance. Either way, we are in great danger.

You know that the jihad has reached America's shores. Many potential attacks have been thwarted. But some have not. Little Rock, Fort Hood, the World Trade Centers, the Boston Marathon bombing; the list of terror incidents keeps growing. It may be a slow motion war, but it is here. Our president doesn't believe it is happening.

It is a chilling fact that many of those who will lead the next attack on America have grown up and gone to school here. But they have never really become a part of our country because they have spent years getting religious instruction in one of the thousands of radical mosques that have sprung up across our nation. That's what really frightens me. Our government is standing idly by while the terrorists who want to destroy it are manufactured day in day out in the radical mosques that teach the destruction of America.

This is no secret. FBI reports and eyewitness accounts have made it clear that a large number of the mosques in the United States urge their congregations to wage jihad against the infidels (us) and impose Sharia Law first on all Muslims and then on all Americans.

This is sedition, not religion!

Sharia Law is not only barbaric--justifying murder and the oppression of women and annihilation of other religions--but also incompatible with the United States Constitution. One cannot be a strict adherent of Sharia Law and still swear an oath to the U.S. Constitution. Yet, we allow Sharia to be advanced on a daily basis in hundreds of mosques across America.

Three major studies in the last 10 years have all found the same results. Over 75% of the 2,000 mosques in America are 'radicalized.' And what does radicalized mean?

• That of the 100 mosques surveyed, 51% had texts on site rated as severely advocating violence; 30% had texts rated as moderately advocating violence; and only 19% had no violent texts at all.
• That in 84.5% of the mosques, the imam recommended studying violence-positive texts.
• That mosques, which are Sharia adherent, were more likely to feature violent texts than their non-Sharia-adherent counterparts and that leadership at Sharia-adherent mosques was more likely to recommend that a worshipper study violent texts than leadership at non-Sharia-adherent mosques.

Freedom of religion does not include the right to openly preach the destruction of the U.S. Constitution or violent jihad. Mosques that preach godliness and tolerance must be protected; but those that preach hatred and violence must be revealed for what they are--threats to our national security.

So why do I tell you about these centers of hatred in our midst?
The radicalized young Muslims who hear this message of sharia and anti American hatred day after day are acts of terror waiting to happen.

Obama - The Architect of Destruction

The Architect of Destruction

By Maureen Scott

Barack Obama appears to be a tormented man filled with resentment, anger, and disdain for anyone of an opinion or view other than his. He acts in the most hateful, spiteful, malevolent, vindictive ways in order to manipulate and maintain power and control over others. Perhaps, because, as a child, he grew up harboring an abiding bitterness toward the U.S. That was instilled in him by his family and mentors...it seems to have never left him.

It is not the color of his skin that is a problem in America. Rather it is the blackness that fills his soul and the hollowness in his heart where there should be abiding pride and love for this country.

Think: Have we ever heard Obama speak lovingly of the U.S. Or its people, with deep appreciation and genuine respect for our history, our customs, our sufferings and our blessings? Has he ever revealed that, like most patriotic Americans, he gets "goose bumps" when a band plays "The Star Spangled Banner," (no he gets goose bumps when he hears the ''Muslim call to prayer" (his words) or sheds a tear when he hears a beautiful rendition of " America the Beautiful?" Does his heart burst with pride when millions of American flags wave on a National holiday - or someone plays "taps" on a trumpet? Has he ever shared the admiration of the military, as we as lovers of those who keep us free, feel when soldiers march by? It is doubtful because Obama did not grow up sharing our experiences or our values. He did not sit at the knee of a Grandfather or Uncle who showed us his medals and told us about the bravery of his fellow troops as they tramped through foreign lands to keep us free. He didn't have grandparents who told stories of suffering and then coming to America , penniless, and the opportunities they had for building a business and life for their children.

Away from this country as a young child, Obama didn't delight in being part of America and its greatness. He wasn't singing our patriotic songs in kindergarten, or standing on the roadside for a holiday parade and eating a hot dog, or lighting sparklers around a campfire on July 4th as fireworks exploded over head, or placing flags on the grave sites of fallen and beloved American heroes.

Rather he was separated from all of these experiences and doesn't really understand us and what it means to be an American. He is void of the basic emotions that most feel regarding this country and insensitive to the instinctive pride we have in our national heritage. His opinions were formed by those who either envied us or wanted him to devalue the United States and the traditions and patriotism that unites us.

He has never given a speech that is filled with calm, reassuring, complimentary, heartfelt statements about all the people in the U.S. Or one that inspires us to be better and grateful and proud that in a short time our country became a leader, and a protector of many. Quite the contrary, his speeches always degenerate into mocking, ridiculing tirades as he faults our achievements as well as any critics or opposition for the sake of a laugh, or to bolster his ego. He uses his Office to threaten and create fear while demeaning and degrading any American who opposes his policies and actions. A secure leader, who has noble self-esteem and not false confidence, refrains from showing such dread of critics and displaying a cocky, haughty attitude.

Mostly, his time seems to be spent causing dissension, unrest, and anxiety among the people of America,  rather than uniting us (even though he was presented to us as the "Great Uniter"). He creates chaos for the sake of keeping people separated, envious, aggrieved and ready to argue. Under his leadership Americans have been kept on edge, rather than in a state of comfort and security. He incites people to be aggressive toward, and disrespectful of, those of differing opinions. And through such behavior, Obama has lowered the standards for self-control and mature restraint to the level of street-fighting gangs, when he should be raising the bar for people to strive toward becoming more considerate, tolerant, self-disciplined, self-sustaining, and self-assured.

Not a day goes by that he is not attempting to defy our laws, remove our rights, over-ride established procedures, install controversial appointees, enact divisive mandates, and assert a dictatorial form of government.

- Never has there been a leader of this great land who used such tactics to harm and hurt the people and this country.

- Never have we had a President who spoke with a caustic, evil tongue against the citizenry rather than present himself as a soothing, calming and trustworthy force.

- Never, in this country, have we experienced how much stress one man can cause a nation of people - on a daily basis!

Obama has promoted the degeneration of peace, civility, and quality of cooperation between us. He thrives on tearing us down, rather than building us up. He is the Architect of the decline of America , and the epitome of a Demagogue.

Barack - The Islamophile

Barack - The Islamophile

Islamophile: One who is so enchanted by Islam as to be under the influence of its tenets.

In 2009, I noted that Barack Hussein Obama's remarkably brief White House bio began with this fallacious assertion: "His story is the American story -- values from the heartland, a middle-class upbringing in a strong family..." And you can make up the rest.

Amazingly, his BIG Lie bio page has not been altered since then.

So, in an effort to better understand who Obama really is, and where his religious alliances fall, let's briefly review.

Barack was conceived to unwed parents, Ann Dunham and his Kenyan father, BHO senior, both atheists. They were later married and then divorced. When Obama was four, his mother remarried, this time to an Indonesian Muslim, Lolo Soetoro. In his 1995 memoir "Dreams from My Father," Obama wrote that Soetoro subscribed to "a brand of Islam that could make room for the remnants of more ancient animist and Hindu faiths."

At the age of 10, Obama returned to Hawaii to live with his grandparents, Stanley and Madelyn Dunham, who might best be described as agnostic. There, he would fall under the spell of an avowed Marxist, Frank Marshall Davis.

As a young adult and budding "community organizer," Obama was taken under wing by a radical black supremacist pastor, Jeremiah Wright, who married Barack and his wife, Michelle, baptized their children and stewarded BO's "faith" for 20 years. For those two decades, Obama also developed close associations with many other leftist radicals, including Michael Pfleger, William Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, Khalid al-Mansour, Rashid Khalidi, Bob Creamer, Edward Said, Roberto Unger and others.

That is the real Barack Obama bio, and those are his "values from the heartland." Further, while he self-identifies as "Christian" rather than Muslim, that claim may be as deceptive as his bio.

With that in mind, in this seventh year of Obama's seemingly limitless foreign and domestic policy failures, despite the ominous and impending threats from resurgent al-Qa'ida terrorist networks, the Islamic State, and clear evidence that Islamist Jihadis are targeting the USA, Obama never mentioned al-Qa'ida or Islam in his 2015 SOTU address three weeks ago.

Nor did Obama mention Islam when referencing the Charlie Hebdo massacre in Paris in early January, except to insist again that Islam is the "Religion of Peace."

British journalist Douglas Kear Murray, an expert on Islam, asserts that many Muslims today subscribe to "a creed of Islamic fascism -- a malignant fundamentalism, woken from the dark ages to assault us here and now." He notes, "The claim that Islam is a religion of peace is a nicety invented by Western politicians so as either not to offend their Muslim populations or simply lie to themselves that everything might yet turn out fine. In fact, since its beginning Islam has been pretty violent."

More recently, Obama dismissed the subsequent slaughter of Jews in Paris as an act committed by "a bunch of violent vicious zealots who ... randomly shoot a bunch of folks in a deli." Obama's spokesman Josh Earnest demonstrated a heroic display of verbal contortionism in endeavoring to explain Obama's assertion that the attack was random. Those "violent vicious zealots" were Islamists, and there was nothing "random" about terrorists targeting a kosher Jewish deli.

Last week, Obama used a Christian forum, the National Prayer Breakfast, to sanctimoniously denigrate Christians. The theme for this year's event was "Remembering the Armenian Genocide of 1915," when more than a million Christians were murdered by Muslims. That notwithstanding, he claimed Christians and Muslims are equal partners in murder and mayhem: "Lest we get on our high horse and think this is unique to some other place -- remember that the Crusades and the Inquisition committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ." He added, "Slavery and Jim Crow all too often was justified in the name of Christ."

Really? For the record, Obama has ordered drone strikes against Islamic targets that have killed more Muslims in six years than were killed during three centuries of the Spanish Inquisition. (Look it up!) And the Crusades were, arguably, undertaken in the name of "the church," not Jesus Christ. As Islamic scholar and historian Bernard Lewis notes, "The Crusades could more accurately be described as a limited, belated and, in the last analysis, ineffectual response to the jihad -- a failed attempt to recover by a Christian holy war what had been lost to a Muslim holy war."

Clearly, there is nothing in the Gospel of Jesus Christ that advocates or could even be loosely construed to advocate violence against non-Christians. However, there is plenty in the Quran and the Hadith (the teachings of Muhammad) advocating death to infidels. As Franklin Graham reminds us, "Jesus taught peace, love and forgiveness. He came to give his life for the sins of mankind, not to take life."

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, the child in Indian immigrants, rebutted Obama's assertion, saying, "It was nice of the President to give us a history lesson at the Prayer breakfast. Today, however, the issue right in front of his nose, in the here and now, is the terrorism of Radical Islam. ... The Medieval Christian threat is under control, Mr. President. Please deal with the Radical Islamic threat today."

As to Obama's reference to slavery, the abolitionist movement to end chattel slavery in the United States 150 years ago was led by white and black Christian men and women, as was the movement to end segregation 50 years ago. Christians of yore were at the forefront of these sweeping changes, while Muslims today are at the forefront of murderous global Jihad.

This metastasizing Islamic threat advocates for a "master race," much as did Adolf Hitler prior to World War II. However, rather than a world dominated by Aryans, Islamists seek a worldwide caliphate of Islamists, or "Jihadistan."

And on the subject of percentages, some have suggested that because only 10 percent of Muslims are extremists we need not worry. However, in 1940 only seven percent of Germans belonged to the National Socialist German Workers Party. How did that work out?

Notably, the 2014 Global Slavery Index reports that of the more than 29 million humans held today in captive slavery -- defined as "the possession and control of a person in such a way as to significantly deprive that person of his or her individual liberty, with the intent of exploiting that person through their use, management, profit, transfer or disposal" -- more than 18 million are being held in Islamic countries, primarily (and ironically) in Africa.

Indeed, ISIL has institutionalized slavery in the Middle East.

In an interview this week, Obama delusionally insisted that concern about [Islamic] terrorism is simply media-driven hype: "If it bleeds it leads, right? ... It's all about ratings."

When asked why Obama would posit such a ludicrous assertion, my favorite psychiatrist, Charles Krauthammer, said flatly, "Because he believes it. ... If he was just being cynical as a way to dismiss this because of the failure of his policies, that would be one thing. I think he believes this. ... This is what is so terrifying about the man who is commander in chief of a country, essentially a civilization, under attack."

Krauthammer added, "For the last six years Obama has acted as if the biggest threat American security [in the Middle East] is the Israeli government."

Curiously, at the National Prayer Breakfast, Obama asserted, "We are summoned to push back against those who would distort our religion for their nihilistic ends." Whose religion was he referencing?

Perhaps the answer is found in Obama's many words of praise for Islam since 2009:

"I will stand with [Muslims] should the political winds shift in an ugly direction. ... The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam. ... We will convey our deep appreciation for the Islamic faith, which has done so much over the centuries to shape the world -- including in my own country. ... As a student of history, I also know civilization’s debt to Islam. ... Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance. ... Islam has always been part of America. ... We will encourage more Americans to study in Muslim communities. ... These [Ramadan] rituals remind us of the principles that we hold in common, and Islam’s role in advancing justice, progress, tolerance, and the dignity of all human beings. ... America and Islam ... share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings. ... America is not and will never be at war with Islam. ... Islam is not part of the problem in combating violent extremism -- it is an important part of promoting peace. ... So I have known Islam on three continents before coming to the region where it was first revealed. ... In ancient times and in our times, Muslim communities have been at the forefront of innovation and education. ... Throughout history, Islam has demonstrated through words and deeds the possibilities of religious tolerance and racial equality. ... That experience guides my conviction that partnership between America and Islam must be based on what Islam is, not what it isn’t. And I consider it part of my responsibility as president of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear. ... Islam has always been a part of America’s story."

So, why does Obama refuse to mention Islam in connection with worldwide Islamic Jihad that is at our doorstep?

I believe it is because he is, first and foremost, an Islamophile, and thus he has what is almost a pathological blindness to the threat posed by Jihad.