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Self-Deception and the Jihad – Clifford D. May – National Review Online.

But Garver and other administration officials are getting heat from some of the most famous astronauts on the planet, not to mention members of Congress and aerospace industry executives. Neil Armstrong, the first man on the moon, and someone never known to be a rabble-rouser, recently co-wrote with fellow Apollo astronauts Jim Lovell and Gene Cernan an op-ed in USA Today declaring that the space policy of the Obama administration is in “substantial disarray.” The astronauts protested the decision to kill the Constellation program, the George W. Bush-era plan for a new lunar mission with new rockets and spacecraft.

Here’s Bob Crippen, who was the pilot of the first shuttle mission, STS-1, back in 1981: “I’ve never seen NASA so screwed up as it is right now. . . . They don’t know where they’re going.”

Even one of NASA’s senior people here at the Kennedy Space Center, Mike Leinbach, the launch director who will supervise the final countdown and launch of Atlantis, has blasted his agency for the lack of direction.

“We’re all victims of poor policy out of Washington, D.C. — both at the NASA level and the executive branch of the government,” Leinbach said recently at a news conference here. He said he was “embarrassed” about the lack of guidance.

Final NASA shuttle mission clouded by rancor – The Washington Post.

Older Workers Could Face Cost Disparities in Health Law Glitch – FoxNews.com.

Of all the details surrounding the liberal mob attack on Glenn Beck and his family in New York’s Bryant Park last Monday night, one element stands out. “No, it won’t be like that, Dad,” his daughter said when Beck questioned the wisdom of attending a free, outdoor movie showing in a New York park.

People who have never been set upon by a mob of liberals have absolutely no idea what it’s like to be a publicly recognizable conservative. Even your friends will constantly be telling you: “Oh, it will be fine. Don’t worry. Nothing will happen. This place isn’t like that.”

Liberals are not like most Americans. They are the biggest pussies on Earth, city-bred weaklings who didn’t play a sport and have never been in a fight in their entire lives. Their mothers made excuses for them when they threw tantrums and spent way too much time praising them during toilet training.

I could draw a mug shot of every one of Beck’s tormentors, and I wasn’t there.

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via Glenn Beck Vs. The Mob – HUMAN EVENTS.

Toward the end of last summer, President Obama did away with his “transparency” czar. And after two years in the White House, Americans can understand why. It turns out that this administration never had a real commitment to disclosure. Mr. “Transparency Will Be Touchstone” has actually presided over one of the most secretive White Houses in history. This week, the President plans to pull that curtain over the debt talks–a strategy that his Press Secretary openly admitted was in his party’s best interest. “We will continue to have conversations and meetings without much elaboration about the details of what’s being discussed there, simply because we believe that enhances the prospects of reaching an agreement.” In the President’s mind, what “enhances” the debate is keeping voters in the dark. It certainly helped his cause with ObamaCare, the Dodd/Frank finance bill, and this spring’s budget resolutions. Unfortunately for Democrats, the country has wised up since then. Americans don’t trust legislation that’s cooked up behind closed doors. Nothing could add more toxicity to this debate than concealing it.

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via The Opacity of Hope.

via Woman Seated Near Beck at Movie Claims Innocence…But What Does Twitter Tell Us…(With UPDATES!) | Breaking news and opinion on The Blaze.

During President Obama’s press conference today, he scolded Republicans for demanding tax cuts for corporate jets.
From the Associated Press in 2009:

Just a few months after lawmakers scolded auto executives for flying to Washington in private jets, Congress approved a tax break in the stimulus package to help businesses buy their own planes.

The incentive — first used to help plane makers recover from the 2001 terror attacks — sharply reduces the up front tax bill for companies who buy assets like business planes.

FLASHBACK: AP: Stimulus includes tax break to promote private jet sales | Charlie Spiering | Beltway Confidential | Washington Examiner.

NationalJournal.com – Obama: It’s Kids Versus Corporate Jets on Debt-Ceiling Talks – Wednesday, June 29, 2011.

“He was a very different person back in 1979 and 80 than he’d been when he wrote Imagine. By 1979 he looked back on that guy and was embarrassed by that guy’s naivete.”

via Lennon was a closet Republican: Assistant | World | News | Toronto Sun.

Cisco’s chief “Inclusion and Diversity” officer, Ms. Marilyn Nagel, had trouble on the phone defining what “inclusion and diversity” actually means at Cisco, so she sent me several links from the Cisco website. As in our conversation, I found no specific definition on the website but plenty of platitudes, such as Cisco is committed to “valuing and encouraging different perspectives, styles, thoughts, and ideas.”

If that’s the case, then why not value my “perspectives, styles, thoughts and ideas?”

Because only certain perspectives, styles, thoughts and ideas are approved, you see. “Inclusion and diversity” to corporate elites actually means exclusion for those that don’t agree with the approved views. Whoops, there goes “diversity.”

Shouldn’t the real intent of Cisco’s value of “inclusion and diversity” be to ensure that people in that diverse workforce work together cordially and professionally even when they inevitably disagree on certain political, moral or religious questions? It would seem so. In a large multicultural workforce, people need to work together despite political or religious differences. That’s a noble and necessary goal. It’s totalitarian, however, to subject people to “diversity” training and corporate sponsorships that go beyond teaching respect for people to advocacy of what they do in bed.

via Sex at Work? – Frank Turek – Townhall Conservative.