Barry Goldwater once quoted an ancient Arab saying:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel%27s_nose

 “If the camel once gets his nose in the tent, his body will soon follow.”

Goldwater was speaking out against the National Defense Education Act which passed in 1958.  He was right, by the way.  The rest of the quote is very prophetic:

If adopted, the legislation will mark the inception of aid, supervision, and ultimately control of education in this country by the federal authorities.

Today there is another example of the Camel’s Nose.  This time it has to do with Hillary’s e-mails.  As I have written before, the relationship with Hillary Clinton and Huma Abedin is very troubling.  Newsmax is reporting that the reason the FBI suddenly demanded access to Hillary’s e-mail servicer is that classified e-mails sent on Hillary’s server by Huma Abedin surfaced.  Hmmmm.

http://www.newsmax.com/Headline/huma-abedin-hillary-emails-fbi/2015/08/19/id/670827/

Michelle Bachmann had the courage to speak out on this issue.  Sadly, she was scornfully dismissed by people who should know better, including John McCain. Following is an article explaining why Michelle Bachmann was concerned.

http://www.aim.org/aim-column/where-is-huma-abedins-security-clearance-form/

The Camel’s nose sure appears to be very interested in e-mails sent by Huma Abedin. This may matter far more than anyone realizes.

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A lot of people, including me, thought that the Donald Trump Presidential campaign was a joke.  I really didn’t think he would ever be the front runner.  I am still unconvinced that he can win it all, but he has already done more than anyone predicted.  I suddenly realized this was very similar to when Arnold Schwarzenegger ran for Governor of California.  When you think about it, Arnold’s candidacy was a big joke from day one.  He announced his decision on Jay Leno and it looked absurd.  Arnold had zero qualifications for the job, other than the fact that he was a big celebrity.  It turned out that this was more than enough.  Arnold not only won election, he easily won re-election.   He was a superstar and ultimately when a “nobody” runs against a “somebody”, somebody always wins.  I call it the Arnold Syndrome.

We have already seen this on the Democratic side.  Hillary Clinton’s campaign is a total joke, but her celebrity status has sucked all the oxygen out of the room.   Only Hillary can prevent Hillary from getting the nomination.  Fortunately for the country and the world she seems destined to do exactly that.  Watch for Democrats to desperately search for another celebrity to replace Hillary.  If they had such a candidate now, she would already be gone.

If Donald Trump was not a huge celebrity, his campaign would already be over. He has made more serious mistakes than the rest of the candidates combined.  But he is bigger than life and all of the other candidates fade into the background when he is around.  At this point the only person who can defeat Donald Trump is Donald Trump.  He has a lot of baggage, but a lot less baggage than Hillary Clinton.  Arnold Schwarzenegger had a lot of baggage too.  No one noticed.  They were too busy buying “Gubernator” tee shirts.

So, once again, both political parties appear to be ready to choose a President basted on the worst possible criteria: “who is the biggest celebrity.”  The Arnold Syndrome.

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On November 14, 1940, the German Luftwaffe launched a massive bombing attack on Coventry.  Over 60,000 buildings were destroyed.

http://www.historiccoventry.co.uk/blitz/stats.php

It has long been rumored that Winston Churchill knew about the bombing in advance because British Intelligence had broken the German code.  There were over 300,000 people living in Coventry, yet there was no attempt to beef up defense or even evacuate the city.  Some people believe that Winston Church allowed this to happen because he felt that it was more important to not let Germany know Britain had broken their code.

The Battle of Midway was won in large part because Navy cryptographers had broken parts of the Japanese Naval code.  They alerted Admiral Nimitz of the plan by Japan to invade Midway.  The U.S. victory at Midway turned the tide in the Pacific War.

These are two examples of why signals intelligence is so important.  When I was attached to the NSA we were reminded that the most vital information to protect is the information “what we know about the other side.”  Everyone knows that both sides are spying on each other.  That is not news.  Both the Germany and the Japan knew our troops were listening to them.  What they did not know was what we learned from this intelligence.  They did not know that their codes have been compromised.

This is why it really matters that one of the e-mails sent on a private server belonging to Hillary Clinton contained SI or signals intelligence.  If Hillary allowed our enemies to learn what we know about them that would do incalculable damage to national security.  That is why most people charged with failure to protect signals intelligence end up in jail.  This is not a minor problem.  It is not a partisan witch hunt.  It is far more important than that.  Just ask the people who were in Coventry in November 1949.

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The best defense Hillary Clinton has available with regard to the e-mail scandal is that she is merely stupid, not a criminal.   Does anyone believe that the Secretary of State never sent an e-mail with classified information?  Please!  This is beyond bad.  This is mind numbingly bad.  It is no surprise that Hillary is corrupt, we already knew that.  It is no surprise that she conducted a cover-up; she has done that many times before.  It is not even a surprise that she would do something so stupid.  She has proven that before too.  What is shocking is that anyone ever seriously considered this woman to be a legitimate candidate to be President of the United States. What is beyond shocking is the realization that a significant percentage of the American people would still vote for her to be the next President.  Fortunately, that number is dwindling by the date and that sound you hear is the death rattle of the Hillary Clinton for President Campaign.

How bad is it?  It is so bad that most of the Republican candidates aren’t even bothering to comment on the story.  They don’t need to. They know when a Campaign is destroying itself even RINOs, genetically predisposed to losing elections, are too smart to get in the way of that.

This reminds me of the story where a major league ball player started his slide into home plate too late and ended up about ten feet short of home plate.  As the umpire called him out, he whispered:  “pretend you’re hurt.”  I predict, again, that Hillary is on the verge of an unexpected illness that will require her to suspend, not end, her Presidential Campaign.  She almost has to do that or she may not make it to Labor Day.  Her only chance, at this point, is to let people like Bernie Sanders and Martin O’Malley try to out liberal each other.  This will be the ultimate race to the bottom. Then a rigged Democratic convention would draft Hillary and she would courageously leap from her sick bed to save the day.  She would only have to campaign for about six weeks and the first four weeks would be spent watching the main stream media ignore the obvious and promote her coronation.

The problem is that this is so bad that even this act of desperation probably wouldn’t work.  People are on to Hillary and that is really bad for her.  She may not have a clue, but more and more American’s do.  Donald Trump is unlikely to win the Presidency, but he has already put a stake in the heart of the Jeb Bush campaign.  This means we won’t have to endure a Jeb Bush, Hillary Clinton campaign after all.  You might say the entire country has managed to Duck a Dynasty.

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So far, Rick Perry is the invisible candidate.  Just today there are reports that he is no longer able to pay his staff.  Some in the media think the end is near.  They could be right.  They could also be very wrong.  I am reminded that in the summer of 2007, the John McCain campaign was in meltdown.  He was invisible in the polls.  He stopped paying his staff and his top aides were deserting him.  I was convinced that John McCain was done as a candidate for President.  I was wrong.  McCain ultimately won the nomination because it came down to three candidates, Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney and John McCain.  While Mike Huckabee and Mitt Romney rained on each other’s parade, McCain snuck in the back door.  He turned out to be a lousy nominee, but the point is that in the summer of 2007 no one, and I mean no one, even gave him a chance at the nomination.

Perry has to do something, sooner rather than later, but he is not dead yet.  This is the era of the Super Pac and while Perry’s campaign has run out of money, the Super Pac supporting him has a ton of cash.   I firmly believe that of the seventeen candidates, at least 12 of them are wasting their time because they have zero chance of winning the nomination.  I will start with Donald Trump.  While he is soaring in the polls, it is only because the vote is being split 17 ways.  At some point Donald will be up against only one or two opponents and then the negatives will take over.  I doubt seriously that Trump can win this.  I also doubt that any of the following can win the nomination, for a lot of reasons: Jeb Bush, Ben Carson, Chris Christie, Carly Fiorina, Jim Gilmore, Lindsey Graham, Mike Huckabee, Bobby Jindal, George Pataki, Rand Paul, and Rick Santorum.  That leaves only five candidates with a realistic chance at being the next President.

These are Ted Cruz, John Kasich, Rick Perry, Marco Rubio and Scott Walker.  Right now Perry is gasping for air, but that is because the room is filled by 12 candidates with no real chance at the nomination sucking the air out of the room.  No one seems to notice that Rick Perry has the most impressive resume in the room.  All anyone can remember is that he went brain dead on national TV.  That is a huge mistake.  Perry is a very capable man and has a very significant record of accomplished leadership.

I really like Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz and Scot Walker, but in my personal opinion all of them are too young.  Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio are only 44 years old and Scott Walker is only 47.  In eight years, the oldest of the group will only be 55.  What on earth does one done when he is done being President at age 55?  Think Teddy Roosevelt and the disaster of the Bull Moose Party that put Woodrow Wilson in the White House.  On the other hand, if they don’t make it this time, they will still be young enough to try again in eight years and again in sixteen years.  As for Ted Cruz, I want him on the Supreme Court, not in the White House.

I like John Kasich, but don’t trust his conservative values.  He looks too much like a RINO to me. He is just too willing to compromise. We cannot afford another Republican establishment candidate.   That leaves Rick Perry, who is 65.  Perry has the right amount of experience, he has the right values, he is mean enough to do the job, and after eight years he will be at the right age to move on into retirement.  I doubt that the voters will see it this way, but that is the way I see it.  Right now, I just hope he stays in long enough for people to at least give him a fair consideration.

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Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz are extremely rare and valuable Republican candidates Republicans seem to wilt and appear defenseless when confronted by a wild-eyed liberal asking about gay marriage or abortion.  It is frustrating because there are very good answers to these questions.  We just need politicians capable of an intelligent response.

One of the reasons people like Donald Trump is that he is not defensive at all. He just attacks.  Sometimes that is good, sometimes it is very bad.  Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz have learned to handle these questions brilliantly with intellectually sound arguments. That is why both are soaring in the polls.

Marco Rubio was challenged about abortion by Chris Cuomo and he responded brilliantly.

http://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2015/08/07/marco-rubio-abortion-faith-cuomo-newday.cnn

Don’t pay attention to the headline, which is a typical distortion by CNN.  Listen to Rubio pushes back against Chris Cuomo pointing out, correctly, that it is the liberal left who is ignoring science.  Scientists acknowledge that life begins at conception.  It was liberals who decided that life didn’t actually begin until some artificial date based on their concept of political correctness.  It was liberals who ignored science to pretend that a fetus isn’t human so that they could justify killing it.

A few weeks ago Ted Cruz was asked repeatedly about gay marriage.  The response he gave was equally brilliant:

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2015/05/20/cruz_throws_back_gay_question_to_reporter_do_you_have_a_personal_animosity_against_christians.html

If we can avoid nominating RINOs so willing to cave under the pressure of political correctness, the world will notice something important.  Conservatives have the winning arguments with regard to issues like gay marriage and abortion.  We just need someone with the skill and the courage to make those arguments.  We are fortunate that at least two of them are running for President of the United States.

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Megan Kelly challenged Donald Trump last night.  He did a pretty good job of ducking the jab.  He made a good point about how we don’t have time for political correctness.  Unfortunately Trump did not end it there.  Today he was gloating about this on twitter.

http://dailycaller.com/2015/08/07/donald-trump-agrees-that-megyn-kelly-is-a-bimbo/

If he really made these tweets, he has made a huge mistake.  The following statement is not only rude and obnoxious, it is absurd:

“I really enjoyed the debate tonight even though the @FoxNews trio, especially @megynkelly, was not very good or professional!” he wrote on Twitter after the debate

At best this is incredibly stupid because every Fox News Anchor will stand up for Megan Kelly.  That is just the way things work.  He has just turned the people he needs the most into his worst enemy.  In addition no one likes to see a man pick on a woman.  Men don’t like this, women absolutely hate this.  This is so bad that I am not sure an apology would be enough.  I think Donald Trump may have inflicted his campaign with a terminal case of foot in mouth disease.  Wow!

If Trump drops in the polls, which seems likely, then it will be interesting to see who surfaces.  Odds are it won’t be Jeb Bush.  It could even be Carly Fiorina.  One thing is sure; this race has changed dramatically over-night.

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At this point there are 17, that’s right, 17 Republican candidates for President.  It is the theatre of the absurd.  Today is the first major audition for these candidates and it is likely to be a hot mess.  The big event is the “debate” between the top ten candidates.  Theoretically they all get equal time, but of course that won’t happen.  This is the Donald Trump variety show and his personality will dominate the stage.  That is not necessarily a good thing for him, but it certainly creates challenges for everyone else. Trump is the master at making himself bigger than life.

The format is ridiculous.  Candidates will have one minute to respond to a question with a 30 second follow up.  It is a two hour debate and there are ten candidates.  That amounts to 12 minutes per candidate.  When you subtract the pauses and the questions by the moderators, who will be showing off too, each candidate will be lucky to get five minutes of air time.  Regardless of who is speaking, odds are that Donald Trump will be part of the picture.

Every participant, other than Donald Trump is focused on how to handle Trump.  Some will decide to attack him, some will pretend to ignore him, but he will always be the elephant in the room and everyone’s attention will be riveted on him.  I doubt this will do much to help us choose a President, but it could be fun to watch.

If all the other candidates attack Trump, that will just make him look even bigger.  If they don’t attack him, he will continue to soar in the polls, for a while. In the long run, Trump is a lot like Newt Gingrich.  People really like him because he is good at hammering people, but then they are reminded of all the reasons they don’t trust him and he will plummet in the polls.  Trump is destined for a huge fall when people learn about some of the positions he has held and the outrageous things he has said and done.  Conservatives do not like people who are inconsistent on core values and no one is more consistently inconsistent than Donald Trump. In the meantime, he is likely to leave bodies all over the political landscape.

Some people have a lot at risk tonight.  Jeb Bush is most vulnerable because if he does not look like he is capable of handling Donald Trump, everyone will question whether he is capable of handling anyone else.  Scott Walker needs to show that he can handle the big stage.  Ted Cruz, Rand Paul and Marco Rubio can just be themselves and watch the carnage.  Mike Huckabee will be Mike Huckabee and no one will care.  Ben Carson will be Ben Carson and people will care but that won’t make him look Presidential.    Chris Christie is beyond desperate and he has to hit a homerun.  He is a formidable street fighter and he may take on Trump directly.  Christie is very dangerous in these situations.

Ultimately, Christie has the same problem as Newt Gingrich and Donald Trump.  He has way too much baggage and conservatives will never fully trust him. His “bromance” with Barack Obama after Hurricane Sandy was beyond pathetic.

John Kasich is the guy who snuck in under the tent and people will question whether he is worthy.  He will be lucky to get a word in edgewise.  In addition he has a bad habit of talking about himself and, so far, he has difficulty inspiring people.

I predict chaos and people are going to get hurt.

The pre-debate forum scheduled for the other seven candidates may actually be far more important.  Rick Perry caught a huge break by missing the cut.  If he was on that stage, everyone would have treated him as an irrelevant piece of used furniture.  It would have been nearly impossible for Perry to impress anyone in that scenario. Donald Trump will make everyone else on the stage look small in comparison. That would have been devastating to Perry.

Now he will be front and center and he won’t be competing in a circus event.  He just may get that coveted chance to re-introduce himself to the American people.  Even the liberal media is likely to treat him well, if only to take a shot at Fox News for unfairly cutting him from the “big debate.”  Perry has been transformed into the underdog worthy of a chance. That is probably the best thing that could have happened to him.

Carly Fiorina is very sharp and she will hold her own.  She probably will spend her time taking on Hillary and is unlikly to challenge Rick Perry.  It doesn’t really matter what Bobby Jindal, Jim Gilmore, Rick Santorum or Lindsey Graham do because none of them are likely to challenge anyone for the nomination. They will just provide further justification for Fox New’s decision to exclude them in the first place.  I doubt that any of them will take a shot at Perry, they will attack Obama, Hillary or Trump.

Rick Perry is the only one, in either forum, likely to provide a vision for a better tomorrow.  People already know who to hate, they are looking for someone to inspire.

One final note:  Ted Cruz will be the smartest man on the stage and he is by far the most skilled debater.  So far he has avoided attacking Donald Trump.  That is likely to continue, but Cruz is a very dangerous man because when he does attack it is with great skill and determination.  He is the person least likely to make a mistake during this debate.

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Liberals believe that Planned Parenthood is all about women’s health and freedom of choice. If only that were true.  Planned Parenthood was founded by Margaret Sanger and her motives were far more sinister.  The following article is particularly important because it quotes her directly:

http://www.lifenews.com/2013/03/11/10-eye-opening-quotes-from-planned-parenthood-founder-margaret-sanger/

The most merciful thing that the large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it

[We should] apply a stern and rigid policy of sterilization and segregation to that grade of population whose progeny is tainted, or whose inheritance is such that objectionable traits may be transmitted to offspring.

The purpose of the American Baby Code shall be to provide for a better distribution of babies… and to protect society against the propagation and increase of the unfit.

No woman shall have the legal right to bear a child, and no man shall have the right to become a father, without a permit…

No permit for parenthood shall be valid for more than one birth.

Give dysgenic groups [people with “bad genes”] in our population their choice of segregation or [compulsory] sterilization.

Birth control must lead ultimately to a cleaner race.

We should hire three or four colored ministers, preferably with social-service backgrounds, and with engaging personalities.  The most successful educational approach to the Negro is through a religious appeal. We don’t want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population, and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members.

There is nothing here about a woman’s right to choose anything. There is no mention of women’s health.  The goal was to get rid of people Margaret Sanger considered to be worthless.  It was a strategy developed by an arrogant soulless progressive calculated to purge society of undesirables.

Do liberals really want to require a permit in order to have a baby?  This is really disgusting stuff, but no one on the liberal left cares or even notices.  Instead she is honored as a woman who devoted her life to legalizing birth control and making it universally available. That is like saying Adolph Hitler brought free medical care to Jewish people in German, omitting the part about how that medical care was a form of execution.

Her strategy worked brilliantly. The results for the black community in this country have been devastating.  I recently read a liberal blog that expressed concern that as many as one in four black women were being forced to deliver a live baby. Apparently liberals don’t want minority women to have any live births at all.

How on earth can any Democrat fail to understand that a free abortion for minority women is the ultimate form of racism?  Now we have Planned Parenthood harvesting and selling organs from late term abortions.  Democratic politicians are so determined to protect Planned Parenthood they have asked the DOJ to investigate the people who took the videos.  Our new Attorney General confirmed that the Justice Department is investigating.  This is like someone taking great personal risk to obtain videos of the holocaust being charged with invading the privacy of the Nazis.

This is what happens when people convince themselves that there is no God so there are no God given values.  This is what happens when the unalienable rights endowed by the Creator are replaced with values determined by secular humanism.   This is exactly the kind of logic that resulted in the holocaust.  The difference is that the holocaust killed a lot fewer people.  No one said it better than Jesse Jackson himself:

https://saynsumthn.wordpress.com/2011/03/10/rev-jesse-jacksons-abortion-flip-flop-timeline/

I’m conceding that unless we put human life second only to God in our lives, we’re becoming Sodom and Gomorrah…We have an obligation to take sex and life as a far more sacred event than we do now. 

“Birth Control, as a National policy will simply marshal sophisticated methods to remove (and control when not remove) the weak, the poor – quite likely the black and other minorities whose relative increase in population threatens the white caste in this nation.  Contraceptives will become a form of drug warfare against the helpless in this nation.  Those we could not get rid of in the rice paddies of Viet-Nam we now propose to exterminate, if necessary, eliminate, if possible in the OB wards and gynecology clinics of our urban hospitals.  The direct extension of the old “man-in-the-house” rule against public aid recipients can be detected in the drive for birth control.

Jesse Jackson was spot on with his prediction of what was being planned and how it would affect the black community.  Sadly at some point he discovered that there was no room in the Democratic Party for pro-life candidates.  He became one of those “colored ministers” so coveted by Margaret Sanger.  I am not sure there is a corner of Hell hot enough.

Mark 8:36

“What good is it for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul?”

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President Obama was on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart.  It was remarkable in so many ways.  Obama said:

“Government works better now than it probably ever has, given what we ask it to do.” 

He also denied the documented fact that the IRS was targeting the Tea Party and then blamed the targeting that didn’t happen on congress failing to properly fund the IRS.  All problems are the direct result of the government not spending enough money.  .

 “The reason I can sleep at night is I say to myself, ‘You know what? It’s better’”

He may sleep better but he is making it harder for the rest of us.  It sure looks like Obama lives in a world created by his own delusions filtered through rose colored glasses.  I think he really believes that the economy has improved.  I think he really believes that he increased respect for the U.S. all around the world.  I think he really believes he has negotiated a great deal with Iran.  I think he really believes he has improved race relations in the United States.  I think he really believes that all of his problems come from Republicans who are blocking him from achieving even more.

I often ask myself if liberals are really that stupid or do they just hope we are that stupid.  After watching this performance by Obama, I am convinced that they really are that stupid. If you need more evidence, check out the following quotes from an Occupy Democrats post.  Incredibly, people are sharing this because they believe it is brilliant:

“No matter what his critics say, Pres. Obama will go down as one of the best presidents and greatest leaders in American History. 

He improved relations with Cuba, killed Bin Laden, signed the Violence Against Women Act, Best Job Numbers since the 90’s, Brought home over 100,000 American troops, Eliminated Ebola from America,

Ended Bush’s 2 wars, Pulled American out of the Bush recession & the Bush economic crisis, Gave affordable healthcare to millions of Americans, Convinced China to take it’s (sp) first steps against climate change.

I am reminded that it is impossible to engage in mental combat with unarmed opponents.  Like I said…that stupid.

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