Video: The Man who should be President

Politicians who say all the right things and do all the wrong things are in abundance but what about those who do the right things? The words of such people are nice but are almost rendered insignificant because actions speak louder than words.

Enter Wisconsin governor, Scott Walker, who has a message for Washington politicians: Grow a pair.

Sheer awesomeness, via Daily Caller:



I wonder if he had Speaker John Boehner in mind.

Here is Boehner as House Minority leader in 2009, when he had no real power to stop Obamacare. He could talk as tough as he wanted and in the end, it really didn't matter:



Here is Boehner shortly after the 2010 election, when it became apparent he would have the power he lacked in 2009. It would have been nice to seem him just as angry at a time when he could actually do something about it. Instead, we got this:

Stop Online Piracy Act Mirrors China's Great Firewall

When it comes to the Obama administration, I've not only learned to be skeptical of everything it says publicly but to believe the exact opposite far more often than I'd care to. That's why this statement from the White House about the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) does slightly more than ring a little hollow.

Via Tech Crunch:

While we believe that online piracy by foreign websites is a serious problem that requires a serious legislative response, we will not support legislation that reduces freedom of expression, increases cybersecurity risk, or undermines the dynamic, innovative global Internet.

That White House message should have come with a winking emoticon. Sorry, Carney and company, you have a significant trust deficit.

Anyway, for some inexplicable reason, Congress seems to be all too willing to push ahead with SOPA, which sounds great on its face (protection of copyrighted material) but politicians have mastered Orwellian speak. In essence, websites that post copyrighted content will be blocked, shut down, fined, etc. without recourse (reminiscent of the NDAA, isn't it). Let's not forget, Eric Holder is the Attorney General.

Perhaps the worst aspect of SOPA is that its solutions to online piracy seem to mirror what China does to quash dissent.

The big problem with SOPA is in the way it is supposed to be enforced, namely by blocking domain-name system (DNS) servers of copyright-infringing websites. But DNS servers are a basic technical component of the Internet (they translate site names like techcrunch.com into numerical IP addresses computers can understand better). Once you start messing with DNS, all sorts of unintended problems arise.

Blocking DNS without a full adversarial hearing in a courtroom raises the potential for censoring speech and other lawful activities. It is also the same method China uses to block “offending” content from China’s Internet. The practice also undermines new security protocols.

The good news is that public pressure is beginning to penetrate the thick skulls in Congress (that was a reference to Republicans who should know better). The bad news is that it's not dead yet.

h/t American Thinker

Iran: U.S. Behind Assassination; Federal U.S. Court: Iran Behind 9/11

Well, well, well. Iran says it has evidence that the United States was behind the assassination of the nuclear scientist earlier this week. The United States has evidence Iran was behind 9/11 and an assortment of other terror attacks in the 1990's so we're nowhere close to being even.

Via Reuters:

Iranian state television said on Saturday Tehran had evidence Washington was behind the latest assassination of one of its nuclear scientists.

In the fifth attack of its kind in two years, a magnetic bomb was attached to the door of 32-year-old Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan's car during the Wednesday morning rush-hour in the capital. His driver was also killed.

The United States has denied involvement in the killing and condemned it. Israel has declined to comment.

"We have reliable documents and evidence that this terrorist act was planned, guided and supported by the CIA," the Iranian foreign ministry said in a letter handed to the Swiss ambassador in Tehran, state TV reported.

"The documents clearly show that this terrorist act was carried out with the direct involvement of CIA-linked agents."

Meanwhile, less than one month ago, a federal judge ruled in a U.S. district court in Manhattan that Iran was behind the 9/11 attacks. The plaintiffs didn't just produce a smoking gun; they produced a "blazing cannon."

Among the findings:

A May 14, 2001 memorandum from inside the Iranian government demonstrating that Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, was aware of the impending attacks and instructing intelligence operatives to restrict communications to existing contacts with al Qaeda's Ayman al Zawahiri and Hizballah's Imad Mughniyah. - Documents obtained from German federal prosecutors showing that 9/11 coordinator Ramzi Binalshihb traveled to Iran in January 2001 on his way to Afghanistan to brief Osama bin Laden on the plot's progress. - Evidence from the 9/11 Commission Report that a "senior Hezbollah operative," which the Havlish evidence identifies as Hezbollah terrorist chief Imad Mughniyah, coordinated activities in Saudi Arabia and was present (or his associate) on flights the hijackers took to and from Beirut and Iran. 9/11 COMMISSION REPORT at pp. 240-41. Mughniyah, a longtime agent of Iran, orchestrated a string of terror operations against the U.S. and Israel during the 1980s and 1990s. He was assassinated in Syria in February of 2008.

Attorneys emphasized that it is important to understand that Iran, Hezbollah, and al Qaeda formed a terror alliance in the early 1990s. The attorneys cited their national security and intelligence experts, including Dr. Patrick Clawson, Dr. Bruce Tefft, Clare Lopez, Kenneth Timmerman, Dr. Ronen Bergman, Edgar Adamson, and 9/11 Commission staff members Dietrich Snell, Dr. Daniel Byman, and Janice Kephart, as well as the published writings of Robert Baer, to explain how the pragmatic terror leaders overcame the Sunni-Shi'a divide in order to confront the U.S. (the "Great Satan") and Israel (the "Lesser Satan"). Iran and Hezbollah then provided training to members of al Qaeda in, among other things, the use of explosives to destroy large buildings. The Iran-Hezbollah-al Qaeda alliance led to terror strikes against the U.S. at Khobar Towers, Saudi Arabia (1996), the simultaneous U.S. embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania (1998), and the USS Cole (2000). Shortly after the Cole attack, Iran was facilitating the international travel of the 9/11 hijackers.

Iran should be thanking us for not having done more to them, if indeed, we had anything to do with the nuclear scientist's death. By the way, if Iran was behind the Khobar Towers bombing, someone still needs to explain why Hadi al-Ameri was given the red carpet treatment by the Oval office just last month.

More HERE.