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CAN'T THINK OF A SINGLE THING THE BANKSTER REGIME OF BARACK OBAMA, ERIC HOLDER AND 'CREDIT CARD' JOE BIDEN EVER DID FOR BLACK AMERICA? THEY WERE BUSY PUSHING THE BORDER OPEN, OPERATING LA RAZA OUT OF THE WHITE HOUSE UNDER CECILIA MUNOZ, AND GIVE BLACK JOBS TO 'CHEAP' LABOR ILLEGALS!
I expect that, at some future time when Barack Obama loses his sacral quality, historians will take great interest in his childhood religious affiliation. They will wonder how, in the information-heavy, politically-riven, and celebrity-mad culture of early twenty-first
century United States, so gigantic a biographical inconvenience could be successfully hidden and rendered taboo. They will study how, in a modern democratic society, a determined candidate can suppress even the most important and relevant information. DANIEL PIPES
PROOF Obama's Birth Certificate is Fake
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Farewell, Columbus Drive
According to CBS Chicago, Alderman Lamont J. Robinson wants to rename Columbus Drive to Barack Obama Drive. "We need to honor more Black men, and this is one small way we can do that," Robinson wrote on X, formerly Twitter. "Chicago's children deserve to see that they too can become Black history and cement a new tourist destination to increase Chicago tourism highlighting where Black history was made.”
Does Alderman Robinson actually believe a street sign bearing Obama’s name is going to change the futures of Chicago’s Black kids, when Obama as president for eight years did not? And does he really believe changing a street sign is going to bring more tourists to Chicago than stopping the senseless crime that plagues the very area the street runs through?
This sounds like just more empty virtue signaling. Easy work that makes some people feel better rather than committing to the hard work that would actually make kids do better. Because changing street names has been done before. Results?
In 2021 the city council renamed Lake Shore Drive to Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable Lake Shore Drive to honor the famous explorer who founded Chicago. In the Sun Times, Mayor Lori Lightfoot said the $500,000 was, “worth it” to honor a man who was, “forgotten in the annals” of Chicago history.
But what about DuSable High School which opened in 1935? Wasn’t that a great way to honor the legacy of Chicago’s founder? Famous DuSable grads include Don Cornelius, creator of “Soul Train.” John H. Johnson, founder of Johnson Publishing, which published the two most influential Black magazines of the 20th century: Ebony and Jet. Chicago’s first Black mayor, Harold Washington, who was known as a voracious reader and supreme orator with an impressive vocabulary.
In 2018 the city council renamed Congress Parkway to Ida B. Wells Drive, after the well-known writer, journalist, and abolitionist. Apparently, the 1941 Ida B. Wells public housing project in Bronzeville hadn’t inspired the greatness they were hoping for. Like all public housing projects named after influential people, it was a breeding ground for gangs, drugs, and criminal activity. It was demolished 2002-2011.
How many Chicago school kids know anything about DuSable the explorer, or Ida B. Wells, Don Cornelius, John H. Johnson, and Harold Washington?
Now Alderman Robinson wants to repeat the same virtue-signaling name change for a man who rose to power purely on his oratory skills, not by any legislative or leadership record. And there are many Chicagoans, Black and White, who view Obama as a divider, who brought more racial grievance than healing. He campaigned on “hope and change” and the importance of fathers. It’s 2024. How much hope is there on the south side? What changed on the west side? And where are the fathers?
Alderman Robinson, if you really want to help Black children achieve history making heights, lead a movement to end the epidemic of Black fatherless homes. Because decades of research with reams of data prove what yet another 2023 report from the Institute for Family Studies proves, “Neighborhoods are safer when two parent households are predominant”. Obama talked about it. He gave a Father’s Day speech (June 2008, Apostolic Church of God. Chicago) about the importance of fathers. He quoted scripture from Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount, then as president, did precisely nothing.
Fix education? Obama talked about it. He threw a lot of money at it. Results? “In 2023, there were 67 Illinois schools where not a single student tested proficient in math and 32 where no student tested proficient in reading. Yet officials in those schools graduated nearly 70% of their students. Those numbers are straight from the Illinois State Board of Education's 2023 Illinois Report Card.”
Take control away from the CTU and give it to educators who will teach kids how to speak, read, write, and the importance of presenting themselves with class and dignity. Pull the pants up. Put an end to the “woke” social justice platform responsible for destroying every standard of merit and achievement: speaking English clearly and correctly, showing up to school on time, well behaved, and prepared. Stop tolerating crime.
Chicago’s Black kids need real leadership, Alderman Robinson. A street sign only tells them where they are. A leader leads them in the right direction.
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How Obama’s Muslim Childhood Became a Taboo Topic
https://www.frontpagemag.com/how-obamas-muslim-childhood-became-a-taboo-
Reflections on when a gigantic biographical inconvenience was successfully hidden and denied.
How Obama’s Muslim Childhood Became a Taboo Topic
Reflections on when a gigantic biographical inconvenience was successfully hidden and denied.
June 23, 2023 by Daniel Pipes 50 Comments
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Americans have an abiding fascination with their presidents, especially with their foibles and secrets. Who lied? Who ordered illegal operations? Who had mistresses?
Thus was the country transfixed by Bill Clinton, Monica Lewinsky, and the tawdry drip-drip of their liaison. When newly declassified documents revealed hitherto unknown CIA connections to Lee Harvey Oswald, this made a media splash, with Tucker Carlson asking: “Did the CIA have a hand in the murder of John F. Kennedy?”
But that fascination dies when it comes to Barack Obama, the Left’s quasi-sacred figure. About him, no curiosity, please, no gossip, and no hint of impropriety. When he falsely claimed in 1991 to have been born in Kenya, and not in Hawaii, blame fell on a sloppy literary agent. When Stanley Kurtz proved that Obama lied about not being a member of Chicago’s socialist New Party and a candidate for it, the Obama P.R. machine smeared Kurtz and the story disappeared.
When clear evidence showed that Obama had lied about having been born and raised a Muslim, the researcher who made the case was reviled, his investigation scorned, and his argument vaporized.
I should know, as I was that researcher. I wrote five times on this topic in 2007-08, during Obama’s first presidential campaign (three of those times in FrontPageMag.com) and then aggregated all this information, plus new details, in a long and (so far) definitive September 2012 article, “Obama’s Muslim Childhood,” serialized in the Washington Times.
All those writings emphasized that Obama was now a Christian. The first one began with:
“If I were a Muslim I would let you know,” Barack Obama has said, and I believe him. In fact, he is a practicing Christian, a member of the Trinity United Church of Christ. He is not now a Muslim. But was he ever a Muslim or seen by others as a Muslim?
I answered in the affirmative and showed how contradictory evidence concerning Obama’s religious background – from Obama’s father and name, from years in Indonesia, from his family, and most of all from himself – conclusively points to his being born and raised a Muslim.
Throughout, I emphasized not the Islam issue but the character issue; if Obama lies about something so fundamental, how can he be trusted? His other lies, such as Kenyan birth and socialist party non-membership, confirm this problem.
Responses came fast and hard. Ben Rhodes’ “echo chamber” nearly fainted at the impudence of my lèse majesté. Like Kurtz, I was slandered without the facts I presented ever addressed. Here’s a small sampling of the deluge:
· Ben Smith in Politico derided my analysis as “the template for a faux-legitimate assault on Obama’s religion.”
· The Spectator called mine the “the worst article on the presidential election” and also deemed it “mad” and “despicable.”
· Martin Peretz in the New Republic said I had “simply gone bonkers … and malicious.”
· Vice ran an article “Would You Care If Obama Were Muslim?” that responded to my carefully-crafted argument with “BLARGHA BLARGHA BLARGH REPEAL OBAMA BIN HUSSEIN’S GOVERNMENT TAKEOVER OF OUR JOBS.”
The Atlantic published no less than three attacks on the article and me. Mark Ambinder rued “the false notion that Obama is or was ever Muslim.” Andrew Sullivan dismissed my work as “toxins.” Matthew Yglesias ridiculed my saying that I believe Obama is not now a Muslim with “I, for one, believe Daniel Pipes when he says he’s not a child molester.”
And so it went, howling with outrage at the very thought of Obama as a Muslim, mocking and taunting me with ad hominem attacks, speculating about my motives. So relentless was the onslaught, even the conservative press overwhelmingly shied away from the topic. The McCain and Romney campaigns both treated the topic like Kryptonite. The issue of Obama’s lies had no impact on either presidential campaign, both of which – of course – Obama won.
I expect that, at some future time when Barack Obama loses his sacral quality, historians will take great interest in his childhood religious affiliation. They will wonder how, in the information-heavy, politically-riven, and celebrity-mad culture of early twenty-first century United States, so gigantic a biographical inconvenience could be successfully hidden and rendered taboo. They will study how, in a modern democratic society, a determined candidate can suppress even the most important and relevant information.
I look forward to the vindication.
Mr. Pipes (DanielPipes.org, @DanielPipes) is president of the Middle East Forum. © 2023 by Daniel Pipes. All rights reserved.
At Least 32 Shot During Easter Weekend in Mayor Brandon Johnson’s Chicago
At least 32 people were shot, four of them fatally, during Easter weekend in Mayor Brandon Johnson’s (D) Chicago.
ABC 7 reported that the weekend’s first fatal shooting occurred Friday, when a 29-year-old man was shot in a drive-by incident in a parking lot “in the 800-block of 87th Street.”
At 12:20 p.m. Saturday, a 41-year-old man was shot and fatally wounded while sitting inside a home “in the 8200 block of South Elizabeth Street.” He was transported to a hospital, where he died.
Police believe the 41-year-old was shot by someone who knew him, but no other details on the possible shooter were given.
Five females were shot on Easter Sunday at 1:00 a.m. The Associated Press noted that this shooting occurred when “an unknown assailant fired multiple shots toward them and fled the scene.”
The shooting victims were ages 6, 17, and 20, along with two 19-year-olds. One of the 19-year-olds was shot in the head and died at the scene.
The Chicago Sun-Times pointed out that 103 people were killed in Chicago January 1, 2024, through March 31, 2024.
AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and the writer/curator of Down Range with AWR Hawkins, a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio and a pro-staffer for Pulsar Night Vision. He was a Visiting Fellow at the Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal in 2010 and holds a Ph.D. in Military History, with a focus on the Vietnam War (brown water navy), U.S. Navy since Inception, the Civil War, and Early Modern Europe. Follow him on Instagram: @awr_hawkins. You can sign up to get Down Range at breitbart.com/downrange. Reach him directly at awrhawkins@breitbart.com.
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