The “gridlock” of which Zakaria speaks is due to and extreme socialist faction which has hijacked the formerly liberal party in this country, a faction whose policies seek to reshape the Constitution which is, in their view, an anachronistic document. It is this similarity to a parliamentary system which has tanked the American economy, and Zakaria, either from deliberate obtuseness born of bias or genuine ignorance, fails to see this.

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The New York Post reports that President Obama’s purpose in including more than 250 business executives in his vast entourage in Mumbai is to promote job-hatching, cross-continental business deals.

Another story, from the New York Times, adds that this export-promoting (and, as others opine, excessively costly, luxurious, even “imperial”) sojourn in Asia is also “an attempt to ease tensions with America’s chief executives, many of whom spent the recent campaign accusing the White House of being antibusiness.”

Donald Boudreaux, a professor of economics at George Mason University, explains why we should take the president’s lavish, “pro-business” pageantry with a grain of salt.

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It’s been widely reported that the President’s impending trip to Mumbai, first by an Indian newspaper:

The US would be spending a whopping $200 million (Rs. 900 crore approx) per day on President Barack Obama’s visit to the city.

“The huge amount of around $200 million would be spent on security, stay and other aspects of the Presidential visit,” a top official of the Maharashtra Government privy to the arrangements for the high-profile visit said.

About 3,000 people including Secret Service agents, US government officials and journalists would accompany the President. Several officials from the White House and US security agencies are already here for the past one week with helicopters, a ship and high-end security instruments.

Another Indian paper reports:

US President Barack Obama’s trip to India next month is set to be the biggest ever by any US president in terms of the protocol and logistics.

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Obama’s visit is historic in terms of logistics which is the largest ever for a visiting US president. The presidential entourage will have 40 aircraft, including the Air Force One that will ferry the president. There will be six armoured cars, including the Barack Mobile, a Cadillac.

The Cadillac limousine is equipped with a mini communication centre to enable Obama to be in touch with the White House, US vice president and the US strategic command.

Yes, that’s forty aircraft.

Necessary security aside, is it also necessary to take three thousand people with him?

Media Matters lazily exercised a journalistic muscle, asked the White House, then wildly supported the non-answer the White House gave: (more…)

In case you’ve ever wondered why you never got the straight story on Islam directly after Sept. 11, and still haven’t, and why the media seems in the tank for jihad, here’s a clue.

The Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) issued this directive a couple of weeks after 9/11; for sheer propaganda, their “Diversity Guidelines” are hard to beat.  In fact, the enemy who attacked our country in an attempt to bring it down may just as well have been writing the narrative.

The “guidelines,” adopted at the Society’s national convention on October 6, 2001, urges journalists to “take steps against racial profiling in their coverage of the war on terrorism and to reaffirm their commitment to use language that is informative and not inflammatory.”

How?  Among other things: (more…)