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Remembering the Battle Of Midway: Seizing Momentum in the Pacific Theater During World War II

Last month The Washington Times put together a wonderful tribute section for Jimmy Doolittle’s Tokyo Raiders on their website. To mark Monday’s 70th anniversary, The Times has created an equally wonderful tribute to the Battle of Midway and its significance to winning World War II.

The video below is in an overview of the battle, as well its significance and importance to victory in the Pacific Theater. I encourage you to head over to The Washington Times site to check out the rest of the exhibit.

Obama Administration: War on Terror Is Over, Time to Embrace Islamism


On this week’s edition of The Conservative Beacon Podcast, Josh Price discusses the Obama administration’s recent declaration that the War on Terror is over and that it’s now time to embrace Islamism.

Josh also discusses Barack Obama’s enemies list–who’s on it and what it means for you.

Also, is it now a myth that conservatives believe in smaller government? And finally, is America in decline or just decadent?

Related Links:

Can Obama Safely Embrace Islamism?

Obama to Increase the Use of Executive Orders

The President Has an Enemies List

Five Myths About Conservative Voters

Decline or Decadence?

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The State of The Union Is…Weak

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On the return of The Conservative Beacon Podcast, Josh Price gives a real assessment of the state of our union and you might be surprised by what you hear.

Related Links:

US debt now equals GDP
America’s credit rating downgraded
Record number of Americans on food stamps
Prices of beef and bacon up 22%
Obama halts deportation of illegal aliens
The New American Divide
The State of History 2012

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Taliban Call for Pakistani Militants to Join Fight Against America

TalibanThe AP is reporting that high-ranking Al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters met with leaders of various Pakistani militant groups in an attempt to encourage them to join the fight against the U.S. in Afghanistan.

The meetings were held in Pakistan’s tribal region in November and December at the request of the Afghan Taliban’s leadership council. They could indicate the militants are struggling in Afghanistan, or conversely, that they want to make sure they hit U.S. forces hard as the Americans accelerate their withdrawal this year. That could give the Taliban additional leverage in any peace negotiations.

“For God’s sake, forget all your differences and give us fighters to boost the battle against America in Afghanistan,” senior Al Qaedacommander Abu Yahya al-Libi told Pakistani fighters at a meeting on Dec. 11, according to a militant who attended.

For those who don’t believe that the Taliban are an enemy of the United States (like Vice President Joe Biden), please read that again.

The Taliban are an enemy of America. They initially harbored and supported Al Qaeda in Afghanistan, eventually joining them in the fight against us. They are now pleading for fellow militants to join the cause. These are indisputable facts.

It is incredibly dangerous to believe that they aren’t an enemy of the United States.

Obama Ponders Releasing Taliban Terrorist

Mohammed FaslLet me sum up President Obama’s approach to foreign policy for you: Negotiate with and placate terrorists, namely Islamofascists.

The U.S. is considering a proposal to transfer a top Taliban commander out of the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay as part of a potential step toward peace talks with the Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan.

A senior U.S. official confirmed to Fox News that Mullah Mohammed Fazl is among the prisoners being considered for release. Held at Guantanamo Bay since 2002, Fazl was suspected in sectarian killings of Shiite Muslims before the U.S. invasion that toppled the Taliban government in Afghanistan in 2001.

The U.S. alleges he was a top Taliban official who at one point commanded thousands of troops.

According to Reuters, WikiLeaks documents also placed him at the scene of a 2001 prison riot where CIA officer Johnny Micheal Spann was killed, though it’s unclear whether Fazl was involved.

Ex-Pakistani Army Chief: Pakistani Army hid Osama bin Laden

Osama Bin LadenThis should come as no surprise to you.

An article on the Jamestown Foundation website, which cited Butt, said that despite denials, evidence is emerging that “elements within the Pakistani military harboured Osama with the knowledge of Musharraf and Kayani”. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani is the current army chief.

Ziauddin Butt, a former army chief, told a conference on Pakistani-US ties in October 2011 that according to his knowledge then director general of Intelligence Bureau, Brigadier (retd.) Ijaz Shah, had “kept Osama bin Laden in an Intelligence Bureau safe house in Abbottabad”.

The report said Butt told the daily Dawn Dec 11 that he fully believed that “(Brigadier) Ijaz Shah had kept this man (bin Laden in the Abbottabad compound) with the full knowledge of General Pervez Musharraf…” Butt added, “Ijaz Shah was an all-powerful official in the government of General Musharraf”.

Al-Qaeda terrorist acquitted of all but one charge in embassy bombing trial

(NY Daily News) The first civilian trial of a Guantanamo detainee ended Wednesday with an alleged Al Qaeda operative being cleared on all counts but one in the bombing of two U.S embassies.

A federal jury in Manhattan convicted Ahmed Ghailani of conspiring to destroy U.S. buildings and property in the 1998 truck bombings of American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania that killed 224 people, including 12 Americans.

Ghailani, 36, was acquitted on more than 280 other counts, including the top charges of murder and murder conspiracy.

The charge he was convicted of carries a mandatory 20-year to life sentence because people were killed. Ghailani, who appeared relieved at being cleared on the other counts, is due back in court for sentencing on Jan. 25.

The case was considered a test-run for the Obama administration’s politically-charged effort to try Guantanamo Bay detainees — such as Al Qaeda mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed — in civilian court.

Rep. Pete King (R-LI), who has been a staunch opponent of civilian trials for terrorism suspects, called the mixed verdict “a disgraceful miscarriage of justice.”

“It shows how totally wrong the Obama administration is to bring a case like this to civilian court,” he said. “He was acquitted of 224 counts of murder.”

“If this had been before a military tribunal, evidence that was blocked in this case would have been admissable,” King said.

George Soros: Communist China has better government than America


(Foreign Policy) “There is a really remarkable, rapid shift of power and influence from the United States to China,” Mr. Soros said, likening the U.S.’s decline to that of the U.K. after the Second World War.

Because global economic power is shifting, Mr. Soros said China needs to change its focus. “China has risen very rapidly by looking out for its own interests,” he said. “They have now got to accept responsibility for world order and the interests of other people as well.”

Mr. Soros even went so far as to say that at times China wields more power than the U.S. because of the political gridlock in Washington. “Today China has not only a more vigorous economy, but actually a better functioning government than the United States,” he said, a hard statement for him to make because he spent much of his life donating to anti-communist groups in Eastern Europe.

Britain’s top soldier: Al-Qaeda cannot be defeated


(The Telegraph) He said defeating Islamist militancy was “unnecessary and would never be achieved”.

However, he argued that it could be “contained” to allow Britons to lead secure lives.

Gen Richards, 58, said the threat posed by “al-Qaeda and its affiliates” meant Britain’s national security would be at risk for at least 30 years.

Well I guess we should just give up and surrender huh…

America — get out of the U.N. now

Ellis Washington


I will not join any club who would take me as a member.

~ Charlie Chaplain

Why has America remained, for 65 years, a member of the United Nations – a globalist organization that is essentially an international mafia of failed socialist nation-states and corrupt plutocrats wholly sworn to the denigration and destruction of the U.S. and Israel?

I suggest that we move the U.N. to The Hague since Europeans love socialism, globalism and murderous dictators so much and turn that prime Manhattan riverfront property where the U.N. is presently located into a free-enterprise zone that promotes American exceptionalism, market capitalism and Natural Law.

In an interesting article, “U.S. gets earful from Human Rights Council, courtesy of Iran, N. Korea and Cuba,” the author wrote:

In an unprecedented meeting of the U.N. Human Rights Council on Friday morning, the human rights record of the United States faced attack from political rivals, including Cuba, Iran, and North Korea. Some delegations instructed staff to wait outside the building overnight in chilly weather so they could be the first in line to criticize Washington; Cuba earned the right to go first.

Tolerating any organization in which America is repeatedly subjected to gratuitous ridicule and scorn from failed dictatorships like Cuba, Iran and N. Korea – countries with the most horrific and endemic human-rights atrocities in the world – is asinine. Now you understand why liberal Democrats refused to affirm John Bolton, Bush-43′s ambassador to the U.N., because they knew he was a man who would put America’s interests first – a principled man of Reaganesque character who would expose the nihilism, anti-Semitism, anti-capitalism and corruption that runs rampant throughout the United Nations.

As if subjecting America to a gang of socialists and tyrants weren’t bad enough, the Obama administration greased the skids for this trial before the U.N. Human Rights Council twice: First, in August, Secretary of State Hilary Clinton presented the U.N. rights council with a 22-page report defending ongoing U.S. counterterrorism efforts and documenting U.S. abuses, including practices by federal and local police, as well as corrections and immigration officials, detailing America’s so-called human-rights abuses.

Secondly, at the outset of Friday morning’s meeting, U.S. assistant secretary of state for international organizations Esther Brimmer led a delegation of U.S. officials that supplied foreign diplomats with a comprehensive narrative of American human-rights failings and existing efforts to restore them.

China is judging us? A communist state that brutally represses its own ethnic, religious and political minority groups, puts assertive Chinese into insane asylums, dissenters into slave-labor camps and routinely kills tens of millions of babies through its genocidal one-child policy has repeatedly criticized U.S. law enforcement for using “excessive force against racial minorities.” The vast majority of U.N. members demanded that the United States place a moratorium on the death penalty with the final goal of abolishing the practice, and urged the U.S. to ratify a number of international treaties aimed at protecting the rights of women and children.

Place a moratorium on the death penalty? Protect the rights of women and children? While radical Muslims in nations all over the world regularly commit human-rights atrocities against Christians, including: honor killings, terrorist attacks, church bombings, kidnappings, rapes, genocidal pogroms, trials without jury, use of blasphemy laws to punish and kill people for their faith. All of these human-rights violations and anti-Christian policies are given the color of law under the U.N. and international law, or are ignored.

Briefly, let’s recall how the U.N. was formed, who formed it and for what purpose. The United Nations was the long-time brainchild of socialists, progressives and President Woodrow, who used the victory of World War I as a pretext to finally establish its precursor, the League of Nations, with the unattainable mandate to bring an end to all wars. With the signing of the Treaty of Versailles in 1919, later that same year President Wilson won the Nobel Peace Prize. However, Republicans fought valiantly to keep America out of the League of Nations, thus giving President Wilson only a Pyrrhic victory.

However, progressives never give up, and, using the principles of Fabian socialism (gradualism), they patiently waited for another world crisis to use as a pretext to drag America completely into global socialism. Democrats got their chance with World War II and another progressive president, FDR, who died just 13 days before the U.N. officially replaced the League of Nations at the San Francisco Conference on April 25, 1945.

Because history today is taught as “social studies,” a euphemism for state-sanctioned propaganda, we have forgotten the U.N. zeitgeist expressed in the words of Hegel, who said the State “has the supreme right against the individual, whose supreme duty is to be a member of the State … for the right of the world spirit is above all special privileges.”

In November 1945, 65 years ago almost to the day, the Allied Powers (U.S., Britain, France, Russia) put some of the most evil Nazi leaders, perpetrators, plotters and planners of World War II, the Holocaust and multi-national genocide on trial at the Nuremberg Trials (1945-48), yet today America, the guardian of freedom and liberty, now stands on trial before the world and is openly judged by a cabal of fascists and tyrannical nations at the U.N. Human Rights Council, with the blessing of President Obama and the Democratic Party leading this vile assault against their own country!

As President Obama concludes his tour of India, Indonesia and South Korea like a conquering king, what has America received? The South Koreans twice rejected Obama’s request to allow more U.S. imports, while Russia and China outflanked Obama at the G-20 meeting refusing to back a U.S. push against China’s currency. This caused conservative radio host Laura Ingraham to remark: “I thought this man was supposed to bring the world together?” and answered, “He has brought the world together … against America.”

America, demand that Congress get us out of the United Nations now.