en-us https://www.intensedebate.com/users/617593 Comments by Ageofreason http://frontpagemag.com/2013/matthew-vadum/what-did-obama-know-and-when-did-he-knew-it/#IDComment639696747 The elephant in the room is why rescuers were ordered to stand down...why the Americans beseiged were abandoned by the administration. I have seen no informed (with evidence) explanation for what happened. At this point it seems to make no sense. I am aware that the administration is capable of anything, and I mean anything to hold on to power, and to destroy America by any means possible, but why did this happen? Was it sheer indolence, not caring, better things to do, or is something big being hidden. I incline towards the latter, but admit I have no evidence. Motive here is extremely important. Sat, 11 May 2013 00:26:55 +0000 http://frontpagemag.com/2013/matthew-vadum/what-did-obama-know-and-when-did-he-knew-it/#IDComment639696747 http://frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/terrorists-can-speak-in-canada-pamela-geller-cant/#IDComment633743448 The words and actions of Insp. Ricky Veerappan of the York regional police are a disgrace and shame all the officers in the York police service. Free speech is guaranteed under the Canadian constitution. Since he is unwilling to defend free speech, I suggest he seek employment elsewhere. How astonishing that he is still employed there. What does the chief of police have to say about this matter? Nothing? Perhaps he too should consider shuffling off. Where do these imbeciles come from? They might consider reading a few relevant books on the matter, perhaps something by Robert Spencer. Pamela Geller is a giant. When I hear something like this, it always concerns me that guns are entrusted to such flawed characters. Thu, 2 May 2013 19:10:24 +0000 http://frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/terrorists-can-speak-in-canada-pamela-geller-cant/#IDComment633743448 http://frontpagemag.com/2013/mark-hendrickson/the-internet-sales-tax-another-assault-on-the-constitution/#IDComment633164483 It seems to me that that the constitution is being treated under the current administration not as law, but as guidelines that may be ignored as the government chooses. It also seems to me that at some point down the road when Americans wake up to the evil machinations of the Obamanazis, lamp posts may come to be used for purposes other than lighting, although certainly for the elimination of an oppressive darkness that has descended upon the land. The only mitigating factor of mob democracy is a constitution that limits power. Not only are those in power subverting the constitution, they appear to have subverted democracy itself through corruption of the electoral process. When the awakening comes it will not be pretty. Thu, 2 May 2013 01:45:39 +0000 http://frontpagemag.com/2013/mark-hendrickson/the-internet-sales-tax-another-assault-on-the-constitution/#IDComment633164483 http://frontpagemag.com/2013/ronn-torossian/new-york-aint-the-land-of-the-free/#IDComment620726570 Please explain why he should, or should have to move in order to enjoy freedom in America. Run from bullies? One would be wise to do so, if possible, in countries like Cuba or Russia, but in America? Part of the American legacy is to stand your ground. Move? I don't think so. Tue, 16 Apr 2013 19:18:01 +0000 http://frontpagemag.com/2013/ronn-torossian/new-york-aint-the-land-of-the-free/#IDComment620726570 http://frontpagemag.com/2013/colin-flaherty/chicago-running-out-of-euphemisms/#IDComment611737780 Thanks, Echo. Among all the madness we need a smile now and again. Thu, 4 Apr 2013 23:43:10 +0000 http://frontpagemag.com/2013/colin-flaherty/chicago-running-out-of-euphemisms/#IDComment611737780 http://frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/facebook-to-pay-zero-taxes-will-receive-429-million-tax-refund/#IDComment574275659 Facebook is less a social networking tool than it is an information-gathering tool. A friend of the Obama administration is no friend of mine, so I have shut down my Facebook account. It is out-and-out dangerous to put photographs of family and friends, opinions, likes and dislikes, and so on, onto Facebook. In the hands of a radical, anti-liberty pack of liars and criminals like the current administration Facebook users are only paving the way to prison camps and mass detentions. Be warned. Mon, 18 Feb 2013 18:24:06 +0000 http://frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/facebook-to-pay-zero-taxes-will-receive-429-million-tax-refund/#IDComment574275659 http://frontpagemag.com/2013/bruce-bawer/state-tv-in-norway-paying-to-be-propagandized/#IDComment553324198 Let me thank you, Bruce, as well. In Canada it's the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the CBC, that sucks up enormous taxpayer resources while taking a consistent left/liberal/progressive, multi-cultural, anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian position. They deny any bias, of course. Federal money to the CBC has ranged from a low of $1.1-billion in 2006 to a high of $1.14-billion in 2010 and 2011.Only in 2012 were cuts made totalling 27.8 million dollars with further cuts to be made this years and next thanks only to our Conservative government. Jihad? The CBC doesn't like the word. It's call the Mother Corp with some cynicism. One more thing: CBC employees were absent from work an average of 16.5 days. Statistics Canada figures show that public sector workers took an average of 12.6 days off while private sector workers took 8.9 days._ Fri, 25 Jan 2013 01:51:39 +0000 http://frontpagemag.com/2013/bruce-bawer/state-tv-in-norway-paying-to-be-propagandized/#IDComment553324198 http://frontpagemag.com/2012/arnold-ahlert/debt-ceiling-disaster-ahead/#IDComment532818051 Good insightful comment, John. Why these people have abandoned us is critically important. It will help us to turn the tide. Mon, 31 Dec 2012 20:27:11 +0000 http://frontpagemag.com/2012/arnold-ahlert/debt-ceiling-disaster-ahead/#IDComment532818051 http://frontpagemag.com/2012/arnold-ahlert/debt-ceiling-disaster-ahead/#IDComment531146711 I believe that any sugestion that he has done this through incompetance is in error. It is clear that he and his toadies are deliberately creating a crisis from which he will emerge as the "saviour". I believe that he will use the crisis as an excuse to assume dictatorial power that will sweep aside some if not all of the provisions of the constitution. It matters not if one labels him as a fascist, or communist, he is a statist with all of the attributes that the label implies. He and his supporters are atavistic anti-intellectuals who reject the several thousand years of struggle that the west has endured to become civilized. I regret to have to say it, but all of this backward sliding is the complete responsibility of the humanities departments in the universities who reject the foundations of western culture, and fail their responsibility to protect and nourish it. My personal temptation is always to call Obama a clown, but clowns are generally harmless because they are transparent. Everything the current administration does is deliberate, and designed to destroy individual liberty. Sat, 29 Dec 2012 16:37:53 +0000 http://frontpagemag.com/2012/arnold-ahlert/debt-ceiling-disaster-ahead/#IDComment531146711 http://frontpagemag.com/2012/volpe/would-obama-support-reparations-in-a-second-term/#IDComment482210446 I believe the word you want is further, not farther. Tue, 6 Nov 2012 16:40:39 +0000 http://frontpagemag.com/2012/volpe/would-obama-support-reparations-in-a-second-term/#IDComment482210446 http://frontpagemag.com/2012/david-solway/the-educational-covenant/#IDComment480399598 I disagree, Anonymous, with your last paragraph. The best writing is difficult. Just try Dostoyevsky, Milton, Shakespeare. Dictionaries have a real purpose. They can actually teach, if used. Sometimes the meanings of unfamiliar words can be garnered from context, but exact meanings come from disctionaries. Are you suggesting that all complex ideas be promulgated in comic book form? Why not accept the challenge of complex words and ideas? One of the problems is that educators try to choose the easiest route rather than the challenging route. That was part of the point of the article. Sun, 4 Nov 2012 16:39:23 +0000 http://frontpagemag.com/2012/david-solway/the-educational-covenant/#IDComment480399598 http://frontpagemag.com/2012/arnold-ahlert/arming-jihadists-backfires-in-benghazi/#IDComment475771877 "I don't see any real answers short of confronting Islamic imperialism openly, which I have advocated for years." You are correct, objective. Islam declared war on the west long ago, and all we do is ignore the facts, and appease. Has no government learned the lesson of Chamberlain's appeasement of Hitler? And no, it is not "radical" Islam, or only al-Qaeda that has declared war on us. Islam itself declared war 1400 years ago, and with 270 million murders to their credit, one would think that the west would have begun to fight back long ago. As for Muslims in the west: convert, leave, or die. Mon, 29 Oct 2012 19:27:52 +0000 http://frontpagemag.com/2012/arnold-ahlert/arming-jihadists-backfires-in-benghazi/#IDComment475771877 http://frontpagemag.com/2012/dgreenfield/benghazigate-we-know-now-who-gave-the-order-not-to-protect-the-consulate/#IDComment473729090 There is now no question that Obama and Clinton should either be in prison, or in front of a firing squad for treason and derelection of duty. What a loathsome pair of poseurs. Fri, 26 Oct 2012 23:30:13 +0000 http://frontpagemag.com/2012/dgreenfield/benghazigate-we-know-now-who-gave-the-order-not-to-protect-the-consulate/#IDComment473729090 http://frontpagemag.com/2012/dgreenfield/why-putin-cannot-afford-an-obama-defeat/#IDComment453199649 Putin is the new Czar. He rules like one, lives like one, imprisons dissenters like one, murders opponents like one, loots the Russian people like one. The Russian kleptocracy will, I hope, have a very bad end. Above all, Russia needs an independent judiciary of integrity, incorruptible police, liberalization of trade and commerce, and a new, westernized educational system. Once individual Russians are freed from their yoke of statism, and protected by the state instead of raped by it, individuals will create wealth in Russia. Putin had such opportunity to modernize Russia, to bring it into the 21st Century, but his KGB indoctrination precluded the concepts he needed to understand what Russia needs. He is a murderer at heart as was Stalin. One day Russians will spit on his grave. Mon, 1 Oct 2012 23:58:29 +0000 http://frontpagemag.com/2012/dgreenfield/why-putin-cannot-afford-an-obama-defeat/#IDComment453199649 http://frontpagemag.com/2012/arnold-ahlert/media-matters-obama-administration-mouthpiece/#IDComment444300979 Information such as that posted in this article frighten me beyond words to describe. Free countries like mine, Canada, rely on the integrity of the people in office in the United States. If they lack integrity, we cannot rely upon them to be stalwart allies. I am at the point of urging our prime minister not to trust the United States in any matter as long as Mr. Obama is president. He is clearly integrity-challenged. I wonder what horrors are in store for Americans if he gains the presidency for another four years. If he does, it will have a devastating effect upon all of the free world. I must add that Congress itself controls spending, and not the President, something pointed out by one of the Frontpagemag writers. A little integrity by congressmen would also seem to be in order. Wed, 19 Sep 2012 23:37:48 +0000 http://frontpagemag.com/2012/arnold-ahlert/media-matters-obama-administration-mouthpiece/#IDComment444300979 http://frontpagemag.com/2012/stephenbrown/europe%e2%80%99s-multicultural-nightmare/#IDComment443440173 What on earth are you talking about? Focus, man, focus! Tue, 18 Sep 2012 19:33:51 +0000 http://frontpagemag.com/2012/stephenbrown/europe%e2%80%99s-multicultural-nightmare/#IDComment443440173 http://frontpagemag.com/2012/stephenbrown/europe%e2%80%99s-multicultural-nightmare/#IDComment443375358 Why on earth do police carry weapons when they don't, won't, or can't use them? When police don't fight back to protect themselves, and others, and property, the lack of action encourages Muslim mobs. Why do we (any country in the west) have police when they will not use their weapons when needed for self-defense? If their political bosses disallow the use of weapons, then the boss's rules are contrary to the basic individual right of self-defense, and the bosses themselves are despicable violators of the rights of police officers and citizens. Europe is in the beginning stages of collapse, and there are lessons there for us in North America. Tue, 18 Sep 2012 17:32:27 +0000 http://frontpagemag.com/2012/stephenbrown/europe%e2%80%99s-multicultural-nightmare/#IDComment443375358 http://frontpagemag.com/2012/walter-williams/academic-dishonesty/#IDComment443362016 Most of us on this website know that Walter Williams is correct, but I am at a complete loss as to how anyone in a position to do anything about it can also be convinced. The professors and teachers who spew forth the nonsense are like religious zealots and simply cannot be convinced. Rational arguments do not work. The zealots hire other zealots, and manage to exclude most of the profs who understand the difference between teaching and propagandizing. All I can think of to change the situation is to withhold funding. There seems no other option. The task then is to convince the funders to withhold and redirect money to new schools that actually teach instead of propagandize. It might be a good idea to formulate an action plan, no? Tue, 18 Sep 2012 17:07:23 +0000 http://frontpagemag.com/2012/walter-williams/academic-dishonesty/#IDComment443362016 http://frontpagemag.com/2012/dgreenfield/the-torture-and-murder-of-ambassador-chris-stevens-graphic/#IDComment439483637 This is Obama's doing. No question. Through his incompetance, willing compliance, intelligence leaks, or mindless inertia, Obama is responsible. And now he will try to make himself look like a hero. I truly hope that this man one day rots in prison for what he has done. God help us all. Wed, 12 Sep 2012 17:53:27 +0000 http://frontpagemag.com/2012/dgreenfield/the-torture-and-murder-of-ambassador-chris-stevens-graphic/#IDComment439483637 http://frontpagemag.com/2012/humberto-fontova/rage-against-the-machine-clueless-about-paul-ryan/#IDComment425946282 I visited Cuba, not to the tourist enclave at Varadero, but to Havana. Huge numbers of Americans visit Cuba by leaving from airports in Canada or elsewhere. Cuban customs does not stamp passports. The US is a massive trading partner with Cuba, but the Cuban government uses the "sanctions" as the excuse for Cuban poverty. Many Cubans, ignorant of facts, buy into the propaganda lie. One poor devil came up to me in "Habana Viejo" to try to tell me an old yellowed, dog-eared copy of a paperback thriller by "a prominent American author." We engaged in a halting conversation (due to my ignorance of Spanish), and he eventually confided in my perhaps the saddest thing a man has ever said to me, "Cuba is a prison." Those who go to Cuba to hobnob with the leadership are nothing but useful idiots, and that includes the former prime minister of my country, Canada, Pierre Trudeau, who was nothing but a bloody disgrace. Tue, 21 Aug 2012 14:18:36 +0000 http://frontpagemag.com/2012/humberto-fontova/rage-against-the-machine-clueless-about-paul-ryan/#IDComment425946282