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Open Thread: Meet the Man DOJ Declined to Prosecute

Via Ed Morrissey , a chilling show of racism from the man charged with–and exonerated of–intimidating voters in Philadelphia in 2008. In related news, former DOJ officials are coming forward claiming that the Department’s decision to drop charges was racially or politically motivated. What are your thoughts?

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Examiner’s Byron York: The NASA-Muslim Outreach Story ‘Has Not Made the Cut’

At the Washington Examiner’s Beltway Confidential blog  (HT Instapundit ), Byron York documents the results of some Lexis Nexis searching: Total words about the NASA Muslim outreach program in the New York Times: 0. Total words about the NASA Muslim outreach program in the Washington Post: 0. Total words about the NASA Muslim outreach program on NBC Nightly News: 0. Total words about the NASA Muslim outreach program on ABC World News: 0. Total words about the NASA Muslim outreach program on CBS Evening News: 0. As a supplement, here are the results of a search on “Charles Bolden” (not entered in quotes), NASA’s Director, done at 9:00 a.m. ET at the Associated Press’s main site: Additional AP site searches on ” NASA ” and Bolden’s last name only return nothing relevant to the controversy described at this Monday Fox News story (bolds after headline are mine; internal links are in original): NASA Chief: Next Frontier Better Relations With Muslim World NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said in a recent interview that his “foremost” mission as the head of America’s space exploration agency is to improve relations with the Muslim world. Though international diplomacy would seem well outside NASA’s orbit, Bolden said in an interview with Al Jazeera that strengthening those ties was among the top tasks President Obama assigned him. He said better interaction with the Muslim world would ultimately advance space travel. “When I became the NASA administrator — or before I became the NASA administrator — he charged me with three things. One was he wanted me to help re-inspire children to want to get into science and math, he wanted me to expand our international relationships, and third, and perhaps foremost, he wanted me to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science … and math and engineering,” Bolden said in the interview. The NASA administrator was in the Middle East last month marking the one-year anniversary since Obama delivered an address to Muslim nations in Cairo. Bolden spoke in June at the American University in Cairo — in his interview with Al Jazeera, he described space travel as an international collaboration of which Muslim nations must be a part. For all the new media controversy Bolden’s outreach remarks have generated — which, by the way amounts to about 130 items in a Google News search on “Charles Bolden” (in quotes) done at 9:20 a.m. ET — this later paragraph in Fox’s report is in its own way even more offensive: He said the United States is not going to travel beyond low-Earth orbit on its own and that no country is going to make it to Mars without international help. Apparently, that would be too “unilateral” or something. Maybe one of the early “beyond low-Earth” missions will be to the moon to remove that offensive American flag that Neil Armstrong’s crew planted there. Cross-posted at BizzyBlog.com .

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Krauthammer Rips NASA Chief for Declaration to Improve Relations with Muslim World

If you haven’t heard the report of the remarks recently made by NASA Administrator Charles Bolden over what the role of his agency, it’s a little troubling. And it hasn’t gone unnoticed, at least not by syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer Recently, Bolden, in an interview with Al Jazeera English , said that the “foremost” mission of NASA is to improve relations with the Muslim world. This drew the ire of Krauthammer on the July 5 broadcast of Fox News Channel’s “Special Report with Bret Baier.” (h/t Gateway Pundit ) “This is a new height in fatuousness,” Krauthammer said. “NASA was established to get America into space and to keep is there. This idea to feel good about their past and to make achievements is the worst combination of group therapy, psychobabble, imperial condescension and adolescent diplomacy. ” And how does Krauthammer think this should be handled? Assuming Bolden wasn’t instructed by President Barack Obama to make this gesture, he said he should be immediately fired for deviating from the intended purpose of NASA. “If I didn’t know that Obama had told this, I’d demand the firing of Charles Bolden the way I would Michael Steele,” he continued. “This is absolutely unbelievable.” In the interview in question, Bolden had said he was tasked with doing the following by the President, including the claim the “foremost” mission was for the space agency to reach out to the Muslim world. “When I became the NASA administrator — or before I became the NASA administrator – [Obama] charged me with three things,” Bolden said. “One was he wanted me to help re-inspire children to want to get into science and math, he wanted me to expand our international relationships, and third, and perhaps foremost, he wanted me to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science … and math and engineering.”

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