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"Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state.  They forget that the state wants to live at the expense of everyone."

            -Frederic Bastiat

PUTTING THE 14th AMENDMENT TO THE TEST

SATURDAY, March 5, 2011, 5:30 p.m. Admission is free. Reservations required. Please call 215.409.6700 or order online. 

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The National Constitution Center presents a timely conversation addressing the issue of immigration reform and the birthright citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment. Jeff Greenfield, senior political correspondent for CBS News, moderates this highly-interactive program featuring fellows of the Peter Jennings Project for Journalists and the Constitution, who will represent various stakeholders in the immigration debate and a panel of distinguished guests.

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February 28, 2011

We Must Not Fear the Tyrants of Tripoli

By Joel B. Pollak 

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These are troubling times. This was written by a woman born in Egypt as a Muslim. This is not heresy, and it will possibly scare you.

Make sure you read the paragraph (in red) towards the end.

Joys of Muslim Women

by Nonie Darwish

In the Muslim faith a Muslim man can marry a child as young as 1 year old and have sexual intimacy with this child, consummating the marriage by 9. The dowry is given to the family in exchange for the woman (who becomes his slave) and for the purchase of the private parts of the woman, to use her as a toy.

Even though a woman is abused, she cannot obtain a divorce.

To prove rape, the woman must have (4) male witnesses.

Often after a woman has been raped, she is returned to her family and the family must return the dowry. The family has the right to execute her (an honor killing) to restore the honor of the family. Husbands can beat their wives 'at will' and the man does not have to say why he has beaten her.

The husband is permitted to have 4 wives and a temporary wife for an hour (prostitute) at his discretion.

The shariah Muslim law controls the private as well as the public life of the woman.

In the Western World ( America ) Muslim men are starting to demand shariah Law so the wife cannot obtain a divorce and he can have full and complete control of her.  It is amazing and alarming how many of our sisters and daughters attending American Universities are now marrying Muslim men and submitting themselves and their children unsuspectingly to the shariah law.

By passing this on, enlightened American women may avoid becoming a slave under shariah Law.

Ripping the West in Two

Author and lecturer Nonie Darwish says the goal of radical Islamists is to impose shariah law on the world, ripping Western law and liberty in two.

She recently authored the book, Â Cruel and Usual Punishment: The Terrifying Global Implications of Islamic Law.

Darwish was born in Cairo and spent her childhood in Egypt and Gaza before immigrating to America in 1978, when she was eight years old. Her father died while leading covert attacks on Israel . He was a high-ranking Egyptian military officer stationed with his family in Gaza .

When he died, he was considered a "shahid," a martyr for jihad. His posthumous status earned Nonie and her family an elevated position in Muslim society.

But Darwish developed a skeptical eye at an early age. She questioned her own Muslim culture and upbringing. She converted to Christianity after hearing a Christian preacher on television.

In her latest book, Darwish warns about creeping sharia law - what it is, what it means, and how it is manifested in Islamic countries.

For the West, she says radical Islamists are working to impose sharia on the world. If that happens, Western civilization will be destroyed. Westerners generally assume all religions encourage a respect for the dignity of each individual. Islamic law (Sharia) teaches that non-Muslims should be subjugated or killed in this world.

Peace and prosperity for one's children is not as important as assuring that Islamic law rules everywhere in the Middle East and eventually in the world.

While Westerners tend to think that all religions encourage some form of the golden rule, Sharia teaches two systems of ethics - one for Muslims and another for non-Muslims. Building on tribal practices of the seventh century, Sharia encourages the side of humanity that wants to take from and subjugate others.

While Westerners tend to think in terms of religious people developing a personal understanding of and relationship with God, Sharia advocates executing people who ask difficult questions that could be interpreted as criticism.

It's hard to imagine, that in this day and age, Islamic scholars agree that those who criticize Islam or choose to stop being Muslim should be executed. Sadly, while talk of an Islamic reformation is common and even assumed by many in the West, such murmurings in the Middle East are silenced through intimidation.

While Westerners are accustomed to an increase in religious tolerance over time, Darwish explains how petro dollars are being used to grow an extremely intolerant form of political Islam in her native Egypt and elsewhere.

In twenty years there will be enough Muslim voters in the U.S. to elect the President by themselves! Rest assured they will do so... You can look at how they have taken over several towns in the USA .. Dearborn Mich. is one... and there are others...

I think everyone in the U.S. should be required to read this, but with the ACLU, there is no way this will be widely publicized, unless each of us sends it on!

It is too bad that so many are disillusioned with life and Christianity to accept Muslims as peaceful.. some may be but they have an army that is willing to shed blood in the name of Islam.. the peaceful support the warriors with their finances and own kind of patriotism to their religion. While America is getting rid of Christianity from all public sites and erasing God from the lives of children, the Muslims are planning a great jihad on America.

This is your chance to make a difference...! Pass it on to those you think will listen..

RedState Morning Briefing

For March 1, 2011

1. Our last WWI vet passes away at age 110

Frank Buckles, the last of the 4,734,991 Americans who served in World War I, has passed away. When you think of most kids today, his story is just staggering.

He was born on a Missouri farm when William McKinley was President. When the US entered WWI in April 1917, he had turned 16 barely two months earlier, but was determined to enlist.

2. The Non-Conspiracy

It is not a conspiracy. Some of you think it is. It is not. A conspiracy is a secret plot by two or more people to do something harmful. What Barack Obama is doing is no conspiracy - it is not secret. Harmful, yes. Secret, no. In fact, the administration is pretty open about it.

I'm talking, of course, about high-speed rail. High-speed rail is the reason Barack Obama couldn't care less about what is going on in the Middle East. High-speed rail is the reason Barack Obama is perfectly willing to let us descend into a Carter Era energy crisis. High-speed rail is the reason Barack Obama does not want us to "drill here, drill now."

It's not a conspiracy. The facts are everywhere. Jay Hakes, who was in charge of the Energy Information Administration under Bill Clinton, is quoted in the Wall Street Journal saying, "There's no way we can create a better future without the price of [fossil-fuel-based] energy going up." Barack Obama's own Energy Secretary, Steven Chu, has said, "Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe."

Think about this. When George Bush was President and gas prices climbed over $3.00 a gallon, what did the left do? They screamed for President Bush to withdraw oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. They screamed that Congress should cut the gas tax.

The Left has not done that at all with Barack Obama in the White House.

3. Washington Post's Greg Sargent Demands Unions Get Violent. Union Goons Attack Fox Reporter.

The Washington Post's leftwing mouthpiece, Greg Sargent, who they ostensibly pay to be an objective reporter is on twitter demanding that unions in Wisconsin get violent to get their way.

In what we can presume is unrelated to Greg Sargent's call, a Fox News reporter was attacked by union thugs in Wisconsin.

4. Does Harry Reid Want A Government Shutdown?

If the continuing resolution is not passed by this Friday, the government will shut down - not that this is a bad thing.

Everyone in Washington is claiming they don't want a shutdown, but Harry Reid's actions suggest he does. Instead of dealing with the continuing resolution when the Senate gets back for business this week, he will take up patent reform instead.

5. Beyond the Left's Talking Points: WI Protests Are About Union Power & Money

It's nearing two weeks since unions and their cohorts on the Left have thrown a nationwide fit over Scott Walker's solution to what is ailing Wisconsin. Unions and Democrats have made Wisconsin their cause célèbre by deploying OFA astroturf, the big talking heads, as well as recruiting just about every known Grateful Dead concert attendee on their mailing lists into Wisconsin. Meanwhile, Democratic state senators (now humorously known as fleebaggers) comically continue to hold the state hostage over an issue of union power, politics and money-nothing more and nothing less.

Despite unions' long hatred of Scott Walker, the new governor is moving to address both the symptoms of the disease and the disease itself-the public-sector union scheme that has molested Wisconsin's taxpayers and their children by gaming the system. Unions like Wisconsin's teachers' union [WEAC] (which was Wisconsin's biggest-spending lobby in 2009) have been extraordinarily adept at fixing the system through spending millions to elect politicians who, in turn, reward the unions at the expense of the taxpayers.

6. War, What Is It Good For? - Ask National Geographic.

Perhaps we are all fortunate that Walter M. Miller, Jr. wrote A Canticle For Leibowitz before the era of Global Warming Chic. He, Neville Shute, and all the fine Rock Singers who jammed at the No Nukes Concert, seemed to believe there wasn't a silver lining around the mushroom shaped cloud of a nuclear holocaust that didn't consist of Strontium-90.

Now, our scientific overlords inform us that if you just pop a few nukes, somewhere far away from where Dr. Genius parks her SUV, it may not be a total suckage field.

7. From Prostitution to Death Threats: Gordon Hintz Is One Classy Fella

Last week Democrat State Representative Gordon Hintz of Wisconsin received a municipal citation connected to prostitution.

Hintz appears to be paying visits in one of those massage parlors that is just a front for prostitution, if not worse.

Rep. Hintz got dinged "for violating a city sexual misconduct ordinance" in Appleton, WI.

Now he is in the news again for telling a female Republican state representative that she is "f**king dead"

8. Beware the Gang of Six

Help for lawmakers on the lam

By George Parry

As a former organized-crime prosecutor, I have watched with bemused dismay the amateurish efforts of Wisconsin and Indiana lawmakers to flee their states and go into hiding.

For example, when Wisconsin state senators clumsily stampeded to their Illinois retreat, they were quickly found and outed on national television. Lacking the tools to successfully go on the lam, these rookies simply made fools of themselves.

Well, fear not, lawmakers.

Having flipped and relocated numerous Mafia witnesses, I am now prepared to offer the latest cutting-edge political support service: the Legislator Protection Program.

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GAO Details Billions in Federal Waste --- Report Obtained by Fox

by Trish Turner | February 28, 2011 

As members of Congress fight over what to cut in the current federal budget to avert a government shutdown, lawmakers are about to receive a blockbuster report that could provide a roadmap to potentially hundreds of billions of dollars in waste. The nonpartisan General Accounting Office (GAO) is poised to release a report Tuesday that one senator said "will make us all look like jackasses."

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FBI Investigates Obama's SEIU Terrorist Pals
By Kevin "Coach" Collins, FloydReports.com

 

 Union Thug attacks Tea Party in Sacramento California at Moveon.org rally

February 28, 2011


Dear C4L Member,

Heads, I win.  Tails, you lose.

For too long, that is the game public sector unions have played with tax-payers.

You see, monopoly bargaining rights and forced union dues allow union bosses to elect the politicians who negotiate their compensation packages.

This rigged game has led to public employee benefit packages and pensions that are bankrupting state after state across the nation.

But now, Governor Scott Walker of Wisconsin is fighting back on behalf of the tax-payers, and the public unions have raised their attacks to DEFCON level 1.

Governor Walker's proposal to eliminate monopoly bargaining rights and forced union dues in an effort to balance Wisconsin's budget has incited massive opposition by the left.

Democrats in the State Senate fled the state in a cowardly maneuver to block a vote on this legislation by denying the Republican Majority a quorum.

Radical leftists and public employee unions are storming the streets in protest to protect the very policies that have drained state treasuries and crushed taxpayers with oppressive taxation.

 The "protests" have featured incendiary rhetoric and hateful imagery, although you won't hear about these uncivil acts in the "mainstream" media, as the left and public unions have deemed Wisconsin a hill to die on.

They know that if Governor Walker holds firm in Wisconsin, other Governors will be emboldened to rollback forced unionism and monopoly bargaining, breaking the public union stranglehold over state governments.

Recently, I sat down with National Right to Work Committee President Mark Mix to discuss worker freedom and the dangers of monopoly bargaining and forced union dues.

I hope you'll take a few moments to watch the video to better understand the stakes of the fight in Wisconsin.

And please, sign our statement of support for Governor Walker to hold strong in the fight for worker freedom and to restore fiscal sanity to his state budget.  After you watch the video and sign our statement of support, please chip in a contribution of $10, $25, $50 - or whatever you can afford - so C4L can beef up our state operations to support any effort to end a system that forces tax-payers to be subservient to public unions.

You see, Organizing for America, MoveOn.org, and Big Labor are busing in shock troops to Wisconsin to destabilize any effort to rein in out of control union contracts, and the liberty movement cannot be outflanked.

The stakes in this fight are high.

You and I must commit to backing Governor Walker in his fight to restore fiscal sanity.

If you and I don't act, public unions will continue to treat taxpayers as human ATM machines, who exist only to fund budget busting pension and benefit schemes "won" via monopoly bargaining and forced union dues extracted from tax-payers.

So please, take a few minutes to watch my interview with National Right to Work Committee President Mark Mix about the urgent fight to end monopoly bargaining and forced union dues.

After you watch the video, please sign the statement of support for Governor Scott Walker's fight to restore worker freedom and fiscal sanity in Wisconsin.

Please chip in a contribution of $10, $25, $50 - or whatever you can afford - so C4L can fight back against any effort by public unions and the left to undermine Governor Walker's attempt to restore worker freedom and fiscal sanity to Wisconsin.


For Liberty,

John Tate

President

P.S. Governor Walker's proposal in Wisconsin to restore worker freedom and fiscal sanity by ending monopoly bargaining and forced union dues has created a firestorm of anger, hatred, and protests on the part of the public unions and their allies on the left.
  

Walker Explodes Union Lies on 'Meet the Press'

By Newsmax Wires

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker says he won't cave in to union and Democratic demands that he compromise on his effort to curb employee benefit programs. He also vows he won't "kick the can down the street" when it comes to dealing with his state's fiscal woes.

Appearing Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, Walker laid out his plan to save his state from fiscal bankruptcy while destroying several false claims about his legislation, which Senate Democrats are delaying by refusing to appear for a final vote.

Among the significant issues covered during his "Meet the Press" interview, Walker:

• Denied he is destroying public employee unions.

His proposed law still allows public employee unions to exist and engage in collective bargaining for their wages. The state denies the unions the use of collective bargaining to seek pension and health benefits.

• Claimed that unions are not acting in good faith.

Public employee unions have been claiming they will accept cutbacks in their benefits, but Walker says they can't be trusted and have been rushing through contracts that give their members extravagant benefit packages.

Walker told Gregory: "We [have] seen that actions speak louder than words. For us to balance the $3.6 billion deficit we have - but not only now, but to ensure we can continue to do that in the future so our kids don't inherit these same dire consequences - we've got to have assurances. And over the past two weeks, even after they made those promises, we've seen local union after local union rush to their school boards, their city councils, their technical school boards and rush through contracts in the past two weeks that had no contributions to the pension and no contribution to health care. And, in fact, in one case in Janesville, they actually were pushing through a pay increase. Actions do speak louder than words."

• Explained that the law helps local governments curb union demands.

Walker said: "This bill precisely helps local governments, and it's effective once it passes. In fact, we're, we're facing a $3.6 billion deficit. Like nearly every other state across the country, we're going to have to cut more than a billion dollars from our schools and local governments. You know, in New York and California, where there are Democrats for governors, they're doing that. The difference here is, with this budget repair bill, we give those schools and local governments more - almost a billion and a half dollars worth of savings. So the savings they get from our budget repair bill exceed the amount."

• Said public employee unions are making unusual demands on taxpayers.

Walker said: "In Wisconsin, a great example of that is, we have, in many of our school districts, a requirement through collective bargaining contracts that they have to buy their health insurance from a company that's owned by our state teacher's union, WA Trust. Because of that, it costs them up to $68 million more than if they could just buy it from the state employee healthcare plan. Those are real costs about putting real money in the classroom instead of into these collective bargaining agreements."

• Pointed out his new plan is consistent with how the federal government handles many employees.

Walker explained: "Well, our proposal is less restrictive than the federal government is today. Under Barack Obama, he presides over a federal government where most federal employees do not have collective bargaining for, for benefits, nor for pay. So what we're asking for is something less restrictive than what the federal government has."

• Explained why police and firemen are exempt from his new law.

Walker said: "We saw two weeks ago, when this debate first started, teachers here in Madison walked off the job for three days. Now, that was an inconvenience for a lot of parents. I know I've got two public - kids in public school. Anytime you have a disturbance like that, it's an inconvenience. But that, contrasted to the fact that even if there was one jurisdiction across the state where firefighters or police officers weren't on the job in full force, I can't afford to have a fire or crime committed where there's a gap in service. And it ultimately just boils down to public safety."

Walker concluded by telling Gregory that he stands by his statement, "This is our moment, this is our time to change the course of history."

Walker told Gregory: "It's one of those where, for year after year after year, not just the last governor, but governors before, legislatures before, have kicked the can. They've taken one-time fixes to push the budget problems off into the future. We can't do that. We're broke. Like nearly every other state across the country, we're broke. And it's about time somebody stood up and told the truth in this state and said, 'Here's our problem. Here's the solution,' and acted on it. Because, if we don't, we fail to make a commitment to the future. Our children will face even more dire consequences than what we face today

Crime Rioting Anarchists Attack Seattle Police With Fireworks, Flares & Fire Extinguishers

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February 26, 2011

Sarah Palin: Even Conservatives Duped by Liberal Media Branding

By Lloyd Marcus 

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USDA Announces $1.3B Fund for Female, Hispanic Farmers Claiming Discrimination

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China and Middle East Regime Change

Posted February 25th, 2011 

Recent upheavals in the Middle East-including the overthrow of the governments in Tunisia and Egypt, riots in Bahrain, and near civil war in Libya-raise the question of what lessons the People's Republic of China, and especially the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), are likely to have learned.

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The Middle East's Third Wave

Posted February 28th, 2011 

In a private phone call with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, almost two weeks after the unrest began, President Barack Obama finally called for Libyan leader Muammar Qadhafi to step down. While the President's inertia may have been mitigated by the need to get Americans out of the country so Qadhafi could not take any hostages, the incident demonstrates again that the wave of revolution currently sweeping North Africa and the Middle East took the Obama Administration completely by surprise. And for good reason: President Obama's "engagement" strategy toward the "Islamic world" is thoroughly outdated and irrelevant.

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Wisconsin: An Education in Special Interest Power

Posted February 26th, 2011 

Early yesterday morning, the Wisconsin assembly passed Governor Scott Walker's (R) budget repair bill, which includes language requiring public employees to contribute 5.8 percent of their salaries to cover the cost of their pensions and pay 12 percent of their health insurance premiums. The measure also significantly limits collective bargaining for government employees, such as teachers.

Although the measure has passed the assembly, it must still be passed in the Senate, where Democrats remain in hiding to avoid consideration of the bill. Charles Krauthammer dissects the stalemate in today's Washington Post:

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Unusual Level of International Unity Seen in Response to Libyan Turmoil
(CNSNews.com) Muammar Gaddafi appears to have achieved what many political leaders before him have been incapable of uniting the notoriously divided international community around a common position on a crisis.

Criticized for Approach to Libyan Crisis, Obama Calls for Gaddafi to Step Down
(CNSNews.com) Following criticism over its response to the Libyan crisis last week and after sidestepping the question as recently as Friday the Obama administration on Saturday for the first time called unambiguously for Muammar Gaddafi to step down.

Critics say the administration has allowed other democracies to take the lead in responding to the crisis.

More Civilians Killed Last Year in One Mexican Border Town Than All Afghanistan (CNSNews.com) - More civilians (3,111) were killed last year in Ciudad Juarez, the Mexican city across the border from El Paso, Texas, than were killed in all of Afghanistan (2,421). Much of the violence in Juarez is sparked by drug trafficking organizations battling over one of the major smuggling corridors into the United States.

Democratic Governors Unclear on Whether Voters Should Have Say in Public Employee Pay Hikes Washington (CNSNews.com) Democratic governors are critical of how Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is handling the showdown with the public employees union in his state, but they're also ambiguous about whether they could support Walkers proposal to allow voters to approve or disapprove pay raises for public employees including teachers that exceeds the rate of inflation.

Huckabee Won't Say If Teacher Raises Should Be Put Before Voters (CNSNews.com) - Former governor and 2008 presidential candidate Mike Huckabee (R-Ark.) said he is "not going to try to evaluate" Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's proposal to put pay raises for teachers and other public employees to a vote of the people.

Huckabee: No Value In Republicans 'Hacking Each Other Up' (CNSNews.com) - Former Governor and presidential candidate Mike Huckabee (R-Ark.) told reporters at the National Press Club that he sees no value in Republicans attacking each other in the primaries for the next Presidential election. Instead, Huckabee recommended that the GOP run against President Obama from the start.

Alveda King Opposes 'Outrageous Censorship' of Pro-Life Billboard (CNSNews.com) Pro-life activist Alveda King on Friday called the removal of a pro-life billboard in Manhattan "an outrageous act of censorship." The billboard showed a black girl along with the statement, The most dangerous place for an African American is in the womb. King said the billboard should be posted in every city of the country."

OTHER HEADLINES:

Tea Party Members Meeting in Phoenix Vow to Hold GOP Accountable

EU Approves Sanctions Against Libya

'Free Libya' Chants Heard in City Near Capital

Al-Qaida's No. 2 Urges Tunisians, Egyptians to Create Islamic States

U.N. Human Rights Chief Seeks World Support for Uprisings

Saudi Arabia Making Up for Libya's Crude Shortfall

Russia Says No-Fly Zone Over Libya Was Not Discussed With Clinton

Obama, Biden to Meet With Governors at White House

Police Allow Protesters to Spend Another Night in Wisconsin Capitol

U.S. Repositions Troops in Eastern Afghanistan

AP: GOP Governors Undermine Obama's Agenda in States

New Jersey Governor Compliments Michelle Obamas Lets Move Campaign

Congress Takes Up Major Change in Patent Law

Taco Bell Unveils New Ads to Beef Up Image

Google Tweaks Search Engine to Bury 'Low-Quality' Sites

ICE Dive Unit in Miami Targets Drug Smugglers Ships

Infant Boy Is First New Zealand Earthquake Victim Laid to Rest

Few Surprises at Ho-Hum Academy Awards Show
 

NEWSPAPER ROUNDUP:

Korean bosses, American workers: Culture clash noted at S. Philly railcar factory

Transgender activists fight "M" and "F" labels on transit passes

State compacts on health care eyed as end run around Obama

Fla. judge may halt implementation of health care law this week

Justice Thomas says his critics seem bent on undermining the High Court

'Tea party' activists rally at their national policy conference

L.A. voters will get chance to roll back fire, police benefits

Social Security reform looms with or without Obama

Synthetic marijuana widely used at Naval Academy, some midshipmen say

Louis Farrakhan says Gadhafi has always been a friend

Boehner makes budget case at religious convention

'Anonymous' takes down Americans for Prosperity website

Charlie Sheen: 'I am on a drug - it's called Charlie Sheen'

February 28, 2011

What you need to know about our murderous enemies

WES VERNON, RA ANALYST - A highly interesting flow of information is making its way over the airwaves right under the noses of Washington's "political correctness" establishment. Are similar conversations going on with talk shows in your community? At the end of this column, we will ask you about that... (more)

February 28, 2011

No, no Con-Con

HENRY LAMB - The U.S. Constitution provides two ways to offer amendments to the Constitution: by resolution of the Congress; and by a Constitutional Convention requested by two-thirds of the states. In either case, the proposed amendment(s) must be ratified by three-fourths of the states... (more)

February 27, 2011

State compacts on health care eyed as end run around Obama

WASHINGTON TIMES - With efforts to repeal the health care law stalling on Capitol Hill, Republican lawmakers in states across the country are turning to another tool in the Constitution to try to limit the law's reach -- interstate compacts... (more)

February 27, 2011

The Rubicon of Wisconsin

CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER - The magnificent turmoil now gripping statehouses in Wisconsin, Ohio, Indiana and others marks an epic political moment. The nation faces a fiscal crisis of historic proportions and, remarkably, our muddled, gridlocked, allegedly broken politics has yielded a singular clarity... (more)

February 27, 2011

Shutdown showdown week

WASHINGTON TIMES - By week's end, we should know whether the House majority has what it takes to stand up for fiscal responsibility against President Obama and Senate Democrats. As the stopgap measure currently funding the federal government runs out Friday, the House is proposing to vote Tuesday on a two-week extension that includes $4 billion in cuts, but Democrats appear insistent on maintaining the current inflated spending levels... (more)

February 27, 2011

Tea Party Patriots rally to hold Congress' feet to fire

WORLDNETDAILY - Tea Party Patriots are meeting in Phoenix this weekend and hundreds of local chapter leaders are listening to speeches and discussing whether the newly elected Congressional members are sticking with their campaign priorities to cut spending and lower the deficit... (more)

February 26, 2011

Obama in Wonderland

NEIL BRIAN GOLDBERG - Mass insanity, fantasy vanity. Can it be I'm the only one who can see? You could read between the lines, if there were not so many lines, so the truth gets lost in the enormity of it all. Can it really be? Can such an unbelievable, outrageous, "no way" outcome be unfolding before our blinded eyes?... (more)

February 26, 2011

Welcome to the nightmare

PAT BOONE - Is it just me? Am I dreaming something that never was? Or do you remember the same things I do? Wasn't there a "once upon a time" when families all consisted of a mom, a dad and a kid or two? When most people went to a worship service every Saturday or Sunday, and many even enjoyed a midweek prayer meeting as well?... (more)

February 25, 2011

Obama not just above the law; he is the law

DAVID LIMBAUGH - President Obama's brazenly calculated move to unilaterally abandon the federal Defense of Marriage Act showcases his attitude that he is above the law. DOMA defines marriage as "only a legal union between one man and one woman as husband and wife" for purposes of all federal laws, rules and regulations (Section 3)... (more)

February 25, 2011

Combat troops to get gay sensitivity training

WASHINGTON TIMES - American combat troops will get sensitivity training directly on the battlefield about the military's new policy on gays instead of waiting until they return to home base in the United States, the senior enlisted man in Afghanistan said Thursday... (more)

February 25, 2011

Report: Reid's budget cuts largely illusory

NEWSMAX - Claims by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, R-Nev., that Democrats have already proposed $41 billion in budget cuts are "disingenuous and not very truthful." Reid is playing with figures to arrive at cuts that "are largely illusory," The Washington Post reports... (more)

February 25, 2011

Obama's mystery links to Gadhafi uncovered

WORLDNETDAILY - As pressure mounts on the White House to intervene to stop Moammar Gadhafi's bloody crackdown in Libya, many commentators have been wondering why Barack Obama has been cautious in his criticism of the dictator after the U.S. president so fervently supported the removal from office of U.S. ally Hosni Mubarak of Egypt... (more)

February 25, 2011

Alveda King: 'The most dangerous place for an African American is in the womb'

CNSNEWS.COM - Pro-life activist Alveda King on Friday called the removal of a pro-life billboard in Manhattan "an outrageous act of censorship." The billboard showed a black girl along with the statement, "The most dangerous place for an African American is in the womb"... (more)

February 25, 2011

Obama in the closet

RICH LOWRY - President Barack Obama wants us to believe he's the most ineffectual opponent of gay marriage imaginable. If we take him at his word, he's a supporter of the traditional definition of marriage who just happens to undermine his own position at every turn... (more)

February 25, 2011

Maryland Senate OKs bill on gay marriage

WASHINGTON TIMES - The Maryland Senate on Thursday evening approved a bill legalizing same-sex marriage in the state, sending the issue to the House of Delegates where a similar measure is scheduled for debate beginning Friday... (more)

February 24, 2011

American dream or socialist nightmare

ROBERT KNIGHT - There are few things more galling than communists lecturing Americans on how we can live up to our "values." A case in point is former Obama administration "green jobs czar" Van Jones rhapsodizing about the union rent-a-mobs in Madison, Wis., Indiana and coming to a city near you... (more)

February 24, 2011

Virginia OKs bill to likely close most abortion clinics

ASSOCIATED PRESS - Virginia took a big step Thursday toward eliminating most of the state's 21 abortion clinics, approving a bill that would likely make rules so strict the medical centers would be forced to close, Democrats and abortion rights supporters said... (more)

February 24, 2011

Obama's personal army: him vs. you and me?

WES VERNON, RA ANALYST - As far back as the 2008 presidential campaign, then-candidate Barack Obama let slip a vision for his own personal civilian army. Not to protect you and me from enemies of this country, which is his number one constitutional responsibility... (more)

February 24, 2011

A struggle for democracy

PATRICK GARRY - A great struggle is taking place in Wisconsin. And it is not just over the projected $3.6 billion state budget deficit; it is over the integrity and functioning of our democracy. Tens of thousands of public employees are skipping work to protest Governor Scott Walker's plan to restructure the collective bargaining rights for some public employees... (more)

Conservative party trick:

Opinion in Brief

Obama's next plan for America?

"Attorney General Eric Holder announced that President Obama had concluded that the administration would no longer defend Section 3 of DOMA [Defense of Marriage Act]. ... As he has in so many other areas (EPA, the offshore drilling ban, IMF), Obama has usurped the authority of the other two coequal branches of government to make himself, in effect, not just chief executive but super-legislator and a supreme judicial authority. Holder admitted in his statement that the Justice Department 'has a longstanding practice of defending the constitutionality of duly-enacted statutes if reasonable arguments can be made in their defense,' but not otherwise. But it is preposterous to suggest there are no reasonable arguments to defend the statute when 5,000 years of human history and the express act of Congress fly in the face of that statement. According to professor John Yoo, 'in the few cases that the Supreme Court has heard gay rights cases, it has never adopted (the standard Obama is applying).' In announcing a new standard, Obama claims that the legal landscape has changed in the 15 years since DOMA was passed. You know the drill: Society has 'evolved.' ... [I]t is not Obama's place to make this determination, especially when the people have already done so in such emphatic terms through their duly elected congressmen. ... [W]e have an imperial president who is refusing to enforce a law passed by powerful congressional majorities while persisting in enforcing a law (Obamacare) that two federal courts have already invalidated. The only common denominator is that Obama believes he is the law." --columnist David Limbaugh 

Culture

"One of the most insidious practices of the insidious Obama Justice Department is the sabotaging of litigation -- i.e., DOJ purports to defend some statute or government policy so that it can appear to be moderate, but uses its resulting control over how the case gets litigated to forfeit some of the best legal arguments supporting the statute/policy. This way, DOJ can steer the case toward the radical outcome the Obama base desires rather than the outcome DOJ is ostensibly pursuing. On balance, I far prefer that Obama's Justice Department openly advocates for the outcome desired by Obama's base, as it is finally doing with DOMA [Defense of Marriage Act]. This way, the court can appoint lawyers who will truly defend the statute with the best legal arguments available. ... Regardless of where the DOMA litigation goes from here, what's interesting is the administration's political calculation as the president gears up for the 2012 campaign. Obama has clearly decided that it's more important to be publicly aligned with his base -- which he desperately needs to drum up enthusiasm for his reelection -- than to pursue the more subtle (and effective, albeit unethical) strategy of masquerading as DOMA's defender while actually undermining the statute." --columnist Andrew C. McCarthy 

Faith & Family

"When the family fails, the economy suffers and social pathologies ensue. This invites government intervention, which contracts liberty.... The federal government's programs are no substitute for a mom and a dad in the home. The hard data demonstrates that all children living in intact homes do better in school -- and this costs taxpayers nothing extra. ...What right is more important than the right to life? If we cannot be secure in our persons, will we remain long secure in our property? ... The family that remains together -- and that worships regularly -- can point the path to society's renewal. ... The fiscal costs of social breakdown are massive. Fewer people mean a weaker economy: It has been estimated that since 1970, abortion has cost the nation a minimum of $35 trillion. And government pays hugely for pathologies that derive from broken families and broken lives." --Tony Perkins, President of Family Research Council

For the Record

"During the past week, Barack Obama has found no time to condemn the attacks that Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi has launched on the Libyan people. But he did find time to be interviewed by a Wisconsin television station and weigh in on the dispute between Republican Gov. Scott Walker and the state's public employee unions. ... Unions, most of whose members are public employees, gave Democrats some $400 million in the 2008 election cycle. The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, the biggest public employee union, gave Democrats $90 million in the 2010 cycle. ... The money in this case comes from taxpayers, present and future, who are the source of every penny of dues paid to public employee unions, who in turn spend much of that money on politics, almost all of it for Democrats. In effect, public employee unions are a mechanism by which every taxpayer is forced to fund the Democratic Party. ... Now hard economic times have left voters wondering why public employees pay practically zero toward their health insurance and pensions when they have to pay plenty themselves." --columnist Michael Barone 

Re: The Left

"NHJ Journal.com reports that Rep. Michael Capuano, a Massachusetts Democrat, said this [last week] at a Boston 'solidarity' rally: 'I'm proud to be here with people who understand that it's more than just sending an email to get you going. Every once and awhile you need to get out on the streets and get a little bloody when necessary.' ... It will not surprise you to learn that Capuano is another 'civility' hypocrite. On Jan. 9, the day after a madman in Tucson, Ariz., got a little bloody, the Globe quoted him: 'What the hell is going on? There's always some degree of tension in politics; everybody knows the last couple of years there's been an intentional increase in the degree of heat in political discourse. ... If nothing else good comes out of this, I'm hoping it causes people to reconsider how they deal with things.' ... Capuano's rhetoric ... was not just violent but authoritarian. He urged government employees to 'get a little bloody' -- to commit violent acts against citizens, as if this were Libya. ... [P]ublic sector 'collective bargaining,' in which public officials 'negotiate' with the unions that helped elect them, is essentially a conspiracy to steal money from taxpayers. Capuano, it seems, would like to escalate that to armed robbery." --columnist James Taranto 

The Gipper

"The most dangerous myth is the demagoguery that business can be made to pay a larger share, thus relieving the individual. Politicians preaching this are either deliberately dishonest, or economically illiterate, and either one should scare us. Business doesn't pay taxes, and who better than business to make this message known? Only people pay taxes, and people pay as consumers every tax that is assessed against a business. Begin with the food and fiber raised in the farm, to the ore drilled in a mine, to the oil and gas from out of the ground, whatever it may be -- through the processing, through the manufacturing, on out to the retailer's license. If the tax cannot be included in the price of the product, no one along that line can stay in business." --Ronald Reagan 

Liberty

"Contrast the framers' vision of a republic with that of a democracy. Webster defines a democracy as 'government by the people; especially: rule of the majority.' In a democracy, the majority rules either directly or through its elected representatives. As in a monarchy, the law is whatever the government determines it to be. Laws do not represent reason. They represent force. The restraint is upon the individual instead of government. Unlike that envisioned under a republican form of government, rights are seen as privileges and permissions that are granted by government and can be rescinded by government. To highlight the offensiveness to liberty that democracy and majority rule is, just ask yourself how many decisions in your life would you like to be made democratically. How about what car you drive, where you live, whom you marry, whether you have turkey or ham for Thanksgiving dinner? If those decisions were made through a democratic process, the average person would see it as tyranny and not personal liberty. Is it no less tyranny for the democratic process to determine whether you purchase health insurance or set aside money for retirement? Both for ourselves and our fellow man around the globe, we should be advocating liberty, not the democracy that we've become -- where a roguish Congress can do anything simply by mustering a majority vote." --economist Walter E. Williams 

Government

"A recent New York Times story summarizes how various government agencies have come up with formulas for determining how much we are worth. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Times notes, has set the value of a human life at $9.1 million.... The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) arrived at its own figure for the value of an American life. The FDA, writes the Times, 'declared that life was worth $7.9 million last year, up from $5 million in 2008, in proposing warning labels on cigarette packages featuring images of cancer victims.' The Transportation Department ... put our worth at $6 million 'to justify recent decisions to impose regulations that the Bush administration had rejected as too expensive, like requiring stronger roofs on cars,' according to the Times. ... [G]iven the Obama administration's likely pursuit of health care rationing ... it is easy to forecast where this could lead should human life be regarded as having only that value placed upon it by government, or an agent of the state. ... If government gets to determine our worth, it could lead to government determining when in its judgment we are worthless. It could lead to government deciding that when we are costing the state more than we are paying in taxes, we might be seen as a bottle, package or can, whose 'sell by' date has expired. And that would mean the government could regard us as disposable and allow -- or force us -- to 'expire.'" --columnist Cal Thomas 

The Last Word

"There are many lessons to be learned from the demonstrations in Madison, Wisconsin. First and foremost, workers in the public sector should never have been allowed to unionize. Once that happened, it was inevitable that civil servants would wind up being better-paid and better-pensioned than the folks in the private sector. That's because they got to wind up negotiating with politicians who had nothing to lose by giving in to union demands. ... There was a time when unions fought the good fight, but that was a very long time ago. Listening to the union members in Madison raving about the glorious accomplishments of unions is a lot like listening to Arabs boasting about all of their great contributions to mankind, and being reminded that they took place several centuries ago." --columnist Burt Prelutsky 

Liberals can't stand the truth: Abortion mills prove Democrats hate Black people

Feb 28, 2011 05:13 am | Coach Collins

By Kevin "Coach" Collins

  Last week a Black liberal member of the New York City Council used her influence to get a clear unambiguous and totally true anti abortion message taken down.

The "offending" message came in the form of a huge picture of a beautiful little Black girl about four year's old standing below the words, "The most dangerous place for an African-American is in the womb."

 The false and revolting logic spewed from the Black liberal (who is to the Left of the Democrats so she is a member of the Marxist/Socialist Working Families Party) was instructive. She denied the continuing genocide of America's African Americans by White Democrats starting soon after the Roe v. Wade Decision was rendered. 

  The Working Families Party comrade whined that since February is Black History Month any reminder of the average 1,876 Black babies whose lives are snuffed out each day in America was "highly offensive."    

 In classic liberal style she ... Continue Reading:Liberals can't stand the truth: Abortion mills prove Democrats hate Black people

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Obama Official Goes to Work for George Soros (Openly)
By Ed Lasky, The American Thinker

Montana, Arizona and Tennessee Take the Lead on Broad-Based Nullification

3M chief warns Obama over business regulation

February 27 2011 19:27

The head of one of the US's biggest industrial groups has launched a scathing attack on Barack Obama's attempts to repair relations with companies, dubbing him "anti-business".

Manufacturers could shift production out of the US to Canada or Mexico as a result, warned George Buckley, chief executive and chairman of 3M.

"I judge people by their feet, not their mouth," he told the Financial Times. "We know what his instincts are - they are Robin Hood-esque. He is anti-business."

The Obama administration has struck a more conciliatory tone towards business since the Democratic defeat in November's midterm elections.

Last month, the president created a jobs and competitiveness council, chaired by Jeffrey Immelt, chief executive of GE, and including chief executives such as American Express's Kenneth Chenault, DuPont's Ellen Kullman, Antonio Perez of Kodak and Southwest Airlines' Gary Kelly. Mr Obama also convened a meeting this month with technology chief executives, including Steve Jobs of Apple, Google's Eric Schmidt, Oracle's Larry Ellison and Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook.

Mr Buckley, who has run the diversified manufacturer since 2005, said: "There is a sense among companies that this is a difficult place to do business. It is about regulation, taxation, seemingly anti-business policies in Washington, attitudes towards science."

He added: "Politicians forget that business has choice. We're not indentured servants and we will do business where it's good and friendly. If it's hostile, incrementally, things will slip away. We've got a real choice between manufacturing in Canada and Mexico - which tend to be pro-business - or America."

The 3M chief also criticised US immigration policy, saying the difficulty of obtaining visas was forcing companies to move research and development overseas. "About 68 per cent of our science PhD candidates are from outside the US," he said. "Many want to stay here afterwards but we're not allowed as many visas as we would like."

"We are now exporting science overseas to China, India, Germany, building labs there. There's a good strategic reason for it, but we also have no choice - if we can't get the people here and we're competing with the people there, we have no choice but to do it locally."

Mr Buckley struck a gloomy note on the US economy. "The macro numbers seem to be improving but when we look at the micro numbers - at what's going on in housing, automotive, in manufacturing in general - it's hard to get enthusiastic about it," he said.

Philadelphia School District's Budget is THREE BILLION TWO HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS.

Approximately 35% of Philadelphia's  Schools are FAILURES¹.

35% of $3.2 BILLION is $1.12 BILLION DOLLARS  that Secretary Zogby has available to redirect from FAILED SCHOOLs to Opportunity Scholarships².

Does this student have an God Given, Constitutional opportunity for an education?

The focus of education has to be what are students learning?  Not protecting a unionized, government controlled monopoly school system and all its bureaucrats.

The Democrats FAILED PHILADELPHIA SCHOOLS

The Philadelphia School District has 23,870 employees of which 11,042 are actual teachers and 453 Principals and Asst. Principals, that is, 12,375 are engaged directly in education and the pensioned bureaucrats number 11, 495 or 48% of the Philadelphia School District "work" force. Can none of these bureaucrats be eliminated so that there is more money for more classroom educators? Or for Opportunity Scholarships for poorest kids in FAILED schools?

The Inquirer has not allowed itself to be intimidated by phone charges of "racism", the last refuge of the Liberal Scoundrels,  and presented a series exposing the financial mismanagement by Supt. Ackerman and her legions of Government Bureaucrats.

Does failure have to cost so much? Does the Phila. School District need so many people to fail so spectacularly?  Is there any reason to continue to fund failure? Is there a reason to continue to pay people who are not accomplishing the purposes of education?

Phila. Federation of Teachers  Jerry Jordan  Philadelphia Supt. Of Schools Arlene Ackerman

¹ 91 of the 257 unionized government controlled monopoly schools in Philadelphia, 35%,  are FAILED SCHOOLS.Approximately 154, 484 students attend Philadelphia's Democratically controlled unionized monopoly school system, that is, approximately 54,000  FIFTY FOUR THOUSAND children are attending FAILED SCHOOLS in Philadelphia alone.

The district, which has, lost 11,000 in the last five years and is projected to drop to 144,000 by 2015. The Philadelphia School District's current budget for government operated schools is $3.2 billion  . Note the Philadelphia School District's web site budget information has not been updated. There are 70,000 empty  seats in government operated schools.   Martha Woodall Philadelphia Inquirer January 20, 2011

²similar to Democratically Defunded highly effective DC Vouchers. (note the President and First Lady send their kids to  nongovernment school).

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Late U.S. Senator Edward 'Ted' Kennedy 'rented out a Chilean brothel for the entire night', claimed FBI files

Last updated at 3:54 PM on 28th February 2011

Late U.S. senator Ted Kennedy has been accused of renting an entire Chilean brothel and seeking meetings with communists who had left-wing views. 

The information came to light after a Freedom of Information request by Judicial Watch - the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption - who put pressure on the FBI to release the material.

Their file on the late senator, who died from brain cancer in August 2009, was released but contained a large amount of blacked out information - until now.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1361318/US-Senator-Edward-Ted-Kennedy-rented-Chilean-brothel-entire-night.html#ixzz1FI4n7mmB

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It's Time To Block Grant Welfare To The States

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Director of Policy for the Carleson Center for Public Policy Peter Ferrara was published February 23 on Forbes.com.

If any liberal reform had been as wildly successful as the 1996 welfare reforms spearheaded by then House Speaker Newt Gingrich, every schoolchild in America would have been forced to memorize the details by now. The reforms of the old New Deal-era Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program involved the ultimate welfare policy dream of President Reagan and his longtime welfare guru Robert Carleson, as explained in Carleson's recent posthumously published book Government Is The Problem: Memoirs of Ronald Reagan's Welfare Reformer.

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High speed to insolvency

George Will explains why libs love trains

Generations hence, when the river of time has worn this presidency's importance to a small, smooth pebble in the stream of history, people will still marvel that its defining trait was a mania for high-speed rail projects. This disorder illuminates the progressive mind.

Remarkably widespread derision has greeted the Obama administration's damn-the-arithmetic-full-speed-ahead proposal to spend $53 billion more (after the $8 billion in stimulus money and $2.4 billion in enticements to 23 states) in the next six years pursuant to the president's loopy goal of giving "80 percent of Americans access to high-speed rail." "Access" and "high-speed" to be defined later.

Click here to read the full article at Newsweek 

The President's courthouse

Even Harvard Law School profs think Obama is wrong on DOMA

"The duty of the Justice Department is to defend statutes that have been passed by Congress, unless there is some very compelling reason not to," Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. said during his 2009 confirmation hearings.

"Very compelling" is a high bar, and for good reason. The executive branch is ordinarily in the business of enforcing laws, not arguing that they should be nullified. Even when an administration believes a law to be bad policy or subject to plausible constitutional attack, the Justice Department almost always defends it in court. Congress enacted the law, after all, and a president has signed it. It would be an odd system in which the Justice Department routinely overrode those determinations.

Click here to read the full article at the New York Times 

AFL-CIO chief: raising taxes will create jobs

Richard Trumka wants more of your money

What's the best way to get Americans back to work?

Raise taxes, according to AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka.  Specifically, he wants to raise the federal gas tax as a means to fund infrastructure spending.  "We need a dedicated source of revenue to create infrastructure in this country," he tells Aaron Task in the accompanying clip.  

"We need to create jobs.  The best way to do that is through infrastructure development."  Simply maintaining the existing infrastructure in this country will cost $2.2 trillion over five years, according to the American Society of Civil Engineers.  That doesn't include Obama's objective of high-speed rails and green energy projects.

Click here to read the full article at Yahoo News 

The National Geographic has a plan to reverse global warming- a small nuclear war.   This is not a spoof by the Onion of the National Geographic. The Obama Energy Department is full of  environmental extremists convinced of the apocalyptic danger of global warming. Maybe they might see  some net benefits from Iran completing its nuclear weapons program and then using a few bombs.  How bad are a few million casualties from a nuclear war , if that war could produce a sustained  0.9 degree centigrade temperature drop, more than the total increase in global temperatures over 150 years?    

February 28, 2011 

On Monday's Program 

The new 'American Dream' - socialists behind protests

Protests were held around the country over the weekend - including places like Seattle where anarchists attacked 'pigs' because they are the 'enemy' keeping them from 'dismantling' the entire system. Van Jones showed up in Washington D.C. with (allegedly) regular average American folk - but who filed the permit for this particular 'American Dream' rally? Glenn has the answer on radio today.

The unrest spreads...

• Protesters still loitering in Wisconsin - DETAILS
•  FNC reporter hit by Wisconsin mob (VIDEO) 
•  Seattle anarchists go after police - DETAILS

 Union thugs in Georgia shove counter-protester into iron fence (VIDEO) 

The latest to now agree with Glenn's opinion he was originally called crazy for: Reuters

The title of the article is 'After the crisis, a worldwide rise in unrest?' and the article begins "With the Middle East in turmoil, other authoritarian states jumpy and post-crisis economic pain prompting protest in western Europe and elsewhere, some suspect a systemic rise in worldwide unrest might just be beginning."  It talks about the unrest in not only Libya but Saudi Arabia, China, Greece, and elsewhere. Get the details HERE.

Biased? Nooo: NPR interviews kindly grey-haired grandmother Francis Fox Piven, talk about meanie Glenn Beck...WATCH

Infamous UK Cleric plans Thursday Sharia Rally in D.C.: 'Rise to implement the Shari'ah in America' - Glenn reacts on radio today. 

Media ignores meteoric gas price increase

What was the big story in the 2008 election prior to the market collapse? Gas prices. All the Democrats were leading the charge, complaining that George W. Bush and his cronies were in bed with big oil and making prices go up. Hillary Clinton even declared if America wanted gas prices to decrease, elect democrats. How's that working out? Prices have climbed 17 cents in one week. Details HERE.

Stu Blog: Someone on the right attacks Glenn! Panic! Get the details HERE.

New Czar at Large: Union thugs showed their true colors last week. One even threatened to dump a fruit smoothie on his opposition! Who would do such a thing?! A Rhode Island clam shucker. Czar at Large Brian Sack takes a closer look at the smallest state in the nation for answers in his latest episode - available in the specials tab only on Insider Extreme! WATCH 

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