912 Patriots of Lower Bucks - Daily E-Mail March 4, 2011
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"It is so difficult to draw a clear line of separation between the abuse and the wholesome use of the press, that as yet we have found it better to trust the public judgment, rather than the magistrate, with the discrimination between truth and falsehood. And hitherto the public judgment has performed that office with wonderful correctness."
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146 years ago |  Inaugural Address March 4, 1865 |
FELLOW-COUNTRYMEN:
At this second appearing to take the oath of the Presidential office there is less occasion for an extended address than there was at the first. Then a statement somewhat in detail of a course to be pursued seemed fitting and proper. Now, at the expiration of four years, during which public declarations have been constantly called forth on every point and phase of the great contest which still absorbs the attention and engrosses the energies of the nation, little that is new could be presented. The progress of our arms, upon which all else chiefly depends, is as well known to the public as to myself, and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all. With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured.
On the occasion corresponding to this four years ago all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war. All dreaded it, all sought to avert it. While the inaugural address was being delivered from this plac ...read full document |
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Thank you. Regards,
Paul Crovo
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Optimism or Pessimism on the "Arab Revolt"?
By Barry Rubin
There is a very simple answer to an apparent contradiction about evaluating the current "Arab revolt." If we look at the situation as a whole, there are reasons to think that many events of the last two months have been positive. Clearly, the resurgence of active opposition in Iran is a good thing. There are real chances for the Tunisia democratization effort to succeed.
In Libya, we know little about the opposition but-and I hope I don't regret having written this-it is hard to see the overthrow of Muammar Qadhafi leading to something worse (though a radical Islamist state allied to the Iran-led bloc would be worse for the region). Yemen is, as always, complex. Bahrain is worrisome but it appears that a compromise will be worked out that will combine reform with stability.
So if we look at the totality of events there is much positive, including the hope that various factors have led to the birth of an important Arab democracy...
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Congressional Testimony: Obama's Immigration Policy is "Dereliction of Duty" By Penny Starr, CNSNews.com
A Vanderbilt University law professor told a House committee on Tuesday that President Barack Obama's failure to enforce federal immigration law is a "dereliction of duties" that puts Americans at risk.
"President Obama's failure to enforce federal immigration laws raises the question of whether we are a nation of laws or a nation without the courage of its convictions," Professor Carol Swain said in her opening remarks. "This dereliction of duties places our citizens at risk, and it damages our national sovereignty and standing in the world."
The hearing before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement focused on the impact of illegal immigration on American workers and unemployment in the United States.... |
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Education Campus Shock: College 'Sexuality' Professor Presents Live-Sex Show for Students
A Northwestern University professor is under fire for reportedly holding an optional live-sex presentation on campus
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Contact Info: Jim Bailey: jim-bailey@northwestern.edu 1-847-491-7429Office of the President: Morton Schapiro
2-130 Rebecca Crown Center 633 Clark Street Evanston, Illinois 60208
Phone: 847-491-7456 Fax: 847-467-3104 E-mail: nu-president@northwestern.edu
If you can't reach the President, click HERE for a list of his Assistants.
Office of the Provost:
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RedState Morning Briefing
For March 4, 2011
1. No More Short Term Continuing Resolutions
I'd like to echo Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann, Heritage Action for America, and others on the right: we don't need anymore short term continuing resolutions.
Heritage Action for America has a great post up on this very point.
"If the President and Senate Democrats are genuine in their desire to fund the government, cut non-security spending and avoid a shutdown, H.R.1 should be their starting point. Anything less and they will demonstrate a fundamentally unserious approach to our looming fiscal crisis."
Congresswoman Bachmann and former Congressman Ernest Istook were in Minnesota the other day making a solid point on these continuing resolutions and Obamacare. . . .
Continuing to push through short term continuing resolutions puts off the inevitable and the necessary. Either the House Republicans are willing to defund Obamacare or they are not.
A short term continuing resolution just allows the GOP to dodge the public longer.
It's time for them to put up or shut up.
2. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) Meets Hitler
Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) is not a Nazi. But he has a history of voting for policies the Nazis championed. But he is not a Nazi. Nor is he Nazi like.
He just likes a lot of policies the Nazis championed.
That's not hyperbole. That is actual fact. I wouldn't bring this up except Sherrod Brown is calling Jim DeMint and Scott Walker "nazis" except they, just like Sherrod Brown, are not Nazis. Or something like that. Senator Brown seems confused. He's comparing them to Hitler and Stalin, but denying he is comparing them to Hitler and Stalin.
3. Tax-Payer Funded, Union-Run NLRB Using Google to Advertise 'How to Start a Union
Apparently, President Obama likes to ignore his advisors. Either that or some agencies in Washington missed the President's speech when he said he wanted job creation to be his number one priority. You see, one would think that, if the President really wanted to create jobs, he would listen to his economic advisors, like former National Economic Advisor Larry Summers, who wrote:
"Another cause of long-term unemployment is unionization. High union wages that exceed the competitive market rate are likely to cause job losses in the unionized sector of the economy."
Presumably, the President realizes that unions cause long-term unemployment and, if his number one priority is job creation, one would think that he might consider sending a note over to the union-controlled National Labor Relations Board and tell them to stop trying to cripple companies. Especially since the NLRB has become the de-facto union organizing committee for union bosses and is intent on cramming unions down companies' throats by any means necessary.
4. Libya Just Isn't Worth US Military Casaulties
With all due respect to our nation's Commander-In-Chief, I fail to remember when Qaddafi's rule in Libya had any profound legitimacy that extended beyond the maximum effective range of an AK-47 Assault Rifle. Qaddafi, and his pathetic side-kick and strip-club drinking buddy, Hugo Chavez, remind me of what the portrait would have looked like if Dorian Gray had an identical twin. Yet I snark and I quibble. Qaddafi has ruled Libya for more than forty years. If there weren't any actual, suffering human beings there, I'd feel moral satisfaction in concluding that he was welcome to it.
5. Wallis' Progressive Call to Arms Misses [the] Mark
Jim Wallis, the longtime leader of Sojourners, a Washington D.C. based ministry dedicated to articulating "the biblical call to social justice," used the opportunity in a February 24, 2011 column, "This is Not Fiscal Conservatism. It's Just Politics," to take an errant shot at recent Congressional Republican budget proposals and Wisconsin governor, Scott Walker. Reverend Wallis, as you may recall, was a religious adviser to Candidate Obama in 2008 and, over the decades, has never been shy to level sharply worded and religiously-steeped criticism at any federal or state legislative effort which he believes challenges his claimed core constituency, the poor, or his allies in the call for 'social justice.'
Criticizing Wallis, in turn, is not easy - not because he's never wrong, but because challenging him immediately draws familiar and convenient retorts that the critic isn't reflecting Christ's values, or worse yet, simply doesn't care about the poor. Conservative commentator, Glenn Beck, found himself at the end of such Wallis' barbs early last year.
6. Olympic Logo Secret Message SCANDAL!! Iran is Irate (that was a gimme) over the 2012 London Olympics. More specifically, over the logo, threatening to boycott the games. You see, they believe there is a hidden message in the logo. Here, first, I menacingly present the original.
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'Shari'a for America' Rally Organizers Anticipate Fatwa on 'U.S. Interference' in Islamic Lands (CNSNews.com)  A Lebanese-based radical cleric soon will deliver a fatwa regarding ÂU.S. intervention in Muslim lands, according to a controversial Islamist group that says it plans to hold a pro-shariÂa demonstration at the White House on Thursday. A Web site promoting ThursdayÂs so-called ÂShariah4America rally says the fatwa  an Islamic religious injunction  will be delivered by Omar Bakri Mohammed, who has openly called for jihad against America, Israel and Britain.
'Crime Is Part of Life' in America; Border 'As Secure As IÂve Seen It In 20 Years,' Says ICE Director (CNSNews.com) - ÂAre we going to be able to eliminate every instance of crime in the United States? No, said Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director John Morton on Wednesday. ÂThatÂs why we have police departments. ThatÂs why we have prosecutors. ThatÂs why we have federal law enforcement agencies like ICE. Crime is a part of life here in the United States and other countries.Â
19 U.S. Troops Killed in Afghanistan in February, A Lower Casualty Rate Than Last Year (CNSNews.com) Â Nineteen U.S. troops were killed in Afghanistan during February, according to CNSNews.com's database of casualties in the Afghan war, bringing the total number of U.S. fatalities since that conflict started in October 2001 to 1,402. Of the 19 deaths, 15 were combat-related. The toll brings to 44 the number of U.S. troops reported killed in Afghanistan so far this year. By this time in 2010 there 62 American deaths had been reported. Last year was the deadliest of the war for the U.S. military.
Justice Department Actively Enforcing Americans With Disabilities Act, With or Without Complaints (CNSNews.com) - The U.S. Justice Department on Wednesday announced it has reached an agreement with the City of Des Moines, Iowa, and the Des Moines Public Library, to improve access to all aspects of civic life for people with disabilities. The agreement was reached under the Justice DepartmentÂs Project Civic Access, a Âwide-ranging initiative to ensure that cities, towns and counties throughout the country comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act  regardless of whether anyone has filed a complaint.
Harry Reid Won't Say If HeÂd Shut Down Government to Save Federal Funding for Planned Parenthood (CNSNews.com) - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) refused to say whether he would be willing to shut down the government to block a continuing resolution that included language prohibiting federal funding of Planned Parenthood for the rest of this fiscal year. ÂI believe there should be no riders, said Reid. ÂIf they have something they want to change in the law, run it through their committees, pass it over there, send it over here. DonÂt lump it to some spending bill that weÂre all trying to work together to fund the government.Â
Former Planned Parenthood Director Challenges Cecile Richards to Public Debate on Whether Congress Should Continue Federal Funding (CNSNews.com) Â Abby Johnson, a former director for Planned Parenthood who is now a pro-life activist and author, is challenging Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards to a public debate on whether Congress should continue to provide taxpayer funding to the nationÂs largest abortion provider. Johnson said she could provide unique perspective Âas a former insider who is now here to tell the truth about how Planned Parenthood operates.Â
James Taylor Hopes Americans Recognize Obama as 'Remarkable Leader' Washington (CNSNews.com) Â James Taylor, recognized at the White House on Wednesday for his musical achievement, told reporters that President Barack Obama has been too modest about his accomplishments. "IÂm hoping the American public understands...what weÂve got in this president, a remarkable leader. It just makes me feel wonderful to see him in this White House. I donÂt mean to get too political.Â
Defense Dept. Papers Express Concerns about Release of Guantanamo Bay Prisoners Washington (CNSNews.com) Â Pentagon documents made public on Wednesday by a government watchdog group reflect the Bush administrationÂs concerns that prisoners released from the Guantanamo Bay detention facility would put American lives at risk. The documents, all from the Bush era, come at a time when Obama administration officials have given mixed messages about closing the facility.
Islamist Leader Blames CIA for Murder of Pakistan's Only Christian Government Minister (CNSNews.com) Â An Islamist party leading a campaign in support of PakistanÂs blasphemy laws is blaming the CIA for the murder of the countryÂs only Christian government minister. Shahbaz Bhatti had angered extremists by calling for an end to the strict and repressive laws. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton expressed shock and outrage over BhattiÂs killing.
Harry Reid: Republicans 'Fixated on Destroying Our Government, Our Economy' (CNSNews.com) - At a press conference on Wednesday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) was asked about GOP plans to eliminate a program that has permanently modified nearly 600,000 mortgage loans since its inception. "Why would they (Republicans) want to eliminate a program like that? Just because it came from the White House? This is hard for me to understand why theyÂre so fixated on destroying our government, our economy.Â
Obama 'Saddened,' 'Outraged' By Shooting of Americans in Germany Washington (CNSNews.com)  President Barack Obama on Wednesday condemned the shooting of U.S. airmen in Frankfurt, Germany, in which two were killed and two others were wounded. ÂI want everybody to understand that we will spare no effort in learning how this outrageous act took place and are working with German authorities to ensure that all of the perpetrators are brought to justice, Obama said. German authorities are investigating it as a terrorist act.
OTHER HEADLINES:
Obama Focusing on Foreign Affairs, Meeting with Mexican President
Insurgents Attack Police, Killing Civilians As Well, in NW Pakistan
BP Withholds Majority of 2010 Bonus Payments
Libyan Warplanes Strike Rebel-Held Oil Port
Muslim Shooting Suspect Says He Acted Alone at Frankfurt Airport
Bill Curbing Collective Bargaining Speeding Through Ohio Legislature
Massachusetts Teachers Must Give Back $1.2 Million in Overpayments
Hawaii Democrat Announces He WonÂt Run for Re-Election to U.S. Senate in 2012
ICE Intelligence Chief Suspended in Fraud Probe
AP: Pro-Life Groups ÂAdopt In-Your-Face TacticsÂ
UN: Food Prices Hit Record High in February
Requests for Unemployment Benefits Fall for Third Time in Four Weeks
NEWSPAPER ROUNDUP:
Illinois officials spar over order to publicly release list of gun owners
Connecticut lawmakers consider gun-offender registry
Gates: U.S. has done 'lousy job' listening to concerns of Afghanistan leader
TSA screening: N.H. Bill would make touching, viewing an assault
EPA administrator applauds Fox News for becoming carbon-neutral
Tennessee state lawmaker renews fight to make supporting shariÂa law a felony
Pentagon says no-fly zone over Libya would be complex, costly
U.S. wants to know who's in charge of Libyan revolution
Planned Parenthood blitzes Senate, playing up 'women's health' angle
Unusual increase in STDs surprises S.F. officials
S.D. Senate passes bill mandating 72-hour wait before abortion
N.C. bill would punish those who harm, kill fetuses
Court clears Delaware cinema of racial bias for telling black patrons to stay quiet
Fla. Health Department may cut 1,600 jobs due to budget pressures
Manchester, N.H. mayor wants to move 5th-graders to middle schools
Americans confused by budget; No idea where gov't. spends their money
COMMENTARIES:
Ruled by Regulation
By Ed Feulner
In todayÂs America, a long list of rules and regulations governs nearly every aspect of life. For some concrete examples of what lawmakers can cut, and why, let's look at regulations in three broad areas -- financial reform, health care and the environment.
Obama's Narcissistic Personality Disorder
By Ben Shapiro
During the 2008 campaign, Hillary Clinton suggested that if the emergency phone rang at 3 a.m. in the White House, you wouldn't want President Obama picking it up. She was wrong. Obama wouldn't pick it up in the first place. He'd let it go to answering machine. He'd be too busy chasing the nearest camera.
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1st call for impeachment by member of Congress
Absolutely,' Trent Franks tells blog, citing abandonment of DOMA law Posted: March 02, 2011 8:19 pm Eastern
By Bob Unruh © 2011 WorldNetDaily
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A Republican congressman has told a left-leaning blog that if there is collective support, he would favor the impeachment of Barack Obama over his decision to stop defending the federal Defense of Marriage Act.
Scott Keyes of ThinkProgress.org asked U.S. Rep. Trent Franks, R-Ariz.: "I know Newt Gingrich has came out (sic) and said if they don't reverse course here, we ought to be talking about possibly impeaching either Attorney General [Eric] Holder or even President Obama to try to get them to reverse course. Do you think that is something you would support?" Keyes asked.
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Obama Has No Case for Obamacare
Wednesday, March 2, 2011 07:40 AM
By: Betsy McCaughey
On Feb. 22, a District of Columbia federal judge, Gladys Kessler, ruled Obamacare constitutional, parroting the administration's claim that because all Americans are "active" in the healthcare marketplace, Congress can use its commerce power to compel them to buy health insurance. Kessler is the third federal judge to buy the argument, and more likely will.
Unfortunately, it's untrue.
The Obama administration's lawyers are building the case for mandatory health insurance on a lie, telling judges that all Americans use healthcare. That's a whopper
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Oh Good! A Whole Institute Dedicated to Lecturing Conservatives on "Civility" By Don Feder, GrassTopsUSA.com
About a week ago, I had another lesson in liberal civility.
I was pulling into the parking lot of a burger-joint when an agitated young man drove up next to me. He rolled down his window, as I did. I thought I might have cut him off in traffic and prepared to apologize.
The first words out of his mouth were: "Are you a retard?" This is known as a rhetorical question. I was tempted to answer, "No, but I am still beating my wife."
The graduate of The Charlie Sheen School of Refinement was incensed by one of my bumper stickers, "Global Warming: a dangerous man-made phenomenon caused by the mixture of recycled Marxist ideas and junk science."
I told him I wasn't going to have a conversation with someone who begins by asking if I'm "special." We went into the restaurant. He was calm for a while, but as soon as he finished eating, he began loudly berating me again.... |
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Laura: It should not come as a surprise that Julian Assange is an anti-Semite. That is a typical characteristic of those who desire to bring down America and western civilization.
By RAVI SOMAIYA
LONDON - A report published by a British magazine on Tuesday said the WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, suggested that British journalists, including the editor of The Guardian, were engaged in a Jewish-led conspiracy to smear his organization.
His remarks appeared in the magazine Private Eye, in an article by its editor, Ian Hislop, who outlined a rambling phone call that Mr. Assange made on Feb. 16 to complain about the coverage of WikiLeaks.
He was especially angry about a Private Eye report that Israel Shamir, an Assange associate in Russia, was a Holocaust denier. Mr. Assange complained that the article was part of a campaign by Jewish reporters in London to smear WikiLeaks.
A lawyer for Mr. Assange could not immediately be...
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Daily News John Baer's Omissions Display a Liberal Bias
Letters: What Baer left out Printed Thu, Mar. 3, 2011 (Bob Guzzardi)
John Baer's March 2d hit piece on Gov. Corbett and Budget Secretary Charles Zogby failed to mention that Pennsylvania's Marcellus Shale drillers pay the highest net corporate income tax in the country, that Marcellus Shale is the number one job creator in Pennsylvania and that increased natural gas production is lowering cost of energy for businesses and individual homeowners.
John Baer, also, failed to mention that "Green" businesses and The Forgotten Taxpayer both funded the anti-drilling lobbyist, Penn Future.
Could readers hope that John Baer will tell "the truth, the whole truth..."
Bob Guzzardi
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fYI My Sources:
1 ) Wall Street Journal March 2, 2010
" The U.S. is inundated in natural gas, and the glut may not ease any time soon. Domestic production last year hit its highest level in almost 40 years, and 2011 will likely see another year of strong production. That means another year of subdued electricity prices and pressure on drillers' bottom lines as well as a powerful incentive for companies and other consumers to switch to the heating fuel."
2) Commonwealth Foundation PennFuture's Lobbying July 8, 2010"While the [PennFuture] condemns the natural gas industry for its lobbying against increased and selective taxation of its investments, PennFuture has received nearly $1 million during the last five years from alternative energy companies. These companies benefited from PennFuture's lobbying for corporate tax breaks and taxpayer-funded "economic development" funds for wind and solar projects in Pennsylvania.
And even as PennFuture solicited volunteer and member assistance to pressure legislators to pass or oppose specific pieces of legislation, the group reported to the Internal Revenue Service that it spent no money on grassroots lobbying on four of its past five tax returns.
Finally, PennFuture's lobbying of state officials is also funded by the taxpayers. Since 2002, the group has lobbied for and received over $1 million in taxpayer money, which is then used to lobby elected and appointed officials for additional taxpayer money."
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Undermining the Third Pillar of Liberty
"Marriage is in its origin a contract of natural law. It is the parent, and not the child of society; the source of civility and a sort of seminary of the republic." --Justice Joseph Story

This day has been a study in contrasts.
It started with a sendoff for a Patriot friend and member of our National Advisory Board, Lt. Col. Charles Paige, USMC, who is on his way to Afghanistan for another year standing in harm's way in one of the harshest fighting environments on earth. His wife and two children will be maintaining the home front in his absence. Semper Fi, Brother!
Back in the office, the morning news and policy review revealed this insight into Barack Hussein Obama's warfighting strategy in Afghanistan: "Combat troops to get gay sensitivity training." (Yes, you read that correctly.)
Army Command Sgt. Maj. Marvin Hill, the ranking enlisted man in Afghanistan, and an outspoken Obamaphile, took time out from a joint interview with his Afghan counterpart, Sgt. Maj. Roshan Safi, to confirm that training sessions will be required for all combat personnel at forward operating bases as part of Obama's force-wide "Do Ask -- Do Tell" agenda to integrate homosexuals into combat units.
"We will take our directions from the Department of Defense, from the secretary of defense, the chairman, as well as the service chiefs of each service," said Hill. "Our plan is to take their direction, and we're going to execute that training right here on the battlefield."
Soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere around the world will receive this homosexual normalization indoctrination in the next few months.
As if that weren't enough "change" for one day, the afternoon policy reports confirmed that Obama's chief law enforcement officer, Attorney General Eric Holder, will not enforce the law. Actually, in Obamese, they will "enforce the law but not defend it in court." I'm referring specifically to Section 3 of DOMA, the Defense of Marriage Act, which defines marriage as "the legal union between one man and one woman," or genetically, "one male and one female," under federal law.
DOMA doesn't infringe upon states' rights to establish their own definition of marriage, but it does protect the several states from having to recognize another state's standards for marriage. For example, Tennessee recognizes a driver license issued to a Hawaii driver, but it is not required to recognize a homosexual "marriage" license from Hawaii if that duo or duet should happen to move to Tennessee.
DOMA was signed into law by Bill Clinton after it received overwhelming congressional support, 85-14 in the Senate and 342-67 in the House. That notwithstanding, Holder has confused his post with that of a Supreme Court majority and has unilaterally declared DOMA unconstitutional.
Obama's rejection of DOMA is his latest attempt to pander to members of his second-most vociferous constituency after government unions: homosexual unions.
After his December blessing upon homosexual service in the military, Obama said, "[M]y feelings about this are constantly evolving. I struggle with this. I have friends, I have people who work for me, who are in powerful, strong, long-lasting gay or lesbian unions. And they are extraordinary people, and this is something that means a lot to them and they care deeply about. It's something that I personally am going to continue to wrestle with going forward."
"Evolving"? Homosexual unions have no chance of evolving, only devolving, as they are self-solving. (A shout out to Jesse Jackson as the inspiration for those prose!)
On the DOMA decision, Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA), head of the LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender) Equality Congressional Caucus (seriously, there is one), met with Obama, and then told reporters, "Getting the DADT repeal, that went a long way toward alleviating the sense of unhappiness. Now, the DOMA decision means there's no significant argument at all that the president has not been supportive."
But is Obama's high-profile rejection of DOMA solely to appease a minuscule pack of pantywaists in Congress, and their gender-confused constituents?
Obama's endeavor to "fundamentally transform America" into a Socialist state is predicated on the success of his labors to destabilize the three pillars of Essential Liberty: Individual Liberty, Economic Liberty and Constitutional Liberty.
He has already dealt a latent deathblow toEconomic Liberty by way of his generational debt bomb.
He has done more damage to Constitutional Liberty than any Leftist since Franklin Roosevelt.
And Obama knows the most effective method to erode Individual Liberty is to undermine the integrity of faith and family, and that is why he advocates overturning measures such as DADT and DOMA.
The notion that marriage is the foundation of society is time honored. In the words of Marcus Tullius Cicero (circa 50 BC), "[T]he first principle of society consists in the marriage tie, the next in children, the next in a family within one roof, where everything is in common. This society gives rise to the city, and is, as it were, the nursery of the commonwealth."
Semper Vigilo, Fortis, Paratus et Fidelis!
 Mark Alexander Publisher, The Patriot Post
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How to Fix the Federal Budget
By Alison Acosta Fraser
It is time for Congress to rein in spending and fix our nation's budget crisis. The excesses from the recession drove spending up to $3.5 trillion last year-borrowing 40 cents out of every dollar spent. The public debt is closing in on 70 percent of the economy and within the decade will exceed the tipping point of 90 percent, resulting in significant harm to economic growth and prosperity.
This short-term problem will be followed by a tidal wave of entitlement-driven spending as baby boomers flood into Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. Left unchecked, these programs will drive debt to nearly 200 percent of the economy. Unless Congress changes course on spending, every income tax rate will have to more than double, according to the Congressional Budget Office.[1] Every American, especially younger generations, would have a permanently lower standard of living.
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How Obama Is Making Gas Prices Higher
Posted March 3rd, 2011
Yesterday, for the first time since September 2008, the price of a barrel of crude oil topped $100 on the New York Mercantile Exchange. But while the recent unrest in the Middle East has had some marginal effect on rising prices, the most significant factor has been increased oil demand worldwide. That is why, long before the recent protests even began, analysts were predicting $4 a gallon by this summer and $5 a gallon by 2012.
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Yet Another New Obamacare Bureaucracy
Posted March 2nd, 2011
Once again, Obamacare shows that, when it comes to health care reform, the saying "Hey, it's the thought that counts" just doesn't cut it.
Proponents of the new law argue that its stringent insurance regulations will help consumers, but these new regulations also threaten some existing employer-sponsored plan arrangements. To avoid a flood of workers losing their health care, two-and-a-half million people have been exempted from the new rules through waivers granted to employers.
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Six Steps to Reining in the Administrative State
Posted March 2nd, 2011
In many ways, Obamacare clarified the problem of the administrative state. Congress routinely writes vague laws, delegating its authority to bureaucrats who make detailed regulations covering every aspect of our lives: from the light bulbs we use to the health care coverage we purchase. In passing Obamacare, Congress transferred important aspects of its legislative authority to various administrative agencies.
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The Balanced Budget Debate Begins
Posted March 2nd, 2011
Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) has offered a Sense of the Senate Amendment to the Patent Reform Act of 2011 (S.23) testing the waters on the idea of a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution (Senate Amendment 115). This will be a referendum to testing the waters for the idea of a balanced budget amendment in the Senate. The details of any mechanism to cut spending is very important and should be studied in great detail.
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Low-Flush Toilets: The San Francisco Treat?
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Posted March 2nd, 2011
San Francisco's environmentally friendly low-flush toilets are doing what they're supposed to do: save water. The toilets reduced the city's annual water use by 20 million gallons, but they have had the unintended consequence of causing sewage problems. The San Francisco Chronicle reports:
Skimping on toilet water has resulted in more sludge backing up inside the sewer pipes, said Tyrone Jue, spokesman for the city Public Utilities Commission.
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Republicans Fail to Live up to Promise
Two recent GAO reports highlight how much work is left to do in cleaning up the mess in Washington, DC:
- $1.1 billion in farm subsidies were paid to 170,000 dead people
- Up to $200 billion was spent on duplicate programs and agencies
And our newly elected Representatives could only find a measley $61 billion to cut in recent bills, although they had pledged before the election to cut at least $100 billion!
Heritage Action compiled a percentage of how many unambiguous spending cut amendments each Congress person voted for during the CR debate. According to their after action report PA's delegation supported cuts the following percentage of the time:
Pitts (R ) | 90% | Marino (R ) | 71% | Murphy, T. (R ) | 71% | Shuster (R ) | 65% | Kelly (R ) | 57% | Fitzpatrick (R ) | 52% | Platts (R ) | 52% | Thompson Barletta (R ) | 48% 48% | Holden (D ) | 43% | Altmire (D ) | 38% | Dent (R ) | 38% | Meehan (R ) | 38% | Gerlach (R ) | 29% | Schwartz (D ) | 10% | Brady, R. (D ) | 0% | Critz (D ) | 0% | Doyle (D ) | 0% | Fattah (D ) | 0% |
Are you outraged? If not, you sure ought to be. Contact your Congressman and ask him why he voted for so little in spending cuts and why he did not find the $100 billion in cuts that he pledged.
We are told that the moderates from PA are really squealing due to people like you calling and emailing them, complaining about the failure to cut more spending.
Let 'em have it. They apparently have forgotten the message we sent on November 2nd.
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Boycott rock fundraisers
(Live Aid; Live 8; etc).
Explain that rock stars have an unerring ability to choose the wrong causes. The original Live Aid event, for example, might have killed at least as many Africans as it saved by encouraging Ethiopia's Marxist dictator Mengistu Haile Mariamin the Stalinist "land reform" program that had caused the famine in the first place.
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Conservative VS Liberal Political 101 by Tony Rollo - Liberalism and Conservatism
Political 101 Mini Documentary Series episode Conservative VS Liberal - Compare Liberalism and Conservatism - A history of how the Liberal philosophy has changed and twisted. How Conservatism contrasts Liberalism. What does a Liberal and Conservative believe?
submitted by Tony Rollo
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March 03, 2011
On Thursday's Program
Van Jones creates anti-police school curriculum
Most people shrug off Van Jones as insignificant - but is he? After being exposed and canned from the White House, Jones landed in the friendly confines of the George Soros Center For American Progress. The curriculum? The former founder of the anti-police group 'Cop Watch' -- after the lesson the kids will 'know who Van Jones is' (really?) and join one of his websites to become an activist. Unions - is THIS who you want to stand in 'solidarity' with? Glenn has details on radio today.
Obama says race 'key component' with Tea Party
In a very candid interview, President Obama said that 'race is still an issue' for him and that a 'key component' of the Tea Party is racism. That's quite a claim considering there's no evidence of racism - the best argument supporting that theory is 'President Obama is African American. Tea Parties oppose the President's policies. Therefore Tea Parties are racist. What'd Glenn think of the comments? He explained on radio today.
Glenn gives Holder a pass?
Not that the left would ever, ever give Glenn the benefit of the doubt on anything he says, but he's doing so with Eric Holder and his 'my people' comment. Initially the comment seemed to be worse than it actually was - and about 45 seconds before doing a block on TV about it last night, Glenn ditched the script and bailed on it. Why? Hear the debate with Glenn, Pat and Stu on radio today.
Michael Moore says wealth a 'national resource' for the taking
Wealthy filmmaker Michael Moore apparently isn't too fond of his own wealth, because he's demanding that the government forcibly take it from him. Of course, Moore fails to realize that he could just spread the wealth on his own - and instead declares wealth a 'national resource' that government should be entitled to. Get the story from The Blaze.
Michele Bachmann makes Glenn break out Barry White
Why is Glenn giddy over Michele Bachmann's pro-choice law proposal? Because it's pro-choice on light bulbs. Incandescent light bulbs are being phased out by the government so that people are basically forced to use CFL's instead. Get all the details from The Blaze and see Glenn's hilarious reaction from radio.
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Tuesday, Mar 1, 2011 at 8:01 PM EST
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