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"The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness.  You have to catch it yourself."

            -Benjamin Franklin

SB1:Where are We Going?

Is the Crusade to establish School Choice in PA now being transformed into a civil rights entitlement program via SB1?

Why is  Freedom Works and the KTP focusing on Civil Rights rather than a Conservative perspective promoting less government intrusion and maximum freedom for all  citizens?

 Perhaps Dick Armey is not in tune with PA or does not support a true Universal Voucher System?

I have lived through the School Busing of the 1960s+ to help poor children in failing schools. The result was lowering  the performance of the non failing schools, while not improving  anyone's educational status and increasing cost for taxpayers.

I lived through the Great Society programs to help underprivileged children: A Total failure at taxpayers' expense.

The  focus should be on:

·         Improving the educational system of all children regardless of race, ethnicity, financial status or  neighborhood

·         Giving maximum control  to parents and letting them decide on what is a failed school, based both on educational performance and/or moral and sociological standards

·         Reducing costs through competition

·         Reducing Union control

·         Providing a choice  of  non-public schools without  any government control other than academic or basics as currently applied to parochial schools.

As Rahm Emanuel said ' Don't pass up a crisis'. Well, with what is going on in Wisconsin, Ohio, Indiana, New Jersey and even New York and elsewhere, this is an opportune  time to  establish a Universal Voucher System.  I do not see this in SB1, as it is currently written.  In fact, my concern is that passing SB1 in its current form may kill any chances of enacting a meaningful Universal Voucher System in the foreseeable future. Applying a limited Voucher system in a poor  and failing inner city area, with its unique issues, is not a  reasonable model to advance a Universal Voucher System statewide. 

With the advent of the Tea Party, the internet, talk radio, Fox News and the awareness of the Nation's financial situation, the time is right. It's our time.  We need legislators to step up to the plate and with  total control of the PA government by the Republicans, there is no excuse: Take Wisconsin , Ohio and Indiana as the model.

Maybe  I am overstating this, but I was deeply troubled by the following  article posted in the KTP Website :

KTP In The Media

It's Time For School Choice In Pennsylvania

Dick Armey and Ana Puig

Feb 8, 2011

School choice puts education back in the hands of parents, where it belongs.

The plight of children in failing schools, particularly minority students in low-income districts, has rightly been called "the civil rights issue of the 21st century." The opponents of school choice have become the anti-reformers of today, sometimes with startling honesty...

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Advocates line up money, ads, support for school-choice bill

February 06, 2011
 By Tom Barnes, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

HARRISBURG - It's a powerful photograph, highlighting the angry racial turmoil of the 1960s: It shows Alabama Gov. George Wallace standing in a schoolhouse door vowing to stop black students from entering.

The photo has appeared in ads in six newspapers around Pennsylvania. "School choice" advocates, from Philadelphia and out-of-state, are using the segregationist image to focus on what they see as a modern-day problem for poor minority students in public schools.

"The plight of children in failing schools, particularly minority students in low-income districts, has rightly been called the 'civil rights issue of the 21st century,'" said former Republican congressman Dick Armey of Texas. "The opponents of school choice have become the anti-reformers of today."

Mr. Armey is chairman of a Washington, D.C.-based group called FreedomWorks, which is helping a suburban Philadelphia group called The Kitchen Table Patriots press the state Legislature to enact taxpayer-funded tuition vouchers. Low-income students could use them to escape their "failing" local public school, supporters say...

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The Rest of the Story . . . 

PLEASE TAKE A MOMENT TO LOOK AT THIS ONE-- NO ADDED COMMENTARY IS NEEDED........

George Everett "Bud" Day

I got shot down over N Vietnam in 1967, a Sqdn. Commander.   
After I returned in 1973...I published 2 books that dealt a lot 
With "real torture" in Hanoi .  Our make-believe president is 
Branding our country as a bunch of torturers when he has 
No idea what torture is. 
  
As for me, I was put thru a mock execution because I would not respond... 
Pistol whipped on the head....same event..  Couple of days later... 
Hung by my feet all day. I escaped and a couple of weeks later, I got

Shot and recaptured.  Shot was OK...what happened afterwards was not. 
  
They marched me to Vinh...put me in the rope trick, trick...almost 
Pulled my arms out of the sockets. Beat me on the head with a 
Little wooden rod until my eyes were swelled shut, and my unshot, 
Unbroken hand a pulp. 
  
Next day hung me by the arms...rebroke my right wrist...wiped 
Out the nerves in my arms that control the hands....rolled my fingers 
Up into a ball.  Only left the slightest movement of my L forefinger.  
So I started answering with some incredible lies. 
  
Sent me to Hanoi strapped to a barrel of gas in the back of a truck. 
  
Hanoi ..on my knees....rope trick again.  Beaten by a big fool.  
  
Into leg irons on a bed in Heartbreak Hotel. 
  
Much kneeling--hands up at Zoo. 
  
Really bad beating for refusing to condemn Lyndon Johnson. 
  
Several more kneeling events.  I could see my knee bone thru 
Kneeling holes. 
  
There was an escape from the annex to the Zoo.  I was the Senior 
Officer of a large building because of escape...they started a mass 
Torture of all commanders. 
  
I think it was July 7, 1969...they started beating me with a car fanbelt.

In first 2 days I took over 300 strokes...then stopped counting 
Because I never thought I would live thru it. 
  
They continued day-night torture to get me to confess to a non-existent 
Part in the escape.  This went on for at least 3 days.  On my knees... 
Fan belting...cut open my scrotum with fan belt stroke.  Opened up 
Both knee holes again.  My fanny looked like hamburger...I could not 
Lie on my back. 
  
They tortured me into admitting that I was in on the escape...and 
That my 2 room-mates knew about it. 
  
The next day I denied the lie. 
  
They commenced torturing me again with 3- 6- or 9 strokes of 
The fan belt every day from about July 11 or 12th..to 14 October 
1969.  I continued to refuse to lie about my roommates again. 
  
Now, the point of this is that our make-believe 
President has declared to the world that we (U.S..) are a bunch of 
Torturers...Thus it will be OK to torture us next time when they 
Catch us...because that is what the U.S. Does. 
  
Our make-believe president is a know nothing fool who thinks 
That pouring a little water on some one's face, or hanging a pair of 
women's pants over an Arabs head is TORTURE..  He is a meathead. 
  
I just talked to MOH holder Leo Thorsness, who was also in my squadron,

In jail...as was John McCain...and we agree that McCain does 
Not speak for the POW group when he claims that Al Gharib was 
Torture...or that "water boarding" is torture. 
  
Our president and those fools around him who keep bad mouthing 
Our great country are a disgrace to the United States .  Please pass 
This info on to Sean Hannity.  He is free to use it to point out the 
Stupidity of the claims that water boarding...which has no after 
Effect...is torture.

If it got the Arab to cough up the story about how he planned the attack on the twin towers in NYC ...

Hurrah for the guy who poured the water.

____________________________________________________________________
  
 "Bud" Day, Medal Of Honor Recipient 
   
George Everett "Bud" Day(born February 24, 1925) is a retired

U.S. Air Force Colonel and Command Pilot who served during the

Vietnam War. He is often cited as being the most decorated U.S. 

Service member since General Douglas MacArthur, having

Received some seventy decorations, a majority for actions

In combat. Day is a recipient of the Medal of Honor.

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Oil at 2-1/2-year high, world stocks retreat
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Kerry: A Libyan no-fly zone is not intervention
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Number of healthcare reform law waivers climbs above 1,000
The Hill
 
Talks to Resolve Wisconsin Battle Falter
New York Times
 
Holding Firm on the Budget
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RedState Morning Briefing

For March 7, 2011

1. Speaker Boehner & Harry Reid, Allow Frank Buckles Into the Rotunda

I think Speaker John Boehner and Harry Reid are making a terrible mistake.

The Speaker's Office and the Senate Majority Leader are blocking a request that Frank Buckles be allowed to lie in state (or in honor as the case may be) in the rotunda of the United States Capitol.

Frank Buckles is not just anybody. I agree that we should not let just anybody lie in state in the rotunda. I totally understand Harry Reid and John Boehner's reasoning. The right should be reserved for a very special few. While I understand his reasoning, I think the last of the WWI and the last of the WWII servicemen should be given the honor.

Frank Buckles is not just a special few. He is the last of his kind. The very last.

Precisely 4,734,991 Americans served in World War I. Frank Buckles was the last of them to die. He lied to get into the Army at age 16 so he could fight the Kaiser. He is the last of a generation of Americans who heard the calling for freedom in a way other did not and rose up to fight.

He is the last of those men and boys who fought under an American flag across an ocean in a land most had never been who did so not because we were attacked or brought into a war, as we were in World War II, but because they heard the call of freedom in the first great war.

He, as the last of the embodiment of the men and boys who heard that first call for freedom across the seas, deserves to lie in the Rotunda.

The Speaker may be reached at (202) 225-0600. Harry Reid may be reached at (202) 224-3542.

2. Reid's Obstructionism May Cause Government Shutdown

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) may cause a government shutdown.

Senator Reid is employing a procedural strategy to deal with the House-passed long-term Continuing Resolution (CR), H.R. 1, that may make it more likely that the federal government will shut down when the government runs out of money on March 18. Remember this when we get closer to March 18 and both parties blame each other for failing to pass an appropriations bill to fund the government through September 30 of this year (the end of Fiscal Year 2011).

The House passed a long-term CR on February 19 by a 235-189 vote. The long-term CR funds the federal government for the remainder of Fiscal Year 2011 and contains $61 billion in cuts from FY 2010 levels of spending.

3. TN Democrats go, charitably, nuts over teacher reform bills.

Based on their latest email blast, the Tennessee Democratic Party seems to have a problem understanding what "fascism" is, not to mention "terrorism." Apparently, Tennessee Democratic chair Chip Forrester and House Democratic chair Mike Turner seem to think that these terms are appropriate for describing several reform bills currently being considered by the Tennessee legislature. Presumably they mean HB 2012 and HB 0130; the first is a tenure reform bill that introduces merit into the tenure process and the second is a collective bargaining reform bill that removes the Tennessee Education Association's privileged status as the only permissible agent for bargaining with school boards.

4. NJ Union Caught Interfering With Turnpike Bidding Process Gets Shown the Exit

They could have been contenders. Unfortunately, though, the union representing the nearly 300 New Jersey Turnpike toll collectors took an opportunity for preferential hiring on the state's plans to privatize collections and tried to interfere with the process. Now, the Garden State has shown them the exit (so to speak).

5. Bob Woodward Pwned by Donald Rumsfeld

One of the interesting phenomena in Washington politics is the collection of little men who make a living taking shots at great men. Never has that been more in display than in the recent Bob Woodward critique of former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld's book Known and Unknown on the blog former Washington Post defense correspondent Tom Ricks tries to run at the Foreign Policy magazine website.

While Mr. Rumsfeld's most recent term of service as Secretary of Defense has controversial aspects and he has been challenged by other participants (see, for instance, the very well done series by RedState alumnus Ben Domenech here | here) the disagreements are largely of a Rashomon quality. Woodward's screed, on the other hand, is little more than the screech of a wounded ego.

Mr. Rumsfeld's office has taken up the cudgel on his behalf and there is little need to repeat the work Keith Urbahn has already done. To give a flavor on Woodward's caterwauling we'll look at the most interesting one in which Woodward claims a meeting didn't happen because he, Woodward, didn't know about it.

Judge Orders Obama Administration to Seek 'Expedited Appeal' of Obamacare for the Good of the Nation
(CNSNews.com) - A federal judge in Florida, clearly annoyed by the Justice Department's request for "clarification" of his ruling that the new health care law is unconstitutional, on Thursday granted a stay of his February ruling -- but only if the government files an appeal seeking an expedited review of that ruling, either in the Court of Appeals or with the Supreme Court, within 7 days. "It should not be at all difficult or challenging to 'fast-track' this case," Judge Roger Vinson wrote in his clarification.

Monthly Federal Expenditures Topped $1 Trillion in February, Says U.S. Treasury (CNSNews.com) - In its Daily Treasury Statement closing out February, the Treasury Department reported that the government had spent $1.009944 trillion during the month. A majority of this money was disbursed to meet the governments escalating debt obligations.

Bill to Stop Federal Funding of Abortion Voted Out of Committee (CNSNews.com) The No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act was voted out of the House Judiciary Committee on Thursday, paving the way for the bill to be taken up by lawmakers on the House floor. The vote came after a slew of Democrat-sponsored amendments to the bill were defeated one after the other. The final 23-14 vote to advance the bill included one Democrat.

Obama, Appearing With Mexican President, Backs Americans Right to Bear Arms for A Wide Range of Uses
Washington (CNSNews.com) The presidents of Mexico and the U.S. said Thursday they are united in the effort to battle drug cartels that are killing citizens of both countries. Part of that effort involves guns, President Obama said. I believe in the Second Amendment. It does provide for Americans the right to bear arms for their protection, for their safety, for hunting, for a wide range of uses. That does not mean that we cannot constrain gun-runners from shipping guns into Mexico.

Dale Earnhardt, Jr., on Chevy Volt: Good Product But The Technology Isnt There Yet (CNSNews.com) - NASCAR racer Dale Earnhardt Jr. said that Chevrolets Volt, a hybrid electric car, is a "good product," but "consumers need to understand how difficult it is to produce a car with the standards that they have, with the guidelines that they have today, that can actually do what the consumer wants and what the consumer expects.

Obama Tells Gaddafi to Leave: Its the Right Thing to Do
Washington (CNSNews.com) President Barack Obama made another call for the ouster Moammar Gaddafis regime in Libya, as the embattled dictator clearly not listening -- escalates attacks on those Libyans who oppose him. Obama said he has instructed the Defense Department and the State Department to explore a full range of options. He also said the United States is consulting with NATO on the matter. He stopped well short of Secretary of State Hillary Clintons earlier comments that "nothing is off the table" if Libya "turns its guns on its people."

Islamist Rally in D.C. Postponed; Radical Accuses West of Interfering With Mideast Embrace of Sharia
(CNSNews.com) An Islamic radical called off a pro-sharia (Islamic law) demonstration at the White House on Thursday, saying he did not want it to divert attention from the urgent situation in Libya and elsewhere in the Middle East.

Talking to CNSNews.com, the activist, Anjem Choudary, charged that Western powers were planning military intervention to ensure that popular uprisings do not give rise to sharia ruled states.

OTHER HEADLINES:

Al-Qaida No. 2 Calls for Islamic Rule in Egypt

With Dem Senators Still AWOL, Wis. Gov. Expected to Issue Layoff Notices
Police Tackle Democratic Lawmaker As He Enters Wisconsin Capitol

Ohio Bill Curbing Collective Bargaining Speeds Toward Passage
13 Mexican Troops Charged With Transporting Drugs

Federal Jury in Utah Convicts Environmentalist

NFL, Union Agree to 24-Hour Deadline Extension

FCC to Increase Oversight of Phone Subsidy Plan

UMass Professor Drops Bid to Grow Medical Pot

Oil Rises to Near $103 As Libya Conflict Escalates

NASA: Rocket Probably Fell Into Ocean After Failed Launch

Pork Board Swaps 'Other White Meat' Slogan for 'Be Inspired'

FCC to Increase Oversight of Phone Subsidy Plan

Egypt's New PM Vows to Meet Protesters' Demands

Obama to Discuss Education Policy in Florida
 

NEWSPAPER ROUNDUP:

R.I. State Police Supt. resigns; Disagreed with Gov. Chafee over immigration policy

Obama administration prepares for possibility of post-revolt Islamist regimes

Harvard, Navy to sign ROTC pact

Greenspan says government activism hampering U.S. recovery
Unemployment Dips to 8.9 Percent, 192K Jobs Added

Democratic legislators embrace "flee" tactic to gain leverage

Muslim suspect calls Frankfurt attack revenge for U.S. in Afghanistan

ATF gun-tracing operation put firearms into criminal hands

Gov. Christie turns down bill that would legalize online gaming

Northwestern University to investigate sex toy demonstration

BYU hoops star suspended for having premarital sex

Donald Trump: Ready for Iowa hand-shaking

Pagans to Sheen: Sorry, Charlie, you're no 'warlock'

575-pound Heart Attack Grill spokesman dies
 

COMMENTARY:

Sex and Super Mario

By L. Brent Bozell III
Many people who bought a Nintendo Wii video game system would consider this the most innocent of system of all. They watch their children play Super Mario Brothers on it, or join the kids in playing tennis or golf or baseball on Wii Sports.  I never imagined this game system would also be an orgy enabler. But now a French game manufacturer is advertising a new game for the Nintendo Wii suggestively titled We Dare, describing it as a sexy, quirky party game that offers hilarious, innovative and physical, sometimes kinky, challenges. The more friends you invite to party, the spicier the play!" Here we go.

We, the Unhyphenated Americans: Meet My People
By Michelle Malkin
My fellow Americans, who are "your people"? I ask, because U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, who is black, used the phrase "my people" in congressional testimony this week. It was an unmistakably color-coded and exclusionary reference intended to deflect criticism of the Obama Justice Department's selective enforcement policies. It backfired.

And ... They're OFF!
By Rich Galen
For presidential campaigns, the next six or seven months are like spring training for a major league baseball team: It's the time when you practice, metaphorically, having the pitcher cover first on a bunt; when you decide who will play which position and who will not make the team at all. Now that Newt Gingrich -- and, if you think he counts, former Louisiana Congressman (as a Democrat) and Governor (as a Republican) Buddy Roemer -- have dipped their toes into the electoral waters, the dominos will begin to fall fairly quickly.

Sharia is the Antithesis of Our Constitution

Laura: Sharia goes against everything we in this country hold dear. We have to fight its implementation tooth and nail. Anyone who says that sharia is compatible with the U.S. constitution is lying, practicing taqiya, since sharia undermines our constitutional guarantees.

Sharia Law or Constitution? America Must Choose

By William G. Boykin, Texas Insider

We tend to assume Islam deserves unquestioned First Amendment protection. But it is a totalitarian way of life with aggressive political goals, not just a religion. What is to be done?

The Founders who wrote the U.S. Constitution were very aware that the citizens of this nascent nation wanted the freedom to choose their own manner of worship. They made history by forbidding religious tests for public office in Article VI. They added the First Amendment to ensure that Americans would be protected from government interference in their spiritual affairs.

But a dilemma exists in our nation today concerning whether or how the First...

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7 Reasons Mexico is the Biggest Threat to American Security

Posted By Rob Taylor On March 3, 2011

Conservatives and liberals alike look to far flung shores for the biggest threats to our national security with good reason. No enemy we face is more dedicated to our destruction than Islamic Expansionists and resurgent communism worldwide has again begun to wage war against American world dominance. But these threats, as real as they are, need to gain entrance to our country to truly achieve their ends and it is through the collapsing Mexican state that they will find purchase. As they do, other threats emanating from within the hollow state of Mexico are even now exacting a heavy toll in American blood, land and economic health.

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Photos of a Mexican Drug Lord's home after being raided.

This beats anything this poor old boy has ever seen.

Ever wonder why so many members of the US Congress and US Police and Courts seem more interested in the rights of illegal aliens and other miscreants than they are you and I the plain Joe the Plumbers of the US?

Well maybe, just maybe these pictures will start to shed some light on that.

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The current U.S. administration is supporting Egypt in the same way that Iran under the shah was backed by the U.S. in the 1970s - as a regional power supposedly doing its bidding. U.S. administrations, unfortunately, have taken a dim view of internalizing historical lessons, and it may prove particularly perilous with the Obama administration.

The improbable fall of the shah, and his replacement by the radical, anti-American, messianic Islamic Republic led by ayatollahs, could very well occur in Egypt. Hosni Mubarak's 28-year martial-law rule is similar to that of the shah's, albeit the shah's treatment of his people was somewhat more moderate. And the shah at least strove to build a middle class by fostering economic growth and expanding educational opportunities to average Iranians.

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Did Muslim Lobby Force Firing of Popular Radio Host?

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The Jobs Obama is Leaving Behind

Posted March 4th, 2011 

Yesterday, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar testified before the House Natural Resources Committee on the Department of the Interior's Fiscal Year 2012 Budget proposal. When pressed by Rep. John Fleming (R-LA) about the de facto offshore drilling moratorium the Obama Administration has inflicted on his district, Sec. Salazar responded: 

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Governor Bush to Hold Class in Florida

Posted March 3rd, 2011 

This Friday, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush will join President Obama and Education Secretary Arne Duncan at Miami Central High School to discuss President Obama's education agenda. Bush, whose sweeping education reform agenda led to monumental gains in student achievement in Florida, told the Miami Herald that he plans to promote the Florida reform model to the Administration during the visit:

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On Economic Freedom, Africa Should Be More Strategic Than China

Posted March 3rd, 2011 

African Union chairman Jean Ping's recent op-ed espouses China as the model of economic excellence to which African countries should aspire. Ping praises China's globalization, particularly in enterprise development, trade, and investment in Africa. However, Ping structures his argument around a misinformed premise.

He assumes that since China is a major business partner with Africa ($43.7 billion in investment), it provides an economic model that will spur growth and provide resilience against market decline in African countries. This assumption is fundamentally flawed. Africa is not capable of emulating China, nor should it try to.

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Judge Vinson to Obama: Speed up the Appeal or Stop Implementing Obamacare

Posted March 3rd, 2011 

The Obama administration got a well-deserved rebuke today from Judge Roger Vinson in the Florida lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Obamacare (aka the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act). Judge Vinson issued a new order in response to a bizarre and obtuse "motion to clarify" that the Department of Justice (DOJ) filed on February 17.

Vinson's original order on January 31 could not have been clearer: He declared the entire law unconstitutional and specifically said that, because he presumed that officials of the executive branch would adhere to the law as declared by a court, his declaratory judgment striking the law down was the functional equivalent of an injunction.

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Wisconsin and Government Unions - Let the Voters Decide

Posted March 3rd, 2011 

President Obama calls Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's proposal to curtail the collective-bargaining rights of state employees an "assault." But the real assault is the conspiracy that has existed for decades between elected officials and public-employee unions - and taxpayers are the ones who wind up battered.

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Federal agent: I was ordered to let U.S. guns into Mexico

Federal agent: I was ordered to let U.S. guns into Mexico

Barack Obama and Mexican President Felipe Calderon met this week.  Not surprisingly, Calderon demanded amnesty, while Obama rolled over to cede our sovereignty. The two agreed to allow Mexican Trucks into our country unhampered.  We stopped this scheme during the Bush years, and now we need to fight it again. 

Mexican Trucks undercut the wages and jobs of American truckers, allow dangerous drivers on our roads, and will enable smugglers to bring in illegal aliens and deadly drugs into our country.  The deal still needs congressional approval, and we will fight this tooth and nail.

STOP MEXICAN TRUCKS--SUPPORT TEAM AMERICA

Additionally, Obama said emphatically that Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Mexico will not be allowed to defend themselves from attacks.  Two weeks ago, I told you about the tragic murder of Border Patrol Agent Jaime Zapata.  Per our agreement with Mexico, Zapata was unarmed while travelling to the American Embassy.  Two SUVs filled with cartel members armed with automatic weapons ambushed him.  

He didn't have a prayer, and Obama's continued refusal to arm our border agents means they will be defenseless if faced with a similar situation.

Obama won't even allow border agents in America defend themselves against violent illegal aliens and drug smugglers.  On December 14, Border Agent Brian Terry was killed by a group of illegal aliens in Nogales, Arizona.  The details of what happened were just released.  Terry saw a group of illegals holding AK 47s and demanded they drop the weapons, which they refused.  He fired a beanbag gun, and the illegal aliens responded with automatic rifles. 

Terry's brother is outraged.  He told reporters,

"You go up against a bandit crew that is carrying AKs, and you walk out there with guns loaded with...beanbags - I don't get it...t's like going to the Iraqi war with one knife. It boggles my mind. ... These guys are professionals; they should be able to use their judgment call on their own."

The Border Patrol refuses to say if it was official protocol not to use deadly force when faced with armed illegal aliens, but it's a safe bet that fear of getting the Ramos and-Compean treatment has something to do with it.   

HELP TEAM AMERICA SECURE THE BORDER

Meanwhile, police  confirmed that the decapitated head of  Martin Alejandro Cota-Monroy found in Chandler was tied to the Mexican Drug Cartels.

Despite these outrages, Janet Napolitano said that we have "effective control of the great majority" of the border and ICE Chief John Morton claims "The border is as secure as I've ever seen it in 20 years in law enforcement."

Enough is enough.  We cannot stand still as Obama colludes with Mexican officials to undermine our sovereignty and open our borders. 

Please contribute to Team America so we can stop Mexican Trucks, take the handcuffs off our border agents, secure our borders, and expose Obama's lies.



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It's called Terrorism

Mar 05, 2011 05:13 am | Coach Collins

By Jim Emerson, staff writer

"Know the enemy and know yourself; in a hundred battles you will never be in peril. When you are ignorant of the enemy, but know yourself, your chances of winning or losing are equal. If ignorant both of your enemy and yourself, you are certain in every battle to be in peril." - Sun Tzu

 Wednesday at approximately 3:20 PM at the Frankfurt Airport a 21 year old man approached a group of American servicemen boarding a bus heading to Ramstein Airbase. Once the young man confirmed that they were Americans heading to Afghanistan he reached into a duffle bag for a gun and a knife, he fired nine shots while yelling "Allah Akbar" killing two and wounding two Air Force Airman in an act of jihad. The young man was a Kosovo Muslim performing his Islamic duty by killing American servicemen in Germany.  He was arrested after he ran into the terminal when his gun ... Continue Reading:It's called Terrorism

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J Street shows its colors at conference
The controversial, Soros-funded "pro-Israel" organization J Street held its second national conference last weekend and demonstrated just how far outside of the American Jewish mainstream it is. Ron Radosh blogged the event for PajamasMedia. He gives us some of the flavor of the conference:

Daniel Levy won thunderous applause by reiterating what clearly is J Street's position: "18 years after Oslo," Levy said, "the occupation and the settlements cannot continue, and without this being settled, there can be no negotiations." His clear implication was that Israel had to do this first, and only then could negotiations take place. In other words, the Palestinian demands had to be addressed before there could be any negotiations, a position that no sound Israeli government could ever accept.

Controversial Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, Levy said, was "the bastard child of a demographic analysis," and proof that the occupation had to end. "The Palestinians," he stated - again to a huge ovation - "could not have rights without an end to the occupation." The U.S. should not indulge Israel in holding onto the fantasy that the country can continue as it has. READ MORE
The J Street conference came under criticism for giving space and legitimacy to supporters of the Boycott Divestment Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel and for hosting prominent anti-Israel speakers. The JTA points out that this is all in keeping with the sentiments of many of J Street's grassroots supporters:

For Ben-Ami and J Street supporters, being pro-Palestinian is not incompatible with being pro-Israel. In their mind, standing up for Palestinian rights, criticizing Israel's policies in the West Bank and advocating for more pressure on the Israeli government is a way of supporting Israel by helping, or forcing, Israel to become the kind of place they believe it ought to be.
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See J Street supporters in action in the video found here.

Friday, March 4, 2011

To: Friends & Supporters

From: Gary L. Bauer


Judge To Obama: Stop Stalling!

Yesterday, Judge Roger Vinson responded to the Obama Administration's request that he "clarify" his prior ruling declaring ObamaCare unconstitutional. The judge was clearly annoyed by the administration's delaying tactics, writing, "While I believe that my order was as clear and unambiguous as it could be, it is possible that the [administration] may have perhaps been confused or misunderstood its import."

Judge Vinson essentially told the administration: Stop stalling or I will put a stop to ObamaCare. Vinson ordered the administration to file an appeal for an expedited review of ObamaCare with a circuit court or the U.S. Supreme Court in the next seven days. If it does not, Vinson says he will issue a formal injunction against further implementation of the law.

In concluding his ruling, Judge Vinson wrote: "The sooner this issue is finally decided by the Supreme Court, the better off the entire nation will be. ...It is very important to everyone in this country that this case move forward as soon as practically possible."


Liberal Billionaire Turns On The Left

Microsoft founder Bill Gates is no conservative. His generosity has funded many left-wing causes over the years. What Gates understands well, however, having built a successful business from nothing, is what works and what doesn't work.

So it's not surprising that in his effort to reform public education, Gates is now on a collision course with some of the nation's most powerful left-wing special interest groups. Gates penned an op-ed in this week's Washington Post and flatly rejected some of their basic tenets.

For example, Gates noted that we are spending $50 billion a year on "automatic salary increases based on teacher seniority," but that there is no evidence that guaranteed pay raises improve test scores or teacher effectiveness. He also noted that we are spending an additional $15 billion annually to further compensate teachers with advanced degrees when those degrees appear to "have almost no impact on achievement."

Then Gates dared to turn the assumption about smaller class sizes on its head. He wrote, "Perhaps the most expensive assumption embedded in school budgets -- and one of the most unchallenged -- is the view that reducing class size is the best way to improve student achievement. This belief has driven school budget increases for more than 50 years. U.S. schools have almost twice as many teachers per student as they did in 1960, yet achievement is roughly the same."

His solution: bigger class sizes! "One approach is to get more students in front of top teachers ... [by] asking them to take on four or five more students. Part of the savings could then be used to give the top teachers a raise. (In a 2008 survey funded by the Gates Foundation, 83 percent of teachers said they would be happy to teach more students for more pay.)"

As a former Under Secretary of Education in the Reagan Administration, I admire Gates' courage in taking on the unions. His efforts are even gaining the attention of the "mainstream media."

Left-wing politicians like Barack Obama warn us that we can't risk falling behind, so they demand more tax dollars for "investments" in education. I can't help but notice that what has been missing in the debate in Wisconsin, and not surprisingly from the liberal media, is just how badly the teachers' unions have contributed to the problems in education today.

There are two reasons why we are falling behind in education. One is the breakdown of the family. There are too many children today raised in homes without a father. Those kids are more likely to live in poverty and suffer from a lack of parental supervision and involvement. That has a decidedly negative impact on their education.

But while so many states are struggling with out-of-control budgets, as Gates points out, those budgets have been inflated over the years due to the unwillingness of the unions to adapt and to adopt commonsense policies. Tenure, for example, is a terrible idea. The notion that seniority guarantees you a job regardless of results leaves many kids trapped in underperforming classrooms. It also means that excellent young teachers are among the first fired whenever budgets get tight.

At every turn, the unions have blocked meaningful education reform and pumped tens of millions of dollars not into the classrooms but into the campaign coffers of liberal Democrats. Their elected allies then pump your wallets for more tax money!


Boehner Ready To Lead; Where's Obama?

Here's a quick follow-up to my report yesterday on entitlement reform. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, House Speaker John Boehner said that "he's determined to offer a budget this spring that curbs Social Security and Medicare, despite the political risks, and that Republicans will try to persuade voters that sacrifices are needed."

As I noted yesterday, he's got a lot of work to do. He should start by emphasizing at every opportunity that neither current retirees nor those less than 10 years from retirement would get a smaller check.

The Hill reports this morning that the Speaker has "privately assured President Obama that House Republicans will not attack him if he makes a proposal to reform entitlement spending. ...So far, Obama has not taken Boehner up on the deal."

I'm not surprised. Obama has no interest in rolling back Big Government. From the stimulus to ObamaCare and cap and trade, he's spent the past two years doing his best to expand it!

The Hill also points out -- surprise, surprise -- that the unions and left-wing interest groups are refusing to cooperate: "Labor unions and liberal advocacy groups have waged a blistering lobbying campaign directed at the White House to steer the president away from reform proposals."

I wish Boehner and House Republicans all the best. But they should expect zero help from the left in shrinking the size and scope of government. Meanwhile, there are many other important issues -- energy policy, foreign policy, defending traditional values -- that must be addressed.

Republican Senate Leader Mitch McConnell is waiting for Obama to make the first move. McConnell said, "We are waiting for presidential leadership. We know, and we'll say again, that entitlement reform will not be done except on a bipartisan basis with presidential leadership."

I think McConnell's instincts are right on this point. We can't govern America from the House alone. If we fall on our sword to tackle spending while a Democrat Senate and a Democrat president demagogue the issue, Obama will get reelected, Harry Reid will expand his majority in the Senate and we will lose the House. How will that help our cause?

 

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 Sherrod Brown compares Republicans to Hitler

THE SCHOOLS: IF YOU AREN'T OUTRAGED, YOU AREN'T PAYING ATTENTION

Shutting Down TARP & Saving Taxpayers $8 Billion - With More to Come

March 6, 2011 | Posted by Speaker Boehner's Press Office

This week, the House will begin the process of shutting down the TARP bailout program, saving taxpayers $8 billion in mandatory spending -- with more savings to come. Economists agree that immediate and meaningful spending cuts are needed to help promote private-sector job creation. Read more about GOP efforts to cut spending and create a better environment for job growth below. And check out the weekly Republican address by Rep. Diane Black (R-TN) who says the path to prosperity lies in liberating our economy from the shackles of big government and out-of-control spending:   READ MORE:

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From Richard Baehr, American Thinker

Paul Krugman is regularly rated the nation's most influential columnist.   This  power comes from being a Princeton University professor, a Nobel prize winner,  a New York Times columnist , and an avowed liberal.  Krugman's reputation is not derived because he is honest, intelligent, analytical, hard working, or serious.   A few years back, Krugman lied repeatedly  in a few columns about what happened in Florida on election day  in 2000, and in the recount battle that followed.  I have studied the Florida Presidential election battle a great deal, and written a few things about it.  It took about two seconds reading Krugman on the subject to realize he knew almost nothing other than the liberal talking points about how the Supreme Court stole the election from Bush, and Jesse Jackson's nonsense about police suppressing the African American vote on Election Day.   I wrote the Times repeatedly, and Krugman was forced to make corrections in two columns for his lies. Today, Iowahawk does the skewering of Krugman in his own special way for Krugman's article about public education in Texas. It is as good as it gets for puncturing this self inflated bloviating gasbag. 

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If you are really interested, my article on the Florida recount battle, which appeared on the opening day of American Thinker in 2004:   

Why is Harvard Not Restoring ROTC?

Cheryl Miller

Help Make E-Verify Mandatory!
Call Your Representatives and Tell Them to Support H.R. 800

Despite a national unemployment rate of 9.4 percent, seven million illegal aliens continue to hold jobs in the United States. However, Congress can put an end to this injustice to American workers by making the E-Verify program permanent and mandatory for all employers.  E-Verify-the free online program administered by the Department of Homeland Security that allows employers to verify the eligibility of employees to lawfully work in the U.S.-is currently used by over 246,000 employers.  However, because E-Verify is not mandatory for all employers, a number of unscrupulous businesses continue to employ illegal aliens, allowing them to take American jobs and drive down wages.     

To stop this injustice to American workers, Rep. John Carter (R-TX) introduced bi-partisan mandatory E-Verify legislation last month that would stop the job killing practice of hiring illegal aliens.  Carter's bill, H.R. 800 ("Jobs Recovery by Ensuring a Legal American Workforce Act of 2011") would require ALL employers to use E-Verify to check the employment eligibility status of both new hires and current employees.   In addition, H.R. 800 provides for the following necessary reforms:  

• Increases employer fines for employing illegal aliens-quadrupling the fine for employers discovered to have hired an illegal alien three or more times. 

• Prohibits employers from deducting wages paid to (or on behalf of) an illegal alien from their gross income. 

• Requires the IRS to disclose to the Social Security Commissioner and Homeland Security Secretary the taxpayer identity information of employers employing illegal aliens.  

FAIR strongly supports H.R. 800.  We now need your help.  Call your Representatives today and urge sign on as a co-sponsor of H.R. 800!  It's time to help the American worker and make E-Verify mandatory once and for all! 

To find your Representative's phone number, click here 

This week, my colleagues and I were shocked and appalled to find a provision in the Obamacare bill which appropriates $105 billion towards its funding- a complete and fraudulent circumvention of the legislative process.

In the bill, instead of following the rules and letting the next Congress go through the appropriations process, Nancy Pelosi and House Democrats appropriated billions of dollars in funding for Obamacare without holding a single hearing, or even allowing Members of Congress a chance to read the bill. I guess this is what Nancy Pelosi meant when she said "we have to pass the bill, so you can find out what is in it." Even Democrats in Congress were surprised to hear this shocking news.

Without further action, the bill will be funded, and our efforts will have failed.

I've drafted a petition, and recorded a special video message, to ensure that ObamaCare is defunded. I urge you to immediately take a minute to sign this petition and watch the video by following this link. We must immediately send a message to every Member of Congress that even a single dollar more of federal spending is unacceptable until Obamacare is defunded.

On Tuesday, I will meet with Members of Congress to discuss immediate plans to rescind this existing funding, and return Obamacare's fate to the hands of the people, who overwhelming rejected it in November's elections. At Tuesday's meeting, I will challenge Members of Congress to stand against the undemocratic actions of the Reid-Pelosi-Obama apparatus, and vote against any additional government spending until Obamacare is completely defunded.

I need to know you are 100 percent behind my efforts to expose the back-room dealings and secretive tactics Pelosi and Obama have tried to use. I need to know you want Obamacare defunded once and for all. Follow this link right away to sign the petition to defund Obamacare!
 
In November, the American people clearly and emphatically cast their ballots against Obamacare and the big-government agenda advanced by Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid. We must stand our ground to defund Obamacare, and we must move quickly to make sure that no taxpayer money is spent on our watch.By signing my petition, you will tell Congress where you stand: against the undemocratic and secretive actions of Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats, and for our shared Constitutional conservative values.

Please take action before it is too late!

Finally, I ask that you share this petition on Facebook, and forward this email to your friends and family to spread the word. It is our charge to stop this unconstitutional government take-over of our lives!

Sincerely,



Michele Bachmann

P.S. As a constitutional conservative, I am motivated now more than ever to repeal Obamacare and the first step towards this goal is making sure that it doesn't receive a dime of your tax dollars. Although House Republicans voted overwhelmingly last month to defund the Obamacare law, our vote does not apply to the billions already secretly and fraudulently appropriated by the old Democratic Congress. I need your immediate help to send a message to every Member of Congress. We must immediately defund Obamacare! Please follow this link to sign this petition and pass this email along to your friends and family to spread the word. Thank you!

 

 THE TRAGEDY OF DETROIT
This is a powerful message about the failure of the Great Society.

How in the world do we get out of this mess? This is a perfect example of how good intentions without good foresight can produce an absolute nightmare. Never underestimate the downside of human nature. The author of the following piece is a U.S. journalist who writes for seventeen national and two international magazines.
 

THE TRAGEDY OF DETROIT: HOW IMMIGRATION AND MULTICULTURALISM DESTROYED IT

By Frosty Wooldridge

For 15 years, from the mid 1970s to 1990, I worked in Detroit , Michigan. I watched it descend into the abyss of crime, debauchery, gun play, drugs, school truancy, car-jacking, gangs and human depravity. I watched entire city blocks burned out. I watched graffiti explode on buildings, cars, trucks, buses and school yards. Trash was everywhere! Detroiters walked through it, tossed more into it and just ignored it.

Tens of thousands and then, hundreds of thousands today exist on federal welfare, free housing and food stamps! With Aid to
Dependent Children, minority women birthed eight to 10 and, in one case, one woman birthed 24 kids as reported by the Detroit Free Press-all on American taxpayer dollars. A new child meant a new car payment, new TV and whatever mom wanted. I saw Lyndon Baines Johnson's "Great Society" flourish in Detroit. If you give money for doing nothing, you will get more hands out to take money for doing nothing.
 

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PhillyBurbs does its highly competent job in reporting on Republican Bucks County District Attorney David Heckler's solid workin indicting a powerful and long time elected Republican official. The Republican DA put the law and principle above party. It is worth noting because we have, with some justification, become cynical about our elected officials. DA Heckler deserves our appreciation.

 One wonders if Bucks Co Chair Pat Poprik had any knowledge. If not, can Chairperson Poprik say she knows what is going on in her own party. I think the Party owes the rank and file the duty to vet candidates and officials. Doesn't Ms. Poprik's alleged ignorance tell us that she is unreliable for rank and file.

PhillyBurbs:  ¹"Barbara Reilly (right) arrives at Magisterial District Judge Maggie Snow's courthouse (07-3-01) on Durham Road for her arraignment on Friday afternoon. Bucks County District Attorney David Heckler will prosecute county register of wills Barbara G. Reilly and three of her longtime staff members on political corruption charges and other violations within the county office. Reilly, Rebecca Kiefer, who is also a former Warrington supervisor, and administrator Candace Quinn face felony charges for allegedly conspiring to require their employees to perform political work on behalf of county Republican candidates, in some cases against their will, in exchange for "off-the-books" comp time. - Bill Fraser/Staff Photographer"

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PBS President and CEO Paula Kerger I paid $623,233 annual compensation  According to CPB's 2009 tax forms, President and CEO Patricia de Stacy Harrison received $298,884 in reportable compensation and another $70,630 in other compensation from the organization and related organizations that year.

Kevin Klose, president emeritus of NPR, who received more than $1.2 million in compensation, according to the tax forms the nonprofit filed in 2009.

In 2001, the federal government appropriated $340 million for CPB. Last year it got $420 million. As Congress considers ways to close the $1.6 trillion deficit, cutting funding for the CPB has even been proposed by President Obama's bipartisan deficit reduction commission. Instead, Mr. Obama wants to increase CPB's funding to $451 million in his latest budget.

Senators Jim DeMint and Tom Coburn are leading the effort to defund the misnamed Public Broadcasting System which has received BILLIONS from The Forgotten Taxpayer.

    What's next?  Subsidize Paris Hilton?     

Sesame Street is earned tens of millions since 2001; The Forgotten Taxpayer has subs
idized it and is poshly paid principals, FOUR BILLION since 2001.  "The PBS program Sesame Street's Sesame Workshop President and CEO Gary Knell received $956,513 - nearly a million dollars - in compensation in 2008. And, from 2003 to 2006, "Sesame Street" made more than $211 million from toy and consumer product sales."

Oddly, Public Broadcasting System and Corporation for Public Broadcasting are nonprofits; a very profitable nonprofit, it would seem.Corporation

for Public Broadcasting total 2009 revenue is $2, 164, 309  Two BILLION, one hundred and sixty four thousand, three hundred and nine.

It is not clear to me why I have to pay for something that I don't want or need and won't use. I would add that the government forces me to subsidize a Liberal Big Government agenda that I don't agree with.

In fact PBS  is a government broadcasting system biased toward Big Government and Big Spending solutions to nearly every problem in the world and an advocate for Central Planning by Academically Educated Elite Experts. Conflating "public" with "government" is semantic finesse by Academic Elites who know exactly what they are doing¹.

Penna. CPAs count the Pension Numbers; they add up to Bankruptcy.

The Pennsylvania Institute of Certified Public Accountants urged Gov. Tom Corbett and lawmakers to consider taking unspecified legal action to address benefits for current employees as a way to bring pension costs under control.

The Institute issued a set of long-range recommendations Thursday in the areas of pensions, infrastructure and state government to deal with Pennsylvania's fiscal problems.

While easing the cost spike, the new pension law requires that state and school districts pay an average of $5 billion into the Public School Employees' Retirement System and State Employees' Retirement System during the next decade.

"The simple fact is the pension systems for schoolteachers, public employees and state lawmakers are not sustainable in their current forms considering the fiscal challenges the state now faces," according to the PICPA report.

rswift@timesshamrock.com

This is a very good thing. It is not a subsidy. It is not special treatment. This aligns tax policy with real world business operations. A very good idea. It means that when the business outlays cash, it gets a deduction.

In the past, for example, if a business spent 100k for a piece of machinery that lasted ten years, the business would get a deduction of 10K and  pay taxes on $90k. In this reformation, the taxpayer pays when taxpayer is profitable. Tom Corbett is the Small Business Man's Friend!

For some reason there are those attacking the Governor for this very common sense, realistic change in tax policy.

Corbett under fire for business tax breaks  Brad Bumsted and Mike Wereschagin Saturday, March 5, 2011 PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW

HARRISBURG - In a bid to spur the economy, Republican Gov. Tom Corbett quietly and unilaterally approved an estimated $200 million in tax breaks for businesses last week by adopting new federal tax rules.

Corbett's decision allows businesses to write off the entire cost of expenses in one year, rather than spreading out the write-off over several years. The goal is to spark a corporate buying spree, in which companies buy equipment now - which pumps up demand, which leads to more hiring.

The program, though, will cost the state $200 million, which critics say the state should spend on individual taxpayers rather than corporations while money remains tight.

Announced Feb. 24 in a Department of Revenue news release, the move generated little attention until groups critical of the tax break began attacking it this week.

"This comes out of this year's budget when we can least afford it," said Sharon Ward, director of the Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center, pointing to the state's $4 billion deficit.

The new tax rules will cost the state an estimated $69.4 million this year, and $132.2 million next year, said Department of Revenue spokeswoman Elizabeth Brassell.

"It is unconscionable that Gov. Corbett is giving tax breaks to corporations while proposing huge cuts to programs that directly affect working people," said Eileen Connolly, chair of Keystone Progress, which bills itself as a progressive advocacy organization.

Corbett this week ended state funding for adultBasic, an insurance program for the working poor that provided more than 41,000 people with health coverage.

The state could have used the money going for corporate tax breaks to fund the adultBasic program, said Sen. Jay Costa of Forest Hills, ranking Democrat on the Senate Appropriations Committee.

"Given the context of our budget and the talk about a 'day of reckoning,' how can we put in nearly a quarter of a billion in tax cuts for corporations?" Costa said.

Costa said that although some business tax cuts are warranted, "it needs to be in balance."

Corbett will present a 2011-12 state budget Tuesday to a joint session of the General Assembly.

"We are paying for it," Corbett's spokesman Kevin Harley said of the tax break. "That will be part of the budget."

"This allows Pennsylvania to remain competitive with other states," he said. "We're in competition with other states for jobs. It's important to create a climate for business to prosper and to create jobs."

After two years - the rule change applies only to 2011 and the last quarter of 2010 - the state will recoup the money it loses this year. Businesses that write off their entire purchases this year won't be able to deduct anything in later years; therefore, over the long term, the state will take in the same amount of money.

But "timing is important," said Michael Morrill, executive director of Keystone Progress.

He said Corbett wanted to get this out ahead of the budget "so it'll get lost in the whole budget discussion" next week.

Corbett's spokesman disagreed.  "The timing had nothing to do with the budget," Harley said. "The timing had everything to do with businesses who have to file tax returns."

Morrill said he doesn't challenge Corbett's right to make the move unilaterally.  Ward, of the Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center, contends that it's not clear Corbett can do so.

Harley said there's no question that Corbett has the power to make the move.

The issue has remained largely under the radar.

"I've talked to a lot of legislators who don't know anything about it," Morrill said.

The same is true for many in the business community.

The Greater Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce of Commerce declined to comment because it hadn't reviewed the new rule.

Read more: Corbett under fire for business tax breaks - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/state/s_725922.html#ixzz1Fk6JHGBn

Sarah Palin gets better and better 

Judge Jeanine interviews Sarah Palin

This is the best interview by far that Palin has done.

I attribute this to the fact that the interviewer was excellent and created an interesting dialogue between herself and Palin. Her questions were just right and Sarah was succint in her answers and right on the money.

Sarah shows herself to be very knowledgeble and informed. Her answers were excellent. She also went on at great length on Israel.

She was very confident and assured.

You don't want to miss it.
 

Ted Belman
Jerusalem, Israel
 972 (0)54 441 3252

New Proof Suggests Missing FBI Agent Is Alive

Almost four years after retired FBI agent Robert Levinson went missing in Iran, American officials say they have proof that he is still alive and being held somewhere in southwest Asia.

 What's the full story? 

U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry was shot in the back and killed during a shoot-out along the Arizona border in December when his team confronted a group of illegal immigrants packing AK-47s.

 â€¢ Why was he only armed with a bean bag gun? 

US National Anthem drowned out by cheers at 91 NHL All Star Game  

At least at the United Center, and earlier at the Chicago Stadium, they support the troops.   Here is the best all time rendition of the anthem- from just before the start of the Gulf War in January 1991.   Turn the volume up to get the effect.  

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Launch a campaign to DESTROY THE AMAZON RAINFOREST.

Tell your liberal friend that it's growing so fast there's a danger that within a few decades it might reach the southern borders of the United States, menacing our great-grandchildren with its evil leafy tendrils and its deadly population of jaguars, bullet ants, snakes, killer bees, and such like. You think we exaggerate? According to a January 2009 report in the New York Times-and what liberal could ignore the voice of Pravda?-"For every acre of rainforest cut down each year, more than 50 acres are growing." Do the math. Then be afraid. Very afraid. And start stockpiling the Agent Orange.  

Give them another reason why Obama has GOT to go.

NO. 5

He doesn't think America's anything special. No really, he doesn't. Quote: "I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism." In other words: everybody's special. Tell your friend that, with his Barney the Dinosaur egalitarian worldview of everybody being special, Obama ought to be a kindergarten teacher, leading the kids in non-competitive, non-judgmental songs, not the leader of the free world.  

Global Warming Fun.

NO. 3

Note that it is still cold. Remark on this fact to liberals. Say: "Hey, do you remember the time when all those liberal, ecotard crazies used to tell us we were all going to fry because of 'Global Warming'? How dumb must they be feeling now?"

March 04, 2011 

On Fryday's Program 

Unemployment drops to 8.9%: The economy added 192,000 jobs last month, and the unemployment rate has dipped to its lowest level in at least 2 years, dropping for the third straight month and standing at 8.9% for February. It's a good sign but not great, as detailed in The Washington Post today. And reports of another massive drop in the housing market predicted to come soon are keeping the recovery celebrations from beginning. Details HERE.

Solidarity? AFL-CIO funds cop haters

Last night on TV Glenn exposed how the AFL-CIO (who is supposedly standing in solidarity with the police officers, firefighters and teachers who are protesting budget cuts) supports several anti-police organizations. It's pretty amazing how each and every one of these 'grassroots' movements all end up being sponsored and supported by the same radical leftist wackos. Glenn breaks it down on radio today - check it out HERE plus a bonus clip from TV last night.

Not what Jesus would do

Glenn responded on radio today to the awful counter protests held by 'Christians' in response to the Shariah4America rally that was postponed. The counter protesters still showed up, and ended up taunting a Muslim man while he prayed on the street. They shouted him down with high school chants of 'Jesus! Jesus!' -- a method of conversion that has only succeeded in converting people to other religions. Watch the disturbing clip and get Glenn's rebuke from radio today. 

Hillary Clinton pimps Al Jazeera over American news

Hillary Clinton has produced some pretty outrageous sounds bites over the years, but she outdid herself recently when she declared that America is losing to Al Jazeera because they are up in the ratings and we can't compete with 'real' news like them. Her solution? Have a stronger government TV news operation - just like they do in China and Russia. How many times has that thought crossed your mind: 'if only we had a media more like China - THEN we'd be set'. Check out Hillary's Al Jazeera love on radio today. 

Stumart?: While Glenn was meeting and greeting fans at a recent book signing in WalMart, what was Stu doing? Playing the WalMart game, of course! Play along with him in a brand new video and never look at Crispy Rice cereal the same way again! Available on Insider Extreme in the specials tab - WATCH.

More Fun: On today's S.E. Cupp Show, she introduced what we hope will rapidly become America's favorite game show: Sheen or Gadaffi? The game that asks the question, are these the megalomaniacal ramblings of a brutal dictator, or the confused words of an out of control television star? You might think it would be easy to differentiate between one of the world's longest serving autocrats and Hollywood's latest train wreck, but you'd be wrong. Check out this FREE CLIP from today's show.

Matt Damon ditches Obama

Matt Damon, one of the early Obama followers, has now said in an interview that he's changed his mind on Obama. Damon, a guy who is videotaped pretending to be other people for a living, said he and his friends joke that they 'no longer hope for audacity' - incidentally, that joke took them 3 weeks to craft, as evidenced by its hilarity. So why is Damon jumping off the Obama bandwagon? Listen to Damon's comments and hear Glenn's reaction on radio today.