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912 Patriots of Lower Bucks - Daily E-Mail March 16, 2011
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"He who goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing."
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Obamacare a 'Platform' for Socialized Medicine - Rep. Conyers Makes Startling Admission
The Blaze | by Jonathon M. Seidl | Posted on March 15, 2011
In a few moments of candor on Monday, Democratic Rep. John Conyers (MI) admitted Obamacare is just a "platform," or a step, toward an eventual government takeover of health care:
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March Monthly Meeting - Tonight!
Wednesday, March 16, 2011 7:00PM - 9:00PM
Southampton Free Library
947 Street Road
Southampton, PA 18966-4728
State Nullification
State Nullification is a political action firmly rooted in the founding of America and its two principle documents: the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. The concept itself was articulated best by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison in the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions of 1798. Nullification is based on the Compact Theory- that the Federal Government was created by the sovereign states to act on their behalf as a limited agent within the expressly enumerated and limited powers in Section 1, Article 8 of the US Constitution. As the principals, the States are the final arbiters for determining when its agent (the Federal Government) has overstepped its bounds. Although Supreme Court opinions are important ruling within the Federal Government, the Federal courts as constructed by the framers are not the final word with regard to Constitutionality between the Federal Government and the States. Rooted in the 10th Amendment, Nullification has a rich history in both the North and the South during the 19t Century. Nullification has experienced a popular rediscovery and resurgence in the 21st Century with many states invoking the 10th Amendment, State Sovereignty, and Nullification as the rightful remedy in protecting their citizens against an increasingly unconstitutional Federal Government.
An excellent primer on Nullification is this video of Thomas Woods.
The PA 10th Amendment Coalition was formed to be a collaborative, social networking springboard for grassroots across the Pennsylvania who are interested in promoting 10th Amendment solutions in Pennsylvania. It was initially an outgrowth of the Pennsylvania Tenth Amendment Center which is a State Chapter of the Tenth Amendment Center (TAC). TAC is leading the fight across the US with such prominent Constitutionalists as Thomas Woods, Judge Andrew Napalitano and Sheriff Richard Mack. The Coalition has grown to include a large number of grassroots groups across Pennsylvania with focus on educating on the 10th Amendment and also influencing mindsets and legislation in Harrisburg. There are a number of 10th Amendment pieces of legislation in Harrisburg, including resolutions around State Sovereignty, and bills related to Health Care Freedom and Real ID. These bills and materials related to the 10th Amendment and Nullification can be found on the following websites:
Tenth Amendment Center
Tenth Amendment Center - Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania Tenth Amendment Coalition
If you would like to be there but you can't make it to the Southampton Free Library, we will be meeting will be streaming the meeting LIVE at:
Our Web Site or On UStream
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The Lehigh Valley Project 9-12 Tea Party Group
is pleased to announce a legislative discussion forum on the SB-1 (School Chice) legislation on Friday, March 18th from 7-9pm at DeSales University in Centre Valley, PA.
We have confirmed the following speakers/panelists:
Otto Banks, Executive Director, REACH Alliance
Simon Campbell, President, Stop Teachers Strikes, Inc.
Matthew Brouillette, President, Commonwealth Foundation
Deneen Borelli, Fellow with Project 21, board member with the Opportunity Charter School in Harlem, New York and FOX News Contributor
Dick Komer, PA Constitutional Attorney
Chris Friend, President, Friendly Fire Zone and past Director of REACH Alliance
The purpose of the event is to enable us to answer the questions of why our education system is so messed up and whether or not SB-1 is the best solution. There are pros and cons of this bill and we plan on presenting both sides to allow the the audience to draw their own conclusions.
We have also asked several co-sponsors of the bill to participate and are inviting all of our local state legislators to attend the event, but thus far we have had none of them commit.
Please pass the word on to your members about this very exciting event.
Thanks,
Kim Schmidtner
Lehigh Valley Project 9-12/Tea Party Group
www.lehighvalleyteaparty.org
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Have your questions answered about SB 1 - the School Choice Bill
Sponsored by - The Kitchen Table Patriots
Date: Thursday, March 17, 2011
When: 7:00PM - 9:00PM
Where: Loyal Order of Moose
127 East State Street, Doylestown, PA 18901-4363
The purpose of the meeting on Thursday, March 17 is to provide an opportunity for the public to have their questions answered about SB 1.
Panelists will include:
· C.L. Bryant, a tea party favorite speaker will moderate the proceedings for the evening.
· State Senator Anthony H. Williams (D-8), of Philadelphia and Delaware counties (parts of each), the co-sponsor of the bill, is an outstanding champion of education reform.
· Matthew Brouillette, President & CEO of the Commonwealth Foundation, the conservative Pennsylvania think tank is a prominent voice in statewide public policy debates through frequent appearances in print, television, and talk radio across the Commonwealth.
· PA Constitutional Lawyer Philip Murren, of the law firm of BALL, MURREN & CONNEL will be addressing the constitutionality of the legislation under both the United States and Pennsylvania Constitutions. He testified at the Senate Hearing on the bill on February 16.
Panelists who do not support SB 1 have also been invited.
Celebrate St. Patrick's Day with us after the meeting!!
Where: Downstairs at the bar
Brendan Steinhauser
Director, Federal and State Campaigns
FreedomWorks
@bstein80 on Twitter
400 North Capitol St. NW
Suite 765
Washington, DC 20001
(202) 942-7612 phone
(202) 379-6583 cell
(202) 942-7649 fax
www.FreedomWorks.org
The Meeting will be streamed Live at:
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/kitchen-table-patriots
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The author, Sharon Cherubin (ArmyGirl ) of UnitePa, an exceptionally effective and highly regarded principled, grassroots Tea Party leader from Lancaster County, thinks School Choice is good but disagrees with my position "One Size Fits Few" on SB 1 for reasons cogently set forth below.
Disagreement, like the irritating grain of sand from which an oyster produces something beautiful and valuable, can be stimulating and productive.
One Size Fits Few a Rebuttal from UnitePa Grassroots
Bob,
Good Morning. I know you will reprint what we have to say, so I will try to be as "eloquent" as I can.
Our legislators have compared the failing school system to a burning building - I would say that they are correct in the severity of the problem. They want to rescue as many as they can, when in fact they have already predetermined who survives and who does not.
We did not create this analogy, they did, so let's go with it. All I can say is, thank God our legislators are not fireman! Because once they rescue a "select few", they are letting the building burn to the ground in the hopes that the ones in the flames can find their way out.
You could argue that the EITC program is the water hose that will help the rest survive. And it may for some, however, it is limited by the contract between the Scholarship organization and the school, the amount of money being donated by companies, the income level of those applying, the number of applicants, the participation of the private school in the EITC program and how much a family can contribute on their own.
You fail to understand that "the grassroots" coalition is not opposed to school choice, in fact, we are encouraging our General Assembly to be BOLD and create a Constitutional, Equitable and Fair bill that limits government, yet provides for the maintenance and support of a thorough and efficient system of public education that serves the needs of the "entire" Commonwealth.
The grassroots movement did not come this far to say "this is the best we can do". Firemen don't enter a burning building not knowing the risks. They assess the situation and do "everything they can" within in the confines of not losing their own life, to save as many as possible, not just the people on the first floor.
Sharon Cherubin
Executive Director
UNITEPA
www.unitepa.org
UNITEPATV - Stay Tuned!
www.unitepa.tv
Original Post from Bob Guzzardi
On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 6:09 AM, Bob Guzzardi <bobguzzardi@bobguzzardi.com> wrote:
Jeff Salvino's outstanding one minute "Salvo" (3/08/11 )with compelling graphics is a rifle shot for Vouchers.
Breaking the cycle of poverty and dependency means escaping the dysfunction, disorder and disruption of government run schools.
"One Size Fits Few" March 8, 2011
Citizens Alliance for Pennsylvania presents 13 Tea Party objections to Vouchers for Low Income and answers them.
The Bob
dr. bob and Guzzardi
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The best writer, commenting on Israel and the ME today, is Caroline Glick. Everyone of her articles should be read. Specifically, I want to bring your attention to her last two articles.
In the first article she decries the world reaction to the dispicable massacre of the Fogels and three of their children.
In the second article published before the massacre, she argues that Netanyahu must adopt an offensive strategy. She recommends annexation, at least in part.
Please honour their memory by reading both in full,
Three Jewish children
The enlightened peoples of Europe, and growing numbers of Americans, have no interest in hearing or seeing anything that depicts Jews as good people, or even just as regular people. It is not that the cultured, intellectual A-listers in Europe and America share the Palestinians' genocidal hatred of the Jewish people.
The powerful newspaper editors, television commentators, playwrights, fashion designers, filmmakers and professors don't spend time thinking about how to prepare the next slaughter. They don't teach their children from the time they are Hadas and Elad Fogel's ages that they should strive to become mass murderers. They would never dream of doing these things. They know there is a division of labor in contemporary anti-Semitism.
The job of the intellectual luminaries in Western high society today is to hate Jews the old-fashioned way, the way their greatgrandparents hated Jews back in the days of the early 20th century before that villain Adolf Hitler gave Jewhating a bad name.
WHAT ALL this shows is that Netanyahu was wasting his time calling on world leaders to condemn the murder of the Fogel family. What does a condemnation mean? France and Britain condemned the massacre, along with the US. Does that exculpate the French and British for their embrace of anti-Semitism? Does it make them friends of the Jewish state? And say a British playwright sees the YouTubecensored photographs. No self-respecting British playwright will write a play called Three Jewish Children telling the story of how Palestinian parents do in fact teach their children to become mass murderers of Jews. And if a playwright were to write such a play, The Royal Court Theater wouldn't produce it. The Guardian wouldn't post it on its website. Liberal Jewish community centers in America wouldn't show it, nor would university student organizations in Europe or America.
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What this shows is that Netanyahu's strategy for contending with Obama is fundamentally misconstrued and misdirected. Obama will not be moved by Israeli concessions. The only way to stop Obama from moving forward on his anti-Israel policy course is to work through Congress.
And the most effective way to work through Congress is for Netanyahu to abandon his current course and tell the truth about the nature of the Palestinians, their rejection of Israel, their anti-Americanism and their support for jihadist terror.
At the same time, Netanyahu must speak unambiguously about Israel's national rights to Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria, our required security borders, and about why US national security requires a strong Israel.
The stronger the case Netanyahu makes for Israel, the more support Israel will receive from the Congress. And the more support Israel receives from the Congress, the more Obama will be compelled to temper his anti-Israel agenda.
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Armchair barbarism
Melanie Phillips, The Spectator
Today the massacred Fogel family was buried in Jerusalem. And as anticipated, the moral depravity of the Arabs is finding a grotesque echo in the moral...
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Atlas Shrugs reports the event in all its gory detail.
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Calling on the Pennsylvania Delegation to the United States Congress to endorse the hearings proposed by Representative Peter King (R-NY) on the radicalization of the American Muslim Community. Please call their offices and challenge them to a debate about the threat from radical Islam. This is coming to a neighborhood near you.
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Be aware of this. We should all be supporting Peter King's investigation of Radicalization of Domestic Muslims. Our national security might depend on this. Carlo Grilletto
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RedState Morning Briefing
For March 16, 2011
1. This is What Happens When Republicans Get Milquetoast
There is new polling out today making its way around the bathrooms of House and Senate Republican leaders. After weeks and weeks of bending over backwards to try to show they were willing to compromise on everything, guess what?
The public thinks the GOP hasn't been compromising enough.
House Republican Leaders who are more concerned with image than principle are going to fall all over themselves with this polling in a rush to compromise more. Here's the problem I see.
House Republicans have been muddying the water so much since November and painting their policy positions in pale pastels. The public voted in November with bright colors - mostly in red. The public wants Washington to stop its profligate spending. The public wants bright colors, not pastels.
2. Washington Post: 95% Believe Spending Cuts Are The Best Way To Cut The Deficit
Greg Sargent, the Washington Post's in-house left-wing activist, has a hilarious post up analyzing the latest WaPo poll. (The post was originally entitled, "The pubic agrees with Dems, but they don't know it," although eventually someone caught on and fixed the typo.)
Everybody has typos; what's more enduringly amusing is Sargent's effort at spin.
If you are keeping score at home,a left-wing activist admits that 95% of the public believes spending cuts are the best way to reduce the deficit, whether or not that plan also includes tax hikes. Going to the poll itself, only 3% believe the best way to cut the deficit is simply raising taxes. And what's more, that's the public - not likely voters or even registered voters, but all adults.
3. More Pennsylvania Abortion Shops Shuttered
When the story of the abortion shop cum abattoir run by Philadelphia doctor Kermit Gosnell hit the press in January the nation was shocked by the near medieval conditions encountered by women seeking access to the "safe, legal, and rare" procedure which kills over a million children each year.
As we noted at the time, the conditions in Gosnell's facility was not an aberration, rather it was the easily foreseeable consequence of a governor, Tom Ridge, electing not to have abortion shops inspected because of a personal sympathy for the butchery that occurred within. A sympathy disguised by the hackneyed formulation "I'm personally opposed to abortion, but ..."
If there is a single good thing to come out of this incident, other than Gosnell and most of his ghouls spending most of the rest of their lives in prison, it is the heightened level of scrutiny to the business of baby killing, a business that has managed to intimidate its way out of any regulatory regime.
4. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
Yesterday in the Politico, Jonathan Martin gave a conservatives in the mist take on the 2012 "theme" from the GOP - America 'in decline'.
I think the take is exactly opposite how he characterized it - though it is all semantics. It is not 'America in decline', but 'America the Great' that is the theme.
At a time when Barack Obama is intent on taking over the economy one-fifth at a time and leftists are turning the more-likely-than-not traitor Bradley Manning into a hero, it is more and more clear that the San Francisco left that Jeanne Kirkpatrick warned us about 25 years ago has finally gotten to have their way with America.
The theme is not about our nation in decline, but about letting a group of people run the nation who want us to decline.
It is easy to get hung up on the doom and gloom of the 2012 Republican candidates. They are a gloomy bunch. Sure they are trying to sound optimistic, but I've heard most all of them speak. With few exceptions, they have the oratory skills of a gaggle of warbling albatrosses and some, worse, sound like warbling albatrosses being violated by lepers.
I still haven't found what I'm looking for.
5. For $25, You Can Learn to Be a Marxist Troublemaker...and Grab Lunch Too!
You may have noticed over these last few weeks that the protesters in Wisconsin and elsewhere seem to be well trained at trouble making. It's almost as if they have their B.S. degrees from the University of Alinsky.
Well, as every good community organizer knows, you can't astroturf without being properly trained in the science of trouble making and that is why you too can learn the dark science of Alinsky in Madison on April Fool's Day [actually April 1st & 2nd].
6. Answers From A Non-Interventionist
About the same time as I posted a diary against the idea of US military intervention in Libya, George Will wrote a column challenging those in favor of said intervention to answer a series of questions about what they were truly trying to achieve. Now David Frum has posed a series of questions to those of us who are against the intervention. I've decided to take him up on his offer.
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New Common Sense
Applying First Principles to the Issues of Today |
American Delusionalism?
Like an eager kid who desperately wants to be included in his cooler older brother's activities, America looks to the European Union for cues on sophisticated governance. But what happens when that cooler older brother is middle-aged, unemployed, and still living in your parents' basement? This is America's dilemma. Will America learn from Europe's mistakes? Or, will America continue to be enamored with the European Union, despite its failed policies and unsound philosophical grounding?
Practical problems of governance abound in the EU. Great Britain, Germany, Spain, France all agree: multiculturalism has failed completely. French President Nicolas Sarkozy admits, "We have been too concerned about the identity of the person who was arriving and not enough about the identity of the country that was receiving him." Look no further than Greece for proof that the cradle-to-grave welfare state is financially unsustainable. Unemployment benefits, pensions, child-care subsidies, free university education, generous paid vacation and holiday leave, and government-provided health care-these programs cost money and require a robust economy to support the social-welfare safety net. As Europe's population grows older and grayer, demands for more entitlements continue to increase. An ever-expanding welfare state needs the pitter-patter of little feet to fund it in the future. With the current declining fertility rates, by 2050 the European Union economies will have a mere two workers for every retiree.
Practical failures aside, Bruce Thornton argues that the European Union's philosophical grounding is diametrically opposed to America's principles. The EU model assumes the perfectibility of mankind-that "a universal, essentially rational human nature is progressing away from the irrational superstitions and traditions such as religion that in the past defined and disordered human life and society." Social, political, and economic institutions facilitate mankind's perfection, by creating peace, equality, and justice and enabling human happiness. And who will staff these institutions charged with perfecting mankind? Technical elites who know the best way to live will craft policies and allocate rights accordingly. Thus, the perfection of mankind results in centralized, top-down style governance.
To embrace the European Union's premises about human nature, the purpose of government, and the status of rights, America must shed its own. America's way of life is premised on a permanent human nature-not one progressing towards perfection. It is a mix of base and lofty. Throughout the Federalist, Publius recognizes mankind's "destructive passions and selfish interests." But, this does not mean that men ungovernable. With the aid of institutional arrangements, a vigilant and manly spirit, and virtue, men are capable of self-government. The purpose of government is not to create "rights" to various welfare programs: limited government is necessary to secure natural rights. A self-governing people rejects administrative elites' advances on their liberty. Its citizens refuse to become "a herd of timid and industrious animals of which the government is the shepherd."
It is time to abandon our delusions about the European model. Whereas Publius once warned us "to teach that assuming brother moderation," our task today is to avoid following him down the same path of economic sclerosis, unaffordable entitlements, impending demographic collapse, and failed multiculturalism.
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Rep. Allen West to give keynote speech at our National Conference Gala Banquet
Early bird registration extended! Find out more and register online today!
We are excited to announce that we have confirmed Rep. Allen West will be the Gala Banquet keynote speaker at this year's National Conference & Legislative Briefing, June 22 - 24.
Because we are only now able to make this announcement, we are extending the Early Bird registration deadline to March 25th. Register by then and you'll save $40 off the registration fee!
Since his election to Congress last November, Rep. West has quickly distinguished himself as a courageous, articulate leader willing to speak boldly about solutions to the many challenges facing America.
As evidenced bythis video, shot when he was running for Congress, Rep. West is every bit as bold when it comes to defining the threat of radical Islam. Recently, he was confronted by a man who demanded Rep. West show where in the Qur'an it calls for "killing Americans." Of course the Qur'an doesn't mention "Americans." Rep. West's candid and direct challenge to the absurdity of this question was truly refreshing.
Recently, Newt Gingrich commented that Allen West would be someone he would definitely consider as a vice presidential running mate. Rep. West is already in high demand for speaking appearances and ACT! for America is privileged to be able to have him as our Gala Banquet keynote speaker!
Rep. West is truly an American hero who you will want to meet and whose speech at our gala banquet you don't want to miss, so please register today!
Rep. West joins a stellar list of confirmed speakers:
- John Guandolo, former FBI agent who created the first counterterrorism program about the Muslim Brotherhood for the FBI.
- Andrew Bostom, distinguished historian and author of the acclaimed book The Legacy of Jihad.
- Erick Stakelback, former analyst and senior writer for the Investigative Project on Terrorism and host of the CBN News program "Stakelback on Terror."
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By Barry Rubin, Rubin Reports
There's nothing to worry about, we are told, of course Egypt wants to get the money from gas shipments, right? Ideology and politics are not important, we are told, but are always trumped by material considerations.
Well, it looks as if Egypt has stopped gas exports to Israel, just about their only trade link. The company that supplies 45% of the gas needed to produce Israel's electricity, has missed several promised deadlines to restore service since the pipeline was damaged in a terrorist explosion February 5.
The Egyptian government is pretending that there are technical problems but that's nonsense. Either there will never be any gas shipments at all or Egypt will demand such a steep increase in price that this will be designed more to end the deal rather than to increase their revenue.
So Israel's Electric Company is asking the Environmental Protection Ministry to switch to diesel and fuel oil. One day, Israel...
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Lenin's Lessons for Obama on Dealing with Radical Islamists
By Barry Rubin, Rubin Reports
I just don't get it. The more degrees from famous universities U.S. leaders have, the less they seem to know, especially about history.
Consider this in light of their inability to understand that not only al-Qaida but also Syria, Hamas, Hizballah, the Muslim Brotherhood, and the AKP government in Turkey, as well as Iran's regime and other Islamists are dangerous, anti-democratic forces.
1. In 1920, Vladimir Lenin, leader of the new Soviet Union and of the world Communist movement, wrote "`Left-Wing'" Communism: An Infantile Disorder." Lenin ridiculed small, radical groups that believed only instant insurrection could bring revolution. He explained that Communists needed to maneuver, to use all sorts of tactics, sometimes to advance and sometimes to retreat.
In our time, al-Qaida is the equivalent of the groups about which Lenin was writing. It knows only one thing: terrorism. In contrast, the West's really important...
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State Troopers Forced to Drag Union Protesters From Tenn. Senate Hearing
The Blaze | by Meredith Jessup | Posted on March 15, 2011
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Troopers forcibly carried out seven union supporters from the Tennessee's legislative office complex on Tuesday after their protest disrupted a Senate committee hearing.
The disruption occurred after hundreds of labor supporters gathered for a midday protest near the Capitol to denounce a bill to strip teachers of their collective bargaining rights. The seven arrested were among those who stood up during the hearing and began chants about "union busting" by the Legislature.
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No Bureaucrat Left Behind
Posted March 15th, 2011
Did you know that it is Education Month in the Obama White House? Neither did we. But apparently it is, and accordingly the President crossed the Potomac yesterday to visit an elementary school in Arlington, Virginia, where he pushed for reauthorization of the unpopular No Child Left Behind (NCLB) program. It was a classic President Obama performance. First he denounced the "stale debates" over whether education needed "more money" or "more reform." Then-surprise-he said what the country really needed was both: "We need more resources for the schools, but we've got to reorganize how our schools are doing business in order to assure success for our young people. ... Let's seize this education moment. Let's fix No Child Left Behind." No, let's not.
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A Prayer of a Chance for Those Most in Need
 Posted March 14th, 2011
World magazine recently highlighted the impressive impact of the community outreach of one urban congregation in Manhattan. This inspiring story is just one example of the uniquely powerful effectiveness of indigenous faith-based service in neighborhoods burdened by enormous financial and societal problems. At a time of cutbacks in government services, the faith community remains as a longstanding bulwark of support and outreach to those who are in need.
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Senator DeMint on School Choice
Posted March 14th, 2011
South Carolinians for Responsible Government has produced a new video featuring Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC) on the importance of school choice. DeMint outlines the keys to achieving educational success not just in South Carolina but in the rest of the country:
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Bobby Unser vs the Feds
Posted March 14th, 2011
In 1997 three-time Indy 500 winner Bobby Unser was convicted of a federal crime that exposed him to a $5,000 fine and a six month prison sentence. What did Unser do that so angered the federal government?
He got lost in a blizzard. That's it. How did getting lost in a blizzard become a crime? Watch the attached video and read more here . . .
Libya: The Obama Doctrine Inaction
Posted March 14th, 2011
 The Wall Street Journal wrote Saturday:
Whatever else one might say about President Obama's Libya policy, it has succeeded brilliantly in achieving its oft-stated goal of not leading the world. No one can any longer doubt the U.S. determination not to act before the Italians do, or until the Saudis approve, or without a U.N. resolution. This White House is forthright for followership. That message also couldn't be clearer to Moammar Gadhafi and his sons, who are busy bombing and killing their way to victory against the Libyan opposition. As the U.S. defers to the world, the world can't decide what to do, and the vacuum is filled by a dictator and his hard men who have concluded that no one will stop them.
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FamilyFacts.org: The Fruit of Religious Faith In America
 Posted March 14th, 2011
Despite the assertive statements of celebrity atheists, national book tours denouncing God and the perennial docket of court cases challenging the presence of religion in the public square, most Americans believe in God and many regularly practice their faith. Heritage research on the newly launched FamilyFacts.org shows that 75 percent of American adults believe in God and another 11 percent in some higher power.
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America citizens tell their stories about living on the border Obama refuses to defend
Mar 15, 2011 06:13 am | Coach Collins
By Kevin "Coach" Collins
The State of Texas has set up a website to collect and post the stories real victims of Barack Obama's non enforcement border policies have to tell.
The stories these real Americans tell need to be heard and acted on if we are ever to gain control of our southern border. Here are some of the witness accounts posted on the site.
"...we do have lots of drugs and humans crossing the ranch and we did feel that our lives were in danger. On several occasions, we had illegal immigrants trying to break into our house. I had to hold people at gunpoint to save our lives. People don't realize that the border is also the site of major oil and gas infrastructure and the Eagle Ford Shale gas play. The industry does nothing to secure the area and they make it impossible for law enforcement or landowners to anything. We have no idea who is working for ... Continue Reading:America citizens tell their stories about living on the border Obama refuses to defend
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Tuesday, March 15, 2011
To: Friends & Supporters
From: Gary L. Bauer
A Lawless Administration
Does the Obama Administration think that it gets to pick and choose which Supreme Court rulings it has to obey? Evidently it does because there is no other way to explain the Justice Department's meddling with testing standards for police and firefighters in Dayton, Ohio.
According to local media reports, Dayton was forced to lower its testing standards for police and firefighters because in the Obama Administration's opinion, there were not enough minority recruits on the city's payroll. Police recruits, for example, had to score 66% on the first exam and 72% on a second exam. But as the local ABC affiliate reports, "The D.O.J. approved new scoring policy only requires potential police officers to get a 58% and a 63%," in order to boost the number of minorities who pass the exam.
This decision flies in the face of the Supreme Court's 2009 ruling in the Ricci case. In that decision, the court ruled that the city of New Haven, Connecticut, discriminated against white firefighters seeking promotions by throwing out test scores because too few minorities passed. So why is the Obama Justice Department telling Dayton, Ohio, to lower its standards?
Not surprisingly, the news isn't going over well in Dayton. Randy Beane, president of the Dayton Fraternal Order of Police, said, "It becomes a safety issue to have an incompetent officer next to you in a life and death situation." Even the president of the local NAACP chapter, Derrick Foward, blasted the new standards, saying:
"The NAACP does not support individuals failing a test and then having the opportunity to be gainfully employed. If you lower the score for any group of people, you're not getting the best qualified people for the job."
That seems obvious enough. But the left-wing ideology that is embraced by Obama and Holder requires them to divide us by race.
Broken Promises
Add transparency to the long and growing list of Obama's broken promises. The Associated Press reported yesterday that the Obama Administration is stonewalling on Freedom of Information Act requests. In at least one-third of FOIA requests, the AP reports, "The administration refused to release any sought-after materials." What's more, the administration seems to be finding ways to deliberately evade transparency.
It was recently reported that White House aides are steering lobbyists to a complex of townhouses just off White House grounds. Why? As Politico noted:
"It allows the Obama administration to keep these lobbyist meetings shielded from public view -- and out of Secret Service logs kept on visitors to the White House and later released to the public. ...The White House can't say who attended meetings there, or how often. The Secret Service doesn't log in visitors or require a background check the way it does at the main gates of the White House."
Obama Is Vulnerable
Today's daily Rasmussen tracking poll finds that Barack Obama's approval rating has plunged in recent weeks. He got a bounce after the State of the Union address, when his rating peaked at 52% for the year. But it has since collapsed to just 43%. Fifty-seven percent of likely voters now disapprove of Obama's job performance, including 42% who say they "strongly disapprove." And there's more bad news for Team Obama.
A new ABC News/Washington Post poll finds that just 26% of Americans have "confidence in our system of government and how well it works." That is the lowest confidence level recorded in 35 years, and down dramatically from nearly 45% in 2008. Moreover, the share of those who are unsure about our system of government has jumped 19 points, from 30% in 2008 to 49% today. So since Obama has been in the White House, the public's confidence in government has plummeted, while skepticism has skyrocketed.
It's not hard to figure out why. Obama seems totally disconnected from reality right now. His war on energy producers is partly to blame for skyrocketing gas prices, and is so radical even some labor unions are fighting mad about the likely job losses. He and his allies aggressively pushed policies so unpopular that 62% of voters want them repealed.
His assault on normal marriage is an affront to the established beliefs of most Americans. He was AWOL on Libya. There are reports today of Saudi troops entering Bahrain, home to the U.S. Navy's 5th Fleet, to quell yet another uprising in the Middle East. There was a major disaster in Japan, a key U.S. ally, that has world financial markets reeling.
And how has Obama responded? He played golf, gave a radio address devoted entirely to gender equality and today he is picking his college basketball brackets, which, according to Politico, will be revealed on ESPN tomorrow.
My friends, Obama is vulnerable in 2012. All that remains is for the GOP to nominate a candidate who can keep the conservative movement united, as Ronald Reagan did, by articulating a positive vision for our future. A Republican can win by presenting a pro-growth alternative to Obama's big government socialism and honoring our traditional values.
In God We Trust
With events around the world moving at breakneck speed, this is a good time to remember that it will take more than one good election to restore our nation. And with faith in government declining, it is important to remember where we should place our trust. As Ronald Reagan said, "If we ever forget that we are one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under."
Rep. Randy Forbes (R-VA) is trying to remind us of that with a resolution reaffirming our national motto "In God We Trust," and encouraging displays of the national motto in schools and other public buildings. The Forbes resolution, which has 56 co-sponsors, will be voted on Thursday by the House Judiciary Committee.
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Medicare and Medicaid Made $70 Billion in 'Improper Payments' Last Year-More Than All Spending by Homeland Security and State Departments Combined
(CNSNews.com)- The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services - the federal agency that has a major role in implementing Obamacare - made at least $70.5 billion in "improper payments" last year. "An improper payment," said the Government Accountability Office, "is any payment that should not have been made or that was made in an incorrect amount (including overpayments and underpayments) under statutory, contractual, administrative, or other legally applicable requirements."
Conyers: Obamacare Is 'Platform' for Creating Single-Payer System
(CNSNews.com) - Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.), the ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, told CNSNews.com Monday that he voted for the health-care law because he saw it as a necessary "platform" for building toward a single-payer health-care system in the United States.
House Republican Leader: CR Will Permit Funding of Obamacare
(CNSNews.com) - House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) said on Monday that the new continuing resolution (CR) the House will consider this week to keep the federal government funded will permit the Obama administration to continue spending money on the implementation of Obamacare. Two conservative lawmakers are pressing House Republicans to refuse vote for any CR that permits funding of Obamacare.
Rep. Mike Pence Will Not Support Another Short-Term CR
(CNSNews.com) - Enough is enough, Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.) said in a statement issued on Tuesday: "It's time to take a stand for taxpayers and future generations. I will not vote for the short-term Continuing Resolution," he said.
Japan's Nuclear Crisis Deepens With Third Reactor Explosion, Radiation Leak
(CNSNews.com) - Japan's earthquake-induced nuclear emergency worsened Tuesday after a third explosion at a stricken power plant appeared to have caused some damage to the reinforced container around a reactor core. Raised radiation levels were detected in Tokyo, some 150 miles to the south.
Invoking Tucson Shooting, Obama Seeks 'Common Sense' Restrictions on Gun Sales
Washington (CNSNews.com) - Two months after the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in Tucson, President Obama is calling for "agreement on gun reforms." He says he wants to start a new dialogue with both sides of the gun debate. In reaction, the National Rifle Association said on Monday it "welcomes any serious discussion on policies that focus on prosecuting criminals and fixing deficiencies in the mental health system."
'Guns Kill' vs. 'Guns Save Lives': Dueling Billboard Messages Coming to Los Angeles
(CNSNews.com) - A Second Amendment group is sending a "billboard" truck to Los Angeles on Wednesday to counter the "campaign of fear" being waged by gun control advocates, who are running their own mobile billboard message in the same city. The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA) is spreading the message that guns save lives.
Iran Accuses U.S. of Approving Saudi 'Invasion' of Bahrain
(CNSNews.com) - Iran condemned what official media called the "invasion" of Bahrain by Saudi forces Monday, after the small island nation invited neighboring Gulf States to send in troops to help secure the monarchy. Iranian foreign ministry officials implied that the U.S. government was behind the dramatic move. The unrest in Bahrain is stoked by citizens' demands for reforms to entrenched and undemocratic systems of government.
OTHER HEADLINES:
Malaysia Agrees to Release 35,000 Seized Bibles Kansas Republican Proposes State Income Tax Exemption to Lure Newcomers
UCLA Debates What to Do About Student's Video Rant Mocking Asians
Hillary Clinton to Meet With Egyptian Transition Leaders
New Mexico Officials to Be Arraigned in Gun Smuggling Case
PepsiCo Unveils Bottle Made of 100 Percent Plant-Based Material
Obama's Team Seeks New Ways to Fire Up His Base
Gen. Petraeus to Give Upbeat View of Afghan War Effort
California Official Estimates Statewide Tsunami Damage in Excess of $40M Bahrain's King Declares 3-Month State of Emergency
G-8 Diplomats Can't Agree on Response to Libya Libyan Rebels Lose Last Stronghold West of Tripoli
Battle for Zawiya Tested Strength of Libyan Rebels
Thousands of Palestinians Press Their Leaders to Reconcile
Israeli Navy Intercepts Egypt-Bound Ship With Arms
Human Rights Group Forced Out of Uzbekistan
NEWSPAPER ROUNDUP:
Obama's priorities questioned; President urged to seize reins as crises pile up
Denver City Council endorses 6.6 pay raise for elected officials amid budget crunch
Resistance to second stopgap spending deal rises in Congress
White House urges Supreme Court to wait on health care law
Poll: Nearly two-thirds of Americans say Afghan war isn't worth fighting
Health insurance company loses sensitive data for 2M people
Iran recruiting hackers for its cyber army to fight 'enemies'
Unions oppose EPA regulations for coal-fired plants; Layoffs feared
Japan's disaster chills plan for Texas nuclear plant
People have unreasonable fears of radiation, physicist says
Sen. Kerry urges debate on energy policy
Chicago first city where citizens can send photos, videos to 911
Medicare improperly paid $3.1M for erectile-dysfunction drugs, despite ban
N.J. lawmakers approve education program for teens caught 'sexting'
County health plan requires employees to submit saliva to see if they smoke
Disenfranchised West Palm Beach voters file lawsuit for new mayoral election
'Tea party' T-shirts OK at Arizona polls under deal
Census finds more Hispanics than originally estimated
D.C. college students complain about city's stricter noise law
Food fight at grocery bakery; Man charged with battery on elderly woman
COMMENTARIES:
Can Japan Rise Again?
By Patrick J. Buchanan
Can Japan come back from this earthquake and 20 years of economic stagnation and political malaise to recover the dynamism she exhibited in the decades after World War II? There is reason for pessimism, and it can be summed up in a single word: demography. Japan is the oldest country on earth, with a median age of 45 and a fertility rate below zero population growth for the past 40 years. To put it starkly, Japan is aging, shrinking and dying.
Continuing Stubborn Ignorance
By Walter E. Williams
How can academics, politicians, the news media and ordinary citizens get away with statements such as "Reagan's budget deficits," "Clinton's budget surplus," "Bush's budget deficits and tax cuts" or "Obama's tax increases"? Let's look at the facts. Our Constitution grants the president absolutely no authority to raise or lower taxes. Congress has the final and ultimate say on taxes and spending. No matter how we feel about President Obama, if we buy into the notion that it's he who's doing the taxing and spending, adding to our debt and deficits, we will focus our attention on trying to restrain the president. That will leave Congress less politically culpable for our deepening quagmire.
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Conyers: Obamacare Is 'Platform' for Creating Single-Payer System
Monday, March 14, 2011
By Nicholas Ballasy
(CNSNews.com) - Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.), the ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, told CNSNews.com today that the health-care law that President Barack Obama signed last March is a "platform" for building a single-payer health care system in the United States.
During a newsmakers program at the National Press Club on Monday, Conyers said that after discussing the issue with Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D.-Ohio) he voted for the health-care law because he saw it as a necessary "platform" for building toward a single-payer health-care system in the United States.
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To Primary Or Not To Primary.
It should be apparent to even the mildest-mannered, laid-back conservative that things just aren't working the way they should if we had Congressional leadership.  John Boehner at CPAC, February 10th, 2011. What do I mean? We have outstanding leadership, don't we? Well, we thought we did anyway. I've been wary of John Boehner since he was on the campaign trail. He made all the right conservative noises, but he's turning out to be a cap pistol instead of a cannon. The cowardly bunch is literally afraid of its own shadow. If the Republican leadership can't hack it, let the new young conservatives take over. They've already shown a willingness to buck the establishment leadership, a surprising but welcome indication that we, at least, had chosen well. It's our own fault. We're being victimized by our own success. We swept our candidates into office wholesale... and re-established the power of the old guard leadership. READ MORE AND SEE MARK LEVIN'S VIDEO |
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Grassfire Nation Update
Efforts are underway to prevent taxpayer money from
funding the implementation of ObamaCare in the latest
Continuing Resolution bill that is expected to be
voted on tomorrow (Wednesday, March 16). Your
immediate grassroots action is needed! See
details below.
Dear Patriot,
Grassroots Americans have a 24-hour window with which to
communicate to their House lawmakers -- urging them to support
language that would defund ObamaCare and rescind the
$105,464,000 in funds already set aside to implement
Obama's unconstitutional healthcare scheme!
Click here for more information and to take fast action:
http://www.grassfire.com/1146/offer.asp?ref_id=500062
Earlier, Reps. Steve King (R-IA) and Michele Bachmann (R-MN)
drafted a letter to House Majority Leader John Boehner,
Majority Leader Eric Cantor and Appropriations Chairman
Hal Rogers urging them not to move forward with the next
Continuing Resolution bill unless key language to defund
ObamaCare is included.
Both King and Bachmann are willing to shutdown the federal
government, and believe inserting this language into the
next CR bill is the best opportunity Americans have to
defund ObamaCare.
They are also urging ALL members of the House to join with
them in pledging to prevent taxpayer money from being used
to implement ObamaCare.
Additionally they also want to rescind the $105,464,000,000
already appropriated to ObamaCare. "We cannot successfully
defund ObamaCare without shutting off these automatically
appropriated funds," said King.
+ + Fax Your Representative Today!
Patriot, as we said above, grassroots Americans have a 24-hour
window to communicate to their Representatives urging them
to stand with King and Bachmann in opposing any Continuing
Resolution unless it has language to defund and rescind
ObamaCare!
Click here to read the letter and take fast action:
http://www.grassfire.com/1146/offer.asp?ref_id=500062
This may be the very best chance to DEFUND OBAMACARE!
With a simple click, Grassfire Nation will immediately send
personalized faxes on your behalf DIRECTLY to your
Representative, your two Senators as well as key members
of Congress involved in the ObamaCare debate!
Click here now to have your faxes quickly delivered:
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These faxes urge your lawmakers to take a strong
stand against the implementation of ObamaCare -- even if
it means shutting down the government!
Simply stated, if you believe your taxes should not be used
to fund Obama's unconstitutional healthcare power-grab this
is your very best option to communicate those desires
directly to our lawmakers.
Simply click here now:
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If you prefer to send faxes on your own, Grassfire Nation
has made it easy for you to download the key contact
information as well as our customized fax letters. Whatever
method you use, it is crucial that you respond.
Click here to see the contact information and letters:
http://www.grassfire.com/1146/offer.asp?ref_id=500062
After scheduling your faxes, take a few extra moments to call
your Representative as well as House leaders-- letting them
know that you want language to defund ObamaCare included
in this upcoming Continuing Resolution bill on Wednesday.
Contact Your Representative:
http://www.congressmerge.com/onlinedb/index.htm
In addition:
Speaker Boehner's office: 202-225-6205
Majority Leader Cantor's office: 202-225-2815
Appropriations Chairman Hal Rogers: 202-225-4601
After scheduling your faxes and making your calls, please
alert your friends and family urging them to take action
with you! Please share this link with all of your social networks!
http://www.grassfire.com/1146/offer.asp?ref_id=500062
As always thanks for your outstanding efforts.
Grassfire Nation and Patriot Action Network
P.S. We have 24-hours to communicate our hearts to key
members of the House. DON'T DELAY. Schedule your faxes
for immediate delivery by clicking below:
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Dear Fellow Conservative:
The first major test for Republicans this year will be on how we address our nation's exploding debt. We are quickly approaching the statutory debt limit of $14.3 trillion so this issue will come to a head very soon.
Republicans need to do what they have too often failed to do over the last 10 years and fight to cut spending. And that's why I'm writing to you today. I need your help right now.
President Obama wants Congress to raise our nation's debt ceiling again without doing anything serious to cut spending and balance the budget. His economic advisor, Austan Goolsbee, recently argued that the sky would fall unless we keep borrowing. But the truth is the sky is already falling BECAUSE we keep borrowing.
We must stop the debt and balance the budget.
There are senators on both sides of the aisle who hope their constituents won't be paying attention when the Senate considers the debt limit. They want to quietly vote for more debt without paying a political price.
We can't let that happen.
Please join me in doing two things right now.
First, visit http://stopthedebtpledge.com and sign our "Stop the Debt" pledge. It states, "I hereby pledge to support only those candidates who demand that Congress stop the debt and pass a Balanced Budget Amendment."
In the last 10 years, Congress has raised the debt ceiling 10 times, but it has not voted a single time to pass a Balanced Budget Amendment. The only way to keep Congress from creating more debt is to pass a Constitutional Amendment that forces it to balance the budget without raising taxes.
I need you to sign this pledge right now so I can show my colleagues in the Senate that there are thousands of Americans who want them to draw a real line in the sand on this issue. Many of my colleagues are already telling me they may trade their vote on the debt ceiling for budget caps, which won't be enforced. The only way we're ever going to stop the debt is by passing a Constitutional Amendment that forces Congress to do it.
Second, call your senators and tell them to "stop the debt and balance the budget". Urge them to do everything it takes, including a filibuster, to block the debt limit increase and pass the Balanced Budget Amendment. Click here to contact your senators.
The Balanced Budget Amendment sponsored by Senator Mike Lee of Utah will force Congress to balance the federal budget by cutting spending. Not only does it include an 18 percent of GDP cap on total spending, it also includes a 2/3 vote super-majority requirement to ever raise taxes.
Every state except for Vermont has a requirement to balance its budget and so should Congress. This is a commonsense reform that is overwhelmingly supported by the American people. There is no reason why the Senate cannot pass the Balanced Budget Amendment.
The last time the Senate voted on the Balanced Budget Amendment was in 1997 when it was just one vote short of the 67 votes needed for adoption.
We can win this policy battle if we're willing to fight for our principles. All 47 Republicans voted in November to make the Balanced Budget Amendment the policy of the Senate Republican Conference, and there are 23 Democrats up for re-election in 2012 who won't want to vote against it.
The President may attack conservatives who filibuster the debt limit and accuse us of putting the nation at risk, but the President and the politicians in Congress who refuse to balance the budget are the ones hurting our country. The time has come for Americans to draw a line in the sand and say "enough is enough".
Please sign the "Stop the Debt" pledge, forward it to your friends and family, and call your senators to urge them to stop the debt and pass the Balanced Budget Amendment.
Respectfully,
Jim DeMint
United States Senator
Chairman, Senate Conservatives Fund
P.S. If you're tired of seeing liberal Republicans abandon our conservative principles, please make a small donation today to the Senate Conservatives Fund (SCF). I started SCF to help elect principled conservatives to the Senate so we could stop the massive spending, takeovers, and debt that are destroying our country. We helped elect five standout conservatives last year and we can do it again next year with your help. | | | | |
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Immigrant Job Numbers Grow as American Employment Declines
On Thursday of last week, the House Judiciary Committee's Immigration Subcommittee met to hear testimony on the effect of immigration on the American job market. The hearing, entitled "New Jobs in Recession and Recovery: Who Are Getting Them and Who Are Not," is especially relevant given that many Americans are still struggling to find work in the midst of our nation's weak economy.
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Napolitano: DHS Granted Deferred Action to Nearly 900 Illegal Aliens in 2010
During the Senate Judiciary Committee's Oversight Hearing of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) last Wednesday, DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano admitted that the agency granted deferred action to nearly 900 illegal aliens in Fiscal Year 2010. However, according to Secretary Napolitano's own testimony, the final figure could be substantially higher as this estimate leaves out the number of illegal aliens granted deferred action for "humanitarian" reasons.
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Utah Legislature Passes Series of Immigration Bills; Includes Amnesty
Last week the Utah Legislature passed three immigration bills causing uproar on both sides of the immigration debate. The bills range from a guest worker amnesty bill (H.B. 116), an Arizona-style enforcement bill (H.B. 497), and an agreement between Utah and a Mexican State to provide businesses with migrant workers (H.B. 466).
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Washington and New Mexico to Continue Issuing Driver's Licenses to Illegal Aliens
Two states last week took affirmative steps to continue issuing driver's licenses to illegal aliens. In New Mexico, despite a push from Governor Susana Martinez to tighten the state's lax licensing laws, the state Senate passed a bill last Wednesday which continues to allow illegal aliens to obtain driving privileges. The bill does increase the residency requirement for any foreign national to acquire a driver's license in New Mexico from three to six months. (HB 78) It also requires illegal aliens to reapply for a license every two years and increases penalties for falsified documentation. (HB 78)
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The Runaway Slave movie crew has thawed out from winter & is ready to heat things up!
Beginning today, we will take a 16-day documentary road trip on the Runaway Slave Underground Railroad Tour. We begin in New York and have stops planned in West Orange, NJ, Philadelphia and, of course, DC. Then we head south to Raleigh, Rock Hill, SC, Atlanta and the home of CL, Louisiana.
Ride with us on the Tour as we post behind-the-scenes footage and more on Twitter & Facebook:
- Meet Erik Rush, the first person to expose Obama's ties to militant, radical Chicago preacher Reverend Jeremiah Wright.
- Have an extended conversation with Vanessa, the Conservative brave enough to challenge progressive protesters at Glenn Beck's 8/28 rally (See video here). Learn what CL and other Black Conservatives have to say about abortion in the Black community, the dissolution of the Black family, how Conservatives can win over the Black vote in the 21st century & much more!
- Answer the questions: What would you do to get the best education for yourself or your child? Would you bus them to a different part of town? Would you go to jail?
- Get introduced to new up & coming Conservatives from the deep South in a roundtable discussion about the day-to-day challenges of changing hearts & minds in deeply liberal territories.
- Sit down with CL as he shares personal stories about his journey from Democratic Radical to Conservative beacon
Last, but certainly not least, watch us on Hannity's America!! CL will be a commentator on the Great American Panel on Tuesday, 3/15 at 9pm EST!
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Senator Mitch McConnell, along with 43 co-sponsors (including Democratic Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia), is forcing a vote on S. 482 (the Energy Tax Hike Prevention Act) as an amendment to the Small Business Innovation Research Act re-authorization bill. The vote could come as soon as today but it will probably come some time this week.
Unelected regulators are usurping the legislative power that the people, in the Constitution, granted to Congress. We must demand our senators step in and stop this regulatory tyranny.
President Obama is now pursuing his entire failed global warming agenda - decisively rejected as the cap-and-tax energy tax and in the 2010 election. In Obama's words: "Cap-and-Trade was just one way of skinning the cat; it was not the only way."
Indeed, the EPA is actively pursuing a bizarre legal theory that the 1970 Clean Air Act was designed as a global warming law, and that pursuant to it they can regulate just about everything that moves, as well as most industrial facilities. When it's fully phased in, their plans include over 18,000 pages of appendices that would regulate every industry in the U.S., cause electricity prices to skyrocket, and greatly diminish our freedom and prosperity.
Please call your senators NOW and tell them to vote YES on the McConnell Amendment to stop the EPA's global warming power grab.
Your senator and their phone number is: See Below.
Click here if your senator's name and number did not appear.
Click here to give us feedback on how the call went.
If you would prefer to send an email, click here.
This is one of the first big Senate opportunities to stopping Obama's outrageous regulatory agenda (see www.ObamaChart.com for more). Please take action and pass this important message along.
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Unions Show No Class in Wisconsin 'War'
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published March 11 on The Washington Times website.
"I'm not going to lie to you, this is going to get ugly." So predicts "Goldfish," a Daily Kos blogger who boasts of spending two weekends in Madison, Wisc., "on the Front Lines of the Class War." Now, "Goldfish" is predicting a general strike, like the ones in Greece whenever the bankrupt government tries to cut ruinous spending.
A bigger fish, film director Michael Moore, announced on MSNBC's The Rachel Maddow Show on Wednesday that, "This is war. This is class war," and that a national walkout of government school students would happen Friday. Jesse Jackson told Fox News that public unions will retain collective bargaining or "you're going to have it through the streets. People here will fight back because they think their cause is moral."
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Supreme Court May Be Tiring of Atheist Activist Newdow
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published March 10 on The Washington Examiner website.
Atheist activist Michael Newdow, a controversial lawyer who once received significant media attention, may have worn out his welcome at the U.S. Supreme Court this week.
Although many lawyers who argue before the Supreme Court only do so once, a select group of perhaps 20 elite lawyers repeatedly appear before the court. The court often welcomes cases offered by these top-shelf attorneys, knowing that the justices will read polished briefs and hear well-reasoned arguments, which assist the court in reaching the correct result.
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The Anachronism of State Income Taxes
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Director of Policy for the Carleson Center for Public Policy Peter Ferrara was published March 9 on Forbes.com.
Nine states survive perfectly well with no state income tax at all. These include large states such as Texas and Florida, medium-size states such as Tennessee and Washington, and smaller states, in terms of population, such as New Hampshire, Nevada, South Dakota, Wyoming, and Alaska. This policy should now be extended to the other 41 states.
Income taxes are the most economically destructive of all taxes. That is because income levies tax directly the reward for work, savings, investment, and entrepreneurship. With the reward reduced, the incentive for pursuing these economically productive activities is reduced. The result is less work, less saving, less investment, fewer new businesses, less business growth, less job creation, lower wages and income, and lower overall economic growth.
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Obama Energy Non-Policy Hurting America
As a member of the Conservative Action Project, ACRU CEO Susan Carleson and leaders of 31 other organizations representing a broad cross section of the conservative movement are united in opposing the Obama administration's actions on energy policy that are hurting America.
MEMO FOR THE MOVEMENT: Obama Energy Non-Policy Hurting America
RE: With the Administration showing little indication it will allow drilling to resume in the Gulf of Mexico at any point in the near future, its lack of political will to drill is undermining our efforts for energy independence, which compromises our national security and jeopardizes our economic recovery.
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March 14, 2011
New Column: GOP Fear That History Will Repeat Helps Ensure It Will by David Limbaugh
Why is it that despite the Republicans' resounding electoral victory in 2010 based on their promises for real change, many of us have a queasy feeling they're not quite measuring up to the task, even in the climate of Democratic infighting and President Obama's weaknesses?
The Hill reports that there is developing dissension between Obama and Senate Democrats, whose respective "political fortunes ... are moving in opposite directions, complicating their efforts to win a titanic battle against Republicans over federal spending."
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Since yesterday, we've gained momentum. Among other conservatives, Senator Marco Rubio and Congressman Mike Pence announced their opposition to more short-term CRs. The Washington establishment is taking note. Push your Representative to oppose another three week spending bill now.
>> Call your Representative now: 202-224-3121.
When you call, urge a serious, long-term approach to spending cuts and policy riders. Not sure what to say? See our talking points here.
Every additional week means another lost opportunity to enact the full $61 billion in cuts and deliver the long-term reforms our country needs.
>>Make the call now and post your report to our website.
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Fear the Media Meltdown, Not the Nuclear One (UPDATED)
Relax: this is not another Chernobyl or Three Mile Island, and I'll tell you exactly why. The only thing to fear is the sensationalist reporting that has the world panicked. March 15, 2011 - by Charlie Martin 
The March 11 earthquake off the coast of Japan has been an unprecedented disaster. Now estimated to have been a magnitude 9 earthquake - one of the top five earthquakes measured since reporting started in 1900 - it was the result of a "megathrust" in which an area of sea floor bigger than the state of Connecticut broke free and moved under the force of colliding tectonic plates. It was so strong that it literally moved the entire island of Honshu eight feet to the east. The earthquake was then followed by a tsunami comparable to the Boxing Day tsunami of 2004 - but since the epicenter of the quake was only a few miles off the coast of Japan, the tsunami struck the heavily populated coast of Honshu with almost no warning, basically washing many coastal villages off the face of the earth.
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You Can Stop Worrying About A Radiation Disaster In Japan -- Here's Why
UPDATE: Since posting this, we have learned that it was written by Dr. Josef Oehmen, a research scientist at MIT. It was originally posted here.
I repeat, there was and will *not* be any significant release of radioactivity from the damaged Japanese reactors.
By "significant" I mean a level of radiation of more than what you would receive on - say - a long distance flight, or drinking a glass of beer that comes from certain areas with high levels of natural background radiation.
I have been reading every news release on the incident since the earthquake. There has not been one single report that was accurate and free of errors (and part of that problem is also a weakness in the Japanese crisis communication). By "not free of errors" I do not refer to tendentious anti-nuclear journalism - that is quite normal these days. By "not free of errors" I mean blatant errors regarding physics and natural law, as well as gross misinterpretation of facts, due to an obvious lack of fundamental and basic understanding of the way nuclear reactors are build and operated. I have read a 3 page report on CNN where every single paragraph contained an error. Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/japan-reactors-pose-no-risk-2011-3#ixzz1GidV0BCu
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Obama tells GOP: Nice try on health care records
Transparency faces 'death panels'
President Barack Obama once promised that negotiations over his health care overhaul would be carried out openly, in front of TV cameras and microphones. Tell that to the White House now.
Republican congressional investigators got the brush-off this past week after pressing for details of meetings between White House officials and interest groups, including drug companies and hospitals that provided critical backing for Obama's health insurance expansion.
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New calculations applied to a U.S. Senate report reveal the Environmental Protection Agency's plan to combat global warming through regulation of greenhouse gases would theoretically take over $700 trillion, seven times the world's gross production, to drop the earth's temperature only 1 degree Celsius. | |
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Poll Confirms America's Entitlement Culture...Even Among Tea Partiers
The anti-government "throw-the-bums-out" crowds have had their chance to speak out on how to curtail the deficit and what to do with those hated entitlements that are the antithesis of the America they pine for. A recent WSJ/NBC News poll provided a glimpse of just how dependent on big government entitlements Americans have become-even among the Tea Party. Not that this should be a surprise to anyone watching the slow shift of the American mindset from citizen, to consumer, to ward of the State over the past century.
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Dick Morris Reports: On To Wisconsin
In this video commentary, I explain my take on Governor Scott Walker, Wisconsin public employees, and education reform.
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Dick Morris Reports: Consumer Confidence Collapses
In this video commentary, I explain my take on the current state of the American economy.
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The bills listed below need to be introduced. Rep. Ron Miller is Chair of Republican House Labor Relations Committee and the House has a comfortable pro Taxpayer majority. Encouraging productive taxpayers, particularly small businesses, benefits all and, most of all, Philadelphia whose fiscal policies are strangling productive, private sector growth.
HB 51 Right to Work Employees will be NOT be forced to join a union to keep job as agovernment employee.
HB 52 Neither Government nor Government Entities are authorized to collect Union Dues Unions which are private and profitable organizations. At present The Forgotten Taxpayer pays to have the government collect dues fro for the unions from the unions' own members. This is unique; the government does not collect revenues for any other private organization.
HB 53 State Employees Won't be forced to pay for representation they don't want or need in order to keep their job. Repeals Public Employees Fair Share Act
The Bob
dr. bob and Guzzardi
[two minds, one voice]
-independent of any candidate, campaign or organization-
promoting Truth, Justice and the American Way.
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Reclaim rock for conservatism:
Sing "California Uber Alles" by the Dead Kennedys, especially the lines:
Zen fascists will control you
100% natural
You will jog for the master race
And always wear the happy face.
Then remark how spookily prescient it was that an obscure, left-ish, 1970s punk band managed to predict the eco-Nazi tyranny of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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 March 15, 2011
On Tuesday's Program
More uncertainty in Japan
Reports are all over the board when it comes to the status of the nuclear plant situation in Japan - ranging from low radiation has been released all the way to the rods have melted down. With a lack of consistent and credible information available, the media should be the voice of fact, reason and calm. What are they doing instead? MELTDOWN!!! Is America next? Glenn goes over the latest on what we know and don't know in Japan on radio today. Check out the segment at GlennBeck.com.
Who should we believe about the nuke crisis in Japan? Get the answers in Stu's latest blog.
Japanese people are setting the example
The Japanese people are doing an incredible job of maintaining order and calm during one of the worst natural disasters in recent memory. Stories keep pouring in about the kindness and generosity Japanese people are showing towards each other - like the man who grabbed the last 10 bottles of water at the store but put most of them back so others could have them. Americans are amazing in times of need as well, but let's be honest - have we ever had a disaster of this magnitude where there wasn't any looting? Amazingly, that's the case in Japan. Glenn has more on radio today.
SEE: Photos of Glenn's NYC home
Glenn sat down for an in-depth, personal conversation at his NYC home with 4 people who he finds extremely knowledgeable and fascinating. Check out Glenn's casual and unpredictable conversation with Steve Emerson, Damon Vickers, Dana Loesch and Brad Thor - tomorrow night at 7 pm ET only on Insider Extreme! Glenn talks about the special on radio today - get all the details HERE. Check out preview photos from the conversation HERE.
Bully fail: Bully picks on the wrong kid, gets body slammed - WATCH.
Is the President sedated?
President Obama's actions lately should raise caution flags, but obviously the press will not bother to ask him about any of it. The world is completely melting down around him - Japan is suffering and getting pummeled by more earthquakes, Libya is in violent chaos, Saudi Arabia is provoking Iran - and Obama steps to the mic and talks about celebrating women's history month? How could he do that with a straight face? Glenn goes over all the bizarre actions and gives his best theory as to why Obama doesn't seem to care about the global meltdown - even Bill Clinton says Obama's energy policy is horrible. Get that segment HERE.
Win a trip to NYC to meet Glenn: Complete the simple entry form by clicking HERE and you will officially be in the running to win a trip to NYC, watch an hour of the radio show live, 2 tickets to see Spider-Man on Broadway and more. Get the official rules HERE.
Frank Luntz
Pollster extraordinaire and bestselling author Frank Luntz joined the program today and they chat about his latest book: Win: The Key Principles to Take Your Business from Ordinary to Extraordinary . What are the eleven words/phrases that really work when you actually want to win the debate? Watch the segment from radio today HERE!
The 4th Hour: Why are Stu and Pat so incensed at oil company executives? Get the details and hear the worst song of all time on today's 4th Hour! Insider Extreme members can watch the full hour available on demand.
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This was originally posted as a comment on Japan Death Toll Climbs Astronomically As Nuclear Crisis Spreads. 
