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SEIU helps illegal aliens "game" our system: These thugs couldn't care less about America

Mar 16, 2011 06:13 am | Coach Collins

By Kevin "Coach" Collins

 The invasion of illegal aliens who are sneaking over our southern border every day places the very life of our nation in jeopardy. This onslaught of poor illiterates brings nothing we need or can't provide for ourselves, but they do bring an array of social problems we don't need. These people are a clear and present danger to all of us; so we need everyone to roll up his/her sleeves and get to work to stop this flood of problems. This is why the treachery from the anti America SEIU is so serious.

The Service Employee International Union (SEIU) has been carrying out an effective program to aid and abet the sneaky illegal aliens streaming into our country to steal the jobs of its own members.

On Monday the results of an audit, conducted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on a large Minnesota firm were leased and they caught the SEIU red handed. The ... Continue Reading:SEIU helps illegal aliens "game" our system: These thugs couldn't care less about America

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For March 17, 2011

1. Operation Gun Walker: An Act of War Against Mexico With One American Murdered Already

As the sun is rising this morning, it appears more and more that the Obama Administration committed an actual, factual act of war against Mexico through sheer incompetence that has left at least one American border patrol agent murdered.

. . . .

I'll be honest. Had this come from any one of a million different right wing websites, I would be deeply suspicious that there were key details missing in order to paint a picture of an out of control Obama Administration and Eric Holder.

What if I told you the source of this fantastical story is the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric?

2. The Strategy of Short-Term CR Opponents

Dear House Republicans and others. You keep saying that conservatives have "not strategy" on spending.

HERE IS OUR STRATEGY. And it is a heck of a lot better that yours!

3. The Perfect Purchaser

Jared Lee Loughner was Barack Obama's perfect gun purchaser -- right up until the moment when he started killing people.

Remember when, in 1968, we were told that, if felons and other undesirables were prohibited from having guns, gun crime would stop? Loughner was not a felon. He was, likewise, not an illegal alien, a deserter, or a fugitive from justice.

Remember when, in 1994, we were assured that, if gun purchasers were "checked out" against an FBI database, gun crime would stop? Loughner was checked out by the FBI; he passed.

Remember when, after Columbine, we were told that, if we cracked down on gun shows, gun crime would stop? That crackdown didn't pass. But Loughner didn't buy his gun at a gun show.

Remember when, after Virginia Tech, we were told that, if we sent the names of more of America's mentally disabled to the FBI's "secret list," gun crime would stop? Loughner's name wasn't on the FBI expanded list because he hadn't been "adjudicated as a mental defective" or "committed to a mental institution."

So, with every gun control "panacea" proven to be a lie, now comes Barack Obama, from the crime-free mecca of Chicago, proposing to negotiate with us about what further Second Amendment rights he can take away for no apparent use.

4. Congressional Republicans Begin Planting Hit Jobs on Conservatives

First the House GOP required Democrats to get their three week continuing resolution passed - a continuing resolution that cuts less money than the interest on our national debt that will accumulate over the next three weeks.

Then the House GOP started bad mouthing the conservatives who voted against their plan.

Now the House GOP is launching a direct assault on . . . wait for it . . . conservatives.

5. A Note to House Republicans Patting Themselves On the Back

I hope John Boehner, Eric Cantor, Kevin McCarthy, Jeb Hensarling, and the rest of the House Leadership and those Republicans who supported the 3 week continuing resolution "cutting" $6 billion realize this:

The daily amount of interest we will accrue on our national debt is greater than the $6 billion saved over three weeks. In other words, these cuts have done nothing to save us any money.

6. The Devastation of Market Distortion is Coming Home to Roost

Wholesale Food Prices Highest since 74?

Food Stamps Surge in West

These two headlines are quintessential examples of the perennial cycle of government intervention. They offer a vivid portrayal of how the Democrats perfidiously inflate the price of food so that the maximum number of people will be dependent upon their food programs, thus granting them a permanent electoral constituency.

7. Choosing Your Hill to Die On

Some folks know only one gear.

For some folks, their one gear can best be described as CHAAAAAARGE!! In politics, every single thing that any Republican does that displeases them in the least is grounds to threaten to NEVER DONATE TO OR VOTE FOR A REPUBLICAN AGAIN. Threatening total abandonment of politics (or voting third party, or for Democrats), is the only negotiating tactic these people know. Similarly, everything Obama and/or the Democrats do is the most shocking attack on capitalism and the Constitution that has ever been seen in the history of ever.

Another group of folks knows only the gear that we will call "Congress." Another word for this gear is "retreat." For these folks, there is always an excuse for capitulation, always a reason to bend to pragmatism, always a reason to not rock the boat. No matter what horrible thing the Republicans do, we dare not abandon them and be left to the Democrats. To these folks, we dare not risk provoking either a governmental shutdown or the teachers' unions, no matter the stakes, for fear of bad polling.

8. The Latest Escapade of Hastings the General Slayer

I bring you the news that Michael Hastings of Rolling Stone, the professional military gadfly and all-around speaker of truth to power, hit a new low yesterday. At a Congressional Progressive Caucus Peace and Security Task Force briefing, Hastings lit into General David Petraeus, accusing him of employing the "Charlie Sheen strategy."

9. The Importance of Saying Thank You

Below are the 54 Republicans who voted no. Call them at 202-224-3121 and make sure they know you appreciate their stand. Right now all they've heard are their colleagues bad mouthing them. We need to remember to say thank you for their willingness to stand for their principles.

03/16/2011 

Obama Dithers While American Credibility Burns

President Barack Obama invited ESPN into the White House yesterday so that The Worldwide Leader In Sports could tape his picks for the 2011 NCAA basketball tournament. The President picked all frontrunners. Good for him. Meanwhile, 5,000 miles away, a Libyan rebel defending the town of Ajdabiya from Muammar Qadhafi loyalists told The Washington Post: "These politicians are liars. They just talk and talk, but they do nothing." One hundred miles north, in the rebel stronghold of Benghazi, rebel spokeswoman Iman Bugaighis told The New York Times that Western nations had "lost any credibility." 

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Wednesday, March 16, 2011

To: Friends & Supporters
From: Gary L. Bauer


Iran On The Move

The U.S. media, as usual, are doing a terrible job informing the public about the "under the radar" war raging in the Middle East. While the U.S. under Obama's uncertain and hesitant leadership continues to retreat, Ahmadinejad's Iran is on offense. The implications for our future are ominous.

A few days ago, Israeli Defense Force commandos seized a cargo ship, the Victoria, on its way to Gaza. They found 50 tons of weapons in containers that were supposed to be filled with cotton and lentils. Included among the weapons were C-704 anti-ship missiles, which would have threatened the Israeli port of Ashkelon and an important oil rig. No one doubts that the weapons were meant for Hamas and that their origin was Iran. Persian language documents were found on the ship.

Meanwhile in Bahrain, Iranian agents appear to be behind the Shiite uprising in that nation -- an uprising so serious that the Saudis sent in troops to put it down. Bahrain is the major home port for our 5th Fleet. Iran's move is a direct challenge to the Saudi government, as well as to us.

President Obama might want to consider putting his golf clubs in the closet, putting down his NCAA basketball tournament bracket and actually trying to act like an American president.


Nuclear Panic

Press coverage of the serious problems at a number of Japanese nuclear facilities continues to be unscientific and hyperbolic. But the catastrophe in Japan has already happened. An estimated 10,000 people are dead, and water and power has been cut off in 1.5 million homes. Hundreds of thousands of people are living in shelters.

No one has died of radiation poisoning. The brave Japanese workers toiling to bring the plants under control may face long-term health risks. But as of now it appears they have been exposed to radiation equivalent to several x-rays.

News today that some Americans are rushing to buy iodine tablets to save themselves from a Japanese nuclear cloud drifting across the Pacific Ocean is just one result of the misinformation being spread by the media and left-wing anti-nuclear groups. The nuclear industry's safety track record is outstanding. The worst nuclear disaster, Chernobyl, was caused by a failed communist Soviet Union building a power plant without basic protections. Chernobyl was a communist problem, not a nuclear problem.

We do face the possibility of a nuclear disaster, however -- but not from Japanese nuclear plants. The Islamic jihadists who attacked us on 9/11 are doing everything they can to detonate a dirty nuclear bomb in Seattle, New York, Chicago, Washington, D.C., Paris, Berlin, Jerusalem or Tel Aviv.

If they succeed, the resulting deaths, injuries and economic meltdown will be a catastrophe of the first order. But big media and the political left, which are doing their best to scare us about Japan, seldom say a word about the real nuclear threat from Al Qaeda or Ahmadinejad's Iran.


Obama Still Stalling

You may recall that Virginia's Attorney General, Ken Cuccinelli, filed a challenge against the constitutionality of ObamaCare's individual mandate. In December, a federal judge in Richmond, Virginia, agreed with Cuccinelli and declared the individual mandate unconstitutional.

Other district courts have reached different conclusions. Given that ObamaCare will most likely be decided by the Supreme Court, Cuccinelli petitioned the high court to take up his case against the individual mandate now, rather than waiting for it to go through the tedious appeals process.

On Monday the Obama Administration filed a brief with the Supreme Court asking that it refuse to hear any requests for an expedited trial of ObamaCare. The administration has two reasons to drag out the legal fight for as long as possible.

First, the longer it can delay a final decision, the more time the bureaucracy will have to get the socialized medicine scheme put into place. Second, while he will never say this publicly, Obama also wants to delay a hearing in the hopes that a vacancy will open up among one of the five center-right Supreme Court justices.

Such an opportunity would allow Obama to appoint a third justice, who would likely become the fifth vote for a new liberal majority on the Supreme Court.


House Passes Another Stopgap Bill

Last night, the House of Representatives passed another short-term stopgap spending bill to keep the government functioning for the next three weeks. But this time the continuing resolution faced considerable opposition from House conservatives, 54 of whom voted against the bill because, in their view, it cut too little ($6 billion) and avoided tough decisions.

Among those leading the conservative opposition was Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN). Here is an excerpt of his remarks on the House floor:

"With a $14 trillion national debt and a $1.65 trillion deficit, our federal government is facing a fiscal crisis of unprecedented proportions. ...Is it reckless and irresponsible to ask for $61 billion in cuts when the national debt is 230 times that amount? ...It's time to take a stand for taxpayers and future generations. ...

"It will not be possible to put our fiscal house in order without a fight. By giving liberals in the Senate another three weeks of negotiations, we will only delay a confrontation that must come. I say, 'Let it come now. It's time to take a stand.' ...Nobody wants a government shutdown, but unless we take a stand, we will shut down the future for our children and grandchildren."

I commend Rep. Pence and other House conservatives for their principled stand. They are right to demand more spending restraint because it is immoral to burden our children with such crippling debt. It is immoral to bankrupt their future standard of living. Massive debt is a threat to economic growth and a threat to our national security.

Mike Pence is right. Still, I am not ready to cry "RINO." I don't think any House Republican wants to bail out on budget cuts. Instead, I think we are watching a disagreement on strategy.

As I have noted in the past, many polls suggest that the public is concerned about the debt, but that many Americans are also hesitant to embrace big cuts. No doubt many Republicans are looking at the fallout from Wisconsin, where Governor Scott Walker's approval rating has plunged. Ohio's John Kasich has seen his approval rating collapse to 40%.

Conservatives need to fight to accomplish as much as they can. Deciding how best to accomplish that is not an easy task. The reality in Washington is that conservatives cannot govern the country from the House alone. Harry Reid still controls the Senate, and Barack Obama can veto any bill that passes Congress.

A solid conservative here in Washington recently presented me with data showing that whenever cuts to Social Security were a major campaign issue in the past 50 years, Republicans always got clobbered in the election.

That's why Barack Obama and Harry Reid insist that there is no crisis with Social Security. That's true, for now. But without major changes, benefits will have to be cut nearly a quarter by 2037.

Whatever we do, we must do it in a way that doesn't alienate swing voters, get Obama reelected or cost us our majority in the House. That's why I want to repeat again that our main message heading into the 2012 campaign season should not be "Cut, cut, cut," but "Jobs, jobs and growth."


Draft Rubio?

The desire of many conservative activists to unite behind a dynamic and articulate leader has led some to launch an effort to draft freshman Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) into the 2012 presidential race. The effort got a boost when Rush Limbaugh offered his endorsement yesterday.

I understand why many conservatives like Rubio. He was one of the conservative candidates that CWF ran TV ads for last year. Not surprisingly, though, Rubio has resisted the calls to run -- he's only in the third month of his first term in Congress. But there is no question that he is a rising star on the right. To learn why, click here. 
  

Grassfire Nation Update

The House has approved the latest Continuing Resolution by a vote of 271-158, but as CNSNews.com reports, a surging number of Republicans -- fifty-four in all voted "NO" on a continuing resolution that permits the on-going funding of ObamaCare.

Though defeated, we are grateful that so many grassroots Americans made their voices heard yesterday through our fax and phone barrage to Capitol Hill!

There is no question lawmakers are now beginning to feel pressure from their constituents to defund of ObamaCare.

They know it is an issue that cannot be ignored...

And we certainly aren't letting it go.

+ + Emergency Petition Delivery To Defund ObamaCare

Next week Wednesday (March 23), will be the one-year anniversary of ObamaCare being signed into law.

Grassfire Nation plans on commemorating that fateful day by taking tens of thousands of petitions to key leaders in Congress as part of a massive show of grassroots support for the defunding of ObamaCare!

We want a 100 percent repeal of ObamaCare -- including the rescinding of $105,464,000,000 in funds already appropriated to the implementation of ObamaCare.

Of course your petition will be part of this event.

However, we are turning to key members of our team to help maximize this effort in the days leading to our March 23, event.

+ + Action Item -- Alert Your Friends

Edward, forward this message to 30-40 friends using email or your other social networking outlets -- urging them to take a stand against the unconstitutional, socialist healthcare scheme of President Obama.

Encourage them to join the debate in demanding that no Continuing Resolution be considered unless there is language to defund ObamaCare.

Have them click here to join with you

Grassroots Americans need to make a statement on March 23 that resonates throughout all of Congress!

Make no mistake, with the thousands of faxes and phone calls that poured into Congressional offices on Tuesday, the defunding of ObamaCare is on every lawmaker's radar...

Now it's time for Americans to turn up the heat!

Thank you in advance for taking action with us.

Grassfire Nation

P.S: Again, rally your friends and encourage them to stand in support of defunding ObamaCare in any future Continuing Resolution bill by clicking below and signing our petition:

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Obama Heads to Rio Sunday; Maximum Security Awaits

Mar. 14 2011 - 7:16 pm | 153,511 views | 0 recommendations | 51 comments

By KENNETH RAPOZA

The famous sidewalk along Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro. President Obama heads to Brazil on Saturday and will speak in public in Rio on Sunday.

President Barack Obama will take his first official trip to Brazil this weekend where he will speak in the popular Cinelandia Square in downtown Rio de Janeiro. Access, of course, will be tightly restricted and security measures so secretive that not even the Embassy or US Consulate in Rio know exactly how it's all going to go down. Obama's speech will be free and open to the public and take place around 15:00 local time (14:00 EST). Access to the square will begin at 11:30, and is sure to draw a crowd. Obama is popular in Brazil. One politician seeking office in Rio actually changed his name to Barack Obama in 2008 to solicit votes. He didn't win.

The Obama family will also take in the sights in Rio. A trip to Corcovado mountain, where the Christ the Redeemer statue stands (France gave us Lady Liberty, gave Brazil Jesus) is supposedly on the itinerary. What trip to Rio would be complete without it? If they do make it to the top of the mountain, they will do so with an entourage of secret service and Brazil's Elite Squad, known as BOPE.

The Foundation

"Every new regulation concerning commerce or revenue ... presents a new harvest to those who watch the change and can trace its consequences; a harvest reared not by themselves but by the toils and cares of the great body of their fellow citizens. This is a state of things in which it may be said with some truth that laws are made for the few not for the many." --James Madison

Editorial Exegesis

TVA reactor at Watts Bar in Tennessee

"After a once-in-300-years earthquake, the Japanese have been keeping cool amid the chaos, organizing an enormous relief and rescue operation, and generally earning the world's admiration. We wish we could say the same for the reaction in the U.S., where the troubles at Japan's nuclear reactors have produced an overreaction about the risks of modern life and technology. ... We have no special brief for nuclear power over any other energy source. Our view is that it should compete with other sources on a market basis, without subsidies or government loan guarantees. Every energy source has risks and economic externalities, whether they are noise and bird kills (wind), huge land requirements (solar), rig explosions and tanker spills (oil), or mining accidents (coal). But more than other energy sources, nuclear plants have had their costs increased by artificial political obstacles and delay. The U.S. hasn't built a new nuclear plant since 1979, after the Three Mile Island meltdown, even as older nuclear plants continue to provide 20% of the nation's electricity. The Tennessee Valley Authority is a couple of years away from completing a reactor at Watts Bar after years of effort. Proposals for 20 new reactors to be built over the next 15 to 20 years are in various stages of review in the multiyear approval process at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, with two each in Georgia and South Carolina at the front of the line. But the much-ballyhooed 'nuclear renaissance' is a long way off, and it will be longer after events in Japan. Our larger point is less about nuclear power than how we react as a society to inevitable disasters, both natural and man-made. Because a plane crashes, we don't stop flying. Because an oil rig explodes in the Gulf, we don't (or at least we shouldn't) stop drilling for oil. ... We should learn from the Japanese nuclear crisis, not let it feed a political panic over nuclear power in general." --The Wall Street Journal

 Insight

"Scientists can tell you just to the minute when something is going to happy 10 million miles away and none of them has ever been smart enough to tell you what day to put on your heavy underwear." --American humorist Will Rogers (1879-1935)

"Let therefore every man, that, appealing to his own heart, feels the least spark of virtue or freedom there, think that it is an honor which he owes himself, and a duty which he owes his country, to bear arms." --British colonial statesman Thomas Pownhall (1722-1805)

Upright

"Consider the Senate Democrats' most recent proposal for budget cuts to avert a government shutdown. Senate Republicans, following the House plan, proposed $61 billion in cuts for the current year, while Senate Democrats proposed a paltry $6.5 billion. (The Congressional Budget Office says it's actually only $4.7 billion.) Though Obama seems to be hiding in the bushes on this one, he is said to support the Democratic plan. Did you hear that: $6.5/$4.7 billion? This is nothing. It's an outrage. This from the clowns who say the Republican cuts, which themselves wouldn't be enough, are 'Draconian.' No, it's their attitude that is Draconian -- to the republic." --columnist David Limbaugh

"As Office of Management and Budget Director Jack Lew wrote in USA Today just a few weeks ago, the [Social Security] trust fund is solvent until 2037. Therefore, Social Security is now off the table in debt-reduction talks. This claim is a breathtaking fraud. The pretense is that a flush trust fund will pay retirees for the next 26 years. Lovely, except for one thing: The Social Security trust fund is a fiction. If you don't believe me, listen to the OMB's own explanation (in the Clinton administration budget for fiscal 2000 under then-Director Jack Lew, the very same). The OMB explained that these trust fund 'balances' are nothing more than a 'bookkeeping' device. 'They do not consist of real economic assets that can be drawn down in the future to fund benefits.' In other words, the Social Security trust fund contains -- nothing." --columnist Charles Krauthammer

"There's never been a better opportunity to rid public broadcasting of its dependence on public welfare to spread its left-wing bias and propaganda, if only the Republican leadership can screw up the courage to lead the way. Public broadcasting could have leavened the bias years ago and saved itself by easing up on the mockery and ridicule of the things most Americans hold dear. We can be glad it didn't; government radio is the norm in Pyongyang and Havana and Tehran, but never here. All things considered, the left and the liberals should pay for their own entertainment. The rest of us do." --Washington Times editor emeritus Wesley Pruden

"The outraged reaction to New York Rep. Peter King's hearings into the radicalization of the domestic Muslim community was so mindless it bordered on a collective self-lobotomy. The late conservative intellectual James Burnham once wrote that 'liberalism permits Western civilization to be reconciled to its dissolution.' If the congressional committee devoted to homeland security ... can't examine why some Muslims born and raised in the United States wage war on their own country, we might as well turn off the lights on our common culture." --National Review editor Rich Lowry

Dezinformatsia

Loving adoration: "Well what was interesting to me was, the way the President noted his personal connection to Japanese culture, having been raised in Hawaii, which has a heavy influence of, of Japanese culture, he's familiar with it. I think it affected him personally. And so, in terms of the, the humanitarian response of trying to help Japanese I think he has been as fast and, and correct as you could possibly be." --Washington Post's Eugene Robinson

Non Compos Mentis: "Was this [earthquake and tsunami in Japan] sort of a good opportunity for the president to remind everybody that he grew up in the United States and Hawaii?" --MSNBC's Chris Matthews with video of the tsunami playing in the background (Matthews also accidentally called Obama "President Carter" this week. Some slips are a bit too true.)

New civility: "Wisconsin's Governor Wins, but Is He Now Dead Man Walker?" --Time Magazine headline

Give us a break: "There is a reason that we are the only news organization, other than Fox, with a growing audience. It is because of our product which is straight-shooting, factual, and spends an enormous amount of money gathering news from all over the country and the world. Judge us by our product." --NPR's Nina Totenberg, who once wished AIDS on then-GOP Sen. Jesse Helms and his grandchildren in an apparent example of straight-shooting analysis

"Let's put aside Peter King's seemingly strange obsession with Islam and Islamists, or whatever you want to call it. I don't quite understand how when you put an -ist at the end of it, it changes the subject. But let's just say, putting that aside, should Muslims be looking more carefully at themselves? Is there something that law-abiding American Muslims should be doing ... to satisfy this call to action that Peter King has put out? ... My concern is the radicalization of people in all faith groups. I think we have to be very careful when we single out one group. Certainly, when are you in charge of Homeland Security, you are worried about terrorism. We're all worried about terrorism. But how are we going to end this stigma of 'Muslim equals terrorist'?" --CNN's Ali Velshi (Perhaps when Muslims decide to stop being terrorists?)

Newspulper Headlines:

He Always Wanted to Be a DJ: "Obama Attempts to Spin His Record" --HotAir.com

Reporters Shoo Away Obama -- Now That Would Be News: "Obama Shoos Away Reporters" --Politico.com

That's a Low Standard: "'Climate Change' Rings Truer Than 'Global Warming'" --USA Today website

Unless They Have Fronds in High Places: "Mexican Palm Trees Cannot Cross Border" --El Paso Times

Everything Seemingly Is Spinning Out of Control: "Cyndi Lauper Cheers Up Stranded Airline Passengers With Rendition of 'Girls Just Want to Have Fun'" --Daily News (New York)

Bottom Story of the Day: "Japan Earthquake Will Have No Impact on Ohio" --WTAM website (Cleveland)

(Thanks to The Wall Street Journal's James Taranto)

The Demo-gogues

Regulatory Commissars: "I am also struck by the fact that the tragic events now unfolding in Japan could very easily occur in the United States. What is happening in Japan right now shows that a severe accident at a nuclear power plant can happen here." --Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA), who draws all the wrong conclusions from Japan's tragedy

The BIG Lie: "Four million jobs will be created by the legislation when it is fully in effect. ... [T]his year, the biggest growth in jobs in our economy has been in health care jobs." --House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) (See the video and comment.)

Platform to nowhere: "Universal health care -- well, every industrial country on the planet already has a universal system of health care. ... [ObamaCare is] a platform. I don't think they flow smoothly but without that, if we didn't have this then health care, universal health care would be an even more difficult legislative objective." --Rep. John Conyers (D-MI)

Pontificating: "Let's not try to sneak political agendas into a budget debate." --Barack Obama

As if that's a bad thing: "The budget fight going on here is not really about budget cuts either. The conservative Republicans in the House are showing themselves to be Scott Walker Republicans." --Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY)

He obviously didn't watch the news: "It's been more than two months since the tragedy in Tucson stunned the nation. It was a moment when we came together as one people to mourn and to pray for those we lost. And in the attack's turbulent wake, Americans by and large rightly refrained from finger-pointing, assigning blame or playing politics with other people's pain." --Barack Obama in an op-ed on gun control for the Arizona Daily Star

Village Idiots

More BIG Lies: "Just 12 months after the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act became law, the American people are enjoying new protections, greater freedoms and lower costs." --Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius

Belly laugh of the week: "[Barack Obama] is a guy who does not look at politics in left, center, whatever. He really doesn't." --White House Chief of Staff Bill Daley

We'll see: "So why did the Dems wind up depressed after losing the House? The problem is a bad economy dampened turnout among key Democratic groups in a non-presidential year. But the enthusiasm will bounce back when Obama's on the ballot again." --Democrat strategist James Carville

With resignation: "The unauthorized disclosure of classified information is a serious crime under U.S. law. My recent comments regarding the conditions of the pre-trial detention of Private First Class Bradley Manning [who is accused of leaking to WikiLeaks] were intended to highlight the broader, even strategic impact of discreet actions undertaken by national security agencies every day and their impact on our global standing and leadership. The exercise of power in today's challenging times and relentless media environment must be prudent and consistent with our laws and values." --P.J. Crowley, former State Department spokesman, who resigned over dubbing pre-trial detention and confinement of Bradley Manning "ridiculous and counterproductive and stupid"

Short Cuts

"Where there are taxpayer-funded cowboy poets, there must surely be cowboy poetry festival administrators, and a Bureau of Cowboy Poetry Festival Licensing, and cowboy poetry festival administration grant-writers, and a Department of Cowboy Poetry Festival Administration Grant Application Processing, and professors of Cowboy Poetry Festival Educational Workshop Management at dozens of American colleges credentialing thousands of cowboy poetry festival workshop coordinating majors every year." --columnist Mark Steyn

"It's been a long time since college campuses have lived up to their reputation as venues dedicated to the free expression of unpopular ideas. At this point, the main difference between a college campus and a totalitarian state is that the former doesn't require the secret police in order to shut down dissent." --columnist Burt Prelutsky

"Due to the recession, there are now 15,000 fewer lawyers in the U.S. No one ever talks about the good things that come from a recession." --comedian Jay Leno

"The White House considered tapping the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to increase U.S. oil supplies and ease prices. It's a start. Until now, the only plan Democrats have had to increase the number of barrels of oil produced is to decrease the size of the barrels." --comedian Argus Hamilton

"Springfield, Illinois is STILL trying to get Obama to pay $55,457 he owes the city for security costs that his campaign ran up in 2008. Amazing. We've finally found something Obama doesn't want to spend money on." --former Senator Fred Thompson

HB 52, introduced in the last session, would end the state's role as collection agent for the union dues of state employees. In the future, the unions, private entities all,  would have to seek support from their members the way other private groups do -- through persuasion rather than coercion

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.

The Government's Police Power Collects Dues for Unions -  "nice like"

"You can get much further with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone." -   --  Al Capone  In the future, the Unions will have to collect dues with a kind word and sell union members on the value of their services instead of having the government as their collection agency. Is that a core function of government?

Only the government or a thief can take your money without your permission. And it is sometimes difficult to tell the difference.

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

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Dick Morris Reports: Congressman Peter King is Right 

In this video commentary, I explain my take on Representative Peter King's Muslim Hearings.

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Check out the discussion 'Solutions for America: The Entitlement Crisis'

Please read this report by Heritage Foundation. It will help you to understand the current shape we are in and why. DD

Discussion posted by Darla Dawald, National Director:

http://www.heritage.org/Research/Reports/2010/08/The-Entitlement-Crisis There is really nothing to add to this... Heritage has done... 

NO WAY OBAMA WINS IN 2012

TheHill.com | By DICK MORRIS | March 15, 2011 

The combination of high oil and gasoline prices, rising food costs, higher health insurance premiums and the likelihood of future inflation has jarred consumer confidence, creating a major crisis for the Obama administration.

The collapse has been sudden and dramatic. 

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Teachers Unions explained 

A supporter of the teachers unions is questioned about her belief that the unions need more money and power. 

Gun Control Advocates Now Express Strong Support for Second Amendment, While Calling for New Restrictions
(CNSNews.com) - President Obama, congressional Democrats and the nation's mayors appear to be working in tandem to "fix the nation's broken background check system." They also want to "close the loophole" that allows private sales of guns between individuals. In their latest comments on the subject, these gun control advocates are using similar arguments and language - including statements to the effect that they "strongly support the Second Amendment."

54 House Republicans Vote No on Continuing Resolution That Permits Funding of ObamaCare and Planned Parenthood
(CNSNews.com) - Fifty-four House Republicans voted against a second short-term continuing resolution (CR) to keep the government running. The CR permits funding for both ObamaCare and Planned Parenthood. Republican House leaders voted in favor of the measure, and so did Rep. Ted Poe (R-Texas), who was noncommittal in the days leading up to the vote.

Rep. LaTourette Says 'Sure,' He'll Vote for CR That Permits ObamaCare and Planned Parenthood Funding
(CNSNews.com) - Rep. Steven LaTourette (R-Ohio) said he will vote for the latest continuing resolution (CR) to keep the government running for another three weeks even though the bill continues to fund ObamaCare and Planned Parenthood. He said that amendments to cut ObamaCare should not be part of the CR process.

Herman Cain: 'It's Not Planned Parenthood -- No, It's Planned Genocide'
Washington (CNSNews.com) - Likely Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain supports ending all federal funding to Planned Parenthood, an abortion business that he said was founded to target African Americans and is continuing that mission.

Prospect of Gaddafi Victory Over Rebels Raises Concerns About Return to Terror, WMD
(CNSNews.com) - If Muammar Gaddafi's forces prevail in Libya, some analysts warn that an embittered regime may resume terror sponsorship and the pursuit of a non-conventional weapons capability, while stepping up human rights violations at home. As rebel-held towns have continued to fall, the Obama administration has been slow to act and Obama has let other nations lead. Yet a White House spokesman insisted Tuesday that the administration has "acted with the utmost urgency."

DOD and Petraeus: U.S. Planning Military Presence and Operations in Afghanistan Beyond 2014
(CNSNews.com) - Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Michele Flournoy and Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, told the Senate Armed Services Committee Tuesday that the Obama administration plans to maintain "joint" U.S.-Afghan military bases in Afghanistan after 2014 and it plans to conduct what Flournoy described as "joint counter-terrorism operations" with the Afghan military after that date.

Energy Secretary: I'm Not Going To Talk About Drilling In ANWR But There Are Other Sites
(CNSNews.com) - "I think continued oil exploration in the United States territorial waters, in the Arctic, everywhere, is part of the strategic plan so that we can maintain production levels," Energy Secretary Steven Chu told CNSNews.com.

OTHER HEADLINES:

Release of American CIA Contractor Prompts Clashes in Pakistan

Hillary Clinton Hails 'Power of Human Spirit' As She Tours Egypt's Tahrir Square

Jailed Pakistan Christian Dies in Prison

Palestinian President Offers to Visit Gaza; Won't Run for Re-Election

U.S. Tells Saudi Arabia Not to Impede Reform in Bahrain

Some Grocers Abandon Rebates for Reusable Bags

Rebuilding Northeast Japan to Take Years, Billions

Berlusconi: I'm Too Old for Too Much Sex

Sesame Street Actors Plead for Public Broadcasting Funding

Free Speech Is No Defense for Urging Suicide, Judge Rules

DEA Seizes Georgia's Supply of Drug Used in Executions

In Bahrain, Troops Launch Full Assault on Anti-Government Protesters

Japan Prepares to Restart Work at Damaged Nuclear Plant

President Obama Defends Nuclear Energy

Miami-Dade Voters, Angry About Tax Hikes, Oust GOP Mayor Carlos Alvarez

Democratic Lawmakers Hold Fundraiser for Giffords at Teamsters' Headquarters

New Consumer Bureau Too Powerful, Lacks Accountability, Republicans Tell Obama Official

NEWSPAPER ROUNDUP:

National Guard troops to leave southwestern border in June

2 California medical marijuana dispensaries raided by federal agents

Britain makes a push for responsible consumption of food and drink

Colorado's Douglas County school board unanimously OKs voucher plan

Libyan rebels fault U.S. inaction; 'Nice words can only go so far'

World events test 'No Drama Obama,' as he sticks to his own playbook

House committee moves again Wednesday to defund NPR

Cocaine found at NASA's Kennedy Space Center; Investigation launched

Trump: Like Him or Not, Saddam Didn't Put Up With Terrorists

Train station to be named after Joe Biden

Palm Beach County passes rules governing how pets are sold and cared for

Panel urges TSA to implement 'trusted travelers' program

Dems want two-thirds majority in both chambers to pass Social Security cuts

Politico: 'Some in GOP grow tired of right wing'

Sen. Marco Rubio building a national political brand

Republican leaders rely on Democrats to pass short-term spending bill

State Dept. still studying Canada-to-Texas pipeline; wants another enviro. study

Nationwide CPR event set to honor Gabrielle Giffords

Napolitano tells Denver conference the U.S. drills for disasters like Japan's

Palm Beach County drops plan to build 9-11 memorial; cost concerns

50 technicians may be Japan's last chance of preventing a catastrophe

Obama sending drones deep into Mexico to battle drug trade
 

COMMENTARY:

Why Congress Must Stop $105.5 Billion in Automatic Obamacare Spending
By Terence P. Jeffrey
Unless the Republican-controlled House can force President Obama to sign new legislation forbidding disbursal of $105.5 billion in automatic spending on Obamacare, the Obama administration will spend it to lay the basic foundations for a socialistic health care system in the United States. Every American who opposes a government takeover of our health care system should ask Boehner and Cantor: How exactly are you going to stop this $105.5 billion? Or are you going to let Obama spend it?

NPR's Ridiculous Denials
By L. Brent Bozell III
In the public policy conversation today, there is nothing funnier than hearing the leadership of National Public Radio deny that there's a liberal bias at play over there.
NPR also is in denial about how evolving technology has ruined its argument of news "scarcity." These are about the most insulated and arrogant elitists anywhere. No wonder George Soros likes them. Fine. Take his money. Do his bidding. Leave the taxpayer alone.

John Kerry's Recycled Government Slush Fund Recipe
By Michelle Malkin
On Tuesday, Sen. John Kerry introduced a $10 billion bill creating an infrastructure bank that would engineer yet another federal taxpayer boondoggle benefiting Big Labor and favored Big Business interests. Like spinning straw into gold, the Kerry coalition promises to leverage $10 billion in unidentified funds into $640 billion for crumbling roads and bridges. But beware -- the social justice "infrastructure bank" envisioned by progressives would be plundered to finance "green energy" and "other large-scale works" based on "social benefits" determined by a panel of cronies appointed by the president.

I Get a Kick from Bahrain
By Rich Galen

Unlike the overthrow of dictators in Tunisia and Egypt, and the attempted overthrow of a dictator in Libya, the unrest in Bahrain is sectarian: Shi'ite v Sunni. Although officials are loathe to say it, I have little doubt that Iran -- a Shi'ite country -- is, at a minimum, encouraging the unrest in Bahrain.

 

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Obama vs. NRA

Wayne LaPierre is refusing to meet with President Obama on gun control, saying the President should focus on 'bad people' instead of guns. "Why should I or the NRA go sit down with a group of people that have spent a lifetime trying to destroy the Second Amendment?" responded LaPierre. And it's a very good question. Is this the right tactic for the NRA to take? Glenn explains on radio today.

Rob Bell grilled by...MSNBC?

Controversial pastor Rob Bell is finally beginning to make the media rounds on his new book that allegedly claims there is no hell. MSNBC's Martin Bashir starts off with an easy question which Bell fails miserably to answer. Then Bashir gets going and actually grills Bell on his sugar coated 'Christian' message. You can watch the clip at The Blaze. 

Rev. Wright confirms everything said about him

In case you forgot - Rev. Wright is the man who Obama says taught him everything he knows about Jesus. Glenn was called crazy for pointing out that black liberation theology is Marxism and socialism. Don't look now - here comes Rev. Wright saying that Micah 'almost sounds like a Marxist' and a 'socialist' who sounds like a 'black liberation theologian' and that they are all fighting capitalism. Glenn plays the audio on radio and reacts. 

REPORT: Dept. of Education to monitor chatter, Facebook

The Daily Caller is reporting that DOE officials are threatening lawsuits against schools who fail to monitor student lunch and hallway conversations, along with what they are posting on Facebook. Officials are taking a new look at an old law and have interpreted it to be (shocker) much broader in scope than what is currently implemented. Read the full story HERE and get Glenn's reaction from radio today. 

Glenn takes on The View: The other day the lovely women of The View mocked Glenn's comments that people should turn back to faith and God. Get Glenn's reaction from radio today.