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CUT SPENDING NOW RALLY  

Cut Spending Now Event at the Capitol

We cannot continue to spend our way out of debt. We need to take the first step toward financial stability and Cut Spending Now. Hardworking taxpayers like you already feel the burden of "spend now, pay later" politics. It's time that spend-crazed politicians in Washington feel the pressure too.

Join us Wednesday, April 6^th in Washington, DC to tell the Budget Committee to Cut Spending Now. They need to hear from you as they crunch numbers and grapple with this year's budget. You've had to tighten your family budget in this struggling economy. They should have to tighten the national budget too.

Confirmed Speakers:

Michele Bachmann

*food will be provided

Will be joined by AFP President Tim Phillips at noon.

The cost is only $10 per person.

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The organization sponsoring Nonie Darwish's appearance is the student organization, Temple University Purpose.

Nonie Darwish

Nonie Darwish is the author of "Cruel and Unusual Punishment; the terrifying global implications of Islamic Law", a sociological analyses of the impact of Sharia Islamic Law lly. She also authored the book "Now They Call Me Infidel" which was published in 2006.

Nonie Darwish holds a Bachelors degree in Sociology and Anthropology from the American University in Cairo and was a journalist, editor and translator at the Middle East News Agency. She founded www.ArabsForIsrael.com in February of 2004 to promote understanding and peace between Israel and the Arab world. She is also committed to promote progress, democracy, women's rights and freedom in her culture of origin.

Nonie was born and raised as a Muslim in Cairo Egypt and the Gaza strip. Her father headed the Egyptian military intelligence in Gaza and the Sinai in the 50's when Gaza was under Egyptian control. He headed the Fedayeen, a guerrilla-style operation against Israel under the leadership of President Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt. He was killed as part of a targeted assassination by Israel in 1956 when Nonie was 8 years old.

Nonie lectures extensively on college campuses and internationally. She recently spoke before the European Parliament in Brussels, before members of the British House of Lords in London in 2007 and at the Oxford University Union in 2008. She has been published in major publications such as the Guardian and the Wall Street Journal. She has appeared on CNN, Fox, MSNBC, C-SPAN, the BBC, Al Arabiya TV and other major media outlets. She is featured in the documentary film "Obsession."

She is married and is a mother of three.

Sheepdogs presents: What is Sharia Law?

Guest Speaker: Pamela Geller, noted conservative blogger, editor of Atlas Shrugs and Author of 'The Post American Presidency' will be speaking on what is Sharia law and its threat to freedom and liberty in the U.S.

What is Sharia Law?

When: Saturday, May 14, 2010

11am to 1pm

Where: Avondale Presbyterian Church

420 Pennsylvania Ave. Avondale, Pa. 19311

$10.00 ticket paid via paypal or mailed to

207 Honey Locust Drive, Avondale, Pa. 19311

Questions? Feel free to call Linda Jamshidi at 267-688-3101

Monday, March 28, 2011

To: Friends & Supporters

From: Gary L. Bauer


President Obama To Speak Tonight

President Barack Obama will address the nation tonight from the National Defense University in Washington to explain his rationale for the "kinetic military action" in Libya. It will be interesting to hear him make the case now, more than a week after the missiles started flying. Back in 2007, then Candidate Obama insisted that the American people had a right to know "how we're going to shift our foreign policy."

On Meet the Press yesterday, David Gregory asked Secretary of Defense Robert Gates if Libya was in our "vital interest as a country." Gates responded: "No. I don't think it's a vital interest for the United States." At that point, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton jumped in and explained that we attacked Libya to appease France! Clinton said: "When it comes to Libya, we started hearing from the U.K., France, Italy, other of our NATO allies. This was in their vital national interest."

And where is Joe Biden? Remember, Vice President Biden was supposed to be Obama's "Cheney" -- the one who brought foreign policy gravitas to the Oval Office to make up for Obama's lack of experience. Why isn't Biden making the case for the war in Libya? Some pundits are speculating that Biden agrees with Gates and disagrees with Obama.

Presumably when he speaks tonight the president will defend the war as a humanitarian mission. But that begs the question, what are the standards for intervening? Why are we not bombing the Islamic regime that is slaughtering Christians and Muslims in Sudan or other thugs and tyrants in Africa and the Middle East? As Ted Koppel said on Meet The Press Sunday, "The question hasn't yet been answered as to why it is that Libya, of all the countries in that region, has won the humanitarian defense sweepstakes of 2011."

But one thing I'm sure we won't hear Obama talk about tonight is the identity of the "rebels" we are supporting. According to a report in the British media, a key rebel leader is Abdel-Hakim al-Hasidi. Hasidi left Libya to fight against "the foreign invasion" of Afghanistan in 2002. In other words, he left his homeland and joined Al Qaeda to wage jihad against U.S. forces. He later recruited other jihadists to fight against us in Iraq. Hasidi said that some of those Al Qaeda terrorists "today are on the front lines in Ajdabiya (Libya)."

The president of Chad, on Libya's southern border, is warning that Al Qaeda forces in Libya have pillaged Libyan military arsenals and seized major weapons, including surface-to-air missiles. And while Obama makes the case tonight for this intervention as a "humanitarian mission," Al Qaeda is promising to impose its version of Islam on the country once Qadhafi is gone. If that happens, all we will have accomplished is a tremendous humanitarian disaster, while helping the Islamists achieve their goal of a Middle East caliphate.


Media Matters Declares War On Fox

The George Soros funded outfit Media Matters has declared war on Fox News. Politico reported over the weekend that the left-wing group was changing its focus from "traditional media critic" to a new campaign of "guerrilla warfare and sabotage," according to Media Matters founder David Brock. Soros and Brock want to take down Fox because they view it as the "de facto leader of the GOP" and the "nerve center" of the conservative movement.

The Politico report should outrage anyone who believes in open debate. Media Matters is now digging for dirt "not only on Fox's top executives but on a series of midlevel officials." It has also retained a legal team to promote lawsuits by disgruntled employees and plans to harass advertisers on not just Glenn Beck's show but the entire network!

They have hired top operatives from MoveOn.org to organize shareholder campaigns aimed at disrupting Rupert Murdoch's other commercial interests worldwide. And, according to Politico, Media Matters is "looking for ways to turn regulators [government bureaucrats] in the U.S., U.K., and elsewhere against the network."

These people are political animals, who view everything through a warped ideological perspective. Now they are bringing the slash-and-burn politics of personal destruction -- just what they did to Sarah Palin, Michele Bachmann and other prominent conservative leaders -- to bear against unknown staffers at a news agency. There is some thought that the Media Matters effort could even be illegal.

Progressives claim "tolerance" is one of their cherished values. But the opposite is often true. Media Matters' "war" on Fox News demonstrates the left's intolerance and its impulse to silence dissent when it starts losing a debate. For decades conservatives have put up with media bias at ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC, MSNBC, etc. Yet when one news network doesn't toe the liberal line, the left goes into fits of rage and spares no expense to shut it down.


Fighting For Our Values

As members of Congress return to Washington this week, a top priority will be funding the government for the remainder of the fiscal year. The current continuing resolution runs out April 8th. It is time for our elected representatives to get serious about the budget and to set priorities for how your hard-earned tax dollars are spent.

I'm pleased to report that my non-profit organization, American Values, has teamed up with the Susan B. Anthony List and Catholic Advocate to run a TV ad in Washington, D.C., exposing Planned Parenthood's obsession with abortion. The ad features Abby Johnson, a former Planned Parenthood clinic director, who was pressured to perform more abortions at her clinic. You can view the ad here.

We are also fighting other important battles, including efforts to redefine marriage. Please don't forget to tune in to Dr. Dobson's Family Talk radio show today and tomorrow. I am a guest on the show along with my good friends Tony Perkins, Dr. Ken Hutcherson, Pastor Jim Garlow and Bishop Harry Jackson.

You can find station listings for Family Talk in your area here. Click this link to listen online.


Winning Muslim Hearts And Minds At DOJ

For a President who lectures his fellow citizens on the importance of math and science education, Barack Obama's defense of a math teacher who abandoned her students to take a vacation seems inexplicable. But as I write in my Human Events column today, the more one learns about the case of Safoorah Khan, the clearer it becomes that, under Obama, the scales of justice may have been tipped in favor of the Muslim community. You can read my column at www.humanevents.com.

 

Creating Palestine on the slit throat of a 3-month-old Jewish baby?

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Full transcript of Pres. Obama's address on Libya

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March 28, 2011


 Judge's sharia law ruling makes the Drudge Report

Last chance for you to sign our Citizen Appeal to Congress!
 
On March 18^th, we broke the story of a Florida judge who ruled that Islamic law must be followed in a dispute between current and former trustees of a mosque. This in spite of the fact that the current mosque trustees do not want to be compelled to follow sharia law.

A few days later the St. Petersburg Times picked up the story (see below), and then the Drudge Report, which gets 22 million hits a day, carried the story on its front page!

Members of Congress keep their fingers on the pulse of America, and they know that America is waking up to the threat of sharia law. One of the planks in our ten-point appeal to Congress specifically deals with the issue of sharia law.

If you haven't yet signed this Citizen Appeal, please sign today, because now is your last chance to do so. This week we will close out this appeal and deliver the results to congressional leaders.

Please don't think for a minute your voice doesn't matter-it does!

Judge orders use of Islamic law in Tampa lawsuit over mosque leadership
 By William R. Levesque, Times Staff Writer
Tuesday, March 22, 2011 

  

The Coming, and Why the Left Doesn't Understand Iran

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It's Official: The Obama Administration Will Do Zero to Criticize or Undermine the Syrian Dictatorship

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By Ted Belman

When I was growing up in Canada in the fifties, I knew that there were certain subdivisions or neighborhoods where Jews couldn't buy houses.  I am sure the same went for the US.

Fortunately that is no longer the case.

When PM Menachim Begin was in conference with Pres Jimmy Carter, Carter pressed him not to build the settlements. Begin responded that there were many cities and towns in the US named after biblical places in Judea and Samaria, like Bethlehem and Shilo. He said to Carter that he, Carter, would never prevent Jews from living in such American cities and yet he was asking Begin to prevent Jews from living in the towns they were named after in the Jewish homeland..

Currently the PA is demanding that Palestine be Judenrein.  This would involve the deportation of Jews from their communities in Judea and Samaria. Unfortunately the whole world, lead by the US, is supporting its demands.

Worse still, most Jewish Americans support this.

I find this to be outrageous. So I asked Matthew Hausman, a US attorney to write a major article shinning light on this major injustice and gross act of discrimation.

I invite you to read The West supports a Judenrein Palestine.

 Ted Belman
Jerusalem, Israel
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RedState Morning Briefing

For March 29, 2011

1. Obama's Not Just Bombing Libya: The Main Course Speech That Felt More Like an Appetizer

You might have heard that President Obama (finally) gave a speech about the shelling of Libya he ordered well over a week ago. Or, you might not have; he's been trying pretty hard to keep our involvement in it out of the public eye, despite the US having the leading role in every phase of this "kinetic military action" except (1) decision-making, and (2) actually talking publicly about what the heck it is that we're doing there.

The speech can be boiled down into five basic phrases, four of which carry qualifiers:

(1) It's the U.S.'s role to intervene anywhere that there are atrocities or persecution going on, unless there's a vital national interest there and/or they have the ability to shoot back at us in any meaningful form whatsoever;

(2) Our goal is not to depose Qaddafi, whatever I may have said yesterday, last week, etc., except when it is our goal, which is whenever it isn't not our goal to do so;

(3) This will not be like the Iraq kinetic military action, because that one wasn't referred to by such a clever, lawyerly phrase, and because that "regime change...took 8 years" [Note: This supposed history savant is only off by about 7 years and 11 months on that figure], except that regime change isn't our goal (see #2 above);

(4) The U.S. will prevail in Libya, except that we won't be the ones doing it - NATO will - and, to ensure that this is true, we're going to refrain from consistently communicating any goals whatsoever for our mission there, even as we send pilots (and, not at all unlikely, specialized ground forces) into harm's way in pursuit of some nebulous objective which, again, we're not going to bother telling you about; and,

(5) To quote Jim Geraghty, "Look, I realize none of you understand my decision making, but at the end of the day, you can rest easy knowing I'm right."

2. Regime Change for Sissies

Now let me be clear?-?I suffer no illusions about Saddam Hussein. He is a brutal man. A ruthless man. A man who butchers his own people to secure his own power. He has repeatedly defied UN resolutions, thwarted UN inspection teams, developed chemical and biological weapons, and coveted nuclear capacity.

He's a bad guy. The world, and the Iraqi people, would be better off without him.

But I also know that Saddam poses no imminent and direct threat to the United States. . . .

Barack Obama in 2002.

This was perhaps the most vapid and shallow Presidential speech on a military engagement since . . . well . . . I don't know when.

The President said we were against regime change in Libya, but made clear that regime change is the goal. He wants to be engaged without being engaged. He says we are passing the whole operation off to NATO as if we'll suddenly become only involved in an ancillary capacity. This left Ambassador John Bolton to exclaim on Fox News that Barack Obama may be the only man in the whole world who does not know that we, the United States, run NATO.

The President failed in any way, shape, or form to show how our national interests are at stake. Likewise, in his explanation of why we are in LIbya, the explanation fits Yemen, Syria, and Iran.

As Joe Scarborough asked on twitter, are Libyan lives more valuable than those of Syria, Yemen, or Iran?

3. The Stupid Party Prepares to Get Down Right Dumb

While we've all been focused on the Administration's schizophrenia over Libya, there is another political battle being fought in the halls of Congress over the budget.

The starting point for this is this report from Emily Miller at Human Events. The key take away is that "the Senate Republicans are preparing to tell President Obama that they want a Balanced Budget Amendment (BBA) to the Constitution passed in Congress in exchange for raising the statuary debt ceiling above $14.2 trillion."

We can now turn to my friend Dan Mitchell who explains exactly how stupid this GOP strategy is. The GOP, in exchange for increasing the debt ceiling, is not saying "give us the BBA or no debt ceiling increase." The GOP is instead saying "give us a vote on it."

Well, as Dan further points out, the GOP already got a vote on the BBA on March 2nd and it failed. So, the GOP is saying, "Let us lose another vote on the BBA in exchange for a debt ceiling increase or else." Or else what?

This is stupid for a variety of reasons.

4. More Libya Muddling from the White House (and from President Obama)

The "handover to NATO" bit that Obama has been promising for the last week hasn't completely happened yet (though in fairness, it hasn't just been NATO; they're just the only ones who've actually agreed to hold a portion of this hot potato that Obama has been trying like crazy to pass off ever since the American T-LAMs started flying from the Med into Libya), as American aircraft flew well over half of this past weekend's sorties against Qaddafi's military and air defense installations.

Further, contra what General Ham said a week ago today (which I'm sure was the best translation he could accomplish of the ridiculously mixed signals coming out of the nation's center of power at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, as well as from President Obama), not only is the US not backing off its operational tempo over Libya, but, according to reports, including this one from the AP, those weekend sorties included offensive missions flown by A-10s and AC-130s.

5. The Left Riots Because It Works Like Perdition

Leftists riot against austerity budgets for the same reasons Radical Islamists attempt terrorist attacks against American targets. They both lost any semblance of rational argument against the conditions they face in the modern world. Furthermore, the Greek Austerity riots, like the 9-11 Attacks, worked like Perdition. When in doubt, you call the last play that scored you a touchdown.

6. California Moving to Strip Secret Ballots from Farm Workers, Fine Employers

With the hallucinogenically-named Employee Free Choice Act "basically dead" for now, union bosses are still finding ways to try to fill their coffers with new members any way they can. At the state level, since agricultural workers are excluded from the National Labor Relations Act, the United Farm Workers is using the farm worker exemption to its advantage-and counting on newly-elected Democrat Governor Jerry Brown to help it.

On Sunday, while small marches took place around California commemorating Cesar Chavez Day, the United Farm Workers (the union that the late Cesar Chavez co-founded and led) issued a press release announcing their ongoing push for California SB 104, the "Fair Treatment for Farm Workers Act."

7. No More Extensions of Unemployment Benefits

Amidst record long-term unemployment, Democrats are trying to extend unemployment welfare yet again. Will Republicans continue to obediently follow them in accelerating more creeping socialism? Or will last December serve as the Republicans' final act to perpetuate unemployment welfare?

Beware the doomsday TARP coalition of Republicans. Conservatives must be ever vigilant of those Republicans who are willing to vote for an entitlement program one last time with the alleged purpose of precluding an economic apocalypse.

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The Big Business of Education Part 1  Penn State 41,000 Full-Time/Part-Time Employees  Penn State 

The Student Faculty Ratio at Tax Payer Subsidized Penn State  is about 44,000 faculty to 97,000 students. As subsidized tuition has increased, productivity has decreased, that is, what are students learning?

The Big Business of Education Part 2 Penn State Salary Freeze - The Forgotten Taxpayer Subsidizes Big Business Education Leviathan 

The new Penn State pay freeze announced Friday (March 25, 2011)  will save about $31¹ million in the university's general funds, university spokeswoman Lisa Powers reported Friday afternoon.

The Penn State web site is very informative and clearly simple to navigate.

Here is a list of  Penn State 41, 144 Full and Part Time employees of the $4 Billion (to be exact The Pennsylvania State University 2010-11 Operating Budget   $4,016,443,000 ) Dollar Private Profitable Nonprofit Penn State. The Forgotten Taxpayer's Forced Payment is proposed by the Governor for 2011-12 is expected to  be $165.1 Million (over and above student tuition indirect subsidies ) or 3.8% of Penn State's total budget. If Penn State could find 4.1 % savings, then The Forgotten Taxpayer would be free. And perhaps other state funded private universities could follow that model.

It is unclear why The Forgotten Taxpayer is paying $4.3 BILLION DOLLAR BIG BUSINESS anything, particularly, when The Forgotten Taxpayer is subsidizing Student Loans for Inflated Tuition¹ (8 minutes Neil McCluskey CATO Education Freedom). 

For some comparison Mean and Median Salaries of Full-Time Employees As of September 30, 2009  This is for a nine month year. The hourly rate is not calculated.

¹ Taken together, the new pay freeze and the one imposed in the 2009-2010 budget year will have saved the university roughly $61 million by July 2012, Powers noted. She confirmed the new freeze will last one year. Penn State will revisit the issue when it considers the university budget for 2012-2013, Powers added. She also confirmed that employees covered under already-negotiated collective-bargaining agreements, as well as those with other contractually mandated pay increases, will not be affected by the freeze.

²  As Commonwealth Foundation's  Elizabeth Stelle has pointed out, Penn State has been hiring administrators like nobody's business.  According to a report by the Goldwater Institute, the university's administrative staff per 100 students grew by 71 percent between 1993 and 2007.  That number happens to be 9 points higher than the number of Penn State students who earn a degree in four years (62 percent).  Penn State's own statement on the cuts even says that the university has 96,000 students and 47,000 faculty and staff, one employee for about every two students.  Does that sound to you like an institution that has no fat to trim before raising tuition?

Big Business of Education Part 3; Harvard, Degree v. Licensed Plumber  You Can Make More as a Plumber  Big Business of Higher Education Misrepresents Its Economic Benefit  

Harvard ? You Can Make More as a Plumber (TaxProf blog)

Harvard and a 4-Year Degree, You Can Make More as a Plumber in the Long Run, Says Prof. Kotlikoff:

                            or Licensed Plumber    

A new study from Princeton University [Estimating the Return to College Selectivity over the Career Using Administrative Earning Data] shows that expensive college degrees are not necessarily worth the lofty price tags in the long run when you take into account one's natural ability. Laurence Kotlikoff, professor of economics at Boston University agrees that an expensive education just isn't worth it. ...

He has found that more often than not, people can have a better lifetime standard of living by choosing NOT to get an advanced degree. And, he says that people can be better off financially by not obtaining an undergraduate degree at all.

Professor Kotlikoff makes his case by comparing the livelihoods of plumbers and doctors.  Yes, doctors have a bigger salary.  But, doctors have to endure nearly a decade of expensive education before making any real salary, after which the doctor is hit by a very high progressive tax rate.  Because of all the costs the doctor incurs, the taxes and the lost wages, he says, "plumbers make more, and have almost the same spending power over their lifetime as general practitioners."

The Big Business of  Education Part 4  Taxpayers Subsidizing Millioniaresses 

Tax Payer Subsidized UPenn's UberLiberal Democratic Millionairess Amy Gutmann, President of the Taxpayer Subsidized¹ University of Pennsylvanialectures us on Civility:  Can We Talk? A Conversation about Civility and Democracy in America Saturday at the Tax Payer Subsidized National Constitution Center.

Why, exactly, are our legislators forcing Tax Payers to subsidize UberLiberal Democratic Millionairesses with Tax Pay Money?

The Daily Pennsylvanian has some enlightening information on Tax Payer Subsidized Billion Dollar Profitable Nonprofit UPenn's Business and Finances

Amy Gutmann 41% Pay Increase (Daily Pennsylvanian June 19, 2008) Salary jump makes her one of highest-paid univ. presidents

Amy Gutmann Sees 4% pay raise (Daily Pennsylvania June 10, 2010)

For Example  Taxpayer Subsidized UPenn is Pennsylvania's Second Largest Employer

Taxpayer Subsidized UPenn's Endowment: $5,600,000,000 $5.6 BILLION (November 15, 2009)  [an endowment can be compared to a private corporation's capital or equity - the interest on $5.6 billion could pay for a lot of tuitions but it doesn't. It pays Millionaires and Millionairesses.)

Penn's endowment grew 9.6 percent in Fiscal Year 2010 (Daily Pennsylvanian September 23, 2010)

Footnote 1

Wade Rathke's Startling Admission: 'Economic Terrorism' Engineer Stephen Lerner Is Still on SEIU Payroll

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Grassfire Nation Update
If You Signed Up to Send an Obamacare Waiver

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Brief · March 28, 2011

The Foundation

"When right, I shall often be thought wrong by those whose positions will not command a view of the whole ground." --Thomas Jefferson

For the Record

Some call this economic opportunity

"Economic lunacy abounds, and often the most learned, including Nobel Laureates, are its primary victims. The most recent example of economic lunacy is found in a Huffington Post article titled 'The Silver Lining of Japan's Quake' written by Nathan Gardels, editor of New Perspectives Quarterly.... Mr. Gardels says, 'No one ... would minimize the grief, suffering and disruption caused by Japan's massive earthquake and tsunami. But if one can look past the devastation, there is a silver lining. The need to rebuild a large swath of Japan will create huge opportunities for domestic economic growth, particularly in energy-efficient technologies, while also stimulating global demand and hastening the integration of East Asia. ... By taking Japan's mature economy down a notch, Mother Nature has accomplished what fiscal policy and the central bank could not.' ... It's not just disasters in Japan. After Florida's devastating 2004 hurricane, newspapers carried headlines such as 'Storms create lucrative times.' and 'Economic growth from hurricanes could outweigh costs.' ... Why might Japan's and Florida's devastation be seen as 'pluses'? French economist Frederic Bastiat (1801-1850) explained it in his pamphlet 'What is Seen and What is Not Seen,' saying, 'There is only one difference between a bad economist and a good one: the bad economist confines himself to the visible effect; the good economist takes into account both the effect that can be seen and those effects that must be foreseen.' ... Do a simple smell test on these examples of economic lunacy. Would the Japanese economy face even greater opportunities for economic growth had the earthquake and tsunami also struck Tokyo, Hiroshima, Yokohama and other major cities? Would the 9-11 terrorists have done us an even bigger economic favor had they destroyed buildings in other cities? The belief that society benefits from destruction is lunacy." --economist Walter E. Williams

Government

"Gas is well over $4 a gallon in most places in California -- and soaring elsewhere as well. But are such high energy prices good or bad? That should be a stupid question. Yet it is not when the Obama administration has stopped new domestic offshore oil exploration in many American waters, curbed oil leases in the West, and keeps oil-rich areas of Alaska exempt from drilling. ... Consider the logic of the president's Orwellian declaration: The United States in the last two years has restricted oil exploration of the sort Brazil is now rushing to embrace. We have run up more than $4 trillion in consecutive budget deficits during the Obama administration and are near federal insolvency. Therefore, the United States should be happy to borrow more money to purchase the sort of 'new stable sources of energy' from Brazil's offshore wells that we most certainly will not develop off our own coasts. It seems as if paying lots more for electricity and gas, in European fashion, was originally part of the president's new green agenda." --columnist Victor Davis Hanson

Re: The Left

"I cannot for the life of me see how an American president can launch a serious military action without a full and formal national address in which he explains to the American people why he is doing what he is doing, why it is right, and why it is very much in the national interest. He referred to his aims in parts of speeches and appearances when he was in South America, but now he's home. More is needed, more is warranted, and more is deserved. He has to sit at that big desk and explain his thinking, put forward the facts as he sees them, and try to garner public support. He has to make a case for his own actions. It's what presidents do! And this is particularly important now, because there are reasons to fear the current involvement will either escalate and produce a lengthy conflict or collapse and produce humiliation. Without a formal and extended statement, the air of weirdness, uncertainty and confusion that surrounds this endeavor will only deepen. ... America has been though a difficult 10 years, and the burden of proof on the need for U.S. action would be with those who supported intervention. Chief among them, of course, is the president, who made the decision as commander in chief. He needs to sit down and tell the American people how this thing can possibly turn out well. He needs to tell them why it isn't mad." --columnist Peggy Noonan

Liberty

"[P]rognostication is a skill few journalists, politicians, diplomats, and intelligence officials have demonstrated consistently over time. So while it's clear that the Muslim world is in the throes of a major transformation, let's not pretend we know how this story ends. It's possible we're seeing an Arab spring, a democratic awakening -- uprisings that will bring freedom to societies that have known only oppression. But it's equally possible that one form of oppression will simply replace another. ... It's comforting to believe there is a 'right side to history.' But if history demonstrates anything it is that history has no preferences. History includes wars and interludes of peace, dark ages and enlightenments, cities rising and cities razed. Sometimes history marches from one age to the next. More often, it stumbles. Though the future cannot be predicted, its course may be altered. ... The lessons here are not hard to grasp yet few journalists, politicians, diplomats and intelligence officials seem to have grasped them." --Cliff May, President of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies

The Gipper

"Our party must be based on the kind of leadership that grows and takes its strength from the people. Any organization is in actuality only the lengthened shadow of its members. A political party is a mechanical structure created to further a cause. The cause, not the mechanism, brings and holds the members together. And our cause must be to rediscover, reassert and reapply America's spiritual heritage to our national affairs. Then with God's help we shall indeed be as a city upon a hill with the eyes of all people upon us." --Ronald Reagan

Opinion in Brief

"It's no secret how the KGB was actively involved in bankrolling and furthering the radical student and hippie movements of the 1960s in hopes that stinky, stoned hippies and violent America-hating radicals like Bill Ayers, Bernadine Dohrn and dupes in the Weathermen, Students for a Democratic Society and others would topple America or cause it great harm. Why do you think they call it dope? Just a few years after the 1960s hippies largely became extinct, a man named Ronald Reagan brought the Soviet Union to its knees, proving that communism, socialism and anti-Americans like Mr. Ayers and Ms. Dohrn were no match for the strongest force ever developed by man: capitalism. Excellence has its rewards -- never forget that. Tragically, American colleges remain infested with leftover liberals who spout socialist and communist idiocy from their insulated, ivory towers. However, the majority of Americans find liberalism to be a bankrupt, brain-dead political ideology that destroys instead of builds and creates dependence instead of independence. Real rebellion is cool so long as the rebels replace the current system with something better, such as that which the American Revolution achieved." --columnist Ted Nugent

Faith & Family

"Last year, you'll recall that we created an iPhone app for the Manhattan Declaration. The app would allow users to read, sign, and share the Manhattan Declaration and its defense of human life, traditional marriage, and religious freedom. Apple said the app was 'free from objectionable material.' But when a group that supports so-called 'gay marriage' protested that the Declaration promoted 'hate' and 'homophobia' and was 'anti-gay,' (which it wasn't), Apple removed the app from its iPhone store. ... Now they have another: Exodus International, a Christian ministry that aims to free people from homosexuality. Apple has now removed the Exodus International app from its app store. ... Some may say that losing an iPhone app for Exodus International isn't that big a deal... But it's not just about apps. It's about freedom of speech, the ability to participate in the marketplace of ideas. The gay-rights groups have shown their fangs. Victory in the courts or in the legislatures is not enough for them. They want to silence, yes, destroy those who don't agree with their agenda. So they target Christian groups and corporate America to do just that. The writing is on the wall, folks. For the sake of religious liberty and free speech, we must not remain silent. Not on this issue, or on any issue that would threaten free speech and freedom of religion." --author Chuck Colson

Culture

"Newsweek magazine recently announced its disgust after it offered the government's official citizenship test (the one we require immigrants to pass before being naturalized) to 1,000 Americans. Thirty-eight percent of the sample failed. ... Sixty-five percent couldn't figure out that the Constitution was penned and adopted at the Constitutional Convention; 63 couldn't identify how many justices were on the Supreme Court (nine); and 73 percent couldn't identify that communism was what we opposed in the Cold War. Current national leaders aren't so well known: 29 percent could not identify the current vice president (Joe Biden) and twice that percentage didn't identify the Speaker of the House (John Boehner). ... Some public schools have used the citizenship test as a social-studies project in civic knowledge. A daring principal could make passage of the citizenship test a high-school graduation requirement. Promoting better civic and historical knowledge is an important cause. But this leads to a follow-up question for Newsweek and its media colleagues: Do journalists see building civic knowledge as an important part of their job?" --columnist L. Brent Bozell 

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Senate update 3/28/2011; Dems Ready To 'Buck The White House' On EPA?; McConnell on Libya

I hope you have seen our blockbuster national television ad, Chinese Professor, which aired in October and November, 2010 and is airing again right now on CNN, FOX News Channel, CNBC, and on a number of other cable and select broadcast channels nationwide.

This ad, which is set in 2030 and uses English subtitles as a Chinese professor tells his students about the collapse of America as a superpower, has been hailed by numerous news outlets and pundits as "striking," "amazing," and "the most powerful of the cycle."

If you want to help telegraph loud and clear the dangers of our nation's mounting $14 trillion-plus debt and send a resounding message that you are fed up with Washington's runaway deficit spending, then I urge you to make a contribution to CAGW todayto help us keep this highly acclaimed "Chinese Professor" ad on the air.

EDWARD, let me tell you why your contribution to support this ad is so critical right now.

The forecasts about America's rising indebtedness are becoming ever more dire.  The national debt, which more than doubled over the last decade, is projected to double again over the next 10 years.  Total U.S. Government debt exceeded 90 percent of gross domestic product last year, a level at which economic "growth deteriorates markedly," according to an analysis by Harvard economist Kenneth Rogoff and University of Maryland economist Carmen Reinhart.

The $438 billion interest payment on our debt is currently the government's fourth largest expense behind Medicare/Medicaid spending, Social Security, and the Department of Defense.  The Government Accountability Office predicts interest on the national debt will be the single largest item in the federal budget in the next decade.

What's particularly alarming about that interest payment is that unlike other federal spending programs, it siphons money out of our domestic economy, sending much of it to foreign investors who hold 46 percent of our publicly held debt.  The top four foreign holders of U.S. debt are China, Japan, Britain, and the oil-producing OPEC nations.
 
As former Senator George Voinovich (R-Ohio) said, "Borrowing hundreds of billions of dollars from China and OPEC puts not only our future economy, but also our national security, at risk."
 
In short, America is headed for a financial train wreck.
 
 That's why I urge you to make a contribution today to help us keep broadcasting the "Chinese Professor" ad's warning that we must get Washington's runaway, deficit spending under control.
 
EDWARD, we now know that the demand sent by taxpayers in last year's elections for immediate and deep spending cuts will alone not be enough to save this country from bankruptcy.

Despite all the talk of fiscal restraint, President Obama recently released a budget that forecasts the fourth straight year of trillion-dollar-plus deficits in fiscal year 2012.  The federal deficit in February of this year alone was larger than the entire deficit in 2007!

With the budget battles raging in Washington right now, we must keep up and even increase the pressure for an end to wasteful, big-government spending, and CAGW's "Chinese Professor" ad is a vital part of that effort.

As the Internet publication American Thinker stated, our ad shows "how bad economic policies in Washington can change the balance of power in the world to the benefit of foreign rivals... the CAGW ad helps set the stage for changes on both [the federal and trade] deficit fronts."

We want to air this ad so widely that every American household will see it before the end of this year.  What's more, it's critical that we keep airing "Chinese Professor" in the weeks ahead as fiscal conservatives in Congress work to cut spending in the fiscal year 2011 budget, and in the months ahead as Congress begins debate on the budget for 2012.

I urge you, before you do anything else today, to make a contribution of $25.00,  $35.00,  $50.00,  $100.00, or more to help us keep airing our ad to remind Americans in the most stunning way possible of the consequences of continuing on our nation's current path of deficit spending and spiraling debt.
  
 EDWARD, I used to say that failing to slash Washington's wasteful, deficit spending would undermine economic prosperity for our children and grandchildren.  But with our national debt already exceeding 90 percent of gross domestic product, a level at which economic "growth deteriorates markedly," you and I face the very real prospect of a deteriorating standard of living right now.

Please make a contribution to support this national advertising and public awareness campaign.  As our "Chinese Professor" ad says, "You can change the future.  You have to."

 Sincerely,

Thomas A. Schatz
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P.S.  EDWARD, we must keep reminding the American people what is at stake if we do not slash Washington's orgy of deficit spending.  As Admiral Mike Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has stated:  Not al-Qaeda, not suicide bombers, and not the war in Afghanistan, but the "national debt is our biggest national security threat."  CAGW's nationally acclaimed "Chinese Professor" ad can not only rally millions of Americans against wasteful, big government, it can also play a pivotal role in winning significant spending cuts.  Please make your largest possible contribution of  $25.00, $35.00, $50.00,  $100.00, or more today to help us keep it on the air.

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English First Applauds Sen. Inhofe, Rep. King on Bill Introduction
"English Language Unity Act" will encourage common language

Senator Jim Inhofe (R-OK) and Representative Steve King (R-IA) recently reintroduced the "English Language Unity Act," which would make English the official language of the United States.

With the help of activism by members of English First, Rep. King's bill (H.R. 997) was introduced with 60 original cosponsors. 

"A common language is the most powerful unifying force known throughout history," Rep. King said. "We need to encourage assimilation of all legal immigrants in each generation. A nation divided by language cannot pull together as effectively as a people."

Sen. Inhofe commented that his legislation, S. 503, "Will provide much-needed commonality among United States citizens, regardless of heritage. As a nation built by immigrants, it is important that we share one vision and one official language."

This legislation will require the federal government to perform official duties in English, and includes an English language rule for naturalization.  It also stipulates that "All citizens should be able to read and understand generally the English language text of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the laws of the United States made in pursuance of the Constitution" and that "All naturalization ceremonies shall be conducted in English."

The goal of this legislation is supported by an overwhelming majority of Americans (eighty-four percent, according to a recent Rasmussen poll).  In a country in which some 300 languages are spoken, government policies that seek to appease non-English speakers not only create a burden on taxpayers but also serve to prevent legal immigrants from enjoying the benefits of full assimilation into American life.

In making English the official language of government, the Inhofe/King legislation is an important step to unifying a nation of immigrants with a common language.

English First commends the efforts of Sen. Inhofe and Rep. King for once again pushing language that will serve as a unifying factor in America.

Sincerely,
Frank McGlynn
Executive Director

English First has been carrying the torch for the English Language for 25 years. Over 150,000 concerned Americans have joined English First. If you are not a member please consider joining with us at www.englishfirst.org

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FOR THE WEEK OF March 28, 2011 

• Lee and Chaffetz Stand Strong against Utah Guest Worker Amnesty Bill
• Congressman Flake Flip-Flops on Amnesty
• Homeland Security Launches E-Verify Self-Check
• Congressman Hunter Introduces Key Immigration Bills

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The Senate's EPA Showdown

Democrats face a moment of truth on regulatory cap and trade.

The Wall Street Journal | MARCH 28, 2011 

The Environmental Protection Agency debate lands in the Senate this week, amid the makings of a left-right coalition to mitigate the agency's abuses. Few other votes this year could do more to help the private economy-but only if enough Democrats are willing to buck the White House.

This moment arrived unexpectedly, with Majority Leader Harry Reid opening a small business bill to amendments. Republican leader Mitch McConnell promptly introduced a rider to strip the EPA of the carbon regulation authority that the Obama Administration has given itself. Two weeks ago, Mr. Reid pulled the bill from the floor once it became clear Mr. McConnell might have the 13 Democrats he needs to clear 60.

The votes are now due as soon as tomorrow, and Mr. Reid is trying to attract 41 Democrats with a rival amendment from Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus. The Baucus plan is a political veneer that would exempt some farms and businesses from the EPA maw but at the cost of endorsing everything else. The question for Democrats is whether their loyalties to President Obama and EPA chief Lisa Jackson trump the larger economic good, not to mention constituents already facing far higher energy costs.

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My eyes ain't lyin' 

 March 28, 2011

Bombing people to save them is not new to recent American history. Years ago, it was said that a village in Vietnam had to be destroyed to save it.

Now Obama leads us in a noble kinetic military exercise to kill Libyans to save them; to bomb Gadhafi Libyans to save al-Qaida Libyans. How humanitarian. Yet how tragically limited.

What about the brave Islamic jihadis dying at the hands of the dictators' goons in the streets of Yemen and Syria and Bahrain? Don't we owe them bomb strikes and a no-fly zone, too? Why only Libya?

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Montage of key sport moments of the last century.

ESPN 1999 

Montage of key sport moments of the last century

Socialists know it's far easier to control a small herd of large buffalo than to control thousands of cats.  The solution? Force small businesses under! 

This small business owner makes that point, using facts and figures.

Why Does Obama Hate Small Business?

BigGovernment.com | by Wayne Allyn Root

I've started more than a dozen small businesses. For one, over $20 million was invested by me and investors who believed in me. I've paid payrolls, health insurance, payroll taxes, workers comp, and unemployment insurance for hundreds of employees.

Because of that, my employees were able to pay their mortgages, buy groceries, send their kids to college, and provide for their families. For this same small business, I spent about $50 million dollars on things like advertising, marketing, promotion, lawyers and accountants. That money enriched and employed thousands of others. And, that's just one small business. Think of the impact that thirty million small business owners have on the U.S. economy. No wonder we create 70% or more of America's new jobs. Small businessmen and women are a far more powerful economic force than Exxon, Microsoft, GE, or Wal-Mart.

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March 28, 2011

Exclusive: Will Congress (at last, officially) solve the mystery of 'the third terrorist' in Oklahoma City?

WES VERNON, RA ANALYST - The chairman of the House Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations may soon hold new hearings on the credible allegations that a third man -- this one from the Middle East -- collaborated with Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing... (more)

March 27, 2011

Obama's war on 'war'

WASHINGTON TIMES - What if they gave a war and nobody was allowed to say it? The debate over military action in Libya has lately taken an absurd twist, driven by the Obama administration's bizarre unwillingness to call a war a war. Everyone knows what is going on in Libya is a war, but the administration has placed a moratorium on plain English... (more)

March 27, 2011

Defense Secretary: Libya did not pose threat to U.S.

ABC NEWS - Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said that Libya did not pose a threat to the United States before the U.S. began its military campaign against the North African country. On "This Week," ABC News' Senior White House Correspondent Jake Tapper asked Gates, "Do you think Libya posed an actual or imminent threat to the United States?"... (more)

March 27, 2011

Bachmann steals the show in Iowa

POLITICO - Michele Bachmann served up red meat to the crowd at the Iowa conservative principles conference Saturday, slamming President Barack Obama as a Jimmy Carter retread, dissing the Mitch Daniels "truce" call for social issues, and saying she wants a "waiver" from the last two years of White House leadership... (more)

March 26, 2011

Rush: Trump's birth certificate outcry is service to everyone

NEWSMAX - Rush Limbaugh entered the renewed fray over President Barack Obama's birth certificate by declaring that Donald Trump's continued public outcry over the documentation is "a valuable service," not only to the public but also to Obama personally... (more)

March 26, 2011

Amnesty by degrees: The in-state tuition fraud

TOM TANCREDO - The Colorado General Assembly is debating a bill to allow illegal alien students to attend the state's colleges and universities by paying regular in-state tuition. Such proposals are not only a fraud on the taxpayer, they are a fraud on the students as well... (more)

March 25, 2011

Clash for America's soul

ROBERT KNIGHT - Underneath headlines about Libya, the Japanese disaster and the Republicans' dainty attempts to nip around the edges of our massive federal debt, the culture war is raging. The left is lobbing nukes into the institution of marriage and the military. Obamacare is going forward, complete with funding for abortion and massive increases in the size of the already enormous Department of Health and Human Services... (more)

March 25, 2011

Trump won't back off demand for Obama's birth papers

NEWSMAX - Donald Trump is not backing down from his demand that President Barack Obama produce his birth certificate and stepped up his criticism by questioning why he has not released other personal records, including college transcripts and legislative papers... (more)
 

 Trump: Obama must release birth certificate

 Glenn Beck's TheBlaze: Trump says "show birth certificate"

March 25, 2011

Obama's 'birth hospital' hides White House letter

WORLDNETDAILY - Obama's alleged birth hospital has locked in a storage vault a letter President Obama purportedly wrote to the hospital on Jan. 24, 2009, declaring it his birthplace... (more)

March 25, 2011

The Weiner waiver wormhole

MICHELLE MALKIN - New York Democratic Rep. Anthony Weiner toasted the one-year anniversary of Obamacare this week -- and accidentally spilled his champagne glass all over the disastrous, one-size-fits-all mandate. Ostensibly one of the federal health care law's staunchest defenders, Weiner exposed its ultimate folly by pushing for a special cost-saving regulatory exemption for New York City... (more)

March 25, 2011

Liberals: they blinded us with science

ANN COULTER - In response to my column last week about hormesis -- the theory that some radiation can be beneficial to humans -- liberals reacted with their usual open-minded examination of the facts. According to Noel Sheppard at Newsbusters, MSNBC's Ed Schultz devoted an entire segment to denouncing me... (more)

March 25, 2011

ACLU: 'Communism is the goal'

J. MATT BARBER - Irony is defined as "the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning." The term doublespeak means "evasive, ambiguous language that is intended to deceive or confuse." There is perhaps no greater example of ironic doublespeak than inclusion of the phrase "civil liberties" within the inapt designation: "American Civil Liberties Union"... (more)

March 25, 2011

How killing Libyans became a moral imperative

PAT BUCHANAN - "Who would be free themselves must strike the blow." So wrote the poet Byron, who would himself die just days after landing in Greece to join the war for independence from the Turks. But in that time, Americans followed the dictum of Washington, Adams and Jefferson: Stay out of foreign wars... (more)

March 25, 2011

Obama and Libya: The professor's war

CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER - President Obama is proud of how he put together the Libyan operation. A model of international cooperation. All the necessary paperwork. Arab League backing. A Security Council resolution. (Everything but a resolution from the Congress of the United States, a minor inconvenience for a citizen of the world.) It's war as designed by an Ivy League professor... (more)

March 25, 2011

BULB Act will restore incandescent light bulbs

SEN. MIKE ENZI - How many federal bureaucrats does it take to screw in a light bulb? None if that bulb is a traditional incandescent bulb. That's because back in 2007 my colleagues passed a law that effectively bans traditional incandescent light bulbs starting in 2012... (more)

March 24, 2011

Ron Paul: Department of Education wants to 'indoctrinate' children

POLITICO - Ron Paul warned a group of home schooling advocates on Wednesday that officials at the Department of Education are trying to "indoctrinate" their children. "They don't educate our kids, they indoctrinate our kids," the Texas congressman said of federal education efforts. "It's a propaganda machine"... (more)

March 24, 2011

NRA eyes record rally for gun rights

NEWSMAX - The National Rifle Association is expecting a record turnout at its annual members' meeting in Pittsburgh next month, the result, organizers say, of a growing national backlash against government intrusion into Second Amendment rights... (more)

March 24, 2011

Tea party movement growing weary of GOP budget plan

FOX NEWS - As U.S. lawmakers seek a compromise on how much federal spending to cut in order to avoid a government shutdown, Tea Party activists who helped propel Republicans back into power are growing impatient with the debate... (more)

March 24, 2011

Is it America's duty to intervene wherever regime change is needed?

GEORGE WILL - The missile strikes that inaugurated America's latest attempt at regime change were launched 29 days before the 50th anniversary of another such - the Bay of Pigs of April 17, 1961. Then the hubris of American planners was proportional to their ignorance of everything relevant, from Cuban sentiment to Cuba's geography... (more)

March 24, 2011

Oklahoma City Bombing -- the return of 'the third terrorist'

But will he get away again?

WES VERNON, RA ANALYST - So it's really no big deal when a guy is arrested for slugging another guy with a beer bottle, right? In this case, wrong! Police in Quincy, Massachusetts (a part of the Boston metro area), earlier this month jailed a beer bottle brawler who turns out to be a credibly accused terrorist... (more)

Today's Headlines:  Monday, March 28, 2011

Syrian President Assad Regarded As a 'Reformer,' Clinton Says
(CNSNews.com)  - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Sunday said U.S. lawmakers who have visited Damascus recently regard Syrian President Bashir Assad as a "reformer." She made the startling comment while explaining why the United States will not intervene on behalf of Syrian civilians revolting against the regime as it has done in the case of Libya.

Libya 'Not a Vital National Interest to the United States,' Defense Secretary Gates Says (CNSNews.com) - Libya "was not a vital national interest to the United States, but it was an interest," Defense Secretary Robert Gates told ABC's "This Week." Secretary of State Hillary Clinton painted a slaughter scenario as justification for President Obama initiating hostilities in Libya, something he did with United Nations authorization but not congressional authorization. 

Candidate Obama in 2007: Americans 'Have a Right to Know' Before Government Takes Military Action (CNSNews.com) - Barack Obama, as a presidential candidate in 2007, says the American people have a right to know about and participate in the debate over U.S. foreign policy decisions and whether the nation uses military force. "But the fact of the matter is that when we don't talk to the American people - we're debating the most important foreign policy issues that we face, and the American people have a right to know," Obama said at the AFL-CIO debate on Aug. 7, 2007. 

Crisis in Libya Too Urgent to Wait for Congress, White House Says Washington (CNSNews.com) - The U.S. intervention into the Libyan civil war is constitutional, even without congressional authorization, a White House spokesman said Friday. Further, had President Barack Obama waited for Congress to return from recess, more Libyans would have been murdered by the regime of Libyan dictator Col. Moammar Gadhafi, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney told reporters.

Santorum: Truman Should Have Sought Authority from Congress Before Korean War (CNSNews.com) - Does the president of the United States have the constitutional power to send the U.S. military into action overseas on the authority of a United Nations Security Council resolution while lacking authorization from the U.S. Congress? Former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.), a potential presidential candidate, told CNSNews.com in January he believes President Harry Truman was wrong to commit U.S forces to a war in Korea without first seeking authorization from Congress. 

U.S. Concerns Growing over Hezbollah and Hamas Activities In Crime-Ridden Latin American Region (CNSNews.com) - U.S. concerns have escalated in recent years over Hezbollah and Hamas' fundraising activities in a key area of South America known as a corridor for arms and drug trafficking, according to a report by the Congressional Research Service. Nevertheless, the February 2011 report pointed out that "there was no corroborated information that these or other Islamic extremist groups had an operational presence" in the "tri-border area" of Paraguay, Brazil and Argentina] or elsewhere in the hemisphere."

Mothers of Children Who Died in Mexico Take Their Fight to Prevent Other Deaths to Capitol Hill (CNSNews.com) - A bill introduced in the House aims to protect Americans traveling abroad by providing them with information regarding health and safety conditions at destinations advertised on the Internet. "The International Travelers Bill of Rights Act will ensure that Americans booking travel online are provided the latest in health and safety information so they understand not just the rewards of a foreign visit, but also the possible risks," Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), the bill's author, said in the statement.

Lance Armstrong: 'The Brightest People' Would 'Accelerate' Federal Spending on Health Research
(CNSNews.com) - Professional cyclist Lance Armstrong said the "brightest people" in America would argue that we need to accelerate spending on cancer research. He opposes House Republicans' proposed 5.2% cut to the NIH budget.

OTHER HEADLINES:

NATO Commander: Mission Is to Protect Civilians
Time Short in Budget Showdown; Republicans Accuse Dems of Foot-Dragging
Eyewitness: Gunfire, Tear Gas in Syrian City
Medicare Rise Could Mean No Social Security COLA
GOP Appears Poised to Take on Entitlements
Consumer Spending Rose 0.7 Percent in February
Obama to Address the Nation on the Need for U.S. Military Action in Libya
Turkey Will Run Benghazi Airport, Prime Minister Says
Libyan Rebels Close In on Gadhafi Hometown
New Website Lets Employers Solicit Health Insurance Directly >From Doctors or Hospitals
Doctors Warn of 'Facebook Depression'
More Radioactive Water Spills at Japan Nuclear Plant
I-95 Cameras Snap Speeders, Spark Controversy
Anarchists Said to Be a Threat to British Royal Wedding
Prince William Outfoxes Press with Secret Bachelor Bash
Blast at Yemen Explosives Factory Kills 78  

NEWSPAPER ROUNDUP:

Judd Gregg op-ed: Step up, take charge and lead the nation, Mr. President
N.H.. residents grill congressman about Libyan air strikes, gas prices
Fox's Chris Wallace blasts White House for refusing to make Clinton, Gates available
John Bolton: President Barack Obama not interested in foreign policy
Health benefits for retirees approach $1 billion for Harvard U.
Alcohol detection devices could be option on new cars
Boston school lottery, designed for fairness, causes divisions
Burt's Bees founder hopes to create new national park
Syrian rebels don't want U.S. aid, at least for now
Health insurers plan to fight Calif. coverage mandates
National Border Patrol Council: Napolitano giving false sense of security
Poverty often a temporary state, U.S. census study finds

COMMENTARY:

Obama Blows a Call
 By Rich Galen
I have no idea how all the turmoil in the Middle East and North Africa is going to end up. My fear is, we will have expended another couple of hundreds of billions of dollars and people who don't like us will be in charge and we'll be paying $5.50 for a gallon of regular by September. I don't have any better suggestions as to what course we should be following than Co-President Hillary Clinton has already decided upon, but I'm pretty sure the first airplane dropping the first bomb would have been from an Islamic nation, not France.

Obama's Justice Department finds a conscience clause for "their people" Muslims, of course

Mar 28, 2011 06:13 am | Coach Collins

By Kevin "Coach" Collins

In May 2009 when Nurse Catherina Cenzon-DeCarlo was forced to participate in committing a late term abortion in a New York City hospital she did so because she was directly threatened with firing if she did not comply. Ms. Cenzon-DeCarlo was threatened with the loss of her job and her license if she did not put aside her deeply held religious objections to abortions.

She was told the abortion was an emergency although the hospital's records show otherwise. What is clear is that in a hospital full of nurses the administration felt it had to make its point by forcing this particular Christian nurse to knuckle under.

 At the time Nurse Cenzon-DeCarlo was forced to yield to the hospital's lust for death, federal law protected her. She was legally and morally victimized, but now has to sue to get the hospital to stop harassing her. The federal protections extended to those who refuse to commit ... Continue Reading:Obama's Justice Department finds a conscience clause for "their people" Muslims, of course

AP's 'Fact Check' Hammers Obama's Speech

The Blaze | by Jonathon M. Seidl | March 29, 2011 

WASHINGTON (AP) - There may be less than meets the eye to President Barack Obama's statements Monday night that NATO is taking over from the U.S. in Libya and that U.S. action is limited to defending people under attack there by Moammar Gadhafi's forces.

In transferring command and control to NATO, the U.S. is turning the reins over to an organization dominated by the U.S., both militarily and politically. In essence, the U.S. runs the show that is taking over running the show.

And the rapid advance of rebels in recent days strongly suggests they are not merely benefiting from military aid in a defensive crouch, but rather using the multinational force in some fashion - coordinated or not - to advance an offensive.

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'The Coming is Near': New Eerie Iran Propaganda Vid Trumpets Imminent Return of 12th Imam

The Blaze | by Jonathon M. Seidl | March 28, 2011

"New evidence has emerged that the Iranian government sees the current unrest in the Middle East as a signal that the Mahdi-or Islamic messiah-is about to appear."

So begins an ominous report by CBN's Erick Stakelbeck detailing a propaganda video reportedly "approved at the highest levels of the Iranian government." That video explains "all the signs are moving into place - and that Iran will soon help usher in the end times."

Regular Beck viewers may know the Mahdi by another name, the twelfth imam - a term not lost to Stakelbeck, who writes thattThe new video "describes current events in the Middle East as a prelude to the arrival of the mythical twelfth Imam or Mahdi - the messiah figure who Islamic scriptures say will lead the armies of Islam to victory over all non-Muslims in the last days."

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DIVORCE AGREEMENT

THIS IS SO INCREDIBLY WELL PUT AND I CAN HARDLY BELIEVE IT'S BY A YOUNG PERSON, A STUDENT!!! WHATEVER HE RUNS FOR, I'LL VOTE FOR HIM. OUTSTANDING.

Dear American liberals, leftists, social progressives, socialists,Marxists and Obama supporters, et al:

We have stuck together since the late 1950's, but the whole of this latest election process has made me realize that I want a divorce. I know we tolerated each other for many years for the sake of future generations, but sadly, this relationship has run its course. Our two ideological sides of America cannot and will not ever agree on what is right so let's just end it on friendly terms. We can smile and chalk it up to irreconcilable differences and go our own way.

Here is a model separation agreement:

Our two groups can equitably divide up the country by landmass each taking a portion. That will be the difficult part, but I am sure our two sides can come to a friendly agreement. After that, it should be relatively easy! Our respective representatives can effortlessly divide other assets since both sides have such distinct and disparate tastes.

We don't like redistributive taxes so you can keep them. You are welcome to the liberal judges and the ACLU. Since you hate guns and war, we'll take our firearms, the cops, the NRA and the military. You can keep Oprah, Michael Moore and Rosie O'Donnell (You are, however, responsible for findind a bio-diesel vehicle big enough to move all three of them).

We'll keep the capitalism, greedy corporations, pharmaceutical companies, Wal-Mart and Wall Street. You can have your beloved homeless, homeboys, hippies and illegal aliens. We'll keep the hot Alaskan hockey moms, greedy CEO's and rednecks. We'll keep the Bibles and give you NBC and Hollywood.

You can make nice with Iran and Palestine and we'll retain the right to invade and hammer places that threaten us. You can have the peaceniks and war protesters. When our allies or our way of life are under assault, we'll help provide them security.

We'll keep our Judeo-Christian values.. You are welcome to Islam, Scientology, Humanism and Shirley McClain. You can also have the U.N.. but we will no longer be paying the bill.

We'll keep the SUVs, pickup trucks and oversized luxury cars. You can take every Subaru station wagon you can find. You can give everyone healthcare if you can find any practicing doctors.

We'll continue to believe healthcare is a luxury and not a right. We'll keep The Battle Hymn of the Republic and the National Anthem. I'm sure you'll be happy to substitute Imagine, I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing, Kum Ba Ya or We Are the World.

We'll practice trickledown economics and you can give trickle up poverty your best shot. Since it often so offends you, we'll keep our history, our name and our flag.

Would you agree to this? If so, please pass it along to other likeminded liberal and conservative patriots and if you do not agree, just hit delete. In the spirit of friendly parting, I'll bet you ANWAR which one of us will need whose help in 15 years.

Sincerely,

John J. Wall

Law Student and an American

P.S. Also, please take Barbara Streisand & Jane Fonda with you.

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Media Matters' Planned War Against FOX

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Check out the discussion 'London Protests Turn Violent'

No surprise that the London Union protest turned violent. Tell us, do you see this happening here when Congress starts seriously cutting the budget?

Discussion posted by Admin II, Dee:

The Unions staged a massive protest in London because of government spending cuts and it turned violent with the help of anarchists.  If yo...

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London Protests Turn Violent

Tell a joke:

Q: What do you get if you cross a crooked politician with a crooked lawyer?

A: Barack Obama.

 March 28, 2011 

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'The Coming is Near': New eerie Iran propaganda video trumpets imminent return of 12th Imam - get the video at The Blaze.

501(c)(3)? Media Matters to 'sabotage' Fox News

Typically tax exempt 'charitable' 501(c)(3) contributes some sort of good to benefit society. Media Matters (a group created by Hillary Clinton) on the other hand curiously doesn't fit the description of a typical 501(c)(3). MMFA CEO David Brock says they will now engage in 'guerrilla warfare and sabotage' against Fox. Sounds less like charity and more like political thuggery. Why are they still tax exempt? Glenn has more on radio today. The Washington Examiner also questions MMFA's 501(c)(3) status HERE.

Is MMFA funder Soros a scam victim? Get the story HERE.