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On April 27th Senator Pat Toomey will help us cut through the left's hysterical rhetoric on the debt ceiling, be sure to save the date. The facts are clear, and the Obama administration is wrong. America will not default because the federal government would have more than enough revenue coming in to pay the interest on our nation's debt. Join us to get the facts before Members of Congress rush through any more "emergency" measures that come at the expense of our children and grandchildren. Senator Toomey will be joined by J.D. Foster of The Heritage Foundation for what is sure to be an informative evening. Let us know to expect you by submitting your RSVP via our event page on Facebook, or through the heritageaction.comevent page.

Please RSVP through only one site only so we can keep an accurate count. This event starts promptly at 7:00pm and will take place at the Fort Washington Holiday Inn.

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Cutting through the Debt Hysteria with Senator Pat Toomey

Wednesday, April 27 Ft. Washington, PA

Senator Pat Toomey will help us cut through the left's hysterical rhetoric on the debt ceiling. The facts are clear; The Obama administration is wrong. America will not default because the federal government would have more than enough revenue coming in to pay the interest on our nation's debt.

Join us to get the facts before. Members of Congress rush through any more "emergency" measures that come at the expense of our children and grandchildren.

In addition to Senator Toomy, guests will include Rick Hellberg (Congressional candidate in 2010 in Philly), J.D. Foster from the Heritage Foundation.

This event is a joint project of The Kitchen Table Patriots, Heritage Action for America, Lehigh Valley Project 9-12 Tea Party Group, Thomas Jefferson Club, 9/12 Patriots of Lower Bucks County and The Loyal Opposition

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                                                              Noted Climate Change Expert Steve Goreham to Visit Bucks County

                                                                            Steve Goreham to Discuss Climate Change and Renewable Energy

          Doylestown, PA:   Steve Goreham, Executive Director of the Climate Science Coalition of America, and noted author and speaker comes to Bucks County to discuss some of the common myths about  climate change and renewable energy.  "The governments of the world have adopted Climatism and discarded reality. Acres of solar cells sit idle at night and on cloudy days. Thousands of 300-foot-high wind towers interrupt the vistas of coastline, field, and hill, standing motionless for two-thirds of their existence.  Billions of dollars in government subsidies are spent each year to fund solar, wind, and biofuel industries, which could not compete and would not exist without these subsidies. Yet, these renewable sources supply only a pitifully small amount of the world's energy needs.", says Goreham.  

                   When:  Thursday, April 28^th,  2011,  7:00pm to 9:00pm

Who:    Steve Goreham, Author, "Climatism", from the Climate Science Coalition of America

Where:  Doylestown Moose Lodge, Oscar Martin Room

              127 East State Street, Doylestown, PA 18901

What:  Author's presentation and book-signing, hosted by The Kitchen Table Patriots

 About Steve Goreham:  Executive Director of the Climate Science Coalition of America, a non-political association of scientists, engineers, and energy experts dedicated to educating Americans about realistic climate science.  Goreham , is an engineer,  an author, researcher, and speaker on the topic of climate change.  He holds a M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois and an MBA from the University of Chicago. 

About the The Kitchen Table Patriots: Started in early 2009, the Kitchen Table Patriots is a non-profit,  grassroots conservative organization that educates, informs and mobilizes on the issues critical to our nation's economy, prosperity and security.   The Kitchen Table Patriots hosts educational forums, candidate forums, rallies, training for grass-roots lobbying, and get-out-the-vote activities.  Website: www.thekitchentablepatriots.org

Palestinians Torture and Kill International Solidarity Movement Activist

 International Solidarity Movement activist Vittorio Arrigoni tortured and executed by Palestinians
by Bill Levinson

Palestinians go beyond murdering enemy civilians such as the Fogel family, whose children were knifed to death in their beds by a Palestinian terrorist. They cannot even restrain themselves from kidnapping, torturing, and murdering foreign nationals who are trying to help their cause.

Vittorio Arrigoni was seized by Salafist radicals, an Islamist movement itself that considers Hamas as too moderate, BBC Gaza correspondent Jon Donnison says. ...In a video posted on YouTube, Mr Arrigoni appeared to have been beaten and his eyes were covered with thick black tape. A caption on the video read: "The Italian hostage entered our land only to spread corruption." The video called Italy "the infidel state".

It is to be remembered that the International Solidarity Movement knowingly, willfully, and recklessly endangered the life of peace...

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Who Makes U.S. Policy? UN, Arab League, international community of U.S. Government

By Barry Rubin, Rubin Report

This interview with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton deserves close analysis for a reason that neither I nor anyone else noticed before.

"QUESTION: But, I mean, how can be worse than what has happened in Syria over the years, where Bashar Asad's father killed 25,000 people at a lick? I mean, they open fire with live ammunition on these civilians. Why is that different from Libya?

"SECRETARY CLINTON: Well, I -

"QUESTION: This is a friend of Iran, an enemy of Israel.

"SECRETARY CLINTON: Well, if there were a coalition of the international community, if there were the passage of Security Council resolution, if there were a call by the Arab League, if there was a condemnation that was universal - but that is not going to happen, because I don't think that it's yet clear what will occur, what will unfold."

On one hand, what Clinton says is quite logical. It doesn't make sense for...

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Syria: Who Is the Opposition and When Is The Moment of Truth?

By Barry Rubin, Rubin Report

There's a bit of a mystery regarding Syria. First, who is the opposition? Second, what will happen?

Having been the first to warn about the threat and power of Islamists in Egypt, I think that's earned me some credibility to say that Syria may well be a different case. There is a possibility of an Islamist takeover and of an ethnic conflict in Syria, make no mistake, but a number of factors suggest that those things might not happen.

First, ironically, in Syria as in Tunisia the tough repression against radical Islamists by the regime has weakened those forces. It is easy to forget that Mubarak's Egypt was a relatively tolerant country. The Muslim Brotherhood was allowed to operate, spread its propaganda, build a large membership, and control institutions. In Syria, there was a bloody suppression of the Brotherhood in the 1980s. Islamists are a lot less organized.

Second, while this might seem a paradox, while Islamists opposed the Egyptian...

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Assads poisoned Mideast's atmosphere, engaged in multi-front war on Israel

By Mordechai Nisan, YNET 
Even in our world colored with grays and not only blacks and whites, the fall of the Assad regime in Damascus would be a great blessing for the Middle East and the world. Nonetheless, for some Israelis this would be a hard blow to suffer, because it might signify that Israel will be stuck with the Golan Heights for the long future.

The golan is an asset and not a liability. Ted Belman

The list of Syria's misdemeanors and crimes is legion. From belligerent Soviet ally to godfather and patron of Palestinian terrorism, Hafez the father and Bashar the son crafted a policy strategy that demonized Israel, betrayed the Arab world, consolidated the regional hegemony of Iran, and perpetuated an Alawite sectarian regime in defiance of the Sunni Muslim majority in the country. Acting against their countrymen, the Assads persecuted the Kurds, intimidated the Druze, and despoiled the tiny Jewish community.

The quest for power whetted the ambition of the...

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This will be the Arab world's next battle

Population growth and water supply are on a collision course. Hunger is set to become the main issue

Lester Brown, The Guardian
 
Long after the political uprisings in the Middle East have subsided, many underlying challenges that are not now in the news will remain. Prominent among these are rapid population growth, spreading water shortages, and growing food insecurity.

In some countries grain production is now falling as aquifers - underground water-bearing rocks - are depleted. After the Arab oil-export embargo of the 1970s, the Saudis realised that since they were heavily dependent on imported grain, they were vulnerable to a grain counter-embargo. Using oil-drilling technology, they tapped into an aquifer far below the desert to produce irrigated wheat. In a matter of years, Saudi Arabia was self-sufficient in its principal food staple.

But after more than 20 years of wheat self-sufficiency, the Saudis announced in January 2008 that this aquifer was largely...

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John McCain Has a Lot To Answer For on Libya

I totally disagreed with McCain's remarks when he returned from Libya recently. He decried NATO’s Timid Approach. When Palin recently tweeted "Listen to McCain", I commented on C4P that he was wrong and she is wrong. So this article was welcomed . He was also wrong when he returned from Serbia and gave his support to the Kosovo Muslims. Ted Belman

McCain calls the Libyan rebels his "heroes." A year and a half earlier, in Tripoli, he described Gaddafi as America's friend.

by John Rosenthal, PAJAMAS MEDIA

Senator John McCain's description of the Libyan rebels as his "heroes" has raised numerous eyebrows. PJM editor David Steinberg has had the excellent idea of seeking comment from the senator's office on the extensive video evidence of atrocities committed by some of the senator's newfound "heroes."

While one is at it, the senator should probably also be reminded about this: namely, his cordial handshake with Muammar al-Gaddafi in Tripoli in...

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 There Was No Goldstone Investigation

By Avi Bell, AMERICAN THINKER 
It's too early to tell how Richard Goldstone's decision to reverse the key claim of the controversial 2009 Goldstone Report on the 2009 Gaza War will play out. But so far, observers have missed a vital point. Goldstone's reversal and subsequent comments demonstrate there was no real Goldstone investigation.

The Goldstone Report presented itself as facts and legal conclusions based on an investigation that included interviews, documents, videos, photographs, and "field visits." The Report claimed that Israel's campaign against Hamas "was a deliberately disproportionate attack designed to punish, humiliate and terrorize [Gaza's] civilian population." It added that "while the Israeli Government has sought to portray its operations as essentially a response to rocket attacks in the exercise of its right to self-defense, the Mission considers the plan to have been directed, at least in part, at a...

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Syrian deaths rise to 350. Thousands arrested in Damascus

DEBKAfile Special Report

Saturday, April 23 saw the constantly mounting uprising against the Assad regime finally reaching the Syrian capital Damascus where debkafile reports 300,000 - 15 percent of the city's dwellers - took the streets shouting: "Bashar Assad you are a traitor!" That day too the Syrian ruler unleashed his security forces for the harshest crackdown yet in order to break the back of the five-week civil uprising. The result: 350 dead, tripling the number of Friday's bloodbath and thousands of injured.

Early Sunday, secret service thugs hauled thousands of protesters out of their homes. They broke down doors in the Harasta and Ghouta districts of Damascus, dragged their victims out and dumped them on covered trucks which drove off to unknown destinations. Ghouta is the ancient garden quarter of Damascus.

The growing number of injured are condemned to being treated privately or not at all. The authorities have commandeered ambulances...

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Assad regime threatened by Syria protests

MESS Report / Assad regime threatened by Syria protests
If Assad does not use the same murderous force against the protesters that his father Hafez Assad used against tens of thousands of members of the Muslim Brotherhood in the city of Hama 30 years ago, he will not survive.
 By Avi Issacharoff and Amos Harel, HAARETZ

After weekend riots in Syria saw more than 100 dead, the highest number of casualties since the beginning of the unrest in the country, President Bashar Assad's regime seems to be increasingly unstable. The more film clips that leak, documenting the killing of demonstrators, the more questions arise about Assad's ability to stop the wave of protest against him.

The iron fist policy of the Syrian security forces seems to have failed. Protest is growing gradually stronger and is spreading to other cities, in quite a precise imitation of the successful revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt, and of the one that slid into civil war in Libya.

Assad may feel he...

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Goldstone's co-panelists turn on him
By MAURICE OSTROFF, JPOST

I am astonished by the report in the Guardian of April 14 that, in response to Judge Richard Goldstone's recent oped in The Washington Post, the remaining members of the UN Fact-Finding Mission on Gaza, namely Hina Jilani, Christine Chinkin and Desmond Travers, have "turned on him," accusing him of misrepresenting facts in order to cast doubt on the credibility of their joint report. It is regrettable that they did not explain what facts he misrepresented.

I trust they will agree that every intellectually honest person will willingly review previously held convictions if and when relevant new evidence becomes available. To his credit, that is exactly what Judge Goldstone has done.

By contrast, their evidently inflexible belief in the immutability of every sentence of their 500-plus page report reflects an attitude reminiscent of those who refused to look at the evidence presented by...

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Déclaration de guerre - Prières musulmanes en plein Rome (22 avril 2011)

This video shows how Muslims did illegally pray on the ground in the center of Rome, this Friday, April 22nd, 2011 :

Déclaration de guerre - Prières musulmanes en plein Rome (22 avril 2011)

Those illegal Muslim prayers took place on the Piazza Venezia, in front of the national monument dedicated to Vittorio-Emanuele II, and, more precisely, in front of the "Altar to the homeland".

Therefore, those prayers were a declaration of war to the Italian homeland.

Moreover, this Friday, April 22nd, was the Good Friday : therefore, those prayers were a declaration of war to all the Christians too.

Former Obama Adviser Van Jones Helping to Push 'Human' Rights for Mother Nature

Fox News | By George Russell | April 25, 2011 

Van Jones, the Obama administration's controversial former "green jobs czar," has found a new calling: helping to push for a new, global architecture of environmental law that would give Mother Nature the same rights status as humans.

RedState Morning Briefing

For April 26, 2011

1. King & Spalding Decides That Marriage And Democracy Are Indefensible, But Terrorists and Murderers Are Fine

Who deserves legal representation - the American people, or their sworn enemies? To the Atlanta, Georgia law firm of King & Spalding, the answer most emphatically is only the latter.

That is the message sent by that firm as we get news that the head of King & Spalding's appellate practice group, former Solicitor General Paul Clement, has resigned from the firm after King & Spalding backed out of Clement's representation of the United States House of Representatives in defending the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA).

2. Leading From Behind

Many of us have been struggling to make sense of Barack Obama's erratic foreign policy. He says he doesn't want to fight "dumb wars" and then goes and acts stupid in Libya. He constantly seems to be working to undermine the United States' role in the world and bows to every foreign crowned head except Queen Elizabeth II, who he gives an iPod. He returns the Churchill bust. He bends over backwards to kiss up to Hu Jintao.

It makes you wonder.

Well, wonder no long. Over at the New Yorker, Ryan Lizza sums up the erratic foreign policy of Barack Obama and it is worse that you or either imagined.

3. EPA Ruling Kills Shell's Plans to Drill Offshore Alaska

A ruling by the Environmental Appeals Board of the EPA has scuttled Shell Oil Company's plan to drill its initial exploratory test in Alaska's Chukchi Sea. This is at least the second time drilling has been deferred or delayed due to environmental concerns. But this time, the reason proffered by EPA seems to be "Because we can."

4. Union Leaders Teach Labor Studies Courses on Communism, Violence, Industrial Sabotage & Frying Cats

The University of Missouri has an expansive $1.9 billion enterprise with an operating budget of $500 million which, according to its website, 37% comes through state appropriations. While the University's Institute of Labor Studies may only be a small fraction of its budget, one must wonder why tax dollars are being used to fund a program that espouses Communism, teaches tactics in industrial sabotage (including stalking CEOs, using members to insinuate sabotage, as well as the killing of cats), and convincing union members that their "group goals" are more important than their individual goals.

5. Haley Barbour Not Running For President in 2012

If there is one thing we should have learned from the 2008 primary and general elections, to say nothing of 1996, it's that being a good presidential candidate on paper is useless; you have to want it - want it badly enough to hire a serious staff, badly enough to trim a few positions and hard edges to fit the various demands of the primary and general electorates, badly enough to endure the most exhaustive efforts to tear apart your entire life for public entertainment, badly enough to spend endless weary hours fundraising and stumping in Iowa and New Hampshire and enduring crummy bus rides with grumpy reporters and town halls with cranks and half-wits and left-wing troublemakers. Your family needs to want it too - a man whose wife doesn't want him to be president will not become president. It's a big, life-consuming commitment, and you don't do it halfway.

6. The Media Skirts Past Sarah Palin's Uterus and Truthers in Search of Birthers

There is no need to write ten thousand words to highlight what is perhaps the very best example these days of profound liberal bias in the media.

Andrew Sullivan is now working for the Daily Beast and Newsweek after spending a great deal of time at the Atlantic. No one in the media cares to note that Andrew Sullivan is obsessed with Sarah Palin's uterus and whether Trig Palin once resided there. His obsession amounts to Tourettes on a keyboard coupled with some form of mental illness.

But the media embraces Andrew Sullivan. Harvard Magazine just named him the world's best blogger. Wonkette, the site that used to be slightly funny, followed up on Andrew Sullivan's obsession last week and suggested that Trig Palin is actually the incestuous love child of Todd Palin and his daughter. They also howled with laughter about his Downs Syndrome.

The media yawned.

In 2006, Scripps Howard found that more than half of all Democrats believe George W. Bush was complicit in the September 11th attacks.

The media yawned.

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DOMA defense in turmoil
Politico

EPA Blocks Oil Drilling in Alaska
The Foundry Blog

Economists temper forecast due to energy
USA Today

State Pension Plans Lose Ground
The Wall Street Journal

Obama weighs sanctions against Syrian leader
The Washington Examiner

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Revolutionary Socialist Group Planing to Recruit Children in JR High School

Hitler also had the same idea, Hitler youth

 

FROM JOSEPH FARAH'S G2 BULLETIN
   

Does ultimatum mean Iran will invade Saudi Arabia?

Call says nations should 'prevent dispatch of equipment for suppression of Bahrain'

Posted: April 23, 2011
10:00 pm Eastern

© 2011 WorldNetDaily

April 25, 2011

Congressman Allen West building national
following for straight talk and boldness in fighting
radical Islam

 Rising star to keynote our national conference in
Washington in June

 Check out our upcoming national conference keynote speaker Allen West in action.

Rep. West joined "Fox and Friends" recently where he was asked about his standing up to a representative from CAIR who feebly attempted to discredit him during a town hall meeting.

 Such boldness and straight talk is being recognized and making West a rising national political star and a potential Presidential candidate, if not in 2012, at sometime in the near feature.

We are delighted that Rep. West will serve as our gala banquet keynote speaker during this year's national conference and legislative briefing, June 22 - 24th in Washington, DC. Join us to hear and meet this courageous American patriot!

 Also speaking at the conference:

John Guandolo, former FBI agent and subject matter expert on the Muslim Brotherhood, their ideology, leadership and goals for America. John's topic will be "Understanding the Threat to America: The Outlawed Brief."

Andrew Bostom, historian and author of the book Legacy of Jihad. Andy's topic will be "Understanding the Jihad Against America and Israel."

Erick Stakelbeck, host of CBN's "Stakelbeck on Terror" and author of the new book

The Terrorist Next Door: How the Government is Deceiving You about the Islamist Threat, which is also the title of his topic.






Plus: Numerous Members of Congress and a yet to be named special speaker whom we will announce later this week.

 

 

Black Americans Alive Today Are The Real Holocaust Victims: New Black Panthers Anti Semitic Attack

 New Black Panthers Anti Semitic Attack & Tea Threats of Armed Men With Serious Consequences

From the Desk of:
 David Martin, Executive Vice President
Media Research Center

How deep is the Left-wing media in Obama's pocket? For the answer look no further than their lax, misleading coverage of the super-charged rise in gasoline prices.

The Media Research Center lifted the hood, and discovered that of the 280 oil price stories since the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, only 3 bothered (a scant one percent) to make any connection between the administration's anti-oil policies -- including their drilling moratorium...

If it weren't true, it would be unbelievable that supposed reputable news organizations would inexplicably fail to explore all aspects of the story! After all, during the Bush days, gas spikes drew immediate and harsh criticism. The so-called "news" media even kicked about far-left conspiracy theories about gas price manipulation and election outcomes.

Not so for Obama. Because he shares the media's socialist agenda, he gets a pass.

Instead, the Left-wing media have been on a nearly year long campaign to misdirect and mislead the public while also wearing down their resistance to Obama's jobs and economy killing "green" policies.

Just look at what Bloomberg Businessweek reported...

They had the audacity to call the gas run-up a "silver-lining" suggesting Americans would now be more willing to accept Obama's green agenda!

And while the media don't dare report, or even bother to look for the truth where Obama is concerned, the fact is Obama's own Energy Secretary Steven Chu said, "Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe."

Thanks to the help of the media, it appears the administration is well on its way!


+ +  Save America: Eradicate the Obama/Media Alliance!

Linda and Edward, the radical agenda of Barack Obama would not be possible to advance if not for the Left-wing media propagandizing, misleading, and outright lying to the American people...

We are being set up. Our liberty and culture are under attack!

That's why the MRC has launched a full-scale push back against the Obama-media alliance. We know each needs the other to survive, and we are determined to expose and neutralize their efforts by reporting the truth!

Please read our special Business and Media Institute special report by clicking below:

After studying it, alert your friends by forwarding this message to them. Urge them to follow your lead by reading it and then adding their name to our national petition Demanding the Media Stop Serving as a Mouthpiece for President Obama!
As you can see from the above alert, the media's role in advancing Obama's socialist agenda is a threat to us all.

We are counting on you to help us quickly amass a grassroots army of 50,000 citizens who will stand with the MRC to break the Obama/Media alliance that is ultimately threatening our liberty.

Thank you in advance for taking action with us!

David Martin

P.S. After reading our report, use your email and social networking sites to spread the word about the truth found within it and our important petition!

Urge them to click here to join with you 

Lyle H. Rossiter, Jr., M.D. ''The Liberal Mind The Psychological Causes of Political Madness'' 2006
pp 328-330:


The Values of the Radical Liberal Mind

Like all other human beings, the modern liberal reveals his true character, including his madness, in what he values and devalues, in what he articulates with passion. Of special interest, however, are the many values about which the modern liberal mind is not passionate: his agenda does not insist that the individual is the ultimate economic, social and political unit; it does not idealize individual liberty and the structure of law and order essential to it; it does not defend the basic rights of property and contract; it does not aspire to ideals of authentic autonomy and mutuality; it does not preach an ethic of self-reliance and self-determination; it does not praise courage, forbearance or resilience; it does not celebrate the ethics of consent or the blessings of voluntary cooperation.

It does notadvocate moral rectitude or understand the critical role of morality in human relating. The liberal agenda does not comprehend an identity of competence, appreciate its importance, or analyze the developmental conditions and social institutions that promote its achievement. The liberal agenda does not understand or recognize personal sovereignty or impose strict limits on coercion by the state. It does not celebrate the genuine altruism of private charity. It does not learn history's lessons on the evils of collectivism.

What the liberal mind is passionate about is a world filled with pity, sorrow, neediness, misfortune, poverty, suspicion, mistrust, anger, exploitation, discrimination, victimization, alienation and injustice. Those who occupy this world are ''workers,'' ''minorities,'' ''the little guy,'' ''women,'' and the ''unemployed.'' They are poor, weak, sick, wronged, cheated, oppressed, disenfranchised, exploited and victimized. They bear no responsibility for their problems. None of their agonies are attributable to faults or failings of their own: not to poor choices, bad habits, faulty judgment, wishful thinking, lack of ambition, low frustration tolerance, mental illness or defects in character.

None of the victims' plight is caused by failure to plan for the future or learn from experience. Instead, the ''root causes'' of all this pain lie in faulty social conditions: poverty, disease, war, ignorance, unemployment, racial prejudice, ethnic and gender discrimination, modern technology, capitalism, globalization and imperialism. In the radical liberal mind, this suffering is inflicted on the innocent by various predators and persecutors: ''Big Business,'' ''Big Corporations,'' ''greedy capitalists, ''U.S. Imperialists,'' ''the oppressors,'' ''the rich,'' ''the wealthy,'' ''the powerful'' and ''the selfish.''

The liberal cure for this endless malaise is a very large authoritarian government that regulates and manages society through a cradle to grave agenda of redistributive caretaking. It is a government everywhere doing everything for everyone. The liberal motto is ''In Government We Trust.'' To rescue the people from their troubled lives, the agenda recommends denial of personal responsibility, encourages self-pity and other-pity, fosters government dependency, promotes sexual indulgence, rationalizes violence, excuses financial obligation, justifies theft, ignores rudeness, prescribes complaining and blaming, denigrates marriage and the family, legalizes all abortion, defies religious and social tradition, declares inequality unjust, and rebels against the duties of citizenship.

Through multiple entitlements to unearned goods, services and social status, the liberal politician promises to ensure everyone's material welfare, provide for everyone's healthcare, protect everyone's self-esteem, correct everyone's social and political disadvantage, educate every citizen, and eliminate all class distinctions. With liberal intellectuals sharing the glory, the liberal politician is the hero in this melodrama. He takes credit for providing his constituents with whatever they want or need even though he has not produced by his own effort any of the goods, services or status transferred to them but has instead taken them from others by force.

It should be apparent by now that these social policies and the passions that drive them contradict all that is rationalin human relating, and they are therefore irrational in themselves. But the faulty conceptions that lie behind these passions cannot be viewed as mere cognitive slippage. The degree of modern liberalism's irrationality far exceeds any misunderstanding that can be attributed to faulty fact gathering or logical error: Indeed, under careful scrutiny, liberalism's distortions of the normal ability to reason can only be understood as the product of psychopathology.

So extravagant are the patterns of thinking, emoting, behaving and relating that characterize the liberal mind that its relentless protests and demands become understandable only as disorders of the psyche. The modern liberal mind, its distorted perceptions and its destructive agenda are the product of disturbed personalities.


 

Atlas Shrugged Assaulted by Critics, Praised by Audience

Apr 25, 2011

FBN's Dennis Kneale breaks down the popularity and bias behind Atlas Shrugged.

Brief · April 25, 2011

Liberty

"Obama's ideology tethers him to the idea that the central government should be the primary engine of economic growth and the super-arbiter of the winners and losers in our economy. He cannot countenance the possibility that Keynesian stimulus spending does not appreciably stimulate and probably does just the opposite; never mind that we can't afford it. He can't process that we cannot tax ourselves into prosperity or out of debt. He is viscerally unwilling to restructure the programs that have us committed to $88 trillion in unfunded liabilities. And he either cannot comprehend or is morally hardened to the evil and ineffectiveness involved in the government's making command-control decisions rather than free people through the invisible hand of the market, especially in health care. He cannot understand or is rebellious against the truth that capitalism is morally superior to and produces greater prosperity across the board than any other economic system, bar none. ... Obama, captured in his maximum-security class warfare prison mindset, has proposed even higher taxes on the already overburdened producers, which would further smother the economy and prevent economic recovery, growth and abatement of the national debt. His only real remedy for Medicare is to empower the Independent Payment Advisory Board to ration health care according to its one-size-fits-all lunacy. ... There can be no workable compromise with Obama because his plan could not work to retire the debt and avert our national crisis. The only solution is to retire him." --columnist David Limbaugh

 Opinion in Brief

"Just a little over two years later, it has become clear that whatever you think of his policies, the current occupant of the White House harbors an irrepressible juvenility that undermines the dignity of the office he holds. The recent tongue lashing he administered to Republican Congressman Paul Ryan is the latest example of President Obama's increasingly evident maturity deficiency. ... For the better part of an hour, the President of the United States lambasted Ryan's efforts publicly as little short of abandoning autistic kids to the sewers and locking Granny in the attic. Given this undignified blindside, Rep. Ryan would have been well within his rights to walk out of the hall in disgust. But apparently, decorum and respect are words that find meaning in the Ryan vocabulary -- more than can be said for our Chief Executive. ... Far from being a post-partisan healer, President Obama has proven himself to be petty, juvenile, and someone totally lacking the temperament and class we should expect from an Oval Office executive." --columnist Peter Heck

Re: The Left

"[O]bama is trying to convince Americans that 'shared responsibility' means raising taxes only on the top 2 percent of income earners. So Team Obama held a 'town hall' event at Facebook, placing the president next to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, a 26-year-old who is worth $16 billion. ... [It was] a hard week for the president, so it must have felt great to talk at the website that has brought him 19 million 'likes.' COO Sheryl Sandberg explained the ground rules: 'No poking the president.' Then again, [last] Monday, Obama got a pretty rude poking from S&P. The rating agency revised its assessment of the U.S. economy from 'stable' to 'negative.' The notice explained that S&P could downgrade America's coveted AAA rating in the next two years. As Obama told his Facebook fans, if the markets lose faith in Washington's ability to curb the deficit, that could mean a whole new world of damage to the U.S. economy. He didn't explain that S&P's timing -- shortly after Obama presented his weak deficit-reduction package -- screams that Wall Street doesn't think Washington will fix the hole." --columnist Debra Saunders

Government

"[W]hen you reduce income tax rates, high earners have more taxable income. When you raise them, they have less. ... This is most obvious when you think about capital gains. The federal government doesn't try to tax capital gains -- the increase in values of your stocks or your house -- every year... You pay capital gains on a stock or house only in the year you sell it. What happens if the capital gains tax goes up from 15 percent to 50 percent? People stop selling stocks and hold onto their houses if they possibly can. And when cap gains rates go down? They're more willing to sell, pay the lower tax and invest in something else. That's why the government's total revenues from capital gains have tended to rise when the capital gains tax rate is lowered. And why increases in the capital gains tax rate never raises the amount of revenues static models estimate it will. You get the same effect, to a lesser extent, when you change tax rates on ordinary income. People working for minimum wage don't have many options about how they'll be paid. High earners tend to have more options." --political analyst Michael Barone

For the Record

"The official Pentagon estimate is that the war in Libya cost us $608 million for the first 17 days. Some think that is a laughable underestimate, however, except that nobody is laughing. Forbes reported at the end of March that 'what looks like an inexpensive military operation in Libya is actually costing taxpayers about $2 billion per day.' Remember how Democrats and Republicans in Congress wrestled back and forth recently, nearly shutting down the government over a lousy $38 billion? Heck, we've already burned through that in Libya and Muammar Qadhafi is still thumbing his nose at us from Tripoli. Technically, the air war in Libya is being fought by NATO. But the United States, in addition to paying for our own forces, pays about a quarter of NATO's budget. The numbers get kind of dazzling, but according to the Fiscal Times: The United States now pays NATO $90.2 million for its civil budget, $462.5 million for its military budget and $259 million for NATO's Security Investment Program, which covers radar bases, airfields, fuel pipelines, etc. That is about $811.7 million per year. And how is NATO doing in Libya, by the way? Not all that well." --columnist Roger Simon

The Gipper

"While the San Diego-based U.S.S. Hoel was steaming toward Melbourne, Australia, on Ash Wednesday, its crew heard of terrible brush fires sweeping two Australian States. More than 70 people were killed and the destruction was great. Well, the crew of this American ship raised $4,000 from their pockets to help, but they felt that it wasn't enough. So, leaving only a skeleton crew aboard, the 100 American sailors gave up a day's shore leave, rolled up their sleeves, and set to work rebuilding a ruined community on the opposite end of the Earth. Just Americans being Americans, but something for all of us to be proud of. Stories like these -- of men and women around the world who love God and freedom -- bear a message of world hope and brotherhood like the rites of Passover and Easter that we celebrate." --Ronald Reagan

Faith & Family

"Passover and Easter are stories of ultimate hope, but they are also pretty unflinching warning about human evil. ... My question is: how we can celebrate the holidays this year without feeling like sickening hypocrites? Dante placed hypocrites in the eighth circle of Hell. That's a pretty good metaphor for intelligent people who are trying night and day hard to blind us to plain and obvious danger to our survival, rights, and freedoms. If you don't believe that, try practicing your religion in Saudi Arabia. ... The most famous 'denialist' of danger today is Barack Hussein Obama, who has spent his whole life rationalizing, denying and defending the totalitarian Left and totalitarian Islam. Why he would do such a mad and destructive thing is a question for psychiatrists. The fact that he does it is beyond doubt. Obama actually believes what Naomi Wolf put into her HuffPo headline last week: 'I want my Al Jazeerah.' Obama and Wolf believe we don't get enough Islamofascist propaganda. They think we need more, just to set our minds straight, like NPR. ... How many Passover and Easter celebrations this year will remind people about the Left-fascist alliance in Europe and America? Or isn't anybody paying attention?" --columnist James Lewis

The Last Word

"It was the great George Orwell who observed, 'In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.' I agree. That is why I have a problem with Republican politicians allowing Nancy Pelosi to get away with insisting that Republicans are looking to starve six million senior citizens to death when they insist that Obama and his loony left-wing enablers quit flushing American tax dollars down the toilet. I realize that she is a major entity in her party, but when you show deference to an idiot, albeit one of the female variety, you don't come off looking statesmanlike or even chivalrous, you just come across like a bunch of spineless wienies. While Democrats never weary of portraying Republicans as heartless, it wouldn't kill the Republicans to accuse ninnies like Barbara Boxer, Barney Frank, Henry Waxman, Anthony Weiner and Sheila Jackson Lee, of being brainless. There is certainly a ton of evidence to bear it out. Still, to be fair, with liberals, it's hard to know where stupidity ends and evil begins." --columnist Burt Prelutsky

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Monday, April 25, 2011

To: Friends & Supporters

From: Gary L. Bauer


Obama On The Attack

President Obama is a master at deflecting attention away from himself and onto the "bad guys." With the national average of gas closing in on $4 a gallon, and the summer travel season still weeks away, I imagine White House polls are finding that oil companies are relatively unpopular -- perhaps even more unpopular than President Obama! So, Friday's announcement that Obama had directed Attorney General Eric Holder to set up a task force to investigate oil companies, traders and speculators for price gouging came as no surprise.

We've seen this act before. When Obama proposed a massive takeover of the healthcare industry, he launched an attack against insurance and drug companies. He's got an energy policy better suited for the pre-industrial age rather than the future. He continues to advance the fiction that sometime soon, if only government would do enough, America will run on windmills and sunshine.

If the amount of energy from those sources doubled and doubled again, it would still account for only a miniscule amount of the energy needed to power our economy. For the lifetime of those reading this report, we will be running on hydrocarbons. But this president has an anti-oil agenda, and it is making headlines today.

Fox News reports that after five years and $4 billion in development costs Shell Oil Company is giving up on a major drilling effort in Alaska because an appointed EPA board denied Shell a necessary permit. The board's four members are registered Democrats, and one member once worked for the left-wing Environmental Defense Fund.

The offshore field Shell wanted to develop was tremendous. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the field contains an estimated 27 billion barrels of oil. As the Fox report notes, "...that represents two and a half times more oil than has flowed down the Trans Alaska pipeline throughout its 30-year history." One Alaskan official said of the EPA's decision, "It's driving investment and production overseas. That doesn't help the United States in any way, shape or form."

Obama's anti-drilling and incomprehensible Middle East policies are causing the price of oil to go up, hurting economic growth. Yet when confronted with reality, he either suggests people trade in their cars or he attacks the oil industry.

The president doesn't like the oil industry, the natural gas industry, the coal industry, the pharmaceutical industry, the insurance industry, and he clearly doesn't like small business owners because he keeps trying to raise their taxes. This president says he wants jobs, but he's attacking everyone who creates them. We all can't work for the government or be community organizers.


The Next Big Fight

Congress is still out of session, but there is more and more chatter about the next big fight in Washington -- raising the debt limit. Elite opinion insists that Congress must raise the debt limit and allow the Obama Administration to borrow more money. But a CBS/New York Times poll released late last week found that 63% of Americans do not want the debt limit increased.

Many congressional conservatives, including House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA), are refusing to vote for an increase in the debt limit without significant spending reforms. President Obama does not want his hands tied in any way and is insisting on a "clean bill" with no restrictions on his ability to borrow and spend.

If you listened to the Bauer and Rose Show this weekend, you heard our guest Bill Kristol make a great suggestion to Republican leaders. President Obama says he wants a clean bill. Bring a clean bill to the floor and have a vote on it. Virtually all Republicans would vote no. Kristol thinks many Democrats, especially vulnerable Senate Democrats, would also vote no, as some are indicating.

Congressional Republicans should bring up what Obama insists we pass, which is opposed by 63% of Americans. Once it is clear just how weak Obama's position is, then Republicans can start negotiating from a position of strength.


More Polling Data

There is a lot in the CBS/New York Times poll to encourage conservatives. Consider the following results:

• 55% of Americans want a smaller government with fewer services (the conservative view), whereas 33% want a bigger government with more services (the liberal view).
• 58% want to reduce the deficit by cutting government spending (the conservative position); just 29% favor reducing the deficit by raising taxes (the liberal position).
• 70% of Americans feel the country is on the wrong track.
• 57% disapprove of Obama's handling of the economy.
• When asked if Obama shares their priorities for the country, 43% of Americans said yes. In February 2009, just after he was inaugurated, 65% of respondents felt Obama shared their priorities for the country.

Obama Ignores Easter; Recognizes Muslim Holidays

There is a report today noting that the Obama White House failed to issue a statement recognizing Good Friday or Easter. Yet the president did not fail to recognize at least three Muslim holidays last year with official White House statements.

Even the liberal media felt compelled to ask questions about the perceived slight to Christians at today's White House press briefing. Press Secretary Jay Carney tried to deflect the questions, but ultimately he had no explanation for why a statement wasn't issued.

Regardless of what the White House recognizes, most Americans believe their country is inextricably linked with Judeo-Christian notions of liberty, justice, and the relationship between government and man. That view of America is the subject of my Human Events column this week, which you can read here.

 

Charles Krauthammer is the columnist I respect the most for his values, insights, and political sense. So let's use his column "Handicapping the 2012 Presidential Odds" as a starting point for my own assessment of the current field.

Charles begins by dissing Donald Trump and dismissing Michele Bachmann. Sorry Charles but wrong and wronger. Trump will run as a Republican with a damn good chance of winning the nomination. He appeals more to moderates and Independents than to stalwart Republicans but he captures the hearts and minds of the outside-of-the-beltway crowd with his blunt outspokenness and a raft of experience deep enough to show up a former community organizer.

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IMF bombshell: Age of America nears end

Commentary: China's economy will surpass the U.S. in 2016

Wallace Smith On Racism

Obama's Pastor for Easter Service Compared Rush, Fox News to KKK in Speech Last Year

Today's Headlines:  Monday, April 25, 2011

EXCLUSIVE: DHS Can't Account for 10 Libyan Men It Caught and Released Inside U.S.

U.S. Supreme Court Rejects Quick Review of Health Care Law 

Obama Administration's Policy of Engaging Syria Comes Under Fire

Most Consumers Don't Seek Out 'Green' Businesses, Survey Shows

New Law Requires Photo ID, Proof of Citizenship to Vote in Kansas
 
Huge Jailbreak in Afghanistan Frees Hundreds of Taliban Fighters

NATO Strikes Gadhafi's Compound

Jimmy Carter Hopes for 'Pleasure' of Meeting North Korea's Leaders

Obamas Attend Easter Services at Black Church in Washington

COMMENTARY:

Hot Air About Gas Prices
 Commentary by Rich Galen

The Middle East Mess
 Commentary by Alan Caruba

NEWSPAPER ROUNDUP:

With public's backing, Dems to push tax hikes for the wealthy
Republicans will focus on rising gas prices in May
20,000 legal immigrants may lose state-sponsored health coverage in Mass.
Easter attacks near churches rattle Iraqi Christians
Republican Sen. Kirk: Senate should not have taken a break
Texas lawmakers may take away transgender marriage rights
Sex trafficking in the U.S. called 'epidemic'
Barack Obama on Bradley Manning: 'He broke the law'
NYC Mayor Bloomberg: Hands off the rich

 04/25/2011

Uncontrolled Spending Is the Real Threat

All across Western Europe-the land of platinum-plated social benefits, the 35-hour work week, tony retirement plans and government-funded health care-countries are coming to the realization that they can no longer afford these luxuries amid skyrocketing deficits. Yet here in the United States, as we face a $14.3 trillion deficit, some are calling for increasing our government's ability to borrow even more money without any concern for spending reform. Congress can't allow that to happen, lest we become the Europe of the West. 

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WikiLeaks has disclosed classified military documents regarding nearly all 779 detainees who have been held at Guantanamo Bay, revealing details about al-Qaeda terrorist activities.

The Syrian government is cracking down on protesters; reports say that army tanks shot anti-aircraft bullets on houses and people as dozens lay dead on the streets.

The times they are a-changin' in California. Voters there want to cap government employee pensions and impose a later age for collecting retirement benefits, according to a new poll.

NATO has launched some of its heaviest airstrikes in recent weeks, striking Libyan leader Moammar Qadhafi's compound.

Who's to blame for rising gas prices? President Obama points the finger at speculators and is forming a task force to investigate, but he ignores the real cause of the problem. Read more on Foundry.org.

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Understanding Our Debt Problem 

The Director of Economics for the PA Coalition wants to keep his day job with a national investment firm and requests anonymity in this and future analyses:

If you want to understand our debt problem, look no further than the attached chart constructed by the PA Coalition for Responsible Government from US government data.

This chart - again, constructed entirely from US government data -shows federal receipts, outlay, and the percentage of federal tax filers who paid ZERO income tax. The 2010 number of 47% is what has been reported by the media this week but all other data is from the government's own web sites.



The percentage of tax returns with zero tax liability has more than doubled since 1990. This has been a failure of both Republicans and Democrats who have caved-in to the constant bleating of progressive liberals who are always begging at the door for the next handout.

Notice between 2000 & 2003 inclusive when the percentage of people not paying made its first big leap - federal receipts declined. Then the economy stabilized around the new tax rules and as the economy grew, receipts rose again. Until 2007-2010....and the train wreck of affordable housing and liberal fecklessness took hold.

Oh, by the way....also notice that even with this botched up mess, if we merely reduced spending this year to 2003 levels, our deficit would nearly be zero. Paul Ryan is correct: it's mostly a spending problem.

We are our own worst enemy.  We have fewer people paying taxes and a code so riddled with loop-holes meant to ease the burden on the 53% carrying the load - or buy their votes - and spending that is so out of control, that it's no wonder our tax system of financing is nearly broken.
The answer is simple:

1.       Bring federal spending under control - today. Now. Not by 2020 or 2024 or whatever - now.
2.       Lower tax rates.
3.       Flatten the tax code dramatically and do away with most of the loopholes. This would be known as a "flat tax". Yes, the 'poor' should pay taxes - don't they use roads, bridges, and benefit from our national defense? They'll be rewarded with expanding employment opportunities and rising incomes. For the deadbeats that choose not to work - tough - they can starve. I'm tired of paying for them.
 
For any courageous Democrats in Congress: Propose 1, 2, & 3 above. A grateful nation will thank you.


 

Wild Brawl at NYC Sikh Temple: Swords, Knives, & Cricket Bats

The Blaze | by Jonathon M. Seidl | Posted on April 26, 2011 

It was a turf war - Sikh style.

A wild brawl broke out Sunday in Queens, NY after a rival Sikh group stormed a temple during prayers claiming they were the rightful leaders. And they brought some weapons to do their talking: swords, knives, and cricket bats.

Leaked Documents Describe Al-Qaeda Plots Against West Coast, Brooklyn Bridge & Cargo Planes

The Blaze | by Scott Baker | Posted on April 26, 2011 

WASHINGTON (AP) - Classified military files obtained by the WikiLeaks website reveal a range of potential al-Qaida plots against the United States, including post-9/11 aircraft attacks on the West Coast, The New York Times reported Monday.

The schemes - none of which were executed - are described in U.S. military assessments of terrorism suspects being held at the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Those detainees include Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the 9/11 attacks.

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 Quote Joe Biden on Barack Obama:

"I mean, you got the first main stream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy."

April 25, 2011 

On Monday's Program 

Stu live from Royal Wedding

Only 6% of Americans say they are interested in the upcoming Royal Wedding - but that's not stopping TV networks from investing millions and millions of dollars to cover the event. Entire cable morning crews, hundreds of reporters and cameras are being sent overseas to cover a wedding. Meanwhile, Syria is falling apart, gas prices are skyrocketing, the IMF has declared the 'age of America' is coming to an end and food prices are rapidly increasing. But hey, did you see Kate Middleton's dress? Stu reports 'live' from 'England' to see what all the fuss is about - get the exclusive report HERE.

Obama to investigate high gas prices

President Obama is really serious about getting to the bottom of skyrocketing gas prices. Has he cut all the red tape on drilling in the gulf? No. Has he lifted unreasonable environmental standards which increase costs to the consumer? Nope. That'd be a good place to start - even better, as Glenn explained on radio today, would be to stop devaluing the dollar. The Saudi's say there isn't a shortage of oil being pumped - it's the weak dollar that's causing high prices. How? Glenn explains on radio. 

Pat gets labeled 'progressive' on radio: During a segment on the groups in the audience who are tracking the real cost of inflation (since government masks it), Pat launched into a tirade on how big ice cream is ripping you off with higher prices and smaller packaging. Glenn explains how inflation is really impacting Americans and why attacking big companies is misdirected. Watch it HERE.

Problem for Trump? For a 'conservative', Trump a little too closely tied to spooky dude George Soros...Glenn has the details on radio today.

Rumors of War II: The Last Days? premieres this Wednesday night at 9 pm ET. This new full length documentary will examine the End of Times prophecy and how currents events, such as the union of Russia, Turkey and Iran, indicate the chaos that is to come. Knowledge is power, and now more than ever, it is vital that you educate yourself - join us Wednesday night on Insider Extreme. Not a member? Sign up now. 

McD's beating victim speaks

By now you've probably seen the horrific beating of a girl in a Baltimore area McDonald's - she was mercilessly attacked to the point of sending her into a seizure. To make matters worse, an employee videotaped the victim as she went into seizure but was more concerned about telling the attackers to 'get out of here' because the cops were coming. The victim of this heinous crime has finally responded - you can see that via The Blaze. How do you stop this all too common violence from happening? Glenn explains on radio today.

More youth being indoctrinated by socialists

Glenn has the incredible video of a revolutionary socialist group that explained their plans to recruit children in Jr. High to join the struggle. Such gems as 'the top 1%' don't contribute anything beneficial to society - they just own and exploit, adding 'no real value' so the solution is socialism. It only goes downhill from there. Watch the full video via The Blaze. 

You won't believe what they're saying now to make you go green! Get the details in Stu's latest blog HERE.

Obama's vision of America: Those who came to America across the Rio Grande (illegally) are the same as those who came here through Ellis Island (legally). Not kidding. Glenn has the clip on radio today. WATCH