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For May 10, 2011

1. Why I Will Not Support Jon Huntsman. Ever.

Ambassador Jon Huntsman is gearing up now to run for President of the United States.

If he is the Republican nominee, I will vote for him. But until that moment I will never, ever support him.

And if you are a patriot to the United States of America, you should not support him either. It's pretty simple why.

John Huntman's disloyalty to the President of the United States, regardless of the President or to which party the President belongs, should not be rewarded by any patriot of this country.

2. John Boehner's Line in the Sand

Last night, Speaker John Boehner addressed the Economic Club of New York and drew a line in the sand in the debt ceiling fight. It was a monumental game changer for the GOP and puts them back on offense.

Let me back up briefing and note that the Washington Post's own left leaning editorial board came out swinging on Sunday against the Democrats' opposition to the Republicans' Medicare plans. Yes, *that* Washington Post.

It is with that buttressing him that Speaker Boehner gave last night's speech. It was a doozy.

3. How Much Will It Cost to Repeal the 'Oil Subsidies'?

This week, the Senate is set to consider the repeal of certain provisions of the tax code as they relate to the oil and gas industry. By styling these tax breaks as "subsidies", the Administration and other opponents of the industry wrongly equate them with the benefits enjoyed by ethanol, wind and solar energy. But the tax credits for alternative energy production are true subsidies, essentially cash payments to producers of energy that cannot compete in the marketplace without help.

Randall Hoven at American Thinker gives a good breakdown the specifics of the tax breaks targeted by the Administration. I'll not rehash those details, but will add three points worthy of emphasis: 1) the tax breaks are not as unique to oil and gas as has been advertized; 2) two of the tax breaks in question are "cost recovery" deductions against income, not handouts (try telling your company's CFO that his depreciation charge is a government subsidy); and 3) the brunt of the tax increase will be felt by independent companies, not "Big Oil", which lost most of the benefit of these categories of deductions years ago. Energy state Democrats like Rep. Dan Boren of OK, former Rep. Martin Frost of TX and LA Senator Mary Landrieu agree that Administration proposals would indiscriminately punish "small oil", damaging American energy security in the process.

Some 9.2 million jobs depend on the domestic oil and gas business. Oil and gas activity also creates plenty of revenue for the public coffers. It's altogether possible that these effective tax increases could be a net negative for government revenue. Shouldn't someone ask "Can we afford it?"

4. Notes From "The Food Stamp Recovery"

n case you missed it, Jay Cost had a great piece on Friday on "the Food Stamp recovery", laying out the ways in which the currently-underway "recovery" is the weakest in memory. His bracing conclusion?

"[I]f the economic recovery does not begin to show substantial improvement, the likes of which we have not really seen in the last two years, and if the GOP nominates a reasonably acceptable alternative, this president is going to lose in 2012, and the final result will not be close. Nobody gets reelected with employment way down, real income way down, and 14 percent of his fellow citizens on food stamps. Nobody."

Let's add a couple of items that help explain why the economy may be looking up for managers of corporations large enough to collect government favor but not for most Americans.

5. Thinking Outside the Box: How Boeing's South Carolina Employees Can Strike Back

There's been a lot of ink spilled of late over the union-controlled National Labor Relations Board's decision to prosecute Boeing for allegedly locating its second 787 assembly plant in South Carolina in retaliation for the Machinists' union employees engaging in past strikes.

Despite the NLRB's Acting General Counsel Lafe Solomon's statement that there is "nothing remarkable or unprecedented" about his prosecution of Boeing, his basing his decision to prosecute Boeing on the logic that "[a] worker's right to strike is a fundamental right guaranteed by the National Labor Relations Act" is a selective use of the National Labor Relations Act's Section Seven Rights.

Solomon's logic is also a double-edged sword that, if they so desire, Boeing's union-free employees in South Carolina can use to try to help save their jobs.

6. Obama Made A "Gutsy Call" And He'll Tell You So

Last week my colleague, Dan McLaughlin, noted that the website gutsycall.com referred visitors to the Obama 2012 campaign website.

The website redirects to the Obama campaign and there was much squalling from the Obama camp that they had nothing to do with this. There is much to doubt in their denial and there is little doubt that Obama will run for a second term by attempting to capitalize on the "gutsy call" to kill bin Laden.

7. Collective Money!? When Did Anybody's Earnings Become the People's Dollars?

It seems that The Democrats have a strategy for addressing the higher gas prices that are killing American consumers. They intend to blame oil companies and saddle them with revenge taxes. In fact, the Senate Finance Committee has plans of hauling the executives of multinational oil companies to discuss tax subsidies and government incentives at a hearing on Thursday.

The Democrats are doing this in order to deny oil companies $21Bil in tax breaks for activities such as R&D and deposit this money into the Federal Treasury. President Obama wanted the collective money of the taxpayers to build clean energy projects such as the bird-hacking windmills built by his close, personal friend Jeffrey Immelt's GE Corporation in China.

Praise the enlightened attitudes of those nice, caring Palestinians in Hamas-who recently banned women from riding motorcycles.

Clearly their motivation is to protect the fairer sex from the myriad dangers associated with this most risky form of transport. No wonder liberal Americans prefer Gaza's gentle, sensitive feminist government to that of Israel, whose government callously treats its women folk as if they were no different from men. Why, Israeli women are even allowed to disport themselves in revealing swimwear on the beach, exposing themselves to the lascivious stares of men who might at any stage come up to them and say "Hi!" and invite them for a drink, with goodness knows what terrible potential consequences. Much better to live in Gaza, where the religious police protect girls from such horrors by giving them a sound beating if they are found improperly dressed! 

Islamic Illegals Crossing the U.S. Borders Part 1

Glenn Beck & Al-Jazeera TV on "Hezbollah in Mexico"

Glenn Beck on a new type of violence taking place at the Mexico/US border.

A video by Kuwaiti Professor Abdallah Al-Nafisi which aired on Al-Jazeera TV (Qatar), February 2, 2009 is shown halfway through Beck's presentation.

He states:
"Four pounds of anthrax in a suitcase this big carried by a fighter through tunnels from Mexico into the US, are guaranteed to kill 330,000 Americans within a single hour, if it is properly spread in population centers there. What a horrifying idea. 9/11 will be small change in comparison. Am I right? There is no need for airplanes, conspiracies, timings, and so on. One person with the courage to carry four pounds of anthrax will go to the White House lawn and will spread this "confetti" all over them and then will do these cries of joy. It will turn into a real "celebration".

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Where's Waldo Osama?

Government should release bin Laden death photos
by Bill Levinson

The following picture (don't click on "more" if you don't like graphic death images) shows why we are not receptive to the President's statement that publishing pictures of Osama bin Laden's death is not "who we are." The hanging of Japanese warlord Hideki Tojo, and the hanged bodies of various Nazi war criminals, were all photographed by our government which obviously released the photos.

In any event, the following set of photos speaks for itself and Osama bin Laden definitely deserves to be part of it.

Where's Waldo Osama?
 

Bin Laden's One Mistake

by Shmuel Sackett, Manhigut Yehudit International Director

One thing made Osama bin Laden public enemy #1. One thing made him a target for America 's hit squad. One thing - and only one thing - made his assassination justified and praised by world leaders. He didn't just kill Jews.

Had he limited his terrorism to Jews only, he would not have been targeted. The same world leaders who today take great pride in his death would have celebrated his life. He would not have been killed by President Obama; he would have dined with him.

He would have been invited to the United Nations. He would have had a worldwide speaking tour. He would have won the Nobel peace prize.

Think I'm crazy? Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is the President of Iran. His resume includes much more than just politics. He and his Persian mentors ordered Hezbollah to bomb the Jewish Community of Argentina in the 90s and killed hundreds of Jews. He has stated - time and again - that he wants to destroy...

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Obama Eligibility Suit Receives Federal Justices' Positive Nods

By Ted Belman

On May 2/11 the C of A heard the appeal against the denial by the lower court of the standing of the Plaintiffs to ask whether Obama was eligible.

This article discusses what exchanges took place on the appeal. Even allowing for the fact that the author may have wanted the appeal to be granted, he describes some of the facts and the arguments presented in a fair way.

The article serves a useful purpose in ellucidating what is at stake on the issue of standing. Although he has a positive take on what transpired, I couldn't escape the feeling that this court would try their utmost to deny the appeal.

The Court has yet to rule (I'd be surprised it it grants the appeal).

 

 

America Grieves for Osama bin Laden

by Bill Levinson

Thank You Very Much (from the musical version of Dickens' Christmas Carol), shows Scrooge's debtors grieving for him Americans grieving for Osama bin Laden.

 

Thank You Very Much (Part 1)

 

 

Brief · May 9, 2011

Re: The Left

White House withholds bin Laden photo

"The White House converted a picture-perfect military operation into a public-relations disaster that will be cited as what not to do and how not to do it in flackery textbooks for a hundred years. Days after the raid on Osama bin Laden's 'mansion' they still can't get the 'fact pattern,' in the language of the White House, even close to straight. Even that ubiquitous photograph of the president, the secretary of state and assorted minions bravely watching the operation in 'real time' looks now to have been a 'photo-op' taken after the fact. ... [T]he real offense of the Washington wimpery is pushing a weakling's canard against the military, asserting that the photograph [of Osama's dead body] can't be shown because it would make Muslim terrorists cross at us. But surely the Army and the Navy can take care of themselves; soldiers, sailors and Marines aren't Campfire Girls. Can anyone imagine FDR and his generals canceling D-Day because an invasion might infuriate the Germans? Or that a Muslim terrorist will now salute an American soldier in Afghanistan and put down his rifle and grenade launcher, telling him 'we really appreciate your president's keeping that ugly photograph to himself.' Americans come from Mars, so the witticism goes, and Europeans are from Venus. But that doesn't include this president and his bungling minions. They're weepy refugees from Pluto." --Washington Times editor emeritus Wesley Pruden

 Opinion in Brief

"When it began to leak that America had finally found and killed Osama bin Laden, there was joy from sea to shining sea. ... But for most, it wasn't jubilation. It was the silent fist pump and a silent prayer of thanksgiving for the safety of our extraordinary military. ... Unfortunately, while the president spoke for the whole country in remembering the pain of 9/11, his remarks left a gaping hole. He made no generous bow to all the efforts of his predecessor George W. Bush, as well as his team. My one regret is that Bush 43 didn't get this scalp. He deserved it more than anyone. Instead, Obama played subtle and wholly undignified games. He underlined that Osama had 'avoided capture' under Bush and 'continued to operate' during his tenure. But 'I directed' CIA director Leon Panetta to make getting Osama the 'top priority' (as opposed to?), and 'I' gave the go-ahead to the final mission. ... Even in a Monday night 'bipartisan' event at the White House, Obama honored the 'military and counterterrorism professionals' and 'the members of Congress from both parties' who offered support to the mission ... but no credit for Bush. If the roles had been reversed, you know Bush would have been more generous. It's what Bushes do." --columnist L. Brent Bozell

Culture

"The Bush antiterrorism protocols -- tribunals, renditions, preventative detentions, Predator assassination missions, Guantanamo Bay -- were decried as illegal and immoral. Such furor vanished, however, when President Obama embraced or expanded them all. The effort to preemptively remove the mass-murdering Saddam Hussein to foster democracy in his absence was seen by many in the media, universities and legal community as morally wrong -- and yet preemptively bombing Gadhafi to foster democracy in his absence is now considered morally justified. ... Had we gone into Pakistani territory and landed in the wrong compound, legal and ethical issues would have been raised. If we keep killing members of the Gadhafi family without hitting Gadhafi himself, at some point the denial of targeted assassination will seem empty. Targeted assassinations apparently have to work on the first or second attempt to be deemed moral and legal. In recent years the United States has been in a number of undeclared wars against terrorists, insurgents and authoritarian dictators -- Mohamed Farrah Aidid, Saddam Hussein, Osama bin Laden, Slobodan Milosevic, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Manuel Noriega, Mullah Omar, Muammar Gadhafi, the Taliban, al-Qaeda and others -- whom we sought to kill, capture or put on trial. It is about time that we clarified the rules that determine their fates." --historian Victor Davis Hanson

Government

"Hamas, the Palestinian terror group that runs Gaza, is mourning the death of Osama bin Laden. He is a 'martyr' to these jihadists. And Hamas has just concluded a pact with the so-called Palestinian Authority (PA), or Fatah, the group that the U.S. recognizes and to whom we give lavish foreign aid. We are currently giving $600 million to the so-called Palestinian Authority. ... For a decade, Hamas and Fatah have been fighting each other. Hamas is openly committed to the eradication of Israel. ... The somber news of the Fatah-Hamas deal came out of -- Cairo. Apparently, the post-Mubarak government is being strongly influenced by the Muslim Brotherhood. Hamas is merely the Palestinian branch of the MB. So this is the 'Arab Spring' we've heard so much about? ... What we see with the Hamas-Fatah rapprochement is merely the open and brazen acknowledgment of what has always been the case: Both Hamas and Fatah are terrorist organizations. ... Secretary Clinton urged us to send Fatah another $160 million on top of the $600 million. ... It's time to follow up the brave actions of our U.S. Navy SEALs with brave action in the diplomatic arena." --columnist Ken Blackwell

Liberty

"This idea [of a tax on vehicle miles traveled] was floated last year but the reaction to it was so negative it disappeared. But with the deficit and debt climbing, Washington is desperate for extra cash to spend, so it is apparently being revived. In essence, the government wants to slap a a special tracking device in your car that would record the mileage you use, and then tax it. You'd pay the tax when you fill up at gas stations who also, we would assume, have special equipment to read the mileage on the device in your car. And if gas stations can read it, so can the government. And then there's the question of what other gizmos they might put in that device. GPS? Why not? Who's going to stop them? The Obama administration denies that they are in favor of this, but several lawmakers have suggested it, as has the CBO. ... The marriage of technology and injudicious taxes is a marriage made in hell." --columnist Rick Moran

For the Record

"White House and congressional attacks on oil speculation do not alter the oil market's fundamental demand-and-supply reality. What would lower the long-term price of oil is for Congress to permit exploration for the estimated billions upon billions of barrels of oil off our Atlantic and Pacific Ocean shores, the Gulf of Mexico and Alaska, not to mention the estimated billions, possibly trillions, of barrels of shale oil in Wyoming, Colorado, Utah and North Dakota. Some politicians pooh-pooh calls for drilling, saying it would take five or 10 years to recover the oil and won't solve today's problems. Nonsense! I guarantee you that if permits were granted to all of our oil sources, we would see a reduction in today's prices. Why? Put yourself in the place of an OPEC member knowing there's going to be a greater supply of U.S. oil in five or 10 years, which might drive oil prices to a permanent $20 or $30 per barrel. What will you want to do now while oil is $120 per barrel? You would want to sell. OPEC's collective efforts to sell more would put downward pressures on current oil prices. The White House, U.S. Congress and environmental wackos, by keeping our oil in the ground, are OPEC's staunchest ally. I wouldn't be surprised at all if we discovered OPEC reciprocity in the forms of political contributions to congressmen and charitable donations to environmental groups." --economist Walter E. Williams

The Gipper

"We will encourage all Americans -- men and women, young and old, individuals of every race, creed, and color -- to succeed and be healthy, happy, and whole. This is our goal. We see America not falling behind, but moving ahead; our citizens not fearful and divided, but confident and united by shared values of faith, family, work, neighborhood, peace and freedom. An opportunity society begins with growth, and that means incentives. ... [M]y sympathies are with the taxpayers, not the tax-spenders. I consider stopping them from taking more of your earnings an economic responsibility and a moral obligation. I will not permit an antigrowth coalition to jeopardize this recovery. If they get their way, they'll charge everything on your 'Taxpayers Express Card.' And believe me, they never leave home without it." --Ronald Reagan

 Insight

"A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort, or enslaves him, or attempts to limit the freedom of his mind, or compels him to act against his own rational judgment ... is not, strictly speaking, a society, but a mob held together by institutionalized gang-rule." --author and philosopher Ayn Rand (1905-1982)

Political Futures

"According to a series of national news stories, President Barack Obama is looking to play the 'underdog card' in the 2012 campaign. But why would the most powerful man in the world cast himself as an underdog? Because playing the underdog card works. ... In practical terms, underdog campaigns find it easier to motivate their supporters due to a built-in sense of urgency and insurgency. ... The reason why the underdog narrative, or 'Underdogma' as I call it, is so prevalent in politics is because Underdogma and politics are both about power. Millions of people make decisions about right and wrong, good and evil -- and even which candidate to vote for -- based on whichever side is perceived to have less or more power. It is part of our national DNA. America was built on an underdog insurgency against a more powerful adversary. Which is why millions of people automatically take the side of the underdog, often times without thinking. This is a problem for front-running politicians. And potentially devastating for the most powerful man in the world, Barack Obama, as he seeks re-election in 2012. President Obama understands the risk of being portrayed as an 'overdog.'" --columnist Michael Prell

The Last Word

"My objections to Obama have nothing to do with his race or his country of origin, everything to do with his character, his policies and his inner circle of friends and associates. Just for the record, though, until now I didn't believe he was born in Hawaii. Otherwise, why wouldn't he have shown his birth certificate early on, long before his comrades had come up with 'birther,' a term of contempt that, miraculously, would have been synonymous with 'patriot' if the president in question had been a Republican. Even now, Obama continues to keep his college application and college transcripts under wraps, although liberals never weary of telling us how astonishingly brilliant the guy is. Maybe it's just the skeptic in me, but he hardly strikes me as the sort who would conceal his marvelous academic accomplishments under a bushel if they were even half as breathtaking as we've been led to believe. Now that his place of birth has been established, don't be surprised if a few of Obama's acolytes come forward to swear that when he left the islands to enter college in California, they actually witnessed young Obama walk from Hawaii to the mainland. You'll be able to read all about it in the Newest Testament." --columnist Burt Prelutsky

Semper Vigilo, Fortis, Paratus et Fidelis!
The Patriot Post Editorial Team

 

Monday, May 9, 2011

To: Friends & Supporters

From: Gary L. Bauer


Muslim Extremists Attack Egyptian Churches

As the vicious persecution of Christians in Egypt continues, the White House remains silent. Over the weekend, three Coptic churches were firebombed by mobs of radical Salafi Muslims. They were incited by rumors that a Christian woman who wanted to convert to Islam was being held captive at one of the churches. An apartment complex where mostly Copts lived was also looted and set on fire. According to one report, 12 people were killed and more than 200 injured.

It took the Egyptian army nearly five hours to respond to the violence, leading some to fear that the army and local police forces are either complicit in the attacks or unwilling to defend Egypt's Christian minority. When the second church was attacked, Muslim mobs prevented fire trucks from reaching the church.

Also this weekend, tens of thousands of Egyptians turned out for rally sponsored by the Muslim Brotherhood and a group of Salafi Muslims. One Salafi speaker at the rally told the crowd, "The United Arab States and the United Islamic States are inevitably coming. And soon we will have one caliph to rule us all."

In covering the growing unrest in Egypt, a reporter for the Los Angeles Times noted, "Copts worried that the 18-day revolution that overthrew Mubarak in February would unbottle ultraconservative Islamist voices and lead to greater problems. What has been unfolding recently justifies those fears."

The Obama Administration, which vocally supported the revolution, now needs to raise its voice against the ongoing persecution of Egypt's Christian minority. We are moving forward with plans to raise awareness of the plight of Christians in the Middle East and to force action on their behalf.


Cuba's Drilling; Why Aren't We?

With oil at $100 a barrel and the average price of gas near $4.00 a gallon, National Public Radio reports that five deep-water wells will be drilled in the Gulf of Mexico in the coming months. The U.S. Geological Survey estimates that as much as 5 billion barrels of oil may be tapped. And the new drilling could potentially create thousands of desperately needed jobs.

But before you get your hopes up, the Obama Administration has not changed course on its anti-drilling policies. According to NPR, this drilling is set to take place inside Cuba's territorial waters with the help of a Chinese-built oil rig. If successful, Cuba could become an oil exporter.

While some American companies are filing for bankruptcy in part because of Obama's anti-drilling policies, Cuba is drilling for oil in the Gulf of Mexico. While Obama's EPA blocks Shell from drilling in Alaska, other nations around the world are rushing to secure sources of cheap, efficient, reliable energy for themselves. And if high gas prices weren't causing enough pain at the pump, Obama also wants to "track and tax" your car by the mile!


Will Homosexuals Save Obama?

That the homosexual movement has been expanding its influence within the Democrat Party over the years is no secret. It is most evident in the fact that the last Democrat president, Bill Clinton, signed the Defense of Marriage Act, while this Democrat president refuses to enforce it. Now consider this quote from a column in today's Politico:

"President Barack Obama's reelection campaign is banking on gay donors to make up the cash it's losing from other groups of wealthy supporters who have been alienated and disappointed by elements of Obama's first term. ...Obama's finance committee included one gay man in 2008; there are 15 this year..."

It speaks volumes about Barack Obama's radical agenda that his reelection campaign puts so much emphasis on getting support from a special interest group that wants to redefine marriage and indoctrinate children about "alternative" lifestyles. It tells you all you need to know about the kind of judges he appoints and other promises he has made to the militant homosexual movement.

Obama's gay agenda is out-of-step with the values of most Americans. More than 30 states have voted to preserve the meaning of normal marriage. But elections have consequences.

Obama has already appointed two left-wing justices to the Supreme Court, which has a narrowly divided 5-to-4 center-right majority. If Obama gets a second term, he could tip the balance of power on the court for a generation or more.

For Americans who cherish faith, family and freedom, Obama's dependence on the militant homosexual rights movement should be a wakeup call. The stakes in 2012 could hardly be greater. Only one side can prevail in the cultural war over the values we pass on to our children and grandchildren. The radical left understands that too. That is why the homosexual rights movement is so committed to reelecting Barack Hussein Obama.


Osama, Obama And The Election

It's been a constant theme during the last week:  By presiding over the death of Osama bin Laden, President Obama has gained renewed power on Capitol Hill to more forcefully push his agenda on everything from the war in Afghanistan to the federal debt ceiling. This is absurd.  The president deserves credit for giving the final go-ahead to take out al-Qaeda's leader. 

But, as I argue in my Human Events column today, the removal of America's most wanted enemy has done nothing to eliminate the very real ideological and policy differences that remain between Republicans and Democrats. You can read my column here.

 

  

Pakistan's Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has warned the United States against further incursions into his country following the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, saying that future strikes would be met with "full force."

In a speech to parliament on Monday, Gilani said "unilateralism runs the inherent risk of serious consequences.

Read more on Newsmax.com: Pakistan Vows to Attack Any Future US Raid  

 

Read more on Newsmax.com: Eric Holder Vows to Close Guantanamo  

NAT GAS Act and more Big Government 

Heritage Action for America's CEO wrote a great post for Townhall that I wanted to bring to your attention. The subject is America's energy policy, but he also touches on an important piece of legislation the NAT GAS Act. We haven't made it a key vote at this point, but I wanted to make sure you were aware of the legislation. Here are some highlights:

Unless you've been living in Abbottabad, you've probably noticed the price of gasoline is rising almost as fast as our national debt. How our government spends our money and how we decide to power our economy are two of the most pressing challenges facing our country. Despite the clear and present dangers presented by both challenges, elements of the Washington Establishment are still taking a business-as-usual approach.

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Folks on the other side of the aisle understand stifling domestic oil production only exacerbates our current problems, which stem from a combination of deliberate policy decisions made in Washington coupled with predictable international trends. Last week, the House of Representatives passed HR1280, which would expand and expedite offshore energy production.

Unfortunately, Members on both sides of the aisle are still enamored with subsidies. Take HR1380, the New Alternative Transportation to Give Americans (NAT GAS) Act of 2011. The legislation gives preferential tax treatment - i.e. subsidizes - for the production, purchase and use of natural gas vehicles. When is the last time a government subsidy did anything besides distort the market and favor the politically connected?

Nonetheless, the bill has 180 co-sponsors, split between Republican and Democrat. Surprisingly - and unfortunately - a few very solid conservatives signed on, along with more than a handful of big-government liberals. Despite the message sent by voters last November, these folks are acting like members of the Washington Establishment: "if it's a technology I like, it's okay to give it a little boost."

Here is the text of the NAT GAS Act. In PA the following Representatives have signed on as co-sponsors: Altmire, Barletta, Brady, Critz, Doyle, Fattah, Gerlach, Holden, Kelly, Marino, Meehan, Murphy, Platts, Shuster and Thompson. Finally, if you are interested here is further analysis of the bill this write up gives you some additional details.

Leo Knepper

State Director, Pennsylvania

Heritage Action for America

202.412.9526 (c)

www.heritageaction.com

 

Obama to Give Immigration Speech Tuesday

News sources report that President Obama will give a speech on immigration Tuesday during his trip to El Paso, Texas.  The speech will focus on how the President believes we can fix our broken immigration system so that it meets "America's 21st century economic and security needs."

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Illinois Attempts to Void Federal Immigration Agreement

As many states respond to the demand of American citizens to crack down on illegal immigration, Illinois is trying to avoid from immigration enforcement of any kind. Last week, not only did the Illinois Senate pass a state version of the DREAM Act, but Illinois Governor Pat Quinn announced the state would withdraw from the Secure Communities program.

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Colorado County Pays ACLU $295,000 over Illegal Alien Identity Theft Case

In a settlement reached last week, Weld County, Colorado must now pay $295,000 to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) for attorneys' fees.  The ACLU sued Weld County in 2009 claiming that the law enforcement had illegally seized tax records during the county's attempt to combat the growing problem of identity theft by illegal aliens.  The payment to the ACLU comes at a time when most states in the nation, including Colorado, are being forced to cut budgets in all areas.

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Border Smuggling So Severe, Feds Decline to Prosecute

Last week, a House subcommittee hearing revealed the smuggling along the southern border is so severe, federal prosecutors decline to prosecute many cases. This news was the focus of a hearing, held by the House Subcommittee on Border and Maritime Security, which examined the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS's) cooperation with state and local law enforcement officials on immigration.

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Florida E-Verify Bill Dies

On Wednesday, lawmakers in the Florida Senate passed a watered-down immigration enforcement bill and watched it die as the House failed to take it up in the hours before the State's legislative session ended Friday.  As SB 2040 (formerly SPB 7066) made its way through the various Senate committees, lawmakers slowly stripped it of its mandatory E-Verify provision.  Instead, the final version of the bill virtually eliminated any mention of the employment eligibility verification provision.  As passed, SB 2040 merely requires staff of state-run "one-stop career centers" to verify employment eligibility of those it refers to employers. (SB 2040 § 1) Although Florida Governor Rick Scott (R) and Senate President Mike Haridopolos (R) attempted to put mandatory E-Verify back in the bill through an amendment, the Senate voted against it last Tuesday.

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05/09/2011 

Obama's Attack on Private Industry

You might think that a U.S. company's decision to expand its manufacturing facilities and create 1,000 new jobs here at home -- rather than overseas -- would be hailed by the Obama Administration as a step in the right direction, especially with nine percent unemployment. You'd be wrong. Instead, President Barack Obama's National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is doing all it can to throw a wrench in the machinery of private industry. 

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Osama bin Laden benefited from a "support" network while hiding in Pakistan, but its full extent remains unknown, President Obama said in an interview Sunday.

Home values are still falling, dropping 3 percent in the first quarter, making their largest decline since late 2008.

The Mississippi River continues to threaten Memphis, Tenn., as flooding reaches near-record levels, moving fast enough to fill a football field 44 feet deep in one second.

Two churches were attacked, 12 people were killed and 180 were injured during clashes between Coptic Christians and Muslims in Cairo, Egypt.

The nation's largest school voucher program is being enacted in Indiana. Read about it on Foundry.org.

Today's Headlines:  Monday, May 09, 2011

Navy Authorizes Chaplains to Perform Same-Sex 'Marriages' in Naval Chapels

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 Up to Half of Afghan Forces Expected to Master 1st Grade Literacy Level by January
 
April Marks 27 Straight Months of 8 Percent or Higher Unemployment

Where Stimulus Is Working: Jobs Up, Unemployment Down in Washington Metro Area

Pelosi: GOP Budget Subsidizes Big Oil At Expense of Seniors' Medicare

Sen. Reid: Public Debt 'The Greatest of the Dangers to Be Feared'

Longoria: Latinos Helped Elect Obama So There's a 'Need for Action' on Immigration

Al-Qaida Operative Captured in Iraq in 2004 Was Key Source for ID'ing Bin Laden Courier

Violence Targeting Egypt's Christians Prompts Mixed Signals from Muslim Brotherhood

Arab League Ignores Syrian Turmoil

Man Carrying Yemeni Passport Tackled, Arrested on Flight to San Francisco

Republican Jon Huntsman Addresses His Role in Obama Administration

Pakistan PM Defends His Country in Bin Laden Case

NATO Says Taliban Insurgency Is Weakened

COMMENTARY:

Changing Bin Laden Narrative: Maybe It Wasn't a Mansion
By Rich Galen

NEWSPAPER ROUNDUP:

Obama reelection campaign banking on gay donors to make up lost contributions
FCC Chief Julius Genachowski draws ire from all sides
Ariz. seeks online donations to build border fence
Rumsfeld: Discussing cache of al Qaida information is ill-advised
Dry weather cited as bee population drops
Democrats pushing to get No. 2 man at the Justice Department confirmed
University of California may charge higher tuition at popular campuses
Providence mayor targets 9 nonprofits for tax collection
Red Bull plans lifestyle magazine
Homeland Security dollars pouring into California
In Mexico City, crowds protest drug violence

The 'Education' Mantra

By Thomas Sowell · Tuesday, May 10, 2011

One of the sad and dangerous signs of our times is how many people are enthralled by words, without bothering to look at the realities behind those words.

One of those words that many people seldom look behind is "education." But education can cover anything from courses on nuclear physics to courses on baton twirling.

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Tea Party Top Stories
for Monday, May 9th, 2011  

May 10, 2011 

On Monday's Program 

Glenn takes surprise trip to Israel

Pat & Stu covered for Glenn on radio today and about halfway through the program listeners found out why. The news broke that Glenn was off because of a surprise trip he took to Israel and that he's working on a 'project' while there. Get Glenn's comments on the trip, see pictures, and get all future updates about the new project at GlennBeck.com.  

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Obama: "The longest 40 minutes of my life"

President Obama gave his first interview since the successful raid that killed Osama bin Laden and said monitoring the operation, 'was the longest 40 minutes of my life' with the possible exception of a health issue with one of his children. Obama describes how tense it got in the situation room, his thoughts on those who say we should have captured him and more in this telling interview. Get all the details HERE.

So, who's the worlds #1 most wanted terrorist now? Stu & Pat run through the updated, post Osama list exclusively on today's 4th Hour! Check out a FREE clip HERE. Not an Insider Extreme member? Sign up HERE.

The Osama/Obama problem

No broadcaster wants to do it, but many (including Glenn) have been guilty of switching that one fateful letter around causing quite an embarrassing moment. Dozens of prominent broadcasters have made mistakes like Obama bin Laden, Obama is dead, they found where Obama was hiding, calling Obama Osama -- and on and on. Pat & Stu play the dozens of hilarious screw ups by the media on radio today. 

Best ringtone ever? Pat's obnoxious 'Osama bin Laden's dead' song set to be top downloaded ringtone...LISTEN.

Stu Blog: Is it okay to celebrate the death of Osama bin Laden? Stu gives his ruling HERE.

Here comes the PC left: upset about bin Laden raid

Last week Michael Moore said bin Laden 'won', and that's apparently opened the floodgates for the PC left to start voicing complaints. Libs are now voicing complaints that the operation name 'Geronimo' was racist, Noam Chomsky called UBL an 'unarmed victim,' and Rosie O'Donnell says bin Laden deserved due process. Oh, the lengths the left will go to in humiliating themselves.

Osama watched himself on TV

Considering he supposedly hated American culture -- like reality TV & the obsession with self - it's a little peculiar that Osama bin Laden would be sitting at his compound watching himself on TV. The Pentagon has released images of bin Laden watching himself like a washed up athlete makes his family sit around and watch old tapes from High School. Check out the images HERE.