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912 Patriots of Lower Bucks - Daily E-Mail May 18, 2011
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Quote of the Day
"The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government - lest it come to dominate our lives and interests".
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LISTEN LIVE TO REPATRIOT RADIO
"BETTER THAN EVER"
WNJC 1360AM Shows
(all times are eastern)
Wednesday 3-4pm "Patriots Watch" - Michael "JB" Schaffner and Adrianne Knobloch
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UN AGENDA 21
There will be a meeting on fighting UN Agenda21 & sustainable development:
Wednesday, May 18th - 5:30 pm
P J Ryan's - downstairs
231 Bridge Street
Phoenixville, PA 19460
The United Nations Agenda 21 is being pushed in the United States (included in your community) though Sustainable Development. Please look at this video and educate yourself on this devious program to deliver us to a one world government (collectivism) which will take away all the rights that we now enjoy. While we have been focusing on all the other issues we face, they have been working under the radar on this program which when fully understood will help explain why we are being deluged on all sides. additional info on Sustainable Development log on to - www.TheUnsolicitedOpinion.com
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Agenda 21 For Dummies |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzEEgtOFFlM&feature=youtu.be
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The Dreyfuss Initative:
An Evening With Richard Dreyfuss
Wednesday, June 8, 2011 7-9 PM at The National Constitution Center in Philadelphia
A FREE EXCLUSIVE ONE-NIGHT ONLY EVENT FOR LISTENERS OF THE NEW TALK RADIO 1210, WPHT
Academy Award winning actor Richard Dreyfuss is best known for starring in film, television, and theater roles since the late 1960s, including the films American Graffiti, Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Goodbye Girl, Stakeout, Always, What About Bob? and Mr. Holland's Opus. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1977 for The Goodbye Girl, and was nominated in 1995 for Mr. Holland's Opus.
Now, Richard Dreyfuss is taking on a new role. The Oscar-winning actor is Founder and President of The Dreyfuss Initiative, which calls for a cross-curricular study of civics in our public schools that incorporates...
- HISTORY - LOGIC - REASON - CRITICAL THINKING
The Dreyfuss Initiative, a nonprofitorganization committed to revitalizing America's civic culture. Richard also serves on the American Bar Association's Education Committee, the Board of the National Constitution Center, and was Senior Research Advisory Member of St. Antony's College, Oxford University.
THIS WILL BE AN ENTERTAINING EVENING FOR PARENTS, FOR STUDENTS, FOR EVERYONE!
Richard will share why he believes that too many of us don't realize the power we hold in a democracy. The solution, he says, is to change the way students learn about civics, the study of the rights and duties of citizenship. Learn why we need a national standard that calls for teaching reason, logic and critical thinking skills before teaching government as a way of providing perspective and context in civics classes.
ARE AMERICAN STUDENTS PREPARED TO INHERIT THE LEADERSHIP OF OUR GREAT NATION?
Richard Dreyfuss joins 1210s Dom Giordano for this unique 2-hour LIVE event and will lay out the critically important issues, and discuss why he believes we must be preparing our nation's next generation to be effective and engaged citizens.
The event is free. Seating is limited. You must register to attend.
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Michael J. Totten
Why Lebanon Matters
As revolutions and uprisings overtake the Middle East-with Western forces in Libya, Basher Assad crushing Syrian rebels, and Egypt under tension-does little Lebanon matter?
Very much so, argues Michael J. Totten, a foreign correspondent noted for his behind-the scenes conversations with many key players in the region-including Hezbollah.
His new and insightful book, The Road to Fatima Gate, offers Totten's first hand experiences of the 2005 Cedar Revolution, the devastating 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah, and the latter's progressive assault on Lebanon's elected government.
A noted journalist-his work has appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Jerusalem Post and many other publications-Totten will offer a sobering assessment of Lebanon and its overlooked significance in Middle East politics.
The Forum thanks the offices of Cozen O'Connor for hosting this event.
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Cozen O'Connor
1900 Market Street (19th and Market Sts.)
Philadelphia 19103
$20 per person (lunch included)
(Complimentary for current MEF donors of $500 or more)
You may now RSVP online or via e-mail (Prosser@MEForum.org), fax (215-546-5409) or phone (215-546-5406 ex.13).
Business attire. Limited capacity. You must have picture I.D. to enter the building.
Please note: Payment in advance is required to secure a reservation at MEF events. Refunds are available if we are notified by telephone (215-546-5406, ext. 13) or e-mail Prosser@meforum.org three days in advance of the event.
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Philadelphia Freedom Center Announcement |
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WMC with guest Dr. Michael Ledeen
Dr. Michael Ledeen is an internationally renowned scholar, whose ideas and insights on the workings of the Iranian government have been a critical part of the policy discussion for decades. He is a highly regarded expert on Iran's Green Movement and maintains close ties to opposition groups inside Iran.
His scholarship on Iraq, terrorism and international security have been sought after by those in and out of government and the intelligence community, the media and policy influencers.
He is a contributing editor at National Review Online. Previously, Dr. Ledeen served as a consultant to the National Security Council, the State Department, and the Defense Department. He has also served as a special adviser to the Secretary of State.
Please join us in welcoming Dr. Ledeen to Philadelphia.
When: June 13, 2011, 11:00am - 1:30pm
Where: Union League of Philadelphia
Registration: $35.00
Lunch will be served.
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RedState Morning Briefing
For May 18, 2011
1. The Gang of Six Becomes Five. Coburn Bolts. Chambliss Stays.
The "Gang of Six", which is the group in the Senate trying to come up with bipartisan tax increases and tax restructuring to implement the Deficit Commission's plans, is collapsing. Late yesterday, Oklahoma Republican Tom Coburn bolted from the group because the Democrats are unwilling to deal with restructuring entitlements in their quest to raise taxes.
Two Republicans remain, Mike Crapo of Idaho and Saxby Chambliss of Georgia. The Washington Post reports Chambliss is now leading the GOP down a path toward supporting tax increases without serious entitlement reform.
Chambliss, his friends say, doesn't care about the political cost. He's decided the voters are too stupid to know what to do, but he does know what to do. And doggoneit, Saxby is going to do what Saxby wants to do with his good friend and drinking buddy, Democrat Mark Warner.
Together, their bipartisan plan will raise Americans taxes massively over the next few years and do nothing to solve the very real crisis of social security and medicare. At best, they'll put a bandaid on the entitlement crisis.
2. Lee Fang and Center For American Progress Use Foreign Money to Influence American Elections
Remember in 2010, Barack Obama, the Center for American Progress ("CAP"), and little Lee Fang over at CAP, were in high dudgeons about the United States Chamber of Commerce and "foreign money." The irony here is that Lee Fang and CAP are largely funded by a convicted criminal named George Soros whose conviction for insider traded was upheld way back in 2006 in France. But that's another story.
It was the big talking point when the left ran out of all their other talking points. Never mind that the Chamber of Commerce could definitively show that no foreign dollars were going to influence American elections. Little Lee Fang sank his fangs into the story, ignored the facts, and fluffed up controversy where there wasn't any on the Center for American Progress's web site. Lefties seized on every salacious distortion and omitted fact.
Turns out that it was not the United States Chamber of Commerce using foreign money to influence American elections. It was and is the Center for American Progress using foreign money to influence elections. Little Lee Fang is kind of sort of paid with foreign dollars.
3. The Senate Republicans Get Ready to Suck on Energy
This is really pitiful. The Senate will most likely vote on Senator Menendez's legislation today to punish the American people, drive up the cost of gasoline, and do so in the name of sticking it to oil companies.
Tomorrow, Senator McConnell is going to offer a Republican alternative that doesn't suck as bad, but will still punish consumers, oil drillers, and the free market. The legislation is S. 953 Offshore Production and Safety Act of 2011.
This is another example of the Senate GOP deciding its legislative strategy is to be "Democrat-lite" to win the hearts and minds of the New York Times editorial page.
Under Mitch McConnell's proposal, the government would add yet another hurdle to obtain a drilling permit beyond the burdensome regulatory hurdles already put in place by the Obama Administration. In fact, this particularly onerous part of the legislation comes from Diane Feinstein and Scott Brown.
4. Jon Huntsman for Mike Bloomberg's Vice President!
Around election time, conservatives are always confronted with the arduous task of sifting through candidates who propagate meretricious right wing talking points in an effort to conceal their faux conservative record. Thankfully, this election cycle, to a certain extent, has given rise to an anomalous level of veracity. Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich are unambiguously communicating to conservatives that they are not 'one of the guys'. There is simply no mystery how they would govern or negotiate with Democrats if elected President in 2012. Thanks for the candor, guys.
Former Utah Governor and Obama-embracing, yet, backstabbing Ambassador Jon Huntsman is taking this approach to a new level-a level of candor that can only mean that he is seeking the VP nomination for a Mike Bloomberg ticket.
5. Salon's Joan Walsh: Predictable and Racist Buffoon Joan Walsh is nothing if not predictable and super tiring. Oh yeah, and totally racist. Her true racist colors showed once again in her latest article at Salon. The article was meant to attack Newt Gingrich for a statement he made at the Georgia Republican Convention and defended - rightly - afterward on Meet The Press, which further goes to show what an absolute oaf Walsh is. There are plenty of valid and honest reasons to question statements made by Newt. As Big Journalism points out, this is not one of them.
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Pick a fight with a liberal on:
DISCRIMINATION.
In the days of the Founding Fathers, discrimination would have been the mark of a well-rounded, intelligent citizen. "Discrimination" meant "discernment"-an ability to make nice judgments about what was good, what was bad, what was mediocre, what was fake, what was genuine. Today it means "being unpleasant to women, ethnic minorities, gay people, and the disabled." So it is that another fine and quintessentially conservative concept has been hijacked and corrupted by the liberal Left to advance its agenda of resentment, bitterness, and slavering entitlement. |
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Faith Protesters Interrupt TX Church Service to Shout Anti-Israel Slogans
May 17, 2011
This past Sunday, Pastor John Hagee of Cornerstone Church in San Antonio, TX devoted an entire service to honoring Israel. When some pro-Palestinian protesters got a hold of that news, they decided to show up at the service, plant themselves in the audience, and then randomly stand up shouting anti-Israel messages.
One person who goes by the tag "riotsareforlovers" (who refers to the protesters as "we") caught the entire thing on video and put together a supportive montage:
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World Hamas Cleric: The Jews Will be Annihilated & Palestine Will Be Capital of New Caliphate
May 17, 2011
Just last week, Egyptian presidential candidate Amr Moussa, the longtime secretary-general of the Arab League, told the Washington Post that Hamas isn't really a terror group. That might be harder to deny after he hears the audio below.
This is Hamas member and cleric Yunis Al-Astal reportedly declaring, "The [Jews] are brought in droves to Palestine so that the Palestinians - and the Islamic nation behind them - will have the honor of annihilating the evil of this gang." He also predicts that Palestine will become the capital of the new Islamic caliphate:
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Gateway Pundit offers an excerpt of the most disturbing parts (via Memri):
Following are excerpts from an interview with Hamas MP and cleric Yunis Al-Astal, which aired on Al-Aqsa TV on May 11, 2011: Yunis Al-Astal: The [Jews] are brought in droves to Palestine so that the Palestinians - and the Islamic nation behind them - will have the honor of annihilating the evil of this gang. ...All the predators, all the birds of prey, all the dangerous reptiles and insects, and all the lethal bacteria are far less dangerous than the Jews. ...In just a few years, all the Zionists and the settlers will realize that their arrival in Palestine was for the purpose of the great massacre, by means of which Allah wants to relieve humanity of their evil. ...When Palestine is liberated and its people return to it, and the entire region, with the grace of Allah, will have turned into the United States of Islam, the land of Palestine will become the capital of the Islamic Caliphate, and all these countries will turn into states within the Caliphate.
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Media Beck Announces Major 'Restoring Courage' Rally in Israel This August
May 16, 2011
The motives behind Glenn Beck's recent trip to Israel now make more sense with his announcement Monday morning that he will be holding a major rally in Israel this summer.
"I believe I've been asked to stand - in Jerusalem," Beck told his audience recounting a list of times in history when people and nations failed to stand with the Jewish people. Beck explained, as he has often in the last year, how the life and thinking of the German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer has influenced him: "He asked people to stand for the Jewish people." He told of Bonhoeffer's call for pastors to stand with him. Only six did.
Beck detailed current challenges facing the nation - "Things in Israel are going to get bad...it's only a matter of time."
"They are going to attack the center of our faith, our common faith, and that is Jerusalem. And it won't be with bullets or bombs. It will be with a two-state solution that cuts off Jerusalem, the old city, to the rest of the world."
"It is time to return inside the walls that surround Jerusalem and stand with people of all faiths all around the world."
The event will unfold under the designation "Restoring Courage," with a clear intention that it serve as a step forward from last summer's "Restoring Honor" rally held on 8/28 in Washington, D.C.
Beck explained that final dates and details are still coming together. He expects that there will be a full week of activities in Israel. There will also be ways for people to participate from here in the United States.
As full details become available they will be posted on Beck's e-mail newsletter.
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Government AP Uncovers New Details About OBL Raid: 'It Nearly Went Terribly Wrong'
May 17, 2011 at 11:49am
 WASHINGTON (AP) - Those who planned the secret mission to get Osama bin Laden in Pakistan knew it was a one-shot deal, and it nearly went terribly wrong.
The U.S. deliberately hid the operation from Pakistan, and predicted that national outrage over the breach of Pakistani sovereignty would make it impossible to try again if the raid on bin Laden's suspected redoubt came up dry.
Once the raiders reached their target, things started to go awry almost immediately, officials briefed on the operation said.
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UN: North Korea, Iran trade missile technology
The exchanges are in violation of U.N. sanctions
By Louis Charbonneau
Reuters
NEW YORK - North Korea and Iran appear to have been regularly exchanging ballistic missile technology in violation of U.N. sanctions, according to a confidential U.N. report obtained by Reuters on Saturday.
The report said the illicit technology transfers had "trans-shipment through a neighboring third country." That country was China, several diplomats told Reuters on condition of anonymity.
The report was submitted to the Security Council by a U.N. Panel of Experts, a group that monitors compliance with U.N. sanctions imposed on Pyongyang after it conducted two nuclear tests in 2006 and 2009.
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Post-Osama, Pakistan threatens to cut NATO's supply line
Lawmakers demand an end to American missile strikes against militants on their soil
By NAHAL TOOSI
The Associated Press
ISLAMABAD - Still angry over the U.S. raid that killed Osama bin Laden, Pakistani lawmakers demanded an end to American missile strikes against Islamist militants on their soil Saturday, and warned that Pakistan may cut NATO's supply line to Afghanistan if the attacks don't stop.
The nonbinding parliamentary resolution reflects the precarious state of the U.S.-Pakistani alliance, which is vital to the war effort in neighboring Afghanistan. The bin Laden raid has brought to the fore a longstanding dilemma that U.S. strikes that Washington says kill militants often are seen by Pakistanis as a violation of sovereignty with mostly civilian victims, exacerbating an already-high anti-American sentiment.
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VIDEO: A Muslim View of Peace and Tolerance
Let's pretend, for a moment, that academic freedom really did reign on America's college campuses. I know, it's difficult to envision, but just for the sake of argument let's pretend it exists.
So into our little fantasy, let's introduce a character. Let's make him one of the most influential young conservative Christians in America, who is also a teaching assistant and Ph.D. candidate at Yale. (Ha ha ha! A well-known conservative Christian teaching at Yale! This is one crazy fantasy!)
And let's say that in a lecture one day, he says the following things:
1. The Bible teaches that Islam is evil. Evil, repugnant, futile and useless.
2. Muslims, therefore, are evil.
3. God says that Muslims are spiritually filthy.
4. The life and property of Muslims hold no value when we are battling them. Here in America, this is not the place and time where we can take their lives and property, but in other places, we can, and at another time, we may do it here, as well. But not here now. Not yet.
Let's further pretend that we have audio of this teaching, widely available on the internet.
Care to speculate on the reaction from the Left? The mainstream media? Obama?
Well, their heads would probably implode.
However, last I looked, their heads are all still intact. Which means that we have one serious double standard working here. Because leaving behind our pretend scenario and turning to cold hard reality, our young influential conservative cleric at Yale is not a Christian (of course) but a Muslim. And here's what he has to say:
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**Action Alert**
New Video Exposes Islamists and "Journalism"
In Nashville, Tennessee
By Kelly Cook, National Field Director
www.actforamerica.org
Click Here to view this must see video produced by Americans for Peace and Tolerance on radicalism in the Nashville area. In it you will view the documented ties of several local Islamists to their radical counterparts in various parts of the nation and the world-all operating with the stated desire to bring down America's freedoms and replace them with Shariah Law!
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*** Action Items***
- Make this video go viral! Please send this link and the action items below to your email blast lists and social networking sites.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4TLQbVs5LQ - Call Nicholas Zeppos, Chancellor, Vanderbilt University: 615-322-1813
Respectfully ask him if he would allow other known radicals, such as a David Duke, to openly come on the campus and espouse anti-semitism?
Then why are Islamists such as Awadh Binhazim, Vanderbilt Adjunct Muslim Chaplain, being allowed to openly preach on the Vanderbilt Campus that shariah law should be followed over our Constitutional form of government? - Call Mark Silverman, Editor at the Tennessean Newspaper: 615-259-8003
Respectfully ask him why Religion Editor Bob Smietana didn't report the news "straight up" on this story when the facts were clear had he performed just a minimum amount of research work? And now that the facts have surfaced publicly, will the Tennessean report them? - That's it. When we all do a little, together we accomplish a lot! Your 5 minutes making these 2 phone calls will send an unmistakable message. Keep trying if you get a busy signal!
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US to pay Pakistan $300 million for fighting militants
Islamabad has received $7.4 billion under program since 2001
By Sahar Ahmed
Reuters
KARACHI - Pakistan is likely to get $300 million from the United States for costs incurred in fighting militants, officials said on Thursday, at a time U.S. legislators have been questioning aid to Pakistan after Osama bin Laden was found there.
The funds are part of a so-called Coalition Support Fund (CSF), a U.S. program to reimburse countries that have incurred costs supporting counter-terrorism and counter-insurgency operations.
"Pakistan should receive $300 million soon," said a Pakistani finance official who declined to be identified.
The United States has reimbursed Pakistan $7.4 billion under the CSF program since 2001, when Pakistan joined the U.S.-led campaign against militancy. Funds that come in through the CSF are not officially designated as U.S. foreign aid.
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Tuesday, May 17, 2011
To: Friends & Supporters
From: Gary L. Bauer
While Obama Sleeps, Mahmoud Schemes
The German paper Die Welt published a disturbing report last week noting that Iran is building missile silos in Venezuela. This is a critical development proving that Iran is doing much more in Venezuela than simply providing it with defensive anti-aircraft systems.
Hugo Chavez and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad have been allies for years. Last year the two dictators reportedly negotiated a pact allowing Iran to station medium-range missiles in Venezuela. U.S. officials have been concerned for years about secret airline flights from Venezuela to Syria and Iran that, according to the State Department, "were not subject to immigration and customs controls." Some in the U.S. intelligence community believe the flights are carrying Iranian operatives and members of the radical Revolutionary Guards.
There is speculation that Iran is looking for a way to threaten the U.S. and prevent us from taking action to stop its nuclear weapons program. Western intelligence agencies believe that in 2009 Iran successfully tested a Shahab-3 missile with an extended range of more than 1,200 miles. Based on the reported location of the silos on Venezuela's Paraguana Peninsula, the improved Shahab-3 missiles could reach Miami, Florida.
President Obama is set to renew his outreach to the "Muslim world" this week, beginning today in a meeting with Jordan's King Abdullah II. Unfortunately, I suspect we will hear nothing about this latest threat to our security from the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Does Pelosi Oppose ObamaCare?
Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco) raised eyebrows last year when she famously said of the ObamaCare legislation, "We have to pass the bill so you can find out what is in it." Well, it seems the more Ms. Pelosi's constituents find out about ObamaCare, the less they like it.
The Department of Health and Human Services recently granted another 204 waivers to ObamaCare. (That the administration has now granted nearly 1,400 waivers reveals just how flawed the new law is.) Now today's Daily Caller reports that nearly 20% of the most recent waivers went to companies in Nancy Pelosi's San Francisco-based district.
The special treatment Pelosi has gotten for her liberal constituents fits a pattern that has been evident for months now. Waivers have disproportionately gone to unions and other Obama allies.
Barack Obama promised us transparency. He promised to change the way Washington does business. But it smacks of big government corruption and political cronyism that Nancy Pelosi's district seems to be disproportionately benefiting from government waivers. If ObamaCare is good enough for the rest of us, it should be good enough for Nancy Pelosi's constituents!
About That Budget Deal...
Remember the much-maligned budget deal that Speaker John Boehner negotiated with Barack Obama and Harry Reid last month? There were all kinds of reports with wildly varying figures about how much spending was or was not cut.
After having some more time to analyze the numbers, the Congressional Budget Office concluded that the deal "will reduce spending by $122 billion over a decade." Speaker Boehner's office contends the figure is a conservative estimate that does not include "spending cuts achieved in previous, more short-term budget agreements."
A hundred billion here and a hundred billion there, and pretty soon you're talking about real money!
Ryan Responds
Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) spearheaded House passage of a budget that seeks to put America on a "path to prosperity" by dramatically reforming entitlement spending. His plan has been hailed as "bold" and "courageous" by conservatives, but denounced as "draconian" and "radical" by Obama, big media and the leftist establishment.
Yesterday, Rep. Paul Ryan responded to his critics. And he chose the Economic Club of Chicago, on Barack Obama's home turf, as the venue to present a stark contrast in visions for the future of America. Below are some excerpts of his address.
"...the unsustainable trajectory of government spending is accelerating the nation toward a ruinous debt crisis. ...This trajectory is catastrophic. By the end of the decade, we will be spending 20 percent of our tax revenue simply paying interest on the debt -- and that's according to optimistic projections. ...That isn't an opinion; it's a mathematical certainty. If we continue down our current path, we are walking right into the most preventable crisis in our nation's history. ...
"To an alarming degree, the budget debate has degenerated into a game of green-eyeshade arithmetic, with many in Washington ... demanding that we trade ephemeral spending restraints for large, permanent tax increases. This sets up a debate in which we are really just arguing over who to hurt and how best to manage the decline of our nation. It is a framework that accepts ever-higher taxes and bureaucratically rationed health care as givens. ...
"I call it the 'shared scarcity' mentality. The missing ingredient is economic growth. Shared scarcity represents a deeply pessimistic vision for the future of this country -- one in which we all pay more and we all get less. I believe it would leave us with a nation that is less prosperous and less free. ...
"The disagreement isn't really about the problem. It's about the solution to controlling costs in Medicare. And if I could sum up that disagreement in a couple of sentences, I would say this: Our plan is to give seniors the power to deny business to inefficient providers. Their plan is to give government the power to deny care to seniors. ...
"Those committed to the mindset of 'shared scarcity' are telling future generations, 'Sorry, you're just going to have to make do with less. Your taxes will go up, because Washington can't get government spending down.' ...If we succumb to this view that our problems are bigger than we are -- if we surrender more control over our economy to the governing class -- then we are choosing shared scarcity over renewed prosperity, and managed decline over economic growth. ...
"That's the real class warfare that threatens us -- a class of governing elites picking winners and losers, and determining our destinies for us. ...
"Nobody ever got rich betting against the United States of America, and I'm not about to start. Time and again, just when it looked like the era of American exceptionalism was coming to a close... we got back up. We brushed ourselves off. And we got back to work - rebuilding our country, advancing our society, and moving the boundaries of opportunity ever forward."
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05/17/2011
Teaching Obama a Lesson on Education
Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Yet when it comes to education, that's one lesson the federal government hasn't learned. Maybe it's time to put some history teachers on the case. They would have to look no further than President Barack Obama in writing their lesson plan.
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QUICK HITS
The United States has stepped up talks with the Afghan Taliban as part of its efforts to end the war in Afghanistan, according to a Washington Post report.
The Obama Administration approved 204 new Obamacare waivers last month, 38 of which went to "fancy eateries, hip nightclubs and decadent hotels" in Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi's (D-CA) district.
The Supreme Court, in an 8-1 ruling, held yesterday that police have more leeway to break into homes or apartments when searching for illegal drugs if they suspect evidence might be destroyed.
The space shuttle Endeavour set off for its final mission on Monday, with Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) watching; her husband, Mark Kelly, is commander of the flight.
VIDEO: How's this for White House transparency? Watch as an Obama Administration official refuses to answer questions about the President's proposed executive order on political speech.
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Applying First Principles to the Issues of Today |
Boeing Out of Business?
The ability of individuals and companies to move among the various states is an essential element of American federalism that, among other benefits, allows more efficient economic policies to prevail. America's founders viewed competition among the states as a necessary good. But now the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), an independent federal agency tasked with investigating unfair labor practices, says that the Founders' system of competitive federalism is less important than trade unionism.
According to the NLRB, a recent decision by airplane manufacturer Boeing to build a new plant in South Carolina constitutes retaliation against unions. Unlike Washington state, where Boeing's other operations are located (and occasionally handicapped by labor strife), South Carolina is a right-to-work state, meaning workers cannot be forced to join unions. For the NLRB, the lack of union pressure in South Carolina amounts to retaliation against Washington state workers. The NLRB says Boeing must close the new facility (though the company has invested millions of dollars and created over 1000 jobs) unless the company builds a new plant in Washington to employ unionized workers.
The Founders would see Boeing's decision as evidence of the importance of federalism. Alexander Hamilton extolled inter-state competition as a "fruitful source of contention" appropriate to the American spirit of enterprise which "left no occasion of displaying itself unimproved." James Madison explained in Fderaliset 51 that by pursuing at times "opposite and rival interests" the states would check the actions of the federal government and each other. Throughout our history, federalism has allowed states to experiment with various economic and welfare policies: some have succeeded, others have failed, but all have been instructive.
But, as a federal agency props up failed state labor policies, we must ask how far has this country wandered from the Founders' understanding of competition and federalism?
Consider the arguments of one NLRB defender. Senator Harry Reid explained that the NLRB's decision is consistent with the "spirit of checks and balances" established by the Founding Fathers-you know, those checks and balances provided by independent agencies interposing themselves between private employers and employees.
Let's forget for a minute that The Federalist defends checks and balances as a mechanism to prevent the legislative branch from encroaching on the executive and the judiciary. Instead let's focus on the irony.The NLRB is an independent agency, unaccountable to the American people. This agency promulgates rules, enforces those rules and federal statutes, files charges against companies, and adjudicates cases through its own administrative law judges. In sum, it exercises legislative, executive, and judicial powers. Madison had a name for "the accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many." He called it "the very definition of tyranny."
The NLRB's action and its defenders are symbolic of a statism that has increasingly dominated American business through unaccountable federal agencies. The current trend is paralyzing business activity and dampening the American spirit of enterprise. To turn the tide, we must restore the essence of federalism and economic freedom that enables prosperity to flourish. Reinvigorated federalism begins with preventing agencies like the NLRB from imposing failed pro-union labor policies in right-to-work states.
Keep reading about what is at stake with the NLRB
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Quid Pro Quo For Raising the Debt Ceiling: Repeal The Health Law
BY: BETSY MCCAUGHEY MAY 12, 2011
Tea Partiers stormed Washington DC on Monday to demand reductions in federal spending as the price for raising the federal debt ceiling. The conventional wisdom in Washington is that major spending reductions will have to wait until after the 2012 election, when the Democratic and Republican parties can lay out their competing visions. Don't be bamboozled. The 2010 election, only seven months ago, was a repudiation of Congress's spendaholic ways.
Shockingly, the federal government borrows roughly 40 cents of every dollar it spends. Federal borrowing will hit the current $14.3 trillion debt ceiling on May 16th, forcing Congress to vote on raising it again...
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www.DefendYourHealthcare.us
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The Obama Administration is out of control, and I need your help to stop it.
Last month, Obama's hand-picked Acting General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) issued a complaint against Boeing for creating over 1000 jobs in Right to Work South Carolina rather than forced-unionism Washington state.
Imagine job providers like Boeing across America forced to close up shop at the whim of union-label Obama appointees, who only care about job growth if it pads Big Labor's coffers with forced union dues!
Our still-struggling economy can't afford another Obama assault of this magnitude.
Not only that, it's plain wrong to tell a business where it can and cannot create jobs in the United States.
That's why 34 Republican Senators introduced the Job Protection Act (S. 964) last week -- and why I need your help right away.
It's vital you contact your U.S. Senators right away and insist they protect American jobs and oppose the Obama Administration's scheme to undermine all 22 state Right to Work laws.
Please click here to send your Senators a free action fax urging them to support the Job Protection Act (S. 964).
If you Senator was among the 34 original cosponsors, your faxed petition will encourage them to stand strong against the union bosses who will fight tooth-and-nail to keep their ill-gotten gains.
And your signed petitions will put the Senators who did not cosponsor on notice that there's a tidal wave of support for the Job Protection Act.
The NLRB's outrageous power grab is a tacit admission by the Obama Administration and Big Labor that Right to Work laws spur job creation and economic growth.
In fact, the evidence is clear, as economists Art Laffer and Stephen Moore argued recently in the Wall Street Journal:
As of today there are 22 right-to-work states and 28 union-shop states. Over the past decade (2000-09) the right-to-work states grew faster in nearly every respect than their union-shop counterparts: 54.6% versus 41.1% in gross state product, 53.3% versus 40.6% in personal income, 11.9% versus 6.1% in population, and 4.1% versus -0.6% in payrolls.
In fact, many business won't even consider forced-unionism states when deciding to relocate or expand their businesses.
And now the Obama Labor Board is persecuting Boeing for daring to create new jobs while the national unemployment rate remains over eight percent for the twenty-seventh straight month.
The union czars and the allies in the Obama Administration want to send a message to every job provider nationwide: Create nonunion jobs at your own peril.
It's vital concerned citizens like you and me send a message right back.
So please, sign the petition to your U.S. Senators insisting they support the Job Protection Act (S. 964).
You can bet the union bosses will turn up the heat on every member of the Senate to kill the bill.
Your fax petition will be used to encourage the 34 cosponsors to push for passage even when the union bosses howl in protest and put the remaining Senators on notice that there's a tidal wave of support for the Job Protection Act.
That's why it's vital you act right away.
Thanks to the Obama bureaucracy's latest assault against the free enterprise system and worker freedom, every state Right to Work law is in jeopardy.
Click here to submit your free fax authorization to insist your U.S. Senators support the Job Protection Bill (S. 964).
There's no time to waste. Please act NOW!
Sincerely,
Mark Mix
P.S. The Acting General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board has agreed with International Association of Machinists union bosses who want to shut down Boeing's Dreamliner plant in South Carolina because they can't force the 1000+ workers to pay any union dues or "fees."
The complaint against Boeing is an assault on state Right to Work laws that spur job growth and innovation -- exactly why Boeing opted to create the new jobs in South Carolina.
Please click here to sign your free action fax authorization urging your U.S. Senators to protect state Right to Work laws by supporting the Job Protection Act (S. 964).
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Why I Take Obama's 'Common' Offenses Against Officers Personally
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Jan LaRue was published May 16, 2011 on the American Thinker blog.
President Obama continues to use the White House as a platform to dishonor police officers.
On May 11, Obama and First Lady Michele welcomed a rap poet who celebrates cop killers to the White House. Lonnie Rashid Lynn, Jr., known professionally as "Common," performed a few days before thousands of police officers arrived in Washington for "National Police Week," the annual memorial to honor fallen officers.
Common's "A Song for Assata" is his ode to cop killer Joanne Deborah Chesimard, aka Assata Shakur, a former member of the Black Liberation Army, wanted by the FBI on several felony charges. On May 2, 1973, two New Jersey State Troopers stopped her car on the New Jersey Turnpike. Chesimard and her accomplice shot and killed Trooper Werner Foerster execution-style at point blank range, and wounded Trooper James Harper. Convicted in 1977, Chesimard escaped from prison in 1979 and was located in Cuba in 1984. Common named his daughter Omoye Assata Lynn.
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Blast It! ACLU Protects Teeth-Rattling Car Music
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published May 14, 2011 on The Daily Caller website.
In its long history of empowering nuisances that shatter civility, the ACLU has chalked up another victory.
This time, it's a statewide noise abatement law in Florida aimed at the rolling boom boxes whose subwoofers give unwary bystanders an overall massage, often accompanied by obscenities.
As the Tampa Tribune's Keith Morelli neatly summarizes:
"The throbbing, molar-rattling bass punctuated with profanity laced lyrics coming from the car in front of you carries the same weight as a political candidate driving down the street asking for votes with a bullhorn."
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Throw Out the Bums Before Election Day
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published May 13, 2011 on The Washington Times website.
In Wymore, Conn., voters got fed up with a councilman who kept leaving meetings. So, on Tuesday, they voted him out in a recall election. It's part of a nationwide pattern as people discover that they don't have to wait until the next election to throw the bums out. In Chattanooga, Tenn., a recall effort against Democratic Mayor Ron Littlefield has been tied up in court since September. Organizers who filed an appeal are not giving up, and they say they expect the case to go to the Tennessee Supreme Court.
In Florida, tax-happy Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Alvarez, a Republican, was recalled on March 15 when 88 percent of voters gave him the boot.
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Supreme Court rejects torture victims' suit
Wow! 9th circuit court rules in favor of Obama
The U.S. Supreme Court rejected a bid Monday by five former U.S. captives to revive their lawsuit accusing a Bay Area flight-planning company of arranging for the CIA to send them to countries where they were tortured.
The men said in their suit that they had been tortured in overseas prisons as terrorism suspects. The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco ordered the suit dismissed in September, agreeing with the Obama administration that the case could threaten national security.
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White House: No trade deals without workers' aid
Obama threatens to hold up his own free-trade deals
The White House is threatening to hold up final passage of three coveted free trade agreements unless lawmakers agree to expand retraining assistance for American workers who lose their jobs because of foreign competition.
The move comes as administration officials begin talks on Capitol Hill to finalize the agreements the White House reached to expand trade with South Korea, Panama and Colombia. President Barack Obama has said the deals are an integral part of his economic agenda, and the pacts have broad Republican support.
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Romney phone bank raises $10.25 million in one day
That is a lot of money
The all-but-declared Republican presidential contender, who has kept his head low for much of the year as he collected cash, raised $10.25 million in a single day Monday after bringing together his network of wealthy donors to dial for dollars in a city with no shortage of them. It's a hefty one-day total that Romney's team hopes will show his strength in the emerging GOP field.
Romney's phone bank fundraiser at the Las Vegas Convention Center, much like one during his first attempt at the Republican nomination, was the centerpiece of a series of fundraising events that included a conference call with volunteers who were asked to solicit their friends and neighbors for donations.
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Nearly 20 percent of Obamacare waivers are gourmet restaurants, nighclubs, fancy hotels in Nancy Pelosi's district
Shocking!
Of the 204 new Obamacare waivers President Barack Obama's administration approved in April, 38 are for fancy eateries, hip nightclubs and decadent hotels in House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi's Northern California district.
That's in addition to the 27 new waivers for health care or drug companies and the 31 new union waivers Obama's Department of Health and Human Services approved.
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CNN anchorman Don Lemon comes out as gay man
Still hasn't admitted to being a psuedo-intellectual jerk
CNN anchor Don Lemon has come out as a gay man in his new book, a disclosure he knows comes at a risk.
While Lemon's memoir, titled "Transparent," also covers his journalism career, he's prepared for much of the reaction to focus on more personal matters, which include growing up without a father and his revelation that he was sexually abused as a child.
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Rise of the Obamabots
Ted Rall: wahhhhh nobody likes me
After they called the presidency for Obama, emails poured in. "You must be relieved now that the Democrats are taking over," an old college buddy told me. "There will be less pressure on you." That would have been nice.
In the late 1990s my cartoons ran in Time, Fortune and Bloomberg Personal magazines and over 100 daily and alternative weekly newspapers. I was a staff writer for two major magazines.
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Obama oil plan aims to hush rancor in congress
Oil for poll numbers
President Barack Obama's new plan to expand oil production in the Gulf of Mexico and Alaska is an attempt to deflate Republican criticism that he's not doing enough to expand drilling and appeal to voters as they struggle with high energy cost.
Obama announced measures in his weekly radio address on Saturday to push the Interior Department to expand domestic oil production in Alaska and the Gulf of Mexico.
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Obama working to rebuild grassroots army
New slogan: I'm in!
President Barack Obama's re-election campaign is barely a month old, but Camille Gervasio and other volunteers nationwide already are hard at work.
"Are you with us? Are you in?" Gervasio asks into her iPhone, dialing through a call sheet resting on her laptop to line up supporters for an election 18 months away.
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How to retire on Social Security alone
Keep working and move in with the kids!
Dan Curtis expects Social Security to be his largest source of retirement income. The 52-year-old patient advocate for a health insurance company has a few thousand dollars in a 401(k), but finds it difficult to save on a salary of $38,000 a year, before taxes, in Minneapolis. He is also paying off $20,000 in student loan debt and providing child support payments for his two children. "My retirement future feels pretty uncertain," he says. "If I could make another $10,000 or $12,000 a year, I could probably put some money away."
While it's generally a good idea to supplement your Social Security income with a traditional pension or personal savings, millions of people count on Social Security as their primary source of retirement income. Just over a third (34 percent) of retirees age 65 and older got 90 percent or more of their retirement income from Social Security in 2008. And the majority of retirees age 65 and older (64 percent) get at least half of their retirement income in the form of a Social Security payment.
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GM sponsors and celebrates soon to be released Chi-Com propaganda film
Article by our friend Kerry Picket
In late 2010, General Motors agreed to sponsor a propaganda film celebrating the 90th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The CCP made film titled (translated to English) "The Birth of a Party" or "The Great Achievement of Founding the Party" is set to premiere all over the Communist nation on June 15 reported China AutoWeb last September. The auto website adds:
"According to an announcement posted on Shanghai GM's official web site yesterday, whose title reads "joining hands with China Film Group, Cadillac whole-heartedly supports the making of the Birth of a Party..."
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LED bulbs hit 100 watts as federal ban looms
By PETER SVENSSON, AP Technology Writer Peter Svensson, Ap Technology Writer Mon May 16, 6:05 pm
NEW YORK - Two leading makers of lighting products are showcasing LED bulbs that are bright enough to replace energy-guzzling 100-watt light bulbs set to disappear from stores in January.
Their demonstrations at the LightFair trade show in Philadelphia this week mean that brighter LED bulbs will likely go on sale next year, but after a government ban takes effect.
The new bulbs will also be expensive - about $50 each - so the development may not prevent consumers from hoarding traditional bulbs.
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Ron Paul one of only four House Republicans to request earmarks for 2011 budget (UPDATED)
UPDATE: The original version of this article incorrectly listed earmarks from Fiscal Year 2010 as requests in Fiscal Year 2011. TAI drew those numbers from the Taxpayers for Common Sense which listed the earmarks from the wrong year. The earmark totals in the updated version have been drawn from Paul's website, where each individual request from both 2010 and 2011 may be viewed. We apologize for the the error.
U.S. Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) was one of only four House Republicans to break rank from the party and request earmarks despite a Republican Conference earmark moratorium. Paul sent 41 earmark requests totaling $157,093,544 for the 2011 Fiscal Year. His largest single request was $19,500,000 for a naval training ship at the Texas Maritime Academy in Galveston, followed by a $18,126,000 to provide maintenance on the Matagorda Ship Channel.
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Most nations try to avoid running trade deficits because those that do lose jobs.
Why, then, for the last 20 years has the United States run a persistent, growing deficit that has destroyed more than 9 million jobs?
The story begins when President Bill Clinton, promising expanding markets and more jobs, pushed our country into the North American Free Trade Agreement in 1992 and the World Trade Organization in 1995.
After that, the power to make decisions on trade and employment began to shift dramatically to the multinational companies and to our political leaders in Washington whose influence they were able to buy.
The primary interest of the multinationals is in the success of their own enterprises rather than that of a particular country, even their host country.
So because NAFTA and the WTO abolished U.S. trade laws and tariffs that had been put in place over the years to insure we didn't import more than we exported, the multinationals were free to begin their long and steady effort to move their manufacturing to the countries with the lowest wages.
The great "sucking" sound, predicted by Ross Perot in his attack on NAFTA during the 1992 presidential campaign, began to be heard across our country as factories were abandoned and jobs sucked out....
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Newt: no support for 2012 here
Sunday's statement by Newt Gingrich in support of a federal mandate that would require all citizens to purchase health insurance is likely to completely sink any small chance that he had to win the Republican nomination... As it should.
Appearing on NBC's Meet the Press, Gingrich stated: "I agree that all of us have a responsibility to pay--help pay for health care," Gingrich said, adding, "I've said consistently we ought to have some requirement that you either have health insurance or you post a bond ..." He further told the host that he continues to advocate for a plan he first called for in the early 1990s as a Congressman, which requires every uninsured citizen to purchase or acquire health insurance.
Compounding his problems with the conservative base was his scathing attack on Congressman Paul Ryan's 2012 budget, calling it "right wing social engineering".
This came just one day before the Club for Growth released a report: "Newt Gingrich... does he support economic freedom?" The report is the first in an upcoming series on each Presidential candidate and reviews the former House Speaker, reminding us why we were so often disappointed and frustrated with the man.
Newt generally has been very good in support of smaller government and on the spending side of the ledger. Our frustration with him comes with his overwhelming urge to look for government solutions to our problems, often favoring government subsidies and insertion of government into the economy.
Particularly troubling was his support for:
- Medicare drug benefit that now costs us $60 billion/year
- $700 billion Wall Street bailout
- Federal ethanol program
- Health care mandate
- Tax incentives to:
- Purchase home computers
- $1,000 for 1st time home buyers
- Investment in biofuels and renewable energy
- Tax credits for flex fuel cars & hybrids
Nearly unforgivable to many Tea Party activists and movement conservatives has been his penchant to put Party before Principle. The worst case of this was in the special election of 2009 in New York's 23rd District when he strongly supported liberal Republican nominee Dede Scozzafava over Conservative Party nominee and Tea Party favorite Doug Hoffman.
In addition to his support of Scozzafava he has backed many other liberal Congressmen in primary battles with conservative challengers including Robert Bennett of Utah, Wayne Gilchrist (R-MD) and Joe Schwarz (R-MI).
His support of efforts to curb "climate change" culminated in a strange joint television commercial with Nancy Pelosi urging a bipartisan solution.
Newt Gingrich deserves praise for the 1994 Republican revolution, his fight against the Bush tax increase and the completion of the provisions of the Contract with America. However, his desire to involve the federal government into the free market system and his advocacy for a health care mandate is too troubling for us to overlook in our search for Barack Obama's replacement.
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Hallowed Ground? Not if you want to graduate!
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GOPUSA | By Bobby Eberle | May 17, 2011
When the ACLU gets involved you can throw Christianity and tradition right out the window. Imagine a New Jersey high school which hosts its graduation ceremonies at the historic Great Auditorium in Ocean Grove. This school has held graduations at this location for 70 years. Now, the ACLU says that the religious symbols associated with the venue make it a "no go" for graduation.
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1. Video: FOX Cavuto Interview: Rep. Allen West (R) Pumps Gas As He Listens To Hardships Brought on by HIGH Gas Prices
2. Video: Bill O'Reilly vs. Jon Stewart - Discuss Controversy Over The White House Invitation To Rapper Common
3. Video: Rush Limbaugh defends Michele Bachmann's (R) Conservative Credentials
4. Video: Understanding the Debt Ceiling
5. Audio: Paul Ryan (R) Slams Gingrich (R): "With Allies Like That, Who Needs The Left?"
6. Video: Miami Imam, Sons Charged With Supporting Taliban
7. Video: Mayor of Jerusalem: Simple Rule for Detecting Evil in Strategic Relationships
8. 'Healthier' School Lunch at What Cost?
9. Video: MSNBC's Matthews on Tea Party: It's All About Hate
10. Brave Fighting Marine Awarded Navy Cross For Slaying Jihadist Enemies In Afghanistan
Pressing Pakistan to Become a Dependable Ally
Presidential Policy: Does It Make the Grade?, James Carafano, PhD
Finding Osama bin Laden living under the noses of the Pakistani army has changed the relationship between U.S. and Pakistan.
The Islam Conundrum
Amil Imani
Religion is assumed to enhance the mind, but in Islam, followers must be in submission. This does not help encourage freedom of thought and can engender intolerance and ignorance.
Why an Immigration Enforcement Bill Failed in Florida
Peter Gadiel
Why did a bill, which would have allowed police to check whether suspects they arrest in the course of a criminal investigation are illegal aliens, die recently in the Florida legislature?
First Enterprise to Gordo's Big Day
Military History, W. Thomas Smith, Jr.
Commemorating this week's anniversaries of defining events in American Military History.
South Florida Imams Accused of Taliban Support
Steve Emerson
An imam and his relatives, who own mosques in South Florida and funded a madrassa school in Pakistan, are accused of financing the Taliban.
Stopping the Spread of Jihadist Islam in America: A Modest Proposal
Richard Brodie
In its "pure" form, Islam is antithetical to Western values. Most of all, a devout Muslim can also be a jihadist, and it is Islam's justifications for violence that prevent its integration.
A Strategy Change Needed From 'Placate and Capitulate' to 'Force and Fear'
John Bernard
Appeasement has achieved little in the war against the Taliban. Is it time to use tougher methods against an enemy that despises what it sees as weakness?
Anti-Boehner Protest Fizzles Despite Washington Post Backing
Cliff Kincaid
Campus socialists tried to undermine John Boehner's address at Catholic University of America, and cappuccino-culture socialists at the Washington Post were behind them all the way...
Dawn of Democracy?
Slater Bakhtavar
In Iran and Syria protestors demonstrating for greater democracy have been killed or injured by their country's authoritarian leaders. The people here deserve positive change.
Quote of the Day - May 17, 2011
FSM: Quote of the Day
The cracks in the U.S.-Pakistan relationship threaten to become chasms...
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Wielding Waivers as Weapons
By Mona Charen · Tuesday, May 17, 2011
 Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's plea that Congress would have to pass the 906-page Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act in order to "find out what's in it" has become an instant classic in the annals of dysfunctional government. But in the months since the bill's passage, as the Department of Health and Human Services has parceled out waivers, something else has become clear: We may never know what's in it.
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 Barack Obama and his allies in Congress are now resorting to extortion when it comes to granting Amnesty to millions of illegal aliens. Their latest ploy? Give us Amnesty and then we'll "talk" about constraining our out-of-control spending.
Seriously... We couldn't make this stuff up if we tried.
According to the Washington Examiner: "[Senator Dick] Durbin told Senator Jon Kyl (R-AZ) on Fox Sunday News program that if the GOP passed the DREAM Act, Democrats would be more willing to talk about reducing the country's spending habit."
Durbin added that when it comes to granting Amnesty to millions of illegal aliens, "we're not giving up" because NOT pushing the so-called DREAM Act down the throats of the American people "isn't what the American people want us to do. It isn't the American way."
And Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid chimed in on the DREAM Act as well and said that it's time to "rise up" and that the DREAM Act is "good for everybody."
No Harry, it really isn't. The American people have rejected it time and again. Yet, you still continue on and on about it like a broken record.
The DREAM Act is still bad for America, no matter how many times Barack Obama, Harry Reid and Dick Durbin try to ram it down our throats.
Use the button below to send your urgent and personalized Blast Faxes to the Leadership of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. Or alternatively, you can send your urgent and personalized Blast Faxes to each and every sitting Member of the House and Senate... that's over 530 Blast Faxes.
Let them know, in no uncertain terms, that the American people want secure borders. Tell them that granting amnesty to millions of illegal aliens through stealth, trickery and extortion is NOT sound immigration policy. Tell them that when the American People have rejected something as conclusively as they have rejected the DREAM Act, it is supposed to stay dead!
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How Many Times Must We Fight This Battle?
The DREAM Act, like just about every other piece of legislation proposed by the radical left, is nothing less than snake oil.
On the surface, it sounds so caring... so good. Liberals preach to us that the DREAM Act is all about "helping people" and "providing a safety net."
Harry Reid tells us that his DREAM Act is simply a means for the children of illegal aliens to further their education.
He admonishes us that it's simply not right to "punish" children for the "sins" of their parents.
But, as you should already know, what Harry Reid says and what is actually written in his legislation are often two entirely different things. And by now, we shouldn't have to tell you what's wrong with Harry Reid's so-called DREAM Act. You already know that it's a NIGHTMARE.
In short, Harry Reid's DREAM Act is just one more stealth attempt (in a long line of stealth attempts) to trick the American people into granting Amnesty to millions of illegal aliens.
It's an insult to hard-working Americans who play by the rules and submit themselves to the law and it's a slap in the face to the tens-of-thousands of people who come to our shores LEGALLY each and every year.
Harry Reid's DREAM Act can be stopped... it must be stopped... and only you can stop it by taking action now. |
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Good to Know: Obama Is Apparently Ruling Out Third Term as President
 The Blaze | by Scott Baker | Posted on May 17, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) - Eight years as president is enough, thank you. At least that's what Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says President Barack Obama told her the other day.
Clinton said Tuesday that she and Obama often marvel over foreign despots who want to stay in power for decades.
She told a State Department forum that neither she nor Obama can understand leaders who refuse to transfer power and cling to office for 10, 20, 30 or 40 years.
She says she and the president joke: "Oh, my gosh. Can you imagine?"
Clinton says Obama told her, "I'm going to win re-election, and then I'm done," a remark that drew laughter from the audience.
U.S. presidents are constitutionally barred from a third term.
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Mom's Mad: Secret Service Grills 7th Grader Over Facebook Post About Obama
The Blaze | by Scott Baker | Posted on May 17, 2011
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A 13-year-old boy in Washington state faced federal interrogation by a Secret Service agent over a Facebook posting that warned President Obama of suicide bombers, q13fox.com reports.
Vito LaPinta of Tacoma, Wash., said he posted a message on Facebook after Usama bin Laden's death, saying Obama should be careful of possible retaliatory acts against him by other terror members, according to the station.
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$8 Million: That's How Much the Wis. Budget Protests Will Cost Taxpayers
The Blaze | by Jonathon M. Seidl | Posted on May 17, 2011
This is what the price tag associated with "democracy" looks like.
Wisconsin-based think tank The MacIver Institute has just released a video detailing some startling fiscal information: the Wisconsin budget and union protests earlier this spring cost the state over $8 million.
According to a state report, the major cost belongs to the extra security needed:
But there were other costs too, like the money that will be needed to repair the Capitol. Paraphrasing a restoration expert hired by the state, MacIver says the building experienced "three to five years of wear in that one month:"
And finally, there was another six-figure cost associated with repairing the lawn:
How did protesters respond to the damaged property? They posted some signs on the lawn letting other know:
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 May 17, 2011
On Tuesday's Program
Reaction to Restoring Courage announcement
The left is having a difficult time trying to pin down why they are mad at Glenn for planning an event in Jerusalem - in the meantime they want you to know that they are mad! Glenn goes through some of the initial complaints with the announcement of Restoring Courage and talks more about the purpose behind the unprecedented Jerusalem event on radio today.
Frightening: Hamas Cleric: The Jews will be annihilated and Palestine will be capital of new caliphate - AUDIO.
Traveshamockery: $50 100w light bulbs coming
Thanks to the ridiculous federal light bulb ban consumers will be forced to pay premium prices for something that once was very cheap. And the new federally mandated bulbs aren't only expensive, but some pose added hazards such as releasing toxic mercury vapors when broken or 'improperly' thrown away. Ever the capitalist, Glenn sees an opportunity amidst this depressing mandate. Find out what it is HERE.
Latest target of Cass Sunstein: Amish Milk
Amish farmers made the horrible mistake of trying to sell unpasteurized milk across state lines, which prompted the FDA to launch a yearlong sting operation to stop farms from selling 'contraband' to customers. Why in the world is the federal government wasting time going after the Amish? Good question - get the full story HERE.
Stu taking a stand against exercise? Find out why HERE.
Arnold admits to fathering love child with maid: Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger admits to 10-year-old affair -- why now? Glenn has a theory...WATCH.
'Get out before you make a bigger fool of yourself'
A nameless man took it to Newt Gingrich after the former Speaker trashed Paul Ryan telling Newt to 'get out before you make a bigger fool of yourself,' during a chance encounter at a Holiday Inn lobby. It was all caught on tape, something Newt can't be all that happy about. Watch the encounter at The Blaze.
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Trump, Huck out -- Bachmann in? Some potential candidates fizzle while others consider a run. Glenn, Pat & Stu talk a little 2012 GOP on radio today.
Do your homework - this is where you begin: The third semester of Beck University begins tomorrow. It's an extension of our Rumors of War series and the first class focuses on understanding the history of Israel. To prepare you for this first class we're going to rebroadcast Rumors of War I and Rumors of War II back-to-back TONIGHT starting at 7pm ET only on Insider Extreme. If you haven't seen them yet - they will blow your mind. Get educated. Get the facts. Enroll in Beck University now available only on Insider Extreme.
New Czar-at-Large: Watch this week's new Czar-at-Large for Brian's take on the news of the week, and of course, an impromptu Yiddish lesson. L'Chaim! WATCH.
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