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912 Patriots of Lower Bucks - Daily E-Mail May 30, 2011
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Remember Always:
It is not the reporter who has given us the freedom of the press.
It is not the poet, who has given us the freedom of speech.
It is not the politicians that ensures our right to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.
 It is the American Soldier . . .
who salutes the flag, who respects the flag, who serves beneath the flag,
and whose coffin is draped by the flag.
To all the men and women who have worn the uniform of our military services:
We salute you - We pray for you - We are proud of you
We thank you!
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Washington's Crossing observance of Memorial Day, starts at 10 am Monday
If your children or grandchildren are not taught about what it took to establish and preserve our country, then tomorrow you can begin to
fill in the blanks in their education. If you don't, then who will?
The annual Memorial Day event is held today at Washington's Crossing (north end across from the wild flower preserve). This is where the war graves are of those who died in camp just prior to the crossing. They have period re-enactors, existing US military and a number of speakers. If you have not attended before, it's one of the better Memorial Day events.
This photo is from the American Cemetery in the suburbs of Manila, 152 acres.
There are numerous others in Europe, from both World Wars
The views below are from the Korean War Memorial in Philadelphia
The view below is of the Vietnam War Memorial,
Philadelphia
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WNJC 1360AM Shows
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Monday 3-4pm "Bordering on Insanity" - Rabbi Nachum Shifren
"Veterans' Weekly Forum" Memorial Day Tribure PodCast - With Ed Rosen and Bob Rosebrock
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Boy Scouts Pay Tribute to Fallen Soldiers
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Memorial Day Rolling Thunder 2011 - Part 1
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Remembering, We Forget
The Patriot Post | By Paul Greenberg | Monday, May 30, 2011
Today we remember not just heroes but the cannoneers who didn't have time to learn their guns before they died in the mud, the troops whom disease took before the enemy could, the nurses blown apart while administering to the wounded and dying, the young conscripts -- ill-trained, ill-clothed and ill-prepared -- sacrificed in America's forgotten war in Korea. No, let no one think on this Memorial Day that war is all derring-do. It is disaster and chaos and death multiplied.
You who read this in freedom, and I who write it in the safety and comfort of a clean, well-lighted office, can do so only because, in a thousand places at a thousand times, grimy, terrified, unsure young soldiers in the fullness of life were willing to give theirs.
That is the price of our forgetful freedom.
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IMPORTANT - PLEASE CALL YOUR STATE REPRESENTATIVE TODAY AND NEXT WEEK!!!!!
Dear Patriots,
A Voter ID bill is to be voted on next week in the Pennsylvania House. It was supposed to be this week but didn't make it onto the schedule. This bill would require voters to show a photo ID before voting. 23 other states already have this in place. Georgia has the most stringent Voter ID law and at the last election more people voted than ever before.
With elections coming up, it will be very important to make sure that our votes count and that groups such as ACORN do not have the opportunity to negatively influence voters in our towns and cities.
Please call, write, email your representatives, more than once if you can. We were told that calling works best since they log the call and caller's position. At a meeting with Warren Kampf yesterday, we learned that he is getting 100 calls AGAINST the bill to 1 vote in favor. I don't know what is happening to other Representatives but the opposition is well organized. So, please call.
If the link below does not work, highlight, copy and paste the link below into your browser if you want to read the bill. Please see attached for list of legislators. If your Rep. is not on this list, Google: PA General Assembly and click on the tab that says "Representatives" and find your Rep. there.
http://www.legis.state.pa.us/CFDOCS/Legis/PN/Public/btCheck.cfm?txtType=PDF&sessYr=2011&sessInd=0&billBody=H&billTyp=B&billNbr=0934&pn=1805
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The Dreyfuss Initiative: 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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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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Philadelphia Freedom Center
24 N. Bryn Mawr Avenue, #291
Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania 19010
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Valley Forge Patriots Monthly Meeting - Phoenixville Area
Friday, June 10, 2011
6:00 PM
PJ Ryan's Pub - downstairs private dining room
231 Bridge Street Phoenixville, PA
Meeting Topic: Your Property Rights Under a Magnifying Glass
Your Property Rights Under a Magnifying Glass will be presented by Barbara Albright who is a local real estate agent and life-long West Bradford, Chester Country, resident and concerned citizen. Barbara will educate us on Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac policies, FHA Loans & USDA Loans as well as the Kelo Supreme Court Decision of 2005 dealing with eminent domain. She will speak about Senior Reverse Mortgages, too. As a local real estate agent she has some interesting facts on how Sustainable Development has affected her industry as well as decisions made by our government on gaining property from its people.
She will be the first speaker of the evening and then we will open the floor to our members for an Open Mic session. The Valley Forge Patriots sincerely apologize for any misunderstandings about the open mic session at last month's meeting.
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Here is your chance to honor our flag and our great nation!!
Please come and bring the kidsJ
"I Pledge Allegiance Rally" to Commemorate the Flag
Join area patriot groups, veterans, and anyone interested in celebrating the American flag for the "I Pledge Allegiance" rally on Sunday, June 12, 1 p.m., on the steps of the (historic) Chester County Courthouse in West Chester.
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In Honor of Fallen Patriots
By Mark Alexander · Thursday, May 26, 2011
They Gave Their Fortunes and Lives for Our Liberty
"Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one's life for one's friends." --John 15:12-14
Memorial Day was first observed as Decoration Day to commemorate those who died in the War Between the States. It is a day set aside in deference to American Patriots who pledged and delivered their lives to Support and Defend the Rule of Law enshrined in our Constitution.
Since our nation's founding, more than one million American Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, Marines and Coast Guardsmen have paid the ultimate price in defense of our nation, and it is their final sacrifice that we honor with solemn reverence.
Our Founders clearly understood that the burden of sustaining Liberty would be calculated in human sacrifice. As John Adams noted, "I am well aware of the toil and blood and treasure that it will cost to maintain this Declaration, and support and defend these States." So, on this last Monday in May, millions of American Patriots will honor the service and sacrifice of these uniformed Patriots by participating in respectful commemorations across the nation.
Who were these brave souls?
On 12 May 1962, Gen. Douglas MacArthur addressed the cadets at the U.S. Military Academy, offering this description: "Their story is known to all of you. It is the story of the American man at arms. My estimate of him was formed on the battlefields many, many years ago and has never changed. I regarded him then, as I regard him now, as one of the world's noblest figures -- not only as one of the finest military characters, but also as one of the most stainless. His name and fame are the birthright of every American citizen. In his youth and strength, his love and loyalty, he gave all that mortality can give. He needs no eulogy from me, or from any other man. He has written his own history and written it in red on his enemy's breast."
Gen. MacArthur continued: "In twenty campaigns, on a hundred battlefields, around a thousand campfires, I have witnessed that enduring fortitude, that patriotic self-abnegation and that invincible determination which have carved his statue in the hearts of his people. From one end of the world to the other, he has drained deep the chalice of courage. As I listened to those songs in memory's eye, I could see those staggering columns of the First World War, bending under soggy packs on many a weary march, from dripping dusk to drizzling dawn, slogging ankle deep through mire of shell-pocked roads; to form grimly for the attack, blue-lipped, covered with sludge and mud, chilled by the wind and rain, driving home to their objective, and for many, to the judgment seat of God. I do not know the dignity of their birth, but I do know the glory of their death. They died unquestioning, uncomplaining, with faith in their hearts, and on their lips the hope that we would go on to victory. Always for them: duty, honor, country. Always their blood, and sweat, and tears, as they saw the way and the light."
In the current era, too many of our countrymen have no understanding of, or appreciation for duty, honor, and country. They are swooned by media outlets luring them to Memorial Day "sales" that glorify the commercial exploitation now attendant to every national day of recognition. Indeed, while divisions of America's Armed Forces around the world are standing in harm's way against formidable Jihadi adversaries, many Americans will be too preoccupied with beer, barbecue and baseball to pause and recognize the priceless burden borne by generations of uniformed Patriots, that they may be so preoccupied.
To a great extent, Memorial Day has been sold out, and no more so than by politicians who use the occasion to feign Patriotism for a day (or a moment) while in reality, they are in constant violation of their sacred oaths to our Constitution.
In the last few weeks, I have observed the current commander in chief of our Armed Forces as he has converted Osama's Termination into political fodder for his 2012 campaign. For a man who has shown so much contempt for our uniformed Patriots, he has wasted no time taking credit for their successes.
Is he fit for command?
Unlike political advancement, which in most cases is attained by duplicity and deception, moving up the ranks in our Armed Services is based largely on performance evaluations. Each service branch has its own assessment forms for officers and NCOs. The Army has Officer Evaluation Reports, the Air Force has Officer Performance Reports, and the Navy and Marine Corps have Fitness Reports (FITREPs), all in order to evaluate proficiency and character as prerequisites for advancement.
The Army evaluates loyalty, duty, respect, selfless service, honor, integrity and personal courage. Let there be no doubt that if the current CINC were subject to the same appraisal as an Army or Marine Corps E-5 (sergeant), he would be judged severely under the Uniform Code of Military Justice. Indeed, he would likely be court-martialed for dereliction of duty and dishonorably discharged. No CINC in our nation's history has been less fit to serve in that capacity than Barack Hussein Obama.
Obama's malfeasance notwithstanding, there is still great promise for Liberty and the security of that promise resides, first and foremost, within the ranks of our uniformed Patriots, our countrymen who have volunteered years of their young lives and have publicly declared their dedication to the ideals of Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. It is fitting therefore that we honor their service accordingly.
On Memorial Day of 1982, President Ronald Reagan offered these words in honor of Patriots interred at Arlington National Cemetery: "I have no illusions about what little I can add now to the silent testimony of those who gave their lives willingly for their country. Words are even more feeble on this Memorial Day, for the sight before us is that of a strong and good nation that stands in silence and remembers those who were loved and who, in return, loved their countrymen enough to die for them. Yet, we must try to honor them not for their sakes alone, but for our own. And if words cannot repay the debt we owe these men, surely with our actions we must strive to keep faith with them and with the vision that led them to battle and to final sacrifice."
He continued, "Our first obligation to them and ourselves is plain enough: The United States and the freedom for which it stands, the freedom for which they died, must endure and prosper. Their lives remind us that freedom is not bought cheaply. It has a cost; it imposes a burden. And just as they whom we commemorate were willing to sacrifice, so too must we -- in a less final, less heroic way -- be willing to give of ourselves. It is this, beyond the controversy and the congressional debate, beyond the blizzard of budget numbers and the complexity of modern weapons systems, that motivates us in our search for security and peace. ... The willingness of some to give their lives so that others might live never fails to evoke in us a sense of wonder and mystery. One gets that feeling here on this hallowed ground, and I have known that same poignant feeling as I looked out across the rows of white crosses and Stars of David in Europe, in the Philippines, and the military cemeteries here in our own land. Each one marks the resting place of an American hero and, in my lifetime, the heroes of World War I, the Doughboys, the GI's of World War II or Korea or Vietnam. They span several generations of young Americans, all different and yet all alike, like the markers above their resting places, all alike in a truly meaningful way."
President Reagan concluded, "As we honor their memory today, let us pledge that their lives, their sacrifices, their valor shall be justified and remembered for as long as God gives life to this nation. ... I can't claim to know the words of all the national anthems in the world, but I don't know of any other that ends with a question and a challenge as ours does: 'O! say does that star-spangled banner yet wave, O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?' That is what we must all ask."
Indeed we must.
For the fallen, we are certain of that which is noted on all Marine Corps Honorable Discharge orders: "Fideli Certa Merces" -- to the faithful there is certain reward.
To the beneficiaries of the legacy of Liberty that they defended with their lives, I humbly ask that each of you observe Memorial Day with reverence.
You can help to prepare for Memorial Day by placing flags at headstones in your local military cemetery (generally the Saturday prior to Memorial Day). Take a moment and read about the Tomb of the Unknowns. In honor of American Patriots who have died in defense of our great nation, lower your flag to half-staff from sunrise to 1200 on Monday. (Read more about proper etiquette and protocol.) Join us by setting aside a time of silence for remembrance and prayer. Offer a personal word of gratitude and comfort to surviving family members you know who are grieving for a beloved warrior fallen in battle.
On this and every day, please pray for our Patriot Armed Forces now standing in harm's way around the world in defense of our Liberty, and for the families awaiting their safe return.
Please view our Patriot Memorial Day Tributes.
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05/30/2011
Happy Memorial Day
Today, Heritage is proud to honor the men and women who gave their lives defending our country. In the midst of barbecues, parades and the beginning of summer, we want to take a moment to remember what today is truly all about.
Recent Entries
PODCAST: The History of Memorial Day
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Global Debt Exploding, but G8 Leaders Fiddle with the Internet
Bye-Bye, Medicare! (As You Know It)
QUICK HITS
Several people died Monday when a suicide bomber attacked an Italian military base in western Afghanistan, blowing up an explosives-packed car.
President Obama is expected today to introduce Army Gen. Martin Dempsey as his choice to be the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He will need Senate confirmation.
Yemen's warplanes struck a southern Yemeni town seized by al-Qaeda. Meanwhile, embattled President Ali Abdullah Saleh's forces opened fire on protesters in Taiz, killing at least 15 people and wounding hundreds.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said Sunday that he remains opposed to raising the $14.3 trillion debt ceiling "unless we do something really significant about debt and deficit."
What does Memorial Day really mean? Find out in a special Memorial Day podcast with Heritage's Matthew Spalding, who discusses the history and importance of this day. Click here to listen.
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Scoff at the urban myth that the Muslims invented the zero.
Sure, mathematician Abu Ja'far Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi was hugely influential in spreading the word, but the principles upon which he worked were discovered years before Muhammad. What we call Arabic numerals actually come from pre-Islamic India. Tell your liberal friend that what the Muslims actually invented was not the zero, but in fact zero-except for a few cultural traditions (like harems) that are quite nice for the oppressive male patriarchy.
Use air quotes when talking about "Islamophobia."
Quote Roger Kimball's view that a "phobia" is an irrational fear and that there's nothing irrational about fearing a religion with a worryingly high proportion of adherents who think they're entirely justified blowing up innocent travelers and decapitating captured Westerners for the greater glory of Allah.Name the three shortest books in the world:
How to Win Friends and Influence People by Rahm Emanuel; Humility and Its Virtues by Barack Obama; What the Constitution Means to Me by Nancy Pelosi.
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Thursday, May 26
The Open Fuel Standard Act
Your Ticket to Fair Gas Prices and Energy Security
Introducing "Fuel Choice"-The New Way of Empowering You!
By Kelly Cook, National Field Director
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Face it. We've been played.
OPEC (Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries) is playing a deadly game with America. Their oil price fixing mechanism is legendary in the unjust world of anti-trust schemes.
The fact is that oil prices in the $15 to $20 a barrel range provide plenty of fair and reasonable profits for any oil exporting nation. Then why are oil prices today over $100 per barrel? OPEC is laughing all the way to the bank.
Here's the game: OPEC, through willingness to price fix among its 12 nation partners, gradually ratchets up the price of oil through secretly agreed-to reductions in supply. They don't care if they're not producing as much oil. The skyrocketing prices on the oil they do produce are more than enough to provide for their lavish lifestyles and........their generous donations to worldwide Islamic jihadist operations.
As soon as the American public starts to really feel the pain at the pump and begin to lobby their members of Congress to do something about it, oil supplies "magically" increase and the price of gas settles down just enough to prevent the outrage that was about to boil over. And so the cycle goes-by design!
We at ACT! for America are tired of being played in this deadly game of supplying the enemy with the resources to attack us. This is why we are fully supporting the Open Fuel Standard ACT of 2011. We are calling for Members of Congress to enthusiastically co-sponsor this vital legislation.
Why the Open Fuel Standard Act? Imagine you've got a flex fuel car-a car that has been retro-fitted to accept at least 2 different kinds of fuel. You notice the price of regular gas just hit $4.10 per gallon. Because you can also run on methanol (or electricity, natural gas, etc), you check the current price for methanol which is approximately $1.65! Now that you've got "Fuel Choice," you fill up with methanol! Methanol can be produced from natural gas and biomass (common trash, plant wastes, landfill materials, etc). Therefore, it's a potential environmental winner as well.
What happens when tens of millions of consumers start taking advantage of fuel choice and switch to other fuels? OPEC is forced to bring down its prices in order to compete. Game over. The price of oil per barrel would plummet down to its natural market trading range of $10 to $25 per barrel.
How can we be so sure of this? Brazil has already done it-back in the 80's and it's still working for them! Do you know that two of the major car suppliers to Brazil's flex fuel market are GM and Ford? Brazil's proven success demonstrates that a single nation can employ this strategy successfully as a solitary nation against the forces of worldwide markets.
Why shouldn't the U.S. and other major oil consuming countries follow suit? The transition costs are minimal when compared to the tremendous savings and security we all will enjoy through fuel choice!
I know some of you are asking: "What about Drill Baby Drill"? We are enthusiastically in favor of developing all strategies to disarm OPEC and their deadly allies. We need to develop all forms of energy, especially our unfathomable supplies of oil, natural gas, coal and nuclear energy technologies. Encouraging fuel choice through the Open Fuel Standard ACT of 2011 will only enhance these and other needed developments.
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Invest 5 minutes to support fuel choice for your gas tank and for the nation! Contact your member of Congress and urge them to be a co-sponsor for H.R. 1687, the Open Fuel Standard Act of 2011. We are starting to pick up real momentum in this process! Please make sure your member of Congress is a co-sponsor.
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Check out the amazing new website dedicated to the passage of the Open Fuel Standard Act of 2011. Please sign up for email updates and find out the many reasons we need to actively promote this bill. The resources this site has amassed are considerable. There are many factors involved that we just don't have the space to cover in a single email. Please avail yourself to this vital information.
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US to withdraw troops from Pakistan
May 25, 2011 US to withdraw troops from
Pakistan
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Adam Brookes
BBC News,
Washington
The US military has announced the withdrawal of a number of its troops from Pakistan. The Pentagon said it had received a request from the
Pakistani government to reduce its presence in the country.
The request came after a raid by US special forces killed
al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden in early May.
The US has more than 200 troops in Pakistan helping to
train the army. But there are said to be intelligence and special forces
operating there.
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Everyone Please Watch This - UNREAL!!!
If you don't yet know how far down the tubes we are, you'd better get your head out of -- ER -- the sand. Just a reminder that when you have your head in the sand, another portion of your anatomy is a perfect target.
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Burning Bibles by U.S. Troops you gotta watch this- you have been sold out and you don;'t even know it.
Check this website. Very enlightening.
The absurd extreme extent of today's political correctness is well demonstrated here.
This appears to be about one week old and should be seen and digested by everyone...
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7 Americans Killed in Explosion in Afghanistan
May 26, 2011 | KABUL, Afghanistan
Nine NATO service members were killed Thursday in Afghanistan, including seven U.S. troops among eight who died when a powerful bomb exploded in a field where they were patrolling on foot, officials said.
Two Afghan policemen also died and two others were wounded in the explosion in the mountainous Shorabak district of Kandahar province, 12 miles from the Pakistan border, said Gen. Abdul Raziq, chief of the Afghan border police in the province.
"Two months ago, we cleared this area of terrorists, but still they are active there," Raziq said.
The Taliban claimed responsibility for the blast.
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THEY SAID WHAT?
DNC Chair Wasserman Schultz Has No Clue That 'Undocumented' Immigrants Being In Our Country Is Currently a Crime and Attacks GOP for Trying to Act Like It Is
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Embarrassing snub for President Obama as Polish hero Lech Walesa skips meeting to go to a biblical festival
By Daily Mail Reporter | 27th May 2011
- Romania and Serbia boycott Warsaw dinner over invitation of Kosovo leader
- Obama unable to attend last year's funeral of Polish president because of ash cloud
- U.S. President will not meet or address Polish public directly
- Polish officials hope talks will make it easier for Poles to visit U.S.
Mr Walesa had been invited by Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski to attend a gathering of Poland's leading political figures with the U.S. President in Warsaw on Saturday Poland's former president and Solidarity founder Lech Walesa has snubbed an invitation to meet with President Barack Obama.
Mr Walesa, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1983, had been invited by Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski to attend a gathering of Poland's leading political figures with the U.S. President in Warsaw on Saturday.
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President Barack Obama's self-avowed commitment to transparency clearly doesn't apply to Big Labor.
With free legal aid from National Right to Work Foundation attorneys, Chris Mosquera, a United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) union member, filed a federal lawsuit against Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis for gutting union boss financial disclosure requirements.
During the George W. Bush presidency, Foundation attorneys worked hard to strengthen the existing weak requirements, so employees could learn how union officials are spending their forced-dues money.
In 2009, one of the first actions taken by Solis was to STOP these reforms.
On Monday, I appeared with Mosquera on "Your World With Neil Cavuto" on Fox News to discuss the lawsuit.
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Mosquera's battle for transparency echoes the results of the Foundation's scientific poll last year, finding that 72 percent of union members think union bosses should be held more accountable to workers and 63 percent think union bosses are overpaid.
The Big Labor bosses, of course, will do anything to keep their expensive trips, fancy hotels, fat restaurant tabs, and personal luxuries hidden from rank-and-file workers who are forced to foot the bill.
Worse, the Obama Administration has helped keep workers in the dark.
Sincerely,
Mark Mix
P.S. The Foundation relies completely on voluntary contributions from its supporters to provide free legal aid.
If you can, please chip in with a tax-deductible contribution of $10 or more today to support the Foundation's programs.
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Old habits die hard in Washington. In fact, many observers expected the "NAT GAS Act," a package of energy subsidies, to fly through Congress. Washington should not be picking winners and losers in energy, the free market should.
Thankfully, because of pressure from Heritage Action, other conservative groups, and conservatives like you from across the country, momentum has shifted against the proposed energy subsidies.
Subsidies for natural gas vehicles are a key piece of billionaire T. Boone Pickens' government-centric energy plan. After introduction of HR 1380, more than 100 Democrats and 80 Republicans co-sponsored the bill.
Then, conservatives turned up the pressure.
No energy subsidies: Subsidies distort the marketplace, transferring the cost of technological innovation from private companies to taxpayers. $5 billion in subsidies may seem inconsequential given the scope of our challenge -- $14 trillion in debt -- but this is a test of our principles.
Our "powerhouse" formula: We asked you to fight back, and as you made calls, our government relations team reached out to Members of Congress. Together, we explained why the bill violates conservative principles. As our efforts intensified, politicians and the press began to take note. The Daily Caller called us a "conservative powerhouse."
Coalition builds: Heritage Action led a coalition of 20 conservative organizations, jointly sending a letter to Congress. The National Journal reported the unified letter "dealt a blow" to the subsidy bill.
Momentum shift: The bill stopped gaining co-sponsors, and several Representatives dropped off. Just yesterday, as more insidious elements of the bill were exposed, two additional Members reversed course, pulling themselves off the bill (video on our site).
This prompted the Politico to write that "GOP members drop like flies off Pickens bill."
We still have work to do. Just because momentum has shifted doesn't mean the Washington Establishment has given up. Mr. Pickens, the investor who stands to gain much from HR 1380's subsidies, penned an op-ed questioning the patriotism of those who opposed this legislation. We need to keep up the public pressure against new subsidies. That's why we mobilized two new actions on our activist website just this morning.
Keep the pressure on! Take action:
With your help, we can keep this issue in the news and push back against the Washington Establishment.
Thanks for standing with us. Have a safe, and happy, Memorial Day weekend.
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Mislabeling kids as ADHD? Investigate federal rules
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May 26, 2011
Obama's malignant obsession with Jews and Israel
JOAN SWIRSKY, RA ANALYST - Jew hatred comes in many forms - all of them irrational and unsupported by empirical fact, but all of them powerful and largely effective in deflecting personal and political failure onto a tiny people, who by their mere existence highlight the glaring deficiencies that exist in their adversaries. Like a deadly systemic infection, be it viral or bacterial, Jew hatred comes in many strains... (more)
May 26, 2011 The GOP: scared rabbits need not apply WES VERNON, RA ANALYST - Let's cut to the quick: The Democrats want to let Medicare go bankrupt. An accurate TV commercial would portray a Harry Reid lookalike (or Pelosi or Obama) pushing Grandma over the cliff. That is exactly what Democrats are doing to the Republicans, with a Paul Ryan lookalike pushing the chair... (more)
May 26, 2011 U.S. police state begins exponential expansion SHER ZIEVE, RA ANALYST - The recent Indiana Supreme Court ruling against the U.S. Constitution -- rendering the Fourth Amendment null and void in that state by terminating citizens' right to resist illegal police entry into their homes -- is only the latest unconscionable step in a series of actions designed to unravel each and every portion of the Bill of Rights... (more)
May 25, 2011 Porkulus: cash for tax cheats MICHELLE MALKIN - When President Obama signed the trillion-dollar stimulus law in 2009, he proclaimed that he was "keeping the American dream alive in our time." The stimulator-in-chief failed to mention that billions would be spent keeping American tax scammers afloat on our dime... (more)
May 25, 2011 Planned Parenthood picks your pocket to slaughter innocents STEVEN H. ADEN - America is in a budget mess. Big Government leftists have expanded federal subsidies and entitlement programs beyond the capacity of the public fisc to contain them, and the budget is ready to pop like a worn-out party balloon... (more)
May 25, 2011 Obama's illusory foreign policy JANICE SHAW CROUSE - President Obama claims and the mainstream media dutifully report that his stance on Israel is just like that of previous presidents and he cannot understand all the fuss following his remarks at the annual assembly of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC)... (more)
May 25, 2011 Gallup poll: Cain supporters are most fervent NEWSMAX - No Republican presidential hopeful has supporters as fervent as Herman Cain's, says a new Gallup poll that measures voter feelings of "positive intensity" toward the candidates. Cain, a conservative radio talk-show host based in Atlanta and a former Godfather's Pizza CEO, matched Gallup's highest Positive Intensity Score, with 27, for any 2012 GOP prospect... (more)
May 25, 2011 Dependency and votes THOMAS SOWELL - Those who regard government "entitlement" programs as sacrosanct, and regard those who want to cut them back as callous or cruel, picture a world very different from the world of reality. To listen to some of the defenders of entitlement programs, which are at the heart of the present financial crisis, you might think that anything the government fails to provide is something that people will be deprived of... (more)
May 25, 2011 Palin's secret weapon: new film to premiere in June REAL CLEAR POLITICS - Shortly after Republicans swept last November to a historic victory in which Sarah Palin was credited with playing a central role, the former Alaska governor pulled aside her close aide, Rebecca Mansour, to discuss a hush-hush assignment: Reach out to conservative filmmaker Stephen K. Bannon with a request... (more)
May 24, 2011 Don't let the liberal establishment select our candidates DAVID LIMBAUGH - Conservatives are worried that an ideal Reagan conservative has yet to emerge and lead the 2012 GOP presidential field. But are we allowing the liberal media (and establishment Republicans) to manipulate the narrative to prevent such a result? Obviously, the liberal media do not have the best interests of Reagan conservatives in mind when they do their "reporting"... (more)
May 24, 2011 Supreme Court asked to hear highway cross case CNSNEWS.COM - A constitutional law group filed a friend-of-the-court brief on Monday calling on the U.S. Supreme Court to hear the case of an appeals court that declared placement of crosses along Utah highways unconstitutional... (more)
May 24, 2011 Obama's desire for data on your kid PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY - The tea partiers are demanding that Congress not raise the debt ceiling but instead avoid default by cutting spending dramatically. Federal spending on education emerges as the discretionary item in the federal budget most available for the knife, and a House bill is being introduced by Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., that lists 43 education programs to be cut... (more)
May 24, 2011 'Criminal' Obama secret gets no media attention WORLDNETDAILY - If former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin had a Social Security Number issued to her in Hawaii -- a state she never lived in -- would that raise suspicions among those in the national news media?... (more)
May 24, 2011 King: Giuliani 'very close' to joining GOP presidential race WASHINGTON EXAMINER - Former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani, whose presidential campaign fizzled in 2008, is leaning toward another race for the White House, according to a close associate. New York Republican Rep. Peter King, who has known Giuliani for more than 40 years, says the former mayor "is very close to saying he's going to run"... (more)
May 24, 2011 Betraying Israel CAL THOMAS - With friends like President Obama, who needs enemies? If you're Israel, you already have quite enough of those. On May 14, 2011, the State of Israel observed the 63rd anniversary of its independence. But if the proposals made by President Obama in his State Department speech are implemented, that observance could be its last... (more)
May 23, 2011 Senate debates president's power during cyber-attack WASHINGTON TIMES - Senators squared off with Obama administration officials Monday about plans to give the president emergency powers to protect vital U.S. electronic networks from attacks by hackers, cyberterrorists and foreign governments... (more)
May 23, 2011 Trump Part II: he hints at rejoining 2012 race NEWSMAX - Donald Trump, who announced only a week ago that he had decided not to seek the Republican nomination for president, now hints that he just might toss his hat into the ring after all. "Stranger things have happened," the real estate mogul/reality TV star told Fox News Monday... (more)
May 23, 2011 S.C. Legislature prepares Arizona-style immigration law NEWSMAX - South Carolina's Republican-controlled Legislature is expected to send Gov. Nikki Haley an Arizona-style anti-illegal immigration bill in the coming weeks. That has local law officials getting ready for enforcing immigration laws, The Post and Courier in Charleston, S.C., reported Monday... (more)
May 23, 2011 Gallup: 61 percent say all or most abortions should be illegal CNSNEWS.COM - Sixty-one percent of American adults--including some who describe themselves as "pro-choice"--told Gallup in a survey conducted May 5-8 that abortion should be illegal in all or most circumstances... (more)
May 23, 2011 You're illegal in Maryland? you go to the head of the line; you're legal? just pay the bill WES VERNON, RA ANALYST - Our signatures on the petition went out with Friday's mail. All we did was urge the state of Maryland to put a new ill-advised "special interest" law before the voters. Let them decide whether it remains... (more) |
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May 26, 2011
DISNEY DROPS NAVY SEAL TRADEMARK FILING
Following a large wave of negative press and late-night TV mocking, Disney has pulled their request for a trademark of SEAL Team 6. Read the details HERE.
ED SCHULTZ SUSPENDED FROM MSNBC
On Tuesday, during his nationally-syndicated radio program, Ed Schultz delivered an offensive rant targeting Laura Ingraham. Yesterday, MSNBC announced that Schultz was suspended from his TV show for a week, without pay. Last night, Ed opened his TV show with an apology to Ms. Ingraham, MSNBC and his family. Watch it HERE.
REP. CLYBURN PLAYS THE OBAMA RACE CARD
Democratic Congressman James Clyburn says that President Obama's lower approval rating and any problems in his re-election efforts are not performance related, but are due to his skin color. Read the details HERE.
CAUGHT ON CAMERA - BILL CLINTON AND PAUL RYAN TALK POLITICS
Former President Bill Clinton and the current GOP Budget Chairman, Paul Ryan met backstage at a debt forum in Washington DC yesterday. A TV camera captured the two sounding like old friends. Watch the clip HERE.
AUSTRALIAN TV REPORTER CONFRONTS CHINESE GOVT SPIES FOLLOWING HIM
Reporter Stephen McDowell was not in China for very long before noticing that his every move was being shadowed. So, McDowell did what any good reporter would do: he confronted them. Watch as 'all hell breaks loose' HERE.
VIRAL VIDEO DU JOUR - THIS GUY BELIEVES BUSINESS CARDS ARE REALLY IMPORTANT
Glenn Beck Czar-at-Large, Brian Sack has discovered a man who is very passionate about business cards. Watch the clip HERE.
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Check out the discussion 'High Court Upholds Arizona Law Penalizing Employers Over Illegal Immigrant Workers'
More Breaking news..PS...Justice Elena Kagan DID recuse herself from this vote...please follow the link in the discussion to read more!
Discussion posted by Asst Natl Dir Mellie B:
Published May 26, 2011 | Associated Press AP Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court has sustained Arizona's law tha...
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High Court Upholds Arizona Law Penalizing Employers Over Illegal Immigrant Workers
Check out the discussion 'BREAKING NEWS: Judge Strikes Down Wisconsin Collective Bargaining Law'
Please click the link to read more about this turn of events in Wisconsin!
Discussion posted by Asst Natl Dir Mellie B:
Published May 26, 2011 | Associated Press AP/Milwakee Journal Sentinel Friday: Judge Maryann Sumi listens to arguments during a hearin...
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BREAKING NEWS: Judge Strikes Down Wisconsin Collective Bargaining Law
Check out the discussion 'Waiting for the Miracle to Come By Pamela Geller'
Pamela Geller writes a really great piece about President Obama's "1967 Israel Border's" and Israeli Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu's response.
Discussion posted by Asst Natl Dir Mellie B:
Here is a really great Article from our Good Friend and Partner, Pamela Geller of Atlas Shrugs! May 26, 2011 Waiting for the Miracle to C...
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Waiting for the Miracle to Come By Pamela Geller
Check out the discussion 'I AM ISRAEL'
A Must See video! Ck it out today or this weekend! have a Great Memorial Weekend! Stay safe! DD
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Please take a few minutes to read my post I am Israel. Thanks Darla I Am Israel Posted on May 27, 2011 by Darla Dawald, National Director...
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Tea Party News
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law  | In their 5-3 decision Thursday, the justices made clear that states can play a role in what is generally a federal system of immigration regulation. The court upheld a 2007 Arizona law that revokes the business license of companies that hire unauthorized workers, saying it met an exception to the usual federal prohibition on states setting civil or criminal penalties in this area.
The court "gives the green light to state use of licensing laws as a tool of immigration enforcement," says Temple University law professor Peter Spiro, predicting that advocates for restrictions will likely push other states to adopt measures similar to Arizona. "But that doesn't mean they will get their way," added Spiro, who specializes in immigration law. "Business interests are very powerful in state capitals."
Jay Sekulow, chief counsel at the American Center for Law and Justice, among the groups that backed Arizona at the court, said, "I think you're going to see this become a catalyst for state action, in licensing and other areas." He termed the ruling "a road map" for states that want "to protect their borders and citizens." [USA Today, May 27] Click here for the source story
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Trump?  | Sarah Palin's announcement that she will begin a slick, campaign-style bus tour this weekend set off a frenzy of media and political speculation about her intentions for the 2012 presidential race.
The political flurry foreshadowed the kind of adrenaline shot to the heart that Ms. Palin's candidacy could be for a presidential campaign that had recently looked like it was coalescing around a pretty traditional set of contenders. Traditional she is not.
But Mr. Trump's was a brief dalliance with presidential politics that almost appeared to have been done on a whim. Ms. Palin, by contrast, has been moving slowly and methodically for several years. Aides have said for months that she wanted to be in a position to run for president if that's what she decided to do.
Ms. Palin and her aides revealed few clues on Thursday, which leaves a lot of people in Washington and around the country guessing.
Who is waiting nervously for Ms. Palin to reveal her plan? Here's a partial list: [The Caucus, NY Times, May 27] Click here for the source story
Does Sarah Palin's Bus Tour Mean She's Running?
Some speculate that the tour is the first stop in the race for the White House. Does Sarah Palin's Bus Tour Mean She's Running? Here is an ABC video.
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Will Republicans draft Paul Ryan for 2012 run? Conservative pundits have hardly been quiet about their desire to see House Budget Committee chairman Paul Ryan (R., Wis.) throw his hat into what many see as a less-than-stellar ring of prospective Republican presidential candidates.
And earlier this week, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R., Va.) raised eyebrows by saying he would like to see Ryan run, arguing that the bold leadership and willingness to confront the difficult issues Ryan has displayed as budget chairman is exactly what Americans are looking for. [CBS News, May 27] Click here for the source story
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Today's Headlines: Friday, May 27, 2011
U.N.-Backed Summit Seeks 'Social Justice' for African Descendants
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UN Engagement Advocates Hit Back at Congressional Critics With New Poll
Obama's 'Victory Dance' on Auto Bailouts Could Hurt Business, Industry Expert Warns
Obama's Commitment To Israel 'Unshakeable' in '08
Boehner Resolute: Spending Cuts Must 'Exceed' Debt-Limit Increase
Palin Hits the Road: 'It's Imperative We Connect With Our Founders'
Who Owns 'Big Oil'? Not Who You Think
Pelosi to Obama: 'We Want A Timetable To Bring the Troops Home'
Supreme Court: AZ Can Require Employers to Verify Citizenship Status of Workers
COMMENTARY:
Exploiting Domestic Violence?
By L. Brent Bozell III
In 2009, the pop star Rihanna told ABC anchor Diane Sawyer she finally broke it off with her violent pop-star boyfriend Chris Brown. For the children, of course. "When I realized that my selfish decision for love could result into some young girl getting killed, I could not be easy with that part. I couldn't be responsible."
Barney Frank's Friends with Benefits
By Michelle Malkin
If you want to watch a corruptocrat start sputtering like Porky Pig with allergies, confront him with three simple words: conflict of interest. Asked this week about his role in securing an ex-lover's highly coveted job at government mortgage giant Fannie Mae, Massachusetts Democratic Rep. Barney Frank retorted:
Saving the American Dream
By Ed Feulner
It's an era of competing budget plans on Capitol Hill. And with good reason: We've come to a time of decision.
NEWSPAPER ROUNDUP:
D.C.'s motorists race to the bottom
Google thinks smartphones can replace wallets, PayPal alleges its secrets are being stolen
Margo Dydek Dead: Former WNBA Player Dies At 37
Army report: Military has spent $32 billion since '95 on abandoned weapons programs
Gas and food eat most of the gain in April consumer spending
Pippa Middleton Oprah Show Rumors Make The Rounds
Women lost more jobs in economic recovery
Mariah Carey cleared in Children Protective Services probe over drinking beer while breastfeeding
Lawyer offended by claim he used busty paralegal to distract jury: It was his 'over-qualified' wife
Robin Pagoria, Florida sheriff's deputy, busted for spanking girls and making porn films: cops
Feds Raid Home of 91-year old 'Suicide Kit' Maker
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Obama's Economy Worse than the 1970s
By Floyd and Mary Beth Brown, FloydReports.com
The worst economic conditions in recent memory were during the Jimmy Carter era of stagflation. Stagflation was a term coined in the 1970s to describe high unemployment with high inflation. Stagflation is back. Translation: America's middle class is getting poorer; a record number of middle class workers are out of work. If you are lucky enough to have a job, your wages aren't going up, but you are facing higher prices for everything.
"Recent data suggests that the current economic recovery is both sluggish and slowing with unemployment stubbornly high," this from a page one story in Investor's Business Daily.
The Obama/Bernanke partnership has been a bust....
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Obama Wants to Cut Troop Pay
By Move America Forward
In the latest and most outrageous move, the Obama administration wants to cut pay and/or benefits for our troops and their families, even those deployed overseas fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq, in order to reign in budgetary spending.
It's the classic game that the liberals play whenever they are in power - they are always quick to claim they support the troops, but the military is always first on the chopping block. Yesterday Secretary of Defense Robert Gates revealed....
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Obama Gives Stimulus Money to Tax Cheats Who Owe Millions
By Judicial Watch
In the latest outrage involving President Obama's disastrous stimulus, a federal probe has determined that thousands of companies that got cash under the fraud-infested program have cheated the government out of hundreds of millions of dollars in taxes.
At least 3,700 recipients of stimulus money owe Uncle Sam more than $750 million in taxes, according to a report published this week by....
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Americans Are Literally Tuning Out Obama
By Kevin "Coach" Collins, FloydReports.com
Clear eyed observers recognize Barack Obama will not have an easy road to re-election. A steady stream of poor and suspicious decisions has become the hallmark of his administration. He stands exposed as a man outmatched by the demands of his office. Obama's well documented failings will provide ample material for whomever the GOP nominates. Nevertheless, the worst enemy of Obama's re-election chances may be building inexorably without much notice.
The worst calamity a candidate can face is being laughed at; the second worst is being ignored....
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Rick Perry Has Not Ruled Out a Presidential Run
By Lynda Waddington, The Washington Independent
Texas Gov. Rick Perry hasn't ruled out the possibility that he will be a 2012 candidate for the Republican presidential nomination.
During a press conference Tuesday concerning a new anti-abortion measure, according to reporter Jay Root of The Texas Tribune, Perry again told reporters that he won't get "distracted" by talk of a potential presidential campaign. Perry also wouldn't directly answer reporters' questions on if he has ruled out....
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Canada takes firm pro-Israel line at G8 summit
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DEAUVILLE, France - Group of Eight leaders had to soften a statement urging Israel and the Palestinians to return to negotiations because Canada objected to a specific mention of 1967 borders, diplomats said on Friday.
Canada's right-leaning Conservative government has adopted a staunchly pro-Israel position in international negotiations since coming to power in 2006, with Prime Minister Stephen Harper saying Canada will back Israel whatever the cost.
Diplomats involved in Middle East discussions at the G8 summit said Ottawa had insisted that no mention of Israel's pre-1967 borders be made in the leaders' final communique, even though most of the other leaders wanted a mention.
"The Canadians were really very adamant, even though Obama expressly referred to 1967 borders in his speech last week," one European diplomat said.
A spokesman for Harper would not comment on the line Canada had...
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Walter Russell Mead let's him have it in The Dreamer Goes Down For The Count
But the last few weeks have cast him as the least competent manager of America's Middle East diplomatic portfolio in a very long time. He has infuriated and frustrated long term friends, but made no headway in reconciling enemies. He has strained our ties with the established regimes without winning new friends on the Arab Street. He has committed our forces in the strategically irrelevant backwater of Libya not, as he originally told us, for "days, not weeks" but for months not days.
Where he has failed so dramatically is in the arena he himself has so frequently identified as vital: the search for peace between Palestinians and Israelis. His record of grotesque, humiliating and total diplomatic failure in his dealings with Prime Minister Netanyahu has few parallels in American history. Three times he has gone up against Netanyahu; three times he has ingloriously failed. This...
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By Charles Krauthammer, WASHINGTON POST
Every Arab-Israeli negotiation contains a fundamental asymmetry: Israel gives up land, which is tangible; the Arabs make promises, which are ephemeral. The long-standing American solution has been to nonetheless urge Israel to take risks for peace while America balances things by giving assurances of U.S. support for Israel's security and diplomatic needs.
It's on the basis of such solemn assurances that Israel undertook, for example, the Gaza withdrawal. In order to mitigate this risk, President George W. Bush gave a written commitment that America supported Israel absorbing major settlement blocs in any peace agreement, opposed any return to the 1967 lines and stood firm against the so-called Palestinian right of return to Israel.
For 2 1/2 years, the Obama administration has refused to recognize and reaffirm these assurances. Then last week in his State Department speech, President Obama definitively trashed them. He...
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By Ted Belman
Jonathan Kay is the Senior Editor of the National Post. He just wrote I want to support Israel, but Netanyahu is making it difficult. I was surprised because I know him and though I knew he was to the left of me, I never realized how far left.
He starts it by writing
The Middle East conflict is a fight about land. But it's also a fight about time - about which exact historical moment we should use as our benchmark in assessing what real estate belongs to whom.
He goes on to say he thinks the right time is 1949.
Why do I pick 1949 and not, say, 1900 (no Israel) or July, 1967 (Greater Israel)? Because historical benchmarks are meaningful only when they offer some realistic guide to shaping the present. And so in choosing between divergent, irreconcilable geographical visions cherry-picked from history, pragmatism should be our guide. The Jews and their state are not going anywhere. But neither are Palestinians suddenly going to give up their...
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CAMERA
A poll of more than 1000 American Jews conducted by Frank Luntz, PhD of Luntz Global on behalf of CAMERA on May 16-17 finds continuing, deep support for Israel.
News media accounts often amplify a vocal fringe in the American Jewish community that espouses extreme views and policies far out of the mainstream. Often, for example, J Street, a group whose views represent a tiny percentage of American Jews, is reported as an equal counterpart to AIPAC, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, whose various positions, according to the poll, express majority, mainstream views.
Similarly, some news reports have claimed American Jews are increasingly alienated from Israel due to perceived failures of the Israeli government and people to move expeditiously to achieve peace.
In fact, the poll results show strong belief in Israel's commitment to peace efforts and apprehension about its existential situation and its Palestinian adversaries with their "culture of...
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By Boaz Ganor, JCPA
World War III is occurring right now. It is not only a war of ideas, it is a religious war - not between Islam and the rest of the world, but first and foremost a war within the religion of Islam. It is a war of the culture of Islamic radicalism against the rest of the world, which includes the majority of Muslims worldwide.
A few months ago, White House Counter-Terrorism Advisor John Brennan said, "Islamists and Jihadists are not our enemy." In response, I wrote an op-ed in the Jerusalem Post which explains that moderate Arab leaders know that Jihadists and Islamists are the enemy. By saying that Islamists and Jihadists are not the enemy, the United States - the spearhead of Western society and the protector of liberal values in the world - is sending a confusing message to its allies worldwide.
In the competition between the Iranian axis and the pragmatic axis, the Iranian axis is winning. Hizbullah is growing...
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Israeli People and Experts: We Support Netanyahu and Don't Want to Return to 1967 Borders. U.S. Media: Israelis Don't Like Netanyahu and Israeli Experts Say 1967 Borders are OK
By Barry Rubin, PAJAMAS MEDIA
We are living in Satireworld. I mean what more can you say? Well, I can say the title of this article that sums it up:
Israeli People and Experts: We Support Netanyahu and Don't Want to Return to 1967 Borders. U.S. Media: Israelis Don't Like Netanyahu and Israeli Experts Say 1967 Borders are OK
Here's the evidence:
New York Times headline:" Israelis See Netanyahu Trip as Diplomatic Failure."
"Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel returned from Washington on Wednesday to a nearly unanimous assessment among Israelis that despite his forceful defense of Israel's security interests, hopes were dashed that his visit might advance peace negotiations with the Palestinians."
Actually, Israelis generally have no hopes that anything is going to...
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Compliments of Anglo Saxon Ra'anana Real Estate
Quote for the Week
Real peace between nations is accomplished by people in the field like us.
Dr Ahmed Said of the Ramalla Central Hospital on a visit to the Carmel Medical Center in Haifa. (Is everybody listening out there?! )
As those who read GN regularly will have noticed, we avoid politics of any kind so what follows is merely a report on what happened: Our Prime Minister addressed a joint sitting of Congress and the Senate in Washington D C yesterday. He received twenty-six standing ovations - we counted 27 but what's one standing ovation between friends - in a 45 minute speech. This morning , his detractors detracted and his admirers admired but our guess is that there were a lot more of the latter and a lot fewer of the former than there were before his appearance. The reason? Simple. Nobody, but nobody does it as well as our PM. And, with the greatest respect, that includes most...
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by Dr. Jonathan Rhynhold, INN
By effectively ignoring most of Obama's speech on the Middle East, the media has missed its most significant element: the enunciation of a new US foreign policy doctrine for the area - the Obama doctrine. It has serious implications for Israel.
First and foremost, the Obama doctrine for the Middle East prioritizes the engagement of the public in the Middle East, rather than the engagement of the states in the region. America's strategic credibility is based, then, on being seen to support populist calls for reform, rather than on supporting its long-time strategic allies.
Thus, when choosing between supporting regimes that have been strategic allies or supporting the people demonstrating against those regimes, the Obama administration has taken the side of the demonstrators, arguing that in any case the status quo cannot hold.
It is in this context that Obama's approach to the Arab-Israeli conflict needs to be understood. One...
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A few weeks ago I posted that a letter was sent to Ban Ki Moon by Yesha Council. I am trying to confirm whether these letters are the same. Go back and read the letter carefully. Also read the comment by Howard Grief. Ted Belman
By TOVAH LAZAROFF, JPOST
Int'l group of some 60 lawyers say UN resolution on statehood would be a violation of all past agreements between Israel, the Palestinians.
An international group of some 60 attorneys, including former Foreign Ministry legal adviser Alan Baker, has appealed to United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to prevent a General Assembly resolution on unilateral Palestinian statehood, based on the pre-1967 lines.
In a letter dated Wednesday, the attorneys noted that such a resolution would be a violation of all past agreements between Israel and the Palestinians. They added that it would also contravene UN resolutions 242 and 338.
According to the attorneys, the legal basis for the establishment of the state by the League of...
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By Caroline Glick, JPOST
So, just as he was about to board his plane, Netanyahu realized that his mission in the US capital had changed. His job wasn't to go along to get along. His job was to stop Obama from driving Israel's relations with the US off a cliff.
Netanyahu was no longer going to Washington to explain where Israel will stand aside. He was going to Washington to explain what Israel stands for. Obama threw down the gauntlet. Netanyahu needed to pick it up by rallying both the Israeli people to his side and rallying the American people to Israel's side. Both goals, he realized, could only be accomplished by presenting his vision of what Israel is and what it stands for.
And Netanyahu did his job. He did his job brilliantly.
ISRAEL TODAY is the target of an ever escalating campaign to demonize and delegitimize it. Just this week we learned that a dozen towns in Scotland have decided to ban Israeli books from their public libraries. One Scottish town has...
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By Ted Belman
The NY Times continues to misrepresent reality in this article but the title The Mideast Peace Process: No Plan for Talkswas OK.
This is the time for bold ideas to salvage Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel did not seize it. In his address to Congress, he showed - once again - that he has no serious appetite for the kind of compromises that are the only way to forge a two-state solution and guarantee both Palestinians their long-denied state and Israel's long-term security.
Notice how they put the sole onus on Netanyahju and assume that capitulation will bring "long-term security." No one has denied the palestinians their state save for their leaders.
President Obama showed more rhetorical initiative when he spoke, but he doesn't appear to have a strategy for reviving negotiations. Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority, is refusing to come back to the table and is...
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By Ted Belman
For those of you who live on Mars, last week was a big week for Sarah Palin. The following announcements were made:
1. Stephen Bannon has made a two hour documentary film on Palins record and VP run. It aims to set the record straight. Sort of like a Mr Smith goes to Washington type story. He says it will go off like "an atomic bomb".
2. Starting this weekend Gov Palin is taking a month long bus tour of historic places on the eastert seaboard. Sort of like a whistle stop tour. She has decorated the bus in red, white a blue emblazonned on it with the slogons "One Nation" and "We the People".
3. Before the tour starts she is participating in the Rolling Thunder Motorcycle Rally in Washington involving 250,000 bikers including sarah and Todd on one of the bikes. The event is to honour veterans, a cause close to her heart.
In her most recent Facebook post below she attacks Obama's Egypt policy.
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Eric Holder's BATFE encouraged sale of gun used to murder Border Patrol agent Brian Terry
by Bill Levinson
Q: What is the difference between Emily Gross and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives?
A: Gross got prison time for buying the gun her boyfriend used to kill a State Trooper, BATFE suffered no consequences for encouraging gun dealers to sell the gun that criminals used to kill a Border Patrol agent.
The Left, especially the Brady Campaign, often accuses gun dealers of selling guns without performing background checks, or selling them to suspicious people. New York's dishonest Mayor, Michael Bloomberg, ran a rogue sting operation in which he sent investigators to have themselves videotaped buying guns while saying, "I probably wouldn't pass a background check." The truth is however that responsible gun dealers balked at selling weapons, including AK-47s and 50 caliber sniper rifles, to suspicious people but were told by the...
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Lack of media coverage and indiference of the Obama Administration to the flooding in the Midwest
This is pretty hard hitting stuff but seems spot on to me... This is Iowa
(Kind of makes you wonder, hmmm?)
After Katrina, the media blamed the lack of response on the Bush administration's dislike of black people.
Can we then conclude from the lack of media coverage and response by the Obama administration that Obama doesn't like white people?
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Where are the Hollywood celebrities holding telethons asking for help in restoring Iowa and North Dakota and helping the folks affected by the floods? Where is good old Michael Moore?
Why is the media NOT asking the tough questions about why the federal government hasn't solved this problem?
...Asking where the FEMA trucks and trailers and food services are?
Why isn't the Federal government moving Iowa people into free hotels in Chicago and Minneapolis?
When will Spike Lee say that the Federal government blew up the levees that failed in Des Moines?
Where are Sean Penn, Bono, and the Dixie Chicks?
Where are all the looters stealing high-end tennis shoes, cases of beer and television sets?
When will we hear Governor Chet Culver say that he wants to rebuild a 'vanilla' Iowa... because that's what God wants?
Where is the hysterical 24/7 media coverage complete with reports of shootings at rescuers, of rapes and murder?
Where are all the people screaming that Barack Obama hates white, rural people?
My God, where are Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, Oprah, and Ray Coniff Jr.?
How come you will never hear about the Iowa flooding ever again?
Where are the gov't. bail out vouchers? The government debit cards?
More people died in these floods then from Katrina...how come the media doesn't report that?! There must be one hell of a big difference between the value of the people of Iowa and value of the people of Louisiana.
HERE'S THE REAL TRUTH:
THIS IS AN EXAMPLE OF GOVERNMENT CONTROL OF THE MEDIA, AND SOON TO BE GOV'T. CONTROL OF INTERNET, CELL PHONES, RADIO AND ALL COMMUNICATION AS WELL AS THE PRESENT NETWORK NEWS ON TV.
WAKE UP, AMERICANS...
WHOMEVER CONTROLS THE MEDIA CONTROLS THE COUNTRY!
THIS IS ONLY ONE OF THE "ARMS" THAT IS NOW IN PLACE TO ACCOMPLISH THE TAKE OVER OF YOUR COUNTRY!
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published 05/28/2011
President Ignores War Powers Act. Congress does nothing
May 28, 2011 06:13 am | Coach Collins
By Jim Emerson, staff writer
In another blatant act of chutzpah President Obama declared that his direction of military action against Libya is so limited it does not have to comply with the War Powers Act. The fact that the operation was lead by the United States in establishing a UN approved No-Fly- Zone, air and missile strikes disappeared down George Orwell's famous Memory Hole. The passing of the mission to NATO was nothing more than window dressing.
May 20th marked the 60th day of military action against Libya and the Administration can only declare the usual rules of war don't apply to them. Sad to say the Democrats created the war powers act and it looks like the Democratic Administration's contempt for the rule of law will render it useless. Their main argument: the mission is now NATO lead so the act no longer applies doesn't hold water.
War Powers Act
The War Powers Resolution of ... Continue Reading:President Ignores War Powers Act. Congress does nothing
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The Schechter brothers: plucked by Roosevelt, but loved him anyway
May 27, 2011 11:11 am | Coach Collins
By Kevin "Coach" Collins
Immediately after his coronation, King Franklin Roosevelt established The National Recovery Administration (NRA) and vested it with dictatorial powers. King Franklin had seized upon the fear and anxiety the average American felt in the Great Depression and he thought people would roll over and become his surfs to save them. The Schechter brothers, four Orthodox Jewish immigrants working as kosher butchers in Brooklyn, had other ideas. They fought King Franklin all the way to the United States Supreme Court and their winning decision came down 76 years ago today.
The brothers with the thick Eastern European accents and odd looking grab had placed their faith in the courts of their adopted country and won.
Selling "dirty" chickens
The Roosevelt Administration was built on a deadly and corrosive theory: getting out of the Great Depression could only be achieved by forcing prices ever higher. His "oh so smart" advisors foolishly believed scarcity and high consumer prices ... Continue Reading:The Schechter brothers: plucked by Roosevelt, but loved him anyway
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published 05/29/2011
Our Health in Globalists' hands?
May 29, 2011 06:13 am | Coach Collins
By Suzanne Eovaldi, staff writer
Is the American Medical System's passion for slash, burn, and poison treatment methods really a part of a global conspiracy to give a chosen few control over America's economy? A brilliant new book titled "The Trillion Dollar Conspiracy,
How The New World Order, Man-Made Diseases and Zombie Banks Are Destroying America" by gifted author Jim Marrs posits just that theme.
On pg. 135, Dr. Michael WIlkes of U. of CA. says, "Most pharmaceutical companies devote huge amounts of money to prevent control and cure of diseases." Marrs points out that "ten drug companies (make) more than all profits combined of the other 490 Fortune 500 companies." So are we just being exploited by this massive combine to turn us into legal drug user zombies? "Fluoride is the 94% component of Prozac," (pg. 100) says Marrs.
Aldous Huxley's famous 1961 quote (pg. 132-3) about using a "pharmacological method of making people love their servitude" to produce a no ... Continue Reading:Our Health in Globalists' hands?
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U.S. | May 28, 2011
Arizona Man Looks to Law in Bid to Retrieve Ranch
By MARC LACEY
The battle over immigration is at the heart of a legal fight in Arizona, where a rancher is trying to regain property he lost in a court case.
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You have spoken out loud and clear - last week's winning item won in a landslide. I am pleased to report that Rep. Renee Ellmers is introducing YouCut legislation to terminate the U.S. contributions to the U.N. Population Fund. Click here to learn more about this proposal and to follow it's progress through the legislative process.
The next three items have already been posted on the YouCut website. Take a moment and click here to cast your vote on which should be included in the YouCut program.
I also wanted to take a moment to update you on the House Republican Plan for America's Job Creators.
This past week, House Republicans unveiled our plan for America's Job Creators - a pro-growth governing agenda designed to foster job creation and get our economy moving again. Click here to learn more about our ideas for economic growth. Be sure to leave your comments and share with friends, family and colleagues.
Working together, we will get our nation's economy back on track so that Americans can do what we do best: create, innovate, and lead.
Regards,
Rep. Eric Cantor
Majority Leader
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 May 27, 2011
On Friday's Program
Palin 2012 just got more likely
Most have written off Sarah Palin as a possible 2012 contender after the relentless spanking she's received from the lib media. Just when they thought she was down and out - Sarah Barracuda once again catches them off guard. First it was revealed Palin was able to produce an entire movie about her record without anyone catching wind of it. Then she launches a massive bus tour that screams 2012 Presidential run. Will she run? Should she run? More at GlennBeck.com.
Bachmann 2012 all but official
Another prominent female conservative tossing her hat into the ring is Michele Bachmann who apparently has revealed she will be announcing soon. There are all kinds of political games that go into these announcements, but Bachmann is said to be all but officially a go for 2012 -- which is sure to up the excitement for the GOP field. The equality obsessed left loves women, unless they are conservative, so it should be fun to watch the gender attacks ramp up from the loving left. The Blaze has more on Bachmann's bid and chances...
Ahhh, Government: $$ spent on shrimp treadmills and Jell-O wrestling...in Antarctica (seriously) DETAILS.
The most maddening compensation package ever? "Public Servant" in New Jersey makes $185,000 as Executive Director of a local 'improvement authority' --- but that's just the beginning. Grab the duct tape and try not to let your head explode...WATCH.
Congress irrelevant
Glenn has said for quite some time that Congress will become irrelevant because progressives believe Congress just gets in the way of progress. So they find ways to circumvent the system - Elizabeth Warren has not been approved by Congress and was grilled about it during a very testy hearing in D.C. yesterday. The questions got tough enough that Warren actually tried to escape with the old 'I have another appointment' excuse. Listen to the confrontation HERE.
Arab Spring paid by -- YOU?
There are more planned spontaneous uprisings happening this weekend. While it's all glorious and everything, it's costing these countries a ton of money. Who's going to pay for it all? Leaders from Egypt and Tunisia met Friday with President Obama and appealed for help after the violence scared away tourists and investors. Who wouldn't want to chip in on an effort that's seeing a rise in radical extremist Islam? Glenn has a few words for the President on radio today. WATCH.
PLUS: Does Thomas Friedman know the future? Glenn thinks he might and reads from his latest piece on radio today. WATCH
Autopen machine signs Patriot Act extension: Who needs a President when you have an autopen machine? FULL STORY. Want more stories like this? Glenn's website for news and opinion, The Blaze, now has a FREE daily email newsletter. Sign up HERE.
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GOOD INTENTIONS have gone awry in the federal program that gives cash benefits to families of disabled children, and a comprehensive assessment of the program's weaknesses is the first step toward fixing it. Given the strong possibility that children are being misclassified as disabled to make their families eligible for checks of up to $700 a month, Congress should happily pay the $10 million or so needed to fund a study of the program by the well-regarded Institute of Medicine. And then it should quickly implement any changes based on the institute's findings before more children are misclassified.
