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"We should be unfaithful to ourselves if we should ever lose sight of the danger to our liberties if anything partial or extraneous should infect the purity of our free, fair, virtuous, and independent elections." 

~ John Adams, Inaugural Address, 1797 

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RedState Morning Briefing

For June 9, 2011

1. Debt Limit Surrender

Members of the Tea Party and the conservative movement need to be prepared for some serious disappointment if news reports are correct. News reports have emerged indicating that that "dollar for dollar" cuts to spending promised as part of a grand bargain to increase the debt ceiling may be pro-rated over 10, 20 or even 25 years. It is easy for politicians to promise future cuts to spending when many of these politicians cutting the deal will be long gone from Washington, DC.

Politically this deal is very attractive for incumbents of both parties. A $2.4 trillion debt limit increase would negate the need for a further increase in the debt limit until after the next Congressional and Presidential election. This level of a debt limit increase would protect House and Senate incumbent Republicans and Democrats from any further politically difficult votes before they have to face the voters in November of 2012.

2. Gov. Rick Perry calls for prayer to help our "nation in crisis"

In the Holy Bible, calls for prayer and fasting are frequent responses to dire situations. Yesterday, Texas Governor Rick Perry emulated those Biblical prophets such as Joel in calling for prayer to help address our national crisis. Perry's call for prayer is being directed to a specific event, "The Response," which is to be held in Houston on August 6th.

The web site for The Response explains why this event is needed.

3. Unbelievable! NLRB's Acting General Counsel Opposes Boeing Employees' Legal Involvement

Last week, three Boeing employees, whose jobs are at stake due to the National Labor Relations Board's prosecution of their employer, filed to intervene in the case.

Now, just a few days later, Lafe Solomon has declared that he is opposed to their intervention in the case-even though they stand a good chance of losing their jobs due to the union and the NLRB's actions.

4. Register for the RedState Gathering

The Third Annual RedState Gathering is coming up very soon - and we'd like to invite you to attend.

With the race for the GOP presidential nomination shifting into high gear, this much-anticipated annual gathering promises to be the best one yet.

It will be held on August 12-14 at the Francis Marion Hotel in Charleston, South Carolina - and will feature as its keynote speaker South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley.

5. The Horserace for Thursday, June 9, 2011

Pay attention on this one folks: the link to this post will not work until noon today. But you are definitely going to want to come back and check it out.

With this weekend's Horserace, I'm adding in Giuliani, who Bill Kristol says is days or a couple of weeks from getting into the race. I'm not putting in Rick Perry or Sarah Palin this week, though the implications of them possibly getting in are mentioned.

As always, I put the candidates in alphabetical order. This is, again, my objective take on the candidates based on the news of the week and how I see things shaping up based on conversations with various operatives, activists on the ground, donors, etc.

Which major candidate's campaign is disintegrating? Which candidate could be setting himself up not to win, but to hurt Romney? Click the link at noon eastern time today to find out.

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Items for June 9, 2011 

Unemployment benefits fading away
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U.S. can't justify its drug war spending, reports say
The Los Angeles Times

Health Care Law: Appeals Court Seems Skeptical of Obama Administration's Argument
ABC News

OPEC leaves output on hold, causing oil price jump
Associated Press

U.S. intensifying covert war in Yemen
Reuters

The dead hand of federal education reform
The Washington Times

Another bad arms-control idea
New York Post

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In a teary voice, tell the story of how it was General Douglas MacArthur who turned the Japanese on to whale meat.

The Japs never used to touch the stuff until the American Occupation after the war when food was scarce and MacArthur decreed that all Japanese children should eat whale meat as a cheap source of protein. Pause for effect, dab your eyes with a handkerchief, then say: "Damn! Doesn't it just make you SO proud to be American? It's thanks to our noble example that the seven seas are now nearly 100 percent free of the Deadly Whale Menace."  

Soldiers' $2,800 in bag fees spark outrage

By A. Pawlowski, CNN

June 8, 2011

 

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 News Report: Chapter Leader challenges inaccurate textbook!!


 Yesterday, CBN News aired a two minute story about ACT! for America chapter leader Michael Hayutin's challenge to a public school textbook and its treatment of Islam. Well done Michael!!

When you view the segment here note what the Muslim woman says about a peaceful verse coming after a verse about war.

Does she really know what the Qur'an teaches? Is she practicing taqiyya (deception)? Does she understand the doctrine of abrogation?

Islamic scholars are generally agreed that over 120 peaceful verses in the Qur'an were abrogated, or annulled, and replaced by later verses that call for jihad, war and violence against "infidels." The peaceful verses relate predominately to the Meccan period of Mohammend's life, while the warlike verses relate to the Medinan period, which occurred after Mohammed migrated from Mecca to Medina.

This is why our planned event this fall, "The Doctrine of Abrogation: Open the Qur'an Day," is so important. (Note: We will be posting a sign-up page to host this event in your community on our website later this summer.)

This also illustrates why a year-long project being conducted by our "sister" organization, ACT! for America Education (formerly known as American Congress for Truth), is so timely.

This fall we will mail a report to every one of the nearly 50,000 school board members in America, a report analyzing the errors in the way Islam is presented in 38 public school textbooks.

Once we have done that, we will post the report on our website and urge our chapter leaders and members to turn out to their school board meetings and demand that action be taken to correct the numerous and egregious errors we have uncovered.

So stay tuned!

 

 

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Tea Party News
Wednesday, June 8th

Piers Morgan Asks Ann Coulter if Tea Party is Modern Version of Hitler and Mussolini's         COULTER: No, they're much closer to the original Tea Party, which, and actually not as, not as much of a rabble as the original Tea Party, which as I point out, the Founding Fathers weren't wild about the original Tea Party curiously enough because they were so against mobs.         Having equated the Tea Party to Hitler and Mussolini's "mob," Morgan moved in another predictable liberal media direction - Tea Partiers are idiots.         But the best was still to come, as now that Morgan had failed at besmirching the Tea Party, it was on to desparaging one of their most famous supporters:         MORGAN: The way you talk as your publisher does here, "Liberals use mobs to seize power and impose their theories on the populace for the good of humanity." I think Sarah Palin would have written that, who whether you like it or not is irrelevant, is a brilliant rouser of the populous, like nothing else in politics right now. After Obama himself and his last election, she is doing an incredible job marshaling her base. But she also comes out with some pretty inflammatory stuff and that surely arouses a mob mentality. You wouldn't dispute that.         COULTER: I don't think she's inflammatory. I think she's a great speaker. What do you think she said that is inflammatory? [NewsBusters, June 8]      Click here for the source story Pawlenty's economic plan seeks 5 pct annual growth         The former Minnesota governor's plan aims for a bullish 5 percent annual growth that would balance the federal budget while forgoing trillions of dollars in tax revenue.         "Growing at 5 percent a year rather than the current level of 1.8 percent would net us millions of new jobs, trillions of dollars in new wealth, put us on a path to saving our entitlement programs."         Pawlenty's plan also would simplify individual tax rates to just three options and cut taxes on business by more than half. His cuts go further than House Republicans' recent proposal, which the Tax Policy Center said would cost about $2.9 trillion over the next decade.         He said he wants to cut business taxes from the current rate from 35 percent to 15 percent, and he called for dismantling vast pieces of the government. [GOPUSA, June 8]      Click here for the source story Five GOP Contenders Sign On to Iowa Tea Party Bus Tour         Five Republican contenders -- Michele Bachmann, Herman Cain, Newt Gingrich, Gary Johnson, and Rick Santorum -- have signed on to participate in a Tea Party bus tour through Iowa,         "The purpose of the tour is to train grassroots activists in the state of Iowa to get them as prepared as they're going on and best advocate for the candidate of their choice," Ryan Rhodes, the tour's organizer, told ABC News.         The main focus of the tour will involve training on precinct organization, distributing a mock caucus video explaining the process, and educating people on the Tea Party principles and the gold standard. Organizers hope to train 500 to 1,000 individuals over the course of three weeks.         Candidates have been invited to attend the training sessions to talk with Tea Party activists. [ABC News, June 8]      Click here for the source story ** VIDEO ** Ginni Thomas: Tea Party Must Mesh With GOP for 2012 Clout         "I think it's important that both the tea party movement and grass-roots activists come together with the establishment and we see as little division as possible," said Thomas, a special correspondent for The Daily Caller. "In order to have the most success, we need to build bridges between the establishment conservative community and the Republican community and the grass-roots community. I hope together we can have an effective force in 2012."         I think there needs to be greater effort by I would say Sen. [Mitch] McConnell and Speaker [John] Boehner and their teams," she said. "They need to reach out more effectively to the tea party movement and be comfortable with new people coming to the movement as opposed to seeing them as some alien force that's hostile or offensive in any way. I think this should be one big happy family, and there's some growing pains around the edges right now that I hope can be fixed."         Regarding the crop of GOP presidential hopefuls, Thomas said Herman Cain "has gotten the attention of the grass roots."         "I think they're watching for Michele Bachmann, whether Jim DeMint would get it, that would be exciting. I don't have a dog in the fight, and I really want the most conservative candidate to prevail in the end. And I want to see as little friction between all the players of our team so we can success." [Newsmax, June 8]      The link to this ** VIDEO ** is at www.TeaPartyWatcher.com

Video: Black Senate Candidate Rips Obama's Assault on the Constitution 

Washington Times Columnist Raises Impeachment Over Libya
By Ben Johnson, The White House Watch

Once again, the conservative movement is trying to play catch-up to this website. First, this author discovered that Barack Obama hauled Arizona before the United Nations over its immigration law. Some big media outlets eventually caught up -- albeit without giving a shred of credit. Then they took notice of our expose that Obama considers Card Check an inalienable human right. The conservative media began to pick up on Obama's decision to end-run the Constitution months after this author wrote multiple articles revealing Obama's plan to rule by executive fiat in 2011.

Now, conservatives are getting a glimmer that perhaps there is something a wee bit unacceptable about Obama's war-by-decree on Libya....  

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Documents Prove Obama's Parents' Marriage a Sham
By Jerome R. Corsi, WND.com

NEW YORK - The recently released immigration file for Barack Obama Sr. indicates the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service had doubts he and Obama's mother were married.

While Ann Dunham may have sought Obama Sr. as her husband and the father of her child, the record suggests the two never lived together as a married couple.

As WND reported, there's no record of Ann Dunham's whereabouts during the last six months of her pregnancy.

Moreover....  

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Sebelius Tells Gay Teens Obama Admin Has "Finally Come Out of the Closet"
By Penny Starr, CNSNews.com

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius spoke at the first "Federal LGBT Youth Summit" on Monday after being introduced by a homosexual on her staff, who said the secretary "gets us" and is "tireless" in her support of lesbian, gay, bi-sexual and transgender youth.

"Your federal government has finally come out of the closet in support of LGBT youth," said Pam Hyde, HHS administrator for Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services.

"It's great to see so many young faces out there, all gay and proud," Hyde said....  

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Washington Post: Obama Lies Through His Teeth About Economy
By Glenn Kessler, The Washington Post

"Chrysler has repaid every dime and more of what it owes American taxpayers for their support during my presidency."
- President Obama, June 4, 2011

With some of the economic indicators looking a bit dicey, President Obama traveled to Ohio last week to tout what the administration considers a good-news story: the rescue of the domestic automobile industry. In fact, he also made it the subject of his weekly radio address. 

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Environmentalists Cause Me to Wear Dirty Clothes (Just Like They Do)
By Tom Purcell, FloydReports.com

I need to buy a new washing machine. I guess I'm out of luck.

I refer to a fascinating article written by Mark Thornton for Mises Daily, part of the Ludwig von Mises Institute website (mises.org).

Thanks to the government, you see, washing machines aren't what they used to be -- and they're getting worse....  

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It's the seedy underbelly of Washington, D.C. The hallways of Congress are often dark alleys of wasteful spending and pork-laden deal-making. Down these lanes, shadowy special interests and empire-building bureaucracies lie in wait to relieve innocent taxpayers of their hard-earned money. They spend billions on wasteful programs, pet projects, and the accumulation of personal power. They threaten to bankrupt our country as our national debt soars out of control.

The victims often don't even know it's happening. Many don't realize how bad it is. Do you?

Take the following test to see if you can detect five of the dirty spending secrets Washington doesn't want you to know . . .

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June 08, 2011



NEW U.N. TREATY TARGETS 2ND AMENDMENT 
The proposed 'Small Arms Reduction' treaty from the U.N. claims to have a global focus that targets terrorists, but University of Houston professor Larry Bell sees a different purpose: increasing domestic gun control in America. Read the details HERE.

CHINA PASSES U.S. IN ENERGY CONSUMPTION 
BP estimates that China has passed the United States and the rapidly-industrializing nation now consumes more than 20% of the world's energy. Read the details HERE.

RUSH WANTS WEINER TO STAY IN OFFICE 
As Nancy Pelosi calls for a House Ethics probe into Anthony Weiner's extra-curricular activities and Harry Reid gives the congressman the brush-off, Rush Limbaugh wants him to stay. Listen to Rush's reasons HERE.

WHY WAS GLENN MENTIONED IN ANTHONY WEINER'S 'SEXTING' MESSAGES?
Seventeen pages of racy text-based messages between a recently-married Anthony Weiner and a Las Vegas blackjack dealer have just been made public. Aside from the very graphic nature of the 'conversation,' there is a surprising cameo appearance as Weiner's online paramour mentions Glenn Beck. Find out why, HERE.  (Graphic content warning)

WEDNESDAY'S MUST-READ STORIES FROM THE BLOG SECTION OF THE BLAZE 
Each day and night the Blog section of TheBlaze.com features a handful of important news stories that may have escaped you. We suggest that you make it a regular stop for your daily visits to the site. Read today's must-reads HERE.

 'NIGHT WATCH' - AMERICA'S DOOMSDAY PLANE THAT CAN SURVIVE A NUCLEAR BLAST 
The American military has an amazing piece of technology that can be scrambled in minutes, stay in the air for days without refueling, and deflect radiation in case of a nuclear attack. See the plane HERE. 

VIRAL VIDEO DU JOUR - SOLAR FLARES PRODUCE SPECTACULAR VIDEO 
Monday and Tuesday, a minor solar flare erupted on the sun and was captured by NASA's cameras. The cloud it created covered almost half of the Sun's surface. Watch the very cool video HERE.




STICKERMAN CREATES BEAUTIFUL WORKS OF ART FROM ANNOYING PRODUCE LABELS 
Those little stickers found on virtually every single piece of produce sold in America have become the medium for a Colorado artist. Meet Stickerman and see some of his beautiful works HERE.

 

Fish, fowl and politicians, they're all in cahoots to kill jobs, say congressional Republicans, who are circling the wagons out West to protect their way of life.

First there's the dune sagebrush lizard that is ganging up with the prairie chickens to halt oil and gas development. It seems that the lizard doesn't like walking across the ground if it has been disturbed by a tractor, or mating near the thump-thump of an oil rig.

Then there's the Delta smelt out in California, it needs billions of gallons of water to survive, causing a man-made drought that is turning farmlands into dust bowls.

And in the Gulf region where oil production is but a trickle of its former self to avoid another blowout that could destroy that environment, job losses are running in the tens of thousands.

"If Salazar's job is to kill jobs, then he gets an A plus," said Rep. Devin Nunes (R. -Calif.). "His department has killed more jobs in the U.S. than any other federal agency."

Nunes and other Republicans say the Interior Department is waging a war against jobs using radical environmental policies as its weapon of choice.

And in some cases, even eco-friendly energy development is getting the cold shoulder.
 

HUMAN EVENTS takes an in-depth look this week at how the Interior Department, which manages tens of millions of acres of public land, for the public, is instead closing it off to development, damaging the country's already fragile economy.

"You can't make this stuff up," Nunes says.

- Audrey Hudson

VIDEO: Breitbart's Triumph in His Words Human Events Andrew Breitbart discusses how he exposed the morally corrupt Rep. Anthony Weiner... Read More

Tim Pawlenty Proposes More Bold Solutions: IF You Can Google It, Cut It Tony Lee Pawlenty says Obama is engaging in class warfare, calls for balanced budget amendment and a flatter, fairer tax code...Read More The Cancer of Regulation John Stossel Once upon a time, one in 20 workers needed government permission to work in their occupation. Today, it's one in three...Read More

 

WSJ: Pawlenty's ambitious plan to return to growth

Tim Pawlenty delivered a major policy speech yesterday on the economy, and both the Wall Street Journal and Larry Kudlow declared themselves impressed. Pawlenty's theme is guaranteed to resonate among the base and with libertarian-minded independents: "Markets work, and Barack Obama's central planning doesn't." Speaking at the University of Chicago, where Pawlenty noted that some of the best minds in free-market economics work, Pawlenty called for government policies that get out of the way of markets and supply, and allow the American economic engine of growth and wealth creation work:

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GM CEO: Hey's who's up for a one-dollar hike in federal gas tax?

They don't call it Government Motors for nothing, you know:

General Motors Co. CEO Dan Akerson wants the federal gas tax boosted as much as $1 a gallon to nudge consumers toward more fuel-efficient cars, and he's confident the government will soon shed its remaining 26 percent stake in the once-bankrupt automaker. ...

And while he is eager to say goodbye to the government as a part owner of GM, Akerson would like to see it step up to the challenge of setting a higher gas tax, as part of a comprehensive energy policy.

A government-imposed tax hike, Akerson believes, will prompt more people to buy small cars and do more good for the environment than forcing automakers to comply with higher gas-mileage standards.

"There ought to be a discussion on the cost versus the benefits," he said. "What we are going to do is tax production here, and that will cost us jobs."

By taxing production, Akerson refers to the effort to raise the CAFE standards for average fuel efficiency.  The Obama administration wants to push US automakers to stop producing so-called gas guzzlers, pushing the average efficiency to as high as 62 MPG by 2025.  Akerson says that will add $3500 to the average price of cars, which will put US automakers in poor competitive position against their imported competition.

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Former DNC Chair Kaine Says Weiner Should Resign

08 Jun 2011

By Martin Gould

  

Top Democrats have lost patience with scandal-ridden Congressman Anthony Weiner and now are openly demanding that the New York Democrat step down to prevent further embarrassment.

Former DNC Chairman Tim Kaine led the charge. "Lying is unforgivable," he said. "Lying publicly about something like this is unforgivable, and he should resign."

Read more on Newsmax.com:Former DNC Chair Kaine Says Weiner Should Resign  

Rush: Weiner Face of Democratic Family Values

07 Jun 2011 

By Hiram Reisner

  

  

Radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh says he hopes Rep. Anthony Weiner never resigns as he is the "poster boy" of what Democrats stand for. Limbaugh also said Tuesday the New York Democrat represents Democrat family values.

"I don't want this guy to go away. Here you have the classic dictionary definition of a nerd, the classic dictionary definition of a pencil-necked geek, and they are telling us that this guy would walk into a bar and women would fall all over themselves to be near the guy," Limbaugh said. "This guy was playboy Numero Uno. He was a womanizer par excellence. This guy, he's such a ladies' man that he had to do all of this womanizing anonymously, sexting.

"Weiner is the face of Democrat family values - he is the epitome of the Democrat culture of corruption, the Democrat culture of erection," Limbaugh said. "He is wrong on policy. He is an admitted liar. He used his office in Congress to conduct his lurid e-perversions. The guy's got it all, and I wholeheartedly endorse the fact that he's not going to resign."

Chronicle

Wednesday, June 8, 2011

The Foundation

"To cherish and stimulate the activity of the human mind, by multiplying the objects of enterprise, is not among the least considerable of the expedients, by which the wealth of a nation may be promoted." --Alexander Hamilton

Editorial Exegesis

The Obama recovery

"You've got to hand it to President Obama and his White House economic team. Faced with [Friday's] dreary May jobs report, they did their best and rolled out the old 'bump in the road' analogy for comfort. As chief White House economist Austan Goolsbee put it, 'there are always bumps on the road to recovery, but the overall trajectory of the economy has improved dramatically over the past two years.' Nice try, but there's no way to spin news that the economy in May created only 54,000 new jobs, which is about one-third the number necessary to keep up with the growth in the labor force. The jobless rate rose for the second straight month to 9.1%, which is especially depressing nearly two years after the end of a very deep recession. At this stage in the Reagan expansion, after a comparably deep 1981-82 recession, the economy was growing by 7% a year and the jobless rate was plunging. This time the economy is growing by less than 2%, and we still have 6.8 million fewer jobs than when the recession began in late 2007. ... The same economists and pundits who promoted the economic policies of the last four years are now lamenting the jobs bust and demanding that Washington double down: More stimulus spending, more Federal Reserve easing, more temporary tax rebates. They can't explain why these policies have failed to date, but we are supposed to rinse and repeat. ... The economy doesn't need more of this. It needs a return to the growth agenda that created the long post-1982 boom." --The Wall Street Journal

Upright

"You can only expect a robust economic recovery for so long before you figure out, as Herbert Hoover eventually did, that it is not around the corner. Exogenous factors explain some part of the current economic stagnation. The earthquake and tsunami in Japan caused a slowdown in manufacturing. Horrendous tornados did not help. Nor did bad weather, though only a few still bitterly cling to the theory that it's caused by manmade global warming. But poor public policy is surely one reason why the American economy has not rebounded from recession as it has in the past. And political posturing has also played a major role." --political analyst Michael Barone

"Many in the GOP of today are fatally underestimating the power of today's mainstream media and how effective they can be in helping Team Obama win a second term. A myth has taken hold in the GOP: that because of the Internet, the explosion of conservative bloggers and the still-substantial power of talk radio, that the mainstream media have been marginalized. Bull-feathers. That's just ridiculous and is believed by those who don't have a clue about what real Americans have to deal with every day in their real lives." --columnist Douglas MacKinnon

"Healing is a term that has been co-opted from the emotive, liberal, psychobabble crowd and misapplied by politicians to serious situations so often that it has lost any semblance of meaning. ... It is impossible to heal a community suffering from the devastation of a tornado or any other disaster. ... Politicians do not have the power to remove the experience or the suffering. They only have the power to direct resources that alleviate the problem, but do not erase the problem. To think otherwise is pure hubris." --columnist Tom Roberson

"Liberals always cater to man's lowest base instincts. They hate standards for behavior, labeling all rebuke of bad behavior as being intolerant and judgmental. And yet, they believe without divine influence, man is capable of someday achieving universal peace. Totally absurd." --singer, songwriter and columnist Lloyd Marcus

Insight

"Learn to say no. It will be of more use to you than to be able to read Latin." --Baptist preacher Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892)

"There is good news from Washington today. The Congress is deadlocked and can't act." --American humorist Will Rogers (1879-1935)

The Demo-gogues

Pride and hubris: "Now, my administration has a job to do as well, and that job is to get this economy back on its feet. That's my job, and it's a job I gladly accept. I love these folks who helped get us in this mess and then suddenly say, well, this is Obama's economy. That's fine. Give it to me." --Barack Obama

If at first you don't succeed... "The unemployment numbers are obviously disturbing. Are they an anomaly as some people suggest because of the disasters in the South and the Midwest and the rest, or is this something systemic that we have to accommodate in a different way?" --House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)

The BIG Lie: "What the president has done has improved the situation from where it may have been." --Nancy Pelosi

Let's don't: "Let's allow our unions and their organizers to lift up this country's middle class again. We can do that." --Barack Obama

Class warfare: "What we are fighting for -- and I'm a member of the Budget Committee -- is the concept of shared sacrifice. No, you don't balance the budget on the backs of the sick and the elderly and the poor and the vulnerable. You do ask the wealthiest people in this country and the large corporations -- many of whom are making huge profits and paying nothing in taxes -- that they've got to contribute to deficit reduction as well." --Sen. Bernie Sanders (S-VT), the only admitted socialist in Congress

Over the top: "[I]f you go back to the year 2000, when we had an obvious disaster and saw that our voting process needed refinement, and we did that in the America Votes Act and made sure that we could iron out those kinks, now you have the Republicans, who want to literally drag us all the way back to Jim Crow laws and literally -- and very transparently -- block access to the polls to voters who are more likely to vote Democratic candidates than Republican candidates. And it's nothing short of that blatant." --Rep. and DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL), who needs to look up the definition of "literally"

Sticking it out: "I am deeply regretting what I have done, and I am not resigning. I am deeply sorry for the pain this has caused Huma, my wife, and my family." --Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY) on the Twitter photo scandal that has plagued him for the last two weeks

Dezinformatsia

Delusional spin: "You know better than anybody what it was like particularly in the south of this country in 1965. But I think what it shows is what the Republicans mean when they say they want to take back America. Yeah, they want to take America back to 1965, if not to 1950 before Brown v. Board of Education." --radio talk-show host Bill Press to Al Sharpton (Conservative policy has nothing to do with racism, other than eliminating it. It has to do with restoring liberty and Rule of Law.)

"[Monday's press conference] was a masterful performance. I thought [Anthony Weiner] was very contrite; he was very direct; he let people ask him a lot of very tough, personal questions. ... It's going to be used by crisis management trainers for businessmen who have done something wrong." --MSNBC's Chrystia Freeland on the Weiner Twitter scandal

False choice: "Obviously the momentum has been with the debt reduction crowd, so to speak. Is that at the expense of real huge effort on job creation? In other words, what's more toxic, billions of dollars of stimulus, or these kind of unemployment numbers?" --ABC's Christiane Amanpour

Sympathy for the devil: "This looks like one of those things you read about in third-world countries or in India or somewhere or Pakistan, where they get someone who's been out of office a couple of years, get them while they're down, hit them with some incredible charge with campaign funding that nobody's ever heard of before and put them away for a while. It just looks like revenge against the party -- against somebody that lost an election." --MSNBC's Chris Matthews on John Edwards

Non Compos Mentis: "In my house growing up, The [New York] Times substituted for religion. If The Times said it, it was the absolute truth." --Jill Abramson on being named editor of The New York Times come September, which she said was like "ascending to Valhalla"

Newspulper Headlines:

News You Can Use: "How Not to Be a Weiner Online" --FoxNews.com

Questions Nobody Is Asking: "What Do You Do When Darth Vader Bangs on Your Hotel Door?" --St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Puppy Saves Trooper -- Now That Would Be News: "Trooper Saves Trapped Puppy" --Worcester (Mass.) Telegram & Gazette

If a Researcher Asks You to Dinner, Say No: "Eating Dirt Can Be Good for the Belly, Researchers Find" --University of Chicago Press Journals press release

Bottom Story of the Day: "Prospects for Reaching CO₂ Benchmark and Curbing Global Warming Grow Dimmer" --Huffington Post

(Thanks to The Wall Street Journal's James Taranto)

Village Idiots

The spin machine: "It is not a 'jobless recovery.' That is an incorrect phrase. After the last recession, in this comparable period post-recession, we had lost 100,000 jobs. We have added more than 200,000 jobs. There's a major difference between a jobless recovery and a very deep hole that were climbing out of. ... We've come a million miles from the moment that the president took office." --outgoing White House economic adviser Austan Goolsbee

"You know what I'd rather have them do -- this will make my Republican friends puke -- as gas is going to go down here now, we ought to just slap a 50-cent or a dollar tax on a gallon of gas." --General Motors CEO Dan Akerson

One trick pony: "[GOP presidential candidate Rick] Santorum today said that America was great before 1965 in his announcement. I mean, what is he talking about? Was he talking about the Voting Rights Act?" --"The Reverend" Al Sharpton, who interprets everything through the race-colored glasses

No surprise from Hollywood: "Overall, I think [Barack Obama has] done an extraordinary job. I think he's going to go down probably as one of our great presidents. He's been able to juggle -- let's think of all of the problems that he's had in his presidency. You know, natural disasters, or international issues, domestic. He has found a way to change and flow to learn from every situation. ... He engages on a personal level almost every day. We're coming out of this terrible economic crisis. We're turning the corner on terrorist situations. I think his engagement with the Chinese is starting to flower now, the strength within him is starting to emerge. I think he's doing a terrific job." --actor Richard Gere

The tolerant Left: "Surely it's time for climate-change deniers to have their opinions forcibly tattooed on their bodies. ... On second thoughts, maybe the tattooing along the arm is a bit Nazi-creepy. ... OK, maybe the desire to see the painful, thrashing death of one's opponents is not ideal. But, my God, these people are frustrating." --columnist Richard Glover

Short Cuts

"Unless America gets back to buying military ships, planes and vehicles soon, the industries that provide these goods will dry up and blow away. Then, when the next war comes, we'll be back to 1917: anxious to spend billions, but no place to spend them. Well, maybe the Chinese will sell us something." --Heritage Foundation's James Jay Carafano

"The House of Representatives voted not to raise the debt ceiling. But as the debt ceiling subsides -- or, at any rate, stays put -- we see the dreary steeple of Anthony Weiner emerging from his Twitpic crotch shot. ... Confronted by his Twitpic, one is tempted to channel Mae West: Is that a debt-ceiling increase in your Fruit of the Looms or are you just pleased to see me? Alas for America, it's both." --columnist Mark Steyn

"The White House says that the unemployment rate is good news because it means more people are looking for jobs. More good news like that, and everyone at the White House will be looking for jobs." --comedian Jay Leno

"U.S. Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz accused the Republicans of trying to make it a crime to be an illegal immigrant. She sees a conspiracy. First Republicans want to say that illegal aliens are illegal, then next they're going to want to take away their voting rights." --comedian Argus Hamilton

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

Reports: Anthony Weiner's Wife Pregnant

Amidst the fallout from the New York congressman's photo scandal, Weiner's wife, Huma Abedin, is reportedly pregnant.

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Reports: Anthony Weiner's Wife Is Pregnant

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Americans Rising Up Against Agenda 21

There are now six communities across the nation that have taken action against Agenda 21 and Sustainable Development. The following have revoked their contracts with the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI): Starting in February, 2011, Carroll County, Maryland, where all five newly elected county commissioners, led by Richard Rothschild, voted to become the first county in the nation to end the ICLEI contract; then came Amador County, California, where the successful effort to remove ICLEI was led by the Mother Lode Tea Party; followed by a successful effort in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, led by activists Ruth Miller and Maggie Roddin; then came Edmond, Oklahoma, where activist Molly Jenkins was able to stir things up, generating 200 people to flood the city council meeting to demand action against ICLEI; Then came action by civic leaders in Las Cruces, New Mexico, as that community's city council ended its ICLEI contract; finally, in May, in an effort led by City Councilman Roger Nutt, Spartanburg, South Carolina became the 6th community to kick out ICLEI in a vote of 6-0 by City Council (with one abstention). Meanwhile, anti-ICLEI battles are taking place in Titusville, Florida, Cleveland, Tennessee, and Charlottesville, VA (where only one more vote on the Board of Supervisors is needed to end ICLEI's contract); and many more battles are raging across the nation. These efforts are causing shock waves across the country and we are starting to see hear nervous looks and attempts at ridicule against our efforts by ICLEI and EPA leaders. "Extremist" is their favorite attack word. Remember what Gandhi said, "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then we win!" Let 'em laugh. The anti-Sustainable Development revolution has begun.

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Attack of the NGOs

One rarely hears of it. Few elected officials raise an eyebrow. The media makes no mention of it. But power is slowly slipping away from our elected representatives. In much the same way Mao Tse-tung had his Red Guards, so the UN has its NGOs They may well be your masters of tomorrow, and you don't even know who or what they are. 

There are, in fact, two parallel, complimentary forces operating in the world, working together to advance the global Sustainable Development agenda, ultimately heading toward UN global governance. Those two forces are the UN itself and non-governmental organizations (NGOs.)

Beginning with the United Nations, the infrastructure pushing the Sustainable Development agenda is a vast, international matrix. At the top of the heap is the United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP). Created in 1973 by the UN General Assembly, the UNEP is the catalyst through which the global environmental agenda is implemented. Virtually all of the international environmental programs and policy changes that have occurred globally in the past three decades are the result of UNEP efforts... [Click here to read on]

NIMBYS, BANANAS and GREENS

Prices at gas pumps are at some of the highest levels ever and rising. Americans want answers. In particular they want the names and numbers of those to blame. To answer that question perhaps they should simply consult the phone book or look in the mirror. Because the main culprits in the rising gas prices aren't necessarily members of OPEC, but the American people who support policies that block new drilling and the building of new refineries on American soil. It's that simple.

The real political parties in America are the NIMBYs (Not In My Back Yard) and the BANANAs (Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anything). These two political forces are driving the future of the nation by dictating the policy agendas of the Republicans and Democrats. Soon, the national bird will no longer be the noble eagle, but the ostrich.

Americans are becoming adolescent children who want towns to remain small, yet they themselves have children who must have schools, jobs and homes of their own. They want to build their homes in rural areas with beautiful vistas, yet complain when someone else wants to do the same thing. They argue that a neighbor's new home has blocked their "view shed," never considering that their home used to be someone else's view shed or open space. Americans support programs to lock away land to keep wilderness pristine, free of human development, power lines and cell towers. Yet they want to use their cell phones and computers wherever they go. They want three car garages to house the family van, the daughter's little bug and the husband's sports car; but don't blight the landscape with filling stations, refineries or power plants... [Click here to read on]

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Help Us Bring cost-control and equity to the Unemployment Compensation System!

Last week, we emailed you about vital legislation (H.B. 916) that would help shore up an unemployment compensation system that is flat broke.

Now, we're asking you to email your state senator and representative in support of Senate Bill 1030 - as amended by a state House committee to include some of H.B. 916's provisions - which would bring fairness and cost-control to a UC system that has expanded beyond its established purpose and borrowed nearly $4 billion from the federal government to date to stay afloat.

The insolvency mess threatens taxpayers, as well as business growth and job creation.  That's why we are urging you to join us today in asking your state lawmakers to vote YES on S.B. 1030.

This crisis also threatens a system that is vital for those Pennsylvanians who truly are in need - all while some try to "game" a system designed to be a safety net.  Senate Bill would result in savings of about $137 million by ensuring that the system works as intended.

Just take a look at the lack of accountability in the current UC system:

• Pennsylvania is the only state in the nation that doesn't require recipients to prove they are actually looking for work.
• Individuals can collect severance pay and UC benefits at the same time, effectively being able to earn 150 percent of the pay they received while employed.
• Individuals that are out of work due to their own actions can collect UC benefits because of the lack of a clear definition of willful misconduct.  The entire premise of the UC Law is that benefits should only be paid to individuals who are unemployed through no fault of their own.
• And, under current law, recipients can feasibly turn down legitimate work in certain circumstances and still collect UC benefits.

S.B. 1030 would restore accountability by, among other commonsense measures, requiring recipients to look for work and reforming the existing severance pay policy.  It would also clearly define detrimental actions by employees that would disqualify them from receiving benefits designed to help those unemployed through no fault of their own.

And, it would give employers options - such as work share programs - to avoid layoffs, keeping more Pennsylvanians employed!

The forces of opposition against commonsense reform bill are strong.  They're fighting hard to preserve the unsustainable status quo.  That's why your grassroots action is so vital today.

Please contact your state senator and representative today and ask them to protect Pa's UC safety net by voting "YES" on S.B. 1030.

Sincerely,

Citizens to Protect PA Jobs

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 06/08/2011

Ten Questions for Leon Panetta

The war in Afghanistan rages on, as does the conflict in Libya. U.S. troops are still deployed in Iraq. Unrest continues in the Middle East's Arab Spring. Meanwhile, Iran's nuclear efforts are accelerating, and the global war against terrorists remains. And yet despite an aging military, President Barack Obama has called for $400 billion in cuts to national security spending over the next 12 years, in addition to the $400 billion in cuts he has already made. 

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Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke yesterday described America's economic recovery as "frustratingly slow" but cautioned that "monetary policy cannot be a panacea."

The Obama Administration's nation-building efforts in Afghanistan have had only limited success and may not survive the President's scheduled withdrawal of troops from the country, according to a new congressional report.

The White House has criticized the Senate Democrats' jobs bill for being too expensive -- it would increase funding of the Public Works and Economic Development Administration from $300 million this year to $500 million through 2015.

Hundreds of Syrian refugees are crossing the northern border into Turkey in hopes of avoiding an expected military assault in the town of Jisr al-Shughour, amid the Syrian government's continued suppression of political unrest.

Join Heritage's Hans von Spakovsky for a special panel discussion on tort reform today at 12:45 PM ET. Click here to join in.

Obama: Hope, Change, and The Occasional Sex Dream

by Ann Coulter | June 8 , 2011 

In Part One of my new book -- released this week! -- "Demonic: How the Liberal Mob Is Endangering America," I demonstrate that liberals have all the earmarks of mob psychology. 

Their myths, slogans, demands for immediate action, messianic goals, demonization of opponents, creation of political idols and occasional resorts to violence -- all this is classic herd behavior.   Because mobs are irrational, immature, subject to wild passions and infatuations, they cannot be reasoned with. And they are always dangerous. 

The mob attributes of liberals we will review this week are a crowd's inability to perceive contradictions and its tendency to form an infatuation for an individual. 

Consider just one blinding contradiction recently embraced by liberals. 

Immediately after Jared Loughner's shooting spree in Tucson, Americans were lectured on civility by the likes of Keith "the leading terrorist group in this country right now is the Republican Party" Olbermann. 

Two days after the shooting, The New York Times ran an op-ed by former Democratic congressman Paul Kanjorski (Pa.) calling for "an atmosphere of civility" to eliminate a "fear of violent confrontation." Only months earlier, Kanjorski had said of the Republican candidate for governor in Florida (now governor), Rick Scott: "They ought to have him and shoot him. Put him against the wall and shoot him." 

 

Click here to continue reading Ann Coulter's column

Legendary Investor: Approaching Crisis 'Worse' Than '08, Yuan Will be Safer Than Dollar Jonathon M. Seidl

"Washington's gonna print more money."

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Christian College Student Accused of Using Laptops to Spy on Showering Women Scott Baker

"Try putting your laptop near hot steam..."

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MSNBC Host: If There Is Civil Unrest Because of Unemployment It's Totally the GOP's Fault Naked Emperor News

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Hasidic NY Community Divided Over...Tank Tops for Women Scott Baker

"Our way of life is beautiful - very discreet."

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Israel Is Cancer and Must Be Uprooted: New Hamas Rep to Tehran, Ultimate Goal Is to Destroy the Zionist Regime Naked Emperor News

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Someone Tell Obama the Good News: The Egyptian People Don't Want Our Money Naked Emperor News

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Janet Napolitano: Using Common Sense and Concentrating Terrorist Screening Efforts on Muslim Men Under 35 Is Not Good Logic Naked Emperor News

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Lawrence O'Donnell and Dem Congressman Actually Do a Segment Attacking Palin's Bus Tour Based on 10-Year-Old Piper Palin Saying She Was on Vacation Naked Emperor News

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Raw Video: Anthony Weiner's Wife Appears in Abu Dhabi Traveling With Hillary Clinton Scott Baker

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So Which Oscar Winner Will Direct Film Adaptation of Vince Flynn's 'American Assassin'? Billy Hallowell

"I am fully confident that he is the right man for this job."

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CNN: Nearly Half of Americans Expect Another 'Great Depression' in Next 12 Months Scott Baker

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NY Times: Obama Intensifies Covert U.S. 'War' in Yemen Billy Hallowell

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Americans Ranked World's 'Funniest' Nationality Billy Hallowell

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Will Federal Judges Declare All or Part of ObamaCare Unconstitutional? Billy Hallowell

"I doubt this is the last time we'll be arguing this case."

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Update: Comedian Apologizes for Kill-Palin Joke...While Bashing Palin Billy Hallowell

"Let's all take a deep breath, and stop the death threats."

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Zombie Protesters Interrupt Special Olympics Event to Protest Wis. Gov. Walker Jonathon M. Seidl

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Iran Plans to Triple Nuke Output, Install More Advanced Centrifuges Billy Hallowell

"...uranium enrichment lies at the heart of Iran's dispute with the West..."

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Bombshell: Weiner's Wife Is Reportedly Pregnant Billy Hallowell

...adds a new dimension...

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June 9, 2011 

On Wednesday's Program 

FREE GBTV: Watch the launch TONIGHT at 7 pm ET

Glenn's 2 hour daily program debuts on 9/12, but tonight Glenn hosts a very special launch episode where you will see the future of GBTV - the studios, the plans and so much more. Glenn calls it a staff meeting. Stu called it a journey through Glenn's mind. There may or may not be talk of building an amusement park. You'll have to see for yourself - it's completely FREE and it's TONIGHT at 7pm ET - it's the perfect chance to take GBTV for a test drive! Just jump online and tune in at the GBTV Facebook page or GlennBeck.com - get all the details HERE. See you tonight at 7pm ET!

PHOTOS: Get a sneak peek of tonight's show by checking out some rehearsal pics HERE.

Weiner sexted about...Glenn Beck? (Eww)

The sext messages between Congressman Weiner and his women are beginning to come out in greater volume, including chats that are date-stamped just one month after his wedding. But the most disturbing chat by far is the one in which Weiner and his gal pal chat about Glenn Beck. Yes, it's true. And yes it's disturbing. Those weak of stomach should NOT READ this sexting transcript.

Former Hollywood Leftist flips

Best known as a playwright, David Mamet has also won a Pulitzer Prize and been nominated for an Oscar. Glenn spoke with David on radio today about his journey from left to right, and assured him that he'll probably never win another award ever again. Also an author, his latest being The Secret Knowledge - David talks about how his evolving political views have affected his career. Check out the conversation HERE. 

Jon Stewart feels the heat, mocks Weiner

Former Weiner roommate Jon Stewart was hammered in the press for taking it easy on his buddy - but he came back strong last night and mocked Weiner's press conference. Stewart kept mixing increasingly strong drinks as the conference progressed and even accidentally cut himself on the margarita glass. A pretty solid job - but would he have gone farther if it were someone on the right? Watch and decide.

Obama set to bail out... Greece?

America's economy may be on fire, but that's not stopping President Obama from taking action. Of course, he's taking action in Greece. It's not exactly clear why Greece would want Obama's help, given his horrific economic track record here at home. Nevertheless, Obama is leading the charge to bailout Greece - but he's got a few demands, like making Greece 'make structural reforms' to its economy. Oh, that's it? DETAILS.

Party in the USA: Did Miley Cyrus just convince Glenn to move his family to an island? WATCH.

The Miracle of Freedom: Watch Chris Stewart, author and speed and world-record setting Air Force pilot, talk about his important new book, The Miracle of Freedom: 7 Tipping Points that Saved the World. There are only 22 nations today that have enjoyed freedom for more than 50 years. Will that liberty grow or recede? The answer to the future lies in the past. Watch the video HERE.

OUCH: Only 24% share Obama's political views - DETAILS.