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"We are teaching the world the great truth that governments do better without kings and nobles than with them. The merit will be doubled by the other lesson that religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of government." 

~ James Madison, letter to Edward Livingston, 1822 

Puerto Rican Protestors Greet President Obama by...Burning the American Flag

The Blaze | by Billy Hallowell | Posted on June 14, 2011 at 10:18pm

President Barack Obama's trip to Puerto Rico earlier today was significant for a variety of reasons. Obama is the first U.S. president to visit the country in a half-century.  With courting Latino voters likely to be a campaign priority next year, the trip has very clear political implications for the president.

But, his visit was significant for another reason: It coincided with the Independence Party's public burning of the American flag.

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Pennsylnania: Castle Doctrine Bill to be Heard in Senate Judiciary Committee Tuesday. 

Tomorrow, NRA-backed castle doctrine legislation, will be heard in the Senate Judiciary Committee at 11:30 a.m. This bill passed in the state House by a 164 to 37 vote on April 12.

Introduced by state Representative Scott Perry (R-92), HB 40 would permit law-abiding citizens to use force, including deadly force, against an attacker in their home and any place outside of their home where they have a legal right to be. If enacted into law, it would also protect individuals from civil lawsuits by the attacker or the attacker's family when force is used.

Please contact members of the Senate Judiciary Committee in Harrisburg TODAY and respectfully urge them to support HB 40 with no anti-gun amendments

RedState Morning Briefing

For June 15, 2011

1. Barack Obama Thinks an ATM Ate Your Job

Yesterday, Barack Obama gave away the game. Without actually using the words, Barack Obama admitted he is completely and utterly ignorant about job creation and economics. In an interview with the Today Show, Barack Obama declared that the unemployment rate remains so high because of ATMS.

Sadly, many people will agree with him because they lack the vision to see the whole picture. They see less bank tellers and more ATMs - much as Barack Obama does - and presume this must mean higher unemployment. This myth, and it is a myth, is older than even the great lament that cars put blacksmiths on the unemployment line by getting rid of the need for horse shoes.

This left-wing populist thinking does not create jobs and often leads to dangerous policies that stifle the innovation that create the jobs that spring forth from the ATM's replacing the bank tellers. Barack Obama sees less tellers at the banks because of ATM's. But he does not see new IT workers at the bank to manage the ATM - higher paid than the tellers. He does not see the computer programmers. He does not see the manufacturers of the machines and their component parts.

Barack Obama should read Henry Hazlitt's Economics in One Lesson.

2. A mini-Ice Age?

Better throw some more logs on the fire.

"What may be the science story of the century is breaking this evening, as heavyweight US solar physicists announce that the Sun appears to be headed into a lengthy spell of low activity, which could mean that the Earth - far from facing a global warming problem - is actually headed into a mini Ice Age."

The magic phrase 'Maunder Minimum' was used - which suggests that we might be looking at another Little Ice Age. Which, depending on who you ask, either: caused a bunch of wars; made a bunch of wars much worse than they would have been otherwise; or is not to be mentioned in polite company.

On the bright side, a colleague of mine suggested that the perfect name for a hypothetical new period of decreased sunspot activity would be the "Gore Minimum." In terms of irony alone, that would be perfect.

3. Has Brad Carson has fallen behind in Oklahoma?

By request, we look at a 2012 House race today. PPP polled Oklahoma's second district for the Friends of Brad Carson. Carson, a Democrat, of course won this seat previously in 2000 and 2002, giving it up in 2004 in a failed Senate run. Dan Boren, also a Democrat, won the seat in 2004 and has held it ever since. Boren is retiring, so Carson wants to run.

Is he in good shape, like PPP says he is?

4. Reince Priebus on NLRB, Boeing

RedState has had extensive and in-depth coverage of the National Labor Relations Board prosecution of Boeing, most recently here and here. For an excellent analysis of why this is so important, and the possible consequences of this prosecution, read The NLRB's Opening Of Pandora's Box Beyond Boeing by LaborUnionReport.

Today at GOP.com, Chairman Reince Priebus has a good summary post up about the administration's handling of this situation.

5. Dozens of Republicans Vote for Handouts to Big Labor

Yesterday, the House passed the largely non-controversial Military Construction/Veterans Affairs Appropriations (MilCon) bill for FY 2012. Unfortunately, it is these non-controversial bills which provide a safe haven for meretricious policy initiatives through the rapid fire amendment process. While everyone was focused on presidential politics, the House passed an amendment forcing government contractors to use labor unions on federal construction projects. Oh, and like most bad legislation, this amendment passed by one vote, with the help of 27 Republicans.

In 2009, Obama used his signature power grab tool; an Executive Order, forcing all private companies to sign a project labor agreement (PLA) in order to bid on federal construction projects. PLA's compel the private contractor to use only unionized workers for the perspective project. This executive power grab is nothing more than an election payback to big labor, which would ostensibly purloin the taxpayer with forced collective bargaining for all public construction projects.

6. Union Militants Organize Against FBI's Terror-Tie Investigation

Last September, federal agents conducted a search of the homes of 23 left-wing, anti-war activists, several of whom are union activists from Illinois and Minnesota. The searches were in execution of warrants "seeking evidence in support of an ongoing Joint Terrorism Task Force investigation," stated Steve Warfield, a spokesman for the FBI in Minneapolis, at the time

Writing Analysts Claim Palin Writes 'Better Than Most Educated Americans'

The Blaze | by Billy Hallowell | Posted on June 15, 2011

The media haven't yet found the smoking gun they've been looking for in Sarah Palin's e-mails. Overall, the messages have been benign, lacking the excitement and scandal some hoped they would contain. That said, at least one outlet has gone a different route, questioning the former vice-presidential candidate's intelligence through the expertise of writing analysts. 

Did Rick Perry Just Give Major 2012 Hint During Surprise Beck TV Cameo?

The Blaze | by Jonathon M. Seidl | Posted on June 14, 2011 at 6:06pm 

If you were watching Glenn Beck's show on Fox today, you may have been surprised to see Texas Gov. Rick Perry make a cameo. You're not the only one. And just wait until you see what all happened.

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Sing the praises of Wal-Mart, a great American success story.

Liberals hate Wal-Mart because it puts local Momand Pop concerns out of business, ruthlessly cuts costs, and is driven by profit. Well no kidding! Why do you think its annual revenues-$500 billion-exceed the GDP of all but 18 of the world's 181 countries? Because people (liberals too) like to shop there. If they didn't, it would go out of business. That's how economics works! Oh, I forgot, you're a liberal, you don't understand that. 

Major study: poverty and terrorism from Pakistan not linked; they don't have to be poor to hate us

Jun 14, 2011 06:13 am | Coach Collins

By Kevin "Coach" Collins

Over the past decade we have given more than $20 billion in aid to Pakistan. Two of every three dollars has gone to the nation's military with the rest earmarked for "civilian economic projects".

Liberals are fond of saying poverty creates crime. Because it fits their template and world view so well they never stop to challenge the idea. Certainly no one is actually liable for his/her own conduct or station in life; we're all products of our environment, the liberal mantra goes.

 They do make an exception for homosexuals who are, of course born as such, because after all they are liberals too, but that's a different topic.

The liberal theory connecting poverty and crime, in this instance Muslim extremist crime from Pakistan, was debunked by a new Georgetown University study.

Contrary to the accepted template, the extensive study measuring the attitudes of 6,000 Pakistani Muslims found poorer Pakis were not as likely to support or engage in ... Continue Reading:Major study: poverty and terrorism from Pakistan not linked; they don't have to be poor to hate us

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PM Netanyahu stands by negotiations

In a joint press conference with PM Berlusconi of Italy today, PM Netanyahu said,

I also had the opportunity to discuss a wide range of regional and international subjects with Prime Minister Berlusconi. We talked about Iran's continued pursuit of nuclear weapons and we agreed that such weapons in the hands of Iran pose not merely a threat to Israel, but a threat to peace in our region and to the peace of the world.

Now there is today a great battle throughout the Middle East and North Africa between medievalism and modernity; between tyranny and freedom - and it's not clear how this contest will be decided.

I use this opportunity to thank you once again for your clear and consistent position against Iran's acquisition of nuclear weapons and I also want to thank you, as I did in our meeting, for your clear position against the attempt to bypass peace negotiations. Peace will only come from negotiations. It will be a negotiated peace. It cannot be imposed from...

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Muslim Student Association: Anti-Semitic Hate Group

by Bill Levinson

"Sharia Muslims Hate Free Speech" by Tom Trento shows that the Muslim Student Union organizers of Israel Apartheid Week attempted to get a campus police officer to move Trento and his camera crew out of a public area to prevent them from filming and recording their activities. Note also how a member of the university's administration attempted to interfere with Mr. Trento's First Amendment right to view and listen to the activities in a non-disruptive manner.

From where we sit, the Muslim Student Union is a lot like things that live under rocks; they cannot abide the light of day or, in this case, publicity that shows who they are and what they are doing. This comes as no surprise because Mr. Trento's video shows anti-Semitic hate material at 0:45 (U.S. Flag with Star of David in upper left corner). We have in fact reported this to the University of California at San Diego as a possible violation of its codes of conduct. Maybe that is...

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Turkey becoming more Islamist

Barry Rubin frets in his latest article in PAJAMAS MEDIA,

Turkish Election: Islamism Triumphant

What all this means is that the AKP is entrenched in power and can now proceed with the fundamental transformation of Turkey.

The AKP has become famous for the subtlty of its Islamism, disguised as a "center-right" reform party. Some people in the Arab world are starting to talk about this as a model. Notably the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt is fascinated by the strategy. Yet as the Islamist party gains more and more power and support-Turkey has demonstrated this-it becomes more ambitious, daring, and extreme.

This would include:

• A constitution that would take the country far down the road to a more Islamist state and society.

• A more presidential style of government empowering the mercurial (a nice word for personally unstable and frighteningly arrogant) Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan to become the chief executive.

• The government can now...

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The Left's double standards in Israel

Shoebat asks,

How far will Israel go in allowing Islamists to help run the country? Might Khaled Mesha'al, Hamas' leader, qualify to join the Knesset?

and rightly asks as well why was Kahane and his Party, a threat to Israel, and this man and his Party, aren't. Why indeed.

My leftist friend, fights to be allowed to get foreign money for NGO's to fight Israel or to allow Arab Israelis to celebrate Nakba Day in Israel, of course, in the name of human and cival rights. What about the human or civil rights of Jews to live in peace and security wherever they want, not so much. Ted Belman

Why Does Israel Allow a Seditious Man To Serve ... in the Knesset?

Judging from his comments, it might not take much digging to put together a charge of treason against Ibrahim Sarsur.
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by Walid Shoebat, PAJAMAS MEDIA

If the "Kach" or "Kahane Chai" parties are considered by the state of Israel to be "far right," "terrorist," "a danger to the state," and...

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Italy against the Jews

The same thing is happening all over Europe. The last thing Israel should do is to yield to the pressure.
Prof. Robert S. Wistrich says Delegitimizing Israel Won't Work Ted Belman

By Giulio Meotti, YNET

The first months of 2011 have confirmed Italy's status as one of Iran's biggest European trade partners, all while the ayatollahs pursue the means to perpetuate a second Holocaust. Rome is doing business as usual with the greatest totalitarian threat to international peace and security since the defeats of Soviet communism and Nazi fascism, providing a lifeline to an Iranian regime that is cruel at home, sponsors terror abroad and preaches anti-Jewish revolt.

Meanwhile, a murky wave of anti-Israel zeal is also growing at an alarming rate in Italy. "The old anti-Jewish libels are now aimed at the State of Israel", says Stefano Gatti, one of the top researchers at the Center for Documentation in Milan.

Israel Week
Palestinian groups threaten Italian 'Israel...

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Why should Israel give any more?

Following this faulty logic, the PA has to threaten to do something and automatically everyone expecgs Israel to give something to stop them. Ted Belman

Meanwhile, a European diplomat who was briefed on Molho's talks in Washington said they were fruitless. "The Americans didn't get anything new from Molho," the diplomat said.

This week, American diplomat David Hale will arrive in Israel to hold further meetings with both Molho and Erekat. Hale is temporarily replacing George Mitchell, the U.S. special envoy who resigned earlier this year.

An Israeli source who maintains close ties with both senior U.S. officials and people close to Netanyahu said that Washington's frustration began with Netanyahu's trip to Washington last month, when he publicly fought with Obama and then refused in an address to Congress to endorse the president's outline for talks. The Americans were now speaking very harshly of Netanyahu, said the...

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JDL Canada Protest Against the Sea Hitler (Canada Boat To Gaza)

Alternatives International is the anti-semitic organization fundraising for the Sea Hitler. They're also the trustee for the flotilla of Hamas lovers. The VP of the Canadian Arab Federation is Ali Mallah and he is also listed an an administrator for Alternatives International. It was the Canadian Arab Federation that started the initial planning of the 'Canada Boat to Gaza'.

The Jewish Defence League of Canada is calling on our members and supporters to join our protest against the Sea Hitler. We believe it is of the utmost importance to hold accountable those who provide support, services, money and assistance to the unrepentant terror group Hamas. Such groups and individuals surely know the terrorist designs and tactics of Hamas - they cannot plead ignorance. The aim of the flotilla is not to bring humanitarian aid to the residents. It has been widely reported that there is no humanitarian crises in Gaza; the opening of the border with Egypt underscores that point.

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Obama is rubber stamping the Arab position

Rubin suggests that this is Obama's plan. Others have suggested that Abbas is just taking Obama's lead in demanding negotiations based on '67 lines. There both wrong. The idea of '67 lines with swaps was fully set out in the demands of the Saudi Plan which became the Arab Initiative and which the State Department under Bush demanded Israel accept in the Roadmap alongside Res 242 which allowed Israel to keep some territory. In essence the Saudi Plan requires a withdrawal from 100% whereas UBSC Res 242 didn't. This resolution was also the basis of the Oslo Accords. Obama has now rejected 242.

When Obama first came into office he said he liked the Saudi Plan. Earlier this year, Abbas started demanding the '67 lines as the basis of negotiations before he would negotiate. Obama has now formally accepted the Saudi Plan and the demands of Abbas, yet he puts it forward as his bridging proposal. G-d Forbid he should be supporting the Arab position.

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June 14, 2011

Contact Morton A. Klein at: 212-481-1500

Attn: NEWS EDITOR

ZOA Criticizes Yale University For Announcing Closure of Anti-Semitism Center, Urges It To Rescind Decision

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has criticized Yale University for announcing that it will close on July 31 the Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Anti-Semitism (YIISA) and has urged it to rescind this decision. YIISA was founded in 2006 to provide a scholarly approach to the study of contemporary and historical anti- Semitism and was the first center of its kind in the United States (there is now a second, at Indiana University). YIISA is attached to Yale's Institution of Social and Policy Studies and fully funded from private contributions. It is not subsidized by the University.

In its short life span, YIISA has organized seminars and conferences that brought leading scholars from across the globe, held conferences and produced cutting edge research publications. These included a groundbreaking statistical study published by Small and Prof. Edward Kaplan from Yale's School of Management that demonstrated a direct correlation between anti-Israel sentiment and anti- Jewish sentiment. Last August, YIISA held a large conference, 'Global anti-Semitism: A Crisis of Modernity,' which among other things, covered the genocidal nature of Islamist anti-Semitism.

As the Jerusalem Post's Deputy Managing Editor Caroline Glick observes, "The [Global anti-Semitism] conference produced more than 800 pages of scholarly research materials on all facets of anti-Semitism, including anti-Semitism in Western academia. Senior Yale lecturers like Yale's diplomat-in-residence and eminent international security studies scholar Charles Hill, and Yale's Sterling Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature and Holocaust survivor Geoffrey Hartman, served on YIISA's faculty advisory committees and participated in its activities. According to YIISA's website, several dozen Yale professors and lecturers from throughout the university community were associated with YIISA. Their participation in its activities contributed to the institute's comprehensive study of anti-Semitism. As the only center of its kind throughout North America, YIISA's activities were widely covered by the media. Small and other YIISA personnel have been regularly interviewed in the US and global media on subjects related to the world's oldest and most resilient form of bigotry."

However, despite a distinguished record of fruitful academic activity and publications, Yale's Press Secretary Thomas Conroy wrote that the decision to close YIISA was made by a faculty committee during a routine five-year review of the program, which "concluded that [YIISA] had not attracted a critical mass of relevant faculty or stimulated sufficient new research." Also, Yale's Professor Donald Green, who heads the Institution for Social and Policy Studies that housed YIISA, has said that YIISA, like all other programs, was evaluated and found wanting by two set criteria: Its success in publishing articles in top-tier academic journals and its success in attracting a large number of students to its courses. Yet, as Glick observes, "the use of these criteria to determine YIISA's academic viability is deeply unfair. These criteria are reasonable for politically neutral or popular subjects like agrarianism or American politics. But sadly today, at Yale and throughout the world, the subject of anti-Semitism is steeped in controversy and an objective analysis of its various aspects is considered politically incorrect. Consequently, a decision to use routine standards of assessment for a non-routine subject is not a fair decision. Indeed, it is reasonable to argue that it is a politically motivated decision."

Yale has shown deep interest in attracting funds from the most repressive Arab tyrants and business figures, including Saudi Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal, who has spent tens of millions of his personal wealth establishing academic centers in American universities so that a politically correct version of Islam and Islamic studies can augmented in the U.S. Alwaleed has given $20 million endowments to both Harvard and Georgetown universities and Yale University has been seeking his largesse as well.(Martin Kramer, 'Some day, Yale's prince will come,' August 21, 2009).

Yale also has a record of appeasing violent Islamists. In 2009, Yale University Press published a book on the Danish Muhammad cartons controversy, The Cartoons That Shook the World, but omitted pictures of the Danish cartoons that were at the heart of the controversy.  In January 2010, Iran announced that it was instituting a boycott of 60 institutions, including Yale. "Although the [Iranian] regime did not explain the reason for the boycott, university officials attributed Tehran's decision to YIISA's activities in spotlighting the regime's role in promoting genocidal anti-Semitism. Due to the boycott, Yale professors involved in research in Iran were forced to end their activities. These professors reportedly blamed YIISA rather than Iran for the cancellation of their research projects" (Caroline Glick, 'Yale, Jews and double-standards,' Jerusalem Post, June 9, 2011). Also, the August 2010 Global anti-Semitism Conference attracted outrage from the PLO, whose representative in Washington, Rashid Areikat, demanded that the university disassociate itself from the conference. Areikat wrote, "It's shocking that a respected institution like Yale would give a platform to these right-wing extremists and their odious views, and it is deeply ironic that a conference on anti-Semitism that is ostensibly intended to combat hatred and discrimination against Semites would demonize Arabs - who are Semites themselves."

ZOA National President Morton A. Klein said, "The background to the decision by Yale to close YIISA very strongly suggests that the decision was not based on considerations of scholarship or academic output, but on unsavory political considerations. Put simply, Yale seeks donations and endowments from whatever source, including the most illiberal and tyrannical in the Arab world, and if that means a genuine and important scholarly endeavor - like studying contemporary anti-Semitism and the prominence of Muslim anti-Semitism around the world - has to be discarded to keep rich, extremist potential Arab donors on side, then that is a sacrifice that they will make. This is a degrading, disgraceful and frightening act of appeasement and amounts to a negation of the pursuit of 'light and truth' in words of Yale's motto, to which Yale is supposed to be committed.

"Yale should show that this is not the case by immediately rescinding this terrible decision and maintaining YIISA, whose scholarly output does much credit to Yale."

Today's Headlines:  Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Santorum: Ryan Right on Medicare; Gingrich: GOP Should 'Slow Down'

Michele Bachmann: I'm Running

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Bachmann, Pawlenty, Romney, Gingrich, Santorum For Marriage Amendment, Not Cain or Paul

DNC Chair: N.H. Debate Highlighted Republicans' 'Extreme Policies'

 1.9 Million Fewer Americans Have Jobs Today Than When Obama Signed Stimulus

HUD Launches Spanish-Language Blog As Obama Announces Campaign to Reduce Waste

White House, Issa Propose Government-Monitoring Boards

Q&A: Rawhide Down: The Near Assassination of Ronald Reagan

Energy-Efficient Buildings Should Cost More, Government Says

Russia Fumes Over U.S. Missile Defense Ship

Iran Cheers Political Developments in Turkey and Lebanon, Reaches Out to Asian Bloc

Weiner Will Keep Collecting $174,000 Congressional Salary While on Leave

Sexting Scandal Inspires Anthony Weiner Doll

First Lady Tells Hollywood to Run More Stories About Military Families

COMMENTARY:

Why Weiner's Going Under the Bus
By Patrick J. Buchanan
The national reaction to Anthony Weiner, the clamor that he get out of the House now, testifies to the enduring moral health of the nation.

The CNN New Hampshire Debate
By Rich Galen
I have no favorite among the seven Republicans, but here's how I think they did:

Our Moral Dilemma
By Walter E. Williams
Most of our nation's problems are a direct result of our being immune, hostile or indifferent to several moral questions. Let's examine them.
 

NEWSPAPER ROUNDUP:

Many Mass. children going without health insurance, despite Romneycare
Obama: Shovel-ready projects 'not as shovel-ready as we expected'
Empty seats: Obama fundraiser underwhelms
First Lady sees 'sadness and worry that's creasing (husband's) face'
Report: 70% of arms seized, traced in Mexico came from U.S.
Senate GOP splits on axing ethanol subsidy
Washington Post: Bachmann lauded for debate performance
Bachmann: Hit EPA regulations with 'mother of all repeal bills'
Marco Rubio speaking of 'new American century' Tuesday
Oregon House votes to outlaw 'suicide kits'
Obama wants credit for cleaning up 'big mess'
Many Afghans fearful of push to negotiate with Taliban
CIA to operate drones over Yemen
6 in 10 fail written part of Ariz. driver's test
Peace activists cry foul over FBI probe

Government Is the Soros-Sponsored 'Agenda 21' a Hidden Plan for World Government? (Yes, Only it Is Not Hidden)

June 14, 2011

What is Agenda 21?  If you do not know about it, you should.

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America's Ticking Bankruptcy Bomb

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Policy Director for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published June 14, 2011 on FoxNews.com.

The failures of federal, state and local officials of both major parties, over many years, have primed a ticking bankruptcy bomb for America that will explode the American Dream if we don't disarm it. But it is not too late to reverse course and avert the coming bankruptcy of America.

Reversing course will require fundamental structural reforms of all levels of government, and our most politically sensitive entitlement programs, including Social Security, Medicare, the continuing empire of dozens of federal/state welfare programs, and now replacement of ObamaCare with Patient Power.

If we do this right, thoroughly modernized entitlements will serve the poor, seniors and most vulnerable among us far better, and a new economic boom will restore America's traditional, world leading prosperity.

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Supreme Court Says Officials' Speech Is Not Protected by First Amendment

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published June 13, 2011 on The Washington Examiner website.

Nevada's law barring public officials from voting--or officially speaking--for or against issues where they have a personal stake is okay under the First Amendment, according to the U.S. Supreme Court.

In Nevada Commission on Ethics v. Carrigan, the high court considered whether Nevada's recusal statute for public officials violates those officials' free speech rights.

The measure requires officials not to vote or advocate on matters where a family member or relationships with others that are "substantially similar" to family ties could profit from the official action.

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Vote Fraudsters Redouble Efforts     

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published June 10, 2011 on The Washington Times website.

Even with the demise of ACORN, a lot of people are worried about voter fraud in the 2012 presidential election. That's because the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now has not really gone away since two young conservatives posing as a pimp and a prostitute administered a very painful video sting in 2009. ACORN has transmogrified into lots of little ACORN groups with misleadingly innocent names, such as Affordable Housing Centers of America (formerly ACORN Housing Corp.) and New England United for Justice.

Another reason to worry is that the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is working overtime to curb laws designed to reduce illegal immigration and to require voters to present identification. Yes, you can't cash a check or open a bank account without a valid ID, but the ACLU thinks it is somehow "racist" to ensure that only American citizens vote in our elections.

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Addressing The Various Debt-Limit Delusions 

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Policy Director for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published June 9, 2011 on Forbes.com.

Suppose you were suffering long term unemployment, and you had maxed out all of your credit cards. Would your first action this morning be (1) get out of the house to look for a job, or (2) start cutting back on expenses, or (3) focus on increasing your credit limit?

Based on their positions in the federal debt limit debate, what President Obama and Sens. Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi would advise is (3) focus on increasing your credit limit. Moreover, they would advise you that is your best course to maintain your credit rating.

President Obama and the Democrats are demanding what they call a "clean" increase in the national debt limit, currently $14.3 trillion. That would mean Congressional authorization to add trillions more to the national debt, with no cuts in future planned spending of any sort, or any other limitations on future spending, such as a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution.

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Keeping you current and connected.

...and keep scrolling for our new Monday feature "Week in Review" where we'll recap our News Briefs from the previous week.

Monday, June 13

• Governor Corbett Increased State Spending For Public Education - PA GOP
• Obama Is Spinning Mightily - Jack Kelly, Real Clear Politics
  Health Care Law: 54% Favor Repeal of Health Care Law, 46% Think Repeal Likely - Rasmussen Reports
• Fix Medicare now to avoid breakdown - Congressman Jim Gerlach, Pottstown Mercury
• Poll: Younger voters dissatisfied with Obama's handling of the economy - Cristina Marcos, The Hill
• Lawmakers Take Aim At 'Sidewalks To Nowhere' - Dwayne Parker - WFMZ News

Tea Party News
Tuesday, June 14th 

New Hampshire GOP debate belonged to Mitt Romney, Michele Bachmann

Rep. Michele Bachmann used the occasion of the debate to announce that she is definitely running for president. She made it official in her opening statement. Ms. Bachmann then delivered a strong debate performance, articulating her conservative views, demonstrating her status as an activist member of the House, and introducing herself to voters.         The second winner of the evening was Mitt Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts. The early front-runner for the Republican nomination could have faced "incoming" from other contenders.         One big question of the evening was whether former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty would go after Romney on health care. The day before, he had coined the term "Obamneycare," a ready-made sound bite to fling again at the front-runner. "Minnesota nice" prevailed again, as it had in the first debate on May 5.         Herman Cain won big during the first debate, speaking bluntly and plainly as the only nonpolitician in the field. He has seen his poll numbers rise steadily since then. But Mr. Cain, former CEO of Godfather's Pizza, got tangled up in his explanation of a previous statement of why he would not be "comfortable" having a Muslim in his administration. [Christian Science Monitor, June 14]      Click here for the source story

Michele Bachmann threatens Sarah Palin's claim to be the new Margaret Thatcher A Brit's view of the debate

It was a poorly choreographed debate. With seven candidates limited to 30 second responses stretched out over two hours, things became repetitive. Tim Pawlenty was boring enough to substitute for Valium, Mitt Romney slipped into his "Gee golly, gumdrops, ain't life grand?" act too early, and Rick Santorum looked a little ill.         And then Michele Bachmann ignored a question and announced her candidacy for the Presidency of the United States instead. It was a bold move that could have gone horribly wrong. Instead, it threw momentum her way and she rode it like a wild horse right through to the end.         And how eloquent she was! Bachmann is seen by the liberal press as a rival to Sarah Palin because the two are conservative women. But while Palin has a "complex relationship" with the English language, and often wings it with generalities, Bachmann came off like a policy wonk. She reminded the audience of how much legislation she had either authored or tried to scrap, and made frequent reference to her trailblazing leadership of the Tea Party in the House.         When asked what she would do regarding abortion in cases of rape and incest. Bachmann replied with a lyrical explanation of the value of life, side-stepping the specifics completely. Right-to-lifers will understand what she really meant; independents won't care because it sounded so good. That's how you sell conservatism. [Tim Stanley in The Telegraph, June 14]      Click here for the source story

House Adopts Fitzpatrick Measure to Assist Veterans

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257 Foreign Trade Zones across America

Obama Jokes at Jobs Council: 'Shovel-Ready Was Not as Shovel-Ready as We Expected'

Politics Do You Know Michele Bachmann? A Quick History of Her Political Life

June 14, 2011

Editor's note: the following is a political profile of Michele Bachmann done by the Associated Press.

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Have you ever had student loans?

Did you ever think that the Department of Education would send their SWAT teams in to collect on them, if you did?

If you're anything like me, you were probably surprised to find out that the Department of Education even has a SWAT team.

What on earth for?

In this day and age of ever-increasing government intervention and militarization, even seemingly-benign agencies are training and using heavily armed agents against citizens.
 
In Stockton, California this week, one such unit of "operators" -- a term almost exclusively used to refer to military special operations personnel like Navy SEALs and Delta Force -- was used to assault the home of a person who owed money on their student loans.

The man of the house and his children were drug out into the street in their underwear by ski-masked thugs working for the federal government.

"They put me in handcuffs in that hot patrol car for six hours, traumatizing my kids," the man said.

And it wasn't even him that the police were after.
 
A lot of people mocked some of the statements about the so-called Patriot Act, but this story is a perfect example of how police state action can get wildly out of hand quicker than most realize.

I mean, really, why does the Department of Education have a SWAT Team at all???

Combine this with the story of a raid on a former Marine and Iraqi combat veteran by the Pima County Sheriff's department and we see what happens when we militarize our law enforcement agencies.

The incident in Pima County, Arizona resulted in over 70 shots fired.

Not one of them by the man killed.

And according to the official report, "nothing illegal" was found in his home.

They are gaining more and more control...

...and they are using it.

I need you to remember these stories when it comes time to vote.

Remember who voted for legislation like the Patriot Act.

Remember who chose to stand against things like the UN Small Arms Treaty.
 
Remember who wanted to restrict the size and scope of federal government.

And who wanted to increase it.

Do you want every agency funded by taxpayer dollars -- your money -- to have a SWAT Team and the authority to use it for whatever they choose?

I know I don't.

   For Liberty,

  
   Dudley Brown
   Executive Director

P.S. Like me, you're probably sick of the over-militarization of our police forces and their ever-increasing use against law-abiding citizens.

Help the National Association for Gun Rights fight against these abuses of our civil liberties by chipping in $5 or $10. We need to keep putting out alerts like this one so that more like-minded people are aware of our freedoms being stripped away.

 

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June 14, 2011

	New Common Sense Applying First Principles to the Issues of Today

Did America Have a Christian Founding?
 

Few historical questions generate as much controversy as this one, and do so on such a regular basis. Every few months or so, following some public pronouncement on America's Christian roots or some court ruling pertaining to the First Amendment, the nation is subjected to a heated, but essentially sterile, debate on the Christian character of the American nation.

On the one side are those who view any mention of God in the public square as a dangerous threat to religious liberty and a veiled move to transform America into a theocracy. To make their case for a radical separation of religion and politics, they trot out the tired trope that the Founders were all deists, invoke the "godless Constitution" and rummage through the Founders' voluminous writing to find some quote that seems to buttress their case. The perennial favorite seems to be Jefferson's 1802 letter to the Danbury Baptist Association in which the President spoke of the "building of a wall separation between church and state."

On the other side are those who argue that America had a Christian Founding in the strict sense of the term, and that it fundamentally is-and should remain-a Christian nation. The Founders (with an exception or two perhaps) were orthodox Christians who created a Christian nation for a Christian people so that Christianity could flourish. These proponents also pour through the Founders' letters and speeches and count any reference of God as proof positive that the Founders were devout Christians. They don't even mind quoting the occasional Supreme Court decision-as long, of course, as it affirms America's Christian character.

Soon, of course, the media moves on to the next controversy du jour and the debate quells, without advancing beyond the usual fault lines. The Founders' nuanced position on the question is almost always ignored.

So did America have a Christian Founding?

In a new essay, Mark David Hall, a scholar of religion and the Founding, shows how the two most popular answers to the query-"Of course not!" and "Absolutely!"- distort the Founders' views.

He reminds fervent secularists that the Founders did not support a strict separation of church and state that requires political leaders to avoid religious language and public spaces to be stripped of religious symbols. And he cautions those who would succumb to an overly zealous Christian reading of the Founding, by reminding them that the Founders did not create a theocracy and that they were, to a person, commited to protecting the religious liberties of all citizens, regardless of faith, so long as they "demean themselves as good citizens."

Hall does however recognize the influence that Christian ideas had on the the Founders, and identifies the three major areas of agreement with respect to religious liberty and church-state relations at the time of the Founding:
 

(1)    Religious liberty is a right for all-Christian and non-Christian alike-and must be protected.
(2)    The national government may not create an established church.
(3)    Religious references and appeals to God belong in the public square.
 

In short, while America did not have a Christian Founding in the sense of creating a theocracy, its Founding was deeply shaped by Christian moral truths. More importantly, it created a regime that was hospitable to Christians, but also to practitioners of other religions.

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06/14/2011 

Unemployment Is No Laughing Matter

As President Barack Obama swung through North Carolina yesterday, he did all he could to show that he cares about the U.S. economy, its 9.1 percent unemployment rate, and the 13.9 million Americans who remain out of work. Well, that is, until he let a bit of honesty slip off his tongue.
 

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June 15, 2011 

On Today's Program 

The best arguments against Obamacare were made 224 years ago...

Do you believe the Constitution is an outdated document and no longer applies to the modern world? Do you believe capitalism has failed? Unfortunately, many argue that it is and it has. Go back and read the original documents and it's clear that what the Founders laid out still applies today. Well, kind of clear.  The Federalist Papers were written the 1700s and very tough to get through. That's why Glenn published The Original Argument: The Federalists' Case for the Constitution, Adapted for the 21st Century. It's the follow up and is packaged the same way as Common Sense - easy to read and packed with the original, founding arguments that helped establish America. Get reconnected with them NOW.

Glenn, Stu & Pat show how the Original Argument applies today -- with a catchy jingle and some award winning acting too! WATCH   

CNN's ridiculous GOP Debate: Leno or Conan? Spicy or Mild? Pepsi or Coke?

Besides the lack of an obvious frontrunner, the main headline to come out of last night's GOP debate was the ridiculousness of how CNN presented it. These are supposed to be serious candidates and they're being asked if they like Pepsi or Coke; Leno or Conan and on and on. Plus, the moderator irked the audience with his bizarre method of getting the candidates to stop talking -- by 'grunting' frequently. A bizarre scene that demonstrated just one reason why CNN's ratings are in the crapper. Get Glenn's reaction HERE.

Shoe/Sock 2012? There may not be a clear cut candidate yet, but do not be discouraged says Glenn Beck - even THIS ticket could beat Obama - WATCH. 

Can Michele Bachmann win? Glenn interviews her on radio...

Glenn thought she did a pretty good job in the debate last night, sans a few politician type moments, but one great moment was when she talked about the 'kinetic military action' in Libya. She said we don't even know who the rebels are and yet we are caught up in this battle - and a new poll shows only 26% of Americans support our action in Libya. WATCH as Glenn interviews Bachmann on radio today and get more on her political background from The Blaze.

What is GBTV? Get all the answers HERE. Plus tune in to GBTV this Thursday evening at 7 pm ET for a look behind the scenes in the premiere episode of Making of GBTV. Get a full list of all the GBTV features and subscription details HERE. 

Another video gem from Oliver Darcy: College students hypocrisy on affirmative action - WATCH. 

Shirtless Obama pics hit the web: After dozens and dozens of shirtless Congressman Weiner pics flooded the web, will President Obama suffer the same scrutiny after an embarrassing pic was leaked of a shirtless Obama at his desk in the Oval Office? Ok, so it's probably just a photoshop job - but hey, thanks to Weiner, you never know these days. PIC

Glenn agrees with...Obama? Obama admits he'd be fine with 1 term. He'll be glad to know he's SO not alone. Get all the details from radio HERE.