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~ Thomas Jefferson, letter to John Randolph, 1803

Obama Flubs Speech to Troops By Claiming Dead Soldier is Alive

The Blaze | by Tiffany Gabbay | Posted on June 23, 2011 at 7:28pm

President Obama flubbed his remarks to troops at Fort Drum Thursday when he told the US Army's 10th Mountain Division about the time he awarded the first Medal of Honor to someone not receiving it posthumously. The medal, he said, went to Jared Monti. The only issue is that Jared Monti died in service in Afghanistan, and did in fact receive the medal posthumously.

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.

Agenda 21 is a two-decade old, grand plan for global 'Sustainable Development,' brought to you from the United Nations. George H.W. Bush (and 177 other world leaders) agreed to it back in 1992, and in 1995, Bill Clinton signed Executive Order #12858, creating a Presidential Council on 'Sustainable Development.' This effectively pushed the UN plan into America's large, churning government machine without the need for any review or discussion by Congress or the American people.

'Sustainable Development' sounds like a nice idea, right? It sounds nice, until you scratch the surface and find that Agenda 21 and Sustainable Development are really cloaked plans to impose the tenets of Social Justice/Socialism on the world.

At risk from Agenda 21;

John Bush of Texans for Accountable Government Exposes Agenda 21 to Austin City Council

Transcript: Obama's Speech on Troop Withdrawal From Afghanistan.....Allen West Responds

June 23, 2011

Remarks by the President on the Way Forward in Afghanistan

East Room

8:01 P.M. EDT

"The President is showing weakness" : Rep. West discusses Obama's Afghanistan Speech

Executive Branch

U.S. to Release 30 Million Barrels of Oil from Strategic Reserve

June 23, 2011

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Department of Energy

Strategic Petroleum Reserve

The U.S. is releasing 30 million barrels of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve as part of an international effort to make up for disruption in Libya's oil production, a decision aimed at increasing supply ahead of the nation's summer driving season, Obama administration officials said Thursday.

"We're heading into a period in which demand for oil tends to be at its highest," a senior administration official told reporters. "This release is intended to address that increasing demand."

The move drew immediate condemnation from Republicans and business interests opposed to tapping the emergency reserve for anything other than a critical cut-off of oil.

60M Barrels of Oil Released From Global Supplies

"The Strategic Petroleum Reserve was designed for energy emergencies, not political convenience. Releasing our reserves to calm the market is emblematic of an administration whose energy policy is irrational and counter-productive," said Rep. Fred Upton, R-Mich., head of the House Energy and Commerce Committee.

"The Obama administration's decision to release oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve is ill-advised and not the signal the markets need," said Karen Harbert, president and CEO of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Energy Institute.

"Our reserve is intended to address true emergencies, not politically inconvenient high prices. ... With U.S. crude oil production expected to decrease by 90 million barrels in the next year, the administration should instead focus on increasing domestic production to improve our energy security, reduce our dependence on foreign oil and create thousands of jobs," she said in a statement.

Alexander's Essay - June 23, 2011

Opting Out of Enduring Freedom

Political Expediency vs. National Security

"[I]t is a common observation here that our cause is the cause of all mankind, and that we are fighting for their liberty in defending our own." --Benjamin Franklin

On the horizon

In opposition to the advice of military and intelligence advisers -- but with the support of popular polls -- Barack Hussein Obama is moving ahead with his plan to withdraw American forces from Afghanistan beginning this July. In other words, though the drawdown does not comport with the best interests of U.S. national security, it does conform to his 2012 political campaign agenda.

Obama rolled out his worn rhetoric about Iraq being the wrong war, which distracted our nation from the right war, Afghanistan, which would seem to contradict his drawdown plans. As you recall, President George W. Bush launched Operation Enduring Freedom against al-Qa'ida and their Taliban hosts in Afghanistan on 7 October 2001, in response to the 9/11 attack on our nation. Operation Iraqi Freedom was not launched until 20 March 2003, after Saddam Hussein refused, repeatedly, to comply with UN Resolution 1441, giving him "a final opportunity to comply with its disarmament obligations."

At the time, we had ongoing combat operations over Iraq enforcing the "no-fly zone," and arguably, "Desert Storm 2.0" was necessitated because we departed Iraq prematurely after the first Desert Storm in 1991.

Obama credited himself with having taken "decisive action" in late 2009 by ordering a troop surge of 30,000 to Afghanistan. History will note, however, that he dithered for several months before finally granting his military commanders a smaller surge force than the one they'd requested, and that he hamstrung our forces by announcing a date certain by which we'd begin to remove them.

Obama has committed to withdraw at least 33,000 of our 100,000 warfighters in the region by "next summer," just in time to mollify his anti-war base and re-energize them for the 2012 presidential election. That would be 30,000 more than his advisers requested, which might explain why he made no mention of General David Petraeus, Commander of the International Security Assistance Force and U.S. Forces Afghanistan.

In early May, besieged with the failure of his socialist economic policies, BHO received a short-lived bounce in the polls after announcing that he (read "U.S. Special Forces") killed Osama bin Laden, thanks to intelligence "extracted" from Jihadi insurgents captured in Iraq when George Bush was president.

As Obama's domestic policies continue to fail miserably, and his popular approval sinks to new lows, he hopes to get another pop-poll bounce with the announcement of the Afghan drawdown. He jibed, "America, it is time to focus on nation-building here at home," but just hours before, Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke downgraded the outlook for the U.S. economic recovery, the direct result of Obama's "nation building here at home."

All political shenanigans aside, the question we should ask is what action in Afghanistan is in the best long-term interest of our national security? Is our nation-building strategy in Iraq and Afghanistan the right strategy, or will targeted hunt and kill operations suffice.

For the record, the primary national security objective of both Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom were not, first and foremost, to eradicate dictators and establish democracy and free enterprise through extensive and expensive nation-building efforts. Our objective was to contain the nuclear threat posed by asymmetric elements in the region.

In plain words, our objective was (and should remain) to prevent the detonation by Jihadi terrorists of a nuclear device in one or more U.S. urban centers. If you think the cost of keeping the battle on their turf for the last 10 years has been expensive, try calculating the cost of recovery after a fissile weapon detonation in Boston or Baltimore, and the resulting economic consequence. Notably, the economic collapse of 2008 can be linked directly to the economic consequences of the 9/11 attack, but those consequences were minor in comparison to the cost of a nuclear attack.

The nuclear deterrence objective depends on a coherent Long War strategy to combat Islamist adversaries in the region, and around the world, but Obama has now made clear his intent to short-circuit that objective for his political expedience.

Obama errantly believes that concessions will inspire our Jihadi foes in al-Qa'ida's broad and amorphous terrorist network to go home in peace. However, since he took office, casualties in Afghanistan have increased five-fold. If history repeats itself -- and it will -- Obama's foreign policy today will cost us dearly at some future date. Retreat from Afghanistan without a clear military victory will be seen by jihadists as a victory for al-Qa'ida and Islamo-Facists around the world. (Tellingly, he never once used the words "win" or "victory" last night when he announced his rationale for withdrawing our forces.)

Obama was a national security neophyte when he entered office, and he hasn't learned much since then. Rather than exhibit leadership, a personality characteristic that remains enigmatic to him, Obama is content to follow the polls.

Unquestionably, most Americans want to "bring the troops home." Of course we do. The 10-year campaign to contain Islamists in Afghanistan has cost our nation the lives of 1,522 of its Patriot warriors -- about half the number of Americans killed on 9/11 -- and more than 10,000 injured. But the consequences of a rapid drawdown will cost us far more lives in the future.

This is clear to military leaders stateside, and military commanders in Afghanistan.

Of Obama's foreign policy, departing SecDef Robert Gates said of his decision to resign, "I've spent my entire adult life with the United States as a superpower, and one that had no compunction about spending what it took to sustain that position. ... I can't imagine being part of a nation, part of a government ... that's being forced to dramatically scale back our engagement with the rest of the world." (Gates's successor, Leon Panetta, will be charged with dramatic military cuts as Obama continues to massively expand the size and role of the central government, creating a "debt bomb," perhaps more perilous to our national security than the Jihadi threat.)

Real Leadership: Gen. David Petraeus

According to my sources, Gen. Petraeus has warned Obama that his proposed drawdown is too much, too soon, and that the current level of U.S. military personnel is needed for at least another year to turn the tide. U.S. Marine Corps Maj. Gen. John Toolan, Regional Command Southwest, has expressed similar concerns, as has Lt. Gen. William Caldwell, commander of NATO Training Mission-Afghanistan.

However, it is the Army and Marine commanders on the frontlines in Afghanistan whose opinion we give greatest weight, because their perspective is unfettered by political agendas.

Having contacted five commanders at the O-5 to O-6 ranks on the ground in Afghanistan, I can present the following composite of the perspectives they shared with me: If we leave on Obama's political timeframe, not only will Afghanistan return to the breeding ground for terrorists as it was prior to 2003, but Islamists are likely to overtake Pakistan, a nuclear power on the precipice of chaos. In addition to redoubling their campaign against Israel and Western targets, they may also set their sights on India, another nuclear power, and the scene fades to dark after that. The rhetoric about timelines and drawdowns is counterproductive, because what our allied Afghans and Pakistanis hear is that America is abandoning them. That belief only serves to embolden the Taliban, al-Qa'ida and other Islamo-Fascists in the region, including those in Iran. Region-wide, Obama's policies portray us as uncommitted and untrustworthy, which further demoralizes the moderates we seek to empower. In short, this is a war against a formidable adversary that we must continue to prosecute if our ultimate objective -- keeping the battlefront on their turf rather than ours -- is to be maintained.

In summation, one Marine officer put it this way: "When I hear Obama say 'the American people want me to end this war and I am responding with an exit plan,' that's the antithesis of leadership. President Bush, against the popular will, surged forces here, and that was the right policy and required leadership."

The death of OBL gave BHO a temporary boost in the polls. Using that as a catalyst to draw down our forces in Afghanistan he might enjoy another temporary boost. But the bottom line that gets lost in this debate is the potential that Islamist terrorists will one day detonate a nuke on U.S. soil.

Graham Allison, Director of Harvard's Center for Science and International Affairs, and a leading analyst of U.S. national security and defense policy pertaining to nuclear weapons and terrorism, grimly notes in regard to a nuclear attack on the U.S., "I think that we should be very thankful that it hasn't happened already. ... We're living on borrowed time."

Unfortunately, while we currently control the clock, we're about to pass it back to the bad guys through Barack Obama's malfeasance.

Semper Vigilo, Fortis, Paratus et Fidelis!

Mark Alexander
Publisher, The Patriot Post

Bloomberg

Netherlands Court Acquits Freedom Party Leader Wilders of Defaming Muslims

By Jurjen van de Pol - Jun 23, 2011

Dutch Freedom Party Leader Geert Wilders, left, appears in court with his lawyer Bram Moszkowicz in Amsterdam. Photographer: Koen van Weel/AFP/Getty Images

Dutch Freedom Party Leader Geert Wilders was acquitted by a court of charges that he made remarks defaming Muslims, ending a three-year prosecution that he described as a bid to restrict his freedom of speech.

Wilders, 47, was charged with inciting hatred and discrimination and insulting Muslims for calling the Koran "fascist" and comparing it to Adolf Hitler's book "Mein Kampf" in a 2007 Dutch newspaper editorial. A year later, he released his movie "Fitna," in which he urged Muslims to rip out "hate-preaching" verses from the book.

Delta adopts Saudi 'no-Jew' fly policy

Delta Air Lines' plan to add Saudi Arabian Airlines to its SkyTeam Alliance of partnering companies would require the American carrier to ban Jews and holders of Israeli passports from boarding flights from New York or Washington bound for Jeddah, prompting outraged accusations of illegal religious discrimination.

Read the latest now on WND.com.

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The IRS has stripped the embattled Council on American-Islamic Relations of its tax-exempt status after the nation's most prominent Muslim group withheld donor records from the government.

The move by the federal agency follows an expose published by WND Books that revealed these and other violations by CAIR and triggered a federal investigation and audit.

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Libya and the War Powers Act

by Phyllis Schlafly

June 24, 2011

Phyllis Schlafly

One of the reasons leftwingers voted for Barack Obama for President in 2008 was that they opposed the war in Iraq. The anti-war left is disappointed that Obama continued the Iraq war, escalated Afghanistan, and started a new war in Libya.

Cheers for House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-OH) who sent a letter to Obama reminding him that on June 19 he will be in violation of the War Powers Act unless he receives authorization from Congress.

The Constitution gives Congress the power to declare war, and the War Powers Act gives the President the
go-ahead if there is "(1) a declaration of war, (2) specific statutory authorization, or (3) a national emergency created by attack upon the United States, its territories or possessions, or its armed forces." None of these conditions exists with Libya.

A Long Walk Through New York

Yesterday I walked across half the width of the city. To walk across New York City is to see a study in contrasts. The ambitious skyscrapers of the real estate bubble and the declining working class neighborhoods being eaten away at by Halal markets and mosques. It is also to witness the prolonged death of the progressive vision for the city.

New York is not a large city in space. It is walkable if you have the time and the energy. Its largeness is vertical. The buildings push upward around concentrated real estate bubbles. A dozen blocks in a hot zone can be completely torn down and rebuilt into an unrecognizable mini-metropolis in only a few years. While a dozen adjacent blocks remain stagnant and unchanged since the 50's. Much of this has to do with zoning regulations. Some of it with the ridiculous trends of 90's gentrification. But seen from above it is undeniably strange.

Walk across one of the bridges between Manhattan and Brooklyn, dodging bike riders with messenger bags speeding across, and you see the narrow strait of the East River, once filled with shipping, now a recreational lane for light yachts and water skiers, and the occasional barge carrying garbage or rubble from some construction project. The industry is mostly gone and the shipping with it. And the city's working class districts have become an eyesore. Like so many other northeastern towns and cities they are ghosts of their former prosperity.

The city's new wealth comes from its centrality. New York City is still a nameplate brand. And it attracts creative people. It is not the flow of Third World immigrants, so often namechecked in mayoral speeches, who contribute anything to the economy. There is little for them to contribute. Without much in the way of manufacturing, there aren't many jobs for them. Cheap labor is handled by the ubiquitous Mexican illegal alien who can be found toiling even in Chinese stores and marts, where mutual linguistic incomprehension is overcome by grunts and emphatic hand gestures.

Morning Bell

06/23/2011

Obama's Afghanistan Withdrawal

In the face of an unpopular war and an upcoming re-election campaign, President Barack Obama addressed the American people last night from the East Room of the White House to inform them of his plans to rapidly withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan. The President's decision, though politically expedient, jeopardizes the successes made in Afghanistan over the last 10 months and will signal to allies and enemies alike that the United States is more committed to extricating itself from the fight than it is to ensuring that stability in the region is achieved.

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Details of McKinsey study expose Obamacare flimflam

Editorial - The Washington Examiner | 06/22/11

Two weeks ago, the consulting firm McKinsey & Co. released a widely reported survey that said almost a third of private-sector employers reported they will drop their employee health insurance coverage when Obamacare's government-managed insurance exchanges come online in 2014. The survey results exploded two major claims repeatedly made by Obama during and since the conclusion of the health care debate: "If you like your health plan, you can keep it" and "It will not add one penny to the deficit."

Obama and his allies reacted with fury to the McKinsey results. Obama's deputy chief of staff for policy, Nancy-Ann DeParle, called the results an "outlier" and questioned whether the survey's respondents understood the plan. Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., sent McKinsey a threatening letter demanding that the firm reveal its survey methodology. And the New York Times' Paul Krugman -- ever willing to invent scurrilous charges out of whole cloth -- accused McKinsey of having "a skewed sample" or "no real data at all."

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	Budget Bulletin Your source for federal budget news and analysis

Featured Research

Morning Bell: Pictures of America's Fiscal Nightmare

By Mike Brownfield

There's urgency in Washington to fix a problem that's been a long time coming: America's fast track to fiscal implosion. In The Heritage Foundation's just-released, expanded 2011 Budget Chart Book, you can see just how bad the country's spending problem is and how America racked up so much debt.

Congress is coming to grips with the need to enact reform, in part because there's a new breed of Tea Party conservatives making their voices heard on Capitol Hill and also because the government has reached the legal limit on how much it can borrow. The Washington Post reports this morning that it's crunch time in Washington, with legislators and the White House working to find a way to cut $2 trillion from the federal budget by 2021.

>> Click here to read the rest of the story

Chart of the Week

Click here to check out the new 2011 Budget Chart Book

Are Catholic Colleges Catholic Enough?

Federal regulators pass judgment on religious character.

Wall Street Journal | By PATRICK J. REILLY | JUNE 24, 2011

Sait Xavier University It's not just Boeing that the National Labor Relations Board is picking on: For the second time this year, the NLRB has ruled against a Catholic college.

The Chicago office of the NLRB said that St. Xavier University had failed to demonstrate the "substantial religious character" necessary to qualify for exemption from federal labor law. As a result, adjunct professors in its employ will be allowed to organize, even though the school has argued that a faculty union would interfere with the school's autonomy as a religious institution by ceding "jurisdiction over important matters to a third party."

In January, the NLRB's New York office made the same determination about Manhattan College, a Christian Brothers institution, which has since appealed.

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A member of our King of Prussia group will digest this new book and then discuss what he learns at an upcoming meeting. Knowing that the news media will not report much about the facts, the only way the public will know is if Tea Party and related groups perform some sort of awareness program in their own region. This book has been described elsewhere as dynamite.

Lou

How the Democrats Nearly Destroyed the Economy

Real Clear Politics | By Mona Charen | June 24, 2011

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. -- Winston Churchill

There is history -- a chronicle of human events -- and then there is perceived history. So often, the two are wildly at odds.

In 1963, a popular Democratic president was assassinated by a Marxist named Oswald, who had actually defected to the Soviet Union and returned to the U.S. with a Soviet wife, was an active member of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee, and had attempted to assassinate a right-wing general named Edwin Walker earlier in the year.

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Andrew Klavan: Obama's Beach Blanket Recovery: It's Happy, Snappy & Incredibly Crappy.

Government Gone Wild

To those folks who are addicted to a particular political party or to the race of a candidate, I'd like to remind them that we are fast running out of time to get the big spenders out of office while electing people to our top governmental positions who will put American first and stop the suicide march to financial ruin. To paraphrase a popular campaign slogan of the Clinton era, "It's the future, stupid!" This is not a Democrat or Republican thing. It is an "EYE-OPENING" thing. It's only 3 minutes long.

Special Interests...EXPOSED!!!

June 23, 2011

PELOSI'S ~~NEW~~ OLD UNEMPLOYMENT SOLUTION
The former Speaker is tired of waiting for the free market and private industry to pull the nation out of recession. Nancy Pelosi's answer to the flagging unemployment problem is for government to do what it did during the Great Depression: hire everyone who cannot find a job. See the video HERE.

CHRIS MATTHEWS' LATEST WILD RANT
In a clip from last night's episode of 'Hardball,' MSNBC's elder statesman goes off on Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh. Watch the video HERE.

REP. WOOLSEY CHANTS ANTI-ISRAEL SLOGANS
Democratic Congresswoman Lynn Woolsey has represented California's 6th District for almost 20 years. In this video she is seen praising a protester who interrupted Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu's speech to Congress and chanting anti-Israel slogans HERE.

COMIC BOOKS GO 'POLITICAL,' BUDGET HAWKS GATHER in DC, & RICK PERRY EYES NH
The freshest Must-Read stories of the morning have been selected and gathered for you in one spot. Find them HERE.

IS MICHELE BACHMANN A 'CRAZED DIVINE WIND KAMIKAZI-FOR-JESUS?'
The new Rolling Stone magazine features a hit piece that attacks Presidential Candidate Michele Bachmann for her religious beliefs. If there is any question about the agenda of the story, it is titled 'Michele Bachmann's Holy War.' Read the details HERE.

VIRAL VIDEO DU JOUR - INCREDIBLE 'HIT & RUN' CAUGHT ON VIDEO
Two weeks ago today, a worker at a convenience store in the suburbs of Philadelphia was injured when a car barreled into the parking lot and pushed him into the store before driving away. The man's leg was injured in the accident and thanks to the surveillance video, police have found the car and the passenger and are closing in on the driver. Watch the video HERE.

Money News

Congress Is Warned: US Headed for European-Style Debt Crisis

Thursday, 23 Jun 2011

The rapidly growing national debt could soon spark a European-style crisis unless Congress moves forcefully, the Congressional Budget Office warned Wednesday in a study that underscored the stakes for Vice President Joe Biden and negotiators working on a sweeping plan to reduce red ink.

Republicans seized on the report to renew their push to reduce costs in federal benefit programs such as Medicare.

The report said the nation's debt is on pace to equal the annual size of the economy within a decade. It warned of a possible "sudden fiscal crisis" if it is left unchecked, with investors losing faith in the U.S. government's ability to manage its fiscal affairs

Patriot Action Network

Breaking Story: Cantor Walks out of Biden Budget. Statement from Cantor

June 23, 2011

Cantor Walks Out of Biden Budget Meeting.

Breaking News: Twitter broke that Eric Cantor will not be attending the Biden Budget meeting today. The Richmond Patriots contacted his staff and they confirmed the story and gave us the statement from Cantor that will be posted shortly.

Biden-Led Budget Talks Reach Impasse

By JANET HOOK And COREY BOLES

WASHINGTON-House Majority Leader Eric Cantor Thursday said he was pulling out of the bipartisan budget talks headed by Vice President Joe Biden for now because the group has reached an impasse over taxes that only President Barack Obama and Speaker John Boehner (R., Ohio) could resolve.

Mr. Cantor, in an interview after a negotiating session he described as bitterly contentious, said he would not be attending today's scheduled meeting of the bipartisan deficit-reduction leadership group because he believed it was time for the negotiations to move to a higher level.

"We've reached the point where the dynamic needs to change,'' Mr. Cantor said. "It is up to the president to come in and talk to the speaker. We've reached the end of this phase. Now is the time for these talks to go into abeyance."

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UNiTEPA

Call the Following House Representatives and ask them Not toVote and rush through HB 1708 which is an SB1 clone but to Vote for the Real School Voucher Bills HB 1678 and HB 1679. Let's not screw it up like rushing through OBAMCARE. We need to get it right the first time or potentially loose the opportunity for the near foreseeable future:

Rep. Mike Turzai (717)-772-9943
Rep. Richard Geist (717)-787-6419
Rep. Dan Moul (717)-783-5217
Rep. Mike Reese (717)-783-9311
Rep. Stephen Bloom (717)-249-1990
Rep. Mike Vereb (717)-705-7164

GRASSROOTS COALITION

FOR REAL SCHOOL CHOICE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: Sharon Cherubin, 717.413.3973, www.unitepa.org
Teri Adams, 215.690.4043, www.independencehallteaparty.com

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COALITION LEADERS WITHHOLD SUPPORT FOR SB1 LOOK ALIKE

Christiana's School Choice Bill Does Not Rescue All Children in Failing Schools

Lancaster, Pa (June 22, 2011) -- The Grassroots Coalition for Real School Choice, an association of over 20 Pennsylvania groups representing thousands of voters, announced today, that it is withholding support for a school choice bill proposed by Rep. Jim Christiana (PA-15) while continuing support for legislation proposed by Rep. Curt Schroder (PA-155).

"We cannot, in good conscience, support Christiana's bill while there is better legislation on the table," said Coalition Leader Sharon Cherubin, Executive Director of UNITEPA. "Simply put, Rep. Schroder's bills are superior.

"Christiana's bill, the Students and Schools Rescue Act (HB 1708) is virtually the same bill as the failed SB1 bill, except that it is limited to failing schools. Income based vouchers rely on the assumption that every family can afford the balance of tuition."

"HB 1708 does not consider the make up of every household and the needs specific to every family, Mrs. Cherubin said.

"Unlike Christiana's bill, the Opportunity Scholarship and Educational Improvement Tax Credit Act (HB 1678) and the Failing Schools Rescue Act (HB 1679) proposed by Schroder do not discriminate against any family or assume that they have the means. Both bills would include a tax credit provision for homeschooling families which defies the assumption that private schools are the only tax credit funded alternative.

"The coalition's mission, at a minimum, has always been to ensure that ALL children in failing schools were rescued, not just those who qualify for a free lunch. After months of petitioning our General Assembly, we finally have legislation that has the potential to rescue ALL children in failing schools, unlike the blundered Senate Bill 1 which specifically catered to only low-income families," said Mrs. Cherubin.

"Schroder's bills do not resemble an entitlement program, but instead reflect the notion, that under PA law, all students matter," said Coalition Leader Teri Adams, President of the Independence Hall Tea Party Association.

"No child, regardless of income, should be left behind in failing and often violent schools.

"The coalition understands the difficulty in formulating any meaningful legislation when national organizations and paid lobbyists stand in the way of true academic freedom. We can only hope that our legislators will come to the table, take their time, and pass a bill that produces REAL school choice -- legislation that would make Pennsylvania the educational showcase of the nation," Ms. Adams said.

"They should not rush to pass a bill by an arbitrary June 30th deadline just to get the issue out of the way."

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www.unitepa.org

The Hill

Senate kills measure to defund policy 'czars'

By Josiah Ryan - 06/23/11

The Senate voted 47-51 on Thursday to kill an amendment offered by Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) that would have ended the ability of the White House to appoint policy "czars," and prohibited the use of federal funds for the salaries and expenses of czars already appointed.

The measure needed 60 votes to pass.

Before the vote, Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), the Senate's third-ranking Democrat, decried the amendment from the floor as an attempt to weaken the Democratic presidency and as a "poison pill" for the underlying legislation.

The Phyllis Schlafly Report


VOL. 44, NO. 10	P.O. BOX 618, ALTON, ILLINOIS 62002	MAY 2011

What We've Learned from the Budget Debate

Barack Obama's runaway spending is the top issue with grassroots Americans. The problem is a long way from solved, but we've learned a lot from the budget debate.

We've turned a corner. The debate is no longer about what new phony "stimulus" spending Obama will try to rush through Congress but about how much and what appropriations to cut.
The Democrats are better negotiators than Republicans. After the midnight Obama-Boehner deal on the remainder of the 2011 budget, which was announced as a $38 billion reduction, we discovered that it was really only $20 billion, just a one percent reduction, because Obama had hidden in the agreement "phantom cuts," "orphan earmarks," credit for eliminating Czars who were already toast, and generous funding for his favorite programs such as Head Start, "Race to the Top," and Pell grants.
U.S. voters are still vehement in demanding repeal of ObamaCare and the extra spending it includes. Support for Obama's signature legislation has dropped to only 35%.
The Democrats are obsequious servants of the feminists and intend to keep social issues on the front burner. President Obama and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid were ready and willing to shut down the government in order to retain the appropriation for Planned Parenthood, the country's top abortion provider.
The feminist globalists dictate Obama's war policy, too. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, National Security Council Adviser Samantha Power, and UN Ambassador Susan Rice nagged Obama until he started a war with Qaddafi without knowing who the insurgents are and without any game plan to win anything helpful to the United States or even to Libya.
The Republicans have presented two sensible and specific budgets (Paul Ryan's and Jim Jordan's, speaking for the Republican Study Committee) while Obama's budget is a repeat of yesterday's spending orgy. That provides new proof that his real goal in being elected President was and is to "spread the wealth around" (as he told Joe the Plumber) to non-taxpayers, stealing from current taxpayers and inflicting colossal debt on their children and grandchildren.
It is really possible to balance the budget by 2020 and we must do it, as the Republican Study Committee's plan proves. If we delay that date, we will be spending every dollar of federal revenue on interest by 2025 which, like unpaid personal credit card debt, will progressively increase in rate in addition to amount.
The best rule of thumb in dealing with the 2012 federal budget deficit is to freeze total spending at the pre-Obama level. That's a reasonable goal.
Blind-sided by their longtime patriotic support of our military, the Republicans failed to call for cutting off funds for the unconstitutional, undeclared, useless, Obama war in Libya. Savings from waste in the defense budget should be spent on building the weapons we need to restore our military superiority.
The Republicans are hamstrung by their (usually correct) determination not to raise taxes. However, we should raise taxes on imports from countries that are massively cheating us every day by imposing a VAT tax equivalent to the tariff they pretended to reduce.
We can reform extravagant welfare spending and the more than 70 means-tested wealth-distribution handouts by the same formula the Republican Congress adopted in 1996. That welfare reform was signed by Bill Clinton but repealed by Obama.
We can stop the unsustainable growth of Medicaid by block-granting the funds to the states. The states can then fix eligibility and benefits.
The Republicans are far too timid in dealing with the fiscal and unemployment problems created by illegal immigration. That is costing us a mountain of taxpayer spending for means-tested financial handouts, hospital and medical care, and U.S. citizenship given to anchor babies.
"Yes we can" (using a useful slogan from Obama's campaign) put Medicare and Social Security on sound financial footing that will enable those two programs to survive. Paul Ryan's budget shows us how.
Obama's profligate deficit spending confirms the researchers who discovered that Obama absorbed the Frances Fox Piven strategy, which he learned from her own lips as a principal speaker at a Socialist Party Scholars Conference in New York in 1983 when Obama was a student at Columbia University. The strategy is to flood the welfare system with more recipients than taxpayers can afford, thereby creating a financial and political crisis that will doom the capitalist system and move the U.S. into Socialism.

That Socialist Party Conference commemorated the 100-year anniversary of Karl Marx's death, and Piven urged her listeners to "stand within the intellectual and political tradition Marx bequeathed." Scholar Stanley Kurtz has documented that event and identified the stealthy Socialists who maintained a presence throughout the world of community organizing, many of whom were colleagues or mentors of Obama.

Walter E. Williams: "Blacks Are America's New Racists"

Asserts the libertarian economics professor: "Last year, four black Skidmore College students yelled racial slurs while they beat up a white man because he was dining with a black man. Skidmore College's first response was to offer counseling to one of the black students charged with the crime. In 2009, a black Columbia University professor assaulted a white woman during a heated argument about race relations. According to interviews and court records obtained and reported by Denver's ABC affiliate (12/4/2009), black gangs roamed downtown Denver verbally venting their hatred for white victims before assaulting and robbing them during a two-month crime wave. Earlier this year, four black girls beat a white girl at a McDonald's, and the victim suffered a seizure. Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel ordered an emergency shutdown of the beaches in Chicago because mobs of blacks were terrorizing families. According to the NBC affiliate there (6/8/2011), a gang of black teens stormed a city bus, attacked white victims and ran off with their belongings."

He continues his commentary about racism in Black America:

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Huntsman's Family Has Donated $25,000 to Reid

Wednesday, 22 Jun 2011

By Henry J. Reske

Newstrust

Newly announced GOP presidential candidate Jon Huntsman and his family have forged close ties to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., over the years. Although Huntsman never has donated to a Reid campaign himself, members of his family, including his parents and brothers, have sent $25,000 to the Senate's top Democrat, the Las Vegas Sun reported.

While governor, Huntsman appointed Reid's son, Josh, to Utah's Board of Regents. Huntsman's father even spread the goodwill to Democrats in general, sending $5,000 to the Nevada Democratic Party in 2008, according to the Sun.

Read more on Newsmax.com: Huntsman's Family Has Donated $25,000 to Reid

Stressed U.S. Postal Service Suspends $800 Million In Pension Payments

Wednesday, 22 Jun 2011

By Jim Meyers

Facing a huge budget deficit and possible insolvency, the U.S. Postal Service is suspending its contributions to an employee retirement fund - for the first time in its history - to save $800 million this year.

The Postal Service will stop paying employer contributions to the Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS), which covers about 85 percent of career postal workers, according to a statement from the agency. With 596,000 workers, the Postal Service is the nation's second-largest civilian employer after Wal-Mart.

pOSTAL SERVICE, pensions

The $115 million that the agency pays to the retirement system every other week will stop on Friday.

The Wilkow Majority

Quote of the Day

"If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever."

-George Orwell

NC forced sterilization victims voice grief, pain

Isn't eugenics green?

There is nothing the state of North Carolina can do, Elaine Riddick says, to make up for forcing her to be sterilized when she was 14 years old.

"They cut me open like I was a hog," the woman who now lives in Atlanta said at a Wednesday hearing in Raleigh held by a panel working to determine compensation for thousands of victims of the state's defunct eugenics program. "My heart bleeds every single day. I'm crushed. What can they do for me?"

Click here to read the full article at Yahoo News

Census shows whites lose majority among US babies

Claims it can reshape American politics

For the first time, minorities make up a majority of babies in the U.S., part of a sweeping race change and growing age divide between mostly white, older Americans and predominantly minority youths that could reshape government policies.

Preliminary census estimates also show the share of African-American households headed by women - made up of mostly single mothers - now exceeds African-American households with married couples, a sign of declining U.S. marriages overall but also continuing challenges for black youths without involved fathers.

Click here to read the full article at Yahoo News

$1400 tax hike needed to fund US pensions

States now need crushing taxes to fund pensions

U.S. state and local governments will need to raise taxes by $1,398 per household every year for the next 30 years if they are to fully fund their pension systems, a study released on Wednesday said.

The study, co-authored by Joshua Rauh of Northwestern University and Robert Novy-Marx of the University of Rochester, both of whom are finance professors, argues that states will have to cut services or raise taxes to make up funding gaps if promises made to municipal employees are to be honored.

Click here to read the full article at CNBC

Jobless claims point to weak labor market

Joblessness up again

The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits rose last week, suggesting little improvement in the labor market this month after employment stumbled in May.

Initial claims for state unemployment benefits climbed 9,000 to a seasonally adjusted 429,000, the Labor Department said on Thursday. Economists had expected claims to come in at 415,000.

Click here to read the full article at Yahoo News

Two unarmed men mug 3 Marines, Mayor wonders how

Marines ordered to give up?

In the midst of Marine Week with tanks, guns, and heavy weapons parked on lawns all over downtown, the Mayor is wondering how two unarmed prowlers out-fought and robbed three Marines on the street.

Police report that two Marines in their early 20s were walking near the Soldier's Memorial downtown around 2:30 Monday morning, when two suspects in their 20s

Click here to read the full article at CBS St. Louis

Jobs picture grows worse as weekly claims post jumps

Worse than expected

New U.S. claims for unemployment benefits rose more than expected last week, a government report showed on Thursday, suggesting little improvement in the labor market this month after employment stumbled in May.

Initial claims for state unemployment benefits climbed 9,000 to a seasonally adjusted 429,000, the Labor Department said. The prior week's figure was revised up to 420,000.

Click here to read the full article at CNBC

AP poll: Economic worries pose new snags for Obama

Obama camp is nervous

Increasingly troubled by the economy, more Americans are convinced the country is headed in the wrong direction and fewer approve of President Barack Obama's economic stewardship. The sentiments pose a new complication for the president's re-election hopes and create an obstacle to a recovery that relies in part on public perceptions.

For the first time this year, less than 50 percent of respondents to an Associated Press-GfK poll say Obama deserves re-election. The new poll shows a virtual split of 48-47 in favor, raising a new hurdle for the president as economic concerns strip away the gloss he briefly gained in May after the death of Osama bin Laden.

Click here to read the full article at Yahoo News

One document, under seige

Libs really hate the constitution

Here are a few things the framers did not know about: World War II. DNA. Sexting. Airplanes. The atom. Television. Medicare. Collateralized debt obligations. The germ theory of disease. Miniskirts. The internal combustion engine. Computers. Antibiotics. Lady Gaga.

People on the right and left constantly ask what the framers would say about some event that is happening today. What would the framers say about whether the drones over Libya constitute a violation of Article I, Section 8, which gives Congress the power to declare war? Well, since George Washington didn't even dream that man could fly, much less use a global-positioning satellite to aim a missile, it's hard to say what he would think. What would the framers say about whether a tax on people who did not buy health insurance is an abuse of Congress's authority under the commerce clause? Well, since James Madison did not know what health insurance was and doctors back then still used leeches, it's difficult to know what he would say. And what would Thomas Jefferson, a man who owned slaves and is believed to have fathered children with at least one of them, think about a half-white, half-black American President born in Hawaii (a state that did not exist)? Again, hard to say.

Click here to read the full article at Time

Today's Headlines: Thursday, June 23, 2011

Under Obama, U.S. Casualty Rate in Afghanistan Increased 5-Fold

Obama Signals Shift Away From Petraeus' Strategy

Obama Tapping Emergency Oil Reserve to Make Up for Shortage From Libya

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Unemployment Applications Jump by Most in a Month

Liberal Activists to Protest Job-Creating Pipeline Project

Conservatives Pledge: No Debt-Limit Hike Without Limits on Spending, Taxes

Top Republican Pulls Out of Deficit-Reduction Talks

CBO: U.S. Faces 'Sudden Fiscal Crisis' Because of Mounting Debt

CBO: Gov't Ran $929B Deficit in First 8 Months of FY 2011, On Track to Hit $1.4T

Democrats and Republicans Criticize Obama's Afghanistan Plan

Upton 'Close' to Agreement on Legislation Repealing 2007 Ban on Ordinary Light Bulbs

Cantor Dodges Question: Is GOP Insisting Cuts This FY Exceed FY Debt-Limit Increase?

Man Detained Near Pentagon Last Week Suspected of Shooting at Military Buildings

Colorado Ending Medicaid Coverage for Routine Circumcisions

Hezbollah's Political Rise in Lebanon A Boon for Syria, Iran

COMMENTARY:

The Gospel of Jon Stewart
By Ben Shapiro
Without his trusty audience to cheer his every move, Jon Stewart looks like what he is -- a bully, a manipulator, and an intellectually dishonest partisan hack.

NEWSPAPER ROUNDUP:

Massachusetts' new payment system for doctors is not cutting health costs
Sens. Joe Lieberman and Marco Rubio: Take out Qadhafi
A do-nothing Congress could solve deficit woes, CBO says
Reps. Ron Paul, Barney Frank introducing bill to legalize pot
Drug use involved in 25% of fatal crashes, study finds
Lawmakers grumble over secret Biden deficit talks
Leading House Democrats say Social Security cuts are a nonstarter
House sets up Friday vote on limiting funding for Libya mission
Obama's aggravation with Congress over Libya on display
Palin puts her 'One Nation' tour on hold for jury duty
Volunteerism is becoming a crucial part of city operations
Parents see political slant in 3rd-grade textbook
Providence police chief resigns after controversy involving underage drinking
High-profile staff changes follow low poll numbers for Florida Gov. Scott
Huntsman on past cap-and-trade support: Everyone was doing it

June 23, 2011

Security checks for federal employees a joke (who slipped through?)

WES VERNON, RA ANALYST - The fact that bad people are elected to office and then appoint other people with questionable backgrounds should not shock anyone observing the trends that have crept into our society... (more)

June 23, 2011

What authority justifies Obama's actions in Libya?

MONTE KULIGOWSKI - At this point, no lingering questions should remain as to whether Barack Obama is faithful to uphold the Constitution and the laws of the United States... (more)

June 22, 2011

Big media suicide compact

CAL THOMAS - Is there a profit-making business -- other than TV networks and The New York Times -- that so disrespects its audience it works overtime to offend them? What other business metaphorically flips the bird to those who don't subscribe to their social, cultural and political worldview? That is precisely what big media does to a large number of potential viewers and subscribers... (more)

June 22, 2011

Obama sending 33,000 troops home by 2012

ASSOCIATED PRESS - Hailing the beginning of the end of a devastating war, President Barack Obama announced Wednesday night he was pulling home 33,000 troops from Afghanistan by next summer, withdrawing the "surge" of forces he sent in to rescue a flailing effort. Said Obama to a country eager for an exit: "The tide of war is receding"... (more)

June 22, 2011

House OKs faster Arctic oil/gas permitting

REUTERS - The U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation on Wednesday that would speed up approvals for drilling in the Arctic by removing regulatory hurdles that have stymied development of the area's vast oil and gas resources... (more)

June 22, 2011

Time to end Federal Reserve secrecy

REP. RON PAUL - Among the facts that the Federal Reserve would rather you didn't know is that at the height of the financial turmoil in 2008, when average Americans were just beginning to suffer, the institution was passing out sweetheart deals to protect the powerful and well-connected. Among the beneficiaries were foreign banks, Wall Street giants and even the company that then owned MSNBC... (more)

June 22, 2011

Conservatives' spending pledge

WASHINGTON TIMES - House and Senate conservatives rallied Wednesday around a pledge to vote against any debt-ceiling increase that fails to include enforceable reductions in the size of the federal government. The "Cut, Cap, Balance" pledge to put Uncle Sam on a diet includes cuts in outlays, caps on future spending authority and passage of a balanced-budget amendment that would limit taxing and spending... (more)

June 22, 2011

Avoiding the credit cliff

REP. PAUL RYAN - The shadow of an oncoming debt crisis is hindering job growth today and threatening our fiscal and economic future. The latest warning came today from "The Long-Term Budget Outlook," an annual report from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) which details the state of the nation's finances. This year's news is grim. We are on the verge of leaving the next generation with an unsustainable debt burden and a less prosperous nation... (more)

June 22, 2011

One nation under ... shhh

GARY BAUER - If you watched NBC's Sunday coverage of the young Northern Ireland golfer Rory McIlroy's historic win at the U.S. Open in Bethesda, you probably also saw a feature whose purpose was to capture the patriotism of America's national championship in our nation's capital... (more)

June 22, 2011

Senate confirms Panetta as Pentagon chief

NEWSMAX - The U.S. Senate voted unanimously on Tuesday to confirm outgoing Central Intelligence Agency chief Leon Panetta as the new secretary of defense, replacing the retiring Robert Gates. Panetta, who has held a variety of senior posts in Washington dating back decades, was nominated by President Barack Obama to head the Pentagon. Panetta is expected to start his new job on July 1... (more)

June 22, 2011

Jon Huntsman: McCain on wheels

MICHELLE MALKIN - Jon Huntsman wants you to know he rides a dirt bike. On real dirt! He's Salt of the Earth. Grease of the Garage. Dragster on the Dunes. Huntsman's runnin' and gunnin' for president. But underneath the Steve McQueen costumery, this made-for-cable-TV Moderate Speed Racer is a creaky old John McCain on Wheels... (more)

Poll: Bachmann surges to primary lead

Zogby/Newsmax poll: Both Christie, Perry trounce Romney

June 22, 2011

Poll: Only 30% would vote for Obama today

BLOOMBERG NEWS - Americans are growing more dissatisfied with President Barack Obama's handling of the economy and say it will be hard to vote to re-elect him without seeing significant progress over the next year and a half... (more)

June 22, 2011

Source: Bachmann to launch presidential bid

REUTERS - Conservative Republican Michele Bachmann will officially launch her presidential bid in Iowa on Monday, a source close to her campaign said on Tuesday. The US representative from Minnesota, who announced her intention to run at a Republican debate in New Hampshire last week, will hold a kick-off event Monday in Waterloo, Iowa, where she was born, the source told Reuters... (more)

June 21, 2011

Obama not subject to charges of treason?

SHER ZIEVE, RA ANALYST - Treason is generally defined as "betrayal of country: a violation of the allegiance owed by somebody to his or her own country, e.g. by aiding an enemy." High treason is defined as "treason perpetrated by somebody against his or her own country"... (more)

June 21, 2011

A constitutional convention is a dangerous idea

DAVID LIMBAUGH - The left's assault on liberty never rests, so don't ever be sucked into supporting the dangerous idea of a new constitutional convention, even if its stated purposes purport to be limited. Recently, CNN's Fareed Zakaria spoke admiringly of how "Iceland is actually junking its own constitution and starting anew and ... soliciting ideas from all of Iceland's 320,000 citizens, with the help of Facebook, Twitter and YouTube"... (more)

June 21, 2011

The Sebelius, Morrison and Six flim flam flummox defense of Dr. Tiller and Planned Parenthood

PHILL KLINE - As Roxie is facing the gallows for the murder of her lover in the musical Chicago, her defense attorney Billy Flynn played by Richard Gere, turns towards her and says: "Roxie, you got nothing to worry about...it's all a circus, kid...you've got to razzle dazzle 'em, give 'em the old flim flam flummox, fool and fracture them -- how can they hear the truth above the roar?"... (more)

June 21, 2011

The dumbing-down of America

PAT BUCHANAN - "Is our children learning?" as George W. Bush so famously asked. Well, no, they is not learning, especially the history of their country, the school subject at which America's young perform at their worst. On history tests given to 31,000 pupils by the National Assessment of Education Progress, the "Nation's Report Card," most fourth-graders could not identify a picture of Abraham Lincoln or a reason why he was important... (more)

June 20, 2011

Judge upholds Wisconsin domestic partnership law

ASSOCIATED PRESS - A Dane County circuit judge ruled Monday that Wisconsin's domestic partnership registry does not violate the state's constitutional ban on gay marriage. Judge Daniel Moeser's ruling was a major victory for the state's largest gay rights group, which defended the registry established in 2009 to bestow legal rights to same-sex couples... (more)

June 20, 2011

Top spy points finger at Panetta friend

Question: Why the reluctance to expose links to Communists?

WES VERNON, RA ANALYST - A key leader of the Cold War-era Communist underground in the U.S. has verified the Communist affiliation of a man (Hugh DeLacy) who was a friend of the current CIA Director Leon Panetta... (more)

June 20, 2011

The Republican Party has a winning candidate

MARIE JON, RA ANALYST - Michele Bachmann made her announcement to run for president this past week. The third-term Republican congresswoman from Minnesota had the full attention of Americans. That includes not only those who watch Fox News, but liberal CNN... (more)

June 20, 2011

Judge hears arguments on Georgia immigration law

NEWSMAX - A federal judge has heard arguments on a request by civil liberties groups to block Georgia's law cracking down on illegal immigration from taking effect until a legal challenge has been resolved. The judge said Monday that he would not make an immediate ruling... (more)

June 20, 2011

Sex, media and a sign of the times

CHUCK NORRIS - Some of us are old enough even to remember the shocking nature of Barbara Eden showing her navel on "I Dream of Jeanie" in the '60s -- or how the torso-revealing, one-piece bathing suit was considered scanty on "Charlie's Angels" in the '70s. Compare that to today. No one is shocked or surprised today to see several performers on MTV's music-award shows barely clothed and parading like dancers in a strip joint... (more)

Tea Party News
Thursday, June 23rd

Drafting
Rubio

        The Republican nomination for president is up for grabs, but there's a lot of agreement on who the vice presidential pick should be: Marco Rubio, the freshman senator from Florida.
        Mr. Rubio would not run for president because of his newcomer status to the Senate. But he still might consider the #2 spot. He is a big vote getter in the electoral swing state of Florida, a must win state for Republicans. And his Hispanic heritage is a proven vote-getter with Latino voters. He also has indisputable conservative and tea party credentials.
        He would be a natural pair with Mr. Romney, or Tim Pawlenty.
        One thing is sure: Mr. Rubio's political stock keeps rising. He's been a voice in the Senate for fiscal downsizing during the budget brawls. Last week he gave his maiden Senate floor address on how America's "future can be greater than its past" and how the 21st century can be the American century, much as the 20th century was. It was Reagan optimism from start to finish. [Stephen Moore, WSJ, June 23]      Click here for the source story

Graphic of Christing O'Donnells book - Troublemaker

        That's the title of her book, Troublemaker: Let's Do What it Takes to Make America Great Again.
        On her Twitter account, she quotes award-winning country singer Parton, by citing this line: "You'll never do a whole lot unless you're brave enough to try."
        O'Donnell sent an e-mail to supporters to reserve copies of the book, set for wide release Aug. 16. She proclaims she wrote "our story" to send a message that "career politicians and the establishment don't own our country."
        She says the book will contain details about the "I'm not a witch" ad, stories about her race against Democrat Chris Coons, and her reaction to events last year.
        O'Donnell drew national attention when she rode Tea Party support in the GOP Senate primary to defeat veteran congressman and former Delaware governor Mike Castle, a moderate. [USA Today, June 23]      Click here for the source story

Sarah
Palin
bus
tour
not
dead

        The Sarah Palin bus tour is on hiatus, not dead, the former governor assured her Facebook fans. But without an itinerary or any apparent future stops, the media figured the show was over.
        She said on her Facebook page that the coming weeks are busy for her due to civic responsibilities - she's been called for jury duty.
        "The next leg of the tour continues when the time comes. In the meantime, no one should jump to conclusions - certainly not the media with their long track record of getting things wrong or just making things up," wrote Ms. Palin on Facebook. [Christian Science Monitor, June 23]      Click here for the source story

Attorney General Eric Holder and his anti-gun cronies at the Justice Department are starting to realize they may be in some hot water.

But, as was to be expected, they are going to throw someone else under the bus and hope it all goes away...

After a revealing week of hearings on the horribly corrupt "Project Fast & Furious" - the BATFE's attempt to create crime in order to make themselves relevant - the head of the ATF, Kenneth Melson, is getting ready to take the fall by resigning.

I guess Eric Holder still refuses to take any responsibility and is placing all the blame on his subordinates.

As you now well know, courageous agents within the ATF have been testifying before Congress that senior leadership at both the ATF and the Justice Department forced gun shops to sell firearms to known smugglers who sold the guns to drug cartels in Mexico.

This disastrous plan resulted in multiple federal agents being shot and killed with weapons that were allowed to "walk" into Mexico.

And this happened even after agents working on the case warned their superiors that it would happen.

The response from ATF/Justice Department leadership?

That a few "eggs" have to be scrambled to make an omelette.

Now, in light of all this controversy, the acting director of the ATF is trying to take the fall by resigning.

But this is where it gets really shady.

Guess who his replacement is supposed to be?

A man I've been keeping my eye on for a while - Andrew Traver.

You see, Andrew Traver has been an enemy of gun owners for quite some time.

As head of the Chicago division of the ATF he has advocated nearly every gun ban you can think of.

And even some you haven't.

To give you an idea, he's been Obama's number one choice to head the agency since last year.

The simple fact is...

...he's worse than the guy he's replacing.

And what's more is that, because he's been the one Eric Holder wanted for quite some time to step in as the director, it is inconceivable that he was not briefed at some point on Project Fast & Furious.

They've been talking about Traver taking the helm of the BATFE for at least 6 months (that I know of).

Do you think that a guy being groomed for that position wouldn't be briefed on the agency's biggest operation?

I think you know where this is going...

While it is certainly clear that ATF leadership needs cleaning out, to replace the current director with one who is admittedly anti-gun and clearly involved in what his boss is already in trouble over...

Well, that's unacceptable in my book.

I called my Congressman and told him that replacing one leader who has no respect for my rights with another one doesn't "fix" the problem.

It's an attempt to pacify the public.

They know it, but they're hoping you don't.

Give them a call and tell them you know what the Justice Department is trying to do and you're not falling for it.

Call your Congressman at (202) 224- 3121 and tell them that the ATF needs a serious overhauling and that the Attorney General needs to be held responsible for this flagrant abuse of the law.

Make sure they know that your Second Amendment rights are more important than funding some rogue Agency Gone Wild.

I know I'm going to call everyone I know in politics and make sure this doesn't go unnoticed.

Do the same for me.

   For Freedom,


   Dudley Brown
   Executive Director

Navigating a Rocky Media Landscape

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published June 17, 2011 on The Washington Times website.

When I was a reporter years ago in Ocean City, Md., I learned the hard way that freedom of the press can be expensive.

In the dark days of winter, ad revenue was scarce. Both weekly papers lived to a great extent off the city's legal ads. Our editorials regularly chided Mayor Harry Kelley, while our competitor paper remained mayor-friendly. So when Mr. Kelley got teed off, he yanked our legal ads but not the competing paper's. I can still recall racing with our staff to the local bank before paychecks started bouncing.

Read the Entire Column

CNN's LZ Granderson Gets It Right

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell was published June 16, 2011 on The Huffington Post website.

CNN contributor LZ Granderson got it right. He has posted an online video taking issue with the San Francisco gay activists who want government to ban circumcision for little boys.

Keep the government out of this family decision, says Granderson. Strange, isn't it, that the Left wing folks who are forever telling us they want to keep the government out of our bedrooms now want to invade the delivery room?

Read the Entire Column

How Obamacare Will Further Explode the Deficit

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Policy Director for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published June 16, 2011 on Forbes.com.

President Obama bludgeoned Obamacare through Congress on the claim, backed by the Congressional Budget Office, that it would not add to the deficit, even though it adopts or wildly expands three entitlement programs. As I discuss in my new book available this week from HarperCollins, America's Ticking Bankruptcy Bomb, close analysis of the CBO score and other new numbers indicates that, quite to the contrary, Obamacare will likely add $4 to $6 trillion to the deficit over the next 20 years, and possibly more.

Read the Entire Column

Social, Economic Conservatives Need Each Other

This excerpt by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski and ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell was published June 15, 2011 on The Washington Examiner website.

Third of a series of three excerpts from Resurgent: How Constitutional Conservatism Can Save America, published by Threshold Editions of Simon & Schuster.

Conservative success comes from rebuilding the Republican Party around constitutional principles. We'll explain in this chapter how all three parts of America's modern conservative coalition need each other.

Read the Entire Column

Glenn Beck form 8/28/2010 Rally June 23, 2011

On Thursday's Program

Obama announces troop withdrawals

Obama made it official: more troops will be leaving Afghanistan. That'll teach the Taliban! Don't you keep trying to take over the country or else we'll leave! Glenn, Pat and Stu explain how ridiculous Obama's foreign policy has been using a very appropriate analogy. WATCH

Is Chris Matthews insane? Yup

It's pretty clear that Chris Matthews is losing his mind. He slurs his speech (says 'conserves' instead of 'conservatives') and has trouble speaking in complete sentences. And when he does manage to string enough words together to make a sentence, it's a horrible point. For example, Matthews recently called Glenn and Rush 'liars' who are being 'evil' because of their views on the climate change hoax. Do these latest ridiculous comments prove once and for all Chris Matthews is certifiably insane? Yup. Watch them HERE.

Congresswoman teams with Code Pink to bash Israel

Incredible video today on The Blaze from a rally featuring a United States Congresswoman and a couple of Code Pink idiots. After getting up and leading the crowd (and the Congresswoman) in a stupid chant on something about nickels and dimes and occupation, the Congresswoman gets up and applauds the protester responsible for interrupting Benjamin Netanyahu's speech. Watch the clip HERE.

Guess which media were invited on the next Gaza flotilla: The Blaze? Fox News? Wrong. Guess again - get the answer HERE.

Today's Markdown: How did one man's dream become a reality after he passed away? Find out HERE.

Glenn, caller spar over college: is it worth it?

Glenn got into a heated debate with a caller about last night's TV program on college education. Is it worth it anymore? Obviously there are some fields where a college degree is absolutely necessary - but for everyone else, is it worth starting your career hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt? Check out the call. Which side do you fall on? Get more on the debate HERE.

Glenn interviews the man who 'started the recession'

Ok, so Jim DeMint didn't start the recession, no matter what Al Green says. DeMint is actually one of the most, if not the most, solid conservatives in Congress today and would make a great presidential option for the GOP. Glenn asked him today if he'd entertain the idea of running - and reports were swirling earlier that he wouldn't rule it out. How did DeMint respond? Get the answer HERE.

Creepy: Government going Google? The state of Wyoming - what are you thinking? They are getting in bed with Google and trusting them with all of their sensitive documents and everything else. The big question is - why? Get the full story HERE.

Want to help the troops? Today S.E. Cupp is at the fourth annual Troopathon raising money to send care packages to the troops with personalized notes...find out how you can help HERE.

MSNBC tries to bash Perry, Texas - fail on both

Glenn plays the audio from MSNBC as they attacked Rick Perry's craaaaazy speech in which he talked about America being great and how individuals should be responsible for their own actions. What a nut! Anyway, MSNBC tried to mock Perry and said Texas is drowning in debt. Uh really? That's the argument they go for? The state debt argument? Glenn destroys that weak point on radio today. MORE

Where can you join Glenn to celebrate the Fourth of July? Get all the details HERE.

Dem: Need revenue to buy votes

Obama in emergency territory

It's the economy stupid!

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