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'Goodnight, America': Glenn Beck Hosts Final Show on Fox News

The Blaze | by Scott Baker | Posted on June 30, 2011 at 9:22pm

The final broadcast of "The Glenn Beck Show" was a little bit of everything: a look back, a glimpse into the future and a frank assessment of the reasons behind Beck's Fox News Channel departure.

Beck, who ad-libbed much of his last hour as an FNC host, spoke candidly about the decision to launch a web-based TV channel, saying he hoped he had earned viewers' trust on "The Glenn Beck Show." "Anyone watching this show knows that I have bent this format so far out of its structure, out of its parameters," Beck said. "This is a news channel. I do commentary."

"This show has become a movement," he said. "It's not a TV show. And that's why it doesn't belong on television. It belongs in your homes, it belongs in your neighborhoods." 

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 UN AGENDA 21

aka Local Agenda 21 & "sustainable development"

WILL SHOCK YOU!!!

Do you have a nagging feeling something is wrong, but you don't know exactly what?  Who controls the US?   Who writes our laws?       Is it our elected officials or a higher organization like the UN?  Do you know where our money comes from and how debt affects us? 

Join us Saturday, July 23^rd - 6pm                                              PJ Ryan's  231 Bridge St., Phoenixville - private downstairs meeting room

There will be a discussion about UN Agenda 21 Sustainable Development, Property Rights & our Money.  This meeting may help fill in some of the blanks that the media leaves out.  

Agenda 21 is a plan that calls for international control & regulation of virtually every aspect of human activity that might impact the environment, which is essentially EVERYTHING YOU DO - eat, drink, cook, drive, play, work, and LIVE.

Maurice Strong, UN Secretary General  - 1992  Rio de Janeiro United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) said "...Current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class involving high meat consumption and large amounts of frozen and convenience foods, use of fossil fuels, appliances, home and workplace air-conditioning, and suburban housing are NOT sustainable.  So, what does he mean by NOT Sustainable? http://sovereignty.net/p/sd/strong.html

Translation:  YOU will NO longer be allowed to have them.

J. Gary Lawrence, 1998 UK, UNEP Conference said ..."Participating in a UN advocated planning process would very likely bring out many... who would actively work to defeat any elected official... undertaking Local Agenda 21/Sustainable Development.  So, we call our process something else such as "comprehensive planning," 'growth management' or 'smart growth.'" http://www.unedforum.org/publications/millennium/mill%20paper2.pdf

Translation:  They will lie to you & deceive you so YOU won't know what they are really doing. This meeting is free & open to the public.                                Please come, listen and bring a friend. 

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If you know the good work of the Heritage Foundation for our cause, you know it is really exciting to have Mr. Knepper as our guest speaker.

    The July 8^th meeting of the Valley Forge Patriots will be held at a new location, the Phoenixville Country Club (PCC). The PCC is located on Country Club Road approximately 2 miles south of Route 23. The room we will be using can comfortably seat over 100 people, so don't hesitate to bring friends. As at previous venues, table food service of appetizers, salads, sandwiches and beer, wine and soda will be available throughout the meeting. Food and drinks are offered at PCC member prices --- cash and credit cards accepted. There is plenty of free parking.  Dress code,   please no hats.  This meeting will be free but we would appreciate donations.

     Along with the usual agenda items, our featured speaker will be Leo Knepper of the Heritage Foundation. Leo is the PA State Director for Heritage Action and he will be speaking on "How to be an effective lobbyist/activist" His talk will cover, Heritage Action, Effective Communication and Preparing for Legislator contact. This is a very timely subject with elections coming up.  Mr. Knepper has been active in grassroots political activity for over 10 years.

         Please join us for our July 8^th meeting (6:00 to 8:00 PM) at a new venue with an interesting speaker.

Minnesota Government Shuts Down

The Blaze | by Jonathon M. Seidl | Posted on July 1, 2011 at 7:34am 

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) - Minnesota's state government is closed for business.

It shut down at 12:01 a.m. CDT Friday, the victim of an ongoing dispute over taxes and spending between Democratic Gov. Mark Dayton and Republican legislative majorities. Talks fell apart well before the deadline, leaving state parks closed on the brink of the Fourth of July weekend, putting road projects at a standstill and forcing thousands of state worker layoffs.

Even before the final failure, officials padlocked highway rest areas and state parks, herding campers out.

 RedState Morning Briefing

For July 1, 2011

1. The Third World Oscar Mayer Wiener

t looked to me to be some sort of joke they intended to play on the producers. On yesterday's Morning Joe, Time magazine's Mark Halperin, asked his take on Barack Obama's Wednesday press conference, said the President came off like a "dick." That's his word, not mine.

He said they might need a delay. The production crew may have been asleep at the switch. They did not delay it. It got out there on live television. Halperin apologized. MSNBC suspended him "indefinitely." He said what a growing number of Republicans, Democrats, and people in the media think.

It's a problem for Barack Obama.

But another problem is shaping up on the floor of the United States Senate. Marco Rubio, who is rapidly becoming one of the most impassioned champions for opposing the debt ceiling increase, said that Barack Obama's class warfare soliloquy was not the rhetoric of the President of the United States, but of a third world leader.

2. Best Workforces Are In Right-To-Work States, Survey Finds

This may just be a coincidence but, out of the 50 states, there are 22 states that do not force people to pay union dues as a condition of employment. Workers in these states are often viewed derisively by union extremists as being somehow inferior to their union counterparts. However, a new study published by CNBC may blow that myth out of the water.

3. Fourth of July: REPUBLICAN BREEDING GROUND!!!!!

I suspect that the Democratic party probably doesn't want to ever see this sentence from a Harvard statistical survey appear in a news story:

"Taken together, the results indicate that Fourth of July celebrations in the United States shape the nation's political landscape by forming beliefs and increasing participation, primarily in favor of the Republican party."

...for fairly obvious reasons . Short version: going to Fourth of July celebrations (using a statistical rule of thumb* of good weather = participation) as a child results in an increased possibility of voting Republican as an adult (it apparently doesn't move the needle at all when it comes to voting Democratic). Oh, and progressives are why the Fourth became a public secular holiday in the first place**. Lastly: if you want to zap your kids into patriotism and/or Republicanism, the key dates to get them to a parade are from 7 to 10 for later partisan identification, and 15 to 18 for increased voter participation.

4. Michele Bachmann: Don't Forget Obamacare

The most effective proposal for dealing with the debt ceiling vote that has the backing of conservatives is the Cut, Cap, and Balance plan brought forth by the RSC. Accordingly, virtually every major conservative organization has coalesced around a pledge forcing all members of Congress to support the plan as a condition to raising the debt ceiling. The presidential candidates are also being recruited to sign the pledge, with Jim DeMint promising to support only those who sign to it.

Yesterday, Mitt Romney announced his support for the pledge, joining every other announced Republican candidate except Jon Huntsman and ....Michele Bachmann?

While Bachmann is a strong supporter of the RSC plan, she is still tepid about signing the pledge. CNN is reporting that Bachmann told DeMint she is still contemplating her support for the pledge because she wants it "to go a little further." Bachmann said at a town hall in South Carolina that she would like to add the defunding of Obamacare to the pledge as another precondition to raising the debt ceiling.

5. A Union Card Only Goes So Far as UFT & NAACP Throw 7,000 Kids Under the Bus

According to the union-member mom in this video (she also comes from a family of union members) she is not anti-union. However, this proud union member is a mother first and, in New York, there is a union that is trying to hurt her children.

Both the United Federation of Teachers and NAACP have filed a lawsuit that puts her children's future education (and the future of 7,000 other New York children) in dire jeopardy-just as schools are set to open in a few more weeks. Last month's lawsuit seeks to stop New York from closing 22 horribly failing schools and allowing for 17 charter schools to operate.

6. The Delusion of Indispensability

There is something about political office that either drives many men to infidelity - and the belief that the old rules don't apply to them - or attracts the sorts of men prone to infidelity and a belief in their own exemption from the rules. Just the last few years have been remarkable for the wave of public men confessing (or being found to have) a complete inability to keep their pants on around women other than their wives.

7. George Soros Gives Little Lee Fang His Comeuppance

One of the most genuinely stupid and embarrassing things to ever appear at Think Progress - and that's saying something - was a recent supposed takedown of the evil Koch Brothers by their supposedly nemesis, Little Lee Fang the ankle biting blogger.

Little Lee Fang tried to make a mountain out of something sinister called contango, a concept about which he clearly knew nothing and tried to make it into everything. Steve Maley picked it apart here.

Little Lee Fang's "contango" moment was one of those times when even the media sympathetic to Think Progress had to sit back and utter a collective, "Damn, that was stupid."

Well, Media Research Center has obtained hidden footage from inside the Center for American Progress of George Soros, Little Lee's benefactor, giving him his comeuppance.

Reclaim rock for conservatism:

Quote Frank Zappa: "The United States is a nation of laws, badly written and randomly enforced." Fewer laws equals more freedom-only a liberal could be opposed to that.

Can Israel Survive Another Obama Term? (Panel discussion)

Last Thursday over 250 RJC Chicago members and friends joined together in Skokie for a panel discussion to consider the question: Can Israel Survive Another Term? 

RJC Leader Jeff Shapiro moderated as panelists Richard Baehr, Eugene Kontorovich, and Matthew RJ Brodsky gave an informative presentation on the Obama administration's foreign policy in the Middle East and their thoughts on the future of the U.S.-Israel relationship. 

If you were unable to attend the panel discussion

 

Taking on the Gaza flotilla
Jonathan Tobin, blogging at

Commentary, reports on a lawsuit brought by Shurat HaDin-Israel Law Center, to challenge the pro-Hamas activists heading toward the Gaza coast:

  

Most of the world has been looking on helplessly as pro-Hamas activists prepares to stage yet another naval photo op intended to besmirch Israel. But, as the New York Times reports today, one group of crafty lawyers has found a way to throw a monkey wrench into the plans of these anti-Israel agitators. Shurat HaDin-Israel Law Center, a group that has dedicated itself to holding the funders of terrorism accountable for the crimes they finance, has been contacting companies that have insured the ships that have been assembled to sail to Gaza to break the blockade of the Hamas-run strip to tell them they are leaving themselves open to prosecution for aiding terrorists. This ploy has understandably sent a chill down the spines of the some 30 maritime insurance providers who just assumed there would be no liability with their involvement in this farce.

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Roger L. Simon at PajamasMedia notes that Gov. Rick Perry (R-TX), a possible GOP presidential contender, spoke out this week about the flotilla:
   

Texas Governor Rick Perry pulled on his cowboy boots and waded into the presidential area of foreign affairs this week, sending a strongly worded letter to Eric Holder urging the attorney general to investigate violations of U. S. law by organizers of the Gaza flotilla.

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Full text of the letter is here.

For some facts about how goods and materials are brought into Gaza lawfully every day,

see this short video from the IDF Spokesman's office:

Terror threat -- U.S. churches in danger

Becky Yeh - OneNewsNow California correspondent - 6/30/2011

  

With the recent airing of an al-Qaeda video that encourages Muslims to attack religious institutions, Christian churches are being warned.

In a video released by al-Qaeda spokesman Adam Gadahn, the American-born Muslim asks jihadists to quickly obtain guns and carry out terrorist attacks against the West. He states that Muslims are placed in the region to "do major damage to the enemies of Islam, waging war on their religion, sacred places, and things and brethren."
 

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Thursday, June 30, 2011

Thursday, June 30, 2011

Reuters: Obama to Establish Formal Contacts with Muslim Brotherhood

 

 

There are no accidents. Obama invited the outlawed Musim Brotherhood global jihadists to his submission speech in cairo in June 2009. Those of us that reported on it were ..... deeply disturbed by this pro-jihadist stand by an American president. His subsequent contacts with the group concerned us (and this was well before their coup on the Mubarak.

Now Obama will establish formal contacts with the genocidal, racist Islamic supremacist group. Muslim Brotherhood-tied CAIR must be squealing.

The MB as an international Islamic organization dedicated to the imposition of Sharia, by violent or peaceful means, throughout the world.

"International law enforcement authorities and Western intelligence agencies  discovered a twenty-year old document revealing a top-secret plan developed by the Muslim Brotherhood, the  oldest Islamist organization with one of the most extensive terror networks in the world to launch a program of "cultural invasion" and eventual conquest of the West that virtually mirrors the tactics used by Islamists for more than two decades" (more here). And according to Article Two of the Hamas Charter: "The Islamic Resistance Movement is one of the wings of the Muslim Brotherhood in "Palestine" (more here). The Organization of the Islamic Conference is the brainchild of the Muslim Brotherhood. CAIR in the USA has been linked to the Muslim Brotherhood. The Muslim Brotherhood is acting to overthrow democratic governments world wide.

This Reuters piece tries to cast the Muslim Brotherhood in a soft light - I did not include the taqiya by the Reuters reporter, Mohammed.

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NBC News: Hacker attack cripples al-Qaida Web communications

Digital assault is similar to one last year linked to UK government

By Pete WilliamsJustice correspondent

NBC News NBC News

updated 6/29/2011 5:36:40 PM ET2011-06-29T21:36:40

WASHINGTON - Computer hackers shut down al-Qaida's ability to communicate its messages to the world through the Internet, interrupting the group's flow of videos and communiqués, according to a terrorism expert.

"Al-Qaida's online communications have been temporarily crippled, and it does not have a single trusted distribution channel available on the Internet," said Evan Kohlmann, of Flashpoint Global Partners, which monitors the group's communications.

The attack was carried out within the past few days by unknown hackers targeting al-Qaida's Internet communications systems. It was "well coordinated and involved the use of an unusual cocktail of relatively sophisticated techniques," Kohlmann said.

"My guess is that it will take them at least several days more to repair the damage and get their network up and functioning again," he said.

A year ago, al-Qaida's Internet communications suffered a similar hacker attack.

British newspapers reported earlier this month that the the UK government hacked into an al-Qaida website last year and inserted recipes for making cupcakes in place of instructions on how to build bombs. The target was the group's English language magazine, "Inspire," intended for Muslims in the West. The magazine is the product of al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, based in Yemen.

Story: UK spies hack al-Qaida, replace bomb info with cupcake recipes Instead of an article called "Make a Bomb in the Kitchen of Your Mom," the online magazine contained recipes from a book assembled by talk show host Ellen DeGeneres. It took the terrorist group nearly two weeks to restore its original posting.

Kohlmann said the latest incident "once again appears to bear the telltale fingerprints of government-sponsored hackers."

© 2010 msnbc.com

 

Women's Rights Key to Afghan Success

 

Laura W. Bush  |  Wednesday, June 29, 2011

 

Each time I meet a woman from Afghanistan, I am reminded that although women faced the harshest treatment under the Taliban, today they are one of the country's strongest assets for peace.

We need to remember this fact now as Afghan officials negotiate with the Taliban and the United States prepares to withdraw 10,000 troops from the country. Afghanistan is at that delicate moment in the development of a free society when the weight of its new institutions will either shift toward a free future or back toward an oppressive past. And whether it continues to protect and expand human rights could determine in which direction the country goes.
 

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Pawlenty against pressuring Israel

By Ted Belman

Yesterday Tim Pawlenty, Republican presidential nominee hopeful, gave a very important speech to the Council on Foreign Relations.

He disagreed stongly with Obama's approach to Israel and the peace process.

And in the middle of all this, is Israel.

Israel is unique in the region because of what it stands for and what it has accomplished. And it is unique in the threat it faces-the threat of annihilation. It has long been a bastion of democracy in a region of tyranny and violence. And it is by far our closest ally in that part of the world.

Despite wars and terrorists attacks, Israel offers all its citizens, men and women, Jews, Christians, Muslims and, others including 1.5 million Arabs, freedom of religion, freedom of speech, the right to vote, access to independent courts and all other democratic rights.

Nowhere has President Obama's lack of judgment been more stunning than in his dealings with Israel.

It breaks my heart that President Obama treats...

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Rally 'Round Melanie Phillips

James G. Wiles, AMERICAN THINKER

It's when you're down and out that you find out who your friends are.

Take a moment, then, to consider visiting the new website of conservative Daily Mail columnist, author and blogger Melanie Phillips. Ms. Phillips just exited the Spectator's blog under highly shrouded circumstances. Fleet Street is abuzz.

Was it journalistic error?  Or political persecution?  It's simply impossible to get at the facts.

At the bottom of it all appears to be the British ruling class' eroding support for Israel - a phenomenon not unknown elsewhere in the West.  Like Caroline Glick at the Jerusalem Post and Pam Geller of atlasshrugs.com, Ms. Phillips has proved herself to be a great Lioness of Judah in resisting the rot. As such, in today's Western Europe, Melanie Phillips stands out.

As one gleeful Muslim website recounts, this wasn't the first time Ms. Phillips' enemies got a piece of her fur.  This...

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Kuwait newspaper against UN recognition

The dangers in premature recognition of a "Palestinian state"!
 
By Abdallah al-Hadlaq, Al Watan, Kuwait

(Translated from Arabic)

International agreements dealing with peace in the Middle East must be respected

The Palestinian side is flaunting UNSC Resolutions 242, 338 and 1850 and the Road Map to Peace, all of which call for agreed solutions for disputes to be reached by direct talks, rejecting unilateral acts that undermine internationally accepted parameters for reaching peace, and defining basic principles for bilateral peace-making.

The Palestinians strive to obtain premature recognition for a "Palestinian State" this September despite the danger of derailing the peace talks, which is implicit in a unilateral declaration.

International agreements dealing with peace in the Middle East must be respected.

Israel indeed upholds them, as well as the principle of direct negotiations as being the only way to solve the dispute, while the Palestinians have long since...

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06/30/2011 

Time For Congress to Lead on the Debt Ceiling

As we saw at yesterday's press conference, President Obama is not going to lead on the debt ceiling issue. Nor is he going to compromise or play a mediating role. He is more interested in blaming others for his troubles, demagoguing other solutions and running for re-election.

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The Weekly Standard reports that the United Nations "again made itself an international laughing stock" when it named North Korea as the head of its Conference on Disarmament.

President Obama plans to raise fuel standards for cars as high as 62 mpg by 2025, essentially mandating every American to buy an expensive electric car and potentially costing the nation 1.7 million jobs.

U.S. military drone aircrafts fired on two leaders of a militant Somali organization tied to al-Qaeda, making Somalia at least the sixth country where U.S. drones have launched attacks.

Taxes are coming to the Internet. On Friday, Califorinia will begin requiring out-of-state retailers like Amazon to collect sales taxes on purchases by California customers.

Have you heard about Operation Fast & Furious? The ATF intentionally sold assault weapons to Mexican drug cartels. One was used to kill a U.S. border agent. Catch up HERE.

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Senator Introduces Homeland Security Secretary to 'Hundreds' of Illegals-at Capitol

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COMMENTARY:

Treating Children As Adults
By Ben Shapiro
 The treatment of minors as tiny adults is a dangerous move that threatens the foundations of our society.

NEWSPAPER ROUNDUP:

Humana refusing to hire smokers in Arizona; Will test applicants for nicotine
Somalia is 6th country where U.S. is using drones to target terrorists
Democrat: Weak U.S. laws impede ATF agents trying to stop gun trafficking to Mexico
Wash Post: 'Obama uses combative new tone' at news conference
Advocates: Kids' play areas need more shade to guard against skin cancer, obesity
Bachmann tells Obama he can't judge constitutionality of DOMA
In compromise, R.I. approves civil unions for same-sex couples
Colo. sees 60% increase in same-sex couples cohabitating, many raising children
California delays its carbon trading program for a year
Obama's new counterterrorism strategy will focus on would-be terrorists in U.S.
Obama dismisses 'fuss' about Libya conflict; Defends authority for mission
Estate tax uncertainty unsettles small businesses
Bill would give U.S. flag to families of federal workers killed on job
Mark Halperin apologizes for calling Obama a vulgar name on MSNBC
Michele Bachmann reveals long-ago miscarriage while speaking at S.C. town hall
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel pushing gay marriage for Illinois

Tea Party News
Thursday, June 30th

Senator DeMint's response to Obama Tax Hikes Currently, the top tax rates are 33 percent and 35 percent. In 1988-1989, the top tax rate was 28% . Raising tax rates on the "rich" will not result in more federal revenue. From 1950 to 1963 when the top tax rate exceeded 90%, federal tax revenues averaged 17.4%. When the top tax rate was 28% from 1988-1989, federal tax revenues averaged 18.3% of GDP. Increasing the rates on the top earners in our economy will hurt investment, job creation and economic growth. Higher tax rates reduce incentives to work and expand businesses. According to data from the Treasury Department, 72% of all small business income is subject to the top two marginal tax rates. Raising tax rates on these small businesses will reduce investment, job creation and economic growth. It will not create a single job, and will eliminate many. Raising taxes on the top earners is counterproductive. Revenue is not the problem, spending is. [The Hill, June 30] Click here for the complete source story Senate Republicans introduce Balanced Budget Amendment to the Constitution. Senate Republicans on Wednesday introduced a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution that would put in place several obstacles to higher spending, including requirements that total outlays cannot exceed total receipts, and that total spending cannot exceed 18 percent of US gross domestic product. These rules could only be waived by a two-thirds majority vote in both the House and the Senate. The amendment, S.J.Res. 23, would also hold that the debt limit cannot be increased unless three-fifths of both the House and Senate agree. In its current form, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's amendment would also be the longest ever, at 553 words. The 14th amendment, ratified in 1868 and dealing with U.S. citizenship rights, is currently the longest amendment, at 428 words. [The Hill, June 29] Click here for the complete source story Defense cuts appear likely as pressure grows on debt deal As few as 30 House Republicans would likely consider voting against a debt-ceiling deal that cuts $300 billion from security spending, according to a GOP aide. The relatively small bloc of opposition to the level of defense cuts floated by the White House suggests the GOP's traditional opposition to reducing military spending has taken a backseat to warding off tax increases. Robust defense spending and lower taxes have been two hallmarks of the Republican Party for years, and those two things are going to be in direct competition with one another in the debt talks. Given a choice between lopping funding for the military and increasing taxes - two options for reducing the deficit long seen as anathema to the party - most House Republicans seem ready to pull the lever against the Pentagon. Republicans are very much uniformly wedded to no tax increases. ... I think they'll ultimately come down on the side of no tax cuts. [Erik Wasson and John T. Bennett, The Hill, June 30] Click here for the complete source story Herman Cain unveils economic plan "The capital gains tax represents a wall between people with money and people with ideas," Cain said. "And people with ideas are the catalyst for new businesses and new job growth." Cain said this would also encourage companies to "invest in worker training programs, new equipment and emerging technologies." His "Economic Vision: Jobs for America" plan also includes lowering the top corporate and personal income tax rates to a maximum of 25 percent. He proposes forming a commission to review and possibly eliminate government regulations. Cain claims his plan would cut the unemployment rate in half. Herman Cain is the former CEO of Godfather's Pizza, he also served on the board of directors for seven corporations and lead the National Restaurant Industry, Click here for the complete source story

Blacks Don't Need Same Sex Marriage

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski and ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell was published June 29, 2011 on The Daily Caller website.

Our media colleague Chris Matthews just got a thrill up his other leg. He announced on MSNBC that he's figured out what the black community needs: same-sex marriage. He's wrong on religious liberty, and he's wrong on the economics both of marriage and of the black community.

Chris had a June 28 segment on Hardball discussing New York's law redefining marriage to henceforth include two persons of the same sex. One of your authors (Blackwell) was opposite a New York same-sex activist, and Chris acknowledged that he supports same-sex marriage.

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Scalia Wrong, Thomas Right on Violent Video Games

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published June 29, 2011 on The Washington Examiner website.

Those who paint U.S. Supreme Court justices with a broad brush only prove they don't really understand the court.

Justice Antonin Scalia was dead wrong in striking down California's restriction on selling horribly violent video games to children. And Justice Clarence Thomas did a spectacular job of showing why the Founders would uphold this law.

California enacted a law restricting the sale of graphically violent video games to children, requiring an adult to make the purchase. One such graphic game involves the player torturing a girl as she pleads for mercy, urinating on her, dousing her with gasoline and setting her on fire.

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Supremes Equate Video Violence with Free Speech 

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published June 29, 2011 on The Washington Times website.

The cultural sledgehammer that's shattering basic decency in America keeps pounding away. Our enemies must be delighted to see us disarm morally and still expect to be strong, free and prosperous. They know it doesn't work that way.

This week, we've seen the Republican-controlled New York State Senate grant legal recognition to pretend "marriage." A Wall Street Journal photo makes that case: Two women, one dressed as a groom, celebrate. Because marriage at its core is the union of male and female, a groomless or brideless wedding is an absurd counterfeit.

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Block Grant Welfare to the States

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published June 29, 2011 on The American Spectator website.

The first step in defusing America's Ticking Bankruptcy Bomb, the title of my new book, is to restore a booming economy. I discussed last week how to do that by applying the lessons of Reaganomics.

The next step is fundamental entitlement reform, to reduce the overwhelming future burden of exploding entitlement expenses. As I argue in the book, we will never be able to solve the entitlement crisis by simply trying to cut benefits for the poor and seniors. We need fundamental structural reforms. We need to modernize our tax and redistribution entitlement programs to rely on 21st century capital, labor and insurance markets.

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Why the GOP Is Right on Taxes

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published June 29, 2011 on FoxNews.com.

Congressional Republicans are standing firm on their principle that for every dollar of increase in the national debt limit, President Obama and the Democrats must agree to a dollar of spending cuts. That means if President Obama wants to increase the debt limit by $2 trillion to $3 trillion, then he will have to agree to $2 to $3 trillion in future spending cuts. But President Obama and the Democrats are insisting they won't agree to any spending cuts unless the Republicans agree to tax increases.

Most people don't know that sweeping tax increases have already been enacted in current law for 2013. In that year, all of the tax increases of ObamaCare go into effect, and the Bush tax cuts expire, which President Obama has refused to renew for singles making over $200,000 per year, and couples making over $250,000.

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June 30, 2011



 TIME EDITOR CALLS OBAMA A VULGAR TERM, LIVE ON TV
Mark Halperin is a regular contributor to MSNBC's "Morning Joe." Perhaps we should say that he has been a regular guest on the show. That may all change after Halperin's unvarnished review of President Obama's press conference slipped past the show's seven-second delay. See the clip and Halperin's apology HERE. 

BECK'S FINAL FOX NEWS SHOW IS TONIGHT, THEN WHAT?
Glenn wraps up his Fox News Channel show tonight at 6pm and immediately launches the next phase of his media career on GBTV.com. Find out the details and watch a preview HERE.

SEN DURBIN TELLS ILLEGALS, 'YOU COULD BE PRESIDENT'
Illinois Senator Dick Durbin seems to have a small problem understanding the most basic requirements for becoming President of the United States. Mr. Durbin completely overlooks the part about candidates needing to be BORN IN THE USA! See the video HERE.

RNC'S OFFICES STORMED BY IMMIGRATION PROTESTERS 
Wednesday night in Washington, the RNC's headquarters were overrun by pro-amnesty protesters demanding that the GOP dramatically alter its immigration policy. Watch the video HERE.

 HUNGARY HONORS REAGAN, DEMS DEMONIZE GUN OWNERS, OBAMA'S PRESSER UNPLUGGED 
The Morning-Must Reads have a veritable buffet of breaking news and current events stories that, if consumed on a regular basis, will make you smarter HERE.

'STRAIGHT-GATE?' - SCANDAL ROCKS THE 'GAY SOFTBALL WORLD SERIES'
Forget about corked bats and steroids, the Gay Softball World Series is investigating claims of cheating by five players who stand accused of being heterosexual. That's not a typo, a panel has actually interrogated the players about their sexuality. Read the insanity HERE.  

VIRAL VIDEO DU JOUR - THE FASTEST-EVER LAP AROUND MANHATTAN
NYC is not exactly a car-friendly place. Anyone who lives here, works here or has visited Manhattan knows that. This video shows a car driving around the entire island of Manhattan in under 30 minutes. Watch the amazing video HERE.

 

Is There Time To Save America? Where are our men and women or honor?

Jun 30, 2011 06:13 am | Coach Collins

By Ron Reale, staff writer

Looking at recent events and news is unsettling.

In a recent graduation ceremony, it matters not where it occurred, a principal felt it necessary to translate his graduation speech into Spanish, so his graduating class could understand it. REALLY?

Assuming America is still a viable country, dependent on capitalism as an economic system, does anyone think it is a good idea to be graduating students that can't communicate in ENGLISH? Have they not just wasted their time, and the money of the citizenry, actively assisting immigrants, (legal or illegal), for four years, to avoid learning the one thing that can help them live and work anywhere in this country? Are they not now relegated to living in anti-American enclaves, continuing to split this country apart? Have the students not been relegated to low-income jobs, (if any jobs, at all), because they can't speak the language of the United States and the preponderance of the business ... Continue Reading:Is There Time To Save America? Where are our men and women or honor?

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"Do we get free wifi or something like that?" Democrat tries to shakedown Apple's Steve Jobs

Jun 29, 2011 03:06 pm | Coach Collins

 By Kevin "Coach" Collins

 Steve Jobs the co-founder of Apple Computers clearly loves what he does and where he lives and works. In Cupertino California, Jobs is a hometown boy made good. He made Cupertino the corporate headquarters for his mega-company and put it on the map.  Because of his love for Cupertino and its people, Jobs has developed a plan to radically expand his headquarters campus within the city's limits. Where he currently houses an operation that employs about 2600 workers Jobs plans to more than quadruple the number of people which would be working  in this new palace of industry.

Jobs wants to build a beautiful circular building on a 150 acre property which will be wooded and landscaped to present  what he predicts will be a magnet for future architectural students for years to come. On June 7, brimming with enthusiasm and refreshing almost child-like wonder, Jobs made a personal appeal to the Cupertino City Council seeking approval of ... Continue Reading:"Do we get free wifi or something like that?" Democrat tries to shakedown Apple's Steve Jobs

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Alexander's Essay - June 30, 2011

TIME on the Constitution: 'Does It Still Matter?'

Only if Liberty still matters

"The Constitution, which at any time exists, 'till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole People, is sacredly obligatory upon all." --George Washington, September 19, 1796

Unmitigated Ignorance

In celebration of the 235th anniversary of the signing of our Declaration of Independence, Time Magazine, the "journal of record" for the Leftist Illiterati (or as they prefer to be known, "the intelligentsia"), published a cover story featuring their errant interpretation of our Constitution. On an image of the shredding of that venerable old document Time posited this question: "Does it still matter?"

The short answer is, only if Liberty and the Rule of Law still matter. But Time's managing editor, Richard Stengel, begs to differ, having discarded Rule of Law for the rule of men.

In his boorish 5,000-word treatise on the issue, Stengel unwittingly exposes the Left's patently uninformed and self-serving interpretation of our Constitution, and he aptly defines their adherence to a "living constitution." That adulterated version of its original intent is the result of revision by decades of radical judicial diktats, rather than in the manner prescribed by our Constitution's Article V.

Stengel opined, "To me the Constitution is a guardrail. It's for when we are going off the road and it gets us back on. It's not a traffic cop that keeps us going down the center." According to Stengel, then, our Constitution just exists to keep us between the ditches and entitles us to swerve all over the road without consequence. Of course, that is hardly what our Founders intended, but Stengel insists that to ask "what did the framers want is kind of a crazy question."

Exhibiting a keen sense of the obvious, Stengel observes that times have changed and that our Founders "did not know about" all the advancements of the present era. Thus he concludes our Constitution must be pliable, or, as Thomas Jefferson forewarned in 1819, "a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary which they may twist and shape into any form they please."

Stengel insists, "The Constitution works so well precisely because it is so opaque, so general, so open to various interpretations," rather than, as "originalists contend ... a clear, fixed meaning."

To assert that our Founders intended the Constitution to be "so opaque, so general, so open to various interpretations" is beyond any accurate reading of history. As noted previously, our Founders provided a method to amend our Constitution in Article V. The problem, of course, is that Stengel and his Leftist cadres know their agenda would never pass a Constitutional Convention and, thus, they circumvent Article V by discarding Rule of Law in deference to their own rules.

Consequently, we now have a Constitution in exile, one that is little more than a straw man amid increasingly politicized courts that serve the special interests of political constituencies rather than interpreting the document's plain language, as judges are bound by sacred oath to do (Article VI, Section 3).

While it is highly tempting, any effort to rebut Stengel's erroneous claims point by point would violate my own rule against swapping spit with a jackass. However, as it is the eve of Independence Day, let us, for the record, revisit Essential Liberty as "endowed by our Creator" according to our Declaration.

Signing of the Declaration

The natural rights of man outlined in our Declaration are enshrined in our Constitution as evident in its most comprehensive explication, The Federalist Papers, a defense of that venerable document by its author, James Madison, and Founders Alexander Hamilton and John Jay.

Here is what our Founders actually did write about our Constitution and Rule of Law.

George Washington: "The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their Constitutions of Government. But the Constitution, which at any time exists, 'till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole People, is sacredly obligatory upon all. ... If in the opinion of the people the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way which the Constitution designates. But let there be no change by usurpation; for though this in one instance may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed."

Thomas Jefferson: "Our peculiar security is in possession of a written Constitution. Let us not make it a blank paper by construction. ... If it is, then we have no Constitution. ... [T]o consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions ... would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy. ... In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution."

Alexander Hamilton: "If it were to be asked, 'What is the most sacred duty and the greatest source of our security in a Republic?' The answer would be, 'An inviolable respect for the Constitution and Laws -- the first growing out of the last. ... A sacred respect for the constitutional law is the vital principle, the sustaining energy of a free government. ... [T]he present Constitution is the standard to which we are to cling. Under its banners, bona fide must we combat our political foes -- rejecting all changes but through the channel itself provides for amendments."

James Madison: "I entirely concur in the propriety of resorting to the sense in which the Constitution was accepted and ratified by the nation. In that sense alone it is the legitimate Constitution. And if that be not the guide in expounding it, there can be no security for a consistent and stable, more than for a faithful exercise of its powers."

Stengel's biggest whopper, however, is one I simply can't let pass without rebuttal. He writes, "If the Constitution was intended to limit the federal government, it sure doesn't say so. Article I, Section 8, the longest section of the longest article of the Constitution, is a drumroll of congressional power."

My chief witness against this ridiculous claim would be James Madison, "the Father of our Constitution." As Madison wrote in Federalist No. 45, "The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite. The former will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation, and foreign commerce; with which last the power of taxation will, for the most part, be connected. The powers reserved to the several states will extend to all the objects which, in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives, liberties, and properties of the people, and the internal order, improvement and prosperity of the State."

That piece of trenchant prose would, of course, became the basis for the Tenth Amendment, which clearly and tightly limits the authority and scope of the federal government.

Before Stengel next ventures to opine on our Constitution, which for him is clearly uncharted territory, perhaps he should read a copy of "Essential Liberty."

Shredding Rule of Law

Time magazine is but one of a surfeit of liberal propaganda tools which play supporting roles in the primary assault on our Constitution.

The lead actor is Barack Hussein Obama who, along with his cadre of "useful idiots," are systematically dismantling the last vestiges of our Constitution's Rule of Law mandate.

As we prepare to observe this Independence Day anniversary, our nation is once again confronting a perilous threat to Liberty.

Thomas Paine once wrote, "[A]n unwritten constitution is not a constitution at all." I beg you take note: Our Constitution is being "unwritten" at an unprecedented pace. Obama has mounted a well-organized and well-funded effort to "fundamentally transform" our nation into a socialist state by thus deconstructing our Constitution. He has deserted his oath to "preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States," in accordance with Article II, Section 1, and clearly never intended to "take care that the Laws be faithfully executed," as specified in Section 3.

As was the case at the Dawn of American Liberty, we are but a small band of American Patriots facing an empire of statists, but we are steadfast in our sacred oath to sustain our Constitution. Please help us combat the ideology and propaganda of the Left in order to restore the integrity of our Constitution.

On behalf of Liberty, if you are able, please support our Independence Day Campaign. We still must raise $112,448 to meet our goal and there are just 4 days left.

Semper Vigilo, Fortis, Paratus et Fidelis!

Mark Alexander
Publisher, The Patriot Post

 

Leave Me Alones vs Make It Betters

The two streams in American politics are not liberal vs conservative, they can be roughly defined as "Leave Me Alone" vs "Make It Better". Leave Me Alone seeks personal independence, self-reliance and freedom from interference. Make It Better believes in the progressive betterment of society through regulation, intervention and education.

Most people associate the "Leave Me Alones" with conservatism and the "Make It Betters" with liberalism. That's partly true, but not entirely. The hijacking of liberalism and the Democratic party by the radical left has them into the standard bearers of a ruthless "Make It Better" agenda. But "Make It Better" is found often on the right as well. The loss of the cultural war to the left has pushed conservatives into a defensive position. And the ascension of the left has moved it into a state of permanent aggression

June 30, 2011

Eric Holder: unfit for his office, Congress needs to review the record

WES VERNON, RA ANALYST - The "I" word is something one is well-advised to use sparingly lest it be abused and over-used. Impeachment is a constitutional option that has -- during our nation's history -- been approached with super-caution. After all, officials at the very top echelons of our government either were elected or were nominated by an elected official (the president) or were appointed by the duly elected head of state... (more)

June 30, 2011

California taxes the Internet

LOS ANGELES TIMES - Reporting from Sacramento-- Shopping at Amazon.com Inc. and other major Internet stores is poised to get more expensive. Beginning Friday, a new state law will require large out-of-state retailers to collect sales taxes on purchases that their California customers make on the Internet -- a prospect eased only slightly by a 1-percentage-point drop in the tax that also takes effect at the same time... (more)

June 29, 2011

Federal appeals court upholds Obama health care law

FOX NEWS - President Obama's controversial health care law got a major boost Wednesday when the first ruling by a federal appeals court affirmed that Congress can require Americans to have minimum insurance coverage... (more)

June 29, 2011

Media ignores Biden, Obama gaffes while targeting Bachmann

NEWSMAX - Although the media appears focused right now on any verbal blunders coming from the mouths of conservative Republicans, history indicates that bloopers are truly bipartisan. Here's a comparison of embarrassing remarks made by three political leaders: GOP Rep. Michele Bachmann, President Barack Obama, and Vice President Joe Biden... (more)

June 29, 2011

Obama for states' rights?

WASHINGTON TIMES - It's easy to tell when campaign season has begun. At a press conference Wednesday, President Obama appeared to show an appreciation for the limitations of federal power and respect for the self-regulating capabilities of the states. He even distanced himself from decisions made by his own radical appointees. It's the same bait-and-switch routine from 2008 - candidate Obama is back... (more)

June 29, 2011

The tea party supervises the GOP

ANDREW STILES - As lawmakers in Washington work to negotiate a deal on the debt ceiling, leaders of the tea-party movement have a message for Republicans: You are being watched... (more)

June 29, 2011

Obama pushes tax hikes in budget talks

FOX NEWS - President Obama called on Republicans Wednesday to drop their opposition to tax increases, saying "everybody else" is sacrificing their "sacred cows" for deficit reduction, GOP lawmakers should be willing to do the same... (more)

June 29, 2011

Gay-marriage foes target N.Y. senators who flipped

ASSOCIATED PRESS - A group that opposes gay marriage said Wednesday it will spend at least $2 million to oust seven New York state senators who changed their positions on gay marriage. The Washington-based National Organization for Marriage said in an email to supporters that it is committed to helping elect majorities in 2012 that support marriage as being only between a man and a woman... (more)

June 29, 2011

Glenn Beck vs. the mob

ANN COULTER - Of all the details surrounding the liberal mob attack on Glenn Beck and his family in New York's Bryant Park last Monday night, one element stands out. "No, it won't be like that, Dad," his daughter said when Beck questioned the wisdom of attending a free, outdoor movie showing in a New York park... (more)

June 28, 2011

Palin: No decision about presidential bid

ASSOCIATED PRESS - Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin says she's still thinking about whether to run for president and is dismissing comments from her daughter that she's made up her mind. Palin spoke with reporters Tuesday in the small Iowa town of Pella, where she and her husband are attending the first public screening of a film about her rise in politics called "The Undefeated"... (more)

June 28, 2011

The Constitution matters

THOMAS SOWELL - The Fourth of July may be just a holiday for fireworks to some people. But it was a momentous day for the history of this country and the history of the world. Not only did July 4, 1776, mark American independence from England, it also marked a radically different kind of government from the governments that prevailed around the world at the time -- and the kinds of governments that had prevailed for thousands of years before... (more)

June 28, 2011

Bachmann: Democrats using 'scare tactics' on debt

ASSOCIATED PRESS - Newly declared Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann is accusing the Obama administration of using "scare tactics" to pressure Congress into a deal allowing an increase in the government's borrowing authority... (more)

June 28, 2011

We need marriage

MONA CHAREN - If only lower-income heterosexuals were as keen to marry as some homosexuals, the United States would be a much stronger country. Supporters of gay marriage (most prominently the New York Times, which reported New York's legalization of such unions last week with about as much hoopla as it did the Japanese surrender in 1945) are ecstatic... (more)

June 27, 2011

Parts of Georgia immigration law blocked

POLITICO - A federal judge in Atlanta blocked portions of Georgia's new law that would have punished people who aid illegal immigrants and allowed local police to check the legal status of anyone not carrying identification, The Associated Press reported Monday... (more)

June 27, 2011

An inconvenient cooling

WASHINGTON TIMES - Reports of imminent climatic catastrophes are turning out to be rather anticlimactic. That's because rather than heating up to life-threatening levels, new scientific findings indicate it's more likely the Earth will cool in coming years. That's bad news for a global-warming industry heavily invested in a sultry forecast... (more)

June 27, 2011

Texas to defund Planned Parenthood

POLITICO - The Texas Legislature approved a bill Monday that would both compel the state to push the Obama administration to convert Texas's Medicaid program into a block grant and defund abortion providers like Planned Parenthood... (more)

June 27, 2011

The most law-flouting president since Nixon

JACK KELLY - Richard Nixon took a more expansive view of his powers than any other president. "When the president does it, that means that it is not illegal," he told David Frost in that famous 1977 interview. Until now. Barack Obama has a distinctly Nixonian view of the law. If it gets in his way, he ignores it... (more)

June 27, 2011

Blagojevich guilty in corruption trial

WASHINGTON TIMES - In a stunning rebuke, a Chicago jury Monday found disgraced former Illinois Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich guilty of corruption on a massive scale, including multiple counts of trying to sell or trade President Obama's former Senate seat... (more)

June 27, 2011

Book review: Confronting national debt now

WES VERNON, RA ANALYST - The timing for release of this book could not be better. The debt ceiling's claimed deadline approaches as Congress wrangles over how or whether to confront the consequences in a meaningful -- if politically risky -- way or take the easy course of running up the national credit card yet again... (more)
 

 Peter Ferrara: The final ticks of America's bankruptcy bomb

June 27, 2011

Bachmann officially announces, telling voters she's a 'bold choice'

NEWSMAX - U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann was treated like a hometown hero today as she announced in her birthplace of Waterloo, Iowa, that she's the "bold choice" for the Republican nomination for president... (more)

June 27, 2011

Six states proceed with abortion ban

NEWSMAX - Six states have banned abortion after 20 weeks on the theory that the fetus can feel pain at that point. The handful of states have pressed ahead even though the theory has been rejected by mainstream medical organizations in the United States and Britain, The New York Times reported... (more)

June 30, 2011 

On Thursday's Program 

Glenn's Fox Finale is TONIGHT...on to GBTV!

What will Glenn do for his final show? Boil some frogs? Go all Dietrich Bonhoeffer on America? Try another ratings ploy and talk about The Road to Serfdom? Don't miss it tonight at 5pm on Fox. IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING the TV finale, tune in to GBTV for an exclusive live broadcast and see Glenn talk about the last 3 years, but more importantly - what's coming next. As always, Glenn has HUGE plans. Don't miss a second on GBTV!

Want Glenn to answer your question? Email AskRaj@GBTV.com and get your question directly into the hands of GBTV Correspondent Raj Nair who will be peppering Glenn with the questions you want answered - beginning tonight at 6:30pm ET on GBTV!

Live Blog: Follow all the action tonight on Twitter and The Feed - get all the details HERE.

Glenn: 'I'm not playing the game anymore'

Glenn talked on radio today a little about why he decided to leave the cable news world and move in another direction. Many fans ask Glenn why he'd leave - if that's you, check out this monologue from radio to get a better understanding of Glenn's thought process and why it was a necessary move. WATCH

The Truth about Glenn's Ratings: You've probably heard the claim that Glenn is leaving Fox because of poor ratings. Stu completely destroys this popular leftist myth in this amazing blog that ends one of the dumbest Glenn Beck smears of all time. READ

Obama's agonizing speech = water torture

Obama calls those making $250k the 'private jet class' during a speech yesterday making the case for raising taxes. He went on to pathetically attack non-existent 'subsidies' for oil companies, but things really got laughable when the President said he didn't want to fearmonger -- buuuuuuut. What'd he say? WATCH.

California crushes small businesses with tax hike 

The Governor called it a 'common sense' move -- maybe to a Hollywood liberal, but to everyone else? Not so much. Amazon.com immediately ended their arrangement with 25,000 California websites - which surely will help business in the state. Get more on the latest progressive attack on big business HERE.

Spend July 4th weekend with Glenn! He'll be in Huntsman Springs in Driggs, ID for the Celebrate America event. Get all the details HERE.

Obama admin totally hearts Muslim Brotherhood

Even though the Muslim Brotherhood refuses to recognize Israel as a sovereign nation, President Obama has decided to give the group more legitimacy by saying they'd seek to 'engage' in communications with the radical group. More of the disturbing details HERE.

Stand with... Stu? Stu has been getting grief for being a choking wuss bunny who is too afraid to go to Israel. Stu's response? To rally others who want to support Israel but cannot make it all the way to Israel, therefore will be standing with Stu for Israel - in America. Support Israel (and Stu) by getting the Stand with Stu t-shirt. Proceeds go to the Restoring Courage event.

International Support for Restoring Courage: If you or a family member live outside the US and are interested in attending the events in Israel or participating in your own country we would like to hear from you. Please email us at Israel@glennbeck.com.