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~ James Madison, Federalist No. 48, 1788 

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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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The main dish will be provided. Please call us and tell us what side dish you'd like to bring to share or you may choose to bring picnic supplies (ice, paper products, plastic cutlery, cups, etc.). Bring your lawn chairs and blankets to sit on!  We will have music and games for the entire family.

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Valley Forge Patriots Tea Party Economics Classes

Monday, July 11^th & Tuesday, July 12th

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400 Franklin Ave Phoenixville, PA - Class will be in Franklin Hall which is the private larger classroom next to café area.  This room is more easily accessible from both free parking lots on campus.

Loren is back for part two of his economic series.  Please fee free to come one or both evenings to this presentation.   The Valley Forge Patriots will be asking for a $5 donation for room fees.  Loren Spivack will be donating his time and selling some books.    Info on class contact:                                                   

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HERITAGE FOUNDATION SPEAKER AT JULY MEETING!

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.

ONELINE TOWN HALL WITH MIKE FITZPATRICK

The intelligencer is hosting an online chat with Bucks County Congressman Mike Fitzpatrick from 7:30 to 8:30 pm Thursday and we'd like you to join us.

Come to phillyBurbs.com/news/chat/ on Thursday evening to ask your questions or watch the discussion.  If you can't participate, but you have a question for Fitzpatrick, send it to pwalker@phillyburbs.com.  We'll work your question into the conversation. 

He can not be allowed to be our next attorney general.  The chief law enforcement officer of Pennsylvania cannot be an individual with so little respect for our individual Liberties and the Constitutions of both the United States and Pennsylvania.

Meet Patrick Murphy

RedState Morning Briefing

For July 7, 2011

1. Republicans Must Show They Will Shoot the Hostage

Does the party of freedom have less courage than the party of socialism? Jim DeMint thinks if the GOP fails to be bold in the debt ceiling fight that'll be why.

As the sun rises this morning, be prepared to be completely and totally disappointed in the total lack of leadership by House Republicans when it comes to taking a bold stand in the debt ceiling fight.

Just how badly are supposedly "tea party friendly" House Republicans abandoning conservatives? Olympia Snowe of Maine has gotten to the right of them. They should all break out the leather braids and self-flagellate. Shame on them.

2. David Brooks Gets Played

It is a familiar tactic that the Democrats have used lately - say it enough times and hope someone believes it. I was traveling yesterday and couldn't comment on the David Brooks column, but it is more and more clear David Brooks got played.

"The Senate majority leader, Harry Reid, has talked about supporting a debt reduction measure of $3 trillion or even $4 trillion if the Republicans meet him part way. There are Democrats in the White House and elsewhere who would be willing to accept Medicare cuts if the Republicans would be willing to increase revenues."

This $3 to $4 trillion mysterious deal is the Democrats' talking point du jour. On CBS, Delaware Senator Chris Coons said the same.

"The next decade we can cut $4 trillion in federal spending. We can achieve real savings, and we've had plans on the table since March to do it in a bipartisan, responsible way. It's their intransigence, their refusal to consider any increase in revenue that has really stalled the talks so far. . . . I'm willing to make significant cuts in domestic spending and entitlement reform."

There's just one problem. This $4 trillion deal with entitlement reform does not actually exist. They may be saying that. David Brooks may be getting sweet nothings whispered in his ear by the White House. But there is no deal.This has become a familiar tactic by the Democrats in the past year when it comes to cutting the budget. We saw it with the continuing resolutions. We saw it with the Christmas 2010 tax extension deals. We're seeing it again. They claim there is an offer made, a deal on the table, and recalcitrant Republicans blocking the way.

3. This Needs To Be Edited Into A TV Ad

The Charles Koch Foundation has come up with a web ad on economic freedom. It is an important message. I cannot stress enough that you need to watch this. It is only 2 minutes. But more importantly, the Koch Foundation needs to turn this into a 1 minute television advertisement. It'll require some work to do, but this is a message that needs to get out to the greater masses. If you are a radio show host, you should just play the audio. It is fantastic.

4. Casey Anthony and the Law And Order Effect

I'm not a lawyer and I don't even play one on the internet but I am a concerned citizen and the trial, but not the acquittal, of Casey Anthony concerns me greatly.

I'm a conservative, not a libertarian. Generally speaking I'm all in favor of putting asses in jail. What I'm not in favor of is the life, liberty, and property of American citizens being treated as some sort of a game. That is why the Casey Anthony trial makes me angry.

Much of the commentary on the Casey Anthony trial has centered on what is being called the "CSI effect": the alleged belief that juries require more scientific evidence, like that routinely developed on the television conglomerate CSI: Whatever (where apparently jaywalking rates investigation by a half dozen lab tech cum SWAT members). I disagree. If anything the Casey Anthony trial showed that juries aren't necessarily overawed by scientific hoohah. If anything, I think the Casey Anthony verdict was a direct result of the Law and Order effect.

5. The Palestinian Accountability Act

One of the more intractable components of our foreign policy dating back to the Clinton years has been the obsession of creating a Palestinian state. The career egghead diplomats in the State Department believed that if we would only send billions in aid to the venerable leaders of the Palestinian Authority and grant them statehood, they would put down their terror toys and sing kumbaya. To that end, we have given them billions in aid and provided them with military training during the past two decades.

Those of us who lack the credulity of a toddler understand that Mahmoud Abbas is not a dulcet freedom-lover, and the PA/Fatah is not a moderate Muslim boys' club. It's time to end the good cop/bad cop charade between the "extremist" Hamas and the "moderate" Fatah - by treating them as co-equal perpetrators of terror. Abbas has repeatedly called for armed struggle against Israel (in Arabic, of course), glorified suicide bombers, and is closely linked with the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, an Iranian-funded terror group that rivals Hamas in its ferocity in recent years.

6. Fast and Furious update: Ken Melson's secret testimony.

The sound that you're hearing is the muttered "Uh-oh" of a plethora of staffers at the Justice Department and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, & Explosives. Of particular interest is the letter that Oversight Chair Darrell Issa and Judiciary Ranking Member (for now) Chuck Grassley sent to Attorney General (for now) Eric Holder regarding Melson's testimony... but we'll get that in a moment.

For those coming in late: Issa and Grassley are investigating the horrifically botched Fast & Furious program that Justice/BATFE had put together, starting in late 2009. F&F was this ingenious method by which the federal government ended up knowingly and deliberately permitted illegally-resold firearms to be supplied to Mexican narco-terrorists; said narco-terrorists then proceeded to use those guns to shoot various hostages, Mexican civilians and police officers, at least one US Border Agent... as you can imagine, the Mexican government is not exactly pleased about any of this, which is why elements within said government are currently muttering about extradition treaties. This is where Kenneth Melson comes in: he is the Acting Director of BATFE, and was apparently picked to be the duly-assigned sacrificial lamb in this particular drama.

Only, it turns out that Melson doesn't actually believe in any of that dulce et decorum est pro Duce mori stuff; so he grabbed a lawyer and started talking to Issa & Grassley - on July 4th, no less. So now, let's talk about that letter.

Heritage Hotsheet

Experts on the Day's Hottest News

Items for July 7, 2011

In debt talks, Obama offers Social Security cuts
The Washington Post


Gunwalker: The ATF's Kenneth Melson Blows the Whistle on the Justice Department
PajamasMedia.com


Tax hikes not needed to balance budget
The Washington Times


America's biggest teacher and principal cheating scandal unfolds in Atlanta
The Christian Science Monitor


Obama, Democrats not ready to play 14th Amendment card with debt ceiling
The Washington Post


The Year of School Choice
The Wall Street Journal

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Federal Highway Program: How Opting Out Would Help States

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WebMemo
Neither Isolationist nor Noninterventionist: The Right Way to Think About Foreign Policy

WebMemo
Years of High Unemployment Ahead at Recovery's Pace

 Susan's Paul Ryan Medicare Pamphlet - please print this and give it to your contacts

 

Letting Obama Be Obama

By Paul Kengor from the July/August 2011 issue

The New York Times calls her Barack Obama's "old hometown mentor," "closest friend in the White House," "all-purpose ambassador," "skillful envoy," "emissary," and the "ultimate Obama insider." The Washington Post's Dana Milbank dubs her "the real center of Obama's inner circle," with ties to the president that are "deep and personal." A profile in the Post's "WhoRunsGov.com," says she has been involved in "almost all" of Barack and Michelle Obama's "major decisions." The Wall Street Journal identifies her as the "essential member" of President Obama's "inner set." The Chicago Tribune proclaims her "the president's right-hand woman." Rahm Emanuel calls her "a very dear friend" and "valuable ally" to Barack Obama.

And Obama himself calls her one of his "oldest friends," who is "like a sibling to me...I trust her completely."

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Israel is Sitting Pretty 

By Ted Belman

Israel is sitting pretty.  Sure she has problems, but her future is bright. Even her present is not too shabby.

Of immediate concern, is the attempt by the PA to gain recognitions and  membership in the UN in the upcoming session in September.  To this end the PA has agreed with Hamas to unify, thinking it would strengthen their case at the UN. Not so fast.  Actually unification is proving more difficult to achieve then implied, due to irreconcilable differences. These differences have more to do with tactics rather than goals, they both want to destroy the Jewish state, and to their unwillingness to share power. So, at last reading, they have decided to postpone concluding an agreement until after September, if ever.

The most the PA can expect at the UN is recognition by the General Assembly, of Palestine with the '49 armistice lines as borders. But such recognition will change nothing on the ground and will be meaningless. The US has made it clear that it will veto its admission to membership.  Furthermore, Israel has succeeded,   diplomatically, in turning the EU around on the matter of recognition. A few months ago, Britain, France and Germany were threatening Israel to accept the armistice lines as the basis for negotiations, failing which they would vote for recognition. Now they are lined up with the US and Israel in urging the PA not to go to the UN for recognition.

Israel has successfully made the case that such a unilateral move by the PA would be a violation of the Oslo Accords which mandated no unilateral moves and a negotiated settlement. Israel has made it clear that such a move would result in unilateral moves by Israel and the end of the Oslo Accords. This means the end of the PA created pursuant to these accords. The primary unilateral move mooted by Israel is the extension of Israel law to the settlement blocs which would make the blocs sovereign territory of Israel. It would also replace occupation law over these territories. Many in Israel are demanding that Israel not stop there but that she should do the same for all of Area "C" over which she currently has full control pursuant to the Oslo Accords. These lands contain 300,000 Israelis and 10,000 Arabs.  Israeli grassroots are now mobilizing a major campaign to increase Israeli support for such a move.

The last thing the Quartet wants to see, is the end of the peace process because it's control over Israel would also end. It prefers to keep Israel shackled to the Oslo Accords while it violates them by demanding Israel concede more that the Accords required. It also violates them by interfering in negotiations.

Last I heard, Abbas is still determined to go the UN. If he does, he risks alienating the US and the EU and ending the PA and his job.

The US and the EU have argued that the turmoil in the Middle East makes it all the more imperative that Israel make concessions for peace. But they have never made the case. Israel is not buying it and neither are independent thinkers.  In fact Israel believes the opposite is true.

The US will not allow the US-brokered peace agreement between Israel and Egypt to be abandoned by Egypt. A new poll conducted by Egypt's ruling military regime showed that a 67 percent majority of Egyptians want to maintain their nation's peace treaty with Israel. This contradicted an earlier poll which showed that 54% of Egyptians wanted to scrap the agreement.

Israel Today commented,

"There is speculation that the new poll conducted by the Egyptian regime could be rigged. Egypt receives a massive amount of American military aid as a condition of the Camp David Accord. But, the numbers could also show a shift in attitude."

The US has brought the Muslim Brotherhood in from the cold in the vain hope that it can be managed. Hamas is moving closer to Egypt and away from Syria in the belief that the Assad regime cannot last. This may or may not be problematic for Israel but it is certainly problematic for Jordan who needs Israel more than ever to protect it. In fact Jordan wants Israel to remain in Judea and Samaria (West Bank) because it's in Jordan's best interest that she does. When Jordan pushes the peace process she does so to pacify her citizens and to show Arab solidarity but she doesn't mean it. Palestinian nationalism is a threat to the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. She prefers the status quo, thank you very much.

Syria is on the ropes and is expected to go down for the count. Turkey has been threatening to invade Syria ostensibly to set up a safe zone for refugees but she may remain there and perhaps end up controlling Syria and by extension, Lebanon. The US is coordinating all this with Turkey and Israel. Remember, Syria and Lebanon used to be part of the Ottoman Empire. The US and Saudi Arabia have been trying to separate Syria from Iran for years and this may just be the way to do it.

At the same time, there are reports that the US is propping up the Assad regime by calling for it to talk with the opposition rather than calling for it to resign. Elliott Abrams is critical with this realpolitik and writes

"That is bad enough, but realpolitik must then be judged by its logic and its fruits.  There are none, except for undermining the moral position of the United States.  To repeat what has been written here before, the Assad regime is an enemy of the United States.  It has the blood of tens of thousands of Syrians on its hands but also of thousands of Americans, killed in Iraq by jihadis it led into Iraq for that purpose.  It is Iran's only Arab ally, and provides Iran with a Mediterranean port, a border with Israel through Hizballah, and an arms trafficking route from Iran to Hizballah.  It supports and houses Hamas and other Palestinian terrorist groups.  The fall of the Assad regime would be the greatest blow we can strike against Iran and its terrorist allies today."

Hopefully, the US will come to its senses and follow the Turkey option above set out. In fact, we see the fruits of the US coordinating efforts in the fact that Turkey did not back the current flotilla.

A week ago Lebanon formed a new government dominated by Hizballah loyalists and pro-Syrian politicians. Thus Lebanon can be counted on to be a strong part of the Iran/Syria axis and Turkey is being rejected due to its restored alliance with the US.

But Hezbollah is not home free. According to the leading Arab international daily, alsarq alawsat, it is under duress because the majority of Lebanese do not want a sharia state nor do they want Hezbollah to involve them in a devastating war with Israel. To make matters worse four top leaders of Hezbollah have just been indicted for killing Lebanon's beloved PM Rafik Harari. Finally, Hezbollah may be losing her Syrian patron and has begun removing her arms stored in Syria.

It remains to be seen how the Syrian/Hezbollah relationship develops. Will it strengthen or will it fall apart?  Will Turkey, with US support, be passive or aggressive? Time will tell.

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The Economic Case for supporting Israel

By GEORGE GILDER, WSJ

America's enemies understand deeply and intuitively that no U.S. goals or resources in the Middle East are remotely as important as Israel. Why don't we?

Israel cruised through the recent global slump with scarcely a down quarter and no deficit or stimulus package. It is steadily increasing its global supremacy, behind only the U.S., in an array of leading-edge technologies. It is the global master of microchip design, network algorithms and medical instruments.

During a period of water crises around the globe, Israel is incontestably the world leader in water recycling and desalinization. During an epoch when all the world's cities, from Seoul to New York, face a threat of terrorist rockets, Israel's newly battle-tested "Iron Dome" provides a unique answer based on original inventions in microchips that radically reduce the weight and cost of the interceptors.

Israel is also making major advances in longer-range...

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There's no right of return

By R. GAVISON, Y. ZILBERSHATS, N. GORE, JPOST 
International law and UN resolutions regarding the Palestinian question do not confer on refugees and their descendants a right to return within the borders of Israel.

In August 2010, the position paper, "The Return of Palestinian Refugees to the State of Israel," was published by the Metzilah Center for Zionist, Jewish, Liberal and Humanist Thought and presented to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, and to other decision-makers and academic experts. The paper examined all sources in international law dealing with questions of refugee return. It also reviewed the methods recognized throughout the world for dealing with refugee problems.

International law does not obligate/recognize the legal right of Palestinian refugees to settle in Israeli territory. Such large-scale return was not standard at the time the problem emerged, and it is not used effectively today. While the issue of the refugees needs to be dealt with...

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Fellow patriots,

I personally know people who have spent time in Iraq and witnessed first-hand the slaughter and harassment of Christians by Muslim extremists, and shared with you articles describing how Christians are being systematically persecuted and killed by the very Islamic nations the U.S. is allied with, such as Pakistan, Iraq, and Afghanistan.  And yet, the Church leaders I encounter in the United States are constantly engaged in outreach efforts to Islamic clerics and Muslims in general, including them in ecumenical programs and even starting a new movement called "Chrislam" -- a shocking and frightening concept that has pastors reading approvingly from the Koran in their pulpits.

WHAT THE "L" IS GOING ON?!!!

Whenever something this nonsensical takes place, you know that there is a very nasty conspiracy hiding under the surface.  While it still hasn't been outed, the article below reveals another symptom of it.

SO PLEASE, IF YOU EVER HEAR ANYONE AT YOUR PLACE OF WORSHIP SPEAKING POSITIVELY ABOUT ISLAM OR NEGATIVELY ABOUT ISRAEL, PLEASE CONFRONT THEM DIRECTLY WITH THE OUTRAGEOUS PERSECUTION OF CHRISTIANS TAKING PLACE IN THE ISLAMIC WORLD, AND ASK THEM "WHAT ON EARTH ARE YOU THINKING?!!!!" -- Make them explain themselves and don't cut them any slack.  This is an outrage.

Catching my breath after this punch in the gut,

Dave

The churches against Israel

Christian blood libels revived, with Israel being painted as evil, having no right to exist

Giulio Meotti

Fellow Patriots,

This is what happens when our government refuses to acknowledge that we are in the midst of a war: a completely foreign terrorist, who should be treated as a prisoner of war and held in a prison camp far from the American public until the war is over, is read his Miranda rights, taken to the U.S., and tried as a criminal in Manhattan, one of the most densely populated parts of the country, under the American legal system, which presumes innocence until proven guilty beyond all reasonable doubt.  In the wake of the Casey Anthony trial, which declared Casey Anthony innocent of murdering her daughter despite overwhelming circumstantial evidence of guilt, this treatment of a terrorist should send chills down every American's spine.

Just as chilling is the method used to perpetrate this outrage: The Obama Administration, having been foiled in his attempt to try Khalid Sheik Mohammed in a Manhattan court by adamant protests from the public, decided to keep its plans for this terrorist a secret until the terrorist was already on American soil.

Please spread the word to everyone you can, and prepare to protest this deceptive, inappropriate, and reckless endangerment of the American public.  Thank you!

Dave

Rush Limbaugh speaks in Joplin, MO, 7/4/11

Rush Limbaugh speaks in Joplin, MO, on Independence Day, 2011, about freedom and the example that Joplin's recovery from the recent tornado is and will be for the nation. Full report with how to help Joplin:

http://rebootcongress.blogspot.com/2011/07/rush-limbaugh-visits-joplin-as-cit...

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Read more on Newsmax.com: Kyl: GOP Agrees to Up to $200B in New Revenues  

Paul Ryan Challenges Obama to Debate: "You Pick When and Where?"

July 6, 2011 

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7/06/2011 

The High Price of Obama's Fake Jobs Scheme

Sometimes magic tricks just aren't that great, and even the most innocent, wide-eyed child can't be fooled by the illusionist's flourish. Such is the case with the rabbit the White House is trying to pull out of its magic hat by claiming that President Barack Obama's stimulus has created or saved 2.4 million jobs at a cost of $666 billion, all while the United States continues to suffer 9.1 percent unemployment. If you do the math, that comes out to around $278,000 per job. 

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QUICK HITS

President Obama has invited congressional leaders to the White House to continue negotiations on the national debt after sharply criticizing Republicans in a press conference last week.

The White House is willing to keep up to 10,000 U.S. troops in Iraq after the end of the year in fears that its planned withdrawal of nearly all forces would lead to intensified militant attacks.

General Motors is right back to where it was before the taxpayer bailout; dealers are saddled with an oversupply of trucks, leading the automaker to cut production.

The White House is using Twitter to bully its critics and take on conservative provocateurs-all in 140 characters or less.

Congress and the White House are holding secret talks about our debt ceiling, taxes, and spending behind closed doors. Read the story on Foundry.org.

Today's Headlines:  Wednesday, July 06, 2011

Justice Dept. 'Distorted the Truth and Obstructed Our Investigation' in Guns-to-Mexico Probe, Lawmakers Say

Obama Takes ATF Gun-Running Operation 'Very Seriously,' Spokesman Says

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 Gallup: In No Month of Obama Presidency Has Majority Believed Economy Improving

Obama Now Sending Condolence Letters to Families of Troops Who Kill Themselves

White House Economists: Stimulus Jobs Slowly Going Away

Sen. Durbin Mum on How Many Illegal Aliens Invited to Congressional Hearing

Obama's State Dept. Nominee Described Kim Jong-il As 'Smart, Capable' and 'Not a Lunatic'

Gallup: Blacks Most Religious Group in U.S.

Obama Calls Absence of Tax Increases 'Spending In the Tax Code'

N.Y.'s Marriage License Applications Are Now Gender-Neutral

COMMENTARY:

Scalia's Stupid Decision
By Terence P. Jeffrey
 Justice Antonin Scalia scoffed at the idea that violent video games are as harmful to children as opponents suggested.

 The Zero-Blame Game
By L. Brent Bozell III
 The media pandering on behalf of the Obama re-election campaign is astonishing.

 All the President's High-Paid 'Engagers'
By Michelle Malkin
 One in 3 of Obama's White House employees makes more than $100,000 a year, including some who are assigned to the task of "engagement."

 Minnesota Facts
By Rich Galen
 The State Minnesota is shut down. Sort of.

NEWSPAPER ROUNDUP:

U.S. willing to leave 10,000 troops in Iraq past year's end, officials say
Lawmakers demand trials in Mexico for U.S. officials involved in gun-running probe
Feds requests stay of execution for Mexican national on Texas death row
Arizona launching website to raise cash for border fence
Connecticut 1st state to require paid sick time
Business advocates fighting move to require paid sick leave
Learning how to be a union activist: Some attend 1-day Troublemakers School
California pays more than 1,400 workers in excess of $200,000
New Yorkers: Beware of 'monster' plant that causes blisters, blindness
Health care 'repeal and replace' plans grind to a halt
E.P.A. chief stands firm as raft of tough regulations loom
Leader of Egypt's top secular party says Holocaust is 'a lie'
Herman Cain loses key Iowa tea party backer

 

Chronicle · July 6, 2011

The Foundation

"Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition." --Thomas Jefferson

Editorial Exegesis

Super Obama Brothers ruin job opportunities for teens

"Perhaps you've already noticed around the neighborhood, but this is a rotten summer for young Americans to find a job. The Department of Labor reported last week that a smaller share of 16-19 year-olds are working than at anytime since records began to be kept in 1948. ... Only 24% of teens, one in four, have jobs, compared to 42% as recently as the summer of 2001. ... So instead of learning valuable job skills -- getting out of bed before noon, showing up on time, being courteous to customers, operating a cash register or fork lift -- millions of kids will spend the summer playing computer games or hanging out. ... Congress ... contributed by passing one of the most ill-timed minimum wage increases in history. One of the first acts of the gone-but-not-forgotten Nancy Pelosi ascendancy was to raise the minimum wage in stages to $7.25 an hour in 2009 from $5.15 in 2007. Even liberals ought to understand that raising the cost of hiring the young and unskilled while employers are slashing payrolls is loopy economics. Or maybe not. The Center for American Progress, often called the think tank for the Obama White House, recently recommended another increase to $8.25 an hour. Though the U.S. unemployment rate is 9.1%, the thinkers assert that a rising wage would 'stimulate economic growth to the tune of 50,000 new jobs.' So if the government orders employers to pay more to hire workers when they're already not hiring, they'll somehow hire more workers. By this logic, if we raised the minimum wage to $25 an hour we'd have full employment. Back on planet Earth, the minimum wage increase has coincided with the plunge in the percentage of working teens. Before the most recent wage hikes, roughly seven million teens were working. Now there are closer to five million with a job and paycheck." --The Wall Street Journal

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Upright

"[P]resident 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. This is why conservatives need to be reminded not to yield to scare tactics. ... President Obama is intent on laying the groundwork to blame Congress if a deal is not reached. It's why the President pointed his finger at Congress several times [last week], saying it was 'their job' and 'these are bills that Congress ran up' and finally excusing himself: 'I've been doing Afghanistan, bin Laden and the Greek crisis.' Apparently for the President, the economy of Greece is more important than preventing the American economy from collapsing ... like Greece's." --Heritage Foundation's Rory Cooper

"As a result of lower tax rates on the top income earners, not only do they pay a much larger share of all taxes, but they pay much more taxes total -- and revenue to the government has increased. This is because lowering taxes on the rich creates more rich people and richer rich people. The federal government gets much more revenue if you impose a 40 percent tax on a large number of very wealthy millionaires than if you impose a 70 percent tax on a small number of less wealthy millionaires." --Mario Loyola, director of the Center for Tenth Amendment Studies

"With Obama's statements, are we witnessing larger symptoms of a progressive push to reshape and redefine the Declaration's inalienable rights and, even more fundamentally, their very source? ... Progressivism is nothing more than moral relativism at the political level. Truth is never constant, with no fixed starting point, whether (theologically) in Sacred Scripture or (politically) in sacred political documents like the Constitution and Declaration of Independence. Truth is determined not by an absolute, single authority but by the individual -- or, here, progressive individuals en masse -- who are always marching and ever-advancing toward evolving truths revealed somewhere down the road." --author and columnist Paul Kengor

"I saw a poll recently that insisted that only 16% of voters think that congressional incumbents should be re-elected. But that's entirely misleading. The real question is whether they want to replace their own congressman. ... In politics, clearly love is blind. So the fact that five out of six American voters think incumbents should be evicted from Congress is meaningless because they're referring to every incumbent but their own. That, in a nutshell, is how incumbents become incumbents." --columnist Burt Prelutsky

Insight

"Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt." --American poet Ezra Pound (1885-1972)

The Demo-gogues

Failing the giggle test: "It's time we return to the type of fiscal discipline Democrats brought to Washington in the 90s when Democrats in Congress and the White House balanced the budget and used the surplus to do what Mr. President? To pay down the debt." --Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), who was with the minority Democrats in the 90s

Non Compos Mentis: "When the ... unemployment rate is high, it's hard for the incumbent to win. I remind you though, we're not the incumbent. The Republicans are the incumbent. ... I feel comfortable about our ability to win it back. I have a sense of responsibility to win it back, a plan to do so, and a confidence that it is very much possible to do so." --House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) on the 2012 election

Accusations: "We need to start asking yourselves an uncomfortable question: Are Republicans slowing down the recovery on purpose for political gain in 2012? And now it's becoming clear that insisting on a slash-and-burn approach may be part of this plan. It has a double benefit for Republicans: It's ideologically tidy, and it undermines economic recovery which they think only helps them in 2012. If the public comes to believe that Republicans are deliberately sabotaging the economy, it will backfire politically." --Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY)

We'll have a gay old time: "'I am proud to be one of the senators cosponsoring the repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act in the Senate because marriage equality is one of the most important things we can do to make it better for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Americans." --Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE) on the video entitled "A Message of Hope from the United States Senate," encouraging LGBT youth to persevere

We can't afford five more years: "And, Philadelphia, I know there are some of you who are frustrated because we haven't gotten everything done that we said we were going to do in two and a half years. It's only been two and a half years. I got five and a half years more to go." --Barack Obama at a Philadelphia fundraiser

Dezinformatsia

Historical nonsense: "So the same conservatives back then, who were called Tories, are really no different from the same conservatives we have today that call themselves teabaggers. They only can accept what they know. ... Understand, it was the same kind of inflexible, frantic bunch of social political conservatives who wanted to murder Galileo. They wanted to murder Copernicus. Because those two men had ideas that were different from the world that conservative knew. And now we're only a thousand years later and we have the same conservatives in charge of the idea that change is terrifying." --MSNBC's Mike Papantonio

Historical nonsense II: "The reality is that the framers -- posed in paintings as though frozen on an American Olympus -- they were not gods, they were guys -- guys who didn't give women the vote and let slavery stand for the time being and who, by the way, were trying to create at the time a stronger central government, of course not too strong, leaving to us a Constitution that we could fix, as needed -- sorry, make that amend -- which we've now done 27 times." --ABC's John Donovan

Blessed tolerance: "There may be a reckoning in the winds. Attitudes about gays and lesbians, and about same-sex marriage in particular, are now changing so fast that American culture is suffering from cognitive dissonance: still prone to habits of homophobia while simultaneously aware that overt bigotry is no longer acceptable in much of the public square." --The Washington Post's Philip Kennicott

Blame whitey: "Well, listen to the record: The white media called me controversial ... white folk called me controversial and you believe white folks. ... White folks say Columbus discovered America. They lied. White folks said black people were not human beings in the Constitution. They lied. White folks said that Jesus was white. They lied. White folks said Saddam Hussein had something to do with 9-1-1 '01. They lied. White folks said Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden were close buddies. They lied. White folks said Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. They lied. White folks said Barack Obama was not a real citizen. They lied. White folks said Barack was a Muslim. They lied. So when white folks say I'm controversial, they are still [points microphone to audience who shout, 'lying!'] If telling the truth makes me controversial then I'm going to my grave telling the truth." --Obama's former "spiritual mentor" Jeremiah Wright

Newspulper Headlines:

We Blame Global Warming: "Asia Pollution Blamed for Halt in Warming: Study" --Reuters

Questions Nobody Is Asking: "Can We Please Stop Talking About Huntsman?" --National Review Online

Breaking News From 1472: "Leonardo Da Vinci Painting to Be Unveiled" --The Wall Street Journal

News You Can Use: "How to Weaponize Your Personal Crisis" --TheNation.com

Bottom Story of the Day: "Tax Wealthy More, Obama Says" --Columbus Dispatch

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

Village Idiots

Scare tactics: "[The debate about climate change] lingers because, um ... as I say, science is partially ideology. If there was a 1% chance that the plane you were getting into this morning to fly here was gonna crash would you get on that plane? The answer is always no. Okay. So let's assume that there's only a 20% chance that climate change science is right. Do you take the risk of not responding to it?" --Conservation International Cofounder and CEO Peter Seligmann

"I think there is a conscious strategy. I call it 'ruin in order to rule.' I think their calculation are sending into a second recession or reverse the recovery. I think their calculation is they benefit politically. It's a reckless gamble if the Republicans do it. It's irresponsible, but I think it is a conscious strategy." --Democrat presidential consultant Bob Shrum

A Tweet from a Twit: "Fear Bachman bc she is raising so much money. Anyone that inarticulate and full of s--- who is raising money that fast ... is beholden to some mighty thuggish interests." --actor Alec Baldwin (So what's Obama's excuse?)

Short Cuts

"The big-government advocates at the Center for American Progress recently released a series of charts designed to prove America is a low-tax nation. I wish this was the case. The United States does have a lower overall tax burden than Europe, which is shown in one of the CAP charts, but that doesn't exactly demonstrate that taxes are low in America. Unless, of course, you think weighing less than an offensive lineman in the NFL is proof of being skinny." --Cato Institute blogger Daniel J. Mitchell

"What's left of that founding vision on this less than Glorious Fourth of July 2011 in the Brokest Nation in History? 'You go talk to your constituents,' President Obama taunted Republicans on Wednesday, 'and ask them are they willing to compromise their kids' safety so that some corporate jet owner continues to get a tax break?' In the Republic of Brokistan, that's the choice, is it? Give me safe kids or give me corporate jets! No corporate aviation without safe kiddification!" --columnist Mark Steyn

"President Obama told the country Wednesday that his two daughters Sasha and Malia are more diligent than Congress. He got their ages wrong while praising them. For one reason or another the accuracy of birth information is always a problem with this particular president." --comedian Argus Hamilton

"The Senate canceled their vacation to work on the budget. Either they really can't agree or they're looking for an excuse to not go on vacation with their families." --comedian Jimmy Kimmel

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

 

July 06, 2011



 MEET THE ARMY'S new, incredible 'hulc' 
Lockheed-Martin has just unveiled their latest battlefield device called the Human Universal Load Carrier or HULC. This amazing exoskeleton system could revolutionize the battlefield and must be seen to be believed. See it HERE.

US WARNS OF SURGICALLY IMPLANTED BOMBS
Imagine a terrorist attack carried out by a suicide bomber who had an explosive device surgically implanted. That may sound like the plot from a movie, but the US government is warning airlines that it is a very real possibility. Read the details HERE.

TINA BROWN CALLS GOP 'SUICIDE BOMBERS'
MSNBC contributor and Newsweek Editor Tina Brown stopped by "Morning Joe" today and during a discussion of the looming debt crisis, Ms. Brown made a rather strange statement about the GOP. Watch the video HERE.

'THE HOLOCAUST WAS A LIE, AND 9/11 ATTACKS WERE MADE IN THE USA'
The leader of an Egyptian political party has some problems with history. Ahmed Ezz El-Arab is the vice chairman of Egypt's Wahd party. His comments denying the Holocaust and claiming that 9/11 was "made in the USA" can be read HERE.

WILL CALIFORNIA GOV SIGN a BILL MANDATING THAT SCHOOLS TEACH GAY HISTORY?
On Tuesday, CA Legislators delivered a bill to their governor that mandates public schools teach the accomplishments of gay and lesbian individuals. Gov. Jerry Brown has not said if he will sign the bill or veto it as former Gov. Schwarzenegger did when presented with a similar bill in 2006. See the video covering the details HERE.  

VIRAL VIDEO DU JOUR - IT'S CALLED 'HABOOB' - 50 MILES WIDE, WITH 70 MPH WINDS!
See the amazing videos of the wind storm that swept across Arizona yesterday. The "Haboob" winds hit Phoenix, reducing visibility to ZERO, bringing traffic to a halt and leaving the entire city coated with up to an inch of dust. See the videosHERE.

HS Student WINS $40,000 IN FREE-THROW CONTEST, GIVES IT ALL AWAY!
Allen Gruei's basketball skills earned him a full college scholarship, and when he won $40,000 in a free-throw shooting contest, NCAA rules would have allowed Allen to keep almost all of the money and use it for personal expenses. Young Mr. Gruei decided to do something very different with his windfall. Read the details HERE 

 

The Jewish Vote

Every election season brings another round of predictable essays about the Jewish vote. Variations of these essays have been going round and round for decades without getting anywhere. So let's begin by demystifying the Jewish vote.

The Jewish vote is not a single entity. There is no monolithic Jewish vote, because there is no monolithic Jewish community. The Jewish community is small, but in its own way it is as complex and diverse as American Christians are. Which is to say that there's a Jewish spectrum covering everything from Baptists to Unitarians. And politically everything from Rand to Marx.

Let's begin by breaking down the Jewish vote into thirds as a way to get a larger overview of the picture on the ground.

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Tea Party News
Wednesday, July 6th

Freshman Republican senators go guerilla Sen. Ron Johnson mounted a protest last week against Democrats' failure to produce a budget - an effort which caused Harry Reid to yank a bipartisan Libya resolution from the floor. Sen. Rand Paul warned this weekend he would filibuster in an attempt to pry open closed-door debt ceiling negotiations. A key reason that the Senate is in session during the chamber's Fourth of July recess is that Freshman GOP senators, including Johnson, Paul, Kelly Ayotte and Marco Rubio, threatened a recess revolt that would force both parties to take an embarrassing vote to skip town. The new breed of troublemaker creates problems for Reid and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. They must now deal with an unpredictable, angst-ridden crowd uninterested in the pay-your-dues tradition of the Senate at the same time they're engaged in tense negotiations over the debt ceiling. [Politico, July 5] Click here for the complete source story Zogby Poll: Bachmann #1 Now But #3 When Perry & Christie Are Included Michele Bachmann has extended her lead over the announced Republican candidates, but she trails both Rick Perry and Chris Christie when both governors and Sarah Palin are included in a hypothetical preference poll of Republican primary voters. These results are from an IBOPE Zogby interactive poll conducted from June 28-30. Results with just the announced candidates. Michele Bachmann 34%; Herman Cain 15%; Mitt Romney 14%; Ron Paul 11%; Rick Santorum 7%; Tim Pawlenty 4%; Jon Huntsman Jr. 4%; Newt Gingrich 2%. And if Christie, Palin and Perry were added: Rick Perry 18%; Chris Christie 17%; Michele Bachmann 15%; Ron Paul 10%; Sarah Palin 9%; Herman Cain 8%; Mitt Romney 8%; Rick Santorum 3%; Jon Huntsman Jr. 3%; Tim Pawlenty 1%; Newt Gingrich 1%. [Zogby.com, July 5] Click here for the complete source story Sarah Huckabee Sanders joins Tim Pawlenty Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the daughter of former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee and the former political director of his presidential bid, has signed on with Tim Pawlenty's 2012 campaign. She'll hold the position of senior political adviser and start work today in Pawlenty's Iowa headquarters. Sanders will be "taking the lead for the campaign on the Iowa Straw Poll effort," according to the Pawlenty camp. Pawlenty already has the most developed Iowa operation among the 2012 candidates and Sanders, who's no stranger to the state, adds to that muscle. Recruiting Sanders is an important symbolic move, as well as a substantive one, for Pawlenty, who is seeking to replicate the elder Huckabee's 2008 victory in Iowa. The news of Sanders's hire comes amid a major Iowa push from Team Pawlenty: They're currently airing their second TV ad in the state and have sent out several mail pieces. [Politico, July 5] Click here for the complete source story

July 6, 2011 

Original Argument: The Lost Chapters. Translated by Joshua Charles

Glenn couldn't fit all the Federalist Paper translations into his #1 NYT bestselling book The Original Argument -- all this week you'll be getting the Lost Chapters. Today's is on Military Command and Pardon power. Here's a sample:

If I am not mistaken, the wisdom of giving the President the power of pardoning has only been objected to as it relates to the crime of treason. It has been argued that the power to pardon treason should have required the agreement of one, or both Houses of Congress. I won't deny that there are good reasons to require the involvement of one or both Houses of Congress in dealing with pardoning treason. Since treason is a crime which is directed at society as a whole, once it has been lawfully determined that treason was committed, it would seem appropriate to require the consent of Congress in order to show mercy towards whoever was convicted. This should actually be how pardoning treason should be dealt with, since it is not entirely possible to rule out a conspiracy of some sort on the part of the President. But there are also many significant problems with such a plan.

Get the FULL TRANSLATION HERE.

WATCH: Click HERE to watch Glenn sit down with co-author of The Original Argument, Joshua Charles, and discuss the translating process and the role faith plays in preserving the Founders' intent.

Today's Top Stories from The Blaze:

• It's called 'Haboob': 'HowlingWinds' Drive Massive Dust Storm Across Phoenix - STORY
• Bachmann Bites Back: They want you to think Tea Party is 'Toothless Hillbillies' - STORY
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• Bernie Goldberg to O'Reilly: Geraldo wouldn't defend Anthony Verdict if Victim was 'Hispanic Immigrant' - STORY

GBTV: Class is back in session at Beck University!
 

The third semester of Beck University continues on July 13th with a brand new class: The Economic Consequences of Ideology available only on GBTV. Unravel the web of intrigue that is the Middle East's oil production and how that affects America and the rest of the world. 

Falling behind in your curriculum? Now's your chance to catch up with the 3rd Semester of Beck University - all previous classes are available on demand. In the first class - Understanding the History of Israel - experience the struggles and tragedies of one of the most embattled nations in the world. In the second class - Understanding the Holy Land: Conflicts of Faith - you'll learn the dynamics of the world's different religions and how they revolve around the city of Jerusalem. Log on to GBTV to catch up on your studies and mark your calendars for the July 13th release of The Economic Consequences of Ideology!

Restoring Courage: How can you support the event in Israel or attend a viewing party in your area? Get all the details HERE.