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Obama Executive Orders Impose New Gun Rules

The Blaze | by Buck Sexton | Posted on July 12, 2011 at 6:51am 

A few days ago, the Blaze reported on the low-key plans of the Obama administration to increase the penalties for certain gun law violations, and add steps to the background checks for legal gun ownership.

Today the administration's plans are beginning to come into effect. Through an Executive Order, the Obama administration is implementing new restrictions on the sale of certain weapons in border states, and increasing the penalties for violating certain firearms laws.

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WHAT YOU DON'T KNOW ABOUT

 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. 

          For more information please contact us via www.theunsolicitedopinion.com

Patriots,

Americans for Prosperity Foundation is stopping in WASHINGTON CROSSING on our Running On Empty Tour.

This is FREE event but seating is limited and registration is required! Please click here to register! Over the past two years, tough economic times have hurt families and businesses across Pennsylvania. While gas prices, food prices, and electrical bills continue to skyrocket - our monthly income has remained the same. We all have to cut back and do more with less.

But not in Washington. Since President Obama took office, gas prices have nearly doubled. However, there are available solutions that will help address the basic needs of Americans, like the development of American energy that will help reduce the costs of your commute to work, cooling your house and feeding your family. Please join us at THE DAVID LIBRARY OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION to share your story and learn what the administration could be doing to make it easier on you and your family.

FREE FOOD AND DRINK WILL BE SERVED STARTING AT 7PM. THE EVENT STARTS AT 7:30PM.

What: AFP Foundation's Running On Empty Tour
 

Where: The David Library of the American Revolution
1201 River Road,
Washington Crossing, PA 18977
 

When: Monday, July 18^th, 7pm

Sponsored by:

From time to time the Philadelphia Freedom Center co-operates with like minded organizations to share information on an upcoming event and is pleased to announce an Eagle Forum Luncheon with Phyllis Schlaffly 

Phyllis Schlafly

Comes to Philadelphia

Save the Date

August 9, 2011

Dear Friends,

The Philadelphia Freedom Center is pleased to co-sponsor a special luncheon with The Eagle Forum and The Kitchen Table Patriots in presenting Phyllis Schlafly.

We hope you will be able to join us!

Union League Club of Philadelphia

140 South Broad Street

Philadelphia, Pa 19102

August 9, 2011

11:30am - 2:00pm  

About Phyllis Schlafly

Phyllis Schlafly has been a national leader of the conservative movement since the publication of her best-selling 1964 book, A Choice Not An Echo. She has been a leader of the pro-family movement since 1972, when she started her national volunteer organization now called Eagle Forum.

In a ten-year battle, Mrs. Schlafly led the pro-family movement to victory over the principal legislative goal of the radical feminists, called the Equal Rights Amendment. An articulate and successful opponent of the radical feminist movement, she appears in debate on college campuses more frequently than any other conservative. She was named one of the 100 most important women of the 20th century by the Ladies' Home Journal.

Mrs. Schlafly is a lawyer and served as a member of the Commission on the Bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution, 1985-1991, appointed by President Reagan. She has testified before more than 50 Congressional and State Legislative committees on constitutional, national defense, and family issues.

Please contact Ned Pheiffer for more information at:

CEP5553@aol.com

or visit www.eagleforum.org 

RedState Morning Briefing

For July 12, 2011

1. Boehner Embraces Cutting, Capping, and Balancing

2. New York Times Brushes Off Ethical Concerns

3. Gov. Brown's Office to Conservative Californians: Leave the State!

4. Now That Possibly Drunk Rutgers Economist Susan Feinberg Is Sobered Up, She Has No Comment

5. As Their ROI Slips, Democrats Find Unions Less Giving of Members' Money

Heritage Hotsheet

Experts on the Day's Hottest News

Items for July 12, 2011

Afghan President's Half-Brother Assassinated
NPR

Another White House Debt meeting to Begin with No Deal in Sight
Fox News

Obama Administration Rolls Out Standards for Health Insurance Marketplaces
The New York Times

On treaty, team O is 'LOST' at sea
The New York Post

Understanding Freedom for Religion
The Kansas City Star

Pakistan could "pull troops from Afghan border" if U.S. cuts Aid
Reuters

Latest Heritage Research:

Legal Memorandum
 The Fourteenth Amendment Is No Blank Check for Debt Increases

Backgrounder
 Sea Power and the Chinese State: China's Maritime Ambitions

WebMemo
Win-Win Trade Agreements Would Boost the U.S. Economy

Tell a joke:

Q: What's the difference between a liberal and the rear end of a horse?

A: I don't know, either. 

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

Thousands To Call Congress And Demand Impeachment for "Project Gunrunner"!

On Monday, call them repeatedly!

Call John Boehner at 202-225-6205 and then your congressman. Lets call together for maximum effect.  Watch this video and you'll see why...That SOB not only knew about it, he ORDERED IT TO HAPPEN!  See video here: 

Obama Orders Launched Fast and Furious

Mike Souders

Editor/"The 912 Gazette"

Organizer/UNITEPA-912 Reading

Glenn Beck Visits Knesset

On Monday, Glenn addressed the Knesset, the legislative branch of Israel. Glenn was introduced by Knesset member Danny Danon of the Likud party, who welcomed Glenn saying, "(I am) glad to host a friend of the State of Israel... Usually we don't clap here in the Knesset, but maybe we can do that at the end."

The Jerusalem Post reports:

Beck discussed how the shocking reality of Israeli everyday life, under constant threat of terrorism, does not prevent the public from living their lives comfortably and casually.

In his classic simplified yet brazen style, the pundit explained "the few things I actually know" about Israel:

1) The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is about destruction of Israel and the west.

2) Anti-semitism is going to go through the roof. When these conditions appear, it's always the Jews fault. It's not about the holocaust, (that's) just the latest in a string of events thousands of years. Holocaust is just the one they made a movie about. It was the same way all the time.

3) The world is about to change, so think differently. Everything you thought you can count on, forget about it, (and) create new systems.

4) The truth shall set you free.

Beck then explained that his plan for Israel advocacy is based on communal outreach. "If you go to a synagogue, reach out to a church. If you go to a church, reach out to a JCC. Say, will you watch this with me? After that we'll talk and eat and get to know one another."

Get more information on this story here 

UPDATED: The Blaze has additional coverage of the event  here 

Fellow Patriots,

Do you remember the early phase of Mr. Obama's presidency, when he blamed America's poor relations with the Islamic world on his predecessors, particularly George W. Bush?  Based on Obama's rhetoric, his new policy was to "re-set" relations with the Islamic world through a number of major overtures, including a monumental address to from Cairo, Egypt, and a huge olive branch extended to Iran, as defined by his announcement that:

I would like to speak directly to the people and leaders of the Islamic Republic of Iran...Over many centuries your art, your music, literature and innovation have made the world a better and more beautiful place...We know that you are a great civilization, and your accomplishments have earned the respect of the United States and the world... For nearly three decades relations between our nations have been strained...With the coming of a new season, we're reminded of this precious humanity that we all share. And we can once again call upon this spirit as we seek the promise of a new beginning. 

(see video of Obama's entire (3-minute) address to the leaders of Iran: 

From Barack Obama to Iran With Love - A New Year, A New Beginning

or see transcript at http://blog.beliefnet.com/cityofbrass/2009/03/transcript-obamas-nowruz-messa.html )

So, how has President Obama's theory of self-blame for our strained relations with the Islamic world, worked out?  In Iran, the leaders slapped down Obama's outreached hand so hard its surprising that his arm didn't appear like a victim one of Iran's rockets used by Iraqi militants.

And now the Obama Administration is taking a stance against Iran far more aggressive than Bush ever conceived, following an Iranian-supplied rocket attack on the Green Zone during a visit by Defense Secretary Leon Panetta.

Given how publicly Obama blamed the Bush Administration for America's problems with Iran, it's doubtful that he will ever acknowledge how terribly wrong he was about the true source of conflict.

However, when Obama starts referring to Iran as being part of the "Axis of Evil," we should take it as an admission...

Dave

US vows unilateral action targeting Iranian arms to Iraq militants

Three rockets hit Green Zone as Defense Secretary Leon Panetta visits Baghdad

BAGHDAD - Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said on Monday that the U.S. is concerned about Iran providing weapons to Iraq militants and will take unilateral action when needed to deal with the threat.

"We're very concerned about Iran and the weapons they're providing to extremists in Iraq," he told a small group of soldiers on his first visit to Iraq as Pentagon chief. He is there to meet with Iraqi leaders to discuss the possibility of keeping some U.S. troops in Iraq beyond 2011.

"We cannot sit back and simply allow this to continue to happen," he added. "This is not something we're going to walk away from. It's something we're going to take on head-on."

 Read more: 

Fellow Patriots,

It is time to assess how American relations with the Islamic world have fared since the historic address given by President Obama from Cairo two years ago. 

I would not call Obama's overture to the Islamic world a failure.  The term "failure" is simply inadequate to describe the harm Obama's policies have effected.

Take all of the worst results of President Carter's attempts to engage Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini while throwing the Shah under a bus and multiply them by 8 (Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, Yemen, Bahrain, Syria, Pakistan, and Iran), and one gets a sense of the complete and utter DISASTER we are witnessing.

It is altogether likely that relations between the United States and these countries will spin completely out of control, and other countries could topple to Islamists as well.  While Obama can take consolation not having anything to do with the complete breakdown of relations with Iran, what will he say when they develop a nuclear bomb?

I'm sure that Hosni Mubarak, now imprisoned, laments the day he welcomed President Obama to speak to the Ummah (the global community of Muslims) from his capital of Cairo.  I do too, and it is likely that many of the people living in North Africa and the Middle East will also, as chaos, repression, and poverty plunges the entire region into a new Islamic Dark Age.  Let us not again allow this Dark Age to spread to the West, as happened so many centuries ago.

Please spread the word,

Dave

Clinton: Syria's Assad has lost legitimacy to rule

Tensions rise after loyalist mobs attack US, French embassies in capital

Syrian government supporters smashed windows at the U.S. Embassy in Damascus on Monday, raised a Syrian flag and scrawled graffiti calling the American ambassador a "dog" in anger over the envoy's visit last week to an opposition stronghold, witnesses said. No casualties were reported.

French Embassy security guards in the capital fired in the air to hold back supporters of President Bashar Assad's regime who were also protesting the French ambassador's visit to the same city, Hama, in central Syria. Protesters smashed embassy windows and shattered the windshield of a diplomatic SUV outside the compound. The French flag was removed and replaced with a Syrian one.

Friday, July 08, 2011

London is a Shariah-Controlled Zone

A reader in London just sent us the following photo, which is fairly self-explanatory:


He included this note:

Please see attached a poster seen stuck on to a bus stop on corner of Mission Grove and Carisbrooke Road, London E17. Signs of subtlety in the message - avoiding items that might be thought of as controversial like killing homosexuals and stuffing women in bags.

I've extracted the poster from the image and removed the foreshortening to make a more readable copy:

July 11, 2011
  Newspaper's smear of ACT! for America laced with lies, fabrications, and distortions
  Please take action below!  

Yesterday, The Tennessean newspaper ran a story by Bob Smietana that is so laced with lies, fabrications and distortions we determined we had no choice but to respond to it.

You can read the "yellow journalism" smear piece for yourself here.

Space does not allow us to respond to every fabrication or distortion in the story, so we will focus on the most egregious. At the end of this email we ask you to take action!
  Item #1: Distortion

Smietana opens the story with this:

  Smietana takes the name of Brigitte Gabriel's best-selling book to claim that this means ACT! for America's mission is to "stop" Muslims, bluntly implying that we believe all Muslims are engaged in a "stealthy jihad" and thus that all Muslims must be stopped.

  Item #2: Lie

Later in the piece Smietana writes:

  There is no other way to respond to this than to call this a lie.

  Item #3: Lie

In a lengthy section about Brigitte's personal life, Smietana writes:

  This is a lie.

  Item #4: Fabrication

Smietana writes:

  This is intended to reinforce the distortion noted in Item #1 and the lie noted in Item #2.

  As egregious as these lies, fabrications and distortions are, Smietana goes further and exposes Brigitte Gabriel's real name, names her husband, and identifies the city in which they live. In fact, he uses her actual last name no fewer than six times in the piece, instead of referring to her by her nationally known pseudonym. How was exposing Brigitte like this relevant to this story?

There is a simple reason why Brigitte uses a pseudonym: the board of ACT voted in 2003 to require her to do so in order that she would enjoy some level of protection. This is not a misplaced concern. She has received death threats. We know that al Qaeda has written about Brigitte several different times on its website. Surely Smietana must know that al Qaeda has done this. Surely Smietana must know that Theo van Gogh was killed by a jihadist in the Netherlands.

Today, al Jazeerah picked up a press release posted by CAIR which refers to the story-so now the entire Muslim world that has access to the radical al Jazeerah "media outlet" will know the details about Brigitte's real name and city of residence.

Surely Smietana must have known something like this would happen. We are thus compelled to ask, is he so driven by an agenda other than journalism that he would expose Brigitte's name and city deliberately to expose her to danger? Only he knows the answer to that question.

Bob Smietana has written a string of articles over the past many months that have clearly revealed his reporting is, to put it charitably, "factually challenged." It is difficult not to conclude that Smietana sees his "reporting" on this issue, not as journalism seeking to uncover the truth and report facts, but as a mission to smear, silence and even recklessly endanger those who would dare to speak out against the threat of radical Islam.

ACTION ITEMS

1.     We urge anyone receiving this email who subscribes to The Tennessean to contact the paper and cancel your subscription-and firmly but respectfully make sure they know why. Forward this email to others you know who receive the newspaper. Here's who to contact:
          Vice President, Circulation- Jay Winkler

        jwinkler@tennessean.com 615-259-8389

2.     No matter where you live, please contact the editor or publisher, either by email or phone, and firmly but respectfully express your outrage at this article. Remember, this article is online and available for anyone in the world to read!

        a. Publisher Carol Hudler:
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              msilverman@tennessean.com 615-259-8003

3.     Post a comment online about the article that points out one or more of the lies and fabrications of the story.

Today's Headlines:  Monday, July 11, 2011

Breaking: No Debt-Reduction Deal If Republicans Don't Budge, Obama Says

Default? Under Obama, Tax Revenues Have Exceeded Combined Costs of Interest, Entitlements, Federal Wages

U.S. Must Borrow Another $5,240 Per Household Just to Fund Gov't at Current Level Through Sept. 30

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 NY Archbishop Warns: 'Next Step Will Be Another Redefinition to Justify Multiple Partners and Infidelity'

Chairman Says His House Subcommittee 'Should' Hold Hearings on Planned Parenthood

2.4 Million Fewer Americans Working Now Than When Obama Signed Stimulus

Real Unemployment Rises to 16.2% in June -- 25.3 Million People

Liberals, Democrats More Likely to Disbelieve Bible, Says Gallup Poll

No More 'Yes Boss,' Says Pakistani PM, As Rift With U.S. Deepens

Judiciary Committee Aide: Letter to DOJ Requesting Kagan-Related Documents and Interviews 'Not a Formal Investigation'

Syria Reprimands U.S. Ambassador, While Allowing 30-Hour Anti-U.S. Protest

COMMENTARY:

Step by Step
By Rich Galen
The debt-limit talks are a battle between two ideologies: Reducing the deficit by increasing the federal share of income -- or by reducing the amount the federal government spends.

Raiding an Empty Vault
By Ed Feulner
At all levels of government, the dreary, dishonest philosophy of Progressivism is a crashing failure in practice.


NEWSPAPER ROUNDUP:

7th-grader wins first U.S. Spanish spelling bee
300-pound black bear attacks Florida bicyclist riding to work
Scare tactics: Social Security benefits at risk, Geithner warns
Obama won't budge in debt talks
Under pressure from right, John Boehner steps back on debt deal
Mayor threatens to quit Secure Communities immigration program
Boston church holds long-awaited Mass in support of gay and lesbian Catholics
Robert Samuelson: Why we're in the budgetary soup
U.S. investigates Syrian diplomats for spying on protesters
Palin: 'There needs to be a larger field' for 2012
Bachmann tops Iowa poll
Pawlenty: Bachmann's congressional record 'nonexistent'
Panetta: U.S. will confront Iranian threat in Iraq

 Read more: 

A Disparity in Power is Not a Disparity in Morals

A disparity in power is not a disparity in morals. This truth is the dynamite under the edifice of the left which insists that the poor are more moral than the rich and that a nation's moral worth can be measured in inverse proportion to its per capita income. The debate is not merely one of wealth. It is less about the morality of wealth, than about the moral cost of assuming that to be poor or deprived is to be good.

Deprivation is not morality. That is why the class and racial divisions of the left are sociological and cultural, but not moral.


When America freed its slaves, a number of them moved to Liberia, and began to treat the native population in the same way that the Spanish, the Belgians and other European colonizers had. Even though both the natives and the colonists were 'black'-- Liberian history looks a lot like the history of most colonies.

 Read more: 

Brief · July 11, 2011

The Foundation

"No country upon earth ever had it more in its power to attain these blessings than United America. Wondrously strange, then, and much to be regretted indeed would it be, were we to neglect the means and to depart from the road which Providence has pointed us to so plainly." --George Washington

Government

The Obama recovery

"There's no good way to spin the news that came out of [Friday's] monthly U.S. jobs report. The economy generated only 18,000 total new jobs, the unemployment rate increased to 9.2 percent, and the number of unemployed Americans has gone up by 445,000. In other words, the recovery appears to have slowed markedly. President Barack Obama's stimulus-infused 'recovery' refuses to ignite, unsurprisingly to all but him. And to make matters worse, May's paltry job growth numbers were revised even farther downward, from the initial estimate of 54,000 to 25,000. Sadly, the record continues -- the Obama recovery remains the weakest recovery of the post-World War II era. In past recessions, employment fully recovered within two to three years. Today, U.S. job growth is stopped dead in its tracks. If you want a comparison of what job growth could look like, go back to the 1980s' Reagan recovery. By the 20-month mark, the unemployment rate had dropped from 10.8 percent to 7.5 percent -- a 3.3-point drop. In contrast, under Obama, the unemployment rate has risen a full percentage point to today's 9.2 percent. ... The pace of America's economic recovery is unacceptable, and it's being made worse by the Obama Administration's adherence to a flawed philosophy of relying on government to do the work of the private sector." --Heritage Foundation's Mike Brownfield

Re: The Left

"Obama has run disastrous annual deficits of around $1.5 trillion while insisting for months on a 'clean' debt-ceiling increase, i.e., with no budget cuts at all. Yet suddenly he now rises to champion major long-term debt reduction, scorning any suggestions of a short-term debt-limit deal as can-kicking. The flip-flop is transparently political. A short-term deal means another debt-ceiling fight before Election Day, a debate that would put Obama on the defensive and distract from the Mediscare campaign to which the Democrats are clinging to save them in 2012. A clever strategy it is: Do nothing (see above); invite the Republicans to propose real debt reduction first; and when they do -- voting for the Ryan budget and its now infamous and courageous Medicare reform -- demagogue them to death. And then up the ante by demanding Republican agreement to tax increases. ... And what have been Obama's own debt-reduction ideas? In last week's news conference, he railed against the tax break for corporate jet owners -- six times. I did the math. If you collect that tax for the next 5,000 years -- that is not a typo -- it would equal the new debt Obama racked up last year alone. ... Obama's other favorite debt-reduction refrain is canceling an oil-company tax break. Well, if you collect that oil tax and the corporate jet tax for the next 50 years -- you will not yet have offset Obama's deficit spending for February 2011." --columnist Charles Krauthammer

Essential Liberty

"Opportunity only flourishes upon uncertain terrain. The government's job should be to reduce the artificial uncertainty generated by its own actions. Free people should not have to worry about being crushed by the State, or watch their commercial triumphs washed away by huge subsidies to their defeated competitors. ... No one is free unless everyone is. That means you cannot make demands upon your neighbors that you are not willing to reciprocate. It means the burden of financing our government should be shared by everyone, not lumped upon small populations that can be easily out-voted. It means that people are accountable for their actions. It is the reason a free people should embrace charity, but deny entitlement. The Declaration of Independence announced the glory of American liberty by advancing three self-evident truths. The never-ending struggle to retain that liberty involves combining those truths to produce an endless series of denials. The allure of government control and dependency is great, so every free man and woman should be prepared to spend a lifetime saying 'no.'" --columnist John Hayward

Insight

"Men naturally rebel against the injustice of which they are victims. Thus, when plunder is organized by law for the profit of those who make the law, all the plundered classes try somehow to enter -- by peaceful or revolutionary means -- into the making of laws. According to their degree of enlightenment, these plundered classes may propose one of two entirely different purposes when they attempt to attain political power: Either they may wish to stop lawful plunder, or they may wish to share in it." --French economist, statesman, and author Frederic Bastiat (1801-1850)

The Gipper

"Without timely expression and emphatic endorsement, our own belief in the principles of human freedom and representative government must eventually atrophy and wither." --Ronald Reagan

Political Futures

"What brilliant good it can do a country when the world respects, and will not forget, one of its leaders. What was vividly true 30 years ago is true today: The world looks to America. It doesn't want to be patronized or dominated by America, it wants to see America as a beacon, an example, a dream of what could be. And the world wants something else: American goodness. It wants to have faith in the knowledge that America is the great nation that tries to think about and act upon right and wrong, and that it is a beacon also of things practical -- how to have a sturdy, good, unsoiled economy, how to create jobs that provide livelihoods that allow families to be formed, how to maintain a system in which inventors and innovators can flourish. ... These are the thoughts that follow eight days of celebration, in Eastern Europe and London, of the leadership of Ronald Reagan. History is rarely sweet, but it was last week when they raised statues of him in his centenary year. People old and young stopped for a moment to think and speak of him, and to define what his leadership meant to them and their countries. The celebrations in Krakow, Budapest, Prague and London were a reminder that we are all traveling through history together, that you are living not only your own life but the life of your times, as Laurens van der Post once said. And your era can actually be affected, made better, by what you do." --columnist Peggy Noonan

The Right Opinion

Our editorial team has evaluated and selected a roster of nationally syndicated columnists who write about subjects that are relevant to our mission -- the advancement of Liberty. While we don't agree with every position taken, we find these authors best reflect good Right Thinking. We post these essays -- without advertising or frills -- by 0800 ET each day. Want the best columnists on the Web? Visit  The Right Opinion every day!

Opinion in Brief

"Can we move past race and gender and simply elect the best American for the job? Due to liberal media manipulation and guilt, America elected an incompetent black guy as leader of the free world to prove that we are not racist. Obama's black skin has made him untouchable, the left's dream tool to further their socialist agenda. ... Obama got 96% of the black vote [in the 2008 election] with surveys proving that many blacks were clueless about Obama's intentions.... Call me crazy, but if it 'ain't' right for whites to vote for the white guy because he is white, it 'ain't' right for blacks to vote for the black guy because he is black. Yes, we blacks have suffered greatly in the past due to racism. But to exploit America's original sin of slavery as a license for black racist behavior is a slap in the face to MLK and all who have sacrificed, suffered, and died to move us forward and together as a nation." --singer, songwriter and columnist Lloyd Marcus

For the Record

"[H]ow many times have we heard the mantra that communism and Nazism represented the two extremes of the political spectrum, left and right, respectively? This never made sense to me, as I knew that conservatism championed political and economic liberty and that communism and fascism were the direct antithesis of these. ... Both communism and Nazism are evil totalitarian systems characterized by enormous power in the central government. ... Apart from being centralized political systems, Nazism and fascism were nationalistic, patriotic and militaristic. ... The Soviet system was more international in its orientation, being driven less by national fervor and more by world expansion. ... Communism, as conceived by Marx, was based on the perceived class struggle. Marx envisioned that the 'workers of the world' would unite against so-called capitalist oppression. Marxism was thoroughly materialistic and rooted in class warfare. Nazism was probably not so virulently anti-capitalist -- at least in terms of its ideological emphasis. It was more racially and nationally driven. ... The left's worst-kept secret is that many liberals believe -- or would at least like the electorate to believe -- that conservatives are racist. So there you have it. Conservatives are nationalistic, jingoistic and racist. Point, set, match. They're fascists. But it's as divorced from reality as it is sinister. Conservatives are driven by liberty and a healthy skepticism for centralized government. They aren't enemies of the federal government but believe it ought to be limited in its powers and scope, as contemplated and designed by the Constitution. They are the opposite of racists, aspiring to colorblindness and equality of opportunity and rights for everyone. We will proudly accept, however, the charge that we are nationalistic, patriotic and firm believers in American exceptionalism." --columnist David Limbaugh

Faith & Family

"In May, a Toronto couple made international news when they revealed what they're not revealing: the gender of their baby, Storm. Parents Kathy Witterick and David Stocker claim they want their baby to grow up free of the constraints gender identification implies. That way, despite the fact that the child is anatomically well-defined, Storm can decide his or her gender when he or she is old enough to make up his or her mind about what he or she wants to be. Suffice it to say, Storm's parents have created a pronoun problem, but that's likely to be the least of their child's long-term issues. ... '[E]arly gender socialization' is deemed unhealthy for children by powerful progressive organizations such as UNICEF, which defines 'gender socialization' as 'the process by which people learn to behave in a certain way, as dictated by societal beliefs, values, attitudes and examples.' UNICEF decries this process, noting that it begins even before a child is born when the community anticipates its arrival as a boy or girl. ... [W]e're about a half-generation away from preschools full of kids named Storm who can't tell you if they're little boys or little girls, not because they don't know but because they simply haven't decided yet." --columnist Marybeth Hicks

Culture

"According to a shocking news report, California legislators have enacted legislation that gives the state the dubious distinction of being the first state in the nation to require public schools to include the contributions of gays and lesbians in their social studies curriculum. ... The bill, SB 48, passed on a party-line vote, adds lesbian, gay, bisexual and so-called transgendered people as well as those with physical or mental disabilities to the list of groups that schools must include in the lessons. It also would prohibit material that reflects adversely on gays. ... It will prove instructive to see how the state's lawmakers go about the job of implementing this absurd legislation. ... The matter of the content of school textbooks has long been a controversial subject, but until now it has never reached the point where specific parts of the population are singled out for preferential treatment, especially when the segment of the population is distinguished solely by their sexual preferences." --columnist Michael Reagan

Reader Comments

" 90 Years of Red Chinese Tyranny was an excellent article! Thank you for the historical description of China's demise, its lost culture due to the communists take over. How sad when a nation is so oppressed and its leaders so bent on making everyone the 'same' that their myopic goal destroys the very thing that makes the country unique. Good thing we don't have that in the USA ... oh wait!" --Morning Glory

"This isn't a complaint as I think Friday's Digest summed up the current Republican contenders pretty well. It is however, a promise; I refuse to ever again hold my nose and cast a vote for somebody just because they're the lesser of two evils. If the Republicans can't do any better than Mitt Romney I will either stay home on Election Day or write in a candidate I can believe in, as is my right as a free citizen of this Republic. If that means we're all stuck with Obama for four more years then so be it." --Kathleen

"No complaints on your  assessment, I think you are spot on. Of the announced candidates, I am leaning toward Bachmann then Cain followed distantly with the others. I will probably support Perry if he gets in the race. My bottom line is to beat Obama in 2012 and I will support whoever the Republican nominee is!" --Ramona

"Mickey Mouse, Ronald McDonald, or Luke Skywalker would all be far better presidents than the traitorous hack that currently holds that position." --Zach

"Please give equal and/or fair time to Ron Paul's candidacy. He appears (to me) to be the only viable candidate that consistently considers the Constitution in his congressional decisions. I also believe he will be the only candidate to seriously tackle the national debt and spending spree by the federal government. I also believe Ron Paul is the only candidate capable of beating Obama." --Marshel

Editor's Reply: We appreciate Paul's work in the House, where he has an outstanding conservative record. However, our analysis is simply that he won't win the nomination, much less the general election. There are various reasons for that, but again, we're just calling it as we see it.

The Last Word

"Speaking, as we were, about Anthony Weiner, some people were terribly upset when they learned that in spite of the sordid circumstances leading to his resignation, he stands to collect over a million dollars from his congressional pension. At first, I, too, was outraged. But then it gave me an idea how we might finally put an end to congressmen and senators growing old on the job. Years ago, I recall that a concert of composer John Cage's pain-in-the-ear music was held in New York City. What made it noteworthy was that tickets sold for five dollars, but for every hour a person could endure the pain, he would get a dollar back. If the poor saps remained for the entire concert, it would cost them nothing but their sanity. So, how about if members of Congress receive 100% of their pension if they quit after one term, but only 50% if they stick it out for a second, and nothing after that? What, I ask you, could possibly improve Congress more than installing a revolving door?" --columnist Burt Prelutsky

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

July 11, 2011



VAN JONES CALLS BECK 'A BIG BULLY LIAR'
A "traumatized" Van Jones is now saying that Glenn Beck is a big bully and a liar, and he wants to stop people from standing up for America. You can see the video  HERE.

CAR CZAR SAYS 'FREE MARKET is nonsense'
Former Obama Car Czar (now Manufacturing Czar), Ron Bloom was called in front of a Congressional hearing to address some of the statements he has made in the past. Watch him pass off these very serious comments as comedy HERE .

GLENN BECK SPEAKS TO ISRAEL'S KNESSET
Most media moguls spend their vacations resting on the beach or getting massages at the spa. Not Glenn Beck. Mr. Beck's vacation has took him to the WWII Nazi death camps in Poland and then off to Israel to address the Knesset. Find out what Glenn said to this political body HERE.

PALIN SAYS SHE CAN WIN, BACHMANN LEADS MITT IN IOWA, AND HAWAII TAXES THE RICH
Today's Must-Read section offers a "baker's dozen" of the best of the rest of the news from the Internet. See them HERE

ON THE FIRST DAY OF NEW, LESS INVASIVE RULES, TSA PATS DOWN A 6-YR-OLD. . . TWICE
Following a spate of bad press about TSA pat-downs of young children, new rules intending to minimize these events were put in place. On day one of the new regulations, at least one 6-yr-old was patted down TWICE. Watch the video HERE.  

VIRAL VIDEO DU JOUR - MAN LOSES FAKE DUEL BY SHOOTING HIMSELF IN THE LEG
Every so often we come across a great nominee for the "Viral Video Du Jour" that contains "salty" language or graphic content. This one has both. See a man shoot himself in the leg and curse  HERE.  

912 PROJECT WINS FIRST PLACE IN '4TH OF JULY PARADE' IN LIBERAL HAMPTONS
The 912 Project from Suffolk Country, NY built a stunning Constitution-based parade display and was awarded First Place in the annual Independence Day parade in Southampton, NY. See the slideshow HERE.    

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Washington Could Learn a Lot from a Drug Addict

Cartoon of the Day: Raise the Roof Again, and Again....

Monday, July 11, 2011

To: Friends & Supporters

From: Gary L. Bauer

Boehner Backs Away From Bad Deal

Thanks for taking action, friends! Speaker Boehner's office was deluged with calls and emails Friday. He got the message - as did other members of Congress.

Over the weekend we heard that a significant group of House Republicans met with Speaker Boehner late Friday. They told him to tread carefully, essentially arguing that it wouldn't help anyone if he agreed to a "big deal" with President Obama only to have few if any House Republicans vote for it.

That warning, plus your calls, led Boehner to think twice. He announced Saturday that he did not want to go down the route of a big $4 trillion deal. That was a good call, and here's why.

The "big deal" that Obama put on the table involved guaranteed tax hikes in exchange for spending cuts down the road. This is like Charlie Brown and Lucy. We've tried to kick this ball before only to have Democrats pull it away from us. Even Ronald Reagan fell for it.

In 1982 Reagan cut a deal with congressional Democrats to raise taxes. In exchange for every $1 in tax hikes, Democrats promised Reagan $3 in spending cuts. Taxes went up, but Democrats reneged on the spending cuts. Reagan later said that deal was the worst mistake of his presidency.

Today President Obama said that he would not accept a deal where he, as a wealthy individual, was not required to pay higher taxes. If Barack Obama and other liberals want to pay higher taxes, the IRS would gladly accept their donations! But why is Obama so desperate to tax everyone else?

As I argue in my Human Events column this week, Obama is a "taxaholic." Like many liberals, he is addicted to higher taxes and more spending. Republicans should not empower his addiction to big spending and big government.

Unfortunately, like most addicts, the president is still in denial. His policies have not worked. The stimulus bill failed. And his plan to tax us into prosperity won't work either. As this analysis shows, nations that have successfully balanced their budgets over the past four decades have done so relying on spending cuts, not tax increases.

Fighting The Liberal Spin

House Republicans are doing the right thing. But it is easy to understand why many Americans who aren't closely following the issue could be confused. The media are parroting Democrat talking points and spinning the debate to Obama's advantage. Here are some points to consider when speaking with friends and family members.

• Remind anyone who wants to argue with you about the 2010 elections. Just seven months ago Republicans put up candidates in every congressional district across America who ran on a platform of lower taxes and less spending. On that platform they won more seats than any party in recent decades. And now the pundits are perplexed by the reluctance of conservatives to violate their promises by raising taxes. Republicans are doing exactly what they said they would do.
• Obama claims that now is the time to get spending under control. At his press conference today, he repeatedly said, "If not now, when?" But it was Barack Obama who pushed through the stimulus bill and ObamaCare, a massive new entitlement program. Obama has added $3.7 trillion to the national debt in his first two and a half years in office. Now he acts as though he is the only one in Washington worried about spending.
• His solution to this spending crisis is to raise taxes on "millionaires and billionaires." But, in fact, the tax hikes he's proposing reach far deeper. Even the Associated Press acknowledges that Obama's tax rhetoric is misleading. Consider this excerpt: "Proposals under consideration include raising taxes on small business owners and potentially low and middle-income families. You won't hear about that from Obama. Instead the president focuses on the very rich, and speaks euphemistically."
• Obama's proposed tax increases are not enough to resolve his spending addiction. As we noted last week, the Tax Foundation estimated that tax rates would have to double, and in some cases triple, in order to bring Obama's budgets into balance. As Margaret Thatcher famously said, the problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money.
• As the AP observes, Obama's proposals would hit small businesses - the major job-creating engine of the economy. No one in the administration can explain how raising taxes on small businesses will help those businesses to hire more people. Not that long ago even Obama admitted that raising taxes in a recession is "the last thing you want to do." But for socialists like Obama, raising taxes is not about sound economic policy, but rather about "fairness." 
• Obama is more interested in class warfare than jobs. Obama's administration is refusing to sell jets to Taiwan, which means billions in lost revenue for Lockheed Martin and lost American jobs. It has refused to authorize a new oil pipeline from Candida that could create as many as 100,000 new jobs. His EPA is imposing new regulations that will require some electricity plants to shut down. The unemployment rate today (9.2%) is higher than when Obama took office in January 2009 (7.2%). Obama is a one-man job-destroying machine.
• As today's Wall Street Journal notes, Obama has already increased taxes by hundreds of billions of dollars thanks to ObamaCare. Now he is demanding at least $1 trillion on top of that!
• Obama is accusing Republicans of risking a default and a financial catastrophe by holding the nation hostage to their "extreme ideological demands." In fact, it is the exact opposite. We have already demonstrated that tax increases won't produce jobs and won't balance the budget. So it is Obama who is risking a default over his extreme ideological demands when he threatens to veto any deal that does not raise taxes.

Bishops Battle On

In the days since the New York legislature legalized same-sex "marriage," New York's Catholic bishops have not given an inch. Nicholas DiMarzio, the bishop of Brooklyn, has effectively banned New York politicians from his parish. In a statement to all Catholic churches and schools in his diocese, Bishop DiMarzio instructed them "not to bestow or accept honors, nor to extend a platform of any kind to any state elected official ... for the foreseeable future."

Last week, Archbishop Timothy Dolan wrote about his fear that "this latest dilution of the authentic understanding of marriage" will inevitably lead to "another redefinition to justify multiple partners and infidelity." He's right. If society can no longer limit marriage to the union of one and one woman, on what legal basis can it "discriminate" against the love of one man and three women?

Archbishop Dolan also warned that religious liberty was at stake, writing, "If the experience of those few other states and countries where this is already law is any indication, the churches, and believers, will soon be harassed, threatened, and hauled into court for their conviction that marriage is between one man, one woman."

I applaud New York's Catholic leaders for continuing to "fight the good fight." The culture war is real. And its impact on religious liberty is a reminder to men and women of faith that elections have consequences.

7/11/2011 

America, the Europe of the West?

Last night, President Barack Obama and U.S. congressional leaders failed to reach agreement on a deal to raise the nation's debt limit. Meanwhile, it has been more than 800 days since the U.S. Senate passed a budget, liberals in Washington are pushing for higher taxes, unemployment is soaring, the deficit keeps growing, and America is careening toward an economic future as the Europe of the West.

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Congress Called to Action on Planned Parenthood

QUICK HITS

The United States will withhold more than one-third of the $2 billion in annual aid to Pakistan's military following the country's reduced level of cooperation with the U.S. in recent months.

The unemployment rate for veterans who served at any time since September 2001 was 13.3 percent in June, up from 12.1 percent in May.

Former First Lady Betty Ford will be laid to rest beside her husband, former President Gerald Ford, on the grounds of the Gerald R. Ford Museum in Grand Rapids, Mich., on Thursday.

European Union President Herman Van Rompuy and top EU policy makers will meet today to discuss a second bailout for Greece. Concerns are growing over private-sector involvement in the deal.

Do you know the five ways that President Obama tanked the economy? Find out on Foundry.org.

This picture captured on the back of a  Marine's  jeep is priceless and definitely a  sender"! 

I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.  
-- Winston Churchill

This is so good!!! 

Hwy 59 at Hwy 43 - across from Marshall High School in Wisconsin.

Sign at Hutchinson, KS, 35 miles SE of Wichita
 
 Obama's honeymoon is over !!

 Would love to know the Patriot who paid for this sign!
W O W!!!

I wonder how long this will be allowed to stand?  
 Sign POSTED on Hwy 61,  Hutchinson, Ks

We can't afford Obama or his CHANGE!!! 

Have You Heard Herman Cain's 1996 Gospel Album?

The Blaze | by Mike Opelka | Posted on July 12, 2011 at 7:40am 

When you toss your hat into the political ring, especially on a national level, the media and your opponents will scour your history looking for anything in your background that might give them an advantage. Back in 1996, Herman Cain recorded a gospel music album called "Sunday Morning" and it has just popped up on the Internet.

A Cain spokesperson confirmed to TPM the tracks are legitimate, and said they were released by an independent, pro-Cain website.

So, is this a good thing or a bad thing for the candidate? Before you decide, sample the music: HERE . . .

Election Poster

  There is a relatively new terminology in the cyber world called, 'going viral'. It's when an email gets blasted around so much, everyone seems to know about it. This email is a true candidate to go viral..

Pass it on-and on-and on!

"Socialism is a philosophy of failure,

the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy,

its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.."

-- Winston Churchill

July 12, 2011 

On Monday's Program 

WATCH: Glenn stirs packed house at the Knesset

Glenn is in Israel this week preparing for the Restoring Courage event coming up next month and gave a crowd pleasing speech at the Knesset (Israeli Parliament). No one is more awake and aware of the threats to the Western way of life than the people of Israel, and that was on full display in Israel today as they jam packed the Knesset chamber. Glenn challenged the Israeli leaders to speak and stand for the truth - and even managed to work in a Matthew Broderick reference. How? Watch some of Glenn's speech HERE.

What does Glenn do on vacation? 

As usual Glenn wasn't able to just hang around and relax over vacation. It was technically a vacation, but not what most people would consider 'relaxing.' Glenn was in Poland filming part of an upcoming documentary and has some incredibly moving -- and horrific -- pictures and stories to share including being inside a Nazi Germany picture. You can follow Glenn's journey exclusively at GlennBeck.com.

PLUS: Check out Raj Nair's Travel log
 

The Road to Restoring Courage: As August 24th approaches, here's a behind-the-scenes clip of GBTV correspondent Raj Nair as he gets ready to join Glenn this week in Israel for preparations to the Restoring Courage event - WATCH. Want full access to all the action in Israel this week and for the Restoring Courage event in August? Raj will be sending updates all week for GBTV subscribers and GBTV is the only place you can access all the Israel events in August. Sign up now!

Which state is Glenn moving to? (Hint: NOT Massachusetts) Glenn has all the details on radio today. LISTEN.

Glenn in Israel - but Stu is NOT

Stu has been getting grief for being a choking wuss bunny who is too afraid to go to Israel. So it should come as no surprise that Stu is NOT in Israel this week with Glenn. Agree with Stu? You can stand 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. Want to attend a viewing party in your area for the big event? Get all the details HERE. 

Unemployment goes up... again

More bad news on the unemployment front as the jobs report was once again 'worse' than expected. Timothy Geithner had some amazing things to say about the economy and why unemployment is still lagging. You have to hear it to believe it. LISTEN

Keith Ellison: Conservatives hate working women

Keith Ellison came up with quite the statement recently, declaring that conservatives hate strong successful women - and instead would rather have them relegated to being barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen. Glenn has the audio and reaction on radio today.