Quote: 

"Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide."  ~ John Adams

"We have heard of the impious doctrine in the old world, that the people were made for kings, not kings for the people. Is the same doctrine to be revived in the new, in another shape - that the solid happiness of the people is to be sacrificed to the views of political institutions of a different form? It is too early for politicians to presume on our forgetting that the public good, the real welfare of the great body of the people, is the supreme object to be pursued; and that no form of government whatever has any other value than as it may be fitted for the attainment of this object." 

~ James Madison, Federalist No. 45 

Obama Increased National Debt More in 4 Days Than Truman and Eisenhower Did in 10 Years

The Blaze | by Tiffany Gabbay | Posted on August 10, 2011 at 6:11am

Last week the Obama administration reportedly increased the national debt (in inflation-adjusted dollars) more in a mere four days than the administrations of Presidents Harry Truman and Dwight D. Eisenhower increased it from 1950-1960 - an entire decade. 

Democrats Force Elections in Wisconsin .. and Lose

Conservative Daily News | By R. Mitchell | Aug 10th, 2011

Wisconsin Governor Scott Brown(R) was elected on the idea that he would take care of the taxpayer's money. In short, he would balance the state's budget without asking the taxpayers to come up with more cash. He did it.

One of the casualties of frugality was the unions. They would no longer have a dictatorship-like ability to force workers to pay into their coffers and no longer could government workers collectively bargain with the very people that would want their support in future elections - an obvious quid-pro-quo situation.

Union leaders went after the seats of the six Republican senators eligible for recall - an early re-election vote - and failed.

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THESE PHOTOS JUST BECAME DECLASSIFIED - FROM 9/11

The anniversary of 9/11 is coming up.  We must never forget what happened and who was responsible.  The threat is still with us of more destruction to come.  Those radical islamist tell us so all the time.  We all seem to dismiss it.  We must press our Congress to look into all those who may be amongst us now training and getting ready to launch another attack.  We must never allow a mosque to built any where near that sacred ground.  Please be at the rally on 9/11 as the Mayor has given approval for the mosque to be built.

We the people must rise up and say NO!

   See the Pic's Here . . . 

Press Release:

AFDI/SIOA 9/11 Freedom Rally: 

Stand Against Ground Zero Mosque, and Durban III, Stand for America

NEW YORK, July 6: The human rights organization American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI) will be hosting its second annual 9/11 Freedom Rally on September 11 at 3pm at Park Place and West Broadway.

Free citizens are coming from all over the U.S. to attend the rally. "It is crucial to stand for freedom on this tenth anniversary of the heinous 9/11 jihad attacks," said AFDI Executive Director Pamela Geller. "We must show the jihadists we are unbowed in the defense of freedom."

AFDI and its Stop Islamization of America (SIOA) program are encouraging all Americans to stand against the Islamic supremacist mega-mosque at Ground Zero and the anti-Semitic Durban III conference that will be held in New York City at the same time, and for American values on the tenth anniversary of the worst attack ever on American soil.

The confirmed list of speakers includes 9/11 family members Alexander and Maureen Santora, who lost their firefighter son Christopher; Sally Regenhard, whose son Christian was killed on 9/11; Nelly Braginsky, who lost her son Alexander; and others.

Other speakers include former U. S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton (video message); the courageous ex-Muslim human rights activist Wafa Sultan; war hero and North Carolina Congressional candidate Ilario Pantano; former prosecutor and bestselling author Andrew C. McCarthy; popular radio host Joyce Kaufman; Darla Dawald, National Director of the Patriot Action Network; James Lafferty of the Virginia Anti-Sharia Taskforce (VAST); Coptic Christian activist Joseph Nassralla; Iraqi ex-Muslim Paul Gaynos.

Hosting the rally are Pamela Geller, publisher of the acclaimed AtlasShrugs.com blog, executive director of AFDI and SIOA, and author of Stop the Islamization of America: A Practical Guide to the Resistance (WND Books); and AFDI/SIOA associate director Robert Spencer, the bestselling author and director of Jihad Watch.

Building the Ground Zero mosque is not an issue of religious freedom, but of resisting an effort to insult the victims of 9/11 and to establish a beachhead for political Islam and Islamic supremacism in New York. Cordoba Initiative board member imam Feisal Abdul Rauf is an open proponent of Sharia, Islamic law, a system that denies the freedom of speech, the freedom of conscience, and the equality of rights of all people before the law. Given the thousands of triumphal mosques that have been built on the cherished sites of conquered peoples throughout Islamic history, the mosque leaders' claim that this mosque would be understood differently by Muslims worldwide lack foundation.

The Durban III conference follows upon two previous conferences that scapegoated and demonized the state of Israel in service of Islamic jihad and Islamic supremacist interests. The rally will defend Israel against the defamation to which it will be subjected at this conference. It will also call upon the city to remove roadblocks to the reconstruction of St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church, which was destroyed on 9/11 and since then mired in bureaucratic red tape that has prevented its rebuilding - in stark contrast to the help Mayor Bloomberg and other city officials have given to the Ground Zero Mosque project.

AFDI/SIOA is one of America's foremost organizations defending human rights, religious liberty, and the freedom of speech against Islamic supremacist intimidation and attempts to bring elements of Sharia to the United States.

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   Glenn Beck Restoring Courage Viewing Party : On Wednesday, August 24 we will be streaming the event at The Moose and we're inviting everyone to come down and share this together.  Many of us went to the Restoring Honor event last year and we were deeply moved by the day's events.  Being with others we know made this even more special.  Although we are not going to travel to Israel, we are hoping that we can recreate that atmosphere here in Bucks County.  We are still in the development stages of this event and would like to hear your suggestions on how to have it work out.  And if you can help with the planning, set up and the break down, please let us know.  These events are even more special when you are part of the effort to make it come off well for everyone who comes.  Be sure to invite your friends and family to come as well.  This would be a great opportunity to meet other patriots and meet some new ones.

   Let us know you are coming on our Facebook event post .  

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U.S. Constitution Leaders Training Seminar

August 13

The Coalition for Advancing Freedom, [CAF], will be hosting its second training seminar on how to present the Constitution in an easy and effective way.

What the class offers:

1] We show how 'anyone' can facilitate or lead a Constitution Class.

2] You will learn the importance of doing the classes in the home and how to do them.

3] How to get people enrolled in the classes.

4] How to promote the classes

5] Why are the classes such an important step in your strategy of getting people involved in the political process

6] How to move the class attendees to the next step. What is the next step?

7] Learn how to make student packets

8] Recommended course materials and DVD's

Where: The Parkesburg VFW Hall - 406 4TH St. Parkesburg, Pa. 19365

When: Saturday, August 13^TH, 9:30-Noon

Contact info: Larry Denver,CAF Education Leader

lbdenver@yahoo.com----   610-733-4939    Early RSVP Requested

Donation requested to help pay for the rental fee and materials

We are asking for a favorite morning food pot luck so everyone can share and break bread together. Let's build some cross state relationships.

Drinks provided

BEEF N' BEER 

TO

SUPPORT 

U.S. CONGRESSMAN 

MICHAEL G. FITZPATRICK

Thursday, August 11, 2011
7:00pm - 9:00pm 

Smoke Eaters Pub
7681 Frankford Avenue
Philadelphia, PA 19136
$40 Per Person

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There will be weekly meetings every Wednesday at P J Ryan's, 231 Bridge Street, Phoenixville - 6pm - downstairs

We will be discussing UN Agenda 21 & Sustainable Development, as well as other topics relevant with today's problems like the NWO, Congress, debt, how to be prepared for the future disasters, etc.... At this weeks meeting will start with sending some people over to sit in on the meeting below.  We need to know what our opposition is doing  . . . If you have any questions please feel free to email me back or contact Maggie at www.theunsolicitedopinion.com or Maggie@theunsolicitedopinion.com

If you would like to join the Green Team or volunteer for a sub-committee, please email us

CONTACT Diane about this email at : uncanney2@verizon.net   

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DO YOU FEEL SOMETHING IS WRONG & WONDER WHY THINGS DO NOT GET FIXED & YOUR REPRESENTATIVES DO NOT LISTEN TO YOU . . .

Please Join Us  to Find out Why . . .

The Shadow Party (who really controls our government), Continuing Education on UN Agenda 21:   How old is Agenda 21?  The roots of Agenda 21 and sustainable building today, an Architects perspective & Nullification - lawful remedies to stop the national government's usurpations. 

Saturday, August 20^th  - 6pm . . .

P J Ryan's, 231 Bridge Street, Phoenixville -  downstairs private dining area

2 hr free parking on street and free lots at both ends of town (District Court Building, & near Customer's 1^st Bank).  There are several metered lots throughout the borough at $1 per hour.  Parking meters are centrally located in each lot and take coins and credit/debit cards. 

Who/what is the Shadow Party.  How old is Agenda 21?  What are the roots of Agenda 21 and sustainable building today?    Find out and use lawful remedies to stop the national government's usurpations.   Speakers include, Jack Callahan, Dave Adamski, Jr., and William Taylor Reil. 

For more info:  www.theunsolicitedopinion.com

Contact:  Maggie  - maggie@theunsolicitedopinion.com or

Diane - uncanny2@verizon.net

Dear Patriot,

Please join Americans for Prosperity Foundation and thousands of grassroots activists for the 5th annual Defending the American Dream Summiton Friday and Saturday, November 4-5 at the Washington Convention Center in downtown Washington, DC.

Last year, more than 2,600 of our best activists descended on Washington for the Summit to demonstrate to elected officials, government bureaucrats, and the national media that the grassroots movement is alive and well.  We focused on reining in out-of-control spending and taxation, advancing sound free market public policy, and in a very real way, defending the American Dream.

Special bus packages are running from PA and for only this week you can register for an additional $70 off those all-inclusive bus packages. Sign up now to take advantage of this great opportunity! Use the code "Bus70" when registering.

Bus packages from PA include round trip transportation and hotel accommodations on top of all the other benefits of the Defending the American Dream Summit.

Summit Highlights Include:

• Friday Gala Dinner
• General Session with Keynote Speakers
• Continental Breakfast on Saturday morning
• Special Interactive Sessions for Teens & College Students
• Movie Night featuring Entertaining Films By Liberty Loving Filmmakers
• Seminars for Youth On Why Freedom Matters and How they Can Make a Difference
• Bloggers Row
• Free-Market Job Fair
• State-Specific Strategy Meetings
• Network With Leading Activists From Across The Country

 ... and much more!

Don't forget, receive $70 off a bus package until midnight on August 14th! Click here to register today and help defend the American dream! Use the code "Bus70" when registering.

Defending liberty and promoting prosperity is a family affair.  Give your children the gift of freedom and bring the whole family to the Defending the American Dream Summit this year.  In fact, we're offering a discount for families and small groups! Click here for more information about our special packages.

Join us and thousands of fellow freedom fighters and send a message that the American Dream is alive and well in this great country!

Sincerely,

Tim Phillips
President
Americans for Prosperity Foundation 

RedState Morning Briefing

For August 9, 2011

1. Balanced Approach: The Tax Hikes That Democrats Should Propose

So this year's fiscal-policy code word is "balanced approach." This means nothing more or less than higher taxes on high earners, business income, and capital gains.

Congressman Eric Cantor remarked at one point in the debt-ceiling debate that the Democrats (including Obama) were totally stuck on the idea of raising taxes. But Cantor stressed that they never presented an economic rationale for higher taxes. It was all about class warfare, pure and simple.

Class warfare is like catnip to progressives. The problem with class warfare is that it doesn't give us growth and jobs. At least a few of the Democrats recognize that growth is a mandatory part of a fiscal-reform strategy (higher taxes and spending/entitlement cuts are the other two).

Remember the Bush tax-cut debate last year? Then, Democrats readily admitted the numbers: the Bush tax cuts on high earners were worth an estimated $700 billion in revenues over ten years, while the same cuts on everyone else were worth about $2.8 trillion.

You can raise taxes on high earners, but you don't solve any economic problem that way. There just aren't enough rich people to buy candy and bubble gum for everyone else. Plus, you kill job growth by wiping out their incentives to take on economic risk.

So it's plain and obvious that the ONLY motivation that Obama and the Democrats have for their "balanced approach" is class envy. Economics has nothing to do with it.

2. Verizon Strikers Using Children, Harassing & Menacing Replacement Workers

It's only been a few days since 45,000 CWA and IBEW members walked off their jobs at Verizon, however, incidents of harassment, sabotage, and illegal picketing have already begun to pile up.

On Tuesday, Verizon obtained an injunction in Pennsylvania and filed for one in Delaware "to prevent 'illegal' and 'reprehensible' strike activities such as keeping managers out of buildings."

In one deplorable incident, a foul-mouthed IBEW member in New Jersey put his young daughter in front of a Verizon truck turning into a driveway as he berated the driver using expletives.

3. The Enemy Within

Rick Perry said a prayer on Sunday.

After you've picked yourselves up off the floor and recovered from your collective shock, you can read the full transcript of it here, or if you are so inclined, you can watch the video here. As is perfectly obvious to everyone who has ever met someone who's attended a Christian church, Perry's prayer was standard-fare mainstream evangelicalism - and painstakingly non-partisan. . . .

Perry had the audacity to suggest - in keeping with the beliefs of virtually every religious person I know (including non-Christians) - that a nation needs the blessings of God in order to survive and thrive . . . .

This innocuous statement provoked some truly idiotic and bigoted responses on twitter from some folks who are regularly given column inches on prominent conservative blogs. Jenn Rubin, token "conservative" at the Washington Post, was really upset that the event was supposed to be inclusive, but Perry used the word "Christ." Or something. Furthermore, Rubin posited that nobody outside of Texas likes Jesus or people who believe in Jesus, and therefore this was going to hurt Perry on the national stage.

At this point, though, it's pretty clear that David Brooks is a more reliable barometer of conservative thought than Rubin. Perhaps more disturbing is that bloggers who are regularly given platforms at actual conservative sites went much farther (and stupider) than Rubin.

4. Verizon Offers $50,000 Reward After Sabotage On Day Two Of Militant Union Strike

It's been less than 24 hours since the Communications Workers of America (CWA) and International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) called 45,000 of their respective members out on strike against Verizon and, already, there are reports of sabotage of Verizon equipment, as well as illegal picketing.

Heritage Hotsheet

Experts on the Day's Hottest News

Items for August 9, 2011

Market turmoil turns all eyes toward Fed
 USA Today

 

FEULNER: Fueling higher gas prices
The Washington Times

 

Researchers: Obamacare cost estimates hide up to $50 billion per year
The Daily Caller

 

No Child Left Behind Gets A Revamp
NPR

 

London Riots: Fires Spread on Third Night of Violence
TIME

 

Latest Heritage Research:

Backgrounder:U.S.-Philippines Partnership in the Cause of Maritime Defense

Backgrounder:The U.S. Should Link Foreign Aid and U.N. General Assembly Voting

Webmemo:Time for a National EMP Awareness Day

Backgrounder: Tools to Build the U.S.-China Economic Relationship

Start a new fashion chain 

specializing in tacky urban street wear, made in sweatshops by crippled children in Southeast Asia. Make sure the name of your company logo is brandished in very bold letters on all products: OPRAH, INC. 

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

**Pennsylvania Action Alert**
  Wanted: Volunteer Attorneys in Our Anti-Sharia Efforts
  By Kelly Cook, National Field Director

In our efforts to pass anti-Sharia legislation in Pennsylvania, we need at least one local attorney who is willing to testify before state legislative committees in support of the American Laws for American Courts bill.

Our team will fill you in on all the details, frequently asked questions and other pertinent points. You need not be an expert in sharia law in order to qualify. We simply need your willingness to articulately defend our Constitutional form of law.

Please contact me at this address with your interest:

kcook@actforamerica.org
 

The Doctrine of Abrogation: Open the Koran Day

It's time to sign up!

Earlier this year we announced a major event for this fall, "The Doctrine of Abrogation: Open the Koran Day."

We have scheduled this event for the weekend of October 28 - 30, 2011, which is close to the two year anniversary of the Ft. Hood jihadist massacre perpetrated by Major Nidal Hasan (pictured at right).

If you would like to learn more about this national event, or would like to host a local venue, please click here.

Please read the description of the event and the sign-up instructions carefully, and then access the sign-up form at the bottom of the page.

Also, if you would like to study the Koran, we have a resource to recommend. The Qur'an Dilemma is an accurate, readable English translation that contains commentaries and analysis, including commentaries on the doctrine of abrogation, the history of the codification of the Koran, chronological sequence of the Koran, and the status of women in the Koran. To find out more visit here.
 

Instant Bear Market (Dow down another 500 today)

by Bill Levinson

How's that green service renewable energy cap and trade economy working out for you, Barry? (Image is below; it is not posting properly on the front page)

Instant Bear Market!

Rachel Corrie: Unwilling "Comfort Woman" for Palestinians?

Long litany of Palestinian sexual assaults on other female activists shows it might have happened.
by Bill Levinson

Did Rachel Corrie kneel in front of a bulldozer because she wanted to die after being sexually degraded by the people she came to help, and then told to keep quiet about it? This is impossible to prove one way or another but the experiences of other female activists show that it is quite likely that the Palestinians used Rachel Corrie for sexual gratification the same way they are known to have used other women. Note the phrase "routinely harassed and raped."

Two activists have exposed a disturbing phenomenon that they say is an open secret within the "peace camp": female "peace" activists are routinely harassed and raped by the Arabs of Judea and Samaria with whom they have come to identify. They say the phenomenon has gotten worse lately and that many foreign women end up as wives of local Arabs against their will, but cannot escape their new...

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Glen Beck at his powerful best

English starts at about 2 minutes.
Beck asks rhetorically "Do you think a holocaust can happen again?" and answers emphatically "Yes!!". The interviewer responds incredulously "Yes?" and Beck blew him away. Dumb leftists.

××× ×ק ×קר×ת ×עצרת ×"×ש×ת ×××××¥" GLENN BECK

The Netherlands to Abandon Multiculturalism

It is worth knowing that Ghert Wilders is in the government of the Netherlands. Ted Belman

by Soeren Kern, HUDSON NY
June 23, 2011

The Dutch government says it will abandon the long-standing model of multiculturalism that has encouraged Muslim immigrants to create a parallel society within the Netherlands.

A new integration bill (covering letter and 15-page action plan), which Dutch Interior Minister Piet Hein Donner presented to parliament on June 16, reads: "The government shares the social dissatisfaction over the multicultural society model and plans to shift priority to the values of the Dutch people. In the new integration system, the values of the Dutch society play a central role. With this change, the government steps away from the model of a multicultural society."

The letter continues: "A more obligatory integration is justified because the government also demands that from its own citizens. It is necessary because otherwise the society...

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UNESCO Attempts to Erase Jewish History

Laura: What's even worse than islamic supremacists attempts to steal the property and heritage of the Jewish people and falsely claiming Jewish holy sites as belonging to them, is the west going along with this obscenity.

  UNESCO's War against the Jews

from Atlas Shrugs by Pamela Geller

The onslaught against the Jews is endless, constant; the evil that eats at men's souls.

UNESCO against the Jews  

Special: UN's cultural body seems to be engaged in inquisition-like campaign against Israel 
By Giulio Meotti  Published: 07.19.11
 
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) adopted a decision calling on Israel to immediately cease all archaeological works in the Old City of Jerusalem. In particular, UNESCO, one of the UN's most prominent and influential agencies, attacked the renovation of the Mughrabi Bridge that links the Western Wall plaza and Temple Mount.

The decision, initiated and promoted by...

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A Jewish Peace Plan

By Paul Eidelberg

Ever since the futile and fatal Israel-PLO Agreement of 1993, I have advocated a Peace Plan to overcome the Israel-Palestinian conflict. It is a Jewish peace plan, the only kind based on a realistic assessment of Israel's enemy.

Genuine realism requires a theological understanding of the enemy.  Genuine realists know that territorial compromise with Muslims only whets their appetite for further aggression.  Genuine realists know there are no empirical grounds to expect Muslims to renounce Jihadism-the precondition of peace-unless they are so devastated as to expunge their desire to wage war for a hundred years-as the Allied powers did to Nazi Germany.

Israel's leadership must first act on the recognition that if Iran develops nuclear weapons, Israel will cease to be a viable state as I have shown in previous articles. Hence, Israel will have to destroy Iran's nuclear weapons development program.

Israel's leaders must understand that Jerusalem is the...

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 Subject:Buy Estee Lauder and Clinique    Estee Lauder 
 
Estee Lauder Corporation (which is also the parent company of Clinique, Prescriptive, Mac, Bobbie Brown, La Mer, Jo Malone, Origins, Aramis, Aveda and Bumble and Bumble) is being boycotted by a loud and ambitious campaign of the world's Arab and Muslim community due to Ron Lauder's (Estee Lauder's President) support for Israel. 
 
Mr.Lauder has been extremely courageous and public in his support for the Jewish State and has taken real personal and financial risks to inform the world of the war that the Palestinian Authority has declared on Israel and Jews worldwide. 
 
To combat this boycott I suggest that we all go out and buy as much Estee Lauder and Clinique products as possible.  Make the Estee Lauder and Clinique counters your gift of choice. Switch brands at least for a while.  It is said that beauty has many discomforts.  So does supporting those who speak for us. 
 
Am Yisrael Chai!   
PLEASE FORWARD THIS TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW!  LET'S SHOW THE ARABS THAT PEOPLE ALL OVER THE WORLD WILL STAND TOGETHER. 
 
 
Ronnie Lauder is married to Jo Carol Knopf Lauder born and raised in Wilmington, Delaware.  Her parents were humble Holocaust survivors! He also works undauntingly for the re-establishment of the Hungarian Jewish community.  A good man! 
 
   

AMERICA DEMANDS

U.S. CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIGATION

SEAL TEAM 6

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WHY DID THE WHITE HOUSE LEAK THE DEATHS OF SEAL TEAM 6?

Watch this DEMAND for an investigation...

...into the White House

CLICK TO WATCH THE VIDEO!

Why did the White House announce details about a secret operation?

Why would the U.S. Government tell the enemy that they killed members of SEAL TEAM 6?

What American strategic or tactical value was served by informing the enemy of their victory?

Why didn't the White House deny or suppress this catastrophic information?

FOR ALL SPECIAL OPERATORS AND THEIR FAMILIES

AMERICA WANTS ANSWERS!

WE DEMAND A U.S. CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIGATION

in memory

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Tuesday, August 9, 2011

To: Friends & Supporters

From: Gary L. Bauer

2012 Update

• The 2012 campaign has been underway for some time now. But this weekend's big straw poll in Ames, Iowa, serves as an unofficial kick-off for the GOP nomination. I remember well the excitement I felt 12 years ago when my presidential campaign beat expectations at Ames.

  For those who finish in the top three, the Ames straw poll can provide a big boost in name ID and fundraising. And there are probably one or two candidates who can't go much further without a respectable showing.

• Leading up to Saturday's straw poll will be a presidential debate Thursday night sponsored by Fox News, the Iowa Republican Party and the Washington Examiner.
• There are reports today that Texas Governor Rick Perry will announce his campaign for the presidency in South Carolina on Saturday. While the governor's aides deny that an announcement is imminent, Perry's travel schedule is only fueling the speculation. Immediately following his speech in South Carolina, Perry will fly to New Hampshire and will reportedly travel to Iowa a few days later.

The Obama Fear & Smear Machine

There is a very revealing report in Politico today. Obama's reelection campaign is growing increasingly desperate. The hope is gone. And Obama is no longer the change candidate, but the status quo candidate. The 2012 campaign will be about fear and the politics of personal destruction.

The Obama team is assuming that former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney will be the eventual GOP nominee. Their campaign strategy is simple, and the story's headline says it all - "Obama plan: Destroy Romney." Consider this excerpt:

"Barack Obama's aides and advisers are preparing to center the president's reelection campaign on a ferocious personal assault on Mitt Romney's character and business background... The dramatic and unabashedly negative turn is the product of political reality. ...And so the candidate who ran on 'hope' in 2008 has little choice four years later but to run a slashing, personal campaign..."

As I have warned for months, Obama's reelection campaign is going to be brutal and ugly. Everyone recognizes that America is at a crossroads. Difficult decisions will have to be made in the next few years, and the left is desperate to maintain power. It will do anything to reelect Obama.

It doesn't matter who the GOP nominates. Take that paragraph above, remove Romney's name and replace it with your favorite candidate. We are living through Jimmy Carter's second term. With that kind of a record to run on, Obama's only hope of reelection is to destroy his opponent with "ferocious personal assaults" in a "slashing campaign." Whoever wins the nomination will face a billion-dollar "fear and smear" machine. The left plays hardball.

While Obama gave rousing speeches and did his best to appear moderate, his political allies were slinging mud from the gutter. Remember the New York Times hit piece that falsely accused Sen. John McCain of having an affair with a lobbyist? Remember how the Tea Party movement was accused of racism for opposing ObamaCare and more recently of "financial terrorism"? We know how the media treated Sarah Palin, and we can see how they are savaging Michele Bachmann now.

Last week the Huffington Post published Rick Perry's college transcripts. Governor Perry isn't even a candidate yet, but somehow his transcripts became public information. Perhaps in the interest of journalist integrity and balance, the crack investigative team at the Huffington Post will find Obama's transcripts! I won't hold my breath.

ObamaCare To Cost More

When Congress begins its next round of deficit reduction talks, ObamaCare must be on the table. The country cannot afford another trillion-dollar entitlement program. But the more we learn about ObamaCare the more it is likely to cost taxpayers.

The latest ObamaCare bombshell comes from Richard Burkhauser, an economist at Cornell University. According to Dr. Burkhauser's research, ObamaCare's cost estimates were derived from calculations that involved insuring only individuals and not entire families. As a result, ObamaCare is likely to cost at least $50 billion more per year.

How could such a gross oversight be made? Because Democrats demanded it. In an interview yesterday, Dr. Burkhauser said, "The Congressional Budget Office has never done a cost-estimate of this [because] they were expressly told to do their modeling on single [person] coverage."

Nancy Pelosi famously said of ObamaCare that we would have to pass the bill to find out what was in it. That remark not only demonstrated the left's hypocrisy on matters of transparency, it also came to symbolize the left's arrogant elitism. That's one reason why voters have consistently supported ObamaCare's repeal. 

I think a new slogan is in order: We have to repeal ObamaCare before we find out what else is in it!

Common Ground On Life

A new Gallup poll suggests there is considerable common ground between "pro-choice" and pro-life Americans. For example, 52% of Americans who identify as "pro-choice" favor banning abortions after the second trimester. Here are more results from the survey:

• 60% of "pro-choice" Americans favor 24-hour waiting periods before abortions
• 60% of "pro-choice" Americans support parental consent for minors seeking abortions
• 86% support "informed" consent requirements for women seeking abortions.

In addition, the poll also found that while Americans were equally divided between the "pro-choice" and pro-life labels (47% each), an overwhelming majority of 58% felt that most abortions should be prohibited. Just 26% supported the most radical view - a view held by President Obama - that abortion should be legal under any circumstances.

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	NewCommon Sense Applying First Principles to the Issues of Today

 
 

Top Ten Do's and Don'ts in a Bad Economy

Last quarter, the economy grew by a measly 0.4 percent. Last month, unemployment wallowed at 9.1 percent. And last week, Standard & Poor's downgraded United States credit rating for the first time ever. Everyone agrees: the United States economy is in the tank.

But, what we do about it depends on who you ask.

According to Paul Krugman of The New York Times, we need another $800 billion stimulus to jump start the economy. The first one, you see, wasn't big enough. And, its not the debt we should worry about, but that pesky tea party: "The real question facing America, even in purely fiscal terms, isn't whether we'll trim a trillion here or a trillion there from deficits. It is whether the extremists now blocking any kind of responsible policy can be defeated and marginalized." 

But, for those of us who find little comfort in Krugman's prescriptions, we turn to the ideas of Friedrich Hayek, the author of the classic Road to Serfdom and one of the most important economists of the 20^th century.

In his essay, Bruce Caldwell, the editor of The Collected Works of F.A. Hayek (19 volumes),  distills the key Hayekian insights on what to do-and not do-during a recession. The short of it: "We usually don't have the necessary knowledge to intervene effectively in the economy, and the political process is such that, even if we did, we still likely would get bad policy, coupled with an ever-growing government sector."

With a little help from public-choice theorists, here are the ten Hayekian insights for trying economic times:

1.    Recessions are bound to happen: Shifts between periods of economic growth and periods of stagnation or decline are a necessary and unavoidable part of a free-market monetary economy. Downturns are not aberrations but rather painful and necessary medicine for restoring equilibrium to the economy.

2.    A stimulus will only stimulate the deficit: Past experience with trying to fine-tune the economy shows that counter-cyclical fiscal and monetary policy can sometimes make matters much worse (as in the 1970s). Wise politicians would therefore be advised not to meddle, however much their instincts tell them to show voters they're doing something.

3.    Pure laissez-faire doesn't work either: Some regulation is necessary for individuals to carry out their plans and for the market to function. Hayek therefore endorsed "general rules, equally applicable to all people and intended to be permanent (even if subject to revision with the growth of knowledge), which provides an institutional framework within which the decisions as to what to do and how to earn a living are left up to the individuals."

4.    Central planning and excessive regulation sure as hell don't work: The desire to plan and to subject the economy to the rule of experts endangers liberty. As Hayek succinctly noted: "the more the 'state' plans, the more difficult planning becomes for the individual."

5.    The economy is too complex for precise forecasting: As Yogi Berra could have said: "I hate making economic predictions. Especially about the future." It's not that we don't know anything, but rather that what we do know reveals the limits of our knowledge, and consequently, of our ability to plan and forecast.

6.    Remember the rule of unintended consequences: History shows that when trying to realize certain ends-particularly when their achievement involves interfering with the workings of the price mechanism-all sorts of pernicious effects will occur that were not part of the original plan.

7.    You won't believe how much you'll learn in Econ 101: While Hayek repeatedly pointed to the limitations inherent in a discipline that deals with a complex system like the economy, the basic principles of economics-scarcity, supply and demand, division of labor, etc.-can explain a lot about the world and, more importantly, help rule out certain inappropriate policy responses (e.g. price ceilings).

8.    Leave social justice out of it: Free markets necessarily lead to an unequal distribution of wealth and, just as inevitably, fuel calls for egalitarian social justice. Hayek viewed such cries as misguided-justice has nothing to do with an impersonal market process-and dangerous-redistributive schemes presume that we possess knowledge that we in fact can never possess (see #5).

9.    Nothing beats the free market: Hayek admitted that if we had more knowledge we could do a lot more to improve the world through planning and regulation. But we don't, and in the world of dispersed knowledge we live in, much of the knowledge we actually do possess is due to the workings of the market mechanism.

10.    As a rule of thumb, government cures are not only worse than the disease, but lead to further disease: When you consider that bureaucrats have an incentive to maximize bureaucracy, that politicians who seek reelection-and which ones don't?-have an incentive to increase spending and decrease taxes, and that corporations have an incentive to squeeze out the competition through government conferred advantages, you'll conclude that the free market remains our best option (see #9).

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QUICK HITS

President Obama addressed the nation yesterday in hopes of reassuring the country following Standard & Poor's decision to downgrade the U.S. credit rating. Liberal Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank described the President as "strangely powerless" and "irresolute," condemning his failure of leadership.

Despite the President's remarks, yesterday's ride on Wall Street was a rough one. Bank stocks plunged 11 percent, and markets suffered their worst one-day loss since the 2008 crash, losing 635 points.

Following yesterday's stock market drop, today investors are waiting for word from the Federal Reserve on potential changes in monetary policy. The Fed is set to make an announcement at 2:15 p.m. ET today.

Global markets "entered official bear market territory" on Tuesday, reacting to the U.S. credit downgrade, Europe's debt crisis, and concerns over a global recession.

Missed the President's statement yesterday on the credit downgrade? Read our expert analysis on Foundry.org.

Cultivating Young Minds Full of Marx

By Discover The Networks
 

The American Educational Research Association is the largest organization of education-school professors and researchers in the United States. As such, it exerts a great influence over what is taught to students in America's K-12 classrooms. Its Vice President for Curriculum Studies is none other than the former Weather Underground terrorist, William Ayers.

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Fed may strengthen stimulus pledge on recession concern

More stimulus!

Federal Reserve officials may strengthen their commitment to record monetary stimulus as soon as today after a faltering economic recovery and a U.S. credit- rating cut provoked a rout in global stocks.

By a 52 percent to 48 percent margin, respondents in a Bloomberg News survey said the Fed would ease policy this year through monetary tools or statement language. If the central bank acts, 59 percent said it would communicate that the federal funds rate, balance sheet or both will remain especially stimulative for a longer period or more specific amount of time.

Click here to read the full article at Yahoo News

Congress has a shot at passing jobs-creation bill

All of a sudden Obama wants free-trade?

When Congress gets back to work after Labor Day it will have the chance to achieve something that has largely eluded it for the entire year, passing legislation that might actually create jobs.

With the battering debate over the debt ceiling over, the stage is set for Congress to approve and President Barack Obama to sign three big free-trade agreements and the most significant overhaul of the patent system in 60 years.

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The National Organization of Women defends Bachmann against Newsweek

NOW picks lame issue to defend Bachmann

One of presidential candidate Michele Bachmann's major political opponents is defending her against what it says is blatant sexism on the part of Newsweek magazine.

Monday, the National Organization for Women (NOW) spoke out against Newsweek's most recent cover, which features an extreme close-up of Michele Bachmann and the title "The Queen of Rage."

Click here to read the full article at the Daily Caller

Obama calling for fuel standards for big vehicles

CAFE standards for firetrucks?

Fire trucks and concrete mixers, semis, heavy-duty pickups and all trucks in between will, for the first time, have to trim fuel consumption and emissions of heat-trapping gases under new efficiency standards being announced Tuesday by President Barack Obama.

The White House says the standards the president was announcing will save businesses billions of dollars in fuel costs, help reduce oil consumption and cut air pollution. The standards apply to vehicle model years 2014 to 2018.

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Freddie Mac seeks $1.5 Billion from taxpayers

Another $1.5B

Mortgage finance giant Freddie Mac FMCC.OB said on Monday it would need to ask for an additional $1.5 billion from taxpayers due to losses stemming from weak housing markets.

The company reported a comprehensive loss in the second quarter of $1.1 billion. Despite income of $1 billion, the company registered a net worth deficit of $1.5 billion.

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 Obama: U.S. 'Always Will Be an AAA Country'

Raising Taxes 'Wrong Approach,' Boehner Says After Obama Again Calls for 'Balance'

Gallup: Disapproval of Obama Ties All-Time High

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After 30 Killed in Afghanistan, Obama Vows to 'Press On'

Author Andrew Klavan: Obama 'Gift From God' Because He Shows How Left Governs

Oil Tumbles Below $78 Amid U.S. Recession Fears

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'Foreign Intelligence Operations,' Not Taliban, Blamed for Assassinations of Afghan Officials

COMMENTARY:

Who's Really Downgrading America?
By Patrick J. Buchanan
 The S&P's decision to downgrade the U.S. credit rating is deeply deserved. The only surprise is that it didn't happen sooner.

August Stories
By Rich Galen
 Watergate. Monica Lewinsky. Now, those were some juicy August stories.

NEWSPAPER ROUNDUP:

McCain faces angry tea party crowd at Gilbert town-hall meeting
W. Palm Beach adopts tax on nuisance activities: unkempt lawns, drug activity
Education secretary bypasses Congress, which he blasts as dysfunctional
Obama pressed to back Canada-Texas pipeline; Expansion would deliver oil, jobs
Mexico says migration exodus has fallen to 'almost nothing'
Fearful of economy, N.J.-based companies sit on large piles of money
Washington Times editorial: Markets to Obama: shut up
Wash. Post: 'S&P was right about the problems that underlie the U.S. economy'
Moody's says it could also downgrade if Washington punts on dealing with debt
Liberal columnist: 'Mr. Cool turns cold'
Cantor urges GOP to resist tax hike pressure after S&P downgrade
ICE now says joining 'Secure Communities' is required, not voluntary
ATF Fast and Furious operation focused on man who bought more than 700 guns
Summer school teaches Tea Party values to kids
Philadelphia mayor tells black teens, 'You have damaged your own race'
Electoral College could be inching closer to extermination as Calif. goes for popular vote
Record-setting money flows to Wisconsin for Republican recall elections
Gore: Climate skeptics are peddling 'bulls--t'

Rick Santelli: If Not For Tea Party, U.S. Would Be Rated BBB

"You know what leadership means? It means that it doesn't really matter what S&P says. We all know deep inside that no country is the same as it was 5 years ago. And the market seems to be okay with it. And as for stocks going down we were already Ralph Cramden (of Honeymooners) on thin ice. Now an infant jumped on our shoulders. It's just even more weight.

"In the end, in the end we need to address problems we know exist. A Treasury Secretary or a President should be out here not fighting S&P, not grabbing the other coach and slapping him around, taking the umpire behind the barn. He should be getting the team psyched to overcome.

"See I remember I had a professor in college. I wrote a great paper. Could never please this guy. But it made me better. Okay? We're better than this. Don't get caught up in the minutia. All this BS. We're better than this. We need to prove it. We're off the track. Whether we're better than some other country or not, the real issue is we're on the wrong path.

"Blame the Tea Party? Geez, no wonder Kerry did so well in an election. If it wasn't for the Tea Party, they would have passed the debt ceiling thumbs up, we would have been rated BBB."  

Ana and Anastasia are committed and effective centered on the Constitutional Limited Government, Economic Freedom and Personal Responsibility.

Two Bucks County women are darlings of the tea party movement

By John P. Martin Inquirer Staff Writer Posted on Mon, Aug. 8, 2011

Inquirer's John Martin:

Both acknowledged their new roles had taken a toll on their families. They also said they had discovered a purpose and passion they didn't know existed.

"I'm a much happier person today," Puig said. "For me, it has switched from just being, 'I want to save the country on my spare time' to, 'I'm going to do this for life.' It's a commitment."

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August 09, 2011
 
  WHAT'S BEHIND BACHMANN'S COVER PHOTO?     "Unflattering" is the kindest thing you can say about the controversial cover photo of Michele Bachmann that is on the latest issue of Newsweek magazine. See the picture that is generating considerable negative feedback for the magazine HERE.

DID THE TEA PARTY PREVENT TRIPLE-B RATING?   CNBC reporter Rick Santelli's on-air rant in February 2009 has been credited with sparking the Tea Party movement. Yesterday Mr. Santelli defended the Tea Party again and its actions in the recent debt debate. Watch Rick's latest rant HERE.

PHILLY MAYOR BLASTS TEEN MOBS    On Sunday, a fed-up Mayor Michael Nutter delivered a fiery address to the Mount Carmel Baptist Church congregation in Phladelphia. Watch the video that is earning the mayor high marks HERE.

CHRIS MATTHEWS BELIEVES THAT OBAMA MAY BE 'TOO COY, TOO CUTE TO GOVERN'   The latest crazy sound bite from "Mr. Hardball" is just one of thirteen fabulous stories waiting for you on the Tuesday Must-Read section of The Blaze. Collect them all HERE.

BARNEY FRANK'S GAS ATTACK - DID HE OR DIDN'T HE? WATCH THE VIDEO, TAKE THE POLL   The controversy is literally lighting up The Blaze. During an appearance last night on Rachel Maddow's MSNBC show, the Massachusetts Congressman appeared to have a flatulence problem. See the video and take the poll HERE.  

VIRAL VIDEO DU JOUR - WILD BASEBALL BATTING PRACTICE VIDEO, IS IT REAL?    This brief clip is nothing short of astounding... If it is real. Four trampolines are strategically set up on a baseball diamond and a player hits the ball at one of them. You have to see the magic that happens next. The 55 second video is HERE.

BARNEY FRANK'S GAS ATTACK - DID HE OR DIDN'T HE? WATCH THE VIDEO, TAKE THE POLL   The controversy is literally lighting up The Blaze. During an appearance last night on Rachel Maddow's MSNBC show, the Massachusetts Congressman appeared to have a flatulence problem. See the video and take the poll HERE.  

VIRAL VIDEO DU JOUR - WILD BASEBALL BATTING PRACTICE VIDEO, IS IT REAL?    This brief clip is nothing short of astounding... If it is real. Four trampolines are strategically set up on a baseball diamond and a player hits the ball at one of them. You have to see the magic that happens next. The 55 second video is HERE.

Divided We Stand, United We Fall
Conservative Daily News | By Benjamin Wallace | Aug 9th, 2011

Recently, we conservatives have been called many things. Some on the left have labeled us as terrorists, extremists, Nazis, rednecks, hobbits, and racists to name just a few. Our gatherings have been referred to as "Klan" meetings. Most of us know that these comments hold no truth and are made by people of ignorance.

When you attend your next "Klan" meeting, look around and see how many people you see that are not the same race as you. I know that may be a hard thing to do because when we attend these meetings most of us only see three colors, RED, WHITE and BLUE!

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On Tuesday's Program 

Obama blames economy on everyone but himself...

President Obama hilariously blamed Bush, headwinds, earthquakes, the Arab Spring (wait, didn't Obama cheer those on?), conservatives, your grandma and just about everything else for the bad economy. If that wasn't lame enough, Obama made the awful decision to speak while the market was tanking (down about 400 points) - and after his horrible speech it tanked another 200 points. Genius! Glenn has the audio and reaction on radio. WATCH

Five things the media didn't mention from the S&P downgrade report - DETAILS.

Hey! London is on fire. Literally

For years Glenn was called crazy for suggesting that once the economy melted down, civil unrest would follow. Been following London? It's on fire - literally. Rioters have trashed and looted stores, cars and everything else in their path. The riots have spread to other cities outside of London - Birmingham, Bristol, Liverpool and Nottingham. The riots claimed their first life - a man was shot to death while in his car in South London. Here's the latest on London - can it happen in America? Glenn talks about the riots on radio today. 

Finally: quality entertainment that doesn't assault your values

Leftists have ruled the entertainment space for decades, and Glenn is determined to end the monopoly they have on quality entertainment. Glenn's new imprint, Mercury Ink, wants to help fill that void - its first offering is Michael Vey: The Prisoner of Cell 25. When Glenn first read this story he was blown away - but would it get rave reviews from the toughest critic Glenn knows? Glenn explains and interviews author Richard Paul Evans on radio today. WATCH

Pastor Hagee gets bomb threat

Glenn spoke with Pastor John Hagee today, a longtime supporter of Israel, and Hagee reported they'd had a bomb threat at his offices. But that's not slowing him down, after all this isn't the first brush Hagee has had with threats. Hagee tells Glenn the story of how a crazed gunman stormed into his church and threatened to kill him to prove Satan has more power than Jesus Christ. He fired 6 shots - what happened? Find out on radio today.

Restoring Courage: Over 1,000 viewing parties and counting. What's the only way to view the three Restoring Courage events in Jerusalem, Israel? GBTV! Get all the programming details HERE.

GBTV announces news anchor

Glenn spent a few minutes on radio today with the latest GBTV on-air hire -- Amy Holmes. She formerly appeared on CNN among many other media outlets  and she will be a news anchor for The Blaze. Get all the details and check out the conversation from radio today HERE.

Did Barney Frank pass gas on air?

Congressman Barney Frank appeared on MSNBC to talk about the economy and mid-sentence the tape reveals that Frank passed gas on live national TV. But, giving him the benefit of the doubt - was it the chair? Was it something else? As one blog pointed out - the hips don't lie. Watch Barney Frank give his most intelligent commentary yet and get Glenn's super non-childish reaction HERE. 

Cool: Inspired by Glenn, Texas BBQ restaurant gives free daily lunch to the needy. STORY