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Get Ready for More Money-Printing: 'QE3 May Be Coming After All'

The Blaze | by Jonathon M. Seidl | Posted on August 12, 2011 at 8:13am

"QE3 may be coming after all."

That opening line from a new CNBC article says it all: experts are now predicting that the country's economic woes will likely be used to justify a new round of quantitative easing (which is essentially the government printing money to buy its own bonds). It would be the third round in recent memory, hence the name QE3.

"In a dramatic turnabout, market participants now believe the Federal Reserve is more likely than not to resume purchasing assets during the next year in a third round of quantitative easing," CNBC says regarding its August Fed Survey.

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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 .  

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

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"BETTER THAN EVER"

WNJC 1360AM Shows

(all times are eastern)

Friday 10-11 "Veterans' Weekly Forum" - Ed Rosen and Bob Rosebrock

Saturday 5:30-6:30pm "We Say, No Se Puede!" ("No You Cannot!") - Rita Bonilla and Alice Novoa

Shalom ZOA Members, Friends and Supporters of Israel,

One month from today - Thursday, Sept 8 - Philadelphia ZOA will hold its first Tribute Gala in more than a decade and we invite you to be there for this evening to celebrate Israel, express the community's gratitude to two key figures and have an enjoyable evening out.

• We hope you will be there two help us thank two very special men: Dom Giordano, a journalist cut from the cloth of a time when the truth mattered and who thus has become an ardent activist for Israel, and Rabbi Fred Kazan, a man who for generations has encouraged a love for Israel among his congregants and has been outspoken in his devotion to the Jewish State.

• We hope you will attend not only to hear the wisdom and candor of our honorees but also the insights of keynote speaker Jonathan Tobin and ZOA National President Mort Klein, and the enjoyable and thoughtful running commentary of Gary Erlbaum, our master-of-ceremonies.

• We hope you will attend to support the work of Philadelphia ZOA. Frankly there is no group in our area that matches our dedication to a secure and vibrant Jewish State of Israel and that has the level of activities that we do. As we face the present threats to Israel and look to prepare for the future,  we need to do more now and increase our outreach to the younger Jewish community and potential allies, and such ambitions take resources.

• Finally, we hope you will attend to partake in an evening of stirring and heartfelt speeches, good kosher food and dessert, and warm Zionist camaraderie all for a good cause.

The event will take place at the Hilton Philadelphia City Avenue, 4200 City Avenue, Philadelphia. The VIP reception will include a glatt-kosher buffet and open bar and begins at 6 p.m. The award ceremony takes place at 7:45 and will be followed by a dessert reception.

We have set up a special ticket hotline you can reach by calling 215-333-1729. You must have a ticket to attend and we do expect a sellout. Please spread the word about this event to your email lists, friends, colleagues and family. Post it to Facebook and other social-networking sites.

We look forward to seeing you on September 8.

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 

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.
 

RedState Morning Briefing

For August 12, 2011

1. The Horserace for August 12, 2011

This is a special edition of the horserace, the day before Ames and the RedState Gathering.

Last night in Iowa, the Republicans debated. It was like the Island of Misfit Toys. Mitt Romney won the debate if only because Ames is apparently not big enough for two Minnesotans. The barbs between Bachmann and Pawlenty did them no favors.

Ron Paul embarrassed himself without even knowing it. The debate was a spectacle to behold.

And then there is Rick Perry. He wasn't on stage, but he certainly had to be in the minds of the candidates. Jon Huntsman alone proved himself . . . well . . . I don't think I can say the word . . . let's just say yuck.

We'll get into all of it and resurrect Newt and Santorum for this week's horserace.

2. You Know The Left Truly Fears a GOP Candidate When...

Some on the Left have begun to fear Texas Governor Rick Perry. He has increasingly dropped not-so-subtle hints about a run for the White House. This has caused the usual and predictable sources to start unloading the smears.

The second a leftist fears a Conservative politician; they immediately whip out either the race card or the class warfare card. Texas Governor Rick Perry doesn't have that air of being born to the manor. Thus, to smear Governor Perry, it pretty much has to be race card. Yet the race card, at least according to Jon Stewart, is maxed out. Therefore, a certain propaganda subtlety is required.

Salon Magazine, noted for its staff of disingenuous Leftist twits, has found another one in Justin Elliot. He shows us how the oblique accusation of racial bigotry will be steadily executed against Rick Perry in the paragraph below.

3. Striking Union Extremists Imprison Verizon Replacement Workers In Pennsylvania

In their increasingly militant strike against their employer, Verizon, union strikers have quickly bridged the gap between exercising their rights to criminal activity.

While wide-spread incidents of line-cutting and other forms of sabotage may be defined as 'property damage,' possible child endangerment and unlawful restraint or false imprisonment. Yesterday, in another example of union extremism, union militants in Pennsylvania used locks and chains to trap Verizon managers and replacement workers in a building.

Ask: 

If the Obama administration isn't socialist, how come Americans had to pay more to the government in taxes in 2010 than they spent on food, clothing, and shelter combined? 

Start a rumor: 

Just as Woody Allen would never miss his Monday evening slot playing New Orleans jazz clarinet at Manhattan's Carlyle Hotel, so Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan refuses to let the dignity of her judicial robes interfere with her regular Saturday night appearance as a female mud-wrestler fighting under her nom-de-guerre Ivana Slipalot at the Happy Girlzzz Bar in Soho. 

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

Debate Night: August 12th, 2011

Live Debate this Friday 12th: "Islam Guarantees Women Equality of Rights with Men"

Robert Spencer VS. Moustafa Zayed

Turkey: Two More Steps Toward Islamism

By Barry Rubin, PAJAMAS MEDIA 

In Washington DC they are still ridiculing the idea that Turkey's government is Islamist, is working step by step to transform fundamentally that country's state and society, or that it is closer to Tehran than to the United States nowadays or more friendly to Hamas and Hizballah than to Israel.

Yet anyone who actually talks to Turks or looks at daily life there-and that includes the U.S. embassy in Ankara-knew better.

First, a bombshell. No sooner have the heads of the armed forces resigned than the regime issues an arrest warrent for seven senior officers. The Turkish army is finished as a political force-partly thanks to the European Union insisting that it withdraw from a political role-while the courts are being neutralized and the media is being bought up. There is no institution left to prevent the current regime from Islamizing Turkey and fundamentally transforming its society.

In all, 22 suspects are being sought. And what is the...

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Defeating Islamic Terrorism Through Appeasement

BY DANIEL GREENFIELD FrontPageMag 
The Obama Administration has a new strategy for combating Islamic terrorism. The document that lays out its new strategy avoids using "Terrorism" in its title, instead substituting "Violent Extremism". Jihad is not mentioned anywhere. Even "Muslim" is used as little as possible.

Eight pages of mostly redundant text repeat the same idea, that the only way to fight Islamic terrorism is by partnering with and empowering Muslim communities and organizations. That is the "revolutionary" new idea that merited coverage from the New York Times, NPR and CNN. And if the strategy had to be summed up in one word, it would be, "Collaborate!"

"Empowering Local Partners to Prevent Violent Extremism in the United States," sounds almost as catchy as "Man-Caused Disasters", and comes from the same school of thought. The University of Denial, whose motto is that the best way to fight Islamic terrorism, is not to talk about it....

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Tzipi Livni should resign now

by Isi Leibler 

Opposition Leader Tzipi Livni's unprecedented outburst against Prime Minister Netanyahu to an American audience, in my opinion, warrants Kadima calling for her immediate resignation as party leader.

Livni's eruption was unconscionable. I was amongst those calling on both the Prime Minister and the leader of the opposition to set aside their personal and political ambitions and form a unity government to promote the national interest. However Livni's recent outburst has crossed all red lines and makes this impossible.

In an extensive interview with James Bennett, editor of the influential US journal The Atlantic and Jeffrey Goldberg, a prominent American Jewish journalist, Livni explicitly praised President Obama for pressuring Prime Minister Netanyahu and shamelessly urged the American Administration to intensify pressure on the Israeli government.

She went further and, in a remark she will have cause to regret, even raised the sensitive issue of dual...

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Norway's Jewish problem

By Caroline B. Glick, JPOST 

Norway's government attacked the author for merely pointing out in various ways, that Norway should not use Breivik's attack as justification for further weakening Norwegian democracy

In the wake of Anders Breivik's massacre of his fellow Norwegians, I was amazed at the speed with which the leftist media throughout the US and Europe used his crime as a means of criminalizing their ideological opponents on the Right. Just hours after Breivik's identity was reported, leftist media outlets and blogs were filled with attempts to blame Breivik's crime on conservative public intellectuals whose ideas he cited in a 1,500 page online manifesto.

My revulsion at this bald attempt to use Breivik's crime to attack freedom of speech propelled me to write my July 29 column, "Breivik and totalitarian democrats."

While the focus of my column was the Left's attempt to silence their conservative opponents, I also...

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The Campaign to Panic Israel Into a Bad Strategy

By Barry Rubin
I have a high regard for Aluf Benn, a brilliant guy and one of Israel's best journalists. He has just become editor of Haaretz, Israel's left-wing newspaper, but is the most moderate person to hold that post in many years. Benn has written an interesting op-ed piece in the New York Times.

Labor Party leader Michael Herzog has written something similar. The message is that Israel must rush to help create a Palestinian state as fast as possible in order to protect its own security, even survival. Of course, if this state were to demilitarize (Herzog's proposal), end the conflict, give up the demand for Palestinians to "return" to Israel, and implement a permanent peace treaty that would be a great idea. And if such a deal would improve Israel's regional position that, too, would be good. And if the Palestinian side was eager to make a compromise peace agreement with Israel, that would be viable.

But since none of these conditions apply this line of...

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But a nuclear weapon isn't the only way an EMP can be generated. Even unusually powerful solar activity could produce catastrophic destruction in the United States. No matter how it's generated, the chaotic effects are the same. First, the electromagnetic shock can disrupt electrical devices. The second effect is similar to lightning-a power surge that would burn circuits and immobilize electronic components and systems. The third is a pulse effect that flows through electricity trans­mission lines, damaging distribution centers and fusing power lines. Any of these can cause irreversible damage to an electronic system. And the United States would effectively be sent back to the 19th century, to a world without cars, cell phones, computers, or any other electronics.

Fetured Posts 

Dear Conan, Reckless Government Spending Is Worse Than You Think

$3.3 Trillion Vaporized from U.S. Stocks since April 29, 2011

More Tax Subsidies for Abortion in Obamacare

Gallup Poll: Americans' Confidence in the Economy Plunges

Only Days In, Verizon Strike Already Getting Ugly

QUICK HITS

Republican presidential candidates will debate in Ames, Iowa, tonight. The debate comes ahead of Saturday's straw poll contest.

An airstrike by international forces killed the Taliban insurgents responsible for the death of 38 U.S. and Afghan forces last weekend. Elsewhere in Afghanistan, a bomb killed five NATO soldiers on Thursday.

Google is coming under sharper scrutiny from the Federal Trade Commission. Lawyers have been asking whether the search engine giant is preventing smartphone manufacturers from using competitors' services.

Representative Peter King (R-NY) is demanding an investigation into a report that the White House is cooperating on a film about the mission to kill Osama bin Laden. The movie is slated for release on October 12, 2012, just before the November presidential election.

$3.3 trillion invested in the U.S. stock market has been wiped out between April 29 and August 10. That's more than the gross domestic product of Canada, the U.K., and Germany.

Collapsing the System ... on Purpose

By Discover The Networks
 

First proposed in 1966 by two Columbia University sociologists (both longtime members of the Democratic Socialists of America), the "Cloward-Piven Strategy" seeks to hasten the fall of capitalism by overloading government bureaucracies with a flood of impossible demands, thus pushing society into crisis and economic collapse.

Today's Headlines:  Thursday, August 11, 2011

First Lady's Anti-Obesity Campaign Made Heavy Children Into Targets, Group Warns

HHS: Obamacare-Funded Health Centers for 'Migrants' Won't Check Immigration Status

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 DOE Chief of Staff: State Education Standards Are 'Lying' to Parents

'Made in the USA' Requirement Pushed As Job-Creator for California

Obama Administration Proposes a Regulation to Solve a Problem It Can't See

Conservative Republicans Praised Back Home for 'No' Vote on Debt Ceiling Bill

King: Investigate Possible Administration Leaks to Hollywood About Bin Laden Kill

Bin Laden's Death Has Not Affected Battleground in Afghanistan, U.S. Commander Says

 GOP Hopefuls Looking for Boost From Thursday's Debate in Iowa

Partisan Divide Expected to Stymie Deficit-Reduction Panel 

COMMENTARY:

Ignorance, Stupidity or Connivance?
By Walter E. Williams
President Obama's call for a luxury tax on corporate jets as a means to generate revenue to fight federal deficits is unwise and counterproductive.

Anyone Want to Buy My Stocks?
By Ben Shapiro
Obama's stunning unwillingness to seriously address the debt crisis means that America teeters on the brink.

Fueling Higher Gas Prices
By Ed Feulner
If the Obama administration were serious about lowering gasoline prices, it would immediately lift the moratorium it placed on deep-water drilling.

NEWSPAPER ROUNDUP:

Kern County, Calif., bans medical marijuana dispensaries
Illegal immigrant who sneaked back into U.S. gets 3 years in prison
Moody's warns state and local governments could see credit downgrades
Poll: 73 percent of Americans say country headed in wrong direction
Nervous Democrats say President Obama must be bolder on economy
Opinion: Why the center-left is fed up with Obama
Overseas crises loom for Obama
Obama in trouble: Disapproval among Iowa independents at 61 percent
Michelle Obama coming to RI to raise funds for husband
Poll suggests Republican could win Weiner seat
Virginia to hold day of mourning for Navy SEALs, others killed in Afghanistan
Census paints Maryland's future a Hispanic hue
Broward County's newest homeless: Job seekers from out of town

Fed up! A Texas bank is calling it quits

Going Galt

Main Street Bank lends most of its money to small businesses and is earning decent profits. But the Kingwood, Texas, bank is about to get out of the banking business.

In an extreme example of the frustration felt by many bankers as regulators toughen their oversight of the nation's financial institutions, Main Street's chairman, Thomas Depping, is expected to announce Wednesday that the 27-year-old bank will surrender its banking charter and sell its four branches to a nearby bank.

Click here to read the full article at the Wall Street Journal

U.S. blocks $1 million Italian supercar

NTSB nannies block awesome car

Italian automaker Pagani was to begin selling its $1 million, 700 horsepower Huayra supercar in the U.S. later this year but federal safety regulators have said "Not so fast."

Pagani had applied for an exemption from federal auto safety rules requiring child-safe "advanced" airbags, arguing that complying with the rule would have caused "substantial economic hardship," according to documents from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

Click here to read the full article at Yahoo News

Britain's rioters: young, poor, disillusioned

And a little crazy

Each of the young rioters who clogged Britain's courthouses painted a bleak picture of a lost generation: a 15-year-old Ukrainian whose mother died, a 17-year-old who followed his cousin into the mayhem, an 11-year-old arrested for stealing a garbage can.

Britain is bitterly divided on the reasons behind the riots. Some blame the unrest on opportunistic criminality, while others say conflicting economic policies and punishing government spending cuts have deepened inequalities in the country's most deprived areas.

Click here to read the full article at Yahoo News

Years of liberal dogma have spawned a generation of amoral, uneducated, welfare dependent, brutalised youngsters

The products of the welfare state

A few weeks after the U.S. city of Detroit was ravaged by 1967 race riots in which 43 people died, I was shown around the wrecked areas by a black  reporter named Joe Strickland.

He said: 'Don't you believe all that stuff people here are giving media folk about how sorry they are about what happened. When they talk to each other, they say: "It was a great fire man!"

Click here to read the full article at the Daily Mail

Despite growing resistance to smokeless tobacco, major league ban might be difficult to attain

Nannies target MLB

A.J. Burnett reached inside a circular tin this past winter, pinched off a lump of finely ground tobacco and wedged it between his lower lip and gum, a process known as "packing a dip."

Burnett had dipped hundreds of times before, so he didn't think twice about the bulge protruding from his mouth, or the brown saliva he would soon need to spit out, or the consequences his habit might have on his health. It would have stayed this way, too, had Burnett not felt a tug on the back of his shirt.

Click here to read the full article at the NJ Star-Ledger

Alexander's Essay - August 11, 2011

The Obama Degrade

Undermining our Legacy of Liberty

"No pecuniary consideration is more urgent, than the regular redemption and discharge of the public debt: on none can delay be more injurious, or an economy of time more valuable. ... Cherish public credit. One method of preserving it is to use it as sparingly as possible: avoiding occasions of expence [and] avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt ... not ungenerously throwing upon posterity the burthen which we ourselves ought to bear." --George Washington, December 3, 1793

Despite all the political rhetoric about the historic downgrade of our nation's credit rating last week, that devaluation was a mere shadow of the colossal degradation Barack Hussein Obama and his socialist cadres have inflicted upon our country since 20 January 2009. Of much greater significance than our nation's credit, our nation's credibility as a constitutional republic has suffered relentless and ruthless offense.

Obama is succeeding in his endeavor to break the back of free enterprise, a keystone of Essential Liberty, by implementing failed "New Deal" policies and rejecting sound free market principles. His endeavor to lay the groundwork for the transformation to "Democratic Socialism" has been so successful that the debate about the future of American Liberty now includes the once-radical question of whether it will be restored by way of the "ballot or bullet box."

Ballot or bullets? Post your comment.

To understand Obama's degradation of our national credibility in an economic context, consider that the U.S. credit rating is, in effect, a barometer of the world's confidence in our national leadership and the direction of the U.S. economy. Thus, its downgrade is a dire indication of worldview regarding the systemic economic risk of the debt bomb Obama has dropped on our nation.

It is worth noting that Standard & Poor's was not the first rating organization to downgrade U.S. credit standing. Dagong Global Credit Rating, the leading rating agency in China (the largest foreign holder of U.S. debt), cut the U.S. rating last week for the second time since November 2010. Dagong's chairman said the U.S. dollar is being "gradually discarded by the world," and the "process will be irreversible." No small wonder, but it is with much irony that the Red Chinese have been lobbying Obama to cut government growth, taxes and regulation.

Of course, Americans -- via their investment funds, retirement plans, etc. -- are the largest holders of U.S. debt, while future generations have the greatest liability for debt interest and repayment. They are thus the creditors at greatest risk. Ultimately, the U.S. can always print money to cover debt. The resulting inflation may make U.S. bonds worth 10 cents on the dollar, but you'll get your dollars back -- and you will need them, since a loaf of bread will then cost 50 bucks. (Not surprisingly, the price of gold, the world's hard currency hedge against fiat currency inflation, reached record levels this week.)

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Likewise, the major domestic stock indexes -- the Dow, NASDAQ and S&P 500 -- are more than just measures of the average value of stocks traded on those exchanges. They are also barometers of American confidence in our national leadership and the direction of the U.S. economy. The index values have gradually increased over the last two years in anticipation of a short-term harvest from Obama's massive redistribution of wealth from future generations to the present. However, the bill is now coming due. That fact was made clear last week when, on the very day Obama was lavishly celebrating his birthday with Hollywonks and Leftist elites at taxpayer expense, our nation's total outstanding debt surpassed our total annual gross domestic product (economic output), for the first time since 1947.

In 2008, before Obama took office, public debt was 40.3 percent of GDP. After the so-called "debt ceiling deal" last week, the Obama administration spent more in four days than presidents Truman and Eisenhower spent in 10 years!

Clearly in denial as to the underlying reasons for the credit downgrade, Obama claimed world financial markets "still believe our credit is AAA and the world's investors agree." Earth to Planet Obama...

Predictably, Obama's water boys responded to the credit downgrade by shooting the messenger. U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said the S&P showed "terrible judgment." Lawrence Summers, former director of Obama's National Economic Council, claimed the S&P "handled themselves very poorly. And they've shown a stunning lack of knowledge about the basic U.S. fiscal budget math."

Asked if Obama's policies were undermining the economy, Geithner responded, "Oh, absolutely not. You see, he worked incredibly hard in making real incredibly [sic] progress trying to heal the damage made by this incredible crisis and you saw him work his heart out to try to bring both parties together to reach an agreement on the long-term fiscal deal."

Obama did, however, manage to conjure up one fact-based observation about the failing U.S. economy: "It's not a lack of plans or policies that is a problem here, it's a lack of political will in Washington. It is the insistence of drawing lines in the sand. A refusal to put what's best for the country ahead of self-interest or party or ideology. And that's what we need to change."

What do you think we need to change?

Of course, "lack of political will" and "self-interest or ideology" refers to those who do not support Obama's goal to "fundamentally transform the United States of America" into a socialist republic.

Today, despite our nation's debt-riddled condition, Obama is actually calling for more government spending and higher taxes to "cure" the economic crisis. His theory is that we can "spend and tax our way to prosperity." Following Obama's logic, America's obesity epidemic can be solved by raising the benchmark weight ceiling, or simply declaring "Eat More/Weigh Less!" We can solve the DUI problem by raising the blood alcohol ceiling. Obama can solve the question of his re-election by raising the poverty ceiling to increase the number of welfare dependents.

According to Beltway heavyweights, the S&P is not the real culprit behind the credit downgrade and our national degradation. It's -- you guessed it -- those Tea Party "terrorists" who sent 87 new Republican House members to the Swamp in January to help restore the authority of our Constitution.

"I believe this is, without question, the Tea Party downgrade," claimed Jean François Kerry last Sunday on Meet the Press. Kerry went on to suggest the media should black out Tea Party conservatives' advocacy for the restoration of constitutional integrity and fiscal sanity. "I have to tell you," he pontificated, "I say this to you politely. The media in America has a bigger responsibility than it's exercising today. The media has got to begin to not give equal time or equal balance to an absolutely absurd notion just because somebody asserts it or simply because somebody says something which everybody knows is not factual."

When it comes to the question of Rule of Law as enshrined in our Constitution, Kerry clearly takes his cue from his Demo colleague Patrick Leahy, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee (where Rule of Law should reign supreme): "Nobody questions that."

"This is essentially a Tea Party downgrade," said Obama senior flack David Axelrod, mimicking the Democrats' talking point du jour.

"This is a Tea Party problem," ranted former Demo National Committee chairman Howard Dean, no doubt reading from the same script. "I think they've been smoking some of that tea and not just drinking it. They are totally unreasonable and doctrinaire and not founded in reality."

Martin Frost, former chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, claims, "We now have a group of U.S. politicians seeking political purity, who seem to have much in common with the Taliban. They are Tea Party members, and because of blind adherence to smaller government, they seem intent on destroying what American political leaders have constructed in more than two centuries of hard, often painful, work. Like the Taliban, they see compromise as an unacceptable alternative."

Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) decried the Tea Party's efforts as "hostage-taking," saying, "It's as if someone puts a gun to your head and says give me your money." He even gestured with his fingers as if pointing a gun at his head. (Somebody get Babs Boxer on the phone...)

Williams Yeomans, former chief aide to Ted Kennedy, asserts, "It has become commonplace to call the Tea Party faction in the House 'hostage takers.' But they have now become full-blown terrorists. They have joined the villains of American history who have been sufficiently craven to inflict massive harm on innocent victims to achieve their political goals."

New York Times scribe Maureen Dowd, the darling of liberal punditry, wrote, "The maniacal Tea Party freshmen are trying to burn down the House they were elected to serve in. It turns out they wanted to come inside to get a blueprint of the historic building to sabotage it."

Not to be left out, Times columnist Thomas Friedman joined the smear fest: "If sane Republicans do not stand up to this Hezbollah faction in their midst, the Tea Party will take the GOP on a suicide mission." Likewise, Times columnist Joe Nocera opined the nation "watched in horror as the Tea Party Republicans waged jihad on the American people."

For the record, I'm certain beyond any reasonable doubt that when you're on the opposite side of any issue with the likes of Kerry, Axelrod, Dean, Schumer, Dowd, et al., you're on the right side, the "correct" side, of Essential Liberty.

Who really needs a downgrade?

National Review aptly summed up the Left's assault on the Tea Party: "The Obama administration and congressional Democrats are betting their political futures on the hope that the American electorate is ignorant and forgetful, and hence the memo has gone out to functionaries hither and yon, from David Axelrod to John Kerry: This is to be called the 'tea-party downgrade.' That this is said with straight faces bespeaks either an unshakable contempt for the mind of the American voter or an as-yet unplumbed capacity for Democratic self-delusion."

In the final analysis, the devaluation of the U.S. credit rating can only be accurately characterized as the "Obama Downgrade," but as noted above the fold in this essay, the underlying issue isn't credit. It's credibility.

Obama has proven what many of us warned when this narcissistic neophyte first jumped out of John Kerry's lap onto the political stage in 2004: He is an ideological socialist and he has no credibility. He is a failure from A to Z, and consequently this crisis is about the Presidential Downgrade.

It is now up to American Patriots across the nation to ensure a presidential upgrade in 2012.

And in keeping with the spirit of American Patriotism, if the ballot option does not work, one might recall the words of old Tom Jefferson: "God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion. ... What country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time, that the people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to the facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure."

Semper Vigilo, Fortis, Paratus et Fidelis!

Mark Alexander
Publisher, The Patriot Post

The Death Of Bi-Partisanship!

Aug 11, 2011 06:13 am | Coach Collins

By Ron Reale, staff writer

I hope,  at this point,  we can all agree that the greatest enemy to our Representative form of government is,  "Bi-partisanship."  After this recent debate over the raising of the Debt Limit,  and the successful screwing of the taxpayer yet again,  it is clear that,  "Bi-partisanship," just leads to deals being made so egotistic politicians can say they made a deal.

I,  for one,  do not want my Congressional Representative,  the person I picked to speak for me in Washington because of his stated beliefs,  to give up those beliefs for the Politically Correct label of  "Bi-partisan."

 I don't want someone who claims to be for smaller government and less spending,  to agree with a plan,  in my name,  that spends more,  in one day,  than was spent by our government all during the ten years of the 1950s, because  we all know these cuts will  never ... Continue Reading:The Death Of Bi-Partisanship!

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For Wisconsin's Democrats recall defeats were their Gettysburg

Aug 10, 2011 02:35 pm | Coach Collins

By Kevin "Coach" Collins

When Robert E. Lee was forced to turn back and retreat from Pennsylvania ending his dream of winning the Civil War by invading the North it quickly became clear that he had thrown his best punch and failed. Lee almost won but didn't.  While the Confederates won some major battles after Gettysburg their will to fight and the appetite for loaning them money was gone.  

Yesterday the Wisconsin Democrats brought their invasion to Republican held State Senate districts. To turn back the tide of conservatism in Wisconsin the Democrats instigated recall elections of six Republican Senators. They almost won enough seats to make a difference but didn't.

 They needed to take three seats to wrest control of the State's upper chamber from the Republicans, but they failed. Gettysburg has come for Wisconsin's Democrats which is fitting since most Confederates were Democrats as well.

Why the Democrats lost

  The Democrats' lost because they ... Continue Reading:For Wisconsin's Democrats recall defeats were their Gettysburg

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 A LETTER FROM A PROCTER AND GAMBLE EXECUTIVE TO THE PRESIDENT

THE LAST SENTENCE IS THE MOST CHILLING

(Lou Pritchett is one of corporate America 's true living legends; an acclaimed author, dynamic teacher and one of the world's highest rated speakers. Successful corporate executives everywhere recognize him as the foremost leader in change management.

Lou changed the way America does business by creating an audacious concept that came to be known as "partnering."

Pritchett rose from soap salesman to Vice-President, Sales and Customer Development for Procter and Gamble and over the course of 36 years, made corporate history.)

AN OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT OBAMA

Dear President Obama:

You are the thirteenth President under whom I have lived and unlike
any of the others, you truly scare me.

You scare me because after months of exposure, I know nothing about you.

You scare me because I do not know how you paid for your expensive
Ivy League education and your upscale lifestyle and housing with no
visible signs of support.

You scare me because you did not spend the formative years of youth
growing up in America and culturally you are not an American.

You scare me because you have never run a company or met a payroll.

You scare me because you have never had military experience, thus
don't understand it at its core.

You scare me because you lack humility and 'class', always blaming others.

You scare me because for over half your life you have aligned
yourself with radical extremists who hate America and you refuse to
publicly denounce these radicals who wish to see America fail..

You scare me because you are a cheerleader for the 'blame America '
crowd and deliver this message abroad.

You scare me because you want to change America to a European style
country where the government sector dominates instead of the private sector.

You scare me because you want to replace our health care system
with a government controlled one.

You scare me because you prefer 'wind mills' to responsibly
capitalizing on our own vast oil, coal and shale reserves.

You scare me because you want to kill the American capitalist goose
that lays the golden egg which provides the highest standard of
living in the world.

You scare me because you have begun to use 'extortion' tactics
against certain banks and corporations.

You scare me because your own political party shrinks from
challenging you on your wild and irresponsible spending proposals.

You scare me because you will not openly listen to or even consider
opposing points of view from intelligent people.

You scare me because you falsely believe that you are both
omnipotent and omniscient.

You scare me because the media gives you a free pass on everything
you do.

You scare me because you demonize and want to silence the
Limbaugh's, Hannity's, O'Reillys and Becks who offer opposing,
conservative points of view.

You scare me because you prefer controlling over governing.

Finally, you scare me because if you serve a second term I will
probably not feel safe in writing a similar letter in 8 years

Lou Pritchett

This letter was sent to the NY Times but they never acknowledged it.
Big surprise!! Since it hit the internet, however, it has had over
500,000 hits. Keep it going. "All that is necessary for evil to succeed
is that good men do nothing. It's happening right now."

Since passage of the Dirty Debt deal, lawmakers on both sides of the political aisle raced home to their district offices -- in theory for summer recess and to meet with constituents ...

Only one problem ...

      With nearly half the month of August gone, most of

      the congressional offices Grassfire Nation contacted

      had yet to schedule even a single town hall.

      In fact, many seemed less than excited about the

      prospect of having a town hall!

That leads us to conclude that members of Congress don't want to meet with their constituents. Even worse, many want to avoid answering to their support of the Dirty Debt Deal.

+ + Are your Pennsylvania Congressmen avoiding you?

Grassfire Nation needs your help.

With August quickly slipping away, and opportunities for Americans to dialogue with their Congressmen about the spending crisis and subsequent debt deal evaporating, we are asking members of our team to contact their lawmakers and find out if and when a Town Hall is scheduled in your area.

Our goal is to quickly assemble a nationwide Town Hall database.

Here's what we need you to do:

First, contact your Congressmen (numbers provided below):

Rep. Fitzpatrick 202-225-4276

Senator Casey 202-224-6324

Senator Toomey 202-224-4254

When calling, politely ask the staffer if your lawmaker has scheduled any Town Hall events. If the staffer answers "yes,"

carefully take down the necessary information such as date, time, location (address) and website (if provided), and put it in our Town Hall database by clicking here:

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Your information will then be made available to other team members living in Pennsylvania, in hopes that many citizens in your area will attend these meetings and have the opportunity to put their Congressmen on notice and hold them accountable for their actions.

We've even provided space for you to comment if your Congressman isn't planning a Town Hall, or is evasive!

Please don't delay. Your calls are vital to the success of our database.

+ + Fax first-term lawmakers who supported the Dirty Debt Deal

Lastly, many Grassfire Nation team members took action by faxing the more than sixty newly-minted Congressmen who voted in support of the dirty debt deal.

      Edward, if you haven't yet scheduled your

      personalized faxes for immediate delivery to these

      first term lawmakers who betrayed the very Tea Party

      citizens who put them in office, click here now:

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The actions of these GOP lawmakers demands an immediate response, and our exclusive Faxfire faxing system delivers your personalized message directly to their offices.

Thank you for standing with Grassfire Nation!

Grassfire Nation

P.S. Again, we are counting on you to help Grassfire Nation quickly set up a national Town Hall database.

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This e-mail address is not designed to receive your personal

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or to change your status, see link at the end.)

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a million-strong network of grassroots conservatives that is

dedicated to equipping you with the tools that give you a

realimpact on the key issues of our day.  Copyright 2011

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Aborting the Monroe Doctrine?    

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell was published August 7, 2011 on The Huffington Post.    For almost two hundred years, the Monroe Doctrine has been a cornerstone of American foreign policy. First proclaimed in December 1823, the message from President James Monroe to the imperialist ruling houses of Europe was bold and unmistakable: The western hemisphere, including Latin American colonies throwing off European rule, was not open to further colonization. The U.S. government said we would view any attempt by Europeans to extend their existing colonies into independent American states, or to interfere with those states striving to achieve their independence, as hostile acts against us, the United States of America.

The United States thereby assumed a role as protector of the sovereignty of our Latin American sister republics. Today, that independence is being threatened by European nations through the UN. C-FAM (the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute) is reporting that Western European nations are bringing economic pressures to bear through the UN to force Latin American countries to liberalize their abortion laws. Cristina Gutierrez writes in C-FAM's authoritative Friday Fax how European governments are exerting heavy-handed influence through UN agencies, demanding that nations like El Salvador, Costa Rica, Belize, and Bolivia enact abortion-on-demand. And not just these little Latin states are being bossed. Such Latin giants as Argentina, Brazil, and Chile are being hectored about their domestic affairs by European nations whose own houses are a shambles.   

Read the Entire Column  

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This UN site also offers printed versions for $12.50, pdf versions for $10.00  Those socialists believe just enough in capitalism to make a quick buck on it.  In it, you'll find enough wording about sustainable development, redistribution and fairness to  last a bureaucrat's lifetime.

Lou

http://www.un.org/esa/dsd/agenda21/res_agenda21_00.shtml

HERE'S A PORTION OF THE TABLE OF CONTENTS:

please send this to your Congressman or woman and

Senators now. Ask them for a response.

Wow, why won't anyone pay attention and impeach him?!   

It was brought to light that back in 1961 people of color were called 'Negroes..' So how can this 'birth certificate' state he is 'African-American' when the term wasn't even used back then?? This isn't over!
This is interesting!

Here is a comment from a reader to George Ure at UrbanSurvival.com:
"As you all know, Donald Trump made a big deal about Obama's birth certificate.

I will tell you right now that I had never given this "birther" issue any credit. I watched the hype and the crazies come out. I completely dismissed the entire ordeal altogether.

In fact, it was not until the White House released the birth certificate that it had gained my attention. I am the studious sort of guy, and I have plenty of time on my hands. So, I took a close look at this document.

While I would have thought that this issue would have been closed for good (and, got the crazies to crawl back into their holes), I found two extremely strange inconsistencies that merit some attention.

First of all, the birth certificate that the White House released lists Obama's birth as August 4, 1961. It also lists Barack Hussein Obama as his father. No big deal, right? At the time of Obama's birth, it also
shows that his father is aged 25 years old, and that Obama's father was born in " Kenya , East Africa ".

This wouldn't seem like anything of concern, except the fact that Kenya did not even exist until 1963, two whole years after Obama's birth, and 27 years after his father's birth. How could Obama's father have been
born in a country that did not yet exist?

Up and until Kenya was formed in 1963, it was known as the "British East Africa Protectorate". But, this is not the only thing that I found that just does not jive.

The other item that I looked into was the hospital that Obama was born in. On the birth certificate released by the White House, the listed place of birth is "Kapi'olani Maternity & Gynecological Hospital "..

This cannot be, because the hospital(s) in question in 1961 were called
"KauiKeolani Children's Hospital" and "Kapi'olani Maternity Home", respectively.

The name did not change to Kapi'olani Maternity & Gynecological Hospital until 1978, when these two hospitals merged. How can this particular name of the hospital be on a birth certificate dated 1961 if this name
had not yet been applied to it until 1978?

Go ahead, look it up. I am not talking crazy talk, these are the facts.
Like I said, I thought that this was a non-issue until the actual certificate was released. Now that it has been released, of course I had to look into it. I have found these issues, now I know that something is
up. If you doubt me, just look at the following resources:

Sure as ice cream, the hospital part is true, as you can read about the 1978 merger here.   http://www.kapiolani.org/women-and-children/about-us/default.aspx
  Post-colonial history (from Wikipedia)  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Kenya
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenya
  The first direct elections for Africans to the Legislative Council took place in 1957.
Despite British hopes of handing power to "moderate" African rivals, it was the Kenya African National Union (KANU) of Jomo Kenyatta that formed
a government shortly before Kenya became independent on 12 December 1963, on the same day forming the first Constitution of Kenya .

"In God We Trust"........
"God Save & Bless OUR Country"..........
"Almighty GOD, Intercede for OUR Country & OUR Troops"........
Get ready for 2012 -
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Bring back the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA !!!----
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak.

Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.----Winston Churchill

August 11, 2011
  Stewardship to Serve the Poor and Protect Future Generations

"God is watching." A Christian group sent that warning in an ad addressed to Congress and President Barack Obama during the recent debt fight. "The Bible teaches that God is watching to see how the poor fare under the decisions of the politically powerful," the ad by Sojourners said.

True enough. But that doesn't necessarily mean God is looking for a Sojourners-approved "Circle of Protection" around federal anti-poverty spending. This "Circle of Protection" would take those anti-poverty programs off the table in the ongoing debate about America's budget crisis. Advocates haven't mentioned the number of programs or amount of funding implied in their call to preserve this spending.

Here are some details they left out: The federal government currently runs 70 means-tested programs providing aid to the poor, to the tune of about $700 billion per year. With the exception of one major program transformed in the 1996 welfare reform-Temporary Assistance to Needy Families-most have done little to help recipients escape poverty. Some contribute to a cycle of intergenerational dependence on welfare.

Do these advocates for the poor really want to protect this failed status quo? After all, God is also watching our stewardship.

Those who appeal to the Bible in this debate have more than one moral mandate to heed. As a new network called Christians for a Sustainable Economy (CASE) points out, the whole counsel of Scripture "urges not only compassion and provision for the poor but also the perils of debt and the importance of wise stewardship."

On the moral measure of good stewardship, we fall far short. Each American born today inherits a debt of $200,000 because of runaway federal spending-and no house to go with it. It is immoral to pass on such levels of indebtedness to those who come after us.

We can and must find ways to serve the needs of the poor while ensuring the security of future generations. 

Obamacare Limits Children's Access to Care
 

Last Wednesday, the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee released a grim report showing a reduction in the availability of child-only policies for parents looking to purchase health insurance for their children.

The findings show that, "Of the 50 states, 17 reported that there are currently no carriers selling child-only health plans to new enrollees. Thirty-nine states indicated at least one insurance carrier exited the child-only market following enactment of the new health care laws."

The reason for this decline in child coverage is that specific provisions of Obamacare regulating the child insurance market have made it more difficult for insurers to continue offering the plans. Obamacare creates what is commonly known as a "guarantee issue" requirement for the child-only market, which means insurers cannot deny coverage based on preexisting conditions.

Although this intent behind this policy is obviously to expand coverage, in reality it makes it financially unsustainable for insurers to continue offering child-only health insurance due to adverse selection. As the report explains:

Requiring carriers to sell child-only plans to anyone at any time allows individuals to wait until a child is sick and then purchase coverage. This undermines one of the fundamental principles of insurance, which allows individuals to manage risk by pooling resources to help pay for future, unpredictable expenses. If an individual can avoid paying premiums until they know they will incur an expense, it is impossible for such a system of insurance to be financially sustainable.

If healthy individuals forego insurance, only the sickest individuals are left in insurance pools, increasing costs for insurers. This further drives up premiums and further discourages healthier individuals from participating. This is aptly referred to as the insurance "death spiral."

The effects of prohibiting preexisting-condition exclusions in the child-only policy market will impact all covered individuals in 2014, when the same rules will apply to adult policies as well.

This is unnecessary. As Heritage health policy expert Ed Haislmaier outlines, Congress could enact reform that ensures that all individuals can access coverage regardless of preexisting conditions without unleashing the effects of adverse selection in the insurance market, which increase costs and reduce choice. Applying the successful rules already governing group coverage to all insurance represents a strategy that, according to Haislmaier, "fixes any legitimate problems without destabilizing health insurance markets-and in the process eliminates the rationale for retaining [Obamacare's] unpopular and unworkable individual mandate."

Are you willing to donate $15 to tell Barack Obama that you condemn his obvious contempt for Congressional defeat of the DREAM Act? Please don't decide until you read this message, which outlines precisely how our president continues to ignore the will of the American people and pursue a surreptitious plan for granting stealth amnesty to illegal aliens.

Working with open border special interests like the ACLU, SPLC, and Casa de Maryland - whose chilling vision for a lawless border represents everything that FAIR opposes -- Obama is advancing a national "amnesty by decree" agenda to circumvent the will of the people and American interests.

Consider the following:

• A recent memo to ICE agents from Enforcement Director John Morton directed agents to use "prosecutorial discretion" in their enforcement efforts -- in effect, granting administrative amnesty to potentially deportable illegal aliens. Thankfully, FAIR staff got the word out quickly and Congress has responded by holding hearings that will hopefully hinder the administration's efforts.
• Attorney General Eric Holder filed a lawsuit against the State of Alabama's valiant attempt to enforce immigration laws -- in effect, signaling that the feds don't want any jurisdiction to enforce the laws it refuses to enforce. Fortunately, FAIR is on the forefront of helping the states write new laws as effective as the Arizona's SB 1070, which we helped draft.
• After Maryland's Legislature decided to burden state taxpayers by passing in-state tuition for illegal aliens, Marylanders garnered enough petition signatures to bring this issue to a general referendum in November 2012 -- stopping this ludicrous law in its tracks!! Casa de Maryland has already announced that it will spend upwards of $5 million to silence opponents and stop the referendum.

And it won't stop there! These are just three examples of "Amnesty by Decree" that FAIR has discovered and is fighting against -- on behalf of law-abiding, tax-paying Americans like you!

If you share our outrage at this imperious brand of stealth amnesty, act right now. Send $15 to fuel the FAIR Fight for meaningful -- not farcical -- enforcement of our immigration laws. Every dollar we receive helps to pay for FAIR's research and field operations teams across the country.

Send FAIR $15 now and tell the president that amnesty by any other name is still amnesty.

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 August 11, 2011
 
  wh- 'unemployment checks = jobs'    White House Press Secretary Jay Carney got testy with a reporter from the Wall Street Journal. Watch as the short-tempered Carney's answers become increasingly more brusque as the reporter persists her line of questioning HERE.

did atheists hijack a blaze poll?   On Tuesday a Blaze poll that was intended to spark a debate ended up inspiring a bit of an atheist attack instead. The poll question posed, "How did mankind come about?" A college professor and prominent Atheist took exception to the trending of the poll and challenged his substantial social network followers to weigh in. See the results of his work HERE.

LOOTERS: 'JUST GETTING OUR TAXES BACK'   A British TV reporter was awakened by looters storming the local businesses in his neighborhood. So he grabbed a camera and asked them why they were doing this. The surprising answers can be seen  HERE.

A GOP DEBATE PREVIEW, AND MOVE-ON WANTS TO KICK IN JOHN BOEHNER'S DOOR     Twice a day, The Blaze collects a handful of vital stories that should be part of your knowledge base. We call them the Must-Reads, and Thursday morning's stories are all lined up and waiting for you HERE.

should sesame street's bert & ernie get married?   Since New York State legalized gay marriage last month, there has been pressure on the producers of Sesame Street to have Bert and Ernie get married. Rumors about the fuzzy duo's sexuality have swirled around the Internet for years, but not everyone in the gay community agrees on a Sesame Street gay wedding. Read the details HERE.  

VIRAL VIDEO DU JOUR - GLENN BECK PICKS 'FELONIUS MONK' AS VIDEO OF THE DAY   It's a safe bet that most readers of The Blaze are not familiar with the comedic talents of a gentleman known as "Felonius Monk". Glenn brought to our attention this three minute, profanity-laced rant about the state of the economy to our attention. If salty language turns your stomach, do not click HERE.

Jim Rogers: Bernanke, Geithner Leading Us Into Fiscal Armageddon
By Henry J. Reske and Kathleen Walter
NewsMax/com   

The United States is quickly approaching a fiscal Armageddon and the players in Washington -- specifically Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke -- don't understand what is happening or know what do about it, world renowned investor and author Jim Rogers tells Newsmax.TV.

The chairman of Rogers Holdings and Beeland Interests, Inc. predicted more problems in the financial markets in the next few years and said any halt in the decline of stocks was just a "temporary bottom."

Buyer's Remorse: Liberals Regret Electing Obama
By Katie Pavlich
TownHall.com

Terror 'Co-Conspirator' Vets Military Chaplains
By Aaron Klein
WorldNetDaily

Thursday, August 11, 2011

To: Friends & Supporters

From: Gary L. Bauer


Debate Night

Eight GOP candidates will share the stage during tonight's presidential debate sponsored by Fox News, the Washington Examiner and the Iowa Republican Party. The candidates participating in the debate are: Michele Bachmann, Herman Cain, Newt Gingrich, Jon Huntsman, Ron Paul, Tim Pawlenty, Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum. The debate will air at 9:00 PM ET.

This is an important debate that could well influence the results of Saturday's Iowa straw poll, which will likely begin the winnowing process. It will be the first debate featuring Jon Huntsman, a former governor of Utah and former U.S. ambassador to China under Obama.

There are still two tremendous personalities looming in the background -- Sarah Palin and Rick Perry. It is widely believed that Perry will jump into the race this weekend with a speech in South Carolina, while Palin has announced that her bus tour will visit the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines this Saturday.

Meanwhile, there is other news making headlines in Iowa today. A new poll finds Obama's approval rating in the Hawkeye State down to just 43% among likely voters. Among independent voters it's even worse at just 32%, with a whopping 61% of independents disapproving of Obama's job performance.

Obama carried the state by 10 points in November 2008. This poll is yet another indication that the incumbent president faces significant headwinds as the 2012 campaign gets underway.


Hollywood To The Rescue

Tuesday President Obama flew to Dover Air Force Base to attend the "dignified transfer ceremony" of the soldiers killed in Afghanistan last weekend. No media coverage of the ceremony was allowed because more than half of the families of the fallen heroes objected.

Yet in spite of the media blackout and the families' objections, the White House released its own dramatic photo of a silhouetted President Obama saluting during the ceremony.

According to a Pentagon spokesman, officials at Dover Air Force Base did not know that a White House photographer was at the ceremony. Moreover, "the photographers who routinely travel with the defense secretary and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff were not allowed to go to the event, and no official Pentagon photos were taken or released."

This episode underscores how willing the Obama White House is to exploit any situation it can for Obama's benefit. Unfortunately, there's much more to come.

News broke this weekend that Sony Pictures is making a movie about Seal Team 6 and the killing of Osama bin Laden. Maureen Dowd, a left-wing columnist for the New York Times, wrote that the filmmakers were getting "top-level access," and even "showed up recently -- to the surprise of some military officers -- at a C.I.A. ceremony celebrating the hero SEALs."

Rep. Peter King, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, is calling for an investigation of the film. In a letter to the inspectors general of the Defense Department and the CIA, Rep. King noted that top military officials were alarmed that so much information about the bin Laden raid became public so quickly. Consider this excerpt from King's letter:

"Special Operations Command's Admiral Eric Olson stated that the May 1st raid 'was successful because nobody talked about it before, and if we want to preserve this capability nobody better talk about it after,' and that his operators' '15 minutes of fame lasted about 14 minutes too long.' ...

Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Admiral Michael Mullen stated that 'It is time to stop talking,' as 'We have gotten to a point where we are close to jeopardizing the precision capability that we have, and we can't afford to do that.'...

Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates stated that 'Too many people in too many places are talking too much about this operation, and when so much detail is available it makes that both more difficult and riskier' for such missions in the future."

Friend --

At a time when our country is in serious trouble, two black personalities -- PBS host Tavis Smiley and left wing Princeton University professor Cornell West -- have launched a 15-city "poverty" tour to exploit the opportunity for their "minority" agenda. 

In the words of West, "...we're going to hit the brown barrios, the Asian poor communities, white poor communities, the Black hoods."
 
What's their message?
 
The gap in wealth in America between blacks and whites is "...tied to greed and power among our oligarchs and plutocrats."  Translation: the poor are poor because the rich are rich.
 
What's their solution?
 
"...massive job creation programs and massive investment in public housing, education, transportation and health."
 
Maybe you wonder "Why is Star always asking for more support?"
 
This should make it clear.  I am the ONLY voice fighting this - and I need your help.
 
These two black personalities - Smiley and West - command respect in low-income communities.  They will be listened to.  They will tell low-income Americans that the system is rigged, to not believe in America and that the country only works for the rich.  Black Democrats in Congress will echo these views and mobilize support to push against everything we need to do to save our nation and get it back on track.
 
Millions of low-income Americans, many out of work, will hear that they've been abandoned. They will hear that massive government spending is their only hope and it's not there because powerful rich people are not paying taxes.
 
This will be exploited by our president whose spokesman the other day called the downgrade in our nation's debt a "tea party downgrade."  Our president and his bureaucrats do not give up.  They are pushing even harder now for their left wing, socialist program!
 
It's a dangerous message.
 
We must get the truth to low-income Americans.  They must know that all Americans have the same interests.  There will only be jobs when America starts to grow again, and America will not start growing with big government, high taxes, and a culture of dependence.
 
My network of black pastors, whose congregations total several hundred thousand members, hear from me every week. I need to expand this list to 5000 conservative black pastors nationwide who will receive my weekly newsletter about freedom and faith.
 
In September I will tape the pilot for my TV show.  It will reach low income Americans and all Americans, to help them understand how we got in this mess and what we need to do to get out -- how to cut back the bloated government that has been gobbling up trillions of dollars for useless "programs", how less government and more freedom will improve our education, our health care, our housing and get business and job growth going again.
 
Here's part of a letter I got from a black pastor the other day:

Thank you for the article, "Why do Blacks let Obama off the Hook". It's so refreshing to see a Black sister (or brother) be honest. I am a retired, Baptist pastor (38 years) and could never understand how I was so out of step with the two congregations that I served who were so fundamental and conservative in their faith yet so liberal in their political philosophy. I really appreciate you.

Friend, I need your help at this critical time. Will you support me once again by donating $50, $100, $250 or even $2,500 by clicking on this link right now? I am sure you are as worried about our nation as I am.  Reaching low income Americans with the truth is vital to getting the grass roots support necessary for turning our economy around.
 
Please help me with your immediate donation so this fall the Star Parker Freedom Tour can reach just as many people as Smiley and West's campaign for liberalism.

 
Your foot soldier for freedom,

Star Parker

Tea Party News
Thursday, August 11th

8 presidential candidates qualify for debate Massachusetts' Mitt Romney, Minnesota's Michele Bachmann, Minnesota's Tim Pawlenty, Texas' Ron Paul, Georgia's Herman Cain, Utah's Jon Huntsman, Pennsylvania's Rick Santorum and Georgia's Newt Gingrich will be participating. The two-hour debate, with commercial breaks, begins at 8 p.m. tonight from Iowa State U. To qualify, candidates averaged at least 1 percent support in five national polls. Michigan's Thaddeus McCotter, the most recent candidate, and California's Fred Karger, an openly gay candidate did not qualify to participate. The moderators will be Byron York and Susan Ferrechio from the Washington Examiner newspaper, one of the debate co-sponsors, and Fox News anchors Chris Wallace and Bret Baier. [DesMoines Register, Aug. 10] Click here for the complete source story Sarah Palin resumes her bus tour at the Iowa fair Sarah Palin will be at the Iowa State Fair the day after tonight's Republican debate and on the eve of the presidential straw poll. Palin said she is resuming her summer bus travels to iconic U.S. destinations with a stop at the fair. Most declared Republican presidential candidates will be in Iowa, and Texas Gov. Rick Perry is expected to enter the race and visit. Palin's visits to Iowa, including one in June and one planned for Sept. 3, have stoked speculation she is eyeing a 2012 presidential bid, although she has done none of the groundwork there others have. [Forbes, Aug. 10] Click here for the complete source story Reform Wins Big in Wisconsin They promised revenge, and they said it would be the beginning of the end of the GOP ascendancy. Unions threw everything they had to defeat Wisconsin state senators who voted for collective bargaining reforms. Big Labor and Democrats tried to demonstrate that some political lines can't be crossed. Union power, once granted, is sacrosanct. Spending in the recalls totalled around $28 million, and Democrats outspent Republicans two to one. The Walker reforms have given local school districts the ability to renegotiate union contracts and save money, preventing teacher layoffs. Officials were able to dump union-affiliated health insurance plans in favor of cost-saving private competitors. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, hardly a conservative paper, said: "The sky isn't going to fall on all local governments in Wisconsin. The numbers show that Gov. Scott Walker's 'tools' for local governments will help them deal with cuts in state aid imposed by the state budget." The lesson here is that you can make major, meaningful reform and live to tell about it. Conservative fainthearts said Mr. Walker had "exceeded his mandate" by taking on the monopoly bargaining power of public unions. With state government no longer automatically collecting dues for unions, many rank-and-file members will choose not to provide dues for political purposes. Union monopoly power will diminish. Taxpayers will benefit. [WSJ.com, Aug.10] Click here for the complete source story

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Check out the discussion 'BHO: A FAILURE of Leadership'

Here's proof, not that we needed it...what do YOU think? Do YOU have an article or video to add as proof of BHO's failure? of BHO being a Marxist?

Discussion posted by Admin II-Rev. Larry Wallenmeyer:

Here's "Torpedo of Truth #1": Mullah Barack HUSSEIN Hoover ObaMarxist's FAILURE of Leadership:         #################################...

Discussion link:

BHO: A FAILURE of Leadership

This is Comedian Felonious Munk's Wild Anti-Obama Rant

Excuse the language of the video, then enjoy it.

The Blaze | by Jonathon M. Seidl | Posted on August 11, 2011 at 9:27am

When Glenn Beck heard the following rant by comedian Felonious Munk, he couldn't believe it. You probably won't either.

(Read the Blaze's follow-up interview with Munk)

Munk is known for recording wild, profanity-laced YouTube rants as part of a series he calls "Stop It B!" Sometimes it's hard to tell what he really believes and what is part of his routine. But we'll let you make up your mind regarding his latest rant - a stern message to Obama about the debt ceiling and America paying its bills.

There's no way to really sum it up, except for that it has a lot of GRAPHIC LANGUAGE and you'll need headphones to watch. You also might need to cover your mouth from laughing - or gasping:

Felonious Munk Presents: Stop It B! OBAMA PAY YOUR &*%$#% BILLS

August 12, 2011 

On Thursday's Program 

Epic viral video rant against Obama (Language Warning)

Someone going by the name Felonious Munk - a guy who apparently posts rants on YouTube - has come up with an epic rant on Obama & government re: paying the bills. Very funny stuff - but be warned, lots of swear bombs are dropped in this video. And if you watch it too many times you will find yourself saying 'B' in between everything you say. Glenn plays the edited version on radio today, plus get the full video (content warning) HERE.

A lib Glenn might vote for? MUST SEE VIDEO: The mayor of Philadelphia has a few choice words for the rioters there. Great stuff - Glenn plays the clip and reacts on radio today. WATCH it and pass it on!

George Soros paid for sex?

Soros denies that claim, but an ex 'girlfriend' is suing him for $50 million dollars claiming the billionaire progressive tried to choke her. The relationship was described by Soros' attorney as 'on and off' and 'non-exclusive' which translated from bullcrap to English means prostitute. Glenn has more on the allegations on radio today - get the details at GlennBeck.com.

Hezbollah official strategizes: Islamist destruction of Israel after U.S. leaves Iraq - DETAILS.

Israel's Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi Blesses Restoring Courage Event

Glenn was granted a special meeting with Israel's Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger. Glenn and the Chief Rabbi discuss preparations for the August 24th Restoring Courage event in Jerusalem - FREE CLIP. Watch Glenn and the Chief Rabbi connect on issues of faith and as the Chief Rabbi offers his support of the event. For more information on the three Restoring Courage events click HERE

Glenn, Stu, Pat talk 2012 candidates

Glenn, Stu & Pat challenge each other to pick, if the election were today, their favorite candidate in the 2012 race so far. Conservatives haven't aligned behind any candidate just yet, the debate on radio today makes it apparent as to why. Who did Glenn pick? Check out the segment at GlennBeck.com.

Take GBTV for a test drive: Rumors of War II FREE TOMORROW

With the Restoring Courage events rapidly approaching, Glenn wants to make sure as many people as possible see GBTV's original documentary Rumors of War II. If you, a friend or family member aren't sure why standing with Israel is so important, watch this documentary - and pass it on! It will be available for FREE tomorrow!  Besides being important, this documentary is just a taste of what is to come on GBTV. Sign up now and catch the latest episode of The Making of GBTV -- a great behind the scenes look at the chaos involved in putting together an entire network in just a couple of months. Sign up now!!

LOL: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad scolds London for violence - DETAILS. 

Liberal Elites don't like daily deals, apparently

Business Insider has a great article today which shows that twice as many people joined the NRA as purchased NYT subscriptions. From the article: "The New York Times scored 1,776 subscriptions with a Living Social on Monday. According to a source, the National Rifle Association sold 3,400 memberships (which include a subscription to the NRA's American Rifleman) through its Markdown.com offer. Markdown is Glenn Beck's e-commerce venture. Clearly, it's doing well." Check out the full story HERE and get the details on Markdown.com's latest deal HERE.

Who is paying for Cynthia McKinney to travel around America and bash the U.S.?

It's a really good question, and McKinney had absolutely no idea how to answer that claim. It's like she never suspected someone might look into who is funding a global American bashing tour. Glenn has the highlight (lowlight) reel of the former Congresswoman's outrageous and relentless hammering of America on radio today. How does this crazy audio (and crazy former Congresswoman) help prove one of Glenn's supposedly 'crazy' theories? Catch the segment on radio today. WATCH