Quote: 

"They are not to do anything they please to provide for the general welfare, but only to lay taxes for that purpose. To consider the latter phrase not as describing the purpose of the first, but as giving a distinct and independent power to do any act they please which may be good for the Union, would render all the preceding and subsequent enumerations of power completely useless. It would reduce the whole instrument to a single phrase, that of instituting a Congress with power to do whatever would be for the good of the United States; and as they would be the sole judges of the good or evil, it would be also a power to do whatever evil they please." 

~ Thomas Jefferson, Opinion on National Bank, 1791 

Revealed: U.S. State Department Warned U.S. Citizens in Jerusalem to Avoid Beck Event?

The Blaze | by Buck Sexton | Posted on August 30, 2011 at 6:46am

In the aftermath of the Glenn Beck "Restoring Courage" rally, questions have emerged about a U.S. State Department message released the day of the event that warned Americans to stay away.

The timing and specifics of the event warning have led some to claim that ideological opposition to the Beck event- not just concerns for American safety- could have influenced the decision.

The "Emergency Message" addressed to U.S. Government Employees and visiting citizens in Jerusalem is available on the Consulate's website. The message posted to the site on August 24th stated the following:

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"This Is WAR" - Congressional Black Caucus Travels US Cities Using Violent Rhetoric: Declares 'War' on Racist Tea Party, Says Tea Party Wants to Lynch Blacks, Calls for Bank Runs, Civil Unrest in Their Neighborhoods and Homes 

The Blaze | by Naked Emperor News | Posted on August 30, 2011 at 6:29am

Congressional Black Caucus' Dangerous Violent Rhetoric: Declares 'War' on Racist Tea Party,

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Wis. Protester Predicts Class Warfare: 'All you F**king Tea Party Baggers Get Ready'

The Blaze | by Buck Sexton | Posted on August 29, 2011 at 5:41pm

At a protest sing-along against Governor Scott Walker at the Wisconsin Capitol on Friday, a member of the Red & Anarchist Action Network (RAAN) held up a huge banner saying "Class War" and then delivered a message to someone filming the event: "All you f**king Tea Party Baggers, It's coming, get ready."

Watch the video here, courtesy of Media Research Center (MRC):

   Read More & See the Video Here . . . 

"The Voter Fraud Threat to Free and Fair Elections" - Part 2

But wait, there's more! The really exciting thing Judicial Watch is doing happened just last week when they filed a FOIA lawsuit against the DOJ to obtain records of communications between the Department of Justice and Project Vote Official/former ACORN attorney Estelle Rogers. You can read more about it here. Bottom line..."Judicial Watch is convinced that Project Vote's activities remain a threat to the integrity of our elections. The fact that Project Vote is bullying states to attack election security reforms in order to register Obama's 'Food Stamp Army' comes as no surprise. But it appears that the Obama Justice Department is using the same playbook as Project Vote - to the detriment of clean elections. The American people deserve to know if the nation's highest law enforcement agency has become nothing more than a political tool to help this scandalous ACORN-front group re-elect Barack Obama. Again, this Justice Department can't seem to be bothered to comply with basic open records FOIA law," stated Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton.

Be assured, we will be closely watching for any new developments in this case....but in the meantime, if you haven't already volunteered to help uphold free and fair elections by working at the polls WE NEED YOU! There is a critical shortage of polling place workers. We wonder why Project Vote and ACORN get away with their flagrant abuses of our system...it's because we as citizens are allowing it to happen. WE MUST ENGAGE IN THE PROCESS OF OUR ELECTIONS. One way you can engage is by volunteering to work as a poll watcher on Election Day. Please, it is going to take all of us to uphold the integrity of our elections in the days ahead. Get involved now. 

We need TTV volunteers for poll watching - Free and fair elections do not happen without citizen involvement. Want to stand up and take action?   True the Vote will provide training and support - you just need to take the first step.  For more information email  info@truethevote.org or go  HERE  to sign up now!

If you see a story that you believe would be useful and important to our readers, simply respond to this email with a link and a brief description of why it is important.  (Even if it may be obvious)

9 11 Ten Years On: Family Security Matters

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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 Event: Tea Party Express - Reclaiming America Presidential Tour

What is it?
Free food, music, festivities and speakers
it doesn't get any better than that!

When: Wednesday, September 7, 2011 

Where:Shady Brook Farm 

Address:931 Stony Hill Road, Morrisville, PA 19067 

Time: 6PM to 7PM

We look forward to seeing you all at our events.

Yours in Liberty,
The Kitchen Table Patriots

Valley Forge Patriots

Sept.9^th  Meeting 6pm

The Valley Forge Patriots invite you to join us for our September 9^th meeting at the Phoenixville Country Club. This will be an exceptionally informative meeting since (in addition to our usual activities) our speaker will be Robert Moffit, Ph.D, a Senior Fellow at the Heritage Foundation. He will be speaking on U.S. healthcare, especially Obamacare and Medicare. Dr. Moffit directed the think tank's Center for Health Policy Studies from 2003 until June 2010. As always there will be time for you to address questions to Dr. Moffit.

Food and beverage service will be available.

We look forward to you joining us on September 9^th.

VFP/Phoenixville Steering Committee

www.vfpatriots.com

10 YEARS...

NEVER

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Memorial Screening

LISTEN LIVE TO REPATRIOT RADIO

"BETTER THAN EVER"

(all times are eastern)

Tuesday 5-6pm "LaRossa & Gallagher" - N.J.State Senator Richard LaRossa and Art Gallagher

Talk-Radio's Dom Giordano To Receive ZOA's Ben Hecht Award

Shalom ZOA Members, Friends and Supporters of Israel,

Tickets are now available for Philadelphia ZOA's First Tribute Gala on Thursday, Sept. 8, 2011, at the Hilton Philadelphia on City Avenue, as we honor talk-radio giant Dom Giordano and beloved Rabbi Fred Kazan.

Do not miss what will be a memorable event locally for the pro-Israel community in our area.

Jewish community pillar Gary Erlbaum will be master of ceremonies as we honor Dom with the Ben Hecht Award for Outstanding Journalism for his honest and forthright support of Israel, and Rabbi Kazan for his lifelong devotion to the Jewish State of Israel with our Guardian of Israel Award. Jonathan Tobin of Commentary and former executive editor of the Jewish Exponent will be guest speaker, and there will be remarks from our own great ZOA National President Morton Klein.

Of course, there will also be delicious glatt-kosher food, a festive and warm evening and the opportunity for the community to come together to celebrate Israel.

Philadelphia ZOA has set up a special ticket hotline so that you can be a part of this evening. Call 215-333-1729 to order tickets, or contact us by email at a special email address: zoadom@yahoo.com . Or if you would like, a copy of the invitation and response card is attached to this email. Simply print it out and return it to: ZOA-GPD, P.O. Box 45604, Phila., PA 19149.

There is no one else in local media who matches Dom when it comes to standing up for Israel, patriotism and integrity. Dom has taken on guests and callers on 1210 AM WPHT Radio who distort the facts about Israel, and he goes out of his way to speak truthfully about the Arab war against the Jews because it is the right thing to do.

Rabbi Kazan has been a fervent champion of Israel and has inspired generations of local Jews to have a place in their heart for the Jewish State. Whether it be currently at Historic Congregation Kesher Israel where he is religious leader, or Temple Adath Israel where he is Rabbi Emeritus, or at Beth Sholom where he served, or during his tours of Jewish Philadelphia he leads, he has been a proponent for Israel.

It is the duty of all who care about Israel to thank and show appreciation for stalwarts of Israel as we lest not take such support for granted. In our area, we must come out to publicly thank Dom Giordano and Rabbi Kazan.

We look forward to seeing you the evening of Sept. 8.

 Please come to our Constitution Day event entitled "Everything you wanted to know about ObamaCare, but didn't know who to ask."

 They said we had to pass it to know what's in it, but over a year later, people STILL don't fully understand how the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) - aka "ObamaCare" - will affect them and their health.

 That's why a coalition of citizens and health care professionals will present "Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About ObamaCare But Didn't Know Who to Ask" on the campus of DeSales University in Center Valley, PA from 1 to 4 p.m. on Saturday, September 17, 2011 - which, ironically, happens to be Constitution Day.  DeSalesUniversity is located in the Lehigh Valley of PA, within easy driving distance of the major population centers of central, northeast, and southeast PA.

Policy professionals, physicians, business and legislative leaders, and representatives from groups most affected by the PPACA will share their insights and expertise through presentations, breakout sessions, exhibits, and panel discussions.

They'll explain how ObamaCare affects personal liberty and the Constitution, families and seniors, taxpayers, Medicare and the deficit, insurance premiums and the uninsured, businesses, employees and the economy, doctors, patients, and access to care, American innovation in medicine, and more. 

Also included will be detailed updates on state and national efforts to defund, repeal, replace, and nullify ObamaCare from some of the legislative leaders spearheading those efforts.

Participants will leave the three hour event far more informed about what's in the PPACA than most of the legislators who voted for it, and will be energized to get involved in the fight to save America's health care.  Participants, both live and online, will be empowered by their new understanding of how the PPACA will not accomplish any of the things its name implies, and will be able to effectively communicate that new understanding to others, providing important education about why this ill-conceived piece of legislation needs to be defeated by any means possible.

Already, according to Rasmussen's most recent poll, 54% of Americans want to see ObamaCare repealed, while only 39% oppose repeal - but the people who passed it clearly have not heard the voices of the American people yet.  The more Americans know about the PPACA, the more they dislike it, and this conference will help to provide the tools citizen advocates and health care professionals need to effectively participate in the process to defund, repeal, and replace ObamaCare.

The event will be free to the public on site in a venue which will seat 500, and a live streaming video, and a professionally produced program will promote information about our coalition's sponsoring groups, as well as providing important information about the PPACA.  

Please consider joining with the Lehigh Valley Coalition for Health Care Reform to help educate the public about ObamaCare through your sponsorship of this important event.  If you'd like to be involved, please contact me ASAP and I'll reserve your space in our program and on the promotional materials.  We are currently working on creating a web page and Facebook page for the event.

For additional information about this event and opportunities to get involved, please contact Donna Baver Rovito at ROVSPA@aol.com.

PLEASE RSVP AT THIS MEETUP SITE:

www.meetup.com/lehigh-valley-coalition-for-health-care-reform

Sincerely, 

Donna Baver Rovito

Chair, "Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About ObamaCare But Didn't Know Who to Ask"

Chair, LehighValley Coalition for Health Care Reform

Editor, Liability and Health Reform Update

ROVSPA@aol.com

610-398-8551

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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   

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.
 

All Tea Parties and Patriots:

You are invited to participate in an important event--

please share this opportunity with friends and neighbors
who believe we need a "road map" to a better future...

 Required tickets can be purchased online  

Or

Under the information below is a form that can be printed, 

to accompany your check and mailed according to instruction.

 2012 Presidential Candidate Selector
or Obama, His Allies & Critics Matching Quiz

Politicians have already indicated their 2012 presidential aspirations. This matching quiz includes President Obama, top members of his administration, Obama's most vocal critics (Boehner, Cantor, etc.) and likely White House prospects (Palin, Pawlenty, Jindal, etc.). You may select a position for every issue, or just select issues important to you. The political figures' positions are based upon their voting records, special interest group ratings and their statements in the public record. In cases where there is no known public record or statement, these politicos are not given a score on that issue. We add candidates, revise their views and include new issues as they become known or change. Check back often for updates.   

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RedState Morning Briefing

For August 30, 2011

1. When Smart People Write Dumb Things

Whether you agree with Bill Keller of the New York Times or not, the man is not dumb. Whether you agree with Kathleen Parker or not, she is not dumb. Same with Ryan Lizza at the New Yorker. Yes, they may be center-left (or depending on who you talk to, center-right for Parker) and yes, Lizza is arguably more than center-left as is Keller. But these are not really dumb people.

Yet this past week they've really written some dumb stuff and it is not just a reflection on them, but a reflection on the entire American press corp and its assorted editorialists. In short, instead of lecturing candidates on how the candidates should shut up about religion, it is really obvious the American political press should shut the hell up when it comes to issues of heaven and, well, hell.

2. President Obama has Tour Buses Flown to Stump Speeches

President Obama has been touring all over the midwest these past few weeks, giving speeches to crowds of fans, anxious to hear what's next on his agenda. One could be forgiven for believing that these are less about pushing the president's current agenda, and more about launching the reelection campaign, however this is a charge that the administration adamantly denies.

But there is a very simple reason that this is viewed as more of a campaign effort. Boasting bulletproof windows, five inch thick doors, and it's own oxygen supply, the President has made the rounds for these speeches in a multi-million dollar bus, dubbed "The Beast" by it's critics. There's been no shortage of opinions from people and pundits on this bus and how having the President tour around the midwest in a caravan of cars and seated on a tour bus sends the message that he is on the campaign trail and using taxpayer dollars to do it.

It appears however, that this might not be the case. According to some sources he hasn't really been riding these buses much at all. They say, he's been flying them.

3. Polling catastrophe for President Obama

I mentioned recently that broader polling pools favor Democrats, so when a big new poll of adults comes out from Gallup that shows Barack Obama to be in trouble, I take notice.

The facts: Gallup's results are a three day rolling average of daily poll of 1,500 adults. Telephone poll, no mention given of mobile phone handling. MoE 3.

4. OK, Obama, Repeal the Entire Payroll Tax..But Save Social Security

After Labor Day, Obama plans to unveil his highly unanticipated jobs plan. Much like his first jobs plan, this one will include massive stimulus handouts to special interests, prodigal infrastructure spending (as much as $556 billion), unprecedented extensions of unemployment benefits, and more welfare transfer payments. Concurrently, he will inveigh against "rich" job creators and offer a healthy dose of vapid rhetoric regarding regulatory reform. However, there will be something new - something more appealing to the skeptical electorate; extending the one-year cut in payroll taxes.

Obama intuitively knows that his failed Keynesian policies have been checkmated, and will no longer resonate with the public. Accordingly, he plans to one-up Republicans in their own playbook, by offering a tax cut. He will request that Congress renew the payroll tax cut for another year, keeping the employee's share of the tax at 4.2%.

5. An Open Letter to GOP NLRB Member Brian Hayes: Please Resign Immediately

Dear Member Hayes:

Our nation stands at the precipice of disaster, its future generations are indebted due to the overindulgent spending of politicians from both political parties. Our unemployment is untenably high, our welfare roles expanded beyond reason, both with no signs of easing. Meanwhile, our nation's job creators are burdened with an over-regulating, activist government whose sole existence at this point is to appease special constituencies. It is for these reasons, and more, that you are urged to resign your position as a member of the National Labor Relations Board.

Heritage Hotsheet

Experts on the Day's Hottest News

Items for August 30, 2011

Federal Judge to hear arguments on Alabama immigration law called one of the toughest in US

The Washington Post

White House seeks $10 billion savings in regulatory rollback

USA Today 

Above All Else, Eastern Quake Rattles Nerves

The New York Times 

Despite seize of Gadhafi complex, regime says it can fight for years

CNN  

Stand up for Joe McCarthy.

PART 2.
Buy a copy of Ann Coulter's book Treason and give it to a liberal friend, with the inscription, "Hey, guess what: Communist infiltration of the government didn't begin with Obama after all!" 

Outrage As Obama Names New Voter Initiative After ACORN

NewsMax | By David A. Patten and Jim Meyers | Monday, 29 Aug 2011 06:49 PM

Government watchdogs are blasting the Obama campaign's decision to name its 2012 voter-registration initiative "Project Vote" - the same name as a group closely linked to the discredited ACORN organization.

Members of ACORN were caught on undercover video giving two supposed clients detailed instructions on how to commit fraud, and ACORN faced a number of voter-registration fraud cases following the 2008 election.

Use of the Project Vote name by the Obama campaign is "truly astonishing," Tom Fitton, president of the conservative Judicial Watch good-government group, tells Newsmax. "We knew President Obama was the president from ACORN. And if this isn't an indication of it, we don't know what is." 

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Wisconsin Union Council Bans Republicans From Labor Day Parade

By Newsmax Wires | Monday, 29 Aug 2011 02:29 PM

A Wisconsin labor council that sponsors the Labor Day parade in Wausau is giving Republican lawmakers their walking papers - in the form of banning them from walking in the parade this year - saying they are unfriendly to union workers.

The action is the latest salvo in the political fallout from Republican Gov. Scott Walker's reining in collective-bargaining rights for public employees to cut the state budget. Republicans supported the measure, while Democrats were so opposed that several senators fled the state to avoid voting on it. 

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ACT! for America continues pushing forward  

ACT! for America continues pushing forward in its mission to defeat the threat of radical Islam. Here's just a quick recap of three important projects we're currently working on.

       ·  Rally for Captain Paul Fields

On Tuesday, August 30^th, we will be hosting a rally in Tulsa on behalf of Captain Paul Fields. If you can attend please join us, and pass the word to those you know who might be interested.

The rally will be held at 10:00 A.M. at Chapman Centennial Green Park, 600 S. Main St., in Tulsa.

         ·  The Doctrine of Abrogation: Open the Koran Day

Anjem Choudary: Muslims are Rising up Across the World, Islam Will Dominate!

Just like Muslims in America, Muslims across the West are rising up and calling for Sharia Law whether we like it or not. The following video featuring IslamoPUNK Anjem Choudary shows us another example of the growing Sharia campaign.

 

 

For the most part Muslims are slowly taking over within the law. They have mastered how to use our freedoms against us to further the cause of Islam, and if the rules do not change it is just a matter of time until we lose this war. The first step to our victory is to stop respecting Islam as a religion, and alert non-Muslims that it is a complete way of life which calls for the dominance over non-Muslims. We have to warn our fellow non-Muslims that Islam is a bigger threat to our way of life than Nazism was. For the sake of our future generations, we have no choice but to fight! All within the law of course.

 

 

Preview of Islam Will Dominate the World Conference

 

Palestinian Islam = Nazism

Posted by Bill Levinson

It is impossible to have peace or even a rational discussion with individuals who behave in this manner. Their behavior requires them to be quarantined like rabid animals, or killed if quarantine does not work.

Israel, flex some muscles

By Amb Yoram Ettinger

Israel's battle against Palestinian terrorism and conventional military threats must not be inhibited by its ties with the U.S. and Egypt.

In 1981, Prime Minister Menachem Begin ordered the bombing of Iraq's nuclear reactor. In 1982, he launched a comprehensive war on the Palestinian Liberation Organization's terrorist headquarters in Lebanon. Both operations were executed irrespective of bullying and pressure from the U.S. and notwithstanding the fragile 1979 Israel-Egypt peace treaty. Begin realized that failing to eradicate these threats would imperil Israel's survival, erode its power of deterrence and thus undermine Israel's deterrence-driven peace with Egypt and its strategic cooperation with the U.S.

Contrary to conventional wisdom, the Israel-Egypt peace treaty did not collapse. Once again, Arab leaders did not rush to rescue the PLO, demonstrating that the Palestinian issue was not a crown jewel of Arab policymaking....

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The real obstacles to peace

By Ted Belman (First published in American Thinker)

Once again, the US, the UN and the EU criticized Israel for announcing new settlement construction in Judea and Samaria (West Bank) calling such construction "obstacles to peace".  At the same time they ignore the real obstacles to peace.

The primary obstacle to peace is and always has been Arab rejection of the Jewish state of Israel or Jews both before and after the state was declared

After the Declaration of Independence by Israel in May 1948, the surrounding Arab countries attacked Israel with the intent of destroying it. This invasion ended with the Armistice Agreement of 1949 but not before the Jordanians destroyed Jewish Jerusalem.
Colonel Abdullah el Tell, local commander of the Jordanian Arab Legion, described the destruction of the Jewish Quarter, in his Memoirs:

"The operations of calculated destruction were set in motion. . . . I knew that the Jewish Quarter was densely populated with Jews. . . . I embarked,...

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Tarik Fatah attacks Islamists and the Muslim Brotherhood.

I spent most of my life in Toronto where Tarik Fatah lives and delivered this message. We met on a couple of occasions. He warns against Islamism and the Muslim Brotherhood like no Muslim I know. Nevertheless he believes that there is a good Islam and a bad Islam. But he is no friend of Israel. I can tolerate this because of the message he courageously delivers here. Compare his attack on the MB with Obama's embrace or them.Ted Belman

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Islam Is Not Part of Our Civilization

By Bill Warner

Obama said at the latest White House Iftar dinner:

Like so many faiths, Islam has always been part of our American family, and Muslim Americans have long contributed to the strength and character of our country, in all walks of life.

These words have no basis in fact. Islam is not part of our civilization because its foundational principles are opposite to ours. Our civilization is built on the foundation of critical thought (how we think) and the Golden Rule (ethics). Islam is built on submission (authoritative thought) and ethical dualism.

Let's compare the principles, of these different thought systems, starting with authoritative thought and critical thought. Critical thought (also: analytic thought, scientific thought) is the necessary reasoning or intellectual basis for our culture of democracy. Critical thought is objective-no matter who does the work, they get the same results. It is fact-based, uses cause and effect, and is intellectual,...

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Arab World: Is Bashar next?

By JONATHAN SPYER, JPOST 
The apparently imminent eclipse of the Gaddafi regime in Libya has re-ignited hope among some Western commentators concerning the so-called Arab Spring. The entry of Libyan rebels to Tripoli is being depicted in some circles as the removal of a major obstacle to the onward march toward freedom alleged to be taking place this year throughout the Arabic-speaking world.

Some of the more enthusiastic observers are now turning their hopeful gaze toward Syria. They hope that with liberty victorious in Libya, the Assad regime will be the next to fall.

These hopes are mistaken on two levels.

First, it is mistaken to maintain that a great battle for liberty is currently under way in the Arabic-speaking world. Sober analysts of the region have long noted that the key stand-off in the main countries of the Arab world is between sclerotic and dictatorial regimes, and popular Islamist movements seeking to overthrow them.

Nothing has yet happened in the Arab...

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Stealth Jihad

Losing Malmo... And Brussels, and Rome, and Amsterdam . . . 

By Andrew C. McCarthy, NRO

Do you remember the jihadist terror campaign that ravaged Malmo, Sweden's third largest city? Do you recall the bombings, the suicide-hijackings, and the random assassinations that finally coerced the city to surrender to Islamization?

No? Funny, I don't remember them either. Yet there is no question that Malmo has surrendered. Large enclaves of the city, like similar enclaves throughout Western Europe, have earned the dread label "no-go zone." They are unsafe for non-Muslims, particularly women who do not conform to Islamist conventions of dress and social interaction. They are especially perilous for police, firefighters, and emergency-medical technicians.

Why would a community discourage the so-called first-responders? After all, the top priority of law-enforcement officers is to assist crime victims. In an Islamic enclave, a high percentage of these will be Muslims. And...

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The Media is the Enemy

Laura: With this type of extremely misleading and bias reporting, the media stands  accused of being actively complicit in the terror war against Israel and the slaughter of Jews. The media has willfully chosen to side with evil, to side with the annihilationists. To put it even more bluntly, the leftist western media is cheering leading for hamas and rooting for the destruction of Israel.

Middle East Terrorist Scams and the Western Naivete that Empowers Them

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August 26, 2011 - 10:24 am - by Barry Rubin By Barry Rubin

Rockets from the Gaza Strip continue to pound Israel. And much of the Western media blames: Israel. I want to explain again how this system works.

What follows is a seven-point pattern that goes something like this: Someone shoots at your spouse, you punch the attacker, he yells, "Ceasefire!" then kicks you in the groin and takes some more shots at your spouse. You try to defend yourself. The police stand by doing nothing and then declare...

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August 29, 2011

I am an Israeli

LARRY KLAYMAN - I spent this week in Israel with Glenn Beck. Glenn, who left Fox News a few months ago, organized an event he called "Restoring Courage," and courageous it was. Months before his event, I had floated a similar idea that I had been promoting -- a "Hollywood Tribute to Israel" -- not only with him but a number of influential people, because, as I have written before, not only is the Holy Land "holy," the root of Judeo-Christian civilization, but its future is so tied to your own during these trying times... (more)
 

August 28, 2011

Bachmann invokes biblical passion for conservative causes

NEWSMAX - Demonstrating that she won't cede an inch of the Christian-conservative vote to rival Republican presidential contender Rick Perry, Michele Bachmann delivered an impassioned speech laced with biblical references to the Florida Family Policy Council's Policy Awards Dinner in Orlando Saturday, urging its members to "pour yourself out" on behalf of social-conservative causes... (more)
 

August 28, 2011

Liberal media forces homosexuality agenda down America's throat

LLOYD MARCUS - Please, please, please understand, as we said in the 60s, where I'm coming from." This article is NOT about bashing homosexuals. I have homosexual family members and friends whom I love very much... (more)
 

August 28, 2011

Free tuition for illegals

WASHINGTON TIMES - Democrats will do anything to pander for Hispanic votes in 2012. They're even in favor of amnesty and cash handouts to illegal aliens, if that's what it takes. The latest scheme from California liberals is a move to force over-burdened taxpayers to foot the bill to put illegals through college... (more)
 

August 28, 2011

Obama is the job wrecker in chief

DAVID LIMBAUGH - President Barack Obama often tells us that his No. 1 focus is creating jobs, but his record makes you wonder what he might have done differently if his goal were to destroy jobs. Those who've examined Congressional Budget Office (CBO) data have calculated that each job allegedly created by Obama's stimulus -- and this is if you accept the fantastically generous guesstimates -- cost between $225,000 and $600,000... (more)
 

August 28, 2011

U.S. must stand with Israel

HERMAN CAIN - Imagine living in a neighborhood where most of your neighbors wish you would move away. Since you have a right to be there and it happens to be the home of many generations of your family, you refuse to be intimidated into leaving, even though you are violently attacked frequently and sometimes family members are killed. Although painfully saddened, your resolve to remain there is not weakened... (more)
 

August 27, 2011

Tea Party Express kicks off fifth national tour

ASSOCIATED PRESS - The Tea Party Express kicked off its fifth annual national tour Saturday with a rally in California's wine country before heading east through 19 states. The "Reclaiming America" bus tour is set to visit 29 cities, with multiple stops in the early primary states of Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina. It will reach Tampa, Fla., in time for a presidential debate co-sponsored with CNN on Sept. 12... (more)
 

August 27, 2011

Perry bills feds $349 million for illegal immigrants

ASSOCIATED PRESS - Texas Gov. Rick Perry has asked the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for nearly $350 million to cover the costs he says Texas has incurred incarcerating illegal immigrants in state prisons and county jails... (more)
 

August 27, 2011

The cohabitation revolution

RICH LOWRY - The great divorce revolution of the 1960s and 1970s has faded. The great cohabitation revolution has begun. The divorce rate for married couples with children is almost back to the levels of the early 1960s, before the run-up that crested in the early 1980s. Considering the decades of social turbulence buffeting the institution of marriage between then and now, this is a notable restoration... (more)
 

August 27, 2011

Irene is Obama's punishment

WASHINGTON TIMES - Before Hurricane Irene made landfall, environmental extremists were spouting off three certainties about the storm: It is catastrophic; it was caused by global warming; and it is all President Obama's fault. On Thursday, climate alarmist Bill McKibben wrote, "Irene's got a middle name, and it's Global Warming"... (more)
 

August 27, 2011

Kerosene Maxine to Tea Party: 'Go to hell!'

LARRY ELDER - "I'm not afraid of anybody. ... And as far as I'm concerned, the tea party can go straight to hell." -- Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif. Waters' list of insults, vulgarities and blame-whitey scapegoating easily makes her the Al Sharpton of Congress... (more)
 

August 27, 2011

Environmental enforcement leaves musicians in fear

WALL STREET JOURNAL - Federal agents swooped in on Gibson Guitar Wednesday, raiding factories and offices in Memphis and Nashville, seizing several pallets of wood, electronic files and guitars. The Feds are keeping mum, but in a statement yesterday Gibson's chairman and CEO, Henry Juszkiewicz, defended his company's manufacturing policies, accusing the Justice Department of bullying the company... (more)
 

August 26, 2011

Excluding prayer from 9/11 memorial compounds the tragedy of that day

WASHINGTON EXAMINER - Do you remember what things were like in the hours and days following the 9/11 terrorist attacks? Evidently New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg does not... (more)
 

August 26, 2011

9/11 memorial without prayer

ROBERT KNIGHT - We've got a word for someone who hates Christmas - Grinch. What should we call someone who hates America's Judeo-Christian heritage, even to the point of barring clergy at a ceremony at the site of a major tragedy?... (more)
 

August 26, 2011

China outgunning the Pentagon

WASHINGTON TIMES - Beware, the PLA is coming. On Wednesday, the Pentagon released its annual report on Chinese military operations. It is full of mealy-mouthed wording to try to put the best possible spin on the rapid rise of the People's Republic, but one scary conclusion is unavoidable: China is becoming an increasingly serious threat to U.S. national security... (more)
 

August 26, 2011

King: Congress hearings must embarrass White House on immigration amnesty

AUDREY HUDSON - A key House Republican is calling for congressional hearings into President Obama's decision to grant "administrative amnesty" by pulling out hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens already in the deportation pipeline... (more)
 

August 25, 2011

Inhofe lays long list of nation's ills at Obama's feet

TULSA WORLD - President Barack Obama alone is to blame for the nation's budget deficit -- and just about everything else, U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe told the Broken Arrow Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday... (more)
 

August 25, 2011

Rebellion by states could be hazardous to health care overhaul

WASHINGTON TIMES - Nearly a year and a half after President Obama signed his landmark health care overhaul into law, the growing rebellion in the states -- being fought out in courts and state legislatures -- shows few signs of easing... (more)
 

August 25, 2011

Biden's anti-life policy

WASHINGTON TIMES - Vice President Joe Biden can't keep his foot out of his mouth. On Sunday, he said he "fully understands" and "is not second-guessing" Beijing's one-child-per-family policy. The remark came during an unscripted question-and-answer session with students at China's Sichuan University... (more)

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 Negative View of Federal Government Hits New High in Gallup Poll

Romney Wants Lockerbie Bomber Extradited to Face Justice by U.S.

With Megrahi 'Near Death,' Will Lockerbie Secrets Ever Be Revealed?

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ExxonMobil Sues Gov't for Canceling Deepwater Well Worth 'Billions of Barrels'

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 Population Expert Briefed Biden on China's Inhumane One-Child Policy

 

Irene Makes Landfall In N.C.--At Category One With Maximum Sustained Winds of 85 MPH

America's One Child Policy

Vice President Joe Biden, Commissar of the Cracked Head Club, visited China and voiced his understanding of China's One Child Policy. The part that he understood was the forced abortions and the eugenics of baby girls. The part that he didn't understand was how the Chinese government expects one breadwinner to support four retirees. But as usual Biden had it backward.

 

The Chinese government isn't worried about how retirees will be supported, because they have no investment in them. They'll receive whatever social benefits are doled out, and that's it. China's brutal pragmatism and lack of democracy makes rationing health care and anything else easy. Massive rallies and protests happen all the time in the People's Republic, unreported by the media, and are ignored by the authorities. Tienanmen Square showed the limits of popular protest in creating political change. It's a lesson that neither the leadership nor the people have forgotten.

Biden should have really been asking his question in Washington D.C. While America has no official one child policy, it has promoted a shift from family savings and support, to a government supervised safety net. Taxes have gone up, the single income family has become rarer and birth rates have dropped. Marriage and children have become more expensive, the former has dropped at a staggering rate among lower income families, and the latter has gone up leading to large numbers of single parents.
 

Rick Perry AGREES with Obama: Open Borders for America!

I was just sent a link to a YouTube video of GOP candidate Rick Perry staking out his position on immigration enforcement in absolutely crystal clear words that leave no room for interpretation or ambiguity.

The news is not good!

If Perry wins the nomination of the Republican Party the differences between Perry and Obama on immigration and border-related issues will apparently be all but nonexistent!

Once again the citizens of our nation will have to decide on two extremely bad choices! You could say that it will be a case of "Heads- they win, Tails, we lose!"

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Tad Mattle and Leigh Anna Jimmerson: putting a human face on welcoming illegal aliens

Aug 29, 2011 06:13 am | Coach Collins

By Kevin "Coach" Collins

On the evening of April 17, 2009 the real meaning of what Barack Obama's call for shared sacrifices was forced on the families of Leigh Anna Jimmerson and of Tad Mattle, a 19 year old from Huntsville Alabama any family would be proud to claim. Tad was more than a typical teenager. Leigh Anna was Tad girlfriend - family and friends said they were a great couple - he had an old car he worked on - but Tad was also an Eagle Scout who had planned to attend the University of Alabama on a full academic scholarship. If ever there was a young man with his whole life before him, it was Tad Mattle.

All of that changed forever at about 9 PM that spring night as Tad and Leigh Anna, a high school sophomore, were stopped at a light in Huntsville their hometown. Suddenly, they were dead. They were killed, ... Continue Reading:Tad Mattle and Leigh Anna Jimmerson: putting a human face on welcoming illegal aliens

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A Short History of Argentina: Ideas Matter

By bobguzzardi on Aug 29, 2011 06:57 am

This is thought provoking short history of Argentina from early 20th century to now and what can happen in the US.And it is not ancient history like Weimar Germany 1933  Hyper inflation in 1989. Juan Peron, a fascist corporatist ( that is, a national socialist, pre-WW II sense) whereas under communism, the state directly owned ...

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Ethanol Subsidies Part 4: Corn July 2011 from May 2008 - 2 Dissenting Views

By bobguzzardi on Aug 29, 2011 06:56 am

Last week, the USDA published its regular report "World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates," which calculates that in the current corn "marketing year" (September 2010, through the end of August 2011), 11.43 billion bushels of corn will be consumed in the United States. As usual, a small fraction will be used for food or seed: ...

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From Carlo Grilletto:

I have recently seen some inquires about Gov Rick Perry's stand on Gun Rights, so I checked his NRA rating.

He was rated as A+ for the 2010 Texas Gubernatorial race.

Here is the NRA justification for the rating:

"NRA Life Member, accomplishments and outspoken support for the Second Amendment have earned him the endorsement of the NRA-PVF and an "A+" candidate rating

As governor, signed the NRA-backed Castle Doctrine law affirming your right to self-defense inside your home, vehicle or business, and removing any duty to retreat from a violent attack

Gave final approval to bills extending the terms of Concealed Handgun Licenses from four to five years; reducing license application fees for seniors, military personnel and veterans; and protecting shooting ranges from junk lawsuits

Proudly added his name to a "friend of the court" brief filed in the McDonald case, stating that the Second Amendment guarantees a fundamental, individual right that protects all Americans"

In addition, since 2010 he has signed additional laws extending  the right to carry

Last Week: K. Carl Smith

Obama's War on the Secret Ballot        

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell and Clint Bolick of the Goldwater Institute was published August 28, 2011 on The Huffington Post.

The Obama Administration has fired its opening salvo against a cornerstone of democracy: the right to secret ballot.

Last fall, voters in four states voted overwhelmingly to amend their constitutions protect the right of workers to vote by secret ballot in deciding whether or not to form unions. That right has been enshrined in federal law for 75 years but is threatened by bills pending in Congress.

Nonetheless, the Obama National Labor Relations Board has filed a lawsuit against Arizona seeking to halt its protection of the right to secret ballot. Federal law governs labor relations, the NLRB asserts, and states cannot provide greater security for worker rights.  

The Equality of Reaganomics       

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published August 25, 2011 on Forbes.com. 
For over 20 years now, major media institutions have been reporting growing inequality in America, blaming it on Reaganomics. But does what they are reporting reflect actual "inequality," or does it just reflect changing demographics in our society?

Often the numbers they are reporting for changes over decades can't logically be compared because the composition of the numbers themselves has changed so much. Because this issue, and the media institutions themselves, are so ideologically contentious, much of what has been reported has been misleading at best, and deceptive at worst.

All of this has been sorted out the best by far by Alan Reynolds in his brilliant 2006 book Income and Wealth. Reynolds digs deep into the underlying data to show that what has been reported as rising inequality involves primarily changing demographics that reflect changing patterns of work and productive output, as well as misunderstood changes in the meaning and composition of the numbers being reported themselves. I discuss all of this in detail in my new book America's Ticking Bankruptcy Bomb.

As Reynolds reports, the top fifth of households in terms of income includes nearly six times as many full time workers as the bottom fifth. That is because the top fifth is heavily composed of two earner couples and older children or other relatives that work. The bottom fifth, by contrast, includes many aged or young singles who are either retired or still in school.

 

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Excluding Prayer from 9/11 Memorial Compounds the Tragedy of that Day      

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published August 25, 2011 on The Washington Examiner website. 
Do you remember what things were like in the hours and days following the 9/11 terrorist attacks? Evidently New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg does not.

While the smoke was still rising against a clear sky over Manhattan, Pennsylvania, and Washington, people were flooding to churches across the country and prayer groups spontaneously organized in neighborhoods, schools, and workplaces.

Days later, President Bush spoke at a national memorial service at our National Cathedral, and clergy of various faiths offered prayers in conjunction with the president's remarks. And a televised interfaith service was held in New York City, attended by thousands.

Yet on the tenth anniversary of 9/11, Bloomberg has decreed that clergy will be excluded from the 9/11 memorial ceremony. Bloomberg--who has a record of hostility toward social-conservative issues - especially Christian issues - says the memorial schedule is too busy to allow prayer.

 

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Cleaning the Air by Redistributing Wealth

By Discover The Networks
 

Asserting that "humanity has created" global warming, the Copenhagen Climate Council says it is "beyond reasonable scientific doubt" that the high level of atmospheric CO2 is "caused primarily by greenhouse gases which are emitted by the burning of fossil fuels." To remedy the problem, the Council advocates a globalized wealth-redistribution plan.

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August 29, 2011        MEDIA FREAKS OVER BECK'S IRENE COMMENTS   Last Friday, Glenn Beck talked about Hurricane Irene taking aim on the Northeast and he stressed the importance of preparing for any potential disaster. The Washington Post and CNN chose to slam Glenn and his religion. See the details HERE.

DID DR. KING SEND HURRICANE IRENE?   The dedication of the new memorial to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr was postponed this weekend because of Hurricane Irene. One columnist for the Detroit Free Press seems to believe that the storm was sent by Dr. King himself. Follow Rochelle Riley's line of thinking HERE.

Al GORE FIGHTS FOR THE EARTH'S CIVIL RIGHTS   Former VP Al Gore is back in the news and fighting for the "civil rights" of the planet. Watch as the environment's self-appointed defender equates disagreeing with him on climate science to racism HERE.

MORE STORMS FOR OBAMA, LESSONS FROM IRENE, A POSSIBLE PERRY - RUBIO TICKET?   Whether you were busy cleaning up after Hurricane Irene this weekend or just spent two days away from the computer, we have an easy way for you to catch up on all the big news. Check out the Monday morning Must-Reads HERE.

'LIES END HERE' - BECK'S ROUSING HUMAN RIGHTS SPEECH AT DALLAS CHURCH   Glenn came home to Texas and delivered a speech to the congregation at High Point Church. See video highlights from the speech HERE.  

VIRAL VIDEO DU JOUR - IS THIS DC TV REPORTER IN 'SEA FOAM' OR RAW SEWAGE?   The weekend's storm coverage featured endless segments with reporters standing in hurricane-force winds as they told people to stay inside and be safe. In this clip, the gleeful reporter doesn't seem to understand the concept of "organic matter." Watch him get covered in the stuff HERE.

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The Foundation

"A morsel of genuine history is a thing so rare as to be always valuable." --Thomas Jefferson

For the Record

It's time for Reaganomics again

"If you really want to light the fuse of a liberal Democrat, compare Barack Obama's economic performance after 30 months in office with that of Ronald Reagan. It's not at all flattering for Mr. Obama. The two presidents have a lot in common. Both inherited an American economy in collapse. And both applied daring, expensive remedies. Mr. Reagan passed the biggest tax cut ever, combined with an agenda of deregulation, monetary restraint and spending controls. Mr. Obama, of course, has given us a $1 trillion spending stimulus. By the end of the summer of Reagan's third year in office, the economy was soaring. The GDP growth rate was 5% and racing toward 7%, even 8% growth. In 1983 and '84 output was growing so fast the biggest worry was that the economy would 'overheat.' In the summer of 2011 we have an economy limping along at barely 1% growth and by some indications headed toward a 'double-dip' recession. By the end of Reagan's first term, it was Morning in America. Today there is gloomy talk of America in its twilight. My purpose here is not more Reagan idolatry, but to point out an incontrovertible truth: One program for recovery worked, and the other hasn't." --columnist Stephen Moore

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The Gipper

"When a business or an individual spends more than it makes, it goes bankrupt. When government does it, it sends you the bill. And when government does it for 40 years, the bill comes in two ways: higher taxes and inflation. Make no mistake about it, inflation is a tax and not by accident." --Ronald Reagan

Political Futures

"The GOP members of the ridiculous 'Super Committee' will lose credibility for their party if they do anything other than support budget cuts, or force across-the-board cuts to come into law if no agreement can be reached, as the debt-ceiling bill calls for. If anyone doubts this, they need only check with the Republican members of Congress in so-called 'red states' who voted for the debt-ceiling compromise. They've been having quite the unpleasant time at town hall meetings back home.... They've heard catcalls, jeering and lots of tough questions. Raise revenue or refuse to keep every possible tax break for individuals -- ranging from the home mortgage deduction to the current reduction in the payroll tax -- and the public won't be seeing 'red' anymore. Instead, they'll be seeing images of white flags and Swiss cheese." --columnist Matt Towery

Government

"The Obama State Department has just released its annual terrorism report. It was due to Congress on April 30; the administration that talks incessantly about 'the rule of law' -- but has little interest in enforcing or complying with the law -- held off until the end of August, when Washington is a ghost town. But that, as President Obama must say a lot, is par for the course. The immediately notable thing about the report is what is not in it. Once again, the Taliban is not included in State's listing of Foreign Terrorist Organizations ... the Taliban whose terrorism and safe haven for al Qaeda are the justification for continuing to have our troops fight and die in Afghanistan. ... [W]hat's the chance that we will be clear about who the enemy is if the administration can't even bring itself to say the Taliban is a terrorist organization? Of course, if the Obama administration were encouraging negotiations with the Taliban (it is) and even anticipating a settlement in which the Taliban were brought into the Afghan government (ditto), the State Department wouldn't want to complicate that by naming the Taliban as a terrorist organization, right? So we are putting our forces in harm's way in the War on Terror to fight an outfit that we won't call 'terrorists' and that we actually see as part of the future Afghan government we are building. Great." --columnist Andrew C. McCarthy

Opinion in Brief

"In this political culture, the black political leader does not encourage his people to move forward, but rather convinces them that they cannot move forward. Whatever choices they make, their future is determined not by personal choice, but by the restrictive confines of white society. ... President Obama is constrained by the political paradigm of black leadership, since for him to be in control of the government would mean to betray his people. ... His strategy is to highlight and blame the political context of his predicament, rather than make and own decisions. He cannot own his decisions since in his view, and the view of black politicians, only white society controls the process of decision-making. ... While in reality President Obama is the most powerful man in the world, his Chicago-forged sense of identity as a black political leader restricts him to complaining about why he can't effect meaningful change because of others, the excuse-du-jour now being the GOP House. President Obama is not limited by the Republican Congress, or the decisions of past presidents, or the state of the economy; he is limited by his perceptions of what a black politician can and cannot do." --columnist Michael Bargo Jr.

Re: The Left

"When we say 'less fortunate,' we generally mean the poor rather than the disabled, who actually are less fortunate. ... The 'less fortunate' are not less fortunate in terms of their chances in the economy; the government has instituted program after program dedicated to helping those who begin at low socioeconomic status. ... In many cases, the 'less fortunate' get to spend their days watching television rather than participating in educational endeavors, as studies tend to show. ... The question is how society can rectify those imbalances, or if we actually should. The answer is clearly yes in some cases; everyone agrees that the mentally and physically disabled deserve societal protections. But if we get rid of the incentive for the non-disabled to work hard by giving them excuses not to do so, like attempting to provide equal outcomes for the non-equally gifted, we destroy the capacity for true class mobility. The beauty of a free society is that someone slightly less gifted who works harder than usual can rise; the burden of a free society is that someone slightly less gifted is expected to work harder than usual." --columnist Ben Shapiro

Culture

"In a speech at Sichuan University, Vice President Joe Biden said 'Your [China's] policy has been one which I fully understand -- I'm not second-guessing -- of one child per family.' ... Biden didn't condemn the immorality or brutality of a system of forced sterilization and forced abortion -- he merely noted that the demographic consequences of thus drastically limiting the population would lead to problems for China's version of Social Security. ... Is the vice president truly unaware that children born in defiance of the one-child policy are not permitted to enroll in school or see a doctor? But many, many Chinese babies don't even get that far. They are ripped from their struggling mothers' wombs by government goons. ... The Chinese communist government, which has killed more people than any regime in the history of the world (65 million according to the Black Book of Communism), regards human beings as widgets to be manipulated or destroyed in the service of the state. ... [T]he regime remains one of the most vicious on the planet. It is deeply shameful that the vice president needed to be reminded of that." --columnist Mona Charen

Insight

"[Tyrannical] power is absolute, minute, regular, provident and mild. It would be like the authority of a parent if, like that authority, its object was to prepare men for manhood; but it seeks, on the contrary, to keep them in perpetual childhood: it is well content that the people should rejoice, provided they think of nothing but rejoicing. For their happiness such a government willingly labors, but it chooses to be the sole agent and the only arbiter of that happiness; it provides for their security, foresees and supplies their necessities, facilitates their pleasures, manages their principal concerns, directs their industry, regulates the descent of property, and subdivides their inheritances: what remains, but to spare them all the care of thinking and all the trouble of living?" --French historian Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859)

Essential Liberty

"What laws are we morally obligated to obey? Help with the answer can be found in 'Economic Liberty and the Constitution,' a 66-page pamphlet by Jacob G. Hornberger, founder and president of The Future of Freedom Foundation. Hornberger offers a hypothetical whereby Congress enacts a compulsory church attendance law that requires children to attend church service each Sunday. Parents are penalized if their children fail to comply. Would there be any moral or constitutional legitimacy to such a congressional mandate? The law would be a clear violation of one's natural, or God-given, rights to life and liberty. As to whether it would be constitutional, we have to see whether mandating church attendance is one of those enumerated powers of Congress found in Article 1, Section 8 of our Constitution. We'd find no such authority. Our anti-federalist Founding Fathers didn't trust Congress with religious liberty, so they sought to protect it with the First Amendment to explicitly deny Congress the power to mandate religious conduct. Suppose there's widespread popular support for a church-going mandate and the U.S. Supreme Court rules it constitutional; do Americans have a moral obligation to obey the law? ... [O]ne cannot avoid the conclusion that the liberties envisioned by the nation's founders have been under siege, trivialized and nullified. Philosopher Johann Wolfgang von Goethe explained that 'no one is as hopelessly enslaved as the person who thinks he's free.' That's becoming an apt description for Americans who are oblivious to -- or ignorant of -- the liberties we've lost." --economist Walter E. Williams

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"I read Alexander's Essays every week and agree with The Patriot Post that we are in a battle with socialists who are very aggressive. In recent essays, like Ballots or Bullets? you seem to be escalating the alert that we need to be prepared to take up arms in our cause. This mystifies me somewhat. Against whom are we to take military action? Liberals? Politicians with whom we disagree? The president? The military or local police? The IRS? Labor Unions? The education establishment? I think that you are off base implying that we should take up arms." --Dean

Editor's Reply: Actually, if you have read my recent essays on the subject of revolution (The Next American Revolution, Sunset or Sunrise on Liberty? and Restoration or Revolution?), you will note the common theme in these essays is that I believe the Ballot Box option is still viable, and to the extent it fails, then we step up to measures of "civil disobedience" as our Founders did when dumping Tea into Boston Harbor. Beyond that, I will cross that bridge when we get there, remembering also that the "Shot heard 'round the world" was fired at at Concord's Old North Bridge, when oppressors of that era were in route to confiscate the arms of Patriots. As for the "need to be prepared to take up arms in the cause of Liberty," every Patriot should be so prepared in the best of times.

"You noted in Friday's Digest that the Congressional Budget Office is making debt predictions based on tax increases. Surely with all the historical data existing showing the positive impact on revenues after tax decreases are implemented, there is similar data showing what happens when taxes are raised? Does our great and powerful CBO look at this data when making their assumptions that revenues will skyrocket and growth will increase? More stimulus, less revenue, more debt, another downgrade, higher interest costs, a vicious cycle. We survived incompetence under Jimmy Carter. It's a different matter when ruining America is the plan." --Jon

"When Thomas Edison tried repeatedly in his quest to create a working light bulb, he was always using his own money. When Obama tries to stimulate the economy with one stimulus plan after another, he's using our money, only he's using it like it's play money, as if it never had to be paid back." --Paul

Correction: In Friday's Digest we said incorrectly that the Virginia earthquake was Monday. It was Tuesday. Apparently, our collective editing mind was jarred by the tremors.

The Last Word

Whenever anyone wants to prove that millions of Americans are either dumb or just plain nuts, they mention that 12% of the population is convinced that a badly scarred James Dean is living as a hermit and a 450-pound Elvis Presley is working at a 7/11 outside Nashville. I say that doesn't prove anything beyond wishful thinking. A far more convincing case can be made by pointing out that even now 40% of Americans believe that Barack Obama is doing a bang-up job. In a saner world, it's Obama who would be a hermit or working at a 7/11 in Chicago." --columnist Burt Prelutsky

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

News from The Hill:

Cantor announces anti-tax and regulations agenda
By Erik Wasson    

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) on Monday laid out an ambitious anti-tax and regulations agenda for the fall.

In a memo to rank-and-file Republicans, Cantor said the House will target 10 major regulations for elimination, and will also seek to enact one major tax cut for businesses.

Republicans are offering the agenda as a contrast to President Obama's jobs plan which is to be formally announced next week and is expected to include stimulus spending.

Cantor's proposals will face an uphill battle in becoming law, but could make their way into a package produced by the deficit "supercommittee" of 12 lawmakers charged with recommending $1.5 trillion in deficit-cuts by late November. Democrats want that package to focus on economic stimulus to create jobs.

Read the full story here.

Lessons from Hurricane Irene

Without question, Hurricane Irene struck a major blow to the United States' East Coast over the weekend. At least 24 people have died, hundreds of thousands remain without power across the mid-Atlantic, and the estimates of direct costs of damage are in the range of billions of dollars. Our thoughts are with those who have suffered at the hands of the storm and who are beginning the process of rebuilding.

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QUICK HITS

New York City's mass transit will mostly resume operation today, though residents are expecting long commutes and crowded trains.

As Libyan rebels approach Muammar Qadhafi's hometown of Sirte, 500 people in Misrata protested plans to appoint former members of Qadhafi's security forces to the Transitional National Council.

At least 24 people were killed in Baghdad on Sunday when a suicide bomber posing as a beggar detonated explosives inside a major Sunni mosque.

Japanese finance minister Yoshihiko Noda, known as a tight-fisted fiscal hawk, has been selected as the country's prime minister.

Do you know about President Obama's backdoor education agenda? Read about how his Administration is granting waivers to states to allow them to opt out of No Child Left Behind-and the consequences that come with it.

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On Monday's Program 

WaPo bigotry? Target Mormonism in latest Beck attack

Realizing every news outlet imaginable is covering Hurricane Irene, some members of the press have taken the lazy route to getting the most internet traffic: smear Glenn Beck! Yes, the media is of course trying once again to paint Glenn Beck as the most evil person ever. But this time they added a little bigotry by strangely targeting Glenn's religion while trying to make some very non-controversial statements about preparing, into something horrible that everyone will surely click to see! Glenn responded on radio today; get more on the story from The Blaze. 

This isn't crazy? Columnist says that MLK sent Irene because people are racist. Whoa. DETAILS

Clips of Glenn's stirring Dallas speech

Fresh off Restoring Courage in Israel, visit and speeches in South Africa, and a controversial speech in Venezuela -- Glenn Beck's next stop was Dallas, Texas. There he gave a moving speech about reclaiming the human rights movement from the 'parody' that it's become.  Check out highlights from the speech HERE.

Declaration of Rights & Responsibilities: Glenn again urged listeners that it is the regular individual that must fill the leadership void and directed them to read the Declaration of Rights & Responsibilities. Get them, live them and share them HERE.

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What makes a true leader?

Glenn goes over a great segment on leadership from a book he's currently reading titled, Towards a Meaningful Life. What does a true leader look like? Does it sound anything like our current leaders? HINT: Not even close. A great segment that brings a sobering reality to lack of real leadership we currently have in the face of a crisis. Get more on the segment from radio today HERE.

Tonight on GBTV: The Diary of Anne Frank episode 1

The 5 part mini-series begins TONIGHT on GBTV! The first episode of The Diary of Anne Frank will air tonight at 9 pm EST. Plus all of the Restoring Courage events are all available on demand for subscribers. What are we facing? What has history taught us on how to face the coming challenges in the globe today? Those questions and more all answered this week on GBTV. Sign up right now!

Irene's damage prevents Stu from reaching NYC

Stu called in to radio today to explain his absence - it was a pretty understandable excuse. After driving 2 and a half hours and making it only a fraction of the way to NYC, Stu turned around and headed back home - to no power and several downed trees. Check out the call on radio today. 

DON'T BE LIKE WILSON: One of Glenn Beck's writers, Wilson Garrett, has listened to Glenn warn time and time again to be prepared for anything. Like most of us, he didn't listen. What happened to him when Irene hit? Check out his blog over at GlennBeck.com.

Al Gore: Doubt global warming? You are racist!

Al Gore has done it again! He's said something even dumber than all of his previous dumb comments. Thought he couldn't top the center of the earth being '2 million' degrees? Oh, think again! Gore is now likening those who are skeptical of the doomsday environmental predictions as, wait for it... racists! How does someone's race have anything to do with the climate? Get the audio HERE.

Michael Vey: The NY Journal of Books has a great review of NYT Bestselling book, Michael Vey: The Prisoner of Cell 25. It's the first book from Glenn's new publishing imprint - Mercury Ink. It's A first rate sci-fi thriller that will have everyone in your family begging for their turn to read it. Check out the review HERE.

Odd: MLK's daughter targets Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln is universally considered a key figure in the civil rights movement and is largely considered the driving force in the abolition of slavery. But that's not stopping a new and bizarre line of attack from MLK's daughter, who spoke in DC on the anniversary of the "I Have Dream" speech. Glenn has the audio of the speech and reaction on radio today.