Quote: 

"From bondage to spiritual faith;
 from spiritual faith to great courage;
 from courage to liberty;
 from liberty to abundance;
 from abundance to selfishness;
 from selfishness to apathy;
 from apathy to dependence;
 from dependency back again into bondage." 

~ Alexander Fraser Tytler  

Federal Reserve to Monitor Billions of Online Convos for 'Fed'

How often do you mention the word 'Fed' online? There is about to be a new breed of Big Brother "watchers" and electronic surveillance on billions of online conversations before eavesdropping on the emotion behind how the 'Fed' was used. The monitoring will include identifying and reaching out to "key bloggers" and "influencers."

ZeroHedge reported the Federal Reserve Bank will soon monitor billions of conversations on social networking sites to know who mentions "Fed" as well as the sentiment in which it was used. The Federal Reserve is looking for a "Communication Group" to monitor social media platforms. The Fed expects the Watchers to be "timely and proactively aware of the reactions and opinions expressed by the general public as it relates to the Federal Reserve and its actions on a variety of subjects."

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Fellow Patriots,
We had a great event yesterday and have more to tell about regarding Presidential candidates. But first we want to encourage as many of you as possible to come to the FreedomWorks training & rally tomorrow in Philadelphia. The information of Newt and the Presidential Series is listed below the event information.
 

FreedomWorks and The Kitchen Table Patriots
Present
A Grassroots Training Event and Rally

When: Thursday, September 29, 2011

Where: The National Constitution Center

Address: 525 Arch St, Philadelphia, PA 19106
Time: 12:30pm - 9:00pm
RSVP via Facebook or FreedomConnector

Join FreedomWorks and local tea party groups for a full day of training in the City of Brotherly Love. FreedomWorks has teamed up with local tea party groups from across the state for a day of training and information about the issues facing Pennsylvania and the country. Issues to be discussed include: Energy policy, spending, the debt, school choice and much more.

This event will cost $10.00 at the door and is open to everyone.

Please see the agenda below:

12:30pm-1:00pm Registration
1:00pm-1:15pm Welcome/Introduction
1:15pm-2:15pm FreedomConnector Training
2:15pm-3:15pm 2012 Political Landscape
3:15pm-3:30pm Break
3:30pm-4:15pm Grassroots/Campaigning 101
4:15pm-5:15pm Tea Party Debt Commission Panel
5:15pm-5:30pm Break
5:30pm-6:00pm Energy/Regulations/Marcellus Shale Update
6:00pm-6:30pm Pennsylvania School Choice Update
6:30pm-6:45pm Break
6:45pm-7:00pm Keynote Introduction - Dom Giordano, The Big Talker 1210 AM Philadelphia
7:00pm-8:00pm Keynote - Matt Kibbe

Thanks and we look forward to working with you to Take America Back!

Watch Live on The Kitchen Table Patriots Ustream Channel  

Please Join Me for a House Majority Policy Committee Hearing on Marcellus Shale Issues

• On Thursday, Sept. 29, I will be hosting the House Majority Policy Committee for a hearing on Marcellus Shale issues.
  
  WHERE: The Aldie Mansion, 85 Old Dublin Pike in Doylestown
  TIME: 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
  
  This will be an opportunity to hear from experts on the technical aspects of the Marcellus Shale drilling industry.

  I will be joined by several members of the House of Representatives and the committee hearing will be chaired by Representative Dave Reed (R-Indiana). The committee meeting has a set agenda of testifiers, but the public is welcome to attend and listen.
  
  If you cannot attend, this meeting will also be streamed live on my website at RepQuinn.net. You can log into watch, starting at 10 a.m. The video will also be posted to my website later this week.

  Scheduled testifiers include:

  • Tom Murphy, co-director, Penn State Marcellus Shale Center for Outreach and Research, Penn State Cooperative Extension;
  • Andrew Heath, executive director, Renew Growing Greener Coalition;
  • Jason Hanna, senior project manager, Langan Engineering and Environmental Services;
  • Carl J. Carlson, director of government affairs, Range Resources of Appalachia, LLC;
  • Elam Herr, assistant executive director, Pennsylvania Association of Township Supervisors;
  • Doug Hill, executive director, County Commissioners Association of Pennsylvania;
  • Patrick Gardiner, construction services manager, Keystone Transportation Funding Coalition.
   

 I encourage you to attend this informative committee meeting. If you have any questions, please contact my office at (215) 489-2126 or email me directly at MQuinn@pahousegop.com

Training for members of Phoenixville and King of Prussia branches

 If you're not already aware of it, the "Social Media" have become a routine way of communicating and exchanging ideas. Social media is now widely used - probably every elected representative in the state capitals and in Washington have their own Facebook and use Twitter.

 Political action groups make extensive use of them, As do private individuals, companies and non-profit groups.

 It's time for our own Tea Party to learn these tools and make use of them. For that reason, we've made arrangements for Daria DiGiovanni to conduct a hands on, how to session.

 Daria has worked with a number of Tea Parties, teaching them social media as well as creating their web sites.

 Training will be conducted in the King of Prussia area, and will consist of a single, three-hour session. Day and time to be announced. There will be a small cost - we're working out the details, but it's likely to be $10 or less, and will be held within the next 30 days. We don't know if this training will be offered again in the foreseeable future.

 Please respond to this email immediately so we can plan and schedule the training.

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 Dave Adamski, Jr.

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A friend of mine asked that I pass this on too like minded people.... I ask the same of you... Thanks, Glenn

Dear Glenn,

I hope this memo finds you and your daughter doing well.

Please share this flyer with your like-minded friends and neighbors.  I'm scheduled to give a presentation entitled "Citizen's Request for Reconsideration of a Work" - how to remove objectionable material from the curriculum.  Unfortunately, it doesn't cover how to remove objectionable teachers from the school district.

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Agenda 21 Creeps Into California Land Use Policy

New Meeting Schedule for the Concerned Citizen's Group.   The Concerned Citizen's Group will no longer meet weekly on Wednesdays and instead we will be having our "weekly" meeting at various government meetings around the Delaware Valley area: town councils, school boards, county commissioners, zoning boards, water boards, etc.

We will still have monthly meetings on Saturday's. The next monthly meeting will be on Saturday, October 8^th at P J Ryan's, 231 Bridge Street, Phoenixville - 6pm.  Radio Talk Show Host Maggie Roddin will do a presentation on U.N. Agenda 21 and have any updates that may have come from the U.N. or local sustainable development  . . . don't forget hay is now deemed a pollutant by the EPA . . . no hay, no crops, no animals, no food.   We will also be showing a movie on U.N. Agenda 21 at the October 8^th meeting.

If you have any questions please feel free to email me back or contact Maggie at www.theunsolicitedopinion.com or Maggie@theunsolicitedopinion.com

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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.

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

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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.
 

 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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OBAMA'S BLUNDER: MISSING LIBYAN SURFACE TO AIR MISSILES 

By DICK MORRIS & EILEEN MCGANN
Published on DickMorris.com on September 27, 2011
   

For twenty years - long before 9/11 - the danger of terrorists armed with surface to air missiles shooting at passenger planes has been the secret fear of many top political leaders.  In the late 90s, a terrorist network was nabbed trying to bring them into Newark Airport, but the airline industry and the government have done nothing to equip passenger airplanes with any defense against these always deadly missiles.

Now Barack Obama has committed the ultimate sin: He has let 20,000 surface-to-air missiles escape from military depots in Libya.  According to ABC News "U.S. officials had once thought there was little chance that terrorists could get their hands on many of the portable surface-to-air missiles that can bring down a commercial jet liner.  But now that calculation is out the window, with officials at a recent secret White House meeting reporting that thousands of them have gone missing in Libya."  An estimated 20,000 of these "portable, heat-seeking missiles have gone missing from unguarded Army weapons warehouses."
     
Senator Barbara Boxer, of the Senate's Commerce, Energy, and Transportation Committee said that "matching up a terrorist with a shoulder-fired missile, that's our worst nightmare.
     
And now, thanks to Obama's carelessness and his unnecessary decision to intervene in Libya, it may be our future reality.
    
ABC News describes the missing missiles as "four to six-feet long and Russian-made, [they] can weight just 55 pounds with launcher."  They are accurate within a range of more than two miles.  That a terrorist could sit on a boat off JFK airport and shoot down a passenger plane as it ascends could now be a real possibility.
    
In the Iraq War, during the run-up to the 2004 election, there were reports of unguarded US military depots from which insurgents allegedly stole thousands of explosives.  The story broke in the week before the election and Kerry took down all his other ads and focused on this issue, first reported in the New York Times.  By Election Day, it was proven that the report was bogus, adding to Kerry's woes.  Now, faced with this massive blunder and security threat, we hear nothing but the sounds of silence from any of the mainstream media except, to its immense credit, ABC News.
     
We need to assign a top priority to hunting down these missiles.  In Afghanistan, our troops jumped through hoops to corral all the Stinger Missiles left over from the Russian War.  This potential leak of these dangerous weapons is vastly more threatening.  Obama needs to face this issue squarely and publicly.  And we all need to learn the cost we may pay from having elected a rank amateur as president.

RedState Morning Briefing

For September 29, 2011

1. As I Was Saying

I said yesterday that Herman Cain is now the center of gravity for the GOP's 2012 candidates. Today, Fox News shows a meteoric rise for Herman Cain. And it is pretty much all at Rick Perry's expense.

Perry is down 10 points to 19%. Herman Cain has skyrocketed to 17%. They are in statistical tie with Mitt Romney who is at 23%. Last month, Romney was at 22%.

This is telling in a number of ways.

First, Perry really has had as bad a week as many of us have been saying and he could not apologize fast enough for that "heartless" remark. He finally did today.

Second, on the national scene these debates seem to matter.

Third, Herman's message is really resonating.

But most significantly for me is just how stagnant Mitt Romney is. Even more so, when asked who the voters have most in common with, Rick Perry leads the rest of the field with 17% and Herman is in second place at 14%. Mitt Romney? Only 12% of the voters think they have something in common with him.

This again suggests that primary voters are trying desperately to find an alternative to Mitt Romney and Perry's performance over the past few weeks, culminating in that debate, has given folks cold feet.

Perry needs to get out now with his jobs plan and get back on the jobs message.

Cain? He needs to translate this into some serious fundraising. The quarterly deadline is September 30th, so if you are a Cain fan, you better pony up. Because the message next week is not going to be his polling, but his money. Same goes for Perry.

2. Fox: A new look at Herman Cain

Today's been the single biggest polling day in my estimation since the 2010 elections. Three major releases all containing interesting data. The third and most surprising of those comes from Fox News, which shows Herman Cain not just in third place, but taking a top-tier position usually held in recent weeks by Michele Bachmann or Ron Paul.

3. Sheila Jackson-Lee Leaves Us All Speechless.

Recently, Congresswoman Shiela Jackson-Lee went on the air with Tavis Smiley of PBS. During her appearance she was kind enough to explain something to all those crazy conservative bloggers. "Shut up!" And while we're all zipping the soup-coolers, we're also supposed to lay off the racial politics.

For those of us hoping for greater detail, we are still unsure as to whether we should "Go to Hell" first, and then shut the yaps, or whether that works the other way around. However, she is handy with a totally non-racial and uncontroversial piece of advice for anyone who expects to do business with the Federal Government once Barack Obama's new jobs bill has been passed.

4. Quinnipiac in OH and PA: Romney leads, Perry leads, Santorum flops

Quinnipiac put out a pair of new polls, focusing on the Republican primary race in Pennsylvania and in Ohio. They have some problems that limit their utility, but I believe they will get much attention today because of their top line results, so it's time to take a look anyway.

Why the attention? Romney bucks the national trend again to lead in both states.

The facts: These are university polls of registered Republican voters, mobile and land line handling. 423 Republicans in Ohio for an MoE of 4.8, 541 Republicans in Pennsylvania for an MoE of 4.2.

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Experts on the Day's Hottest News

Items for September 29, 2011

Eurozone holds its breath for German vote on rescue package
The Independent
 
Obama's healthcare law appealed to Supreme Court
CNBC.com
 
Solyndra violated loan terms in 2010 but got more federal money, DOE confirms
The Washington Post
 
US man charged over Pentagon plot
Financial Times 

Reclaim rock for conservatism: 

Argonne Researchers 'Easily Hack' Electronic Voting Machine

Roger Johnston, head of the Vulnerability Assessment Team at the U.S. Department of Energy's science and engineering reseaech lab, said the hack, which requires about $25 and very little technical expertise, would let cybercriminals "flip" votes gathered on Diebold Accuvote TS machines and change election results without raising any suspicion.

   Read More . . . 

Consider the following news items.

  What does all of this mean? What do the "tea leaves" tell us?

I first discussed this in an email three few weeks ago. These recent developments tell us that we are witnessing a measureable shifting of the tide. The American people are gradually awakening, becoming aware of threats associated with radical Islam, notably sharia law. What's more, they are increasingly ignoring the bogus allegations of "racism," "Islamophobia," and "intolerance."

Our opposition sees what is happening. But since they can't rebut the factual information we and others are putting out about sharia and radical Islam, they are left to play the only card they have been playing-name calling. This is why they have ramped up their invective and are ranting and raving even more hysterically than they have in the past.

We are in the middle of a slow but sure seismic change, a seismic shift compared to where our nation was four years ago, when I joined ACT as Executive Director. This is the shift we have been working so hard to bring about. And while it doesn't mean we've "won," it DOES mean we have seized the momentum.

Our efforts going into the 2012 state legislative sessions have never been more important or more timely. The issue is simple.

Will we be able to fully capitalize on this seismic shift in public opinion, or will the savage propaganda attacks leveled at us by CAIR, its allies and enablers, blunt our momentum?

We are nearing the end of our fall Patriot Partner campaign, and we still have a ways to go to reach our goal of 400 new Patriot Partners. If you are not already a Patriot Partner, and you are able to support us with a $19 gift each month, please click here and select the $19 Patriot Partner level.

When you do, we'll ship you our new resource, "Unmasking the Enemy Among Us: Information Warfare and the Muslim Brotherhood." (Click the image below to see a two minute clip from the DVD.)

  Thank you!

Yours for a safe and free America,


Guy Rodgers
 

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To: Friends & Supporters

From: Gary L. Bauer


To all of our Jewish friends and supporters on the occasion of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year -- L'Shanah Tovah!


2012: A Titanic Struggle

Yesterday, Obama's top advisor, David Axelrod, said the 2012 campaign was going to be a "titanic struggle." That may be the only thing Axelrod and I agree on! As you will read below, the 2012 elections will be a titanic struggle for the heart and soul of America.

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Obama's State Department Hits Israel Again

The housing authority in Jerusalem just took another step forward in the approval process to build new housing units. No big deal, right? Wrong! Obama's State Department bureaucrats immediately issued a statement condemning Israel for this provocation, calling it a threat to the peace process.

Why? Because the Palestinians want East Jerusalem as their new capital, and they intend to have it as a "Jew-free" zone. Thus new homes for Israeli Jews become a threat to peace.

Here's an idea: Instead of Obama and the State Department's "ethnic cleansing crowd" focusing on whether Israel should build homes, they should examine the agenda of the likely leaders of a new Palestinian state. That agenda isn't about a "Jew-free" East Jerusalem. It is about a Jew-free Middle East!

Just a few days ago, Abbas Zaki, a member of the Fatah Central Committee, told Al-Jazeera this about the preferred strategy to accomplish their ultimate goal:

"The settlement [with Israel] should be based upon the borders of June 4, 1967. When we say that the settlement should be based upon these borders, President [Abbas] understands, we understand, and everybody knows that the greater goal cannot be accomplished in one go. If Israel withdraws from Jerusalem, evacuates the 650,000 settlers, and dismantles the wall -- what will become of Israel? It will come to an end. If we say that we want to wipe Israel out....C'mon, it's too difficult. It's not [acceptable] policy to say so. Don't say these things to the world. Keep it to yourself."

(Many thanks to the great research group MEMRI for this quote.)

I am still waiting for someone in the Obama Administration to condemn Zaki's call for a second Holocaust.


Christie: Obama Dividing America

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie addressed a sold-out audience at the Reagan Library last night. While reiterating previous statements that he would not run for president, Christie fired a withering broadside against Obama's campaign of division. Consider this exceprt:

"President Obama prepares to divide our nation to achieve re-election. This is not a leadership style, this is a re-election strategy. Telling those who are scared and struggling that the only way their lives can get better is to diminish the success of others. Trying to cynically convince those who are suffering that the American economic pie is no longer a growing one that can provide more prosperity for all who work hard. Insisting that we must tax and take and demonize those who have already achieved the American Dream. That may turn out to be a good re-election strategy for President Obama, but is a demoralizing message for America."

Gov. Christie is right. The Washington Post wrote this week that Obama's campaign strategy will focus on "ethnic minorities and core liberals." To get out a massive vote from the left, Obama has to demonize YOU and anyone who questions him.

Here's one example. Leftists at MSNBC are blasting the Associated Press for being "inherently racist." What was AP's sin? It accurately transcribed Obama's speech before the Congressional Black Caucus. That makes about as much sense as Morgan Freeman's recent remarks about Tea Party members. But as you can see, they are not trying to defend Obama's failed policies; they are trying to draw attention away from them.

We have written repeatedly that Obama's only shot at reelection is to scare enough Americans into voting for him. How do you do that? You tell homeowners that they are losing their homes because millionaires and billionaires aren't paying their fair share in taxes. You tell seniors that in spite of the Democrats' record spending and deficits, it's Republicans who want to kill Medicare and Social Security. And you tell blacks, as a liberal representative recently did, that conservatives want to see them "hanging from trees."

As Governor Christie noted, this is a far cry from Obama's rousing rhetoric of unity and transcending partisanship. But 2012 will not be 2008. Hope and change have given way to fear and smear.

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Democrat Solution: Suspend Elections

Democrats are reading the same polls we are, and they are getting desperate. So much so, in fact, that Governor Beverly Perdue (D-NC) thinks we ought to just cancel the next election! Here's what Gov. Perdue told a Rotary Club meeting yesterday:

"I think we ought to suspend, perhaps, elections for Congress for two years and just tell them we won't hold it against them, whatever decisions they make, to just let them help this country recover. I really hope that someone can agree with me on that."

Perdue's staff immediately went into damage control mode and suggested that her remarks were a joke, "obvious hyperbole." I don't think so. Listen for yourself.

If there is any more talk from the left about suspending elections, I think we should try a more rational solution: Rather than abandoning our commitment to freedom and democracy, let's move the election forward -- and VOTE NOW!


Investigating Planned Parenthood

Kudos to Rep. Cliff Stearns (R-FL). The chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee has launched an investigation of Planned Parenthood's finances and its use of your tax dollars. It's about time!

For years Planned Parenthood has thrived as liberal politicians made it a priority to fund the nation's largest abortion provider with your tax dollars. Now the group is reeling as one state after another reprioritizes its spending in these tough times. Not surprisingly, cutting off Planned Parenthood is frequently at the top of the list.

Also not surprisingly, Democrats and Planned Parenthood are on the attack, accusing Stearns of being an extremist with an "ideological vendetta." On the contrary, Rep. Stearns is merely looking out for the taxpayers' best interests. The extremists are those on the left, including Barack Obama, who place such a high priority on funding the destruction of innocent life with taxpayer dollars.

My friends, let me remind you once again that this investigation would not be happening in Nancy Pelosi's House. This is the difference a conservative majority can make for our values!

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The Trash of Islam

Two years ago the Egyptian city of Cairo, the largest city in the Arab world and the "timeless city" of Obama's Cairo speech, the heart of the Arab Spring, was suffering from a garbage crisis. The crisis had a very simple cause, the pigs that used to eat the garbage were killed to prevent the spread of Swine Flu.

 

The pigs living in "Garbage City" had served as both organic garbage disposals and food sources for the Zabaleen, families of marginalized Christian Copts who made a living by collecting the garbage, reselling the inorganic garbage and feeding the organic garbage to pigs. The system worked fine so long as there were pigs, but without the pigs, Cairo's streets are filled with giant mounds of rotting garbage.

It might be shocking for most people to realize that the trash collection system for the largest city in the Arab world, the capital of what passes for Arab Muslim civilization, depended on a class of "untouchable" garbage collectors as young as eight years old, and their pigs to keep the city from drowning in its own garbage.

A system that is not simply medieval, but pre-medieval, that seems positively Bronze Age. But that is only because the Arab Muslim nations are not actually civilizations in the modern sense, they are post-colonized tribal clumpings with bits and pieces of borrowed governmental structures and technology that never quite work right. And underneath them is something far darker and more primitive, a miserably brutal and ruthless Levantine existence defined not by moral laws, but by tribal ones. And underneath them all are the pigs. Kill the pigs, and the system collapses.
 

United States and Israel at a 'Crossroads'?

Ted Belman. I beg to differ. Yes Israel has turned right/conservative but so has America. The liberal left got slaughtered in Nov '10. The last poll records that Americans are 3% more likely to identify as conservatives than three years ago.The Tea Party has shifted the balance and Republicans are totally in sync with the new Israel. The problem is that Jewish American and the Democratic Party that they embrace are the ones out of sync like the Left in Israel. It has been acknowledged that US/Israel strategic and military cooperation is at an all time high. The only thing out of sync was Obama's decision to undermine Mubarak, attack Libya and embrace the Brotherhood and al Qaeda.

Further more, after saying Meirsheimer and Walt were flawed, he embraces them. He quotes Gates and could similarly quote Pres Clinton, both of whom attacked Israel. Not only were they both wrong but they both represent Obama's attempt to undermine Israel. The three of them aren't in...

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In memory of Jean Kirkpatrick

A World of Doublespeak 

By Janet Tassel

"We are in the world of doublethink and doublespeak, where words are emptied of their normal meanings and turned into their opposites...in a world where language depends on politics and on majorities of the General Assembly."

So wrote the late and deeply lamented Jeane Kirkpatrick 22 years ago, July 1989, in her brilliant and prescient essay in Commentary, "How the PLO Was Legitimized." For those who find themselves shocked by this week's diseased antics at the UN, Kirkpatrick examines their insidious origins.  There is nothing new in bedlam.

It was December 1988. A special session of the UN General Assembly was convened in Geneva for a single purpose: To hear Yasir Arafat plead the cause of the PLO. "Arafat exulted on that occasion," Kirkpatrick writes.

And why not? One hundred fifty-four members of the UN had voted for this special session.  Now his appearance was being treated as the diplomatic event of the year.  The UN...

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MK's: Israel should legally annex settlements

By Jonathan Lis, HAARETZ  

Israel should legally annex West Bank settlements in response to the Palestinians' recent bid for recognition in the United Nations, the leaders of several right-wing Knesset factions said in a letter to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday.

The letter was signed by Likud chairman Ze'ev Elkin, Shas chairman Avraham Michaeli, Habayit Hayehudi chairman Uri Orbach, and the leader of the National Union faction Yaakov Katz.

In the missive, the right-wing MKs urged the prime minister to sanction the Palestinian Authority for what they called a "unilateral" move in the UN, saying that Israel had to make it clear that it would not agree serve as the Palestinians' "punching bag."

Among the steps mentioned in the letter to Netanyahu, the right-wing leaders mentioned the gradual annexation of all West Bank settlements; cutting Palestinian aid money; accelerated settlement building; cancellation of PA...

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The New Replacement Theology

By Daniel Greenfield

In the Washington Post's "On Faith" section, a story asks; 'Judaism without God? Yes, say American atheists'. You can have Judaism without G-d, much as you can have an "On Faith" section without anything to have faith in.

It's all a matter of definition. If you define Judaism by its covenantal document as a binding agreement between a people and the Creator of the universe, then an atheistic Judaism is a contradiction in terms. But if you define it as a cultural experience that calls us to social work and spirited debate, then it makes no real difference what you believe, so long as you volunteer at the Tikkun Olam soup kitchen.

What goes for Judaism, also goes for Christianity. The issue is not atheism, it's the nature of religion and what it is and what it isn't. Either religion is a specific belief in a deity accompanied by textual revelations, or it's the Democratic party with its own pulpit. ...

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FBI talks about Islam the ideology

Bibi to build in Jerusalem. Will he build in J&S?

By Ted Belman

And the good news is, Bibi said in a JPOST interview he wouldn't renew the freeze.

Netanyahu said he had no intention of intervening with the Interior Ministry's District Planning Committee that is scheduled to meet Tuesday to discuss the construction of more than 700 housing units in Jerusalem's Gilo neighborhood, located over the Green Line, even though the Quartet - in its statement Friday - called on "the parties to refrain from provocative actions if negotiations are to be effective," a veiled reference to construction beyond the pre-1967 lines.

"I don't think there is anything new," Netanyahu said of the plan.

"We plan in Jerusalem. We build in Jerusalem. Period. The same way Israeli governments have been doing for years - since the end of the 1967 war.

"We build in Jewish neighborhoods, the Arabs build in Arab neighborhoods - that is the way the life of this city goes on and develops for its Jewish and non- Jewish...

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September 26, 2011 

Andrea Peyser

Fear not, New Yorkers. A mosque will not soar over Ground Zero.

Hooray?

The news should have reverberated all over the city -- The Ground Zero Mosque Blinked!

But if you shut your eyes for a millisecond, you likely missed it.

Last month, in an amazing feat of contrition mixed with public-relations savvy, the man who controls 51 Park Place, the spot where developers threatened to build a 15-story, $100 million mega-mosque and Islamic center in the shadow of Ground Zero -- said such a project will not be built.

Originally, Park51 (formerly Cordoba House) was envisioned as a monster complex, complete with sex-segregated swimming pool and religiously segregated prayer spaces. But buried deep inside the mosque-supportive New York Times, on a Saturday, was an amazing mea culpa by Sharif El-Gamal, lead developer of the boneheaded project, which, polls demonstrate, is opposed by 70 percent of New Yorkers.

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The Foundation

"[W]hen the resolution of enslaving America was formed in Great Britain, the British Parliament was advised by an artful man, who was governor of Pennsylvania, to disarm the people; that it was the best and most effectual way to enslave them; but that they should not do it openly, but weaken them, and let them sink gradually." --George Mason

Editorial Exegesis

"New documents reveal the Department of Justice lied to Congress and show how U.S. officials bought guns with tax dollars and then made sure no one stopped their transfer to Mexican drug cartels. The funneling of thousands of American guns into the hands of Mexican drug cartels in the operation known as Fast and Furious was not a botched sting operation or the result of bureaucratic incompetence. It was not designed to interdict gun trafficking, but to facilitate it. We now know that it involved not just the use of straw buyers, but also agents of the federal government purchasing weapons with taxpayer money, ordering the licensed dealers to conduct the sales off the books, then calling off surveillance of the gun traffickers and refusing to interdict the transfer of the weapon or arrest the people involved. ... A two-year-old C-SPAN video shows Deputy Attorney General David Ogden, who would resign nine months later after less than a year's service, telling reporters at a Justice Department briefing of major policy initiatives to fight the Mexican drug cartels. 'The president has directed us to take action to fight these cartels,' Ogden began, 'and Attorney General Holder and I are taking several new and aggressive steps as part of the administration's comprehensive plan.' Ogden said the administration's plan, at the president's direction, included the ATF's 'increasing its efforts by adding 37 new employees in three new offices, using $10 million in Recovery Act funds and redeploying 100 personnel to the Southwest border in the next 45 days to fortify its Project Gunrunner,' of which Operation Fast and Furious would be a part. ... Fast and Furious should spark our pursuit of the truth, even if the trail leads to the Oval Office." --Investor's Business Daily

Will the administration succeed in its Fast & Furious goals?

Upright

"The entire [Fast & Furious] operation ended with only 20 indictments of straw purchasers -- indictments that could have happened immediately upon transfer of the weapons, stopping the flow. In fact, the straw purchasers, at issue, were known to be straw purchasers from the get-go. The indictments only took place at all because U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry was murdered using the weapons authorized for free flow by ATF and DOJ. ... So what was the real goal of the DOJ and ATF? It certainly wasn't to shut down access to arms for the cartels -- the ATF was agreeing to such access. It wasn't to stop straw purchasers -- the ATF was signing off on the straw purchasers. It wasn't to track the movements of the cartel -- there was no way to do that. It was, very simply, to establish for political reasons that American guns were being used in crimes by foreign cartels." --columnist Ben Shapiro

"Last week, the Federal Emergency Management Agency was telling everyone who would listen that they needed billions to replenish their disaster relief fund right now, or else they would run out of money today. ... Then, suddenly, FEMA told Senate Democrats that all of their previous warnings were overblown. The agency was able to recover $40 billion from ongoing long-term projects, and instead of being broke, they actually had $114 million in the bank, just enough to get them into the next fiscal year. Which is convenient, because that allows them access to all of next year's budgeted disaster relief spending. Since there is now no need for unbudgeted disaster relief spending this year, there is now no need for spending offsets. ... If anybody ever wants to know why conservatives never believed Secretary Tim Geithner when he said the government was going to run out of money this August, this $114 million FEMA find is a great example why." --Washington Examiner columnist Conn Carroll

"The night before the Florida straw poll, Morgan Freeman appeared on CNN. He is maybe the country's most beloved actor. He declared the Tea Party racist, and the Republicans at large racist. He said our attitude is, 'Screw the country. We're going to do whatever we [can] to get this black man out of here.' Apparently, Tea Party activists want to replace 'this black man' with Herman Cain. But does the Left regard Cain as black? He was raised by his janitor father and housemaid mother in Georgia. President Obama was raised by his white grandparents in Hawaii. But he's a left-winger, you see. So he wins -- he's blacker than thou, or blacker than Cain." --National Review's Jay Nordlinger

Essential Liberty

"If European governments and the U.S. Congress ceased the practice of giving people what they have not earned, budgets would be more than balanced. For government to guarantee a person a right to goods and services he has not earned, it must diminish someone else's right to what he has earned, simply because governments have no resources of their very own. ... It turns out that if Congress taxed away our entire $14 trillion 2011 GDP and put it in the bank, it would just barely cover Social Security and Medicare liabilities. That observation suggests that we can't tax our way out of our fiscal mess. In order to avoid permanent stagnation or total economic collapse, governments must start the process of reducing welfare spending. I wouldn't recommend cold turkey for a heroin addict, neither would I recommend cold turkey for all those people who have been addicted and made dependent upon government handouts. We must find a compassionate way to wean people off government." --economist Walter E. Williams

Insight

"Freedom is not a luxury that we can indulge in when at last we have security and prosperity and enlightenment; it is, rather, antecedent to all of these, for without it we can have neither security nor prosperity nor enlightenment." --historian and author Henry Steele Commager (1902-1998)

The Demo-gogues

Leftist ideology is common sense? "From the moment I took office what we've seen is a constant ideological pushback against any kind of sensible reforms that would make our economy work better and give people more opportunity." --Barack Obama

Droppin' the g's: "Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes. Shake it off. Stop complainin'. Stop grumblin'. Stop cryin'. We are going to press on. We have work to do." --Barack Obama to the Congressional Black Caucus

So get in line: "Here's the thing, I never promised you easy. If you wanted easy you would not have campaigned for Barrack Hussein Obama. But what I said was if you are willing to stick with me, hang in there, I was positive we could achieve our dreams. America has been through tougher times." --Barack Obama

On second thought: "I don't know who he was talking to, because we're certainly not complaining." --Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) finding Obama's comment "curious"

Mockery: "Has anybody been watching the debates lately? You've got a governor whose state is on fire denying climate change. It's true. You've got audiences cheering at the prospect of somebody dying because they don't have health care and booing a service member in Iraq because they're gay." --Barack Obama

Gaffe, Part I: "We're the country that built the Intercontinental Railroad." --Barack Obama

Gaffe, Part II: "If asking a billionaire to pay the same tax rate as a Jew -- as a janitor -- makes me a warrior for the working class, I wear that as a badge of honor. I have no problem with that." -- Barack Obama

Dezinformatsia

How dare they: "The rage of the rich has been building ever since Mr. Obama took office. And among the undeniably rich, a belligerent sense of entitlement has taken hold: It's their money, and they have the right to keep it." --New York Times columnist Paul Krugman (The nerve of those productive small business owners and merchants to think they are entitled to keep their income.)

Yes, there are stupid questions: "George H.W. Bush had the courage, knowing it might cost him re-election, knowing for sure it would cost him support with his conservative base, to violate the central domestic policy pledge of his campaign, 'read my lips, no new taxes.' And he called everybody out to Camp David at Andrews Air Force Base and he agreed to a package that caused him to violate that promise. ... Should the Republicans learn from George H.W. Bush and sit down with the president and cut a deal?" --CNN's John King to Dick Cheney

Clueless: "I can describe the legal arguments and the judicial conclusions, but on a fundamental level, I just don't get the attack on [ObamaCare]. I don't understand people who voluntarily, without claiming poverty, let their children go uninsured. I don't understand the moral compass of the owner of the fancy car I saw the other day that sported the bumper sticker: 'Repeal Obamacare.'" --New York Times columnist Linda Greenhouse

Lean forward: "Do you have a sense as you've looked at politics in America that there are some white voters who will vote for an African-American say once? And they will hold that person to a very rigorous standard. Perhaps a much higher standard than they would a white politician.

And they'll give them one shot and then they'll dump them the next time." --MSNBC's Chris Matthews

Victimitis: "[Obama] wanted to work with the opposition. But when he's tried, the Republicans have stamped on his head. ... Having been trashed all summer, he's finally come out and went, OK, if this is the way you're going to play it, I'm going to get dirty too. I mean, you can't blame him." --CNN's Piers Morgan

Newspulper Headlines:

We Reject This False Choice: "Obama: Clark Kent or Superman?" --CNN.com

So When Is He Going to Get Some?: "Obama Says 'Better Ideas' Will Win Him Re-Election" --VosIzNeias.com

Everything Seemingly Is Spinning Out of Control: "'Just Go Be Joe': Obama Lets Biden Loose on the Campaign Trail" --TheHill.com

Answers to Questions Nobody Is Asking: "Morgan Freeman: Yes, the Tea Party Is Racist" --video title, RealClearPolitics.com

Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss, Literally: "Putin Once More Moves to Assume Top Job in Russia" --The New York Times

First, Get a Million Dollars: "What It Takes to Become a Millionaire" --CNBC.com

So Much for the War on Drugs: "Stoned Police Chief Draws Gun" --Times of Swaziland

Bottom Stories of the Day: "Journalists Ignore Obama Scandals" --RushLimbaugh.com

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

Village Idiots

Class warfare: "I hear all this, you know, 'Well, this is class warfare, this is whatever.' No. There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. Nobody." --Massachusetts senate candidate Elizabeth Warren

Clueless II: "It seems like the Republicans are doing everything they can to protect the wealthiest people in this country, through policy and through rhetoric. And I guess I'm just not understanding why. And I'm having a problem. This decade has not been a bad decade for the wealthiest of Americans, and if they are the job creators, why are they not creating?" --The Daily Show's Jon Stewart

Share and share alike: "[A]s you prospered [in the old days], the wealth was shared with your employees, with the government. Everybody had a piece of the pie. You, who started the business or invented the light bulb or whatever, you got a bigger piece of the pie. And you know what, nobody cared because you invented the light bulb. That was a pretty cool thing. ... None of the major religions, in fact they all, say it's one of the worst sins you could commit, is to take such a large piece of the pie while others suffer." --filmmaker Michael Moore

Socialist medicine: "The reason why you have to wait sometimes in those countries [like Canada and Britain] is they let everybody in the line. We take 50 million people out of the line so the line is shorter, so sometimes you don't have to wait as long. If you are a patriotic American, you want every American to be covered the same as you." --Michael Moore

Short Cuts

"During the Johnson administration, Lyndon B. Johnson was at an airport and about to get into the wrong helicopter. An army staff sergeant ran up and redirected him: 'Mr. President, that is your helicopter over there.' To which the president replied, 'Son they are all my helicopters.' Obama suffers the same delusion. He believes all the money the citizenry earns is his money." --columnist R. Emmett Tyrrell

"It sounds like the new [Obama] slogan is no longer 'hope and change.' It's, 'Hey, it could've been worse'. Great bumper sticker, Debbie. I hope it works for you." --RNC Chairman Reince Priebus to DNC Chairman Debbie Wasserman Schultz

"President Obama addressed the U.N. General Assembly in New York Thursday where he assured the world that the U.S. remains strong. He began the speech by declaring that the U.S. dollar is sound. It always helps to get the crowd on your side by opening with a joke." --comedian Argus Hamilton

"Obama says he will be reforming No Child Left Behind. That's not to be confused with Michelle Obama's childhood obesity campaign, 'No Child Left With a Big Behind.'" --comedian Jay Leno

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

News from The Hill:

Energy Department approves $737 million solar loan guarantee
By Andrew Restuccia
 

The Energy Department will announce later Wednesday that is has finalized a $737 million loan guarantee for a Nevada solar project.

The decision comes several weeks after Solyndra, a California-based solar manufacturer that received a $535 million loan guarantee from the Obama administration in 2009, filed for bankruptcy and laid off 1,100 workers, setting off a firestorm in Washington.

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You have probably been hearing a lot about the sweeping new and proposed regulations the Obama Administration and various federal agencies are handing down. Because of the sheer volume of these regulations, keeping up with them has, no doubt, been very difficult. AFP wants to make it easier, and our sister organization, AFP Foundation, has been tracking key regulations.

Click here for a summary of important federal regulatory actions. (http://www.kintera.org/TR.asp?a=ntKYJdPMLfIXLjK&s=9fKNIVNuEbIDIUMyGlE&m=ikKWJ7MQIkKVJiI)

If you would like to see summaries broken down by specific issue areas, then please visit the issues tab on the AFP website by clicking here. (http://www.kintera.org/TR.asp?a=jfJQK0OBIfKML6L&s=9fKNIVNuEbIDIUMyGlE&m=ikKWJ7MQIkKVJiI)

We sincerely hope this helps you to better understand the scope and impact of the various federal regulations you have been hearing about. Please be sure to forward this information on to your friends and family. We must continue to spread the word about regulatory over-reaching.

Sincerely,

Americans for Prosperity

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Stephen Gutowski
September 28, 2011 

 Remember a few weeks ago when 500 or more longshoremen stormed a port in Washington state? They were angry not that the port didn't hire union labor but that it didn't hire the right union labor. So they took 6 security guards hostage and trashed the place.

Well that thuggery was apparently not enough for these union members. After taking out their anger on the media they have moved back to violence. While blocking train tracks to the port they stormed previously at least two of the longshoremen attacked police officers. The attack was caught on camera:

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September 28, 2011
 
  'DIVERSITY CUPCAKES' ON SALE AT BERKELEY  To make a point about Affirmative Action, the College Republicans Club on the UC-Berkeley campus held their "Increase Diversity Bake Sale" yesterday. As expected, the uber-Left had a problem with it. Watch the video HERE.
  PRINCETON PROF PROMOTES REVOLUTION   The "occupation" of Wall Street seems to have finally gotten the attention of the Left. Michael Moore visited a few days ago, but last night, Princeton Professor Cornel West stopped by to lead some anti-government chants. See the video HERE.
  bristol palin gets an apology   A week after a West Hollywood bar patron shouted some pretty nasty comments at Bristol Palin and then found himself in the middle of a media firestorm, the offending man has apologized. Read the apology and Bristol's response HERE.

DEM GOV SAYS 'SUSPEND ELECTIONS', AND A W.H. ADVISOR WANTS 'LESS DEMOCRACY'   Those two shocking quotes from high ranking government officials are part of the 18 great stories gathered among the Wednesday morning Must-Reads HERE.

An Interview with Dr. Walter Williams

Sep 28, 2011 06:13 am | Coach Collins

By Bill McIntosh, staff writer

 Dr. Williams what are some of your thoughts quickly looking over the past 50 years in America?

 Well in terms of manufacturing, employment is way down but manufacturing output is way up... in the last couple of decades... what it means is If you just added up the dollar amount of our manufacturing as a separate nation our manufacturing would be the 4th richest nation on the face of this earth. [But then there's] the massive moral problems associated with the decline of our nation and I think that the biggest problem among the American people is an overall disrespect of the United States constitution.  The politicians are doing precisely what the American people what them to do-to use the power of their office to take the property of one American and bring it back to them whether it´s social security, Medicare, prescription drugs, highway construction funds, aid to higher education. The big ... Continue Reading:An Interview with Dr. Walter Williams

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The American Minute September 27

Sep 27, 2011 05:15 pm | Coach Collins

 Coachisright.com is pleased to announce American history scholar; nationally known speaker and best selling author William J Federer's daily American Minute column will be part of CiR's afternoon update.

 Bill Federer is a tireless and meticulous researcher whose daily history lessons reflect the relationship between God and our nation. Bill is a regular guest on radio and television shows when getting American history right is essential.

 We're sure you will enjoy Bill's daily columns and want to share them with your friends and families. Bill Federer is an American patriot whose message needs to be heard by all.    

 By, Bill Federer, staff writer

 Crying "No taxation without representation," he instigated the Stamp Act riots and the Boston Tea Party.

 After the "Boston Massacre," he spread Revolutionary sentiment with his Committees of Correspondence.

 Known as "The Father of the American Revolution," Samuel Adams, who was born SEPTEMBER 27, 1722, called for the first Continental Congress and ... Continue Reading:The American Minute September 27

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Cleaning Up After Obama

Sep 27, 2011 02:07 pm | Coach Collins

  By Emma K. Emmett

  You've got to hand it to Barack Obama. Not only is he taxing Americans into oblivion, he's taxing our credulity as well. He has once again added to his prolific list of gaffes which thanks to World Net Daily  National Review and Talk radio has    gotten at least some limited exposure (but not surprisingly hardly a word in the mainstream media)  -he has confused Jews with Janitors.

 Or did he confuse Jews with billionaires?  It doesn't take a Freud to recognize this slip. Those pesky Jews are weighing heavily on the mind of our Dear Leader. 

 Maybe Jews have been on his mind since he was forced last week to feign support for Israel at the UN. Only four months ago in another Freudian departure from his TelePrompTer, he advocated Israel's return to indefensible 1967 borders which would lead to the end of the Jewish State.

  Talk about hell freezing over!  As further ... Continue Reading:Cleaning Up After Obama

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By JOHN STEELE GORDON 

Whether the "millionaires and billionaires" are actually paying their fair share of taxes is a matter for the electorate to decide. After all, fairness is hardly an objective standard.

Before the modern era, however, the federal tax system was manifestly unfair by any reasonable standard, grossly biased in favor of the well off. Ironically, attempting to fix that unfairness is what has brought us to the present moment, with a federal tax system that is grotesquely complex, often arbitrary, and corrupted by mutual back-scratching between members of Congress and influential lobbyists.

  

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Presidents Wilson (left) and Taft, fathers of the modern income tax

After the Civil War, nearly all the wartime taxes-including the nation's first income tax-were repealed and the federal government relied mostly on the tariff for revenues. It provided the government with more than ample peacetime income. In 1882, the government had revenues of $403 million, but expenses were only $257 million, a staggering budget surplus of nearly 36%. The reason the tariff was so high was, ostensibly, to protect America's burgeoning industries from foreign competition.

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Ford's success stirs UAW resentment in labor talks

Now they want the same deal that GM gave them

Ford's turnaround over the last five years has resulted in big profits and won its CEO a reputation for brilliant management.

But those same achievements are stirring resentment among many of its factory workers. And that is complicating contract talks between the company and its union employees.

Click here to read the full article at Yahoo News

Health-benefit costs increase the most in six years, surpassing $15,000

Thanks to Obamacare

The cost for businesses to buy health coverage for workers rose the most this year since 2005 and may reach $32,175 for a family in 2021, according to a survey of private and public employers.

The average cost of a family policy climbed 9 percent in 2011 to $15,073, according to a poll of 2,088 private companies and state and local government agencies by the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation in Menlo Park, California, and the Chicago- based American Hospital Association's Health Research and Educational Trust.

Click here to read the full article at Bloomberg

Cain: Economic crisis requires real tax reform

Op/ed by Herman Cain

Between now and Election Day, President Obama will have to create 8 million jobs just to tie for last place with the previous worst recovery since the Great Depression. Meanwhile, Americans are rightly demanding dramatic overhauls to get this country back on its feet. What does the president do? He doubles down on his philosophy of continuing the beatings until morale improves.

My fellow presidential candidates, to varying degrees, have been tinkering around the edges. With all due respect, you don't prune weeds - you pull them out at the roots.

Click here to read the full article at the Washington Times 

Obama west coast swing shows fundraising strength

Hollywood loves this man

President Barack Obama topped up his re-election war chest with a string of successful West Coast fundraisers that ended on Monday and showed soft poll numbers had not dented his ability to raise big money.

Despite tough economic times, supporters shelled out for events from Seattle to San Diego that likely raised upward of $5 million in two days, paying up to the legal limit of $35,800 to hear Obama speak. 

Click here to read the full article at Reuters

Crazy never wins GOP sweepstakes

Joe Scarborugh is unpopular for a reason

If you're a Northeast elite hoping to crack the code on GOP presidential primaries while impressing your friends at Fifth Avenue dinner parties with insightful political prognostications, always remember one simple rule: Crazy never wins.

You heard right, my Upper West Side friend. Crazy. Never. Wins.

Click here to read the full article at Politico 

Company aims to create renewable electricity...from poop

Great idea

Believe in the power of poop. It's an initiative being pushed by one South Florida energy company, which is now on the edge of being approved in Fort Lauderdale to help generate home electricity.

Power Green Energy, a Pompano Beach start-up hoping to turn sludge from waste-water treatment plants into renewable electricity for the state, is awaiting word today from the Fort Lauderdale City Commission to approve a rezoning request that would implement the system by the middle of next year.  The South Florida Sun-Sentinel reports that the company has received the City Commission's tentative approval to initiate operations that would feed into Florida Power & Light Co.'s power-lines by mid-2012. 

Click here to read the full article at CBS Tampa

Peter Orszag is so over democracy

Wants Automatic Policy

Peter Orszag has just about had it with American democracy. It's sloppy. It's inconvenient. And it rarely sides with the advice that "virtually all responsible economists" agree upon. In a new article for The New Republic, the former Obama director of Management and Budget presents the argument, "Why we need less democracy." His prescriptions for de-democratizing the country are far less exciting than Obama critics might imagine: no death panels, detainment camps or Five-Year Plans. He would, however, like to diminish the role of Congress and heighten the role of independent commissions. Orszag writes:

To solve the serious problems facing our country, we need to minimize the harm from legislative inertia by relying more on automatic policies and depoliticized commissions for certain policy decisions. In other words, radical as it sounds, we need to counter the gridlock of our political institutions by making them a bit less democratic.

Click here to read the full article at The Atlantic

Perdue jokes about suspending Congressional elections for two years

Didn't sound like a joke

File this in the random-things-politicians-say file. Speaking to a Cary Rotary Club today, N.C. Gov. Bev Perdue suggested suspending Congressional elections for two years so that Congress can focus on economic recovery and not the next election.

"I think we ought to suspend, perhaps, elections for Congress for two years and just tell them we won't hold it against them, whatever decisions they make, to just let them help this country recover. I really hope that someone can agree with me on that," Perdue said. "You want people who don't worry about the next election."

Click here to read the full article at News Observer

In his recent speech to a joint session of Congress, President Obama announced the details of a new jobs bill that calls for $447 billion in government spending to create about 1.3 million jobs.

Do the math - that's a whopping $344,000 per job!

Even more startling than the price tag is the fact that the new bill utterly neglects to address the devastating impact of illegal immigration on America's job market.

At present, there are millions of unemployed Americans who want, need, and deserve a job. Yet we have some seven million illegal aliens working in construction, factory work, agriculture, hospitality and food services.

Do the math - since the Department of Homeland Security says it costs $23,000 to deport one illegal alien, we could create 5.3 million jobs by deporting illegal aliens who have jobs for about $161 billion.

Whether you consider this bitterly ironic, insulting, or just plain intolerable, please support FAIR by contributing $20 today to our vital efforts to publicize the real costs of this administration's immigration policies to Americans.

Do the math - with unemployment rising above nine per cent and a record number of Americans living below the poverty line, it's absolutely essential that the White House start to put the needs of American citizens first.

This is not selfish. This is not greedy. This is FAIR.

Donate $20 today and register your opposition to the administrative amnesty that is usurping Congress' authority over American immigration law, hurting American families, and burdening future generations with a staggering debt.

You'll be happy you did the math!

Dan Stein

Today's Headlines:  Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Obamacare Has Increased Cost of Health Insurance, Says Kaiser Foundation

NYC Mayor Bloomberg: 'Government's Highest Duty' Is to Push 'Healthy' Foods
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Iranian Pastor on Death Row May Be 'Test' Case for New Apostasy Provisions

Ed Koch Backs Obama Re-Election As Polls Show Jewish Support Declining

Chris Christie: Obama a 'Bystander' Who Would 'Diminish the Success of Others'

House Republicans Tell Planned Parenthood to Hand Over Records in Probe of Abortion Funding

Only 2 of 180 Afghan Battalions Can Operate Independently of U.S. Forces

Tony Perkins: Social Issues Impact Voter Attitudes on Romney, Perry

House GOP Breaks Promise to Post Bills Online for 3 Days Before Vote

WH Insists Obama's Televised Message to High School Students Is Not Political

Small-Business Groups Asks Supreme Court to Strike Down Entire Health Care Law

U.S. Gov't Supplying 4 Americans With Marijuana in Test Program That Fizzled

COMMENTARY:

Obama: Our Henry VIII
By Terence P. Jeffrey
President Obama, in attempting to use the power of government to compel faithful Catholics to act against their consciences on abortion and marriage, is establishing himself as an aspiring tyrant in the model of Henry VIII.

An Ugly Sunrise for Republicans
By L. Brent Bozell III
No one thinks Barack Obama is sitting pretty in this race for the White House. But to listen to the networks talk, it's the Republican field that is a mess in desperate need of new talent.

Our White House Bully Problem
By Michelle Malkin
Since Day One, Obama has been the Chicago bully in victim's clothing. But now the mask is wearing thin.

Chris Christie and Nothing But
By Rich Galen
Governor Chris Christie is not running. It is time to concentrate on the GOP field as it stands today. One of them will likely be the next President of the United States.

The New Luddites: Time to Rage Against the Machine
By Dan Gainor
While conservatives see nature as existing to serve mankind, many liberals have an almost pagan worship of the Earth Mother.

NEWSPAPER ROUNDUP:

Feds sue company for firing 600-pound worker
Florida's top immigration official arrested on Internet child-porn charges
Iranian navy plans to send ships near U.S. waters
Ford Motor Co. denies pulling anti-bailout ad because of White House pressure
Chancellor says DC schools should meet "all" needs of children, not just academic ones
Md. proposes ban on crib bumper sales
R.I. will allow undocumented students to pay in-state tuition
Reid: Senate Democrats in no rush to take up Obama jobs plan
New Jersey fugitive is caught in Portugal after 41 years
At stop in Denver, Obama calls self "warrior for the working class"
N.C. governor suggests suspending elections to spur economic solutions
Dems hammer GOP's Planned Parenthood funding probe

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

September 28, 2011 

On Today's Program 

Tonight on GBTV: Glenn interacts with a live studio audience of America's youth and gets their reaction to the NYC protests. Plus, the history of the Muslim Brotherhood and why they should be taken as a serious threat. Don't miss it tonight at 5pm only on GBTV!

TOMORROW: Exposing the Khilafah & Sharia Law coming to America?  Don't miss tomorrow's show live 5 pm ET. Get the details and a preview HERE. 

Glenn's not going to take it anymore...

Palestinian hate groups have conducted a 2 year harassment campaign of an Israeli cosmetic company called AHAVA. They are a great company but finally succumbed to pressure from CodePink and others -- a frustrated Glenn explained this inspired him to start a new initiative. What is it? Find out HERE.

The Chris Christie 2012 saga continues: Will he or won't he? That's the question everyone is sick of answering. After his big speech this week people are talking him up again as a possible candidate. Would it even matter if he entered? Should he? MORE.

Useful idiots repeat Cornel West chants, even his goodbye (video)

After yesterday's lying liar of a protester got busted making up his sob story of struggle, it seems unlikely a more ridiculous video could surface, but oh did it ever. Noted Princeton Prof and socialist Cornel West shouted out slogans, and the kids dutifully repeated everything - and we mean everything. Watch the clip from the Blaze (2:00 min mark is the highlight) and get Glenn's reaction to West's speech HERE.

Radical leftists admit: yeah, Beck was right

Radical leftists were celebrating the life and times and riots of Frances Fox Piven and one of the big topics of conversation included, naturally, Glenn Beck. However, they were saying Glenn was correct about Piven. Find out why they could all agree that this old hag does more than just bake yummy cookies. WATCH. 

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Evangelicals vs Atheists: who has more premarital sex? You didn't think it would be a news story if it were the atheists, did you? DETAILS. 

Sad: Michael Jackson audio surfaces at trial

The doctor accused of negligent homicide in the death of Michael Jackson is on trial and recent testimony revealed some pretty shocking and sad details. Namely, the audio tape of a drugged up Jackson slurring slowly about how great he wants his next performance to be, and that he'd take the money and build a children's hospital. Listen to the audio and get the full story HERE.  

B.S. of A. becomes its own show: Now Brian Sack has thirty minutes to fill. Can he pull it off? WATCH.