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ACTION ALERT

The United Nations Transparency, Accountability, and Reform Act of 2011 is a most important piece of legislation.  

The Act has many elements, including aspects that support Israel and if enacted, would penalize the United Nations and other entities that recognize a unilaterally declared Palestinian Authority state.

ACTION:

Some area House Members are already signed on as co-sponsors while others have yet to do so. Please thank those that have (see list below) and please urge those that have not to please co-sponsor  in order to foster and promote a negotiated settlement.

BACKGROUND:

Current co-sponsors of HR 2829:

Charles Dent

Mike Fitzpatrick

Jim Gerlach

Patrick Meehan

The resolution (in part):

"Directs the President to use U.S. influence at the United Nations (U.N.) on a wide variety of issues, including to shift the funding mechanism for the regular budget of the U.N. from an assessed to a voluntary basis.

"Withholds up to 50% of nonvoluntary U.S. contributions to the regular budget of the U.N. unless the Secretary of State certifies to Congress that 80% of the total regular budget of the U.N. is apportioned on a voluntary basis.

...

"States that is U.S. policy to oppose any proposals on expansion of the Security Council that would: (1) diminish U.S. influence on the Security Council, or (2) include veto rights for new Security Council members.

"Directs the Secretary to withhold U.S. contributions from any U.N. entity that recognizes a Palestinian state or upgrades the status of the Palestinian observer mission at the U.N., the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), the Palestinian Authority (PA), or any other Palestinian administrative organization or governing entity prior to the achievement of a final peace agreement with Israel.

"Provides that until the Secretary makes a specified certification to Congress: (1) the Secretary shall withhold from a U.S. contribution to a regular budget of the U.N. an amount equal to the amount that would be allocated for the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), (2) the Secretary shall not make a voluntary contribution to UNHRC, and (3) the United States shall not run for a UNHRC seat.

"Directs the Secretary to withhold from a U.S. contribution to a regular budget of the U.N. an amount equal to the amount that would be allocated for: (1) the U.N. Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Palestinian territories occupied since 1967; and (2) any other U.N. Special Procedures used to display bias against the United States or Israel or to provide support for any member state which is subject to Security Council sanctions, under a Security Council-mandated human rights investigation, has repeatedly supported acts of international terrorism, or is a country of particular concern for religious freedom.

"States that it is U.S. policy to oppose any legitimization of the Goldstone Report and to lead a diplomatic campaign supporting its revocation.

"Prohibits funds from being used for U.S. participation in the Durban III meeting or any part of the Durban process.

"Withholds U.S. contributions to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) or to any successor or related entity unless the Secretary makes specified certifications to Congress.

"Prohibits any U.S. contribution to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) from being used to support Technical Cooperation program assistance to any country, including North Korea, that: (1) has repeatedly supported acts of international terrorism; or (2) is in breach of, or under investigation for breach of, obligations regarding its safeguards agreement with the IAEA, the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, or any relevant Security Council resolution."

Contact info for local lawmakers:

Robert A. Brady

Pennsylvania-1st, Democrat

Phone: (202) 225-4731  Fax: (202) 225-0088

Charles W. Dent

Pennsylvania-15th, Republican (Lehigh Valley)

Phone: (202) 225-6411 Fax (202) 226-0778

Chaka Fattah

Pennsylvania-2nd, Democrat

Phone: (202) 225-4001  Fax: (202) 225-5392

Mike Fitzpatrick

Pennsylvania-8th, Republican

Phone: (202) 225-4276  Fax: (202) 225-9511

Jim Gerlach

Pennsylvania-6th, Republican

Phone: (202) 225-4315  Fax: (202) 225-8440

Patrick Meehan

Pennsylvania-7th, Republican

Phone: (202) 225- 2011 Fax: (202) 226-0280

Joseph R. Pitts

Pennsylvania-16th, Republican

Phone: (202) 225-2411  Fax: (202) 225-2013

Allyson Y. Schwartz

Pennsylvania-13th, Democrat

Phone: (202) 225-6111  Fax: (202) 226-0611

Rob Andrews

New Jersey-1st, Democrat

Phone: (202) 225 - 6501

Jon Runyan

New Jersey-3rd, Republican

Phone: (202) 225-4765  Fax: (202) 225-0778

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Lafayette statue sketch, copyright 2011

To the 1^st Bucks County Patriotic Art Exhibition!

Friday, November 4, 2011

6:30-9:30 P.M.

The Historic Moland House

1641 Old York Road

Hartsville, Pennsylvania

Enjoy refreshments and live music, while

viewing Marra's Bucks County inspired works of art

Admission $5 per person

25% of art sales will be donated towards the Lafayette statue

Donations are accepted at the show and through the website lafayettestatue.blogspot.com

RSVP to Gregory Marra

610-294-8658

gwmarra@gmail.com

Welcome to Washington's Headquarters at the Moland House

1641 Old York Road, Hartsville, PA  18974

In the early evening of 10 August 1777, eleven thousand Continental and militia soldiers are marching up York Road towards the Cross Roads with Bristol Road [Hartsville, PA] on their way to Coryell's Ferry [New Hope, PA] to camp four miles across the Delaware River.  General George Washington receives a dispatch from John Hancock, President of the Second Continental Congress, placing the 260-vessel British fleet, hauling 17,000 troops under General William Howe, fifty miles south of the Delaware Capes [May & Henelopen] on 7 August. Unsure and wary of Howe's intentions, Washington immediately halts his force to encamp around the bridge over the Little Neshaminy Creek in Warwick Township, Bucks County.  Knowing the area and having ridden through only ten days earlier, he selects the substantial stone dwelling of Widow Moland as his Head Quarters on the farm north of the bridge.  

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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.

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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.

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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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RedState Morning Briefing

For October 10, 2011

1. #OccupyWallSt's Neo-Communist System of "Collaboratism" Revealed

Over the last three weeks, as the world has watched the spectacle of the Zuccotti Park protesters in lower Manhattan, some have been inspired and, in many cases, repulsed at the protesters occupying the park. Since the protests have now garnered the backing from the professional protesters from the AFL-CIO's 56 unions and the SEIU, as well as implicit and explicit support from the Obama Administration and Democrats, there is more relevance to examining not just what the protesters are protesting but what they are promoting.

2. The Media Notices that Barack Obama is sort of Full of Crap

If I were President Obama's political team, the only hope I would harbor right now for Obama's re-election would center on the President being able to hold the line with his base - which is to say, the national media. Based on the questions asked in yesterday's press conference, it may be time for administration officials to start polishing their CVs for employment in the private sector. Obama fielded, by my count, three hostile questions on Solyndra, and one on the Fast and the Furious. Through it all, Obama continually attempted to return the conversation to his jobs bill which has literally zero hope of passing either house, and in fact is so doomed that it probably won't even be brought to the floor, barring a major change in the political climate. Even this tactic failed to faze the press, who seemed to actually taunt the President over his inability to get anyone to care about his worthless jobs bill.

3. Astroturf on literal parade: Occupy DC agitator admits to paying protesters.

The Daily Caller has some entertaining video up of a 'Occupy DC organizer' admitting that some of the spontaneous voluntary protesters that he has in tow - ones, not even incidentally, that are more, ah, diverse than the baseline of 'pasty-faced white twenty-something hipster who's seriously underwater in his/her liberal arts degree student debt' - are actually being paid to show up and wave signs in a language that is perhaps not the mother tongue of the country of their birth*.

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Experts on the Day's Hottest News

Items for October 15, 2011

Play along with the increasingly common liberal habit of equating Israel with Nazi Germany.

Say: "You know what? I think Israel's WAY worse!" Proceed to compare Gaza unfavorably with the Warsaw ghetto; liken the West Bank barrier to the Siegfried Line; accuse the Israeli Defense Force of being even worse than Hitler's Das Reich Panzer Division; claim that Sabra and Chatila were worse than Auschwitz and Treblinka combined. Work yourself up into a lather of rage and indignation. Then say: "I'm sorry. Forgive me for saying this, but you and I both know this in our hearts to be true: there will never be peace and harmony on this planet of ours till the world is JUDENFREI!" 

Start a rumor:

Senator Harry Reid likes to describe his conservative opponents as "evil"- which is a bit rich given his dark, intimate secret. Harry Reid was born with the mark of the beast-666-clearly visible on his left testicle, much to the embarrassment of his devoutly Christian parents. His friend David Seltzer got to hear about this and used the future senator as his model for the evil Damien Anti-Christ child in his spooky 1976 chiller The Omen. But to spare the public's blushes, he decided to relocate the Satanic birthmark to the boy's scalp. 

Pick a fight with a liberal on:

RACE.
Rail against the Great White Liberal Death Wish. What exactly is so hateful and wrong about the white Judeo-Christian culture which created: the Sistine Chapel; the complete works of Shakespeare; the theory of relativity; the computer; the automobile; the Goldberg variations; the American Constitution? Right. So isn't it about time those self hating white liberals out there, who think we should feel guilty about our achievements, drop our cultural standards, and celebrate "the other," either kept quiet or put their money where their mouth is and moved to one of those places whose vibrancy they so admire. The Congo, maybe; or Somalia; or Turkmenistan.

The Central Proposition
 
  By Mark Helprin

September 13, 2011  
 
For a decade, the central proposition in America's foreign relations has been that it is possible to transform one or another Islamic nation and indeed the Arab Middle East or the entire Islamic world. We have apportioned a crippling share of our resources and attention to this project. We have tried force, diplomacy, aid, propaganda, confession, persuasion, apology, personality, and hope. And as one approach fails it is supplanted by or combined with another, the recipe depending upon who happens to be in the White House.

The initial reaction of the George W. Bush Administration and the majority of the American people-to strike hard at the audacious enemy who had attacked our warships, citizens abroad, embassies, diplomats, allies, and chief and capital cities-was admirable and correct. No nation that supported or sheltered this enemy (save Saudi Arabia) would be allowed to deploy the fictions of international law to shield itself from just retribution or timely preemption.

Though our military response could have been faster and more powerful and the aims of the campaign more carefully determined, the real problem surfaced immediately after the conventional victories in Afghanistan and Iraq. At first simply drifting, we then decided to reform and redesign these famously intractable nations, forgetting that we had conquered them in one dimension only. In this we followed the central proposition, influenced by an almost evangelical view of our role in history. Hostile as it was to the nation-building efforts of its immediate predecessor, the Bush Administration thought its decision was not a particularly sharp turnabout, given the Reagan presidency's success in not merely containing but in collapsing the Soviet Union. It was, however, based on a highly inexact analogy.

Then President Barack Obama, albeit with different emphases, arrogantly grasped the baton and accelerated, deploying similar levels of force in the region, opening yet another front, in Libya, and making good on what had been President Bush's half-hearted attempts to destabilize the entire Middle East in service of an idealism of astoundingly imprecise and uncertain ends. Seldom if ever in American diplomatic history have less than perfect allies been tossed from such a wildly veering sled in favor of obvious enemies.


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**VIDEOS * TODAY'S HOT PICKS **

1. VIDEO: CBS Reporter Accosted By White House Talks to O'Reilly about Solyndra
2. VIDEO: New Tone? MSNBC's Host Uses Steve Jobs' Death to Blast Sarah Palin  3. Senator Reid Rewrites Senate Rules with Shocking Move
4. Education Savings Accounts: A Promising Way Forward on School Choice
5. VIDEO: "Cheers' Cliff" - Actor John Ratzenberger Argues There Are Plenty Of Jobs, But Not Enough Skilled Workers  6. VIDEO: Code Pink's Co-Founder: Unions Aren't Behind 'Occupy Wall Street'
7. VIDEO: AFL-CIO Promoting Anti-Corporate Wall Street Anarchy
8. VIDEO: Ed Schultz Cuts Off Interview After Heated Exchange With MSNBC Colleague...Schultz Walks Out!
9. Spud Fans Rally to Block School Lunch Rules - Rallying To Block Possible Changes to School Lunch Guidelines
10. VIDEO: O'Reilly On Occupy Wall Street: These Are Loons. These Are Anarchists. 

Van Jones Media Mouthpiece Gets Russian Cash

Cliff Kincaid 

From Second Saratoga to Striking the Taliban

Military History, W. Thomas Smith, Jr. 

The Miracle of iCapitalism

Michelle Malkin 

The anti-capitalist, anti-corporate extremists of "Occupy Wall Street" claim with no trace of irony that Steve Jobs, the iCapitalist, was one of their own.

Palestinian UN Declaration Exposes Media's Agenda

Roger Aronoff 

Today's Hot Topics

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How Goes It With Marriage Around the World?

(Part 1 of 2) 

Dr. Laina Farhat-Holzman 

Rep. Howard 'Buck' McKeon, Keeper of the Flame

Frank Gaffney, Jr. 

Hispanics are Fleeing Alabama

Iranian Warship Route to U.S. Coast Leaked Online

 

The unprecedented route for the Islamic Republic would take Iranian ships through the Suez Canal and into the warm waters of the Caribbean, a total nautical distance of approximately 9000 miles. According to MEMRI, Iranian media sources claim:

"In this new and feasible mission, the ships of the navy of the Iranian Army will sail west, towards the Strait of Gibraltar, after they enter the Mediterranean.  

 

Subsequently, they will enter the Atlantic Ocean, and from there they must traverse the long distance to their destination off Cuba, in the Gulf of Mexico, and Central and South America."

 

Iranian Naval chief Sayyari has previously threatened on Iranian state TV to send a fleet of warships into the Atlantic armed with "Nour" long-range anti-ship cruise missiles. The proposed Iranian flotilla would be an extension of Iran's presence in the Mediterranean, the Persian Gulf, and the Indian Ocean.

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Muslim Tries to Break into the Cockpit of American Airlines flight Out of New York

October 7, 2011

  Anwar al-Awlaki-bridge builder?  

Over the past several weeks we have talked a lot about "information warfare," and how the Muslim Brotherhood and its front organizations in America have used it to successfully deceive and mislead many government officials, military leaders, members of the media, and academics.

This past September 11^th, national security and terrorism correspondent Patrick Poole posted a well-researched commentary exposing how government Muslim outreach programs have frequently failed, leaving government officials with egg on their faces.

These programs often fail because too many in government fall for the disinformation they are fed. Regardless of the reason-ignorance, political correctness, gullibility, naivete', willful blindness-the fact remains that these government outreach programs are littered with failures.

Perhaps the most notable example is that of Abdurahman Alamoudi, once the "go to" Muslim in Washington, now serving a 23 year prison sentence.

The "establishment media" play an important role in the Muslim Brotherhood information warfare campaign. On September 30^th, in the "PJ Tatler," Poole does a "rewind" in which he reminds anyone who will pay attention how jihadist leader Anwar al-Awlaki was once highly regarded.

Here are just two of Poole's posts. Even if you don't read them, the titles tell it all.

  Anwar al-Awlaki-"bridge builder." It would be comic if it weren't so tragic.

Fellow patriots,

While the Obama Administration crows about killing Anwar al-Awlaki (one of the leaders of Al Qaeda in Yemen and "spiritual" guide for the Ft. Hood killer and the underwear/Christmas Day bomber), this video reveals something they would rather keep quiet:  The deep Islamist infiltration of our government and outright advocacy for Islam by the liberal press.  What you are about to see is a segment of "Muhammad: Legacy of a Prophet," a documentary broadcasted on PBS in 2002, showering accolades on Islam and showing the rapid growth of Muslims working on Capital Hill as long ago as 2002.  But that's not the kicker.   The kicker is that the imam leading the prayer for these Muslim congressional employees is none other than Anwar al-Awlaki!

This is a MUST-SEE, starting at 2:10 minute mark --> http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=P1eQIf6IQ1k (1 minute of this is enough, but you may want to hold on for the big punch line at the 3:30 minute mark)

If you care to see more of this PBS special, you'll get to see Karen Armstrong and many other apologists for Islam do all they can to convince you the Islam is a "religion of peace."  I'm sure they're shocked (shocked!) when the people they've been defending turn out to be terrorists.

Dave

Muhammad Legacy of a Prophet - Part 5 of 5/12.flv

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"The Global Threat of the Muslim Brotherhood" Andrew McCarthy, National Review Institute Live Webcast - Friday, October 7, 2011 - 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM EDT Members of the Muslim Brotherhood operate on a global scale and seek through the primary of sharia law the supremacy of the Islamic State. How has it shown itself to be successful in the West and how can it be combatted? Already Registered? Login Here! Simply enter your e-mail address below and click on the "Sign In" button to access the live webcast. If you have not previously registered for the webcast, please first fill out the registration form on the right. Sign In please enter email   Instructions for Viewing Webcast    Note: archived video of this event will be available. Please register using the box to the right. You will receive a confirmation message and email. After registering, you can log-in using the box above. There you will find links to archived videos and speeches from Hillsdale College. Register Here for the Webcast First Name: Last Name: Preferred E-mail Zip/Postal Code How did you hear about this Hillsdale College Webcast? choose one Rush Limbaugh Sean Hannity Mark Levin Dennis Prager Hugh Hewitt Bill Bennett Mike Gallagher Michael Medved Friend Website Other   Please Enter First Name Please Enter Last Name Please Enter Email Please Enter ZipCode Please select Source You will receive a confirmation e-mail shortly after submitting your registration. Please e-mail kirbycenter@hillsdale.edu with questions.   33 East College St.   |   Hillsdale, MI 49242   |   www.hillsdale.edu   |    © Hillsdale College 2011

Dear Friends, 

I have created a Free Jonathan Pollard Petition on the White House website. President Obama has promised to consider all petitions that get 25,000 signatures by November 8. Please, please go to this website and add your name. Then, forward it to everyone on your list! Thank you so much.

http://wh.gov/29Q

Naomi Ragen

  Ted Belman
Jerusalem, Israel  972 (0)54 441 3252

The trouble with Israel

Reforming Israel
Evelyn Gordon - October 2011, COMMENTARY

As they observed the massive economic protests that convulsed Israel this summer, Americans and Europeans had reason to wonder why Israelis would have cause to complain about their economic situation. Israel's economy grew by 5.6 percent last year, and the Bank of Israel is predicting 4.8 percent growth this year. Unemployment fell to 5.7 percent in May, its lowest level in 27 years. With much of the West still suffering from anemic growth and high unemployment, Israel's situation seems enviable by comparison.

Yet hiding behind these impressive macroeconomic statistics are significant domestic problems, problems that successive Israeli governments, preoccupied as they have been with the peace process and its attendant terrorism, simply ignored for the better part of two decades. These problems ignited the protests. And while many of the solutions proposed by the protesters would make things worse, their success in...

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NATO prepares for another war under R2P. Is Israel next?

Sovereignty is under attack. Libya was attacked under the doctrine Responsibility to Protect (R2P). Now NATO is getting ready to invade Syria under the same doctrine. Ted Belman

WND explains;
George Soros-funded doctrine with White House ties 

The Libya bombings have been widely regarded as a test of a military doctrine called "Responsibility to Protect."

In his address to the nation in April explaining the NATO campaign in Libya, Obama cited the doctrine as the main justification for U.S. and international airstrikes against Libya.

Responsibility to Protect, or Responsibility to Act, as cited by Obama, is a set of principles, now backed by the United Nations, based on the idea that sovereignty is not a privilege but a responsibility that can be revoked if a country is accused of "war crimes," "genocide," "crimes against humanity" or "ethnic cleansing." 
The term "war crimes" has at times been...

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Harper and Jews support each other. Muslims not happy.

Harper's support for Israel is remarkable given the fact that the Muslim population in Canada is growing exponentially and far exceeds the Jewish population. There is a major difference between Canadian Jews and American Jews, namely that Canadian Jews are more religious and identify more strongly with Israel and the Jewish people. Ted Belman

How the political shift among Jewish voters plays in Canada   
JEFFREY SIMPSON, Globe and Mail

There's no such thing as the "Jewish vote." Instead, there are voters who are Jewish of every hue known to the faith. Many of these voters, however, have changed their political allegiance.

An Ipsos Reid exit poll of voters in the last federal election found that 52 per cent of Jewish voters supported the Conservatives, 24 per cent the Liberals and 16 per cent the NDP. If remotely accurate, the exit poll reflected an enormous shift in voter preference among Canadian Jews.

The majority of Canadian Jews had usually voted Liberal...

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Syria and NATO. Battle lines are being drawn

It is suggested that the US and Turkey held off attacking Syria out of concern for Tel Aviv. I don't buy it. Their concern is that Israel will retaliate leading to a major war in which they are involved. Ted Belman

Turkey to hold military exercise on Syrian border. Assad threatens to destroy Tel Aviv if attacked 

DEBKAfile Exclusive Report October 4, 2011, 5:03 PM (GMT+02:00)

War tensions between Turkey, NATO and Syria shot up again Tuesday, Oct. 4, with the announcement from Ankara that Turkey embarks Wednesday on a 10-day "mobilization" exercise in the southern province of Hatay along the Syrian border, through which arms are being funneled to Syrian protesters. Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan is expected on the same day to visit the 7,000 Syrians who have taken refuge in Hatay from President Bashar Assad's troops.

debkafile reported earlier Tuesday that Syrian President Bashar Assad has for three months staved off a military attack by Turkey or...

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The Boy Scouts of America maintains scouting partnerships with Islamic groups closely tied to the Muslim Brotherhood, WND has learned.

The Boy Scouts of America welcomes major religions, including Islam. It has incorporated under its banner a group called the National Islamic Committee on Scouting, or NICS, which provides Muslim scouts an opportunity to earn badges or emblems by participating in religious activities.

The NICS scouting emblems include an "Allahu Akbar" emblem, which means "Allah is greatest" in Arabic.

Zombies do Atlanta 

Posted: 09 Oct 2011 01:25 PM PDT

(Scott Johnson)

The report accompanying the video below reads:

What we saw at the "revolution":

Many curious citizens and media outlets came to the first Occupy Atlanta event, and were visibly shocked and confused by the consistent Marxism employed by the group. People abandoned their individuality and liberty to be absorbed into a hypnotizing collective. The facilitator made it clear that he was not a "leader" and that everyone was completely equal; words often spoken by leftists, but in this case they actually applied their philosophy. Into this surreal and oppressive environment, Rep. John Lewis, a civil rights hero and icon of American leftism, came to speak as has so often done at left-wing rallies and events in Atlanta. He is practically worshiped in Democrat circles, and was visibly stunned to see these Marxists turn him away. It was reminiscent of previous Marxist revolutions in history when those who ignorantly supported the revolutionaries are, over time, purged and rejected for the "good of the collective," when their usefulness has expired.

Jazz Shaw has more here. And here is the video.

The Killing Memos 

Posted: 09 Oct 2011 10:36 AM PDT

(Steven Hayward)

Gosh, who knew that John Yoo had gone back to work for the Obama Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel, writing memos under the nom de plumes "David Barron" and "Martin Lederman."  At least those are the names, according to the lead story in today's New York Times, of the OLC lawyers who drafted the "secret" memo that authorized the killing of U.S. citizen Anwar al-Awlaki.  But look, it has to be Yoo, moonlighting just for yucks:

The memo, written last year, followed months of extensive interagency deliberations and offers a glimpse into the legal debate that led to one of the most significant decisions made by President Obama - to move ahead with the killing of an American citizen without a trial.

As a thought experiment, just imagine how the Left would be reacting right now if this memo had come from the Bush Administration.  It's easy if you try.  Code Pink would have turned purple with rage.  Code Pink. . . oh yeah, I remember them.  They used to protest our wars, didn't they?  And Cindy Sheehan?  Did she die and we missed the obit?  I don't think I've even seen her showing up to Occupy Wall Street.  She must have got swept up in the Left's Witless Protection Program.

Just think of it as the vindication of John Yoo.

But then, Obama gets a pass since he closed down Guantanamo. . .

Obama's Premeditated Murder of America
By Judi McLeod
CanadaFreePress.com  

Why is no one stepping forward to halt the murder of America?

As surely as the Bolsheviks murdered the Romanov family at Ekateringburg on July 17, 1918, Barack Obama and his handlers are murdering America.

Meet the Obama Link to Wall Street Terror
By Aaron Klein
WND.com   

Stephen Lerner, a controversial anti-capitalist SEIU organizer, is one of the forces behind the protests on Wall Street and nationwide, according to quotes obtained by a socialist activist who doubles as a Washington Post columnist.

Elizabeth Warren Symbolizes Liberalism's Collectivist Agenda
By George Will
Newsmax.com

Steve Jobs Passes On
By John Hayward
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Cartoon of the Day: How to Retire in 2011

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Monday, March 30, 2009

Does Obama Know More About the Communist Manifesto or the Constitution?: Two Events Today Show Him Going in the Opposite Direction of Thomas Jefferson 

Obama claims he taught Constitutional Law. I am starting to wonder if the students who studied under Obama and held the classic Jeffersonian understanding of the Federalist Papers failed the class. Obviously, a federalist had no business in a constitutional class taught by Obama.

Obama came just short of demonstrating what a hostile corporate takeover looks like under his Marxist beliefs. He came short, because he put on a short one-act play creating the illusion GM is still a private company.

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Friday, October 7, 2011

To: Friends & Supporters

From: Gary L. Bauer


No Improvement

The government released its latest unemployment figures and found no improvement -- the unemployment rate remains stuck at 9.1%. The Labor Department notes that 103,000 jobs were created last month, and Obama apologists will seize on that number as evidence of progress. But that is way below the number needed (200,000 to 250,000) to lower the unemployment rate.

Bloomberg reports that 45,000 of the 103,000 "new" jobs really weren't new, but striking Verizon workers who went back to their jobs in September. So the number of newly-created jobs is significantly less than 103,000. Even worse, the Bloomberg report notes that the underemployment rate -- part-time workers looking for full-time jobs and people who want work but have given up -- "increased to 16.5 percent, the highest this year."

Clearly, Obama's policies are not working. More and more Americans are losing hope. We need a change!


What's Wrong With Obamanomics

President Obama held a press conference at the White House yesterday to once again make the case for his latest tax-hiking, big spending stimulus bill. He calls it a jobs bill. Obama blasted Republicans for opposing it and demanded that they explain what is wrong with his ideas. Here are a few things to help you sort through the media spin.

Yesterday President Obama claimed his jobs bill would create nearly two million jobs and "grow the economy by as much as 2%." But the Associated Press recently reported that Obama's bill wouldn't do much, if anything, to lower the unemployment rate.

Moreover, Mark Zandi, the Moody's economist who modeled the economic forecasts of the plan, says his prediction was good only for one year -- 2012. According to Zandi, "Beginning in 2013, and certainly into 2014, the plan is a drag on the economy because the stimulus starts fading away," while Obama's tax increases remain in place.

CNSNews reports that while Obama claims his plan can grow the economy by "as much as 2%," its $450 billion price tag represents 3% of current GDP, and works out to an average cost of $235,000 per job.


"Kill The Wealthy"

Earlier this week, I described the Occupy Wall Street crowd as radicals and socialists who were still waiting for the "fundamental transformation" of America. I told you that Obama and the Democrat establishment would slowly embrace this movement, and they have.

ABC News reports that 15 of the largest labor unions are now on board. Nancy Pelosi said of the demonstrators, "God bless them for their spontaneity. It's young, it's spontaneous, it's focused and it's going to be effective." At his press conference yesterday President Obama said that the protestors were expressing "the frustrations that the American people feel," and that the Occupy Wall Street movement would "express itself politically in 2012."

Some media pundits eagerly refer to the Occupy Wall Street movement, which has spawned sympathetic protests across the country, as the left's answer to the Tea Party. The Tea Party movement wanted less government spending and lower taxes. What does the Occupy Wall Street movement want?

A local CBS reporter in Sacramento tried to find out. Wading through the crowd of Marxists and misguided youth, the best he could get from an organizer was that the group's message "was kind of vague."

Unfortunately, all the anti-capitalist, bank-bashing rhetoric from the Democrats lately may inspire more than just protests. Politico reported yesterday that New York politicians have received e-mails threatening to "kill the wealthy" if they are not taxed more. Here is a not-so-vague excerpt from the e-mail:

"It's time to tax the millionaires! If you don't, I'm going to pay a visit with my carbine to one of those tech companies you are so proud of and shoot every spoiled Ivy League [expletive] I can find. ...How hard is it for us to stake out one of the obvious access roads to some tech company, tail an employee home and toss a liquor bottle full of flaming gasoline through their nice picture window into their cute house?"

That crowd in Sacramento, the mob on Wall Street and the loathing expressed in the message above is not a movement based on hope. It is based on envy and hate.

Recently, Robert Johnson, the founder of Black Entertainment Television, made headlines for telling Obama to stop attacking success in America. Good for him. More business leaders need to speak up. They also need to reconsider their support for the Democrat Party, which is no longer the party of Harry Truman and John Kennedy. It has been hijacked by radicals who refuse to acknowledge the failures of socialism, even as Europe teeters on the brink.


And The Winner Is...

The 2011 Values Voter Summit is underway at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, D.C. Today we heard from House Speaker John Boehner, Gov. Rick Perry, former Senator Rick Santorum. Former Speaker Newt Gingrich and Herman Cain speak this afternoon, and Rep. Michele Bachmann will address the Summit tonight. If you were unable to join us in person, you can watch the Summit online at valuesvotersummit.org.

In addition to hearing from seven presidential candidates, conservative leaders and activists, attendees at the Values Voter Summit can participate in more than a dozen educational breakout sessions. For example, American Values, my public policy organization, is hosting a session on why Christians should support Israel. Throughout today and tomorrow, Summit attendees can also vote in a straw poll. The winner will be announced this weekend.

Now I am prepared to announce the winner of our latest straw poll. We had a tremendous response, one of the biggest reactions to a request for feedback in some time. And there was a clear favorite. Herman Cain received 45% of the vote!

Texas Governor Rick Perry (17%) finished second and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney (11%) was third. Newt Gingrich (10%) finished in fourth place, followed by Michele Bachmann (8%) and Rick Santorum (6%). In seventh place was Ron Paul, followed by Jon Huntsman and Gary Johnson.
 

Soak the Rich

"You're either one of the 99 percent of one of the 1 percent," reads a sticker on a lamppost near my house. The implication being that if you're not one of the 1 percent, you should be packing your class warfare kit of cardboard signs, camping gear and iPods loaded with a copy of Paranoid Android and head on over to Wall Street.

 

Soak the rich isn't an original slogan, but in this age of NGO's and a massive white elephant civil service, who are the rich exactly?

Elizabeth Warren explained that the rich are people who build factories but aren't grateful enough to pay their fair share. Whatever that fair share might be. Warren has good reason to be outraged by business owners who just aren't paying enough. She's the one they're paying the money to.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau refused a Freedom of Information Act request to release her salary, but we do have the salary ranges for two assistant directors of sub-offices at the CFPB.

The Assistant Director at the Office of Financial Empowerment, whose job is "developing and implementing policy and programs that empower low and moderate income and underserved consumers to make better informed financial decisions" has a salary range of 185,000 to 247,000 dollars.

The Assistant Director at the, Office of Older Americans, (apparently senior citizens is now politically incorrect) also has a salary range of 160,000 to 235,000 dollars (apparently senior citizens also matter 25,000 to 12,000 dollars less than "underserved consumers") and his or her job involves "Working with the Associate Director and Deputy Associate Director of Consumer Education and Engagement, as well as senior leaders from across CFPB." (That's senior leaders who make a lot of money, nor leaders who are seniors.)

Just how many senior leaders, directors, associate directors and deputy associate directors are there at a single consumer agency? When you find out let me know. But the CFPB has offices in four major cities, pays relocation costs and promises "a highly competitive compensation and benefits package".

Does the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau really exist to protect consumers or to provide six figure jobs to reliable political allies like Liz Warren?
 

October 07, 2011
 
  HERMAN CAIN TAKES ON MSNBC   GOP candidate Herman Cain took on the liberal media yesterday when he stopped by the MSNBC studios and sat in with prime time host and avowed Socialist, Lawrence O'Donnell. Watch the contentious interview HERE.

the '53%-ers want to meet the 99%-ers   The "Occupy Wall Street" people call themselves the "99%-ers", claiming to represent virtually all Americans except the super-rich. A new group called the 53% is rising up and telling the Wall Street crew,  "You don't represent us." Meet the 53%-ers HERE.

FRANCES FOX PIVEN VIDEO SHOCKS AGAIN   1960's radical and college professor, Frances Fox Piven is caught on video, indoctrinating students in New York City. Watch Prof Piven pushing student to get ready for violent street battles HERE.

SANITATION PROBLEMS AT PROTESTS, BIDEN'S LATEST GAFFE, A MUST-SEE FIRST PITCH   Fifteen great stories and an inspiring video clip are waiting for you in the Friday morning Must-Reads HERE.  

THE REAL HISTORY OF 'OCCUPY WALL STREET' - WITH TIES TO SEIU, ACORN AND OBAMA   The protests happening in lower Manhattan have been called "spontaneous" and "grassroots" and "organic." They are not. Connections to SEIU, ACORN, the DNC, and all the way to the White House and President Obama can be seen HERE.  

VIRAL VIDEO DU JOUR - THE ALL-STAR, 'WEALTH REDISTRIBUTION' MONTAGE   Last night on GBTV, Glenn Beck debuted a stunning video montage of various faith, economic, and political leaders - in their own words - promoting Marxism. See the video HERE.

Friday Afternoon Roundup - The Rock of Racism

 

PSHHHT

You wanna know how to really sock it to Wall Street? Make a city on the edge of bankruptcy spend 2 million bucks arresting your stupid trustifarian asses while you whine and bitch about how the cops interrupted your autonomy.

That 2 million? It ain't coming out of Wall Street, it's coming out of New York City schools, libraries and hospitals.

Send an email to MoveOn.org, Communities for Change (aka ACORN), SEIU and the rest of the Soros gang to stop taking money from schools and go back to their full time jobs running food blogs.



ROCK OF RACISM

With Palin and Christie both having made it clear that they are not running, the race is all but frozen early on. Romney's long game leaves him the favorite, while his opponents rise and fall. Cain has now all but certainly secured himself a VP spot with whoever the nominee will be.

While Perry has been under fire, Romney has been able to sit back and plan an actual campaign. His status as the liberal Republican front runner makes him immune from most attacks from the right since no one expects anything of him anyway. He can only be attacked from the left and the media is too interested in Perry to spend much time hitting Romney over the usual business stuff.

We've been told all along that Perry is a fantastic campaigner, which made some of his fumbles more disappointing to people who wanted an electable candidate above all else. His challenge now is to show that he has learned from them and can present a smoother persona.

Many of the objections are stylistic. The debate heavy candidate rollout combined with tepid questions means the candidates are being graded less on their positions and more on their public persona and how well they handle themselves.

Even in a Republican primary the circle of PC Mau-Mauing seems endless. No sooner did Perry imply that critics of his illegal aliens tuition were prejudiced against Latinos, than he got hit with the rock of racism.

I might have more sympathy for the unfair "rock with the racist name somewhere near his hunting camp" attack (I hear Clinton's hunting camp had a homophobic rock next to it and Carter's hunting ground rock didn't like Asians) if Perry hadn't been playing the "last names" card to imply that anyone who disagreed with in state tuition for illegals was a racist.

Cain, who had just gotten off being accused of bigotry against Muslims, was a little too eager to play the rock card against Perry.

It's a pity that Republican presidential candidates still don't see to understand that the PC card is not a winning card. If you're to the right of the media, you will still get hit with it, and by using it, you're only giving the media establishment that power.
 

Do "We the People" have the right of Revolution?

Oct 07, 2011 06:13 am | Coach Collins

 By Doug Book, staff writer

 Do the citizens of the United States have an absolute right to,  by force of arms if necessary,  overthrow a government which has,  with malicious deliberation,  become destructive of those ideals of liberty granted by God and guaranteed by instruments such as the Constitution of the Unites States?

 Clearly the Founders believed in the existence of such a right. There could be no more axiomatic example than the American Revolution itself!

 And though these men warned against pursuing such a course for  "light and transient causes",  rightly observing that  "...mankind are more disposed to suffer...than right themselves by abolishing forms to which they are accustomed,"  the Declaration of Independence states without reservation that if any government should become  "destructive"  of its proper role,  it is the right of the citizens to  "...alter or abolish it and institute new government..."  

 The left is quick to maintain that anyone suggesting the American people have a ... Continue Reading:Do "We the People" have the right of Revolution?

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American Minute for October 6th

Oct 06, 2011 05:17 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

 Just 70 miles from Washington, DC, the Battle of Antietam took place on September 17, 1862.
It was the single bloodiest day in the Civil War with the North and the South both losing over 10,000 men each.
This costly battle convinced Britain and France not to recognize the Confederacy.
... Continue Reading:American Minute for October 6th

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Putrid Green: Harry Reid may have his own Solyndra, "Nevada Geothermal Power" to loot

Oct 06, 2011 02:05 pm | Coach Collins

 By Kevin "Coach" Collins

 First, consider a few facts of life in Nevada.

 Harry Reid is the Boss Tweed of Nevada. He runs the state like a fiefdom where nothing of value goes untouched and "untaxed" by Boss Reid.

 A "green" energy company opening in Nevada could not have escaped his grasp even if it was founded by people not directly connected to him; but such is not the case with "Nevada Geothermal Power"

 In June 2010, Reid used his influence to arrange a Department of Energy "loan" of $98.5 million to Blue Mountain which is a subsidiary of Nevada Geothermal Power Company's (NGP). Aside from this NGP, the parent company soaked up another $145 million in federally guaranteed loans.

 Nevertheless, Deloitte & Touche (D&T) the nationally known and respected accounting firm released a report on the fiscal health of NGP that had a familiar ring to it. The report said there is "significant doubt" that ... Continue Reading:Putrid Green: Harry Reid may have his own Solyndra, "Nevada Geothermal Power" to loot

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Fast and Furious spin won't help Holder, Obama next to fall

Oct 09, 2011 06:13 am | Coach Collins

 By Doug Book, staff writer

  On May 3rd,  Congressman Darrell Issa,  chairman of the House Oversight Committee asked Attorney General Eric Holder the following question:  "When did you first know about the program officially,  I believe,  called Fast and Furious,  to the best of your knowledge,  what date?"

 Holder's response:  "I'm not sure of the exact date,  but I probably heard about Fast and Furious for the first time over the last few weeks."

 Anywhere else in the nation,  Issa's question would be considered clear and unassuming,  Holder's response direct and unmistakable.

 But in Washington D.C.,  nothing is clear or direct,  especially not when an Obama operative has been caught perjuring himself before a House committee. On Monday,  October 3rd,  CBS reporter Sharyl Attkisson produced DOJ memos proving Eric Holder not only knew of Operation Fast and Furious in mid 2010-nearly a year before his slightly inaccurate claim-he had been receiving weekly updates on its progress! 

... Continue Reading:Fast and Furious spin won't help Holder, Obama next to fall

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American Minute for October 8

Oct 08, 2011 05:07 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

 A race car driver, he served in France during World War I as chauffeur for General Pershing.
With Germany's Red Baron dominating the skies, he transferred to the 94th Aero Squadron and helped shoot down 69 enemy aircraft.
Awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor, his name was "Eddie" Rickenbacker, born ... Continue Reading:American Minute for October 8

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Desperate Democrats want to: Kill the Constitution destroy our economy lie and suspend elections

Oct 08, 2011 02:03 pm | Coach Collins

By Kevin "Coach" Collins

The long nightmare is almost over. The Democrat Wicked Witch is indeed melting. The signs are there we need only recognize them.

 The Democrat/liberal/union/Communist witch's spell Franklin Roosevelt put on America in 1932 is ending.

Democrat desperation is palpable. Only those still so traumatized by their trickery and past successes will refuse to acknowledge the spell is fading but it is.

Frenzied Liberal Democrats are acting like teenage boys caught burglarizing a drugstore. THEY know it's over.      

Consider these examples:

A group of Democrat New York State Senators have released a report titled Cyberbullying: A Report on Bullying in a Digital Age, which calls for redefining freedom of speech as a "privilege" saying "Proponents of a more refined First Amendment argue that this freedom should be treated not as a right but as a privilege - a special entitlement granted by the state on a conditional basis that can be revoked if it ... Continue Reading:Desperate Democrats want to: Kill the Constitution destroy our economy lie and suspend elections

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The Foundation

"Facts are stubborn things." --John Adams

Government & Politics

Playing Fast and Furious With the Facts

Justice (Department) is blind

"When did you first know about the program, officially called, I believe, 'Fast and Furious'?" That question was asked of Attorney General Eric Holder in congressional testimony on May 3, 2011. Fast and Furious was an effort of the Arizona branch of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to allow the straw purchase of American weapons that would then be transferred to Mexican drug cartels with the supposed purpose of tracking those weapons and taking down those cartels. The plan has been an unmitigated disaster, costing the lives of two American agents and possibly hundreds of Mexicans. Inquiring minds want to know why.

Holder answered that question in May, saying, "I'm not sure of the exact date but I probably heard about Fast and Furious for the first time over the last few weeks." Later he told reporters, "The notion that this reaches into the upper levels of the Justice Department is something that at this point I don't think is supported by the facts and I think once we examine it and once the facts are revealed we'll see that's not the case."

The truth is that Holder was first briefed on the operation in July 2010. When CBS News asked about this discrepancy, "The Justice Department told CBS News that the officials in those emails were talking about a different case started before Eric Holder became Attorney General. And tonight they tell CBS News, Holder misunderstood that question from the committee -- he did know about Fast and Furious -- just not the details." Also, he doesn't always read his memos. Why he lied to reporters was left unanswered.

A July 5, 2010, memo to Holder specifically notes the "1,500 firearms that were then supplied to Mexican drug trafficking cartels." Holder didn't find that -- or four other similar memos -- worthy of his attention? Please. In fact, it appears that Holder perjured himself, and Justice is covering for him. Furthermore, last week's Friday evening news dump revealed that there was extensive communication between the White House and the ATF on the matter. Maybe that's why Barack Obama said Thursday that he has "complete confidence" in Holder.

The administration is circling the wagons, as well. CBS reporter Sharyl Attkisson claims that she took significant heat from Justice for daring to inquire. She said the White House and Justice Department "will tell you that I'm the only reporter -- they told me -- that is not reasonable. They say the Washington Post, the LA Times is reasonable, the New York Times is reasonable. I'm the only one who thinks this is a story, and they think I'm unfair and biased by pursuing it." Not only that, but Attkisson also said that when she asked questions, "The DoJ woman was just yelling at me. The guy from the White House on Friday night literally screamed at me and cussed at me."

The "other case" that Justice mentioned to CBS in passing was evidently a Bush administration effort called Operation Wide Receiver. Like Fast and Furious, Wide Receiver was indeed an operation to track smuggled guns headed to Mexico. The difference is that Wide Receiver failed on a technical level, whereas Fast and Furious seems to have been intentionally criminal. Once Wide Receiver efforts to actually track and stop them failed, the operation was canceled. Altogether 450 guns ended up in Mexico. In Fast and Furious, however, agents deliberately continued running more than 2,000 guns into Mexico -- that was the plan, not a failure of tracking. The administration's intent in Arizona, as well as Tampa, Indiana, Dallas, Houston and elsewhere, seems to have been bolstering the false claim that 90 percent of guns recovered in Mexico are American and, therefore, we need tougher gun laws.

We commend Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), chairman of the House Oversight & Government Reform Committee, for his efforts to get to the bottom of this scandal despite constant administration roadblocks. It would help if the media turned up the heat, too. Nobody died as a result of Watergate, and look what they did with that one.

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Warnings on Europe

Speaking of Fast and Furious, which would describe the European economy's descent into chaos, IMF adviser Dr. Robert Shapiro had this assessment: "If they cannot address [the European financial crisis] in a credible way I believe within perhaps two to three weeks we will have a meltdown in sovereign debt, which will produce a meltdown across the European banking system. We're not just talking about a relatively small Belgian bank, we're talking about the largest banks in the world, the largest banks in Germany, the largest banks in France. That will spread to the United Kingdom ... it will spread everywhere because the global financial system is so interconnected. ... All those banks are counterparties to every significant bank in the United States, and in Britain, and in Japan, and around the world. This would be a crisis that would be ... more serious than the crisis in 2008."

On the Campaign Trail: A Lot of Fuss Over a Rock

The Washington Post over the weekend published a shameless hit piece on Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who is among the frontrunners for the GOP presidential nomination. The 3,000-word story focused on a rock at a West Texas hunting camp the Perry family once leased in the early 1980s. On the rock was painted the word "N-ggerhead," which the newspaper apparently felt was a matter of some consequence.

The graffiti was in place before the Perrys came along, and, as Perry explained, "My mother and father went to the lease and painted the rock in either 1983 or 1984. This occurred after I paid a visit to the property with a friend and saw the rock with the offensive word. After my visit I called my folks and mentioned it to them, and they painted it over during their next visit." End of story, right? Nope. The Post spent the next 2,500 words interviewing random people in Texas who saw the rock (though they couldn't recall when), reviewing Perry's record on race (which even Democrats in Texas don't dispute is stellar), and exploring the etymology of the word in question. The story ominously concluded, "In the photos [recently viewed by the Post], it was to the left of the gate. It was laid down flat. The exposed face was brushed clean of dirt. White paint, dried drippings visible, covered a word across the surface. An N and two G's were faintly visible." Other media outlets used the story to spread the narrative that conservatives are racist.

No doubt Perry has stumbled of late on his own; once the Republican frontrunner, he's now running second in most polls behind Mitt Romney, and Herman Cain is fast on his heels. However, he outperformed Romney in third-quarter fundraising with $17 million, despite not entering the race until midway through the quarter. We don't think the Post story will hurt Perry with conservatives, but it's no less shameful that the media will run into the ground this non-story about a Republican while completely ignoring the far more inflammatory story of Barack Obama's pastor of 20 years, the racist and hate-spewing Jeremiah Wright.

In other campaign news, Ron Paul raised an impressive $8 million in the third quarter, and he remains in the middle of the pack in the polls. His strong following may carry him quite far. Other candidates' fundraising totals will be released by Oct. 15. Finally, in case you've been hiding under a painted-over rock, Chris Christie and Sarah Palin are not running for president.

Who are you supporting for the GOP nomination?

From the Left: Obama the Black Panther?

To be sure, this isn't nearly as important as that rock in West Texas, but photographs have surfaced of Barack Obama sharing a podium and marching with prominent members of the New Black Panther Party during a March 2007 event in Selma, Alabama. Panther National Chief Malik Zulu Shabazz is one of the men identified in the photos. Shabazz was one of the defendants in the notorious Philadelphia voter intimidation case in 2008, which the Department of Justice inexplicably dropped shortly after Obama took office in 2009. Also present at the 2007 event was Panther Minister of War Najee Muhammed, an Obama supporter who called for the murder of Georgia police officers with AK-47s.

News From the Swamp: Stalled 'Jobs' Bill

Barack Obama's $447 billion "jobs" bill is still in legislative limbo in the House and Senate, several weeks after he began his incessant "pass-this-bill" campaign. He has largely given up on that rhetoric by calling for something to be done in October. The bill has been formally introduced in the House and Senate, but it still has no co-sponsors in either chamber.

Obama continues to press for a vote on the full package, but House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) stated this week that the bill would not get a vote in the House. He added that there are job creation measures that Republicans and the White House can agree on, such as free trade agreements with South Korea, Colombia and Panama, and rolling back regulatory barriers that are hurting businesses. That didn't stop the president, though, from calling out Cantor and Republicans for supposedly standing in the way of revitalizing the American economy. His re-election campaign also sent an email to supporters attacking Republicans for blocking the bill. Oddly, there was no mention about the lack of action from the president's own party in the Senate, where Majority Leader Harry Reid blocked Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's motion to bring the bill to the floor for a vote.

As for jobs, September saw an increase of 103,000, though nearly half that were telecommunications workers returning to the job after being on strike in August. Headline unemployment remains at 9.1 percent.

This Week's 'Braying Jenny' Award

"Without the Recovery Act and accompanying federal interventions, whether from the Fed, or Cash for Clunkers, or other initiatives, the unemployment rate last year at the time of the election would have been 14.5 percent, not 9.5 percent." --House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)

Obama's Campaigning for Republicans

"I don't think [Americans are] better off than they were four years ago." --Barack Obama

"The real question for everyone is: Are you better off than you were $4 trillion ago?" --Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC)

New & Notable Legislation

Barack Obama signed into law a continuing resolution that will keep the government funded through Nov. 18. The resolution temporarily quieted fears of a government shutdown, as Democrats and Republicans have been debating since Oct. 1 appropriations bills for FY2012.

House Republicans introduced one of those appropriations measures this week -- a $153 billion bill for the Departments of Labor, Education, and Health and Human Services. It prohibits any new spending on ObamaCare until all legal challenges are settled, and it also removes all funding to Planned Parenthood clinics that refuse to certify that they will not perform abortions. The bill would continue to fund Pell grants for higher education, but it would bar grants to students attending college less than half time. It cuts funding for NPR and AmeriCorps, and it also imposes a number of restrictions on various federal agencies. Furthermore, it prevents the National Labor Relations Board from using money to force employers to notify workers of their right to unionize, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration from requiring employers to adopt injury and illness prevention programs, and federal officials from enforcing stricter standards for vocational schools and for-profit colleges. Naturally, several Democrats announced opposition to the bill because it cuts too deeply into some of their favorite programs; some Republicans oppose it for not cutting enough.

The 'Buffet Rule'

Billionaire investor Warren Buffett attempted this week to clarify his position on Barack Obama's so-called "Buffett Rule" -- the proposed raising of taxes on top earners based on the repeated claim that Buffett's secretary pays more in taxes than he does. "It isn't [my idea] to have the rich pay more taxes," Buffett said. "It's to have the ultra-rich who are paying very low tax rates to pay more taxes. There's all kinds of ultra-rich who pay normal taxes ... including me." Buffett's still okay with his name being attached to the plan, whatever it may be.

Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) wants Buffett to put his money where his mouth is. According to the Daily Caller, "Scalise's 'Warren Buffett Act of 2011' will instruct the IRS to provide a checkbox on Americans' income tax forms so that those who feel they are not paying enough in taxes can easily and conveniently do so -- without forcing an entire change in the tax code."

Meanwhile, as part of his latest comedy act, Joe Biden quipped, "Look, we talk about the 'Buffet Rule' -- I call it the 'Reagan Rule.'" Oh, wait. He wasn't joking.

National Security

Warfront With Jihadistan: Anwar al-Awlaki: 'Citizen' Enemy?

This week's PC oxymoron, "U.S. citizen enemy combatant," has driven heated debates on the topic. Specifically, many on the Left, as well as GOP presidential candidate Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX), have protested the U.S. drone strike death of Anwar al-Awlaki, the Yemeni-American cleric linked to several terrorist plots and attacks against the U.S. (Fort Hood, the Christmas Day underwear bomber, the Times Square car bombing), on the basis of his U.S. citizenship.

Al-Awlaki, along with his understudy -- another U.S. citizen, Samir Khan -- were both killed on the Saudi-Yemen border by drone missiles specifically targeting al-Awlaki. The controversy surrounding the attack centers on the idea that the U.S. owes its citizens -- wherever they happen to be -- the constitutional protections afforded to all U.S. citizens, to include rights of due process as well as the ability to have "a day in court." The problem, of course, is that such thinking is simply wrong.

For starters, American citizens have never been accorded such "rights" when they have taken up arms against their own country. The Supreme Court has reinforced this fact several times. Notably, in World War II it ruled that the U.S. citizenship of captured German spy/saboteurs was irrelevant when the citizen associates himself with the enemy power and operates as an enemy belligerent. In essence, the Court used a walks-like-a-duck-and-quacks-like-a-duck analysis to conclude that U.S. citizens who operate as enemy combatants in wartime are, in fact, enemy combatants, and that the classification preempts any citizenship status.

More recently, the Court in Hamdi v. Rumsfeld (2004) added support to this conclusion, stating, "A citizen, no less than an alien, can be part of or supporting forces hostile to the United States or coalition partners and engaged in an armed conflict against the United States." In other words, independent of any "rights" Al-Awlaki and Khan may have claimed as U.S. citizens, when each joined a belligerent foreign military force -- al-Qa'ida -- and entered the battlefield as an enemy combatant against the U.S., they gave the U.S. the "right" to shoot back. And we did. End of (al-Awlaki's) story.

In a story that hasn't yet ended, Operation Enduring Freedom marks its 10-year anniversary today. Hundreds of thousands of troops have deployed to Afghanistan since October 2001, and some 1,700 have paid the ultimate price. At least 70,000 troops are scheduled to remain through 2014.

What's your opinion on the drone attack?

Immigration Front: Administration Appeals Alabama Law

The Obama administration on Friday asked a federal appeals court to block Alabama's anti-illegal immigration law after a federal judge allowed key portions to take effect. Last week, U.S. District Judge Sharon Lovelace Blackburn ruled that Alabama could allow police to detain people suspected of being in the United States illegally if they cannot produce proper documentation when stopped. She further upheld a provision requiring public schools to determine (by reviewing birth certificates or sworn affidavits) the legal residency status of students upon enrollment.

Not content with obstructing the rights of a state to ensure that its citizens' scarce tax dollars are spent for their own welfare and not that of illegal foreigners, the Obama administration now wants to appeal by arguing immigration is solely a federal matter. As with so many things, the obvious conclusion here is that a state wouldn't have to resort to such lengths to ensure prudent stewardship of its taxpayer dollars if the federal government hadn't abdicated its responsibility to protect the country's border. Also lost on the Obama administration is the distinction between federal immigration authority and a state's right to protect its treasury by checking the immigration status of those who would burden it. We hope the courts uphold Alabama's law.

Business & Economy

Regulatory Commissars: The Durbin Tax on Debit Cards

Sometimes it all comes down to who has the best lobbyists, and normally it's not the consumer. Americans were outraged when Bank of America announced last month that, effective Oct. 1, it would charge debit card users a $5 monthly fee for the privilege. Many other large and regional banks have done likewise. From the Senate floor, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) called on Americans to "vote with your feet [and] get the heck out of that bank."

Durbin conveniently failed to mention, however, that it was his amendment to last year's 2,325-page Dodd-Frank financial regulation bill that created the opening for BoA and other financial institutions to slap their consumers with these fees. Meanwhile, giant retailers like Walmart and Home Depot were given a break that Home Depot estimated could save them $35 million a year. Because of the new federal law capping the interchange fees banks charge retailers at 24 cents per transaction -- instead of the going rate of around 44 cents -- Bank of America predicted they would lose $2 billion annually in revenue. Instead, the cost of doing business will be borne by bank customers who no longer enjoy free checking.

The question now is whether retailers will pass their savings on to consumers or use the millions saved on their reduced fees to fatten their bottom lines. Realistically, it's not likely that these savings will accrue to consumers, but even if they do, the benefit consumers receive won't make up for the additional fees charged by banks. The biggest winners are the lobbyists who continue to rake in huge contributions in order to play two business behemoths against each other. It's the average guy on the street who loses.

Income Redistribution: More Where Solyndra Came From

Racing against the end of the fiscal year and its "green energy" loan program, the Department of Energy announced last Friday nearly $5 billion in loan guarantees for three solar plants and a project to retrofit 750 buildings with rooftop solar panels. All told, the three solar plants funded would create just over 1,000 megawatts of power annually, or about the output of an average nuclear plant. But if the stimulus money was supposed to create jobs, the cost per job on these projects is prohibitively high. For example, the Antelope Valley Ranch solar project in California received $646 million in loan guarantees to create 350 temporary construction jobs, 20 permanent jobs for running the facility, and 230 megawatts of electricity. It all works out to $32 million per permanent job -- assuming, of course, the facility remains in operation until the loans are paid off sometime in the unforeseeably distant future.

It's not only a question of creating jobs. As we pointed out last week, the $737 million loan guarantee for the Crescent Dunes Solar Energy Project is indeed expected to create 45 jobs -- but it will also fatten the coffers of a company run by one Ron Pelosi, brother-in-law of the former Speaker of the House. Nice work if you can get it. On the whole it's -- to borrow Obama's phrase -- a "good bet" that a number of connected Democrat cronies are growing rich off government largesse. At least the outcry has had some effect, though: Jonathan Silver, executive director of DoE's Loan Programs Office, was thrown under the bus this week for the failure of the program.

Bad News, Good News on Oil Drilling

Nearly 18 months after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the region's oil industry has yet to come back. At fault is not the spill itself so much as Barack Obama's moratorium on deepwater drilling in the Gulf. Although the May 2010 moratorium was lifted last October, the damage had already been done. According to an analysis by Quest Offshore Resources, Inc., of the 33 floating rigs that were operating in the Gulf prior to the spill -- 29 of which were actively drilling -- just 21 rigs are now operational, with only 18 actively drilling. This translates into some 11,500 jobs lost. Furthermore, of the 11 rigs driven out of the Gulf by the moratorium, just one has returned, while others have found new homes in places such as Egypt, Liberia, Brazil and Vietnam. Even though some predict that the rig count will return to pre-moratorium levels by mid-2012, drilling activity will continue to lag, thanks in no small part to the snail's pace of permitting.

Meanwhile, the Alaskan oil front brings better news. On Monday, the Obama administration gave a green light for almost 500 oil-drilling leases that had been stalled by enviro-fascists. The leases were issued in 2008 by the Bush administration but were delayed by a lawsuit filed by environmental groups and Alaska native organizations. Moving forward marks a significant step toward tapping into domestic oil reserves. Given the administration's inconsistent stances regarding Alaska and the Gulf, though, we hope it isn't one step forward and two steps back.

News from the Communist Party USA: 'Occupy Wall Street'

A horde of malcontent leftists, some with faces painted like zombies, have camped on the streets of New York for three weeks to protest capitalism on Wall Street. While voicing their anger at evil corporations, many of the protesters are using iPhones, computers, social networks, tents, sleeping bags and clothing made by those same evil corporations. The protests have taken the moniker "Occupy Wall Street" to provide a unifying theme to a disheveled and incoherent mob.

One idea, perpetuated by former Obama "green jobs" czar Van Jones, is to create a leftist version of the Tea Party. They're misunderstanding some key ingredients, however. First, the Tea Party is newsworthy and interesting because people on the Right don't make a habit out of protesting. When organizing and gathering ultimately ensued, it was big news. On the other hand, the Left has been regularly protesting everything under the sun for at least the last 50 years. Second, the protests are an effort to support the current administration -- i.e., the status quo, which is something "progressives" are supposed to eschew.

In fact, it's likely that the administration is at least in part behind the protests. With organized labor, MoveOn.org, the Communist Party USA and others involved, it's hard to believe that the White House isn't pulling some strings. Indeed, Barack Obama said, "I think it expresses the frustrations the American people feel." Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner commented that he "definitely sympathize[s]" with the movement and also finds financial industry criticism of Obama "inexplicable." This orchestration reveals another difference with the Tea Party: Whereas Occupy Wall Street is a manufactured gathering of the professional protest establishment, the Tea Party is truly grassroots and organic. In closing, we have just one piece of advice for the protesters: Go home and take a shower.

Do you have any advice for the Occupy Wall Street malcontents?

This Week's 'Alpha Jackass' Award

"[C]lass warfare is dangerous. The only problem is that the wrong class is winning." --Sen. Bernie Sanders (Socialist-VT)

Culture & Policy

Second Amendment: Guns Up, Crime Down

Since the Supreme Court struck down Chicago's draconian handgun ban last year, the city's violent crime rate has plummeted. This is contrary to the warnings of then-mayor Richard Daley, who said Chicago would "go back to the Old West -- you have a gun and I have a gun and we'll settle it in the streets." Yet according to John Lott, who has written extensively on the subject on guns and crime, "In the first six months of this year, there were 14 percent fewer murders in Chicago compared to the first six months of last year -- when owning handguns was illegal. It is the largest drop in Chicago's murder rate since the handgun ban went into effect in 1982." That success comes in spite of the fact that just 2,144 people had registered guns in Chicago as of May. The city made the process prohibitively cumbersome and expensive, as usual, meaning it is the poor -- who are the most likely victims of crime -- that cannot defend themselves.

Chicago isn't alone, either. Consider Washington, DC, after the Supreme Court's Heller ruling affirmed an individual right to own guns. Lott writes, "If you compare the first six months of this year to the first six months of 2008, the same time immediately preceding the Supreme Court's late June 'Heller' decision, murders have now fallen by 34 percent." Don't expect the Left to concede the point, however. Gun grabbers have yet to meet a fact they couldn't twist or ignore for the purpose of taking away our Second Amendment rights.

Village Academic Curriculum: Stealing Education

It is rare, especially these days, to hear about someone committing a felony for a good cause. Yet across the country, parents are being prosecuted for just that. Concerned about the quality of the schools in their own districts, they are lying about their addresses so that their kids can get a better education elsewhere. This week, one single mother from Ohio, who has dreams of becoming a teacher, was charged with two counts of grand theft -- one for each child -- for falsifying their address in order to get them in a better school. A conviction would have ruined her chances for a career in education. Perhaps it was this aspiration, along with the fact that she has always been a law-abiding citizen, that led sympathetic Ohio Gov. John Kasich to reduce the charges to misdemeanors.

Schools are taking new -- and some say, extreme -- measures to stop this "crime wave." These measures include hiring companies such as VerifyResidence.com, which hires snitches to follow students to and from school, and then rat-out the offenders. As Micheal Flaherty of the Wall Street Journal quipped, "Only in a world where irony is dead could people not marvel at concerned parents being prosecuted for stealing a free public education for their children." Certainly, regardless of where one stands on this issue, the actions of the "guilty" parents should be seen as yet another wake-up call about our failing public education system and our children's future.

How should parents deal with the education system?

The New Meaning of Family

The decline of the family is undeniable. A same-sex couple in California and their 11-year-old son provide the latest example of the harm done by the "five gender" crowd. The two women, joined in a commitment ceremony in 1990 by their rabbi, adopted the boy when he was just two. Now he is undergoing hormone-blocking treatment in Berkeley to prevent him from going through puberty as a boy because, they claim, his gender-disorientation pathology would otherwise cause him to commit suicide. He will continue the treatment until he can decide if he wants to be a man or a woman.

The boy's adoptive mothers insist this has nothing to do with their own lifestyle choices. "It was odd to us," one said. "Even though she [sic] has lesbians as parents, this is all new to us in every possible way. We know what it's like to feel different -- we've got that one. But to feel like you're not in the right body was just something we could not put our heads around." Indeed, we can't put our heads around it, either. Real help would be available to him if his parents were truly clear about his well-being. Instead, they have chosen a lifestyle that will almost surely result in severe problems down the road. It's truly tragic that cultural degradation runs so deep.

And Last...

If you need another sign that the economy is awful, look no further than a back alley in the Big Apple. Drug use is down, and resulting emergency room admissions for cocaine-related issues have dropped since the economy started to tank in 2008. According to Dr. Stephen Ross, director of NYU's Langone Center of Excellence on Addiction, the economy is definitely a factor. "I treat patients in private practice," he says. "Many cocaine addicts tell me ... they don't have enough money to buy it anymore." At $60 to $80 per gram, we understand the need to cut back. While we haven't yet heard of a new government "cash for crack" program, we suspect it's only a matter of time. And when it happens, we have just the headline: Obama Deals Blow to Economy.

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

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Glenn Reveals: The Video Montage Showing Who's Been Calling for Wealth Redistribution 

October 7, 2011

 Video Exposing How 'Occupy Wall Street' Was Organized From Day One by SEIU/ACORN Front - The Working Family Party, and How They All Tie to the Obama Administration, DNC, Democratic Socialists of America, Tides and George Soros

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Meet the 99% 53% - And They Have a Message for the Protesters

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Political Strategists Serving Immigration Kool-Aid
Bad Advice for 2012.
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FAIR Testifies Before Senate Committee Regarding Farm Labor
Guest Worker Debate Returns.
Full Story

McCain, Huntsman Adviser Says Romney Wrong to Be Tough on Immigration
Ana Navarro Strikes Again.
Full Story

More About Jobs Americans Will Do
Worker Verification is Needed.
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Illegal Alien Arrested for Violating Alabama Law
Caught in Drug Arrest.
Full Story

Today's Headlines:  Friday, October 07, 2011

Obama Says Jobs Plan Can Grow GDP as 'Much as 2%'--But WH Estimates It Will Cost 3%

Jobs? Obama 'Should Be Working Overtime' to Get Pipeline Approved

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Mitt Romney's Foreign Policy Team Includes Former National Security Figures, Conservative Scholars

Gallup: 'Recent Surge' of Young Adults Want Gov't to 'Promote Traditional Values'

Republicans Say 'Sad' Unemployment Numbers Reflect a 'Failed Economic Policy'

Pelosi: Without Stimulus Unemployment Would Have Hit 14.5%

Obama Defends Federal Loan Program That Backed $536-Million to Now-Bankrupt Solar Company

Biden:  Weak U.S. Economy Partly Due to Concern Over 'Real Estate Bubble' in China

Obama: Occupy Wall Street 'Expresses the Frustrations That the American People Feel'

Obama: Business Can Do What It Wants, Unless I Think It's Unfair

Obama Has 'Complete Confidence' in Attorney General Holder amid Fast and Furious Questions

D.C. Taxpayers Pick Up Tab for Transgender Job Training

South Asian Rivals Jostle for Influence in Afghanistan Ahead of U.S. Pullout

Lawmakers, Experts Advocate Against Military Spending Cuts 

COMMENTARY:

'Playboy Club' Collapses
By L. Brent Bozell III
The show's cancellation is a victory for foes of pornified TV shows. But the push-the-envelope instincts of network executives like NBC President Roger Greenblatt do not inspire much comfort.

The End of Pax Americana?
By Patrick J. Buchanan
Let the world look out for itself for a while. It's time for us to start looking out for America and putting Americans first. For if we don't, who will?

The Miracle of iCapitalism
By Michelle Malkin
Here is your high-resolution, teachable moment of the week: anti-capitalist, anti-corporate extremists of "Occupy Wall Street" mourning Apple Inc. founder Steve Jobs without a trace of irony.

Where's the Outrage?
By Rich Galen
The Occupy Wall Street protesters are apparently accepting of a small, but vocal number of their team who have shouted anti-Semitic remarks.

NEWSPAPER ROUNDUP:

Reid triggers 'nuclear option' to end repeat filibusters
Democrats change rules; Senate in chaos
NJ woman could be first American to wear hijab while competing at Olympics
Dems use 10th anniversary to urge end to Afghan war
Nancy Pelosi: 'God bless' Wall Street protesters
GOP freshman calls on Attorney General Holder to resign
White House order to establish new cybersecurity policies
Swedish mayor proposes temporary citizenship for new immigrants
Westboro Baptist Church plans to picket Steve Jobs' funeral
GOP lawmaker: Obama 'doesn't understand this country's economic system'
Boehner: Obama has 'given up' on governing to campaign for 2012
$1B foreclosure aid program ends with $568 million unspent
Kids' ER concussion visits up 60 percent over decade
Anita Hill, back in Washington, re-enters an old debate|

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

Feds to design health insurance for the masses

All the Fed needs is for the private sector to collapse

The federal government is taking on a crucial new role in the nation's health care, designing a basic benefits package for millions of privately insured Americans. A framework for the Obama administration was released Friday.

The report by independent experts from the Institute of Medicine lays out guidelines for deciding what to include in the new "essential benefits package," and how to keep it affordable for small businesses and taxpayers, as well as scientifically up to date. 

October 07, 2011 

On Friday's Program 

Tonight on GBTV: Missed last night's special broadcast on the history and future of the Muslim Brotherhood? Unbelievable show - this is a must see episode and is available on demand at GBTV. And don't miss the top stories from the week as Scott Baker hosts "Off the Record" today at 5pm ET only on GBTV!

Nancy Pelosi: Occupy Wall Street is "young", "spontaneous", "focused"

One out of three isn't bad. Young? Yup. But spontaneous and focused? Uh, no and NO. Pelosi pandered to the OWS crowd declaring 'God Bless' the protesters. Glenn would refute Pelosi's assessment of the situation - but he doesn't have to. Check out this amazing audio interview of one of the OWS leaders - she nukes Pelosi all on her own. WATCH.

Stu destroys Jon Stewart: Slams comedian/wannabe politician's latest lazy attempt at a political point -- check out the Stu Blog HERE.
 

I am the 53%: An actual grassroots counter protest growing. Are you part of the 53%? Find out HERE.  

What are 'Google Jews'??

Despite media glorification of the OWS protests, the people on the ground are revealing a lot about who they are and what they are all about. Glenn has the audio of the protesters who obviously aren't too fond of America (they say 'America kills') but also aren't that fond of the Jewish people. Check out this OWS protester and the latest anti-Semitic protester who warned of 'Google Jews' and their power. MORE.

Stunning Video: Montage of politician after politician calling for Marxist policies in America. Watch & share!! 

Even conservative schools indoctrinate? 

Thought your kid was safe from indoctrination going to a notoriously conservative school? As Glenn Beck Program co-host Pat Gray found out, that's not always the case. Pat tells the story on radio today about how one of his kids at a supposedly conservative school began showing signs that leftists were beginning to have a little too much influence. What did Pat do? Find out HERE.

Glenn interviews star of the movie 'Courageous' 

A few years ago, Sherwood Baptist Church decided to spend $20,000 to make a movie about faith and life. The results have been nothing short of miraculous. You may remember the films Facing the Giants and Fireproof - both were major box office successes in their own right. They are at it again and are on track to have their biggest hit yet with Courageous which (despite limited theater release) finished 5th overall at the Box Office. Glenn speaks with star of the film and associate pastor at Sherwood, Alex Kendrick. Check out the interview HERE.

ICYMI: The Truth about the Muslim Brotherhood

Last night Glenn laid out the history of the Muslim Brotherhood, their agenda, and showed you their own words. What is it they want to accomplish? Should the White House be meeting with this group? Are they merely a 'secular' and 'political' group like the White House says? Glenn answers those questions and more -- Check out a FREE clip from the show HERE. The full episode is available on demand at GBTV.

Doomed: Post Office solution? More junk mail

If anyone wasn't sure why the Post Office is losing $8 billion a year, their latest solution should give some indication why they are floundering. Facing massive and increasing deficits the genius thinkers at the Post Office have come up with a solution. The future of their business will now depend on -- more junk mail. Yup, not making it up - that's the new plan. More junk. Get the FULL STORY.

Vandals hit Joseph's tomb: The Blaze has the story of how vandals have hit the site of Joseph's tomb in Israel -- hmmm, wonder who could be the culprit? STORY

In college and want to be a part of the live audience? On GBTV this coming Tuesday at 5pm we will have top professors teaching college students how to fight back against the liberal attacks coming from Occupy Wall Street.  If you are in college - you don't want to miss this show. Want to be a part of the live audience in NYC? Email your name, college, and phone number to tickets@GBTV.com and we will contact you with all the details.