Quote: 

By a faction, I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or a minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adverse to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community.

Fewer Americans Can Afford the Basics 

Among the large numbers of issues that are said to prove that the recession never ended is whether Americans can afford the "basics" that have come to be expected by the middle class.

Fewer and fewer Americans can.

This means that a lack of demand for some services, like medical treatment, will undermine the ability of some services to exist at all - at least at current levels. Medicine, like any other economically based system, needs some base amount of demand to provide the financial scale that allows research and development and a delivery infrastructure to exist.

A new Gallup poll reports that:

The Kitchen Table Patriots

are proud to join with

The Philadelphia Loyal Opposition

and Eagle Forum in support of

Al Schmidt (Only) for City Commissioner on Nov. 8th!

Have a beer with Schmidt at Schmitz!

Fundraiser to support Al Schmidt for City Commissioner

When: Thursday, October 20th

Time: 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM

Where: Brauhaus Schmitz

718 South Street

Donation: $100

Includes authentic German food and beer (wine, soda)

Please make checks payable to: "Friends of Al Schmidt"

Checks can be mailed to: P.O. Box 18538, Philadelphia, PA 19129

Or contribute online at: www.SchmidtForPhilly.com

For More Information:

Call: 215-624-1930

E-mail: info@SchmidtforPhilly

 Dear Patriot,

Your participation is vital for this event.   WE NEED 20-30 people to respond with a firm "yes" to picket Rep. Pileggi's office on 10/22/11 before we call the media.  Press coverage is the best way to inform the public about the actions or inactions of our representatives.  If there are only a handful of people, the press will either report nothing or will report the small number that turned out.  The story will become one about lack of interest and lack of participation rather than lack of action by Senator Pileggi.  We need to know who is willing to help us get this out to the public.

Senator Pileggi, PA Senate Majority Leader, has not shown leadership and it is time we let him know!   The Republicans control the House, the Senate, and the Governor's office in Harrisburg.  The House is doing its job-Senator Pileggi is stalling many bills in the Senate that are good for the Commonwealth.

Please call LISA ASAP at 484-995-1540 to let her know if you will or will not be participating.

We would like to picket his district office (100 Evergreen Dr, Glen Mills) Saturday, October 22nd from 11:00-1:00pm. We hope to have the press there to get our message out in order to educate the public and hold him accountable.

Attached is a flyer (SEE BOTTOM OF PAGE) that we will be handing out that day.  We will also be distributing these at the Court Houses in Media and West Chester at different times.  We would also like to have it handed out during the morning rush hour at train stations in Senator Pileggi's district--this has been very effective in the past.   

All signs should reflect what is in the flyer--keep it simple. We need to know who is willing to help us get this out to the public. Your response is very important!
  ****** Please call Lisa ASAP at 484-995-1540 to let her know if you will, or will not, be participating. 
FLYER:   http://gallery.mailchimp.com/8f32e128e917a51bebe910e8b/files/Pileggi_Flyer_Edit_1_.pdf

I am reaching out to you in hopes of gaining your support.  I have taken the liberty of attaching a PDF recounting a compelling story which I contributed to with the team at the Chester County Hero Fund (501c3).

For the last year, I have been training for the Marine Corps Marathon, which I will run on October the 30th (just shy of my 68th--birthday) in D.C.

I'm running to raise money to build an accessible home for Jay Raffetto a wounded Marine.  Jay graduated from Conestoga H.S. with my daughter Jennifer in 2000.  I always gave him positive encouragement through his parents about the virtues of military service.  Jay became a medic with special operations (Force Recon, USMC) and unfortunately, last August he became a triple amputee-while on patrol in Afghanistan.

I'm asking for a donation to support his cause and I'm asking consideration for a Corporate Sponsorship as well---if possible.  I think this is a compelling cause.

Please see attached PDF with instructions on the bottom of the sheet.  

100% of your donation will go Jay and his wife Emily, Thanks in advance for your support of Jay, his family and our men and women in the Military.

Also please feel free to use this email and PDF to send to others you Feel might want to support this effort.

P.S. I know I can count on your help! 

Vr,

Sal

Richard (Sal) Salcido, M.D.

The William Erdman Professor of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation

Senior Fellow, Institute on Aging, Associate, Institute for Medical

Bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania

AAMC Scholar in Residence for Diversity Policy and Research

Class of 2013, Penn GSE, Executive Doctorate in Higher Education

Management

U.S. Army, Medical Corps (Ret.)

Cellular (610).331.6898

Home (610)578.9019

See the flyer Here . . . 

 You Are Cordially Invited! 

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.  

See & Download the Flyer Here . . . 

Patriots,

Attached is a suggested list of items for the troops.  We will also need Money for shipping & boxes - we have some boxes & I think flat rate is the way to go.  A form must be filled out w/ details about what is in each box & approx. value. 

PLEASE bring items to our next VFP meeting Nov. 11th at the Phoenixville Country Club. Lets show our troops we care !!! 

Here's a list of preferred items to donate.

CANDY

Candy (hard candy/heat resistant)
Gum
Throat Drops
Twizzlers

CORRESPONDENCE
Journals
Padded Envelopes
Pens/Pencils
Writing Paper and Envelopes

DRINK
Coffee (instant)
Coffee Creamer
Gatorade
Hot Cocoa
Kool-Aid bursts- to freeze
Powdered Drink Mixes
Tea Mixes (sweet)

ELECTRONIC
CD Fanny Packs
CDs (music, books on CD)
DVDs (comedy, American travel)
Hand held electronic games
MP3 Players
Tapes

FOOD (including dry goods, snacks)
Beef Jerky
Canned Food (cheese, meats, etc)
Canned Fruit (pop top cans)
Cereal (in small boxes)
Chips
Cookies (including Girl Scout)
Crackers
Energy Bars (Cliff or Balance)
Granola Bars
Oatmeal (instant)
Pistachios and other nuts
Pop-Tarts
Popcorn
Ramen Noodles/Cup of Soup
Ravioli (pop top cans)
Salsa & Bean Dip
Snack Mix & Fruit Roll ups
Sugar packets
Sunflower & Pumpkin seeds
Tuna Kits

GAMES
Board Games
Checkers (travel size)
Chess (travel size)
Crossword Puzzles
Drawing pads/art pencils
Playing Cards
Sudoku books

PRINTED MATERIALS
Books (novels, short stories, history)
Comic Strips/Joke Books
Magazines
Newspapers (local)
Post Cards from Home

SPORTING EQUIPMENT
Baseballs/Gloves/Bats
Dart Board
Footballs
Golf Balls
Hacky Sacks
Soccer Balls

TOILETRIES/HYGIENE
Baby/Wet Wipes
Callous Removers
Dental Floss
Deodorant (gel or solid)
Eye Drops
Eyeglass Wipes
Facial Scrub
Femine Hygiene Products (for female soldiers)
Foot Powder
Hairbrushes
Hand Sanitizers (waterless)
Lip Balm with SPF 15+
Lotion (hand/body/face)
Mouthwash
Nail Clippers
Nose spray
Powder (Gold Bond)
Q-Tips
Razors (disposable)
Shampoo/Conditioner
Shower Shoes
Sunscreen
Tissues (heavy duty - i.e. Puffs)
Toilet Paper (name brand)
Toothpaste/Toothbrushes
Travel size body wash
Tweezers
Tylenol/Motrin (individual packets)

OTHER
American Flags (small)
Baggies (with zip lock)
Batteries (AAA, AA, C, D, 9V)
BBQ cooking supplies/tools
Boot laces (brown/tan)
Bowls (large for Ramen noodles/popcorn)
Bug Spray (must be packaged in zip-lock bag)
Cameras (digital, disposable, Polaroid)
Camping Items/Equipment
Chair (folding camping chair)
Duct Tape (olive green)
Dust pan (for sand)
Fans (battery powered - small - with extra batteries)
Flashlights (mini/mag lite, extra bulbs, lots of batteries)
Fly Strips & Swatters
Fly/Ant/Mouse Traps
Foot Massager
Gloves (Nomex Aviator's)
Hand and Foot Warmers
Hometown stuff
Instant Ice-Packs
Letters from veterans & citizens
Neck Scarf/Gator
Patch Kit
Phone Cards (pre-paid, AAFES)
Photo Albums
Pinch Lights
Plastic spoons
Shoe Insole Cushions
Socks (cushioned white calf high)
Socks (moisture-wicking boot socks)
Spray Bottle (for water)   

Nullify Now! Philadelphia

LISTEN LIVE TO REPATRIOT RADIO

"BETTER THAN EVER"

(all times are eastern)

Wednesday 3-4pm "Patriots Watch" - Billy Baer and Dan Haggerty

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.

Right now we are offering $100 off to anyone from PA -- all they have to do is use the code: PABUS100 (or they can just call me and I'll do it for them).

And..., Americans for Prosperity Foundation will send for FREE to the Summit (including bus, hotel, tickets to all venue and $50 for food), any person who books 15 or more people (including themselves).

Here are the details:

Americans For Prosperity Foundation is excited to announce that businessman and GOP presidential hopeful Herman Cain will be joining Mark Levin, John Fund, Grover Norquist and many more at the 2011 Defending the American Dream Summit on November 4th & 5th at the Washington Convention Center.

Act now and register for one of our bus packages from your state (For PA: $259 single occupancy and $179 double occupancy [with the discount])! These packages include bus transportation, hotel accommodations, and Summit registration for one low price.

Simply click here to register.

Summit Highlights Include:

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

Also, learn about public policy issues, grassroots activism, new media strategies, foundations of economic freedom ...and much more!

Click here to register today and help defend the American Dream! Use the online discount code "PABUS100" on the registration page to get the $100 off all bus packages. Give your children the gift of freedom and bring the whole family to the Defending the American Dream Summit this year.

Please join Herman Cain, Mark Levin, John Fund, and Grover Norquist, along with thousands of fellow freedom fighters, and send a message that the American Dream is alive and well in this great country!

Please have anyone who has a question or would like to book for the Defending the Dream Summit give me a call at 610-207-7901.
     

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.   

 Read more: 

One thing I am passionate about and want to pass along to my listeners is that there is nothing more important than knowing about the Constitution and how its underlying principles hold true at all times and in all places.  

RedState Morning Briefing

For October 19, 2011

1. Nostalgia & Decline

Apple has out a new app in its App Store - Cards. You can take a picture on your phone, design a card, and have it sent via the post office to someone. Think about that for a minute. In an age of digital communications, text messages, emails, and cell phones, Apple has produced a product that harkens back to one of the earliest message transmission methods - snail mail as the kids these days are calling it.

Siri, the assistant on the iPhone, kindles fond memories of growing up in the age of Star Trek for the thirty somethings out there.

A friend of mine two nights ago showed me an awesome app he works on called Goba. It's available for the iPhone, Android, Windows Mobile, etc. It lets you plan an offline gathering of friends and manage sending texts and emails and the replies thereto. An app for the phone designed to facilitate a gathering of friends off line and unplugged.

My neighborhood is pretty new. Almost every house has a relic of an earlier time - a front porch. My wife, me, and our kids sit on the front porch in rocking chairs or the kids play on the porch. On sites like Etsy, people are getting back to early American crafts - typography, quilts, homemade soaps, arts, etc. Like with Apple's Cards program, people are trying to reconnect to a past that exists in our dreams. Part is real and part is not real. But we are trying to connect to it.

At this time, as so many perceive a decline in the country, there is a profound sense of nostalgia for a past era. Successful technologies from Apple or this Goba program or others are those technologies that actually help us realize, in some way, some part of that past. From getting a card in the mail to meeting friends on a front porch in the evening for a drink, Americans want to turn back to a simpler time or at least a time that they perceive to be simpler.

This is why the Republicans will lose next November to Barack Obama.

2. The CNN Debate: Where Has This Perry Been?

1. Where has this Rick Perry been? Finally, the guy showed up with unscripted, from the gut answers. The few scripted answers fell flat (see e.g. Jeffres). The rest were good. He's not the best debater. But he certainly did not lose that debate.

2. Rick Santorum is too angry to be President and came across as a jerk to everyone. Rick Santorum conveniently forgot to mention he got his butt kicked in Pennsylvania, was not a fiscal conservative, and endorsed Arlen Specter over Pat Toomey.

3. This debate hurts Mitt Romney more than anyone else. Why? Because the candidates started piling on him. A lot of polling seemed to indicate that voters were getting ready to settle. This pile on and the Newt-Santorum-Cain-Perry pile on of Romney "lying" will keep voters from settling for him. He got flustered tonight for the first time. Perry got under his skin. I don't know where so many enthusiastic Romney supporters came from, but though he was cheered on stage by the crowd, he was clearly flustered.

4. As the candidates were piling on Romney for Romneycare, Captain Stubing . . . er . . . Michele Bachmann . . . interjected and totally shut down that line of attack. Was she returning the favor for Mitt's lifeline at the last debate?

5. Herman Cain continues to shine as the great optimist. He stayed upbeat with a sense of humor. But this debate showed his serious weak point - foreign policy. He is going to have to seriously, seriously beef up by the next CNN debate, which will be a foreign policy debate.

6. Newt Gingrich, hands down, won the debate. He was confrontational, but polite. He was good on faith issues. He really hit every answer out of the park, though nuclear power is his and everyone else's ethanol.

I suspect Perry saved himself tonight. Gingrich will go up a bit, probably drawn from some Cain votes. Romney will stagnate. Santorum and Bachmann will go down. Paul will hold steady.

3. Herman Cain, Gilad Shalit, and Emptying GITMO in Exchange for One Captive Soldier

Herman Cain is taking a beating - at least judging by my email inbox - over a line he uttered in the interview below with CNN's Wolf Blitzer.

The synopses of this I'm seeing are some variation of "Cain said he'd release all Gitmo terrorists in exchange for one American P.O.W." and "Cain would release all gitmo detainees for one soldier." However, that's not what happened at all - and I don't share the outrage at this point that some of my very good friends and colleagues do over this statement. Here's why.

4. Meet #OWS 'Crisis Creator' Lisa Fithian: The Radical Extremist Helping To #OccupyAmerica

"When people ask me, 'What do you do?' I say I create crisis, because crisis is that edge where change is possible." - Lisa Fithian

To say that Lisa Fithian is just a paid-professional protester would be to undersell her radical accomplishments. True, she's received compensation from the SEIU and the SEIU's labor federation Change to Win as a consultant. However, her war on the free market goes well beyond that. Last year, Fithian helped the UAW shut down Bank of America branches and, now, is helping the #OccupyWallSt protesters wage their occupations all across America.

Heritage Hotsheet

Experts on the Day's Hottest News

Items for October 15, 2011

Tell a joke: 

Q: What is the difference between liberalism and communism?

A: The Communist admits it.

VIDEOS * TODAY'S HOT PICKS 

Iranian Assassination Plot Exposes Policy Flaws

Presidential Policy: Does It Make the Grade?, James Carafano, PhD 

Woodstock in New York

Herbert London 

'Occupy Chapel Hill: Be Part of Something Too Big To Fail'

Frank Hill 

The "Occupy" protesters showed up in North Carolina this past week. Do they really know how their economic ambitions could be fulfilled in a realistic manner?

Entrapment: Is New York University Law School Twisting Facts in Terrorism Case?

Ed Koch 

Today's Hot Topics

We choose, you peruse.

The Trashing of Lower Manhattan

Claudia Rosett

Reza Kahlili's "A Time to Betray"

An exclusive interview and review 

Ruth King 

Amnesty International are lying sons-of-bitches 

By Ted Belman

Amnesty International issued a press release today.

Israel-Hamas prisoner swap casts harsh light on detention practices of all sides

Gilad Shalit was held captive for five years by Palestinian armed groups

The prisoner exchange involving Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit and 477 Palestinian prisoners highlights the need for the humane treatment of all detainees in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT), Amnesty International said today.

Obviously it wants to show equivalence. God forbid it should criticize only Hamas. It was not a "prisoner exchange". It was an outrageous ransom paid for a hostage. It only mentions the 477 terrorists that were released calling them "prisoners rather than terrorists. What about the other 550? Then it lumps them all into "detainees" in the OPT which I surmise includes Gaza.

"This deal will bring relief to Gilad Shalit and his family after an ordeal that has lasted more than five years. Many Palestinian families will feel a similar sense of relief today when they are reunited with their relatives, many of whom have spent decades under harsh conditions in Israeli detention," said Malcolm Smart, Amnesty International's Middle East and North Africa Director.

While it describes what Shalit went through as an "ordeal", it describestheir detention under "harsh conditions". No mention of the conditions for Shalit. And no mention of a very basic difference, Shalit was a hostage, the Arabs were convicted murders. Surely the families would have different expectations given that difference.

"However, more needs to be done to protect the rights of thousands of others who remain in detention. The Israeli authorities, the Hamas de facto administration in Gaza, and the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank must seize this opportunity to ensure respect for the rights of all prisoners and detainees in their custody."

They assert that rights must be protected without giving evidence of such need.

Gilad Shalit was captured by Palestinian armed groups from Gaza in a cross-border raid on 25 June 2006. Since then he has been allowed no contact with his family, who have campaigned relentlessly for his release. Nor was he allowed access to the International Committee of the Red Cross, despite repeated appeals by Amnesty International and other organizations, which made it impossible to verify the conditions of his captivity.

Shalit wasn't "captured", he was abducted. There is a difference. And don't forget that two of his comrades were murdered.

Amnesty International has repeatedly called on the Hamas authorities not to treat Gilad Shalit as a hostage and a bargaining chip, in violation of their obligations under international humanitarian law.

I don't believe that it tried very hard at all to get him properly treated. It certainly didn't make a big stink about it. I don't recall one incident where they made such demands.

It has also consistently raised concerns with the Israeli authorities about the prison conditions of Palestinian detainees, and the fact that Israel continues to imprison Palestinians from the OPT inside Israel, in violation of its obligations under the Fourth Geneva Convention.

Why does it continue to call them detainees and not convicted murderers? It makes it sound like Israel is "imprisoning Palestinians" rather than Murderers and those that abet them. Besides it starts from the proposition that the Geneva Convention applies but Israel's position is that it doesn't.

CONTINUE

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

Yedida Freilich, the highly-acclaimed singer/performer of Only Israel, a beautiful, moving song that has received more than 1.2 Million hits on YouTube, has just released her latest triumph,

Bloody Truth. The song attempts to highlight the fragility of past Arab-Israeli Agreements and Treaties. The track conveys the existential dangers to Israel inherent in relying on signed agreements with surrounding Arab dictatorships. The timing of the song's release coincides with present Palestinian Arab attempts to use the UN to impose a solution. This process negates Israel's right to secure and mutually-negotiated borders.

Here is a link to the Bloody Truth

Or, copy the following into your browser:

http://www.israpundit.com/archives/39990

. Enjoy!

Shalit trade; Revolving Door Terrorism

By Daniel Greenfield, CANADA FREE PRESS 

The Shalit deal will release some of the worst murderers in Israeli history, including those responsible for the Dolphinarium disco bombing which killed over a dozen teenagers, the Sbarro pizza bombing which wiped out an entire family, the lynchers of two Israeli reservists and the Passover Massacre at the Park Hotel.

This is Israel's worst military defeat in its modern history and it is being celebrated with grins and cheers, not just in Gaza but in Tel Aviv.

What the deal really means is revolving door terrorism is back. Kill Israelis and you stay in prison only long enough for other terrorists to kidnap an Israeli and win their release. Those 25-year sentences mean nothing. A life sentence doesn't mean life, it means however many years it takes the Israeli government to give in to blackmail.

As over a thousand terrorists are freed, it is time to recognize that every Israeli institution has failed to deal with terrorism. Its court system...

Read the whole entry »

Profile of a Long Planned 'Protest'

By Judi McLeod, CANADA FREE PRESS 
Profiling protesters in the Occupy (fill-in-the-blank) Movement, which copycats the Revolution in Cairo that turned Egypt back to Muslim Brotherhood control, can be best done in four familiar words: "Same old, same old".

The Occupy Wall Street (OWS) are the same activists who pour onto the streets to burn cars and smash windows during G20 and G8 gatherings. While they go to great lengths to claim representation of the masses, they are at the beck and call of the same political leaders they supposedly rise up against.

They represent organizations who are on government grants and which are sustained by public donations. Think Greenpeace and Code Pink.

The Occupy crowd want average working people to believe their protests are spontaneous; that their carefully crafted fairytales always have a happy ending; that in this case, they work only to save the world from banks and greedy corporations. (If only!)

They are on the payrolls of the...

Read the whole entry »

It is fair to say that the radical left is more antisemitic than Americans in genral

Many democratic leaders are embracing OWS as an antidote to the Tea Party. Ted Belman

DNCC Chair, Rep. Israel Adds Occupy Wall Street to the List of Anti-Israel/Anti-Semitic Causes He Supports

The Chairman of The DCCC (Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee) Steve Israel, who is supposed to be representing NY's 2nd Congressional District, never met a Progressive anti-Semitic or anti-Israel group that he did not embrace.  The Long Island Congressman's latest "love affair" is with Occupy Wall Street whose members have displayed a hatred of both the Jews and the Jewish State.

The DCCC run by Israel features a petition supporting Occupy Wall Street which is looking for 100,000 signatures in support of Occupy Wall Street  

Its hard to believe that Congressman Israel hasn't seen any of the news reports of hatred coming out of the Occupy Wall Street movement.

For example this New York Protester who claims that one small...

Read the whole entry »

Poll: 79% in favor of Shalit deal

Yedioth Ahronoth 

The vast majority of Israel's citizens are in favor of the deal securing the release of kidnapped soldier Gilad Shalit in exchange for 1,027 terrorists, a public opinion poll commissioned by Yedioth Ahronoth shows.

Asked whether they were in favor of Shalit's release in exchange for 1,027 terrorists, 79% of the respondents said yes and only 14% said no.

The survey was conducted on October 16 by the Dahaf Institute, headed by Mina Tzemach, among 500 people constituting a representative sample of Israel's adult population. The maximum sampling error is 4.4%.

Among male respondents, 74% support the deal and 19% oppose it, while 86% of the women support it and only 5% are against it.

Sixty-five percent of the respondents believe a similar deal could have been finalized in the past, while 20% said a deal with similar conditions could not have been reached earlier.

As for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's conduct, 49% said he gave into public...

Read the whole entry »

Fellow patriots,

We're all familiar with the phrase, "Be careful what you wish for; you may get it."  The world's Islamists, eager for the return of the Caliphate, are setting themselves up to learn these words of wisdom by hard experience.

Islamists seek to create a single Islamic government led by an ultimate religious authority known as the Caliph, who may or may not also be the Caliphate's top political leader.  However, as anyone familiar with the history of the Catholic Church in Europe knows, there are three basic weaknesses to any political system that joins "church" and state:

• Religious institutions can and will abuse state power to stamp out theological dissent.
• Rulers will conceal political actions under a mask of religiosity.
• The people will understandably become confused and blame the state's religion for oppressive political actions, leading to schism, heresy, and/or apostasy.

Put these weaknesses together and you have an inherently unstable political system where the weaknesses amplify each other and create a vicious circle of destruction.  In Europe, seemingly endless wars continued for centuries as the Catholic Church and European monarchs battled for primacy.  This battlefield was further complicated as Protestant religious leaders and their monarchal patrons also entered the fray.  This destructive chaos tore Europe apart until the first viable solution to these conflicts took form in the Peace (treaties) of Westphalia (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_of_Westphalia ).  These treaties held prototypical concepts of freedom of religion, which developed further in the Dutch Republic ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_Republic ) and was fully realized in the U.S. Constitution.  Since then, the U.S. Constitution has had a remarkable influence on nations around the world, as those nations have attempted to transport the peace, freedom, and prosperity Americans enjoy to their own soil.

The key to the Constitution's success in preventing religious hostility from turning into war is its separation of Church and State.  Sadly, the profoundness of this doctrine's wisdom can be difficult for other parts of the world to appreciate, particularly in the Islamic world.

As Europe has learned to adopt the practice of separating church and state, the Islamic world has, after the promising forays of Attaturk's Turkey and pan-Arabism, reversed course.  Why did this happen?  Because Muslims practice their religion by following Sharia (Islamic Law), which applies to Muslim and non-Muslim alike.  Muslims realized that, by giving non-Muslims the power to influence law through democracy, they would undermine Islam at its core.  Conversely, Europe adapted well to the notion of separating church and state because the history of Christianity was founded on a centuries-long period where it had no political power.  Christianity had prospered without political power at its beginning, so a return to such a status did not represent an existential threat in and of itself.

While Europe continued to move toward state secularism and religious freedom, the Islamic world remained stuck in a transitional phase that could only be maintained by a secular Muslim dictatorship.  These dictators were Muslim and modeled their nations' laws on Shariah, but also blunted many of Shariah's sharper edges as concessions to Western pressure, and also to put the non-Muslim minorities who were entirely dependent on their benevolence firmly in their back pockets.  Christians, who fared relatively well under the authoritarian rule of Saddam Hussain and Mubarak, are now exposed to Islamist violence as never before, and Syrian Christians tremble at the thought of Assad's overthrow.

Iran was the first Islamic nation to overthrow this kind of secularized Muslim dictatorship and establish a carefully designed Islamic state that also incorporated modern concepts of democracy, complete with popular elections and a parliament.  Unfortunately, the requirement that Iran retain its Shiite Islamic character and Shariah law eliminated most of the benefits of genuine democracy.  In other words, a democracy without a separation of church and state is no democracy at all!

While Iran has a parliament and a President, all candidates for election must be approved by a Guardian Council whose members are chosen by the Supreme Leader, who is the highest religious authority in Iran.  Therefore, Iran's elections are about as democratic as an American election where all candidates would be required to be members of the Communist party.

Iran has long been admired throughout the Islamic world as the only truly modern Islamic state, with its Supreme Leader acting as Caliph and its President acting as Sultan -- a superficially democratic update on the Ottoman Empire's division of powers.  However, in doing so, it has revived the very conflicts that weakened the Ottoman Empire, as well as medieval Europe.  We see the rigging of Iranian elections to produce outcomes desired by the Supreme Leader, causing popular revolt.  In the eyes of the disenfranchised, their Supreme Leader has become a fraud.  Any politician who disagrees strongly with the Supreme Leader's judgments can be cast from a position of favor to one of apostate in an instant; therefore the Supreme Leader is surrounded by yes-men. 

Anyone with a sense of political history can tell that the role of Supreme Leader is practically designed for failure in the long-term.  As people reject the Supreme Leader, they will also reject the religion the Supreme Leader heads.

We're beginning to see the effects of Iran's self-destructive political system in the form of self-sabotage.  The U.S. is experiencing it in Iran's mixed messages about the release of the hikers and the amateurish plot to assassinate a Saudi Arabian Ambassador on American soil, which may have been designed to fail from the start.  For all of Iran's bluster, it is actually quite fragile.  Unfortunately, this would make a nuclear Iran MORE dangerous rather than less.

Read the article below, and get a sense of the self-destructive dynamics of Iran, which a revived Sunni caliphate would also experience.  Actually, the Sunni dynamics would be even worse than Iran's because the first question a proto-Caliphate would have to answer is, "Which Sunni Islam would the Caliphate adopt?"  The effort to resolve this question would likely set Wahhabis, Salafis, Turkish Islamists, and numerous other Sunni sects at each other's throats, because the only thing that unites them are (1) common enemies and (2) an unrealized -- and unrealizable -- dream.

Dave

Hillary Rodham Clinton tells Libyans: 'We're on your side'

By Joby Warrick, Updated: Tuesday, October 18, 2011

TRIPOLI, Libya - In a historic visit punctuated by celebratory gunfire and cries of "God is great," Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton toured the Libyan capital Tuesday to pledge continued U.S. support for a transitional government still struggling to consolidate control over the war-ravaged country.

Clinton, the highest-ranking U.S. official to visit Libya since the ouster of autocratic leader Moammar Gaddafi in August, offered Libyan leaders practical and financial help on a wide range of fronts, from rebuilding the economy to caring for the country's war wounded to rounding up thousands of antiaircraft missiles that have disappeared amid the chaos of recent fighting.

But she also warned of lingering dangers, including the risk of prolonged resistance by Gaddafi loyalists as well as the possibility that democracy could be usurped before it has time to take root.

As you may have noticed, there has been a flurry of media stories about the iraq withdrawal, as well as a fair amount of controversy about how many troops will be left behind.  thus, we thought that this was a good time to get into the mix and add our voice of concern for those that might be left behind.

yesterday we sent out the following press release to a large number of media outlets.

carolyn

_________________________________________________________________________________

PRESS RELEASE

Against the advice of his Generals, President Obama is advancing a proposal to leave 3000 Soldiers in Iraq following the withdrawal of our main combat forces from that country on December 31, 2011. Those of us who support our troops are very concerned about the safety of those 3000 Soldiers under the President's proposal.

The current news coverage of this story has focused primarily on the political

maneuverings between Washington and Baghdad.   Missing from the coverage has been any explicit expression of concern for the safety of those soldiers that would be left behind.

The Band of Mothers and the Gathering of Eagles, two national troop support organizations, have launched a grassroots effort to assure that an explicit expression of concern for the safety of our troops is added to the current discussion and debates about our upcoming withdrawal from Iraq.

These two organizations penned an open letter of concern to President Obama, and they solicited signatories to the letter from a variety of patriot and veterans' organizations.   That letter and its signatories are copied below.

They also created a website dedicated to the open letter. You can view the website at the link below.   Links to the signatories to the letter are available at the website, as well as links to current media coverage of the letter.

http://the3000.wordpress.com/

Please consider using your media presence to add our voices of concern to the current debate on the fate of our 3000 troops in Iraq. You may publish our letter and the list of signatories in full.

Sincerely,

The Band of Mothers

Bev Perlson - Founder

Gathering of Eagles

Larry Bailey - National Chairman

Contact at:   the3000troops@gmail.com

October 13, 2011

Radical Islam: A Problem World Leaders Must Confront

Terrorists Receive Heroes' Welcome

Posted: 18 Oct 2011 03:50 PM PDT

(John Hinderaker)

We have written critically about Israel's decision to release more than 1,000 Palestinian criminals, many of them terrorist mass murderers, in order to procure the freedom of kidnapped soldier Gilad Shalit. As happy as one must be to see Mr. Shalit returned home after five years as a hostage, one equally must blanch at the extraordinary price that was paid. Today we witnessed the sickening spectacle of terrorists being cheered by throngs of Palestinians-not on the theory that they are innocent of the crimes of which they were convicted, but on the contrary, precisely because they proudly acknowledge the murders they have organized and committed. Is there any other society on Earth where this could happen?

Terror trial goes to jury

Posted: 18 Oct 2011 12:13 PM PDT

(Scott Johnson)

We have been following the terror trial involving the two Minnesota Somali women who were raising money for Al-Shabab in Rochester, Minnesota. The case against them was submitted to the jury late yesterday in federal district court in Minneapolis.

Reporter Allie Shah provides the customary Star Tribune perspective: if the Somali women are not acquitted, Somalis in Minnesota and elsewhere will think ill of us. They apparently aren't too concerned about issues of legal compliance, or about what the rest of us will think of them.

The ringleader and her codefendant stand accused of providing material support to a designated terrorist organization, Al-Shabab, an al Qaeda affiliate. The ringleader has a helluva defense. She wasn't supporting Al-Shabab or terrorism, she was supporting Islam! Any resemblance to the crimes charged is just a coincidence, or something.

Left Turn: PL-Sponsored Program is Tomorrow!

Posted: 18 Oct 2011 10:36 AM PDT

(John Hinderaker)

We have written several times about Tim Groseclose's new book, Left Turn: How Liberal Media Bias Distorts the American Mind. That the press is biased toward the left is obvious, but Professor Groseclose is the first academic to use social science techniques to measure the extent of the bias and its influence on our culture. Our first post on Left Turn explained what the book is about and why it is so important. We have done several more posts on the book, including here, here, here, here and here. It is unquestionably one of the seminal works of 2011.

Professor Groseclose will be in Minneapolis tomorrow, October 19, for a program that is co-sponsored by the Center of the American Experiment, Power Line and Wyncrest Capital. You can read all about the event here. It will take place at the Hilton Minneapolis, 1001 Marquette Avenue South, from noon to 1:30. The good news is that it is not too late to sign up. The cost, happily, is modest. We will be there, as will our friend Kathy Kersten, who plays a significant role in Left Turn as a sort of laboratory experiment.

You can either register online or call the Center at 612.338.3605.

A bad deal

Posted: 18 Oct 2011 04:17 AM PDT

(Scott Johnson)

The government of Israel has entered into an agreement with Hamas to exchange 1,027 Arabs including 477 convicted terrorists for the abducted Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit. Shalit is headed home today. That's great.

The exchange, however, seems to me revolting and misguided. Understandable, but mistaken. Supporters of Israel such as Jonathan Tobin, over at Commentary, and Elliott Abrams, over at the Weekly Standard, have rationalized the deal, but their arguments seem hollow and unpersuasive to me. If the Israeli public supports the deal, as it apparently does, the Israeli public is, in my opinion, mistaken. It is a bad deal.

Magic Bus

Posted: 18 Oct 2011 03:27 AM PDT

(Scott Johnson)

When Barack Obama clinched the Democratic presidential nomination in June 2008, he marked it with - what else? - a speech. Speaking at the Xcel Center in St. Paul, Obama asserted that his ascent would be seen (among other things) as "the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal[.]" He famously portrayed himself as a messianic figure who had come to redeem the time.

The St. Paul speech only made manifest what is implicit in much of Obama's presentation of himself. How could Obama have brought himself to utter such laughable pap? This is either one politician who takes himself way too seriously, or who holds his supporters in incredibly low esteem, or both.

This weekend at Manhattan's Zuccotti Park, the scene of the Occupy Wall Street protests, Fox Business Network's Charles Payne got into an epic debate with a union leader Arthur Cheliotes, music mogul Russell Simmons, and Democrat Sally Kohn during Geraldo at Large.

Cheliotes first charged that success occurs in a society because of the infrastructure of that society and that Charles Payne's individual success had a lot to do with the fact that infrastructure was in place that allowed him to get to that level.

Read more and see video: 

Most Recent "Hi Gang" Article

While in attendance at Occupy DC, protesters told MRCTV that despite President Barack Obama being the number one recipient of Wall Street cash, they still support him. Keep in mind these are people who 'claim' they want Wall Street money out of politics and 'claim' they are not Democrats or Republicans.   

See video here: 

#OccupyWallStreet Squatters Mock 9/11 'Shrine' Statue 

Read more: 

"'Occupy crowds are a conglomeration. At the higher, organizing levels are the true anarchists, socialists and communists. Farther down the heirarchy are those that have grown comfortable with knowingly sharing space with anarchists, socialists and communists. At the bottom are the clueless tools who are surrounded by anarchists, socialists and communists and have no idea they're being used. They all deserve contempt.'

Just ONE State

Read more:  

What IS Liberalism?

(WHAT ARE Liberals?)

Lets look at this slowly, closely. Lets examine it rationally in the context of America's Founding Fathers & Founding Documents.

Can one be thought a loyal patriot who regularly, daily speaks in contempt of America's Founding Fathers and the National Documents they wrote?

Can one be thought a patriot who teaches others to hate/condemn the Founders? our Founding Documents?

Can one work to undermine all that America's Founders and Founding Documents embrace and proclaim and be thought a loyal patriot?

Can one work to promote all that America's Founders and Founding Documents reject and denounce and actually be a loyal patriot?

Read more: 

None Dare Call It Socialism
By Daniel J. Flynn
HumanEvents.com  

Those who cannot identify the present are condemned to repeat the past. Rampant stupidity has that effect on a maxim. George Santayana presumed too much when he mocked people who merely forgot yesterday. We can't even get today straight.

State Department: Mexican Drug Cartel Activity Is 'Consistent With' Terrorism
By Edwin Mora
CNSNews.com   

Actions by Mexican drug cartels are "consistent" with what the U.S. would consider to be "terrorism or insurgency" in other parts of the world, a State Department official told lawmakers on Thursday.

Thousands of Fraud Cases Just 'Tip of Iceberg'
By Bob Unruh
WorldNetDaily

October 18, 2011
 
  TAKE BECK'S 'OCCUPY WALL ST' QUIZ  How much do you know about the protests going on in lower Manhattan and around the country? Last night Glenn asked a few basic questions that everyone show be able to answer. Watch the segment from GBTV HERE.
  WAS MCDONALD'S BEATING 'SELF-DEFENSE?'     Last week in Greenwich Village, an argument over a fast food order at a McDonald's restaurant turned horrifically violent when a customer slapped a cashier and the cashier retaliated, beating her with a metal bar. Some are claiming the beating was "self-defense." Watch the video and decide for yourself HERE.

OBAMA'S TELEPROMPTER STOLEN!   TOTUS - (The Teleprompter of the United States) and some of the official Presidential seals were in a truck that was stolen Monday from a parking lot in Virginia. The truck that was carrying the vital piece of presidential equipment has been recovered. Get the latest details HERE.

PREPARE FOR TONIGHT'S GOP DEBATE WITH THE 'MUST-READ' STORIES   The GOP candidates will again take the stage for a debate tonight (of course TheBlaze will cover it live), and if you want to be as well prepared as these presidential wannabees, you should visit the Tuesday morning Must-Reads HERE.  

JON STEWART PRAISES 'OCCUPY WALL STREET'  Comedy Central's "Daily Show" host has joined many in the left-leaning media and embraced the Occupy Wall Street protests. Yesterday Stewart also offered his advice to the occupiers. Watch the segment here HERE.  

VIRAL VIDEO - HERMAN CAIN SINGS 'IMAGINE' (WITH REQUIRED PIZZA LYRICS)   The GOP front-runner is getting loads of TV and radio air time today thanks to a 20-yr old clip of Mr. Cain singing at a 1991 meeting of the Omaha Press Club. Enjoy the video goodness HERE.

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

To: Friends & Supporters

From: Gary L. Bauer


Tune In Tonight

Seven GOP candidates will debate tonight in Las Vegas, Nevada. We're just 77 days away from the Iowa caucuses, and strong showings in the remaining debates are more important than ever. Tune in to CNN at 8:00 PM ET.


Time To Celebrate

With all the bad news about the economy, you might have missed the "good news" this morning. Goldman Sachs posted a huge loss -- almost $430 million in the third quarter alone!

Isn't that great? Did you see the dancing in the streets by the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) crowd after this news? David Axelrod will no doubt release a statement today applauding this destruction of capital. Obama can proudly take credit for punishing the bankers, for bringing down this part of the evil one percenters.

I'm sure some in the OWS movement see this as a twofer: It's Goldman Sachs -- you know, "the Jews who control the international banking system." But even under Obama no profits means no taxes, and probably additional layoffs. But hey, that's just collateral damage in the cause of the greater good, right?

Obviously, I'm being sarcastic. Unfortunately, the folks occupying Zuccotti Park think they are being serious.


Be Careful What You Wish For

Seriously, folks, you may think that it is silly to suggest that some in the Occupy Wall Street movement might celebrate Goldman Sachs' troubles, but it's not. With each passing day we are learning more about the thugs taking to the streets. And while Obama is increasingly embracing the movement as his ticket to reelection, more serious Democrats are becoming alarmed at what they are finding.

Doug Schoen is one such Democrat. In an op-ed in today's Wall Street Journal, the former Clinton pollster warns Democrats not to embrace the Occupy Wall Street movement. Schoen sent one of the top researchers at his polling firm into the OWS crowd to interview 200 demonstrators. Here are some of his findings:

• 65% believe government should provide "health care, a college education, and a secure retirement-no matter the cost."
• "48% say they will vote to re-elect [Obama] in 2012, while at least a quarter won't vote."
• 31% "would support violence to advance their agenda."

Schoen writes, "What binds a large majority of the protesters together ... is a deep commitment to left-wing policies: opposition to free-market capitalism and support for radical redistribution of wealth..." He bluntly concludes, "President Obama and the Democratic leadership are making a critical error in embracing the Occupy Wall Street movement -- and it may cost them the 2012 election."

Schoen's instincts are right, but we can't take anything for granted. Obama will have a huge war chest and the best campaign that money can buy. (More on that later.) But it speaks volumes about Obama's instincts that he is so eager to align himself with these radicals, and it tells you all you need to know about what a second Obama term would look like. America cannot afford four more years of Barack Obama!


Americans Blame Obama

Here's more proof that Obama and his liberal allies are making a mistake bashing Wall Street. According to the latest Gallup poll, 30% of Americans blame "big financial institutions" for the poor economy, but 64% blame "the federal government." Last time I checked, Barack Obama was in charge of the federal government. But rather than take responsibility for his failed policies, Obama is desperately resorting to class warfare and envy.

Moreover, the latest CNN poll finds that 59% of Americans think Obama's policies will fail. Only 36% think Obama's ideas will work. This is bad news for Barack Obama and the Occupy Wall Street movement. Americans aren't buying their snake oil socialism!


Rush Criticizes Cantor

A few weeks ago, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor made headlines for referring to the Occupy Wall Street protestors as "mobs." Cantor was right then. But last weekend, Cantor seemed to recant. He told Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday, "We agree that there's too much income disparity in this country." That didn't sit well with Rush Limbaugh, who criticized Cantor for accepting the left's flawed premise. On his show yesterday, Limbaugh said:

"This is called 'snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.' ...So once again, the agenda is set by the left. They set a premise. We, instead of ignoring it or nuking it, accept it and then tinker with it. 'Yeah, well, we have a better idea. We have a better way of doing this, solving the whole notion of income inequality.'"

With all due respect to my friend Leader Cantor, Limbaugh has a point. The media misrepresent the Occupy Wall Street crowd as part of the mainstream. Thankfully honest Democrats like Doug Schoen are stepping forward to refute that lie. There is no excuse for conservative leaders in Congress to be cowering. They should be on the attack.

Call out the Occupy Wall Street movement for what it is -- a radical anti-free enterprise, socialist movement that is infected with anti-Semitism. If Obama and Nancy Pelosi want to embrace it, fine. Shame on them for doing so. But do not concede an inch. The stakes are too great.


Why Your Support Matters

I'm not asking right now, but I want you to remember this item the next time I do ask for your financial support.

In the past three months alone, Barack Obama raised $70 million for his 2012 campaign. What is he doing with all that money? According to the New York Times, Obama has already spent nearly $90 million on his reelection efforts. He has paid campaign workers in 38 states and 200 staffers at his reelection headquarters in Chicago. His campaign brags that in recent months it has opened "three new field offices every week."

The candidate who raises the most money most often wins. I'm not suggesting that that is right; I am merely reporting a fact. And the reason is simple. More money means a candidate can run a better campaign. He can get his message out, define his opponent through negative or contrast ads and do the hard work of turning out targeted voters.

A lot of things contributed to Obama's victory in 2008 -- the economy, unpopular wars, the chance to make history, etc. A lot of good people bought into the hype about hope and change. But money played an outsized role too. For example, a recent Politico article noted that Obama deployed a volunteer army of "about 20,000 strong working out of 50 offices..."

My friends, that wasn't one office in every state of the country -- that was 50 offices just in the state of Colorado!

Colorado had voted for the GOP candidate in eight of the previous nine presidential races. But it voted for Obama by nine points in 2008. That's the kind of a campaign that Obama's historic war chest enabled him to run. It allowed him to compete in and win reliably "Red" states like Colorado, Indiana, North Carolina and Virginia.

Again, my friends, we cannot afford to take this race for granted. I know many of you are supporting your church, synagogue and other worthy causes. But for many liberals, government is their god, politics is their religion, and they are literally "tithing" to left-wing causes and candidates.

I don't believe we need to match the left dollar-for-dollar. But I do know that we cannot afford to risk being outspent as badly as we were in 2008. And that is why your support for our work is so important!
 

Read more: 

Occupy Wall Street, how it will end and mortally wound the Democrats

Oct 18, 2011 06:13 am | Coach Collins

  By Kevin "Coach" Collins

 All clever subversive plots start with a kernel of truth. The blackest of Black Ops always rests on something people can accept and relate to in order to get it up and running.

 Occupy Wall Street (OWS) is no different. Of the tens of thousands of people who are camping out in the streets of our cities, some may have legitimate grievances.

Some actually have been screwed over unfairly and want the "system" to do something about it. Nevertheless, as blinded liberal true believers they don't understand they should be marching on 1600 Pennsylvania Ave because that is the actual wellspring of their misery.

 Notwithstanding the small number of actually aggrieved participants in their midst, the majority of OWS "protester"  need only look in a mirror to see who they should blame for their misery. They voted for Obama and every Democrat they saw now these and we are paying for their greed stupidity ... Continue Reading:Occupy Wall Street, how it will end and mortally wound the Democrats

comments | read more

American Minute for October 17th

Oct 17, 2011 05:13 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

Her beautiful, long hair was scalped off her head by Indians after she was shot.
This was the fate of Jane McCrea, whose loyalist fiancé David Jones had only weeks earlier joined "Gentleman Johnny" Burgoyne, the British General marching with 5,000 troops from Canada to Albany, New York.
... Continue Reading:American Minute for October 17th

comments | read more

"Am I all I Can Be in Spite of my Obsessions?"

Oct 17, 2011 02:13 pm | Coach Collins

 By Gerald V. Todd, staff writer

Power hungry manipulators, administrations, unions and professors are pushing useful idiots, planting the seeds of mass destruction. Screaming mobs do not make a great nation. Don't we know how wonderfully and beautifully we are made - free will, sex drives and all? We must not let our hearts and consciences be ripped out by obsession with the evils found in faith, finance, governance, science and enterprise. There's plenty of good to be found there.

Any obsession can be overcome by full awareness of our gifts and talents and to pursue them. This helps offset any unwanted urge. Modern Relativism and job frustration are the fuel of despots.1 Corinthians 10:13 states: "No test has been sent you that does not come to all men. Besides, God keeps his promise. He will not let you be tested beyond your strength. Along with the test he will give you a way out so that ... Continue Reading:"Am I all I Can Be in Spite of my Obsessions?"

comments | read more

Read more: 

Immigration Reform... Should America Follow Arizona's Lead? PersonalLiberty.com, America's #1 news site for independent-minded individuals, is conducting an urgent immigration poll. We want to know if you think America should follow Arizona's lead when it comes to immigration reform. The results of the poll will be available to you after you submit your vote.  Thousands will vote, so take a moment right now to stand up and be counted... your opinion matters!  Cast Your Vote!

Today's Headlines:  Tuesday, October 18, 2011

While Not Campaigning in N.C., Obama Brings Up 2012 Convention, Election

State Department: Mexican Drug Cartel Activity Is 'Consistent With' Terrorism

Please make a much-appreciated donation to CNSNews.com. We pledge to make every dollar count.

Obama: Republicans Want 'Dirtier Air, Dirtier Water'

Educated Liberals Say Forgiveness of Student Loans Would Stimulate Economy

Teamsters' Hoffa to 'Hold Accountable' Congressmen Who Voted for Obama-Backed Free-Trade Deals

Sending U.S. Troops to Africa Could Help South Sudan

Israeli Soldier Freed in Swap for 1,000 Palestinian Prisoners

Bachmann: 'Job One' Is Securing Mexican Border, Building Border Fence

COMMENTARY:

A.D. 2041 -- End of White America?
By Patrick J. Buchanan
Can Western civilization survive the passing of the European peoples whose ancestors created it and their replacement by Third World immigrants? Probably not.

Pitting Us Against Each Other
By Walter E. Williams
Why is it that rich CEOs are demonized but richer celebrities are not? Promoting jealousy, fear and hate is an effective strategy for politicians and their liberal followers to control and micromanage businesses.

NEWSPAPER ROUNDUP:

Colo. pot shop employees vote to join United Food and Commercial Workers Union
Gallup finds first-time majority support for legalizing marijuana
Ron Paul economic plan would eliminate five agencies and thousands of jobs
Perry will assert his strong support for border security at Tuesday debate
Most illegal immigrants deported last year were criminals
Lesbian couple give young son hormone treatments, saying he wants to be a girl
Republicans lay groundwork for healthcare repeal
Red Sox' Jon Lester 1st to admit clubhouse drinking during games
Gov't may have to include climate change in its strategy to protect polar bear
Consumer electronics chief says Obama's regulatory team lack business experience
Iowa officially picks Jan. 3 for caucuses
Cain squeaks ahead of Obama in new general election Rasmussen poll
Study links swearing on TV to teen aggression
Lobbyist money flowing to deficit-reduction panel members
Mass. US Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren: "I'm going for the hick vote"

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

Faith, Hope & Charity: Glenn has been talking about the importance of Faith, Hope and Charity in our lives for a long time. Today, with Markdown.com - you're able to bring these values to life with a collage from CanvasHQ. Get the details at Markdown.com.

(Selective) Class Warfare

Pat has the latest from Occupy Wall Street - a collection of hippies, useful idiots, Marxist revolutionaries, communists and more. The audio is simply stunning - including the people who vilify owning property and those who say anyone who earns over $200,000 is 'obscenely' rich. Pat has the audio from the latest clueless, showerless dopes of OWS. WATCH

What's communism look like?