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912 Patriots of Lower Bucks - Your Daily Updates ALL in ONE Place!
October 28, 2011
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Quote of the Day
"Coersion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him."
-Ronald Reagan
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I urge you to stand with me and co-sponsor my new legislation, "American and Pennsylvania Laws for Pennsylvania Courts." This legislation protects the individual constitutional rights of the people of Pennsylvania from the incursion of foreign laws, in cases in which the application of a foreign law or foreign legal doctrine would violate someone's constitutional rights. Go here to see the full document . . .: Our constitutional rights and founding principles of freedom should not be abridged by any offshore entity, including and especially those who would promote Sharia law. Once before on June 19, we asked that you contact your elected representatives and urge them to co-sponsor a bill to prohibit foreign law from consideration in any and all cases in our state courts. You were very responsive and there are now 21 co-sponsors on the bill! Listed below are the co-sponsors to date. if your rep is not on the list, kindly contact him/her even if it's the second time, by taking the 3 action steps below. The more co-sponsors the bill has the more likely it is that the legislators will vote affirmatively to pass it into law. It is significant what Rep. Swanger's office said when sending us the list of co-sponsors : "I feel a lot of them co-sponsored because of the message that was sent out by you to contact the Reps about this legislation. A lot of district offices & Harrisburg offices called or e-mailed right after that was sent out." Here's the list: Kerry Benninghoff Scott Boyd Dom Costa Tom Creighton George Dunbar Frank Farry Neal Goodman Seth Grove Kate Harper Dick Hess Scott Hutchinson Rob Kauffman Daryl Metcalfe (asked to be listed as a 2nd) Carl Metzgar Scott Perry (asked to be listed 3rd) Rick Saccone Stan Saylor Curt Schroder Jerry Stern Dick Stevenson Will Tallman Here are the action steps:
1. read the attached letter from Rep. Swanger, which went out in early June to all PA House members
2. visit, or call, your representative and ask him/her to call Rep. Swanger's secretary, Lily Horst, 717-787-2686, or email her at lhorst@pahousegop.com to be added to the list of the bill's cosponsors
3. timing: please move quickly, as they may be getting to the next step (obtaining a bill number). Make contact, and gain their commitment, by August 1. Having many co-sponsors on a bill, as you know, will help build momentum in the right direction quickly.
Thank you for your efforts.
Signed, your Legislative Focus Group
American and Pennsylvania Laws for Pennsylvania Courts
Sincerely, Sarah Hart
Chapter Leader, ACT! Pittsburgh
ACT! for America Chapter
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CALLING ALL PATRIOTS - PLEASE SEE MESSAGE BELOW AND PLEASE MAKE THESE CALLS!!!!
PHONE LIST AND TALKING POINTS - HB 934 VOTER ID
PASSED BY THE HOUSE, STUCK IN THE SENATE!!
IT IS SITTING IN THE STATE GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE
WE HAVE A REPUBLICAN SENATE, A REPUBLICAN HOUSE, AND A REPUBLICAN GOVERNOR BUT NOTHING MUCH IS GETTING DONE. WHY??
VOTER ID WILL ASSURE THAT YOUR VOTE WILL COUNT AND HELP ELIMINATE MULTIPLE VOTES, DEAD PEOPLE VOTING, AND OTHER ILLEGAL VOTING. 14 OTHER STATES HAVE PHOTO VOTER ID AND 14 STATES HAVE VOTER ID (NO PHOTO). WE KNOW THAT IN BOTH GEORGIA AND ALABAMA VOTER PARTICIPATION INCREASED SINCE PHOTO VOTER ID PASSED. WE ARE ONE OF THE ONLY DEMOCRACIES IN THE WORLD WITH NO UNIFORMLY REQUIRED VOTER ID. THE UNIONS DO NOT WANT IT AND THE ACLU DOES NOT WANT IT. YOU HAVE TO ASK YOURSELF WHY WOULD ANYONE NOT WANT VOTER ID?
EVERY ILLEGAL VOTE STEALS THE VOTE OF A LEGITIMATE VOTER.
IT IS VERY IMPORTANT THAT WE ALL CALL THESE KEY SENATORS AT LEAST ONCE A WEEK EVERY WEEK. PUT THE PRESSURE ON TO PASS IT!!
Charles McIlhinney, Bucks County, Chairman, State Government Committee
(717) 787-7305 (We are working on getting a meeting with McIlhinney.)
Mike Brubaker, Vice Chairman, State Government Committee
(717) 787-4420
Joseph Scarnati, President Pro Tempore of PA Senate
(717) 787-7084
Dominic Pileggi, Senate Majority Leader (sets the Senate agenda)
(717) 787-4712
Majority Leaders on the State Government Committee:
Jake Corman, (717) 787-1377 Mike Folmer (717) 787-5708
John Pippy (717) 787-5839 Donald White (717) 787-8724
Minority Leaders on the State Government Committee:
Andrew Dinniman (717) 787-5709 Christine Tartaglione (717) 787-1141
LeAnna Washington (717) 787-1427
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Is the Electoral College Outdated?
Friday, November 4, 2011
12:00 PM EDT
Proponents of ending or bypassing the Electoral College say that the Founders' mode of presidential selection is outdated. With the National Popular Vote gaining momentum, the Electoral College is once again under serious attack. What would the success of this movement mean?
Dr. John Fortier, Director of the Democracy Project at the Bipartisan Policy Center, will address this question at Hillsdale College's next First Principles on First Fridays webcast.
Register Here ˇ More Information
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The General Wayne Tea Party
Serving portions of Montgomery, Chester and Berks County
NEWS RELEASE
The Greatest Scam in American History?
Public Invited to Learn About the Financial Crash and Whodunit on November 1st
King of Prussia, PA (October 25, 2011): It was caused by corrupt legislators that our fellow citizens put in office. It was caused by their partners, the large, immoral financial institutions who were given an open door to wealth. It was caused by regulators who were prevented from regulating.
Tens of millions were made by those in charge; tens of thousands donated to complicit politicians, Hundreds of billions were lost by ordinary Americans. Members of both political parties were involved. All have escaped any consequences.
The November 1st meeting of The General Wayne Tea Party begins to get to the bottom of the crash. Phil Duffy has performed an exhaustive review based on recently published sources, and will present his findings. He names names, explains who did what, and when. The scope of the corruption is almost overpowering, and Phil lays it all out in gory detail. And he'll provide a handout, a single page listing the shameful dealing and double dealing that has nearly brought our country to its knees.
Phil Duffy is a graduate of Rutgers University and majored in International Business and Economics at NYU's Graduate School of Business. After service in the U.S. Army, Duffy spent much of his career in marketing, information systems and management consulting, with such firms as GE, McDonnell-Douglas and Coopers & Lyabrand. While with GE, he analyzed health care legislation, regulation and systems, including the UK's National Health Service.
A resident of West Chester, he currently teaches The Constitution and Bill of Rights for Widener University's lifelong Learning Institute and will teach a course on economics (Whatever Happened to Penny Candy?) for this program in the spring of 2012.
This meeting will be held on November 1st at the Bear Rock Café, 192 W. DeKalb Pike (Route 202), King of Prussia, PA. Meeting begins promptly at 6:00 P.M. and concludes at 8:15 P.M.
The meeting is free, is open to the public, and the press is invited
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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!
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October 2011
Dear Philadelphia Eagle,
You live in a spot where there will be an election this year on Tuesday, November 8 that could affect the national election next year in a big way. You will have the opportunity to vote in a special election that will have implications on every other office in the United States - from your local neighborhood to the White House.
This is the election for Philadelphia City Commissioner. Those are the officials who are in charge of running fair and honest elections in Philadelphia. You and I know that our candidates cannot win unless we have honest elections. For years, we've heard the same complaints about unfair elections, politicking inside the polls, voter intimidation, poll watchers denied access, and much more.
I urge you to vote for Al Schmidt for City Commissioner on Tuesday, November 8 because we know we can count on him to fight for fair and honest elections. Philadelphia has three Commissioners, but no more than two can belong to the same political party. That means two Democrats and one Republican will be elected.
I urge you to vote ONLY for Al Schmidt (Press #119) - even though your ballot instructions will probably say "vote for two." You are absolutely NOT required to "vote for two" - you have a right to vote for only one, and that is the only way to assure that Al Schmidt will be elected. Also, do NOT vote a straight Republican ticket because that will automatically cast your ballot for both Republican candidates, only one of whom can win. If you have any questions, call PA Eagle Forum President Ned Pfeifer, 412-973-0502.
Al Schmidt is eminently qualified to be a Philadelphia City Commissioner. He is a former Senior Analyst for the non-partisan U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) - the investigative arm of Congress. There, he conducted oversight of government agencies, programs, and policies to identify and eliminate waste, fraud, abuse, and mismanagement anywhere that federal taxpayer dollars are spent. After leaving GAO, Al ran for City Controller and earned a reputation as an outspoken advocate for good government.
Al Schmidt has the skills and commitment to clean up the City Commissioner's Office and give us honest elections in Philadelphia. This can be decisive in how Pennsylvania will go in the important 2012 elections, and maybe even how the U.S. will go.
I urge you to vote on Tuesday, November 8 for Al Schmidt for City Commissioner - and vote ONLY for Al Schmidt for City Commissioner. Press #119. This could be more important than any vote you cast next year.
Faithfully,
Phyllis Schlafly
P.S. Please tell ten of your friends to be sure to vote ONLY for Al Schmidt (Press #119) on Tuesday, November 8. This is a crucial election for Philadelphia, for Pennsylvania, and for America. |
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Yours in Liberty,
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 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 . . .
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You Are Cordially Invited!
Lafayette statue sketch, copyright 2011
To the 1st 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.
Read more:
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Thursday, November 3rd at 7:30PM: John Fea, "Was American Founded as a Christian Nation? How Did the Founders Understand the Relationship Between Church and State?" John Fea, Associate Professor of American History at Messiah College and a David Library Fellow, will investigate the role of religion in shaping the Constitution. Professor Fea is the author of Was America Founded as a Christian Nation? and The Way of Improvement Leads Home: Philip Vickers Fithian and the Rural Enlightenment in Early America. Thursday, December 1st at 7:30PM: Paul Finkelman, "America's Covenant With Death: Slavery and the Founding." Paul Finkelman is the President William McKinley Distinguished Professor of Law and Public Policy, and Senior Fellow in the Government Law Center at Albany Law School. His lecture will explore the relationship of slavery to the American founding, and will examine how slavery was written into the original Constitution, and protected by it.
Thursday, December 8th at 7:30PM: George W. Boudreau, "'A Republic, If You Can Keep It': Benjamin Franklin and the Crafting of the Constitution." The series closes with a talk by an audience favorite, George W. Boudreau, Associate Professor of Humanities and History at the University of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg. Professor Boudreau is Project Director of the "Teaching Franklin" website (http://harrisburg.psu.edu/teachingfranklin/). His lecture will explore Franklin's role in the creation of the Constitution. David Library lectures are free and open to the public, but reservations are necessary. Please call (215)493-6776 ext. 100 or email rsvp@dlar.org to make a reservation. Lectures are held in Stone Hall in the Feinstone Conference Center adjacent to the Library, 1201 River Road, Washington Crossing, PA 18977. Books by the lecturers will be available for purchase at post-lecture receptions.
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10.11.11
Dear CF Friends,
Last week we took to the airwaves with a statewide call to action. With the help of supporters like you, we launched a major media campaign urging lawmakers to do what's right - to honor their promises to taxpayers.
I think you'll agree, we've reached the boiling point, and it's time for action!
AN INVITATION TO COMMONWEALTH FOUNDATION FRIENDS
This afternoon, we're pleased to announce the details of a special event hosted by Commonwealth Foundation's Matt Brouillette with Philly Talk Radio 1210's Chris Stigall. Here are the details:
Live audience seating is free, limited, and available on a first come, first served basis. Please click here or call 717-671-1901 to make your reservation as soon as possible. For a printable flyer for the event, click here.
Until then, we'll remain ...
Fighting for Your Freedom,
Commonwealth Foundation
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We Appreciate Your Tax-Deductible Support!
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Surviving an Economic or Natural Disaster Meeting - Saturday, November 12th 6pm
Speaker: Gordon Smith
Where: P J Ryan's, 231 Bridge Street, Phoenixville - downstairs private dining area.
Natural disasters can strike at any time. Economic downturns can wipe out your savings, your retirement and your ability to support yourself. This session focuses on what you should do to protect your family in a financial or economic disaster. Will you have enough food, water and medicines? Can you survive without electricity and urban infrastructure until help arrives? Can you support your family if your job is outsourced or eliminated? This session will help you assess the risk and offers realistic suggestions to ensure you and your family are prepared for the challenges when faced with a physical disaster or economic setback.
Gordon Smith retired from his international security firm last year to devote himself to the Tea Party movement. He is dedicated to the restoration of our country and protecting our freedoms. A successful author and lecturer, he specializes in analyzing political issues, separating the truth from the chaff. His direct approach ensures that the message is not muddled with platitudes. Factual, straight forward, articulate and often humorous, Mr. Smith's passion for the issues, makes his presentation well worth attending.
For additional info contact Maggie at Maggie@theunsolicitedopinion.com or Diane at uncanny2@verizon.net
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Join the VFP on Nov.11 at the Phoenixville C.C
Learn how to use Electronic and Social media to defeat Obama in 2012
------Jeff Morgan will present a live demonstration of the Valley Forge Patriots website and the tremendous information and resources it provides.
------ Michelle Libor will show us all about "Facebook" and how we can use this "social media" to get our message out, and help defeat Obama in 2012. It would be helpful to have a Facebook account in advance.
----- Folks from the Commonwealth Foundation (Dawn Meling and jay Ostrich) will demonstrate their website "Cap--Wiz" and how it can make it easy for each of us to send powerful "letters to the editor" and letters and e-mails to our legislators. "Cap-Wiz" has templated letters on a number of issues.
Food and Drink service is available. Parking is free.
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)
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Nullify Now! Philadelphia
 January 14, 2012. 10a-6p
-SPONSOR THIS EVENT - CLICK HERE
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Crowne Plaza, Liberty Ballroom
Philadelphia Downtown
CLICK HERE for tickets*******
-Speakers
-Event Overview
-Event Agenda
-Venue Information, Parking, etc
Thomas Jefferson: "Whensoever the general government assumes undelegated powers....a nullification of the act is the rightful remedy."
But what IS nullification? How does it happen and work? Since September 2010, the Tenth Amendment Center has been hosting a national tour to educate and activate people on this topic. People are learning the constitutional basis, when it's been used in history, and how it is happening around the country and how YOU can stop DC right in your own state.
Go here for more information:
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Help Prevent Voter Fraud ! !
Judical Watch is Demanding Answers Earlier this month, Judicial Watch, a government/judicial watchdog group based out of Washington, DC, hosted a Voter Fraud panel discussion featuring John Fund, Christian Adams, and King Street/True the Vote leader Catherine Engelbrecht. Here's video from a portion of the event:
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But wait, there's more! The really exciting thing Judicial Watch is doing happened just last week when they filed a FOIA lawsuit against the DOJ to obtain records of communications between the Department of Justice and Project Vote Official/former ACORN attorney Estelle Rogers. You can read more about it here. Bottom line..."Judicial Watch is convinced that Project Vote's activities remain a threat to the integrity of our elections. The fact that Project Vote is bullying states to attack election security reforms in order to register Obama's 'Food Stamp Army' comes as no surprise. But it appears that the Obama Justice Department is using the same playbook as Project Vote - to the detriment of clean elections. The American people deserve to know if the nation's highest law enforcement agency has become nothing more than a political tool to help this scandalous ACORN-front group re-elect Barack Obama. Again, this Justice Department can't seem to be bothered to comply with basic open records FOIA law," stated Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton.
Be assured, we will be closely watching for any new developments in this case....but in the meantime, if you haven't already volunteered to help uphold free and fair elections by working at the polls WE NEED YOU! There is a critical shortage of polling place workers. We wonder why Project Vote and ACORN get away with their flagrant abuses of our system...it's because we as citizens are allowing it to happen. WE MUST ENGAGE IN THE PROCESS OF OUR ELECTIONS. One way you can engage is by volunteering to work as a poll watcher on Election Day. Please, it is going to take all of us to uphold the integrity of our elections in the days ahead. Get involved now.
We need TTV volunteers for poll watching - Free and fair elections do not happen without citizen involvement. Want to stand up and take action? True the Vote will provide training and support - you just need to take the first step. For more information email info@truethevote.org or go HERE to sign up now! |
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I would like to True the Vote in my area, how do I get started?
Please go to www.truethevote.org and register as a volunteer. If there is already a True the Vote Program Leader in your area, we will put you in touch with them. If there is not a Program Leader in your area, we will work with you and your organization to get one started.
Will there be chapters of True the Vote?
No. Our goal is to work with organizations that want to use the True the Vote program as the framework for their own election integrity initiative.
How should I represent True the Vote?
You will not be a representative of True the Vote. You will represent your own organization's initiative.
How do I get trained on the True the Vote Program?
We will offer five training courses:
1. Teambuilding
2. Data Collection and Research
3. Poll Worker / Poll Watcher Training
4. Logistics and Mobilization
5. Legislation and Advocacy
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LISTEN LIVE TO REPATRIOT RADIO
"BETTER THAN EVER"
(all times are eastern)
Friday 10-11pm "Veterans' Weekly Forum" - Ed Rosen and Bob Rosebrock "Veterans Weekly Forum" Fellow Veterans and Friends of Veterans: Join us Friday morning for the "Veterans Weekly Forum" radio show broadcast live from the Metro Philadelphia area and carried over AM Radio in the Tri-State area of Pennsylvania, Delaware and New Jersey, with a potential listening audience of 5,000,000. Listener call-in number is 856-227-1360 Email: VeteransWeeklyForum@gmail.com Guest Host: Cpt. Nathan Grant / GUEST Co-Host: Bob Rosebrock WNJC 1360 AM - Philadelphia Or by the Internet by direct link at http://wnjc1360.com Friday, October 28, 2011 (10:00 AM - Eastern Time) (9:00 AM - Central Time) (8:00 AM - Mountain Time) (7:00 AM - Pacific Time) Guest Ed Snyder, a cold war veteran who has single handedly brought forth one of the greatest honors and tributes to those who liberated the Nazi concentration camps of WWII. On Sunday, November 13th, there will be a special program to honor the liberators of these camps along with honoring all veterans who have served. If you are not in the East Coast area to hear the AM Radio live Access the live Internet broadcast by clicking (JUST PUSH THE BUTTON) the following links Or by the Internet by direct link at http://wnjc1360.com
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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.
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!
Regards,
Jennifer Stefano
Americans for Prosperity Foundation
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Regards,
Jennifer Stefano
The Loyal Opposition
www.twitter.com/The_Loyal_Opp
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.
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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 28, 2011
1. The Same Washington Post That Got Marco Rubio's Story Wrong, Attacks Him Again
Last week, the Washington Post attacked Marco Rubio for "misrepresenting" his family's story. The Post got called out by other newspapers for the Post's egregious truth stretching to make its story fit. In the quotes the Washington Post cited, the reporter misrepresented the context of Marco Rubio's remarks. It was true that Rubio had gotten some details wrong. But it was also very clear that they were the innocent mistakes of a son retelling his parents' story. It was also true the Washington Post got parts of its reporting wrong.
But the Washington Post has not stopped. Now the paper is back at it premising a new article on the last story without nothing the Washington Post itself got key elements of its story wrong. This time, the Washington Post wants to make the case that Marco Rubio could be a risky Vice Presidential pick for the GOP.
Seriously.
We have a President of the United States who, for twenty years, worshipped in Jeremiah Wright's church, had his house paid for by Tony Rezko, claimed his uncle freed Jews at Auschwitz, snorted cocaine, and got other key biographical details wrong and the Washington Post never seemed to think he was too risky.
2. Right Now It's The Message
I got emailed from a few people last night that I was rather harsh toward Governor Perry's campaign on CNN tonight. I was.
When Rick Perry unveiled his economic plan, he spent the better part of two days talking about Barack Obama's birth certificate.
Now, instead of moving back to the economic plan, we've moved on to talking about Rick Perry and debates.
Byron York makes a very persuasive case that Rick Perry is actually right on the debates. According to John King tonight on CNN, by the time we get to Iowa, there'll have been 21 debates - more than either 2004 for the Democrats or 2008 for both the Democrats and Republicans.
Remember as well that the calendar is more compressed now than when those debates were set up.
But the Perry team should not have raised the issue right now. It makes him look weak. We know he sucks in the debates. We know he wants out of the debates. That is precisely why he should not have raised it himself or had his communications director, Ray Sullivan, raise it.
It makes us focus on Perry's bad debate performances instead of finally, finally focusing on his economic plan and jobs plan.
The Perry campaign has a problem. It has nothing to do with bad debate performances. It has everything to do with a lack of message discipline. If they want to turn things around, they need to get on and stay on jobs.
3. Dems Dodge Questions On Discriminatory Union PLAs For DNC Convention
In February, when North Carolina was awarded the Democratic National Convention over forced-union states, we alerted you to the devil in the details of the DNC having its convention in a predominantly union-free state. At issue is something traditionally known as Project Labor Agreements that give work to unionized employers and, as well, discriminate against union-free workers. Now, that devil appears to be rearing its ugly head and Democrat mayor Anthony Foxx, who is running from Republican challenger Scott Stone, appears unwilling to give Charlotte residents a straight answer on how much work will go to unionized workers.
4. Ohio Democratic Party Targets Pro-SB5 Businesses
As Ohio's SB5 (collective bargaining reform) goes to a vote on November 8th, pressure is being ramped up in the final week and a half. According to the Columbus Dispatch, unions and their fellow reform opponents have bankrolled the We Are Ohio anti-SB5 campaign to the tune of $19,048,680, dwarfing the pro-reform Building A Better Ohio's $7.6 million.
Democrats and their union cronies have dominated Ohio for decades and the collective bargaining reforms signed into law earlier this year pose a very real threat to their continued base of power. As a result, the Democrats did something incredibly arrogant on Thursday afternoon when the official Twitter account for the Ohio Democratic Party released the names of several businesses that have contributed to SB5, then told their 4,000 followers to "contact them."
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Pick a fight with a liberal on:
OVERPOPULATION.
Scratch beneath the surface of a supposedly kindly, caring green liberal and what you often find underneath is a vicious Nazi eugenicist who believes, as the Club of Rome once put it, that "the common enemy of humanity is man." Greens think the teeming, pullulating masses of humankind-especially in the Third World-should be discouraged from breeding. Otherwise, they fear, scarce resources will be depleted and the planet swamped. To put these fears into perspective, quote this man: "Our teeming population is the strongest evidence our numbers are burdensome to the world, which can hardly support us from its natural elements. Our wants grow more and more keen and our complaints more bitter in all mouths, while nature fails in affording us our usual sustenance. In every deed, pestilence and famine and wars have to be regarded as a remedy for nations as the means of pruning the luxuriance of the human race." Paul Ehrlich in 1968? Al Gore last year? Nope. It was Tertullian, a Carthaginian priest in 210 AD when the world population was 250 million. It's now over 6.5 billion. We haven't been swamped yet, and chances are we won't ever be, because liberals forget that human beings can't be measured solely by consumption, but by their ingenuity and creativity, which help us to develop new resources, find new ways to deal with challenges, discover new ways to protect the environment, and, who knows, maybe in centuries to come even colonize space. Oh, yeah, I forgot: liberals hate "colonialism" too.
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The White Aborigines of the Post-Racial Left
If you thought that political correctness was insane in the United States, take a long plane trip over to Melbourne, Australia, where Andrew Bolt, a columnist at the Herald Sun, has been sanctioned by a judge of the Federal Court of Australia for "insulting, humiliating and offending" that group known as "fair-skinned Aboriginal people". Who might you wonder are these "fair-skinned Aboriginal people"? They are said to come from the Hiberian isle, the plains of Alba, the cities of Albion, the Teutonic forests and even the Hebraic tribes. They boast many fascinating arts and crafts, such as writing dissertations on the structural thematics of metaphor in aboriginal music and receiving aboriginal scholarships to compensate for all the suffering inflicted upon them by the European settlers. The Federal Court decision creates a new protected class of people, "fair-skinned aboriginals", which is to say white people pretending to be black people are now protected by anti-discrimination laws from pesky newspaper columnists pointing out that they happen to have blond hair, German last names and no amount of kitschy native clothing and beads will change that. As the decision put it: "The members of the group referred to are fair skinned Aboriginal persons who, by a combination of descent, self-identification and communal recognition are, and are recognised as, Aboriginal persons." Which is a complex way of saying, "aim for the stars, push all the limits and if you want to be an Aborigine, there's nothing stopping you so long as you can claim a great-grandsire or dam who might have been aboriginal or just really tan." None of this foolishness would matter much in a society where people are judged by the content of their character, not by how many papers they can write on the cultural appropriation of the didgeridoo, but it matters quite a bit when society and government are set up to pay off a debt of guilty to a bunch of people because they were the first bunch of settlers, and they were the second bunch of settlers, and then members from the second bunch of settlers show up demanding to be cut in because even though they need to slather themselves in suntan lotion at the beach, they have decided to identify themselves as aborigines. It's an even bigger problem when anti-discrimination laws are wielded by the melanin challenged tribe to suppress free speech and silence anyone who points this out.
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Guide for the Perplexed
Posted by Dr. Yasser Dasmabebi on Oct 26th, 2011
 I have come to realize just how difficult it may be to decipher news about the Middle East, Islam, Israel, the Arab World, and all these powerful and explosive issues of our times for those who rely on such media stalwarts as The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the major television networks, cable news, etc. for their information. For example, how is a person to ascertain whether the slayer of a family is a terrorist or a militant or a gunman or an assailant or an activist or a freedom-fighter?
So, purely as a public service, I have organized the following glossary of the most pertinent terms and expressions, as typically used in the above-mentioned news sources. I hope, insha'allah, the reader will find it helpful to unravel the Gordian Knot of language that is today's (and yesterday's and tomorrow's) Middle East!
Dr. Yasser Dasmabebi holds the Edward Said-Noam Chomsky Linguistics Chair at Abdul Abulbul Amir University in Cairo.
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Tunisia's Ghannouchi on the End of Israel - Martin Kramer (Facebook)
Rashid Ghannouchi's "moderate" Nahdaparty is raking in the voters in the Tunisian elections.
In May he said: "I bring glad tidings that the Arab region will get rid of the germ of Israel. Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, leader of the Hamas movement, once said that Israel would disappear before 2027. That date may be too far off; Israel may disappear before that."
The writer is Senior Fellow at the Shalem Center in Jerusalem, and a Fellow at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy.
Hamas Leader: The Day We Expel the Jews Is Drawing Near - Frank Crimi
- According to Hamas Leader Mahmoud al-Zahar, "Neither the liberation of the Gaza Strip nor the liberation of the West Bank or even Jerusalem will suffice us. Hamas will pursue the armed struggle until the liberation of all our lands. We don't recognize the State of Israel or its right to hold onto one inch of Palestine. Palestine is an Islamic land belonging to all the Muslims."
"We are no weaker or less honorable than the peoples that expelled and annihilated the Jews. The day we expel them is drawing near....We have learned the lesson - there is no place for you [Jews] among us, and you have no future among the nations of the world. You are headed to annihilation."
During the Second Intifada from 2000-2004, Hamas and its allies launched 138 suicide attacks against Israelis, killing 319 Israeli soldiers and 745 civilians, and wounding 2,430 soldiers and 5,032 civilians. (Front Page Magazine)
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When will the World acknowledge that the Arabs REWARD the most heinous terrorists with dollars and honors and "Five Star Hotel Stays" ????? These folks who will, in the future, once again target Israelis and Jews and others....
ABBAS TO PAY GRANTS TO PRISONERS RELEASED IN SHALIT DEAL
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Abbas to pay grants to prisoners released in Schalit deal
By KHALED ABU TOAMEH AND HERB KEINON 10/22/2011 Hamas official says several former prisoners have been summoned for interrogation by PA security forces; Meidan to meet with Shamgar C'tee. Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has decided to honor Palestinian prisoners who were released in last week's Gilad Schalit exchange deal by rewarding them financially, Prisoners Affairs Minister Issa Qaraqi announced over the weekend.
Hamas representatives, meanwhile, called for kidnapping more IDF soldiers so they could be traded for the remaining Palestinian prisoners in Israel.
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1. VIDEO: 'I Am The 1%': Wall Street CEO Debates #OccupyWS - Peter Schiff, CEO of Euro Pacific Capital Inc. went to Zuccotti Park and took on OWS protesters. 2. Rep. Joe Walsh to Eric Holder: 'Resign immediately and take responsibility' for Operation Fast and Furious 3. VIDEO: Sen. Toomey questions Director of the Congressional Budget Office at Joint Select Committee hearing...CBO admits: No way to PROVE that the stimulus worked...Government can't CREATE demand... 4. VIDEO: Arab Spring Feeding Push for Islamic Caliphate? Islam will dominate the region...NOT Democracy. 5. OUTRAGE - Muslim students at Catholic University of America complain that Christian symbols make them uncomfortable when they pray in empty classrooms
6. U.S. border agent jailed for improper arrest of suspected drug smuggler
7. VIDEO: Mexican drug cartels recruit U.S. kids - as young as elementary school age - Lured with promises of cash...Cartels consider the kids expendable... 8. Nurse Making $269,810 Demonstrates California Public Worker Overtime Binge
9. Hotel Cancels Preserving Freedom Conference in Nashville, Caves to Islamic Supremacist Demands 10. From Tunisia to the Justice Department: A Clean Sweep for Islam
Christopher Adamo European socialism was long held up to America as the model for how the nanny state could be successfully implemented. In practice, it is a recipe for disaster.
Steve Emerson Hamas, a wing of the Muslim Brotherhood, wants Israel destroyed, so why is Egypt pressuring the European Union to open talks with it?
Charles Jacobs While a pharmacist from Boston is on trial for terrorism, his supporters promote extremism and anti-FBI and anti-American conspiracy theories.
The Global Muslim Brotherhood Daily Report An Israeli Muslim Brotherhood leader to be deported from Britain, Canadian Muslim conference accused of bigotry, and new Tunisian leader is a Brotherhood Islamist.
Diana West An Muslim adviser to U.S. troops in Afghanistan is suggesting that soldiers must respect all aspects of Islamic sensitivity. Is this common sense, sedition, or lunacy?"In addition, when sharing a base with Afghan army troops, Marines shouldn't sleep with their feet pointed west, because that also is considered offensive, he said. Afghan compounds of tribal elders are always neutral ground, Mubarak said. There is no need to wear protective vests, because the custom is that any person inside the compound will have the full protection of the Afghans who live there..."
James Delingpole The planet is warming, but it has historically warmed and cooled with little or no input from humanity. The arguments for man-made warming grow less scientifically credible.
Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi During the Arab Spring, Qatar and its media appeared to play for both sides - the Iranian Shia "resistance" and the Saudi-led "Sunni status quo." They are more biased than that.
Mexico does not want its own criminal migrants into America to be returned to it, and two U.S. mayors are helping to prevent such illegals being deported.
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The White Aborigines of the Post-Racial Left
Oct 27, 2011 11:31 am
Occupy Wall Street Out!
Oct 27, 2011 11:23 am
Liberty and Virtue
Oct 27, 2011 10:58 am
EPA Attacks The GOP
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Dissecting a Mexican Cartel Bombing in Monterrey
Oct 27, 2011 10:33 am
No More Nation-Building in Muslim Countries
Oct 27, 2011 10:16 am
The High Costs of Marriage Absence
Oct 27, 2011 10:07 am
Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas Committed to Terror
Oct 27, 2011 02:11 am
Thermal Coal Demand High
Oct 27, 2011 01:10 am
Veterans and Patriots Call for Action in D.C. 11.11.11
Oct 26, 2011 01:24 pm
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Saudi cleric offers cash for Israel soldier kidnap
10/26/2011
DUBAI - A prominent Saudi cleric has offered to pay $100,000 to any Palestinian who kidnaps an Israeli soldier, according to his Facebook page.
Awad al-Qarni said he had made the offer in response to a similar reward promised by an Israeli family for anyone who catches the person who killed one of its members in 1998, following the exchange this month of more than 1,000 Palestinian prisoners for the captive Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit.
"The media reported the news of the Zionist occupiers paying a huge sum to anyone who killed the freed Palestinian prisoners," Qarni, who is well known in Saudi Arabia for his outspoken views but is not part of the official clerical establishment, said on his Facebook page.
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When will our Government and our State Department "wise up" and realize that Turkey has an agenda which controverts all that WE stand for............By the Way, Turkey REFUSED Israeli Emergency Search and Rescue teams for the earthquake victims still buried...Israel is less than 2 hours away via air transport and those teams could have saved countless Turkish Citizens....But Turkey's present agenda does not take into account the saving of their OWN CITIZENS.......Howard
October 22, 2011 by Barry Rubin
The leadership of the Syrian revolution, or at least those recognized as such by the United States and the European Union, has released the names of 19 of the 29 members of the General Secretariat and five members of the Presidential Council. A lot of research should be done on the individuals, but let's do a quick ethnic and political analysis based on this information.
But first let me give you my analysis: I believe that the Turkish Islamist regime deliberately helped produce a Syrian leadership that is more Islamist and more Muslim Brotherhood-controlled than was necessary. Since Turkey's government was empowered to do this by the Obama administration, the White House is responsible for this extremely dangerous situation. It is a blunder or a betrayal - in effect, the motive and cause don't matter - of the greatest dimensions. The Obama administration may "only" have paved the way for the triumph of Islamist regimes in Egypt, Libya, and Tunisia - we don't yet know the final result - but it has been actively involved in helping promote an (avoidable) Islamist revolution in Syria.
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Video Message from Brigitte Gabriel
Founder and President, ACT! for America
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Brigitte Gabriel of ACT for America puts out a call for Patriot Partners to join together and support legislative action being planned for 2012.
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European children being forced to bow down to Islam...literally
October 23, 2011 | Author: barenakedislam
European children are being brainwashed into 'respecting' Islam with school-organized mosque visits and syllabuses that give undue prominence to a mythical Islamic 'Golden Age.'
The picture below is from La Roche in France. The newspaper headline says "School pupils immerse themselves in Islam at La Roche mosque."
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We Will Never See any semblance of a "peaceful solution", so long as a despicable person like this is treated as a Hero in Arab lands......That our Media can describe an animal like this as a "militant" is disgusting.....She acted from her "conviction and faith in Allah" and would repeat her actions again......We Must take an important lesson from this.........That when we hear these animals speak about their "faith" it is akin to, and consists of, a hatred of all Non-Muslims and those who believe in decency and respect for human life..........Remember this each and every time our Government lauds the "Democracy Movements" in Arab Winterlands, for these Movements are comprised, in whole or in part, of members of the Muslim Brotherhood and other Terror Supporters.......... Howard
Sbarro Bomber: "Why Should I Repent?"
by Gavriel Queenann
Ahlam Tamimi, sentenced to 16 life sentences for her involvement in the "Sbarro" suicide bombing on 9 August 2001 in Jerusalem, says she had no regrets and stressed she would, given the opportunity, do it again.
"It was a calculated act, performed with conviction and faith in Allah," Tamini said in an interview posted on the Hamas website. "Jihad warriors are always ready to die as martyrs, to be arrested - or to succeed. I managed to overcome the barrier of prison and was released. Why should I repent?"
Of those terrorists who remain in prison after the Gilad Shalit deal, she said, "We left with our heads held high. All attempts to keep us in prison, and those who remain, will soon be forsaken."
Tamimi, who was deported to Jordan upon her release as a part of a deal to exchange 1,027 terrorists for kidnapped soldier Gilad Shalit, added "resistance is the only way to liberate Palestine. Israel understands only the language of arms." .
Tamimi was a 20-year old university student at the time of Sbarro bombing. She disguised herself as a Jewish tourist and escorted suicide bomber Izz al-Din Shuheil al-Masri to the restaurant in order to draw suspicion away from him.
The Sbarro attack resulted 130 wounded and 15 killed. The mass-murderess Tamimi's slain victims are,Giora Balash, 60, from Săo Paulo, BrazilZvika Golombek, 26, from Karmiel, IsraelShoshana Yehudit (Judy) Greenbaum, 31, from Passaic, New Jersey, USATehila Maoz, 18, from JerusalemFrieda Mendelsohn, 62, from JerusalemMichal Raziel, 16, from Ramot, JerusalemMalka Chana (Malki) Roth, 15, from Ramot, Jerusalem (memorial)Mordechai Schijveschuurder, 43, from Neria, Matte BinyaminTzira Schijveschuurder, 41, from NeriaRa'aya Schijveschuurder, 14, from NeriaAvraham Yitzhak Schijveschuurder, 4, from NeriaHemda Schijveschuurder, 2, from NeriaLily Shimashvili, 33, from JerusalemTamara Shimashvili, 8, from JerusalemYocheved Shoshan, 10, from Jerusalem
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Obama Wants to Move the 'Hood into Your Neighborhood
By Ben Johnson, The White House Watch
As part of its endless quest to fundamentally transform the United States, the Obama administration is laying the intellectual groundwork for a massive new government program: moving crime-prone tenants of public housing into middle- and upper middle-class neighborhoods in the name of improving their health.
Last Thursday, the New England Journal of Medicine published a multi-year study conducted on behalf of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) researching the impact of "housing mobility" on the health of those in public housing. The project, which tracked 4,500 "very low-income" families, found that allowing the poor to move from the projects to "low-poverty neighborhoods" decreased the incidence of both disorders and improved the families' overall health.
Upon hearing the results, HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan....
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Still No Easter Statement; Obama Wishes You a Happy Diwali!
By Ben Johnson, The White House Watch
Although he could not be bothered to draft a presidential statement for Easter this year nor one acknowledging the severity of the genocide of Armenian Christians, on Wednesday President Barack Obama wrote an official presidential statement in honor of Diwali, a festival celebrated by Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, and Jainists.
Obama became the first U.S. president to observe the obscure holiday in 2009 and continued the commemoration in 2010.
Christians comprise 85 percent of the U.S. population, or 224 million people. There are an estimated 100,000....
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Sheriff Joe Predicts a "Shock" in Birth Certificate Investigation
By Jerome R. Corsi, WND.com
The results of a formal law-enforcement investigation into whether Barack Obama is eligible to be president of the United States could come as a "shock," according to Maricopa County, Ariz., Sheriff Joe Arpaio.
Tuesday night, speaking to a tea-party group in Arizona, Arpaio said....
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Both Parties Move to the Left on Immigration
By Joe Guzzardi, FloydReports.com
Republicans, traditionally oriented toward enforcing federal immigration law and Democrats, historically advocates for alien entitlements, have morphed.
The U.S. House of Representatives' leaders have ignored House Judiciary Chairman Lamar Smith's Legal Workforce Act. By refusing to bring it (and H.R. 1505 which provides greater border protection to federally protected lands) to the floor for a full vote, Speaker John Boehner and House Leader Eric Cantor allow 7 million illegal immigrants to keep their jobs and leave unguarded easily accessible corridors through which aliens can enter. While the Republicans dawdle, President Barack Obama ordered the Department of Homeland Security to put its backdoor amnesty into effect within the next few weeks.
The Republicans failure to act....
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Is God a Socialist?
By Susan stamper Brown, FloydReports.com
British author Graham Greene so aptly wrote in his novel The Power and the Glory, "There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in." Rather than one moment, for me, it was a collection of moments growing up in a home in which my folks did not divvy out weekly allowances unless they were earned, and encouraged us to attend college but did not pay the bill. Never letting us perceive our situation as unfair, Dad taught us the value of hard work by the example he set working overtime in order to make ends meet.
Recently, after reading a few articles in Sojourners magazine, written by President Obama's spiritual advisor, Jim Wallis, I was reminded how far away from these basic values we've strayed as a nation....
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Obama Wins! School District Must Pay Muslim Teacher for Trip to Mecca
By Ben Johnson, The White House Watch With unemployment mired above nine percent and new jobless claims hovering at 400,000 a week, the Obama administration needed a victory, and at last it has one. The Justice Department has forced a Middle American school district to pay a Muslim teacher $75,000 and implement a sensitivity training course throughout the district, after administrators refused to allow the new hire to take three weeks off for a trip to Mecca in 2008.
Safoorah Khan had held her job as a math lab instructor at McArthur Middle School in Berkeley, Illinois, less than a year when she asked unpaid leave to make hajj, the.... Read More and Comment: Trump Talks About His Birther Dinner with Rick Perry Watch the Video and Comment: Forget Red State vs. Blue State -- It's Makers vs. Takers
By Matt Mackowiak, FloydReports.com "I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!" That famous line, delivered by Peter Finch in the 1976 film Network, gave voice to millions of Americans who were frustrated with life in America. Economic anxiety existed then and does again now.
More than 14 million Americans are out of work, many for longer than six months, causing Congress to extend unemployment benefits to nearly two years. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, as of June 2011, 45.2 million Americans were receiving food stamps, a near record. The Census Bureau reports that 46.2 million Americans (15.1 percent) were living in poverty in 2010, a 17-year high. An independent national poll found.... Read More and Comment: Stupid is as Obama Does
By Jim Emerson, FloydReports.com Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made an unannounced visit to Libya to congratulate the Muslim Brotherhood-sponsored terrorist's revolution to oust Qaddafi.
Afterward the Secretary of State arrived in Afghanistan to attend a scheduled meeting with Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai.
It's hard to tell who is lesser of these two evils.... Read More and Comment: Obama Spends $1.5 Million to Promote Unions...in Vietnam
By Judicial Watch With a record number of Americans out of work, the government agency responsible for advancing employment in the United States just doled out $1.5 million to promote collective bargaining and improve labor relations in Vietnam.
In two separate..... Read More and Comment: California Abolishes Nature
By Michael Reagan, FloydReports.com In his new book, Suicide of a Superpower, Pat Buchanan writes that the politics of race, culture, and tribalism will be the largest problem civilization will face.
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Fellow patriots,
How's it feel to have a government that is $14 trillion in debt ( http://www.usdebtclock.org/ ), but still manages to throw billions of dollars to a country like Egypt, which you, your children, and your children's children will have to pay off through taxes?
Coptic Christians protest outside White House against violence in Egypt
 
View Photo Gallery - Hundreds gather to denounce a rising tide of violence against members of their faith in Egypt, including a bloody clash Oct. 9 between protesters and the Egyptian army that left 27 people dead.
Hoisting homemade wooden crosses and photographs of bodies they said were crushed by tanks, hundreds of Coptic Christians rallied Wednesday in front of the White House to protest rising violence against minority Christians in Egypt and to demand that the Obama administration pressure Cairo to protect their rights.
The demonstrators, mostly Egyptian immigrants who traveled in buses from as far as New York and Chicago, included black-robed Coptic orthodox priests and families who had lost relatives in recent violence in Egypt, including the New Year's Eve bombing of a church and a bloody clash Oct. 9 between protesters and army forces in Cairo that left 27 people dead.
"It is like a horrible nightmare. We watch on TV and see our people being run over by tanks," said Mary Wassef, 66, who took a bus with friends from her church in northern New Jersey. "This is my church and my homeland. But now they want to force all Christians to convert or leave. If you hang a cross in your car, they pull you out and smash you to pieces."
Christians in Egypt are a deeply rooted minority of about 10 million in a largely Muslim society of 81 million. Long-simmering tensions between the two groups have escalated since January, when a popular uprising in Cairo led to the fall of longtime ruler Hosni Mubarak but left the country in a state of political turmoil.
Many Christians in the Egyptian American diaspora of about half a million, scattered across a dozen states, have expressed concern that radical Islamist groups are seeking to dominate the post-revolutionary scene and to turn Egypt into a Sunni theocracy. Some placards at the rally Wednesday warned of an "Islamic jihad" against Christians.
The demonstrators also expressed fear that the Egyptian army, a longtime bulwark of Mubarak's power, is becoming a repressive force against Christians. Many held up bloody photos of crushed torsos and limbs, which they said had been deliberately run over by tanks Oct. 9. Hundreds chanted "shame on the army" and called for the ouster of its national commander, Field Marshal Mohammed Hussein Tantawi.
"We Christians have faced Islamic oppression for 1,400 years, but now it is getting much more ugly," said Ghada Nasr, 35, a small business owner from Newark, Del., whose parents live in Egypt. "The army should be protecting people, not crushing them. Our religion is peaceful, but it is time for us to act."
Traditionally, leaders of the Coptic church in Egypt have tried to avoid provoking Egyptian authorities. The rally Wednesday was peaceful, and protesters interspersed chants for justice with hymns calling for God's mercy in Arabic, English and ancient Coptic. Organizers said the presence of numerous senior Coptic priests - several gray-bearded, one in a wheelchair - had the blessing of their orthodox pope in Cairo.
"We need an Egyptian Martin Luther King to lead our people to freedom," said George Ibrahim, 66, a retired civil engineer who emigrated from Egypt in the 1940s and lives in Ashburn. Unlike Copts in Egypt, who have long been ostracized, many of those who came to the United States are well established, successful professionals. In the greater Washington area, many work for the federal government.
A major demand of the demonstrators was that the Obama administration, which has continued the long U.S. alliance with Egypt and provides it with hundreds of millions of dollars in financial aid each year, pressure Cairo by conditioning further assistance to improvements in human rights and religious freedom.
"If we are calling them an ally, then we should not be paying with U.S. taxpayers' money for bullets and weapons that are being used to oppress Christians," said Michael Ruzek, 30, a medical doctor from New Jersey who attended the rally. Protesters placed a row of black wooden coffins along the sidewalk in front of the White House.
An advocacy group called Coptic Solidarity, which helped organize the rally, also called for an impartial investigation into the Oct. 9 violence, prosecution of official perpetrators, and full enactment of a bill that Congress passed in July that would create a U.S. envoy to the Middle East for religious minorities.
The circumstances of the Oct. 9 clashes in Cairo, in which Christian and Muslim protesters were involved in hours of battles with police and troops, remain confused. The day after the incident, White House spokesman Jay Carney said that President Obama was "deeply concerned" about the violence and "believes that the rights of minorities, including Copts, must be respected," but he stopped short of blaming the government and called for "restraint on all sides."
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Free Medicare Open Enrollment Events
APPRISE is a free insurance counseling service for senior citizens in the Commonwealth. The program is administered locally by the area agencies on aging, under the Pennsylvania Department of Aging. In Bucks County, APPRISE is holding two Medicare open enrollment information sessions in November for seniors and their families.
The first session will be held on Tuesday, Nov. 15, from noon to 3 p.m. at the Upper Bucks Senior Center at the Milford Square Fire Company, located at 2183 Milford Square Pike, Milford. The second one will be held on Monday, Nov. 28, from 10 a.m. to noon at the Ben Wilson Senior Center, located at 580 Delmont Ave., Warminster.
If you cannot attend either of these two sessions, you can call the APPRISE counselors at the Bucks County Area Agency on Aging any time at 215-348-0510 for assistance.
Corbett Signed Law to Strengthen Teen Drivers
Earlier this week, Gov. Tom Corbett signed House Bill 9, "Lacey's Law," sponsored by Rep. Kathy Watson of Bucks County (144th District).
Lacey's Law was created to mandate that junior drivers have more practice time behind the wheel, and limit the number of passengers they may carry in their vehicles. A junior driver is defined as being between 16 and 18 years old. This bill was signed by the governor on Oct. 25th and will take effect on Dec. 24, 2011.
| Changes for junior drivers: |  | | * | Before a driver's license is issued, the required supervised, behind-the-wheel training for permit holders under age 18 is increased from 50 to 65 hours. Ten of those hours must be done at nighttime and five of those hours must be done during poor weather conditions. | *
| For the first six months after receiving a junior license, if the driver is under 18 he or she is not permitted for have more than one passenger under age 18 who is not an immediate family member (unless accompanied by a parent or guardian). | | * | After six months, the driver may have up to three passengers under age 18 if they have not received any violations or been involved in an accident that is his/her fault. | | * | Lack of seatbelt for drivers under 18 becomes a primary offense, so the driver can be pulled over for that violation alone, and could receive a $75 fine. In addition, all passengers under age 18 must be buckled. |
For questions about this legislation or any other pending state legislation, please contact my office or email me directly at mquinn@pahousegop.com.
 National Prescription Drug Take Back Day
Do you have prescription drugs that you do not need but don't know the proper way to dispose of them? This Saturday, Oct. 29, the third National Prescription Drug Take Back Day will be going on from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Visit my website www.RepQuinn.net and click on the "Prescription Drug Take Back Day Locations" link to find the closest drop-off location to your home. There are seven locations in the Central Bucks area.
Emergency Storm Relief Grant for Small Businesses
Earlier this week, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection announced emergency funding that will be available to help flood-affected small businesses in 33 counties, including  Bucks County.
Grants are available to any for-profit small business owners whose facilities are in counties that were declared eligible for disaster relief by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). All types of small businesses qualify for funding, including manufacturers, retailers, service providers, mining businesses and agricultural outfits.
Costs incurred between Aug. 26 and Dec. 31, 2011, are eligible for grant consideration. Projects eligible for 50 percent reimbursement grants of up to $9,500 could include high-efficiency lighting systems, building insulation, air sealing, recycling and reuse systems, and new water-conservation technologies. Applications must be postmarked or hand delivered by 4 p.m. on Dec. 31.
Additional information and applications are available on DEP's website at www.dep.state.pa.us or by calling 717-772-8909.
Girl Scouts Visit the Capitol
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Occupy Wall Street's Most Unlikely Ally: The Pope
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Pope Benedict XVI rides in his popemobile through Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, last month. The Vatican has released a document on world economics, condemning "idolatry of the market."
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Pope Benedict XVI rides in his popemobile through Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, last month. The Vatican has released a document on world economics, condemning "idolatry of the market."
October 26, 2011
Thomas J. Reese is a senior fellow at the Woodstock Theological Center at Georgetown University, and a former editor of America, the national Catholic weekly magazine.
The Vatican released a document on the world economy on Monday that will cause heartburn in the Tea Party, but will be cheered by the folks occupying Wall Street.
This will surprise most Americans who think the pope is a Republican because he opposes abortion and gay marriage. But when it comes to economic justice, Pope Benedict XVI is to the left of President Obama. Heck, he is even to the left of Nancy Pelosi.
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Alexander's Essay - October 27, 2011
The Patriot's 2012 GOP Candidate Ratings
The Pros and Cons
"If men of wisdom and knowledge, of moderation and temperance, of patience, fortitude and perseverance, of sobriety and true republican simplicity of manners, of zeal for the honour of the Supreme Being and the welfare of the commonwealth; if men possessed of these other excellent qualities are chosen to fill the seats of government, we may expect that our affairs will rest on a solid and permanent foundation." --Samuel Adams, November 27, 1780
Barack Hussein Obama is in full campaign mode (not that he's been in any other mode since 2008). Summarizing his 2012 re-election bid at a recent Hollywood fundraiser, Obama said, "This election will not be as sexy as the first one. We've got to grind it out a little bit. We've got to grind it out. I'm going to keep on pushing."
The regrettable double entendres aside, what Obama was trying to say is, given the abject failures of his policies to restore our economy, his re-election campaign will be difficult. But make no mistake: Obama kept his promise about "fundamentally transforming the United States of America." He has broken the back of free enterprise and consequently, seeds of discontent are sprouting in urban centers across the nation in support of his vision for Democratic Socialism.
Of course, history records that the terminus of Socialist ideology, whether it be the Marxist, Nationalist or Democratic variety, is tyranny. Therefore, this election cycle is about much more than bantering back and forth on matters of policy. It is, at its core, about the future of Liberty defended by our Founders at the dawn of our Republic.
In 2010, the "Tea Party Movement," a term used to describe the national grassroots body of outspoken and articulate constitutional activists, emerged to restore a Republican majority in the House.
To put it simply, the Tea Party stopped Obama's agenda from moving forward; they did so by mobilizing a conservative electorate that, last November, put a congressional restraining order on this president and his destructive policies. The 2012 presidential and congressional elections, however, must build upon that resounding conservative victory in order to reverse the socialist agenda.
To that end, next year's presidential campaign will dominate the national debate and will ultimately determine whether Obama's failed statist propositions will be rejected and free enterprise restored.
The critical question for conservatives is, who best to lead that debate? In the interest of restoring free enterprise and our national economy, which in turn will provide the opportunity to further reinvigorate the principles of Essential Liberty, we offer the following "pro and con" assessment of the current field of GOP presidential candidates, each of whom will be assigned a "Patriot Rating."
Now, "pros" could be understood to mean "professionals" and "cons" could mean deceivers. In that context, there are indeed pro and con elements within some of the GOP candidates' platforms. However, our pro and con appraisals are in the context of exposing the good, bad and ugly of all candidates, as reflected by their records and platforms.
Our list of candidate pros and cons is compiled from responses to a questionnaire sent to our editors and members of our National Advisory Committee, and the responses posted are those which occurred most frequently.
Additionally, we have assigned all candidates a Patriot Rating based on comprehensive analysis of many factors. Among these are their record, experience, capability, character, leadership qualifications and, of course, a demonstrated ability to abide by their prescribed oath "to support and defend" our Constitution. We evaluate their record of defending Essential Liberty, and their support for restoration of constitutional limits upon government -- including the judiciary -- the promotion of free enterprise, national defense and traditional American values. The rating is from 1 to 10, the higher the better.
In short, our Patriot Rating reflects each candidate's ability to reignite the Conservative Revolution launched by Ronald Reagan in 1980. Notably, we do not rate candidates on "electability," as that is often a reflection of Leftmedia propaganda. Nor is a candidate's Patriot Rating based solely on the "pros and cons," which are just collected observations.
Many voters support candidates on the basis of one or two platform issues. However, our Patriot Rating is based upon a broad profile for each candidate, which is to say that if your favored candidate did not score as highly as you anticipated, it is likely because of platform issues or qualifications we assessed in addition to those on which you base your support.
If we could combine the best qualities of all candidates into one, the 2012 election would be won. Strategically, the number of constituencies represented by the GOP slate should coalesce, at the end of the primary, in support of one candidate. If that coalition holds, Obama will be defeated.
Suffice it to say that every GOP candidate has, in our assessment, more ability than Obama, who has yet to demonstrate any real skill beyond that of a smooth-talking "community organizer." (As one of our respondents noted, "If the choice was between Obama and a mushroom, I would choose the latter.")
Obama, however, controls a loyal constituency that will support him regardless of mitigating factors, and in the next election as with the last, his deceptive charisma will make up for his aptitude deficit. Those factors, combined with the unfortunate fact that GOP contenders continue to hack away at each other rather than at Obama, constitute Obama's greatest re-election assets.
The 2012 GOP candidates, in alphabetical order:
(NOTE: As additional information and platform positions are released, Patriot Ratings may change.)
Pros: High-energy; no-nonsense speaker; Tea Party; has a knack for distilling issues to what's most important to the average American; female; great family history; clearly socially conservative; Federalist; more articulate than Sarah Palin; principled stance on key issues.
Cons: No executive experience; limited business and leadership experience; does not look presidential; too easily stereotyped; already too many misstatements; no military service; doesn't appear ready for prime time; whiny & tinny.
Post your opinion of Bachmann's pros and cons.
Pros: Reagan-like from a policy standpoint; straight talker -- genuine Washington outsider; self-made man; lack of political experience; articulate and sensible tax reform and economic plan; former civilian employee of the United States Navy; principled common-sense conservative; believes in American exceptionalism; straight shooter, says it even if you don't like it; strong private sector business experience; black; understands the free market; compelling life story; good work ethic, education and integrity; consistent in his stances.
Cons: Lack of political experience (this cuts both ways); diagnosed with Stage IV cancer in 2006, now in remission; more novelty than substance; short on foreign policy knowledge or experience; campaign lacks organization; low name recognition; "sound bite deep" on many issues; no military service; not previously vetted.
Post your opinion of Cain's pros and cons.
Pros: Smarter than the rest of the slate, combined; incredibly articulate; straight up conservative with strong track record and leadership; demonstrated track record (as House Speaker); does not attack other GOP candidates; child of a career military family; an acute sense of humor; a keen sense of history; name recognition; can take Obama down with one hand in presidential debates; acts presidential; positions based on logic (his understanding of the issue), not expediency; ability to boil complex ideas down to simple core soundbites, but commands great understanding of complexities and details; Contract with America.
Cons: DC insider; notable marriage/moral peccadilloes; a lightning rod; list of political liabilities as long as list of career accomplishment; no military service; limited business experience; accepts anthropogenic global warming; comes across as a policy wonk.
Post your opinion of Gingrich's pros and cons.
Ron Paul -- Patriot Rating: 3
Pros: Strong constitutional advocate; articulate economic positions; energetic; energizes his adherents; served as a flight surgeon in the United States Air Force for five years; bold and brash; speaks his mind; intelligent; true libertarian.
Cons: His isolationist foreign policy is incredibly naďve and thus, dangerous; fails the "nut job" test with many voters; seems too singularly focused; comes off as a crank; too narrow a support base; name recognition negatives; perpetual presidential candidate; no clear expression of faith.
Post your opinion of Paul's pros and cons.
Rick Perry -- Patriot Rating: 6
Pros: Salt-of-the-earth family history; speaks from the heart; executive experience as governor of Texas; Air Force officer and aviator for five years; offered tangible tax reform plan, speaks his mind; strong platform and record of success; strong proponent for states' rights and limited central government; understands Social Security is a "Ponzi Scheme"; good family man, and is clear about his faith; good campaign organization and good fundraiser; pro-business; pro-gun; pro-life; not Ivy League.
Cons: Chaired Al Gore's 1988 presidential campaign (Ronald Reagan clearly articulated why he left the Democratic Party) disconcerting that Perry lacks deep conservative roots); worst debate skills ever witnessed; HPV vaccination executive mandate; support of Trans-TX corridor; weak immigration policy -- the Texas DREAM Act undermines his credibility on a key issue.
Post your opinion of Perry's pros and cons.
Pros: Executive experience as governor; strong appearance; quick on his feet; smooth talker; high profile with the public, stemming from his 2008 presidential candidacy; accomplished businessman; acts, speaks and looks presidential; good family man; appeals to centrists; deep pockets (personal and campaign); big-name supporters; campaign organization and experience; old enough to have gravitas, not old enough to look like John McCain; good speaker; great command of most issues.
Cons: Big government establishment Republican; RomneyCare and all associated baggage; mirrors Democrat tax policies; political inheritance as son of George Romney (former governor of Michigan and 1968 presidential candidate); no military service; high-profile flip-flops on key conservative issues (gun control, global warming, abortion, homosexual "unions," health care); Massachusetts moderate; left of George W. Bush.
Post your opinion of Romney's pros and cons.
Pros: Solid conservative; articulate on conservative positions; well-versed on both foreign and domestic policy; principled; good family man; passionate and genuine; energetic; not much to say about him.
Cons: Senate "loser" baggage; endorsed and actively campaigned for the Turncoat Ghost, Arlen Specter, over Pat Toomey in 2004; no military service.
Post your opinion of Santorum's pros and cons.
(Publisher's Note: A member of our management team is available for radio interviews and speaking engagements. Jim Cuffia, Essential Liberty Project Executive Director & Patriot Post Contributing Editor, is a seasoned radio veteran and can address the Liberty angle or just about any political topic you throw his way. To book Jim for an interview, email us at Radio@PatriotPost.US)
Semper Vigilo, Fortis, Paratus et Fidelis!
Libertas aut Mortis!
Mark Alexander
Publisher, The Patriot Post
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Morning Bell: What is the American Idea?
What is the American idea? That all depends on whom you ask. According to President Barack Obama, it's the notion that the federal government is the answer to America's problems, and that through its intervention-by sheer force of spending-it can create a brighter future for all Americans.
There's a different view, though, that has again found its voice in the past year. It's the idea that America is at its best when its people are allowed to be free and produce, not thanks to the government or even in spite of it, but on their own merit and initiative. Yesterday, those two competing visions were on display-the former delivered in Denver by President Obama, and the latter in Washington at The Heritage Foundation by House Budget Committee chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI).
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October 27, 2011
No Man is an Island: Why Individualism Can't Sustain Freedom
Is individualism adequate to sustain liberty and rein in government? This issue surfaced during the Republican primary debate last week in Las Vegas.
"This country has always put people in groups" and treated them accordingly, said Representative Ron Paul (R-TX). America needs to move away from this kind of "group mentality," he says, toward a more individualistic perspective: "We need to see everybody as an individual. And to me, seeing everybody as an individual means their liberties are protected as individuals."
While not disagreeing with the fact that government should protect the rights of individuals, former Senator Rick Santorum (R-PA) took issue with Paul's implication that "the country is founded on the individual." Santorum argued, "The basic building block of a society is not an individual. It's the family."
It's true that many rights belong to citizens as individuals. People don't have the right to life and liberty, for example, only if they belong to some privileged group. Rather, God has endowed these rights to every single person as a unique individual with value and dignity.
But to leave the impression that rights-bearing individuals are islands unto themselves would be a mistake. That notion isn't true to who we are as people, and it can actually lead to bigger government.
Everyone exists in some form of relationship to others. In fact, we become who we are-we develop our own unique habits and views-in the context of these relationships. We need to think of ourselves and others not merely as self-standing individuals but as persons in community.
And the most basic form of community is the family. Families and other community institutions are essential to human well-being. It's in these local forms of association that we learn not only to respect rights but also to exercise responsibilities to others.
If we seek to restore limited government, it's important not to overlook the fact that much of our flourishing lies in the kinds of relationships fostered in civil society.
We should protect the rights of every single citizen-every "individual," if you will. To achieve this goal, though, we have to see and treat the "rights-bearer" for what he or she truly is: a social being, a member of various communities and forms of association. That means taking families and faith communities more seriously when it comes to policy decisions.
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Immediate Medicare Reforms Could Slash the Nation's Debt
When it comes to the super-committee's duty to reform Medicare, you'll likely to hear the same tired and unsuccessful methods for lowering Medicare's soaring costs: raising taxes, manipulating payment formulas, or making even deeper payment cuts to doctors and hospitals.
The best way to reform Medicare is transform it into a premium-support program, which provides a defined contribution to seniors' chosen health plans, which include a variety of private plans as well as traditional Medicare fee-for-service. This approach - based on injecting consumer choice and competition into Medicare - has a long history of bipartisan support, going back to the early 1980s.
Congress could adopt this approach through a two-stage, ten-year structural reform, which the Heritage Foundation outlined in its long-term deficit plan, "Saving the American Dream." When compared with the Congressional Budget Office's baseline, Heritage's two-stage Medicare reform plan would result in $9.4 trillion in savings by 2035.
During the initial five-year transition period, Congress could make immediate changes to help secure the program's fiscal solvency. Calculations from Heritage's Center for Data Analysis show the initial reforms would result in nearly $299 billion in savings. These savings could eliminate shortfalls in the Hospital Insurance (HI) trust fund - which CBO estimates to go broke by 2020-and "fix" the Medicare physician payment formula, which threatens a 30 percent payment cut next year to doctors who see Medicare patients.
The Heritage Foundation's Bob Moffit outlines what Congress could do right now in his column at National Review Online.
Read the full Heritage plan, Saving the American Dream >>
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$572 Billion MEDICARE SPENDING IN 2011 Medicare - on its current path - cannot be sustained. Learn More>>
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Two Cheers for Proposed Labor, Health, Education Appropriations
By James Sherk and Patrick Louis Knudsen
October 13, 2011
House appropriators deserve two cheers for their recently released bill funding the Departments of Labor (DOL), Health and Human Services, Education, and related agencies for fiscal year (FY) 2012.[1] Disappointingly, the legislation only slightly reduces federal spending. Nevertheless, its policy riders take important steps in the right direction. The legislation blocks funding for many harmful regulatory proposals that discourage business expansion. It de-funds the National Labor Relations Board's (NLRB) attempts to push workers into unions, large portions of Obamacare, and the sea of red tape rising from the DOL. Cutting funds for these harmful initiatives will encourage employers to expand and hire. Spending Levels
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October 27, 2011
BUSTED! EMPTY TENTS AT 'OCCUPY LONDON' The Blaze has been reporting that many of the protesters at Occupy Wall Street are leaving Zuccoti Park at nightfall. Yesterday we learned that the most of the tents pitched at Occupy London were also empty at night. See the thermal images of the UN-occupied tents HERE.
EX DEM REP CALLS GOP 'THE REAL KILLERS' Former Congressman Alan Grayson appeared on MSNBC's Ed Schultz Show and both men delivered some bizarre characterizations of Republicans. Watch Schultz accuse the GOP of "inciting civil war" and Grayson compare the Right to OJ Simpson HERE.
IS THIS YOUNG MAN 'GEORGE SOROS LITE?' Nicholas Berggruen is a "homeless billionaire" who travels the world, living out of five-star hotels while actively working to bring his vision of a utopian society to the globe. Learn more about Berggruen from Berggruen himself HERE.
WERE THOSE TRAFFIC CAMERAS INSTALLED IN YOUR TOWN JUST TO MAKE MONEY? If you thought those pesky 'red light' cameras installed in your town were put up just to make the town safer, think again. When the flash goes off and your license plate is recorded, chances are a for-profit company is operating the system and taking a sizable chunk of the fee. Get the details HERE.
BORDER AGENT'S WIFE TALKS with glenn about husband's PRISON SENTENCE Federal Agent Jesus Diaz was sentenced to spend the next two years in prison after being found guilty of "rough cuffing" an admitted drug smuggler on the Texas-Mexico border. Diaz's wife shared the details of her husbands trial with Glenn. Listen to the interview HERE.
VIRAL VIDEO DU JOUR - CEO/BIG MONEY MAN FACES OFF WITH THE 99% Peter Schiff is a very successful money manager who is proudly part of the 1% of American money earners. Schiff took a camera crew down to Zuccotti Park in lower Manhattan and asked the protesters about taxes, employment and giving back to society. Watch the video HERE.
CAN YOU GUESS THE TOPIC OF THIS RECENTLY DECODED 18TH CENTURY DOCUMENT? It's known as the Copiale Cipher... a document found in East Germany at the end of the Cold War. It's 105 pages, bound in gold and green and filled with more than 75,000 characters made up of mysterious symbols and Roman letters. And it baffled researchers for months. What does it all mean? Find out HERE.
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October 27, 2011
Super committee holds public session on budget cuts
NATIONAL JOURNAL - Just a day after a heated closed-door meeting that indicated there's still a large gap between Democrats and Republicans on entitlement and tax reform, the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction convened for its third public policy hearing on Wednesday morning... (more)
October 26, 2011
Obama taps taxpayers for student stimulus
FOX NEWS - In keeping with his new campaign theme of "we can't wait," President Obama today will roll out a plan to put more money in the pockets of some of the nation's 36 million student loan recipients. Obama has broad latitude in this area -- certainly broader than the first two parts of his western campaign trip, underwater mortgages and subsidies for hiring veterans... (more)
October 26, 2011
Out-of-control college tuition
WASHINGTON TIMES - The same day that the president announced a student-loan relief program in Denver, the University of Colorado announced a 9 percent tuition increase. If nothing else, we appreciate the irony. On Wednesday, President Obama announced a plan to use his executive powers to allow students to reduce their student-loan debt payments and seek outstanding loan forgiveness at 20 instead of 25 years after graduation... (more)
October 26, 2011
WSJ, National Review split on Perry's flat tax plan
NEWSMAX - Two influential conservative publications -- The Wall Street Journal and the National Review -- diverge in their reviews of Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry's tax plan. The Journal is largely positive in its editorial, while the National Review largely negative, though both publications include opinions on both sides... (more)
October 26, 2011
Rasmussen: Don't count Perry out yet
NEWSMAX - Rick Perry still can spring a huge surprise and mount a comeback to become the Republican candidate to face President Barack Obama at the ballot box next year, influential pollster Scott Rasmussen tells Newsmax.TV in an exclusive interview. The Texas governor has made a lot of unforced errors in his campaign, but the spot as the "anti-Mitt Romney" is still open, he said... (more)
October 26, 2011
Romney waffles on Ohio anti-union law
ASSOCIATED PRESS - A day after he refused to endorse an Ohio ballot measure that limits public employee union rights, Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney said Wednesday that he is "110 percent" behind the effort... (more)
October 26, 2011
The great $750 million demolition job
CHRISTOPHER RUDDY - Polls continue to show that President Barack Obama should stand little chance of re-election -- a new Harris Interactive survey shows that the incumbent has a negative rating even among Democrats and liberals. But Obama's team has a "secret plan" for retaining the White House... (more)
October 26, 2011
Rove is the architect of Obama presidency
JOSEPH FARAH - I don't know how to say this bluntly and politely. But when Karl Rove speaks, remember that this "political genius" known in some quarters as "the architect" is actually the architect of the Barack Obama presidency. It took George Bush's failures of leadership, orchestrated and advised all the way by Rove, to deliver America into the hands of Obama... (more)
October 26, 2011
The Vatican's frightening call for an end to economic freedom
RICHARD VIGUERIE - The Vatican's Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace has long been a source of radical political thinking within the Catholic Church. This week's statement by the Council, "Towards Reforming the International Financial and Monetary Systems in the Context of Global Public," confirmed the radical economic agenda of the leftist intellectuals who hold sway there... (more)
October 26, 2011
If I were a liberal...
ANN COULTER - If I were a liberal, I would have spent the last week in shock that a Democratic audience in Flint, Mich., cheered Vice President Joe Biden's description of a policeman being killed. (And if I were a liberal desperately striving to keep my job on MSNBC, I'd say the Democrats looked "hot and horny" for dead cops - as Chris Matthews said of a Republican audience that cheered for the death penalty)...
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October 26, 2011
TSA's power grope
WASHINGTON TIMES - The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has always intended to expand beyond the confines of airport terminals. Its agents have been conducting more and more surprise groping sessions for women, children and the elderly in locations that have nothing to do with aviation. It's all part of TSA's Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response (VIPR) program, which drew additional scrutiny following an Oct. 18 blitz in Tennessee... (more)
October 26, 2011
Republicans grill Napolitano on Fast and Furious
AUDREY HUDSON - Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano faced a determined panel of House Republicans on Wednesday who grilled her on immigration policies, border security, and how her agency responded after the death of a federal officer exposed the "Fast and Furious" controversy... (more)
October 26, 2011
Obama withdrawal from Iraq clears way for Iran
WASHINGTON EXAMINER - President Obama is now taking credit for ending the U.S. war in Iraq when the reality is that President George W. Bush did so in 2008 by approving the Status of Forces Agreement arduously negotiated between the U.S. and Iraqi governments... (more)
October 26, 2011
Confusion reigns over eligibility issue
JOSEPH FARAH - There's a brand-new "birther" in town, the media would like you to know. It's Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who suggested in an interview he's not sure if he has seen Barack Obama's real birth certificate -- yet, he adds, has no reason to doubt his birth story. Why are the media so determined to smoke out high-profile skeptics on the issue of Obama's truthfulness about his birth narrative?... (more)
October 26, 2011
Perry plan makes flat tax optional
WASHINGTON TIMES - Hoping to breathe new life into his flagging presidential campaign, Texas Gov. Rick Perry rolled out a sweeping economic plan Tuesday that would give taxpayers the option of paying a 20 percent flat income tax, balance the budget by 2020 and cap federal spending at levels not seen since Lyndon B. Johnson was president... (more)
October 26, 2011
Bottom-line issues stall GOP efforts to pull back health law
WASHINGTON TIMES - Republicans scored historic gains in last year's elections in part on their pledge to scrap the new health care law -- but their passion for repeal has dimmed in the face of a split Congress and the difficulties of untangling the complex legislation... (more)
October 26, 2011
Joe Biden: Beltway bubble boy
MICHELLE MALKIN - Last fall, before the midterm shellacking, Vice President Joe Biden admonished rank-and-file Democratic voters to "stop whining." Uncle Tough Guy should practice what he screeches. The 2012 campaign has barely begun, but Biden's thin skin makes a spring roll wrapper look impenetrable... (more)
October 26, 2011
School competition rescues kids
JOHN STOSSEL - For years, American education from kindergarten through high school has been a virtual government monopoly. Conventional wisdom is that government must run the schools. But government monopolies don't do anything well. They fail because they have no real competition. Yet competition is what gives us better phones, movies, cars -- everything that's good... (more)
October 25, 2011
Who lost the world?
FRANK GAFFNEY - Conventional wisdom has it that the 2012 presidential election will be all about the dismal economy, unemployment and the soaring deficit. That appears a safe bet because such matters touch the electorate, are much in the news at the moment and have indisputably become worse on Barack Obama's watch... (more)
October 24, 2011
Subversion Inc. and the Occupy Wall Street movement
WES VERNON, RA ANALYST - Former FBI informant Brandon Darby says the Occupy Wall Street movement "is nothing less than a current manifestation of an international revolutionary push in which I myself used to play a significant role." Darby is slated to detail the real story behind the "Occupy" movement at a Thursday briefing at the National Press Club. The gathering is sponsored by America's Survival, Inc.... (more)
October 24, 2011
Key general: Iraq pullout plan a 'disaster'
WASHINGTON TIMES - President Obama's decision to pull all U.S. forces out of Iraq by Dec. 31 is an "absolute disaster" that puts the burgeoning Arab democracy at risk of an Iranian "strangling," said an architect of the 2007 troop surge that turned around a losing war... (more)
October 24, 2011
Democrats keeping distance from Obama
NEWSMAX - In one instance after another in recent weeks, Democratic politicians stayed away from President Barack Obama when he visited their states. The Democrats don't want to be tainted by association with a president whose approval rating stands below 45 percent, Politico reports... (more)
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The results of a formal law-enforcement investigation into whether Barack Obama is eligible to be president of the United States could come as a "shock," according to Maricopa County, Ariz., Sheriff Joe Arpaio.
Tuesday night, speaking to a tea-party group in Arizona, Arpaio said, "I can't tell you everything, but there could be a shock there somewhere that my guys came up with. I can't talk too much about it. It's in the process."
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A book released this week documents for the first time the radical origins of President Obama's health-care law, revealing the principal author of the foundation for the legislation while tracing the law itself to a group funded by George Soros.
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They just don't get it Herman Cain is different
Oct 27, 2011 06:13 am | Coach Collins
By Ron Reale, staff writer
Herman Cain knows the value of a dollar, whether his or a contributors!
I have to laugh at all these Main Stream Media yokels and establishment political dinosaurs, working from an outdated script, claiming Herman Cain can't win because as his opponents are doing, he hasn't desperately wasted millions of dollars in upcoming Republican primary states.
Cain is leading in the National polls by more than a two to one margin with his system, but, according to the pinhead political gurus, that doesn't count!
How stupid are these people?
Don't they realize that his efficiency with a dollar in his campaign spending, and the success being generated with his fiscal prudence, is exactly what he has to offer us as President Cain?
He is spending a tenth of the money of these other ingrained, throw-other-peoples-money-around-like-water politicians.
They have no conception of the value of our money. They have no conception of Capitalism, and getting ... Continue Reading:They just don't get it Herman Cain is different
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American Minute for October 26th: Oct 26, 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 On OCTOBER 26, 1774, the Provincial Congress of Massachusetts reorganized their defenses with one-third of their regiments being "Minutemen," ready to fight at a minute's notice.
These citizen soldiers drilled on the parade ground, many times led by a deacon or pastor, then went to church for exhortation and prayer.
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Will cities cater to G8 ANARCHISTS as they have OWS BRATS? Oct 26, 2011 02:13 pm | Coach Collins By Doug Book, staff writer Former tenants of college dorms, parent's basements and police drunk tanks currently known as OWS (Occupy Wall Street) protesters have alternately amused and disgusted television audiences across the nation. Deluded enough to believe "the world is watching" and actually supportive of their disgraceful antics, this crew of doped-up reprobates has proudly defecated on police cars and turned city parks into slums, all the while demanding free goods and services from politicians, city officials and local vendors. New York's Zuccotti Park-squatter central for the Big Apple's OWS contingent-has become "...a breeding ground for bacterial infection loaded with potential health-code violations..." said city health regulation expert Wayne Yon over the weekend. "It's like a Walmart for rats," he continued. Yet convinced the official REQUEST they vacate the area for an afternoon of cleaning was really just a sneaky method of bouncing them from their urine soaked, excrement laced "headquarters," the OWS crowd ... Continue Reading:Will cities cater to G8 ANARCHISTS as they have OWS BRATS? comments | read more
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A Balanced Budget Amendment Should Make Tax & Debt Increases Difficult
As a member of the Conservative Action Project, CEO Susan Carleson and leaders of 28 other organizations, representing a broad cross section of the conservative movement, are united in supporting a Balanced Budget Amendment that actually reins in national spending and increasing our national debt - without raising taxes.
MEMO FOR THE MOVEMENT: A Balanced Budget Amendment - in addition to balancing the budget - should make it difficult to raise taxes, tough to increase the debt, and prohibit any court from ordering a tax increase or deciding budget priorities.
"I wish it were possible to obtain a single amendment to our Constitution. I would be willing to depend on that alone for the reduction of the administration of our government; I mean an additional article taking from the Federal Government the power of borrowing."
Thomas Jefferson, 1798
RE: In accordance with the Budget Control Act of 2011, sometime between October 1 and December 31, 2011 both houses of Congress must vote on a balanced budget amendment (BBA) to the U.S. Constitution. It is important that any such amendment must protect taxpayers by not forcing automatic tax increases to keep revenues in line with rising expenditures. Our fiscal problems are caused not by under taxation--but by over-spending.
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The Left's War on Legal Immigration and Voter Integrity
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published October 24, 2011 in The Washington Times.
On Oct. 14, a federal judge blocked key portions of Alabama's new immigration law after several groups, including the Obama Justice Department and the ACLU, asked for an injunction.
The Justice Department claims that states that assist in enforcing federal immigration laws are violating the Constitutional separation of powers.
Really? If that's so, I wonder if state police in Alabama are barred from arresting someone trying to pass counterfeit $100 bills, since it's federal currency. Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution gives Congress the power "to provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting the Securities and current Coin of the United States." It doesn't say anything about state troopers.
Likewise, Article I, Sec. 8 of the Constitution authorizes Congress "to establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization." State police arresting illegal aliens has nothing to do with deciding who can be naturalized.
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Not-So-Free Speech in New Jersey
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Jan LaRue was published October 22, 2011 on the American Thinker website.
Who can say "gay" isn't okay in New Jersey? Judging by Gov. Chris Christie's actions, teachers can't.
Christie told CNN's Piers Morgan on June 15 that he doesn't think homosexuality is a sin even though his religion does. To be sure that the citizens of New Jersey are aware of Christie's beliefs, the interview and transcript are posted on the official New Jersey website. Okay, that's his opinion. But read on.
New Jersey high school teacher Viki Knox may have been inspired by Christie's comments to think that it was okay for a New Jersey public employee to express an opinion about homosexuality, as if the First Amendment is alive and well in New Jersey.
Knox believes that homosexuality is a sin. She posted her belief -- not on an official school web site, but on her personal Facebook page. The Union High School District is investigating Knox to determine if she violated school policies.
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Millions of Dollars Support Political Consultants & Big Media To Keep E-Verify, Other Reforms Out of Public Debate
We Need Donations from just 1% of our Members to Beat Them & Keep the Politicians Focused on Immigration
If You Have Never Donated to Help Pay for Seven Million Faxes a Year, Would You Consider It Today?
I hope you're as excited as I am that NumbersUSA's many forms of grassroots mobilization, advertising, and personal staff contacts have moved immigration onto the main stage of presidential debates and media discussions this fall.
As a result, voters who are concerned about immigration can make a more informed choice for President. And the attention paid to immigration is also helping several strong enforcement measures like E-Verify work their way through Congress.
That is quite an accomplishment. National political consultants have advised candidates and congressional leaders to stay away from immigration issues entirely. Big foundations have put tens of millions of dollars into consulting firms to ensure that the mainstream media bash every effort to reduce foreign-labor competition.
But our side is holding our own in this fight. Pressure from NumbersUSA and our 1 million members like you have forced candidates to take positions on national mandatory E-Verify, cutting incentives for illegal immigration, and building more fencing along the southern border. Our side can make this kind of progress because our members step up to the plate each month and provide the minimum amount of donations that we need to sustain our efforts in this battle.
NumbersUSA needs ONE PERCENT of you in any given month to send us 10, 25 or 50 dollars. That's all we need to fight back against the millions being spent by the open-borders forces.
But every month, we have to raise that money. And this month, we're behind. With only a few days left to go in October, we are far below halfway to our 1 percent minimum of participation.
NumbersUSA Action's internet mobilization system of email, facebook and twitter alerts, of free on-line faxing and of grassroots lobbying of all kinds is supported 100% by small donors (although we would be ecstatic to get our first non-tax-deductible donation of several thousand dollars from a wealthy donor). It is the $10, $25, $50 and $100 donations from regular citizens that keep NumbersUSA ready every month to meet every challenge.
But the real miracle of NumbersUSA is the way we turn a relatively small amount of money into such huge dividends. The secret ingredient is that the voluntary efforts of citizens like you--using the tools paid by the small donations from citizens like you--create outcomes that often beat the other side even though it often out-spends us fifty to one.
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Try to imagine a time and place in America where an unelected, albeit powerful, government insider unilaterally announces that the law of land is going to be suspended, and replaced with something, well, something else - something that looks a heck of a lot like a plan recently rejected by Congress.
Initial reaction to the announcement (which is actually made in an internal memo), is disbelief and outrage: "You can't just change the law" cry the advocates for open and transparent government "because you don't like it."
To which the powerful government insider and his political masters reply: "Just watch us - we are using our discretion!"
Hard to believe? Yes. But this is precisely what has happened in recent months - ever since June 17 - when the Director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) declared that deportation laws for illegal aliens will - effectively immediately - no longer be enforced, except in extreme cases where the potential deportee is a violent criminal or a potential terrorist.
Under the rubric of "prosecutorial discretion" ICE's head honcho has effectively managed to implement the provisions of a bill that was defeated by Congress last year calling for "amnesty" for various categories of illegal aliens.
Indeed, the Morton memo, lays out entire categories of illegal aliens (as opposed to individuals) against whom ICE will simply not to apply laws as they were written by Congress.
According to the memo, "ICE officers, agents and attorneys should consider all relevant factors, including, but not limited to" 19 specific categories of deportable aliens. Among the factors ICE personnel are instructed to consider are:
- The length of an individual's presence in the United States.
- Potential eligibility for the DREAM Act or other proposed amnesty programs, or other relief from deportation.
- Lack of a criminal record.
- Ties to the community.
- Relationship to a legal permanent resident or a U.S. citizen.
- Age, with particular consideration given to minors and the elderly.
What's more, there is absolutely no provision for independent monitoring or any other mechanism to hold ICE responsible. The result? Non-criminal illegal aliens will simply be permitted to remain in the country and work here illegally, without fear of removal.
The interests of the United States of America, it seems to me, is not being well served by this kind of law-making by memo! If, like me, you are outraged that the administration is refusing to carry out its responsibilities to enforce most immigration laws, please help FAIR get out our message: Non-enforcement unacceptable.
A donation $20 or $30 will go a long way to help us promote public understanding and critical thinking about the miscarriage of American justice by immigration officials.
Please give now! It is fast and convenient to make a one-time gift to FAIR or a specify a monthly amount. Remember, without your help, we cannot be effective.
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Thursday, October 27, 2011
To: Friends & Supporters
From: Gary L. Bauer
Obama's Malaise Speech
Obama's presidency resembles Jimmy Carter's more every day. The latest example came Tuesday at a San Francisco fundraiser when Obama chided the American people, saying, "We have lost our ambition, our imagination, and our willingness to do the things that built the Golden Gate Bridge."
Every time Obama goes to "San Fran," he lets his guard down and says what he really believes about the country that elected him. What is it about San Francisco that makes Obama run down his country? It was in front of a San Francisco audience that Obama made his infamous quip about bitter middle Americans clinging to their guns and religion.
Whether it was Carter in 1979 or Obama now, America doesn't need a president whose first instinct is to blame others for his own failures.
Obama is just plain wrong. We couldn't easily build the Golden Gate Bridge today because there would be layer upon of layer of bureaucratic red tape standing in the way. Then there would be environmental impact studies that would take years.
If you got past all of that, you might face lawsuits from liberals eager to protect the polka-dotted blueberry river flea that only mates in odd numbered years in the precise location where the bridge is to be built. Other lefties would object, claiming that a bridge only continues our dependence on cars and fossil fuels. And on and on it would go. We haven't lost our ambition; we have been beaten down by the political left.
Obama has the audacity to lecture us about losing our imagination and willingness to do big things when he is the one who has slashed NASA's budget. In fact, there are reports today that he plans to zero out funding for all planetary exploration.
Ronald Reagan never ran down America as Obama routinely does. He had an infectious love for this country. He believed America was a "shining city upon a hill," a blessed nation that had a rendezvous with destiny. Yes, America has faced tough times. But we got through them -- and not because we were soft or lacked imagination. If anything, it is Big Government, which the left constantly turns to, which lacks imagination, stifles innovation and causes people to go soft.
I don't know about you, but I can't wait for November 2012!
Advantage Romney
New CNN/Time polls of the early voting states have good news for former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney. Here's how they break down by state:
- Iowa: Romney 24%, Cain 21%, Paul 12%, Gingrich and Perry at 10%. No other candidate was in double digits.
- New Hampshire: Romney 40%, Cain 13%, Paul 12%.
- South Carolina: Romney 25%, Cain 23%, Paul 12%, Perry 11%.
- Florida: Romney 30%, Cain 18%, Gingrich and Perry 9%.
Why is this important? While national polls show Herman Cain leading the GOP primary contest, the race won't be decided in a single national primary. It will be decided in state-by-state elections, beginning with Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Florida.
With each victory, the winner -- and perhaps the second and third place finishers -- builds momentum. And as their losses mount and the money dries up, lower tier candidates quickly start dropping out.
Based on these latest big media polls, Romney appears to have the inside track for now, with Herman Cain emerging as the most likely challenger. Even though the vast majority of GOP primary voters are backing other candidates, as long as the field remains divided, it's advantage Romney. However, another recent poll found that 80% of Republican voters also say they are not firmly committed to anyone!
Yesterday I was at a meeting with lots of conservative insiders. For many, Romney was not their first choice, but there was a lot of talk about a hypothetical Romney/Rubio ticket. (Coincidentally, the Washington Post today published its second hit piece on Sen. Marco Rubio in less than a week.)
What do you think? I'm particularly interested in your feedback, especially if Romney is not your first choice. Would adding Rubio to the ticket make you more or less comfortable with Romney? Use this link to respond.
Liberal Media Distortions
Here are two examples of how the media and liberals are distorting the facts to confuse voters and portray conservatives negatively.
Consider this headline from the front page of today's Washington Post: "Democrats Make Offer: $3 Trillion In Cuts." The average person is going to see that headline and think, "Hey, Democrats want to cut $3 trillion in spending." It certainly got my attention. But the headline is deliberately misleading.
As we reported yesterday, Democrats on the deficit reduction super committee are demanding massive tax increases. As the Post eventually explains, Democrats are proposing $3 trillion in deficit reduction with at least $1.3 trillion coming from higher taxes. But as Rep. Paul Ryan noted this morning, this is in addition to the massive tax increases already baked into ObamaCare and other tax hikes scheduled for January 1, 2013.
Here's the second example. In their desperation to retake the House, Democrats and the media know that Congress' approval rating is in the tank. So Obama and his liberal allies are increasingly referring to the "Republican Congress."
There is no Republican Congress -- they only control the House. Democrats, under Harry Reid, control the Senate. Liberals and media are trying to tar all Republicans with Congress' unpopularity. Moreover, it is also hard for Obama to run against a "Do-Nothing" Congress when his party controls half of it!
Is The House At Risk?
Democrats are desperate to make Nancy Pelosi Speaker of the House once again, and they think they can pull it off.
Their strategy begins by targeting 19 GOP-held House seats that voted for Obama in 2008 and John Kerry in 2004. One these "Obama/Kerry Republicans" is conservative hero Allen West in FL-22. After that, Democrats are focused on 43 districts that voted for Obama, but backed George W. Bush in 2004. This gives Pelosi 62 targets -- and she only needs to win 25.
A left-leaning polling firm just completed surveys in 12 GOP-held districts and the results are worrisome. When voters were asked if they would "like to reelect" their current representative, the results ranged from a low of 33% to a high of 44%, which suggests that all 12 incumbents would likely lose if the elections were held today.
Let me add this caveat: This was a liberal poll and 9 of the 12 districts polled were in the liberal states of California and Illinois. That said, no one should fool themselves into thinking that 2012 will be a repeat of 2010. The greater danger is that it looks more like 2008, when Democrats ran the tables and captured all three branches of government.
I'm not predicting a disaster at the ballot box, but we know this much: Obama's reelection campaign will spend $1 billion to boost turnout among liberal voters. Conservatives who narrowly won in marginal districts last year are vulnerable next year. And especially so if the redistricting process went poorly in their states.
Here's my bottom line: As I have said before, complacency is our worst enemy. Everything is at stake in 2012. I don't want to see Barack Obama narrowly reelected and Nancy Pelosi as Speaker of the House again because conservatives took the elections for granted.
I want to see Obama defeated in a landslide, our House majority expanded and Harry Reid evicted from the Senate Majority Leader's office because every conservative worked his heart out to save our country!
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News from The Hill:
Obama administration partially approves massive Medicaid cuts requested by California
By Julian Pecquet
The Obama administration on Thursday approved hundreds of millions of dollars of cuts to California's Medicaid program that the state had requested to shore up its dismal finances. Gov. Jerry Brown (D-Calif.) this summer requested the authority to slash Medicaid payments to providers by 10 percent in order to save $623 million this year and next. Cindy Mann, the director of the federal Center for Medicaid and State Operations, said Thursday that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has partially approved the request while rejecting cuts that would affect beneficiaries' access to care. Read the complete story here.
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Team Lowey Squashes Chelsea Clinton Story (Updated x 4: Now With More Squashing)
BY Celeste Katz
NY-18 Rep. Nita Lowey's office says it's not true she's leaving the office she won in 1988 to pave the way for a Chelsea Clinton bid for Congress.
A New Rochelle blog, Talk of the Sound, ran a story this afternoon which said, in part, that "Clinton has been approached by "the right people" in the New York Democratic Party, according to one source in Albany. While no decision has been made, Clinton is said to be "actively considering" a Congressional run from New York State in 2012.
UPDATE: "This is 100% false. She is not running for Congress in the 18th District or any other," said Clinton spokesman Matt McKenna.
"The plan is to identify an open seat for Clinton in or around New York City where she currently resides with her husband, Marc Mezvinsky," the blog item continues.
"While no specific district has been determined, New York City and Westchester are said to be the focus with New York's 18th District considered a strong possibility. The 18th encompasses much of Westchester County, just south of where her parents have maintained a home for the past 12 years."
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Stuff You Can't Make Up
Posted: 26 Oct 2011 11:08 AM PDT
(Steven Hayward)
Busy day-and week-for me. Subbing for Bill Bennett this morning on the radio was fun, but three hours behind the mike is surprisingly tiring. I don't know how Bill and the rest of our radio heroes do this day after day, week after week. My flight out to California at noon got bollixed up, so I've postponed my trip to tomorrow. Lots of blogging to catch up on-I've got lots of items stacking up in my Power Line to-do folder. I'll try to get to more of them today.
But in the "you-can't-make-this-stuff-up" department, driving home I flipped over to WMAL, Washington's biggest talk station, where the news announcer relayed the finding from Amy Winehouse's autopsy that she died from massive alcohol poisoning. To find out more, he said, turn to our station's website, wmal.com and click on "the buzz." The buzz? Really? Couldn't they find a way to put this story somewhere else on their site?
A Dissenting Note on the Iraqi Troop Withdrawal
Posted: 26 Oct 2011 10:55 AM PDT
(John Hinderaker)
A long-time reader writes:
I disagree with John's view on President Obama's decision to exit Iraq. John argues that "the U.S. has done everything reasonably possible to give Iraqis a chance. At this point, the future is up to them."
It's difficult to argue with this sentiment, but I view the situation in more pragmatic terms. For me, the relevant question is whether a U.S. withdrawal appreciably increases the likelihood of very bad outcomes in Iraq. I believe the answer is yes. And if, for example, our withdrawal leads to a substantial deterioration in Iraq's security and/or a significant increase in Iran's ability to control events there, then it will not be true that the U.S. did everything reasonably possible to give Iraqis a chance. Rather, the U.S. will have eschewed a relatively low cost way of helping Iraq secure its future.
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Rick Perry: Not Ready For Prime Time
Posted: 26 Oct 2011 10:48 AM PDT
(John Hinderaker)
Yesterday Rick Perry made the astonishing claim that it was a mistake for him to participate in this year's GOP presidential debates: "These debates are set up for nothing more than to tear down the candidates. It's pretty hard to be able to sit and lay out your ideas and your concepts with a one-minute response," the Texas governor told Fox News's Bill O'Reilly. "So, you know, if there was a mistake made, it was probably ever doing one of the [debates], when all they're interested in is stirring up between the candidates instead of really talking about the issues that are important to the American people."
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The "Occupiers" Aren't a Political Movement...
Posted: 26 Oct 2011 09:59 AM PDT
(John Hinderaker)
...they are a crime wave. In Oakland, battles between occupiers and police have been raging for the last 24 hours. At PJ Media's Tatler, Zombie has an excellent collection of videos and photos which she continues to update. Dozens of videos have been posted on YouTube, pretty much all of them by sympathizers with the protesters who are claiming police brutality.
Zombie sums up the origins of the current confrontations:
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Send in the clowns
Posted: 26 Oct 2011 05:14 AM PDT
(Scott Johnson)
I probably made a mistake yesterday in singling out Mitt Romney for criticism as a GOP presidential candidate. He has become a caricature of a certain kind of candidate, but we seem to be going through the Send in the Clowns phase of the contest for the nomination.
1. Rick Perry: Jennifer Rubin has been roasting Perry for his assorted flops and failings. She declared yesterday "A day down the drain for Rick Perry." Perry took a detour down the birther rabbit hole. Something's happening here...
2. Herman Cain: Prolife or not prochoice? Jeffrey Anderson considers the evidence. To Mr. Cain, it's a trick question. If Mr. Cain is our nominee, every unscripted encounter with a reporter threatens to be a thrill a minute experience. But shouldn't he have a handle on the question of abortion at this point?
3. Michele Bachmann: Michele's New Hampshire staff has departed en masse. In my opinion, it's time to come home and nail down her congressional seat if she is still interested in it.
4. Jon Huntsman: His constituency as a presidential candidate is somewhere other than in the Republican Party.
5. Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich: Like Grant in Galena, they are biding their time. Each is waiting to become the not-Romney candidate of choice. It might happen!
6. Ron Paul: I can only repeat myself. Can we trade him to the Democrats for a player to be named later? He would make a great consultant to Dennis Kucinich on foreign policy.
It is always dangerous to fall in love with a politician, but the current crop has made it too damn easy to avoid this pitfall. Bobby Jindal, anyone?
UPDATE: John Podhoretz is thinking along the same lines. He cites additional evidence of unseriousness among the GOP field.
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Susan's Paul Ryan Medicare Pamphlet - please print this and give it to your contacts
SAVING MEDICARE
Since 1964, our nation's senior citizens have relied on Medicare to ensure access to healthcare. Now the program is going broke -- and it is going broke fast.
It began spending its reserves in 2008 when payouts exceeded dollars collected for the program. [cite]
Predictions for exhaustion of the reserve vary, with 2024 identified by the Social Security Administration in the Trustees 2011 report. [cite]
The Democrat response is to reduce the amount Medicare reimburses physicians for their services. [cite]
This will result in fewer participating physicians and the physicians continuing in the program seeing fewer Medicare patients.
Patients will wait longer and have fewer choices in seeing a doctor.
If this makes access to care sufficiently untenable, or if Medicare does not get on viable financial footing, it will be administered through ObamaCare[cite].
This would include cost controls by a 15-member board of bureaucrats deciding wich treatments, drugs, and surgeries patients can receive.
Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), Chairman of the House Committee on the Budget, has a plan which saves Medicare with no disruption to today's seniors and reasonable changes for future retirees.
The Ryan Plan is widely misunderstood and misrepresented. The future of our seniors' healthcare is too important to be decided on misinformation. Here are the facts about Medicare and the Ryan Plan.
The Ryan Plan in a Nutshell
Those currently retired and those close to retirement (55 and over) will see no change from the existing Medicare system. Existing physician reimbursement flaws will be corrected to encourage physicians to continue participating in the system.[cite]
On retirement, those currently under 55 will be provided vouchers from the government to help pay for health insurance. Voucher amounts will be based in part on income, with wealthier individuals receiving less assistance. Risk pools [cite] will be created to ensure that insurance companies will provide coverage to seniors, despite their generally higher use of medical care.
The result is retirees will have a system that gives them options, similar to that which members of Congress use and which will include options similar to Medicare Advantage, the popular plan eliminated by Obamacare. [cite]
The Ryan Plan Incorporates These Important Points
It is important that we
Plan now for changes, to avoid chaos later
The medicare system is running out of money. Change is coming, one way or another.
Pretending we can continue as we are is not an option, it is a recipe for disaster. The longer we wait to make changes, the greater the disruption to current and future retires, the more abruptly the changes will have to be implemented, and the fewer options we will have.
By implementing the Ryan Plan now, we will
- maintain the existing system for current retirees and for individuals 55 and over
- provide a sustainable, quality system for future retirees.
It is important that we...
Preserve the existing system, unchanged, for current retirees and workers 55 and older
This bears repeating:
- Under the Ryan Plan, if you are retired, your Medicare coverage will not change.
- If you are over 55, Medicare as it exists today will be there for you when you retire.
- And the Ryan Plan provides for quality health insurance coverage upon retirement for those currently under 55.
It is important that we...
Maintain availability of insurance coverage for future retirees
Since individuals generally require more medical care as they age, it tends to be difficult for older individuals to find private health insurance that will cover them. That is one reason our existing Medicare system is considered so important for many. The Ryan Plan creates risk pools which encourage multiple insurance companies to offer health coverage to those of retirement age.
It is important that we...
Maintain affordability
Individuals have paid into the Medicare system with the promise that coverage will be there for them when they retire. Unfortunately, we are facing an economic crisis in this country and Medicare is a significant part of the problem. To save the system for everyone and to avert broader economic calamity, in the future wealthier Americans will have to bear a greater portion of their healthcare burden.
It is important that we...
Make it feasible for doctors to participate in Medicare
Currently in many areas of the country physicans are reimbursed for Medicare patients at a rate that does not cover their expenses. Recent changes put forth by the Democrats further reduce reimbursement. [cite] This is not sustainable for any business and as a result increasing numbers of physicians are discontinuing their participation in the Medcare program. Patients are finding that their physician is no longer a Medicare provider and when they look for another physician it is increasingly difficult for them to find a Medicare provider who is accepting new patients and can see them in a reasonable time. [cite]. The Ryan plan fixes the reimbursement problem, making it feasible for physicians to continue participating in Medicare.
It is important that we...
Keep medical decisions between patients and doctors, not remote government panels
The Ryan plan harnesses the free market and puts choice in the hands of the patient. Retirees will be able to pick the insurance plan that best meets their needs, applying government vouchers toward premium costs. Medical decisions would be made in consultation with their personal physician, based on the individual's situation and preferences.
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October 27, 2011
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On Today's Program
 Tonight on GBTV: The latest from Occupy Wall Street - from the violence to why 9/10 tents are empty at night, with guests from The Blaze. Don't miss it tonight live at 5pm only on GBTV!
GBTV on Twitter: Make sure to follow @GB_TV on Twitter for real-time links to the news and stories Glenn is discussing on air, previews and recaps of our daily broadcasts, live commentary during the radio & TV shows and we may even fill you in on what caused Glenn to eat an entire pack of these last night live on GBTV.
Another border agent railroaded by government?
Glenn interviewed the wife of now convicted border agent Jesus Diaz about the case that seems to bear resemblance to the Compean & Ramos ordeal. What'd Diaz do? He 'roughed up' a suspected drug runner who was caught with other illegals bringing 150 pounds of marijuana across the border from Mexico into the US. He claims his innocence and the suspect has no visible marks from the so-called 'rough handcuffing'. Even if he did - who cares? Check out the interview on radio HERE.
Why did George Soros meet with NYPD Commissioner?
According to the Huffington Post, George Soros was "escorted in by a retired NYPD cop, driving a wine-colored Mercedes, (and) the left-leaning billionaire was whisked in and out of police headquarters with no one being the wiser." The topic? Occupy Wall Street. Why in the world would this meeting be allowed to happen? Get details from The Blaze and Glenn's reaction on radio today - WATCH.
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Pass it on! Glenn says his new book The Snow Angel is one of the best stories he's ever told. It may also be one of the most important. Based in part on his real life experience, The Snow Angel shows how insidious abuse, in all of its forms, really is. Breaking the cycle is something that can take generations to accomplish. Follow the journey from heartbreak to hope in The Snow Angel - on sale now for under $12 at many online retailers.
The best Glenn Beck/political cartoon ever? LOOK.
Obama's leadership: Americans have lost 'ambition' and 'imagination'
Nothing like evoking the great Jimmy Carter when trying to inspire and energize American entrepreneurs to kick start the economy again. Not sure if Obama recalls, but Carter's rhetoric led to prolonged malaise and persistently high unemployment. Why is Obama mimicking one of the worst Presidents in American history? Glenn has the audio and reacts on radio today. WATCH
Gary the scary numbers guy makes a prediction Glenn spoke with the incomparable Gary the numbers guy about what is coming our way in the future. He strongly believes that something really bad is going to happen on 11-11-11 simply because, as he attempts to explain, all bad things happen on '11' and goes through the in-depth math to prove it. Will Glenn, Pat & Stu buy what he's selling? Find out HERE. Great Interview: Glenn interviewed the author of The Entitlement Trap on GBTV last night. Great discussion on parenting and the challenges of raising children in a world that fosters a sense of entitlement. Watch the interview HERE. Both The Entitlement Trap and The Three Deceivers are available for 40% off at Markdown.com for a limited time only - get both books now and start applying them to your life and the lives of your children.
Where are the feminists? One 'Occupy' group has sent out fliers asking rape victims not to go to police but to report sexual assaults to a special committee. The committee will then give counsel to the rapist! The group is now backtracking - but Glenn has the latest on radio. Get the story HERE.
Occupy GBTV? The so-called 66% are invading the 4th Hour! Get more HERE. PLUS - Who now has to do a "constitutional dance" everyday? You don't want to miss this video! WATCH The Daily Mail: Beck is RIGHT. Check out the supportive piece agreeing with Glenn's letter praising those in Parliament who are being called 'rebels' just for standing up against an ever expanding big government. Get the full story HERE.
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