Quote: 

"Were we directed from Washington when to sow, and when to reap, we should soon want bread." 

~ Thomas Jefferson, Autobiography, 1821

Word of the Week: 

Ineptocracy (in-ep-toc-ra-cy) 

A system of government where the least capable of leading are elected by the least capable of producing, and where the members of society least likely to sustain themselves or to succeed are rewarded with goods and services paid for by the confiscated wealth of a diminishing number of producers.

 

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361 Days until the 2012 General Election  

'Made in China': U.S. Military Finding Fake Chinese Electronics in Gear At Alarming Rate 

The U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee has found that counterfeit electronic parts are finding their way into the U.S. military supply chain at an alarming rate.

SH-60B Seahawk

The Senate released a report that claims that on 1,800 separate occasions, the U.S. military or contractors have purchased electronics materials for defense systems that were either fake or poorly recycled.

In some cases, defective chips made their way into critical U.S. weapons and navigation systems. The examples could provide a serious wake-up call to defense contractors and others involved in the military supply chain. In one instance highlighted by the Senate report, it was pointed out that, on September 8th, the defense contractor Raytheon notified the Navy of the following:

TX Motorcycle Group Takes Harleys to Western Wall to Stand With Israel 

What do you get when you mix 71 tattooed Texans, motorcycles, Orthodox Jews and Israel's Temple Mount? A prayer rally, apparently.

According to Beliefnet, on Sunday, 71 Harley-loving Pentecostals, part of "Mission M25," a motorcycle ministry, joined Jews who were praying at the Western Wall (the only portion of Solomon's Temple that still remains).

November 10th, 2011  

Grassfire Update

Dear Patriot,

While debate continues to rage between Republicans and Democrats over the Congressional Review Act Resolution of Disapproval (S.J. Res. 6), to stop the Obama administration's illegal takeover of the Internet through Net Neutrality regulations, a vote is scheduled for sometime Thursday, Nov. 10.

Patriot, that means grassroots Americans literally have less than 24 hours to drive home their point to Senate lawmakers on both sides of the political aisle.

If you haven't yet responded to our repeated calls to action over the federal government's illegal power grab of the Internet, the time to act is now!

+ + Schedule your Faxes for Immediate Delivery!

With so little time remaining, Grassfire Nation is urging all members of our team to schedule personalized faxes for immediate delivery to key Senate targets -- including your two State lawmakers and Representative.

Click here now to ensure your faxes are delivered prior to this vote:

www.grassfire.com/2141/offer.asp?Ref_ID=500062

To hold the Obama administration at bay, fifty-one votes are needed -- including four Democrat votes. We've identified the most vulnerable Democrats in this vote, and are asking our team to blitz them with personalized faxes in the hours leading to this critical vote.

Click here to schedule your faxes for delivery:

www.grassfire.com/2141/offer.asp?Ref_ID=500062

For those preferring to send faxes on your own, simply download the fax numbers, and the letters if you prefer to send them on your own. Regardless of the methods you choose, it is important for citizens to act.

Thank you for your outstanding efforts.

Grassfire Nation and Patriot Action Network

P.S: A recent NYU study found that Net Neutrality's crushing federal regulations will likely cost the economy upwards of 100,000-200,000 jobs, and bring the tech sector to a screeching halt if they are put into effect beginning November 20.

Furthermore, private sector seed money and investments would all but disappear due to the fed's micro-managing of the Internet.

Don't delay. Schedule your faxes for immediate delivery by clicking here:

www.grassfire.com/2141/offer.asp?Ref_ID=500062

For more Information on the Internet Takeover:

Crunch Time to Stop the FCC's Internet Takeover

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November 9, 2011

Good Morning Patriots!

The news has been a little slow coming this after noon. There are a couple of things that you need to be aware of that's going on and if you are in the areas of Washington DC on Friday make sure you attend the Veterans Day Rally that is being held at the Washington Monument. Also, Patriot Action Network's Very Own Darla Dawald will be speaking at the Arizona Conservative Unity Rally on Saturday November 12. Details are posted below.

And Now...The News

Veterans Day Rally/Muster DC  http://mellie.patriotactionnetwork.com/2011/11/09/11-11-11-veterans-day-where-will-you-be/    Arizona Conservative Unity Rally November 12, 2011  http://arizona.patriotactionnetwork.com/2011/11/09/november-12-conservative-unity-rally/

Super Committee Democrats BOLT!  http://www.patriotactionnetwork.com/groups/congress-house-watchmen/forum/topic/dont-let-the-door-hit-ya/

  Emergency Alert System...FAIL!  http://www.patriotactionnetwork.com/groups/obam-administration-watchmen/forum/topic/emergency-alert-system-fail/    The Character Assassination of Herman Cain  http://umreb781.patriotactionnetwork.com/2011/11/09/investigate-the-character-assassination-of-herman-cain/

 

Yahoo! Announces Partnership With The Blaze for Election Coverage 

Do you Yahoo?  

That was the question Yahoo! once used in its viral marketing campaign. The answer: about 90 percent of the country's voting-age population does. And today, The Blaze is happy to say that it does, too.

In a Tuesday press release, Yahoo! announced that The Blaze will be one of its 2012 election coverage partners.

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Calls Needed

to

Oppose the U.S. Senate's Big-Government Education Bill

William A. Estrada, Esq.
HSLDA Federal Relations

Melanie P. Palazzo
Congressional Action Program Director

November 1, 2011

Introduction

The U.S. Senate Education Committee has decided to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA). This massive federal education bill was last reauthorized in 2001 as the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB).

HSLDA's federal relations staff have read this 868-page bill, and we believe that while it does not directly impact homeschool freedom, the bill will 1) increase the federal role in education at the expense of state, local, and parental control, and 2) will greatly increase the pressure on states to align their curriculum and standards, resulting in de facto national education standards.

Urgent Calls Needed to Senate Education Committee

The Senate Education Committee has already voted this ESEA bill out of committee, but at the urging of Senator Rand Paul (KY) the committee will hold a hearing on the bill Tuesday, November 8. If either of your senators are on the Education Committee, HSLDA urges you to call with the following message:

"I am concerned that the ESEA reauthorization bill scheduled for a committee hearing next Tuesday will greatly increase the federal government's control over education. As a homeschooler, I understand that parents-not federal education officials-are best suited to make educational choices for their children. Please oppose attempts to increase national control over education."

Senate Education Committee Members

You may identify and contact your two U.S. senators using HSLDA's Legislative Toolbox.

Senators Paul, Richard Burr (NC), and Orrin Hatch (UT) share our concerns about this bill and should be thanked.

Background

In 2001, Congress passed NCLB. While HSLDA was neutral on this bill because it included strongly written protections for homeschoolers, and prohibitions on federal funding for national teacher certification, national standards, national testing, and national databases, NCLB also greatly increased the federal government's role in education.

A decade later, nearly all education policy makers agree that NCLB is too inflexible. HSLDA believes this illustrates that the federal government should not be in the business of establishing education policy for the nation's schoolchildren.

This past month, the U.S. Senate has been working on reauthorizing NCLB. HSLDA is concerned the Senate's bill continues the failed "Washington-knows-best, one-size-fits-all" approach that was widely criticized in NCLB. In addition, one provision in the Senate's bill mandates that any state taking federal funds must put in place "College and Career Ready Aligned Standards." Mandating that each state have aligned standards with aligned coursework will guarantee the creation of national academic standards, national curriculum, and national testing. We believe this will result in the eventual requirement that homeschoolers use these national standards, curriculum, and testing.

For more about HSLDA's concerns read "The Danger of National Standards" and "Nationalized Education Standards-an Update for Home Educators."

You may also read HSLDA's legislative summary.

It is still unclear at this point whether homeschool protections will stay in the Senate's education bill, but even if they do, the trend of national standards could lead to homeschoolers losing the freedom to choose the curriculum for their children. For these reasons, HSLDA is urging opposition to the Senate's ESEA reauthorization legislation.

Morning Bell: The Backdoor Attempt to Rewrite No Child Left Behind

With Waivers, National Standards Anything but Voluntary

State-Based Reform, Not National Standards, Key to Better Education

Senate No Child Left Behind Proposal: More Big Government for Schools

Splitting Hairs on the Cadaver

A Special Invitation
To a Two-Day Campaign Training
Presented by Pennsylvania Family PAC

Changing the Culture by Winning Campaigns

November 9-10, 2011

Harrisburg, PA

Voters today - perhaps more than at any time in recent history - are yearning for principled candidates committed to standing strong for the timeless values upon which our country was founded and standing stronger against the politics-as-usual establishment working to undermine those values.

•         Are you such a candidate - or do you know one running in your area that you'd like to help? or
•         Do you wish you had the skills to help elect a good candidate? or

• Have you thought about running for local or state elected office - or know of someone else?

The Winning Campaigns training school shows pro-life, pro-family, principled - candidates, campaign staff, and grassroots activists how to run winning campaigns without compromising their values - with a special emphasis placed on running and winning primaries (even against incumbents). 

Who should attend?
Local or state candidates, potential candidates, campaign staff, campaign volunteers, grassroots leaders, and concerned citizens - who are committed to advancing pro-life/pro-family principles. This training is perfect for anyone who wishes to learn how to run or assist the local campaigns of those running for elected office.

What's the cost?
Nothing; registration is free, but you must register in advance. 

More details on the event and an informational brochure are available by request. To get more information or to register, call Dan at 717-545-0600.

THIS IS BY INVITATION ONLY. YOU are invited (as a PA Family supporter), but if you know of someone else who could benefit from this training as a candidate or potential candidate or campaign worker, please let them know and have them contact us directly. But hurry, space is limited and reservations should be made by November 4th.
 

Join us as our friend, Dr. Rich Brake, presents:     

An Original or Living Constitution?   Learning and Preserving America's Founding Principles

When: 

11/19/2011 from 9:30 AM to 1:30 PM

Where:

Freeman Auditorium (Valley Forge Military Academy) : 1001 Eagle Road Wayne, PA 19087

Attendees are encouraged to come to this morning-long seminar to learn more about the Roots of American Constitutionalism; the Fight over Ratification; the still-relevant Hamilton-Jefferson Debate; and the Progressive Critique of the U.S. Constitution. There will also be plenty of time for a vigorous question and answer session, as well as opportunity for networking with other citizens who care about the future of America's Constitutional Republic.

This seminar is free and open to the public, and will be conducted on the beautiful and historical grounds of the Valley Forge Military Academy. Light refreshments will be served. What a perfect setting for considering the vital institutions and principles that American Patriots have struggled and died to preserve for over two hundred years of American history.

Dr. Richard Brake is the Director of Education at the Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI), a non-profit educational foundation with a mission to "Educate for Liberty"-by inspiring college students to discover and embrace the principles that make America prosperous, moral, and free. As part of his duties, Dr. Brake directs the Institute's Civic Literacy Program, which has documented the failure of America's top universities to teach their students the founding history, texts, and institutions of our constitutional republic. Dr. Brake earned a B.A. in History from Georgetown University; an M.A. in Government from the University of Virginia; and a Ph.D. in Political Science from Temple University. Prior to joining ISI, Dr. Brake taught American Politics and Constitutional Law at Temple University in Pennsylvania and the Richard Stockton College in New Jersey. Earlier in his career, Dr. Brake worked as a legislative assistant in both the Pennsylvania and U.S. Houses of Representatives, and in 2006 he retired at the rank of Captain after serving ten years as an Ordnance Officer in the Pennsylvania Army National Guard. 

 For more information, go to this link:

https://www.advancefreedom.org/Events.aspx?id=107 

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. 

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

Speaker William Taylor Reil on Nullification and our 10^th Amendment rights  Saturday, November 12^th 6pm

Where:  P J Ryan's, 231 Bridge Street, Phoenixville - downstairs private dining area.    

For additional info contact Maggie at Maggie@theunsolicitedopinion.com or Diane at uncanny2@verizon.net 

Click to visit their site and see a bigger poster . . .

A call to action has been issued! Will or can you attend?

Patriots Union.org and Veteran Defenders.org have issued  the call to action.

The scheduled muster time and place is 0600 in the morning at the foot of the Washington Monument. 

http://maps.google.com/maps?client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&channel=s&hl=en&biw=1600&bih=771&q=map,+715+H.+St.,+NW.+Washington+DC&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=0x89b7b79203ee5389:0x4964bc200c9b3537,715+H+St+NW,+Washington,+DC+20001&gl=us&ei=2Wy0TrzhK-mW2AWC3-zMDQ&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&ct=image&resnum=1&ved=0CBwQ8gEwAA

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)   

A member received this from his cousin who is serving over there. If any groups are collecting and sending Christmas presents for our troops, this is worth a look.

Lou

"snacks; I.e. Slim jims, granola bars, you name it. Especially for units that go on patrol that have to eat MRE's all the time. Portable or carry size Snacks or small food items are invaluable to a soldier out on a 4 week mission. Bigger items might include small coolers or anything that might keep drinks cold. I also found something as simple as a coffee thermos was incredibly invaluable. Off mission speaking, footballs, soccer balls, DVD movies, magazines and newspapers from home are great. Also Non-elastic bed sheets can provide comfort and privacy if hung up for soldiers crammed in living areas. Hope this helps!"

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Thursday 3-4pm "America's Black Shield" - Ted Hayes and Terrance Lang

We have finally arrived at the point where Germany was in 1930. For general enlightenment; remember, this was signed into law last year!

Take the time to read this break down of Health Care Plan owned and operated by just a few, who are exempt. It is so very important that this gets repealed.

 

 

Since government health care will be MANDATORY - watching this should be, too. Please watch the entire video.... This is a MUST! Then send it to everyone you know - ASAP!

 

Know the TRUTH about the Government Health Care Bill H.R.3200 - Key Points

RedState Morning Briefing

For November 10, 2011

I'll spare you a formal post on the CNBC Debate. Let me just state that of all the stupid debates and all the stupid questions we have been subjected to, I do not believe there could be a more stupid debate with stupider questions than the CNBC Debate. It is the freaking business channel and we were subjected to 90 painful minutes of the Republican candidates explaining how business works to the moderators.

No one treated Herman Cain as the front runner. Even Herman Cain didn't treat Herman Cain as the front runner.

The clear winner is Newt Gingrich who will now become the alternative to Mitt Romney, though it is doubtful he will be able to weather the media storm into his personal life. Believe it or not, Rick Perry had the best damn debate performance of his entire Presidential career last night. He gave fantastic answers. And then . . . wow. What a disaster. It was like finally getting your sail boat out of dry dock to enjoy your first enjoyable sail only to sink. He's going to need every penny of that $15 million after that.

Mitt Romney gave very good answers as usual, but I remain shocked that after all this time he still cannot answer questions on the individual mandate without flubbing.

1. From Insult to Injury: Obama Owes Netanyahu An Apology

Allies are people you work with. Garden pests and leaky faucets are things you "deal with."

President Obama doesn't seem to know the difference.

At the G20 summit last week in France, he let out his true feelings on Israel. And a live mic was there to catch it all.

Here's the exchange between President Obama and French President Sarkozy on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu:

-Sarkozy: "I cannot bear Netanyahu."

-Obama: "You're sick of him, but I have to deal with him every day."

Deal with?

2. The Virginia Way: A Governor's Guide to Results Oriented Conservatism + What it Means for 2012

When your state is known as the "Mother of Presidents", and home to Yorktown, Mount Vernon, Monticello, Appomattox, and the first permanent English settlement in America, you don't toss around the saying "we made history" too lightly.

But, my friends, I am pleased to say that is exactly what the Commonwealth of Virginia did Tuesday. We Made History.

3. When Not Thinking, You Run On Autopilot - Even David Gregory

Were someone in casual conversation to refer to a black person as the n word or even as "colored," what would the reaction be? And if that person immediately took to twitter to say the "remark this morning was a very poor choice of words. Did not mean to make that connection at all. Was not thinking. I apologize," what would people think?

Typically when something like that happens, the presumption is that the person must have had his brain on autopilot and released his inner thinking without passing it through the "acceptable discourse" filter or some such. There could be other explanations - maybe he read something or heard something ahead of time and it got lodged in the input/output loop. That happens to everyone.

What exactly explains David Gregory this morning saying there are no "Grand Wizards" in the GOP to push Herman Cain out of the race?

And this begs a real and serious question I must ask again: After David Gregory's "Grand Wizard" comment, why the hell does the GOP want to let NBC conduct another GOP debate?

If the GOP is going to boycott Univision because of its Marco Rubio family smear, why not boycott NBC's January debate in Florida because of its routine and collective smear of the GOP?

4. The Michigan Republican Who Will Raise Your Taxes

For this week's primary target, I want to make an exception. I do it because the Congressman deserves it and to make a point. I want to focus on someone who represents a district that is split evenly between Republicans and Democrats. For sure, I think its wise to focus on those Republicans who are wasting a good conservative seat, which is why I have covered districts so far that are +10 GOP seats or better. Those are no brainers. But I'd be remiss if I didn't occasionally draw attention to liberal Republicans in swing districts also - particularly one on the Super Committee who seems hell bent on raising your taxes.

Why? For a couple of reasons. First of all, conservatives can hold these seats when they are principled and willing to explain themselves to their constituents. Republican politicos love to forget that Pat Toomey represented a Democrat district that voted for Al Gore, John Kerry, and Barak Obama. He was a die hard advocate of free trade amidst calls for steel tariffs in the steel mills of Allentown, Pennsylvania. He didn't just vote and hide. He was typically the leader of House conservatives during his time in the House of Representatives. He would win handily with winning percentages of 57% (2002), 53% (2000), and 55% (1998). And now he is serving in the United States Senate representing the blue state of Pennsylvania.

5. Charlotte Workers Offered Free Legal Aid To Fight DNC Convention Discrimination

You've probably seen the reports from RedState's Ben Howe on the Democratic National Committee discriminating against union-free Charlotte-area businesses on awarding 2012 Convention work, then Charlotte's Mayor Foxx denying it, only to see the DNC award the Convention work to a Beltway union-company anyway.

6. Rick Perry on Federalism & Immigration

When Governor Perry and I sat down last week in Orange County, CA, I wanted to drill down on two areas of interest for conservative voters.

Pick a fight with a liberal on:  

SELF-ESTEEM.
One of the great excuses made for the poorer performances by certain ethnic groups is their "lack of self-esteem"-which comes, of course, from the sense of inferiority imposed on them either consciously or unconsciously by the white, elitist, capitalist, male hegemony. Much of this stems from research conducted by black socialist Kenneth B. Clark using his infamous "doll" tests. He showed black children in segregated schools a black doll and a white doll and asked which they preferred. When a majority chose the white doll, he argued that segregated schooling lowered black self-esteem. But Clark was a professional grievance-monger and a fraud. What he did not mention was that in research he had conducted in integrated schools, black children were shown to be even more likely to choose the white doll over the black doll. Clark's junk sociology was the basis for sweeping legislation forcing integration in schools through wildly unpopular school busing programs that tore communities apart; and it's also responsible for more recent findings that American kids do worse than many of their international counterparts on academic tests-but think of themselves as being great, and much smarter than they really are. What self-esteem really is, is another liberal assault on a Christian virtue: namely, humility. We could all use a lot more of that.  

All-American Muslims will start airing

November 13^th on TLC. 

American Decency Association plans to monitor the program.

The Learning Channel (TLC) plans to air the first episode of All-American Muslims on Sunday, November 13, 2011, 10 PM EST.  

The program will profile five Muslim families who live in Dearborn Michigan.  This show, since it is called All-American Muslims, will most likely be void of any information regarding Muslims in the United States who want America controlled by Islamic Sharia law.  After all, would that not be UNAmerican.

Approximately thirty three percent (33%) of Dearborn Michigan's population are from Arab decent according to Wikipedia.  Many changes in culture and public policy have taken place in Dearborn and surrounding cities as result of the increase in Muslim populations.

Thomas More Law Center issued the following report:

Christian Pastor's Free Speech Victory against City Dearborn     May 26, 2011

The U. S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled today that Sudanese Christian Pastor George Saieg has a free speech right to distribute religious literature on public sidewalks and evangelize Muslims during the Annual Arab International Festival held each year in Dearborn, Michigan.

For five years Saieg, who specifically ministers to Muslims, had been discussing his Christian faith and passing out literature on Dearborn's sidewalks during the Festival without encountering any  problems. Nevertheless, in 2009 police officials informed him he had to remain in a booth, prohibiting him from distributing his literature on the nearby sidewalks and public streets.

Dearborn is one of the most densely populated Muslim communities in the United States.  It has the largest Mosque in North America.  In the past few years Dearborn has gained national attention for taking a pro-Muslim stance and for the arrest and intimidation of Christian evangelists for engaging in protected speech activity.

The Thomas More Law Center (TMLC), a national conservative Christian public interest law firm based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, filed the federal lawsuit on behalf of Pastor Saieg in 2009, naming the City of Dearborn and its police chief, Ronald Haddad, as defendants.  The case was handled by TMLC Senior Trial Counsel Rob Muise.

In ruling for Saieg, the court recognized the problem Saieg had with booth-based evangelizing: "the penalty of leaving Islam according to Islamic books is death," which makes Muslims reluctant to approach a booth that is publically "labeled as ... Christian."

Click here to read the full report.

This is just one of several accounts of the bias that has occurred against the Christian faith in favor of Islamic rule at the hands of Dearborn officials.   

It is troubling that the Learning Channel would give the "All-American" stamp of approval to a culture that has many followers of Islam who strongly oppose traditional, American values.  The title of this show alone is irresponsible from that perspective.   

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VIDEOS * TODAY'S HOT PICKS 

Accelerating Afghan Withdrawal?

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

Friendless in the Middle East

Daniel Pipes 

Anti-Semitism, a Growth Industry in Bad Times

Alan Caruba 

In bad times, anti-Semitism seems to crawl out of the sewers like a repugnant odor. Right now it is on the rise, and finds expression among some at the 'Occupy' protests.

Today's Hot Topics

We choose, you peruse.

Administration Sells out Latin America to Reds

Cliff Kincaid 

The Transforming Fire in the Middle East

Bruce Kesler 

The Occupy Movement's Classroom Roots

Gabriel Garnica, Esq. 

Administration Weakening U.S. Defense, Military Tells Congress

Jim Kouri, CPP 

On Friday, it will be Veterans Day, but the four service branches of the U.S. Armed Forces are openly critical of the way budget cuts are weakening America's ability to defend itself.

Alabama's Strict Immigration Law to be Simplified?

Immigration News Update 

Iran's Nukes: The Threat is Closer Than it Appears

Cynthia E. Ayers

"Society Shapers will never achieve their goals without setting up an artificially created equality where academics is dumbed down or squeezed out entirely, which is what we have today." 

OWS Evil Agenda

Laura: Here are some headlines for anyone doubting the evil intentions of the "occupy" movement. It is undoubtedly a violent, marxist, anti-Semitic and anti-American movement which seeks the overthrow of our free market system and the destruction of America as we know it. Take a look at the violence, destruction and filth generated by this bilge who believe they have the right to pilfer and mooch off productive citizens and businesses.

Obama-Endorsed #OccupyWallStreet: Protester Claims 'I Wouldn't Give A F*ck If 9/11 Happened 911 More Times'

Obama-Endorsed #OccupyPortland Protesters Threaten To Assault "Pizza Schmizza" Employees with Hammer Because They Ran Out Of Breadsticks

Obama-Endorsed #OccupyAtlanta Protesters Attack Police Officers 

St Paul's staff have to clean up human waste INSIDE the cathedral as protesters 'use it as a latrine' 

Protester throws fit in McDonald's when he can't get free food 

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PM Netanyahu: Compensate Palestinians instead of destroying homes

Dr. Aaron Lerner - IMRA: 

Pop quiz from Israel Law 101: Shimon builds an apartment complex on land in Ramat Gan. It turns out that the land apartment complex is sitting on is owned by Yosef.

Question: What do the courts in Israel rule?

A. Demolish the apartment complex.
B. The apartment complex is the property of Yosef since he own the law.
C. Shimon has to compensate Yosef for the property and Shimon retains possession of the apartment complex.

Answer: C.

And this has in fact happened.

So why is it that when the government lawyers get involved in a case they think that the answer is "A" only because he property is owned by Yousef instead of Yosef?

And why is is that the same courts that rule "C" for Yosef rule "A" for Yousef?

Well it has nothing to do with the law and absolutely everything to do with the political leanings of the government lawyers and the court judges.

Again. No one is claiming that Yousef should not...

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MKs: 'One Way or Another, Left's Foreign Funds Will be Cut Off'

The Knesset will soon vote on two bills that will halt, or at least drastically curtail, donations by EU countries to leftist groups.
By David Lev

While Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said Monday night that his Likud party would support a law that would prohibit non-profit political organizations from receiving contributions from foreign governments, Yisrael Beiteinu believes it has a better idea: Allowing groups to receive contributions, but placing an onerous tax of 45% on them.

The law prohibiting contributions altogether is actually co-sponsored by Yisrael Beiteinu MK Robert Iliatov, and party chairman Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman has expressed support for it. The taxation bill is being sponsored by MK Faina Kirschenbaum, also from Yisrael Beiteinu.

The Likud has not yet said if it was going to support the latter bill as well, but Yisrael Beiteinu said that it would demand that the Ministerial Law Committee approve both bills for Knesset consideration at its...

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Obama Caught on Live Mic Blasting Netanyahu to French PM

'You're Fed Up With Him But I Have to Deal With Him Every Day!'

In a "faux pas" for the ages, President Barack Obama conducted what he assumed was a private conversation about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with French President Nicolas Sarkozy after the G20 summit on Thursday. The only problem, however, was that the microphones the two men were wearing from their earlier press conference, had not in fact been turned off. What ensued was a major public embarrassment after both Obama and the French PM disparaged Netanyahu, saying they cannot "stand" dealing with him.

According to a Monday report in the French website "Arret sur Images," Sarkozy told Obama, "I cannot stand him . He is a liar." Rather than exercising diplomacy, however, Obama hopped on the bash-wagon, reportedly telling Sarkozy: "You're fed up with him, but I have to deal with him every day!"

Ynet adds:

The conversation apparently began with President...

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Sarkozy's Mendacity

Laura: Sarkozy is a mendacious coward. Like his predecessors of Vichy France, Sarkozy is choosing to collaborate with genocidal Jew-killers in the mistaken belief that France itself will be spared. How is catering to the muslim world working out for your miserable country, Sarkozy? How are those no-go zones working out? Sarkozy's behavior is in keeping with the cowardly, morally bankrupt character of the French and its history of appeasing evil. Sarkozy isn't fit to shine Bibi's shoes.

Sarkozy tells Obama he is fed up with Netanyahu

Sarkozy made the comment during a private conversation with Obama during a G20 summit in the French Riviera town of Cannes last week and the remarks were overheard by a small number of journalists but not initially reported.

Reuters

French President Nicolas Sarkozy told U.S. President Barack Obama last week he was fed up with dealing with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and considered him a liar.

Sarkozy made the comment during a...

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Israel's offshore gas reserves poised to rise

More good news about Israel's offshore gas fields coming on stream in less than two years, thanks in part to Noble Energy of Houston. This will make Israel a significant producer of natural gas for both domestic consumption and export to the EU. This development together with the on-shore oil shale field with an estimated 260 billion barrels that we have published reports -See Israel's Black Gold- will doubtless change the shape of geo-political alliances. Witness Israel's budding alliances with Cyprus and even Greece. Israel will be squaring off against Russia with potentially more reliable delivery of natural gas for the EU economies.

Now, more than ever Israel has to resolve the secret war with nuclear Iran and its proxies to realize its world political gains arising from natural gas and oil shale development.

You can put away those lame jokes about Moses turning left instead of right during the Exodus and allegedly missing black gold. What is the careworn...

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Turks Gang-Rape 13 Year Old Girl

Musloids will be Musloids; was Aisha also able to give "consent" to Mohammad?
by Bill Levinson

Turkish court reduces sentences for men accused of raping 13-year-old reports,

Human rights groups have reacted with outrage after a Turkish appeals court reduced prison sentences for 26 men convicted of having sex with a 13-year-old girl, because the victim had given "consent".

This is the same country that sanctioned the use of its flag by terrorists seeking to violate Israel's blockade of Gaza. In fairness to Recep Tayyip Erdo?an, however, his government did distance itself from the court's leniency for the child rapists.

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The Professional Protester

Contrary to their own claim that they represent the 99 percent and the media's ceaseless hype, OWS is about as representative of ordinary Americans as your average professional protester. Which is not very.

 

Even opponents of the Tea Party could not seriously claim that it was a movement of professional protesters, but that's exactly what OWS is, leavened with assorted hippies, homeless people and bored students and aging radicals along for the ride.

The professional protester is the left's answer to everything, built around a core of far-left groups and community organizations that use local protests as a form of blackmail, these are the people who show up at everything from anti-war rallies to budget meetings with variations of the same tired agenda.

The rioting and anti-semitism are hardly a surprise. The professional protester contingent has its anarchists who can be counted on to start smashing things at the wrong time and groups who run the gamut from supporting Hamas to believing that Jews are actually reptilian space monsters in disguise.

Big unions who have their own paid non-union picketers to come out and shout slogans or hand out leaflets targeting whatever business has run afoul of the bosses this week, who don't believe anything they're saying, but are also much less likely to start screaming racial slurs or otherwise embarrassing their union employers. (No health care benefits of course, this is a strictly freelance arrangement.)

The left can turn out numbers, but their core runs the gamut from Communists to the LaRouchites who will show up to every rally and claim to be ordinary people who are fed up with the banks, the wars and the Queen of England. And those rallies don't get big until they draw out every aging radical and bored college student, and when they do, they still have to contend with with the core.

Fortunately the media sympathetically avoids any mention of the ugly big tent that these protests draw on, presenting them as just plain ordinary folks. And when the violence happens, it's always the fault of the police, not of the perfectly nice bomb throwers who believe in overthrowing the government and putting up reeducation camps for everyone.
 

Chronicle · November 9, 2011

The Foundation

"In the first place, it is to be remembered, that the general government is not to be charged with the whole power of making and administering laws: its jurisdiction is limited to certain enumerated objects, which concern all the members of the republic, but which are not to be attained by the separate provisions of any." --James Madison

Editorial Exegesis

Corporate welfare from the community chest

"The Occupy Wall Street protesters aren't good at articulating what they want, but one of their demands is 'end corporate welfare.' Well, welcome aboard. Some of us have been fighting crony capitalism for decades, and it's good to have new allies if liberals have awakened to the dangers of the corporate welfare state. Corporate welfare is the offer of special favors -- cash grants, loans, guarantees, bailouts and special tax breaks -- to specific industries or firms. The government doesn't track the overall cost of these programs, but in 2008 the Cato Institute made an attempt and came up with $92 billion for fiscal 2006, which is more than the U.S. government spends on homeland security. That annual cost may have doubled to $200 billion in this new era of industry bailouts and subsidies. ... This industrial policy model of government as a financial partner with business can sound appealing, but the government's record in picking winners and losers has been dreadful. Some of the most expensive flops include the Supersonic Transport plane of the mid-1970s, Jimmy Carter's $2 billion Synthetic Fuels Corporation (the precursor to clean energy), Amtrak, which hasn't turned a profit in four decades, and the most expensive public-private partnership debacle of all time, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which have lost $142 billion of taxpayer money. ... Americans understand that powerful government invariably favors the powerful, who have the means and access to massage Congress and the bureaucracy that average citizens do not. This really is aid to the 1% paid by the other 99%. Yet the parade of subsidies gets longer each year, perhaps, as the old joke goes, because in Washington Republicans love corporations and Democrats love welfare. As House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan puts it: 'How can we save billions of dollars from unjustified subsidy and entitlement programs, if we can't get corporate America off the dole?'" --The Wall Street Journal

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"With nine days to go before the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) faces default, a Senate committee on Wednesday is expected to vote on a new plan to address the crisis. ... The legislation would ... provide USPS billions in cash from taxpayers. Specifically, it would hand over some $7 billion in supposedly 'surplus' contributions the government has made to the Federal Employees Retirement System. Such temporary surpluses, however, are common and are typically erased by normal financial swings or amortization over time. Transfer of the entire pot to USPS leaves taxpayers vulnerable if USPS later falls behind (which, given its condition, is not unlikely) while allowing needed structural reforms to be delayed. ... USPS, and mail delivery itself, faces an uncertain future. Comprehensive change is needed to prevent massive losses and virtual bankruptcy. The reforms being considered by the Senate, however, fall short -- while putting taxpayers even more at risk for the consequences of failure." --The Heritage Foundation's James Gattuso

"The Internal Revenue Service can follow individual people over the years because they can identify individuals from their Social Security numbers. During recent years, when 'the top one percent' as an income category has been getting a growing share of the nation's income, IRS data show that actual flesh and blood people who were in the top one percent in 1996 had their incomes go down -- repeat, DOWN -- by a whopping 26 percent by 2005. ... [M]ost people who are in the top one percent in a given year do not stay in that bracket over the years. If we are being serious ... then our concern should be with what is happening to actual flesh and blood human beings, not what is happening to abstract income brackets." --economist Thomas Sowell

"[T]he White House revealed that it would fight a GOP House subpoena for internal documents related to the half-trillion-dollar, stimulus-funded, now-bankrupt Solyndra solar energy loan bust. White House counsel Kathryn Ruemmler fumed that the information request placed an 'unreasonable burden on the president's ability to meet his constitutional duties.' ... Ruemmler further complained that the subpoena represents 'a significant intrusion on executive branch interests.' ... While she paints the request as a last-minute surprise, the White House has been stonewalling on Solyndra all year long. And as Reason magazine's Tim Cavanaugh points out: Compliance would be 'the work of a few hours, at a time when the executive branch has 2.8 million employees. The whole thing could be done by staffers, leaving the president to focus on golf and fundraising and long, boring speeches.'" --columnist Michelle Malkin

Insight

"The state is the great fiction by which everybody seeks to live at the expense of everybody else." --French economist, statesman and author Frederic Bastiat (1801-1850)

"Back in the thirties we were told we must collectivize the nation because the people were so poor. Now we are told we must collectivize the nation because the people are so rich." --William F. Buckley Jr. (1925-2008)

The Demo-gogues

A good pat on the back: "Well, I think we are better off now than we would have been if I hadn't taken all the steps that I took." --Barack Obama

"We were able to prevent America from going into a Great Depression. We were able to, after a series of quarterly GDP reports that were the worst that we've seen since the Great Depression, reverse it and get the economy to grow again. We've seen 20 straight months of consecutive job growth." --Barack Obama

Sure thing: "I have to tell you, the least of my concerns at the moment is the politics of a year from now. I'm worried about putting people back to work right now because those folks are hurting and the U.S. economy is underperforming." --Barack Obama

The BIG Lie: "From a policy standpoint I think it's really important to know that President Obama was a job creator from day one. Now, was the ditch that we were in so deep that when you're talking to people and they still don't have a job, that's any consolation to them? No. But I'll tell you this: If President Obama and the House congressional Democrats had not acted, we would be at 15 percent unemployment." --House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)

Blame Republicans: "We've taken every important piece of the jobs bill and demanded that we have a separate vote. But our Republican colleagues in the Senate have voted unanimously to vote down each and every part so far: to restore 400,000 jobs for teachers, police officers, firefighters, putting them back in classrooms, on the streets and in the fire houses. ... So, look, we can't wait. If the Republican Congress won't join us, we're going to continue to act on our own to make the changes that we can to bring relief to middle-class families and those aspiring to get in the middle class." --Joe Biden

Dezinformatsia

Non Compos Mentis: "Well, I'm going to be pilloried for this. I think get rid of the Second Amendment, the right to bear arms. I just think in the grand scheme of the rights that we have; the right of assembly, free speech, I mean, owning a gun does not, it does not tally on the same level as those other constitutional rights. And being more discreet about who gets to have a firearm and right to kill with a firearm, I think is something that would be in our national interest to revisit that." --Huffington Post's Alex Wagner when asked by HBO's Bill Maher what she would change about the Constitution -- she would take away the right that guarantees all the others

Pushing from the Left: "Do you not feel that by opposing [a tax hike on millionaires to pay for Obama's jobs bill] you're basically out of step with the American people on this issue? ... Do you agree at all that there should be any kind of tax increases?" --ABC's Christiane Amanpour to Speaker John Boehner

Another BIG Lie: "The American Dream is all about social mobility in a sense -- the idea that anyone can make it. ... The American dream seems to be thriving in Europe not at home." --CNN's Fareed Zalaria

Conspiracy theories: "[Herman Cain] is just the latest purchase by the Koch brothers. They purchased Michele Bachmann, they purchased Sarah Palin, for this purpose: it's to go out and talk crazy talk. It's to talk about taking more things away from the middle class and giving more to the rich. It's about deregulating virtually everything to where the Koch brothers can go ahead and kill more people with their toxins." --radio talk-show host Mike Papantonio

Newspulper Headlines:

'We Are the 99%': "Hollywood Street Brawl Involving 100 People in Costumes Leaves 1 Man Critical" --KCBS-TV website

Longest Books Ever Written: "What Occupy Wall Street Gets Wrong" --Reason.com

Somebody Alert Michelle Obama: "Fat Yields From Overseas ETFs" --SmartMoney.com

When Life Gives You Lemons: "Santorum Makes Stand in Iowa" --The Wall Street Journal

Bottom Story of the Day: "Barack Obama's Jobs Drive Not Moving Polls" --Politico.com

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

Village Idiots

Random thoughts: "I've always thought that [allowing presidents a third term] should be the rule. I think as a practical matter, you couldn't apply this to anyone who has already served, but going forward, I personally believe that should be the rule." --Bill Clinton

Bad idea: "We need democracy in this country and not a democracy that is run by politicians that are bought by corporations. We need a democracy in this country where the people have the right to print money and not a nebulous Federal Reserve." --Occupy San Francisco protester

Good grief: "I wanted to say something about, if they're trying to find out who instigated this, much of, we owe a lot to the Arab Spring and the Democracy movement that were and are taking place across the Arab world. And we owe a lot to that young man in Tunisia who couldn't take it anymore and set himself on fire to make this statement that really ignited this movement. But, but even before that, what got him upset? What got him politically charged was that he read the truth about the corruption of his own government that was supplied to him by Wikileaks. And where did Wikileaks get that information allegedly? From a young private, a gay soldier by the name of Bradley Manning. And, let's give it up to Bradley Manning." --leftist filmmaker Michael Moore to the Occupy Wall Street movement

Two weeks ago we published a humorous exchange during an interview between CNN's Piers Morgan and Michael Moore. When asked to admit that he was "in the 1 percent," Moore objected, "How can I be in the percent?" Morgan cut to the chase: "Because you're worth millions." This time around, Moore grew even more agitated when a CBS reporter again questioned him on his wealth. Here's the exchange:

Reporter: How are you helping these [Occupy protesters]?
Moore: Because I do well, I want taxes raised on people who do well, including mine.
Reporter: How are you helping these people with your $50 million?
Moore: I don't have $50 million.
Reporter: That's what it's rumored you are worth.
Moore: Well, really. Is that what you do is sell rumors?
Reporter: We're asking you for the truth.
Moore: You're just punk media is all you are. You lie. You lie to people. Stop lying to people. Stop lying.
Reporter: Are you not part of the 1 percent?
Moore: Just don't lie, okay?

Marine Corps Birthday

On Nov. 10, 1775, the Second Continental Congress resolved to create two battalions of Continental Marines for the War of Independence from Britain. In 1798, President John Adams signed the Act establishing the United States Marine Corps. The 13th Commandant of the Marine Corps, General John A. Lejeune, issued Marine Corps Order No. 47, Series 1921, directing that on Nov. 10 every year, in honor of the Corps' birthday, the Order's summary of the history, mission and tradition of the Corps be read to every command.

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Short Cuts

"You know the real trouble with socialism? There are no good guys. You're either on one end of the equation sucking up whatever you didn't earn and telling yourself you're entitled to it, or you're on the other end trying to prove you're smarter and more beneficent than everyone else, when you don't have a clue. You're either the drug addict or the drug dealer." --columnist Arnold Ahlert

"[Barack Obama] says all patriotism is equal -- the patriotism of Greeks, of British, of everyone. He rips American 'arrogance' while overseas. He excoriates American consumerism, all the while maintaining that if we don't consume more, we'll go bankrupt. He says it's unfortunate that America has a leading role in the world. ... The rest of the world still despises us, only now they think of us as easy marks, too. ... The American public now has the responsibility of solving his psychological dissonance by throwing him out of office, allowing him to fully embrace his global agenda without the baggage of his national identity." --columnist Ben Shapiro

"A man from Kenya won the New York City Marathon. This was a huge upset, because everyone thought a different man from Kenya would win the marathon." --comedian Conan O'Brien

"Occupy Wall Street protestors complained that homeless people have infiltrated the park for the free food. They're just furious about it. Everybody's sitting around wishing that there was a way to help the downtrodden without a lot of losers trying to get in on it." --comedian Argus Hamilton

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

Dept. of Interior: Adding FDR's D-Day Prayer to WWII Memorial Would 'Dilute' Its 'Central Message'
By Matt Cover
CNSNews.com

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), a division of the Interior Department, says adding President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's D-Day prayer to the World War II Memorial on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., would "dilute" the memorial's message and its ability to "inspire" visitors.

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	Enterprise Update Eliminating barriers to enterprise and innovation

Obama's Red Tape: Tsunami or Ripple?

By James Gattuso

Are regulations being produced by the Obama Administration at a significantly faster rate than under previous administrations?

Not at all, say White House officials, arguing that the growing spool of red tape from Washington is just business as usual.

"The costs are not out of line by historical standards," Cass Sunstein, the director of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, said last week.

Earlier this year, he went even further, writing in The Washington Post that "The annual cost of regulations has not increased during the Obama Administration."

This would be welcome news-if true. But by almost every measure, the Obama Administration has imposed regulations at a faster clip than its predecessors. And despite a much-hyped initiative to root out obsolete rules, regulatory costs are continuing to rise.

>>Click Here To Read The Full Report. 

Clinton Third Term

Cartoon of the Day: Obama is Pwned (By Contributors)

November 09, 2011
 
  TV ANCHOR CASTS DOUBT ON CAIN ACCUSER   Anchorman and journalist Bill Kurtis is a fixture in the Windy City. Yesterday Kurtis made statements on a Chicago radio station claiming Cain's accuser Sharon Bialek has a checkered past and a "track record." Listen to the recording HERE.
  IS IT A PATTERN? SHE'S DONE THIS BEFORE!   The second woman to step forward and claim that Herman Cain harassed her at work seems to have a history of filing complaints against her employers. Get the entire story HERE.
  IL REP LOSES HIS COOL AT TOWN HALL   Freshman Congressman Joe Walsh is usually calm, cool, and collected. But yesterday he lost it during a town hall meeting with constituents. Watch the video HERE.

MUSLIM DHS EMPLOYEE LEAKS INFO TO DAMAGE RICK PERRY'S CAMPAIGN  A Muslim man from Texas is accused of leaking documents to the media with the stated goal of painting Texas governor Rick Perry as an Islamophobe, and damaging his presidential campaign. Read the details HERE.

WHY WAS GLENN BECK GUTTING A FISH LIVE ON GBTV?   A copy of last night's episode of The Glenn Beck Show on GBTV is headed for time capsule. Watch as Glenn makes a point about the mainstream media while he (sloppily) guts a fish on live television HERE.  
  VIRAL VIDEO DU JOUR - SEE THE WHITEBOARD VIDEO CONNECTING OCCUPIER GROUPS
What do Communists, Leftists, and Anti-Semites have in common? They all support Occupy Wall Street. From the folks at Encounter Books, watch the latest whiteboard video HERE.
  and baby makes three OR twenty - TLC'S MICHELLE duggar IS pregnant again
With the announcement that Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar are expecting their 20th child, comes the typical joy and anticipation associated with the expectation of a child being born. But the Duggars are also hearing from critics who do not like the idea of their large family. See both sides of the issue HERE.   

Do you need any outrageously overpriced solar panels today?

Because President Obama seems to think you and I need a lot of them-and that's why he steered a whopping $535 million dollars in taxpayer money to Solyndra, a so-called "green jobs" factory.

But it really was a favor factory run by some of Obama's biggest financial supporters.

This past September, just months after President Obama called them the "true engine of economic growth," Solyndra closed its doors, put thousands of people out of work, and left you and me stuck with the bill for $535 million dollars.

Of course, President Obama and the liberal mainstream media are doing their best to keep this story from reaching the American people-to the point that Congress actually had to subpoena President Obama last week, just to find out what actually happened to our taxpayer dollars.

Here's what President Obama doesn't want anyone to know:

--He wasted hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars to subsidize a failing company owned by one of his biggest financial supporters,

--He knew Solyndra was nearly bankrupt-and decided to dump even more of our money down the drain in a failed attempt to keep them afloat,

--He now plans to spend another billion dollars to subsidize more "green technology" products that the American people don't want or need.

And that's exactly why AFP just launched a massive new national TV ad campaign to expose the truth behind Obama's Solyndra mess.

You can view this ad, "Obama's Green Giveaway," by clicking here: http://www.americansforprosperity.org/ol1111ctv1 

AFP must raise $50,000 to keep this ad on TV and reach the American people with the information they have a right to know. How their tax dollars are being wasted. That Obama wants to push another billion dollars in dead-end subsidies and stick you and me with the bill.

And we're counting on the help of true AFP activists like you to help us make the difference.

Please click here to make your most generous donation of $25, $50, $100 or more to help keep this TV ad on the air: http://www.americansforprosperity.org/ol1111ct1 

I can't begin to tell you how critical it is for us to get out this ad to the American people.

Rather than working to fix our critical jobs and economic problems, President Obama chose to waste over a half-billion of our taxpayer dollars on useless "green technology."

And instead of helping put Americans back to work, or reduce our out-of-control federal deficit, President Obama chose to use our money to bail out his biggest financial supporters' failing solar panel company.

The American people deserve better- they deserve to know about what's going on. And the waste and out of control spending must stop.

By helping air AFP's "Obama's Green Giveaway" TV ad in as many cities as possible, we can help expose the truth to tens of millions of Americans about what happened with Solyndra and alert them about President Obama's plan to dump billions more of taxpayer dollars down the drain, all to further dead end "green jobs".

Can we count on your critical donation today?

Please click here to immediately donate $25, $50, $100 or whatever you can give right to now to help us reach our goal of $50,000: http://www.americansforprosperity.org/ol1111ct1 

Linda, thank you for helping us alert millions of Americans about President Obama's Solyndra disaster-and thank you for your continued support of Americans for Prosperity.

Sincerely,

JP DeGance, AFP

P.S. President Obama wasted $535 million dollars in taxpayer dollars on Solyndra to reward his biggest financial supporters and subsidize dead end "green jobs" at a time when millions of Americans don't have real jobs. Please help AFP stop him by keeping our new TV ad campaign on the air. Click here to donate $25, $50, $100 or more by clicking here: http://www.americansforprosperity.org/ol1111ct1                                          

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Today's Headlines:  Wednesday, November 09, 2011

No Apology: Holder Says 'Not Fair' to Assume Fast and Furious 'Directly' Led to Border Agent's Death

Obama Snubs Va. on Gas and Oil Exploration, Costing the State 'Thousands of New Jobs,' Gov. McDonnell Says

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Pakistani Textbooks Teach Discrimination Against Non-Muslims, Says U.S. Commission

Hillary Clinton Names Ellen DeGeneres Special Envoy for AIDS Awareness

Clinton Calls Family a 'Basic Human Need,' But State Dep't Still Funds Abortion Abroad

Ohio Voters Reject Key Element of Obamacare As Well As Limits on Collective Bargaining

Obama Admin. Spending $34 Million to 'Bridge the Transportation Gap' for Veterans

COMMENTARY:

Country Music's Raye of Hope
By Terence P. Jeffrey
Country music star Collin Raye is thankful he found the church before he found stardom.

Thanking an Old Friend
By L. Brent Bozell III
Think about T. Boone Pickens' charity, you Occupied Do-Nothings, the next time you bash the 1 percent that have been so instrumental in helping you in more ways than you'll ever know - or appreciate.

The Great Stonewall of Obama
By Michelle Malkin
The "most transparent administration ever" is hyper-allergic to sunlight and subpoenas. The November 2012 bulldozer can't come soon enough.

Calling All Ghostbusters
By Rich Galen
Herman Cain will not survive this.

NEWSPAPER ROUNDUP:

November 9, 2011

The National Christmas Tree. Photo: Flickr/White House

You better watch out. You better not cry. But you'll probably pout. I'm telling you why.

 

There's a new Christmas Tree tax coming to town!

 

Heritage Vice President David Addington explains that this is no joke: "President Obama's Agriculture Department today announced that it will impose a new 15-cent charge on all fresh Christmas trees-the Christmas Tree Tax-to support a new Federal program to improve the image and marketing of Christmas trees."

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Nov. 8, 2011

 Shapiro, Richards give Dems win in Montco

By Jeremy Roebuck | INQUIRER STAFF WRITER

A new era began Tuesday in Montgomery County as two Democratic candidates stood poised to take control of the county's government for the first time in its history.

With nearly 70 percent of precincts reporting, the duo of Josh Shapiro and Leslie Richards held a comfortable lead over GOP rivals Bruce L. Castor Jr. and Jenny Brown.

"Leslie and I are extremely grateful for the support of Montgomery County," Shapiro said. "We know we have a lot of work to do and we're going to do it in a bipartisan manner."

Meanwhile, Castor - the outspoken incumbent who conceded the Democratic majority just after 11 p.m. - stood in danger of possibly losing his seat on the board altogether.

Both Shapiro and Richards individually exceeded his vote tally as of late Tuesday. Only about 1,000 votes separated Castor and his running mate, Lower Merion Commissioner Jenny Brown.

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Wednesday, November 9, 2011

To: Friends & Supporters

From: Gary L. Bauer


COUNTDOWN TO VICTORY: 363 DAYS TO THE 2012 ELECTIONS


Democrats Demand Higher Taxes

Republican members of the deficit reduction super committee put a $1.2 trillion proposal on the table this week. According to various news reports, the plan represents a significant shift for the GOP members in that it "included, for the first time, new tax revenue to the tune of about $300 billion."

The plan, proposed by Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA), proposes to cut $700 billion in spending, raises $300 billion through various means, such as selling off federal land, and brings in additional $300 billion in tax revenues. It represents a 2.3-to-1 ratio in terms of spending cuts to tax increases, achieved by limiting deductions while lowering tax rates. Democrats flatly rejected Toomey's proposal.

The Washington Post quotes a Democrat source who said, "It's impossible to net out $250 billion, unless they're willing to raise rates on capital gains and dividends. ...They either think we're morons or desperate." I'm going with the former.

There is a reason -- a very good reason -- why we have a separate and lower capital gains tax rate. It is the one major tax policy that can encourage investment and economic growth, and the Democrats are bound and determined to raise it! Raising capital gains taxes might make Democrats feel good, but it is bad economic policy that always results in less investment and lower revenues. Raising capital gains taxes now would be a moronic thing to do!


Election Results

Listening to the liberal news media today you would think that Republicans got skunked in last night's off-year elections. While it's true that there were a few high profile losses, the result was more mixed.

Democrats and their big labor allies are crowing about the lop-sided repeal of an Ohio law limiting collective bargaining rights for public sector employees. Voters rejected the law 61% to 39%. But those same Ohio voters passed an initiative rejecting ObamaCare by an even larger margin -- 66% to 34%.

For whatever reason, Ohio Republicans could not close the deal as they did in Wisconsin, where big labor's recall efforts were beaten back. If there is any lesson to be gleaned from the results in Ohio it is probably that voters do not like overreaching by either party. They don't want big government telling them what they must do with their own money. And they don't like it when it appears as though the middle class is bearing the brunt of cost-cutting measures.

While controlling spending is absolutely essential, Republicans, while fighting the unions, cannot be seen as enemies of policemen, firefighters and teachers. These are honorable, necessary professions that employ many good people who are genuine public servants.

In the gubernatorial races, nothing changed. Democrat Steve Beshear was reelected in Kentucky, while the Republican lieutenant governor succeeded Haley Barbour in Mississippi. In Virginia, the GOP picked up six seats in the state House, winning a historic two-thirds majority. It also appears poised to take control of the state Senate. There will be a recount in one race in which the incumbent Democrat is losing by just 86 votes. (Yes, every vote does matter!)

Obama carried Virginia in 2008, but last night's results led the Washington Post to run a story headlined, "Virginia Elections May Be A Warning Sign For Obama." If the results hold, it would mark the third consecutive year in which Democrats took a beating in the Old Dominion, strongly suggesting that Obama's hopes for a repeat win in 2012 are fading fast.

In Mississippi, a ballot initiative to declare that life begins at conception failed by a wide-margin -- 42% to 58%. It was disappointing to see the pro-life cause suffer such a loss in this conservative state. But pro-life groups were divided on the merits of the initiative, and pro-abortion groups spread a lot of misinformation that confused many voters.

In Arizona, State Sen. Russell Pearce, who spearheaded that state's tough anti-illegal immigration law (SB 1070), lost a recall election to a more moderate Republican.

But in western Pennsylvania, Republicans scored a major upset, taking control of the Westmoreland County Commission for the first time since 1956. Democrats there have a 53% to 37% advantage in voter registration, which makes the GOP win all the more surprising, adding to speculation that the Keystone State may not be securely in Obama's column on Election Day 2012.


"Ain't Gonna Happen"

At his press conference yesterday, Herman Cain once again categorically denied sexually harassing anyone. He even offered to take a lie detector test. (I wonder if his accusers would do the same?)

Cain vowed to continue speaking out against these allegations in order to defend his character and reputation. He also vowed to stay in the race, saying, "As far as these accusations causing me to back off and maybe withdraw from this presidential primary race -- ain't gonna happen."

Unfortunately for Cain and the country, I don't think this sordid story is going away either. When we have so much at stake, when we should be focused on stopping Obama's socialism, we are sidetracked by unsubstantiated scandals. America deserves better.


Is Newt Next?

There is no question that Newt Gingrich's campaign, once written off for dead, is experiencing a rebirth of sorts. Of all the candidates, Newt is the only one whose numbers are going up right now, and several polls have found that Gingrich may be best positioned to capitalize on the conservative vacuum if Cain collapses.

Newt's campaign must be encouraged by a lengthy editorial in today's Wall Street Journal by Dorothy Rabinowitz making the case for "Why Gingrich Could Win." Consider this excerpt:

"Finally, Mr. Gingrich announced that as the Republican nominee he would challenge President Obama to seven Lincoln-Douglas-style debates. 'I think I can represent American exceptionalism, free enterprise, the rights of private property and the Constitution, better than [Obama] can represent class warfare, bureaucratic socialism, weakness in foreign policy, and total confusion in the economy.'"

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