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November 14, 2011
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"[W]hen all government, domestic and foreign, in little as in great things, shall be drawn to Washington as the center of all power, it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another." --Thomas Jefferson, letter to Charles Hammond, 1821
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When: Monday, November 21, 5:30 p.m. Eastern
Subject: Heritage Presidential Debate Sneak Preview |
On Monday, November 21 at 5:30 p.m. Eastern, Heritage's leading national security expert, James Jay Carafano, will join me to discuss the upcoming Republican presidential debate on foreign policy and national security. The debate, scheduled for the evening of November 22 is co-hosted by The Heritage Foundation, the American Enterprise Institute and CNN. In a year when economic issues have dominated politics, this debate is a perfect opportunity to find out where the candidates stand on the critical national security issues that a future president will have to deal with. This teleconference is your opportunity to hear what questions and issues we will put before the candidates, as well as share your views on the subject.
You are a valuable Heritage member, I hope you are able to take part in this exclusive teleconference call.
I will send you a follow-up email next week with more details about how to participate.
Thank you for your support to The Heritage Foundation.
Sincerely,
Edwin J. Feulner, Ph.D.
President
The Heritage Foundation
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"Unity in Remembrance"
By Dr. Thomas Conner
William P. Harris Professor of Military History
Hillsdale College
There are a number of reasons why a Veteran's Day message on the topic of "Unity in Remembrance" is appropriate. As a professor of history at Hillsdale College I teach, in addition to my upper-level courses in military history, the Western and American heritage courses as part of the College's core curriculum. Over the years, this has instilled in me a much deeper and fuller appreciation of the degree to which our remembered past does, or ought to, inspire and unify us as a people. My main avocation over the last few years has been research into the history of the American Battle Monuments Commission and its important work to keep alive, every day, thoughts of those who fought and died in the defense of our freedom and way of life, especially in the two World Wars of the last century. The recent 9/11 observances, it was stated somewhere, had this same idea, "unity in remembrance," as their theme-so this year in particular it seems acceptable to appropriate those words to our larger purpose of celebrating Veteran's Day. Unity, it seems for our nation right now, is a sense that is sorely lacking-and, perhaps that is so precisely because we do not hold to memory as we should.
History reveals a great deal about the vital and unifying role remembrance can play in the life of a people. In the second century B.C., as all students of Hillsdale's Western Heritage course surely recall, the historian Polybius identified the way in which the Romans conducted the public funerals of great men as one of the keys to the strength of the Roman republic. "By such means," Polybius wrote, "the glorious memory of brave men is continually renewed; the fame of those who have performed any noble deed is never allowed to die; and the renown of those who have done good service to their country becomes a matter of common knowledge to the multitude, and part of the heritage of posterity." These words should resonate with any of us who remember, for example, the relatively recent funerals of President Reagan and President Ford, when the ingredients of greatness which both men embodied were called so impressively to mind and when, especially in Reagan's case, the great divide between liberal and conservative opinion about him while he was alive simply disappeared, as just about every commentator sought to praise him and remember affirmatively all the things he had done. In the lives of both men, it was so easy to see the quintessential ingredients of solid American character on display-strong moral principles, love of country, evenness of temper, self-effacing "aw shucks" charm, and rock solid self-confidence not marred by arrogance. When each of these men left us, the country was reminded of that very high standard for character and public service to which all Americans should aspire-and, we were reminded in a way that brought us together, though all too fleetingly.
Three-hundred years before Polybius, the Athenian statesman Pericles remarked about his own country in the famous "Funeral Oration": "When you realize her greatness, then reflect that what made her great was men with a spirit of adventure, men who knew their duty, men who were ashamed to fall below a certain standard." In 1946, less than a year after World War Two ended, when the American people needed to be alerted to the new threat coming from Soviet Russia, Winston Churchill spoke in a manner similar to Pericles to an American audience in Fulton, Missouri: "As you look around you, you feel not only the sense of duty done but also feel anxiety lest you fall below the level of achievement." The level of achievement, of course, was victory in World War Two. What Churchill wanted Americans also to remember, and muster anew, was the devotion to duty, the unified sense of purpose, the courage, and the resourcefulness that had equipped the generation of that day to attain that victory. These same qualities as a people would indeed see us through to final success in the Cold War as well. If standards today are slipping on so many fronts, perhaps there could be greater unity behind the effort to stem our current decline if we could but remember and give renewed devotion to what saw us through earlier national crises.
Soldiers seem to understand with special clarity what this inherited standard of service and performance is. Several weeks ago, an incoming Hillsdale College freshman was asked by the student newspaper, "Why did you join the Marine Corps?" He replied: "So many veterans have gone before me and I feel like I have such a large debt to them. They went during their time and were the greatest generation. Now it's my turn to repay them." A century and a half ago, Union soldier Sullivan Ballou, in trying to explain to his wife why he had decided to join the ranks and put at peril what he knew would be a blissful life with her, recalled "how great a debt we owe to those who went before us through the blood and suffering of the Revolution." He was willing, he wrote, "perfectly willing, to lay down all my joys in this life. . . to repay that debt." We are reminded of this important part of our heritage in one of the verses of the hymn that ought to be our national anthem: "Oh beautiful for heroes proved in liberating strife, who more than self their country loved and mercy more than life; America! America! God shed His grace on thee."
125,000 of America's dead from the two World Wars are buried abroad in twenty-two cemeteries maintained by the American Battle Monuments Commission. These fallen soldiers from generations past, as do all of our veterans, living and dead, bear witness every day to the standard for devotion to duty, love of country, and willingness to risk all to protect it that has inspired every generation of our people. It may seem counter-intuitive to think of burial grounds as living sites, but that is one thing to be learned from research into our military cemeteries abroad. Years ago, while leading a group of Hillsdale College students on a visit to the Normandy-American Cemetery, the superintendent welcomed us by observing that there were 9,387 soldiers buried on the site, and that they were "still serving their country." Indeed they are.
The recent 9/11 observances reminded us of many things: that ten years have passed since that awful day; that we have been at war ever since; that more than five million of our countrymen have volunteered for military service in the past decade; that as thousands of workers in the World Trade Center streamed out of the stricken buildings, hundreds of "first responders" were struggling to get into the buildings; that the first costly victory in the war on terror was gained even before the sun went down that September day by an extraordinary collection of ordinary people in the skies over the farmlands of Pennsylvania. There are inspiring, and hopefully unifying standards to be discerned in all of that. It is surely naïve to think that the tug of distant or recent history can eliminate the strong differences of opinion that are so necessary, on the one hand, and so debilitating, on the other hand, to our national life today. We definitely seem to be struggling, and for the most part vainly, to adopt the right solutions to our most challenging and threatening problems. Some have said that the very fabric of our body politic is beginning to tear, and that we are losing our self-confidence as a people. "That Used to Be Us," worries the title of a recent book inspired by a remark President Obama made a while back. Winston Churchill once said that Americans will always do the right thing, after they have exhausted all the other possibilities. Maybe there's hope in that. But, we all have work to do-serious work-if we are to redeem the time, as Russell Kirk used to say. A good place to begin that work would be to remember, as one, in the most clear-eyed fashion, the people we used to be, and can still be again.
Dr. Thomas Conner is William P. Harris Professor of Military History at Hillsdale College. Along with courses in Western Heritage and American Heritage as part of Hillsdale's rigorous core curriculum, Dr. Conner also teaches upper-level courses on European history and the Two World Wars. He is one of the College's longest-serving faculty members, and has several times been named Professor of the Year by the student body. Dr. Conner is currently working on a book about history of the American Battle Monuments Commission.
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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
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Tom Harkin (IA) 202-224-3254
Barbara Mikulski (MD) 202-224-4654
Jeff Bingaman (NM) 202-224-5521
Patty Murray (WA) 202-224-2621
Bernard Sanders (VT) 202-224-5141
Robert Casey (PA) 202-224-6324
Kay Hagan (NC) 202-224-6342
Jeff Merkley (OR) 202-224-3753
Al Franken (MN) 202-224-5641
Michael Bennet (CO) 202-224-5852
Sheldon Whitehouse (RI) 202-224-2921
Richard Blumenthal (CT) 202-224-2823
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Michael Enzi (WY) 202-224-3424
Lamar Alexander (TN) 202-224-4944
Richard Burr (NC) 202-224-3154
Johnny Isakson (GA) 202-224-3643
Rand Paul (KY) 202-224-4343
Orrin Hatch (Utah) 202-224-5251
John McCain (AZ) 202-224-2235
Pat Roberts (KS) 202-224-4774
Lisa Murkowski (AK) 202-224-6665
Mark Kirk (IL) 202-224-2854
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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
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Pennsylvania/S. New Jersey Region of the RJC presents
"Myths & Missiles: Media Madness & Israel"
with
Aryeh Green
Thursday, November 17, 2011
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The RJC of
Pennsylvania/Southern New Jersey
is hosting
Aryeh Green, director of MediaCentral,
speaking on
"Myths & Missiles:
Media Madness & Israel"
Jerusalem-based Aryeh Green offers his insider's view on the "Arab Spring;" developments in Israel & the Middle East; how Israel's "case" is reported by the international press; & MediaCentral's unique mission of promoting truth, perspective & balanced reporting.
Thursday, November 17, 2011 Program begins at 6:00 PM
Light refreshments will be served.
The event will be held at:
Fox Rothschild LLP
2000 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103
The event is FREE for current members
and $20 for eTeam and nonmembers.
Please invite a prospective member to attend
as your guest (complimentary)!
Please RSVP
by emailing PASNJ@RJCHQ.org
or by calling 610-667-1263.
www.RJCHQ.org
Leadership opportunities begin at $1000
Pennsylvania/S. New Jersey individual memberships are $100
Pennsylvania/S. New Jersey couple memberships are $150
Student membership $18
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The Philadelphia Freedom Center
welcomes
Caroline Glick
2011 - 2012 Speaker Series
presented by:
Jessica & Eric Berger
Cecilie & Eugene Block
Joan Carter & John Aglialoro
Amy & Steven Erlbaum
Vicki & Gary Erlbaum
Gerry & Dick Fox
Penny & Robert Fox
Jill & Alan Miller
Mindy & Bryan Rishforth
Adele & Harold Schaeffer
Gerald B. Shreiber
Beth & Craig Snider
Ed Snider
Laurie Wagman & Irv Borowsky
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November 16, 2011
Reception: appetizers, wine & cheese
4:30-6:00pm
Location:
Offices of Duane Morris LLP
30 South 17th St.
12th Floor
Philadelphia, Pa 19103
Registration: $25.00
Click to Register
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CITIZENS FOR CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT INVITES YOU
TO A FORUM ON ELIMINATING PROPERTY TAXES
THIS TUESDAY November 15th 7 - 9 P.M.
Quakertown Library 401 W. Mill St.
Topic: Eliminate Pennsylvania Property Taxes Log on to www.ptcc.us for more information
Speaker: David Baldinger *(see bio below)
Do you ever REALLY own your home? Or do you pay rent to the government. Try not
paying your property taxes and see what happens.
Please join us !!!!
*David Baldinger is a full-time volunteer taxpayer advocate and political activist from Berks County whose exclusive focus is the elimination of school property taxes and education finance reform. He became involved in this effort in 2004 during work with former State Representative and gubernatorial candidate Sam Rohrer, and since then has become one of Pennsylvania's leading experts on property tax elimination issues. David administers the Pennsylvania Taxpayer Cyber Coalition (PTCC), a web-based taxpayer organization, and is a founder and organizer of the Pennsylvania Coalition of Taxpayer Associations (PCTA), a statewide alliance of sixty-five advocacy groups that are working as one for the elimination of school property taxes.
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You're Invited! The Delaware County Patriots are hosting a Republican Candidate Forum For U.S. Senate Challengers to Senator Bob Casey in 2012 Following the Candidates' opportunity to speak briefly, the meeting will be opened to your questions Please join us on November 17th to meet the Candidates! Doors open at 6:30 P.M. Forum begins promptly at 7:00 P.M. Knights of Columbus Mater Dei Hall 327 N. Newtown Street Rd. (Route 252) Newtown Square, PA Bring your Family and Friends! Attendance if free, however, seating is limited Please call 610-572-3442 to reserve your seat
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SCHEDULE FOR AGENDA 21 PRESENTATIONS IN NY, NJ, PA (REV. 11.12.11)
The 75 minute presentation entitled, "False Choices - How Agenda 21 is Transforming Your Property Rights" will be presented the following times and locations:
- Wednesday, Nov. 16 (6 - 9 PM) The Shore Diner - 6710 Tilton Road, Egg Harbor NJ. Contact: Dennis Mahon: dmahon1@yahoo.com
- Friday, Nov. 18 (6:30 - 8:30 PM) Factory Eatery Backroom - 20 Prospect Street, Ballston Spa, NY Contact: Emily Bowers ejbadirondack@hotmail.com
- Monday, Nov. 21 (7 - 9 PM) Christian Church - 211 Route 206, Hillsboro, NJ Contact: Joan Schiller: joantschiller@yahoo.com
- Monday, Nov. 28 (7 - 8:45 PM) Hughes Library - 1002 North 9th Street, Stroudsburg, PA Contact: Judi Coover: jacoover@gmail.com
Presentations include upated material and handouts including the latest innovations to help you work with public officials to protect your property rights and respect the environment.
John Anthony
908 347-7097
--
"The newspapers are indecently communicative of charges that stand in need of evidence for their support." Geo. Washington June 21, 1792
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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
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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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 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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Nullify Now! Philadelphia
 January 14, 2012. 10a-6p
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Crowne Plaza, Liberty Ballroom
Philadelphia Downtown
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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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LISTEN LIVE TO REPATRIOT RADIO
"BETTER THAN EVER"
(all times are eastern)
Monday 3-4pm "Bordering on Insanity" - Rabbi Nachum Shifren and Garry Miller
Tuesday 3-4pm "American Freedom Watch" - Karen Schoen with John Estabrooks and Mike Lawson
Tuesday 5-6pm "LaRossa & Gallagher" - N.J.State Senator Richard LaRossa and Art Gallagher
Wednesday 3-4pm "Patriots Watch" - Billy Baer and Dan Haggerty
Thursday 3-4pm "America's Black Shield" - Ted Hayes and Terrance Lang
Friday 10-11pm "Veterans' Weekly Forum" - Ed Rosen and Bob Rosebrock
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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!
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RedState Morning Briefing
For November 14, 2011
1. The Perry Campaign Gets a Life Line
Rick Perry's debate gaffe last week will go in the annals of political history as one of the most embarrassing gaffes on a Presidential primary debate stage. His recovery the next day will be studied by future campaigns as the textbook example of damage control. His Saturday night debate performance in South Carolina gets him the complete redemption he needs.
In South Carolina Saturday night the Rick Perry so many people have been hoping would come out to play, came out to win. He gave a sharp answer on dealing with Iran and Pakistan and captured the tea party zeitgeist by saying we should start each year at zero in our foreign aid budgets, including with Israel. He then went on to explain that those countries, like Israel, that are shown to be our friends would get money in the foreign aid budget.
This then descended into a lecture on zero based budgeting, nearly getting him an amen from Newt Gingrich.
The star moment for Perry, however, came when he took after Ron Paul over enhanced interrogation techniques. Everyone knows Ron Paul's foreign policy is nuttier than a pecan grove at harvest, but no one until Rick Perry Saturday night has had the nerve to say so.
On the opposite end of alternatives to Romney we want to do well, Herman Cain showed his foreign policy views are not yet ready for prime time. He fell back again and again on either not knowing the answer or wanting help from others. His campaign's theme of drawing on the experts regardless of the candidate's background is becoming more and more hollow considering the experts running his campaign were picked by Herman Cain.
But there is good news for both Perry and Cain in the latest polling.
Please click here for the rest of the post.
2. The Bachmann-Santorum Rule: We Can Be Extorted
There was one moment in the CBS News debate that has not gotten a lot of attention and should get a great deal of attention.
CBS News asked Rick Perry about Pakistan. Perry responded that Pakistan is not being controlled by its political leaders, but rather by its secret police and military. Likewise, Pakistan should not get foreign aid unless it can show it is our friend and right now it looks to be anything but our friend.
You can hear Rick Perry in his own words right here.
This was followed up by perhaps the most dangerous and willfully naive foreign policy view I have ever heard expressed by Republicans. Michele Bachmann had to disagree with Rick Perry and, by the way, Newt Gingrich. Rick Santorum chimed in to agree with Michele Bachmann.
We can call it the Bachmann-Santorum policy. It is to the left of Barack Obama. And if it is implemented, it will see the world turn into a far more dangerous place with many of us getting killed.
Please click here for the rest of the post.
3. Obama administration gives $433m no-bid contract to Democratic donor.
The last time I checked, didn't the Left call this sort of thing 'crony capitalism?'
"Over the last year, the Obama administration has aggressively pushed a $433-million plan to buy an experimental smallpox drug, despite uncertainty over whether it is needed or will work.
"Senior officials have taken unusual steps to secure the contract for New York-based Siga Technologies Inc., whose controlling shareholder is billionaire Ronald O. Perelman, one of the world's richest men and a longtime Democratic Party donor."
Please click here for the rest of the post.
4. Occupy "movement" criminals depicted as "fringe". Really?
This evening, USA Today published a story describing the law-breaking participants in the "Occupy movement" as a "violent fringe". But how can a movement whose entire existence is predicated upon breaking the law be anything but criminal and destined to incite violence? The mere concept of this "occupation" promotes the idea that the occupiers would perpetrate an act that is bound to break multiple laws in virtually every location where these people have erected their disease- and crime-infested tent cities.
So at what point does anecdotal evidence indicate a trend and show that this is not "fringe" behavior? When do hundreds of incidents of mass lawbreaking, violence, rape and murder demonstrate that this anti-social behavior is standard procedure from these crowds and not the exception? BigGovernment.com is maintaining a running total of the violations rung up by the Occupy crew.
Please click here for the rest of the post.
5. The Ex-SEIU Boss, Donor Dollars, No-Bid Contracts & Testing Anthrax Vaccines on Kids
According to the Los Angeles Times, with the exception of existing in locked freezers in Russia and U.S. labs, the smallpox virus was eradicated in 1978. Yet, in a no-bid contract, the Obama administration has given $443 million of American taxpayers' money for a "experimental smallpox drug" to a bio-defense company, Siga, controlled by billionaire Democrat-donor Ron Perleman and whose board ex-SEIU boss Andy Stern sits on.
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While the Times notes that there is no credible evidence that the threat of a smallpox outbreak is imminent and that the U.S. already owns enough vaccine to treat the entire population, the Obama administration's ties to Siga become even more questionable, considering the recent recommendation to start experimenting with an Anthrax vaccine on America's children.
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6. Now is Not the Time to Shirk From Obamacare Fight
By now, we are all intimately acquainted with the bromide that "Republican's only control one-half of one-third of government." Nonetheless, we must remember that, in the realm of appropriations, they control the most consequential body of government; the House of Representatives. Unfortunately, almost a year into their stewardship of that body, they have shown only a tepid inclination to defund Obamacare.
Despite months of diligent work on appropriations bills, House (and Senate) Republicans are abdicating their budget powers to Harry Reid's "minibus" scheme - a scheme in which the House is jettisoned from two-thirds of the process, while conference committees adopt the spending bills favored by Senate Democrats [more here and here]. Next week, the Senate will vote on the second minibus bill. Reid is using the House-passed Energy-Water bill (HR 2354) as a vehicle to carry the Financial Services (S.1573) and State-Foreign Operations (S.1601) bills (even though they were never voted on by the full House). So we will have one appropriations bill that covers such disparate expenditures as the IRS and the State Department. But don't worry, it's a minibus bill; not an Omnibus bill. Hence, Republicans will get the green light to vote for it. All but 14 of them already voted for cloture to proceed with the 'don't call it an omnibus bill.'
Here are the issues with Reid minibus number two.
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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.
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Quote the "great"-and remember to use the air quotes-Walter Cronkite: "I think most newspaper men by definition have to be liberal; if they're not liberal, by my definition of it, they can hardly be good newspapermen."
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White House cutbacks have forced "Counter-terrorism Czar" John Brennan to supplement his meager income by taking on a weekend job as area local branch manager for al Qaeda ( Washington, D.C., chapter). Though he tries his best to avoid any conflict of interest, sometimes the poor guy just can't help himself. Like when he "accidentally" had underwear bomber Farouk Abdulmutallab read his Miranda rights just an hour into questioning; when he made a speech claiming that "Jihad" is a "legitimate tenet of Islam" which means-ahem, nudge, nudge, wink, wink-an "inner struggle for purity"; when he referred to Jerusalem before a Muslim audience as "al Quds," thus legitimizing the (false) assertion that Islam has an originalist claim to the city.
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1. VIDEO: Secret mission: The Horse Soldiers of 9/11 - It was the news the world breathlessly waited for immediately after the 9/11 terror attacks: a report of the first American troops on the ground in Afghanistan. 2. VIDEO: Veterans 3. VIDEO: Veteran's Day 2011 - Why They Serve
4. VIDEO: Veterans Day 2011 United States - Honor
5. VIDEO: Veterans Day 2011 - Freedom Isn't Free 6. Veterans Day 2011 - Our Gratitude Reaches Far Beyond Just One Day Out Of The Year 7. History of Veterans Day 8. VIDEO: Alec Baldwin Trashes President Ronald Reagan
9. FSM on the Radio - Tonight - the issue of Iran's attempts to develop a nuclear weapon are discussed... 10. Connecting the Nuclear Dots on Iran - By Kenneth Timmerman
Frank Hill Frank Hill takes a personal journey of remembrance of his father, who suffered burns over seventy percent of his body while serving his country, but never told him about it.
Frank Salvato An honest examination of the underlying goal(s) of the OWS movement - and who is serving to advance its agenda - exposes a nefarious, deceitful and dangerous reality. Military History, W. Thomas Smith, Jr. Commemorating this week's anniversaries of defining events in American Military History.
Maj. Gen. Paul E. Vallely, US Army (Ret) A retired soldier and father of a son who gave his life for his country gives a special message on this important day. Our son speaks from his resting place... He speaks to me each day from his hallowed space with beautiful skies and mountains majestic white with snow. God bless his soul and the others buried here and I thank him for his wonderful contribution to our life. He lives forever in our hearts... Share your thoughts and comments - click here
Bob Smith On Veteran's Day, former Senator Bob Smith gives a moving and powerful testimony of what this day means to him, and what it should mean for all Americans.
Amir Taheri Iran's regime considers America to be its sole real enemy, an enemy it thinks is losing its vigor. The mullahs are misreading the scenario on many counts.
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs How did the remembrance of the First World War's Armistice Day become Veterans Day? Dr. Laina Farhat-Holzman Whenever you hear "Power to the People," check your wallet. In the past, raging against authority was mostly innocent and silly. Not so now...
Michelle Malkin The bipartisan debt panel to nowhere is exactly where K Street lobbyists want it to be: hopelessly deadlocked.
Paul Driessen In Chile, a U.S. billionaire has been buying land in Chile, to preserve its "ecology," but does this deny local people the ability to make a living, and to provide power for themselves? FSM: Quote of the Day "Those who live today remember those who do not. Those who know freedom remember today those who gave up life for freedom."
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Bruce KeslerSt. Martin was adopted as a saint to the military and his day falls on November 11th, the same day as Armistice Day and now Veterans Day. Is this a coincidence, or something more?
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Friday Afternoon Roundup - Occupy Cain
Posted: 11 Nov 2011 12:43 PM PST
What's the real danger of Islamophobia? Think of it as a license to kill.
the most pernicious thing about the Islamophobia myth is that once it is used to legitimize Muslim grievances, it is then used to legitimize the violent Muslim response to those grievances. Once you accept that Islamophobia is a serious problem, you have taken the first step to justifying violence as a response to that problem.
That is how it began in Israel, once the narrative of Muslim suffering under the "occupation" was accepted; Muslim terrorism became legitimized as a resistance to the occupation. Once you accept that Muslims in France have been marginalized by an Islamophobic society, then criticizing their religion marginalizes them further and justifies their violent response.
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That's the Orwellian Doublespeak of Islamophobia: we are to be afraid of being afraid and if we are afraid enough, then perhaps we won't need to be afraid anymore. The left's twisted politics endorse militant terror and then warn us not to be terrorized by them. Only the guilty condemn the violence, the innocent cheer it on or pretend that it isn't there. From the French Revolution to the USSR's Great Terror to the Black Panthers to Islam, nothing has changed.
See the rest in my Front Page Magazine article: Islamophobia: A License to Kill and back over in Libya that wonderful war we had to fight in order to set the Islamists free to run the place.
In this week's issue of The Australian, Sheikh Hamza Abu Fas, Libya's new Minister for Religious Affairs, gave Westerners a taste of the "free and democratic" that NATO had been fighting for.
The law that allowed a first wife to veto marriage to a second wife will be overturned. "The woman is not equal to the man in the body," explained Sheikh Hamza. Thieves will have their hands chopped off: "If this happens it will only happen once because other people will not want it to happen again and will not commit theft," said the good Sheikh.
Islamic banking will be the only kind of banking in Libya. "In the future, we hope all banks will be Islamic," Sheikh Hamza said. "The Islamic bank is best for all people. All Europeans and Australian people will realize the best solution for banks is Islamic banks."
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How extreme a figure is Sheikh Hamza? In Feb 2010, he participated in a symposium on "Revisionist Studies of the Concepts of Jihad, Verification, and Judgment of People" held under the auspices of Sheikh Salman bin Fahd al-Awda, secretary of the International Union for Muslim Scholars, Qaradawi's organization, and a member of the European Council for Fatwa, another Qaradawi group.
Sheikh Hamza has participated in sessions of the European Council for Fatwa and in Muslim World League events. The Muslim World League is another Muslim Brotherhood group for the promotion of Sharia and is funded by Saudi Arabia.
So the good news is that Libya is now free. Free to kill Africans, oppress women and eagerly await the latest interpretation of Islamic law. See this and more in my FPM Article, "Meet Libya's New Islamist Boss."
THE ELECTION FOLLIES
I doubt the Democrats could have imagined that the primaries would sink to this level of absurdity. And there's no escaping the inevitable trajectory.
Bachmann was supposed to be the anti-Romney, then the task fell to Perry and Cain, and both of them are in trouble. Gingrich is waiting in the wings and while I think he could be a very effective president, I'm not altogether convinced that he could win an election.
Cain's problem is very basic. While this is a political hit job, no doubt about it, the only way to shake it loose is to conclusively prove that at least one of his accusers is lying. And in a He-Said, She-Said situation that's going to be hard to do. Next to impossible. And multiple accusers and preexisting cases raise the possibility that where there's smoke, there's fire.
I like Cain, I would very much like to see him take on Obama in a debate, but this isn't just going to go away. Cain has demonstrated that he has a certain measure of that teflon that I discussed in last week's roundup, at least among Republican voters, but I'm not that confident the same bulletproof thing will work for him with the general body of voters.
This is still a developing story so we'll see where it heads and where it ends up.
Perry has his own problems that he keeps creating.Going into the race as a front runner, all he really had to do was grin a lot, deliver platitudes smoothly and denounce Romney. So far he's managed to grin a lot and that's only one out of three.
The debate moment won't end his campaign, obviously, though it will reinforce all the existing doubts and while the way he's exploiting it shows a certain amount of teflon stamina, it doesn't change that he screwed up in a bizarre way to get to that point.
The screwup isn't that he forgot a key plank of his program that he had managed to compellingly lead into, it's that he couldn't think of a way to work around that memory loss except to go around asking Ron Paul if he remembered what it was. That's more unforgivable in a way.
Speakers are only human and everyone makes mistakes. Do you think that Reagan never forgot anything or didn't face a question to which he didn't know the answer? Obviously, again. But there are ways to handle that. Watch some of Reagan's speeches, debates and conferences and you'll see how a masterful speaker dealt with it.
The no-brainer for Perry, in this situation, would have been to begin talking about his second department, and going into detail and throwing in something controversial to divert a follow-up question. It might not have saved him, but it would have been a much less problematic moment.
The issue isn't really that Perry couldn't remember, that's bad in its own way, it's that he handled it in the worst way possible in a public forum watched by millions of people. And this isn't exactly the first time. That confrontation with Romney comes to mind.
In a national campaign against Obama, the Republican opponent is going to have to be on the ball with a media and a nutroots that will take anything and turn it into a viral video or a smear. Perry's response shows a certain amount of cleverness and resilience, but I have to wonder if the credit goes to him or his people for that one. The cleverness and resilience was needed on stage.
In the debates, Perry has been either stiffly over-rehearsed or just impulsive, letting himself be carried away. The impulsive Perry is better than the robotic Perry clumsily delivering attacks, the former won't be able to win an election, the latter might, but the latter is giving his opponents a ton of ammunition.
Again all is not lost. Bush said plenty of things in front of an open microphone during and before the campaign. It didn't cost him the election, and his good humor about it helped build his image. Perry might sail by under the same flag. Maybe.
THE OCCUPATION CONTINUES
Local businesses near Zuccotti Park are being vandalized by the occupiers. Oakland is being vandalized by the occupiers. Rape, TB and other fun stuff are all part of what being the 3 percent who pretend to be the 99 percent before getting degrees in philosophical anthropology and a job at the EPA regulating people's carbon emission means.
And naturally the whole thing slips into increasingly pointless occupation spinoffs. "Occupy Birthright." Should people who are against occupations be occupying anything at all? It would be like pro-Israel activists calling themselves terrorists. It's bad just at a common sense linguistic level. But then we're dealing with people who create checkpoints to protest against checkpoints.
Occupy Wall Street at least had the virtue of choosing a widely despised target. But Occupy Oakland? What did Oakland ever do to anyone? Or Denver? Or Newark?
Like Hitler invading Russia, the occupation's worst enemy is the weather. Their second worst enemy is themselves. Downtown Manhattan is full of dogmatic liberals and most people want them gone. If the media wasn't spinning everything they did 24/7 it would be much worse.
That this entire national human bedbug infestation even exists can be put down to a lack of municipal leadership and the desperation of the Obama campaign. But how many rapes, murders and disease outbreaks is it going to take before the whole thing backfires on the left?
The good is that OWS at least has a new poster.
OLD GLORY
(Via Director Blue at The Volokh Conspiracy)
Dariano v. Morgan Hill Unified School District (N.D. Cal.), decided the day before yesterday, upholds a California high school's decision to forbid students from wearing American flag T-shirts on Cinco de Mayo. (See here and here for more on this case.)
The decision might well be correct under Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School Dist. (1969), which allows a "heckler's veto" in K-12 school: Schools may indeed restrict student speech when it's likely to cause substantial disruption, even when the disruption stems from other students' hostility to the speech.
You want bad? We're at the point where American flags are too controversial to allow in schools not just because of some leftist administrators, but because of the students... in a decision upheld by a court.
Here, for the reasons discussed above, Defendants have provided a non-discriminatory basis for asking Plaintiffs to remove their American flag attire. Defendants have put forth significant evidence demonstrating that Plaintiffs were asked to change clothes in order to protect their own safety. Plaintiffs have not offered any evidence demonstrating that students wearing the colors of the Mexican flag were targeted for violence.
If Mexican students terrorize American students, then a Mexican-American vice-principal can order American students to get rid of the flag, without there being any discrimination involved. Except on the part of the Mexican students.
Beautiful, isn't it? And the school system is paid for through compulsory taxes levied on homeowners who have to fund the schools and all the minority homeowners too, and the cost of bailing out the banks which were brought down by those mortgages and a local government deep in debt to pay for the schools, the health care and anti-gang programs.What could be more American than that?
This in a nutshell is the problem with Perry. National debt, growth of government, those won't matter if much of the country is just an extension of the disaster area south of the border. If this goes on for another 30-40 years there isn't going to be an America, there are going to be American enclaves in Greater Mexico.
And that American flag will be in the trash.
GREEDY RADICALS
Won't you please save a leftist? Every day Nation editors have to cut back to drinking only one glass of chardonnay and only one Michael Moore Netflix rental.
As the protesters of Occupy Wall Street voice their frustrations just a few blocks south of our offices, we're facing our own very real challenges. It's simple: because of the economy, donations to our Nation Associates program are down $200,000 for 2011.
This is no time to pull punches, scale back or otherwise take our eye off the ball. Not with a presidential election heating up and so much at stake. We must make up this shortfall before we sit down to plan our Election 2012 coverage for the coming year. Help us by bidding in our online auction.
So instead of buying your loved ones holiday gifts that enrich the corporate establishment, why not share your passion for progressive journalism by bidding on a one-of-a-kind gift from The Nation.
But isn't the Nation a corporation? Aren't its editors and advertisers enriched by its operations?
It's begging for donations, so it's not a very good corporation, but it's certainly isn't a non-profit. It's The Nation LP. I can see a Sears ad on the front page. Sears is a corporation that pays money to place ads on the site of a magazine with paid subscriptions.
What is Teresa Stack's salary? I don't know, but I suspect it's a number close enough to that donation shortfall.
It was certainly possible for The Nation to run without losing money, but by maintaining the image of a money losing operation that's subsidized by donations, it never really had to develop a workable business model. It can just ask for money. Advertising makes up 20 percent of its revenue. How much of the rest is made up by radicals with their hand out?
If you have nearly a fifth of a million of subscribers at 40 to 50 bucks for an annual subscription and you can't figure out how to make money from that or find advertisers, then it's a real problem. But instead The Nation wraps itself in its own radicalism and goes panhandling, while pretending that it's more moral because they're not greedy capitalists, they're greedy radicals.
But if you are moved to help out a red mag, you can pick up Memories of Lenin at their auction for a steal.
THE LIST
From American Digest
The twin towers loomed over everything, thought of, if they were thought of at all, as an irritation in that they blocked off so much of the sky. It was 1975 and, Vietnam not withstanding, America was just about at the midway point between two world wars. Of course, we didn't know that at the time. The only war we knew of was the Second World War and the background humm of the Cold War. It was a summer Sunday and we were in the midst of what now can be seen as "The Long Peace."
In front of the lawns at Battery Park was a monument that caught my attention. It was formed of an immense stone eagle and two parallel rows of granite monoliths about 20 feet wide, 20 feet tall and 3 feet thick. From a distance you could see that they had words carved into them from top to bottom. There was also a lot of shade between them so I took my hot dog and my coke and wheeled my bike over, sitting down at random among the monoliths.
I remember that the stone was cool against my back as I sat there looking at the stone across from me on that warm afternoon. As I looked up it dawned on me that the words cut into the stones were all names. Just names. The names of soldiers, sailors and airmen who had met their death in the north Atlantic in WWII. I was to learn later that there were 4,601 names. All lost in the frigid waters, all without any marker for their graves -- except those in the hearts of those they left behind, and their names carved into these stones that rose up around me.
I read across several rows, moving right to left, then down a row, and then right to left. I got to the end of the sixth row and went back to the beginning of the seventh row.
At the beginning of the seventh row, I read the name: "Gerard Van der Leun." My name. Cut into the stone amongst a tally of the dead.
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Iran's nuclear boomerang
Guy Bechor, YNET
The media and public storm in Israel in the wake of the report on Iran's nuclear program, and the concern in Israel over an Iranian nuclear bomb, is exaggerated. Those who should be bothered by the latest developments are members of Iran's Khomeinist regime; the nuclear program is turning into a curse for it. Should the bomb come to life, it shall prompt the regime's demise.
Indeed, the international community is slow in imposing tough sanctions on Tehran, because many engage in surreptitious and even open trade ties with it - for example, Germany and France, which are Israel's allies. However, one cannot say that nothing is happening.
Last week, the House Foreign Affairs Committee unanimously passed a bill that sets a series of sanctions on foreign firms that provide Iran with fuel or other refined oil products. Such companies and individuals would no longer be allowed to enter the US, do business there, work with its banks...
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By Reuters, HAARETZ
Israel has accelerated the installation of anti-missile defenses on its airliners, a security official told Reuters on Friday, seeing an enhanced risk of attack by militants using looted Libyan arms.
The security official's comment came after Haaretz reported last month that improved quality of anti-aircraft missiles held by Hamas in Gaza is increasingly worrying the Israeli defense establishment.
El Al emergency landing - May 23, 2011
Hamas, the report indicated, recently managed to smuggle relatively advanced Russian missiles, which were looted from Libyan military warehouses, into the Gaza Strip.
On Friday, officials said Jets flown by El Al and two other Israeli carriers are being equipped with a locally made system known as C-Music that uses a laser to "blind" heat-seeking missiles, the official said, giving a 2013 target for fitting most of the fleet.
As a stop-gap, Israel is adapting air force counter-measures for use aboard...
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Poll: American voters' support for Israel rising
By REBECCA ANNA STOIL, JERUSALEM POST
WASHINGTON - Americans' support for Israel is up, with the increase coming from unexpected sectors, an Israel Project poll released on Thursday revealed.
So-called "opinion elites" and Democratic voters drove the shift, which pegged American voter support for Israel around the 60 percent mark in the survey conducted last week.
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Poll first: More Jewish voters disapprove of Obama's job performance than approve
According to the poll, Jewish approval of the president's performance declined to 45 percent, with 48 percent disapproving and 7 percent undecided. Last year, 51 percent approved of Obama's job performance and 44 percent disapproved.
AJC also surveyed Jews' opinions about the current GOP presidential contenders. In match-ups with the president, AJC found that Mitt Romney would fare best among Jewish voters when running against Obama, with 32 percent of the...
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WSJ
The International Atomic Energy Agency this week released its most detailed assessment to date about Iran's efforts to acquire nuclear weapons, and if "Paranornal Activity 3 wasn't enough to keep you awake at night, the report's 14-page annex detailing the state of Iran's weapons work should do the trick. It lays to rest the fantasies that an Iranian bomb is many years off, or that the intelligence is riddled with holes and doubts, or that the regime's intentions can't be guessed by their activities.
So much, then, for the December 2007 National Intelligence Estimate, which asserted "with high confidence" that Iran had abandoned its nuclear-weapons work in 2003 and ended any chance that the Bush Administration would take action against Iran. So much, too, for the Obama Administration's attempts to move Iran away from its nuclear course, first with diplomatic offers and then with sanctions...
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Laura: The years of non-stop vicious lies and blood libels against the Jewish state by the leftist western media and academia in collaboration with the vast islamic propaganda machine, along with the occupy movement's scapegoating of Jews for the economic crisis, has created the climate for hate crimes against Jews. We cannot let cowardly western governments off the hook who have blamed Israel for the turmoil in the Middle East. We are in the midst of the biggest wave of global anti-Semitism since WW2.
Police Investigate Antisemitic Arson and vandalism in Midwood NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) - There's shock and outrage in Brooklyn today after several cars were torched and numerous pieces of anti-Semitic vandalism took place in Midwood.
The incident was discovered at around 5 a.m., when residents awoke to see cars burning.
At least three cars were set ablaze and dozens of pieces of anti-Semitic graffiti were plastered along benches. The cars were damaged and the benches vandalized...
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By Evelyn Gordon, Commentary
Tonight, as Israel's memorial day for slain Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin begins, is a good time to debunk a myth that has recently gained great currency: that Israel's population has become increasingly right-wing, constituting a major obstacle to peace. This myth was most famously propounded by former President Bill Clinton (here and here ), but it also crops up frequently in academic discourse. A study published by the the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies in September, for instance, declared that "Today Israel's Jewish population is more nationalistic, religiously conservative, and hawkish on foreign policy and security affairs than that of even a generation ago, and it would be unrecognizable to Israel's founders."
Yet Rabin himself, the idol of those who propagate this myth, provides the best possible refutation of it. All you have to do is read his final speech to the Knesset, given one month before his...
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Martin Sherman ranks up there with Caroline Glick. His articles are very insightful. Here he points out how the will of the majority in Israel is at the mercy of the left-wimg media who manipulate the news and the left-wing Supreme Court who substitutes its opinion and agenda for that of the Knesset representing the people. He thus calls for a revolution in which we throw the these unelected bums out and restore Israel to the people. Ted Belman By MARTIN SHERMAN, JPOST A real reason for revolution
Judging from last weekend's less than impressive turnout for the nationwide social-justice protests, it seems that much of wind has been sucked out of the sails that billowed so impressively in the summer winds. Of course this is not entirely unexpected. After all, only the hopelessly gullible could have believed that what took place on the streets in August was a genuine reflection of socioeconomic distress across a wide cross-section of Israeli society. For it was never an authentic... Read the whole entry » This article has gotten a lot of attention. It has been posted on AT, CFP, INN and many others. The title is misleading. The question really should be, is it a net asset or liability to Israel just as the question is put, is Israel a net asset or liability to US. In both cases the answer is a net asset. Ted Belman By Ted Belman This question always elicits different opinions. Obviously, in part, the answers depend on one's definition of "friend" or of "enemy." The most famous articulation of U.S. policy vis-à-vis Israel was made by Henry Kissinger in 1975 when talking to an Iraqi diplomat. To wit: "We don't need Israel for influence in the Arab world. On the contrary, Israel does us more harm than good in the Arab world "... We can't negotiate about the existence of Israel but we can reduce its size to historical proportions" Before the '67 War, U.S. policy was mostly hostile in that the U.S.... Read the whole entry » Dr. Ileana Johnson Paugh, CFP We are sitting in the eye of a hurricane. The media jackals, like a tornado, are destroying everything and everyone in their path who is a conservative and not a subscriber to European socialism and one world government. Alphabet soup pundits dedicate hundreds of stories and airtime to Occupy Wall Street unemployable collegiate malcontents, filthy vagrants, druggies, and communist agitators who are getting more and more violent. Occupiers with trust funds claim to be the 99 percent of the people who want the spoils of the one percent, the rich. They complain that the homeless are stealing their electronic gadgets and food. Apparently, "stealing is a problem when it happens to you, 'social justice' when it happens to someone else." Lazy agitators abhor capitalism and banks, yet are hypocritically eager to deposit donated funds in the bank.
Goethe said, "Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action." And there is plenty of... Read the whole entry » by Dr. Shimon Samuels, THE JEWISH CHRONICLE In the 1980s, UNESCO was a theatre for the Cold War. When the USA and the UK walked out in 1984, they cited mismanagement; the real motive was a series of Soviet-led resolutions against press freedom. In 2009, the Arab bloc front-runner, Egypt's Education Minister, Farouq Hosni - who threatened to burn any Hebrew book on Egyptian territory - lost in a bitter election to Bulgarian diplomat Irina Bokova. At her inauguration, I congratulated Ms Bokova as the first UN leader from a country which saved its Jews in the Second World War. She has since championed Holocaust education and focused on the rights of women in the Muslim world.
These initiatives were overshadowed last year when she became enmeshed in a campaign led by the Arab/Muslim bloc to appropriate Jewish heritage sites in the Holy Land. The World Heritage Committee - a UNESCO affiliate - characterised Rachel's Tomb and the Cave of Machpela as mosques. As a... Read the whole entry » I attended a JCPA Conference on Incitement to Terror and Violence yesterday. It had an excellent roster of speakers. One important point made was that incitement always precedes genocide and usually war. Another point that was made was that the PA and Hamas are responsible for financing and enabling incitement. More on this later. So I was glad to read the article below which begins to ask the right question. Itamar Marcus, PMW, told me that he just discussed the whole subject with visiting congressmen who advised that they were interested in putting forward a bill that would prevent the PA from doping so. Ted Belman Should Treasury Sanction the Palestinian Investment Fund?
by Jonathan Schanzer, Weekly Standard Online In a move that should startle members of Congress, a Palestinian sovereign wealth fund that has long received American taxpayer support will soon begin building houses for convicted members of terrorist organizations. The Palestine News and Information Agency WAFA... Read the whole entry » Hatikva in Hebrew means "Hope", Israel's national anthem. |
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Israel's Public Diplomacy and Diaspora Affairs Ministry is promoting an initiative to turn the national anthem Hatikva into one of the most popular videos on YouTube on Israel's 63rd Independence Day. The clip is being promoted under the heading Together Let's Put Hatikvah on YouTube" the public is being called on to watch the clip and send it to friends in order to increase the number of viewers and advance it onto YouTube's daily list of the most popular clips.
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by Bill Levinson
Originally published in The American Thinker The "general consensus" that permanent peace in the Middle East requires the creation of an independent Palestinian state is a dangerous delusion that can lead nowhere but to terrorism, violence, and war. This article will shatter that delusion with what engineers - i.e., people who deal in impartial facts as opposed to dreams and ideologies - call a root cause assessment. The root cause of a problem is the deficiency whose removal or correction will solve the problem at its source. The Automotive Industry Action Group's CQI-10, "Effective Problem Solving Guideline," includes a technique called "Is/Is Not." This is "a process that distinguishes those aspects associated with a problem from those that might be, but are not" and adds the instruction to "Focus on FACTs, not Opinions." If a manufacturing process made the same kind and quantity of... Read the whole entry » France will stand side by side with Israel to oppose Iranian threat, Sarkozy tells WJC leaders A delegation of the World Jewish Congress (WJC) led by WJC President Ronald S. Lauder and the president of the French Jewish community umbrella organization CRIF, Richard Prasquier, have had a frank discussion at the Elysée Palace in Paris with France's President Nicolas Sarkozy, which lasted 90 minutes. "France will always stand side by side with Israel to oppose an Iran that threatens it by developing nuclear weapons," Sarkozy said at the meeting after the WJC delegation had raised the looming threat of a nuclear-armed Iran. He added that Israel had no better security partner than his government and warned of unilateral actions against the regime in Tehran.
Sarkozy also tried to reassure the Jewish leaders of his unconditional commitment to Israel's well-being, which throughout his political career had always been close to his heart. He called on Israelis and... Read the whole entry »
Resenting Israel, Not Netanyahu
By Jonathan Tobin, COMMENTARY Barack Obama's dislike of Benjamin Netanyahu was not a state secret prior to the publication of his candid exchange about the Israeli prime minister with French President Nicolas Sarkozy. So the fact the two have a low opinion of Netanyahu and consider dealing with him to be a burden isn't exactly news. But while much of the commentary about this kerfuffle has centered on the question of who should be most embarrassed by the revelation - Netanyahu or his two highly placed critics - there is a more important point here. Netanyahu has a well-earned reputation as a prickly and somewhat unpleasant fellow to deal with-in Israeli political circles as well as the world of international diplomacy. But when Sarkozy and Obama grouse about him, the resentment they are giving voice to hasn't all that much to do with whether or not Netanyahu is a charm school dropout. What really annoys them is his inherent... Read the whole entry »
Insists they are moderate By Barry Rubin, PC MEDIA Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's speech justifying Obama Administration Middle East policy changes everything. True, it isn't surprising. I've been writing for almost three years about how the current U.S. government thinks this way. Do not underestimate this speech's importance. It isn't a reluctant acceptance that Islamists might win elections and take over couNtries. It is an enthusiastic endorsement of that idea. But now there can be no doubt that Obama's Middle East policy is engaged in what might be the biggest blunder in the history of U.S. foreign policy. Millions of people will bemoan it as delivering their countries into the grip of repressive dictatorships.
The speech can be summarized as follows: Islamist regimes-at least those whose "behavior" is proper-are good. If Islamists exercise political power they will be moderate. Thus, the United States will not merely tolerate but will actually... Read the whole entry »
by Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi
Israel National News Since the overthrow of Qaddafi in Libya by the NATO-backed forces of the National Transitional Council, many analysts have speculated as to whether this development could ultimately hasten the downfall of two other regimes in the Middle East: namely, Bashar al-Assad's government in Syria and Ali Abdullah Saleh's regime in Yemen. Indeed, in the immediate aftermath of Qaddafi's death, reports emerged from Syria of more intense anti-Assad rallies across the country, amid a crackdown by the security forces that killed 25 people, mostly in the central city of Homs and the city of Hama to the north. The argument goes that because the protestors have been emboldened by the death of Qaddafi, the regimes in Syria and Yemen will collapse sooner. Is such reasoning sound? In a word: No.
For there has been one factor underlying the ousting of Hosni Mubarak in Egypt, Ben Ali in Tunisia, and Qaddafi in Libya: namely,... Read the whole entry »
http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=9007272733 TEHRAN (FNA)- Thousands of Syrian and Palestinian youths in a petition to Damascus government expressed their readiness to conduct martyrdom-seeking operations inside Israel. In a petition signed by 30,000 well-trained Palestinian and Syrian youths, they said that they are ready to infiltrate Israel and conduct any type of operation. The call for infiltration into Israel came months after 5 young Palestinians who tried to carry out martyrdom-seeking operation on the Nakba Day were arrested in the occupied territories.
The petition said that those who signed it have passed military, combat and tactical trainings and are ready to tolerate the hardest conditions in Israel. The move came after Israel intensified its war rhetoric against the Syrian government and its ally, Iran.
By Ted Belman Incitement is a government tool to ready their subjects and the world for an intended war. Incitement is particularly employed by the PA, Hamas and UNRWA to instill and maintain a hatred of Jews/Israelis. It contains a two-pronged attack. It promotes grievances, the Jews stole our land and are oppressing us, and it demonizes Jews, the Jews are Nazis, sons of apes and pigs, drink our blood, steal our organs, etc. The grievances justify going to war against Israel and the demonization justifies a second holocaust. So why then is Israel paying lip service to it's cessation and worse, actively lobbying the US and Canada, inter alia, against withholding funds to the PA, which gives some of the money to Hamas, and UNRWA.
Maayana Miskin report: Bibi Sought Support for PA Hate Education Israel's leaders may be among those making it possible for the Palestinian Authority to teach hate and violence to a new generation of children, according to new findings from... Read the whole entry »
Reuters, YNET Should the Israelis attack Iran, they would probably focus strikes on select nuclear facilities while trying to avoid killing civilians en masse or crippling the oil sector. Past operations by Israel, such as the 1981 bombing of Iraq's Osirak atomic reactor and a similar strike against Syria in 2007, suggest a strategy of one-off pinpoint raids, due both to military limitations and a desire to avoid wider war. "It (Israel) has the capability to get there, and it has the capability to do serious damage to the Iranian nuclear program," said Sam Gardiner, a retired US air force colonel who has run war games for various Washington agencies and academic forums. Israel remains publicly committed to the US-led big power strategy of diplomacy and punitive sanctions to get the Iranians to curb their uranium enrichment and ensure it is for peaceful purposes only. But the specter of unilateral Israeli strikes resurfaced with the publication on Tuesday of... Read the whole entry »
YNET Senior state officials accuse former IAEA chairman of covering up for Islamic Republic during his term, allowing Iranians to move ahead with nuclear program while playing for time. 'He is a despicable person,' one of them says. Senior Israeli officials said Tuesday night that the International Atomic Energy Agency report stating that Iran has been working on developing a nuclear weapon design proves that the former UN nuclear watchdog chairman "was an Iranian agent". The former IAEA chairman, Mohamed ElBaradei, is an Egyptian diplomat who even won the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize. For years he defended the Iranian nuclear program, claiming that it was peaceful, thus allowing the Iranians to continue their activity with the nuclear watchdog's seal of approval. According to one of the state officials, the new report published Tuesday proves "just how much he was working for the Iranians. "He simply rescued Iran and was constantly busy... Read the whole entry »
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Time for an Economic Bill of Rights
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Government Muslim Homeland Security Advisor Accused of Leaking Documents to Prove 'Islamophobia,' Damage Rick Perry
November 8, 2011
Out of a 26-member advisory council, the Department of Homeland Security allowed just one advisor, Mohammed Elibiary, special access to a nationwide database that includes terror watch lists and FBI sensitive reports. Now, the Texas Muslim is being accused of leaking some of those documents to the media with the stated goal of damaging Texas governor and Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry. Elibiary asserts that the documents show what he calls the "Islamophobia" of Texas government agencies.
CBN News reports:
He's accused of taking confidential documents from the Texas Department of Public Safety and shopping them to the media.
See video and rest of story here:
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By Arnold Ahlert
New governments in Greece and Italy won't stop the demise of the EU.
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By Daniel Greenfield
Legitimizing Muslim grievances legitimizes Muslim violence.
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By Ryan Mauro
Anti-American dictator vs. Anti-American Islamists.
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By Rick Moran
What led to the 180 degree change in the UN nuclear watchdog's conclusions on Iran?
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By Ann Coulter
Smears against Cain bear a curious resemblance to the Obama machine's preferred method of character assassination.
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By Jacob Laksin
A released suicide bomber vows to return to killing Jews.
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By Kenneth L. Marcus
Kent State University promotes yelling "Death to Israel" when an Israeli guest speaker tries to talk.
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By Matthew Vadum
If Big Labor can't get what it wants through the ballot box it's time to start cracking skulls.
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By Gail Rubin
UC Davis becomes a hotbed of anti-Semitic education.
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By Humberto Fontova
What the radical film-maker thinks of patriots who lost their lives fighting for freedom.
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By Jamie Glazov
Why is film director Brett Ratner fired for using a gay slur while Sharpton isn't held accountable for doing the same thing?
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Sprightly Ahmadinejad tours nuclear facilities, having stolen an election he marches on as his police batter and protesters. And everywhere he goes, he smiles his trademark loopy smile. The smile of a psychopath or a saint. Why is Ahmadinejad smiling? The answer is not a terribly complicated one. With every step he takes and every day that he remains in power, he discredits the most deeply held ideas of Western liberals about the power of diplomacy to resolve conflicts and internal civil disobedience to achieve peaceful regime change. Despite years of diplomatic and hundreds of thousands of protesters taking to the streets-- Ahmadinejad's grip on power remains as secure as ever. Walking over the bodies of student protesters, of political dissidents, of the thousands killed by the wars he has touched off, he continues to taunt the rest of the world to do anything about it. And the rest of the world has done nothing except talk. And as Ahmadinejad has demonstrated, talk counts for nothing at all. While Mahmoud Ahmadinejad may be detached from ordinary reality, living in an Islamic version of Charles Manson's fantasies about touching off a spectacular war in order to bring on a new age, he understands his enemies well enough to call them out on their weakness. Like every other Islamic terrorist and warlord, Ahmadinejad sees diplomacy as weakness behind a mask of civility. And like just about every strongman in the world, he laughs at it.
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Once again, Rep. Allen West hits the nail on the head
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Rep. West was the keynote speaker at this year's sold-out ACT! for America National Conference and Legislative Briefing. Next year's conference will be held June 13 - 15 (three nights, two full days) in Washington, DC. Save the date and make your discounted hotel reservation today by calling 800 - THE - OMNI (800-843-6664) or going online here.
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West: U.S. Must Understand 21st-Century Combat- By Rep. Allen West
- Nov. 2, 2011
Today's paradigm of battle and combat operations is completely different from what I experienced in 1982 when I was commissioned as a young lieutenant in the U.S. Army. At that time, the battlefield was much simpler. In broad strokes, there was the Soviet Union on one side and the United States on the other. We were familiar with their tactics and equipment, and they with ours. Both sides wore uniforms, and every now and then we would stage war games on border control missions. That paradigm has completely disappeared, leaving in its place an asymmetrical battlefield with non-uniformed, non-state belligerents using unconventional weapons and tactics. If the United States is going to be successful in protecting its citizens and interests, it must quickly understand and adapt to this new battlefield and be prepared for success and victory. While America may lack an appropriate strategic level perspective, we will never lose at the tactical level on the ground because the United States has the best soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines and Coast Guardsmen the world has ever known. But without the correct strategic and operational goals and objectives, we will find ourselves on the proverbial hamster wheel. No matter how much effort we exert on the wheel, we will not make forward progress. Read more:
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 This is the pig tram in Basel - a last resort for Europeans who wish to escape Muslim harassment on public transport. Maybe we should extend the concept further? Pig-shaped planes - guaranteed terror-free!  
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Leaked CBS memo backs Bachmann 'snub' charge
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In a surprise step that could precipitate a future U.S.-NATO military campaign, the Arab League today suspended Syria and called on its army to stop killing civilians.
Other moves mimic the diplomatic initiatives taken to isolate Muammar Gadhafi's regime before the NATO campaign in Libya.
Is this next U.S.-NATO war?
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From Howard:
This is a rather long Youtube item of an address by a former Hamas member's son to a German Audience...But it is instructive......It covers how the Islamists are driven by Religious and "Racial" hatred of our Western Culture...and how there IS NO SUCH THING AS MODERATE ISLAM ......and putting that into the context of a News report today that the new Libyan Prime Minister stated that the "New" Libya would be a "Moderate" Islamic State...(and we will hear it about Tunisia and Egypt I am sure).......There is no such thing ! SHARIA LAW CANNOT BE MODERATE.....HATRED OF NON MUSLIMS AND DESTROYING CHRISTIAN INSTITUTIONS AND CHURCHES CANNOT BE MODERATE....WISHING TO DESTROY THE STATE OF ISRAEL AND TO KILL JEWS CANNOT BE MODERATE.....and these are some of the tenets or principles of Islam....but this "Moderation" is what we will hear and read about from our Media reports......We must let people know that this is all fiction....Just ask anyone living in the United Kingdom or France etc.......They are about to lose ( IN A FEW GENERATIONS) their cultural foundations and their countries, and they admit this openly.......all because of the fiction of "Moderate" Islam.....It is up to us to make sure that our friends realize the reality of what is transpiring in our "politically correct" world
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLnHzLNuT-M&feature=youtu
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Please IMMEDIATELY contact your member of Congress and urge him or her to vote for H.R. 822 WITH NO AMENDMENTS.
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National Right-to-Carry Reciprocity Act Scheduled for House Floor on Tuesday- Contact Your U.S. Representative Immediately!
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Thursday, November 10, 2011
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H.R. 822-the "National Right-to-Carry Reciprocity Act of 2011" is scheduled for a vote on the U.S. House floor this Tuesday, November 15. We've told you the truth about why the legislation is very good for gun owners and now it is imperative that you contact your U.S. Representative IMMEDIATELY and urge him or her to vote for H.R. 822 WITH NO AMENDMENTS.
As we have been reporting all along, H.R. 822 is a good bill for gun owners. The bill will enable America's millions of permit holders to exercise their right to self-defense while traveling outside their home states by requiring states to recognize each others' lawfully-issued carry permits, just as they recognize driver's licenses and carry permits held by armored car guards.
H.R. 822 does not create a federal licensing or registration system; does not establish a minimum federal standard for the carry permit; does not involve the federal bureaucracy in setting standards for carry permit; and it does not destroy or discourage the adoption of permitless carry systems such as those in Arizona, Alaska, Vermont and Wyoming.
Again, this critically important bill will be on the House floor on Tuesday. Please IMMEDIATELY contact your member of Congress and urge him or her to vote for H.R. 822 WITH NO AMENDMENTS.
You can find contact information for your U.S. Representative by using the "Write Your Representatives" tool at www.NRAILA.org. You may also contact your Representative by phone at (202) 225-3121. Additionally, you may CLICK HERE TO EMAIL YOUR MEMBER OF CONGRESS.
H.R. 822 is a good bill for gun owners. Don't listen to false claims. Read the bill yourself and READ OUR FACT SHEET to get more facts.
To listen to an NRANews interview about H.R. 822 with the bill's sponsor Rep. Cliff Stearns (R-Fla.), please click here.
To listen to an NRANews interview about H.R. 822 with NRA-ILA Director of Research and Information John Frazer, please click here.
To read an op-ed piece about H.R. 822 by NRA-ILA Executive Director Chris W. Cox, please click here.
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November 11, 2011
MAYOR'S CHOICE - VET'S DAY EVENT OR OWS? Gayle McLaughlin, the Mayor of Richmond, CA has been a sponsor of the OWS movement since it started. She is also a member of the Green Party and has chosen to skip a local Veterans Day event in order to attend an OWS rally. Read the mayor's reasons HERE.
JUDGE OK'S SCHOOL BANNING FLAG SHIRTS In early May of 2010, a California high school principal told students they were not to wear t-shirts displaying the American flag on the Mexican holiday of Cinco De Mayo (May 5th). The students filed suit and a Federal Judge has ruled in favor of the school. Get all the details of this story HERE.
CHINA'S RULING ELITES ARE WORRIED. WHY? China's massive economy is not immune to the economic problems currently being felt around the world. A spike in the cost of housing is just one reason the ruling class of the massive country is on edge. Read the rest of the list HERE.
GRAMMY-NOMINATED SINGER PENS VIOLENT SONG FOR OCCUPY WALL STREETERS Singer-songwriter Joseph Arthur swears that he's a non-violent guy, but the lyrics to his new song seem to contradict that statement. Read the disturbingly graphic words of "We Stand As One" HERE.
DEBUTING TONIGHT ON GBTV: 'THE B.S. OF A' - comedy for the rest of us Brian Sack, GBTV's Chief Humorist, will finally debut "The B.S. of A." tonight at 7pm on GBTV. We managed to convince the crew at The B.S. of A. to give us a sneak peek at what they have in store for the big premiere. Take a look HERE.
VIRAL VIDEO - TEXAS GOV RICK PERRY DELIVERS LETTERMAN'S TOP 10 LIST A day after "stepping in it" during the GOP debate, Rick Perry put himself back in the spotlight and tried to make light of his brain freeze. Watch the clip HERE.
'LEFT, RIGHT, & CHRIST' - NEW BOOK PUsHES POLITICAL HOT BUTTONS A new book that tackles some of the fundamental questions about evangelicals and politics was the subject of a live discussion on GBTV last night. Watch S.E. Cupp and Scott Baker interview the authors D.C. Innes and Lisa Sharon Harper HERE.
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Media Parrot Obama Financial Crisis Campaign Propaganda
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published November 10, 2011 on Forbes.com.
At the October 11 GOP Presidential primary debate on Bloomberg TV, Karen Tumulty of the Washington Post asked candidate Michelle Bachmann if Wall Street bankers had been adequately punished for "the damage they did to the economy." In reply, Bachmann schooled the uninformed Tumulty, saying,
"If you look at the problem with the economic meltdown, you can trace it right back to the federal government. It was the federal government that pushed the subprime loans. It was the federal government that pushed the Community Reinvestment Act....We had lending standards lowered for the first time in American history. The fault goes back to the federal government."
Newt Gingrich affirmed the same view.
The next day, the Washington Post struck back in a supposed "fact check." The Post proclaimed: "The notion that the CRA - approved nearly 35 years ago in 1977--had anything to do with a lending crisis that flowered in 2007 and 2008 has been roundly discredited."
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Ignorance Exploited
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published November 9, 2011 on Townhall.com. Many Wall Street occupiers are echoing the Communist Party USA's call to "Save the nation! Tax corporations! Tax the rich!" There are other Americans, on both the left and the right -- for example, President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner -- who call for reductions in corporate taxes. But the University of California, Berkeley's pretend economist Robert Reich disagrees, saying, "The economy needs two whopping corporate tax cuts right now as much as someone with a serious heart condition needs Botox." Let's look at corporate taxes and ask, "Who pays them?"
Virginia has a car tax. Does the car pay the tax? In most political jurisdictions, there's a property tax. Does property pay the tax? You say: "Williams, that's lunacy. Neither a car nor property pays taxes. Only flesh-and-blood people pay taxes!" What about a corporation? As it turns out, a corporation is an artificial creation of the legal system and, as such, a legal fiction. A corporation is not a person and therefore cannot pay taxes. When tax is levied on a corporation, who pays it?
There's an entire subject area in economics, known as tax incidence, that investigates who bears the burden of a tax. It turns out that the burden of a tax is not necessarily borne by the party or entity upon whom it is levied. For example, if a sales tax is levied on a cigarette retailer, the retailer does not bear the full burden of the tax. Part of it will be shifted forward to customers in the form of higher product prices. The exact amount of the shifting depends upon market supply and demand conditions.
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The Texas Tea Party Debate
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published November 9, 2011 on The American Spectator website. In 1858, U.S. Senator Stephen A. Douglas was facing a tough reelection challenge in Illinois from former Congressman Abraham Lincoln. A serious, reasoned America was at the height of debate over the fundamental human rights challenge posed by its contradictory maintenance of the vile institution of slavery, in the most path-breaking, classical liberal nation in the world.
Lincoln and Douglas held seven 3-hour debates in that reelection fight. First one candidate spoke for 60 minutes, then the other for 90 minutes, then the first for another 30 minutes. Crowds came from other states to hear and see the epic intellectual battles between the two. Newspapers sent stenographers to record the debates with the crude technology of the time.
Douglas, the then famous incumbent so well connected throughout Illinois, won that election. But Lincoln won the debates, publishing them in a book and riding them to the Republican nomination and then the White House in 1860.
On Friday night, November 4, GOP Presidential frontrunner Herman Cain and surging challenger Newt Gingrich, second in Iowa in the most recent poll, brought that same reasoned seriousness back to America by joining one on one in their own Lincoln-Douglas style debate sponsored by the Texas Tea Party at the Woodlands Resort and Conference Center outside Houston.
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How to Achieve Higher Wages for Working People
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published November 3, 2011 on Forbes.com.
In Chapter 1 of my recent book, America's Ticking Bankruptcy Bomb, I write, "I fully accept the 'liberal' premise that prosperity and opportunity must be available to all Americans. A booming economy that benefits just a few at the top is no success. The American Dream must be for all, or it is inoperative."
What is needed, I further suggested, is a rising tide that lifts all boats, in President Kennedy's famous phrase. Kennedy delivered that by sharply cutting tax rates across the board, for everyone. His proposed tax cut, adopted in 1964 after his death, cut the top income tax rate by 23%, from 91% to 70%, with all the lower rates cut by similar magnitudes.
Kennedy explained, in arguing for the tax cut before his death:
It is a paradoxical truth that tax rates are too high today, and tax revenues are too low and the soundest way to raise the revenues in the long run is to cut the tax rates....[A]n economy constrained by high tax rates will never produce enough revenue to balance the budget, just as it will never create enough jobs or enough profits.
Kennedy added:
Our true choice is not between tax reduction, on the one hand, and the avoidance of large federal deficits on the other....It is between two kinds of deficits - a chronic deficit of inertia, as the unwanted result of inadequate revenues and a restricted economy - or a temporary deficit of transition, resulting from a tax cut designed to boost the economy, produce revenues, and achieve a future budget surplus.
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Date: Nov 13, 2011 12:19:18 PM
Subject: Coronado, Calif. HOA President files formal complaint over Anti-Obama Airplane Banner Flyover on Friday
Apparently the People's Republic of Coronado, a tiny island of uber-wealthy "1 percenters" just across San Diego Bay, is furious that a San Diego "commoner" would dare exercise his Constitutional free speech rights by flying over their multi-million dollar homes with an "Impeach Obama" banner Friday morning in advance of Obama's visit to the USS Carl Vinson at NAS North Island there. See photos attached.
HOA President Jerry Toci says below in his online complaint to National Sky Ads that he filing a formal complaint with the FAA and DOT. He is demanding to know who is responsible for such a blasphemous and criminal act against his beloved king.
Maybe we should all mail Jerry a copy of the U.S. Constitution since he obviously has the U.S.A. confused with Cuba. Must be an island thing.
Here's Jerry Toci's contact info that he sent to the flying banner company:
(619) 522-0510 Email: jtoci@san.rr.com
Coronado Home Owners Association
901 Balboa Avenue
Coronado, CA 92118
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The media chase a Cain "scandal" that isn't there but never asked Obama about Larry Sinclair
Nov 13, 2011 05:13 am | Coach Collins
By Suzanne Eovaldi, staff writer
The failure of the US media to properly vet the candidacy of Barack Obama in the 2008 presidential campaign can be cited as one of our country's most harmful periods. Yet, we see the same pernicious cycle being perpetrated against Herman Cain just four years later. They refuse to follow up on substantial allegations against Obama like those made against him by Larry Sinclair. but run with vapid lies from gold digging phonies.
To understand the media's use of its enormous power against Republican, and especially conservative, candidates, we need to remind ourselves of how Clarence Thomas was cruelly treated during his Supreme Court hearings in the early '90s. Running under the current of a Black man who steps away from his deemed allegiance to the Democrat Party, liberals sought to punish Thomas by using the sub-rosa theme of a black man's sexuality to bring him down.
Ted Kennedy's savage attacks on ... Continue Reading:The media chase a Cain "scandal" that isn't there but never asked Obama about Larry Sinclair
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American Minute for November 12th
Nov 12, 2011 04:13 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
High winds and treacherous tides along North America's coast prevented the Pilgrims from sailing further south to join Virginia's earlier settlement.
Unexpectedly finding themselves with no government authorities to submit to, they created their own government - the Mayflower Compact.
It was the first 'constitution' written in America.
The Mayflower ... Continue Reading:American Minute for November 12th
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The FBI-the REAL Fast and Furious conspirator?
Nov 12, 2011 01:13 pm | Coach Collins
By Doug Book, staff writer
Ten months of congressional investigation, document dumps and following leads provided by ATF whistle blowers have led many to conclude that the real villains of Operation Fast and Furious were the Department of Justice led agents of Director Robert Mueller's FBI.
Since whistle blowing Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms Agent John Dodson first brought the Fast and Furious scandal to the attention of Senator Charles Grassley, blame for the gun trafficking scheme has been directed at the ATF from operatives throughout the Obama Administration.
But during the criminal doings of Fast and Furious, the ATF was often played for a stooge and patsy while Department of Justice attorneys employed the FBI for the more secretive and dirty jobs.
For instance:
Many of the cartel "higher-ups" targeted by the ATF were already acting as paid informants in the employ of the FBI. As such, they were immune from prosecution. At least 6 are known ... Continue Reading:The FBI-the REAL Fast and Furious conspirator?
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Cain Raising,...well,...CAIN!
Nov 11, 2011 05:13 am | Coach Collins
By Ron Reale, staff writer
"raise Cain" (old-fashioned)
To complain angrily about something and to cause a lot of trouble for the people who are responsible for it.
Even when the media invents a "scandal" to destroy him through unproven innuendo concerning a decade old incident, Herman Cain throws it right back at them, and makes them all look like the agenda-driven character assassins they are; Perfect example of Cain "raising Cain."
When Herman Cain complains about something, he offers a solution. That is causing trouble for the people, (RINOs and libs), who are responsible.
Mr. Cain is making believers out of a lot of people. His manner and actions are so un-political as to make one laugh.
More people support him since the attacks!
He does not think he is perfect, or always right, nor does he expect others to think he is.
Really.
That is why he stands apart from journalists and politicians.
There are ... Continue Reading:Cain Raising,...well,...CAIN!
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American Minute for November 10th Nov 10, 2011 04:13 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 "Doctor Livingstone, I presume," was the greeting NOVEMBER 10, 1871, by New York Herald newspaper reporter Henry Stanley as he met David Livingstone on the banks of Africa's Lake Tanganyika.
Livingstone, an internationally renowned missionary who had discovered the Zambezi River, Victoria Falls, and searched for the source of the Nile, had ... Continue Reading:American Minute for November 10th comments | read more
Southern Democrats treated Blacks like farm animals with sterilization and fake syphilis treatments Nov 10, 2011 01:13 pm | Coach Collins By Kevin "Coach" Collins Josef Mengele Hitler's favorite doctor would have been quite comfortable as a Democrat in the South when they ran every single facet of the lives of the African Americans in their clutches. Mengele subjected Jews and others considered "undesirables" in Hitler's clutches to horrible "experiments." He injected his victims with deadly diseases merely to see how long they could live. He injected blue dye into some of his "specimens'" eyes to make them look like good Germans. During the 1930s and right up to the mid 1970s similar things were done to the Democrats' Black captives in Alabama and North Carolina. To the Democrats that ran these states their Black inhabitants were no different than farm animals. Now that total Democrat control of North Carolina is waning the chilling fact about its program of sterilizing women ( 40% non White) who came to state bureaucrats' attention as a pregnant rape victim. The stories ... Continue Reading:Southern Democrats treated Blacks like farm animals with sterilization and fake syphilis treatments comments | read more
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The South Central LA Tea Party Proves Leftist Lies
Since the inception of the Tea Party, its members - millions of Americans from all walks of life - have been battling the calculated and crafted lies that it, and its members, are racists.
We've seen the meme repeated and supposedly proven by a series of Racers, Racists and Race-hustlers, including Janeane Garofalo, Keith Olbermann, Chris Matthews, Al Sharpton, Van Jones and the staff at NPR.
What a shock and a surprise for them when it was announced on Facebook yesterday that Reverend Jesse Lee Peterson, a black man, is leading a Tea Party rally and protest, "...to expose the lies and misinformation of the NAACP in Los Angeles..." He even announced the formation of the "black led" South Central LA Tea Party. The event is scheduled for Sunday, July 24th from 2pm to 4pm.
If you don't know Jesse Lee Peterson, he is what Hard-Core Leftist Progressives would call a traitor. For those of us who are actually accepting, Peterson is the founder of BOND - The Brotherhood Organization of a New Destiny. The group, as identified by their Wikipedia page, is, "...dedicated to a conservative agenda among African Americans." He is also the author of SCAM - How Black Leadership Exploits Black America. (Peterson is also the creator of the National Day of Repudiation of Jesse Jackson, just to add to his bona fides!)
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South Central Los Angeles Tea Party - quite powerful. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6WGPrDjO5w The newly formed South Central Los Angeles Tea Party demonstrated yesterday against the NAACP at their 102nd annual convention. Rev Jesse Lee Peterson President of Bond Action and head of South Central L.A. Tea Party said, "The NAACP is a tool of the Obama Administration. For decades, this group has supported left wing policies which have created dependency, destroyed black families and hurt race relations." More here from The Root : http://asianconservatives.com/culture/south-central-los-angeles-tea-party-rally-against-naacp/
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Murder with Perqs
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Free Wi-Fi, VIP Treatment, and a $50 Abortion Discount (Sundays Only)
By A.W.R. Hawkins
HumanEvents.com
The culture of death is not static. Rather, it constantly permeates those who partake in it, and especially those who promote it. Because of this, the lucid observer can see a continual degradation of human value and a shameless promotion of death-for-hire by abortionists who openly practice in the light what past generations would have done only in the dark of night (if they did it at all).
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America de Profundis
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Murder Most Foul
By Michael Oberndorf
CanadaFreePress.com
Corruption is a gross understatement when describing Obama-Soetoro, his administration, and his party's activities since they took power in 2008. Three continuous years of looting and lawlessness have brought American government to a heretofore inconceivable state of degeneracy.
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Deaths at Occupy Camps Bring Pressure for Shutdown
By Terry Collins
Breitbart/Associated Press
Leaders across the country felt increasing pressure Friday to shut down Occupy encampments after two men died in shootings and another was found dead from a suspected combination of drugs and carbon monoxide poisoning caused by a propane heater inside a tent.
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Abramoff:'They Haven't Cleaned It Up.
They Don't Want to Clean It Up'
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Washington Lobbying Reform Not There
WorldNetDaily
Jack Abramoff says not only is the Washington lobbying industry not being reformed, members of Congress don't want it reformed and will resist reforms that need to be made.
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Friday, November 11, 2011
To: Friends & Supporters
From: Gary L. Bauer
COUNTDOWN TO VICTORY: 361 DAYS TO THE 2012 ELECTIONS
Honoring Our Heroes
Rep. Bill Johnson (R-OH) has proposed a bill to add President Franklin D. Roosevelt's D-Day Prayer to the World War II Memorial. Unbelievably, Rep. Johnson's bill has sparked a controversy. (You better sit down for this.) Bureaucrats at the Department of the Interior objected to the bill at a recent House subcommittee hearing.
According to the director of the Bureau of Land Management, altering the memorial to include FDR's D-Day Prayer would "necessarily dilute this elegant memorial's central message and its ability to clearly convey that message to move, educate and inspire its many visitors."
You can't make this stuff up. I'd like to know exactly what the director thinks IS the central message of the memorial. I would argue, as does Rep. Johnson, that President Roosevelt's D-Day Prayer is in fact central to that message and that the memorial, without it, is lacking in its ability to move, educate and inspire.
It is not surprising that administration officials are once again showing such hostility to faith in the public square. They are no doubt taking their cue from the man at the top, who routinely omits references to our Creator when quoting the Declaration of Independence. It is one more example of our elites trying to erase our Judeo-Christian heritage. This must not succeed.
The men who fought at D-Day prayed before the landing. No doubt many prayed during the fighting, and later that night they likely thanked God they had survived. I thank God that America produced such men, and I thank God we still do. Pray we will continue to do so.
In honor of Veterans' Day, I am happy to share with you the prayer that the administration will not. Share it with your friends, children and grandchildren so that they will better understand the central message of America and what motivates and inspires our heroes. Below is the prayer that President Roosevelt delivered to the nation, on June 6, 1944.
My fellow Americans: Last night, when I spoke with you about the fall of Rome, I knew at that moment that troops of the United States and our allies were crossing the Channel in another and greater operation. It has come to pass with success thus far.
And so, in this poignant hour, I ask you to join with me in prayer:
Almighty God: Our sons, pride of our Nation, this day have set upon a mighty endeavor, a struggle to preserve our Republic, our religion, and our civilization, and to set free a suffering humanity. Lead them straight and true; give strength to their arms, stoutness to their hearts, steadfastness in their faith.
They will need Thy blessings. Their road will be long and hard. For the enemy is strong. He may hurl back our forces. Success may not come with rushing speed, but we shall return again and again; and we know that by Thy grace, and by the righteousness of our cause, our sons will triumph.
They will be sore tried, by night and by day, without rest-until the victory is won. The darkness will be rent by noise and flame. Men's souls will be shaken with the violences of war.
For these men are lately drawn from the ways of peace. They fight not for the lust of conquest. They fight to end conquest. They fight to liberate. They fight to let justice arise, and tolerance and good will among all Thy people. They yearn but for the end of battle, for their return to the haven of home.
Some will never return. Embrace these, Father, and receive them, Thy heroic servants, into Thy kingdom.
And for us at home -- fathers, mothers, children, wives, sisters, and brothers of brave men overseas -- whose thoughts and prayers are ever with them -- help us, Almighty God, to rededicate ourselves in renewed faith in Thee in this hour of great sacrifice.
Many people have urged that I call the Nation into a single day of special prayer. But because the road is long and the desire is great, I ask that our people devote themselves in a continuance of prayer. As we rise to each new day, and again when each day is spent, let words of prayer be on our lips, invoking Thy help to our efforts.
Give us strength, too -- strength in our daily tasks, to redouble the contributions we make in the physical and the material support of our armed forces. And let our hearts be stout, to wait out the long travail, to bear sorrows that may come, to impart our courage unto our sons wheresoever they may be.
And, O Lord, give us Faith. Give us Faith in Thee; Faith in our sons; Faith in each other; Faith in our united crusade. Let not the keenness of our spirit ever be dulled. Let not the impacts of temporary events, of temporal matters of but fleeting moment let not these deter us in our unconquerable purpose.
With Thy blessing, we shall prevail over the unholy forces of our enemy. Help us to conquer the apostles of greed and racial arrogancies. Lead us to the saving of our country, and with our sister Nations into a world unity that will spell a sure peace, a peace invulnerable to the schemings of unworthy men. And a peace that will let all of men live in freedom, reaping the just rewards of their honest toil.
Thy will be done, Almighty God. Amen.
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The Foundation
"We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt." --Thomas Jefferson
Government & Politics
The Not-So-Super Committee on Debt Reduction
Super committee talks break down
Almost no one had high or even medium hopes for the congressional super committee on deficit reduction. The 12-member committee was established earlier this year as part of the deal to raise the debt ceiling; six Democrats, six Republicans, three each from the House and Senate. Their task: Come up with at least $1.2 trillion in budget savings (over, ahem, 10 years). Failing a deal by Thanksgiving, automatic across-the-board cuts would take effect. With a federal budget approaching $4 trillion every year, this task seemed neither tall nor especially consequential. Yet politics is as politics does, and the committee's efforts have all but collapsed.
This failure comes despite major Republican concessions. Long insisting on no tax increases, Republicans offered a plan that would eliminate or cap many deductions while lowering rates. The top individual rate would fall from 35 percent to 28 percent, and the corporate rate would drop from 35 percent to 25 percent. Static scoring says these changes would combine for $500 billion in additional revenue, and the benefit would be flattened rates and simplified returns. The last time it was done, the result was solid economic growth.
The tax proposal requires that cuts would need to total just $750 billion over 10 years to achieve the committee's stated goal. Democrats, however, continued to refuse any deal that would involve lower tax rates, or less than $1 trillion in additional tax revenue. In fact, they still insist that tax rates go up, not down. On top of that, they want to use savings from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan winding down to boost "stimulus" spending.
Still, why are Democrats suddenly unwilling to take these big concessions? After all, as The Wall Street Journal explains, "[T]he deal ... would be a big political win for all concerned. It would give the economy a major lift by taking the tax increase now scheduled for 2013 off the table, and it would show that Congress could at least make some progress toward controlling federal spending. With a ratio of $1.50 in spending cuts to $1 in tax increases, the offer is far better for Democrats than the $3 to $1 ratio that President Obama's own Simpson-Bowles deficit commission recommended."
We think the reasons for the Democrats' actions are actually pretty obvious. First, they need someone and something to demagogue. They can't budge on sticking it to the rich, and lower rates would be seen by their Flea Party minions as a cave. Second, Barack Obama is desperate to campaign against a "do-nothing" Congress, but he can't do that if Congress actually does something. Obviously, he will still try to blame Republicans for obstruction, and a large part of the electorate will fall for it.
Meanwhile, the U.S. national debt will surpass $15 trillion any day now. Given that, and given the looming failure of the super committee to agree to anything resembling even minor budget tweaks, and given Obama's record of profligate spending and deficit expansion, it was hard to believe this Washington Times headline wasn't a joke: "[Nicolas] Sarkozy asks Obama to help with debt crisis." That's right -- the French president is looking to his American counterpart to solve the European debt crisis. "We need the leadership of Barack Obama," Sarkozy said. We wonder if Sarkozy is aware that more debt won't fix the problem.
What should the debt committee do?
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New & Notable LegislationThe Senate passed the first two components of Barack Obama's "jobs" proposal this week. By a vote of 94-1, the Senate approved tax credits for businesses that hire unemployed or disabled veterans. Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) dissented, saying that government shouldn't "privilege one American over another when it comes to work." The other measure repealed a previous requirement that the government withhold a portion of payments to contractors, and it passed unanimously. Both measures are likely headed to the president for his signature. Judicial BenchmarksThe U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia upheld ObamaCare this week. Unlike the five previous appeals court decisions, this decision crossed party lines. A Reagan appointee and a Carter appointee stood behind the law, while a George W. Bush appointee dissented because he believed the court didn't have jurisdiction in the case. The most disturbing aspect of the decision was the interpretation that Reagan appointee Judge Laurence Silberman applied. He concluded that the individual mandate to purchase health insurance was indeed an encroachment on liberty, but no more so than, for example, federal mandates that require businesses to serve all customers regardless of race. "The right to be free from federal regulation is not absolute, and yields to the imperative that Congress be free to forge national solutions to national problems, no matter how local -- or seemingly passive -- their individual origins." In other words, according to Silberman, Congress has the authority, through the Commerce Clause, to regulate whatever it deems necessary to be in the national interest. It's frightening that a supposedly conservative judge in the nation's most important circuit court argues that Congress has unlimited power to regulate whatever it likes. We can only hope that the Supreme Court actually adheres to the Constitution when it decides the case. Hope 'n' Change: Obama Advertises for RepublicansIt's abundantly clear that Barack Obama is arrogant, but a video recently released by his re-election campaign takes this truth to new heights. In the video, against the backdrop of the teeming masses that packed Grant Park the night of Obama's election in 2008, we're treated to a series of triumphal images and self-congratulatory captions before being presented with the prospect of The One losing his re-election bid in 2012. "One year from now, all our progress could be erased." Here in our humble shop, we think the GOP should use the exact same ad. It's virtually impossible to know what the nation might look like today had 2008 turned out differently, but we do have a pretty good idea of what the next four years would be like with the same president. We need only to look at the "progress" that threatens to be undone: Unemployment holding steady at around 9 percent; three straight years of budget deficits north of $1 trillion; a financial regulatory system that's strangling America's competitive advantage in the world market; a shrinking military that's making us more vulnerable than we were before Pearl Harbor; and an unconstitutional federal entitlement that will ruin the health care system and double the national debt. If that's the progress to which the campaign video refers, we had better turn to someone new in 2012. Campaign Trail: More Allegations Against CainHerman Cain's presidential run faces a significant hurdle in the smear campaign that gained momentum this week. Sharon Bialek became the first woman to go public with accusations of sexual misconduct by Cain when he ran the National Restaurant Association in the 1990s. Bialek, joined by leftist lawyer and publicity-monger Gloria Allred, gave a public statement about a 1997 incident in which she claims Cain made unwanted physical advances after a dinner at which the two discussed a job opportunity for her. Cain had heretofore been able to withstand the accusations because none of the women had come forward. Now, there's a face to put to the story, though with Allred in the picture it's now official that the circus is in town. Cain flatly refuted Bialek's allegations, claiming that he didn't recognize her on television, nor did he remember knowing her during his time with the association. Her credibility is questionable as well. She has twice filed for bankruptcy and may once again be in financial trouble. Cain deserves the presumption of innocence. Yet given the media onslaught, it's hard to imagine his candidacy surviving much longer. On the other hand, his campaign announced that it raised over $9 million since Oct. 1, a quarter of which has come since the first allegations were made public. We doubt Cain will be the nominee, but it appears that he may weather this storm.
Campaign Trail II: Another Poor Debate for PerryWednesday night's debate was indeed memorable, but for the wrong reason. While explaining economic policy under a Rick Perry administration, the Texas governor began listing cabinet-level agencies he would dismantle: "Commerce, Education and the, uh, what's the third one there? Let's see," he stumbled. Even Mitt Romney tried to help, offering, "the EPA," but that wasn't it. "The third agency of government I would -- I would do away with, Education, uh, the, uh, Commerce and, let's see," he tried again. He finally gave up, admitting, "I can't. The third one, I can't. Sorry. Oops." It was one of the most uncomfortable moments ever to occur in presidential politics. The next day, Perry was trying to make lemonade, offering a poll on his website asking voters to choose the agency they would most like to forget. He also appeared on David Letterman's show to deliver a list of Top Ten Excuses. The problem, however, is that this wasn't a one-time gaffe for Perry. He has had a run of bad performances in the debates, leading to his collapse in the polls. Certainly, this was his worst stumble, but it highlights a pattern. Furthermore, Perry's campaign has touted his record on energy as a major qualification for his run, but it was the Department of Energy that he couldn't remember Wednesday night. In other words, he forgot what's heretofore been a well rehearsed talking point for him -- something that should have been as easy as one, two ... uh, seven. That said, Perry's 53 seconds of brain freeze were better than any 53 seconds of Obama-speak. National SecurityVeterans Day 2011Today is Veterans Day! We invite you to publish a message of gratitude to one or more Veterans. Post a note of thanks. Also, don't miss Mark Alexander's essay, The Most Noble of American Patriots. Visit a profile of one Veteran, a citizen soldier whose call to serve is typical of so many others.
Warfront With Jihadistan: The Real SEAL StoryWithin hours of Osama bin Laden's death from SEAL-induced lead poisoning back in May, Barack Obama was taking credit for finally killing the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks. Over the following days, various fuzzy "facts" of the "real story" behind bin Laden's death were leaked to the media. Turns out that almost all those "facts" were completely wrong. So says Chuck Pfarrer, author of SEAL Target Geronimo: The Inside Story of the Mission to Kill Osama Bin Laden. As opposed to Obama's storytellers, Pfarrer got the real story from the SEALs themselves, who say that the Obama version of an immediate chopper crash, a 45-minute firefight up from the first floor, and finally, the shooting of bin Laden on the third floor, never happened. What really happened was that the SEALs entered the building after being put on the roof by the lead helicopter as planned. Within 90 seconds bin Laden was shot dead -- taking rounds to the head and chest -- because he reached for his rifle. Minutes later, after bin Laden's death, the lead helicopter, while trying to land, crashed after hitting a large walled enclosure near the main house. Nor was the mission's purpose to kill bin Laden, as the White House claimed, but rather to take him alive for intelligence purposes. "I've been a SEAL for 30 years," said Pfarrer, "and I never heard the words 'kill mission.'" Unfortunately, Obama spiked the football so quickly that it compromised much of the intelligence gathered from bin Laden's compound, as his allies scrambled for new holes in which to hide. What's vital war intelligence when an alleged personal political victory can be claimed? Speaking of spiking the football, the Taliban have begun to celebrate the American withdrawal from Afghanistan as a victory, and they're preparing for a comeback after foreign troops have left. As reported last week, the Obama regime now wants Afghan negotiations to include the Taliban and its leader, Mullah Omar. Yet Omar has rejected such talks as "pointless," and he sees Obama's Afghan strategy as a preparation for surrender and the final step to a complete Taliban military victory. Could Obama aid and abet the enemy any more than he has? How did Obama's version affect intelligence value? This Just In: Iran Is Close to Nuclear CapabilityWe were not surprised in the least to learn this week that the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) now believes that Iran is pursuing nuclear weapons capability after all. Citing new evidence provided by 10 different nations, the IAEA says Iran did not cease its nuclear warhead work in 2003 -- contrary to the claims made in the 2007 National Intelligence Estimate. Instead, the IAEA now says, "There are also indications that some activities relevant to the development of a nuclear explosive device continued after 2003, and that some may still be ongoing." Nor were we shocked to see the outburst of media speculation that Israel would soon take military action to stop Iran's nuclear program. UK media have been the most vocal, with one un-named "senior Foreign Office figure" saying, "We are expecting Israeli action as soon as Christmas, or early in 2012." The Israeli government publicly downplayed as routine events planned months ago a recent ballistic missile launch, as well as long-range strike training conducted in Sardinia, but it has also made many guarded and not-so-guarded statements regarding its concerns over Iran's nuclear program. The Obama administration, as part of its weak efforts to counter Iranian power, plans to provide the United Arab Emirates with thousands of advanced "bunker-buster" bombs and other munitions. As for actually doing anything about it, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta declared that Iran's attaining nuclear weapons is unacceptable to the U.S. and its allies, but that a military strike would be "a last resort" with unintended consequences. Such a strike, he said, "could have a serious impact in the region and it could have a serious impact on U.S. forces in the region." This could be smoke and mirrors and the U.S. could still strike Iran's nuclear program, or, as seems more likely, the Israelis might. However, if Iran gets nukes, all bets are off. Proliferation will increase as a result, and terrorist groups such as Hezbollah may get the bomb. This problem will take more than talk to solve. The Wall Street Journal concludes, "No U.S. President could undertake a strike on Iran except as a last resort, and Mr. Obama can fairly say that he has given every resort short of war an honest try. At the same time, no U.S. President should leave his successor with the catastrophe that would be a nuclear Iran. A nuclear Iran on Mr. Obama's watch would be fatal to more than his legacy." Open Mic Night in FranceObama's chilly attitude toward Israel is as obvious as it is unprecedented by a U.S. president. The fact that he and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu are not the best of friends has been apparent for quite some time -- particularly the PM's well-publicized Oval Office history lesson, which was prompted by Obama's reckless statement that Israeli should seek peace by contracting to its indefensible pre-1967 borders. However, taking a tough stance on policy is a far cry from being caught badmouthing a world leader on an open mic. But this is precisely what happened after last week's G20 summit, when Obama and French President Sarkozy were overheard slinging some mud in Bibi's direction. According to the French website "Arret Sur Images," the microphone picked up Sarkozy saying, "I cannot stand [Netanyahu]. He is a liar," as well as Obama's response: "You're fed up with him, but I have to deal with him every day!" The website also stated that the members of the press were asked to sign an agreement not to divulge what they had heard. Of course, Obama and Sarkozy are not the first politicians to be caught saying something less than diplomatic. One would think that by now they would simply wait until they were away from reporters and microphones before making their feelings known. Regardless, Israel's list of friends is short enough without antagonism from the West. Business & EconomyAround the Nation: It's [Still] the Economy, StupidWhen the economy entered a slight recession back in the 1992 presidential race, Bill Clinton's wingnut political hatchet man, James Carville, popularized the axiom, "It's the Economy, Stupid," as a bludgeon to quash re-election hopes of then-president George H.W. Bush. We don't hear so much of that slogan today, now that Barack Obama is wearing those shoes and the economic climate is much, much worse. Well, it's still the economy, stupid. Of course, Team Chosen knows this, but has nonetheless not "gotten the memo" on how to solve the problem -- only how to politicize it. Case in point: poverty. The Obama administration has directed a new "Supplemental Poverty Measure" to "supplement" (i.e., redefine) the Census Bureau's standard for poverty. Under the new standard, almost 50 million Americans are now defined as "poor." While Obama's policies have undoubtedly impoverished more Americans than any administration since the New Deal and the inauguration of Big Government, this new standard is really a veiled scheme to drive politicians from both sides of the aisle to make foolhardy choices regarding entitlements and taxes. Specifically, the new poverty index rises automatically according to any improvement in living standards for the average American. Thus, even if the real income of every American doubled, the new standard would show no drop in poverty because income thresholds would also double -- poverty levels decline only if incomes of the "poor" rise faster than the incomes of everyone else. In practice, this means that the new standard focuses on income differences -- poor indicators of real poverty and not on actual purchasing power. For those statist-leaning policymakers in Washington, redefining "poverty" as income inequality is just what the doctor ordered. It fits neatly into the class-envy paradigm and adds fuel to the fire for programs that support the "poor." Levels of true poverty thus become virtually impossible to gauge, and for the statists the only acceptable argument becomes that benefits cannot be cut to the poor -- never mind whether or not they are actually poor. Meanwhile, the "fat cat bankers" -- as Obama calls anyone associated with Wall Street -- are not only not poor, but under the current administration have become considerably wealthier. The Washington Post reports that Wall Street firms have earned more in the first two-and-a-half years of the Obama administration than in all eight years of the George W. Bush administration. It's amazing what a few trillion dollars of government bailouts will do for an industry, isn't it? All of this leads us to point out the obvious: Until the Hope-&-Changelings face reality, use economic metrics that actually mean something, and implement economic policies that acknowledge the role of free markets as opposed to class warfare, the best hope America will have for an economic turnaround won't happen until this time next year. What constitutes actual poverty? No Decision on Keystone Pipeline Before the ElectionIt seems like a great "shovel-ready" project that would put Americans to work and perhaps reduce our dependence on Middle Eastern oil, but the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, which would run from Canada through the nation's midsection to refineries along the Gulf Coast, continues to languish because the State Department won't give its blessing. State's input is required since the pipeline would cross an international border. The administration announced this week that the decision would continue to languish until after the 2012 election. One key factor in this stonewalling is that the pipeline would pass through a large aquifer in Nebraska, and the slim prospect of a leak ruining drinking water is enough to send envirofascists into a tizzy. On the other hand, unions back the pipeline because of the prospect of thousands of jobs. Faced with the choice of antagonizing one of his major groups of backers by making a decision, the president chose to mollify the environmentalists. While there is already a pipeline called Keystone I that runs between Alberta and Illinois (with a spur extending southward to Oklahoma), the new pipeline would be a more direct connection through a route hundreds of miles west of the present pipeline -- thus the call for environmental study. Approved by the previous administration in 2008, most of Keystone I has been operational for just over a year, with the southernmost extension coming online last February. All told, the pipeline is initially rated to transport 435,000 barrels of oil per day, or about 2 percent of our daily consumption. Adding the XL pipeline would push the total over 1 million barrels per day and supply 5 percent of our energy needs. So much for that -- the president has to raise campaign dollars from special interests.
Regulatory Commissars: Graphic Cigarette Warnings Tossed Out by JudgeImagine buying your next car and having the hood feature a photo of a horrific accident scene, with mangled metal and bodies strewn across the pavement. This is what the cigarette industry was facing had new regulations gone into effect next year. Instead, the tobacco industry won a victory as a federal judge blocked a regulation that would have forced cigarette makers to feature graphic and disturbing images prominently on their packaging and advertising. Under the proposed rules, those who picked up cigarettes would be treated to pictures depicting the long-term effects of smoking, including images of diseased lungs or cancerous lesions. U.S. District Judge Richard Leon, an appointee of George W. Bush, instead placed a stay on the regulations pending the outcome of litigation by tobacco companies seeking to overturn the rules; a resolution that isn't expected for several years. In his decision, he also castigated the federal government for advocacy and soliciting an "emotional response ... calculated to provoke the viewer to quit" rather than "disseminating purely factual and uncontroversial information." It's also worth noting that while the federal government advocates that people quit smoking, it makes millions of dollars in revenue from cigarette taxes. The most recent hike brought the federal tax per pack to $1.01. Culture & PolicySecond Amendment: Holder Testifies AgainFor the second time, Attorney General Eric Holder was summoned to Capitol Hill to testify before Congress regarding Operation Fast and Furious. The AG being questioned by Congress on the who, what, when, where, why and how of thousands of guns walked across the U.S. border into Mexico -- straight to Mexican drug gangs -- is fairly big news. So how did The New York Times treat the story? The "newspaper of record" spiked the story entirely in its print edition, and carried this headline on the web: "Holder Urges Lawmakers to Support Efforts to Stop Gun Trafficking." Quite the propaganda machine. In reality, it was the policy of the Justice Department and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to traffic guns to Mexico. Yet Holder himself deflected blame -- even onto the Bush administration -- and generally avoided taking any responsibility whatsoever. He also pointedly refused to apologize for the death of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry. Holder said, "I have not apologized to [his family], but I certainly regret what happened." Furthermore, he asserted, "It is not fair, however, to assume that the mistakes that happened in Fast and Furious directly led to the death of Agent Terry." Media reports later in the week claimed that Holder sent a private letter of apology to the family, but the family says they have received no such letter. Finally, Holder followed the lead of some other Democrats in calling for tighter gun control measures in the wake of the operation. He complained that law enforcement needed more "tools" to deal with illegal gun trafficking. Perhaps Hot Air's Allahpundit said it best: "[T]here actually is room for a smart new gun law here if Congress is willing to take it up. I call it the 'DOJ Shouldn't Walk Guns to Psychotic Mexican Drug Cartels Act of 2011.' The text reads, in full, 'The DOJ shouldn't walk guns to psychotic Mexican drug cartels.'" Would Democrats go along? Should Holder be fired? Village Academic Curriculum: Penn State CrisisBy now, readers are well aware of the sex scandal plaguing Penn State University's football program, so we'll spare you the horrific details. Earlier this week, the university's board took action by firing both the president of the university and long-time head football coach Joe Paterno. "JoePa," as he was loving known, had been the coach for 46 years -- virtually unheard of in any sport, especially in this day and age. Yet he failed miserably in this case, and paid with his job. It was a tragic way to end a storied career, but far more tragic is the plight of the boys who were victimized. When news of the scandal broke, the university and the nation were rightly shocked. But it was the news that Paterno had been fired that caused the real reaction among the student body: riots and protests. The students' response is a glaring sign of our cultural deficit, particularly at our nation's colleges and universities, and they should be ashamed of themselves. We offer our prayers for the victims and their families. Faith and Family: Planned Parenthood's PlightThe money Planned Parenthood receives from taxpayers is not merely supporting the organization's operations. In many cases, it's sustaining them. Hence the recent slew of Planned Parenthood clinic closures in states that have cut taxpayer funding for the abortion mill. Lifenews.com reports that in Texas, 12 clinics closed after the state legislature stripped more than $64 million in taxpayer funding from the organization. In New Jersey, five clinics were forced to close after Gov. Chris Christie eliminated $7.5 million in funding. Even New Hampshire cut a $1.8 million grant, almost causing Planned Parenthood to shut down -- until the Obama administration stepped in and doled out the funds directly. Clearly, without taxpayer dollars, Planned Parenthood can't sustain its operations. Indeed, the organization, which receives more than $360 million annually from taxpayers -- has no functioning business model apart from government support. Despite all the subsidized ads on radio and TV, their message isn't enough to support their mission. They need your money. No wonder they fight tooth and nail over every penny. We're hardly crying over their plight, though. In fact, aside from Planned Parenthood itself, the only ones crying may be the thousands of babies who will live thanks to shuttered Planned Parenthood clinics. And those tears are a wonderful thing.
And Last...The malcontents and miscreants of Occupy [Fill in the Blank City] continue to run amok, vandalizing private property, obstructing and damaging legitimate businesses, and generally befouling entire sections of cities. The destruction isn't limited to external venues, either. There are numerous reports ranging from lice and tuberculosis outbreaks to sexual assault and murder of fellow Occupiers. Despite all this, some traders at the Chicago Board of Trade came up with a humorous way to send a message. As protesters were gathered below their offices, they showered them with stacks of papers -- papers that angered the occupiers when they realized they were employment applications for McDonald's. "Real class acts, the Chicago Board of Trade," tweeted Occupy Chicago. "This week, it's McDonald's job applications they litter from the windows. Soulless place." While we applaud the good humor and creativity of the traders, we hope the Flea Partiers don't take the applications seriously. We're not at all sure that we want them asking us if we want to improve our order with super-sized flies. Semper Vigilo, Fortis, Paratus et Fidelis!
Nate Jackson for The Patriot Post Editorial Team
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Must See New Video!!
Dan Stein exposes backdoor amnesty plans. Watch on our Youtube channel now.
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New Maps Show the States Working to Enforce Immigration Laws
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In case you missed it, Roy and I hosted a live webcast Thursday afternoon reviewing many of the state immigration enforcement efforts. We introduced a new resource on our website, which you can find by clicking here. By watching a replay of the webcast, you'll to hear the maps described and discussed in detail. We thought the timing was good a few days after Election Day and with the state legislative sessions in January quickly approaching.
These state and local Attrition Through Enforcement efforts are proving to work as evidenced by a new report from the Austin Daily Herald in Minnesota. The report shows how local enforcement efforts are causing illegal aliens to return to their home countries.
If you missed our webcast, you can rewatch it by clicking on the image below. You can also check out our state enforcement maps by clicking on this link: https://www.numbersusa.com/content/learn/attrition-through-enforcement/current-state-immigration-enforcement-efforts.html.
Next Thursday (11/17) at 3:30 p.m. EST, Roy and I will host another live webcast to answer more of your questions and to discuss ways that you can use these maps and other resources on our website to help both Members of Congress and your state legislators pass meaningful legislation.
E-VERIFY UPDATE: If you check out our tracker at the top of this newsletter and on our homepage, you'll see that 5 more Congressmen have signed on to Judiciary Chairman Lamar Smith's Legal Workforce Act (H.R.2885).
These latest additions of official support for H.R. 2885 are: Reps. Ralph Hall (R-Texas), John Sullivan (R-Okla.), Todd Akin (R-Mo.), Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.V.) and Joe Walsh (R-Ill.). You can read about the most recent signers in the "Other News" section in the right column.
Thanks,
Chris Chmielenski
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Congress & President on Veterans Day Still Prefer To Give Jobs To Immigrants
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By Roy Beck, Thursday, November 10, 2011
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I have no doubt that the President and all the Members of Congress who this week expressed concern for unemployed veterans were sincere. But I also believe that, for the majority of them, moving young veterans into jobs is a much lower priority for them than to continue high levels of immigration to satisfy one special interest group or another. For most of our politicians, this is a day to "Honor Our Veterans As Long As It Doesn't Interfere With Mass Immigration."
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In spite of obstacles, E-Verify marches on
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By Jeremy Beck, Thursday, November 10, 2011
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E-Verify is gaining in popularity, even in states that have tried to limit its use. But it will take a federal bill like Lamar Smith's Legal Workforce Act to require every employer to use the free, online program. Employers who use E-Verify give it high marks and recommend it to others but too few sign up for it unless they are required to do so.
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Evidence in Minnesota that Attrition Through Enforcement is Working
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Friday, November 11, 2011
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A new report from a Minnesota newspaper, the Austin Daily Herald, shows that enforcement measures taken at the local level are indeed reversing illegal immigration trends. A combination of factors, including police checking immigration status to businesses scrutinizing documents more during the hiring process, illegal aliens are finding it harder and harder to live in the state and are repatriating to their home countries.
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LIVE BLOG: GOP Candidates Debate in Michigan
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By Chris Chmielenski, Wednesday, November 9, 2011
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On Wednesday night, the GOP Presidential Hopefuls headed to Michigan for the 10th debate of the primary season. While we were eager to hear if the Hopefuls improved their positions on a variety of immigration issues, the debate moderators never brought up the topic.
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News from The Hill:Obama warns Congress he'll block attempt to avoid debt deal triggers
By Erik Wasson President Obama has warned leaders of the supercommittee he will not accept any effort to turn off a mechanism enforcing spending cuts if the panel fails to reach a deal to reduce the deficit. In a Friday phone call to the co-chairmen of the 12-member panel, Obama told Congress it "must not shirk its responsibilities," according to a White House readout of the conversation. "The sequester was agreed to by both parties to ensure there was a meaningful enforcement mechanism to force a result form the committee," the readout from the White House said. "The American people deserve to have their leaders come together and make the tough choices necessary to live within our means, just as American families do every day in these tough economic times." Read the complete story here.
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Obama's Worldview: D.C. Uber Alles
By Ben Johnson, The White House Watch
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For centuries, atheists and agnostics have belittled the Roman Catholic Church for persecuting Galileo after he contradicted their belief that the earth is the center of the universe. Barack Obama apparently believes Washington, D.C., is the center of the universe, and the rest of the nation's concerns revolve around it.
On Tuesday, President Obama declared the nation's capital a "major disaster area," freeing up federal dollars to rebuild damage from this summer's 5.8-magnitude earthquake. The August 23rd quake damaged such treasures as the National Cathedral and the Washington Monument. (The Chinese-crafted Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial apparently suffered no damage.) Nonetheless, District of Columbia Mayor Vincent C. Gray did not get around to applying for federal aid until late October.
By then, Obama had already denied the same relief to GOP-leaning Virginia....
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Cartoon of the Day: Obama's Good News/Bad News
Posted by Ben on November 9, 2011
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Stop Barry's Government By Corruption
By Michael Oberndorf, FloydReports.com
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In its original sense, the word corruption meant rotting, putrification, as in dead or infected flesh. It's still an accurate description of the condition of today's body politic. Not a day goes by any more without news of a new discovery of fraud, theft, and abuse of power by those entrusted with positions of authority. Lawlessness, lying, and disregard for ethics, much less morals, characterize the behavior of, it seems, a majority of today's elected and appointed officials. Honor and national pride are antiquated concepts, sneered at by postmodern promoters of a "living constitution," "relativism," "think global, act local," "multiculturalism," and "sustainable development."
Officials have finally started looking into the fraud and theft that have been rampant in the looting of the public treasury, euphemistically called the "stimulus." Word has it that there are some 100 criminal investigations up and running. Considering the....
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Eric Holder's Human Shield
By Doug Book, FloydReports.com
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Since time began, power hungry egotists have depended upon the willingness of subservient underlings to bring their own reputations into disrepute for "the good of the team."
On Tuesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer joined that club of slinking weasels by taking the blame for Attorney General Eric Holder's professed extended ignorance of Operation Fast and Furious.
Testifying just after a 650-page document dump by the Department Of Justice, Breuer made the particulars of his regime-prescribed assignment quite clear....
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At 2 p.m. Today, all Communications Belonged to Obama
By Scott Lazarowitz, LewRockwell.com
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On Wednesday, November 9th at 2 PM Eastern, the Obama Administration will seize control over all radio and TV broadcast communications, to conduct a "test" of the Emergency Broadcast System. For the first time, however, there will be nothing any individual station can do to prevent it, and, unlike past tests which lasted for only roughly 30 seconds, this unusual test will last approximately 3½ minutes....
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Today's Headlines: Friday, November 11, 2011
Gingrich Moves Past Cain and Romney to Become Tea Party's Top Choice, Says CBS Poll
Senate May Force Shutdown of Religious Freedom Watchdog
DOJ Refuses Judiciary Committee's Request for Kagan-Obamacare Documents; Holder Then Testifies He Was Unaware of Request
Kagan to Tribe on Day Obamacare Passed: 'I Hear They Have the Votes, Larry!! Simply Amazing.'
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Obama Putting Election Concerns Ahead of Jobs by Deferring Keystone XL Pipeline Decision, Critics Say
Marco Rubio: GOP must be the 'Pro-Legal Immigration Party'
House GOP Likely to Offer Balanced Budget Amendment With No Spending Cap, No Supermajority to Raise Taxes
White House Lashes Out at Congress Over 'Partisan' Solyndra Investigation
On Letterman, Rick Perry Offers 'Top 10 Excuses' for Memory Lapse During Debate
Democrats Offer $1 Trillion in Taxes in Super Committee Deal
Bishop Harry Jackson Launches New Coalition to Help Minority Voters Achieve the 'American Dream'
Clinton: Despite Economic Hardships at Home, It's Not the Time to 'Downsize Our Work Around World'
COMMENTARY: No 'Glee' About Virginity
By L. Brent Bozell III
In Hollywood, the only truly serious sexual disease is virginity. That's why Fox's "Glee" devoted an entire episode on Nov. 8 to setting up and celebrating the shedding of virginity by two teenage couples - one heterosexual, one homosexual. It's sick. Ricky, Ricky, Ricky
By Rich Galen
Is Perry done for? Yes. But I think he was finished before the CNBC debate.
Scandals, Penn State-Style Ethics and Journalist Hypocrisy
By Dan Gainor
The real scandal in this nation is how journalists pick and choose which controversies to play up and which to play down. K Street's Super Committee Splurge
By Michelle Malkin
The bipartisan debt panel to nowhere is exactly where K Street lobbyists want it to be: hopelessly deadlocked. We are witnessing another obscene special-interest splurge to preserve the status quo. NEWSPAPER ROUNDUP: California court rules cities, counties can ban pot stores
Cain campaign says it has raised $9 million in six weeks
$2M tab for defending Ariz. against lawsuits stemming from new immigration law
Democrat concedes defeat in key Va. Senate race
Small part of Obama's 'jobs' stimulus clears Senate, may be the last
Today's Congress has fewer military veterans
Secret Service renews rental of Delaware property owned by Biden
Congress weighs home-loan limits
Once written off, Gingrich surges
Dress becomes transparent as you flirt
Sen. DeMint explains his lone 'no' vote on veterans' jobs bill
Senators rescind Joe Paterno's nomination for Medal of Freedom
Accused molester Sandusky may face charges in Texas
Jury awards Miami sex assault victim $100 million in priest abuse case
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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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November 11, 2011
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On Today's Program 
Tonight on GBTV: Sick and tired of liberals owning all the comedy on TV? Tonight on GBTV do not miss the debut of a new kind of comedy program - one that doesn't solely exist to assault conservative values. Brian Sack hosts The B.S. of A. which debuts tonight at 7pm ET exclusively on GBTV Plus. Spread the word! Also, do not miss GBTV's special showing of the movie The Hiding Place at 4pm ET. What does it mean to be the righteous among the nations? This is it. Don't miss GBTV tonight! Get the full programming schedule HERE.
SHOCK VIDEO: Shootings at Occupy Oakland captured on tape
Once again just when you thought Occupy protests couldn't get any worse, they do. Two shootings at separate Occupy events have left two people dead. One was an alleged self inflicted wound at Occupy Vermont, and the other was a murder at Occupy Oakland. Amazingly, a local reporter setting up for a live report caught the gunfire on tape -- and then the Occupiers, according to the report, tried to block cameras from recording what happened. Glenn reacts on radio today. WATCH
More from OWS:
- CA Mayor chooses Occupy over Vets - DETAILS
- Fatal shooting at Occupy Vermont - DETAILS
- Occupy San Diego Tea Partier assaulted - WATCH
- Occupy Portland protester screams 'nonviolent' while verbally, physically confronting media/police - WATCH. Get Glenn's reaction HERE.
B.S. of A. reports from Penn State riots
GBTV's brand new comedy show hit the ground running demonstrating how versatile it can be with their in-depth team super doppler coverage of the Penn State riots. What did the B.S. of A. uncover at these riots? Watch the clip HERE. PLUS check out Mediaite's interview with Brian Sack in which he explains the difference between anchors and chickens. READ. Don't miss the show's debut at 7pm ET on GBTV Plus.
Is Jon Stewart still down with Occupy?
Jon Stewart boldly declared that he and everyone would turn on the Occupy movement if they started throwing trash cans at Starbucks while asking the quetsion "how is this different than the Tea Party?" Turns out there are quite a few differences. Rape, sexual assault, violence, destruction of property, public defecation, and now there are multiple shootings to report. Glenn plays the audio Stewart is probably wishing didn't exist on radio today. WATCH.
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Will Rick Perry's damage control plan work?
Rick Perry made one of the worst gaffes in recent political memory when he couldn't name the third government agency he pledged to shut down. It was one of the more uncomfortable moments you'll ever see in a political debate - 53 seconds he'd love to have back - but he's taken an interesting approach in the aftermath. He's making the rounds in the media, including a high profile appearance on Letterman for a Top 10 countdown. The Blaze has more HERE.
Israel like you've never seen it before
Accompanying Glenn on his recent visit to Israel was one of the top photographers in the country, George Lange. He snapped over 30,000 incredible images while there -- take a look at this stunning flip-book video trailer to get an idea of the art George made on the trip. We Are Brothers captures all of the emotions and connections we share with Israel in one incredible book. Order yours today and receive a special pre-sale price.
It's 11-11-11
It's one of those weird days where all the numbers line up to make some unusual pattern. But Gary the numbers guy is predicting much more than just a day where the numbers do something unique. First, Glenn talks to Gary the numbers guy about what tragic event he thinks will happen today (because all bad things happen on 11s). Then, later during the program at 11:11:11 Glenn, Pat & Stu put on paper hats and prepare for the worst. What happened? Find out HERE.
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