November 15, 2011

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1) Don't forget, monthly meeting this Thursday Nov 17 at the Rock, 857 Main St Harleysville, from 7-9pm

2) Check out the event below and respond to central.montco.ptpp@gmail.com if you're interested in going. I need to coordinate rides. One guy already wants to go, and is looking for company. There are helpful materials available for it from the awesome new Tea Party Patriots website, www.teapartypatriots.org

Deal in the District November 17th

The Congressional Super Committee is tasked with finding $1.2-$1.5 trillion in cuts over the next ten years. They will release their plan to the rest of Congress by November 23. It is up to us to make sure that the cuts they propose are REAL CUTS rather than the fake cuts they love so much. Politicians have a bad habit of using gimmicks and tricks to make it seem like they are cutting spending, when they are in fact, increasing spending.

On November 17, join thousands of patriots from around the country for a Deal in the District.

We will be visiting the local offices of our Representatives at NOON in your time zone ( or whenever your group can make it) to express our desire for REAL CUTS. Did you know that even just bringing a small number of people to visit their offices has a HUGE impact? When you visit, tell them you want REAL CUTS (you might have to explain it to them) and NO TAX INCREASES!

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Tell Your Member of Congress:

• We want REAL spending cuts. No more gimmicks, no more lies. Make real cuts and prioritize!
• Increasing spending more slowly than someone else is still increasing spending.
• When you increase spending by $5 and then cut $3, you haven't made a cut. Your total spending is still $2 higher than it was before. This is a gimmick. Stop it. Now.
• If you say you're cutting $3, then cut $3. This year. (And in case it's not clear to your Rep., $3 is an example. A whole lot more than $3 needs to be cut!)
• All of the so-called cuts passed by Congress always get spread out over ten years, but this Congress has no authority over the next Congress and those cuts from this year can easily be overturned. Therefore, real cuts are cuts that occur within in the same fiscal year.
• Our country's national debt has now surpassed our Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Now is the time for real cuts, not fake cuts.
• We see what is happening to Greece and Italy, and to the Eurozone in general. It is the responsibility of elected officials to make real cuts now!

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 17^th

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

I urge you to stand with me and co-sponsor my new legislation, "American and Pennsylvania Laws for Pennsylvania Courts." This legislation protects the individual constitutional rights of the people of Pennsylvania from the incursion of foreign laws, in cases in which the application of a foreign law or foreign legal doctrine would violate someone's constitutional rights. 

Go here to see the full document . . .:   

Our constitutional rights and founding principles of freedom should not be abridged by any offshore entity, including and especially those who would promote Sharia law. 

Kerry Benninghoff

Scott Boyd

Dom Costa

Tom Creighton

George Dunbar

Frank Farry

Neal Goodman

Seth Grove

Kate Harper

Dick Hess

Scott Hutchinson

Rob

Kauffman

Daryl Metcalfe (asked to be listed as a 2nd)

Carl Metzgar

Scott Perry (asked to be listed 3rd)

Rick Saccone

Stan Saylor

Curt Schroder

Jerry Stern

Dick Stevenson

Will Tallman    Here are the action steps:

    1.  read the attached letter from Rep. Swanger, which went out in early June to all PA House members

    2.  visit, or call, your representative and ask him/her to call Rep. Swanger's secretary, Lily Horst, 717-787-2686, or email her at lhorst@pahousegop.com to be added to the list of the bill's cosponsors
 
    3.  timing: please move quickly, as they may be getting to the next step (obtaining a bill number).   Make contact, and gain their commitment, by August 1.  Having many co-sponsors on a bill, as you know, will help build momentum in the right direction quickly.

Thank you for your efforts.

Signed, your Legislative Focus Group
American and Pennsylvania Laws for Pennsylvania Courts

Sincerely, Sarah Hart
Chapter Leader, ACT! Pittsburgh
ACT! for America Chapter

Nullify Now! Philadelphia

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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!

 

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

RedState Morning Briefing

For November 16, 2011

1. We Sent 'Tea Party' Republicans to Washington for This?

In the House Republican's Pledge that I told you was a "Pledge to Nowhere," you find this language:

"tax increases must be prevented" and "We will help the economy by permanently stopping all tax increases".

Got it? The House GOP pledged, also known as a promise, to stop "all tax increases." It was their promise.

According to The Hill, the Republicans are about to give a capital "F" and a capital "U" to the tea party and throw in the towel on their Pledge.

Lawmakers emerged from the closed-door meeting saying Hensarling had made the case that offering some new revenue - $300 billion in at least one publicized offer - would be a good trade to secure a permanent extension of the George W. Bush-era tax rates.

So we're going to keep permanent the Bush tax cuts that no one really thought would actually expire next year even though they technically are supposed to and replace those with a $300 billion tax increase?

To rub salt into the tea party's wounds, "Hensarling received a standing ovation following his presentation." Yes, a Republican got a standing ovation by Republicans for proposing a tax increase.

To be fair, if there are serious structural reforms to the tax code and serious concessions by the Democrats on entitlement reform, I would want to look seriously at the plan. But, based on what we know so far, the Democrats have offered nothing publicly substantive and the GOP is offering up a bunch of smoke and mirrors on the House side to cover up the fact that House leaders are actually proposing a tax increase on the American public.

2. House Republicans Set to Again Violate Their Pledge to America

With much fanfare in the midst of their campaign to take back control of the House of Representatives, House Republicans unveiled their Pledge to America. Many conservatives thought it was an enormous missed opportunity to lock a new Republican majority into a bold reform agenda. But House Republicans said that they wanted to under promise and over deliver. Who knew their conservative critics would end up being the keeper of their low expectations?

Unfortunately, Leadership's commitment to their Pledge deteriorated quickly upon taking control. The Pledge called for a $100 billion cut in nondefense spending, but since this was going to be too hard in an abbreviated fiscal year, they decided to "prorate" that amount. Conservatives at the Republican Study Committee fought their Leadership and got them closer to $100 billion, but not all the way.

However, the Pledge also promised to transform the way the House of Representatives as an institution would be run. They promised to end the practice of packaging spending bills and other related legislation into so-called "omnibus" bills. Specifically, House Republicans pledged to "end the practice of packaging unpopular bills with 'must pass' legislation to circumvent the will of the American people. Instead, we will advance major legislation one issue at a time."

Since it doesn't actually say the word omnibus, did they mean something else? No, the passage was widely known to mean an end to omnibus bills. In fact, according to an October 2010 post on Speaker Boehner's own blog, "House Republicans have also called for an end to the practice of passing massive 'omnibus' spending bills, arguing such bills make it too difficult to cut spending and too easy to shield spending projects from public scrutiny and debate."

Now, House Republicans are about to violate this pledge too.

3. A Tale of Two Pipelines

One of the reasons we're supposed to be wary of the Keystone XL Pipeline is its alleged threat to the Ogallala Aquifer, the water source for much of the Great Plains.

The pipeline would be separated by almost 400 vertical feet from the aquifer, which is not actively recharged. That makes it extremely unlikely that even a large pipeline leak would contaminate water supplies.

4. CBO Director Admits Stimulus Will Shrink Economy

We could have done a lot of good things with the $830 billion that was flushed down the toilet through the 2009 stimulus. That money could have been used to permanently transform our entitlement programs to free-market personal ownership accounts. It could have been used for massive pro-growth tax cuts. Instead, it was used to grow perennial dependency and for special interest handouts. But all of the supercilious smart economists say that it helps stimulate the economy, right? After all, it is called stimulus.

Well, earlier today, CBO Director Doug Elmendorf admitted to Senator Sessions that in the long run the stimulus will shrink the economy. He testified at a Senate Budget Committee hearing that the stimulus will indeed "be a drag on GDP" over the next ten years. Any diligent student of history already knew that, but now we have the "gold standard" of budget and economic scoring to affirm that self-evident truth. Nevertheless, fear not, the stimulus will have a stimulating effect in the short-term. That's why we are enjoying a robust annual average GDP growth of.....1.4%.

5. Senator Coburn: The Agony of a Pragmatic Conservative Amidst Inflexible Liberals

Senator Tom Coburn released a report, Subsidies of the Rich and Famous, detailing a list of subsidies, transfers, and "tax breaks," that are paid to individuals with Adjusted Gross Income (AGI) of over $1 million. The report found that millionaires have received at least $9.5 billion in "government payments" since 2003 and $113.7 billion in "tax breaks" since 2006. Accordingly, Coburn concludes that many of these tax deductions should be eliminated, while benefits for the rich should be means-tested or reduced.

As our debt approaches $15 trillion, Coburn's heart is undoubtedly in the right place; however, many of his proposals are misguided. While some of the deductions enumerated in this report should be eliminated immediately, most of the savings will come from revoking universal tax deductions from those who already have the highest tax burden. Additionally, while some of the subsidies, such as the farm and green handouts, should be abolished, most of Coburn's savings on government benefits would come from reducing Social Security payments to the rich. Social Security payments, unlike welfare and other subsidy programs, represent real money that was paid into the system through payroll taxes. Any effort to deny those payments from the rich would engender further redistribution of a program that was not conceived for redistribution. Also, it would ostensibly be a 12.4% tax increase on those high-income earners, as they would pay the tax without receiving the retirement checks.

6. HELP: I've Made it to Round 2, Now Vote to Get Me to Round 3!

If you were reading RedState a few weeks ago, you may have seen a post by Neil asking for help expanding the RedState Radio Empire by voting for me in a contest at my local AM flagship station WBT in Charlotte, NC.

Put simply, the contest will put someone on the air on Sunday nights from 6-8pm and then, following that 3 month period, may be given a full contract to be a permanent host at the station.

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Items for November 16, 2011

Senators strike deal on interrogations of terrorism suspects   

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Solyndra: Energy Dept. pushed firm to keep layoffs quiet until after midterms   

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New Agreement Will Expand U.S. Military Presence in Australia   

Fox News

Post office near default? Losses mount to $5.1B  

The Associated Press

Settle down your liberal friends for a festive game that will provide hours of fun.

 Give each of them a copy of the Obama administration's 86-page report (produced by Clinton-era appointees Togo West and Admiral Vernon Clark) on the Fort Hood massacre committed by an Islamist terrorist and see who can be the first to find a reference to Islam.

Here's the "funny" part: there isn't one.

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Part II. What Must Be Done to Win an "Unwinable" War

Let us transcend our present era-an era trapped in the trivia and transience of the media, which know nothing of wisdom and courage and of national pride and purpose.

Prof. Paul Eidelberg, INN

Kill for Peace, Part I concluded with a simple message: "We should not negotiate with warriors until they surrender. Until then we must kill them."

To the contrary, Israel's government has been wedded to the timid and castrated policy of "land for peace."

I therefore propose a bold and ultimately life-enhancing policy of "Kill for Peace"-a policy seemingly cruel, but not one of indiscriminate killing, but one that would actually reduce Jewish as well as Arab death and destruction. The rationality and effectiveness of such a policy is substantiated not only by Ralph Peters but also by the greatest military theorists in history, Carl von Clausewitz and Sun Tzu.

Moreover, the thinking of these military geniuses is supported by principles of statecraft enunciated by the...

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Reza Marashi, THE NATIONAL INTEREST 

Iranian foreign minister Ali Akbar Salehi made headlines recently when he said the Islamic Republic would like to have friendly relations with the United States-but not under the current...

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Israeli Cancer Vaccine Breakthrough

Laura: Another major medical breakthrough from Israel. Israelis continue to innovate and prosper even as they are constantly under seige through both terrorist violence and a global political campaign of demonization and deligitimization. This is the country most of the world rages against and wishes to see destroyed even as the Jewish state contributes to the betterment of the world through its science, technology, medicine and humanitarian aid. On the other hand, her enemies are indulged and catered to even as they contribute nothing but destruction and bloodshed on a massive global scale. The only ambition of Israel's enemies is for martydom and genocide.

Breakthrough: Israel Develops Cancer Vaccine Vaxil's groundbreaking therapeutic vaccine, developed in Israel, could keep about 90 percent of cancers from coming back.

As the world's population lives longer than ever, if we don't succumb to heart disease, strokes or accidents, it is more likely that cancer will get us...

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Warning of Challenges To Israel's Borders

JanSuzanne Krasner, AMERICAN THINKER 
The Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center has issued warnings regarding "anti-Israel networks, organizations, and activists from the Middle East and around the globe who, in the very near future, intend to orchestrate 'propaganda events' challenging Israel's borders.

These various groups are planning massive Islamic marches, caravans of people, into Jerusalem as early as November 25, 2011. In March 2012, Islamic gatherings, armies of people, are being called upon to breach the Israeli-Jordanian borders. There will be 'flotilla after flotilla' that will quietly sail into international waters to challenge Israel's sea blockade to the Gaza Strip, and a "fly-in" protest to Ben-Gurion International Airport planned for April 2012."

The following is the Meir Amit's initial report of the main events planned against Israel in the near future:

1) An Islamic...

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The power of victimhood

By Ted Belman

A few weeks ago, I posted an article Palestinians are perceived as the underdog together with a video. The message was that the Palestinians get great support from the common man and even elites because of this perception.

Shelby Steele calls it The Narrative of Perpetual Palestinian Victimhood in an article he wrote on HudsonNY.

Shelby Steele, Robert J and Marion E. Oster Senior Fellow, Hoover Institute, are member of the Working Group on Islamism and the International Order. He advises,

The following is excerpted from a speech delivered September 22, 2011 in New York City at the conference "The Perils of Global Intolerance: The UN and Durban III," sponsored by the Touro Institute on Human Rights and the Holocaust and the Hudson Institute.

Here is a key paragraph,

Why not? These narratives, these poetic truths, are the source of their power. Focusing on the case of the Palestinians, who would they be if they were not victims of white...

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Leiberman nixes "Jordan is Palestine"

By Ted Belman

Jordan is Palestine is a movement that has been around time and attracts substantial support.

The Elon Peace Initiative is founded on this idea. In it, Jordan replaces P.A., the refugee camps are closed, and Jordanian citizenship is given to the Arabs of Judea and Samaria.

Lieberman just said 'Jordan as Palestinian state' discussion harms Israeli interests.

Here's why.

Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman warned Monday against pushing for a Palestinian state inside Jordan, saying such claims harm Israel's security interests.

"Jordan is a stabilizing element in the region, in comparison to what is happening in other nations," Lieberman said during a discussion at the Knesset's Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, responding to recent reports that sources in the government are again mulling the idea of a Palestinian state in Jordan.

"Discussion about Jordan as a Palestinian state is against Israeli interests and...

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Mid-East war fears after Iranian base blasts, Syria's Arab League suspension

DEBKAfile Exclusive Analysis November 13, 2011,

The potential for a regional flare-up shot up Friday and Saturday, Nov-11-12, with the blasts at two Iranian arms bases which killed at least 32 Revolutionary Guards men including Iran's top missile expert, and the Arab League Foreign Ministers' decision to suspend Syria's membership over Bashar Assad's brutal military crackdown on civilians.
As windows shattered in Tehran, the streets were awash with rumors that Iran was under attack, or that the regime had staged a failed nuclear test. Foreign businessmen were said to be fleeing the country.

In Kuwait, lawmakers demanded an urgent debate on the potential fallout from an attack on Iran three days after British ministers were briefed on a possible US-backed Israeli strike against Iran's nuclear sites in the last week of December or early next year. Hopes faded for effective international sanctions in the wake of nuclear watchdog evidence of Iran's...

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Anti-Defamation League Has Strayed from Its Charter

by Bill Levinson
Originally in the American Thinker 

The Anti-Defamation League's original charter is simple, straightforward, and honorable:

The immediate object of the League is to stop, by appeals to reason and conscience and, if necessary, by appeals to law, the defamation of the Jewish people. Its ultimate purpose is to secure justice and fair treatment to all citizens alike and to put an end forever to unjust and unfair discrimination against and ridicule of any sect or body of citizens.

Nowhere does this call for the ADL to shield Barack Obama from the consequences of his policies toward Israel and other allies of the United States. The "National Pledge for Unity on Israel," which the ADL cosponsored with the American Jewish Committee, is but the most recent example of how this organization has lost touch with the very reason for its existence.

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Rape and the Occupation

The multiple incidents of sexual assault in the Occupation tent cities are as ugly as they are inevitable. The absence of theft, assault and other forms of attacks is not a natural phenomenon, it is the outcome of a system that protects individual rights. The Occupy tent cities are not concerned with the rights of the individual, but with the grand collective right of the "99 percent" to demand private property on behalf of the government. And collectivist movements are notoriously unconcerned with what happens to the individual.

 

The collectivist response to the allegations is to urge the victims to remain silent to avoid harming the reputation of the movement. This is a commonplace institutional response to rape allegations. It is not concerned with the individual, but the group. You have to break some omelets to make some eggs and you have to cover up some rapes and assorted bits of ugliness to have a society where everyone's masters degrees are subsidized by the state.

Rape is a symptom of a larger loss of rights. When rape becomes widespread, as in South Africa, it can mean that the society is now lawless and the weak are preyed upon, it can also mean that a society has been conquered from the outside and the conquerors are looting the conquered, as Muslims are doing in Sudan or Sweden. Either way it means the end of a consensus on enforceable individual rights.

Between the tribalism of Islam and the totalitarian hierarchy of OWS or the USSR or any leftist system, the Western world has carved out an imperfect space of individual freedom by leveraging the free market that OWS is busy denouncing.

If OWS thinks the 1 percent is bad in the United States, try the 1 percent in Medieval England, the USSR or Egypt in the present day. The 1 percents over there were and are a good deal worse with much more power and few rights for the commoners that needed respecting. And for all the working groups, the occupiers have not managed to come up with anything that works any better than the system they are denouncing.
 

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Fellow Patriots and True the Vote volunteers- 

This Sunday, the Houston Chronicle's Outlook section featured a full front page story devoted entirely to the subject of vote suppression and you. The article, written by Judith Browne Dianis, co-director of The Advancement Project and Christina Sanders, Texas State Director of The League of Young Voters, was titled "PartisanTactic Could Suppress Voting". Guess what the partisan tactic was....you. The whole article can be read via this link, but here's an excerpt:

"To complement the voter suppression efforts, tea party-affiliated groups such as the Houston-based King Street Patriots have vowed to send individuals to observe activities at polling places, which could intimidate voters. Hundreds of volunteers have pledged their time to travel to polling stations, question the rights of fellow Texans to cast their ballots and disrupt polling-place activity if they deem it necessary. The idea of tea party volunteers storming polling places evokes strong images of Jim Crow-era voter suppression."

Many of you worked at the polls after having participated in True the Vote training. This article accuses you of "storming polling places" with the intent to disrupt and intimidate voters. We know that these accusations are biased, groundless, and hateful, yet they still make for headline news at the Chronicle. Make no mistake, there is a national, coordinated effort to sabotage the True the Vote effort. These kinds of articles are popping up all over the place; making false accusations, conjuring up vile images, and attempting to rally followers through anger and fear. That our hometown paper would be complicit in the promotion of such propaganda is inexcusable.  

Are you going to let the accusations made in this article go unanswered?  We hope not.  When citizens don't speak up, when we don't set the record straight - that is how lies become accepted as truth.  If you've ever been associated with the True the Vote program, if you've heard our presentations, if you've gone through our training, if you've worked at the polls, you are the BEST equipped source to respond to these fallacious allegations. Please take a few minutes and write the Chronicle. Tell them your True the Vote experience. Let them read the truth as you know it to be. Please do not remain silent.  

You can send your comments to the Houston Chronicle via email at viewpoints@chron.com or mail to Houston Chronicle / P.O. Box 4260 / Houston, TX 77210-4260 

Thank you to all who have already written in, thank you to all who will take action in response to this email, and thank you for your continued support of True the Vote. We have only just begun.  

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Cain must be lying! How can he dare say he is ahead?

Nov 15, 2011 05:13 am | Coach Collins

 By Kevin "Coach" Collins

 In spite of every "expert" and many national "polls" giving us the TRUE picture of his campaign's collapse, Herman Cain insists upon telling us he is leading in SEVENTEEN of the TWENTY FOUR states where Republican presidential primary polling has been done! What nerve!

 Cain has the nerve to imply that state by state polls, not the media's "national polls" will decide which candidate gets the Republican nomination for president!

 He has flagrantly disregarded the devastating results of two recent online polls of "registered Republicans"   - one with 431 respondents and a second with 101 respondents saying he has slipped out of contention, and yet he STILL has the temerity to post these results!

 On his website Cain claims "All these numbers are composite poll numbers from national polling sources over the last 2-3 weeks. We do not use internal polling data. All sources are easy to find but we do ... Continue Reading:Cain must be lying! How can he dare say he is ahead?

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American Minute for November 14th

Nov 14, 2011 04:13 pm | Coach Collins

 Coachisright.com is pleased have American history scholar; nationally known speaker and best selling author William J Federer's  American Minute column as a part of CiR's team.

 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

 Born a slave, he taught himself to read, and attended school after working all day.
At age 25, he founded Tuskegee Institute and recruited George Washington Carver.
By his death, NOVEMBER 14, 1915, Tuskegee had over 1,500 students.
His name was Booker T. Washington, and he was the first African American to have his ... Continue Reading:American Minute for November 14th

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Conservatives with Stockholm Syndrome. (Part II)

Nov 14, 2011 01:13 pm | Coach Collins

 By James Lewis, staff writer

 Herman Cain has been viciously attacked because he is a black man who doesn't bow to the Party Line. I'll say that again: Cain is harassed by the media because he is black. Nobody cared when Bill Clinton made a thousand unwanted passes at a thousand different women. When the Monica scandal surfaced they told us it was "only sex." But it wasn't: Clinton was an obsessive exploiter of women. The left doesn't care about women or blacks. It cares about money, power, and perks. And some of them take sadistic pleasure in hurting people.

 The media seem to pick the biggest enforcers, the Commissars of the Leftocrats. On top of that Herman Cain is Obama's worst nightmare. The left hates black people who think for themselves. They go ballistic. You can watch it. These smears and slanders are SOP for the mob media. It's what they do in life. They've practiced this one ... Continue Reading:Conservatives with Stockholm Syndrome. (Part II)

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Bulldozer Removes Collected Property from Occupy SLC Camp

Cartoon of the Day: Put it All on Green

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Tuesday, November 15, 2011

To: Friends & Supporters

From: Gary L. Bauer


COUNTDOWN TO VICTORY: 357 DAYS TO THE 2012 ELECTIONS


Taking The Battle To Obama

Yesterday we posted a video highlighting 53 seconds of Obama's "oops" moments. (There is so much material to work with we might do another one!) Our first foray into the 2012 election season has received more than 30,000 hits online. Within minutes of posting the video, the radical group "Right Wing Watch" had noticed it and personally attacked me. Other Washington media outlets gave it more positive coverage.

My friends, the battle for America is on and we cannot afford to lose. We will utilize every medium available -- TV, radio, the internet, mail, phones, etc. -- to take America back. What we are able to do is limited only by the support we receive from good folks like you!


2012 Update

• Cain's "Oops" Moment: Herman Cain recently sat down with the editorial board of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. When Cain was asked whether he agreed with Barack Obama's Libya policy, he seemed stumped by the question and conceded that he had "all of this stuff twirling around in my head." For two minutes, he seemed unable to formulate a coherent response. The video of Cain's "brain freeze" has gone viral. You can watch it here.
  
  Herman Cain is a good man. It was heartbreaking to see him so unprepared. His tax plan has certainly added a lot to the discussion. But there is no doubt that the "Cain Train" has slowed down in recent weeks. The sexual harassment allegations have hurt him. His poll numbers are falling, and Mitt Romney has regained the lead in the RealClearPolitics.com average. This latest episode is already being used by the left and its media allies to raise serious doubts about whether Cain could navigate international affairs as president.
  
  Obviously Cain's foreign policy would be better than Obama's, whose support for the Arab Spring has resulted in major gains for radical Islamists and increasing danger for us and Israel. But this latest slip-up by a leading GOP contender will make it harder to win over independent voters.
• Newt Rising: As Cain falls, Newt Gingrich is rising in the polls. Among the four most recent national polls, Newt Gingrich is second in three and leads in one. His standing has more than doubled in the past month -- from 7.2% to 17.6%.
• 4-Way Tie In Iowa: If you need another example of the chaotic state of the GOP race, look no further than the latest Bloomberg Iowa poll. Four candidates are essentially tied for the lead: Cain 20%, Paul 19%, Romney 18% and Gingrich 17%. In addition, the poll finds that 10% of caucus goers are undecided while 60% could still be persuaded to support another candidate.

Kagan Not An Impartial Judge

In yesterday's report, I said that Justice Elena Kagan should recuse herself from next year's hearing on ObamaCare. It is just not plausible that Obama's solicitor general can be an impartial judge of his top legislative achievement. Reinforcing that assertion is a recently revealed email exchange between Kagan and left-wing Harvard Law Professor Laurence Tribe, who briefly worked at Obama's Justice Department.

According to CNSNews.com, on Sunday, March 21, 2010, the day ObamaCare passed Congress, an elated Kagan emailed Tribe, "I hear they have the votes, Larry!! Simply amazing." Tribe's response: "So health care is basically done! Remarkable." The subject line of their exchange was, "fingers and toes crossed today!"

As Terry Jeffrey of CNSNews notes, "According to 28 USC 455, a Supreme Court justice must recuse from 'any proceeding in which his impartiality might reasonably be questioned.' The law also says a justice must recuse anytime he has 'expressed an opinion concerning the merits of the particular case in controversy' while he 'served in governmental employment.'"

Clearly, Kagan was more than a dispassionate observer. She should step aside when this case comes to the high court, but you and I know she probably won't. Leftists believe the rules don't apply to them!


Bishops Battling Big Government

The Conference of Catholic Bishops is meeting this week in Baltimore, Maryland. Yesterday, Catholic leaders stepped up their resistance to big government by warning that religious liberty in America is at stake. In response to repeated assaults against traditional values, the conference formed a new committee on religious liberty and launched a new website aimed at defending the church's teaching on marriage. (Who would have thought it would ever be necessary?)

But as the "tolerant" left has pushed its agenda, big government has aggressively moved to push men and women of faith into the closet. For example, because the Catholic Church refuses to compromise on marriage, several states refuse to work with Catholic Charities on adoption services. The Obama Administration recently denied a grant to the Catholic Church to help victims of human trafficking because the church refuses to refer individuals for abortions.

America is at a tipping point. The values we have taken for granted are at great risk. Do not think that these concerns are just abstract issues that will not affect your life. As I have reported before, children are being indoctrinated in the public schools and individuals are at risk of losing their jobs if they believe in normal marriage. Unfortunately, for some, it is even worse.


Nurses Forced To Kill

I had the honor of speaking at a fundraising dinner for the New Jersey Family Policy Council this past weekend. One of the many issues addressed that night was a brewing controversy at the University of Medicine and Dentistry, one of New Jersey's largest hospitals.

Nurses at the hospital have been ordered to assist in abortions or risk having their employment terminated. At the dinner Saturday night, twelve pro-life nurses who refused to blindly follow orders were recognized and received a standing ovation from the audience.

I am pleased to report that Congressman Chris Smith (R-NJ) is taking up their case too. There are conscience clause protections in federal and state laws meant to prevent such abuses, but the Obama Administration has moved aggressively to undermine those laws. Elections have consequences.

As I argued in my recent Human Events column, the Democrat Party is increasingly made up of liberals who worship at the altar of big government. They are literally tithing to left-wing candidates and causes. Men and women of faith who cherish traditional values must "fight the good fight" in the political arena too!
 

Textbook Analysis Project Coming Soon!    

We have received a lot of emails asking when our textbook analysis project will be completed.

If you're not aware of this, 18 months ago we launched an in-depth analysis of thirty-eight 6^th through 12^th grade textbooks, to see how they treated the subject of Islam.

The research has been completed, and what we have found will shock you. The historical falsehoods, bias and other misrepresentations of Islam in these textbooks are egregious and persistent.

We are currently completing the writing and final edits to the report, which will document over 245 errors in these various textbooks.

Here's a small sample of what we found.

  This is patently false. The Jews of Medina rejected Muhammad as a prophet, and as a result he drove two of the Jewish tribes out of Medina and exterminated the third one.

  This is so preposterous, so lacking historical justification or support within sharia law, one wonders how it ever got into a textbook.

From Howard:  

Today's youth have an attitude that the world owes them, things are simply due them for just being alive.  The kind of ignorance being shown here takes the issue to an entirely new level of problem.  Judge for yourself.

Israel IQ at UCLA - With Mark Schiff

I can't say I'm surprised.

Newly released documents demonstrate -- once again -- the blatant pro-Big Labor bias of President Barack Obama's appointees at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB).

The Obama administration lawyer responsible for the outrageous complaint against Boeing that could destroy thousands of jobs in Right to Work South Carolina joked in an internal email about taking a job with Airbus, the plane manufacturer heavily subsidized by European governments.

What NLRB Acting General Counsel Lafe Solomon said next is even more telling.

"We screwed up the [American] economy and now we can tackle [E]urope."

Looking at the nightly news, I don't think the Big Governments of Europe need Lafe Solomon's help to wreck the economy.

While Solomon may claim to be joking, the impact of the Boeing case could indeed be disastrous for the economy.

As you may recall, Solomon is scheming to force thousands of Boeing Company jobs from South Carolina to Washington State, where International Association of Machinists (IAM) union bosses can force workers to pay dues or "fees" as a condition of employment.

The goal is clear: paralyze the decision-making of job providers like Boeing as they consider where to expand their businesses and create new jobs -- unless they are willing to cave in to pressure from union bosses and federal bureaucrats.

If the NLRB rubber stamps this despicable union-boss greed, job providers across the country could be forced to get approval from union bosses before they expand their businesses.

It's a blatant attack on the rights of workers and businesses alike.

And as the economy continues to struggle, it's the last thing we need.

Thanks to the generosity of Foundation supporters, after Solomon filed the complaint we immediately launched an aggressive media blitz in South Carolina offering free legal aid to Boeing employees.

Our extensive outreach paid off, and three Boeing workers contacted the Foundation for free legal aid.

Dennis Murray, one of the Boeing employees, told local news reporters that the Obama Labor Board is "forgetting the little people...they're forgetting the people trying to make a living and feed their families."

But Solomon didn't just forget about the workers -- he actively opposed their intervention in the case.

And now we learn that Solomon has been cracking jokes about the impact of his decision to do Big Labor's bidding at the expense of American workers and the economy.

"If I lose my job, my family will be devastated," Murray explained.

The newly released documents only confirm what I already knew -- I'm proud to stand with these courageous Boeing employees fighting back against outrageous bullying from union bosses and an out-of-control Obama Labor Board.

And your Foundation won't stop standing up for them in the courts and in the press. This is what your financial support for the National Right to Work Foundation makes possible.

Please, if you can, chip in with a tax-deductible contribution of $10 or more to the support the Foundation's legal aid program.

Thank you for your continued support.

Sincerely,

Mark Mix

P.S. The Foundation relies completely on voluntary contributions from its supporters to provide free legal aid.

If you can, please chip in with a tax-deductible contribution of $10 or more today to support the Foundation's programs.   

Let Me Be Clear...

OWS poster! 

Comrades, here is a new poster created by the unwashed masses occupiers in New York!





I must admit it is amazing how much the above OWS poster which I actually downloaded off the OWS site looks like Soviet Propaganda, even down to the class warfare message. The artwork on this poster is a bit clunky (My guess is that it is hard to create good artwork in a tent that is being hosed down by the NYC sanitation department) but it has the look and feel of Communist artwork. Way to go OWS. 

Today's Headlines:  Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Chicago Teachers Union President Mocks Arne Duncan, Jokes About Smoking Pot -- With Kids in the Audience

Mrs. Obama: Let Them Eat Steak-And Arugula

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Democrats Equate Voter ID Laws to 'Poll Tax,' 'Jim Crow' Laws 
Tough on Iran, Wary of UN: Gingrich's Foreign Policy in the Spotlight at Tuesday's GOP Debate

On Personal Questions, Gingrich Relying on the 'Decency' and 'Understanding' of American People

Sebelius: $1 Billion in Grants Will Improve Health, Lower Costs, While 'Sparking' the Economy

Taxpayer-Backed FHA Guaranteed 40 Percent of Initial Home Mortgages in 2010

House-Senate Negotiators Unveil Bundled Spending Bill; Doesn't Cut Enough, Conservatives Say

Foreign Aid Is Investment in U.S. 'Security and Prosperity,' Say 5 Former Secretaries of State

'I Shouldn't Have Showered With Those Kids,' Sandusky Tells NBC

Police Clear 'Unsanitary' Zuccotti Park, Arrest Dozens of Stubborn Protesters

COMMENTARY:

Return of the War Party?
By Patrick J. Buchanan
Is a vote for the Republican Party in 2012 a vote for war? Before we go to the polls in 2012, let's find out if the GOP is becoming again the same old War Party that bankrupted the nation.

Poverty in America?
By Walter E. Williams
Income measurements fail to capture important components of economic well-being, such as wealth and the ownership of durables, such as houses and cars.

NEWSPAPER ROUNDUP:

 November 15, 2011         

BOOTED! NYPD SWEEPS THRoUgh ZUCCOTTI   Just after midnight on Tuesday, police swarmed the four corners of lower Manhattan's Zuccotti Park and announced that the protesters must leave. Our own Buck Sexton was on the scene and delivered an eye witness report that can be read HERE.     

WAS THE 'CAIN TRAIN' JUST DERAILED?  The strange video of Herman Cain's interview with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinal has many people wondering if the former GOP frontrunner will ever regain his momentum. Watch Cain's odd answer to a question about President Obama's Libya policy HERE.     

HARVARD PROF WARNS U.S. ON EURO CRISIS  A history professor from Harvard believes that Americans need to pay more attention to the money problems in Europe. Dr. Niall Ferguson predicts that the American economy will be consumed by a financial crisis in the Eurozone. Follow Ferguson's logic HERE.     

ANTI-CAPITALIST OCCUPIERS in DC CLAIM TO BE ORGANIZING INSIDE OUR MILITARY  Shocking audio has just surfaced from a Washington DC teach-in where a member of the Progressive Labor Party is talking about a "revolution," and how the party will need the support of the military to achieve its goals. Listen to the audio HERE

BILL WHITTLE TEACHES THE FIVE SECRETS OF ISRAEL'S SUCCESS    The Bridge In Your Mind is another insightful video from Bill Whittle. In this short seven minute lesson, Whittle shows us the difference between the Israelis and the OWS crowd. Watch it HERE.       

VIRAL VIDEO - watch theSE five, must-see videos from the occupy clean-up in nyc      The Viral Video section has been supersized today. We have collected not one, not two, not three... but FIVE must-see clips from the NYPD's overnight sweep of Zuccotti Park. Watch them all HERE.