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November 28, 2011
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Morning Bell: President Lincoln's Thanksgiving Proclamation
We hope you enjoyed your Thanksgiving yesterday and continue to enjoy spending time with friends and family today. While we at The Heritage Foundation enjoy our holiday, we invite you to read President Abraham Lincoln's 1863 Thanksgiving Proclamation below.
The year that is drawing toward its close has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source from which they come, others have been added which are of so extraordinary a nature that they can not fail to penetrate and soften even the heart which is habitually insensible to the ever-watchful providence of Almighty God.
In the midst of a civil war of unequaled magnitude and severity, which has sometimes seemed to foreign states to invite and to provoke their aggression, peace has been preserved with all nations, order has been maintained, the laws have been respected and obeyed, and harmony has prevailed everywhere, except in the theater of military conflict, while that theater has been greatly contracted by the advancing armies and navies of the Union.
Senate Moves To Allow Military To Intern Americans Without Trial
DANGEROUS SECTION OF BILL - PLEASE CONTACT YOUR SENATORS
Dear Patriots,
Please contact Senator Toomey and Senator Casey and tell them to oppose this section of the bill. The bill may be voted on as early as Monday. The link is below.
Section 1031 essentially repeals the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878 by authorizing the U.S. military to perform law enforcement functions on American soil. That alone should al arm my colleagues on both sides of the aisle, but there are other problems with these provisions that must be resolved."
S,1867 Homeland is part of the battlefield! Sen. Graham...
NDAA detention provision would turn America into a "battlefield"
Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
Saturday, November 26, 2011
NDAA detention provision would turn America into a "battlefield"
Paul Joseph Watson Infowars.com Saturday, November 26, 2011
The Senate is set to vote on a bill next week that would define the whole of the United States as a "battlefield" and allow the U.S. Military to arrest American citizens in their own back yard without charge or trial.
"The Senate is going to vote on whether Congress will give this president-and every future president - the power to order the military to pick up and imprison without charge or trial civilians anywhere in the world. The power is so broad that even U.S. citizens could be swept up by the military and the military could be used far from any battlefield, even within the United States itself," writes Chris Anders of the ACLU Washington Legislative Office.
Under the 'worldwide indefinite detention without charge or trial' provision of S.1867, the National Defense Authorization Act bill, which is set to be up for a vote on the Senate floor Monday, the legislation will "basically say in law for the first time that the homeland is part of the battlefield," said Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), who supports the bill.
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OBAMANISM: WHICH IS HE? A communist? A fascist? A Socialist? Or a combo?
INNOCENTS BETRAYED: THE MOVIE Innocents Betrayed by Aaron Zelman.. In this powerful documentary produced by Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership, you will learn how governments have historically deprived people of firearms ... and then wiped them from the face of the Earth.
SENATORS DEMAND MILITARY LOCK DOWN OF AMERICAN CITIZENS:
The Senate is going to vote on whether Congress will give this president-and every future president - the power to order the military to pick up and imprison without charge or trial civilians anywhere in the world. Even Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) raised his concerns about the NDAA detention provisions during last night's Republican debate. The power is so broad that even U.S. citizens could be swept up by the military and the military could be used far from any battlefield, even within the United States itself - http://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security/senators-demand-military-lock-american-citizens-battlefield-they-define-being
THANKSGIVING FAMILY FORUM WITH PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES: (2 HOURS) Hear what the candidates have to say about family issues, life challenges, the sanctity of life, marriage and more. Watch the event in its entirety. The Forum took place in Des Moines, Iowa, on Nov. 19 http://www.citizenlink.com/2011/11/19/thanksgiving-family-forum-complete-video/
If you are a leader of a 9.12 group in Pennsylvania, UNITEPA (Sharon Cherubin) is working on a project with Dayspring Christian Academy that will give your organization a voice when Glenn Beck comes to Lancaster in April. Please contact Sharon Cherubin for more information. info@unitepa.org Thank you.
The Valley Forge Patriots invite you to a
Town Hall Meeting
With
U.S. Congressman Jim Gerlach
Dec, 2 2011
At the Phoenixville CC 6:00 to 8:00 PM
The Congressman will give a legislative update and then address questions from the audience. We are expecting a large turnout and seating is limited. As always, parking is free and snacks and drinks are available.
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
Andrew is publisher of the news portals Breitbart.com and Breitbart.tv. In January 2009, he launched Big Hollywood, a group blog off of Breitbart.com on Hollywood and politics from the center/right perspective.
He gained greater notoriety when his second blog endeavor, Big Government, broke the ACORN child sex trafficking scandal. In 2011, Big Government broke the "Weinergate" scandal that lead to the resignation of New York Representative Anthony Weiner.
Breitbart launched Big Journalism in January of 2010 and his newest blog, Big Peace, launched July 4th of the same year. Additionally, Andrew was the primary developer of The Huffington Post and co-wrote the best-selling attack on celebrity culture, Hollywood, Interrupted. His new book, Righteous Indignation: Excuse Me While I Save the World!, also a New York Times bestseller, is in stores now.
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.
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.
Monday 3-4pm "Bordering on Insanity" - Sue Payne and Frosty Wooldridge
Tuesday 3-4pm "American Freedom Watch" - Karen Schoen with contributors John Estabrooks and Dr. Ronald Myers
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" - Rich Davis and David Bellavia
Remember January 3rd, 2007 The Day The Democrats Took Over!
I wonder how many people know this?
The day the Democrats took over was not January 22nd 2009 -- it was actuallyJanuary 3rd 2007. The day the Democrats took over the House of Representatives & Senate, the start of the 110th Congress.
The Democratic Party controlled a majority in both chambers for the first time since the end of the 103rd Congress in 1995.
"For those of you who are listening to the liberals propagating the fallacy that everything is "Bush's Fault," think about this:
January 3rd, 2007 was the day the Democrats took over the Senate and the Congress:
At the time:
The DOW Jones closed at 12,621.77
The GDP for the previous quarter was 3.5%
The Unemployment rate was 4.6%
George Bush's Economic policies SET A RECORD of 52 STRAIGHT MONTHS of JOB CREATION!
...but the white guy insists that it's not a big deal that he publicly posted a promise to murder an Indian-American female governor if nobody else does.
According to The Hill, unions and their Democrats in Congress are apoplectic over the fact that Brian Hayes, the lone Republican on Barack Obama's National Labor Relations Board, has (allegedly) threatened to resign in protest over the union appointees at the NLRB deciding on Wednesday (Nov. 30th) to force ambush elections on companies and their employees. Due to a Supreme Court decision, where the high court ruled there must be a minimum three NLRB members to affect a quorum, with only three current members, a resignation at the NLRB would incapacitate the union-run agency.
Notwithstanding Democrats fleeing from their jobs in Wisconsin earlier this year, oddly, neither the union bosses nor their paid shills in Congress seem to realize (or if they do, they're not publicly admitting it) that the idea of incapacitating the NLRB came from their own playbook.
M. King Hubbert is the father of Peak Oil theory. In a 1956, he paper correctly called the timing of the peak in U.S. crude oil production in the early 1970s.
Neo-Malthusians and Progressives make sure you know about Hubbert's pessimistic outlook for conventional crude oil. They made Hubbert a household name, the only oil technologist whose name they use without adding "sellout" or "whore".
But here's what they never tell you about what Hubbert's wrote...
I believe that contrary to what the Establishment would have us believe that Mitt Romney is actually the least electable candidate in the GOP primary.
The above photo features a younger Mitt Romney (in the center, naturally) when he was part of Bain Capital. Get used to seeing it. It will be on busses and billboards across the nation if Romney wins the nomination. And it will be the image people take into the voting booth on Election Day.
Apparently, the Black Friday Occupation isn't working out so well for some #OWS protesters in Oklahoma City [#OccupyOKC].
After standing in the middle of the check out lanes and attempting to convince the WalMart workers to give up their jobs (jobs are slavery now, according to #OccupyOKC) and the shoppers to quit shopping, they tried to make a run for it and, based on the final scene, appear to have gotten the opportunity to occupy a jail cell.
Family of Marine Gunned Down by SWAT Team Still Searches for Answers and Justice
The Blaze | by Christopher Santarelli | Posted on November 28, 2011 at 12:02am
After video of SWAT team officers firing over 70 times at a 26-year-old former Marine in his home went viral, there was a public outcry for explanations and justice for Jose Guerena Ortiz, the former serviceman gunned down in the alleged drug raid. Six months later, the Guerena family remains frustrated and starved for answers as no arrests have been made.
Jose Guerena Ortiz was sleeping after an exhausting 12-hour night shift at a copper mine during an ordinary morning in a middle-class Tucson neighborhood on May 5, when an armored vehicle pulled into the family's driveway and men wearing heavy body armor and helmets climbed out, weapons ready.
. . . .
She begged them to get Joel out of the house before he saw his father in a puddle of blood on the floor.
But soon afterward, the boy appeared in the front doorway in Spider-Man pajamas, crying.
Muslim Brotherhood Expects to Win Substantial Control in Egypt's Parliamentary Elections
The Blaze | by Billy Hallowell | Posted on November 28, 2011 at 7:39am
CAIRO (AP) - Shaking off years of political apathy, Egyptians turned out in long lines at voting stations Monday in their nation's first parliamentary elections since Hosni Mubarak's ouster, a giant step toward what they hope will be a democracy after decades of dictatorship.
. . .
The Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt's largest and best organized group, along with its Islamist allies are expected to do well in the vote, which has been a source of concern for secular and liberal Egyptians who fear the Brotherhood will try to implement a strict version of Islamic law in the country.
Quote Richard Lamm, former Democratic Governor of Colorado:
"Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want and their kids pay for it."
Sympathize with liberals who feel uncomfortable about celebrating "Christmas."
Helpfully suggest that they might want to celebrate the pagan festival of Julfest instead-where you still get to have a decorated tree in the house, but without those awkward Christian connotations. "After all," add, "it's what all the most dedicated Nazis used to do in Hitler's Germany, and they were pagan socialists just like you are..."
When talking about "Kwanzaa," put on a silly, fake-African voice, make inverted-commas signs with your fingers, and, if feeling energetic, perform a comedy, witchdoctor dance.
Explain that you are simply being true to the festival's long, rich, imaginative cultural heritage... invented in 1967 by a black activist Maulana Karenga (née Ronald McKinley Everett), who was subsequently imprisoned for felony assault and false imprisonment.
Former Mossad Head Yatom: Israel Can't Afford Not to Strike Iran
11/25/2011
The Begin Sadat Center, a respected think tank based at Bar Ilan University, held a conference on November 23, 2011 on the subject of "Israeli Security in a New Regional Envornment", which focused on the so-called "Arab Spring" and its implicatons. Its experts concluded that the Arab Spring is not going to result in democracy, despite original hopes in the West, and may make things even worse for Israel.
"As steep as the price for hitting Iran may be, a military strike on Iran will be less painful than the cost of living with an Iranian nuclear weapons threat," argues former Mossad head Maj. Gen. (res.) Danny Yatom. "The backlash from a strike on Iran's nuclear sites will not be as bad for Israel as will an Iran armed with nuclear weapons," he says. "I don't think that those predicting apocalyptic repercussions of a strike on Tehran are correct, and even if they are, Israel can't afford to wonder if Tehran will go crazy and bomb us."
Obama Policies Endanger World, Could Propel Mideast War, Gaffney Tells Newsmax
Saturday, 26 Nov 2011
By Amy Woods and Kathleen Walter
Three years of President Barack Obama's policies have made the world a more perilous place, aggravating a Mideast situation that could result in an all-out war with a nuclear-armed Iran, Frank Gaffney tells Newsmax.TV.
"The world will become substantially more dangerous" if the evisceration of the U.S. military, the undermining of American allies - notably Israel - and the emboldening of its enemies continues under the Obama administration, said Gaffney, the founder and president of the Center for Security Policy. Story continues after video.
TEHRAN, Iran - A senior commander of Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guard says the country will target NATO's missile defense shield in Turkey if the U.S. or Israel attacks the Islamic Republic.
Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh, the head of the Guards' aerospace division, is quoted by the semiofficial Mehr news agency as saying the warning is part of a new defense strategy to counter what it sees as an increase in threats from the U.S. and Israel.
He says Iran will now respond to threats with threats rather than a defensive position.
Tehran says NATO's early warning radar station in Turkey is meant to protect Israel against Iranian missile attacks if a war breaks out with Israel.
Turkey agreed to host the radar in September as part of NATO's missile defense system.
Pakistan Protests Alleged US-Led Attack That Killed Soldiers
Saturday, 26 Nov 2011
Pakistan protested and U.S. officials expressed regret after reports that helicopters of the U.S.-led NATO force in Afghanistan killed at least 24 Pakistani troops at a border post.
Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani "strongly condemned" the attack and ordered the Foreign Ministry to address the incident "in the strongest terms" with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the U.S., his spokesman said in an e- mailed statement. Gilani also called an emergency meeting of the country's defense committee.
Army Chief of Staff Ashfaq Kayani said the attack was a "blatant and unacceptable act," and demanded urgent action against those responsible. The attack is at least the fourth on a Pakistan border facility by NATO forces in 15 months, and earlier raids led Pakistan to temporarily shut NATO supply routes to Afghanistan across its territory.
The media is calling it an anti-socialist election, and rightly so. What they won't tell you is that it is also an anti-Islamization election. (See links at bottom)
EN NEWS Spain's right stormed to a landslide election victory Sunday, an exit poll said, sparking dancing in the street by voters desperate for a cure to soaring unemployment. Winning the biggest majority in its history according to partial results voters handed a crushing defeat to the ruling Socialists after seven years in power.
Spain's was the fifth eurozone government felled this year by the eurozone debt crisis. Voters gave Mariano Rajoy's right-wing Popular Party 43.5 percent of the vote and an absolute majority of 181-185 seats in the 350-member Congress of Deputies, according to the poll by public broadcaster RTVE.
Hundreds of cheering Popular Party supporters erupted in celebration outside the party's Madrid headquarters,...
Austria's far-right Freedom Party has announced plans to expand into Germany, where it hopes to join forces with another militant anti-Islamic group and campaign against Turkey's accession to the European Union as part of a widening bid for political power.
Austria's far right Freedom Party (FPO) is causing outrage with its advertising campaign. The slogan causing all the fuss appears in bold letters across huge billboards next to the smiling face of Freedom Party leader Heinz Christian Strache. "Mehr Mut für Wiener Blut" - more courage for Viennese Blood. The next line says - "Too many foreigners does no one any good"
UK INDEPENDENTThe party, which swept to power in Austria under the leadership of the late Jörg Haider a decade ago, made huge gains in Vienna elections earlier this month when it won 26 per cent of the vote and overnight became the city's second most powerful party.
The dramatic resurgence followed an anti-Islamic...
The time machine is a sensation that nests in me when I am visiting Mr. Hobber old books store in Budapest, Hungary. Hobber learned to know my quirks and after the initial greeting and the glass of mineral water (Mr. Hobber is a vegan) he leads me down the stairs to the huge basement, to the Jewish "section."
The Jewish section is a room full of antiquity books on subjects that Mr. Hobber sees to be Jewish. Among the books there are some that are not even worthy their leather binding. However, sometime, one can find there real culture treasure. Many of the books are Holy Books that may have been stolen from synagogues' archives: Talmud, Bible, Mishnah, old Ashkenazi style Siddur, and others. Customarily, I open them to see who the proprietor is; who was the Bar Mitzvah boy who received the book two hundred years ago and to whom did he pass the book at the end of...
First, Hizballah reported the unmasking of a CIA network in Lebanon. Then, Wednesday, Nov. 23, an Iranian lawmaker Parviz Sorouri, a member of the Iranian parliament's foreign affairs and defense committee, claimed the capture of 12 CIA spies targeting Iran's military and its nuclear program with the Mossad and regional agencies. Beirut and Tehran had clearly joined forces, debkafile's intelligence sources report, to prove they were on top of their security and had smashed dangerous US intelligence networks operating inside their armed forces.
Iran and Hizballah were driven into action by four pressing circumstances:
1. Tehran needed urgently to erase the bad impression left by the explosion which wiped out Iran's entire missile command, including Maj. Gen. Hassan Moghaddam, at the secret Revolutionary Guards base in Aghadir near Tehran on Oct....
Israel currently has almost 4,000 active technology start-ups - more than any other country outside the United States, according to Israel Venture Capital Research Centre.
In 2010 alone the flow of venture capital amounted to $884m (£558m).
The result: high-tech exports from Israel are valued at about $18.4bn a year, making up more than 45% of Israel's exports, according to the Central Bureau of Statistics.
Israel is a world leader in terms of research and development spending as a percentage of the economy; it's top in both the number of start-ups and engineers as a proportion of the population; and it's first in per capita venture capital investment.
Not bad for a country of some eight million people - fewer than, say, Moscow or New York.
Serial entrepreneur Yossi Vardi says there is a whole blend of factors responsible for turning...
The chief executive of Saudi Arabia's state-owned oil company- Aramco- has admitted that the development of large oil shale reserves in North America looks set to shift the monopoly over global energy supplies increasingly away from the Middle East.
By Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi, INN To preface, when it comes to global petroleum supplies, a distinction is drawn between "conventional" and "unconventional" oil reserves. The former are still in abundance in oil fields throughout the Middle East, and petroleum is produced from them simply by drilling at oil wells. Unconventional reserves include tar sands and oil shale: the latter is a form of sedimentary rock that must first be decomposed at high temperatures before crude oil can be obtained for refinement.
In terms of reserves, it is estimated that conventional sources across the world can yield around 1.2 trillion barrels, while in the United States alone, anywhere between 500 billion and 1.1 trillion barrels are thought...
I was flipping channels on TV when I came across the SUN channel. It was on its last 5 minutes before the end of the show about the Sharia in the West. I was positively shocked that someone had (finally) had the courage to face up to the spreading of the Islamic decease. You have more balls than almost all of the politicians in Washington and the liberal media.
Been a Christian who was raised in Middle Eastern Islamic countries, I know the dangers of what is looming ahead. I have seen it all before. I got accustomed to been called an infidel since I was 7 years old from my Muslim school mates and neighbors. And where did those 7 years old Muslim kids learn that from? Of-course from their parents. I cherish the...
New divisions in the Muslim Brotherhood appeared on Wednesday as a senior leader hinted that it might walk away from a deal struck with Egypt's interim military rulers. A day after the Brotherhood agreed to the deal that would speed the transition to civilian rule while also enhancing the group's own political prospects, the senior official said that the security forces had not fulfilled their promise to halt their attacks on protesters in Tahrir Square. (New York Times)
Until this past weekend, it was assumed that the election was the Muslim Brotherhood's to lose. Now it appears they may do just that. The Islamist movement's...
"Israel is responsible for over 600 modifications in the current generation of General Dynamics' (GD) F-16 fighter aircrafts, providing Global Dynamics a multi-billion dollar bonus in research and development, improving Global Dynamic's competitive edge in the global market, expanding U.S. employment and its export base and enhancing U.S. national security," Global Dynamic's plant manager in Ft. Worth, Texas recently told me. Similar benefits are enjoyed by many U.S. defense contractors who sell their products to Israel. Israel's choice of U.S. military products is perceived, by the global community, as having a blue ribbon effect that multiplies U.S. exports. Israel constitutes the most advanced battle-tested, cost-effective, and invaluable laboratory for U.S. military systems.
Israel is to the U.S. defense industry what a triple-A tenant is to a shopping mall - a value enhancer and a tenants/clients drawer.
The recent executive director of the controversial Council on American-Islamic Relations' South Florida chapter is a founder and spokesman of Occupy Miami, WND has learned.
Mohammad Malik currently is as an activist with several other Islamic groups.
He has led hate-filled anti-Israel protests in which participants were filmed wearing Hamas paraphernalia while chanting "Nuke Israel" and "Go back to the oven" - a reference to Jews being killed in the Holocaust.
Malik has been widely quoted in the Florida news media in recent weeks speaking for Occupy Miami.
The Miami Herald identified Malik as one of the organizers of Occupy's Miami's downtown campsite headquarters.
Cross Removed From Army Chapel in Afghanistan by Our Own Government
The Christian Post reports that "The U.S. Army has removed a cross that was prominently placed on the front of a chapel located at the remote base of Camp Marmal in Northern Afghanistan. . . . [O]fficials said that having a permanent sectarian image on the chapel violated army regulations. . . . One soldier referred to the decision and the regulation behind it as 'a direct attack against Christianity and Judaism.'"
This isn't the first time Christianity has been an issue in Afghanistan. Bibles translated into Afghan languages were sent to a U.S. soldier at a base in Afghanistan. Here's how CNN reported the story in 2009:
Military personnel threw away, and ultimately burned, confiscated Bibles that were printed in the two most common Afghan languages amid concern they would be used to try to convert Afghans, a Defense Department spokesman said Tuesday.
The unsolicited Bibles sent by a church in the United States were confiscated about a year ago at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan because military rules forbid troops of any religion from proselytizing while deployed there, Lt. Col. Mark Wright said.
Christian Churches Read Quran from Pulpits across America
How would you feel if your pastor stood in the pulpit this past Sunday opened what you believed to be his Bible and then started to read passages completely unfamiliar to you. Then in the midst of the reading you hear him say Allah instead of God and you realize he is reading not from his Bible, but from the Quran.
How would you feel and what would you do?
If this didn't happen to you yesterday, count yourself fortunate because it did happen to a number people sitting in Christian churches across America.
Fresh on the heels of the still unsolved kristallnacht come more swastikas in Jewish neighborhoods in Brooklyn. And the rampant Jew-hatred displayed on college campuses and #OWS events goes unchalleneged.
But not to worry, the Justice department is locking up the Amish. No, seriously, these Amish face life for cutting off beards. More moral equivalence from the Obama administration.
Yet anotheranti-Semitic attack has been reported in Brooklyn, a New York City borough known for several orthodox Jewish neighborhoods as well as others with strong Jewish influence. NY 1 reports that the NYPD has launched an investigation after swastikas where found inside a Brooklyn building for the second time in nine days. The swastikas were found scratched into the metal of an elevator in Williamsburg, and have since been removed.
PEN International is shocked to learn of the death of Rafiq Tagi, an Azeri writer and long standing critic of political Islam. The 61-year-old author died after suffering multiple stab wounds in an attack in the Azeri capital on 19 November. He had long been receiving death threats for his criticism of Iran. He died in hospital. PEN International sends its condolences to Tagi's family and colleagues, and urges the Azeri authorities to do its utmost to find Tagi's killers and bring them to justice.
Butterball is now backpedaling and has scrubbed its website of all "halal certification." Why? What are they hiding? I never thought that Butterball would be this dishonest in dealing with their customers. It shows an utter contempt and lack of respect for the American people. And what an incredibly stupid way to deal with a public relations disaster. It took them five days to come up with this?
The Rachel Maddow Show has claimed that the Butterball turkeys are not halal. However, Butterball is giving out conflicting information. Multiple people contacted them after we first publicized the response from their representative saying that their turkeys were certified halal, and Butterball confirmed this numerous times.
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A Poison Unleashed
November 25, 2011
Abe Novick
Looking north from the top of the Golan Heights, it's green, green, green, and then just past the Syrian border - brown and dead.
Drive throughout Judea and Samaria (West Bank) and you will see empty desert, dilapidated Bedouin shacks, and then green, thriving kibbutzim.
This is, of course, the story of Israel. The story of making a desert bloom. But it's also a metaphor for embracing life, as opposed to a cult of death that recently played out in the media with the Gilad Shalit prisoner exchange.
Israel agreeing to trade more than 1,000 prisoners, many with blood and death on their hands, in exchange for one young soldier, defies the logic of a fair trade. Prima facie, the scales overwhelmingly slam down on the side of the Palestinians. But if there is a message to be gained, it's this:
While young Gilad was being embraced by family and celebrated for being alive, the Palestinians were promoting their ideology of suicide bombing, spreading it to school children.
As Aron Adler writes "The Jewish People and Country...Do Not Turn their Backs On Humanity" and "I Am Immensely Proud to Be A Member of This Nation"....... A Remarkable Young Man.....Howard
My name is Aron Adler. I am 25 years old, was born in Brooklyn NY, and raised in Efrat Israel. Though very busy, I don't view my life as unusual. Most of the time, I am just another Israeli citizen. During the day I work as a paramedic in Magen David Adom, Israel's national EMS service. At night, I'm in my first year of law school. I got married this October and am starting a new chapter of life together with my wonderful wife Shulamit. 15-20 days out of every year, I'm called up to the Israeli army to do my reserve duty. I serve as a paramedic in an IDF paratrooper unit. My squad is made up of others like me; people living normal lives who step up to serve whenever responsibility calls. The oldest in my squad is 58, a father of four girls and grandfather of two; there are two bankers, one engineer, a holistic healer, and my 24 year old commander who is still trying to figure out what to do with his life. Most of the year we are just normal people living our lives, but for 15-20 days each year we are soldiers on the front lines preparing for a war that we hope we never have to fight. This year, our reserve unit was stationed on the border between Israel, Egypt and the Gaza Strip in an area called "Kerem Shalom." Above and beyond the "typical" things for which we train - war, terrorism, border infiltration, etc., this year we were confronted by a new challenge. Several years ago, a trend started of African refugees crossing the Egyptian border from Sinai into Israel to seek asylum from the atrocities in Darfur. What started out as a small number of men, women and children fleeing from the machetes of the Janjaweed and violent fundamentalists to seek a better life elsewhere, turned into an organized industry of human trafficking. In return for huge sums of money, sometimes entire life savings paid to Bedouin "guides," these refugees are promised to be transported from Sudan, Eritrea, and other African countries through Egypt and the Sinai desert, into the safe haven of Israel. We increasingly hear horror stories of the atrocities these refugees suffer on their way to freedom. They are subject to, and victims of extortion, rape, murder, and even organ theft, their bodies left to rot in the desert. Then, if lucky, after surviving this gruesome experience whose prize is freedom, when only a barbed wire fence separates them from Israel and their goal, they must go through the final death run and try to evade the bullets of the Egyptian soldiers stationed along the border. Egypt's soldiers are ordered to shoot to kill anyone trying to cross the border OUT of Egypt and into Israel. It's an almost nightly event. For those who finally get across the border, the first people they encounter are Israeli soldiers, people like me and those in my unit, who are tasked with a primary mission of defending the lives of the Israeli people. On one side of the border soldiers shoot to kill. On the other side, they know they will be treated with more respect than in any of the countries they crossed to get to this point. The region where it all happens is highly sensitive and risky from a security point of view, an area stricken with terror at every turn. It's just a few miles south of the place where Gilad Shalit was kidnapped. And yet the Israeli soldiers who are confronted with these refugees do it not with rifles aimed at them, but with a helping hand and an open heart. The refugees are taken to a nearby IDF base, given clean clothes, a hot drink, food and medical attention. They are finally safe. Even though I live Israel and am aware through media reports of the events that take place on the Egyptian border, I never understood the intensity and complexity of the scenario until I experienced it myself. In the course of the past few nights, I have witnessed much. At 9:00 PM last night, the first reports came in of gunfire heard from the Egyptian border. Minutes later, IDF scouts spotted small groups of people trying to get across the fence. In the period of about one hour, we picked up 13 men - cold, barefoot, dehydrated - some wearing nothing except underpants. Their bodies were covered with lacerations and other wounds. We gathered them in a room, gave them blankets, tea and treated their wounds. I don't speak a word of their language, but the look on their faces said it all and reminded me once again why I am so proud to be a Jew and an Israeli. Sadly, it was later determined that the gunshots we heard were deadly, killing three others fleeing for their lives. During the 350 days a year when I am not on active duty, when I am just another man trying to get by, the people tasked with doing this amazing job, this amazing deed, the people witnessing these events, are mostly young Israeli soldiers just out of high school, serving their compulsory time in the IDF, some only 18 years old. The refugees flooding into Israel are a heavy burden on our small country. More than 100,000 refugees have fled this way, and hundreds more cross the border every month. The social, economic, and humanitarian issues created by this influx of refugees are immense. There are serious security consequences for Israel as well. This influx of African refugees poses a crisis for Israel. Israel has yet to come up with the solutions required to deal with this crisis effectively, balancing its' sensitive social, economic, and security issues, at the same time striving to care for the refugees. I don't have the answers to these complex problems which desperately need to be resolved. I'm not writing these words with the intention of taking a political position or a tactical stand on the issue. I am writing to tell you and the entire world what's really happening down here on the Egyptian/Israeli border. And to tell you that despite all the serious problems created by this national crisis, these refugees have no reason to fear us. Because they know, as the entire world needs to know, that Israel has not shut its eyes to their suffering and pain. Israel has not looked the other way. The State of Israel has put politics aside to take the ethical and humane path as it has so often done before, in every instance of human suffering and natural disasters around the globe. We Jews know only too well about suffering and pain. The Jewish people have been there. We have been the refugees and the persecuted so many times, over thousands of years, all over the world. Today, when African refugees flood our borders in search of freedom and better lives, and some for fear of their lives, it is particularly noteworthy how Israel deals with them, despite the enormous strain it puts on our country on so many levels. Our young and thriving Jewish people and country, built from the ashes of the Holocaust, do not turn their backs on humanity. Though I already knew that, this week I once again experienced it firsthand. I am overwhelmed with emotion and immensely proud to be a member of this nation. With love of Israel,Aron Adler writing from the Israel/Gaza/Egyptian border.
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Girl Scouts Support Abortion and Sexual Promiscuity
For the past one hundred years, parents have readily sent their daughters to Girl Scout meetings believing that they were being taught a number of useful talents and wholesome character qualities and for many years that many have been true, but not anymore.
In the past year, a number of people have been coming forward with information that ties Girl Scouts United States of America with Planned Parenthood even though the organization's leadership denies the association. But the evidence says otherwise.
In 2004, former Girl Scout CEO Kathy Cloninger did an interview with Lester Holt on the Today Show on which she admitted that the Girl Scouts partners with a number of organizations including Planned Parenthood. Her statement in the interview was,
Do you know what Africa needs most of all? If you answered food or international peacekeepers, then you're wrong and clearly not cut out to work for the government of a modern country. No what a continent filled with genocide, starving children, female genital mutilation and warring factions needs is help fighting global warming.
Even as Climategate 2.0 emails reveal that there's less of science and more hot air to the whole thing, global leaders will do their part to cut carbon emissions by flying to South Africa to discuss how to cap global warming, and not in the usual way someone gets capped on the streets of Durban.
At stake in Durban is a whole lot of green or red or grey, depending on your country's color of currency. The 100 billion dollar Green Climate Fund is supposed to be finalized and Kyoto 2.0 is supposed to do something about all those flatulent cows who are dooming the planet. It's a serious problem, not because there are mobs of polar bears windsurfing on melting glaciers down to Hawaii, but because a whole lot of influential people who got in on the ground floor of Global Warming Scam 1.0 are about to lose their tie dyed shirts.
How bad is it? The UN's Certificates of Emission Reduction have lost half their value since June. That means if an Occupier brought a CER to resell at a profit to the factory owner down the block, then he just might be out of luck. The Euro flavored EUA variety of carbon indulgences aren't doing any better.
"Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own." ~ Aesop
Gingrich Immigration Plan
Gingrich Tells Newsmax: No Amnesty, No Citizenship NewsMax.com
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich continued Thursday to defend his call for a "humane" policy of allowing some illegal immigrants to remain in the U.S., pointing out that he never said there would be a path to citizenship for those breaking the law.
There're some serious events about to hit the US. Some you know already, and some will be brand-new in a scary way... The bottom-line is, we're on the edge of a food crisis. And things could get ugly real fast.
Codex Alimentarius and Initium By Dr. Ileana Johnson Paugh CanadaFreePress.com
We are a nation in great decline, attacked from many fronts by issues born fifty years ago and bearing fruit now, and by individuals who do not hold our nation's interests at heart.
Between 2008 and 2010 there were over 5 millions searches in Google on the phrase "obama antichrist" and "obama messiah." It would be idiotic to believe that he is the antichrist or messiah however one of the worlds most respected political researchers after 3 years of research is now claiming that Obama's decisions are speeding up the formation of a one world government.
An Effective Campaign to Eradicate Poverty By Tom DeWeese RightSideNews.com
There are many efforts underway to focus attention on world poverty. In a world of massive government spending that is supposed to be used to help the poor (at least that is the popular excuse), the statistics on global poverty are staggering.
4 Foods You Should Never Eat Take a few minutes to watch this free video from Isabel De Los Rios who exposes four of the foods you should NEVER eat if you want to lose belly fat fast. Controversial? Yes. Proven to help you lose fat? Absolutely. Watch and listen to what Isabel says about what she eats.
Princess Pelosi Just Can't Fathom "The Conscience Thing"
Pelosi Ridicules Catholic "Conscience Thing" By Bob Beauprez TownHall.com
Nancy Pelosi frequently likes to remind us that she is a "devout Catholic," yet she continually finds herself at odds with Catholic doctrine particularly as it relates to innocent human life. The Church has long defended the right for health care providers to refuse to perform abortions or provide contraception devices and procedures as a right of conscience under First Amendment protections. As part of the Democrats' seizure of the health care industry with ObamaCare, Pelosi led the charge to attack the "Conscience Clause" protections originating in 1973 immediately following the Roe v. Wade decision, updated repeatedly over the years by Congress, and further clarified and strengthened in 2008 during the Bush Administration. Read the Full Story
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Illegals Hunting US Border Patrol Agents with Intent to Kill
On December 14, 2010, four US Border Patrol agents were patrolling an area a few miles north of the US-Mexico border in southern Arizona. In the dark of night, they happened upon five illegal immigrants. The agents spoke Spanish when they identified themselves of law enforcements officers. Using thermal binoculars, US agents could see that at least two of the illegals were armed with rifles. When the illegals failed to drop their weapons, two of the agents fired non-lethal beanbags at the illegals to stop them. The illegals opened fire on the US agents resulting in the death of Border Patrol agent Brian Terry.
Information surfacing from a grand jury indictment reveals that the illegals were intentionally hunting US Border Patrol agents for the express purpose of killing them.
WARNING - Parents in California - Withdraw Your Children from Public School Now!
California Governor Jerry Brown recently signed SB 48 into law and it goes into effect on January 1, 2012.
SB 48 mandates positive teaching of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender lifestyles to children of ALL ages. That means that any child attending public school starting with kindergarten on, in the state of California will be indoctrinated to accept lifestyles that God refers to as being an 'abomination' and punishable by death; Lev. 20:13 (God's words, not mine).
Legislative analyst for Traditional Values Coalition, Benjamin Lopez has been following the mandate closely and says that a number of school districts such as Alameda and Oakland have already started investigating material to use in the schools. Lopez warned,
"I think parents need to realize that it's important for them to take the time and sacrifice, to start going to their school districts and investigating and looking at the curriculum and the content in books, in manuals, and instructional materials."
Voter confidence in the government to recover from our current woes is at an all-time low. The Party ideologies are so far apart that Washington is as useful as snow blower in the desert. Congressional approval is at single digits and the president's approval ratings are not much higher. The stock market's record of late looks like one of the roller coasters at a major amusement park. The situation in Europe is not any better and many experts over there are conducting a 'Euro death watch'.
National elections are a year away and while most of the Republican candidates claim they have solutions to help the nation climb out of the slough of despair, most Americans are skeptical of it happening. Talk is cheap and the proof is in the pubbing, however, these days the pudding has a bitter taste to it.
"I want to see the Microfiche," Sheriff Joe Arpaio told a packed East Orlando Tea Party audience last week. In explaining his Birther Posse activities, he said his group of 60 retired cops and attorneys should have a report for him as early as January or February because they are searching around the clock to find out where the President was born.
Delivering a keynote speech to his rapt listeners, Arpaio said the l961 microfiche holds the key to determining if Barack Hussein Obama was born in Hawaii or Kenya. "Twins were born before Barack Obama, and now we have to see if he was born the next day." But Sheriff Joe said he won't be taking any bets on his posse getting the microfilm. He expressed consternation that the regular media are just not talking about the Obama birth issue which is on people's minds all across the country.
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
In order to thank God for the First Amendment, which was passed a week earlier by Congress, President George Washington issued the first National Thanksgiving Proclamation, 1789:
"Whereas both Houses of Congress have by their joint Committee requested me 'to recommend to the People of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer to be ... Continue Reading:American Minute for November 26th
Conservatives soon will have their own television station to bring into their homes. Along with general programming, it will feature decent constitutionally themed programming from conservative think tanks. Big Voices Media, as the new company is called, will debut on December 1 and broadcast from Jacksonville, Florida.
"We're handing the mic back to the people, " BVM executive Billie Tucker told the East Orlando Tea Party conference.
Sick and tired of being forced to depend on the failed media models of print and broadcast journalism that spew far left Liberal Democrat propaganda to audiences, Tucker explained that Big Voices Media aims to entirely change how we get our news and entertainment. By buying a BVM box, (now still on sale for only $49.00), you can see the type of programming you actually want to see and hear.
Much has been written about the democratic upraising in several Middle Eastern countries. Once those old regimes fell, the current Administration was quick to take credit for inspiring the democratic revolutions that will turn them into "new countries." Nevertheless, now that these revolutions have shown themselves to be less than "democratic" Obama's Administration must accept responsibility because things are going terribly wrong.
Egypt
The Muslim Brotherhood is set to win enough elections to take total control of Egypt and attempt to transform her into an Islamic Republic. The only organization in its way is the Egyptian military. The current protests and upraising are aimed at reducing the power of the military and put it under civilian government control. These orchestrated protesters are a good indication that they are coordinated by the Brotherhood.
The hostility directed towards the military may be due to its dependence on the West for its training and modern hardware.
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 in New York in 1797, she spoke only Dutch until she was sold at age 11. Suffering hardships, her third master made her marry an older slave with whom she had five children. In 1827, she escaped to Canada. After New York abolished slavery, she returned as a domestic servant and helped ... Continue Reading:American Minute for November 25th
I recently received a response from an e-mail I had sent extolling the virtues of a political candidate. It read, "I do not want to hear anything about any of the candidates, Republican or Democrat. This is far too early for me, regardless of what you might think. They all have jobs, and they are running around all over when our Nation is facing potential ruin. When the time comes, I will listen to whoever is left and determine for myself which one I wish to vote for - if I decide to vote."
The response was from a person who keeps up with the news, is active in church, and earnestly prays for America. The message is the epitome of the millions of Christians who choose not to vote in primary and general elections.
Politics has become a dirty word in Christian circles. The myth that church and politics ... Continue Reading:To vote or not to vote
Newt Gingrich has decided that the best way to battle the growing plague of left-wing judicial activism is to simply remove offending judges from the bench. He favors the passage of legislation which would allow Congress to eliminate federal judgeships thereby permitting the President to fill newly created voids with what in his view would be properly schooled jurists ready to make decisions based upon Constitutional content rather than agenda driven, personal preference.
In Federalist Papers #78, Alexander Hamilton wrote that the judiciary would clearly represent the weakest branch of government with "...no influence over either the sword or the purse..." "It may truly be said to have neither force nor will, but merely judgment..." he continued, believing no decision the courts might make could be enforced absent the power the executive branch could bring to bear.
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
Sentenced as a galley slave on a French ship, he looked up as they sailed passed St. Andrews, Scotland, and said: "I see the steeple of that place where God first in public opened my mouth to glory; and I am fully persuaded...I shall not depart this life till my tongue shall glorify his godly name ... Continue Reading:American Minute for November 24th
The author gratefully recognizes historian William Federer's reflection on Thanksgiving.
That "first" Thanksgiving in the autumn of 1621 involving the Pilgrims and members of the Wampanoag Confederacy under Massasoit occurred with many signs of God´s providence. That three day festival of meals including 5 deer (provided by the some 90 Indians attending); abundant wild game (probably waterfowl and wild turkey); fish, corn and bread was undoubtedly not the very first of celebrations giving thanks to God in the New World as these were a feature of the great Christian piety of the Europeans who came to the Western hemisphere after Columbus. But the Plymouth culinary event was the celebration most remembered as the quintessential thanksgiving in the U.S.
Some Hispanics will proudly note a thanksgiving that was held on Sept. 8th in 1565 in Saint Augustine, Florida. But dear Hispanics, this is not a who gets credit for the first Thanksgiving but ... Continue Reading:This Distinctively American Thanksgiving
There was a time long ago when Americans were sad and unhappy, when the world hated us, people were forced to work for a living and there were no inspiring leaders. But today in this wonderful age of free health care, free mobs and freedom for Islamists, there is so much for us to be thankful for. Like that new age of freedom and democracy breaking out like a rash across the Middle East.
Sure women keep being sexually assaulted in the new liberated Egypt, but that's democracy for you. Or a democracy of Muslim men.
I know I don't have to tell you, but politicians often say one thing but do the complete opposite -- especially if they think no one is looking.
Newt Gingrich is the poster child for these sort of "flexible" principles.
I've been around the block a few times (I'm about to start my 20th year as a gun rights lobbyist) and dealt with literally thousands of candidates and politicians, but no Republican politician has managed to support and vote for anti-gun legislation and still proclaim that he is "pro-gun" more effectively than Newt Gingrich.
Don't be fooled by his rise in the polls; Newt Gingrich has a long history of supporting gun control ...
... and he has blatantly refused to return his National Association for Gun Rights Presidential Survey.
With more than three decades as a public figure, Newt is the quintessential political chameleon, shifting his views to reflect whatever is popular with the Washington, D.C. chattering class.
Make no mistake, while Newt may talk a solid conservative game, his record is that of a typical Inside-the-Beltway politician who will cut ANY compromise or make ANY deal with anyone for his own political or personal gain.
While Newt used the institutional gun lobby as a mouthpiece to convince millions of gun owners nationwide that "as long as he is Speaker, no gun-control legislation is going to move in committee or on the House floor," he was working behind the scenes to pass gun control.
In 1996, Newt Gingrich turned his back on gun owners and voted for the anti-gun Brady Campaign's Lautenberg Gun Ban, which strips the Second Amendment rights of citizens involved in misdemeanor domestic violence charges or temporary protection orders -- in some cases for actions as minor as spanking a child or grabbing a spouse's wrist.(1)
Gingrich even called the anti-gun measure "reasonable," and predicted that it would sail through his Republican-controlled House of Representatives with little trouble.(2)
The Lautenberg Gun Ban is one of the Congressional Republicans' worst betrayals of gun owners, and those complicit in its passage deserve nothing but contempt from gun owners.
This gun control measure ranks right up there with the Brady Registration Act as the most aggressive gun control in America, denying hundreds of thousands of would-be gun owners the right to self defense.
Gingrich also stood shoulder to shoulder with Nancy Pelosi to pass the "Criminal Safezones Act" which prevents armed citizens from defending themselves in certain arbitrary locations. You and I both know that Criminal Safezones don't protect law-abiding citizens, but actually protect the criminals who ignore them.(3)
As you can see, Newt Gingrich is no friend of gun owners, or small government conservatives. He simply can't be trusted, and his record reflects his contempt not only for the truth, but his own integrity and the integrity of the very people he's asking to vote for him to be the most powerful man in the modern world.
This is the same man who railed against the Obama bailouts of Fannie and Freddie Mac while receiving more than $1.5 million from Fannie Mae as a "consultant"(4) while his firm also raised $37 million to pass healthcare insurance mandates.(5)
He's also the same man who sat next to Nancy Pelosi and insisted global warming was a man-made problem in need of a government-mandated solution. Now that he's running for the Republican nomination, he doesn't believe in global warming and calls the TV ad he did with Pelosi "inexplicable." Please click here to watch the video.(6)
I'm concerned, though, that Newt's snake-oil act is catching on.
It's time for gun owners and liberty-minded, small government activists to hold Newt's feet to the fire.
That's why I need you to call the Gingrich campaign headquarters right now at (678) 973-2306. Demand that Newt Gingrich apologize for his past support of gun control, and make a dramatic turnaround statement of support to repeal the gun controls he's supported.
Tell his campaign that you expect Newt to not only apologize for his past support of anti-gun measures but also to reveal where he stands on international gun grabs like the UN "Small Arms Treaty" and domestic anti-gun schemes like the banning of .50 caliber rifles.
Demand he quit stonewalling gun owners and return his National Association for Gun Rights Presidential Survey -- at once. You and I both know that election season, when they're begging for the votes of gun owners, is one of the best times to lobby candidates and politicians.
With Republican presidential primaries in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina mere weeks away, it's vital that gun owners know where the Republican candidates for President stand on important Second Amendment issues.
Newt's record is as crooked as a dog's hind leg. With a horrible voting record on Second Amendment issues, gun owners just don't know which side Newt's on.
Please call the Gingrich campaign headquarters right now at (678) 973-2306. Demand that Newt Gingrich apologize for his past support of gun control.
For Freedom,
Dudley Brown Executive Director
P.S. Newt Gingrich's anti-gun record is too important -- and dangerous -- to ignore. That's why I felt compelled to inform you.
His support for numerous gun controls is in direct contradiction to his current campaign statements.
Call the Gingrich campaign headquarters right now at (678) 973-2306. Demand that Newt Gingrich apologize for his past support of gun control.
The National Association for Gun Rights is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, single-purpose citizens' organization dedicated to preserving and protecting the Constitutionally protected right-to-keep-and-bear-arms through an aggressive program designed to mobilize public opposition to anti-gun legislation. The National Association for Gun Rights' mailing address is P.O 7002, Fredericksburg, VA 22404. They can be contacted toll-free at 1-877-405-4570. Its web address is www.NationalGunRights.org/
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News from The Hill:
Most GOP governors refuse to join calls for Holder's resignation By Jordy Yager
Republican governors are refusing to weigh-in on whether President Obama should fire his top law enforcement official over a botched gun-tracking operation.
The overwhelming silence of GOP state leaders comes as Texas Gov. Rick Perry and Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal have joined more than 40 Republican lawmakers on Capitol Hill in calling on Attorney General Eric Holder to resign for his role in Operation Fast and Furious.
The Hill spoke with the offices of all 29 Republican governors. Twenty-six of them either declined to comment or did not respond to whether their confidence in the Obama Administration has waned in the wake of Congress's investigation into Fast and Furious - a gun tracking operation in the Southwest that oversaw the sale of thousands of firearms to known and suspected straw buyers for Mexican drug cartels.
The reluctance of the GOP governors to voice their position differs dramatically from the Republican attitude on Capitol Hill where 40 members sent a letter to Obama this week calling for Holder's resignation.
November 26, 2011NEW WEAPONS HIT ANYWHERE IN AN HOURThe U.S. military's latest hypersonic missile can travel 8x faster than the speed of sound and strike a target anywhere on the planet in under an hour. See the weapon that most countries would love to buy on Cyber Monday (but thankfully cannot) HERE.
RADAR THAT CAN TRACK 30 CARS AT A TIMEThis story of new technology is not going to make fast drivers very happy. A new traffic camera claims to be able to monitor the speed and record license plates of 30 cars at once. Get the details for your lead-footed friends HERE.
'AIR CLICKER' TAKES PICS WITHOUT A CAMERAThe "Air Clicker" may be the camera of the future. An inventor has stripped away all of the unnecesary elements of digital cameras, leaving very small parts that require only your thumb and forefinger. Check out the design HERE.
SEE THE LAME SMARTPHONE APP THAT YOU (AND I) PAID $200,000 to developYour tax dollars were spent on the creation of a smartphone application that has been called many things, most of them unrpintable in a family-friendly publication like The Blaze. Get the details on OSHA's "Heat Safety Tool" HERE.
VIRAL VIDEO - ASTOUNDING CLIP DEPICTS UNBORN BABY'S FULL DEVELOPMENTThis spellbinding clip comes to us via a TED (Technology, Education and Design) talk from high-tech image maker Alexander Tsiaras. In the video, a human life is shown from the moment of conception to birth. Learn all the details and watch the clip HERE.
Mitt Romney's first television ad stirred considerable controversy, even though it ran briefly and only in New Hampshire. The ad included Barack Obama saying, "If we keep talking about the economy, we're going to lose." The quote, from 2008, is legitimate, but Obama was quoting the McCain campaign. So Democrats went ballistic.
But a Romney aide told Byron York that there was method to the Romney campaign's apparently misleading ad:
Romney aides know some Republicans fear that if Romney is the GOP presidential nominee, he might run a cautious, measured campaign against Obama like John McCain's losing effort of 2008. They know Republicans want to see a fearless, all-out campaign against the president. In that sense, the first ad was an effort to show Republicans that Romney will be as tough as he needs to be. ...
one Romney adviser calls it "incredibly telling" that Democratic criticism focused almost entirely on the use of the soundbite, and not on the substance of the ad itself, which was high unemployment. "This is how these guys operate," the aide says of Team Obama. "This is how they shamelessly reduced Bill Clinton to sputtering that he wasn't a racist. This is how they attacked Hillary for not having a core, for saying anything to get elected - the same Hillary who hosted Senator Obama's largest fundraiser."
"We get that and get how to get under their skin," the aide continued. That fact that not just Obama campaign aides in Chicago but White House spokesman Carney joined in the pushback was, to Team Romney, a sign the Obama team was "rattled."
"We get it," said the aide. "We will tie them in knots." ...
[I]t appears the ad was directed at Republicans as much as Obama, with the Romney campaign wanting to send a signal that it would not run a go-along, get-along campaign against Obama, as some Republicans believe McCain did. If that was Romney's intention, he certainly made his point.
It is also true that attacks by the press tend to make Republicans like their politicians better. So far, the press has largely ignored Romney while going after Michele Bachmann, Herman Cain et al. If Romney gets the nomination, the inevitable attacks may go a long way toward endearing Romney to that portion of the party's base that doesn't view him as sufficiently conservative, or sufficiently aggressive.
I think I went to see Harry and Tonto after Art Carney won the Academy Award for his portrayal of Harry Coombes in the title role. For some reason, however, I went to see the film with no particular expectation that I would enjoy it. Probably for that reason the movie caught me by surprise and bowled me over. Watching it again on cable yesterday, I found that the film holds up remarkably well.
Harry is a retired high school English teacher and widower. When his New York City apartment building falls victim to redevelopment, Harry compares himself to King Lear: "He gave up his real estate, too." Like King Lear, Harry turns to his kids to put him up. (Harry's children are played by Phil Burns, Ellen Burstyn, and Larry Hagman, who are phenomenal).
Harry's travels to and from his kids across the country with his pet cat (the Tonto of the title) give rise to a series of closely observed portraits, slightly mocking but without the least hint of rancor or cruelty. One dinner with his oldest son and his family on Long Island early in the film is almost excruciatingly real and painful. Co-written, directed and produced by Paul Mazursky, this is a comedy with a difference. At the end of the film, you realize that Mazursky has made just about every character in the film likable in his or her own way. He showers them with affection, and you are sorry to see the film come to a close.
Mazursky says little about the film in his memoir, Show Me the Magic. Mazursky describes his desperation to find the money to get the film made: "It was a funny and touching story about a seventy-year-old widower looking for a place to live. I loved the script, but nobody wanted to finance a film about old age."
Having written sketches for Danny Kaye's variety series back in the sixties, Mazursky thinks to approach Kaye about playing the lead role and possibly financing the film, killing two birds with one stone. In their meeting, however, Kaye tells him: "I think it needs a few more jokes."
Mazursky comments: "I suddenly saw the project jump out the window! Humor, yes. Jokes, no." As I say, this is a comedy with a difference.
Mazursky asks Kaye what kind of jokes he had in mind. "Oh, I don't know, Paul - some physical stuff. Why can't this old codger bump into things? You know what I mean."
Mazursky knew he had lost Kaye: "I felt like throwing up." He tells Kaye: "I think there is a lot of humor already, Danny. Once we get into it, the situations, you'll see the humor. After all, the man talks to his pussycat. He walks his cat on a leash."
Mazursky brings his account to an abrupt conclusion: "Two years later Art Carney won the Academy Award for his devastatingly simple looking portrait of Harry."
For whatever reason, Mazursky omits the heart of the story about the making of the film from his memoir. (He puts back in some of the good stuff in his voiceover commentary on the DVD.) He leaves the impression that there must have been a few miracles along the way. The movie puts the evidence for them for all to see right up on the screen.
Climategate 2.0 is the main climate news this week, right? As it happens, there's a study just out a couple days ago in ScienceExpress, which is the advance online venue for Science magazine, on a new study that blows the hinges off the catastrophic global warming scenarios. The study concerns the sensitivity of climate to carbon dioxide concentrations. The complete study ("Climate Sensitivity Estimated from Temperature Reconstructions of the Last Glacial Maximum," Andreas Schmittner of Oregon State University, lead author)requires a Science magazine subscription for the complete text, was peer-reviewed, and was funded by the National Science Foundation. But here's the abstract:
Assessing impacts of future anthropogenic carbon emissions is currently impeded by uncertainties in our knowledge of equilibrium climate sensitivity to atmospheric carbon dioxide doubling. Previous studies suggest 3 K as best estimate, 2 to 4.5 K as the 66% probability range, and nonzero probabilities for much higher values, the latter implying a small but significant chance of high-impact climate changes that would be difficult to avoid. Here, combining extensive sea and land surface temperature reconstructions from the Last Glacial Maximum with climate model simulations, we estimate a lower median (2.3 K) and reduced uncertainty (1.7 to 2.6 K 66% probability). Assuming paleoclimatic constraints apply to the future as predicted by our model, these results imply lower probability of imminent extreme climatic change than previously thought. (Emphasis added.)
Bottom line: the "consensus" IPCC range overestimates climate sensitivity by almost a factor of 2. No doubt the mainstream media will be all over this study, and the next UN climate meeting opening soon in Durban will take note of it, too. Yeah-right after the Redskins win the Super Bowl, no doubt.
The Occupiers have made the Democrats look bad, that is obvious. The more interesting question is, why? Because they say what other Democrats actually think, and act in ways that other Democrats approve of but are afraid to emulate. If you want to see liberalism in action, move into an Occupier encampment for a while, without police protection. Michael Ramirez illustrates the point. The Occupiers are the Democrats' black eye:
Sam's Club yanks 'Bible' off shelves
After fielding complaints from parents about its "mature" content, the Wal-Mart-owned retailer Sam's Club has pulled a reported 10,000 copies of a "Bible" off its shelves that uses plastic LEGO blocks to depict Old Testament scenes.
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to rule on the constitutionality of Obamacare, the president's signature health-care-takeover legislation, but a rights organization that advocates for restoration of recognition of the 10th Amendment says states and consumers should not count on the court to reverse the law.
"From 1937 to 1995, the Supremes didn't strike down a single federal law as unconstitutional. Not one in nearly 60 years," Michael Boldin, executive director of the Tenth Amendment Center, wrote in a warning about the issue.
This probably won't shock most people because we live in an age where the envelope has been pushed so far it's disappeared over the horizon. According to ...
"Put down the Chore Boy and back away from the weaponry!"
It's an order that actually could be heard, given that a letter has surfaced from the federal government warning against consumers stockpiling Chore Boy household scrubbers because they can be considered a component of a gun silencer and, therefore, regulated by federal gun laws.
A stealth plan by the Obama administration to classify hundreds of thousands of workhorse rifles used by the U.S. military and public alike as dangerous has prompted a grass-roots campaign to save the weapons, and a key U.S. senator has lent his voice to the effort.
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published November 23, 2011 on Townhall.com.
Thomas Edison invented the incandescent bulb, the phonograph, the DC motor and other items in everyday use and became wealthy by doing so. Thomas Watson founded IBM and became rich through his company's contribution to the computation revolution. Lloyd Conover, while in the employ of Pfizer, created the antibiotic tetracycline. Though Edison, Watson, Conover and Pfizer became wealthy, whatever wealth they received pales in comparison with the extraordinary benefits received by ordinary people. Billions of people benefited from safe and efficient lighting. Billions more were the ultimate beneficiaries of the computer, and untold billions benefited from healthier lives gained from access to tetracycline.
President Barack Obama, in stoking up class warfare, said, "I do think at a certain point you've made enough money." This is lunacy. Andrew Carnegie's steel empire produced the raw materials that built the physical infrastructure of the United States. Bill Gates co-founded Microsoft and produced software products that aided the computer revolution. But Carnegie had amassed quite a fortune long before he built Carnegie Steel Co., and Gates had quite a fortune by 1990. Had they the mind of our president, we would have lost much of their contributions, because they had already "made enough money."
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published November 23, 2011 on The American Spectator website.
On November 14, the Supreme Court granted the Writ of Certiorari to hear the appeal of the cases testing the constitutionality of Obamacare. The resulting decision will mark an historic watershed not only in the restoration of constitutional jurisprudence, but in fundamental, market reform of the entire entitlement state.
Historic Decision Brewing
I write serving as the General Counsel of the American Civil Rights Union (ACRU), as one of several current positions. The ACRU was started by former top Reagan aide Robert Carleson, with former Attorney General Ed Meese as Chairman of the Advisory Board, along with other former Reagan Justice Department officials, besides myself as a former Reagan White House staffer.
In my capacity for the ACRU, I wrote and filed amicus curiae briefs on behalf of the ACRU in both the district court and the circuit court in the challenge by 26 states in the 11th Circuit that resulted in an order striking down the entire Obamacare law. I also wrote and filed ACRU amicus curiae briefs in the challenge by Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli in both the district court and the circuit in the 4th Circuit. The district court found the individual mandate unconstitutional, while the circuit court ruled that Virginia had no right to bring the case (two Obama appointed judges on the three-judge panel).
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published November 20, 2011 on The Washington Examiner website.
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich's idea for checking judicial activism is a textbook case of historical revisionism that is strikingly similar to the court-packing scheme of liberal icon Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Gingrich says Congress should just pass a law eliminating specific judgeships, presumably immediately ousting the activist judges currently filling those seats.
Gingrich lionizes an incident now regarded as profoundly troubling by constitutional scholars. When Thomas Jefferson replaced John Adams as president in 1801, the outgoing Congress created new federal courts and judgeships, which Adams promptly filled. The new Congress repealed the law and the judges were ousted.
Jefferson considered trying to impeach the entire Supreme Court. As Rep. James Bayard said at the time in objecting to Jefferson's plan:
"He uses the Legislature to remove the judges, that he may appoint creatures of his own. In effect, the powers of the Government will be concentrated in the hands of one man, who will dare to act with more boldness."
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published November 21, 2011 in The Washington Times.
In March, the Supreme Court will hear the challenge by 26 states and the National Federation of Independent Business to the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare. A ruling is expected by midsummer.
Although many provisions don't kick in until 2014, this 2,700-page mess is already giving America's health care system a bad cold, which will morph into pneumonia if the law is not overturned. A few of the symptoms already have emerged:
Adding costs: Some doctors are charging patients extra fees for basic services such as processing forms. Without malpractice tort reform, which Obamacare rejected, doctors themselves are facing higher insurance fees along with anticipated bureaucratic regulatory costs.
Reducing coverage: Faced with a mandate to ignore pre-existing conditions, insurance companies have dropped child-only coverage.
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published November 17, 2011 on Forbes.com.
The history of America's recessions is provided at the website of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). Before this last recession, since the Great Depression recessions in America have lasted an average of 10 months, with the longest previously lasting 16 months. Yet here we are 47 months after the last recession started, and we still have no real recovery.
Instead, unemployment has been stuck at 9% or above for the longest period since the Great Depression. Unemployment for blacks has remained over 15% for over 2 years, with Hispanic unemployment stuck well into double digits over that time as well. Teenage unemployment has persisted at nearly 25%, with black teenage unemployment still nearly 40%.
The U6 unemployment rate, reflecting all of the unemployed still wanting work and the underemployed who can't get full time work, is still 16.2%. That includes an army of the unemployed or underemployed of over 26 million Americans. And that still doesn't fully count the millions of Americans who have given up and dropped out of the work force altogether.
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CAIRO (AP) - Shaking off years of political apathy, Egyptians turned out in long lines at voting stations Monday in their nation's first parliamentary elections since Hosni Mubarak's ouster, a giant step toward what they hope will be a democracy after decades of dictatorship.
Climategate 2.0 is the main climate news this week, right? As it happens, there's a study just out a couple days ago in 
