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November 29, 2011
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"Stealth jihadis use political, cultural, societal, religious, intellectual tools; violent jihadis use violence. But in fact they're both engaged in jihad and they're both seeking to impose the same end state, which is to replace Western civilization with a [radical] imposition of Sharia."
- Newt Gingrich, former Speaker of the House, in an address at the American Enterprise Institute, July 29, 2010.
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Unions cry foul over Republican's NLRB resignation threat
By Kevin Bogardus - 11/25/11
If Brian Hayes resigns, it would effectively quash a long-sought change to union election rules.
The labor movement is crying foul over a resignation threat from a member of the National Labor Relations Board that would effectively quash a long-sought change to union election rules.
NLRB member Brian Hayes has threatened to resign because of a proposed rule that would speed up union elections, according to a Nov. 21 letter from Democratic NLRB Chairman Mark Pearce.
If Hayes resigned, his absence would essentially shut down the NLRB and prevent a Nov. 30 vote on parts of the proposed rule.
Satellite Images Show Iranian Missile Base Destroyed
The Blaze | by Tiffany Gabbay | Posted on November 28, 2011 at 11:59pm
A Washington-based research group has released satellite images showing extensive damage to an Iranian nuclear site two weeks after a mysterious explosion destroyed the facility.
Before
After
The Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS), which specializes in the study of nuclear weapons programs, released images of the compound following the November 12 explosion near the city of Malard.
Did Your Favorite Conservative Woman Make This Top 10 List?
The Blaze | by Liz Klimas | Posted on November 28, 2011 at 9:30pm
According to a letter from Alyssa Cordova, lecture director of CBLPI, the organization decided to pull together this top 10 list to "promote mentors and women leaders from all walks of life who are committed to the constitutional principles of individual freedom, economic liberty, limited government, personal responsibility, and traditional values [...]."
Here's the list from Human Events with excerpts of the women by "our favorite conservative men at Human Events":
Hello Everyone: Betty Dunkel has set up a meeting with Pa. Senator Chuck McIlhinney on Tuesday, November 29th at 2PM in Doylestown. His district includes Buck County. This is a very important meeting because Senator McIlhinney is chairman of the State Government Committee where HB934 sits. HB934 Pa. Voter Identification Act would amend the state election code to require all voters to present valid photo ID before voting. This bill is intended to prevent voter fraud such as impersonation at the polls, fictitious registrations, double-voting and voting by illegal aliens. We must get this bill passed before the 2012 election. Please contact me, if you can attend this meeting. Further information will be provided when you contact me. We can arrange transportation, if needed. Thank You, Camille Heppard. camille.heppard@comcast.net
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.
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Thomas Jefferson: "Whensoever the general government assumes undelegated powers....a nullification of the act is the rightful remedy."
But what IS nullification? How does it happen and work? Since September 2010, the Tenth Amendment Center has been hosting a national tour to educate and activate people on this topic. People are learning the constitutional basis, when it's been used in history, and how it is happening around the country and how YOU can stop DC right in your own state.
Tuesday 3-4pm "American Freedom Watch"- Karen Schoen with contributors John Estabrooks and Dr. Ronald Myers
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 actually January 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!
CURRENTLY vice chairman of the investment bank division of UBS, Phil Gramm served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Texas's sixth congressional district from 1979-1985, and as a U.S. Senator from Texas from 1985-2002. Prior to his career in public service, he taught economics at Texas A&M University from 1967-1978. Sen. Gramm earned both his B.A. and doctorate degrees in economics from the University of Georgia.
The following is adapted from a speech delivered at Hillsdale College on October 3, 2011, during a four day conference on "Reagan: A Centenary Retrospective," sponsored by the College's Center for Constructive Alternatives..
What was the American economy like in the decade prior to the Reagan presidency? The 1970s, for a myriad of reasons, were not a happy time. They featured a combination of stagnation and inflation, which came to be called "stagflation." The inflation rate peaked at just over 13 percent, and prime interest rates rose as high as 21-and-a-half percent. Although President Jimmy Carter did not use the exact words, a malaise had certainly set in among Americans. Many wondered whether our nation's time had passed. A Time magazine headline read, "Is the Joyride Over?" Did we really need, as Jimmy Carter told us, to learn to live on less?
Ronald Reagan did not believe America was in decline, but he did believe it had been suffering under wrongheaded economic policies. In response, he offered his own plan, a program for creating economic freedom that came to be known as Reaganomics. Of course, most of Reaganomics was nothing new. Mostly it was the revival of an older understanding that unlimited government will eventually destroy freedom and that decisions regarding the allocation of scarce resources are best left to the private sector. Reagan explained these old ideas well, and in terms people could understand.
But there was also a new element to Reaganomics, and looking back, it was a powerful element and new to the economic debate. It was the idea that tax rates affect a person's incentive to work, save and invest. To put it simply: lower tax rates create more economic energy, which generates more economic activity, which produces a greater flow of revenue to the government. This idea-which came to be known as the Laffer Curve-was met with media and public skepticism. But in the end, it passed the critical test for any public policy. It worked.
I would much rather talk about how Barack Obama is screwing the country with disastrous policies, but instead we are yet again forced to talk about who Herman Cain might have had sexual relations with.
Yet again his staff (pun alert!!!!) has let him down. His attorney's statement reads like a non-denial denial, which would be fine for a Democrat, but after Bill Clinton the GOP tends to get held to a higher standard on these things, rightly or wrongly.
A woman claims that she and Herman Cain had a thirteen year affair - I've only been married eleven years. If the woman is to be believed, even while Herman Cain was battling Stage V colon cancer, he was carrying on with her behind his wife's back.
The woman - not a lady - claims it "wasn't complicated." She knew he was married and did it anyway.
As a personal aside, I know Dale Russell the reporter who broke the story. We don't always see eye to eye or agree, but he is a sharp reporter who wouldn't do a story like this if he did not believe Ms. White.
The phone number shown in the news story on Fox 5 Atlanta is Herman's personal cell phone number. So this woman clearly did know Herman and have his personal number. Herman likes the Four Seasons restaurant on 14th Street in Atlanta. This lady clearly dined with him.
Whether Herman had an affair with this lady or not is largely besides the point at this point. For months I said Herman had no path to victory because of two things (1) money and (2) staff. When he found the money he got on a path to victory. But his staff knocked him off it.
During last week's foreign policy debate, Ron Paul won accolades from the crowd when he professed that there are no real pending cuts to the military, just reductions in baseline spending. Here is the full quote:
"Believe me. They're cutting - they're nibbling away at baseline budgeting, and its automatic increases. There's nothing cut against the military. And the people on the Hill are nearly hysterical because they're not going - the budget isn't going up as rapidly as they want it to. It's a road to disaster. We had better wake up."
This statement is absolutely false. Sequestration will indeed reduce military spending from 'actual dollar amounts' of FY 2011 spending levels over the next seven years.
I assume that polling for Congressional races one year before they occur has little predicative power in races for perennially competitive seats. Thus, the Generic Congressional Vote numbers will probably offer little perspicacity between now and next Summer. Like an investor who tracks what corporate insiders do prior to investing or divesting in a stock, I find the recent trend of retirements in the House to be a potentially useful indicator.
So, I confess, I had to look up who Luther Campbell was, aside from a guy who came in fourth in a race for county mayor in Miami-Dade County. He was a somewhat high-profile music promoter, fronting for groups like 2 Live Crew. But it is his electoral experience, as described in his column in the Miami New Times, that draws our attention today. He describes some of the more ugly experiences that someone like him has when trying to put together a campaign in Miami and the strange offers he gets.
Paul Krugman wants to tax all sorts of things and in his zeal to tax (coupled with his partisan hackery) he chooses to ignore the GOP was willing to raise taxes on the Super Committee.
Krugman wants to tax the rich, tax financial transactions, tax pretty much everything. It has become the Democrats' mantra: tax, tax, tax.
But they still can't deal with this question: if we raise taxes on everybody earning $200,000.00 a year or more to the Democrats' preferred level, whatever that level might be, we still won't have enough to close this year's budget deficit, let alone actually start whittling away at the national debt. So what do we cut?
The forces of Islamism, assisted by leftist allies in the West, are closing in on Israel, in an attempt to finally extinguish the only light of democracy in the Middle East.
Not all who (would) hold public office or vote for elected officials understand or respect the covenant that is made between the people and is written into our nation's Constitution.
The discovery of mustard gas in artillery shells, part of the Libyan dictator's previously unknown chemical arsenal, shows why it was right to intervene and remove him.
Iran funds Hizballah. When this terror group has managed to infiltrate the CIA and identify certain agents, it shows how Iran is actively targeting U.S. security.
Global responses to the recent IAEA report on Iran's development of nuclear weapons were predictably non-threatening and pacifist, urging diplomacy when action is needed.
Sanctuary cities give sanctuary to undocumented aliens, as a result of local ordinances that undermine federal laws. The administration has done nothing to challenge these, so far...
6,000 Americans have died in Iraq, but the administration fails to admit that the withdrawal from this unstable nation is a failure. This worrying approach extends to other global issues.
Trying to abide by Rules of Engagement weakens soldier's abilities to defend themselves, and it seems these rules may have been to blame for the chaos in Ganjgal, Afghanistan.
It is rumoured that Japanese Admiral Isokuro Yamamoto spoke of his regret that Pearl Harbor was an attack upon a sleeping giant. Is America still a sleeping giant?
Churchill described Iraq as "on an ungrateful volcano out of which we are in no circumstances to get anything worth having," and so it remains today. Afghanistan is no better...
Rather than being victims of police brutality, a new video shows that Occupiers at UC Davis knew they were going to be pepper sprayed and didn't mind it.
We hear so much about "Islamophobia" nowadays, but the accusations come from Islamists whose literalist interpretation of faith dictates that non-Muslims are inferior and must be segregated...
As well as giving thanks for the bounties around us, we should also be thankful for the Founding Fathers who laid the foundations upon which America was built.
In Maine, people who live close to nature are more likely to be thankful for simple things like a warm home, a job, good health and the presence of loved ones.
A truly inspiring essay on the history and current meaning of Thanksgiving in America, reminding us of what is really important about this special day - saying "Thank you."
The origin of Thanksgiving has been blurred by popular myth, and even a hoax document. But the real story of Thanksgiving's origin needs no myths to make it fascinating.
"Shoot! If you can keep everything you make, of course you're going to work harder. Everybody knows that."
"Put plainly and simply, 'Halal' is part of 'Sharia' law or Islamic law. Devout Muslims eat 'Halal' just as many Jews eat 'Kosher' and many Catholics don't eat meat on Fridays during Lent. But the question remains, why are so many American companies selling or serving Halal even in the areas where Muslims are well below the minority?"
Halal or "lawful" food is the Muslim equivalent of Kosher food. Why are so many American companies selling Halal meat to the exclusion of all other types of meat?
Democrat Racism By Michael Oberndorf CanadaFreePress.com
It's been pointed out by many conservatives, including brilliant ones like Thomas Sowell and Walter Washington, the Democrat programs like "affirmative action" are inherently racist. They are built on the premise that black people are too stupid, too incompetent, too lazy to succeed on their own. They can only get an education, a job, a mortgage with the help of -- white liberals! Frankly, I think this is where much of the anger and black hatred of white people comes from. Consciously, or subconsciously, they hate the fact that they have been suckered by white Democrats onto the Democrat Plantation. They know they aren't stupid, incompetent, or lazy, but are trapped in what amounts to slavery in a government dependency system from which escape is very difficult.
Buy Stock in Earplugs: Michael Moore to Sing for Occupy Wall Street Benefit By Elisabeth Meinecke Townhall.com
Am I the only one that finds this ironic? The Associated Press is reporting that Occupy Wall Street is planning a benefit album, the proceeds of which will help fund the movement protesting income inequality.
Obamacare Awarded Grants to Now-Defunct Embryonic Research By Jill Stanek LifeNews.com
Private investors are avoiding embryonic stem cell research because 1) it's controversial; 2) it's risky - there is no guaranteed pay-off, certainly not in the short term; 3) noncontroversial adult stem cells (iPS) with the same chameleon nature as embryonic stem cells have been recently discovered; and 4) adult stem cell research and treatments are reaping phenomenal new results almost on a daily basis.
Pakistan Shuts Off NATO Supply Routes Following Attack Posted by Sun Tzu Breitbart/BigPeace.com
The already strained relations between the United States and Pakistan took a direct hit over the Thanksgiving weekend. A NATO air attack on military outposts in Northern Pakistan Saturday killed as many as 28 troops. Pakistan retaliated by shutting down vital NATO supply routes into Afghanistan, used for sending in just under a third of the alliance's supplies. Read the Full Story
The Myth of the Arab Spring Underdog
Ever since the Arab Spring began videos have been making the rounds of massacres in Syria and Bahrain, photos of violent protests in Egypt, excited tweets, bloodied faces, Molotov cocktails and all the rest of the revolutionary chatter.
It is tempting to side with the people battling tanks, even when you don't know why they are battling them. That was how Americans ended up cheering an alliance between the anti-American leftist Kifaya movement and the Muslim Brotherhood in Cairo against the Egyptian government. Or backing an Al-Qaeda linked Islamist group against Gaddafi in Libya.
America was built on revolution and sympathy for the underdog is in our national DNA. But it can also lead us to mistake a difference in force for a difference in moral standing. Just because one man has a Molotov cocktail and the other man has a tank, doesn't mean that the man with the burning bottle in his hand is any more right than he is.
In a conflict there are two possibilities. Either one side is more moral than the other, or both sides are equally repugnant. Or close enough that it makes no real difference. Looking at the disproportion in force is not a useful guide and provides no relevant answers.
Just because a regime is repressing a populist faction does mean that we should feel sorry for them. The Nazis and Communists both started out as populist factions being repressed by the authorities, and when they took power, they made the abuses that had come before them look like spring flowers and sunshine.
Revolutions often begin with the oppressed and end with repression. The true test of whether a faction deserves our support is not the dramatic photos of protesters waving flags and darting through the flames or the government responding with clubs and bullets. (It is doubtful that even the most bleeding heart liberal would have retrospectively opposed putting down the Nazis by any means possible.) The only meaningful test is what the protesters actually stand for.
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Amidst Europe's worst economic crisis in recent memory, the European Parliament (EP) has just decided to raise Europe's aid to the Palestinians by €100 million - 30 percent more than previous years.
At the end of tough negotiations among the European Union's institutions over the 2012 budget, the EP somehow made room for an additional €18 billion over the €129 billion cap imposed by expenditures-wary EU member states. Among the additional line items is that extra €100 million for the Palestinians.
An extra €100 million may not seem like that much compared to an overall budget of €147 billion for 2012, but it cannot be ignored that this is money the EU does not have. Moreover, the EU is pledging taxpayer money at a time when the only guarantee it will be spent responsibly has just disappeared.
The EU budget decision was sealed just days before a highly anticipated summit between...
Vote slammed by UNESCO director herself & Canada's Foreign Minister
GENEVA, Nov. 23 - UN Watch today called on UNESCO's executive board, which includes the US, France, the UK and other Western democracies, to reverse its unanimous election of Syria to a pair of committees - one dealing directly with human rights issues - even as the Bashar al-Assad regime maintains its campaign of violence against its own citizens.
The Arab group at UNESCO nominated Syria for the spots, and though the 58-member board approved the pick by consensus on Nov. 11, the agency has not yet posted the results on its website.
Syria's election came just a day before the League of Arab States moved to suspend Syrian membership of that body.
"The Arab League's suspension of Syria is stripped of any meaning when its member states elevate Syria to UN human rights committes," says Hillel Neuer, executive director of the Geneva-based...
A wave of Islamic rule, with all it entails, is sweeping across the Arab world. It will replace secular dictatorships with Islamic ones.
By Moshe Arens, ISRAEL HAYOM
The United Nations Development Programme's 2002 Arab Human Development Report stated that "deeply rooted shortcomings" existed in Arab countries. In other other words, Arab societies were sick. According to the report, this sickness was reflected in the lack of "respect for human rights and freedoms," the status of Arab women, and the poor state of "knowledge acquisition and its effective utilization."
The follow-up report in 2003 stated: "True democracy is absent and desperately needed. The educational system is severely retarded; schools produce ignorant young men and women. Most of the intellectuals] realize, even if they deny it, that most of what was said in the most recent Arab Human Development Report is true."
The international community cannot credibly feign ignorance of the incontestable evidence of turbulence brewing in Lebanon.
The latest flip-flops concern the reported explosion in a Hezbollah munitions depot at one of its South Lebanon strongholds. The incident is now being denied outrightly by the terrorist organization. This despite reliable independent reports of a massive blast.
No sooner did the booms rock the cache's vicinity than accusations were hurled blaming Israel for the explosion. Tall tales were spun about an Israeli drone that Hezbollah claimed it downed two weeks earlier and which allegedly tipped IDF intelligence to the rocket-supply base's location.
None of that, however, mattered much a mere one day later, when the fanciful stories were replaced by an equally implausible denial that anything at all had occurred. An official Hezbollah communiqué now contends there was no explosion whatever. Nevertheless, Hezbollah cordoned off the area...
The NYT recently reviewed the Turkish/Kurdish conflict and said,
Turkey and its Kurdish citizens have a long and acrimonious history. For decades, the central government, bent on a strict assimilation policy, cracked down on Kurds for expressions of their cultural identity, such as reading publications in Kurdish or listening to Kurdish music. That set the stage for an armed uprising that began in 1984, when the P.K.K. effectively declared war on the state.
Since then, more than 40,000 people have been killed in a series of militant attacks and government reprisals that drove hundreds of thousands of Kurds from rural villages. Turkey, the United States and the European Union designated the P.K.K. a terrorist group.
In recent years, the government - in an attempt to join the European Union - has made some concessions to the Kurds, but promised constitutional changes have yet to be made, and many people remain wary.
I also think the fall of Assad will be good for Israel but Israel must come off the fence and support those elements in Syria who reject Islamists taking over. With the aid of Saudi Arabia bring the Sunnis on board and Israel supporting the Kurds, lots of good things can happen. Ted Belman
However, the greatest opportunity to curb Iran's ambitions is sitting on the world's doorstep. The potential upcoming fall of the Syrian regime opens the door for Israel to finally gain greater regional stability and for the world to begin throwing off the yoke of Iranian fear.
Syria is the long arm of Iran, its striking force. From within Syria's borders the powerful terror/political groups Hezbollah and Hamas suckle the poison milk of armament, training, and Jihad inculcation in relative safety. Syria provides the key overland route between Iran and Lebanon which has served as a conduit for the transfer of massive...
Israel's leadership talks about the inevitability of another operation in Gaza, and even warns, as Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Benny Gantz put it this week, of this being a "painful" action. (Painful to whom? Gantz is likely to regret this phraseology should Israeli civilian areas be shelled in some standoff with Hamas.) As it turns out, a decision about the date of this operation (since it appears a decision in favor of the operation has already been reached ), depends on a number of factors - intelligence assessment of likely targets, the weather, the readiness levels of regular and reserve troops and, last but not least, the situation in Egypt. In a nutshell, here's what they're equivocating about: Should Israel make haste, and take action while Tantawi and his officers remain in power? On one side of the equation, the next...
For months, I have been anxiously looking forward to the day I could send you this email.
It's because I am so excited to be able to announce the completion of a new ACT! for America book for our youth-
"Understanding the Threat of Radical Islam"
Everywhere I go I hear from parents and grandparents who ask me, "is there a good resource about radical Islam available for young people?"
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Op-Ed: High School History Stacked Against Israel - in the USA
Published: Monday, November 28, 2011
If you thought only Palestinian Authority schoolchildren's textbooks demonize Israel, look closer to home.
Dr. Richard L. Cravatt
A Newton South High School student in Massachusetts was alarmed recently when she received what appeared to her to be blatant anti-Israel propaganda from her World History teacher. This incident brings to the forefront once again the reality that, even at the pre-college level, the narrative of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is frequently contorted to reflect ideology rather than history, scholarship, and fact.
The high school's World History teacher, Jessica Engel, had given a student a section on Palestinian women from the Arab World Notebook, which described the fact that "Over the past four decades, women have been active in the Palestinian resistance movement."
What was their treatment at the hands of the "brutal Jewish state", for doing nothing more than 'resisting?' "Several hundred have been imprisoned, tortured, and killed by Israeli occupation forces since the latest uprising, 'Intifada,' in the Israeli occupied territories."
The problem with this type of simplistic analysis as part a history curriculum, of course, is that it presents a one-sided, highly-biased view of the facts on the ground in Israel and the West Bank and Gaza, completing ignoring some critical aspects of the conflict, namely, that "resistance" is a euphemism for terrorism, and that when Palestinian women are detained and arrested by Israeli defense forces it is a result of their actions, often successful, to murder Jews as part of the campaign to extirpate Israel.
This week, President Obama is again set to make a pitch for his latest plan to stimulate the economy, but meanwhile he is turning his back on projects that would put tens or even hundreds of thousands Americans to work. And he's doing it all to appease his left-wing, environmentalist base at the expense of domestic energy production.
Egyptians head to the polls today in the first elections since Hosni Mubarak left power. CBS News reports that the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamists are expected to do well in the vote.
Los Angeles police are attempting to clear out the city's Occupy Wall Street protesters following a midnight deadline to vacate the encampment. Three people were arrested and protests, which turned violent, continued.
Officials say that NATO and Afghan forces came under fire from across the Pakistan border on Saturday before an airstrike that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers, the Wall Street Journal reports.
Foreign ministers in the Arab League voted overwhelmingly on Sunday to impose sanctions on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime.
The supercommittee failed, and spending is still the problem. Read more at Foundry.org.
By 6 o'clock Friday most of us where either still shopping or relaxing and enjoying the two day holiday Thanksgiving has become. Nevertheless, Lee Adler a Wall Street Examiner reporter, was watching our backs and caught the New York City office of The Federal Reserve whispering an apology over the poor quality of its recent financial forecasts. Even "quasi" government agencies pull this stunt all the time. They dump bad stuff on Friday afternoons so it gets lost in Saturday's news cycle - the least read or listened to of the whole week.
Some of what the Fed report acknowledged follows.
While both public and private analysts were forecasting a weak 1.3% rate of growth in real GDP for 2008, The Federal Reserve office of New York City was promoting its forecast of 2.6% which was over optimistic by a factor of twice the true number.
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.
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By Bill Federer, staff writer
During World War I, Britain was ineffective at manufacturing explosives, until a breakthrough in synthesizing acetone was made by Jewish chemist Dr. Chaim Weizmann, who was born NOVEMBER 27, 1874. In gratitude, Britain issued the Balfour Declaration, establishing a Jewish homeland. President Woodrow Wilson wrote to Rabbi Stephen Wise, 1918: "I think all Americans ... Continue Reading:American Minute for November 27th
Agenda 21: Obama advances united nations scheme of global domination
Nov 27, 2011 01:13 pm | Coach Collins
By Doug Book, staff writer
The United Nations invention known as Agenda 21 has been described as "...an amalgamation of socialism and extreme environmentalism brushed with anti-American, anti capitalist overtones."
Euphemistically referred to as "smart growth" or the partnership for "sustainable development", the purpose of this global assault on freedom, as stated by the UN's Department of Economic and Social Affairs, is to reverse the "...perpetuation of disparities between and within nations...[and the]...continuing deterioration of the ecosystems on which we depend for our well-being."
In short, there are far too many successful people in comparatively free, industrialized nations whose open enjoyment of a reputedly hedonistic life style necessarily robs the world's poor and under-privileged of their "due."
And in order to maintain this effete and carefree existence, the planet's climate has been decimated and her resources plundered, further depriving "developing nations" and their inhabitants of the right to a better life in a better world.
Barney Frank announced a few minutes ago that he will not run for re-election to the House next year:
Frank said he originally intended to run for one more term, but that his decision was partially due to the fact that the state's new redistricting map will include many people he has never represented before.
Which presumably is another way of saying that, after a relatively close race in 2010, Frank was concerned that he might lose this time in a more conservative district. Frank has a lot to answer for, but will his replacement as ranking Democrat on the House Financial Services Committee be an improvement? Um, no: it is Maxine Waters.
There are often personal factors that play a role when individual House members decide not to seek re-election, but in the aggregate, such decisions indicate one of two things-either the representative fears that he may lose the next election, or he believes that his party is doomed to stay in the minority, which in the House isn't much fun. The telling statistic is that Frank is the 17th House Democrat to announce he will not seek re-election, compared with six Republicans.
Like a lot of conservatives, I have struggled to identify the GOP presidential candidate who might be the strongest conservative standard bearer. Unfortunately, our strongest standard bearers have chosen to sit this one out and remain on the bench. To the extent that the contest comes down to one between Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich, the struggle to find the strongest conservative standard bearer is, in my view, something of a lost cause.
Both Newt and Mitt have been all over the lot, and Newt's many practical weaknesses at least approximately offset his theoretical strengths, or so it seems to me. One friend whom I respect writes, however, that he "think[s] Newt's seriousness will trump his baggage...the appeal of Ryan and Christie amongst the Republican based was grounded in their fundamentally serious approach to politics...Gingrich fills that void...my assumption about the dynamic of this election....Americans are looking for a serious candidate who offers more than Romney's soundbites or Obama's populism..." Maybe!
What about Mitt? The argument in his favor this time around seems to be electability in a general election matchup against Obama. Among his strenghts are his demeanor and his ability to speak with authority on economic issues, but his approach is managerial and technocratic. Recall Reagan's great 1980 line about our economy: "A recession is when your neighbor loses his job. A depression is when you lose yours. And recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses his." I find it hard to imagine Romney delivering that line regarding Obama, but then again, maybe!
Reagan's line came to mind in connection with the Romney campaign's defense of first television ad, an ad focused on the economy. The ad includes 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.
As John noted, Byron York turned to the Romney campaign for an explanation. York quotes a Romney aide making the case that the ad is the result of the campaign's deep understanding of Obama's tactics:
"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."
In my mind, that leaves a few questions unanswered. Why would the campaign deliberately use the Obama quote in a deceptive manner? Isn't there enough good material at its disposal to "tie them in knots" playing it straight?
So, we learned in recent days that Chevy Volt batteries can catch fire in accidents. Welcome to the Pinto of our time. Oh goody: another product liability suit in the making.
Meanwhile, Google has quietly abandoned an alternative energy program that it launched with great fanfare just two years ago. Google's "Renewable Energy Cheaper than Coal" project featured all the hallmarks of the pie-in-the-sky energy mongers, especially the "it's-just-around-the-corner" trope. Google's green energy czar at the launch, Bill Weihl, predicted that renewable electricity cheaper than coal would be achieved quickly: "In three years, we could have multiple megawatts of plants out there."
A few months after that announcement, Google invested $38 million in two North Dakota wind farms built by NextEra Energy Resources, with 169 megawatts of capacity, enough to power 55,000 homes. Here's what the Wall StreetJournal said about it at the time:
"Google said it is investing directly in projects to accelerate the deployment of the latest clean-energy technology while providing attractive returns to Google and more capital for developers to build additional projects."
But the next paragraph gave away the game:
"Google's stakes in the wind farms are 'tax equity' investments, in which investors buy into a project and use federal tax credits granted to the project to offset their own taxes."
And this is even more illuminating:
"A Google spokesman said the electricity generated by the wind farms wouldn't be used to power the company's data centers, which house networks of computer servers. Google's power usage is unclear; it doesn't disclose how many data centers it operates or where each is located. Last year, it said its data centers were the most efficient in the world, so far as it was able to determine, but declined to say how much power it actually uses."
So, you can't power data centers on windmills? Who knew? But now Google has said "never mind" to the whole idea. And their green energy czar, Weihl, left Google a month ago. I'm sure he can get a job at Solyndra.
Newt Gingrich is feeling cocky these days, which many take as a bad sign. He says he wants to engage President Obama in a debate, and Obama can use a teleprompter. Many conservatives are cheering Gingrich on, convinced that he would eat the fumble-prone Obama alive. Maybe so. But a long-time reader points out that Gingrich hasn't always been so aggressive when he has actually been in the ring with seemingly less-capable Democrats. He writes specifically about Gingrich's 2007 debate with John Kerry on methods of reducing carbon emissions-a topic that seems a bit archaic given what we now know about the gaping holes in global warming alarmism:
With Newt Gingrich surging in the polls, Republican voters are asking themselves (1) how staunchly conservative is the former Speaker and (2) how would he fare in a debate against President Obama. Gingrich's 2007 debate with John Kerry over carbon reduction methods sheds light on both questions.
First, the debate shows Gingrich to be less than staunchly conservative on key environmental issues. The Speaker finds much common ground with Kerry, all of which is to the left of center. Indeed, deep into the debate Kerry is able to claim Gingrich as an ally on carbon reduction issues (see around the 1:39 mark of the debate) without demurrer from Gingrich (see around the 1:40 mark).
None of this proves that Gingrich is wrong - the merits are best left to another post, and not by me. But some of Gingrich's positions in the debate fall well outside the mainstream of conservative Republican thinking.
Second, in my opinion Kerry outdebates Gingrich. The Speaker holds his own in the initial statements, but once the give-and-take begins (at around the one-hour mark), Kerry begins to pull away. There's some irony here because Gingrich has said that, if nominated, he wants a Lincoln-Douglas style debate with Obama. Yet it is precisely in the Lincoln-Douglas style exchanges with Kerry that I think Gingrich fares the worst.
Kerry's triumph is due in part to Gingrich's willingness to cede ground. Indeed, there are times, in my view, when it's a misnomer to call this debate, as opposed to a discussion or even, occasionally, a love-fest (see around 1:19, for example). Gingrich's problem, here and perhaps in other contexts, appears to be an unwillingness, in the presence of prestigious liberals, to challenge liberal premises. In this debate, for example, Gingrich early on expresses skepticism over the science on which liberals rely in this area. But as the debate progresses, Gingrich allows Kerry to push that science unchallenged and to powerful effect.
Even I'm right in believing that Gingrich lost this debate with Kerry about the environment, it doesn't mean he would lose a more wide-ranging debate with Obama. However, the Gingrich-Kerry debate is instructive, and I hope it is widely watched now that Gingrich has become a serious contender for the Republican nomination.
Gingrich can be a fire-eater before a friendly audience, but he has a history of turning conciliatory when he has to deal with actual Democrats. One recalls his embarrassing tributes to President Clinton during the days when Clinton was eating Gingrich's lunch in budget negotiations. Like most conservatives, I am fond of Newt and will always be grateful for his leadership in the years leading up to the 1994 GOP takeover of the House, and in the early aftermath of that takeover. But there is little in Newt's record to suggest that he would be the most effective conservative standard-bearer in a presidential election.
Ross Douthat has the kind of op-ed up in today's New York Times that could easily get him fired from his post as one of the barely-tolerated conservatives appearing regularly in the Times: he takes on the "Kennedy Cult." Zoo-ey mama!
But its narrative power still depends on accepting the false premises of the Kennedy cult - premises that will no doubt endure so long as the 1960s generation does, but still deserve to be challenged at every opportunity.
The first premise is that Kennedy was a very good president, and might have been a great one if he'd lived. Few serious historians take this view: It belongs to Camelot's surviving court stenographers, and to popularizers like Chris Matthews, whose new best seller Jack Kennedy: Elusive Hero works hard to gloss over the thinness of the 35th president's actual accomplishments.
Meanwhile, the Washington Post Outlook section today offers what appears to be an overdue dog-bites-man story that the "Occupy" movement is a disaffected white bread affair that isn't attracting blacks-something that has been obvious to observers in the blogosphere from the beginning. But a close reading shows that the author, Stacey Patton, objects to Occupy because it isn't radical enough: true change, she argues, must go far beyond just bringing down Wall Street. I hope this argument catches on, though it looks as though much of the Occupy crowd, and certainly the newly nervous Democrats who initially praised Occupy, are ready to Move On. (Heh.)
November 27, 2011, 11:34 pm
The Future of the Obama Coalition
By THOMAS B. EDSALL
For decades, Democrats have suffered continuous and increasingly severe losses among white voters. But preparations by Democratic operatives for the 2012 election make it clear for the first time that the party will explicitly abandon the white working class.
All pretense of trying to win a majority of the white working class has been effectively jettisoned in favor of cementing a center-left coalition made up, on the one hand, of voters who have gotten ahead on the basis of educational attainment - professors, artists, designers, editors, human resources managers, lawyers, librarians, social workers, teachers and therapists - and a second, substantial constituency of lower-income voters who are disproportionately African-American and Hispanic.
IMF drawing up 500bn package to save Italy, Spain, and the Europe
Who gave the IMF money?
Reports in Italy suggested that the IMF is drawing up plans for a €600 billion (£517 billion) assistance package for the country. Spain may be offered access to IMF credit, rather than a rescue package, to avoid it being "picked off" by the markets in the coming weeks.
Any IMF involvement in European rescue packages would be partly underwritten by British taxpayers, which could leave this country liable if Italy and Spain did not repay any international loan.
The Federal Reserve and the big banks fought for more than two years to keep details of the largest bailout in U.S. history a secret. Now, the rest of the world can see what it was missing.
The Fed didn't tell anyone which banks were in trouble so deep they required a combined $1.2 trillion on Dec. 5, 2008, their single neediest day. Bankers didn't mention that they took tens of billions of dollars in emergency loans at the same time they were assuring investors their firms were healthy. And no one calculated until now that banks reaped an estimated $13 billion of income by taking advantage of the Fed's below-market rates, Bloomberg Markets magazine reports in its January issue.
"A just security to property is not afforded by that government, under which unequal taxes oppress one species of property and reward another species." --James Madison
For the Record
"Supercommittee Democrats argue that income inequality has been increasing and can be at least partially reversed by higher tax rates on high earners. They refused to agree on any deal that didn't include such tax increases. Supercommittee Republicans offered a plan to eliminate tax preferences and reduce tax rates, as in the 1986 bipartisan tax reform. They argued that high tax rates would squelch economic growth. They didn't make the case that their proposals would also address income inequality. But House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, in a 17-page paper based largely on a Congressional Budget Office analysis of income trends between 1979 and 2007, has done so. Ryan, a Republican from Wisconsin, makes the point that the government redistributes income not only through taxes but also through transfer payments, including Social Security, Medicare, food stamps and unemployment benefits. The CBO study helpfully measures income, adjusted for inflation, after taxes and after such transfer payments. Many may find the results of the CBO study surprising. It turns out, Ryan reports, that federal income taxes (including the refundable Earned Income Tax Credit) actually decreased income inequality slightly between 1979 and 2007, while the federal payroll taxes that supposedly fund Social Security and Medicare slightly increased income inequality. ... Perhaps even more surprising, federal transfer payments have done much more to increase income inequality than federal taxes. ... In effect, Social Security and Medicare have been transferring money from low-earning young people (who don't pay income but are hit by the payroll tax) to increasingly affluent old people. The Democrats, perhaps following the polls and focus groups, have been protecting these entitlement programs that have done more to increase income inequality than the Reagan and Bush tax cuts put together." --columnist Michael Barone
"Socialism provides entitlements through massive taxation, and also believes that heavy government regulation leads to a better society. It does all this in the name of 'social justice.' No honest person can deny that President Obama's policies fit these criteria. Government-run healthcare (and calling it a fundamental right, despite the fact that it's nowhere mentioned in the Constitution). Federal control of education. Government picking winners and losers in the economy. History repeatedly shows that free markets work over time, and socialism does not. But we don't need to plumb the depths of world history. We have our own recent history. Since Obamacare, employers have reported that they will have to drop insurance policies covering tens of millions of Americans, and Medicaid spending will increase by $434 billion by 2020. After (partially) bailing out the housing market, housing remains a depressed and failing sector, and Fannie and Freddie have the gall to ask for $6 billion is additional taxpayer money while paying $13 million in bonuses to their executives. And this administration deludes itself that it knows how to invest in business. So it gives $535 million in loan guarantees to Solyndra as a good investment, only to see the company promptly go bankrupt. Just for good measure the energy secretary illegally restructured this scam to pay off President Obama's fundraisers and stick you with the bill. Arrogance and incompetence are a toxic combination. This White House and its cronies are overflowing with both." --columnists Ken Blackwell and Ken Klukowski
Opinion in Brief
"President Obama is ... a true believer in the European model of the welfare state. Everybody who was listening learned that three years ago. The fact that the European welfare states are crashing is irrelevant to him; true believers are never rattled by facts, not even facts that slap them in the face like a cream pie. The opportunity to impose a failing welfare state on America is what drew him to the presidency in the first place. The congressional elections last year, the Republican rout that Mr. Obama rightly called a 'shellacking' of his party, made no impression, either. The results were all about cutting taxes and dismantling government, but not to Mr. Obama. Those elections were merely a few pebbles in the road to Utopia. The president, with a con man's confidence in the sound of his own voice, is, in the observation of the Wall Street Journal, 'making it clear that he is running for re-election on a platform of consolidating the expansion of government of his first two years and raising taxes to finance it.'" --Washington Times' editor emeritus Wesley Pruden
Essential Liberty
"Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner says, 'We're facing a very consequential debate about some fundamental choices as a country.' ... The history of the 20th century is a painful lesson on what happens when collective choices replace individual choices. Even leaving aside the chilling history of totalitarianism in the 20th century, the history of economic central planning shows it to have been such a widely recognized disaster that even communist and socialist governments were abandoning it as the century ended. Making choices 'as a country' cannot be avoided in some cases, such as elections or referenda. But that is very different from saying that decisions in general should be made 'as a country' -- which boils down to having people like Timothy Geithner taking more and more decisions out of our own hands and imposing their will on the rest of us. ... That way lie unfunded mandates, nanny state interventions in people's lives, such as banning circumcision -- and the ultimate nanny state monstrosity, ObamaCare. The world of reality has its problems, so it is understandable that some people want to escape to a different world, where you can talk lofty talk and forget about ugly realities like costs and repercussions. The world of reality is not nearly as lovely as the world of Liberal Land. No wonder so many people want to go there." --economist Thomas Sowell
Insight
"[T]hose who are willing to surrender their freedom for security have always demanded that if they give up their full freedom it should also be taken from those not prepared to do so." --economist Friedrich August von Hayek (1899-1992)
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Re: The Left
"[A]m I the only person who appears to notice a strange pattern forming in our nation's capital? It appears that nobody involved with this administration will read anything but a menu. Several Democrats who voted for the trillion dollar Stimulus admitted they hadn't read the bill. Eric Holder confessed, after filing a federal lawsuit against Arizona's immigration bill, that he hadn't bothered to read the 13-page document. More recently, the Attorney General claimed he hadn't read any of several memos his underlings had sent him regarding 'Fast & Furious.' Energy Chief Steven Chu, while defending the half billion dollars given to Solyndra, claimed he hadn't read any of the memos his underlings had sent him, warning him that Solyndra's chance of success weren't half as good as that snowball that somehow found itself in Hell. The most egregious example, though, is Barack Obama, who, rumor has it, once started reading the Constitution, but quit as soon as he saw that it didn't deal with the redistribution of wealth." --columnist Burt Prelutsky
Political Futures
"As Republican presidential candidates rise only to fall when their imperfections are brought to light, Republican voters risk disappointment in 2012 by playing the left's game on their turf and by their rules. What they must do instead is to protect their 'product' at a time when the opportunity to hold Barack Obama to one term, while taking the Senate and increasing their House majority, has never looked better. The best candidate would clearly be a composite of the eight still standing.... Unfortunately, Republicans can't vote for a composite; they'll have to choose one candidate, hopefully one they won't come to regret. ... Looking for a perfect candidate will end in disappointment. Consider President Obama, his falling poll numbers and the misplaced faith too many voters had in him in 2008. Republicans should not make the same mistake in selecting the next GOP presidential candidate. By realizing the imperfections in every candidate -- and every person -- and focusing on the ability of the one who is nominated to do what he promises, Republicans will have a better candidate and the country could have a better (but not perfect) president." --columnist Cal Thomas
The Gipper
"You know that some cynics like to say that the people vote their pocketbook. But that's not quite the point. Economic issues are important to the people not simply for reasons of self-interest. They know the whole body politic depends on economic stability; the great crises have come for democracies when taxes and inflation ran out of control and undermined social relations and basic institutions. The American people know what limited government, tax cuts, deregulation, and the move towards privatization have meant. It's meant the largest peacetime expansion in our history, and I can guarantee you they won't want to throw that away for a return to budgets beholden to the liberal special interests." --Ronald Reagan
Culture
"Certainly part of the solution to our American 'malaise' is political. A change in the Presidency will reboot the economy and replace failed economic policies with pro-growth incentives and leadership. But that's down the road. What about today? What can we do to preserve the American dream in our own families and communities, even in the face of personal and societal challenges? To hear the Wall Street Occupiers tell it, the solution is for others to do more. They whine, complain, and demand. Sitting in tents, waiting to be fed, they entertain themselves with self-important conversations, sex, music, and drugs. They can't even keep the peace or wipe up their own messes. They expect the government to do it -- funded by other people's (taxpayers') money. That's not the American spirit that made this country great. Nor will it generate growth and prosperity. Consider another group: our veterans. Even though nearly one in five return from Iraq and Afghanistan with PTSD or other traumatic injuries that hinder their return to work, they're not out trashing their country, bemoaning their fates, or telling the government to do more. Instead, they live the American spirit of gratitude, resilience, and hard work." --columnist Rebecca Hagelin
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"Aside from spending the summer negotiating a deal that increases runaway federal spending, those stingy, cheeseparing Republicans also forced the Democrats to agree to create that big ol' supercommittee that would save $1.2 trillion -- over the course of 10 years. Anywhere else on the planet that would be a significant chunk of change. But the government of the United States is planning to spend $44 trillion in the next decade. So $1.2 trillion is about 2.7 percent. Any businessman could cut 2.7 percent from his budget in his sleep. But not congressional supercommittees of supermen with superpowers thrashing it out across the table for three months. So there will be no 2.7 percent cut. That means the 'sequestration' from defense and discretionary spending will now be enforced, starting in 2013. That would be so brutal and slashing that by 2021 it would reduce U.S. public debt by $153 billion! Which sounds kinda big if you say it in a Dr. Evil voice and give a menacing mwa-ha-ha laugh, but in fact boils down to about what we borrow currently every month. But don't worry. Slashing a month's worth of spending over a decade is way too extreme. So that's not going to happen, either. Instead, CNN and 'Meet The Press' will just interview big-shot senators and congressmen about it day in, day out, and then normal service will resume." --columnist Mark Steyn
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WES VERNON, RA ANALYST - America is under attack. Not by a uniformed army with rifles and tanks. But the invasion is here and advancing. The soldiers of the attacking "Red Army" are part of a "radical network" that "excels at lying in wait and perfecting its assault so that when the right vehicle arrives, whether it's President Obama or someone else, it is ready to strike." Such is the "mostly legal" table that is being set right before our eyes for America's ultimate downfall... (more)
JOSEPH FARAH - I had high hopes the 2010 midterm election would really result in the kind of change tea-party activists envisioned and worked so hard to secure. It's time to admit the system is still broken. It's time to admit representative government is just plain malfunctioning... (more)
WASHINGTON TIMES - Within four weeks, it will be a crime to manufacture a 100-watt version of Thomas A. Edison's brilliant invention. Thanks to a Democratic Congress and the signature of President George W. Bush in 2007, anti-industrial zealots at the Energy Department received authority to blot out one of the greatest achievements of the industrial age. They're coming for our light bulbs... (more)
WASHINGTON TIMES - In good news for weary travelers, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has announced a cut back in the number of boys and girls it will grope over the holidays. The bad news is that agency bureaucrats made the same promise after last year's Turkey Day. It wasn't true then, either... (more)
JIM HOFT - Washington Post reported that African Americans, who are 12.6 percent of the U.S. population, make up only 1.6 percent of Occupy Wall Street. It's too bad the Occupy Movement couldn't be like the tea party. An April 2010 Gallup poll found that 6% of tea party support came from non-hispanic blacks... (more)
WORLDNETDAILY - In response to any future Israeli military strike on its nuclear sites, Iran has been training al-Qaida elements in the Egyptian Sinai desert on how to coordinate retaliatory attacks, a senior Egyptian security official told WND... (more)
NEWSMAX - Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio plans to endorse Texas Gov. Rick Perry for the GOP presidential nomination this week, NBC News reports. Arpaio, known for his tough, no-nonsense attitude toward violent criminals and an uncompromising stand on illegal immigration, will campaign with Perry in New Hampshire this week, according to NBC News... (more)
NEWSMAX - GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain blames "false accusations" against him alleging sexual harassment prompted the conservative Iowa Family Leader to refuse to endorse him. The former Godfather's Pizza CEO, responding to CNN "State of the Union" host Candy Crowley's question today about why the Family Leader wouldn't endorse him, responded... (more)
LEE HABEEB - Few headlines about network television make me giddy. Fewer still make me hopeful that all is good in the world. But back in August of 2010, I read the following headline from the media pages with great excitement: "Charlie Brown Is Here to Stay: ABC Picks Up 'Peanuts' Specials Through 2015"... (more)
NEWSMAX - With the primary and caucus season just weeks away, a pro-Sarah Palin group is doing its part to get the former Alaska governor and GOP vice presidential candidate into the 2012 Republican White House nomination sweepstakes... (more)
BILL O'REILLY - Listen up, you protest people! You have gone and alienated Newt Gingrich, who wants you to take a bath and get a job. Or vice-versa. And his words were greeted with applause from coast to coast. You guys should take notice. A couple of months ago, the polls showed that many Americans sympathized with your movement. After all, who likes greed-head Wall Street folks manipulating the financial markets?... (more)
PETER LEMISKA - In a belated response to the birther movement, earlier this year the White House released Barack Obama's "long form" birth certificate. Everyone believed it would finally silence the birthers; and it did -- for a while. But since then, various independent researchers, as well as experts in graphics, computer software, and scanning equipment, have examined the document and now allege that it shows signs of tampering... (more)
FORBES - A new batch of 5,000 emails among scientists central to the assertion that humans are causing a global warming crisis were anonymously released to the public Tuesday, igniting a new firestorm of controversy nearly two years to the day after similar emails ignited the Climategate scandal... (more)
KARIN MCQUILLAN - Global warming became a cause to save life on earth before it had a chance to become good science. The belief that fossil fuel use is an emergency destroying our planet by CO2 emissions took over the media and political arena by storm... (more)
CHARLES C. JOHNSON - In our increasingly secular age, as we watch grown men play a boys' game, as a certain parade sponsored by Macy's commercializes our streets, and as we look forward to shaking off our tryptophan-induced slumber to wait in line for Black Friday, it is worth remembering, as Calvin Coolidge did, that "the things of the spirit come first." Thanksgiving, Coolidge noted, was a "holy day" for those who were its first celebrants... (more)
NEWSMAX - President Obama gave his weekly radio address, one devoted to Thanksgiving, by praising U.S. service members and volunteers at shelters and soup kitchens. The president outlined the many ways that Americans were coming together and the various things he was thankful for, but not once thanked God... (more)
JOSEPH FARAH - Thanksgiving isn't a day for complaining, but indulge me for just a moment. I'm appalled at the way Americans have forgotten the real meaning of Thanksgiving. Have you checked out what your children are learning about this holiday in both government and too many private schools? The Pilgrims had a rough time when they first landed on Plymouth Rock. Finally, the friendly native Americans taught the European plunderers how to fish and plant corn... (more)
WASHINGTON EXAMINER - The year that is drawing towards its close, has been filled with the blessings off 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 cannot fail to penetrate and soften even the heart which is habitually insensible to the ever watchful providence of Almighty God... (more)
Monday, November 28, 2011
To: Friends & Supporters
From: Gary L. Bauer
COUNTDOWN TO VICTORY: 344 DAYS TO THE 2012 ELECTIONS
Thankful For His Luck
Not surprisingly, the theme of President Obama's weekly address last week was Thanksgiving. But to the shock and dismay of many, he failed to mention God even once in his statement to the nation. Twenty seconds into his remarks, Obama said that he and his family will enjoy great food, a little football and reflect "on how truly lucky we are." My first thought was that his good luck also happens to be our bad fortune.
I have no doubt that most Americans expected to hear in a Thanksgiving message from the president a sense of gratitude and thanks for God's blessings. America remains a deeply religious nation. A June Gallup poll found that 92% of Americans believe in God. A 2007 Pew survey found that 69% of Americans think "it is important for a president to have strong religious beliefs."
But Barack Obama seems to have an aversion to public professions of faith. He has gone out of his way to insist that America is not a Christian nation, to say we are one of the largest Muslim nations and to include references to "non-believers" in his speeches. Several months ago, he took a lot of heat for quoting the Declaration of Independence and repeatedly dropping the reference to God each time. Whatever the explanation for this disconnect, if not hostility to faith, it is astonishing that the political geniuses at the White House are so tone deaf to the signal Obama sends every time he gives God the cold shoulder.
Obama Writes Off Reagan Democrats
We have been saying for months that Barack Obama has abandoned the traditional middle class. Now the left's "paper of record" -- the New York Times -- admits it. In analyzing Obama's path to reelection next year, Thomas Edsall writes, "...preparations by Democratic operatives for the 2012 election make it clear for the first time that the party will explicitly abandon the white working class."
In other words, Obama is writing off the Reagan Democrats -- those folks in Middle America who he claimed "bitterly cling to their guns and religion." His reelection strategy will hinge on expanding his 2008 base of well-educated, upper-class whites and minority voters. Edsall notes this strategy "proved highly successful twice (2006 and 2008) but failed miserably in 2010, and appears to have a 50-50 chance in 2012."
What might this strategy look like? It could mean that Democrats are prepared to give up once-reliable blue states like Michigan and Wisconsin, while redoubling their efforts in "purple" states like Colorado, North Carolina and Virginia.
Regardless of the strategy Obama pursues, the results of the past three years are obvious: Obama's presidency has been a failure. Since his inauguration, the unemployment rate has gone up, gas prices have gone up, food prices have gone up and the national debt has exploded. Overwhelming majorities believe America is on the wrong track and is a nation in decline. Millions of our fellow countrymen are losing hope.
Obama has had his chance. We can't afford four more years of more of the same. It's time for a change.
Speaking of change, Barney Frank, a thorn in the side of conservatives for years, announced today that he won't run for reelection in 2012. That makes Frank the 17th House Democrat to announce his retirement this year.
While Democrats and their liberal media allies keep speculating about Obama's coattails making Nancy Pelosi Speaker again, Frank's retirement and those of his liberal colleagues suggest they don't believe the spin. Ideologues like Frank would not be voluntarily leaving Congress if they thought they were on the verge of another two years to cram their socialist, anti-family agenda down our throats.
Newt's Big Endorsement
Newt Gingrich's presidential campaign got a big boost yesterday, picking up the endorsement of New Hampshire's largest newspaper, the Union Leader. You can read the paper's endorsement here.
Ironically, the Union Leader's endorsement could have a greater impact in Iowa than in New Hampshire. Mitt Romney, the former Massachusetts governor, has a huge, perhaps insurmountable, lead in New Hampshire, making the Iowa caucuses all the more important. There is a movement among Iowa conservative leaders to unify behind one candidate who can be a credible alternative to Mitt Romney. The Union Leader's nod might persuade some Iowa conservatives that Gingrich has the momentum to take on Mitt.
A Bitter Harvest
Egyptians went to the polls today for the first in a series of elections that will determine the future of post-Mubarak Egypt. It is widely expected that the radical Muslim Brotherhood will prevail in today's balloting. If so, we should expect conditions in Egypt and the Middle East to deteriorate.
Why do I say that? According to one report, thousands of Egyptians attended a Muslim Brotherhood rally Friday at "Cairo's most prominent mosque," where multiple speaker denounced the "treacherous Jews" and "Zionists occupiers." A verse from the Koran that "one day we shall kill all the Jews" was repeated by speaker after speaker.
Once again the radical Islamists' denial of reality was on full display. One cleric told the crowd, "We shall not allow the Zionists to Judaize al-Quds (Jerusalem)." The first fruits of the "Arab Spring" are proving to be a bitter harvest indeed.
Super Committee Represents America
In the aftermath of its failure, just about everybody seems to agree that the congressional deficit reduction super committee's demise resulted from both parties' unwillingness to put the country's interests ahead of their own. But the deep divisions that made the Super Committee's task hopeless from the start merely reflect the deep divisions in the country. In 2012, the American people must decide which side will prevail. Read more in my weekly Human Events column.
Endorsements By Rich Galen Endorsements, polls and poker hands are generally not determinative, but in each case it is better to win than to lose.
Rewarding Rotten Ricky Gervais By L. Brent Bozell III The vaunted return of Ricky Gervais to the Golden Globes is just another example of how the entertainment industry has put civility through the shredder and embraced mean-spiritedness with gusto.
Obama Civil Rights Commission to Investigate Whether States are Violating Illegal Immigrants' Rights
Nov 28, 2011 12:03 pm Only in the Obama administration does it make sense to spend millions to help illegals. Read more from Ben Johnson at The White House Watch
Sheriff Joe: If I Prove Obama was Born in Kenya, What Will be Done About It?
Nov 28, 2011 12:00 pm "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 [...]
The Federal ID that Pays Illegal Aliens Billions a Year
Nov 28, 2011 11:59 am Established 15 years ago, the Individual Taxpayer Identification Number [ITIN] is a seemingly innocuous administrative requirement that the Internal Revenue Service assigns to anyone who is employed and pays taxes. According to the IRS website, the numbers are used for federal tax reporting only. But since ITINs, as they are commonly known, are issued to [...]
Nov 28, 2011 11:58 am I'm not a fan of most television commercials, but in particular, I cannot stand those annoying drug commercials that promise to cure a particular ailment as long as you can live with the potentially fatal side effects. As the saying goes, "Sometimes the remedy is worse than the disease," and this could not be truer [...]
New Database Lets You Search Climategate E-mails for Yourself
Nov 28, 2011 11:57 am Anthony Watts and his colleagues at "Watts Up With That?" have just published a searchable database of the latest 5,000 Climategate e-mails to be released on a Russian web site. The Climategate e-mails are from the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in the UK. The first batch of these e-mails were [...]
Cartoon of the Day: Great Political Messages, Occupy Wall-Street Version
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WHICH COUNTRIES OWN THE MOST GOLD?With many foreign currencies experiencing wild fluctuations in value and their economies teetering on the brink of bankruptcy, governments are flocking to precious metals like gold. Who owns the most gold? See the list HERE.
BARNEY FRANK TO ANNOUNCE HIS RETIREMENTRepresenting the state of Massachusetts in the House since 1980, Barney Frank has been a fixture in American politics for over 30 years. Later today, the powerful Democrat will formally announce that he is not seeking re-election in 2012. Get all the details HERE.
BLAZE INVESTIGATES YARD SIGN TIED TO BECKThere are more details emerging from last week's story about a Texas Judge who levied a $7200 fine because a couple displayed a small yard sign encouraging people to "Wake Up America." Learn about the curious connections between the Judge and the board of the Homeowners Association HERE.
OHIO COUNTRY TAKES A FAT CHILD FROM HIS MOM, CLAIMING MEDICAL NEGLECTAn 8-yr-old Cleveland boy tips the scales at 200 pounds and social workers have said that that is reason enough to remove the child from the care of his mother and place him in a foster home. Does having an overweight child constitute parental neglect? Read the story and decide for yourself HERE.
VIRAL VIDEO DU JOUR - OLD FOGEY FOOTBALLERS FIGHT ON STAGE AT A TRIBUTE EVENTA special event to honor some of the old stars of the Canadian Football League ended up looked more like a fight at a hockey game. Punches were thrown, canes were swung and the celebration came to a halt when two former rivals showed the audience what "grumpy old men" really look like. Watch the fight HERE.
IS THE WORST FIGHT IN YOUR CHURCH ABOUT THE KIND OF MUSIC BEING PLAYED?A "war" is being waged in churches all across the country, but the topic might surprise you. It's all about music. Do you support modernizing church music? Or do you favor traditional worship music? Read the story and take The Blaze poll HERE.
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Kitchen Scrubbing Pads to be Regulated by ATF?
It sounds laughable, especially after Operation Fast and Furious, but according to a letter issued by John R Spencer, Chief of Firearms Technology Branch of the ATF, the copper scrubbing pad may be used as part of a gun silencer and as such falls under ATF jurisdiction.
Someone had their attorney inquire about repairs they wanted to make to a registered silencer for a .22 caliber rifle. In the request for information from the ATF, the attorney wrote,
"Does sound/gas absorbing materials manufactured from Chore Boy copper clean pads, along with fiberglass insulation, constitute a silencer part as defined in 18 U.S.C. 921(a)(24)?"
Merry Christmas: Barney Frank Won't Seek Re-Election
Barney Frank is one of the most liberal and destructive members of Congress. America couldn't get a better Christmas gift this year than to learn that he is not seeking re-election in 2012. It was his banking regulations that contributed to the economic mess that we are in today:
The 16-term lawmaker, whose name is emblazoned on the banking reform law that passed Congress last year, had long been rumored to be ready for retirement. He was previously chairman of the House Financial Services Committee but is now ranking member since Democrats lost the majority in the 2010 midterm election.
A source sends over this unreleased Web video from Senate candidate Steve Welch of Pennsylvania, which asks if Democratic Sen. Bob Casey was "separated at birth" from President Barack Obama.
Except this one doesn't just ask the question rhetorically. The video is a faux documentary exploring the possibility that Casey and Obama are related, featuring fictional experts such as behavioral scientist Dr. Arthur Herberstein and probability expert Dr. Milo Kamdermann.
The video is a clever and well produced new take on a familiar Republican attack line and a sign of things to come for swing-state Senate and House races next year.
Obama Administration Sues to Block Utah Enforcement Law
President Obama's Justice Department (DOJ) filed suit November 22 to enjoin provisions of Utah's "Illegal Immigration Enforcement Act" (H.B. 497), passed by the state legislature in March of this year. The DOJ lawsuit makes Utah the fourth state to be sued by the federal government over its immigration enforcement law in just over a year. Claiming that federal law preempts the legislation, the DOJ specifically seeks to block three core provisions of Utah's HB 497-Sections 3, 10, and 11.
Congressional Democrats File Suit against Alabama Law
Last week, thirty-nine House Democrats signed onto an amicus ("friend of the court") brief in support of lawsuits filed by the Department of Justice and Hispanic Interest Coalition of Alabama against H.B. 56, Alabama's tough immigration enforcement law. (See amicus brief, Nov. 21, 2011; see also FAIR Legislative Update, Aug. 8, 2011) Like the lawsuit brought by the Department of Justice, the brief argues that the Alabama law is unconstitutional because it is preempted by federal law.
Tonight on GBTV: Europe is melting down and Pakistan is in trouble. Will these accelerate our economic problems? Plus a story of inspiration and hope you don't want to miss. Glenn previews tonight's show - it's live at 5pm ET only on GBTV!
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Media to Glenn: You were right! Stop the presses - The Daily Beast, a left wing rag of a website, actually acknowledged that one of Glenn's many predictions has come true! Which one was it? Find out HERE.
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Man dies at Black Friday, people step over him to get to sale
Ever wonder what kind of people we are turning into? Hopefully the latest news out of the holiday weekend isn't indicative of where we are headed as a nation. A man had a heart attack at Target during the big sale and rather than offer to help, people just stepped right over him to get housewares they just had to have. Get the story HERE.
Occupy Cyber Monday: LJ has gone loco once again and now finds himself hanging out with some of the hippies down on Wall Street. While LJ may be suffering from innumerable diseases and assaults - you get to benefit with some great deals on shirts, mugs, polos, and more! Take advantage of LJ's horrible business skills HERE!
Former Sec. of State blames media, Tea Party for nation's problems: Because progressives really don't want to admit that spending and a lack of constitutional values are responsible for the trouble the country now faces! What kind of excuses does Colin Powell come up with for why Washington can't find any solutions? Find out HERE.
What is Constitutional Conservatism? Find out HERE.
Thirteen Days that shook the world!
What if a reporter was embedded with George Washington during the height of the Revolutionary War? Josiah Teasdale was hired by James Rivington to do just that. For the next two weeks @NYGazetteer will take you into the trenches, across the Delaware, and into the Battle of Trenton, in real time. Get more HERE.
The Being George Washington Book Tour: 11 cities in 3 days - Will Glenn be at a bookstore near you? Find out HERE.
Wow - just a week ago pundits in the mainstream media were declaring this the 'Kent State moment' for Occupy Wall Street, while at the same time amateur photoshoppers across the world were turning the incident into the latest internet meme. Shockingly, the viral "outrage" that accompanied video and photos of the incident may turn out to be as baseless as the claims that the 'Occupy' movement is grassroots. Like much of the 'Occupy' movement - the UC Davis incident is rooted in lies, manipulation, and a whole lot of bullcrap. Get more HERE.
Obama nixes 'God' from Thanksgiving message
The President delivered the traditional Thanksgiving message from the White House last week and of course he botched it just like pretty much everything else he's done since taking office. Should we really expect him to start fixing the nation's problems when he can't even deliver a decent holiday message? Glenn goes to the original, George Washington, to show Obama how it's done. WATCH
Thank God I'm American: After stories of American's running over each other for Black Friday shopping deals, it's important to slow down and remember how blessed we truly are as a nation. President Obama may have left God out of his Thanksgiving message, but don't make the same mistake. Take time to give thanks for the blessing it is to be an American. READ.
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