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November 30, 2011
Quote of the Day:
"I'm not a member of the permanent political establishment. And I've learned quickly, these past few days, that if you're not a member in good standing of the Washington elite, then some in the media consider a candidate unqualified for that reason alone.
But here's a little news flash for all those reporters and commentators: I'm not going to Washington to seek their good opinion - I'm going to Washington to serve the people of this country. Americans expect us to go to Washington for the right reasons, and not just to mingle with the right people.
Politics isn't just a game of clashing parties and competing interests.
The right reason is to challenge the status quo, to serve the common good, and to leave this nation better than we found it.
No one expects us to agree on everything.
But we are expected to govern with integrity, good will, clear convictions, and... a servant's heart."
- Sarah Palin, Governor of Alaska, from a campaign speech made on Thursday, September 4, 2008.
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"If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy"- James Madison
If Senate Bill 1867 passes as written, consider us all done, as we all will be living an existence under a police state where "we the people" could be considered a terrorist detainee without due process. Look at how they treat the tea party.Look at what happened in history. I looked at the bill, it is over 600 pages has over 4000 sections and a page full of amendments. It references the Department of Defense Authorization Act, National Defense Authorization Act, Public Law 107-40 and War Powers Resolution.
THE ARTICLE BELOW IS TAKEN OFF THE DRUDGE REPORT TODAY . . . IT IS NOT COMING FROM THE ACLU . . . PLEASE WAKE UP AND CALL YOUR SENATORS AND ASK THEM TO VOTE NO ON S1867 - IT IS OUR ENSLAVEMENT!!!
Toomey 202-224-4254 or 215-241-1090
Casey 202-224-6324 or 215-405-9660
Sens. Paul, McCain clash over terrorist detainee amendment
By Josiah Ryan - 11/29/11
Republican Sens. Rand Paul (Ky.) and John McCain (Ariz.) battled on the Senate floor Tuesday over a proposed amendment to the pending defense authorization bill that could allow American citizens who are suspected of terrorism to be denied a civilian trial.
Paul argued the amendment, which is cosponsored by McCain, "puts every single American citizen at risk" and suggested that if the amendment passes, "the terrorists have won."
"Should we err today and remove some of the most important checks on state power in the name of fighting terrorism, well then the terrorists have won," Paul argued, "[D]etaining American citizens without a court trial is not American."
The Blaze | by Christopher Santarelli | Posted on November 30, 2011 at 12:00am
Bob Casey & Barack Obama - Separated at Birth
President Obama's approval ratings have hit rock bottom, the economy is continuing to sputter and families across Pennsylvania are continuing to struggle just to put food on the table.
So what's the President doing?
He's using taxpayer money to fuel up Air Force One and fly to Pennsylvania to give a speech about his so-called "Jobs Bill".
Except, it's not a "Jobs Bill" at all. It's the failed Stimulus of 2009 all re-packaged with a fancy new name...
It's another ploy by the President to take money out of your wallet and funnel it to his cronies...just like he did with Solyndra.
The "Jobs Bill" is nothing more than Obama-Style Crony Capitalism and it's time to tell him NO.
That's why when he comes to Scranton on Wednesday (that's tomorrow!), we're going to be there to meet him and we need YOU to join us. The President and the media need to hear what YOU have to say.
We can't let the President dominate the headlines with a non-jobs "Jobs Bill" that neither Democrats nor Republicans support. The media must HEAR YOUR voice on this loud and clear.
That's why we're asking you to join us.
As you probably already know President Obama will be in Scranton tomorow to campaign and push his job (killing) bill. We are asking you to join Americans For Prosperity, the NEPA Tea Party, the National Federation of Independent Business, The Northeast Pennsylvania Manufacturers and Employers Association, The Pennsylvania Manufacturers Association, The Scranton Tea Party and The Loyal Opposition at a Press conference and luncheon.
WE NEED A BIG TURNOUT SO PLEASE TRY TO ATTEND AND PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD.
When the President touches down in Pennsylvania....the grassroots of PA will be out in full force holding an event of our own: A REAL JOBS SOLUTION luncheon.
Everyone is invited to this event to hear from the REAL job creators in our community: the business leaders and working men and women that are being hurt by the terrible policies of the Obama Administration.
Please find the details below:
WHAT: Press Conference and Luncheon to offer a "Real Jobs Solution" as a counter to President Obama's so-called "Jobs Speech"
WHEN: TOMORROW: Wed., Nov. 30, 2011
TIME: 1pm (Sharp!)
WHERE: Radisson Lackawanna Station Hotel Scranton 700 Lackawanna Avenue, Scranton PA 18503
DETAILS: Our luncheon is in the "The Lackawanna Room". It is on the Lower Level. Please walk into the hotel and take elevator down (signs will point the way).
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.
Wednesday 3-4pm "Patriots Watch" - Billy Baer and Dan Haggerty
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!
If there's one thing Glenn likes more than writing books, it's signing them and meeting fans! Mark your calendar, Allentown, because THIS THURSDAY, December 1st, Glenn will be signing copies of his new non-fiction thriller Being George Washington.
Here's all the info:
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1ST
Allentown, PA
Barnes & Noble2:00-3:00pm801 Lehigh Lifestyle CenterWhitehall, PA 18052
In addition to Being George Washington, Glenn will also sign his novel The Snow Angel, along with its picture book companion. So come on by, say hello, and get all your Christmas shopping done at the same time -- signed books for everyone!
Let's establish this right out of the gate so as not to confuse issues: It is wrong when corporations use child labor. Forgetting the law for a moment, whether it is here in the U.S. or overseas, children are children, and corporations should not exploit children. Got it? With that said, this is not about corporations, this is about families and farms. More specifically, family farms and the overreach of the federal government.
For centuries, even before there was Willie Nelson and FarmAid, farming throughout the world (including here in the United States) has largely been a family affair. That is, parents and their children (when not in school) work from dawn until dusk to put food on the family table, and the tables of others.
Recognizing this, when child labor laws were developed in the last century, there was an exemption built in for family farms. Now, however, the concept of the family farm may be getting gutted if the Obama Labor Department has its way.
Under a proposed "dramatic updating" of the nation's child labor regulations, the Department of Labor is considering eliminating many of the tasks that children and young adults do on their family's farm.
The race is so volatile because the race is well settled as we get 38 days from Iowa. The race is settled against Mitt Romney. The question, however, is who the alternative is going to be. And if one does not hold up, it will fall to Mitt Romney.
I think in the next few weeks conservatives must ask themselves if they are ready to forgive Newt his sins. I'm not talking about his adultery and wives. I'm not really even talking about his ego. What I am talking about is only tangentially related to his sitting on a couch with Nancy Pelosi.
It was, after all, Newt Gingrich who advocated for an individual mandate long before Mitt Romney ever did. Gingrich has, like Clinton before him, been a "third way" fan of new fangled ways to do things. The conservative warrior people tend to think Gingrich is, often is not. Newt has a fascination with the shiny in policy and technology, hence the latest oppo drop on Newt that he once praised Donald Berwick, the Obama appointee chosen to oversee the death panels and shoving of grandparents over the medical cost savings cliff.
To be fair to Gingrich, he was offering legitimate praise to Berwick way back when and Berwick's own writings that Newt praised would be damning to Obamacare. But it is the first of many attacks.
The real issue for Gingrich is that he is the Great American Sisyphus, always rolling his political rock up a hill only to see it go tumbling back down. And unfortunately for many, when Newt reaches the top of the hill and his political career starts its roll back down the hill, many others get rolled over in the process.
I was the sole general chairman of the New Hampshire campaign of Pat Buchanan in the winter of 1995-6.
I was alone because my co-chairman, faced with unmoving single-digit poll numbers, had fled for the Dole campaign.
I remember Pat's consternation about our seemingly stagnant poll numbers. And yet, when New Hampshire voters began focusing on the election, those polls became meaningless. Just a few weeks before the primary.
The "pitch fork" brigade carried New Hampshire. And I am convinced that had there not been shenanigans in South Carolina, a GOP under a Buchanan banner would have defeated Clinton and rewritten history - unlike - the sleazy stand-for-nothing Dole.
So - what do you want to know about New Hampshire?
Several weeks ago, I told you the story of John Monteith, a Charlotte, NC business executive that had been told his company could not bid on work related to the Democratic National Convention because the printing firm he worked for was not unionized.
In fact, the union pressures surrounding the DNC are so great that there have been doubts that non-union employees will even have a job during the week the Democrats descend on the Queen City.
The mayor of Charlotte, Anthony Foxx, denied that any discrimination existed against non-union shops. The Convention's host committee denied it as well.
Luckily, as one local newspaper put it, "Conservative blogs and the N.C. Republican Party are fueling concerns." Those concerns have led to a resolution proposed by NC lawmakers [text below] asking that the DNC respects North Carolina's right-to-work laws and puts the focus on local business, not collective bargaining.
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Protesters Storm British Embassy in Tehran
Police chased protesters as they entered the the British Embassy grounds in Tehran on Tuesday
By ROBERT F. WORTH and RICK GLADSTONE Published: November 29, 2011
CAIRO - Iranian protesters shouting "Death to England" stormed the British Embassy compound and a diplomatic residence in Tehran on Tuesday, tearing down the British flag, smashing windows, defacing walls and briefly detaining six staff members in what appeared to be a state-sponsored protest against Britain's tough new economic sanctions against Iran.
The attack was the most serious diplomatic breach since the traumatic assault on the United States Embassy after Iran's Islamic Revolution in 1979. Britain's foreign secretary, William Hague, expressed outrage over the attack, saying Britain held Iran's government responsible and promising "other, further, and serious consequences."
The scale of the attack - led by hundreds of students described as members of the Basij militia by the Iranian state media - appeared to surprise even some Iranian officials. Later in the day, Iran's Foreign Ministry released an uncharacteristic expression of regret that contrasted sharply with the angry rhetorical jabs at Britain issued a day earlier by Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Iran's leaders, buffeted by the new sanctions, a collapsing economy and increasingly bitter infighting among the political elite, may have welcomed a chance to change the subject, analysts said. But the episode also appeared to be a shot across the bow aimed at the West, in line with Tehran's old policies of escalating defiance.
"Khamenei's philosophy is often to react to outside pressure with provocation, to imply that Western pressure will only further radicalize, not moderate, Iranian behavior," said Karim Sadjadpour, an Iran expert at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Security forces initially stood by as students laboriously broke through the embassy's massive main gate and then ransacked the offices, burning British flags and smashing pictures of Queen Elizabeth II. Only later did police officers in riot gear begin a somewhat lackadaisical effort to remove the protesters from the grounds, according to reports on state-supported Iranian news media and images broadcast on state television.
President Obama, speaking about the assault during a meeting with Prime Minister Mark Rutte of the Netherlands at the White House, said he was "deeply concerned" that the Iranian authorities had permitted it to happen. "For rioters essentially to be able to overrun the embassy and set it on fire is an indication that the Iranian government is not taking its international obligations seriously," Mr. Obama said.
The Arab Spring has turned to tumult, but after being concerned about the Middle East earlier in the year, the administration seems to be ignoring the latest chaos.
For America, wars happen when it is weak, not when it is strong. America has a role in the world that needs to be played out fully. Isolationism is a provocative weakness.
While the Arab Spring turns sour, at least Morocco's king has accepted the need for widespread judicial and democratic reform, even though this is ignored by the U.S. administration.
Excessive violence took place on Bahrain in the Arab Spring, and subsequently even doctors who treated injured Shia protesters have been jailed by the Saudi-supported ruling class.
The military, which this month was killing and gassing people in Tahrir Square, is standing by while elections begin, knowing Islamists will win. Will it intervene for its own ends?
Always willing to send up others, Chris Matthews' recent appearance shows how he makes the same mistakes and brain freezes as those he casts scorn upon
Legal immigrants object to DREAM Act, southern border fence to extend into the Pacific, Arizona to build its own fence, and at commercial hubs, less migration control.
"Please don't think this is easy for me. I'm one of those crazed Americans who can't walk into Home Depot, Target or my local grocery store right now without wanting to grab one of those king-sized shopping carts and stuff it to the gunwales with 100-watt incandescent light bulbs. Maybe it's the sheer thrill of buying bulbs that in just over a month, as of Jan. 1, 2012, will be banned for sale in America...?"
The incandescent light bulb is a martyr to political dogma. If Washington thinks that people must have their energy usage regulated, there are many other laws that they could pass...
Laura: This is an outrage. A Christian gets bullied and verbally abused by muslims in the workplace, and the Christian worker gets fired. These muslims have been allowed into western countries, given jobs and benefits and freedom etc. They respond by harassing, threatening, bullying and intimidating the native populations. These people show no respect and tolerance for non-muslims. Being that is the case, they do not belong in a free society. Yet we still allow massive muslim immigration. When is enough enough? When are westerners going to stop being frightened and intimidated and start exerting their rights within their own nations?
The crisis of the euro, the common currency of 17 European Union members, continues unabated. Because of massive, sustained budget deficits by several eurozone countries, some could default on their sovereign debt obligations, or the euro itself might disintegrate, profoundly affecting the EU's political and economic future.
Very little media attention, however, is focused on a very different, but even more important, EU problem, namely its "democratic deficit." This large, growing gap between remote EU institutions in Brussels and citizens of its member states dramatically highlights the rising frustration and impotence felt by individual voters. To combat the euro crisis, EU elites are ignoring or overriding popular opposition to harsh austerity measures and imposing on fellow democracies the policies demanded by leaders of other, more powerful EU countries. ...
The uprising in Syria turned much more violent in the past week and the Bashar al-Assad government is tottering. Civilians have obtained weapons and begun an armed resistance. Syrian soldiers are deserting and forming a Free Syrian Army. While the Arab League on Sunday voted to impose punitive economic and political sanctions on Damascus, fighting is breaking out nationwide between the Sunni majority and Shi'ite minority.
A faltering regime and rising violence often leads to a military coup. They were commonplaces in much of the developing world back in the 1950s and 1960s and a convoluted and incomplete one began in Egypt last fall. Syria is ripe for one now. The Arab
Most of these missiles will be directed to Israel's major cities along the coast. These are not military targets but civilian targets. The civilian casualties will be enormous. And I am not talking about "collateral damage". I am talking the intentional killing of civilians. This is a war crime.
But no where have I read that such an attack would be considered a war crime and that it will result in prosecutions. No western nation, that was quick to embrace the Goldstone Report, will say so. Nor will any nation quick to condemn Israel for using disproportionate force or being unconcerned with causing collateral damage, be so bold as to point out that the intentional killing of civilians by these Muslim forces will be prosecuted as war crimes.
Even if Israel attacks Iran's nuclear facilities and the army defences, it will in no way justify using these rockets to...
Hamas may have won support for their involvement in Shalit deal, but new poll finds that PA President Abbas still has majority vote. JMCC survey reveals West Bank, Gaza attitudes to Israel,US and international community
Elior Levy, YNET
A new poll carried out by the Palestinian Jerusalem Media and Communications Center (JMCC) reveals that support for Fatah among residents of the Palestinian Authority has not been hurt by the Shalit deal , which was completed between Hamas and Israel last month.
And yet, the Hamas-led Shalit deal still receives wall to wall support - 86% of those questioned expressed their satisfaction with the results of the deal - the satisfaction rate is close to that of the Israeli satisfaction rate with the deal.
In spite of the pessimistic results, the poll revealed that when it comes to the political process, the majority of respondents (56.3%) opposed the resumption of violence against Israel,...
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 156, November 24, 2011
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:
The turmoil in the Arab world is changing the strategic landscape around Israel. However, one area that has received little attention is the eastern Mediterranean basin, where elements of radical Islam could gain control. In this region, Libya, Egypt, Lebanon, Syria and Turkey display Islamist tendencies, leaving Israel and Greece as the only Western allies.
A review of the political dynamics in the states on the shores of the eastern Mediterranean generates great concern about the ability of the West to continue enjoying unrestricted access to this area.
Evolving political events in Libya indicate that radical Islamic elements will definitely play a greater role in the future of the country. If the transition to a new regime descends into civil war, the ensuing chaos may allow greater freedom of action for Muslim extremists from the...
[Editor's Note: We're sending out this important email again today in case you missed it yesterday.]
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"
Our next generation is being misled, even indoctrinated, by fantasies masquerading as "facts" in public school textbooks, that paint a false picture about the history and doctrines of Islam.
No wonder everywhere I go I hear from parents and grandparents who ask me, "is there a good resource about radical Islam available for young people?"
Now there is-and just in time for holiday gift-giving!!
This illustrated book covers all the essential topics needed for a young person to gain an understanding of radical Islam-without being too long or too weighty. They'll learn about everything from al Qaeda to Khomeini, from jihad to the Muslim Brotherhood, from sharia law to Wahhabism. The book even contains a timeline and an index.
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Monday, November 28, 2011
Eyewitnesses claim 'unusual' movement of Israeli missiles
JERUSALEM - Multiple eyewitnesses reported seeing Israeli military trucks in recent days transport and station large missiles at the periphery of Jerusalem and in locations inside the West Bank.
The descriptions of the projectiles are consistent with the Jewish state's mid-to-long range Jericho ballistic missiles.
The missile movement, if confirmed, would be considered unusual.
One of the eyewitnesses was a member of the Palestinian Authority security services. He claimed to me that a large missile was stationed five days ago near Neve Yaacov, a Jewish neighborhood in northeast Jerusalem. That neighborhood is adjacent to several Palestinian-inhabited towns.
Four other eyewitnesses, Israeli and Palestinian, reported seeing similar sights during the past week - large missiles being transported by the Israeli military at the periphery of Jerusalem and in the West Bank.
Reached for comment, the spokesperson's unit of the Israel Defense Forces could not confirm the information, referring me instead to Israel's national police.
Mickey Rosenfeld, the national police spokesperson here, told me today he has no information on any such movements.
Apparently, I'm not the only reporter to receive such reports.
Rosenfeld said another foreign correspondent contacted him earlier today for comment on the same matter.
The PA security member, speaking on condition of anonymity, speculated the missiles were related to a possible Israeli offensive against Iran. He commented that such missiles were offensive in nature, and usually not meant to serve as defensive posture.
Eye witnesses claim 'unusual' movement of Israeli missiles. JERUSALEM - Multiple eyewitnesses reported seeing Israeli military trucks in recent days transport and station large missiles at the periphery of Jerusalem and in locations inside the West Bank.
The descriptions of the projectiles are consistent with the Jewish state's mid-to-long range Jericho ballistic missiles.
Occupy CAIR?: You won't believe Islamic group's ties to anti-Wall Street movement. The recent executive director of the controversial Council on American-Islamic Relations' South Florida chapter is a founder and spokesperson of Occupy Miami, KleinOnline has learned.
Mohammad Malik currently serves 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.
Bang for your buck: that's what the Freedom Center provides. Ammunition for the culture war against the Left: that's what your contribution buys. So please act now and help us in the fight we are waging on many fronts for America's future. America is under assault from within and without. There is no time to lose.
How Israel turned itself into a high-tech hub
When a grey-haired grandmother clutching a smartphone mounted the stage at Montreal's Start-up Festival this summer, young Israeli entrepreneur Guy Rosen knew he had pocketed a very special award.
His company, Tel Aviv-based Onavo, offers an application that shrinks mobile phone data to help users save money - and appeals to any age. That made Onavo the winner of the Grandmother's Award for best start-up, judged by tech-agnostic ladies in the later stages of life.
Standing in his office in Tel Aviv, Mr Rosen recalls the moment: "They went on stage and said: 'We love Onavo and we understand what it does... it is such an easy app to understand' - we just save money, that's it, period, they loved us."
Guy Rosen is one of Israel's many young, enthusiastic entrepreneurs who, fresh out of the army, decided to set up a tech firm.
Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) has named Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Steven Chu Porker of the Month for his weak oversight of DOE's loan guarantee program (LGP), which resulted in huge losses to taxpayers when solar panel manufacturer Solyndra, the recipient of a $535 million loan guarantee, filed for bankruptcy in September. The LGP program, which received a massive increase in funding in the 2009 stimulus package, has been the subject of three Government Accountability Office reports since its inception, all detailing its management weaknesses, arbitrary selection process, and vulnerabilities to manipulation and politicization. The collapse of Solyndra was quickly followed by the bankruptcies of three other LGP recipients - Massachusetts-based Beacon Power and Evergreen, Inc. and Oregon-based SpectraWatt. CAGW President Tom Schatz commented, "Sec. Chu and his colleagues dismissed numerous warning signs that the LGP was a ticking time bomb...If this is the Obama administration's idea of how America can 'invest' in its economic recovery, taxpayers would much rather keep the money and do it themselves." For trying to pick winners and losers in a volatile sector, for acting as if winning a Nobel Prize in physics also magically confers the title of venture capitalist, and for frittering away taxpayers' hard-earned money, Sec. Chu is CAGW's November 2011 Porker of the Month. Read more about the Porker of the Month.
Super Committee Was an Unpardonable Turkey
Responding to the Deficit Reduction "Super Committee's" failure to come up with a plan to rein in the nation's mounting debt, CAGW on November 21 publicly announced a national campaign calling on taxpayers to ask: "Congress, Can You Spare a Dime?" CAGW has drawn on the memorable "anthem of the Great Depression," which was "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" for this effort to send a resounding message that Washington must curb its unsustainable spending. "The U.S. government is facing a fiscal crisis due to huge spending increases," said CAGW President Tom Schatz. "Federal outlays have grown by about 25 percent over the last several years, and the national debt has increased by more than $3 trillion since the beginning of the Obama administration. The government is projected to be spending $44 trillion between 2013 and 2023, and the $15 trillion national debt now equals our gross domestic product. In such dire straits, any business or household could easily reduce spending by 10 cents on the dollar in order to avoid financial disaster." Sign the "Congress, Can You Spare a Dime?" Citizen's Demand. Watch coverage of this latest CAGW campaign on FOX News Channel.
So, How's Your Pension Holding Up?
At a time when few Americans have any pension to speak of, should taxpayers really be forced to reimburse private contractors for certain benefits, including pensions? The Council for Citizens Against Government Waste (CCAGW) this month issued a letter to the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction citing an April 2011 Government Accountability Office (GAO) report recommending the Department of Energy (DOE) comprehensively review how it manages contractor postretirement benefit costs. The report notes that over the past 10 years, DOE's annual costs for these benefits have ranged from $43 million in 2001 to $750 million in 2009 and have increased by an average of 8 percent annually. GAO further cautions, "DOE has limited influence over contractor pension and other postretirement benefit costs...DOE nevertheless ultimately bears the investment risk incurred by the contractors." CCAGW's letter went on to observe that no similar cost estimates exist for other agencies, such as the Department of Defense, which uses many of the same contractors as DOE. A November 12, 2011 New York Times piece urged Congress to "stop reimbursing the costs of pensions and other retirement benefits at huge, and hugely profitable, defense contractors. Over 10 years, such a move could save an estimated $30 billion - the amount by which these pensions are collectively underfunded." Read more about CCAGW's call for a review of taxpayer funding of contractor pensions.
CCAGW Fumes over Passage of McMansion Subsidy!
On November 15, CCAGW issued a statement of stern opposition to the inclusion of an amendment to the fiscal year 2012 Agriculture, Commerce, Justice, and Science, and Transportation/Housing and Urban Development Appropriations Act that would allow the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) to insure mortgages of as much as $729,750. The FHA's eligible loan limit had dropped to $625,000 on October 1, still far above the $417,000 limit in place prior to the housing crash in 2008. The FHA provides lenders with a 100 percent government guarantee for the loans it insures, and taxpayers are already on the hook for more than $1 trillion in FHA loan guarantees. Meanwhile, the FHA's reserves have plunged to razor-thin levels. In its annual report to Congress on the FHA mortgage insurance program, the Department of Housing and Urban Development noted there is a 50 percent chance that the FHA will require a taxpayer bailout in the near future. The FHA has just $2.6 billion on hand to back its $1.1 trillion in insured mortgages. Of the ultimately successful amendment, CCAGW President Tom Schatz commented, "With a limit of $729,750, it is clear that Congress is subsidizing some of the wealthiest homebuyers in the country...leaving taxpayers on the hook for yet another housing-related debacle...As long as the FHA is treading on such thin financial ice, expanding its presence in mortgage insurance markets should be out of the question." Read CCAGW's full statement opposing the FHA loan limit increase.
This is déjà vu all over again! Kriebel was behind the Pence Plan in 2006. You can see many of the same RINOs lining up to push the same amnesty plan on us in 2011!
First of all, Kriebel's plan won't work because it involves another freaking card! A red one this time! Why should a red card work any better than a green card when everyone knows the ACLU or the Feds will sue anyone who asks to see it! Everyone knows only citizens have to carry their cards at all times and display them upon demand!
Second, if the GOP wants to be "the party of the family," they'd better get one thing straight-they're the party of the American family-not illegal aliens'!
Third, people like Krieble can't tell us they want a guest worker program and then turn around and say, "Oh, by the way, their families get to come, too!"
Also, we must point out that there are 2 ways to reunify families. One is to reunify them here and the other is to reunite them in their home countries.
Illegals and even legal immigrants VOLUNTARILY SEPARATE themselves from their families to come here. This is their choice, not our fault.
Here are some more links for anyone who might be interested:
June 2006, The Pence Plan is trotted out. Read numerous articles and posts about it on the IFIRE Forum here. This was the Krieble plan and had support from Newt and the Heritage Foundation.
Sept. 2006 FreedomWorks holds immigration policy luncheon featuring Mike Pence, Kay Bailey Hutchison and Helen Krieble.
Oct. 2007, video of Dick Armey/Freedomworks saying we shouldn't be so mean and unkind to illegals, "bless their hearts."
Nov. 2011, video of Michael Reagan saying his dad would have supported Newt's position on illegal immigration.
Nov. 2011, Newt recommends Helen Krieble's Red Card Solution. Watch the Krieble Foundation video about this plan and see supporters like Indiana Congressman and Gubernatorial Candidate, Mike Pence, and Matt Kibbe of Freedomworks. A quote from Newt is read.
Nov. 2011, Indianapolis Star guest commentary by oldRINO and former Congressman Lee Hamilton who sees immigration as a solution to our national decline.
Richmond City Audits Local Tea Party After Standoff with Mayor
Two weeks after the Richmond Tea Party delivered an invoice to Richmond Mayor Dwight Jones for costs incurred for previous rallies, we received a letter from the City of Richmond formally stating that the city is auditing our Tea Party. Coincidence? This audit is an obvious attempt to intimidate and harass us for standing up against the unfair treatment and discrimination against our Tea Party.
First some back story: as reported on the front page of the Richmond Times Dispatch, the Richmond Tea Party delivered an invoice for charges incurred in our previous three Tax Day rallies at Kanawha Plaza because Mayor Jones chose to allow Occupy Richmond protesters to convene in the same park for two weeks.
The Mayor not only allowed the Occupiers to break the law, but he visited them in the city-owned park. "Jones said that as a 'child of civil rights' and protests, he had allowed the group to remain in the park but understands his mayoral responsibility to uphold laws of the city," reported the Richmond Times Dispatch.
Apparently his mayoral duties included preferential treatment for a group he sympathizes with ideologically at the expense of the taxpayers.
It's downright strange that at a time when the field of Republican candidates has narrowed down to a few bad choices and the left has finally fielded its own answer to the Tea Party movement, that some pundits on the right are still cheerfully pushing the meme that Obama is all but done.
Sure it would be great if Obama were lying on the floor in a pool of spilled beer while humming songs from Sesame Street, but that is not what's going on. And adding false self-confidence to the mix is about the worst possible thing to do.
Yes Obama wants to win and worse still he's on track to win. It doesn't matter how low his ratings are, so long as his opponent's ratings are even worse. This is not a campaign that he has to win by being the better man, he just has to sit there and let the press destroy his opponent.
Obama does have one thing in common with some of the pundits predicting his imminent demise, they're both sure that they can't lose. But Obama has grounds for thinking that. Far better grounds than the cheerleaders who insist that anyone the Republicans run will win in a landslide in every state.
The lack of a traditional campaign on the D side of the line means nothing. 2008 wasn't a traditional campaign either. Is Obama tossing away the white working class vote? He won without them in 2008. The unions have no choice and the rest can go to hell. Obama is saying mean things about Americans? He did that in 2008 too and it didn't slow him down.
All that arrogance can easily lead to a fall, but so can the arrogance on our side. No one should believe that this will be an easy or simple election. It will be long, hard, ugly and at times seem unwinnable. There will be fraud, personal attacks that we have yet to even imagine and press involvement that will dwarf anything in 2008. And most of all it will be unexpected.
Mens rea is Latin for "guilty mind." In legal theory acting to set up a crime before committing it indicates a guilty mind; or guilty intent.
In the spring of 2009, just a few months before the Obama Administration instructed the Phoenix ATF office to commence Operation Fast and Furious, Attorney General Eric Holder introduced and secured a curious change to United States gun legislation.
The tracing of firearm serial numbers provides information about the manufacture of a weapon, its original retail seller and buyer, the entire known history of the weapon. For years, anti-gun rights zealots had procured these trace statistics from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms for the purpose of initiating frivolous law suits against both gun dealers and manufacturers.
Then, in 2004, Kansas Republican Rep. Todd Tiahrt successfully added an amendment to the yearly ATF funding bill. Known since as the Tiahrt Amendment, the legislation prohibits the ... Continue Reading:Eric Holder and Barack Obama's "mens rea" on Fast and Furious
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By Bill Federer, staff writer
Following the hated Stamp Act of 1765, the British committed the Boston Massacre in 1770, firing into a crowd, killing five. Colonists responded with the Boston Tea Party in 1773. In retaliation, King George III blocked Boston Harbor in 1774 to starve the city into submission. The President of the Massachusetts Provincial Congress was ... Continue Reading:American Minute for November 28th
As early as today the Senate could vote to strip us our 6th Amendment rights!
In a move that would make Joseph Stalin proud, Arizona Senator John McCain has joined Michigan's Carl Levin in crafting a section of a bill designed to take away our rights to face an accuser and have a fair trial before being placed in prison. A section of S. 1867 The National Defense Authorization Act bill, written by McCain and Levin would in effect give the President arrest powers. It would authorize the Chief Executive to order our military personnel to forcibly- if necessary- take any one, regardless of guilt or innocence, into custody without charges or a trial.
These "McCain - Levin" detainees could be held indefinitely with no due process or speedy trial.
Here's a shocker: China is going broke faster than the U.S., according to economic planner Kirk Elliott - who is making this point the lynchpin of a live webinar he's conducting for WND viewers.
Here are some shocking facts on which Elliott will expound during the webinar: China's debt is about $36 trillion yuan (or $5.68 trillion). China's officially published interest rate of 6.2 percent is fabricated. Excess capacity in the economy and private consumption is only 30 percent of economic activity. China's officially published GDP growth of 9 percent is fabricated, and China's taxes are too high.
November 29, 2011 CHRIS CHRISTIE RIPS OBAMA IN PUBLICComments from the bigger-than-life NJ governor have once again placed him in the national spotlight. Chris Christie's latest statements about the failure of the bi-partisan Budget Super Committee focused blame squarely on President Obama. Watch the highlights HERE.
WHY WAS ANN COULTER BLEEPED ON MSNBC? Conservative firebrand Ann Coulter walked into enemy territory this morning when she appeared on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" earlier today. Some of what she said can only be understood with the help of a lip reader. Watch the clip HERE.
CNBC'S jim CRAMER ON a FINANCIAL COLLAPSEThe host of CNBC's "Mad Money" is known for making some outrageous, but often accurate predictions about the world financial markets. Yesterday Mr. Cramer spent considerable time trying to explain just how close we are to a massive money meltdown. Watch the segments HERE.
BARNEY FRANK GOES ON THE ATTACK, CHALLENGING NBC'S SAVANNAH GUTHRIEJust because Congressman Barney Frank announced his retirement yesterday does not mean that he will just fade into the pages of history. Instead, Rep. Frank appears to be ready to blaze a trail all the way to the end of his term in December of 2012. Watch what happened this morning on NBC's Today Show HERE.
EPIC BECK SEGMENT, CAIN SPARKS DEBATE RE: MEN, WOMEN, TRUST & APPEARANCESFollowing the latest accusations of infidelity facing Herman Cain, a debate inside the Glenn Beck studios took the planned program off track. Can men and women work together, dine together and not have it cause problems with themselves or their spouses? Watch the highlights and take out Blaze poll HERE. VIRAL VIDEO DU JOUR - DRAG RACING CORVETTES CRASH CAPTURED BY MOTORIST While most Americans were celebrating Thanksgiving last Thursday, these two Corvette owners managed to "meet by accident." Their informal and illegal street race ended quicker than expected as one car crashed into the other. Watch the bystander-recorded video HERE.
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Ending Income Inequality? By Walter E. Williams Who's putting all the money in the hands of the few, and what do you think ought to be done to stop millions, perhaps billions, of people from using their money in ways that lead to high income and wealth concentration?
Obama Legalizes Horse Slaughter for Human Consumption
Nov 29, 2011 04:02 pm by Ben Johnson, The White House Watch On the eve of the Thanksgiving holiday, Barack Obama broke a campaign pledge and signed a bill legalizing the slaughter of American horses for human consumption. Horse slaughter plants are now planned in at least eight states, including Oregon, Idaho, Wyoming, Montana, North Dakota, Missouri, Nebraska, and Georgia. [...]
New Federal Reserve Report: Sorry We Never Get a Forecast Right
Nov 29, 2011 02:28 pm 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 [...]
Nov 29, 2011 02:13 pm The failure of the congressional "supercommittee" to present a credible plan to reduce spending shows once again that Congress simply cannot restrain itself. Over the past 50 years, the federal budget has been balanced (or had a surplus) only five times. In other words, Congress has shown that it can't balance the federal budget 90 [...]
Nov 29, 2011 02:12 pm Since taking office in 2009, President Obama has accomplished great things for the economy ... of Brazil, that is. For some bizarre reason, Obama continues to do all he can to help out workers and businesses in South America's largest nation. We all remember the U.S. Export-Import Bank's multi-billion dollar loan proposal to Petrobras - [...]
Obama's Approval Rating Drops Below Jimmy Carter's
Nov 29, 2011 02:11 pm President Obama's slow ride down Gallup's daily presidential job approval index has finally passed below Jimmy Carter, earning Obama the worst job approval rating of any president at this stage of his term in modern political history. Since March, Obama's job approval rating has hovered above Carter's, considered among the 20th century's worst presidents, but [...]
How Deer Season, and America, Have Changed in 50 Years
Nov 29, 2011 12:51 pm This week hunters across America storm the woods loaded for deer. For yet another indication of how times have changed, consider this account of Deer Season a half century ago: My mother's family lived in Emporium, Pennsylvania, as did dozens of their relatives. Emporium is a tiny town nestled in the mountains near the north/central [...]
Anyone thinking that Herman Cain may have been wronged by the woman who has stepped forward to discuss their recently ended 13-year affair may want to take a look at the statement released yesterday by Cain's attorney to the local Fox affiliate that broke the story. It is a statement that Cain supporter Erick Erickson fairly characterizes as "the guiltiest-looking no-comment statement in the history of politics" while helpfully emphasizing the "especially hilarious parts":
Mr. Cain has been informed today that your television station plans to broadcast a story this evening in which a female will make an accusation that she engaged in a 13-year long physical relationship with Mr. Cain. This is not an accusation of harassment in the workplace - this is not an accusation of an assault - which are subject matters of legitimate inquiry to a political candidate.
Rather, this appears to be an accusation of private, alleged consensual conduct between adults - a subject matter which is not a proper subject of inquiry by the media or the public. No individual, whether a private citizen, a candidate for public office or a public official, should be questioned about his or her private sexual life. The public's right to know and the media's right to report has boundaries and most certainly those boundaries end outside of one's bedroom door.
Mr. Cain has alerted his wife to this new accusation and discussed it with her. He has no obligation to discuss these types of accusations publicly with the media and he will not do so even if his principled position is viewed unfavorably by members of the media.
Erickson comments:
One of two things is true about this statement. Either Mr. Cain and his attorney are basing their views on what is an appropriate subject of media scrutiny for political candidates on the way politics work on another planet (perhaps another galaxy, even), or they are basically trying to telegraph to us that he completely did it. After following Cain's campaign for the last several months, I would say either is equally likely.
Thank you, Mr. Erickson. Unlike some conservatives, you have altered your judgment in conformity with the reality principle. More power to you.
I want to make two simple points. First, in retrospect we can see that Cain is an old-fashioned kind of guy. He doesn't have a high bar for the women he seeks out and he persists in an old-fashioned kind of way when he gets "no" for an answer. Thus the sexual harassment charges. And of course he doesn't always get "no" for an answer. Thus Ginger White and her checkered past.
Second, conservatives who see the hidden hand of the Democratic Party in taking Cain down are deluding themselves. If Democrats had this material in hand ready to use at the most opportune time, wouldn't the most opportune time have been somewhere down the road, after Cain had actually secured the GOP nomination? Whoever unleashed the barrage against Cain has saved the GOP - to use the fashionable liberal adjective - from an unsustainable candidate. And my guess is that there is more ammunition wherever the barrage has come from.
At any rate, that is my assessment. I may be wrong, but I offer it for what it is worth.
Everyone should read the opposition press, not just to keep tabs on what the opposition is thinking and saying, but also because it is possible to learn from error. In the old days I read The Nation chiefly for Christopher Hitchens' literary criticism, which was always the best offering of the magazine. If I wanted to sample the latest in Communist apologetics, Victor Navasky had no peer. In more recent years whenever I've been curious about what my old-age dementia might look like, I reach for the latest ravings of the heiress Katrina vanden Huevel.
The current issue of The Nation offers a whole new achievement: massively ironic satire in the guise of political analysis from William Greider. Greider is an old fossil of the Left-his long-time conspiratorial ravings about the Federal Reserve make Ron Paul look sober and cautious-and no doubt he is desperate for a revival of summer socialist camp hootenannies. And so he thinks the Occupy movement is the bee's knees:
In Occupy Wall Street, we are witnessing a rare event-the birth of a social movement. Ordinary people are engaging in sustained grassroots protest against the political order and against citizens' exclusion from the decision-making that governs their lives. They seek to rearrange the distribution of power, and they are doing so by injecting a creative, often playful vitality that has been missing in our decayed democracy. The protesters have slipped around the soul-deadening, high-gloss marketing of mass-communication culture. Instead, they insist that politics starts with citizens talking to one another and listening-agreeing and disagreeing with mutual respect. The open-door, nonhierarchical membership commits people to engage in what historian Lawrence Goodwyn calls "democratic conversation."
The whole article is a comic masterpiece, and I highly recommend it. How long before Greider or someone turns it into a Broadway musical? Springtime for Occupy. . .
There has been an amateur hour quality to the campaign of Herman Cain for the GOP presidential nomination. That makes sense because Cain is a political amateur. In the latest installment of the perils of Herman, one Ginger White of Atlanta has acknowledged a 13-year affair with Mr. Cain. The details of her story are persuasive. Cain's denial to CNN is on the lame side:
"It is someone that I know who is an acquaintance that I thought was a friend," Cain said. But he added, "I did not have an affair."
"I acknowledge that I knew the woman," he said. "I acknowledge that I have known her for about that period of time. But the accusation that I had a 13-year affair with her, no."
When it comes to pulling the plug on the campaign, Mr. Cain is says that he is ceding the call to the Missus:
He said his wife's immediate reaction upon hearing of the accusation was, "Here we go again." And he said he had no plans to drop out of the race - "Not as long as my wife is behind me and as long as my wife believes I should stay in this race."
So I guess we'll know when he's really in trouble at home.
Cain subsequently issued a statement that verges on the pathetic, or crosses the line right over into it: "I will not fight false claims as it is not what America needs or wants." I'm not sure he has his finger on the pulse of America at this point. I am quite confident that we want to fight false claims and that we want someone who is able to do so.
His statement continued:
"The American public is tired of dirty politics and smear tactics as evident of their tremendous outpouring of support for me, my family and my campaign this past month," he said.
"I am running for president of the United States of America, and the reality is that there are individuals out there that favor the status quo of higher taxes, more government and political cronyism and they are afraid of a Cain presidency."
My worry list is very long, but I can say that one of the few items not on it is a Cain presidency.
Occasional contributor Bill Katz holds down the fort at Urgent Agenda. Today Bill writes to pay tribute to Jacques Barzun:
Consider please the following argument, written in March, for Columbia University to re-admit ROTC, which it has now done:
The armed forces have drawn some of their most celebrated leaders from Columbia. Not one but four commanders in chief, including the incumbent, studied or worked there. Educating citizen-soldiers is necessary not only for the vigor of our armed forces, but for the vitality of our universities and our republic.
Pericles concluded his remarks in ancient Athens by reminding his people that in detailing the merits of their city-state (in contrast to the characteristics of neighboring Sparta) "we are contending for a higher prize than those who enjoy none of these privileges." A citizenry's willingness to serve in its defense makes a 'government that does not copy our neighbors, but is an example to them.' Most will choose not to answer the call-that is acceptable, the natural result of relying on an all-volunteer military. What is not acceptable is denying the army the opportunity to even make that call.
Now please consider the same writer's remarks, written just a few months ago, on the changing use of the term "culture":
Nor is the new term culture applied solely to large areas. Big corporations are said to have a culture and within them the casual talk is of the culture of the seventh floor not jibing with the culture of the fifth-A dose of managerial lubricant is needed to ease the grinding of the gears. Or again, physicians disagree about acupuncture, each group taking a different view of that procedure, so that reliance on it and reliance on drugs form opposed medical cultures. In short, the word has become a catchall for any group of things or persons that one wants to link together for the purpose of discussion.
Ah, that is writing. Vigorous. Youthful. Utterly clear. So let me reveal that it was written by a man who will be 104 on November 30th.
He is Jacques Barzun, one of the great university intellectuals of the 20th century, born five years before the Titanic went down, and still writing and speaking. Barzun is the only scholar I know who has his own fan club. The Jacques Barzun Fan Club can be found on Facebook here.
Its existence speaks to the affection in which Barzun is held.
He was a professor's professor, a member of the Columbia faculty from 1932 to 1975, and ultimately provost of the university, its highest academic officer.
But more important, Barzun is a defender of the glorious things in Western civilization, which places him at odds with the trendies who have dominated too many of our universities since the 1960s. And so he has never hesitated to remark on the ways, familiar to readers of Power Line, in which the practices of modern universities have gone astray. On political correctness he wrote: "Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred."
One can only imagine Professor Barzun's reaction to the radical chant heard on college campuses in the 1960s and 70s - "Hey, hey, ho, ho, Western civ has got to go!" It never went when Jacques Barzun was overseeing the shop at Columbia.
And Barzun has always understood that intellectual and artistic distinction can actually come from geographic regions beyond the narrow precincts of Manhattan's West Side or the even more narrow bicycle paths of Cambridge, Massachusetts. In the 1990s, Barzun caused shock, approaching medical emergency, in those who knew him when he announced he was leaving New York to settle in his wife's hometown of San Antonio, Texas.
For a New Yorker to leave is considered treasonable. For him to leave for...Texas...is considered blasphemy. Some drifters have suffered unspeakable punishments.
Nonsense, Barzun said: "As far as stimulus is concerned, that comes from other people's minds. San Antonio is a very lively place intellectually and artistically. It is not what a good friend of mine suggested, 'a kind of mining camp at the edge of the frontier.' There are twelve colleges and universities here and I've lectured at several of them. I've kept up with people, and meeting and talking with them is no different from meeting and talking with my friends and colleagues at Columbia, which I also still do."
Refreshing, isn't it?
To the pseudos of the east and west coasts, Mr. Barzun is now one of the "flyover people," and, apparently, mighty proud of it.
I have been using Professor Barzun's Simple and Direct, subtitled A Rhetoric for Writers, for years. It is an excellent guide to writing, and demonstrates that one can teach writing, and also write well, although the combination is rare.
Finally, Mr. Barzun is a fan of detective fiction. I would have loved to have heard a conversation between Jacques Barzun and Sherlock Holmes.
Happy birthday, Professor Barzun, and thank you for defending the best of our civilization. We look forward to your next essay.
The problem with us Americans is that we have never quite measured up to our world-historical President. Lately, President Obama has been telling us that we've lost our edge; that we've gotten a little lazy; that we aren't competing the way we used to; that we are suffering from a malaise. No, wait-that last one was his spiritual forebear Jimmy Carter.
Michael Ramirez, as usual, puts Obama's rhetoric into perspective with "The Great Job Massacre:"
New Poll Shows Two-Thirds of Americans Reject Birthright Citizenship
NumbersUSA Supports Bill to Abolish Automatic Citizenship to Anchor Babies
A majority of Americans oppose birthright citizenship according to a new national poll. Are you among the 65% who oppose it?
NumbersUSA has pushed to abolish birthright citizenship since our founding 15 years ago. Today, we strongly support Rep. Steve King's (R-IA) Birthright Citizenship Act of 2011, which would stop this practice.
The bill is a solid proposal and has a lot of support in the U.S. House, with 80 co-sponsors. It is one of the "five great immigration solutions" we are supporting this year. However, we need a lot more momentum to win. We need your financial support.
Rep. King's bill, H.R. 140, would require Congress to clarify the meaning of the 14th Amendment to end the practice of automatically granting U.S. citizenship to all U.S.-born children of illegal aliens. We don't need a Constitutional amendment.
Now there's more proof that Americans want to abolish automatic citizenship for the children of illegal aliens.
A new Rasmussen poll shows that 65% of likely U.S. voters opposebirthright citizenship. That means two-thirds of all voters want to end this absurd practice, as most industrialized democracies have already done.
Just because an illegal alien mother gives birth in the U.S. doesn't mean the baby should be a U.S. citizen. Don't you agree? In fact, this form of birthright citizenship is destructive to the rule of law.
American citizenship is one of the most precious and sought-after privileges on earth. People wait in line for decades to receive a coveted U.S. green card, if they can get one at all. But we've corrupted the whole process by handing out citizenship and residency to people who do not deserve it.
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Back to birthright citizenship. I don't blame the kids, the so-called "anchor babies." Naturally they have no say in the matter of where they are born. Nonetheless, their unearned U.S. citizenship has terrible consequences for this country.
Here's what's so obviously wrong with birthright citizenship.
Rewards lawbreaking. If people break into our country only long enough to give birth, they are rewarded with a U.S. citizen child.
Increases chain migration. There are about 340,000 anchor babies born here each year. Their families often use them to bring more relatives into the country, starting new family "chains." Immigration continues to skyrocket as a result.
Adds to government social costs.Illegal aliens aren't entitled to welfare benefits, open-borders advocates often point out. That's generally true (with the significant exception of emergency room healthcare). Their U.S. citizen children are eligible, however, for a galaxy of social benefits.We taxpayers are often stuck with the tab for medicaid health benefits, free education, food stamps, etc.
Misuses the U.S. Constitution.The 14th Amendment, on which birthright citizenship is based, states that people born in the U.S. who are also "subject to the jurisdiction" of this country are automatically citizens. Yet children born of parents illegally residing in the U.S. generally have automatic citizenship, voting privileges, and a passport fromtheir home countries.Why should they also receive automatic citizenship from a country where their mother lives illegally? Absurd!
Our biggest goal for in the upcoming weeks remains bringing co-sponsors on E-Verify to 100 and getting that bill passed in the House of Representatives. But we continue to press for other long-time goals as well, such as abolishing birthright citizenship. Yet we can't do any of this without your help.
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COUNTDOWN TO VICTORY: 343 DAYS TO THE 2012 ELECTIONS
OWS Just Getting Started
The Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement seems to be petering out. Many big city Democrat mayors who trashed the Tea Party have started turning on the left-wing "occupy" movement, fed up with its impact on local businesses and city budgets, not to mention its increased criminal activity. But don't think the movement is dead. It is only regrouping for bigger fights next year.
Last week I reported that some OWS founders were promising that the movement would return in the spring with a "marked escalation of ... rush-hour flash mobs, bank occupations, 'occupy squads' and edgy theatrics." But there's more. Consider this excerpt from a lengthy New York magazine report this weekend:
"Among Occupy's organizers, there is fervid talk about occupying both the Democratic and Republican conventions. About occupying the National Mall in Washington, D.C. About, in effect, transforming 2012 into 1968 redux."
Along those lines, far-left radical Cornel West told MSNBC yesterday that there was a coming fight in America over what would be funded with our limited tax dollars. West is right. Fitch, another credit rating agency, warned yesterday that it would likely downgrade U.S. bonds unless there was significant action taken to reduce Obama's massive deficits by 2013.
Of course, what kind of action will be decided by the 2012 elections. Conservatives want to rein in spending and create jobs with pro-growth policies that will increase economic growth. Obama and his socialist allies want to raise your taxes.
Professor West sees Occupy Wall Street as critical to maintaining Big Government's grip on your wallet. He called for yet another "war on poverty," adding, "It's a major question of priorities here. That's why the Occupy movement is so important because some of this is going to be fought in the streets."
Cornel West was a big Obama supporter in 2008 and remains a leading "intellectual" of the left. Yet he predicts on national TV that the violence we have seen in Athens, Greece, is coming to a city near you and there is silence from the White House and the liberal establishment.
From the mass arrests in New York to the riots in Oakland, OWS has already demonstrated that it is capable of "fighting in the streets." Even more disturbing were the findings of Democrat pollsters who surveyed OWS protestors and found that "nearly one-third (31%) would support violence to advance their agenda."
Using Government To Oppress
If you need more evidence of why government should be limited, consider the examples of the Richmond Tea Party and a Georgia businessman.
A local Tea Party group recently sent a $10,000 invoice to the City of Richmond, Virginia, demanding a refund of all the permits and fees it paid to hold rallies in Kanawha Plaza -- the same place where Occupy Richmond has camped out at no expense. In response, the City of Richmond has launched an audit of the Tea Party for failing to file necessary monthly reports related to excise taxes for admission, lodging and meals.
I applaud the Richmond Tea Party for demanding its money back, and I hope other groups do the same. These "occupy" encampments are straining city budgets and costing taxpayers millions. I suspect few if any of them have paid for permits and other fees that are usually required for large public gatherings. But this fits the occupiers' general sense of entitlement. Just like demanding forgiveness of their student loan debts, they expect hardworking taxpayers to pick up their tab.
Several months ago, Georgia businessman Bill Looman got fed up with the state of the economy and posted signs in his trucks that read, "New Company Policy: We Are Not Hiring Until Obama Is Gone." Pictures of the signs went viral online last week, and the left went ballistic. Looman was forced to shut down his company's website and disconnect his phone because of threats from "tolerant" liberals.
Then the Secret Service showed up because someone reported him as a threat to Obama's safety. According to Looman, "They gave me the typical interview to see if I was a threat. We actually had a good meeting and when they left, they were under the impression that they wasted their time."
Far from being a threat, small business owners and entrepreneurs like Bill Looman are the backbone of this great nation. It is their initiative and hard work, not Obama's class warfare or the whining of the OWS crowd, that we should be encouraging and need more of.
Powell Disappoints Again
Colin Powell once again demonstrated why he has been such a disappointment to conservatives. Powell could not resist his liberal instincts when prodded by Christiane Amanpour, host of ABC's "This Week."
With Amanpour bemoaning the "divisive" and "poisonous" tone of American politics today, Powell took the opportunity to call for more compromise in Washington. But when liberal elites like Powell and Amanpour talk about compromise, they mean that conservatives should surrender and liberals should get whatever they want. Thus, Powell blamed the Tea Party for the gridlock in Washington.
While bashing the Tea Party and saying nothing about Occupy Wall Street, the former general and George W. Bush's Secretary of State seemingly rejected the principles that many conservatives once thought he embodied. But Powell's comments really shouldn't surprise anyone. After endorsing Obama in 2008, Colin Powell became the liberal media's favorite Republican. Sunday he once again lived up to their expectations.
Will Cain Carry On?
Herman Cain's campaign encountered yet another major distraction yesterday when an Atlanta Fox affiliate broke the news that a woman has come forward claiming to have had a 13-year affair with the GOP candidate.
Ginger White provided the station with cell phone bills showing 61 calls and text messages from Herman Cain, some "as early as 4:26 in the early morning, and as late as 7:52 at night." According to the Fox reporter, "We texted the number and Herman Cain called us back. ...He said she had his number because he was 'trying to help her financially.'"
Cain categorically denied having a physical relationship with Ms. White, and like previous accusers she also has a significant history of financial and legal trouble. Nevertheless, National Review reports that Cain told his staff this morning he is "reassessing" his campaign in view of this "recent firestorm" and will make a decision "over the next several days."
Gingrich's Latest Achilles' Heel
Gingrich and Immigration By Thomas Sowell TownHall.com
Now that Newt Gingrich has become the latest in a series of Republican front-runners, he is getting the kinds of scrutiny and attacks that have done in other front-runners.
When Worst-Case Economic 'Unthinkables' Become Reality By Brian Calle CAPoliticalReview.com
When the chief executive of a global investment firm that manages assets in the neighborhood of $1.4 trillion calls current economic goings-on "unsettling," it is probably wise to take heed. That's precisely what Pacific Investment Management Co. CEO and Co-CIO Mohamed A. El-Erian told an audience of more than 200 people at the Big Canyon Country Club in Newport Beach. This is "not just normal volatility," he said referring to recent turbulence in the financial markets, it's "unsettling."
Pushing Back the Socialist Agenda in Education By Dr. Ileana Johnson Paugh CanadaFreePress.com
As the Americans' indifference to the destruction of our country intensifies, the indoctrination and brainwashing from the left of our citizens and of their children accelerates.
UNESCO Blasted for Reappointing Syria to Committee Dealing With Human Rights By Patrick Goodenough CNSNews.com
Already reeling from a recent U.S. funding freeze over its decision to admit "Palestine," the United Nations cultural agency UNESCO is facing new criticism over a decision to reappoint Syria to a committee dealing with human rights. Read the Full Story
The tax would have supported a new federal marketing program aimed at improving the image of Christmas trees. As if Christmas trees needed the governments' help.
The Catholic Worker Movement condemns capitalism for "pitting owners against workers," "widening the gap between rich and poor," and infecting the human heart with "spiritual destitution."
Bill Ayers recently appeared before a group of activist teachers to encourage them to keep up the fight. He told them about the assistance he provided in getting the very radical Bob Peterson elected president of the Milwaukee Teachers Education Association.
Hoping to wow his friendly audience, he also gushed about another leader he helped.
Ayers admitted he hosted a fundraiser at his home for Barack Obama in the 1990s. "I thought he wanted to be mayor of Chicago - that's the limit of my imagination," he told the audience in a video released exclusively by Education Action Group.
This is likely the first time Ayers has been caught on tape discussing his connection to Obama. Their relationship has been routinely been downplayed by Ayers, Obama and his associates, since the national media took a glancing look into their ties during the 2008 presidential campaign.
Ayers' impact on America cannot be underestimated. While many have exposed and condemned his leadership in the radical and violent Weather Underground - and the group's efforts to terrorize the country in the 1960s and '70s - he has done far more damage to our students' minds.
Illustration: Obamacare rationing by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times
Obamacare is the Kryptonite of American politics: Not even Superman himself could survive touching this truly terrible law. Witness the latest voluntary victim of President Obama's race toward socialized medicine: one Dr. Donald M. Berwick. Few are more deserving than he. Obamacare is heading for the ash heap of history, where it belongs, and so are the politicians who forced it upon an unwilling America. Good riddance.
When Democrats plotted to unleash Obamacare, they knew Americans would never accept it, so they chose, quite frankly, to lie about it. They claimed Obamacare would allow you to keep your current insurance and your current doctor. False. They claimed Obamacare would "create 4 million jobs, 400,000 almost immediately." False. They claimed Obamacare would reduce the deficit. False. The list of their lies goes on.
More nails for the coffin of man-made global warming
Global-warming skeptics spend much of their time knocking down the fatuous warmist claim that the science is settled. According to the warmists, this singular piece of settled science is attested to by hundreds or thousands of highly credentialed scientists. In truth, virtually the entire warmist edifice is built around a small, tightly knit coterie of persons (one hesitates to refer to folks with so little respect for the scientific method as scientists) willing to falsify data and manipulate findings; or, to put it bluntly, to lie in order to push a political agenda not supported by empirical evidence. This is what made the original release of the Climategate e-mails from the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia so valuable. They clearly identified the politicized core of climate watchers who were driving the entire warmist agenda. Following in their footsteps are all the other scientists who built their own research on top of the fraudulent data produced by the warmist core.
Last week over 5,000 new e-mails, already dubbed Climategate 2, were released. Anyone still desiring to contest the assertion that only a few persons controlled the entire warmist agenda will be brought up short by this note from one warmist protesting that his opinions were not getting the hearing they deserved: "It seems that a few people have a very strong say, and no matter how much talking goes on beforehand, the big decisions are made at the eleventh hour by a select core group." Over the years this core group, led by Phil Jones at East Anglia and Michael Mann at Penn State, became so close that even those inclined toward more honest appraisals of the state of climate science were hesitant to rock the boat. As one warm-monger states: "I am not convinced that the 'truth' is always worth reaching if it is at the cost of damaged personal relationships." Silly me, how many years have I wasted believing that the very point of science was to pursue the truth in the face of all obstacles. On the basis of this evidence the scientific method must be rewritten so as to state: "Science must be as objective as possible, unless it offends your friends."
All this time, we thought conservatives were the ones pining for the past. Turns out we didn't look back far enough in time. The stone age, when sex came easy and all were equal, was the halcyon era of liberalism.
Intelligent Life magazine, an offshoot of The Economist, asked a panel of writers "what was the best time and place to be alive?" Lucy Kellaway, an associate editor at the Financial Times, answered, America 10,000 to 20,000 years ago:
"Men and women in these hunter-gatherer tribes were the most equal they have ever been. Rich and poor were pretty equal too. With no property, there was no question of feeling hard done by when you failed to keep up with the Paleolithic Joneses.... people frittered away their time on three pleasures that the modern age does not encourage: chatting, playing with children and having sex with more than one person.... Hunter-gatherers were taller and healthier than the farmers who followed them. They had more varied diets and so weren't at risk of famine. They also had great teeth."
A bobo's dream come true: Gender equality, social equality, polyamory, and gastronomical variety. Our Paleolithic ancestors sure had lots to smile about (with their great, shiny white teeth).
Our author, if anything, is too modest. Equality back then extended well beyond sex and class. Everyone was equally likely to die by the age of 30. Women were equally likely to die, along with their infants, during childbirth. And men and women were equally likely to have their skulls fractured by marauding groups of simians. As Hobbes might have said, all lives were equally "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short."
Absurd as this piece is, our author's antiquarian musings highlight three of the most prominent aspects of the contemporary liberal mindset: an obsession with equality, animosity toward private property, and the celebration of unbridled sexuality. All three, it is worth noting, have been on display at the various Occupy Wall Street campgrounds (the latter, in a most ghastly way).
That an intelligent person would, whether in jest or in earnest, even consider a return to such a miserable existence reveals the profound appeal that these ideas continue to exert. Equal poverty is preferable to unequal prosperity, and anything is preferable to the repressive patriarchal family.
To her credit, Kellaway does note that "here and now" remains the best time to be alive. She also does acknowledge that there are "a few disadvantages to the hunter-gatherer lifestyle": a higher likelihood of getting mauled by a wild animal and no television. Aside from that, the paleos had it pretty good.
After the paleocons and the paleo diet, perhaps this will mark the rise of the paleolibs?
Brace yourself. The cost of a new car in America is set to explode, skyrocketing by thousands of dollars, all thanks to a new regulation proposed by President Barack Obama's Environmental Protection Agency and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
Under a new 893-page proposal unveiled last week, automakers must hit a fleet-wide fuel economy average of 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025-double today's 27.3 standard. The government says it would cost automakers $8.5 billion per year to comply, which means a spike in sticker prices of at least $2,000 to $2,800, according to official projections. Other estimates peg the added costs at $3,100, and that could go even higher. As The Wall Street Journal writes, "Vehicles that currently cost $15,000 or less will effectively be regulated out of existence."
Apart from increased costs, the new regulations would have other impacts on consumers as well. In a new paper, Heritage's Diane Katz warns that another unacceptable consequence is loss of life resulting from smaller vehicles:
Occupiers Protest Free Art Museum to Bash Wal-Mart
Alice Walton, Wal-Mart heiress, criticized by Occupy Wall Street for giving $1.4 billion to found Arkansas art museum.
By Julia A. Seymour
Monday, November 21, 2011 5:04 PM EST
The incoherent and absurd messaging of the Occupy Wall Street movement continues. Recently, the OWS crowd joined forces with Wal-Mart workers to protest Crystal Bridges, an American art museum that opened on Nov. 11 in Bentonville, Ark.
Art snobs are outraged by the notion of a major art collection in Arkansas, but protesters are trying to tie this in with their class warfare message about the 99 percent vs. 1 percent.
In a press release posted on GalleristNY.com, protesters said, "Workers negatively impacted by Wal-Mart's recent decision to increase healthcare costs for employees will hold educational events across the country at the Occupy Wall Street encampments in multiple cities putting a face on the Walton family as the '1%' of wealthy Americans making decisions that negatively affect the rest of us."
The Guardian either ignored or excluded crucial information about the Crystal Bridges museum: general admission is FREE. That's right, a grant from Wal-Mart is paying for everyone's admission to the permanent exhibits at the new museum. Perhaps OWS forgot to read the FAQ page on the Crystal Bridges website that pointed this out. Art that is free for anyone to look at seems like it would be on the OWS wish list, but apparently not when the person paying for it is named Walton.
Alice Walton told CBS News her motivation for founding Crystal Bridges: "Art wasn't accessible to me as a child and I hope that changes now for people throughout this region." The museum will include iconic pieces of American art including Norman Rockwell's "Rosie the Riveter" and a Charles Wilson Peale portrait of George Washington, according to The Washington Post.
P.S. Healthcare costs are going up in all companies, due to ObamaCare law's passage.
Cutting the Budget
Legendary game show host Chuck Woolery discusses ways to cut the federal budget in this humorous fireside chat-style video: Watch Video »
Finally, Some Budget Cuts
This sad specimen is the White House's Christmas tree for 2011. In related news, Charlie Brown's Christmas tree is missing.
Meanwhile in Pakistan
Americans aren't the only ones losing their shirts these days. Pakistanis are getting in on the action, albeit in their own way. This guy thought that blindfolding himself and beating his shirtless chest was the most logical means of expressing disdain for the evils of America.
Is it just us or would he look completely at home performing rap music?
Colin Powell is Not Smarter Than a Fifth Grade History Student
by Jeff Dunetz
On Sunday, former Secretary of State under George Bush, and purported Conservative visited with Christiane Amanpour on the Sunday news show This Week. Powell made some interesting comments about America's founding fathers and compromise.
He decried the stalemate in Washington DC and offered up that the two parties catered to the extremes, especially the GOP who seems to operate at the bidding of the Tea Party. He added that there will never be a Tea Party president because they refuse to compromise like our founding fathers.
In his comments, Powell displayed a lack of historical understanding and was making the same mistake as other pseudo-conservatives such as David Frum and Jennifer Rubin who seem to relish putting down other conservatives and tea party activists; he makes no distinction between philosophy and execution.
On one hand Powell is correct, the founders did compromise, but only on execution issues not basic philosophy. The philosophic points were decided by the Declaration of Independence. Maybe it has been a while, so let me suggest they brush up on this part of the Declaration:
Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, -That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
The founders were revolting because Britain was overruling the will of the people, because they were usurping local government and individual rights which affected the happiness of the people.
Tonight on GBTV: Don't miss Glenn's sit down with Congresswoman and GOP Presidential candidate Michele Bachmann, plus what has Glenn more scared than almost ever before? And find out why host of CNBC's Mad Money Jim Cramer recently said, "We are in DEFCON 3, two stages from a financial collapse so huge it's hard to get your mind around." Find out that and more tonight at 5pm only on GBTV! Check out a preview HERE.
Pathetic: Grown men cry over Occupy Library demolition
Glenn played some of the most pathetic audio you'll ever hear in your life - two men weeping at the thought of their Occupy Library being taken down. A little ironic how the same people constantly begging for more government intrusion and regulations are upset that they cannot build a makeshift library without getting any of the proper permits to do so. Hypocrisy aside, these two saps had a good cry on radio today. Check out the clip and reaction HERE.
Another day, another Herman Cain sex scandal
The truth is so hard to find amidst all the lies these days it makes it hard to say with certitude whether or not all of these accusations piling up against former pizza tycoon Herman Cain are in any way legit. Are people just trying to gain their 15 minutes of fame or is Herman Cain as prolific a scorer as Wilt Chamberlain? Glenn has more on the latest Cain sex allegation on radio today. How'd Cain handle it? Find out HERE.
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Dating 101: Glenn tells Cain how to handle the ladies
Herman Cain's constant flow of sexual misconduct allegations against him sparked a heated debate on radio today. What are the types of situations at work that are acceptable to engage in and which are unacceptable? Glenn gets a little heat from the rest of the radio crew for his firm stand that he shouldn't take a member of the opposite sex out to dinner. Hear Glenn's argument and reaction from the team and take the Blaze POLL to settle the score.
Preserving history: Glenn reads history long forgotten
Progressives have done their best over the last century to erase as much history as possible. It's the only way progressivism can succeed going forward - Glenn talked on radio how it's imperative we hold on to as much history as possible before it's gone for good. We must be people of character and use examples like George Washington as a model for our lives - because a big storm is about to hit. Glenn reads from Being George Washington on radio today - WATCH.
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MAD MONEY HOST: We are in DEFCON 3
Glenn has been talking about the perilous state of the economy for years, far longer than nearly every host or pundit out there, and now many others are starting to come around now seeing the dire consequences Glenn sees coming. Jim Cramer, host of the popular program 'Mad Money,' recently came out with an incredibly shocking quote about possible economic collapse. Glenn has more on the fragile state of the global economy on radio today. WATCH
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