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Why Obama Gave Iran A Top Secret US Drone

Most of us have long understood that Obama is a traitor to our country and a mole whose  not so covert mission is to destroy America.

Update : We were right Obama gave Iran the drone  

There is simply no explanation that makes any kind of sense to explain this individual's actions other  than that.

Will Iran use a copy of the Drone to attack Israel or maybe America? Will it be a nuclear attack?

If you cringed at the cavalier attitude with which Obama treated the murder of protesting students at the hands of Iran's dictatorial regime, if you watched, dumbfounded, pictures of Iranian war ships passing trough the Suez canal at Obama's request, if you  listened in disbelief at  the lack of response to Iran's threats of sending war ships to patrol off our shores and if your blood boiled at Obama's betrayal of the blood shed by our troops in Iraq only to turn that country over to Iran, then you know that what I am saying is the only possible explanation.

Obama is doing everything possible to strengthen Iran

Subject: YOUR IMMEDIATE ACTION REQUIRED    Jan Rogers    

Important legislation going on in Washington;   

Remember,  not getting involved is actually a vote of approval for congress to do what they whant , whenever they want.

  Senate Vote To Defund EPA Corps Wetlands Regulations
  Forward this e-mail to your entire e-mail list. Very important.

Tell Both Your Senators To Vote Yes On "Barrasso Heller Amendment" to Defund EPA Corps Jurisdiction expansion.

Call both your Senators at (202) 224-3121.

The EPA and Corps have published new regulations expanding the term "Navigable" so it could cover a bird feeder in your back yard. Don't let the EPA and Corps get away with expanding their own jurisdiction and undermining the limits Congress placed on them by limiting their Jurisdiction to "Navigable Waters" in the Clean Water Act. The EPA and Corps actually want to control all waters of the United States and all activities affecting those waters. You do not want the EPA and Corps in your back yard.

Senate Vote Coming Soon To Defund the new EPA and Corps of Engineers Clean Water Act Regulations. Please make your calls now! Keep calling through the week and after until you hear that the Senate has voted. Call, and call again. Keep calling. Call your friends.

The Senate will likely vote in the next two weeks on an Appropriations Bill Amendment sponsored by Senators John Barrasso (R-WY) and Dean Heller (R-NV) the Energy and Water Development Appropriations bill for fiscal year (FY) 2012 that would Defund the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' (Corps) attempt to expand its jurisdiction under the Clean Water Act (CWA) through guidance documents and/or regulation.

-----This is a full Senate vote.

Action Items:

-----1. CALL BOTH YOUR SENATORS now to urge them to vote YES on the BARRASSO/HELLER CWA (Clean Water Act Amendment) (EPA Corps Wetlands jurisdiction). Call any Senator at (202) 224-3121. Ask for the staff person who handles Clean Water Act issues. Tell them the vote will be scored by the League of Private Property Voters.

-----2. Forward this message quickly as widely as possible. This is very important.

-----3. Do not assume your friends and allies know about this vote. You must get everyone you know to call.

-----4. If one or both your Senators are Democrats it is especially important that you call, fax and e-mail them. Get your neighbors, friends and business associates to call.
                            Background:

In May of this year, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Corps proposed a "guidance" document that attempts to expand their jurisdiction under  the Clean Water Act (CWA) to include almost all waters across the country.

The guidance has not been finalized yet, but the agencies are quickly moving forward to a rulemaking redefining the term "waters of the United States." It is likely the agencies may send the proposed rule to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) within the next two weeks, which is the last stop before a regulation is officially proposed or finalized.

The agencies intend to have a final rule by January 2012. American Land Rights expects the proposed rule to contain much of the language from the CWA guidance and would therefore expand the types and number of waters subject to regulation under the CWA.

More waters falling under "waters of the U.S." would expand the permitting universe under the entire CWA, including Sec. 402 NPDES permits, Sec. 404 Dredge and Fill permits (wetlands), and Sec. 311 Spill Prevention, Control and Countermeasure plans.

The Amendment would do two things: (1) prohibit the Corps from finalizing the guidance and (2) prohibit the Corps from promulgating a rulemaking redefining "waters of the U.S."
                                       *Below are talking points for your phone calls:*

* The guidance uses broad language to define things such as "tributaries" that could lead to almost any roadside, agricultural ditch or intermittent stream being subject to EPA and the Corps' jurisdiction.

* The guidance defines "traditional navigable waters" as any water that supports one-time recreational use (one trip in a canoe down a stream would qualify a water as a "traditional navigable water"). In the history of the Clean Water Act, the term "traditional navigable water" has only been used to describe major rivers that can float commercial vehicles like barges.

* Under this guidance, waters do not have to have a surface connection to a larger body of water that actually moves goods in interstate commerce to be subject to EPA/Corps' jurisdiction. The water body does not even have to have actual water in it for much of the year to be jurisdictional.

* It allows the agencies to "aggregate" similar types of waters  (small streams, adjacent wetlands, ditches or isolated waters) within a watershed. This means the agencies only have to make a "jurisdictional determination" on one water body to then get jurisdiction over numerous others without considering them individually.

* The guidance goes beyond both the Supreme Court decisions in SWANCC and Rapanos because it takes the court's narrow opinion on wetlands and applies it to all types of waters.

* The amendment would prevent the Corps from finalizing this guidance, and would also stop the Corps from initiating a rulemaking that would more broadly define "waters of the United States."

  Please forward this message as widely as possible. The more people who get this document the better chance you have to compete with the greens.

Thank you in advance for your support.

Chuck Cushman
Executive Director
American Land Rights Association
(360) 687-3087
ccushman@pacifier.com <mailto:ccushman@pacifier.com>

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Nullify Now! Philadelphia

THE INTERFAITH TASKFORCE FOR AMERICA AND ISRAEL (ITAI)

123 S. Broad Street, Suite 1832, Philadelphia, PA 19109

HOLD THE DATE

ITAI is pleased to invite you to attend our program titled "Christians in the Middle East: Endangered Species."

With Samir Asad (an Egyptian Coptic-Christian), Wafa Mikhail, and Joseph Puder, and Charles Kahn Jr.,

Our panel will discuss the current situation in Egypt, the Palestinian Authority and Gaza, and more...

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18, 2012, 7:30PM

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Remember January 3rd, 2007 The Day The Democrats Took Over!

Rose Wilt and Die like SB1!

UNITEPA  

Today, supporters of the SB1 Entitlement Voucher Program delivered roses to our legislators to symbolize the violence in our failing schools. The coalition understandsthe danger that our students are facing, which is why we support REAL School Choice for ALL students in the Commonwealth; not just the financially qualified. 

Below is our response to the legislators.

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RedState Morning Briefing

For December 12, 2011

Hey folks, two quick notes from me before we get into today's Briefing.

First, please note the very first story. Identity politics is inherently not conservative because identity politics, a favorite of the left, assumes that all people of a common identity must behave collectively the same way and when some do not conform they must be punished. Here we have a supposedly conservative gay group seeking retribution against someone for going off their identity reservation. I'll have more on this story later too. But for now, can we just declare the great conservative experiment of pretending GOProud is actually conservative over? Thank God CPAC resolved this issue.

Second, if you haven't yet, please consider going here and voting for Ben Howe, one of our front page contributors. He's in the running to get his own radio show, but needs some votes. You will have to register with the site and then click the "LIKE" button on his page. But it would be awesome to get another RedState front pager on the air. Please help him if you can.

1. GOProud's Outing of Rick Perry Pollster Tony Fabrizio Backfires, Outs Them Instead

Earlier this week, Governor Perry released a campaign ad which contained a line about gays being able to serve in the military, but children not being allowed to pray in schools. The theme of the ad was ending President Obama's 'war on religion.' It was, of course, met with the usual and expected responses from various quarters. I'm not going to defend nor bash the ad; it's neither here nor there to me. What I found most disturbing, and most telling, was GOProud's reprehensible, bullying and bigoted response to the ad.

A report surfaced that Governor Perry's Chief Pollster, Tony Fabrizio, was opposed to the ad. GOProud jumped on that and ran all the way to Vileville with it, exposing their belief that all gay people must think the same way. Granted I'm one of those icky breeders, but I'm fairly certain that gay people are, you know, individuals. With thoughts and beliefs of their very own. Not so, according to GOProud! Stray too far, and we will shame you into lockstep! You see, in the midst of a stompy foot temper tantrum, GOProud's true colors came out - and the colors are so not fabulous.

2. The Conservative Fight of the Year Goes On

The Tea Party has lined up strongly in favor of Senator Ron Johnson in against Establishment- favorite Roy Blunt for in the race Vice Chairman of the Senate Republican Conference. This race could be very close. Sen. Johnson has locked up the support from all of the conservative heroes in the Senate. Marco Rubio, Kelly Ayotte, Tom Coburn, Jim DeMint, Rand Paul, David Vitter, and Mike Lee are publicly supporting Johnson. Florida Senate hopeful Adam Hasner has followed Sen. Rubio in publicly supporting Sen. Johnson.

House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan has endorsed Senator Johnson, an unusual step for a House Member in a Senate Leadership election.

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel called it an "outsider vs. insider race". This means those of us on the outside need to step up and make our views known, or the insiders will win, as they usually do. Johnson is the first Tea Party Senator to run for Leadership, and if he wins it will give us a powerful voice in the room.

Call your Republican Senators now 202-224-3121 and tell them to support Senator Johnson. If both of your Senators are Democrats, call Senators from other states.

3. The GOP Payroll Tax Cut/UI Extension Proposal

On Friday, House Republican leaders unveiled their package deal to extend the payroll tax and unemployment benefits for another year and to continue Medicare 'doc fix' for another two years.

While bipartisan passage of the payroll tax cut and doc fix were a forgone conclusion, the real issues for conservatives were the UI extension and the spending cuts. Unfortunately, they are acquiescing to another extension, albeit with some reforms.

4. North America's Energy Bounty, By the Numbers

On Tuesday, the Institute for Energy Research issued its North American Energy Inventory (.pdf link), a report which documents the government's own estimates of oil, natural gas and coal resources for the U.S., Canada and Mexico. (The IER is a non-profit, non-partisan 501(c)3 organization that is dedicated to advancing America's supply using free market principles.)

In a nutshell, North America contains a vast bounty of energy sources in the form of oil, natural gas and coal. Reports that we are "running out" of energy sources use semantics and terminology to play with the facts. Simply put, we have chosen not to exploit potential sources close to home, finding it more expedient or convenient to depend on faraway sources for our energy.

5. Team Romney's pointless reach-out to the Leftist press.

Background: Matt Lewis noted with no little bemusement that some folks working for Team Romney had a conference call where folks from organizations from the table below were invited and were given the opportunity to ask questions, while "Townhall.com, HotAir, Daily Caller, Washington Examiner, National Review, Weekly Standard, American Spectator, or Washington Times" got left out in the cold. Ed Morrissey over at Hot Air was willing enough to note that they didn't give an invite... and I'll chime in that - as far as I know - neither did RedState. Which doesn't surprise me in the slightest, given that Team Romney apparently... well. I will be nice.

But never mind that. Conference calls are often themselves tools of a Lower power, anyway. Instead, let's look again at who got invited, and who got to ask Team Romney questions.

6. When Did the EPA Jump the Shark?

Iron Eyes Cody cried at the sight of polluted waters and skies in a famous public service announcement, first aired in 1971. Old Iron Eyes may have been a faux-Indian, but his message resonated with people. The Crying Indian PSA was one of the most successful ever.

It resonated because it was true. In the early '70s, the environment was a mess. Urban skies were noticeably tinged in sepia/grey. Rivers and streams were often clogged with discarded debris and fouled with chemical sludge.

7. Implementing An International IRS In The Name Of Robin Hood

Today, under the guise of making the rich "pay their fair share(!)," there is a global movement for worldwide taxation that is being pushed by the likes of George Soros, Al Gore, Warren Buffet, Bill Gates, European Socialists, as well as union bosses (and just about every other Marxist group you can imagine). However, unless Americans realize the effort and its ultimate ends, some day soon, we may wake up under the thumbs of global bureaucrats demanding that all Americans pay their "fair share" to a global tax collector-an international IRS, if you will.

8. Sending Mixed Messages, Obama's NLRB Drops Wrongful Prosecution of Boeing

Heritage Hotsheet

Experts on the Day's Hottest News

Items for December 12, 2011

Congress edges toward a compromise on spending

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Investors Brace for Bank Verdict on EU Plan

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

Lindsey Graham calls CFPB 'Stalinist'

POLITICO

Tim Tebow: God's Quarterback

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

U.S. Proposes Unmanned Border Entry With Mexico

ASSOCIATED PRESS

  VIDEOS * TODAY'S HOT PICKS 

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1. VIDEO: Allen West Apologizes to America for failure of Congress to Rein in Federal Spending During the First Session of the 112th Congress
2. SHOCKING VIDEO: House Reps unaware of Operation Fast and Furious
3. VIDEO: NewsBusters Satire: Who says Conservatives have no sense of humor? (12-06-11) ...Massachusetts Democratic Rep. Barney Frank announced he will not seek reelection in 2012...  4. VIDEOS: Rep. Johnson Makes Corzine Squirm With Questioning ... and......Rep. King (Iowa) Confronts Corzine About Personal Risk  5. VIDEO: Rep. Gohmert Asks Holder For DOJ Documents Provided To Terrorist Groups
6. ABC's Barbara Walters' Interview Of Assad: Indefensible  7. VIDEO: Issa Grills Holder On 'Fast & Furious'  8. VIDEO: Holder Says Definition Of "Lying" To Congress Depends On "State Of Mind"  9. VIDEO: You Gotta Believe: Comparing Santa Video Chats  10. VIDEO: Explorers Say They've Found Pieces of Noah's Ark  11. DMV clerk pleads guilty to taking bribes, issuing licenses to illegal immigrants 

Islamist Lobbies' War in Washington on Arab and Muslim Secularists

Dr. Essam Abdallah

Media Promote Global Tax as Financial Crisis Deepens

Cliff Kincaid 

The Ultimate Devastating Price of Government Dependency

Lloyd Marcus 

Holder, Blago, Richardson: Triangle of Sleaze

Michelle Malkin 

Today's Hot Topics

We choose, you peruse.

Eve: Original Sin, Metaphor and Misogyny

Nancy Hartevelt Kobrin, PhD 

Holder Testifies On Fast And Furious

Scott McKay 

The 'Angry Arab' Goes Mad

Cinnamon Stillwell, Rima Greene

Sharia's Sinister Smiles

Raymond Ibrahim

Economics 101 for the Current Congress

Leslie Sacks 

Hi There, Iranians! I'm Hillary, Let's Chat

Dr. Michael Ledeen

Gingrich: Palestinians an 'invented' people

US Republican presidential candidate says Hamas, PA represent 'enormous desire to destroy Israel.' Palestinians react with dismay: 'He is even more radical than extremist Israelis,' says PM Fayyad

December 8, 2011

Fox News: Obama refused to retrieve UAV lost over Iran

Heard on Fox News today ... Obama refused to allow the U.S. to retrieve or destroy lost RQ-170 believed to have glided to ground intact leaving its intel and technology intact for reverse engineering - because 'he was afraid of provoking Iran'. The stealth RQ-170 was years and hundreds of millions of dollars in the making.

Meanwhile, speculation is running rampant that the US RQ-170 surveillance drone was brought down by this piece of equipment supplied to Iran by Russia - the Avtobaza truck-mounted mobile radar jamming system:

Thursday, December 08, 2011

5 Myths About Pro-Lifers, And How To Refute Them
Dec 11, 2011 11:45 am

Can't Pin Jon Corzine Down
Dec 11, 2011 05:00 am

Israeli Palestinian Confrontation,(November 30 - December 6, 2011
Dec 11, 2011 01:56 am

A Brief History of the Transatlantic Counterjihad | The Origins of Anti-Islamic Sentiment
Dec 10, 2011 11:36 pm

Weekly Update: Barney, Blago, Kagan, and In-State Tuition
Dec 10, 2011 10:58 pm

Friday Afternoon Roundup - A Holiday in Brussels
Dec 10, 2011 10:42 pm

EPA Slapdown: U.S. House Approves Farm Dust Regulation Prevention Act
Dec 10, 2011 09:41 pm

FBI's Top Ten News Stories for the Week Ending December 10, 2011
Dec 10, 2011 12:52 pm

State Pensions: The Next Debt Crisis
Dec 10, 2011 11:58 am

Scandal and Insanity at Penn State, Durban and the IPCC
Dec 10, 2011 01:40 am  

West Appointed to National Defense Authorization Act Conference
Dec 09, 2011 11:54 pm

Time to Hold Obama Accountable on Regulations
Dec 09, 2011 10:59 pm

Killing Bin Laden: What Didn't They Tell Us, and Why?
Dec 09, 2011 06:26 pm  

US Should Not Participate in $1.4 Trillion European Bailout Fund
Dec 09, 2011 11:56 am

Holder Protecting Staff over 'Fast and Furious'
Dec 09, 2011 11:51 am

Hard Choices for Hamas with the Rise of the Muslim Brotherhood
Dec 09, 2011 10:00 am

The Top 10 Economic Myths of 2011
Dec 09, 2011 09:45 am

US Should Not Participate in $1.4 Trillion European Bailout Fund
Dec 09, 2011 11:56 am

Obama on the (Class) Warpath
Dec 09, 2011 02:05 am

Media Promote Global Tax as Financial Crisis Deepens
Dec 08, 2011 10:49 pm

Crony Cover-Up:Obama Administration and General Motors Suppressed Information on Chevy Volt Fires
Dec 08, 2011 02:45 pm

Radical Social Engineering By The U.S. Government
Dec 08, 2011 11:15 am

December 09, 2011         

ATHEISTS NUDGE OUT NATIVITY DISPLAY   For the first time in almost six decades, the Santa Monica, California Palisades Park Nativity display may not be allowed. The life-sized, 14 scene display has been called "offensive" by atheists who are demanding that it be moved elsewhere. See the latest updates HERE.     

DOES NEW BILL OK 'INDEFINITE DETENTION'?   Senate Bill 1867 (know as the National Defense Authorization Act) passed last week by a 93-7 margin. However, some of the provisions buried deep inside this bill raise concerns that it negates an American citizen's right to "due process." Get all the facts HERE.     

OWS SHUTS DOWN 'LAW & ORDER' TAPING   Stories on NBC's long-running series 'Law & Order' frequently reflect current events. However, when 'Law & Order SVU' tried to shoot a scene at a park that looked like Zuccotti, the protesters prevented any taping. See the clips of what happened HERE.

BUILDING DESIGN LOOKS STRANGELY LIKE WORLD TRADE TOWERS EXPLODING  The designs for a pair of residential office towers slated to be built in South Korea by 2015 bear an eerie resemblance to the twin towers of the World Trade Center after they were hit by planes. See the designs and read the apology from the architects HERE.

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Academic Study Finds Reuters Middle East Coverage Tainted by Propaganda, Violates Company Principles

Chicago, IL (PRWEB) December 06, 2011

Roosevelt University academic study documents systematic use of propaganda by world's largest news agency.

A study published in the November/December issue of the Journal of Applied Business Research finds that Reuters coverage of the Middle East conflict is systematically tainted by propaganda and influences readers to side with the Palestinians and Arab states against the Israelis.

Researcher Henry Silverman of Roosevelt University analyzed a sample of fifty news-oriented articles published on the Reuters.com websites for the use of classic propaganda techniques, logical fallacies and violations of the Reuters Handbook of Journalism, a manual of guiding ethical principles for the company's journalists. Across the articles, over 1,100 occurrences of propaganda, fallacies and handbook violations in 41 categories were identified and classified.

When it comes to Israel, why is the world silent?

By Ron Prosor

 

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THE INTERFAITH TASKFORCE FOR AMERICA AND ISRAEL (ITAI)

123 S. Broad Street, Suite 1832, Philadelphia, PA 19109

Friday, December 9, 2011

Dear ITAI Members and Donors:

ITAI ON THE MOVE...St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church in Cherry Hill, NJ will host an ITAI program on Wednesday, January 18, 2012 titled "Christians in the Middle East: Endangered Species." The panel will feature Samir Asad, Wafa Mikhail, and Joseph Puder. ITAI chairman Charles Kahn Jr. will present the ITAI story...

ITAI will present on Monday, January 30, 2012, the topic "Islam after the Arab Spring: The Future of the Region and beyond." A high caliber team of Muslim experts including Dr. Tawfik Hamid (Egypt), Ali Alyami, PhD (Saudi Arabia), and Sherkoh Abbas (Syria) will provide valuable insights. Joseph Puder will moderate the program sponsored by Jack Yampolsky and the Institute for Mediterranean Affairs. Charles Kahn Jr. will present the ITAI story, and the program will be videotaped for You Tube viewing. Free admission to this program including lunch will be limited to 25 members. Please RSVP asap...

GREECE AND ISRAEL: RELUCTANT ALLIES

By Joseph Puder

The recent official state visit to Greece by Israel Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon signified a drastic upturn in the relationship between Greece and Israel. And while neither Israel nor Greece considers Turkey officially as an enemy state, clearly the deterioration in the relationship between Ankara and Jerusalem provided the impetus for the tightening of relations between Greece and Israel.

There is a universally accepted maxim in the Middle East: "Your enemy's enemy is your friend." For Israel that friend used to be Turkey - whose enemies were the Arabs.  As Turkey Islamized under Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, it turned against Israel.  As for the Greeks, the Turks have been their perennial enemies, albeit, they are both NATO members.  The island of Cyprus, invaded by Turkey in 1974, was subsequently split between the Greeks and Turks and is a constant source of friction.  Greece has supported the Greek majority in the south of the island, while Turkey supports the Turkish minority in the northern part of the island. It is under these circumstances that Israel and Greece have finally found common ground, and mutual interest in a strategic alliance.    

Years of stagnation in Greek-Israeli relations was temporarily halted when the two countries signed a military agreement in December 1994; however both sides refrained from activating the agreement.  Greece worried about alienating the Arab world, while Israel was concerned about upsetting Turkey.  In 1997 Greece and Israel agreed on joint naval maneuvers; however the Greeks decided to postpone them at the last moment.  The events of September 11, 2001, and the rise of Islamism in the Middle East and the Balkans made it imperative for Greece to consider a strategic partnership with Israel. Sharing intelligence with Israel would, by all accounts, increase Greece's security.

Israel and Turkey had considerable trade exchanges for many years (most recently in 2009 with $1.5 billion in exports to Turkey and $1.8 billion in imports from Turkey) with along with maintaining strong military ties.  In the meantime, Greece has been catering to Arab investors from Lebanon and the Gulf.  Not only did Greece trade heavily with the Arab world, more often than not it voted with the Arabs as well. The foreign policy of the Socialist Prime Minister of Greece, Andreas Papandreou sought to cultivate ties with the Arabs, especially terrorist groups like the P.L.O. and terror sponsoring states like Syria and Libya.  This, along with Israel's close ties with Turkey, led to distrust between the two states.  The escalation in Turkish-Israeli relations following the re-election of Erdogan as Turkey's Prime Minister, and his Islamist agenda, which sought close  relations and a leadership role in the Arab and Muslim world, laid the foundation to the new partnership between Greece and Israel.

Turkey's growing influence in the independent states that were formerly Ottoman provinces worries the Greeks, while Turkey's cooperation with the Islamic Republic of Iran concerns Israel. Both Greece and Israel have come to realize that Turkish-occupied northern Cyprus might become a base for Islamic penetration of Europe.  Moreover, the newly discovered Israeli offshore gas fields offer another avenue of cooperation. Israel views Greece not only as a gas procurer, but also as a European hub, from which Israeli gas could be channeled and sold to Europe.

When Israel experienced one of its most devastating firestorms in the Carmel Mountains last year, Greece immediately sent special fire-extinguishing aircraft. The lifesaving skills of Israel Defense Forces rescue crews have proven themselves to Greece in their frequent fight against fires.  

The loss of Turkish airspace for Israeli Air Force (IAF) training and maneuvers has now been replaced by Greece's airspace.  Greece's further distance from Israel provides an excellent opportunity for the IAF to train against Iranian targets.  In fact, three-years ago, joint exercises were conducted in Greece that involved scores of Greek and Israeli jets.

Israel and Greece also share a common interest in combating Islamist terror.  Israeli security consultants helped the Greek security services prepare for the 2004 Athens Olympics.  Furthermore, Israel has informed the Greeks of the presence of Hezbollah and Iranian operatives on Greek soil.

In economic terms Israel's trade with Greece is relatively small compared to that with Turkey, but it is growing, In 2005 Israel's exports to Greece amounted to $202M, in 2006 it grew to $245M, excluding services.  Conversely, Israel provides the largest market for Greece's exports in the Middle East.  And with the Greek military budget being one of the highest in Europe at 3% of the GDP, the potential for Israeli arms sales to Greece is significant.  Tourism from Israel to Greece has increased considerably as Turkey has become less hospitable to Israelis. Israeli tourists no longer limit their vacations to the Greek islands, but make its Greek cities like Athens and Salonika part of their tours.  Approximately 250,000 Israeli tourists visited Greece in 2010, a 200% increase over the previous year.

In the first visit to Israel on July 23, 2010 by a Greek prime minister in decades, Prime Minister George Papandreou made a point of saying that "We too say never again!," when referring to the Holocaust in which thousands of Greek Jews were murdered. Prime Minister Netanyahu's spokesman declared that "Greece and Israel will undergo a major upgrade of relations."  In his reciprocal visit to Greece the following month PM Benjamin Netanyahu said "We need a peaceful region-a peaceful Middle East region...we also hope that this trip will be a first step to keep improving bilateral relations with Greece." The host, PM Papandreou then stated that, "Good relations between Greece and Israel should be complementary and not competitive with relations between Turkey and Israel."

During last month's visit to Greece by Israel's Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon, his Greek counterpart Dimitris Dollis stated that Israel-Greece relations upgraded in 2010 would continue and strengthen in the near future.  Dollis stressed that the ties between Greece and Israel would not be affected by change of governments in Greece. For his part, Ayalon stated that "Israel will defend Greek oil drilling in Cyprus" and added, "If anyone (Turkey or Hezbollah, JP) tries to challenge these drillings, we will meet those challenges." It was agreed between the two deputy Foreign Ministers that Greece and Israel have common strategic interests in energy and energy security.

Considering the fact that Greece established diplomatic relations with Israel as late as 1992, the bilateral relations between these two Mediterranean nations has now matured enough to go a step further.  Perhaps economic interests and strategic considerations will supersede the idiomatic phrase "One's enemy's enemy is one's friend."  Their common Judeo-Christian history and the threat of Islam have opened the door for a genuine alliance between Greece and Israel.  Their combined strength could change the region and history.

Criticism of Islam Could Soon be a Crime in America

THIS IS OUTRAGEOUS. FREEDOM OF SPEECH IS A CORNER STONE OF OUR DEMOCRACY. WE MUST BE FREE TO TELL THE TRUTH ABOUT ISLAM OR ANYTHING. IN FACT FREEDOM OF SPEECH DOES NOT REQUIRE YOU TO TELL THE TRUTH BECAUSE THEN WE WOULD HAVE ENDLESS LAWSUITS AS TO WHAT IS THE TRUTH. FREEDOM OF SPEECH ALLOWS YOU TO SPEAK YOUR MIND. IF WE TRIED TO OUTLAW WHAT IS NOT TRUE, WE WOULD BE INTO CENSORSHIP. ALSO A NO-NO. TED BELMAN

By Clare M. Lopez, FAMILY SECURITY MATTERS 

When President Obama delivered his much-anticipated speech to the Muslim world at Cairo University in June 2009, the free world trembled while the OIC (Organization of Islamic Cooperation) gushed with praise and begged for a meeting with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

The OIC is the largest head of state organization in the world after the United Nations (UN) itself and comprises 56 Muslim countries plus the Palestinians. It claims to be the "collective voice of the Muslim world," i.e., the ummah, and speaks on its behalf...

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War clouds gather in the Middle East

By Victor Kotsev, ASIA TIMES 

An all-out war in the Middle East is hardly in anybody's interest, yet it may happen, either as an escalation of a lower-intensity conflict, or because one of the sides miscalculates or is pushed into a corner.

A more localized outbreak, for example in Gaza or in parts of Syria, is considerably more likely, given the incredible buildup of arms and words in the region; in the mid-term, an American-backed or led attack on Iran is not inconceivable, as the wheels of both bureaucracy and rhetoric are clearly rolling in that direction.

Outward "signs" coming from the region are clearly not peaceful. Syria is becoming ever less stable, Hezbollah is restive, and the Gaza Strip has accumulated more weapons than ever before (and an all-but-open rivalry has developed between the ruling Hamas and the more tightly aligned with Iran second-largest militant organization there, Islamic Jihad).

Iran is seething - some of the latest developments...

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Why Israel isn't Winning the War

Moral relativism and "purity of arms are not the way to combat Islamic taqiyya and were not the way Nazi Germany was defeated. The West once knew that.

Prof Paul Eidelberg, INN 

Israel's political and military elites are not ruthless enough, hence not wise enough, to win the war against Israel's most ruthless Arab enemies. I say "not ruthless enough" because Israel's Arab enemies are animated by such hatred of Jews that they use their own children as human bombs to kill Jewish "infidels."

I say Israel's political and military elites are "not wise enough" because they do not heed what King David said in Psalm 139 of what Israel must do against her enemies-who are also the enemies of God-"crush them so that they are not able to rise."

Israel is confronted not only by a 1,400 year-old culture whose children are weaned on hatred of Jews, but the leaders of this culture have perfected an evil art of...

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Yishai: Every African 'infiltrator' will return home

Israel should have made this clear from day one. The migrants pay a large sum of money to be smuggled in. If they were warned that they would be returned, they would not want to invest the money to try. Ted Belman

By JPOST.COM STAFF, 

Interior minister dismisses notion that some Africans are asylum seekers or refugees: "These are economic migrants."

Interior Minister Eli Yishai vowed Thursday to exert every effort to see that "the last of the infiltrators return to their countries," referring to the some 50,000 African economic migrants, asylum seekers and refugees currently in Israel.

Speaking with Army Radio, Yishai dismissed the notion that Sudanese, Eritreans and other Africans in Israel have any standing to seek political asylum. "These are not refugees, these are economic migrants who want to come to Israel for work," he said.

Their presence "is an existential threat" to the State of Israel, he asserted, vowing to...

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Obama's buddy Khalidi: "We already have a one-state solution"

Khalidi and all those that bash Israel for being an apartheid state, look only at the reality today and that, they distort in their favour. What they ignore is that the PLO and now the PA agreed to negotiate a solution as required by R242. They further ignore that R242 of the UNSC gave Israel the right to stay in possession until she had an agreement for "secure and agreed borders". Nobody promised them a state on the '67 lines. They are hoping the UN will just give it to them.Ted Belman

By Chemi Shalev, Haaretz 

Hamas and the Palestinian Authority should unite, unequivocally renounce violence and jettison the U.S.-led peace process which is "a corpse that has had formaldehyde pumped into its veins for over a decade" - this is the diagnosis and prescription of Professor Rashid Khalidi, one of the leading Palestinian intellectuals in the world.

"Nobody believes that firing rockets and getting 1,400 people killed in response is 'resistance' that is...

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Buddists fight back in Thailand. "Insurgents deserve to be killed"

h/t Janet Levy

4,800 Buddhists in Thailand have been killed by Muslims since 2004.

This is necessary self defense and about time!   

Israel Commentary
Redacted from an astounding in-depth, painfully factual expose'

By Kevin J. Madigan, COMMENTARY

SHORTLY AFTER THE END of the Second World War, an Austrian, Franz Stangl wandered into Rome looking for a Catholic prelate. He needed the help of a bishop he thought was named Hudal. After a short walk, the Austrian arrived at the episcopal residence he was seeking. "You must be Franz Stangl" the bishop said, warmly holding out both his hands. "I was expecting you."

Stangl had been commandant of the Sobibor and Treblinka concentration camps. Wanted for the murder of nearly a million Jews, he was desperately seeking to escape the clutches of Allied forces justice. He had come to the right man. Bishop Alois Hudal (1885-1963) was rector of a college in Rome known as the "Anima," a seminary for German-speaking priests. He was also a profound sympathizer with National Socialism and dedicated to extending papal charity to Nazi war criminals. After finding...

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Begin - in retrospect

By MARTIN SHERMAN, JPOST  

The road to hell is paved with good intentions - Aphorism attributed to Saint Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153)

We cannot conclude from the good intentions of a statesman that his foreign policies will be either morally praiseworthy or politically successful....How often have statesmen been motivated by the desire to improve the world, and ended by making it worse? And how often have they sought one goal, and ended by achieving something they neither expected nor desired? - Hans Morgenthau (1904-1980), on political realism

The sweeping victory of the Islamist parties in the election in Egypt is - somewhat belatedly - beginning to concentrate minds. Israel is being forced to confront the stark possibility that in the foreseeable future, it may be left with no peace, no Sinai... and eventually, no demilitarization.

Inevitably, this unpalatable prospect will force a national reassessment of the process - and the personalities - that...

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Giving credit (to Foxman) where credit is do.

Kudos to Foxman 

By Isi Leibler

For some months I have been highly critical of the failure of the American Jewish establishment leadership to speak out against repeated hostile policies and statements emanating from various branches of the Obama administration.

I also expressed concern regarding a joint public statement issued by Abraham Foxman, head of the ADL, and his American Jewish Committee counterpart David Harris, which many perceived as an attempt to stifle all political discussion related to Israel in the forthcoming presidential election. If implemented, it would have embargoed both positive or negative comment and discourse concerning policies adopted by parties and candidates in relation to Israel.

Last week, we were bombarded by three separate, appallingly biased and offensive statementsconcerning Israel, expressed by Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the U.S. Ambassador to Belgium Howard Gutman.

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America's Presbyterian Church increasingly anti-Israel, anti-Semitic

See also Vatican's pact with Islam    US church versus Israel 

Giulio Meottin YNET

Most of America's presidents since James Madison were members of the Presbyterian Church. It has the reputation of being the wealthiest and most mainstream among US churches. Presbyterians gave to the United States dozens of presidents, Supreme Court justices, secretaries of state (Condoleezza Rice is daughter of a Presbyterian priest,) cabinet officials and members of Congress. Even pastor Billy Graham, known as "the ear of US presidents," has been a dedicated Presbyterian.

However, in recent years, the US church appeared in the headlines for a virulent anti-Israel campaign in which money, theology and politics are mixed together.

Pro-Palestinian activists, allied with anti-Jewish Protestant zealots, won a victory in 2004 when the church divested its $8 billion portfolio from companies doing business with Israel. A few days ago the Presbyterians and three other US Protestant denominations...

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The medical war on Israel

Special: World's medical NGOs anything but neutral when it comes to Israeli-Palestinian conflict 

Giulio Meotti, YNET

Israel was excluded from the International Red Cross for half a century because of the Star of David. Questioned for having denied entry to the Jewish state, Cornelio Sommaruga, then-head of the International Committee of the Red Cross, declared: "If we're going to have the Star of David, why would we not have to accept the Swastika?"

The historical injustice has been rectified only in 2006. Since then, the world medical organizations have been anything but neutral when it comes to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Over the past several months, three top officials from the Hamas terror group have set up shop at the International Red Cross office in east Jerusalem, in violation of the organization's alleged mandate of "political neutrality."

Secret documents leaked by WikiLeaks also said that Iran used Red Cross ambulances to smuggle weapons into Lebanon...

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Jeff Dunham - Achmed the Dead Terrorist

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Palestine is a Geographical Area, Not a Nationality

December 11, 2011 | Eli E. Hertz

In an interview with Republican Presidential Primary front-runner and former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, a former Professor and Historian, he explains his position on the Arab-Israeli conflict and states that thePalestinians are "an invented Palestinian people, who are in fact Arabs."

It is time to tell the truth that is based on facts:

Until the Jews began returning to the Land of Israel in increasing numbers from the late 19th century to the turn of the 20th, the area called Palestine was a deserted waste land that belonged to the Ottoman Empire, based in Turkey.

'Palestinianism' in and of itself lacks any substance of its own. Arab society on the West Bank and Gaza suffer from a deep social cleavage created by a host of rivalries based on divergent geographic, historical, sociological and familial allegiances.

What glues Palestinians together is a carefully nurtured hatred of Israel and the rejection of Jewish nationhood.

See: www.mythsandfacts.org/Conflict/7/palestinians.pdf

The Prisoner

Few other places turn out dystopian fantasies quite like the United Kingdom and if the United States has never quite become the chrome skyscraper and flying car utopian wonderland of its utopian fantasies, with its ubiquitous cameras and DNA banks, the United Kingdom seems well on the way to its dystopian destination.

 

1984, The Prisoner and V for Vendetta are all a train ride away nowadays. Say the wrong thing and you can expect to be wearing a prison suit and nominated for a national run on Two Minute Hate.

Towards the end of last month, the UK launched a nationwide manhunt or womanhunt, in coordination with online activists, Labour politicians and the police to bring the most feared criminal in the islands to justice. The lady, whose last name is appropriately enough West, will be spending Christmas in prison away from her three children. Her crime was to engage in some abrasive taunts with the denizens of the New Britain complete with obscenities and be videotaped doing it.

West was hunted down, tips were solicited from the public, Ed Miliband, the leader of the Labour opposition, who always manages to wear the face of a well-meaning idiot, retweeted the "important appeal" to track down a woman who was threatening the nation by shouting on a tram that the Poles, Nicaraguans and Blacks should go back where they came from.

Needless to say the charming fellows from Hizb-Ut-Tahir, Islam4UK, Muslims Against Crusades or their associated groups rarely have to spend Christmas or Eid in prison no matter how many poppies they burn or how many slurs they shout. Anjem Choudary is not likely to touch off any morality mobs on Twitter. The same people who desperately sought Emma would sneer at the Daily Mail mentality for even acknowledging good old Anjem.

And around a week or so later the very generous Judge Robert Brown freed four Muslim women who beat a native British woman senseless while shouting racial slurs at her, judging that it was only their inexperience with alcohol that led them to misbehave. The Romans used to say In Vino Veritas, but in New Britain if you're Muslim and drunk you get a free pass on assault. 

Emma West shouting, "What has this country come to? A load of black people and a load of ****ing Polish," merits a nationwide manhunt, but beat a native woman senseless while shouting, "Kill the white slag" and the kindly English judge will be sure to see your side of it. Similarly smash the windows of Jewish stores and you get more judicial kindness, but say the wrong thing about Nicaraguans on a tram and you can expect to be sent to jail for "your own protection".

For all the shouty "vile racist tram rant" headlines, Emma West cutting loose is a familiar enough experience to anyone who rides the New York City subways. I can't begin to count how many times a lady or gentleman have gotten up in the car to express their feelings about white people or the devil or the government. And being experienced dwellers in a multicultural city, we know enough to read our books and switch cars at the next station if they become too agitated without anyone being sent off to prison.

There was once a notion that a liberal society would be an open society, but that door has shut some time back as its activists have discovered that the only way to have an open society is to close the door on any populist dissent. Their kind of liberalism is notoriously unpopular and cannot be sustained without control of the media, regular editions of Two Minute Hate and the baton and the prison cell.

The "I disagree with you but will die to defend your right to speak" society is all but dead, and it has been replaced by the "I disagree with you and will sentence you to prison" society. Disagreeing with an Emma West is no longer an option. Dismissing her views as garden variety bigotry that is an unfortunate reality no longer passes either. No she must be tracked down and sent to prison.
 

Iran's Revolutionary Guards Prepare for War

Iran's Revolutionary Guards have been placed on a war footing amid signs that the United States and its allies are taking action to cripple the country's nuclear weapons development program.  

Ayatollah Khamenei, Iran's spiritual leader, ordered the heads of the nation's military, intelligence and security organization to "take all necessary measures to protect the regime," The Telegraph reported.  

In response, Gen. Mohammad Ali Jafari, commander of the Revolutionary Guards, ordered units to move Iran's arsenal of long-range missiles to secret sites where they would be safe from attack and could launch retaliatory strikes.  

The Iranian air force has also formed "rapid reaction units" that are practicing a response to an enemy airstrike, according to The Telegraph.

Khamenei's order came in response to growing pressure on the Islamic Republic over its nuclear program, and mounting evidence that Iran is being targeted by Western forces seeking to destroy key elements of the program.

An explosion at a Revolutionary Guard Corps base 30 miles west of Tehran on Nov. 12 leveled buildings and killed 17 people, including a founder of Iran's ballistic missile program, Gen. Hassan Tehrani Moghaddam.

Iranian officials called the explosion an accident.  

"However, many former U.S. intelligence officials and Iran experts believe that the explosion - the most destructive of at least two dozen unexplained blasts in the last two years - was part of a covert effort by the U.S., Israel, and others to disable Iran's nuclear and missile programs," the Los Angeles Times reported.  

American and Israeli engineers are suspected of feeding the Stuxnet computer worm into Iran's nuclear program in 2010. The virus caused centrifuges used to enrich uranium to shatter.  

Two senior nuclear physicists were killed and a third wounded by bombs attached to cars or motorcycles in January and November of last year.

In September, the head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, Fereydoun Abbasi-Davani, accused the U.S., Israel and the U.K. of conducting attacks on him and other scientists. Abbasi-Davani was reportedly wounded in a 2010 car bomb blast, National Journal reported.

There have also been reports of unexplained explosions in Iranian gas pipelines, oil installations, and military facilities. Three such explosions occurred in October in a 24-hour period, and a large blast was reported recently in Iran's third-largest city, Isfahan.  

A senior Western intelligence official told The Telegraph: "There is deep concern within the senior leadership of the Iranian regime that they will be the target of a surprise military strike by either Israel or the U.S. For that reason they are taking all necessary precautions to ensure they can defend themselves properly if an attack happens."

Man vs. Morlock  

This week's musings will be something of a departure from the usual fare, in that much of the content is a lengthy excerpt from a book written in 1955 by Milton Mayer, a reporter who studied the lives and attitudes of ordinary Germans leading up to and through the Hitler regime.

While one particular paragraph from the book has been widely quoted - you will probably recognize it - the longer excerpt reprinted below provides critical context to how everyday Germans transitioned from a civil society to a truly heinous police state, and did so with hardly a whisper.

I would like to thank fellow La Estancia de Cafayate owner Pete K. for passing the article along as I consider it to be the most powerful and important piece of writing I've read all year. The parallels to what happened then and what's been going on in America and elsewhere recently sent chills down my spine and, I suspect, will do the same to you.

I hope you feel as compelled to forward this email to everyone you can think of, just as I was compelled to publish it in its entirety.

I'll have some additional thoughts at the end of the excerpt, including on ways to protect yourself, but for now find yourself a comfortable seat and read on...

"What no one seemed to notice," said a colleague of mine, a philologist, "was the ever widening gap, after 1933, between the government and the people. Just think how very wide this gap was to begin with, here in Germany. And it became always wider. You know, it doesn't make people close to their government to be told that this is a people's government, a true democracy, or to be enrolled in civilian defense, or even to vote. All this has little, really nothing, to do with knowing one is governing.

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Herman Cain: Coming Soon to a TV Near You?

Michele Bachmann: My Birth Certificate Is Legitimate

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The Foundation

"No taxes can be devised which are not more or less inconvenient and unpleasant." --George Washington

Government

A Taxing Debate

Following Obama's economic lead

Congressional Republicans and Barack Obama's merry band of class warriors spent much of the week battling over whether or how to extend the payroll tax cut before it expires at the end of this year. Republicans and even some Democrats initially opposed extending the cut, though for different reasons. The small number of opposition Democrats feared a shortfall in funding for Social Security, which is already paying out more than it takes in. Republicans pointed to the fact that the payroll tax cut has done nothing to stimulate the economy or employment, as the president claimed, since the cut is geared toward employees, not employers. Additionally, they opposed the Democrat plan to fund the extension with a 1.9 percent surtax on incomes over $1 million. This surtax would hit a large number of small business owners, and no doubt result in reducing the number of new hires.

Democrats, led by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), shamelessly accuse Republicans of protecting millionaires while allowing the middle class to receive what would essentially be a tax hike. Politically, Democrats have the upper hand, and the House GOP therefore announced a proposal that would extend the current payroll tax for one year, provide for additional unemployment benefits, and avert a significant cut in payments to doctors who treat Medicare patients. It would be funded by extending a federal payroll freeze through 2015, plus other smaller cost-cutting measures. An additional provision in the package, moving forward with the production of the Keystone XL pipeline from Canada to Texas, drew a veto threat from Obama. "Efforts to tie a whole bunch of other issues to what's something that they should be doing anyway will be rejected by me," Obama warned.

He also taunted his opposition: "However many jobs might be generated by a Keystone pipeline, they're going to be a lot fewer than the jobs that are created by extending the payroll tax cut and extending unemployment insurance." In what alternate reality does paying people not to work create more jobs than a pipeline project loaded with jobs?

Michael Steel, spokesman for House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH), responded, "We are working on a bill to stop a tax hike, protect Social Security, reform unemployment insurance and create jobs. If President Obama threatens to veto it over a provision that creates American jobs, that's a fight we're ready to have."

Barack Obama's public ire toward Republicans may be due in part to their interference with his holiday travel plans. The Obama family is scheduled to travel next weekend to their beachfront getaway in Hawaii for 17 days, but Barack may have to stay behind in Washington if a tax deal isn't done. Of course, if Michelle and the girls travel separately, there goes another $100,000 in taxpayer money for the extra planes and security.

Obama had lambasted Congress for not getting a deal done in time for the holiday break, and he advised them to stay in Washington until the work was completed. He originally planned to skip town regardless, but as Mitt Romney told Iowans, "I just think it's time to have a president whose idea of being 'hands on' doesn't mean getting a better grip on the golf club." Obama soon announced that he would stay in Washington until Congress presented him with a bill he could sign. As with all major decisions made in Washington, however, we must wait until the final minutes of the final hour before we learn how this gets settled.

Share your thoughts on the tax cut extension.

This Week's 'Braying Jackass'

"[T]here is a certain crowd in Washington who, for the last few decades, have said, let's ... just cut more regulations and cut more taxes [and] our economy will grow stronger [and] then jobs and prosperity will eventually trickle down to everybody else. They argue, even if prosperity doesn't trickle down, well, that's the price of liberty. Now, it's a simple theory. And we have to admit, it's one that speaks to our rugged individualism and our healthy skepticism of too much government. That's in America's DNA. And that theory fits well on a bumper sticker. But here's the problem: It doesn't work. It has never worked. It didn't work when it was tried in the decade before the Great Depression. It's not what led to the incredible postwar booms of the 50s and 60s. And it didn't work when we tried it during the last decade. I mean, understand, it's not as if we haven't tried this theory." --Barack Obama, who for some reason, doesn't see that it is socialism that has failed repeatedly

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New & Notable Legislation

The Republican-controlled House sent three more jobs-related bills to the Democrat-controlled Senate this week, including the Regulatory Accountability Act (H.R. 3010) and the Regulations from the Executive in Need of Scrutiny (REINS) Act (H.R. 10). The House has passed 25 bills directly related to fixing America's job market, and all 25 sit in limbo in the Senate. Harry Reid refuses to take action on items that would address over-regulation or attempts by unions to overrun private businesses, or to allow entrepreneurs easier access to company-building capital. Republicans should seize this opportunity to educate voters that Obama's so-called "Do Nothing" Congress resides in the Democrat Senate, not the Republican House.

Campaign Trail Tidbits

Herman Cain is out. His campaign couldn't survive the latest allegation of a 13-year affair, and Cain called it quits on Saturday. In our view, more damaging than the allegations -- which were unproven -- was Cain's shocking lack of knowledge, or even the desire to gain that knowledge, about national affairs. In particular, his stock "consult the experts" answer for anything related to foreign policy caused us to question his readiness to be the nation's commander in chief.

Newt Gingrich is rising. The former House speaker has shot to the top of national polls, thanks largely to his stellar debate performances. He is, after all, the "smartest guy in the room." Due to his rise, however, another former House Speaker, Nancy Pelosi, threatened Gingrich, "One of these days we'll have a conversation about Newt Gingrich. When the time is right. ... I know a lot about him. I served on the investigative committee that investigated him, four of us locked in a room in an undisclosed location for a year. A thousand pages of his stuff."

Newt quickly thanked Nancy for the "early Christmas gift," because, he retorted, "If she's suggesting she's going to use material she developed while she was on the ethics committee, that is a fundamental violation of the rules of the House and I would hope members would immediately file charges against her the second she does it." Well played, and Pelosi quickly backtracked. And yet, there is plenty that is unsettling about Gingrich being the frontrunner. His horrendous personal history, his own flip-flops on policy and his mixed leadership in the House, including some pretty pointed criticisms from his lieutenants, certainly give us pause.

Ron Paul is rising. The Texas congressman is running second in Iowa, and a win there could propel him forward. For numerous reasons, we still don't think he will be the nominee, but he's certainly making waves and steering the conversation toward actually cutting government.

Mitt Romney is stagnant. The former governor of Massachusetts and godfather of ObamaCare can't seem to get more than 20-25 percent of the Republican electorate's support. Voters have spent the entire summer and fall looking for the Not Romney. Can he still win the nomination? One thing is certain: In his last year as governor, he spent $100,000 on new computers for his office in what Reuters called "an unprecedented effort to keep his records secret." What could that possibly be about?

Hope 'n' Change: NAACP Voting Complaint

In a potentially frightening development, the NAACP has filed a complaint with the United Nations claiming that there is a deliberate and concerted effort to restrict the vote of blacks and Hispanics in the U.S. They filed a report pointing to what they believe are examples of state and federal efforts to keep the minority voting population from expanding, and in some instances actually disenfranchising registered voters. The examples the NAACP point to include new regulations in certain states that require -- horrors! -- proper identification. The civil rights group claims that it's no coincidence that these states are considered important in next year's presidential election contest. They also have the fastest growing minority populations.

Democrats, who have long held a lock on the minority vote, have also opposed any and all voter identification measures. Of course, these rules are really meant to prevent voter fraud, i.e., the all-too-common voting by non-citizens and individuals who cast ballots in as many precincts as their Democrat bus can get them to before the polls close. Anyone in a state that enforces these regulations may obtain the necessary documentation by making the minimal effort required, and it's free. The only disenfranchisement that occurs is being perpetrated by fraudulent voters who cast one or multiple ballots. The NAACP's report doesn't include that issue, of course, nor does it make clear just what they expect the UN to do about their bellyaching. While if the UN follows its usual model -- which is that it will likely do nothing -- the NAACP didn't file this complaint for no reason. A vigilant eye should be kept on this one.

Blagojevich Sentenced

Former Illinois Democrat Governor Rod Blagojevich was sentenced to 14 years in federal prison Wednesday for, among other things, attempting to sell Barack Obama's former Senate seat. Oddly, though, the word "Democrat" was absent from most of the Leftmedia's coverage. As governor, Blagojevich had the power to appoint Obama's successor, but he wasn't about to do it for free. The 14-year sentence was considerably less than the 20 years prosecutors sought, but far more than the laughable three-and-a-half years desired by Blagojevich's team, his pleas about ignorance of the law notwithstanding. Still, he did say, "I caused it all, I'm not blaming anybody. I was the governor, and I should have known better, and I am just so incredibly sorry." If it's any consolation, he's not alone. He can join the gang of former Illinois governors -- Otto Kerner, Dan Walker and George Ryan -- who spent time in the big house.

Economy

Europe Facing Credit Downgrade

With the European financial system verging on collapse, Standard and Poor's this week announced that it was placing 15 European Union members, including AAA-credit-rated France and Germany, on CreditWatch for a potential downgrade. Among the reasons cited by S&P are "[h]igh levels of government and household indebtedness" and "[m]arkedly higher risk premiums on a growing number of eurozone [countries]." While unwelcome news for EU nations, it should come as no surprise, given Europe's lavish government spending on entitlements and chronic disregard for debt accumulation.

While recognition of Europe's financial crisis is widespread, consensus on a corrective course of action is more difficult to find. The Washington Post reports that French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel have "reached a difficult compromise agreement ... to seek mandatory limits on budget deficits among debt-laden European governments." Yet their "fix" is hardly guaranteed to work or even be accepted. The compromise, which would amount to a renegotiated European Union treaty, is already drawing criticism on the grounds that it may encroach on national sovereignty. British Prime Minister David Cameron, for example, announced he will not "pass any powers from Britain to Brussels."

Meanwhile, in the shorter term, Sarkozy and Merkel disagree on whether the European Central Bank should bail out the European countries by buying up government bond issues. In truth, the solution is quite simple: serious reform and reduction of entitlement spending. As we have seen in our own country, however, doing so is easily proposed but rarely disposed.

Quote of the Week

"I simply do not know where the money is." --Jon Corzine, former CEO of MF Global on the bankruptcy of the company and the whereabouts of $1.2 billion of client money

MF Global's bankruptcy is the eighth largest in history, and Corzine, former Democrat governor of New Jersey, doesn't know what happened. He did, however, advise the Obama administration on the economy. The silence of the Occupy Wall Street crowd is deafening.

As National Review's Kevin D. Williamson quipped, "Let's translate that Jon Corzine quote into Latin, engrave it in stone, and make it the official motto of Congress."

Income Redistribution: Some Governors Just Don't Get It

Working on opposite coasts, two governors have come up with nearly the same solution for their respective states' budget woes: raise taxes on the wealthy. How novel. That said, their approaches to getting this revenue are radically different.

New York Democrat Gov. Andrew Cuomo has leavened his tax proposal by adding a slight cut on the tax rate for middle-class earners as well as a small easing of an already existing "millionaires' tax," which was set to expire after this year. The rate that high earners, most of whom are job creators, would pay is less than it was under the current rules, but far more than it would have been had the temporary tax increase expired without replacement. Once again, the new rate will be "temporary," as it expires after 2014.

On the other coast, California Democrat Gov. Jerry "Moonbeam" Brown conceded that raising taxes would be impossible through the legislative process, as anti-tax conservatives have a large enough minority to block measures that require a two-thirds majority. So he's going to the people with a series of initiatives for the 2012 election, including acts that would increase tax rates on the highest earners by 1 to 2 percentage points and raise the state's sales tax -- already one of the highest in the nation -- a half-point to 7.75 percent. Brown claims these measures will raise $7 billion and are necessary to alleviate the state's massive deficit. That estimate, of course, erroneously assumes that people won't change their economic behavior when their taxes go up.

The alternative, both governors claim, is to make what Brown called "deeper and more damaging cuts" that, as Cuomo added, "decimate essential services [and do] real harm to the state's economy." Of course, other states have tried the "soak the rich" approach and failed to raise the taxes needed to stave off deficits. There's no reason to believe the results will be different in California or New York. Both have lost many revenue producers over the last decade while their government spending nonetheless surged, and raising taxes certainly won't make job creators return.

First-Class Mail Posts Second-Class Service

The United States Postal Service is facing a $5.5 billion default on a payment due to the federal government for retiree health benefits. To address this and certain future red ink, the USPS is proposing the closure of nearly half of its mail processing centers and thousands of local post offices, resulting in perhaps the loss of 100,000. On the revenue end, the price of a first-class stamp will go up a penny early next year, to 45 cents. Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe is also contemplating other changes, such as reducing delivery to five days per week, revising labor contracts, and further increasing postage prices, but he needs congressional approval to carry out his plans.

With the closures and job losses, local deliveries of first-class mail will no longer be promised the next day; instead, the mail will arrive on the second business day after the Post Office receives it. This may not seem like a crushing blow to the public in the era of electronic mail and Internet access, but the idea of "snail mail" becoming even slower won't make the Post Office any more enticing in the face of other delivery services that have supplanted the USPS. We think they're misunderstanding the maxim that "less is more."

What do you use the mail for?

Security

Second Amendment: Fast & Furious Fallout

As if the dirt and skullduggery weren't thick enough in Washington, new controversy surrounds the ill-fated would-be firearms sting "Operation Fast and Furious." In addition to letting several thousand firearms walk across the border illegally, the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) also helped launder and transport millions of dollars in cash into Mexico in efforts to track and disrupt drug trafficking.

That's right: the DEA is helping drug cartels make money. Of course, we all understand the need to infiltrate organizations to get to the "top guy," but two things give us pause: First, the organizations "infiltrated" are the same ones the ATF and State Department decided to arm courtesy of Uncle Sam. Second, one might expect, as we did, that after several years we would see drug cartels taken down, weapons caches recovered, and money and drugs confiscated. We're still waiting. The upshot is that not only are we arming Mexican drug gangs, but, apparently, we're directly funding them, as well. But wait, it gets better.

It turns out that a parallel "gun running" effort by communistas in the Obama administration is actually responsible for the bulk of the surge in arms supply to cartels. Specifically, under the "direct commercial sales" program approved by the U.S. government, large numbers of firearms were sold directly from manufacturers to the Mexican government. Unfortunately, however, the weapons either never arrived or were diverted by military and police personnel defecting to the cartels. The Mexican military recently claimed nearly 9,000 such weapons to be "missing."

The State Department, which oversees the program, found in a recent audit of sales from 2009, the most recent year for which publicly released data is available, that over a quarter of the roughly 19,000 guns sold that year to the region including Mexico were "diverted" or, in bureaucrat-speak, had other "unfavorable" results. For those counting, that's about 5,000 guns a year that are almost certainly winding up in criminal hands, all courtesy of Team Hope 'n' Change. And, according to Attorney General Eric Holder, those guns will be turning up at crime scenes "for years to come," and "it is going to continue to have tragic consequences."

In the wake of this additional buffoonery by the White House, it's reasonable to think that the "Fast and Furious" operation itself would have faded into oblivion. However, as long as new controversies surrounding this operation keep arising -- this week, for example, comes the revelation that ATF officials sought to leverage the operation to implement draconian reporting requirements on U.S. gun dealers -- "Fast and Furious" will remain in the headlines. After all, as Holder maintained, "I have no intention of resigning."

The BIG Lie

Rep. James Sensenbrenner (R-WI) to Eric Holder: "Tell me what's the difference between lying and misleading Congress, in this context?"

Holder's response: "Well, if you want to have this legal conversation, it all has to do with your state of mind and whether or not you had the requisite intent to come up with something that would be considered perjury or a lie."

TSA Abuses Continue Apace

"They who can give up Essential Liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither Liberty nor safety." So said one of our nation's Founders, Benjamin Franklin, in 1775. Nowhere is Franklin's keen insight better exemplified than by what the Transportation Security Administration has become. The stories of TSA oppression are legion, but it appears that this holiday travel season may be a record breaker.

Last week, crack TSA goons prevented a teenage girl from boarding her flight to Jacksonville because her handbag had a gun design on the front of it. Yes, you read that right. Agents told her, "This is a federal offense because it's in the shape of a gun." The girl asked, "But it's a design on a purse. How is it a federal offense?" Agents refused an answer, and she was delayed and missed her flight.

Meanwhile, TSA abuse of the elderly continues apace at New York's JFK airport. One woman in her 80s claimed this week that agents made her pull down her waistband to show her colostomy bag. Another 80-year-old woman said that she was forced to lower her pants and underwear in front of an agent so that her back brace could be inspected. This woman, being in a wheelchair, tried to lift a lightweight walker off her lap when the metal bars banged against her leg, causing a bleeding gash due in part to her blood thinning medication. "My sock was soaked with blood," she said. The TSA agents showed no sympathy, instead pulling down her pants and asking her to raise her arms. "Why are you doing this?" she asked the agents, who, being good, unthinking brownshirts, did not respond. The TSA later both denied the incidents and claimed that agents were just following protocol. We find the official response as cold as the agents' behavior.

Clearly, we're all guilty until proven innocent in the TSA's eyes, all for the sake of avoiding politically incorrect profiling or more targeted searches. This is nothing more than tyranny and oppression from our own government, and it must stop.

Department of Military Correctness: 'Workplace Violence'

During a joint session of the House and Senate Homeland Security Committee this week, even liberal Senate Republican Susan Collins of Maine rightly took issue with the Obama administration's depiction of the Fort Hood massacre in 2009. She referenced a letter from the Defense Department that read, in part, "The documents attached illustrate how the Department is dealing with the threat of violent Islamist extremism in the context of a broader threat of workplace violence." Workplace violence? And here we thought they would classify it as an "expression of faith" protected by the First Amendment.

On the contrary, as Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) put it, the military has become a "direct target of violent Islamist extremism." Indeed, as The Washington Times reports, jihadis are trying to infiltrate the military, likely in hopes of perpetrating another massacre. In other words, as with most things, the administration has it exactly backward. There may be workplace violence, but it will be in the context of a broader threat of Islamic extremism.

What do you think of "workplace violence"?

Warfront With Jihadistan: Iran and the UAV

Iran claimed on Sunday to have shot down an advanced American unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), the RQ-170, in eastern Iran. The Pentagon eventually acknowledged the loss but reported that it was due to command link malfunction, not hostile action, and that it was flying over Afghanistan when the malfunction occurred. Western media speculated wildly about who might gain access to the UAV's technology (Russia and China), where the UAV had really been flying (Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan), and how it was lost (crash, anti-aircraft fire, Iran hijacking the command signal). On Thursday Iran released video footage, but aviation enthusiasts around the world immediately noted the near-total lack of airframe damage, the clumsy appearance of the connection between wing and fuselage, and numerous other oddities, all of which only muddied the picture even further.

The important issue is what happens next. For starters, China will win the bidding war with Russia to exploit any surviving technology from the UAV -- regrettable, but not terribly serious. Iran will have a new grievance with which to complain of U.S. and Western "psychological warfare." Iran's leaders will wonder how many other UAVs may be flying over their nation, and to what purpose, adding to their already high level of paranoia. And we hope and expect the U.S. and our allies will go right on using UAVs and every other tool available to keep pressure on Iran. 2011 has seen Iran make significant strides on its path to nuclear capability, and the day of reckoning grows closer. Even the Obama administration seems to realize that a charming personality and an expensive suit are not enough to change Iran's behavior and that military force may be required as the last resort. In that context, UAVs perform a valuable function in gathering information and "shaping the battlefield."

Culture

Climate Change This Week: More Emails From East Anglia

With the latest release of data massaged to suggest Himalayan glaciers are melting, previously discredited and politically motivated climate-change charlatans from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) have failed to learn the Rogers Rule. Derived from singer Kenny Rogers's song "The Gambler," it says you've got to know when to hold 'em and know when to fold 'em. It appears that the Warmists within the IPCC are crummy gamblers.

Climategate I, which involved the leak of thousands of emails and documents from the University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit, revealed that the climate change industry is a hoax perpetrated by modern day snake oil salesmen. Their livelihoods depended upon continuing a scheme that claimed the climate would face irreparable harm unless leading industrial nations tithed hundreds of billions of tax dollars to poorer nations. To help maintain a fiction that requires far more blind faith than any religion, scientists who disputed the contaminated data were ostracized and denounced. Now these same characters are again trying to spin the same old yarns under the wildly incorrect belief that they have regained some scintilla of credibility. Unfortunately, since they weren't bright enough to fold 'em the first time, they now find themselves ensnared in Climategate II due to the recent release of another 5,300 emails from ground zero of Climategate I.

These messages contain dire warnings about getting caught manipulating data, such as the message from Peter Thorne of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration who wrote, "I also think the science is being manipulated to put a political spin on it which for all our sakes might not be too clever in the long run." Too clever by half, Mr. Thorne.

The hacker/leaker releasing these emails has advised that there are another 220,000 encrypted emails that may be released at some future date. Unless these hoaxers quit while they're behind, the Warmists' failure to heed the maxim "falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus" (false in one thing is false in all) may lead to Climategate III.

Village Academic Curriculum: Zero Tolerance

A North Carolina principal tendered his resignation this week, ending his 44-year career in education. He came under fire after suspending a nine-year-old boy, not for bullying or acting out in class, but for referring to a teacher as "cute." The principal was so busy overreacting that he overlooked two key issues: The first is that sexual harassment is not so much about sex, but about power. Even for those who could make the stretch to believe that a nine-year-old could intend to sexually harass someone, he certainly didn't have any power over a teacher to do so. Second, he didn't even say it directly to the teacher, but to another student. If not for a substitute teacher who overheard the remark and a principal with an overdeveloped sense of political correctness, the boy would have been like any other child, sitting in class or even engaging in -- heaven forbid -- a game of dodge ball. Instead, he was branded as some sort of sex offender in training.

That all changed, however, when the Gaston County Schools superintendent heard the story. He assured the boy's mother that the suspension would not go on her son's record and that he would get extra classroom instruction to make up for time lost. He also told the principal that he could either resign or be fired. The principal chose the former, but he also complained that the superintendent's actions were "politically motivated."

Faith and Family: Atheist Claus

It just wouldn't be the Christmas season without a bunch of atheists trying to ruin it for everyone else. This year, they set up a grotesque display on the lawn of the Loudoun County Courthouse in Virginia -- a crucified skeleton in a Santa suit. Not surprisingly, the community was outraged, and before long "Skeleton Claus" was mysteriously dismantled.

Rick Wingmore, the president of the Virginia Chapter of American Atheists, had the nerve to complain that the Loudoun County sheriff was watching while a "vandal" took down the skeleton. A spokesperson for the sheriff denied this and said they are "investigating" the matter. Of course, the list of suspects is nearly endless, as most people objected to such a display. Why the atheists' disdain for Christ has extended to Santa is unclear, but it's ironic that an organization with no respect for the beliefs and traditions of others becomes angry when the favor is returned.

Meanwhile, Barack Obama, who just found Jesus after the most recent presidential poll showed his weakest support was from church-going voters, celebrated Hanukkah at the White House this week. He lit all the candles, but did so two weeks early, saying, "we never need an excuse for a good party."

Non Compos Mentis: Time's 'Story of the Year'

Time magazine's bizarre leftist antics are well known, including their numerous controversial selections for "Person of the Year." This week, it's their choice for the top U.S. news story of the year. But before we tell you their selection, here are a few candidates: the economy, the debt ceiling crisis, the European fiscal crisis, Osama bin Laden's death or the GOP presidential race. Time chose none of those. Their top story of the year? Occupy Wall Street.

Marveling over what began as "a couple hundred protesters demonstrating against the excesses of corporate execs" in Manhattan, Time describes a movement that changed the world, became an answer to the Tea Party, and was a cry against what we should all be angry about -- "not at big government but at the big banks that gutted the world economy and took billions in bailouts from the U.S. government." Priceless. National Review's Jonah Goldberg wrote, "I'm not at all shocked by the suggestion that Time's editors want it to be the #1 news story of the year. But if you actually believe it was the most important news story of the year, it's a very good sign you live in a liberal bubble." That's putting it mildly.

What do you think is the story of the year?

And Last...

Speaking of the Occupy Movement, the Los Angeles Times reports, "Some Occupy L.A. arrestees feel traumatized, might seek therapy." They're not traumatized by participating in a ridiculous movement that frequently turned destructive or violent. No, they're very upset about how they've been treated by police when they resist removal or arrest. According to the Times, "Several [of the 300 arrestees in LA] said they felt traumatized after witnessing police use non-lethal force and being forced to wait for hours in zip-tie handcuffs. Some displayed cuts on their wrists from the handcuffs. Others complained that they were forced to urinate in bags on the bus as they were transported to jails." Sounds to us like a marked improvement over the sanitary conditions at their camp. Regardless, whatever the therapy that's involved here, we just hope it includes taking a shower.

Semper Vigilo, Fortis, Paratus et Fidelis!
Nate Jackson for The Patriot Post Editorial Team

Thursday, December 08, 2011

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WOLF: Channeling Milton Friedman to a conservative victory

GOP will gain political profit from principle, not personality

Democrats didn't understand the Tea Party when it launched in 2009, and they don't understand it now. They proclaim that if Republicans nominate Newt Gingrich or Mitt Romney, the Tea Party will have failed. They could not be more wrong, and their transparent attempt to dispirit conservatives won't work. Those outmatched liberals who received a good old-fashioned shellacking from the Tea Party in 2010 are hardly in a position to define its future success.

 

First, however, conservatives must face reality and choose one of these three options: (1) Decide between Mr. Gingrich and Mr. Romney, (2) devise some near-magical electoral path in the 11th hour that leads to a different nominee or (3) brace for Barack Obama's second term. A rule to remember: Manage the situation you have, not the one you want, or someone else will manage it for you.

America's last, best hope is the Tea Party. This movement is not some third party or nominating body or even some roster of specific people. Instead, the Tea Party is more of a state of mind, and it's time for all Republicans to fully embrace its guiding principles of constitutional fidelity, limited government and free-market capitalism. After all, racing toward the bipartisan cliff of complete economic collapse will end just the same whether it's at the Democrats' breakneck speed or whether the Republicans can "compromise" the car down to a little slower pace before it plummets.

 

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KUHNER: Being anyone but Barack

President has more in common with Vladimir than Teddy

By Jeffrey T. Kuhner

December 8, 2011

President Obama has been reborn as a populist. At a major speech this week in Kansas, Mr. Obama outlined the themes of his 2012 re-election campaign. He is a champion of the middle class, which he claims is under siege. Their enemies are big business, corporations and the rich.

He chose Osawatomie as the site of his address. It was there in 1910 that President Theodore Roosevelt unveiled his New Nationalism. Mr. Obama directly linked himself to Teddy Roosevelt. In his view, like Roosevelt, he is battling entrenched special interests. Like Roosevelt, he is calling for shared sacrifice on behalf of social justice. And like Roosevelt, he is a populist reformer who seeks to rein in corporate plutocracy.

There is only one problem with the White House's narrative: It's completely false. Mr. Obama is not a defender of the middle class but has been its mortal enemy. His policies have impoverished working- and middle-class Americans.

His massive stimulus failed to restore economic recovery. It dispensed hundreds of billions to cronies and political constituencies - public-sector unions, government bureaucracies and the green lobby. His trillion-dollar deficits and skyrocketing debt have mortgaged the future of our children. Our $15 trillion national debt threatens to bankrupt the country, ensuring years of austerity, painful budget cuts and crippling taxes. Obamacare suffocates businesses, stifles job creation and adds another unsustainable entitlement. It is creeping socialized medicine, which is wrecking the world's finest health care system.

Are we sleeping with the Enemy?

Dec 11, 2011 05:13 am | Coach Collins

By Suzanne Eovaldi, staff writer

The Republican Party hacks, the old line lost leaders who appear to cooperate with the Democrats to help conservative candidates lose Primaries and General Elections, got exposed for what they really are this week.  In some staffer's mistake (or was it), a Yahoo News Reporter allegedly heard the old has-beens warn against "Making personal attacks against President Barack Obama."

Yahoo's Rachel Rose Hartman says they warned on their private conference call that to attack Obama personally would be "too hazardous for the GOP."  Read this to say to the Tea Party crowd and other conservatives who ask if Obama is even eligible to be President, his personal: Don't Ask, and Don't Tell, even if we know the truth.

  Where have these creeps been when we needed them to defend good GOP candidates under vicious attacks from the Democrats and their media?  So in an infuriating revelation of the GOP's Rules for Losers, we ... Continue Reading:Are we sleeping with the Enemy?

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American Minute for December 10th

Dec 10, 2011 03:13 pm | Coach Collins

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

 Bill Federer is a tireless and meticulous researcher whose daily history lessons reflect the relationship between God and our nation. Bill is a regular guest on radio and television shows when getting American history right is essential.

 We're sure you will enjoy Bill's daily columns and want to share them with your friends and families. Bill Federer is an American patriot whose message needs to be heard by all.

By Bill Federer, staff writer

 After slavery ended in the U.S., President Grant spoke to Congress, December 1, 1873, of
"...several thousand persons illegally held as slaves in Cuba...by the slaveholders of Havana, who are vainly striving to stay the march of ideas which has terminated slavery in Christendom, Cuba only excepted."
Spain crushed a rebellion, called the Ten ... Continue Reading:American Minute for December 10th

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How much stupid can one head hold? Let's ask half witted Georgia Democrat Hank Johnson; he'll know

Dec 10, 2011 01:13 pm | Coach Collins

By Kevin "Coach" Collins

 Last March during a House Armed Services Committee hearing,  about deplying Marines to Guam,  Georgia Democrat Hank Johnson used his time to address the Navy's Admiral in charge of the Pacific fleet saying, "My fear is that the whole island will become so overly populated that it will tip over and capsize."  Some people (Democrat apologists) insist Johnson was joking. Looking at the available video of the event does little to support that contention. Nevertheless, because Johnson is a Democrat the story had a shelf life of roughly 15 minutes and he slipped back into a well deserved obscurity undisturbed until now.

He may have been "joking" then; but he really is that stupid.

Thursday after watching "his" Attorney General eviscerated by questions from the Republican members of the House Judiciary Committee Johnson accused three very unlikely culprits in the Fast & Furious crime committed by Eric Holder.

Johnson accused both the "Republican" TEA ... Continue Reading:How much stupid can one head hold? Let's ask half witted Georgia Democrat Hank Johnson; he'll know

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Terrorist threat at home

Dec 10, 2011 05:13 am | Coach Collins

 By Jim Emerson, staff writer

"The American service member is increasingly in the terrorists' scope and not just overseas in a traditional war setting," Sen. Joe Lieberman I-CT The insidious threat to American troops is homegrown Islamic terrorisms. Since September 11, 2001 there have been an estimated 54 home grown Islamic terrorist plots with most targeting military bases and troops. During a joint House-Senate hearing, Rep Peter King R-NY stated "The Department of Defense considers the U.S. homeland the most dangerous place for a G.I. outside of foreign war zones - and the top threat they face here is from violent Islamist extremists," (1)

The session was held to determine infiltration of Islamist extremists in the U.S. military. Ft Hood The worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil since Sept 11 was the Ft Hood massacre. The shooter, Islamist extremist Nidal Malik Hasan has been charged with the murder of 13 people and wounding an additional 29 others. ... Continue Reading:Terrorist threat at home

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American Minute for December 9th

Dec 09, 2011 03:13 pm | Coach Collins

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

 Bill Federer is a tireless and meticulous researcher whose daily history lessons reflect the relationship between God and our nation. Bill is a regular guest on radio and television shows when getting American history right is essential.

 We're sure you will enjoy Bill's daily columns and want to share them with your friends and families. Bill Federer is an American patriot whose message needs to be heard by all.

By Bill Federer, staff writer

The Play, "Fiddler on the Roof," tells the story recounted by President Benjamin Harrison on DECEMBER 9, 1891: "This Government has found occasion to express...to the Government of the Czar its serious concern because of the harsh measures now being enforced against the Hebrews in Russia. By the revival of anti-semitic laws, long in abeyance, great ... Continue Reading:American Minute for December 9th

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The spirit of ousted Fast and Furious minion Dennis Burke; raised from the political afterlife

Dec 09, 2011 01:13 pm | Coach Collins

By Doug Book, staff writer

When Dennis Burke resigned his post as US Attorney for the Phoenix district in August it was with the devout hope his role as local overseer of Operation Fast and Furious would be forgiven and forgotten by the House and Senate committees investigating the criminal gun smuggling affair.

After all, liberal Democrats consider the "willing" abandoning of power the greatest and most meaningful sacrifice of all,  a literal falling on the sword worthy of eternal praise!  After such an act of supreme contrition, any notion of additional punishment should be unthinkable, an uncivilized display of piling on!

But Burke's attempt to gracefully retreat from Fast and Furious responsibility suffered a serious blow in Friday's Department of Justice document dump as his former DOJ colleagues released memos and emails placing the blame for "misstatements" made by the Department to congressional high inquisitors Grassley and Issa directly on Burke's head. If fear caused the former ... Continue Reading:The spirit of ousted Fast and Furious minion Dennis Burke; raised from the political afterlife

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Congressional Black Caucus will lead attacks on GOP nominee; let's not forget who they are

Dec 09, 2011 05:13 am | Coach Collins

By Kevin "Coach" Collins

As trusted overseers on massa Democrats plantation cloaked in protective black skin, the members of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) will be taking the point in the most vicious attacks on our Republican candidates.

Because the CBC can hide behind the media we won't hear much about these people, but here's a list of the corruption surrounding these people.

Corrine Brown of Florida was fined for using her taxpayer paid for staff as workers in her travel agency. Her campaign finance chairman has alleged his signature was forged on financial reports.

Georgia CBC member Sanford Bishop is being investigated for diverting $200,000 to his wife's bank account through a program employing his step daughter and son-in-law.

Indiana's CBC member and Muslim convert Andre Carson has ties to, and has received campaign donations from CAIR and did so while he was a supervisor of an Indiana Anti terrorism team.  The Council On American Islam ... Continue Reading:Congressional Black Caucus will lead attacks on GOP nominee; let's not forget who they are

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American Minute for December 8th

Dec 08, 2011 03:13 pm | Coach Collins

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

 Bill Federer is a tireless and meticulous researcher whose daily history lessons reflect the relationship between God and our nation. Bill is a regular guest on radio and television shows when getting American history right is essential.

 We're sure you will enjoy Bill's daily columns and want to share them with your friends and families. Bill Federer is an American patriot whose message needs to be heard by all.

By Bill Federer, staff writer

   On DECEMBER 8, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln announced his plan to accept back into the Union those who had been in the Confederacy. He wrote: "Whereas it is now desired by some persons heretofore engaged in said rebellion to resume their allegiance to the United States...Therefore, I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, do proclaim, ... Continue Reading:American Minute for December 8th

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The media lynched another black man

Dec 08, 2011 01:13 pm | Coach Collins

 By James Lewis, staff writer

  Karl Rove and the GOP establishment didn't bother to notice, but the high-tech lynch mob of the media lynched another black conservative last week. The radical left which equals the US media these days thought it set a good example for blacks never to get off that plantation again. The media had a good time with their mob lynching, just like the beer-sozzled demagogues of the old Jim Crow days. Robert Byrd taught them a lot.

  Ann Coulter is the only conservative I know who laid out the case for Herman Cain's defense. Herman Cain was simply accused by Axelrod puppets, and you could see the GOP cower down, and even, to their everlasting shame, the conservative media did a shuffle and grin.  The same thing happened to Governor Sarah Palin, who has been media-mobbed for four years because she is a beautiful, articulate, and conservative woman. The left can't allow a woman ... Continue Reading:The media lynched another black man

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Crime Mumia Abu-Jamal Calls in From Prison to Huge Rally Thrown by His Supporters

• Posted on December 10, 2011 Madeleine Morgenstern

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Two opposing rallies converged in Philadelphia Friday as supporters of convicted cop killer Mumia Abu-Jamal held a celebration in his honor while others gathered in remembrance of slain police officer Daniel Faulkner.

 

It was standing room only at the National Constitution Center where hundreds of Abu-Jamal supporters were marking the 30th anniversary of his arrest for Faulkner's murder, ABC affiliate WPVI-TV reported. The event took place just days after prosecutors dropped their push in seeking the death penalty for him.

 

The former Black Panther has long maintained he was the victim of a racist legal system, a charge his supporters took up Friday.

 

Speakers included Cornel West and Poet Laureate Amiri Baraka, and the event even featured a live phone conference with Abu-Jamal himself, who offered advice for youth trying to fight for justice, local CBS affiliate KYW-TV reported. Supporters exploded in applause as soon as his voice rang out over the sound system.

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 Nat'l Constitution Ctr.'s Berke defends Mumia festivities, anti-Semitic speakers

    By Adam Taxin, Philadelphia Jewish Culture Examiner

Published Friday, December 9, 2011

From information gathered over the last 24 hours or so, it appears that Ashley Berke, the Director of Public Relations at the National Constitution Center (NCC) in Philadelphia, is the point person for inquiries about the "Historic Event for Mumia" to be held tonight at the NCC.

Tonight's In-Yo'-Face-Cracker!! festivities were approved by the NCC with sickening taste and dubious judgment rivaling that of last night's Houston-area-Democrat "holiday" party at a Planned Parenthood abortion mill.

To recap, on Wednesday, black bigots and pathetic feckless white so-called "liberals" were titillated when Seth Williams, Philadelphia's black Democrat District Attorney, ended the possibility of the death penalty for Abu-Jamal, on the 30th anniversary of his murder of Philadelphia Police Officer Daniel Faulkner.
 

Among the luminaries the National Constitution Center is welcoming tonight are Ramona Johnson (aka "Ramona Africa") of the child-raping cult MOVE, Cornel West (oops "Dr. Cornel West, the brilliant Harvard scholar"), and "poet" Leroi Jones (who prefers to be known by the badass-black-man moniker "Amiri Baraka"). Among Jones's many fascinating quotes is "Zionism is a reactionary nationalism, more dangerous because in Israel it has state power and functions as junior partner to U.S. imperialism!"

 

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Smackdown!

Rand Paul tells the empress she has no clothes!!!!

  This is great! We need 534 more like him!!! No kidding!!!

You gotta see this!! That's the freshman senator from Kentucky . All
those Kentuckians are NOT hillbillies!!!!!!

News from The Hill:

Labor board withdraws Boeing complaint
By Keith Laing

The National Labor Relations Board has dropped its controversial case against airline manufacturer Boeing, which had become a lightening rod for conservatives.

The labor board had arguing for much of the past year that Boeing decided to locate a plant to build its new 787 Dreamliner jets in South Carolina, a right-to-work state, in retaliation for strikes by unionized workers at its existing facilities in Washington state.

But the panel appeared to bow to political pressure Friday, saying that a deal the company reached this month with the International Association of Machinists to build a different type of airline, the 737 Max, in Washington satisfied its concerns, so it was dropping the case.

Read the story here.

Advocates push rarely-used constitutional powers to appoint consumer nominee
By Peter Schroeder

Consumer groups are calling on President Obama to seize rarely-used powers in the Constitution to make a recess appointee out of consumer financial watchdog nominee Richard Cordray.

Obama's efforts to appoint Cordray to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau created by the Wall Street reform bill have been hampered by Republicans, who have blocked the nomination.

House Republicans who have kept Congress occupied in pro forma sessions have made it all but impossible for Obama to use his recess appointment powers.

But Cordray backers point out that the Constitution allows for the president to actually force the chambers to adjourn, which could open the door to a recess appointment.

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 Union militants are threatening and harassing the courageous charter school teacher who is leading the fight to defend Wisconsin's new government-sector Right to Work law.

With free legal aid from National Right to Work Foundation attorneys, Kristi Lacroix and two other civil servants filed an amicus brief and a motion to intervene against union lawyers' spurious lawsuit seeking to overturn Wisconsin's monopoly bargaining reforms.

WISN-TV in Milwaukee reported that "she has been blistered by negative and vicious emails and phone messages at school and on Facebook, including one suggesting she get protection."

Some militants have even launched a "Fire Kristi" campaign.

As you know, Wisconsin union bosses tried every tactic imaginable to protect Big Labor's monopoly bargaining power over Wisconsin government employees.

They shut down schools, bused in out-of-state agitators, and demanded their allies in the state legislature flee to Illinois to delay a vote.

Then the union bosses wasted millions of dollars -- of their own members' forced dues -- on a failed recall campaign to install a pro-forced unionism majority in the Wisconsin Senate.

Now, union hotheads are bombarding the Kenosha, Wisconsin, teacher with threats because she refuses to toe the union-boss line.

The onslaught of harassment and threats picked up after Lacroix exercised her First Amendment rights and appeared in a TV commercial supporting Governor Scott Walker, who signed the reforms into law.

Other disgraceful messages have threatened Lacroix's career. "Your best bet is to start a job search soon," one militant wrote.

Foundation attorneys are prepared to take all appropriate legal actions to defend Lacroix, and if necessary, provide for the security of her and her family.

In 2005, the National Right to Work Foundation hired 24-hour security for a North Carolina worker who received detailed threats after he successfully challenged a sweetheart deal between his employer and the United Autoworkers (UAW) union.

Union goons routinely employ violence and terror tactics against innocent workers who dare to speak their own minds.

It's vital we expose this thuggery and keep up the legal pressure against the abuses of coercive union power -- including ugly union violence and intimidation.

That's why, if you can, please make a generous, tax-deductible contribution of whatever you can afford to help the Foundation continue to provide free legal aid to Lacroix, expose the injustices of union violence and intimidation to the media, and if necessary, provide Lacroix with professional security.

Union tyrants want to force independent-minded workers like Kristi Lacroix into silence and submission.

But we won't sit by and let that happen.

Sincerely,

Mark Mix

P.S. Union militants are threatening and harassing Kristi Lacroix, the brave charter school teacher leading the fight to defend Wisconsin's government-sector Right to Work law from a spurious assault by desperate union lawyers.

Today's Headlines:  Friday, December 09, 2011

Sesame Street Muppet Pitches Government Dependence: Free Food at School

PETA Rebukes White House for 'Flippantly' Dismissing Question on Senate's Vote to Legalize Bestiality in Military

Obama Administration Welcoming Islamic Group to Washington for Discussion on 'Tolerance'

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EPA Spending Another Million Dollars of Taxpayer Money on 'Environmental Justice' Grants

Holder Scolds Congress for 'Inappropriate Rhetoric' in Fast and Furious Investigation

Gingrich's 'Principled Conclusion' on Individual Mandate Has Changed Over Time

Christie: Obama 'Has Been on the Bench'

NYU to Offer 2 Classes on Occupy Movement

King: 'Al Qaeda and Its Affiliates Continue to See Aviation' in U.S. as 'Prime Target'

Putin Slams U.S. Over Election Criticism

COMMENTARY:

Left, Obama Escalate War on Banks Into Dangerous Territory
By Dan Gainor
The media help liberals demonize so-called 'banksters' and put executives at risk.

Marco Rubio vs. Rand Paul
By Patrick J. Buchanan
A vote for the GOP in 2012 looks more and more like a vote for war.

Holder, Blago, Richardson: Triangle of Sleaze
By Michelle Malkin
It was a rough week for the corruptocracy. White House officials better ho-ho-hold on tight because the sleigh ride isn't going to get any smoother.

Corzine. Democrat.
By Rich Galen
I know this demonstrates my ignorance of big-time finance, but I'm having a really tough time finding much difference between Jon Corzine, Democrat; and Bernie Madoff, crook.

NEWSPAPER ROUNDUP:

 December 09, 2011

On Friday's Program  

GBTV: Glenn lays out his vision for 2012 and beyond in an inspirational episode last night explaining Restoring Love and what's to come. Watch for FREE the full episode of last night's announcement and pre-register to see Glenn and thousands more in Dallas this July!

Occupy Wall Street the new law in town?

One of the 72 Law/Order/SVU/CSI/IBS type shows was attempting to tape an episode about Occupy Wall Street encampments but were shut down when the actual Occupy group complained. Yep, they didn't like how the movement was being portrayed. Hmmmm perhaps they didn't show enough rapes and sexual assaults? Glenn reacts to the apparent new sheriff in town: Occupy. WATCH

Cure for Cancer near?

Corzine: I don't know anything about anything

Former New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine stood before a panel yesterday and answered questions about the missing $1.2 billion dollars from the embattled MF Global. His answer? Hey, there are a lot of transactions and I have no idea what happened. But I sure am disturbed about it! This pathetic answer led Glenn to declare 'you are being robbed'. Get the full story HERE.

Dave Barton takes on Stewart's 'Founders didn't care about Christmas' claim

Frat boy fav Jon Stewart, who is known for adding swears to his jokes and talking about what cable news hosts say, made quite an interesting claim this week about Christmas. He claimed that the Founders didn't care about it and revered the holiday about as much as 7-11 does (quack quack). This led to a feud between Stewart and PolitiFact: David Barton stops by to settle the score. WATCH

The most offensive building ever? South Korea's 9/11

It's quite a unique design but it so clearly looks like the World Trade Center towers when they were attacked by terrorists on 9/11/01. Is this building - which is still on track for construction - a purposeful slam on America? Is it a celebration of the terrorist attacks that killed 3,000 innocent Americans? Glenn reacts today -- get that and the picture of the design HERE.

Cop Killer Mumia Abu Jamal death sentence overturned: Glenn reacts on radio today to the overturning of Mumia Abu Jamal's death sentence and to his supporters rallying in Philadelphia. Will he eventually go free? Glenn has more HERE.

Indefinite Detention for Americans...in America?