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January 3, 2012
Quote:
Benjamin Franklin letter to Samuel Cooper
Date: May 1, 1777
[I]t is a common observation here that our cause is the cause of all mankind, and that we are fighting for their liberty in defending our own.
Is Joe Biden going to be our interim President before the end of this year?
December 29, 2011
VERY QUIETLY OBAMA'S CITIZENSHIP CASE REACHES THE SUPREME COURT
AP - WASHINGTON D.C. -
In a move certain to fuel the debate over Obama's qualifications for the presidency, the group "Americans for Freedom of Information" has Released copies of President Obama's college transcripts from Occidental College ... Released today, the transcript school indicates that Obama, under the name Barry Soetoro, received financial aid as a foreign student from Indonesia as an undergraduate. The transcript was released by Occidental College in compliance with a court order in a suit brought by the group in the Superior Court of California. The transcript shows that Obama (Soetoro) applied for financial aid and was awarded a fellowship for foreign students from the Fulbright Foundation Scholarship program. To qualify, for the scholarship, a student must claim foreign citizenship.
This document would seem to provide the smoking gun that many of Obama's detractors have been seeking. Along with the evidence that he was first born in Kenya and there is no record of him ever applying for US citizenship, this is looking pretty grim. The news has created a firestorm at the White House as the release casts increasing doubt about Obama's legitimacy and qualification to serve as President article titled, "Obama Eligibility Questioned," leading some to speculate that the story may overshadow economic issues on Obama's first official visit to the U.K. In a related matter, under growing pressure from several groups, Justice Antonin Scalia announced that the Supreme Court agreed on Tuesday to hear arguments concerning Obama's legal eligibility to serve as President in a case brought by Leo Donofrio of New Jersey . This lawsuit claims Obama's dual citizenship disqualified him from serving as president.. Donofrio's case is just one of 18 suits brought by citizens demanding proof of Obama's citizenship or qualification to serve as president.
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Southern NH 9.12 Project
& Temple University Students for Intellectual Freedom (TUSIF)
This is a really good chart with all the candidates positions on issues....note especially, please, those that support agenda 21
THERE WILL BE NO JANUARY Valley Forge Patriots Tea Party MEETING !!!
MEETINGS WILL RESUME IN FEBRUARY
3rd WITH A FORUM ON THE PA SENATE RACE TO UNSEAT BOB CASEY. SAM ROHRER,STEVE WELSH,AND MARK SCARINGI HAS CONFIRMED ATTENDANCE. MORE INFORMATION TO FOLLOW.
OUR BEST WISHES TO YOU ALL FOR A MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY, HEALTHY NEW YEAR!!
The VFP steering committee,
Mark, Betty, Joe, Jeff & Tom
We are looking for a few good women and men for local committee seats
The Kitchen Table Patriots is looking to help the Bucks County Republican Committee fill some vacant local committee seats.
These seats will be filled in the spring primary. Below is a list of some known vacancies to be filled. There are probably others as well. If you are at all interested in running for any of these offices, please reply to this email and we will work with you to understand the office and get campaign support.
Warrington Township District 2 (Woman)
Warrington Township District 8 (Woman & Man)
Buckingham Middle 2 (Woman & Man)
Buckingham Upper 1 (Woman)
Buckingham Upper 3 (Woman)
Upper Southampton West 1 (Woman & Man)
Upper Southampton North 1 (Woman)
The committee positions are the root of the party, and who better to help out with this than the grassroots!
Mark Your Calendar!
The Kitchen Table Patriots along with The Loyal Opposition, The Thomas Jefferson Club and Citizens for Constitutional Government present the Pennsylvania Republican Candidates for the U.S. Senate Debate
1. David Codrea, unauthorized journalist who broke Fast & Furious, to speak in Montgomeryville Jan 7.
Please see the flier at bottom of email for our big event: David Codrea presents Fast & Furious. We need you to distribute this flier to everywhere/everyone you think will be interested, and we hope you can come yourselves. We need to fill the room which holds 400!
2. We need your 2012 election ideas
Please submit your ideas for things we can do as individuals or groups to win our region in 2012. Tea Party Patriots is taking all suggestions, and we coordinators will report up what our members (you guys) say. I would submit 2 lists: A) with no funding and B) with funding (your wishlist). For example with no $, we can pass out info door-to-door. But with $, we could put up a billboard. PLEASE DON'T TAKE THIS TO MEAN WE HAVE FUNDING; but there are ideas good enough to fundraise for. Please submit ideas by replying or go to our forum.
3.Tom Smith for Senate - any interest?
Is there any interest in hearing Tom Smith for Senate on Wednesday Dec 14 at the Rock from 7-9pm? Please reply before Tuesday at 4pm if you intend to come so we can decide if it's feasible. I'll let you know if we have a quorum. http://tomsmithforsenate.com/
4. Get onto our forum
Please get onto our FORUM if you'd like to communicate with other members, post items of interest, keep track of legislation, figure out rides to events, propose ideas, etc. It's accessible from the blue link, or our website, www.centralmontcoptpp.com
Thomas Jefferson: "Whensoever the general government assumes undelegated powers....a nullification of the act is the rightful remedy."
But what IS nullification? How does it happen and work? Since September 2010, the Tenth Amendment Center has been hosting a national tour to educate and activate people on this topic. People are learning the constitutional basis, when it's been used in history, and how it is happening around the country and how YOU can stop DC right in your own state.
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
At
St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church
1989 Rt. 70 East, Cherry Hill, NJ
Admission is free, tax-deductible contributions to ITAI are encouraged.
Please RSVP by 1/16/12.
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Remember January 3rd, 2007 The Day The Democrats Took Over!
I wonder how many people know this?
The day the Democrats took over was not January 22nd 2009 -- it was actually January 3rd 2007. The day the Democrats took over the House of Representatives & Senate, the start of the 110th Congress.
The Democratic Party controlled a majority in both chambers for the first time since the end of the 103rd Congress in 1995.
"For those of you who are listening to the liberals propagating the fallacy that everything is "Bush's Fault," think about this:
January 3rd, 2007 was the day the Democrats took over the Senate and the Congress:
At the time:
The DOW Jones closed at 12,621.77
The GDP for the previous quarter was 3.5%
The Unemployment rate was 4.6%
George Bush's Economic policies SET A RECORD of 52 STRAIGHT MONTHS of JOB CREATION!
The Case Against Obamacare: Health Care Policy Series for the 112th Congress
A Health Care Policy Series for the 112th Congress
Building on decades of Heritage research, The Case Against Obamacare: A Health Care Policy Series for the 112th Congress examines 15 key provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Each report:
Cites specific sections of the 2,700-page health care law
Provides detailed analysis of specific Obamacare provisions
Identifies key principles for a better way to reform health care
The unmistakable conclusion of this series is that Obamacare must be fully repealed. Congress cannot build sound market-based health care reform on the flawed foundation of this health care law. Until it can be repealed, Congress must employ its full powers authorized by the Constitution to:
For Tea Parties, this can be used as basic ammunition for letters to the editor, columns for your local news outlet, handouts at public events, emailing the pdf to our elected reps as well as to members, friends and neighbors.
This appears to be an excellent resource; let's make use of it.
Lou Flanagan
The General Wayne Tea Party
The 2012 Presidential Voter Guide
The first contests in the race for the Republican nomination are just around the corner. To better inform you, we looked beyond the rhetoric to the candidates' actual records on the issues important to families.
This voter guide outlines candidate stances on issues that are important to the family. We researched the candidates' statements and votes on the ten issues that best give voters an understanding on if the candidates match your values. Please use this resource as you think about who you would like to see be the nominee to challenge President Barack Obama.
Download the free guide and be sure to share this resource with your friends and family before the 2012 primary season begins next month.
A values voter is an informed voter.
Sincerely,
Tony Perkins President
FRC Action: 801 G Street N.W. Washington, D.C. 20001 P: 202/393-2100 or 877/372-2808
How the presidency will be won. This is a very cool interactive map that will serve as a great road map to see how states are trending and build your own "white board" for the upcoming election. Simply click on the states to change the results to build your own scenario. Save this on your desktops, it will come in handy on 6 November 2012.
Let's be honest: We all know you're not really gonna quit smoking, start exercising, and eat more vegetables as of today. As Emerson wryly remarked: "All promise outruns performance."
The key to keeping your New Year's resolutions is to make them more realistic. Rather than try to drastically change the way you live, why not start with the more modest goal of changing the way you speak? And what better place to start for conservatives than with America's Founding principles?
As conservatives continue to rediscover the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, it is important to use words and embrace ideas that are consistent with our Founding principles.
If you're fond of the term "states' rights," have a soft spot for nullification, are tempted by isolationism or are wary of equality, here are four simple resolutions to begin getting right with America's principles. Once you have these down, you can start correcting your friends and move on to other core concepts.
A picture released by Fars News Agency on December 29, 2011, shows a U.S aircraft carrier spotted in an area of the Iranian navy ongoing maneuver zone on the Sea of Oman, near the Strait of Hormuz in southern Iran. UPI/ Abdollah Arab Koohsar/Fars News
The Strait of Hormuz lies between Iran and the United Arab Emirates, providing passage for some 15.5 million barrels of crude oil per day, amounting to one third of the world's seaborne oil shipments. In a word, it is a 34-mile-wide chokepoint, making Iran's threat this week to shut down the strait all the more serious for the global community.
The Iranian regime's provocative warnings came on Tuesday from Iranian First Vice President Mohammad Reza Rahimi who threatened to close the strait if Iran faces sanctions for its nuclear ambitions. And Wednesday, Iran's top naval commander Habibollah Sayyari said, "Closing the Strait of Hormuz for Iran's armed forces is really easy ... or, as Iranians say, it will be easier than drinking a glass of water."
Iran's closing of the strait - and its economic ramifications - is a scenario that has been contemplated before. From December 2006 to March 2007, Heritage Foundation scholars conducted a computer simulation and gaming exercise that examined the likely economic and policy consequences of a major oil disruption in the Persian Gulf. Specifically, the war game was based on a scenario in which Iran began blockading the Strait of Hormuz in January 2007.
Bang for your buck: that's what the Freedom Center provides. Ammunition for the culture war against the Left: that's what your contribution buys. So please act now and help us in the fight we are waging on many fronts for America's future. America is under assault from within and without. There is no time to lose.
Phares: Obama Administration Failing to Contain Iran
Thursday, 29 Dec 2011
By Paul Scicchitano and Kathleen Walter
Respected Middle East expert Walid Phares tells Newsmax.TV that Iran is playing a "very dangerous game" by threatening to close the vital Strait of Hormuz oil route - a move that the Obama administration is unprepared to stop.
"The Iranian regime does saber rattling, thinking this is a good strategy. But at the same time this is a very dangerous business because they may choose to stop shipments coming to the [Persian] Gulf or through the Gulf as a result of our sanctions and that of course is going to draw United States, Eurpoean, NATO and international response," Phares warns in an exclusive interview on Thursday.
An EMP or electromagnetic pulse attack, a high altitude nuclear blast wiping out electronics across a massive area may be, according to a Russian source, "right around the corner."
The destruction of a collection of rare documents on Egyptian antiquities, and the persecution of Christians, highlights a fundamental problem with fundamentalist Islam.
We are faced with this dilemma now, in the wake of the "Arab Spring." No matter what our policy in the Middle East, it is criticized by one side or another.
Pandering to P.C. demands will sink us, will weaken our foundations and our unique culture; a culture of tolerance yet of logic, of equality but also of independence.
Days after it arrived on the scene, the Arab League's mission to Syria appears to have sunk into a routine that is unlikely to end the 10-month-old crisis.
Home of Islam's founder, and with an absolute monarchy in charge, Saudi Arabia is a nation of wealth, Wahhabism, witchcraft accusations and weekly public executions.
Books and reading were integral to the growth of America as a culture, and helped those from poor backgrounds to raise themselves up. Reading should still be encouraged.
Our US economy is fast falling into a third world economy according to Paul Craig Roberts, former Reagan administration official. "Americans have been betrayed by their government," he recently told a Georgia television audience when asked if the fault all lies with China. When the politicians of both parties told us we'd have a new economy with new products available and new types of jobs, basically Roberts is saying we were sold a false bill of goods.
Unless decisive action is taken immediately, he is warning that a demise of the US economy will feature only domestic services and other non-trade products such as wait jobs, bartenders, and ambulatory health care jobs. "We were told we would have a New Economy, but those jobs never appeared," the Reagan advisor said.
India, especially, has been the recipient of the politicians' failed economic policies. "The jobs aren't here anymore." So while we were ... Continue Reading:Why there are no jobs in America
On DECEMBER 31, 1955, Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia, and founder of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, led a nonviolent protest by boycotting the city buses of Montgomery, Alabama. Rev. King stated: "If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the historians will have to pause and say, 'There lived a great people...who injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization.'" At the end of the year, 1962, President John F. Kennedy stated: "We mark the festival of Christmas which is the most sacred and hopeful day in our civilization. For nearly 2,000 years the message of Christmas, the message of peace and good will towards all men, has been the guiding star of our endeavors...the birthday of ... Continue Reading:The American Minute December 31
Without telling anyone but Embraer, the Brazilian company he has decided to give the contract to, Barack "transparency" Obama has bypassed an American company and shutdown any further bidding on a project to build Light Air Support (LAS) planes for the Air Force.
Given the Obama Administration's penchant for double talk and outright lying it's no wonder Hawker Beechcraft a Kansas air ship building company was snubbed. In Obama's world building American really doesn't count for much except as a phrase to use when talking to union members whose votes and money he needs. Since Hawker is a heavily unionized company the answer to the question of this contract award must be something else.
Embraer: An Obama kind of operation
Aside from the underhandedness of not telling Hawker that the bidding was closed on Dec 22, (an SOP for these people) Embraer is a typical Obama like bag of crap; ... Continue Reading:Did Obama award Air Force plane contract to "Air Solyndra"?
In reaction to proposed sanctions over its nuclear program, Iran has threatened to close the Strait of Hormuz cutting off the flow of crude from the Middle East. Iran's Chief of the Navy, Admiral Habibollah Sayyari boasted that "Closing the of Hormuz for Iran's armed forces is really easy." He was overhyping the capability of his navy in advance of a planned 10 day Iranian navel exercise in the strait. Iran did state that "it would stop the flow of oil through the Strait of Hormuz in the Gulf if sanctions were imposed on its crude exports."
This was the second such threat made by that regime in a week. The Republic's Navy has no plans to close it in the immediate future, but has even been so bold as to declare that the United States was in no position to "give orders" concerning the use of the Strait.
"Oh, East is East, and West is West, And never the twain shall meet, Till earth and sky stand presently, At God's great judgment seat" wrote Rudyard Kipling in Ballad of East and West. Born DECEMBER 30, 1865, in Bombay, India, he was sent back to England at age 5 for schooling. Poor eyesight ended hopes of a military career, so at age 16 he returned to India as a journalist, winning acclaim for his poems. He fell in love with his friend's sister, Caroline Balestier, while visiting in America.
They married and settled in Vermont, where two of their children were born. There he wrote Captains Courageous and The Jungle Books. Once back in England, he declined King George V's offer of knighthood, Poet Laureate and Order of Merit, though accepting the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907. His works include: Kim, Wee Willie ... Continue Reading:American Minute December 30
Where are the demands from Democrats for Eric Holder's resignation for lying to Congress in the Fast and Furious investigation? They are NOWHERE TO BE FOUND!
Democrats always use a double standard when they whine about Republicans. They try to investigate every Republican they can on the flimsiest of charges specifically to make ALL investigations look petty and politically motivated. They do this to inoculate the criminals in their own Party from future investigations into the genuine criminal activity they KNOW will occur.
A brief comparison of the phony "charges" brought against Bush Atty. General Alberto Gonzales and the serious charges Obama Atty. General Eric Holder faces makes this point.
Gonzales was accused of "improperly" using the Patriot Act to uncover personal information about American citizens; Holder, while referring to them as "my people" has ordered his office not to prosecute Black Panthers caught on tape intimidating White voters.
In the past few days we have seen the once reliable Matt Drudge make an all-out no pretenses dive into Willard Romney's tank.
The man who once typified the anti-establishment drive for balanced reporting has abandoned us. He has stooped to quoting The Politico's "considered" opinion that Willard will win the Republican nod in Iowa as if this was next Wednesday morning.
Drudge apparently thinks we don't know The Politico is the extremely pro Democrat site that savaged Herman Cain and pushed him out of the race with an avalanche of empty stories. He thinks we don't know The Politico would never print such stories about a Democrat. Drudge is banking on us forgetting his new BFFs at The Politico refused to run any stories about John Edwards's love child until she was in pre-school.
This site has presented the publicly available facts connecting Eric Holder to the cover up of the federal government's involvement in the Oklahoma City bombing which killed 168 people including dozens of innocent children. We have run stories explaining this ugly act and Holder's involvement in it. Now we need your help in spreading the word.
These Representatives have demanded Holder's resignation over Fast & Furious, but Oklahoma City is even worse. If your Representative is listed below, compile this information and get it into his/her hands. The Democrat controlled media won't touch this information. If we don't fight this fight no one will.
The first President to light the National Menorah, Jimmy Carter, speaking of hostages held by Islamic terrorists in Iran, 1979, said: "Commitments to be free are ever present in the hearts of all Americans because 50 of our fellow citizens are not free." Ronald Reagan, the second President to give a HANUKKAH Message, 1983, remarked: "Whether we be Americans or Israelis, we are all children of Abraham, children of the same God. The bonds between our two peoples are growing stronger, and they must not and will never be broken." In his 1991 HANUKKAH Message, George H.W. Bush stated: "When Judah Maccabee and his followers prepared to rededicate the Temple in Jerusalem, they found...only enough oil to light the menorah for one night. Miraculously, it lasted eight." Bill Clinton, in his 1993 HANUKKAH Message, said: "The eternal lesson of HANUKKAH-that faith gives us the strength to work ... Continue Reading:American Minute December 29
In recent days, in the midst of people of different faiths celebrating the religious High Holidays of Christmas and Hanukkah, there have been extraordinarily brutal mob frenzies over the chance to buy assorted products. People have been beaten and killed in the pursuit of the most insignificant of material items.
I have heard many different explanations.
Of course, I prefer my own.
"We The People" have let the individual down. "We The People" have allowed the lives of the everyday citizen of America to become valueless.
The beauty of the American experiment is that as equals, we could live completely different lives and feel utter contempt for what someone else believed, but should anyone cause another American citizen harm, or threaten their life, the community of Americans came together for swift justice, and with a jury system made up of free Americans, celebrated the most sacred of duties: the execution.
Several churches in northern Nigeria were bombed December 25, in what has been described as "Nigeria's blackest Christmas ever." The attacks, perpetrated by the Muslim militant group Boko Haram, killed at least 39 people, "the majority dying on the steps of a Catholic church [in Madalla near the capital of Abuja] after celebrating Christmas Mass as blood pooled in dust from a massive explosion." Charred bodies and dismembered limbs lay scattered around the destroyed church.
Boko Haram: Nigeria's jihadists and murderers of Christians
As usual, the world offered the requisite, if perfunctory, condemnations. Of note, however, is the word so many Western leaders, from the White House to the Vatican, used to characterize this latest Muslim attack on Christians-"senseless"-a word that implies no motive, no goal, no rhyme, no reason.
Although Boko Haram has been bellowing its straightforward and far from "senseless" goals for a decade-enforcing Sharia law and, in conjunction, subjugating if not eliminating Nigeria's Christians-one can see why so many are decrying the Christmas Day bombings as "senseless": the mainstream media's coverage offers little by way of context or continuity concerning the attacks.
Video of US carrier filmed from Iran plane during drill in Persian Gulf
An Iranian warplane has spotted a US aircraft carrier during Tehran's ongoing navy drill in the Persian Gulf, reports IRNA news agency. The US fleet's maneuvers come after Iran threatened to block the oil flow through the Strait of Hormuz.
Tehran's surveillance jet has shot a video and pictures of the American carrier, which was later identified as John C. Stennis. The US Fifth Fleet keeps a military base in Bahrain, while the ship was spotted in the Gulf of Oman after crossing the Strait of Hormuz.
Iranian state TV also showed images of the Iranian exercise, which is taking place in international waters near the Strait of Hormuz - the passageway for one-sixth of the world's oil supply. The US Navy's Bahrain-based Fifth Fleet is also active in the area, as are warships of several other countries that patrol for pirates there.
The Obama administration is trying to convince Israel to release arch-terrorist and mass-murderer Marwan Barghouti.
According to the Hamas-aligned Al Quds daily, Washington views Barghouti as its preferred candidate for Fatah to field against Hamas in Palestinian Authority (PA) elections in May 2012.
"A high-profile US delegation has regularly discussed with officials in Tel Aviv the option to free Al Barghouti to lead Fatah against Hamas in the next elections," the sources that the daily did not identify, said.
The Al-Quds report comes as Arab capitals are abuzz with the news that PA chairman Mahmoud Abbas will not seek re-election, leaving Washington concerned Fatah has no one to field against Hamas.
However, the release of Barghouti, who was sentenced to five life sentences for as many terror related murders in Israel, and who security services say is responsible for at least 21 other murders, is widely opposed in Israel.
Indeed, even the suggestion that Barghouti might be released as a part of a deal to free 1,027 terrorists in exchange for kidnapped soldier Gilad Shalit created a firestorm of outrage in the Jewish state.
December 30, 2011 'GIANT' SPOTTED AT KIM JONG IL FUNERALMany of the news releases from government-controlled North Korean media contain doctored images. This one appears to be legit. Check out a photo from the funeral procession of the late Kim Jong Il featuring one of the tallest people HERE. WHY WAS AN ANTI-MUSLIM WEB SITE REMOVED?A hate-filled, anti-Muslim website was scrubbed from the web after complaints filed by the pro-Muslim group CAIR. Was this justified or just another example of free speech on the Internet taking another hit? Read some of the examples and decide for yourself HERE. ONLY EIGHT PILOTS CAN LAND ON THIS RUNWAYThere are only a handful of pilots qualified to land a plane on the airport runway described as "terrifying." Find out why this landing strip has such a frightening reputation HERE. WHAT IS BACHMANN'S FAV GUN AND WHY?Like most presidential candidates, Michele Bachmann has been asked a lot of strange questions. During an interview yesterday, she was asked about her favorite firearm. Find out what the candidate is "packing" and why she's chosen it HERE.
GOV'T GONE WILD! COUNCILWOMAN RETIRES FOR JUST A DAY - COLLECTS $478,000If you want a prime example of a politician "gaming the system," look no further than Philadelphia Councilwoman Marion Tasco. She will complete her sixth term on the City Council and retire today, so she can receive a pension payment of almost half a million dollars. And then, on Monday Tasco will be sworn in for a seventh term. See the shocking details HERE.
TN WOMAN FACES 3 1/2 YEARS IN PRISON FOR BRINGING HER GUN TO THE 9/11 MEMORIALA tourist from Tennesee was standing in line to visit the 9/11 Memorial in lower Manhattan when she noticed a sign saying "no guns allowed." The woman is licensed to carry a gun in her home state and she had it with her. Trying to follow the posted signs, she asked security guards where she could check the firearm in her purse. Find out what happened next HERE. VIRAL VIDEO DU JOUR - THE BEST LOCAL NEWS BLOOPERS OF 2011 Each day, all across America, there are thousands of local news anchors and reporters busy at work, broadcasting the news. That fact means that the opportunity exists for hundreds of on-air screw-ups and bloopers to happen. Watch one collection of these on-air stumbles, or what we call "Video Gold" HERE.
SHOULD WE WORRY? A CHIMP LEARNS TO BUILD A CAMPFIRE AFTER WATCHING HUMANS The video attached to this story shows a very clever primate that has learned to gather firewood, construct a pile of kindling and operate a lighter in order to start a fire. Find out how the chimp learned to do this and watch what the clip HERE.
About the only people having a Happy New Year in the Muslim world aren't the Christians who are huddling and waiting out the storm, but the Islamists who use a different calendar but are having the best time of their lives since the last Caliphate.
The news that the Obama Administration has brought in genocidal Muslim Brotherhood honcho Yusuf Al-Qaradawi to discuss terms of surrender for the transfer of Afghanistan to the Taliban caps a year in which the Brotherhood and the Salafists are looking up carve up Egypt, the Islamists won Tunisia's elections, Turkey's Islamist AKP Party purged the last bastions of the secular opposition and Libya's future as an Islamist state was secured by American, British and French jets and special forces.
Time Magazine declared that 2011 was the Year of the Protester, they might have more honestly called it the Year of the Islamist. In 2010 the Taliban were still hiding in caves. In 2012 they are set to be in power from Tunisia to Afghanistan and from Egypt to Yemen. They won't go by that name of course. Most of them will have elaborate names with the words "Justice" or "Community" in them, but they will for the most part be minor variations on the Muslim Brotherhood theme.
2011 will indeed be remembered, but not because of any Arab Spring or OWS nonsense. It will be a pivotal year in the rise of the next Caliphate. A rise disguised by angry protesters waving cell phones and flags. And clueless media coverage that treated Tahrir Square as the new fall of the Berlin Wall.
This was the year that Obama helped topple several regimes that served as the obstacles to Islamist takeovers. The biggest fish that Ibn Hussein speared out of the sea for Al-Qaradawi was Egypt, a prize that the Islamists had wanted for the longest time, but had never managed to catch. That is until the Caliph-in-Chief got it for them. Egyptian Democracy splits the take between the Brotherhood and the Salafists, whom the media is already quick to describe as moderates. First up against the wall are the Christians. Second up against the wall are the Jews. Third up is all that military equipment we provided to the Egyptian military which will shortly be finding its way to various "moderate militants" who want to discuss our foreign policy with us.
But there's no reason to sell the fall of Tunisia short or the transition in Yemen. And when mob protests didn't work, NATO sent in the jets to pound Libya until Al-Qaeda got its way there. Turkey's fate had been written some time ago, but 2011 was the year that the AKP completed its death grip on the country with a final crackdown on the military, which has now ceased to be a force for stability.
Left out of the picture is Somalia. Liberals fulminated when Bush helped drive out Al-Shaab and its jolly Muslim lads with a habit of beheading people who didn't grow beards or watched too much soccer. Any number of editorials complained that we had destabilized the country and that the Islamic Courts Union were really a bunch of moderates in disguise.
The Signs Are There If Jews Only Open Their Eyes By Bill Narvey
What? Another Holocaust could be just around the bend?
Renowned conservative pundit, Mark Steyn sure seems to think so.
An article, December 6th, 2011 in The Jewish Tribune out of Toronto by Joanne Hill, that likely has not received the attention it deserves, certainly raises the specter of another genocidal holocaust against the Jews, Western society complicit: Resurgence in antisemitism may lead to second Holocaust, Steyn says.
Hill was reporting on a recent address by Steyn to about 1,000 people gathered at Toronto's Reform Jewish synagogue, Holy Blossom Temple, which focused on resurgent antisemitism, particularly in Europe.
The article's title is taken from Steyn's startling dire warning of what the future may hold for us Jews.
Hysteria? Fear mongering? Maybe, but to what purpose and what is in it for Steyn who is not Jewish?
Then again, taking a closer look at all the signs, maybe not.
TORONTO - Western society is complicit in a resurgence of antisemitism that may lead to a second Holocaust, for which humankind will have no excuses, warned Mark Steyn.
"There is something profoundly wicked in the contortions that Europeans are willing to make with respect to their own complicated history with the Jewish people," said Steyn. "We are on the verge of the biggest, most disgusting and evil event of all, in part because of the complicity of the West."
About 1,000 people filled the sanctuary at Holy Blossom Temple last week to hear the best-selling author and political commentator in conversation with Dr. Elliott Malamet, founder of Torah in Motion and associate professor of Jewish Education at York University.
Steyn decried the "nimbleness of the Western mind in regarding a relatively small and peripheral group of people as the source of the problem"...
When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. - Sherlock Holmes in This Sign of the Four
There has been much talk in Palestine about emigration, especially among the young people...in search of a better life abroad. Many are continuing to rush to the gates of the embassies and consulates... with requests for visas in order to reside permanently in those countries. - the PA's mufti of Jerusalem, 2007
My past two columns, PART I and PART II, focusing on the authenticity (or lack thereof) of the Palestinian's national identity following Newt Gingrich's characterization of them as an "invented people," generated a brisk public exchange.
Numerous questions were raised and reservations expressed as to the various aspects of the operational program I proposed, especially regarding the prospects of implementation.
(Reuters) - Egyptian prosecutors and police raided offices of 17 pro-democracy and human rights groups on Thursday - drawing criticism from the United States which hinted it could review its $1.3 billion in annual military aid.
The official MENA news agency said the groups had been searched in an investigation into foreign funding.
"The public prosecutor has searched 17 civil society organizations, local and foreign, as part of the foreign funding case," MENA cited the prosecutor's office as saying. "The search is based on evidence showing violation of Egyptian laws including not having permits."
Among groups targeted were the local offices of the U.S.-based International Republican Institute (IRI) and National Democratic Institute (NDI), a security source and employees at the organizations said.
The U.S. State Department said the raids were "inconsistent with the bilateral cooperation we have...
Israel may soon take in a highly unexpected immigrant. Aisha Gadhafi, the daughter of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, who was killed in October after a nine-month uprising against his regime, may seek political asylum in Israel if she is allowed to enter, the Walla Israeli news website reported on Wednesday. It was quoting the French intelligence website Intelligence Online.
Aisha Gadhafi fled Libya during the violent uprising against her father, and went to Algeria with her mother, two other siblings and other relatives.
The report said she recently told friends in Europe with whom her family had close personal and business ties that she may ask the Israeli government for political asylum because of concerns that her Algerian hosts could buckle under pressure from Libya's new rulers and extradite her to stand trial in her home country.
Gadhafi may legally qualify for immigration to, and even receive citizenship, in the Jewish state under Israel's Law of...
On December 21, the New York Times? published an article by reporter Scott Shane titled "In Islamic Law, Gingrich Sees Mortal Threat to U.S." The article tried to subtlety discredit Gingrich and others talking about the Islamist agenda in the U.S., twice stating that "many scholars" feel the threat is being overblown and it is "roundly rejected&rd quo; by most experts.
The Times opens up with some of Gingrich's quotes, such as when he called Sharia a "mortal threat."
"Stealth jihadis use political, cultural, societal, religious, intellectual tools; violent jihadis use violence. But in fact they're both engaged in jihad, and they're both seeking to impose the same end state, which is to replace Western civilization with a radical imposition of Shariah," Gingrich says.
Gingrich's warning is then characterized as a "much-disputed thesis in vogue with some conservative thinkers but roundly rejected by many American Muslims, scholars...
The Obama administration is trying to convince Israel to release arch-terrorist and mass-murderer Marwan Barghouti.
According to the Hamas-aligned Al Quds daily, Washington views Barghouti as its preferred candidate for Fatah to field against Hamas in Palestinian Authority (PA) elections in May 2012.
"A high-profile US delegation has regularly discussed with officials in Tel Aviv the option to free Al Barghouti to lead Fatah against Hamas in the next elections," the sources that the daily did not identify, said.
The Al-Quds report comes as Arab capitals are abuzz with the news that PA chairman Mahmoud Abbas will not seek re-election, leaving Washington concerned Fatah has no one to field against Hamas.
However, the release of Barghouti, who was sentenced to five life sentences for as many terror related murders in Israel, and who...
Op-ed: World should not allow Arab effort to deny Jewish connection to Jerusalem
Giulio Meotti, YNET
It's the site where humanity received the gift of one God. It's where God's "shechina", or presence, dwelt. Even the secular imagination, Jewish or not, has been shaped by the "Holy of Holies," the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, the most sacred site of the Jewish people.
It's there that King David raised a sanctuary for the Ark of the Covenant and King Solomon and Herod built the Temples. This holy place - not Shenkin Street, Jerusalem's Rehavia neighborhood, or Herzliya Pituach's high-tech hub - prompted the Jews' return to their land after two millennia of dispersion and pogroms.
In theory, Israel currently controls the Temple Mount. In reality, since 1967, when the Israeli army seized the "holy basin" from Jordanian forces, the Jewish state gave up religious freedom for the Jews.
As the lights of the festival of Chanukah flicker out, it is comforting to know that the modern day miracle of the Start-up Nation will continue to spread its effects far into the future. The Jewish State's research discoveries, technological innovations, humanitarian efforts, business ventures and social programs will be impacting lives across the world from today until next Chanukah and beyond.
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Just take a look at these recent medical achievements. Researchers from Israel's Technion and Rambam medical centre are the first in the world to create new blood vessels using pre-programmed embryonic stem cells. These cells can be produced from heart patients to treat cardiovascular diseases without fear of being rejected by their immune systems. In another breakthrough, scientists from Jerusalem's Hebrew University have genetically engineered the "evil" tobacco plant to produce artemisinin - a natural compound that produces large numbers of...
Delegation of left-wing Israelis visits damaged Tuba Zangaria mosque to 'make amends'. But what if it was torched by Arabs?
I have written about how the so-called 'price tag' actions have been a goldmine for anti-Israel propaganda. Although there seem to have been a few cases where vandals were actually caught, in others it seems as though the police have simply "rounded up the usual [right-wing activist] suspects." After a burst of publicity about how they are doing their job, they are forced to release them for lack of actual evidence.
We know that the manufacturing of Israeli 'crimes' is a cottage industry for Palestinians. There was the notorious case of Mohammed Dura, the 'Jenin massacre' in which nobody was massacred, the Gaza Beach incident (where navy ships allegedly fired on Palestinian picnickers), and countless incidents alleged to have occurred during Operation Cast Lead which found their way into the Goldstone Report. Hizballah...
This is not true - please listen to the entire video. I believe Ron Paul is using this youtube to distort Glenn's position on progressive republicans. He is warning conservatives to not support Newt Gingrich.
In recent months, a new theme has replaced the media's past obsession with Israel's alleged mistreatment of the Palestinians. While abuse of Israel on this count is by no means over, with no humanitarian crisis in Hamas-ruled Gaza to trumpet and the Palestinians' obvious disinterest in peace, the Israel-bashers have turned to a different theme: the imminent end of Israeli democracy.
Stories about proposed laws seeking to regulate non-governmental organizations, press disputes, clashes with the ultra-Orthodox and the treatment of women have often been combined to put forward the idea that the Jewish state is in the grips of a neo-fascist right-wing that is fast on its way to ending democracy and installing a theocracy that would no longer be seen as sharing values with the United States. But though Israel is beset, as is any democracy, with serious social problems and partisan clashes over a host of issues, the idea that democracy there is in any danger is a figment of the imagination of the country's left-wing critics. Rather than being in decline, it is, if anything, more vibrant than ever.
Saudi Arabia's official textbooks for children say, among other hateful propaganda:
The hour of judgment will not come until the Muslim kill the Jews
Women are weak and irresponsible
Homosexuals should be killed because they pose a danger to society
U.S. Aid to Saudi Arabia:
2005: $967 million
2006: $1.6 BILLION
2007: $319 million
2008: $113 million
2009: $361 million
2010: $208 million
2011: $368 million
This problem has been exacerbated by Western dependence on Middle Eastern oil, which has created a secondary dependence that may be even worse: CREDIT dependence. We're addicted to Saudi (as well as Chinese) credit as devastatingly as we're addicted to Saudi oil.
We have GOT to liberate ourselves from oil dependence on the Middle East.
The first question that comes to mind is: Why are we providing financial aid to oil-rich Saudi Arabia AT ALL?
Secondly, a recommendation: by developing domestic oil and natural gas resources, the United States has an opportunity to dramatically reduce BOTH oil dependence and credit dependence simultaneously.
Saudi Arabia: is it a "Staunch ally," as many of our leaders claim, or is it rather an implacable ideological enemy that has bought American allies in the highest places of our government, thus facilitating our oil and credit addition? Every time American political forces prevent domestic resources from being developed in the name of environmentalism, the unspoken agenda of keeping the U.S. dependent on ideological enemies like Saudi Arabia tightens its grip.
Dave
Extremist Teachings Remain in Saudi Textbooks Despite Kingdom's Claims of Reform
Illustration showing the proper location for foot and hand removal as punishment for crimes
Despite Saudi Arabia's promises to clean up textbooks in the kingdom, recent editions continue to raise alarms in the West over jihadist language.
The recent editions were obtained by the Institute for Gulf Affairs in Washington, D.C., and the translations were first provided to Fox News.
"This is where terrorism starts, in the education system." Ali Al-Ahmed, director of the Institute for Gulf Affairs, told Fox News. Al-Ahmed, a Saudi national, said the textbooks, made and paid for by the Saudi government, were smuggled out of the kingdom through confidential sources.
Barack Obama's manifold failures over the last three years have left him in a political tough spot as we enter 2012. He will have a challenging time running on a record that has resulted in massive unemployment, stagnant income growth, a record number of people on food stamps, and a gargantuan level of debt that Americans will be paying off for decades after Obama has retired to the golf courses of Hawaii. As was clear from his recent speech calling forth the spirit of Teddy Roosevelt, he will campaign on the idea that he will bring "fairness" to struggling Americans.
Of course, as was true of Obama's 2008 "hope and change" campaign, "fairness" has the political virtue of meaning whatever one wishes it to mean. However, there is plenty of evidence about what it means to Barack Obama: taking money from one group of Americans and giving it to another on a scale never before seen in America.
Americans should have comprehended Obama's redistribution agenda back in 2008. As is so often true of Barack Obama, one hears only rare flashes of truth from him when his teleprompter is Missing in Action. He has slipped more than once. There was his "spread the wealth" comment to Joe the Plumber. Before that widely noted revelation, there was his 2008 declaration that he would hike capital gain taxes even if it failed to raise revenues because of "fairness." He was -- and is -- willing to trade losses in jobs and wages to advance his leveling ideology.
But even before those admissions, a perusal of Obama's own writings and record would have revealed that he agreed with the man he called his "moral compass," Pastor Jeremiah Wright, Junior, that "white folks' greed runs a world in need." As president, again sans Teleprompter, he ad-libbed that "I do think at a certain point you've made enough money." At what point would Obama have cut off Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, and other pioneers who have done so much to make our nation prosper? Probably at a point that would have prevented the growth of Apple, Microsoft, and other assorted companies that have propelled our economy over the years. But who cares about the economy when there is "fairness" at stake?
Virginia AG Intervenes in GOP Ballot Dispute as Blocked Candidates Join Suit
By Carl Cameron
Published December 31, 2011 | FoxNews.com
Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli is intervening in his state's presidential primary dispute and plans to file emergency legislation to address the inability of most Republican presidential candidates to get their name on the ballot, Fox News has learned.
Meanwhile, four GOP candidates on Saturday joined fellow candidate Rick Perry's lawsuit against the state, urging the Board of Elections to either allow them on the ballot or at least refrain from taking any action until a Jan. 13 court hearing.
Only Mitt Romney and Ron Paul qualified for the Virginia primary, a contest with 49 delegates up for grabs. Perry and the four candidates joining the lawsuit -- Newt Gingrich, Michele Bachmann, Rick Santorum and Jon Huntsman -- did not.
The failure of other candidates to qualify led to complaints that the 10,000-signature requirement is too stringent.
Cuccinelli, who is a Republican, shared the concerns and plans to take them to the legislature while the candidates work through the courts.
I used to joke that Osama bin Laden was probably hiding out all these years at MSNBC, since nobody ever looks there for anything. The latest cable TV ratings bear this out. Fox News is killing everybody, taking the top 13 places in the ratings. Turns out that even re-runs of the O'Reilly Factor do better than MSNBC's best show. You can look up the whole list here, but here's the first half of the page (click to enlarge):
Two notes: Fox typically does better in election years, so look for their numbers to swell as we approach November. Along with it, listen for the wailing of the Left about how awful this is; it will probably reach North Korean dimensions. Second, Fox Business shows are at the bottom of the ratings heap. It never really has taken off as a rival to CNBC. In some cases it may be because the channel is not carried by a local cable system? I'm not sure.
Meanwhile, if you want a good yuck, check out the Thrills McMatthews Twitter feed, described as someone who "Sold my soul to the devil in past life and now forced to serve eternity as an msnbc intern." It contains gems such as:
#MSNBC brass told me to wish the 99% a very Mao-y Christmas.
Just got a card from Andrea @Mitchellreports wishing me a "Fair & Evenly Distributed Non-Specific Holiday"
Awkward moment in #msnbc newsroom after @AlexWagner &@RichardWolffeDC showed up wearing the same hemp skirt.
Seeing folk/country artist Suzy Bogguss up close performing at the Dakota Jazz Club and Restaurant in downtown Minneapolis this past spring was one of my 2011 highlights. I wrote about the show briefly in "Aces." I loved Suzy and the show.
John Hinderaker caught up with Suzy when she returned to Minnesota this fall. John is a serious fan of country music, so I was particularly interested in his take. John gave it to us in "Belated Suzymania."
When Suzy appeared at the Dakota she provided a preview of her wonderful American Folk Songbook recording. When she returned in the fall, she was supporting the release of the disc. The disc is clearly a labor of love.
After seeing her at the Dakota, I signed up for Suzy's newsletter. In the December newsletter Suzy includes the video of her performing one of the numbers off American Folk Songbook from the recording session for Suzy Bogguss LIVE from Sirius XM Nashville, broadcast on November 29. Here she is performing "Careless Love" backed by guitarist Pat Bergeson, bassist Charlie Chadwick et al. It is so beautiful.
That is what Andrew McCarthy thinks. He notes the significance of President Obama's recruiting Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi to mediate secret negotiations between the U.S. and the Taliban:
The surrender is complete now. The Hindu reports that the Obama administration has turned to Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the Muslim Brotherhood's leading jurist, to mediate secret negotiations between the United States and the Taliban. ...
For those who may be unfamiliar with him, he is the most influential Sunni Islamist in the world, thanks to such ventures as his al-Jazeera TV program (Sharia and Life) and website (IslamOnline.net). In 2003, he issued a fatwa calling for the killing of American troops in Iraq. ...
Qaradawi urges that Islam must dominate the world, under a global caliphate governed by sharia. He maintains that Islam "will conquer Europe [and] will conquer America." ...
Thus does Sheikh Qaradawi champion Hamas, mass-murder attacks, and suicide bombings. "They are not suicide operations," he brays. "These are heroic martyrdom operations." Indeed, he elaborates, "The martyr operations is [sic] the greatest of all sorts of jihad in the cause of Allah."
You get the drift. So, what sort of deal is Qaradawi charge with negotiating?
After thousands of young Americans have laid down their lives to protect the United States from jihadist terror, President Obama apparently seeks to end the war by asking Qaradawi, a jihad-stoking enemy of the United States, to help him strike a deal that will install our Taliban enemies as part of the sharia state we have been building in Afghanistan. If the Hindu report is accurate, the price tag will include the release of Taliban prisoners from Gitmo - an element of the deal Reuters has also reported. The administration will also agree to the lifting of U.N. sanctions against the Taliban, and recognition of the Taliban as a legitimate political party (yes, just like the Muslim Brotherhood!). In return, the Taliban will pretend to forswear violence, to sever ties with al-Qaeda, and to cooperate with the rival Karzai regime.
It would mark one of the most shameful chapters in American history.
Yes, it would. But the Afghanistan war is deeply unpopular, and Obama wants to run for re-election next November on the boast that he "ended two wars." The baleful consequences of re-installing the Taliban in Afghanistan will not appear until long after the next election campaign, which is all that Obama cares about. So if the outcome foreseen by Hindu and McCarthy comes to pass, it will be shameful indeed.
UPDATE: This AP news story of just a few hours ago appears relevant:
Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Saturday welcomed remarks from the Obama administration saying that Taliban insurgents were not America's enemies.
Earlier this month, Vice President Joe Biden said in an interview with Newsweek magazine that the Islamist militants did not represent a threat to U.S. interests unless they continued to shelter al-Qaida.
Biden's comments came amid reports that the Obama administration and other governments are trying to establish a peace process with the Taliban to help end the 10-year war.
"I am very happy that the American government has announced that the Taliban are not their enemies," Karzai said in a speech to the Afghan Academy of Sciences. "We hope that this message will help the Afghans reach peace and stability."
A senior U.S. official has told The Associated Press that Washington plans to continue a series of secret meetings with Taliban representatives in Europe and the Persian Gulf region next year.
The U.S. outreach this year had progressed to the point that there was active discussion of two steps the Taliban seeks as precursors to negotiations, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the issue.
Trust-building measures under discussion involve setting up a Taliban headquarters office and the release from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, of about five Afghan prisoners believed affiliated with the Taliban.
If we have to negotiate with the Taliban, couldn't we appoint John Bolton to do it? But then, what point could such negotiations have other than to sugarcoat a surrender?
This past Monday night there was a riot at the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota. It was the rare Twin Cities story that drew national attention. John was able to contribute an eyewitness report from one of his daughters in our post "Riot at the Mall of America."
What happened? We still don't know the origin of the riot. I've been looking over the past week for the Star Tribune - Newspaper of the Twin Cities - to get to the bottom of the story. For some reason, however, the story remains about where it was Monday night or Tuesday morning. Will the Sunday paper have something to offer? If so, I'll let you know.
It's probably not a good sign when a presidential candidate cries in public. At any rate, the associations aren't positive. We have the legendary tears that seemed to mark the fall of Ed Muskie. Muskie was standing in the snows of New Hampshire, campaigning in the 1972 New Hampshire primary and defending the honor of his wife from the depredations of the publisher of the Manchester Union-Leader. The moment is captured on YouTube. (Thank you, leftwingescapee.)
We have the tears that Hillary Clinton shed campaigning in the 2008 New Hampshire primary. By contrast with Muskie, she was indoors and she was not defending the honor of her spouse. Rather, she was feeling a little sorry for herself. The tears might have given her a lift in New Hampshire, but they were in a losing cause. The moment is also captured on YouTube.
Now we have Newt Gingrich tearing up in Iowa as he recalled his mother. The context is key. After a swift rise as the non-Romney flavor of the week, Newt's campaign is in descent. Will the tears brake or reverse the decline? I doubt it, especially if they prompt observers to look at what he was saying:
"I identify my mother with being happy, loving life, having a sense of joy in her friends, but what she introduced me to, is late in her life she ended up in a long-term-care facility. She had bipolar disease, and depression, and she gradually acquired some physical ailments, and that introduced me to the issue of long-term care, which I did with [Former Nebraska Sen.] Bob Kerrey for three years, and that introduced me to the issue of Alzheimer's, which I did with Bob Kerrey for three more years, and my whole emphasis on brain science comes indirectly from dealing with the real problems of real people in my family[.]"
How did Gingrich "do" long-term health care with Bob Kerrey? It would be nice if the folks covering this story bothered to explain. Looking around on the Web, I find a 2008 New York Times op-ed column appearing under the joint byline of Billy Beane (!), Gingrich and Kerrey. Although I'm sure there is more to what he "did" on long-term health care with Kerrey, so far as one can deduce from the column, Gingrich "did" it by bloviating about it in the style to which we have become accustomed:
Working closely with doctors, the federal government and the private sector should create a new institute for evidence-based medicine. This institute would conduct new studies and systematically review the existing medical literature to help inform our nation's over-stretched medical providers. The government should also increase Medicare reimbursements and some liability protections for doctors who follow the recommended clinical best practices.
I could go on, but I want to stop before I start crying myself.
This is a lie by our president to get Republicans to sign up for him.
Documents obtained by CBS News show that the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) discussed using their covert operation "Fast and Furious" to argue for controversial new rules about gun sales.
In Fast and Furious, ATF secretly encouraged gun dealers to sell to suspected traffickers for Mexican drug cartels to go after the "big fish." But ATF whistleblowers told CBS News and Congress it was a dangerous practice called "gunwalking," and it put thousands of weapons on the street. Many were used in violent crimes in Mexico. Two were found at the murder scene of a U.S. Border Patrol agent.
ATF officials didn't intend to publicly disclose their own role in letting Mexican cartels obtain the weapons, but emails show they discussed using the sales, including sales encouraged by ATF, to justify a new gun regulation called "Demand Letter 3". That would require some U.S. gun shops to report the sale of multiple rifles or "long guns." Demand Letter 3 was so named because it would be the third ATF program demanding gun dealers report tracing information.
On July 14, 2010 after ATF headquarters in Washington D.C. received an update on Fast and Furious, ATF Field Ops Assistant Director Mark Chait emailed Bill Newell, ATF's Phoenix Special Agent in Charge of Fast and Furious:
"Bill - can you see if these guns were all purchased from the same (licensed gun dealer) and at one time. We are looking at anecdotal cases to support a demand letter on long gun multiple sales. Thanks."
Editor's Note: Brad Chase is a partner with Capitol Media Partners, a Los Angeles-based communications and public affairs consultancy.
By Brad Chase - Special to CNN
In 2008, the youth vote helped sweep Barack Obama into office. Americans 18-29 spread the word on social media, energized fundraising and went to the polls.
In 2012, the youth vote is moving on and throwing those omnipresent "Hope" bumper stickers and t-shirts in garbage bins.
Not because of apathy. Not because another candidate generates more enthusiasm. Not because of his character. Not because they think voting is pointless. The 18-29 vote is up for grabs in 2012 because youth can't afford cars to put bumper stickers on and those t-shirts are worn out from too many days sitting on the couch unemployed.
Buy the vote? Paying cash for recall names targeted
A Republican state lawmaker in Wisconsin, a state torn asunder in the last year by the fight between conservative and left-leaning interests over the state budget and its fiscal future, says he is surprised that anyone would oppose his legislation that would make it illegal to buy signatures for a recall petition.
But Rep. Evan Wynn told WND today he's already getting pushback against his plan.
Hamas and the U.S.-backed Palestinian Authority are studying the possibility of removing the Palestinian government from agreements that recognize the existence of Israel, WND has learned.
Both PA and Hamas officials confirmed that the possibility is being studied as part of reconciliation talks aimed at seeing Hamas enter the Palestine Liberation Organization, or PLO, the main Palestinian governing body.
Filmmaker uses pornography to condemn sexual abuse
The supposed and commendable (although not necessarily effective) intention of the filmmaker, to raise awareness about extreme violence towards women, etc. - and the decision to make a movie that ...
Here's what mainstream media did their best to cover up in 2011
While the establishment news media brought plenty of bad economic news in 2011, the real story hasn't been adequately told. The true rate of unemployment and inflation and the real state of the U.S. economy, which is far worse than reported, tops WND's annual list of the 10 most "spiked" or underreported stories of the last year.
A new Islam-awareness campaign is set to warn parents and students that they simply shouldn't believe the editorializing in the textbooks used in Florida's schools.
Two organizations are reporting that some of the nuggets students in Florida's schools learn from their social studies textbooks include anti-Israel and pro-Islam lessons.
A Christian and Missionary Alliance congregation in Paramus, N.J., is facing a forced removal from a debt-free building the congregation has owned since 1929 this weekend, and they are blaming their own denominational officials for the impending ministry doom.
Welcome to the funniest stories of 2011. I hope you enjoy this one, because on the extremely remote chance the Mayans just happen to be correct with their calendar, then we may not have another edition at the end of 2012. So let's get right to it.
Profanity and Pop Music L. Brent Bozell III The music industry slides lower each year into the gutter, interested only in making a quick buck through our lowest common denominators.
Is America Losing Control? Patrick J. Buchanan "Events are in the saddle and ride mankind." In describing 2011, few clichés seem more appropriate. For in this past year, we Americans seemed to lose control of our destiny, as events seemed to be in the saddle.
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T'is the Season for Misplaced Compassion Look solely from the perspective of the immigrants. Full Story
DOJ Investigation of Arpaio Comes Down to Electoral Politics To regain support from Hispanic voters. Full Story
A Question of Semantics? Or Does the Law Really Matter? Anti-borders Rally Leaders Need a Dictionary. Full Story
Many State Laws Including Immigration Measures Set for Jan. 1st "California takes the lead..." Full Story
Ayatollahs Reach Out to Hispanics Tehran launched "HispanTV." Full Story
U.S. Population Nears 313 Million Projected Jan. 1, 2012, population is 312,780,968. Full Story
Ron Paul: Iran Would be Justified in Closing Strategic Waterway in Response to Sanctions
By Patrick Goodenough
December 30, 2011
(CNSNews.com) - As Iran ratcheted up its rhetoric Thursday about closing the Strait of Hormuz, Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul revisited his earlier criticisms of Western policy towards Tehran, adding that Iran would be justified in cutting off the strategic waterway in response to sanctions.
Paul's views on Iran and other foreign policy issues - essentially a noninterventionist, anti-war approach - have sparked clashes on several occasions during the GOP presidential primary season, and are attracting growing scrutiny as the Iowa caucus looms.
Politics Paul Tells Radio Caller: I Wrote a 'Certain Portion' of Controversial Newsletters
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 7:56am by Jonathon M. Seidl
The saga of Ron Paul and his old, controversial newsletters (read up on them here) just got another chapter. During a radio interview on Thursday, Paul grappled with a caller and admitted that he did, in fact, write a portion of the newsletters he has recently disavowed.
The caller, a listener to WHO-AM RADIO in Iowa, asked Paul, "How confident were you at the time that the newsletters that bore your name were representative of your views on taxes, on monetary policy, the Second Amendment, the Tenth Amendment, all the things that you hold dear?"
Paul then launched into a lengthy explanation, in which he admitted he wrote a "certain portion" of them but not the controversial parts:
To Get Ron Paul's Insanity, You Have To Understand Libertarianism
ByDon Feder
To "get" Ron Paul you have to understand libertarianism -- an ism every bit as delusional as Marxism. The National Libertarian Party, which first ran a presidential candidate in 1972, hasn't had many wins -- electing 4 state legislators in as many decades, as well as a planning commissioner here and an alderman there. Ron Paul is its greatest success.
The Texas congressman is far and away the most prominent proponent of what I like to call rightwing utopianism. Libertarianism is to authentic conservatism what Barack Obama is to 19th century liberalism.
Inspired by Ayn Rand (Ron named his son, the future senator, Rand Paul), Libertarianism was an outgrowth of 1960s campus conservatism. Like ideologues of the left, libertarians of the day were on a never-ending quest for ideological purity and the foolish consistency Emerson derided. (They still are.) Unlike traditional conservatives, libertarians came to oppose the Vietnam War and what they called "prohibitionist" drug policies. You must be consistent, libertarians lectured us. If you support economic liberty, then you must support "personal liberty" (legalized abortion, freedom to use soul-destroying drugs) and the libertarian principle applied to foreign policy -- isolationism.
During the Cold War, economist Murray Rothbard (one of the foremost libertarian theorists) once observed that if we lost the rest of the world and the Soviets invaded America, we could always take to the hills and launch a guerrilla war, a la "Red Dawn." Libertarians have never been hampered by reality.
Some libertarians drifted into anarchy, others organized the National Libertarian Party. Ron Paul was the party's 1988 standard-bearer.
[The Jim C. Perry / Yaakov Perry Report] Ron Paul, the Anti-Republican candidate for President and a favorite of White Supremacists like David Duke, has unveiled a new defense strategy to counter charges of Anti-semitism. The campaign of the candidate who claims to disdain ethnic collectivism now boasts an organization called "Jews for Ron Paul."
If Jews for Ron Paul puts you in mind of Jews for Jesus, you're not far wrong. Because Jews for Ron Paul is a scam.
Jim C. Perry (James Christian Perry, the C is short for Christian), the Executive Director of Jews for Ron Paul and heavily featured as the spokesman for the front group. Like many Jews for Jesus figures, Jim C. Perry claims to be an Orthodox Jew. The JTA article featured many of Perry's grandiose claims.
For Perry, an Orthodox Jew, there is a connection between his own religious beliefs about personal responsibility and the Libertarian philosophy underpinning Paul's candidacy.
"It's the idea that people are meant to be equal and free in a just society. Those are the same things that draw me to be an observant Orthodox Jew," said Perry. "I believe Judaism puts strong emphasis on individual meaning, personal responsibility," he said, adding that God "calls us to take responsibility for our own actions.".
Here I am a kipah-wearing, fringes-hanging Orthodox Jew...
The real Jim C. Perry though is not an Orthodox Jew, though he makes a point of dressing up like one until he's virtually a cartoon. He's gay and is currently married to a gay man and a self-identified Churchgoing Unitarian Universalist. Here he identifies himself as a Seminarian. He has another account where he calls himself Reverend Jim C. Perry H.P., M.D.A. (he also claimed to have a doctorate in English which he apparently modestly left off here all at the tender age of 22) and a Pagan Minister. Briefly he appears to have gone Ward Churchill and began calling himself Jim FlyingEagle. (He may have also used James L. Rush and posted at Cherokee Pride as James L. Rushing River pretending to be Cherokee)
Now Jim C. Perry, Gay Pagan Unitarian Minister (possibly also Cherokee and Mormon), thanks to a few photos in costume, is being passed off as an Orthodox Jew. A clear and unambiguous lie. Like everything else in the Ron Paul campaign, Jim C. Perry and Jews for Ron Paul is a lie.
Reporting from Atlantic, Iowa- Adding an unpredictable element to the presidential contest in Iowa, some disaffected Democratic voters are planning to switch sides and cast Republican ballots in Tuesday's caucuses.
Caucus rules limit participation to registered party members. But anyone who shows up at a Republican caucus - including Democrats, independents and libertarians - can join the GOP or switch their party affiliation on the spot.
Rep. Ron Paul, in a tight race for first place in Iowa with Mitt Romney, is perhaps the most likely to benefit from Democratic crossovers. His campaign is distributing information sheets advising Iowans that they can register Republican "for a day" on caucus night, then switch their registration back afterward if they want.
"It's easy. You can register on your way in the door," David Fischer, co-chairman of Paul's Iowa organization, told voters Thursday at a campaign stop in Atlantic.
On the evening of Sept. 16, 2009, I was invited to a function for Rand Paul's U.S. Senate campaign at the headquarters of Americans for Tax Reform.
I had been invited by a friend of mine via Facebook who was a passionate supporter of Ron Paul. Within minutes of arriving, I saw Rep. Paul enter the room, followed by an entourage of several college students.
I immediately walked up to Paul and introduced myself, and Paul smiled at me and shook my hand. I told him that I had always wanted to ask him a question, and that it was a hypothetical question, but I would appreciate his answer nonetheless. Paul smiled, and welcomed the question. At this point there were about 15 people surrounding us, listening.
And so I asked Congressman Paul: if he were President of the United States during World War II, and as president he knew what we now know about the Holocaust, but the Third Reich presented no threat to the U.S., would he have sent American troops to Nazi Germany purely as a moral imperative to save the Jews?
And the Congressman answered:
"No, I wouldn't. I wouldn't risk American lives to do that. If someone wants to do that on their own because they want to do that, well, that's fine, but I wouldn't do that."
On Monday, January 2nd the 12-term Congressman from Texas and the junior Senator from the Commonwealth of Kentucky will make five stops - ones in Polk, Scott, Linn, Black Hawk, and Cerro Gordo counties. In addition, Senator Paul on his own will kick off the day by appearing live in-studio with WHO Radio's Jan Mickelson.
Leave aside for the moment any (legitimate) concern that Paul's gutting of the defense budget would leave us vulnerable. As a matter of simple arithmetic, Paul is indulging in a fiscal fantasy.
First of all, the entire annual defense budget, including war spending in Iraq and Afghanistan, is less than $700 billion-not $1.4 trillion as Paul claims. More important, by 2025 Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, and interest on the debt will consume all federal revenues. In other words, we could eliminate all defense spending and all other federal spending, and we'd still be running a deficit in a little over a decade.
So what's Ron Paul's plan to avert the oncoming fiscal catastrophe? He doesn't have one. Paul's "Plan to Restore America" doesn't deal with Medicare, which is on track to be the biggest driverof our debt. And Paul's plan doesn't deal with Social Security. But he does endorse block-granting Medicaid to the states.
Although Paul thinks that Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid are "technically" unconstitutional, he would like to fund the programs for more than 60 years because people are now dependent on them. But Paul has no specific plan to keep Medicare and Social Security solvent during his long-term transition period.
Rush Limbaugh on fixing Detroit: 'Get rid of every liberal in government'
Joe Newby
Spokane Conservative Examiner
December 30, 2011
On Thursday, conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh spent an hour talking to Fox News' Greta van Susteren about a variety of topics, but he provided a way to fix the problems that plague Detroit - and other cities.
"Get rid of every liberal in government," he said bluntly, after being asked how he would deal with cities like Detroit that suffer from high unemployment.
"What is the one constant in Detroit, all of these years? Been run by liberals. Liberal ideology. Liberal economics," he added.
He explained that Detroit and other cities are a "microcosm" of where Europe is today, and where the United States is headed.
Requirement to consider gay couples for adoption forces Illinois Catholic Charities affiliates to close
December 29, 2011 by Tina Korbe
After the Illinois state legislature passed a requirement that says adoption and foster-care agencies - to be eligible for state money - must consider same-sex couples as potential foster-care or adoptive parents, the Roman Catholic bishops in Illinois decided to shut down most of the Catholic Charities affiliates in the state. This isn't the first time something like this has happened: Massachusetts and Washington D.C. both passed similar requirements - and many Catholic Charities affiliates closed down in those states, as well. The New York Times reports:
The hotline, run by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, is available 24/7 for detained individuals to phone if they think they "may be U.S. citizens or victims of a crime."
The hotline will have translation services available in several different languages. ICE personnel will gather the caller's information and send it to a field office for immediate action, according to the press release.
The purpose of the hotline and other measures, including a new detainer form, are "to ensure that individuals being held by state or local law enforcement on immigration detainers are properly notified about their potential removal from the country and are made aware of their rights."
The new practices are "part of a broader effort to improve our immigration enforcement process and prioritize resources to focus on threats to public safety, repeat immigration law violators, recent border entrants and immigration fugitives while continuing to strengthen oversight of the nation's immigration detention system and facilitate legal immigration," ICE wrote in its press release.
THIS ISSUE: State Successes Highlight 2011 for NumbersUSA Activists
2011 will go down as a record year for passing state level immigration enforcement legislation! In June, Alabama Governor Robert Bentley signed HB56 into law, enacting what many regard as the toughest enforcement law ever passed.
While no other legislation passed in 2011 included such broad enforcement provisions as HB56, many other states made significant strides.
Virginia and Arizona beefed up their E-Verify laws, while Utah, Georgia, Indiana, North Carolina, and Louisiana passed some sort of E-Verify legislation. Utah, Indiana, and Georgia also passed some more comprehensive bills that included authorizing police to check immigration status and/or the use of the SAVE system for checking eligibility for public benefits.
All-in-all, more than 20 states took positive steps towards removing the magnets that encourage illegal immigration.
In a new blog posted this week, Van Esser describes each of the state victories and how NumbersUSA activists helped in the process.
Next week, Van will take a look at the opportunities for enforcement legislation in 2012. And, we've already begun posting new faxes for state legislators on your Action Board. Take a look to see what actions you may have.
Chris Chmielenski
FRI, Dec 30th
ACTION
Check your Action Board and send any faxes you may have before the end of the year.
NumbersUSA members were busy in 2011 pursuing state enforcement legislation and fighting pro-illegal alien bills. Thanks to their efforts, important enforcement bills passed in Alabama, Georgia, Indiana, Louisiana, Montana, North Carolina and Virginia. Members also stopped pro-illegal alien bills in Colorado, Nebraska and Oregon. We thought youd appreciate learning about some of their hard-fought battles.
Van Esser
TUE, Dec 27th
Judge Slaps Business Owner with $400,000 Fine for Hiring Illegal Aliens
A California judge has fined the owner of a popular San Diego restaurant for hiring illegal-alien workers. Michel Malecot, owner of The French Gourmet, was spared jail time but must pay $400,000 for the illegal hirings. Federal prosecutors were seeking $650,000 in fines.
THU, Dec 29th
MON, Dec 26th
Kansas Dems Plan to Re-Introduce E-Verify Jobs Bill
2012 will mark the second year in a row that Kansas State Democratic Leaders will introduce jobs legislation with an explicit immigration-enforcement component. The "Kansas Jobs First" plan would require state and local governments, and their contractors, to use E-Verify for vetting new hires.
ROY BECK
MON, Dec 26th
As Santorum Surges In Iowa, A Pause To Check His Immigration Profile
For whatever reasons Iowa Republicans are getting excited about Sen. Santorum, it is a good bet that it isn't because of his immigration-issues profile -- which they likely know little about. Typically this past year, Republican voters have pushed a new presidential candidate high up the polls before taking a good look at the immigration record/platform of that candidate. Each time, NumbersUSA has provided an in-depth look at that candidate's immigration positions (and our analysis has tended to be the most widely used).
December 30, 2011
Happy New Year
When I came back from my vacation last year, I laid out several plans for 2011. Over the past year, you have seen many of these plans come to fruition. I told you that I would no longer be looking towards elected officials for solutions and instead would look to individuals to chart the course and create real change in the world.
It all started in June when I left Fox News to launch my own independent network, GBTV. The network has been dedicated to bringing you the truth that you can't get anywhere else - whether it be news stories ignored by the mainstream media, commentary on what is really going on in the world, or even comedy that seeks to appeal to people of all political viewpoints and break away from the traditional liberal entertainment industry.
In 2012, you will see GBTV continue to grow as a network. We're adding new shows like Independence USA, a reality program that shows a real family finding out what life "off the grid" might be like. There are some other big announcements coming, but there are people in my office who would be pretty mad if I let the cat out of the bag this early (and yes, I've hired so many people in 2011 that when enough of them yell at me I listen. Sometimes.)
But aside from great programming on GBTV, I've made a lot of personal changes in 2011 as well. I traveled to Israel for the Restoring Courage events to stand with Israel and the Jewish people in one of the most defining moments of my life so far. Next year, I'll be bringing people from around the country to my new home of Dallas, TX for "Restoring Love" - a three day event where thousands will gather and perform acts of service and charity across the Dallas/Ft. Worth area. We'll also have an amazing evening of celebration, inspiration, and reflection on July 28th at Cowboys Stadium. This is something you will NOT want to miss as individuals stand together and fundamentally transform the country like never before.
I also launched Mercury One at the end of 2011, and this non-profit initiative will be a big part of my life going into 2012 and beyond. The organization will not only help me organize the "Restoring Love" event, but it will carry that spirit of service into places across the country and the globe. It will give you the chance to roll up your sleeves and get involved, as well as a chance to support others who are looking to make a difference. This is something I have been actively working on for over a year and an idea I have had for a very, very long time. You've been telling me "Ok, Glenn. I get it! I know the problems - but what can I do?" Mercury One is the answer. Stay tuned because there are some big things coming in 2012.
I'd like to leave you with a story I read on radio when I came back after the holidays last January. Read it and look at all the things we have done together over the past two years. I hope you can see how everything we have been working towards is about solutions born in the individual.
A man decided that he would change the world. But, he wasn't successful. So he decided to change the country. But, he wasn't successful. So he decided to change his community. But, he wasn't successful. So he decided to change his street. But, be wasn't successful. So he decided to change his family. But, he wasn't successful. So he decided to change himself. AND HE WAS SUCCESSFUL. AND HIS FAMILY CHANGED AND THEY AFFECTED THEIR STREET. AND THE PEOPLE ON THE STREET AFFECTED THEIR COMMUNITY. AND THE PEOPLE OF THE COMMUNITY AFFECTED THEIR COUNTRY. AND THE PEOPLE OF THE COUNTRY AFFECTED THE WORLD.
And gang, I promise you, we are so close to seeing things turn around in this country and changing for the better. We just need to start with ourselves, then our families, and then our communities. If we can start at home, each and every one of us, we can change the world. We will change the world.
2012 is going to be an incredible journey.
Laos Deo,
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: December 29, 2011
California's Redevelopment Nightmare Coming To An End
California Supreme Court Upholds Law Abolishing Redevelopment Agencies
Arlington, Va.-In a landmark victory for private property owners in the Golden State, the California Supreme Court today upheld a statute abolishing the nearly 400 redevelopment agencies across the state. The court also struck down a law that would have allowed these agencies to buy their way back into existence. The final outcome of the case is that, in 2012, California's decades-long redevelopment nightmare will finally come to an end.
California redevelopment agencies have been some of the worst abusers of eminent domain for decades, violating the private property rights of tens of thousands of home, business, church and farm owners. The Institute for Justice has catalogued more than 200 abuses of eminent domain across California during the past ten years alone. In California Scheming: What Every Californian Should Know About Eminent Domain Abuse, the Institute for Justice exposed the enormous amounts of taxpayer money used to fund these illegitimate land grabs. In fiscal year 2005-2006 alone, redevelopment agencies' revenues were an astonishing $8.7 billion. In other words, 12 percent of all property taxes in California that year were sent to these bureaucrats.
As part of the state's response to its fiscal emergency and to stop this drain on the state's resources, the legislature passed, and Governor Jerry Brown signed, two laws: Assembly Bill 1X 26, which dissolves redevelopment agencies, and Assembly Bill 1X 27, which exempted agencies that agreed to make payments into funds benefiting the state's schools and special districts. The California Redevelopment Association and the League of California Cities, among others, challenged both laws, arguing that they violated the California Constitution.
The court held that AB 1X 26, the law barring the agencies from engaging in new business and providing for their windup and dissolution, was "a proper exercise of the legislative power vested in the Legislature by the state Constitution." The court concluded that the Legislature has both the power to create such agencies "and the corollary power to dissolve those same entities when the Legislature deems it necessary and proper." In contrast, the court concluded that AB 1X 27, which allowed the agencies to continue to exist if they made certain payments, violated a provision of the California Constitution that prohibits the Legislature from requiring payments from redevelopment agencies to the state.
"This decision represents the worst of all worlds for California redevelopment agencies-and the best of all worlds for California property owners and renters," said Dana Berliner, a senior attorney with the Institute for Justice. "The agencies managed to achieve a decision that upholds their dissolution while striking down a law that gave these agencies a way to stay in existence. The agencies' arrogance, so often employed against property owners, finally proved their undoing." The Institute for Justice is a public interest law firm that is the nation's leading defender of victims of eminent domain abuse-when the government seizes perfectly fine property not for public use, but for private development-across the country, including in California.
While the decision focused on specific provisions of the California Constitution, its practical effect represents a significant victory for California property owners. "Redevelopment in California has been a billion-dollar, state-subsidized boondoggle that has completely eroded private property rights through the abuse of eminent domain for private gain," said Christina Walsh, the Institute's director of activism and coalitions. "With the court's decision, redevelopment has finally met its long-overdue end, and property owners who have been living in terror across the state can finally rest safe in what they've worked so hard to own."
IJ attorney Bill Maurer said, "Today's decision reaffirms the common-sense conclusion that state agencies do not have a constitutional right to perpetual existence. More importantly, it means that California is no longer lagging behind the rest of the country in respecting private property. Rather than interfering with California's recovery, this decision should encourage it, as people considering moving to or staying in California now know that their property cannot be seized and transferred to a private entity by out-of-control, unaccountable redevelopment agencies."
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Best,
Christina Walsh Director of Activism and Coalitions Institute for Justice
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