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"Sometimes, political campaigns make decent people act and talk like perfect buffoons."

Mr. and Mrs. Clueless

 

Got to be the spaciest idiot to ever hold the office of President. How embarrassing to have this as our President and first lady. When you've never done the pledge of allegiance, you don't know what to do!

At first I thought the picture was reversed, printed upside down, but the wedding rings indicate that it's right. (Unless they have them on the wrong hands too.) Check the button on his coat; it's on the correct side.

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The Shocking List of Gitmo Detainees Obama Plans to Release in Deal with Taliban 

Washington Post opinion writer Marc A. Theissen has published a list of the Taliban leaders President Obama is reportedly planning to release from Guantanamo Bay detention center - and their rap sheets just might (or not) shock you.

The Obama administration is allegedly considering the release of these senior Taliban leaders as part of a deal to bring the militant Islamist group to engage in peace talks. According to Theissen, if Obama does in fact proceed with the release, he will do "tremendous harm" to U.S. national security "and to his prospects for reelection this fall."

Homeland Security Given Green Light to Monitor American Journalists 

Under the National Operations Center (NOC)'s Media Monitoring Initiative that emerged from the Department of Homeland Security in November, Washington has written permission to collect and retain personal information from journalists, news anchors, reporters or anyone who uses "traditional and/or social media in real time to keep their audience situationally aware and informed."

According to DHS, the definition of personal identifiable information can consist of any intellect "that permits the identity of an individual to be directly or indirectly inferred, including any information which is linked or linkable to that individual."

Today, our college graduates face the highest unemployment rates in history.

American 15-year-olds rank 35th out of 57 industrialized countries in math and literacy.

Americans shouldn't rank 35th in anything!

Join Americans for Prosperity Foundation, Dick Morris and other special speakers Saturday, January 28 for a free town hall to "Restore American Exceptionalism" at 2:00 p.m. at the The Hershey Lodge (325 University Drive) in Hershey. Reserve your free tickets here (http://schoolchoicehershey.eventbrite.com/)!

Let's work together to support the future workforce of America.

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Restoring American Exceptionalism is not a Republican issue or a Democrat issue. It's an American issue -- our future depends on it! I hope to see you there!

Sincerely,

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1) Letter to the Central MontCo PTPP: To those that came to, or stepped up to help at, or donated to defray costs for the David Codrea Presents Fast & Furious event on Saturday, thank you. You really can't imagine how reassured I felt when entertaining / having dinner with David and his wife, I simply trusted our team to set up the venue well. I was proud to see our involved members, and folks from other groups, and vigilant citizens, flowing into the room to become more informed by David's account when they could have stayed home for a football game or another debate. I am grateful for the kind monetary support from so many people; because of this, we will most likely break even for the event costs. We targeted our advertising to the "average person", be they attentive independent or apathetic drone - not many of them came but at least I trust you all fortified your knowledge. For a word with no aggressive denotations, "complacency" of the public is nonetheless a mighty foe. We coordinators are proud of you and are humbled by you and consider ourselves fortunate to work with you. David's compliments about the group were glowing, and even the security guard approached me afterwards and said "I've been to a lot of events, but these people were the politest and most respectful group I've ever seen". I thanked him and said I'll see him at the next tea party meeting.

We'll let you know when gunforhireradio.com posts the podcast of the event on their site, if you missed it.
We also suggest that for any firearm needs (sales, training, advice), please patronize Kevin Fialkowski's Red Eye Defensive Solutions
Of course, please stay informed with the TRUTH by visiting David Codrea's Examiner.com site, his Guns Magazine site, and his journalist partner Mike Vanderboegh's site

2) Meeting: This Thursday Jan 12 is our regular monthly meeting at the Rock Cafe/Church (857 Main Street Harleysville) from 7-9pm. Our speaker, Phil Duffy, will tell us about the events that led to this whole economic collapse, and if time permits we will go interactive and ask you to help us with 2012 election ideas.

3) Charity event: This Saturday Jan 14 is our first charity event as a group, where we will help out at the Habitat ReStore thrift store, 533 Foundry Road, West Norriton, PA 19403.
Do we just preach charity over socialism, or do we practice it? We meet in Hennings at 7:50 and leave at 8am to get there at 8:30 until about 2pm. Volunteers must be at least 14 years old. You can use the ride board on our forum (available from our website) to say if you have seats available or need a ride. If you need to leave early, I'm sure someone else will too, and it can be arranged.

Please join our forum to speak your piece in real time, available from our website.

See you Thursday,
-Jim, Pam and Tim  

On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 3:34 PM, WILLIAM SPICHER <billsells4u@msn.com> wrote:

Patriots,

 
Things are really  starting to heat up in this campaign to get Sam to the US Senate. We are now looking for volunteers to help us in Chester County, particularly in the northern and northeastern areas of the county. We need people to help get petitions signed, hand out literature in the neighborhoods, work the polls on election day, hold home meetings when Sam is in the area, and who knows what else will come up. Could you please send this out to your group to see if anyone would like to help. They can contact me directly either by email or by phone. Thanks for your help. Looking forward to seeing you at the victory party.

DEAR PATRIOTS,

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.

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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 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.

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For January 10, 2012

1. In Conclusion

I have made known my thoughts and objections to the various candidates in the field. I have come to accept that the ones I think would be best are the ones running the most perplexing campaigns. I think we will wind up with Willard Mitt Romney as the nominee.

I see a path to victory for Rick Perry. I don't see him taking it.

I see a path to victory for Newt Gingrich. I see him taking it so zealously that it winds up hurting him.

I see a path to victory for Jon Huntsman if he makes it out of New Hampshire with a respectable showing and I'd rather him than Romney or Santorum.

Ironically, I do not see a path to victory for Rick Santorum. He made the Illinois ballot, but without a full slate of delegates, and I think he doesn't have the ability to build out as it took so long for him to rise.

I see the clearest path for Mitt Romney and barring him underperforming in New Hampshire, I suspect he could sweep the races.

I am as excited as a fly flying through a frog filled swamp.

But ultimately there is this - Barack Obama is worse than even Jimmy Carter in that Obama, in addition to being an economic menace, peddles a brand of liberal social politics that even Jimmy Carter dared not peddle. Should he win re-election, Barack Obama might have the opportunity to fill more seats on the Supreme Court including, potentially, Antonin Scalia's and Anthony Kennedy's seats.

We cannot let that happen.

The regulatory regime an Obama second term would unleash, no longer restrained by the fear of electoral defeat, would be economically destructive to the free market and the middle class.

Any and all of the Republican candidates would be better than Barack Obama. We have an obligation to support the nominee whoever it may be.

I just hope the voters choose wisely.

2. The Choice

This election-including the Republican primary contest- is about a fundamental question in American politics: We have an opportunity to decisively turn away from big government in Washington. Do we want to take it?

Conservatives across the country are fed up with President Obama's Washington approach to governance. Massive, budget-busting, deficit spending (except on defense, where he proposes cuts that are downright dangerous). Bailouts. An ever-mounting national debt. A federal government that has reached its tentacles further into Americans' lives, by virtue of Obamacare with its noxious individual mandate to purchase health insurance. Excessive, bureaucratically dictated, job-killing environmental regulation. Dodd-Frank. The actions of the National Labor Relations Board, the Federal Communications Commission, and countless other agencies. A President who has engaged in offensive recess appointments to pay back his political allies ahead of a race he could well lose. And so on.

Almost universally, Republicans hold in contempt the real-life "ends" of the Obama administration's policies, though admittedly there are those self-described conservatives who have favored (and even authored) Obamacare-like approaches to health care and policies like cap-and-trade. To us, those ends look decidedly liberal and reminiscent of European social democracies, and out of step with our vision for America.

Yet some conservatives, while rejecting the "ends" have not yet fully rejected the means, despite the fact that many Americans-and not just conservatives or libertarians- have reached the conclusion that the federal government has just become too big and has its fingers in too many pies, with the predictable negative real-world consequences for the rest of us.

3. The 2012 Election and the 'Inevitable' Mitt Romney

Let me go ahead and stipulate that Mitt Romney has presidential height and hair, and appears to have presidential composure in debates and interviews (at least, when not being mauled by the Great Grizzly of Interviewers, the always fearsome Bret Baier). He also has a history of business success and has the longest private sector career of any participant in the GOP primary - though it's obviously worth noting that his lengthy private sector career has largely been the result of his utter failure to enter and remain in the public sector, despite trying over and over and over and over again to do so.

However, leaving aside the fact that his positions on most issues have a history of being "multiple choice," as Ted Kennedy once said, Mitt Romney has two major vulnerabilities to attack - and it just so happens that they are the top two issues of this entire election.

It's no secret that the key to this election is "the economy, stupid." This will be a jobs election, an economy election, and - given the Obama administration's limited but well-worn playbook - a class warfare election. Business success demonstrates a much-needed understanding of what our economy needs to get moving again, but job creation and relatability are at a premium in such an environment, which is why Romney's Bain experience is such a handicap.

4. Who are the Democratic gun-grabbers in the US Senate? Let's find out!

In the course of reading this subtly bitter (and thus subtly entertaining) story (via Instapundit) about the effective collapse of the anti-gun movement on the grassroots level, I came across this passage: "In November the Republican House approved a measure that would require states to respect concealed carry permits issued by other, less restrictive states; it now awaits action in the Democratic-controlled Senate, where its fate is uncertain." This refers to HR 822, which passed in the House with bipartisan support and is now awaiting action from Judiciary in the Senate. As people reading this probably know, reciprocal respect of other states' right-to-carry laws is a hot topic: it recently came to the forefront when a Tennessee woman got arrested for trying to check in her firearm at the 9/11 Ground Zero site. I should also note in passing that Mayor Michael Bloomberg's (INDEPENDENT) attempt to smear said woman by claiming she was also in possession of cocaine backfired: the woman didn't have any. But she's still facing several years of jail time - no, really - for a 'crime' that more enlightened portions of the United States of America decriminalized some time ago*.

5. Why is Ron Paul allowed to Continue Participating in Debates?

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Items for January 10, 2012

Alleged extremist terror plot foiled in Tampa  CBS News

Time for Justice Department transparency The Washington Post Blog

Iran sentences ex-Marine to death in CIA case  The Atlanta-Journal Constitution

Indiana's Right to Work  The Wall Street Journal

AND

Right-to-work is right for America (Opinion)
The Miami Herald

Key tax deductions left hanging  CNN Money

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When Fighting Crime Becomes Piling On: The Overcriminalization of Fraud 

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Forty-Fourth Terrorist Plot Against the U.S. Marks Need for Continued Vigilance 

Quote G. Gordon Liddy:  

"A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellowman, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money."  

Compromise Impossible

The Western doctrine of non-violence depends on the willingness to compromise. To resolve any conflict by sitting down at a table, finding points of agreement and then working through the rest. The ruthless killing fields of the twentieth century have not shaken that eternal faith in a diplomatic solution, rather they have only strengthened it. But what happens when a compromise is genuinely impossible?

 

The commitment to non-violence depends on the assumption that while small numbers of fanatics might seek war, the vast majority of people do not. And even if they do want war, they want a humane war, not a genocidal war of extermination. Therefore even when such wars are fought, they do not reflect the will of the people, only that of a small group of fanatics.

That such a manifestly absurd belief that flies in the face of human history could be so widely held among the decision makers of the world's dominant civilizations is itself apt testimony to the decline and fall of those civilizations. Nevertheless this belief remains unshakeable.

Atrocities are attributed to a dictator and a few of his cronies. Remove the dictator, roll in the voting booths and then we need make war no more. But the rise of Islamic terrorism presents an explosive challenge to that worldview. There is no Hitler or Stalin of Islam. No small group holding power on which everything can be blamed. In the age of terrorism, it is the ordinary Muslim who acts as the killer. Who sheds his guise of humanity and kills.

Islamic terrorism is the most democratic and representative form of war there is. There is no draft. No government mandate. And no compulsion but that of the Koran. Of course in territories under their control, becoming a Jihadist sometimes is compulsory. But that certainly isn't the case in the West. While Western diplomats chatter about democracy, the Muslim votes with his bomb vest. And his vote is the decisive one.
 

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THE INCOMPREHENSIBLE ISRAEL
By: Joseph Puder

Jerusalem...Israel

Israel is incomprehensible and changing at a pace unseen anywhere else in the world. One who is away for a year (as this reporter was) immediately takes note of the drastic changes made to the infrastructure - especially the newly widened roads that crisscross the country along with the preponderance of building cranes - which some say are the national bird -  working to keep apace of the flourishing population.  Like

mushrooms, towers pop up and fill the skyline almost overnight.  A wide range of restaurants represent the diverse nationalities of immigrants who have made Israel their home.   And, cities and even smaller towns boast fancy shopping malls - making it seem as if there is one on at every major intersection.

There is an energy in the air that is felt on the ground.  People in this sun soaked country are making technological advances that boggle the mind (the number of Israeli start-ups outweigh those of all of western Europe combined).  Israeli innovations find their way across the globe - even in countries that do not have diplomatic relations with Israel.  While economic relationships abound, Israel continues to be

vilified in most areas of the world - not always by the people or even the governments, but by the local media and academia. The impression one gets from worldwide media sources is that chaos, war, and terror is Israel's daily fare and yet, being here one notices that the only "terror" and "war" being conducted is on the overcrowded

roads.  Impatient drivers cut each other off with barely an inch to spare, leaving foreigners in rented cars gasping with incomprehension and rage.

The Russian comedian Yakov Smirnoff, so taken with all that the US offers, would exclaim with renewed wonder, "What a country!"  His words are readily recalled when one travels the length and breadth of this country - a truly wondrous country.  You can cross the State of Israel in one day, but to understand Israel will take a lifetime.  While oftentimes portrayed as an "Apartheid State," life in Israel, upon closer

inspection, is replete with wonderful contradictions. 

Take, for example, the following scenes I observed in Jerusalem, Bat-Yam, the Dead Sea and Eilat, Cafe Aroma is a chain of restaurants that have become a mainstay in every town and city throughout the country.  Seated at a table in Jerusalem's Mamilla Passage restaurant, near to the Jaffa Gate of the Old City, one sees a cross-section of Israeli society - Ethiopian wait staff serving religious Jewish women with head

coverings and, seated in close proximity, was a group of Arab women and their children whose hair was also covered but they wore stylish jeans.  Save for their language, one would be hard pressed to notice any other differences.  Each group was lost in their own conversation and obviously felt comfortable in each other's presence.

The Arab menfolk seated next to them dressed just like any other Israeli-Jew.  They were carrying on joking, and laughing in Arabic, and did so confidently without looking cautiously from side to side in fear of being harmed in any way.  They were oblivious to their surroundings and quite obviously well to do.  A few tables away, there were three young Arab women engaged in a lively conversation, who dressed in jeans and tight blouses, and appeared to look like secular Israeli-Jewish women.   Overhearing part of their

conversation I noted that they spoke Arabic with a Palestinian accent and they were, like most young women, discussing boys. They however did not have a head cover, and could be easily taken as Israeli-Jewish girls.

Arabs and Jews live their lives in close proximity.  On a recent ride aboard the light rail train in Jerusalem, one can see how they sit next to each other and share stories of daily frustrations in a fashion similar to what one finds in New York subways.  In spite of the diversity of dress, and language harmony in Arab-Jewish relations in Jerusalem and elsewhere is remarkable.  Moreover, a growing Arab (Muslim) middle class is now well integrated into Israel's society.  While on occasion tensions do rise, it can generally be

attributed to the instigation of a few and rarely affects the majority of Jerusalemites who prefer the quiet harmony.

Arab Israelis are pharmacists, doctors, auto mechanics, hotel clerks, and court judges; they are soccer players, and actors.  And, recent demographic studies now show that younger and more educated Arab Israelis seek a middle class life style and are having smaller families.  What amazed this reporter was to find out in person that the security guards (with guns) at the dead sea hotels are mostly all Arabs, and that they are trusted with the safety of the guests by the Jewish management.  And in Kibbutz Eilot (near Eilat) Sunrise Hotel, a large number of Arab middle class families shared the dinning

room with religious Jews in perfect harmony.

USA Today reported on September 20, 2011 the results of a poll by the Palestinian Center for Public Opinion, which indicated that Arab East Jerusalemites are now split with regard to who they prefer to be in control of the territory where they live.

Asked whether they preferred to become a citizen of a future Palestinian state, "with all the rights and privileges of other citizens of Palestine," or a citizen of Israel, with the rights and privileges of Israelis, 30% said they would choose Palestinian citizenship; 35% Israeli citizenship; and 35% either declined to answer or said they didn't know.  Considering the source of the poll - it is clear that most Arab Jerusalemites prefer the Israeli democracy, its human rights and religious freedom, along with Israel's vibrant economic life to

the chaotic and insecure Palestinian State.

Lest one thinks it is only in Jerusalem that Arabs mingle freely and comfortably with Jews, this same relaxed atmosphere was observed at the Zipporah Grill, a Glatt Kosher restaurant in Bat-Yam, an archetypical Israeli-Jewish city of about 150,000.  Arab Muslim women and their children order food in Hebrew and chat in Arabic.  The Arab children were loud and playful, and there were no sneers or complaints to be heard. The other patrons, mostly Jews and religious did not give the Arabs a second or suspicious look - for

them it appeared quite normal.  And, the staff served the Arabs as casually as they did the Jews. In short,  respect for all was in evidence.

Willian (the name he gave), an Arab-Israeli I interviewed in Kibbutz Eilot Sunrise Hotel said it best: "We feel here just as the Jews, we experienced no discrimination , and Israel is not a racist state."  To the allegation that Israel is an apartheid state, William responded with a dismissive laugh, "may be South Africa was or Saudi Arabia is, but not Israel."

Israel is indeed incomprehensible to a visitor.  For most Americans the message relayed by the media is one of conflict and violence between Arab and Jew and racism in what is alleged to be an apartheid state.  The reality stuns and contradicts everything one has heard about the relationship between Arabs  and Jews in Israel and must be seen to be appreciated.

Obama's myopic view of the Muslim Brotherhood

By Jim Kouri, Law Enforcement Examiner   

Attaining political power includes winning elections and forming a state run according to Islamic law, the liberation of countries of Islam from a foreign yoke, uniting them into one Islamic entity, and spreading Islamic values around the globe on the ruins of the liberal West.

President Barack Obama's view of the Muslim Brotherhood is based on his - and his advisors' - apparent rationale that the Islamist group is reformed and much more like the American and European models of pluralistic societies.

However, experts on Islam and terrorism claim that the Muslim Brotherhood's - and the radical Salafists - dominance of the Egyptian government, by virtue of its recent parliamentary election victories, will eventually lead to the imposition of Sharia law on Islamic Arabs and jihad against infidels.

"Nothing the Obama administration is trying to do through its aggressive overtures,...

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World's Largest Missile Exercise

Soon to Take Place with U.S. Troops Inside Israel 

By KerRY Patton, BIG PEACE

On January 19^th 1991, during the first Gulf War, the United States sent Patriot Missiles and a contingent of U.S. service members into Israel on temporary assignment. This was the least we could have done for Israel, as they vowed not to respond to Saddam's SCUD attacks which reached deep inside Tel Aviv. Never have U.S. forces found a permanent home inside the Holy Land-until today.

Image credit: Reuters

Twenty years later, the United States committed to a permanent presence in Israel. According to Defense News, as of September 21^st 2011, the United States deployed a high-powered, high-frequency, transportable X-band radar system to Israel along with a small contingent of support personnel. Designed to detect and track ballistic missiles soon after launch, the AN/TPY-2 Transportable Radar Surveillance/Forward Based X-band Transportable (FBX-T), its ancillary components, and some 120 EUCOM personnel are...

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LOOMING DESTRUCTION: Will Jews Ever Learn?

I married a sabra who was born in the forties in Jerusalem. My father-in-law hated the Brits and for good reason. They fucked the Jews. Its one thing for Hitler to lock all the Jews in a barn (Europe) before setting it on fire, and another thing for Britain to not allow them to escape into Eretz Yisrael, though legally and morally bound to do so. Who wouldn't hate them? The World barely prosecuted the Nazi murderers, Russia excluded, yet didn't even consider condemning Britain for its heinous crime. Ted Belman

By Victor Sharpe, AMERICAN THINKER   

On the eve of the Second World War, Chaim Weizmann, who was to become Israel's first president, wrote the following about the persecutions taking place in Nazi Germany:

It would require the eloquence of a Jeremiah to picture the horrors, the human anguish, of this new Destruction and of a new book of Lamentations to depict the present plight of Israel among the nations.

But even his heart breaking words were to...

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Hamas Official: Jordan's King Abdullah Will End Like Mubarak

By Elad Benari, INN

A Hamas official slammed Jordan's King Abdullah on Thursday and said his fate will be similar to that of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.

Mustafa Sawaf, editor-in-chief of the Gaza-based, Hamas-affiliated paper Felesteen, criticized the King for his support of the renewed talks between Israeli and Palestinian Authority officials.

In his editorial, Sawaf accused the Jordanian King of assuming Mubarak's role in sponsoring negotiations between the PA and Israel. Sawaf said that doing so harms the rights of PA Arabs and would lead to the King being dethroned since, as he put it, "Whoever declares war on Allah will eventually go away."

Sawaf's criticism comes following the meeting in Amman earlier this week between Israeli envoy Yitzhak Molcho and PA negotiator Saeb Erekat.

The meeting was described as positive and the parties have...

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Is Abe Foxman the new sheriff in town?

At times, the ADL seems to be working for the Democratic Party.

Ron Jager, INN

Rabbi Abraham Foxman, the 24-year director of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), a major Jewish human rights organization, is an important man who has done much. However, he seems to have forgotten that Israel and the Jewish people need to make friends, not insult the ones they have.

The ADL's purpose is combating antisemitism, and at times it still does, but in recent years, the ADL has begun to resemble a Jewish wing of the Democratic Party. It seems that whoever leads the Democratic Party is good enough for the head of the ADL.

The ADL of today has seems to have designated fighting antisemitism as secondary to a White House induced agenda of fighting "hate". However, a Jewish organization chartered to fight antisemitism should do just that. There is work to be done in the broader context of racism, religious, and ethnic bigotry, but the main focus should be as stated in the ADL charter;...

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Israel is our land

I HAVE LONG PREACHED THAT OUR PR IS DOOMED TO FAILURE BECAUSE WE DON'T PROCLAIM OUR RIGHT TO THE LAND. EITHER WE ARE OWNERS OR OCCUPIERS. HAVING SAID THAT, I DON'T HANG MY HAT ON "THE BIBLE IS OUR MANDATE" AS HE DOES. IT IS OURS BECAUSE OF INTERNATIONAL LAW; SAN REMO RESOLUTION, THE PALESTINIAN MANDATE AND OUR VICTORY IN 67. 'NOUGH SAID. TED BELMAN

Op-ed: Israeli PR effort will fail as long as we don't declare that land belongs to the Jews 

Naftali Bennett, Yesha Council's director general, YNET

Some people claim that the Judea and Samaria public relations effort, which is premised on our historical right in this land, is doomed for failure. This is also the perception that dominates Israel's PR establishment.

Our diplomats say that we must not speak of the Bible and history, because it's primitive; rather, we must only explain our security needs and point to the murderous behavior of the Palestinians. The enlightened world, say the diplomats, has...

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The land-for-peace hoax

By Caroline Glick, JPOST

The rise of the forces of jihadist Islam in Egypt places the US and other Western powers in an uncomfortable position. The US is the guarantor of Egypt's peace treaty with Israel. That treaty is based on the proposition of land for peace. Israel gave Egypt the Sinai in 1982 and in exchange it received a peace treaty with Egypt. Now that the Islamists are poised to take power, the treaty is effectively null and void.

The question naturally arises: Will the US act in accordance with its role as guarantor of the peace and demand that the new Egyptian government give Sinai back to Israel? Because if the Obama administration or whatever administration is in power when Egypt abrogates the treaty does not issue such a demand, and stand behind it, and if the EU does not support the demand, the entire concept of land-for-peace will be exposed as a hoax.

Indeed the land-for-peace formula will be exposed as a twofold fiction. First, it is based on the false...

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35 Radical Islamic Terror Training Camps are Now Openly Operating Inside the United States

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Obamalateral Disarmament Dooms Arsenal Of Democracy 1.6.12

This defensive retreat will of necessity come at the expense of other regions. We used to have a two-ocean Navy and a military capable of fighting and winning two full-blown wars. We no longer have that ability and will be reduced to plugging holes in the dike while not having enough fingers.

China's response to Obama's announcement was hardly reassuring. "China should come up with countermeasures," the nation's Communist Party-affiliated Global Times said. "It should strengthen its long-range strike abilities and put more deterrence on the U.S. The U.S. must realize that it cannot stop the rise of China and that being friendly to China is in its utmost interests."

This was said as China's first aircraft carrier undergoes sea trials.

The editorial also warned that China might form some kind of alliance with Iran. "The U.S. strategic adjustment highlights Iran's importance to China. Iran's existence and its stance form a strong check against the U.S.," the paper said. "China should not treat Iran following U.S. cultural, social and political values." The axis of evil just got bigger.

We have an unstable North Korea run by an inexperienced boy-man made general, the possibility of a nuclear arms race in the Middle East, an increasingly endangered Israel, an imminent nuclear power in Iran and an increasingly unfriendly and fragile Pakistan to deal with, and that's just for starters. All the president can say is that we're "turning a page on a decade of war" in Iraq and Afghanistan, ignoring the vacuums Iran and the Taliban hope to fill. Peace in our time it is not.

We will now continue to speak softly but carry a smaller stick. Forget about boots on the ground. We will now send in the drones instead of the Marines. The president's plan would reduce the size of the Army and Marine Corps by a combined 10%-15%, meaning an eventual loss of 76,000 to 114,000 troops, taking force levels back to roughly where they were at the end of the Clinton administration.

The president's words would be more reassuring if they weren't part of a consistent series of moves betraying our allies and reducing our military capability. We have gutted missile defense and turned on allies Poland and the Czech Republic to appease Russia. We were told we didn't need "billion-dollar destroyers," and now we have fewer warships than at any time since perhaps World War I and a Navy that will have to contend with China's carrier-killing ICBMs and nuclear submarines in the Taiwan Strait and the South China Sea.

We have excellent weapons and brave men and women, but we will now have too few of all of them. In a recent speech at National Defense University, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said: "Very simply, it would result in hollowing out the force," referring to current and mandated reductions and alluding to drops in the aftermath of the Vietnam War that left Army units undermanned and ill-equipped. "It would terribly weaken our ability to respond to the threats in the world."

Disarmament by any other name is still disarmament.

Koran-Burning Pastor: Impeach Obama

Jan 09, 2012 02:03 pm

Ben Johnson, The White House Watch Terry Jones, the Florida pastor who threatened to burn a Koran, is running for president. And his campaign website just posted an article entitled, "8 Reasons to Impeach Obama." "A US President "can be disqualified and removed from office for "Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors," it [...]

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Video: Palin, Obama and the Media Want Romney in 2012

Jan 09, 2012 02:02 pm

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Is Mitt Romney John McCain 2.0?

Jan 09, 2012 02:02 pm

The endorsement of Mitt Romney's presidential bid by John McCain, the 2008 Republican nominee, was the latest indication that Romney is the GOP establishment's heir apparent. As Romney, who picked up McCain's endorsement last week, appears to be gliding to a comfortable victory in New Hampshire's primary Tuesday, the next major campaign stop, and the [...]

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Video: Mitt and McCain, a Tale of Two Moderates

Jan 09, 2012 02:01 pm

(No endorsement implied.)

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Obama's Anti-Energy Policies Threaten U.S. Electric Grid

Jan 09, 2012 02:00 pm

The Institute for Energy Research (IER) posted an editorial on its web site yesterday that deals with the EPA's coal regulations and how this will impact the electric grid reliability in America. The editorial notes: The Obama administration has a long, anti-coal, oil, and natural gas track record. According to the North American Electric Reliability [...]

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Obama's 2012 Slogan: I Can't Work with Others

Jan 09, 2012 01:59 pm

President Obama is running for re-election with an unusual pitch: He can't work with others. He only gets along with yes-men. "I refuse to take no for an answer," Obama said Wednesday of his decision to make a "recess" appointment that placed Richard Cordray as head of a new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The Constitution, [...]

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Capitol Hill's Subversion of the American Worker Intensifies

Jan 09, 2012 01:58 pm

Today's hottest Capitol Hill topic is jobs. But the debate doesn't directly center on how to best put 22 million unemployed and underemployed Americans back to work. Instead the focus is on whether the United States needs more foreign-born workers. President Obama, his biased and ineffective Council on Jobs and Competitiveness, Congress and the Republican [...]

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Video: Fox News, Georgia Birther Case Marches On

Jan 09, 2012 01:58 pm

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Bin Laden Kill Movie Proves Obama's Grip on Hollywood

Jan 09, 2012 01:57 pm

January 09, 2012

 

VIRAL VIDEO DU JOUR - d'oh! HOMER SIMPSON BECOMES GLENN BECk.
Last night's episode of The Simpsons featured a storyline where Homer becomes a ranting cable news channel host with some opinions that might sound vaguely familiar to folks who watch Glenn Beck. Watch the video that Glenn LIKES HERE.




Watch a young girl barely flinch as a lion tries to attack her
You must see this video of a 3-year-old girl looking at a massive lion in a New Zealand zoo. After a brief staring contest, the lion decides to attack. Fortunately there is over a foot of glass protecting the young girl from the massive cat. See the clip HERE.

Monday, January 9, 2012

To: Friends & Supporters

From: Gary L. Bauer


COUNTDOWN TO VICTORY: 302 DAYS TO THE 2012 ELECTIONS


MEDIA ALERT

Be certain to tune in to Fox & Friends tomorrow morning. I am scheduled to be on at 5:45 AM ET to discuss the 2012 presidential election and my endorsement of Senator Rick Santorum.


Reaction

The past 24 hours have been a whirlwind of activity. As you know by now, I endorsed Senator Rick Santorum for president yesterday at an event in Greenville, South Carolina. Virtually every major media outlet picked up the news, and I have been overwhelmed by calls from reporters and journalists.

While the New Hampshire primary is tomorrow, the result is largely a forgone conclusion. Mitt Romney is expected to win. The only real question is by how much. But the next primary in, South Carolina, appears to be competitive. The most recent Rasmussen poll found Senator Santorum narrowly behind Governor Mitt Romney in the Palmetto State, 24% to 27%. Newt Gingrich had 18%, followed by Ron Paul (11%), Rick Perry (5%) and Jon Huntsman (2%).

The response to my endorsement has been overwhelmingly positive. Understandably, some folks were disappointed. Some have questions. I would like to reiterate that there is no perfect candidate in this race, and we will do everything we can to defeat Barack Obama and elect a conservative Senate majority in 302 days.

But Rick Santorum has a record that values voters can be proud of. And as we saw in New Hampshire last week when he was confronted by pro-gay marriage college students, he has the courage to unapologetically defend our traditional values. I am proud to stand with him!


Obama's Media Allies

There were two Republican debates in New Hampshire this weekend. All of the candidates did well, especially given the hostility of the so-called moderators. Everyone knows the mainstream media are in the tank for Obama. But just in case there was any confusion, former Clinton spin doctor George Stephanopoulos removed all doubt when he peppered the GOP candidates with questions about contraception in an attempt to portray them as extremists.

Really, George? We have sky-high unemployment, record debt and deficits, Iran building nuclear weapons and threatening our aircraft carriers, and contraception is at the top of your list?

As our friends at CNSNews.com noted, Stephanopoulos needed only 100 words to question Nancy Pelosi about the hundreds of millions of stimulus dollars that were dedicated to making contraceptives more readily available, instead of providing jobs. But he was "more aggressive in pursuing the issue ... when he questioned Republican presidential candidates in a debate Saturday night."

The Republican candidates have got to do a better job of standing up to the liberal media and redirecting these kinds of "gotcha" questions. I understand they are competing for the Republican nomination and want to draw contrasts between themselves and the other candidates. But they don't need to fall into the liberal media's trap of giving Obama more ammunition for the general election. And so far the biggest winner in the GOP primary contest appears to be Barack Obama. You can read more on that subject in my latest Human Events column.


Should A Candidate's Faith Matter?

Religion and politics are taboo subjects around many dinner tables. But what happens when the subject is religion in politics? Many in the news media report the "unsettling news" that polls show some voters are less likely to vote for candidates of certain religions. Nobody should be legally prohibited from running for office because of his religion.

But, as I ague in a column at USA Today, voters should consider a candidate's religious beliefs (or lack of them) because, whether secularists want to acknowledge it or not, those beliefs often help define the candidate's political values and public policy positions.


Senate GOP Demands Answers

Iowa Senator Charles Grassley, the ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, sent a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder Friday demanding to know the legal justification for the unprecedented recess appointments made by Barack Obama last week. Grassley's letter was signed by all eight Republicans on the Judiciary Committee. Below are some key excerpts from the letter:

"On Wednesday, President Obama deviated from over 90 years of precedent established by the Department of Justice (Department), and the Department's Office of Legal Counsel (OLC), by recess appointing four individuals to posts in the Administration...  This action was allegedly based upon legal advice provided to the President by the Office of White House Counsel.  We write today seeking information about what role, if any, the Department or OLC played in developing, formulating, or advising the White House on the decision to make these recess appointments.  Further, we want to know whether the Department has formally revised or amended past opinions issued by the Department on this matter.  

"In 1921, Attorney General Daugherty issued an opinion to the President regarding recess appointments and the length of recess required for the President to make an appointment under Article II Section 2 of the U.S. Constitution.  The Attorney General opined that 'no one, I venture to say, would for a moment contend that the Senate is not in session when an adjournment [of 2 days] is taken.  Nor do I think an adjournment for 5 or even 10 days can be said to constitute the recess intended by the Constitution.'   The reasoning of the 1921 opinion was given affirmative recognition in subsequent opinions issued by the Department, including opinions issued in 1960, 1992  and 2001. ...   

"Taken together, these authorities by the Department clearly indicate the view that a congressional recess must be longer than three days -- and perhaps at least as long as ten -- in order for a recess appointment to be constitutional.  These various authorities have reached this conclusion for over 90 years and have become the stated position of the Executive Branch, including multiple representations before the Supreme Court, regarding the required length of time for a recess in order for the President to make a recess appointment."

Sen. Grassley asked Holder to respond to eight specific questions, including whether or not the Obama White House was repudiating a position taken by the administration's Deputy Solicitor General in 2010 during arguments before the Supreme Court that "'recess has to be longer than 3 days' for the President to use the recess appointment power." Grassley demanded a response by January 20th. Stay tuned!
 

Today's Headlines:  Monday, January 09, 2012  

Idaho Couple Challenges Power of EPA to Say They Can't Build Home on Their Own Land

NBC Drops 'Vodka' From Title of New Sitcom About a 'Sexually Dynamic Advanced Drinker'

Sean Hannity says: "What the MRC does is a national treasure, a national resource...!" Please make a tax-deductible gift to MRC today! 

Stephanopoulos Questioning Pelosi on Gov't Role in Contraception: 100 Words; Questioning GOP Candidates: 1,000 Words 

Gingrich Defends Marriage As 'Core' of Civilization, Says Bigotry Question 'Goes Both Ways' 

Gingrich Chides Romney for His 'Pious Baloney'  

Secretaries of Education and Labor Met With Illegal Aliens at Ed. Dept. HQ 

 Interior Secretary Imposes 20-Year Ban on Uranium Mining on Public Lands 

Democrats Passed Payroll Tax Extension During 'Pro Forma' Session on Dec. 23 

Rep. Allen West: House and Senate GOP Leaders 'Sold us Down the Road' on Payroll Tax Cut 

Idaho Case to Challenge Unfettered Power of EPA Over Wetlands 

Iran Sentences American 'Spy' to Death As U.S. Announces New Sanctions 

DOJ Redefines Rape to Include 'Any Gender,' Any Penetration 

Miracle: Tebow Throws Game-Winning 80-Yard TD Pass on First Play of Overtime 

Iowa GOP Mistakenly Awards Extra 20 Votes to Romney 

COMMENTARY:

The Sunday Morning Debate
By Rich Galen
The NBC "Meet the Press" debate this morning was as different from last night's ABC debate as curling is from ice hockey.

Congress in 2011: Pros and Cons
By Ed Feulner
It's hardly news to say that the American people are fed up with Congress. Is this distrust deserved? Let's review some of the issues Congress handled in 2011.

January 9, 2012  

Radical Islam
destroys freedom  

The recent brouhaha over Lowe's pulling its advertising on the TV show "All-American Muslim" is just the latest example of how radical Islam threatens, undermines and eventually destroys freedom.

In this case, the threat was to the freedom a company has to make business decisions about when and where it will advertise.

Here are just four recent examples of how radical Islam attacks freedom.

Brief - Monday, January 9, 2012

The Foundation

"It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself." --Thomas Jefferson

For the Record

The stimulus didn't work.

"Message to my fellow conservatives: Please don't blame the mainstream media for the improvement in jobs, unemployment and economic growth. Reporters are not making this up. The economy is better. It's going to give President Obama a leg up on the election. GOP beware, and come to your senses. Take Friday's jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Non-farm payrolls gained 200,000, and the unemployment rate slipped to 8.5 percent from 8.7 percent. It may well be that a seasonal quirk added 42,000 messengers and couriers to the totals, but that will be lost in the headline reporting. It will be given back next month. It's inconsequential to the overall story. Likewise, a normal labor participation rate would yield much higher unemployment. But that's academic. Like any president, Obama will take credit for these economic gains. He's doing that right now. And he has a case to make: A year ago, the unemployment rate was 9.4 percent, and in 2011 it fell almost a percentage point. In the 12 months through December 2011, the economy produced 1.64 million new jobs, while in 2010, only 940,000 were created. On a monthly average basis, 137,000 new jobs per month were created in 2011, compared to only 78,000 a month in 2010. Things are getting better. Now, whether this has anything to do with Barack Obama's policies is quite another matter. After all, coming out of a deep recession, monthly jobs should be closer to 300,000 or 400,000, as they were during the Ronald Reagan recovery in 1983-84. The unemployment rate should be falling much faster. This should be the Republican message. Ironically, while President Obama takes credit for better jobs today, his forecast at the time of the $800 billion stimulus package was for near 6 percent unemployment at this stage in the cycle. So, the stimulus didn't work." --economist Lawrence Kudlow 

Government

"Government becomes big by having big ambitions for supplanting markets as society's primary allocator of wealth and opportunity. Therefore it becomes a magnet for factions muscular enough, in money or numbers or both, to bend government to their advantage. The left's centuries-old mission is to increase social harmony by decreasing antagonisms arising from disparities of wealth -- to decrease inequality by increasing government's redistributive activities. Such government constantly expands under the unending, indeed intensifying, pressures to correct what it disapproves of -- the distribution of wealth produced by consensual market activities. But as government presumes to dictate the correct distribution of social rewards, the maelstrom of contemporary politics demonstrates that social strife, not solidarity, is generated by government transfer payments to preferred groups. ... Not only does redistributionist government direct wealth upward; in asserting a right to do so it siphons power into itself. A puzzling aspect of our politically contentious era is how little contention there is about the ethics of coercive redistribution by progressive taxation and other government 'corrections' of social outcomes it considers unethical or unaesthetic. ... Government uses redistribution to correct social outcomes that offend it. But government rarely explains, or perhaps even recognizes, the reasoning by which it decides why particular outcomes of consensual market activities are incorrect. ... People are less dissatisfied by what they lack than by what others have. And when government engages in redistribution in order to maximize the happiness of citizens who become more envious as they become more comfortable, government becomes increasingly frenzied and futile." --columnist George Will 

Insight

"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." --author and theologian C. S. Lewis (1898-1963)

The Gipper

"The government can find some charge to bring against any concern it chooses to prosecute. Every businessman has his own tale of harassment. Somewhere a perversion has taken place. Our natural, unalienable rights are now considered to be a dispensation of government, and freedom has never been so fragile, so close to slipping from our grasp as it is at this moment." --Ronald Reagan 

Tony Blankley, RIP

Tony Blankley, one of The Patriot Post's syndicated columnists, as well as a former Ronald Reagan speechwriter and editorial page editor for The Washington Times, died Saturday after battling stomach cancer. He was 63. The Times has an obituary here, and his column archive is here.

Re: The Left

"In the case of Leftists, if you point out that socialism doesn't work any better in Wisconsin or Ohio than it did in the Soviet Union or does in Greece, they argue that it simply has never been done correctly. In the wake of such bloody failures as China, Nazi Germany, Cambodia, Cuba, Venezuela and North Korea, only a certifiable lunatic would even consider defending socialism on such shaky ground. However, when it comes to unequivocal devotion to failed attempts at social engineering, those on the Left could give collies and cocker spaniels lessons in blind loyalty. If I haven't yet convinced you that those who inhabit the ranks of the Left are dangerously self-righteous and unbelievably stupid, consider that they not only elected Barney Frank to Congress, but then kept doing it 15 more times. Consider, too, that they hold the unholy likes of Jimmy Carter, Michael Moore and Michael Bloomberg, in high regard. Finally, never forget that one of the intellectual heroines of the Left, Susan Sontag, once declared, 'The white race is the cancer of human history,' and, as usual, she was being deadly serious; and that Barack Obama, after once acknowledging that America was the greatest nation on the face of the earth -- no doubt with his fingers crossed behind his back -- went on to announce that, as president, he intended to radically transform it!" --columnist Burt Prelutsky 

Opinion in Brief

"Mitt Romney's victory in Iowa is underappreciated. It was a well-run campaign and no one thought the day of the Ames straw poll, in August, that it would happen. The victory of Rick Santorum is a pundit-humbler: No one saw that coming even six weeks ago, except perhaps Mr. Santorum. The Iowa results almost perfectly reflect the Republican Party, which, roughly speaking, is split into three parts -- libertarians, social conservatives and moderate conservatives, who went for Ron Paul, Mr. Santorum and Mr. Romney respectively. The three parts of the party have been held together by agreement on three big issues: spending (which must be cut), taxing (which must be reformed), and President Obama (who must be removed). These three issues have force. Taxes and spending are the ties that bind, the top and bottom crust that holds the pie together. They're the reason the party is still the party, and not the splinter groups. The third element, Mr. Obama, is this year equally important. But there's no denying the Republicans are in a brawl, and it is becoming ferocious." --columnist Peggy Noonan 

Political Futures

"In keeping with the dark and defiant habits of this administration, the new head of the half-billion-dollar Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was sworn in behind closed doors on Wednesday night. The nomination of former Democratic Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray to serve as Dodd-Frank regulatory enforcer had been soundly defeated in the Senate before Christmas. ... At his left flank's urging, Obama vowed to follow in President Theodore Roosevelt's footsteps (TR recess-appointed 160 officials during a recess of less than one day) and install Cordray even though the Senate technically remained in pro forma session. Fresh from his Hawaii vacation, Obama returned to Washington and for once delivered on a promise. ... Obama's liberal media supporters have rationalized the tyrannical maneuver as a response to GOP 'nullification.' But it's those who oppose common-sense reforms of the gravely flawed Dodd-Frank law -- a 2,600-page monstrosity that no lawmaker read before passing it -- who are obstructing good government. As Senate Republicans have been pointing out for months, Dodd-Frank threw out judicial review, removed CFPB from the congressional appropriations process, provided five-year tenure protection for the director and transferred the agency from the Treasury Department to the opaque and unaccountable Federal Reserve. ... [T]axpayers remain in the dark about how and how much the CFPB is spending, because Dodd-Frank allows the agency to draw funds from the Federal Reserve's operating expenses. Out of sight, out of mind. This is not 'bold.' It's jackboot." --columnist Michelle Malkin 

Reader Comments

"Mark Alexander and Patriot Team, I am pleased to know you made your year-end financial goals to advance your mission of Liberty, but I have to tell you, some of your appeals almost sounded apologetic. I presume you get complaints for asking us to support the outstanding service you provide to advance Liberty. Well, may I suggest you have NOTHING for which you need apologize. I have built my career as an Army officer on the tenets of leadership and responsibility. Though you ask nothing of uniformed Patriots, I want you to know that I doubled my donation for 2011. For those who complain about your appeals for support, SHAME on them. It is one thing not to support you for all the great work you do, but entirely another to actually complain about receiving requests for support. Thanks for limiting your support to civilian Patriots who are able to support you -- and excluding students and those with limited income. I am proud to support you on their behalf!" --Col. USA, Afghanistan

"I appreciated Mark Alexander's essay, 'Grateful for What?'. It's always difficult to hear when our Patriot leaders are suffering battle fatigue. Your responsibilities are significant and you fulfill them well. Hundreds of thousands of us depend on and value your insights and evaluation of current events, and your steadfast devotion to Liberty. You have become both a watchdog and sheepdog. Your attention and that of your dedicated staff is constantly drawn to evil in order that your fellow citizens may be warned and therefore behave wisely. It is good that as your watchfulness is constantly scanning our current world for the benefit of others, your constant and unswerving gaze is upon He Who is the Author and Finisher of our so great salvation, our Creator and Redeemer." --Tim

"As a libertarian leaning individual and reader of The Patriot Post, I really appreciate the honest opinion of Ron Paul in Friday's Digest. Although I disagree and feel he would be a great President and Commander in Chief (most consistent of any candidate -- not a loose cannon at all), this article is unbiased and looks at Ron Paul honestly, which is so uncommon in the Right Wing media." --Jason

"I've come around to Jon Huntsman. In addition to being arguably the most electable, he is also the most consistently conservative. I'm from PA & we haven't forgotten that Santorum backed the liberal Arlen Specter over Pat Toomey in a prior Senate election, which is unforgivable. Santorum is also unelectable, as are Gingrich & Ron Paul. Therefore, I'd like to see and hear more from Huntsman in the coming weeks. Defeating BHO is paramount to prevent national bankruptcy if he is re-elected." --DJA

"In order to stop the marxist policies and agenda of Obama I will support whomever wins the GOP nomination. No one on this earth is perfect and we all have our issues including the GOP candidates." --Big D Patriot

Editor's Note: This was the best exchange from the New Hampshire debate over the weekend:

Romney: "I believe in an America that's based upon opportunity and freedom, not President Obama's social welfare state. ... We have a president that does not understand, in his heart, in his bones, the nature of American entrepreneurialism, innovation and work."

Gingrich: "That's a little bit harsh on President Obama, who, I'm sure in his desperate efforts to create a radical European socialist model, is sincere."

The Last Word

"If Democrats truly believe Bush spent too much, then shouldn't they cooperate to bring spending under control rather than use Bush's spending as an excuse to up the ante? ... If Democrats had any concern about spending, they wouldn't have crammed through Obamacare, which will increase the federal health care budget obscenely. If they had the slightest concern about our upside-down national balance sheet, they wouldn't have spent $900 billion in a worthless, corrupt, ineffectual 'stimulus' program and be clamoring for another one. They wouldn't urinate federal money into dead-end green projects, such as Solyndra. They wouldn't have desperately tried to pass a monumentally wasteful cap-and-trade bill that wouldn't have made a dent in global temperature in a hundred years, even if you blindly accept all the superstitious nonsense the environmentalists propagate. Seriously, people, let Democrats and Obama defenders obfuscate all they want, but have you seen the charts? Have you noticed the dramatic acceleration in spending and deficits since Obama took office? ... We have to get about the business of cutting spending and reforming entitlements now because every year we wait, our problems are compounded and become that much more difficult to reverse." --columnist David Limbaugh 

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

New articles published for 01/09/2012  

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A King Lear for Girls

All-American Failure

A New Era of Mideast Energy?

Obama Terrorism Advisor's Book Confuses and Distorts

Norway's 'Beloved' Terrorist Heads Back to Iraq

Obama: The Anti-Israel President - on The Jamie Glazov Show

Muslim Gangs Drug and Rape Children All Over The UK

How the U.S. 'Bullied' Poor Little Castro

Paul and his useful idiots need to remember Reagan's great, "There is a bear in the woods.." ad

Jan 09, 2012 05:13 am | Coach Collins

 By Kevin "Coach" Collins

 During his 1984 campaign Ronald Reagan ran a thirty second television spot that very subtly highlighted the differences between his understanding of the threat of the Soviet Communists and Walter Mondale's underestimation of the danger they posed.

 The spot opened with a narrator saying "There is a bear in the woods." As it progressed, a brown bear was shown wandering in a forest.

 The full text was, "There is a bear in the woods. For some people, the bear is easy to see. Others don't see it at all. Some people say the bear is tame. Others say it's vicious and dangerous. Since no one can really be sure who's right, isn't it smart to be as strong as the bear? If there is a bear..."

 Twenty eight years ago Reagan was referring to the threat of Communist aggression, but the underlining message would be the same if it were run today.  Ron ... Continue Reading:Paul and his useful idiots need to remember Reagan's great, "There is a bear in the woods.." ad

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American Minute January 8

Jan 08, 2012 05:13 pm | Coach Collins

By Bill Federer, staff writer

    Though the War of 1812 had ended two weeks earlier, news had not yet reached New Orleans and on January 8, 1815, five thousand British soldiers charged in a frontal assault against General Andrew Jackson's Tennessee and Kentucky sharpshooters. French pirate Jean Lafitte and his men aided the Americans. In just a half-hour, over two thousand British were killed and only 8 Americans. On JANUARY 8, 1815, General Andrew Jackson wrote to Robert Hays regarding the victorious Battle of New Orleans: "It appears that the unerring hand of Providence shielded my men from the shower of balls, bombs, and rockets, when every ball and bomb from our guns carried with them a mission of death." Known as "Old Hickory," Andrew Jackson commented to Major Dravezac on his confidence before the Battle: "I was sure of success, for I knew that God would not give me previsions of disaster, but signs of victory. He ... Continue Reading:American Minute January 8

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The Bailiff and Barack Obama: one Hell of a tale

Jan 08, 2012 01:13 pm | Coach Collins

edited by Doug Book, staff writer

There is a Fourteenth century story of a Bailiff-the hated town collector of rents and enforcer of labor services-who, while riding to a village one day to collect rents, met the Devil himself in human form. "Where are you going," asked the Devil? "To the next village on my master's business," replied the Bailiff.

Upon introducing himself, the Devil asked the Bailiff if he would take whatever was freely offered him. "Yes," replied the Bailiff who then asked the same question of the Devil. The Devil replied that, although also in quest of gain, he would NOT be willing to take whatever men would give him, but only what they would gladly bestow "with their whole heart and soul."

As they approached the village, they saw a plowman angrily commending to the Devil his oxen which had repeatedly strayed off course. The Bailiff said to the Devil, "Behold, they are ... Continue Reading:The Bailiff and Barack Obama: one Hell of a tale

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