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912 Patriots of Lower Bucks - Your Daily Updates ALL in ONE Place!
January 12, 2012
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- You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.
- You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
- You cannot help little men by tearing down big men.
- You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.
- You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.
- You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money.
- You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.
- You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn.
- You cannot build character and courage by destroying men's initiative and independence.
- And you cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they can and should do for themselves."
- Rev. William John Henry Boetcker(1873 - 1962) - Presbyterian, conservative and inspirational public speaker, from a pamphlet produced in 1916, called "The Ten Cannots." This quote has often been falsely attributed to Abraham Lincoln.
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Premiere Night on GBTV - TOMORROW NIGHT!
The Night Begins at 5pm ET
Tomorrow on January 18th, as a GBTV Plus member, tune in for the premiere of an entire block of primetime original programming on GBTV. GBTV is getting bigger and better with the series premiere of the new weekly reality show "Independence U.S.A." and a new daily news series, "The Real News from The Blaze."
What can you expect on Premiere Night? Check out the preview video.
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All the news you're not getting, you'll get right here. Diving deep into the top stories of the day to give you the facts and angles you won't hear from the mainstream media, "Real News" features expert reporting and analysis from editors of The Blaze.com as well as hard hitting interviews with the day's biggest newsmakers. It's the newscast you can't afford to miss. News reporting is about to change.
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A Premiere Night special event - "The American Dream Labs - The Beginning!" Join Glenn as he and his team unveil the plans in store for GBTV, Mercury One, and more in 2012!
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2012 Primary Debate Schedule
Here is the most up-to-date and complete schedule we have for the 2011 / 2012 Republican Primary debates. These debates are between all the Republican candidates. For the schedule of debates between the Republican nominee and President Barack Obama, see the 2012 Presidential Debate schedule page. Upcoming debates are listed at the top.
Upcoming Debates:
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| | January 19, 2012 | Air time TBD on CNN
Location: Charleston, SC
Sponsor: CNN and the Southern Republican Leadership Conference
Participants: TBD | | January 23, 2012 | Air time TBD on NBC
Location:University of South Florida in Tampa, Florida
Sponsor: The St. Petersburg Times, NBC News, the National Journal and the Florida Council of 100
Participants: TBD | | January 26, 2012 | Air time TBD on CNN
Location: Jacksonville, FL
Sponsor: CNN, CNN en Espaņol, The Hispanic Leadership Network and The Republican Party of Florida
Participants: TBD | | February 22, 2012 | 8pm ET on CNN (Originally Dec 1, then Nov 30)
Location: Mesa Arts Center in Mesa, Arizona
Sponsor: CNN and the Republican Party of Arizona
Participants: TBD | | March 1, 2012 | 8pm ET on CNN
Location: Georgia
Sponsor: CNN and the Georgia Republican Party
Participants: TBD | | March 5, 2012 | Air time TBD on NBC
Location: Reagan Library in Simi Valley, CA
Sponsor: Reagan Library, NBC News and Politico
Participants: TBD | | March 19, 2012 | Air time TBD on PBS
Location: Portland, OR
Sponsor: Oregon Public Broadcasting, NPR, PBS, and The Washington Times
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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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PENNSYLVANIA GOP SENATORIAL DEBATE
THURSDAY JANUARY 19, 2012
THE MOOSE LODGE
127 EAST STATE STREET
DOYLESTOWN, PA 18901
MODERATOR: DAVID PATTI, PRESIDENT AND CEO PENNSYLVANIA BUSINESS COUNCIL
PARTICIPANTS:
TOM SMITH
SAM ROHRER
ROBERT MANSFIELD
STEVEN WELCH
LAUREEN CUMMINGS
MARC SCARINGI
DAVID CHRISTIAN
TIM BURNS
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Dear Patriot,
Two event updates...
1. This Thursday, January 19th, 7pm, we are co-sponsoring the Pennsylvania US Senate Debate with the Kitchen Table Patriots. Please arrive promptly and join us at the Moose, 127 East State Street, Doylestown, PA. If you would like to submit questions for the debate, please reply to this email no later than 4pm today.
2. Next TJC meeting, Sunday, February 12th, 7pm at the Temperance House, 5 South State Street, Newtown, PA. We are having this meeting on Sunday due to our speaker's travel schedule. We are very pleased to present Belgian and European Member of Parliament Filip Dewiner. Mr. Dewinter is the leader of the Vlaams Belang (Flemish Interest) Party in Belgium. A champion of freedom, sovereignty and national self-determination, Mr. Dewinter will present on the "Defense of the West" and what this means for both Europe and the United States.
I hope to see many of you Thursday at the debate!
All the best,
Jeff McGeary
President, Thomas Jefferson Club
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Hey All,
Please spread the word on this panel discussion and consider attending. As per earlier emails, implementing an exchange in PA is de-facto acceptance of ObamaCare. Other states have refused to implement the exchanges in keeping with the spirit of total resistance. Nick Pandelides is leading the fight for our side and is on the panel.
There will be more coming out shortly on next steps that individuals and groups can do lobby Harrisburg and exert public pressure to have Pennsylvania's collaboration with ObamaCare ended. You can follow developments on the following facebook page
http://www.facebook.com/stopobamacarepa
The Lehigh Valley COALITION for Health Care Reform presents:
 Everything You Wanted to Know About:
Creating a Health Insurance Exchange in PA
(but didn't know who to ask)
WHAT: Debate on the Creation of a Health Care Exchange in PA,
as mandated by the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA)
WHEN: 6:30 - 8 p.m., Wednesday, February 1, 2012
WHERE: Ground Floor Meeting Room, Bethlehem Area Public Library
11 W. Church St., Bethlehem, PA 18018
WHO: Panelists include:
Nick Pandelides, M.D., Vice President, PA Chapter, Docs 4 Patient Care
Ralph Schmeltz, M.D., Immediate Past President, Pennsylvania Medical Society
(Additional panelists may participate.)
ADMISSION: Free, but space is limited, so please RSVP.
RSVP: register at: www.Meetup.com/Lehigh-Valley-Coalition-for-Health-Care-Reform
LIVE STREAMING VIDEO: www.ustream.tv/channel/coalition-for-health-care-reform
THE ISSUE: The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act mandates that small businesses and individuals must purchase health insurance and obtain government insurance subsidies through state-based federally regulated health insurance exchanges beginning in 2014. States which do not design and administer federally compliant exchanges will default to a federal system. A recent PA Insurance Department announcement that a state-based exchange will be created in PA has generated controversy. Supporters say an exchange designed and administered in PA will serve Pennsylvanians better than one controlled by the federal government. Opponents say it is inconsistent for the Commonwealth to institute provisions of the PPACA while engaged in the constitutional challenge against the law. Our experts will present both sides and answer questions to help YOU decide.
The Lehigh Valley COALITION for Health Care Reform is a non-profit, non-partisan grassroots coalition of concerned citizens and health care professionals committed to educating the public about the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) and other measures and policies impacting America's health.
http://www.meetup.com/Lehigh-Valley-Coalition-for-Health-Care-Reform
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Weekly News From Philadelphia ZOA
Shabbat Shalom!
 Please join us for our next Quarterly Meeting, Wednesday, Feb. 29, at 7:30 p.m., at Temple Beth Hillel/Beth El, 1001 Remington Rd., Wynnewood, PA. Guest speaker to be announced. The meeting is free and open to the public.
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We are thrilled to be able to bring to Philadelphia Pamela Geller, a modern-day Jewish superheroine who via her Web site, "Atlas Shrugs" (http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/); speeches; articles; and books alerts us about the dangers of militant Islam and its accomplices who threaten the U.S., Israel and Western Civilization - and she fights back. Come hear her no-nonsense observations and advice. Her topic: "The March of Muslim Extremists: Implications for America, Israel and the West and How To Stop It In Its Tracks." Geller's talk will take place on Monday, March 19, at 6:45 p.m., at the Jewish Community Services Building, 2100 Arch Street, Philadelphia. Tickets are $10, free for students. Call us at 215-338-9188 or email us at zoa@netreach.net for tickets.
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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.
Don't miss the chance to ask Dick Morris and our other speakers your questions, Saturday, January 28.
GENERAL ADMISSION IS FREE -- BUT you must reserve your free tickets here (http://schoolchoicehershey.eventbrite.com/)!
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,
Jennifer Stefano
Pennsylvania State Director
Americans for Prosperity Foundation
www.putkidsfirst.org (http://www.putkidsfirst.org/)
Americans for Prosperity Foundation (AFPF) is a nationwide organization of citizen-leaders committed to advancing every individual's right to economic freedom and opportunity. AFPF believes reducing the size and intrusiveness of government is the best way to promote individual productivity and prosperity for all Americans. AFPF educates and engages citizens to support restraining state and federal government growth and returning government to its constitutional limits. AFPF is more than 1.8 million activists strong, with activists in all 50 states. AFPF has 34 state chapters and affiliates. More than 90,000 Americans in all 50 states have made a financial contribution to AFP or AFP Foundation.
For more information, visit http://www.americansforprosperityfoundation.com
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The Philadelphia Freedom Center
Welcomes
Brooke Goldstein
2011-2012 Speaker Series presented by:
Jessica & Eric Berger Jill & Alan Miller
Cecilie & Eugene Block Mindy & Bryan Rishforth
Joan Carter & John Aglialoro Adele & Harold Schaeffer
Amy & Steven Erlbaum Gerald B. Shreiber
Vicki & Gary Erlbaum Beth & Craig Snider
Gerry & Dick Fox Ed Snider
Penny & Robert Fox Laurie Wagman & Irv Borowsky
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February 2, 2012
Reception: 5:00 - 6:30 PM
Location:
The Office of Duane Morris, LLP.
30 South 17th Street
12th Floor Philadelphia, PA 19103
Registration: $30.00
Click to Register
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About Brooke
Brooke Goldstein is a New York City based human rights attorney and award-winning filmmaker. She serves as director of The Lawfare Project, a nonprofit organization dedicated to raising awareness about and facilitating a response to the abuse of Western legal systems and human rights law.
Brooke's award-winning documentary film, The Making of a Martyr, uncovers the illegal, state-sponsored indoctrination and recruitment of Palestinian children for suicide-homicide attacks. Filming Martyr, Brooke secured first hand interviews with active and armed members of the Al-Aqsa, Fatah, Islamic Jihad and Hamas terrorist groups as well as with families of suicide bombers, children imprisoned for attempting to blow themselves up, teachers at terrorist-run schools, and others involved in the phenomenon of child suicide bombing.
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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.
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DEAR PATRIOTS,
THERE WILL BE NO JANUARY Valley Forge Patriots Tea Party MEETING !!!
The 2012 election is one of the most important in the history of the USA. Two contests which are very important are the Presidential race and the election of a Senator from PA. In order to allow our membership to learn more about those competing to replace Senator Bob Casey.
The Valley Forge Patriots are hosting a
US Senate Candidate Forum on Feb.3rd 2012
The participants will be Sam Rohrer, Marc Scaringi, Tom Smith and Steve Welch
The forum will be held at the Franklin Commons on 400 Franklin Ave.in Phoenixville from 6:00PM to 8:00 PM. There is plenty of free parking. Food (pizza, chili, etc) and soft drinks will be available. Food service will start at 5:30PM. Attendance is free (donations welcome).
Please RSVP to www.meetup.com/VFP-TeaParty09/
For more information www.vfpatriots.com/
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Nullify Now! Philadelphia
 March 31, 2012. 10a-6p
-SPONSOR THIS EVENT - CLICK HERE
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Crowne Plaza, Liberty Ballroom
Philadelphia Downtown
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Thomas Jefferson: "Whensoever the general government assumes undelegated powers....a nullification of the act is the rightful remedy."
But what IS nullification? How does it happen and work? Since September 2010, the Tenth Amendment Center has been hosting a national tour to educate and activate people on this topic. People are learning the constitutional basis, when it's been used in history, and how it is happening around the country and how YOU can stop DC right in your own state.
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LISTEN LIVE TO REPATRIOT RADIO
"BETTER THAN EVER"
(all times are eastern)
Wednesday 3-4pm "Patriots Watch" - Billy Baer and Dan Haggerty
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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:
Read more and download the pdf:
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
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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
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Dead Cats: VOTER ID, 01/16/12, Late: James Brody
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www.deadcatsandclippings.com
Lou Flanagan, House Bill 934: Voter ID
"My state Rep. Warren Kampf responded to my question about where the Voter ID bill stands in Harrisburg. His response appears at end of this emaiI. It seems clear that unless we apply pressure to the state senate government committee,this bill will go nowhere.
My questions for them are: Where do you stand on the bill? What are you doing to move it out of committee? If you oppose it, tell me why. Who on the committee is against it, and why?
Louis:
Thank you for the email regarding Voter ID (House Bill 934).
The House passed Voted ID on June 23rd. I voted for this bill if you will remember. It is now the responsibility of the Senate to take action to continue to move HB 934 forward.
I would advise you to contact the Senators who comprise the Senate State Government Committee, those in Senate leadership positions and your local Senator to let them know of your desire to move this forward. Also you may ask for an accounting of why this has been held up and not considered.
Please let me know if I can help with other state-related matters.
Warren
Representative Warren Kampf
PA House of Representatives
157th Legislative District
Phone: 717-260-6166
E-Mail: wkampf@pahousegop.com
Lou's Research
My search uncovered the state government committee. Three of the four officers are from our region.
Lou Flanagan
http://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/cteeInfo/cteeInfo.cfm?cde=41&body=S
McIlhinney, Charles T., Jr. , Chair
Brubaker, Mike, Vice Chair
Williams, Anthony H. , Minority Chair
Scarnati, Joseph B., III, ex-officio
Majority
Corman, Jake
Folmer, Mike
Pippy, John
White, Donald C.
Minority
Dinniman, Andrew E.
Tartaglione, Christine M.
Washington, LeAnna M.
Voter Cheating
You know, comrades," says Stalin, "that I think in regard to this: I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this - who will count the votes, and how. (Boris Bazhanov's Memoirs of Stalin's Former Secretary,1992, only available in Russian.
Russia's Vladimir Putin is accused of voter fraud and failure to solve problems with health care availability, immigration control, and unsustainable pensions. Sound familiar? Absolutely. Will he lie? Absolutely. But unlike Obama's ACORN, he will probably admit it.
Background
There are several lines of independent evidence for cheating in the 2012 election:
a) 12/30/11, Voter ID: PA House Bill 934
Eric Holder has ordered his staff not to meddle with cases of voter fraud that involve minorities (J. Christian Adams has written widely about such cases), Salina Zito (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review) predicted that PA in November '12 will go according to the Philadelphia suburbs, ACORN has both a record for voter scams and operates new sites in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, our State Attorney General is stepping aside, and there is little public information about Mayor Nutter's views on this matter. Meanwhile, there is an early February deadline from our Governor as Republicans in the PA legislature attempt to define a list of acceptable IDs and Democrats cry that minorities and old people can't handle this demand.
I smell more fraud from a bunch- ACORN - already known nationally for fraud and Corbett's February deadline invites some deliberate lapse by the D's...And intrusion by Eric Holder would stall our ID program until after ACORN has done their job for BO ...
b) Jeffrey Kuhner, Washington Times: BO & Voter ID
"...South Carolina's legislation provides for free ID cards to be given to anyone who needs it. Not one person - white, black or brown - is discriminated against or discouraged from casting a vote at the ballot box. Moreover, the Supreme Court already has ruled on the issue - upholding state voter ID laws. In the 2008 Crawford v. Marion County Election Board decision, the high court held that an Indiana law mandating photo identification at the voting booth was indeed constitutional. If it is good enough for the Supreme Court and the overwhelming majority of the states, then it should be for Mr. Holder as well.
"It isn't. And the reason is simple: The administration is trying to whip up minority frenzy, propagating the myth of widespread ballot suppression..."
c) Daryl Metcalf, Morning Call: Electoral Integrity (June 18, 2011)
Metcalf is a Republican from Butler County (north of Pittsburgh)
"Pennsylvania has a long and ongoing history of documented voter fraud - pre-dating even the frequently forged signature of Mickey Mouse to at least the election of 1918.
"Of course, no statewide analysis of voter fraud would be complete without briefly documenting the deeply rooted influence of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now.
d) Christopher Freind, PA Water Cooler: No ID, No Vote,... Comprende? (June 21, 2011)
"I am not wealthy, but have recently acquired twenty two domiciles throughout Philadelphia. My real estate prowess has afforded me a unique opportunity to make a difference in the lives of our citizens.
"I can vote twenty-two times.
"You see, I have staked out prime locations, from a cardboard box under the Walt Whitman Bridge to a culvert on Cobbs Creek Parkway to a burnt out shell at 7th and Diamond. Yes, technically, habitating at these locations makes me 'homeless,' but I much prefer the term 'voter-enfranchised.' When you have such a love of democracy, how can anyone have a problem with people who want to vote multiple times, especially the homeless? (Although, in fairness, dead people should only be able to vote once).
http://pawatercooler.com/v3/?tag=philadelphia-voter-fraud
e) 11/7/2011, PA ACORN Lives
"Pennsylvania. ACORN PA has become Pennsylvania Communities Organizing for Change (PCOC) and Pennsylvania Neighborhoods for Social Justice (PNSJ).Both were incorporated on January 8, 2010. On July 26, 2010, PCOC filed for another name - Action United - and the organizations now operate under this name. Current board members and staff of these organizations with former ACORN affiliations include:
* Lucille Prater Holliday, chair (ACORN member and Democratic state house candidate)
* Pat Worrell, co-chair (Chester County, PA ACORN chairman)
* Rosa Chacon, secretary/treasurer (ACORN leader in Harrisburg, PA, profiled in
ACORN's 2005 annual report)
* Fabrico Rodriguez, board member (executive director of Philadelphia Jobs with
Justice)
* Craig Robbins, executive director (ACORN regional director in Philadelphia, PA)
* Maryellen Deckard, southwest regional director (head organizer for ACORN PA)
* Jennifer England, communications director (Pittsburg ACORN spokesperson)
Action United is located at 846 North Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA 19130 and 5907 Penn Avenue, Pittsburg(h), PA 15206. The Action United website is www.actionunited.org.
http://www.judicialwatch.org/files/documents/2011/acornspecialreport08222011.pdf
There is even a Secretary of State project in which leftist groups attempt to bias state elections so that "liberal" Secretaries of State are elected. http://truethevote.org/news/does-your-vote-really-count; http://truethevote.org/news/what-is-the-secretary-of-state-project.
There must be some benefit to Republicans if they ignore voter fraud. For example, my acquaintance publishes lists of Republicans who take contributions from unions and refusing to vote against union interests. And conservative Lowman Henry has spoken about the legislative impasse, particularly in the State Senate, produced by about twenty-five who get their money from organized labor.
Thus, Nicole Marrone's conclusion is still valid as is Christopher Freind's:
"The city of Philadelphia is known for many things: The Liberty Bell, cheesesteaks, water ice, and Santa Claus-booing Eagles fans. But if research that I conducted in 2006 is still accurate today, Philadelphia should also be known for all-inclusive voting - that is, voting regardless of whether one has a pulse or is otherwise eligible to cast a vote..." http://pjmedia.com/blog/small-sample-of-philly-voter-rolls-reveals-hundreds-of-ineligible-names-pjm-exclusive/
There is a bright light on our horizon even though Salena Zito asserted that Pennsylvania electoral votes will depend on turn out in the Philadelphia suburbs:
"Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter didn't mince words after four kids were shot and three killed in Philadelphia Tuesday night.
"The first way to stop this kind of stuff is for young people to be home when they're supposed to be home, and for adults not to act like idiots and assholes out in the streets of our city shooting at kids in a car," Nutter told FOX 29...
A spokesperson for the mayor told the Philadelphia Inquirer that Nutter stood by his statement.
"He said what he said. He was clear about it, and he meant it. He said what everybody else was thinking," said spokesman Mark McDonald..."
http://dailycaller.com/2012/01/12/philly-mayor-dont-act-like-idiots-and-assholes/
What are Mayor Mike's reactions to fraud? Does he value "value" above "deals"?
Meanwhile, many Pennsylvanians look to Harrisburg to pass a "Voter ID" law that requires each of us to carry a card with our photo and address on it. Our Governor also says that he needs the law in place by the first week of February if it is to be used this coming November.
On the other hand, I recall my son's friends in college fattening their wallets by selling bogus photo ID to students who wanted to buy liquor. I'm sure ACORN knows how to do such things.
The ID cards will make cheating a bit more difficult and more expensive for organizers and possibly, but not necessarily, less frequent. And the rest of us will pay the bills for cheaters...
References
Adams, J. Christian (12/29/2011) Selective Outrage over Voting Rights at the Philadelphia Inquirer. http://pjmedia.com/jchristianadams/2011/12/29/selective-outrage-over-voting-rights-at-the-philadelphia-inquirer/ More at http://pjmedia.com/jchristianadams/
Freind, Christopher (6/21/2011) No ID, No Vote,... Comprende? http://pawatercooler.com/v3/?tag=philadelphia-voter-fraud
Guzzardi, Robert (1/9/2012) Buying Republicans. http://www.deadcatsandclippings.com/?p=1605
Henry, Lowman 1/6/2012: www.LincolnRadioJournal.com, Archives, Program #12-01. Summarized at http://www.deadcatsandclippings.com/?p=1626
Kuhner, Jeffrey (12/30/2011) Voter ID Terrifies the Democrats. http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/dec/30/voter-id-terrifies-democrats-will-obama-steal-the-/
Marrone, Nicole (9/20/2010) Small Sample of Philly Voter Rolls Reveals Hundreds of Ineligible Names
Pajamas Media. http://pjmedia.com/blog/small-sample-of-philly-voter-rolls-reveals-hundreds-of-ineligible-names-pjm-exclusive/
Metcalf, Daryl (6/18/2011) Electoral Integrity.Morning Call. http://articles.mcall.com/2011-06-18/opinion/mc-pa.-voter-id-point-metcalfe-
Trivers, Robert (2012) Folly of Fools: The Logic of Deceit and Self-Deception in Human Life. NY: Basic Books.
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RedState Morning Briefing
For January 18, 2012
Today is an unusual day at RedState.
Many websites around the nation and the world are going dark today in solidarity against SOPA, the Stopping Online Piracy Act (SOPA) pending in Congress. Many of this site's good friends, like Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee and Marco Rubio of Florida (a co-sponsor of the Protect IP Act in the Senate, which is the Senate version of SOPA) are supporters of this horrible legislation that would give Eric Holder and future attorneys general the right to shut down websites with minimal, if any, due process.
While it pains us to do so, we are committed to working against the re-election of each Republican co-sponsor of SOPA and Protect IP, including Rep. Blackburn and Sen. Rubio. Both pieces of legislation overreach their goals and will harm the internet.
We hope the Republican co-sponsors of these pieces of legislation will remove their names and we hope the legislation will die. In solidarity with those sites shutting down today to show you the potential impact of this legislation, RedState will suspend posting new content for much of today.
On the front page of RedState you'll find a tool you can use to contact your member of Congress and urge they oppose both SOPA and Protect IP.
1. Sarah Palin Says She'd Vote for Newt This will probably be the biggest news of the morning. Millions have wondered who Governor Palin would actually support. She's making it crystal clear now. On Fox News, Sarah Palin says if she lived in South Carolina she'd vote for Newt. The next big question is whether Governor Perry decides to depart the race before or after Saturday. And if he departs, will he endorse Newt Gingrich, who wrote the introduction to Governor Perry's book Fed Up! With Palin's endorsement, Rick Perry is now in a terribly awkward spot. If he departs before Saturday, he could be a hero for one of the non-Romney candidates. If he waits until Sunday and the race is close, as it appears to be, Rick Perry will rightly be remembered as the spoiler who handed Mitt Romney the nomination. If Rick Perry and Sarah Palin both throw their lot behind Newt Gingrich, well, the Republican nomination might actually turn into a race instead of a coronation.
2. SOPA and PROTECT IP/PIPA: An Update We celebrated Monday when House Majority Leader Eric Cantor effectively signaled the death of SOPA, the Stopping Online Piracy Act. Cantor said the Internet censorship bill would not see a vote until there was consensus on the matter. As long as Darrell Issa, Justin Amash, and Jason Chaffetz are on the case there will be no consensus on sweeping Internet censorship, so Cantor's position basically kills SOPA this Congress. This was a well earned victory for conservatives, and we owe the above allies thanks for sticking up for our values against formidable opposition. Barack Obama refused to pledge a SOPA veto even in the face of a massive petition from his supporters. Judiciary Chairman Lamar Smith sponsored the bill, and notable tech leaders like Marsha Blackburn co-sponsored it. Well-funded groups like AFL-CIO, MPAA, and RIAA all lined up behind it. It took everything we had to be heard on this. Our movement could hold nothing back. 3. What The Republican "Establishment" Really Means There's been a lot of talk, maybe too much talk, about the struggle between the GOP "Establishment" and "Outsiders," sometimes - but sometimes not - meaning the Tea Party, however defined. There are many fault lines, wheels within wheels, that divide different groups on the Right, but it's time to clarify the core issue that has people of perfectly conservative temperament and ideology scratching their heads at their own constituents. After all, we're conservatives: establishments are a good idea, a necessary intersection of tradition and meritocracy, giving undue weight to neither and co-opting dangerous ideas about revolution and radical change. What's so bad about that? The answer is a simple one: it's almost entirely about spending. 4. Healthcare Doesn't Need European Style Austerity Measures; It Needs Free-Market Nothing typifies the inane cycle of government dependency and poverty more than the issue of healthcare. Given that healthcare constitutes 18% of our economy and that millions of Americans are languishing under its crushing costs, it is important that we articulate healthcare reform from a position of strength. We must demonstrate how it is socialist interventions in the marketplace that are responsible for high costs. We must demonstrate how our policies will bring costs under control. 5. Union Bosses Showing Their True Colors in Wisconsin As the Recall Walker effort submitted their signatures to the Wisconsin Government Accountability Board today (claiming 1 million signatures), Wisconsinites deserve a serious analysis of this Big Labor, big money game to force a recall election on the people of this state. We will be shocked at what is yet to come. Evidence is already mounting to suggest that Big Labor has used underhanded, fraudulent and illegal tactics to pad their petition numbers. Major national labor organizations have dumped millions into Wisconsin to stop Governor Walker's reforms and with the integrity of these petitions being questioned; they have shown their true colors.
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Refer to the "Fairness Doctrine" as the "Unfairness Doctrine."
the liberals have captured Google, Wikipedia, most of the print media, television, and Hollywood. In what way is it "fair" to give the man "equal say" in talk radio as well? Liberal talk radio doesn't get "equal" ratings; the unfairness doctrine is really just another socialist effort kill another industry (by making talk radio boring and "forcing" government to take it over).
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The Hyphen that Destroyed a Nation
Jan 17, 2012 02:02 pm
Capitalism vs. Socialism - The Real Story
Jan 17, 2012 12:43 pm
Mark Levin's Ameritopia Shows Us the Way Out of the Dark
Jan 17, 2012 12:00 pm
FBI's Top Ten News Stories for the Week Ending January 13, 2012
Jan 17, 2012 11:27 am
CAIR's Manipulation Tactics in Tampa
Jan 17, 2012 11:16 am
The Society for the Protection of Iranian Nuclear Scientists
Jan 17, 2012 04:44 am
Three Fundamental Mistakes in Dealing with Islam
Jan 17, 2012 04:35 am
Beijing and London - One World After All!
Jan 17, 2012 04:19 am
New York Times Promotes Freedom for Terrorist
Jan 17, 2012 01:54 am
BENADOR: Israel's God Given Borders
Jan 16, 2012 10:54 am
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Peter Huessy
In 3 years we have added $6 trillion in debt. Our total debt now exceeds our GDP, as the administration asks for $1.2 trillion more. Never before have we borrowed so much, so fast for so little.
W. Thomas Smith, Jr. Just as it is hard work to develop the body and to condition the mind, mastery of our emotions requires focused - perhaps even harder - work daily.
Diane Kepus American school textbooks not only portray a biased view of Islam, there is also blatant political bias, where liberalism is feted and issues like patriotism and conservatism are relegated.
Cliff Kincaid A member of the Weather Underground who has been sentenced to life imprisonment is the subject of a New York Times article that attempts to present her as deserving of freedom.
Jim Kouri, CPP Dozens of al-Qaeda militants Sunday morning seized a city in Yemen's southern province of al-Bayda.
Ryan Mauro One of the mistakes that the West makes is that it doesn't listen to what the Islamists are saying. If only we listened, we could hear their strategy.
by Gadi Adelman With U.S. debt exceeding 15 trillion dollars, what justifies the use of taxpayer dollars to fund rebuilding of mosques overseas?
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The Society for the Protection of Iranian Nuclear Scientists
After having exhausted the indignant possibilities of protesting the extinction of whales, pelicans and polar bears, the left has found a new endangered species to be outraged about. Iranian nuclear scientists. It's one thing to hug a polar bear or a tree, but it's another to embrace an Iranian nuclear scientist, who may well be a jolly and colorful fellow with a family and a paint by numbers coloring kit of an atom, but also happens to be a participant in a plot to kill millions of people. The left which has all the moral sense of a squashed peanut would like us to feel outraged because someone somewhere has been knocking off the engineers of death in a project whose goal is genocide. Yet if you point out to them that just last week a member of the Iranian backed Hezbollah terrorist group was arrested in Thailand for plotting a terrorist attack, you can wait a week until they shrug. At The Atlantic, Ali Vaez and Charles Ferguson assure us that assassinating Iranian nuclear scientists makes a nuclear Iran more likely. The left specializes in irrational conundrums like this. Every time we kill a terrorist, they lecture us that this will only lead to more Muslims turning into terrorists to take their place. But really now are we to believe that Muslims will respond to the deaths of nuclear scientists by becoming nuclear scientists? Even if they do it will take them a while to get their degrees and by then Iran may not be run by a bunch of homicidal loons.
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By Ted Belman
Keep your eye on this. Ban Ki Moon calls for end to 'occupation', settlements
Speaking at a conference on democracy in the Arab world in Beirut, Ban said that "the Israeli occupation of Arab and Palestinian territories" and "violence against civilians" must end.
"Settlements, new and old, are illegal. They work against the emergence of a viable Palestinian state," the UN chief stated.
Ban added: "A two-state solution is long overdue. The status quo offers only the guarantee of future conflict."
As a result,
The Palestinians are considering ending the talks with Israel in Jordan and searching for other alternatives, such as asking the UN to demand an end to construction in the settlements, the London-based Al-Hayat newspaper reported Sunday.
What will Obama do?
By YAAKOV KATZ, JPOST
Israel and the US canceled a missile defense drill, billed as the largest ever in the country's history, planned for the spring, senior military officials said Sunday.
Initially scheduled for April and called "Austere Challenge," the drill was supposed to see the deployment of thousands of US troops and various sophisticated US military equipment in Israel.
In recent weeks, Defense Minister Ehud Barak's office has held talks with the Pentagon about the possibility of canceling the drill.
Senior military officers told The Jerusalem Post that the drill scheduled for April has been canceled, while defense officials said that it was possible that it would be held later in 2012.
The drill, expected to involve the deployment of thousands of US troops in Israel, was scheduled to last around a week and mark the first time that a top US military commander would participate in the simulations.
The parties were scheduled to simulate missile...
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By Eli Hazan, ISRAEL HAYOM
There are moments in the history of a democratic nation when its Supreme Court makes a landmark decision that shapes the lives of its citizens. One of these moments occurred in the U.S. when, at the end of the 19th century, the Supreme Court issued its "separate but equal" ruling that essentially legalized discrimination. That same court, with a different bench, rectified this historic injustice when it deemed this policy unconstitutional in what will forever be remembered as Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka.
In the same context, one can say that last week's High Court of Justice decision to reject an appeal to overturn the Citizenship Law (which prevents Palestinians who marry Israelis from gaining Israeli citizenship) was a landmark decision, fraught with significance for Israeli society. The court ruled de jure but also de facto that the state of Israel is a Jewish state, and thus settled a years-long debate.
The...
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Although the U.S. has put pressure on Iran with more aggressive statements, an initiative to increase international sanctions and a clash over Iran's threat to close the Strait of Hormuz, Jerusalem is not satisfied. By Avi Issacharoff and Amos Harel, HAARETZ
The two meetings this week between the chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey and Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz have been scheduled for some time. But the immediate context cannot be ignored: growing tension over the Iranian nuclear program and what appears to be renewed (and increased) American concerns that Israel might attack Iran's nuclear sites.
Dempsey and Gantz are expected meet first at mid-week in Brussels during the annual conference of NATO chiefs of staff, an event to which the Israeli chief of staff is always invited. Two days later Dempsey will arrive in Israel.
U.S. President Barack Obama talks with Defense Minister Ehud Barak before...
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By Janet Tassel, AMERICAN THINKER
It was the first week in October in Newton, an upscale suburb of Boston, and Tony Pagliuso's daughter, a sophomore at Newton South High School, was visibly disturbed. When Tony asked her the problem, she showed him a passage from the chapter she was assigned in her World History Class. It was a chapter called "Women, an Essay," from a supplemental text called The Arab World Notebook. In a paragraph devoted to women "in the struggle for independence from colonial powers," we find:
Over the past four decades, women have been active in the Palestinian resistance movement. Several hundred have been imprisoned, tortured, and killed by Israeli occupation forces since the latest uprising, "intifada," in the Israeli occupied territories.
Pagliuso assured his daughter that this was "total propaganda," and took the matter up with the young teacher, a Miss Jessica Engel, who couldn't...
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Greenfield thinks so in his analysis
By Daniel Greenfield
What the Gulfies lack in military skills, they more than make up for in underhanded cunning. If they can't import an infidel army and they can't build their own army, then they will follow the honorable tradition of finding a counterbalance to the enemy. The Gulfies have been nurturing the Muslim Brotherhood and funding Al-Jazeera. Combine the two with an American administration eager to win over the Muslim world by reforming American foreign policy and the Gulfies got their own Arab Spring.
The real purpose of the Arab Spring was to create a Sunni Islamist superstate or regional alliance to counter the threat of a Shiite Islamist superstate. With the Muslim Brotherhood sweeping across North Africa all the way to Egypt, the harvest includes semi-secular states with competent armies and if Syria can be tipped into that camp, then Iran will lose its puppet and the Sunni superstate will have a military... Read the whole entry ŧ
Rubin takes the position that Jordan is vulnerable to an Islamist takeover and says that Israel is trying to keep it stable. Mdar Zahran, the Jordanian Palestinian, with whom I am in constant communication, thinks otherwise. He argues, in an article I will be publishing soon, that in a fair election in Jordan the Palistanians will form the government and that they are anti the MB and the King. They want a secular democracy. The reason Jordan appears stable is because the King and the MB are working together to keep the Palestinians out of power. The MB wants to destroy Israel and they don't want a Palestinian state to form east of the Jordan as it would undermine the demand by the Palestinians in Judea and Samaria for of a state of their own. Thus it could be in Israel's interest to enable the fall of Abdullah to permit this to happen. Stay tuned. I am working on it. Ted Belman The era of the Muslim Brotherhood By Barry Rubin, ISRAEK HAYOM The political history of the... Read the whole entry ŧ
US-Israeli discord over action against Iran went into overdrive Sunday, Jan. 15 when the White House called off Austere Challenge 12, the biggest joint war game the US and Israel have every staged, ready to go in spring, in reprisal for a comment by Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Moshe Yaalon in an early morning radio interview. He said the United States was hesitant over sanctions against Iran's central bank and oil for fear of a spike in oil prices.
The row between Washington and Jerusalem is now in the open, undoubtedly causing celebration in Tehran.
Nothing was said about the 9,000 US troops who landed in Israeli earlier this month for a lengthy stay. Neither was the forthcoming visit by Gen. Martin Dempsey, Chairman of the Joint US Chiefs of Staff, Thursday mentioned. The exercise was officially postponed from spring 2012 to the last quarter of the year over "budgetary... Read the whole entry ŧ
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Obama terrorism advisor distortions
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Raymond Ibrahim recently posted an enlightening and troubling column on FrontPageMagazine about one of President Obama's top counter-terrorism advisors (see below, highlights added).
The Muslim Brotherhood is growing in strength and power across the world, aided and abetted by the Obama administration. This is why late last year we released a first-of-its-kind resource, "Unmasking the Enemy Among Us: Information Warfare and the Muslim Brotherhood."
To find out more about this important and timely resource, visit our website here. More than ever, you and those you care about need to understand this threat!
Obama Terrorism Advisor's Book Confuses and Distorts Posted By Raymond Ibrahim On January 9, 2012 Reading CDR Youssef Aboul-Enein's book, Militant Islamist Ideology: Understanding the Global Threat, published by the Naval Institute Press (2010), one can see why U.S. leadership is far from " ;understanding the global threat"; why the Obama administration is supportive of the Muslim Brotherhood; and why so many U.S. politicians rose up in condemnation when one obscure pastor threatened to burn a Koran.
According to the jacket cover, Aboul-Enein is "a top adviser at the Joint Intelligence Task Force for Combating Terrorism" and "has advised at the highest levels of the defense department and intelligence community."
What advice does he give?
He holds that, whereas "militant Islamists" (e.g., al-Qaeda) are the enemy, "non-militant Islamists" (e.g., the Muslim Brotherhood), are not: "It is the Militant Islamists who are our adversary. They represent an immediate threat to the national security of the United States. They must not be confused with Islamists."
This theme, sometimes expressed in convoluted language-at one point we are urged to appreciate the "nuanced" differences "between Militant Islamists and between Militant Islamists and Islamists"-permeates the book.
Of course, what all Islamists want is a system inherently hostile to the West, culminating in a Sharia-enforcing Caliphate; the only difference is that the nonmilitant Islamists are prudent enough to understand that incremental infiltration and subtle subversion are more effective than outright violence. Simply put, both groups want the same thing, and differ only in methodology.
Whereas most of the book is meant to portray nonviolent Islamists in a nonthreatening light, sometimes Aboul-Enein contradicts himself, for instance by correctly observing that "the United States must be under no illusions that the agenda of the Muslim Brotherhood includes limiting the rights of women" and other anti-Western aspects.
How to explain these discrepancies? Is the Brotherhood a problem for the U.S. or not?
The book's foreword by Admiral James Stavridis clarifies by stating that the book is a "culmination of Commander Aboul-Enein's essays, lectures, and myriad answers to questions." In fact, Militant Islamist Ideology reads like a hodgepodge of ideas cobbled together, and the author's contradictions are likely products of different approaches to different audiences over time.
His position on appeasing the Muslim world-a fixed feature of the current administration's policies-is clear. Aboul-Enein recommends that, if ever an American soldier desecrates a Koran, U.S. leadership must relieve the soldier of duty, offer "unconditional apologies," and emulate the words of Maj. Gen. Jeffrey Hammond: "I come before you [Muslims] seeking your forgiveness, in the most humble manner I look in your eyes today, and say please forgive me and my soldiers," followed by abjectly kissing a new Koran and "ceremoniously" presenting it to Muslims.
Likewise, after rightfully admonishing readers not to rely on skewed or biased accounts of Islam, he presents Islamic apologist extraordinaire Karen Armstrong-whose whitewashed writings on Islam border on fiction-as the best source on the life of Muhammad.
Then there are Aboul-Enein's flat out wrong assertions and distortions, examples of which this review closes with:
- He asserts that "militant Islamists dismiss ijmaa [consensus] and qiyas [analogical reasoning]." In fact, none other than al-Qaeda constantly invokes ijmaa (for instance, the consensus that jihad becomes a personal duty when infidels invade the Islamic world) and justifies suicide attacks precisely through qiyas.
- He insists that the Arabic word for "terrorist" is nowhere in the Koran-without bothering to point out that Koran 8:60 commands believers "to terrorize the enemy," also known as non-Muslim "infidels."
- He writes, "when Muslims are a persecuted minority Jihad becomes a fard kifaya (an optional obligation), in which the imam authorizes annual expeditions into Dar el Harb (the Abode of War), lands considered not under Muslim dominance." This is wrong on several levels: a fard kifaya is not an "optional obligation"-an oxymoron if ever there was one-but rather a "communal obligation"; moreover, he is describing Offensive Jihad, which is designed to subjugate non-Muslims and is obligatory to wage whenever Muslims are capable-not "when Muslims are a persecuted minority."
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Iran closer to bomb than world realizes? Warning: 1-year prediction may be too optimistic.
A report that Iran is about a year away from having the capability to build a nuclear bomb may be too optimistic, contended John Bolton, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
"I worry the publicly available information is giving only a very small picture and that Iran is actually even much further along," Bolton said today in a radio interview.
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Obama's campaign makes 'ridiculous distortion' on Israel. Claim aimed at Romney, Perry, Gingrich.
President Obama's reelection campaign is drawing fire for claiming GOP presidential contenders Mitt Romney, Rick Perry, and Newt Gingrich would all cut foreign aid to Israel.
"Stand against 'zeroing out' aid to Israel," reads the title of a page of Obama's official campaign website.
Continued the page: "Republican candidates for president Mitt Romney, Rick Perry, and Newt Gingrich all say they would cut foreign aid to Israel-and every other country-to zero."
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 It may be time to go back to good old paper for voting.
SCYTL Acquires SOE Software, Becoming the Leading Election Software Provider
MarketWatch | Jan. 11, 2012
BALTIMORE & TAMPA, Fla., Jan 11, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- -- SCYTL is the global leader in online voting solutions with a presence in over twenty countries
-- SOE Software is the leading software company for election management solutions in the United States
-- The combination of the two companies creates the industry leader in election software with a strong market presence worldwide
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Eric Holder had his favorite L.A. Times lackey "break" the ATF White Gun story
Jan 17, 2012 05:13 am | Coach Collins
by Doug Book, staff writer
In his January 12th article on the 2010 ATF Operation White Gun, Los Angeles Times reporter Richard Serrano did little more than tell readers that 3 virtual nobodies had been arrested in an expensive sting which somehow allowed an unknown number of guns to disappear across the Mexican border. In fact there are probably more questions raised in the story than answered. (1)
But it is not his skill or work ethic as an investigative reporter which have endeared him to the left. Rather it is the fact that, true to form, he managed to make the ATF, its Department of Justice bosses and even disgraced former U.S Attorney Dennis Burke look good in the process.
Serrano has been a "go-to" guy for the "approved" breaking of stories dealing with Eric Holder and the Department of Justice for years. In fact, their relationship goes all the way back ... Continue Reading:Eric Holder had his favorite L.A. Times lackey "break" the ATF White Gun story
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American Minute January 16 Jan 16, 2012 05:13 pm | Coach Collins By Bill Federer, staff writer "Each year on JANUARY 16, we celebrate Religious Freedom Day in commemoration of the passage of the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom," wrote President George W. Bush in his 2003 Proclamation. Jefferson's Article of Religious Freedom, which he commemorated on his tombstone, was passed JANUARY 16, 1786, in the Virginia Assembly. In his draft, Jefferson wrote: "Almighty God hath created the mind free, and...all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments...tend only to begat habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the Holy Author of religion, who being Lord both of body and mind, yet chose not to propagate it by coercions on either, as was in his Almighty power to do, but to extend it by its influence on reason alone." In his Second Inaugural Address, 1805, Jefferson wrote: "In matters of religion I have considered that its free exercise is placed by the Constitution independent ... Continue Reading:American Minute January 16 comments | read more
Capitalist piglets Occupy capitalist pigs. Jan 16, 2012 01:13 pm | Coach Collins by James Lewis, staff writer Now answer this question honestly: Are we educating a generation of brainwashed morons or not? The answer is You Bet! And I can prove it with facts we all know. The most exciting "movement" on the left these days is the Occupy movement, which has been proven to be a total fake, like lip-synching rock songs by The Monkeys. But it doesn't matter, because kids who live their lives on twitter will never find out. It's not that they aren't educated for 16 boring years, it's just that everything they think they know is false. America today has a Gulag all right, but it's all the university campuses where lies are taught as truth. And understanding the world upside-down could be a real handicap in life. Fortunately the kids will never notice it until they get a job. So far they've gotten "free" money all their lives. Occupy Wall Street and ... Continue Reading:Capitalist piglets Occupy capitalist pigs. comments | read more
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"What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving." ~ Dr. Adrian Rogers
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So That's Why They Call It 'Green'
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Solyndra Just The Tip Of The Iceberg
America's Conservative News
Solyndra is just the tip of the iceberg. According to a report from left-wing CBS News, the Obama Department of Energy handed over at least 6.5 billion in our hard-earned tax dollars to so-called "clean energy" companies that have already filed for bankruptcy or are in the process of going down the tubes.
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Carter Envoy to Muslim Brotherhood
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Former President Carter Meets with Muslim Brotherhood in Cairo
By Jim Kouri
CanadaFreePress.com
The chairman of Egypt's new Freedom and Justice Party-a/k/a the Muslim Brotherhood-met last week with former U.S. President Jimmy Carter. The stated purpose of the meeting was the ongoing Egyptian transition process and the recent elections.
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Another Genocide in Africa
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International Planned Parenthood's Strategic Goal: Increase Abortion Services by 82 Percent--in Africa
By Penny Starr
CNSNews.com
In its strategic plan for Africa for the years 2010-215, the International Planned Parenthood Federation has set an organizational goal of increasing its "abortion services" in that part of the world by 82 percent.
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Obama's Role In The One World Government Agenda
Are major developments such as the Arab Spring, the absolute chaos in the European Union with the bankruptcy of Greece, Italy, Portugal and the emergence of the Vatican backing Germany as the one country that the European Union is dependant on for its survival totally unrelated?
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Judge Calls DOJ on Carpet for Persecution
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Judge Scolds White House for Persecuting Pro-Lifer
By Bob Unruh
World Net Daily
A federal judge says he doesn't have enough evidence to sanction Barack Obama's Department of Justice, but its prosecution of a Florida pro-lifer is suspiciously like persecution.
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January 17, 2012
LAST NIGHT'S DEBATE IN 100 SECONDS
The five remaining GOP Presidential candidates gathered in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina for a Fox News debate last night. If you did not have the time to watch yet another in the seemingly endless series of debates, fear not. We not only watched it for you, we also have a condensed version of the best moments from the entire night HERE.
NEWT ARGUES RACE WITH JUAN WILLIAMS
In addition to the 100 second summary of last night's debate, we offer one exchange that actually inspired a standing ovation from the audience. Fox News commentator Juan Williams and Newt Gingrich spar over race and food stamps HERE.
CHECK OUT THE FIVE WEIRDEST SALES TAXES
Have you heard about the "Hot Air Balloon Tax?" What about New York's "Bagel Tax?" California has a 33% tax on vending machine purchases of of fresh fruit. Get all the details about these little known taxes HERE.
WIKIPEDIA TO GO DARK TOMORROW IN A ONE-DAY PROTEST OF NEW ANTI-PIRACY ACT
The co-founder of Wikipedia has warned kids that use his site for researching their school assignments, "do your school work today because Wikipedia is going dark tomorrow." Wiki joins Reddit, BoingBoing, and others planning blackouts. Why are they doing this? Get the details HERE.
INSIDE BECK'S AWESOME NEW STUDIOS
Beck's bold plans for the future of his media company required that he move to a state as big as Texas. Last night on GBTV, Glenn personally took us inside the network's Dream Labs and Planning Offices. Take a look HERE.
TX PASTOR AND WIFE HOLD A 'SEXPERIMENT'
Imagine going to church and being told by your pastor that you and your spouse should be having sex at least once a day for the next week. That's exactly what Pastor Ed Young told his flock at the Fellowship Church in Grapevine Texas to do. See the details and check out Young's rooftop 'sexperiment' HERE.
VIRAL VIDeo du jour - BASE JUMPER CRASHES AND LIVES
We have featured many viral video clips of daredevils wearing wingsuits and gliding precariously close to the sides of mountains. Most of those ended well. This one, not so much. See it HERE.
ACTOR MARK WAHLBERG ON FAITH: 'I GO TO CHURCH EVERY DAY'
Mark Wahlberg's difficult past has never been a secret. So it is no surprise that Mark's current life would be very public. Watch this rare instance of a Hollywood "A-lister" talking openly about his faith and how it turned his life around HERE
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By Craig Andresen on January 17, 2012
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While the 5 remaining GOP candidates continue to jockey for position through the January primary calendar, one should not discount any number of possible wildcards yet to be played.
This Saturday, South Carolina votes and that race is getting tighter after last night's debate. Depending on the South Carolina outcome, we may well just be watching the beginning of the real race to the nomination.
After Saturday, it's easy to see Rick Perry dropping out. His financial backing has evaporated and his slow start with debates never allowed him to gain the sort of traction he enjoyed in the weeks before he actually entered the race.
This is not to say he will leave empty handed as he does have some die hard supporters.
Wildcard 1...Who will Perry endorse when he drops out?
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Will the REAL "Not Romney" Please Stand Up?
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In last night's debate in South Carolina, Newt Gingrich once again showed why he is the one-on-one leader amongst the GOP candidate field.
It was clear last night, when the stage lights went down that Newt won the evening but in a debate, there is something perhaps even more important to be said.
Newt won the crowd.
Will this boost Gingrich's poll numbers less than a week before the South Carolina primary? It would be difficult to make a case against it. Will it be enough to win South Carolina? Probably not, but it could very well put him in second place.
Gingrich's strong and maybe strongest point is his ability to shine on the debate stage. In fact, last night, in a campaign debate, Newt received the first standing ovation from the assembled crowd since Ronald Reagan in 1980.
The race for 2nd place in South Carolina is now between Gingrich and Rick Santorum. Although there are now 5 still in, the race for the nomination is in reality between Romney, Gingrich and Santorum.
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Video: Michelle Obama Will Run for the Senate in 2016, Pundit Predicts
Jan 16, 2012 12:02 pm
Are you ready for Hillary, version 2.0? One veteran D.C. pundit believes you should be. John McLaughlin, the moderator of his eponymous PBS program The McLaughlin Group, capped off a round of commentators' predictions with his own stunner: "Michelle Obama will run for the United States Senate in 2016 and she will be thereby mimicking, [...]
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Jon Huntsman: Leave Romney Alone!
Jan 16, 2012 12:02 pm
Former Utah Governor and media darling Jon Huntsman ended his dismal presidential campaign this morning, endorsing Mitt Romney. In the process he sent a message to the party's conservative hopefuls: shut up and fall in line behind the Republican Establishment. As part of the ongoing psychological campaign to present Romney as the inevitable candidate, Huntsman [...]
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Congress Deserves a Smackdown for This Pork-Barrell Spending
Jan 16, 2012 12:02 pm
In the late 1700's, three term Congressman, Davy Crockett, riding the county to gather votes for his next term in Congress, received a "sockdolager" (a knockdown blow) from farmer, Horatio Bunch about Crockett's vote to provide "$20,000 of charity" to an admiral's wife. Bunch asked: Where do you find in the Constitution any authority to [...]
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Obama Enacts Fast-and-Furious Style Gun Control Law
Jan 16, 2012 12:01 pm
A federal judge has dismissed a firearms industry association's lawsuit seeking to block the Obama administration from requiring gun store owners in Southwest border states to report when customers buy multiple high-powered rifles. U.S. District Judge Rosemary M. Collyer said the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives properly limited its requirement to purchasers of [...]
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Fearless Questions About Obama the Media Will Never Ask (But Should)
Jan 16, 2012 12:01 pm
We know the media will not help save America. They hate America as much as Obama does and always have. When Obama came on the scene they sprung to life behind the leader they always yearned for but could never find. To save America we have to keep asking questions and keep demanding answers. We [...]
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Tuesday, January 17, 2012
To: Friends & Supporters
From: Gary L. Bauer
COUNTDOWN TO VICTORY: 294 DAYS TO THE 2012 ELECTIONS
Texas Meeting
You may have read by now about a weekend meeting of pro-family, pro-life conservatives that took place in Houston, Texas. I, and more than 125 other leaders, attended the meeting to see if we could reach a consensus on which GOP presidential contender to unite around. After hours of discussion and three separate ballots the overwhelming majority of attendees selected Rick Santorum, with a significant minority backing Newt Gingrich.
Media descriptions of the event were often inaccurate and, not surprisingly, in some cases seemed intended to sow divisions. Here are the facts. This was not a "stop Romney" meeting. As I repeatedly told reporters, it was a "stop Obama" meeting!
There were individuals supporting each of the candidates. Our conclusion to support Santorum was a positive statement in favor of him -- NOT a negative statement about the other good conservatives in the race. We realize that reasonable conservatives can reach different conclusions about the best "horse" to ride.
Finally, talking to my colleagues, I found a unanimous view that November 2012 will be the most important election of our lives. America, as a constitutional republic, cannot survive another four years of Barack Obama.
Whomever the GOP nominates, within reason, will receive, in my view, the support of a united conservative movement. Disagreements among conservatives pale in comparison to our disagreements with Barack Obama. Our movement will gain nothing and risks losing everything if Obama is reelected.
We continue to urge all the GOP contenders to stop savaging one another and instead aim their fire at the disaster currently sitting in the Oval Office.
Media Bias
If you need another reminder of just how in the tank the media are for Obama, check out the latest edition of Newsweek. The cover is dominated by a serious-looking Obama and the headline reads, "Why are Obama's critics so dumb?"
Yes, if only the great ignorant masses could comprehend the genius behind the failed stimulus spending, the brilliance that gave us Solyndra and the wisdom behind ObamaCare, all would well in Washington, if not the world. The story is obviously an opinion piece. But that it made the cover speaks volumes about the mindset at Newsweek and what we can expect from the left-wing media throughout the year.
Ship Of Fools
What happened on the doomed Italian cruise liner is a commentary on the division between values-oriented conservatives and pure libertarians. I'm hearing more and more libertarians arguing that we should support limited government and that anything involving morality is off limits. But I agree with the Founders who argued that only a virtuous people could remain free and that the purpose of the law is to uphold the values that promote virtuous lifestyles.
What does this have to do with a capsized cruise ship? The captain and some crewmen evidently lived by the motto "Every man for himself." They saved their own skins before lifting a finger to help the women and children on board. Some commentators today are contrasting their behavior to what happened on the Titanic.
One hundred years ago, the men on that ship were committed to the moral idea of saving women and children before they saved themselves. So much so in fact that proportionally more women in third class survived the Titanic's sinking then did men in first class. And they survived because the men with first class tickets stood on the decks helping women and children of all social ranks into the lifeboats.
Benjamin Guggenheim, one of the wealthiest men on board, didn't try to buy his way off the sinking ship. He helped load women and children into the lifeboats and then changed into a tuxedo when the last boat was gone so that he would "die like a gentleman." It was reported that he gave this message to a survivor, "Tell my wife ... I played the game out straight to the end. No woman shall be left aboard this ship because Ben Guggenheim was a coward."
Let me make this observation: Before long there will be demands for new regulations of the cruise industry. Perhaps there will be regulations demanding that the captain and crew must remain on the ship. In other words, when morality fails big government grows to fill the gap. The breakdown of the mother/father family, for example, has spurred the growth of the welfare state. And vice versa.
Whether libertarians realize it or not, they have an inconsistent view of government. Their neutrality on issues of morality will guarantee the growth of big government, the very thing they despise most.
Healthy Families Are Key To Economy
While the health of our economy is front and center in this year's election, the health of our families deserves greater attention. Just as only virtuous people will remain free, our country's economic health is linked to the health of our most important values -- hard work, personal responsibility and discipline -- and social institutions -- marriage and the family.
You can read more in my latest column at humanevents.com
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"This is a constitutional crisis," I argued on Fox News in one of many interviews I've conducted since Friday.
As you may have heard, your National Right to Work Foundation filed the first legal challenge to President Barack Obama's purported "recess" appointments to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB).
This is just about as big as it gets for those of us dedicated to defending liberty.
You see, last week, lawyers for the NLRB notified the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia that Obama's three "recess" appointees to the Board were now parties to the Foundation's ongoing legal battle against another Obama Labor Board power grab.
Foundation attorneys seized upon the opportunity to defend the U.S. Constitution and our system of checks and balances.
Our Founding Fathers brilliantly devised a system that empowers Congress to hold the President accountable -- a system President Obama has defiantly violated to pay back his Big Labor benefactors.
The "advice and consent clause" allows the Senate to ensure that Presidential appointments to powerful executive positions are qualified and not beholden to special interests like Big Labor.
The President may fill vacancies while Congress has recessed, but Obama's latest move even runs afoul of the rule cited by an Obama Administration lawyer at the U.S. Supreme Court in 2010 -- "the recess has to be longer than 3 days."
The closer you look at Obama's latest power grab, the more it stinks.
The White House never even submitted the proper paperwork to the Senate Labor Committee to let the Committee members conduct background checks and interview two of the nominees -- including a lawyer for the International Union of Operating Engineers (IUOE).
This is indeed a constitutional crisis, and I'm proud to be a part of this vital fight to defend the Constitution.
But as with any crisis, the battle is going to expensive.
Our staff attorneys will need significant resources to conduct the legal research and file briefs necessary to defeat this unconstitutional power grab, as our public relations team continues to expose the Obama Administration's outrageous move in the media.
So please, click here to make an emergency tax-deductible contribution of whatever you can afford right away.
You can bet the Obama Administration is going to defend this egregious abuse of authority with all they've got.
Our country's constitutional balance is in jeopardy. Thank you for helping us fight back.
Sincerely,
Mark Mix
P.S. Your National Right to Work Foundation has filed the first legal challenge to President Barack Obama's purported "recess" appointments to the NLRB.
Please make an emergency tax-deductible contribution of whatever you can afford to support the Foundation's efforts to defend the U.S. Constitution from President Obama's flagrant abuse of executive authority.
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More 'Embarrassing' Ron Paul Newsletters Emerge on Race, Israel, & More
Republican presidential contender Ron Paul has been fielding questions about his controversial newsletters for years. While their troubling contents first came to light during the 2008 presidential campaign, the embarrassing newsletters have gained increasing attention over the past two months. As you'll recall, many of the issues, published in the 1980s and 1990s, contained troubling comments about Israel, African Americans, homosexuals and AIDS, among other subjects.
It seems the controversy over the newsletters, though, is nowhere near over, as The New Republic has just released a new batch of questionable newsletters that are sure to nab attention. Like the former passages that were uncovered, new-found editions show themselves, according to Talking Points Memo, to be "embarrassing," racist and homophobic. Additionally, they embrace various conspiracy theories and "junk science," reports TPM.
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Ron Paul Denies Saying He Wouldn't Have Ordered Bin Laden Raid in Pakistan - But Here's the Video
Last night's GOP debate in South Carolina may be one that causes Ron Paul some problems in the "honesty" department.
Mr. Paul's truthfulness is being questioned after he told Fox News' Brett Baier that he never said that he would not have given the order to go into Pakistan and kill Osama bin Laden:
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MLK's Conservative Principles
Yesterday was Martin Luther King Day, and like clockwork, liberals invoked King's name to support their causes.
In an e-mail to activists, Obama's former "green czar," Van Jones, called King the "original Occupier." He urged activists to use MLK day meet-ups to energize left-wing campaigning for 2012.
Despite these efforts, conservatives should not surrender King's legacy to the left.
Conservatives, of course, have reservations about certain aspects of King's legacy. For one, he became too close, later in his career, to the welfare state. He was enamored of the theology of the Social Gospel, the movement that undermined much of mainstream Protestantism in the 20th century. Later in life, he was a vocal opponent of American involvement in the Vietnam. And we now know that in his scholarship and personal life King was far from perfect.
Nevertheless, there are three ways in which King's message is profoundly conservative and relevant.
First, of course, concerns the question of race. King dreamed of a nation for his children where they would be judged not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. He dreamed of a color-blind society based on the equality of all Americans and their sharing of equal unalienable rights.
The American dream, King said at Lincoln University in 1961, "says that each individual has certain basic rights that are neither conferred by nor derived from the state. To discover where they came from it is necessary to move back behind the dim mist of eternity, for they are God-given.... The American dream reminds us that every man is heir to the legacy of worthiness."
An agenda that advocates quotas, counting by race and set-asides, takes us away from King's vision.
Second, King believed in the critical importance of faith and moral character. He spoke of self-improvement and self-help in both moral and practical terms. He believed in work ethic and thrift and spoke against crime and disorderly conduct. In stark contrast to modern liberalism's militant secularism, King explicitly ground his efforts in the Christian tradition. King believed that churches and other faith-based associations were necessary for a grassroots revival of American culture.
He also stressed the importance of the family. Indeed, King's fears about black family breakdown led him to become one of the few civil-rights leaders not to reject Daniel Patrick Moynihan's controversial 1965 report that warned of rising illegitimacy rates among blacks.
This forgotten aspect of King's thought is told expertly in an article entitled "Where Dr. King Went Wrong." Joel Schwartz suggests that King turned to the welfare state when he became disheartened by the emergence of the black underclass.
Third, King firmly embraced the core principles of America's founding. Unlike so many modern liberals beset with nihilistic multiculturalism, King did not talk about remaking America. His dream was one "deeply rooted in the American dream," as he said, and one that hearkened back to America's founding principles. It was not a rejection of our past but a vision of hope based on the principles of our past.
"When these disinherited children of God sat down at lunch counters," King wrote in his "Letter From a Birmingham Jail," "they were in reality standing up for what is best in the American dream and for the most sacred values in our Judaeo-Christian heritage, thereby bringing our nation back to those great wells of democracy which were dug deep by the founding fathers in their formulation of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence."
Martin Luther King, Jr.'s understanding of these things-equality, the importance of faith and morality, and America's founding principles-has great implications for our politics and policies today. While all Americans recall his ringing words, honest liberals and discerning conservatives ought to remind us of King's real legacy.
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America is the only nation in the world that is founded on creed. That creed is set forth with dogmatic and even theological lucidity in the Declaration of Independence; perhaps the only piece of practical politics that is also theoretical politics and also great literature.
~ G. K. Chesterton
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Urge Congress to Combat Nominations
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President Obama's "recess" appointments of Richard Cordray to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and three members to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) were unconstitutional and outrageous.
>> Now it's time to take action against these unconstitutional nominations.
The Dodd-Frank law explicitly says that the head of the CFPB must be confirmed by the Senate. Bypassing the Senate violates that law - the one President Obama signed!
Even worse, two of the members appointed to the NLRB haven't even gone through the required background checks. President Obama appointed them before giving the Senate a chance to vet them. This is nothing more than an unconstitutional power grab.
>> Email your Members of Congress: they need to combat these nominations.
Thanks for standing up for the Constitution and ensuring that Congress take action. We are making sure that your Members of Congress know what's at stake with these egregious appointments, and urging them to take appropriate steps to restore the Constitution.
Sincerely,
Russ Vought
Political Director
Heritage Action for America
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Morning Bell: South Carolinians Have a Right to Work
Mike Brownfield
January 17, 2012
This week, all eyes are on South Carolina as the Palmetto State votes on Saturday in the next Republican presidential primary contest. Jobs and the economy are rightly being debated by the entire political spectrum.
It's not the first time in the past year that South Carolina has been center stage when it comes to jobs in a country struggling to get back on its feet. Last year, the Obama Administration took aim at Boeing when the Seattle-based company sought to build a new assembly plant in Charleston, South Carolina, in order to produce the 787 Dreamliner. Enter the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), which filed a complaint against Boeing alleging that the company decided to build the plant in South Carolina out of retaliation for union strikes at its Washington state facilities.
At the center of the issue was the fact that South Carolina is one of 22 right-to-work states, meaning that workers there have the freedom to decide whether to join a union or not. Right-to-work laws block companies from firing workers for not paying union dues, thereby protecting employees' right to work regardless of their support for unions. In the case of Boeing, the Obama Administration - by way of the NLRB - sought to prevent the company from making fundamental decisions about where to do business, all because it wanted to open a plant in a right-to-work state.
(Ultimately, the NLRB dropped the case after union negotiators reached a deal that benefited their members in a union state.)
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A word from Milton Friedman
Posted: 17 Jan 2012 05:28 PM PST
(Scott Johnson)
This video clip of Milton Friedman being interviewed by Phil Donahue on "greed" has not exactly gone unnoticed. It has had more than a million-and-a-half views. It must go back 30 years, yet it seems more timely than ever. Friedman's bracing clarity provides something of a clarion call that resonates with our present moment.
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Cohen-Head: Defending Big Money in Politics
Posted: 17 Jan 2012 06:12 AM PST
(Steven Hayward)
Power Line has often taken note of the mixed bag of opinions that come from the Washington Post's Richard Cohen. He frequently departs from the liberal reservation, but usually leaves a marker somewhere in his column that he's still part of the team. Today he leaves the reservation completely, without even so much as a token gesture to leftist orthodoxy.
Today's Cohen column dissents from the liberal script that there's "too much money in politics," and he defends independent expenditures from the Super-PACs. And he recalls an episode famous in liberal lore-the 1968 insurgent campaign of Eugene McCarthy-that was made possible only by the kind of campaign contributions subsequently made illegal and that "reformers" wish to keep illegal today. Liberal "reformers" always change the subject when you bring up the McCarthy example. Here's Cohen:
Back in 1967, a small group of men gave McCarthy the wherewithal to challenge a sitting president of the United States. The money enabled McCarthy to swiftly set up a New Hampshire operation and - lo and behold - he got 42 percent of the popular vote, an astounding figure. Johnson was rocked. Four days later, Robert F. Kennedy, who at first had declined to do what McCarthy did, jumped in himself. By the end of March 1968, Johnson was on TV, announcing he would not seek a second term.
My guess is that a lot of the people who decry what [Sheldon] Adelson has done [for Newt Gingrich through a Super-PAC] loved what Stein, Peretz and the others did. My guess is that they cheered Johnson's defeat because they loathed the Vietnam War and wanted it ended. My guess is that while they pooh-pooh the argument that money is speech, they cannot deny that when McCarthy talked - when he had the cash for TV time or to set up storefront headquarters - that was political speech at the highest decibel.
Cohen concludes:
Sheldon Adelson is not my type of guy. I don't like his politics. But he has no less right to try his own hand at history than did that band of rich men who were convinced the war was a travesty-tragedy - and they were right. Since 1968, my views have changed on many matters. But my bottom line remains a fervent belief in the beauty and utility of free speech and of the widest exchange of ideas. I am comfortable with dirty politics. I fear living with less free speech.
And so Cohen comes down at exactly the same point as George Will (pass out the smelling salts in the Post's editorial offices!!), who remarked on ABC's This Week Sunday:
[C]ampaign reformers constantly argue that, a) there's too much political speech in this country, b) they know the right amount and, c) they want to criminalize speech in excess of that.
(By the way, while we're on the subject of ABC's This Week, can we give out a hooray for the departure of the egregious Christiane Amanpour? She made the show nearly unwatchable. Even George Stepalloverus is better than her.)
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Solyndra to Pay Bonuses!?!?
Posted: 17 Jan 2012 05:45 AM PST
(Steven Hayward)
So says the Washington Times: up to $50,000 as "incentive" payments to top executives. "Incentive" for what-burning up taxpayer dollars, with more taxpayer dollars?
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Pardon me: An update
Posted: 17 Jan 2012 05:33 AM PST
(Scott Johnson)
Ron Kuby is the radical attorney and radio host whose praise festoons the memoir by former left-wing revolutionary Susan Rosenberg - An American Radical: A Political Prisoner in My Own Country. Kuby testifies: "[T]his book is a testament to the strength of the human spirit." Rosenberg was the partner in crime of of Judith Clark, the imprisoned woman whom I wrote about yesterday in "Pardon me."
It was the publication of Rosenberg's memoir that prompted George Russell to write the brilliant Commentary essay "The other Rosenberg case." Please read it. Russell found Rosenberg's book to be a "deeply disingenuous and misleading memoir."
Kuby emerged yesterday to comment on my post. Kuby wrote in defense of Rosenberg: "[Y]our statement 'Susan Rosenberg...served as the getaway team for the BLA in a string of bank robberies in which people were killed' is false and defamatory. Rosenberg was never convicted of being part of any getaway team, any bank robbery, or any murder. In the interests of factual accuracy, please remove that reference." Close readers, which Kuby obviously is not, may note a hole in the chain of Kuby's reasoning on behalf of Rosenberg. Does she have to be convicted of an act in order to have committed it? Out here in the free world, citizens are still allowed to draw inferences from known facts that may or may not have been the subject of adjudication in a criminal trial.
The statement to which Kuby objects was made by David Horowitz in his comment on the New York Times Magazine cover story that was the subject of my post. Since Kuby raised the issue, however, I quoted Jay Nordlinger from his NR article "Clinton's Rosenberg case." Referring to the Brink's robbery, Jay wrote: "Rosenberg's role in the crime was that of getaway driver and general accomplice." And George Russell seems to be referring to the likes of Kuby, or those who might fall for his act, when he writes in the Commentary essay:
Rosenberg was a hardened member of an active terrorist organization whose members had robbed banks and armored cars; killed police and unarmed security guards; broken prisoners out of U.S. jail; helped to smuggle felons to Cuba; continued a campaign of bombing after various group members jumped bail; and they were storing large quantities of explosives and weaponry to further continue that campaign when she was apprehended. It took two more years to roll up most of the other members of the disparate and dangerous group.
Because federal prosecutors in New York's Southern District under then U.S. Attorney Rudy Giuliani decided that they would not pursue charges for her alleged part in the Brink's armored car robbery, Rosenberg and her lawyers have ceaselessly argued for more than two decades that the lack of a conviction is tantamount to proof of her innocence. But Justice Department officials, led by future U.S. Attorney Mary Jo White, a Democrat, insisted that they had evidence Rosenberg was also involved in the 1981 robbery bloodbath. They testified to that effect every time Rosenberg had a parole hearing.
This lengthy recitation is a necessary precondition for putting in context who Susan Rosenberg really is...
These folks are engaged in a wholesale campaign to rewrite the past. In my opinion, Tom Robbins's New York Times Magazine cover story is part of the campaign. Despite their best efforts, they really should not be allowed to get away with it.
UPDATE: Ron Radosh also goes back over this ground today in "Second thoughts on the plight of Judith Clark: An answer to my critics."
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THIS JUST IN TODAY--
A well-funded coalition pushing "Comprehensive Immigration Reform" (Open Borders) is now blanketing South Carolina with TV ads. Globalist news tycoon Rupert Murdoch and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg are the leaders of this coalition. The new TV ads are meant to counter the NumbersUSA message. Our ads call for unemployed Americans to be given a chance at the next jobs created in the economy before a million more new immigrants are brought in.
Please help us counter this newest attack of the elites. We need to be strong now, because the Open Borders side is not kidding around. This is a month we need to hear from you!
Our TV and Radio Ads Swarm South Carolina--All Candidates Improving
NumbersUSA Pushes Issue To Front
Please Help Us Keep The Fire Burning
As my father used to say, "Now we're cooking with gas!"
NumbersUSA is pounding the airwaves in South Carolina this week with ads challenging all the presidential candidates to admit that excessive immigration is keeping Americans unemployed.
Guess what? The candidates are listening! Week by week the presidential candidates are vying with each other to firm up their immigration positions. Because of NumbersUSA and our members nationwide, immigration has become one of the hottest issues in the upcoming South Carolina primary.
Just this weekend, Rick Santorum made the latest move with a series of great statements on the need to eliminate both family chain migration and the absurd visa lottery. As a result, Santorum's NumbersUSA Presidential Candidate Grade skyrocketed to A-minus.
Under NumbersUSA's pressure, Romney has consistently been the strongest against amnesty. Just this month, for example, he promised to veto any DREAM Act that crosses his desk. However, it time for him to up his game and admit that too much immigration overall pushes up unemployment.
Rick Perry? His early dismissal of the fence and his backing for a Texas version of the DREAM Act stopped his candidacy before it had properly started. He's tried to catch up by stressing enforcement. Ron Paul has improved some. Even Gingrich has bumped from D-minus to D since coming out with his amnesty proposal in November. Pressure from our members forced him to back off a bit on amnesty and to play up E-Verify.
This is one of the best chances we've ever had to put our stamp on national policy. We are no longer reacting to the Open Borders agenda. We are driving the agenda. But it takes lots of cash to buy these ads. Our fax machines have to keep humming. Help us take advantage of our momentum. Please donate right now so we can pour more gas on this flame.
Last summer, our immigration views did not seem to interest the presidential candidates much (or the current president!). But things have changed a lot since then!
Last fall, we started running our nationwide immigration ads during the presidential debates. Regionally, we went into Iowa with a heavy ad buy. Later, we learned we were the biggest buyer of radio ads during that time among issue groups.
And now we're advertising in South Carolina--in a big way. If you live there, you know what I mean! The news media has definitely noticed. Most of the political reporters now check our NumbersUSA Presidential Candidate Gradecard as a matter of course when they are writing about the candidates. Mainstream news organizations like the New York Times quote us frequently. In fact, the pro-Open Borders Huffington Post, which generally opposes us, recently stated the case better than we could ourselves:
"NumbersUSA has become something of a bellwether for Republican presidential candidates, who cite the organization's immigration report card to prove they oppose unauthorized immigration. The organization scores candidates based on opposition to 'amnesty,' desire to 'secure the borders' and plans to 'reduce overall immigration,' among other factors."
I want to make clear that all our ads are strictly non-partisan and non-partial. NumbersUSA does not favor any candidate or endorse any candidate.
Instead, we are trying to push all the candidates, including the current president, to adopt sensible immigration positions, such as:
- Supporting mandatory E-Verify;
- Abolishing automatic birthright citizenship for the children of illegal aliens;
- Ending family chain migration for distant relatives;
- Stopping the visa lottery.
Here's the amazing thing--the candidates are coming around! Thanks to our national ads, and your faxes and turnouts at candidate appearances, most of the candidate are "seeing the light" to various degrees.
I am well aware that times are tough. I see it in my neighborhood. Jobs are scarce and incomes threatened. That's what we've been crusading about! I know that you can only afford to make so many donations to charity a year. You want to be strategic in your giving, I realize. America's immigration is being decided now for years to come. Whoever wins the GOP nomination by summer, and then whoever wins the election this fall, will decide so much.
Please, help us now, today! While the situation is still fluid. While the candidates are still listening. While the political reporters are writing our issue up. Break that piggy bank and give today whatever you can afford--even if its only a few dollars.
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Today's Headlines: Tuesday, January 17, 2012
S.C. Gov. Haley: 'I Would Say No' to VP Offer
Gingrich Won't Say If South Carolina Is His Last Stand
Fox Poll: 80% Say Ability to Beat Obama Most Important Factor for GOP Candidate
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Gingrich: Defund Planned Parenthood and Give the Money to Adoption Services
Santorum on Romney: 'Track Record Matters' on Abortion
International Planned Parenthood's Strategic Goal: Increase Abortion Services by 82 Percent--in Africa
Ron Paul: 'Enforcing the Constitution' Would Be A Good Party Platform
A Key Question in the GOP Race: Where Will Ron Paul's Supporters Go?
Lisa Jackson: 'Help Make it a Green MLK Day'
Santorum Touts Two-Tier Tax Plan of 10% and 28%
Gingrich Draws Cheers for Explaining Why Obama Is a 'Food Stamp President'
Gingrich: Most Americans Would Rather Earn a Paycheck Than Be Dependent on Food Stamps
Santorum: 'We Need a Conviction Conservative'
Rep. Frank Wolf to GOP's 'Reaganauts': Reagan Championed Religious Freedom, Human Rights
As US and Israel Postpone Major Joint Military Exercise, Iran Talks Up its Regional Might
Ahmadinejad Says His Latin American Visit Bolstered Campaign Against 'Global Hegemony'
Romney Says He May Release His Tax Returns in April
Border Patrol Cracking Down on 'Revolving Door' With Mexico
COMMENTARY: Myrtle Beach Debate - Post-Game
By Rich Galen
Here's the question I was asking myself as I watched the five-man Fox debate last night from Myrtle Beach, South Carolina: Did it move votes? Let's look at the individual candidates. Vulture Capitalism or Populist Demagoguery?
By Patrick J. Buchanan
Should Mitt Romney be nominated, he will need to make a national address defending his career at Bain Capital with the same conviction and passion with which he defended his faith in the campaign of 2008.
Presidential Nonsense
By Walter E. Williams
Last week, President Barack Obama, at a Capital Hilton fundraising event, told the crowd, "We can't go back to this brand of you're-on-your-own economics." Throughout my professional career as an economist, I've never come across the theory of "you're-on-your-own economics." NEWSPAPER ROUNDUP:
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The Left's War on Voter Fraud Reform
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published January 16, 2012 on The American Thinker website.
Pretty soon, the right to cast a meaningful vote might be just a memory.
The issue at hand is ensuring that American citizens can exercise the most fundamental civil right of being an American -- casting a vote with the assurance that it will count and not be canceled by an illegitimate vote.
The ACLU has filed three lawsuits seeking to overturn a new Florida law that tightens the integrity of the ballot box, while the Obama Justice Department has scotched South Carolina's new photo ID law. It's part of a nationwide campaign by the left to overturn numerous recently enacted laws designed to defeat voter fraud.
The ACLU claims that the Florida law, enacted by the Republican-controlled legislature and signed by Republican Gov. Rick Scott, will suppress participation by minority, young, and elderly voters.
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Tom Landess, R.I.P.
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published January 16, 2012 in The Washington Times.
America lost an unsung hero on Jan. 8 with the passing of Thomas H. Landess. To say that Tom was an accomplished Southern academic would be like saying that Robert H. Goddard was a guy who liked to tinker with rockets.
The reason you may not have heard of Tom Landess before is that he did much of his work behind the scenes in countless selfless ways.
Tom taught literature and creative writing for 24 years, including posts at Vanderbilt University, Converse College and Furman University. He was a professor of English and academic dean at the University of Dallas.
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Supremes Unanimously Reject Government Role in Choosing Ministers
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published January 12, 2012 on The Washington Examiner website.
A unanimous Supreme Court rejected the Obama administration's claim that federal bureaucrats can tell a church whom it can hire as ministers to teach its followers, even if they happen to be schoolchildren.
Writing for the court in its decision on the Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School v. EEOC, Chief Justice John Roberts said the First Amendment bars such authoritarian dictates through a "ministerial exception" to federal employment laws.
"The members of a religious group put their faith in the hands of their ministers," Roberts said. "Requiring a church to accept or retain an unwanted minister, or punishing a church for failing to do so, intrudes upon more than a mere employment decision.ct.
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The Worst Economic Recovery Since The Great Depression
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published January 12, 2012 on Forbes.com.
The record of President Obama's first three years in office is in, and nothing that happens now can go back and change that. What that record shows is that President Obama, with his throwback, old-fashioned, 1970s Keynesian economics, has put America through the worst recovery from a recession since the Great Depression.
The recession started in December, 2007. Go to the website of the National Bureau of Economic Research (www.nber.org) to see the complete history of America's recessions. What that history reveals is that before this last recession, since the Great Depression recessions in America have lasted an average of 10 months, with the longest previously lasting 16 months.
When President Obama entered office in January, 2009, the recession was already in its 13th month. His responsibility was to manage a timely, robust recovery to get America back on track again. Based on the historical record, that recovery was imminent, within a couple of months or so. Despite widespread fear, nothing fundamental had changed to deprive America of the long term, world-leading prosperity it had enjoyed going back 300 years..
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ICE Busts Largest ID Fraud Case in Agency's History
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced Wednesday that it had cracked the largest fraud case in the agency's history, leading to the arrest of 50 individuals on charges of conspiracy to commit identification fraud in connection with their alleged roles in selling the identities of Puerto Rican U.S. citizens to illegal aliens.
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ICE Denounces Cook County Detainer Ordinance
In an unusual letter sent early January, ICE Director John Morton denounced Cook County's detainer ordinance as a "serious impediment" to immigration enforcement that "undermines public safety." The letter, addressed to Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle, also warned that the County's ordinance may be illegal because it prohibits local officials from responding to ICE inquiries or sending immigration data to ICE...
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Rep. Black Defends State Immigration Enforcement
This week, Rep. Diane Black (R-TN) plans to introduce a bill that would prevent the federal government from using taxpayer funds to sue states over their immigration enforcement laws. The proposed bill, which serves as companion bill to S. 1856 introduced this fall by Sens. Jim DeMint (R-SC), Jeff Sessions (R-AL), and David Vitter (R-LA), is aimed at protecting the state immigration enforcement laws that the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has either challenged in court or suggested it may challenge.
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Former La Raza VP Promoted to Lead Obama's Domestic Policy Team
President Obama promoted Cecilia Muņoz, the White House's director of Intergovernmental Affairs, to be the new director of its Domestic Policy Council last week. In her new role, Muņoz will become Obama's senior advisor on domestic affairs, which includes overseeing policy-making on issues such as immigration, education, energy, and health care.
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January 17, 2012
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 On Today's Program
Tonight on GBTV: Finally: Glenn sits down with the man behind the most epic anti-OWS rant of the year, Adam Carolla. Don't miss that and so much more tonight at 5pm only on GBTV!
Premiere Night - TOMORROW NIGHT! Tune in for the premiere of an entire block of primetime original programming on Glenn's network - GBTV. GBTV is getting bigger and better with the series premiere of the new weekly reality show "Independence U.S.A." and a new daily news series, "Real News from The Blaze." What can you expect to see tomorrow on Premiere Night? Check out the PREVIEW VIDEO and get the full rundown.
Ron Paul booed @ GOP debate
Ron Paul got a strong whiff of reality today when real conservative voters in South Carolina booed him while Paul blamed America for terrorism. To Paul's credit, he didn't back down from his left of Obama foreign policy and tried to explain his America creates terrorism logic to the audience. No matter how similar Congressman Paul sounds to an Al Qaeda spokesman, his most fervent supporters continue their vocal support. Like this caller who attempted to defend Paul's weakest link - foreign policy - WATCH.
Was the 2008 market crash intentional?
Glenn interviews Kevin Freeman, the author of Secret Weapon: How Economic Terrorism Brought Down the U.S. Stock Market and Why it Can Happen Again -- ok, the title is really long but it's worth the read. The media is either too lazy or too involved to bother reporting on this, despite the fact that Kevin briefed the Pentagon on economic terrorism. What evidence suggests foul play in the '08 market crash? Find out from radio today.
S.E. Cupp's plea to 'Mrs. Gingrich'
No, she is not talking about Newt's latest wife, she's talking about Newt himself. What possible reason could S.E. Cupp have for hitting the airwaves to hammer Newt? She's got quite a brilliant theory on the former Speaker of the House and how he's really acting like a jaded woman. Her advice? Among other tips she encouraged Mrs. G to, "inhale a tub of ice cream in the privacy of your own home while watching a Toddlers and Tiaras marathon" to help settle her down. S.E. shared her 'concern' with Glenn on radio today.
Glenn Beck forging a new internet frontier
Glenn introduced America to the Mercury Planning Offices last night -- in case you missed it you can watch it HERE. There's a great post from a journalist in Kentucky who referred to Glenn as a modern day 'Daniel Boone'. What'd he mean by that? "Beck, like Daniel Boone, is blazing a trail into the new world of Internet programming, inhabited by hostile competitors who don't want him there, and trying to bring a big segment of the population with him, people who are eager for the freedom and independence that exists in this new world of entertainment, education and information." He went on to say "At the end of his new show Beck said that anyone who watched needed to ask themselves, what can I do to introduce more people to the bounty which awaits them in this new and virgin territory? I for one took up the challenge and encourage you to give his venture a good hard look." Read the full article HERE.
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The real story behind MF Global & Italy
The media continues to ignore the real economic news in the Eurozone, barely paying the stories much lip service at all. In one of the more important economic monologues Glenn has ever done, he exposes the game being played by the power players and the politicians. Case in point: MF Global. When the average person understands what is happening to their money it's going to get real ugly. And how did Italy fundamentally transform its government in 4 days? The answers HERE.
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