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"All the perplexities, confusion and distresses in America arise not from defects in the constitution or confederation, nor from want of honor or virtue, as much from downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit, and circulation." 

OBAMA AND OCCUPY WALL STREET - REELECT HIM AND YOU GET THEM
GrassTopsUSA Exclusive Commentary
By Don Feder
02/07/2012

         In the 1992 campaign, Hillary Clinton was given to cavorting about the stage at campaign events telling audiences: "Vote for him (Bill) and you get me! It's a two-fer!"

         The most radical president in history and the most radical political movement since the '60s are also like shampoo and conditioner packaged together. Reelect Barack Obama and you'll get the Occupy Wall Street Movement.

         President Obama is OWS in a suit, with an expensive haircut. The socialist slobs who've occupied public places around the country and the ideologue who occupies the White House are soul mates joined at the agenda.

         You probably didn't know that right-to-lifers are tools of Wall Street bankers. Neither did they. But at recent pro-life observances in Washington, D.C and Providence, the vanguard of the "99%" threw boxes of condoms at Catholic school girls. Additionally, in the Rhode Island capital they screamed and blew whistles to keep a priest from offering an invocation.

         Our president isn't nearly as crude. Instead of throwing condoms at Catholics, through HHS regulations, he's going to force Catholic charities, schools and hospitals to provide contraceptives to employees, contravening Church doctrine.

         In the past week, Occupy Oakland showed its true colors - red, with a black swastika in a white circle. Enraged by the city's refusal to let them use the Kaiser Convention Center as a "permanent headquarters," the leftist storm-troopers assaulted police with rocks and bottles, broke into city hall and committed various acts of vandalism, including cutting electrical wires and burning an American flag.

         As Old Glory burned, one protestor was caught on camera reciting the following: "I pledge allegiance to the imperialistic, capitalistic, dictatorship. And to the plutocracy for which it stands, privately owned central bank, under the Jews, with inequality and injustice for the 99 (percent)."

         The Reverend Jeremiah ("G-d damn America!") Wright, who schooled the president in the left's version of Christianity, concurs.

         In a January 8th posting on his website, Wright wrote: "Because of the greed of the 1 percent, the other 99 percent of the population have been reduced to working for lower wages... the unchecked greed of the capitalist elite (symbolized by the banks) impoverishes the majority of people and undermines our democracy." Given the Rev. Jeremiah's own obsession with "Zionists," I'm surprised the central-bank-under-the Jews pledge didn't also make it on his website.

         More than 400 were arrested in the latest Oakland orgy. Criminality (trespass, vandalism, assault and drug use) have been part of OWS from its September 17 debut. On November 22, 4,049 were arrested in a confrontation with police during a march across the Brooklyn Bridge.

         Ah, youthful exuberance. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi called Occupiers "young," "spontaneous," and "focused" - on crackpot conspiracy theories, mayhem and Marxism.

         Appreciation for the infantile leftists runs deep in the Democratic Party and among progressives generally. Former DNC Chairman Howard Dean confesses, "I'm glad to see all these young people on Wall Street." Congressman Keith Ellison (who took the oath of office on a Koran) argues, "Occupy Wall Street's anger is justified." Vice President Joe Biden explained the movement's impetus - "The American people do not think the system is fair or on the level."

         In November, Van Jones, Obama's former Green Jobs Czar and a "911 Truther" and self-described "revolutionary," warned, "You haven't seen anything yet."

         The president started by saying he "understand(s) the frustrations that are being expressed" by OWS. Later, he told Occupiers in New Hampshire, "You are the reason I ran for office.' Was this ever in doubt?

         Like Obama himself, Occupy Wall Street is also supported by Ex-Weatherman terrorist Bill Ayers, Soros-funded MoveOn.Org, organized labor - and the Communist Party USA, which dubbed the OWS gang "courageous, young people" fighting "racism," "imperialism" and other evil isms.

         Like Obama, the reality of Occupy Wall Street is light-years away from the hype. No, they're not youthful idealists - Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney in a Hollywood musical: "Hey kids, let's put on a political show!"

         What do Occupiers want? (Cue "The Internationale.") They see America as "ruthless," driven by a predatory culture which "always minimizes costs and maximizes profits," where "growth for the sake of growth is the ideal." All of which results in "lives" treated like "commodities to be bought and sold on the open market" and "economic inequality that is foreclosing our future."

         OWS guru Kalle Lasn calls it the "dog-eat-dog world of capitalism," unlike those cuddly places where profits, growth for the sake of growth and income inequality have been banished - such as Cuba and North Korea, whose starving masses count themselves lucky if they have dogs to eat.

         Postings on the OWS site demand a 6-hour work day, a moratorium on foreclosures and layoffs, retirement at 55 with full Social Security benefits, taxing the "very rich" up to 90% of their income, factory workers electing their supervisors, "forgiveness" of student loans, an $18-an-hour minimum wage, and the heavens opening and raining pistachio ice cream on the kiddies.

         In October, 2011, "New York" magazine published the results of a survey of 100 hardcore OWS protestors in Manhattan.

         Almost half (45%) said capitalism is "inherently immoral" and "can't be saved." In a similar survey, 65% said government has a responsibility to provide health care, a college education and a secure retirement - regardless of the cost. According to 77%, this should be paid for with additional taxes on the rich.

         While 98% support civil disobedience, a significant 31% believe violence is justified when perpetrated in the name of the people. Obama hinted at the same in his Osawatomie speech, when he praised John Brown's "willingness to spill blood (in Kansas) and not just words in behalf of his visions, that helped force the issue" of slavery.

         In another survey based on 198 face-to-face interviews conducted in Manhattan's Zuccotti Park in the first month of the occupation, 74% said they voted for the Great Community Organizer in 2008, (Shocker!), while 48% said they'd do so again and another 27% said that (while clearly disappointed by Obama's failure to abolish the Constitution, private property and the law of cause and effect), they might support him when he ran for reelection. Clearly, OWS is Obama country.

         The president is the movement's godfather. Like OWSers, Obama is constantly ragging on "millionaires and billionaires," "corporate jet owners" and "bankers on Wall Street" out to downsize the American dream.

         You'd think they'd forced lenders to give highly-leveraged mortgages to high-risk borrowers (creating a house-of-cards waiting for a seismic shift), ran up the national debt more than 50%, and increased the price of gas at the pump almost 100% since January 21, 2009.

         The "same folks whose irresponsible actions got us into the mess we're in," are now "trying to fight efforts to crack down on abusive practices" of lenders and investors, Obama warns. "The free market has never been a license to take whatever you can from whomever you can," the president thunders, implying that for greedy capitalists (a redundancy in Obama's mind) the free market has been just such an excuse for pillage.

         And the president's intimate knowledge of the workings of the marketplace is based on what - hearsay? "Occupy a desk," a Wall Street worker growled at Occupiers as he crossed a picket line last fall. When did Obama last sit behind a desk in a for-profit business?

         As a result of the machinations of these malefactors of corporate-jetism, "millions of working families in this country... are now forced to take their children to food banks for a decent meal," the president bloviated at a recent appearance. The scruffy sluggard holding a "Capitalism = Systematic Exploitation" sign at an OWS encampment has nothing on the President of the United States.

         Like the Occupiers, the presidential wealth-spreader has no shortage of ideas to radically transform America. After nationalizing two of the Big Three automakers and the health care industry (one-fifth of the economy), the president wants tighter regulation of banks and $10 billion in underwater mortgages, owned by 3.5 million homeowners, refinanced by the FHA, following his success at federalizing student loans.

         And then there's the rich - the parasitical rich, the "irresponsible rich," the rich who aren't paying their "fair share." Like the 77% of Occupiers who want to soak the wealthy, Obama wants to pour ice water over the nation's most productive citizens.

         The president knows that the top 1% of income earners already pay 38% of all federal taxes. What's fair - total confiscation? But if you took all of the wealth of the much-maligned 1% (about $938 billion), it would run the federal government for roughly three months. Then what?

         Then Obama would continue to shift the blame for Democrat policies to Wall Street, big banks and the 1%. And then the OWS goons would burn down the National Archives Building, with its plutocratic Constitution and Declaration of Independence. And then Obama would be reelected. And then: Utopia here we come.

         The president and the protestors are alike in other ways. Obama too is a criminal who regularly violates his oath of office and the Constitution (example: his "recess appointments while Congress was in session).

         Both have a virulent hatred of Israel. The executive director of the Arab-American Action Network told a cheering crowd of Chicago Occupiers, "Israel is beginning to be seen as the criminal pariah state that it is." When they staged a sit-in at the Israeli Consulate in Boston last November, OWS protestors chanted "Hey Hey, Ho Ho! Israeli apartheid's got to go."

         Each is, at the least, willing to tolerate anti-Semitism.

         OWS has done nothing to dissociate itself from the most blatant Jew hatred in its midst, like Los Angeles protestor Patricia McAllister, then an employee of the L.A. Unified School District, who told an interviewer that "Zionist Jews ... are running these big banks and the Federal Reserve." It's surprising that they don't distribute "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" at Occupy events.

         About the time McAllister was exposing Jewish control of the financial sector, Howard Gutman, Obama's creepy ambassador to Belgium, explained to a conference that the Jews had no one but themselves to blame for the violence directed at them in Europe, because of "tensions between Israel and the Palestinian territories." This sounded eerily like Nazi apologists blaming Kristallnacht on the Jews' "disproportionate influence" on German society.

         I am not suggesting that Occupiers will occupy cabinet posts in a second Obama administration. The president isn't that obvious. Besides, he'd need a much better ventilation system in the Cabinet Room.

         But on a host of issues - economic, foreign policy, social - it's their ideology which will drive Obama's second term, when he'll have nothing to lose.

         They are his constituency, his conscience, his alter ego. What Sarah Palin is to the Tea Parties, Barrack Hussein Obama is to Occupy Wall Street.

Don Feder is a former Boston Herald writer who is now a political/communications consultant. He also maintains his own website, DonFeder.com.

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Santorum shakes up GOP race with three-for-three finish 

The Republican presidential contest is a two-man race no more.
 
Rick Santorum proved that the 2012 primary election still has a few surprises left, after he went three for three in Tuesday's contests and once again shook up the GOP nomination battle.
 
Santorum, in perhaps the biggest upset of the night, was declared the winner of the Colorado caucuses -- a contest Mitt Romney had been leading in recent polls and won in the 2008 race. The former Pennsylvania senator also won the Minnesota caucuses and the non-binding Missouri GOP primary.  

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Insurgency in America? Former Border Agent Details National Security Threats Spilling Into the U.S. (UPDATED: With GBTV Video) 

Insurgency in America?

Editor's note: This story has now been updated with information from Glenn Beck's Tuesday night broadcast. The text report below has been updated with some of the pictures from GBTV broadcast. The most graphic of the photos we are including only in the video for GBTV subscribers in the on-demand version of the full broadcast that can be seen here. 

As America prepares to draw down from wars abroad, it faces a new conflict as a vicious drug war spills across our southern border with Mexico.

Former Border Patrol Agent Zachary Taylor told The Blaze just how grave the threat really is.

Taylor broke down the imminent dangers and expanded upon the case that the U.S.-Mexico border has become the soft underbelly of U.S homeland defense.

A Closer Look at the Jan. Jobless Numbers: Are They 'Being Made Up?' 

People line up at a Workforce Plus job fair, Thursday, March 26, 2009, in Tallahassee, Fla. 75,000 Floridians lost their jobs in February. The state's unemployment rate rose to 9.4 %, the highest since 1976. (Photo: AP)

You may recall that major media outlets rejoiced and the markets jumped last Friday when the January jobs report was released.

"Labor Department today lowered the U.S. unemployment rate by two-tenths of a point to 8.3 percent, the lowest it's been since February 2009," Emily Knapp of Wall St. Cheat reported, "January data showed nonfarm payrolls to have risen a whopping 243,000, wildly exceeding even the most optimistic of economists' projections."

However, although the markets did indeed react positively to the good news, many analysts were skeptical of the data in the report.

"A month ago, we joked when we said that for Obama to get the unemployment rate to negative by election time, all he has to do is to crush the labor force participation rate to about 55 [percent]," editors at Zero Hedge wrote.

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Who Is Paying for the Two-Month Extension of the Payroll Tax Cut? 

Remember when, just before Christmas, it was announced that the current payroll tax cut was going to be extended for two months?

During all of the congratulatory remarks and back-patting, you know what the architects of the two-month tax cut failed to mention? They failed to mention the fact that they were going to pay for the whole thing with "hidden" mortgage fees.

That's right, D.C. is financing the two-month tax cut with what has turned into a brand new fee on home buyers.

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Only True Copy of the Declaration of Independence

to be Displayed in Doylestown

DOYLESTOWN, Pa. - One of America 's most successful history detectives and his greatest discovery, the only true copy of our Declaration of Independence, will be in Doylestown on Wednesday, February 8, 2012 at the Moose Lodge, 127 E. State Street beginning at 7 p.m. until 9 p.m.  Local historian Tom Lingenfelter will be on hand to tell the remarkable story of how he found the document and its significance to our nation's history.

After almost a decade of research, Lingenfelter unlocked the mystery behind the elaborate 170 year cover-up of the original Declaration's destruction. This anastatic facsimile copy of the original Declaration was not even known to exist prior to its discovery by Lingenfelter nearly twenty years ago.  Lingenfelter is giving the public an opportunity to view the Declaration as it might have looked in 1776.  The event at the Moose Lodge is a rare opportunity to see the Birth Certificate of Freedom in its complete readable form before it begins its National Treasure Tour. The evening is sponsored by Heritage Collectors' Society and the GOP 8th District Delegate candidates for Ron Paul.

About Heritage Collectors' Society

Heritage Collectors' Society buys, sells, consigns and authenticates fine historical documents and autographs.  For more information visit www.heritagecs.com or contact Tom Lingenfelter at 215-230-5330.

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PUBLIC Q&A, Free and open to the public, educational materials available

Dear Patriot,

Carried by Richard Nixon in all five presidential elections and by Ronald Regan all four times he ran, California, where European-Americans are now a shrinking minority, is a state where the Republican Party faces extinction.  John McCain's 2008 general election vote was a mere 36% in California, handing Barack Obama 55 votes of the Electoral College and eclipsing the GOP's capture of the entire mid-West with just one state. 

Demographics are destiny.  Many have read Patrick Buchanan's latest best-seller, "Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025."  It is a telling forecast of the decline of the West and what the future may hold.

Here at the Thomas Jefferson Club, we strive to present speakers and issues that you will find nowhere else.  We are a non-partisan, issues-oriented organization and believe in presenting on a variety of challenging topics, including the issues of national identity, immigration and America's historic lineage of Western Culture.

On Sunday, February 12^th at 7pm we will present Filip Dewinter, member of the Belgian and European Parliament.  Mr. Dewinter is the leader of Vlaams Belang (Flemish Interest), the main opposition party in Belgium.  He will discuss from the front lines the challenges for Western Civilization in Europe and its parallels to the United States.  This event will be held at The Temperance House, 5 South State Street, Newtown, PA.   

For a brief overview of Mr. Dewinter and the freedom movement in Europe, please view this video:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjoLqlJDgGI.    

All the best,

Jeff McGeary

Weekly News From Philadelphia ZOA

Shabbat Shalom!

Philadelphia ZOA Quarterly Meeting

Wednesday, Feb. 29, 7:30 p.m., at Temple Beth Hillel/Beth El, 1001 Remington Rd., Wynnewood.

Our guest speaker will be State Representative Curt Schroder, who recently returned from a trip to Israel along with other lawmakers from the commonwealth on a trip sponsored and organized by the Pennsylvania Jewish Coalition. Schroder, a Republican, represents the 155th District, in Chester County. He is serving his ninth term.

The meeting is free and open to the public. Please

encourage those you know to also attend.

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The Case Against Obamacare: Health Care Policy Series for the 112th Congress

For Tea Parties, this can be used as basic ammunition for letters to the editor, columns for your local news outlet, handouts at public events, emailing the pdf to our elected reps as well as to members, friends and neighbors.

This appears to be an excellent resource; let's make use of it.

Lou Flanagan

The General Wayne Tea Party

The first contests in the race for the Republican nomination are just around the corner. To better inform you, we looked beyond the rhetoric to the candidates' actual records on the issues important to families.

This voter guide outlines candidate stances on issues that are important to the family. We researched the candidates' statements and votes on the ten issues that best give voters an understanding on if the candidates match your values. Please use this resource as you think about who you would like to see be the nominee to challenge President Barack Obama.

Download the free guide and be sure to share this resource with your friends and family before the 2012 primary season begins next month.

A values voter is an informed voter.

Sincerely,

Tony Perkins
President

PA implementing ObamaCare exchanges  

I wanted to update you on the exchange situation.  First, unfortunately we are getting started late in the game.  Having spoken with 4 different legislators (Rep Saylor, Boyd, Bear, and Sen Waugh), I believe the general sense on their part is that they want to be prepared to set up an exchange if SCOTUS doesn't  declare ObamaCare unconstitutional. 

Their reasoning for supporting the exchange is that PA will have more control if PA sets up the exchange rather than the feds.  We have been arguing that in fact: the exchange structure and operation is dictated by the feds, through law and regulation, regardless if the state sets it up or not; that whatever little "control" a PA would have does not mitigate any of the true horrors of the law; establishing the exchange legitimizes PPACA and undercut PA's federal lawsuit against PPACA, creates more PA expense and government, scedes state sovereignty, misses an opportunity to block the law and to have standing for further legal action.  (please see attached documents if you want more explanation).

We have more legislator visits planned, but it is clear to me that none of the legislators thus far will take on this fight.  We must generate the grass roots response to move them to do so.  It is disgusting that our Republican Governor and legislature can't pass meaningful right to work legislation, LCB reform, PA TPK Commission reform, school reform, etc but unless we respond in a big way, will make PA government bigger, make PA government poorer, harm PA citizen liberty and health by implementing an exchange.

I have contacted Campaign for Liberty to see if they are interested in coordinating efforts to stop the exchange.  I will also contact the PA Manufacturer's Association and the Chamber of Commerce, both of whom support repeal of PPACA, also for potential coordination of activities.

We are working on an on-line petition rejecting PPACA and the exchanges for PA physicians to sign and ultimately deliver by several physicians to Harrisburg.

On Wednesday, I participated in a debate put on by the Lehigh Valley Coalition for Health Care Reform (Donna Rovito).  Leo Knepper and I presented the anti-exchange positition while a rep from the PA Dept of Insurance and Dr Schmeltz of the PA Medical Society presented the for pro position.  For what it is worth, I believe we had the more compelling argument.

I welcome any thought you all have.

D4PC Exchange Testimony 

State Leg Guide to Repealing ObamaCare 

Rohrer Wins Valley Forge Straw Poll

"The size of the deficit and the reach of the federal government were key topics that the candidates spent much of the 80-minute forum answering questions about from an audience of more than 200. A Tea Party-aligned group organized the event, and calls to defeat President Barack Obama drew louder applause than calls to defeat Casey."

Sam Rohrer, a former State Rep. who the AP noted lives about 20 miles away from Phoenixville, won the ensuing straw poll far and away. he defeated Welch, who lives about 8 miles away.

The final tally was Rohrer 104; Marc Scaringi 24; Welch 18, and Tom Smith 6.

RedState Morning Briefing

For February 8, 2012

1. Susan G. Komen Listened. Have You Responded?

Yesterday, the Susan G. Komen Foundation announced it would stop giving money to Planned Parenthood. Conservatives have been pushing on this issue for a while.

As a result of the announcement, the left has gone on the attack. It is important that you who wanted Komen to do this say thank you. You can email them at news@Komen.org.

More importantly, you can donate to them. If you are not willing to support an organization that takes a stand you want when they come under attack, you cannot be surprised when less organizations listen to you.

2. The Fat Lady Hasn't Sung, But She's Warming Up

If I were a national Republican operative, I'd be very worried about tonight. If I were a Mitt Romney fan, I'd be ecstatic.

The Romney win in Florida was huge. He won the hispanic vote. He split tea party activists and evangelicals. He won where people live. Gingrich won the panhandle and largely tied in the few northern Florida population centers, but it was Romney's night.

He is on the way toward the nomination. The fat lady is warming up. But it is not a done deal yet. He still has a fractured base and lost the heart of the base. He has trouble with tea party activists and evangelicals though he roughly tied with Gingrich in capturing their support, and he has trouble with strong conservatives. Nonetheless, his get out the vote operation was a phenomenal success and the 15 to 1 advertising ratio in his favor clinched it for him. Ron Brownstein has a solid analysis on Romney's win.

It is worth nothing that in the last week of the race only 0.1% of advertising was pro-Romney and roughly 70% was anti-Gingrich.

The panhandle held for Gingrich, which is more typical of a number of upcoming primaries than the rest of the state.

Here's why I'd be nervous if I were a GOP operative.

3. The Bad Messaging of the Newt Gingrich Super PAC

I was surprised to land in Miami today for CNN's coverage of the Florida Presidential Preference Primary and hear one Newt Super PAC ad over and over. I heard it on rock stations. I heard it on Rush Limbaugh. I heard it on a sports talk station.

It attacked Mitt Romney for abortion. Abortion. In a state with a massive housing crisis and a state that led the way in the fight on Obamacare, the Newt Super PAC decided to run ads in Miami, FL on abortion.

There is just one ad that the Newt Super PAC needs to run and that the Newt campaign itself needs to run. They need to take Rick Santorum's attack on Romneycare from the CNN Jacksonville, FL debate and turn it into a commercial.

4. The Inconvenient Constitution

As a United States Senator, I have sworn an oath to support, defend, and bear true faith and allegiance to the Constitution of the United States. Complying with this Oath is not always convenient. Sometimes this requires voting against legislation that embodies policies I agree with, other times it requires taking a stand when doing so may not be popular.

Heritage Hotsheet

Experts on the Day's Hottest News

Items for February 8, 2012

The 2012 Index of Dependence on Government  The Heritage Foundation

Ninth Circuit Rules Against Marriage  The Foundry

End these health mandates now  Politico

As Russia Pushes Diplomacy, Syrian Forces are Said to Pound Homs  The New York Times

"Speakers Will Be Physically Assaulted" Occupy DC Plans Mayhem at CPAC  Fox News

Lachlan Markay

Latest Heritage Research: 

LECTURE: Six Key Elements of Medicare Premium Support Proposals  

BACKGROUNDER: The Top Five Flawed Arguments Against Premium Support

BACKGROUNDER: "Turn Back" Transportation to the States

 Use Joseph Schumpeter's birthday (February 8) as an excuse to explain exactly what was wrong with Obama's "Porkulus" package

Using taxpayers' money to prop up failing industries that the market no longer deems viable is a classic socialist error: what a healthy economy really needs is Schumpeter's "creative destruction," whereby the death of an old industry creates space for the birth of a new industry, which in turn generates more money and more jobs. Explain that the reasons socialists like Obama hate this process are a) they can't control it, and b) it works.  

Archbishop to U.S. Troops: Obamacare Reg 'Is a Blow to a Freedom...for Which You Have Seen Your Buddies Fall in Battle'

*** LEGISLATIVE ALERT ***
  UPDATE ON ACT! FOR AMERICA'S
LIST OF HIGH PRIORITY LEGISLATION
IN THE 112^TH CONGRESS
  by Lisa Piraneo, Director of Government Relations

The second half of the 112^th Congress has just begun and I thought it would be a good time to update everyone on the status of legislation on ACT! for America's "High Priority List." These are legislative proposals that have been introduced in the 112^th Congress that we feel are important to our national security interests and which we have publicly endorsed and are actively supporting via the national office and our grassroots base.

Please go to the Contact Congress page on our website to learn more about each of these bills and to send a pre-written e-mail of support to your Members of Congress. It couldn't be easier and it's so very important. Each of you plays an important role in seeing these critical proposals move through the legislative process successfully. As you'll see, many are "stuck in committee." These proposals will move further through the legislative process only if your federal legislators hear from you.

Legislation on ACT! for America's High Priority List for the 112th Congress

REMEMBER, YOUR VOICE COUNTS!
IF EACH OF US DOES JUST A LITTLE, TOGETHER WE CAN
ACCOMPLISH A LOT!

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 The radical Islamic organization CAIR has blasted the NYPD for using our critically-acclaimed documentary, The Third Jihad, to educate its officers in counterterrorism. The NYPD caved in and announced that it will no longer use the film in its training program. Now CAIR is demanding the resignation of NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly who has worked tirelessly to protect New York from Islamic terrorism. Express your support for Kelly and the NYPD's anti-terror efforts by clicking here.

News from The Hill:

Komen VP resigns after Planned Parenthood decision
By Julian Pecquet

Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure vice-president Karen Handel resigned Tuesday after bearing the brunt of the criticism for the breast cancer charity's decision to end funding for Planned Parenthood.

Handel, who as a 2010 Republican candidate for governor in Georgia argued against funding for Planned Parenthood, said politics had nothign to do with the Komen charity's initial decision to stop funding for Planned Parenthood.

The 57 State Doofus Report: To regain his "cool" Obama's rehearsed his "spontaneous" Al Green song

Feb 07, 2012 05:13 am | Coach Collins

By Kevin "Coach" Collins

As a public service The 57 State Doofus Report will appear here as new items from our teleprompter president provide them. This material comes from The Ulsterman Report.

The Potemkin presidency has produced another unsurprising "surprise."  According to the buzz in Washington political insider circles Barack Obama's "spontaneous" rendition of an old Al Green Soul hit "Let's stay together" was "rehearsed to death." It is not clear whether the Doofus in Chief used a teleprompter but he did use a cue card and the whole staged event was arranged because Obama is trying to be "cool" again. Being "cool" translates into getting the halfwits in or colleges to vote for him so he'll cancel their student loans - yes these simpletons actually believe that!

Searching for his lost "cool"

UR quotes Obama as saying he wants to be cool again as he was in 2008. Specifically he ... Continue Reading:The 57 State Doofus Report: To regain his "cool" Obama's rehearsed his "spontaneous" Al Green song

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American Minute Feb. 6

Feb 06, 2012 04:13 pm | Coach Collins

By Bill Federer, staff writer

A graduate of Eureka College, IL, 1932, he announced for radio stations in Iowa. He married Jane Wyman and had children Maureen and Michael. He was a Captain in the U.S. Army Air Corp during World War II, then became an actor, appearing in over 50 films. He was President of the Screen Actors Guild, switched from Democrat to Republican, and became Governor of California. His second marriage, to Nancy Davis, 1952, had children Patti and Ron. His name was Ronald Reagan, born FEBRUARY 6, 1911, and died June 5, 2004. At age sixty-nine, he was the oldest person elected U.S. President, and sixty-nine days after his inauguration, he survived an assassination attempt. At the Alfred M. Landon Lecture Series, 1982, Ronald Reagan stated: "We can't have it both ways. We can't expect God to protect us in a crisis and just leave Him over there on the shelf in our day-to-day living. ... Continue Reading:American Minute Feb. 6

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Darrell Issa to finally put Eric Holder behind bars?

Feb 06, 2012 01:13 pm | Coach Collins

by Doug Book,  staff writer

As a result of his refusal to honor House committee subpoenas demanding the release of some 70 thousand Fast and Furious-related documents currently withheld by the Department of Justice, Eric Holder faces the very real possibility of arrest and imprisonment by the House of Representatives.

"Your actions lead us to conclude that the [Justice] Department is actively engaged in a cover-up," wrote House Government Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa to Attorney General Holder just two days before his February 2nd testimony before the Committee. (1)

Stating what interested Americans have known for a year or more, Issa speaks of the contempt in which the Attorney General holds the Republican led House of Representatives and his resulting willingness to ignore subpoenas and set the terms under which he will permit DOJ officials to produce documents or respond to Committee questions.

"During your testimony before the House Judiciary Committee on December 8th, 2011, ... Continue Reading:Darrell Issa to finally put Eric Holder behind bars?

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Former DEA Chief: Hezbollah Eyeing Southwest Border, 'Hell to Pay in the Not Too Distant Future'

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	NewCommon Sense Applying First Principles to the Issues of Today

Lincoln: The Father of Big Government?  

To sell his tax-code tweaks, new regulatory schemes, and insatiable ardor for big government, President Obama invoked Abraham Lincoln in his State of the Union Address: "I'm a Democrat. But I believe what Republican Abraham Lincoln believed: That government should do for people only what they cannot do better by themselves, and no more." This isn't the first time Barack Obama has co-opted Lincoln's legacy: Obama launched his 2008 presidential campaign in Springfield, Illinois where, wouldn't you know it, another lanky lawyer from Illinois launched his. And it won't be the last: February 12 is Abraham Lincoln's birthday, another opportunity for Obama to praise the Great Emancipator for expanding the reach of government.  

He has awakened a sleeping giant. But if the giant fails to use his power, then what are giants good for?
Lou  

The administration's breach of faith.
Jonathan V. Last
February 13, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 21  

On the last weekend of January, priests in Catholic churches across America read extraordinary letters to their congregations. The missives informed the laity that President Obama and his administration had launched an assault on the church. In Virginia, Catholics heard from Bishop Paul Loverde, who wrote, "I am absolutely convinced that an unprecedented and very dangerous line has been crossed." In Phoenix, Bishop Thomas Olmsted wrote, "We cannot-we will not-comply with this unjust law." In Pittsburgh, Bishop David Zubik wrote that President Obama had told Catholics, "To Hell with your religious beliefs." Bishop Daniel Jenky of Peoria asked his flock to join him in the Prayer to St. Michael the Archangel, which concludes: By the Divine Power of God / cast into Hell, Satan and all the evil spirits / who prowl about the world seeking the ruin of souls.  

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Obama campaign blurs the line with super PAC 

At first blush, the announcement that President Obama's campaign is encouraging donors to give to the supposedly outside group supporting his candidacy would appear to violate the laws separating the two organizations. But technically, it is legal, according to the Federal Election Commission and watchdog groups.

In an email to supporters yesterday, Obama campaign manager Jim Messina said, "The campaign has decided to do what we can, consistent with the law, to support Priorities USA (Action) in its effort to counter the weight of the GOP super PACs."

Messina announced that White House, cabinet, and campaign officials "will attend and speak at Priorities USA (Action) fundraising events," though neither the Obamas nor the Bidens will do so.

"This decision will help fill a hole on our side," Messina said, referring to the current imbalance of the tens of millions of dollars Republican-leaning super PACs have raised and spent this campaign season.

College vending machine dispenses 'morning-after' pill 

Students at Shippensburg University in central Pennsylvania can get the "morning-after" pill by sliding $25 into a vending machine installed at the request of the student government.

The Etter Health Center at Shippensburg, a public school of 8,300 students in Appalachia's scenic Cumberland Valley, provides the Plan B One Step emergency contraceptive along with condoms, decongestants and pregnancy tests.

The pill is available without a prescription to anyone 17 or older, and the school checked records and found that all current students are that age or older, spokesman Peter Gigliotti said.

The machine was installed after a request from the student association. The pill's availability in a vending machine appears to be rare, if not unprecedented.

The idea started when Shippensburg conducted a survey about health center services several years ago, and 85 percent of the respondents supported making Plan B available, he said.

February 07, 2012
      CATHOLICS VOW TO FIGHT MANDATE
The controversial Obamacare stipulation that mandates Catholic-run institutions must provide contraception to all employees and family members has ralllied the faithful. Yesterday, Catholic League President Bill Donohue came forward and declared that this fight will go to the courts and even "in the streets." Watch his comments HERE.

  BECK SHOWS EXTREME BORDER VIOLENCE
A former DEA chief has told Glenn, "There is going to be hell to pay in the future." Tonight on GBTV, Glenn Beck will display examples of the disturbing violence happening all along our border with Mexico. Get a preview of the story the rest of the media refuses to cover HERE. 

GENERAL TELLS CROWD: 'I CHOOSE THE GUN'

Holding a rifle in his hands, the Chief of Defense for the Netherlands stood on stage at a conference that featured artists, writers, and inventors and declared himself to be a peace-loving man. Gen. Peter Van Uhm's explanation of his belief that we need armies if we want peace can be watched HERE.

  WHY IS THE FBI INCREASING ITS MONITORING OF 'SOVEREIGN CITIZENS?
The FBI is sounding alarm bells about the nearly 100% increase in the number of arrests of people who call themselves Sovereign Citizens. Before you freak out about the huge spike these arrests, understand that the TOTAL number of arrests jumped from 10 per year for 2009 and 2010 to 18 last year. In contrast, arrests at Occupy Wall Street last year exceeded 5,000. Find out why the Sovereign Citizens are under scrutiny HERE.

OWS 'SPOKESMAN' is A SEX OFFENDER
The spokesperson for Occupy Pittsburgh is a convicted sex offender who is required by law to register his status wherever he lives. James Francis Hoff did not regsiter as a sex offender and was arrested for violating Megan's Law for the second time in less than a year. See the full story HERE.  

  VIRAL VID - THe carp hunters return!
This very entertaining group from Peoria, Illinois owns the title of the "most popular" viral video posted on The Blaze in 2011. For the uninitiated, the Carp Hunters dress like gladiators and brandish swords to kill the invasive fish. Most sequels are rarely as entertaining as the original films. We believe this clip is an exception to that rule. Watch it HERE.

FROM GBTV: Real news from the blaze - SYRIA... IS IT A THREAT?

Monday night's Real News episode took a long look at what's really happening in the Middle East. The panel talked about what is going on with the occupations in the region with a special focus on Syria. Watch the entire segment HERE.

Tonight on Real News from The Blaze: Would legalizing drugs make a significant difference in the war on drugs? The panel discusses that topic and other stories missed by the mainstream media tonight at 7pm ET on GBTV

SKY DIVER HOPES TO JUMP FROM THE 'EDGE OF SPACE' AND TRAVEL ALMOST 700MPH
An Austrian daredevil has designs on setting some pretty outrageous records with his next jump. Felix Baumgartner plans to jump from a weather balloon at a height of 23 miles above the earth's surface. He will free-fall for 10 minutes and reach speeds of almost 700 mph. See the details of his crazy plan and what he needs to make it happen HERE.  

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

To: Friends & Supporters

From: Gary L. Bauer


COUNTDOWN TO VICTORY: 273 DAYS TO THE 2012 ELECTIONS


BREAKING NEWS: TRADITIONAL MARRIAGE "IRRATIONAL"

The Ninth "Circus" Court of Appeals has struck again. Today, a divided three-judge panel overruled the majority of California voters and struck down Proposition 8 -- the state's constitutional amendment defining marriage as the union of one man and one woman.

The court's majority ruled that traditional marriage "fails to advance any rational basis." So in spite of thousands of years of recorded history, in spite of the values held by every major faith, in spite of basic biology and common sense and in spite of the will of the people, these left-wing judicial ideologues believe that normal marriage is irrational.

Here's the bottom line: The culture war is real. The left does not intend to allow these issues to be decided by the people in their respective states. Obama and the left will use the courts to force their radical agenda down our throats.

But there is a solution: Federal judges, including Supreme Court justices, are nominated by the president and confirmed by the Senate. The solution is to elect men and women to public office -- from the White House down -- who will respect the Constitution and unapologetically defend our values!

As this report warns, an Obama second term will "allow him to expand his replacement of Republican-appointed majorities with Democratic ones on the nation's appeals courts, the final stop for almost all challenged federal court rulings." In other words, with four more years, Obama can pack the courts with left-wing radicals.

No matter what you might think about the eventual GOP nominee, this issue alone should drive conservatives to the polls in November to vote Obama out and elect as many pro-family, pro-life conservatives to the United States Senate and the House of Representatives as possible!

Please click here now to make an emergency donation to stop the assault on our values by bringing the Obama nightmare to an end in 273 days.


Obama Unites The Faithful

The nation's Catholic leaders are ratcheting up the pressure on the Obama Administration in response to a series of actions that violate church teachings and in some cases appear motivated by anti-Catholic bias. The latest incident is the administration's mandate requiring religious institutions to provide coverage for contraception, sterilization and even abortion-inducing drugs in their health insurance. Church leaders have warned that the mandate forces them to choose between offering health insurance and violating their core moral code.

Bill Donohue of the Catholic League warned, "Never before, unprecedented in American history, for the federal government to line up against the Roman Catholic Church. This is going to be fought out with lawsuits, with court decisions, and, dare I say it, maybe even in the streets."

Writing in today's Wall Street Journal, William McGurn notes the potential impact of this action on Catholic Charities:

"Take Catholic Charities, America's largest private network of social service organizations. Assuming its 70,000 employees have some kind of health insurance, a principled decision not to comply with the mandate would mean $140 million a year in fines alone (plus higher costs to help employees buy insurance individually). That means millions less for struggling families, for refugees, for the sick and elderly and for other needy Americans who benefit from their good works."

This decision has been widely condemned even by liberal columnists, leading national newspapers, as well as other Christian denominations and Jewish organizations. Consider some of these statements:

• Lutheran Church Missouri Synod: "This action by HHS will have the effect of forcing many religious organizations to choose between following the letter of the law and operating within the framework of their religious tenets." 
• Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America: "In declining to expand the religious exemption within the healthcare reform law, the Obama Administration has disappointingly failed to respect the needs of religious organizations such as hospitals, social welfare organizations and more."
• National Association of Evangelicals: "No government has the right to compel its citizens to violate their conscience.  The HHS rules trample on our most cherished freedoms and set a dangerous precedent."

Silencing Our Chaplains

Now there is news that Pentagon officials attempted to silence Archbishop Timothy Broglio of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese for the Military Services. On January 26th, the archbishop issued a blistering letter with instructions for it to be read aloud from the pulpit by all Catholic military chaplains.

Referring to the contraception mandate, the letter read in part, "It is a blow to a freedom that you have fought to defend and for which you have seen your buddies fall in battle. We cannot -- we will not -- comply with this unjust law."

The Army's Office of the Chief of Chaplains essentially declared the letter unauthorized and ordered chaplains not to read it aloud, but said it could be made available in print. A compromise that preserved the archbishop's First Amendment rights was eventually reached after a phone call between Archbishop Broglio and Secretary of the Army John McHugh, who conceded it was wrong to censor the letter. You can read more here.


How Should We Respond?

My friends, these are very disturbing developments. Religious liberty is under assault today from the far left on our courts and from far left ideologues in the White House. It is imperative that men and women of faith take a stand in defense of freedom.

If you are a pastor, please preach about the importance of religious liberty. You don't have to agree with Catholic teaching on contraception to realize that religious freedom for every faith is in jeopardy when the government can redefine the meaning of marriage or order religious institutions to violate their core values. If you are close to your pastor, encourage him to speak up.

I also encourage pastors to reach out to Catholic leaders in your community. Invite them to briefly address your congregations. Let them know you are standing with them. Share the letters and statements that have been issued in recent weeks by church leaders such as those quoted above.    

Who Makes the Most From Oil and Gas Leases on Public Land? 

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 12:59 PM PST

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CRB: Solve for X 

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 09:32 AM PST

(Scott Johnson)

The new (winter) issue of the Claremont Review of Books is in the mail and, thanks to our friends among its ranks, we are previewing three pieces from it this week. The issue is characteristically chock full of excellent reviews and essays by prominent scholars.

Faithful Power Line readers know that the CRB is my favorite magazine. If you love to read and if you lean conservative, it is tailor-made for you. A subscription to the CRB costs less that $20 a year. Subscribe here and get immediate online access to the entire issue thrown in. Now to the winter issue.

First he was Malcolm Little, then Malcolm X, then El-Hajj Malil el-Shabazz, with a host of nicknames in between. Malcolm X, known today as simply Malcolm, reinvented himself throughout his life. When he died, "his legacy, like his name, was left unfinished-his identity still in flux." In the new issue of the CRB, Professor Diana Schaub reviews Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention (just out in paperback), by the late Manning Marable. Professor Schaub's review is "Solve for X." 

Liberals and the Constitution 

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 06:22 AM PST

(Steven Hayward)

Desperate to destroy Indiana's popular new Right to Work law, union lawyers are now scheming to have the courts strike it down.

First, when the Right to Work law was introduced in the Indiana legislature, union bosses packed the capitol with angry protestors hurling insults at those who support worker freedom.

Big Labor-backed legislators tried to stall the debate by refusing to show up, just as Wisconsin Democrats fled to Illinois last year.

But the forces of freedom prevailed, and now that forced-unionism partisans failed to win the hearts and minds of Indiana's workers and voters, they want to dismantle the law in the courts.

Sometimes all it takes is picking the right judge. In fact, just yesterday, an Indiana judge blocked the fines charged to House Democrats for walking out of the legislature and delaying debate on the Right to Work bill.

Your National Right to Work Foundation knows how to fight back and defend Indiana's duly-enacted Right to Work law.

That's why the Foundation announced last week the launch of new legal task force dedicated to defeating the bogus arguments cooked up by Big Labor lawyers in Indiana.

Foundation attorneys have successfully defended state Right to Work laws in the past, most recently in Oklahoma, and are continuing to defend Wisconsin's government-sector Right to Work law from an assault by union lawyers.

The task force has already examined reported union lines of attack and determined that Indiana's Right to Work law is on sound legal ground, but we must be fully prepared if and when Big Labor lawyers unleash their attack.

You see, the Foundation must guard against union boss legal challenges that could jeopardize Right to Work laws nationwide.

Union bosses know that for decades the courts have upheld Right to Work laws while acknowledging the fundamental conflict between compulsory unionism and freedom of association.

But they're hoping the lawsuits -- real and threatened -- could stall the growing Right to Work movement in other states like New Hampshire and Montana.

Big Labor wants to frighten legislators nationwide by showing them how hard and costly a battle like the ones raging in Wisconsin and Indiana can be.

Defending the 23 state Right to Work laws is a crucial component of the National Right to Work Foundation's strategic litigation program made possible by the generosity of Right to Work supporters like you.

Union lawyers hope to bleed us dry by filing groundless lawsuits against Right to Work laws to keep the Foundation from going on offense and bringing cases against forced-unionism schemes for victimized employees.

That's why your continued support is so vital.  

A radio show host in Memphis invited a local black Republican woman running for congress on his show. However, instead of interviewing her, he decided to scream at her. Once she had enough and started to leave he even refused to shake her hand because he didn't want her "whiteness" to "rub off" on him. Click Here to see this jerk in action.  

RUSE: Planned Parenthood, Girl Scout cookie monster

Girls' group may regret sex-ed partnership as snack sales suffer

Across the country, angry emails bombard official Girl Scout computers. In Northern Virginia, a Catholic church bans the Scouts from meeting on its property. An Idaho television station reports that a "rumor" about a Girl Scout-Planned Parenthood alliance is disrupting this year's cookie sales.

 

Emails and random churches are one thing, the bottomline is quite another.

The cookie sale is the Girl Scouts' largest fundraiser, bringing in close to a billion dollars annually. This year, some girls will come equipped with credit-card scanners to expedite the sale. But even high-tech toddlers won't make up for the loss if overall sales are down.

 

Girl Scout headquarters knows that Planned Parenthood scares parents - why else would it publish an official disclaimer? Its website claims that "Girl Scouts of the USA does not have a relationship or partnership with Planned Parenthood," and yet there is evidence everywhere that this is patently, even laughably, untrue.

Today's Headlines:  Tuesday, February 07, 2012

Archbishop to U.S. Troops: Obamacare Reg 'Is a Blow to a Freedom...for Which You Have Seen Your Buddies Fall in Battle'

WH: Women 'Deserve' to Have Catholic Church Buy Them Sterilizations, Contraceptives and Abortifacients

Santorum: 'Mr. President, We're Not That Stupid'

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Pa. Bishop Does Not Recant Saying that Hitler And Mussolini 'Would Love Our (Public School) System'

Staples Founder: A Republican President Should Repeal Obamacare to Help Economy, Create Jobs

WH: Signatures to Rescind HHS Contraceptive Mandate Exceed Those on Petition in Favor of Policy 5 to 1

Cantor to Obama: 'Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is'

Education Secretary Got $50,000 Payday from Chicago Schools

Cantor: $260 Billion Transportation Bill 'Is Focused on Reform'

Romney Looks to Squelch Santorum's Late Rise

State Dept. Sidesteps Opportunity to Criticize Palestinian Unity Deal: 'An Internal Matter

Senators Want to Replace Dollar Bill with $1 Coin to Attack Debt and Deficit

COMMENTARY:

Who Wants War With Iran?
By Patrick J. Buchanan
Year 2012 is shaping up as a war-or-peace election, with Republicans the war party and Democrats the peace-and-diplomacy party.

Economic Chaos Ahead
By Walter E. Williams
Let's think about the kind of economic mess we're in -- and what it might take to get us out of it.

Senate Democrats Vote to Increase U Visas

Last Thursday, the Senate Judiciary Committee in a 10-8 party-line voted to expand the U visa program as part of legislation to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), S. 1925. Specifically, S. 1925 would significantly increase the annual number of U visas by permitting the "recapture" of thousands unused visas from prior years.

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Obama Administration to Help Visa Holders Find Jobs

The Department of Homeland Security announced last week it intends to issue regulations in the coming months to amend several visa programs in order to help aliens find jobs in the U.S. or keep the jobs they have.

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House, Senate Judiciary Republicans Seek Action on Cook County

Last week, leaders from both the House and Senate Judiciary Committees took action to spotlight the Cook County, IL ordinance that obstructs the deportation of criminal aliens. The ordinance, passed by the Cook County Board of Commissioners last fall, instructs county jails to ignore ICE detainers placed on criminal aliens in local custody and bars ICE access to County facilities for investigative interviews or other purposes.

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Cost Study Attempts To Undermine AL Immigration Enforcement Law

Last week, the University of Alabama Economist Samuel Addy released a study on the state's immigration enforcement law, HB 56, concluding that the law's costs are greater than its benefits. Specifically, Mr. Addy finds that HB 56 will cause illegal aliens to leave Alabama, leading a "reduction in aggregate demand."

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Arguments in Arizona SB 1070 to Take Place in April

Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court announced it would hear oral arguments on April 25 in the Justice Department's suit against Arizona over its immigration enforcement law, SB 1070.

Dear Supporter,

Can you imagine telling a parent: "Your kid doesn't matter. My salary does!"

I can't either. Yet that's exactly what's being told to moms and dads across our Commonwealth. And guess who's delivering that message?

That's right...greedy Union Bosses.

You're not surprised, are you?

In school districts, towns and counties across Pennsylvania, the Union Bosses are holding our children's education hostage, terrorizing teachers who try to help, choking off money to charter schools and forcing workers to join their organization and pay them dues.  

It's all being done in an effort to keep these Union Bosses in power and their own pockets lined with taxpayer dollars.

Sound familiar? Is this happening in your school district, town or county? Click here (http://americansforprosperity.org/020212-union-bosses-gone-wild) to tell us about what's going on.

That's why we're launching UNION BOSSES GONE WILD (http://americansforprosperity.org/020212-union-bosses-gone-wild)!

It's a new initiative here at AFP-PA to highlight the greed, thuggery and coercion of the Union Bosses. No more can they hide in dark corners. Together, you and I and thousands of other AFP-PA activists can shine a bright light on what's really going on with the Union Bosses of Pennsylvania.

Click here (http://americansforprosperity.org/020212-union-bosses-gone-wild) to tell us what's been happening in your area.

And, don't forget to tell us about the great local leaders taking a stand and what YOU ARE DOING to combat the heavy hand of the Union Bosses.

Just look at what these Union Bosses have been up to recently:

Read about (http://www.americansforprosperity.com/020212-sign-petition-end-union-boss-thuggery-neshaminy-school-district-jennifer-stefano) the teacher in the Neshaminy School District whose car was vandalized after he spoke out against his Union Boss' intimidation tactics.

Read the story (http://articles.philly.com/2012-01-31/news/31008664_1_district-and-charter-state-subsidies-charter-officials)

of the Chester Community Charter School on the brink of closing because the public school took the money to pay the union contracts instead.

And take a look here (http://www.phillyburbs.com/my_town/falls/school-board-officers-support-staff-negotiations-have-been-hijacked/article_fb7d0309-fcdc-5685-8491-1b495396e8ba.html) at how the Union Bosses are highjacking negotiations in the Pennsbury School District.

Sound familiar? Is this happening in your school district or in the district of someone you know? Click here (http://americansforprosperity.org/020212-union-bosses-gone-wild) to tell us about what's going on.

And, while we're just getting started here in Pennsylvania, take a look here ((http://www.thestatecolumn.com/articles/mitch-daniels-makes-indiana-a-right-to-work-state/) to see how Governor Mitch Daniels and the courageous Indiana legislature took a stand against the Union Bosses in this week.

Workers' Freedom WILL HAPPEN in Pennsylvania; but first, we need to start shining a light on the dirty tricks and thuggery of the Union Bosses in our state!

Help AFP launch "UNION BOSSES GONE WILD!" today! (http://americansforprosperity.org/020212-union-bosses-gone-wild)

In Liberty and Solidarity,

Jennifer Stefano

State Director

Americans for Prosperity - Pennsylvania

PS -- Don't forget to send it along to your friends and family! We want to hear from them too.

Communist Party USA Endorses Obama & Democrats for 2012

Presidents' Day

I was eating lunch with my 6-year-old and I asked her, "What is the 20th of February?"

She answered, "Presidents' Day!"

I asked her: "What does Presidents' Day mean?" and I waited for something about Washington or Lincoln.

She replied, "Presidents' Day is when President Obama steps out of the White House, and if he sees his shadow, we have another year of unemployment!"

You know, it really hurts when hot coffee spurts out your nose!

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Tonight: What's Really Happening On The Border?
Insurgency in America? This Tuesday at 5pm ET on The Glenn Beck Program, Glenn will share information on what's really happening on our border. Horrific violence and instability that you won't believe you haven't heard about. WARNING: Graphic images will be shown during this broadcast.

Wednesday: What Are Universal Values?  Recently the U.S. Ambassador to Russia came out on NPR to an international crowd and said we support 'Universal Values' not 'American Values.' This Wednesday on The Glenn Beck Program, Glenn tells us what our founders really meant by "Universal Values." Don't miss it! 5pm ET on GBTV.
  Thursday: Being George Washington - Faith  Thursday on The Glenn Beck Program we'll check in with the participants of The George Washington Challenge. We'll find out how they did with January's challenge, diligence, and lay the groundwork for February's challenge--faith.
  This Week: CPAC  The annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) is this week. Teams from GBTV, The Blaze, and Glennbeck.com will be there to give you the inside scoop from what is sure to be a few days full of great speeches, election coverage, and unexpected surprises.

Faith Under Attack  Our faith is under attack by this administration. It's time for people of faith to unite, stand with God and defend our religious freedom. Right now it's the Catholic Church, but who will the administration target next?

Is it morally wrong to take a life??  What happens when God is replaced with bioethicists? The national conversation takes a drastic turn for the worse, as we see in this shocking new report which has scientists arguing life is not sacred and that it's okay to kill in certain situations.

Another Summer of 68?  Glenn has predicted several times that civil unrest is going to come to a boiling point as the economy worsens and more people hit the streets in protests. OWS have promised a repeat of the violent 'Summer of 68' this coming year and Glenn believes they will make good on that promise. But can America withstand a huge wave of riots and protests?

Where is the media?  From attacks on our faith and the danger Iran poses against us, to the economic dangers facing America today, it's safe to say our media isn't doing a good job bringing us the facts. Are they irresponsible ...or are they complicit.

Unelectable 2 - Glenn's New Comedy Tour!