Quote: 

"Human nature itself is evermore an advocate for liberty. There is also in human nature a resentment of injury, and indignation against wrong. A love of truth and a veneration of virtue. These amiable passions, are the "latent spark"... If the people are capable of understanding, seeing and feeling the differences between true and false, right and wrong, virtue and vice, to what better principle can the friends of mankind apply than to the sense of this difference?" 

~ John Adams, the Novanglus, 1775  

Obama to Return Major Donations Tied to Fugitive 

Juan Jose Rojas Cardona, left, known as Pepe, with a fellow student, Vernon McKinley, at the University of Iowa in 1990.

New York Times | By MIKE McINTIRE | Published: February 6, 2012

Two American brothers of a Mexican casino magnate who fled drug and fraud charges in the United States and has been seeking a pardon enabling him to return have emerged as major fund-raisers and donors for President Obama's re-election campaign.

 

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Dear Patriot,

A reminder for our next meeting this Sunday, February 12^th, 7pm with Filip Dewinter; I have received some great feedback from many of you in anticipation of this event! Senator 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. Mr. Dewinter is a leader in the freedom movement in Europe, raising awareness on issues such as immigration reform, national identity and sovereignty and Islamization. This event will be held at The Temperance House, 5 South State Street, Newtown, PA.

Here is a brief clip from FOX news on immigration in Europe...

Two signature gathering events...

Tonight, February 8^th, 7-9pm. Come see a "true copy" of the US Constitution on display at the Moose in Doylestown! This is also a signature gathering event for Ron Paul supporters in Bucks County running for Delegate to the Republican National Convention. More info contact Rob Pepe at robpatozz@live.com. The Moose, 127 East State Street, Doylestown, PA.

Saturday, February 11^th, 2-5pm. Help KTP members Ana Puig, Anastasia Przbylski, Dan McCabe and Jack Merritt run for Delegate to the Republican National Convention! This is a signature gathering event. All Pennsylvania delegates are unbound, so your vote for a presidential candidate can be ignored by the GOP candidates beholden to the party. The KTP candidates are looking to change the GOP from the inside by being committed to reflect the will of Bucks voters. More info contact thekitchentablepatriots@gmail.com. The Moose, 127 East State Street, Doylestown, PA.

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 

PATRIOTS, 

Jim Codichini
cell 610.247.5085
work 610.444.7282 ext.242

PATRIOTS,

Please see the urgent memorandum below regarding a pending vote on a tax on Marcellus Shale drilling. Please forward this email to your fellow activists and encourage everyone to take action right now by sending an email to their legislators to vote no to a natural gas drilling tax. Click here or follow the link below to send an email in just a few short minutes.

Contact your legislators about voting NO to a Marcellus Shale tax: http://capwiz.com/commonwealthfoundation/issues/alert/?alertid=60961741

Thank you!

Dawn Meling

Deputy Director of Public Affairs, Community Liaison

Commonwealth Foundation

724.968.8311  

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This article outlines extensively how control of the Republican party is maintained by setting the rules of the game. 

Jim Codichini
cell 610.247.5085
work 610.444.7282 ext.242

Dear Fellow Patriot,  
Overwhelm the system.

It's a classic Cloward and Piven technique the far left has relied on for decades to push its agenda, and it's in full swing right now in Wisconsin. Yesterday, the Government Accountability Board (GAB) announced that it will not and cannot verify the more than one million signatures union coalitions submitted in the recall effort against Governor Scott Walker.

A GAB official stated "It's not feasible in balancing the public interest to verify every single signature. In fact, our statute requires a review not a verification." The GAB also refused support from outside groups like Verify the Recall, the nonpartisan effort to engage citizens in an independent, comprehensive audit of recall petition signatures that True the Vote helped launch.

It's no accident that the anti-Walker bloc submitted twice the amount of signatures needed to trigger a recall election. Such massive overcompensation is intentionally orchestrated to send a clear message of mob rule. If 1,000,000 signatures is what it takes to break the back of election processes and win by default - and it's looking that way right now - then America is in grave trouble.

Will you stand with True the Vote today to force the GAB to verify every single signature by making an immediate donation of $25, $50, $100, $250 or more? Your support will help us fight to make sure Verify the Recall's findings are considered by the Wisconsin government.

Political pundits on both sides of the aisle agree that a recall election against Governor Walker would be the most important non-presidential election of our generation. But the GAB isn't doing anything to ensure the integrity of the recall process! Simply spot checking abnormalities is not nearly enough for an election that will have ramifications in all 50 states and play a key role in deciding who wins the White House in November!

Verify the Recall volunteers have been entering all of the signature data information into a comprehensive digital dataset posted online, submitting each line to a thorough accuracy check to inspect for duplicates, omissions, ineligibilities, forgeries and fraud. This information MUST be considered! But True the Vote urgently needs your support to sustain it. That's why I'm asking you to make the most generous contribution you can afford right now.

Will you follow this link right now to make a contribution of $25, $50, $100, $250 or more to True the Vote?

We must do everything in our power to restore the integrity of our elections. Thank you in advance for your support.

Sincerely,

Catherine Engelbrecht
President and Founder, True the Vote

P.S. Thanks to our superior signature verification process, Verify the Recall volunteers have already discovered thousands of ineligible signatures in the current senate recall petitions. But now the GAB refuses to review information from outside groups. In fact, the GAB has announced that it will NOT review every single signature! We cannot allow this to happen. Will you make sure True the Vote has the resources to continue our Verify the Recall effort until every signature is accounted for? Please follow this link right away to make a contribution of $25, $50, $100, $250 or more. Thanks!    

RedState Morning Briefing

For February 9, 2012

1. House Conservatives Support Barack Obama's Latest Stimulus

Since February of 2009 when President Barack Obama began his aggressive push for stimulus into the American economy, he focused on one core area - infrastructure.

In fact, in his stimulus speech before Congress in 2009, his States of the Union in 2010, 2011, and 2012, and his Jobs Act speech of late 2011, the President repeated referred to spending government money to create jobs to fix America's infrastructure.

Congressman Jim Jordan (R-OH), leader of the Republican Study Committee, is confirmed to be leaning toward supporting the plan. His public pronouncements that he is leaning toward supporting the plan is leading House conservatives as a whole to support this new stimulus plan - a stimulus plan to create jobs fixing and expanding America's infrastructure.

The plan will most likely necessitate a federal bailout of the Highway Trust Fund, which is typically funded through the gas tax and is used to pay for highway projects. But Obama's new stimulus busts the cap on the trust fund and, like social security, gets into general fund money to pay for the spending binge.

With the House bill, as is typical of Barack Obama's legislation, spending will outpace income over the next five years by $69.6 billion. Moreso, as is also typical of President Obama's stimulus schemes, Washington would retain the bulk of control, even though the money would be going to state transportation projects. Federal strings and federal money will come with the legislation.

Oh, and if the House goes along with the Senate's version of this stimulus plan, Americans could see new taxes on their IRA's.

2. President Barack Obama: "The Dependency President"

Government dependency is on the rise according to a new Heritage Foundation study. Americans can thank President Barack Obama for a huge spike in the numbers of Americans dependent on government resources, but both parties can share in the blame. If the federal government does not make government smaller and less intrusive, then there may not be much private sector wealth creation for government bureaucrats to take to redistribute to dependent Americans.

American are relying on government handouts rather than hard work for many of the necessities of life. One in five Americans rely on the federal government for housing, health care, food, college tuition and retirement resources. The 10th year of The Heritage Foundation government dependency study, the 2012 Index of Dependence on Government, proves that members of both parties need to take a hard look in the mirror and figure out a way to slow, then end, the creeping expansion of the federal government into every aspect of our lives.

3. The State Department Staff at the Baghdad Embassy is Embarrassing Itself

A Tuesday New York Times article called "U.S. Planning to Slash Iraq Embassy Staff by as Much as Half" purported to describe the plight of U.S. State Department employees in Iraq, whose diplomatic efforts are being rebuffed by a host nation and government that has little use for them. According to the Times, the 16,000 employees (including 2,000 diplomats) at "the $750 million embassy building, the largest of its kind in the world, were billed as necessary to nurture a postwar Iraq on its shaky path to democracy and establish normal relations between two countries linked by blood and mutual suspicion. But the Americans have been frustrated by what they see as Iraqi obstructionism and are now largely confined to the embassy because of security concerns, unable to interact enough with ordinary Iraqis to justify the $6 billion annual price tag."

4. Is Syria Really "Different?"

While the recent increase of attention to the ongoing carnage in Syria is a welcome change from the Obama administration's collective state of denial over the past ten months, signals remain mixed, and our policy is unclear if not non-existent. This week alone, for example, we got the welcome news that the Pentagon is preparing military options on Syria for the President, but at the same time White House press secretary announced those options will not be exercised.

The waters have been further muddied by the President's insistence that there is no parity between the situation in Libya last year and what we face now in Syria. In Libya, the threat to civilians and opportunity to topple a vicious dictator were sufficient cause for Mr. Obama to engage the U.S. military, even without a pressing national security interest at stake. While it can be argued that once the U.S. engaged in Libya it might have been preferable to lead from the front to secure weapons stockpiles and guard against al Qaida encroachment, the fact remains that the world is a better place with Colonel Qaddafi gone, as Mr. Obama routinely reminds us.

5. Our Constitution is not Irrelevant, Justice Ginsburg

If you walk by the National Archives on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington D.C. you will most likely see a line of people waiting to get just a glimpse of our Declaration of Independence and Constitution. These two aged documents are browned with time and sealed under layers of a secure glass enclosure in the domed lobby of the Archives. But they still manage to impress their visitors. The inked words of the Constitution, many of them carefully penned by Gouverneur Morris over 200 years ago, are now barely visible. While some foreign visitors may struggle to make them out, we Americans know them by heart. "We the people in order to form a more perfect union..." the Constitution starts, and what follows is one of the most awe inspiring and heartfelt treatises to freedom in the history of man. After all, this one document founded the most successful country the world has ever known.

6. What the Heck is Wrong with Mitt Romney?

Sometimes - well, frankly, pretty often - Mitt Romney scares the crap out of me.

I'm already on record saying that I think he'd be a much better President than Newt Gingrich or Rick Santorum, and nothing that has happened in the last month has changed that. Both Gingrich and Santorum are completely devoid of either the temperament or experience to handle the job of chief executive of the massive Federal government, a point which Newt Gingrich in particular seems determined to reinforce every single day between now and Super Tuesday (at least). Additionally, both Gingrich and Santorum have been C- candidates (at best) in terms of building a national campaign organization and raising money, both of which are necessary to have any chance to get the job of President, if they want to prove that I'm wrong about their experience and temperament. I am as close to 100% certain as I can be that both would lose in a landslide to Obama.

The problem is that I'm coming close to reaching that same conclusion about Mitt Romney.

7. Michael Medved Wants A Different Conservative Base

What is it with Salem Radio's major hosts? Geez. You want to find out what the Romney campaign thinks, flip on Michael Medved or Hugh Hewitt or a number of the other Salem Radio hosts and you'll find a host fully in line with Mitt Romney and fully out of step with the bulk of the conservative movement.

In fact, it is striking to find Salem's radio hosts so in the tank for Romney when the top radio shows in the country from Rush Limbaugh to Sean Hannity to Glenn Beck to Mark Levin to Neal Boortz to Laura Ingraham have all either stayed on the sidelines or gone largely against Romney.

And if being out of step with the larger conservative movement on this issue weren't enough, Michael Medved has decided to trot out the newest pro-Romney talking point with some serious condescension. You see, it is not Mitt Romney. It is you hicks, rubes, and idiots that are to blame. "Dammit, why won't you like him??!!??" Medved comes close to asking.

Mitt Romney has not changed. You people have! This follows an earlier Michael Medved lament where he threw out every straw man he could at both Rush Limbaugh and me in the name of defending his Massachusetts Moderate.

Most interesting, in that earlier opinion piece Medved claimed the Republican Party had to abandon conservatism to win in 2012. This time around, Medved claims Romney actually is a conservative. It's just conservatives have become radically conservative. He seems to be shifting positions as often as Mitt Romney.

On his birthday (February 9), quote Thomas Paine, who foresaw 250 years ago just where the United States could go wrong:  

"Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one."  

Fellow patriots,

Remember when President Obama began his administration with a declaration that he was going to "reset" our relations with Russia, which had been damaged by George Bush's failed policies? (see http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29478806/ns/world_news-europe/t/obama-time-reset-relations-russia/ )

Well...what do we call this accusation from Russia, declaring the US to be a fascist state that Syria and the rest of the world must be defended against?  Either Obama supporters will have to admit (again...) that acrimony between Russia and the Bush Administration had much more to do with Russia's policies than Bush's, or they'll have to admit that Obama's policies have been at least as damaging to US - Russian relations as Bush's were.

Personally, I'm giving Obama the benefit of the doubt on this one, and will contend that Russia's belligerence vindicates the souring of relations while Bush was in office...just as North Korea's unprovoked and deadly attacks on South Korea, and Iran's threats to close off the Strait of Hormuz, have vindicated Bush's moniker for them as "the Axis of Evil."

Also, aren't you glad that we're not waging a war on terror anymore?...uhhh...so what do we call this war we're in????

I'm ready to call it either "The Global Islamist Jihad Against Everything Not Islamic Or Insufficiently Islamic Or Differently Islamic" or "The Islamist Jihad to Somaliaize the World."

One of the inconvenient truths of the disaster brewing in Syria that doesn't fit the mainstream narrative is that President Assad is actually right about the insurgents being Muslim Brotherhood/Salafi extremists (see http://www.mintpress.net/saudi-backed-insurgents-at-core-of-syrian-uprising/ ). 

As in Libya, which is in the process of being turned into an Islamist state, THERE ARE NO GOOD GUYS IN SYRIA'S POLITICAL TURMOIL.  We've also been down this road before in Iraq, where the Shiites who longed for our aid in ousting Saddam Hussein taught us that gratitude is the shortest-lived emotion on Earth, as they hovered on the verge of war against us from the moment Saddam was deposed.

To see the latest events in the growing Syrian bloodbath, check out the MSNBC article at bottom, where 47 people were killed in Homs.  However, in reading it, recognize that the article is written by a Muslim, and we can hardly expect a Muslim to report on the war in Syria objectively.  He is sure to either list the atrocities of Assad while being silent about the atrocities of the rebels or vice versa.  In this case, he's with the rebels, just as reporters were with the rebels in Egypt, Tunisia, and Libya.  While mulling that thought, think about where these countries are today -- drifting into the orbits of the Muslim Brotherhood, the Salafis, and/or al Qaeda.

Dave

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Chalk Up Another One For Islam in the PR Battle

by Diana West

Shalom ZOA Members, Friends and Supporters of Israel,

As you know, an anti-Israel "Boycott-Divest-Sanction" ["BDS"] event was held on the University of Pennsylvania's campus this past weekend.

This is a report to you of our participation in the Jewish community's response.

ZOA-GPD responded in multiple ways to this unjust attack on Israel, which was intended to turn students, faculty and others against the Jewish State and gain credibility for this hateful movement. Our responses included meeting with students; enhancing the Shabbat meals for students as we provided Israeli foods from our friends at Osem USA; and intensifying our leading role in the ongoing "Buy Israel" campaign, directly confronting the "BDS" attack in the marketplace.

We participated actively in the framing of the community's "Statement of Solidarity Condemning the National BDS Conference at the University of Pennsylvania," in which the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia, the Board of Rabbis of Greater Philadelphia, Jewish educational and charitable organizations, and grassroots groups including Z Street and ZOA-GPD were signatories. As the Jewish Exponent reminds us, ours is a "diverse" community, and we believe that we influenced the drafting of the document toward the principles and positions in which we believe. That so many distinct elements of our community (though not all) joined in signing this statement condemning "BDS" campaigns is encouraging, as is the invigorated pro-Israel activism of many Penn students, as well as the community at large.

A centerpiece of our community's response was an address Thursday evening to a packed auditorium, plus Internet streaming viewed by thousands, by Harvard Professor Alan Dershowitz. He strongly condemned the "BDS" campaign, but expanded his remarks to include U.S. domestic concerns and suggestions to Israel regarding the peace process. With due appreciation to the Professor for joining in our community's countering of the "BDS" campaign at Penn, ZOA-GPD disassociates itself and our members from the propriety and substance of these latter remarks.

Our struggle against the attacks by delegitimizers of the Jewish homeland of Israel, of which "BDS" campaigns are a significant part, of course continues unabated.

*      ZOA believes strongly in a secure, strong and successful Jewish state of Israel.
*       We believe that Jewish people have a right to live anywhere but particularly in our ancestral and legal homeland.
*       We believe that it is Arab intransigence and incitement that stands in the way of peace.
*       We believe that Israel has every right to do whatever is necessary to protect its citizens.
*       We believe that the safety of Israel and its continued existence should be a priority for each and every Diaspora Jew.
*       We believe that hate speech and intimidation have no place in an academic setting or anywhere else in civilized society.

Efforts to harm Israel are not limited to one weekend or one campus, and accordingly we call on you to remain active in supporting our many pro-Israel activities, and to encourage your family, friends and associates to join in our efforts. We value your involvement in ZOA-GPD.

Am Yisrael Chai,

Lee Bender               Howard Katzoff

Lee Bender                         Howard Katzoff

Co-Presidents

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Of Mosques and Men
Feb 08, 2012 10:53 am

Obama's Rhetorical Storm
Feb 08, 2012 10:45 am

NDAA Sections 1021 and 1022: Scary Potential
Feb 08, 2012 10:21 am

Ryan at CPAC 2012: Conservatives in 2012 Must Go Bold
Feb 07, 2012 07:32 pm

Major New Weapon in the Fight Against the UN
Feb 07, 2012 05:46 pm

A Syrian Scorecard for Hillary Clinton
Feb 07, 2012 05:35 pm

Dear Patriots,

     The Philadelphia Chapter of CAIR is vigorously fighting an anti-Sharia Law bill, and CAIR has won over the Philadelphia City Council members. I urge all our elected leaders to be aware of what CAIR is up to. CAIR has a huge footprint in Chester County.

Here is the email:

Message from Amara S. Chaudhry, Esq.
CAIR-Philadelphia Civil Right Director

Dear CAIR-PA Supporter,
    Right now, the Pennsylvania legislature is considering a bill which is part of a national effort to vilify, stigmatize, and demonize Islam and Muslims.

Fortunately, CAIR-Philadelphia is working to make sure that this bill never becomes law.

On its face, House Bill 2029, introduced by Rep. RoseMarie Swanger (R-Lebanon) and titled "American and Pennsylvania Laws for Pennsylvania Courts," is a bill which prohibits Pennsylvania courts from considering applying any "foreign law" which would limit an individual's constitutional rights.

Unfortunately, the plain language of this bill hides a much more sinister purpose - to demonize Islam and Muslims. HB 2029 is part of a larger "American Laws for American Courts" (ALAC) movement created by the American Public Policy Alliance (APPA) to guard against "the infiltration and incursion of foreign laws and foreign legal doctrines, especially Islamic Shariah Law."

ALAC bills have been introduced in over 23 states thus far.

Make no mistake: the ALAC movement purports to target "Shariah law" but, in actuality, the ALAC movement seeks to demonize Islam itself and all Muslims. The purported author of the model ALAC legislation has been reported to have previously called for a "war against Islam," has attempted to criminalize adherence to the Muslim faith, and to have advocated for a ban on all Muslim immigration.

CAIR-Philadelphia is working hard to ensure that HB 2029 never becomes law in Pennsylvania.

*CAIR-Philadelphia has prepared a Memorandum in Opposition to House Bill 2029, and we are mailing a hard copy of this memorandum to every member of the Pennsylvania House Judiciary Committee which is currently considering HB 2029.
*As a result of our media work, the bill has garnered significant negative media attention.
*We also worked with the Arab-American Community Development Corporation to prepare a resolution to be presented to Philadelphia City Council. The resolution, which condemns the bill, passed unanimously today.
*Mark your calendars for February 27th. CAIR-Philadelphia will be hosting a panel discussion and Q & A session at the Free Library of Philadelphia on Sharia. The event will be free, open to the public and broadcasted.

Finally, I need you, CAIR-PA Supporter, to become educated about HB 2029 and its threat to our religious freedom. I also need you to support CAIR-Philadelphia and our work by attending our 6th annual banquet. Please register soon, and I hope to see you there.

Together, we can win this fight.
Sincerely,
Amara S. Chaudhry
CAIR Philadelphia Civil Rights Director

The title of the CAIR email is: "One Victory in a Larger Battle: Philadelphia City Council Condemns Anti-Sharia Bill". As you can see CAIR considers what they do as a "large battle" meaning they are in for the long haul. The only way to stop them is to elect officials who will appoint judges who are fully aware that CAIR is a subversive group working to undermine the American way of life. They are working towards a larger goal of caliphate, where Islam and Sharia Law will dominate the world, including the US and the West. The fact remains - CAIR is an unindicted co-conspirator in the "Holy Land Foundation" trial held in Texas that convicted the "Holy Land Foundation" of funneling money to terror organizations around the world (Hamas, Hezballah). CAIR is the propaganda arm of the Jihadists.

Your fellow patriot and freedom fighter,

Rich

The 'Negro Project' and Voter ID 

It seems photo voter ID and Planned Parenthood have been in the news quite a bit lately. On Tuesday I gave a presentation at Duke University School of Law on voter ID. I discussed both topics. How are they related?

One of the favorite canards of voter ID opponents is that voter ID is an intentional scheme to harm black voters. The theory supposes since black voters tend to have photo identification less frequently, then state laws requiring voter ID are a deliberate plot to harm black voters.

Consider the nonsense of Virginia Senator Mamie Locke. After the Virginia Senate passed voter ID this week, she called it "so 1866," thinking she was describing a year where blacks couldn't vote and whites could. In fact, 1866 saw precisely the opposite. White confederates were disenfranchised and freedmen enjoyed the franchise. The reconstruction constitutions decades later stripped blacks of voting rights. But in 1866, all was relatively well. Locke's racially charged history is both unfortunate, and wrong.

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RICK SANTORUM'S CAUCUS TRIPLE WIN
It was not exactly "Super Tuesday" but Rick Santorum was thrilled with the results of the three caucus events held yesterday. Santorum snapped a four-state losing streak, and scored strong wins in the Colorado, Missouri, and Minnesota caucuses. Watch Rick's speech after the good news was announced HERE.

  SEE THE CHART THAT WORRIES INVESTORS
Do you know what all of those financial talking experts mean when they talk about the "VIX"? The VIX refers to the Volatility Index in the financial markets. It is also known as the "Fear Index." Take a look at the latest VIX chart and read the reasons why some investment gurus are very concerned HERE. 

FROM GBTV: EX-BORDER AGENT SOUNDS ALARMS

Last night's second hour on the Glenn Beck Program featured shocking details and alarming images from the chaos happening on our border with Mexico. See the latest updated information, including some of the photos and video shown on GBTV HERE.

  WATCH ROMNEY'S SECRET SERVICE DETAIL STOP A 'GLITTER BOMBER'
As the candidate was shaking hands with supporters at a Colorado campaign appearance last night, Mitt Romney's Secret Service agents spotted a suspiciouos man in the front row. They quickly moved Romney aside and also detained the man. Later the agents discovered that would-be perp was about to launch a glitter bomb. Watch the video HERE.

SEE THE SNIPER'S NEST AT THE SUPER BOWL
Increased security at the Super Bowl was one of the topics bouncing around the web last week. But, did you know that there was a sniper's nest inside the stadium? The photos in this story appear to be real. Check out the state-of-the-art weaponry that was on the scene to protect the NFL players and fans HERE.  

  VIRAL VID - CHRYSLER'S AD GETS SPOOFED
You knew this was bound to happen. It was just a matter of time before parodies of Chrysler's "Halftime In America" Super Bowl spot starring Clint Eastwood would start popping up. Rush Limbaugh released one yesterday and so did Reason Magazine. Check them both out HERE.

FROM GBTV: Real news from the blaze - 'legalize it?' That was the question  

Last night the panel got into a rather heated and passionate discussion about the legalization of drugs. There were opinions on all sides of this topic. Watch the segment HERE.

Tonight on Real News from The Blaze: From the people who brought us the infamous "Bridge To Nowhere" comes... more of the same. Tonight, Real News from The Blaze goes "pork-busting." Don't miss it! 7pm ET on GBTV

Chronicle · February 8, 2012

The Foundation

"[T]he present Constitution is the standard to which we are to cling. Under its banners, bona fide must we combat our political foes." --Alexander Hamilton

Editorial Exegesis

The greatest contract of Liberty in history

"A study to be published in June in the New York University Law Review finds that our Constitution 'appears to be losing its appeal as a model for constitutional drafters elsewhere.' 'Among the world's democracies,' writes David Law of Washington University in St. Louis and Mila Versteeg of the University of Virginia, 'constitutional similarity to the United States has clearly gone into free fall. Over the 1960s and 1970s, democratic constitutions as a whole became more similar to the U.S. Constitution, only to reverse course in the 1980s and 1990s.' The New York Times' coverage of this study finds 'lots of possible reasons' for the decline. 'The U.S. Constitution,' it says, 'is terse and old' and 'guarantees relatively few rights.' ... The Constitution doesn't seem to be of much use to Barack Obama, either. The president ... recently lamented that the Founders 'designed a system that makes it more difficult to bring about change than I would like sometimes.' ... A lack of respect for the Constitution isn't peculiar to Obama. It's shared among Democrats, in particular, even Democrat-appointed Supreme Court jurists. Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a Clinton appointee, said last week on Egyptian television that if she were drafting a constitution in the year 2012, she wouldn't look to ours. She reportedly recommended the South African Constitution, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms or the European Convention on Human Rights. ... We're not ashamed to declare the U.S. Constitution a magnificent document that, along with the Declaration of Independence, forms the greatest national charter in human history. No other document has ever guarded freedom the way it has, and no other contract has provided such a foundation for prosperity. It's not perfect, but it's as close to perfect as man has come." --Investor's Business Daily

How can the U.S. follow its own Constitution?

Upright

"Last night when discussing the trends in the three non-binding Republican contests, I tweeted that Rick Santorum's win in Missouri was only surprising in gaining a majority, but that a win in Minnesota would be surprising -- and a win in Colorado would be shocking. ... Santorum shocked the Republican race with a clean sweep of Tuesday's caucuses and primary, and may have pushed himself into serious consideration as the long-sought conservative consolidation alternative to Mitt Romney." --blogger Ed Morrissey

"Republicans are worried sick that the Democrats will be able to use all the nasty sound bites from the GOP debates in the general election. I'm not too concerned for a number of reasons, but the main one is that the GOP will merely have to produce ads in which we show Barack Obama saying, 'I'm pledging to cut the deficit in half by the end of my first term in office' and 'If I don't get the unemployment rate under 7%, I deserve to be a one-term president.' For good measure, I would produce another ad in which I showed Obama and jobs czar Jeffrey Immelt giggling as the president says, 'I guess shovel-ready jobs weren't quite as shovel-ready as we thought.' The viewer would be reminded that this came a long time after Obama, Pelosi and Reid, shoved through a trillion dollar stimulus that they promised would turn around the economy." --columnist Burt Prelutsky

"As in Chicago, Obama seems to live in a cocoon in which Republicans are largely absent, offscreen actors that no one pays any attention to. ... Two decisions in particular seem tilted toward rich liberals. One was the disapproval of the Keystone XL pipeline from Canada, even after it survived two environmental impact statements. ... The other astonishing decision was the decree requiring Catholic hospitals and charities' health insurance policies to include coverage for abortion and birth control. Here Obama was spitting in the eyes of millions of Americans and threatening the existence of charitable programs that help millions of people of all faiths. ... Who's on the other side? The designer-clad ladies Obama encounters at every fundraiser. They want to impose their views on abortion on everyone else." --political analyst Michael Barone

"The majority of the American people, but in particular those who identify themselves as conservative, are overwhelmingly aware of the true nature of the nation's problems and the crossroad the country is facing in 2012. The grassroots rebellion that is the Tea Party movement was the first manifestation of this awareness. Despite the success of the Tea Party working within the Republican Party in the 2010 mid-term elections, most of the Republican elites downplayed their success and fell in with the mainstream media and the Democrats in their well-worn and gratuitous aspersions against those in fly-over country." --columnist Steve McCann

Essential Liberty

"In the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson called the pursuit of happiness an unalienable right. This was a radical idea. For most of history, most people didn't think much about pursuing happiness. They were too busy just trying to survive. Then came the liberal revolution based on the idea of individual freedom. Only then did they start thinking that happiness might be possible on earth. Unfortunately, somewhere along the way, the right to pursue happiness has been perverted into a government-backed entitlement to happiness." --columnist John Stossel

Insight

"Cheap grace is the mortal enemy of our church. Our struggle today is for costly grace." --German pastor and member of the German resistance movement Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945)

"Scouting is nothing less than applied Christianity." --Sir Robert Baden-Powell, Founder of the Boy Scouts, on this day in 1910. (Click here to read more.)

The Demo-gogues

Qualifications: "I deserve a second term, but we're not done. When you and I sat down, we were losing 750,000 jobs a month ... now we're creating 250,000 jobs. We've made progress. The key now is to make sure we don't start turning in the wrong direction." --Barack Obama

Blaming the Constitution instead of following it: "What's frustrated people is that I've not been able to implement every aspect of what I said in 2008. Well, it turns out our Founders designed a system that makes it more difficult to bring about change than I would like sometimes. But what we have been able to do is move in the right direction. And you know what? One of the things about being president is you get better as time goes on." --Barack Obama

Prosperity, but... "I do think the vast majority of the American people understand ... we want everyone to be successful, and nobody begrudges people who have been successful because they're making things, creating new products and services, that's the American way -- but what people also want to see is that everybody is doing their fair share, that we're all pulling together, that we're creating ladders of opportunity for all Americans. Whoever the Republican nominee is, I fundamentally disagree with the formula that would go back to the same policies that got us into this mess in the first place." --Barack Obama

Dereliction of duty: "We do not need to bring a budget to the floor this year -- it's done, we don't need to do it." --Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV)

Race bait: "[T]he government doesn't have the racism and discrimination that the private sector enjoys." --Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY)

Broken record: "You'd think that if a congresswoman got shot in the head, that would have changed Congress' views [on guns]. I can tell you how to change it, just get Congress to come with me to the hospital when I've gotta somebody that their son or daughter, their spouse, their parent is not gonna come home ever again. ... I don't know who has to get killed for people to start saying, 'Wait a second, this is enough.'" --New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, shamelessly using Gabrielle Giffords to argue for more gun control

Dezinformatsia

Speaking truth to power: "In 2010, we averaged about a million jobs. Okay? A million jobs that were created. In 2011, it was 1.8 million jobs. Now, in 2012, we are average 200,000 jobs a month that are being created. So [Obama] can run on his record. The jobs are coming up. And he's done so much in the past four years I can't even tell you." --CNBC's Suze Orman

The government programs keeping them poor: "What programs for the poor? [Republicans] keep acting as if poor people have all of these things that are helping them." --MSNBC's Al Sharpton

The BIG Lie: "[B]arack Obama has not put anyone on food stamps." --The Huffington Post's Barbra Streisand

Distortions: "Will voters hold Republicans accountable for trying to kill the American auto industry?" --MSNBC's Ed Schultz (Not bailing them out doesn't equal "trying to kill" them.)

Revisionist history: "[George Washington] began the political tradition that produced a Union victory in the Civil War, the Federal Reserve Board, Social Security, Medicare, and most recently, Obamacare. He had no patience in his own time with a states' rights interpretation of the Constitution and would have found the conservative agenda of the modern Republican Party and its Tea Party allies a repudiation of all he stood for." --professor and historian Joseph J. Ellis in Time magazine

Newspulper Headlines:

Breaking News From Luke 18:11-12: "Obama Says His Religious Values Underpin His Policies" --Miami Herald

Answers to Questions Nobody Is Asking: "What We Need Is More Apathy in This Country" --PJMedia.com

The Lonely Lives of Scientists: "Scientists Coax Shy Microorganisms to Stand Out in a Crowd" --University of Washington press release

Bottom Story of the Day: "Obama Won't Come Close on Pledge to Halve Deficit, CBO Says" --USA Today

(Thanks to The Wall Street Journal's James Taranto)

Village Idiots

No wonder there's a problem: "You should certainly be aided by all the constitution-writing that has gone one since the end of World War II. I would not look to the U.S. Constitution, if I were drafting a constitution in the year 2012. ... Yes, why not take advantage of what there is elsewhere in the world?" --U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who doesn't bother looking to the U.S. Constitution either when ruling from the bench

Chutzpah: "It took me a month, or less than a month, [to say] that gun-walking was inappropriate. It came to my attention, [and it was a] fairly rapid response, to say don't do that." --Attorney General Eric Holder wanting credit for his "quick" response to ending gun-walking operations in Fast and Furious

Wrong values: "We're here because our families worked hard to make sure that we had the opportunities that everyone should have. Barack and I are both motivated by a desire to pay those blessings forward. Your president lives by the principle that to whom much is given, much is expected. ... We are blessed to have someone not just of his intellectual caliber but with such a strong grounding of values that all of us identify with -- these basic American values that have made our country great and will continue to make us the strongest country in the world." --Michelle Obama

Making children of adults: "And when our kids get older and they graduate from school, we all know how hard it is for them to find jobs, let alone jobs with insurance. And that's why, as part of health reform, kids can now stay on their parents' insurance until they're 26 years old. So will we take that insurance away from our kids?" --Michelle Obama

Short Cuts

"If you needed more proof of liberal media bias, just look at the orgasms created by Friday's announcement that unemployment in January dropped to 8.3 percent. By contrast, these same folks were practically suicidal as the jobless rate dropped to 5.6 percent when George W. Bush was President in January 2004." --Newsbusters' Noel Sheppard

"Last week the left was in an uproar when the Susan G. Komen Cancer Research Foundation indicated it may withhold funds from Planned Parenthood -- which proves once and for all that liberals support abortion more than cancer research." --NewsBusted's Jodi Miller

"It may be halftime in America, but China's got the ball and we're down by $15 trillion!" --comedian Jay Leno

"Kodak had to ask that its name be taken off the Hollywood theater that hosts Oscar night due to Kodak's bankruptcy. There's a lesson here for the Democrats. After twelve years of being associated with the biggest names in Hollywood, Kodak has lost everything." --comedian Argus Hamilton

"Obama says he's getting better at being president and deserves a second term. Well, for the first claim, maybe he is getting better. He had the advantage of starting so poorly, it was hard for him to do any worse. As for the second part, it's more a question of whether we as a country deserve him. And since we haven't genocided anyone recently, I'm going to say 'No.'" --humorist Frank J. Fleming

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

Is Obama Really In Good Shape For Re-election? Or Is The Media Lying Again?

Feb 08, 2012 02:05 pm

Tweet Gallup Polling is caught between what its thousands of interviews say about Barack Obama's reelection chances and what it longs for the facts to be. They do their best to hide the truth with suspiciously timed releases and obfuscating language. Nevertheless, embedded in its latest report on voter attitudes, Gallup's delivers  more bad news for [...]

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"Live Free Or Die: This Is New Hampshire, No (Voting) ID Required"

Feb 08, 2012 01:55 pm

Tweet Conservative filmmaker James O'Keefe and his colleagues at Project Veritas have done it again.  Their new bombshell video shows election workers in New Hampshire giving out ballots in the names of dead voters at multiple voting precincts during the state's recent primary election. Although James and his colleagues repeatedly asked if they needed to [...]

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Obama "Healthcare" Mandate: What Would Reagan Say?

Feb 08, 2012 01:49 pm

Tweet Editor's note: A version of this article first appeared at CatholicVote.org. February 6 was the anniversary of Ronald Reagan's birth. It comes at an appropriate time. February is also the month of Presidents Day and the birthday of Lincoln, the other Republican standard-bearer. Every Republican presidential candidate tries to claim the mantle of Reagan: "I believe as [...]

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Obama's SuperPAC Flip-Flop

Feb 08, 2012 01:44 pm

Obama and his team are hypocrites. They claim to want clean elections and that Super PAC's are the spawn of the rich evil elites that want to rule America. That must be why they are starting one. Obama has only one goal, the accumulation of power. He truly practices the ends justify the means.

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Dependency Index Surges 23% Under President Obama

Feb 08, 2012 01:39 pm

Tweet The American public's dependence on the federal government shot up 23% in just two years under President Obama, with 67 million now relying on some federal program, according to a newly released study by the Heritage Foundation. The conservative think tank's annual Index of Dependence on Government tracks money spent on housing, health, welfare, [...]

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"Tea Party" Pols Sell Out The Tea Party

Feb 08, 2012 01:36 pm

Tweet In March of 2011, former Rep. John Leboutiller predicted in a News Max article that, "the tea party will select the 2012 GOP nominee." At the time, it was a safe prediction given the strength of the tea-party movement in the 2010 elections and the influence it was expected to have on the GOP [...]

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State-Controlled Mainstream Media?

Feb 08, 2012 01:31 pm

Tweet Conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh blithely calls the mainstream media "state-controlled," as if the White House Press Corps, AP, UPI, ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, etc. were some giant Soviet Politburo directed by Obama. Of course we all experienced the slanted coverage in the 90s of the Bill Clinton fiasco, with accusations from [...]

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LOL: Rush Spoofs Eastwood Halftime Ad

Feb 08, 2012 01:30 pm

I laughed and laughed when I heard this spoof of Clint Eastwood's Halftime Ad aired by Rush Limbaugh. Rush is a national treasure.

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EPA & Hollywood Use Lorax To Brainwash Kids On Green Energy And Anti-Capitalism

Feb 08, 2012 01:29 pm

Tweet This odd little character speaks for the trees and hates industrialized civilization. He's going to be teaching your kids to hate capitalism. Universal Studios is releasing "Dr. Seuss' The Lorax" on March 2 to theaters throughout the U.S. Partnering with Universal is the EPA, which is using Lorax to teach children how to be [...]

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Obama Crushed In Missouri Presidential Preference Vote

Feb 08, 2012 01:20 pm

Wednesday, February 8, 2012

To: Friends & Supporters

From: Gary L. Bauer


COUNTDOWN TO VICTORY: 272 DAYS TO THE 2012 ELECTIONS


Santorum Shocks Romney/GOP Establishment

When the dust settled in Missouri, Minnesota and Colorado last night, the conservative grass roots had once again shocked the professional political class by making Senator Rick Santorum the winner in all three races. I was gratified by the results, of course, since I was one of the first leaders to endorse his then "long-shot" candidacy. It is considerably less of a long-shot this morning! I have been inundated with press calls today asking essentially "What happened?" and "What does it mean?" Here is my take.

1. Santorum is doing better than expected because he is right on all three major themes of conservatism -- economic, foreign policy and values. He wants smaller government and lower taxes. He believes America must have a strong national defense and be engaged in the world. He also knows our nation's decline is not just economic in nature, but also moral. Thus, he is not ashamed to make the case for the sanctity of life, normal marriage and freedom of religion.

2. Governor Mitt Romney has a huge problem with the GOP base. A significant portion of that base has been willing to go with anyone -- Bachmann, Perry, Cain or Newt -- to express their discontent about the candidate that the vast majority of GOP insiders desperately wants to see nominated. Each of those alternatives had flaws that undermined their staying power. It is now Rick Santorum's time, and I believe he has a good chance to be more resilient and go all the way.

3. The "electability" card has been dealt a serious blow. GOP insiders always equate electability with candidates who are seen as moderates and for whom values issues are not a high priority. But if that were true, we would be discussing the Dole and McCain presidencies -- neither of which happened, and Ronald Reagan would have lost. But it was Reagan, the strong conservative, who prevailed, while the squishy moderates were squashed by the Democrats and their media allies.

Mitt Romney, and Newt Gingrich will be there. Sarah Palin is delivering the keynote address this year. Here's how the Occupy DC website describes this conference:

"...this event is another gathering of bigots, media mouthpieces, corrupt politicians, and their 1 percent elite puppet masters. CPAC will parade and attempt to perpetuate the radical right wing's imperialist ideologies with keynote speakers, movies and banquets dedicated to pursuing its racist, sexist, patriarchal and exploitative agenda.

"Spectacles will include imperialist topics such as 'From Fidel to Chavez: How Do We Stop the Resurgence of Socialism in Latin America?', 'Is the Arab Spring Good or Bad for America?' and frequent bloviation on 'American exceptionalism.' Openly racist discourses will be given on 'The Failure of Multiculturalism...'"

Bigots. Corrupt. Imperialist. Racist. Sexist. Exploitative. That is what the left thinks about you! And yet the media blames us for the breakdown in public discourse. And did you catch the disdain for the idea of American exceptionalism? The left doesn't believe that America is or was ever a "shining city upon a hill." It thinks we are the evil empire.

I hope the CPAC organizers, hotel staff and Washington, D.C., police are prepared for these thugs. Late last year, hundreds of occupiers stormed a conservative event at the Washington convention center. They disrupted traffic, assaulted elderly women and used their own children as human shields. These radicals are violent. They have no respect for the rule of law or their fellow citizens.


Iran Preparing A Second Holocaust

More than 70 years ago, the world made a tragic mistake and tens of millions died as a result. World leaders at the time largely ignored the growing scourge of anti-Semitism and naively assumed they could negotiate with a madman. Desperate for peace in their time, they traded a country for a meaningless "scrap of paper" and got a world war and the Holocaust instead of peace. Today, as Barack Obama attempts to negotiate with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Islamic Republic is promising a second Holocaust.

In a speech broadcast last week on state-run TV, Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei referred to Israel as a "cancerous tumor that should be cut and will be cut." Khamenei also bragged about Iran's support for Hezbollah and promised to support "any nation or any group [that] confronts the Zionist regime... We have no fear expressing this."

At the same time Khamenei was delivering his anti-Semitic diatribe, an article was published by Alireza Forghani, the former governor of Iran's Kish Province, outlining the religious justifications as well as practicality of annihilating Israel. It could have been easily dismissed except for the fact that it was widely distributed by news agencies close to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, which is controlled by Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei. In other words, the content calling for genocide likely has the ayatollah's seal of approval.

And just as disturbing is the level of detail in the article. Consider this excerpt:

"Residents of Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, and H[a]ifa can be targeted even by Shah[a]b 3 [missiles]. Population density in these three adjacent areas composes about 60% of [the total] Israeli population. Sejjil missiles can target power plants, sewage treatment facilities, energy resources, [and] transportation and [communication] infrastructures; and in the second stage, Shahab 3, Ghadr, and Ashura missiles can target urban settlements until [the] final annihilation of Israel['s] people."

While the West dithers, Iran is preparing for war and brainwashing its people to accept genocide, just as Hitler did in the 1930s. And never forget that the ultimate goal of the radical Islamists is not the annihilation of Israel, but the destruction of the "Great Satan" -- America.
 

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Media insisting Obama is in good reelection shape, but Gallup and Rasmussen say otherwise

Feb 08, 2012 05:13 am | Coach Collins

 By Kevin "Coach" Collins

 Gallup Polling Company is caught between what its thousands of interviews say about Barack Obama's reelection chances and what it longs for the facts to be.

They do their best to hide the truth with suspiciously timed releases and obfuscating language. Nevertheless, embedded in its latest report on voter attitudes, Gallup's delivers  more bad news for Obama. Try as it did to put a happy face on the dangerously low level of "satisfaction" in the electorate,  Gallup can't do much with a 22% rate. Bill Clinton, George W Bush and Ronald Reagan all had more than 41% rates on their way to reelection, but George H.W. Bush was at 22% in 1992 when he lost to Clinton.    

Voters' sentiment on the economy shows more weakness for Obama with 56% saying it is getting worse while just 38% see it getting better. This -25 in Gallup's Economic Confidence Index compares too favorably to ... Continue Reading:Media insisting Obama is in good reelection shape, but Gallup and Rasmussen say otherwise

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American Minute Feb. 7

Feb 07, 2012 04:13 pm | Coach Collins

By Bill Federer, staff writer

Frederick Baily was born FEBRUARY 7, 1817. Though against the law for a slave, he learned to read. At age 20, he escaped to Massachusetts and changed his name to Frederick Douglass to hide from slave catchers. He began debating, developing oratory skills and exposing the injustices of slavery. William Lloyd Garrison hired him to sell subscriptions to the Liberator Newspaper. Frederick Douglass published his best-selling autobiography, but with his identity now known, to avoid slave-catchers he fled to England. He was enthusiastically received and met with reformer Daniel O'Connell. English friends raised money to buy his freedom and he returned to New York, founding the North Star newspaper. Writing for abolition and women's suffrage, his motto was "Right is of no sex-Truth is of no color-God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren." An advisor to President Lincoln, Frederick Douglass told the story of his conversion: "I loved ... Continue Reading:American Minute Feb. 7

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John Boehner to halt Fast and Furious investigation, sell out to Eric Holder and White House

Feb 07, 2012 01:13 pm | Coach Collins

by Doug Book,  staff writer

Yesterday, Coach is Right published facts concerning an avenue which honest and courageous congressional Republicans might follow in their efforts to bring to justice those responsible for the criminal misadventure of Operation Fast and Furious and its subsequent cover-up.  The following represents current news of a vastly different approach.

Congressman John Boehner, the House Speaker better known for displays of weeping than of courage, is reportedly cutting a deal with Eric Holder which would provide a "mutually satisfactory" outcome in Barack Obama's criminal, gun running endeavor Operation Fast and Furious.

Months ago, Boehner prevented Darrell Issa filing a charge of perjury against Holder even after documents proved the Attorney General's May 4th House testimony concerning the date of his first "acquaintance" with Fast and Furious to be an outright lie.  And now the weepy Speaker will OFFICIALLY let the most corrupt Department of Justice head in the nation's history off ... Continue Reading:John Boehner to halt Fast and Furious investigation, sell out to Eric Holder and White House

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Halftime for Obama

"Halftime in America" is a punchier version of Wag the Dog's reelection slogan, "Don't Change Horses in Midstream". They might have tried, "The Best is Yet to Come", but Bloomberg already took that one.

 

It's one of those wonderful side benefits of socialism that the gap between corporate advertising and a campaign commercial blurs. What's good for GM is good for America and what's good for Chrysler is good for Obama. We may not have the pipeline, but we're still pipelining taxpayer money to a few precious union jobs with car companies that look a lot like the UK's car companies did in the seventies.

You can't really blame Chrysler for trying to preserve its Motor City brand, even if it's with a commercial that wasn't actually filmed in Detroit. It's much easier to put together some inspiring scenes of a Detroit recovery if you shoot it in Los Angeles, a place that has its problems, but which is much more likely to have cheerful couples waking up in apartments that seem to be entirely made of glass.

The Motor City brand is one of those things that doesn't mean a whole lot anymore, but still stirs up sentimentality, like the immigrant experience or freedom of speech. That Detroit is as real today as the Chicago depicted in Sandburg's poem which served as the hog butcher, tool maker and wheat stacker to the world. Today Sandburg might have called it a food stamp scanner, scammer and welfare taker instead.

American industry is a ghost of that former vigor, its hog butchering, tool making and wheat stacking done in by the progressive vision of a post-industrial society. Today it's Shanghai that might qualify for a Sandburg poem and it's also the only place to find that kind of aggressive industrial growth, but Halftime in Shanghai doesn't sound the same even if Shanghaiing American industry is the name of the game.

Chevy, another government bailout recipient, eschewed the phony clip show patriotism and cut right to showing that their truck could survive an apocalypse. Unlike Halftime in America, that ad could have been filmed in Detroit, which has major apocalypse potential. If you have to choose between trying to convince Americans that Motor City is back or convincing them that the end of the world is near but that the right truck can help them make it out alive, go with the second one.

But Chrysler needs the Motor City brand, because it doesn't exist anymore. After a brief two year period of being an American company again after its sale by Daimler-Benz, it is now owned by Fiat, which is as All-American as its CEO, Sergio Marchionne, who does not sound very much like Clint Eastwood. It needs that image of American industry, even if it's an Italian company still employing some American workers and an American brand.

Everyone needs their myths, even if it's the myth of a booming Motor City created in Los Angeles, starring a California movie star by a company headquartered in Turin, Italy. It beats the tawdry reality of Detroit. It's not as if anyone confuses myths with reality, or commercials with substance.
 

Romney Agonistes, Part 3: The Upside of Low Expectations 

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 02:53 PM PST

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What price Ayers? The finale 

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 09:19 AM PST

(Scott Johnson)

In "What price Ayers?" we reported on the Illinois Humanities Council's remarkable online fundraising auction item: dinner for six with Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, the unrepentant terrorists and at least onetime friends of Barack Obama. In search of funds, the IHC made the item available for immediate purchase for $2,500; at the time we noted it the item had attracted one bid of $350.  

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Liberals and Their Dragons: Voegeli's Got My Back 

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 08:49 AM PST

(Steven Hayward)

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The once and future non-Romney 

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 05:29 AM PST

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Today's Headlines:  Wednesday, February 08, 2012

'We Felt It Coming,' Santorum Says After Triple Win

Come-From-Behind Santorum Wins All Three: 'Whole New Playing Field'

At Press Club, HHS Secretary Dodges Press--And Questions About Conrtraception Mandate

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Occupy D.C. to Protest 'Dastardly Politicians' at Conservative Gathering in Washington

Bernanke: 'A Long Way to Go' Before Full Jobs Recovery

Bernanke Points to 'Increased Possibility of a Sudden Fiscal Crisis'

Inspired by Michelle Obama, Walmart Introduces 'Healthier' Food Logo, Plans to Track 'Behavior Shift'

One in Five Planned Parenthood Affiliates Face Financial Controversy, Report Says

Ninth Circuit Ruling Nullifying Prop 8 is a Narrow 'Attack on Marriage,' Attorneys Say'

Hypocrisy? Obama Embraces 'Super PAC' After Condemning Them

Rep. Paul Ryan: There Were 'Seeds' of Romneycare in Obamacare

Pa. Vending Machine Dispenses 'Morning-After' Pill

Obama-Erdogan Partnership Comes Amid Rising Concern Over Turkish Policies

COMMENTARY:

Did Mass. Constitution Authorize Romney to Mandate Health Insurance?
By Terence P. Jeffrey
The idea that government - at any level - can force a person to buy something against his will is not only a bad idea, it is repugnant to the foundational idea of our republic: that we all have a God-given right to liberty.

The Secular Media vs. Religious Liberty
By L. Brent Bozell III
The Obama administration is waging war on Christianity. Somehow, the networks haven't seen this as newsworthy.

Super PAC-Men: Obama Bundlers Gone Wild!
By Michelle Malkin
Super PACs and campaigns are barred from coordinating with each other. Nevertheless, President Obama's campaign manager Jim Messina said that "senior campaign officials as well as some White House and Cabinet officials will attend and speak at Priorities USA fundraising events." Of course, they "won't be soliciting contributions." Wink-wink, nudge-nudge.

Sub-Tuesday Surprise
By Rich Galen
The story line on Romney since the beginning of this cycle has been the GOP base is not just looking for an alternative, but is on a Indiana Jones-like quest for someone else.

NEWSPAPER ROUNDUP:

The U.S. Constitution

A Reader 

Hillsdale College is a private, coeducational, residential, liberal arts college with approximately 1,400 students. Founded in 1844, the College remains, in the words of its Articles of Association, "grateful to God for the inestimable blessings resulting from the presence of civil and religious liberty and intelligent piety" in our nation, and dedicated to "the diffusion of sound learning" that is "essential to the perpetuity of these blessings."

Hillsdale College is distinguished by its rigorous core curriculum, by its principled rejection of federal and state taxpayer funding, and by the pledge of its Board of Trustees to resists any attempts by the government to regulate its internal affairs.

Hillsdale College promotes the principles of liberty nationwide through its national speech digest, Imprimis, which has a monthly circulation of over 2 million, and through several outreach programs. In 2008, Hillsdale launched its Allan P. Kirby, Jr. Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship in Washington, D.C. The College will also launch the Hillsdale Graduate School of Statesmanship in fall 2012.

What's a Warrior Dash 

Mercury One is having a fundraiser...but not just any kind of fundraiser, they're raising money for Restoring Love by having a few (un)lucky Mercury employees race in something called a Warrior Dash. How did Stu find himself participating in this fundraiser from hell? Why is Glenn promoting an email address called PunishThem@glennbeck.com? Get all the details and watch Glenn and Pat react to Stu's claim that Warrior Dash "won't be that hard."

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