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 Here They Come...

Well, boys and girls, today the fox is guarding the hen house. The wolves will be herding the sheep!

Obama appointed two devout Muslims to homeland security posts.

Obama and Janet Napolitano appointed Arif Alikhan, a devout Muslim, as Assistant Secretary for Policy Development. DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano swore-in Kareem Shora, a devout Muslim, who was born in Damascus, Syria, as ADC National Executive Director as a member of the Homeland Security Advisory Council (HSAC).

NOTE: Has anyone ever heard a new government official being identified as a 'devout Catholic," a "devout Jew" or a "devout Protestant"...?
Just wondering.

Devout Muslims being appointed to critical Homeland Security positions? Doesn't this make you feel safer already?? That should make our homeland much safer, huh!?    Wasn't it "devout Muslim men" who flew planes into U.S. buildings 10 years ago? Wasn't it a "devout Muslim man" who killed 13 at Fort Hood ?

Please forward this important information to any who cares about the future of our Country.

VIDEO and PETITION: I Stand With Rush

As the organized left mobilizes to silence once of the most effective conservative voices of our generation, we are providing an opportunity for patriotic Americans to stand with Rush Limbaugh who has fought so hard for our first principles and commonsense conservatism!

SIGN HERE - CLICK HERE

Two Important Conferences in PA

  The PA Coalition will be sponsoring two (2) important conferences coming up in March:
  American Majority Activist Training - On March 10th, the PA Coalition will be co-sponsoring Activist Training at the Double Tree Hilton Pittsburgh from 10:00 to 4:00 PM. Included will be breakout sessions concerning:

• Effective Organizations
• Precinct Power
• Social Capitalists
• Beginner's Guide to Facebook and Twitter
• Blogging and Websites

To learn more and to register go to American Majority Pittsburgh Training.
  PA Leadership Conference (PLC) - On Friday and Saturday, March 23rd and 24th, the Commonwealth's largest gathering of conservative leaders and activists occurs in Harrisburg. The Friday Keynote Speaker is Fox News' Senior Political Analyst Britt Hume. Other notable speakers include Senator Pat Toomey, Herman Cain and Grover Nordquist.

The PA Coalition is once again well represented with several members on the speaking docket including our Director of Health Care Reform, Dr. Nick Pandelidis who will speak concerning aspects of the proposed PA Health Care Exchange and PA Coalition President Greg Wrightstone will be moderating the Energy Panel titled "Marcellus - How Shale we Proceed?"
  Please stop by the PA Coalition's table at PLC to receive a free piece of Marcellus Shale and pick up literature on the PA Health Care Exchange. We are proud to be able to sponsor noted film-maker Ann McElhinney whose newest film "FrackNation" is to be release in June. This film will confront and expose the anti-Marcellus zealots and neo-Luddites who oppose responsible development Pennsylvania's Marcellus Shale. Go to PLC to register or learn more.

Additionally, in a recent email, we regretfully omitted listing a free market candidate who is running against Union Lackey Mark Mustio: 

Sue Means

The Committee to Elect Sue Means

3485 South Park Road

Bethel Park, PA 15102

www.ElectSueMeans.com

Dear Fellow Conservative,

We hope you can join us for a very exciting activist training event with Erick Erickson of Redstate, American Majority, Heritage Action, Veterans and Patriots United and several other Pennsylvania grassroots organizations coming to Pittsburgh on Saturday, March 10, 2012.

This event, entitled Campaign 2012: Ready, Set, Win!, will offer fellow conservatives all the latest tools to maximize success at the grassroots level and make certain that our shared goal of limiting government and restoring individual liberty is achieved this year at all levels of government.

The special guest speaker at lunch will be Erick Erickson, founder and managing Editor of Redstate.com as well as a political analyst and contributor on CNN. This event is being hosted by Veterans and Patriots United, American Majority and Heritage Action, and is co-sponsored by the Pennsylvania Coalition for Responsible Government, Pittsburgh Tea Party, Washington County 9.12, Fayette Patriots, We the People (Greene County), and the South Hills 9.12 Group.

Registration for this event is only $20.00 which covers all of the training sessions, lunch and training materials. The entire event will run from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm, with lunch served at 12 noon. Perhaps best of all, this event will offer fellow conservatives from all over Pennsylvania the opportunity to come together and plot the course for success in 2012 and beyond.

Training topics include but are not limited to: Get-Out-the-Vote (GOTV), Effective Organizations, Precinct Power, How the Left does Community Organizing, Blogs and Websites, and Beginners Guide to Facebook and Twitter. A list of the full schedule for the day is available here.

Please do not miss this special event-register online or by calling us at (540) 338-1251. Space is limited so please register today! 

Sincerely, 

Ned Ryun
President
American Majority

Constitution 101:
The Meaning and History of the Constitution

Available to you, your family, your friends,
and all Americans.

Weeks One & Two Now Available - Sign Up TODAY!

Dr. Larry P. Arnn

Over the years, many friends of Hillsdale, those who never attended college here, have said to me: "Dr. Arnn, I wish I could take Hillsdale's Constitution course!"

In response to these requests, this past year, for the first time ever, Hillsdale College offered the "Introduction to the Constitution" lecture series at no charge. Frankly, I wasn't sure what sort of a response a course like this would have.

That's why I was excited to see that YOU and almost 200,000 other people from all over the United States registered for "Introduction to the Constitution."

Thank you very much for registering and participating. I hope you learned a lot from the series.

I was thrilled, not only by the response, but at what it indicates: Americans are willing and eager learn about the Constitution and to defend the principles of liberty that made America so prosperous!

And this re-awakening of national interest in the Constitution comes not a minute too soon.

Now, for the first time ever, Hillsdale College is offering a no-cost 10-week online Constitution course based on the class Hillsdale College students must complete for graduation:

"Constitution 101: The Meaning and History of the Constitution"

This course on the U.S. Constitution is available online at no charge to anyone who wants to understand and defend the timeless principles of liberty upon which our nation was founded!

I am proud to be teaching part of our NEW "Constitution 101" course and hope YOU will be one of my students again!

"Constitution 101" begins on February 20, 2012, and concludes the week of April 30. It will cover such topics as the Declaration of Independence and its connection to the Constitution, how the Constitution is structured to protect individual liberty and ensure good government, the crisis of constitutional government faced by Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War, and modern challenges to the Constitution during the "Progressive" era.

It is my honor to teach the first class, "The American Mind," and the final class, "The Recovery of the Constitution." All of the classes will be taught by Hillsdale College professors - the top teachers in their field and the same ones who instruct our students here on Hillsdale's campus.

The U.S. Constitution

A Reader 

Editorial Note: Just received a couple of copies of the reader.   Not just a short course pamphlet this; with the heft of 'Atlas Shrugged', it is well worth getting whether or not you choose to take the course. 

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.

PTPP of Central MOntco Monthly Meeting
Thursday March 8, 2012
The Rock Cafe, 857 Main Street, Harleysville 7-9 PM

Speaker - David Baldinger
Topic Property Tax Independence Act

House Bill 1776, The Property Tax Independence Act, will be introduced shortly in the Pennsylvania house and Senate.
This bill is designed to accomplish the following:

• Eliminate school property and local school nuisance taxes across the Commonwealth and replace those taxes with funding from a single state source.
• Introduce a modernized school funding method that is based on 21st century economic realities.
• ABOLISH the school property tax as well as eliminate the local school earned income tax and nuisance taxes such as the per capita and privilege-to-work taxes imposed by school districts.
• Utilize in great measure our current sales tax mechanism to fund schools, restoring the original intent of the tax.
• Shift school funding to a predictable and stable funding source that is tied to economic growth. This is in clear contrast to the school property tax which is not based on economic growth and is subject to much variation.
• Address the problem of current school spending regularly exceeding tax revenue head-on by limiting school budget increases to the rate of inflation.

At Stake: Your Liberty and Your Healthcare!

West Chester Tea Party March Meeting

When: March 13, 7 p.m.

Where: West Goshen Township Building

 1025 Paoli Pike, West Chester, PA 19380-4600

What effect would the President's healthcare exchanges have if implemented in Pennsylvania, could they be implemented here, and what is going on in Harrisburg?

Katy Abram, Pennsylvania Director of Legislative Policy for Americans for Prosperity, will be the keynote speaker at our March 13 meeting, outlining what Pennsylvanians can expect and answering your questions. Don't miss this presentation that AFP will be taking statewide.

And, don't forget: AFP is planning the massive Hands Off My Healthcare rally in Washington, D.C. on March 27th "to send a message that the American people are opposed to federal government intrusion on their private health care decisions"--and you can easily take part. How?

Christians United For Israel invites you to a  IRANIUM Movie Screening in the Bethel, PA area.

 
Sunday, March 18, 2012 - 6:00 PM     

Tri-County Worship Center
1501 Schubert Road
Bethel, PA 19507 

Event info & RSVP

Movie Screening:  IRANIUM 

Movie information

EVENT IS FREE - SEATING IS LIMITED - RSVP IS REQUESTED

  Presented  by  Christians United For Israel

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 March 23rd, 2012, marks an important and unfortunate anniversary. It will have been exactly two years since President Obama forced his unpopular health care takeover onto the American people. Americans for Prosperity has educated the public about the dangers of government interference in the health care market for the past several years, and now the Supreme Court is set to hear arguments and make a ruling on that very issue. As you are most likely aware, the U.S. Supreme Court will be considering the constitutionality of several elements of the President's health care bill. This may be our best chance to overturn this offense against our health care freedoms. That's why Americans for Prosperity will be hosting a Hands Off My Health Care rally for free-market grassroots activists from across the country at the Supreme Court on March 27th. Details can be found below.

Dear Group:

Please join us and Americans for Prosperity - Pennsylvania as we ride to DC to tell the Supreme Court to STOP THE OBAMA HEALTHCARE TAKEOVER!

Join us on the bus March 27th!  We have buses leaving from ALL OVER PA!  Click here to find your stop and sign up!

 Will you join me, Americans for Prosperity-Pennsylvania and your fellow Patriots to make sure our side is heard too?  Click here to sign up for the bus!

Please sign up here for our March 27th Rally to DC.   Here are a list of locations we are leaving from:

CENTRAL

BERKS

LEBANON

LANCASTER

YORK

HARRISBURG

CAMP HILL 

GETTYSBURG

ALLENTOWN

WEST

BUTLER

ALLEGHENY

MONROEVILLE

FAYETTE

SOMERSET

EAST

SCRANTON

LEHIGHTON

MEDIA

KING OF PRUSSIA

QUAKERTOWN

DOYLESTOWN

LANGHORNE

Don't forget to click here and sign up today (seating is limited)!

SIgned....group leader.

In Liberty,

Jennifer Stefano
Pennsylvania State Director
Americans for Prosperity (AFP) and
Americans for Prosperity Foundation (AFPF)
P.O. Box 843
Washington Crossing, PA 18977

Visit Sam's website at www.rohrerforsenate.org

Help Principled Candidates Win

Campaign Training Seminar

March 16-17, 2012 ~ Harrisburg, PA

Voters today - perhaps more than at any time in recent history - are yearning for principled candidates committed to standing strong for the timeless values upon which our country was founded and standing stronger against the politics-as-usual establishment working to undermine those values.

The Winning Campaigns Training Seminar shows principled candidates, campaign staff, and grassroots activists how to run winning campaigns without compromising their values - with a special emphasis placed on running and winning primaries. You'll learn:

•   Secrets campaign pros use to develop winning strategies.
•   How to raise all the money you need to win even if you've never raised money before.
•   Keys to persuading voters in-person, through the mail, over the phone, and online.

Who should attend?
Current & future candidates, campaign staff and consultants, campaign volunteers, grassroots citizen activists.

What's the cost?
Nothing, it's free, but you must register in advance. A group of donors concerned about the political leadership in our state have generously underwritten the cost of the seminar.

Dear Patriots,

I would encourage you to go and meet Sam. Please listen very closely to what and why he thinks like he does. I know he is a moral man.

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2012 Primary Debate Schedule

Shalom ZOA Members, Friends and Supporters of Israel,

UPCOMING EVENTS:

On March 19 is a special evening with activist extraordinaire Pamela Geller. Plus, we have special discount tickets of Aish's annual Israel Event. Contact our Office at 215-338-9188 for ticket information.

Nullify Now! Philadelphia

LISTEN LIVE TO REPATRIOT RADIO

"BETTER THAN EVER"

(all times are eastern)

Wednesday 3-4pm "Patriots Watch" - Billy Baer and Dan Haggerty

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

RedState Morning Briefing

For March 7, 2012

1. The Nominee

Many political analysts compare 2012?s Republican Presidential cycle to the Democrats' go of it in 2008. Barack Obama deployed a delegate strategy while Hillary Clinton went for big state wins. It worked to Barack Obama's favor. This year, it works for Romney.

Both took a while and had some ups and downs, but ultimately Barack Obama prevailed. After Ohio came in tonight, it is clear Mitt Romney will be the Republican nominee if Newt Gingrich stays in the race. Gingrich is now only serving as a spoiler to Santorum.

2. Super Tuesday: Romney and Santorum Limp Along, Tea Party Claims First Scalp

Romney wins OH, VA, MA, VT, and ID; Gingrich wins GA; Santorum wins OK, TN, and ND. Alaska is still pending.

According to exit polls, 50% of Massachusetts voters feel that Romneycare went too far.

3. Silencing the Right

Last week, Rush Limbaugh suggested Sandra Fluke was a slut. The left immediately began calling for boycotts of his advertisers. He apologized on Saturday. Fluke refused to accept his apology claiming he did it under duress and the pressure has kept up.

It is organized and it has nothing to do with Limbaugh referring to Sandra Fluke as the same thing Ed Schultz referred to Laura Ingraham as. It has to do with a well executed PR strategy to frame a debate on mandating Americans subsidize the sexual habits of women as a war on women by the GOP. The media, which leans left already on social issues, would much rather focus on Rush Limbaugh than on the left's PR strategy and Sandra Fluke's own testimony.

What is happening here is an organized campaign by the left to shut down opposing views from the right. Much of this has to do with the right's overall success in the past several decades. As more Americans consider themselves pro-life, even California constitutionally banned gay marriage, and most Americans agree with the right on mandates and global warming, the left has resorted to a new tactic - dialing up the outrage to shut up the right.

Many on the left and right, myself included, have said things we should not have said. The difference is that the left seizes on the statements made by the right as excuses to demand they never be heard from again and are unqualified to speak on any topic. They harass advertisers. They harass networks. They harass the conservative who said what it was as well. Any unforced error is seized to shut down the right in a way that does not apply to the left. If at first they are not successful, they will work to compound the story, manufacture outrage, and seize on statements and twist words to build a case against the conservative in question that they should be shut up and turned off.

Rarely do people on the right operate in the same aggressive way against the left.

4. Yet Another Obama Administration Aviation Security Failure

Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano has failed us again. Her hostility to allowing pilots to be armed against terrorists is going to make our nation less safe. On Monday, Napolitano's vision for a "risk based" security system failed to keep a box cutter off a commercial aircraft in Houston.

Heritage Hotsheet

Experts on the Day's Hottest News

Items for March 7, 2012

Voters Said the Economy Was Their Main Issue   

The New York Times

Obama mulls giving Moscow data on missile defense   

Reuters

World powers agree to reopen talks with Iran   

The Washington Post

Obama cuts refinance costs for some mortgages   

USA Today

Conservative movies:
Red Dawn (1984)  

The Russians invade (or, if it's the rumored upcoming remake, the Chinese), and the U.S. president-a sonorous-voiced, African American lawyer who cut his teeth in the Chicago political machine-knows exactly what to do: surrender, negotiate, and be pleasantly surprised by how much room there is for partnership with the wonderful, enlightened new regime. No, not really. John Milius's film was made in the Reagan era, and it shows. America fights back. To the bitter end. If cute Jennifer Grey has to rig herself up to a booby-trapped grenade so she takes at least one of the Red sons-of-bitches with her, such is the price of liberty. God bless America. Better dead than red.  

State Defense Forces: Modern Day Minutemen   

by Sondra Clark  

During the revolutionary war, volunteer soldiers known as Minutemen played a vital role the founding of the United States.

Today, volunteer state militias still play an active role in defense and security with more than 14,000 individuals volunteering for these forces in 22 states.

Read More . . . 

Heritage's Matt Adkins Helps Staff the Conservative Movement

Matt Adkins

Heritage Foundation President Ed Feulner often says that "people are policy."

Heritage's Matt Adkins agrees, adding: "You can have the greatest policies in the world but without the right people you won't be able to get anything done."

For three years, Adkins has overseen the Job Bank, a program Heritage has run since 1980 to help highly-qualified conservatives find employment in key positions. Adkins coordinates placements on Capitol Hill, in public policy organizations and in certain private sector organizations. (Read more about the Job Bank on myHeritage.)

Thousands of resumes have crossed Adkins' desk over the last three years, and he has met personally with more than 500 candidates. He says he especially values the ability to help people early in their careers and watching them flourish.

Heritage Work of Note

• As the Obama administration reels from the backlash against the anti-conscience mandate packaged inside Obamacare, Vice President Joe Biden told a crowd last week at the University of Iowa that the Administration has a "new" version of the mandate that respects religion. Unfortunately, that version is neither "new" nor respectful of religious liberty. To set the record straight, The Heritage Foundation's Sarah Torre and Brandon Stewart have put together a point-counterpoint response to the Vice President's remarks. Watch the video on myHeritage.
• President Obama's budget includes $2 trillion in tax hikes over the next decade, more than $400 billion more than previously reported, according to a new Heritage Foundation analysis. In addition to allowing the 2001 and 2003 Bush tax cuts to expire, raising taxes on job creators and taxing the energy industry, there are $128 billion in new taxes that the media and White House neglected to report on, according to Heritage tax expert Curtis Dubay. That brings the total increase to $1.689 trillion over ten years. Heritage's Brownfield explains how the tax increases were hidden on myHeritage. 
• The conservative movement lost two titans last week: media titan Andrew Breitbart and intellectual James Q. Wilson. Breitbart, who passed away Thursday, "took on the entrenched powers of liberalism in this country, whether they were in the media, academia, unions or elsewhere, with a zest that was infectious," Heritage President Ed Feulner writes. Read more memories from Heritage staff on The Foundry. Wilson "had a major influence on the modernization of policing in our nation and was also one of the most profound writers on moral philosophy," remembers Heritage legal scholar Ed Meese. Feulner agrees: "He was a political philosopher with a deep understanding of the forces that have made America a unique democracy."

In Other News

• Today is Super Tuesday. Republican voters head to the polls in Alaska, Georgia, Idaho, Massachusetts, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Vermont and Virginia. At stake are more than 274 unpledged GOP delegates.  
• The U.S. District Court in Maryland found the state's gun registration law unconstitutional. Maryland residents are currently required to show a "good and substantial reason" to maintain a gun permit.  
• The Occupy Movement is back and they are planning protests all across the country, including  setting up camp at the Democratic National Convention.

March 6, 2012

The 'Jewish' President

Don't believe Obama when he says he has Israel's back.

By BRET STEPHENS

Should Israelis and pro-Israel Americans take President Obama at his word when he says-as he did at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee policy conference in Washington, D.C., on Sunday-"I have Israel's back"?

No.

Here is a president who fought tooth-and-nail against the very sanctions on Iran for which he now seeks to reap political credit. He inherited from the Bush administration the security assistance to Israel he now advertises as proof of his "unprecedented" commitment to the Jewish state. His defense secretary has repeatedly cast doubt on the efficacy of a U.S. military option against Iran even as the president insists it remains "on the table." His top national security advisers keep warning Israel not to attack Iran even as he claims not to "presume to tell [Israeli leaders] what is best for them."  

Oh, and his secretary of state answers a question from a Tunisian student about U.S. politicians courting the "Zionist lobbies" by saying that "a lot of things are said in political campaigns that should not bear a lot of attention." It seems it didn't occur to her to challenge the premise of the question.

Still, if you're looking for evidence of Mr. Obama's disingenuousness when it comes to Israel, it's worth referring to what his supporters say about him.

Consider Peter Beinart, the one-time Iraq War advocate who has reinvented himself as a liberal scourge of present-day Israel and mainstream Zionism. Mr. Beinart has a book coming out next month called "The Crisis of Zionism." Chapter five, on "The Jewish President," fully justifies the cover price.

Mr. Beinart's case is that Mr. Obama came to his views about Israel not so much from people like his friend Rashid Khalidi or his pastor Jeremiah Wright. Instead, says Mr. Beinart, Mr. Obama got his education about Israel from a coterie of far-left Chicago Jews who "bred in Obama a specific, and subversive, vision of American Jewish identity and of the Jewish state."  

At the center of this coterie, Mr. Beinart explains, was a Chicago rabbi named Arnold Jacob Wolf. In 1969, Wolf staged a synagogue protest in favor of Black Panther Bobby Seale. In the early 1970s, he founded an organization that met with Yasser Arafat's Palestine Liberation Organization-this being some 20 years before Arafat officially renounced terrorism. In the early 1990s, Wolf denounced the construction of the Holocaust Museum in Washington.

And, in 1996, the rabbi "was one of [Mr. Obama's] earliest and most prominent supporters" when he ran for the Illinois state Senate. Wolf later described Mr. Obama's views on Israel as "on the line of Peace Now"-an organization with a long history of blaming Israel for the Arab-Israeli conflict.  

Mr. Obama had other Jewish mentors, too, according to Mr. Beinart. One was Bettylu Saltzman, whose father, developer Philip Klutznick, had joined Wolf in "his break with the Israeli government in the 1970s." Ms. Saltzman, writes Mr. Beinart, "still seethes with hostility toward the mainstream Jewish groups" and later became active in left-wing Jewish political groups like J Street. Among other things, it was she who "organized the rally against the Iraq War where Obama proclaimed his opposition to an American invasion."  

Ms. Saltzman also introduced Mr. Obama to David Axelrod, himself a longtime donor to a group called the New Israel Fund. For a flavor of the NIF's world view, a WikiLeaks cable from 2010 noted that an NIF associate director told U.S. embassy officials in Tel Aviv that "the disappearance of a Jewish state would not be the tragedy that Israelis fear since it would become more democratic."

Other things that we learn about Mr. Obama's intellectual pedigree from Mr. Beinart: As a student at Columbia, he honed his interests in colonialism by studying with the late pro-Palestinian agit-Prof. Edward Said. In 2004, Mr. Obama "criticized the barrier built to separate Israel and its major settlements from the rest of the West Bank"-the "barrier" meaning the security fence that all-but eliminated the wave of suicide bombings that took 1,000 lives in Israel.  

We also learn that, according to one of Mr. Beinart's sources, longtime diplomat Dennis Ross was brought aboard the Obama campaign as part of what Mr. Beinart calls "Obama's inoculation strategy" to mollify Jewish voters apprehensive about the sincerity of his commitments to Israel. Not surprisingly, Mr. Ross was a marginal figure in the administration before leaving last year.

In Mr. Beinart's telling, all this is evidence that Mr. Obama is in tune with the authentic views of the American Jewish community when it comes to Israel, but that he's out of step with Jewish organizational leadership. Maybe. Still, one wonders why organizations more in tune with those "real" views rarely seem to find much of a base.  

But the important question here isn't about American-Jewish attitudes toward Israel. It's about the president's honesty. Is he being truthful when he represents himself as a mainstream friend of Israel-or is he just holding his tongue and biding his time? On the evidence of Mr. Beinart's sympathetic book, Mr. Obama's speech at Aipac was one long exercise in political cynicism.

Write to bstephens@wsj.com

A version of this article appeared Mar. 6, 2012, on page A17 in some U.S. editions of The Wall Street Journal, with the headline: The 'Jewish' President.

Why Israel Has Doubts About Obama

Even Democrats have publicly questioned U.S. statements and policies toward America's most important Mideast ally.

By DAN SENOR

'I try not to pat myself too much on the back," President Barack Obama immodestly told a group of Jewish donors last October, "but this administration has done more in terms of the security of the state of Israel than any previous administration."  

Mr. Obama struck a similar tone at the annual policy conference of the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee (Aipac) in Washington Sunday, assuring the group that "I have Israel's back." And it's little wonder why. Monday he meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu amid growing concern that a military strike will be necessary to end Iran's nuclear weapons program. He also knows that he lost a portion of the Jewish vote when he publicly pressured Israel to commence negotiations with the Palestinians based on the 1967 borders with land swaps. With the election nine months away, he's scrambling to win back Jewish voters and donors.

It is true that there has been increased U.S. funding for Israeli defense programs, the bulk of which comes from Mr. Obama maintaining a 10-year commitment made by President George W. Bush to Israel's government in 2007.  

But a key element of Israel's security is deterrence. That deterrence rests on many parts, including the perception among its adversaries that Israel will defend itself, and that if Israel must take action America will stand by Israel. Now consider how Israel's adversaries must view this deterrence capability in recent months:

October 2011: Speaking to reporters traveling with him to Israel, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta raised provocative questions about Israel. "Is it enough to maintain a military edge if you're isolating yourself in the diplomatic arena?"  

This characterization of self-created isolation surprised Israeli officials. After all, for almost three years President Obama had pressured Israel to make unilateral concessions in the peace process. And his administration had publicly confronted Israel's leaders, making unprecedented demands for a complete settlement freeze-which Israel met in 2010.

The president's stern lectures to Israel's leaders were delivered repeatedly and very publicly at the United Nations, in Egypt and Turkey, all while he did not make a single visit to Israel to express solidarity. Thus, having helped foment an image of Israeli obstinacy, the Obama administration was now using this image of isolation against Israel's government. Mr. Panetta's criticism was promptly endorsed by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a harsh critic of Israel, who said Mr. Panetta was "correct in his assumptions." Indeed, almost every time the Obama administration has scolded Israel, the charges have been repeated by Turkish officials.  

November 2011: In advance of meeting with Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak, Mr. Panetta publicly previewed his message. He would warn Mr. Barak against a military strike on Iran's nuclear program: "There are going to be economic consequences . . . that could impact not just on our economy but the world economy." Even if the administration felt compelled to deliver this message privately, why undercut the perception of U.S.-Israel unity on the military option?

That same month, an open microphone caught part of a private conversation between Mr. Obama and French President Nicolas Sarkozy. Mr. Sarkozy said of Israel's premier, "I can't stand Netanyahu. He's a liar." Rather than defend Israel's back, Mr. Obama piled on: "You're tired of him; what about me? I have to deal with him every day."

December 2011: Again undercutting the credibility of the Israeli military option, Mr. Panetta used a high-profile speech to challenge the idea that an Israeli strike could eliminate or substantially delay Iran's nuclear program, and he warned that "the United States would obviously be blamed."  

Mr. Panetta also addressed the Israeli-Palestinian peace process by lecturing Israel to "just get to the damn table." This, despite the fact that Israel had been actively pursuing direct negotiations with the Palestinians, only to watch the Palestinian president abandon talks and unilaterally pursue statehood at the U.N. The Obama team thought the problem was with Israel?

January 2012: In an interview, Mr. Obama referred to Prime Minister Erdogan as one of the five world leaders with whom he has developed "bonds of trust." According to Mr. Obama, these bonds have "allowed us to execute effective diplomacy." The Turkish government had earlier sanctioned a six-ship flotilla to penetrate Israel's naval blockade of Hamas-controlled Gaza. Mr. Erdogan had said that Israel's defensive response was "cause for war."

February 2012: At a conference in Tunis, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was asked about Mr. Obama pandering to "Zionist lobbies." She acknowledged that it was "a fair question" and went on to explain that during an election season "there are comments made that certainly don't reflect our foreign policy."

In an interview last week with the Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg, Mr. Obama dismissed domestic critics of his Israel policy as "a set of political actors who want to see if they can drive a wedge . . . between Barack Obama and the Jewish American vote." But what's glaring is how many of these criticisms have been leveled by Democrats.  

Last December, New Jersey Sen. Robert Menendez lambasted administration officials at a Foreign Relations Committee hearing. He had proposed sanctions on Iran's central bank and the administration was hurling a range of objections. "Published reports say we have about a year," said Mr. Menendez. "So I find it pretty outrageous that when the clock is ticking . . . you come here and say what you say."

Also last year, a number of leading Democrats, including Sen. Harry Reid and Rep. Steny Hoyer, felt compelled to speak out in response to Mr. Obama's proposal for Israel to return to its indefensible pre-1967 borders. Rep. Eliot Engel told CNN that "for the president to emphasize that . . . was a very big mistake."

In April 2010, 38 Democratic senators signed a critical letter to Secretary Clinton following the administration's public (and private) dressing down of the Israeli government.

Sen. Charles Schumer used even stronger language in 2010 when he responded to "something I have never heard before," from the Obama State Department, "which is, the relationship of Israel and the United States depends on the pace of the negotiations. That is terrible. That is a dagger."

Sen. Joe Lieberman, a Democrat-turned-independent, said of Mr. Obama last year, "I think he's handled the relationship with Israel in a way that has encouraged Israel's enemies, and really unsettled the Israelis."

Election-year politics may bring some short-term improvements in the U.S. relationship with Israel. But there's concern that a re-elected President Obama, with no more votes or donors to court, would be even more aggressive in his one-sided approach toward Israel.  

If Mr. Obama wants a pat on the back, he should make it clear that he will do everything in his power to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapons capability, and that he will stand by Israel if it must act. He came one step closer to that stance on Sunday when he told Aipac, "Iran's leaders should have no doubt about the resolve of the United States, just as they should not doubt Israel's sovereign right to make its own decisions about what is required to meet its security needs." Let's hope this is the beginning of a policy change and not just election year rhetoric.

Mr. Senor, co-author with Saul Singer of "Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle" (Twelve, 2011), served as a senior adviser to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq in 2003-04, and is currently an adviser to the presidential campaign of Mitt Romney.

A version of this article appeared Mar. 5, 2012, on page A15 in some U.S. editions of The Wall Street Journal, with the headline: Why Israel Has Doubts About Obama.

March 6, 2012 

113 days and counting    

While it may seem like it's way off in the future, the opening day of our 2012 National Conference and Legislative Briefing is only 113 days away.

This year's event, June 27 - 29, includes the best of our past events, such as the congressional briefing and congressional awards luncheon, with some new, exciting wrinkles. For more details on the agenda, click here.

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The View from a Broken Bridge

Between the modern and the post-modern worlds, peace negotiations took on the fevered air of senseless enthusiasm that was once the sole preserve of wars. Once upon a time it was treasonous to oppose wars, now it is virtually mandatory to do so. Today it is treasonous to oppose peace processes, no matter how ill-founded, how senseless and how pointless they might be. The treason is no longer toward a country, but toward an ideal.

 

What ideal is it that the peace process represents? The ideal that we are all basically alike, that we might speak different languages, wave different flags and have differently shaped borders, but that we are all basically alike. We all want peace and wars only happen when our jingoistic leaders mislead us into a conflict. Peace happens when ordinary people of goodwill under the leadership of a few enlightened peacemongers get together and realize how much they have in common and that any disputes they have can be settled over some coffee or tea.

No mythical ideal propounded by the postmoderns is quite as dully stupid and thoroughly delusional as this one. It is progressive in its insistence that we are all alike because we are human and that being the same means that there is no reason for conflict. Its irrational insistence that war is irrational perfectly captures the false reason of progressive paradigms which treat their own philosophical constructs as more real than reality.

We do not stand at the end of history, but we are witness to the end of the West, which remains as deeply in love with the peace process, as the members of the League of Nations, shortly before their pacifism destroyed Europe and plunged the world into the most destructive war in human history which left the winners locked in a struggle that nearly culminated in the end of life on earth.

No pacifist who ever shook his fist at the bomb ever considered the simple fact that the bomb and the Cold War would likely never have even been necessary had the much despised European imperialists done their duty after the previous world war and kept the peace with fleets and armies, rather than with empty speechifying about a new age.

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Today is Super Tuesday, and voters in ten states will head to the polls to make their choice for the GOP presidential nominee. More than 400 convention delegates will be awarded, amounting to more than all previous contests combined.

Despite pledging on Sunday that he stands with Israel, President Obama yesterday again aired his differences with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and urged him not to turn to military strikes against Iran.

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President Obama is holding a press conference today -- his first since October -- and Heritage has proposed ten questions that he should be asked. Find out what they are on The Foundry. 

March 06, 2012        WARNING: SPOOKY DUDE IN GYM SHORTS
You might think that a multi-billionaire like George "Spooky Dude" Sorors would have a gym in his home. Perhaps he does. But he also is a member of a very swanky gym in Midtown Manhattan. See where the 81-yr-old really rich guy reportedly works out twice a week HERE. (Content warning: Soros really does appear in shorts.)

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Of course it's a publicity stunt, but the "invisible car" from Mercedes- Benz is also really cool. And it is invisible in more than one way. Find out exactly what we mean and "see" the video of the luxury carmaker's  invisible car HERE.         

VIRAL VID - BLACK ICE SENDS CARS FLYING   
Blaze editors just love a good car crash video. (Of course, we're talking about car crashes where nobody gets hurt.) The mild winter of 2011-12 seemed to deprive us of this kind of entertainment... until today! Please enjoy both the video and crunching sounds from this collection of car crashes recorded in Columbus, Ohio HERE.

REAL NEWS FROM THE BLAZE: Analysis of THE ELECTIONS IN RUSSIA AND IRAN  
Should you pay attention to elections that happen halfway around the world? The Real News panel believes what happens in Russia and Iran is very important to Americans. Watch the discussion from last night HERE.

SUPERSIZED SUPER TUESDAY ELECTION COVERAGE: Ten states and 437 delegates are up for grabs in today's Super Tuesday Primaries and Caucuses. Join the live, online chat at 7pm, with Blaze editors. And you can watch the extended election coverage on a special two-hour edition of Real News from The Blaze starting at 7pm, followed by the Super Tuesday Post-Game Report with Glenn, Pat, and Stu - Tonight on GBTV.

Another reason to not deal with AARP 

See who side AARP is on for voter ID in Pa   

Your ability to VOTE could be jeopardized!

 AARP believes voter participation in the electoral process should be encouraged, not discouraged.

 Call 1-800-515-8134 Today

 Tell your State Senator to vote NO on House Bill 934.

House Bill 934 mandates voters produce photo identification issued by the federal or state government, a university or a long-term care facility before casting a ballot.

This would add a needless layer of bureaucracy!

• Requiring IDs disenfranchises elderly, economically disadvantaged, and diverse populations.

• Nearly one in five citizens over 65 lacks a current, government-issued photo ID.

• Voter ID laws are expensive. With budget shortfalls already cutting numerous programs, Pennsylvania can't afford this legislation.

PA Voter ID Bill Creates Unnecessary Barriers to the Electoral Process!

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Tell your State Senator to vote NO on House Bill 934.

Maybe WE should call this number and tell our State Senator to vote YES on behalf of AARP!!  

Yes, call today, Call your state senator and tell him or her to vote Yes on House Bill 934

Yes,  voter fraud should be discouraged

Shame on the AARP. How do seniors cash Social Security checks w/o a photo ID. Every fraudulent vote does disenfranchise a legitimate vote. The AARP is nothing than an arm of the Democratic party.

They supported cutting $500B from Medicare via ObamaCare. In My opinion, being a senior myself: They are despicable frauds.

If you want use, the AARP 800 # to get to your State Senator  via their 800 number, ignore their BS message, and tell your Senator to VOTE YES for Bill 934

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	NewCommon Sense Applying First Principles to the Issues of Today

Most politicians and political commentators insist this year's election rests on economic concerns, not "social values" (contraception, abortion, gay marriage, and the like). But in America's free market system, economics and values are in fact closely joined. Not only is capitalism the most successful system for generating wealth, it does so in large part by reinforcing virtues that make individuals good and societies strong: self-reliance, initiative, personal responsibility, productivity, honesty. This connection between economics and moral virtues must not be neglected.

The eminent political scientist James Q. Wilson, who died this past week, recognized that restoring faith in the fundamental morality of capitalism is essential to today's economic debate. Capitalism would survive or fail not on its material successes, but on its moral justification.

There was no dispute, Wilson wrote in "Capitalism and Morality," that capitalism produced "greater material abundance for more people than any other economic system ever invented." Furthermore, democratic governments flourish only in conjunction with capitalist societies.

Despite these achievements, the image of capitalism has long suffered from focus on its failings. Critics of capitalism see it as promoting mostly avarice and selfishness, rationalized on the grounds of material gains. One personification is the fictional character in Oliver Stone's movie Wall Street, Gordon Gekko, who believes that however unsavory the means might be, capitalism's unrivaled success in producing wealth justifies them. "Greed," as Gekko put it, "is good. Greed is right. Greed works." From this view, capitalism is at best amoral and at worst corrupting.

Wilson translated this attitude among capitalism's intellectual and academic critics as follows: "To liberals, the failure of capitalism lies in its production of unjustifiable inequalities of wealth and its reckless destruction of the natural environment. Capitalism may produce material abundance, the argument goes, but at too high a price in human suffering and social injustice."

Many thinkers have defended the morality of capitalism, of course. As Wilson himself wrote, "the intellectual founder of capitalism, Adam Smith, was first and foremost a moral philosopher." He noted that Smith's 1759 The Theory of Moral Sentiments established the foundation for all his work, including The Wealth of Nations, 17 years later. Another example is Michael Novak, whose 1982 The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism explores in depth the philosophical underpinnings of capitalism, even arguing that in cultivating the world's resources, humans could be seen as "co-creators with God, bringing forth the potentialities the Creator has hidden."

But Wilson brought his own unique and clarifying voice to the debate. While not denying capitalism's inequities and temptations, Wilson sought to answer the charge by reiterating the system's moral virtues:

All economic systems rest on greed, but capitalism, because it depends on profit, is the one that disciplines greed. In the process of imposing that discipline, capitalism contributes to self-discipline. It encourages civility, trust, self-command, and cosmopolitanism by first making these traits useful and then making them habitual.

Capitalism also requires trust, he wrote: "In any economic system, buying and selling occurs, but voluntary buying and selling on a large scale among strangers requires confidence in fair dealing that cannot depend on one party having much detailed knowledge about the other."

Wilson's arguments are especially critical now, with confidence in American capitalism uncertain in some quarters, and a public becoming increasingly dependent on government and demanding politicians do more to manage the economy. Today, American capitalism will thrive or fail not solely on its material gains, but through a reawakening to the moral virtues inextricably linked to it.

 

It's Time To Reform Pennsylvania's Prevailing Wage Law
Outdated Prevailing Wage Law Costs Taxpayers $2 Billion Each Year!

Pennsylvania's Prevailing Wage Law is costing taxpayers a fortune.

What is prevailing wage?

This decades-old regulation requires that workers on any taxpayer-funded construction or infrastructure improvement project that costs more than $25,000 be paid a state-determined wage rate that is often 30 percent to 75 percent higher than the market average for a given region.

The impact of these unnecessarily and artificially inflated costs puts even more stress on the already cash-strapped budgets of local governments and school districts, and on the taxpayers who support them.

How much stress exactly? Research indicates that prevailing wage laws increase the cost of construction projects by an average of 5 percent to 30 percent.

That means that each year, prevailing wage mandates cost Pennsylvanians an extra $2 billion - up to $900 a year for a family of four.

And because prevailing wage projects are so artificially expensive, many local governments just simply put off needed and routine repair work.

The state's Prevailing Wage Law is clearly in need of reform and updating.

Citizens to Protect PA Jobs supports one commonsense bill that seeks to address the prevailing wage problem. House Bill 1329 would increase the threshold for triggering the prevailing wage rate requirement from the 1961 figure of $25,000 to $185,000, a more realistic amount that reflects inflation and today's economy.

This reform is common sense. And it will end up removing a huge burden from local government and school district budgets, all while saving Pennsylvania taxpayers millions of dollars. Watch for more information soon on how you can take action to help us pass this pro-taxpayer reform bill.

Sincerely,

Citizens to Protect PA Jobs

Tuesday, March 6, 2012

To: Friends & Supporters

From: Gary L. Bauer


COUNTDOWN TO VICTORY: 245 DAYS TO THE 2012 ELECTIONS


Super Tuesday

Republicans in 10 states are going to the polls today to cast votes for their favorite GOP candidates. More than 430 delegates are at stake tonight in Alaska, Georgia, Idaho, Massachusetts, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Vermont and Virginia. Several polls show very tight races in key states, such as Ohio, where Senator Santorum and Governor Romney are running neck and neck.

If you are a registered voter in one of these states, please make your voice heard. VOTE!


Don't Give Up!

Whatever the outcome tonight, my friends, I want to remind every conservative that our fight doesn't end at the Republican National Convention. That is when the battle begins in earnest! Unfortunately, there is too much handwringing going on far too early.

As much as I respect George Will, I couldn't disagree more with his latest column arguing that we should give up on the presidential contest and focus solely on the House and Senate. Let me quote Winston Churchill: "Never give in -- never, never, never, never."

Of course I want to make sure we hold the House and take back the Senate. But let's be honest: If Obama wins on Election Night, it stands to reason that he will have carried swing states like Florida, Ohio and Virginia. These states also have key Senate races. And Obama voters are likely to support Democrat candidates down the ballot. Our best hope of posting big gains in the congressional races is to make sure Obama loses because we turn out more of our voters!

If you need a reminder of why we must win and why all the talk about taking a pass on 2012 is wrong, read Rich Lowry's outstanding column in today's New York Post outlining the stakes this November.


Obama Should Reject Maher's Million

In yesterday's report, I told you that conservatives need to take the fight to Obama and make the Democrats defend their radical positions. Sandra Fluke is a perfect example. As I noted, Obama called her to offer his support after Rush Limbaugh mocked her as a "slut" and "prostitute." But one of Obama's biggest cheerleaders, who is also one of the largest donors to his super PAC, has called women far worse things.

Kudos to Democrat Kirsten Powers. After Rush Limbaugh's apology, Powers published an op-ed calling on the left to hold their own talking heads accountable for their numerous "misogynistic outbursts." Powers specifically singled out Bill Maher. Consider this excerpt:

"Chris Matthews, Keith Olbermann, Bill Maher, Matt Taibbi, and Ed Schultz have been waging it for years with their misogynist outbursts. ...But the grand pooh-bah of media misogyny is without a doubt Bill Maher -- who also happens to be a favorite of liberals -- who has given $1 million to President Obama's super PAC."

I will not quote more of Powers' column rehashing Maher's vulgar references. You can read it here. But be warned: the language is obscene.

Will Obama order his super PAC to return Maher's million-dollar donation? Will the media do their job and report Maher's outbursts and support for Obama? Don't hold your breath.

By the way, we're also learning more about Sandra Fluke. It should have Democrats thinking twice before embracing this "reproductive rights activist."

Our friends at the Media Research Center note that Fluke wants far more than just contraception covered by government mandate. She also wants "gender reassignment surgeries," or sex changes, covered too!

Does Obama support that as well? Like so much of the left's radical agenda, this may sound absurd now, but it is fast becoming a key demand of the militant homosexual rights movement.


Obama Undercuts Israel Again

Barack Obama held a press conference this afternoon and undercut virtually everything he said at his AIPAC speech yesterday. He repeated his call for diplomacy and discouraged talk about military options.

In 2009 Obama said, "Time is running out." More than two years later, nothing has happened. For all his alleged brilliance, he doesn't seem to understand that the Iranians are trying to run out the clock.

They have no interest in diplomacy. In fact, a U.N. IAEA delegation just returned from Tehran and reported that the talks failed! The only thing that the Islamic regime understands is the credible threat of force. Unfortunately, they have concluded that Obama is weak and unwilling to act.

Here is the key point to keep in mind: Israel is operating on a tighter deadline. Its ability to strike Iran's nuclear weapons program is far different than ours. If an Israeli strike is to be successful, it will need to happen sooner rather than later. If that window of opportunity passes, then only the United States could complete the mission.

Obama is saying to Netanyahu, "Trust me. I've got your back." That may be too much to ask given Obama's treatment of Netanyahu, his demand that Israel shrink back to its 1967 borders and his repeated condemnations of new homes for Jews in Jerusalem.


Cardinal Dolan: "We Won't Run"

One of the reasons I remain hopeful about 2012 is the strong stand Catholic leaders are taking in defense of religious liberty. Friday Cardinal Timothy Dolan, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, issued another strongly-worded letter to all Catholic bishops making it clear that the church will not compromise its core values and reiterating that this fight is about religious freedom. Consider these excerpts:

"Since January 20, when the final, restrictive HHS Rule was first announced, we have become certain of two things: religious freedom is under attack, and we will not cease our struggle to protect it. ...We have made it clear in no uncertain terms to the government that we are not at peace with its invasive attempt to curtail the religious freedom we cherish as Catholics and Americans. We did not ask for this fight, but we will not run from it. ...

"We are grateful to know so many of our fellow Americans, especially our friends in the ecumenical and interreligious dialogue, stand together in this important moment in our country. They know that this is not just about sterilization, abortifacients, and chemical contraception. It's about religious freedom, the sacred right of any Church to define its own teaching and ministry. ...

"Brothers, we know so very well that religious freedom is our heritage, our legacy and our firm belief, both as loyal Catholics and Americans. There have been many threats to religious freedom over the decades and years, but these often came from without. This one sadly comes from within. As our ancestors did with previous threats, we will tirelessly defend the timeless and enduring truth of religious freedom."

Chevy Pulls The Plug On The Volt

Barack Obama recently proposed increasing the subsidy for electric cars by 25%, to $10,000, in order to help "Government Motors" sell the Chevy Volt. Evidently, even that generous incentive is failing to entice more people to buy them.

The Washington Examiner reported last week that GM had hoped to sell 45,000 Volts this year. But they sold just over 1,600 in January and February. At that pace, they will sell fewer than 10,000 of the electric/gas cars. CNN reports that the $40,000 starting price turned off potential buyers, especially when similarly sized vehicles were half the price. Even at $5.00 a gallon, $20,000 buys a lot of gas!

So it wasn't at all surprising when GM announced Friday that it was temporarily suspending production of the Volt and laying off 1,300 workers. This isn't rocket science. It's fundamental economics. Like Solyndra and other stimulus projects, Obama's "green" bets are not paying off.    

Today's Headlines:  Tuesday, March 06, 2012

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Int'l Soccer Body Changes Rules to Allow Islamic Hijabs

U.S. Commander in Afghanistan: Why Wouldn't We Apologize for Quran-Burning?

Obama Announcing New Plan to Help More Americans Pay Their Mortgages

Iran Voter Turnout Described As a Show of Support for Supreme Leader, a 'Punch in the Mouth of the Enemies'

8 Women Allege Rape, Harassment in Lawsuit Against U.S. Military

Nine State AGs Cite 21 Illegal Actions by Obama Administration

Netanyahu to Obama: 'Israel Must Have the Ability to Defend Itself'

Super Tuesday Primary Primer: What's at Stake

Santorum: Obama More Concerned with 'Sugared Soda' in Vending Machines than Teaching Kids Abstinence

Papers from Vatican Secret Archives Reveal Jewish Praise for Pius XII

COMMENTARY:

Obama's Remaking of America
By Patrick J. Buchanan
The historian Arthur Schlesinger Sr. once called anti-Catholicism "the deepest-held bias in the history of the American people." In Obama's Washington, it is becoming so again.

It Just Ain't So
By Walter E. Williams
When Americans buy more goods from Canadians, Chinese and Mexicans than they buy from us, it's a problem. Or is it? Let's explore whether buying more from a person than he buys from you is a problem, and let me give a personal example.

NEWSPAPER ROUNDUP:   

Fewer Dems with less enthusiasm versus more Republicans with higher enthusiasm equals Obama wins?

Mar 06, 2012 05:13 am | Coach Collins

 By Kevin "Coach" Collins

 The latest Gallup survey delivers two pieces of bad news to the Democrats neither of which can be spun away by clever framing.  Gallup told us that by 53/45 Republicans are more enthusiastic about voting out Obama. A look at the chart accompanying Gallup's report shows the Republican arrow is pointing upward and the Democrat arrow is stuck on flat. It's is at the same 45% since October.   

 When Gallup's report breaks down voter enthusiasm by group it gets worse for Democrats. It shows non Whites (read African Americans) were 74% enthusiastic at this point in 2008 versus just 48% today. Among 18 to 29 year olds the comparison is just as bad with 2008 enthusiasm at 76% but just 48% today.  These numbers alone spell "game set match! You lose Mr. Obama." Forget about Obama's war on Catholics and sky high gas prices huge drops in enthusiasm like these cannot be ignored. ... Continue Reading:Fewer Dems with less enthusiasm versus more Republicans with higher enthusiasm equals Obama wins?

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American Minute March 5

Mar 05, 2012 05:13 pm | Coach Collins

By Bill Federer, staff writer  

Colonists were forced to house British soldiers.

On MARCH 5, 1770, a crowd protested and in the confusion British soldiers fired, killing five, one of whom was Crispus Attucks, the most famous African American who participated in the Revolution.

Paul Revere's popular engraving of the Boston Massacre fanned flames of anti-British sentiment.

Joseph Warren, the President of the Massachusetts Congress who sent Paul Revere on his midnight ride, stated on the 2nd anniversary of the Massacre, 1772:

"If you perform your part, you must have the strongest confidence that the same Almighty Being who protected your pious and venerable forefathers...will still be mindful of you...

May our land be a land of liberty...until the last shock of time shall bury the empires of the world in one common undistinguishable ruin!"

John Hancock, first to sign the Declaration of Independence, stated on the 4th anniversary of the Boston Massacre, 1774:

"Let us play the ... Continue Reading:American Minute March 5

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A final stake thru the heart of ObamaCare?

Mar 05, 2012 01:13 pm | Coach Collins

by Doug Book,  staff writer

Centuries of legal precedent might intervene to save the American people from Barack Hussein Obama's attempt to force individuals and employers into the legislative enslavement of ObamaCare.

Constitutional law professor Elizabeth Price Foley, in conjunction with the Institute of Justice, has filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court concerning the upcoming Court review of the Affordable Care Act-ObamaCare. In the brief, Foley makes the point that forcing an individual or company to sign a contract for the purchase of a product-health insurance included-would violate one of the centuries old underpinnings of contract law which states that to be enforceable, all contracts must be voluntary. (1)

As Foley writes in the brief, "The Founding generation that drafted and ratified the Constitution never meant for the federal government to possess the power to coerce individuals to engage in commercial transactions against their will." (1)

If congress is permitted to force the ... Continue Reading:A final stake thru the heart of ObamaCare?

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Senate to Take Action on Bill to Grant 10,500 Additional Work Visas BEFORE St. Patrick's Day!

Call your Senators and tell them the U.S. does not need more guest workers!

In a pre-St. Patrick's Day gift to the Irish, the latest news from Capitol Hill is that Sens. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Scott Brown (R-MA) are trying to get legislation to the Senate floor this week that would add at least 10,500 annual guest worker visas for Irish nationals. The legislation could come in the form of either an amended version of S.1983 by Sen. Schumer or S.2005 by Sen. Brown, and would double the number of E-3 visa holders to the U.S. each year. The number of workers brought into the country could grow exponentially once an unlimited number of visas are handed out to the spouses and children (up to the age of 21) of these visa holders.

This legislation not only hurts Americans because it brings in more guest workers at a time of high unemployment, it represents terrible immigration policy because it carves out a special rule for one particular nationality. Moreover, to qualify for this visa, aliens would need to meet only nominal requirements. The legislation, as amended, only requires visa recipients to have two years of work experience in a particular field, OR to have obtained a high school diploma or its equivalent. Employers are not required to look for U.S. workers first before sponsoring an E-3 visa holder.

CALL your Senators TODAY and tell them:

• You oppose S.1983 and S.2005;
• The U.S. should NOT add an additional 10,500 guest workers to compete with the already 13 million unemployed Americans seeking jobs; and
• Congress should not be in the business of carving out special rules for members of a single nationality. Congress should draft immigration law so that it is uniform in application and is blind to the home country of an alien applicant.

Find out how to contact Members of the Senate here.

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What can be done about rising gas prices? The experts weighed in last night on GBTV - WATCH.