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President Obama's national health care law will cost $1.76 trillion over a decade, according to a new projection released today by the Congressional Budget Office, rather than the $940 billion forecast when it was signed into law.

 

Democrats employed many accounting tricks when they were pushing through the national health care legislation, the most egregious of which was to delay full implementation of the law until 2014, so it would appear cheaper under the CBO's standard ten-year budget window and, at least on paper, meet Obama's pledge that the legislation would cost "around $900 billion over 10 years." When the final CBO score came out before passage, critics noted that the true 10 year cost would be far higher than advertised once projections accounted for full implementation.

 

Today, the CBO released new projections from 2013 extending through 2022, and the results are as critics expected: the ten-year cost of the law's core provisions to expand health insurance coverage has now ballooned to $1.76 trillion. That's because we now have estimates for Obamacare's first nine years of full implementation, rather than the mere six when it was signed into law. Only next year will we get a true ten-year cost estimate, if the law isn't overturned by the Supreme Court or repealed by then. Given that in 2022, the last year available, the gross cost of the coverage expansions are $265 billion, we're likely looking at about $2 trillion over the first decade, or more than double what Obama advertised.

 

UPDATE: I've done another post with additional details from the CBO report

YOUR BODY, HIS LAW 

By: Betsy McCaughey                                                  March 14, 2012

The Obama re-election campaign is mailing out fliers championing his health-care law as a great benefit to women. Sorry: It diminishes women's freedom and privacy.

The Obama law vastly expands the president's power over your insurance plan, your doctors' decisions and your medical records. Not just this president's power, but every future president. Why are women's rights advocates so sure they'll always agree with the person occupying the White House?

If you see a story that you believe would be useful and important to our readers, simply respond to this email with a link and a brief description of why it is important.  (Even if it may be obvious)

Monumental

In Search of America's National Treasure 

On Tuesday, March 27, 2012, at 7:30 p.m. (local) in more than 450 major movie theaters, audiences will come together for a live, one-night only theatrical event called MONUMENTAL: IN SEARCH OF AMERICA¹S NATIONAL TREASURE, hosted by Kirk Cameron.

The two-hour show will include special guests, live music, and a showing of Kirk's new documentary film MONUMENTAL.

Audiences will be inspired as they come together at the same time in cities across the country to rediscover the people and the principles that made America the strongest, most free and prosperous nation on earth.

Kirk Cameron will take audiences on a journey through live conversations with special guests, live music from top artists, and his new documentary MONUMENTAL. Trace the heroic and harrowing travels of the early Pilgrims. Encounter the unlikely men and women who risked everything for liberty. Experience the stories of faith that guided education, government, and civic life. Hear from inspiring leaders on simple and practical ways to keep America's ideals alive, beginning at home. A high-energy patriotic event, MONUMENTAL will unite audiences in a celebration of America's unique story of faith and freedom.

OFFICIAL SITE - http://www.monumentalmovie.com  

Monumental Trailer

Dear Fellow Patriot,

We have a choice in this years Pennsylvania Senatorial election that will have far reaching consequences for Pennsylvania. 

Roger Howard is challenging Dominic Pileggi in the 9th district. Dominic has never been challenged and with the lack of any reformative legislation coming from Harrisburg along with the redistricting fiasco, he is very vulnerable. Can you imagine replacing the third most powerful Republican in Harrisburg? 

Right now what stands in our way is the ability to get the message out. We are ordering yard signs and if we had an extra $1000.00 we could double what we are ordering. 

Can you make a small donation of $10, $25 or $50. It would make a big difference. Please go to the web site now

www.roger4pa.com

Important Conference in PA

 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

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.

Classes listed in Blue have been posted on YouTube and can be viewed by clicking on the link for each class below. 

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.

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

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.

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.

Hello everyone!

You are cordially invited to our Town Hall with Sam Rohrer on Saturday, March 17^th at 7pm in West Chester. Please invite a friend who hasn't heard Sam speak. This is a limited seating event so RSVP today to ensure that you and your friends reserve a seat!  The venue will be Milestone Events, 600 E. Market St., West Chester.

RSVP to:

Alison Emmons at 610-869-6504 or

alisonemmons@gmail.com

Parking is free. We are hosting a silent auction as a fundraiser for the Rohrer for Senate Campaign, so bring your checkbook.   There are several very nice items to tempt you.

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Our guest speaker will be Representative Curt Shroder. Ms Carol Sexton will grace us with her beautiful rendition of 'God Bless the U.S.A."

It's going to be a fabulous evening.  Help us fill the building and give Sam a very warm Chester County welcome.

John Emmons

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.

The Nationwide Rally for Religious Freedom is being held Friday, March 23 atnoon, local time, outside federal buildings, Congressional offices and historic sites across the country. The theme for the Rally is "Stand Up for Religious Freedom-Stop the HHS Mandate!"

Thousands of Americans of all faiths will be participating in these peaceful rallies, organized by the Pro-Life Action League and Citizens for a Pro-Life Society to oppose the new mandate from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that requires all employers provide free contraceptives, sterilization and abortion-inducing drugs through their health plans, even in violation of their consciences.

Religious leaders and other public figures will speak out against the HHS Mandate at each Rally site. Holding signs reading "Stand Up for Religious Freedom" and "Stop the HHS Mandate," participants will offer hymns and prayers for our nation and pass out literature to the public about why the HHS Mandate is unconstitutional and Un-American.

The Nationwide Rally for Religious Freedom will be a peaceful, family-friendly, non-partisan, ecumenical event. For more information, please see the Rally Guidelines and Protocols, below.

Reading

Madison Building

400 Washington Street (Map)

E-mail the Rally Captain

{ For Ticket Information } 

From July 16 through July 18, 2012, Christians United for Israel will be holding its 7th Annual Washington Summit. We're going back to stand with Israel in our nation's capital. This year - more than ever - we need you to join us!

In the coming months, critical decisions are going to be made about Iran, Israel and the world. Finally, Washington is beginning to focus on the issue of a nuclear Iran. Many of our leaders want to confront this looming threat. But others want to keep kicking the can down the road. The debate is far from over.

• We know that when thousands of CUFI activists arrive in DC and on Capitol Hill, we can change the conversation.
• We can remind our leaders that a nuclear Iran is not only a threat to Israel, but to the US as well. And we can demonstrate to our elected officials that their constituents care enough about this issue to show up at their DC offices.
• We know that we can create a sense of immediacy that's otherwise lacking.
• We know that the more of us who show up and speak out -- the louder our voice and the greater our impact.

We stand at a critical juncture in history. Don't be silent! Don't miss your chance to make a difference! Don't pass up your opportunity to defend America and bless Israel!

Our leaders need to remember that we are watching them and we need to remember that God is watching us.

2012 Primary Debate Schedule

Nullify Now! Philadelphia

LISTEN LIVE TO REPATRIOT RADIO

"BETTER THAN EVER"

(all times are eastern)

Monday 3-4pm "Bordering on Insanity" - Sue Payne and Frosty Wooldridge

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

Thursday 3-4pm "America's Black Shield" - Ted Hayes and Terrance Lang

Friday 10-11pm "Veterans' Weekly Forum" - Rich Davis and David Bellavia   

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 15, 2012

It's All About the Constitution

Folks,

If you are a regular reader of RedState, you'll know I am a huge fan of Hillsdale College and am delighted to help them advertise a great program with Dr. Larry Arnn. The program is called "Constitution 101: The Meaning and History of the Constitution". It is a 10-week online course providing a great learning experience about the Constitution.

There is no cost to register for this coursee, but I'd ask that you consider a donation to support Hillsdale's efforts to educate millions of Americans about our nation's Founding documents and principles.

If you are interested in learning more about our founding document, please follow this link to sign up. It's free. It's educational. It's relevant. And it is Hillsdale College.

1. A Case Study in Why Republicans Do Not Fear Conservatives

The primary battle for Illinois's 16th Congressional District is a case study in why Republicans do not fear conservatives and do not take conservatives seriously in the House of Representatives.

Consider, if you will, that what Jim DeMint has done in the United States Senate is make Republicans understand they might just be seriously challenged by candidates and major money if they go too far astray. After Bob Bennett went down to defeat by Mike Lee and the Republican favorite Trey Grayson went down to defeat by Rand Paul in Kentucky, suddenly Orrin Hatch became the junior partner in Utah's conservative renaissance.

2. Harry Reid launches the Democratic war on Math

Harry Reid, the floor leader of the Democrats in the United States Senate, the most influential Democrat in the entire Congress, is innumerate. You see, he not only lacks an understanding of mathematics, apparently having no understanding of what kinds of sample sizes are needed to get an accurate sense of American public opinion, but he is also actively promoting his anti-math viewpoint against statistical, scientific polling.

Innumeracy is a real problem in America, said to be associated with problems like belief in pseudoscience, higher debt, problem gambling, and limited job prospects. Sadly, America is already suffering some of these consequences under the poor leadership of Harry Reid and his party. Since Harry Reid took over the Senate our debt has indeed skyrocketed, thanks in part to the failure of the Harry Reid Senate even to pass a budget at all, America's job prospects have diminished, and the fad of global warming pseudoscience has continued unabated.

It's easy to see why Clark County, Nevada wanted to return him to the Senate though, since innumeracy is what keeps the lights on there. I don't understand why we must endure him as our Senate Majority Leader any more, though. Let's take the Senate and knock him off in November.

3. Reid Wants to Attach Export-Import Bank Provision to Bipartisan Jobs Bill

Last week, the House passed a slam-dunk jobs bill (H.R. 3606) 390-23. The bill reduces red tape, securities regulations, and reporting requirements on small companies that desire to go public. It also eliminated some of the new regulations implemented under Dodd-Frank and Sarbanes-Oxley on companies that generate less than $1 billion in annual revenue. With all the unctuous complaints about partisanship, one would expect the Senate to harness this rare opportunity to work together and pass the bill expeditiously. With Harry Reid in charge of the Senate, all bets are off.

Reid announced that he would bring the House bill to the floor, but would attempt to attach a non-germane amendment to reauthorize the Export-Import Bank, which expires May 31, through 2015 and raise its loan limit from $100 billion to $140 billion. He is taking a no-brainer bill and sinking it with a poison pill. What's worse, the consideration of the House jobs bill was supposed to be the prize to Republicans for agreeing not to block Obama's judicial nominees that are being rammed through the Senate in short order.

Unfortunately, the Ex-Im corporate welfare bank is not necessarily a poison pill for many Republicans. In typical pale-pastel fashion, House leaders planned to bring a separate Ex-Im bill to the floor that would enact one-year reauthorization at $113 billion.

4. Mitt Romney: Winning, But Not Getting More Popular

 Instead of "Progressive," always use the words "Oppressive" or "Regressive."

When called on this, feign puzzlement. "But how is it progress to steal free citizens' liberties, money, and hope, and hand it all over to government bureaucrats?"   

March 14, 2012

Contact Morton A. Klein at: 212-481-1500

Attn:  NEWS EDITOR

ZOA Praises Palestinian Villagers Who Refused to Shelter Terrorists

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has praised Palestinian villagers in the town of Azamut, near Nablus, who refused to shelter two Palestinian terrorists who had attempted to enter the nearby Jewish town of Elon Moreh to carry out an attack with knives on local Jewish residents. The terrorists were chased by Israel Defense Forces (IDF) personnel to Azamut, where the terrorists attempted to hide. They were refused shelter by several of the residents and eventually turned over to the IDF by the headmaster of the local school (Yair Altman, 'Elon Moreh: Stabbing attack foiled; 2 arrested,' Yediot Achronot, March 5, 2012).

ZOA National President Morton A. Klein said, "We commend the Palestinian villagers and headmaster who refused to grant sanctuary to these terrorists. 

"They have shown themselves to be very different from their leaders, like the late Yasser Arafat or Mahmoud Abbas, both of whom have knowingly given refuge to wanted Palestinian terrorists in the Muqata, the PA presidential palace.

"Unfortunately, numerous pols have shown that a majority of Palestinians do not accept Israel as a Jewish state and refuse to live in peace alongside here or to abjure terrorism. Worse, they support terrorism, celebrate and glorify terrorists and hand out sweets when innocent Israelis are murdered by them.

"If more Palestinians behaved like these villagers and the school headmaster, Palestinian society would be very different, and peace might even be a real possibility."

'All the Israeli Cities:' Saddam's Taped Order for Targeting WMDs

By Terence P. Jeffrey 

March 14, 2012

  

It was January 1991. Half a million U.S. and allied troops were deployed in Saudi Arabia ready to roll north.

Backed by a vote just taken - or about to be taken - in Congress and a U.N. Security Council resolution, President George H.W. Bush had delivered an ultimatum to Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein: Withdraw your forces from Kuwait by Jan. 15 - or else.

The week before the deadline, Saddam met with his air force commander, Muzahim Sa'b Hasan al Masiri, and his son-in-law, Husayn Kamil - the minister responsible for Iraq's weapons of mass destruction.

Saddam tape-recorded the conversation. More than a dozen years later, the Iraq Survey Group, headed by Charles Duelfer, a special assistant to the director of the Central Intelligence Agency, discovered the recording and translated it.
 

I wanted to make sure that you saw this. We're getting great feedback on our new web ad, "Deeds"  - in fact, Sean Hannity featured it in the first segment of his show on Monday night.  Hannity called the ad "powerful." 

Click here to see what Sean Hannity had to say about the RJC ad.

Please forward this to your friends and let's send a message to President Obama that even people in his own party don't stand with him on his policies towards Israel.

Thank you for your support. Let's make sure the Jewish community remembers in November!

Harris Vederman

RJC National Grassroots Director

U.S.A. vs. Alamo Whites - Why They Both Lose

by Colonel Kenneth Allard (US Army, ret.)

BENADOR: High Treason for Obama, his Administration & the People's Representatives   Mar 14, 2012 10:30 am

How I Became a Hate Group   Mar 14, 2012 09:45 am

Keystone Cronies: State Agency Colludes with CAIR-PA   Mar 13, 2012 07:00 pm

Ten Reasons to be Skeptical of an Obama Biometric Exit   Mar 13, 2012 02:52 pm

Will The US Senate Ratify the UN Small Arms Treaty?   Mar 13, 2012 02:26 pm

The Russian Elections and their Aftermath   Mar 13, 2012 01:16 pm

Obama's war on Christians and Jews started before he was elected

Mar 14, 2012 08:29 am | Coach Collins

By Kevin "Coach" Collins
Obama's hatful war against America's mainstream religions has been in full rage since the spring of 2008. This is a list of his attacks.
April 2008 - Obama speaks disrespectfully of Christians, saying they "cling to guns or religion" and have an "antipathy to people who aren't like them." 1

February 2009 - Obama announces plans to revoke conscience protection for health workers who refuse to participate in medical activities that go against their beliefs, and fully implements the plan in February 2011. 2

April 2009 - When speaking at Georgetown University, Obama orders that a monogram symbolizing Jesus' name be covered when he is making his speech. 3

May 2009 - Obama declines to host services for the National Prayer Day (a day established by federal law) at the White House. 4

April 2009 - In a deliberate act of disrespect, Obama nominated three pro-abortion ambassadors to the Vatican; of course, the ... Continue Reading:Obama's war on Christians and Jews started before he was elected

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American Minute March 13

Mar 13, 2012 06:13 pm | Coach Collins

By Bill Federer, staff writer  

  Susan B. Anthony, whose face is on a U.S. dollar coin and whose statue is in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda, died MARCH 13, 1906.
Raised a Quaker, her father owned a cotton mill and refused to buy cotton from farmers who owned slaves.
Susan B. Anthony's religious upbringing instilled in her the concept that every one is equal before God and motivated her to crusade for freedom for slaves and a woman's right to vote.
Opposing liquor, drunkenness and abortion, Susan encountered mobs, armed threats, objects thrown at her and was hung in effigy.
After the Civil War, Susan B. Anthony worked hard for the passage of the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments.
She succeeded in having women admitted to the University of Rochester and was arrested for voting in the 1872 Presidential Election.
Fourteen years after her death, women won the right to vote. Quoted in ... Continue Reading:American Minute March 13

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El Paso Mayor overrules voters, threatens opponents with jail

Mar 13, 2012 01:00 pm | Coach Collins

by Doug Book,  staff writer

In a display of the arrogance of power for which the left have become so well known, Democrat El Paso Mayor John Cook decided not only to overrule the results of a 2010 ballot decision, he is hoping to jail those who dared circulate a recall petition in response to his contempt for the will of the voters.

In 2009, Mayor Cook and a majority of the El Paso city council decided that health insurance benefits should be provided for unmarried and homosexual "partners" of city employees, at taxpayer expense of course.  Church groups and others opposed to the decision gathered the necessary petition signatures to put the issue on the 2010 ballot.

By a 55-45 margin, El Paso voters passed the ballot proposition which stated: "The city of El Paso endorses traditional family values by making health benefits available only to city employees and their legal spouse and dependent ... Continue Reading:El Paso Mayor overrules voters, threatens opponents with jail

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Obama -The One Video

 If you only watch one last video before voting for Barack Obama, this should probably be the one. Most of the secrets of Obama are unlocked here... at least, as many secrets as possible in the short time since the "Most Secretive Candidate Ever" was nominated for the position of "Most Powerful Man on Earth". Some of the most enlightning ten minutes you can watch on the subject.

How I Became a Hate Group

When I went to sleep last night, little did I know that while outside sirens competed with car alarms in the symphony that is New York City, I had already been declared a hate group.

 

Being declared a hate group wasn't in my plans for the day, but like winning the lottery, it seems to be one of those things that happens when you least expect it. Except that as the little bald man in front of the bodega tells you, you have to play to win, but you don't even have to buy a ticket to be declared an official hate group.

My first response on finding out that I was now a hate group was to look around to see where everyone else was. A hate group needs the group part and one man and a cat don't seem to be enough. Even when the cat is a well known bigot who hates mice, birds, car alarms that go off in the middle of the night, the plumber and sudden noises.

Still the Southern Poverty Law Center had listed, "Sultan Knish a blog by Daniel Greenfield" as one of their Active Anti-Muslim Hate Groups, alongside such other vast organizations as "Faith Freedom", a website for ex-Muslims, and "Casa D'Ice Signs", the signs on a bar located on K-Mart Plaza in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.

Someone with less faith in the fact checking abilities of the Southern Poverty Law Center might have thought that whoever had made up this list had no clue that "Casa D'Ice" was a lounge with signs outside, that there was no such group as "Casa D'Ice Signs" and that signs are pieces of plastic and not a hate group. But I had faith that the Center knew more than I did. Perhaps its crack team of researchers had learned that the signs had come alive and formed their own hate group, somehow arranging their own letters to form messages about illegal immigration and the need to get out of Iraq.

My first thought was to wonder whether some mistake had been made in my own case, but the Southern Poverty Law Center people are experts on hate groups, even if they don't seem to know what the definitions of "hate" or "groups" or "hate groups" might be. Even if they seem to have copied their list off a forum somewhere at the last minute to have something to show the donors. Clearly I was now a hate group and with tax season upon us, I called my accountant to find out if there was a tax deduction for that. There wasn't. 

Chronicle · March 14, 2012

The Foundation

"If we move in mass, be it ever so circuitously, we shall attain our object; but if we break into squads, everyone pursuing the path he thinks most direct, we become an easy conquest to those who can now barely hold us in check." --Thomas Jefferson

Upright

Editor's Note: The Patriot Post has not endorsed any GOP candidate in the primary.

"If this was match play golf, Rick Santorum would be seven shots down with six holes to play. He has indeed played the last three holes wonderfully well, winning in Kansas, Mississippi, and Alabama, but Romney's sweeps in the far flung islands of Guam and the U.S. Virgin Islands, his wins in Hawaii and American Samoa, plus the former Massachusetts governor's relatively strong showing in the southern brace of states means that over the past week the delegate math didn't change and neither did the inevitable result of the GOP nominating contest. Indeed, when all the sums are added, Romney won more delegates in the days since Super Tuesday than did Santorum. ... President Obama can be beaten. The next few weeks can be part of a very deliberate and useful turning of attention to his woeful tenure and the awful prospect of another four years under his ruinous fecklessness. No towels have to be thrown in, but each candidate has to consider the party as a whole and not just his own standing within it." --columnist Hugh Hewitt

"To be clear, Romney is still the overwhelming favorite to win the Republican nomination given his lead in delegates, but [Tuesday] he lost another chance to put the final nail in the coffin of his opponents by proving he could win on unfriendly turf. Santorum's twin victories in the deep south, which was supposed to be Newt Gingrich's territory, strengthens his argument that it's a two man race between himself and Romney, with him playing the role of the first choice of conservatives. ... The bottom line is that [Tuesday's] results reinforce the fact that it's going to be a long slog toward the nomination for Romney and this race isn't going to be over anytime soon." --columnist Philip Klein

Were you surprised by last night's outcome, and how does it change the race?

"When it was being debated, Democrats told you [Obamacare] would cost $940 billion over ten years, because they think you're stupid. But now, with more years of fully-bloomed Obamacare inside the ten-year budget window, the CBO is out with new cost estimates. They ain't pretty: ... '[T]he ten-year cost of the law's core provisions to expand health insurance coverage has now ballooned to $1.76 trillion. That's because we now have estimates for Obamacare's first nine years of full implementation, rather than the mere six when it was signed into law.' ... [T]he true ten-year cost is going to be still higher. To me, the question has never been whether Obamacare will fail (by failing to bend the cost curve, by incurring massive per-person costs for its coverage expansion, and by foisting things like IPAB on the public). Rather, the question has been whether it will fail quickly and spectacularly enough that the political will is toward repeal, and not expansion. If it fails slowly, we're likely to see more of it, not less." --columnist Daniel Foster

"The latest mass killing by an American soldier follows a three-year downward spiral.... After ten years, we have forgotten why we went into Afghanistan in the first place.... Now, even before the latest disaster, there is no public support for staying in Afghanistan. And yet to leave is to envision choppers on the embassy roof, Vietnam-style, as the Taliban lets loose on women, liberals, and the American supporters in the larger cities. ... The president should either put Afghanistan on the front burner, quit apologizing, seek diplomatic and military continuity, spell out to the people exactly what our aims and methods are, assume the role of commander-in-chief, cease all talk of withdrawal, and define, as it could be defined, 'victory' -- or simply get out, declare a teleprompted hope-and-change-style victory, and not put Americans in harm's way in a war that was more a 2008 campaign trope than a serious conflict to be won." --historian Victor Davis Hanson

Editorial Exegesis

"Feminists are declaring a sex strike for Obamacare-subsidized birth control. The group Liberal Ladies Who Lunch is organizing 'Access Denied,' a week-long exercise in self-denial starting April 28. The strike is supposed to motivate men to stand up for government-funded birth control 'because when we lose our reproductive choices, so do they.' This is akin to protesting welfare cuts by getting a job. ... In this case, activists are abandoning the activity that causes their supposed need for the birth-control handout. ... Conservatives should applaud the strike. Abstention is well-regarded on the right, and not simply because it is 100 percent effective in preventing unwanted pregnancies. Taking a week off from promiscuity may give young women an opportunity to think about their life choices. Perhaps there is more to being a woman than ensuring the government supplies the means to engage in limitless hookups. Nursing chastity for a week puts necessary perspective on the type of subsidized sexuality that's at the center of the debate." --The Washington Times

Insight

"The preservation of freedom is the protective reason for limiting and decentralizing governmental power. But there is also a constructive reason. The great advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science or in literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government." --economist Milton Friedman (1912-2006)

"I assert that the cosmic religious experience is the strongest and noblest driving force behind scientific research. ... God Almighty does not throw dice. ... Before God we are all equally wise -- equally foolish. ... My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds." --Albert Einstein, who was born on this day in 1879

The Demo-gogues

Left-theology: "When we start using religion as a bludgeon in politics, when we start questioning other people's faith, we start using religion to divide, instead of bring the country together, then I think we've got a problem." --Barack Obama

Failed record: "I'm going to keep doing everything I can to help you save money on gas, both right now and in the future. I hope politicians from both sides of the aisle join me." --Barack Obama

Promises are always just around the corner: "If you are willing to work as hard in this election as you did in the last one, change will come!" --Barack Obama

Diversions: "[The Keystone XL pipeline] won't lower the price of oil. Construction won't be complete for a long, long time,. And under the way it's constructed now, all the oil would be sold elsewhere. We can't have that. When I say elsewhere, I mean to some other country." --Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV)

Out of touch: "These [Republicans] don't have a sense of the average folks out there. They don't know what it means to be middle class." --Joe Biden addressing 87 wealthy Democrats at a $10,000-per-plate fundraiser

Dezinformatsia

When it's okay to use racist language: "So what happens in Crackerland [read: the South] this week, as we like to say? We have, what, Alabama and Mississippi coming up [Tuesday]." --progressive radio talk-show host Stephanie Miller

Civil discourse: "You know, these [conservative] women, somebody really needs to go repossess their ovaries. Really, truly, they have no right to them. They are fabulous, little organs and they have absolutely no right to be estrogen-bearing beings. Okay? Just cut 'em off, let 'em go through the hot flashes, let 'em just sit there and complain about hormone therapy, okay? Just take the ovaries and get it over with. Because they don't deserve to have estrogen. They really don't. It's a privilege." --radio talk-show host Randi Rhodes

If anyone is waging war on women, it's the Left: "Republican politicians have pursued their assault on Mr. Obama, the left and any American who disagrees with them for years now. There are finally signs that they may pay a price for the casual cruelty with which they attack whole segments of society. Senator Lisa Murkowski, a Republican of Alaska, said on Tuesday that the Republicans have left people thinking they are at war with women. Women are right to think that." --New York Times editorial

What free speech? "The Rush Limbaugh Show is being broadcast to troops on bases all over the world. However, America has too much at stake, to allow this seedy, ugly-spirited man to roll around in the minds of vulnerable young men. These soldiers are thousands of miles from home, getting shot at by an enemy indistinguishable from our Afghan allies, for a war whose rationale nobody even remembers any more. They need something better than an education in anti-Muslim hatred." --professor Constance Hilliard of the University of North Texas in an article titled, "Did Soldier Who Killed 16 in Afghanistan Receive His Diploma from the Rush Limbaugh Show?"

Newspulper Headlines:

Out on a Limb: "Study Shows Health Care Bill May Have Cost Democrats the House" --Washington Post website

Breaking News From 2010: "White House Works to Shape Debate Over Health Law" --The New York Times

They Can't Afford a Pool: "London 2012: China's Olympic Swimmers to Train in Bath" --BBC website

Everything Seemingly Is Spinning Out of Control: "Bowling Alleys in Churches Are Disappearing Fast" --USA Today website

So Much for the War on Drugs: "A Great Relief for High Tax-Payers" --Daily Telegraph (London)

Questions Nobody Is Asking: "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious: What Does It Mean?" --BBC website

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

Village Idiots

Blame and misdirection: "[W]e certainly ... hope that the Congress will act in an appropriate fashion and not waste its time with ineffectual, sham legislation [on Keystone XL] that has no impact on the price of gas and is irresponsible because it, as we've said before, tries to legislate the approval of a pipeline for which there is not even a route." --White House Press Secretary Jay Carney

The BIG Lie: "Since I walked in the door as secretary of energy, I've been doing everything in our powers to do what we can to reduce these gas prices. ... So, of course we don't want the price of gasoline to go up; we want it to go down." --Energy Secretary Steven Chu

With a straight face: "'Let's Move!' is not about having government tell people what to do, because government doesn't have all the answers." --Michelle Obama

Chutzpah: "Andrew Breitbart, self-described media mogul, had several screws loose or missing and was the grinning bomb-thrower of the radical right. He was the attack dog kept on a tight leash and brought out on special occasions to hiss and to menace." --Bill Ayers, radical leftist Obama mentor and a literal bomb-thrower, not just a metaphorical one

In the tank for Obama: "The negative for me was there were too many accomplishments. I had 17 minutes to put them all in there. ... I don't [find fault in him], frankly. I'm really quite in awe of him as a leader and the choices he's made." --Davis Guggenheim, director of the new documentary on Barack Obama

Short Cuts

"If the left really cared about women, they have lots of misogyny on their own side to police without ever having to worry about conservatives. Plus, their own side might actually listen to them. But they tolerated a Senator who left a woman to drown in a car. And enthusiastically supported a president who sexually harassed women and dismissed accusations of rape against him. And just look at how they treat Sarah Palin. So if a liberal says he cares about women, tell him, 'You care about women the same way I care about your face.' Then punch him really hard in the face." --humorist Frank J. Fleming

"President Obama compared himself to Gandhi and Nelson Mandela in the struggle to bring about change. The comparison is flawed. They spent years in jail before taking political power, while politicians from Chicago do it the other way around." --comedian Argus Hamilton

"One of Warren Buffet's companies owes the government $300 million in unpaid taxes. So that's why Buffet doesn't mind higher taxes on the rich: He's not gonna pay 'em anyway." --NewsBusted's Jodi Miller

"The Air Force is pulling nine cargo aircraft from military operations to support President Obama's stepped-up visits to campaign events. Good. Now he can carry his entire ego with him on the trail." --Fred Thompson

"They say gasoline could be $6 a gallon. But the good news is the White House says President Obama is aware of the problem, and will continue to talk about it between fundraisers." --comedian Jay Leno

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

March 14, 2012


  S.E. CUPP ON MSNBC'S BIRTHER OBSESSION  
GBTV's S.E. Cupp wandered into some unfriendly territory yesterday when she appeared on MSNBC's Martin Bashir Show. The host and liberal panelists wanted S.E. to address the GOP candidate's silence on the most recent "birther" stories. Watch the plucky Ms. Cupp hold her own HERE.

  COMIC FLIPS OVER TEA PARTY QUESTION
Chris Rock was not pleased when a conservative commentator asked him to clarify disparaging comments he made about the Tea Party and racism. Get the details and see the clip HERE.
  obama's fight with catholics is not new
Many people believe the recent quarrels between the Catholic Church and President Obama and his administration are something new. If you do a little digging, you will find that Obama and the Democrats have been in a bit of a battle with devout Catholics since at least 2007. Check out the evidence HERE.
  BECK: 'YOU HAVEN'T LIVED UNTIL YOU'VE BEEN THREATENED BY THE NATION OF ISLAM'
This past weekend, the Nation of Islam's newspaper, "The Final Call" published a story that also included a threat to Glenn Beck. During the opening of Glenn's program on GBTV last night, he explained the Nation of Islam's threat to himself and President Obama. Watch the segment HERE.

PHOTO OF THE DAY - DC GAS PRICES

Just about one mile from the White House is an Exxon gas station with prices approaching $6 / gallon. The picture attached to this story is bound to give the folks living at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue fits. Take a look HERE.  

  VIRAL VID - COW RAMS WOMAN ON A BIKE   
Melanie Spigelmyre was part of a 10-person cycling team training for a cross-country ride to raise awareness for organ donations. She came close to being a donor herself when Melanie had a frightening encounter with a free-range cow on the roads outside of her hometown of Fresno, CA. She's bruised, battered but OK. See the video HERE.

  REAL NEWS FROM THE BLAZE: ARE THE NEW VOTER ID LAWS RACISM OR A GOOD IDEA?  
The DOJ clamped down a new Texas law that would mandate all voters show a photo ID in order to cast a ballot. The Left says these new laws are racist and a way for the GOP to suppress minority voting. Watch the panel discuss this HERE.

TONIGHT ON REAL NEWS FROM THE BLAZE: The mainstream media doesn't spend a lot of time covering federal judges, but their impact on our lives is very real. Most Americans don't even know who they are. Meet them tonight on Real News from the Blaze - 7pm ET (or on demand) - Only on GBTV.

A Further Perspective

The Far Left is making an unprecedented two-track move to derail states' efforts to protect the integrity of the ballot box for this November's elections. While the Department of Justice (DOJ) is blocking state efforts, liberal activists are taking this issue to the United Nations as a human rights violation.

Attorney General Eric Holder is invoking Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) as giving him the power to block Texas' voter-ID law, which simply requires that voters show that they are who they say they are before they cast a vote to influence an election outcome. This is the same argument Holder made to block South Carolina's voter-ID law, a move that has landed him in federal court.

Section 5 of VRA was designed to allow DOJ to have oversight of southern states that had been characterized by widespread voter suppression half a century ago, a move the Supreme Court upheld in 1966 as being authorized by the Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution only due to the extraordinary racial tensions at the time, but that would not be constitutional once American society progressed beyond such struggles.

(In fact, a lawsuit is currently pending before the D.C. Circuit federal appeals court challenging the constitutionality of Section 5. So there's a good chance that provision will no longer be on the books two years from now.)

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Caught on Tape: Dead People and Clones Offered Ballots in Vermont Primary

 On Super Tuesday in Vermont, Poll workers caught on tape handing out Ballots in names of dead people and giving out ballots in living people's names to anyone who walked in. Bars, hotels and city clerk issuing civil union all required ID.

They handed the ballots out to people under the following names:

Adam Berger
Cooper Fellows
Roger Audette DEAD
John E. Adams
Lucas Hertweck
Mahamud Somo DEAD
Travis Houle
Evan R Bean

WND RADIO

James O'Keefe proves voter fraud this simple

Filmmaker: 'We're going to continue to expose it in states across the country'

Liberal Mayor Overrules Voters, Threatens Opponents With Jail

Mar 14, 2012 02:37 pm

In a display of the arrogance of power for which the left have become so well known, Democrat El Paso Mayor John Cook decided not only to overrule the results of a 2010 ballot decision, he is hoping to jail... Continue to Post

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Did Obama's War On Religion Start Before He Was Elected?

Mar 14, 2012 02:36 pm

Obama's hateful war against America's mainstream religions has been in full rage since the spring of 2008. This is a list of his attacks. April 2008 - Obama speaks disrespectfully of Christians, saying they "cling to guns or religion" and... Continue to Post

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Video: Disgrace: Democrat HQ Replaces Stars And Stripes With Obama And Stripes On US Flag

Mar 14, 2012 02:35 pm

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Why Obama's Birth Certificate Matters, Especially Now

Mar 14, 2012 02:32 pm

There was a time when someone could perhaps justify sitting on the fence on the matter of Barack Obama's birth certificate.  There were those on the left who could chalk doubts about its authenticity up to conspiratorial Internet paranoia.  As... Continue to Post

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Politico: Birthers Are Nothing But Obama Haters

Mar 14, 2012 02:31 pm

Those who have read  Politico in the past know that they are no friend to so-called "birthers", much less conservatives and tea partiers. Just the other day, they attacked us again. One of Politico's minions, Alexander Burns, cleverly inserted a... Continue to Post

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Holder Upholds Voter Fraud

Mar 14, 2012 02:31 pm

On Monday, the U.S. Department of Justice, operating under antiquated "preclearance" provisions of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, blocked Texas's recently passed Voter ID law, claiming that the law was targeting Hispanics and aimed at suppressing minority voter turnout in... Continue to Post

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Video: Congressman Cliff Stearns On Obama's Birth Certificate

Mar 14, 2012 02:30 pm

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How To Stop Taxation Without Representation

Mar 14, 2012 02:28 pm

To make the Federal Government responsible to the citizens of the U.S., it's simply a matter of shutting off the flow of money. This can legally be accomplished if Americans in mass take an unpaid vacation.  This will be a... Continue to Post

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How Alinsky Taught Obama Everything He Knows About Civic Upheaval

Mar 14, 2012 02:27 pm

Throughout Barack Obama's campaign for the presidency and his subsequent time in that office, two things have been said again and again: 1. He has a grudge against America. 2. He takes his marching orders from Saul Alinsky (1909-1972), particularly... Continue to Post

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Big Green Wants To Repeal The Industrial Revolution

Mar 14, 2012 02:27 pm

First of a three-part series of excerpts from Energy Freedom by Marita Noon Originally published in the Washington Examiner Environmentalists would have everyone believe that oil, gas, and coal-all fossil fuels-are at the base of much of the world's ills.... Continue to Post

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Coming Apart: The State Of White America, 1960-2010

Mar 14, 2012 02:26 pm

Charles Murray's latest book, Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010, is an extraordinarily important study of the process implied by his title. Charles has a penchant for writing books that challenge, and sometimes change, America's policy environment. Murray's Losing Ground was published... Continue to Post

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Israel Cancels US Trip After Legislator Denied Visa For Being... Too Pro-Israel?

Mar 14, 2012 02:23 pm

JERUSALEM (AP/The Blaze) - Israel's parliamentary speaker called off a legislative delegation's visit to the U.S. after Washington denied an ultranationalist lawmaker a visa, citing his links to a terror group. Three lawmakers were to attend a women's empowerment conference... Continue to Post

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Video: NPR Flubs Natural Born Citizenship

Mar 14, 2012 02:20 pm

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Obama Law Requires $1 Abortion Subsidy From Every Insured American

Mar 14, 2012 02:20 pm

The controversial "individual mandate" in the ObamaCare health diktat, which requires Americans to buy health insurance or face a hefty fine, also requires something else: The insured party, thanks to a finalized version of the mandate, must pay a $1... Continue to Post

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The Blood Price Of Afghanistan

Mar 14, 2012 02:18 pm

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Half Of Obama's SuperPAC Money In Feb Came From Bill Maher

Mar 14, 2012 02:16 pm

Half of the $2 million that President Obama's Super PAC brought in last month came from comedian Bill Maher, Politico reports. The cash represents the first haul since Obama gave his blessing to the PAC and a big jump over... Continue to Post

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Video: Ann Coulter Takes A Swipe At Sarah Palin

Mar 14, 2012 02:15 pm

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Major US Airport To Evict TSA Screeners

Mar 14, 2012 02:14 pm

One of America's busiest airports, Orlando Sanford International, has announced it will opt out of using TSA workers to screen passengers, a move which threatens the highly unpopular federal agency's role in other airports across the nation. "The president of... Continue to Post

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U.S. Dangles Secret Data For Russia Missile Shield Approval

Mar 14, 2012 01:58 pm

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration is leaving open the possibility of giving Moscow certain secret data on U.S. interceptor missiles due to help protect Europe from any Iranian missile strike. A deal is being sought by Washington that could... Continue to Post

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With Friends Like These... Union Names Chinese Premier 'Best Friend Of American Worker'

Mar 14, 2012 01:50 pm

At the Chinese Foreign Ministry's regular press conference last week, spokesperson Liu Weimin's revealed that Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao was awarded "the Best Friend of American Worker" by the US International Longshoremen's Association. The Chinese ambassador to the United States... Continue to Post

Wednesday, March 14, 2012

To: Friends & Supporters

From: Gary L. Bauer


COUNTDOWN TO VICTORY: 237 DAYS TO THE 2012 ELECTIONS


Santorum's True Grits

The Republican presidential nomination battle took yet another turn last night as Senator Rick Santorum won hard-fought battles in Alabama and Mississippi. Virtually every analyst had predicted either that Gingrich would win because of his Southern roots or that Romney would prevail as Gingrich and Santorum split conservatives. In fact, Romney was so confident yesterday he told CNN's Wolf Blitzer, "Senator Santorum is at the desperate end of his campaign." They were all wrong.

In both states, Santorum received a plurality of women, strong conservatives, values voters, those making less than $50,000 a year and voters making between $50,000 and $100,000. Romney won voters making over $100,000, self-described moderates as well as those who were not strong supporters of the Tea Party movement.

The Santorum victories put pressure on both of the other credible candidates. (Paul isn't credible. He got 5% of the vote in Alabama and 4% in Mississippi.) Once again, Romney was shown to be a "front-runner" that cannot ignite the base of the party. Gingrich lost his claim to a Southern base and is under mounting pressure to step aside so that voters can have a simple one-on-one choice for the party's nomination.

The next few days provide additional opportunities for Santorum. Missouri holds caucuses March 17th to officially award its delegates. Santorum did well in last month's non-binding Missouri primary. Louisiana votes on March 24th and has a large "values voter" electorate. The biggest state coming up on the primary calendar is Illinois, which votes on March 20th. It should be friendly to Romney, but that is no longer a sure thing.

As I watched the returns last night, I was reminded of a question in yesterday's New York Times/CBS poll that received virtually no attention. Respondents were asked whether each candidate understood the needs and problems of people like them. Sadly, a sizeable majority said Obama did understand their needs and problems. For Santorum it was a virtual tie with an equal number thinking he did and did not understand their needs and problems.

But the Romney numbers should set off alarm bells about the governor leading the GOP ticket in the fall. Only 31% thought Mitt Romney understood people like them, while 59% said he did not. Those numbers could be deadly in the general election.

Last night, I went on CNBC's "The Kudlow Report" to have a friendly discussion about the GOP race with former Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlently and Larry Kudlow, an old friend from the Reagan Administration. If you missed the show last night, you can watch my segment here. I also have a column today at Politico on the secrets of Santorum's success.


ObamaCare Costs Skyrocket

Gas prices aren't the only thing skyrocketing these days. The cost of ObamaCare is going up too. The Congressional Budget Office reported yesterday that by 2022, ObamaCare is estimated to cost $1.76 trillion and run a deficit of more than $500 billion.

That is nearly twice the $900 billion price tag that President Obama proposed in a 2009 address to a joint session of Congress. And we know the pathetic record of government cost estimates.

Meanwhile the Heritage Foundation noted these "gems" in the report:

• "...the individual mandate penalties will increase by one-third, or $11 billion."
• "CBO also finds that more employers will choose not to offer coverage. The mandate penalties on firms will increase by 18.5 percent, or $15 billion, as these firms find it more efficient to pay a penalty."
• "...government is projected to collect $80 billion more in income taxes over the next 10 years" on the assumption that as employers drop their health insurance they will compensate employees with higher wages, which Uncle Sam will tax.
• Lastly, "There are 3 million fewer people receiving employer-provided coverage... There will also be 2 million fewer individuals in the exchange."

This is just one more example of why America cannot afford four more years of Barack Obama.


Radical Journalist Admits Environmentalism = Socalism

Many conservatives have argued for years that a goal of the radical environmentalist movement is to destroy free enterprise. That is the inescapable conclusion you reach when you connect the dots and consider the consequences of all their initiatives. For example, Barack Obama unbelievably admitted that his cap and trade plan would "bankrupt" coal companies and cause "electricity rates [to] necessarily skyrocket."

Rarely, however, do liberals and environmentalists freely admit that their real goal is to turn America into a socialist state. But Naomi Klein, a left-wing journalist at The Nation did just that in a recent interview with Solutions Journal. Consider this excerpt:

"Q. In your cover story for The Nation last year, you say that modern environmentalism successfully advances many of the causes dear to the political left, including redistribution of wealth, higher and more progressive taxes, and greater government intervention and regulation. Please explain.

"A. The piece came out of ... my shock at the fact that belief in climate change in the United States has plummeted. ...So I started researching the denial movement ... and what's clear is that, on the right, climate change is seen as ... a Marxist plot. They accuse climate scientists of being watermelons -- green on the outside and red on the inside.

"Q. It seems exaggerated, but your piece was about how the right is in fact correct.

"A. ...You can set up carbon markets, consumer markets, and just pretend, but if you want to get serious about climate change, really serious, ... then you need to be intervening strongly in the economy, and you can't do it all with carbon markets and offsetting. You have to really seriously regulate corporations and invest in the public sector. ...These climate deniers aren't crazy -- their worldview is under threat. If you take climate change seriously, you do have to throw out the free-market playbook." [Emphasis added.]

It is hard to state it more bluntly than that. If you believe in free markets, your "worldview is under threat" from those who are "really serious" about the environmentalist movement. Not surprisingly, Klein goes on to describe the Occupy Wall Street movement as "a game changer, and it has opened up space for us to put more radical solutions on the table."

My friends, it is no accident that the top priorities of our "community organizer in chief" were ObamaCare and cap and trade. It is no accident that he blocked the Keystone pipeline and restricted drilling and exploration while he subsidized Solyndra and promotes algae as an alternative to gasoline. It is all part of his plan to "fundamentally transform" America into a European-style socialist welfare state.

If you believe in freedom and prosperity, if you want your children and grandchildren to enjoy the freedoms and prosperity we have always taken for granted in this country, Barack Obama must be defeated in 237 days!

Many of you have asked what you can do to make sure we win. Of course it is important to financially support conservative groups like CWF.

But we also need to make sure we educate more voters about exactly what is at stake this November. Start by "adopting" a voter in your family, perhaps a college-aged son or daughter or grandchild. If every conservative would convert just one 2008 Obama voter, we would win in a landslide!
 

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Obamacare will cost $800 billion more than expected, according to a new projection by the Congressional Budget Office. The cost now stands at $1.76 trillion over ten years, up from $940 billion.

Former senator Rick Santorum won narrow victories in the Alabama and Mississippi primaries last night, while Mitt Romney picked up wins in Hawaii and American Samoa.

The scale of torture in Syria today under the Assad regime is a crime against humanity and the worst the country has seen in 30 years, according to a new Amnesty International report.

The majority of large domestic banks passed an annual stress test, leading to slightly positive U.S. stock futures and a slight upgrade of the Federal Reserve's economic outlook.

In a stunning round of questioning yesterday, Energy Secretary Steven Chu said he no longer wishes for gas prices to rise to historic levels, as he has previously and repeatedly promoted. Read about it on The Foundry. 

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Santorum Sweeps Alabama and Mississippi; Romney Declares Santorum Campaign Is at 'Desperate End'

Santorum Beat Romney Among Women Voters in Alabama and Mississippi
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Survey Indicates Americans Don't See Energy-Efficient Cars As Solution to Rising Gas Prices

Obama: U.S. Soldier Charged in Killing 16 Afghan Civilians Will Face 'Full Force of the Law'

Obama Joins Japan and EU to Bring Trade Case Against China

Obama Treats British PM to Hoops in the Heartland

Obama's Energy Production at All-Time High Claim Selective on Facts, Say Energy Experts

Petroleum Industry Calls Interior Secretary's Oil Claims 'Fundamentally Absurd'

Sen. Paul Grills Energy Secretary on Obama Donors Receiving Alternative Energy Loans
 

Obama Picks North Carolina to Win NCAA Title

COMMENTARY:
 
'All the Israeli Cities:' Saddam's Taped Order for Targeting WMDs
By Terence P. Jeffrey
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Our TV/radio ad & grassroots campaign are stirring up some signs of panic among the supporters of illegal foreign workers
  NumbersUSA is creating 'crisis of near doomsday proportions,' says coalition of illegal-alien-hiring businesses

A Big Ag coalition apparently believes that you and we are threatening to have some success in our campaign against Speaker Boehner and his blocking of E-Verify legislation.

The Save America's Food and Economy coalition (SAFE) has just issued an urgent national release criticizing NumbersUSA's ad campaign. It refers to SAFE President Craig J. Regelbrugge's speech before growers, manufacturers and agriculture experts at the Natural Products Expo in Anaheim, California.
  SAFE announced:

"(Regelbrugge) expressed concern that misguided organizations like NumbersUSA, a group fanning the flames of fear and division on the immigration reform debate, will end up causing the destruction of struggling farms and the communities that rely on them.

"NumbersUSA recently announced a major advertising campaign targeting Congressional districts, including House Speaker John Boehners Ohio district, to scare members of Congress into voting for an immediate E-Verify mandate on employers and the economy.

"SAFE argues NumbersUSA is sabotaging America's food independence and security by threatening Speaker Boehner into forcing passage of Rep. Lamar Smiths (R-TX) Legal Workforce Act or H.R. 2885."

Congratulations to all of you who have faxed in this campaign. Even more congrats to those of you who have made phone calls. And fireworks salutes to those of you who have now visited your Congressman's local office about this.

Below, I'll get back to the fascinating attack on our campaign. Let me just say quickly, though, that:

• Fewer than 5% of illegal aliens work in agriculture. E-Verify is primarily about opening up non-ag jobs to unemployed Americans.
• If E-Verify passes, farmers would have to either hire American workers or apply for legal foreign guestworkers through the unlimited federal guest ag-worker H-2A visa. There would be no reason for any shortage of legal farm workers.
• The ag lobbies' greed for illegal labor is their reason to fight daily to keep E-Verify from being used to open up the construction and service jobs that are eagerly sought among the 20 million Americans who can't find a job or are forced into part-time labor.

S.E. Cupp and Will Cain join Glenn on radio

GBTV's S.E. Cupp and Will Cain joined Glenn on radio to give their take on the craziness that is the GOP Primary season. Do they see anyone other than Mitt taking home the nomination? You can check out the interview HERE.

PLUS Will Cain's confrontation with Sandra Fluke - WATCH.

AND S.E. Cupp sets MSNBC straight for wondering why GOP officials don't address the birther issue more often - WATCH.

TRAVESHAMOCKERY: Glenn holds Dallas Mavs championship; has no idea what it is.

Last night on GBTV:

• Glenn responds to the Nation of Islam threats - WATCH 
• Rev. C.L. Bryant, the filmmaker behind 'Runaway Slave', and Blacklash author Deneen Borelli joined Glenn last night - WATCH.