Quote: 

"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." 

Beck: Progressive 'Mission Accomplished,'

Now on to Phase II - Communism 

If one wanted to destroy America, all one would need to do is break the country into parts and chisel away at each segment, bit by bit. Tuesday's episode of The Glenn Beck Program laid out America's core components and described how each one is being undermined and thus, destroyed. But who is doing the destroying?

Glenn contends that those seeking to dismantle the American way are "no longer progressives." Instead, the left has successfully morphed into what it had always intended to be: Full-fledged Communists.

"Progressives can say mission accomplished. Now it's phase two."

Wis. High School Students Drown Out Pro-Union Protesters With Chants of 'Stand With Walker' 

Pro-union protesters performing a sing-a-long in the Wis. state Capitol.

Usually when the media talks about high school kids at the Wisconsin Capitol it's been about teachers bringing students to protest Wis. Gov. Scott Walker and his budget cuts. But we have some different news to bring you today: during a visit to the Capitol last Thursday, some Wisconsin high school students decided to fight back against the anti-Walker sentiment they were witnessing during an impromptu visit.

In short, students from Sheboygan Lutheran High School decided to stop by the rotunda in Madison while in town for the state high school basketball playoffs. While there, they witnessed protesters signing about unions and solidarity. So they decided to drown them out with pro-walker chants.

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)

This Friday, the Independence Hall Tea Party Association is

marking the 2nd Anniversary of the Passage of ObamaCare with a press conference on Independence Mall. 

Repeal ObamaCare Press Conference

When:   Friday, March 23, 10:30 AM

Where:  Independence Mall, 5th and Chestnut Sts.,

              Philadelphia

Who:     We have invited area Congressmen, dignitaries and

              Tea Party leaders from the Tri-State Region

Why:     To remind the media and the public that our fight to

              repeal ObamaCare has only just begun.

Cost:    Free and open to the public.  Please bring appropriate

             signs.

A short while after the presser, there will be a Rally for Religious Liberty in same vicinity of Independence Mall. 

It is scheduled from 11:45 until 2 PM.  More to follow.

Also, to bring you up to speed, our Pot of Gold Money Drop campaign  has raised an additional $300--bringing our grand total to $2500.

While we greatly appreciate the generosity of those of you that have contributed thus far, we are still short of our $5000 goal.

If you have not yet donated to the Association this year, we ask that you to please consider making a $5 or $10 contribution in the next 9 hours.

or send a check to:

 Independence Hall Tea Party Association

P.O. Box 306 

Cheltenham, PA 19012

We wish we didn't have to ask for money, but we need to pay our various monthly expenses--and they do add up.  Also, we hope to find an office in the near future--a place for all of us to call home.

On behalf of the Independence Hall Tea Party Board,

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

Hear Ye! Hear Ye!

Save the Date: Saturday, April 14, 2012 The Kitchen Table Patriots will be holding a "Red, Right and Blues" Liberty Fest FUNdraiser party We have the venue: Central Bucks Senior Center We have a band: Flamin' Harry Pricing: $25/Person paid in advance, $30/Person at the Door Make checks payable to: Kitchen Table Patriots PAC (non-tax deductible) Mail to: Kitchen Table Patriots, P.O. Box 3 - Doylestown, PA 18901 If you can help, please send us an email. One of the highlights of our fundraisers are the clever and fun raffle baskets assembled by our team and consisting of generous gifts and items donated by many local patriots and businesses. Please review the list of theme baskets and contact Mariann Davies (267) 981-9017 or via e-mail: msbdavies@aol.com, if you wish to donate items, or gift cards for the baskets. Deadline: April 12th, 2012. Here the list of baskets: 1. The Well-Read Patriot: 2. Fourth of July Basket: 3. American Beauty: (Beauty/spa items, jewelry, accessories) 4. Obama's Early Retirement Party: (wine, spirits, goodies, set-ups for the celebration on Nov. 6th, 2012!) 5. School Choice: (for the kids, educational books, games, DVDs, back-to-school supplies) 6. Acts of Valor: (a salute to our military, gifts, t-shirts, books, DVDs, accessories) 7. Don't Tread on Me!: (Gadsden flag items) 8. "Made in America": (gift items made in the U.S.A.) 9. Time for TEA!: ice tea glasses, tray, ice tea, towels, pitcher, tea-pots, etc. 10. Baseball: America's Favorite Pastime! (Phillies items)

Join The Kitchen Table Patriots at this year's PLC, the CPAC of PA March 23 & 24 Pennsylvania Leadership Conference 2012

From our friend Diana Reimer from Philadelphia Tea Party Patriots Road to Repeal Rally Saturday, March 24, 2012 at 12pm Upper Senate Park, Washington, DC Join us on Saturday, March 24, 2012 at 12pm in Washington, DC as we begin our journey down the Road to Repeal. Are you worried about Government run health care? Are you opposed to the Federal government making medical choices for you? Join thousands of patriots who share your views on ObamaCare. Come to Washington, DC and be a part of the Road to Repeal Rally. A majority of Americans view government run health care as a sign of what's to come from big government. More politics, more control and less personal choice. Recent decisions by the US Department of Health and Human Services show precisely how government run healthcare will work. The government will make healthcare decisions based on political considerations over the needs of individuals. Say NO to ObamaCare! Say NO to government managed health care! ObamaCare is set to be heard by the Supreme Court of the United States March 26-28. If the Supreme Court does not throw this monstrosity out, then the battle for our healthcare continues on into November and January. Now is the time to act! We need your help to send a strong, clear message to the big government types who are bent on trampling our personal choice and freedom.This is the first stop on the Road to Repeal! We need your help to win this fight and repeal government run health care! Visit RoadtoRepeal.com to find or list a bus in your area and updates on the event. We look forward to seeing you there. Click below for a special message from Congressman Steve King.      ObamaCare Hearing at the Supreme Court

Ready for another bus trip to Washington DC? The Kitchen Table Patriots is joining with Americans For Prosperity and coordinating a bus from Doylestown to The Supreme Court in Washington, DC to tell them to STOP THE OBAMA HEALTHCARE TAKEOVER! Tuesday, March 27, 2012 9AM - Doylestown Library 150 South Pine Street, Doylestown, PA 18901 Send an email to us to let us know that you are willing to come. Your cost for the trip is on $10.00

Saturday, March 31, 9AM-6PM The Kitchen Table Patriots will be participating in Nullify Now Philadelphia! (Click the image above for additional details and to register) Thomas Jefferson: "Whensoever the general government assumes undelegated powers.... a nullification of the act is the rightful remedy." But what IS nullification? How does it happen and work? Since September 2010, the Tenth Amendment Center has been hosting a national tour to educate and activate people on this topic. People are learning the constitutional basis, when it's been used in history, and how it is happening around the country and how YOU can stop DC right in your own state.

The Kitchen Table Patriots co-chairs and two other KTP members are running for Delegates to the Republican National Convention Thank you so much to all of those who signed our petition. We are on the ballot! Anastasia Przbylski, Ana Puig, Jack Merritt and Dan McCabe will be campaigning county wide. Please send them an email if you would like to help in their effort: TheKitchenTablePatriots@GMail.com

 The Kitchen Table Patriots are joining with a confederation of other Pennsylvania Tea Party, libertarian, conservative, Constitutional, Patriot, and 9-12, organizations to have a consensus on a single candidate that reflects the passion, principles, values and commitment of the grassroots as well as has the acumen and gravitas to beat Senator Bob Casey in November.  All the groups would then commit to supporting this one candidate in the primary.

Doesn't this sound like an endorsement?  Wasn't the KTP opposed to having the PA-GOP endorse a candidate?  Are we now hypocrites if we were to express and support a preference of one candidate over another? 

It sounds like that, but we make these distinctions:

1. The endorsement by the PA-GOP was not from the ground up; it was imposed from the top down.
2. All of the candidates tried to get the PA-GOP endorsement because of the weight it carries.
3. That is why we are asking for your input and not speaking on your behalf to these other organizations.

We are asking you to tell us which of these candidates you support.  By clicking on their name, an email will be generated to us with your preference.  We will then compile the results and submit them to the confederation and when all the groups have spoken, we'll report on the coalition results.  We are then asking everyone to support the candidate that wins the coalition support so that we can speak in a single, loud and passionate voice.

To that end, we ask you to click on one of the names below which will initiate an email to us with your vote.  Please - only one vote per person!

1. Dave Christian.
2. Sam Rohrer.
3. Marc Scaringi.
4. Tom Smith.  
5. Steve Welch.

For those who would like to know more about the candidates, we have three resources for you:

1. Excellent video to get a sense of the GOP candidates - Here is the link to the PCN recording of The Pennsylvania Republican Candidates for the U.S. Senate Debate that was hosted by The Kitchen Table Patriots along with The Loyal Opposition, The Thomas Jefferson Club and Citizens for Constitutional Government. http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/19930833
2. Candidate interviews from Venango Tea Party Patriots: http://www.vctpp.org/u-s-senate-pa-house-candidate-interviews/

The Loyal Opposition of Philadelphia                     

Young Republicans of Philadelphia

Temple University College Republicans

Philadelphia Republican Leadership Council

Invite you to

A CONVERSATION WITH THE CANDIDATES

2012 PENNSYLVANIA SENATE RACE

                         Tom Smith           Steve Welch        Marc Scaringi         David Christian           Sam Rohrer

MODERATOR - DOM GIORDANO

WPHT

Wednesday April 4^th, 6:30-9:00pm

Union League - Lincoln Room

140 South Broad Street

Philadelphia, PA

RSVP: pamelawarren1@comcast.net 

CALLING ALL PATRIOTS!!

VALLEY FORGE PATRIOTS MONTHLY MEETING

FRIDAY, APRIL 13^TH, 6:00 pm

PHOENIXVILLE COUNTRY CLUB

355 COUNTRY CLUB ROAD

Come on out and help us make plans to Get Out The Vote (GOTV) for the primary election on April 24.

We need everyone to participate leading up to the most important presidential & senate election of our life time.

We are also honored to have William E. Been author of "Masters of Audacity and Deceit" discuss the important elements of his book including: Progressivism's Threat to America, the New World Order and George Soros, Wall Street, Mainstream Media and the Democrat Party, and Housing Crisis, Financial Crisis and the Great Recession.

Don't miss this chance to get together with your fellow Patriots and participate in a stimulating discussion.

You can sign up at www.meetup.com/vfp-teaparty09/ or at www.vfpatriots.com

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.

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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

Shalom ZOA Members, Friends and Supporters of Israel,

UPCOMING EVENT:

UNITEPA912 & The 912 Gazette is proud to announce our endorsement of the

"Only Choice"...Sam Rohrer!

Mike Souders-Organizer

www.unitepa912.com

+God Bless America+

SamRohrer

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.

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

Health Care Exchange - Part II

In December of 2011, the PA Coalition first reported that Governor Corbett and his willing accomplices in the GOP dominated legislature were planning to implement a state run "Health Care Exchange". Since that first announcement, a rising tide of grass roots opposition to the Exchange has been occurring with delegations meeting with legislators to voice our opposition to the proposal. If you are attending the upcoming PA Leadership Conference, please stop by the Coalition booth to pick up more literature on the subject and speak to Dr. Nick Pandelidis to find out more.

A Bad Idea: Establishing an ObamaCare Exchange for Pennsylvania

Dr. Nick Pandelidis, Director of Health Care Policy for PA Coalition for Responsible Government

The proposal of the Corbett administration and the state legislature to establish a health care exchange would create a large bureaucracy to administer ObamaCare mandates, subsidies, regulations and rationing.

Proponents say an exchange established by the state will give Pennsylvania more control over the administration of ObamaCare if the federal law is upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court.  This is an illusion because the Obama administration has made it clear that it will impose its will irrespective of anything done at the state level.

A better course of action is for Pennsylvania government to continue to fight ObamaCare in legal cases already in progress and to develop market-based solutions to problems in the health-care system

The activities of the state's ObamaCare exchange would include:

• Determining subsidy levels for private insurance products
• Verifying income eligibility and tax credit and cost-sharing subsidies by sending information to the IRS
• Verifying exemptions from ObamaCare's individual mandate to purchase insurance by sending information to the IRS
• Certifying that an individual is exempt from the individual mandate

 Read more

High Health Care Costs - Causes and Solutions

Dr. Nick Pandelidis, Director of Health Care Policy for PA Coalition for Responsible Government

The ever increasing cost of health care threatens the financial well-being of people, businesses and governments at all levels.

The underlying causes include the third-party payer system - private and public - that disconnects the patient from the payment of those services.  The arrangement is not insurance in the usual sense but rather a prepayment of services that promotes overutilization and reduces transparency of cost and quality.

Other significant cost drivers include decreased market competition forces by injudicious insurance regulation, the federal tax policy that promotes employer-provided insurance over individually owned insurance, and medical malpractice tort abuse.

ObamaCare, with its 150 new boards and agencies, exacerbates these causes by expanding the third-party system.  It will decrease competition by eliminating all but the largest insurers, and it fails to address tort reform and the federal tax treatment of insurance.

RedState Morning Briefing

For March 21, 2012

1. The Nominee

It is a mathematical improbability that Rick Santorum will get to the magic number of 1,144 - the number of delegates needed to be the Republican Presidential nominee. It is a political improbability that Rick Santorum will stop Mitt Romney from getting to 1,144.

Last night in Illinois, Mitt Romney won his first victory without caveats.

Even in Florida, a big win, there were plenty - counties that saw increased turnout rejected him. The northern part of the state rejected him. It required an amalgamation of voters not quite typical of the base to get Romney the nod in Florida.

In Illinois, Romney won. Period. The Santorum campaign stumbled badly in Puerto Rico, gave up a lead in Illinois, and the candidate proved horribly undisciplined. Like Dug the dog in Up getting distracted by every random squirrel, Rick Santorum loses all ability to focus when social issues come up. His lack of discipline and message focus steering those issues to families as he did so beautifully in the Mesa, AZ debate has hindered him and solidified a media narrative that he is more concerned with those issues than jobs and the economy. It is not fair. It is not even accurate. But fairness and accuracy are rare commodities in American retail politics and Rick Santorum has not leveraged his strengths well.

On the other hand, Mitt Romney's win in Illinois still highlights his struggles. Blue collar voters are not fond of him. Staunchly conservative voters are not either. Evangelical voters also are not fond of him. The voters do not feel quite comfortable with their pick. But though evangelicals and social conservatives are the base of the base of the Republican Party, they are not enough to stop Mitt Romney and a spending advantage some have estimated topped 20 to 1 against Santorum in Illinois.

This is not to say the race is over. Far from it. Rick Santorum will probably win Louisiana. Conservatives will rally to Santorum and continue protesting Romney as the nominee. But it will not be enough. Romney will do well in New England and the remaining mid-Atlantic states. He will do well out west, winning California.

2. A Look at Obama's Budget Priorities

When President Obama released his fiscal year 2013 budget, he revealed a great deal about his priorities for the remainder of this term and the possibility of his next. First in his State of the Union address and then for the past month on the campaign trail, he has repeated the message that it is crucial to promote all types of energy. This message is not reflected in his budget.

Consider the White House's push to repeal certain tax provisions - credits available to all industries -for just oil and natural gas firms, while seeking subsidy extensions and new tax credits to "green energy" favorites. Selectively levying $46 billion in new taxes on oil and natural gas companies and subsidizing "renewable" companies in hopes of huge job growth and technological change goes against the very nature of the market. But it is the Obama approach. He wants vindictive tax hikes on the oil and natural gas industry and massive subsidies and non-recourse loans for his favorites; this president is trying to rig the base of the U.S. economy. That policy imposes heavy costs and economic suffering on all Americans.

Oddly, his budget also attacks economically-deprived families suffering even before they try to deal with the costs of heating and cooling their homes.

3. Trayvon Martin And Perspective

On February 26 in a suburb of Orlando, a Hispanic man, George Zimmerman, shot to death an unarmed African-American teenager, Trayvon Martin. Zimmerman was on neighborhood watch, carrying a pistol. "Zimmerman spotted Martin as he was patrolling his neighborhood on a rainy evening and called 911 to report a suspicious person. Against the advice of the 911 dispatcher, Zimmerman then followed Martin, who was walking home from a convenience store with a bag of Skittles in his pocket." To date, Zimmerman has not been arrested, but after a media outcry, local and federal grand jury investigations have been opened. Zimmerman contends that he shot Martin in self-defense; there are no eyewitnesses and the details are murky, but at least one witness overheard a confrontation. Presumably, further investigation will be needed before prosecutors can build a case that does not leave the claim of self-defense surrounded by a cloud of reasonable doubt, ending with a Casey Anthony type verdict. There's been some discussion about Florida's particularly strong self-defense law, but in any state in the Union, if a jury believes there is a real possibility that Zimmerman acted in self-defense, he'd be acquitted, and if the jury doesn't, he'd be convicted.

The Martin case is a legitimate local news story, of the type that crops up now and then - in major cities like New York, where I live, we have multiple crime stories a year that involve sensational or particularly tragic facts and - at least at the outset - a significant possibility that injustice will be done either to the victim, the defendant, or both. Such cases test public confidence in the competence and fairness of local law enforcement, and sometimes find both to be wanting.

But the media feeding frenzy over this particular story - one out of the thousands of homicides in this country - in apparent response to a left-wing campaign to keep it in the national news, reflects at best a loss of perspective and at worst a cynical effort to inflame racial division in an election year.

4. Ryan Budget: A Good Start, but will it Matter?

The much-anticipated Ryan budget for FY 2013, which also contains a blueprint for the next ten years, has been released. The headline figures of the proposal include the following factoids: it will spend $5.3 trillion less than Obama's plan and cut $2 trillion more in taxes over the next ten years; it will spend $4.15 less than CBO baseline; spending will be reduced from 24% of GDP to 19.8% and the debt held by the public will decline from73.2% of GDP to 62.3%.

The lion's share of the savings come from welfare and other mandatory spending reforms ($1.9 trillion), block granting Medicaid to the states ($810 billion), and repealing Obamacare ($1.6 trillion). There are also $33 billion in much-needed cuts to farm subsidies (some Republicans are already grumbling about that).

5. How Much Do You Pay For Gas?

"The tools we have at our disposal are limited, but I would I say I would give myself a little higher in that since I became Secretary of Energy, I've been doing everything I can to get long-term solutions." - Energy Secretary Steven Chu, on whether he would give himself an A minus on gas prices.

The above quote is from a House Hearing this morning. Ed Morrissey breaks down the reality, and has video of the Secretary's testimony.

A Minus? The George Allen campaign today has a fantastic, and depressing, new website out today that suggests a different grade. At www.TooMuchAtThePump.com, you can put in the make and model of your car, or the size of the tank, and you get a comparison between what it took to fill your tank in January of 2009 versus now. The results will blow your wallet up.

6. Jason Mattera Detonates Hollywood

Over the weekend we saw American songwriter and rapper Cee Lo Green headline a fundraiser for Barack Obama in Atlanta. Never mind the fact that the Left continues to lecture us about civility in the midst of Green singing the unedited version of his song, "Fu*** You," while flipping off the crowd. The presence of this popular artist headlining an Obama rally shows once again how the Hollywood elite will try to sell President Obama to us in 2012 just like they did in 2008. As my buddy Jason Mattera reveals in his brand-new book Hollywood Hypocrites: The Devastating Truth About Obama's Biggest Backers, there is an extensive power nexus between Tinseltown and the Obama reelection campaign. Conservatives may not realize just how deeply entwined the two are.

Jason writes, "The same Hollywood loons who got Obama elected will do so again. That is, unless we muzzle them. How? Not the way the Left tries to do, by silencing dissent. But by putting their political stances and public statements under the microscope of scrutiny to analyze whether they live by the same policy prescriptions they seek to inflict on America."

Buy Hollywood Hypocrites today. You won't look at Springsteen, Bon Jovi, Bono, Harrison Ford, Arianna Huffington, and many more A-list celebrities the same.

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Quote the wisdom of Al "Nostradamus" Gore:  

"The heart of the security agenda is protecting lives-and we now know that the number of people who will die of AIDS in the first decade of the twenty-first century will rival the number that died in all the wars in all the decades of the twentieth century."  

Fellow patriots,

In light of the articles below, you'll appreciate the idiocy of the useful idiots shouting down Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer as the duo speaks out against a mosque being built in the heart of a residential neighborhood in Sheepshead Bay, NY àhttp://loganswarning.com/2011/03/14/logan-geller-and-spencer-take-it-to-the-streets/ 

Dave

American killed in Yemen 'highly respected' Islam

By NBC News, msnbc.com staff and news services contributed to this report, March 19, 2012, http://worldnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/03/19/10756125-american-killed-in-yemen-highly-respected-islam

The employers of an American man killed while working in Yemen said in a statement Monday that he "highly respected" Islam, after a group tied to al-Qaida claimed it had executed him because of his "Christian proselytizing."

Joel Shrum, a teacher at the International Training Development Center, was shot dead Sunday in the city of Taiz where he worked.

A group linked to al-Qaida, Ansar al-Sharia (Partisans of Islamic Law), claimed responsibility.

"This operation comes as a response to the campaign of Christian proselytizing that the West has launched against Muslims," an unidentified person said in a text message to journalists, claiming responsibility on behalf of the group.

American killed in Yemen; al-Qaida-linked group claims responsibility

In its statement Monday, the International Training Development Center said that the man it identified only as "Joel S." was driving from his house to its office in Taiz when he was shot dead by armed men on a motorcycle.

"Unfortunately Mr. Shrum has been accused of being a part of proselytizing campaign, but the staff of ITDC, which consists of Muslims and Christians working together, has continually focused on human development, skill transfer and community development," the statement said.

"In ITDC's cooperative environment, Muslims students are highly respected and observe religious prayers on the property. Overall, religious and political debates are not permitted at ITDC," it added. "Joel S. was a very professional employee who highly respected the Islamic religion. ITDC is calling on the Yemeni people to rise up and rejects this hatred and violence in their country."

The statement said the ITDC facility in Taiz was closed and the security of the foreign staff members was being addressed.

NBC News and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Crackdown in Iran Hits Official Churches

Authorities target Isfahan's Anglicans, as well as 'underground' Christians

By Compass Direct News   March 18, 2012|5:50 pm   http://www.christianpost.com/news/crackdown-in-iran-hits-official-churches-71640/

In a rare crackdown on a concentrated area, Iranian authorities have arrested Christians living in the country's third largest city in what is seen as a tactic to discourage Muslims and converts to Christianity from attending official churches.

Since last month officials have arrested about 12 Christian converts in Isfahan, 340 kilometers (211 miles) south of Tehran. Authorities have arrested leaders and members of churches meeting in buildings, as well as some from underground churches, according to Mohabat News.

The targeted arrests started on Feb. 22, when intelligence officers arrested approximately seven Christians at their homes between 6 a.m. and 7 a.m., Mohabat reported. Authorities raided their homes and confiscated valuables, including Bibles, computers, identification and other documents, and in one case even pictures decorating walls.

The Christian Iranian news service identified those detained on Feb. 22 as Hekmat Salimi, pastor of St. Paul Anglican Church, a convert of 30 years and author of theological books; Giti Hakimpour, 78, a female pastor at St. Luke's Anglican Church; Shahram Ghaedi, an actor; Maryam Del-Aram, 54; Shahnaz Zarifi, a mother of two; and Enayat Jafari.

Another Christian, Majid Enayat, was arrested on the same day at his workplace. He is a member of a house church, and Mohabat reported that prior to his arrest, authorities arrested other members of his group. Some of these Christians warned him that authorities intended to arrest him.

Of those arrested, Mohabat reported that authorities released Hakimpour on Feb. 25. Authorities have denied proper medical treatment to Del-Aram, who is under medical supervision. When her daughter tried to bring her medication to her at the prison, they refused it, according to Mohabat.

On March 2, authorities arrested another convert in Isfahan, Fariborz Parsi-Nejad.

Authorities have allegedly arrested more Christians in Isfahan, but sources have not been able to confirm the arrests and details. None of those arrested in Isfahan last month has been officially charged.

Though religious freedom monitors in Iran said it was not clear what triggered authorities to target Christians in Isfahan, one Iranian Christian outside the country said it may be yet another tactic to stop converts from attending Farsi-speaking meetings in official church buildings.

"I now have 12 names of Christians arrested in Isfahan," said the Iranian Christian, who requested anonymity. "Isfahan is a very Islamic city. We have two or three church buildings there. The government is very sensitive in Isfahan, which is the only city apart from Tehran with official church buildings. Now the government is focusing on the church buildings to scare the people so they don't go."

There are also a number of church buildings in various cities in Iran that are attended by ethnic Armenian Christians. The services are held in Armenian, and members have relatively more freedom to meet.

Earlier in February, authorities in Tehran ordered Emmanuel Protestant Church and St. Peter's Evangelical Church to discontinue their Farsi-language services. These were the last two official churches in the capital offering Farsi-language services on Fridays.

On Feb. 12, Noorallah Qabitizade was transferred to Dastgerd Prison in Isfahan. He was originally arrested in Dezful on Dec. 24, 2010, and this is the third time authorities have transferred him to a different prison because he is outspoken about his faith while incarcerated. His conditions in Isfahan were expected to be harsher, according to Mohabat.

Previous Arrests
Since the beginning of this year, authorities have arrested Christian converts in Tehran, Ahwaz, Shiraz, Isfahan and Kermanshah.

In Tehran, authorities on Feb. 8 arrested the pastor of Narmak Assemblies of God Church. He was released on bail on Feb. 16. Sources reported that his arrest was part of a government targeting of government-sanctioned, evangelical denominations.

In Kermanshah, authorities raided a house church on Feb. 21, arresting 13 Christians who had gathered to worship. Authorities verbally and physically abused them during the arrest, according to Mohabat. Of those arrested, most were released the next day, and now only three remain in prison.

But the Revolutionary Court of Kermanshah last month sentenced Masoud Delijani, a convert to Christianity arrested last year, to three years in prison on charges of being a Christian, holding illegal house church gatherings, evangelizing Muslims and action "against national security," according to Mohabat.

Arrested on March 17, 2011, Delijani suffered great mental and physical pressure while in prison, according to Mohabat. In July 2011 he was released on bail amounting to about US$100,000 and rearrested two weeks later. Authorities did not give him due legal process, denying him legal defense, according to Mohabat.

In January 2010, officials had ordered the Pentecostal Church of Assyrians in Kermanshah to close on charges of spreading Christianity among Muslims.

Christians in Iran, most belonging to networks of house churches meeting in small groups in secret, are routinely arrested and interrogated. Iranian authorities view Christianity as a deviant anti-government movement and Christians as pawns of the West.
Iran is the fifth worst persecutor of Christians in the world, according to the most recent World Watch List by Christian support group Open Doors.

Free Speech vs. Islamists: Why the West Is Losing

A steady retreat worldwide.

By Adam Turner  March 12, 2012

http://pjmedia.com/blog/free-speech-vs-islamists-worldwide-west-is-losing/?singlepage=true 

Recently, Salman Rushdie did not attend a literature festival in India after Indian authorities warned him he was a potential target of assassins, and after numerous protests by various Islamist groups. This is not the first time that Mr. Rushdie found himself at odds with Islamists over his free speech. In 1988, he published his book The Satanic Verses, whose "blasphemous writings" first resulted in death threats to Mr. Rushdie from Islamists - including a fatwa against him by Ayatollah Khomeini - and first alerted the world to the problems Islamists had with free speech concerning Islam-related topics.

After initially trying to apologize to appease his Islamist censors, Rushdie was forced to go underground under protective detail. In 2012, almost a quarter of a century from when he first found himself enmeshed in the struggle for free speech, Mr. Rushdie faced a similar threat and once again was forced to back down.

Unfortunately, the Rushdie example is all too representative of how things are going in the Western struggle to protect speech from Islamist thugs. In other words, not well. Things are probably getting worse.

Back in 1989, most in the Western world were still shocked by the threat against Rushdie, and after some hemming and hawing eventually came out in support of his right to say what he wanted to say about his own, lapsed religion. Today, virtually no one seems to notice or care when Rushdie is once again threatened for his speech. That is because today, Islamist death threats made against persons who speak about Islam-related topics are so commonplace (recall South Park, Charlie Hebdo, and David Letterman). The world is so accustomed to placing the blame on the speakers that there really isn't much to get indignant about.

Note the sentiments from the Time Paris bureau chief expressed regarding the bombing of Charlie Hebdo:

Okay, so can we finally stop with the idiotic, divisive, and destructive efforts ... to bait Muslim members with petulant, futile demonstrations that "they" aren't going to tell "us" what can and can't be done in free societies? Because not only are such Islamophobic antics futile and childish, but they also openly beg for the very violent responses from extremists their authors claim to proudly defy in the name of common good.

Back in 1989, many Muslim states - and Muslim leaders in the West and elsewhere - also objected to the threats against Rushdie. On the government level, the Iranians found little support for their fatwa from other Muslim nations. (Although this may also be because most other leaders were Sunni Muslims, while the ayatollah and the Iranians were Shia.) Most Muslim government leaders avoided speaking about the whole issue altogether and limited their actions to banning the book in their nations. Some Egyptian ministers, Turkish political leaders, and even Saddam Hussein objected to the death fatwa. There were even some Muslim intellectuals who objected to the death threats, like Professor Mehmet Hatipoglu of Ankara University.

However, these days there seems to be a contest between Muslim nations and Muslim sects as to which group can censor an "Islamophobe" - either a Westerner, or a native - the fastest.

I have written about the increasing rise of blasphemy accusations in Pakistan, where the blasphemy laws were dramatically strengthened in the late 1980s by introducing the death penalty and dropping the previous requirement of "intent to blaspheme" (i.e., a person can now blaspheme by accident). Christians, Hindus, Ahmadis, Shias, and other Muslim sects are the usual targets of these laws; sometimes even the majority Sunni Muslims run afoul.

Likewise, Indonesians are now going after their own blasphemers such as Bramantyo Prijosusilo, an East Java-based artist and journalist who was attacked by dozens of Islamists and later brought up on blasphemy charges. He was attacked and charged for a performance piece of his which he hoped would inspire people to fight against radicalism, intimidation, and violence.

In Tunisia, a television director has been put on trial on charges of blasphemy, facing possibly up to five years in prison for broadcasting the French animated movie Persepolis, which contains a brief scene depicting Allah speaking in Tunisian slang. In Yemen, Nobel Peace laureate Tawakkul Karman has received a death threat from Muslim militants for alleged blasphemy. In Abu Dhabi, a British engineer faced prison time for cursing a mosque project that was running late. His blasphemous words: "When will we finish with the damn mosques?" In Dubai, another British citizen found himself in trouble for reportedly calling the Islamic prophet Muhammad a "terrorist" in a heated row with a salesman in a shopping mall.

Further, since 1999 the Muslim world - through the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) - has been pushing resolutions through the UN General Assembly and the UN Human Rights Council to restrict "defamation of religions" (read as "defamation of Islam") throughout the world.

Also, these days, when Islamists threaten free speech about Islam-related topics with violence, legal action, boycotts, or complaints about "Islamophobia," many Westerners - especially the leftist European and American elite - actually join in the efforts. In Germany, the government recently announced that it would be monitoring the "counterjihadi websites" to make sure no hateful language was used. Presumably, those malefactors found will be prosecuted for their anti-Islam "hate speech," as were Geert Wilders and Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff. In Scandinavian nations, so-called "right-wing" parties that are concerned about unlimited immigration and the unwillingness of the mostly Muslim immigrants to integrate are branded the ideological sympathizers of one of the few non-Islamist terrorists, Anders Breivik, so as to undermine the appeal of the "right-wing" parties to the average voting citizen.

In the U.S., thanks to a little pressure from CAIR - which because of politically correct feelings is able to avoid the stigma of being recognized as a group with "ties to terrorism" - websites like Bare Naked Islam are taken down (but later returned), the NYPD is increasingly derided for being anti-Muslim, and honored generals are shunned. A Pennsylvania judge decided that a Muslim's decision to choke an offending atheist - who was parading down the street as "Zombie Mohammed," right next to "Zombie Pope" - is no reason to punish the choker, but reason enough to lecture the chokee for being a "doofus."

Even the U.S. president meekly apologizeds, along with much of his administration, for the accidental burning of Korans in Afghanistan.

Most disturbingly, international organizations are increasingly getting into the Islam-related censorship field. As I have already mentioned, the OIC has pushed resolutions through the UN General Assembly and the UN Human Rights Council since 1999 to restrict "defamation of religions." Egypt and Pakistan have also forced the UN Human Rights Council to ban in-depth discussion of religions after an NGO representative to that body described female genital mutilation as sanctioned by Islamic law. Interpol, the world's largest international police organization, may have been enlisted by Saudi Arabia to help track down Muslims who violate that nation's "blasphemy laws." If this occurred, this action violates Interpol's own constitutional neutrality clause which states that it is "strictly forbidden" for the organization to undertake any intervention of a religious character. Even the OSCE, an organization most Americans have never heard of, is now promoting censorship at the behest of Muslim Europeans.

There is at least one Western man who stands strong. In 2007, Lars Vilks, a Swedish cartoonist, drew a cartoon depicting the Prophet Muhammad as a dog. He immediately found himself threatened by death by Islamists and was forced into protective detail. But he kept on speaking out in defense of free speech. At one of his most recent lectures, where Vilks showed a picture of Mohammed in front of a beer bottle, he found himself pelted by eggs thrown by Islamic radicals.

But otherwise, the situation is bleak.

The author is a former counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee for national security issues and is currently staff counsel for The Legal Project.

The 'False Alarm' of the Latest Executive Order

by Edward Cline

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Banned Speech at the Hyatt: Pamela Geller, "Truth is the New Hate Speech"

 Pamela Geller speaks to the Sugar Land Tea Party in Sugar Land, Texas. This event was originally to be held at the HyattPlace in Sugar Land but was canceled with less than 30 hours notice after the hotel received one email threatening to protest her appearance. The event was relocated to the Sugar Land Community Center.

Very informative about the Islamization of America. Pay attention.

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Law Students for the Nanny State

By Discover The Networks

Law Students for Reproductive Justice, the group with which Sandra Fluke has held a leadership role, believes that both private and publicly-funded healthcare insurers should pay for all services related to contraception, abortion, sterilization, and gender-identity surgery-so as to enable women to fully control their own "reproductive destiny."

March 20, 2012
  Textbook analysis report
released today!
  A special message from
Brigitte Gabriel, President,
ACT! for America Education

  www.ACTforAmericaEducation.org  

It is with great delight that I announce to you that today we released "Education or Indoctrination? The Treatment of Islam in 6^th through 12^th Grade American Textbooks."

ACT! for America Education Executive Director Guy Rodgers and I began discussing this project nearly four years ago. Today, that project is a reality-and I believe that one year from now you and I will look back on this as a truly historic accomplishment that helped change the course of education in America.

This report shines a bright light on a pattern of errors, omissions and bias in the textbooks reviewed. Our children deserve better. Our children deserve facts and accuracy, not historical revisionism.

To give you just one example of the errors our research uncovered, in discussing the 9/11 attacks, the textbooks typically fail to mention the perpetrators were Muslims or that they acted in the cause of Islamic jihad. In one book the terrorists are portrayed as people fighting for a cause. In just a few years after September 11th, the history of what happened on that tragic day was rewritten in our school textbooks. Omitting this vital information, that jihad was the motivation for the attacks, makes it difficult, if not impossible, for today's young teens, who don't remember 9/11, to really understand what happened that day-and why.

Please forward this email to anyone and everyone you know. Help us get the word out far and wide! Over the next few months we hope to wake up America to what this report has uncovered!

To access the report log on to www.ACTforAmericaEducation.org. Once there you will find the following:

Tuesday, March 20, 2012

To: Friends & Supporters

From: Gary L. Bauer


COUNTDOWN TO VICTORY: 231 DAYS TO THE 2012 ELECTIONS


Obama Beats Bush

CBS News reported yesterday evening that Barack Obama's out-of-control deficit spending has broken a new record. After just three years and two months in office, Obama has added more to the national debt than George W. Bush did in eight years. That means Obama is spending money twice as fast as Bush did.

Consider these excerpts:

"The Debt rose $4.899 trillion during the two terms of the Bush presidency. It has now gone up $4.939 trillion since President Obama took office. The latest posting from the Bureau of Public Debt at the Treasury Department shows the National Debt now stands at $15.566 trillion. It was $10.626 trillion on President Bush's last day in office, which coincided with President Obama's first day.

"The National Debt also now exceeds 100% of the nation's Gross Domestic Product, the total value of goods and services. ...If Mr. Obama wins re-election, and his budget projections prove accurate, the National Debt will top $20 trillion in 2016, the final year of his second term. That would mean the Debt increased by 87 percent, or $9.34 trillion, during his two terms."

America cannot afford four more years of Barack Obama!


Ryan To The Rescue

Thanks to Obama's out-of-control spending, America is in a fiscal crisis. The numbers above are mind-numbing, but a day of reckoning is fast approaching. House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) is once again proposing a very different approach than business as usual in Washington -- one that cuts spending, cuts taxes and preserves entitlement programs by reforming them in future years.

Here are some key elements of Rep. Ryan's proposed budget:

• Ryan's budget repeals ObamaCare, saving trillions.
• It would reduce spending by $100 billion in 2013 and freeze it for two years. Over time, Ryan's budget cuts $5.3 trillion in spending.
• By 2015, the deficit would fall from the current estimate of $1.2 trillion to $300 billion.
• It dramatically simplifies the tax code from six brackets to two -- 10% and 25% -- eliminates the alternative minimum tax and reduces the corporate tax rate from 35% to 25%.
• It preserves Medicare by reforming it for future retirees. Current beneficiaries and those near retirement would experience no changes.

This is a very bold budget that stands in stark contrast to Obama's trillion-dollar deficits and crushing tax hikes. It also stands in stark contrast to Harry Reid's "do-nothing" Senate, which has not passed a budget in more than 1,000 days.

Predictably, Democrats are already savaging Ryan's latest budget. But as the co-chairmen of Barack Obama's own National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility warned last year, America is facing "the most predictable economic crisis in history." And as noted above, Obama's policies have pushed us to the brink. Clearly, something has to change. I suggest we start by changing the leadership in the White House and Senate on November 6th!


Is ObamaCare Key To Victory?

ObamaCare turns two this Friday. You would think the White House would be celebrating. There is no denying that it's Barack Obama's signature accomplishment. Healthcare "reform" was the Democrats' "holy grail," a goal decades in the making. But it has cost them.

After HillaryCare failed to pass, Democrats lost the House of Representatives in the historic 1994 election. When ObamaCare passed, Democrats again lost the House in the historic 2010 election. And the law's continued unpopularity may well cost them the White House in 2012.

For example, according to the latest Rasmussen poll, 56% of likely voters favor repealing ObamaCare. Last month, a Gallup poll found that 72% of Americans, including 56% of Democrats, believe ObamaCare's individual mandate is unconstitutional. With numbers like that, ObamaCare will be an albatross around Barack Obama's neck as he seeks reelection.

Or will it?

One of the reasons why I support and endorsed Senator Rick Santorum is because I believe the GOP needs a nominee who can credibly and authentically stand against ObamaCare and its big government mandates.

I know Governor Mitt Romney says he wants to repeal ObamaCare. But as my good friend Bill Kristol argues, Mitt Romney could have trouble making the case against mandates because he once defended them, saying, "I like mandates. The mandates work." But as we know from Gallup and other polls, the American people don't like mandates.


Bristol Blasts Barack

Kudos to Bristol Palin! In a blog post Sunday, Bristol blasted Barack Obama's hypocrisy for calling and publicly defending Sandra Fluke while his super PAC accepted a $1 million check from Bill Maher. Palin writes:

"I'm not expecting your SuperPAC to return the money.  You're going to need every dime to hang on to your presidency.  I'm not even really expecting a call.  But would it be too much to expect a little consistency?  After all, you're President of all Americans, not just the liberals."

You can read Bristol's entire post here.


Obama's Anti-Israel Faith Advisor

Most Americans have never heard of Dalia Mogahed. She is Executive Director of and Senior Analyst for the Gallup Center for Muslim Studies. In 2009 Barack Obama appointed her to his Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, previously known as the Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives. Mogahed is making headlines not for her scholarly research, but for a Tweet she sent on March 10:

"To those siding w/Assad: he cannot deliver stability, protection of minorities, or resistance to Israel. He is a killer w/o legitimacy."

So just to be clear, Obama's faith advisor wants Bashar al-Assad gone in part because he is insufficiently anti-Israel. She wants the civil war in Syria to end so that a new government can get around to more important things like delivering more "resistance to Israel."

Of course, this raises questions about what kind of advice Mogahed gave on the president's Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships council and why Obama appointed her in the first place.
 

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Obama's 41% approval rate in CBS/NYT poll is far from the only bad news it held for him

Mar 20, 2012 06:13 am | Coach Collins

By Kevin "Coach" Collins

The shock of last week's CBS News/New York Times poll showing Barack Obama at just 41% was well understandable. Incumbent presidents don't get reelected with approval numbers at or below 45%. 

Nevertheless, the results turned out to be a matter of not being able to see the forest for the trees. Since we could not have expected the ashen faced leftists at the New York Times to point out the other bad news in their poll, adding to their misery seems highly appropriate.

Hidden in the report was the fact that a staggering 80% of those polled said they are NOT better off today than they were four years ago. News flash for the "expert pundits": people vote their pocketbook in normal times and these are far from "normal times." Obama is a man who dampens enthusiasm for his own base and builds enthusiasm to vote among his opponents.

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American Minute March 19

Mar 19, 2012 06:13 pm | Coach Collins

By Bill Federer, staff writer

 Nineteen years after Spain won a major naval victory over the Muslim Ottoman navy at the Battle of Lepanto, and two years after England won a major naval victory over Spain's Armada, a boy was born in England on MARCH 19, 1590.

His name was William Bradford.
At age 17, the same year Shakespeare produced his play, "Anthony and Cleopatra,"

William Bradford fled from England to Holland with the persecuted Pilgrims.
At age 30, he sailed with them to America.
In 1621, William Bradford was chosen governor and reelected 30 times till his death.
The main history of the Pilgrims was William Bradford's journal, published as, Of Plymouth Plantation, 1650, in which he wrote:
"Since ye first breaking out of ye lighte of ye gospell in our Honourable Nation of England...what warrs and opposissions...Satan hath raised...against the Saints...by bloody death and cruell torments...imprisonments, banishments...
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Obama Executive Order imposes martial law on United States

Mar 19, 2012 12:00 pm | Coach Collins

by Doug Book, staff writer

On Friday evening Barack Hussein Obama signed into existence "National Defense Resources Preparedness," an Executive Order which will afford the president dictatorial powers over the nation and the American people whenever he chooses to implement it.

Some of the more important-and frightening-dictates of the Obama decree:

The President can place the Order in effect virtually whenever and for whatever reason he wishes. Although related to the Defense Production Act of 1950, written as a result of the Korean War, the current Executive Order makes it clear that the nation need not be at war or threatened with aggression by outside forces to be implemented. The Order specifically states that it may be activated in peacetime.

All actions of the Order are ultimately controlled by the President. Obama has appointed the National Security Council and DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano as the "integrated policymaking forum" for all Order policies.

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Gordon Gekko in Red

Radical theorists never really go away. The debates over what Machiavelli really had in mind still continue, but they are almost irrelevant because it is not what he meant that matters, but what The Prince has meant to actual leaders and rulers as a guide for taking and holding power. The scribblings of every halfway notable leftist scribe drawing out a theoretical society built on some perfect method are still around, no matter how much they have been discredited in practice.

 

Alinsky is the last of them, not the truly last one, but the last of them with anything meaningful to say about applying leftist politics to the modern state, far less interested in how an ideal system should work and far more interested in how to realistically seize power in a modern state with open elections and all the other aspects of a free society.

The burial ground of most leftist thinkers is their ends, their goals lead to an unrealistic system, that is also true of Alinsky, but in an entirely different way. The left generally assumes that the ideal can be made real by applying an ideal philosophy, radicalizing the oppressed and confronting the oppressors. Alinsky is not the idealist's theoretician, he is to theory what a pickpocket is to economics, not very interested in how money is made, but quite interested in showing you how to take it out of someone else's pocket.

The Alinsky way is self-corrupting in the most direct way possible. Those who choose to follow it don't go astray out of nobler motives, they have few of those to begin with. And that self-corruption destroys any possibility of the ends. If the traditional left usually has to come to power to realize the futility of change and give in to its impulse to rob and kill in the traditional autocratic way, those who follow the Alinsky way don't take that long. Turning the means into the ends has been their business all along, and they don't need to wait until disillusionment sets in to get to work.

Totalitarian leftist regimes end up purging their own idealists for not getting with the means as ends program. Lenin and Stalin butchered the very people who made the revolution happen, because they would interfere with their drive for absolute power. But Alinsky offered a preemptive purge for the American left, it didn't take all the way, without the deluded idealist, the left would hardly exist, but he sharpened its predatory instincts.

The only possible outcome of the Alinsky path is a mafia state. For Alinsky disciples, the means are always more important than the ends, and the more they corrupt themselves and their own movement, the more the country they run starts resembling Russia or Nigeria as a corrupt hellhole where no one trusts anyone and underhanded deals, bribery and con games are the national pastime.

Corrupt methods end up corrupting everything they touch.

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