Quote: 

"Objects of the most stupendous magnitude, and measure in which the lives and liberties of millions yet unborn are intimately interested, are now before us. We are in the very midst of a revolution the most complete, unexpected and remarkable of any in the history of nations." 

~ John Adams, letter to William Cushing, 1776  

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Please join Hillsdale College for our next

First Principles on First Fridays lecture:

"Obamacare's Assault on

Religious Liberty"

Paul A. Rahe

Professor of History, Hillsdale College

Tuesday, April 10, 2012

12:00 noon - 1:00 p.m.

227 Massachusetts Avenue, NE * Washington, D.C. 20002

Lunch will be provided.

Paul A. Rahe holds the Charles O. Lee and Louise K. Lee Chair in Western Heritage and is Professor of History at Hillsdale College. He earned his Ph.D. from Yale University and has taught at Cornell University and the University of Tulsa. He blogs on Ricochet.com and has authored several books, including Soft Despotism, Democracy's Drift and Republics Ancient and Modern: Classical Republicanism and the American Revolution.

Please register to attend this First Principles on First Fridays lecture in person or to watch online.

Please note that this month's program will take place on a Tuesday in deference to Good Friday.

Funding for this month's First Principles on First Fridays program has been provided by the Philip M. McKenna Foundation.

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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

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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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.

TOWNHALL IN BUCKS COUNTY 

7:00-8:30 pm

Quakertown, PA

What:  Town Hall with Sam Rohrer, sponsored by Citizens for Constitutional Government

When:  Tuesday, April 10, 7pm

Where:  Quakertown Library, 401 W. Mill St, Quakertown

Patriots,

    SAM ROHRER NEEDS YOUR HELP IN SPREADING THE WORD ABOUT HIS CANDIDACY FOR U.S. SENATE in the Republican Primary on April 24.

    PLEASE PRINT the FAITH & FREEDOM LETTER attached addressed to Pastors and GIVE TO YOUR PASTOR (and other pastors in your area) THIS WEEK.   Let him know of Sam's Christian character and integrity in office.  Ask if there is any avenue by which he and/or you could let the church folks know of Sam (email, flyers in lobby, post a flyer on a bulletin board, church bulletin?).

     I also gave our pastor the handout on the Life, Marriage, and Educaton policies Sam supported.  How about printing out enough copies of this handout for your Sunday School group and/or handing them out to your friends at your child's private school or in Bible study, Awanas, or prayer groups?

     Know any homeschoolers?  The Michael Farris letter is specifically directed to homeschoolers, but also reminds us of Sam's  record as a Constitutionalist and the importance of this race and our involvement.

    Please forward the message below with the attached flyers to all pro-life, people of faith and traditional values, Christian school parents, and homeschoolers you know.    Thank you for supporting this courageous champion of liberty,  Jaime

    During his time in office, there was no greater champion of morality, the protection of life and the family, religious liberty, school choice, and homeschooling than SAM ROHRER.....Please read the attached letters of endorsement and information sheets and pass them on.  Also, watch the video clips in the links below to hear of Sam's stand on life, freedom, and faith in his own words. 

 Check out Sam's great website at www.rohrerforsenate.org for more information.  To support Sam's election effort, follow the links on his website to donate or volunteer your time (making calls from home, passing out literature, putting up signs, and/or passing out info at the polls).  Please spread the word to all your friends and family.  

Links to 2010 video clips on these issues....

Abortion http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BYAdybtnpo

Student Freedom and School Choice http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hg1gxEepeI

Easter greetings: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiYs7JBI7lI

"You told the truth and we believe it":  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWh_IsJl-Yw

Attachments:

Faith & Freedom Letter 

Rohrer on Life, Marriage, Education 

Michael Farris endorsement of Sam Rohrer 

Yes, Senator Demint has asked that Sam's supporters flood his Senate Conservatives Fund with calls and emails to endorse Sam. 

 ONLY WE can prove that the grassroots can be relied on to carry Sam to victory over Casey!!  ONLY an outpouring of patriots' support can give Senator Demint the verification he needs to silence the skeptics and throw the political clout and financial resources of his Senate Conservatives Fund behind Sam. 

 This is the EASIEST thing Sam has asked his supporters to do - All you have to  do is click on the links below and say  "Please endorse Sam Rohrer for U.S. Senate."  WE MUST NOT FAIL SAM NOW THIS CLOSE TO VICTORY!!   Jaime

https://www.facebook.com/scfpac

Team, please use the link above to go to Senate Conservatives Fund on Facebook. Let Jim Demint know you support Sam and that he should too.  HE WANTS US TO DO THIS.

Hit him here too: https://www.facebook.com/jimdemint?ref=ts&__adt=3

So far there are five entries on Sam's behalf. That won't do it. Please. This is an easy one. Let's go to work on it!

Resources on 2nd & 10th Amendments for Rohrer outreach to Gun and Fish & Game clubs, gunshops, Constitutionalists  

To: Patriots for Sam!

     Please pass this on.....

     With this great endorsement from Gunowners Of America (see attachment), gun owners and outdoorsmen, with their natural bent toward constitutional rights, are almost a given for Sam  IF THEY HEAR ABOUT HIM - - MANY STILL HAVE NOT.  NOW IS THE TIME to find out through friends or local gun shops when the local gun and F&G clubs have their monthly meetings.  

     Schedule now a visit to clubs who still have one meeting before April 24th; or convince a friend who is a member to speak for Sam at the club if you can't be there; or ask the president if he would mention Sam and pass the flyers around - they are usually very willing.  The attached letter of endorsement from Gunowners Of America is very convincing, focusing on 2nd amendment and 10th amendment.  Also, I would give him your contact info for any of his members that want to volunteer for Sam.

     Following are a couple of good video clips from Sam's 2010 speeches to forward to people who care about these issues.   Ask the Gun/Fish & Game club officers if you can forward informational emails on SAM to their email network, then send the GOA letter, along with these video links.  Watch these yourself: Sam's GREAT responses will convince any gunowner that  he fundamentally understands and believes in the Second Amendment and the clips are short.

     And don't forget the gun shops in your area:  drop off a Sam flyer to post there (Legislative checklist flyer is good too)

     Also, we want to encourage anyone to whom we give info to go to his website, www.rohrerforsenate.org where they can find links to sign up to get email updates from the campaign, to volunteer (we NEED poll workers), and to donate.  Jaime

Sam Rohrer on 2nd Amendment http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KbhwReqDUA 

Gun Control  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxYFJlXAQqs 

Tenth Amendment and (federal) Gun Laws http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5A8a3mp-bI 

On Pennsylvanians' Rights:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFTxFO6GeUw 

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

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

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

Lou Flanagan

The General Wayne Tea Party

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

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

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

A values voter is an informed voter.

Sincerely,

Tony Perkins
President

RedState Morning Briefing

For April 5, 2012

1. Welcome Back, Baseball At last, the long winter of our discontent is over. America's pastime has returned to its home fields. Last night, the World Champion Cardinals took on the revamped Miami Marlins in the United States opener. The Cardinals beat the Marlins 4 to 1 on the Marlins' home turf with Muhammad Ali throwing the first pitch. Today, the other 28 teams return to work. Although the game has changed to a huge extent since the days when fielders (including catchers) played barehanded and pitchers threw underhanded from 50 feet, and although the game has become almost as international in character as soccer, as fans file into stands today and tomorrow bedecked in their favorite team's gear, baseball remains an affirmation of the rebirth of spring and of our uniquely American sense of community and competition. And for fans of all 30 teams (except the Astros), it is a day of eternal hope.  

2. Is This A Subtle Bias At Reuters?

In a story about the White House in damage control mode over the President's rather stupid remarks on the Supreme Court, Reuters reports the following:

"What he did was make an unremarkable observation about 80 years of Supreme Court history," Carney told reporters during a White House briefing dominated by the topic.

and

The president, who taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago, qualified the remark a day later by stressing he meant action by the Court on a matter of commerce, a legal distinction that cut little ice with his critics.

and

"

Since the 1930s the Supreme Court has without exception deferred to Congress when it comes to Congress's authority to pass legislation to regulate matters of national economic importance such as health care, 80 years," Carney said.

What Reuters did not bother to report is that, in fact, the Supreme Court has ruled unconstitutional a piece of legislation that passed with a bipartisan majority via the commerce clause just 17 years ago.

3. By Jon Bruning's Own Logic, Is He Into Gay Marriage and Inappropriate Relationships With Kids?

What a miserable question to have to ask about Nebraska Attorney General and Republican Senate Candidate Jon Bruning - in effect is he, at best, a creepy pervert and at worst a monster. But before you pick up pitch forks and torches against me for asking the question, you need to understand that this is Jon Bruning's own tortured logic in the Nebraska Senate Republican Primary.

Jon Bruning, the Attorney General of Nebraska all but accused his primary opponent, Don Stenberg, of being a pedophile. Bruning did so in a Senate primary debate when the debate kept coming back to Jon Bruning still defending Barack Obama's Attorney General, Eric Holder.

I wish I were making it up, but I am not. Even the Democrats in Nebraska had to jump in and point out that based on Jon Bruning's "evidence" about Don Stenberg, Jon Bruning is guilty of the same.

I warned each and every one of you that Jon Bruning had a reputation for being a hot head who would meltdown under the pressure of a campaign. As appalling as it is, he has done so. If he's resorting to suggesting his primary opponent is a pedophile to distract from inconvenient facts about his support of Eric Holder, to what new depths will the man sink in a general election? To what extent will he embarrass the GOP?

4. Obama's Continuing Assault on the Law, History, and Facts

In the wake of President Obama's moronic and widely-lampooned comments on judicial review yesterday, President Obama offered the following lame (and incorrect) walkback .

5. Does Harry Reid have the courage to boycott MSNBC over Lawrence O'Donnell's bigotry?

It's a valid question, I think, given the way that Lawrence O'Donnell viciously and insultingly went after Mormonism last night on that network. Goodness knows that I have my problems with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. And I have no intention of converting to the LDS faith any time soon, or indeed at all. But to say "Mormonism was created by a guy in upstate New York in 1830 when he got caught having sex with the maid and explained to his wife that God told him to do it" in the pursuit of crude partisan purposes is an insult that splatters far beyond its designated target (in this case, Mitt Romney).

I understand that Harry Reid was a boxer, when younger. If the Senator takes this punch without hitting back, then those days are long gone for him, indeed.

6. Mike Lee Wants to End the 'Monetary Morphine' at the Fed

What's worse than Congress picking winners and losers and distorting the free-market with bailouts, stimulus, and tendentious interventions on behalf of specific industries? Unelected members of the Federal Reserve doing the same through monetary policy.

It is amazing to watch how many Republicans will speak with such conviction against Keynesian fiscal stimulus policies, yet they will fervently promote monetary stimulus policies by the unaccountable Federal Reserve. Their support for near-zero interest rates, quantitative easing, bailouts, and intervention in the housing sector has muddled our message against Obama's anti-free-market policies. Moreover, in this time of record commodity prices, pro-(monetary) stimulus Republicans preclude us from showing how government intervention on behalf of special interests distorts the markets, depletes savings, and devalues the currency - a winning political argument if there ever was one.

7. Our Dangerous Dependence on Foreign Chocolate

America is addicted to chocolate. Foreign chocolate.

A majority of us consume chocolate each day. Although the U.S. produces only 6% of the world's cocoa, we consume more than 20%.

The threat is obvious. It's time for government to step in and promote alternatives.

Any day, President Obama will be barnstorming the country to tell us, "If we really want chocolate security and chocolate independence, we've got to start looking at how we use less cocoa and use sources that we can renew and that we can control, so we are not subject to the whims of what's happening in other countries."

Today, we are at the mercy of Africa, which produces over 75% of the world's cocoa. That's an unstable source, which means our chocolate dependency undermines national security.

Each of us probably began with that first innocent M&M but now it's an unsustainable $13-billion a year habit. The average American eats 11 pounds of chocolate per year. We gain weight from chocolate. Pimples get blamed on chocolate.

Heritage Hotsheet

Experts on the Day's Hottest News

Items for April 5, 2012

US sets stage for trial of 9/11 mastermind and four others   

AFP

Doctor Panels Recommend Fewer Tests for Patients   

The New York Times

Holder says 'courts have final say' in response to furor over Obama's health law comments   

FoxNews.com

Hispanics spell out why labels don't fit
CNN   

Muslim Brotherhood delegation meets with White House Officials   

Politico

Latest Heritage Research:   

Issue Brief: ICC Prosecutor Makes Right Call on Palestinian Declaration, but Grave Concerns Remain

Issue Brief: Saving the American Dream: Comparing Medicare Reform Plans

Issue Brief: A New Agenda for American Leadership at the Sixth Summit of the Americas 

Issue Brief: Highway Bill's Pension Language MakesTaxpayer Bailout of PBGC More Likely

Issue Brief: Taxmageddon: Massive Tax Increase Coming in 2013

Give them another reason why Obama's GOT to go.  

NO. 6.
He's an ageist, sexist, racist. See, for instance, the video mailed in 2010 to Democratic activists: "It will be up to each of you to make sure that the young people, African Americans, Latinos, and women, who powered our victory in 2008, stand together once again." What? No gratitude to the 41 percent of white male voters who put him in the White House?  

BENADOR: Obama Tyranny on the Rise: Supreme Court and Muslim Brotherhood    

Apr 04, 2012 11:21 am

by Eliana Benador
"Yesterday the president went out of his way to try to exert maximum pressure on the Supreme Court judges. Where was the uproar? "

The Rise of the American Elite    

Apr 04, 2012 11:11 am

45 Signs That America Will Soon Be A Nation With A Very Tiny Elite And The Rest Of Us Will Be Poor
The middle class is being systematically wiped out of existence in the United States today.  America is a nation with a very tiny elite that is rapidly becoming increasingly wealthy while everyone else is becoming poorer.  So why is this happening?  Well, it is actually very simple.

US Internet Criminalization Now Pursued at State Level - Conn. Attacked    

Apr 04, 2012 10:51 am

ACLU Blasts 'Electronic Harassment' Bill; Says It Criminalizes Free Speech ... The American Civil Liberties Union of Connecticut is blasting a bill proposed by state prosecutors that would make "electronic harassment" a crime - including such acts as posting information on the Internet that "has the effect of causing substantial embarrassment or humiliation to [a] person within an academic or professional community."

Egyptian Liberals Speak Out Against Brotherhood    

Apr 04, 2012 10:40 am

The Investigative Project on Terrorism
Speaking out against religious extremism takes courage in today's Egypt, especially when extremists make up an absolute majority in Parliament. The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) has translated the comments of two courageous Egyptian intellectuals who took to Arabic television to denounce the dominant Muslim Brotherhood and the Salafi parties.

The Democratic Party and Jewish Anti-Semitism    

Apr 04, 2012 10:20 am

There's a thin line between Anti-Semitism and Anti-Zionism. That's true of Muslims and the left, but it's also true specifically of the Jewish left, whose hatred for Israel manifests itself in a general contempt for Jewish religion, culture and tradition. Take the Jewbags case of Danielle Gilbert, a staffer for Democratic National Committee chairwoman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz who had been appointed the DNC's Jewish outreach liaison. In a social media mishap, Gilbert posed along with her friends in a photo that she captioned "JEWBAGS"...

Article II or Bust - Does the Constitution Matter or Not?    

Apr 03, 2012 07:57 pm

The entire civilized world knows that Barack Hussein Obama is the most anti-American resident in the history of White House residents, so much so, that people all over the globe watch in disbelief as the American people fail to confront the most glaring modern threat to freedom and liberty, as they focus only upon their insignificant individual agendas.

City of Dearborn Employs New Tactic to Silence Christian Pastor    

Apr 03, 2012 06:27 pm

TMLC Files Lawsuit on Behalf of Pastor Terry Jones - City of Dearborn Employs New Tactic to Silence Christian Pastor 
ANN ARBOR, MI - Yesterday afternoon,the Thomas More Law Center (TMLC) filed a federal lawsuit in the Federal District Court against the City of Dearborn, and its police chief over the City's new tactic to stop Pastor Terry Jones from speaking out against Sharia law.

American Crime: Black on Black, Black on White    

Apr 03, 2012 04:11 pm

Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson love to jump into political cesspools in order to gain national attention for their own benefit.  They utilize the "race card" as a red badge of courage.  They openly chastise white America for not stopping racially motivated violence

The Liberal Jewish Eunuch    

Apr 03, 2012 03:19 pm

The verdict is in on the Tolouse killings of Jewish children and the villain is that old standby, "Failure to Integrate". What it comes down to is that Mohammed Merah did not kill Jewish children because he hated Jews, because he had breathed in the foul poisonous vapors of a creed which believes Jews to be subhuman devils whose destruction must come to pass before the golden age of Islam finally arrives. Mohammed Merah killed Jews because he was unhappy and it was France that made him unhappy. 

Israel's New Strategic Environment    

Apr 03, 2012 02:40 pm

Israel is now entering its third strategic environment. The constant threat of state-on-state war defined the first, which lasted from the founding of the Jewish state until its peace treaty with Egypt. A secure periphery defined the second, which lasted until recently and focused on the Palestinian issue, Lebanon and the rise of radical Sunni Islamists. The rise of Iran as a regional power and the need to build international coalitions to contain it define the third.

The World Bank Is Hopeless and Changing Leaders Won't Help    

Apr 03, 2012 02:32 pm

Hats off to Ngozi ... A golden opportunity for the rest of the world to show Barack Obama the meaning of meritocracy ... When economists from the World Bank visit poor countries to dispense cash and advice, they routinely tell governments to reject cronyism and fill each important job with the best candidate available.

Collectivization    

Apr 03, 2012 02:15 pm

Government power derives from collectivization of the people's property. When government - a small group of other people after all - owns or controls vast amounts of the people's property it is thereby empowered to employ people to carry out its self-serving desires.

Obama Administration: Existential Threat to Israel    

Apr 03, 2012 12:00 pm

Four senior American diplomats -- most likely in the State Department -- as well as senior intelligence officers appear to have leaked a key military relationship between Azerbaijan and Israel.

Harper: Thanks to Obama's "no" on Keystone, the price of Canadian crude will go up for the U.S.

April 3, 2012 by Tina Korbe

The damage is done. Even if President Barack Obama decides to approve the Keystone XL pipeline at some point in the future, he already sent a message to Canada that our northern neighbor can't rely on us as its only energy customer - and Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper heeded it.

In an interview with former U.S. Rep. Jane Harman (D-Calif.) in D.C. yesterday, Harper explained that Canada will now seek to expand its export market to Asia and will also cease to supply oil to the United States at a discounted rate.

"Look, the very fact that a 'no' could even be said underscores to our country that we must diversify our energy export markets," Harper told Harman in front of a live audience of businesspeople, scholars, diplomats, and journalists. ...

Harper also told Harman that Canada has been selling its oil to the United States at a discounted price.

So not only will America be able to buy less Canadian oil even if Keystone is eventually approved, the U.S. will also have to pay more for it because the market for oilsands crude will be more competitive.

"We have taken a significant price hit by virtue of the fact that we are a captive supplier and that just does not make sense in terms of the broader interests of the Canadian economy," Harper said. "We're still going to be a major supplier of the United States. It will be a long time, if ever, before the United States isn't our number one export market, but for us the United States cannot be our only export market.

"That is not in our interest, either commercially or in terms of pricing."

"We cannot be, as a country, in a situation where our one and, in many cases, only energy partner could say no to our energy products. We just cannot be in that position."

Harper's comments came the same day that Barack Obama's Super PAC, Priorities USA, released an ad that sought to tie Mitt Romney to Big Oil. The ad was itself a response to an ad underwritten by the American Energy Alliance that attacked Obama on his energy record and warned that this administration would be content to see gas prices rise as high as $9 a gallon.

This fallout from the president's decision on Keystone XL underscores the truth that Obama does not make policy decisions in a vacuum. He'll do what he will - and other countries will respond accordingly. Our famously "cerebral" leader might have preferred to have had more time to "sufficiently review" the project, but he didn't. In the time frame he was given, he made his priorities perfectly clear: He cares more to retain the support of certain constituencies than to approve a project that would have created thousands of jobs and signaled to Canada that we're committed to ensure a supply of affordable energy for ourselves. The American Energy Alliance had it right: The president's energy policies have done nothing to secure America's energy future. We'll be ever more at the mercy of the oil-producing countries the president likes to blame so much.

Yesterday in a joint press conference with the Canadian prime minister and Mexican president, President Barack Obama expressed his confidence that the Supreme Court will uphold his signature health care law, following more than six hours of oral argument before the Court last week.

Obama suggested that the Court-not Congress-would be taking an "unprecedented, extraordinary step" if it overturned Obamacare despite the fact that the Court will need to stretch its Commerce Clause jurisprudence to the outer limits to find that Congress' mandate that people buy inflated health insurance plans is a proper exercise of Congress' power to regulate commerce.

But putting on his "constitutional law professor" hat, Obama chastised the Court, noting that the justices must exercise judicial restraint and resist the temptation to strike down a law passed by "a strong majority of democratically elected Congress."

...when judges write subjective policy preferences into their legal decisions rather than apply the constitutional or statutory provisions according to their original meaning or plain text.

It does not necessarily involve striking down laws, but may occur when a judge applies his or her own policy preferences to uphold a statute or other government action...clearly forbidden by the Constitution.

Not only does Obama misunderstand the proper role of a judge, but he's twisting the facts as well, claiming that Congress passed ObamaCare with a "strong majority." That's a bold misrepresentation (the House passed it 219-212 on party lines and the Senate passed it with 60 votes) and is simply a "rank attempt to intimidate" the Court into upholding Obamacare.

With any luck, the justices will tune out this and any other attempt to sway them as they evaluate the constitutionality of Obamacare.

What do you think of last week's Obamacare hearings at the Supreme Court? Interact with other readers online >> 

Chronicle · April 4, 2012

The Foundation

"The truth is, that, even with the most secure tenure of office, during good behavior, the danger is not, that the judges will be too firm in resisting public opinion, and in defence of private rights or public liberties; but, that they will be ready to yield themselves to the passions, and politics, and prejudices of the day." --Joseph Story

Editorial Exegesis

Obama the constitutional law professor needs to brush up on the subject

"Someone will have to remind President Obama the Supreme Court is a co-equal branch of government, part of a system of checks and balances designed to rein in precisely the kind of runaway government exhibited by his administration. Our community-organizer-in-chief has a different opinion. 'Ultimately, I am confident that the Supreme Court will not take what would be an unprecedented, extraordinary step of overturning a law that was passed by a strong majority of a democratically elected Congress,' Obama said at a news conference with the leaders of Canada and Mexico. ... This is precisely what the Supreme Court is designed to do -- determine the constitutionality of laws passed by democratically elected legislatures and Congress. Surely the constitutional law professor has heard of Marbury v. Madison, the 1802 case that formed the basis for the exercise of judicial review in the United States under Article III of the Constitution. It was also the first time in Western history a court invalidated a law by declaring it 'unconstitutional.' Such an action is not unprecedented. ... By one estimate, the Supreme Court has struck down 53 laws between 1981 and 2005 alone. The president speaks of a law passed by a 'democratically elected Congress' yet it was a bill no one had read and which House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said we had to pass to find out what was in it. The fact is, most of the rules and regulations are written by unelected bureaucrats authorized by a bill that refers not to 'we the people' but to 'the secretary shall determine.' ... To say the bill passed 'a strong majority' of a democratically elected Congress is an overstatement. The bill passed the House with a vote of 219-212, a majority of seven, with 34 Democrats defecting. ... This isn't the first time President Obama has lectured the Supreme Court. In his State of the Union address on Jan. 27, 2010, he shamefully scolded the justices on national television for 'having reversed a century of law' in a ruling in which the court was protecting the freedom of political speech enshrined more than two centuries ago in the First Amendment. It will be poetic justice if in answering the administration's assertions on the constitutionality of ObamaCare, the court will echo Justice Samuel Alito's reply that night: 'Not true.'" --Investor's Business Daily

Do you have any words of wisdom for Mr. Obama?

Upright

"Can I tell you what I'm a tiny bit sick of hearing? Maybe you are too. Some version of this: 'Conservatives are hypocritical to root for the Supreme Court to overturn the health-care law. For years, conservatives have griped about interference by the courts. And now they're hoping that a handful of unelected, black-robed individuals will do their work for them?' Oh, come on: What we've objected to, all these years, is judicial activism -- judge-made law. The usurpation of the legislative role by judges. We have not, to my knowledge, objected to the striking down of unconstitutional laws. We are not hostile to a separation of powers." --columnist Jay Nordlinger

"The margin of passage has never been a factor in the Supreme Court's review of any law. That's simply not a part of American jurisprudence. In fact, if Mr. Obama believes what he says, he ought to be very satisfied with the validity of the Defense of Marriage Act, which passed in 1996 by a whopping 275 margin in the House and by 71 votes in the Senate." --The Washington Times

"One of the greatest sins of Obamacare is actually that the president decided to pursue legislation that would fundamentally change the country even though he didn't have a strong majority for it in Congress. And 'judicial activism' generally refers to rulings based on emotion and political views instead of the Constitution and precedent. The judges' questions about the health care law went right to whether it violated the Constitution. There was no 'activism' on the order of, say, finding previously undiscovered meanings in the Constitution to justify a decision. To say that ruling against an unpopular law barely passed by Congress violates 'judicial restraint' would seem a strange new interpretation of the term." --columnist Keith Koffler

"[T]he U.S. Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics found that between the years 2001 and 2005, nine-out-of-ten black murder victims were killed by other blacks. ... The DOJ also determined that homicide is the leading cause of death for black males between the ages of 15 and 34. ... In 2005 alone 8000 black Americans were homicide victims. If one assumes that measurement has remained relatively constant on an annual basis, it means that 56,000 blacks have been killed over the last seven years. For perspective's sake, 5,000 American troops were killed during combat in Iraq over the same period of time. ... [T]he media and racial demagogues are ably convincing black Americans to believe that their real problem is racist America; that the white-controlled 'System' is what really threatens their lives, when this is the furthest thing from the truth. This is the lesson from the Trayvon Martin tragedy." --columnist Arnold Ahlert

"[T]he violence and mayhem that disproportionately afflicts the African-American community is part of a society-wide disorder. ... That disorder is family breakdown, and no discussion of violence or murder or victimization is informed without reference to that overwhelming fact. Why do African-Americans, with 12.6 percent of the nation's population, account for 50 percent of the murder victims? Because fatherlessness is most pervasive among blacks. ... In 2012, we reached a grim milestone: The majority of births to women under the age of 30 are now outside of marriage. Among blacks, 72 percent of births are to unmarried women. ... The result of this adult folly is chaos, misery and often violent death for kids." --columnist Mona Charen

Insight

"The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it." --American writer H. L. Mencken (1880-1956)

"Absolute power corrupts even when exercised for humane purposes. The benevolent despot who sees himself as a shepherd of the people still demands from others the submissiveness of sheep. The taint inherent in absolute power is not its inhumanity but its anti-humanity." --American author Eric Hoffer (1902-1983)

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The Demo-gogues

Shut up, he explained: "I am confident that the Supreme Court will not take what would be an unprecedented, extraordinary step of overturning a law that was passed by a strong majority of a democratically elected Congress. I just remind conservative commentators that for years what we have heard the biggest problem on the bench was judicial activism or a lack of judicial restraint. That an unelected group of people would somehow overturn a duly constituted and passed law. Well, this is a good example and I am pretty confident that this Court will recognize that and not take that step. ... As I said, we are confident that this will be over -- that this will be upheld. I am confident that this will be upheld because it should be upheld. And again, that's not just my opinion, that's the opinion of a whole lot of constitutional law professors and academics and judges and lawyers who have examined this law, even if they're not particularly sympathetic to this particular piece of legislation or my presidency." --Barack Obama

Are you serious? "I think that it is the crown jewel. It is the greatest achievement." --Nancy Pelosi on ObamaCare

"Should the Supreme Court overturn this law, it would be so far out of the mainstream that the court would be the most activist in a century. If they were to throw out the health care law, things like Medicare, Social Security, food safety laws could be in jeopardy on the very same grounds. It would be a dramatic, 180 degree turn of the tradition of the Commerce Clause." --Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY)

Cheerleading ObamaCare from the bench: "Why is a big gift from the federal government a matter of coercion? In other words, the federal government is here saying, we are giving you a boatload of money. There are no, there's no matching funds requirement, there are no extraneous conditions attached to it, it's just a boatload of federal money for you to take and spend on poor people's health care. It doesn't sound coercive to me, I have to tell you." --Justice Elena Kagan, who should have recused herself after serving as Obama's solicitor general while ObamaCare was being crafted

Left-theology: "I hear politicians talking about values in an election year. I hear a lot about that. Let me tell you about values. Hard work, personal responsibility -- those are values. But looking out for one another. That's a value. The idea that we're all in this together. I am my brother's keeper. I am my sister's keeper. That's a value. ... [W]e wouldn't win the race for new jobs and businesses and middle-class security if we were just applying some you're-on-your-own economics." --Barack Obama

Unprecedented ignorance: "No president, and I would argue in the 20th century and including now the 21st century, has had as many serious problems which are cases of first-instance laid on his table. Franklin Roosevelt faced more dire consequences, but in a bizarre way it was more straightforward. ... I've watched him make decisions that would make another man or woman's hair curl." --Joe Biden

Boasting: "It's worth noting that I first arrived on the national stage with a speech at the Democratic Convention that was entirely about American exceptionalism, and that my entire career has been a testimony to American exceptionalism. But I will cut [Republicans] some slack for now because they're still trying to get their nomination." --Barack Obama

Dezinformatsia

Challenged: "Behind the challenges to the Affordable Care Act (ACA) being heard at the Supreme Court [last] week is the idea that Barack Obama wants to take away your freedoms.... I defy anyone to name for me a specific and precise freedom that Obama has taken away from the American people. You can't. When they're not just invented out of whole cloth by multi-millionaire propagandists, all such laments are based on ignorance about what freedom actually means and an equal ignorance about how our system of government works." --The Daily Beast's Michael Tomasky

Preemptive strike: "If the conservatives decide that they can sidestep the Constitution to negate Congress's choices on crucial national policies, the court's legitimacy -- and the millions of Americans who don't have insurance -- will pay a very heavy price. Chief Justice Roberts has the opportunity to avoid this disastrous outcome by forging even a narrow ruling to uphold the mandate and the rest of the law. A split court striking down the act will be declaring itself virtually unfettered by the law. And if that happens along party lines, with five Republican-appointed justices supporting the challenge led by 26 Republican governors, the court will mark itself as driven by politics." --New York Times editorial

Race bait editing: "This guy looks like he's up to no good ... he looks black." --NBC's edited version of the Zimmerman/Martin 911 call (The actual transcript -- Zimmerman: "This guy looks like he's up to no good. Or he's on drugs or something. It's raining and he's just walking around, looking about." 911: "OK, and this guy -- is he black, white or Hispanic?" Zimmerman: "He looks black.") NBC later admitted an "error."

Give us a break: "A report in the conservative Daily Caller said the White House only jumped into the [Trayvon Martin] fight, quote, 'following demands by the New Black Panthers and others on the scene.' But the impression I got was that the president was extremely reluctant to discuss this matter. And if you look at the president's tenure as president, he has very rarely entered into matters where race has been an issue." --MSNBC's Martin Bashir

Newspulper Headlines:

It's Always in the Last Place You Look: "Another $17 Trillion Surprise Found in Obamacare" --DailyCaller.com

Answers to Questions Nobody Is Asking: "How to Ask a Question" --Chronicle of Higher Education website

We Blame George W. Bush: "California Woman Blames McDonald's for Forcing Her Into Prostitution" --FoxNews.com

They'll Be Clearer When You Sober Up: "Public Intoxication Laws Too Fuzzy, Critics Say" --Austin American-Statesman

News You Can Use: "Keep Your Eyes Open for Idiot Drivers" --Free Lance-Star website (Fredericksburg, VA)

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

Village Idiots

Goals: "I get up every morning thinking, today I'm gonna make a difference. Today I'm gonna end capitalism. Today I'm gonna make a revolution. I go to bed every night disappointed, but I'm back again tomorrow. That's the only way you can do it." --Obama's political mentor and Weather Underground terrorist William Ayers to Occupy Wall Street confab

Saviors: "[The] Occupy movement pretty much saved the entire country from destruction. ... Occupy Wall Street really kind of, like, helped us to hit a reset in the country." --for Obama czar Van Jones

Warmist threat: "Climate change poses a massive threat to our present social, economic and political order. From a sociological perspective, resistance to change is to be expected. People are individually and collectively habituated to the ways we act and think. This habituation must be recognized and simultaneously addressed at the individual, cultural and societal level -- how we think the world works and how we think it should work." --University of Oregon professor Kari Marie Norgaard

Prognostications: "Keep in mind the 2010 electorate is not the 2012 electorate. More people will vote and a more diverse America will show up and people had two years of the Tea Party Congress and the polls show they didn't like it very much." --Bill Clinton

Short Cuts

"Some people honored Earth hour last Saturday by turning off their lights for an hour to help the environment. Except for the green companies supported by the Obama Administration -- their lights were turned off permanently." --NewsBusted's Jodi Miller

"President Obama traveled to the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea where he peered through binoculars. He couldn't believe what he was seeing in North Korea. Here was a country where the rich paid their fair share and it was in ruins." --comedian Argus Hamilton

"There were three winning lotto tickets. I guess we're not sure who the three winners are yet. But when they do come forward, two things happen immediately. You get a call from the IRS asking for half. Then you get a call from your friends and relatives asking for the other half." --comedian Jay Leno

"A new study shows that sitting down too much can kill you. That's really bad news considering how much Obama is doing that we won't stand for." --Fred Thompson

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

Obama paraphrases Rev. Niemoller "First I lost Catholics, but I had other groups so I didn't care."

Apr 04, 2012 06:13 am | Coach Collins

 By Kevin "Coach" Collins

 We've heard the words of German Pastor Niemoller who lamented that he stood by and did nothing as the Nazis murdered people by category.

 Niemoller said, "First they came for the Jews and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew," and so on.

  For the past three years Barack Obama could be paraphrasing Niemoller. Obama might have said, "First I attacked Christians, especially Catholics trying to force them to violate their religious beliefs. When I lost them as supporters I didn't care because I had lots of other supporters."

 He could have said, "I attacked oil producers with Cap and Trade and my support fell. Since I had other groups to vote for me I didn't care."

 When he lied and cheated to pass Obamacare people rose up and kicked the Democrats out of control of the Congress, Obama was saying, "Sure I've lost some supporters because ... Continue Reading:Obama paraphrases Rev. Niemoller "First I lost Catholics, but I had other groups so I didn't care."

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American Minute April 3

Apr 03, 2012 06:13 pm | Coach Collins

By Bill Federer, staff writer

   A Man Without A Country was a classic book written by Edward Everett Hale, born APRIL 3, 1822.
It is partially based on the life of Aaron Burr, the 3rd Vice President, who killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel and was indicted for treason.
Edward Everett Hale was the son of the editor of the Boston Daily Advertiser and grandnephew of Revolutionary hero Nathan Hale.
Edward Everett Hale entered Harvard at age 13 and later taught at the Boston Latin School.
He published over 50 books, opposed slavery and pastored Boston's South Congregational Church for 45 years.
In 1903 he became Chaplain of the United States Senate.
Edward Everett Hale wrote:
"I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. What I can do, I should do and, with the help of God, I will do."
Near ... Continue Reading:American Minute April 3

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Barack Obama already knows Supreme Court decision on ObamaCare

Apr 03, 2012 01:10 pm | Coach Collins

by Doug Book,  staff writer

If the Supreme Court has followed long standing tradition, the preliminary decision as to the Constitutionality of the ObamaCare individual mandate and perhaps the fate of the law itself was known to the Justices on Friday of last week.

After oral arguments it is common practice for the Justices to meet Friday morning in a conference room where each Justice votes on the case, beginning with the Chief Justice and proceeding according to seniority. Shortly thereafter Justices will be assigned the writing of majority and minority opinions and comment on various case issues. Decisions can change over the months until presentation of the final ruling, which in the case of ObamaCare will probably be sometime in late June.  (1)

Whatever happened Friday morning, it's a safe bet Barack Hussein Obama was the 10th person to know, having undoubtedly received a call from Elena Kagan minutes after the meeting ended.

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Wednesday, April 4, 2012

To: Friends & Supporters

From: Gary L. Bauer


COUNTDOWN TO VICTORY: 216 DAYS TO THE 2012 ELECTIONS


Obama Unhinged

In his speech to reporters yesterday Barack Obama unleashed a barrage of rhetorical falsehoods and demagoguery at the latest budget proposal by Rep. Paul Ryan, which was approved by House Republicans. Obama went beyond policy disagreements and set out to demonize the GOP with slashing rhetoric and alarming adjectives. The goal of Obama's attack was to portray himself as a moderate or centrist and portray the GOP as extremists.

Here are some of the ways Obama described Ryan's budget: "radical," "a Trojan horse," "a prescription for decline" and "thinly veiled social Darwinism." (That's odd -- I thought liberals were big fans of Darwin.) At one point, Obama even suggested that Ronald Reagan could not win a Republican primary today because the GOP is so extreme. How ironic. When Reagan ran, the left tried to paint him as an unelectable right-wing extremist! They were wrong about Reagan then, and Obama is wrong about the GOP today.

Unbelievably, Obama also complained to his left-wing media allies saying, "This is not a situation where there is equivalence." Translation: Conservatives have no legitimate point of view you should be covering. Once again, Obama's intolerance for dissenting points of view was on full display.

The editors of the Wall Street Journal fired back today and summarized well the president's over-the-top attacks. Here's an excerpt from the Journal's editorial:

"The President's depiction of the wonkish and formerly obscure House Budget Chairman as some political monster is itself telling. Mr. Obama is conceding that he can't run on the economic recovery, the stimulus, health care, green energy or any of the other grand liberal ambitions that have dominated his time in office. All of those are unpopular or failures. He was elected on hope and change, but now his only hope is to change the subject to the ogres he claims are the disloyal opposition. Did you hear about the GOP's red-in-tooth-and-claw plan for Medicare? Grandma and Gramps are going to be drafted for the Hunger Games."

If you're not familiar with the Hunger Games, it is a popular movie in which teenagers are forced to fight for food in a post-apocalyptic world.

But the Journal's underlying point is one we have made repeatedly in this daily report: Obama can't run on his record (as you will read below), so he is going to demonize those of us who fight him and his agenda in a desperate attempt to portray the GOP as a worse alternative. Yet in spite of Obama's vicious personal attacks, we keep hearing over and over again that the one thing the GOP establishment is afraid of doing is attacking Obama.

I can guarantee you this much: Obama's entire campaign will be one negative attack after another. According to one reporter, the goal of the Obama campaign is to make the Republican Party radioactive in the next 60 days. They want to so poison people's minds before the campaign traditionally begins in earnest -- after Labor Day -- that there is no chance of the GOP candidate being able to recover by November 6th.

Again, my friends, I'm not trying to discourage you. I am trying to prepare you for the fight that lies ahead so you can help your friends and family members see through Obama's distortions and point out his hypocrisy.


Judge Assigns Homework To Obama Lawyer

As I reported yesterday, Barack Obama stepped way over the line with his outrageous comments attacking the Supreme Court and the separation of powers. Evidently there is one federal judge who agrees with me and had the courage to fight back.

A three judge panel of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals is currently hearing another case challenging certain aspects of ObamaCare. As Justice Department attorney Dana Lydia Kaersvang began making arguments defending ObamaCare yesterday, Judge Jerry Smith interrupted and demanded to know whether the administration believed the courts have the authority to review the law.

"I want to be sure that you are telling us that the Attorney General and the Department of Justice," Smith said, "do recognize the authority of the federal courts through unelected judges to strike acts of Congress or portions thereof in appropriate cases." Kaersvang affirmed the court's authority and referred to Marbury v. Madison, but Judge Smith wasn't convinced and then assigned her some "homework."

Judge Smith demanded a letter from the Justice Department due tomorrow outlining the court's authority to review ObamaCare. "The letter needs to be at least three pages, single spaced, no less and it needs to be specific. It needs to make specific reference to the president's statements," Smith said.

Kudos to Judge Smith! He, like every other federal official, has taken an oath to uphold the Constitution, and he is taking his responsibility seriously and holding the administration to account for Obama's thuggish attack on the separation of powers.

Many GOP senators also spoke out. Senator Mike Johanns (R-NE) said, "What President Obama is doing here isn't right. It is threatening, it is intimidating." Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell said that Obama's "attempt to intimidate the Supreme Court falls well beyond distasteful politics. It demonstrates a fundamental lack of respect for our system of checks and balances."

Even liberal George Washington University Law Professor Jonathan Turley blasted Obama, saying his remarks were "a cheap shot and beneath a president" and "both unfounded and unwise."


Worst Recovery In History

Over the next 216 days, Obama is going to do his best to claim the economy is improving, and even if it doesn't, he'll claim it's not his fault because George W. Bush gave us the worst recession in history. Stanford economics professor Edward Lazear published an op-ed this week challenging that premise. Consider these excerpts:

"The Great Depression started with major economic contractions in 1930, '31, '32 and '33. In the three following years, the economy rebounded strongly with growth rates of 11%, 9% and 13%, respectively. The current recovery began in the second half of 2009, but economic growth has been weak. Growth in 2010 was 3% and in 2011 it was 1.7%. Who knows what 2012 will bring, but the current growth rate looks to be about 2%...

"Contrast this weak growth with the recovery that followed the other large recession of recent decades. In the early 1980s, the economy experienced a double-dip recession, with contractions in both 1980 and '82. But growth rates in the subsequent two years averaged almost 6%. ...

"Are there other factors that may have contributed to the slow recovery that we are experiencing? It would be difficult to argue that government polices over the past three years have enhanced confidence in the U.S. business environment. Threats of higher taxes, the constantly increasing regulatory burden, the failure to pursue an aggressive trade policy that will open markets to U.S. exports, and the enormous increase in government spending all are growth impediments. ...

"But unless we move to a set of economic policies that are aimed at growing the economy rather than at promoting social agendas, this may be the first 'recovery' in history that fails to see us return to long-term average growth."

The Economics Of "Green" Energy

A big part of the left's agenda is to demonize traditional fossil fuels for causing global warning and force us to use inefficient, expensive and unreliable "renewable" alternatives. Barack Obama made "green" energy a centerpiece of his stimulus package, devoting billions of dollars to subsidizing boondoggles like Solyndra.

Reno, Nevada, received a stimulus grant and the Reno Gazette-Journal recently reported on its "success:"

"The city's seven windmills have so far saved Reno $2,785 in energy costs after generating 25,319 kilowatt-hours of electricity. The windmills were installed between April and October 2010 and cost about $1 million out of a $2.1 million federal energy grant given to the city that was part of the stimulus package approved by Congress in February 2009."

Only in the left's bizarro world does it make sense to spend $1,000,000 to save $2,785. More evidence that America cannot afford four more years of Barack Obama.

Announcing the first-ever American Dream Money Bomb on April 11  

Time is running out to get our country back on solid financial footing and back to a principled, constitutional government.

Because you are a concerned citizen, I'm sure you are aware of the dire economic situation we face.

• Explosive growth in government and wasteful spending have led to record high national debt and an addiction to spending money we don't have.

• The unemployment rate has remained above 8.3% for more than 3 years-the longest period of high unemployment under any administration.

• Gas prices are at their highest level ever for this time of year-spiking to more than $5 a gallon in some parts of the country.

• And to make matters worse, the President has proposed the largest tax increase in American history.

And yet, liberals and bureaucrats in Washington continue to turn a deaf ear to the fears and concerns of most Americans.

We cannot afford to wait on Washington to fix the economy. As James Madison warned more than two centuries ago, "power is of encroaching nature and... it ought to be effectually restrained from passing the limits assigned to it." It's time that "We the people" make our voices heard as we rally to restore the principles that once made our nation thrive.

And The Heritage Foundation is taking action.

We're launching our first-ever American Dream Money Bomb on April 11. This money bomb will give Heritage the resources to promote our Saving the American Dream plan, including our national bus tour seen by thousands of Americans each week.

Heritage's Saving the American Dream plan is a bold initiative to:

• Slash federal spending;
• Make taxes flatter and fairer;
• Reduce the national debt;
• Reform America's broken entitlement programs; and
• Maintain a strong national defense.

These are the necessary and proven steps it will take to get our nation's financial house in order.

If you agree with these goals, get a preview of The Heritage Foundation's American Dream Money Bomb campaign today.

Thank you for your support of time-honored conservative ideas. We look forward to having you join us on April 11.

Sincerely,

 Today's Headlines: Wednesday, April 04, 2012 

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DNC Chair: 'Simply Not True' That Sen. Reid Has Refused to Take Up a Budget

69% of 1,810 Total U.S. Deaths in Afghanistan War Have Occurred Since Obama Inauguration

Obama: Press Has Been Too Balanced in Covering Budget Debate

Education Secretary Admits He Was 'Least Successful' at Reducing Youth Violence in Chicago

Americans Must Work Until April 17 This Year Just to Pay for Government

GAO: Fuel Economy Standards, Green Vehicles Jeopardizing Transportation Funding

Obama: Buffett Rule 'Maybe Not' the Solution to Deficit - But 'Step' in 'Right Direction'

U.N. Business-Class Travel Is Safe for Now, As Developing Nations Reject U.S.-Backed Spending Curbs

Int'l Criminal Court Decision on 'Palestine' Is a Victory for Israel and a Defeat for Amnesty International

Donald Trump Wishes Transgender Contestant Good Luck in Miss Universe Pageant

Olbermann Compares Himself to an Expensive Chandelier on Letterman's Show

COMMENTARIES:

Romney's Royal 'We' -- and 'Personal Responsibility'
By Terence P. Jeffrey
In exchange for upping the percentage of insured in Massachusetts by about 2 points, then-Gov. Mitt Romney gave Massachusetts the power to order people to buy a product they did not want and put a Republican imprimatur on the idea that government should subsidize health insurance for families of four earning up to what the Heritage Foundation estimated was $60,432 in 2005 dollars.

Maddow and the NPR-MSNBC Alliance
By L. Brent Bozell III
Anyone who clicks around on the National Public Radio website is often bombarded with ads for MSNBC. Naturally, if you love one hard-left network, you'll love the other. But the promotion isn't just in advertisements. Conservatives are being forced to underwrite with their tax dollars what you're about to read. And you're not going to like it.

The Democrats' Election Forgery Racket
By Michelle Malkin
Behind the scenes, Democrats have been busy faking petition signatures, forging ballots and enlisting medical professionals to authorize fraudulent doctors' notes for liberal teachers-union operatives protesting Republican opponents. It's no laughing matter.

Obama v. The Constitution
By Rich Galen
We had better start paying closer attention to King Barack's assaults on the Constitution or we may wake up one day and find he has effectively torn it up.  

NEWSPAPER ROUNDUP:

NBC issues apology on Zimmerman tape screw-up
Rationing? Doctors groups call for end to unnecessary procedures
Motorcyclist hurt after 100-year-old driver turns into his path
Gay teen sues Ohio school for banning 'Jesus Is Not a Homophobe' t-shirt
U-Colorado says it will squash the Boulder campus' dope smoking event
Military investigating gay pride flag flying in Afghanistan
New GSA chief pledges swift curbs on conferences
Santorum may drop out rather than lose home state of Pennsylvania
Hatch: Obama camp will 'throw Mormon church' at Romney
Trump: Obama will go to war with Iran
UN agency sends computers to N. Korea despite sanctions
House Dems want Obama to issue executive order on gay workers' rights
'Joke' photo of baby with plastic bag over her head leads to mother's arrest 

Don't Let Congress Take a Step Back

In 2010, Americans sent a clear message to Washington: things need to change. A historic election sent a tea party wave crashing into Washington, reinvigorating fiscal conservatives on a mission to cut spending and get our fiscal house in order.

One of their first victories was a ban on earmarks - the wasteful, special interesting expenditures which lead to "investments" like bridges to nowhere and indoor rainforests, while serving as a gateway drug to reckless spending.

>> See why banning earmarks is essential for conservative victories. 

Now lawmakers can't hide in anonymity for wasteful spending. And formerly-routine spending bills - like the highway bill or the reauthorization of the Export-Import Bank - receive greater scrutiny and cannot be passed with what amounts to legislative bribery. Lawmakers cannot use earmarks to grease the skids and encourage lawmakers to "take one for the team."

But now that victory is in danger of being reversed. Some prominent lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are considering a return to earmarking. We cannot let that happen.

>> Learn more about why continuing the earmark ban is vital to changing Washington. 

Reinstating earmarks would be a significant step backwards in the fight to reform the way Washington works. It would increase spending by returning us to a time where it was acceptable to waste taxpayer dollars on ludicrous projects and "reward" lawmakers who support reckless spending bills.

We cannot allow Congress to reverse conservative victories, especially on earmarks. Lawmakers must be held accountable for their promises. If we are ever to save the American Dream, we cannot allow Congress to fall back into the hands of the Establishment, which has been fighting tooth and nail to maintain the status quo.

Sincerely,

Michael A. Needham
Chief Executive Officer
Heritage Action for America

The Democrats' Election Forgery Racket 

By Michelle Malkin | April 4, 2012 12:00 A.M.

A few weeks ago, Obama senior adviser and seasoned Chicago operative David Axelrod joked on MSNBC about election corruption. Asked whether "vote early and often" scams had come to an end in his shady hometown, Axelrod snarked: "Well, certainly on the air." Yuk, yuk, yuk.

Behind the scenes, Democrats have been busy faking petition signatures, forging ballots, and enlisting medical professionals to authorize fraudulent doctors' notes for liberal teachers' union operatives protesting Republican opponents. It's no laughing matter.

This week, four Democratic officials in Indiana were hit with felony charges related to petition fraud in the state's 2008 primary. The prosecutions are a result of the local South Bend Tribune newspaper's investigation last fall into "hundreds of county residents' signatures" forged on petitions used to put Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton on the Democratic primary ballot. At least two whistle-blowing government officials came forward to expose the forgery racket, which court documents say was formulated by Democratic party officials inside local party headquarters.

A veteran county Democratic party chair, Butch Morgan, resigned in October over the scandal; three employees in the St. Joseph County voter-registration office reportedly helped Morgan execute the scheme. Among the hundreds of unsuspecting residents whose names were illegally signed to the petitions: the prosecuting attorney in the case and a former Democratic governor of the state!

That's the audacity of ACORN-style hoaxes.

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Tonight on GBTV: Kirk Cameron's new documentary, Monumental, is a first step in getting Americans headed back in the right direction. Tonight, Kirk sits down with Glenn to discuss this, and what made him start to wake up and see where the solutions to our problems really are. Plus, Pastor CL Bryant, Kelly Shackelford, and Pastor Keith Craft join Glenn for a discussion on what the democrats are doing to minority communities. Don't miss a "Best of The Glenn Beck Program" tonight at 5pm ET (or on demand).

Real News: While the mainstream media is focused on the results from yesterday's GOP primaries, Real news from The Blaze will take a look at what's in the mind of American voters-the economy. While the latest report may show an increase in jobs numbers, take home pay continues to decline. As food and energy prices rise faster than wages, will Americans be voting with their hearts or their wallets this November? Real News will discuss this and much more tonight - Live at 6pm (or on demand).

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