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April 9, 2012
Quote:
The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government."
Patrick Henry
Is Sharia Law a Threat to the American Judicial System?
by da Tagliare
In the last year, we have been hearing a lot of news about Sharia law, its dangers and its threats to the American judicial system. Most Americans believe it is a dangerous set of male centered sexist laws for the complete dehumanizing of members of the female sex.
Then there are those like Jamal Badawi who is making the circuit in the US defending Sharia law and telling us there is nothing to worry about. His latest stop was in Perrysburg, Ohio, a suburb of Toledo. He told the crowd that the states that were trying to enact laws barring judges from considering any foreign laws are reacting to Sharia hysteria.
Badawi also told the crowd that he believes it is very unlikely that Sharia law or any form of Islamic legal code could actually influence our courts and legal decisions without first being approved by the legislatures. He said that this is highly unlikely since only about three percent of the American population is made up of Muslims and then added,
While this email may appear to be far afield from our usual topic of Islam, the tie-in is the Islamist New Black Panther Party, which has been using the Trayvon Martin case to advance Islam by carving out a leadership position for itself via its calls for Zimmerman's punishment. NBC News and MSNBC have shamefully been aiding and abetting the New Black Panthers in doctoring evidence from the case to portray Zimmerman as guilty of murder. In fact, show host Al Sharpton has gone so far as to lead events that call for Zimmerman's arrest (sound starts at 1:50 minute mark) and then advance his cause on his own show!
It's time the public stood up to NBC's bureau of murderous lies and tell them that they cannot get away with overriding the American justice system by creating a nation of vigilantes out to get one man, and in the process empowering the racist conspiracy theories of the Islamist New Black Panther Party . Please take one minute to use the email below, which I sent this morning to NBC's board members, as a template for your own message to them. Their email addresses can be found in the "TO:" section of the email. To read more about these board members, click here.
Thank you,
Dave
From: Dave Bailey Sent: Friday, April 06, 2012 2:09 PM To: 'ken_bacon@fanniemae.com'; 'SMBonovitz@duanemorris.com'; 'TMDavies@duanemorris.com'; 'Mestre@evercore.com'; 'jrodin@rockfound.org'; 'president@rockfound.org' Subject: NBC News and MSNBC are destroying their credibility through their coverage of the Trayvon Martin case. The purveyers of agitprop have got to go!
Mr. Bacon, Mr. Bonovitz, Mr. Mestre, and Dr. Rodin,
For decades, I have been a faithful viewer of NBC News, and subsequently MSNBC, and I have been shocked at how their journalistic integrity has deteriorated over this time. While this deterioration has been visible for a while, a threshold has been breached in the coverage of the Trayvon Martin case, where bias has given way to outright fabrication.
The way that Brian Williams' show edited an audio recording of Mr. Zimmerman's phone conversation with the police department to express a racism that did not originally exist is truly shameful - and dangerous. The subsequent apology was also entirely inadequate - in fact, it was invisible to many if not most viewers of the original report.
Similarly, you have a news show host in the person of Al Sharpton who can't make up his mind as to whether he should be reporting the news or creating it. He is using his "news" show to conduct his own public trial of Mr. Zimmerman, designed to lead viewers to a conviction of murder!
If anything happens to Mr. Zimmerman, blood will be on Sharpton's hands, Williams's hands, and the hands of others, but especially on President Phil Griffin because it has been under his stewardship that this vicious office of propaganda that claims to inform the public has evolved. If you do nothing, you will be smeared with their bloody hands.
What a shame to see the once honored NBC descend to the level of rabble rouser and agitprop artist. How MURDEROUS!
To get the latest FACTS, see these reports that speak loudly to Mr. Zimmerman's innocence:
You have an obligation to FIRE those at NBC and MSNBC who played any willful role in this atrocity. Brian Williams, Al Sharpton, and Phil Griffin are front and center.
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George W. Bush to speak in Pennsylvania on GOP presidential primary day
Former President George W. Bush will deliver a speech in Pennsylvania on the day of the state's GOP presidential primary. Bush is the only prominent politician in his family that has not made an endorsement in the 2012 presidential race.
Bush will give the keynote address at the Plumstead Christian School's annual "Founders Forum" on the Calvary Church's campus in Souderton, according to the school's official website.
His father, former President George H. W. Bush is the most recent member of the Bush family to endorse former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney for president.
Bush reportedly asked Romney if his son had endorsed him for president yet.
"I haven't met with President George W. Bush," Romney said. "We speak from time to time."
Barbara Bush, his wife, replied, "We'll talk about that."
An extremely important movie is coming this summer - Dinesh D'Souza - Obama & 2016
Dinesh D'Souza is author of many New York Times best sellers. The movie is from Gerald R. Molen, producer of Academy Award WinningSchindler's List.
It explains in plain language who Barack Obama really is, what he stands for, and the dangers of him being reelected for another four years.
Watch this short informative video preview of this movie which came out only yesterday and share it with others. It has already been seen by over 18,000 people. Within a very short time it will have been seen by millions! After you see the preview, listen to what Dinesh has to say about Obama. Please take the time to hear this and pass it on.
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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You still have time to register for Hillsdale's online class,
Sick and tired of slick politicians?.....jaded with power politics?....frustrated with government that is blind and deaf to the people?....losing hope in our future?
Come hear a candidate whose moral compass is fixed on truth, who speaks to the heart of the issues, whose focus is on liberty and the Constitution....
Come hear a statesman whose vote could never be bought - even by his own party, whose record verifies his positions, who kept his campaign promises, who always put the People and Principles above the Party. Come join us.....
SAM ROHRER TOWNHALL
sponsored by CITIZENS FOR CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT
Who: SAM ROHRER, candidate for U.S. Senate, former conservative leader in State House of Representatives
Please encourage everyone you know to attend. Sam needs to reach those who are uninformed and/or undecided so please call your contacts who have NOT yet heard Sam. Would you especially invite your local GOP committeeman and woman? (Call Bucks GOP HQ at 215-345-6811 for their name and phone numbers.) Please post this flyer at your local post office, grocery store, pizza shop, convenience store, workout gym, laundromat, Dr's office, Hairdresser, etc. PASS THIS ON....post on your Facebook page. Thank you for helping us spread the word.
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.
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.
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:
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.
Featuring 113 primary source documents, The U.S. Constitution: A Reader was developed for teaching the core course on the U.S. Constitution at Hillsdale College.
Divided into eleven sections with introductions by members of Hillsdale's Politics Department faculty, readings cover the principles of the American founding, the framing and structure of the Constitution, the secession crisis and the Civil War, the Progressive rejection of the Constitution, and the building of the administrative state based on Progressive principles.
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.
About Hillsdale College
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.
The bad news is last month some well intentioned political activist announced a cut-off date for signing up co-sponsors for Rep. Rose Marie Swanger's American Law's for American Courts (HB 2029) in an effort to inject some urgency into the effort.
What it resulted in was an interruption of the campaign to encourage those Representatives not yet signed on as co-sponsors to join with those Legislators who have already recognized the death by smothering threat to our Constitution.
The good news is there is no cut-off date for adding co-sponsors and we are once again asking your readers to contact their representatives and ask they join the battle.
There are only three Representatives from Bucks who are co-sponsors, Representatives Clymer, Petri and Quinn and we thank them for showing their colors.
But that leaves seven more Representatives who appear to be still standing on the sidelines as the battle for our existence as a free people is joined.
If you're ready to help, visit www.actforamerica.org and sign on as a chapter leader. It's free and the people there are friendly and helpful. Your help is needed. Every township, every neighborhood needs an Act! for America chapter leader.
But before you do anything, if your Pennsylvania Representative has not yet ssigned on as co-sponsor, urge her/him to do so and ask what is it that prevents him/her from doing so.
Help Pennsylvania be counted among those States that have shown the courage to face off with the enemies who have plainly stated their aim is to destroy our Nation. Our laws have worked just fine since colonial times. What is needed are politicians who respect them. And you know whose job it is to remind them of that.
Resistance to a new bill aimed at limiting foreign law in Pennsylvania courts serves as a case study of how Islamists and their allies operate: peddling falsehoods about Shari'a, painting Muslims as victims, and denying that anyone seeks to institutionalize aspects of Islamic law - even as they vigorously promote that very agenda. With similar legislationbeingdebated across the U.S., understanding their tactics is critical.
At issue in Pennsylvania is House Bill (HB) 2029, which stipulates that "a tribunal shall not consider a foreign legal code or system which does not grant ... the same fundamental liberties, rights and privileges" as guaranteed by the federal and state constitutions. Introduced in November, it follows the American Laws for American Courts (ALAC) model and makes no mention of Shari'a. A preliminary memo sent to legislators last June in the name of Rep. RoseMarie Swanger, HB 2029's chief sponsor, does highlight Islamic law, but she later said that it had been circulated accidentally. Regardless, concerns about Shari'a are warranted due to its many provisions that conflict with the standards of American jurisprudence. For example, it disadvantages women in terms of inheritance, divorce, child custody, and other areas of family law. Shari'a already has shaped numerous cases nationwide, including in Pennsylvania, where one state court decided how assets should be distributed according to Islam.
Pushback against HB 2029 has been led by the Philadelphia office of the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-PA) and was punctuated by an interfaith press conference (video here) at CAIR-PA headquarters on December 14. The overall campaign reflects CAIR's usual recipe of distortion, victimology, and contradiction between words and deeds.
Attacks on bills like HB 2029 begin by sowing confusion about Shari'a. Because Islamic law encompasses virtually every facet of life - governing personal activities such as eating and worship, but also forming an oppressive social and legal structure - suit-and-tie Islamists work to emphasize its unthreatening pieces whenever possible. CAIR-PA executive director Moein Khawaja's suggestion that Shari'a should worry Pennsylvanians no more than halal gyros is a fine example of this technique.
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.
Joan Carter & John Aglialoro Adele & Harold Schaeffer
Amy & Steven Erlbaum Gerald B. Shreiber
Vicki & Gary Erlbaum Beth & Craig Snider Penny & Robert Fox Ed Snider
Gerry & Richard Fox Laurie Wagman & Irv Borowsky
Bill Kristol - April 11, 2012
The Union League of Philadelphia Luncheon: 12:00 - 1:30PM
An American neoconservative political analyst and commentator, Bill Kristol is the founder and editor of the political magazine The Weekly Standard and a regular commentator on the Fox News Channel. He is a regular panelist on Fox News Sunday and often contributes to the nightly program Special Report with Bret Baier.
Before starting the Weekly Standard in 1995, Mr. Kristol led the Project for the Republican Future, where he helped shape the strategy that produced the 1994 Republican congressional victory. Prior to that, Mr. Kristol served as chief of staff to Vice President Dan Quayle during the first Bush Administration, and to Education Secretary William Bennett under President Reagan.
John Stossel's new book, "No, They Can't: Why Government Fails-but Individuals Succeed," argues: "There ought not to be a law." Stossel explains how politicians promise to solve problems by passing laws, but the laws invariably make our problems worse.
After years of obeying our parents, we are programmed to think that anytime there is a problem, whether it's companies going bankrupt or schools keeping kids stupid, government action is the way to solve it. Using his decades of reporting, Stossel tackles how those intuitive, knee-jerk reactions lead us astray.
Central planning sounds right. It feels good. But it has nothing to do with the realities of economics and science. There is nothing that government can do that we cannot do better as free individuals - and as groups of individuals, working together voluntarily, not at the point of a gun or under threat of a fine. Without big government, our possibilities are limitless.
This event is co-sponsored by The Union League of Philadelphia
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.
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
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.
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!
Sam Rohrer is interviewed on "The Chai95 Radio Hour with Adam Taxin" (Thursday, March 15, 2012)
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
Monday 3-4pm "Bordering on Insanity" - Sue Payne and Frosty Wooldridge
The Case Against Obamacare: Health Care Policy Series for the 112th Congress
A Health Care Policy Series for the 112th Congress
Building on decades of Heritage research, The Case Against Obamacare: A Health Care Policy Series for the 112th Congress examines 15 key provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Each report:
Cites specific sections of the 2,700-page health care law
Provides detailed analysis of specific Obamacare provisions
Identifies key principles for a better way to reform health care
The unmistakable conclusion of this series is that Obamacare must be fully repealed. Congress cannot build sound market-based health care reform on the flawed foundation of this health care law. Until it can be repealed, Congress must employ its full powers authorized by the Constitution to:
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 2012 Presidential Voter Guide
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
FRC Action: 801 G Street N.W. Washington, D.C. 20001 P: 202/393-2100 or 877/372-2808
Dear By revealing the Nazi and Marxist origins of groups such as the Muslim Students Association and Students for Justice in Palestine and the connections between these organizations and terrorist activities around the globe, Muslim Hate Groups on Campus sheds light on the dark undercurrent of anti-Semitism which flows unobstructed through our most prestigious institutions of higher education.
Test of Fire: Election 2012 (Official HD Version - Catholic)
Will you vote the values that will stand the test of fire? Some things are more important than high gas prices or a faltering economy. They are life, marriage and freedom. This November, Catholics must stand up and protect their sacred rights and duties.
Whenever the mood takes you, call up liberal friends
and read them random chunks of Newsweek's Evan Thomas's gushing response on MSNBC to the Obamessiah's Cairo surrender speech. Make them cringe and writhe with lines like: "I think the President's speech yesterday was the reason we Americans elected him. It was grand. It was positive. Hopeful... But what I liked about the President's speech in Cairo was that it showed a complete humility... The question now is whether the President we elected and spoke for us so grandly yesterday can carry out the great vision he gave us and to the world"; and "He's going to bring all different sides together... Obama is trying to sort of temper everything down. He doesn't even use the word terror. He uses extremism. It's all about let us reason together... He's the teacher. He's going to say, 'Now, children, stop fighting and quarreling with each other.' And he has a kind of moral authority that he-he can-he can do that."
By Frontpagemag.com A new Freedom Center pamphlet gives the definitive account of the Palestinians' genocidal agenda -- in their own words. Read more »
Bang for your buck: that's what the Freedom Center provides. Ammunition for the culture war against the Left: that's what your contribution buys. So please act now and help us in the fight we are waging on many fronts for America's future. America is under assault from within and without. There is no time to lose.
The administration denies it leaked the story about Israel's supposed access to air bases in Azerbaijan. White House sources say they would "gladly prosecute" whoever was responsible. So why doesn't the administration begin an investigation?
Obama stated he opposes the founders' view of protecting "negative rights" in the Constitution. He also said, "one of the...tragedies of the civil rights movement, was [it] became so court focused." This isn't the "change" Americans thought they voted for.
On the eve of Passover 1943, the last resistance battle in the Warsaw Ghetto took place between Nazis and Jews. Salvaged in twenty containers under the buildings' rubble is a record of the Jews' unbridled heroism and determined resistance. Remember them.
Historically, each time U.S. leaders have decided the Muslim Brotherhood could be bent it to America's goals, the only party that clearly benefited was the Muslim Brotherhood. So when are we going to stop beating our heads against the wall?
The newly-formed American Islamic Leadership Coalition (AILC) must de-politicize Islam, dealing with vast pages of Islam's history, fatwas and dogma. We hope AILC can confront and tame its heavyweight opponents - their fellow believers.
Why has the mainstream media swept Fakegate under the rug, said little about Climategate, and pandered to the EPA and Obama administration despite the obvious fraud, waste and failure of its "Green" programs?
Progressives detest the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution which protect individual rights and place permanent limits on the scope of government. Is it any surprise, then, that Obama does not like or agree with either document?
Religious and political liberals are in their descendancy, but still challenging religious life in America. Yet the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) President Timothy Dolan is smart, engaging and tough: he will not let Obama push him around.
This Easter weekend, we remember the ultimate sacrifice and the ultimate gift. As first preached, the first Easter sermon by Paul Dwight Moddy in 1910 to Billy Graham's final public sermon on July 7, 2006, the message is clear. God loves you and He sacrificed His Son, so you may live. Accept His ultimate sacrifice and you will receive a permanent and eternal relationship with Him, forever and ever, amen. Pride stops most folks from Christ.
In October 2010, on the eve of the Islamic revolution that the media fancies as "the Arab Spring," the Supreme Guide of the Muslim Brotherhood called for jihad against the United States.
You might think that this all but unnoticed bombshell would be of some importance to policymakers in Washington. It was not. It is not. This week, the Obama administration quietly released $1.5 billion in foreign aid to the new Egyptian government, now dominated by a Brotherhood-led coalition in parliament - soon to be joined by an Ikhwan (i.e., Brotherhood) luminary as president.
The Hoodie and Trayvon The weather outside has that cool uncertain feel of spring that can shift with a beam of sunshine from cold to warm. Trees blossom in white and pink explosions that crowd entire streets, though the London Plane Tree, which is a common feature and bane of New York streets, is still biding its time, the naked skeletal trunks towering over pedestrians. When wide green leaves finally form on its branches, they will not last long.
Those Americans who have turned a blind eye to the infiltration of Islam into every nook and crany of American society will one day wake up and think they are in a Muslim country. Examples abound from NYC, to D.C. and across the country. From the Muslim Student Association's infiltration of our college campuses to news publications, school textbooks, and Obama's embrace of Islam over Christianity as shown by his attack on the Catholic church, while playing "nice" with his Muslim Brotherhood colleagues
This Easter weekend, we remember the ultimate sacrifice and the ultimate gift. As first preached, the first Easter sermon by Paul Dwight Moddy in 1910 to Billy Graham's final public sermon on July 7, 2006, the message is clear. God loves you and He sacrificed His Son, so you may live. Accept His ultimate sacrifice and you will receive a permanent and eternal relationship with Him, forever and ever, amen. Pride stops most folks from Christ.
This weeks news including: Obama Obfuscates on Fisker Bailout Deal - Again, Obama takes Preemptive Swipe at U.S. Supreme Court, Judicial Watch Blog Report Starts Media Brushfire over Stealth Amnesty
In October 2010, on the eve of the Islamic revolution that the media fancies as "the Arab Spring," the Supreme Guide of the Muslim Brotherhood called for jihad against the United States.
You might think that this all but unnoticed bombshell would be of some importance to policymakers in Washington. It was not. It is not. This week, the Obama administration quietly released $1.5 billion in foreign aid to the new Egyptian government, now dominated by a Brotherhood-led coalition in parliament - soon to be joined by an Ikhwan (i.e., Brotherhood) luminary as president.
Those Americans who have turned a blind eye to the infiltration of Islam into every nook and crany of American society will one day wake up and think they are in a Muslim country. Examples abound from NYC, to D.C. and across the country. From the Muslim Student Association's infiltration of our college campuses to news publications, school textbooks, and Obama's embrace of Islam over Christianity as shown by his attack on the Catholic church, while playing "nice" with his Muslim Brotherhood colleagues
Michael Ledeen reports that the Natanz uranium enrichment site has been shut down after a mysterious blast happened "in the next-to-bottom level of the underground structure." A second explosion has struck a site in Zarin Dasht that is used for producing warheads and missile fuel and 7 people are missing.
Iran's Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi, declared earlier this week that 'The sanctions may have caused us small problems but we will continue our path.' This declaration comes as once again the Obama administration will enter talks with the Iranians, even though talks in the past have failed to deter the Iranians from moving forward with their quest to acquire nuclear weapons. We have no reason to believe that this next round of talks will be any more productive than their predecessors. We also see that the participants can't even agree on a venue for the summit.
Gold prices plunge overnight - is the rush over? ... Has the gold boom come to an end? The price of gold, which has climbed for years like a blood pressure reading for anxious investors, plunged overnight to its lowest level in three months. Gold fell almost $US58 to $1,614 per ounce.
If Barack Obama strides into the White House for a second term, he will enjoy unfettered ability to destroy our Republic. He will secure four more years to dismantle our country into the image of his own making: socialistic, overwhelmed by immigrants, probably more Islamic, few jobs, with astronomical debt and endless welfare.
by Eliana Benador Today, Jews worldwide celebrate Pesach or Passover for English speakers. Pesach is the story of how the enslaved Jewish people walked to their freedom from their slavery in Egypt -even though only 20% of Jews left Egypt, while 80% remained with their Egyptian masters.
Larry O'Donnell of MSNBC used his Last Word segment last night to criticize Mitt Romney for believing in a relatively new and made up religion. His specific criticism is that Joseph Smith created the Mormon religion to explain his infidelities to his wife when he got caught cheating. Mr. O'Donnell, you just opened a door that I intend to drive a truck through; trust me on this, your comment just started a discussion that the country needs to have soon.
The Investigative Project on Terrorism When seven people are killed including 3 children, who is responsible? When a van carrying Hasidic students is attacked by automatic weapon fire, killing one and wounding several others, who is held accountable? It would seem according to some reports that the victims fell prey to the "lone terrorist" or "self-radicalized" individual. Is this an accurate description of what took place?
The Catholic Campaign for Human Development, which once funded the activities of a young community organizer named Barack Obama, promotes a number of socialist and Marxist ideals.
According to Race Traitor, a publication that was highly regarded by the late Professor Derrick Bell (whom Barack Obama much admired), "the key to solving the social problems of our age is to abolish the white race."
by Eliana Benador Recently, a rather unusual phenomenon within traditional opposition to mainstream media may announce a fundamental change. News hit the wires announcing that NewsCorp, Rupert Murdoch's conglomerate company, is undergoing a renewed uprise among shareholder activists calling for his resignation as chairman -in the aftermath of his son James' resignation as chairman of its British pay-TV giant.
Mohammed Merah, the suspect in a string of violent attacks culminating with the March 19 shooting deaths of three children and a rabbi at the Ozar Hatorah School in Toulouse, France, committed suicide by cop March 22 after a prolonged standoff at his Toulouse apartment. Authorities believed Merah also to have shot and killed a paratrooper March 11 in Toulouse and two other paratroopers March 15 in Montauban.
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ITAI ON THE MOVE...Through the good work of Rev. Arthur Knight, ITAI presented an analysis of the Middle East before the Camden County, NJ Religious Leaders at the Universalist Unitarian Church in Cherry Hill on last Wednesday. Joseph Puder discussed the Shiite-Sunni Divide and the Rise of Islamism in the Arab world, while Dr. Robert Mikhail described what it was like to live as a Christian in Egypt...ITAI wishes its Jewish members a very Happy and Sweet Passover, and to our Christian members, a very Happy Easter.
This ITAI WEEKLY MIDDLE EAST REPORT has to do with The Dangerous Side of Moral Equivalency. This Marxist concept of moral equivalency is undermining the West while significant segments of the U.S. Government, Academia, and the mainline Protestant churches have adopted it.
THE DANGEROUS SIDE OF MORAL EQUIVALENCY
By: Joseph Puder
During a recent presentation made by this writer at a meeting attended by religious leaders and held in a Universalist Unitarian Church in New Jersey, the minister/host, in response to hearing the results of a survey addressing the rise of extremist Islamism in the Middle East and elsewhere exclaimed, "There are extremist Jews and Christians too, and since we don't have a Muslim present, you should refrain from speaking negatively about Muslims."
The focus of the presentation was the Shia-Sunni conflict in the Middle East and the rise to dominance of Islamism in the Arab world. My colleague, Dr. Mikhail, a native Egyptian, related his personal experiences living as a Christian in Egypt. He described the teaching of hate against non-Muslims, and the resultant killings and raping rampages against Christians in Egypt by Muslims. (In the most recent elections held in Egypt, since the fall of the Mubarak regime, the Salafist "Nour" party, members of which are extremist Islamists won 27.8% of the seats in the Egyptian Parliament and the more "moderate" Muslim Brotherhood won 37.5% of the vote.
"Progressive" thinking members of the clergy seem to have their minds made up and cannot and will not allow facts to alter their beliefs. And, while our presentation focused on reported, factual events in the Middle East, these facts seemed irrelevant to our "progressive" Unitarian Minister host. While it is true that there are extremist Christians and Jews, not since the dawn of the 21st century has one heard cries from either Christians or Jews advocating the killing of an infidel Muslim as we have seen when a Muslim cries out "Allahu Akbar" while stabbing or shooting a Jew or a Christian. There have been no reported killings of Muslims in the name of Jesus or Moses...
The exercising of moral equivalency by the "Progressive Left" negates the teachings of all monotheistic faiths. If one cannot distinguish between right and wrong, one invites chaos and confusion into society. Moreover, our legal system will collapse under such a practice. A murderer's guilt will become "relative" not complete, and under such relativist conditions, it would be impossible to convict anyone, without having extenuating circumstances.
What holds true for individual offenders applies to communities of faiths as well. In today's Europe (most recently exhibited in Toulouse), as in Gaza and Cairo, Islamist incitement to murder infidels is excused by European elites who react to such heinous acts with moral relativism and political correctness. Relativism and political correctness found in academia, media, churches, or government, regard the probing into aberrant Islamist behavior as Islamophobia or racism.
Similar complaints as that made by the Unitarian minister, regarding the call to restraint in the absence of Muslim representatives, reveals an endemic hypocrisy that exists not just in this particular church, but in the United Methodist and the Presbyterian USA churches, where anti-Israel and at times anti-Semitic resolutions are being discussed without consideration of the Jewish/Israeli point of view or, not including input from one of the parties - the Jewish/Israeli party as part of the discussion.
At the upcoming United Methodist Church (UMC) General Conference taking place this April 2012, and the Presbyterian Church USA General Assembly to be held in July 2012, leaders will be calling for divestment from companies doing business with Israel, and statements will be made labeling Israel "an Apartheid State" and equating Israel with South Africa.
The church leaders pushing these anti-Israel resolutions believe they are doing so in the name of "justice for the Palestinians." They refuse, however, to consider the anti-Jewish and anti-Semitic nature of the Arab-Muslim Palestinian leadership, and its refusal to recognize the right of Israel to exist as a Jewish State and to live in true peace and security. All the buzz words: occupation, right of return and settlements, obfuscate the real issue - that of Islamic intolerance towards any non-Muslim/non-Arab sovereign entities in the Middle East. Had the Arab-Palestinians wished to live in peace and security with the Jews and recognize the Jewish historical rights in their ancestral home, an Arab-Palestinian State would have been established in 1937 under the Peel Commission or in 1947, under the UN Partition Plan. Had the Arabs accepted the division of Palestine into Jewish and Arab states, there would have been no issues such as occupation, settlements, or refugees. Lest we forget - there were 850,000 Jewish refugees from Arab countries - a number far greater than the oft-quoted "Palestinian-Arab refugees." While Israel absorbed and re-settled the Jewish refugees at great cost when the nascent state had barely recovered a five-pronged attempt by Arab armies to obliterate it, the Arab countries turned their backs on their people and have perpetuated the homelessness of Palestinian refugees.
The unfettered malice towards the Jewish State, and the outrageous comparison to Apartheid South Africa, is strangely absent when one notes the violence and persecution of non-Muslims in the Middle East and beyond, by both Muslim states and by the Palestinians in Gaza and Ramallah. Although not all Muslims are terrorists, most terrorists in the 21st Century have been Muslims, who have killed in name of Allah.
Taking issue with the Clinton administration for pressuring Israel and not the Arabs, U.S. Representative and Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich (R-GA) had this to say on April 9, 1997, "There is extraordinary danger in treating terror and democracy equivalently. There is extraordinary danger in placing the burden on friends, because you are scared to tell the enemy the truth."
Jeane Kirkpatrick, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. during the Reagan Administration and author of the book "The Myth of Moral Equivalency" pointed out the following: "Marxism incorporates, at the verbal level and the intellectual level, the values of liberal democracy in its assault on liberal democracy, and this is precisely why it entraps so many Western intellectuals who are themselves serious liberal democrats. Thus the slightest restriction on, let's say, the presumption of innocence of the accused is said to demonstrate the absence of the rule of law. The slightest failure of an electoral system demonstrates contempt for political equality. Any use of force in international affairs establishes the lawless character of the society. Now, it is a short step from having demonstrated that a country like the U.S. is not law-abiding society todemonstrating that it is lost and that it is like any other lawless society (morally equivalent-JP). The Soviets can always claim 'We are no worse than you. Even if we are a lawless society, you too are a lawless society, we are no worse than you.' This is the logic of the doctrine of moral equivalence."
What is true in reference to America in its confrontation with the Soviets as described by Jeane Kirkpatrick is also true about Israel in its struggle with the Palestinian Arabs, and it is just as true in distinguishing the Judeo-Christian values from that of Islamism.
It is unfortunate therefore that the mainline Protestant churches and the Unitarian churches in particular have adopted the Marxist notion of moral equivalency while abandoning the truth of a universal right and wrong as enshrined in the holy books of Jews and Christians and manifested in the Judeo-Christian ethos.
The weather outside has that cool uncertain feel of spring that can shift with a beam of sunshine from cold to warm. Trees blossom in white and pink explosions that crowd entire streets, though the London Plane Tree, which is a common feature and bane of New York streets, is still biding its time, the naked skeletal trunks towering over pedestrians. When wide green leaves finally form on its branches, they will not last long.
It's the sort of weather that would usually make me throw on my hoodie, a relic of my college days that accompanies me on my transition from the jacket to the shirt. But the last time I wore it out, I got thumbs up and grins from people who aren't usually that friendly. It took me a while to get it, until a new neighbor toting a Whole Foods bag clued me in by breaking into a tirade about how horrible Florida and the Republicans are. Then I got it. The hoodie which predated Obama has now come to be defined by him and suddenly wearing one had become a political statement.
Wearing the hoodie would lead to the impression that I was making a statement of solidarity with Trayvon Martin, but not wearing one still meant allowing the left to control me. It was a small reminder on a spring day of how the left politicizes everything. There is nothing that the left considers apolitical. Its ambitions are unbounded by reason, law or sanity. Its singular gift is propaganda. It is terrible at the management of countries, but it is excellent at shaping their dialogue, at seizing organizations and public spaces, until everyone is forced to grapple with its agenda.
The hoodie began life as a practical garment, like jeans and other elements of working class clothing, it was hijacked as a fashion statement and then turned into high end clothing while still being marketed as dirty and dangerous. But practical things outlasts the tics and trends, they persist because unlike the 'Friends of the People' who pop up in working class wear, they are actually useful. It doesn't keep them from being politicized, but it allows them to outlast the politicizers.
With a last minute Passover purchase to make, I tossed on the hoodie and saluted a squirrel on the way out.
...and speaking of last minute things, due to the Passover holiday, this will be the last bit of writing until Sunday night.
PINING FOR THE OSLO FJORDS
The Israeli left is dead. It's politically dead, conceptually dead and brain dead. But like the fabled Norwegian blue parrot, there is an industry dedicated to assuring us that it's still alive and well, just pining for the Oslo peace process.
The left in Israel is one of the few in the world to exist on foreign subsidies. Without generous funds from the European Union, the State Department, George Soros and assorted members of the Shadow Party, the last remnants of the Israeli left would have packed up their suitcases, their degrees in art philosophy and their framed photos of Amos Oz and Leon Trotsky and moved to Paris or San Francisco.
Workers at a United States pro-democracy group were detained by the United Arab Emirates government, according to a report - a move that echoes a clampdown last month by Egypt that drew criticism from Washington.
Foreign Policy reported that the UAE governmentdetained foreign employees of the National Democratic Institute (NDI) and prevented at least one of them from leaving the country.
It said the director of NDI's Dubai office, Patricia Davis, an American, and her deputy director Slobodon Milic, a Serbian national, were stopped at the Dubai airport by UAE government authorities as they tried to leave the country.
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - As Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton worked hard on Saturday to focus attention on deepening security ties with the Arab nations of the Persian Gulf, she found herself having to deal with a surprising act of diplomatic defiance: the decision by the United Arab Emirates, an ally, to shutter the offices of an American-financed group that promotes democracy.
So far, the U.A.E. have not publicly explained their actions against the organization, the National Democratic Institute, which only recently was one of several nonprofits prosecuted in Egypt amid concerns about what many Egyptians perceive as foreign meddling.
The move by the U.A.E. was not as shocking as that by the Egyptians - in that case, the son of a Cabinet member was charged in criminal court. But it was especially provocative, coming just before Mrs. Clinton arrived in the region for talks with the U.A.E. and other members of the Gulf Cooperation Council.
Egypt's investigation of the group, along with the International Republican Institute and others, prompted a fierce debate in Washington over whether to continue providing military assistance to the Egyptian military. The Obama administration eventually allowed $1.3 billion in arms sales to move ahead, but only after Egypt allowed American employees of the groups to leave the country.
The State Department on Saturday defended the National Democratic Institute's work in the U.A.E., while an official with the group in the United States expressed some bafflement since he said it did not do democracy-building work in the country. Les Campbell, the regional director for the Middle East and North Africa, said the office in Dubai, one of the emirates, was used to coordinate work in nearby countries, including Saudi Arabia.
A German organization that was also targeted in Egypt, the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, recently closed its office in the U.A.E. at the demand of the country's foreign ministry.
In My Seat - A Pilot's Story from Sept 10th - 11th
September 10, 2001, First Officer Steve Scheibner packed his suitcase and waited for the phone call finalizing his assignment to fly American Airlines Flight 11, from Boston to Los Angeles. The call never came. In My Seat recounts the events leading up to Flight 11 and the subsequent death of Tom McGuinness in the seat that should have been filled by Steve Scheibner.
Like a constant speed conveyor, the Indoctrination by university profs deposits unwittingly indoctrinated graduates into our society with every graduation. Some - too many - will be affected for life because they've been denied a grasp of history, denied the knowledge of how this country prospered and grew based on free market principles. They enter into various careers and bring their skewed education along with them - into the law, journalism, education, government, entertainment, business and the rest.
A few years in the private sector will enable some to catch on. The others are likely to be lost for the rest of their lives, indoctrinating their children accordingly.
One of our members now taking a course at a community college in this area tells me his accounting teacher spends the first few minutes of every class on what amounts to socialist indoctrination.
The socialists' intent is to create a society that blindly accepts government as the source of all rights, subversion of the individual to the community, something akin to "The Stepford Wives". And this requires the universities to restrict or forbid opposing thought, as we see in so many schools.
The article below contains rather bleak facts. Let's not ignore them; we need ideas on how to deal with them.
Lou Flanagan
OLSEN: Dangers of academia's 'indoctrination mills'
Young Americans emerge from college favoring socialism over free markets
By Henry Olsen
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The Washington Times
Friday, April 6, 2012
Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum caused a bit of a stir last month when he labeled college campuses "indoctrination mills" that enforce a strict adherence to "politically correct left doctrine." For conservatives, Mr. Santorum might as well have called the sky blue. But from the way the media and liberal pundits pounced on his remarks, you'd think he had said something profoundly indecent.
For decades, conservatives have documented and criticized how liberal ideology runs rampant throughout higher education. Hence William F. Buckley's famous quip from the 1960s: "I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University." Fifty years later, few conservatives would disagree.
But could the problem be getting worse? The Pew Research Center released a study in December showing that more Americans age 18 to 29 have a favorable view of socialism over capitalism. In fact, this demographic has a net positive view of socialism (49 percent positive to 43 percent negative) and net negative view of capitalism (46 percent positive and 47 percent negative). When Pew released an earlier version of the same study two years ago, this demographic's views on socialism were exactly the opposite (43 percent positive and 49 percent negative).
The Obama Record: Little noticed in the president's remarks attacking the Supreme Court last week were two whoppers he told about ObamaCare. Then again, since that reform was built on untruths, why should he stop now?
At that press event, Obama told any justice thinking of overturning ObamaCare's central tenet that "in the absence of an individual mandate, you cannot have a mechanism to ensure that people with pre-existing conditions can actually get health care."
But this is false.
In fact, Obama himself argued precisely the opposite during the 2008 campaign, saying a mandate wasn't needed to achieve universal coverage. "The reason people don't have health insurance isn't because they don't want it," he said then. "It's because they can't afford it."
Plus, ObamaCare itself proves a mandate isn't needed to cover those with pre-existing conditions. The law set up federal "high risk" pools that offer insurance to those denied it by private companies. Yet instead of making this a permanent solution, Obama kills these pools off in 2014 in favor of the mandate.
Obama also claimed at that press conference that the law "was passed by a strong majority of a democratically elected Congress."
Afterburner with Bill Whittle: Merchants of Despair
Who is responsible for the current economic malaise? If you ask Bill Whittle, it's Obama's pals like David Axelrod, Harry Reid and Tim Geithner, some of the many Merchants of Despair. These merchants are costing taxpayers trillions and creating deep national divides based on class and race. Will the despair continue for another four years? Find out.
The World's Quietest Room is 99.9 percent sound absorbing -- so quiet that the longest anyone has been able to stay in it alone, in the dark, is 45 minutes. Even the founder of the Orfield Laboratories, Steven Orfield, can only last about 30 minutes. Find out why the room freaks people outHERE.
Google wants your feedback on its new, augmented-reality glasses. The high-tech specs will display your appointments while you're pouring coffee, let you know the weather as you look out the window, and pop-up your texts while you eat your breakfast sandwich. See how the connected pair of glasses could change how you see the worldHERE.
Ever dreamed flyving? That's right -- flying and driving. The race is on for not one but two flying cars to make it to the market. One is a U.S.-based company touting the "Transition"; the other is the Dutch PAL-V ONE (Personal Air and Land Vehicle). Both have made recent successful test flights. Check out the tech and experience the flightsHERE.
A Toronto woman found herself under arrest for assault after police identified her based on a photo posted on Facebook. There was one small problem with the police action, the woman was nowhere near the incident when it happend. Read about the "Facebook Line-up" and what ultimately happened to the woman HERE.
As you will see in the video attached here, CBS White House Correspondent Bill Plante does not mince words. Watch as Plante makes Jay Carney aware of his displeasure HERE.
One of the most-played pieces of audio from the Trayvon Martin story was discovered to be doctored by NBC. This week the network was forced to apologize for their edits. Read all about this HERE.
During a recent visit to the OWS camp in NYC, Ayers and his wife Bernadine Dohrn spoke to the Occupiers. Ayers railed against the American military and also took exception with the policy of domestic airlines that allows uniformed military personnel to board planes first. Watch him speaking HERE.
A Federal Judge was not pleased with President Obama's preemptive strike on the Supreme Court. He was so angry that he ordered the AG to explain what Mr. Obama meant. Read the details HERE.
Senator Chuck Grassley has been very busy of late, tweeting about the History Channel. And these are not tweets of praise. Discover exactly what has rankled the senior senator from Iowa HERE.
The news of Keith Olbermann's firing from Current TV did not take too many people by surprise. But the termination did inspire Real News' S.E. Cupp to deliver a special farewell message to the man who rudely railed against her the year before. Watch Ms. Cupp in action HERE (content warning for strong language).
This story just might be the perfect way to wrap up Holy Week. Patrick Greene had a history of threatening to sue cities over Nativity displays. No longer. Mr. Greene recently converted to Christianity and is considering entering the ministry. See his story HERE. READ THIS |
Rocker Ted Nugent was on the air with Mike Broomhead this week and in typical "Nuge" fashion, he did not hold back. Listen to Ted spitting the truth on MSNBC, Trayvon Martin, Piers Morgan and many many more HERE.
Parents of kids at one Virginia school are not pleased. They claim the kids are being indoctrinated by teachers who are filling their heads with anti-GOP propaganda. See what the kids are being told HERE.
With three primary election wins this week, it seem that Mitt Romney is very close to securing the right to represent the GOP in the 2012 election. If it is Mitt, who will be his running mate? You can vote on it HERE.
A textbook assigned to freshmen at a Texas college is causing a bit of a stir. Within the pages of the 10th edition of "Read, Reason, and Write: An Argument Text and Reader" are several statements defaming both the Tea Party and Glenn Beck. Get all the details HERE.
It's got razor sharp teeth, a freakishly long tongue and no natural enemies in the The State of Maryland. The Fish and Wildlife people call it the "fish from Hell" but it is better known as the Asian Snakehead fish. The state can't seem to get ahead of this aggressive aquatic devil and is offering a $200 bounty for each one that is caught. Get the details and see the scary pictures HERE.
Syria's government stands accused of killing an estimated 9,000 people... its own people. What is the international community doing to stop the attacks from the government on the citizens? Watch the segment which opens with S.E. Cupp asking Buck Sexton "Is the UN on crack?" HERE.
Three young Christian women in Arizona have reportedly been trained to chase demons from people who believe that they are possessed by evil spirits. Get the details on this story about the trio that has been called a cross between "Charlie's Angels" and "The Exorcist" HERE. READ THIS |
A global climate model that does not simulate current climate accurately does not necessarily imply that it cannot produce accurate projections.
Think about that one for a while. One of the many problems with global warming "science" is that the models on which the entire enterprise is based cannot accurately describe or simulate the Earth's current climate, nor can they, when cast backward, accurately describe the Earth's climate history. It seems obvious that a model that can't get the past and the present right is an unreliable guide to the future-predicting the future is the hard part-but alarmists are in the position of claiming reliability for such deeply flawed models.
So Pielke responded as follows:
I invite anyone to defend this perspective, and we will present as a guest weblog post. From my perspective, if a global climate model cannot simulate current climate, as well as changes in the climate system, accurately it cannot produce accurate projections of climate in the coming decades.
Papers that fail this test, or do not even make it, which then are still published, is a subversion of the scientific process.
That strikes me as inarguable. It will be interesting to see whether any of the alarmists take Pielke up on his challenge. This is one more reminder that global warming alarmism isn't science, it is a toxic mixture of faith and politics.
In another post, Pielke sets out these minimal standards for models' predictions to have any credibility:
In terms of testing the models, necessary conditions (but still not a sufficient condition) for the models to have any credibility to predict the future climate on decadal time scales are:
1. They must accurately simulate (hindcast) the statistics of major atmospheric and ocean circulation features over the last few decades (since real world data is available)
and
2. They must accurately simulate (hindcast) the statistics of the changes in the statistics of these major atmospheric and ocean circulation features over the last few decades.
If they cannot do both #1 and #2, they must be rejected as robust predictive (projection) tools for the coming decades.
... If they cannot skillfully predict #1 and #2, model predictions of the coming decades, published in journal articles, news reports, and climate assessments, are misinforming and misleading stakeholders and policymakers.
Pielke offers this graphic that sums up the range of B.S. that one encounters in wading through the alarmists' papers:
We established beyond a reasonable doubt in our "Don't leave it to Cleaver" series that Missouri Rep. Emanuel Cleaver is one of the most reprehensible men in Congress. Cleaver and a few of his colleagues in the Congressional Black Caucus retailed the story that Tea Party protesters abused them with racial epithets while the protesters demonstrated against Obamacare on Capitol Hill on March 20, 2010. McClatchy News swallowed the story whole even though it was shown in short order to be nothing but a fabrication.
It turns out that Rep. Cleaver is not just a liar without a conscience, he is also a deadbeat (to borrow Glenn Reynolds's formulation). The Kansas City Star reports:
U.S. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver's car wash headache is raging once again.
The bank that loaned the Kansas City congressman and his wife $1.3 million in 2002 to buy the Grandview Auto Wash at 12204 Blue Ridge Extension is now demanding payment of more than $1.5 million, after the Cleavers repeatedly fell behind on repaying the loan.
The suit, filed last week in Jackson County Circuit Court, said the demand for repayment came after three attempts to delay foreclosure. Bank of America also is seeking attorney's fees and a receiver to protect collateral.
"The Cleaver Company failed and refused, and continues to fail and refuse, to pay the outstanding obligations due and owing ... under the note and other loan documents," the lawsuit said.
In an email statement, Cleaver said, "This is a business dispute. The business has been run by an outside manager for years." He said because it was a legal matter, he would have no further comment.
According to court documents, the outstanding principal totals $1.2 million with interest totaling $240,545 as of March 6. Late fees have reached $54,587. Both Cleavers had personally guaranteed the debts, according to the suit.
But wait! There's more. Taxpayers are on the hook: "The loan was originally part of a Small Business Administration program. It was not clear Thursday how much money, if any, taxpayers will have to provide if the loan defaults." Surely there must be some "stimulus" money left to help Cleaver out.
Reading Rich Lowry's Easter column paying tribute to Charles Colson - "When redemption is real" - brought back warm memories of my interviews with Colson, Colson biographer Jonathan Aitken, and Colson's Prison Fellowship successor Mark Earley back in 2005. A Washington Post Book World review of Aitken's biography of Colson by Rutgers University Professor David Greenberg was the occasion of my conversations with Colson and the others.
Greenberg had slimed Colson in the course of his review, which alludes to Colson's service in the Nixon administration with the headline "Tricky Chuck." Here is Greenberg sliming Colson in his review of Aitken's biography, still sitting out there for anyone to read on the Internet as originally published by the Post:
Under Nixon, Colson tried to lure working-class Catholic Democrats to the Republican Party by funneling federal funds to parochial schools. Little came of the effort, partly because Nixon administration officials considered the constitutional barriers too high. Today, however, President Bush doles out taxpayer monies to groups performing Christian social work under a plan Colson has advocated. While Colson's motives might be less cynical now than they were under Nixon, the project of eroding the church-state wall is essentially the same. And while Colson's current schemes surely don't merit him more jail time, they hardly suggest a meaningfully changed man. Indeed, in the book's final pages, Aitken fleetingly mentions that grants from Bush's faith-based initiative now fill Colson's coffers. In this context, it seems, "redemption" means cashing in.
If you actually read Aitken's book, which I seriously doubt Greenberg did, you would know that Greenberg's disparagement of Colson for lining his coffers with government money or enriching himself through his ministry is a lie. Aitken goes out of his way in the book to document Colson's sacrifice of riches he could rightly have claimed as his own - such as the royalties from his multimillion selling memoir - for the benefit of his prison ministry.
I interviewed Colson, Aitken and Earley about Greenberg's libel of Colson in the review. At one point I caught up with Colson while he was shopping for groceries with his autistic grandson in Florida. Having the opportunity to talk to a guy who served hard time with Jeb Magruder for a (highly questionable) crime to which he had pleaded guilty, I asked him if he ever found out what Nixon's minions were looking for in the Watergate. He said that he had wondered the same thing himself and that he had asked Magruder that at one point in prison. What did he say? "He didn't say anything; he just turned red," Colson said. Drat!
I wrote about Greenberg's false and defamatory review in the Weekly Standard column "Wielding the hatchet." With the kind permission of the Standard, we also posted the column on Power Line as "Book World's dirty trick."
When the Post got around to publishing Mark Earley's letter taking issue with Greenberg, I took a close look at Greenberg's mealymouthed response in "Professor Greenberg regrets." Long story short: Greenberg still owes Colson an apology that he can't bring himself to offer, and I wanted to take the occasion of Rich Lowry's terrific column to tack on this addendum.
Obamacare is a Trojan horse, intended, as Barack Obama has said, to lead to the extinction of private health insurance and its replacement by socialized ("single payer") medicine. So it is pertinent to observe how socialized medicine has worked out in countries where it has been in place for some decades, like the United Kingdom. One key feature of socialized medicine, wherever it exists, is the establishment of death panels. Death panels are needed to ration health care by designating those who are not worth treating, usually by virtue of their age. Thus, the Daily Mail reports:
When Kenneth Warden was diagnosed with terminal bladder cancer, his hospital consultant sent him home to die, ruling that at 78 he was too old to treat. Even the palliative surgery or chemotherapy that could have eased his distressing symptoms were declared off-limits because of his age.
His distraught daughter Michele Halligan accepted the sad prognosis but was determined her father would spend his last months in comfort. So she paid for him to seen privately by a second doctor to discover what could be done to ease his symptoms.
Thanks to her tenacity, Kenneth got the drugs and surgery he needed - and as a result his cancer was actually cured. Four years on, he is a sprightly 82-year-old who works out at the gym, drives a sports car and competes in a rowing team. ...
Sadly, Kenneth's story is symptomatic of a dreadful truth. According to shocking new research by Macmillan Cancer Support, every year many thousands of older people are routinely denied life-saving NHS treatments because their doctors write them off as too old to treat.
The linked article has much more, but the point is simple: the easiest way to cut costs in any socialized system is simply to stop treating elderly people. Further, as the costs of a socialized system rise due to inefficiency, the age at which people are "too old to treat" will inevitably trend downward.
I was disappointed to see one of my favorite investment analysts, Barry Ritholtz, retail some ill-informed and completely without context or comparison harum-scarum on his website about how people in California are being exposed to hundreds of times normal radiation from the Fukushima meltdown of a year ago, adding, Jane Fonda-like, that "the government is doing everything it can to help citizens cover up what's occurring." Higher levels are even showing up in our milk! Panic!
You have to click through to some of the links to find out, for example, that the elevated levels of radiation exposure to someone who drinks a gallon of milk a week is "1 microsievert, or the total effective dose equivalent for only 12 minutes on an airplane flight or 3.7 hours of the average person's background exposure from natural sources of radiation."
So kudos are due to my sensible left-leaning environmental pals Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus of the Breakthrough Institute, for calling BS on the whole scene with their piece "The Making of a Radiation Panic."
One year after Fukushima, independent scientists working for the UN say bluntly that irrational fears of radiation poisoning will cause far more harm than the radiation itself. Not a single individual from the Japanese public received a dangerous dose, according to the early and informal analyses by the scientists. (Conspiracy theories cannot survive against the constant independent radiation measurements uploaded on Twitter.) Even the 70 altruistic plant workers who stayed behind gained an additional cancer risk of just 0.002% - effectively zero in a country where four out of ten people get cancer.
Michael and Ted go on to conclude that overreaction to Fukushima probably poses greater health risks than radiation from Fukushima.
PJTV's Scott Ott carries out an entertaining undercover investigation: he goes to the offices of several groups that denounce voter identification laws as unconstitutional suppression of minority votes, etc., and tries to get in to see someone. Sure enough: they all require identification, including the Department of Justice, which has sued to invalidate voter identification laws. You have a constitutional right to petition for redress of grievances, but if you want to see Eric Holder or anyone else at the the Department of Justice to explain your grievance, you need a photo ID.
As we noted here, perhaps the ultimate instance of this hypocrisy was when Eric Holder went to the LBJ Library in Texas to rail against that state's voter ID law, which DOJ sued to invalidate shortly thereafter. Sure enough: you couldn't get in to see Holder denounce identification requirements as racist unless you had a photo ID.
There are several variations of Easterbrook's First Law of Doomsaying (after Gregg Easterbrook, author of one of the best environmental books ever, A Moment on the Earth-dated but still worth reading) which goes something like this: Always predict catastrophe soon enough to worry people, but far enough in the future that people will forget when you are wrong.
To this I add what I call the Gore-Hansen Interrogative, which goes as follows: Will people like Gore, James Hansen, et al, who traffic in the trope that "we only have ten years left to do something about X" shut up when the ten years are up? (We're down to about two years left on the "ten years left to do something about global warming clock.) Of course this question is absurd: these folks will never shut up, though as we can see with Gore's CurrentTV, people will stop listening. Somewhere I have a collection of these "only ten years left to" statements, starting with UN Secretary General U Thant declaring in 1970 that we only had ten years left to get a handle on the environmental catastrophe or the Earth would be doomed. That's 42 years ago. And yet we're still here.
But be not dismayed! Remember that recycling is a prime virtue of environmentalism, along with the fact that they just can't get Thomas Malthus out of their waking nightmares as we noted here a couple days ago. Something called the Jay W. Forrester Institute at MIT (which seems not to have a website) has issued a study predicting global economic collapse. When? In 2030. Suitably far ahead that this study will be forgotten.
The amazing thing is that this study actually attempts to vindicate the 1972 Club of Rome "Limits to Growth" report. Amazingly the Club of Rome still exists, and they're still on their "limits to growth" jag.
Now step back for a minute and consider this. Recall Bjorn Lomborg's "Litany" of environmental disaster in his 2001 book The Skeptical Environmentalist:
We are all familiar with the Litany: the environment is in poor shape here in Earth. Our resources are running out. The population is ever growing, leaving less and less to eat. The air and water are becoming ever more polluted. The planet's species are becoming extinct in vast numbers-we kill off more than 40,000 each year. The forests are disappearing, fish stocks are collapsing, and the coral reefs are dying. We are defiling our Earth, the fertile topsoil is disappearing; we are paving over nature, destroying the wilderness, decimating the biosphere, and will end up killing ourselves in the process. The world's ecosystem is breaking down. We are fast approaching the absolute limit of viability, and the limits of growth are becoming apparent.
The book that drove them crazy
Now, just how did environmentalists react to this highly accurate summary? They denied it was true. They called it a "straw man." Allen Hammond of the World Resources Institute, for example, argued that Lomborg's Litany "paints a caricature of the environmental agenda based on sometimes mistaken views widely held thirty years ago, but to which no serious environmental institution subscribes today." (Emphasis added). Michael Grubb of Cambridge University, one of Britain's leading environmental figures, wrote in a Science magazine review of Lomborg that "to any professional, it is no news at all that the 1972 Limits to Growth study was mostly wrong or that Paul Ehrlich and Lester Brown have perennially exaggerated the problems of food supply."
Even the original authors of TheLimits to Growth study backed away from their original confidence in doomsday. In a 2004 thirty-year update to The Limits to Growth, the authors confessed that "we are not predicting that a particular future will take place. . . . We do not believe that available data and theories will ever permit accurate predictions of what will happen to the world over the coming century."
But like recovering alcoholics who succumb when walking past a busy and well-lit tavern, environmentalists just can't help themselves. Hence the new MIT study, which is just a recycled version of the old study. So where are the Hammonds and Grubbses of the environmental world to repeat their disclaimers of 2001 that no serious environmental organizations believe this kind of environmentalism? That's right: they were lying. They all believe it. They always will.
P.S. From the news squib about the MIT study, this worthy note:
The Smithsonian notes that several experts strongly objected to "The Limit of Growth's" findings, including the late Yale economist Henry Wallich, who for 12 years served as a governor of the Federal Research Board and was its chief international economics expert. At the time, Wallich said attempting to regulate economic growth would be equal to "consigning billions to permanent poverty."
Drawing on Obama's luncheon speech on the budget to (his supporters at) the AP this week, the RNC has posted the video below comparing this year's model with last year's. Hmmm. Same as it ever was - as the RNC has previously demonstrated for Obama's 2011 and 2012 State of the Union addresses.
The RNC calls the ad "Same tired rhetoric." Tired rhetoric is no crime. What can we learn from it? The RNC doesn't say. I have a few thoughts, as I'm sure readers do as well.
There is no premium on originality in political rhetoric, but Obama is testing the limits. He is extending the concept of recycling into previously uncharted territory. Unlike traditional waste recycling, however, Obama's rhetorical recycling actually saves energy! He's saving the energy of his speechwriters.
In order to soar, words must have the force of truth. Obama left the area some time ago.
There is no contrast between Obama 2011 and Obama 2012. He's been in formal campaign mode since August 2011, and informally well before that. There is a contrast to be drawn - the contrast between Obama as a candidate for election in 2008 and as a candidate for reelection in 2012.
The contrast is stark. In 2008 Obama ran as a redeemer come to save the time. In 2012 Obama is in old hard left class warrior.
Does Obama ever express a thought using words in a new form? It seems that political cliches are the essential medium of his expression. His speeches are like New York Times editorials. They ought to be accompanied by a warning: Reading them can kill brain cells.
Is this really the somewhat interesting guy who wrote Dreams From My Father I doubt it. I don't say Bill Ayers necessarily wrote the book, but it couldn't have been Obama. He has yet to formulate a political thought in an original way.
Conservatives had Obama's number last time, but a lot of voters chose to ignore the evidence and hope he was who he pretended to be. As Samuel Johnson said of remarriage, it was the triumph of hope over experience.
This time around, pretty much everyone has Obama's number. He isn't even trying to conceal it or present it as something other than what it is. That's progress, isn't it?
If Obama is reelected, we will hear a lot more of this. But to what effect? Republican forces in the Senate will be enhanced and probably only modestly diminished in the House. What then? If he is reelected, it will be a long, long four years.
Well, let's hear it from the Talking Heads. Key question: "You may ask yourself, well, how did I get here?"
The left has dominated the arts-pretty much all of them, are there any exceptions other than country music?-throughout the modern era. And yet, how much good left-wing art has been created? Surprisingly little, it seems to me. But the latest from Gunter Grass is an especially lame instance of the genre.
Grass, if you don't recall him, is an 84-year-old German novelist whose best-known work is his first book, The Tin Drum, which was set before, during and after World War II. Grass was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1999, even though his writing has had little impact for some decades. At one time, Grass was hailed as the conscience of post-war Germany, but then it came out that he served in a Waffen-SS Panzer division in the latter part of the war. I don't hold that against him; he was really a boy at the time. Still, most people, if they had a stint in the SS in their past, would have the delicacy to avoid posing as a moral arbiter.
Not Gunter Grass. Inoculated by his left-wing politics, he assumes the right to instruct others, most recently, his bete noir, the state of Israel-again, a target that a former SS soldier might deem it prudent to avoid. Grass has written a poem called "What Must Be Said," which has been published this week in multiple European newspapers, including the Sueddeutsche Zeitung and Italy's La Repubblica. Grass's poem warns against a possible strike by Israel against Iran, and protests Germany's sale of a submarine to Israel.
The politics are entirely predictable, but what I want to comment on is how terrible the poem is. You can read a translation of it here. Now, to be fair, any poem will lose something in translation, and this particular version sounds a bit like instructions for use of a product that were written in German and translated into English. But is there any conceivable translation that could turn this into actual poetry?
That is the claimed right to the formal preventive aggression which could erase the Iranian people dominated by a bouncer and moved to an organized jubilation, because in the area of his competence there is the construction of the atomic bomb.
Or this:
Now, since my country, from time to time touched by unique and exclusive crimes, obliged to justify itself, again for pure business aims - even if with fast tongue we call it "reparation" - should deliver another submarine to Israel, with the specialty of addressing annihilating warheads where the existence of one atomic bomb is not proved but it wants evidence as a scarecrow, I say what must be said.
And this:
And I admit: I won't be silent because I had enough of the Western hypocrisy; Because I wish that many will want to get rid of the silence, exhorting the cause of a recognizable risk to the abdication, asking that a free and permanent control of the Israel atomic power and the Iran nuclear bases will be made by both the governments with an international supervision.
Other news sources have quoted somewhat different translations, but you get the picture. That isn't poetry, it is mindless left-wing noodling with occasional line breaks.
I don't think there was ever actually a time when patriotism was the last refuge of a scoundrel, but isn't it obvious that leftism is the last refuge not only of scoundrels, but of the untalented, the over the hill, the too scared to be anything but conventional, and the depraved?
April 5, 2012
Wolfram: Mark Steyn does Paul Revere
By Gary Wolfram
Paul Revere Steyn )
Mark Steyn has been teaching a two-week class at Hillsdale College for journalism students. As part of the program he gave a public lecture this week. His wide-ranging remarks were, as usual, perceptive, pithy, and on-point. I want to focus briefly this week on but one of the topics Mr. Steyn discussed: How government has taken over the role of the family
As Steyn would put it, "the nationalization of the family."
The idea that government could replace the family is probably not something the average American would support. Yet, the average American might support Head Start programs, whereby the government taxes you to provide "pre-school" services for children. Most Americans might also bee in favor of federal support of K-12 education - a la, the No Child Left Behind Act. We also expect the government to take care of our retirement (Social Security) and our health insurance once we retire (Medicare). We also expect government to provide health insurance for our indigent relatives under Medicaid.
Subsidized and Expensive Solar Energy Bites the Dust Again By Dr. Ileana Johnson Paugh CanadaFreePress.com
Solar Trust of America, filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy in Delaware courts-the ninth solar energy company to bite the dust-adding to the previous list of BrightSource, Beacon Power, Ener1, Evergreen Solar, Fisker, Solyndra, Sunpower, and Spectrawatt.
Obama Administration Applauds Tax Cuts-In People's Republic of China By Terence P. Jeffrey CNSNews.com
While making positive comments about the most recent five-year-plan developed by the Communist government of the People's Republic of China, Undersecretary of State Robert Hormats specifically applauded China's decision to lower taxes because it would spur economic growth.
Panetta Pays Fraction of Military Flight Costs to Home AP/NewsMax.com
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has commuted on military aircraft to his home in northern California more than two dozen times since he took over the Pentagon in July, paying about $630 per trip for a roundtrip flight that costs the Pentagon about $32,000. Read the Full Story
Obama Destroying Our Credit Rating
US Credit Rating Downgraded, Again Breitbart.com
A small credit ratings agency downgraded the United States' credit rating for a second time, arguing the country was no closer to solving its runaway debt problem.
All Of The People Around Them They Say, "Can They Be That Close?" The Zaftig Diva Has Yet to Cantillate Her Final Aria
Could GOP Delegate Count Really Be This Close? By Bob Unruh WorldNetDaily
A report released today by the Rick Santorum campaign says that the GOP primary tabulations being assembled by the media are wrong - and the former Pennsylvania senator actually is much closer to former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney than is being portrayed.
If you are really serious about taking back this country, you must be willing to do what it takes to help elect true conservatives to office and, in order to actually do what it takes, you must first know what it takes. Craig Copland's 214-page Conservative Election Handbook is a must have tool that every conservative should have in his or her arsenal.
Donald Trump fired back at Jenna Talackova, the Canadian transsexual beauty queen who has mired his Miss Universe pageant in controversy and her high-powered attorney who is demanding the beauty pageant be open to all contestants, even those born male.Read the Full Story
Video: Up From The Grave He Arose
Apr 08, 2012 09:30 am
He Lives! He Lives! This morning in celebration I share these words from the 24th chapter of the Gospel of Luke. Now upon the first [day] of the week, very early in the morning, they came unto the sepulchre, bringing the spices which they had prepared, and certain [others] with them. And they found the [...]
ForgeryGate: Blackmailed By Putin, Obama Betrays United States And Her Allies
Apr 07, 2012 02:36 pm
While the American media provide cover for the Constitutionally ineligible Barack Hussein Obama, Vladimir Putin and the nation of Russia are reaping a treasure trove of defense secrets and missile technology by threatening to reveal the true history of the Manchurian Candidate. Obama has spent millions to prevent his personal story from being revealed to [...]
Investigation Reveals Numerous Bogus Claims On Obama Resume
Apr 07, 2012 02:35 pm
In what is being called 'the biggest hustle in human history,' a special investigation has discovered numerous bogus claims on Barack Obama's resume, including the outright lie that he was a 'Constitutional scholar and professor.' The claim turns out to be false. As investigators delve further into the background of Barack Obama, a disturbing picture is emerging [...]
Video: GOP Member Of Congress Runs From Forgerygate Facts
Apr 07, 2012 02:27 pm
Congresswoman Vicky Hartzler admits, "I have a lot of doubts about Obama's birth certificate." Problem is, if you know the president has committed forgery, why don't you look into it? These members of Congress are violating their oath of office when they refuse to open their eyes and ears to Obama's crimes. And how do [...]
Is Obama Crazy Like A Fox Or Just Stuck On Stupid?
Apr 07, 2012 02:16 pm
America, beware of the wolf in sheep's clothing. I have been saying for the past three and a half years that America needs to look at the big picture of what is going on. Obama and his regime have been laying the groundwork for a communist take over of the United States, but the majority [...]
Longtime U.S. Communist Praises Obama As "Black Radical"
Apr 07, 2012 02:07 pm
Longtime Communist Party USA member Angela Davis, the 1960s radical who twice was the party's nominee for vice president, is calling Barack Obama a black radical, raising objections from her fellow travelers. Davis, who also was associated with the Black Panther Party and was acquitted of murder charges in 1970, said the Obama election was [...]
"Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed." All Americans should recognize the heading above as coming from our Declaration of Independence; it is a portion of the second paragraph. Many questions fill the minds of the Nation as we seem to be grasping for a new definition [...]
The lead attorney for Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, who is accused murdering 17 Afghan civilians last month, has complained that he and his team are "facing an almost complete information blackout from the government." Attorney John Henry Browne maintained that a government managed "information blackout" is devastating his investigation into the facts of Sgt. [...]
The leftist media overstructure - the network of committed individuals and institutions that keep the media narrative congruent with the goals of the left - is starting to self-destruct, devouring itself with headstrong recklessness, ego, and inability to understand the strength of conservatives and their ideas. The left is taking serious casualties in the [...]
Liberal Women Not Breeding Are Something To Be Thankful For
Apr 07, 2012 01:40 pm
Lizz Winstead, is a comedienne and television "personality" I've never heard of. She's been involved in a number of liberal TV and radio productions. In 2003, she co-founded and served as the program director at the defunct Air America Radio network. Since 2005 she has been a contributing blogger at the liberal Huffington Post. She has [...]
Video: MSNBC's Bashir: GOP OK With Obama Building The White House, Not Living In It
Apr 07, 2012 01:33 pm
MSNBC host Martin Bashir took his race-baiting all the way back to the John Adams Administration yesterday with a panel discussion on Obama's comments regarding judicial review. Related posts: At Obama's White House Job Number One Is Building A Stone Wall - But Will It Work? Obama really isn't very bright, even though he can [...]
Fox News Hires Supporter Of Jeremiah Wright And Derrick Bell
Apr 07, 2012 01:31 pm
Fox News is once again moving to the left, hoping to avoid left-wing attacks on its news operations and commentators. But the move risks alienating conservative viewers. The current controversy involves new Fox News contributor Santita Jackson, who lists the notorious Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Jr., as being among her personal "activities and interests" on her Facebook [...]
Taxpayers Get Screwed To Finance A $537,767-Per-Year Bureaucrat
Apr 07, 2012 01:24 pm
I've reported some horror stories about bureaucrats ripping off taxpayers with lavish compensation packages, including: The chief bureaucrat of a low-income California city getting almost $800,000 per year. Cops in Oakland getting average compensation of $188,000. A Philadelphia bureaucrat, after working only 2-1/2 years, nailing down aguaranteed pension of $50,000 per year. A New York school bureaucrat [...]
Fifteen months after taking control of Minnesota's Legislature, Republicans have put a gay marriage ban on this November's ballot, moved to expand gun rights and cast dozens of votes to cut state spending. But there's one issue where they failed to get traction: watering down the strength of organized labor with a right-to-work law. The [...]
Fox News reports that at least $16 billion of taxpayer money is up for grabs in more "green" energy giveaways. I don't think that Democrats understand the concept of NOT spending taxpayer money. Remember, Joe Biden said that we must spend our way out of debt. Related posts: Cave On The Debt Ceiling And Kiss 2012 Goodbye [...]
Devout Christian, Popular Painter Thomas Kinkade Dies In California
Apr 07, 2012 01:08 pm
Artist Thomas Kinkade once said that he had something in common with Walt Disney and Norman Rockwell: He wanted to make people happy. And he won success with brushwork paintings that focused on idyllic landscapes, cottages and churches - highly popular works that became big sellers for dealers across the United States. The self-described "Painter [...]
Another Thing The Liberal Media Won't Tell You About Obama
Apr 06, 2012 02:34 pm
Pushed by Barack Obama's naked attempts to destroy our economy, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper has made up his mind: he will look west to China when he is ready to sell his nation's crude oil. Barack Obama has won this round to destroy America's economy, and we have lost. Anyone who thought that this [...]
"Young Guns" is a program of the National Republican Congressional Campaign (NRCC) which bills itself as committed to building the "next generation of conservative leaders." Those words are from the home page of the project's website http://www.gopyoungguns.com. The website is misleading. While Young Guns solicits donations from Tea Party and conservative donors, the GOP house leaders who run [...]
CISPA The New SOPA: Is The Era Of Internet Freedom Coming To An End?
Apr 06, 2012 02:25 pm
I am sure you remember the successful movement earlier this year to prevent Congress from passing the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA.) Tens of millions of people around the world signed petitions from websites such as Google and Wikipedia while many websites "went black" for a day to protest [...]
Video: Marine Stein's Attorney Gives Statement On Pending Discharge For Facebook Post On Obama
Apr 06, 2012 01:59 pm
If Mark Stein is forced out of the Marines for posting on Facebook about Obama, it will chill free speech online. I hope you will join us in fighting this outrageous injustice. Related posts: Marine Who Called Obama "The Enemy" Is Fighting For His Right To Free Speech How many currently enlisted soldiers do you [...]
More Obama Censorship At Conservative Lucianne.com
Apr 06, 2012 01:47 pm
Lucianne S. Goldberg became famous opposing Bill Clinton. She was instrumental in bringing the Monica Lewinsky scandal to public attention. She won't be accused of doing the same for President Obama. Today she is the publisher of the website and news forum Lucianne.com. She has the distinction of being one of the latest conservative websites [...]
ForgeryGate: New Sheriff Calls For Roundup Of Obama Records
Apr 06, 2012 01:41 pm
A presentation by WND's Jerome Corsi to a standing-room-only crowd has convinced a New Jersey lawmaker and a local sheriff that the issue of President Obama's eligibility for office "will have to be addressed." "The easiest way to put this to rest is to have the records unsealed," Morris County Sheriff Ed Rochford told the [...]
NBC Probe Centers On Staffer In Shooting Story Error
Apr 06, 2012 01:31 pm
April 5 (Reuters) - An internal NBC News probe has determined a "seasoned" producer was to blame for a misleading clip of a 911 call that the network broadcast during its coverage of the Trayvon Martin shooting, according to two sources at the network. NBC News brass interviewed more than half a dozen staffers during [...]
Video: MSNBC Falsely Reports From A Satirical HuffPo Piece
Apr 06, 2012 01:29 pm
These people are so out of touch that they cannot tell the difference between satire and truth. MSNBC should never be trusted. Related posts: MSNBC's O'Donnell On Romney's "Mormon Problem" The tolerant left can't wait to start attacking Mitt Romney... Whither CNN, MSNBC? When I started WorldNetDaily.com in 1997, the big news kid...
A Letter To Ann Coulter Regarding Her Support Of "Conservative" Romney
Apr 06, 2012 01:27 pm
"Dear Ann, In the past, you have been our warrior princess of conservatism. It's what drew millions of us to fall in love with you so many years ago....ah young love...(sigh)....where was I? OH YES! I must admit it has been mostly a long and blissful marriage dear Ann. Listening to your sweet sarcastic voice [...]
Holder "Assures" Judge Of Administration's Respect
Apr 06, 2012 01:18 pm
In a letter written at the request of a federal appellate judge, Attorney General Eric Holder is providing assurances that the Obama administration respects the decisions that courts make. The attorney general wrote the letter after appeals court judge Jerry Smith in Texas asked Holder to reassure him that the Justice Department recognizes judicial authority. [...]
Video: Maxine Waters: Women Now Understand Who The Enemy Is
Apr 06, 2012 01:17 pm
The Democrats' strategy is to tear the nation apart, pitting groups of people against one another in the hope that Obama can win. Here, they try to peddle the foolish idea that the GOP is a bunch of white men that hate women. These people are crazy. Related posts: Video: Obama And Maxine Waters' Good [...]
Panderer-In-Chief Obama: Women Are Not An Interest Group
Apr 06, 2012 01:07 pm
President Barack Obama says women should not be reduced to a political interest group but rather respected as a driving force in the economy. Obama spoke at a White House forum on women's issues as debate intensifies about the role women will be play in choosing the next president. National polling shows Obama holds a [...]
Panetta Has Paid $17,000 For Commuting To California
Apr 06, 2012 01:04 pm
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has commuted on military aircraft to his home in northern California more than two dozen times since he took over the Pentagon in July, paying about $630 per trip for a roundtrip flight that costs the Pentagon about $32,000. The totals detailed by defense officials lay out his reimbursements for the [...]
The Republican National Committee was supposed to play the part of umpire in the GOP presidential primary, but some Republicans are grumbling that the committee wasn't just calling balls and strikes. Critics, including supporters of Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich and even neutral Republicans, argue that the national party took steps that helped tilt the [...]
Video: Obama Thinks Women Should Be Admitted To Augusta
Apr 06, 2012 12:42 pm
Augusta National is a private golf club on private property. They can admit whatever members they want. It is none of Obama's business. They should be free from pressure like this, and no government agency should be pushing them to change. Related posts: How Obama Thinks Barack Obama is the most antibusiness president in a [...]
Arizona's Governor Drops The Ball On School Choice
Apr 06, 2012 12:41 pm
"Every child deserves to have an education tailored to meet their needs, and parents deserve the right to make that choice," stated Arizona Governor Jan Brewer (R) last year. A self-professed proponent of school choice, last night she shed that mantle and vetoed legislation that would have provided significant new choices to students in failing [...]
Kraft Abandons Conservative Group In Response To Pressure From Color Of Change
Apr 06, 2012 12:13 pm
Kraft Foods, Inc. has become the third corporate titan to abandon a conservative group that supports the type of "Stand Your Ground" gun law at the center of the Trayvon Martin controversy in Florida. Kraft - one of many corporation members of the American Legislative Exchange Council - won't renew its membership when it expires [...]
Exclusive Video: Republican Congressman "Supports Obama" Regarding His Eligibility
Apr 05, 2012 06:56 pm
Cameraman: Gabe Zolna Western Journalism contributor Tom Ballantyne Jr., author of "Oh Really, O'Reilly?", went to a meeting of the Red Mountain Tea Party in Arizona on Tuesday, April 3, 2012. Although cameras were not allowed into the meeting, Tom was able to sneak in a recording device. In the video Ballantyne asks Arizona Republican [...]
Earning nearly half a million dollars an hour at a fundraiser on Thurday night, the president told donors the campaign will be a "fun debate" because "it's always good to have the truth on your side."
Jesus Christ has risen! Praise our Lord! On this most glorious day of the year, let us join together and pray that our beloved America will have a rebirth, a resurrection this year. We are a Christian nation, founded on Biblical Principles which gave our Founding Fathers the framework to script the World's most exceptional Constitution and Bill of Rights ever devised. Our Constitution gives us ordinary citizens the beloved joy of FREEDOM!
Praise Jesus, Praise our Lord, and Praise our soldiers, for they, not reporters, give us Freedom of the Press. Soldiers, not poets, give us Freedom of Speech. Soldiers give us Freedom of Religion and protect us citizens, not the government!
Our soldiers salute our American Flag; our soldiers serve under our American Flag; our American flags drape coffins of our soldiers as their war ravaged remains are returned to America's soil for burial. Politicians send our men to wars ... Continue Reading:Jesus Christ has risen Hallelujah!
The "Greatest Show on Earth" was owned by P.T. Barnum, who died APRIL 7, 1891. Selling millions of tickets, his big draws were General Tom Thumb, a man only 25 inches tall, and elephant "Jumbo," whose name entered the dictionary. Barnum, who was received by President Lincoln and gave a command performance for Queen Victoria, stated: "Most persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing too little, than by believing too much." The circus not open Sundays, Barnum let his New York Great Roman Hippodrome be used by Dwight L. Moody for evangelistic campaigns. When Barnum's show began traveling, Moody, with help from J.P. Morgan and Cornelius Vanderbilt, transformed the Hippodrome into a revival tabernacle. Services began February 7, 1876, with 7,000 people in the main hall, 4,000 in overflow, thousands outside, 500 ushers and 1,200 singers directed by Ira Sankey. Sunday attendance hit 25,000. It ... Continue Reading:American Minute April 7
While the American media provide cover for the Constitutionally ineligible Barack Hussein Obama, Vladimir Putin and the nation of Russia are reaping a treasure trove of defense secrets and missile technology by threatening to reveal the true history of the Manchurian Candidate.
Obama has spent millions to prevent his personal story being revealed to the American public. Records have been destroyed, information hidden, false claims advanced, potential whistleblowers threatened and official documents forged. Enabled by a complicit media and the craven cowardice of political opponents, the most egregious felonies in the nation's history have served to make the American people easy prey for the schemes of a dedicated Communist and committed enemy of our Constitutional Republic.
And those schemes have included the betrayal both of the United States and her allies.
Last November, researchers for the Senate Armed Forces Services Committee, reported our military had purchased and installed counterfeit electronic components into Warplanes and other weapons systems. During their research the committee claimed that it found more than a million fake parts in a random sample with approximately 70% of the electronic parts originating from China.
The components would find their way into the Defense Supply Chain through approved commercial distributors who purchase the parts directly from China. The Chinese would purposely pack counterfeit parts with in genuine military grade components and sell the batch to the Defense Logistics Agency at bargain prices with little or no quality assurance checks.
Military grade parts are manufactured to withstand extreme conditions. The counterfeit components are often factory rejects or commercial grade parts which have been relabeled. The most effective method to ensure the quality of parts being purchased is aggressive testing of the parts ... Continue Reading:"Made in China" counterfeit war plane parts put our troops in danger- why?
APRIL 6, 1917, the United States entered World War I by declaring war on Kaiser Wilhelm II's Germany. Within the next two years, America enlisted 4 million soldiers and spent 35 billion dollars, resulting in an Allied victory. In a Day of Prayer Proclamation, October 19, 1917, President Woodrow Wilson stated: "In view of the entrance of our nation into the vast and awful war which now afflicts the greater part of the world...I set apart...a day upon which our people should...offer concerted prayer to Almighty God for His divine aid in the success of our arms." In another Proclamation, May 11, 1918, President Wilson wrote: "Whereas it has always been the reverent habit of the people of the United States to turn in humble appeal to Almighty God... I, Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim...a day of public humiliation, prayer ... Continue Reading:American Minute April 6
The lead attorney for Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, who is accused murdering 17 Afghan civilians last month, has complained that he and his team are "facing an almost complete information blackout from the government." Attorney John Henry Browne maintained that a government managed "information blackout" is devastating his investigation into the facts of Sgt. Bales case.
The broad outline of the crime he is accused of holds that the 38 year old Bales slipped into two villages on the night of March 11 and opened fire on innocent civilians wounding six people and killing 17 others including nine children and eight adults.
According to a spokesman for 1st Corps, Sgt Bales command, the investigation is "ongoing." An E mail sent from Major Chris Ophardt says, "The prosecution will provide the defense with evidence in accordance with the Rules for Courts-Martial and the Military Rules of Evidence. Within these guidelines the prosecution is and ... Continue Reading:There's more to the Sgt. Bales case, but his lawyer can't get to the facts -why?
Pushed by Barack Obama's naked attempts to destroy our economy Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper has made up his mind: he will look west to China when he is ready to sell his nation's crude oil. Barack Obama has won this round to destroy America's economy and we have lost.
Anyone who thought this dangerous game of chicken would end in our closest neighbor and one of our strongest allies knuckling under and waiting until Obama was finished using our lives to squeeze more campaign funds from the far Left has been proved wrong. This is really going to happen. The Democrat cheerleaders in the media won't write about this catastrophe Obama has purposely brought about, but that doesn't mean it won't happen. Foreign media feel no obligation to lie for Obama.
Born in a slave hut APRIL 5, 1856, was Booker T. Washington. In dire poverty after the Civil War, he moved to West Virginia to work in a salt furnace and coal mine. At age 16 he walked 500 miles to attend Hampton Institute in Virginia and later Wayland Baptist Seminary in Washington, DC. He then taught in West Virginia until he founded Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, where he recruited George Washington Carver as a professor. At his death, the school had 1,500 students and a faculty of 200 teaching 38 trades. The first African American to have his image on a U.S. coin and postage stamp, Booker T. Washington wrote in Up From Slavery, 1901: "If no other consideration had convinced me of the value of the Christian life, the Christ like work which the Church of all denominations in America has done during the ... Continue Reading:American Minute April 5
A week ago, Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy observed that implementation of the Affordable Care Act stood to "...change the relationship of the federal government to the individual in a very fundamental way." (1)
But though Kennedy was probably unaware of it at the time, that "change" is precisely what the authors of ObamaCare have hoped to impose on the American public for decades. For healthcare itself was never the real purpose of the massive, complex and overreaching law, as the following information should make clear.
Charged with defending the Constitutionality of the Act before the Court, Solicitor General Donald Verrilli told the Justices that some 40 million Americans were either permanently or occasionally without health insurance.
But were that number 50 million, as has been claimed by some ObamaCare advocates during the past year, these facts must be considered:
Sheriff Joe unloads on GOP candidates on eligibility
If you think the Republican presidential candidates have anything to say about Barack Obama's eligibility, listen to Sheriff Joe Arpaio who moments ago just unloaded on all of them for "hiding" from this crucial issue ...
Will Iran standoff have U.S. fighting Russia this summer?
While everyone has been speculating about whether Israel will attack Iran to stop the regime's development of nuclear weapons ... and while everyone has been speculating about whether the U.S. will be drawn into a war with Tehran's Islamic republic ... the Russians have been preparing for two years for a war they expect to happen this summer.
And it could mean Russian and U.S. troops facing off in combat.
The Virginia legislature has overwhelmingly passed a bill that would prevent state employees from assisting the federal government's "unlimited detention" of U.S. citizens and protect the citizens' rights - guaranteed in both the Virginia and U.S. Constitutions - to a speedy and public trial, confrontation of witnesses, jury trial and due process of law.
Seems like something he would sign. But he hasn't ...
State officials in Wyoming acknowledge they violated the First Amendment rights of pro-lifers who were forbidden to display signs in the same public forum used by other groups.
They even agreed to pay nominal damages and court costs for squelching the group's free speech rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution.
So, you'd expect the pro-lifers could now go back to exercising their rights ... right?
Ah, you've underestimated the draconian lengths government officials will go to ...
Has a notorious longtime member of the Communist Party USA - and twice that party's nominee for vice president - who also was associated with the Black Panther Party and was acquitted of murder charges in 1970 paid Barack Obama the ultimate compliment?
Another sheriff calls for roundup of Obama records
You don't become a top lawman by ignoring evidence that things just aren't right.
Maybe that's why a presentation by WND's Jerome Corsi to a standing-room-only crowd has convinced another sheriff - and a state lawmaker - the issue of President Obama's eligibility for office "will have to be addressed."
That's what one Fox News anchor discovered after asking her Twitter followers to weigh in on a WND video that caused top management to cower and cave to criticism from left-wing critics and to educate their news professional on her "mistake."
Vice-President Biden Clueless on H-1BIn January, President Obama said that there was a shortage of engineers in the U.S., or so he had been told. Full Story
Obama Puts Immigration on Back-Burner?Immigration is one of the issues that will be put on the backburner as U.S. President Barack Obama focuses on the campaign trail, says news report. Full Story
Another Reason Why the DREAM Act is Really Bad PolicyStudent protesters tried to storm a trustees meeting and were met with force by campus police. Many of the students were pepper-sprayed during the altercation. Full Story
DHS Creating "Unlawful Presence Waivers" as Part of AmnestyThe new measure would apply to illegal aliens who are relatives of American citizens. Full Story
Chesapeake Bay Journal cites FAIR Report on Immigration and Population GrowthThe Chesapeake Bay Journal is running a multi-part series on excessive growth and overdevelopment in the Chesapeake Bay watershed. Full Story
Friday, April 6, 2012
To: Friends & Supporters
From: Gary L. Bauer
Why We Celebrate
Today on Good Friday, we think about the cross and the sacrifice paid for our sins; the amazing love that took our place and the grace we have been given. That kind of sacrifice is almost impossible to imagine. But we see a small glimpse of that love every day in the firefighters and policemen who risk their lives for strangers. We see it in the heroism of our men and women in uniform, who sacrifice their todays for our tomorrows.
I was reminded of that sacrifice as the week began, when Sergeant Dennis Weichel, 29, was laid to rest in Providence, Rhode Island. Sgt. Weichel gave his life to save an Afghan boy who ran in front of a 16-ton armored fighting vehicle. Weichel threw the boy to safety, but was himself hit. Sergeant Dennis Weichel was posthumously awarded the Bronze Star for his heroism and is survived by his wife and three children. Sergeant Weichel's sacrifice reminds us that every life is precious, each person made in the image of our Creator.
As a child, when I read the Easter story, there was a part of me that wanted a different ending. If only He had come down from the Cross and destroyed His enemies -- that would have demonstrated His power. That is what I thought then. Of course, now I know how wrong that thought was.
Christ had to die so that we might have everlasting life. His sacrifice on the cross saved all who believe in Him. Others, however, follow a god who demands that they seek their own death and the deaths of others to achieve salvation. What a contrast!
Ultimately, it is not the birth of a man that Christians celebrate. Nor do we gather on Easter morning to remember a martyr. We have confidence because of Christ's resurrection as the living Son of God. If Christ had not risen from the grave and ascended into Heaven, He would have been forgotten as a common criminal whose birthday would have no significance.
Thank God for the cross and the empty tomb! Carol and I send our love to you and yours. This weekend, may each of you find a remembrance of the peace that surpasses all understanding.
MTV's 'Savage' Schoolyard By L. Brent Bozell III MTV is now trying to lure young viewers with a saucy sex show in the "advice" category. They didn't reach for Dr. Drew or, God forbid, Dr. Ruth or an actual doctor of anything. They turned to filthy sex columnist and gay activist Dan Savage.
Marion Barry and the Left's Hatred of Asian Entrepreneurs By Michelle Malkin Marion Barry, the disgraced former mayor of Washington, D.C., made an even bigger disgrace of himself and his city on Tuesday. Celebrating a Democratic primary victory, the city councilman attacked small businesses owned by "Asians" in his district. Then the race-baiting clown doubled down.
The Socialist and The Social Darwinist By Patrick J. Buchanan President Obama's strategy of turning the 2012 election into a choice between standing with the middle-class many, or the Wall Street few, is not only polarizing. It may prove perilous for President Obama.
Keeping Score By Rich Galen We cannot continue to score every government program based upon the amount of money we are spending. We must begin keeping score based upon how well -- or badly -- that program does whatever it was designed to do.
A Whispering Campaign By Ed Feulner We've come a long way from President Theodore Roosevelt's famous saying "Speak softly and carry a big stick." President Barack Obama's policy apparently is to whisper slyly and compromise our security.NEWSPAPER ROUNDUP:
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In the last year, we have been hearing a lot of news about Sharia law, its dangers and its threats to the American judicial system. Most Americans believe it is a dangerous set of male centered sexist laws for the complete dehumanizing of members of the female sex.
Hear Ye! Hear Ye!
"Constitution 101" begins on February 20, 2012, and concludes the week of April 30. It will cover such topics as the 
