Quote: 

"Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God." Thomas Jefferson

Barak to Panetta: What is your bottom line for Iran?
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report April 20, 2012

"If I wanted America to fail"

The environmental agenda has been infected by extremism-it's become an economic suicide pact.  

U.S Armed Forces - We Must Fight - President Reagan (HD)  

U.S Armed Forces - We Must Fight - President Reagan (HD)

Monday, April 23, 2012  6:00pm

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  Islamic Apartheid and Islamization actively engage in the erasure of the customs, norms and laws of any country or region in order to purely reflect Islamic sentiment. This can be done through political pressure the ultimate goal of Islamization is and has been achieved... by violent Jihad, and finally through political pressure for peace, which in Islam can only come under Shari'a rule.
  
  Resist and stand up against Islamic Apartheid and Islamization. Those who defend Islamic Apartheid and Islamization are those who fight against Freedom and Liberty.
  
  TUSIF defends the rights of everyone - women, gays, religious minorities, Muslims who are figuratively and physically imprisoned by Shari'a and Islam.
  
  This event is a universal symbol of support and encouragement for those victims with no voice. This event is a victory for them.
  
  Resist the deception of the creeping Shari'a and the Islamization of the West and around the world.
  
  Look to the chaos that is Europe under the overwhelming crawl of Shari'a. The unwise in America are only those who do not pay attention to the future that is on the horizon in Europe. Muslims and non Muslims are suffereing there, and here.
  
  Muslims are being behaeded, purposely drowned, and murdered in honor killings many times over here in the United States and Canada.
  
  Will you look the other way, or resist?
  
  TUSIF resists.
  
  Islamic Apartheid Conference Panelists:
  
  Robert Spencer - JihadWatch
  Pamela Geller - Atlas Shrugs, SIOA
  Nonie Darwish - Former Muslims United
  Simon Deng - Sudanese refugee
  
  Sponsor: David Horowitz Freedom Center
  
  "It is the responsibility of Islam to embrace the liberties required for citizens of a modern state, and not the other way around." Family Security Matters

Brownshirts at Temple University Attempt to Shut Down Free Speech 

The protests are being organized, yet again, against "the biggest bigots in the world and at Temple University." Once again, the opportunists are using side-bar issues/events (Trayvon Martin, and a couple of others, whom you guys all know about) to advance and fuel their protest. 

"On Monday April 23rd Temple University Students for Intellectual Freedom is hosting a gathering of racist, Islamophobic bigots. The event is titled the "Islamic Apartheid Conference" and features Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer, among others. Join Occupy Temple, the International Socialist Organization, Students for Justice in Palestine, the Party for Socialism and Liberation, and other community and student organizations in a counter-protest to condemn their outrageous hate speech

In the wake of the recent hate crime/murder of Shaima Alawadi (32 year-old Iraqi-Muslim, and mother of 5 children), the wrongful imprisonment of Tarek Mehanna, the murder of Trayvon Martin, and the constant demonization, criminalization, and crimes against Black, Latino, and other oppressed communities throughout the country, among unending wars against Arab and Muslim countries, we must organize a multi-racial fightback against these racist hatemongers.

More information on Geller, Spencer, and David Horowitz:

Geller is known to her fans and critics alike as "Queen of the Muslim Bashers." Geller referred to the moderate Sufi Muslims of the proposed Park 51 Islamic Community Center as "Islamic supremacists" and writes that "societies are disintegrating as adherents of a radical, intolerant ideology run amok with no respect for Western rule of law." Her views are by no means within the boundaries of reasonable debate; the Southern Poverty Law Center considers her an extremist and calls her public statements "hate speech." Moreover, Anders Breivik (far right fanatic who killed close to 100 people in Norway last Summer) had an affection for Geller's blog, Atlas Shrugged and Spencer's Jihad Watch.

Robert Spencer runs Jihad Watch, an anti-Muslim website dedicated to the argument that Islam is an inherently terrorist religion. Spencer holds the view that "traditional Islam contains violent and supremacist elements," and that "its various schools unanimously teach warfare against and the subjugation of unbelievers." Jihad Watch is associated with the David Horowitz Freedom Center, another anti-Muslim group which uses McCarthyist tactics to attack academic freedom around the country. Not surprisingly, the event Monday is sponsored by David Horowitz!"

We have the opportunity to change business as usual in Harrisburg April 24th and remove the biggest obstacle to real reform in Pennsylvania 

Roger Howard is challenging Dominic Pileggi in the April 24th primary 

 Character and Integrity are more than words;  they are a way of life, and Roger Howard will be guided by his convictions and not by the union-greedy, selfish, wasteful agenda. Roger will be a big step towards restoring sanity to the way business is conducted in Harrisburg.  His first step was to signed a pledge to NOT take a state pension. He wants to serve, not be served.

Our elected officials have fallen back on old habits and are allowing unions and money toinfluence and control the agenda. Instead of real reform in Pennsylvania, all we get are crumbs  -- a few bits of crust to keep us quiet, to keep us feeling like they are doing what we elected them to do.

We can send a loud message that we will no longer allow special interests to come before the taxpayers' interests.

Yes, I believe Roger Howard has the moral fortitude to work for the taxpayer and not for special interest.

I am supporting Roger Howard because I believe in him. He is not a career politician willing to sacrifice his integrity for his own self-interest.

Please take a few minutes to listen to Roger's radio interview and you-tube video

http://wche.podomatic.com/ (Please scroll to the April 3rd date to hear this interview)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6REWvouVS0

"We are going to get back to our roots and be the party of fiscal responsibility and integrity."

Dominic Pileggi is the poster child for what is wrong with our elected officials.  As the Senate Majority Leader, he has the clout and influence to move bills forward that will do something to ease our deficit, to reform pension and prevailing wage laws.  All it takes is a minor adjustment to both bills and we could reverse this dangerous course for our state. But we must have the leadership to get this accomplished.

That's why I am working so hard to get Roger Howard elected.  I believe in him, I believe he is a man of integrity and character:  an Army Veteran of the 82^nd Airborne, jump-qualified;  a man with a PhD in Chemistry, who has a patent that ensures medicines are safely packaged;  a man who knows about business; and a man who studies the bills and sees the added wasted line-items that only increase our deficit and waste taxpayer money.

Please vote for Roger Howard  Pennsylvania State Senate 9th District on April 24th.

Rich Davis

Tea party "appalled" by Welch ad

Tuesday, 17 April 2012

Written by Tim McNulty

On their touchstone tax day, Pittsburgh-area tea party groups are pushing back on an ad from GOP US Senate candidate Steve Welch saying he has the support of "grassroots Republicans."

"I was astounded and appalled that someone who claims to be a legitimate candidate would make an incredible claim," Pittsburgh tea party leader Patti Weaver, of Fox Chapel, said in a statement emailed to reporters today. " The citizens of Pennsylvania deserve candidates who maintain a standard of truth in advertising standard.  We call on Mr. Rob Gleason to denounce this ridiculous advertisement by Mr. Welch."

While the Republican establishment, including Gov. Tom Corbett, is behind Welch most tea party support has gone to former state Rep. Sam Rohrer.

A letter Weaver and other tea party organizers sent to state GOP chair Rob Gleason...:

Dear Chairman Gleason:

As tea party organizers, we can tell you that the grassroots movement does not support Steve Welch as indicated in your new advertisement.  Steve Welch voted for Barack Obama and lacks the political gravitas needed for the job of U.S. Senator.

At a meet the candidate event on Sunday, April 1, Steve was asked why he voted for Barack Obama.  Initially, Steve said he was a lifelong Republican and he voted for McCain.  Yet, when pushed, Steve admitted that he switched parties and he voted for Obama in the primary.  So, contrary to his initial response, Steve Welch is not a lifelong Republican and he did vote for Barack Obama.

The statement in your new advertisement that Steve Welch is supported by the grassroots is flat out not true, neither is your statement that the grassroots Republicans have overwhelmingly endorsed Steve Welch.  Please review your numbers from the State Committee meeting and you will see that roughly 33% of those in attendance did not support endorsing anyone.  Also, those who consider themselves Grassroots at the State Committee either voted to not endorse, abstained to choose a candidate to endorse or voted for someone other than Steve Welch.

 We formally ask that you do not air this ad unless you can substantiate with market research that the Grassroots Republicans overwhelmingly endorse Steve Welch.

 We will do everything in our power to see that as many Grassroots people as possible know that Steve Welch voted for Barack Obama.

 Respectfully,

Don Adams, Independence Hall Tea Party PAC

Jaime Faucette, Citizens for Constitutional Government, Upper Bucks County

Mary Ellen Jones, Delaware County Patriots

Pat Rowlands, Pittsburgh 9.12 Project

David Show, Fayette Patriots

Patti Weaver, Pittsburgh Tea Party Movement

LINK: http://earlyreturns.sites.post-gazette.com/index.php/early-returns-20/53-post-gazette-staff/4289-tea-party-qappalledq-by-welch-ad

Is Tom Smith the best candidate  to represent constitutional conservative Republicans in the Senate?

1. Smith is not a PROVEN conservative.  Talk is cheap; action, particularly under pressure, proves a man.  Having never held elective office, except as a Democratic supervisor of his small town in the 70's, Tom has no record of standing for conservative policies under political pressure. How many conservative candidates who said (and often believed) the right things have gone to Washington and caved to pressure? Tom is not battle-tested in the arena of politics.  How do we know he will stand?  Can we afford to be uncertain about a candidate for Senate?  With Sam Rohrer's proven voting record, we can know that where he stood in Harrisburg for 18 years, he willstand in Washington.  A proven trusted veteran conservative is who we need to take the lead in D.C.
2. Smith is not prepared for leadership in the Senate. Tom, as the CEO of his company, no doubt has good leadership skills.  But is he prepared to be a legislator in the highest legislative office in the land? Does he have the experience and constitutional knowledge to be able to evaluate legislation on constitutional guidelines?  Does he have the knowledge of the issues and ability to articulate them that a Senator must have?   Tom's struggling performance during the debates he attended and failure to show at several other debates indicate his lack of experience with policy issues.  The Senate is not the position to cut your teeth on; the critical issues of our times do not allow for months of adjustment and training to bring a newcomer up to speed.  Why would we assume that experience is a valued asset in every other area of life than government?  Only Sam has the experience to immediately begin contributing to the promotion of a conservative agenda in D.C.
3. Smith has already proven himself to be unprincipled  in some contexts.                                                                                                                                                           When When asked directly who he voted for in the Sestak-Specter primary, Tom said he couldn't remember. He also couldn't remember whether he voted for Obama in the Primary of 2008.  Really?  Furthermore, in a recent debate, Tom said - and repeated - how much he regretted being put in a position where he had to "compromise his values" in order to get permits. So what will he compromise to make gains in D.C.?  Finally, his attack ads misrepresent the truth.  To say of Sam Rohrer that he is "just another career politician" who voted for the "unconstitutional midnight pay raise" is highly misleading and slanderous to a man of Sam's proven character. Since the PA Constitution instructs the legislature to vote on pay raises, it can hardly be called unconstitutional.  If Tom did his homework and had a regard for the truth, he would know that Sam vocally opposed and voted against the payroll voucher provision - the only unconstitutional part of that bill, never took a cent of that money, and spearheaded the repeal of the payraise. And Tom knows very well that Sam's public service has never been focused on advancing his career, presumably that is why Smith heavily supported Sam in the gubernatorial race. Sam's stand on principles has cost him the support of party leadership; that's hardly the way to advance your career.  Why is Tom Smith not more careful with the truth?  When challenged in a recent debate about the negativity of the ads, Tom said that he "had to get negative" because he "had to defend" himself.  Is that honest?  Everyone knows that the first attack ad came from Smith's campaign, not the other way around.  Sam Rohrer's campaign is focused on communicating his vision, principles, and policy ideas to the voters, not on manipulating them through misinformation.
4. Smith can not beat Casey.  Smith's personal fortune will not make the difference in the race against Casey.  Republican money will go to whoever wins the nomination.  What will he have to challenge Casey's wider name recognition, deeper war chest, and greater knowledge of all things political?  Smith has no record of conservative votes to show up Casey's liberal voting record, as Sam does. He can not convince voters that he wouldn't vote for tax raises and increased spending by pointing to his voting record.  The Democrats have already targeted his voting record as a township supervisor to demonstrate that he did vote to raise taxes.  Sam never did in 18 years.  All Smith has to run on are words - and that is not Tom's strong suit.  Casey will make mincemeat of Tom if they ever debate the issues; anyone who has heard Tom in a debate knows that to be true.  And Tom has to convince the voters that he is knowledgeable about the issues, the problems, the solutions; he has to be able to intelligently answer questions in all kinds of public forums and media appearances.   Further, Tom's history as a former lifelong Democrat unproven in elected office weakens his support among the grassroots volunteers and the loyal Republican voters. Democrats are not likely to be drawn to a defector from their ranks. By contrast, some have already indicated support for Sam who has a record of acting independently of his party leadership, of putting the people and principles before Party.  Sam has already received the endorsement of the African Episcopalian bishops in Philly and the Pentecostal clergy of Philadelphia.  Why?  Because people across party lines are tired of politicians who are controlled by the party powerful and respond to Sam's message of truth and integrity in government proven by a consistent and principled record.  Only Sam has a record that proves him to be a defender of the Constitution and a champion of the people over the Party.

SAM ROHRER IS THE ONLY PROVEN CONSERVATIVE IN THIS RACE WITH THE EXPERIENCE TO BEAT BOB CASEY IN THE FALL.   for more info go to www.rohrerforsenate.org 

  Dan and Jaime Faucette

OCCUPY were just trained to create confrontations at Tea Party events and rallies, nationwide!

In observing the OCCUPY activities over the past year or so, I surmised that their "first wave" was designed to serve as their learning curve, and that their puppet masters would then deploy them to mount "Wave Two", creating new and more vehement outrages, building on their experience.

That's now coming to pass.

Please relay this to other Tea Parties.

Lou Flanagan

The General Wayne Tea Party

From a reliable source:

1, Training for OCCUPY members & supporters was conducted around the U.S. this past weekend. We know of this because some Tea Party members infiltrated some training meetings and reported what they've learned.

2. The training was conducted in cities, towns and even smaller communities. Every trainer was equipped with a DVD, handouts and a training manual, and urged to recruit others.

3. The training included specific instructions to attend Tea Party activities - meetings, rallies and town halls

3. At such Tea Party events, they were instructed to instigate confrontations and disruption. My source added, '... remember that they are well trained, well funded, extremely well organized and directed.  This is no longer the ragtag bunch of fools who are clueless about what they are there for - they are still ragtag but now they have marching orders and each group will have an even better trained leader(s)". 

4. My source also said, "...the OCCUPY movement has gone from semi-organic to fully supported and organized - and as I wrote before (and provided the links to prove this) - they are backed by the Communist and Socialist parties, UAW, SEIU, ACORN, myriad other communist/socialist organizations, Moveon.org, and of course, one of the key money people is George Soros.  This collection of 'sponsors' has no good intentions; moreover they are providing tents, food, water, sleeping bags, entertainment, drugs and more.  And they have insider's in key roles of leaders to incite and whip these people into a frenzy". 

5. How should Tea Party members handle any "situations"? My suggestions:

            1. For your upcoming events, contact your local law enforcement chief well in advance and appraise him or her of your           concerns.

            2. Share this heads up with your news media - print and broadcast outlets - in advance. Do not wait until stuff happens.

            3. Ask your members to have the phone number of the local law enforcement people on their speed dial

            4. Ask members to bring a video camera with sound

            3..At our weekly sidewalk rallies, I'll call the police first, but if things look bad, I'll instruct my members to leave as soon       as something starts. There's no use in engaging in a dispute with them because they will escalate it.

            4.If they crash a meeting, call the police. Police have a handy thing in their toolkit called, "Inciting to riot" which around          here is good for thirty days in the slammer.

6. One purpose of their disruptions will be to create "news", in which your Tea Party appears in headlines about violence or disturbances. The other purpose is the disruption itself.

                        7. Be aware that the date May 1^st,, ^­ May Day, is a traditional big day with lefties of all types, who know it as "International Workers Day".                              I've seen a separate report that OCCUPY is planning "something big" for that date, but I have no other confirmation about it.

                        Regards,

                        Lou

                        P.S. If you have updates on this topic, send them to me and I'll redistribute to my fourteen state list.  Louis  <Louis@apo146.com>  

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Here's our sample ballot for Tuesday. 

 We are looking for volunteers to hand out our sample ballot, post our signs and hand out material for other conservative candidates in Bucks County on Tuesday. We are working with several campaigns, so if you can help, please send an email to Ana Puig at TheKitchenTablePatriots.org. Feel free to call her at (267) 884-6335.
Here is a link to the brochure on the candidates that will be mailed and handed out this weekend:
KTP Delegate Candidates 2012.2.pdf

If you can even spare 1 hour on election day, please let us know and we'll get ballots to you.

Here is a radio interview with Anastasia Przybylski talking about the delegate race in the 8th district:

Anastasia Przybylski, Co-Founder of Kitchen Table Patriots, on "Chai95 Radio Hour" (Tue. 4/17/12)

Voter's Guide - Urgent information  

April 12, 2012                               

Dear Patriots, 

As a businessman, father and grandfather I believe that we have reached a historic crossroad where we have been forced to either fight for a serious change in direction or suffer the loss of what we currently hold dear.  Unfortunately, most persons have been convinced that they should do very little or nothing at all. 

I was recently at the Pennsylvania Leadership Conference where a very stark revelation was made clear.  A question was asked of the 700 plus people in the auditorium:  "How many persons here believe that you have had it better than your parents?"   I believe that everyone raised their hand.  The speaker then asked "How many of you believe that your children will have it as good as you?"  Every hand went down.

Personally, I believe along with many others that we are in very serious trouble.  We are a very short distance from the rioting in the streets as we see in countries like Greece.  Our politicians are not seriously addressing the problems.  They continue to bribe the American public with money that is not theirs.

This overspending is not only dishonest and unethical; it is immoral and must be stopped if we have any real hope for our children and grandchildren.

Please take the time to review the voter's guide at the link provided.  You will see that there is only one candidate for US Senate who we can really count on to stand firm against the establishment pressure for "spending as usual."  The other candidates may be a help, but we do not know for certain how they will eventually vote on important issues and we honestly think they will compromise on many fronts.

Churches have every right to make this information available in bulk to the congregation and the general public.  They are not allowed to tell persons who to vote for, but they can tell everyone that there is a voting guide available for the Primary Election and challenge people to do their part.

Please get involved by distributing this Voter's Guide to as many persons as possible, especially at the polls on April 24.  Do not let this opportunity escape us.

Sincerely Yours,

Download the Voter Guide Here . . . 

WANT TO HELP SAM ROHRER BECOME OUR NEXT US SENATOR?  

MAKE PHONE CALLS FOR SAM!

Want to help Sam Rohrer become our next U.S. Senator?  

 Thank you Jeff and Brenda Ney for this fantastic explanation!   For those of you who have asked how you can respond to people about the negative attack ads against Sam, this is information that my husband put together. I hope it helps you as you interact with people both before and on election day.


1. The pay raise vote was NOT unconstitutional. The vote was COMPLETELY within the law. This charge by Smith is a BALD FACE LIE!. The part that was unconstitutional was the action of the State House leadership AFTER the vote, when they tried to take the raise in the same year it was enacted. They also added in an increase in unvouchered expense reimbursement also to be taken in the same year. The State Constitution only allows an increase in benefits to take place after next election cycle, to allow voters the choice of removing those that would vote for an increase in benefits.

With that being said, Sam was one of a handful of ethical legislators that fought to REPEAL the newly enacted law, and they were successful with, Ed Rendell signing the repeal on November 16, 2005.    Bottom line SAM NEVER TOOK THE PAY RAISE OR ANY INCREASE IN PER DIEM EXPENSES! PERIOD!

2. The Pension issue. While Sam voted way back in 2001 to increase state pensions, he did so based on faulty, untruthful projection numbers given by Governor Ridge at the time. It as not MASSIVE. It totaled about 17%. He also apogized for his vote in many public forum owning up to his mistake.     SEND THEM THIS LINK
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/regional/s_664066.html

3. 'Billed Taxpayers over $14,000 in 'personal expenses'.

First of all, they are NOT personal expenses. The State House has a LAWFUL per diem reimbursement for expenses while conducting State business on State time. The lawmakers do not 'bill' the state for their expenses, they fill out an expense report like everyone does in business. Rohrer has been consistently in the bottom 5% for the use of these monies. A fact this hit piece fails to acknowledge. After numerous Google searches, I was unable to find the article referenced in the hit piece.

Lastly, you can tell people that these false advertisements show the true character of a candidate. Tell them if Smith is lying to you now, how can you ever trust him to tell the truth once in office. You might also tell them he is spending over $250,000 a year on the political consultants that help him put together these hit pieces and that he is voted in 19 straight Democratic primaries for Democratic candidates before turning Republican.

It's easy to attack the record of another when you have NO VOTING RECORD YOURSELF!!! 
I hope this helped you.

Jeff Ney

--   Brenda Ney
Berks County Chair
Rohrer for US Senate  www.rohrerforsenate.org     

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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 Winning Schindler'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.

Dinesh D'Souza - Obama & 2016

George W. Bush to speak in Pennsylvania on GOP presidential primary day

 

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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."

Constitution 101:
The Meaning and History of the Constitution

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

Weeks One & Two Now Available - Sign Up TODAY!

Dr. Larry P. Arnn

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The U.S. Constitution

A Reader 

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

Hillsdale College is a private, coeducational, residential, liberal arts college with approximately 1,400 students. Founded in 1844, the College remains, in the words of its Articles of Association, "grateful to God for the inestimable blessings resulting from the presence of civil and religious liberty and intelligent piety" in our nation, and dedicated to "the diffusion of sound learning" that is "essential to the perpetuity of these blessings."

Hillsdale College is distinguished by its rigorous core curriculum, by its principled rejection of federal and state taxpayer funding, and by the pledge of its Board of Trustees to resists any attempts by the government to regulate its internal affairs.

Hillsdale College promotes the principles of liberty nationwide through its national speech digest, Imprimis, which has a monthly circulation of over 2 million, and through several outreach programs. In 2008, Hillsdale launched its Allan P. Kirby, Jr. Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship in Washington, D.C. The College will also launch the Hillsdale Graduate School of Statesmanship in fall 2012.

Breakfast with Congressman Pat Meehan 

RJC Philadelphia Chapter

Congressman Patrick Meehan (PA-7) recently returned from a visit to Israel, Jordan, Turkey and the Palestinian Authority and will provide the RJC with an update and overview of his visit.    Thursday, May 3 

Registration and breakfast at 7:30am  

Program will begin promptly at 8:00am

Crowne Plaza Philadelphia West

4010 City Avenue

Philadelphia, PA 19131

Cost:
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About John Stossel

John Stossel joined Fox Business Network (FBN) in 2009. He hosts "Stossel," a weekly program highlighting current consumer issues with a libertarian viewpoint, which debuted. His first shows covered health care, global warming, the novel Atlas Shrugged, "food police", and the Road to Serfdom.

Prior to joining FBN, Stossel co-anchored ABC's prime-time news magazine show, 20/20. There he contributed in-depth special reports and recurring segments on a variety of consumer topics, from pop culture to government and business.

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.  

Why don't we learn? Because our brains don't intuit well about complex situations. After thousands of years of taking orders from tribal elders, 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.

May 31st The Patrick Henry Award will be Presented to Glenn Beck

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

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

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

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

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

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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

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U.S. Senator Bob Casey

 

WASHINGTON -- Everyone, it seems, wants Bob Casey's job.

Who wouldn't? The U.S. senator from Pennsylvania has one of Washington's most sought-after offices outside the White House.

His third-floor space in the Russell Senate Office Building was once occupied by the young Sen. John F. Kennedy. Four 8-by-10 shots on the wall show that Mr. Kennedy's desk was in the spot now reserved for office visitors who perch on a yellow couch to meet with Mr. Casey.

The office space, though, doesn't go with the job. Offices are assigned by seniority. Mr. Casey got the coveted spot when its prior occupant, Sen. Judd Gregg, R-N.H., took over Joe Biden's office when the Delaware senator became vice president.

That's something Steve Welch, Tom Smith, Sam Rohrer, Marc Scaringi, David Christian and Joe Vodvarka ought to know.

The five Republicans and one Democrat -- Mr. Vodvarka -- are on the ballot to unseat the one-term U.S. senator from Scranton. John Kensinger wants a shot, too. The Bedford County pharmacist is running as a write-in candidate after failing to collect enough signatures to appear on the Republican primary ballot.

Recent polls show no clear frontrunner in the Republican contest, but indicate that Mr. Casey would beat any of them if the general election were held today.

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Patriots, 

My name is Mike Ludwig.  I'm the Republican endorsed candidate for the 148th Legislative District.  I was removed from the ballot after a lot of hard work and I'm not ready to give up the fight.  A little about myself, I am 35 years old, married to my high school crush and we have three very adorable children. I've been serving in the US Army for 15 years and am pushing for 20 years. My wife, as well is in the Army National Guard.  I have been deployed several times and was honored to serve my country. I worked for the Montco Sheriff Dept for 6 years before I made a job change to Lebanon County and then worked as a Police Officer for the Department of Veterans Affairs for 6 years.  I then went back to my "home" county where all my friends and family live and have been enjoying my time at the Montco Sheriff Dept since Sept 2010.  I am looking to push for 300 Republican write in signatures. Although I have an army of family and in-laws that are willing to do the write in for me I'm looking for further support.  I would greatly appreciate any help that you can offer.  We are fighting certain factions of the GOP machine that are corrupt.  Let's give the people a conservative choice in November.

tugger023@yahoo.com 

Cell     610-772-6492 

Home 610-579-3908 

148th Legislative District

Whitpain Township

Upper Dublin Township

Conshohocken Borough

Whitemarsh Township

Lower Merion Township

Narberth Borough

Best Regards,
Mike Ludwig

RedState Morning Briefing

For April 23, 2012

1. A Consequential Man, Home Now With His God

Chuck Colson was a genuine hero of mine. I am saddened by his passing, but rejoice that he is now face to face with the Lord he dedicated his life to.

Chuck Colson's life is a very American story and very Christian story - his is a story of grace and redemption.

He worked for Richard Nixon and conspired to commit the Watergate burglary over which he was indicted and went to prison. Along the way, reading Mere Christianity led Colson to become a Christian.

He spent seven months in prison, was disbarred, and saw his son arrested in the fall out over Watergate. But God opened his eyes during his time in prison. He saw the condition of the prisoners, the failures of rehabilitation, and felt led by the Lord to do something about it.

Colson would go on to create Prison Fellowship, an organization loved and supported by many regardless of politics. He was a voice of clarity on the need for evangelicals to engage a world they so often feel as if they are just passing through.

Chuck Colson led a life for Christ Jesus our shared Lord and so many benefited from his ministry. He was a man of great consequence in American history and in the history of the evangelical movement.

2. The Metrics in Favor of a Romney Win

A traveler from a distant planet landing in the United States right now would, if observing the Presidential election, presume the election was about a war on women or teasing over a cookie or the leader of the free world eating dogs or something else inconsequential to the Presidential election.

In fact, it is a concerted effort on the part of the Democrats to hide the economy from people's attention. Like the Great Oz, the Democrats prefer no one pay attention to the economic disaster behind the curtains. I have run a great many campaigns. Each has a real narrative focus. The goal of the campaign is to try to stay on that narrative focus and not get distracted by the team worried about losing. The Democrats' antics reveal they are deeply worried about losing. They cannot fight on the issue that is singularly at play in this election - Barack Obama's bungling of the economy, so they must try to force Mitt Romney to play elsewhere.

Mitt Romney is a deeply flawed candidate. His path to victory was smoothed based on familiarity by Republican voters, their habit of picking the guy who ran last time, and his money. He only shined in states where he massively outspent his opponents. That spending advantage covered up many, many flaws. Were the economy to improve, Mitt Romney would lose to Barack Obama. It is abundantly clear, however, from Democrat hyperbole about a host of ancillary issues and their hard spin on economic data that the economy is not improving and the metrics of victory are in Mitt Romney's favor.

3. The Romney Campaign's Tin Ear

The Romney campaign continues to leave many evangelical voters feeling a bit out of sorts. It seems more and more the Romney campaign calculus is that the campaign will get the evangelical vote without much effort.

4. Is the Department of Justice sanitizing its connection to Media Matters for America?

OK, here's the background. CJ Ciaramella is a reporter at the Washington Free Beacon, and he emailed the Department of Justice to find out if they had any response to the allegations being featured in Kate Pavlich's latest book on the Operation Fast & Furious scandal (Fast and Furious: Barack Obama's Bloodiest Scandal and the Shameless Cover-Up). Specifically, the allegation that there was a third gun found at the scene of Border Agent Brian Terry's murder that could be traced back to that DOJ/DEA botched gunrunning operation; and that the existence of this third gun was being covered up in order to protect a confidential informant. And let me note in passing: I don't care how highly-placed this alleged informant could be; his or her needs do not take precedence over the needs of Agent Terry's surviving loved ones, or indeed the survivors of anybody that the US government helped murder by freely letting guns get illegally sold to Mexican narco-terrorists.

5. Earth Day 2012: The Day the Tide Turned

Happy Earth Day 2012, everyone! One day we may look back on this as the time when the tide began to recede - that being the tide of Anthropogenic Global Warming hysteria.

The canary in this metaphorical mine is the Discovery Channel, long a mass purveyor of AGW porn. In its new seven-part series "Frozen Planet" Discovery confronts distraught polar bears and calving glaciers in glorious High Definition, but nary a mention of the Scientific Consensus that can best be summed up as "Aaaaargghhh! We're All Going to Die!!"

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'Speculators' Are Obama's Latest Oil-Price Straw Man   

Sunshine State News   

1 in 2 New Graduates Are Jobless or Underemployed   

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Iran claims: We're copying U.S. drone   

Politico

French elections: Socialist challenger Hollande takes Round 1, promises growth  The Christian Science Monitor

U.S., Afghanistan finalize long-awaited partnership deal   

USA Today 

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ISSUE BRIEF
Supreme Court Immigration Showdown: Why States Can Enforce Immigration Laws

Always refer to greenies  

like Al Gore, Carol Browner, and Ed Begley Jr. as "Watermelons" - green on the outside, red on the inside.  

Quote terrorist-turned-professor Bill Ayers:  

"Everything was absolutely ideal on the day I bombed the Pentagon. The sky was blue. The birds were singing. And the bastards were finally going to get what was coming to them."

Then say: "Great prose style. You can see why his next book, Dreams from My Father, sold so well..."  

American Professors Gather in Tehran for Occupy Wall Street Conference

10:39 AM, Apr 21, 2012 * By DANIEL HALPER

An alarming news report from Iran's Press TV, a propaganda arm of the Iranian government, shows American professors gathering in Tehran to discuss the Occupy Wall Street Movement:

The professors interviewed on Press TV include Alex Vitale of Brooklyn College, Heather Gautney of Fordham University, and John Hammond of City University of New York

Earth Day... Pagan Worship Of The Earth and Marxism   Apr 22, 2012 01:44 pm

Lenin's World-Wide Celebration Of Socialism!  The annual, global, orgasmic, daisy chain of paganism is complete for another year. I refer, of course to -- Earth Day.

Quite likely the oldest religion of all, Paganism has been on display throughout this week just ending -- even in the religious communities supposedly dedicated to the worship of the "one true God." Earth Day, itself, is rooted deeply in godless socialism. Vladimir Lenin is the Father/Founder of Earth Day! Why, then, will millions of Christians celebrate it in their churches this Sunday?

Jihad: The Law of War   Apr 22, 2012 09:10 am

The following essay was originally planned to discuss war under the law of Islam. With four schools of Sunni Islamic law, and then another four Shiite schools of law, it is a very complex topic. An entire book could be written about it. I don't pretend to be a scholar on this subject, but it is still important to discuss, in summary, the motivation for Islamic war against the infidel.

The Elephant of Jew hatred   Apr 22, 2012 12:57 am

Hatred of Jews is the central animating feature of the political and strategic reality of the Middle East. It is hatred of Jews that dictates the legal regimes, foreign policies, military aspirations, cultural mores, educational themes and even public health policies of our neighbors from Ramallah to Tehran.

Mexico's Plan to Create a Paramilitary Force   Apr 21, 2012 09:48 pm

Institutional Revolutionary Party presidential candidate Enrique Pena Nieto, the front-runner in the lead-up to Mexico's presidential election in July, told Reuters last week that if elected, he would seek to increase the size of the current Mexican federal police force. Pena Nieto also expressed a desire to create a new national gendarmerie, or paramilitary police force, to use in place of the Mexican army and Marine troops currently deployed to combat the heavily armed criminal cartels in Mexico's most violent hot spots. According to Pena Nieto, the new gendarmerie force would comprise some 40,000 agents.

Tehran Attempts to Deceive President Obama, Sec'y of State Clinton with Fatwa   Apr 21, 2012 08:50 pm

Renewed Iran-West Nuclear Talks - Tehran Attempts to Deceive U.S. President Obama, Sec'y of State Clinton With Nonexistent Anti-Nuclear Weapons Fatwa By Supreme Leader Khamenei

An important element in the renewal of nuclear negotiations with Iran in the talks in Istanbul April 13-14, 2012 was an alleged fatwa attributed to Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, according to which the production, stockpiling, and use of nuclear weapons are forbidden under Islam and that the Islamic Republic of Iran shall never acquire these weapons. Indeed, U.S. leaders - among them Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and even U.S. President Barack Obama - along with 5+1 representatives to the talks,[1] the International Atomic Energy Agency Board of Governors, and even highly respected research institutes considered the fatwa as an actual fact, and examined its significance and implications for the nuclear negotiations with Iran that were renewed in Istanbul.

Gadsden Flag DONT TREAD ON ME Plates Now Available to Virginians   Apr 21, 2012 06:10 pm

As reported first by Right Side News in October, 2010, the original idea was the brainchild of Virginia Tea Party group 912 Richmond for a  special license plate bearing the legend DON'T TREAD ON ME, accompanied by the historic Gadsden flag. The citizens of Virginia ·can now express their support for smaller government and protest the Federal Government's intrusion into the affairs of private citizens with their license plates.

Anti-Gunners' Hate Machine in High Gear   Apr 21, 2012 02:56 pm

Last week, NRA held its annual convention in St. Louis, Mo.  More than a dozen of the nation's most prominent political leaders spoke at our Celebration of American Values Leadership Forum, including Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, and Newt Gingrich.  As if on cue, our opponents hit the internet with a degree of venom that surprised even those of us who have tracked their most outlandish comments over the years.

The Power of Christ and the Escape from Islam   Apr 21, 2012 02:55 pm

Ignorance of Europe, How long can it take?  
"We are in danger. We are afraid of Islamists!" Interview with the former Muslims Maher al-Gohary (60) and his daughter Dina (17) who escaped from Egypt because of death penalty for conversion to Christianity.

Paul Ryan responds to White House Ultimatum in Budget Battle   Apr 21, 2012 12:45 pm

America's Newsroom, Fox News
Gregg Jarrett:The Obama Administration is throwing down the gauntlet here saying that President Obama will not sign any bills that break the terms of their summer debt deal.

Martha McCallum: I spoke with Congressman Paul Ryan just a little while ago and got his reaction to that from the White House....

Congressman Ryan: Morning, Martha. How are you doing today?

"HOPE not hate" Publicizes the Counterjihad Network   Apr 21, 2012 11:21 am

In a major undertaking, the British organisation HOPE not hate has produced a mapping of the so-called "Counterjihad Movement", a common denominator for a loosely connected network of activists, writers and bloggers opposed to the Islamization of Western societies.

IPT Exclusive: Jihadis' New Toulouse Inspiration   Apr 21, 2012 10:14 am

The Investigative Project on Terrorism
Jihadis are finding inspiration in the murder of Jewish children and French soldiers in Toulouse, calling for the attack to form a new "school" of terrorism in the West.  

In "Lessons and Treasures from the Battle of Toulouse," al-Qaida forum moderator Abu Sa'd al-Amili transforms Mohammad Merah's murder of a rabbi, three Jewish school children, and three French soldiers into a glorious raid on Western civilization. Merah's executions, termed "a little like 9/11" by French President Nicolas Sarkozy, are called a "practical lesson in bravery" and the murderer is part of the "fighting men of a special class."

Partying with Tax Dollars and A Trifecta of Waste, Fraud and Abuse   Apr 21, 2012 09:49 am

Colombian hookers, mind readers and luxury travel - this is how government officials have been "investing" your hard earned tax dollars, if press reports are to be believed regarding three massive scandals now rocking the Obama administration.

Friday Afternoon Roundup - To Live on Planet Liberal   Apr 21, 2012 09:19 am

On Planet Liberal this man is the embodiment of white racism. On Planet Earth, he came into the courtroom much as you would expect a man who had not wanted to be in a lethal confrontation and did not spend his time licking his chops at the prospect of killing a black teenager.  On Planet Liberal this was supposed to be some inverse version of To Kill a Mockingbird, A Time to Kill and every other of the numerous entries in that genre.

Holder Refuses to Enforce the Law Against WikiLeaks and Russia Today   Apr 21, 2012 01:55 am

Luke Harding of the London Guardian says Julian Assange is a "useful idiot," based on the premier episode of his Russian Today (RT) program "The World Tomorrow." The show featured a mostly softball interview with Hezbollah terrorist leader Hassan Nasrallah, who not surprisingly adopted the Russian position of support for the Assad regime in Syria.

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One in seven Americans -- 45 million people -- received food stamps in 2011, according to the Congressional Budget Office. That's a 70% increase from 2007 that is only expected to grow.

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An increasing number of Democrats in Congress are expressing concerns and regrets over Obamacare. But meanwhile, unions are targeting Democratic Rep. Jason Altmire (PA) in his primary election because he voted against the legislation.

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'Posse of Radicals' Wants to 'Overturn the First Amendment,' Says Citizens United Founder

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DOJ Alum at Racial Profiling Hearing Calls Crimes, Out of Wedlock Births in Black Community 'Elephant in the Room'

California Police Chief: Racial Profiling 'Ineffective,' 'Insulting'

Republicans Consider Which Tax Breaks to Toss As Part of Their Tax Reform Plan

Democrats Call for New Amendment to Limit First Amendment Rights

Pelosi: Obama Has Been 'So Respectful' of GOP Lawmakers and 'Engaged With American People'

Obama's Leadership Losing Luster Abroad, Poll Shows

Religious Liberty in Peril, Warn Speakers at National Catholic Prayer Breakfast

Ousted Secret Service Supervisor Joked About 'Checking Out' Sarah Palin

Titanic Too: James Cameron Sails Towards Global Warming

Possible NATO Role Eyed in Syria Conflict

COMMENTARY:

Lifetime's Perky Prostitute
By L. Brent Bozell III
Ten years ago, perky actress Jennifer Love Hewitt tried to jump-start a music career with a song titled "Bare Naked." Now she's trying that attention-grabbing tactic again with a sleazy new Lifetime series called "The Client List." She plays a massage therapist who turns tricks.

A Century of Service
By Ed Feulner
Not all of us can be Eagle Scouts. But all of us can adopt their same spirit of selfless dedication and strive to make our communities better.

No More 'Mr. Obama Is a Nice Guy'
By Michelle Malkin
Mitt Romney's surrogates insist that conservatives should "stick to the issues." But Obama's by-any-means-necessary ruthlessness IS an issue.

As France Goes, so Goes Europe?
By Patrick J. Buchanan
The people of France and the peoples of Europe seem to be returning to their roots, to whom they were, and to whom they wish to be again. Europe is coming apart - and so, it appears, are we.

In Advance of the President's Arrival...
By Rich Galen
The fallout from the Secret Service prostitution scandal should be a real discussion - not a politically motivated discussion - about just how many people it takes to make sure the President of the United States knows how many steps it is between his hotel suite and the elevator.
 

NEWSPAPER ROUNDUP:

Democrats expressing buyers' remorse on Obama's healthcare law
Obama reverts to 2008 plan: Blame Bush
Gov. Christie: Sen. Lautenberg is an 'embarrassment' for failing to pay tolls
NIH under fire for grants toward creation of homoerotic website
Gov. Rick Scott forms task force to explore Stand Your Ground laws
Obama is named gun 'salesman of the year,' as weapons sales soar
Karzai calls for quicker NATO withdrawal after photo scandal
200 days to go before the election
Obama's new Office of Financial Research has unlimited budget...

 Friday, April 20, 2012

The Foundation

"Would it not be better to simplify the system of taxation rather than to spread it over such a variety of subjects and pass through so many new hands." --Thomas Jefferson

Election Year Taxes  

As we have documented over the years, the Leftmedia are quite adept at using polls to drive public opinion rather than reflect it. The latest such example was a poll on taxes in advance of Income Redistribution Day, but as we shall see, there's more here than meets the eye.

Gallup reports, "As tax filing day looms, Americans fall into two closely matched camps: those who believe the amount they pay in federal income tax is too high (46%) and those who consider it 'about right' (47%). Just 3% consider their taxes too low." It's hardly newsworthy that so few find their taxes to be too low, but for so many to see them as "about right" is interesting. Here's why: Roughly half of Americans don't pay any income taxes at all. It's no coincidence, then, that roughly half of Americans think their tax burden is "about right."

We'll give Gallup one thing: They made clear that Americans had a much more negative view of their taxes prior to the Bush tax cuts. And why wouldn't they? Contrary to media myth, the Bush tax cuts applied to everyone -- not just the wealthy. The top rate went from 39.6 percent to 35 percent, the next tier dropped from 36 to 33, followed by 31 to 28, 28 to 25 and the lowest bracket dropped from 15 percent to 10 percent. For those who appreciate math, the bottom bracket had both the greatest nominal drop -- 5 points -- and the greatest percentage drop -- 33 percent -- but you won't hear that on the network news.

Indeed, the Leftmedia have suppressed that inconvenient truth to the point that a CNN poll shows that almost 70 percent of Americans think the tax system favors the wealthy. The fact is, according to CNS News and the Tax Foundation, "Americans making more than $250,000 had an effective tax rate of 23.4 percent and their total share of the tax burden was 45.7 percent." That contrasts with Americans earning less than $50,000, who paid an effective rate of 3.5 percent for a share of 6.7 percent. Yet with Barack Obama's canard that the rich don't pay their "fair share" being blasted through the sycophantic media bullhorn, it's no wonder the idea sticks.

Perceptions could change on Jan. 1, 2013, when the Bush tax cuts are set to expire. Some were extended by the last Congress, but rates will go up for everyone in January unless an extension passes this year. The aforementioned rates will return to their previous levels, the child tax credit will drop from $1,000 to $500, the marriage penalty will return, the death tax will skyrocket to 55 percent, the capital gains tax rate will increase from 15 percent to 20 percent (with another 3.8 percent tacked on for ObamaCare), and the tax on dividends will go from 15 percent to the rate of ordinary wages -- as high as 39.6 percent. The temporary payroll tax cut will also expire. The total tax bomb on the struggling economy will be close to $500 billion.

Instead of defusing the issue, the Senate took up but failed to pass Obama's beloved Buffett Rule, an election-year tax gimmick that would require millionaires to pay no less than 30 percent in taxes. We call this a gimmick because, as columnist Charles Krauthammer points out, "If we collect the Buffett tax for the next 250 years -- a span longer than the life of this republic -- it would not cover the Obama deficit for 2011 alone."

An extension of the Bush tax cuts, on the other hand, should be a no-brainer during an election year. It should not only be permanent, but there should be fewer and even lower rates, which would lead to economic growth. As Joe Biden might say, "It's not class warfare. It's math." Of course, he meant that comment to further the administration's class warfare against the wealthy and presumptive GOP nominee Mitt Romney in particular. Obama and his minions want you to focus on what Romney does with his income, and not what Obama does with yours.

What's your opinion of your tax burden? What should reform look like? 

This Week's 'Alpha Jackass' Award

"In this country, prosperity doesn't trickle down, prosperity grows from the bottom up, and it grows from a strong middle class out. That's why I'm always confused when we keep having the same argument with folks who don't seem to remember how America was built. ... Right now, we have two competing visions of our future, and the choice could not be clearer. And let me say, those folks on the other side, I am sure they are patriots, I'm sure they're sincere in terms of what they say, but their theory, I believe, is wrong." --Barack Obama, explaining why the government needs even more money from the wealthy than it already takes

News From the Swamp: Budgeting Junk Mail

As the federal debt spirals out of control because of Barack Obama's $5 trillion deficit spending binge, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) finally decided to tackle ... Post Office reform. He called on the Senate to pass the 21st Century Postal Service Act, S. 1789, which will restructure Postal Service employees' pension plans, and he did so by making an appeal for junk mail. "I'll come home tonight here to my home in Washington and there'll be some mail there," he said. "A lot of it is what some people refer to as junk mail, but for the people who are sending that mail, it's very important." Then he went off the deep end: "[S]eniors love getting junk mail. It's sometimes their only way of communicating or feeling like they're part of the real world." Perhaps he's referring to letters from his constituents.

As for the federal budget, the Senate has neglected to pass one in more than 1,000 days, and it punted again this week. Budget Committee chairman Kent Conrad (D-ND) explained, "This is the wrong time to vote in committee; this is the wrong time to vote on the floor. I don't think we will be prepared to vote before the election." The election is a convenient thing to hide behind, but it's more than six months away. Conrad obviously fears that a budget vote wouldn't help Democrats retain control of the upper chamber. Not that a budget will fix much -- Conrad's still includes a massive deficit.

National Review's Yuval Levin put it this way: "Imagine if Paul Ryan had produced his budget proposal and put it before his committee, but then John Boehner killed it, insisting that the House should not pass a budget of any kind so that his members could be spared a difficult vote in an election year. Surely had any such thing happened it would have been treated as a monumental leadership crisis among House Republicans and a sign of gross dereliction and disorder."

Please let us know if you "love getting junk mail." 

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From the 'Non Compos Mentis' File

Three Secret Service agents are no longer employed this week and more firings are expected in the wake of a prostitution scandal that unfolded during Barack Obama's recent trip to Colombia. At least 11 agents were sent home from the 33-nation Summit of the Americas after two of them got into a payment dispute with a prostitute who promptly reported the incident to the Colombian police. Among the group were two supervisors and three members of the Counter-Assault Team, which is tasked with using heavy firepower to neutralize attacks on the president. The Pentagon also reported that five service members have been confined to quarters in relation to the incident.

The Secret Service, under the Department of Homeland Security since 2003, maintains that the president was never in any physical danger, but the episode didn't improve the country's reputation among our Latin American neighbors. The agents were in Cartagena for advance preparation when their "undercover" operation was exposed. Their actions could have opened them to blackmail and put delicate information and the president's life in danger. Obama didn't address the scandal while he was in Colombia, opting instead to make a glib comment about scouting Cartagena for a potential future vacation for his wife.

Hope 'n' Change: GSA Goes to Vegas

Remember when Obama said in 2009, "You can't take a trip to Las Vegas ... on the taxpayer's dime"? Such advice was lost on the General Services Administration (GSA). The obscure GSA, tasked with offering management support for the federal government's numerous agencies, is the new poster child for taxpayer abuse, thanks to an $820,000 Las Vegas conference the organization recently produced for some of its employees. The conference rivaled the opulence of Roman emperors and shameless millennium-era CEOs, dumping thousands of dollars for items such as commemorative coins, a GSA yearbook, 2,000-square-foot luxury suites and bubble baths for regional commissioner Jeffrey Neely.

An investigation into the conference by Brian Miller, the GSA's inspector general, caught the bipartisan attention of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee this week. Miller detailed a long series of embarrassing abuses that included a $75,000 bicycle-building exercise and a $58,000 audio-visual bill to play ridiculous music videos produced by GSA employees. GSA official Jeffrey Neely invoked the Fifth Amendment and refused to testify about the agency's scandalous behavior or the years-long culture of corruption. He is reportedly on administrative leave, but he is still drawing his $179,000 salary and even received a $9,000 bonus, which was apparently grandfathered in despite a federal-employee pay freeze.

Heads may roll over this affair, but in the end a Democrat Congress may be to blame for the GSA's behavior. The Budget and Impoundment Control Act passed in 1974 in the wake of Watergate took away the president's longstanding power to impound funds for agencies allocated by Congress. Prior to the act, presidents could hold money to balance budgets and defend against profligate spending on luxury trips. The federal deficit rose $47 billion the year after the act was passed, and it hasn't stopped rising since.

Amending the First Amendment

Democrats have long decried the Supreme Court's 2010 decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, which overturned campaign finance restrictions on corporations. Now, they're aiming to amend the First Amendment to take away the right of free speech for the people who make up corporations. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) explained, "I think one of the presenters [at a Democratic forum on amending the Constitution] said that the Supreme Court had unleashed a predator that was oozing slime into the political system, and that, indeed, is not an exaggeration." By all means, stop the predator's oozing slime.

"Our Founders had an idea," she continued. "It was called democracy. It said elections are determined by the people, the voice and the vote of the people, not by the bankrolls of the privileged few. This Supreme Court decision flies in the face of our Founders' vision and we want to reverse it." Actually, our Founders warned against democracy, and they wrote the First Amendment precisely to protect the kind of political speech that Pelosi and Co. are trying to silence. We just have one question for the former speaker: Are you serious?

Economy

Regulatory Commissars: Obama's Oil Crisis

Barack Obama's latest scheme to make it appear that he's doing something -- anything -- about the spike in gasoline prices is actually more of a re-election crisis-control effort. He plans to spend $52 million to further regulate a tightly controlled market and punish "speculators" whom he blames for running up the price at the pump. Naturally, oil futures prices jumped at the news.

Those new regulations on the oil market come while Obama is tightening the screws in other ways as well. Witness the Friday document dump of an Executive Order that creates a task force to coordinate federal oversight of natural gas development. That task force is charged with "setting sensible, cost-effective public health and environmental standards" for "unconventional" natural gas development. In other words, he wants to undermine the innovative and effective practice of hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking," thereby hampering our domestic energy production capabilities just as he has with offshore drilling.

While Obama claims that we are "producing more oil than at any time in the last eight years," his entrenched opposition to completing the vital portion of the Keystone XL pipeline to Canada puts him at odds with House Republicans, who placed the approval of that project into the just-passed highway bill. Obama threatened a veto over the Keystone provision, and the Canadians are growing weary of his stubbornness. Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper warned at a recent "Three Amigos" summit involving the United States, Canada and Mexico that Americans will soon have to pay "market prices" for Canadian tar sands oil based on Obama's foot-dragging over Keystone. Canada also stands ready to sell its oil to China.

Not content to just sit by and do nothing, TransCanada, the company developing the Keystone XL pipeline, has proposed another route to avoid an area environmentalists were intent on keeping off limits.

Dodd-Frank: A Study in Wasted Time

While former Sen. Chris Dodd is already out of Congress and Rep. Barney Frank soon will be, the damage they wrought to the economy and business climate will continue long after both have departed Capitol Hill. The House Financial Services Committee released a study this week noting just 46 percent completion of required rule-making under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, and that volume already exceeds 5,300 pages of new regulations. A spreadsheet published by the Committee, cheekily dubbed the "burden tracker," estimates that the rules already in place will consume more than 24 million man hours -- or that of 12,000 full-time workers -- per year. By comparison, the Panama Canal was built in 20 million man-hours.

Meanwhile, data compiled by the Financial Times claims credit availability will decrease by $1.2 trillion under Dodd-Frank. Tighter money drives up interest rates, and higher interest rates make borrowing more expensive for consumers who wish to purchase big-ticket items such as houses and cars as well as for businesses looking to expand. Given that we have likely already adopted the simpler rules Dodd-Frank requires, leaving the more complex regulations to be enacted near the end of full implementation, it's probable that the cumulative effect will be far more than double the 5,300 pages of rules and 24 million man-hours. We just had to pass it to see what was in it, didn't we?

Income Redistribution: Even More Too Big to Fail

If anyone thought the biggest five banks were behemoths before their bailout, numbers released by the Federal Reserve show that JPMorgan & Chase, Bank of America, Citigroup, Wells Fargo and Goldman Sachs now hold $8.5 trillion in assets, or about 56 percent of U.S. annual economic output. That's compared to only 43 percent five years ago, prior to the 2008 bailout.

It doesn't appear the lessons of the bailout have been learned either. In fact, Kevin Warsh, a former member of the Fed's Board of Governors, thinks financial markets "have come to believe that what the government did in 2008 and 2009 isn't a one-time deal [and] that the government will somehow come to the rescue of these big financial firms." On the other hand, more small banks are disappearing due to forced consolidation or acquisition by the largest five, as the 6,291 commercial banks operating today are fewer than half of the number present in 1984. Moreover, these banking giants are expanding their international assets as they take advantage of government austerity measures that affect European lenders. With each fire sale acquisition overseas, the global financial house of cards grows taller.

It's nearly a foregone conclusion that "too big to fail" is still in effect, with the only question becoming how much more taxpayer money will be thrown into the fire. After spending $245 billion to bail out the financial system in 2008, it's hard telling how many more billions another TARP-style bailout would cost and when the bill will come due.

Is "too big to fail" a thing of the past, or are we just getting started? 

Security

Immigration Front: Election Pandering

With Election Day less than seven months away, Barack Obama apparently thinks it's time to start re-courting the voters he ditched after his 2008 victory. Hence, his recent sit-down interview with Univision in which he promised to take on immigration reform in the first year of his second term. Talk about a recycled stump speech. Swap "second" for "first" and the president's promise could easily be a replay of what then-candidate Obama said in 2008 when he also pledged to make immigration reform a priority in his first year in office. Lest anyone berate him for his failure, however, he provides the usual explanation: It's Republicans' fault. "The challenge we've got on immigration reform is very simple," Obama said. "I've got a majority of Democrats who are prepared to vote for it, and I've got no Republicans who are prepared to vote for it. ... So what we need is a change either of Congress or we need Republicans to change their mind[s]." Or a change in the White House.

Obama's excuse might have a fighting chance if one ignores for a minute that Democrats enjoyed bullet-proof majorities in both houses of Congress during Obama's first two years in office. The truth is that even with this advantage the president proved himself entirely incapable of passing immigration reform. Now, with his re-election on the line, he's suddenly revived his interest in the issue and is undoubtedly hoping his blame act will buy a second term -- where we predict immigration reform will once again languish in the realm of forgotten campaign promises. To avoid losing the Hispanic vote for a generation, Mitt Romney and Republicans must get out in front on this issue, providing serious reform proposals to deal with border security, the overly cumbersome and restrictive immigration process, and the millions of illegals already here.

What should real immigration reform look like? 

Warfront With Jihadistan: Taliban Resurgence

A recent series of coordinated attacks by Taliban insurgents in Kabul and nearby provinces has highlighted the Obama administration's lack of concern over Afghanistan, a war he once cynically called "the right war" while undermining our efforts in Iraq. Last weekend's attacks targeted government buildings in the capital and U.S. and Afghan security installations in the eastern region of the country. Taliban fighters were successfully beaten back by Afghan and NATO security forces, and no U.S. casualties were reported. The security situation in Afghanistan has actually improved markedly, but that is despite Obama's leadership, not because of it. He has made few public pronouncements about America's military involvement there except to note the continued withdrawal of U.S. forces.

National Security Adviser Tom Donilon recently suggested that as many as 60,000 troops might come home by mid-2013, apparently ignoring General John Allen's call for more firepower next year to hold our current security gains. No one in the administration has spoken of achieving victory over the Taliban, and the State Department is even angling for a peace agreement. The administration's lack of support for the U.S. military commitment in Afghanistan is demoralizing our troops in the field and signals to our enemies that Obama lacks the stomach to follow through on our commitments.

Defense Secretary Under Fire for Expensive Trips Home

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is on the hot seat after it was discovered that he charged taxpayers more than $800,000 for weekend flights to his California home. Panetta, who previously served as a congressman from California, said the regular trips to his Monterey ranch relieved stress and helped him keep his "mind straight." He said, "Normally, I've flown home commercially. In this job [as defense secretary], I'm obligated to be in touch with communications and have to fly on a secure plane." That's true, but each trip costs $32,000, of which Panetta is required to reimburse only the equivalent of a commercial round-trip ticket. He has reimbursed just $17,000 of the total.

Last November, Barack Obama called for his Cabinet members to cut back on expenses, specifically mentioning travel costs: "At a time when families have had to cut back ... we thought that it was entirely appropriate for ... our agencies to try to root out waste, large and small, in a systematic way." Now caught, Panetta is looking for alternatives.

Meanwhile, the government intends to double or triple (or more, depending on rank) the cost of health care fees for military retirees.

Iran Imitates the Peanuts

In January 2011, we described how Iran's most common practice has been to talk -- endlessly -- with a rotating cast of antagonists, never agreeing on anything except the need to hold more talks. A headline at the time captured it perfectly: "Two Days of Talks Between Iran and World Powers Ended in Agreement to Meet Again." Fifteen months later, nothing has changed.

Recently, Iran's Foreign Minister absurdly urged the UN to lift sanctions on Iran as a "trust-building measure" so that the latest nuclear talks could proceed. As we have said many, many times before, Iran's strategy for handling the nuclear dispute is straight out of the Miscreant's Handbook: 1. Misbehave again and again and again until you feel the ire of the international community; 2. Offer to stop misbehaving in return for concessions; 3. Rake in as many concessions as possible before returning to Step 1. The Iranians have mastered this approach and used it to ward off harm for over nine years.

Right on cue, the usual leftist suspects assured that this time Lucy wasn't going to yank the football. CNN's Fareed Zakaria wrote about the possibility of a sweeping deal, before predictably warning that it might be torpedoed not by Russia, China or Iran, but by Republicans. The New York Times cited "western diplomats" who think sanctions' bite may be prodding Iran toward a deal, clearly ignorant of the Iranians' famous retort: "We didn't launch a Revolution in order to sell pistachios." Russia and China appear more than willing to continue serving as Iran's protectors at the UN Security Council. In short, no one should expect any deals from the latest talks -- unless it's the UN playing the role of Charlie Brown and rewarding Iran's intransigence.

Profiles of Valor: U.S. Army Spc. Leslie Sabo Jr.

After nearly 42 years, U.S. Army Spc. Leslie Sabo Jr. has been cleared to receive a posthumous Medal of Honor. Sabo was killed on May 10, 1970, while serving in Cambodia. When his platoon was ambushed, the 22-year-old Sabo charged the enemy position, killing several enemy soldiers while drawing fire away from his fellow soldiers. As he was resupplying, an enemy grenade landed near him -- he tossed it away and used his own body to shield a wounded soldier. He then crawled toward the enemy's position and threw a grenade into their bunker, killing several enemy soldiers, but also costing Sabo his life.

The citation for his actions was filed shortly thereafter but fell through the cracks until 1999. Finally, after more years of delay, Sabo's widow, Rose Sabo-Brown, and his brother George will attend a ceremony at the White House to receive the Medal on his behalf. "This brave solider clearly distinguished himself through his courageous actions," Army Secretary John McHugh said. "The Army and our nation are forever grateful for his heroic service."

Culture

Climate Change This Week: Earth Day 2012

This Sunday is Earth Day, a.k.a. Vladimir Lenin's birthday. As if on cue, a study published in the April issue of Nature Geoscience shows that some of the glaciers in the Himalayas, contrary to the warnings of global warmists, are actually growing. According to Fox News, "Using computer models to compare the ice volume in satellite photos from 1999 and 2008, the study showed that some glaciers are holding steady and even gaining ice mass." Study researcher Julie Gardelle insists, "The rest of the glaciers in the Himalayas are mostly melting, in that they have negative mass balance; here we found that glaciers aren't. This is an anomalous behavior."

In 2007, the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warned that Himalayan glaciers would melt completely in 25 years due to man-caused climate change. The IPCC head eventually issued a statement of regret for a poorly vetted claim. Given this recent finding, we think the matter is at least up for debate.

Speaking of Earth Day, the Media Research Center has compiled the Top 25 Worst Environmental Quotes over the years for your viewing pleasure.

How will you celebrate Earth Day? 

Second Amendment: Videos of the Week

From the NRA Annual Meetings in St. Louis:

Mitt Romney 

Glenn Beck 

Alleged Killer Faces Trial, Short Sentence in Norway

Anders Behring Breivik is now facing trial for killing 77 people in Norway last July, the worst massacre in the country's history. Yet if he is convicted (and found sane), he faces just 21 years in prison -- roughly 100 days in jail per murder -- though it could be longer if he proves to be a threat at the end of that time. In 1905, Norway abolished the death penalty in peacetime and, in 1979, followed suit for war crimes. That influenced Breivik's decision, he said: "If I had feared death I would not have dared to carry out this operation," adding, "I would have done it again." While he claims "self-defense on behalf of my people, my city, my country," even he admitted, "There are only two outcomes in this case that I had respected, that is the death penalty or acquittal." A short prison term, he said, would be "pathetic." When a judge suggested that the death penalty would be fitting, however, he was dismissed from the case.

Meanwhile, the Leftmedia keep insisting that Breivik is a "far-right militant" or a "right-wing fanatic." However, as we noted at the time, this is little more than a sick and politically motivated smear. He may claim to be a militant "Christian" and to be fighting Islam and multiculturalism, but Breivik plagiarized heavily from "Unabomber" Ted Kaczynski's "manifesto," liberally exchanging the words "multiculturalism" or "cultural Marxism" for "leftism" -- hardly the hallmark of a committed ideologue, Christian or otherwise. Furthermore, nothing he did represents Christians or conservatism.

Around the World: Europeans Revise History

Just when we thought we had seen it all, Donal Blaney of the UK Daily Mail reports, "Today we learn that the European Union ... is opening a £44m museum that will be a House of European History. This vanity project in and of itself is an offensive waste of money as governments and peoples tighten belts across Europe. But what I found most offensive of all is that World War II is to be described as 'the European Civil War.'"

That would be news to the U.S., Canadian, Australian and other soldiers who fought and died both in Europe and particularly in the Pacific Theater. And as Mark Steyn quipped, "If this were truly a 'European Civil War,' it would have been over in nothing flat, because on the Continent of Europe every nation was either neutral, conquered, or on the wrong side. It's hard to have a civil war with only one team." Blaney is right -- those responsible for the renaming have shown themselves to be "insular, arrogant and inward-looking."

And Last...

Thanks to Newt Gingrich, Barack Obama's campaign has made something of an issue of a Romney family vacation in 1983, in which the family, faced with a packed station wagon, put their beloved dog in a travel kennel, complete with windshield, on the roof. Apparently, the incident is focus-group-tested to damage Romney's approval. There's even a "Dogs Against Romney" group opposing the presumptive GOP nominee. Surely, they have better bones to pick.

This week, however, the Daily Caller's Jim Treacher noticed a passage from Barack Obama's first autobiography in which he described the childhood experience of eating dog meat while living with his stepfather in Indonesia. To illustrate the absurdity of such "issues," Treacher then launched into a pun-filled joke fest that caught on quickly. "Obama would never put a dog on top of a car," wrote Treacher. "Dries out the meat." From there, it expanded to a Twitter hashtag meme -- #ObamaDogRecipes -- including howlers such as Yorkshire terrier pudding, chicken poodle soup, pugs in a blanket, mutt chop, Great Danishes, beagle with cream cheese, pure bread, and so on and so on. Others mocked, "If I had a dog, it would look like the one Obama ate." Leftists are completely missing the joke, of course, but just think -- the puns are this delicious, and we haven't even reached the dog days of summer.

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

WikiLeaks: McCain knew Obama team stuffed ballot boxes bribed Jackson took Russian money in 2008

Apr 22, 2012 06:13 am | Coach Collins

 By Kevin "Coach" Collins

 According to internal Emails circulated among the staff at Stratfor, an Austin Texas based private intelligence gathering firm, John McCain was presented with proof that Democrats in Pennsylvania and Ohio used voter fraud to win those states and committed other disturbing crimes. The communiqués were stolen and made public by WikiLeaks.

An Email dated November 7, 2008 under the subject line " Insight - The Dems & Dirty Tricks ** Internal Use Only - Pls Do Not Forward **," was sent by Fred Burton, Stratfor's V.P. of Intelligence. It said in part, The black Dems were caught stuffing the ballot boxes in Philly and Ohio as reported the night of the election and Sen. McCain chose not to fight. The matter is not dead inside the party. It now becomes a matter of sequence now as to how and when to "out". 

 Burton also mentioned a "six-figure" Democrat donation/bribe to Jesse Jackson to buy his silence ... Continue Reading:WikiLeaks: McCain knew Obama team stuffed ballot boxes bribed Jackson took Russian money in 2008

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American Minute April 21

Apr 21, 2012 06:13 pm | Coach Collins

By Bill Federer, staff writer

  "Mark Twain," a river measurement meaning "12-feet-deep," was the pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, who died APRIL 21, 1910.
Growing up on the Mississippi, Clemens left school at age 12 when his father died, became a printer's apprentice, then piloted steamboats till the War between the States suspended river traffic.
Samuel Clemens joined the Confederates, but after 2 weeks got discharged to work for his brother Orion, who was secretary to Nevada's Governor.
After an attempt at mining, Clemens became a reporter in Virginia City, Nevada, using the name "Mark Twain" for the first time.
He moved to San Francisco, sailed the world, then married Olivia Langdon.
His attempt at publishing failed and he paid off debts by lecturing across America.
Mark Twain wrote: Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer, Life on the Mississippi, Prince and the Pauper, Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur's Court, and Joan of Arc.
... Continue Reading:American Minute April 21

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Will there be a Catholic Mormon Evangelical Connection for the 2012 Elections?

Apr 21, 2012 02:13 pm | Coach Collins

By Jerry Todd, staff writer

 In the Republican primaries, one by one an excellent slate of pretenders fell to blunders and/or well-funded partisan attacks. Money created the dominance of Mitt Romney over Rick Santorum. Rick stayed in the race in spite of being outspent 8 to 1. This GOP primary revealed the spread of preferences in Republican ranks, from RINO to Tea Party. That's good if the Party has sense enough to use its best weapons.

Missing so far is a strong Hispanic presence that is available - over 63% refer to themselves as conservative or moderate. In the 2010 elections the day was carried by the Conservative/TP wing. They would not compromise with the Party's compromisers who might yet get it.

I've always admired Mitt for his business acumen - especially bailing out the ineptly run Salt Lake City Olympics, generating the only profitable Olympics in history. I've been on the short end of ... Continue Reading:Will there be a Catholic Mormon Evangelical Connection for the 2012 Elections?

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Doolittle Raiders: patriots and men of courage when America needed them

Apr 21, 2012 06:13 am | Coach Collins

By Jim Emerson, staff writer

Seventy  years ago this week sixteen Army Air Force B-25 Mitchells took off from the heaving deck of the Navy's aircraft carrier USS Hornet. This was the first time in the Second World War that America took the fight to the enemy. The raiders who were led by Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle, struck Japan in a demonstration ofAmerica's determination to take the fight to Japan's home soil.  This raid was a morale booster for a nation that was still recovering from the attack onPearl Harbor.

The concept of launching medium bombers from a carrier was conceived by Navy Captain Francis Low. Once the idea was a "go" Lt. Col. Doolittle was selected to plan and lead the Army Air Force mission.  The crews were recruited from B-25 crews from the 17th Bomb Group and were trained to take off from an Aircraft carrier at Eglin Field inFlorida. Being too large to land, the bombers ... Continue Reading:Doolittle Raiders: patriots and men of courage when America needed them

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American Minute April 20

Apr 20, 2012 06:13 pm | Coach Collins

By Bill Federer, staff writer

 His interpreter, Moses Tinda Tautamy, helped him minister to Indians along the Susquehanna and Delaware Rivers, camping at night.
Born APRIL 20, 1718, missionary David Brainerd wrote in his Journal:
"FORKS OF DELAWARE, Pennsylvania, Lord's day, July 21, 1745.
Preached to the Indians...Divine truth seemed to make very considerable impressions and caused the tears to flow freely.
Afterwards I baptized my interpreter and his wife, who were the first I baptized among the Indians...
Though before he had been a hard drinker...it is now more than six months since he experienced this change;
in which space of time he has been exposed to strong drink in places where it has been moving free as water; yet has never desired after it...
He discourses feelingly of the conflicts and consolations of a real Christian."
David Brainerd contracted tuberculosis and was nursed at the home of Princeton president ... Continue Reading:American Minute April 20

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The media can ignore it, but Obama is losing big among Catholics which will seal his doom

Apr 20, 2012 01:03 pm | Coach Collins

By Kevin "Coach" Collins

  Since such records have been kept no Democrat presidential candidate has ever lost the "Catholic vote" and won the general election. Republicans can win a general election despite losing the "Catholic vote" but a Democrat simply can't. This makes Barack Obama's war on Christians in general and Catholics in particular so dangerous for him and his Party.  

  The results of a new Pew survey of voters by religious affiliation, holds devastating news for Obama's chances of reelection. The ease with which it can be found proves this news is being purposely ignored by a delusional media that believes Obama is cruising toward an easy reelection.

Pew found Mitt Romney with a commanding lead among Evangelical and Catholic voters that has actually grown by 5 and 8 points respectively in just the past month. Obama now trails Mitt Romney 73/20 among Evangelicals and 57/37 among White Catholics.

The significance of Pew's findings among "White" ... Continue Reading:The media can ignore it, but Obama is losing big among Catholics which will seal his doom

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Is George Zimmerman guilty of 2nd degree murder?

Apr 20, 2012 06:13 am | Coach Collins

by Doug Book,  staff writer

From the projects to the White House, February's shooting death of punk-in-the-making Trayvon Martin has provided a ready-made call to arms for the nation's professional race hustlers. Even the President has taken advantage of this opportunity to pimp a black death for electoral profit.

And though it isn't surprising that much of the national media have ignored the way in which the facts of the shooting apply to Florida statute, it does seem difficult to believe that no one in the nation is interested.     

Given the many conflicting stories concerning surveillance video and witness testimony it is difficult to know what really happened on the night Martin was killed by George Zimmerman. And until all of the evidence is presented in court, all that can be stated with any degree of certainty is that the one individual privy to existing information, Florida prosecutor Angela Corey, believed there to be enough ... Continue Reading:Is George Zimmerman guilty of 2nd degree murder?

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American Minute April 19

Apr 19, 2012 06:13 pm | Coach Collins

By Bill Federer, staff writer

   Paul Revere was captured along the way, but William Dawes and Samuel Prescott continued the midnight ride from Boston's Old North Church to warn the inhabitants of Concord that British troops were coming to seize their guns.
In early dawn, APRIL 19, 1775, American "Minutemen," as poet Emerson wrote, fired the "shot heard round the world" by confronting the British on Lexington Green and at Concord's Old North Bridge.
The conflict began that in eight years would end in independence.
New England celebrates this as "Patriots' Day."
Also on APRIL 19, in the year 1951, Five-Star General Douglas MacArthur retired from 48 years of patriotic service.
One of the most decorated soldiers in U.S. history, MacArthur served in France in WWI, was Superintendent of West Point and the youngest Army Chief of Staff.
General Douglas MacArthur was Supreme Allied Commander in the Pacific in WWII and received Japan's ... Continue Reading:American Minute April 19

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The TSA's failure to verify ticket purchase IDs leaves flyers at risk

Apr 19, 2012 02:13 pm | Coach Collins

By Kevin "Coach" Collins

A skilled investigative reporter has lodge a serious charge against the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) that the agency is both ignoring and hoping will go away. Josh Bernstein insists that anyone with a good fake identification card and a calm demeanor can bluff his/her way through TSA checkpoints just by making sure the name on the fake ID matches the name on his/her legitimately purchased boarding pass.

Bernstein's charges mean that since the TSA doesn't verify passenger identities, safe flying from an American airport is a matter of luck rather a function of a diligent federal agency's procedures.  

Worse than this, the TSA has no plans to start verifying the identifications airline passengers use to purchase tickets. "As long as the ID looks good, it MUST be good" seems to be the current policy. While you, your elderly parents and your children are being searched by TSA agents determined to nail you as ... Continue Reading:The TSA's failure to verify ticket purchase IDs leaves flyers at risk

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This weekend, as Americans take part in Earth Day celebrations across the country, NumbersUSA's Roy Beck and Melanie Oubre will be at Earth Day Dallas (the nation's second largest Earth Day event) to release the results of a national survey of American's attitudes toward U.S. population growth.

Forty years after a bipartisan government commission recommended slowing U.S. population growth and eventually stabilizing, U.S. population continues to grow by about 3 million a year -- the majority of this growth driven by federal immigration policies.

What do you think? Now you can take our survey and see how your responses compare with Americans from 40 years ago!

"On the 40th anniversary of that landmark event in the early environmental movement, we wanted to know if Americans today share that commissions conclusion that massive U.S. population growth is harmful to the environment and unwanted by the citizenry," said Roy Beck, President of the NumbersUSA.

We've already asked 1,000 adults for opinions on U.S. population growth and immigration levels. (See those results here.) But we want to know what you think.

In 1972, 66% of Americans disapproved of adding another 100 million people to the U.S. population. Since then, the U.S. has added another 1,000,000+, and if the immigration status quo isn't addressed by Congress, we'll add another 100-plus million over the next 40 years!

"Successive Congresses have adopted immigration increases that only 3% of Americans wanted in 1972," Beck said. "They have tripled immigration numbers and created a level of population growth that two-thirds of Americans said they opposed. Despite near-silence about population issues in the public discussions of our present era, this 40th anniversary poll shows that Americans still solidly oppose their government forcing major population growth on them."

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Ralph Peters 

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To be genuinely outraged about something, you need to actually believe in something. Without principles, outrage is just tactical anger, or bullying in plainer language. Principles, values and codes are universal. That is if you are angry about a dog being mistreated by riding on top of a car, then you should at least be equally angry at dogs being eaten.
 

 

 

 

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• Were White House staff involved in prostitution scandal? 
• New York Gas Station Reaches $5.99 a Gallon 
• NAACP supports 'stand-your-ground' in domestic abuse case 
• Dems Losing Faith in Obama? 
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• Chris Hayes Asks "Republican Meteorologist" To Help Convince GOP Of Climate Change 
• Obama enjoys 10-1 financial edge over Romney 

Bank of America tells gun manufacturer it no longer wants their business?

April 20, 2012 by Allahpundit

I'm thinking there has to be more to this story, not because I doubt that there are lefty corporate execs who find guns and gun owners loathsome but because from a business standpoint this is the highest of high insanity. My strong suspicion from years of following news on the right is that gun enthusiasts are the single most passionate interest group in conservative America. The barest whiff of some form of new regulation becomes an instant sensation online. If I ran a business they'd be the very last lobby I'd want to cross, just because they're ready, willing, and able to organize a mighty effective boycott. Surely BOA, a company that's headquartered in a southern city, knows the shinolastorm they'd be inviting if they pulled something like this.

And yet, here we are.

"McMillan Fiberglass Stocks, McMillan Firearms Manufacturing, McMillan Group International have been collectively banking with Bank of America for 12 years. Today Mr. Ray Fox, Senior Vice President, Market Manager, Business Banking, Global Commercial Banking came to my office. He scheduled the meeting as an "account analysis" meeting in order to evaluate the two lines of credit we have with them. He spent 5 minutes talking about how McMillan has changed in the last 5 years and have become more of a firearms manufacturer than a supplier of accessories.

"At this point I interrupted him and asked "Can I possible save you some time so that you don't waste your breath? What you are going to tell me is that because we are in the firearms manufacturing business you no longer what my business."

"That is correct" he says...

"So you are telling me this is a politically motivated decision, is that right?"

Mr Fox confirmed that it was. At which point I told him that the meeting was over and there was nothing left for him to say.

Any reason to think that BOA really might make a politically motivated decision to cut ties with gun businesses? Well, maybe. Read Bob Owens's post at PJM for lots of interesting background on McMillan and BOA:

Bank of America was the recipient of well over 100 billion dollars in federal money. They are also one of just two vendors processing payments for Barack Obama's 2012 presidential campaign, employing a system that disables safeguards against illegal foreign donations. Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, North Carolina, is the site of the Democratic Nation Convention in September.

This is at least the third time Bank of America has implemented a discriminatory policy against gun manufacturers. In early 2001, a scandal erupted over the bank's attempt to discriminate against another Arizona-based company. The resulting public outrage forced a reversal of the policy.

In 2010, Bank of America attempted a similar action, and was again forced to "clarify" their position...

The boss emeritus devoted a column in January to BOA's longstanding relationship with the Democrats:

During the 2010 midterm elections, former DNC chairman and ex-Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine secured a $15 million revolving line of credit at BofA and then finagled another $17 million loan from the taxpayer-bailed-out bank. According to Federal Election Commission records, BofA accepted as collateral the DNC's donor mailing list. Yep, its donor mailing list for $32 million in loans. As investigative reporter Richard Pollock asked at the time: "What message does a largely unsecured $32 million credit line for the Democratic Party send to thousands of cash-starved small businesses across the nation who can't secure any credit even with tangible assets?"...

Bank of America is to sweetheart loans and Democratic Party payoffs as Paula Deen is to sugar and bacon grease:

- The massively troubled bank raked in a middle-of-the-night, taxpayer-funded $45 billion banking bailout in 2008 and an estimated $931 billion in secret federal emergency loans.

- In 2008, BofA's political action committee gave its biggest contributions to Barack Obama totaling $421,000.

Long story short: If the Democratic leadership needed a favor from BOA, the bank might be in a position where it felt obliged to comply even at the risk of some sort of political backlash on the right. And it's true that BOA will have a major presence at the convention this year - as noted above, it's being held in a stadium sponsored by the bank, in the city where BOA is headquartered - so in theory, there may be some pressure to divest from businesses that aren't simpatico with the Democratic message. But to believe that is to ignore electoral reality. There's a reason Obama, Pelosi, and Reid never went hard after guns when they had the numbers in Congress: It's a potentially lethal issue for them in swing states like Pennsylvania and Ohio, where there are blue-collar gun owners who are willing to vote Democratic for economic reasons so long as they have no more important reason not to. If you think I'm exaggerating, go read this recent op-ed by Ohio's Democratic former governor, Ted Strickland, attacking Romney on guns from the right. The last thing they'd want before the election, when they're trying to pick off working-class whites in rural areas from Romney, is to throw a gun-grab scare into them. I think it's more likely, actually, that BOA will get an angry call from a top Democrat telling them to knock this off than it is that they've gotten a call telling them to cut ties with gun owners. And no, there surely isn't any pressure from the lefty base squeezing Democrats on this. They looked the other way while Obama tore up the War Powers Act in order to go to war in Libya. If they're willing to tolerate that, do you really think they care who BOA does business with?

Exit question: What's really going on here, then? Does someone in BOA management hate gun manufacturers so much that they're willing to invite a boycott over it?

LINKS:

http://pjmedia.com/blog/breaking-bank-of-america-reportedly-drops-gun-company-for-political-reasons/?singlepage=true

By Damian Paletta | April 19, 2012

The Congressional Budget Office said Thursday that 45 million people in 2011 received Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits, a 70% increase from 2007. It said the number of people receiving the benefits, commonly known as food stamps, would continue growing until 2014.

Spending for the program, not including administrative costs, rose to $72 billion in 2011, up from $30 billion four years earlier. The CBO projected that one in seven U.S. residents received food stamps last year.

In a report, the CBO said roughly two-thirds of jump in spending was tied to an increase in the number of people participating in the program, which provides access to food for the poor, elderly, and disabled. It said another 20% "of the growth in spending can be attributed to temporarily higher benefit amounts enacted in the" 2009 stimulus law.

CBO said the number of people receiving benefits is expected to fall after 2014 because the economy will be improving.

"Nevertheless, the number of people receiving SNAP benefits will remain high by historical standards," the agency said.

It estimated that 34 million people, or 1 in 10 U.S. residents, would receive SNAP benefits in 2022 "and SNAP expenditures, at about $73 billion, will be among the highest of all non-health-related federal support programs for low-income households."

Climate Alarmist Calls For Burning Down Skeptics' Homes

"Let's start keeping track of them...let's make them pay"

Paul Joseph Watson

Thursday, April 19, 2012

Writing for Forbes Magazine, climate change alarmist Steve Zwick calls for skeptics of man-made global warming to be tracked, hunted down and have their homes burned to the ground, yet another shocking illustration of how eco-fascism is rife within the environmentalist lobby.

Comparing climate change skeptics to residents in Tennessee who refused to pay a $75 fee, resulting in firemen sitting back and watching their houses burn down, Zwick rants that anyone who actively questions global warming propaganda should face the same treatment.

"We know who the active denialists are - not the people who buy the lies, mind you, but the people who create the lies. Let's start keeping track of them now, and when the famines come, let's make them pay. Let's let their houses burn. Let's swap their safe land for submerged islands. Let's force them to bear the cost of rising food prices," writes Zwick, adding, "They broke the climate. Why should the rest of us have to pay for it?"

As we have profusely documented, as polls show that fewer and fewer Americans are convinced by the pseudo-science behind man-made global warming, promulgated as it is by control freaks like Zwick who care more about money and power than they do the environment, AGW adherents are becoming increasingly authoritarian in their pronouncements.

Even as the science itself disproves their theories - Arctic ice is thickening, polar bears and penguins are thriving, Himalayan glaciers are growing - climate change alarmists are only becoming more aggressive in their attacks against anyone who dares question the global warming mantra.

Earlier month we highlighted Professor Kari Norgaard's call for climate skeptics to be likened to racists and 'treated' for having a mental disorder. In a letter to Barack Obama, Norgaard also called on the President to ignore the will of the people and suspend democracy in order to enforce draconian ecological mandates.

But that's by no means represents the extreme edge of eco-fascist sentiment that has been expressed in recent years.

In 2010, UK government-backed global warming alarmist group 10:10 produced an infomercial in which children who refused to lower their carbon emissions were slaughtered in an orgy of blood and guts. After a massive backlash, the organization was forced to remove the video from their website and issue an apology.

The same year, 'Gaia hypothesis' creator James Lovelock asserted that "democracy must be put on hold" to combat global warming and that "a few people with authority" should be allowed to run the planet because people were too stupid to be allowed to steer their own destinies.

In 2006, an environmental magazine to which Al Gore and Bill Moyers had both granted interviews advocated that climate skeptics who are part of the "denial industry" be arrested and made to face Nuremberg-style war crimes trials.

ClimateDepot.com's Mark Morano is encouraging AGW skeptics to politely inform Steve Zwick ( info@ecosystemmarketplace.com) that calling for people who express a difference of opinion to be tracked and have their houses burned down is not a rational argument for the legitimacy of man-made global warming science.

Indeed, it's the argument of a demented idiot who's obviously in the throws of a childish tantrum over the fact that Americans are rejecting the global government/carbon tax agenda for which man-made global warming is a front in greater numbers than ever before.

The Whole Truth

The Democratic Party has produced a television ad purporting to show Rep Paul Ryan throwing grandma off the cliff, by opposing ObamaCare.

Organization representing 1 million Pennsylvania Christians supports Catholics on HHS mandate

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Friday, April 20, 2012

To: Friends & Supporters

From: Gary L. Bauer


COUNTDOWN TO VICTORY: 200 DAYS TO THE 2012 ELECTIONS


Keep The Change!

During a visit to Dearborn, Michigan, this week, Barack Obama told his audience, "In just three years, because of what you did in 2008, we've begun to see what change looks like." Oddly enough, some in the audience thought that was an applause line. It's more like a punch line to a bad joke. In my opinion, the past three years have been a gut punch to our country.

Let's consider the change we've experienced in the past three years:

• In January 2009, the unemployment rate was 7.8%. Now it's 8.2%.
• In January 2009, the average price for a gallon of gas was $1.86. Now it's $3.92.
• In January 2009, the national debt was approximately $10.6 trillion. Today it's $15.6 trillion.
• ObamaCare, the president's signature accomplishment, is deeply unpopular -- 72% of Americans oppose the individual mandate and 56% want it repealed.
• Food stamp usage is up 70% since the Bush years. (The annual cost of this one program is 16 times the revenue that would be raised by the so-called Buffett rule.) And disability claims are up dramatically too.
• After three years of Obama's change, only 35% of voters think America's best days are ahead of us and just 27% think the country is on the right track.

Obama can keep his change. What we need most is a change of leadership in the White House!


Are the Democrats Unraveling?

When a strong president is cruising toward reelection, members of his own party usually aren't eager to buck him or bash his signature accomplishment. But that's exactly what is happening to Barack Obama right now.

This week, 69 House Democrats broke ranks and voted to mandate construction of the Keystone XL pipeline. The bill passed the House by a veto-proof margin. As Byron York notes in the Washington Examiner, 11 Senate Democrats voted for the pipeline last month. Its supporters are very close to the 60 votes needed to bust Harry Reid's filibuster.

Even the New York Times admits this is a losing battle: "President Obama is finding himself increasingly boxed in on the Keystone pipeline fight as more Congressional Democrats are joining Republicans in backing the project, which has strong labor support and could generate significant numbers of jobs in economically hard-hit states."

And then there's ObamaCare. The Washington, D.C., publication The Hill reports that some Democrats are expressing "buyers' remorse" over ObamaCare, and their comments "reflect rising anxiety ahead of November's elections." Consider some of their comments:

Rep. Brad Miller (D-N.C.): "I think we would all have been better off -- President Obama politically, Democrats in Congress politically, and the nation would have been better off -- if we had dealt first with the financial system and the other related economic issues and then come back to healthcare."

Rep. Norm Dicks (D-WA): "It did hurt us, there's no doubt about it. The climate out there was really ugly because of it."

Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA): "I think we paid a terrible price for health care. I would not have pushed it as hard. As a matter of fact, after Scott Brown won, I suggested going back. I would have started with financial reform but certainly not health care."

Sen. Jim Webb (D-VA): "I'll be real frank here. I think that the manner in which the health-care reform issue was put in front of the Congress, the way that the issue was dealt with by the White House, cost Obama a lot of credibility as a leader."

There's a common thread among all these Democrats who are complaining now: They are all retiring and running for the exits before November 6, 2012.


More OWS Anti-Semitism

As the Occupy Wall Street movement gears up for another summer of protests, park occupations and worse, the anti-Semitism that is so rife within the movement is once again rearing its ugly head. Check out this cartoon that was posted on the OWS Facebook page.

The media romanticize Occupy Wall Street as a 21st century civil rights movement, but there is so much that is wrong with it. It is motivated in part by envy. Its utopian ideas are impractical. It is prone to violence and attracts criminals.


Israel's "Peace" Partner

After Hamas merged with the Palestinian Authority last year, Congress took steps to cut off funding to the Palestinian Authority. But Secretary of State Hillary Clinton recently released another $150 million of your hard-earned tax money over the objections of House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL).

The State Department insisted the money was necessary in order to provide "critical support to the Palestinian people and those leaders seeking to combat extremism within their society." We should demand an immediate refund.

Moussa Abu Marzouk is Hamas' second-highest ranking official. He recently granted an interview with the Jewish Daily Forward during which he stated that any agreement between Israel and the Palestinian Authority would be treated as a "hudna" or cease-fire, rather than as a peace treaty. "We will not recognize Israel as a state," Marzouk said emphatically.

Israel's enemies are not interested in peace with Israel. Nor will they be satisfied with a piece of Israel. They want all of Israel. They want the Jewish state eliminated and replaced by Hamastan. And, of course, the ultimate target is America -- the "great Satan."


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 April 20, 2012

On Friday's Program  

GBTV Tonight: Stand up for Coal! Leaders from the coal industry will join Glenn at 5pm ET to talk about the importance of coal as an energy source. This is a show you do not want to miss!

Real News: Tonight on Real News a new installment of our Real History series. Edward Bernays is the father of modern day advertising - he's responsible for selling America on WWI, and for making it cool for ladies to light up. He also sparked the modern day, political spin doctors. Tune in tonight as the panel takes a look at how the father of propaganda shaped the world of politics as we know it - 6pm ET (or on demand).

Allen West: Hope & change has been replaced by 'divide and rule'
Allen West came on radio today to talk about the condescending interview he had to endure with Soledad O'Brien, in which she couldn't fathom how he could call the progressive caucus members communists. West explains his remarks so well that Glenn describes the answers as 'conservative porn' on radio today. Check out the always fantastic Allen West.

David Barton exposes most common lies about Jefferson 
Is there anyone on the planet with more information on the tip of their tongue than David Barton? The guy is a walking encyclopedia, and he shared some of his incredible knowledge with Glenn on GBTV last night. Barton has written about the most common lies told about Thomas Jefferson -- fascinating stuff.

MSNBC's Martin Bashir has a god complex, says Romney will suffer 'eternal damnation'
Another day, another attack on Mitt Romney's faith. This time it comes from Martin Bashir, who called Romney a liar and said he'd suffer 'eternal damnation' for all of his lying. Of course he's completely wrong - but Glenn also wants to know - where's this line of attack on Harry Reid? 

Restoring Love this Summer: Restoring Love tickets went on sale to the public this morning and the $10 tickets sold very quickly. Get all the details on ticketing and check out the special event packages at MercuryOne.org! Plus check out our exclusive Restoring Love Event merchandise. Show your support for Restoring Love whether you can make it to Dallas or not!

Mel Gibson goes on another crazy rant

NYT: Food Deserts don't exist 
Last night on GBTV Glenn showed how the NYT is exactly correct -- food deserts that Michelle Obama worries about do not exist. The Times further discovered that even if they did exist, it has nothing to do with obesity. So why are we spending half a billion dollars on fighting something that doesn't exist and wouldn't matter if it did? Glenn has more.

Ted Nugent meets with Secret Service, talks with Glenn about it
Ted Nugent finally met with Secret Service yesterday after much media hype surrounded the meeting. Did the oh-so-violent singer contain his rage? Or was he the polite, honorable, intelligent man he usually is? Nuge talks about the meeting and more on radio today.

Keith Olbermann wanders aimlessly in Central Park: No one approaches him, no one talks to him. No fans, no friends. See the sad spectacle.

Great programming for kids on GBTV! LIBERTY TREEHOUSE steps outside the box, for a special look at Americans -- young and old, famous and less-well-known -- who not only saw the world through an imaginative lens, but came up with inventive ways to make it better! Inquiring minds are welcome to visit, every weekday at 4:30pm ET or available on demand!