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May 10, 2012

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"Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom." --theoretical physicist Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

Rumors of War III

Please take some time to watch this video/documentary produced by Mercury One/Glen Beck. It is scary, and unfortunately Glen has been right on most everything he has reported on.

The Tea Party: Three Principles (Cambridge University Press, 2012)

BOOK FORUM
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Noon (Luncheon to Follow)

Featuring the author Elizabeth Price Foley, Florida International University College of Law; with comments by Doug Kendall, Constitutional Accountability Center; and Michael Barone, American Enterprise Institute; moderated by Roger Pilon, Cato Institute.

The Cato Institute
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With the 2012 elections before us, we've seen much speculation about whether the Tea Party will repeat the crucial role it played in the 2010 elections. Focusing on three principles-limited government, unapologetic U.S. sovereignty, and constitutional originalism-Elizabeth Price Foley's new book addresses that question, and more, head on. As George Will put it, "at last, someone conversant with the large issues now roiling contemporary American politics has taken the Tea Party seriously and concluded that it is intellectually substantial and politically constructive." Please join us for what will doubtless be a stimulating discussion, with comments from both a leading critic of the Tea Party and perhaps the nation's foremost political demographer.

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Reuters

U.S. reverses stance on treaty to regulate arms trade

Wed, Oct 14 2009

By Arshad Mohammed

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States reversed policy on Wednesday and said it would back launching talks on a treaty to regulate arms sales as long as the talks operated by consensus, a stance critics said gave every nation a veto.

The decision, announced in a statement released by the U.S. State Department, overturns the position of former President George W. Bush's administration, which had opposed such a treaty on the grounds that national controls were better.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the United States would support the talks as long as the negotiating forum, the so-called Conference on the Arms Trade Treaty, "operates under the rules of consensus decision-making."

"Consensus is needed to ensure the widest possible support for the Treaty and to avoid loopholes in the Treaty that can be exploited by those wishing to export arms irresponsibly," Clinton said in a written statement.

While praising the Obama administration's decision to overturn the Bush-era policy and to proceed with negotiations to regulate conventional arms sales, some groups criticized the U.S. insistence that decisions on the treaty be unanimous.

U.S. reverses stance on treaty to regulate arms trade WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States reversed policy on Wednesday and said it would back launching talks on a treaty to regulate arms sales as long as the talks operated by consensus, a stance critics said gave every nation a veto. The decision, announced in a statement released by the U.S. State Department, overturns the position of former President George W. Bush's administration, which had opposed such a treaty on the grounds that national controls were better. On Wednesday Obama Took the First Major Step in a Plan to Ban All Firearms in the United States. The Obama administration intends to force gun control and a complete ban on all weapons for US citizens through the signing of international treaties with foreign nations. By signing international treaties on gun control, the Obama administration can use the US State Department to bypass the normal legislative process in Congress. Once the US Government signs these international treaties, all US citizens will be subject to those gun laws created by foreign governments. These are laws that have been developed and promoted by organizations such as the United Nationsand individuals such as George Soros and Michael Bloomberg. The laws are designed and intended to lead to the complete ban and confiscation of all firearms. The Obama administration is attempting to use tactics and methods of gun control that will inflict major damage to our 2nd Amendment before US citizens even understand what has happened. Obama can appear before the public and tell them that he does not intend to pursue any legislation (in the United States) that will lead to new gun control laws, while cloaked in secrecy, his Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton is committing the US to international treaties and foreign gun control laws. Does that mean Obama is telling the truth? What it means is that there will be no publicized gun control debates in the media or votes in Congress. We will wake up one morning and find that the United States has signed a treaty that prohibits firearm and ammunition manufacturers from selling to the public. We will wake up another morning and find that the US has signed a treaty that prohibits any transfer of firearm ownership. And then, we will wake up yet another morning and find that the US has signed a treaty that requires US citizens to deliver any firearm they own to the local government collection and destruction center or face imprisonment. This is not a joke nor a false warning. As sure as government health care will be forced on us by the Obama administration through whatever means necessary, so will gun control. Please forward this message to others who may be concerned about the direction in which our country is headed. We are being led like a lamb to the slaughter (Socialism/Dictatorship).

Disarm America and we are subject to invasion by illegals that are already here and the

Mexican drug cartels. Do you think criminals will give up their guns? Just check the history

of the countries that have enacted these gun laws. LOOK AT MEXICO.

DON'T KEEP THIS - SEND IT OUT TO YOUR LIST

Campaign for Working Families

Wednesday, May 9, 2012

To: Friends & Supporters

From: Gary L. Bauer

COUNTDOWN TO VICTORY: 181 DAYS TO THE 2012 ELECTIONS

BREAKING NEWS: Obama Caves to Gay Demands, Endorses "Marriage"

President Obama just told ABC News that he now supports same-sex marriage. Surprised? Didn't think so. Obama is no doubt hoping to energize his leftwing base. And he is betting this will help him to re-energize the youth vote this November. But in fact he may have just lost the presidency.

Attention Republican Party: Obama's announcement is a chance for boldness. There are many Republicans who would rather not talk about this issue. But if the GOP confronts Obama over marriage, it could make him a one-term president. If Republicans allow Obama to exploit this issue, then it could prove decisive for him. Republicans need to remember that if their candidates can manage to win as much of the vote as the state marriage amendments have received in 31 states, they will win in a landslide in November.

Voters Send Message To Obama

The Obama team did not look so cool and confident this morning as they poured over voting results. It was not a good night for the socialist left. But it was a good night for America and for our political action committee.

Take West Virginia, for example. In the Democrat presidential primary, Obama had only one opponent - Keith Judd, who is a prison inmate currently residing in the Beaumont Texas Federal Correctional Institution. Forty percent of Democrats in West Virginia chose the convict over the President! There is no doubt that West Virginia will be in our column in November. Both the Democrat Governor of the state and one of the Democrat Senators are getting as far away from him as they can. Obama's anti-energy policies are a non-starter in "coal country."

Now look at North Carolina. It is considered a swing state. Obama won it by only 14,000 votes in 2008 - and it is a high priority for the Dems this year, which is why they are holding their national convention in Charlotte and why he has visited the state repeatedly. This morning Obama might be second guessing that Charlotte venue.

Voters in North Carolina passed a marriage amendment yesterday, making clear that marriage is one man and one woman. Obama, Biden and the entire media establishment opposed the amendment. Bill Clinton did robo calls opposing the measure. The voters felt otherwise by a 61% to 39% vote - a huge landslide and a record turnout. Current polls have Romney beating Obama in North Carolina by only two points! Governor Romney should look at the results of the marriage issue. He can win North Carolina by a landslide if he takes on Obama on this issue.

By the way, 20% of Democrats in North Carolina's presidential primary voted "no preference" instead of voting for Obama.

In battleground state Wisconsin, where Obama and his machine are trying to "recall" conservative Governor Scott Walker, there was more good news. In the Republican primary yesterday Walker, with no real opposition, received over 625,000 votes. The Democrats had a very competitive primary to pick Walker's opponent, and the two Democrat competitors, after millions spent by the labor unions, didn't get as many votes as Walker! Bottom line - Wisconsin is narrowly divided, but it can be won in November!

And of course, in Indiana, GOP voters completely rejected Senator Richard Lugar, who had drifted away from conservatism in recent years. Instead voters chose solid conservative Richard Mourdock to run for the Senate seat.

The bottom line is clear. We can win. We should win. If we all do what is necessary, we will win. Democrat operative James Carville wrote today that the Obama team better wake up or they are going to lose. For once, he is right.

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Philadelphia Tea Party Patriots

Tea Party Meeting

Pennsylvania Health Care Freedom

We all know that Obama-Care will make health care more expensive and less accessible and will ultimately place all control over an individual's health insurance and heath care in the hands of Washington bureaucrats. As enacted, ObamaCare is dependent upon state exchanges for the distribution of federal subsidies. Once implemented, ObamaCare will be extremely difficult to repeal.

Unfortunately, Governor Tom Corbett has taken over $34 million in federal funds (i.e., your federal tax dollars) to set up an ObamaCare health insurance exchange in Pennsylvania. The exchange is a new bureaucracy that will soon require tens of millions of dollars annually in new surcharges, fees and/or taxes on Pennsylvania families and businesses.

We are very fortunate to have Katy Abram, policy analyst for Americans For Prosperity - Pennsylvania, speaking to us about the health care exchanges in PA and what we can do to stop them. You will not want to miss this important talk!

Other Business

In addition to our special guest speaker, we will also discuss the results of the recent primary election. Based on some of these results, we hope to formulate a strategy for victory in November. Come be a part of that victory.

"If I wanted America to fail"

By allowing our attention to be focused exclusively on the danger and prevention of terrorism, we ignore the many other ways we are being attacked. Specifically, we are missing what our Islamist enemies call their 'civilization jihad' - a form of warfare that employs manipulative financial techniques, lawfare, infiltration of our civil institutions and government and insidious information dominance. Together, these have the effect of exploiting our liberties and governing structures against us, so that our leaders wind up imposing the very anti-American values that our enemies promote.

Welcome to The Muslim Brotherhood in America: The Enemy Within - a 10-part, web-based video briefing that is designed to explain why and how this is happening.

It addresses a threat most Americans are unaware even exists within our country, let alone the degree of peril it represents.
The threat is the totalitarian, supremacist Islamic doctrine its adherents call "shariah" and the organized, disciplined and increasingly successful efforts by such adherents-- most especially the Muslim Brotherhood-- to bring it here.

We are making this course available in the hope of encouraging, informing and broadening support for national efforts to defeat the insinuation into this country of shariah's anti-constitutional and seditious program.

Muslim Brotherhood in America: The Overview

Valley Forge Patriots

VALLEY FORGE PATRIOTS MONTHLY MEETING

FRIDAY, MAY 11, 6:00 PM AT THE

PHOENIXVILLE COUNTRY CLUB

DID YOU KNOW THAT TEACHERS HAVE TO JOIN THE UNION WHETHER THEY WANT TO OR NOT, AND UNION DUES IS TAKEN OUT OF THEIR PAY CHECK BY THE SCHOOL DISTRICT?

AND THEN DID YOU KNOW THAT YOUR SCHOOL BOARD HAS TO WRITE A CHECK TO THE TEACHER'S UNIONS TO PAY TEACHER'S DUES?

YOU CAN PROBABLY FIGURE OUT WHAT THIS DUES MONEY IS USED FOR IN HARRISBURG!

GUESS WHO IS PAYING FOR ALL OF THIS? Right, you the taxpayer!

Do you know what can happen when all of this is changed?

Come out and learn more from

Simon Campbell, an excellent and entertaining speaker (yes, even on this subject).

Simon currently serves as Vice President of the Pennsbury Board of School Directors so he knows how it works from the inside. After a 21-day teacher's strike in his district he started a grassroots group, StopTeacherStrikes to advocate for PA to become the 38^th state to make teacher's strikes illegal. Simon also served on the board of Pennsylvanians for Right to Work.

He regularly speaks on the need to end compulsory unionism and other aspects of public sector union political power.

Q&A session and more to follow.

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

Click here to RSVP

EVENT IS FREE - SEATING IS LIMITED - REGISTRATION IS REQUESTED

Freedom Works

Because of the generosity of patriots like you, we've reached our fundraising goal to retake the Senate and FIRE Harry Reid!

And as a special way of saying thanks, we're extending an exclusive opportunity for you to pre-register for FreePAC, a national grassroots gathering of Americans interested in restoring freedom from the bottom up: in their neighborhood, in their state, and in their country. The event takes place from 6-9pm on July 26th in American Airlines Arena in Dallas, TX.

Click here to accept this exclusive opportunity to pre-register now!

The theme of FreePAC is "Restoring Freedom" and it will be held in conjunction with Glenn Beck's "Restoring Love" event on July 28th. FreePAC will not only feature Glenn, FreedomWorks Chairman Dick Armey, and me, but speeches from many of the biggest names in the freedom movement! FreePAC also provides attendees with exclusive grassroots materials, a unique grassroots training experience, and the latest in online mobilization strategy. Can you make it?

In about two weeks, these tickets will go on sale to the general public, so I wanted to make sure I invited you first.

I hope you can make it. More information can be found on FreePAC by clicking here.

In Liberty,

Matt Kibbe
President & CEO, FreedomWorks

The Film Black Liberals DON'T Want You to See...

You can only sign up until May 15th!

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!

Hillsdale College "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.

Constitution 101 Schedule
Introduction: The American Mind Larry P. Arnn Monday, February 20 The Declaration of Independence Thomas G. West Monday, February 27 The Problem of Majority Tyranny David Bobb Monday, March 5 Separation of Powers: Preventing Tyranny Kevin Portteus Monday, March 12	Separation of Powers: Ensuring Good Government Will Morrisey Monday, March 19 Religion, Morality, and Property David Bobb Monday, March 26 Crisis of Constitutional Government Will Morrisey Monday, April 2	Abraham Lincoln and the Constitution Kevin Portteus Monday, April 9 The Progressive Rejection of the Founding Ronald J. Pestritto Monday, April 16 The Recovery of the Constitution Larry P. Arnn Monday, April 23

[Go here to enroll in "Constitution 101" now]

Hillsdale College

The U.S. Constitution

A Reader

Featuring 113 primary source documents, The U.S. Constitution: A Reader was developed for teaching the core course on the U.S. Constitution at Hillsdale College.

Divided into eleven sections with introductions by members of Hillsdale's Politics Department faculty, readings cover the principles of the American founding, the framing and structure of the Constitution, the secession crisis and the Civil War, the Progressive rejection of the Constitution, and the building of the administrative state based on Progressive principles.

Purchase your copy today!

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

About Hillsdale College

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

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

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

The Heritage Foundation

New Common Sense

Special Message

Heritage's Timeless Reference Book Now Online

As a trusted reader of New Common Sense, the weekly e-mail from The Heritage Foundation, we wanted you to be the first to know about our new website ConstitutionOnline.com.

From the preamble to the 27

^th

Amendment -- The Heritage Guide to the Constitution Online is a completely searchable reference tool with leading expert analysis of the Constitution. The site features clause by clause analysis of our timeless reference book, links to essays, as well as a teaching companion.

ConstitutionOnline.com provides clear, concise analysis for users who are trying to further their understanding of the Constitution.

No document is more central to securing "the Blessing of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity" than the United States Constitution, and no website is more thorough than ConstitutionOnline.com.

Republican Jewish Coaliton

RJC Philadelphia Chapter

Breakfast with David Freed -

GOP Candidate for Attorney General

Friday, May 18

About our Speaker:

David Freed has over 15 years of experience as a prosecutor and has handled thousands of cases during his legal career, trying in excess of 100 jury trials in both the civil and criminal arenas. He has prosecuted capital murder cases, run grand jury investigations, taken down child predators and cracked down on elder abuse and fraud. David has also been instrumental in holding sex offenders accountable by closing loopholes in Megan's Law and protecting the rights of crime victims.

He is an elected member of the Executive Committee of the Pennsylvania District Attorneys Association (PDAA). David currently serves as the Secretary/Treasurer and previously served as the Chairman of the Education and Training Committee, planning all CLE accredited training programs for Pennsylvania's prosecutors.

David resides in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania with his wife Amy their children Tommy, Elizabeth and Natalie.

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RJC Philadelphia Chapter

presents a meet and greet breakfast with David Freed

GOP Candidate for Attorney General

Friday, May 18

Registration and breakfast at 7:30am

Program will begin promptly at 8:00am

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

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

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

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

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

The time to speak out for Israel is now!
Please register today for CUFI's 2012 DC Summit.

Act for America

FREE Training Conference

Saturday, August 18, 2012
Washington Dulles Airport Marriott
45020 Aviation Drive * Dulles, Virginia * (703) 471-9500

Brigitte Gabriel and our National Staff want to personally invest our time with you and have worked hard to provide a FREE training for our members in the region around D.C.!

Please join us for the Northern Virginia Citizens in Action Training Conference.

If you are concerned about the growing threat of radical Islam and Sharia Law to our great land and you haven't seen a plan of action to meet this evil head on, here's your opportunity to join with us for real, measurable results.

Results that make a difference, not just a statement.

Our host team is working hard to deliver a day you won't forget. Plan on being there! Meet me and our growing team of professionals at the Dulles Airport Marriott on Saturday, August 18, 2012. Registration will start at 7:30 AM with the event starting at 8:30 AM and running through 5:00 PM.

Here are a few comments we have received from previous training seminars around the nation:

"...After 8 hours in that chair ............. I was ready for another 8 hours - it seemed to end too soon..."

"I was literally stunned. Wow! Brigitte Gabriel has assembled an incredible team to support her message of action and hope!"

"...As much as the issue depresses me, and I could cry every time I think about what is happening to the West, I left yesterday's conference energized and inspired. The day reminded me that I am *not* alone, after all, in trying to resist the dangerous absurdity of radical Islam that is being forced on us. I'm in desperate need of such reminders, as I'm sure most of us are. Whenever I'm close to despair, I remind myself of Brigitte's message. Thank you so much for this incredible training day!"

"...What an amazing seminar!"

"...I have never spent a better $45, 104 miles and 12 hours!" (Previous pricing for a similar event. We're wanting to involve as many as possible from this region, so for this event only, it's free!)

You can find out more and register online by clicking here.

Call the number above to reserve your room at the Marriott if you need to spend the night.

Your early registration really helps us plan accurately for materials and supplies needed! Thank you for doing it today!

I look forward to meeting you and looking into your eyes and thanking you for taking this stand with me. We will protect this nation!

Sincerely,

Brigitte Gabriel

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

A Health Care Policy Series for the 112th Congress

Building on decades of Heritage research, The Case Against Obamacare: A Health Care Policy Series for the 112^th Congress examines 15 key provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Each report:

Cites specific sections of the 2,700-page health care law
Provides detailed analysis of specific Obamacare provisions
Identifies key principles for a better way to reform health care

The unmistakable conclusion of this series is that Obamacare must be fully repealed. Congress cannot build sound market-based health care reform on the flawed foundation of this health care law. Until it can be repealed, Congress must employ its full powers authorized by the Constitution to:

Victory Center" on Facebook

-Gabriel Malor

Last week I had the opportunity to get a sneak-peek at the RNC's new Facebook application. Designed, in the words of one RNC staffer to "take our message where the people are," the Social Victory Center app will, among other things, hook users up with campaign news targeted based on their location and preferences (which Facebook already knows, of course), let users join volunteer efforts, distribute voter registration forms, and provide an online phone bank, all without leaving the Facebook website. It will also, if users wish, put those activities on the user's Facebook wall, letting their friends see what they're up to and, hopefully, encouraging them to join in.

It's an attempt to leverage Facebook's popularity in a new way and, at the moment, the Democrats have nothing like it. The Social Victory Center was unveiled to the public yesterday, so if you're on Facebook, check it out. As the general election ramps up, check back for volunteer activities as they're added. Also, like I did in 2008, I'll be pushing online phone banking in the final weeks of the election, only this time the RNC will have done the heavy-lifting that the McCain team wasn't too keen on.

LINK: http://ace.mu.nu/

RedState Morning Briefing

RedState Morning Briefing

For May 10, 2012

1. The Media and Barack Obama's Pauline Kael Moment on Gay Marriage

If you listen to Barack Obama's statement to ABC News yesterday you'll hear something not reflected in all the transcripts that went out yesterday. He said his administration gave up the legal fight to defend the Defense Against Marriage Act. It's actually the Defense Of Marriage Act.

Obama claimed DOMA made marriage a federal issue and it should be a state issue. That's a gross mischaracterization of DOMA, but for now that's besides the point. Two days after major gay donors said they'd withhold funding from his campaign and one day before his swank $40,000.00 a person fundraiser with George Clooney, Barack Obama publicly reversed course on gay marriage. The Washington Free Beacon's headline says it all: Gay For Pay.

Obama looks weak and under duress. He looks weak because he would not come out before the North Carolina vote and under duress because he only did so now as his donors held his campaign hostage. Now President Obama might as well be called President Dick Cheney. In addition to GTMO still in use and warrantless wiretaps still being deployed, Obama comes out in favor of the states' individually deciding the issue while supporting it himself. It's the gay marriage equivalent of being personally pro-life, but supporting a person's right to choose. It is also, like GTMO and warrentless wiretaps, Dick Cheney's position - a position the much maligned former Vice President held even after Obama went from being for gay marriage, to against gay marriage, to evolving on gay marriage.

But there is another angle to this as well.

Barack Obama and the Washington Press Corps, aligned perfectly on this issue, are oblivious to one overwhelming data point.

2. Infographic: The Obama Economy

The Romney campaign has released a good new infographic detailing the truth about Obama's promised "green economy" job gains. (Click on the graphic to view full size.)

3. Obama: Troops Are Fighting On My Behalf

When Barack Obama made his unsurprising announcement that he has finally evolved far enough to endorse homosexual marriage, ironically an evolutionary dead end, he made two other interesting statements.

First, he attributes his evolution to his Christian faith. This is sort of odd, speaking as a Trinitarian Christian, because it puts Christ in the position of disavowing himself. This is not surprising. Anyone who learned Christian theology from Jeremiah Wright is bound to have imbibed a substantial number of heresies.

The most surprising statement was this:

[W]hen I think about those soldiers or airmen or marines or sailors who are out there fighting on my behalf...

Heritage Hotsheet

Experts on the Day's Hottest News

Items for May 15, 2012

Quote Norman Thomas (U.S. socialist presidential candidate) on the true evils of liberalism:

"The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of 'liberalism,' they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened."

SultanKnish

Bibi the Survivor

Thirteen years after he was sent packing by Bill Clinton's political consultants and a phony third party, Bibi Netanyahu has become a political survivor. The awkward politician constantly under siege by the media and at the mercy of domestic political squabbling, has become a veteran of Israel's turbulent politics.

Netanyahu owes most of his success to a dysfunctional political climate. in which there is no one left to replace him. The old generation of leaders is gone and even a notoriously fickle Israeli electorate would not trust most of his rivals to make them dinner, let alone run a country. Displaced by Sharon, he learned the game of coalitions from him and has ably exploited the rivalries and petty careerism of the Knesset lineup to stay in office. With Barak by his side and Peres shaking hands with foreign dignitaries, the transformation is almost complete.

Netanyahu's electability allows him to exploit the less electable, flipping through ministers and coalition partners like a game of cards. A deeply divided and thoroughly corrupt Knesset has no shortage of partners willing to dance with him for a ministry and the perks of power. With no one positioned to take down Netanyahu, his is the only game in town and everyone knows it.

Before Sharon, two conservative Israeli Prime Ministers were forced out by American pressure over the peace process. One of those men was Netanyahu. Since Begin met Carter, there has never been a relationship as bad as the one between Netanyahu and Obama. If Clinton wanted Netanyahu gone, Obama wants him gone on a rail. And that makes Netanyahu's position dangerously precarious because in any election or coalition deal, Washington D.C. is the shadow player.

But Livni's appeals to Obama suggesting that she would make all the deals that Netanyahu would not, did not help. Instead she was shouldered aside by Shaul Mofaz who has brought Kadima, with its sizable Knesset presence, into the coalition with Netanyahu. There is little doubt that Mofaz, like anyone who jumped ship for the trumped up Kadima Party, would sell out the country and his own mother at a signal from Obama.

This brand of insanity makes Israeli politics a high-wire act where there is no stability and no future, and Bibi has learned to walk the tightrope. Whether he has learned to enjoy it is another story.

Who I Am

By David Horowitz
A rejoinder to the Tablet caricature.
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Covert Mission Thwarts Al-Qaeda

By Arnold Ahlert
What the successful counterterrorism operations tells us about the war on terror.
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Wisconsin Recall Sputters

By Jacob Laksin
Democrats reject a union-friendly candidate as the left's anti-Walker campaign runs out of gas.
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I'm Bin Laden and I Approve This Message

By Mark Tapson
Captured documents reveal al Qaeda's plan to exploit American media.
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A Tale of Two Courtrooms

By David Meir-Levi
Are the New York Post and the NY Times covering the same trial?
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Anti-Semitism is Racism

By Daniel Greenfield
It's progressive to hate Jews.
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Raymond Ibrahim on The Blaze

By Frontpagemag.com
Freedom Center's Shillman Journalism fellow discusses the lack of religious freedom outside of the West.
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Watch What You Say About Islam - on The Glazov Gang

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Fireworks break out between Tommi Trudeau, Rob Nelson and Nonie Darwish on Frontpage's weekly television show.
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Obama's Curious Support for Palestinian Statehood

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Turning a blind eye to ruthless repression.
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The Fate of Our POWs From The Korean War

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The infuriating and tragic tale told by 92,000 declassified documents.
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The Suffering Student

By David Solway
The problem with education today.
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Voter Fraud Facts and Fiction

By Michelle Malkin
Separating the manufactured scares from reality.
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Did Muhammad Exist? - on the Jamie Glazov Show

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Robert Spencer discusses his new book and engages callers for the full hour.
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Will Obama Leave The US In Shambles If He Loses The Election?

May 09, 2012 02:40 pm

Just like a spoiled child who doesn't know the word "NO", I believe that if Obama loses the upcoming election, he and his communist regime will do everything in their lame-duck power to destroy America to a point of no return for the incoming President. New information on five treaties that are currently being [...]

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Exclusive Investigatory Report: The Enigma That Is Barack Hussein Obama, Pre-Election To 2009

May 09, 2012 02:29 pm

I was sitting in my study on a quiet Sunday afternoon pondering how is it that we have come to this point in our evolution as a nation of like minds where we are on the brink of financial, political, moral and spiritual collapse. This question led me to create a list of the most [...]

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Video: Rush Questions Obama's Social Security Number

May 09, 2012 02:28 pm

It's nice to see a prominent conservative give this matter some attention. The talk about the social security number is about five-and-a-half minutes in. Related posts: Judge Rules On Obama's Social Security Number Announcing it's "not her lucky day," a federal judge in... Google Hides Obama's Social Security Number Story Internet giant Google today was [...]

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His Own Daughter's Graphic HBO Sex Scenes Fill Brian Williams With "unmitigated Joy"

May 09, 2012 02:28 pm

Seeing his own daughter starring in HBO's latest bouquet to debauchery "Girls" excites media Democrat propagandist Brian Williams. NBC's Baghdad Bob says the scenes featuring his daughter Allison arranging an abortion for a friend and casually slipping into her bathroom to masturbate fill him with "unmitigated joy." Because "Girls" is a classic representation of the liberal [...]

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How Badly Have Blue States Suffered For Supporting Obama?

May 09, 2012 02:22 pm

The states that voted to put Barack Obama in office are suffering for supporting him. A recently released Investor's Business Daily report provides some telling data derived from comparing economic conditions in the so-called Blue States (those who voted for Obama) with those in the Red States that voted for John McCain. Income growth in [...]

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Video: New Black Panther Leader: Whites Will Be 'Very, Very, Very Angry' In November

May 09, 2012 02:16 pm

This is absolutely shocking audio. Warning: there is some graphic language and racial epithets. Related posts: Video: Obama Shared A Podium With, Impressed Black Panther Party Leader Sometimes groundbreaking evidence is rendered superfluous because it proves something... Video: Black Panther Leader Praises Osama Bin Laden 6 Months After 9/11 Black Panther Chairman Malik Shabazz in [...]

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Only Obama Is Better Off

May 09, 2012 02:01 pm

The only person I know who is better off today than he was four years ago is President Obama. He's making more money, living in a bigger house and playing more golf. And when his wife goes on a shopping spree with her girlfriends, it's to Spain on the taxpayer's dime. If you asked President [...]

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Video: Progressive Vote Fraud And Intimidation Exposed

May 09, 2012 01:55 pm

Accuracy in Media's Center for Investigative Journalism released a report detailing the strategies, ongoing efforts and results of systematic vote fraud and intimidation in American elections. From Cloward Piven and ACORN to the host of Soros-funded foundations bent on "fundamental transformation," AIM sheds light on electoral rigging - unlike the mainstream press. Related posts: Obama's [...]

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Obama Seeks Sovereignty Surrender Via LOST Treaty

May 09, 2012 01:31 pm

Sovereignty: Even if he's not re-elected, the president hopes to leave behind a treaty giving a U.N. body veto power over the use of our territorial waters and to which we'd be required to give half of our offshore oil revenue. The Law Of The Sea Treaty (LOST) has been lurking in the shadows for [...]

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This Inmate Just Took Over 40% Of The Vote Against Obama... In West Virginia

May 09, 2012 01:21 pm

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - Just how unpopular is President Barack Obama in some parts of the country? Enough that a man in prison in Texas got 4 out of 10 votes in West Virginia's Democratic presidential primary. The inmate, Keith Judd, is serving time at the Beaumont Federal Correctional Institution in Texas for making threats [...]

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Video: Rep. Walsh To Chairman Issa: We Must Hold Holder In Contempt

May 09, 2012 01:16 pm

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White House: Abortion OK, But Visitors Must Register Unborn Children

May 09, 2012 01:11 pm

The Obama administration is plenty content with legalized abortion and funding abortions with taxpayer funds, but when it comes to Americans visiting the White House, they must register their unborn children when they check in at the front door. The Director of the White House Visitor's Office, Ellie Shafer, today distributed an email newsletter to [...]

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Factcheck.org Finds Errors With Obama's Latest Claims

May 09, 2012 01:10 pm

The Obama campaign's "Life of Julia" web graphic created quite the stir when it was unveiled last week. Obama opponents derided its cradle-to-grave government philosophy, and there was also a spot of trouble with a certain flag placement. "Julia" hasn't escaped the notice of fact-checkers either: The Washington Post gave her three pinocchios for the [...]

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Video: Obama's Secret Gun Control Plan

May 09, 2012 01:09 pm

Patriot Dick Morris breaks it all down. Related posts: How Did Bradley Manning Ever Get Control Of 700,000 Secret Military Files? Contrary to what Ron Paul says, Bradley Manning is neither... Don't Blink: Obamas Plan 26-Hour Gulf "Vacation" After well-deserved public condemnation for Michelle Obama's lavish Spanish vacation,...

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Bin Laden May Ironically Do Obama In

May 09, 2012 01:02 pm

Election '12: The president seems to think bragging about killing Osama bin Laden will help get him re-elected. But the question is increasingly becoming why the president hesitated on such a no-brainer decision. Jack Keane, the Army vice chief of staff from 1999 to 2003, told Mike Huckabee on Fox News over the weekend that [...]

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Original Poem: Is It Time To Come Home, Lord?

May 09, 2012 12:56 pm

Is it time to come home, Lord? Have I done all that I can? You gave me the voice. You gave me the drive. But no one will listen. They are blind if they thrive. They don't sense the Evil that gives toys and drugs minds. Young people are covetous; they want more; yet even [...]

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CNN Lauds 'Brave Catholic' Joe Biden For Supporting Same-Sex Marriage

May 09, 2012 12:55 pm

After Vice President Joe Biden voiced his support of same-sex marriage over the weekend, CNN jumped all over the news on Monday and expectantly wondered if President Obama would follow suit. In fact, prime-time host Piers Morgan went so far as to admire the "brave Catholic" Biden for dissenting from Church teaching on the issue. [...]

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Video: Abortion-supporting Veep Scolds Ryan Over Violating Catholicism On Budget

May 09, 2012 12:46 pm

Say it ain't so, Joe! Related posts: Ryan's Budget: A Good First Step It's been over 1,000 days since Congress has passed a... Is The Ryan Budget A Joke? Last April, House Republicans released the Ryan budget for FY...

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Wisconsin Recall Is Rematch Of 2010 Governor's Race

May 09, 2012 12:39 pm

The candidates may be the same, but Wisconsin isn't. In the tumultuous 18 months since Republican Scott Walker defeated Democrat Tom Barrett in the 2010 governor's race, Wisconsin has been rocked with massive protests over workers' rights, recall elections over a contentious union rights law and a partisan divide that's strained families and friendships. Now, [...]

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Video: Happy Mother's Day, From Barack Obama

May 09, 2012 12:20 pm

Here is a pro-Ann Romney ad critical of the liberals who have talked her down the past few months. Related posts: Michele Bachmann Does Our Founding Mothers - And The Rest Of Us - Proud I'm wont to laugh at liberal women who love to... Obama: Screw Easter, Happy Ramadan! When he was elected president, [...]

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AP-GfK Poll: Support For Afghan War At New Low

May 09, 2012 12:16 pm

Support for the war in Afghanistan has reached a new low, with only 27 percent of Americans saying they back the effort and about half of those who oppose the war saying the continued presence of American troops in Afghanistan is doing more harm than good, according to an AP-GfK poll. In results released Wednesday, [...]

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Journal Editor Falsely Reports EPA Human Experiment, Rejects Request To Retract Report

May 09, 2012 12:10 pm

The whitewash of the EPA's unethical, if not illegal, human experiments has gone interagency. After Steve Milloy broke the news of EPA's unethical-to-illegal human experiments in a Washington Times commentary, Milloy wrote on April 25, 2012 to Hugh Tilson, editor of the journal Environmental Health Perspectives(EHP), requesting retraction of the EHP-published case report of the experiment, asserting that the published [...]

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Free Market Focus

Bureaucrats on Board: Mandating Electronic Recorders for Truckers

America's truckers are known for their independence, often driving alone in their rigs from one end of the country to the other. Now Congress wants to give them company in the form of an electronic "big brother."

Under a provision buried in the 600-page transportation bill recently passed by the Senate, truckers large and small would be required to buy and maintain "electronic on-board recorders" (EOBRs) that would document their travel time and distance. The annual cost to truckers and trucking firms: $2 billion.

Heritage Employment Report: Jobs Do Not Bloom in April

The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the economy added 115,000 jobs in April and the unemployment rate declined to 8.1 percent from 8.2 percent. However, further declines in the percentage of Americans in the labor force explain this slightly lower unemployment rate. Indeed, the labor force participation rate dipped to a 30-year low as many unemployed workers simply left the labor force. However, the April report is further evidence that the job market has cooled from its more rapid growth in the first quarter. This slowdown will likely spur calls for more stimulus spending.

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Tales of the Red Tape #31: Charlie Manson for Hire

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has brought forth yet another excuse to punish employers: Conducting a criminal background check of job applicants could trigger charges of race discrimination.

No joke.

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The Foundation

"But the mild voice of reason, pleading the cause of an enlarged and permanent interest, is but too often drowned, before public bodies as well as individuals, by the clamors of an impatient avidity for immediate and immoderate gain." --James Madison

Editorial Exegesis

French election: Hollande defeats Sarkozy

"François Hollande has become the newly elected president of France more by luck than by any quality he might possess. Almost anonymous, he has no ministerial experience. His platform nonetheless raised expectations mightily that he would be able to find employment and entitlements where Nicolas Sarkozy had failed to do so. Voters could conclude that there are jobs for all and everyone richer than them will pay more taxes. He likes to promise that France is not doomed to austerity, because he still believes that socialism is the magic formula for growth, and can simply be ordered up. When originally elected, Sarkozy proposed what he called rupture, meaning reform of the centralized powers of the state so traditional in France. Nothing of the kind then took place. In the campaign for reelection, this habitually competitive and ambitious man found himself unable convincingly to claim credit for achievements. ... Poor and insincere as Sarkozy's campaign was, in reality the Euro-crisis left him without a chance. No present head of government can hope to win an election in a Europe irrevocably tied to the single currency and the political structure erected in Brussels to enforce it. In the gathering climate of economic and political disaster, Sarkozy is the eleventh in a succession of office-holders in one nation after another to go down in electoral defeat. Germany sets the terms for Europe, and François Hollande now has to discover whether Chancellor Angela Merkel, the architect of austerity, is willing to permit a forlorn attempt at socialist-induced growth. She had let it be known that she wanted the like-minded Sarkozy to win. But then she herself has already lost regional elections, and until and unless something changes with Brussels and the euro, she too is likely to join the lengthening list of rejected European office-holders." --National Review

What is the solution to the EU crisis?

Upright

"Higher taxes now, spending cuts later. That was the 'balanced approach' President Obama and the Democrats tried to force Republicans to accept last August. ... The exact same story has been playing out in Europe. ... Problem is, Europe has not been cutting spending. Mercatus Center Senior Fellow Veronique de Rugy has crunched the numbers and found that among some of Europe's worst economies (Spain, the United Kingdom, France, Greece, and Italy) government spending cuts have either been tiny or non-existent. ... France and the United Kingdom have yet to cut spending at all. ... Obama's plan for the United States is identical to the new Socialist government's plan for France: higher spending and taxes now, spending cuts later." --Washington Examiner's Conn Carroll

"Europe is tremendously wealthy and productive, but Europeans sabotaged themselves by embracing the foolish idea that they could have an economic union without a political union. They are also paying the price for failing to come to terms with actuarial realities; their populations are graying. Without reforms of pension and other benefits, they cannot sustain their standard of living. Rather than face their own corruption, the Greeks principally, but also other Europeans, are disintegrating into raging extremists blaming anyone and everyone else. That's the object lesson for us. Here, Barack Obama and the Democratic Party are promising Americans more of this fool's gold -- limitless government benefits with costs imposed on someone else ('the rich' or future generations). It's an engraved invitation to Athens." --columnist Mona Charen

"What is the history of the 'raise taxes and reduce spending' compromise that is so popular in elite circles today? It is this: We get the tax increases but not the spending cuts. After having already enacted major tax cuts in 1982, Ronald Reagan agreed to raise business and excise taxes in exchange for spending reductions. Taxes went up, but so did spending by $450 billion. President George H.W. Bush cut a similar deal with Democrats. Again, we got the taxes but the spending cuts never materialized. There is simply no proven way to guarantee that the spending-cuts part of the compromise will be implemented. Is it any wonder that Republicans are taking a hard line of this?" --former senator Fred Thompson

"Conservatives should refuse to cede the compassion argument to the left. There is more to caring than pumping an ever-increasing share of taxpayer dollars into programs that do virtually nothing to lift people out of poverty. And there is certainly nothing compassionate about standing idly on the sidelines while these programs bankrupt the federal government." --blogger Morgen Richmond

Insight

"Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom." --theoretical physicist Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"Never blame a legislative body for not doing something. When they do nothing, they don't hurt anybody. When they do something is when they become dangerous." --American humorist Will Rogers (1879-1935)

Essential Liberty

"Free enterprise isn't an economic alternative. It's a moral imperative. It's the means by which we can achieve our God-given right to what our Founders called 'the pursuit of happiness.' Only free enterprise allows us to find our own happiness by leading the lives we wish to live. Only free enterprise serves the goal of true, merit-based fairness. Only free enterprise really allows us to help the poor in massive numbers. We have to reclaim the moral high ground from the statists, and explain why free enterprise is the only truly fair, moral, and virtuous economic system. We are right for material reasons, and more importantly, we are right for moral reasons. We have to make that case first." --Arthur C. Brooks, President of the American Enterprise Institute

The Demo-gogues

If only this were true: "We believe the free market is one of the greatest forces for progress in human history; that businesses are the engine of growth; that risk-takers and innovators should be rewarded." --Barack Obama

Don't let go of failure: "We have come too far to abandon the change we fought for these past few years. We have to move forward, to the future we imagined in 2008, where everyone gets a fair shot, and everyone does their fair share, and everyone plays by the same rules. ... We measure prosperity not just by our total GDP; not just by how many billionaires we produce, but how well the typical family is doing -- whether they can go as far as their dreams and hard work will take them. ... So if you're willing to stick with me, if you're willing to fight with me, and press on with me; if you're willing to work even harder in this election than you did in the last election, I guarantee you -- we will move this country forward." --Barack Obama

Spending = compassion: "When you're talking about cutting meals on wheels, when you're talking about cutting food stamps which actually is money that goes directly to small businesses markets in communities versus giving tax subsidies to farming corporations, these are the type of cuts that the Republicans are talking about." --Rep. Karen Bass (D-CA)

How should conservatives frame the argument over compassion?

Deliberate or gaffe? "Look, I am vice president of the United States of America. The president sets the policy. I am absolutely comfortable with the fact that men marrying men, women marrying women and heterosexual men marrying women are entitled to the same exact rights -- all the civil rights, all the civil liberties. And quite frankly I don't see much of a distinction beyond that." --Joe Biden

Dezinformatsia

Non Compos Mentis: "Now we know that Mitt Romney loves to paint the president as a European-style socialist, which is incredible. ... [Romney] supports Paul Ryan's budget. He wants to go cut, cut, cut. It's not [the] president -- it's him! He's the European socialist!" --MSNBC's Martin Bashir

Media campaign: "President Obama has done more for gay and lesbian Americans than any president in history. ... Yet he faces endless criticism from LGBT activists for not embracing the word marriage publicly. ... What's troubling about the criticism he has endured is that it indicates that President Obama is being held to a different, tougher standard than other leaders. ... Lesson number one, can start with asking themselves the question: Are you holding the president to a tougher standard because deep down inside you don't really trust him? And if the answer to that question is yes, perhaps the next question you should ask yourself is why?" --MSNBC contributor Keli Goff

Non sequitur: "[A]s a true conservative, what could be more conservative than a committed relationship between a man and a man or a woman and a woman who want to embrace the sanctity of marriage? I simply do not understand the position by true conservatives who say that they don't believe in committed relationships." --NBC's Andrea Mitchell

Misinformation: "[Friday's] jobs report was a mixed bag of course. 115,000 jobs were added to payrolls in April. The unemployment rate did drop to 8.1 percent, the lowest rate since President Obama took office." --MSNBC's Chris Matthews ("As the ... Bureau of Labor Statistics clearly shows, the unemployment rate was 7.3 percent when Obama was sworn in." --Newsbusters' Noel Sheppard)

Blame game: "We now have history's first draft of the story of this Congress. There is so much political fog right now that it is hard to get a clear view of the reason for the dysfunction on Capitol Hill. But three new books take a step back to get a clear look at the fray, and all three conclude that no-holds-barred, right-wing politics is to be blamed." --Fox News' Juan Williams

Newspulper Headlines:

Out on a Limb: "Romney's Team Sees a Path to Winning the Presidency" --McClatchy Newspapers

Shortest Books Ever Written: "What Everyone Can Learn From John Edwards" --U.S. News & World Report website

What'll This Be, Wife No. 4?: "Gingrich Ends White House Bid, Will Remain Engaged" --Associated Press

News You Can Use: "'Death Is One of the Most Important Things in Life'" --Daily News (Bowling Green, KY)

Bottom Stories of the Day: "Obama Knocks Romney in First 2012 Campaign Rally" --Reuters

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

Village Idiots

R.E.S.P.E.C.T.: "I certainly think President Obama has sent a very clear message of respect and appreciation of all religions, and in particular of Islam." --Secretary of State Hillary Clinton

Warmism: "In the 21st Century, the reality is that there are environmental threats which constitute threats to our national security. For example, the area of climate change has a dramatic impact on national security: rising sea levels, to severe droughts, to the melting of the polar caps, to more frequent and devastating natural disasters all raise demand for humanitarian assistance and disaster relief." --Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta

Remedial economics needed: "If 'business as usual' conditions continue, economic contractions the size of the Great Recession or even bigger will be needed to reduce atmospheric levels of CO₂. ... One solution that has promise is a carbon tax levied on any activity producing CO₂ in order to create incentives to reduce emissions. The money would be returned to the population on a per capita basis so the tax would not mean any extra fiscal burden." --researcher Jose Tapia Granados calling for another economic slowdown to combat global warming

Breaking wind for climate change: "[O]ur calculations suggest these dinosaurs may have produced more methane than all the modern sources, natural and human, put together." --co-researcher David Wilkinson on his latest breakthrough study with St. Andrews University professor Graeme Ruxton that dinosaurs created their own fatal climate change

Hollywood endorsements: "I think [Obama's] done a good job. He's done other things that maybe he should have been a little stronger about, people will complain. But it's not easy to be president of the United States. ... And I think he's doing -- I give him credit, and I hope he does -- I know he'll do better in the next four years, when he won't have to worry whether he's going to be elected or not." --actor Robert De Niro

Short Cuts

"[S]elf-absorption is part of the occupational hazard of politics, and it's also part of the job description of being president. All that said, try to imagine Dwight Eisenhower talking about D-Day saying, 'I did this. I decided this. I did this and then I did that.' It's inconceivable. That comparison between Obama and Eisenhower illustrated the problem for the president. If you struck from Barack Obama's vocabulary the first-person singular pronoun, he would fall silent, which would be a mercy to us and a service to him, actually." --political analyst George Will

"Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said, 'climate change has a dramatic impact on national security.' When you slash the military's budget to pay for failed solar companies -- yeah, it does." --Fred Thompson

"President Obama admitted that a former girlfriend that he wrote about in his autobiography was made up and not a real person. So Obama had an imaginary girlfriend. Big deal! He had an imaginary economic plan. It's all the same." --comedian Jay Leno

"The Obama campaign created a fictitious woman named 'Julia' to illustrate government services it will offer women throughout their lives. For instance, if Julia starts a worthless solar company, she'll still get billions of taxpayer dollars." --NewsBusted's Jodi Miller

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

CNS News

Today's Headlines: Wednesday, May 09, 2012

Rep. Nadler: Obama's 'Taking Supportive Actions' on Same-Sex Marriage

24 Countries, Including Socialist Nations, Top U.S. As Best Place to Be a Mother
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AP Headline: 'Primaries Reflect Conservative Enthusiasm for 2012'

Convicted Extortionist Takes 41% of Vote to Obama's 59% in W. Va. Democratic Primary

Obama Moves 'Forward' with Campaign Slogan Even on Official Presidential Travel

Is It a Campaign Fundraiser or a Presidential Event?

Biden Ignores That Bush, Not Obama, Achieved Unanimous U.N. Measures Against Iran

Ryan and House GOP: Automatic Budget Cuts Would 'Decimate' the Military

HBO Joins Gov't Effort to Fight Fat: 'Obesity Will Crush the United States'

Farmers Markets Getting Taxpayer Money to Accept Food Stamps

Energy Department Advising Architects, Engineers, Contractors on New Hospital Construction

Congresswoman: Obama Campaign's 'Julia' is 'Dependent on Gov't,' GOP is About 'Empowering Women'

Orangutans at Miami Zoo Use iPads to Communicate

COMMENTARY:

Obama's Stimulus: A Documented Failure
By Terence P. Jeffrey
In the end, Obama will have one lasting legacy: Our children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren will be paying the interest on the money he borrowed to keep unemployment from rising above 8 percent.

Fox News, 'America's Poison'?
By L. Brent Bozell III
The real reason Fox News is reviled as "America's Poison" is because of its willingness to go around the liberal censorship wish list and define what news is "fit to print" in a different way.

Voter Fraud Facts and Fiction
By Michelle Malkin
Conservatives need to calm down and separate voter fraud facts from fiction. There are plenty of legitimate threats to electoral integrity without having to inflate or concoct them.

It's Not Obama's Fault, But...
By Rich Galen
For a campaign that has been up-and-running since just about January 21, 2009, the Obama crowd did not have a good "official" first week. The missteps were the fault of the advance team and the campaign -- but there you are.

NEWSPAPER ROUNDUP:

Justice Dept. employee calls Mississippi 'disgusting, is barred from Miss. cases
TSA lets father and son fly to Detroit after finding pistol, bullets in child's toy
Howard Dean: Republicans 'don't like Latinos'
Boehner: House will act before election to extend all Bush tax rates
CEOs: Don't raise taxes on dividends
Obama 'disappointed' by North Carolina same-sex marriage ban
Pressure grows from Democrats for Obama to back same-sex marriage
Republicans want to set up a missile defense site on East Coast
Environmental groups collecting millions by suing federal agencies
Canadian officials considering genderless passports
Wisconsin recall sets up rematch of 2010 governor's race
Health insurers flagged by HHS for 'unreasonable' premium hikes refuse to back down
Washington Post gushes over Hillary Clinton's 'barefaced and bespectacled' look
Elizabeth Warren waves off reports that an ancestor helped round up Cherokees
FDA leaning toward first drug for HIV prevention

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Ask your U.S. Rep. to Support Local Immigration Enforcement

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This week, the House of Representatives is considering H.R. 5326, the Commerce, Justice, and Science (CSJ) Appropriations Act for FY2013. During this process, amendments to this bill will be considered and one of these amendments will be amendment number #59, filed by Rep. Jeff Duncan (R-SC). The amendment "defunds the lawsuit that DOJ is waging against SC and refuses to allow the Obama Administration to politicize an issue instead of seeking to govern responsibly."

Please call your U.S. Representative and urge him/her to support the Duncan amendment, number 59, to the Commerce and Justice Appropriations Act when it is voted on. This amendment is important because it would prevent the Justice Department from continuing its lawsuit against South Carolina's immigration enforcement law.

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ROY BECK

Today's Indiana election guarantees one major immigration improvement in 2013 U.S. Senate

ACTION 1 -- Join the conversation about this at: https://www.numbersusa.com/content/nusablog/beckr/may-8-2012/defeated-sen-lugar-worst-immigration-republican-senate-both-gop-dem-indian

Defeated Sen. Lugar nearly always preferred more immigrant workers over helping unemployed Americans

Voters in Indiana today provided another one of those historic shifts in the immigration battles that I have to share with all of you.

Sen. Lugar is one of the last hold-overs of the Republican Senators who not only tried to push through all the Bush amnesties at the beginning of this century but also back in the 1990s helped kill the immigration enforcement and green card reductions recommended by the bi-partisan Barbara Jordan Commission.

No matter which Party wins in November, the Indiana Senate seat now held by Richard Lugar should produce far better immigration actions in the future.

Democrat primary winner Joe Donnelly has a B+ Career immigration grade in the U.S. House.
And the GOP primary victor, Richard Mourdock, filled out the NumbersUSA survey to earn the title of TRUE REFORMER, supporting all 12 of our immigration stances.
In addition, the Libertarian primary victor, Andrew Horning, filled out our survey and looks almost as good as Donnelly on immigration.

Finally, the workers of Indiana -- and the country -- will have a U.S. Senator from Indiana who cares about their interests when it comes to immigration.

NumbersUSA has been sending out tens of thousands of emails to Indiana voters offering comparisons of all the Senate candidates on immigration.

LUGAR IMMIGRATION RECORD PRIME EXAMPLE OF OUT-OF-TOUCH LABEL THAT SANK HIM

Like many Senators who serve for many terms, Sen. Lugar was vulnerable to charges that he no longer had a good feel for the needs of his state's voters. The fact that his greatest reputation is in foreign policy didn't help.

His immigration actions accentuated both those identities because he used immigration as a kind of bargaining chit in his foreign policy gamemanship. The effect on U.S. workers didn't seem to ever come into play.

Indiana Secretary of State Mourdock challenged Lugar in part because of his constant leadership in pushing for amnesties for illegal aliens who have illegally stolen U.S. jobs.

At the time, I issued this statement:

"Sen. Lugar has always seemed to me to be a serious statesman, but that quality has always been missing in his blind eye to the suffering that his immigration policies cause the most vulnerable Americans, as well as the deterioration to the quality of life of ordinary citizens."

Sen. Lugar never met an amnesty he didn't like, voting for amnesties 15 times.

HOW MUCH DID LUGAR HURT UNEMPLOYED AMERICANS? LET ME COUNT THE WAYS

We rated Sen. Lugar on 85 immigration actions since 1989.

When each action was weighted according to the numerical impact, we found that he acted 81% of the time in favor of foreign workers and dependents over the interests of U.S. workers and dependents.

That earned him a D-minus over his career, making him the worst Republican in the Senate (Sen. John McCain of Arizona is runner-up).

He acted 84% of the time in favor of the Chain Migration of extended family of immigrants over the interests of U.S. workers.
He acted 100% of the time in favor of foreign workers brought in through a random lottery.
He acted 98% of the time for amnesty enticements and 76% of the time for other rewards for illegal aliens.
And in 30 votes and co-sponsorships that were about direct importation of workers, he acted more than 99% of the time for more immigrant competition for U.S. workers.

He did give tepid support to secure borders (C+) and interior enforcement (C) but tried to kill a pilot E-Verify program to keep illegal aliens from getting jobs back in 1996.

ACTION 2 -- Check out the immigration comparisons of candidates running for Congress in your District and in your state. If information is missing, follow the instructions to contact the campaigns to press for positions that can be added to our Comparison Pages:

https://www.numbersusa.com/content/elections/races/congressional

It is so important that voters know where each candidate stands on immigration issues before heading into the polling booth.

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May 09, 2012

On Today's Program This is your brain on progressivism: EPIC video
What does it look like when a useful idiot attends a couple of Occupy rallies and then tries to apply all they've heard in an interview? A young protester showed us the painful answer as she tried to explain why Paul Ryan isn't really Catholic and how poor people 'have no dignity'. WATCH

Tonight on GBTV:

5pm - The Glenn Beck Program features guest host Andrew Wilkow making his GBTV hosting debut with a chalkboard lesson "The Wilkow Guide to Two-Way Media Perception'. Don't miss it tonight at 5pm on GBTV!
6pm - Real News from The Blaze: What is the Obama Administration doing about the recent series of cyber attacks on our critical infrastructure? The answer tonight on the Real News at 6pm on GBTV.
On Demand: The truth about the Wisconsin recall of Governor Scott Walker. Ami Horowitz investigated - What did he find? Check out a clip from last night's special. Subscribers can catch the full report from last night on demand.

BREAKING: Obama fip flops on gay marriage...AGAIN
President Obama made the brave (read: cowardly pandering) decision today to support gay marriage, after years and years of opposing it based on his supposed religious conviction. Get the full story HERE.

Glenn interviews author of Mercury Ink's innovative book experience, Wrath & Righteousness
Glenn welcomed author Chris Stewart on radio today to talk about his amazing series of books that Glenn says make reading feel like watching a high paced, high action season of '24' on TV. What makes the series tick ? Glenn finds out on radio today. Get the details on how to download your copy HERE.

Lugar loses badly
Just a few days ago Newt Gingrich declared the Tea Party dead, claiming they no longer have any influence. Newt knows a thing or two about having no influence given that he himself has none, but in this case he has been proven wrong. The Tea Party scored a huge primary win as long time Republican Dick Lugar was sent packing. Glenn reacts on radio today.

Romney ahead of curve on Muslim Brotherhood?
Something to get excited about over Mitt Romney? While most Republicans will throw their support behind the eventual nominee, they aren't exactly stirring with excitement. But take a listen to this clip from Romney from 4 years ago talking about the Muslim Brotherhood and radical Islam. Was Mitt way ahead of the curve on foreign policy?

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Glenn interviews 'Tania's boyfriend' Andrew Wilkow
Glenn's wife Tania has a favorite radio host and his name is not Glenn Beck. Today on radio Glenn interviewed Andrew Wilkow, host and what Glenn describes as 'Tania's other boyfriend" on the program today. Wilkow will be filling in on GBTV tonight - what's on tap?

Scattered Showers of Journalism: Gregory embarrasses Joe Biden
Over the weekend Joe Biden went on the offensive and insinuated that Mitt Romney wouldn't have made the same 'gutsy' decision Obama did on OBL. Problem: Biden himself claims he advised the President not to do it. Host David Gregory called him out on this, clearly catching Biden stepping in it. His response was epic.

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