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Brief · May 25, 2012

The Foundation

"Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives." --John Adams

Essential Liberty

Col. Tom Manion, USMCR (Ret.), wrote in The Wall Street Journal about the remarkable men and women in uniform and what they give for our great nation. He should know -- his son gave his life in Iraq in 2007.

"I served in the military for 30 years. But it was impossible to fully understand the sacrifices of our troops and their families until April 29, 2007, the day my son, First Lt. Travis Manion, was killed in Iraq.

"Travis was just 26 years old when an enemy sniper's bullet pierced his heart after he had just helped save two wounded comrades. ...

"While my son's life was relatively short, I spend every day marveling at his courage and wisdom. Before his second and final combat deployment, Travis said he wanted to go back to Iraq in order to spare a less-experienced Marine from going in his place. His words -- 'If not me, then who...' -- continue to inspire me.

"My son is one of thousands to die in combat since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. ...

"When my son died in Iraq, his U.S. Naval Academy roommate, Brendan Looney, was in the middle of BUD/S (basic underwater demolition) training to become a Navy SEAL. Devastated by his good friend's death, Brendan called us in anguish, telling my wife and me that losing Travis was too much for him to handle during the grueling training regimen.

"Lt. Brendan Looney overcame his grief to become 'Honor Man' of his SEAL class, and he served in Iraq before later deploying to Afghanistan. On Sept. 21, 2010, after completing 58 combat missions, Brendan died with eight fellow warriors when their helicopter crashed in Zabul province. He was 29. Brendan and Travis now rest side-by-side in Section 60 of Arlington National Cemetery. ...

"Even after more than a decade of war, these remarkable men and women are still stepping forward. As the father of a fallen Marine, I hope Americans will treat this Memorial Day as more than a time for pools to open, for barbecues or for a holiday from work. It should be a solemn day to remember heroes who made the ultimate sacrifice, and also a stark reminder that our country is still at war."

For the Record

Former Lt. Col. Oliver North, USMC, wrote of Memorial Day:

"As a crowd of high-school students offloaded from the tour bus for a visit to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial aka 'The Wall,' he yelled, 'There are no good wars!' ... He held a sheet of cardboard, hand-inscribed with the words 'I'm the 99 percent' on one side and 'Help me, I'm Homeless' on the other. ...

"'The Wall' is like that. The V-shaped black granite panels with 58,282 names inscribed upon them attract visitors like no other place in our nation's capital. ...

"[T]his year, our countrymen who pause from travel, shopping, sporting events and auto races on the last Monday in May will see a very different observance: the 50th anniversary commemoration of the Vietnam War.

"For the 2.7 million Americans who fought for our nation in Southeast Asia, the Gold Star families who lost loved ones there and those who still yearn to know what happened to the 1,350 who still are unaccounted for, Monday's ceremony is a long-awaited requital for unacknowledged sacrifice. It's an overdue but welcome event.

"What is less certain is whether this commemoration finally can bring closure to the most polarizing armed conflict for Americans since the Civil War. Will it end the false mythology of the Vietnam vet as a pothead marauder, a homeless, unemployed dropout who couldn't fit in after coming home?

"The Occupy protester I confronted on my way to 'The Wall' this week probably won't be convinced by this single ceremony. It's unlikely he ever will grasp the innate decency, unstinting perseverance, quiet courage and true humility of those whose names are engraved on those black granite panels. There are no good wars. But there are good warriors. ...

"Like most Vietnam War veterans, they still are giving more than they ever asked in return. They aren't dropouts. They are American heroes -- and I'm blessed to call them friends."

Share your thoughts on Memorial Day.

In Honor of Fallen Patriots

Don't miss Mark Alexander's essay on Memorial Day and what it really means.

Also, please view our Patriot Memorial Day Tributes.

Memorial Day Challenge

Ryan's Story

Insight

"They fought together as brothers-in-arms, they died together, and now they sleep side by side. To them we have a solemn obligation." --Chester Nimitz

"They are dead; but they live in each Patriot's breast, and their names are engraven on honor's bright crest." --Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Gipper

"Freedom is never more than one generation from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset telling our children and our children's children what is was once like in the United States where men were free." --Ronald Reagan

Thank You

"We pause this day in America to remember our fallen heroes, the men and women who answered the call of freedom and paid the ultimate sacrifice. Let us remember and thank them for the nights they slept freezing in a tent or sweating in the desert, for the lonely days they spent fighting boredom and missing loved ones, for the hours they spent sick in pain from battle and without someone holding their hand other than their fellow soldiers, for the moments of sheer fright in the heat of battle, for the wounds suffered fighting evil, for the endless days in hospitals undergoing painful surgeries, for the precious occasions missed at home with family and friends. For all of these sacrifices, we need to thank them on behalf of millions of Americans who are so grateful. We truly appreciate their dedication to duty. ... May their legacy be honored for generations to come, may the tears shed over their coffins fertilize the fields of patriotism in our nation. The new generations to come must be built on strength, duty, honor and country, willing and able to follow in their Warrior footsteps when duty calls to defend America. May their blood not have been shed in vain. May we prove worthy of their sacrifice." --Maj. Gen. Paul Vallely U.S. Army (Ret.)

A Final Note From the Publisher

On Wednesday of last week, I heard from our longtime, and very devoted editor, David Weed, that he would be out of the publishing loop for Thursday and Friday with "medical issues." On Friday afternoon, I heard from his lovely wife Karen that David has departed this life for the next. David's absence will leave a large hole in the quality of our Patriot prose.

David was our token Yankee curmudgeon -- yes we have a few other Yankees on the team but not as curmudgeonly as David. It would be difficult to find the right adjectives to describe his unique "wit and charm" without the benefit of a very unabridged dictionary!

I thank God for his life and the part of it he so generously donated to advance Liberty by way of The Patriot Post. David was a brother and a Patriot, and his legacy has been quietly etched in the hearts and minds of his Patriot brothers and sisters across the nation. I would only ask your prayers for his wife, Karen.

Pro Deo et Constitutione - Libertas aut Mors
Semper Vigilo, Fortis, Paratus et Fidelis

Mark Alexander
Publisher, The Patriot Post

A Special Message from Americans United for Freedom Contributor KrisAnne Hall  

THE PLAN TO BAN TEA PARTY RALLIES

SIT DOWN & SHUT UP OR ELSE

By KrisAnne Hall
www.AmericansUnitedforFreedom.com
March 6, 2012

Heading into the most important election of our lifetime, Barack Obama and a terrified Congress want to make sure angry Americans can never again gather en mass to change the course of history as we did with the 1.2 million member 912 March and the demonstrations that flipped Congress in 2010. No, our tyrannical politicians want to force you to stay home and shut up.

THE FIRST AMENDMENT SHALL NOT DIE ON OUR WATCH! - REPEAL HR347 & 1794 - FAX CONGRESS NOW!

The protected right of the people peaceably to assemble is unalienable, something that has afforded deep fundamental and historical foundations to our freedom. Our Founders established a clear "no trespassing sign" via our First Amendment to keep the government away from this God-given right essential to Liberty. "Congress shall make no law abridging...the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." But new legislation has been passed in Congress that will destroy this absolutely central, simple and non-negotiable right imperative to a free people.

HR 347 and S 1794, the "Federal Restricted Buildings and Grounds Improvement Act of 2011" has nothing to do with improving landscaping around federal buildings. This bill is being presented as a No Trespassing bill. Reasonable people understand that lawful restrictions and protections are needed for government officials and government functions. However, this legislation makes it a federal crime to allegedly DISRUPT the "ORDERLY CONDUCT" of government.

THE FIRST AMENDMENT SHALL NOT DIE ON OUR WATCH! - REPEAL HR347 & 1794 - FAX CONGRESS NOW!

The violator doesn't have to be physically on the grounds where the government business is being conducted, just within the vicinity of the self-proclaimed "business of government." The law is not limited to buildings or locations as the title suggests, but seems to be "roving" and follows persons protected by Secret Service wherever they may go.

• Standing on a sidewalk with a sign as a Congressman walks by? BUSTED
• Traffic slowing to read your Tea Party signs? BUSTED
• Make a statement at a town hall meeting that your Congressman doesn't like? BUSTED

1752(a)(2) knowingly, and with intent to impede or disrupt the orderly conduct of government business or official functions, engages in disorderly or disruptive conduct in, or within such proximity to, any restricted building or grounds when, or so that, such conduct, in fact, impedes or disrupts the orderly conduct of Government business or official functions;

1752(a)(3) knowingly, and with the intent to impede or disrupt the orderly conduct of Government business or official functions, obstructs or impedes ingress or egress to or from any restricted building or grounds;

1752(c)(1) the term 'restricted buildings or grounds' means any posted, cordoned off, or otherwise restricted area - (B) of a building or grounds where the President or other person protected by the Secret Service is or will be temporarily visiting; or C) of a building or grounds so restricted in conjunction with an event designated as a special event of national significance;

THE FIRST AMENDMENT SHALL NOT DIE ON OUR WATCH!
REPEAL HR347 & 1794 - FAX CONGRESS NOW!

The right protected in the First Amendment is the right to peaceably assemble. We do not have the right to impede the flow of traffic, either on sidewalks or roadways. We do not have the right to impede anyone's business practices. But this law is not about private business, it is about government operations. Make that Big Brother Government Operations.

This Congress has a habit of writing in vague and overbroad terms; yet, in order for laws to be Constitutionally sound they CANNOT be vague and overbroad in ANY aspect, and they can ONLY interfere with the rights of the people in as narrow a capacity as both necessary and according with Constitutional principle. But this law makes it a crime to disrupt the government. The Supreme Court has said this type of broad language gives too much power to the government, and they have been saying this since 1939. This law actually places the desire of the government to be free from disruption unconstitutional power over the right of the people to redress the government of their grievances.

THE FIRST AMENDMENT SHALL NOT DIE ON OUR WATCH!
REPEAL HR347 & 1794 - FAX CONGRESS NOW!

Suppose your Congressman, who is under Secret Service protection, has a town hall meeting and many members of the community show up to challenge him on his voting record. This law could be construed to allow federal charges to be brought against these citizens for disrupting his town hall meeting by attending and demanding to be heard under the First Amendment. After all, it will not be hard to claim that people who are not happy with the Congressman's voting record had the "intent" to disrupt this meeting. This vague and overbroad language has the potential to ultimately prevent people from gathering outside any government building or politician's function for fear of being charged with a federal offense. In Constitutional law, we call that a "chilling effect" and the Supreme Court has always held these restrictions to be unconstitutional. After all, who can afford to risk going to jail, to carry a record of federal arrest, to stand for their rights - even if they will win?

The right to orderly conduct of government is NOT a constitutionally protected right. However we DO have the right to free speech and the right to peaceably assemble. Our Constitution enshrines in government the fundamental principle of protection for our God-given, unalienable rights freely to speak and assemble. These rights of We the People are held as foundation stones of our individual Liberty and the government must protect these rights, not limit them. And throughout history, our Supreme Court has protected these rights.

• Hague v. CID, 307 U.S. 496 (1939)
• Boos v. Barry, 485 U.S. 312, 318 (1988)
• United States v. Grace, 461 U.S. 171, 177 (1983)
• Educ. Ass'n v. Perry Local Educators' Ass'n, 460 U.S. 37, (1983)

In every single case, the Court ruled that the people's First Amendment right to protest fundamentally outweighs the government's right to avoid uncomfortable situations at which politicians may be called to account for their actions.

THE FIRST AMENDMENT SHALL NOT DIE ON OUR WATCH!
REPEAL HR347 & 1794 - FAX CONGRESS NOW!

People have the right to complain, the right to have their voices be heard, the right to redress their grievances in the form of protests. These actions are supposed to make the government take notice. Disruption cannot be the standard to stop speech. To allow the government to create this new standard allows the government to tell us to sit down and shut up.

The chilling effect occurs not in the fact that you are denied your due process. If you are arrested because of unlawful legislation you can fight the prosecution and even sue the government for violating your rights. If the Supreme Court has not become completely corrupted you have fairly good odds of winning. But, as anyone who has been wronged by a government agency can tell you, a victory will often come at the expense of a ruined life and livelihood.

The bottom line is that there are laws in every municipality that punish Trespass, Disorderly Conduct, Assault, and any other crime involving real threats against government and persons in government. Why do we need a vague and overbroad FEDERAL LAW to enforce laws that are already in effect, when that law could encroach on our God-given, protected rights? William Penn said, "Necessity, it is said, is the plea for every infringement of human Liberty; it is the argument of tyrants and the creed of slaves." Clearly, we don't need a "Federal Trespass Bill." We already have one; it's called the Bill of Rights!

When will we have enough of government intrusion on our Constitutionally protected rights? We were outraged because we are Taxed Enough Already. When will we recognize that if we cannot trust the government with our finances, then we certainly cannot trust the government with our Liberty?

THE FIRST AMENDMENT SHALL NOT DIE ON OUR WATCH!
REPEAL HR347 & 1794 - FAX CONGRESS NOW!

Keep Faith,

Lynne Roberts, President
Americans United for Freedom 

KrisAnne Hall is a former prosecutor and Constitutional attorney who was fired from her job for teaching the Constitution to citizen groups. She is a disabled veteran of the US Army, a Russian linguist, a mother, a pastor's wife and a patriot. Her former employer, State Attorney for Florida's 3rd Judicial Circuit, gave her a choice - give up her First Amendment right to speak on her own time or be fired. KrisAnne said, "My First Amendment rights are worth more than a paycheck and I will not surrender them." She now travels the country and teaches the Constitution and the history that gave us our founding documents. We are proud to have KrisAnne as a contributor to Americans United for Freedom.

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Matalin: Religious liberty is the issue at stake in the HHS mandate

The Obama White House and its allies in the media continue to pretend that the controversy over the HHS mandate is all about keeping women from accessing birth control, a claim that's absurd on its face. For instance, Obama appeared in Iowa on Thursday and tossed out this bit of demagoguery:

We don't need another political fight about ending a woman's right to choose, or getting rid of Planned Parenthood - (applause) - or taking away affordable birth control.

No one is trying to take away "affordable birth control." For that matter, no one is attempting to "get rid" of Planned Parenthood either, although many of us would be happy to see it disappear on its own. The only action taken against Planned Parenthood is to keep taxpayer dollars from flowing into a business that makes almost all of its profit on abortions, and which in at least a number of cases has been exposed as arguably acting outside the law, and certainly outside the bounds of normal ethics when it comes to protecting minors. Taxpayers shouldn't be subsidizing abortion mills.

In fact, no one is trying to take away anything - except for Barack Obama, Kathleen Sebelius, and the Department of Health and Human Services, which are attempting to strip Americans of one of our most cherished liberties: the freedom of religious expression. For the first time in US history, an administration has arrogated to itself the option of defining religious expression in order to curtail it. Mary Matalin writes about the true stakes in this fight for CNN this weekend:

I just wanted to inform you that my new tea party group obtained permission from the UNITEPA - PA912.org meetup.com group to transfer their meetup.com site to our new group's site. Our new site is www.meetup.com/CFLiberty. UNITEPA - PA912 was going to delete their meetup site because they did not have enough time to maintain it due to life's obligations & they did not want it to go to waste. And in good lucks fortune, we needed a meetup site for us & they were more than willing to help us out. We owe them a lot of thanks.

A little about us.... Citizens for Liberty is a new grassroots organization out of Montgomery County PA that is dedicated to being active in the community while bringing together like-minded freedom lovers & promoting Fiscal Responsibility, Constitutionally Limited Government, Free Markets & we are definitely anti-socialism.

If you are looking for a way to get involved with like-minded people, this group is for you! We have great people, enthusiastic leaders, and a clear plan of action.

I also noticed that your group is listed as a sponsor for the 912 meetup site that we have transferred to. With your permission we would still love to have you on our site & work with & promote your group too. You are not alone! We are here to promote our new group as well as working with other groups. We are more than willing to post events for other groups and we can even make other group leaders 'Event Organizers' on our meet up site to help spread their message too . As a Team, we can all work together in the fight for independence. Will you join us?!

Steve Piotrowski
www.CFLiberty.org  

LIVE SMART - NEWS TALK

Welcome to the fortress of free speech. The New IQ 106.9 FM is the Delaware Valley's new ho me for Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck. Hidden beyond the reach of big government and corporate media in an abandoned power plant in Fishtown, IQ 106.9 is fair and balanced, not live and liberal.

Rumors of War III

Part Two: The Fiction and Non-Fiction of Obama

• May 13, 2012

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June 5th meeting, General Wayne Tea Party - A special guest speaker!  

We look forwardto having Nancy Becker as the "Main event" at our June 5^th meeting at JC's Fireside Bistro.

Nancy has thrived in the private sector as well as in government, and has held Republican leadership posts at many levels. She's also a wife, a mother of two, grandmother of five, and great grandmother of one.

Currently working in government for Montgomery County, she manages a staff of twenty-six.

She will take a lot of the mystery out of politics for us, and explain why it's so critical that we become involved with what's happening in our own back yard. And how to go about it!

After she spoke a year ago with our sister Tea Party in Central Montgomery County, which is led by Jim and Pam Devlin, the reaction of their members about Nancy Becker's presentation was "Absolute dynamite".

Please mark your calendar for June 5^th, 6:00 to 8:00 P.M., JC's Fireside Bistro, Valley Forge Shopping Center, King of Prussia.

Lou Flanagan

The General Wayne Tea Party

GeneralWayneTeaParty.com

P.S. Nancy Becker's bio and accomplishments appear below. She's obviously one of those people to whom the term "Extremely high energy level" is correctly applied.

Nancy Becker

Elected as the Montgomery County Recorder of Deeds in 2003, Nancy Becker is an accomplished, professional administrator and manager with over 35 years experience in real estate, financial management, and strategic planning.

Currently she directs the Recorder of Deeds Office, full time, with a staff of twenty-six (26), who maintain the integrity of all land records and other documents entrusted to the department, as well as the collection and monthly distribution of County/State fees and Real Estate Transfer Taxes for the State, Townships, Boroughs, Municipalities and School Districts; while professionally serving the public with efficiency, accountability, and responsibility.

Over these past 8 years, as the Recorder of Deeds, Nancy has implemented new revenue sources, saved taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars ($750,000.00 alone in 2006), managed and cut costs; increased efficiency, timely recording and high accuracy rates; prioritized advanced, user-friendly systems, constituent services, security, and disaster recovery; and initiated procedures to protect residents from real estate fraud.

She initiated, coordinated, and spear-headed public effort for sponsorship and support of Senate Bill 1331, which prohibits the state from imposing and collecting state sales and Use Taxes for certain public services performed by any county governmental agency and/or court, and House Bill 1634 (Act 110), which eliminates the need to pre-register a deed prior to recording, thereby saving the residents of Montgomery County tens of thousands of dollars.

November 2011 she initiated a class action suit against MERS and the large banks that have not recorded mortgage assignments. She was featured in Bloomberg Businessweek November 2011 and Westlaw Journal December 2011 for her efforts to maintain the chain of title on mortgages and her attempt to collect in excess of $15 million dollars in recording fees for Montgomery County.

Under her direction, the Recorder of Deeds office has become a model of document management:

• One of the highest tech land records offices in the country.

• One of the first in the state to electronically record land documents (eRecord) accelerating document recording, creating efficiencies, reducing errors, and dramatically improving the county's ability to serve its constituents. "eRecording" is a government priority at both the Federal and State levels. It is just one of the priorities that I am initiating to comply with the Montgomery County Commissioners' eGoverment initiative.

• One of the first in the state to apply artificial intelligence software, Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and Intelligent Character Recognition (ICR) to automatically capture document data.

• One of the first counties in state to participate in its eNotary initiative.

• Digitizing land plans in order to make them available through direct computer entry allowing faster access to information.

• Digitized land records dating back from 1784.

• Implemented Disaster Tolerant/Recovery plan by total "redundant replication" of data and images.

• Offer office information and forms online and in the process of integrating a digital archiving system.

• Founded the first Property Records Educational Partners (PREP) organization in Pennsylvania, to maintain technological advancement, education, and user-friendly constituent service.

Nancy believes that responsibility of citizenship means being involved in the community. She has been a member of numerous community boards and commissions.

To mention some, she is the President of the PA Recorder of Deeds Association, President of the Northern Montgomery County Drug & Alcohol Task Force, Southeast Regional Chairperson of the Property Records Educational Partners; member of the Board of Directors of the Property Reorders Industry Association, Co-Chair of the Law Enforcement Collaborative, working with the FBI Mortgage and Land Fraud Task Force, a member of the Montgomery County Drug & Alcohol Planning Committee, the Northern Montco Technical Career Center Educational Opportunities Council, the North Penn School District Drug Free & Safe Schools Committee, the Towamencin Township Park and Recreation Advisory Council and Planning Commission, the American Society of Professional & Executive Women and the International Association of Clerks, Recorders, Elected Officials & Clerks.

Nancy has also played a significant part in raising millions of dollars in grants and contributions for public causes.

She has also been deeply involved in the political process and the Montgomery County Republican Party:

• Montgomery County Republican Women's Leadership (1994- Present)

          Treasurer (2009 - Present)

• Montgomery County Republican Committee Chairman's Club
• Montgomery County Republican Committee Area 9 Vice Chairperson (1994-1998)
• Montgomery County Republican Committee New Majority Council
• Montgomery County Council of Republican Women (1991 to Present)

          President (2000-2002)

          1st Vice President (1996-1998)

          2nd Vice President (1994-1996)

          Board of Directors (1994- Present)

• Montgomery County Court House Hill Council of Republican Women

          First Vice President

• Pennsylvania Council of Republican Women (Director)
• Republican State Committee (1996 to Present)
• Republican Committee Woman, Towamencin Township 1-2 (1988 to Present)

          Treasurer (1992-Present)

• Republican Poll Worker (1971-Present)
• Served on more than thirty (30) Republican campaign committees for Federal, State, County, and local candidates during thirty-two (32) years of Republican service

Nancy and her husband Mike have lived in Towamencin, Montgomery County for over 34 years.

Please join us at the Valley Forge Patriots Meeting on June 8th, 6PM, at the Phoenixville Country Club

Among other topics, we will discuss the

The PA Pension Crisis

There is a crisis in the Commonwealth of PA that few people are discussing.

Teacher pensions are underfunded by $27 Billion -- yes with a B, Billion.

  Warren Kampf (PA Representative 157th District) will discuss:

· How this obligation went from 125% overfunded to $27 Billion underfunded

· The impact this will have on state and local school taxes

· What must be done to prevent this in the future

· No more "kicking the can down the road"
  The presentation will be followed by a Q&A session.  There will also be brief announcements and committee reports.

Food and drink is available for cash. Parking is free. All are welcome.

Valley Forge Patriots have a passion for Liberty and we invite like-minded citizens to join with us for Freedom! For more information go to:

  sign up at www.meetup.com/vfp-teaparty09/  More information www.vfpatriots.com

Save the date:

Philadelphia ZOA Quarterly Meeting

Tuesday, June 12, 2012 at the Congregations of Shaare Shamayim, 9768 Verree Rd., Northeast Philadelphia, at 7:30 p.m.

Our own Lee Bender and Jerry Verlin will premiere and discuss their new book, Pressing Israel: Media Propaganda Exposed From A To Z

Come out to congratulate Lee and Jerry and learn about and get a copy of their important new work. Find out why what the media reports matters. This event is free and open to the public. Be sure to tell your friends, colleagues, neighbors and fellow congregants and encourage them to attend.

Who's up for our Rally this Saturday!

RSVP ASAP!

12 to 2pm

Our same location: Broadcasting & Papermill Rds.

The American citizens are really waking up now and have had enough!

I think it's time we head back to our corner and show them we are still relevant and we will not be silenced!

Mike Souders

www.unitepa912.com

On June 2^nd FreedomWorks will be hosting an all-day grassroots training at the Spring Mill Manor in Ivyland PA.  FreedomWorks has teamed up with local tea party groups in preparation for the 2012 elections.  This event will cover everything from building your grassroots army, to strategies to help beat the left on Election Day.  Learn from some of the best campaigners in the game today the tried and true methods of get out the vote. 

With so much at stake including defeating Obama and Casey agenda this event will give you the tools and techniques needed to beat them both in November.  Keynoting this exciting day is none other than former House Majority Leader and FreedomWorks chairmen Dick Armey.  Other special guests include Education reform expert from Reason Foundation Lisa Snell who will provide us with an in depth look at education reform and school choice issues facing PA.  This action packed event is crucial for anyone interested in helping to Take America Back!

If you are interested in attending this important event please RSVP by clicking the following link http://connect.freedomworks.org/node/250623. 

We look forward to seeing you on Saturday June 2^nd at 10:00PM at the Spring Mill Manor for this exciting event. 

Event Details:
When: Saturday, June 2, 2012
Where: Spring Hill Manor (171 Jacksonville Rd, Ivyland, PA 18974)
Time: 10:00-2:00PM
Agenda:
                10-10:10 - Welcome
                10:10-11:20 - Get Out the Vote Training
                11:20-12:20 - New Media Training
                12:20-1:00 - Break
                1:00-1:30 - Understanding School Choice with Lisa Snell from Reason Foundation
                1:30-2:00 - Keynote speech from Dick Armey

I hope to see you there.

For Freedom,

David Spielman

Campaigns Coordinator, FreedomWorks

FreedomWorks Bootcamp in Washington, D.C.

FreedomWorks is excited to be hosting an Activist Bootcamp at our office in DC on June 8-11th. 

Below is a rough outline of our agenda, which will become more detailed in the next couple of weeks. We will provide food, snacks, drinks

and materials throughout the weekend. We will be offering breakfast, lunch and dinner during the bootcamp. If you are attending and need advice on hotels, transportation, parking, Metro, etc.. please let us know. We are really looking forward to getting to know you and spending

time working hard so we can Take America Back in 2012!

FAQs:

Dress is casual all weekend, business casual for Capitol Hill visits

Feel free to invite friends to rsvp to this event (dspielman@freedomworks.org)

FreedomWorks' phone numbers for questions: (202)-783-3870 or (202)-942-7607

We will print name cards for our building security desk. You will pick them up upon arrival

If you can only make one day, or two days, that is fine with us. You are still invited to attend.

Yes, we DO have kegs in the office and cold beer, sodas, water and snacks to enjoy

Yes, Matt Kibbe will be there and you will get a chance to speak with him

Our office is within walking distance to Union Station, Capitol Hill, the Hyatt Regency, Hotel George and other hotels

We are on the Metro's Red Line - Union Station stop

We do have a parking garage but it's kind of expensive ($20 per day)

We recommend that you find a hotel that's close to our office and you either walk or Metro here

We CAN help you set up visits with your Congressman and/or Senators on Capitol Hill (jwithrow@freedomworks.org)

Here is an outline of our agenda for June 8-11th.

Friday

5pm Attendees arrive and attend a reception hosted by FreedomWorks team at our HQ (400 North Capitol St NW, Suite 765, DC 20001)

This will be a great chance to meet everyone, get to know the FreedomWorks staff and enjoy some cold beverages and conversation

Saturday

9am to 4pm Policy Briefing Day led by Dean Clancy

EPA/energy/regulations - Dr. Brough

Capitol Hill update - Max Pappas

Healthcare - Dean Clancy

School Choice - David Spielman

6pm to 8pm Reception hosted by FreedomWorks for America at FreedomWorks' HQ 

Sunday

10am to 5pm Campaigns/Grassroots Strategies and Tactics to Win in 2012 and Beyond led by FreedomWorks Campaigns team

Topics:

Activism 101

Get Out the Vote Training

New Media training - FreedomConnector, facebook, twitter, blogging 

Old Media relationships, messaging, LTE's, op-eds 

Monday

9am to 11am  Media Day! Judge Napolitano speech on the constitution - led by Adam and Jackie (possibly at the Hillsdale

College Kirby Center)

11am to 12pm Media visits and interviews, Capitol Hill visits led by Max Pappas

12pm END BOOTCAMP

If you are interested in getting a travel voucher, please contact

Josh Eboch at jeboch@freedomworks.org or (202)-942-7605. 

We look forward to seeing you at these events for great days of activism training!

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

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 and share it with others.  It has already been seen by over 1,250,000 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

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,

The U.S. Constitution

A Reader 

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.

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.

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

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:

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

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

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

Lou Flanagan

The General Wayne Tea Party

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Obama national co-chair works in private equity, like Romney

 

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One of President Barack Obama's top campaign spokesmen is a private equity manager whose firm has shut down several factories and laid off hundreds of people amid a stalled economy.

 

Federico Pena's role at Vestar Capital Partners has emerged as Obama's aides and deputies continue their effort to portray former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney's investment career as ruthless, job-destroying, profit-maximizing "vulture capitalism." Pena has been a partner at Vestar since 2000.

 

Pena is a former mayor of Denver in swing-state Colorado, a former cabinet member for President Bill Clinton and one of 35 "national co-chairs " of the president's 2012 campaign.

 

The news will likely further undermine the Obama campaign's effort to focus on Romney's business practices, rather than Obama's White House policies, and the resulting debt, deficits and unemployment.

 

The effort has been stymied by a series of business-friendly Democratic politicians - such as Newark Mayor Cory Booker - who have stepped forward to defend or praise the investment sector.

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.

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RedState Morning Briefing

For May 29, 2012

1. One Metric on Impact: SWATting

Last week I wrote about the Speedway Bomber and current left-wing activist Brett Kimberlin. In 2011, after writing about Kimberlin, LA County Prosecutor Patrick Frey, who blogs under the name Patterico, was rousted out of bed after midnight by the LA County SWAT Team. Someone had called 911 claiming to be Frey saying he'd just murdered his wife.

Sunday night as my family and sister's family were around the dinner table and playing outside, sheriff's deputies pulled into my driveway responding to an accidental shooting at my home.

One deputy was in the driveway. Another blocked the end of the driveway with his car. A neighbor tells me another was up the hill from the house.

There was no shooting at my home. Someone called 911, claimed to be at my home, and claimed to witness a shooting at my home.

As the one deputy and I spoke, the other deputy walked up the driveway, positioned himself behind the car in the driveway, and kept his eyes on me and his hand on his gun. My three year old ran between us all thinking it was so cool to have a police car in the driveway with its blue lights flashing.

Luckily, after I had starting writing about Kimberlin, I advised the Sheriff's Department to be aware this could happen.

2. The Harrassment of Patterico & Its Roots In Left-Wing Activism

Let me add one thing here. Every belief system - political, religious, philosophical, lifestyle - attracts some nutty people, some stupid people, some evil and dangerous people. You can't judge those belief systems by their craziest adherents. Liberalism, as understood in the United States over the past half-century or so, involves the belief in a lot of nonsense, but it is basically a peaceable creed.

But increasingly since the late 60s, we have seen the emergence of a particular style of activism - occasionally aped in some corners of the Right, but systematically practiced on the Left - that takes as its creed "the personal is political" and that everything is politics, and follows that to its logical conclusion by such methods as:

-Picketing the homes of political opponents and business executives.

-Boycotts aimed at donors and sponsors of political causes and political commentators.

-Efforts to "out" political opponents, ranging from disclosing the identities and addresses of anonymous or pseudonymous writers to targeting closeted homosexuals among Congressional staffers.

-Googlebombs designed to skew internet searches for information about a targeted person.

-Reporting targeted opponents to ISPs, hosting companies or Twitter as spam.

3. Obama Wants to Redistribute Our Sovereignty with the Law of the Sea Treaty

One of the problems we find in politics these days is the rash of bills with rather Orwellian titles. The best example in recent years is the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (you know, Obamacare). But fortunately, some things have titles that are all too appropriate. The Law of the Sea Treaty is one of them, which is rather fittingly known as LOST.

4. Wisconsin: Barrett Fails to Play Big in First Debate

Sitting in the pressroom before Friday night's televised debate between Governor Scott Walker (R) and Mayor Tom Barrett (D) the question was: will Tom Barrett do anything to change the momentum of the race? Since emerging from a divisive primary fight on May 8 that saw him trounce Big Labor's candidate of choice, Kathleen Falk, Barrett has been working to shift the momentum of the race to his favor. Operatives on both sides agree that with almost no independent voters left to fight over, the election comes down to voter turnout and the margin of victory will likely be unpredictable and close.

Unconfirmed reports are that early voting in the Democrat-vote rich City of Milwaukee, Barrett's home turf, total 3,300 due largely to coordinated efforts by labor groups and community organizing outfits.

5. Failed Earmark Culture Should Not Return

From Congresswoman Adams (R-FL)

The 2010 election spurred hundreds of Americans to call for a change in the direction our nation was taking. They were sick of the reckless spending of the Democrat-controlled Congress and they wanted their representative to be above the culture of corruption in Washington, D.C. As a result, November saw 87 new Republicans elected to the House of Representatives with a mandate to enact changes to the way Washington, D.C. works.

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Experts on the Day's Hottest News

Items for May 29, 2012

English-Language Cyberwar Software Might Have Targeted Iran   

ABC News

Syria: Diplomatic deadlock, deaths go on  

CNN.com

Catholics' mandate suit draws dividing line for Obama   

The Washington Times

Many unemployed facing early end to benefits   

USA Today

Germany Seeks Financial 'Redemption' for Europe   

Business Week

Is the Constitution a Republican Plot?    

National Review

 May 29, 2012 

Warren, Obama, and Harvard's Culture of Corruption
Jack Cashill
The rampant lies of Elizabeth "Pocahontas" Warren are by no means a new phenomenon among the putative literary greats at Harvard. More

Can One Be Truly Black and Patriotic?
Lloyd Marcus
Some may think me insane for suggesting that it was a blessing for my ancestors to be betrayed by fellow blacks, sold to white slave traders, separated from their families, and shipped to a strange land to be slaves. But please, hear me out. More

Romney Should Seek a Big Win
Adam Yoshida
Romney needs -- and can get -- a big mandate to enact necessary reforms. More

Mitt Flunks Education 101
Robert Weissberg
Romney has offered up a dog's breakfast of doomed-to-fail, often airhead nostrums. If the brainy Romney cannot get it right, perhaps no candidate can. More

The Tea Party Lives...in Maryland?!
Doug Mainwaring
Conservatives who doubt the Tea Party's vitality in blue states just don't know how active Tea Partiers have been under the radar. More

What Conservatives Really Think About Community, Mr. Dionne
Christopher Chantrill
Liberal columnist E.J. Dionne needs to stop preaching to conservatives and start reading. More

A Tweet Which Will Live in Infamy
Marc Hopin
After years of voting into office people less qualified than ourselves, we find ourselves living in an America that in many ways resembles the monarchy that Jefferson and the other Founders risked everything to be free of. More

Scoff at the urban myth that the Muslims invented the zero.  

Sure, mathematician Abu Ja'far Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi was hugely influential in spreading the word, but the principles upon which he worked were discovered years before Muhammad. What we call Arabic numerals actually come from pre-Islamic India. Tell your liberal friend that what the Muslims actually invented was not the zero, but in fact zero-except for a few cultural traditions (like harems) that are quite nice for the oppressive male patriarchy.  

Use air quotes when talking about "Islamophobia."  

Quote Roger Kimball's view that a "phobia" is an irrational fear and that there's nothing irrational about fearing a religion with a worryingly high proportion of adherents who think they're entirely justified blowing up innocent travelers and decapitating captured Westerners for the greater glory of Allah.  

This Memorial Day, May 28, 2012   May 28, 2012 11:15 am

This Memorial Day weekend 2012, we turn to God and give rememberance to those who have died for our country. Freedom is not free.

Memorial Day, originally called Decoration Day, is a day of remembrance for those who have died in our nation's service. There are many stories as to its actual beginnings, with over two dozen cities and towns laying claim to being the birthplace of Memorial Day.  

There is also evidence that organized women's groups in the South were decorating graves before the end of the Civil War: a hymn published in 1867, "Kneel Where Our Loves are Sleeping" by Nella L. Sweet carried the dedication "To The Ladies of the South who are Decorating the Graves of the Confederate Dead" (Source: Duke University's Historic American Sheet Music, 1850-1920).

Alarming Trend | Cybersecurity Breaches and Failures of U.S. Government   May 28, 2012 10:00 am

The number of cybersecurity attacks on, and breaches within, the United States government has been growing. The U.S. Senate is now gearing up to debate cybersecurity legislation-and will have to vote on whether the federal government should regulate cybersecurity measures of the private sector as well as those of government. The government's track record on cybersecurity does not inspire confidence that it can devise effective cybersecurity regulations for the private sector. Cybersecurity for the nation should be a cooperative effort between the private sector and the government, with each contributing in its own way. Onerous regulations are not the solution to the ever-expanding reality of cyberthreats.

FBI's Top Ten Stories May 27, 2012 and Missing Child ID App   May 28, 2012 09:45 am

The Child ID App for Androids 

On Friday, May 25th,  to help observe National Missing Children's Day, the FBI launched a new version of our Child ID App built specifically for Android mobile phones. The application can be downloaded for free from the Android Apps section of Google Play.  The Child ID App, first released in August 2011 for iPhones, provides parents with an easy way to electronically store pictures and vital information about their children in case they go missing-whether it's a toddler wandering away at the mall or a teen who has been snatched by a stranger.

Should the States Set Up ObamaCare Exchanges?   May 28, 2012 09:17 am

Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), state governments are expected to set up health insurance exchanges through which individuals will buy their own health insurance, in many cases with substantial subsidies.Should the states comply?  In the following point-counterpoint discussion, Linda Gorman and I give opposing answers to this important question. Leave your thoughts in the comments.

Memorial Day: A Day Bought With Blood   May 28, 2012 06:00 am

I worry about America ... a LOT.   We have become so removed from our heritage, our history, and the core values upon which this country was founded that we have lost our way and we are foundering and in real danger of collapse. 

Our culture is now so crude so repellent and repugnant that the good people of Sodom and Gomorrah would blush -- were they to see us today.

Christie Administration in NJ Concludes NYPD Surveillance Was Legal   May 27, 2012 05:30 pm

As a number of readers are aware, I've had more than my fair share to say about New Jersey Governor Chris Christie of late, much of it on the negative side of the ledger - although I'd caution that that "ledger" is more about whether he is a "consistent conservative" (no) than about his quality as a governor (above average, particularly for a blue state). So it's necessary to give credit where credit is due:

Muslim Brotherhood Claims Victory in Egypt Presidential Election   May 27, 2012 12:33 pm

According to the Brotherhood, the almost complete vote counting for president looks like this:

Mohamed Mursi (Brotherhood) 28.4% 
Ahmed Shafiq (Mubarak era general) 24.6% 
Abdul Moeim Abul Fotouh (so-called "moderate Islamist" but supported by radical Islamist Salafists) ·18.1% 
Hamdeen Sabahi (radical anti-American "left" Nasserist) 17.1% 
Amr Moussa (radical nationalist pragmatist) 11.6%.

Sean Hannity Does Not Understand the Threat of Islam in America   May 27, 2012 11:39 am

Sean Hannity: Kissing Islamic Ass!  

Approximately three months ago I was on Twitter talking to a woman about Islam and the UK's Anjem Choudary. She was a Twitter friend of Fox's Sean Hannity, and tagged him in an effort to bring him into our conversation. I had stated that I will give Choudary one thing, he does know Islam. Now Hannity could have and should have minded his own business, but the Fox anchor could not help himself. He quickly charged into the conversation by taking a stand for Islam.

Press 1 For English: Is America Destined To Become A Multilingual Nation?   May 27, 2012 11:06 am

The quickest way to divide people is to have them speak different languages.  America has always been a nation of immigrants, but one of the things that has always united us as a nation has been the English language.  In the past, it was always understood that if you wanted to thrive in the "land of opportunity" that you had better learn English and learn it well.  Unfortunately, times have changed.  Today, many radical activist groups are actually referring to the English language as a "tool of oppression"...

JW's Election Integrity Campaign Moves Forward as Voter Fraud Problem Mushrooms Nationwide   May 27, 2012 11:00 am

Don't believe the line from leftist activists and the Obama campaign that the voter fraud problem is just the result of an overactive imagination on the part of Republicans. All you have to do is read the headlines.  For example, there was this news story by J. Christian Adams, who is working with us on our 2012 Election Integrity Project, published by·BigGovernment.com:

U.S. Senate wants a "Palestinian Refugee" recount. State Department balks at supplying the numbers.

Senator Mark Kirk (R., Ill.) has offered an amendment to the FY 2013 funding bill for the State Department that would require the Department to provide two numbers to Congress: 1) the number of Palestinians physically displaced from their homes in what became Israel in 1948, and 2) the number of their descendants administered by the United Nations Relief Works Agency (UNRWA).

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May 25, 2012, 12:38 pm

As Memorial Day Nears, a Single Image That Continues to Haunt

Memorial Day. The unofficial kickoff to summer. Barbecues sizzling. Lawn sprinklers hissing. Local marching bands tooting out Sousa. Red, white, and blue bunting hanging from the porch railings, and on TV, someone begins a recitation of Lt. Col. John McCrae's classic poem: In Flanders field, the poppies blow/Between the crosses row on row ...

 

In the run-up to every Memorial Day weekend, for the past several years, a certain photo takes top spot in those most circulated among my fellow military and veteran wives. On blogs, on social media sites, it is shared and "liked" over and over. Taken by the photographer Todd Heisler from his 2005 award-winning series for The Rocky Mountain News, "Jim Comes Home" - which documents the return and burial of Second Lt. Jim Cathey of the Marines, who lost his life in Iraq - the photo shows his pregnant widow, Katherine, lying on an air mattress in front of his coffin. She's staring at her laptop, listening to songs that remind her of Jim. Her expression is vacant, her grief almost palpable.

 

Todd Heisler/The Rocky Mountain News, via Associated Press

The night before the burial of her husband, Katherine Cathey refused to leave the coffin, asking to sleep next to his body for the last time. The Marines made a bed for her.

Dr. Sebastian L. v. Gorka, Military Affairs Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, said on Tuesday that the Obama Administration is rapidly revising federal counter-terrorism training materials in order to eliminate references to Jihad and Islam.

Government bureaucracies usually take a long time in changing a policy. In this case, he said, "I have never, ever seen such a wide ranging review executed with such alacrity."

Although he blamed Quintan Wiktorowicz, a member of Obama's National Security Council, for implementing the Obama Administration's new overall policy of accommodating radical Islam, including the pro-terrorist Muslim Brotherhood, Gorka said Spencer Ackerman of Wired Magazine had helped sparked the review of federal counter-terrorism training materials through a series of controversial articles. One of those articles ran under an inflammatory headline about "Islamophobia" supposedly characterizing the federal government's response to global Islamic terrorism.

May 26, 2012  

By iResistAll:

Update, May 27th: A Senate source informed me that Senators Mitch McConnell (KY) & Bob Corker (TN) are very close to opposing the Treaty. We will need maximum outreach by constituents to persuade them to oppose. Tweet, email & call them! We need 7 more GOP Senators to oppose the Treaty which requires a 2/3rds majority to ratify.  

Corker, Bob - (R - TN)Class I
185 DIRKSEN SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-3344
Email Him! www.corker.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?p=ContactMe
Tweet Him! http://twitter.com/#!/senbobcorker 

McConnell, Mitch - (R - KY)Class II
317 RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-2541
Email Him! www.mcconnell.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?p=contact
Tweet Him! http://twitter.com/#!/mcconnellpress  

The "Law of the Sea" Treaty Surrenders American Sovereignty at Sea to the United Nations and will FORCE American Companies to Pay Royalties TO it. The Obama Administration is pushing this Treaty in an Effort to Undermine U.S. dominance abroad, and Surrender our Sovereignty to a "One World" Government. Reagan Opposed It. Obama is For It. It's coming up for a Senate Vote Soon. Tell Your Senators NO to a loss of U.S. Sovereignty!

Below is a list of GOP Senators who have NOT opposed the Law of the Sea Treaty as of May 26th, 2012. The easiest way to contact your Senator with a pre-made message of opposition to this treaty is to visit Tell-Your-Senator-To-Oppose-LOST.

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Exclusive: The Vetting - Did Obama Have Lower SAT Scores Than George W. Bush?

An American "Son of Fire" we must remember on this Memorial Day

May 28, 2012 06:13 am | Coach Collins

By Kevin "Coach" Collins

Let us never forget those who gave their life for our freedoms.

Remembering the brave men and women who gave their "last full measure of devotion" for our freedoms, requires us to take a moment on this Memorial Day to focus on the individuals behind the numbers and remember they are not just names on a wall.

One of those individuals who gave everything he had for us was Marine Captain John J. McKenna IV who was killed on August 16, 2006 during an operation in Fallujah Iraq.

 The story of John McKenna's life and death is the story of a genuine American hero. Having had the great honor of spending a day with John J. McKenna III, the Captain's father, I learned the story of how the McKenna family got the awful news of his death.  It was a reminder that the heroes who step forward to defend us, come ... Continue Reading:An American "Son of Fire" we must remember on this Memorial Day

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American Minute May 27

May 27, 2012 06:13 pm | Coach Collins

  Twentieth-Century Fox made a motion picture in 1955 titled A Man Called Peter, about the life of U.S. Senate Chaplain Peter Marshall, born MAY 27, 1902.
Peter Marshall emigrated from Scotland, was ordained a Presbyterian minister, and became a U.S. citizen in 1938.
A novel titled Christy, written by his wife, Catherine, was made into a CBS television series.
His son, Peter Marshall, Jr., was the renowned author of such best-selling books as: The Light and the Glory, From Sea to Shining Sea and Sounding Forth The Trumpet, which chronicle the Providential expansion of liberty throughout American history.
On January 13, 1947, U.S. Senate Chaplain Peter Marshall stated:
"The choice before us is plain: Christ or chaos, conviction or compromise, discipline or disintegration.
I am rather tired of hearing about our rights...The time is come...to hear about responsibilities...
America's future depends upon her accepting and demonstrating God's government."
Opening a session ... Continue Reading:American Minute May 27

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Anyone including "conservative commenters" not a "birther" is a fool a liar a coward or all three

May 27, 2012 01:13 pm | Coach Collins

By Kevin "Coach" Collins

 After seeing the mountain of evidence on the subject it is very clear that Barack Obama was not born in Hawaii and is a fake. Did you hear that snarky media people? Nobody over ten believes this phony twerp was born in Hawaii. Those who publicly say they believe Obama's birth certificate and biography are real are simpletons who are hoping to have the liberal alligator eat someone else first.

 Their cowardice doesn't make them people bad people, but their snarky swipes at those of us who understand that two and two has always been four and will never change makes them despicable.    

The truth is staring all of us in the face and those who pretend to "take the president at his word", regardless of their political allegiance, are way passed annoying. They are insulting to our intelligence. Listening to (or reading) "conservative" commentators talk about this issue demands a response.

... Continue Reading:Anyone including "conservative commenters" not a "birther" is a fool a liar a coward or all three

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RTS: Thomas Sowell vs Occupy Wall Street and Obama

Occupy Wall Street (by Thomas Sowell)

April 18, 2012

Thomas Sowell

Occupy Wall Street by Thomas Sowell

 

The current Occupy Wall Street movement is the best illustration to date of what President Barack Obama's America looks like. It is an America where the lawless, unaccomplished, ignorant and incompetent rule. It is an America where those who have sacrificed nothing pillage and destroy the lives of those who have sacrificed greatly.

It is an America where history is rewritten to honor dictators, murderers and thieves. It is an America where violence, racism, hatred, class warfare and of murder are all promoted as acceptable means of overturning the American civil society.

It is an America where humans have been degraded to the level of animals: of defecating in public, having sex in public, devoid of basic hygiene. It is an America where the basic tenets of a civil society, including faith, family, a free press and individual rights, have been always rejected. It is an America where our founding documents have been now shredded and, with them, every person's guaranteed liberties.

It is an America where, ultimately, great suffering will come to the American people, but the rulers like Obama, Michelle Obama, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, Joe Biden, Jesse Jackson, Louis Farrakhan, liberal college professors, union bosses and all other loyal liberal/Communist Party members will live in opulent splendor.

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