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If your looking for a succinct look at what the Tea Party stands for and where they are today watch this interview with Elizabeth Price Foley.  She wrote a book called The Tea Party: Three Principles. She is a constitutional professor at Florida International University, College of Law.

 (Not) Shocking: Obama picks socialist as Medal of Freedom honoree

Dolores Huerta is not shy about her socialist beliefs. She's heaped public praise on the work Hugo Chavez is doing by socializing Venezuela and wonders why America isn't following the same path (wait...we aren't?) Huerta has said that "Republicans hate Latinos" and has no problem with illegal immigration. So, of course, she's a great pick for the Presidential Medal of Freedom ...if your President happens to be a socialist.

That's right, Dolores Huerta can now add one more bullet to her resume. Thanks to President Obama she has been awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

• Co-founder of the United Farm Workers of America
• Honorary chair of the Democratic Socialists of America
• Supports expanded rights for illegal immigrants

Polish Officials Demand Obama Apology for 'Polish Death Camps' Remark 

Polish officials called on President Obama to apologize for using the term "Polish death camps."

Obama awarded a posthumous presidential Medal of Freedom on Tuesday to Jan Karski, a Polish resistance fighter who was among the first to report German atrocities in his country.

"Fluent in four languages, possessed of a photographic memory, Jan served as a courier for the Polish resistance during the darkest days of World War II," Obama said. "Before one trip across enemy lines, resistance fighters told him that Jews were being murdered on a massive scale, and smuggled him into the Warsaw Ghetto and a Polish death camp to see for himself. Jan took that information to President Franklin Roosevelt, giving one of the first accounts of the Holocaust and imploring to the world to take action."

Poles insist on the term "Nazi death camps" to describe facilities such as Auschwitz and Sobibor.

In a tweet reported by BuzzFeed, Radek Sikorski, the Polish foreign minister, said that Obama "will apologize for this outrageous error," ascribing it to "ignorance and incompetence."

Read more: 

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.

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

Philadelphia ZOA Quarterly Meeting  

Join Us on Fridays and Take a Stand for Israel:    

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

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.

To send a check, please complete and print a contribution page form
and mail it with your donation to this address:

Americans United for Freedom
PO Box 1310
Herndon, VA 20172

Americans United for Freedom is a 501(c)(4) social welfare organization (pending) which focuses on nonpartisan civic education and advocacy regarding important national issues.

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

U.N. Me Official Theatrical Trailer

 U.N. Me will launch June 1st in select theaters and nationwide through video on demand!

For more info:
facebook.com/unmemovie
www.theunmovie.com

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:

    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

LISTEN LIVE TO REPATRIOT RADIO

"BETTER THAN EVER"

(all times are eastern)

Thursday 3-4pm "America's Black Shield" - Ted Hayes and Terrance Lang

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

AP Textbook Angst

By Mona Charen

May 30, 2012

After several cries of pain from my 16-year-old son, I finally got around to reading his AP World History textbook. Not a way to spend a placid weekend.

Paging through World Civilizations: The Global Experience by Peter N. Stearns et al. is flabbergasting. The authors lean so far backward to be neutral about various cultures and nations that the text fails utterly as reliable history.

In the wake of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union - with all of the copious records that have been exhumed from the Soviet archives and other sources - one might have thought that the sheer human catastrophe caused by Communism ought no longer to be in question among serious people, far less eminent historians. (Actually, there has been no doubt since the 1930s, but the evidence has become even more voluminous since 1989.) Yet throughout this 900-plus-page tome, the brutal body count of Communism's victims is given only glancing notice. Like Soviet apologists during the Cold War era, the authors provide generous interpretations of Communist dictators' motives, along with dry, forgettable descriptions of their atrocities.

World Civilizations tells some of our most advanced tenth-graders that Josef Stalin's collectivization of agriculture "had serious flaws." That's one way of describing a deliberate policy of starving the peasantry into submission. In Harvest of Sorrow, Robert Conquest estimated that the "terror famine" of 1932-33 caused the deaths of at least 5 million Ukrainians, and that Stalin's agriculture collectivization, which included the war on "kulaks" (slightly more prosperous peasants), took the lives of 14.5 million people in all.

You won't find those deaths mentioned in World Civilizations. No, the text instructs students that "after the messy transition period" had ended, "the collective farms did . . . allow normally adequate if minimal food supplies . . . and they did free excess workers to be channeled into the ranks of urban labor."

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 31, 2012

1. The Extraordinary Nature of the Texas Runoff

It is hard to overstate just how extraordinary Ted Cruz's underdog entry into the Texas runoff is and just how the odds are still stacked against him unless conservatives rally quickly with lots of money.

David Dewhurst has been Lt. Governor of Texas for more than a decade. He has massive name ID throughout the state. Ted Cruz started this race with a three or four percent showing in polling.

2. AP: Bureau of Labor Statistics confirms Wisconsin job growth.

Readers might remember - certainly The Weekly Standard [TWS] did - that beleaguered Democratic Wisconsin gubernatorial recall candidate Tom Barrett has called into question Republican Scott Walker's contention that the Bureau of Labor Statistics [BLS] had reported Wisconsin had actually gained jobs in 2011, instead of the loss of jobs that had been previously reported from another source. Actually, 'called into question' is too mild a term; Barrett more or less called Walker a liar.

3. Don't Bring Back Earmarks!

Some members of congress are trying to reopen the earmark ban through an obscure legislative process. For many conservatives, the two-year moratorium on the practice of earmarking was the signature accomplishment of the new House majority elected in 2010. Yet, the current legislative push by involving Miscellaneous Tariff Bills (MTBs) is being used by the Washington establishment to reopen that moratorium and roll back conservative advances.

4. Law of Sea Treaty A Back Door For Cap And Trade

Conn Carroll had an excellent piece at the Washington Examiner yesterday titled "Obama's Lame Duck Plan To Pass Cap And Trade." Carroll makes the case that Senator John Kerry (D-Mass.) may use the Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST) as a back door to implement cap and trade regulations on United States citizens.

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Experts on the Day's Hottest News

Items for May 31, 2012

Walker's moderate reforms   

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel 

HOLMES: Sometimes less is less   

The Washington Times

Bush is back: Portrait event stirs up controversy   

Associated Press  

U.S. Steps Up Pressure on Europe to Resolve Euro Crisis   

The New York Times 

Image shows clean-up work undertaken at Iran military site   

Reuters  
 
Russia contributing to potential Syria civil war- US
BBC News 
 

    Latest Heritage Research:

America At Risk Memo:  Protecting the American Dream

 May 31, 2012 

The Right to Be Asian
Keith Riler
I am being discriminated against, and this injustice, this offense against human rights, must be remedied. It's time to let me be Asian. More

Mystery Religion: Mr. Obama's Contradictory Conversions to Christianity
Jason Kissner
Reasonable people will agree that much of Mr. Obama's biography is not exactly an open book. But even in what we do know, there are bizarre inconsistencies. More

The Grand Theme of Governing
Bruce Walker
How can Republicans clean Democrat clocks all over the country? All it will take is a simple message: Republicans can govern. Democrats can't. More

The Origins of Leftist Racial Orthodoxy
Michael Filozof
If "diversity" is good, why do liberals congregate in lily-white enclaves like Vermont (the whitest state in the Union, according to the Census) and Marin County, California? More

Academic Tenure, or Trickle-Down Entitlement Theory
Daren Jonescu
Your children are being prepared for the "real world" by men and women sustained by the oldest, most corrupt entitlement program. More

What Mitt Should Do about Education
Robert Weissberg
After decades of grand ill-conceived schemes that cost billions and accomplished nothing, it's time for something different. First, don't promise the impossible. Then combine "less is more" with "do no harm." More

Are Liberals Immoral?
Jeffrey Folks
The liberal power elite are selfish, hypocritical, arrogant, self-righteous, and, worst of all, destructive of those around them. More

Quote Abraham Lincoln:  

"Property is the fruit of labor. Property is desirable, is a positive good in the world. That some should be rich shows that others may become rich and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise. Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently to build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence."  

Nocturne in Black and White

The respected black commentator and philosopher Thomas Sowell has described the growing toll of black-on-white violence as a race war. I would take issue with that only because "war" implies a level of organization that supersedes that of the flash mobs.

 

Most of the riot organizers have moved on to cozier job titles, like Al Sharpton, who has gone from organizing riots and boycotts to holding down a desk at MSNBC and serving as the unofficial White House liaison to the black community. The old riots were usually a combination of organized protest and opportunistic violence. The organized riot is on the decline, but the opportunistic violence is still very much with us.

There are no shortage of what, the media occasionally describes as, "racially-motivated-attacks". Every society has its outside groups targeted for opportunistic violence. The people you beat up and rob when you're bored and there's nothing good on television. These are people whose lives are worth less than yours, against whom your group holds an enduring grudge against and whom the authorities will not intervene to protect.

In America, the outsider is perversely the majority. There was a time when opportunistic violence was white-on-black, but the authorities, both legal and cultural, have done an excellent job of stamping that out. Black-on-white opportunistic violence remains commonplace because it's safe in the same way that a 19th Century lynch mob was safe. While technically illegal, there is little public outrage over it, and the odds of being prosecuted for it are better than any other form of violence. The flash mob, like the lynch mob, relies on safety in numbers, the complicity of the authorities and the weakness of the system to beat the law.

Imagine for a moment that you are a black teenager or twenty-something, living in a blighted neighborhood, with few job prospects, a lot of free time and a lot of social networking. You know that white people are "bad", not so much because of the street agitators telling you that white people are the devil, but because the entire society that you live in has been telling you that from Day One.

If you made it through high school, which you probably did because every city and town is obsessed with making sure that every student gets through twelve years of educational promotion, then you learned that there is a race war on. A war of white-on-black that began with the slave ships, continued through segregation, and continues today with every report on white racism. Everything you learn tells you that you are on the losing side of a war, that your people are just as good, if not better, yet are being kept down, kept in prison and kept out of power, because of white power.

The Nation of Islam believes that white oppression is genetically coded, but that's a view that is marginally distinguishable from mainstream liberalism, which insists that white privilege makes all people part of the oppressive side to an extent that leaves them unable to understand the oppressed or to pass judgment on their suffering and outrage.

Your textbooks, unlike Malcolm X, a man you are far more likely to respect than Martin Luther King, who was a doughy preacher type, don't say that white people are the devil. They do however convey that same exact message. The world is a messed up place, and most of your textbooks tell you that white people made it that way. The news, when you watch it, talks often about white racism. The movies only occasionally have black heroes, but they always have white villains. 

BENADOR: On Memorial Week, Honor the Fallen, Defend Our Troops   May 30, 2012 11:52 am

by Eliana Benador

Memorial Day was established by General John Logan on May 5, 1868, and was observed for the first time on May 30, 1868.  They placed flowers on the graves of Union and Confederate soldiers at Arlington National Cemetery. Ironically, the first state to officially recognize the holiday was New York in 1873. 

Iran's Offensive in America's Backyard   May 30, 2012 11:05 am

While much attention lately has rightly been focused on Iran's nuclear weapons program, the mullahs have also been busy elsewhere-especially in America's own backyard. During Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's two-term presidency, Iran has expanded its activity in the Western Hemisphere to an alarming degree.  Tehran has found hospitable terrain among some of Latin America's most anti-American regimes, including in Bolivia, Ecuador, Nicaragua and Venezuela.

Nocturne in Black and White   May 30, 2012 10:52 am

The respected black commentator and philosopher Thomas Sowell has described the growing toll of black-on-white violence as a race war. I would take issue with that only because "war" implies a level of organization that supersedes that of the flash mobs.  Most of the riot organizers have moved on to cozier job titles, like Al Sharpton, who has gone from organizing riots and boycotts to holding down a desk at MSNBC and serving as the unofficial White House liaison to the black community. The old riots were usually a combination of organized protest and opportunistic violence. The organized riot is on the decline, but the opportunistic violence is still very much with us.

Can One Be Truly Black and Patriotic?   May 30, 2012 10:41 am

Famed TV minster Bishop T. D. Jakes said when your "perception is off", you do not realize or appreciate the true value of what you have until you have lost it. Is it fair to say that, in general, black America's perception is off regarding their country which is, in reality, a tremendous gift from God?  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.

Canda Moves to Cut Energy Taxes and Regulation as U.S. Energy Policy Falters   May 29, 2012 08:17 pm

Our Northern Neighbor Moves to Cut Energy Taxes/Regulation to Boost Its Economy, But Not the U. S.

The United States should start taking lessons from Canada regarding oil development and its relationship to a pro-growth regulatory and tax structure. Canadian production of oil sands in northern Alberta is expected to reach 4.1 million barrels a day by 2020, up from last year's production level of 1.6 million barrels per day. This area in Canada is the world's third largest crude oil resource.[i] Unlike the United States, Canada's budget treats its energy resources as assets that should be used for the public good.

20 Signs That Society Is Breaking Down And That America Has Been Overrun By Psychos   May 29, 2012 07:44 pm

In order for a society to function successfully, people need to be able to trust one another.  Unfortunately, we are rapidly getting to the point where it is very difficult to trust anyone and society is breaking down.  Just think about it.  Do you trust most politicians?  Do you trust most lawyers?  Do you trust most bankers?  Do you trust the police?  As you will read about below, even doctors are going absolutely bonkers these days.  So if the "upper crust" of society cannot even be trusted, then what about everyone else?  Sadly, the truth is that America has been overrun by psychos.

In the Sixteenth Year of Obama   May 29, 2012 03:01 pm

A Scientific Romance of the Year 2024

In the sixteenth year of Obama, Marc and Julie obtained a carbon pass and set off on a light rail journey in a comfortable semi-transparent carriage traveling at a top speed of 30 kilometers per hour whose motive power came entirely from sunshine. As it was a cloudy day, the train moved slowly, often stopping for hours at a time, before sluggishly stirring into motion again, but the young couple did not mind. Obtaining a carbon pass was difficult enough that the very experience of traveling was new to them, as it was to most citizens of the USNAE or the United States of North America and Europe as the grand unified republic was known.

 

When should free speech be limited?

According to the Muslim Students Association (MSA), apparently when it hears speech it deems "anti-Muslim."

According to the Fox News story below (highlights added), a Purdue University professor who made comments on his Facebook page about Muslims was investigated after complaints by the MSA and other faculty.

The professor then filed a lawsuit alleging the investigation violated his free speech rights.

One of the faculty members expressed concern for the Saudi students on campus. She went so far as to argue that the "anti-Muslim" comments were comparable to yelling fire in a crowded theater. The implication is that the comments put Muslim students in danger and should be prohibited.

Someone needs to remind this professor who complained that we're not living in Saudi Arabia, where speech deemed offensive to Muslims is prohibited and can put a non-Muslim in serious jeopardy. We still have free speech protections here, whether that speech is offensive to Muslims, Jews or Christians.

Professor sues Purdue after probe of his anti-Muslim Facebook comments
  By Mike Jaccarino


FoxNews.com
  Purdue University Professor Maurice Eisenstein says the school's investigation - which cleared him - still violated his free speech rights.

A Purdue University professor has filed a freedom of speech suit against his school and five co-workers after getting in hot water for inflammatory statements about Muslims on his Facebook page.

Tenured political science professor Maurice Eisenstein was cleared by a university investigation into his Facebook comments, which included a reference to "the idiot Mohammad [sic}, may his name be cursed." But Eisenstein claims the investigation nonetheless damaged his reputation and disputes a finding that he retaliated against other faculty members.

"I was trying to be challenging as a professor, and do what I was trained to do," Eistenstein, who joined the school's faculty in 1993, told FoxNews.com.

The flap unfolded late last year, when Eisenstein posted a photo of the aftermath of a massacre of Nigerian Christians, purportedly carried out by African Muslims, on his Facebook page.

"Where are the 'moderate' Muslims' reaction to this? Oh, I forgot they are still looking at the earth as flat ...," Eisenstein wrote above the post.

Other members of the faculty, as well as members of the Muslim Student Association, learned of the comments and went to school officials. Eisenstein maintained that the post was on his personal page and in no way reflected on the school. History professor Miriam Joyce, who later filed a harassment complaint against Eisenstein, told FoxNews.com the comments could alienate students.

"We have Saudi students," Joyce said. "We have other Muslim students. This is wrong. It creates an unpleasant and unwelcoming atmosphere. "I'm concerned that Muslim students and their parents will get the wrong idea about my school."

The Muslim Student Association could not be reached for comment.

The school's investigation, led by Chancelor Thomas Keon, cleared Eisenstein in January of violating the college's free-speech and anti-harassment rules. However, he received a written reprimand for allegedly retaliating against Joyce, as well as a second professor, Saul Lerner.

Eisenstein denied retaliating or harassing his colleagues, but acknowledged a bitter e-mail exchange with Lerner and denies making a callous reference to Joyce's son, a former hedge fund manager who committed suicide.

Eisenstein said his freedom-of-speech suit is the result of the university's investigation into his comments about Muslims - even though the probe ostensibly cleared him.

"When you investigate free speech, you chill free speech," Eisenstein said. "How am I supposed to do my job without free speech. I've changed. Every time I go into a classroom, I look around and wonder who will complain about what I say."

Eisenstein enlisted the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) in bringing his suit against the Big Ten school.

"This is not the first time and it won't be the last time we will see a university punish a student or professor for constitutionally protected speech on Facebook," said FIRE President Greg Lukianoff. "Professors at public universities should not have to go to court to defend their free speech rights."

Joyce said freedom of speech shouldn't permit a professor at a public school to gratuitously denigrate the beliefs of others, including students at the school.

"I'm all for free speech. I want it for me and I want it for everyone else, but there's got to be some judgment used," Joyce said. "You don't cry fire if there isn't a fire and then say it was protected by free speech.

"I'm a [history] teacher," she added. "I'd rather be dealing with Bahrain than Eisenstein, anyway."

  Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/05/18/professor-sues-purdue-after-probe-his-anti-muslim-facebook-comments/#ixzz1vp6PUbyS
 

Hope For The Future

-DrewM.

The summer dog days of news are here so let's go with some feel good stuff and bit of break from the daily cesspool that is politics.

A 9 year old boy gets his hands on a free trip to 9 year old paradise, Disney World, and then gave it away.  

Brendan Haas created the "Soldier for a Soldier" Facebook page in February. Inspired by the story of the guy who, through a series of trades, turned a paper clip into a house, Haas started with a toy soldier and eventually traded up to $900 worth of Disney gift certificates, airfare and hotel credits.

On Memorial Day, Haas gave the trip to the family of U.S. Army Lt. Timothy Steele, a 25-year-old soldier killed in Afghanistan last year. According to NBC's WHDH-TV affiliate, Haas pulled the name of Liberty Hope Steele, the fallen soldier's now 2-year-old daughter, out of a hat, and surprised the Steele family at their Duxbury, Mass., home.

I'm thinking as soon as word of this gets to the Disney folks, young Mr. Haas will be going to Disney as well.

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Attorney General Eric Holder, the IRS, and the liberal lawyers at the ACLU will brief several hundred pastors in the African American community on how to participate in the presidential election -- which the Congressional Black Caucus chair expects will help President Obama's campaign.

"We will have representatives from nine denominations who actually pastor somewhere in the neighborhood of about 10 million people, and we're going to first of all equip them with the information they need to know about what they can say and what they cannot say in the church that would violate their 501c3 status with the IRS," Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, D-Mo., told MSNBC today.

"In fact, we're going to have the IRS administrator there, we're going to have the Attorney General Eric Holder there, we're going to have the lawyers' organization from around the country, the ACLU -- all giving ministers guidance about what they can and cannot do," he noted.

Cleaver said they would not tell pastors which candidate to support. They will let them know who to regard as the bad guys, though (hint: not Democrats). "We're going to talk about some of the draconian laws that have cropped up around the country as a result of the 17 percent increase in African American votes," Cleaver said, describing voter ID laws as a form of Jim Crow-style "poll tax" on seniors and black voters.

The CBC chairman is confident that "President Obama is going to get 95 percent of the [African American] vote," and wants to keep that turnout high. "We want to let them know that there is a theological responsibility to participate in the political process, at least in the Judeo-Christian tradition," he said.

Polls with Obama even close might be explained by a surge in support from "Power Ranger" voters

May 30, 2012 06:13 am | Coach Collins

 By Kevin "Coach" Collins

 Barack Obama is not winning any voting bloc he lost in 2008 and he is not doing better with any bloc he did win four years ago.   

 Nevertheless, the "experts" keep telling us this race is tied or Obama is leading. The only way to explain these "expert'" pronouncements is that Obama has captured the coveted Power Ranger vote.  Hey if dead people and illegal aliens can't vote anymore toy dummies must be filling in the gaps for the real ones! As to real people here's the truth of where they stand on Obama.      

 Catholics

1) A recent Pew poll found Obama went from up 9points to down 5 points with Catholics just since March. This translates to a shift of 18 million voters.

 Evangelicals

2) An April Pew poll found Evangelical Christians favor Mitt Romney 73/20 and White Catholics support him 57/37.

Jews

3) A Knowledge ... Continue Reading:Polls with Obama even close might be explained by a surge in support from "Power Ranger" voters

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American Minute May 29

May 29, 2012 06:13 pm | Coach Collins

  Awarded the Navy's medal of heroism during World War II and the Pulitzer Prize for his book Profiles in Courage, he was the youngest elected President, serving just over 1,000 days before being shot.
This was John F. Kennedy, born MAY 29, 1917.
Kennedy stated in his Inaugural, January 20, 1961:
"I have sworn before you and Almighty God the same solemn oath our forbears prescribed nearly a century and three quarters ago. The world is very different now.
For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life."
John F. Kennedy continued:
"Yet the same revolutionary beliefs for which our forebears fought are still at issue around the globe - The belief that the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God."
Writing to Brazil's President, Janio da Silva Quadros, ... Continue Reading:American Minute May 29

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New York statute will ban internet posting of anonymous comments

May 29, 2012 01:00 pm | Coach Collins

by Doug Book,  staff writer

 Two New York legislators have taken a page from the playbook of aspiring internet regulator Joe Lieberman by sponsoring a bill which would make the posting of anonymous comments illegal. The bill written by Republican State Senators Dean Murray and Thomas O'Mara states:

"A web site administrator upon request shall remove any comments posted on his or her web site by an anonymous poster unless such anonymous poster agrees to attach his...name to the post and confirms that his...IP address, legal name and home address are accurate. All web site administrators shall have a contact number or e-mail address for such removal requests clearly visible in any sections where comments are posted." (1)

The stated purpose of the Act is"...to amend the civil rights law, in relation to protecting a person's right to know who is behind an anonymous internet posting." Apparently it has now become a civil right to know ... Continue Reading:New York statute will ban internet posting of anonymous comments

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Chronicle · May 30, 2012

The Foundation

"Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclination, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence." --John Adams

Editorial Exegesis

"Mitt Romney 'warned about a "prairie fire of debt." That's what he said,' Mr. Obama said on the Des Moines fairgrounds on Thursday, as if he couldn't believe it either. ... 'What my opponent didn't tell you was that federal spending since I took office has risen at the slowest pace of any President in almost 60 years.' ... [P]ress secretary Jay Carney chimed in [saying] ... to White House reporters that they should not 'buy into the B.S. that you hear about spending and fiscal constraint with regard to this Administration....' Mr. Carney the media critic deeply sourced his view to someone named Rex Nutting, who wrote an 856-word column for MarketWatch that argued 'There has been no huge increase in spending under the current President, despite what you hear.' ... His accounting methods are, er, unusual. Mr. Nutting claims that Mr. Obama is only responsible for $140 billion worth of spending in his hyperactivist first year in office because ... the fiscal year technically begins on October 1, 2009. Therefore he says Mr. Obama had no control over the budget, though in February 2009 he did famously manage to pass an $800 billion stimulus that was supposed to be a one-time deal. Mr. Nutting then measures Mr. Obama's spending growth rate against an inflated 2009 baseline that includes the spending Mr. Obama caused but which he attributes to Mr. Bush. ... The larger conceptual error of the Nutting-Obama-Carney troika is neglecting to compare the budget to the size of the economy. The best perspective on how outlays, tax receipts and deficits change over time is as a share of GDP. ... Prior to Mr. Obama, the U.S. had not spent more than 23.5% of GDP ... since the end of World War II. Yet Mr. Obama has managed to exceed that four years in a row: 25.2% in 2009, 24.1% in 2010 and 2011, and an estimated 24.3% in 2012, up from a range between 18%-21% from 1994-2008. ... As for that prairie fire of debt, Mr. Obama can fairly blame $1 trillion or so of the $5 trillion debt increase of the last four years on Mr. Bush. But what about the other $4 trillion? Debt held by the public now stands at 74.2% of the economy, up from 40.5% at the end of 2008 -- and rising rapidly." --The Wall Street Journal

What responsibility does Obama bear for our fiscal state?

Essential Liberty

"The Origination Clause in Article I, Section 7 states: 'All Bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives; but the Senate may propose or concur with Amendments as on other Bills.' ... The Founding Fathers required revenue measures to originate in the House because they wanted this authority to belong to the legislative body closest to the people. ... Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D., Nev.) has taken to thumbing his nose at this clear mandate. Recently, he publicly dismissed the Origination Clause as a 'hyper-technical budget issue,' raised by his Republican opponents as 'a fig leaf to hide their blatant obstruction.' ... One unnamed Senate staffer even speculated that the House's fealty to the Constitution 'may be part of some Republican plan.' ... Liberal Senate leaders, it seems, are determined to do what they want when they want to do it, Constitution or no Constitution. ... One of the chief operational principles of the current Senate seems to be, to paraphrase that famous line from Treasure of the Sierra Madre: 'Constitution? We don't need no stinking Constitution!' That's one more reason why the tea-party movement remains politically relevant more than three years after its birth." --Heritage Foundation's Michael G. Franc

Upright

"Barack Obama and his friends in the mainstream media, so called, can't believe that anyone could vote against someone as wonderful as he is (and they are). Only a bigot would vote against such a wonderful president. ... Sixteen states have offered Democratic voters an alternative to Barack Obama, either an actual candidate, 'Uncommitted,' or an opportunity to write in someone's name. So far 15 percent of those Democratic voters have done so. In five states where there has been an actual opponent, 27 percent voted against the president. In New Hampshire, 1 Democrat in 10 wrote in an alternative. Twenty percent of North Carolina Democrats voted for 'Uncommitted.' That's a lot of 'bigots.'" --Washington Times editor emeritus Wesley Pruden

"What do you get when you cross 3 pediatricians, 4 internists, 3 family doctors, 2 epidemiologists, 2 nurses, a PhD, an obstetrician, a perinatologist and an occupational medicine doctor? Unfortunately, this is not a joke. ... This would be the U.S. Preventative Services Task Force (USPSTF), an ad hoc committee charged with making recommendations about clinical preventative services. They have just issued their findings that there is no role for routine PSA screening in men to detect prostate cancer.... You would not go to a pediatrician or obstetrician if you had this disease, so how does it make sense to aggregate 16 such people and have them opine on a subject that they know about only from a book? ... Someone in Washington has decided what the value of a human life is, and what would be the acceptable cost associated with saving it. This is called 'comparative effectiveness' and is what happens in a socialized healthcare system, like in England, where resources need to be allocated prudently, and healthcare is rationed. This is the essence of Obamacare." --columnist Hal C. Scherz, M.D.

"At Cannes, where anti-capitalist movies are always a hit, Brad Pitt's newest venture, 'Killing Them Softly,' is touted as a seething indictment of the American system. 'America isn't a country -- it's a business' is apparently the film's central insight. Set against the backdrop of the 2008 financial crisis, the film was reportedly financed by Megan Ellison, daughter of billionaire businessman Larry Ellison. No wonder that when these kids grow up, some of them make documentaries about how vast conspiracies keep the electric car and, no doubt, the Everlasting Gobstopper off the market. Even more of them uncritically accept this stuff. After all, everyone knows big businessmen are evil." --columnist Jonah Goldberg

The Demo-gogues

Predictions: "This election will be closer than the last one. People don't remember the last election was close. We're gonna have to contend with even more negative ads, even more cynicism and nastiness and just plain foolishness." --Barack Obama

Fulfilling those predictions: "I'm running to pay down our debt in a way that's balanced and responsible. After inheriting a $1 trillion deficit, I signed $2 trillion of spending cuts into law." --Barack Obama

"The challenge we've got is that too many folks aren't on the same page. We've got too many of my dear Republican friends in Congress that have been standing in the way of some steps that we could take that would make a difference at the moment." --Barack Obama

"Nobody wants a handout. Nobody wants to get something for nothing." --Barack Obama

Straw man: "We don't need another political fight about ending a woman's right to choose, or getting rid of Planned Parenthood or taking away affordable birth control." --Barack Obama turning an argument about government's role on its head

Poor taste: "Finally, I do want to acknowledge a man who has played a major role in diminishing inequality in Massachusetts and other spheres, and that's Hubie Jones. ... [I]'m particularly pleased that Hubie got an honorary degree today. You know, when you get an honorary degree they give you one of these and Hubie, I think you now got a hoodie you can wear and no one will shoot at you." --Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) with a "joke" referencing Trayvon Martin's hoodie

Dezinformatsia

Non Compos Mentis: "I feel ... uncomfortable about the word [hero being applied to fallen American soldiers] because it seems to me that it is so rhetorically proximate to justifications for more war. Um, and, I don't want to obviously desecrate or disrespect memory of anyone that's fallen, and obviously there are individual circumstances in which there is genuine, tremendous heroism, you know, hail of gunfire, rescuing fellow soldiers, and things like that. But it seems to me that we marshal this word in a way that is problematic. But maybe I'm wrong about that." --MSNBC's Chris Hayes (Hayes did, in fact, admit that he was wrong and apologized.)

Alien thought: "I actually have a serious proposal which is that we have to get a bunch of scientists to tell us that we're facing a threatened alien invasion, and in order to be prepared for that alien invasion we have to do things like build high-speed rail. And the, once we've recovered, we can say, 'Look, there were no aliens.' But look, I mean, whatever it takes because right now we need somebody to spend, and that somebody has to be the U.S. government." --New York Times columnist Paul Krugman

Drool on the chin: "There have been rumors -- if the president is not re-elected [dramatic 'God forbid!' face], or that in the future, that you might consider running for political office. Would you ever? You would be a very popular candidate." --Barbara Walters to Michelle Obama

Newspulper Headlines:

Out on a Limb: "Dickerson: Election Still About the Economy" --CBSNews.com

Longest Books Ever Written: "How the Recovery Went Wrong" --The Wall Street Journal

We Blame George W. Bush: "Still at It: Gore Blames 'Dirty Energy and Dirty Money' for 'Dirty Weather,' 'Extreme Climate Events'" --DailyCaller.com

We Blame Global Warming: "Fired for Being 'Too Hot,' New Jersey Woman Claims" --Reuters

News You Can Use: "A User's Guide to Smoking Pot With Barack Obama" --BuzzFeed.com

The Other 7,999,850,000 of Us Will Die of Other Causes: "Death Ray: Global Warming Will Kill Over 150,000 by 2099" --Washington Examiner website

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

Village Idiots

Ready, fire, aim: "Well, this is nothing to do with being anti-business. This is a criticism -- and a good criticism quite honestly -- of Mitt Romney's only thesis for being president of the United States, that he's some kind of economic savior. He's very good at making money for his partners. He's not so good at creating jobs. We've seen that time and time again and I think the American people and voters deserve to understand what Mitt Romney means when he says he has the keys to being an economic savior." --Obama campaign adviser Robert Gibbs

Derailed train of thought: "It seems like [Republicans] act as though, some wiping out of people, some of the right-wing, is all right. It's not all right to do to any innocent people. If you had war and people that's one thing, but to wipe out innocent people just because of who they are like what was done in Hitler's Germany or what was done to Native Americans is not justifiable." --race hustler Al Sharpton saying we're not sure what

Editor's Note: We honor those who have fallen to protect the freedoms that we enjoy. Ironically, free speech is one of those freedoms the Left is more than happy to abuse by throwing insults at those who have defended their rights. Here's what some leftists had to say on Twitter regarding Memorial Day:

"Why do people regard soldiers as heroes? They're paid murderers who kill on the orders of their government. Nothing heroic about that." --ConorFurlong

"Fighting for our freedom? Every other 1st world country doesn't fight, and they have more freedom than us. Get a clue, f--- the troops." --JoeyxParmenter

"Memorial Day only validates a sickness of human history called War. Soldiers are murderers no matter where they're from." --TezmanianMusic

"Every US solider [sic] that's died since the end of WWII died for NOTHING. Their lives were worthless. They were not patriots but MURDERERS." --restorereality

"[W]anted to make sure I threw out a heartfelt F--- THE TROOPS for this Memorial Day." --roastydog

"[A]ll soldiers are either rapists, murderers or enablers of the same. This is not a false statement." --moewytchdog

Short Cuts

"Facebook's price stabilized at thirty-two dollars a share [last] Wednesday, giving investors a realistic stock value at last. No one had any idea what it was really worth. The only reason Facebook went public is because they couldn't figure out the privacy settings either." --comedian Argus Hamilton

"A Washington, DC, elementary school declared last Friday to be Trayvon Martin Day. And in honor of Trayvon Martin, the school reclassified all the Latino students as White." --NewsBusted's Jodi Miller

"First lady Michelle Obama said that if she could trade places with anyone in the world, it would be Beyoncé. Of course it got awkward when Barack was like, 'I'm game!'" --Jimmy Fallon

"Border Patrol agents in California discovered 13 illegal immigrants being smuggled in a phony UPS van. Eric Holder is furious, saying they should've been overnighted by FedEx." --Fred Thompson

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

(Please pray for our Armed Forces standing in harm's way around the world, and for their families -- especially families of those fallen Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, Marines and Coast Guardsmen, who granted their lives in defense of American liberty.)

Today's Headlines:  Wednesday, May 30, 2012

EPA Celebrates the 'Crushing' of One Million Working Refrigerators

Rev. Wright on Obamas: 'Church Is Not Their Thing'

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Obama Administration Heralds Green Investments as 'Progressing and Succeeding'

Obama: 'Nobody Wants to Get Something for Nothing'

Obama Administration: $3.7 Million in Summer Jobs Spending on Watching Birds, Counting Fish

As WHO Marks 'No Tobacco Day,' African Farmers Stand Up to '21st Century Imperialism'

First Lady: No Matter What Happens in November, Daughters 'Are Good Either Way'

ACLU Challenging Illinois' Same-Sex Marriage Ban

Pakistani Judges Convicting People of 'Blasphemy' Without Evidence, Says U.N. Expert

Syria Calls Expulsion of Its Diplomats 'Unprecedented Hysteria'

Marvel's 'Astonishing X-Men' Pursues 'Gay Marriage' for Superhero 'Northstar'

As Syrian Deaths Mount, No Unified Response From U.N. Security Council

Small Businesses Shunning Obamacare Tax Credit

COMMENTARY:

'For Greater Glory' -- A Movie Built to Last
By Terence P. Jeffrey
Hollywood may not think "For Greater Glory" will appeal to the 14-year-olds they are trying to reach, but the film itself features a 14-year-old boy whose real-life story delivers a more powerful and enduring message than any make-believe video game or cartoon ever will.

Viva Cristo Rey!
By L. Brent Bozell III
"For Greater Glory" is a full-fledged major motion picture with grade-A talent. And it's wonderful.

Michelle Obama's 'Civilian' Act Is Hard To Swallow
By Michelle Malkin
The first lady is on a whirlwind publicity tour for her hefty new food and gardening book ($30), which the White House hopes will bolster Team Obama's favorability ratings. I'd say it's a classic recipe for rank campaign hypocrisy and media double standards.

Texas
By Rich Galen
I, and many other long-time watchers of the political process, said way back in the beginning that Romney had learned a lot in losing to McCain four years ago and had re-tooled his campaign to be ready to run a marathon.

NEWSPAPER ROUNDUP:

Commerce Dept. considers labeling Arab Americans as a disadvantaged minority
House to vote Wednesday on bill outlawing sex-selective abortions
Former U.S. Rep. Artur Davis switching to GOP
White House defends drone attacks, 'kill list'
Romney campaign misspells the word "America" on its new iPhone app
Conservatives campaign against health insurance exchanges
Chicago sending "interrupters" into the streets to mediate gang conflicts
10 dead, 43 wounded in Chicago's bloody holiday weekendConservative groups target farm bill
Firefighters union calls Chicago mayor's plan to cut costs 'ridiculous'
Suspended GSA executive back on the job
Rep. Barney Frank jokes about academic "hoodie"

House Set to Pass Two Bills to Boost Border Security

The U.S. House of Representatives is set to pass two bills Wednesday aimed at strengthening border security.

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Senate Expands E-2 Program

Before leaving for a two-week long recess, the Senate quietly passed via unanimous consent a bill to expand the E-2 visa program to include Israeli nationals.

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Senate Appropriators use 2013 DHS Bill to Expand Visa Waiver Program, Cut Key Programs

Last week, the Senate Appropriations Committee approved by a vote of 27-3 its version of the FY 2013 Department of Homeland Security (DHS) appropriations.

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Foreign Students Snatch American Jobs

Each year, the State Department recruits 100,000 foreign university students to travel to the United States to take high-demand summer jobs.

Wednesday, May 30, 2012

To: Friends & Supporters

From: Gary L. Bauer


COUNTDOWN TO VICTORY: 160 DAYS TO THE 2012 ELECTIONS


Romney Secures Nomination

After taking 69% of the vote in yesterday's Texas primary, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney won the final delegates he needed to secure the 2012 Republican presidential nomination. Speaking to supporters in Las Vegas last night, Romney said:

"It's an honor and a privilege ... and a great responsibility. And I know the road to 1,144 was long and hard, but I also know that the road to November 6, is also going to be long, it's going to be hard and it's going to be worth it because we're going to take back the White House and get America right again."

Congratulations, Governor Romney. In 160 days, we can and we must end the Obama nightmare!


U.N. Me

The United Nations has been in the headlines lately. Demonstrating just how impotent the organization is, more than 100 civilians were massacred in Syria last week in spite of the U.N.'s negotiated ceasefire. And days before that atrocity, news broke that the people charged with ending corruption and fraud within the U.N. "are often not qualified" and "hampered by potential conflicts of interest."

Hard-working American taxpayers provide billions of dollars to the U.N. each year. And what are we getting for it? You can find out June 1st by watching "U.N. Me" in theaters or through video on demand.

While the film is rated PG-13, the subject matter it is definitely intended for the most mature teenagers and adults. But Ami Horowitz' sarcastic wit keeps you entertained while the shocking details of corruption and incompetence grab your attention.

I'm proud to promote "U.N. Me" in order to expose this outrageous abuse of taxpayers' money. Click here to watch a trailer. Then see the film in theaters this weekend or enjoy it in the comfort of your own home through iTunes or your cable company's On Demand feature. Please tell your friends and family members about "U.N. Me."


Another Democrat Abandons Obama's Party

Yesterday I told you about Jo Ann Nardelli, the Catholic, pro-life, former Pennsylvania Democratic state committeewoman who joined the GOP when Obama and Biden embraced same-sex "marriage." Today Artur Davis confirmed that he too is joining the Republican Party.

What makes Davis' switch significant? If a former gubernatorial candidate and four-term member of Congress switched from Republican to Democrat a few years ago, the left-wing media would have gleefully reported that lawmakers were abandoning the GOP over George W. Bush's extremism.

But even worse for the left, Davis is black! Imagine that -- a black Democrat joining the Republican Party in the age of Obama. Read Davis' statement explaining his switch here.


Lessons From The Medal Of Freedom Awards

President Obama awarded the Medal of Freedom to more than a dozen recipients yesterday. It is the highest honor the president can award to a civilian for their service to the United States. But the ceremony also provided two important lessons about this administration.

First, in spite of the tingling in Chris Matthews' leg, this is not the smartest White House in history. The media rejoiced when Obama was elected because he would not embarrass us like that "cowboy" Bush. But Obama seriously offended our ally Poland yesterday when he referred to "Polish death camps" while honoring Jan Karski, who exposed the Nazi concentration camps in Poland. It may seem like a minor slip of the tongue, but Polish officials are furious, and blasting the White House for its "ignorance and incompetence."

Obama's decision to award the Medal of Freedom to Dolores Huerta highlights his ideological extremism. While Obama praised Huerta for her work organizing farm workers, he neglected to mention that she is an admirer of Hugo Chavez and an honorary chair of the Democratic Socialists of America. Huerta also made headlines for saying "Republicans hate Latinos."


Is Obama Organizing Black Pastors?

One of the most frustrating aspects of my work is the reticence of many pastors to engage in the public policy process. Every election year left-wing groups send out intimidating letters warning pastors to not put their tax exempt status in jeopardy. Sadly, these letters have the desired effect of cowing many pastors into silence.

But the side that is committed to "fundamentally transforming" America is not so hesitant. This week the Conference of National Black Churches is meeting in Washington, D.C. Dominating their agenda today is role of the church in the 2012 election.

Attorney General Eric Holder delivered the keynote address this morning. Holder's remarks were followed by a session on combating voter ID laws, which included representatives from the ACLU and other left-wing legal groups. This afternoon two top officials of the IRS addressed the conference. That was followed by panel discussion entitled "Voting Rights Call To Action." Tomorrow the conference will hold a "conversation" about same-sex "marriage."

There is tremendous irony in the fact that blacks are among the most religious Americans, yet they vote overwhelmingly for a party that is increasingly hostile to faith and family. But at what point do scriptural truths about the sanctity of life and marriage trump loyalty to a party or a person?


Land Under Fire

Dr. Richard Land is a fixture in Washington, D.C. He has been representing the public policy interests of Southern Baptists as president of Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission since 1988. Dr. Land is a good friend and has been a stalwart ally in the fight for family, faith and freedom.

In addition to his Washington work, he also hosts a weekly radio show. Recently, Dr. Land commented on the Trayvon Martin case and expressed his outrage at the race baiting antics of Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. Sensing an opportunity to take down one of the pro-family movement's most influential leaders, the left pounced and accused Land of racism. In addition, charges of plagiarism were made against him.

I've known Richard for years and have always respected him as a man of the utmost character and integrity. It is inconceivable that these charges are true. But they remind me of the attacks on Rush Limbaugh and other conservative leaders, including me. The left never misses an opportunity to try to silence conservative voices, and it goes for the jugular every time.