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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.
Last night, Glenn focused on the importance of commitment. He was the first to admit, a lot of last night's show was something you had heard before - but it's important to start at the beginning and to make sure you know what you believe before you get put into action. And tonight, Glenn revealed ways for you to really get moving!
Tonight, the focus of the show was "Activate" - and it was all about the election and how you can make sure that one way or another - 2012 is a year for a mandate for or against the progressives. And if you think it doesn't matter just take a look at what is happening right now in Wisconsin. Progressives and unions are doing everything they can to make sure that Walker loses. It's a microcosm to what is happening around the country, and Glenn thought it was so important that he recapped it on tonight's show (in under three minutes!):
Editor's Note: We at GCC are standing by SUA staff, the original source of this report was from a person who spoke with service members in theater.
The sources' story was conveyed as printed, and it was confirmed by military personnel who did not want their names published.
Official statements were not forthcoming and no commentary was added.
SUA and Gold Coast Chronicle made numerous attempts to get official responses, but none were forthcoming
Friday, June 8, 2012 4:40 PM EST - SUA has learned through various sources that an unprovoked attack on the US Navy occurred this morning in the Straits of Hormuz. CVN-65.
The USS Enterprise aircraft carrier and its group were reportedly attacked by no less then 4 sophisticated jets.
On This Day in 1964, Democrats Filibustered the Civil Rights Act
Posted by Jim Hoft on Sunday, June 10, 2012
June 10, 1964, was a dramatic day in the United States Senate. For the first time in its history, cloture was invoked on a civil rights bill, ending a record-breaking filibuster by Democrats that had consumed fifty-seven working days. The hero of the hour was minority leader Senator Everett McKinley Dirksen (R-Ill.).
On this day in 1964, Everett Dirksen (R-IL), the Republican Leader in the U.S. Senate, condemned the Democrats' 57-day filibuster against the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Leading the Democrats in their opposition to civil rights for African-Americans was Senator Robert Byrd (D-WV). Byrd, who got into politics as a recruiter for the Ku Klux Klan, spoke against the bill for fourteen straight hours. Democrats still call Robert Byrd "the conscience of the Senate."
In his speech, Senator Dirksen called on the Democrats to end their filibuster and accept racial equality.
Michael Zak wrote about this in his book Back to Basics for the Republican Party and reminds us that Democrats, the party of Slavery, Secession, Segregation and the KKK... fought against equality.
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.
Robertson, along with co-host David Toy, Jim Seigfreid, Allen and Peggy as we confront the issues of the day with Constitutional solutions to the problems we were warned about by the Founders of this, the greatest nation to ever shine a light on the world. Our guests include some of the best and the brightest commentators and Patriots around.
Glenn heard your requests and decided to make the GBTV documentary, Rumors of War III: Target U.S., available on DVD! As a GBTV Plus subscriber you can watch this stunning documentary on demand. Glenn said this is one of the most important hours of television he has been a part of yet - now you have the chance to own the DVD and share it with your friends and family.
America is under attack and the enemy isn't an ocean away, it's much closer than you think. The problem is 99% of Americans don't know it. This documentary brings you THE TRUTH about what's really happening on our borders. The connections revealed between the Muslim Brotherhood and top ranking positions in our government are unbelievable. The War on Terror is NOT over.We can't rely on "honest" journalists to get this information to the public, so we are counting on YOU.
All GBTV subscribers receive an exclusive discount on this DVD. If you are a GBTV subscriber, CLICK HERE to learn how to take advantage of this exclusive discount.
THE FILM NEITHER PARTY WANTS YOU TO SEE.
FEAR OF A BLACK REPUBLICAN begins with the simple question... Does the Republican Party really want more African Americans? To find an answer to that question, a filmmaker journeys to find out why there aren't more Black Republicans and what that means for his own Republican Party and the Two-Party Political System in America.
FEAR OF A BLACK REPUBLICAN 2012 Election Trailer
Filmed and edited over a six year period, FEAR OF A BLACK REPUBLICAN examines why there are so few Black Republicans and how this affects the U.S. political system today. From the Civil War to the Great Depression, the GOP was the Party for many African-Americans, but today, barely 10% of African Americans consider themselves to be Republican and Urban areas are no longer considered competitive parts of America's electoral map. Beginning in his hometown of Trenton, NJ, independent filmmaker Kevin Williams speaks with BOTH Democrats and Republicans while taking a non-partisan journey over four years and two Presidential Elections to find out if the Two-Party Political System is failing his city and the country. In taking a self-critical look at his own Republican Party, Williams explores the GOP's efforts in urban areas versus the suburbs, the Democratic Party's success in retaining the African American vote, the experiences of Black Republicans with Democrats and their own Party, and what this all means for the rest of us. After taking the audience from Presidents Bush to Obama and through the 19th century to the 21st century, the result is a moving film which audiences won't likely forget.
Director's Statement:
"Before I started shooting, I was just a voter wondering why things weren't getting better after each election. Picking up my camera changed everything for me. My intention with this film is to find out if our political system supports the decaying of Urban America, what that means and what if anything can be done about it. Journeying across the country and spending time with an important, but misunderstood segment of our society - Black Republicans, revealed a reality and an experience few will ever see. As race, politics, human nature and history all clash in this film, I know that as the Director, I am only opening the book on this subject matter and its implications for America." ~ Kevin J Williams Director
PA Premiere
June 14th, 7pm - Philadelphia $10
The Pearl Theater @ Avenue North
1600 North Broad Street @ Oxford Street
1 block South of The Liacouras Center
MoveOn.org just sent out an email advising all their followers to call Governor Scott, because "We have just 24 hours to make sure Governor Rick Scott stops his all-out assault on Florida's Latino voters." Now, not only will Governor Scott's email inbox be full of MoveOn generated emails, his phone will be ringing off the wall with callers telling him to abandon his efforts and allow Florida's rolls to remain bloated beyond recognition.
The Department of Justice has ORDERED Florida NOT to remove non-citizens from the state's voter rolls. Yes, you read that right - and you can read more sordid details here and here.
Florida's Governor, Secretary of State, and Local Supervisors of Elections are now facing enormous pressure from the Federal government, so it is incredibly important that they hear from citizens across the country, encouraging them to stand strong.
We're asking you to join us, and patriot groups across Florida, as we work together to FLOOD the GOV with emails of support!
Every day this week, please send a short email to Florida's Governor and Secretary of State, in support of Free and Fair elections. When you write - tell personal stories. If you have witnessed voter fraud or seen issues in the polls, write about it. If you believe maintaining accurate voter rolls should be a priority, let them know. Always be cordial and polite - remember the media will be watching.
Because of Florida's "sunshine laws" on transparency, all elected officials' emails are public documents, so the MEDIA monitors these emails. Yes, the same media folk who are busily spinning a false narrative about Florida, demonizing them for daring to uphold election integrity and trying to sway public opinion against the state. These spinsters are closely monitoring the Governor's emails, along with the emails of the Secretary of State and Supervisors of Elections, to guage public response is. Special interests and vote fraud deniers will be out in droves; we need to FLOOD the GOVernment with emails that offset the deluge of email being sent by these groups.
The State of Florida must respond to the Department of Justice by tomorrow. Time is of the essence. If you believe having 180,000 non-citizens on Florida's voter rolls is unacceptable, then take 5 minutes to both email and call Governor Scott and let him know you stand with Florida, in their effort to uphold election integrity.
Our goal is for thousands of emails to reach the inboxes of Governor Scott and Secretary Detzner, supporting Florida and encouraging them to stand strong against the Feds.
Fellow patriots, there is a battle raging over our electoral process and the sanctity of our vote; the victor wins our country. Do not sit on the sidelines. Please email and call Governor Scott now.
FLOOD THE GOVernment -- send emails every day -- do not remain silent!
If our elections are not truly fair, we are not truly free....
Greetings folks,
Annual Flag Day observance
When: Thursday June 14 Where: Harleysville Savings Bank, 271 Main Street, Harleysville Time: 6:45PM
Note: This will take the place of our regular monthly meeting, which falls on this day. We will still have our planning session the following Tuesday June 19 @ 7:45pm and movie night the following Thursday June 21 @ 7pm.
Tom Smith's background is a common one in Pennsylvania and across the country, but one that is all too rare in the United States Senate-which may explain a great deal about how our country came to this point in our history.
Tom still lives on the farm in Armstrong County where he grew up. After graduating from Elderton High School in 1965, he postponed college to help his father tend that farm and supplemented his income by driving a school bus. Before too long, Tom had married his high school sweetheart, Saundy, started a family, and went to work in a local surface coal mine.
In 1989, Tom entered the coal business himself, mortgaging everything he had in the hope that he could build a better life for himself and his family. He succeeded, building a series of companies in a highly regulated industry through some tough economic times. When he sold the companies in 2010, they were mining more than a million tons of coal a year and employed over one-hundred people.
Wednesday, June 20, 2012 7-8:30 PM Location: National Constitution Center, 525 Arch Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106
"Conservatism is not about leaving people behind. Conservatism is about allowing people to catch up." (Marco Rubio)
There are very few politicians that have risen to national prominence as quickly as Marco Rubio. At age forty-one there is huge interest in and speculation about his political future. Will he be tapped by Mitt Romney to be his running mate? Will he run for President in 2016?
His story is detailed in his new book 'An American Son." Rubio is the son of parents who fled Cuba in the 1950's. Using the work ethic and tenacity instilled in him by his parents and grandfather, Rubio earned a law degree. As a young attorney he ran for the West Miami City Commission, a role that led to the Florida House of Representatives. In just six years he rose to Speaker of the House and became a leading advocate for free enterprise, better schools, limited government, and a fairer, simpler tax system. He found that he could connect with people across party lines while still upholding conservative values.
His U.S. Senate campaign started as an extreme long shot againstFlorida's popular incumbent governor, Charlie Crist. Rubio traveled the state with his message of empowerment and optimism. He upset Crist in both the primary and a dramatic three-way general election, after Crist quit the GOP to run as an independent.
Now Rubio speaks on the national stage about the challenges we face and the better future that's possible if we return to our founding principles. As he puts it , "Conservatism is not about leaving people behind. Conservatism is about allowing people to catch up."
In that vision, as in his family's story, Rubio proves that the American Dream is still alive for those who pursue it.
Tickets are $25.00 and include a hard cover copy of his brand new book 'An American Son."
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
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
An extremely important movie is coming this summer - Dinesh D'Souza - Obama & 2016
Dinesh D'Souza is author of many New York Times best sellers. The movie is from Gerald R. Molen, producer of Academy Award WinningSchindler's List.
It explains in plain language who Barack Obama really is, what he stands for, and the dangers of him being reelected for another four years.
Watch this short informative video preview of this movie and share it with others. It has already been seen by over 1,850,000 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.
The theme of FreePAC is "Restoring Freedom" and it will be held in conjunction with Glenn Beck's "Restoring Love" event on July 28th. FreePAC will not only feature Glenn, FreedomWorks Chairman Dick Armey, and me, but speeches from many of the biggest names in the freedom movement! FreePAC also provides attendees with exclusive grassroots materials, a unique grassroots training experience, and the latest in online mobilization strategy. Can you make it?
In about two weeks, these tickets will go on sale to the general public, so I wanted to make sure I invited you first.
I hope you can make it. More information can be found on FreePAC by clicking here.
In Liberty,
Matt Kibbe President & CEO, FreedomWorks
The U.S. Constitution
A Reader
Featuring 113 primary source documents, The U.S. Constitution: A Reader was developed for teaching the core course on the U.S. Constitution at Hillsdale College.
Divided into eleven sections with introductions by members of Hillsdale's Politics Department faculty, readings cover the principles of the American founding, the framing and structure of the Constitution, the secession crisis and the Civil War, the Progressive rejection of the Constitution, and the building of the administrative state based on Progressive principles.
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.
As a trusted reader of New Common Sense, the weekly e-mail from The Heritage Foundation, we wanted you to be the first to know about our new website ConstitutionOnline.com.
From the preamble to the 27
th
Amendment -- The Heritage Guide to the Constitution Online is a completely searchable reference tool with leading expert analysis of the Constitution. The site features clause by clause analysis of our timeless reference book, links to essays, as well as a teaching companion.
ConstitutionOnline.com provides clear, concise analysis for users who are trying to further their understanding of the Constitution.
No document is more central to securing "the Blessing of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity" than the United States Constitution, and no website is more thorough than ConstitutionOnline.com.
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.
Tonight, Sunday June 3rd, CUFI Founder and Chairman, Pastor John Hagee, will be announcing an exciting new CUFI initiative. You can click here to watch it live at 7:30 PM Eastern (6:30 PM Central, 5:30 PM Mountain, 4:30 PM Pacific). This link will not be live until 7:30 PM Eastern (6:30 PM Central, 5:30 PM Mountain, 4:30 PM Pacific) tonight.
Tonight, Pastor Hagee will be announcing the creation of the Israel Defense Fund. This emergency fund will enable CUFI to meet the major challenges we anticipate in the coming months.
CUFI has accomplished great things for Israel. But the times in which we live demand that we do even more -- and do so now!
We need to do more to defend Israel in the public square and in the media. The Israel Defense Fund will enable us to purchase more pro-Israel billboards across America as well as full-page newspaper ads as circumstances demand.
We need to do more to defend Israel on our college campuses. The Israel Defense Fund will enable us to train even more students and hold even more pro-Israel events on campuses across the country.
We need to do more to defend Israel before our leaders. The Israel Defense Fund will enable us to be more active than ever in educating our nation's leaders about the justice of Israel's cause.
Even if you can't watch the broadcast, don't miss out on the opportunity to be part of the Israel Defense Fund! Click here now to contribute.
We will not be silent. Together, we will do more than ever to stand up and speak up for Israel.
May God Bless You and Those that You Love,
David Brog Executive Director CUFI
FREE Training Conference
Saturday, August 18, 2012 Washington Dulles Airport Marriott 45020 Aviation Drive * Dulles, Virginia * (703) 471-9500
Brigitte Gabriel and our National Staff want to personally invest our time with you and have worked hard to provide a FREE training for our members in the region around D.C.!
If you are concerned about the growing threat of radical Islam and Sharia Law to our great land and you haven't seen a plan of action to meet this evil head on, here's your opportunity to join with us for real, measurable results.
Results that make a difference, not just a statement.
Our host team is working hard to deliver a day you won't forget. Plan on being there! Meet me and our growing team of professionals at the Dulles Airport Marriott on Saturday, August 18, 2012. Registration will start at 7:30 AM with the event starting at 8:30 AM and running through 5:00 PM.
Here are a few comments we have received from previous training seminars around the nation:
"...After 8 hours in that chair ............. I was ready for another 8 hours - it seemed to end too soon..."
"I was literally stunned. Wow! Brigitte Gabriel has assembled an incredible team to support her message of action and hope!"
"...As much as the issue depresses me, and I could cry every time I think about what is happening to the West, I left yesterday's conference energized and inspired. The day reminded me that I am *not* alone, after all, in trying to resist the dangerous absurdity of radical Islam that is being forced on us. I'm in desperate need of such reminders, as I'm sure most of us are. Whenever I'm close to despair, I remind myself of Brigitte's message. Thank you so much for this incredible training day!"
"...What an amazing seminar!"
"...I have never spent a better $45, 104 miles and 12 hours!" (Previous pricing for a similar event. We're wanting to involve as many as possible from this region, so for this event only, it's free!)
You can find out more and register online by clicking here.
Call the number above to reserve your room at the Marriott if you need to spend the night.
Your early registration really helps us plan accurately for materials and supplies needed! Thank you for doing it today!
I look forward to meeting you and looking into your eyes and thanking you for taking this stand with me. We will protect this nation!
Sincerely,
Brigitte Gabriel
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The Case Against Obamacare: Health Care Policy Series for the 112th Congress
A Health Care Policy Series for the 112th Congress
Building on decades of Heritage research, The Case Against Obamacare: A Health Care Policy Series for the 112th Congress examines 15 key provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Each report:
Cites specific sections of the 2,700-page health care law
Provides detailed analysis of specific Obamacare provisions
Identifies key principles for a better way to reform health care
The unmistakable conclusion of this series is that Obamacare must be fully repealed. Congress cannot build sound market-based health care reform on the flawed foundation of this health care law. Until it can be repealed, Congress must employ its full powers authorized by the Constitution to:
For Tea Parties, this can be used as basic ammunition for letters to the editor, columns for your local news outlet, handouts at public events, emailing the pdf to our elected reps as well as to members, friends and neighbors.
This appears to be an excellent resource; let's make use of it.
Lou Flanagan
The General Wayne Tea Party
By revealing the Nazi and Marxist origins of groups such as the Muslim Students Association and Students for Justice in Palestine and the connections between these organizations and terrorist activities around the globe, Muslim Hate Groups on Campus sheds light on the dark undercurrent of anti-Semitism which flows unobstructed through our most prestigious institutions of higher education.
The New York Times article, "Liberals Are Ruining America. I Know Because I Am One" contains the classic liberal screwed up thinking. I submitted the letter you see below, limited by their 1500-word restriction. It's now appearing.
Lou Flanagan
The General Wayne Tea Party
"I agree with the writer about Hannity's presentation as bullying
"But Almond's comment about "helping" women to deal with unwanted pregnancies exposes how today's radical liberals embrace the insanity that nearly all problems can be solved by collective effort and not by the individual taking responsibility for their behavior, Mr. Almond, any woman can acquire contraceptives and can find a group that will fund killing her unborn if she so wishes. Fine, just don't expect me or my church or others of faith, or even ordinary taxpayers to fund it on our dime.
"The final clue about Almond's insularity is his remark that the Tea Party is inflamed and partly financed by lobbying groups. I happen to run a Tea Party and am familiar with most of the Tea Parties and similar groups in eastern Pennsylvania, south Jersey and Delaware. Our finances derive totally from what members drop toss into the coffee can at our meetings or contribute during our fundraisers.
"As for his "inflamed by", he confuses us with Acorn, Move On, OCCUPY and other top-down radicals. Each Tea Party is fiercely independent and wary of any outside entity, much as you would be if someone wishes to join your family or have dealings with your business. Our wariness extends to BOTH parties. Come to some meetings, Mr. Acorn; you have nothing to lose but your kneejerk preconceptions, generated by people like yourself."
Holder: Justice Department Will 'Vigorously Use' Voting Rights Act Against States
By Matt Cover
June 7, 2012
(CNSNews.com) -Attorney General Eric Holder told the House Judiciary Committee Thursday that the Justice Department will "vigorously use" anti-Jim Crow provisions in the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to prevent some southern states from purging ineligible voters from their rolls and enacting voter-I.D. laws.
"It is the position of this Department of Justice and certainly this Attorney General that we will vigorously defend and vigorously use Section 5. The need for it is still there."
Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act requires several southern states and counties in states such as California and Florida to get federal "pre-clearance" before they change any voting eligibility laws or voting requirements or procedures.
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 appwill, 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.
Brett McGurk is another example of just what an amateur Barack Obama is. Today comes news that the Commerce Secretary committed two hit and run crashes after suffering "seizures." There is no word on what caused the seizures and Johnny Walker was unavailable for comment.
While most of us have been caught up in the sensation of electoral politics and the death of the union machine in Wisconsin, liberal activists have been working indefatigably to pack the courts - the unelected branch of government - with radicals who disrespect the Constitution. We might have turned over a number of congressional seats and state houses in 2010, but Obama has successfully turned over many conservative seats in our federal court system. Since taking office, Obama has appointed 150 people to federal judgeships, including 29 to appellate courts, and 2 to the Supreme Court. He has had an indelible effect on the orientation of the 4th Circuit in particular.
Pretty much everyone expect the most hard charging partisans have finally conceded that, despite the United States Supreme Court's involvement in Bush v. Gore, George Bush did win Florida by just over 500 votes in 2000. In fact, in a nonpartisan media backed recount effort, George Bush would have won by every standard demanded, including Al Gore's standard, except ironically George Bush's preferred standard.
While everyone largely now excepts that George Bush won Florida, Democrats still hold hard hearts toward the supposed partisan hacks on the United States Supreme Court. They choose to ignore the even more clearly partisan Justices of the Florida Supreme Court who became, during their hearings in the recount matter, national embarrassments.
Three of the Justices, Barbara Pariente, R. Fred Lewis, and Peggy Quince are back in the news for, yet again, being an embarrassment. Their high handedness from the 2000 election seems to have continued.
Did you know that House Republicans are still defeating amendment after amendment to cut spending - even relatively small amounts?
You probably didn't realize this because, for some reason, no one is reporting it. So here are just a few of the amendments the House defeated last week. If you're not happy with this record House Republicans are compiling this election year, let them know now!
As most of you know, my family was swatted on May 27, 2012.
The police, at the time, told me they were responding to a 911 call about an accidental shooting.
I now have the 911 call. It turns out that the call was not about an accidental shooting. The caller said I had shot my wife, she was dead on the floor in front of me, and I was going off to shoot someone else.
. . . .
Last week, Senator Saxby Chambliss (R-GA) asked the Attorney General to get the FBI to look into the matter. It's clear the incident happened across state lines and also that only the FBI has the technical resources to be able to trace the call.
Today, more than 80 members of the United States House of Representatives are also sending a letter to Attorney General Holder asking for an investigation.
A Pre-Revolutionary Situation Christopher Chantrill The United States is entering a pre-revolutionary situation, where a significant faction in one of the political parties has said: "We're getting screwed; the deal's off." More
Did MoveOn.org and BarackObama.com Promote Hate Speech? William A. Levinson The answer to this question depends on how much responsibility a moderated discussion forum has to exclude racist, anti-Semitic, and other forms of hate speech. More
Piercing the Cone of Silence Nick Chase Is it finally all right to talk about Barack Obama's birth certificate in polite society? More
The Auto Bailout and the UAW Dustin Siggins We now know that special treatment for the UAW cost taxpayers $26.5 billion. The author of a new Heritage Foundation report speaks with AT about the GM and Chrysler bailouts. More
President Obama and the Herr Schultz Syndrome Richard Butrick Herr Schultz was convinced that Nazi propaganda will not resonate with the German people. Now we hear the same argument from the Obama camp when it comes to Islamism. More
Give them another reason why Obama has GOT to go.
NO. 10. Just how economically illiterate-make that economically suicidal-do you have to be to launch the eye-wateringly expensive Obamacare program (not to mention the bailouts and the "stimulus" spending that's directed almost entirely to government workers-just what hard-pressed taxpayers need, more government workers to be kept wallowing in pork) in the midst of the biggest financial crisis America has seen since the 1930s? Just how does recklessly expanding America's debt to the point of near bankruptcy and raising taxes on the productive sector of the economy serve any useful purpose? No wonder economist Arthur Laffer is predicting a double-dip recession. The recovery won't begin till Obama is out of office-and never let a liberal try to tell you otherwise.
Can We Ban Islam? - Legal Guidelines for the Criminalization of Islam in the United States
ByDaniel GreenfieldMonday, May 4, 2009
Geert Wilders' recent call at a Palm Beach synagogue to ban Islam has stirred up all sorts of controversy, with more "moderate" blogs speaking out in opposition to it. So let's take a closer look at the issue of banning Islam.
Banning Islam is more difficult in the United States than in Europe, because of the First Amendment.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
On the surface of it this is a fairly straightforward formulation barring the legislative branch from taking any action to create a state religion or barring the practice of any religion.
THE INTERFAITH TASKFORCE FOR AMERICA AND ISRAEL (ITAI)
123 S. Broad Street, Suite 1832, Philadelphia, PA 19109
Sunday, June 10, 2012
Dear ITAI MEMBERS AND DONORS:
ITAI ON THE MOVE...ITAI gained a major ally and friend in Rev. Scott Fischer (Presbyterian Church USA pastor) Executive Director of the Lancaster County, PA Council of Churches. Thanks to ITAI member Rev. Joseph Wehrer, a most fruitful meeting took place in Lancaster on Thursday, June 7, 2012 between Joseph Puder and Rev. Fischer.
This ITAI WEEKLY MIDDLE EAST REPORT is personal- it is a Personal Perspective on the Six Day War.
THE SIX DAY WAR- A PERSONAL PERSPECTIVE
By: Joseph Puder
The passage of 45 years can easily dim one's perspective on an event such as the Six Day War of June 1967. However, as an active participant in that war, the fears, worries, and jubilation of that unforgettable week will forever remain etched in my mind. The long hours of work in an airbase are remembered as the most profound in my life. And, like all Israelis, the sight of paratroopers weeping at the Western Wall was the culmination of those intense days.
Tension gripped the State Israel in May of 1967 as Egypt's President Abdul Nasser ordered the removal of the UN observers in the Sinai Peninsula. U Thant, the Burmese Secretary General of the UN, easily complied with Nasser's command. Egyptian troops were quick to reoccupy the positions held by the UN observer force.
The streets of Tel Aviv and other major cities were quieter than usual as thousands of reservists were mobilized. The country's mood was somber. High school kids were digging ditches, or - more specifically - graves, for the expected large number of casualties the war would bring. In sharp contrast to Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, the mood in Cairo was one of jubilation. Nasser promised to throw the Jews to the sea, and the taste of revenge for the defeats of 1948 and 1956 replaced the bitterness of the past two decades.
A cartoon published in the Lebanese newspaper Al-Farida just before the June 1967 Six Day war depicted Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser kicking a Jew off the cliff and presumably into the sea, as he promised to do to the Jews of Israel in his speeches. Egypt was not alone in its war against Israel; it was joined by Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria, along with contingents from Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Libya, and Algeria.
This was to be a war of extermination against the Jews, and in Israel, only 22-years after the Holocaust, the Jews of Israel once again felt friendless and alone. The blood curdling images on Arab television stations evoked unpleasant memories of Nazi hatred. The TV broadcasts showed mobs in every Arab capital shouting "Itbach al-Yahood"/Death to the Jews. Arab political figures joined Nasser in vowing to once and for all drive the Jews to the sea.
Israel with a population of a little over 2 million was surrounded by an Arab world of over 100 million. The Arab forces facing Israel numbered 547,000 compared to Israel's total of 264,000 (including all of the reserve forces and representing 10% of the population). The Arabs had 397 combat aircrafts to Israel's 300, and 2504 tanks compared to Israel's 800. The odds weighed heavily in favor of the Arabs. Moreover, the Soviet Union was actively supplying the Arab armies of Egypt, Iraq, and Syria.
The Soviets encouraged the Arabs to fight Israel while the U.S. and Britain refrained from openly supplying either side. France, which has been Israel's prime arms supplier, changed its position under De Gaulle, who was itching to switch sides on the Arab-Israeli conflict. He ultimately cut off weapons sales and deliveries to Israel, and in fact, embargoed arms already paid for by Israel.
On May 22, 1967, Nasser closed the Straits of Tiran to Israeli ships. The maritime powers, including the U.S. and Britain who were supposed to guarantee Israeli shipping through the Straits following Israeli withdrawal from the Sinai in 1957, did nothing to compel the Egyptians to open the Straits. Nasser declared provocatively, "If Yitzhak Rabin, Israel's Chief of Staff wants war then he was welcomed to it."
Jordan informed Nasser on May 30, 1967, that it is putting its troops at Cairo's disposal. Iraq and several other Arab nations followed suit. In Israel, Prime Minister Levi Eshkol brought the opposition, including Menahem Begin into a Unity Government, and on June 2, 1967, Moshe Dayan was appointed Defense Minister.
Back at our airbase, Jordanian bombs fell only yards from our barracks. The thunderous sounds of the explosions shook up the few us who were stealing a few hours of rest following the around-the-clock schedule of preparing our aircrafts for combat.
On Monday afternoon, June 5, 1967, all squadron crews were assembled at the parade grounds of the base. The base commander in a trembling and excited voice announced that "as of this moment the Arab air-forces no longer exist." We the air and ground crew threw our berets in the air and embraced each other in a way that men rarely do. It was a moment of enormous relief following a month-long accumulated tension. It was an historical moment to cherish, and it was a triumphal flash one never forgets.
Two days later, on Wednesday June 7, the Jerusalem and the paratrooper brigades, commanded by the late Morechai Gur, took control of the Old City of Jerusalem. Bitter fighting ensued with mounting casualties, as the IDF troops burst through the Old City's Lion's Gate and captured the Western Wall and Temple Mount. And once again, upon getting the news, our airbase went wild with dancing as we heard the announcement "Temple Mount is in our hands" followed by the special song written by Naomi Shemer and sung by Shuli Nathan "Jerusalem of Gold." It was to become the war's most memorable song.
The Jerusalem Brigade continued their difficult combat in an urban setting by storming through the Old City's Dung Gate, opening a path through the southern parts of East Jerusalem, and then continued southward to capture Bethlehem, Hebron, and Gush Etzion (lost to the Jordanians during the War of Independence). The Northern command division seized Nablus, and the IDF forces then pushed towards the Jordan Valley and finally reaching the Jordan River. The IDF allowed the remaining Jordanian troops to cross the river unmolested.
In 1956, in what has become known as the Sinai Campaign, Israel captured the Sinai and reached the Suez Canal. Under pressure from the U.S. Israel withdrew in 1957. The recapture of the Sinai in the early days of the Six Day War and the smashing of the Egyptian army swelled our hearts, but nothing brought us more joy than the capture of the Old City and the Biblical cities of Hebron and Bethlehem. The one thorn in Israel's side remained the endless attacks by the Syrians on the kibbutzim around the Sea of Galilee from the Golan Heights. In the last two days of the war Israeli troops scaled and captured the Golan - at the cost of 115 soldiers. Israeli war losses were 777 dead with 2,586 wounded. On the Arab side, Egyptian dead numbered 15,000, Syrian 2500, and Jordanian 800.
It was not until several weeks after the war that our squadron received passes to go home, and when we did it was an unforgettable experience. Mothers and daughters stood at crossroads where soldiers returning home would be welcomed with food and drink and invitations for dinner. A euphoria such as never before or since enveloped Israel. It felt that God alone performed this miraculous victory against great odds. The Six Day War transformed the Jews from victims to victors, and parenthetically, Israel's image in the western media changed from the proverbial David to a sort of Goliath, as the focus shifted from the Arab world to the Palestinian Arabs.
One indelible effect of the War was revealed to me few years later in New York, when an Irish-Catholic woman I had helped out said to me, upon learning that I was an Israeli, "I didn't know that Jews knew how to fight..."
By Senator Ron Johnson New book by David Horowitz and Jacob Laksin exposes the frightening reality of what the conservative movement is up against. Read more »
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NYC Principal Says No to Students Singing 'God Bless the USA'
By Elisabeth Meinecke
6/10/2012
Depending on who you ask, the song 'God Bless the USA' by Lee Greenwood has been banned from one school's graduation because 1)it would offend other cultures or 2)the lyrics are too adult for the kids.
Greta Hawkins, principal of PS 90, the Edna Cohen School, won't allow kindergartners to belt out the beloved Lee Greenwood ballad, also known as "Proud to be an American," at their moving-up ceremony.
Five classes spent months learning the patriotic song, which skyrocketed in popularity after the 9/11 attacks and the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
It was to be the rousing finale of their musical show at the June 20 commencement. The kids, dressed up for their big day, would wave tiny American flags - which, as the lyrics proclaim, "still stand for freedom."
But Hawkins marched in on a recent rehearsal and ordered a CD playing the anthem to be shut off, staffers said.
She told the teachers to drop the song from the program.
"We don't want to offend other cultures," they quoted her as explaining. ...
The Muslim Brotherhood is entrenched throughout our government at all levels. The Muslim Brotherhood determines U.S. counterterrorism policy and meets regularly with Janet Napolitano and DOJ. Is it too late to save America?
Eric Holder's announcement that two U.S. attorneys have been assigned to lead a criminal investigation into possible, unauthorized leaks of classified information is being met with skepticism by GOP lawmakers questioning whether the attorneys will be able to act independently of the Obama administration.
The repercussions of these two events will be enormous and extremely beneficial. Socialism is not so well-entrenched that the best any conservative can do is lessen the upward trend of government spending. Clearly, this ain't so.
With this new assault on free speech, we've never seen such a concerted threat to the fundamental right of citizen journalists to speak their minds freely and without fear of bodily harm. Who will protect us?
President Obama on Friday expressed outrage after his WH was accused of deliberate national security leaks. While sharing his outrage, I have a different take on who is responsible - and what to do about it.
A civil rights law suit was filed this past Wednesday in federal court against the New York City Police Department. It claims the surveillance of Muslims in New Jersey is unconstitutional because it "targets Muslims" strictly based on their religion.
Our war fighting community will have to come to accept that the heady days of vanquishing the enemy are over. Is such the "vision" of our morally bankrupt Politicians and their General Grade minions?
Last week's media bombshell that we'd infiltrated the Iranian nuclear program with a super-secret computer virus made it undeniable: There's been way too much aired about sensitive US operations over the last year or so.
The U.S. State Department removed the sections covering religious freedom from the Country Reports on Human Rights that it released on May 24, three months past the statutory deadline Congress set for the release of these reports.
Israeli officials who were placed at risk by the Obama administration's leaks about the Stuxnet virus are disputing American claims that the cyber-weapon was jointly developed by the U.S. and Israel.
As a child, I learned FDR's jumpstarting the economy through deficit spending worked. Now I know that FDR only prolonged it. We now have a huge entitlement bubble about to burst. Will we be even worse off than in FDR's time?
The realization that unions, in particular the public service unions, have raped the public coffers of states, marks a turning point that will result in reforms that will greatly aid recovery. The American people have decided to be heard.
In a recent interview with Senator James Inhofe (R-OK), he documents his discovery on the issue of global warming, and how he saw firsthand the heavy hand of the federal government.
June 11, 2012Lawsuit filed against NYPD
The New Jersey Attorney General's office recently completed an investigation of the New York Police Department's surveillance program.
It concluded the NYPD did nothing wrong.
And while Muslims like Dr. Zuhdi Jasser, who oppose groups like CAIR, have come out in support of the NYPD, other Muslims are continuing to allege the NYPD's tactics are unconstitutional.
Islamic jihadists murder and terrorize other people based on their faith, but it is not permissible for Infidel authorities to take that into account. By actions like this one, Islamic supremacists in the U.S. are determined to end all effective resistance to their jihad.
More on this story. "Suit against NYPD asks that surveillance of Muslims based on faith be declared unconstitutional," by James Queally for The Star-Ledger, June 6 (thanks to Benedict):
NEWARK - The New York Police Department's years-long surveillance of Muslim businesses and mosques throughout the Northeast denigrated the Islamic faith and violated the constitutional rights of countless Muslim-Americans, according to a federal lawsuit filed in Newark today.
The suit, which is the first legal challenge of the NYPD's spy operations, could mark the beginning of a historical movement, said Farhana Khera, executive director of Muslim Advocates, the civil rights group filing the suit on behalf of several New Jersey residents.
"This lawsuit is perhaps the most important legal challenge brought to date by American Muslims," Khera said.
The eight plaintiffs are all Muslims from New Jersey and include a U.S. Army reservist, a Newark business owner who served in Vietnam and the imams of several mosques who were targeted by the NYPD Surveillance and Demographics unit.
The suit is calling for a "declaratory judgment" which labels specific surveillance of Muslims based on faith unconstitutional, said Glenn Katon, the legal director for Muslim Advocates.
Katon is also seeking a court order prohibiting the NYPD from future surveillance of Muslims based on faith and the destruction of all records compiled by the NYPD during its spy operations.
"When the NYPD says all Muslims are suspects we have a clear case of government denigrating religion," Katon said.
The OIC is trying to pressure Western countries to criminalize "denigration of religion."
Katon said that while the lawsuit is focused on New Jersey residents, further legal action could involve New York residents as well.
Muslim Advocates considered including Newark police in the lawsuit, but ultimately there were too many conflicting reports about the extent of their involvement in NYPD operations in New Jersey.
All eight plaintiffs were New Jersey residents that were in one way or another watched during NYPD's operations including at least two members of Rutgers' Muslim Student Association.
In the month since the Associated Press released a 50-page document detailing the NYPD's actions in Newark, several Muslim leaders in New Jersey have spoken out on the ways the report has had a "chilling effect" on the Muslim community.
"This is a blanket victimization of a suspect class," said specialist Farhaj Hassan, a U.S. Army reservist and one of the plaintiffs. "I think this is what the pilgrims crossed the ocean to avoid."
The suit comes two weeks after State Attorney Jeffrey Chiesa announced the completion of a three-month review into the NYPD's actions in New Jersey. His office found New York investigators did nothing wrong or criminal, leaving many Muslim leaders in New Jersey to feel like the lawsuit was a last resort to vindicate themselves.
"They don't have the right to spy and do surveillance on innocent people, on good citizens," said Newark Imam Abdul Kareem Muhammad.
The NYPD could not be reached for comment immediately, but on Tuesday NYPD Deputy Commissioner of Public Information Paul Browne said, "I refer you to the New Jersey AG's report and to the fact that NYPD activities in New Jersey were lawful, appropriate and in keeping with efforts there, in New York, and around the world to prevent terrorists from returning here to kill more New Yorkers."
Indeed.
Jan Morgan & Bill Whittle Talk Sharia Law on PolitiChicks (Ep 31)
Monday, June 11, 2012
To: Friends & Supporters
From: Gary L. Bauer
COUNTDOWN TO VICTORY: 148 DAYS TO THE 2012 ELECTIONS
Barack Obama shocked the country at a press conference Friday when he said, "The private sector is doing fine." No doubt that came as quite a shock to America's struggling middle class, entrepreneurs and investors.
Everyone flubs a line once in a while. But the most damaging gaffes are those that seemingly reinforce widely-held suspicions. And the most damaging suspicion that many Americans have about Barack Obama is that he is clueless when it comes to economic growth.
Even with Obama's so-called "recovery," we have still lost about 5 million jobs since the "Great Recession" began. Job creation is at a virtual halt, the unemployment rate is going up and Obama says the private sector is "doing fine."
But that wasn't all Obama said Friday morning. He went on to make this stunning statement:
"Where we're seeing weaknesses in our economy have to do with state and local government... And so, if Republicans want to be helpful, if they really want to move forward and put people back to work, what they should be thinking about is, how do we help state and local governments and how do we help the construction industry."
Wasn't that what the $830 billion stimulus bill was for? As the Wall Street Journal editorial board observed, Obama "continues to believe, despite three and a half years of failure, that more government spending is the key to faster growth and that government really doesn't need to reform. This is how you get a jobless rate above 8% for 40 months and the weakest economic recovery in 60 years."
Once again, the Journal nails it. By the way, ABC News reported last week that under Obama's tenure, we've added more than 140,000 bureaucrats to the federal payroll. Big Government is doing just fine!
Within hours the White House was in damage control mode, and Obama was forced to retract his initial statement. Later in the afternoon, Obama said, "Listen, it is absolutely clear that the economy is not doing fine."
Given Obama's own admission that his policies have failed, it's absolutely clear that we need new leadership in the White House and the Senate!
Out Of Touch
Obama's bizarre comments about the economy reveal just how out of touch he is. But he gave us plenty of other clues before Friday. Click here to watch our latest web video on our out of touch president.
Obama Ignores Christian Persecution
When the history of the early part of the 21st Century is written, a story that is sure to fill many pages is one that receives scandalously little attention now: the persecution of Christians in the Middle East and other parts of the world.
A seemingly indifferent Obama Administration has neglected the plight of Christians abroad. It has chosen instead to advance its radical social agenda, including abortion and homosexual rights. And Obama's continued appeasement of Islamic governments means the cries of millions of persecuted Christians in the Middle East go unheard.
Here's more evidence of this administration's indifference to Christian persecution: the U.S. State Department has removed sections covering religious freedom from the Country Reports on Human Rights that it released on May 24th (three months after the statutory deadline Congress set for the release of the reports). This means the reports provide no details about the besieged Christian communities in many countries where Christians are treated as unwelcome intruders at best and mortal enemies at worst -- places like Egypt, Syria and Iran.
Liberals have spent the last six months whining about a so-called "war on women" because the Catholic Church and other religious institutions refuse to pay for abortion-inducing drugs. If the administration really cared about women, it would do something about forced abortions in China or the way women are treated in the Middle East. Christian women have become a particular target in the Middle East, where they are commonly threatened with rape if they don't convert to Islam.
Obama has shown throughout his term that he simply does not care about the plight of religious minorities. He does the millions of Christians in the Middle East a profound injustice by referring to that region as "the Muslim world," which only serves to reinforce the Islamists' contention that Christians do not belong there. (By the way, when did he last refer to the "Christian world"?)
President Obama is busy attacking religious freedom in America. But his policies have been just as devastating to Christians abroad. At least Christians in America have an opportunity to do something about it. We can defend religious liberty here and be a voice for persecuted believers overseas by voting Obama out of office on November 6th!
Holding Holder In Contempt
CBS News reports that the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee will likely vote next week on a report holding Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress. The charge stems from Holder's constant stonewalling on the congressional investigation into Operation Fast and Furious, which resulted in the death of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry.
The Media's Double Standard for Muslims
Posted By Robert Spencer
On June 11, 2012
The mainstream media claims to be multicultural, respecting all cultures equally, but actually holds Muslims and the Islamic world to a standard so low that it would have brought a furious blush to the cheeks of the most dyed-in-the-wool White Man's Burden-carrier in the old British Raj.
Case in point: have you heard about the London vicar who said that if a newborn baby is not an Anglican, "the devil inserts his index finger into the anus of the newborn, who thus becomes a passive homosexual"? Of course, no vicar ever said such a thing; it was actually the London-based Shi'ite cleric Yasser Habib, who said[1] on his Fadak TV satellite channel on May 24 that at birth, "if the newborn is not one of our Shiites, the devil inserts his index finger into the anus of the newborn, who thus becomes a passive homosexual." If a Christian minister really had said such a thing, the outcry would be immediate, indignant, and international; but the world will little note nor long remember the statements of Yasser Habib. A Muslim cleric saying hateful things about those not within his fold? Go back to sleep.
There will be little note of this because for all its multicultural protestations, the mainstream media simply doesn't have the same expectations of Muslims that it has of non-Muslims. Another example: the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), which routinely enjoys a free pass from the media as a neutral civil rights organization when it has actually been amply established as a water-carrier in the U.S. for Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood, is holding a rally in Southern California on June 23. Billed as a "Summer Night for Civil Rights," the rally will feature Dean Obeidallah, a self-styled comedian who is less concerned with being funny than with pushing Islamic advocacy groups' false victimhood narrative of "Islamophobia."
On May 24th, the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee approved a resolution virtually certain to create a controversy in Washington, D.C. The Kirk Amendment, named after its drafter, Senator Mark Kirk (R-IL), authorizes the State Department to submit a report "detailing the number of people currently receiving United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) services."
Translating Jihad Video: "Is there anything uglier than this shari'a on the face of the earth?" This clip comes from a 2-hour debate between ex-Muslim Dr. Wafa Sultan, and Sheikh Omar Bakri Muhammad, the former leader of Islamic terrorist groups Hizb ut-Tahrir and al-Muhajiroun.
As reported in the Egyptian press last week, American senator and chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, John Kerry, asserted that Egypt's recent parliamentary elections were conducted honestly and without fraud (masrawy.com, 5/25/12).
Seven states have no income tax and five states have no sales tax. Abolishing an entire tax means ridding your taxpayers of the associated compliance costs and loss to economic growth, but one must figure out whether to make up the revenue with spending cuts or higher taxes elsewhere. No state has abolished a major tax since Alaska ended its income tax in 1980, but some are now trying.
Just days after ground was broken on a new mosque in Richmond, Sylvia Hoehns-Wright, who lives near the Islamic Center of Richmond, claims the small building currently there does not have enough parking for worshipers as it is. Imagine what will happen to the neighborhood when a 31,000 square-foot mosque is built on the same property.
Bill Clinton was many things, but stupid was never one of them. Even his supporters were eventually forced to admit that most of those things were true. Sloppy, corrupt, impulsive, amoral, vindictive, petty and loving every minute of it. Sure. But not stupid.
The hard-Left takeover of the Democratic Party has meant that there is no longer a credible balance in our system, as almost all the tenets of contemporary left-wing ideology are imploding super nova style.
Today, Robert Spencer joins PJ Media as a weekly contributor. You can look forward to his articles every Monday. In today's article, Spencer explains how the mainstream media is as paternalistic and condescending as any old colonial occupier ever was.
In September 2008, then-McCain campaign advisor Steve Schmidt was cursing the bias of The New York Times. This weekend, he and the Gray Lady were in love. How'd they patch things up?
Tim Kurek is a heterosexual and a writer. Kurek just finished a fascinating social experiment in which he lived as a gay man for a year. The book that documents the year is called "Jesus In Drag." Find out why he wrote the book and watch the "trailer" for it HERE.
The American Humanist Association sent out a press release on Monday morning announcing that one family's efforts to have the words "under God" removed from the Pledge of Allegiance have been rejected by a Superior Court in Massachusetts. However, the Atheist community vows an appeal. Get details HERE.
The New York Times is reporting that Glenn Beck and Premiere Radio Networks have agreed on the terms of a new contract that will keep Mr. Beck's radio show on the air for another five years. Read the details HERE.
Lockheed Martin's F-22 Raptor fighter jet is one of the military's most controversial and expensive projects. And the plane is in the spotlight again today, but not because of good news. Find out what happened on a recent test flight that could cost upwards of $2 million to repair HERE.
For only the 4th time in 30 years, Congress has launched a contempt action against a member of the Executive branch. What is the likelihood that Attorney General Holder will be found to be in contempt by Congress? And, if he is, what happens next? Find out tonight, on Real News at 6pm ET (or on demand).
An elementary school in California has posted a drawing of Jesus that has sparked considerable debate. The artwork, done in the style of a recruiting poster, has Jesus is saying, "I want you... to kill all infidels." Some parents want it removed, others think it is just fine. Take a look and share your opinion HERE. READ THIS |
Monday, JUNE 11
Contempt Vote Against Holder Scheduled For Next Week
by Mary Chastain
Sharyl Attkisson at CBS News reports the House Oversight Committee will vote on contempt charges against Attorney General Eric Holder on Wednesday, June 20. Mr. Holder and the Department of Justice have not turned over the remaining documents from an October 11, 2011 subpoena concerning Operation Fast & Furious.
Fast & Furious lead to the death of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry and hundreds in Mexico. Guns from the operation have also been found at numerous crime scenes in America.
Exclusive: Caddell Names National Security Advisor Tom Donilon As Source For Leaks More
Video: Obama's Scandal-Ridden Thugs Now Collect Student Loans
Jun 11, 2012 02:45 pm
How does one become the recipient of Obama's cronyism? Apparently, an alternate path to massive campaign donations (à la Solyndra) is being involved in massive scandal. Such is the case with Aspire Resources, who last month became one of the primary collection agencies for government student loans (a trillion dollar industry, before those "greedy" banks [...]
Video: Axelrod Dodges "Yes Or No" If The "Private Sector Is Doing Fine" Three Times
Jun 11, 2012 02:35 pm
David Axelrod refuses to answer the basic "yes or no" question of whether or not he agrees with President Obama that the "private sector is doing fine." Related posts: Former Obama Adviser: The Private Sector Is Not Doing Fine Even a former Obama adviser doesn't pretend that the private... CBO: Federal Workers Better Compensated Than [...]
If you are a taxpayer, you owe the federal government $1 million. Our government has squandered the wealth of our nation as the national debt approaches $16 trillion. It feels like we are bobbing our way down the river toward socialism and perhaps even dictatorship. Our first president, George Washington, demonstrated his humility by refusing [...]
Court Refuses To Hear Argument On Obama Birth Certificate Again
Jun 11, 2012 01:44 pm
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court has refused to hear an appeal challenging President Barack Obama's U.S. citizenship and his eligibility to serve as commander in chief. Without comment, the high court on Monday refused to hear an appeal from Alan Keyes, Wiley Drake and Markham Robinson. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled [...]
President Obama insists that the private sector is doing fine. Ordinary Americans would beg to differ. Related posts: Former Obama Adviser: The Private Sector Is Not Doing Fine Even a former Obama adviser doesn't pretend that the private... Video: Barack Obama Stops Progress In Washington DC Barack Obama is the main reason progress is impossible [...]
Video: CNN's Candy Crowley 'Usually You Kind Of Give The President A Pass On Leaking Confidential Stuff'
Jun 11, 2012 01:15 pm
Apparently, the President usually deserves a pass on "leaking confidential stuff." Related posts: Ron Paul Confuses Candy Crowley By Telling Her The Truth CNN's Candy Crowley asks Ron Paul in this short video... Media Giving 'anti-oil' President A Pass A conservative media watchdog organization says the mainstream television networks...
Video: Diana West Discusses Obama's Forged Birth Certificate And Forged Selective Service Registration
Jun 11, 2012 01:10 pm
Related posts: Jerome Corsi: People Of Interest In Obama's Forged Selective Service Card Dr Corsi is uncovering new information every day in the... Sheriff Joe Arpaio Exposes Forgery Of Obama's Selective Service Registration Having just attended Sheriff Joe Arpaio's "Cold Case Posse" news...
Video: Former Obama Adviser: The Private Sector Is Not Doing Fine
Jun 11, 2012 12:59 pm
Even a former Obama adviser doesn't pretend that the private sector is doing "fine." Steven Rattner points out how both jobs and income are down, a far cry from "fine." Related posts: Breaking News: Obama Campaign Adviser Participated On JournoList Jared Bernstein, chief economist for Vice President Joseph Biden, served... CBO: Federal Workers Better Compensated [...]
At a press conference in Las Vegas, Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio reports on his criminal investigation into President Obama's eligibility. Related posts: Sheriff Joe On Obama's Forged Identity Records Sheriff Joe Arpaio speaks out about the importance of local... Sheriff Joe Arpaio: I'm Not Going To Back Down From Obama's Identity Document Fraud Investigation Sheriff [...]
When Charles Murray's best-selling Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010 appeared a few months ago, the book's fictional working-class neighborhood, Fishtown, became one more battleground in America's 50-year-old culture war. Fishtown was representative, Murray argued, of a new white underclass in America-one produced by cultural decline, especially the collapse of marriage. Critics objected [...]
Dear Mr. Speaker, I am writing to you because of some very disturbing news that has been seeping into the Internet news blogs. It seems that you and the rest of the Republican House leadership are considering quietly killing Representative Darrel Issa's investigation into the Department of Justice's "Fast and Furious" gun walking program. If that is [...]
House Committee Schedules Contempt Vote Against Holder
Jun 11, 2012 11:54 am
(CBS News) CBS News has learned the House Oversight Committee will vote next week on whether to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress. It's the fourth time in 30 years that Congress has launched a contempt action against an executive branch member. This time, the dispute stems from Holder failing to turn [...]
Obama just caught in big lie? Documents show he was socialist party member. Has Barack Obama been caught in a lie that could become a major issue in the upcoming election?
During the 2008 presidential election cycle, Obama's campaign categorically denied the politician was ever a member of the New Party, which sought to elect members to public office with the aim of moving the Democratic Party far leftward to ultimately form a new political party with a socialist agenda.
Socialist party covering up Obama's membership? Denial contradicted by documentation, group's own literature. President Obama's 2008 political campaign may not be the only ones caught making possibly misleading statements about the politician's alleged membership in the 1990's socialist-leaning New Party.
The now defunct New Party's founder, University of Wisconsin professor Joel Rogers, is currently denying his organization had ever had any members, thus making it impossible for Obama to have ever been an official member.
Speaking this past Friday to Buzzfeed.com editor Ben Smith, Rogers stated of Obama's purported membership: "I have no idea what the Chicago people were saying about him being a member...We didn't have membership, it wasn't a membership organization."
When Barack Obama presented a "genuine" digital long-form birth certificate, the (threatened) (1) media swallowed it hook, line, and sinker - even though glaring problems were identified (2) that day. Sheriff Arpaio's March 1 presser (3) announced probable cause (and a criminal investigation) for forgery and fraud for that BC and Obama's draft registration. The media ignored (4) the evidence, like Charlie Brown refusing to notice that Lucy/Obama pulled the ball away leaving them belly-up. Now the media is again belly-up after swallowing a legally-worthless "verification".
Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett gave the Hawaii Department of Health the suspected gender, date of birth, city and island of birth, father's name, and mother's name for Barack Obama on a form (5)requiring the HDOH to verify the true facts (6) of Obama's birth. He also asked (7) them to verify some items ... Continue Reading:How'd you like a nice Hawaiian (sucker) punch?
The U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland, graduated its first class on JUNE 10, 1854.
The Academy was established under George Bancroft, Secretary of Navy for President James Polk. On June 16, 1845, Polk issued Order 27 to Secretary George Bancroft: "The President...with heartfelt sorrow announces to the Army, the Navy, and the Marine Corps the death of Andrew Jackson... The 8th day of June, about 6 o'clock, he resigned his spirit to his Heavenly Father... He believed the liberties of his country imperishable... He departed from this life in a full hope of a blessed immortality through the merits and atonement of the Redeemer." George Bancroft, known as the "father of American history" for compiling the nation's first comprehensive record, wrote in Progress of Mankind: "The Divine Being should...be known, not as a distant Providence...but as God present in the flesh...The consciousness of an incarnate God carried peace into the bosom of ... Continue Reading:American Minute June 10
While President Obama has been especially adroit at destroying the values, and Religious underpinnings of Americans, and tearing down individual freedoms funding apparatus, Capitalism, I never thought I would see him turn his purposely harmful tactics unto his own election campaign.
Are we watching a political suicide in the making?
Can anyone believe the smartest President of modern times, the Harvard professor, is really trying to get re-elected?
After Friday's speech where he said the "private sector is fine," and then had to address and walk back that statement? - I have to wonder about his real intentions.
I want to address the unnoticed head shot Obama inflicted upon himself, with no prodding or goading from anyone!
Correct me if I'm wrong, (and I'm sure you will!), but didn't our esteemed President just wait until 48 hours after the failed Wisconsin recall election to ... Continue Reading:Is Obama committing political suicide?
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published June 8, 2012 on The Washington Times website.
Wouldn't it be awful if an important election hinged on some fat cats outspending the opposition? That was the liberals' excuse for the failure of Democratic Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett to unseat Republican Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker in Tuesday's recall election.
The Washington Post's Dan Eggen used figures from the "nonpartisan" Wisconsin Democracy Campaign to report that Mr. Walker raised $30.5 million to Mr. Barrett's measly $3.9 million. Wow, what a spread. Too bad it's not the whole picture, as Ben Shapiro pointed out at Breitbart.com: "As it turns out, labor unions spent an additional $21 million on the recall election."
Instead of 7-1 or 10-1, the "spending gap" was closer to $30 million-$25 million. Also, in a recall election of several GOP Wisconsin senators in September, "Democrats outspent Republicans $23.4 million to $20.5 million."
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Jan LaRue was published June 10, 2012 on The Daily Caller website.
President Obama is offended by accusations that the White House authorized leaks of highly classified national security information detailed in Confront and Conceal, a new book by David Sanger of The New York Times. Obama hasn't denied that leaks occurred.
"The notion that my White House would purposely release classified national security information is offensive. It's wrong," he said during Friday's press conference.
Media usually call it a "non-denial denial." The law calls it a "negative pregnant": a denial of an allegation in which a person actually admits more than he/she denies by denying only a part of the alleged fact.
Does Obama mean that the "notion" is "wrong" because it's "offensive," or that it's wrong because it didn't happen?
NY Times: Evidence White House Colluded with Big Pharma to Push Obamacare
Saturday, June 9, 2012
By: Patrick Hobin
A new trove of emails shows President Barack Obama's White House agreed to help drug companies block a proposal to bring down medicine prices so they would back Obama's healthcare plan.
House Republicans obtained the three-year-old correspondence between the Obama administration and representatives of the drug industry and released more of them to the public on Friday, The New York Times reported.
The exchanges show the compromises as they were being negotiated that laid the groundwork for the health care law now awaiting the judgment of the Supreme Court.
The real lesson of Wisconsin is that the Republican Party is at its strongest and greatest when it acts as a revolutionary liberation movement, breaking apart the power relationships of the Democratic Party that stifle people's personal, economic and religious lives.
The Democratic Party has made it its mandate to politicize and collectivize the personal. It has done this to militarize every area of life, to transform all human activities into a battlefield and to bring every area of life under the aegis of its power relationships. These power relationships form its infrastructure, fusing together governmental and non-governmental organizations, to form the true ruling class.
These power relationships act as dams, walling up human energy into organizational structures, they create the mandates that provide power and money to the organizations, which are fed throughout the infrastructure to create a massive cage of bureaucrats, activists and think-tanks that set the agenda, which becomes law, and is then enforced by governments at every level.
The base activity of the left is organizational. Organizing a group dams it up. The organizers harvest its energy and use it to power their infrastructure. The purpose of a group is to draw money and power into the organization from outside and inside. Money and power are drawn from the inside through dues and member obedience. Money and power are drawn from the outside through leverage exercised by making demands on behalf of the group.
The left operates by wrapping its power relationships in principles. It seeks out groups that give it not only political leverage, but also moral leverage. Groups that it can claim to organize and protect at the same time.
The Teachers unions are a classic example. Organizing teachers gives it a core pressure point. A society will do everything to protect its children. The teachers unions insist that their demands represent the welfare of the children. That they are not representatives of mere employees, but of education itself. Once a union has organized an entire group that is seen as performing a vital service, it can claim to embody a moral imperative.
Similar moral imperatives are used to embody the power relationships of the Democratic Party. There is never anything selfish about the Party. It's always stealing and spending, squandering and kicking back money for some protected group, whether it's children or minorities, or any entry on a long list of them. It is constantly protecting them by building up its own infrastructure and the power relationships that form that infrastructure.
Unionization has moved away from the classic labor unions and toward public sector unions, which control public services. The best unions are those that appear to have a moral imperative, like teachers or nurses, and that can elect the politicians that it bargains for a new contract with. This forms a simple but perfect power relationship. Unions help elect a mayor or governor. The mayor or governor agrees to a generous union contract. The unions reward him by supporting him in the next election.
Boy Scouts Stick to Their Guns, Refuse to Change Policy on Gays
posted on by Tad Cronn
The Boy Scouts are refusing to change their policy on not allowing openly gay people to serve in Scouting in any capacity.
The media recently have been panting over the possibility that the Boy Scouts might finally fold on their stance of upholding traditional moral values as activists tried new ploys to get gays into Scouting.
That gays want to change the Boy Scouts to suit themselves is nothing new. Several years ago, the Supreme Court had to weigh in on the issue and stood by the organization's right to not associate with people who don't uphold its clear values.
In what looks to be a historically contentious campaign season, there's at least one point on which there's no argument: The past week was particularly bad for President Obama - a "terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad week," as the headline over Chris Cillizza's "The Fix" blog at the Washington Post puts it. Read & Comment
Sen. Marco Rubio, the son of Cuban immigrants and a rapidly rising star in the Republican Party, emerged this weekend as the clear favorite potential vice presidential pick of conservative activists, according to two polls sponsored by The Washington Times. Read & Comment
A top House Republican on Sunday rejected President Obama's claim that recent security leaks did not come from the White House, accusing the president of using the leaks - which detailed the administration's counterterror programs - to "build up his reputation" before November. Read & Comment
The revelation that the United States used a computer virus to damage Iranian nuclear facilities has added urgency to a push in Congress for cybersecurity legislation. Read & Comment
Amber Lee Ettinger, widely known as "Obama Girl" during the 2008 presidential campaign, told The Daily Caller she is "not as excited as I was the last time, that's for sure." Read & Comment
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton should be grilled about why her department has removed the sections on religious freedom from its Country Reports on Human Rights, which are statutorily required. Read & Comment
Metro State College of Denver trustees passed a plan that gives illegal immigrants a 58 percent tuition break. One state lawmaker said the college may lose funding as a result. Read & Comment
President Obama has demonstrated a familiarity with ideologies incompatible with our nation's founding. Meanwhile, the nation's media maintain a willful ignorance of Obama's past, his power grabs and the company he keeps. The Oval Office is occupied by a man who once pledged allegiance to a socialist party and authorized himself to declare martial law as president. Thanks to the mainstream media, most Americans don't even know it. Read & Comment
Rep. Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, a candidate for U.S. Senate, defended sex-selective abortions and criticized Senate Republicans for opposing abortions instigated because the fetus is a girl. "How can we criminalize a decision that should be up to the woman and her doctor?" she asked. Read & Comment
The vast majority of federal spending in the Senate farm bill, which is estimated to cost over $100 billion annually, is going toward food stamps, representing a 100 percent increase since President Barack Obama took office, according to Alabama Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions. Read & Comment
Conservatives who question the origin of President Obama's birthplace are derided as "birthers" - extremist kooks, who supposedly wallow in conspiracy theories. Yet, when "mainstream" media outlets, such as Reuters, insist on getting a copy of Mr. Romney's birth certificate, it is considered objective, hard-hitting reporting. The hypocrisy and double standards are shameful. Read & Comment
For years, special-interest groups like Greenpeace and the Sierra Club have changed the American business landscape under the premise of advancing environmental justice. But in many cases, those changes have done more harm than good for the people they are designed to protect. Read & Comment
President Obama's deputies are holding "hundreds" of closed-door meetings with a jihad-linked lobbying group that is widely derided by critics as a U.S. arm of the theocratic Muslim Brotherhood. The admission of meetings with the Council on American-Islamic Relations came from George Selim, the White House's new director for community partnerships. Read & Comment
With the election just five months away, some Democrats are threatening not to donate money or time or even vote in November for the man who overwhelmingly ignited their passions and captured their imaginations four years ago. Read & Comment
Mitt Romney mocked President Obama for his comments earlier Friday about the private sector, using a stop in Iowa to cast the incumbent as out of touch with economic reality. Read & Comment
President Obama has demonstrated a familiarity with ideologies incompatible with our nation's founding. Meanwhile, the nation's media maintain a willful ignorance of Obama's past, his power grabs and the company he keeps. The Oval Office is occupied by a man who once pledged allegiance to a socialist party and authorized himself to declare martial law as president. Thanks to the mainstream media, most Americans don't even know it. Read & Comment
He's dreamed all his life of being in law enforcement, but a man who's following God's instructions in the Bible claims he was just fired by the law because of his beard.
Take a look at his photo and judge for yourself ...
Obama fraud 'biggest potential crime' in U.S. history
An award-winning journalist and author is describing the question over Barack Obama's eligibility to be president the "biggest potential crime in all of American history."
This scandal is just not going away despite the best efforts of Obama's Minion Media ...
Esquire Magazine's phony-baloney report claiming the "Where's the Birth Certificate?" book was being pulled off the shelves continues to to be fought in the legal realm.
WND is now taking new action in its effort to punish the rag with $250 million in damages ...
A full U.S. House vote on a contempt citation for Attorney General Eric Holder is almost certain, with plans confirmed by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee to take that vote within days.
Barack Obama's 2008 political campaign may not be the only ones caught making possibly misleading statements about the sitting president's alleged membership in the 1990's socialist-leaning New Party.
A homosexual activist from Maine has used a court to deliver the latest "SWAT" attack on a pro-family ministry, obtaining a "protective" order even though the defendant, Brian Camenker of Mass Resistance, never had contacted him, according to a new ministry report.
G. Gordon Liddy says it's time to move on, again. He's announced that after nearly 20 years as a nationally syndicated radio talk show host on the Radio America network he's retiring from the post.
In now-infamous comments on Friday, President Barack Obama informed America that "the private sector is doing fine." This, of course, was news to the 12.7 million people who are out of work and the millions more who are struggling with the part-time jobs they can find, or have simply given up looking.
While the President's comment is astoundingly out of touch with the public-and economic reality-perhaps even more distressing is that this wasn't a passing verbal gaffe. This is actually a consistent talking point of the President and Democratic leadership that goes largely unchallenged by the media.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) made the same case last fall when he was pushing a $35 billion bailout for state and local governments. "It's very clear that private-sector jobs have been doing just fine," Reid argued. "It's the public-sector jobs where we've lost huge numbers, and that's what this legislation is all about."
This is the President's and the Majority Leader's solution to the jobs crisis: more so-called stimulus and more government employees.
As Heritage's James Sherk has explained, this thinking is completely backwards: "If the recession has barely touched one sector of the economy, it is government."
If anyone is "doing fine," it's government employees. This goes beyond the far more generous pension and health benefits they enjoy. While the private sector lost 4.6 million jobs (a 3.9 percent drop) since the recession began, government payrolls have only fallen by 240,000 jobs (a 1.1 percent drop). Federal employment has actually grown nearly 12 percent since the end of 2007, and while the country suffers from 8.2 percent unemployment, the unemployment rate for government employees is just 4.2 percent.
In any case, the federal government borrowing more money to transfer to state and local governments is not a job-creation policy, and it is outside the scope of the federal government. It's merely a ploy to please union bosses, who are always eager to draw more federal dollars.
This government-boosting strategy also ignores the fact that it has been tried before and found wanting. President Obama's first trillion-dollar stimulus plan was a failure (and a waste). And Europe is in the shape it is because of years of government largesse. Ironically President Obama sought to focus the media's attention on Europe on Friday in an attempt to divert it from his own economic mismanagement.
We cannot avoid a European-style fiscal crisis by emulating Europe's philosophy of government-centered economies and overspending.
But the President doesn't understand the function of the private sector-creating and producing-so he is compelled to separate it from the rest of his reality. The private sector is indeed a bit of an alien place to this president , according to his accounting. He wrote in his autobiography Dreams from My Father about finding "conventional work" to pay the bills until he could land his dream job of community organizer. He was determined to remain in the private sector only briefly: "Like a spy behind enemy lines, I arrived every day at my mid-Manhattan office and sat at my computer terminal."
Following a flurry of outrage over his Friday comment, the President backtracked, saying what he meant was that "we've actually seen some good momentum in the private sector. That has not been the biggest drag on the economy."
Moving from 8.1 percent unemployment to 8.2 percent can only be considered "good momentum" in this White House. However, he's correct about one thing: The biggest drag on the economy isn't the private sector, but Washington.
Job creators in the private sector are paralyzed, suffering from overregulation and waiting for Taxmageddon to hit in January. The longer Congress waits to prevent Taxmageddon, the more uncertainty there will be for businesses.
Of course, if the President's goal is to add more government employees, then he wouldn't be as worried about the impact of these taxes and regulations on the private sector, which is "doing fine."
In Dreams from My Father, Obama excused his temporary need to make money from a private-sector job while seeking his destiny as a community organizer: "I would need the money later, I told myself. Organizers didn't make any money; their poverty was proof of their integrity."
If poverty is proof of integrity, then the President seems determined to make saints of us all.
Senate Farm Bill Harvests Taxpayers
Right now, your United States Senators are working to reauthorize the farm bill - a Depression-era spending bill that expands and extends taxpayer subsidies to farmers, maintains the bloated food stamp program and continues market distorting mandates and subsidies on green energy programs.
The 1,009-page bill will cost taxpayers $969 billion over the next ten years. It claims to save money by replacing direct payments to farmers with a new crop insurance program called shallow-loss, which by some estimates will actually cost taxpayers far more!
It is typical Washington: say one thing and then do another. The new shallow-loss program will further distort the free market and result in a 90% revenue guarantee to farmers. What other industry in America receives such a lucrative guarantee?
None.
Additionally, the bill fails to curb spending on the food stamp program. Spending on this program has doubled following President Obama's failed-stimulus, going from $39 billion in 2008 to $80 billion in 2012.
Too many Senators are simply fighting over how to slice up the taxpayer pie, as opposed to pursuing real reforms. They need to hear from you that the key to success for Americans - including farmers - is to provide real, market-based reforms, not a continuation of past policies that lead to government dependence.
Thank you for standing with us as we fight to limit the government's hold on the free market.
Sincerely,
Michael A. Needham Chief Executive Officer Heritage Action for America
Brief · June 11, 2012
The Foundation
"Here comes the orator! With his flood of words, and his drop of reason." --Benjamin Franklin
For the Record
Clueless: 'The private sector is doing fine.'
"In now-infamous comments on Friday, President Barack Obama informed America that 'the private sector is doing fine.' This, of course, was news to the 12.7 million people who are out of work and the millions more who are struggling with the part-time jobs they can find, or have simply given up looking. While the President's comment is astoundingly out of touch with the public -- and economic reality -- perhaps even more distressing is that this wasn't a passing verbal gaffe. This is actually a consistent talking point of the President and Democratic leadership that goes largely unchallenged by the media. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) made the same case last fall when he was pushing a $35 billion bailout for state and local governments. 'It's very clear that private-sector jobs have been doing just fine,' Reid argued. 'It's the public-sector jobs where we've lost huge numbers, and that's what this legislation is all about.' This is the President's and the Majority Leader's solution to the jobs crisis: more so-called stimulus and more government employees. As Heritage's James Sherk has explained, this thinking is completely backwards: 'If the recession has barely touched one sector of the economy, it is government.' ... Following a flurry of outrage over his Friday comment, the President backtracked, saying what he meant was that 'we've actually seen some good momentum in the private sector. That has not been the biggest drag on the economy.' Moving from 8.1 percent unemployment to 8.2 percent can only be considered 'good momentum' in this White House. However, he's correct about one thing: The biggest drag on the economy isn't the private sector, but Washington." --Heritage Foundation's Amy Payne
"Two weeks ago the Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics dropped a bomb on the Presidential campaign of Barack Obama when it released data showing only 66,000 jobs had been created in May -- far below estimates -- and that the top-line unemployment rate rose from 8.1 to 8.2 percent. This past Friday at a press conference, in response to a question about the GOP's contention that it is his Administration's policies that are strangling job growth, President Obama said, 'the private sector is doing fine.' He went on to explain that the rise in unemployment is largely due to budget difficulties at the state and local government level because mayors and governors are not getting the 'kind of support they need from the federal government.' ... Which leads us to ask the question: What world was Obama describing? ... Obama's 'private sector is doing fine' gaffe was not the only problem he had last week. Bill Clinton -- who is supposed to be helping Obama -- said that those 'Bush-era' tax cuts should be extended for all Americans -- even the wealthiest, assumedly because the private sector is not doing fine. ... Clinton, after suffering that moment of clarity in thinking, walked back his comment on CNN's Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer saying he was mistaken in when the tax increase would hit. He thought they needed to be acted upon before the election, instead of before the end of the year. It is not clear to me why that makes any difference as to the tax rates' effect on stimulating or further stalling the economy, but there you are. 'The private sector is doing fine' might not be the determining gaffe in this campaign, but it does show that as far as Obama is concerned, the bloom is off the prose." --columnist Rich Galen
Insight
"The men and women of this country who toil are the ones who bear the cost of the government. Every dollar that we save means that their life will be so much the more abundant. Economy is idealism in its most practical form." -President Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933)
Government
"Consider why shrinking government is moral. The more the federal government provides for people, the more it deprives them not only of their dignity, but of one of the most sacred rights, penned by Thomas Jefferson: the right to pursue happiness. Why? Because fulfilling happiness comes from earned success, not from unearned handouts. Think about the person we all knew growing up whose parents spoiled him or her. Even if that person wasn't unhappy at the time (though chances are he or she was unhappy), it teaches that individual to expect handouts, which will likely result in an unhappy adulthood. ... Private charities are able to make distinctions between people who truly need help and those who do not, as well as between those who need material assistance and those who need moral refocus, personal counseling, relationship repair or spiritual commitment. ... Though well-intentioned, leftism's commitment to government undermines both the individual pursuit of happiness ... and private charity of families and communities who can best provide it to those experiencing hardship. Conservatism, on the other hand, is committed to both, and is precisely why moving the country to the right is moral." --Heritage Foundation's David Weinberger
Opinion in Brief
"Obama's calls for a new civility four years ago are apparently inoperative. ... Obama once called for a focus on issues rather than personal invective. But now we mysteriously hear again of Romney's dog, his great-great-grandfather's wives, and a roughhousing incident some 50 years ago in prep school. The 'hope and change' slogan for a new unity gave way to a new 'us versus them' divide. ... 'Romney would do worse,' rather than 'I did well,' is the implicit Obama campaign theme of 2012. To be re-elected, a now-polarizing Obama believes that he must stoke the fears of some of us rather than appeal to all of our hopes by defending a successful record, while smearing with the old politics rather than inspiring with the new. That cynical calculation and constant hedging and flip-flopping may be normal for politicians, but eventually it proves disastrous for the ones who posed as messianic prophets." --historian Victor Davis Hanson
Essential Liberty
"Nebraska's congressional delegation sent a justifiably angry letter to Administrator Lisa Jackson [recently] complaining that her Environmental Protection Agency had exceeded its legislative and constitutional authority by conducting drone surveillance flights over Nebraska and Iowa farms looking for violations of the Clean Water Act. ... America is awash in surveillance cameras, from red-light cameras at intersections to cameras in and outside businesses. For the most part, we tolerate their intrusiveness if the pictures are triggered by actual lawbreakers or are in a public place for legitimate security purposes where the expectation of privacy does not exist. But a drone flying over farmer Jones' farmhouse seems a stretch that sets a dangerous precedent. ... Under current guidelines, information gathered deliberately or accidentally by military drones over the U.S. can be kept by the military up to three months before being purged. They can also be turned over to 'another Department of Defense or government agency to whose function it pertains.' ... 'Our Founding Fathers had no idea that there would be remote-control drones with television monitors that can feed back live data instantaneously -- but if they had, they would have made darn sure that these things were subject to the Fourth Amendment...,' Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, told Fox News. It's been said that those who sacrifice liberty for the sake of security will likely wind up with neither." --Investor's Business Daily
Re: The Left
"While most of the mainstream media focused their attention on Wisconsin and Scott Walker's victory Tuesday night, an equally, if not more significant vote occurred in two California cities. Voters in San Diego and San Jose overwhelmingly approved cuts to retirement benefits for city workers. ... Progressives and their enablers have consoled themselves with the idea that, in both Wisconsin and California, being decisively outspent is what led to their defeat. But this is a misleading claim. The reality is that the wages earned by union political operatives don't get counted as funds being spent on a campaign. Yet even if unions were thoroughly outspent, that is hardly a comforting rationale: it means more and more Americans are fed up with government employee unions and are willing to spend money to say so. ... In the ultimate progressive stronghold of California, where unions have run roughshod over the interests of taxpayers for decades, vote totals such as these, aimed at curtailing their power, are unprecedented. In other words, something truly profound has occurred. All of the so-called current wisdom regarding government unions and their ability to sway politicians with massive campaign contributions and/or thuggish tactics is no longer current. In the space of a single evening, the aura of invincibility government unions have long enjoyed has been irreparably damaged. It's as simple as taxpayers beginning to realize that government should provide services to all of its constituents, not just the privileged few -- who have long viewed those privileges as entitlements or rights." --columnist Arnold Ahlert
The Gipper
"I'm sure everyone feels sorry for the individual who has fallen by the wayside or who can't keep up in our competitive society, but my own compassion goes beyond that to the millions of unsung men and women who get up every morning, send the kids to school, go to work, try and keep up the payments on their house, pay exorbitant taxes to make possible compassion for the less fortunate, and as a result have to sacrifice many of their own desires and dreams and hopes. Government owes them something better than always finding a new way to make them share the fruit of their toils with others." --Ronald Reagan
Culture
"The Manhattan Institute's Heather Mac Donald notes that sinecures in academia's diversity industry are expanding as academic offerings contract. UC San Diego, while eliminating master's programs in electrical and computer engineering and comparative literature, and eliminating courses in French, German, Spanish and English literature, added a diversity requirement for graduation to cultivate 'a student's understanding of her or his identity.' So, rather than study computer science and Cervantes, students can study their identities -- themselves. Says Mac Donald, '"Diversity," it turns out, is simply a code word for narcissism.' She reports that UCSD lost three cancer researchers to Rice University, which offered them 40 percent pay increases. But UCSD found money to create a Vice Chancellorship for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion. UC Davis has a Diversity Trainers Institute under an Administrator of Diversity Education, who presumably coordinates with the Cross-Cultural Center. It also has: a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Resource Center; a Sexual Harassment Education Program; a Diversity Program Coordinator; an Early Resolution Discrimination Coordinator; a Diversity Education Series that awards Understanding Diversity Certificates in 'Unpacking Oppression'; and Cross-Cultural Competency Certificates in 'Understanding Diversity and Social Justice.' ... So taxpayers should pay more and parents and students should borrow more to fund administrative sprawl in the service of stale political agendas? Perhaps they will, until 'pop!' goes the bubble." --columnist George Will
Reader Comments
"What should be done to get the economy moving again? Eliminate all government agencies which have no direct authorization in the Constitution. Convoluted reasoning which has no direct authorization is NOT acceptable. This would automatically remove all agencies that conflict with those agencies in the individual states. As the state agencies are closer to the problems, they are the ones that should solve the problem." --Chuck in NV
"If the government would just get out of the way and cut regulations instead of increasing regulations the economy would fix itself. It always does. Everything goes in cycles and the more the government gets involved the longer it takes." --The Donald in Yucaipa, CA
"Regarding President O's 153 fundraising events since announcing his candidacy for reelection: WHO PAYS for Air Force One taking him all over the country, for the lodging and food, for the staff that it takes to support him in the manner he thinks he deserves? Is it the DNC, his re-election committee, or, perish the thought, we humble taxpayers?" --Brad in Minneapolis
"Congratulations to the intelligent people of Wisconsin on supporting Gov. Scott Walker. Really proud of you for having the courage to take a stand against the 'out of control' unions. The rest of our country should look to the great people of Wisconsin and the model you have set for the rest of us." --CRG in San Marcos, CA
The Last Word
"The huge gap between the young and their elders can be seen in the way they respond to Obamian rhetoric. For instance, generations of Americans understood that the American Dream translated to people of different races and religions having an equal opportunity to achieve everything and anything they were willing to work for, no matter what was required of them in terms of study, honest effort and perseverance. But we now have Obama giving a speech in which he refers to the American Promise. Who the heck is he to promise results? Who is he to tell anyone they will be successful, even if they're as dumb as doornails and as lazy as mules? Since when is success in America a guaranteed entitlement? We used to speak about equal playing fields, but only a socialist would dare promise equal results, and only a bunch of young slackers would applaud him. There are exceptions to the rule. They are mainly to be found in the U.S. military. They understand the meaning of such words as patriotism, sacrifice and responsibility, unlike their civilian cousins who can't even spell those words." --columnist Burt Prelustky
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.)
The Gaffe that Keeps on Giving By Rich Galen "The private sector is doing fine" might not be the determining gaffe in this campaign, but it does show that as far as Obama is concerned, the bloom is off the prose.
An Aggravating Ag Policy By Ed Feulner Whatever its intentions, the farm bill has become one of the most flagrant examples of corporate welfare in the federal budget.
WES VERNON, RA ANALYST - Readers were warned at the outset of our our summation of pre-Cold War events that it would require an entire book -- rather than a mere column -- to do full justice to so huge a swath of history. We still are not writing a book, but for those genuinely in search of further (albeit encapsulated) explanations, here goes... (more)
ALAN KEYES - For some time now I've been sharing (via Twitter, Facebook, etc.) articles I run across that document the fact that Mitt Romney is a crypto-socialist (i.e., a socialist who hides it behind some other label) who has already implemented leftist measures Obama has had trouble implementing on account of strong resistance... (more)
WASHINGTON EXAMINER - The icon of Our Lady of Guadalupe hung behind the podium. One organizer of the rally held a 3-foot-long wooden crucifix. Some in the crowd quietly prayed the rosary. On a few occasions, the crowd, just outside the Capitol, chanted in unison. But the words weren't the sort you'll hear at Sunday Mass... (more)
DAVE TOMBERS - On Friday, June 8, while thousands of people gathered in public squares around the country to observe "Stand Up For Religious Freedom" day, at least one law enforcement agency responded by clamping down on the demonstrators' freedom of speech... (more)
NEWSMAX - Admonishing teachers that she did not want to "offend other cultures," Coney Island principal Greta Hawkins reportedly is refusing to allow students to sing "God Bless the USA" at a school moving-up ceremony later this month... (more)
NEWSMAX - A new poll shows Americans do not approve of the job the Supreme Court is doing and believe the justices are guided by personal or political views. The nationwide poll conducted May 31 by The New York Times and CBS News shows just 44 percent of Americans approve of how the Supreme Court was handling its job, with 36 percent disapproving, the Times reported... (more)
JOHN FUND - If elections are won partly on the enthusiasm of a candidate's base, Barack Obama is in trouble. Netroots Nation, the annual left-wing conference for bloggers and activists, held its seventh annual rally here this weekend. The skies were sunny outside, but there was clearly a cloud hanging over attendees inside the cavernous Rhode Island Convention Center... (more)
NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE - In 1977, Star Wars opened in theaters, Apple released its first computer, and Orrin Hatch entered the U.S. Senate. Senator Hatch arrived in Washington, D.C., with a reputation as a fiery, pugnacious conservative. He still insists that "by any measure, I'm considered one of the top conservatives in the history of this country"... (more)
DAILY CALLER - On Thursday, Utah Senate candidate Dan Liljenquist found himself debating a cardboard cut-out of Sen. Orrin Hatch. After holding onto his seat for 35 years, Hatch is facing a GOP primary challenge ahead of what would be his seventh and final term in the Senate... (more)
DAILY CALLER - The Planned Parenthood partnership with the Los Angeles Unified School District is a dangerous development, according to South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint. Tuesday, The Los Angeles Times reported that Planned Parenthood has opened a clinic in Los Angeles' Roosevelt High School to reduce the school's number of unplanned pregnancies... (more)
EMILY MILLER - Every four years, thousands of politicians, lobbyists, activists and consultants get together for an extravagant weeklong party. It's all paid for by the taxpayers. These shindigs, otherwise known as national political conventions, no longer realistically serve the purpose of selecting a presidential nominee... (more)
MAGGIE GALLAGHER - This week, the full 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals refused to hear any more arguments on gay marriage. Appellate Judge Diarmuid O'Scannlain's dissent was scathing: "Based on a two-judge majority's gross misapplication of Romer v. Evans, we have now declared that animus must have been the only conceivable motivation for a sovereign state to have remained committed to a definition of marriage that has existed for millennia," he said... (more)
CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER - Tuesday, June 5, 2012, will be remembered as the beginning of the long decline of the public-sector union. It will follow, and parallel, the shrinking of private-sector unions, now down to less than 7 percent of American workers. The abject failure of the unions to recall Wisconsin governor Scott Walker -- the first such failure in U.S. history -- marks the Icarus moment of government-union power. Wax wings melted, there's nowhere to go but down... (more)
RICH LOWRY - The recall of Wisconsin's Governor Scott Walker didn't fail; it was only outspent. This is the considered verdict of the Left after a year and a half of trying to smite Governor Walker with its terrible swift sword. What began as a crusade to vindicate the rights of public-sector unions ended in a pathetic bleat of a complaint against spending in political campaigns... (more)
MICHELLE MALKIN - Free speech is under fire. Online thugs are targeting bloggers (mostly conservative, but not all) who have dared to expose a convicted bomber and perjuring vexatious litigant who is now enjoying a comfy life as a liberally subsidized social justice operative. Where do your elected representatives stand on this threat to our founding principles?... (more)
WES VERNON, RA ANALYST - Ronald Reagan won the Cold War by following his instincts and ignoring a lot of bad advice from establishment Republicans in and out of his administration. A new book just released tells the amazing story of Jeane Kirkpatrick, a onetime liberal Democrat whose intellectual honesty and probing mind led her to the inner circles of the Reagan foreign policy strategists... (more)
ALAN KEYES - On his departure from office, America's first President, George Washington, delivered his famous Farewell Address in which, among other things, he warned against reliance on just the sort of partisan politics system that now dominates America's political life, and that has deeply corrupted America's political culture... (more)
FRED HUTCHISON, RA ANALYST - Debates about abortion are often very heated because they involve a head-on collision of worldviews. Abortion cannot be supported within the internal logic of the Christian worldview. Laws against abortion cannot be supported within the internal logic of the worldview of liberal postmodernism... (more)
RICHARD VIGUERIE - Since Ronald Reagan left the national stage, many have auditioned for the role of leader of the conservative movement, but no one filled the Gipper's shoes until Scott Walker came on the scene... (more)
NEWSMAX - Mitt Romney can capture Wisconsin and win the presidential election in November, but only by taking a page from the playbook that propelled conservatives to victory in Wisconsin's Tuesday recall election, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker says... (more)
June 11, 2012
On Today's ProgramBrilliant Obama racks up another stupid gaffe For a brilliant guy he sure says a lot of stupid things. Obama's latest gaffe was so bad that even Candy Crowley was hammering David Axelrod on it. Obama claimed that the private sector was doing just fine and basically he already fixed that - it was just state & local governments that are struggling. Hear Crowley go after Axelrod and check out Glenn's dismantling of Obama's contention HERE.
5pm - The Glenn Beck Program: Why is the Fed the ultimate scam in America today? Glenn has the convincing evidence tonight plus interviews with economic experts who explain why the Spain bailout is destined for failure.
6pm - Real News: For the 4th time in 30 years Congress has launched a contempt action against a member of the executive branch. If approved it will likely move to the House for a vote. What is the likelihood Attorney General Holder is found in contempt and what happens if he is?
Offended: Obama cries foul on question about national security leaks The President proved he is easily offended on Friday when he snapped back at a reporter who insinuated national security leaks might be coming from inside the White House. Considering how vital the President's national security record is for his re-election effort, the question wasn't that off base. The President's blatant refusal to face the facts has once again landed him on Glenn's coward list.
Compassion fatigue? Why are bans popping up in city after city that make it illegal for people to feed the homeless? Why should feeding a hungry person ever be illegal? USA Today has an article suggesting that it's compassion fatigue and that cities are just tired of the homeless ruining their downtown areas with their presence. MORE
Ron Paul supporters rip son Rand for Romney endorsement Sellout. Traitor. Cancer. Those are some pretty harsh insults even for the heated political climate of an election year, and usually such epithets would be reserved for a Benedict Arnold. But those were just some of the words being directed at Kentucky Senator Rand Paul for endorsing GOP Presidential candidate Mitt Romney - shockingly not from the left but from the libertarians that devoutly follow Rand's father Ron Paul.
Rick Santorum's not going anywhere Rick Santorum surprised many with his strong showing in the GOP primary, but in the end it just wasn't enough to overcome the efforts of Mitt Romney. But is Santorum content to have his message fade into the background and go away? Not even close - Glenn talked with the former Senator on radio today about what the future holds.
Stu Gets Hatemail: Stu gets his first piece of hatemail...or does he? Pat and Stu track down Gary from Florida to explain why he thought it was absolutely necessary to tell Stu that he is annoying. After getting Gary on the phone, the call takes an unexpected twist.
The 4th Hour: Green Jobs classification scam The government has classified any job that is remotely energy efficient as a green job. Their list is ridiculous and expansive (did you know bus drivers and oil lobbyists are considered green jobs?) , but somehow Pat and Stu have managed to add to this list of potential "green jobs." Watch on the 4th Hour.
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Because of Florida's "sunshine laws" on transparency, all elected officials' emails are public documents, so the MEDIA monitors these emails. Yes, the same media folk who are busily spinning a false narrative about Florida, demonizing them for daring to uphold election integrity and trying to sway public opinion against the state. These spinsters are closely monitoring the Governor's emails, along with the emails of the Secretary of State and Supervisors of Elections, to guage public response is. Special interests and vote fraud deniers will be out in droves; we need to FLOOD the GOVernment with emails that offset the deluge of email being sent by these groups.
Governor Rick Scott's email: 
There are very few politicians that have risen to national prominence as quickly as Marco Rubio. At age forty-one there is huge interest in and speculation about his political future. Will he be tapped by Mitt Romney to be his running mate? Will he run for President in 2016?
Brilliant Obama racks up another stupid gaffe
