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June 13, 2012
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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!):
I knew they had both lost their law license, but I didn't know why until I read this.
This is legit. I checked it out at https://www.iardc.org Stands for Illinois Attorney Registration And Disciplinary Committee. It's the official arm of lawyer discipline in Illinois; and they are very strict and mean as hell. (Talk about irony.) Even I, at the advanced age of almost 65, maintain (at the cost of approximately $600/year) my law license that I worked so hard and long to earn.
Big surprise. Former Constitutional Law Lecturer and U.S. President Makes Up Constitutional Quotes During State Of The Union (SOTU) Address.
Consider this:
1. President Barack Obama, former editor of the Harvard Law Review, is no longer a "lawyer". He surrendered his license back in 2008 in order to escape charges he lied on his bar application. A "Voluntary Surrender" is not something where you decide "Gee, a license is not really something I need anymore, is it?" and forget to renew your license. No, a "Voluntary Surrender" is something you do when you've been accused of something, and you 'voluntarily surrender" your license five seconds before the state suspends you.
2 Michelle Obama "voluntarily surrendered" her law license in 1993. after a Federal Judge gave her the choice between surrendering her license or standing trial for Insurance fraud!
4. A senior lecturer is one thing, a fully ranked law professor is another. Barack Obama was NOT a Constitutional Law Professor at theUniversity of Chicago.
5. The University of Chicago released a statement in March 2008 saying Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) "served as a professor" in the law school-but that is a title Obama, who taught courses there part-time, never held, a spokesman for the school confirmed in 2008.
7. The former Constitutional Senior Lecturer (Obama) cited the U.S. Constitution the other night during his State of the Union Address. Unfortunately, the quote he cited was from the Declaration of Independence ... not the Constitution.
9. Free Republic: In the State of the Union Address, President Obama said: "We find unity in our incredible diversity, drawing on the promise enshrined in our Constitution: the notion that we are all created equal.
10. Um, wrong citing, wrong founding document there Champ, I mean Mr. President. By the way, the promises are not a notion, our founders named themunalienable rights. The document is our Declaration of Independence and it reads:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
11. And this is the same guy who lectured the Supreme Court moments later in the same speech?
When you are a phony it's hard to keep facts straight.
Keep this moving -- educate others.
Fundamentally Transforming the United States of America is More Like...
A well done video exposing more of the fraud that is Obama
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.
Will the last conservative to leave WPHT please turn out the lights.
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
Flag Day event! Sam Rohrer to speak, and other cool stuff.
When: This Thursday June 14, 6:45pm Where: Harleysville Savings Bank, 271 Main Street Harleysville (across from Hennings/McDonalds)
Please come, bring a friend, and pass this flier out to your local businesses, police/fire stations, VFWs/American Legions, etc. We want a good showing for Sam and we want to be visible to our community. This is not a "tea party" event; there is no need to even mention it because it's not a factor. This is a patriotic, non-partisan community celebration of our flag and those whose blood was spilled to defend it.
We are in need of veterans to help us with our Color Guard flag-raising; If the boy scouts cannot do it, we will have to, and I predict this will be the case. Please email central.montco.ptpp@gmail.com or call 610-717-6978 if you can help.
This would be our meeting night, so we won't have a meeting Thursday. But we've moved the meeting to Tuesday June 19, 7:00pm at the Rock (857 Main Street Harleysville). We'll have Josie Charnock address us, and a few other items.
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 1,250,000 people. Within a very short time it will have been seen by millions! After you see the preview, listen to what Dinesh has to say about Obama. Please take the time to hear this and pass it on.
Dinesh D'Souza - Obama & 2016
Because of the generosity of patriots like you, we've reached our fundraising goal to retake the Senate and FIRE Harry Reid!
And as a special way of saying thanks, we're extending an exclusive opportunity for you to pre-register for FreePAC, a national grassroots gathering of Americans interested in restoring freedom from the bottom up: in their neighborhood, in their state, and in their country. The event takes place from 6-9pm on July 26th in American Airlines Arena in Dallas, TX.
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.
There's no way around the facts. Under Presidents Bush and Obama, government exploded as a share of the economy.
By ARTHUR B. LAFFER AND STEPHEN MOORE
President Obama shocked us the other day when he said, "Since I've been president, federal spending has risen at the lowest pace in nearly 60 years." Having heard him champion the "multiplier effects" of deficit-financed stimulus spending, we saw him as an enthusiastic supporter of throwing other people's money at just about any problem.
Thus began our quest to see where we had strayed from the straight and narrow. Here's the picture.
In the [attachéd] chart nearby we've plotted federal government spending on a National Income and Product Accounts (NIPA) basis as a share of total U.S. GDP from 1990 to the present. The NIPA numbers are used here as opposed to appropriations or outlays to capture the actual periods when production occurs. The stories the chart tells are amazing.
The first is how much government spending fell during President Bill Clinton's eight years in office and how low it was when he left office. When he became president in 1992, government spending was 23.5% of GDP, and when he left in 2001 it was 19.5% of GDP. President Clinton, in conjunction with a solid Republican Congress, cut government spending by more than any other president in modern times, and oversaw one of the greatest periods of economic growth and prosperity in U.S. history.
Sadly for fiscal conservatives, the biggest surge in government spending came during the last two years of President George W. Bush's eight years in office (2007-2008). A weakened Republican president dealing with a strident Democratic Congress, led by then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, resulted in an orgy of spending.
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.
Since this morning's Morning Briefing, we have discovered that the item regarding Brett McGurk in a rather compromising video cannot be corroborated. This rumor appears to have originated with Peter Van Buren, a foreign service officer who served in Iraq, though he did not name McGurk specifically in the rumor. Van Buren is now in a legal battle with the State Department over publication of his memoir. After searching, we are unable to find the video Van Buren referenced and therefore cannot corroborate the veracity of the story. In hindsight, I wouldn't have posted the item until I saw the evidence.
There remain concerns about Brett McGurk's qualifications, including critics who say he has a lack of knowledge and experience in broader Middle East issues and he may be seen as too close to embattled Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. He also has troubling questions about his personal relationships, as evidenced by racy emails from his government account.
Our concerns about his nomination still stand and we would urge the Senate to reject his nomination given that the concerns about his emails and the contents therein can be corroborated.
Not a day goes by these days that I don't hear more about Senator Marco Rubio's immigration plan and get asked my thoughts on it. The plan is just that - a plan. To my knowledge there is no legislative language yet. But from what I have heard I like the plan with some reservations.
I am to the left of many of RedState's readers when it comes to immigration. While I oppose the DREAM Act and amnesty, I have a moral problem with telling a child brought into the country by his or her parents and who has subsequently been raised here that the child, because of the parents' actions, must now be sent back from the only country the child has known.
I like most of what I've heard of Senator Rubio's plan, though I still have some substantive problems, including my foundational belief that we should pursue no plan until we have secured the border.
Nonetheless, I write not to praise or defend Senator Rubio's plan, but to point out that should the Republicans in Congress actually pursue this plan this year, they will have fully become the stupid party and do more than any Democrat Super PAC to aid in Barack Obama's re-election effort.
A party, now united behind Mitt Romney, will suddenly find itself yet again divided through self-inflicted wounds dealt by Senate Republicans who, at the same time, are more and more willing to also consider raising taxes.
Attorney General Eric Holder appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee Tuesday morning to answer questions about several ongoing issues. These include the federal government's lawsuit against Florida to prevent the state from culling its voter rolls of noncitizens and others who legally don't belong, as well as the ongoing investigation (led in part by a Holder appointee and former Obama donor) into a recent spate of national security "leaks" within the administration (Holder noted that he had received "a serious interview" from "serious FBI agents" as a part of the investigation).
Perhaps most importantly, though, Holder was once again questioned about Operation Fast and Furious, a program specifically designed to sell guns to Mexican cartels and allow them to "walk" across America's southern border (without telling the Mexican government, by the way).
When observing the chaos that big union bosses have interleaved into the labor market, you instinctively think of the above-market wages that are forced upon employers (and taxpayers, in the case of public-sector unions) as a result of the monopolistic collective bargaining contracts. However, what is even more deleterious is the limitation on paying individual workers more than their contract dictates.
Believe it or not, under current labor laws, employers cannot pay individual employees more than their union contracts stipulate. Union contracts tend to reward seniority over merit and performance. This is part of our broader problem with collective bargaining laws. These laws disincentivize good performance on the job and reduce productivity. The egregious labor laws block any merit-pay system - the foundation of our free market system.
Our sister company within Eagle Publishing, Inc. has published a new book that, even were Regnery not the publisher I'd be seeking out. That's because it's author is David Limbaugh, who continues to be one of the most informative and easy to read authors of current events within conservatism.
David's new book is The Great Destroyer and I have been on a mission for two weeks to get from front to back before writing about it.
Labor Unions are not dead. They are reloading. T.S. Weidler After all their expenses, lobbying, and voter intimidation efforts, these organized labor gangsters still have more money than the entire GDP of many countries. None of it is taxed, and 92% of them are in violation of Dept. of Labor audits. More
Lord of the Skeptics Cindy Simpson "Skepticism is contagious in a time of disillusionment." More
The Grim Logic of 'Fairness' Mitch Smith Be it ancient Egyptian, Mayan, Minoan, or other old cultures, or the states of the 21st century, we simply don't have any examples that have distributed a society's wealth equally among its citizens. More
What 'Every Economist' Says Jon N. Hall One favorite debate ploy that progressives employ is this: everyone is already in agreement. Therefore, there is no debate. More
Deploy the Reductio ad Hitleram.
NO. 6. Anti-Smoking fanatics: "Hey! I quite understand. You and Adolf Hitler both. Hitler hated smoking. He called it 'the wrath of the Red Man against the White man, vengeance for having been given hard liquor.' The Nazis were among the first to ban smoking in many public places, including on trams and buses and in Nazi party premises. Just like modern day California, really."
The taxing power of the states generally extends only to their individual borders: since the adoption of the U.S. Constitution, states have not been able to impose tax collection obligations on businesses that have no property or employees within the state.[1] In 2008, however, New York adopted a law that imposes such an obligation on a person or business with no physical presence in the state if it (1) enters into agreement with in-state resident involving commissions for referring potential customers; and (2) has gross receipts from sales by out-of-state companies from referrals within the state which total more than $10,000 in a 12-month period. This law, nicknamed a "click-through nexus" or "Amazon tax" law (after their most visible targets), has been copied by a few other states and is the subject of much controversy.[2]
The anti-hunting Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) and six other groups last week filed a lawsuit designed to pressure the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) into banning traditional ammunition containing lead components, an action that NSSF immediately responded to, saying it would intervene to represent the interests of industry, hunters and target shooters. EPA has twice denied petitions filed by CBD to ban traditional ammunition, citing correctly that it does not have the authority to regulate ammunition under the Toxic Substances Control Act.
Senator John McCain, who lost to Obama in 2008 in part because he did not want to challenge Obama's personal character or loyalty to the U.S., is now upset over what he calls "...a disturbing stream of articles" that cite "leaked classified or highly-sensitive information..." in an "effort to paint a portrait of President Obama as a strong leader on national security issues..."
Michael Coren and the Danish psychologist Nicolai Sennels discuss the inherent psychological differences between Muslim immigrants and their European hosts. These differences contribute to the immigrants' criminal behavior and their lack of integration into their adopted countries.
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."
We must hold leaders accountable that our soldiers are not risking their lives unnecessarily for ill-conceived ends. Cynical politicians have few qualms about using soldiers as "expendable assets" for political aims.
The data represent one of the most detailed looks at how the economic downturn altered the landscape of family finance. Over a span of three years, Americans watched progress that took almost a generation to accumulate evaporate.
So the root problem is the system, human nature, blah blah blah. There are no "solutions" that can fix those defaults. Thus, inevitably, the "solution" is collapse.
Abe Foxman, ADL president, and many others have said that Islamic extremism is the biggest threat to Jews. So why are both the ADL and J Street overlooking the real threat to world Jewry?
The DOJ's pushing partisan ideology rather than neutrally enforcing the law began when the Administration took office and has continued unabated since. Will anyone ever be held accountable for such flagrant disregard of our laws?
Judging the Damage From Obama's Leaks by JED BABBIN The flood of classified information coming out of the Obama White House has grown so large -- and the leaks so important -- that last week there was a bipartisan call for an investigation into the White House's apparent involvement.
Hardly anyone we've met has been for less government spending 100% across the board. We can't find anyone who is 100% for more government spending across-the-board either. So why the labels?
Recently, the House of Representatives passed an amendment that calls for the removal of all four U.S. Army Brigade Combat Teams (BCTs) currently based in Europe
Col. Thomas S. Mullikin - a Camden, S.C.-based environmental attorney and deputy commander of the S.C. State Guard - has been appointed "special assistant" to the chief prosecutor in the case of the alleged 9/11 terrorists.
Bang for your buck: that's what the Freedom Center provides. Ammunition for the culture war against the Left: that's what your contribution buys. So please act now and help us in the fight we are waging on many fronts for America's future. America is under assault from within and without. There is no time to lose.
Sharp partisan turn in fight over Obama national security leaks By Jeremy Herb
The fight over national security leaks in the Obama administration took a sharply partisan turn Tuesday with the introduction of a Senate resolution by Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) calling for an independent investigation.
Republicans also sharply attacked President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden, with Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) accusing the two of hypocrisy for calling for a special counsel during the Bush administration when the two were senators.
"All we're asking for is what Senator Obama and Senator Biden asked for in previous national security events involving corruption of the government," Graham said, referring to the Valerie Plame and Jack Abramoff cases.
"I guess the difference is we're supposed to trust Democratic administrations and you can't trust Republican administrations," Graham added.
McCain and Graham said on the Senate floor that a special counsel is necessary because of possible conflicts of interest from sources of the leaks within the Obama administration.
President Obama's statement that "the private sector is doing just fine" has been compared to Sen. John McCain's statement that the "fundamentals of the economy were sound" amidst the imploding credit markets in the fall of 2008. But a better analogy would be to compare it to Mitt Romney's gaffe from earlier this year, when the phrase "I don't care about the poor" was taken out of context to indicate his supposed heartlessness.
The Obama administration's propaganda leak effort to prove the president is tough on national security is nonsense. Here's the iron-clad case that President Obama is not strong on national security.
Sometimes it's OK to completely, utterly and purposefully forget certain facts. We are talking about total mental suppression of reality. While this is normally very bad policy, I submit it is perfectly okay in the following six cases.
It began in Texas in 2010-and it was unprecedented.
Then it was Minnesota.
Earlier this year it was Georgia.
Now it's Kansas and Washington state.
Five state Republican parties have now added resolutions opposing sharia law or foreign law (which includes sharia law) to their platforms.
And ACT! for America chapter leaders and members have been instrumental in leading every one of these efforts.
ACT! for America chapter leaders and members spearheaded the successful effort to pass ALAC ("American Laws for American Courts") legislation in Tennessee, Arizona and Kansas.
ACT! for America chapter leaders and members in Minnesota, in an organized grassroots effort, helped bring an end to a state-run sharia-compliant mortgage program.
Early this year, over 21,000 people signed the ACT! for America open letter to Congress calling for the Purple Heart to be awarded to the victims of jihad at Ft. Hood and the Little Rock military recruiting center.
And the U.S. House acted-passing a defense authorization bill that includes language awarding the Purple Heart to these victims of jihad!
These victories are what Brigitte Gabriel envisioned when she founded ACT! for America in late 2007.
That's why she named the organization "ACT!" for America.
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Without the past and current support of ACT! for America members these victories simply would not have been possible.
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Israel's military victories were never the results of an inspired military or political leadership. While the anniversary of the Six-Day War has led to an outpouring of adoration for the usual suspects; the khaki-garbed generals striding victoriously through a carefully cropped photo, even if one of them had come down with a nervous breakdown not long before, Israeli generals have never been geniuses, the best-known ones have carried their own press releases into battle, and have walked a fine line between daring and criminal incompetence. Their victories were won for them by the men in the field, who survived to carry out their operations.
Israeli children play on destroyed Syrian tank
If Israeli generals are overrated, then Israeli governments are far worse, and, considering the number of generals who have played a role in politics, the confluence of the two conditions is not surprising. Israeli governments have, for the most part, been timid, cowardly and incompetent. (Which is to say that they were, for the most part, a lot like the governments of the rest of the West.)
The victories of the Six-Day War have for the most part been traded away by a succession of Prime Ministers in exchange for the promise of a peace that has yet to materialize. It is a miracle, nearly as great a miracle as the victory itself, that they were not actually traded away a week afterward.
The only political obstacle to the destruction of Israel by its politicians, has been the unwillingness of its enemies to accept its surrender. Western powers have repeatedly badgered Israeli leaders into giving up the store, only for Muslim leaders to turn up their noses and demand everything.
Israel's greatest strategic defeat did not happen in the Yom Kippur War in 1973, a war in which Israeli leaders, in conjunction with pressure from Washington D.C., crippled the military so badly that Israel was nearly destroyed. It happened in 1991, when Washington D.C. and Israeli Labor politicians finally talked Yasser Arafat into accepting Israel's surrender, while lying to the Israeli people about the terms of that surrender.
The Israeli fighting man was able to brave the largest tank battles in history, but his leaders could not manage to hang on to the country's national rights after the dead were buried and the wounded went home. No sooner do Israeli soldiers win a victory than their leaders rush to snatch it away from them and give it back, out of fear of what the world will think.
In 2003, a year before his death, Forbes Magazine placed Yasser Arafat on their list of the world's wealthiest kings and despots with a net worth of 300 million dollars. This number was on the low end of the estimates that had been made of the fortune of the leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization. Israeli intelligence had estimated Arafat's net worth at 1.3 billion dollars and an audit conducted by American accountants, authorized by the Palestinian Authority, turned up 1 billion dollars in investments. While an exact number may never be arrived at, Time Magazine's report that Arafat's wife had received a 200,000-dollar-a-month allowance, gave one small glimpse into the lifestyles of the rich and infamous of the Palestinian Authority.
The Palestinian Authority books were a black hole with billions of dollars from Western and Muslim countries, bribes and foreign aid, going to a network of secret bank accounts and investment portfolios that not only financed terrorism, but also the lifestyles of the men at the top. The audits of the PA in the twilight days of Arafat and afterward were meant to reestablish the credibility of the Authority with foreign donors, while seizing control of the assets stockpiled by Arafat for the benefit of the new bosses.
Mahmoud Abbas, Arafat's successor, has been accused of hoarding a fortune of 100 million dollars and of owning palaces and property across the Middle East. Those accusations come from Mohammed Rashid, Arafat's former financial advisor, who knows the ins and outs of Palestinian Authority finances like no one else, and whose own net worth is estimated at being around half a billion dollars.
June 12, 2012 News and Analysis on Your Money in Washington
Act Now, before the Storm Hits
A new report from CBO (the Congressional Budget Office) projects a disturbing rate of growth in federal spending, deficits, and debt.
The longer Congress delays, the tougher the changes will be needed to correct our fiscal course-and the deeper will be the economic damage of Washington's irresponsibility.
Four Basic Facts About the Pending Payroll Tax Hike Unlike most elements in Taxmageddon that are fairly straightforward, there is some confusion surrounding the pending payroll tax hike and its implications for taxpayers and the economy. Here are four facts to set the record straight.
When government grows faster than Americans' paychecks, the burden on taxpayers becomes greater. Since 1970, federal spending has increased 288% while average Americans' earnings only 24%.
PERCENT CHANGE IN INFLATION-ADJUSTED DOLLARS (2012)
President Clinton Agrees with Heritage: We Must Stop Taxmageddon "Avoid the fiscal cliff," Bill Clinton emphasizes Read and Comment Now
Video: President Obama's Summer Jobs Rerun Didn't like the first one? Just wait: the sequel's worse Watch Video Clip Now
Commentary: The "Austerity" Blame Game Economic distress in Europe (especially Greece) is getting worse due to tax hikes, not spending cuts Get the Facts Now
Obama's Private Sector History Reveals Role in Foreclosures and Bankruptcies of Chicago's Black Community
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Barack Obama has been hitting the airwaves and campaign appearances hard and heavy with reports of Mitt Romney's time at Bain Capital. He points out how Romney was responsible for the closure of American Pad and Paper that left 250 people unemployed. He forgets to tell people how Romney saved so many other struggling companies like Staples and turned them around, saving hundreds jobs.
A recent report from The Daily Caller reveals that Obama's own private sector history reads much like the one he accuses Romney of. While working as an attorney for a Chicago law firm in early 1990s, Obama volunteered to work on a case involving several black residents who believed that they were being discriminated against by Citibank Federal Savings.
We're about to electrify the movement to stop Agenda 21!
Every day, as citizens push back against Agenda 21, we are ridiculed, marginalized and steamrolled by Federal agents, visionless planners and clueless public officials. That is about to change.
I can't give you the details just yet, but coming in July, the American Policy Center (APC) is helping to organize what will become the nation's largest network of coordinated help in the fight to stop Agenda 21. I predict it will electrify our movement and lead to victories against Sustainable Development across the nation. Watch for my announcement very soon.
What I can tell you is that, in this effort, I am partnering with New Jersey activist John Anthony (www.didyouknowonline.com). John has amazing insight in how the battle should be fought, and has experienced incredible success in a very short time. His presentation on Agenda 21 is the very best I have seen. I'm busy borrowing from it for my own presentations. He goes into the belly of the beast, right to the planners, and takes them to task. He draws the link from the UN to local planners and shows why it is dangerous to our way of life. Response to John's presentations has been effective and positive. I am excited and proud to join forces with him in this battle. In recent weeks John and I have worked long hours together preparing our frontal assault on Sustainable Development. The electricity we generate while working together could solve the nation's energy problems.
For those of you who do not know John Anthony, below is one of his recent articles. After reading it, I'm sure you will see his obvious intellect, passion for freedom, and rare incite to our nation's problems. Please join me in welcoming John Anthony to the APC family. The Rise of the Forgotten Man by John Anthony
"The big difference is, you've got me," boasted Barack Obama in January 2010. He was responding to Democrats' concerns over looming mid-term losses as they recalled the disastrous elections of 1994. Unfortunately, 52 incumbent Democratic House members and 2 fellow Senators did not have him as they vacated their seats the following January in the worst Congressional turnover since 1948.
When Obama, the campaigner says, "me," he refers to his battalions of public and private union employees, legions of giggling college students on the receiving end of Tweets and texts, an Organizing for America political army and a myriad of linked campaign sites funneling to mybarack.com. "Me" means hundreds of millions in contributions from fawning advocates, salivating ideologues, business opportunists and agitated victims of Mr. Obama's charismatic demagoguery.
When the jolt of his irrevocable 2012 defeat settles, few enthusiasts will accompany Mr. Obama on his denouement in January 2013. What convinces me Barack Obama is programming for defeat? The one assemblage the President has most successfully created since 2009 is not jobs nor a campaign super- dreadnaught, but rather the rise of the Forgotten Man. Let me explain...
The Rio+20 conference will take place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil from June 20 - 22. It is sponsored by the United Nations. The official name of the conference is U.N. Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD). More than 120 Heads of State have registered to attend, along with 50,000 others, including Mayors, representatives of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) youth, and indigenous people.
Word is leaking out from behind closed doors that the conference is in huge trouble. The Rio+20 Preparatory Committee (charged with the task of preparing a final document that world leaders will sign at the conference) have so far failed to produce a final document. The main stumbling block is a provision that was agreed to at a previous conference held in Durban in which delegates agreed to establish a $100 billion Climate Fund. Cash-strapped industrial nations such as in the EU can't afford it. The stated purpose of the fund is for industrial (First world nations) to pay "reparations" to Third world nations that have been "damaged" by the climate change caused by first world pollution. The fact is this is simply an excuse for global redistribution of wealth. The policies being presented at Rio +20 will be disastrous to the world economy. If agreement cannot be reached on this and other issues, the will be the third disastrous UN conference in a row. http://opinion.financialpost.com/2012/06/07/peter-foster-no-bravo-for-rio20/
Anti-Agenda 21 activists should hold your heads high and not fear this conference. Because three very positive results will come out of Rio: 1) it will focus world attention on the issue of sustainable development. That will help us on the local level. 2) Whatever bad ideas or treaties come out of the conference, it will help energize our activists to step up the fight. And 3) it will be a huge disaster for the UN and the global green forces. That's strike # 2 after the union defeat in Wisconsin. And we all know, three strikes and they are out! Be happy warriors and seize the day!
Tom DeWeese's Newswire:
U.N. to debut plan for world socialism in June--time for US to exit? Examiner | "More specifically, the debates will cover a ... 'breathtaking array of carbon taxes, transfers of trillions of dollars from wealthy countries to poor ones, and new spending programs to guarantee that populations around the world are protected--from the effects of the very programs the world organization wants to implement." What this meeting is all about is making the soft-law of Agenda 21 of 1992 into hard law. In other words, the recommendations to reduce our carbon output to lower than 1991 levels (although these levels were not determined, the powers-that-be will come up with a number that is impossible to reach) will now be mandatory. There is nothing more important right now that this meeting in June and stopping the globalists from achieving their goal of world domination through Agenda 21...
'I made a mistake': Gaia theory scientist James Lovelock admits he was 'alarmist' about the impact of climate change Daily Mail | While Lovelock is admitting he goofed, that he and Al Gore were alarmists, he is still flogging this dead horse and plans to come out with another book. Let's see what his reasoning will be next time; you can bet it will be 'end of the earth if we don't stop (put in anything that is good for mankind)' and way too many suckers will be willing to drink the kool aid again. No matter how many times these jokers are shown to be full of horse pockey, they are welcomed back with open arms again and again as if they were the second (and third and fourth and fifth) coming. Obviously the masses will never wake up. JAMES LOVELOCK 'THE ALARMIST': SCIENTIST'S PREVIOUS CLAIMS * Civilization in its present form hasn't got long. * Before this century is over billions of us will die and the few breeding pairs of people that survive will be in the Arctic where the climate remains tolerable. * By 2040 every summer in Europe will be... between 110F and 120F. It is not the death of people that is the main problem, it is the fact that the plants can't grow. There will be almost no food grown in Europe. * By 2040, parts of the Sahara desert will have moved into middle Europe. We are talking about Paris. As far north as Berlin. In Britain we will escape because of our oceanic position. By 2040, China will be uninhabitable. * Florida will be gone altogether, the whole damned place, in not too long. * We have no option but to take our punishment and be glad that there will be enough of us to survive.
APC's "Stop Agenda 21 Action Kit" is being used by hundreds of activists across the nation. Now you can get your own kit. And Save Money!
The Stop Agenda 21 Action Kit is the most comprehensive tool yet devised to help activists fight the policies of Agenda 21 and Sustainable Development.
To compile this information, I have consulted with the nation's leading experts; quizzed activists in the field to find the tools they need; and put it all together in one complete kit. Hundreds of activist from across the nation have purchased the full kit and the feedback has been excitement and satisfaction that it does indeed provide the tools they need.
However, as the battle against Agenda 21 progresses, the information in the kit must also be continuously updated. Those who purchase the kit will always receive free updates as we provide them. My goal is to assure that dedicated activists, who are on the front lines, have the best possible tools to help them.
So now, I am again answering the call from activists. Many have said they either don't need the whole kit, or they simply can't afford to purchase it. So, in response to that plea, we are now offering the individual parts of the manual for purchase. Now you can pick and choose what parts you want - or you can slowly build your own kit at your own pace. Plus, as you purchase the individual pieces, you will still receive the free updates.
Below, you can go shopping, to purchase the item or items you would like - or, skip to the bottom of the page and purchase the entire kit at a reduced price of just $159 (regularly $195). It's your choice. Thank you for taking a stand in the fight to stop Agenda 21.
A Texas man admits that when he caught an acquaintance sexually molesting his 4-yr old daughter, he beat the man to death with his bare hands. As of this writing, no arrests have been made. Get the whole story HERE.
Freshman Congressman Allen West has released a new campaign ad that will probably bother a few Democrats in his Florida district as well as the DNC. West doesn't apologize for ruffling a few feathers with his confident approach to government. Check out the new ad HERE.
We have to admit, the first time we heard the Obama campaign's ad that was released today, we thought it might be a spoof. It is not a joke. Listen to the ad and share your opinion HERE.
Author and investment guru Jim Rogers was on CNBC yesterday to comment on the massive bailout granted to the banks in Spain. Rogers doesn't think too highly of the bailout, calling it "the most insane thing" he's heard. Watch Jim Rogers explain his thinking HERE.
A short video montage featuring glowing comments from Progressive leaders talking about one of their fellow Lefties seems to have elevated this woman to near sainthood. How are they talking about? Here's your hint: "Pow Wow Chow." Now, watch the video HERE.
Last night's panel took former Florida Governor Jeb Bush to task for a statement he made claiming that bipartisan politicians like Ronald Reagan and his own father probably could not get elected President today. Watch the segment HERE.
The latest book from Glenn Beck is meant to arm the reader with something quite powerful: the truth. You will find no less than 50 pages that document the facts used to bolster the measured and sober conclusions presented in the book. "Cowards" hits stores and electronic outlets today. You can get a sample of some of the powerful examples HERE. READ THIS |
Tuesday, JUNE 12
The Academic Scandal Elizabeth Warren and Harvard Don't Want You to Know About
This secret report was accepted by University of Texas President William Cunningham. For two decades, Warren and her co-authors have claimed in academic circles that this report--never before made public--exonerated them.
But the central charge made by Professor Shuchman was neither investigated nor refuted in this secret report. Shuchman cited four specific criticisms of the 1989 book. It is the fourth and last complaint upon which charges of scientific misconduct hang.
Memo To Obama: It's Your Economy, Stupid GrassTopsUSA Exclusive Commentary By Don Feder 06/12/2012
Here are a few possible explanations for Obama's Did-he-really-say-that? comment at his Friday press conference ("The private sector is doing fine" at job creation):
1. The president is delusional - or is that pathological? 2. The president is so programmed by his handlers that he'll say anything on cue, no matter how bizarre or illogical. 3. Obama is a pod person - an extraterrestrial sent to earth to destroy the U.S. economy. Recall that the aliens in "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" had the same emotional flatness, combined with a maniacal drive for destruction, as the president.
There was POTUS Pod Person telling us that hiring by business was "fine" and occurring at "a solid pace." The challenge now," he said, is to "make sure we continue to have a strong and robust recovery." Custer's last words: "I've got the Sioux surrounded. Now I have to make sure the 7th Cavalry stays strong and robust."
But, even in the fantasyland he's created, the president sees a storm cloud on the horizon.
While "our private sector has been doing a good job creating jobs ... The big challenge we have in our economy right now is that state and local hiring has been going in the wrong direction" - which for a doctrinaire leftist is anywhere but up, up and away.
Yes, tragically, teachers "police officers, cops (sic.) and firefighters" have been laid off. When liberals wail about government layoffs, it's always public safety that's taking the hit, not welfare workers, school administrators, IRS agents or the bureaucrats who enforce the 1001 mindless regulations that bedevil businesses and individuals.
We need more teachers for more functional illiteracy and classroom indoctrination (also lavish pensions and fringe benefits)!
The public sector is the only sector the president really cares about. He wants to see robustness in this sector alone - a growing government workforce which will soak up more of the nation's wealth and whose unions will dutifully fill Democratic campaign coffers. The National Education Association (the teachers' collective) gives 93% of its political contributions to Democrats.
Growth of the public sector is the health - not to mention the wealth - of the Democratic Party. That's why the White House orchestrated the Scott Walker recall election, then threw the Democrat in the race under the bus when polls showed Walker winning.
The unemployment rate is now 8.2%, up from 7.8% when Pod-Person-In-Chief took office. That's after $831 billion in stimulus spending - which Obama's corporate cronies, union supporters and interest groups like Planned Parenthood found very stimulating. Abortion and condoms (fewer workers and taxpayers) - that's the way to keep an economy humming.
The 2009 stimulus bill was guaranteed to take unemployment below 8%. Under the man who never held a real job before he took office (unless you count his stint as a community organizer - that's a laugh line) we now have the longest sustained period of 8%-plus unemployment since the Great Depression.
When he began his impersonation of a president, long-term unemployment was 2.6 million. Obama more than doubled that to 5.6 million .
The labor force participation rate - the percentage of potential workers actually employed - has fallen to 64.3%, the lowest level since 1981.
Under Obama, 5 million workers have given up hope of finding employment. Their numbers grew by 164,000 in March. Writing in Forbes, economist Peter Ferrara says the real unemployment rate is actually 11%. But our recovery is robust and everything's coming up roses, roses, roses.
In May, 69,000 new jobs were created nationwide - the fewest in nearly a year. To give you an idea of how pathetic that is, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the economy must create between 100,000 and 150,000 jobs a month just to keep up with population growth.
Job growth has averaged 89,000 a month for the entire Obama (quote) recovery (close quote). By comparison, in 1983-84, the last two years of his first term, and also coming out of a recession, under Reagan, job growth was 292,000 a month. Adjusted for population growth, that would be 375,000 a month today. But we're doing just fine - got that Sioux war-band right where we want 'em.
For those who have jobs, hourly compensation has been increasing at around 2% annually, half the pre-recession rate. In 2011, hourly wages inched up 1.4%, which Keith Hall, a senior research fellow at George Mason University, says is "the slowest rate of growth (in hourly wages) in 45 years." We're doing better than fine.
In Obama-land, 15.1% of the population (one in seven families) lives in poverty, the highest proportion since 1993. Among blacks, it's 27%, up from 25% in 2009. Since Inauguration Day 2009, the ranks of food-stamp recipients have increased 43% - from 31 million to 46 million. If we were doing any better, there would be guys selling apples on every street corner.
The president keeps breaking records. In his first term, federal spending averaged 24.4% of GDP. As a percentage of Gross Domestic Product, deficits are at the highest levels since World War II.
David Axelrod, one of the administration's senior schnauzers, charges that, as a corporate corsair, Romney took over companies, loaded them with debt, and left investors and workers holding the proverbial bag.
Loaded them up with debt? Coming from the spokesman for a president who increased the national debt from $10.6 trillion to $15.6 trillion, this is Comedy Central stuff. It took Bush (no deficit hawk) 8 years to add $5 trillion to the debt. Our little overachiever in the White House accomplished the feat in just three years.
We've only had four deficits in excess of $1 trillion - all under the man who promised, early in 2009, "And that's why today I'm pledging to cut the deficit we inherited by half by the end of my first year in office." The deficits of his predecessor averaged $410 billion a year, roughly a third of Obama's $1.29 trillion average deficit.
The average Bush deficit was 3.2% of GDP, compared to 8.3% under Obama.
The president has put us on a trajectory that could take the national debt beyond the earth's orbit. The CBO says that if current trends continue, by 2022, the national debt will hit 90% of America's total economic output that year (200% of GDP in 2037). By then, we'll make Greece look like a model of fiscal responsibility.
When he's not playing Professor Harold Hill shaking his straw boater at voters, Obama's election strategy has been, "Hey, look at the Mormon dude, over there! He's big trouble."
First, there was the Bain-of-my-existence attack. Supposedly, as a partner in Bain Capital in the 1990s, Romney's MO was to buy businesses, sell off the profitable parts and leave workers collecting unemployment.
This scenario hasn't gone over huge, even among Democrats. Clinton says the GOP nominee-to-be had "a sterling business career" - unlike the president, who never had any career outside of political office and political agitation.
By investing in businesses like Staples, Sports Authority and Domino's Pizza, Bain has been a net job creator, in the 100,000-range.
The new strategy has been to heap scorn on Romney's record as Massachusetts governor. "Under Gov. Romney, the Massachusetts economy was not at the top or even in the middle, but close to the bottom of all the states," says Axelrod. Why elect a man whose state was 47th out of 50 in economic development, when he ran it?
While true, this omits a few significant details. For his first two years in office, Obama had a Congress with Democratic super-majorities. In other words, he could do whatever he bloody well wanted - and did with Obama-care.
When Romney was governor, he had to work with a state legislature that was roughly 10% Republican. Years of Democratic dominance left the Massachusetts economy gasping for air. Think of Mike Dukakis, Tip O'Neill and Ted Kennedy.
Still, Romney managed to take the state's economic ranking form 49th to 47th, lower unemployment from 5.6% to 4.6%, close a $3 billion deficit he inherited and leave the state with a $2 billion surplus, without raising taxes. (He did raise fees.) During his tenure, 48,000 jobs were created.
At least the president is consistent: He lies about his opponent's record as well as his own.
Obama's actually thinks the voters will care more about the economic ranking of Massachusetts five year ago than about our basket-case economy today - that Romney's career as a venture capitalist can be used to distract the electorate from a 50% increase in the National Debt or the price of gas up over 100% since the national disaster took office.
The president doesn't get it. In the most crucial election of our lifetime, Barack Obama isn't running against Mitt Romney. He's running against himself - against his record - which increasingly looks like Custer's regiment after the Battle of the Greasy Grass.
Memo to Obama: It's your economy, stupid.
Don Feder is a former Boston Herald writer who is now a political/communications consultant. He also maintains his own website, DonFeder.com.
It was in August of 2010 the House Ethics Committee decided to proceed with charges against California Congresswoman Maxine Waters for contriving to procure "special favors" for the Massachusetts-based, OneUnited Bank. And although "Waters has done her damnedest during [these] three years to exploit as many legal technicalities as possible to try to get the investigation halted..." it now looks as though the jig might finally be up. (1)
In 2008, Representative Waters set up a meeting between officials of the Treasury Department and members of a "trade association" of minority owned banks. The meeting, however, consisted almost exclusively of OneUnited Bank executives who, to the surprise of the Treasury people, asked them for a $50 million dollar loan!
It seems the minority-owned OneUnited was in trouble. It also seems Maxine Waters' husband, Sidney Williams, was on the board of OneUnited and owned $350,000 worth of the bank's stock-stock which would ... Continue Reading:Long delayed ethics charges against Maxine Waters might at last go forward
He sent Paul Revere on his midnight ride to warn Lexington the British were coming. A Harvard graduate, he was a successful doctor in Boston, but left his career when the British passed the hated Stamp Act. With Samuel Adams, he organized the Provincial Congress to protest. His name was Dr. Joseph Warren, born JUNE 11, 1741. Following the Boston Tea Party, King George III enacted the Intolerable Acts of 1774: blocking Boston harbor until citizens reimbursed the East India Tea Company; quartering British soldiers in private homes; allowing British officials to be unaccountable for their crimes; and replacing Massachusetts' elected officials with royal appointees. In response, Dr. Joseph Warren wrote the Suffolk Resolves, urging Massachusetts to establish a free state, boycott British goods, form militias and no longer be loyal to a king who violates their rights. Fighting in the Battle of Bunker Hill, a monument marks where Warren died. ... Continue Reading:American Minute June 11
Recently, Barack Obama mysteriously 'evolved' his position on gay 'marriage' the day after his VP, Joe Biden, took the same position on national television. For someone who's been avoiding the question for as long as he has, that's a mighty quick evolution, I'd say.
All razzing aside, it's blatantly apparent to anyone with two working brain cells, that Obama was simply pushed into endorsing same sex 'marriage' by his loose lipped VP. It's not the first, nor will it likely be the last time, that Joe Biden accidentally pushes his boss into taking a public stance that hurts him politically.
And hurt him, it did. He knew that it would, which is why he avoided taking that stance for as long as he did.
Despite the enduring support of the politically correct media and the hard left, the nation hasn't taken kindly to having the gay agenda forced upon ... Continue Reading:Believe me; Obama should never have crossed that line
What would be Barack Obama's most important priority if he is reelected? In the latest edition of The New Yorker, Ryan Lizza devotes more than 9,500 words to this subject and tells us, "Obama has an ambitious second-term agenda... The President has said that the most important policy he could address in his second term is climate change."
Lizza suggests that Obama could pursue less controversial issues, but climate change would certainly be the most ambitious. Here's why.
Addressing climate change means some kind of a cap and trade scheme intended to fight global warming. Obama tried this once already, and it was such a radical idea that it couldn't pass the Senate even when Democrats had a super-majority of votes. And there's a good reason for that.
Rep. John Dingell (D-MI) once called cap and trade "a tax and it's a great big one." Warren Buffett described cap and trade as a "huge" and "regressive tax." A Harvard study found that Obama's cap and trade scheme could have led to $7.00 a gallon gas. Another study predicted that cap and trade could lead to skyrocketing food prices. And it will also cost thousands of jobs. Remember, Obama told the San Francisco Chronicle in 2008 that his cap and trade plan would "bankrupt" the coal industry and cause electricity rates to "necessarily skyrocket."
No one wants catastrophic global warming or environmental degradation. But that's exactly how the left has framed the debate. The questions we should consider are what is the science and what can we reasonably do about it?
Contrary to the claims of Al Gore and other liberals, the science is far from settled. Forty years ago, the cover of Time warned of the coming ice age that many experts predicted. Their alarmism didn't pan out then, so they're back with the new crisis of global warming.
The inconvenient truth for the alarmists is that the earth has experienced periods of climate change, warming and cooling, long before the combustion engine appeared on the scene. In fact, we've even detected global warming on Mars. Are SUVs to blame for that too?
But like so many other issues, whenever you hear "CRISIS!" out of Washington, the left's solution is always higher taxes, bigger government and more control over your life. That's just the way the liberal mind works. And that's just one more reason why we must defeat Barack Obama and elect a conservative majority to the Senate on November 6th!
Obama's Bad Month
As we have been detailing in these daily reports, June has been a terrible month for Barack Obama, and it's not even half over yet! But Dana Milbank, a liberal Washington Post columnist, compiled the bad news into one list and it's rather stunning to read all at once. For easier reading, I've bullet-pointed Milbank's list:
Job growth has stalled.
The Democrats have been humiliated in Wisconsin.
The attorney general is facing a contempt-of-Congress citation.
Talks with Pakistan have broken down.
Bill Clinton is contradicting Obama.
Mitt Romney is outraising him.
Democrats and Republicans alike are complaining about a "cascade" of national-security leaks from his administration.
And he is now on record as saying that the "private sector is doing fine."
Milbank adds, "This has been one of the worst stretches of the Obama presidency. In Washington, there is a creeping sense that the bottom has fallen out and that there may be no second term." Millions of Americans are hoping for change on November 6th!
Speaking Of Obama's Re-election...
Barack Obama will do anything for a vote. He'll pander to narrow constituencies. He'll attack churches. He'll divide people by sex, race and class. He'll blacklist news organizations. And he'll evidently put America's national security at risk in order to secure his own re-election. Read more in my weekly column at humanevents.com.
Marriage Matters
Recent court decisions striking down state marriage laws as discriminatory have relied on flimsy research that found little or no impact on children raised in same-sex households. Two new studies are calling that research into question and reigniting the debate over same-sex "marriage."
Professor Mark Regnerus of the University of Texas evaluated nearly 3,000 young adults on "40 measures of social, emotional and relationship outcomes." According to the Washington Times, he found that children raised by homosexual men had negative outcomes in 19 categories, while children raised by lesbians had negative outcomes in 24 out of 40 categories.
Professor Regnerus concedes that his study does not "tell us that same-sex parents are necessarily bad parents." But he insists that "The empirical claim that no notable differences exist must go." Ultimately, his study reaffirms that children do best when raised in stable homes with a mother and a father.
A second study by Assistant Professor Loren Marks of Louisiana State University sought to examine the research underpinning the American Psychological Association's support of same-sex parenting. Marks found several problems with the APA's research and concluded, "The lack of high-quality data leaves the most significant questions [about gay parenting] unaddressed and unanswered."
These new studies certainly won't end the culture war playing out in our courts and in the court of public opinion. But this much is clear: You don't need a PhD to know that children do best when raised by a mother and a father. Common sense, basic biology and thousands of years of human history make that abundantly clear.
But if the left insists on fundamentally redefining the institution of marriage, the foundation of healthy families and societies, then the left bears the burden of demonstrating that it is beneficial for the children likely to be involved in this radical experiment. These new studies clearly indicate that the militant homosexual movement is a long way from meeting that standard.
Reagan: Tear Down This Wall
Twenty-five years ago today, President Ronald Reagan delivered one of the defining speeches of his presidency. He traveled to Berlin, Germany, which was at that time a city divided by one of Soviet Communism's most visibly oppressive symbols -- the Berlin Wall.
Rather than seeking accommodation with the Soviets or rationalizing away the evil that wall represented, Ronald Reagan took a stand for freedom and boldly declared, "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!"
That was the beginning of the end of the Soviet Union. Two years later, the Berlin Wall came down, and two years after that the Soviet Union collapsed as well.
Click here to watch that historic speech by one of America's historic leaders.
Video: Holder: 'In-person Voting Fraud Is Uncommon'
Jun 12, 2012 02:35 pm
Here, Holder demonstrates in about a minute how incompetent he is as attorney general. No related posts.
Here we have before us, once again, a man who we know very little about, even after four years. Let's take a brief look at what we do know. First,we have an admitted Muslim who has shown utter disdain for all things that are Godly, including Israel. Second, we have someone who was born in [...]
Recently, Barack Obama mysteriously 'evolved' his position on gay 'marriage' the day after his VP, Joe Biden, took the same position on national television. For someone who's been avoiding the question for as long as he has, that's a mighty quick evolution, I'd say. All razzing aside, it's blatantly apparent to anyone with two working [...]
A multi-billion dollar media complex with thousands of reporters and researchers couldn't do in 2008 what a conservative columnist and an army of bloggers did in a few months-uncover Barack Obama's extensive ties to the Socialist New Party in the mid-1990s. The pertinacious Stanley Kurtz and Breitbart.com's army of bloggers have uncovered not only Obama's [...]
Fascinating results from the bitter Wisconsin recall election in which Republican Governor Scott Walker defeated the effort by Democrats and organized labor to remove him from the office to which he was elected in 2010. In 2010, Scott Walker was elected governor over his Democratic opponent Tom Barrett by a margin of 5.77 percent. Enmity [...]
The Obama Strategy: If You Can't Beat 'em, Sue 'em
Jun 12, 2012 02:03 pm
If you were president, and your failed policies had resulted in an economy that was steadily sinking into the abyss of bankruptcy; an American citizenry whose lives, safety, and personal freedoms were left in a threatened state; and a list of emboldened enemies and alienated allies of your nation just a few months before your [...]
It was in August of 2010 that the House Ethics Committee decided to proceed with charges against California Congresswoman Maxine Waters for contriving to procure "special favors" for the Massachusetts-based OneUnited Bank. And although "Waters has done her damnedest during [these] three years to exploit as many legal technicalities as possible to try to get [...]
Intelligence Leaks: Same Problem, Different Results?
Jun 12, 2012 01:57 pm
In 2003, during the Bush administration, the late Robert Novak wrote a story about then-dictator Saddam Hussein' attept to acquire "yellow cake" (an ingredient needed to make weapons grade nuclear material) from the African nation of Niger. The story centered around former Ambassador Joseph Wilson IV. During the course of the story Wilson's wife, Valerie [...]
This is a great new ad for Congressman Allen West. (Editor's note: this is not intended to be an endorsement of any kind for the Congressman.) Related posts: Video: Allen West To Obama, Fire Holder Or You're Complicit! As always, Allen West is the man.... Continue to Post... Allen West: Release Of Terrorist "Utter Betrayal" [...]
The balance between the police and the policed is getting way out of whack - and we better restore it now. I speak of a spate of new technologies - high-tech cameras, satellites and now, drones being flown over U.S. soil - that are giving police and government way too much power over the average [...]
Video: Rush's Take On Obama's 'Private Sector Doing Fine" Comments
Jun 12, 2012 01:29 pm
Watch this interesting take on Obama's latest gaffe. Related posts: Axelrod Dodges "Yes Or No" If The "Private Sector Is Doing Fine" Three Times David Axelrod refuses to answer the basic "yes or no"... Former Obama Adviser: The Private Sector Is Not Doing Fine Even a former Obama adviser doesn't pretend that the private...
It bothers me a little when conservatives call Barack Obama a "socialist." He certainly is an enemy of the free market, and wants politicians and bureaucrats to make the fundamental decisions about the economy. But that does not mean that he wants government ownership of the means of production, which has long been a standard [...]
The balance between the police and the policed is getting way out of whack - and we better restore it now. I speak of a spate of new technologies - high-tech cameras, satellites and now, drones being flown over U.S. soil - that are giving police and government way too much power over the average [...]
Dream Act, Other Immigrant Entitlements Officially Dead
Jun 12, 2012 12:39 pm
Congress' job performance rating is 10 percent. Lawyers' popularity stands about the same. And although there's no official ranking for whining, entitlement-seeking aliens, I can't image that they do better than Congress or attorneys. So it's no surprise that when Daniela Peleaz, a Florida high school alien student, her lawyer Nera Shefer and U.S. Representative [...]
Obama On Why He Didn't Campaign In Wisconsin: 'I've Got A Lot Of Responsibilities'
Jun 12, 2012 12:32 pm
Although President Obama declined to comment on the recall election between Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett during last Friday's news conference, he didn't mind talking about it yesterday with a reporter from ABC's Green Bay, Wis., affiliate WBAY. "I'd like to ask you about Wisconsin's recall election. There are a lot [...]
Video: Pat Caddell Identifies Obama's Intelligence Leak
Jun 12, 2012 12:23 pm
Sean Hannity tries to get to the bottom of this matter with Ann Coulter and former Democrat Pollster Pat Caddell. Related posts: ARE YOU READY TO SEE PICS OF HANNITY FROM WAY BACK WHEN? Last night, Sean Hannity aired a "behind-the-scenes" segment put together... Hannity: I Talked To George Zimmerman Some of the biggest news [...]
Taxpayers Funding More Than $1B In Free Cellphones
Jun 12, 2012 12:07 pm
ANCHOR: There are new questions tonight about a government program that's given away millions of free cell phones and service to people with low incomes and those in rural areas. The cost and demand are skyrocketing. Who pays? Chances are you do. ANCHOR: ABC7's Ben Bradley is joining us tonight with what it's costing you. [...]
This Latest Euro Fix Will Come Apart In Less Than A Month
Jun 12, 2012 11:59 am
Only this one may not even succeed in buying time - I give it less than a month before some such other piece of bad news comes along to fire the crisis anew. Like all the others, the latest fix seems to create as many problems as it solves. The euphoria in markets at Spain's [...]
June 12, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) - With over 65 million visitors per month, Wikipedia has been established worldwide as a leading information resource. But is its popularity due to its historical and scientific data? Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger warns that one of the site's primary uses is actually for viewing pornography, and despite the outcry for [...]
"No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible." ~ Voltaire
Raging RINOs Betray The Unborn At Their Political Peril
Who Are The Eight RINOs Who Joined Democrats And Paved The Way To The Federal Bench For The Architect Of Roe v. Wade? ACN Staff America's Conservative News
Eight Republicans-in-Name-Only (RINOs) joined Democrats on Monday and paved the way for Andrew David Hurwitz, the man who has been called the "Architect of Roe v. Wade" in leftists circles, to take a seat on the federal court.
Warren and Harvard Don't Want You to Know About By Michael Patrick Leahy Breitbart.com
In 1990, Rutgers Professor Philip Shuchman charged Elizabeth Warren, along with Teresa A. Sullivan, the President of University of Virginia who resigned unexpectedly yesterday, and Jay Westbrook, her two co-authors of the 1989 book, As We Forgive Our Debtors: Bankruptcy and Consumer Credit in America, with "scientific misconduct." Within a few months, Warren's friends and former colleagues at the University of Texas quickly completed an error-filled investigation.
If you are really serious about taking back this country, you must be willing to do what it takes to help elect true conservatives to office and, in order to actually do what it takes, you must first know what it takes. Craig Copland's 214-page Conservative Election Handbook is a must have tool that every conservative should have in his or her arsenal.
Florida Sues Homeland Security Over Access To Citizen Database NewsMax.com
Florida sued the U.S. Department of Homeland security over access to a database to verify the citizenship of residents as the state seeks to purge noncitizens from its voter rolls, a spokesman for Florida Secretary of State Ken Detzner said.
Entitlement Programs Are Bankrupting Our Country And Our Character By Charlie Daniels CNSNews.com
The truth is that America is already bankrupt, the papers have just not been served yet, but if our course is not drastically altered that will happen very soon and when it does the boat will rapidly begin to sink and the people who caused it will run away and enjoy the pensions and benefits they voted themselves while the rest of America is left to swim or drown. Read the Full Story
Fox News contributor Pat Caddell joined Stephen K. Bannon on the "Victory Sessions" and told him that National Security Advisor Tom Donilon is likely the source of recent intelligence leaks that have prompted calls for an investigation by Democrat Senator Diane Feinstein. Read & Comment
The World Trade Organization is moving closer to eliminating country-of-origin labels and replacing them with "Made in the World" initiative labels. Read & Comment
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. Read & Comment
Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels went out on the Sunday talk show circuit and floated an idea which, predictably, has some of the usual suspects up in arms. He posed the question of whether or not public sector unions really have a place at the table in the American free market system. Read & Comment
A Native American who attended Harvard is accusing her alma mater and Massachusetts Senate hopeful Elizabeth Warren of committing "ethnic fraud." Read & Comment
Lawmakers are working to block an unprecedented power grab by the Environmental Protection Agency to use the Clean Water Act and control land alongside ditches, gullies and other ephemeral spots by claiming the sources are part of navigable waterways. A House measure carries 64 Republican and Democratic co-sponsors and was passed in committee last week. 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
Mitt Romney at a charter school in Philadelphia in May.
By TRIP GABRIEL
Published: June 11, 20
"Voucher" is a fighting word in education, so it may be understandable that when Mitt Romney speaks about improving the nation's schools, he never uses that term.
Nonetheless, as president, Mr. Romney would seek to overhaul the federal government's largest programs for kindergarten through 12th grade into a voucherlike system. Students would be free to use $25 billion in federal money to attend any school they choose - public, charter, online or private - a system, he said, that would introduce marketplace dynamics into education to drive academic gains.
Sheriff Joe whacks Obama eligibility in ANOTHER state
In a stunning new development, Sheriff Joe Arpaio and his Cold Case Posse are now challenging President Obama's eligibility for yet another election ballot.
In the wake of a series of recent cannibal-style attacks, sink your teeth into this one. A man having what are described as "vampire teeth" has been arrested for attacking and threatening to kill a homeless man. Check out Dracula's smile ...
This state has become the first in the U.S. to allow residents to use deadly force against public servants, including law enforcement officers, who unlawfully enter their homes.
In the wake of a series of recent cannibal-style attacks, sink your teeth into this one. A man having what are described as "vampire teeth" has been arrested for attacking and threatening to kill a homeless man. Check out Dracula's smile ...
Will Heads Roll for the Stuxnet Leak? By Patrick J. Buchanan Whatever the purpose, recent leaks appear to be breaches of national security and violations of federal law, and two U.S. attorneys are investigating. It is not improbable that officials on Obama's national security team, if not White House aides, will soon be addressing a federal grand jury.
Duped by Congressional Lies By Walter E. Williams Here's my question to those who protest that their Social Security checks are not handouts: Seeing as Congress has not "set up a Social Security account for you" containing your 45 years' worth of Social Security contributions, where does the money you receive come from?
From the bookshelf: Written in the decade before Churchill became prime minister, Great Contemporaries profiles towering figures ranging from Franklin Roosevelt and Adolf Hitler to Charlie Chaplin, and Rudyard Kipling and tries to learn what makes a man great. In this new edition, James W. Muller includes five essays that have never appeared in any previous version and an enlightening introduction.
Several proposals are straight out of an Occupy Wall Street drum circle: the money-is-not-speech amendment and the corporations-are-not-people amendment. Other proposals actually focus on governing institutions: many favor direct election of the President and Vice President, others a universal voting rights amendments, and one suggested eliminating Congress and putting the people in charge. It's not clear how this new Constitution would function or how long it would last. But it is clear from this exercise that we are living in the legacy of the 1912 election.
The 1912 was a transformative election. It was a critical prelude to the New Deal. As Sidney Milks argues in his First Principles essay, the contest initiated important changes that redefined the meaning and practice of self-government in the United States away from representative institutions and toward a pure democracy.
Progressivism had been around since the late 1800s. It had a foothold in many states and among academics, including the Democratic Presidential candidate Woodrow Wilson. But the 1912 election elevated progressivism to the national scene. Former President Teddy Roosevelt had bolted from the republican party to become the leader and presidential candidate of the new Progressive party.Next week, June 18-22, is the centennial anniversary of the GOP convention, which denied Roosevelt the Republican presidential nomination and prompted him to create the Progressive Party.
Seeing Roosevelt's campaign as their best hope to advance a program of national transformation, an array of crusading reformers from Jane Addams to Herbert Croly joined the party. These reformers favored a variety of national regulations and social welfare measures-including minimum wage and maximum hours legislation, restraints on financial markets, and national health insurance. While many reformers disagreed about these measures and the critical issue of the national government's role in regulating the economy and society, one party doctrine unified the disparate strands of progressivism: the rule of the people.
Pure democracy meant removing the constitutional obstacles that obstructed the direct rule of the people. As Roosevelt put it in his "Confession of Faith:"
The people themselves must be the ultimate makers of their own Constitution, and where their agents differ in their interpretations of the Constitution the people themselves should be given the chance, after full and deliberate judgment, authoritatively to settle what interpretation it is that their representatives shall thereafter adopt as binding.
To achieve pure democracy, progressives pushed for several political reforms: 1) the universal use of the direct primary; 2) the ballot initiative, which would allow voters themselves to make laws; 3) the recall of public officials, which would allow voters to remove their representatives from office before their elected term had expired; and, 4) most controversially, popular referenda on laws that the state courts declared unconstitutional. The progressives also favored a strong presidency as a way to give authoritative expression to mass public opinion.
Sensing that pure democracy was the glue that held together the movement he sought to lead, Roosevelt made the cause of popular rule the centerpiece of his insurgent presidential campaign. Roosevelt's defense of direct democracy infused his campaign with deep constitutional significance and shaped the election so decisively that other presidential candidates were forced to speak out on the issue as well.
The Republican candidate, William Howard Taft, had been a member of TR's cabinet. Taft had supported TR's pragmatic progressive program, within existing constitutional boundaries and with the cooperation of the Republican Party. Pure democracy, however, rejected constitutional boundaries and the party apparatus. Moreover, it was contrary to the Founders' constitutional design. The Founders established a republic where representatives would "refine and enlarge the public views" and institutional devices such as the separation of powers and federalism allowed representatives to govern competently and fairly. Pure democracy meant establishing a direct relationship between public officials and mass public opinion. Therefore, pure democracy meant eliminating those intermediate institutions that refined, enlarged, and channeled the people's passions: including political parties, Congress, the states, and the Constitution. Taft would not let this happen. "The real usefulness of the Republican Party," Taft argued, "consisted in its conservative tendencies to preserve our constitutional system and prevent its serious injury."
Woodrow Wilson was the Democratic candidate, and ardent progressive, and his campaign stump speech was "What is Progress?". In TR fashion, Wilson attempted to make the President the embodiment of popular will and administrative agencies the stewards of the people. But he did not embrace the entire pure democracy program: Wilson was sympathetic to the decentralized state courts and political parties.
The 1912 election brought progressivism to the forefront of our national politics and challenged voters to think seriously about the Constitution. The pure democracy agenda was a fundamental departure from the decentralized republic that had prevailed since the early part of the 19th century. The 1912 election did not completely remake American democracy, but it marked a critical way station on the long road to do so. In a certain very real sense, Roosevelt won the election of 1912. The causes he championed with extraordinary panache still live on today.
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Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security, or the rights of property; and have, in general, been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.
Unions suffered a resounding defeat in Wisconsin last week. They're far from down and out, however. Unable to reverse their decline in membership under existing law, they are circumventing Congress and using the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to create an entirely new type of union. A new rule hatched by the Obama-appointed board, authorizes the creation of union cells-organizing a few employees within a company to gain a foothold-which will severely impact businesses.
Until recently, employees organized based on shared job characteristics-for example, all the hourly employees at a firm. The new practice allows micro-unions representing only a small minority of workers in a company. Instead of a grocery store's employees having a union, the store could face separate unions for cashiers, shelf-stockers, and janitors.
The NLRB permitted this in its Specialty Healthcare decision last year, allowing organized labor to form unions by job title. A decision last month by one of the NLRB's regional directors demonstrated just how harmful-and absurd-a policy this is. The regional director green-lit a union election at the Bergdorf Goodman department store. But most employees will not get to vote; only shoe salesmen will cast ballots. Not all shoe salesmen, however. Only those selling women's shoes.
The fact that hours, benefits (including the same health plans), and general productivity goals were common among all employees was dismissed because, among other reasons, the sale of women's shoes 'requires a distinct skill set from other sales associates due to the unique nature of the product they are selling.'
While the men's shoe salesmen-or any other type of salesmen-at the store will not get a say in the union's presence, these excluded workers will share in all the risks and downsides of unionizing. Strikes will also harm them, and if the union bankrupts the company, they will also lose their jobs.
With private-sector union membership down to 7 percent, labor leaders are desperate. Even the government unions are seeing workers quit en mass-when they have a choice. Columnist Charles Krauthammer described this lesson in Wisconsin:
Without the thumb of the state tilting the scale by coerced collection, union membership became truly voluntary. Result? Newly freed members rushed for the exits. In less than one year, AFSCME, the second-largest public-sector union in Wisconsin, has lost more than 50 percent of its membership.
Labor leaders and the NLRB have made several attempts to curb workers' rights in recent years. They have tried to take away the secret ballot in union elections and to shorten the amount of time workers have to decide on unionizing. They have threatened to demand access to workers' email addresses and phone numbers in workplaces that are targeted for unionization. The NLRB itself has its own scandals and has served as a revolving door for union big shots.
The board's tactics are in step with the Obama Administration's penchant for skipping Congress completely.
"The recent decision at Bergdorf Goodman is an example of the labor board's doing through regulation what we ought to be doing through legislation on the floor of the Senate," said Senator Johnny Isakson (R-GA), who introduced legislation last year that would reverse the NLRB's decision on the so-called micro-unions.
The practice will have devastating consequences for businesses and workers alike. Management could face contract negotiations with multiple union cells under one roof, which "increases the likelihood of industrial unrest and workplace disputes as different unions with differing goals represent different employees," said Fred Wszolek of the Workforce Fairness Institute.
In addition to divided workplaces, workers will face diminished professional opportunities. As Heritage's James Sherk has explained, "Over time, unions destroy jobs in the companies they organize. In manufacturing, three-quarters of all union jobs have disappeared over the past three decades, while the number of non-union jobs has increased."
With organized labor cells, workers would be stuck in their current roles without the chance to advance through departments. Fragmenting the workplace into multiple bargaining units will make it very difficult for workers to work their way up through departments. They wouldn't have the opportunities that Joe McFarland had when he took an hourly job at Home Depot in 1993.
McFarland started out working in the electrical aisle. Over the next 20 years, he learned all he could about other departments in the store, worked hard-and got promoted. He rose from his hourly job to Western Division President, where he now oversees more than 440 stores and 78,700 employees in 13 states.
If the electrical aisle employees had chosen to unionize, McFarland could have been stuck there. He wouldn't have had the opportunity to train across departments and move up into management.
But big labor's strategy isn't about growing skills and advancing careers. It's about grasping for any amount of power-and union dues-they can grab.
Feulner has been essential to the growth of the conservative movement, Bradley Foundation president Michael Grebe said in a statemet. "Under his guidance, The Heritage Foundation has become a bastion of ideas that are an integral part of the national conversation and that have shaped public policy."
He also lavished praise on Meese, who served as Ronald Reagan's attorney general and now chairs Heritage's Center for Legal and Judicial Studies as Heritage's Ronald Reagan Distinguished Fellow in Public Policy. "His entire career has involved upholding the rule of law and making the nation more secure," Grebe said.
America faces three threats that could drastically change our country for the worse, Heritage Foundation scholar Matthew Spalding writes in his new book, Changing America's Course.
Our country faces an entitlements challenge which threatens our economic prosperity, a defense challenge that jeopardizes our national security, and a constitutional challenge that will risk our self-governing democracy.
In a new podcast, Heritage Vice President of American Studies Matthew Spalding discusses both the book and the implications of Wisconsin's recall election.
Last week's unsuccessful recall of Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker serves as a "micro-example" that signals to other governors, members of Congress, and voters, that changes need to be made to the structure of government in order to save our country from the fiscal crisis we are in.
This month, the Heritage Foundation has hosted speakers, written papers and blogged about the importance of a strong national defense. Heritage's Protect America month aims to educate and inform the public and lawmakers on the threats to our nation's military readiness. Heritage has produced three investigative videos that have been viewed by nearly 100,000 people that expose how America is risking a diminished military. Click here to see the videos.
The Heritage Foundation's impact is seen around the nation in many ways. Heritage influences public policy, shapes the national conversation on critical issues and serves as a voice for the American conservative movement. And now, Heritage can add another impact to our list: fashion. While announcing his endorsement for president on television, Sen. Rank Paul (KY-R) showed his support the The Heritage Foundation by wearing a Heritage neck tie. If you would like to join the Kentucky senator in showing your support of the conservative movement, you can order your own Heritage Foundation tie at the Heritage Foundation bookstore.
Principal yanks patriotic song from kindergarten graduation
Send your email to Principal Hawkins. Tell her to reinstate "God Bless the USA" in the graduation ceremony.
June 12, 2012
Dear Linda,
Greta Hawkins, principal of Edna Cohen School (PS 90) in New York, has decided on her own that kindergarteners displaying American patriotism would be offensive.
She has single-handedly banned Lee Greenwood's "God Bless the USA" from the graduation ceremonies scheduled for June 20.
It doesn't matter that students in five classes spent months learning the patriotic song, or that the students practiced waving American flags in unison to promote love of country.
According to The New York Post, 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 each wave a tiny American flag - which, as the lyrics proclaim, "still stands for freedom." But Hawkins marched in on a recent rehearsal and ordered a CD playing the anthem to be shut off, staffers said.
But Justin Bieber's flirty song about teen romance, "Baby," was deemed a fine selection for the show. Hawkins had no problem with 5-year-olds singing lines such as, "Are we an item? Girl, quit playing."
In response to public pressure, New York Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott removed Beiber's inappropriate song from the program, but stood by the principal's anti-American rebuff of Greenwood's "God Bless the USA."
FoxNews stated state school officials made no indication Hawkins would reinstate the Greenwood song, which Hawkins nixed because she reportedly "did not want to offend other cultures."
TAKE ACTION
Send your email to Principal Hawkins. Urge her to reinstate "God Bless the USA" in the graduation ceremony. A copy of your email will also be sent to New York Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott.
Send your email to Principal Hawkins now!
It is very important that you forward this alert to your friends and family members.
Sincerely,
Tim Wildmon, President American Family Association
Backdoor Amnesty Moves to California; Number of Illegal Alien Beneficiaries Grows
Under the review, the Administration will administratively close...any pending or incoming immigration case it does not deem a priority for immigration enforcement.
House Passes Homeland Security Funding Bill, Immigration Front-and-Center
Late Thursday, the House passed its fiscal year 2013 DHS appropriations bill... True immigration reformers in the House offered numerous amendments to the legislation, which FAIR supported.
Milwaukee Executive Signs Resolution to Ignore ICE Detainers
Last week, Milwaukee County, WI Executive Chris Abele signed into law a resolution...that would limit the Sheriff Office's ability to honor U.S. ICE detainers.
Tonight on The Glenn Beck Program: The media isn't being honest with you, politicians aren't being honest with you, and many of us aren't doing our part to change the status quo. Today, Glenn's new book COWARDS hit bookstores nationwide - tonight he discusses some of the topics exposed in the book. Plus, another story the media doesn't show you when praising China's economy - ghost cities. Tune in at 5pm ET or on demand.
Wednesday on GBTV: The National Lemonade Stand & Bake Sale Hug-A-Thon Day is finally here! Glenn's on location LIVE from Babe's Chicken Dinner House in Cedar Hill, Texas. Glenn will be joined by Raj, former Victoria's Secret model Kylie Bisutti, and others to highlight entrepreneurship and much more. Find a lemonade stand near you!
Glenn's Father's Day Special: Glenn will be joined by a studio audience of fathers and sons, touch base with the participants of The George Washington Challenge and talk to a few special guests. Don't miss it this Friday - live at 5pm ET or on demand.
Don't Miss Real News from The Blaze! Make sure to watch Real News every weeknight live at 6pm ET (or on demand). Last week S.E. Cupp shared her own personal manifesto on pop culture and how conservatives can continue to create! WATCH
The all new "Invite Friends" program! GBTV isn't just a network, GBTV is a verb and a movement - how far this information gets is up to YOU. Glenn is very excited to launch the new "Invite Friends" program making it easy for you to share the GBTV programming with your friends and family.
Do you want to change the world? Last week Glenn revealed his 4 step program:
COMMIT It's time to take action - the time for finger pointing is over - it's time to get involved. Before you can take a stand and take action, you must commit. Last week on GBTV, Glenn talked about commitment - before you stand up, you MUST know what you stand for.
ACTIVATE How can you turn the 2012 election from a close call to a mandate? Glenn's partnered with David Barton to make it easy to find out if you're registered to vote and provided an easy way to register if you're not. It's time to activate - pledge to adopt a friend and get started now.
LIVE IT Cities across the country are outlawing people from giving food to the homeless. We cannot go over the cliff with the rest of humanity. What are the 4 things you can do to prevent this from happening? Glenn unveils Mercury One's Restoring Love Food Drive.
CREATE Glenn revealed the final piece of the solution to fix the country - CREATE! He didn't just discuss the immorality and filth in the current culture, but how people with values and faith tend to run away and withdraw rather than create something different. What's the solution?
June 12, 2012
On Today's ProgramTeacher unions reveal true priority (hint, it's not the students) We often hear teachers explain how much they love their students, and that they are the reason they do what they do. So why is it so many teachers are willing to screw students over and strike, leaving them high and dry? What's more important - The kids? Or the almighty dollar? Glenn has the story of teacher union thuggery in Chicago on radio today. WATCH
COWARDS is here. Don't be one, read it now. From the violence on our border and Islamic Law in America, to full-chapter exposés on people (like George Soros and Jim Wallis) who would prefer to work in the shadows, the 13 issues that Glenn covers in this book will help you win the arguments that will change minds...and possibly votes. This is one of Glenn's big, oversized color books with lots of design work and sidebars - Read a free chapter. Give the gift of truth this Sunday for Father's Day - pick up a copy at your local Target, Walmart, Costco, BJ's, Sam's (or wherever books are sold), or order online now! Who's the bigger Coward? Make sure you cast your vote in our next match up of the '100 Years of Cowards' tournament! Today we kick off Round 2 with the top seeded Mainstream Media vs. the Teachers Unions.
Is the Federal Reserve a scam? Last night on GBTV Glenn outlined the money laundering shell game being played by the Federal Reserve. Where are they getting money from? Who are they giving it to? Glenn has the answer to those questions and more.
TOMORROW: National Lemonade Stand and Bake Sale Hug-A-Thon Day! Help push back on big government trying to fundamentally transform America by over-regulating our charitable efforts and small business initiatives. Join Glenn in support of National Lemonade Stand and Bake Sale Hug-A-Thon Day! Tune in this Wednesday @ 5 PM (ET) on GBTV as Glenn broadcasts live from his own bake sale in Texas. Want to get your community involved or find an event near you, learn more HERE.
Glenn vs. Weird S&M mommy porn Glenn's new book COWARDS is up against some disturbing competition on Amazon's best sellers list - Fifty Shades of Grey. Look, if it was The Hunger Games it would be one thing, but a weird S&M book written by your mom? America, this is twisted and this must stop. Help Glenn recall Fifty Shades of Grey by ordering a copy of COWARDS on Amazon today.
He got what he had coming: man murders child molester A Texas man reportedly experienced the worst possible nightmare for any dad - he witnessed his 4 year old daughter being molested. And then he did probably what most dads in that situation would do: he beat the man so badly he ended up dying from his injuries. Would you do the same?
Glenn and 1791 step up to help family send their son around the world, raise awareness for rare disease - DETAILS.
The town of Tombstone, Arizona is in a bitter feud with...Mexican Spotted Owls. The town argues that the owl's protected habitat is slowing down the process of fixing a much needed water line. Which do you think is more important, ruffling a few feathers or providing humans with life giving nourishment? This might just be the most audacious decision since Obama decided to kill Osama. Watch Pat and Stu search for an answer on The 4th Hour...
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Obamanomics: Americans lose 40% of their wealth under Obama While the President is busy saying the economy is 'fine,' the Federal Reserve has released estimates that American net worth has dropped 40%, and the median income has dropped 8%. You have to wonder what definition of 'fine' the President is using. If 'fine' equals mired in a nasty malaise, then he's 100% correct. Glenn reacts on radio today.
NY about to elect a former Black Panther who thinks Israel has concentration camps You know, it would be just a little hypocritical for the progressives and their tools/organizations to paint someone who has a record of being ardently pro-Israel as an anti-Semite, while simultaneously trying to get a man who claims Israel shouldn't be a state elected to Congress. And yet that's exactly what is happening in New York.
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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?
Teacher unions reveal true priority (hint, it's not the students)
