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House votes to hold Attorney General Holder in contempt of Congress  

Yesterday the House voted to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress for failing to provide key information pertaining to Operation Fast and Furious, making Holder the first sitting Cabinet member in history to be held in contempt.

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Activate: How to turn the 2012 election from a close call to a mandate

• I want to make sure I'm registered to vote and adopt a schlub friend. CLICK HERE
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Glenn revealed ways for you to really get moving! 

"Activate" - 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!):

As one letter writer put in a newspaper today, "I woke up a citizen, and now I'm a subject"

As severe a blow as we received today by the hands of the court - and by those who passed the health bill - we do not have the luxury of immersing ourselves in discouragement. Any time we spend on hostility and recriminations is time and energy we rob from ourselves and our fellow citizens, time that must be spent on influencing public opinion and changing the political landscapes of our community, our state and our country.

The sneak attack at Pearl Harbor decimated our Pacific forces, followed just days later by Hitler declaring war on us too, but Americans did not say, "Game over, and we've lost".

Instead, we licked our wounds and prepared ourselves to engage in the most enormous war ever fought on this planet. And we won!

There are obvious things we've got to do, to help make things right, among them:

1. Get Casey out of the senate

You'll soon receive a one-page list of reasons from me on why he must be booted out. This list must be circulated by                   you and every other member as widely as possible.

Assuming Romney gets in, he'll need a majority in the senate. Without it, he'll be handicapped. If he doesn't get in, we'll need a                            majority to help block further damage.

Either way, Casey must go!

2. Draw people into our movement

Our General Wayne ad campaign begins next week, to attract people to our meetings and our web site. At our July 10^th meeting, you'll be provided with material to "reach out and touch" people you know or know of.

3. Work against the socialist indoctrination by our schools

I'm stumped on how to go about this. If you have some ideas, please send them to me.

4. Get your letters into the news media. Over the past six months, I've noticed a significant increase in letters from conservatives. The most effective letters are those that include facts about the issue(s). If you don't submit such letters, you are deferring to those who might hold the opposing view.

This administration has declared war on our personal freedoms, and has also declared war on people of faith, including the Catholic Church, a church that has vowed to engage in civil disobedience rather than violate their principles.

We've had this war thrust upon us. Understand that each of us must become a combatant on the front line. I'll look for you at our July 10^th meeting with some ideas; we'll have lots to cover

Lou Flanagan

How the original Tea Parties got started:

In May of 1773 Parliament concocted a clever plan. They gave the struggling East India Company a monopoly on the importation of tea to America. Additionally, Parliament reduced the duty the colonies would have to pay for the imported tea. The Americans would now get their tea at a cheaper price than ever before. However, if the colonies paid the duty tax on the imported tea they would be acknowledging Parliament's right to tax them.

The colonists were not fooled by Parliament's ploy. When the East India Company sent shipments of tea to Philadelphia and New York the ships were not allowed to land. In Charleston the tea-laden ships were permitted to dock but their cargo was consigned to a warehouse where it remained for three years until it was sold by patriots in order to help finance the revolution.

In Boston, the arrival of three tea ships ignited a furious reaction. The crisis came to a head on December 16, 1773 when as many as 7,000 agitated locals milled about the wharf where the ships were docked. A mass meeting at the Old South Meeting House that morning resolved that the tea ships should leave the harbor without payment of any duty. A committee was selected to take this message to the Customs House to force release of the ships out of the harbor. The Collector of Customs refused to allow the ships to leave without payment of the duty. Stalemate. The committee reported back to the mass meeting and a howl erupted from the meeting hall. It was now early evening and a group of about 200 men, some disguised as Indians, assembled on a near-by hill. Whopping war chants, the crowd marched two-by-two to the wharf, descended upon the three ships and dumped their offending cargos of tea into the harbor waters.

Most colonists applauded the action while the reaction in London was swift and vehement. In March 1774 Parliament passed the Intolerable Acts which among other measures closed the Port of Boston. The fuse that led directly to the explosion of American independence was lit.

LINK: http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/teaparty.htm

Bucks, Montco political reaction to U.S. Supreme Court decision

By Gary Weckselblatt Staff Writer | Posted: Thursday, June 28, 2012  

When the U.S. Supreme Court reached its momentous decision Thursday morning, Theresa BrownGold was standing not far from the front steps of the stately building as she had so many times this year.

Brown Gold, of New Britain Township, is an advocate of the Affordable Care Act and an artist who paints portraits of people who have struggled with the health care system.

A man standing nearby told her the court ruled in favor of President Barack Obama's health care mandate. "I didn't believe it," she said. "I needed it confirmed."

Her phone soon rang and it was her son. He told her the mandate stood. "I was numb, numb and dizzy" she said, recalling the crowded sidewalk and Washington's summer heat. She hugged the man standing next to her and asked if he had some water.

"I felt like I was going to buckle," she said.

Democrats and Republicans each felt some of that weakness Thursday. Democrats from the thrill of a long-fought victory; Republicans from a kick to the stomach from a conservative chief justice, John Roberts, who joined with the bench's liberals in a majority 5-4 decision.

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Will the last conservative to leave WPHT please turn out the lights. 

Mike Souders

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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. 

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Join Us on Fridays and Take a Stand for Israel:    

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

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

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

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

Muslim Brotherhood in America: The Overview

An extremely important movie is coming this summer - Dinesh D'Souza - Obama & 2016

Dinesh D'Souza is author of many New York Times best sellers.  The movie is from Gerald R. Molen, producer of Academy Award Winning Schindler's List.

It explains in plain language who Barack Obama really is, what he stands for, and the dangers of him being reelected for another four years.

Watch this short informative video preview of this movie and share it with others.  It has already been seen by over 1,250,000 people.  Within a very short time it will have been seen by millions!  After you see the preview, listen to what Dinesh has to say about Obama.  Please take the time to hear this and pass it on.

Dinesh D'Souza - Obama & 2016

"Losing our Sons": Documentary looks at domestic Islamic radicalization and jihadization

Charles Jacobs at Americans for Peace and Tolerance announced today the release of a trailer for their upcoming documentary, "Losing Our Sons", featuring Melvin Bledsoe - father of domestic terrorist Carlos Bledsoe aka Abdulhakim Mohamed who gunned down US Army recruiter Pvt. William Long at an Army-Navy recruiting center in Little Rock, Arkansas in June 2009. Melvin Bledsoe testified at the House Homeland Security Committee hearing earlier this month.

The upcoming documentary discusses how Bledsoe was radicalized by the Muslim Student Association in Tennessee and sent to terrorist training in Yemen with the written recommendation of the imam of a Nashville mosque. It also discusses how the agents of radicalization in the Nashville Muslim community have been aided by collaborators in the establishment media, politics and the so-called "interfaith" community.

The U.S. Constitution

A Reader 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Results that make a difference, not just a statement.

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

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

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

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

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

Sincerely,


Brigitte Gabriel

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Friday 10-11pm "Veterans' Weekly Forum" - Rich Davis and David Bellavia   

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

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

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

Lou Flanagan

The General Wayne Tea Party

Chief Justice Roberts Voted Against America  

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Victory Center" on Facebook

-Gabriel Malor

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

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

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

RedState Morning Briefing

For June 29, 2012

1. Awake.

In the past twenty-four hours I have gotten a lot of heat from friends over my take on what John Roberts did. What's done is done and I really could not get all worked up about it because Obamacare in the Courts has been such a distraction. Yet again the GOP expected a court to save them from something they did not like.

The GOP has largely turned its nose up at the tea party, which is its salvation. The tea party movement provided the GOP with the energy, man power, and money to take back the House in 2010 and come close in the Senate. For that, the GOP has routinely given the tea party the middle finger and, instead of fighting for repeal of Obamacare, excused itself while the Supreme Court did the heavy lifting.

John Roberts, the man who gave us the Citizens United case has now, with a laughably inane ruling, told us we have to fight politically. The millions of people who joined the tea party in 2009 only to go back to their jobs and families after the 2010 election are now awake.

In waking, what they are seeing is a government claiming that food stamps will make you look amazing and that encourages people to party with food stamps. They are seeing a corrupt tourism program. They are seeing tax cheats getting billions from Barack Obama. They are seeing high unemployment, the United States Attorney General held in contempt of congress, the GOP cave on fiscal issues, and the Supreme Court deciding something the vast majority of Americans hate is constitutional.

2. I'm Not Down on John Roberts

Having gone through the opinion, I am not going to beat up on John Roberts. I am disappointed, but I want to make a few points.

3. I Am Down on John Roberts.

We do not choose justices, on our side, because of policy results; we choose them for process, which we believe will usually, but not always, produce better results. Process matters in the law, because process is the law. When the law upon which the majority of our citizens through their representatives have agreed is followed, the result is axiomatically better either substantively or educationally, that is, because it shows us where our process is wrong.

4. How the NRA Helped ObamaCare

It's tough to accuse the National Rifle Association of being left-wing, but events on Thursday highlight just how useless the organization can be to the conservative movement at large. On the day that the Supreme Court found the most odious provisions of the Affordable Care Act - ObamaCare - constitutional, the House of Representatives took the historic step of holding a sitting attorney general in contempt of Congress.

5. 10 Reasons to Oppose Highway/Student Loan/Flood Insurance Omnibus Bill

While everyone is focused on how to deal with the impending government takeover of healthcare, we must continue to battle the forces of big-government in Congress. Yesterday, in another display of venerable bipartisanship, leaders from both parties agreed to roll the $120 billion Democrat highway bill, subsidies to fuel the Big Education bubble, and a 5-year extension of government-run flood insurance into one omnibus bill, H.R. 4348.

The House and Senate plan to vote on the bill tomorrow. We'll be keeping score.

6. Hold Mitch McConnell To His Word

In February, Mitch McConnell told Senate Republicans he would not bring up any votes on Obamacare repeal.

7. The Repeal Pledge: Another Reason to Support Ted Cruz

Today the United States Supreme Court left Obamacare in tact.

That means every Republican Primary left now matters even more significantly.

In Texas, Ted Cruz is in a runoff with David Dewhurst.

Only Ted Cruz has sided the repeal pledge pledging to repeal Obamacare. David Dewhurst has not. These differences matter. Go support Ted Cruz right now. We'll need every vote we can muster in the Senate next year to repeal this thing and only Ted is on record willing to repeal Obamacare.

By the way, the Dewhurst campaign reached out and said they signed the repeal pledge on May 26th. I reached out to the repeal coalition and they can find no record of a Dewhurst signature until yesterday . . . after Ted Cruz yet again made an issue out of it.

Heritage Hotsheet

Experts on the Day's Hottest News

Items for June 29, 2012

Europeans Agree to Use Bailout Fund to Aid Banks

NEW YORK TIMES

Catholic leaders critical of health care law

DETROIT FREE PRESS

GOP-led House holds Holder in contempt of Congress

USA TODAY

Senate GOP Will Use Reconciliation in Attempt to Repeal Obamacare

THE FOUNDRY

Supreme Court Upholds Mandate as Tax

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

US exempts China, Singapore from possible penalties, citing reduced imports of Iranian oil

ASSOCIATED PRESS

What the Supreme Court's Health-Law Ruling Means for Consumers

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

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ISSUE BRIEF ON JUNE 28, 2012   

Transportation Conference Bill: Some Good Reforms, but Too Much Spending

June 29, 2012   

Obamacare: 'Things are now up for Grabs'
Clarice Feldman
Did you really ever think Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid and Barack Obama could outsmart and outplay Justice Roberts? More

The Chief Justice Done Good
Dov Fischer
Chief Justice John Roberts has handed a remarkable victory to American conservatives by threading the judicial needle with perfect precision. This is going to be OK, even fun. Just wait and see. More

SCOTUS Exposes the ObamaCare Tax Lie
Perry Fisher
This interpretation shows the Court remonstrating Democrats, saying, "You passed a tax, by God -- now you call it a tax." More

America Fades, the World Gets Darker
Daren Jonescu
Don't let this light flicker its last. There is, at present, no other. More

Holder's Contempt: Who Owns the Government?
Mike Razar
President Obama has raised the stakes. This not just a political dust-up; not merely a healthy test of strength between two co-equal branches of government. The rule of law is being challenged More

Justice Roberts Pleads: 'Lie to Me'
C. Edmund Wright
Our Harvard-educated chief justice just made it the law of the land that as long as a president and House speaker and Senate leader lie long enough and in a bald-faced enough way, whatever they pass is just fine and dandy if we can eventually admit that it's a tax. More

History in the Making: The Decline of America
Lauri B. Regan
How do the GOP and Mitt Romney reach an electorate who does not see the potentially irreversible damage to the nation of another four years of Obama? More

Only 43.7 Percent of Gulf 'Oil Spill' Was Actually Oil
Bruce Thompson
The man who stands between the Obama administration and billions of dollars in a slush fund. More

American Thinker Blog  

Holder Laughs at Contempt Vote while Terry Family Still in Pain
June 29, 2012
"Good political theater"? More

Poets on the Bench
June 29, 2012
It's been said that history doesn't repeat itself but that it often rhymes. Just so with yesterday's ObamaCare ruling. More

MLK's Dream Realized
June 29, 2012
My wife's recent family reunion showed me just how far we really have come. More

'Moving Forward'
June 29, 2012
As the American people remain quiescent, he shall continue to move our country towards whatever end state he has in mind. More

Reclaim rock for conservatism:  

If John Lennon really found it so easy to "imagine no possessions," how come he had to record his song "Imagine" on a white grand piano in a vast stucco-fronted Georgian mansion on a 72-acre estate in one of the most expensive counties in Britain? Tell your liberal friend you much prefer integrity in your music-take for instance, "The Ballad of the Green Berets" (a number one hit in 1966) sung without a lot of whoop-dee-do by an authentic Green Beret, Barry Sadler.  

We are winning on the exchanges!  

Fellow freedom lover,

Lynn Jensen, another PA docs4patientcare physician, and I met yesterday with Todd Shamash, the Governor's Assistant Chief of Staff.  John Basial, Senator Folmer's Chief of Staff, Aaron Scheck of the Governor's office, and Matthew O'Donnell from the PA Department of insurance.  Although I had made multiple email and phone attempts to initiate a dialogue with the Governor's office about the exchanges, those efforts were ignored until last week, when Mr. Shamash's office invited me to come to Harrisburg for some discussion.  It became clear during our conversation that the meeting was motivated as a result of the grassroots and our efforts to stop the exchanges including calling and emailing the Governor's office, emailing and visiting our state representatives, and local op-eds.

I gave a brief presentation outlining some of the fiscal and healthcare catastrophic ramifications of President Obama's healthcare law, the components of viable market-based reforms, and the appropriate action (refusing to set up an exchange, passing HB42 Medical freedom act, and passing state based reform to increase affordability and access of healthcare insurance) our state government should take for the contingency of Obamacare not being ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.  Mr. Shamash responded by saying the Governor was in agreement with the great majority of our position.  We expressed our appreciation for the Governor's opposition to Obamacare but made it clear that the Governor's intent to establish a compliant exchange was the wrong course of action to protect the Commonwealth's citizens from the harmful ramifications of Obamacare, and that we will continue to actively and public work to stop establishment of an exchange.

Clearly all of our efforts not only stopped their earlier active effort to move ahead with an exchange bill but is making them reconsider their position on the exchanges.  We may have at a minimum convinced them not do anything until the November election.   At this point, I believe they wish this issue would go away by SCOTUS declaring Obamacare unconstitutional. 

So, good job!  But, we need to keep the pressure on.  Please encourage your members to continue to call and email the Governor's office and to email and visit you state representative and senator.  Insist the sign the Americans for Prosperity Health Care Freedom Pledge.  I attached a couple of documents to arm your members with the facts on the exchange.

One last request on this too long email - please encourage your members to encourage their doctors to join the fight to protect our healthcare by joining docs4patientcare.  I attached a letter to give to doctors and some info on Docs4patientcare. 

We are winning!

ISSA ON ERIC HOLDER CONTEMPT VOTE: "I NEVER THOUGHT IT WOULD COME TO THIS"

Eric Holder response to criminal contempt charges.

 The Democrats staged a walk out and abstained from voting:   

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Communist Party: Obama's Reelection is 'Absolutely Essential'

• Posted on June 28, 2012  

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Since the toppling of Hosni Mubarek, there have been a number of reports regarding Obama administration behind-the-scenes support of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. The Washington Times reports the latest below.

You may recall that in 2009, when Iranians rose up in protest of the election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Iran, President Obama refused to issue even a statement of support for the protestors. His justification was that we shouldn't get involved in the internal politics of Iran.

Apparently no such reluctance existed for the Obama administration to get involved in the internal politics of Egypt-on the side of the Muslim Brotherhood.

  Egypt's Secular Parties Blame U.S. Pressure       Ahram Online
by: Ahram Online
Saturday, June 23, 2012     http://times247.com/articles/egypt-s-secular-parties-condemn-obama-for-supporting-morsi  
Egyptian secular and liberal parties sounded dissatisfaction over the reported support of the US for Muslim Brotherhood's presidential candidate, Mohamed Mursi, but affirmed they would accept the results of the elections due to be announced Sunday.

During a press conference Saturday, representatives of the Free Egyptians Party, the Democratic Front Party, the Revolution Continues Coalition, the Tagammu Party and the Kifaya Movement opened fire on the Brotherhood, voicing suspicion over the group's sudden change of stance towards the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF). ...

Several speakers at the press conference further condemned what they believe to be US intervention in Egypt's domestic affairs. Harb claimed the US was pressuring SCAF to hand over power to the Muslim Brotherhood. "We refuse that the reason someone wins is because he is backed by the Americans," said Harb demanding that the Brotherhood should refuse US intervention.    

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Why Prices Matter, Part II   Jun 27, 2012 04:17 pm

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Brotherhood Victory Opens Door for Islamists   Jun 27, 2012 09:45 am

Hamas Minister Fathi Hammad Vows To Liberate Jeruslaem and other Cities   Jun 27, 2012 09:28 am

MUST WATCH Afterburner with Bill Whittle on Fast and Furious
Posted by The Right Scoop on June 22nd, 2012

This one is awesome. Bill Whittle nails Fast and Furious in this short Afterburner:

President Obama personally inserted himself into the Fast & Furious gun walking scandal after he extended executive privilege over certain DOJ documentation. Was the Fast & Furious a botched scandal, or a deliberate effort to undermine the Second Amendment? Find out as Bill Whittle explores the ideological motives behind the Fast & Furious scandal.

Afterburner with Bill Whittle: Follow the Ideology

ObamaCare ruling means Americans hostage to 70 years of Supreme Court madness

Jun 28, 2012 06:13 am | Coach Collins

by Doug Book,  staff writer

In March, Justice Anthony Kennedy observed that a fully implemented ObamaCare would "...change the relationship of the federal government to the individual in a very fundamental way..." But Justice Kennedy made a very fundamental mistake. The relationship between the American people and what has become the D.C. ruling class actually changed 70 years ago when the Supreme Court decided that a farmer in Ohio could not legally grow wheat on his own land for use by his own family. It was in ruling that Roscoe Filburn threatened the Article I, Section 8 Commerce Clause powers of Congress that a truly "fundamental change" was effected on the relationship between Americans and their government. The existence of ObamaCare is simply a logical result; a not unexpected consequence of that 1942 descent into judicial insanity.  (1)

Today the Supreme Court will rule on NFIB v Sebelius-ObamaCare. The decision will be debated by a breathless ... Continue Reading:ObamaCare ruling means Americans hostage to 70 years of Supreme Court madness

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American Minute June 27

Jun 27, 2012 06:13 pm | Coach Collins

By Bill Federer, staff writer

   Helen Keller was born JUNE 27, 1880.
At the age of two she suffered an illness that left her blind and deaf.
Her parents took her to Dr. Alexander Graham Bell who recommended the Perkins Institute for the Blind in Boston.
There, at age of 7, Helen was tutored by Anne Sullivan through the sense of touch.
Eventually Helen Keller learned to read Braille and began attending Radcliffe College, where Anne Sullivan interpreted lectures.
Helen became concerned about all the blind, especially those blinded in war or by poor working conditions.
She received numerous international honors for her efforts.
Helen Keller learned to type on a Braille typewriter and wrote many books between 1903 and 1941, including: The Story of My Life, Optimism, The World I Live In, The Song of the Stone Wall, Out of the Dark, My Religion, Midstream, Let Us Have Faith, and ... Continue Reading:American Minute June 27

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Obama has suppressed Fast and Furious email "smoking gun"

Jun 27, 2012 01:00 pm | Coach Collins

by Doug Book,  staff writer

Under questioning by Senator Charles Grassley, Attorney General Eric Holder testified that a handful of emails written to Department of Justice officials by former ATF Acting Director Kenneth Melson are being withheld illegally from congressional committees as a result of Barack Obama's claim of executive privilege.  Kept now under lock and key thanks to the June 20th order,  the emails have been described by Melson as "smoking guns" in that-contrary to Holder's testimony to congress-they "show senior DOJ officials knew about and approved the gun walking tactics in Fast and Furious." (1)

Fifteen months ago, Melson began his own investigation of Fast and Furious by reading through the wiretap affidavits sent by the ATF to Main Justice in Washington.  He found that the information included in the necessarily detailed documents bore little resemblance to the "facts" which had earlier been relayed to Congress by Assistant Attorney General Ron Weich. In a ... Continue Reading:Obama has suppressed Fast and Furious email "smoking gun"

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Why I'm afraid of the Supreme Court's ruling on ObamaCare

Alexander's Essay - June 28, 2012

The Price of Liberty

Thank God for American Patriots

"This was the object of the Declaration of Independence. Not to find out new principles, or new arguments, never before thought of, not merely to say things which had never been said before; but to place before mankind the common sense of the subject, in terms so plain and firm as to command their assent, and to justify ourselves in the independent stand we are compelled to take. Neither aiming at originality of principle or sentiment, nor yet copied from any particular and previous writing, it was intended to be an expression of the American mind, and to give to that expression the proper tone and spirit called for by the occasion." --Thomas Jefferson (1825)

With Independence Day upcoming, one would have to be brain dead or liberal (a distinction without difference) to avoid the comparison between the imperial powers from which our Founders broke free and the Imperial Presidency which now threatens the Essential Liberty they, and generations of American Patriots since, have defended with their "Lives, Fortunes, and Sacred Honor."

Contrast the current Commander in Chief's wanton and willful disregard for his sworn oath to that of generations of uniformed American Patriots who have spilled blood in keeping with their oaths to Support and Defend our Constitution.

That contrast is particularly clear to me today.

This morning, I join many other parents who are delivering a son or daughter for in-processing at one of our fine Military Service Academies. My firstborn son is breaking tradition with our family's naval legacy by joining the Air Force Academy's Cadet Wing, having turned down his appointment to the Naval Academy. However, he alone has set the course for his future with God as his North Star, and that bearing, which guided him to the AFA, will not lead him astray.

In a few hours, he will form up with his squadron and affirm his first oath to "support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic [and] bear true faith and allegiance to the same..." I know this young man will honor that oath throughout his life as he has already -- earning the American Legion Award for Patriotism four years ago when just an eighth grader.

Afterward leaving my son, I depart west from Colorado Springs to attend the retirement ceremony for a career Navy captain tomorrow morning. My friend and colleague, a USNA graduate who I first met more than a decade ago when we were on a National Defense University panel, has steadfastly devoted more than 35 years of his life to support and defend our Constitution. I am deeply honored to be included in that ceremony.

So, within the course of the next 24 hours, I will witness my son at the beginning his active military service, and my colleague at the ending of his.

These two events serve as bookends to the generational spirit of American Liberty enshrined by our Founders in the Declaration of Independence and our Constitution. They also stand in stark contrast to BHO's determination to undermine Liberty, by offending constitutional Rule of Law at every turn -- most notably by his successful effort to nationalize the entire American health care system, upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court this morning. Our hope now is for legislative repeal. Moreover, he is determined to undermine the moral integrity of our uniformed service branches. (I can say that publicly; my son no longer can.)

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However, amid Obama's efforts to erode the pillars of American Liberty, I should interject here that we at The Patriot Post won a small victory for Liberty this week in regard to our mission of service to American military personnel.

Among other projects supported by proceeds from our Patriot Post Shop is the free distribution of our Essential Liberty pocket guides to U.S. military personnel and support groups across the nation and around the world.

Several months ago, Navy investigators notified us that they were considering legal action under the UCMJ against Marine and Navy officers who received our Essential Liberty guides and distributed them at promotion ceremonies in Afghanistan. Apparently, some Obamaphile took offense at the distribution of the Declaration of Independence and Constitution to officers and enlisted personnel.

Fortunately, as notified this week, wiser heads prevailed and investigators have concluded that there is no impropriety in requesting and distributing the booklets. This is a bittersweet victory, however, because this investigation cost a great deal of income seized from taxpayers, and it caused a significant amount of heartburn for those under investigation. While we do not know what affect it might have upon the willingness of officers and enlisted personnel to request Essential Liberty guides, we rest assured that their commitment remains unwavering to their defense of Essential Liberty.

Moreover, this investigation is an indication of how deep the Obama decay and degradation has penetrated even the ranks of military JAG and IG offices ... and how effective his Leftist cadre assaults on Liberty have been. But, American Patriots by the tens of millions remain steadfast in our resolve to "support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic," the exposition of Liberty as first enshrined so eloquently in our Declaration of Independence -- so help us God.

As an Fourth Class AFA "doolie," one of the quotes my son will be required to memorize is this from 19th-century libertarian philosopher John Stuart Mill: "War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things; the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing worth a war, is worse. A man who has nothing which he cares more about than he does about his personal safety is a miserable creature who has no chance at being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."

Indeed.

On the commemoration of the signing of our Declaration of Independence, John Adams wrote to his wife, Abigail, that the date would "be the most memorable Epocha, in the History of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated, by succeeding Generations, as the great anniversary Festival. It ought to be commemorated, as the Day of Deliverance by solemn Acts of Devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with Pomp and Parade, with Shews, Games, Sports, Guns, Bells, Bonfires and Illuminations from one End of this Continent to the other from this Time forward forever more. You will think me transported with Enthusiasm but I am not."

Adams continued, "I am well aware of the Toil and blood and treasure, that it will cost Us to maintain this Declaration, and support and defend these States. Yet through all the Gloom I can see the Rays of ravishing Light and Glory. I can see that the End is more than worth all the Means, and that Posterity will tryumph in that Days Transaction, even altho We should rue it, which I trust in God We shall not."

Ahead of Independence Day next Wednesday, we will publish a special edition devoted to our Founding Fathers.

On that, and every day of the year, let us "Proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof" (Leviticus 25:10 as inscribed on the Liberty Bell). Please pray for our Armed Forces standing in harm's way, that we might live free.

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

Mark Alexander
Publisher, The Patriot Post

Publisher's Note: As was the case at the Dawn of American Liberty, we are but a small band of American Patriots facing an empire of statists, but we are steadfast in our sacred oath to sustain our Constitution. Please help us combat the ideology and propaganda of the Left in order to restore the integrity of our Constitution.

On behalf of Liberty, if you are able, please support our 2012 Independence Day Campaign. We still must raise about $190,000 to meet our goal and there are just 6 days left.

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

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Obamacare After the Court

The policy landscape will change dramatically after 10 a.m. today. If the Supreme Court does not strike down Obamacare in its entirety, Congress should move to repeal it. Americans support repeal of the health care law, as they have demonstrated in more than 100 polls since it passed in 2010. The infamous individual mandate is only the beginning of the problems Americans face under this law.  Most importantly, Americans need real health care reform, and we need to begin moving toward a patient-friendly system where people have the freedom to choose the care that is best for them.

Beyond the Individual Mandate

Over the past two years, Heritage has laid out the flawed policies of Obamacare, including the individual mandate to purchase health insurance, which is at the center of the law's constitutional questionability.

We must remember, as James Capretta says in a recent Heritage paper, that what might remain on the books is just as problematic as the provisions under legal scrutiny:

1. The Taxes. It is often forgotten that in addition to being a massive federal power grab, Obamacare contains one of the largest tax increases ever imposed on the American economy-at a time when job growth should be the nation's number one priority.

2. Deficits and Debt. Obamacare creates two new additional entitlement programs that are expected to add a minimum of 35 million Americans to the entitlement rolls when phased in, at an expense of more than $200 billion annually by the end of the decade.

3. The HHS Mandate. Obamacare has handed over immense regulatory power to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to control just about every aspect of the nation's health system. Among other things, the regulations issued by the Administration thus far would require all employers, including religious employers such as Catholic hospitals and universities, to cover abortifacient products, contraceptives, and sterilization procedures in the health plans they offer to workers. This would directly violate the religious liberty rights of thousands of religious institutions around the country.

4. The Bureaucratic Micromanagement of American Health Care. In addition to creating new federal agencies, boards, and bureaucracies, Obamacare is also pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into the states to coax them into building the "exchanges" that will become the foundation of the Obamacare edifice. These exchanges, far from fulfilling the supposed mission of fostering a dynamic marketplace, will be the means by which the federal government will extend its reach to every corner of the health sector. Every American who does not obtain his or her insurance through an employer will have little choice but to go through Obamacare's exchanges.

So What Should We Do?

A starting point for developing alternative health insurance reform should be setting commonsense insurance rules for those who buy their own insurance by extending the protections previously established by HIPAA (the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996). As Heritage's Edmund Haislmaier explains:

Currently, 90 percent of privately insured Americans are covered by an employer-group plan. Over the past 15 years, the HIPAA employer-group coverage rules have worked reasonably well. Congress should simply extend those rules to the remaining 10 percent of the private market that consists of people covered by individual health insurance policies.

The HIPAA rules already extend key protections for those in the employer-group market, including a guaranteed issuing of coverage, guaranteed renewability of coverage, limits on pre-existing condition exclusions, and prohibition on discriminating based on health status. Extending these rules to the individual market would allow greater portability.

Coupling sensible individual health insurance market reforms with appropriate tax and Medicaid reforms would be a fair and fiscally sound strategy for expanding coverage to the currently uninsured. The Heritage Foundation's Saving the American Dream provides such a plan and puts health care reform on a course toward a truly consumer-based health care system.

No matter what happens this morning, conservatives especially should not be fooled into making short-term concessions that can undermine their long-term policy goals. Instead, Congress should use the opportunity to articulate clearly the shortfalls of the law and contrast them sharply with better solutions.

The failure of Obamacare is not only a matter of the public's continued opposition to it; the law is also a major policy failure. It is based on the false premise that more government, more regulations, and more mandates are the right solution to America's health care problems. Congress must use this opportunity to offer an alternative vision for the future of health care-a future where individuals get better care at lower cost without government controlling the dollars and decisions.

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The Ball is in Our Court 

Posted: 27 Jun 2012 07:17 PM PDT

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