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Why is it that, next to the birthday of the Savior of the World, your most joyous and most venerated festival returns on this day? - And why is it that, among the swarming myriads of our population, thousands and tens of thousands among us, abstaining, under the dictate of religious principle, from the commemoration of that birth-day of Him, who brought life and immortality to light, yet unite with all their brethren of this community, year after year, in celebrating this, the birth-day of the nation?

Is it not that, in the chain of human events, the birthday of the nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Savior? That it forms a leading event in the progress of the gospel dispensation? Is it not that the Declaration of Independence first organized the social compact on the foundation of the Redeemer's mission upon earth? That it laid the corner stone of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity, and gave to the world the first irrevocable pledge of the fulfillment of the prophecies, announced directly from Heaven at the birth of the Savior and predicted by the greatest of the Hebrew prophets six hundred years before?  

Click Here to read the full text of this address by John Quincy Adams delivered July 4th, 1837 

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
• I commit to registering FOUR schlub friends CLICK HERE
• I commit to be a part of the global Tea Party movement the week of Restoring Love: FreePac &Constitutional Conference
• I want to join a team - 9/12 Project, FreedomWorks, or a local Tea Party

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!):

Whistleblower: TSA Deliberately Hiring Psychopathic Criminals 

TSA supervisor reveals how bosses told him to hire people with violent tendencies

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Tuesday, June 26, 2012

A TSA supervisor turned whistleblower has revealed to the Alex Jones Show how the federal agency is deliberately directing its staff to hire people with criminal records who exhibit violent tendencies and psychopathic behavior.

Whistleblower: TSA Hiring Criminals on Purpose!!

LIVE SMART - NEWS TALK

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. 

www.blogtalkradio.com/teapartyorg   

ANNOUNCING THE VALLEY FORGE PATRIOTS MONTHLY MEETING

FRIDAY, JULY 13, 6:00PM

AT THE PHOENIXVILLE COUNTRY CLUB

How well do you know our PA Constitution? Have you heard about LOST and the potential UN tax on the US? Need to know more about health care exchanges and smart meters? Please join us, be informed, learn more!

William Taylor Reil will talk to us about the "Declaration of Rights" in the Pennsylvania Constitution and the 9th and 10th amendments in our U.S. Constitution and how some in government deny us our rights.

We will be discussing the Treaty of the Sea (LOST)which, if ratified, threatens  American sovereignty. On the state level, we will dig into health care exchanges that may be developed in our Commonwealth and the reasons why this is not a good idea.

There will be letters to our federal legislators asking them not to ratify the Treaty of the Sea (LOST) and letters to our state legislators asking them to NOT develop health care exchanges in support of Obamacare in PA.

This is followed by open mic so bring your thoughts and ideas.

Sign up at www.meetup.com/vfp-teaparty09/

Free parking, food and drink available for cash.

CCG July 10th Meeting - SAM ROHRER speaks on Conservative activism in an unprincipled political world

Dear Patriots,

        Please save the date for the second Tuesday in July, July 10,  when Sam Rohrer will address questions many conservatives have been asking themselves:  how can a principled conservative stay actively involved in the political process when so much of politics seems to be about compromise, connections, power, money, and downright corruption?  Is there any hope to effect real change in the GOP?  in Harrisburg?  in D.C.?  Do we just need to "throw them all out"  as so many frustrated Tea Party folks exclaim?  

      Most importantly, why should and how can principled conservatives get involved in this 2012 election when the only candidates close to our position who have a prayer of winning are a Romney, a Smith, and Congressmen like Fitzpatrick or Dent - each of whom has compromised conservative principles in some areas of practice or policy?   From the perspective of a man of proven conservative principles who battled these issues for 14 years from inside the Capitol in Harrisburg, a discussion of this challenging dilemma should prove interesting and enlightening.

      Please bring your thoughts and questions, invite your conservative friends who are ready to "throw in the towel" and give up the fight - and join us a week from Tuesday at the Quakertown Library.  The proposed agenda is as follows:

 6:30 Open discussion 
 6:50 "Constitutional Literacy" (Michael Farris) 20 minute video
 7:15-8:20  SAM ROHRER - Q&A discussion
 8:20-8:30  Wrap-up: Action Points

      PLEASE PASS ON THIS INVITATION.     For liberty, Jaime

Hey, everyone,

We went to this new tea party group for YOUNG people in Conshohocken the other night and it was filled with energy! Lots of young people were there and they are psyched to stop the train wreck of socialism. If YOU are angry and feel helpless and want to do something about it in addition to praying, please get connected with this group (below) on Facebook! They are networked across the entire country with all the other tea party groups, "912 groups," and other freedom-loving people--many who have grandparents who fought and died in World War II and other battles.  There are many more younger tea party groups springing up as it dawns on teens and 20-somethings that THEY will be the ones living under mandates . . . endless new mandates.  We haven't even discussed the fact that we do NOT have the money to pay for ObamaCare!!!  

These young people GET IT--it is them that will suffer under socialism, under the crushing debt, under devastating unemployment, and under a horrible NO-WORK ethic creeping across our country. Socialism will kill the spirit of our citizens. This group is committed to making a huge difference, right here in Montgomery County.

Also, we met Perry Bentley, the 22-year old Field Director for the MontCo Victory Center to UNELECT OBAMA.  Perry said that on July 7 there is a kickoff for anyone who is interested to help in lots of ways to get rid of Obama: phone calls, door knocking, and much more. Call 717 686-2219 to sign up and help get rid of Obama. To do nothing at this point is to allow tyranny, plain and simple. The time for watching t.v. is OVER. Your future children and grandchildren will ask you:  what did you do to stop tyranny?   

Michele

P.S.  On the Communist Party USA website today, there was an article that said:  "America will accept socialism peacefully without violence."  Will that be you or will you FIGHT it???

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 2,100,000 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.

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

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

Results that make a difference, not just a statement.

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

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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,


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

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

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

Lou Flanagan

The General Wayne Tea Party

ObamaCare: What to do

On Saturday, in a conference call with leaders of Grass Roots conservative groups across the Nation, Matt Kibbe (CEO of Freedom Works) asked "what do you remember about the good things that Benedict Arnold did for the fledgling nation? The answer is that you probably don't know (he led a hugely successful victory in the Battle of Fort Ticonderoga).

Just as Benedict Arnold will be only remembered for betraying his country, so shall Chief Justice John Robert be remembered for twisting constitutional authority, rewriting law and ignoring clear limits on the role of government set by our founding Fathers. This Supreme Court ruling will forever be tied to one man, Chief Justice John Roberts.

What can you do? Each state has to decide two issues in the near term.

1. Does it implement an expanded and unfunded Medicaid assistance? This will add hundreds of millions to PA's already strapped budget.
2. Does PA implement an ObamaCare compliant Health Care Exchange?

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 July 3, 2012

1. The Truth. It Hurts.

Mitch McConnell is in the headlines again for saying the odds are against those wanting repeal of Obamacare. "[I]t's a lot harder to undo something than it is to stop it in the first place," he said in part.

For once, let's give McConnell the benefit of the doubt and suggest he is talking about the present Congress, not the next Congress, though in actual context he seems to mean both. Let's be charitable.

The truth is, I don't expect Republicans in Congress to be fully committed to repeal next year even if they have Mitt Romney in the White House, a Republican Senate, and hold the House.

We've played this game before. And yes, we are being played.

2. Romney Camp: Obamacare Not a Tax

This is upsetting to say the least. The moment that the ruling came down last Thursday the hounds of hell were released by conservatives on twitter and in the blogosphere and videos galore of Obama saying the mandate was not a tax contrasted with news reports that the Supreme Court of the United States disagreed. In fact, not just disagreed but indicated that it was required for it to be a tax in order to pass the constitutional test.

Many articles were written with conservatives rubbing their hands together in gleeful anticipation of the next several months of Barack Obama trying to explain how he didn't break his promise on taxes while simultaneously claiming that the Supreme Court found his bill constitutional. It seemed obvious that these two things were in direct contradiction with one another given the decision, and assaulting the Democrats on this point was going to be easy.

Then comes word today that there are no such plans from the Romney camp.

3. Republicans Help Grow HUD and Big Government

Heritage Hotsheet

Experts on the Day's Hottest News

Items for July 3, 2012

Get Ready for the New Investment Tax

WSJ

Declaration of Independence is forever

SOUTH BEND TRIBUNE

Mexican vote leaves more questions than it answers

CNN

The States Already On Record Rejecting The 'Obamacare' Medicaid Expansion

TPM

US manufacturing shrinks for first time in 3 years

AP

Latest Heritage Research:

LECTURE

Defending Religious Liberty for All

ISSUE BRIEF

American Leadership Needed for Shaping a Post-Assad Syria

July 3, 2012   

Six Weeks That Saved America
Steve McCann
Rarely in such a short period of time have any president and his administration been so damningly exposed. More

Why So Many People Think Obama Is a Muslim
Pamela Geller
A new Gallup poll shows that 11% of Americans think Obama is a Muslim, and the leftist media just can't figure out why anyone would get that idea. More

And Now On to the Conventions and November
Dov Fischer
The battle lines ahead are clearly drawn. More

Government Wins Even ObamaCare Ruling's 'Silver Lining'
Mark J. Fitzgibbons
John Roberts' nonsensical, activist opinion upholding ObamaCare is even worse than it appears. The ObamaCare decision will embolden Barack Obama and left-wing statists. More

The Naked Left
Bruce Walker
Simply put, the left has lost the trust of America. More

The Movie on Health Care That Obama Doesn't Want You to See
Jeff Lipkes
It's not a documentary, and it's not by a conservative. More

When Everything's Been Said
Shoshana Bryen
Official Washington is watching and talking as a problem that affects us militarily, politically, and economically unfolds in a manner both predictable and predicted. More

American Thinker Blog

Sweet: Pro-gun group turns the tables on gun control advocates
July 3, 2012
Introducing the next generation to "shooting safely and responsibly." More

Why do Republicans pick such lousy Supreme Court justices?
July 3, 2012
Liberals always choose reliable liberal votes. Why can't conservatives do the same thing? More

Pick a fight with a liberal on:  

"SUSTAINABILITY."
Mmm. It sounds so nice, doesn't it? Sustain-the word Sting chants (we can imagine) during his interminable tantric yoga sessions. Sustenance-stuff that tastes good and keeps you going. Sustainability-making sure that never again does the world suffer the mass slaughter of the buffalo or an overfishing disaster... Don't be fooled. The real reason you hear "sustainability" bandied about so much these days is because of a Marxist power grab which began at the 1992 Rio Earth Summit when chief organizer and One World Government advocate Maurice Strong inserted the word into key documents. Since the nit has spread like a virus through government and grass roots activist organizations. What "sustainability" really means is giving eco-Nazis over whom you have no democratic control carte blanche to dictate how you use your land, when and how you can travel, and even when you take a shower.  

Mime Obama: Ever feel like you're in the wrong place? 

The recent story of Obama celebrating Independence Day in Paris with a massive fundraiser has prompted us to envision the Dear Leader as a dreamy French mime. It was only logical then to place French Mime Obama in some American context with the caption, "Ever feel like you're in the wrong place?" The costume merely amplifies the obvious: regardless of whether he was born in Hawaii or not, Obama is not American in his heart and mind. He looks and feels out of place in any American setting that is not a gathering of snobbish elites, media bubbleheads, or mind-numb leftist radicals.

Test this theory by placing him in various American settings of your choice.

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Attacking Israel Online

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CAIRO -- President-elect Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood pre-empted the military's choreographed swearing-in ceremony by taking an oath of office a day early on Friday, in a televised speech to tens of thousands of supporters in Tahrir Square.

But a promise Mr. Morsi made as part of his speech may provoke Washington: to work for the release of Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, the Egyptian-born militant Islamist convicted after the 1993 World Trade Center attack of plotting to bomb several New York City landmarks.

Mr. Morsi referred briefly to Mr. Abdel Rahman in an almost offhand aside in the context of a vow to free Egyptian civilians imprisoned here after military trials under the rule of the generals. "I see signs for Omar Abdel Rahman and detainees' pictures," he said. "It is my duty and I will make all efforts to have them free, including Omar Abdel Rahman."

Sovereignty, Preempted   Jul 02, 2012 10:37 am

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How Many American's Emails has the NSA Collected and Reviewed Without a Warrant?   Jul 01, 2012 04:00 pm

The Jihadi Threat Within

Posted by Frank Crimi on Jun 29th, 2012

The FBI's investigation of over 100 suspected Islamists serving within the US military highlights the growing threat these undercover jihadists pose to American troops, their families and their military communities.

That growing Islamist danger, according to the FBI, comes from an array of active and reserve military personnel as well as individuals who have work or dependent access to military facilities, such as family members and civilian employees.

Moreover, of the 100 investigative cases, the FBI disclosed that a dozen of them are grave enough to be deemed "insider threats," which it defines as someone planning a terrorist attack on a military base or is in contact with outside individuals who are exhorting them to wage jihad.

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Obama Administration's Breathtaking Arrogance on Questions about Inviting a Terrorist to Washington

Friday, 29 June 2012 04:59 Andrew C. McCarthy

The Obama administration recently issued a visa to an Egyptian named Hani Nour Eldin, an operative of a foreign terrorist organization - formally designated as such under U.S. law - so that the administration could consult with the jihadist about Egypt's future under the governance of Eldin's pals at the Muslim Brotherhood. This is not speculation: Eldin brags about being a member of the organization and the administration concedes the visa was issued and the meeting happened.

Outrageous as this sounds, it does not do the outrage justice. The terrorist organization in question, the Islamic Group (Gama'at al Islamia), is the group led by Omar Abdel Rahman, the notorious "Blind Sheikh" currently serving a life sentence in U.S. federal prison for his foundational role in forming the jihadist cell that carried out the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and was later thwarted while attempting simultaneously to bomb several other New York City landmarks. (I handled the case for the United States, back when its government thought jihadists should be prosecuted rather than cultivated.) The Blind Sheikh's cell, essentially, was a U.S. branch of the Islamic Group (IG).

Moreover, the IG has committed numerous atrocities the goal of which has been to extort the United States into releasing the Blind Sheikh from prison. These include the barbaric murders of several dozen tourists in Luxor, Egypt, in 1997. The IG, in conjunction with its allies in al Qaeda, has openly and repeatedly threatened violence against the United States if the Blind Sheikh is not released and repatriated to Egypt. A staple of the Egyptian Arab Spring is the now routine and hostile IG-driven demonstration outside the U.S. embassy to demand the Blind Sheikh's release. So seriously has our government heretofore taken the IG that the Bush Justice Department prosecuted the Blind Sheikh's lawyer, Lynne Stewart, for material support to terrorism over her communication of messages from the Blind Sheikh to IG members in Egypt.

Despite being 70 years old, Stewart was ultimately sentenced to ten years in prison for consulting with and advising the IG. The Obama administration is now doing essentially the same thing Stewart was doing but calling it "foreign policy." The administration is actively aiding and abetting members of a terrorist organization with a hellacious record of violence and threats of violence against the United States. That is not just a departure from American policy against negotiating with terrorists; it is a serious violation of federal law.

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Egypt's New Muslim Brotherhood Government Bans Jews From Holy Site

June 28, 2012

Egypt's Foreign Ministry said Wednesday it had told Israel that it would not be "appropriate" for Israeli pilgrims to make an annual visit to the tomb of a 19th-century Jewish holy man in the Nile Delta.  Egypt notified Israel two months ago that it would be "impossible to hold the annual ceremony because of the political and security situation in the country," the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said.  Wednesday's announcement came as Muslim Brotherhood activists mobilized to block the pilgrimage route.

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The Al Qaeda-Muslim Brotherhood Coalition

Posted by P. David Hornik on Jun 28th, 2012

Not long ago the Arab Spring was seen as a harbinger of democracy. It turns out that, instead, it's creating breeding grounds for international terror-and safe havens for al-Qaeda itself.

That is not just a polemical opinion but the somber assessment of the director-general of Britain's MI5 internal security agency, Jonathan Evans. The Telegraph reports that Evans, in a rare lecture this week in London, warned that:

Today parts of the Arab world have once more become a permissive environment for al-Qaeda.

This is the completion of a cycle-al-Qaeda first moved to Afghanistan in the 1990s due to pressure in their Arab countries of origin. They moved on to Pakistan after the fall of the Taliban.  And now some are heading home to the Arab world again....

Evans specifically said that British jihadis, who have been training for years at al-Qaeda strongholds in Yemen and Somalia, "are known to be receiving training in the likes of Libya and Egypt"-supposed beneficiaries of what some saw as a wave of Facebook-driven liberalization.

The MI5 chief also confirmed that al-Qaeda is now active in Syria, and "warned against suggestions that al-Qaeda's threat has 'evaporated' following the death of Osama bin Laden and significant victories in Pakistan." He noted that Britain, for its part, has "experienced a credible terrorist attack plot about once a year since 9/11."

Evans didn't say in what part of Egypt the jihadis are training. Israel, though, has been aware that-particularly since the winds of "spring" toppled Egypt's pro-Western Mubarak regime-the presence of al-Qaeda and other global-jihad elements has been rapidly growing at least in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula.  It was only last week that what is believed to be an al-Qaeda-linked group carried out a deadly attack at the fence Israel is trying to build quickly along its border with Sinai.

But Evans's words carry implications beyond the region and beyond Britain's own very real security concerns.  For one thing, his point that bin Laden's assassination (along with the killing of other terror leaders in Pakistan) has hardly finished off al-Qaeda tends to undercut the great emphasis President Obama has put on that exploit.

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Too Many Broken Promises in Obamacare

Yesterday, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) almost called Obamacare's individual mandate a tax, stopping mid-word to call it a "penalty". White House Chief of Staff Jack Lew and other spokespersons echoed this talking point. This is in spite of last week's Supreme Court ruling that deemed the mandate unconstitutional under both the Commerce Clause and the Necessary and Proper Clause, but ruled that it could stand as part of Congress's authority to "lay and collect taxes."

Dubbing the individual mandate a tax saved the President's health care law, but it's a concept that President Obama himself has strongly denied. In a 2009 interview, President Obama argued that his individual mandate was not a tax increase, stating, "I absolutely reject that notion."

But after last week, President Obama must now admit it's a tax or admit the mandate is unconstitutional. It's can only be one or the other.

The mandate is in fact a tax, and it's just one of many new taxes that hit the middle class in Obamacare. Lo and behold, another broken promise. President Obama claims that the mandate is holding people responsible, keeping with that spirit, here's a reminder of the other promises the President and his health care law are responsible for breaking:

Promise #1: "Under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase."

Reality: The individual mandate is far from alone on Heritage's lengthy list of Obamacare's new taxes and penalties, many of which will heavily impact the middle class. Altogether, Obamacare's taxes and penalties will accumulate an additional $500 billion in new revenue over a 10-year period. Yesterday, a senior economist for The Wall Street Journal revealed that 75 percent of Obamacare's new taxes will be paid for by American families making under $120,000 a year. Among the taxes that will hit the middle class are the individual mandate, a 2.3 percent excise tax on medical devices, a 10 percent excise tax on indoor tanning, and an increase of the floor on medical deductions from 7.5 percent of adjusted gross income to 10 percent.

Promise #2: "If you like your health care plan, you'll be able to keep your health care plan, period."

Reality: Research continues to show that as many as 30 percent of employers will dump their employees from their existing health care coverage. The Administration itself has admitted that "as a practical matter, a majority of group health plans will lose their grandfather status by 2013."

Promise #3: "I will not sign a plan that adds one dime to our deficits-either now or in the future."

Reality: As Heritage analysts explain, "A close examination of what [the Congressional Budget Office] said, as well as other evidence, makes it clear that the deficit reduction associated with [Obamacare] is based on budget gimmicks, sleights of hand, accounting tricks, and completely implausible assumptions. A more honest accounting reveals the new law as a trillion-dollar budget buster."

Promise #4: "I will protect Medicare."

Reality: A Heritage Factsheet shows the various ways Obamacare ends Medicare as we know it, including severe physician reimbursement cuts that threaten seniors' access to care and putting an unelected board of bureaucrats in charge of meeting Medicare's new spending cap.

Promise #5: "I will sign a universal health care bill into law by the end of my first term as president that will cover every American and cut the cost of a typical family's premium by up to $2,500 a year."

Reality: Obamacare does not accomplish universal coverage; it leaves 26 million Americans without insurance. Moreover, Heritage research outlines 12 ways that Obamacare will increase premiums instead of reducing health care costs. Requirements that plans allow young adults to stay on their parents' coverage and offer preventive services with no cost sharing are already leading to higher growth in premiums.

When polled, 70 percent of Americans held an unfavorable view of the individual mandate. It's doubtful that calling it a "tax" will dramatically change their opinion. Now that Obamacare and its broken promises remain the law of the land, it's up to the American people to see to it that the law is ultimately repealed by Congress. Then, they can move forward with real reform that puts patients' needs first.

The U K's "Death Panels" are killing old and sick there, Obamacare won't be any different here

Jul 02, 2012 06:13 am | Coach Collins

By Kevin "Coach" Collins

  Obamacare-like "Death Panels" are already emptying out hospital beds in the United Kingdom. According to one report last year the UK's National Health Service (NHS) euthanized  130,000, mostly expendable seniors. Its benignly named "Care Pathways", kills almost 360 people every day.

Now it's Obamcare's turn to euthanize undesirables. The Supreme Court gave Barack Obama the right to start his own extermination program. Anybody who needs "a little bit too much care" will get put on Obama's list.   If you were born before January 1, 1953 he has put a target on your back. You had better not get sick and you had better pray someone derails Obamcare's euthanasia train before a "Death Panel" gavel comes down on your life. When Obama's verdict is death for you there can be no appeal - that's in the bill.  

This system needs your death to appear to work. That is the reality of ... Continue Reading:The U K's "Death Panels" are killing old and sick there, Obamacare won't be any different here

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American Minute July 1

Jul 01, 2012 06:13 pm | Coach Collins

By Bill Federer, staff writer

Teddy Roosevelt and the Rough Riders charged up Cuba's San Juan Hill and captured it JULY 1, 1898.

After eight hours of heavy fighting over 1,500 Americans lay dead or wounded.

Just 4 months prior the U.S.S Maine was blown up in Havana's Harbor.

Teddy Roosevelt resigned as Assistant Secretary of the Navy and organized the first volunteer cavalry, made up of polo riders, cowboys and even Indians.

Forty years earlier, President James Buchanan stated December 19, 1859:

"When a market for African slaves shall no longer be furnished in Cuba...

Christianity and civilization may gradually penetrate the existing gloom."

President Ulysses S. Grant stated December 2, 1872:

"Slavery in Cuba is...a terrible evil...It is greatly to be hoped that...Spain will voluntarily adopt...emancipation...in sympathy with the other powers of the Christian and civilized world."

On July 6, 1898, after the Battle of San Juan Hill, President William McKinley wrote:

"At a time...of the...glorious ... Continue Reading:American Minute July 1

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Four degrees of separation: Hillary to Huma Abedin to Saleha Mahmoud Abedin, to Muslim Brotherhood

Jul 01, 2012 01:13 pm | Coach Collins

By Kevin "Coach" Collins

In 2007 a staffer for Hillary Clinton came to the attention of Washington's wagging tongues. She was darkly exotic and seemed to be thisclose to Hillary not only in her Washington office but when they went on road trips. Her name was Huma Abedin a Muslim with very close familial connections to Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood.  

Their especially close relationship begged many questions.    

Among those raising questions about the relationship was Michael Musto a Village Voice columnist who writes about gay issues.  Musto speculated as to whether Hillary Clinton might have been increasing Huma's visibility to head off rumors of a lesbian affair by using some reverse psychology on the media. "If she is not hiding Abedin than there's nothing going on," the thinking went.     

Other questions were raised about Huma Abedin. "Is the fact that Huma was never seen twice in the same designer outfit and lived in a $649,000 ... Continue Reading:Four degrees of separation: Hillary to Huma Abedin to Saleha Mahmoud Abedin, to Muslim Brotherhood

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Brief · July 2, 2012

The Foundation

"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground." --Thomas Jefferson

Government

Meet the newest "tax."

"[A]t the risk of being a broken record [on ObamaCare], we remain focused on the wrong issue because conservatives and Republicans do not want any part of the right issue. Congress would not be able to tax anyone a penny if the subject matter on which lawmakers sought to spend the money raised was not within Congress's constitutional authority to address. Health care and health insurance are precisely such issues. So why does Congress get to raise taxes for and spend money on them? Because the country -- very much including Republican leaders and many conservatives -- has bought on to the wayward progressive premise that the General Welfare Clause of the Constitution empowers Congress to spend on anything it wants to spend on as long as their is some fig-leaf that ties the spending to the betterment of society. That, and not an inflated understanding of the Commerce Clause, has always been the problem. Republicans are afraid to touch this because, if you follow the logic, you'd have to conclude that Congress has no constitutional authority to set up a social security system, a Medicare or Medicaid program, or most to the innumerable Big Government enterprises that Republicans support while, of course, decrying Big Government. Republicans occasionally want to limit what government spends, but they don't want to acknowledge any constitutional limits on what government could spend -- that's what has gotten us to this point." --columnist and former DoJ attorney Andrew McCarthy

Share your thoughts on the real issue with ObamaCare.

Essential Liberty

"In the wake of the Supreme Court's decision upholding the constitutionality of Obamacare, the principal choice now facing Americans on November 6 will be whether to keep Obamacare or to repeal it. The question is a binary one, and the answer -- expressed almost entirely through their presidential vote -- will go a long way toward determining the future course of this great nation. Yes, the economy is extremely important; and, yes, Obamacare is hurting the economy. But the reason why this election is the most important since the Civil War is not because Mitt Romney would make a far better steward of the economy than President Obama (though he would). Rather, it's because we are about to decide whether to put what will soon be one-fifth of our economy under the control of the federal government; whether to funnel previously unthinkable amounts of power and money to Washington; and whether this nation conceived in liberty will continue to prioritize liberty. It is understandable why President Obama has no interest in framing this election as a referendum on Obamacare. His party already suffered perhaps its worst defeat since the 19th century thanks to his centerpiece legislation. With the Supreme Court's ruling now behind him, he will have even less incentive to remind voters about Obamacare going forward. As far as he's concerned, the less the American people think about it, the better." --columnist Jeffrey H. Anderson

Political Futures

"Twenty new or higher taxes across-the-board [in ObamaCare] are bad for economic growth, bad for job hiring, bad for investors, and bad for families. A tax is a tax is a tax, according to Judge Roberts. But he forgot to say that if you tax something more, you get less of it. Presumably Mitt Romney will make this case in a major way. Hopefully he won't forget that Obamacare is not just a huge tax hike. It's also a major new spending entitlement that's already pegged at $2.5 trillion and will increase the federal debt burden much faster than the GDP expands. In other words, tax, spend, regulate, borrow. The Obama mantra. Romney must go after it -- time and time and time again. Bankrupting the economy is not exactly a job-creator." --economist Larry Kudlow

Opinion in Brief

"[Chief Justice John] Roberts' concern was that the court do everything it could to avoid being seen, rightly or wrongly, as high-handedly overturning sweeping legislation passed by both houses of Congress and signed by the president. How to reconcile the two imperatives -- one philosophical and the other institutional? Assign yourself the task of writing the majority opinion. Find the ultimate finesse that manages to uphold the law, but only on the most narrow of grounds -- interpreting the individual mandate as merely a tax, something generally within the power of Congress. Result? The law stands, thus obviating any charge that a partisan court overturned duly passed legislation. And yet at the same time the Commerce Clause is reined in. By denying that it could justify the imposition of an individual mandate, Roberts draws the line against the inexorable decades-old expansion of congressional power under the Commerce Clause fig leaf. Law upheld, Supreme Court's reputation for neutrality maintained. Commerce Clause contained, constitutional principle of enumerated powers reaffirmed. That's not how I would have ruled. I think the 'mandate is merely a tax' argument is a dodge, and a flimsy one at that. ... Perhaps that's not how Roberts would have ruled had he been just an associate justice, and not the chief. But that's how he did rule. Obamacare is now essentially upheld. There's only one way it can be overturned. The same way it was passed -- elect a new president and a new Congress." --columnist Charles Krauthammer

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The Gipper

"One of the traditional methods of imposing statism or socialism on a people has been by way of medicine. It's very easy to disguise a medical program as a humanitarian project. Most people are a little reluctant to oppose anything that suggests medical care for people who possibly can't afford it. ... [L]et's also look from the other side. The freedom the doctor uses. ... First you decide the doctor can have so many patients. They are equally divided among the various doctors by the government, but then the doctors are equally divided geographically, so a doctor decides he wants to practice in one town and the government has to say to him he can't live in that town, they already have enough doctors. You have to go some place else. And from here it is only a short step to dictating where he will go. This is a freedom I wonder if any of us has a right to take from any human being. ... All of us can see what happens once you establish the precedent that the government can determine a man's working place and his working methods -- determine his employment." --Ronald Reagan

Re: The Left

"[Thursday], the Republican-controlled House of Representatives voted to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress for his failure to provide subpoenaed documents to the Congressional Committee investigating the Fast and Furious gun-walking scandal. ... In an interview with the New York Times last December, the Attorney General claimed the 'more extreme segment' of his numerous critics were really after the president and that he served as a viable substitute. 'This is a way to get at the president because of the way I can be identified with him,' he said, 'both due to the nature of our relationship and, you know, the fact that we're both African-American.' ... It is worth remembering that less than one month after he began serving as Attorney General Holder also called American 'a nation of cowards' regarding racial matters. All of this calculated odiousness regarding race is designed to obscure reality. ... Every effort to get at the truth has been stonewalled, first by the Attorney General, and now by president Obama himself, who issued an executive order to keep a lid on the worst government scandal since Watergate. Racism? Tell that to the parents of slain border agent Brian Terry. ... Is it racist to want to know who is ultimately responsible for their son's death? How about the Mexican civilians? Since most of them are non-white, why isn't the effort to suppress information regarding their murders -- numbering in the hundreds -- considered racist? ... Quite simply, these are American leftists who prefer protecting the careers of one or more high-level government officials, over bringing some kind of closure -- as in justice -- to hundreds of families whose lives have been shattered by bureaucratic malfeasance at best, and outright criminality at worst. And they're willing to play the race card to do it. Shame on every one of them." --columnist Arnold Ahlert

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"Deep down, Obama supposes that if he says something entirely opposite from what he once said, or something so preposterous that it cannot possibly be true, or calls the Falkland Islands the Maldives, no journalist would dare to press him on the disconnect -- given the possible harm to the liberal agenda of our first African-American president. But after nearly four years, the game is about up. If the president lectures the Europeans with another 'make no mistake about it,' they will assume there are lots of mistakes about it. If he says 'in point of fact' to Vladimir Putin, then Putin can be sure there are no facts at all. If Obama addresses the American people with 'let me be perfectly clear,' then they assume he most certainly will be anything but transparent and concise. And if Obama compares a current event to one in his own past, then we can be sure that the earlier event never took place. ... What Barack Obama wants to be true, he says to be true; and we lesser folk can sweat the details when it is usually not." --historian Victor Davis Hanson

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Will The Last American Please Turn Off The Light When He Leaves
GrassTopsUSA Exclusive Commentary
By Don Feder
07/02/2012

         In 1939, Hollywood gave us Henry Fonda in "Young Mr. Lincoln," a gentle but compelling portrait of our 16th president as a frontier lawyer. The following year, Raymond Massey won an Oscar for his title role in "Abe Lincoln In Illinois."

         Now playing, "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter," which presents the Great Emancipator as a cross between Professor Van Helsing and the Amazing Spiderman. Hollywood of the Golden Age was optimistic, reverent, patriotic and romantic. Hollywood of the Dross Age is nihilistic, cynical, violent, sex-saturated and anti-American.

         Four things happened last week - the week before our country's 236th birthday - that illustrate America's rapid descent and call into question how many 4th of Julys we have left.
           One - Chief Justice John Roberts betrayed the Constitution and America by joining the Gang of Four (the Supreme Court's hard left bloc) to uphold Obamacare, under Congress' power to tax. Thanks to Roberts, in the future, Washington can compel us to do virtually anything - buy hybrid cars, stop eating fatty foods, put solar panels on our houses. All it has to do to make it pass constitutional muster is to threaten to fine us. Since a fine is now a tax, voila it falls under Congress' taxing power.

         The decision in NFIB v. Sebelius didn't kill the Constitution, but further enabled a government which couldn't have been imagined even 50 years ago. When a case comes before them, most federal judges first decide on the outcome they want, then rationalize it based on a highly imaginative reading of the Constitution, the Magna Carta or the Code of Hammurabi.
           Two - In an interview with NPR, Marine Commandant Gen. James Amos (the only service chief who publicly opposed repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell) said if a homosexual Marine wanted to bring his "partner" to a Marine Corps ball, "I'm fine with it." From the Halls of Montezuma to the shores of LGBT?

         August will mark the 70th anniversary of the Marines landing on Guadalcanal, the first engagement in the island-hopping campaign of World War II. In six months of bitter fighting, 11 Medals of Honor were awarded, 5 posthumously. Almost 1,600 soldiers and Marines fell on The Canal. Today, the Marine Corps is just another casualty of the culture war.
           Three - Attorney General Eric Holder became the first sitting member of a president's cabinet to be held in contempt of Congress, for trying to cover up Fast and Furious, the operation where the BATF provided 2,500 guns to Mexican drug cartels to prove that we need tighter gun control. The guns were used to commit 200 murders in Mexico, as well as the murder of a U.S. Border Patrol Agent.

         Holder's stonewalling is what you'd expect from the most lawless administration in our history. The president refuses to defend the Defense of Marriage Act (violating his duty to "take care that the laws be faithfully executed"). He created a blanket amnesty for up to one million illegal aliens, something that just months ago he said he didn't have the power to do. He refuses to defend our borders, then sues states for doing the job he won't do. This year, he and Holder have launched an all-out-offensive against states that are trying to prevent election fraud with voter ID laws.

         Obama rules by executive order, scorns our Judeo-Christian heritage, panders to Islam, is responsible for the three biggest deficits in our history (the only deficits in excess of $1 trillion), has had an increase in unemployment on his watch (despite massive stimulus spending), and pushes collectivism at every opportunity - and he's running from 1 to 5 points ahead of Romney in almost every poll. In a sane nation, his standing in the polls would be even with the candidate of the Socialist Workers Party, which, in a way, he is.
           Four - The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) urged its local offices to have parties to encourage more people to sign up for food stamps. ("Throw a great party. Host a special event where people mix and mingle!") SNAP is also spending $2.5 million for radio ads, to encourage more dependency.

         Food stamp spending has doubled under Obama, who nevertheless is haunted by the fear that somewhere in this fair land, someone who qualifies for the program isn't enrolled. In the 1970s, one in 50 Americans was getting food stamps. Today, it's one in 7 - 46.4 million. Welfare spending is the health of the Democrat Party.

         Eat, drink and be merry for tomorrow our economy will collapse. As of June 30, the National Debt was $15.78 trillion, $5 trillion of that added by the man who solemnly promised nothing but balanced budgets, as a candidate. From 2007 to 2010, the nation's GDP grew by 4.26%, while the National Debt exploded by 61%. The Debt is growing by $2 million a minute. Each year, the federal workforce alone costs approximately $447 billion - and Obama thinks the public sector is starving.

         The dole also rises. In 1980, not that long ago by human reckoning, transfer payments accounted for 11.7% of all income in the United States. Today, it's 18.4%. Now, 59% of all Americans receive money from Washington, in one form or another. Libertarian slogan from the 1970s: "A welfare state is what happens when government of the people and for the people, buys the people." But to call attention to this massive wealth redistribution is to mark one as a member of the 1% plutocracy.

         Moral bankruptcy always precedes fiscal bankruptcy.

         In the Land of the Free, children are being killed in utero at the rate of two or three a minute - 1.2 million a year. Since Roe v. Wade, more than 55 million Americans have died before they were born -- summarily executed in the name of choice. A woman can choose to have her unborn child killed, but soon won't be able to buy popcorn at the movies in New York City. In his memoirs, the author of Roe admitted that a privacy right lurking in a so-called penumbra of the First Amendment was a handy invention.

         As of 2009, 41% of children born in the United States were out-of-wedlock. That year, it was estimated that 40% of all marriages will end in divorce. In 2010, Time magazine happily reported that 39% think marriage is obsolete (up from 28% in 1978). In 1960, 72% of adult Americans were married, compared to about half in 2008.

         Each year, Americans spend $12 billion on Internet pornography and 19 million new cases of sexually transmitted diseases are reported. There are 12.8 million Americans who are classified as regular drug users, while 36 million have tried cocaine.

         Based on his 30-year study of the life cycles of civilizations - including Babylon, Egypt, Greece and Rome - historian Arnold Toynbee warned: "Civilizations die from suicide, not murder," and "Of the 22 civilizations that have appeared in history, 19 of them have collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now." He made that observation in the early 1970s.

         In "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire," Gibbon identified five reasons why the glory that was Rome is of another day.

         Historian Will Durant, author of the 11-volume "Story of Civilization," essentially agreed with both Toynbee and Gibbon. "A great nation is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself within. The essential causes of Rome's decline lay in her people, her morals, her class struggle, her failing trade, her bureaucratic despotism, her stifling taxes (and) her consuming wars."

         We've got it all, and then some - almost 1 in 2 marriages ending in divorce (add the devaluation of marriage by the legalization of ersatz unions), the highest effective corporate tax rate in the world, dulling our senses with mindless entertainment (60-inch plasma TVs, iphones , "American Idol," "Dancing With The Stars"), the ideology that animates the barbarians at our gates honored as the "religion of peace," and traditional religion on skids. According to the Francis Schaeffer Institute, every year in America, 1,000 churches open and 4,000 close their doors.

         Milestones in our cultural death-march include the 1963 school-prayer decision, Roe v. Wade, our growing energy dependence, the abandonment of our allies (from the Shah to Mubarak), a very selective War on Terrorism (some get drones, others get subsides), raw carnality on display on cable television, in the movies and on the Internet, public schools and higher education that imperil our national existence, purging religion from our public life, news media that indoctrinate, porous borders, and exchanging self-government for rule by emperors in black robes.

         Given how far gone we are, is there any reason to keep fighting?

         At the dedication of a cemetery at the Civil War's bloodiest battlefield, Lincoln urged the citizens of a war-weary Union to stay the course ("that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion"). Therefore, "We highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain."

         Do we want all of our war dead - from Bunker Hill to Kabul - to have died in vain? Will the sacrifices of our veterans, of the Pilgrims, the pioneers, and those who labored on farms and sweated in factories mean nothing in the long-run? Are we to give up without a fight because our future looks increasingly dim - due to the dimwits in public office and the sheep who put them there?

         If so, then, as Mr. Lincoln prophesied, the American idea of one nation, under God, with liberty and justice for all surely will "perish from this earth," and humanity will enter a Dark Age more savage and terrifying than the one which followed the fall of Rome.

Don Feder is a former Boston Herald writer who is now a political/communications consultant. He also maintains his own website, DonFeder.com.

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Muslim mob assaults Christians in Dearborn, Michigan  

For the past few years, some Christians who attended the Arab festival in Dearborn, Michigan, have encountered vicious verbal abuse, in at least one case a physical assault, and some of the Christians have even been arrested! The good news is, the arrests have been thrown out.

Now, in the shocking video below, a Muslim mob vents its anti-Christian rage in a modern version of stoning. They throw eggs, water bottles, and other projectiles at a small group of Christians holding signs at this public event. In effect, the Muslim mob wants to make this public event a "Muslim only" event-a version of the "no-go zones" prevalent in France.

The police do virtually nothing to restrain the Muslim assailants. In fact, near the end of the video you'll see the police threatening the Christians with disorderly conduct! The police position is that the Christians are endangering public safety by saying things that are enraging the Muslim mob.

The message is clear-it's not the violence that endangers public safety, it's free speech that the mob wants to silence that endangers public safety.

Similar Muslim mob violence has occurred in Europe and the UK.

Now it's here.  

Police Allow Muslims to stone and pelt Christians at Arab Festival Dearborn In addition to the video above, you can see what happened during the full 66 minutes by viewing this video.

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Today's Headlines:  Monday, July 02, 2012

Pelosi: Individual Mandate Isn't a Tax: 'No, It's Penalty, No, It's a Penalty, It's a Penalty'

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WH Chief of Staff: It's a Penalty, 'Doesn't Matter' What SCOTUS Called It   
First Lady: Jesus 'Was Out There Fighting Injustice and Speaking Truth to Power'

UNESCO Sides With Palestinians on Declaring Jesus' Birthplace 'Endangered,' Ignoring Advice of Experts, Church Leaders, and U.S.

Republican Sen. Mike Lee: 'I Don't Think It Was a Tax'

Ed Meese on Obamacare Ruling: 'The People Will Rise Up'

White House Statement on Obamacare Mandate Tax Contradicts Supreme Court Ruling

Chief Justice Roberts Jokes About Trip to 'Impregnable' Fortress

Clinton: Fear of Regional War Prompted Russia to Back Syrian Transition Plan 

COMMENTARY:

Making the Moral Case
By Ed Feulner
Conservatives, beware: You can have reams of information, piles of studies and folders of charts at your fingertips. And you can still lose the debate. That's because you've overlooked a crucial component: the moral case. And that, according to Arthur C. Brooks, can often make or break your argument.

Four Words After the Storm: Do You Have Power?
By Rich Galen
A fully integrated electrical grid will be vulnerable to computer hackers, private or government-sponsored. If losing power from a storm can be this disruptive to this many people, imagine what an organized attack would do to huge sections of the country.

NEWSPAPER ROUNDUP:

NC governor vetoes fracking over drinking water concerns
R.I. adoption records will be unsealed Monday
Financial giants are moving jobs off Wall Street to other states
Chicago Friday-Sunday shootings: 9 dead, 17 injured, including 3-year-old
Killings deemed justified are on the rise in Texas
Businesses still face uncertainty over healthcare law
Study links physical punishment to later mental disorders
Republican governors aim for health care showdown
Boehner vows to take Holder to court
CBS reports Roberts switched vote on health care