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July 5, 2012
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Activate: How to turn the 2012 election from a close call to a mandate
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!):
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Hillary tied to Egypt's new Muslim Brotherhood president: Sordid links run through Anthony Weiner's terror-tied mother-in-law.
Posted on June 26, 2012
By Aaron Klein
Saleha Mahmood Abedin, the mother of Hillary Clinton's chief of staff, reportedly served in the women's division of the Muslim Brotherhood alongside the wife of Egypt's new president, the Brotherhood's Mohammed Mursi.
WND previously exposed how Abedin represented a Muslim charity known to have spawned terror groups, including one declared by the U.S. government to be an official al-Qaida front.
WND also reported how Clinton spoke at Abedin's Saudi women's college, where she was introduced by Abedin alongside the Islamic activist's daughter, Huma, who serves as Clinton's chief of staff. At the speech, Clinton praised Saleha's "pioneering work."
Huma Abedin is also the mother-in-law of disgraced former Congressman Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y.
Now author Walid Shoebat reported that while she acted as one of 63 leaders of the Muslim Sisterhood, the de facto female version of the Muslim Brotherhood, Saleha Abedin served alongside Najla Ali Mahmoud, the wife of Mursi. Both were members of the Sisterhood's Guidance Bureau, found Shoebat.
Saleha Mahmood Abedin is an associate professor of sociology at Dar Al-Hekma College in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, which she helped to create. She formerly directed the Institute of Muslim Minority Affairs in the U.K. and served as a delegate for the Muslim World League, an Islamic fundamentalist group Osama bin Laden reportedly told an associate was one of his most important charity fronts.
In February 2010, Clinton spoke at Abedin's college, where she was first introduced by the Abedin and then praised the work of the terror-tied professor:
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Civil disobedience is the act of breaking the law and defying the authorities to do anything about it. So is tyranny. The difference between the two lies in which side of the power equation the breaker is on. When the law is broken, two things happen. Either the law is upheld or the authorities back away from a confrontation and find some way to save face. The ObamaCare process involved breaking a long list of rules and laws and then defying the ragged remnants of the system to do anything about it. At every turn the United States was unable to stop a rogue chief executive and his ruling party from trampling the law. When the case finally reached the Supreme Court, the leading judicial body in the land sidestepped a confrontation by redefining what the action was, rather than rule on the law. It was a classic case of the authorities saving face. Civil disobedience balances moral absolutes against legal principles. The Supreme Court exists to serve as the final bastion of the law against runaway moral absolutes. But, just as in its showdown with FDR, the Court blinked, and our court, unlike that court, didn't even at least put up a good fight for the law before backing down. Obama didn't even have to threaten to pack the court with justices. All he had to do was make it clear that he wasn't going to follow the law, which forced the law to save face by following him instead. The American chief executive has a great deal of power and a chief executive who dons imperial robes is a danger with few precedents. There have been conflicts between the branches, but even FDR made a pretense of bowing to some outside authority. Obama never has, with the exception of the King of Saudi Arabia. If he were to be impeached tomorrow, as some urge, he simply wouldn't leave. I don't know what he will do if he loses the election, simply because I don't think he knows what he will do-- I don't think the prospect of losing has seriously entered his mind. If he loses it will be a pitched battle between Valerie Jarrett and Michelle Obama on one shoulder telling him to stay and Joe Biden and whatever unfortunate soul is Chief-of-Staff at that point acting as the voices of reason telling him that it's over.
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20 Hidden Tax Hikes in Obamacare
NewsMax.com | By Grover Norquist | Friday, 29 Jun 2012
 The Obamacare law contains 20 new or higher taxes on American families and small businesses
Taxpayers are reminded that the president's healthcare law is one of the largest tax increases in American history.
Obamacare contains 20 new or higher taxes on American families and small businesses.
Arranged by their respective effective dates, below is the total list of all $500 billion-plus in tax hikes (over the next ten years) in Obamacare, where to find them in the bill, and how much your taxes are scheduled to go up as of today:
Taxes that took effect in 2010:
1. Excise Tax on Charitable Hospitals (Min$/immediate): $50,000 per hospital if they fail to meet new "community health assessment needs," "financial assistance," and "billing and collection" rules set by HHS. Bill: PPACA; Page: 1,961-1,971.
2. Codification of the "economic substance doctrine" (Tax hike of $4.5 billion). This provision allows the IRS to disallow completely-legal tax deductions and other legal tax-minimizing plans just because the IRS deems that the action lacks "substance" and is merely intended to reduce taxes owed. Bill: Reconciliation Act; Page: 108-113.
3. "Black liquor" tax hike (Tax hike of $23.6 billion). This is a tax increase on a type of bio-fuel. Bill: Reconciliation Act; Page: 105.
4. Tax on Innovator Drug Companies ($22.2 bil/Jan 2010): $2.3 billion annual tax on the industry imposed relative to share of sales made that year. Bill: PPACA; Page: 1,971-1,980.
5. Blue Cross/Blue Shield Tax Hike ($0.4 bil/Jan 2010): The special tax deduction in current law for Blue Cross/Blue Shield companies would only be allowed if 85 percent or more of premium revenues are spent on clinical services. Bill: PPACA; Page: 2,004.
6. Tax on Indoor Tanning Services ($2.7 billion/July 1, 2010): New 10 percent excise tax on Americans using indoor tanning salons. Bill: PPACA; Page: 2,397-2,399.
Taxes that took effect in 2011:
7. Medicine Cabinet Tax ($5 bil/Jan 2011): Americans no longer able to use health savings account (HSA), flexible spending account (FSA), or health reimbursement (HRA) pre-tax dollars to purchase non-prescription, over-the-counter medicines (except insulin). Bill: PPACA; Page: 1,957-1,959.
8. HSA Withdrawal Tax Hike ($1.4 bil/Jan 2011): Increases additional tax on non-medical early withdrawals from an HSA from 10 to 20 percent, disadvantaging them relative to IRAs and other tax-advantaged accounts, which remain at 10 percent. Bill: PPACA; Page: 1,959.
Taxes that took effect in 2012:
9. Employer Reporting of Insurance on W-2 (Min$/Jan 2012): Preamble to taxing health benefits on individual tax returns. Bill: PPACA; Page: 1,957.
Taxes that take effect in 2013:
10. Surtax on Investment Income ($123 billion/Jan. 2013): Creation of a new, 3.8 percent surtax on investment income earned in households making at least $250,000 ($200,000 single). This would result in the following top tax rates on investment income: Bill: Reconciliation Act; Page: 87-93.
| | Capital Gains | Dividends | Other* | | 2012 | 15% | 15% | 35% | | 2013+ | 23.8% | 43.4% | 43.4% |
*Other unearned income includes (for surtax purposes) gross income from interest, annuities, royalties, net rents, and passive income in partnerships and Subchapter-S corporations. It does not include municipal bond interest or life insurance proceeds, since those do not add to gross income. It does not include active trade or business income, fair market value sales of ownership in pass-through entities, or distributions from retirement plans. The 3.8% surtax does not apply to non-resident aliens.
11. Hike in Medicare Payroll Tax ($86.8 bil/Jan 2013): Current law and changes:
| | First $200,000
($250,000 Married)
Employer/Employee | All Remaining Wages
Employer/Employee | | Current Law | 1.45%/1.45%
2.9% self-employed | 1.45%/1.45%
2.9% self-employed | | Obamacare Tax Hike | 1.45%/1.45%
2.9% self-employed | 1.45%/2.35%
3.8% self-employed |
Bill: PPACA, Reconciliation Act; Page: 2000-2003; 87-93
12. Tax on Medical Device Manufacturers ($20 bil/Jan 2013): Medical device manufacturers employ 360,000 people in 6000 plants across the country. This law imposes a new 2.3% excise tax. Exempts items retailing for <$100. Bill: PPACA; Page: 1,980-1,986
13. Raise "Haircut" for Medical Itemized Deduction from 7.5% to 10% of AGI ($15.2 bil/Jan 2013): Currently, those facing high medical expenses are allowed a deduction for medical expenses to the extent that those expenses exceed 7.5 percent of adjusted gross income (AGI). The new provision imposes a threshold of 10 percent of AGI. Waived for 65+ taxpayers in 2013-2016 only. Bill: PPACA; Page: 1,994-1,995
14. Flexible Spending Account Cap - aka "Special Needs Kids Tax" ($13 bil/Jan 2013): Imposes cap on FSAs of $2500 (now unlimited). Indexed to inflation after 2013. There is one group of FSA owners for whom this new cap will be particularly cruel and onerous: parents of special needs children. There are thousands of families with special needs children in the United States, and many of them use FSAs to pay for special needs education. Tuition rates at one leading school that teaches special needs children in Washington, D.C. (National Child Research Center) can easily exceed $14,000 per year. Under tax rules, FSA dollars can be used to pay for this type of special needs education. Bill: PPACA; Page: 2,388-2,389
15. Elimination of tax deduction for employer-provided retirement Rx drug coverage in coordination with Medicare Part D ($4.5 bil/Jan 2013) Bill: PPACA; Page: 1,994
16. $500,000 Annual Executive Compensation Limit for Health Insurance Executives ($0.6 bil/Jan 2013). Bill: PPACA; Page: 1,995-2,000
Taxes that take effect in 2014:
17. Individual Mandate Excise Tax (Jan 2014): Starting in 2014, anyone not buying "qualifying" health insurance must pay an income surtax according to the higher of the following
| | 1 Adult | 2 Adults | 3+ Adults | | 2014 | 1% AGI/$95 | 1% AGI/$190 | 1% AGI/$285 | | 2015 | 2% AGI/$325 | 2% AGI/$650 | 2% AGI/$975 | | 2016 + | 2.5% AGI/$695 | 2.5% AGI/$1390 | 2.5% AGI/$2085 |
Exemptions for religious objectors, undocumented immigrants, prisoners, those earning less than the poverty line, members of Indian tribes, and hardship cases (determined by HHS).Bill: PPACA; Page: 317-337
18. Employer Mandate Tax (Jan 2014): If an employer does not offer health coverage, and at least one employee qualifies for a health tax credit, the employer must pay an additional non-deductible tax of $2000 for all full-time employees. Applies to all employers with 50 or more employees. If any employee actually receives coverage through the exchange, the penalty on the employer for that employee rises to $3000. If the employer requires a waiting period to enroll in coverage of 30-60 days, there is a $400 tax per employee ($600 if the period is 60 days or longer).Bill: PPACA; Page: 345-346
Combined score of individual and employer mandate tax penalty: $65 billion/10 years
19. Tax on Health Insurers ($60.1 bil/Jan 2014): Annual tax on the industry imposed relative to health insurance premiums collected that year. Phases in gradually until 2018. Fully-imposed on firms with $50 million in profits. Bill: PPACA; Page: 1,986-1,993
Taxes that take effect in 2018:
20. Excise Tax on Comprehensive Health Insurance Plans ($32 bil/Jan 2018): Starting in 2018, new 40 percent excise tax on "Cadillac" health insurance plans ($10,200 single/$27,500 family). Higher threshold ($11,500 single/$29,450 family) for early retirees and high-risk professions. CPI +1 percentage point indexed. Bill: PPACA; Page: 1,941-1,956
Grover Norquist is president of Americans for Tax Reform, a coalition of taxpayer groups, individuals, and businesses opposed to higher taxes at the federal, state, and local levels. The coalition organizes the Taxpayer Protection Pledge, which asks all candidates for federal and state office to commit themselves in writing to oppose all tax increases. Read more reports from Grover Norquist - Click Here Now.
Read more on Newsmax.com: 20 Hidden Tax Hikes in Obamacare
Important: Do You Support Pres. Obama's Re-Election? Vote Here Now!
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LIVE SMART - NEWS TALK
Welcome to the fortress of free speech. The New IQ 106.9 FM is the Delaware Valley's new ho me for Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck. Hidden beyond the reach of big government and corporate media in an abandoned power plant in Fishtown, IQ 106.9 is fair and balanced, not live and liberal.
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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.
www.blogtalkradio.com/teapartyorg
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Ask yourself this question everyday: "What did I do today to boot Obama and his corrupt liberal cronies out of Washington?"
Hello Tea Partiers,
A fire has been lit under conservative grassroots! Any wavering over whether or not to support Romney flew out the window last Thursday when Roberts failed the American people. Know this; it is up to us to turn this socialism around and with the help of Divine Providence we will succeed! Our mission is clear. Get out the Romney vote and once elected hold his feet to the fire!!
The last few days have been extremely busy. Lots of ideas coming at us. The following one we can do immediately. It came from TPP National and is called
Operation Light the Fire
Now more than ever after last week's Supreme Court ruling on Obamacare, we must hold our representatives and wanabee representatives accountable. It is up to us to defend our own liberty. Click on the link Operation: Light the Fire
Next Central Montco PTPP meeting is Thursday July 12th, 7:00 at the Rock Cafe. Topic - Tea Party Patriot strategy to take back our Country Citizens for Constitutional Government meeting is the Second Tuesday in July, 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
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?
As Promised at our June meeting; Websites with Patient centered health care reform ideas http://docs4patientcare.org/
http://healthblog.ncpa.org/hospital-at-home/
This article is a link to one of the republican plans for healthcare. http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-5093897-503544.html If you would like to have the Healthcare law explained to you in unbiased and understandable language check out this link. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_O7XV3OpmU or go to youtube.com and search with the following: Dr. Jill Vecchio--PPACA Pt 1 Coverage
Please take what you like and share with anyone who will listen.
Thanks for your concern, dedication and patriotism and have a great July 4th!
Pam
for Jim and Tim
Co coordinators of Phila Tea Party Patriots of Central Montco.
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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.
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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
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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???
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Join Us on Fridays and Take a Stand for Israel:
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The Next KTP Tea Social
Monday, July 9th at 7pm
Doylestown Moose Club
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Let's get together and talk about our next steps as we get ready to take out Barack Obama and Bob Casey this Fall! After a very well attended Get Out The Vote training day in Bucks County in early June, we are now ready to put into practice all the tools we learned from FreedomWorks.
We all came together back in 2009 because we were outraged by the election of Barack Obama, the passage of Obama(doesn't)care and the direction of our country financially and ideologically. The time has come, perhaps our last chance to truly make a stance, for us to unite and work to defeat the progressive agenda which has already infiltrated us so deeply. The first step towards a big win in November starts now! So, we, at The Kitchen Table Patriots, urge you to come out to make a difference, we can plug you in where you are needed.
This is where you can make a difference that really matters!
Reply here or send us an email: TheKitchenTablePatriots@GMail.com
Date: ................ Monday, July 9th, 2012
Time: ............... 7PM - 9PM
Cost: ................ Free (buy your own drink downstairs)
Where: ............. The Loyal Order of the Moose
127 East State Street, Doylestown, PA 18901
Privatization of Liquor Stores
The time has come, once and for all, to give Pennsylvanians the freedom to choose their own wine and spirits -- without the government's monopoly of mediocrity. Government in the booze business has always been a lose business. Let's give our legislators a final push to let them know the time is now to get government out of the booze business! Currently, this issue is stalled in the House of Representatives so your phone calls, emails and faxes can have a positive effect in getting this to a vote before the Legislators leave Harrisburg for the Summer.
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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.
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U.N. Me will launch June 1st in select theaters and nationwide through video on demand!
For more info:
facebook.com/unmemovie
www.theunmovie.com
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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.
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"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.
Go here for ordering information:
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The U.S. Constitution
A Reader
Divided into eleven sections with introductions by members of Hillsdale's Politics Department faculty, readings cover the principles of the American founding, the framing and structure of the Constitution, the secession crisis and the Civil War, the Progressive rejection of the Constitution, and the building of the administrative state based on Progressive principles.
About Hillsdale College
 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. |
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New Common Sense
Special Message
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Heritage's Timeless Reference Book Now Online
As a trusted reader of New Common Sense, the weekly e-mail from The Heritage Foundation, we wanted you to be the first to know about our new website ConstitutionOnline.com.
From the preamble to the 27
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ConstitutionOnline.com provides clear, concise analysis for users who are trying to further their understanding of the Constitution.
No document is more central to securing "the Blessing of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity" than the United States Constitution, and no website is more thorough than ConstitutionOnline.com.
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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.
The time to speak out for Israel is now!
Please register today for CUFI's 2012 DC Summit.
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Tonight, Sunday June 3rd, CUFI Founder and Chairman, Pastor John Hagee, will be announcing an exciting new CUFI initiative. You can click here to watch it live at 7:30 PM Eastern (6:30 PM Central, 5:30 PM Mountain, 4:30 PM Pacific). This link will not be live until 7:30 PM Eastern (6:30 PM Central, 5:30 PM Mountain, 4:30 PM Pacific) tonight.
Tonight, Pastor Hagee will be announcing the creation of the Israel Defense Fund. This emergency fund will enable CUFI to meet the major challenges we anticipate in the coming months.
CUFI has accomplished great things for Israel. But the times in which we live demand that we do even more -- and do so now!
We need to do more to defend Israel in the public square and in the media. The Israel Defense Fund will enable us to purchase more pro-Israel billboards across America as well as full-page newspaper ads as circumstances demand.
We need to do more to defend Israel on our college campuses. The Israel Defense Fund will enable us to train even more students and hold even more pro-Israel events on campuses across the country.
We need to do more to defend Israel before our leaders. The Israel Defense Fund will enable us to be more active than ever in educating our nation's leaders about the justice of Israel's cause.
Even if you can't watch the broadcast, don't miss out on the opportunity to be part of the Israel Defense Fund! Click here now to contribute.
We will not be silent. Together, we will do more than ever to stand up and speak up for Israel.
May God Bless You and Those that You Love,
David Brog
Executive Director
CUFI
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FREE Training Conference
Saturday, August 18, 2012
Washington Dulles Airport Marriott
45020 Aviation Drive * Dulles, Virginia * (703) 471-9500
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Brigitte Gabriel and our National Staff want to personally invest our time with you and have worked hard to provide a FREE training for our members in the region around D.C.!
Please join us for the Northern Virginia Citizens in Action Training Conference.
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.
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The Case Against Obamacare: Health Care Policy Series for the 112th Congress
A Health Care Policy Series for the 112th Congress
Building on decades of Heritage research, The Case Against Obamacare: A Health Care Policy Series for the 112th Congress examines 15 key provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Each report:
- Cites specific sections of the 2,700-page health care law
- Provides detailed analysis of specific Obamacare provisions
- Identifies key principles for a better way to reform health care
The unmistakable conclusion of this series is that Obamacare must be fully repealed. Congress cannot build sound market-based health care reform on the flawed foundation of this health care law. Until it can be repealed, Congress must employ its full powers authorized by the Constitution to:
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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 |
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The Energy Revolution and Its Discontents
With all the gloomy economic news coming out of late, one bright spot flew under the radar last week: the United States is poised to be the proverbial center of the energy universe.
A recent study by Harvard Research Fellow Leonardo Maugeri found that the United States' incredible shale reserves represent "the most important revolution in the oil sector in decades."
Thanks to the technological revolution brought about by the combined use of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing, the U.S. is now exploiting its huge and virtually untouched shale and tight oil fields, whose production - although still in its infancy - is already skyrocketing in North Dakota and Texas.
Few Americans are more cognizant of this energy revolution's possibilities than those who live in the towns sitting above the nation's largest shale formations. The Heritage Foundation traveled to Willison, North Dakota, above the massive Bakken shale, to hear first-hand how the oil boom there has improved residents' lives.
But there are forces looking to undermine North Dakota's oil boom. "The area that we worry the most about would be the federal government and regulations," explained Willison Mayor Ward Koeser, "specifically the Environmental Protection Agency."
Koeser's concerns are not without merit. The EPA has a history of wrongfully targeting companies using hydraulic fracturing for supposed environmental contamination. When a top EPA official, Region 6 administrator Al Armedariz, compared his enforcement philosophy to Roman crucifixions, the agency's history of enforcement actions against oil and gas drillers - both use hydraulic fracturing to extract resources from shale - belied Armendariz's subsequent apology and walk-back.
Armendariz just took a job at the Sierra Club, a radical environmentalist group that has undertaken a massive campaign against the extraction of natural gas from shale only a few years after it championed natural gas as a cleaner alternative to coal and oil.
The left's emerging hostility to "fracking" has the potential to derail the amazing economic opportunity that shale presents. So it should come as little surprise that the political consequences of that hostility are bearing themselves out in places like Western Pennsylvania, which sits on huge shale gas reserves.
Roll Call's Stuart Rothenberg reported over the weekend that Pennsylvania, which over the past 20 years has moved further left in terms of its voting patterns, is suddenly more competitive. "Western Pennsylvania increasingly looks like West Virginia or southeastern Ohio," Rothenberg notes.
Rothenberg, appropriately concerned with the political analysis, did not connect the dots: Western Pennsylvania, Southeastern Ohio, and West Virginia are all major energy-producing states (or parts of states). The Utica, Marcellus, and Devonian shale formations, for instance, represent major economic opportunities in those states.
From the federal perspective, then, a sensible energy policy would at least refrain from proactively discouraging those opportunities, as Heritage's Nick Loris has suggested:
An aggressive energy policy that opens access, provides a timely permitting process as well as environmental and judicial review, and places a freeze on new environmental regulations from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) would go a long way to help lower energy prices, create jobs, and bring revenue into the financially strapped government that's racked up [over] $15 trillion in debt.
But left-wing environmentalists continue to fight against the country's natural gas and oil boom. That boom has the potential not just to revitalize parts of the American economy, but to infuse economic vitality into some of the nation's most economically distressed communities. Don't be surprised when those communities stand up to regulatory overreach and environmental hysteria.
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Nice Try: Obama Released Restrictive New Energy Plan Under Cover of SCOTUS, Holder Contempt
- Kate Hicks
Web Editor, Townhall.com
File this one under While You Were Out: the Obama Administration unveiled its new five-year energy plan on Thursday, when the rest of us were conveniently preoccupied with SCOTUS and the Holder contempt vote. Real smooth.
Of course, it's pretty clear why they wanted this to fly under the radar: as Hot Air's Erika Johnsen noted on Saturday, the plan is just not good. She points out that it opens up a miniscule percentage of our offshore resources, but not nearly enough to make a dent in our energy use, and what's more, by constraining the number of jobs that this could produce, it does nothing to help the economy. Some details:
U.S. oil companies will be allowed to drill in more areas of the Gulf of Mexico but won only limited access to the Arctic under the final version of the Obama Administration's five year drilling plan that was slammed by industry and some environmentalists. The 2012-2017 plan calls for three potential lease sales in areas offshore Alaska but the auctions would not be held until the final years of the plan because of environmental concerns about operating in the Arctic. "Today, the Obama Administration has announced a bleak future for American energy production by keeping 85 percent of America's offshore areas under lock and key and refusing to open any new areas to drilling," said Doc Hastings, Republican chairman of the House Natural Resources Committee.
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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/
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RedState Morning Briefing
For July 5, 2012
1. Freedom's Slate
On this Independence Day, it is time to focus on improving the crop of Republican congressmen by examining some of the remaining Republican primaries.
Want the GOP to stand up to Barack Obama?
Tired of the GOP cutting deals?
Want to make sure the GOP doesn't back out of full and complete repeal of Obamacare if they sweep in November?
Then you absolutely must support these candidates still in Republican primaries.
If you care about freedom, here is Freedom's Slate.
2. Eric Cantor & The Pro-Life Statists Take Sides In North Carolina North Carolina's 8th Congressional District provides the quintessential battleground between go-along to get-along Republicans and small government conservatives. 3. Individual Mandate A Tax Or A Penalty For conservatives, the debate over whether the individual mandate in ObamaCare is called a tax or a penalty has become a litmus test for the Romney campaign's conservative credentials. It should not. Eric Fehrnstrom, Spokesman for Mitt Romney, said on MSNBC earlier this week that Romney "believes that what we put in place in Massachusetts was a penalty, and he disagrees with the court's ruling that the mandate was a tax." There is nothing inherently non-conservative about this statement. Believing that the individual mandate is not a tax is consistent with Justices Scalia, Kennedy, Thomas and Alito's opinion that the individual mandate is not a proper exercise of the federal government's taxing power. Today, Mitt Romney walked back Fehrnstrom's statement with his own declaration that the individual mandate in ObamaCare is a tax. Conservatives should not be so hung up on the declaration of the individual mandate being called a tax or a penalty. The goal is complete and total repeal of ObamaCare. 4. Natural Gas Economics: A Look Under the Hood Christmas comes in June for energy geeks and graph junkies. Every year, the Energy Information Administration of the Department of Energy releases its Annual Energy Outlook (AEO), a compendium of 30-tear forecasts and analyses of energy sources and uses. The 212 page .pdf file contains tables, bar charts and area graphs galore, enough to provide blog fodder at least until Christmas (the December one). This week's installment is a look at production decline curves from selected shale gas plays. The extreme rates of decline experienced in these wells has interesting and far-reaching policy implications, although this angle is rarely described in the mainstream press. For the energy operator, the performance of his wells in aggregate determine the success or failure of his enterprise. For the nation, shale well performance has become a key factor in energy policy and planning.
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July 5, 2012
If the GOP Cavalry Doesn't Come
Lee Cary
What if that cavalry doesn't come in November to kill ObamaCare? Or what if it arrives poorly armed, on lame horses, with dull leadership? More
Why Did Barack Obama Let Terry Lakin Go to Jail?
Jack Cashill
The White House, which was aware of Lakin's ordeal, could have spared him imprisonment More
How Statists Are Getting Away with It
Randall Hoven
It's a brilliant strategy. More
The 2010 Census, Obama-Style?
Ryan Scott Welch
Having seen the promised Obama "transparency" over the last three and a half years for the lie that it was, I decided to look into the 2010 Census figures in my home state of Texas to see if I could detect anything amiss. More
John Roberts v. ObamaCare: An Apologia
Paul Jacobson
Conservatives complain, often justifiably, that stupid Republicans are all too quick to throw their own under the bus when turmoil arises. But look how many conservatives have been eager to give Chief Justice John Roberts a poke in the eye. More
SCOTUS and the Collapse of States' Sovereignty
Fay Voshell
The ongoing collapse of the boundaries between the federal government and the sovereign, individual states has been accelerated by the recent ObamaCare decision. More
Pandering to the Black Voter
Eileen F. Toplansky
Obama's belief system ignores the advancements of America, imposes a false guilt on whites, and inflicts a continuing disaffected and victimization status on those who adhere to such beliefs. More
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Lies, damn lies, and TV documentaries
Richard Baehr | July 4, 2012
First the History Channel aired a "documentary" version of Howard Zinn's fake history of the United States (the one that begins with the claim that 12 million native Americans were killed in the Indian wars). Now Oliver Stone and a marxist professor from American University have created a ten part "history" of America and the world since World War 2. Showtime, owned by CBS, thought this was worth airing. At a press conference to promote the series, Stone revealed that Hitler and Stalin were misunderstood.
Ron Radosh of PJ Media has been one of the few journalists to cover this appalling new way for Americans to unlearn their history.
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Reclaim rock for conservatism:
Quote Frank Zappa: "The United States is a nation of laws, badly written and randomly enforced." Fewer laws equals more freedom-only a liberal could be opposed to that.
Start a rumor:
The REAL reason Obama is so sore with the British is that they keep threatening to release the secret intelligence files on his Kenyan grandfather. Turns out during the Mau Mau rebellion he was one of their most successful informants-codenamed MOLERAT. Any abuse or imprisonment he suffered was solely to make his cover story more credible.
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By Daniel Flynn
Some lost everything for the pursuit of human liberty.
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By Arnold Ahlert
The numbers say otherwise.
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By Ryan Mauro
Expect strikes against Arab countries and even the West as the regime grapples with sanctions.
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By Alan W. Dowd
Tipping point or turning point?
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By Raymond Ibrahim
British journalist paints victims of Islamic cruelty as the bad guys.
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By Stephen Brown
The new nation of South Sudan takes bold steps against its tormentors -- but can it work?
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By Jamie Glazov
Amani Mustafa, Anni Cyrus and Nonie Darwish share their new lives after breaking free from Islam.
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By Bryce Buchanan
What if the founders of the American Revolution could see our government today?
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Nicole Kian Sadighi, director of an award-winning movie about an Iranian martyr, joins Frontpage's radio show for the full hour.
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By David Bedein
A PLO propaganda tour kicks off in Germany.
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By Frontpagemag.com
Filmmaker shares how his eyes were opened while making a documentary in support of the Tennessee Mega Mosque.
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By Larry Domnitch
Famous Israeli rescue mission stands as a model of victory.
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By Rick Moran
Amid new sanctions, the Islamic Republic turns to state-sponsored terrorism against the U.S., Israel and the West.
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By Daniel Greenfield
What the total absence of a "swing vote" in the left-wing bloc of the Supreme Court says about the judicial body.
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By Matthew Vadum
Largest branch of corrupt community organizing empire withers away.
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By Bruce Bawer
A brave voice stands up against the U.N.'s quest to legitimize the world's worst human rights abusers.
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By Daniel Flynn
Chief Justice Roberts may have changed his mind on ObamaCare, but the Constitution didn't change its meaning.
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By Jamie Glazov
Amani Mustafa, Anni Cyrus and Nonie Darwish share their experiences of breaking from the chains of Islamic slavery.
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By Mark Tapson
A gripping exposé of the revered body's corruption and uselessness.
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By Giulio Meotti
Why Islamism if far more dangerous than Nazism or Communism.
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By Frontpagemag.com
Filmmaker shares how his eyes were opened while making a documentary in support of the Tennessee Mega Mosque.
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By Joseph Puder
A budding Islamist romance develops.
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Nicole Kian Sadighi, director of an award winning movie about an Iranian martyr, joins Frontpage's radio show for the full hour.
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The Media's New Favorite Supreme Court
The Makeover of Mohammed Morsi
Utility Union Strikes Amid Heat Wave
Stoned Dearborn Christian Speaks
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by STEPHEN DINAN
Federal immigration authorities have begun granting tentative legal status to illegal immigrants under Obama's deportation halt - and in some cases are even ignoring the administration's eligibility rules to stop deportations for those who shouldn't qualify, according to the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee.
by EDWARD CLINE
The chief features of Obamacare are its reliance on force to exact compulsion, and the taxing authority of Congress. It's time to question the role of force in government.
by PETE KASPEROWICZ
The House as early as next week will pass legislation prohibiting the IRS from receiving any money from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to implement the 2010 healthcare reform law.
by HERBERT LONDON
The America I love is disappearing from the public scene. When the Supreme Court ruling upheld the constitutionality of ObamaCare, a disturbing and, in my opinion, dangerous precedent has been created.
by MARY GRABAR, TINA TRENT
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting's argument for demanding taxpayer support is that they contribute to educating America's schoolchildren. But should taxpayers fund what is in reality the brainwashing of America's schoolchildren?
by SALOMON BENZIMRA, P.E.
Factual evidence is the last concern of Israel's detractors. To peddle their treacherous agenda, they must be sheltered from facts, turn them upside down or invent fake ones out of thin air as Naomi Chazan has done.
by ALAN CARUBA
All Americans now live in an America that they have not known, nor ever conceived could exist, where the rule of law no longer is a guarantee of the Constitution's limits and separation of powers. What does this mean for us?
by REZA KAHLILI
A source who served in Iranian intelligence says the Iranian regime is preparing to down Western airliners in case of an attack on the Islamic Republic's nuclear program.
The Obama administration is edging toward decisions that would further shrink the U.S. nuclear arsenal, possibly to between 1,000 and 1,100 warheads, reflecting new thinking on the role of nuclear weapons in an age of terror, say current and former officials.
by TERRANCE JEFFREY
A record of 8,733,461 workers took federal disability insurance payments in June 2012, according to the Social Security Administration. That was up from 8,707,185 in May.
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Conservative Politicians Hall of Shame Jul 04, 2012 12:14 pm
BENADOR: At 236, America Needs a Revolution Jul 04, 2012 11:38 am
The Last Chance to Stop Iran's Nuclear Quest? Jul 04, 2012 10:34 am
Obama Censors the Declaration of Independence Jul 04, 2012 10:06 am
Morning Bell: The Energy Revolution and Its Discontents Jul 04, 2012 09:30 am
USA: Born July 4th, 1776. Died November 4th, 2008 Jul 04, 2012 09:02 am
Whatever Happened to Occupy Wall Street Jul 04, 2012 08:38 am
When Loving Your Country Marks You As A Domestic Terrorist Jul 04, 2012 06:49 am
Negotiations Behind U.S. Sanctions Against Iran Jul 04, 2012 05:00 am
Rahm Emmanuel's Confounding CAIR Appointment Jul 04, 2012 01:43 am
Immigration Reform News and Impact on US Homeland Security July 3, 2012 Jul 03, 2012 03:52 pm
America's Ugly Mood Jul 03, 2012 03:48 pm
Kenyan Churches Attacked by Muslims; Worshippers Gunned Down as They Fled Jul 03, 2012 09:00 am
Dearborn Christian Stoned by American Muslims Speaks Jul 03, 2012 08:15 am
Food Safety Regulations That Kill Jul 03, 2012 08:05 am
Lies We Can Believe In Jul 03, 2012 08:00 am
Chief Justice John Roberts Bowed To Political Pressure And Changed His Vote On Obamacare Jul 03, 2012 12:45 am
The Communists Killed Kennedy Jul 02, 2012 08:58 pm
Sovereignty, Preempted Jul 02, 2012 10:37 am
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The Incredible Shrinking US-Israel Security Cooperation
by Shoshana Bryen
June 27, 2012
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3133/us-israel-security-cooperation
If the Administration had wanted to make the point the Israel is a valued partner in counterterrorism activities, it could have insisted that Israel be there or else moved the meeting.
In light of increased sensitivity to intelligence leaks, it seemed innocuous - or even admirable - when the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) asked the Senate to remove a few words from the US-Israel Enhanced Security Cooperation Act: the "sense of the Senate" part of the bill included the sentence, "Expand already close intelligence cooperation, including satellite intelligence, with the Government of Israel;" ODNI wanted the words "including satellite intelligence" to go.
An ODNI spokesman said it was "simply a matter of clarifying the intelligence aspects of the bill and being sensitive to the level of specificity of the language...nothing nefarious here, just more clear language."
Yeah, right.
This is just the latest example of the Obama Administration making clear that it does not want to be seen as Israel's partner in regional affairs - several of them predicated on Turkish desires. Despite Israel's status as a Major Non-NATO ally, a NATO "partner" country, and a member of NATO's Mediterranean Dialogue, Turkey is increasingly insistent that Israel be isolated and cut out. This surrender to Turkey -- which Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has for years been aggressively making ever more fundamentalist -- coincides nicely with the Administration's increasingly open courtship of Turkey's Islamist-leaning and virulently anti-Israel Prime Minister and what appears to be the desire of the Administration to enhance security relations in the Arab-Muslim world as it dials back visible cooperation with Israel.
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Romney to Visit Israel (While Obama Still Hasn't As President)
Mitt Romney plans to visit Israel this summer, The New York Times reported Monday evening quoting Israeli sources, which the Romney campaign later confirmed. Reuters reports the trip will take place in late July. The presumptive Republican presidential nominee will meet with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, Israeli President Shimon Peres, opposition Labor Party leaders and U.S. Ambassador Daniel Shapiro during his trip which is expected to last less than two days.
Romney's pre-election trip emphasizes the fact that Obama has yet to visit Israel as president, though he has already traveled to 30 countries since being elected. It was noted by some commentators that even the president of a country not exactly known for its warm relations with Israel, Russia's Vladimir Putin, traveled to the Middle Eastern nation last week.
The Times reports:
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In what may be a watershed moment in the fight against radical Islam, five members of Congress have written letters to the Departments of Homeland Security, State, Defense, Justice and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence asking for investigations of the Muslim Brotherhood influence in their agencies.
The five members of Congress are Michele Bachmann (R-MN), Tom Rooney (R-FL), Lynn Westmoreland (R-GA), Trent Franks (R-AZ) and Louie Gohmert (R-TX). Collectively, they sit on the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Armed Services Committee and Judiciary Committee. Read about the Muslim Brotherhood's infiltration into the U.S. government.
These members of Congress need YOUR help in getting their requests for investigations to be taken seriously!
Below is a sample email you can send to your representative in Congress. You can easily find out who that is and get to his or her website by entering in your zip code at this link. Use their contact form to send your message.
Below is a sample letter you can send to them (copy & paste and then add your details):
Dear Representative [Name of Congressman]
I am contacting you to urge you to endorse the call made on June 13, 2012, by your colleagues -- Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN), Rep. Tom Rooney (R-FL), Rep. Lynn Westmoreland (R-GA), Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ) and Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) -- to launch an investigation into the influence of Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated groups and individuals in the U.S. government.
These congressmen wrote letters requesting investigations by the Inspectors General of the Departments of Homeland Security, State, Defense, Justice and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. Each letter referenced concerning incidents related to the Muslim Brotherhood in the department or agency it was addressed to.
As I'm sure you're aware, the Muslim Brotherhood is a radical Islamic group which supports terrorism worldwide and is using stealth jihad to install Sharia and undermine the freedoms we cherish here in the U.S.
As a voter in your district, I urge you to endorse their letters and show your concern about this important issue.
Sincerely,
Clarion Fund | 255 West 36th St, New York, NY 10018, USA | Donate
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 July 3, 2012
by Kelly McNair
While the Declaration of Independence formally declared our independence from Great Britain, it accomplished so much more. Its unique combination of general principles and government theory has resulted in an enduring nation. With Independence Day just around the corner, it is important to be reminded of our Founding Fathers' foresight and why the Declaration's principles matter 236 years later.
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We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness; that, to secure these rights, governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.
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The ringing phrases of The Declaration of Independence speak to everyone who strives for liberty and supports the principles of self-government. This Independence Day, enjoy the cookouts, fireworks, and other Fourth of July festivities, but don't forget the reasons why we have so much to celebrate.
Continue reading on myHeritage and tell us how do you celebrate the principles of the Founders.
The Heritage Foundation has been a leader in educating lawmakers and the public about the negative impact of Obamacare and the importance of repealing the 2,700-page monstrosity. Heritage experts are preparing for the coming fight. Visit myHeritage to find out what Heritage is doing in the coming weeks and months. What do you think is the best course of action against Obamacare?
By passing the transportation bill last week, Congress has once again demonstrated its complete disregard for budgets. The bill will cost an astounding $120 billion over the next two years. Not only that, this spending outstrips the revenues coming in through the federal gasoline tax. That means either more debt or higher taxes-or both. The bill's overspending is unacceptable, as are proposals to offset this overspending with new taxes. Lawmakers need to change course and become serious about curbing their reckless spending habit. Read more about this high-spending bill and some of the improvements it does make.
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Manufacturing sector shrinks for first time in three years
posted on July 3, 2012 by Ed Morrissey
Even though this week will have most Americans distracted from the news while celebrating Independence Day with families and friends, that doesn't mean that there won't be important news this week. On Friday, we'll get the jobs report from June, which so far doesn't look promising, as well as a precursor report from ADP on private-sector job growth, as well as other economic indicators for the previous period. Yesterday, one of the biggest came out - and it was bad news for the US economy. Manufacturing "plummeted," Reuters reported, according to the composite index from the Institute of Supply Management:
U.S. manufacturing shrank in June for the first time in nearly three years as new orders plummeted, according to one measure of the sector that provided a stark sign of the economic recovery's slowdown. The Institute for Supply Management said on Monday its index of national factory activity fell to 49.7 from 53.5 the month before, missing expectations of 52.0, according to a Reuters poll of economists, and below even the lowest forecast. It was the first time since July 2009 that the index has fallen below the 50 mark that separates expansion from contraction. That was shortly after the U.S. economy emerged from recession.
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Roberts v. Roberts By Rick Richman
During the oral argument on ObamaCare, the justice who most concisely destroyed the government's argument that it was a "tax" was ... John Roberts.
Mitt Romney's Big Problem - and Hence Ours By Ron Radosh
Mitt Romney has a big problem, and it is one that he shares with many conservatives and Republicans who seem to believe that given the horrendous nature of Obama's policies, he has to do very little to win.
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New Zimmerman Evidence Removes Any Doubt By Arnold S. Trebach
New evidence, recently released by the trial judge, supports the fact that George Zimmerman is the victim of a liberal racist lynch mob.
Incinerating America's West By Robert Zubrin
The massive western wildfires could have been avoided with intelligent forest management and less hysteria from the greens.
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DHS: Do You Love Individual Liberty? You Might Be A Terrorist!
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A DHS-funded study says right-wing extremists are "groups that believe that one's personal and/or national 'way of life' is under attack and is either already lost or that the threat is imminent." Further, groups may also be "fiercely nationalist" and "suspicious of centralized federal authority." Can you guess which religious group was virtually invisible to this study? See the surprising story HERE.
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Is This Scientology Camp The Reason For Tom Cruise's Divorce?
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The Blaze rarely spends/wastes time on Show Business, but the Tom Cruise - Katie Holmes divorce announcement has sparked considerable interest in the couple's connection to Scientology. Hence, this story. One theory about the cause of this break-up has to do with the a super-secret camp allegedly operated by Scientology. See aerial photos and read about what might be the catalyst for this divorce HERE.
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REAL NEWS: THE INCIDENT THAT GAVE US GOV'T REGULATION
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Most Americans know that the "Boston Tea Party" sparked the American Revolution. But, few have heard about the 1919 "Boston Molasses Disaster. The regulations that were born after that deadly accident ultimately made American manufacturing safer, but also had some long-term political implications. Watch this week's "Real History" segment HERE.
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Glenn Beck's Fourth Of July Message
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On this day in 1776, the founders declared America's independence from Britain. Everybody knows this - but the fact we tend to gloss over is that the fight wasn't finished right then and there. They kept fighting for that freedom until 1783, over seven years of bloody struggle and sacrifice. In fact, "we the people" didn't adopt our Constitution until 1787, more than 11 years after those 56 men gathered in a room and signed their name to a piece of parchment that said there?s a better way for men and women to live: in freedom. Read the full letter from Glenn HERE. READ THIS |
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Dr. Ablow: Healthcare Ruling Impact, 'Absolutely Infantilizing'
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Dr. Keith Ablow, one of America's leading psychiatrists, asserts that the healthcare ruling will have an undeniable effect on America. He claims it will be "absolutely infantilizing," and there will be incalculable ramifications because of it. Watch Dr. Ablow with Fox News Channel's Megan Kelly HERE.
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Why Can't This Cop Be Fired?
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Despite multiple investigations and numerous attempts to dismiss him, it seems like Sgt. German Bosque, 48, of the Opa-locka, Fla., Police Department is the $60,000-a-year police officer who can't be fired. See this bad cop's laundry list of offenses and the reason he still has a job HERE.
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WV Judge Goes Berserk, Screaming At A Local Pastor
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A local family court judge in Winfield, WV, lost his mind during a divorce hearing involving a local pastor. The judge accused the pastor of talking to the media after a previous hearing. That conversation, he believed, triggered unwelcome media attention to the judge, his wife, and the location of their home. At the next hearing with the pastor, the judge was irate. He let loose, threatening to incarcerate the pastor for life. Watch the video - but, if shouting bothers you, turn down your speakers before clicking HERE.
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Here Are 2012's 15-Highest Paying Jobs In America
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Did you know that with just a Bachelor's degree and no advanced degree whatsoever there are some extremely lucrative jobs available? It's true, and you'll find some of them among "the Top 15 Highest Paying Jobs in America" HERE.
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REAL NEWS FROM THE BLAZE: CAN THE EU STOP IRAN?
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On Sunday, the European Union began the application of oil embargo sanctions against Iran, as part of the West's diplomatic efforts to halt Tehran's nuclear program. On Monday, the Real News panel discussed whether these sanctions can be effective. Watch the full segment HERE.
Tonight the Real News panel compares Romney's foreign policy with that of the Obama administration. Watch it live at 5pm ET or on-demand HERE.
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The Underclass
Townhall.com | Walter E. Williams | Jul 04, 2012
Anthony Daniels, who writes under the pen name Theodore Dalrymple, is a retired prison doctor and psychiatrist who tells of his experiences with his patients in "Life at the Bottom." It's an insightful book of essays about the self-destructive behavior and attitudes of the underclass.
In one essay, "We Don't Want No Education," reprinted by City Journal, Dalrymple says that he cannot recall meeting a 16-year-old from the public housing project near his hospital who could perform simple multiplication operations, such as nine times seven. One 17-year-old told him, "We didn't get that far." This was after 12 years of attending school. One of Dalrymple's patients took a drug overdose because of constant bullying from classmates. "She was stupid because she was clever." What her peers meant by that was anyone who worked hard and performed well at school was wasting his time when truancy and wandering downtown were deemed preferable. The underlying threat was: If you don't mend your ways and join us, we'll beat you up.
These weren't simply idle threats. Dalrymple says he's often met people in their 20s or 30s in his practice who gave up at school under such duress. Those who attend a school that has very high academic standards risk a beating if they venture into neighborhoods where the underclass live. He recalls treating two boys in the emergency room after they'd been beaten and two others who had taken overdoses for fear of being beaten at the hands of their neighbors.
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The reader may have been misled, with my help, into thinking that "We Don't Want No Education" is about the black underclass, but it's about the white underclass in Britain.
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Special Edition · July 3, 2012
The Foundation
"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." --John Adams
Essential Liberty
In honor of the establishment and preservation of Essential Liberty, we offer a few remarks from an young American Patriot standing watch on the front lines in Afghanistan, followed by insights from our Founding Fathers, as fitting reminders of the constant vigil which must be maintained in defense of Liberty.
Wisdom from the Warfront -- Enemies Foreign and Domestic:
"As an officer who faces combat challenges daily, and who has experienced my share of heartache in defense of our great nation in accordance with my oath, it pains me to see our elected 'leaders' so willfully defy their oaths to support our Constitution. But, war has taught me that we just take today at our best, because we never know what tomorrow will bring.
"The seemingly insurmountable battle to salvage what is left of American Liberty simply means God will provide a great movement and great leaders to get the job done in His timing. While we may see no solution, it's undoubtedly already in the making and I can only pray that He continues to use me in His service, along with all the other great Americans Patriots across our country.
"Battles would not be great and triumphant if they were easy. The more the Left undermines Rule of Law, the more glorious the reconstitution and restoration will be, the mightier the battle, and the mightier the men who will fight it. I simply pray that I continue to grow to fight that war, just as I am fighting this one, and that God preserves me to do so. God provided us with the means and the personal example to triumph over the greatest of evils, He has provided us with the solutions to our own problems, we simply must trust it is within His plan.
"Keep fighting the good fight, do not despair on the 4th of July, but celebrate that Providence provided us with the greatest blueprint for governments among men in 1789, with the spirit of 1776. As Alexander Hamilton said, 'The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the Hand of Divinity itself, and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power.' Our rights are only referenced by the Declaration, but endowed by our Creator, and as such, are self-evident. Obama cannot erase them and long after we are dead and gone, the rights of man will be preserved in the essence of God's creation available only through reflection in His gift of reason. Evil ultimately will not prevail -- we are blueprinted with Victory."
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Timeless Wisdom of our Founders:
"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." --Thomas Jefferson
"All that I have, and all that I am and all that I hope to be in life I am now ready to stake upon it; and I leave off as I began, that live or die, survive or perish, I am for the declaration." --John Adams at the signing of the Declaration of Independence
"In Europe, charters of liberty have been granted by power. America has set the example ... of charters of power granted by liberty. This revolution in the practice of the world, may, with an honest praise, be pronounced the most triumphant epoch of its history, and the most consoling presage of its happiness." --James Madison
"The value of liberty was thus enhanced in our estimation by the difficulty of its attainment, and the worth of characters appreciated by the trial of adversity." --George Washington
"Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God. I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!" --Patrick Henry
"If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen." --Samuel Adams
"[I]t is a common observation here that our cause is the cause of all mankind, and that we are fighting for their liberty in defending our own." --Benjamin Franklin
"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it." --Thomas Paine
"[T]he flames kindled on the 4 of July 1776, have spread over too much of the globe to be extinguished by the feeble engines of despotism; on the contrary, they will consume these engines and all who work them." --Thomas Jefferson
Lest we forget, here are the 56 brave and honorable men to whom we owe our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor:
John Hancock. Button Gwinnett. Lyman Hall. George Walton. William Hooper. Joseph Hewes. John Penn. Edward Rutledge. Thomas Heyward Jr. Thomas Lynch Jr. Arthur Middleton. Samuel Chase. William Paca. Thomas Stone. Charles Carroll of Carrollton. George Wythe. Richard Henry Lee. Thomas Jefferson. Benjamin Harrison. Thomas Nelson, Jr. Francis Lightfoot Lee. Carter Braxton. Robert Morris. Benjamin Rush. Benjamin Franklin. John Morton. George Clymer. James Smith. George Taylor. James Wilson. George Ross. Caesar Rodney. George Read. Thomas McKean. William Floyd. Philip Livingston. Francis Lewis. Lewis Morris. Richard Stockton. John Witherspoon. Francis Hopkinson. John Hart. Abraham Clark. Josiah Bartlett. William Whipple. Samuel Adams. John Adams. Robert Treat Paine. Elbridge Gerry. Stephen Hopkins. William Ellery. Roger Sherman. Samual Huntington. William Williams. Oliver Wolcott. Matthew Thornton.
We invite you to read again our Declaration of Independence.
Share your thoughts on our nation's birthday.
Editor's Note: Our publishing offices will be closed on Wednesday so no Chronicle will be posted. Standby for Mark Alexander's essay, The Imperial Presidency, which will be posted Thursday. Have a blessed and safe Independence Day!
Semper Vigilo, Fortis, Paratus et Fidelis!
Nate Jackson for The Patriot Post Editorial Team
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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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Jackie Mason: 'Obamacare ruling so convoluted, I could have written it as 1-man act for Broadway.' During a radio interview today, legendary comic Jackie Mason panned the logic of Chief Justice John Roberts' ruling on Obamacare, saying the 2,700-page decision was so convoluted it could have been written by Mason himself as material for a one-man Broadway show.
The funny man further lampooned the healthcare law itself, joking it could have been crafted by Groucho Marx, Jackie Gleason or Bob Hope.
Read full story here.
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White House boast to blacks: We reduced crack cocaine penalties. Jarrett makes unreported remarks in meeting with African Americans. President Obama's top aid, Valerie Jarrett, reportedly boasted to the black community how the administration sharply reduced the penalties for possession of crack cocaine.
Jarrett made the remarks at a meeting of Black journalists and columnist this past weekend clearly aimed at Obama's reelection efforts. Mainstream media outlets covering the event did not report on her comments regarding crack cocaine.
This past Saturday, Jarrett engaged in a wide-ranging interview session with a group of journalists at the National Association of Black Journalists' convention in New Orleans.
Read full story here.
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Rush: Republicans CLUELESS in stopping Obama
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What's this? Rush Limbaugh, the champion of the political right, is calling Republicans "clueless" in their efforts to stop you-know-who.
He's seriously warning, "If this keeps going this way, we're going to lose it all, folks." And that's just the beginning ...
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Did FBI agent really see ANGELS at 9/11 crash site?
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She's a former police officer and an FBI official who was among the first responders to the crash of hijacked Flight 93 on 9/11.
Now she says she saw countless angels there, and even identified one of them as Michael.
What do YOU think of her claim? ...
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Trump: Obama will start Iran war to win election
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Donald Trump is serious when it comes to Barack Obama looking to start a war with Iran just to win re-election.
He holds nothing back as he unloads on the commander in chief on live television.
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On July 4, remember: We are not French
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Note: This column is adapted from "Demonic: How the Liberal Mob Is Endangering America."
It has become fashionable to equate the French and American revolutions, but they share absolutely nothing in common beyond the word "revolution." The American Revolution was a movement based on ideas, painstakingly argued by serious men in the process of creating what would become the freest, most prosperous nation in world history.
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The French Revolution was a revolt of the mob. It was the primogenitor of the horrors of the Bolshevik Revolution, Hitler's Nazi Party, Mao's Cultural Revolution, Pol Pot's slaughter and America's periodic mob uprisings from Shays' Rebellion to today's dirty waifs in the "Occupy Wall Street" crowd.
The French Revolution is the godless antithesis to the founding of America.
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Hero general: Obama following Castro's plan
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He's a former Delta Force commander, U.S. deputy undersecretary of defense for intelligence and a Purple Heart recipient. And he's warning Americans that Barack Obama is following in the footsteps of Fidel Castro, Joseph Stalin and others who have led communist revolutions in their nations.
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There's something rotten in the state of Kenya, and lo and behold, it's connected to the Obama administration. Shocking, huh?
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This July 4th it's time to tell another tyrant we've had enough
Jul 04, 2012 06:13 am | Coach Collins
By Kevin "Coach" Collins
In the summer of 1776 our Founding Fathers gathered in Philadelphia to decide not whether they would tell King George III they had had enough, but how to word their message. They wanted nothing about our Declaration of Independence to be ambiguous.
They explained that it had become necessary to dissolve the political bands that connected them to England because they were entitled by God to have certain inalienable rights the British Crown refused to recognize. Our Founding Fathers confidently proclaimed the truths they relied upon were self-evident. To ground their declaration in logic they presented a list of evils and abuses George III had committed. It reads like a criminal indictment. Here are some of the charges they listed against the English King.
He refused to follow laws.
He forbade state governors from passing laws that would benefit their people. Moreover he completely ignored laws he didn't like.
He refused requests for ... Continue Reading:This July 4th it's time to tell another tyrant we've had enough
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American Minute July 3
Jul 03, 2012 06:13 pm | Coach Collins
By Bill Federer, staff writer
Washington, D.C., was in a panic as 70,000 Confederate troops were just sixty miles away near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
The furious battle had lasted three days.
As General Lee found his ammunition running low, he ordered General Pickett to make a direct attack.
After an hour of murderous fire and bloody hand-to-hand combat, the Confederates were pushed back and the Battle of Gettysburg ended JULY 3, 1863, with over 50,000 casualties.
President Abraham Lincoln confided to a general wounded in the battle:
"When everyone seemed panic-stricken...I went to my room...and got down on my knees before Almighty God and prayed."
Days later, July 15, 1863, President Lincoln proclaimed a National Day of Thanksgiving, Praise and Prayer:
"It is meet and right to recognize and confess the presence of the Almighty Father and the power of His hand equally in these triumphs and in these sorrows...
I ... Continue Reading:American Minute July 3
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All the Moos That's Fit to Print?
Jul 03, 2012 01:13 pm | Coach Collins
By James Lewis, staff writer
Three years after an Obamanesque media campaign about a supposed 'Arab Spring' convinced millions of people that the Muslim world was about to become democratic and peace-loving, the New York Times has finally trumpeted the headline that the Muslim Brotherhood just won the presidency of Egypt.
Other than the NYT's most gullible readers, is anybody surprised?
The radical Muslim victory in Egypt is a first-rate foreign policy fiasco, one that might make Jimmy Carter green with envy. Thirty years after Jimmy's biggest blunder, the mullahs still rule 70 million helpless people and have enough uranium for five nuclear bombs.
Thirty years from now the Muslim Brotherhood may still be tyrannizing Egypt, and with the pace of nuclear proliferation we see today they will be nuked up to the armpits.
Jimmy Carter lost Iran; Bill Clinton lost Osama; Barack Obama has now lost the Arab world. All over the celebrating ... Continue Reading:All the Moos That's Fit to Print?
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Aflac Obama's electoral see /saw: raises one group's enthusiasm but lowers another's enthusiasm
Jul 03, 2012 06:13 am | Coach Collins
By Kevin "Coach" Collins
Isn't it fun watching the Panderer - in - Chief, Aflac Obama run around his sinking row boat like the duck in the TV commercial stepping on a hole here and fill a hole there with his wings? As the pages fall off the calendar, Obama races from one pandering opportunity to another.
First he is against Gay "marriage" because he wants to sway enough White voters (mostly blue collar Democrats) to get reelected. Then he needs money so he "evolves" on Gay "Marriage." Gays who make up 3% of voters and will vote 99% for Obama anyway coughed up about $1.5 million and the media "Ooohed and Aahed," but to what end?
But his "evolution" on Gay "marriage" lost Obama about 20% of his African American base in a poll done immediately after his announcement. Blacks make up about 12% of voters. Moreover, African Americans' enthusiasm ... Continue Reading:Aflac Obama's electoral see /saw: raises one group's enthusiasm but lowers another's enthusiasm
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American Minute July 2
Jul 02, 2012 06:13 pm | Coach Collins
By Bill Federer, staff writer
One bullet grazed his elbow, but a second lodged in the back of President James Garfield, who, on JULY 2, 1881, was shot as he waited in a Washington, D.C., train station by Charles Guiteau, a member of a polygamist-type communist cult.
Garfield had only been in office four months.
Though not wounded seriously, unsterile medical practices caused him to die two months later.
A distinguished Civil War major general, James Garfield had been a college president and a preacher for the Disciples of Christ.
In his Inaugural Address, March 4, 1881, President James Garfield stated:
"Let our people find a new meaning in the divine oracle which declares that 'a little child shall lead them,' for our own little children will soon control the destinies of the Republic."
President Garfield continued:
"Our children will not be divided...concerning our controversies. They will surely bless their fathers ... Continue Reading:American Minute July 2
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Why did the Chief Justice CHEAT to save ObamaCare?
Jul 02, 2012 01:00 pm | Coach Collins
by Doug Book, staff writer
Chief Justice John Roberts rewrote the specific language of congress by claiming in his ObamaCare ruling that the penalty which the lawmakers had clearly attached to the individual mandate was actually a tax. It was the only way in which the Affordable Care Act could be saved, for the Court rejected the Commerce and Necessary and Proper clause defenses as constitutional grounds for the existence of the law.
By "penciling in" the tax language necessary to satisfy his own requirement of constitutionality, Roberts behaved no differently from any liberal, activist judge so often criticized by conservatives for judicial malfeasance; that is, he cheated rather than rule against a personally favored piece of legislation.
The question is WHY? WHY did the Chief Justice defraud the Court and the American public rather than rule ObamaCare unconstitutional?
In the majority opinion, Roberts wrote: "The Federal Government does have the power to impose a ... Continue Reading:Why did the Chief Justice CHEAT to save ObamaCare?
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Tax Or Mandate? It's Hardly a Dilemma
Posted: 04 Jul 2012 03:24 PM PDT
(John Hinderaker)
Paul wrote yesterday that Mitt Romney is well positioned, politically, on Obamacare despite his campaign's supposed confusion during the last few days as to whether the mandate is or is not a tax. That is my view as well. Is the mandate a tax, or isn't it? I don't think the question poses a dilemma for Romney. Quizzed on the subject by CBS in an interview that will air tonight and tomorrow, he responded nicely:
JAN CRAWFORD: Let's talk about the law and whether the mandate is a tax because, of course, the court said it was a tax. Congress could pass this as part of its taxing power. The President disagrees with that. He said that it's a penalty, it's not a tax. Republicans across the country have seized on this saying he's secretly trying to raise taxes. Your senior adviser said that you believe that it's not a tax; that you agree with the President that the mandate is just a penalty. Why don't you think the mandate is a tax?
GOV. ROMNEY: Well, the Supreme Court has the final word and their final word is that Obamacare is a tax. So it's a tax. They decided it was constitutional. So it is a tax and it's constitutional. That's the final word-that's what it is. Now, I agreed with the dissent. I would have taken a different course, but the dissent wasn't the majority. The majority has ruled and their rule is final. It is a tax.
CRAWFORD: So you believe that-you would say that the mandate now is a tax?
ROMNEY: Well, that the law of the land. The Supreme Court is the highest court in the nation and it said that it's a tax, so it's a tax. That's what it is. And what I'd like to hear is how President Obama can say he doesn't think it's a tax. He disagrees with the court. He thinks the court is inaccurate. If that's the case, then he must think the bill is unconstitutional because, in order to find it constitutional, they had to find it a tax. And by the way, don't forget, it was his Solicitor General that went into the court and argued it was a tax. And the conclusion of the court that it's constitutional...
CRAWFORD: Are you [inaudible]?
ROMNEY: ...the conclusion of the court was in order for them to find it constitutional, they had to find it was a tax. So it is a tax.
CRAWFORD: Have you changed your views on this? I mean, do you now believe that it is a tax, at the federal level, that the Supreme Court has said it is a tax, so it is a tax.
ROMNEY: Well, I said that I agreed with the dissent and the dissent made it very clear that they felt it was unconstitutional, but the dissent lost. It's in the minority. And so now, the Supreme Court has spoken, and, while I agreed with the dissent, that's taken over by the fact that the majority of the court said it's a tax and, therefore, it is a tax. They have spoken. There's no way around that. You can try and say you wished they had decided a different way, but they didn't. They concluded it was a tax. That's what it is and the American people know that President Obama has broken the pledge he made. He said he wouldn't raise taxes on middle-income Americans. Not only did he raise the $500 billion that was already in the bill, it's now clear that his mandate as described by the Supreme Court is a tax.
CRAWFORD: But does that mean that the mandate in the state of Massachusetts under your health care law also is a tax? I mean, you raised taxes as governor.
ROMNEY: Actually the chief justice in his opinion made it very clear that at the state level, states have the power to put in place mandates. They don't need to require them to be called taxes in order for them to be constitutional. And as a result, Massachusetts' mandate was a mandate, was a penalty, was described that way by the legislature and by me, and so it stays as it was.
CRAWFORD: So at the state level because of ... you're saying the Supreme Court says that's different, that the federal government - the powers are different between the states and the federal government? Does that make sense to you?
ROMNEY: Just take a read of the opinion. The chief justice said that states have what's known as police power, and states can implement penalties and mandates and so forth under their constitutions, which is what Massachusetts did. But the federal government does not have those powers, and therefore for the Supreme Court to reach the conclusion it did - that the law was constitutional - they had to find it was a tax, and they did. And therefore Obamacare's a tax. Like it or not, it's a tax.
Romney is correct about the majority's discussion of the police power. Now, will most voters understand the difference between the states and the federal government with respect to their power to impose mandates, including a requirement to buy insurance? Probably not. They should, since their state government has long required them to buy automobile insurance, but they probably don't. Moreover, to the extent they understand the difference, most voters won't care; the point is relevant only from a constitutional, not from a policy, perspective. But it just doesn't matter. The Supreme Court has spoken: for Obamacare to be constitutional, the mandate must be a tax. The Democrats will get nowhere by talking about whether to call the mandate a tax or a penalty; on the contrary, the more they bring the subject up, the worse for them and the better for Republicans.
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Things Are Spinning Out of Control
Posted: 04 Jul 2012 03:10 PM PDT
(Steven Hayward)
Okay, I take a back seat to no one in admiring Ronaldus Magnus, but this is just over the top (though I do admit I kinda like it-I mean, if we can have "Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter," why not this):
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Bernard Lewis remembers - Ted Kennedy visits Iran
Posted: 04 Jul 2012 01:57 PM PDT
(Paul Mirengoff)
I have previously recommended Bernard Lewis's memoir, Notes on a Century, for its wonderful combination of insight and anecdote regarding life, the study of history, and the Middle East. The following anecdote is among my favorites:
Sometime in the early 1970s at a time when I was in Tehran, Senator Kennedy suddenly arrived, unannounced and unexpected. The Shah was angry. He felt that a visit by a U.S. Senator, particularly one with the dynastic name of Kennedy, was a state occasion and that he should therefore have been notified in advance so that appropriate arrangements could be made.
Despite his annoyance, however, the Shah felt that he had to go ahead and do something to honor so distinguished a visitor. He dealt with this problem by finding a subtle Iranian way of honoring and rebuking Senator Kennedy at the same time.
The Palace gave a formal dinner at which the Senator was the guest of honor. However, the Shah himself did not participate in this dinner, but instead left the task of presiding to his teenage granddaughter. From an Iranian point of view this sent a clear message.
The Senator, however, was delighted . . . I was invited to this dinner . . . and I have no doubt that he enjoyed this dinner with the teenage girl much more than he would have enjoyed it with His Imperial Majesty . . .
The Senator was, I am told, quite unaware of the fact that he was being subtly rebuked.
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Crony caplitalism, American capitalism, and the Fourth of July
Posted: 04 Jul 2012 01:05 PM PDT
(Paul Mirengoff)
From Elizabeth Spahn at the FCPA blog:
Highly intelligent, sophisticated, successful. I think he was of Indian ancestry, or maybe Pakistani? A modern Canadian citizen; executive of a Fortune 10 corporation responsible for North American operations for the British based corporation, first in its market position. He is a major player.
"Crony Capitalism." Isn't that what American capitalism is? We were into our third glass of very fine red wine at the banquet following the training session. He was absolutely sincere. I was horrified. . . .
Cronyism is not capitalism, I replied. Cronyism is the opposite of capitalism. American capitalism is about markets, competition. "Rational" markets in which sellers compete; purchasers decide based on price, quality, service, brand. Cronyism, nepotism, elites reserving the goods for themselves - This is the opposite, the antithesis of American capitalism. This is why we revolted in the first place.
He looked at me. I looked at him. Ah, he said.
Happy Fourth of July.
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Liberalism's Biggest Lie
Posted: 04 Jul 2012 11:04 AM PDT
(Steven Hayward)
What is liberalism's current equivalent of "Of course I'll still respect you in the morning!," or, "The [welfare] check is in the mail"?* Without question it is that they only want the "rich" to pay their "fair share." You can waterboard a liberal, but you'll never get a specific definition of what constitutes the "fair" tax rate for "the rich" that isn't always "more than the rate they're paying now."
Right now the Obama Administration's talking point is that they want the rich to pay "a little bit more" to help balance the budget and (somehow) help the economy get back on its feet. So let's roll the tape: in the 1990 budget deal, liberals demanded that the rich pay "a little bit more" to help reduce the deficit, so President George H.W. Bush agreed to raise the top income tax rate from 28 percent to 31 percent, sacrificing his chances for a second term in the process. But that wasn't enough: Bill Clinton demanded that the rich pay "a little bit more" in his first budget in 1993, and raised the top marginal income tax rate to 36 percent (though actually an effective rate of 39 percent when all the monkey business with the phase out of certain deductions and credits were considered). President George W. Bush managed to cut rates temporarily back closer to the pre-Clinton levels, but it is these rates that will expire at the end of the year unless Congress acts. Meanwhile, Obamacare will add a 3.8 percent surtax on capital gains and dividends starting January 1.
The big lie is that liberals only want to tax the rich alone, because even a fiscal dunce like Obama knows that complete confiscation of the wealth of the rich won't begin to come close to filling our fiscal hole. "Tax the rich" is always just misdirection for raising taxes on the middle class, where the real money is. So here are two predictions. Right now everyone thinks Congress will want to avoid the "taxmageddon" of a huge tax increase on January 1, and will make some adjustments in a lame duck session after the election, no matter who wins. I predict that if Obama wins, he will block any tax relief and allow all the Bush tax rates to expire, raising taxes on the middle class as well as those grubby rich folk. Even if Democrats lose the White House and both houses of Congress, the Democratic Senate might block a lame duck fix just out of spite.
But it might get even more extreme than this. I saw an Obama spokesbabe-I forget which one-on TV last night complaining that corporations needed to pay more because they're sitting on all that cash they've earned (she actually left out the "earned" part, but I thought I'd try to be accurate), and ought to be "stepping up" and let the government tax it away so the government can spend it to help revive the economy. It is not enough, apparently, that the U.S. has the world's highest corporate tax rate, which leads most of our multinationals to keep all of their foreign earnings overseas rather than bringing their capital home. Corporations should still be made to pay "a little bit more."
This leads to prediction #2: If Obama is re-elected, look for him to propose for the first time ever a general wealth tax, where successful individuals and corporations will be required to pay an excise tax on their net worth. It's long been a dream of redistributive liberalism, and Obama is nothing if not a "share the wealth" redistributist.
*Of course, "The [welfare] check is in the mail" is one promise liberalism actually does keep, whether there's money in the treasury to pay for it or not.
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Posted by Erick Erickson
Tuesday, July 3rd
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.
We are being played by a group of Republican leaders who have consistently shown in the past few years to lack the testicular fortitude to do what's right when it counts - they are the John Robertses of Congress.
Republicans, at this point, are all about drawing lines in the sand against the Democrats only to wipe them away with their feet.
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"Now more than ever before, the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless, and corrupt, it is because the people tolerate ignorance, recklessness, and corruption." ~ Congressman (Later, President) James Garfield
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Leaked: New Evidence On Obama Birth Certificate Fraud?
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Leaked: New Evidence About To Surface On Obama Birth Certificate Fraud?
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"There are allegedly several stamps bearing Registrar Alvin Onaka's name 'floating around' inside the Hawaii Department of Health." That's the shocking revelation leaked to WorldNetDaily from Mike Zullo, the lead investigator for Sheriff Joe Arpaio's Cold Case Posse. For those who are late to this controversy, Alvin Onaka is the Registrar of Vital Statistics for the State of Hawaii, and the stamp bearing his name is the one that appears on the alleged birth certificate that Barack Obama released to the public last year.
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Video: Is The TSA Intentionally Hiring Psychopaths?
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A man who claims to be a TSA supervisor called into the Alex Jones Show and dropped this bombshell. Calling himself "Rob" to shield his actual identity, the caller told Jones that the TSA is intentionally directing its staff to not only hire applicants who have criminal records, exhibit violent tendencies and have a history of psychopathic behavior; but the agency is actually moving these people to the front of the pack.
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Mexico's New Narcotraficante President?
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Mexico's New President Has Ties to Cartels
By William Bigelow
Breitbart.com
Mexico's presidential election is over, and the early results reveal that the winner is Enrique Pena Nieto, the leader of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, which ruled Mexico for 71 years until 2000. Pena Nieto received 38 percent of the vote, while his closest challenger, Mexico City mayor Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, had 31 percent.
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Has SCOTUS Placed The Union In Peril?
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Obama's Constitutional Crisis
By Alan Caruba
CanadaFreePress.com
In 1832, the threat of nullification by States that opposed tariffs on imported goods came close to bringing about a civil war. Thirty years later as cries for the abolition of slavery reached a fever pitch the War Between the States would begin. Today, in the wake of the Supreme Court decision that found that the Affordable Health Care Act--Obamacare--is constitutional and thereby the law of the land. Republican Governors are lining up to say they will not obey it."
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Obama Caught Begging For Cash...Illegally?
Jul 03, 2012 02:33 pm
It was reported on Sunday that Obama was so broken up after touring the devastation caused by the Colorado wildfires that he promptly hopped aboard Air Force One and made an 18-minute conference call to his big donors asking for cash that was described as "pleading" and "a tad worried." Daily Beast columnist Lloyd Grove, [...]
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Why Did Roberts CHEAT To Save ObamaCare?
Jul 03, 2012 02:26 pm
Chief Justice John Roberts rewrote the specific language of Congress by claiming in his ObamaCare ruling that the penalty that the lawmakers had clearly attached to the individual mandate was actually a tax. It was the only way in which the Affordable Care Act could be saved; for the Court rejected the Commerce and Necessary [...]
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Here Is Your "Hope And Change"
Jul 03, 2012 02:06 pm
The following is just a brief list of what America has endured over the past four years. I'm sure there is much more that can be added, but we must not forget these things come November. That is, if Obama doesn't find a way to cancel the election. -Bowing to forign leaders. -Taking the side [...]
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Obama's Electoral Seesaw
Jul 03, 2012 01:50 pm
Isn't it fun watching the Panderer-in-Chief, Aflac Obama, run around his sinking row boat like the duck in the TV commercial stepping on a hole here and fill a hole there with his wings? As the pages fall off the calendar, Obama races from one pandering opportunity to another. First, he is against gay "marriage" [...]
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Mr Roberts, The Constitution?
Jul 03, 2012 01:45 pm
Obamacare's "mandate has been ruled constitutional because it is a "TAX". There are, however, several problems with that declaration by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. First, Obama and his administration zombies publically denied that the mandate was a tax. When Little George on ABC News questioned Obama back in [...]
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It's A Tax, No, Wait!
Jul 03, 2012 01:33 pm
Chief Justice John Roberts, the last person on Earth whom conservatives thought would rule AGAINST the Constitution, did just that this past Thursday. The court's decision on ObamaCare, or the PPACA, requires a complete suspension of what sane people call logic if you are to buy what we were just slapped with. The Solicitor General [...]
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Arrest Them All!
Jul 03, 2012 01:28 pm
It seems that Obama's Department of Justice is refusing Congress's orders to start legal proceedings against Attorney General Eric Holder, Jr. Holder has been found guilty of both criminal and civil contempt of Congress charges by a vote of the majority of the House of Representatives, including 17 Democrats. In my humble opinion, this is [...]
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The Awakened Giant Likes Tea
Jul 03, 2012 01:11 pm
It's often said, "Be careful what you wish for - you just might get it." Democrats got it all right. U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts - once counted among the constitutional originalists on the high court - has granted President Obama's supreme wish. By inexplicably siding with the court's left wing and upholding [...]
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Morning Bell: The Energy Revolution And Its Discontents
Jul 03, 2012 01:09 pm
With all the gloomy economic news coming out of late, one bright spot flew under the radar last week: the United States is poised to be the proverbial center of the energy universe. A recent study by Harvard Research Fellow Leonardo Maugeri found that the United States' incredible shale reserves represent "the most important revolution [...]
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Video: ObamaCare: Obama's Orwellian Oddity Regarding The Supreme Court's Decision
Jul 03, 2012 01:06 pm
With the Supreme Court's ruling of ObamaCare, we had the Orwellian oddity in which Obama strutted up to the podium proclaiming in a tone reminiscent of his Arab Spring pronouncement, "The Supreme Court has spoken." Obama spent ten minutes blathering on about everything but what they actually said-that is, that the mandate was justified by [...]
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AG Says Gop Using Him As 'Proxy' To Attack Obama
Jul 03, 2012 01:04 pm
WASHINGTON (OfficialWire) - Attorney General Eric Holder is charging that he's become a "proxy" for Republican attacks against President Barack Obama in an election year. Holder tells The Washington Post that Republican congressional figures have used a failed gun-tracking operation known as Fast and Furious to attack a wide range of administration policies. Read More [...]
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Allen West: Romney Might Need New Healthcare Advisers
Jul 03, 2012 12:53 pm
Rep. Allen West says Mitt Romney may need some new advisers if his campaign continues to refer to the mandate in Obamacare as a penalty rather than a tax. The Florida Republican told Fox News' Greta Van Susteren Monday the mandate "is a tax" because it forces people to buy health insurance or be penalized [...]
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Video: Mark Levin Slams Chief Justice Roberts
Jul 03, 2012 12:50 pm
Radio host and author Mark Levin reacts to reports that Chief Justice Roberts switched his vote on obamacare. Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com Related posts: Mark Levin: Why I Cannot Vote For Ron Paul Mark Levin explains why most conservatives prefer Newt Gingrich over... Thank You, Chief Coward Roberts I just wanted to take [...]
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8,733,461: Workers On Federal 'Disability' Exceed Population Of New York City
Jul 03, 2012 12:44 pm
(CNSNews.com) - A record of 8,733,461 workers took federal disability insurance payments in June 2012, according to the Social Security Administration. That was up from 8,707,185 in May. It also exceeds the entire population of New York City, which according to the Census Bureau's latest estimate hit 8,244,910 in July 2011. There has been a [...]
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Fifteen Governors Reject Or Leaning Against Expanded Medicaid Program
Jul 03, 2012 12:34 pm
At least 15 governors have indicated they will not participate in the expansion of Medicaid under the healthcare law, striking a blow to President Obama's promise of broader insurance coverage. Before Thursday's Supreme Court ruling, states had the option of either increasing their Medicaid rolls or being penalized by the federal government. The high court [...]
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CNN Host Declares He Is A Homosexual
Jul 03, 2012 12:28 pm
NEW YORK - CNN's Anderson Cooper came out in a letter online, saying "the fact is, I'm gay." Cooper said Monday in a note to the Daily Beast's Andrew Sullivan that he had kept his sexual orientation private for personal and professional reasons, but came to think that remaining silent had given some people an [...]
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Video: Allen West: Obama Would 'Rather You Be His Slave'
Jul 03, 2012 12:27 pm
Here is Allen West speaking at one of his re-election rallies. Related posts: Video: Allen West To Obama, Fire Holder Or You're Complicit! As always, Allen West is the man.... Continue to Post... Allen West: Obama Has Been "An Abject Failure In Everything That He Has Done" US Rep. Allen West (CD 22) speaks at [...]
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Secret Service Shuts Down 'Fire Eric Holder' Protest
Jul 03, 2012 12:19 pm
U.S. Secret Service officers shut down a student-led protest calling for President Obama to fire Attorney General Eric Holder this morning, according to a report from in front of the White House. After discovering a "suspicious package," the Secret Service ended the protest. "Several agents seemed hostile to our march and seemed anxious for us [...]
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Did Obama And The Supreme Court Collude?
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LISTEN TO THIS PHONE CALL!!!
To all Doctors and people that go to Doctors.....listen carefully.....
This particular phone call from a neurosurgeon that took place around 4 months ago on a radio talk show... should ring some alarms and concern all of us. It's vitally important that this information become known . Listen to it carefully.
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* Note: there are some that dispute the authenticity of the caller. Listen and decide for yourself.
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Celebrating Self-Government
Every Fourth of July, Americans celebrate with fireworks and barbeques and John Philip Sousa. Then we return to our regularly scheduled lives.
But this Independence Day is different. Last week, the Supreme Court upheld Obamacare, an unprecedented expansion of government's power into one-sixth of the economy and a tremendous loss to individual liberty. Now more than ever we need to embrace our nation's First Principles and remember what it takes to be self-governing citizens.
The Declaration of Independence announced to the world that the American colonies were free and independence states, no longer ruled by Great Britain. It articulated certain truths about people and governments: all men equally possess certain rights, and the government operates by our consent to secure these rights. The Declaration of Independence is about self-government.
Typically, that brings to mind the basics of political participation: voting, signing petitions, serving on a jury, and complaining to your congressman. These activities are important, but they aren't the whole story. The Founders understood self-government in a twofold sense: political self-government, by which we govern ourselves as a political community and moral self-government, according to which each individual is responsible for governing himself.
The Founders relied on four virtues to sustain individual self-government.
- Self-reliance. Forged through hard work, it prevents citizens from depending on the state.
- Courage. Self-confident citizens nourish freedom and defend liberty from foreign and domestic threats.
- Responsibility. Independent citizens understand the limits of government and solve problems for themselves.
- Moderation. Reasonable citizens control their impulses, and respect the rights of others, the constitutional process, and the rule of law.
But this understanding of self-governing citizens has been supplanted by a new version of the modern ideal citizen. Recently, Americans met Julia, the faceless cartoon woman starring in an online ad for the Obama campaign. She's the modern American girl whose success in life can be chalked up to the helping hand of government.
She gets a federally-subsidized education, college loans, free birth control, free prenatal care (when she "decides to have a child;" no father is mentioned), a small business loan, and retirement security because of the ever-present and ever-President Obama. Her success apparently has nothing to do with her own initiative, talent or hard work. It's attributed to government programs, there to bless and subsidize every activity of life. The idea of self-government, which is at heart of the Declaration of Independence, has been replaced.
We're being told, essentially, that we're incapable of governing ourselves. Instead, we need bureaucrats to determine what our children learn in Head Start, and primary school. Other faceless desk jockeys will approve our college loans. With the Supreme Court upholding Obamacare, even more bureaucrats will be necessary to select our health care plans.
Experts aren't just "helping" with life-changing issues such as education and healthcare. There's also a slate of bureaucrats to cover the mundane activities of life: picking light bulbs, deciding credit-card terms, and figuring out how much cola it's safe to consume.
This isn't what our forefathers fought for.
To name one: Levi Preston was in his early twenties when he fought in the Battle of Concord, the beginning of the American Revolution. Years later he was asked why he fought.
Preston responded that it wasn't the tax on tea. "I never drank a drop of the stuff; the boys threw it all overboard." It wasn't the burdensome Stamp Act. "I never saw any stamps." Nor was it John Locke's inspiring book. "We read only the Bible, the catechism, Watt's Psalms and Hymns, and the Almanack."
Well, what was it? "What we meant in going for those redcoats was this: we always had governed ourselves, and we always meant to. They didn't mean we should."
On this Fourth of July, let's remember our principles and celebrate our self-government. Then, the rest of the year, let's do our best to live them out.
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New Report Shows Outsourcing Fears Misplaced
While fears of "outsourcing" continue to make headlines, the facts show there is no "giant sucking sound" resulting from dollars fleeing the United States to be invested in other countries. Outsourcing occurs when companies close facilities in the United States and invest in new operations in other countries. Some people believe that the ability of people to invest anywhere in the world is bad for the United States, since jobs will be outsourced to low-wage countries.
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Tales of Red Tape #34: FDA Invades Piggly Wiggly
Today we examine a proposed regulation that would require some 47,000 grocery stores nationwide to post calorie and other nutrition information each day for the ever-changing array of foods prepared on site, such as the salads, dips, and tropical whips so common to the deli case. Details about the rule have been published in the Federal Register (Vol. 76, No. 66) under the entry titled "Nutrition Labeling of Standard Menu Items at Chain Restaurants."
REGULATION INVADES THE GROCERY STORE. READ MORE >>
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Senate Flood Insurance Compromise Will Reduce Taxpayer Cost of Disasters
Further scrambling to pay for transportation projects and the subsidized student loan interest rate freeze, Congress is now debating to add a five-year flood insurance extension to the burgeoning bill. Revenue gained from higher premiums to the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) should begin to repay the $17.5 billion the program owes to taxpayers-not to pay for more spending. A related Senate measure under consideration, however, would help protect taxpayers from bearing a yet larger burden.
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Illegal Alien Parents to Benefit from President's DREAM Act Decree
Lost in the media frenzy surrounding President Obama's decision to administratively implement the DREAM Act is the Administration's plans to also grant a reprieve to the illegal alien parents who brought them here...
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Most of SB 1070 Stands after Supreme Court Ruling
As a guide to our readers, FAIR has prepared a summary of the sections of SB 1070 that are still in effect...
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President Obama Undermines Supreme Court Ruling by Rescinding Arizona 287(g) Agreements
News that the Administration was rescinding the agreements came only a few hours after the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its decision in Arizona v. U.S.
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House Passes Border Security Legislation
On Thursday, the House of Representatives passed two bills to help bolster U.S. border security.
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Barletta Stands Up for True Immigration Reform, Calls for Hearings on Obama's Amnesty
Rep. Lou Barletta sent a letter to two key House committee chairmen last week urging them to hold oversight hearings on the executive's circumvention of Congress.
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Senate Advances Bill to Honor Slain Border Patrol Agent
H.R. 915, introduced by Rep. Henry Cuellar, provides a statutory framework for the existing Border Enforcement Security Task Force program...
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Today's Headlines: Tuesday, July 03, 2012
8,733,461: Workers on Federal 'Disability' Exceed Population of New York City
70% of Total U.S. Military Fatalities in Afghan War Occurred Under Obama's Watch
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White House Sends Peas to Elementary School As Thank You for Planting Michelle's Garden
Rep. Steve King on Immigration Lawsuit Against Obama: 'I'm Not Bluffing'
Texas AG: Presidents 'Must Be More Committed' to Constitution in Their Supreme Court Picks
Rep. Steve King Says Obama Is Governing Like a 'King'
Flashback: Former White House Economic Adviser Denied Health Care Mandate Was a Tax
Another Forced Abortion Case Reported as Abuses Under China's 'One Child' Policy Get More Attention
Kenyan Church Attacks Prompt Warnings of Collaboration Among Terror Groups
Forget Hot Dogs, Glut Means Cheap Lobster Prices
COMMENTARY:
John Roberts Makes His Career Move
By Patrick J. Buchanan
John Roberts aspires to be a man of history, to have this court known to historians as "the Roberts Court." And if there is to be a decisive vote in future great decisions, he wants that vote to be his. And with this decision on Obamacare, for which he will be remembered, he has taken a great leap forward to establishing that new identity.
The Underclass
By Walter E. Williams
Anthony Daniels, who writes under the pen name Theodore Dalrymple, is a retired prison doctor and psychiatrist who tells of his experiences with his patients in "Life at the Bottom." It's an insightful book of essays about the self-destructive behavior and attitudes of the underclass. His evidence from Britain shows that the welfare state is an equal opportunity destroyer.
NEWSPAPER ROUNDUP:
This year's drought drives corn, soybean prices higher
Obama mulling further cuts to U.S. nuclear arsenal
Obama braces for weak June jobs number
Rangel's Democratic opponent claiming voter suppression in contested primary
Pew: Public confused on health ruling; Only 55% knows what court decided
Holder: GOP targeting me as a 'proxy' for Obama
'Fire Holder' protest cut short over unattended bag
GOP critical of Navy's 'Great Green Fleet', $26 a gallon fuel
House to prohibit IRS from implementing healthcare law
Romney breaks with GOP, says mandate is a penalty, not a tax
Biden heading to Scranton for 4th of July fireworks
Homeless man busted for allegedly renting out vacant house on Craigslist
Deportations already halted, as Obama's amnesty edict takes effect
130 lawmakers send Obama a letter saying no to UN arms treaty
Romney plans summer visit to Israel
Chicago plans to hire 450 to 500 police officers
Judge strikes state law barring docs from discussing gun ownership with patients
N.J. ACLU unveils 'stealth' app allowing citizens to secretly record police
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Does the Declaration of Independence Still Matter?
The Declaration of Independence was partly intended as a list of grievances against a distant monarch. And both George III and the colonists who disagreed with his rule are long dead. But so are many of those who've argued that the Declaration is obsolete. In fact, this is exactly what those who called themselves "progressives" were saying a century ago.
Woodrow Wilson, one of the most famous early progressives, argued during the 1912 presidential campaign that "all that Progressives ask or desire is permission...to interpret the Constitution according to the Darwinian principle," meaning that it should promote an ever-expanding set of powers for an ever-expanding government. The problem, he declared, was that pesky Declaration of Independence: "Some citizens of this country have never got beyond the Declaration of Independence," he remarked. "The Declaration of Independence did not mention the questions of our day."
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 Don't let America's revival pass you by
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Allen West mocks mandate ruling: let's force everyone to buy a glock 9mm
The left is cheering the Supreme Court after their ruling on Obamacare, but how would they feel if a conservative used the new ruling? Rep Allen West helped the left picture how ridiculous this ruling really was by asking how the left would feel if, perhaps for safety sake, every American were mandated to purchase a 9mm gun or else face a tax. Suddenly the new standard doesn't sound so good, right? Full story via TheBlaze.
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Wild video of WV judge absolutely flipping out on local Pastor
Judges are usually on the bench because they demonstrate a unique ability to look at and rule on cases in an unbiased manner. So it's not everyday you see a video, like the one going viral on the internet today, of a judge who is so angry he couldn't possibly make an unbiased decision. WARNING - watch with the volume waaaaay down.
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Noted Conservative teen flip flops to become a liberal
13 year old Jonathan Krohn was the toast of CPAC a few years ago when he spoke on the future of conservatism. Now 17, he's flipped to being a liberal. It all started when he stopped being a 'social conservative' because 'it just didn't seem right anymore'. Solid reasoning. He says at 13 he was merely parroting his parents ideas. But now that he's read "Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, Kant" and lots of other dead atheistic German philosophers he's definitely not parroting them. He's just enlightened - MORE.
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