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           "What generates war is the economic philosophy of nationalism: embargoes, trade and foreign exchange controls, monetary devaluation, etc. The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war." 

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Bachmann Statement Regarding the Inspectors General Letters

Washington, Jul 18 -

Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (MN-06) issued the following statement today:

"The letters my colleagues and I sent on June 13 to the Inspectors General of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the Department of Defense, the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Justice and the Department of State - and the follow up letter I wrote to Rep. Ellison on July 13 - are unfortunately being distorted. 

"I encourage everyone, including media outlets, to read them in their entirety. The intention of the letters was to outline the serious national security concerns I had and ask for answers to questions regarding the Muslim Brotherhood and other radical group's access to top Obama administration officials.

"Most recently, the State Department shockingly decided to give Hani Nour Eldin, a member of an Egyptian designed terrorist group, a visa to not only enter the country in violation of the federal laws prohibiting material support for terrorism, but to be granted a meeting inside the White House with National Security Council officials.

"The terror group member used the opportunity of his White House visit to call for the release of the imprisoned leader of his organization, the "Blind Sheikh," Omar Abdel Rahman, who is currently serving a life sentence for his role in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and later planned terror plots inside the U.S.

"This is just the latest example of the dangerous national security decisions made by the Obama administration. I will not be silent as this administration appeases our enemies instead of telling the truth about the threats our country faces."

Note: Click here for a PDF of each letter.

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Voter ID and Voter Fraud in Philadelphia: A Preliminary Report by Al Schmidt, Commissioner 

State Representative Daryl Metcalfe

12^th District, Pennsylvania House of Representatives

Contact: Ty McCauslin                       RepMetcalfe.com

tmccausl@pahousegop.com    Facebook.com/RepMetcalfe

717.772.9979                                                             

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:   July 18, 2012

Voter Photo ID Sponsor Metcalfe Confirms Philadelphia Corruption Findings Will Trigger Future Action Against Election Fraud

HARRISBURG - Immediately following the release of City Commissioner Al Schmidt's report that identified hundreds of voting irregularities during the recent 2012 primary election in Philadelphia, House State Government Committee Majority Chairman, State Representative Daryl Metcalfe (R-Butler), announced that there will be future hearings to consider additional solutions to combat election fraud throughout Pennsylvania.

"Commissioner Schmidt's report finally confirms what leading Democrat opponents of voter photo ID and those in the mainstream media have been denying all along," said Metcalfe. "Philadelphia is without question one of our nation's most infested epicenters for rampant election fraud and corruption."

Originally drafted to model Indiana's photo identification law, which was upheld as Constitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2008, Metcalfe's Pennsylvania Voter Identification Protection Act (Act 18 of 2012) was signed into law by the governor on March 14. Act 18 requires voters to present valid photo ID before voting to ensure that each legally cast vote is protected from the forces of corruption. It also requires those using absentee ballots to submit proof of identification.

"Commissioner Schmidt's findings add to the ever-growing collection of indisputable evidence proving that requiring the display of valid voter photo ID at the ballot box is essential to deterring election fraud," said Metcalfe. "Most importantly, these findings demonstrate that we must develop additional solutions that go beyond voter photo ID to stamp out corrupting influences."  

Expert testimony presented to the House State Government Committee confirmed that requiring valid photo ID at the polls, as made possible through Act 18, can prevent the four most widely documented types of voter fraud, including: impersonation at the polls, fictitious registrations, double-voting and voting by illegal aliens.

Visit RepMetcalfe.com or Facebook.com/RepMetcalfe for the latest legislative updates.

The Blaze | by Mytheos Holt | Posted on July 19, 2012 at 10:01pm  

Outside the fictional universe of HBO's "The Newsroom," Media Matters for America is pretty universally agreed to be a far Left pressure group disguised as a media criticism outlet. The group's stated mission to take down Fox News doesn't help matters, of course, nor do its alleged anti-Christian and anti-Semitic biases. And that's not even getting into the erratic behavior of the organization's head, David Brock.
 
Yet still, the group is treated with some degree of fear, if not respect, simply because of its strong-arm tactics. Brock himself, however, is still considered fair game, and now that he has assumed leadership of the pro-Obama American Bridge Super PAC, he's likely to be a target of criticism and investigation for some time. Fox News opened fire on Brock today in a segment on Fox and Friends, featuring Daily Caller editor Tucker Carlson.
 
"We have documented coordination between Brock and the White House, and yet he's also running this Super PAC," Carlson said, suggesting that Brock had broken the law prohibiting coordination between a Presidential campaign and its Super PACs.
 
"That's a clear violation of campaign law, isn't it?" Host Steve Doocy asked incredulously.

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

• I want to make sure I'm registered to vote and adopt a schlub friend. CLICK HERE
• I commit to registering FOUR schlub friends CLICK HERE
• I commit to be a part of the global Tea Party movement the week of Restoring Love: FreePac &Constitutional Conference
• I want to join a team - 9/12 Project, FreedomWorks, or a local Tea Party

Last night, Glenn focused on the importance of commitment. He was the first to admit, a lot of last night's show was something you had heard before - but it's important to start at the beginning and to make sure you know what you believe before you get put into action. And tonight, Glenn revealed ways for you to really get moving! 

Tonight, the focus of the show was "Activate" - and it was all about the election and how you can make sure that one way or another - 2012 is a year for a mandate for or against the progressives. And if you think it doesn't matter just take a look at what is happening right now in Wisconsin. Progressives and unions are doing everything they can to make sure that Walker loses. It's a microcosm to what is happening around the country, and Glenn thought it was so important that he recapped it on tonight's show (in under three minutes!):

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   

For those of you in or near Bucks County, a BIPARTISAN trio of State Representatives will be holding a town hall meeting about HB 1776 next Tuesday, July 24. Bucks County is very important to our efforts to eliminate the school property tax and this will be a perfect opportunity to learn the details and the benefits of the Property Tax Independence Act and help to bring reluctant Bucks legislators on board. Please attend if you're able, bring a friend, or two, or three, and spread the word as widely as possible!

DETAILS:

WHAT: Property Tax Independence Act Town Hall Meeting

WHEN: Tuesday, July 24, 11:00 AM

WHERE: Benjamin Franklin Middle School Auditorium
6403 Mill Creek Road
Levittown, PA 19057

PARTICIPANTS:
Representative Tina Davis (D-141)
Representative John Galloway (D-140)
Representative Jim Cox (R-129)
David Baldinger, Pennsylvania Coalition of Taxpayer Associations

We hope to see you there!

We have been asked by Anne Chapman to help her with a 5,000 envelope project.  Looking for good hand writers to help address envelopes. She has a few mailings coming up.  Some of these envelopes are for fundraisers and some are to all voters in the primary.  The letter will be ready on Wednesday, and you can hand write the envelopes at home. The project needs to be done within a few days.  Please let me know if YOU will step up to help send a good, honest candidate to Harrisburg. 

Anne already is a member of PA Right to Work, whose mission in part is to achieve and guarantee for Pennsylvania workers the right to obtain and hold a job, whether or not they belong to a union. No one can be required to join a union at any time, but employees can be forced to pay union fees under certain circumstances.

Please let me know if  YOU can help with a victory for Anne in the 31st district.

Rob Boysen       Lil Boysen

Coordinator        Co-Coordinator

Philadelphia Tea Party Patriots-Lower Bucks

Email:        patriot1944@gmail.com 

                  freedomwatcher1949@comcast.net 

Web:         http://lowerbucksteapartypatriots.org 

Home:              215-547-6136

Rob's Cell:        267-278-0827

Lil's Cell:           267-278-1656

handsoff (http://handsoffrally.eventbrite.com/)You already know that President Obama is attempting to force a multi-trillion dollar takeover of health care and push a massive new tax. But you can fight back. The Supreme Court decision was frustrating, but not a decisive setback. You may have already heard how AFP is organizing dozens of rallies and events in more than 20 states to defend health care freedom.

One of our most important rallies is coming up soon, and we need your help as we rally for repeal! (http://handsoffrally.eventbrite.com/)

Join Americans for Prosperity on Capital Hill in Washington D.C. on August 3 at 12:00PM as we rally to repeal ObamaCare in our nation's capital. Hear from Congressman Paul Ryan, Jim Martin from 60Plus, Penny Nance from Concerned Women for America, and more, and learn what you can do summit (http://site.defendingthedream.org/?page_id=508)to reclaim our economic freedom and liberty. Click here to register now! (http://handsoffrally.eventbrite.com/)

After the rally, our sister organization, Americans for Prosperity Foundation, will host its 6th annual Defending the American Dream Summit at the Washington Hilton Hotel.

Click here to learn more about the event and the bus coming from Pennsylvania to Washington D.C. (http://site.defendingthedream.org/?page_id=508) The all-inclusive bus package includes travel, one/two night hotel stay at the Washington Hilton, and admission to the Defending the American Dream Summit, including the Ronald Reagan tribute dinner and the Hands Off My Health Care Rally, organized by Americans for Prosperity.

Please join us at Americans for Prosperity's Hands Off My Health Care rally (http://handsoffrally.eventbrite.com/) to repeal Obamacare on August 3 in our nation's capital and also join AFP Foundation for its Summit as we Defend the American Dream. To register or to learn more about the Summit and the all-inclusive bus package, visit www.defendingthedream.com (http://site.defendingthedream.org/?page_id=508).

Sincerely,

Jennifer Stefano

State Director

Americans for Prosperity - Pennsylvania

Americans for Prosperity(R) (AFP) is a nationwide organization of citizen leaders committed to advancing every individual's right to economic freedom and opportunity. AFP believes reducing the size and scope of government is the best safeguard to ensuring individual productivity and prosperity for all Americans. AFP educates and engages citizens in support of restraining state and federal government growth, and returning government to its constitutional limits. AFP has more than 2 million members, including members in all 50 states, and 34 state chapters and affiliates. More than 90,000 Americans in all 50 states have made a financial investment in AFP or AFP Foundation. For more information, visit www.americansforprosperity.org (http://americansforprosperity.org).

From Peter Friedman:

All talking points when addressing voters or interviewers should only deal with "money" issues! The concept is, "Are you better off today than you were four years ago?"

Question:         Why has the current administration removed food and gas from the Inflation Index?

Answer:          To fool US! Removing food and gas from the Inflation Index shows that very little inflation is present benefitting the admninistration's propaganda. How much more are WE paying for such things as a gallon of gas - more than double what it was when Obama was elected - and basic food such as milk, cheese, meat, and fish? Do you think Obama refusing to allow oil drilling off the West and East coasts, the Gulf of Mexico, and Alaska has driven up the price of gas?

Question:         Do you know how much California pays public schools for each student?

Answer:           California pays more than $14,000 for each student, $67 BILLION a year. If there are an average of 25 students in each public school classroom, that equals $350,000 per classroom. The average wage for a California elementary school teacher is approximately $50,000. That leaves $300,000 per classroom. Where's the money? Why do parents have to give teachers money each year to buy supplies like paper and pencils? Where's the money? Pensions? Benefits?

Question:         Does the Government abuse their credit card?

Answer:           At the end of each month WE must pay at least the minimum on each credit card. If WE don't pay the balance off each month, the credit card company charges US interest on the amount WE don't pay. At some point WE will discover that OUR balances are so high that WE will never be able to pay off OUR credit card debt, and must declare bankruptcy. Our government continues to borrow $.40 of every dollar spent! This is a "credit card" WE can never pay off! It has to stop!

Question:         How much is Obama's portion of the National Debt, really?

Answer:           Do WE as taxpayers really owe that $5 TRILLION dollars that Obama ran up? In fact, WE taxpayers owe $10 TRILLION dollars, not just $5 TRILLION! What did WE taxpayer's get for that $5 TRILLION dollars of any value to offset that $5 TRILLION debt? Apparently nothing! Money doesn't disappear into thin air - it goes somewhere to somebody! Wouldn't you like to know who got it?

Without this information YOU are powerless to change anything. Elected officials do NOT want you to have that information because you could hold them accountable. I bet a lot of them would wind up in prison! It is in their interest to keep you in the dark. It is up to you to turn on the lights!

The PAOLI VICTORY CENTER is the location of our August 10th VF Patriots Mtg.

This is a phone bank location with 15 phones in Ste. 300 of the DEPOT SHOPPES 21 Plank Rd.Paoli, PA , behind the Burger King on Lancaster Ave.

Salome Gasabile is the Victory Field Director here and she'd welcome you ANY time.

Already 10 people have volunteered to work the phones that night, but MORE are

needed to cover EVERY phone from 6:00 - 9:00 P.M. and relieve each other for dinner breaks, etc.

Peg Layden

Phone Bank Chairman

610 644-6161 

STOP the Smartmeter NOW  

Dear Patriots,

Just to make you aware, Smartmeters are here.  After thorough investigation and talking with PECO, they are currently installing Smartmeters in PA.  Several people have contacted PECO and told them that we did not want the Smartmeter.  Their response is they run the risk of having their electricity turned off. 

Just a background on Smartmeters:  In 2008, Act 129 was passed and signed into law by Governor Rendell to make Smartmeters mandatory in PA.  How will this affect you?  You will be required to install a smart meter in your home which will be monitored by your electric company on a minute to minute basis.  The video below explains how the smartmeter was started and where they plan to go with this which will be monitored constantly (new utilities will have smart meter chips in them.

Do you want PECO or the Government monitoring your electricity usage?  If this is such a great thing, why is it being forced upon us and if not taken, you take the risk of having your power turned off.  Once on the grid, the government through PECO will be able to monitor each and control all of your electric utilities.  Do you want the department of energy monitoring your usage of electric via PECO and possibly turning off your electric and certain peak hours (as explained in this video).

http://www.wfmz.com/news/news-regional-berks/Met-Ed-customers-seeing-red-over-green-program/-/121418/15203070/-/prtufy/-/index.html

What you can do:  Representative Reese from Westmoreland County has introduced two bills which are in the Consumer Affairs Committee.   ONE BILL WOULD ALLOW FOR OPTING OUT OF GETTING A SMART METER THE OTHER BILL WOULD REQUIRE CONSUMER CONSENT BEFORE INFORMATION FROM THE METER COULD BE SHARED WITH A GOVERNMENT AGENCY.  Please contact the people listed in the link and let them know that we want these bills brought to the floor for the vote.  This is our local electric company being used for the UN Agenda 21 (Sustainable Development).   We need everyone's involvement so pass on to everyone you know.  Let's make an effort to get this out of committee.

http://www.repreese.com/NewsItem.aspx?NewsID=13371

http://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/cteeInfo/cteeInfo.cfm?cde=10&body=H

 Explanation of Smartmeters is in this link.  It is a little long, but you need to see how the global market is taking over our liberties.

http://www.freedomadvocates.org/video/watch/129_technocracy_sustainable_development_and_the_smart_grid/

By the way, PECO took 200 million in stimulus money in PA to implement the smartmeters.  They are using taxpayers money to enslave us.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2009/10

Please contact state representatives immediately.  Let's protect our properties rights.

http://stopsmartmeters.org/how-you-can-stop-smart-meters/

I have contacted PECO and told them not to install a smartmeter on my house.  I would suggest doing the same with your electric company.  They need a loud outcry from the american people.  I will also be putting this sticker on my meter.  I will be editing the wording down below, but here it is.

http://turn.org/downloads/TURN-Do-Not-Install-the-Smart-Meter.pdf?utm_source=turnweb&utm_medium=download-sign&utm_content=DIA%2Bpage&utm_campaign=smart-meter

Blessings,

Mark, Betty, Jeff, Joe & Michele

VFP Steering Committee

 Dear Patriots,

I wanted to get out the information about the Romney HQ Grand Opening as soon as possible so you have it. I'll put together a summary of the July 12 meeting when I have more time.

It should be noted that we are not a shill for the moribund Republican establishment. You've got your RINOs, but don't forget you've also got your Mitch Daniels's and Scott Walkers and Steve Kings - true patriots. We should target our anger not at the Party, but at what's wrong with the party. We are working on that.

Bottom line, I think we all agree that the tide of the River Socialism is rising, and we ALL must come to the banks to stack sandbags. When it comes to fighting for liberty and America, come one come all. I think Dan's words last night were good, and spoken in earnest. The Repubs and the Tea Party have a single goal, to stave off this culture of entitlement, to stay out of world government, to knock down the imposition of our Federal govt. The R-party has tools we can use, we will use them and be happy warriors while doing it. I don't feel ashamed of working for Mitt anyway - he seems like a "good guy" (in that the left is clamoring for skeletons in the closet and failing miserably), and who knows, maybe he'll surprise us and bring the country together under liberty.

-Jim

Here's the flier for tomorrow.  

Montgomery County Victory Center

Conshohocken Grand Opening Featuring Pennsylvania Senator Pat Toomey

Saturday July 14^th, 2012 at 9:00am

• The Montgomery County Victory Center is celebrating its grand opening this Saturday, July 14 at 9:00am, and we are very excited to announce that Pennsylvania Senator Pat Toomey will be joining us to help open our office. This event will kick off our efforts to turn Montgomery County red this November, and to help restore fiscal accountability to Washington. Along with the morning festivities, we will be phone banking and door knocking, to make sure Montgomery County residents know the harm that Obama's economic policies are doing to the country.
• Our office is located at 200 West Ridge Pike, in Conshohocken, at the corner of Ridge and Butler Pike. We are in the Plymouth Square Shopping Center, in the old Rockaway Bedding store, located between the REI and the Pets Plus.
• Senator Pat Toomey represented the Lehigh Valley in Congress from 1999-2005, where he earned a name for himself as a strong fiscal conservative who was not afraid to buck his own party on spending. From 2005 until 2009 he served as the head of the Club for Growth, a pro-growth political action committee that promotes lower taxes, limited government, and economic freedom. In 2010 he rode the conservative wave into the US Senate, where he has distinguished himself as a fiscal conservative. Senator Toomey served on the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction in the summer of 2011, and this fall he will become chair of the United States Senate Steering Committee, which focuses on conservative policy direction. He has proposed his own budget when Democrats in the Senate are now almost three years without drafting their own budget.

We look forward to seeing you on Saturday to help us take our country back and send Washington a message that their era of reckless spending is over.

If you have any questions or concerns, feel free to contact Montgomery County Field Director, Perry Bentley, at (717)-686-2219 or at pbentley@pagop.org.

Dear Fellow Conservative,
 
Registration for CPAC 2013 is now open!  The American Conservative Union's legendary annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) is scheduled for March 14-16, 2013 at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center.    

Register Now for CPAC 2013
Don't miss your chance to help take our country back to the right.  To register now and reserve your space, visit conservative.org.

Join the Celebration
In honor of CPAC's 40th Anniversary, we look forward to joining conservatives from across the nation for CPAC 2013, celebrating the accomplishments of the movement while also energizing the next generation of conservatives.

New Location
CPAC 2013 boasts a new location at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center.  Complimentary CPAC shuttle busses to and from the Gaylord Center will be available at convenient locations across the National Capitol Region.  Details will be released in the coming weeks; please visit conservative.org for updates.

CPAC Past & Present
The ACU has hosted CPAC in the Nation's Capital since 1973, and it now stands as the largest annual gathering of conservatives in the country. Additionally, the ACU this year hosted two regional CPACs designed to energize and mobilize Midwest and Mountain West conservatives, giving them the tools needed to defeat the liberal agenda in 2012 while also highlighting rising conservative stars and issues in the region.  Stay tuned for details on 2013 regional CPAC locations!

Interested in Sponsoring CPAC 2013?
National and local partners are critical to achieving a successful event. CPAC 2013 provides an excellent platform to promote your message and network with the leaders and activists who are on the frontlines of the conservative movement. We invite you to review the special opportunities available to join the action at CPAC 2013 by visiting conservative.org.

See you at the National Harbor!
 
 
The American Conservative Union
 
Questions regarding CPAC 2013 may be sent to cpac@conservative.org.

Join Us on Fridays and Take a Stand for Israel:    

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

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

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

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

Muslim Brotherhood in America: The Overview

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

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

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

Watch this short informative video preview of this movie and share it with others.  It has already been seen by over 2,100,000 people.  Within a very short time it will have been seen by millions!  After you see the preview, listen to what Dinesh has to say about Obama.  Please take the time to hear this and pass it on.

Dinesh D'Souza - Obama & 2016

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

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

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

The U.S. Constitution

A Reader 

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

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

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

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

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

Results that make a difference, not just a statement.

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

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

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

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

Sincerely,


Brigitte Gabriel

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

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

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

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

Lou Flanagan

The General Wayne Tea Party

After years of ridiculous political stalling, the Obama administration is now trying to start the entire review process all over again for the Keystone XL pipeline! That would mean years of additional delays - or more likely Canada simply giving up and building a pipeline to the west coast of Canada to ship their oil to Asia by tanker instead.  It's an affront to millions of Americans out of work and an outrage to millions more who are paying higher energy costs as a result of this administration's policies.

You can have a voice, but the deadline is July 31: The State Department is required to accept public comments on whether they should restart the whole review process from the beginning before they can do it.  The crazy lefties are already pouring in comments to give Obama an excuse to kill the pipeline.

We must push back by filling the official State Department docket with comments demanding they stop stalling and approve the Keystone XL pipeline now!  Click here to send an official comment directly to the State Department!

At stake are about 20,000 immediate jobs, a secure supply of North American oil, billions in private investment, and the global efficiency benefits of connecting a major crude source to the world's most efficient refining center. It's unbelievable that rather than simply say "yes," Obama is trying to kill the pipeline with yet another open-ended study.

We cannot allow Obama the excuse that the public wanted to start the process all over again - but if the only comments in the official docket are from extreme left-wing activists, he can get away with it.  Please take a moment right now to send an official comment to the State Department demanding they stop stalling and approve the Keystone XL pipeline now.

We need the jobs and we need the oil.  This should be a no-brainer.

Please do three quick things that will take less than two minutes total:

1.     Send your official comment.
2.     Forward this email to your friends.
3.     Post www.KeystoneXLNow.com on Facebook and Twitter.

They are only accepting comments until the end of July, so please spread the word now!

Thank you!

Victory Center" on Facebook

-Gabriel Malor

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

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

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

RedState Morning Briefing

For July 20, 2012

Duh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh BATMAN!  

1. Joe the Plumber Will be at the RedState Gathering. Will You?

Talk about a guy in the right place at the right time. An American in fly over country just happened to get caught on tape asking a question about tax policy on small businesses to then candidate Barack Obama. Without a teleprompter to help him, Barack Obama spoke to the Ohio plumber off the cuff and from his heart.

Candidate Obama said, "When you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody."

The question and the comeback made Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher a household name as "Joe the Plumber."

He's now a candidate for Congress in Ohio. He'll be at the RedState Gathering in Jacksonville, FL. The Gathering takes place August 2nd to August 5th. Joe and I would love to see you there, but time is running out. We're about a week away from winding down registration.

If you want to be a part of the RedState Gathering, go to http://www.redstategathering.com and register now.

I hope I'll see you there.

2. Mr. Speaker, Tear Up This Farm Bill

During every election cycle, virtually every Republican candidate affirms his or her support for limited government, free markets, and balanced budgets. They all tout their conservative credentials on the flashy flag-waving issues of the day in an effort to ingratiate themselves with Republican primary voters. However, it is the "inside baseball" issues such as the farm bill that expose many of them as frauds.

Put simply, the farm bill is an anathema to free enterprise, limited government, and individual responsibility. The House version (H.R. 6083) authorizes $957 billion in spending over 10 years, 80% of which will go towards food stamps. Despite erroneous claims in the media regarding severe cuts to food stamps, this bill actually consummates the Obama-era baseline into our entitlement empire forever.

3. What's in Romney's Unreleased Tax Returns: He Overpaid His Taxes

Ben Domenech has been doing some pretty solid reporting in The Transom (you've subscribed, haven't you?) about what might be in Mitt Romney's taxes. He offers this morning the best and most informed theory.

Why most informed? Well, he talked to people who were familiar with the veep vetting process for McCain in 2008.

4. These Hands: Mitt Romney Uses Barack Obama's Re-Marx

Oh nooooooozzzeeeeee!!!!

Mitt Romney must be a racist taking Barack Obama out of context.

Why? Well, he's using Barack Obama's in context re-Marx from Virginia in a new web ad that I feel comfortable saying will be coming to a television screen near you soon enough.

More of this please. Honestly, this is one of the first ads from the Romney camp I feel heads in a pitch perfect direction.

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The Coming Defense Crack-Up   

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USDA partnering with Mexico to boost food stamp participation   

The Daily Caller

Obama in Florida: Romney's Medicare plan would hurt seniors   

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Fix Defense Sequestration-Without Tax Increases   

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Bernanke's Testimony Confirms Economy Slowing, Fed Meddling

July 20, 2012   

The Roanoke Shuffle: Obama and the Racial Gratitude Racket
Robert Oscar Lopez
President Obama's Roanoke speech was not really an insult to businessmen. No, in fact, it was far worse: it was a threat. Worse still, it was a threat rooted in a long and ugly racial history in the United States. More

Yesterday's Heroes and Today's Commander-in-Chief
Jeffrey Folks
Comparing the daring and self-sacrificing men of the Alamo the man currently occupying the White House. More

Obama's Surprising Tax Logic
S. T. Karnick
Like many of his other public pronouncements, President Obama's recent comment about self-made wealthy people -- "If you've been successful, you didn't get there on your own" -- is a truism that actually proves the opposite of what he suggests. More

They're Coming for Our Food, One Food Policy Council at a Time
Peter Wilson
The federal government, through ObamaCare and Michelle Obama's Let's Move campaign, has been busy extending its tentacles into municipal and state governments, with the goal of imposing restrictions across the country on unhealthy eating. More

Corporate Culture/National Culture
Trevor Thomas
Two longstanding and well-known American corporations have reaped very different rewards for their very different positions in the marriage debate. More

Of Marx and Men
Bruce A. Riggs
What can we make of Karl Marx, the supposed champion of the proletariat who never set foot in a mill, factory, or mine? More

My Fantasy Date with Barry
Christopher Paslay
This fall, the results of perhaps the most important contest in the history of the United States will be decided: who has won "Dinner with Barack." More

American Thinker Blog

Quietly, a food crisis brews
July 20, 2012
Drought and ethanol decrease the availability of staple grains, stretching American pocketbooks, and condemning people in third world countries to hunger or worse. More

Why Gun Laws Often Have Little Impact
July 20, 2012
Chicago is a failed experiment. More

Yes, Mr. President we owe our success to others... in the energy industry
July 20, 2012
When it comes right down to it we all owe whatever living we are able to scratch out of this miserable economy to the energy industry. More

What Obama did not say in Roanoke
July 20, 2012
Off teleprompter, off message and perhaps from the heart More

Acting ATF Director Threatens Future Whistleblowers, 'There Will Be Consequences'
July 19, 2012
It appears the DOJ and the White House are going to extraordinary lengths to cover up an operation they supposedly knew nothing about. More

Never speak of "Affirmative Action"-only of "Reverse Discrimination."  

Elaborate by saying how angry it makes you that talented blacks, Mexican-Americans, and others who secured their jobs and their college places purely on their own merit will forever be looked on with suspicion and resentment as having gotten there purely because of the color of their skin (or other minority-qualifying attributes).  

Godfather Politics | by Giacomo | posted on July 17, 2012  

On Friday, July 6, 2012, without any fanfare or publicity, President Barack Obama signed an executive order titled Assignment of National Security and Emergency Preparedness Communications Functions. Chances are that Obama didn't want to bring attention to this action because of the power it places in his grasp.

Section 1 of the executive order reads:

"The Federal Government must have the ability to communicate at all times and under all circumstances to carry out its most critical and time sensitive missions. Survivable, resilient, enduring, and effective communications, both domestic and international, are essential to enable the executive branch to communicate within itself and with: the legislative and judicial branches; State, local, territorial, and tribal governments; private sector entities; and the public, allies, and other nations. Such communications must be possible under all circumstances to ensure national security, effectively manage emergencies, and improve national resilience. The views of all levels of government, the private and nonprofit sectors, and the public must inform the development of national security and emergency preparedness (NS/EP) communications policies, programs, and capabilities."

Basically, this executive order gives the president and Department of Homeland Security the authorization to take over and control any and all lines of communications any time they want to, as spelled out in Section 5.2 of the executive order:

Please pass this to everyone!

$3,065 TAX INCREASE PER TAX RETURN

FOR PENNSYLVANIA TAXPAYERS

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 London-Based Shiite Cleric Abdallah Al-Khilaf: Wahhabi Fatwa Permits Sodomy to Widen the Anus as a Means to Jihad

Go here to see the video: 

IMPORTANT AND TIME-SENSITIVE
LEGISLATIVE ACTION ALERT!
  VOICE YOUR SUPPORT FOR REP. MICHELE BACHMANN
AND OTHER MEMBERS OF CONGRESS CALLING FOR AN
INVESTIGATION INTO THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD'S
POSSIBLE INFILTRATION OF OUR FEDERAL AGENCIES!

As you may be aware, recently Representative Michele Bachmann, along with Representatives Trent Franks, Louie Gohmert, Thomas Rooney, and Lynn Westmoreland, sent letters to the Inspectors General (IGs) of the Departments of State; Justice; Homeland Security; Defense and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. In those letters they asked for investigations into the influence of the Muslim Brotherhood within these agencies.

See the letters they sent to the IGs by CLICKING HERE.

It is unfortunate that, as usual, politics has gotten in the way of our national security.

Shortly after the letters were sent, Representative Keith Ellison fired off a letter of his own to the Members of Congress, demanding explanations.

See Mr. Ellison's letter by CLICKING HERE.

And then something unusual happened-at least unusual as far as how prepared most Members of Congress are to defend their actions when it comes to protecting our nation against the threat of radical Islam. Representative Bachmann politely replied to Congressman Ellison's letter in her own 16 page-multi-footnoted-correspondence offering detail after detail about why the letters to the IGs were necessary.

See Representative Bachmann's response to Representative Ellison by CLICKING HERE.

As usual, many in the mainstream media are attacking Representative Bachmann and her colleagues. They are doing so by working to shift the focus from the issue at hand-examining whether the Muslim Brotherhood has infiltrated specific federal agencies-to a tangential issue.

We cannot let that happen. We must send a strong message of support for the calls for investigations by the Inspectors General. That is the issue at hand, and that must be our continued focus.

While this issue is receiving much attention by both the media and up on Capitol Hill, the U.S. Congress is watching and listening. What will they hear from the people back home?
  ***Action Item***

Please click HERE to be taken to the Contact Congress page of our website. Click on the Alert in the red box entitled: Support Members of Congress Calling for Muslim Brotherhood Investigation. From there, follow the easy directions and send your e-mails to those who represent you in the House and Senate. It should take no more than 5 minutes of your time.

Note: As you follow the directions to send your e-mail, you will see that we have provided a sample letter addressing this matter. We encourage you to modify the letter as you see fit to personalize it. AS ALWAYS, PLEASE BE RESPECTFUL AND PROFESSIONAL. OTHERWISE, THIS EFFORT WILL NOT BE EFFECTIVE!

Finally, please forward this Alert to everyone you know who shares our concerns about the Muslim Brotherhood and how the U.S. Government is addressing this threat. Through our online system, writing your e-mail will take only a matter of minutes to make your voice heard. And if we ALL act together, it will be a powerful and effective voice that every Member of the U.S. Congress will hear.

Please act NOW! Thank you for all that you do.
 

REMEMBER, YOUR VOICE COUNTS!
IF EACH OF US DOES JUST A LITTLE, TOGETHER WE CAN
ACCOMPLISH A LOT!

Syria's Chemical Weapons - the TRUTH!

On January 24, 2006, he announced the publication of a book he had written entitled Saddam's Secrets: How an Iraqi General Defied And Survived Saddam Hussein, with the tagline "An insider exposes plans to destroy Israel, hide WMD's and control the Arab world."[1] Sada, the former Air Vice-Marshal under Hussein, appeared the following day on Fox News' Hannity & Colmes, where he discussed his book and reported that other pilots told him that Hussein had ordered them to fly portions of the WMD stockpiles to Damascus in Syria just prior to the 2003 Invasion of Iraq. After the release of his book, Sada was interviewed by Fox News, and he stated:

"Well, I want to make it clear, very clear to everybody in the world that we had the weapon of mass destruction in Iraq, and the regime used them against our Iraqi people...I know it because I have got the captains of the Iraqi airway that were my friends, and they told me these weapons of mass destruction had been moved to Syria. Iraq had some projects for nuclear weapons but it was destroyed in 1981".

Huma Abedin and the Muslim Brotherhood: Bachmann vs. McCain   Jul 19, 2012 12:50 pm

The Art of Building Things   Jul 19, 2012 12:40 pm

Hezbollah Illustrates Iranian Attack on U.S. Aircraft Carrier   Jul 19, 2012 09:00 am

2012 Brussels Declaration: To Safeguard Individual Liberties and Human Rights   Jul 19, 2012 09:00 am

Violence Returns to Pakistan's Major Cities   Jul 19, 2012 07:22 am

Iranian Regime Prepares For Oil Embargo   Jul 18, 2012 08:38 pm

When Governments Elect Another People   Jul 18, 2012 02:08 pm

Islamic Infiltration to be Countered by the Brussels Process   Jul 18, 2012 09:26 am

Has anyone seen any report on any Main Stream Media  source ........reporting that the Homicide Bomber was a DETAINEE at Guantanomo for about Two Years ! and WAS RELEASED....................???????????????

Reactions to Today's Terror Attack on Israeli Tourists in Bulgaria

A bus carrying Israeli tourists at Bulgaria's Burgas airport suddenly exploded today, killing seven and wounding at least 30 more.

* A U.N. spokesperson said that Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon condemned the attack "in the strongest possible terms." In fact, however, the U.N. chief's choice of terms was weak in comparison to his statement two weeks ago on the bombing of churches in Kenya. In that case, Mr. Ban rightly spoke of "terrorist" attacks, "reprehensible and criminal," saying the perpetrators "must be held to account." Yet today he referred only to the deadly "bombing" of Israelis -- noticeably declining to describe it as an act of terrorism -- and he made no call for holding the perpetrators to account. UN Watch today urged Mr. Ban to clarify his position and to truly use the strongest possible terms to condemn today's terrorist attack.

* U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay has remained silent on today's attack. By contrast, hours after the Gaza Flotilla incident of 2010, Ms. Pillay expresed her "shock" and condemned Israel. The top story on her office website instead criticizes Western states for how they combat terrorism, with America accused of having "dangerous" laws that violate due process. Supported by a Facebook campaign now going viral, UN Watch called on the High Commissioner to speak out for victims of terrorism, condemn today's gruesome murders in Bulgaria, and instruct her staff to investigate the perpetrators and hold them fully accountable for the crimes.

 July 19, 2012

"Here comes the orator! With his flood of words, and his drop of reason." --Benjamin Franklin (Poor Richards Almanack, 1735)

Trust me, I never operated a lemonade stand, but I'm the president!

Barack Hussein Obama never so much as operated a corner lemonade stand, but his perspective on free enterprise, shaped by his lifelong socialist indocrtination, is certainly getting some traction.

 

Invoking the two pillars of his re-election campaign, tax "fairness" and class warfare, Obama first focused on the tax piece, asserting, "I'm not going to see us gut the investments that grow our economy."

 

In ObamaSpeak, "gut the investments" translates as "cut taxes," and "grow the economy" translates as "grow the government." This remark was a smokescreen in regard to Democrat efforts to let the across-the-board Bush tax rates expire, which, in effect, will raise taxes on all Americans who earn a living rather than live on the dole.

 

To that end, Obama's Senate lap dog, Patty Murray (D-WA), served up this ultimatum: "If we can't get a good deal -- a balanced deal that calls on the wealthy to pay their fair share -- then I will absolutely continue this debate into 2013 rather than lock in a long-term deal this year that throws middle-class families under the bus."

 

Of course, EVERY aspect of her classist rhetoric requires a secret decoder ring.

By Thomas Sowell | July 20, 2012  

There was a time, within living memory, when the achievements of others were not only admired but were often taken as an inspiration for imitation of the same qualities that had served these achievers well, even if we were not in the same field of endeavor and were not expecting to achieve on the same scale.

The perseverance of Thomas Edison, as he tried scores of materials for the filament of the light bulb he was inventing; the dedication of Abraham Lincoln as he studied law on his own while struggling to make a living -- these were things young people were taught to admire, even if they had no intention of becoming inventors or lawyers, much less President of the United States.

Somewhere along the way, all that changed. Today, the very concept of achievement is de-emphasized and sometimes attacked. Following in the footsteps of Barack Obama, Professor Elizabeth Warren of Harvard has made the downgrading of high achievers the centerpiece of her election campaign against Senator Scott Brown.

MORE felons in the White House? IRS says tax cheating Obama staffers owe $833,970 in back taxes

Jul 19, 2012 06:13 am | Coach Collins

 By Derrick Hollenbeck, staff writer

 If you have ever been hauled into an Internal Revenue Service office for an audit, think about that feeling as you read this.

 According to a new IRS report, Barack Obama is harboring at least three dozen tax cheats right on his own staff! Together this bunch has made a joke of Obama's shopworn line about the "rich paying their fair share of taxes." They owe a collective $833,970 in back taxes - and we thought liberals were patriotic! These aren't "little people," they must be well paid (with our money) and well educated to be where they are.

 More than one in three of Obama's royal staff makes over $100,000 a year and his entire staff of 457 people makes over 37 million dollars each year.  Twenty one make almost as much as a Congressman! And the tax cheats aren't just in the White House. An IRS report says the aggregate ... Continue Reading:MORE felons in the White House? IRS says tax cheating Obama staffers owe $833,970 in back taxes

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American Minute July 18

Jul 18, 2012 06:13 pm | Coach Collins

By Bill Federer, staff writer

Prior to the Revolution, British troops were marching toward Fort Duquesne when they were ambushed, July 9, 1755, by the French and Indians.
Not accustomed to fighting unless in an open field, the British soldiers were annihilated.
23-year-old Colonel George Washington rode back and forth during the battle delivering orders for General Edward Braddock.
Eventually, Braddock was killed and every officer on horseback was shot, except Washington.
From Fort Cumberland, George Washington wrote of the Battle of Monongahela to his younger brother, John Augustine Washington, JULY 18, 1755:
"As I have heard, since my arrival at this place, a circumstantial account of my death and dying speech, I take this early opportunity of contradicting the first, and of assuring you, that I have not as yet composed the latter.
But by the All-Powerful Dispensations of Providence, I have been protected beyond all human probability or expectation;
... Continue Reading:American Minute July 18

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Obama eligibility lawsuit reaches Supreme Court

Jul 18, 2012 01:00 pm | Coach Collins

by Doug Book,  staff writer

Of the dozens of lawsuits questioning the constitutional eligibility of Barack Hussein Obama to be President of the United States, one has finally reached the docket of the Supreme Court. Should the Court accept the case for review, it will be the first upon which the justices will issue a substantive ruling-one based on the merits.

On February 3rd, Georgia Administrative Court Judge Michael Malihi ruled that Barack Obama is eligible to appear on the Georgia ballot. It was a case during which Malihi received not one scrap of evidence from Obama or his attorney; subpoenas from plaintiffs were ignored; Obama's clear burden of proof was NOT imposed; plaintiff's motions for contempt were neither acted upon nor forwarded to higher courts and U.S. Supreme Court precedent took a back seat to the rambling, non-substantive pronouncement of dicta from an Indiana justice.  

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Let's Be Honest About Outsourcing

Both candidates in the presidential race have been accusing the other of "outsourcing." It's one of those words that is loaded with negative meaning, implying that the perpetrator is un-American. But does America have an outsourcing problem?

What is popularly referred to as "outsourcing" is the practice of offshoring business functions, including building facilities and employing workers in other countries. Liberals often argue that "sending jobs overseas" is harming America's economy.

They are missing two important truths: The reality of jobs in America, and the ways to bring even more jobs to the home front.

Jobs in America

• The U.S. actually leads the world in manufacturing. Yes, you read that correctly. We produce 21 percent of global manufactured products, while China comes after at 15 percent. According ot the National Association of Manufacturers, "manufacturing supports an estimated 17 million jobs in the U.S.-about one in six private sector jobs."

• Big manufacturers are building new plants here. BMW is adding 300 new jobs to its South Carolina plant this year, and Airbus recently announced it will employ 1,000 at a new plant in Alabama. (Both South Carolina and Alabama are right-to-work states, meaning that workers aren't forced to join unions.)

• Multinational corporations still employ more Americans. U.S.-based multinational corporations employ 22.9 million Americans-more than twice as many people as they employ in China, Mexico, and all other countries combined.

• There is no "giant sucking sound" of jobs and money fleeing the United States. According to the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, the total value of foreign investment in the United States exceeds the value of U.S. investments in other countries by more than $4 trillion. Foreign-owned multinational corporations employ 5.5 million people in the United States.

• "Insourced" businesses are a tremendous boon for the U.S. economy. "Insourced" jobs-jobs brought to America by foreign-based companies-account for nearly 5 percent of private-sector employment. These businesses buy more than $1.8 trillion in goods and services from local suppliers and small businesses in the areas where they locate.

How to Boost American Jobs Even More

With an 8.2 percent unemployment rate, America still needs more jobs. There are many steps policymakers could take that would make locating-or relocating-in the U.S. more attractive to businesses.

A quick look at the Index of Economic Freedom, produced by The Heritage Foundation and The Wall Street Journal, reveals America's competitive disadvantages.

Hong Kong, ranked No. 1 in the Index, has an economy that has been growing at 7 percent. That's astounding. In contrast, U.S. GDP growth in the first quarter of 2012 was a paltry 1.9 percent.

There are several reasons why Hong Kong is No. 1 and America is No. 10. Hong Kong's top corporate tax rate is only 16.5 percent, compared to the U.S. rate of 35 percent. Hong Kong's trade regime is one of the world's most competitive and efficient, with a zero tariff rate. And its regulatory environment is "highly supportive of business efficiency."

Meanwhile, in the U.S., runaway regulations growing by the day make doing business vastly more expensive and difficult. The government is holding back the economy through regulation and its nonstop deficit spending, as Heritage's Bryan Riley explains:

Excessive federal spending and the resulting budget deficit continue to be a problem. Foreign investors spent more than $400 billion on U.S. Treasury securities in 2011. This is another way to say that the government borrowed more than $400 billion from foreign investors. Those dollars could have been invested otherwise in the private sector of the U.S. economy or spent on U.S. exports.

While concern about outsourcing is misplaced, there are many ways the U.S. could attract even more jobs than it already does. Increasing our own economic freedom would spur growth in the economy, bringing greater prosperity and new enterprises to our shores.

Thursday, July 19, 2012

To: Friends & Supporters

From: Gary L. Bauer


COUNTDOWN TO VICTORY: 110 DAYS TO THE 2012 ELECTIONS


Click here to listen now.


Poll Position

It's no secret that while I enthusiastically support Governor Mitt Romney's campaign for the White House, I don't think he has had a good two weeks. He has faced blistering attacks on his tenure at Bain Capital, been accused of tax evasion and even taken friendly fire from fellow conservatives over his tax returns. That said, new polling suggests none of it is helping Obama!

The latest CBS/New York Times poll, which is always tilted in the Democrats' favor, has Mitt Romney narrowly leading Obama 47%-to-46%. The poll also found a 22-point enthusiasm gap when it comes to voting this November. Forty-nine percent of Republicans were more enthusiastic about voting this year, compared to just 27% of Democrats, suggesting Obama could have problems turning out his voters.

Here's more bad news for Obama from the poll:

• Only 39% of registered voters approve of Obama's performance on the economy.
• Only 24% of Americans think the economy is improving.
• Only 36% approve of Obamacare, and 61% want it partially or entirely repealed.

A new Quinnipiac University poll finds Obama and Romney tied in the key state of Virginia at 44%. While I would like to see Romney's number higher, 44% is a terrible number for an incumbent president! Moreover, Obama had an 8-point lead in March, a 5-point lead in June and now it's tied. The trend is clearly in Romney's favor.

These polls were of registered voters, but the best model to use is likely voters. That's why I prefer Scott Rasmussen's polls. His polling of likely voters shows the race has been essentially tied for weeks now, with a slight advantage for Romney.

If you take Rasmussen's data from the beginning of June, Obama's average support is 44.7%, while Romney's is 46.3%. Again what stands out to me is an incumbent president stuck in the mid-40s.


Spend It Now Or Later?

Here's something to help put all this polling data in perspective. The Boston Globe reported last week that the Obama campaign has spent $100 million on television ads in the key swing states so far, outspending Mitt Romney 4-to-1.

The reason for the big difference in spending is that Romney had to use a lot of his resources several months ago to secure the Republican nomination. The big money he has raised in recent weeks is for the general election and cannot be spent until after the Republican National Convention in late August.

Meanwhile, Obama did not have a primary and is spending his primary dollars now in a desperate bid to negatively define Romney in the minds of voters months before the election. Many strategists think that early spending worked for Bill Clinton in 1996 and George Bush in 2004. But so far, it does not appear to be working for Obama.

Here's the bottom line: There is no reason to despair, but this is also no time for complacency. America remains a narrowly divided nation, just as it was in 2000 when George W. Bush won the presidency by just a few hundred votes in Florida. Every conservative should be working hard to find a few extra votes in their neighborhood, church, workplace, etc.


The Left's Economic Agenda

Did you see the latest program from Obama's Jobs Council? Obama announced his Council on Jobs and Competitiveness to much fanfare last year.

But I suspect you haven't heard much from the Jobs Council lately because, like so much about Barack Obama, it's all rhetoric and no substance. As it turns out, Obama's Jobs Council hasn't met in six months!

Responding to a reporter's question about why the Jobs Council has been AWOL when unemployment is still unacceptably high, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney responded, "There's no specific reason except that the president's obviously got a lot on his plate."

Yes, I suppose Mr. Carney is right. It's hard work forcing the Catholic Church and other religious institutions to violate their core values. There just isn't much time left after working so long with the militant homosexual rights movement to redefine marriage.

I know it takes a lot of work to figure out how to force Americans to pay for abortions when they are overwhelmingly opposed to the idea. And, of course, writing speeches to come up with the best lines for demonizing small business owners takes time too. Not to mention all those bruising golf outings.

But don't worry. Democrats have a plan. Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-MD), the second highest ranking House Democrat, is telling reporters that food stamps and unemployment benefits are great economic stimulus programs.

Seriously, Steny? Food stamps and unemployment benefits are the path to prosperity? If that were true, then America should be thriving because under Obama food stamp usage is at a record high!

Don't misunderstand me. I'm not against helping people in need, and I know a lot of people need help in Obama's economy. But government redistribution of wealth does not create wealth. The Soviet Union was a failure. The socialist nanny states in Europe are on the verge of bankruptcy.

Demonizing success and encouraging dependency on the government is not the model that built this nation nor is it one that we should be encouraging now. As Governor Romney said in his outstanding Pennsylvania speech this week, Obama's approach to the economy is "extraordinarily foreign."


High Tolerance For Dead Jews

Yesterday's bus bombing in Bulgaria which killed seven Israelis and wounded dozens more, was virtually ignored by the mainstream media. The attack got about 20 seconds on CBS last night as if such horrific acts of jihadi terrorism are no longer newsworthy. The media seem to have a very high tolerance for dead Jews and Christians murdered by Islamists.

Reports today indicate that the bomber was a Caucasian male with a fake Michigan driver's license. Not much else is known at this point, but it raises a number of obvious concerns. While the license is reportedly fake, the Associated Press notes, "Michigan is home to one of the largest Arab communities in the U.S."

We know that the jihadists have been working hard to radicalize Westerners. It was recently reported that Al Qaeda was planning to use a Norwegian convert to Islam to carry out an attack against Great Britain. Is this bombing evidence of radical Islam's successful penetration of the West?

Virtually every intelligence agency worth its salt believes this bombing has Iran's finger prints all over it. And it comes on the heels of new reports about Iran's growing influence within Latin America. Yet, Barack Obama doesn't think Hugo Chavez presents a security threat to the United States.

Beyond taking out Osama bin Laden, Barack Obama has been a disaster when it comes to foreign policy and national security. Governor Romney had better be prepared to clean up the mess Obama has left on the foreign stage when he takes office next January.
 

Today's Headlines:  Thursday, July 19, 2012

TSA Let 25 Illegal Aliens Attend Flight School Owned by Illegal Alien

Bernanke: Fed Predicts Post-WWII Record 73 Months of 7%+ Unemployment

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Gen. Boykin: Boy Scouts 'Should be Applauded for Standing up for Traditional Values'

Chairman McKeon: President Obama 'AWOL' on Automatic Defense Cuts

DNC Chair: Electing Women to Congress Matters Only If They're Liberal Women Who Ensure Access to Birth Control

Bulgaria Blast Shows Widening Tentacles of Iran's Anti-Israel Campaign

Hezbollah Leader Says Syria Provided the Rockets It Used Against Israel in 2006 War

ICE E-Mail Raises Question of Special Treatment for Obama's Illegal Alien Uncle

More Street Closings and Subsidized Food Mark the 'Next Chapter' of Michelle Obama's 'Let's Move' Initiative

Boehner: Americans 'Asking Where Are the Jobs,' Not Where Romney's Tax Returns Are

White House: Obama Not Gutting Welfare Reform, GOP Criticism 'Hypocrisy'

Bomber in Bulgaria Had Fake Michigan Driver's License, Authorities Say

COMMENTARY:

Our Business-Hating President
By Ben Shapiro
We shouldn't be proud of our success, says Obama; it's not our success at all. We didn't build it. All success is reliant on the helping hand of government. But the truth is that all the government-provided roads in the world don't create the conditions necessary for individual success.

NEWSPAPER ROUNDUP:

Farrakhan, Nation of Islam, step in to help stop Chicago shootings
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Retired member of SEAL Team 6 launches anti-Obama PAC
Obama fundraiser gets Energy Department post
Sen. Jeanne Shaheen: Expand military abortion rights
Cops say Kennedy family acting like a crime clan after Kerry's crash
Conservatives say gun issues could have an outsized impact in critical swing states
Chick-fil-A's anti-gay-marriage stance triggers online uproar
Romney goes on offense over Obama's 'You didn't build that'
House committee passes bill restricting abortions in D.C.
Report: Mass. gov. asks town to fix potholes ahead of Michelle Obama motorcade
D.C. gets No Child Left Behind waiver
Assad's British-born wife reportedly flees to Russia

 Venture Capitalist In Chief Fails Again but wait...is it his fault? By bobguzzardi on Jul 19, 2012 07:09 am

 

Top Ten Things Obama Has Not Released  

by Joel B. Pollak | 18 Jul 2012  

As the Obama campaign and the media continue to press Mitt Romney to release more of his tax returns, and to suggest--without a shred of evidence--that he is a "felon," it is worth noting how much critical information Barack Obama has withheld from view--both as a candidate in 2008, and during his term in office. Here is a Breitbart News top ten list of things that Obama has refused to release (a complete list would fill volumes):

10. State senate papers. In the 2008 primary, Obama criticized Hillary Clinton for not releasing papers from her eight years as First Lady--but failed to produce any papers from his eight years in Springfield. "They could have been thrown out," he said.

9. Academic transcripts. His supposed academic brilliance was a major selling point, but Obama (by his own admission) was a mediocre student. His GPA at Occidental was a B-plus at best, and his entering class at Columbia was weak. Can he prove his merit?

8. Book proposal. Obama's literary agent claimed he was "born in Kenya"--for sixteen years. His original book proposal exists--biographer David Maraniss refers to it--and seems to have embellished other key details of his life. Yet it has never been released.

7. Medical records. In 2000, and again (briefly) in 2008, GOP presidential candidate Sen. John McCain released thousands of pages of his medical records. Obama, who had abused drugs and continued smoking, merely provided a one-page doctor's note.

6. Small-dollar donors. In 2008, the McCain campaign released the names of donors who had contributed less than $200, though it was not required to do so. But the Obama campaign refused, amidst accusations it had accepted illegal foreign contributions.

5. The Khalidi tape. In 2003, Obama attended a party for his good friend, the radical Palestinian academic Rashid Khalidi. The event featured incendiary anti-Israel rhetoric. The LA Times broke the story, but has refused to release the tape--and so has Obama.

4. The real White House guest list. Touting its transparency, the Obama White House released its guest logs--but kept many visits secret, and moved meetings with lobbyists off-site. It also refused to confirm the identities of visitors like Bertha Lewis of ACORN.

3. Countless FOIA requests. The Obama administration has been described as "the worst" ever in complying with Freedom of Information Act requests for documents. It has also punished whistleblowers like David Walpin, who exposed cronyism in Americorps.

2. Health reform negotiations. Candidate Obama promised that health care reform negotiations would be televised on C-SPAN. Instead, there were back-room deals worth millions with lobbyists and legislators--the details of which are only beginning to emerge.

1. Fast and Furious documents. After months of stonewalling Congress, Attorney General Eric Holder asked President Obama to use executive privilege to conceal thousands of documents related to the deadly scandal--and Obama did just that.

In addition to the above, Obama and his campaign have lied about many facts about his past--his membership in the New Party; his extensive connections with ACORN; and his continued relationship with domestic terrorist Bill Ayers and Jeremiah Wright, among other examples. Obama's own memoir is filled with fabrications. And now he is lying about his opponent's honorable record in business. He--and the media--have no shame.