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DHS and US Military Make Final Preparations Before Announcing Martial Law 

By Susanne Posel, Contributing Writer theintelhub.com
August 8, 2012

Informants and military personnel are coming forth anonymously to confirm that martial law "is right around the corner."

However, right now we are under a silent martial law and citizens are reporting strange and unexplainable activity from the US armed forces and multiple federal agencies that point to a covert preparatory operation to completely lock down America in the very near future.

Sources from multiple locations across the nation have independently confirmed that the US military are repositioning soldiers in conjunction with allied foreign troops in the initial stages of martial law.

The US military are secretly moving massive amounts of "equipment" across the country consistently for more than a year. In Phoenix, Arizona, tractor-trailers transporting tanks on public highways have been spotted.

One witness stated that he saw these flatbeds multiple times in the month of June. Eye witness reports are coming primarily from the northern and southern Border States.

I just head on the radio this morning that the University of California, Berkley, has acquired a military type vehicle (tank???).  The host asked what they would need that type of vehicle for.  He also mentioned that it didn't cost Berkley anything.  It was provided by the government (our money).  

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

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

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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!):

August 8, 2012, 10 AM

Dear Members and Friends,

Just got word of this important Romney event:

Please Join "Women's Coalition for Mitt"

for a Grassroots Training Session and Rally!

Thursday August 9, 2012, 12:30 PM

Grand Ballroom Renaissance

Hilton Philadelphia City Avenue
4200 City Ave
Philadelphia, PA 19131

http://www3.hilton.com/en/hotels/pennsylvania/hilton-philadelphia-city-avenue-PHLPHHF/maps-directions/index.html

Special Guest

Ma. Lt. Governor Kerry Healy

and

National Coalitions Director Courtney Johnson

Lunch will be Provided

Please R.S.V.P.

To Valerie Dowling, vdowling@mittromney.com

Spread the word!  Hope to see you!

On behalf of the PAC Board of Delegates,

August 1, 2012, 10 AM

Dear Friends,

We have 98 days left to stop the American Nation from becoming the Obama Nation.

If we give this president four more years, he will finish the job of remolding America into a hard-core keynesian state resembling some of the most economically dependent

nations in Europe--in particular--Greece and Spain.

We do not have to travel down this road.  We can change the course.  You can help steer America in the right direction. 

If you want an America where free enterprise is respected and ObamaCare is repealed,

and not the other way, stay in the area this summer & fall .  Volunteer at Republican Victory Centers. 

Attend local events promoting our region's Republican Congressional candidates--including our tri-state Republican US Senate candidates--Tom Smith (PA), Joe Kyrillas (NJ), and Kevin Wade (DE).

Here are the GOP Regional Victory Offices:

Berks County Victory Center, 529 Reading Ave., Suite D, West Reading, PA 19611

Contact: Nick Steiner, 724-712-5726, nsteiner@pagop.org

Bucks County Victory Center, 115 North Broad Street, Doylestown, PA 18901

Contact: Blake Gober, 484-250-3183, bgober@pagop.org

Chester County Victory Center, 15 S. Church Street, West Chester, PA 19382

Contact: Rhett O'Hara, 215-779-1190, rohara@pagop.org

Chester County Victory Center 2, 21 Plank Ave., Suite 300, Paoli, PA 19301

Contact: Salome Gasabile, 267-221-6802, sgasabile@pagop.org

Delaware County Victory Center, 1001 Baltimore Pike, Suite 208, Springfield, PA 19604

Contact: Aaron Summers, 484-222-1388, asummers@pagop.org

Lancaster County Victory Center, 902 Columbia Ave, Lancaster, PA 17603
Contact: Alicia Hubiak, 717-614-5613, ahubiak@pagop.org

Lehigh County Victory Center, 2285 Schoenersville Rd, Bethlehem, PA 18107
Contact: Charles Creitz, 717-686-2516, ccrietz@pagop.org

Luzerne County Victory Center, 34 S. Main Street Ste #4, Wilkes-Barre, PA 18701
Contact: Mary Pellant, 484-951-7063, mpellant@pagop.org

Montgomery County Victory Center, 200 West Ridge Pike, Unit #121, Conshohocken, PA 19428
Contact: Perry Bentley, 717-686-2219, pbentley@pagop.org

Montgomery County Victory Center 2, 2 Village Road, Suite 1A, Horsham, PA 19044
Contact: Brian McCann, 717-344-3050, bmccann@pagop.org

Philadelphia County Victory Center, 529 S. 4th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19147
Contact: Roman Sosalski, 267-386-5216, rsosalski@pagop.org

Half price off 2013 Summit Registration until august 15th

Our seventh annual Washington Summit was our best to date.  Never before have we been so warmly received by our nation's leaders in Washington.  And never before have we had such an immediate impact.  In fact, legislation we support to enhance U.S.-Israel security cooperation was passed even before our Summit was over!

Let's face it -- there's nothing like having thousands of pro-Israel Christians from every state in the Union in town to focus Congress on the need to stand with Israel!  

As our delegates discovered, the very fact that they cared enough about Israel to travel all the way to Washington gave them immediate credibility, influence and favor with their members of Congress.  Increasingly, Members of Congress and their staff are getting to know our members by name and are staying in touch with them after they return home.  

Our DC summit is not a one-time event.  It's an annual opportunity for you to become an influential spokesman for Israel in your community.  We give you the training.  We schedule your appointments.  All you need to do is show up and stand up for Israel.

Whether or not you were able to join us this year, we pray that you'll plan on joining us next year. Our 2013 Washington Summit will be held on July 22- 24.  While the trip is not inexpensive, making your decision to join us now will give you almost a full year to save up for this powerful experience.  

We pray that we will see you in Washington, D.C. July 22- 24, 2013.

May God Bless You and Those That You Love,

Robertson, along with co-host David Toy, Jim Seigfreid, Allen and Peggy as we confront the issues of the day with Constitutional solutions to the problems we were warned about by the Founders of this, the greatest nation to ever shine a light on the world. Our guests include some of the best and the brightest commentators and Patriots around. 

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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 Avenue, 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

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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 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
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New Location
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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!

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The Great Betrayal: Obama's Wars and the War in Iraq

Jul 18th, 2012 

Daniel Greenfield's new Freedom Center pamphlet, The Great Betrayal: Obama's Wars and the War in Iraq, is an effort to understand the politics of the "war on terror" which has now reached a final punctuation point with the U.S. decision to speed its withdrawal from the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan (where success was once deemed so crucial to national security), and to practice an incoherent form of regime change in Libya while ignoring more serious threats in Syria and Iran.

The war on terror began, Greenfield shows, as an admirable bipartisan commitment soon after the tragedy of 9/11-an effort to transcend party lines not only to punish those who attacked our country but also to interrupt planning for further attacks and try to stop the international spread of the Islamic jihad behind the attacks. But the Democratic Party, with the honorable exception of a few individuals like Richard Gephardt and Joe Lieberman, turned its back on a war soon after authorizing it, and did so at a time when American troops were facing hostile enemy fire.

Although Senate Democrats on the intelligence oversight committee had been granted access to every piece of data available to the White House, they now accused President Bush of tricking them to secure their approval. In fact, their own about-face was entirely dictated by political considerations when a Sixties antiwar activist, Howard Dean, surged ahead in the Democratic primary polls and it appeared for a moment that Americans were on the side of retreat and capitulation.

Although regime change in Iraq had been official U.S. policy since Bill Clinton signed the Iraq Liberation Act of 1998, Democratic senators such as John Kerry who only months earlier had supported the war effort now launched demoralizing attacks on the American commander-in-chief and his troops in the field, stigmatizing it as "the wrong war in the wrong place at the wrong time." If the truth was the first casualty of their war against the Bush administration, the second casualty was the principle of bi-partisanship that had guided foreign policy debates throughout the Cold War, the principle that "politics stops at the water's edge." Now partisan politics trumped security.

The unrestrained attacks on the Iraq War as illegal and unjustified went largely unanswered by Republicans who failed to call the Democratic saboteurs of the nation's war effort to account or to decry the risk their cynical attacks posed to American servicemen and women on the battlefield. As Greenfield demonstrates, the Democrats' partisanship had consequences not only in Iraq but elsewhere in the region: the paralysis that resulted from their "anti-war" campaign led straight to the destruction of Lebanon and the installation of a terrorist army, Hezbollah, there as a regime within a regime. And it emboldened an overtly Islamofascist regime in Iran not only to supply the IEDs responsible for most of our troop fatalities in Iraq but also to proceed with a nuclear program aimed directly at Israel and the West.

The Great Betrayal shows that Barack Obama's abandonment of Iraq is a betrayal of all the Americans and Iraqis who gave their lives to establish freedom in that country. And the result of his policies in Afghanistan has been as disastrous. While the President presented his rationale for pursuing war there as the pursuit of al-Qaeda, after abandoning his "surge" (which resulted in two thirds of all America's Afghan casualties there and the resurgence of the Taliban allies of al-Qaeda), he blithely prepared for withdrawal as if national objectives had been met.

Order your copy of The Great Betrayal today by clicking here.  

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

"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

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The President's $8 Billion Coincidence  

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New York Post | Leonard Greene | August 8, 2012  

GYM DANDY: Jewish-American gymnast Aly Raisman dazzles the London Games yesterday with her Olympic gold-medal floor routine set to the crowd-pleasing "Hava Nagila."

It wasn't a gloved-fist salute from the medal stand, but Jewish-American gymnast Aly Raisman made quite a statement yesterday by winning a gold medal and invoking the memory of the Israeli athletes killed 40 years ago in Munich.

Raisman finished first in the women's floor exercise, but she deserves to have another medal draped around her neck for having the chutzpah to face the world and do what needed to be done and say what needed to be said.

At the same Olympic Games where bigoted organizers stubbornly refuse to honor the slain athletes with a moment of silence, 18-year-old Raisman loudly shocked observers first by winning, then by paying her own tribute to 11 sportsmen who died long before she was born.

And if that weren't enough, she won her event with the Hebrew folk song "Hava Nagila" playing in the background.

"Having that floor music wasn't intentional," an emotional but poised Raisman told reporters after her performance.

"But the fact it was on the 40th anniversary is special, and winning the gold today means a lot to me."

Then Raisman stuck the landing.

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Items for August 9, 2012

Obamacare's free lunch: National health care promises are too good to be true  The Washington Times

Obama Joins Sandra Fluke, Pitches Health Law in Play for Colorado Women Voters  ABC News

Heritage Legal Memo: Welfare Reform's Work Requirements Cannot Be Waived  The Foundry

Latest Heritage Research:

LECTURE 
The Future of the U.S. Nuclear Triad, Fiscal Austerity, and the Vision of "Nuclear Zero" 

LEGAL MEMORANDUM
Welfare Reform's Work Requirements Cannot Be Waived

August 9, 2012   

Today's Articles:

Mitt's Cayman Island Gift
Andrew Sumereau
Turn the tables on the Obama campaign and seize the tax fairness momentum. More

The Ignorant, the Pets, and the Dead: That's the Plan
James V Capua
Obama is, at least, not treating all voters as fools; he is treating only some voters as fools. More

American Thinker Blog

Surviving a Mixed Relationship
August 9, 2012
Yes, I'm in a mixed relationship. We are a conservative Republican (me), and a liberal progressive More

The Obama Classic
August 9, 2012
If you thought the Obama campaign might attempt some modesty in the wake of all things dismal, downgraded, and transformed, think again. More

My Boxing Lesson with Global Warming Bill
August 9, 2012
My student "Bill" is a treat. He smiles the length of an ear of corn. He is energetic, like ethanol should be. He is also a big global warming fan. More

Raw Footage: Charlotte Abortionist Slurs Blacks
August 9, 2012
The "ugly black babies" abortionist has left quite a paper trail. Self-proclaimed "humanitarian" More

Quote Joe Biden, economist,  

"People look at me and say, 'What are you talking about, Joe? You're telling me we've got to go spend money to keep from going bankrupt?' The answer is, 'Yes, I'm telling ya.'"  

Obama Regime helps to free Muslim murderer of 5 Marines

Aug 08, 2012 06:13 am | Coach Collins

by Doug Book,  staff writer

Feigning indignity, outrage and remorse, the Obama Administration quietly watched from the sidelines as a Hezbollah commander, guilty of planning the murder of five U.S. Marines, was set free on July 30th by the Iraqi central criminal court.

In January of 2007, a dozen or more terrorists dressed in U.S. uniforms opened fire on a military camp in Karbala, just south of Baghdad. One soldier died at the scene and four others were kidnapped, tortured and murdered by the terrorists. The mastermind of this complex and well-planned attack was Ali Mussa Daqduq, a Lebanese national taken by U.S. forces in Basra just 2 months after the operation.

For 5 years, Daqduq was held at Camp Cropper, a US military detention facility in Baghdad. Yet neither George Bush nor Barack Obama saw fit to try the terrorist killer for his crimes.  

For the criminal prosecution of Daqduq, whether in ... Continue Reading:Obama Regime helps to free Muslim murderer of 5 Marines

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American Minute August 7

Aug 07, 2012 06:13 pm | Coach Collins

By Bill Federer, staff writer

The largest town in Kentucky had less than 2,000 people, yet 25,000 came to Cane Ridge, Kentucky, AUGUST 7, 1801, from as far away as Ohio and Tennessee, to hear Barton W. Stone and other Baptist, Methodist and Presbyterian ministers.
Part of the Second Great Awakening, these "camp meetings" were described by Rev. Moses Hodge:
"Nothing that imagination can paint can make a stronger impression...
Sinners dropping down on every hand, professors praying, others in raptures of joy!...
There can be no question but it is of God, as the subjects...can give a clear and rational account of their conversion."
The revival began in the lawless Kentucky frontier in 1797 when James McGready and his small church agreed to:
"Therefore, we bind ourselves to observe the third Saturday of each month for one year as a day of fasting and prayer for the conversion of sinners in ... Continue Reading:American Minute August 7

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Oregon to jail rain water collector and force condemned murderer to accept reprieve

Aug 07, 2012 01:13 pm | Coach Collins

By Derrick Hollenbeck, staff writer

Oregon is indeed a strange place.

Somewhere George Orwell is smiling and wondering how his "1984" became a Democrat policy SOP. The morally hollow Democrats who run Oregon have descended to a level of insane devotion to government that would make Karl Marx swell with pride. Two current stories from Oregon give us an idea of the depravity we face when we make the mistake of allowing Democrats to run our lives.

In the first story Gary Harrington, an Eagle Point Oregon man has been convicted of the crime of collecting rain water on his own property. He was sentenced to serve 30 days in jail and pay a $1,500 fine for violating an Oregon law that deems all water to be publically owned including snow runoff and rainwater that rolls off the roof of a privately owned building. Democrat Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber is so determined to see Harrington punished he ... Continue Reading:Oregon to jail rain water collector and force condemned murderer to accept reprieve

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HHS Mandate: Infographic and Statement   Aug 08, 2012 12:03 pm

Immigrants in the United States: Profile of America's Foreign-Born Population   Aug 08, 2012 11:42 am

The Most Important Press Conference Ever Held at Any Time in U.S. History: Part II   Aug 08, 2012 10:44 am

The Utter Desperation of Global Warming Liars   Aug 08, 2012 10:33 am

A Map to the Muslim Middle East   Aug 08, 2012 09:33 am

Illegal Aliens CAN Vote, Military CAN'T?   Aug 08, 2012 09:04 am

Immigration Reform News and Impact on US Homeland Security August 7, 2012   Aug 08, 2012 05:00 am

The History of MPAC   Aug 07, 2012 10:16 pm

The Abedin Family's Pro-Jihadist Journal   Aug 07, 2012 06:15 pm

Senate Anti-Leaks Bill Threatens the Rights of the Press and the Public   Aug 07, 2012 05:51 pm

The Most Important Press Conference Ever Held at Any Time in U.S. History: Part I   Aug 07, 2012 10:00 am

Jihadists Take Aim at Egyptian Military   Aug 07, 2012 09:48 am

Suicide as a Jewish Value   Aug 07, 2012 09:40 am

Financial Markets, Politics and the New Reality   Aug 07, 2012 09:30 am

Iran threatens U.S. over Syrian abductions by rebels

Islamic regime ready to have 'direct confrontation' immediately

byReza Kahlili August 8, 2012

Should any of the Iranians taken hostage by rebels in Syria be harmed, America should expect Iran's intelligence agents to respond in kind, the Islamic regime has warned.

Forty-eight Iranians were seized Saturday in Damascus by rebels seeking to overthrow Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime. Iran claims they are pilgrims, but Abdel Nasser Shemir, a rebel commander, in an interview with the news organization Al Arabiya, charged they were members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards whose confiscated documents proved as much.

"They are 48, in addition to an Afghani interpreter," Shemir said, alleging that the captives were members of a 150-strong group sent by Iran for "reconnaissance on the ground."

Iran quickly blamed America, Saudi Arabia and Qatar for the kidnapping. Hours after the abduction, Ali Larijani, the speaker of the Iranian Parliament, said that, "America and certain countries of the region are responsible for these crimes, and they will receive the appropriate response at the right time."

A media outlet called "The Youth Reporter's Club," which is run by the Revolutionary Guards intelligence unit, also blamed America for the abduction, stating that America, Saudi Arabia and Qatar are involved in the events in Syria and that Iran is ready to "change the proxy war into a direct confrontation on an immediate basis." The statement warned America that should any of the abducted Iranians be harmed, Iran will harm America and Americans.

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For some reason, the article below makes an important point but fails to bring it home.  Here are some additional statistics to help its message really sink in:

• The world population is about 7 billion
• The world Muslim population is about 1.5 billion
• Approximately 85% of all Muslims are Sunnis
• This means that the world Sunni population is about 1.3 billion
• This means that Sunni Muslim represent about 19% of the world population

In other words, 19% of the world population is responsible for 70% of all terrorist murders, leaving the remaining 81% of the world population to commit the other 30%, for all purposes whatsoever, ranging from Communism to anarchism to tribalism to nationalism to racism to Shiite extremism to Hindu extremism to Buddhist extremism to Christian extremism to Jewish extremism.  And these numbers are skewed because Shiites are being lumped together with non-Muslims.

What does this mean?  It means that a Sunni Muslim is roughly 10 times more likely to be a terrorist with blood on his hands than a non-Sunni Muslim(math: (70/19)/(30/81) = 9.95 -- This approximation assumes that a Sunni terrorist kills about the same number of people per incident as a non-Sunni terrorist).

That's an impressive statistic, coming from a "religion of peace."

Dave

Sunni Muslim 'Extremists' Committed 70% of Terrorist Murders in 2011

By Edwin Mora  August 3, 2012

People inspect the aftermath of a car bomb attack in Baghdad's Shiite enclave of Sadr City, Iraq, Monday, July 23, 2012. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

(CNSNews.com) - Sunni Muslim terrorists committed "about 70 percent" of the 12,533 terrorist murders in the world last year, according to a report by the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC).

The information comes from the 2011 NCTC Report on Terrorism, which is based on information available as of March 12, 2012.

"Sunni extremists accounted for the greatest number of terrorist attacks and fatalities for the third consecutive year," the report says. "More than 5,700 incidents were attributed to Sunni extremists, accounting for nearly 56 percent of all attacks and about 70 percent of all fatalities."

The report says that in 2011, a total of 10,283 terrorism attacks across the world killed 12,533 people. Terrorism also is blamed for 25,903 injuries and 5,554 kidnappings.

According to NCTC, of the 12,533 terrorism-related deaths worldwide, 8,886 were perpetrated by "Sunni extremists," 1,926 by "secular/political/anarchist" groups, 1,519 by "unknown" factions, 170 by a category described as "other", and 77 by "Neo-Nazi/Fascist/White Supremacist" groups.

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Wednesday, August 8, 2012

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From: Gary L. Bauer


COUNTDOWN TO VICTORY: 90 DAYS TO THE 2012 ELECTIONS


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The Final Three?

As speculation mounts that Mitt Romney will announce his vice presidential selection this week, NBC's Chuck Todd reports "with a high degree of confidence" that the top three contenders are former Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty, Ohio Senator Rob Portman and House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan.


Lies, Lies & More Lies

Is there nothing Barack Obama and his supporters won't say or do in their desperation to win? Monday I told you about Harry Reid's outrageous accusations regarding Mitt Romney's taxes.

Well just when you think the left can't sink any lower, it does. A pro-Obama super PAC has produced a despicable ad that blames Mitt Romney for a woman's death!

In the ad, a former steel mill worker says Romney shut down the plant where he worked, costing his family its health insurance. Soon afterwards his wife was diagnosed with stage four cancer and died 22 days later. The man goes on to say that he doesn't think Mitt Romney is concerned about people like him.

This ad should not surprise us. Many leftists brag about the fact that they are cultural and moral relativists, that truth is subjective, and the ends justify the means. Lying and cheating to advance the greater collective good -- in this case Obama's reelection -- is just fine.

Here are the facts:

• Mitt Romney had left Bain Capital to run the Salt Lake City Olympics before this plant was shut down.
• The man's wife had separate health insurance coverage through her employer.
• She passed away years after the plant closed, not mere days or weeks as the ad implies.

The ad is so inaccurate and over-the-top that even the "mainstream media" can't stomach it. Watch CNN take it apart here.


Romney Hood & The Sheriff Of Nothingham

Barack Obama probably thought he was being cute this week when he dubbed Mitt Romney's tax plan "Romney Hood" or "Robin Hood in reverse" -- raising taxes on the poor and giving money to the rich. Obama based his remarks on a study that suggested Mitt Romney's tax plan would lead to middle class tax increases. As usual, Obama's got it completely wrong.

On his show yesterday, Rush Limbaugh said, "Robin Hood was stealing from the government. Robin Hood was a tea party activist. Robin Hood was anti-taxes." Continuing that theme, the only candidate in this race who is calling for tax increases is Barack Obama!

So if Obama wants to be the tax collector for the welfare state, that would make him the "Sheriff of Nothingham," which describes what Obama has delivered over the past four years -- nothing. No jobs, no recovery and no hope.

On a more serious note, today's Wall Street Journal dissects the flawed study by a left-wing group that grossly mischaracterized the Romney tax plan. Here are some key excerpts:

"The heart of Mr. Romney's actual proposal is a 20% rate cut for anyone who pays income taxes. This means, for example, that the 10% rate would fall to 8%, the 35% rate would fall to 28% and all the brackets in between would fall as well. The corporate tax would fall to 25% from 35%. ...

"The Tax Policy Center also ignores the history of tax cutting. Every major marginal rate income tax cut of the last 50 years-1964, 1981, 1986 and 2003-was followed by an unexpectedly large increase in tax revenues... and a more progressive tax code-i.e., the share of taxes paid by the richest 1% rose.

"For example, from 1980 to 2007, three tax rate cuts brought the highest marginal tax rate to 35% from 70%. ...With the rate down to 35% in 2008, the share of taxes paid by the rich doubled to 40%. ...

"So on four separate occasions what TPC says is 'mathematically impossible'-cutting tax rates and making the tax system more progressive-actually happened. Hats off to the scholars at TPC: Their study manages to claim that what happens in real life can't happen in theory."

Primary Recap

Several states held primaries yesterday and the results are good news for conservatives. Voters in Kansas sent an unmistakable message to the establishment last night by replacing as many as eight moderate incumbent state senators with more conservative challengers.

In Michigan, the GOP Senate primary was a battle between two conservatives and former Rep. Pete Hoekstra emerged victorious. Though he faces a tough battle to unseat a liberal Democrat, the former chairman of the House Intelligence Committee understands well the threat we face from Islamofascism.

If there were ever any doubt about the need for voter ID laws, consider this. According to a Detroit CBS station, a number of individuals left polling locations yesterday without voting after refusing to check a box confirming they were in fact citizens. Left-wing "civil liberties groups" are complaining that the question attempts to "discourage people from voting." Sorry, but it's not a trick question, and non-citizens should not be voting!

In Missouri, Rep. Todd Akin emerged as the winner after a bruising three-way battle. All the major contenders were conservatives and had prominent supporters behind them. Rep. Akin has a 100% score with CWF. During his victory speech last night, Akin said, "This campaign is about reclaiming our godly values, rebuilding the American Dream, restoring the America that we love."

And in Washington, CWF-endorsed candidate John Koster was the top vote-getter in a "jungle primary" for the First Congressional District. His Democrat opponent is a former Microsoft executive who spent more than $2 million of her own money in the primary.

With your continued support, we will do everything we can to make sure we take back the White House and elect pro-family, pro-life conservatives like Pete Hoekstra, Todd Akin and John Koster to Congress in 90 days!
 

 Rep. Congressman Allen West Had Chick-fil-A Catered to Black Caucus Meeting, Insulted Everyone

I grew up on Chik Fil A-Allen West

Urge Pennsylvania Sens. Bob Casey and Pat Toomey:   Reverse Pres. Obama's Amnesty & Work Permits; Pennsylvania needs those jobs

With more Americans unemployed at any time since the Great Depression, President Obama is making it easier for illegal aliens to take American jobs. That's right: With 20 million Americans having trouble finding work, President Obama's bypassed Congress to unilaterally give amnesty and work permits to 2-3 million illegal aliens currently in the United States. It means more job competition and wage depression for working class and fewer jobs for returning veterans and recent graduates.

If that's not bad enough, President Obama's amnesty and work permit incentivizes more illegal aliens to quickly cross the border into this country in the hopes of qualifying for the next amnesty, too. And, of course, it means rewarding those who broke the law. It all adds up to a desperate move by the President to get votes in an election year, despite the cost to the American worker.

The good news is that our democracy has checks and balance. President Obama's policy can be reversed if enough of us voice our concerns. Two of those check and balances are right here in Pennsylvania. They're our Senators. Please send our Senators the message below right now. They can reverse President Obama's amnesty and work permits for millions of illegal aliens. And save jobs for unemployed Americans, right here in Pennsylvania. This is a completely free service. There is no cost to you.

Today's Headlines:  Wednesday, August 08, 2012

Cardinal Timothy Dolan Will Host Obama at White-Tie Fundraiser for Health Care Causes

NJ School District Offers Bullied Students a Direct Link to Crimestoppers

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NBC Uses Olympics to Promote Sitcom on Same-Sex Couple Seeking Surrogate-Generated Child

Valerie Jarrett Gets Twitter Account - and Faces 'Cyber Bullying'

Sebelius: 36 States Enacted or Amended Anti-Bullying Laws in 2009 and 2010

Presidential Adviser Jarrett Touts Contraception Mandate at Anti-Bullying Summit

At Least 60 U.S. Soldiers Killed Since 2007 by Men in Afghan Uniforms

Feds Give Maryland Town $625,000 to Hire 5 Police Officers

Federal Audit: Women Own Only 10% of Private Companies in Pipeline Industry

Bernanke: Too Big To Fail Means 'Market Is Not Allowed To Work' 
Ten More States Allow Concealed Carry Permits Within Last 10 Years

Iran to Assume Leadership of Bloc That Includes Key U.S. Allies and U.S. Aid Recipients

Egypt's Ruling Muslim Brotherhood Blames Israel for Attack in Sinai Peninsula

Obama Denies Gutting Welfare Reform

The Obama Administration came out swinging against its critics on welfare reform yesterday, with Press Secretary Jay Carney saying the charge that the Administration gutted the successful 1996 reform's work requirements is "categorically false" and "blatantly dishonest." Even former President Bill Clinton, who signed the reform into law, came out parroting the Obama team's talking points and saying the charge was "not true."

The Heritage Foundation's Robert Rector and Kiki Bradley first broke the story on July 12 that Obama's Health and Human Services Department (HHS) had rewritten the Clinton-era reform to undo the work requirements, in a move that legal experts Todd Gaziano and Robert Alt determined was patently illegal.

The Administration's new argument has two parts: denying the Obama Administration's actions and claiming that Republican governors, including Mitt Romney, tried to do the same thing. In essence, "We did not do what you're saying, but even if we did, some Republicans did it, too." Both parts of this argument are easily debunked.

Obama Administration Claim #1: We Didn't Gut Work Requirements

Ever since the 1996 law passed, Democratic leaders have attempted (unsuccessfully) to repeal welfare's work standards, blocking reauthorization of the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program (TANF) and attempting to weaken the requirements. Unable to eliminate "workfare" legislatively, the Obama HHS claimed authority to grant waivers that allow states to get around the work requirements.

Humorously, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius now asserts that the Administration abolished the TANF work requirements to increase work.

HHS now claims that states receiving a waiver must "commit that their proposals will move at least 20 percent more people from welfare to work compared to the state's prior performance." But given the normal turnover rate in welfare programs, the easiest way to increase the number of people moving from "welfare to work" is to increase the number entering welfare in the first place.

Bogus statistical ploys like these were the norm before the 1996 reform. The law curtailed use of sham measures of success and established meaningful standards: Participating in work activities meant actual work activities, not "bed rest" or "reading" or doing one hour of job search per month; reducing welfare dependence meant reducing caseloads. Now those standards are gone.

Obama's HHS claims authority to overhaul every aspect of the TANF work provisions (contained in section 407), including "definitions of work activities and engagement, specified limitations, verification procedures and the calculation of participation rates." In other words, the whole work program. Sebelius's HHS bureaucracy declared the existing TANF law a blank slate on which it can design any policy it chooses.

Obama Administration Claim #2: Even If We Did, the Republicans Tried It, Too

Though the Obama Administration is claiming it is not trying to get around the work requirements, it is also claiming that a group of Republican governors tried to do the same thing in 2005. Clinton also said in his statement yesterday that "the recently announced waiver policy was originally requested" by Republican governors.

Heritage welfare expert Robert Rector addressed this claim back on July 19. As Rector explains:

But [the governors'] letter makes no mention at all of waiving work requirements under the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program. In fact, the legislation promoted in the letter-the Personal Responsibility and Individual Development for Everyone (PRIDE) Act-actually would have toughened the federal work standards. It proposed raising the mandatory participation rates imposed on states from 50 percent to 70 percent of the adult TANF caseload and increasing the hours of required work activity.

The governors' letter actually contradicts the Administration's main argument: If the law has always permitted HHS to waive the work requirements, then why didn't the governors just request waivers from then-President George W. Bush? Why would legislation be needed?

Two reasons: First, it has been clear for 15 years that the TANF law did not permit HHS to waive the work requirements. Second, the Republican governors were not seeking to waive the work requirements in the first place.

Obama's Evolution from Welfare to Work and Back

President Obama had a convenient change of heart regarding welfare reform when it was time to run for President. In 1998, when he was an Illinois state senator, Obama said:

I was not a huge supporter of the federal plan that was signed in 1996. Having said that, I do think that there is a potential political opportunity that arose out of welfare reform. And that is to desegregate the welfare population-meaning the undeserving poor, black folks in cities, from the working poor-deserving, white, rural as well as suburban.

The same year, he reiterated that "the 1996 legislation I did not entirely agree with and probably would have voted against at the federal level."

But in 2008, when he was running for President, Obama said he had changed his mind about welfare reform: "I was much more concerned 10 years ago when President Clinton initially signed the bill that this could have disastrous results....It had-it worked better than, I think, a lot of people anticipated. And, you know, one of the things that I am absolutely convinced of is that we have to work as a centerpiece of any social policy."

One of his 2008 campaign ads touted "the Obama record: moved people from welfare to work" and promised that as President, he would "never forget the dignity that comes from work."

This evolution is unsurprising, considering the vast majority of Americans favor requiring welfare recipients to work.

President Obama has finally accomplished what Democrats have been trying to do for years. He has even gotten President Clinton to turn his back on one of the signature achievements of his Administration to give him political cover-which Clinton was quick to do. In 1996, Clinton had to compromise and allow the tough work requirements to get the legislation passed.

Both Presidents have now revealed their true feelings about welfare-and there's no denying it.

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What happened during yesterday's primaries? On Tuesday, voters in Missouri, Michigan, Washington and Kansas chose their candidates for the House and Senate. Here's a full recap of the results.