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Video: Is The Sikh Temple Massacre An Oklahoma City Bombing Redux?
Aug 10, 2012 12:32 pm
When six people were mowed down by a neo-Nazi nut case in the Sikh Temple massacre, America wrung their hands in despair with what seemed like a continuation of the carnage in Aurora, Colorado. A unified America's heart went out to the victims and victims' families. Like clockwork, however, before the bodies were even cold, [...]
Watch the Video and Comment: Video: Is The Sikh Temple Massacre An Oklahoma City Bombing Redux?
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Obama hints he may bypass Congress and pass new gun laws
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OBAMA SUPPORTS BAN ON ASSAULT WEAPONS
Congratulations are in order, because engaged citizens like you spoke out vehemently against the United Nations Small Arms Treaty last month, and participating nations were unable to come to an agreement and had to abandon their talks without completing it.
Unfortunately, our Second Amendment rights are still under attack-by both the United Nations, that is still working to get their treaty written, and the Obama administration, who has never been a friend of gun owners.
On Monday August 6th, White House spokesman Jay Carney was asked about Obama's position on renewing the assault weapons ban. Carney responded,
"He does support renewing the assault weapons ban."
But then he added something very important to note:
"The president's approach is that we should work with Congress where possible - and administratively where allowed - to advance common-sense measures that enhance our security, that keep deadly weapons out of the hands of criminals and others who shouldn't have them..." He also mentioned that "there has been reluctance by Congress to pass that renewal."
What Jay Carney was saying is that, Congress isn't giving in on Second Amendment rights, so President Obama will have to go around them and implement his own executive orders to take away our freedom.
Fax Congress now and protect the Second Amendment!
We've seen it over and over during the past four years of Obama's reign. He wants something done and Congress won't do it. So, Obama bypasses not only Congress and the American people, but essentially our entire system of law. He rules through the Executive branch and ignores the Legislative one.
Clearly, gun control is going to be another issue where he takes matters into his own hands.
That cannot happen, and that is why Conservative-Daily.com is watching this issue and we will keep you informed about what the President says and does in the coming weeks and months. The only way to prevent him from completely eliminating our Second Amendment rights is to be aware of what he is up to and express our opinions to Congress. We also have to forward these messages to everyone we know and get them involved in defending our Constitution, which has been under constant attack ever since Obama's inauguration in January, 2009.
Fax Congress now and protect the Second Amendment!
And Join the Conversation on Facebook!
George Washington said, "Firearms stand next in importance to the constitution itself. They are the American people's liberty teeth and keystone under independence ... from the hour the Pilgrims landed to the present day, events, occurrences and tendencies prove that to ensure peace security and happiness, the rifle and pistol are equally indispensable ... the very atmosphere of firearms anywhere restrains evil interference - they deserve a place of honor with all that's good."
But many want to remove the right to own a firearm from that place of honor and instead make it impossible for American citizens to own one.
Not only is our President against this right, but the United Nations wants to weaken America by restricting our freedoms.
The United Nations Small Arms Treaty would force you to participate in an international firearm registry and would eventually confiscate your weapons and ban private ownership. The U.N. treaty seeks to decimate our Second Amendment. It will give crooks and thugs at the United Nations control over your freedoms and your right to own and operate a firearm.
As we mentioned earlier, the Small Arms Treaty wasn't finalized this last July. But that doesn't mean it's dead. The U.N. has been working since the mid-1990s to get this Small Arms Treaty passed, and their next opportunity is in late August.
Click here to fax Congress Now!
And, Join the discussion on Facebook!
Anti-gun groups have already stated that, "We have to start ratcheting down the firepower in civilian hands in the United States."
It seems Obama agrees with that notion, and so does Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
What is even more preposterous is that Iran-a nation accused of sending weapons into Syria despite Security Council warnings-was overseeing UN negotiations. And China, one of the biggest human rights violators in the world, was a key player with the treaty. They just released a report on U.S. human rights which includes the remark, "The United States prioritizes the right to keep and bear arms over the protection of citizens' lives and personal security and exercises lax firearm possession control, causing rampant gun ownership."
Click here to fax Congress Now!
Don't believe the noise you hear about our Constitution being safe from U.N. treaties. The gun grabbers want you to think there is nothing to worry about. However, we know better.
We don't have a President in the White House who is interested in defending our Constitution. Obama has proven time and time again he's willing to tear down the foundations of this country in order to impose his agenda-and his agenda includes handing over our sovereignty to a world body like the United Nations.
In theory, Congress has the authority to nullify a treaty legislatively and federal courts have the power to overturn any unconstitutional terms. But, will they do it? Do you trust our President to stand by our Constitution? He ignores our laws and does what he wants.
That is why Senator Jerry Moran (R-KS) has introduced S. 2205 (the equivalent House bill is H.R. 4864), a bill that will ensure even if the U.N.'s Treaty is ratified, the United States of America will not have to comply with its provisions because Congress will REFUSE TO FUND IT. S. 2205 will preserve American sovereignty, protect the Second Amendment, and prevent the United Nations from taking your guns!
We must continue to alert the Senate that we will in no way accept this U.N. Small Arms Trade Treaty, and we must tell both chambers to pass S.2205 and H.R. 4864, preventing funding of the ATT.
Whether the U.N. gets this treaty developed this month, next month, or next year, every Member of Congress must be made aware that gun right restriction is something the American people categorically reject, and they need to know their jobs are on the line if they allow an international body to begin stripping away our Constitutional rights.
We must make sure legislation is in place to protect our Second Amendment regardless of what the globalists at the U.N. decide to do about the Treaty.
Abraham Lincoln said, "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution."
Please help us make sure Congress knows that we will not stand for the United Nations destroying our freedoms, our country, and the dreams of our Founding Fathers.
Sincerely,
Tony Adkins
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 An extremely important movie is coming this summer - Dinesh D'Souza - Obama & 2016
Dinesh D'Souza is author of many New York Times best sellers. The movie is from Gerald R. Molen, producer of Academy Award Winning Schindler's List.
It explains in plain language who Barack Obama really is, what he stands for, and the dangers of him being reelected for another four years.
Watch this short informative video preview of this movie and share it with others. It has already been seen by over 2,100,000 people. Within a very short time it will have been seen by millions! After you see the preview, listen to what Dinesh has to say about Obama. Please take the time to hear this and pass it on.
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To see the listing of theaters, please go to http://2016themovie.com/theaters/
August 24
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Conshohocken, PA
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Oaks, PA
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Tarentum, PA
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Warrington Crossing Stadium 22
Warrington, PA
2016 Obama's America will be opening soon in a major theater near you. We are opening slowly, only a couple theaters per week right now, with a nationwide larger release of about 200 to 400 theaters by August 24. At this time the easiest way to guarantee a screening is to have the film open in your local theater for the general public. To do this we must provide the presale of at least 1,000 tickets. These tickets can be used however you would like the opening weekend of the film. If this is something you or your organization is willing to do please give us a call 877.298.9387 and we would be happy to help you work out the details. DVD's and on demand streaming will not be available for months after theatrical release. To find out about theaters and listings: (1) Subscribe to our e-mail list, and we will update you every time we get a new theater booked. (2) Send "2016" by text to the phone number "90210" for individualized updates about nearby theater listings when they become available. (3) Check the Website http://2016themovie.com/ (4) Like us at Facebook http://www.facebook.com/ObamasAmerica (5) Check Fandango Best, 2016 Team
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A Brief History & Description of Agenda 21
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Wednesday, August 1, 2012
 Whether there is such a thing as a world plan for socialist domination must be answered by individuals pondering recent, sometimes strange confluences of world events. But if there were such a plan, would it appear in any clearer form that the United Nations Agenda 21 program?
Agenda 21 is a plank of UN policy encouraging the globe to embrace Sustainable Development, which conservatives understand as a code word for global Marxism:
Sustainable development sounds like a nice idea, right? It sounds nice, until you scratch the surface and find that Agenda 21 and sustainable development are really cloaked plans to impose the tenets of social justice/socialism on the world. At risk from Agenda 21; Private property ownership; Single-family homes; Private car ownership and individual travel choices; and Privately owned farms.
Agenda 21 remains to many, classic Marxism which must be rejected-as the Alabama legislature did recently.
I. Evolution of Agenda 21: Journey to Sustainable Development
The following is a brief evolution of Agenda 21, the UN program designed to help save the planet.
A. Ramsar Convention (1971)
According to the site for ANPED, the Northern Alliance for Sustainability, there were a number of International Environmental Agreements (IEA's) which came before Agenda 21. Of the 1131 listed Agreements and Modifications, ANPED singles out a handful as significant before Agenda 21, starting with the 1971 Ramsar Convention on Wetlands (Convention on Wetlands of International Importance, especially as Waterfowl Habitat). Another site, Texans Against Agenda 21, also states that the seed agreement for Agenda 21 was Ramsar:
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agenda 21 -best explanation I have ever heard
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Are you ready to keep up the fight against Obamacare?
The Supreme Court's decision on the President's healthcare law doesn't stop what we have to do to protect ourselves and our families from massive government overreach into our lives and our healthcare.
We now have to fight back against this law here Pennsylvania. Join the fight by doing two things RIGHT NOW.
First, join Citizens for Constitutional Government and Americans for Prosperity - Pennsylvania for a "Hands off my Healthcare" town hall this Tuesday. Here are the details:
CITIZENS FOR CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT presents:
A FORUM ON THE IMPACT OF OBAMACARE
THE IMPACT OF OBAMACARE ON QUALITY & ACCESSIBILITY OF HEALTH CARE
Dr. Richard Leshner, DO, cardiologist, president of medical staff at St. Mary Medical Center, Langhorne
THE IMPACT OF OBAMACARE ON MEDICARE & SENIORS
Sharon Fletcher, president and senior health advisor of Fletcher Senior Services
THE IMPACT OF OBAMACARE ON YOUTH & FAMILIES
Terry Ingalsbe, RN, Lehigh Valley Coalition on Health Care Reform
THE IMPACT OFOBAMACARE ON SMALL BUSINESS AND THE ECONOMY
Dr. Christine Bongiorno, DVM, veterinarian, Chair of Lehigh Valley Coalition on Health Care Reform
PRESCRIPTION FOR TRUE HEALTH CARE REFORM
Dr. Arvind Cavale, MD, clinical endocrinologist, president of Pennsylvania chapter of Docs4PatientCare
ACTION PLAN FOR TRUE HEALTH CARE REFORM
Jennifer Stefano, Pennsylvania State Director of Americans For Prosperity
TUESDAY, AUGUST 14, 2012, 6:30-8:30pm
QUAKERTOWN LIBRARY
401 W. Mill St., Quakertown, PA
FREE.........OPEN TO PUBLIC..........Q&A SESSION FOLLOWING PANEL
Are you ready to keep up the fight against Obamacare?
The Supreme Court's decision on the President's healthcare law doesn't stop what we have to do to protect ourselves and our families from massive government overreach into our lives and our healthcare.
We now have to fight back against this law here Pennsylvania. Join the fight by doing two things RIGHT NOW.
First, join Citizens for Constitutional Government and Americans for Prosperity - Pennsylvania for a "Hands off my Healthcare" town hall this Tuesday. Here are the details:
WHEN: Tuesday August 14, 2012
TIME: 6:30-8:30pm
WHERE: Quakertown Library, 401 West Mill Street, Quakertown, PA 18951
AFP's State Director Jennifer Stefano will talk about the dangers of the healthcare exchanges and why stopping Governor Corbett from implementing them is job number one! Other speakers include:
Dr. Richard Leshner, DO, cardiologist, president of medical staff at St. Mary Medical Center, Langhorne (THE IMPACT OF OBAMACARE ON QUALITY & ACCESSIBILITY OF HEALTH CARE)
Sharon Fletcher, president and senior health advisor of Fletcher Senior Services (THE IMPACT OF OBAMACARE ON MEDICARE & SENIORS)
Terry Ingalsbe, RN, Lehigh Valley Coalition on Health Care Reform (THE IMPACT OF OBAMACARE ON YOUTH & FAMIES)
Dr. Christine Bongiorno, DVM, veterinarian, Chair of Lehigh Valley Coalition on Health Care Reform (THE IMPACT OFOBAMACARE ON SMALL BUSINESS AND THE ECONOMY)
Dr. Arvind Cavale, MD, clinical endocrinologist, president of Pennsylvania chapter of Docs4PatientCare (PRESCRIPTION FOR TRUE HEALTH CARE REFORM)
And second, please send this action alert RIGHT NOW to tell your state senator, state legislator and Governor Corbett to STOP THE EXCHANGES!
At a time when our own federal government has abandoned us we must unite together to save our country. This event will not only solidify our dedication to our country and to the principles upon which it was founded, but also supply participants with the knowledge they need to sustain our republic.
In Liberty and Solidarity,
Jennifer Stefano
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US Congressman
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Saturday, August 18, 2012
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Luncheon with Congressman Fitzpatrick
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Activate: How to turn the 2012 election from a close call to a mandate
Last night, Glenn focused on the importance of commitment. He was the first to admit, a lot of last night's show was something you had heard before - but it's important to start at the beginning and to make sure you know what you believe before you get put into action. And tonight, Glenn revealed ways for you to really get moving!
Tonight, the focus of the show was "Activate" - and it was all about the election and how you can make sure that one way or another - 2012 is a year for a mandate for or against the progressives. And if you think it doesn't matter just take a look at what is happening right now in Wisconsin. Progressives and unions are doing everything they can to make sure that Walker loses. It's a microcosm to what is happening around the country, and Glenn thought it was so important that he recapped it on tonight's show (in under three minutes!):
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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
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I have some very exciting news! Citizens United Productions has just announced an all rights distribution deal for our newest film Occupy Unmasked with Magnet Releasing, the genre arm of Magnolia Pictures, owned by Mark Cuban and Todd Wagner. Magnet is giving the film a limited theatrical release with VOD in late September to be followed by the DVD release. I've attached the full press release at the bottom of this email. While the Liberal establishment and mainstream media portray the Occupy Wall Street movement as organic and nonviolent, Occupy Unmasked reveals the sinister, organized, and highly orchestrated nature of its leaders and their number one goal: Not just to change government, but to destroy it. Led by hugely influential conservative visionary, the late Andrew Breitbart, Occupy Unmasked delves deep beneath the surface of the Occupy movement to show its dark anarchist roots. Behind the largely naïve students and legitimately concerned citizens looking for answers stand those who advocate the use of violence, black bloc operations, and intimidation as protest tactics - the same tactics they used during the anti-war protests of the 1960's, anti-nuclear weapons protests of the 80's, WTO protests of the 90's, and the IMF protests of recent years. Former leftists turned patriotic citizen journalists Brandon Darby, David Horowitz, Pam Keys, Anita MonCrief, Mandy Nagy, Lee Stranahan, and others take viewers into the Occupy camps around the country to see first-hand the truth of what is happening and who is at the heart of the movement. Exclusive footage and eyewitness accounts tell the story of the criminal activity and raw brutality in the camps - much of which has not been reported by the mainstream media. Directed by Stephen K. Bannon (The Undefeated, Generation Zero), Occupy Unmasked is an eye-opening look at a startling movement that could have a dangerous impact on the future of America. CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THIS EXPLOSIVE FILM! Sincerely, David N. BossiePresident of Citizens United
Executive Producer of Occupy Unmasked P.S. We continue to take pre-orders so be the first to own Occupy Unmasked on DVD by purchasing TODAY!
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Magnet Releasing to Distribute Andrew Breitbart Doc OCCUPY UNMASKED New York, August 6, 2012 - The Wagner/Cuban Company's Magnet Releasing announced today an all rights distribution deal for Citizens United Productions' documentary OCCUPY UNMASKED, one of the last projects featuring the late conservative icon Andrew Breitbart. OCCUPY UNMASKED was written and directed by award-winning director Stephen K. Bannon and produced by David N. Bossie. Magnet is giving the film a limited theatrical release day and date with VOD in late September. "This film is controversial, and that's exactly the reason we want to ensure it can find its audience prior to the November elections," said Mark Cuban, co-owner of Magnet. "I look forward to our partnership with Citizens United Productions and to getting this film out to the masses." OCCUPY UNMASKED takes viewers into the Occupy Wall Street camps around the country in New York, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., Portland, Denver and Oakland for an up-close look at what's happened there and who's at the heart of the movement, documenting criminal activity and raw brutality in the camps - much of which has not been reported by the mainstream media. In addition to Andrew Breitbart, the film features journalists Brandon Darby, David Horowitz, Pam Keys, Anita MonCrief, Mandy Nagy, and Lee Stranahan. "I am proud to announce that Citizens United Productions is teaming up with Mark Cuban and Magnet to distribute OCCUPY UNMASKED, and elevate the film the Left does not want the American people to see," said Producer David N. Bossie. "This distribution deal will keep the groundbreaking work of the late conservative icon Andrew Breitbart alive for years to come." "As a dear friend of Andrew's, I could not be more thrilled that this deal got completed and all Americans will have an opportunity to see one of Andrew Breitbart's final pieces of work," said writer/director Stephen K. Bannon. "This film is important because it sheds new light on the myth of the Occupy Wall Street movement. I know audiences across the country will be startled by what we uncovered in this explosive documentary."
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Wrath & Righteousness: Episode Three (Son of the Morning) is Now Available
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Great news: The third episode in the WRATH & RIGHTEOUSNESS e-book series has just been released!
If you haven't started reading the series yet, now is the perfect time! You'll find easy download links to all episodes by visiting the Mercury Ink site.
A Dark Power Rises
"Even as I whisper to you you, Father, even as my breath touches your ear, the final battle has begun. The sun is setting on the frail world you have known. It is passing, and with its passing, the greater kingdom shall come."
The death of the Saudi King has removed the final barrier between peace and chaos. Prince Abdullah al-Raman, a pawn of Lucifer and the Forces of Darkness has taken over the throne and is now in a position to draw Israel and the Unisted States into an unprecedented war. MORE
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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'd like to encourage you to plan ahead -- and help you save enough -- by providing you with additional savings if you make your decision soon. If you register for the 2013 Summit by August 15th, you will only have to pay half the full Summit price.
We pray that we will see you in Washington, D.C. July 22- 24, 2013.
May God Bless You and Those That You Love,
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Tom Smith For Senate Phone Banking
The FreedomWorks PA team is ready to train all of our activists on our phone bank system for GOP Senate candidate Tom Smith!!! If you are interested in having a webinar set up for your group, please contact Ana Puig, , or Anastasia Przybylski, .
If you can't wait for a webinar and would like to give this a try without any help, please find below the phone bank tutorial FreedomWorks has developed:
Thank you!
Runaway Slave Movie
We had a great time together at the premiere of The Runaway Slave. Thanks to all that came out to the corner rally, movie, and the after party. It was great to be with so many patriots. Because turn out has been good at the Warrington location, the movie will play until August 9th. If you haven't seen the movie, please go see it. It is the only way we will be able to get conservative movies to come to the theater in the future.
Yours in Liberty,
The Kitchen Table Patriots
Web: TheKitchenTablePatriots.org
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1) Runaway Slave Movie The movie , begins today Friday July 27. Times are 12:50pm, 3:30pm, 6:40pm, and 9:25pm only in Warrington (and Philly, not shown). Tickets are $11.50 (or $8.50 for seniors), available . Regal Warrington Crossing 40 Easton Rd., Bldg. F Warrington, PA 18976 (215) 918-1667 2) King of Prussia sidewalk rally Our sister group out of King of Prussia, the General Wayne Tea Party, has a wonderful rally every Saturday. They're having great responses by the passing motorists by the mall. Let's get down there and help! Time and location: 1:00 to 4:00 P.M. at the intersection of at the King of Prussia Mall. Park in the lot ADJACENT TO the Wells Fargo lot; do not park in the WF lot. Bring an intelligent, tasteful sign, or use one of theirs. Stay for as long as you want. 3) Oaks gun show - help man CAF's table Several of you expressed interest in helping man their table at the Oaks Gun Show, Aug 25 - Aug 26, 2012 at the Greater Philadelphia Expo Center, 100 Station Avenue, Oaks PA. Email Carl Peretta, , with your availability asap. We are free to bring our literature. It will be a Tea Party type table, not a gun table. 4) Philip movie night before PTPP meetings Group member Philip has revamped his movie night, which is now at 6pm every 2nd Thursday at Rock (857 Main Street Harleysville). This is one hour before our monthly meetings at the same location. This may be more convenient. He will show the Wallbuilders' and similar shows. 6) Rep Mike Fitzpatrick fundraiser Many of us now have Mike Fitzpatrick as our US Congressman. Unsure if you do? See the redistricted .These new districts take effect in January 2013 , however, the 2012 elections will determine who the representative will be for the new districts. Mike is being challenged by a liberal democrat. He's having a fundraiser/meet and greet on Wed August 8 in Telford. Here are the . Your Assignments
1. Check that every member of your family is registered to vote correctly by checking here. (except those that are Obama fans). If they're not right, help them fix it.
2. Check for empty billboards, remember the company (Lamar, Clear Channel, etc) and location, and email us or call the company to check it's availability and cost yourself, and let us know.
3. Submit your ideas for a billboard and for bullet points on a pamphlet. Must be short and powerful.
4. Check out FreedomWorks' "Freedom Connector", a networking site that allows real-time communication between other patriots around the country.
5. Call our senators for this bill: Federal Reserve Transparency Act of 2011 (Rand Paul) - click on link for details and talking points. The House version (H.B. 459) passed the House recently.
6. Register to get Atlas Shrugged Part 2 showing in our area. Register here.
7. Write a letter to the editor. I'll ask at next meeting for a show of hands of those who did, I want to see many hands; I want to impress our speaker (and I want our group to be a force!)
The Reporter: letters@thereporteronline.com
The Intelligencer: feedback@phillyburbs.com
The Philadelphia Inquirer: Inquirer.Letters@phillynews.com
8. Approach your nearby retirement community and confirm the residents are informed about Voter ID. See the resource link below for information to give them (a quick info card and FAQs). Also offer some voter registration and absentee ballots (we have some registrations and will get some absentees). Some Resources
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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!
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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.
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By allowing our attention to be focused exclusively on the danger and prevention of terrorism, we ignore the many other ways we are being attacked. Specifically, we are missing what our Islamist enemies call their 'civilization jihad' - a form of warfare that employs manipulative financial techniques, lawfare, infiltration of our civil institutions and government and insidious information dominance. Together, these have the effect of exploiting our liberties and governing structures against us, so that our leaders wind up imposing the very anti-American values that our enemies promote.
Welcome to The Muslim Brotherhood in America: The Enemy Within - a 10-part, web-based video briefing that is designed to explain why and how this is happening.
It addresses a threat most Americans are unaware even exists within our country, let alone the degree of peril it represents.
The threat is the totalitarian, supremacist Islamic doctrine its adherents call "shariah" and the organized, disciplined and increasingly successful efforts by such adherents-- most especially the Muslim Brotherhood-- to bring it here.
We are making this course available in the hope of encouraging, informing and broadening support for national efforts to defeat the insinuation into this country of shariah's anti-constitutional and seditious program.
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"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.
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FREE Training Conference
Saturday, August 18, 2012
Washington Dulles Airport Marriott
45020 Aviation Drive * Dulles, Virginia * (703) 471-9500
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Brigitte Gabriel and our National Staff want to personally invest our time with you and have worked hard to provide a FREE training for our members in the region around D.C.!
Please join us for the Northern Virginia Citizens in Action Training Conference.
If you are concerned about the growing threat of radical Islam and Sharia Law to our great land and you haven't seen a plan of action to meet this evil head on, here's your opportunity to join with us for real, measurable results.
Results that make a difference, not just a statement.
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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"...After 8 hours in that chair ............. I was ready for another 8 hours - it seemed to end too soon..."
"I was literally stunned. Wow! Brigitte Gabriel has assembled an incredible team to support her message of action and hope!"
"...As much as the issue depresses me, and I could cry every time I think about what is happening to the West, I left yesterday's conference energized and inspired. The day reminded me that I am *not* alone, after all, in trying to resist the dangerous absurdity of radical Islam that is being forced on us. I'm in desperate need of such reminders, as I'm sure most of us are. Whenever I'm close to despair, I remind myself of Brigitte's message. Thank you so much for this incredible training day!"
"...What an amazing seminar!"
"...I have never spent a better $45, 104 miles and 12 hours!" (Previous pricing for a similar event. We're wanting to involve as many as possible from this region, so for this event only, it's free!)
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You can find out more and register online by clicking here.
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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Defense of Environment and Property Act
You and I are on the verge of losing a vital battle to stop the EPA's reign of terror on property owners.
The only way to win is to strongly demand that more members of the U.S. Senate co-sponsor and support Senator Rand Paul's new bill.
If we fail, the bill will die.
Let me explain.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Army Corps of Engineers, U.S. Forest Service, National Park Service, and the Fish and Wildlife Service have become OUTLAW agencies of our federal government.
And it's time we brought them under control.
Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) has introduced a bill to do just that. It's called the Defense of Environment and Property Act of 2012 (S. 2122).
Senator Paul's Bill is vital for the protection of private property and personal freedom. It is a new weapon to stop enforcement of Agenda 21 policies.
It is urgent that you sign the enclosed petition to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell urging support for S.2122 so that we can finally put a stop to the outrages of these outlaw agencies.
Why do I call these federal agencies Outlaws?
Because they are making their own rules under the pretext of enforcing federal law, particularly the Clean Water Act. As a result, they are ruining the lives of innocent, law abiding Americans and locking away millions of acres of private land - using the excuse of protecting the environment.
- They pretend that occasional mud puddles are wet lands that have to be protected.
- They arrest property owners for simply improving their land, claiming they have violated the Clean Water Act. Many have served prison time for nothing more than putting some fill dirt in a ditch.
- They block property owners from building on their land.
- And they issue crushing fines against property owners, even when there is no proven violation.
- They sneak onto private land looking for violations. And sometimes they even manufacture those violations and then arrest the owners.
- And when they declare an area of the property to be a wetland, true or not, the property owner can no longer use the land, nor sell it.
This is government out of control.
This is a tyranny orchestrated to enforce the policies of Agenda 21 and Sustainable Development.
But you and I can stop it.
We need to build support for Senator Paul's Bill, "Defense of Environment and Property Act, S.2122."
His bill defines exactly what a "navigable water way" is. It is not a mud puddle or a temporary runoff of rain water. How sad it is that a Senate Bill has to clarify these definitions for government agencies entrusted to comply with the law.
But that's what must be done.
Senator Paul's bill also makes it mandatory that Federal agents get written permission from the property owner to enter the land. No more sneaking!
And finally, Senator Paul's bill tells the federal government that, if it takes private land, then it has to pay double the value of the land to the landowner.
Why? Because once the government declares that land is a wetland - the property value plummets. Doubling the price will help enforce the "just compensation" provisions of the 5th Amendment to the Constitution.
S.2122 will help stop enforcement of the UN's Agenda 21 that the EPA and these other federal agencies are working to enforce.
So, please, right now, sign your enclosed "Support S.2122" petition to your U.S. Senator
I need thousands of these signed petitions to build support for the bill.
Remember, we have to force it past Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid - one of the worst violators of American property rights and individual liberties. And he decides what bills are brought to the Senate floor for a vote.
Only by flooding Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's office with signed petitions can we bi-pass Harry Reid and force a vote for S.2122. The good news is that Senator Paul is Senator McConnell's fellow senator from Kentucky. He will help us get a vote if he sees enough support for the bill from Americans nationwide.
But it won't happen without our efforts! So please sign your petition today!
And, if you can, please call your two Senators and demand they co-sponsors the bill. 30 co-sponsors would assure the bill would get action.
And will you also include a contribution to APC with your signed petition? APC has been on the front lines fighting these agencies for many years.
In fact, APC is one of the only organizations that's been in this fight from the beginning. I have personally worked with some of the victims I've described here. I have shared their tears and frustrations and I pledged to get justice for them.
You and I must stop these outlaw agencies before they ruin the lives of more innocent Americans. Your financial support of APC will help make sure that happens.
You have seen what APC can do when we take on a battle. The huge national battle now raging across the nation against Agenda 21 is a direct result of APC's 18 year fight to expose this massive UN threat. I never gave up. I kept fighting against all odds. And as a result - today we are making huge progress to in stopping Agenda 21.
Your financial support is all I have to wage these battles. No corporations will give us grants because APC is too controversial. Nor will any large foundations - for the same reason.
And that's OK with me. I much prefer to be supported by dedicated individual contributors like you. That keeps APC independent and much more effective in our fight against the tyrannical forces like the UN and the EPA.
So, please, will you help me lead this battle to pass Senator Rand Paul's Defense of Environment and Property Act (S.2122) so we can reign in these outlaw agencies.
Whatever amount you can send - I urgently need it today. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid will do everything he can to kill S. 2122 so that these outlaw agencies can continue to terrorize American property owners.
With your signed petition to Minority Leader McConnell, and your generous contribution to APC today, we can win. Please join me in this battle to stop these outlaw agencies.
Click here to sign your petition now
Sincerely,
Tom DeWeese
President
P.S. Senator Paul's bill needs more co-sponsors to stay alive. The best way to get them is to call your two senators and ask them to co-sponsor. Tell them it is vital that we reign in the power of this outlaw agency before it destroys our property rights. I've enclosed the phone number for the U.S. Senate switch board on the enclosed reply form. Please do it today.
Tom DeWeese's Newsire
It Begins... Federal Government Sues to Gain Control of Southern State's Water Supply
Gateway Pundit | "The lawyers told the committee the U.S. government is apparently trying to take over legal management of the state's water supply. The federal government has asserted claims for damages to groundwater in a natural resource damage case in New Mexico involving Chevron/Molycorp. The claim seeks for those damages to be awarded in the form of future water rights management." All over the country water rights are being stolen. In Tennessee it is for "mitigation" purposes, in California it is for the "smelt" (a tiny fish). You name a state and if the powers-that-be haven't begun the theft of water rights, they have the blueprint on their desks. Without water we cannot live; they know that but do most Americans? If so, where are their voices?
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Tom DeWeese Of American Policy Center At Fauquier County Tea Party Protest
Yesterday this blog was privileged to attend and document a protest in favor of liberty, private property, and the general American imperative to resist the Bloomberg-ification (if you will) of our lives. Tom DeWeese of APC offers a high-level overview of the situation, touching on some of the creepier Agenda 21 aspects of the issue.
[Watch the video]
Edited by Kathleen Marquardt
To all "Stop Agenda 21" Activists:
I need your help. APC is helping to build a comprehensive research archive of information in our fight against Agenda 21. Right now, we need hi resolution photos and videos of town hall meetings or other gatherings, such as rallies in front of city hall, etc. This material must not be copyrighted. This can include photos of movement leaders, perhaps speaking to groups and rallies, photos of local planning meetings, the UN, the HUD and EPA buildings, local planned communities in your area, of land that has been grabbed, businesses that have been shut down, anything related to sustainable development policies and related results.
Send your photos and videos to (online) at admin@americanpolicy.org, or, if not online, mail to American Policy Center, P.O. Box 3598, Warrenton, VA 20188. Be sure to describe what you are sending! Thanks, Tom
SFL
It's coming!
...and the battle to stop Agenda 21 and Sustainable Development will be electrified!
Watch for my announcement in coming weeks.
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'Pizza Tax' Only a Hint of Obamacare's Costs
Papa John's Pizza founder John Schnatter spurred new outrage over Obamacare when he said recently that the law will hike pizza prices. But his business isn't the only one that will have to pass its new costs on to consumers-or cut back, which will mean even fewer jobs.
At least 60 percent of firms are estimating Obamacare will raise their health care costs, according to a new study released Wednesday by Mercer, a human resources consulting firm. One-third of those expect a cost increase of 5 percent or more. The study reports:
The employers that will be hit hardest are those with large part-time populations-employers in retail and hospitality services. Nearly half of these employers (46%) expect PPACA will push up cost by at least 3% in 2014-and another third don't yet know what the impact will be.
A full third of the businesses can't even estimate Obamacare's impact yet-because so many of the law's rules have yet to be written by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). And a number of its main provisions don't go into effect until 2014.
The impact of this outlook-staring down cost increases mixed with the uncertainty of more government mandates and costly regulations to come-falls heavily on the economy.
Obamacare requires all businesses with 50 or more full-time employees to provide health coverage for their workers or pay a $2,000 penalty for each employee after the first 30 workers. Some businesses have expressed that they are likely to avoid hiring so they don't go over the 50-worker threshold for mandated coverage; also, they are likely to cut workers' hours so that they don't qualify as full-time to avoid the penalty.
This is especially tough for restaurants, which provide lots of jobs for low-income workers. The Wall Street Journal reported that "McDonald's Corp. Chief Financial Officer Peter Bensen said in an earnings call two weeks ago that each restaurant will incur between $10,000 and $30,000 in added annual costs because of provisions in the law."
The restaurant group that owns Hardee's and Carl's Jr., CKE Restaurants, will face the choice between expansion-creating new jobs-and tightening its belt to deal with Obamacare, its CEO lamented. Andy Puzder, CEO of CKE Restaurants, said:
The money to comply with the [Affordable Care Act] must come from somewhere. We use our revenue to pay our bills and expenses, to pay down our debt, and we reinvest what's left in our business. That's how we create jobs. There's no corporate pot of gold we can go to, to cover increased health care costs. New unit construction will cease if we have to allocate moneys for that construction to the ACA. And building new restaurants is how we create jobs.
Of course, as costs increase on businesses, more will likely decide to drop health coverage for their workers altogether. Surveys have indicated that anywhere from 11 million to 35 million Americans will lose the health insurance they have through their jobs.
Yet this is part of Obamacare's design. House minority leader and Obamacare advocate Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said that "the way we see it is an innovative prevention-oriented way for businesses to be emancipated from health care costs because they have a way out or whatever works for them."
Once businesses are "emancipated from health care costs," their employees will be going to government to get coverage. As more people are dependent on government for their health care, the cost burden simply shifts to taxpayers.
Pelosi describes this as businesses' "way out." But the effects are harmful to job creators, workers, taxpayers, and consumers. There is no way out except repeal of Obamacare.
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Multi-state Voter Guide from Heritage Foundation and Florida Voter Guide from Florida Family Policy Council.
Your vote is important to Defending American Values.
Multi-state Voter Guide from Heritage Foundation.
Regardless of the state that you live in you will likely find voter information for US House and US Senate races prepared by the Heritage Foundation.
Click here for Heritage Foundation voter information.
The following states have primaries on the respective dates:
- Hawaii Saturday, August 11, 2012
- Connecticut Tuesday, August 14, 2012
- Florida Tuesday, August 14, 2012
- Minnesota Tuesday, August 14, 2012
- Wisconsin Tuesday , August 14, 2012
- Georgia Tuesday, August 28, 2012
- Wyoming Tuesday, August 28, 2012
- Arkansas Tuesday, September 11, 2012
- Arizona Tuesday, September 11, 2012
- Oklahoma Tuesday, September 11, 2012
- Vermont Tuesday, September 11, 2012
- Delaware Tuesday, September 18, 2012
- New Hampshire Tuesday, September 18, 2012
- Rhode Island Tuesday, September 18, 2012
Click here for Heritage Foundation voter information.
Florida Family Association, Inc. P.O. Box 46547, Tampa, FL 33646-0105 Telephone 813-264-5888
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Victory Center" on Facebook
-Gabriel Malor
Last week I had the opportunity to get a sneak-peek at the RNC's new Facebook application. Designed, in the words of one RNC staffer to "take our message where the people are," the Social Victory Center app will, among other things, hook users up with campaign news targeted based on their location and preferences (which Facebook already knows, of course), let users join volunteer efforts, distribute voter registration forms, and provide an online phone bank, all without leaving the Facebook website. It will also, if users wish, put those activities on the user's Facebook wall, letting their friends see what they're up to and, hopefully, encouraging them to join in.
It's an attempt to leverage Facebook's popularity in a new way and, at the moment, the Democrats have nothing like it. The Social Victory Center was unveiled to the public yesterday, so if you're on Facebook, check it out. As the general election ramps up, check back for volunteer activities as they're added. Also, like I did in 2008, I'll be pushing online phone banking in the final weeks of the election, only this time the RNC will have done the heavy-lifting that the McCain team wasn't too keen on. LINK: http://ace.mu.nu/
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RedState Morning Briefing
For August 13, 2012
1. The Argument
Saturday on Twitter, my buddy Tom Crowe summed up what the two Presidential campaigns are all about:
So #2012election comes down to GOP: "We trust you." vs. Dems: "Trust us."
This should not be a hard sell.
Americans remain pessimistic about the economy and future.
The news continues to be bad.
And in Barack Obama's America, it is no longer enough to work hard to succeed. You also have to make a campaign donation to Obama for America.
Please click here for the rest of the post.
2. Greater Risk. Greater Reward.
I expected Mitt Romney to pick Bob McDonnell as his running mate. I've said repeatedly that my two choices were either Bobby Jindal or Paul Ryan, but I expected Bob McDonnell. I'm delighted I got who I wanted and not who I expected. Paul Ryan is a daring choice.
I've talked to a lot of Republicans over the weekend and 48 hours after Paul Ryan stepped out at the USS Wisconsin to become Mitt Romney's running mate, there is a rumbling of nervous excitement, but also some serious worry. There is a pretty clear consensus that Paul Ryan as the veep pick was actually a dangerous and very risky pick signaling Romney's internal polling might not be so great in swing states. At the same time, everyone largely acknowledges that there is, in the greater risk of the pick, a greater reward if the Romney-Ryan ticket wins.
Please click here for the rest of the post.
3. These are the words of a man who should be (Vice) President
Last week Charles Krauthammer wrote a column that I consider one of his best in quite a while, titled "The case against re-election." In it, he examined Obama's failed programs and legislation and the potential campaign strategy for Mitt Romney. Krauthammer's most important point focused on how important it is for Mitt Romney - and now Paul Ryan - to campaign against Obama on ideological grounds.
Please click here for the rest of the post.
4. Obama cuts Medicare more than Romney would
To borrow a phrase from President Reagan, there they go again.
As soon as Mitt Romney announced Congressman Paul Ryan as his vice presidential running mate the Democrats again started with their debunked and discredited MediScare campaign. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee called Ryan "the architect of the Republican plan to kill Medicare" in a fundraising message sent by DCCC Executive Director Robby Mook. A false charge that the left-leaning Politifact called the 2011 "lie of the year."
Please click here for the rest of the post.
5. Beyond Boycotting, Upset Unions to Picket DNC's Charlotte Convention
Despite throwing 400,000 foot soldiers into the effort to re-elect Barack Obama, union bosses are apparently still seething at the DNC's decision to hold its convention in a [gasp!] Right-to-Work state.
Last year, when the DNC announced that it would be holding its convention in Charlotte, North Carolina-the least unionized state in the nation (in a stadium built by non-union labor!)-several unions claimed they would be boycotting the convention.
The boycott, according to USA Today, is hampering the DNC's fundraising efforts.
Please click here for the rest of the post.
6. Does Drilling in ANWR Make More Sense than the Alaskan Offshore?
At this writing, Shell Oil is awaiting final permits from the Department of the Interior and EPA to drill two of five wells in the Arctic Ocean offshore Alaska that were originally planned for 2012. Later than normal breakup of pack ice also caused Shell some delays.
Please click here for the rest of the post.
Sincerely yours,
Erick Erickson
Editor,RedState.com
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August 13, 2012
Today's Articles:
Paul Ryan and the Triumph of Math
08-12-2012 02:04:59 AM
"Obama's most horrifying nightmare" brought to life...»
Ryan Pick Targets Key Demographic
08-12-2012 02:04:50 AM
The perfect alternative to Obama for desperate, young, unemployed voters. Chip away at the demographic to raise the kind of doubts that lead a millennial or Gen Y member who would never vote for a Republican to simply stay home....»
Apocalypse Soon
08-12-2012 02:04:50 AM
A review of The Last Israelis by Noah Beck....»
A Train Ride with a Young Progressive
08-12-2012 02:04:16 AM
How sad!...»
A Mosque Is Not Like a Church or a Synagogue
08-12-2012 02:04:15 AM
The marked proliferation of mosques in the U.S. since 9/11 should raise a red flag for Americans....»
The European Court of Human Rights and Free-Speech Schizophrenia
08-12-2012 02:04:00 AM
When it comes to free speech, it appears that the ECHR can't figure out its own position from one day to the next....»
Filmmaker Dennis M. Lynch Exposes the Illusory Fence "Protecting" Our Border
08-12-2012 02:03:50 AM
From one forgotten 21-year-old vote to a hard-hitting documentary, Dennis Lynch has truly undergone a political metamorphosis over illegal immigration....»
Is Obama Just or Unjust?
08-12-2012 02:03:14 AM
One thing is certain: President Barack Obama is not a "nice guy." Stop conceding the point....»
Saudi Leadership: A Continual Failure
08-12-2012 02:02:30 AM
The Saudi people want freedom and an end to oppression. However, they are becoming increasingly convinced that violent action might be the only avenue available for securing their basic human rights....»
Three Truths to Consider This November
08-12-2012 02:02:00 AM
Every once in a while, America has to be like Steve McQueen in that scene from the 1973 film Papillon, where he sticks his head through his prison bars and asks, "How do I look?"...»
The Soul-Crushing Scorched-Earth Battle for Gay Marriage
08-11-2012 02:04:58 AM
The gay marriage movement has finally crossed the line into insanity. They must burn their own villages to save them from their phantasmal bullies....»
Doubling Our Votes
08-11-2012 02:04:18 AM
If each of us can flip just one voter to our side, we can double the power of our votes on election day. Wait! Don't start rolling your eyes. I used to be a liberal. There are ways to inspire this kind of transition in others....»
Teachers' Unions in Action
08-11-2012 02:04:15 AM
From extortion to sexual abuse, we can expect only the finest conduct from public-employee teachers' unions across the nation....»
Political Legitimacy and the Special Interest State
08-11-2012 02:04:05 AM
The current state of American politics is even worse than most people want to admit....»
For Us or against Us
08-11-2012 02:03:45 AM
A vote for incumbent president Barack Obama in November is a vote against the United States Constitution. Furthermore, it is a vote for one's own enslavement....»
Tyrants Looming: Obama and the Dictators of South America
08-11-2012 02:03:40 AM
Our president already has a cozy relationship with the dictatorial dregs of the western hemisphere -- and it will only get worse with a second term....»
Meaningless Words and Phrases
08-11-2012 02:03:31 AM
The empty rhetoric is getting out of hand. What does anyone mean when they say these things?...»
Why Obama Thought Going Toxic Was a No-Lose Strategy
08-10-2012 02:04:54 AM
Factor one: the Obama base will believe any lie about Romney....»
Will Israel Help Re-Elect Obama?
08-10-2012 02:04:11 AM
Obama may actually be handed a gift in October, and depending upon what he does with that opportunity, it may provide him with a guaranteed win on November 6....»
Rooting for the Investor Next Door
08-10-2012 02:04:10 AM
For months, I have witnessed Tony and his brother working on their investment property. America used to cheer guys like him....»
Psychopaths-in-Chief
08-10-2012 02:04:05 AM
Sometimes the leader is crazy....»
Does High Unemployment Really Hurt Obama?
08-10-2012 02:04:00 AM
States with high unemployment rates are likely to vote for President Obama, and states with low rates are likely to vote for Governor Romney. What is going on?...»
Neighbor Spying on Neighbor in Obama's America
08-10-2012 02:03:17 AM
Barack Obama, meet Pavlik Morosov, hero of the USSR....»
Rise Up and Die: Hillary Clinton on Aleppo in February
08-10-2012 02:03:10 AM
If Secretary of State Clinton didn't mean to help the people of Aleppo, she shouldn't have encouraged them to rise up and die....»
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Whenever discussing Man-Made Global Warming, always refer to it as "Man-Bear Pig," after the ludicrous imaginary monster invented by Al Gore in a famous episode of South Park.
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by MATTHEW BOYLE
The pensions of Delphi salaried retirees were significantly reduced in the aftermath of the bailout, while their union counterparts were made whole. These retirees, regardless of labor affiliation or not, spent their careers working alongside one another and should not be treated differently in their retirement.
by KYLE SHIDELER
Movement in Syria's weapons of mass destruction arsenal is worrying to all interested parties, especially to keep them out of the hands of terrorist organizations. What must the Obama administration do to prevent this - and will they?
by ANDREW C. MCCARTHY
A candidate for a high position in an executive branch agency - a position that entails a great deal of influence over public policy, a position that requires access to highly classified national security information - comes in for an interview by the FBI.
by EDWARD CLINE
Is there a crucial, fundamental connection between property rights and freedom of speech?
by LAURENCE KOTLIKOFF AND SCOTT BURNS
The fiscal gap is the present value difference between projected future spending and revenue. It captures all government liabilities, whether they are official obligations to service Treasury bonds or unofficial commitments, such as paying for food stamps or buying drones.
by TOM MCLAUGHLIN
The legions of left-wing loonies with whom we share this continent have continued their antics, as a few short items from last week indicate.
by CHRISTOPHER ADAMO
Nevertheless, real America is pushing back in complete defiance of the presumed clout of the "politically correct."
by THE GLOBAL MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD DAILY REPORT
The Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) is an Islamic, Palestinian nationalist organization that violently opposes the existence of Israel.
by JAMES DELINGPOLE
NOAA, the U.S. government body in charge of America's temperature record, has systematically exaggerated the extent of late 20th century global warming.
by ABRAHAM RABINOVICH
Saudi Arabia has informed U.S. officials that it will intercept any Israeli aircraft attempting to reach Iran through Saudi airspace, Tel Aviv daily Yediot Ahronot reported yesterday.
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This issue of the ITAI WEEKLY MIDDLE EAST REPORT is titled DEJU VU WITH MAHMOUD ABBAS. Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas will do everything to avoid peace negotiations with Israel, while Netanyahu cannot do enough to lure Abbas to the negotiating table. In the meantime, the Obama administration and other are pressuring Israel for more concessions.
DEJU VU WITH MAHMOUD ABBAS
By: Joseph Puder
We are about to experience deju vu with Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen), President of the Palestinian Authority (PA) as he will attempt to have the U.N. General Assembly recognize the PA - this time - as a Non-Member Observer State by the U.N. General Assembly, an upgrade they hope will firmly establish the West Bank, Gaza and east Jerusalem, captured by Israel in 1967 Six Day War, as Palestinian territories in the eyes of the world. Abbas will address the U.N. General Assembly on Sept. 27, and then file the application for observer state recognition with the world body, said Palestinian Authority Foreign Minister Riad Malki.
The Palestinians failed last year to gain the necessary majority in the U.N. Security Council as a member State, and will seek an alternative path in the form of a non-member Observer state. Their current status at the U.N. is non-state observer and they are represented by Riyad Mansour. Riad Malki recently said, "The application will be deposited and then we will be in touch with the members of the General Assembly, consulting with them on the proper timing for applying."
Mahmoud Abbas it seems will do anything to avoid negotiations with Israel on a permanent peace agreement. On the other hand, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu cannot do enough to lure Abbas and the Palestinians to the negotiating table. Last month Netanyahu offered, through his negotiator Itzhak Molcho, to free 25 Palestinian security prisoners convicted of murdering Israelis, along with a subsequent release of 100 prisoners over four stages by the end of 2012. Netanyahu requested in exchange that Abbas meet with him and resume negotiations. Abbas, through his negotiator Saeb Erekat, refused the offer and demanded the release of all 123 prisoners being held in Israeli jails since prior to the Oslo Accords (1993). Abbas' second demand was that PA security forces in the West Bank be provided with new weapons.
Netanyahu, giving in undoubtedly to U.S. pressure (Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on a visit to Israel July 16, 2012, stated that "the status quo is unsustainable"), declared last week that he will double the number of prisoners to be released to 50 on condition that Abbas freeze his intended application to the U.N. for non-member observer state status in September; that Abbas meets with him, and, resumes the negotiations between the Palestinians and Israel. Netanyahu moreover, agreed to the Palestinian demand for new weapons.
True to the adage that the "squeaky wheel gets the grease," Abbas' failure to hold elections in the West Bank and his lack of popularity among the Palestinians is being compensated for by his getting a great deal of international attention. And while events in the Arab world, especially in Egypt and Syria, have overshadowed the Palestinian issue, Abbas' recent posturing, and his threats to go to the UN, has kept the Palestinian issue in the forefront and has succeeded in pressuring Israel to make further concessions to the Palestinians.
Tony Blair, former British Prime Minister and the current Quartet representative to the Middle East, will be in the area this week - a visit that comes on the heels of Russian President Putin's June meetings with Abbas in Bethlehem and PM Netanyahu. Blair will, no doubt, be seeking further concessions from Israel in order to persuade Abbas to return to the negotiating table. During Putin's visit to Israel and his meeting with Netanyahu, he was asked by Netanyahu to convey to Abbas the following message, "The key to peace is complex but in the end it is very simple: Either PA President Abbas must come here (to Jerusalem) or I must go to him, and I am willing for either of these possibilities to occur, either way however, we must begin to talk."
Last week, top officials representing 11 member countries of NAM - the Non-Aligned Movement (Indonesia , South Africa , Malaysia , Egypt , Zimbabwe , Zambia , Senegal , Colombia , India , Cuba and Bangladesh ) were scheduled to meet with Abbas in Ramallah. Representatives of four of the countries, Indonesia, Malaysia, Cuba, and Bangladesh, were denied entry by Israel as their countries have no diplomatic relations with the Jewish state. NAM is made up of 120 countries (mainly Asian, African and Latin American) and constitutes almost two-thirds of the General Assembly membership. Abbas expects that most of these countries will back his application to upgrade the status of "Palestine". Should the Palestinian ploy succeed, it will enable them to join a number of U.N. agencies including the International Court of Justice.
The Obama administration, along with the European Union, is applying pressure on the Palestinians in Ramallah to postpone their application to the U.N. until after the U.S. elections in November. In the meantime a debate among the Palestinians rages on. Abbas is inclined towards complying with Obama's request to delay the U.N. application while Hanan Ashrawi, a member of the P.L.O. Executive Committee disagrees, saying "There are some who might want to wait until after November because of American pressure, but the Americans have done nothing but put pressure on the Palestinians, without delivering anything." She added, "What we need is to move fast."
It is difficult to predict what President Obama will do if he should be reelected in November. But it is reasonable to assume that he will have a debt to repay should Abbas wait until after the U.S. elections. It is also clear that in such an eventuality Obama would pressure Israel to end all Israeli construction in Judea, Samaria, and Jerusalem - in keeping with a demand Abbas has made to the U.S.
Mahmoud Abbas is raising the ante to make it impossible to reach an agreement. He knows, as Arafat knew before him (at the Camp David Summit of July 2000), that he must deliver on the "Palestinians right of return" into Israel, a condition that no Israeli government could possibly accept (an acceptance of such a condition would be akin to demographic and political suicide). Abbas, even more so than Arafat, is keenly aware that compromising on the "right of return" is not merely political suicide for him, but is a certain invitation to be assassinated.
Moreover, with Hamas breathing at his neck and eager to expose him as an "American lackey," Abbas is limited in his capacity to maneuver. But, this assumes that he is remotely amenable in his heart to making peace with Israel. A former deputy to Arafat's terrorist organization and an author of a PhD thesis that is nothing less than Holocaust denial, Abbas may be bribed to a degree to make a few gestures for peace, but he will not make a real peace with the Jewish state.
The Obama administration, pushing the "peace process" as a key policy initiative in the Middle East, refuses to recognize the fact that even if Abbas returned to the negotiating table, the talks are unlikely to result in a meaningful peace. Pushing Israel to make dangerous territorial and other concessions can only encourage the Palestinians (and the Arab states) to believe that Israel can be pressured through its western friends to ultimate submission. Netanyahu must therefore learn to say no to additional conditions set by Abbas, and repeat those denials to American and European governments. Israel must not implore Abbas to return to the negotiating table; instead, it must set three basic counter conditions: the Palestinians must forego the "right of return" to Israel; they must recognize Israel as a Jewish State; and, a future Palestinian state must be demilitarized.
Abbas is certain to get his recognition from the U.N. General Assembly next September, or beyond, but Israel still holds the major cards - it controls most of the West Bank outside the major Palestinian cities. And, Israel always has the option of a one-state solution in which Israel incorporates all of the West Bank.
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Sign peitition to support effort by Rep's Michele Bachmann (R-MN), Trent Franks (R-AZ), Louie Gohmert (R-TX), Tom Rooney (R-FL), and Lynn Westmoreland (R-GA) to Expose Government Infiltration by Radical Islamists
Let the leaders of the Muslim community in Tallahasse, FL, explain their agenda to you in this video (click image) of their "Muslim Capital Day" celebration from the 22nd floor of the State Capitol: "If you are going to go after Muslims, Muslims [are] going to go after you."
Apparently this is exactly what they're doing to Michele Bachman, Trent Franks, Louie Gohmert, and Tom Rooney.
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Help Expose the Danger Posed by Radical Islamists to our National Security!
Our LCA petition supports the call by five Members of Congress for widespread investigations into the infiltration of Muslim extremists, especially members of the Muslim Brotherhood,into our federal agencies - and their impact on our foreign and domestic policies!
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The Issue Muslim extremists, including the Muslim Brotherhood, have repeatedly called for the annihilation of Israel and "The Great Satan," the United States of America.
In light of recent foreign and domestic policies viewed to be favorable to Muslim activities, five Members of Congress issued formal requests to U.S. Government Inspectors General to investigate potential Muslim Brotherhood infiltration into key positions inside our government. The request was designed to uncover "the extent to which Muslim Brotherhood-tied individuals and entities have helped achieve the adoption" of Islam-friendly policies and initiatives.
The letter states, "... information has come to light that raises serious questions about the involvement of organizations and individuals with the Muslim Brotherhood. Given that the U.S. Government has established in federal court that the Muslim Brotherhood's mission in the United States is 'destroying the Western Civilization from within' - a practice the Brothers call 'civilization jihad' - we believe that the apparent involvement of those with such ties raises serious concerns that warrant your urgent attention."
The five bold Members of Congress (nicknamed the National Security Five) initiating the investigations have been maliciously vilified by other members of Congress, including ranking members and congressional leadership, calling the call for investigations "baseless." Yet, the mounting evidence speaks very much to the contrary!
Political correctness places our national security at risk. The enemies of freedom operating within must be confronted and exposed!
Newt Gingrich asserts, "The recent assault on the National Security Five is only the most recent example of the fear our elites have about discussing and understanding radical Islamists."
Representative Michele Bachmann, a member of the House Intelligence Committee, declared, "I will not be silenced!" We stand with you, Representative Bachmann!
Liberty Counsel Action strongly supports the investigations as called for by House Members Michele Bachmann (R-MN), Trent Franks (R-AZ), Louie Gohmert (R-TX), Tom Rooney (R-FL), and Lynn Westmoreland (R-GA).
We are petitioning key Members of Congress to get behind the call for these investigations - and expose any subversive activities by individuals or entities operating in positions of influence over the foreign and domestic policies of our nation!
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Panetta Shoots for Islamic Brownie Points
by DIANA WESTAugust 8, 2012
There is one operative word in Andy McCarthy's illuminating examination of some of the facts obscured by the weird and racuous apotheosis of Huma Abedin currently enlivening the hysterical demonization of Rep. Michele Bachmann by the media and John McCain, a grotesque and shameful display triggered by a question -- one question -- Bachmann and four other House Republicans have raised about Abedin's close family connections to the rapacious Islamic supremacist group, the Muslim Brotherhood.
That word is "adults."
Having outlined these connections, which are not, the former federal prosecutor writes, "contrived or weightless," McCarthy notes it's not "a crime to have close relatives who are either members of, or associated with members of such an organization. Again, however," he patiently explains, "no one is accusing Huma Abedin of a crime."
He continues:
The five House conservatives instead are asking questions that adults responsible for national security should feel obliged to ask: In light of Ms. Abedin's family history, is she someone who ought to have a security clearance, particularly one that would give her access to top-secret information about the Brotherhood? Is she, furthermore, someone who may be sympathetic to aspects of the Brotherhood's agenda, such that Americans ought to be concerned that she is helping shape American foreign policy?
These are rational questions. The fact that such questions now require a painstaking defense is a measure of how berserk -- how subverted -- our reasoning powers have become. The fact that such questions are only now being asked by just five House members is a measure of how very few adults hold positions of authority in our government. (NB: It is this same subversion of reasoning powers that led me to write my new book, American Betrayal, which became a "prequel" of sorts to The Death of the Grown-Up.)
The bottom line here is that adults responsible for national security have an urgent obligation to ask these questions -- to bang the table and demand answers and oversight on what could well be a longstanding chink in our national security armor in the person always at the side of the Secretary of State -- Abedin -- who is also the daughter and sister of people variously aligned with an international movement dedicated to the destruction of Western civilization. There are rules about this, after all, in the State Department's own code (see the section of Foreign Influence). Rather than uncover the facts of the matter, rather than seek even minimal clarification from the two public servants in question -- Clinton and Abedin -- the media have instead dropped all pretense at fact-finding, all responsibility for reporting, and have instead formed an impermeable phalanx around the two women, protecting them from questions and shutting down efforts to get facts to their viewers and readers.
For shame.
Read more: Family Security Matters http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/panetta-shoots-for-islamic-brownie-points?f=must_reads#ixzz23ITnGH5V
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US Report: Iran Nuke Program More Advanced Than Thought
The new National Intelligence Estimate says that Iran has improved its nuclear research and methodology - and has gotten better results
By David Lev
First Publish: 8/9/2012
A report in Ha'aretz Thursday, citing American officials, said that a new U.S. report says Iran has made a great deal of progress in its nuclear program in recent months. According to the report, U.S. President Barack H. Obama has seen the National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) report, prepared by U.S. government intelligence groups.
According to Ha'aretz, the report was submitted to Obama several weeks later than scheduled - in order to update it with new information relating to the vast improvements in Iran's nuclear research in recent months. The report is said to have come to conclusions similar to those held by Israel's intelligence community - that Iran is almost at the "point of no return" in development of a nuclear weapon.
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Ex Brotherhood Official Showcases Islamist Doublespeak
Sunday, 12 August 2012 05:16 Right Side News
The Investigative Project on Terrorism
It "is no difficult task for Allah" to bring America to its knees, a prominent former Muslim Brotherhood official said at a recent discussion in Egypt.
American leaders are "all criminals" plotting to stifle Arab revolutions and defend "that criminal and plundering state of Israel," Kemal Helbawy, the Brotherhood's former spokesman in the United Kingdom, said in a video dated July 26 and posted this week by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI).
"If we use all the capabilities at our disposal properly, America will be brought to its knees and will be defeated like the Soviets in Afghanistan," he said. "This is no difficult task for Allah."
The remarks came during a sit-in outside the American embassy in Cairo.
Behind him is a poster of Omar Abdel Rahman, the blind sheik considered the inspiration behind the 1993 World Trade Center bombing who is serving a life sentence in the United States for a subsequent plot to bomb New York tunnels and landmarks. New Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi has promised to seek Abdel Rahman's release when he meets U.S. officials.
Helbawy left the Brotherhood last spring, blasting the group for trying to monopolize power in Egypt after a peaceful revolution ousted former President Hosni Mubarak. But Helbawy remains a staunch Islamist and, despite a long record of violent rhetoric, is welcomed among American Islamists and academic groups.
He hailed Osama bin Laden as "a great mujahid" last year just after the American raid in Pakistan killed the al-Qaida leader. He prayed that bin Laden "join the prophets, the martyrs, and the good people" and questioned whether America's proof al-Qaida was behind the 9/11 attacks "was a trick and a bait ... All evidences and indications refer that the Americans are the ones who planned this matter, not the Afghans who have weak resources."
The London-based Quilliam Foundation, which works to counter jihadist influence,called this "the latest example of senior Muslim Brotherhood members giving different messages to different audiences. When speaking to mainstream audiences Helbawy presents himself as a moderate reformer; when speaking to Islamists he praises Osama bin Laden. This doublespeak undermines trust between Muslims and non-Muslims and hinders genuine efforts to tackle extremism and terrorism."
Quilliam warned western governments to treat the Brotherhood "with the greatest suspicion," adding that there are moderates in the group, but "anyone who thinks that the Muslim Brotherhood as a whole has 'reformed' is clearly deluded."
Helbawy demonstrated that doublespeak two years earlier, during the 10th annual conference of the Washington-based Center for the Study of Islam Democracy. The event attracted Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison, the Minnesota Democrat and first Muslim elected to Congress.
He was on a panel on "Improving Relations between the U.S. and the Muslim World." In his abstract for the conference, Helbawy waxed fondly about the benefits of democracy and life in the West. As a Muslim, he said he he "deeply appreciate[s] most of the values and blessings of the democratic society and wish that Muslim countries were more like the UK or Europe in this respect."
"God created us into different nations, tribes, people, ethnic groups and races to know each other," he wrote, "so as a Muslim I am fulfilling one of the many aims and objectives of my existence when I meet and know and work with other people to improve community relations. More broadly, living in a multi-cultural and multi-religious society enables us to appreciate our differences and overcome obstacles towards greater understanding."
That lovely, humanistic embrace was absent in Helbawy's 1992 speech in Oklahoma City before the Islamic Association for Palestine - a Hamas propaganda wing - and the Muslim Arab Youth Association:
Do not take Jews and Christians as allies. For they are allies to each other. Oh Brothers, the Palestinian cause is not of conflict of borders and land only. It is not even a conflict of human ideology and not over peace. Rather, it is an absolute clash of civilizations, between truth and falsehood. Between two conducts - one satanic, headed by Jews and their co-conspirators - and the other is religious, carried by Hamas, and the Islamic movement in particular, and the Islamic people in general who are behind it.
Lastly I am going to say something about Imam Hassan al-Banna, may he rest in peace, who had been trying to establish 70,000 fighters, and he started with the first battalion with 10,000 fighters, and today the Palestinians became strong fighting battalions. Let us stand and support this great nation and the future is for Islam. And I ask God's forgiveness for you and for me and the Muslims. We ask God to give victory to our brothers and we ask God to release the leader of the Intifada, [Hamas founder] Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, praise be upon him.
Statements like that may have prompted government officials to prohibit Helbawy from coming into the United States in 2006 for a New York University conference. It's not clear why the Obama administration saw fit to reverse that course, or why Secretary Clinton would agree to appear at a conference with someone espousing such hostility toward Jews and Christians and outward support for terrorist groups like Hamas.
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Obama needs to walk the walk: denounce the outrageous super PAC ad
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According to the UN Global Biodiversity Assessment Report - page 755 (which is the meat and potatoes of Agenda 21) Dams are not sustainable. What is happening in CA has happened in other states. And it will eventually happen in your state too. In my state of TN I can see how this would have a major impact. The TVA has several HUGE dams in Polk County alone that if they were destroyed would destroy a large portion of our entire county....which includes A LOT of farm land. Destroy the farmland=Destroy the food supply=Destroy us!! And again the Biodiversity Assessment Report - page 771 claims we must reduce the world population to 1 billion. Please take the time to listen and share with others. How much will it take before people wake up and believe we are under assault by our own government?? If this does not enrage you I don't know what will.......
We all know about the dams being removed across the USA...this will be the largest dam removal in history and it will decimate a Northern California farming community.
Our Department of Interior and Inspector General are CLEARLY LYING!!!
This August 2nd video is unreal...including the "opposition's" -obviously a radical liberal- response who makes a complete fool of himself. Congressman McClintock is a hero...but the dams are still on the path for removal...as are 26,000 others.
The hearing evidence will blow you away...this agenda is so corrupt...
(the info after McClintock speaks is also related to the BP Gulf spill)
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Fellow conservative -
It might be the most outrageous abuse of regulatory power yet from the Obama administration - and that is saying a lot.
The president's health care law attempted to coerce states into administering its vast new health care entitlement by offering huge subsidies if states would set up "exchanges," new health care bureaucracies. The Democrats who wrote the law thought every state would be eager to do it - but the American people rose up and demanded states say no. And they did. At least 30 states said no thanks to the exchanges with their huge new taxpayer-funded subsidies and employer taxes.
Please click here now to urge your U.S. Senators to do everything in their power to support the Johnson Resolution and Stop the IRS Power Grab!
Now the IRS is attempting to illegitimately rewrite the law to force states that lawfully opted out back in, by allowing subsidies to flow through federal exchanges. And the IRS is claiming companies must pay penalty taxes of thousands of dollars per employee - even if their state lawfully opted out. It's literally taxation without representation - and it's happening in secret, without the American people having a voice.
Fortunately, Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson has introduced Senate Joint Resolution 48 (S.J. Res. 48) to overturn this outrageous IRS power grab and allow states to exercise their lawful power to opt out of Obama's health care subsidies and employer taxes.
Please click here now to urge your U.S. Senators to do everything in their power to support the Johnson Resolution and Stop the IRS Power Grab!
We can force a Senate vote on overturning this outrageous IRS power grab if just 30 senators sign a discharge petition under the Congressional Review Act. And we can pass it on the Senate floor with just 51 votes, because the resolution is protected from filibuster. (That would force Obama to use his veto pen and take full political responsibility if he wants to continue this outrage.)
This health care law is such a disaster that Obama is relying on his IRS - one of the most hated government agencies- to secretly rewrite it and force states that opted out back in. If we can get 30 senators to sign onto this discharge petition, we can expose what's happening to the American people and build an even stronger case for repeal.
Please click here now to urge your U.S. Senators to do everything in their power to support the Johnson Resolution and Stop the IRS Power Grab!
Please forward this email to anyone you know who may be interested in this issue. We need a groundswell of support to force a vote on this issue. Thank you so much for your help.
Yours truly,
Phil Kerpen
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The Most Divisive Campaign in American History
In 1980, when President Reagan asked Americans, "Are you better off now than you were four years ago", it was still possible to campaign on a theme as simple as the job performance of the other guy. But now, 32 years later, the campaign hinges on a much more fundamental split among the voting population. Romney appeals to voters who are dissatisfied with the last four years. Obama appeals to voters who are dissatisfied with America. This basic gap was obscured in the 2008 campaign by the window trappings of inspiration. Among all the plastic pillars and stolen quotes from poets who stole them from sermons, it was harder to see that the underlying theme of the campaign was dissatisfaction with America. But in 2012, Obama can no longer run as a reformer or an optimist. The coalition that he committed to last year is a coalition of those who are unhappy with America, not in the last four years, but in the last two-hundred years. Its core is composed of groups that fear democracy and distrust the will of the people. There is no optimism here, but a deeply rooted pessimism about human nature and the country as a whole. It is the Democratic Party's coalition against democracy. After 2010, the numbers were crunched, and it was clear that Obama and the Democrats could not win a mainstream campaign. Instead, they targeted narrow groups, stirred up conflicts over issues aimed at that group, whether it was union pensions, racism or birth control. There was no more pretense of a national election, only a frenzied rush to polarize as many groups as possible and join them together into an acrimonious coalition, not so much for anything, as against Republicans.
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Friday Afternoon Roundup - Control, Control, Control Posted: 10 Aug 2012 04:56 PM PDT
It's a telling sign of political conformity that there is as much chance of the current version of Saturday Night Live doing something this biting about Obama as there is of the show moving to China.
That closing song seemed like a shame to waste so I turned it into Obama's new campaign song.
ROMNEY NOW MORE RIGHT-WING THAN BUSH II, REAGAN AND NIXON COMBINED
At least if you believe crazy liar Zero Hussein's latest crazy lies.
President Obama made one of his strongest pitches to date to rally the women's vote that is crucial to his re-election, telling a mostly female crowd estimated at 4,000 in the swing state of Colorado on Wednesday that Republicans led by Mitt Romney would take them back to the policies of the 1950s
So if I understand this correctly, Obama is claiming that Mitt Romney would be the most right-wing Republican president in 60 years?
That's a pretty impressive claim. Romney is going to do what Bush II, Reagan and Nixon who are suddenly liberal moderates, didn't do. Romney, the most liberal nominee in decades, who was on record at one point as supporting abortion and who hardly mentions social issues, is going to take America back to the 1950's.
So there are two possibilities. Either Mitt Romney is more right-wing than Reagan, Bush II and Nixon... or Obama is just making up crazy lies and hope his supporters have the collective IQ of a turnip.
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Video: Small Business Owner To Obama: Back Off!
Aug 10, 2012 02:44 pm
Debra Krause-McDonell appeared on Fox News the other day to explain how her deli ended up in one of Obama's ads without her consent. Related posts: The Never-Ending Government War On Small Business In a recent campaign speech attacking entrepreneurs and business owners,... Senate Democrats Moves Toward Vote On Small Business Bill Popular legislation to [...]
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Why Does Obama Hate American Business?
Aug 10, 2012 02:35 pm
'Learned helplessness' (a term coined by Martin Seligman, the eminent psychologist at the University of Pennsylvania), refers to what happens if rewards and punishments are not tied to merit. "People simply give up and stop trying to succeed," so writes Arthur Brooks in The Road to Freedom: How to Win the Fight for Free Enterprise. [...]
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A Connection Between 3 Mass Murderers And Valerie Jarrett?
Aug 10, 2012 02:15 pm
I do believe that I may have stumbled upon something that the mainstream media has missed: a common connection between three mass murderers and the White House. First, let us look at Nidal Hassan. He was the Fort Hood shooter who went on a rampage killing spree against deploying soldiers. Apparently, no one noticed any [...]
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Exclusive: An Interview With Pastor Of Threatened Church
Aug 10, 2012 02:01 pm
In a recent article, I chronicled the incidents surrounding a Florida church threatened with the loss of its lease because of allegedly anti-gay sermons by its pastor. To briefly recap the story, Pastor Jack Hakimian leased space for his Impact Miami church from the Miami-Dade school district, though when the district's superintendent received word of [...]
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Video: Is The US Military Preparing To Quell The Tea Party?
Aug 10, 2012 01:59 pm
This video discusses a crazy proposal by a former army Colonel to quell a Tea Party insurrection. Is the Tea Party really a military threat? Will this movement embrace lawlessness like Occupy Wall Street? Related posts: Video: Occupy Wall Street Vs. The Tea Party - You Be The Judge by Helen Sabin This video shows [...]
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Exposed: The Pro-Obama Media's Latest Distortion Of Reality
Aug 10, 2012 01:58 pm
There are lots of ways the media can distort the truth. Remember the Public Policy Polling (PPP) survey of North Carolina voters following Barack Obama's evolution on gay "marriage?" A June PPP survey contained glaringly bad news for Obama. While PPP's May survey showed Obama winning black voters support by the normal 87/11, that number had [...]
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Video: Obama Classmate Schools Geraldo Rivera About Barry Soetoro
Aug 10, 2012 01:49 pm
Wayne Allyn Root, Obama's outspoken classmate at Columbia, appeared on Geraldo Rivera's radio program to shed light on Barack Obama's mysterious past. Related posts: Obama Classmate Interview On Fox News Hannity Obama's classmate, Wayne Allyn Root, has been making the rounds... Reporter Has Documented Proof Obama Is A Indonesian Citizen Wayne Allyn Root, who went [...]
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Should Obama Be Detained For Violating The NDAA?
Aug 10, 2012 01:43 pm
If President Obama is supporting al-Qaeda, the Taliban, or associated forces, should he be subject to indefinite detention under the terms of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA)? As The New American has chronicled since it was first proposed, the NDAA purportedly authorizes the president of the United States to deploy the armed forces to [...]
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"A Big Moment For Catholic Voters"
Aug 10, 2012 01:40 pm
America's Catholics were once among the Democrats' largest voting blocs. This year, that advantage is gone as Catholics are poised to turn against them. In May, when Pope Benedict assigned Bishop William E. Lori to be the new spiritual leader of the Diocese of Baltimore (America's oldest diocese), he was sending a message directly to [...]
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Video: Refuting Obama: GM Bailout NOT Good For America
Aug 10, 2012 01:38 pm
In this video, Professor Steve Horwitz advocates for free market economic policy. He refutes the often recited claim that "What is good for General Motors is good for America" by explaining that pro-business legislation encourages behavior that is not beneficial to society or the business itself. Obama really should watch some of his videos. Related [...]
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Video: Pelosi 'Swears' Spirit Of Susan B. Anthony Spoke To Her
Aug 10, 2012 01:28 pm
What is wrong with Nancy Pelosi? Do her fans realize that she is serious? She is one of the most powerful people in America! Related posts: "Pelosi Is Either Confused Or Lying" CIA interrogator Jose Rodriquez told Sean Hannity tonight that Nancy... Pelosi Backs Up Reid's Comments On Romney Taxes BOCA RATON, Fla. (AP) - [...]
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Video: Obama: Let's Repeat Auto Bailout With Every Industry
Aug 10, 2012 01:14 pm
Obama spoke Thursday in Pueblo, Colo., and blasted Mitt Romney for outsourcing. "I said, I believe in American workers, I believe in this American industry, and now the American auto industry has come roaring back and GM's number one again. Now I want to do the same thing with manufacturing jobs, not just in the [...]
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Video: Little Girl With Asperger's Denied Entry To Obama Event
Aug 10, 2012 12:50 pm
Shame on you, Barack Obama! Shame on you for only caring about your donors and not about ordinary citizens. Related posts: Obama Jokes About His Fake Birth Certificate At WH Event Barack Obama is a brazen criminal. He is so protected... Whistleblocking: Obama Pays Billions To Keep Secrets Out US security agencies have acquired even [...]
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Video: Is The Sikh Temple Massacre An Oklahoma City Bombing Redux?
Aug 10, 2012 12:32 pm
When six people were mowed down by a neo-Nazi nut case in the Sikh Temple massacre, America wrung their hands in despair with what seemed like a continuation of the carnage in Aurora, Colorado. A unified America's heart went out to the victims and victims' families. Like clockwork, however, before the bodies were even cold, [...]
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Foreign Aid Or Debacle?
Aug 10, 2012 11:31 am
In his recent $3.8 trillion budget announcement for 2013, President Obama presented a new national defense strategy and foreign aid priorities. With regime change and unrest in the Middle East, will Americans continue to be safe? Do we know what we are funding? Priorities Gone Awry Regarding foreign aid, the President's 2013 budget (voted down [...]
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Obama Defends Clinton Aide Abedin at White House Ramadan Dinner
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Obama called Abedin, who is married to disgraced former Democratic Rep. Anthony Weiner, "an American patriot" and "an example of what we need in this country."
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We'll Be At The Values Voters Summit: Will We See You There?
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GrassTopsUSA is proud to once again be an exhibitor at the Seventh Annual Values Voter Summit and we hope to see you there as well. The Summit will be held at the historic Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, D.C. on September 14-16. Last year's Summit brought together over 3,000 people from across America and garnered national and international media attention. Confirmed speakers already include: Representatives Michele Bachmann and Paul Ryan, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, former Senator Rick Santorum, pro-life activist Lila Rose, Gary Bauer, and many more.
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Ryan Pick "Strategic Genius"
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Ryan Candidacy Puts Debts, Deficits Front and Center
By Wynton Hall
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Liberals who are "giddy" at the prospects of Mitt Romney's selection of Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan are in for a rude and sober awakening when they realize the strategic genius behind the decision.
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Oh, And Register Them To Vote! Obama Scraping Up Support
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Obama Requests $542 Million In Housing Aid for Drug Addicts
By Edwin Mora
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President Barack Obama has requested over half-a-billion dollars for Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) programs that provide housing assistance to homeless or HIV-positive people in drug treatment.
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Lt. Col. Lakin Who Sacrificed Everything To Defend Constitution Finally Speaks Out
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Officer Imprisoned For Challenging Obama Tells Story
By Jerome R. Corsi
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"Officer's Oath: Why My Vow to Defend the Constitution Demanded That I Sacrifice My Career" is Lt. Col. Terry Lakin's moving first-hand account of faith and patriotism that led to court-martial, imprisonment and the stripping of all military rank and privileges, including his Army pension.
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Caught On Video: Hillary Dirty Dancing With Woman
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No, it's not a sleazy accusation from the National Enquirer or The Globe. Hillary Clinton actually got her groove on and was caught on video dirty dancing and bumping-and-grinding with a local woman at a dinner hosted by the South African Foreign Minister, Maite Nkoana-Mashabane, in Johannesburg, South Africa.
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We'll Be At The Values Voters Summit: Will We See You There?
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GrassTopsUSA is proud to once again be an exhibitor at the Seventh Annual Values Voter Summit and we hope to see you there as well. The Summit will be held at the historic Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, D.C. on September 14-16. Last year's Summit brought together over 3,000 people from across America and garnered national and international media attention. Confirmed speakers already include: Representatives Michele Bachmann and Paul Ryan, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, former Senator Rick Santorum, pro-life activist Lila Rose, Gary Bauer, and many more.
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To Whom Does Obamacare-Tax Sock It The Hardest?
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Tanners, Savers and Rich All Get Hit by Obamacare Taxes
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Who gets thumped by higher taxes in President Barack Obama's health care law? The wealthiest 2 percent of Americans will take the biggest hit, starting next year. And the pain will be shared by some who aren't so well off - people swept up in a hodgepodge of smaller tax changes that will help finance health coverage for millions in need.
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UCLA Cut-Rate Revolution
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Illegal Aliens Get Reduced-Rate Activism Courses at UCLA
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Young America's Foundation's Reagan Ranch Center Intern and UCLA student Katie Mellon represented YAF on Fox News to discuss the "National Dream University."
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True Vetting: Obama, Radical Islam
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The Most Important Press Conference Ever Held at Any Time in U.S. History: Part I
By James Simpson
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On Thursday, July 19th, Cliff Kincaid of America's Survival held a critical National Press Club event: The Vetting: Obama, Radical Islam and the Soros Connection. At this pivotal time, we face a national election that may well determine the fate of our great country. And as America goes, so goes the world.
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Should Gun Violence Be Treated Like A Virus?
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Is a gun like a virus, tobacco or alcohol? According to "public health experts," who in the wake of recent mass shootings are calling for a fresh look at gun violence as a "social disease," it is. These experts say that we need a "public health approach" to the problem. Follow their reasoning HERE.
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Egyptian Court Confiscates Newspaper Critical Of New President
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An Egyptian court has ordered the Saturday editions of a newspaper confiscated over allegations that it insulted Islamist president Mohammed Morsi and instigated sectarian discord. Will the free press be survive in the new "democratic" Egypt? Find out HERE.
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Dems Convention Platform Will Support Same-Sex Marriage
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On Saturday, the national Democratic Party's platform committee endorsed gay marriage for the first time and called for the repeal of a federal law that recognizes marriage as between a man and a woman. Read the history of the Democratic party's evolution on gay marriage HERE.
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Little Ellie & The Olympian: The Kindest Race Ever
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He's a world record holding sprinter from South Africa. She's a spunky 7-year-old from Essex, England. In an inspiring set of images that have gone viral, the two strangers, united only by a stubborn refusal to let double amputations stop them, race each other in a friendly bonic foot race. See these moving and beautiful images HERE. READ THIS |
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These Four States Say It's OK For Unions To Stalk People
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Imagine for a moment that someone followed you home and started screaming at your house, or accosting you when you left. Presumably you would go to the police and claim the person was a stalker. And under normal circumstances, you would be right... unless that person is in a labor union and you live in one of the four states that say this is acceptable behavior. Find out which states allow this to happen HERE.
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Why Are Olympians Wearing All Of That Colored Tape?
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If you have watched even a few of the athletics events from the London Olympic games, you have probably wondered about the strange, multi-colored tape worn by many of the participants. The stuff is called kinesio tape and it's probably not something that weekend athletes should be using. Get the official word from some medical professionals HERE.
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The President's Troubled Half-Brother, George Obama Speaks
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Dinesh D'Souza's interview with George Obama has touched off a flurry of press coverage discussing everything from George Obama's self-destructive lifestyle, to his surprising political connections, and his relationship with his world-famous brother. Meet George Obama HERE.
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REAL NEWS: IS IT TIME TO GET RID OF THE IRS?
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In light of the most recent report regarding IRS supervisors' lack of eagerness to detect fraud, along with longstanding criticisms of the agency, is it time that conservatives take a harder and more public stand against the IRS? The panel debated this question on Friday's show. Watch the entire segment HERE.
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The Mars Rover Wrap-Up: Facts And Photos From This Week
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All week, NASA's newest rover to land on the red planet has been beaming photos back to earth. There also has been a constant stream of information being reported on a daily basis. TheBlaze has collected just a few of the most interesting nuggets about "Curiosity" (the rover) and selected some of the best photos from this week. See the facts and pics HERE. READ THIS |
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CNN Is Just Making Up Poll Numbers Now
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by Mike Flynn
Okay, I'm not certain they are literally making up poll results, but the poll CNN and British market research firm ORC International released Thursday afternoon is so screwy and raises so many questions that they might as well be doing it intentionally. If CNN is already resorting to these kinds of tricks before the conventions have even started, it's going to be a very long campaign.
First let me say, with less than three months to go in this campaign, can we please stop polling the political views of "adults", rather than "registered voters." We really should be moving soon to a "likely voter" screen, but I'll take "registered voters" for now. Knowing the political views of unregistered voters is worthless at the height of an election campaign and serves no real purpose but to give the Democrats an advantage. Nate Silver at the New York Times has estimated that polls of adults are biased towards Democrats by around 7 points.
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We are at a point where both parties are pretty well discredited, at a time when we need real leadership to undo the mistakes of the last dozen years.
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Friday Digest
The Left Knows No Lows
August 10, 2012
"Nothing is more certain than that a general profligacy and corruption of manners make a people ripe for destruction." --John Witherspoon
 Mitt Romney's victim?Congress may be on vacation, but the presidential campaign is heating up. Barack Obama knows he's in trouble -- perpetually bad economic news has him grasping at straws and making some of the more despicable charges and ads we've seen.
In one sense, it's understandable. Mitt Romney has out-raised Obama in three consecutive months, including a $101 million to $75 million advantage in July. Overall, Obama maintains a large fundraising lead over his Republican challenger -- after all, he's attended more than 200 fundraisers since declaring his bid for re-election, more than the previous five presidents combined. But the Fundraiser-in-Chief has taken to playing the victim nonetheless. "I will be the first president in modern history to be outspent in his re-election campaign if things continue as they have so far," Obama warned. Perhaps an awful lot of people really want to fire the president.
Obama's response has been straight out of the Chicago playbook -- the politics of personal destruction. He sent out attack dog Harry Reid to make wild and unsubstantiated charges about Romney's taxes, which is doubly interesting because of all the records Obama refuses to release. But the lowest blow came in the form of an ad by leftist super PAC Priorities USA.
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Brian Terry an honorable man and American hero: may he rest in peace
Aug 12, 2012 06:13 am | Coach Collins
By Suzanne Eovaldi, staff writer
Yesterday was the birthday of slain Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry, who died in the forlorn landscape in Rio Rico, AZ, a sacrificial lamb to this administration's loss of honor. Not surprisingly there was no notice of the significance of the day in the media.
The young man was left to die by our government, a government without honor which no longer is proud enough to protect its own, a government which has sold itself out to political correctness, to the progressives' code of dishonor, to a world that would have America die.
CIR was first to break this tragic story about the series of bad Border Patrol-Homeland Security Agency policies now known as "Fast and Furious" that killed Brian Terry. We received an anonymous tip that blew the secretive wide open: the U.S. D.O.J was conducting a massive gun sale to violent drug cartels. Another tip has yet to be answered. ... Continue Reading:Brian Terry an honorable man and American hero: may he rest in peace
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American Minute August 11
Aug 11, 2012 06:13 pm | Coach Collins
By Bill Federer, staff writer
AUGUST 11, 1984, by an 88-11 Senate vote and a 337-77 House vote, Congress passed the Equal Access Act, stating:
"It shall be unlawful for any public secondary school which receives Federal financial assistance and which has a limited open forum, to deny equal access or a fair opportunity to, or discriminate against, any students who wish to conduct a meeting within that limited open forum on the basis of the religious, political, philosophical, or other content of the speech at such meeting."
Regarding this, President Reagan commented August 23, 1984 at Reunion Arena, Dallas, Texas:
"We even had to pass a special law in the Congress just a few weeks ago to allow student prayer groups the same access to school rooms after classes that a Young Marxist Society...would already enjoy."
The Supreme Court upheld the Equal Access Act by a vote of 8-1 in Westside Community Schools ... Continue Reading:American Minute August 11
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Mitt Romney delivers: TEA party's Paul Ryan to be the next Vice President of the United States
Aug 11, 2012 12:13 pm | Coach Collins
By Kevin "Coach" Collins
This morning Mitt Romney delivered what TEA party conservatives across the nation have wanted: a solid conservative as his running mate. His selection of Republican Congressman Paul Ryan of Wisconsin to help him recapture the America we yearn to see again is superb.
The attacks from the Left have started already. The red and pink parrots have started calling this a "risky pick." Nevertheless, make no mistake Paul Ryan scares the life out of the Left. Immediately after the news broke Obama Chicago thug David Axelrod tweeted "Who's calling the shots? The base sends Mitt his marching orders on VP."
THEY know how this pick will play out; they know Ryan will tear them up by bringing the focus of the campaign back to the economy which is deadly territory Barack Obama. When they debate Ryan will make Joe Biden look like somebody's crazy uncle from a nursing home.
Since the Democrat Cheer ... Continue Reading:Mitt Romney delivers: TEA party's Paul Ryan to be the next Vice President of the United States
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China tells Obama and Clinton to shut up and they say "Yes sir!"
Aug 11, 2012 06:13 am | Coach Collins
By Jim Emerson, staff writer
Last week during an East Asia Summit meeting in Phnom Penh, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton tried to stand fast and use diplomacy to resolve claims over territorial waters in the South China Sea. China has insisted that it had "'indisputable sovereignty' over Islands that are claimed by Vietnam to the Scarborough Shoal near the Philippines. They include Islands near Malaysia, Brunei and Taiwan. Secretary Clinton urged the nations to collectively negotiate with the Chinese regarding territorial waters. China wanted bilateral talks with each country where they felt they can intimate the nations into surrounding territorial claims without much attention. In and angry response the Chinese delivered a message to the United States that amounted to "Shut Up"
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China maintains its claims to the islands of the South China Sea are ancient and were reaffirmed by China's 1947 claim which wasn't disputed. Furthermore as their argument goes, when the ... Continue Reading:China tells Obama and Clinton to shut up and they say "Yes sir!"
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American Minute August 10
Aug 10, 2012 06:15 pm | Coach Collins
By Bill Federer, staff writer
Herbert Hoover was born AUGUST 10, 1874.
The son of a Quaker blacksmith, he studied at Stanford and became a world renowned engineer.
Trapped in China when the Boxer Rebellion broke out in 1900, Herbert Hoover directed the building of barricades under heavy fire while his wife worked in the hospital.
In World War I, at the request of the American Consul, Hoover helped 120,000 Americans stranded in Europe return home.
He directed the feeding of Belgium after Kaiser Wilhelm overran it and orchestrated feeding the Allied nations while avoiding rationing at home.
After the war, Herbert Hoover arranged the feeding of millions starving in Central Europe and Russia.
Serving as Secretary of Commerce for Presidents Harding and Coolidge, Herbert Hoover became the 31st U.S. President in 1929.
Seven months later the Stock Market crashed.
Though implementing a plan of aid through the States, political opponents ... Continue Reading:American Minute August 10
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Jimmy Carter is the DNC's dog whistle message to anti-Semites and America hater Hugo Chavez
Aug 10, 2012 01:28 pm | Coach Collins
By Kevin "Coach" Collins
The Democrats are using Jimmy Carter as a dog whistle to anti-Semites and thug dictators.
The news that Democrat former president Jimmy Carter would be making a video address to the empty seats in the Bank America stadium where the Democrat National Convention (DNC) will be held was instructive. It cleared away any chance of misunderstanding the depth of hatred for Jews and Israel the Democrat Party has. Short of saying the words "We hate Israel and Jews", using the addled peanut farmer from Georgia the Democrats could not have made a clearer statement of their feelings.
Jimmy Carter is now and always has been an anti-Semite. He has always had a foaming at the mouth animosity towards Israel. He has always sided with Islamic terrorists such as Yasir Arafat for for whom he wrote speeches to help him fool Westerners into think he was a Jeffersonian ... Continue Reading:Jimmy Carter is the DNC's dog whistle message to anti-Semites and America hater Hugo Chavez
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It's started: "This is a big moment for Catholic voters to step back from their party affiliation."
Aug 10, 2012 06:13 am | Coach Collins
By Kevin "Coach" Collins
America's Catholics were once among the Democrats' largest voting blocs. This year that advantage is gone as Catholics are poised to turn against them.
In May when Pope Benedict assigned Bishop William E. Lori to be the new spiritual leader of the Diocese of Baltimore, America's oldest diocese, he was sending a message directly to Barack Obama and his Democrats - especially elected Catholic Democrats.
Bishop Lori chairs the U.S. Conference of Bishops' Ad Hoc Committee For Religious Liberty, which was formed specifically by Cardinal Timothy Dolan, the organization's head, to oppose Gay marriage and combat Obamacare's mandates aimed at forcing Catholic employers to include contraception and abortion in their workers' healthcare packages.
Upon being named to his new post, Bishop Lori said he planned to confront Maryland's putatively Catholic Governor Martin O'Malley about his support for Gay "marriage."
"The church has clearly and consistently taught the greatness ... Continue Reading:It's started: "This is a big moment for Catholic voters to step back from their party affiliation."
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American Minute August 9
Aug 09, 2012 06:13 pm | Coach Collins
By Bill Federer, staff writer
In 1831, three Nez Perce Indians and one Flathead Indian, traveled from the Oregon Territory to St. Louis, Missouri, looking for the "book to heaven."
Bishop of St. Louis, Rev. Joseph Rosati (1789-1843), wrote in the annals of the Association of the Propagation of the Faith, December 31, 1831:
"Some three months ago four Indians who live across the Rocky Mountains near the Columbia River (Clark's Fork of the Columbia) arrived at St. Louis.
After visiting General Clark who, in his celebrated travels, has visited their country...they came to see our church and appeared to be exceedingly well pleased with it...
Two of our priests visited them...They made the sign of the Cross and other signs which appeared to have some relation to baptism. The sacrament was administered to them."
Wyandot Indian chief, William Walker (1800-1874), met the Indians at the home of Territorial Governor William Clark, of ... Continue Reading:American Minute August 9
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Hiding the truth: no new polls of Black, Jewish or union voters in two months
Aug 09, 2012 01:18 pm | Coach Collins
By Kevin "Coach" Collins
There are lots of ways the media can distort the truth.
Remember the Public Policy Polling (PPP) survey of North Carolina voters following Barack Obama's evolution on Gay "marriage?" A June PPP survey contained glaringly bad news for Obama.
While PPP's May survey showed Obama winning Black voters support by the normal 87/11 by June that number had shifted to 76/20 and Obama's approval rating among African Americans had gone from 86% to 77% with Romney's approval among Black North Carolinians doubling to 18% - which makes a 20% Black vote for him in the Tar Heel State quite believable. There have been no major surveys of African American voters since mid-June.
A June survey of Jewish voters in New York was conducted by Siena College. It also held some very bad news for Barack Obama. Siena found that New York's Jewish voters are cooling toward him. It reported ... Continue Reading:Hiding the truth: no new polls of Black, Jewish or union voters in two months
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Border Patrol Whistle Blowers hand election to Romney, if he'll take it!
Aug 09, 2012 01:00 pm | Coach Collins
bu Doug Book, staff writer
Union heads of both the ICE and Border Patrol Councils have stated that Barack Hussein Obama has deliberately handed a get out of jail free card to illegal alien criminals.
In June, Obama bypassed Congress, issuing an unconstitutional executive order which requires Border Patrol agents to release illegal aliens who CLAIM to have: "come to the United States under the age of 16 and are not more than 30; lived in the U.S. for five straight years; are currently in school of have graduated high school; obtained a GED or been honorably discharged from the military; or have not been convicted of a felony or significant misdemeanor and are not a threat to public safety."
And CLAIM is indeed the operative word in this, Obama's latest betrayal of the American people, for upon being detained by ICE or Border Patrol agents, illegals need only assert their eligibility in order to be ... Continue Reading:Border Patrol Whistle Blowers hand election to Romney, if he'll take it!
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August 9, 2012
Dear Patriotic American
ALAN KEYES - If people who believe in American liberty are ever to see it reclaimed, I implore them to gather at RenewAmerica.com. Here, they will be participating in a media project whose purposes are so vital, so foundational that without success here, I do not see how our liberty is renewed and restored... (more)
August 9, 2012
Part 4 -- 2012: America's last free election?
WES VERNON, RA ANALYST - No alliance -- either worldwide or on our soil -- is as under-reported as the collaboration between Communism and radical Islam. Back in the eighties, on the old syndicated CBS Radio program Crosstalk, Benjamin Netanyahu, then Israel's ambassador to the United Nations, told me that the (then still existing) Soviet Union was behind much of the Middle East terrorism... (more)
August 9, 2012
Republicans' one-legged stool?
FRANK GAFFNEY - Ronald Reagan forged a winning electoral majority on the stable foundation of what he described as a three-legged stool: fiscal discipline, traditional values and peace through strength. He understood it to be an appealing platform to the American people writ large, including, of course, economic, social and national-security conservatives and the rest of his Republican Party... (more)
August 9, 2012
Social conservatives demand prime-time slot at GOP convention
NEWSMAX - Already stung by the Romney campaign's reaction to the Chick-fil-A battle, social conservatives are openly voicing doubts that their concerns will receive much more than lip service at the GOP convention... (more)
August 9, 2012
Liberals, progressives and socialists
WALTER WILLIAMS - In Europe, especially in Germany, hoisting a swastika-emblazoned Nazi flag is a crime. For decades after World War II, people have hunted down and sought punishment for Nazi murderers, who were responsible for the deaths of more than 20 million people... (more)
August 9, 2012
Anti-Obama Catholics want dinner invitation rescinded
WASHINGTON TIMES - Catholics opposed to President Obama attending the annual Alfred E. Smith charity dinner in New York have started an online petition urging Cardinal Timothy Dolan to withdraw his invitation to the president. "If Cardinal John O'Connor didn't invite pro-abort Bill Clinton in 1996, and if Cardinal Egan didn't invite pro-abort John Kerry in 2004, then on what grounds could your Eminence find to invite Obama in 2012?"... (more)
August 9, 2012
Abortionist sees aborting 'ugly black babies' as a service to the taxpayers, apparently
TIMOTHY P. CARNEY - Watch the video above, of a pro-life Christian group confronting an abortion doctor. The doctor says his abortions save taxpayers money, prevent shootings like the one in Colorado, and rid the world of "ugly black babies"... (more)
August 9, 2012
Obama's attack on 'workfare'
ROBERT RECTOR - President Obama has created a firestorm by overturning the work requirements of the popular 1996 welfare-reform law. Now his White House is bristling because Mitt Romney dares to point out that fact on the stump and in a new campaign ad... (more)
August 9, 2012
Olympic political correctness
JOHN FUND - The London Olympics features 302 events. But this year there clearly is a new category: racial sensitivity. These Olympic Games are rife with examples of people taking offense, and it's time to discuss some guardrails and guidelines before political correctness takes over completely... (more)
August 9, 2012
Lolo Jones outclasses her critics
ROB DOSTER - American hurdler Lolo Jones occupies that usually enviable spot where marketing appeal and athletic achievement intersect. Unfortunately for Jones, when the former outstrips the latter, the backlash from media backbiters indulging their petty cynicism can be ruthless... (more)
August 9, 2012
Report: White House told GSA to 'stand down' on Occupy protesters
NEWSMAX - Documents show that the Obama administration advised authorities to not enforce local laws on Occupy Wall Street protesters, Fox News reported... (more)
August 9, 2012
BOOK REVIEW: 'Who's Counting?'
WES VERNON, RA ANALYST - America's loose "honor system" in voting is no longer viable, assuming it ever was. For decades we joked about the cemetery precincts in Chicago and elsewhere, and how statewide elections in Illinois were basically a battle between the elder Mayor Richard Daley, a Democrat, and the downstate Republicans as to who could do the best job of fictionalizing the vote count. But they were seen as anomalies... (more)
August 6, 2012
Part 3 -- 2012: America's last free election?
WES VERNON, RA ANALYST - Months before Barack Obama assumed the presidency, many Americans seeking substance in lieu of "change" sloganeering had an uneasy feeling about the man. There were just enough unsettling reports on parts of his background to raise concerns. But at that time, those questions elicited few answers. That is because Mr. Obama had spent millions to hide his background... (more)
August 6, 2012
For Scalia, is there no appeal to God?
ALAN KEYES - "My view is that regardless of whether you think prohibiting abortion is good or whether you think prohibiting abortion is bad -- regardless of how you come out on that -- my only point is the Constitution does not say anything about it," Justice Scalia stated. "It leaves it up to democratic choice. Some states prohibited it and some states didn't. What Roe v. Wade said was that no state can prohibit it"... (more)
August 6, 2012
Romney doesn't defend Chick-fil-A
NEWSMAX - Even as Chick-fil-A sets sales records thanks to supporters of traditional marriage flooding into stores to support its Christian values, one conservative politican is having nothing to do with the controversy. And he's the one running for president... (more)
August 6, 2012
My black dad and Chick-fil-A
LLOYD MARCUS - I jump on every opportunity to respectfully challenge my 84-year-old black dad's loyalty to Obama. Dad has been a Christian pastor over 50 years. He lives in Maryland and I live in Florida. I called Dad to ask if he participated in Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day. He said, no he had not heard about it. Then, he added, "All I know is Chick-fil-A discriminates against gays."... (more)
August 6, 2012
My proposed political realignment
JOSEPH FARAH - A new poll from the Pew Research Center suggests 65 percent of Democrats now support same-sex marriage, whereas only 50 percent did at the time of the last Democratic presidential nominating convention. I suppose that's to be expected. In 2008, not one Democratic presidential candidate -- not Barack Obama, not Hillary Clinton, not Joe Biden, not John Edwards -- supported same sex-marriage and other twisted unions involving "transgendereds" and other poor souls... (more)
August 6, 2012
Numbers favor GOP in battle for control of Congress
WASHINGTON EXAMINER - With Congress embarking this week on a monthlong recess despite its failure to act on several critical issues, Democrats unleashed a pre-election public relations assault, accusing Republicans of ignoring the middle class, abandoning bipartisanship and instead catering to the wealthy and the far-right Tea Party... (more)
August 6, 2012
Obama frags military voters
WASHINGTON TIMES - President Obama goes out of his way to appear to support the troops. But when it comes to voting, he would like to keep them out of the fight. The Obama for America Campaign, the Democratic National Committee and the Ohio Democratic Party are suing the critical swing state of Ohio to strike down a law that makes it easier for members of the military to vote... (more)
August 6, 2012
Prominent Jewish-Americans jump ship from Obama's campaign
NEWSMAX - A number of prominent Jewish-Americans have begun to jump ship from President Barack Obama's re-election effort, reports The Washington Post. "Who will be next? It's become a bit of a guessing game as to which prominent Jewish supporter/defender of the president's Israel policy will be the next to break publicly with him," pens conservative Post blogger Jennifer Rubin... (more)
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Is racial violence in America REALLY that bad?
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You've probably heard about some recent high-profile cases of black-mob violence across America.
But how bad is the problem, REALLY?
The Department of Justice has completed a study on this troubling issue, and here's the lowdown ...
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Chuck Norris: Top 10 reasons to boot Obama
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Chuck Norris is no David Letterman, but America's favorite tough guy is now out with his own list of the top reasons why Americans should punt Barack Obama out of the White House.
Let's see if Obama has the guts to take on Chuck Norris ...
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670 million Muslims expect THIS soon, not Jesus
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A just-released survey reveals two-thirds of a billion Muslims are expecting the arrival of THIS in their lifetime to come and rule the world.
Here's a hint: It is NOT Jesus Christ.
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Aw, well, it's not terrorism if Muslims do it
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A white supremecist shoots up a temple and it's quickly labeled "domestic terror."
A Muslim extremist shoots up a military base and it's called "workplace violence."
Does that smell fishy to you?.
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Do you know the inside story of Saddam's capture?
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There once was a dictator named Saddam
who hid in a hole, near the bottom.
Brave men risked it all
to bring 'bout his fall.
Here's the skinny on how they got him ...
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Over there ... Over there ...
How long is the U.S. going to provide the majority of Europe's military defense? Not much longer, perhaps, if this latest development pans out ...
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Doctor has no desire to save this 'patient'
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Dr. Dave Weldon has a lifetime of experience as a medical doctor healing the sick and saving lives.
But if Florida voters will send him to the U.S. Senate, Weldon won't be going to Washington to heal this very sick "patient" ... he intends to pull the plug.
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Holy Moses! Look who's on way back to Alabama Supreme Court
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You can remove the Ten Commandments from the state court house and the judge who put them there ... but you can't remove the principals espoused by the Ten Commandments from that judge's heart.
Which is bad news for the secularists who forced him off the bench nine years ago, because Judge Roy Moore is on the verge of retaking his position as chief justice ... and he's getting support from VERY surprising quarters ...
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A kick in the pants for every U.S. public school
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Principals and administrators at America's public schools are about to be without excuse when they get the unconstitutional urge to trample on the faith of their students in the name of secularism.
The smart ones will be educated by the experience. The others will be litigated ...
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Michael Savage opens both barrels over Romney VP pick
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While many Republicans are fawning over Mitt Romney's choice of Rep. Paul Ryan as running mate, radio host Michael Savage isn't afraid to say what he really thinks of the pick!
Will Ryan be a conservative home run, or a death knell to the Romney campaign? Savage makes his bold prediction ...
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Did Obama really think he could silence Lt. Col. Terry Lakin?
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Lt. Col. Terry Lakin, the Army flight surgeon court-martialed, imprisoned and stripped of all military rank and privileges, including his Army pension, after refusing to obey deployment orders because Barack Obama had not documented his eligibility for the presidency under Article 1, Section 2 of the Constitution, is today free as a bird.
And he's singing like a bird, too, about his treatment and Obama's eligibility ...
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Given all the fabulous Chuck Norris facts out there, you have to wonder who could possibly impress the six-time world martial-arts champion.
Would you believe a suicidal sex-abuse survivor who defeated her past to win gold in London?
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Savage: 'Bhagwan Shree Obama' leading Democrat cult
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Are you baffled by Democrat politics?
If so, you're looking at it all wrong, says talk-radio host Michael Savage. It's not politics, it's religion ... a cult, actually.
And it's led by a "savior" named "Bhagwan Shree Obama" serving everything but the Kool Aid ...
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Does Isaiah predict Syria's imminent doom?
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"Behold, Damascus is about to be removed from being a city, and it will become a fallen ruin." - Isaiah 17:1
With Syria's chemical and biological weapons and Israel's nuclear weapons, are we about to see a 2,700-year-old biblical prophecy fulfilled before our eyes?
Here's how prophecy expert Joel Richardson, author of "Mideast Beast: The Scriptural Case for an Islamic Antichrist," is parsing the Scriptures and rapidly unfolding current events ...
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It's 112 degrees and you're thirsty ... Tough luck!
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"I was thirsty and you gave Me drink," said Jesus, instructing his followers how to put their faith into action.
Well, if you're in Phoenix and it's 112 degrees and a Christian wants to give you a bottle of cool water, you're both out of luck ...
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Cops kill dog, handcuff kids in wrong-house raid
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A federal court case has been launched after a SWAT team busted into the wrong house, killed the family's dog and "terrorized" the children inside.
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Look what Democrats accuse GOP of now
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The Democrats have just added a new chapter to their playbook of wild claims of what Republicans will do if they're elected.
What were Howard Dean's cronies at Democracy for America smoking when they came up with this one?
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Jonathan Cahn, the No. 1 bestselling Christian author in America in 2012, is under attack.
And it's not coming from the usual suspects ...
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Find the real smoking gun
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Horrific, senseless violence can be linked to a cause which many at first thought ...
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Liberals, Progressives and Socialists
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published August 8, 2012 on Townhall.com.
In Europe, especially in Germany, hoisting a swastika-emblazoned Nazi flag is a crime. For decades after World War II, people have hunted down and sought punishment for Nazi murderers, who were responsible for the deaths of more than 20 million people.
Here's my question: Why are the horrors of Nazism so well-known and widely condemned but not those of socialism and communism? What goes untaught -- and possibly is covered up -- is that socialist and communist ideas have produced the greatest evil in mankind's history. You say, "Williams, what in the world are you talking about? Socialists, communists and their fellow travelers, such as the Wall Street occupiers supported by our president, care about the little guy in his struggle for a fair shake! They're trying to promote social justice." Let's look at some of the history of socialism and communism.
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No, Romney Won't Raise Your Taxes $2,000
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published August 8, 2012 on The American Spectator website.
In a campaign stop at Rollins College in Florida last week, Barack Obama suggested that the middle class should resent Mitt Romney's tax proposals:
"I want everybody to understand here -- he's not asking you to pay an extra $2,000 [in taxes] to reduce our deficit; he's not asking you to pay an additional $2,000 to help care for our seniors; he's not asking you to pay an additional $2,000 in order to rebuild America or to fight a war," the president said. "He's asking you to pay more so that people like him can pay less."
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How Times Have Changed
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published August 1, 2012 on Townhall.com.
Having been born in 1936 has allowed me to witness both societal progress and retrogression. High on the list of things made better in our society are the great gains in civil liberties and economic opportunities, especially for racial minorities and women. People who are now deemed poor have a level of material wealth that would have been a pipe dream to yesteryear's poor. But despite the fact that today's Americans have achieved an unprecedented level of prosperity, we have become spiritually and morally impoverished compared with our ancestors.
Years ago, spending beyond one's means was considered a character defect. Today not only do people spend beyond their means but also there are companies that advertise on radio and TV to eliminate or reduce your credit card and mortgage debt. Students saddled with college loans have called for student loan forgiveness. Yesterday's Americans would have viewed it as morally corrupt and reprehensible to accumulate debt and then seek to avoid paying it. It's nothing less than theft. What's worse is there's little condemnation of it by the rest of us.
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Liberals' War on Boy Scouts, Chick-fil-A
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published August 3, 2012 on The Washington Times website.
Twelve years ago, Bryant Gumbel called me an (expletive) idiot on CBS' "The Early Show" for defending the Boy Scouts after the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed their right to uphold moral standards for leaders and members.
Whether or not you agree with his unvarnished assessment, I'd like to think most people would contend he crossed a line.
Though he was caught on camera saying it, CBS denied it. Years later, Mr. Gumbel himself smugly confirmed it. This is what liberals mean when they lecture us about keeping a civil tone.
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Friday, August 10, 2012
To: Friends & Supporters
From: Gary L. Bauer
COUNTDOWN TO VICTORY: 88 DAYS TO THE 2012 ELECTIONS
Click here to listen now.
"Whatever Happened To Hope And Change?"
For days now, Governor Mitt Romney has endured smears about his tax returns and accusations that he was responsible for a woman's death. While discussing the "lowball nature" of Obama's campaign yesterday on my good friend Bill Bennett's radio show, Romney asked rhetorically, "Whatever happened to hope and change?"
Obama is not going to run a positive campaign about the future because, when it comes to the economy, there is nothing positive about his own record that he can point to. And, believe it or not, the past few weeks have been just a warm-up act!
The campaign season will kick into high gear soon after Labor Day, following both party conventions. Today details are emerging about the Democrats' plans for a "hard-hitting" convention. It's more of the same Chicago-style, brass knuckles politics we've come to expect from the Democrats in the age of Obama.
According to Politico, Democrats are planning "a blistering portrayal of Mitt Romney as a heartless aristocrat who 'would devastate the American middle class.'" In other words, the Democrat National Convention won't be a celebration of Barack Obama's accomplishments, but rather one big bash Romney event.
It's not surprising, but there are people who still think that Obama is a nice guy. Well, he's not a nice guy. His only hope for winning depends on doing everything he can to smear a decent man.
The American left and its media allies are attempting to make Romney into the biggest ogre that ever walked the planet. Obama thinks he can do business with any despot around the world -- Vladimir Putin, Hugo Chavez, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad -- but he will do whatever he has to in order to crush Mitt Romney.
Steel yourselves, my friends. It's going to be a rough ride to November.
The Democrats' Racist Double Standard
Democrats trying to defeat Rep. Allen West (R-FL) have launched an attack ad that exposes the left's double standard when it comes to racism. The ad purports to show Rep. West punching an elderly white lady as a vivid metaphor for how "West has socked it to seniors."
I guarantee you if a Republican had run this ad against a black Democrat, Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson would be in the streets already. The "mainstream" media would be denouncing the ad for dredging up old, racist stereotypes of black men preying on white women.
But, once again, we see that the rules don't apply to the left. These cultural and moral radicals have only one rule: Whatever it takes!
Join Me In D.C.!
Please join me in our nation's capital September 14th - 16th for the 2012 Values Voter Summit! This year's Summit is being sponsored by the Family Research Council, AFA Action, Heritage Foundation, Liberty University, Liberty Council and my non-profit organization, American Values.
Confirmed speakers include: Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN), Dr. Bill Bennett, Lt. Gen. William Boykin, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA), Texas Senate candidate Ted Cruz, author Dinesh D'Souza, former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum and many more outstanding conservative leaders!
There will be educational sessions on a broad range of topics including: the economy, radical Islam, Obamacare, the state of the pro-life movement and the threat to religious liberty. In addition, there will be a gala dinner Saturday night honoring Morton Blackwell, founder and president of the Leadership Institute.
To learn more or to register online, click here now. I look forward to seeing you there!
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Paul Ryan's immigration record troubling -- But seems unlikely to pull Romney off good immigration promises
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The good news about Mitt Romney's pick to be his vice presidential running mate is that Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) doesn't seem to have put a lot of thought into immigration policy and doesn't seem to have deep ideological reasons for his poor immigration record during his 14 years in Congress.
(TO JOIN OTHERS IN A CONVERSATION ABOUT THE ANALYSIS HERE, CLICK ON THIS LINK: https://www.numbersusa.com/conten t/nusablog/beckr/august-11-2012/paul-ryan-immigration-record-disappointing-he-doesnt-seem-likely-make-
HALF-GOOD/HALF-BAD
Our Grade Card on Ryan finds that about half the effect of his overall immigration actions has been toward protecting American workers and taxpayers from bad immigation policy -- and the other half has been supporting policies that hurt American workers and taxpayers.
Ryan's Career Grade is a C.
Half-Good/Half-Bad -- that's what a C-Grade means in the NumbersUSA Immigration-Reduction Grade Cards.
BETTER THAN BIDEN
Nonetheless, Ryan's immigration record is significantly better than that of the Democratic Vice Presidential incumbent Joe Biden.
While serving in the Senate, Biden earned a Career D-Grade on immigration issues. That means he usually backed higher levels of foreign workers, including protecting the jobs of illegal aliens and the employers who hire them.
Although Vice President Biden generally has supported legislation to help American workers, he has nearly always on immigration issues backed measures that loosen the labor market, drive down the wages of workers and increase the unemployment of American workers, particularly Black and Hispanic Americans.
Biden earned an F-Grade in 5 immigration categories, a D-Grade in 2 categories and one C-Grade and one B-Grade (averaging to an overall D-Grade).
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MOST NOTABLE FOR LACK OF IMMIGRATION ACTION AND INVOLVEMENT
Ryan seems to have rarely spoken about immigration. And for the most part, he has acted on immigration only when forced to vote, seldom signing on to immigration bills.
I invite NumbersUSA members to submit statements you can find Ryan having made about immigration. I'm not finding much.
Paul Ryan's C-Grade puts him in the worst 10% of all current Republican Members of Congress when it comes to protecting workers and taxpayers from mass immigration an d illegal immigration. (The grade is based on all votes in committees and on the floor of the House, and on co-sponsorships of all bills, that would affect the number of legal and illegal immigrant workers and dependents added to the U.S. each year.)
The Republican with the closest grade to Ryan's is Rep. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) who is running for an open U.S. Senate seat this fall.
But I am optimistic that he is much different from Rep. Flake who in actions not graded by our system has for years been something of a publicity leader of the George W. Bush philosophies of amnesty for illegal aliens and expansion in green cards for foreign workers.
An example of how different Ryan is from Flake is that although he has co-sponsored amnesties to give illegal aliens a path to citizenship, I can't find examples of Ryan making speeches, writing op-eds or otherwise publicly advocating for the amnesty.
RECENT IMPROVEMENT
Rep. Ryan's record shows that during most of his time in the House he was more influenced than the average Republican by the mass-immigratio n desires of 1990s Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich and of Pres. Bush 2001-2008.
You can view all of Ryan's immigration actions on this NumbersUSA Scoresheet:
https://www.numbersusa.com/content/my/congress/863/gradescoresheet/recent#tabset-3
Yo u will find co-sponsorships of various amnesties.
And you will also find a peculiar fondness for increasing the number of unskilled and lower-skilled immigrants.
I call this peculiar because Ryan is best known for wanting to reduce the size of government. Low-skilled immigrants place heavy demands for larger government programs and more taxpayer subsidies. A Heritage Foundation study found the typical household with a low-educated immigrant head used about $20,000 more in taxes than it paid. Government statistics this year show that nearly 60% of all immigrant households with children use welfare programs.
However, during this Congress (2011-12), Rep. Ryan appears to have discarded most of his bad immigration habits from the Bush era.
(1) Faced with 7 votes on immigration, he has voted to protect American workers and taxpayers in every one.
(2) He has not co-sponsored any bills that would reward illegal aliens or increase legal foreign workers.
(3) His website takes a fairly strong stand against amnesties.
"However, I do not support amnesty for the millions of illegal immigrants already living in the United States. Any reform proposal must require that those who have disregarded the rule of law are not rewarded for their actions. In the end, I hope that with better border security and a more robust and up-to-date employee verification system, we will be able to stem the flow of illegal immigration and restore the rule of law." -- Paul Ryan website (as of 12AUG2012)
His website expresses some sympathy for the illegal aliens who would benefit from the DREAM Act amnesty but says he opposes the amnesty because it deals with the "symptom" of the problem rather than fixing the problem. He indicates that part of the fix is a reliable workplace verification system.
Nonetheless, his website continues to talk about the need for more guestworkers. This is an incredible blindness to the suffering of 20 million Americans (and their families) who want a full-time job and can't find one.
WASHINGTON POST PROVIDES INSIGHT INTO THE PROBLEM WITH RYAN ON IMMIGRATION
Today's Washington Post offered the first of what I'm sure will be many in-depth stories about Ryan. The story was quite positive overall, and gave some key facts about his adulthood which has been spent almost entirely in Washington D.C.
"He has cited his Catholic faith and author Ayn Rand as major influences on his conservative thinking. -- Washington Post, 12AUG2012
Ayn Rand's writing are often cited by libertarian think tank and other leaders as they argue for virtually open borders.
The Post stated that a big step up the political ladder for the young Paul Ryan in 1993 was a job with Empower America, "a think tank run by former congressman Jack Kemp" (who was the GOP's Vice Presidential nominee in 1996).
NumbersUSA spent many years trying to limit the damage on immigration policy that Empower America and Jack Kemp consistently caused. They preceded and then reinforced t he terrible Bush years of immigration policy.
The Post says that when elected to Congress, Ryan didn't spend a lot of time talking with his colleagues in the House.
"Instead, he focused on conservative thinkers outside Congress, such as Paul Gigot, the head of the Wall Street Journal's editorial page, and William Kristol, the editor of the conservative Weekly Standard magazine." -- Washington Post, 12AUG2012
Gigot, Kristol and their publications have been at the forefront for many years in the minority part of the conservative movement that constantly pushes for loosening the labor market with more and more foreign workers -- even during a time of high unemployment.
WHY THE BAD NEWS ON RYAN MAY NOT MATTER MUCH
Of the dozen Republicans touted as potential VP picks, probably only two would have been as good or better than Mitt Romney on immigration.
All the rest would have been as bad as -- and most much worse than -- Ryan on immigration.
That simply reflects the fact that at the top of the Republican Party, the benefits of immigration for a releatively small number of Americans are a more important consideration than the costs to millions of American workers and tens of millions of taxpayers.
Fortunately, Gov. Romney has been making very strong promises on immigration for a year now.
He has made these promises very publicly and repeatedly. I have a great deal of confidence that he will not feel he can politically backtrack on them.
Gov. Romney has promised:
(1) to remove the jobs magnet from illegal immigration,
(2) to promote mandatory E-Verify,
(3) to eliminate legal immigration categories that don't serve the national interest,
(4) to fully implement the border fence and the entry-exit system already passed by Congress.
Although Ryan has not shown much leadership for these, he also hasn't led against them.
And Ryan did step out to help E-Verify at a time he didn't have to in 2008. He signed the Discharge Petition that barely failed to get enough signatures to force Speaker Nancy Pelosi to let the House vote on the SAVE Act, the bill by Democrat Rep. Heath Shuler to mandate E-Verify for all jobs.
Nonetheless, Romney has shown a weakness for listening to business leaders who claim they may need more foreign workers. Ryan's voice in the inner circles will only magnify that weakness.
If Romney and Ryan are elected, we will have our work cut out for us to stop some immigration initiatives that would hurt American workers.
Of course, we have been fighting that battle for four years against the efforts of Pres. Obama and Vice President Bident, and for eight years against Pres. Bush on the same subject.
We could hope that a Vice President Ryan would start paying more attention to the taxpayer costs of immigration, instead of perhaps bowing to some of the narrower interests of some economic entities that a Congressman always has to consider.
Just as we continue to call on Obama and Biden to put unemployed Americans first in their immigration policies, we will do the same for Romney and Ryan.
And we will continue to watch closely to see who is paying attention.
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Lies, Damnable Lies and Statistics Among the 5 million emails that wind up in my inbox each day (okay, that's one of those statistics that might be a lie, or at least a slight exaggeration) came this one from my colleague, Bob Dane....
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Up to 1.8 Million Could Get Obama Amnesty As many as 1.76 million unauthorized immigrants who were brought to the United States as children could potentially be eligible for a grant of relief from deportation.
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The Administration's 'Convenient' Amnesty Plan The recent announcement by President Obama and memos released by ICE which set forth what basically is amnesty for close to two million illegal aliens was defended by the President as "the right thing to do."
Full Story Obama Sets Price on Amnesty: $465 The eligible set of illegal aliens is essentially the same as the population that would be addressed by the Dream Act.
Full Story Obama DREAM Amnesty to Cost At Least $585 Million The Obama Administration's plan to grant deferred action status and work authorization to illegal aliens meeting criteria similar to the DREAM Act could cost over $585 million, internal DHS documents reveal.
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Carolina in my mind
Posted: 12 Aug 2012 01:45 PM PDT
(Scott Johnson)
The joint Romney-Ryan appearance this morning in High Point, North Carolina, was mobbed. I've put up the video of their televised remarks in the adjacent post. Looking around the Web for the video, however, I also found the iPhone video below of Romney and Ryan speaking in the overflow room before a crowd that didn't make it into the main room. It gives a vivid sense of the enthusiasm that greeted the GOP ticket in North Carolina today.
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"We love this country"
Posted: 12 Aug 2012 12:56 PM PDT
(Scott Johnson)
Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan made a joint appearance this morning in High Point, North Carolina. Ryan's and Romney's remarks are posted in their entirety in this NBC News video. Romney begins to speak at about 15:00.
According to my hurried notes, toward the of his remarks, at around 24:00, Romney states: "I love America. We're going to restore American principles. We love this country. We don't want to change it. We don't want to transform it. We want to restore the principles of America that made us the hope of the earth." Before he winds up Romney returns to the theme again, repeating it for emphasis: "We love this country. We love this country. We love America." And one more time: "We love this country."
We know who he's talking about, even though the target is left unstated. Every such statement is an implicit rebuke to Barack Obama. It's a message that strikes a deep chord, and I hope it's one that the Romney campaign will carry all over the country.
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The Weekly Winston: Hiroshima/Nagasaki Edition
Posted: 12 Aug 2012 11:43 AM PDT
(Steven Hayward)
My planned installment for this week's Churchill was derailed by the Paul Ryan news, and I was going to use the Hiroshima/Nagasaki bombings to pass along Churchill's comments, made on August 16, 1945-only days after the Nagasaki bomb, but after Churchill had left the premiership following his defeat in the election the previous month. Here you will see Churchill anticipate the argument that has roiled ever since about the use of the atomic bomb to end the war against Japan:
The decision to use the atomic bomb was taken by President Truman and myself at Potsdam, and we approved the military plans to unchain the dread, pent-up forces. . . There are voices which assert that the bomb should never have been used at all. I cannot associate myself with such ideas. Six years of total war have convinced most people that had the Germans or the Japanese discovered this new weapon, they would have used it upon us to our complete destruction with the utmost alacrity. I am surprised that very worthy people, but people who in most cases had no intention of proceeding to the Japanese front themselves, should adopt the position that rather than throw this bomb, we should have sacrificed a million American, and a quarter of a million British lives in the desperate battles and massacres of an invasion of Japan.
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Contrast this
Posted: 12 Aug 2012 09:07 AM PDT
(Scott Johnson)
This morning after writing up my thoughts on Romney's pick of Paul Ryan as his running mate, I wanted to offer some free advice to the Romney campaign. If it's a contrast to the Obama reelection campaign that you now mean to serve up, make an avowal of love for the United States your motif.
We love this country. Unlike Obama and his crew, we do not find it in need of fundamental transformation. We seek to restore the principles of the American Founding to their rightful, preeminent authority in our national life.
In his remarks in North Carolina this morning, Governor Romney said it over and over: I love this country. I counted some six times that he said it.
Now that this has become a contrast election, this is the contrast that strikes most deeply for me. When Governor Romney avows his love for America, you know who he's talking about. No explanation is necessary.
I am advised that the Romney communications team YouTube channel will have the video of Governor Romney's remarks up today. I will post the video here as soon as it is available.
UPDATE: I have posted the NBC News video with the entirety of Rep. Ryan's and Governor Romney's remarks in "We love this country."
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NBC Goes For the Trifecta
Posted: 12 Aug 2012 08:48 AM PDT
(Steven Hayward)
Having attempted the gold medal in racism and sexism, it looks like NBC did indeed follow my urging to add homophobia for the trifecta: the network made fun of racewalking! They played the Benny Hill theme during racewalk highlights, and belittled "racewalking fever." Looks like dog-whistle homophobia to me. Close enough for the bronze medal anyway.
Where's the outrage? Coming in three, two, one . . .
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Our Churchillian moment
Posted: 11 Aug 2012 01:25 PM PDT
(Scott Johnson)
Our friends at the Claremont Institute have a warm relationship with Paul Ryan. When Washington Fellow Bill Bennett put together a conference for the institute in Aspen in the summer of 2005, Rep. Ryan appeared as one of the featured speakers. He took the occasion to talk about how Social Security could be saved. As Chairman of the House Budget Committee, Rep. Ryan has donned the mantle of leadership on some of the most serious issues confronting the United States.
Recognizing the role he has played on the national stage, the Claremont Institute awarded Rep. Ryan its Churchill Award for Statesmanship this past November. His speech on the occasion carries a renewed interest today. The video of the speech is posted on the Claremont Institute YouTube channel under the evocative and still-timely title: "Our Churchillian moment." This is a superb speech with a special poignance today.
Searching online for the text of the speech, I found that John Hinderaker posted it on our site under the heading "The man who will be president." Quotable quote: "Today we need to take new inspiration from Churchill the leader, who saw what was at stake in the choices the people of his country had to make. For we are in our own 'Churchillian moment' - threatened, not by foreign aggression, but by a titanic fiscal imbalance that has the potential to crush America's prosperity and diminish its capacity to lead the world."
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The Weekly Winston: Paul Ryan Edition
Posted: 11 Aug 2012 10:47 AM PDT
(Steven Hayward)
Behind Paul and John's hesitation about Ryan is the doubt that it is possible to have an "adult conversation" in the heat of a presidential campaign, especially when you will have to fend off the adolescent fantasies of Obama-Biden and today's infantile Democratic Party. It is a reasonable fear, and not brand new: conservatives have long warned against the dire consequences of reaching the moment where a critical mass of American voters depend on the government for their well-being, and hence will vote to perpetuate the welfare state. Have we reached that point? Will we reach it if Obama gets a second term? Who knows. The point about Ryan is that we might as well go down with our best.
In this regard I'm reminded of Churchill's warning to his own party in March 1945 not to be "socialist-lite" (though they turned out that way anyway):
This is no time for windy platitudes and glittering advertisements. The Conservative Party had far better go down telling the truth and acting in accordance with the verities of our position than gain a span of shabbily-bought office by easy and fickle froth and chatter.
All my experience of the British people, which is a long one, convinces me that never at any moment more than this have they wished and meant to face realities, and woe betide those public men who seek to slide into power down the slippery slope of vain and profligate undertakings.
This is no time for humbug and blandishments, but for grim, stark facts and figures, and for action to meet to immediate needs.
Sounds like the specs for Paul Ryan to me: who is better at handling the "grim, stark facts and figures" of our present crisis.
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Ryan on Power Line TV
Posted: 11 Aug 2012 08:33 AM PDT
(Steven Hayward)
I'll happily declare interest behind my enthusiasm for Paul Ryan: he's read my Reagan and Churchill books. And I've seen him up close and in person displaying his facility with the deeper principles of the American Founding, and his (correct) perception of how the Progressive Era represents the decisive break in American political thought. In this respect he has more depth than Reagan. Forget the budget issues for a moment-Ryan represents the most serious national challenger to the essential premises of the Left since Calvin Coolidge.
Of course there are hazards with this (I'll make a more complete response to Paul later in the day), but let's note on thing: Obama's campaign is going to attack Ryan on the issues, rather than his tax returns, his dog, his business record, etc.
In the meantime, I thought we might as well repost the short video I did of Ryan from a few months ago:
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Romney Doubles Down On Competence
Posted: 11 Aug 2012 07:20 AM PDT
(John Hinderaker)
I admit to some surprise. Presumably Mitt Romney doesn't think that the Milwaukee suburbs are the key to the White House, or the Eagle Scout demographic will swing the election. So the only explanation is that Romney wants the most competent ticket possible. When was the last time we had a national ticket with this much mathematical skill, or knowledge of finance? Probably never.
So Romney wants to contrast the serious guys who are out to save the country with the buffoonish and dishonest political hacks, Obama and Biden. Well, the contrast is real. But whether the voters will see it that way is another matter. One thing we can be sure of is that Ryan will perform brilliantly on the issues; especially, of course, the budget. Which could be important: Obama's budgetary fecklessness should be his greatest liability, yet it seems often to be forgotten in more general discussion of the economy. If Ryan helps focus more attention on the budget and the nation's crushing debt, it will be a plus.
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A sub optimal VP choice
Posted: 11 Aug 2012 06:58 AM PDT
(Paul Mirengoff)
That is my initial reaction to Romney's selection of Paul Ryan. I say this for same reason that Steve Hayward likes the pick so much: Ryan wants to have an adult conversation with the American people about the looming insolvency of the welfare state.
Adult conversations during presidential campaigns are okay up to a point, depending on the circumstances. But the selection of Ryan limits Romney's ability to control the extent to which the campaign will be driven by such a conversation. Nor will the conversation that Ryan brings to the fore be entirely "adult," whatever Romney and Ryan may desire.
Ryan is a great congressman and would probably make a fine president. However, I fear that Romney has selected the one man on his short list who can hurt his chances of being elected president.
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by Nathaniel Ward
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Last month, the Associated Press reported in a story titled "Legitimate voters blocked by photo ID laws" that anti-voter fraud measures are keeping voters from the polls.
But the story has a major hole, as Heritage Foundation election law expert Hans von Spakovsky notes in Big Journalism:
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It turns out, though, that the article lacked key information about two Indiana voters that might have changed the whole tenor of the story. The reporter, Mike Baker, failed to reveal that the voters in question actually have photo IDs and have used them in previous elections.
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Von Spakovsky reports that these voters have multiple forms of photo ID and have in fact used them to vote in previous elections. Moreover, the voters failed to follow simple procedures that could have allowed them to verify their provisional votes. The AP story failed to report any of these facts.
Are voter ID measures an effective way to combat fraud? Or are they counterproductive?
Every American understands media is changing our culture. Children and teens today are growing up in a vastly different environment than their parents did 30 years ago.
But that culture shift is now proven to alter the way youth and teens live out their lives. In a recent study from Darthmouth, researchers found that teens exposure to increased sexual content in movies is encouraging sexual behavior at an earlier age.
How do you see movies changing today's youth?
Pulitzer Prize-winning political columnist Charles Krauthammer called The Heritage Foundation's Robert Rector "the world expert on welfare reform" during an appearance yesterday on Fox News. Krauthammer was discussing President Obama's decision to unilaterally gut welfare reform with Juan Williams when he cited Rector's work.
Click here to see the interview.
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Heritage Work of Note
- The Obama campaign and liberal groups are suing to block Ohio legislation that would allow military personnel to vote more easily using absentee and early ballots. This argument proves a fundamental misunderstanding of the nature of military life, seeing as military personnel face voting obstacles unknown to civilians. Our military makes sacrifices for us every day to secure our citizens' rights, we must work to make sure our they have every opportunity to exercise their right to vote in November.
- This last week, on "Istook Live!" Heritage Foundation scholar, Ernest Istook hosted guests including Tim Carney of the Washington Examiner, Medal of Honor Winner Gen. Patrick Brady, and Fred Lucas, author of "The Right Frequency."
"Istook Live!" is broadcast live every weekday from The Heritage Foundation. The show can be heard live online weekdays from 9:00 a.m. to noon Eastern.
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