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912 Patriots of Lower Bucks - Your Daily Updates ALL in ONE Place!
August 22, 2012
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"The great virtue of a free market system is that it does not care what color people are; it does not care what their religion is; it only cares whether they can produce something you want to buy. It is the most effective system we have discovered to enable people who hate one another to deal with one another and help one another."
-Milton Friedman
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Posted by Breeanne Howe | Tuesday, August 21st
 Starting at the end of this month the Democratic National Convention will open with a focus on Islam. 20,000 Muslims are expected to attend according to the Bureau of Indigenous Muslim Affairs (BIMA), the national Muslim American non-profit coordinating the two days of events they claim are non-political. " Jumah at the DNC" begins August 29 and will start with a Friday afternoon jummah prayer followed by other unnamed programs and events, leading up to the Islamic Regal Banquet. The following day will be an all day Islamic Cultural and Fun Fest which will include discussions on the topics of Islamaphobia, Anti-Shariah, Middle Eastern Crisis, Patriot Act, National Defense Authorization Act and more. The purpose, according to BIMA, is to attract national and international attention to the plight of American Muslims and to hold political parties accountable for issues that affect them. However, not all Muslims feel that BIMA represents them and M. Zuhdi Jasser M.D., Founder and President of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy, has expressed serious concerns.
It is troubling that the Democratic National Convention has decided to promote and lend its name and national political platform to the organizers of the "Jummah at the DNC". The leaders of this event - Jibril Hough and Imam Siraj Wahhaj as advertised are no moderates. They are radicals. These individuals embrace Islamist supremacy and have demonstrated support for radical ideologies.
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Aug 21, 2012/ 3 Elul, 5772
'Issues' or America?
http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | By Thomas Sowell
There are some very serious issues at stake in this year's election - so many that some people may not be able to see the forest for the trees. Individual issues are the trees, but the forest is the future of America as we have known it.
The America that has flourished for more than two centuries is being quietly but steadily dismantled by the Obama administration, during the process of dealing with particular issues.
For example, the merits or demerits of President Obama's recent executive order, suspending legal liability for young people who are here illegally, presumably as a result of being brought here as children by their parents, can be debated pro and con. But such a debate overlooks the much more fundamental undermining of the whole American system of Constitutional government.
The separation of powers into legislative, executive and judicial branches of government is at the heart of the Constitution of the United States - and the Constitution is at the heart of freedom for Americans.
No President of the United States is authorized to repeal parts of legislation passed by Congress. He may veto the whole legislation, but then Congress can override his veto if they have enough votes. Nevertheless, every President takes an oath to faithfully execute the laws that have been passed and sustained - not just the ones he happens to agree with.
If laws passed by the elected representatives of the people can be simply over-ruled unilaterally by whoever is in the White House, then we are no longer a free people, choosing what laws we want to live under.
When a President can ignore the plain language of duly passed laws, and substitute his own executive orders, then we no longer have "a government of laws, and not of men" but a President ruling by decree, like the dictator in some banana republic.
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New Campaign launched by former CIA, Special Operations Members to combat leaks and politicization of National Security Info
Kicks Off Nationwide With Release Of Documentary Short Film Titled "Dishonorable Disclosures"
OPSEC Website: http://www.opsecteam.org/
Former CIA and Special Operations members are announcing the creation of OPSEC, a new nationwide public campaign to combat the spike in leaks and politicization of Intelligence and Special Operations missions that threaten their effectiveness and the safety of Americans who conduct them. OPSEC - short for Operational Security, meaning to eliminate or reduce the exploitation of critical information - will begin with the release of "Dishonorable Disclosures," a new documentary short film highlighting the problem from the perspective of those who have served in these critical positions. The film will also serve as the basis for a TV and online advertising effort.
"Intelligence and Special Operations members are angry and frustrated at how our work has been used for political advantage by officials across government, including President Obama himself who bears special responsibility as Commander in Chief," said Scott Taylor, chairman of OPSEC and a former Navy SEAL. "We want the American people to understand the cost of these leaks and politicization both on those who serve and on our national security and to hold those in positions of leadership accountable if it doesn't stop."
OPSEC is made up of individuals who served their country in the CIA, and Special Operations Forces (SOF) consisting of Navy SEALs, Army Special Forces, Marine Corps and Air Force Special Operations. It is organized as a 501(c)(4) nonpartisan public education campaign and is independent of any political party or campaign organization.
The campaign will begin with the release of "Dishonorable Disclosures," a documentary short film that views the impact of the increasing number of leaks on Intelligence and Special Operations missions, tradecraft, tactics and capabilities from the perspective of those who have relied on these tools to carryout similar missions and protect themselves and those they served alongside. The film will be shown at events in key states across the country over the next several months, including Virginia, Florida, Ohio, Colorado, North Carolina and Nevada. "Dishonorable Disclosures" can be seen here.
"Countless leaks, interviews and decisions by the Obama Administration and other government officials have undermined the success of our Intelligence and Special Operations forces and put future missions and personnel at risk," said Fred Rustmann, an OPSEC member and 24-year veteran of the Central Intelligence Agency. "OPSEC will carry a strong message across the country that it's time for President Obama and other administration officials to stop jeopardizing national security operations for political gain."
More information about OPSEC and news about the release of "Dishonorable Disclosures" can be found at http://www.opsecteam.org/.
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Obama and the Politics of Treason
The Blaze | Buck Sexton | Posted on August 21, 2012 at 12:36pm
 President Obama has dismissed and derided the former military and intelligence officers who believe his administration passed out sensitive national security information for partisan gain. In a press conference yesterday, he said of the Special Operations OPSEC Education Fund and similar groups-"I don't take these folks too seriously."
Unsurprisingly, the White House has been quick to attack the men behind these accusations instead of explaining to the American people that this administration has not leveraged defense secrets for positive press reports. The best Obama was able to muster in his defense yesterday was "this kind of stuff springs up before election time."
Of course, this does not adequately address accusations of leaks that many believe could amount to treason. While the specific source of the leaks remains in question, as a former intelligence officer, I see why so many informed observers, including the OPSEC whistleblowers, smell something rotten at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Let's press into the facts of the case.
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Getting ready for the Republican National Convention? You won't want to miss the most exciting non-convention event in Tampa that everyone is talking about! Details are below.
Please join us as we "Treasure Life" with our special honorees Sen. Rick Santorum, Gov. Rick Perry, Congresswoman Michele Bachmann and Congressman Louie Gohmert.
We would love to have YOU come to the fabulous Florida Aquarium and celebrate with us.
To read our invitation clickhere.
For more details and to purchase tickets to our exciting "Treasure Life" party, please click here: http://www.regonline.com/RNCLife. Or you may call 618-462-8392 to make reservations.
We hope to see YOU in Tampa at our "Treasure Life" celebration! Phyllis Schlafly
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 When you think of the great presidential debates throughout history, there's Lincoln and Douglas in 1858, Kennedy and Nixon in 1960, and then there is Glenn's new live comedy stage show, Unelectable 2012.
Since Glenn couldn't personally visit every city in America on his Unelectable 2012 tour, he has decided that the final show will be simulcast LIVE in movie theaters all over the country, probably one in your town! Watch Glenn drown in his own sweat while you relax in air conditioning, eating nachos and Milk Duds.
This is an amazingly funny show, the kind of presidential debate that you'll never actually see because Glenn plays a candidate who tells the truth! Joined by the writers and performers of GBTV's sketch comedy show, The B.S. of A., many are saying it could be the funniest show Glenn's ever done, and it ends with an inspiring message that will have you on your feet full of hope. It's a night of fun the whole family can enjoy! With the election season we've got in front of us, this may be the only "funny-on-purpose" thing related to politics for years to come.
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Glenn's Live Comedy Stage Show - Unelectable 2012
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Live Thursday, September 20th
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8:00pm ET/ 7:00pm CT with tape delayed showings at 7:00pm MT/ 8:00pm PT
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Select movie theaters nationwide
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OPENING NEXT FRIDAY!!!!!
 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 2,600,000 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
Regal Plymouth Meeting Place 10
Conshohocken, PA
August 24
Cinemark 20
Moosic, PA
August 24
Oaks Stadium 24
Oaks, PA
August 24
Cinemark Galleria at Pittsburgh Mills
Tarentum, PA
August 24
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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VALLEY FORGE PATRIOTS MONTHLY MEETING
September 7, 6:00PM - One Week Early
As the November election draws near, we need all the help we can get to ensure victory.
The Freedom Worksorganization has shown proven results in positively affecting elections across the US.
At the VFP meeting on September 7th, Brian Steinhauser, Freedom Works' Director of Federal and State Campaigns will be sharing their very effective techniques to get out and influence the vote. Amanda Shell of Freedom works will show us how to use their home phone bank system.
The meeting at the Phoenixville CC,will start at 6:00PM sharp. There will be a short break at 7:00 PM, when complimentary sandwiches and soft drinks will be served. The meeting will continue to 9:00 PM
Come and learn how to make a real difference
In this election!
RSVPs are required as only 200 seats are available.
Don't miss this meeting --- we must do everything possible to defeat Obama.
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American Sheepdogs 5th Birthday Celebration
"Courage - to do the right thing"
Saturday Sept 8, 2012
Noon - 2:30pm
Knights of Columbus Hall
110 W. Market St
West Chester, PA 19380
(Note: - parking in downtown West Chester is FREE at the meters on Saturdays until 5PM)
Tickets are $35 and include delicious hot lunch, custard-filled cake, soft drinks, and door prizes.
Send an email to richdavis53@comcast.netor call 610-580-4797 for tickets or more information.
The party will be a good chance to have a good time. Its been a long year, the campaign has been very draining. I promise this party will lift your spirits, refill your cup and recharge your battery. You will enjoy and be motivated by hearing Dom Giordano and the amazing Pamela Geller.
Special Guest Speakers
Dom Giordano - WPHT 1210AM Radio- conservative talk show host. Dom is a champion, he goes where the action is, right into the lion's den like the Occupiers at City Hall in Philadelphia, the Union thugs that protest and harass private businesses, fights against those who oppose voter ID, and organizes parades and lunches welcoming home our troops.
Pamela Geller - Nationally known freedom fighter, she went to bat for America by stopping the Mega Mosque at Ground Zero in New York City. She's one of the "Top 10" conservative bloggers in the country (www.AtlasShrugs.com). Author of "Stop the Islamization of America: A Practical Guide to the Resistance" and "The Post-American Presidency: The Obama Administration's War on America" Pamela Geller received the Annie Taylor Award for Courage in 2010 from the David Horowitz Freedom Center. She has been the subject of a profile on 60 Minutes, and of a cover story in the Sunday New York Times. She has made appearances on NBC Nightly News, ABC, CNN, the Sean Hannity Show, the Bill O'Reilly Show, Red Eye, Geraldo, the Mike Huckabee show, and other shows on the Fox News channel. She is also a regular columnist for World Net Daily, Andrew Breitbart's Big Government and Big Journalism, the American Thinker, and other publications.
Both Pamela and Dom are most impressed with all the tea party groups and activism in our area. They are looking forward to meeting and talking with their fellow patriots.
Thank you for your friendship and support.
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Republican Jewish Coalition
111 Presidential Boulevard, #245
Bala Cynwyd, PA19004
610-667-1263 -- Fax: 610-667-1265
Email: PASNJ@rjchq.org
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Volunteer with the
Republican Jewish Coalition on
September 9th and 10th in Philadelphia!
The Republican Jewish Coalition is planning the largest, most aggressive, and most sophisticated outreach effort
EVER undertaken in the Jewish community.
We will launch our 2012 ground game on Sunday and Monday, September 9 and 10. We need all hands on deck in order to make Obama a one-term President.
During the two-day campaign we will be phone banking, going door-to-door, waving signs, and doing lit drops in an effort to educate the Jewish community on the issues.
I PLEDGE to volunteer and take part in the RJC's two-day grassroots outreach campaign on Sunday and Monday, September 9 and 10 in Philadelphia
Name _________________________________________
City ______________________________ State ___________
Phone - ( ) ________-_____________
E-mail address: ___________________________________________
Please fax this form to 610-667-1265, email the form to pasnj@rjchq.org, or call Scott Feigelstein at 610-667-1263 if you want to sign up and help the RJC defeat Obama!
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Sept. 11, 2012: Come to Pamela Geller's Free Speech SION event at the UN Plaza in New York City
If you're anywhere near New York on 9/11, check out this invitation to attend Pamela Geller's FREE SPEECH event
SION to Hold International Congress and Media Workshop to Address Islamic Supremacist War Against Free Speech
The world's leading forces for freedom will be there. There is a suggested contribution of $36 per person. Register now, space is limited. September 11, 2012, UN Plaza Millenium Hotel, 3:00 pm - 7:00 pm.
Email: PamelaGeller@gmail.com to register.
NEW YORK: The first session of the International Freedom Defense Congress, the operating body of the human rights organization Stop Islamization of Nations (SION), will be held in New York on September 11, 2012. The principal focus of the Congress will be a media workshop pertaining to Islamic supremacist attempts to restrict the freedom of speech in the free world, and the smear campaigns against freedom fighters in newspapers and media institutions in the West.
"The objective of this first-of-its-kind workshop is to develop media-related mechanisms to address the smear campaigns," SION said in a statement. It will also address the media's double standard regarding Islam and other religions, as epitomized in March 2012 by the New York Times' running of an anti-Catholic smear ad and rejection of a SION ad telling the truth about Islamic jihad.
It said the workshop will discuss at length the reasons behind and the results of the Western media's offensive campaigns against freedom of speech and the truth about Islam, jihad, Islamic supremacism and Muslims, which it added still occur from time to time.
"The workshop will represent a quantum leap in media action, as it discusses, beyond rhetoric, the practical steps to address the phenomenon of the Islamic war against free speech," SION President Pamela Geller said. Fighting Back in the War on Free Speech Pamela Geller, March 18, 2012
Freedom fighters from all over the globe, journalists, intellectuals and academicians will be among the participants in the workshop, which will consist of brainstorming sessions to develop mechanisms for cooperation with external partners, and to develop an action plan to address the phenomenon of the Islamic war against free speech.
The organization noted that the workshop is of particular importance as it is the first ever to address the implications of Resolution 16/18 of the United Nations Human Rights Council, the stated goal of which is to "combat intolerance, negative stereotyping and stigmatisation of, discrimination, incitement to violence, and violence against persons based on religion or belief," but which is actually designed to restrict truthful speech about Islamic supremacism and jihad, so as to render the West mute and defenseless before the advancing threat of jihad and Sharia.
Resolution 16/18, which was adopted by the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva in March 2011, was backed by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at the most recent Istanbul Process Conference in Washington in December.
This is widely viewed as a significant step toward furthering OIC efforts to destroy the freedom of speech and impose Sharia blasphemy laws on the free world.
"We are holding this Congress on the eleventh anniversary of the day jihad came to America in order to strike a blow for freedom," Geller said.
SION President Geller is the author of Stop Islamization of America: A Practical Guide to the Resistance (WND Books) and The Post-American Presidency: The Obama Administration's War On America (Simon & Schuster). SION Vice President is the acclaimed author and Islam expert, Robert Spencer, author of the New York Times bestsellers, The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades) and The Truth About Muhammad (both Regnery).
The SION Board of Advisers also includes Oskar Freysinger, a Swiss Parliamentarian and member of the Swiss People's Party (SVP), who won international renown for his leadership of the successful campaign against the construction of minarets in Switzerland; Cliff Kincaid, editor of Accuracy in Media (AIM) and a leader of the struggle to keep the jihadist propaganda network Al-Jazeera off American airwaves; Dr. Ashraf Rameleh, President of Voice of the Copts, an international organization standing up for the human rights of Coptic Christians and all religious minorities against religious bigotry and intolerance; Dr. Ali Sina, the renowned ex-Muslim author and founder of FaithFreedom.org; Dr. Wafa Sultan, the ex-Muslim human rights activist and author; the German pro-freedom activist Stefan Herre of Politically Incorrect; the Israeli author Dr. Mordechai Kedar; the Hindu human rights activist Babu Suseelan; Anders Gravers of Stop Islamisation of Europe (SIOE); and Canadian publisher and free speech defender Ezra Levant.
Speakers at SION's International Freedom Defense Congress will include Kedar, Rameleh, Sina, Kincaid, and Gravers, as well as Danish free speech advocate Lars Hedegaard; Italian human rights activists Magdi Christiano Allam and Valentina Colombo; English politician and freedom fighter Paul Weston; and renowned Muhammad cartoonist Lars Vilks. More speakers will be announced shortly.
SION stands for:
-- The freedom of speech - as opposed to Islamic prohibitions of "blasphemy" and "slander," which are used effectively to quash
honest discussion of jihad and Islamic supremacism; -- The freedom of conscience - as opposed to the Islamic death
penalty for apostasy; -- The equality of rights of all people before the law - as opposed to Sharia's institutionalized discrimination against women and non-Muslims.
Join the SION Facebook group here.
Yours in liberty,
Pamela Geller
Editor, Publisher Atlas Shrugs
President, SION
Executive Director, AFDI/SIOA
Author The Post-American Presidency: The Obama Administration's War on America
Author: Stop the Islamization of America: A Practical Guide for the Resistance
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The RJC Philadelphia Chapter
Invites you to a Special
Meet-and-Greet Breakfast with
Joe Rooney
GOP Candidate for Pennsylvania's 13th Congressional District
Wednesday, August 22
Registration and breakfast at 7:30 AM
Program will begin promptly at 8:00 AM
Fox Rothschild
Building #10 Sentry Parkway
300 Walton Drive, Suite 200
Blue Bell, PA 19422
Cost:
No Charge for Current RJC Leaders and Members
$10 for eTeam, Non-current, and Friends
Raised in Ardsley, PA in a family with a proud history of military service, Joe Rooney followed in the footsteps of his relatives, being commissioned as a Lieutenant of Marines in 1980. After serving in the US Marine Corps for 23 years, Lt. Col. Rooney retired in 2003 and has instilled in his family the values of service and honor. Please learn more about Lt. Col. Rooney by clicking here.
RSVP is Required
Please RSVP to Scott Feigelstein at 610-667-1263
or email pasnj@rjchq.org.
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Join fellow RJC Philadelphia members in a historic campaign!
The RJC is organizing the largest, most sophisticated outreach
effort ever undertaken targeting the Jewish Community.
For more information or to participate in our historic
National Grassroots Efforts, please call Barbara Efraim at
202-638-2909, ext. 110, or email grassroots@rjchq.org.
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Pennsylvania/S. New Jersey Region Individual Membership is $100.
Pennsylvania/S. New Jersey Region Couple's Membership is $150.
National Leadership opportunities start at $1,000.
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Americans for Prosperity's Willow Grove phone bank:
Where: Willow Grove VFW, , 305 W. Moreland Rd, Willow Grove (map below)
Refreshments will be available.
The phone bank will operate every Monday and Wednesday from 6:00Pm to 9:00PM from now to the election.
AFP is non-affiliated, and is an adjunct to the Victory Centers and other phone banks that will be set up.
It is a great opportunity to find out what a phone bank is all about, how it works and get started.
See this site for info on Americans for Prosperity: http://americansforprosperity.org/
Our next Philadelphia Tea Party Patriots - Eastern Montco meeting:
When: 13 September at 7:00PM
Where: Willow Grove VFW
Thanks to all.
Dot
Map Willow Grove VFW:
https://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=305+West+Moreland+Road,+Willow+Grove,+PA&aq=1&oq=305+w+moreland+rd,+willow+grove,+pa&sll=41.117935,-77.604698&sspn=6.074109,9.876709&vpsrc=0&t=h&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=305+W+Moreland+Rd,+Willow+Grove,+Pennsylvania+19090&z=16&ei=ET4sUNO-I6iXxQHSq4GYDA&pw=2
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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
SMART METER ALERT! Dear Patriots, Peco has stopped installing Smart Meters which are part of UN Agenda 21 (Sustainable Development). If you have had a Smart Meter installed on your home, you should immediately call Peco and tell them to remove it. These fires have been reported in other states after the meters were installed. http://www.myfoxphilly.com/story/19289039/peco-halts-smart-meter-installation-program#.UCxNmtghRs1.facebook For those that have already had the Smart Meter installed on their home, Peco will return, test the meter, and place a warning sign on the meter with a device that should a fire start, the meter will shut off. New reports are that Peco has switched overnight to another provider for these meters, assuring the public that these will be safe. Are we to trust this company, the same one that put fire hazards on 186,000 homes in PA? Now is the time to act! The ball is in our court. I will be trying to go up to Harrisburg in September to push to get legislation out of committee. Maybe we are being given time to stop part of UN agenda 21. Call PECO and tell them no to the "new technology" meters. Thank you. Paula Stiles Chesco Patriots Mark, Joe, Betty & Jeff VFPATRIOTS.com
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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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Dear Friends,
We have 76 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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FYI
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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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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Wednesday 3-4pm "Patriots Watch" - Billy Baer and Dan Haggerty
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Bringing Medicaid into the Debate
Medicare is an emotionally charged program because it provides health insurance coverage for the elderly. But Medicaid covers America's poor and disabled-and no one wants to see them harmed, either.
However, like Medicare, Medicaid is also in desperate need of reform if it is to continue serving the people it was designed to serve. Nearly one-third of America's doctors are already opting out of treating Medicaid patients-because their costs often outweigh what the program pays for care.
States-which already have budget crises of their own-share the cost of Medicaid with the federal government. They can't afford to simply add more people to Medicaid, which is one of Obamacare's main ways to insure more people. (The Supreme Court's Obamacare decision gave states some breathing room when it ruled that Obamacare's Medicaid expansion must be optional for states.)
The program already covers 62.5 million people-about 20 percent of America's population-and federal spending on Medicaid has no limit. That's right-there are no limits on federal spending for Medicaid. But there are limits on American taxpayers' wallets.
Simply adding people to Medicaid should not be the goal. Instead, like other welfare reforms, the goal should be helping people while they're down-and helping them get back up.
For those who are on Medicaid because of low incomes, the program should be reformed to empower them. Medicaid dollars should follow the individual, so that beneficiaries can choose the coverage they want and participate in the private market like the rest of their fellow citizens. They deserve to have more control over their health care and more personalized options. The Heritage Foundation has outlined such a reform in its Saving the American Dream plan.
The Saving the American Dream plan starts by transitioning non-disabled individuals out of government-run Medicaid and into premium support, where they would have the same private health care options as others. "Premium support" simply means that the health care payment goes with the individual to the plan of his or her choice. For a low-income individual trying to get ahead, the premium support amount could be used to pay the employee's share of an employer plan or to purchase individual coverage.
For the low-income elderly, who are caught in a complex, bureaucratic combination of Medicare and Medicaid, the Saving the American Dream plan would provide a coordinated care model like Medicare Advantage, while allowing Medicaid to provide additional assistance as necessary. Again, the result would be more control for the individual over the health care dollars and decisions.
Finally, the plan would restore traditional Medicaid to a true safety net-intended to help those with disabilities-while providing greater flexibility to the states to address the complex needs of these populations.
Heritage's Nina Owcharenko outlines three crucial steps to Medicaid reform:
- Repeal Obamacare. As noted, one of the health care law's goals was significantly expanding Medicaid without offering any solid reforms to address its sustainability. Without repeal, the problems facing Medicaid and the rest of the health care system are extraordinary.
- Put Medicaid on a budget. Although states must balance their budgets, federal Medicaid spending has no limit. The more a state spends, the more federal taxpayers must pay out. Therefore, it is critical that federal Medicaid spending is put on a dependable and sustainable path. Block grants to the states, which would give them more flexibility in helping their populations, could be used for taking care of the disabled and elderly.
- Set core policy objectives. The policy objectives of Medicaid reform must be clear. It should establish patient-centered, market-based solutions that reduce dependence on government health care and improve care for the most vulnerable.
Medicaid needs reforms that will give America's poor and disabled the health coverage they need, without bankrupting taxpayers. This type of reform is possible, and the sooner we get started, the better.
LEARN MORE:
Medicaid: More Than a Block Grant Is Needed by Nina Owcharenko
Don't Expand Medicaid-One-Third of Doctors Are Already Opting Out of It by Alyene Senger
The Supreme Court's Medicaid Decision: The Obamacare Mess Just Got Messier by Nina Owcharenko
Florida's Medicaid Reform Shows the Way to Improve Health, Increase Satisfaction, and Control Costs by Tarren Bragdon
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WHAT IS THE ROLE OF THE PEOPLE?
 "In the United States, government requires not merely the consent of the governed. It rests ultimately on the ability of the people to govern themselves."
As the presidential election approaches, the choices before our nation have never been more critical. The final volume in the Understanding America series, What is the Role of the People?
, examines the great responsibility the Founders bestowed upon us, the American people.
The Founders built the United States on the fundamental principle that we have the right to govern ourselves. To govern effectively, we must ensure our society's continued virtue and freedom, and pass the inheritance of freedom on to each new generation.
Authored by Heritage Foundation President Edwin Feulner, this final volume in the
Understanding Americaseries explores how and why we must live up to our responsibilities in maintaining the Founders' vision. Learn more in What is the Role of the People?
For the full Understanding America series, visit heritage.org/UnderstandingAmerica. Don't miss these volumes:
What Is America's Role In the World?
The United States' foreign policy exists, first and foremost, to defend the independence and interests of its people. But America also has a unique responsibility to uphold and advance the universal principles of liberty upon which it was founded. This volume provides insight into how the Founders' understanding of liberty shaped their vision for foreign policy. Read More
How Must America Practice Diplomacy?
This volume in the Understanding America series examines how the principles of liberty that define America must also guide its practice of diplomacy. Read More
 How Must America Balance Security and Liberty?
America's Founders recognized that the nation's security and its peoples' liberty are not opposed. Rather, security is necessary for the flourishing of liberty. Since its founding, America has promoted security and protected liberty by pursuing policies that strengthen both. This volume in the Understanding America series explores the ways in which the Constitution's Framers sought to protect liberty, and shows that the goals of ensuring security and respecting liberty can and must be reconciled. Read More
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Betsy Woodruff, a 2012 graduate of Hillsdale College's Dow Journalism Program, was recently featured at National Review Online and on the Drudge Report.
"How Did Harry Reid Get Rich?"
By Betsy Woodruff
Originally posted August 15, 2012
"Try this thought experiment. Imagine that someone grows up in poverty, works his way through law school by holding the night shift as a Capitol Hill policeman, and spends all but two years of his career as a public servant. Now imagine that this person's current salary - and he's at the top of his game - is $193,400. You probably wouldn't expect him to have millions in stocks, bonds, and real estate."
Read the entire article
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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:
- 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
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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 22, 2012
1. Just a Reminder: Nikki Haley Remains Awesome
The Myrtle Beach newspaper brings word to conservatives nationwide that Nikki Haley remains awesome.
The Governor, who had a series of vetoes overridden by the state legislature because she dared to cut spending, has also wielded her veto pen and seen the legislature back down recently. But, what's so awesome, is the tears shed by liberals. Get this - she, in the words of the newspaper, "unilaterally" dissolved "the S.C. Arts Commission and the S.C. Sea Grant Consortium."
She also drew a line in the sand over pork barrel spending in the state, pretty clearly telling the legislature that the good times aren't back yet and they need to not live high on the hog.
Just read this editorial and you get a great flavor of what's going on in South Carolina.
People is policy and conservatives rallied to a great person. The result? Great conservative policy coming out of the Governor's Mansion.
2. Obama assists Bain takeover at OMB and tries to hide it
It looks like President Obama is assisting in a friendly takeover of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), by Bain Capital.
As you may have heard, earlier this year Obama picked Jeff Zients to lead the OMB. You might not have heard that Zients worked at Bain from 1988-1990. The Zients White House biography did not originally admit that fact.
Now Obama has appointed another former Bain consultant, Boris Bershteyn, to head the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), which is part of the OMB. Recognizing how awkward this is for Obama's reelection campaign, Bershteyn's tenure at Bain has been edited out of his official White House bio. This is an obvious and glaring attempt to hide Obama's friendly Bain takeover of the OMB.
3. DC Circuit Tosses Out EPA's Pollution Rule
Amidst Obama's inexorable war on American energy, consumers, jobs, and prosperity, his EPA is in the process of promulgating 4 new pollution rules that will bury the coal industry and "necessarily" raise the price of electricity on American households. They are the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule, the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards for Utilities (MACT), the Cooling Water Intake Structures regulation, and the Disposal of Coal Combustion residuals. The former two have already been finalized while the latter two are close behind. Today, the D.C. Circuit Court struck down the EPA's authority to implement the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule.
4. Radical Islam Joins the DNC
Starting at the end of this month the Democratic National Convention will open with a focus on Islam. 20,000 Muslims are expected to attend according to the Bureau of Indigenous Muslim Affairs (BIMA), the national Muslim American non-profit coordinating the two days of events they claim are non-political. "Jumah at the DNC" begins August 29 and will start with a Friday afternoon jummah prayer followed by other unnamed programs and events, leading up to the Islamic Regal Banquet. The following day will be an all day Islamic Cultural and Fun Fest which will include discussions on the topics of Islamaphobia, Anti-Shariah, Middle Eastern Crisis, Patriot Act, National Defense Authorization Act and more. The purpose, according to BIMA, is to attract national and international attention to the plight of American Muslims and to hold political parties accountable for issues that affect them. However, not all Muslims feel that BIMA represents them and M. Zuhdi Jasser M.D., Founder and President of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy, has expressed serious concerns.
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August 22, 2012
Wargaming Termination of Tea Party Extremists
Cameron Reddy
Our military planners are openly discussing how to kill "Tea Party extremists" who have taken over a small town in the USA. Is this "operational lay-down" merely a "cartoonish and needlessly provocative scenario"? More
Politics of Racial Division: Hillary and Obama Ignoring Genocide against Whites
Alan P. Halbert
Green energy above South African mass murder? The State Department under Barack Obama is proving where its priorities lie. More
The Herd of Independent Minds
Victor Volsky
Why are liberals totally impervious to any counter-arguments -- on those rare occasions, that is, when they actually deign to listen to the contrary views? The short answer: it's tribal. More
Obama's World: Through a Glass Darkly
Victor Sharpe
There are those who claim he is merely naïve and amateurish. Not so. More
Three Minutes to Midnight
Ken Blackwell and Bob Morrison
Jeremiah Wright turns out to be a prophet without honor. Now, the chickens really are coming home to roost. We have an inexperienced president on whose ability to interpret often contradictory intelligence data we have staked everything. More
Media Revives the Bipartisanship Con
Rob Miller
This is insidious and biased on a number of levels. More
Break the Chains, Says Joe
Christopher Chantrill
There was something almost charming about Vice President Joe Biden (D) playing the race card last week, singing the "They'll put y'all in chains" number with a great big stage wink. More
American Thinker BlogWH tells reporters what questions to ask Barack Obama
August 22, 2012
Isn't this like getting the questions to exams before the test date? More Confessions of an ex-Liberal, Part II
August 22, 2012
This transformation from left to right triggers a question that haunts me: Why are some people able to take in opposing viewpoints? And perhaps more importantly, what are the necessary elements for that to occur? More It's Okay to Laugh
August 22, 2012
With this week's Newsweek cover, we may be entering a new era. The media may finally have had enough. They may finally have realized their emperor has no clothes. More Ron Paul supporters will strike a deal with establishment GOP
August 22, 2012
Romney didn't give up much for party peace, but the Paul supporters got an acknowledgment that their issues are important, More If All Else Fails: What to do if Akin doesn't step aside
August 22, 2012
THis is no way to select a U.S. Senate Candidateh More
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If the Obama administration isn't socialist, how come Americans had to pay more to the government in taxes in 2010 than they spent on food, clothing, and shelter combined?
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By Daniel Greenfield
The disastrous impact of the president's amnesty policy begins.
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By Arnold Ahlert
The Brotherhood consolidates power and the U.S. administration turns a blind eye.
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By Mark Tapson
The Left deals from a deck full of race cards.
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By Ben Shapiro
It's harder when the problem isn't the U.S.
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By Stephen Brown
Active jihadist agent has been operating freely and converting others to the cause.
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By Louis René Beres and John T. Chain
Israel's remaining options.
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By Frontpagemag.com
Nonie Darwish, Susanne Reyto and Shari Goodman shed light on Huma Abedin and her family's troubling Islamist ties.
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By Jamie Glazov
Pamela Geller's new ad campaign leads public officials and the media to desperately try to surrender to Islamic Law.
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By Frontpagemag.com
Who is the Islamic messiah -- that large percentages of the world's Muslims believe is coming soon?
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By Walter Williams
Why the left-wing education establishment has betrayed the struggle to achieve educational equality for black students.
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By Humberto Fontova
...And worships mass murderer Che Guevara.
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More to read:
The Muslim Brothers Take Over Egypt
Pussy Riot and the Farce of Russian Justice
Smearing Conservatives, Raking in Cash
Red and Black Tragedy, Part II
Who Lost Egypt?
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by HERBERT LONDON
The president's words, "If you've got a business - you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen" revealed his natural way of thinking. What is the origin of his collectivist belief?
by WILLIAM LA JEUNESSE
It's called the Hardest Hit Housing Market Fund, $7.6 billion of your tax money meant to HELP underwater homeowners - but California had a different plan.
by ANDREW C. MCCARTHY
When concerns Hillary Clinton's Deputy Chief of Staff's Muslim Brotherhood connections were first raised by five conservative House members, there was great gnashing of teeth from both liberals and the Brotherhood's growing squad of conservative cheerleaders.
by MUNIR AHMED
The arrest of the girl and outrage among the community demonstrates the deep emotion that suspected blasphemy cases can evoke in this Muslim country, where rising extremism often means religious minorities live in fear of persecution.
by MICHAEL S. JOHNSON
When will Americans, ultimately responsible for the governance of the Republic, demand that tempers be quieted, the sea be calmed, and character and human respect befitting us be restored to the conduct of our public business?
by DARLENE CASELLA
A United Nations ability to restrict the access of American Internet users and bloggers would be in contravention of free speech rights, guaranteed in the First Amendment. What role will American elected officials play in an Internet power grab by the United Nations?
by JOHN DROZ
Jobs and the economy - these messages are being trumpeted as of utmost importance to our nation during this presidential campaign season, while An important centuries-old industry is again forced to play the waiting game.
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Israel and America are convenient justifications for Muslims to kill other Muslims in the name of Allah. When Bin Laden wanted to overthrow the Saudis, he made war on them as the pawns of America.
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If Israel attacks Iran's nuclear facilities, Tel Aviv - Israel's second-most-populated city - will burn to ashes...
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In the newly constituted Soviet Union - or rather, Vladimir Putin's Russia - three members of the aptly-named punk band Pussy Riot found themselves on the wrong end of a 2 year jail sentence for protesting against Putin in a church.
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 Florida Family Association hopes to raise $4,072 for a billboard aimed at the only school district in Florida and perhaps the nation that knowingly permits CAIR officials to instruct students about Islam and Sharia.
Click here if you can make a donation exclusively for this billboard campaign.
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The Hillsborough County School Board in Tampa Florida appears to be the only school district in Florida and perhaps the nation which will knowingly allows Council for American Islamic Relations (CAIR) officials to instruct students regarding Islam and Sharia law. Tragically, board members have no problem with CAIR officials giving their biased version of "Sharia", "Human Rights and Islam" and "Women and Islam in different countries" to hundreds of students at Steinbrenner High School funded by taxpayer dollars. A condensed history of this issue is posted at the end of this article.
Florida Family Association, whose public records request provided the credibility to first break the story, is preparing a billboard campaign aimed at confronting the situation head on. All funds raised through this request will be used exclusively for this campaign. The billboard campaign will:
- Be seen by 104,000 vehicles daily according to DOT traffic counts.
- Be hard to miss since it is the only major billboard for miles.
- Be located on the primary route to Steinbrenner High School.
- Significantly increase the likelihood that Florida Family Association will learn if and when teachers invite CAIR officials to address students.
- Educate thousands of people who visit WelcometoTampaFL.org regarding this issue, the Sharia threat to America public policy and the Islamization taking place in Tampa.
- Hopefully significantly decrease the likelihood of pro-Sharia groups having access to students.
If Florida Family Association learns and verifies that a teacher has invited a CAIR official or other Muslim Brotherhood front organization official to address students on taxpayer funded property Florida Family Association will:
- Organize a peaceful, educationally based protest in front of the school.
- Hand out educational fliers to parents dropping off their children for class.
- Rent the school auditorium for a special event to educate the community regarding the truth about Islam being mostly a political movement with a religious flavor.
Florida Family Association has submitted the billboard to an outdoor advertising company which approved the final content and reserved the requested location. To provide accountability as Florida Family Association does for all major designated fundraising requests a copy of the contract including the $3,400 rental, $672 art cost, location, traffic count and other information will be posted here after the ad copy has been placed on the billboard on September 4, 2012. Placing this information online prior to September 4, 2012 may cause unnecessary pressure by pro-Sharia groups directed at the outdoor advertising company. The billboard will initially stay up for 4 weeks.
CAIR is using bullying tactics across the United States to intimidate patriotic minded people out of their First Amendment right to oppose Islamization of America. We need to counter that intimidation.
Your gift will help us do that. Click here to make a confidential, tax deductible donation or mail your gift to Florida Family Association (FFA), PO Box 46547, Tampa, FL 33646-0105.
Thank you for your support.
ISSUE HISTORY
The Tampa Bay Times reported on January 10, 2012 "Florida Family Association's David Caton protests Muslim speaker's visits to Hillsborough school."
Florida Family Association's public records request which the school district complied with on December 14, 2011 (the beginning of Christmas break) produced the proof that CAIR officials made presentations to students at Steinbrenner High School in Tampa.
Since that time Florida Family Association sent out three email alerts and posted an online article which reported that Hillsborough County School Board members were allowing CAIR (Council on American Islamic Relations) officials to indoctrinate school children with propaganda including their version of Sharia law.
Each school board member and the district superintendent received approximately 10,000 emails opposing CAIR officials from addressing students. That number does not include emails these officials have received from individuals and other groups apart from Florida Family Association. Florida Family Association continues to this day to submit public records requests regarding this issue.
Several organizations including local Tea Party leaders challenged the Hillsborough County School Board on February 14, 2012 to stop local CAIR officials from addressing students. The Tampa Bay Times reported in part "The issue arose late last year when conservative activist David Caton called attention to a visit to Steinbrenner High by Hassan Shibly, executive director of the Tampa-based Islamic group." Click here to read report in The Tampa Bay Times.
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Email: ffa@floridafamily.org Florida Family Association, Inc. P.O. Box 46547, Tampa, FL 33646-0105 Telephone 813-264-5888
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Feds inconsistent on definition of "terrorism"
The shooting at the Sikh temple qualifies as "terrorism."
The Ft. Hood massacre and the murder of a soldier at an Army recruiting center do not.
That's according to the Obama administration (see the Fox News article below, highlights added).
This inconsistency demonstrates that this administration is consistent about one thing: allowing political correctness to dictate how it deals with Islamic terrorism.
Questions raised over feds' consistency on 'terrorism' definition in wake of shootings
By Catherine Herridge
Published August 16, 2012
FoxNews.com
Questions are being raised about the consistency of the government's standard for what qualifies as "terrorism," as recent high-profile shootings bear that label while tragedies like the Fort Hood massacre do not.
According to the Patriot Act, domestic terrorism is defined as an act of violence that is intended to "intimidate or coerce a civilian population, to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion or to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination, or kidnapping."
The shooting earlier this month at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin where six were killed by an alleged neo-Nazi military veteran was publicly described by the attorney general as an act of terrorism motivated by hate.
"That is precisely -- precisely what happened here. An act of terrorism, an act of hatred, a hate crime that is anathema to the founding principles of our nation and to who we are as an American people," Attorney General Eric Holder said Aug. 10.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/08/16/questions-raised-over-feds-consistency-on-terrorism-definition/#ixzz24ELtWQN4
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Obama Threatens Force Against Syria
By MARK LANDLER
Published: August 20, 2012
WASHINGTON - President Obama warned Syria on Monday that it would face American military intervention if there were signs that its arsenal of unconventional weapons was being moved or prepared for use. It was Mr. Obama's first direct threat of force against Syria, as he has resisted being drawn into the bloody 18-month rebellion.
The president's warning raises the pressure on President Bashar al-Assad, whom Mr. Obama again called on to relinquish power. And it underscores the deepening alarm among American officials that, as Syria sinks further into civil war, its unconventional weapons could be seized by radical forces tied to terrorist groups like Hezbollah or Al Qaeda.
The warning brings Mr. Obama, who has brushed aside calls to impose a no-fly zone or to arm the Syrian rebels, a step closer to direct American engagement. The specter of unconventional weapons being loosed in the heart of the Arab world, he said, would upend his calculation that military intervention would only worsen the situation.
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News and Analysis on Your Money in Washington
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In 2013, Half Your Paycheck Will Go to IRS
In January 2013, the federal income tax rate for the middle class is scheduled to rise. Add in state and local taxes (property, corporate, excise, etc.), and the percentage of each additional dollar taxed hovers around 50 percent.
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Lawmakers no longer miss deadlines; they deliberately ignore them. They have degraded budgeting into a jumble of ad hoc, spend-as-you-go measures nagging lawmakers' attention year-round.
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 The Real Iceberg: Mandatory Spending is the Threat that Could Sink US
Mandatory spending-primarily entitlements like Medicare and interest-is set on budgetary autopilot, growing without Congressional debate. It has increased almost six times faster than discretionary spending, including defense, which is the part of federal spending subject to annual budgets.
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Why Is Israel More Prosperous than the Palestinians?
Gloria Center - Global Research in International Affairs
By Barry Rubin August 10, 2012
 In almost 40 years of studying these issues, I've never seen a better case study of mass media bias and knee-jerk narrowness than an aspect of the current flap about what presidential candidate Mitt Romney said during his trip to Israel. I'm going to focus on a single point because it brings this problem into sharp focus.
If you truly understand what you are about to read, I don't see how you can accord most of the mass media any credibility when it comes to Israel ever again. Briefly, Romney mentioned the gap between the Israeli and Palestinian economies - ironically, he vastly understated the gap - and attributed it to "culture," by which he meant, as Romney has said elsewhere, such things as democracy, individual liberty, free enterprise, and the rule of law.
But I'm not talking about Romney here or the media's critique of him. What is interesting is this: How do you explain the reason why Israel is so more advanced in terms of economy, technology, and living standards? The media generally rejected Romney's explanation and pretty much all made the same point. To quote the Associated Press story, that was:
Comparison of the two economies did not take into account the stifling effect the Israeli occupation has had on the Palestinian economy in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and east Jerusalem-areas Israel captured in 1967 where the Palestinians hope to establish a state. In the West Bank, Palestinians have only limited self-rule. Israel controls all border crossings in and out of the territory, and continues to restrict Palestinian trade and movement. Israel annexed east Jerusalem in 1967, but has invested much less heavily there than in Jewish west Jerusalem.
Or, in other words, it's all Israel's fault. Yet in choosing to blame Israel, the media generally showed no interest at all in additional factors which are equally, or far more, valid.
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New Primary Source Evidence On Obama's Real Bloodline
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Letters Point To 'Obama's Real Father'
By Jerome R. Corsi
WorldNetDaily
New research by Joel Gilbert into Communist Party member Frank Marshall Davis' seedy history in Hawaii has bolstered the filmmaker's theory that Davis was the biological father of Barack Obama.
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VP Pick Paul Ryan Confirmed For Values Voter Summit!
We'll Be There Too: 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.
Register Today: Ticket Prices Start At $99.00
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Feminists Hit Back On Anti-Mom Amenities Implemented By The...DNC
By Katie Pavlich
Townhall.com
Famous feminists aren't too happy with what they're calling "anti-mom" policies at this year's DNC convention in Charlotte. The National Organization for women is accusing DNC officials of implementing rules that treat mothers of younger children as second class citizens.
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33 Million Americans Think They Are Registered To Vote But Are Not!
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It's true. 33 million Americans believe they are registered to vote when, in fact, they are not registered to vote. Don't go to the polls on election day just to find out that you're not registered when you can check right now whether or not you are actually registered to vote.
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The Great Pretender's Sleight of Hand
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The Grand Deflection
By Frank Gaffney, Jr.
RightSideNews.com
A magician typically succeeds when the attention of the audience is diverted from his main activity onto some distraction. President Obama has raised this sort of deflection into a political art form.
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Just When You Thought Nuclear North Korea
Couldn't Get Weirder/Scarier ...
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Kim Jong Un Family Photo: Poor Timing Or Pure Terror?
Breitbart News
A recently-published photo of North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un and his family may signal trouble in paradise.
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Dems draw in Muslims with 'Jumah at the DNC'
Red State
Starting at the end of this month the Democratic National Convention will open with a focus on Islam; 20,000 Muslims are expected to attend, according to the Bureau of Indigenous Muslim Affairs. "Jumah at the DNC" begins Aug. 29 and will start with a Friday afternoon jummah prayer leading up to the Islamic Regal Banquet. The following day will be an all day Islamic Cultural and Fun Fest which will include discussions on the topics of Islamaphobia, anti-Shariah, Middle Eastern Crisis, Patriot Act, National Defense Authorization Act and more. Read & Comment
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GOP convention theme: 'We built this!'
Fox News
The GOP is turning what some see as a presidential slight aimed at business owners and entrepreneurs into a theme for a night of the Republican National Convention next week, titling Tuesday night's session "We Built This!" Read & Comment
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Christian girl faces death penalty in Pakistan
Fox News
A Christian girl with Down syndrome could be punished by death in Pakistan after she was spotted holding burned pages of Islamic text in public, activists and police say. Read & Comment
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Poll puts Obama in danger of losing home state
The Daily Caller
A poll conducted by Illinois-based pollster and political strategist Michael McKeon found President Obama leading Republican Mitt Romney by 49 percent to 37 percent in Cook County, the home of Chicago. That puts him ahead by a far thinner margin than expected in a county he should be winning handily. Read & Comment
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Rove: Romney/Ryan can win Medicare debate
Fox News
The Romney-Ryan ticket would repeal ObamaCare and restore the $716 billion to stabilize Medicare's finances. Mitt Romney has also offered a reform package to protect all the promises made to today's seniors, while making Medicare sustainable for future generations. Read & Comment
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Democrats funded Akin to help McCaskill
The Washington Examiner
Call it a wise investment in light of his recent comments: Democrats wanted Missouri Republican Congressman Todd Akin to win his state's hotly contested Senate GOP primary because they believed he gave incumbent Sen. Claire McCaskill her best shot at retaining her seat. Read & Comment
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DHS workers involved in 1,591 open criminal cases
CNS News
There have been 2,527 Department of Homeland Security employees and co-conspirators convicted of corruption and other criminal misconduct since 2004, according to a federal auditor. Read & Comment
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Credible conservative: Principled Ryan has depth and breadth
Rep. Paul Ryan is a conservative with depth and breadth. Part policy wonk, part patriot, the Wisconsin Republican plays Washington hardball in a way that shows reverence for America's founding principles. Democrats respect him. Republicans admire him. Congress follows his lead. Read & Comment
Prime-time pick: Conservative Ryan solidifies Romney's team
Romney to Reid: 'Put up or shut up' on taxes
Gay power play over Chick-fil-A
Politicizing Colorado: Tragedy turns into pitch for gun control
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Romney takes page from Paul, backs Fed audit
The Washington Times
Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney said Monday he thinks the Federal Reserve should face an audit. Read & Comment
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Wall Street prosecutions under Obama: Zilch
American Thinker
For all the bluster of Obama, pre- and post-2008, as well as that of Attorney General Eric Holder concerning the alleged criminal activities on Wall Street, there have been zero Wall Street prosecutions under Obama/Holder. Compare that with his predecessors Bush and Clinton. Read & Comment
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Book: Obama fears economy will elect 'weak' foe
USA Today
A new e-book details President Obama's disdain for Mitt Romney, but also his fears that the economy could elect his Republican foe. Read & Comment
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No white Christmas in diversity fixated Atlanta
NewsOne
Of all of the things a chorus could be penalized for, you would never imagine that one could be banned from singing because it is too white. Read & Comment
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NOW raps Dems' pre-suffrage convention rules
Politico
A number of local chapters of the National Organization for Women are denouncing the Democratic National Convention rules, saying that they unfairly exclude mothers with young children. Read & Comment
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Russia roots out more Pussy Riot band members
Reuters
Russian police are searching for more members of the Pussy Riot punk rock band, a spokeswoman said, signaling further pressure on the group despite an international outcry over jail terms for three women who protested in a church against Vladimir Putin. Read & Comment
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Noonan: If Biden were Republican, he'd be toast
NewsBusters
Appearing on NBC's "Meet the Press," the Wall Street Journal's Peggy Noonan said, "If it had been a Republican vice presidential candidate who had made those gaffes ... the subject today of the panel would be how stupid is this person, can this person possibly govern?" Read & Comment
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Credible conservative: Principled Ryan has depth and breadth
Rep. Paul Ryan is a conservative with depth and breadth. Part policy wonk, part patriot, the Wisconsin Republican plays Washington hardball in a way that shows reverence for America's founding principles. Democrats respect him. Republicans admire him. Congress follows his lead. Read & Comment
Prime-time pick: Conservative Ryan solidifies Romney's team
Romney to Reid: 'Put up or shut up' on taxes
Gay power play over Chick-fil-A
Politicizing Colorado: Tragedy turns into pitch for gun control
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Obama Adds Military Heroes to 'Enemies List'
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by Breitbart News
President Barack Obama has added military heroes to his "enemies list," singling out veterans' groups such as Special Operations for America and Veterans for a Strong America on his campaign website, much as he singled out donors to Republican rival Mitt Romney for attack. Several veterans' groups have spoken out against the Obama administration's habit of taking credit for the Osama bin Laden raid and leaking military secrets for political gain--so the Obama campaign is trying to shoot the messenger.
The charge made by the Obama campaign is that the veterans' groups are "Swift Boat 2.0"--referring to the group that launched a series of ads (never refuted) in 2008 contesting claims by then-Democrat presidential candidate John Kerry about his war record. Left-wing groups aligned with the Obama administration have even gone so far as to call the U.S. Navy Seals "gutless" for their participation in criticism of Obama.
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Big Hollywood
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Big Government
Republicans Pulling Plug On Missouri Sen. Candidate Akin After Rape Remarks More
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Posted by Daniel Greenfield @ the Sultan Knish blog
It is not completely impossible that in a moment of electoral desperation, Joseph Robinette Biden Jr will be called into a private meeting with Valerie Jarrett and David Axelrod and told that it's time for him to announce that he wants to spend more time with his family. But it's not very likely. The chief function of a Vice President is making the President look good and by that measure Joe Biden is one of the best vice presidents who ever lived. The rule of thumb is that the more incompetent the man at the top is, the more of a buffoon the man just below him needs to be to make him look good. And again Biden does this job brilliantly. James Monroe put as many political rivals in his cabinet as possible, but Barack Hussein Obama and the people around him are too insecure and paranoid to do such a thing. Monroe might have presided over the Era of Good Feeling, but the age of O is the Era of Bad Feelings. Hillary Clinton was never going to be on the ticket. Even giving her the Secretary of State position would never have been an option if it had not been a matter of pure survival, with the Obamas terrified of losing moderate Democrats to McCain.
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Hide your wallets! $6 QUADRILLION to waste on this
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Just when you thought government clowns couldn't snatch and waste any more of your hard-earned money, think about this.
It has been estimated to cost a staggering $6 QUADRILLION to solve this "problem" that's not really even a problem.
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Which politician has the REAL rape problem?
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While Americans debate the rape-related remarks of Missouri Congressman Todd Akin, there's another politician, arguably one the most famous Americans in the world, who has the REAL rape problem.
Can you guess who it is?
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Conservative superstar defends Akin for 'absurd' comment
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While admitting the remark about a woman's body preventing pregnancy after a legitimate rape is "absurd," one of America's conservative stars is expressing support for embattled Congressman Todd Akin in the race for the U.S. Senate.
In fact, conservatives are not all abandoning ship just yet.
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Will Israel use THIS stunning weapon on Iran?
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It's the weapon that no one likes to talk about publicly, but everyone is quaking in their boots about.
And now with Israel's very survival at stake, it's possible the Jewish state may unleash it against Iran ...
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Hawaiian letters point to 'Obama's REAL father'
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New research nto a well-known communist's seedy history in Hawaii has bolstered a filmmaker's theory about the identity of the REAL biological father of Barack Obama.
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Is Israel planning EMP attack on Iran? This is the magnetic question everyone in the Mideast is talking about.
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The "youth vote" is turning away from Obama
Aug 21, 2012 06:13 am | Coach Collins
By Emma Karlen, staff writer
The numbers surrounding the "youth vote" - where it is likely to go and how small it is likely to be - spell trouble for Barack Obama.
1) In 2008 51% of eligible voters 18 to 29 showed up to vote. They represented 18% of the total vote and supported Barack Obama over John McCain 66/34. Nevertheless, history tells us that when it actually come down to showing up at the polls to vote this group has a track record of falling short of their "declared" numbers. In other words the "youth voters" can talk a good game but often don't deliver. This is why the 58% who say they intend to vote combined with new polling data on how they intend to vote has to be alarming to Team Obama.
Another trip wire presented by the "youth vote" is the sizable aversion to affirmative action ... Continue Reading:The "youth vote" is turning away from Obama
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American Minute August 20
Aug 20, 2012 06:13 pm | Coach Collins
By Bill Federer, staff writer
300,000 miles on horseback, from the Atlantic to the Appalachians, from Maine to the Gulf of Mexico, for 45 years, he spread the gospel.
This was Francis Asbury, Methodist Circuit riding preacher who was born AUGUST 20, 1745.
When the Revolution started, he refused to return to England: "I can by no means agree to leave such a field for gathering souls to Christ as we have in America."
He befriended Richard Bassett, a signer of the U.S. Constitution, who converted, freed his slaves and paid them as hired labor.
Francis Asbury dedicated the first African Methodist Episcopal Church and met personally with George Washington, congratulating him on his election.
In 1785, Asbury separated the Methodist movement from the Episcopal Church into its own denomination. This resulted in the Episcopal members of Virginia's Assembly losing their majority and the next year, the Episcopal Church was disestablished as Virginia's ... Continue Reading:American Minute August 20
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"The Nation" is so frightened of Paul Ryan it can't think straight
Aug 20, 2012 01:13 pm | Coach Collins
By Kevin "Coach" Collins
I'll bet you didn't know that conservative enthusiasm for the Mitt Romney Paul Ryan ticket is an illusion; or that it is actually the Republicans that steal elections through manipulation of voter turnout using (gulp!) photo ID!
How about this - those polls you see showing voters like Romney/Ryan's economic plans - THEY ARE ALL FAKE! The Hundreds of thousands of people going to Chick-fil-A? - not real! Because the CFA buildings are all alike the CONSERVATIVE news media showed us B roll of the same 34 customers telling us they were seen all across the country!
Because of his Medicare plan down ballot Republican are afraid to run with Paul Ryan on the top of their ticket (and presumably down ballot Democrats will be falling all over themselves to have Barack Obama show up and campaign for them - just as they did in the 2010 election cycle which actually never happened and ... Continue Reading:"The Nation" is so frightened of Paul Ryan it can't think straight
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Labor Department spends stimulus funds for ads during Olbermann, Maddow shows
Contract shows no new jobs were created
The Washington Times | By Jim McElhatton | August 21, 2012
 The Labor Department paid out hundreds of thousands of dollars in federal stimulus funds to a public relations firm to run more than 100 commercials touting the Obama administration's "green training" job efforts on two MSNBC cable shows, records show.
The commercials ran on MSNBC on shows hosted by Rachel Maddow and Keith Olbermann in 2009, but the contract didn't report any jobs created, according to records reviewed recently by The Washington Times.
Spending reports under the federal Recovery Act show $495,000 paid to McNeely Pigott & Fox Public Relations LLC, which the Labor Department hired to raise awareness "among employers and influencers about the [Job Corps] program's existing and new training initiatives in high growth and environmentally friendly career areas" as well as spreading the word to prospective Job Corps enrollees.
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Monday Brief
Romney's VP Pick Changes the Race
August 20, 2012
The Foundation
"I suppose, indeed, that in public life, a man whose political principles have any decided character and who has energy enough to give them effect must always expect to encounter political hostility from those of adverse principles." --Thomas Jefferson
Political Futures
 "In 'Reflections on the Revolution in France,' [Edmund Burke] wrote, 'Circumstances (which with some gentlemen pass for nothing) give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.' That's what Republicans and especially conservatives in this heady moment have to keep in mind: the circumstances. ... Republicans know how meaningful this campaign became when [Paul] Ryan was picked [as Mitt Romney's running mate]: He changed its subject matter just by showing up. And he is right in his central insight, which is his central political reason for being: America, to be strong again, must get its spending and revenues more closely aligned. ... But Republicans must understand, also, that the race probably just became more of an uphill battle, because Paul Ryan has been very specific about what must and can be done. ... Republicans should keep this picture in mind. There's a woman on a porch in eastern Ohio and she has a dog and likes guns and supports the NRA and sees herself as more or less conservative. She assumed she'd vote for Romney and not that big loser in the White House. But she's hearing about Ryan and she's hearing the word 'cuts.' She knows spending is out of control and she's worried about deficits and debt. But she's on disability and her husband's illness is being handled by Medicare, and she's wondering: 'Do these guys really understand my life? Do they know how it is for us?' ... Ryan is associated with the word cutting. Republicans will have to make people believe the word to associate with him is 'saving'.... Republicans have just a few weeks to get across ... that they're trying to save Medicare, not kill it, that they're the lifeguard, not the shark. ... An old cliché of politics has never been truer: 'They don't care what you know unless they know that you care.' Or, it's the circumstances, stupid." --columnist Peggy Noonan
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Video: American 'Progress' Under Obama
Aug 21, 2012 03:20 pm
A video showing all of the wonderful "progress" made by Barack Obama over the last three and a half years. Related posts: Who Is The Frankenstein Of Obama And Center For American Progress? For those of us old enough to remember the debacle... Obama's "Progress" Try to define progressivism. In fact, ask progressives to try to define...  Watch the Video and Comment: Video: American 'Progress' Under Obama
Is The "Youth Vote" Turning Away From Obama?Aug 21, 2012 03:18 pm
The numbers surrounding the "youth vote" - where it is likely to go and how small it is likely to be - spell trouble for Barack Obama. 1) In 2008, 51% of eligible voters aged 18 to 29 showed up to vote. They represented 18% of the total vote and supported Barack Obama over John McCain 66/34. Nevertheless, [...] Read More and Comment: Is The "Youth Vote" Turning Away From Obama?
Video: Why Are So Many Candidates Avoiding ForgeryGate?Aug 21, 2012 03:17 pm
Tom Ballantyne, Jr. talks about struggling to get straight answers out of aspiring politicians as a citizen journalist. Buy Tom's groundbreaking book on Obama's eligibility here. Filmed by Gabe Zolna. Related posts: ForgeryGate: Lord Monckton Defends Sheriff Joe In Interview Author and Western Journalism contributor Tom Ballantyne interviews global warming... Tom Ballantyne Recounts Meeting With [...]  Watch the Video and Comment: Video: Why Are So Many Candidates Avoiding ForgeryGate?
Demagogue-In-ChiefAug 21, 2012 03:12 pm
Demagogue is not a word that was used to describe Barack Obama in the campaign of 2008. Hope and Change were the mantra of his campaign, and voters who flocked to his side were eager to take up the call. But the Obama of 2012 is a different person, even more cynical, more narcissistic, and [...] Read More and Comment: Demagogue-In-Chief
Video: The Democratic Party's Long History Of RacismAug 21, 2012 02:25 pm
Vice President Joe Biden accused the GOP of wanting to put people in chains. Were his words taken out of context, or could this be another racist sentiment at the core of the Democratic party? Related posts: Democrats' History Of Racism Here's a bit of American history guaranteed not to appear... The Democratic House: So [...]  Watch the Video and Comment: Video: The Democratic Party's Long History Of Racism
Obama Is Throwing Granny Under The Bus (and Over The Cliff)Aug 21, 2012 02:22 pm
How many times have we heard liberals claim that conservatives want to throw Granny under the bus or over a cliff because we want to drastically reduce government's role in healthcare? Or, they'll say that conservatives only care about increasing the wealth of the one percent and want to "throw everybody else out in the [...] Read More and Comment: Obama Is Throwing Granny Under The Bus (and Over The Cliff)
Video: Yes, Mr. President, "We Did Build It"Aug 21, 2012 02:18 pm
A New Hampshire businessman takes offense to Barack Obama's comments and taunt's the president's motorcade. Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com Related posts: President Obama 'The Great Destroyer?' Author David Limbaugh appeared on Sean Hannity's show last night... New Documentary Explores President Obama's Past New York Times bestselling author Dinesh D'Souza discusses his new... Read More and Comment: Video: Yes, Mr. President, "We Did Build It"
Fanning The Flames Of Left-wing ViolenceAug 21, 2012 02:11 pm
To borrow from President Obama's Black Nationalist mentor, Jeremiah Wright, the Southern Poverty Law Center's hate-baiting chickens "have come home to roost." The hard-left group has become everything it presumes to expose. On Wednesday, homosexual activist Floyd Corkins entered the Washington-based Family Research Council (FRC) armed with a gun and a backpack full of ammunition. [...] Read More and Comment: Fanning The Flames Of Left-wing Violence
Choruses Discriminated Against For Insufficient Racial DiversityAug 21, 2012 02:00 pm
Two Atlanta-area high school choruses are being denied a spot performing with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, presumably because there are too many white faces in them. Reports quote a spokesperson for the school system saying virtually that. He explained that symphony administrators told the schools "that their choruses are not diverse enough" and would be [...] Read More and Comment: Choruses Discriminated Against For Insufficient Racial Diversity
Letters Point To 'Obama's Real Father'Aug 21, 2012 02:00 pm
New research by Joel Gilbert into Communist Party member Frank Marshall Davis' seedy history in Hawaii has bolstered the filmmaker's theory that Davis was the biological father of Barack Obama. Gilbert has uncovered handwritten letters by Davis that strongly suggest the acknowledged Obama mentor's pornographic sex novel "Sex Rebel: Black" was based on Davis' personal [...] Read More and Comment: Letters Point To 'Obama's Real Father'
Why Todd Akin Is Just Another Phony Politician And Not A Pro-life LionAug 21, 2012 01:54 pm
For the record I think Todd Akin is a good man who wants to protect life, but I am suspect of his true courage. Nevertheless, we have a country to save, and he has put our effort to save America in serious danger. And that is a very important consideration. The clock is ticking for [...] Read More and Comment: Why Todd Akin Is Just Another Phony Politician And Not A Pro-life Lion
Video: Hypocrite-In-Chief Obama Lectures Romney On TransparencyAug 21, 2012 01:52 pm
But his own records are forged and sealed! Related posts: Obama A Hypocrite When It Comes To 'Civility' Barack Obama deems speech 'uncivil public discourse' when it suits... Robert Gibbs Whines About Obama Transparency Questions Appearing on Fox News Sunday, Robert Gibbs whines about hard-hitting...  Watch the Video and Comment: Video: Hypocrite-In-Chief Obama Lectures Romney On Transparency
Video: Even Newsweek Tells Obama To 'hit The Road'Aug 21, 2012 01:39 pm
What's behind normally Obama-sympathetic magazine's new cover story? Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com Related posts: President Obama 'The Great Destroyer?' Author David Limbaugh appeared on Sean Hannity's show last night... O'Reilly: Ghost Of Ronald Reagan Haunts Obama It's nice to see a comparison here between Ronald Reagan... Read More and Comment: Video: Even Newsweek Tells Obama To 'hit The Road'
Running Against Obama's HometownAug 21, 2012 01:37 pm
"Code words" is a favorite phrase of the Democrats. When a conservative confronts them with the truth, they will often isolate a small portion of what has been said and accuse the speaker of using "code words" so they can obfuscate and hide until the heat dies down. If a conservative says something like "States [...] Read More and Comment: Running Against Obama's Hometown
Obama, DNC Spending Exceeded Donations In JulyAug 21, 2012 01:32 pm
WASHINGTON (AP) - Facing strong fundraising from his Republican challenger, President Barack Obama and Democrats have spent more than they brought in last month as the president expanded his campaign operations and purchased millions of dollars in television advertising to compete with rival Mitt Romney. New campaign finance reports out Monday show Obama's campaign spent [...] Read More and Comment: Obama, DNC Spending Exceeded Donations In July
Video: Trump: My Asking For Obama's Sealed Records Is "Hitting Them Close To Home"Aug 21, 2012 01:30 pm
Donald Trump on Fox And Friends yesterday: Related posts: Trump: Obama Has Spent Millions To Keep His Records Sealed In Court Donald Trump appeared the other day on Fox and Friends... Trump: Obama's Records May Reveal "One Of The Great Cons Of All Times" Donald Trump appeared on the John Gambling radio show yesterday...  Watch the Video and Comment: Video: Trump: My Asking For Obama's Sealed Records Is "Hitting Them Close To Home"
Soros-funded Marxists To "Occupy The RNC"Aug 21, 2012 01:20 pm
Republican delegates arriving in Tampa for the convention this week will likely find one thing more oppressive than the humidity: hordes of motley Occupiers, political puppeteers, Teamsters, Code Pink activists dressed as giant female body parts, open-borders extremists, vegan Marxists, and tattooed anarchists, all assembling for their quadrennial temper tantrum. One major target is the [...] Read More and Comment: Soros-funded Marxists To "Occupy The RNC"
Video: How One Texas County Fakes Crime Stats To Make Border Look SafeAug 21, 2012 12:52 pm
Hidalgo County is one of the fastest growing border cities in the U.S. and receives millions of dollars each year in federal grants to fight spillover crime. But are the grants working? One whistle-blowing deputy claims that the sheriff is faking the stats to make Hidalgo look safer at the expense of the taxpayer. Related [...]  Watch the Video and Comment: Video: How One Texas County Fakes Crime Stats To Make Border Look Safe
Outcry After Military Veteran Detained For Anti-government Facebook PostsAug 21, 2012 12:47 pm
A former Marine involuntarily detained for psychiatric evaluation for posting strident anti-government messages on Facebook has received an outpouring of support from people who say authorities are trampling on his First Amendment rights. Brandon J. Raub, 26, has been in custody since FBI, Secret Service agents and police in Virginia's Chesterfield County questioned him Thursday [...] Read More and Comment: Outcry After Military Veteran Detained For Anti-government Facebook Posts
Madeleine Albright: We're Going To Blame Bush ForeverAug 21, 2012 12:42 pm
Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said Democrats would blame the Bush administration forever to laughs, in a video clip from a Colorado campaign event Monday. "All of a sudden this man gets up and says, 'How long will you blame the previous administration for all of your problems?'" Albright says, in video from the [...] Read More and Comment: Madeleine Albright: We're Going To Blame Bush Forever
Syrian Minister Warns US Against InterventionAug 21, 2012 12:35 pm
MOSCOW (AP) - A Syrian deputy prime minister has warned the United States against any military intervention in Syria. President Barack Obama said Monday that the U.S would reconsider its opposition to military involvement in the Syrian civil war, if Bashar Assad's regime deploys or uses chemical or biological weapons. Read More at OfficialWire. Related [...] Read More and Comment: Syrian Minister Warns US Against Intervention
Syrian Minister Warns US Against InterventionAug 21, 2012 12:35 pm
MOSCOW (AP) - A Syrian deputy prime minister has warned the United States against any military intervention in Syria. President Barack Obama said Monday that the U.S would reconsider its opposition to military involvement in the Syrian civil war, if Bashar Assad's regime deploys or uses chemical or biological weapons. Read More at OfficialWire. Related [...] Read More and Comment: Syrian Minister Warns US Against Intervention
Paul Ryan's Foreign Policy: Neo-Con Or Reagan-like?Aug 21, 2012 12:29 pm
While the establishment media have focused their attention on Paul Ryan's plan to curb federal spending and save Medicare and Social Security, we give Michael Barone - principal author of The Almanac of American Politics and Senior Political Analyst for the conservative Washington Examiner - a tip of the hat for pointing out another side [...] Read More and Comment: Paul Ryan's Foreign Policy: Neo-Con Or Reagan-like?
Netanyahu Wants To Attack Iran 'Before US Elections'Aug 21, 2012 12:26 pm
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is determined to launch an attack to prevent Iran obtaining nuclear weapons before the presidential election in November. He believes President Barack Obama would have no choice but to back the Israeli decision in the weeks before he has to face the nation at the polls, according to a report [...] Read More and Comment: Netanyahu Wants To Attack Iran 'Before US Elections'
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Obama Dismisses Ex-SEALs: I Don't Take Them 'Too Seriously'
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On Monday, President Obama said he isn't taking two groups of military veterans currently running campaign ads against him "too seriously." Mr. Obama did give two very specific reasons for writing off these serious complaints against him and his administration. Read them both HERE.
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Detroit Has No Horses, But They Do Have A Union Backsmith
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The Detroit Water and Sewerage Department (DWSD) pays a "horseshoer" $29,245 in salary and roughly $27,000 in benefits. There's only one problem -- Detroit has no horses for the horseshoer to shoe. Thanks to union contracts, it is virtually impossible to eliminate this position. Read the rest of the infuriating details HERE.
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A New Look At The Violent Rhetoric From The Black Panthers
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A certain degree of bile has always been standard for statements coming out of the New Black Panther organization. However, earlier rhetoric by the party tended to focus more on a self-defense orientation, arguing only to attack whites if they attack first. Towards the turn of the millenium and especially since the election of Barack Obama, the tone has changed. See the Blaze analysis of this disturbing change HERE.
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REAL NEWS FROM THE BLAZE: WILL ISRAEL ATTACK IRAN?
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Tensions between Israel and Iran are on the rise. Many believe that verbal threats coming from Iran combined with that nation's ongoing nuclear program will prompt Israel to attack before the election. The Real News panel will discuss Israel, Iran and a possible "October Surprise" from Netanyahu. Watch tonight at 6pm ET or on-demand.
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Israel's Options After America's Foreign Policy Debacle By David P. Goldman
What does Israel do in the context of a debacle in U.S. foreign policy under the Obama administration? Our conclusion is that Israel's reasons to strike Iran have multiplied with the emergence of a Muslim Brotherhood threat on its southern border and the possibility of an Egyptian-Iranian rapprochement.
Three (Conservative) Reasons to Admire Helen Gurley Brown
She was a liberal who made the world safe for "Sex and the City," and she was pro-abortion. Yet Helen Gurley Brown's traditional "puritanism" makes her a surprisingly conservative role model.
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A Divided Convention Splits Party
Next week Republicans will flock to Tampa to nominate Mitt Romney, and the following week Democrats will gather in Charlotte to renominate President Obama. But no one expects a brokered convention to nominate Rick Santorum or Hillary Clinton for President. The primary winners are merely taking a victory lap.
These conventions will be downright dull compared to the 1912 Republican Convention in Chicago. Then, a thousand policemen were on hand to stroll the aisles of the convention, and strands of barbed wire lay concealed beneath the bunting on the speaker's platform to keep disgruntled delegates from charging the stage. The Governor was prepared to call out the National Guard if the riotous and fiercely antagonistic Republicans got out of hand.
The very nature of our Constitution and our democracy was at stake, as William Schambra explains in a new First Principles essay from The Heritage Foundation.
On one side was Teddy Roosevelt, who ran for President that year aiming to reshape American democracy. He thrashed lackluster incumbent William Howard Taft in the primary contests, even in Taft's home state of Ohio. "I believe in pure democracy," Roosevelt affirmed his speech at the Ohio Constitutional Convention, and therefore endorsed "certain governmental devices which will make the representatives of the people more easily and certainly responsible to the people's will." These included the initiative, the referendum, the recall (including recall of judges), the direct election of U.S. Senators, and the popular recall of judicial decisions.
On the other side were Taft (Roosevelt's hand-picked successor in the White House just four years earlier) and the Republican leadership including Sens. Elihu Root of New York and Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts. They stood for the Constitution. Root and Lodge were great admirers and long-time friends of Roosevelt, but TR's Columbus speech had sent shock waves through the Republican Party: his proposals amounted to radical constitutional revision that threatened to undermine the institutions of government. Therefore, Root, Lodge and Taft were determined to deny Roosevelt the nomination at the 1912 Republican convention.
In the first major vote of the convention-and the one that would accurately predict all that would follow-Elihu Root defeated Roosevelt's candidate, Wisconsin Governor Frances McGovern, by the slim margin of 558 to 502 to be elected chairman of the convention. The Roosevelt delegates shook the hall with outrage.
Unlike the typically bland convention keynote speeches designed to smooth feathers ruffled by the nominating contest and unite the party for the main event in November, Root's keynote was a call to constitutional conservatism.
The Republican Party in particular, Root argued, was obliged to defend the Constitution, since it had been "born in protest against the extension of a system of human slavery approved and maintained by majorities." It should remain the party of Abraham Lincoln, who had declared in his First Inaugural Address that "a majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations...is the only true sovereign of a free people." Our duty, Root concluded, was not to reform the constitutional system, but to "humbly and reverently seek for strength and wisdom to abide by the principles of the Constitution against the days of our temptation and weakness."
By preventing TR from winning the Republican nomination, these first conservatives kept him from enjoying access to the Republican Party's magnificent electoral machinery, which would almost certainly have returned him to office committed to a platform of radical constitutional reform. But it also meant losing the general election. Taft won only two states, Utah and Vermont, garnering a mere 23.2 percent of the popular vote. TR came in second, and Democrat Woodrow Wilson became President.
"The result of the Convention was more important than the question of the election" Root said. Losing the general election did not supplant their "duty to hold the Republican Party firmly to the support of our constitutional system. Worse things can happen to a party than to be defeated."
Worse indeed.
Root, Lodge, and Taft sacrificed their friendship with TR and victory in the general election to save the Constitution from TR's proposed overhaul. Constitutional conservatism began with saving the Republican Party from Teddy Roosevelt. It continues with the fight to save America from a deeper descent into progressivism. Ahead is a long, slow process of restoring the principles of the American Founding. But we have more than three men in Chicago. Meet the intellectual heirs of Messrs. Root, Lodge, and Taft: the Tea Party Movement.
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The Heritage Foundation's investigative reporting team continues to expose big government waste.
Heritage's Lachlan Markay got the scoop last week:
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A report from the Agriculture Department's Inspector General has revealed some stunning examples of financial waste in the Department's nascent technology security efforts, which have mismanaged about $63 million in taxpayer funding.
Among the IG's findings: the USDA spent more than $2 million on an internship program that only hired one full-time intern, $3 million on technology hardware that was never used, and $235,000 on a project that was later canceled due to redundancy.
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Rep. Paul Ryan's (R-WI) budget proposal, including its reforms to Medicare, have come under renewed assault over the last week.
But far from breaking promises to seniors, Heritage Foundation health care expert Nina Owcharenko argues, Ryan's proposal is the only way to save Medicare. Ryan's medicare proposal is broadly similar to Heritage's Saving the American Dream plan.
Read the whole article on the US News website, and be sure to vote up Owcharenko's article.
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IRS Could Be Cut Off At The Knees Because Of Obamacare.....What?
- Posted by Michael CHILDS, Admin II on August 21, 2012
 In a new report by tax expert and analyst Daniel J. Pilla,On the implementation of Obamacare, says the enormous administrative burden that it would leave on the Internal Revenue Service would create such a load that the federal government would bog down.
he wrote in his new Pilla Talks Taxes. "I do not believe it's melodramatic to suggest t...
Pilla is concerned about numerous key provisions in Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, or PPACA.
These provisions, he said, "promises to impose tremendous administrative burdens for the IRS and compliance nightmares for both individuals and businesses." Pilla Says, "that the penalty applies if even just 'one full-time employee' qualifies for a subsidy to purchase insurance through an exchange."
These provisions are what is called "individual mandate," tax credits to "small employers" and individuals with low incomes who purchase approved health insurance plans and a fine assessed against firms employing more than 50 workers who do not provide insurance coverage for "all of its employees."
They cleverly prevented that happening by making IRS the net to catch those not buying into Obamacare. Your Annual Filing will never be a flat tax possibility now. Variance in fees for Obamacare, and increase in IRS troops to knock on doors of those failing to signup or being late or whatever. Prison. WAKE UP. What a slick trick. Tied us up with the IRS.
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Romney urges Akin to bow out
Posted: 21 Aug 2012 01:40 PM PDT
(Paul Mirengoff)
With the Missouri dropout deadline fast approaching, Mitt Romney has added his voice to those calling on Todd Akin to withdraw from the Senate race. Romney alluded to his earlier criticism of Akin's rape remark and added that today, Missouri citizens have said Akin should withdraw. "I think he should accept their counsel and withdraw from the race," Romney stated.
Romney probably was referring to former or current Missouri Senators Danforth, Bond, Talent, and Blunt, all of whom say that Akin should bow out. Unfortunately, there is little reason to believe that Akin will be more inclined to listen to Romney than to the Missouri Republicans.
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Will Michigan Be Competitive?
Posted: 21 Aug 2012 12:34 PM PDT
(John Hinderaker)
Mitt Romney certainly doesn't need Michigan to win in November, but it is doubtful that Barack Obama can get to 270 without Michigan's 16 electoral votes. So this poll by Foster McCollum White Baydoun represents another leak in the dyke that Obama will have to try to plug. Before getting to the results, note that FMWB is a Michigan consulting, lobbying and polling firm that appears to have a mostly-Democratic clientele. The poll sampled 1,733 respondents and did assess likely vs. registered voters, although it is not clear how that differentiation is reflected in the results.
The key finding:
The poll found that Paul Ryan's selection is a plus for the Republicans:
The pollsters tried to sway respondents away from Ryan's budget proposals with this one-sided description:
Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan has been selected as the Republican vice presidential nominee. Congressman Ryan has proposed federal budgets that drastically cut the federal deficit, cuts taxes on job creators and proposes the reform of Medicare and Social Security benefits. The Tea Party and business groups support Ryan's budget as fiscally responsible, reducing the size and cost of unsustainable programs. Democrats, senior citizens groups and a number of economists oppose Ryan's budget proposal citing it gives the richest Americans a tax cut, privatizes Social Security and Medicare and will have a negative effect on the economy. Do you support Congressman Ryan's budget plan for the federal government?
But a plurality of respondents didn't take the bait:
BS detectors must have been going off all across the State of Michigan.
The pollsters sum up their results:
In spite of national criticism of the Ryan selection and budget plan, our findings suggest that Michigan voters are viewing both as positives for Romney. 36.11% of Michigan voters are more likely to vote for Romney because of the Paul Ryan selection while only 27.90% are less likely to vote for Romney. ...
"The data prompts further study by the Obama team, Democratic Party and related supporters into the declining support for the President in what was a safe state for him," stated Attorney Tarek Baydoun, statistical analyst for Foster McCollum White Baydoun. "In a state with a significant senior citizen voting population, the overall support for Congressman Ryan's budget plan must be very troubling for the President and his team."
Additionally, the polling data suggests a dip in interest among voters in Democratic leaning regions (Southeastern Michigan, the Thumb Region and Major 17 County Cluster) Congressional Districts (5th, 13th and 14th) and Minority voters. This dip in interest would not only hurt President Obama, but also Democratic down ballot candidates and ballot initiatives.
Ouch. All of this is as it should be, given Obama's terrible record. I suspect that Michigan will not be the last state that unexpectedly proves competitive.
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Akin tells Huckabee he's staying in race.
Posted: 21 Aug 2012 12:24 PM PDT
(Paul Mirengoff)
Rep. Todd Akin said on Mike Huckabee's radio show that he will remain in the Missouri Senate race. That decision, if Akin adheres to it, will move the Missouri race from probable Republican pickup to probable Democratic retention, I would think.
Nonetheless, the decision is understandable from Akin's point of view, and therefore not surprising. Republicans are asking Akin to give up a shot at the U.S. Senate for the good of the Party and of the country. Nothing I know about Akin suggests that he sees any appeal in this proposition.
Did Huckabee try to persuade Akin to quit? I hope so. It was Huckabee whose backing helped put this loose cannon in a position potentially to cost Republicans control of the Senate.
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Punch Back Twice As Hard!
Posted: 21 Aug 2012 11:46 AM PDT
(John Hinderaker)
This is a day when Republicans need cheering up, so let's note the fact that we have an excellent RNC Chairman in Reince Priebus. He is smart, aggressive and effective-not only that, he reads InstaPundit! Told by a reporter that Joe Biden is planning on visiting Tampa early next week, Priebus responded beautifully:
"I think it's pretty common among parties to play with each other's conventions, and we'll have a pretty big presence in Charlotte as well," Priebus said. "The nice thing about going first is that whatever they do to us, we can do ten times over to them."
Does that mean that Romney may counter-program the Democratic convention in Charlotte next month? Priebus replied "You never know where we are going to be."
"I'm a big believer in: if they punch us, we put on the brass knuckles and punch back," he added.
That is music to my ears!
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Chronicles of Ineptitude, Chapter 1
Posted: 21 Aug 2012 11:03 AM PDT
(Steven Hayward)
I'm starting to think Power Line needs a periodic omnibus "Chronicles of Ineptitude" to go along with the weekly Green Weenie Award, as there are so many stay stories of foolishness and failure that don't quite deserve a singular post, but can add up to a worthwhile short roundup now and then. If it becomes a regular feature, perhaps I'll call it the Power Line Todd Akin Memorial Ineptitude Award. (Not to worry-there'll be a whole separate thread just for California.)
Sun setting on Mexican oil?
First off, oil. As everyone paying attention knows, oil production is soaring in the U.S., Brazil, and other places where new technology is revitalizing old fields and making previous difficult fields economically feasible. Everywhere, that is, except Mexico, where oil production continues to slide despite huge reserves. At current rates of decline, Mexico may have to import oil by the year 2020, which would be like Thailand having to import rice. The problem is underinvestment, and the refusal of Mexico's government-owned oil industry (PEMEX) to allow foreign oil companies to enter the market in joint ventures. Oil industry experts have been watching the Mexican foolishness for many years; as one industry watcher put it to me about five year ago, "Someday, when they pump the last barrel out, someone at PEMEX will pull out an old phonograph, and spin up a scratchy LP of Sinatra singing, 'I Did It My Way!'"
But this has consequences as Mexico is one of the largest foreign suppliers of oil to the U.S., and if they lived up to their potential, could be an important part of making North America the world's new hydrocarbon energy center. Maybe when the government revenues from oil dry up enough they'll change their mind.
Second, electric cars. More epic fail. Another ironically named Fisker Karma has caught fire, leading to the third recall of the vehicles. Maybe electric cars will work adequately some day, and the Fisker Karma (retail cost: $102,000) will be remembered as the Ford Pinto of the new generation of electrics. Now that would be karma.
Finally (for now), our friends in Germany, who are seeing coal consumption go up because of their precipitous decision to shut down nuclear power, are facing more problems from wind power. Seems that the intermittency of wind power-not exactly an unknown problem-is causing instability in the electric grid, and some key German industrial companies are screaming about the economic cost and threatening to relocate out of the country. (Where? Greece??) Der Spiegel reports:
The problem is that wind and solar farms just don't deliver the same amount of continuous electricity compared with nuclear and gas-fired power plants. To match traditional energy sources, grid operators must be able to exactly predict how strong the wind will blow or the sun will shine.
But such an exact prediction is difficult. Even when grid operators are off by just a few percentage points, voltage in the grid slackens. That has no affect on normal household appliances, such as vacuum cleaners and coffee machines. But for high-performance computers, for example, outages lasting even just a millisecond can quickly trigger system failures.
A survey of members of the Association of German Industrial Energy Companies (VIK) revealed that the number of short interruptions to the German electricity grid has grown by 29 percent in the past three years. Over the same time period, the number of service failures has grown 31 percent, and almost half of those failures have led to production stoppages. Damages have ranged between €10,000 and hundreds of thousands of euros, according to company information.
Thank goodness dolphins are holding up the latest expansion of German wind power, as noted here yesterday. More to the point, could grid instability be coming soon to the U.S.?
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Tuesday, August 21, 2012
To: Friends & Supporters
From: Gary L. Bauer
COUNTDOWN TO VICTORY: 77 DAYS TO THE 2012 ELECTIONS
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Missouri Fiasco
You have probably heard about the mess in Missouri. If you have been on vacation or distracted in these lazy summer days, let me give you a brief recap.
During a weekend interview, Rep. Todd Akin (R-MO) attempted to defend his "no exceptions" position on abortion when asked whether abortions should be legal in the case of rape. Akin's answer was inarticulate at best. His comment about "legitimate rape" appeared to split hairs as to what rape is. His comments were a gift to our political enemies.
The Democrats and the media attack machine pounced. During an afternoon press conference, Barack Obama tried to resurrect the "GOP war on women" theme by linking Akin's remarks to the Romney/Ryan ticket. The political fallout was immediate. A Senate race that had been considered a likely GOP pick-up is now a dead heat. Romney repudiated Akin's comments, as did GOP candidates across the country.
In the days leading up to the primary, incumbent Senator Claire McCaskill (D-MO) and her Democrat allies spent well over $1 million portraying Akin as too conservative, knowing it would help him in the GOP primary. Democrats believed Akin was the weakest Republican in the race and the easiest to portray as an extremist in the general election. Having gotten her preferred opponent, she is now stirring dissention among conservatives by suggesting it would be an insult to the voters if the GOP pushed the primary winner out of the race. That, my friends, is how the political game is played.
What is so breathtaking to me is why our candidates make these kinds of errors. If you believe in no exceptions on abortion and if you are running in a critical Senate race, you have to be prepared to deal with the worst possible questions, because they will come up. It's not fair, but Republicans only get one strike and they are out.
I know some conservative, pro-life groups are rallying to Akin's defense. But the Republican Party of Missouri is among the most conservative in the country, and according to one recent poll 64% of self-identified Republicans disagreed -- and 51% strongly disagreed -- with what Akin said. His primary opponents were both pro-life and both were leading McCaskill in the polls.
Let me point out what should be obvious. If you are pro-life and believe in religious liberty, your number one priority should be to get rid of Obamacare. The only way we get rid of Obamacare is if the Romney/Ryan ticket wins, we keep the House and take over the Senate.
If we lose the Missouri Senate race, the odds of us taking the Senate are long at best. Rep. Akin should be thinking and praying about that as he considers what do next. Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, National Review and other top Republicans are urging Rep. Akin to do the right thing for the sake of the greater cause.
The Bigger Problem
Americans who believe, as I do, that unborn children should be protected under our laws have overwhelmingly made their home in the Republican Party. Likewise, those who believe in abortion-on-demand run the national Democrat Party.
On balance poll after poll shows that the American public is closer to the pro-life position than the pro-abortion position. You would not know that, however, from watching the national debate. The GOP establishment tries to avoid talking about the right to life and other social issues. Democrats, on the other hand, repeatedly and boldly use the issue to win over suburban women.
As a result, the left gets to choose the specific "field of battle." Usually they seize on something like the Akin incident to paint our side as anti-women extremists. That is where we are now -- on the defensive and reeling from the powerful media, left-wing attack. The debate isn't even about abortion. Akin and the GOP are being accused of being insensitive to rape. Akin's comments were insensitive, which he admits, and now we are paying the price.
It doesn't have to be this way. We are not the extremists in the abortion debate -- our Democrat opponents are! Their view that abortion should be legal in all cases in whatever month of pregnancy is a view held by only a small sliver of voters.
Americans don't want to pay for abortions, but they are forced to under Obamacare. They don't believe minor children should be taken for abortions without parental knowledge, but Democrats have pushed that agenda in every city and state they control.
And Americans certainly don't support disposing of a newborn baby who survives an abortion. But Barack Obama opposed legislation in Illinois to ensure that such babies received medical treatment.
Yesterday, Obama said "rape is rape." Yes it is, and it is a terrible crime. That is why Republicans and conservatives support tough sentences for rapists. Why are Democrats soft on tough anti-crime legislation? Democrats insist on giving hundreds of millions of your hard-earned tax dollars to Planned Parenthood, even though its facilities have repeatedly refused to report evidence of statutory rape when young teen-age girls are brought in for abortions by the 18 and 20 year-old men who impregnated them.
Soft on rape? Bill Clinton has a prime speaking slot at the Democrat National Convention. Several women have accused him of rape, and the Democrat Party destroyed those women to defend the "Man from Hope."
The GOP is being courageous right now by aggressively defending the need to reform Medicare. It is a risky issue. Republicans also need to find their voices when it comes to the sanctity of life and the defense of normal marriage -- issues easier to defend if you actually spend time on understanding the arguments. If it fails to do that, the GOP will find itself in more messes like the one in Missouri, inspiring its enemies while demoralizing its own supporters.
Biden To Tampa?
There are reports today that Secret Service agents in Tampa, Florida, have identified themselves as members of Vice President Joe Biden's advance team. If the reports are true there are only two possibilities.
One, it shows the aggressive nature of Obama's campaign to have Biden at the Republican National Convention holding press conferences in order to steal the GOP's thunder.
Or, two, which is equally possible given the confusion the vice president has displayed recently, Biden thinks the Democratic National Convention is in Tampa, not Charlotte, North Carolina!
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Today's Headlines: Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Federal Auditor: 2,527 DHS Employees and Co-Conspirators Convicted of Crimes
Winner of Michelle Obama's Healthy Lunchtime Challenge Says His Favorite Food Is 'Steak'
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Obama: 'You Can't Just Make Stuff Up. That's One Thing You Learn As President'
Bloomberg: 'Nobody Has Come Across the [U.S.-Mexico] Border in a Long Time'
Bloomberg: Make Immigrants Live in Detroit; If They 'Survive 7 Years,' Make Them Citizens
LaHood Announces Largest-Ever Road Test of Cars That Avoid Crashes
Report: GOP Convention Surveillance Includes 'Behavior Recognition' Software
News Corp. CEO Says FBI Should 'Look at the Mosque and What They're Being Told'
Shi'ites, Salafists Slam Bahrain's King for Donating Land for Catholic Church
Iran Backtracks on Claim That U.N. Chief Won't Attend Its Summit
COMMENTARY:
The New World Disorder
By Patrick J. Buchanan
The bipolar world of the Cold War is history. The new world order, however, is not the One World dreamed of by Wilsonian idealists. It is a Balkanizing world where race, tribe, culture and creed matter most, and democracy is seen not as an end in itself but as a means to an end - the accretion of power by one's own kind to achieve one's own dreams.
Educational Lunacy
By Walter E. Williams
If I were a Klansman, wanting to sabotage black education, I couldn't find better allies than education establishment liberals and officials in the Obama administration, especially Education Secretary Arne Duncan, who in March 2010 announced that his department was "going to reinvigorate civil rights enforcement." For Duncan, the civil rights issue was that black elementary and high school students are disciplined at a higher rate than whites.
Oh My Akin Back
By Rich Galen
In just 18 words, Rep. Todd Akin (R-Mo.) derailed his race for the U.S. Senate -- a race he was favored to win -- and quite possibly handed control of the Senate back to the Democrats next January.
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"Eat Mor Chikin"
Americans "vote" for marriage and constitutional rights.
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The New Face of Health Care -- the IRS
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published August 17, 2012 on The American Spectator website.
When President Obama's Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA, aka "Obamacare") goes fully into effect in 2014, the American people will only then begin to see the implications of its thorough government takeover of health care, in all its glory. But what they are not expecting is the massively expanded role of the Internal Revenue Service ("IRS") in our lives, as the IRS is the chief agency responsible for enforcing the Act.
That is explained in a new paper by Dan Pilla, just published by the Heartland Institute, "Implementing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act." Pilla is a tax litigation consultant and a national leader in taxpayer rights defense, authoring 11 books on IRS defense strategies. His new paper explains "how the IRS can be expected to play an ever-growing role in your life and in the day-to-day affairs of every business in the nation as the tentacles of the PPACA wrap themselves around the most important and personal elements of your life."
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Weighing 'Hate' on Uneven Scales
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published August 17, 2012 on The Washington Times website.
When a man shot and wounded security guard Leo Johnson at the Family Research Council (FRC) on Wednesday morning, the shooter left little doubt why.
According to the FBI, Floyd Lee Corkins II fired a 9 mm Sig Sauer handgun in the lobby of the Washington-based pro-family group. He also had 15 Chick-fil-A sandwiches in his backpack, plus 50 rounds of ammunition. According to Fox News, he said as Mr. Johnson disarmed him: "Don't shoot me, it was not about you, it was what this place stands for."
The motto of the Family Research Council, where I worked for 10 years and where we helped draft the federal Defense of Marriage Act, is "Faith, Family and Freedom," which is over the building's entrance.
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ACRU Asks Governors to Rethink Photo ID Vetoes
On July 25, 2012, the ACRU sent letters to four governors who vetoed legislation requiring photo voter IDs in order to deter vote fraud, asking them to rethink their opposition to these common-sense laws. ACRU policy board members former U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese III and former Ohio Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell joined ACRU Chairman and CEO Susan A. Carleson in signing the letters.
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ACLU Slams Paul Ryan as Foe of 'Civil Rights'
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published August 16, 2012 on The Daily Caller website.
Almost immediately after Mitt Romney announced that he'd picked Paul Ryan to be his running mate, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) released a report branding the Wisconsin congressman as an opponent of civil rights.
What the ACLU means is that Ryan opposes the bizarre perversion of civil rights that the progressive left has conjured over the past few decades.
Ryan, the ACLU charges, has "almost uniformly harmful views on five key civil liberties issues": immigration, gay marriage, abortion, waterboarding and voter ID laws.
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August 21, 2012
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On Today's Program
 What is Bill O'Reilly's problem with Lincoln?
On Tuesday's radio show, Glenn welcomed "King of Cable News" Bill O'Reilly to the program for an interview about his new book, Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination That Changed America Forever. Yes, that's right, Bill O'Reilly wrote ANOTHER book about killing Abraham Lincoln. What does Bill O'Reilly have against Lincoln? Why does he want to make sure he stays dead? These are the questions that Glenn wants answered.
Glenn visits the Navajo Nation: WATCH.
Obama: No one ever suggested Romney a felon (LOL)
For once, President Obama was actually asked a tough question in his first WH press conference in months. After trying to capitalize on a horrific gaffe made by some no name Congressman, the focus ended up being on his campaign's dishonest smears and persistent suggestion that Romney may be a felon. Glenn has the audio and reaction HERE.
Freedom vs. Free Stuff
Glenn reacted to another study that confirmed what most conservatives already know: red states are more charitable than blue. It underscores one of the main reasons Glenn has moved to Texas, when the economy screeches to a halt, do you want to be around people who are charitable or those desperately seeking a handout? Glenn has more on radio today.
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Media latches onto Akin's idiocy, ignore Democratic sex scandal
America now knows all about some Senate nominee they'd never heard of before because it's that time again: election season! Democrats haven't had much good news lately, so they settled for an idiotic statement ("legitimate rape") from a guy with an R next to his name. But have you heard about the Democrat who got caught having sex with a 17-year-old at a highway rest stop? Of course not! WATCH.
It's Time for Action!
Be part of the next great movement! Join Glenn as he unveils a new project that will revolutionize the grassroots movement for freedom. See him LIVE at the "CALL TO ACTION" rally hosted by FreedomWorks on Saturday, September 15th in Cincinnati, Ohio. Buy tickets today! Can't make it to Ohio? Watch the event LIVE on GBTV - stay tuned for more details to come!
Glenn's hitting the Big Screen!
The last show of Glenn's comedy tour, Unelectable 2012, will be simulcast live in movie theaters nationwide on Thursday, September 20th. This show is full of comedy-it's Glenn's version of a presidential debate featuring the performers and writers from The B.S. of A. Many are saying it could be the funniest show Glenn's ever done, and it ends with an inspiring message that will have you on your feet full of hope. Get your tickets and all the details HERE!
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Doesn't look like Obama is getting much love from his supporters lately: Pat & Stu discuss how he is losing some of his big time confidants to Romney, like the former co-chairman of his campaign - WATCH.
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