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October 5, 2012
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So back to Amber. Back in March 2011, CNN sent a four person team to Bahrain to cover the Arab Spring. Once there, the crew was the subject of extreme intimidation amongst other things, but they were able to record some fantastic footage. As Glenn Greenwald of the UK's Guardian writes in his blockbuster article from today:
"In the segment, Lyon interviewed activists as they explicitly described their torture at the hands of government forces, while family members recounted their relatives' abrupt disappearances. She spoke with government officials justifying the imprisonment of activists. And the segment featured harrowing video footage of regime forces shooting unarmed demonstrators, along with the mass arrests of peaceful protesters. In sum, the early 2011 CNN segment on Bahrain presented one of the starkest reports to date of the brutal repression embraced by the US-backed regime.
Despite these accolades, and despite the dangers their own journalists and their sources endured to produce it, CNN International (CNNi) never broadcast the documentary. Even in the face of numerous inquiries and complaints from their own employees inside CNN, it continued to refuse to broadcast the program or even provide any explanation for the decision. To date, this documentary has never aired on CNNi.
Having just returned from Bahrain, Lyon says she "saw first-hand that these regime claims were lies, and I couldn't believe CNN was making me put what I knew to be government lies into my reporting."
Iran police, demonstrators clash in Tehran protests
Hundreds of merchants join in a rally outside a bazaar in Tehran to decry rising prices and the plunging value of Iran's currency, the rial.
By Ramin Mostaghim and Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times
October 3, 2012
TEHRAN - Iranian police and demonstrators clashed Wednesday during street protests linked to rising prices and the plunging value of the national currency.
Police in black riot gear fired tear gas and moved to disperse the protesters after they had rallied outside the capital's central bazaar and then marched toward the parliament building. Many businesses and shops were shuttered, which in effect led to the shutdown of the huge marketplace.
"Our checks bounced, our businesses are ruined," said a merchant who gave his name as Ali. "How shall we earn a living?"
About 500 owners of apparel shops and other businesses joined in the march, expressing outrage over their inability to stay afloat with the national currency, the rial, appearing to lose more value every day.
"I don't dare to sell" anything, said Hassan, 48, a cloth salesman who, like others, declined to give his full name, fearing retaliation. "I am scared I won't be able to replenish my shelves."
The protests were unusual in this tightly controlled society and seemed to be a spontaneous reaction to outrage over rising prices and the government's inability to halt the currency slide.
Worried Iranians have been buying up dollars and other foreign currencies, further devaluing the rial.
The merchants' decision to take to the streets appeared significant because the business class is often viewed as a proponent of the status quo. Merchants from the main bazaar were regarded as major supporters of the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
The complaints voiced Wednesday were not about Iran's lack of democracy but rather about what many viewed as the inept economic policies of the government of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, whose second term ends next year. By law he cannot run again.
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Wednesday night saw the first of three Presidential debates, and one Vice Presidential Debate, in the month of October. The first debate between President Barack Obama and Governor Mitt Romney took place at the University of Denver in Colorado. The topics focused on domestic policy with Jim Lehrer, host of NewsHour on PBS, moderating.
Dorothy Morris room, Elm Terrace Gardens, 660 North Broad Street, Lansdale
Sharon Fletcher of Fletcher Senior Services speaks to seniors on Medicare & the Healthcare law
The Upper Bucks County Rally
"Let Freedom Ring"
Sunday October 7, 2012 - 3PM
Quakertown Memorial Park
War Memorial
Speakers include
Our Legislators
Our Ministerium
Activist Citizens
Sponsored by Citizens for Constitutional Government And
Upper Bucks Right to Life
There are only 33 days until the election
We are planning a few events for you to get involved and get out the vote:
Make calls from 6PM-8PM on Tuesday (10/9) or Wednesday(10/10) and then watch the movie "Atlas Shrugged Part 1" at 8PM (just before Part 2 comes out on Friday). Details below.
Make calls from 6PM-8PM on Thursday and then watch the VP Debate. (Still in the planning stages. Click here to send an email if you want to help with this).
Door Knocking: We can create walk lists for your neighborhood targeting persuadable voters. We'll also provide the campaign literature. You go out and change the minds, change the polls - MAKE THE DIFFERENCE. Click here if you want maps for your neighborhood.
Sign Blitzing Saturday: We have hundreds of Tom Smith signs. They do no good in our closet. We're looking for groups of people to come by, grab 50 or more signs and then plant them at major intersections and along highways. Click here to send an email if you want to drive or ride along.
Our Upper Bucks County friends at Citizens For Constitutional Government are also hosting an event this weekend to get out the vote. The details are below.
Join us on Tuesday or Wednesday Evenings
For
"Atlas Shrugs After You Make The Calls"
with Beer & Pizza
Date: Tue/Wed, October 9/10, 2012
Time: 6PM - 9PM
Place: "Freedom Workshop"
Address: 2405 Heritage Center Dr, Suite 129, Furlong, PA 18925
What: Eat pizza, drink beer, make calls for Tom Smith and then at 8PM we'll watch Atlas Shrugged - Part 1 just in time for the release of Part 2 on Friday 10/12. Come Tuesday or Wednesday
Yes, it's true: You can support ACT! for America-at no cost to you!An important message from Guy Rodgers, Executive Director
The next time you make an online purchase of almost anything, you could be helping ACT! for America-at no cost to you.
Sound too good to be true? It isn't.
All you have to do is sign up for "iGive"-a program that's been around since 1997.
The concept is as powerful as it is simple.
Every time an iGive member makes an online purchase at over 1,000 brand-name stores, a percentage of that purchase is donated to that person's charity of choice.
And with the holidays just around the corner, you could be helping ACT! for America with every gift you buy!
The concept isn't new. In the mid-1990s many supporters of non-profit organizations signed up with long distance telephone programs where a percentage of their bill was donated to their charity of choice.
But our investigation of iGive has convinced us that this program has an ease of use and sophistication that we find remarkable.
Imagine booking a hotel room on Orbitz-and having 1.6% of that purchase price donated to ACT! for America.
Or buying an Xbox at Best Buy-and having 1.2% of the purchase price donated to ACT! for America.
The same goes for buying merchandise at Amazon, Bath and Body Works, Advance Auto Parts, Game Stop, Kmart, Home Depot, Holiday Inn, Old Navy, NASCAR Superstore, Overstock.com, Mattel, J.C. Penney, Office Max, QVC, Radio Shack, Shoe Carnival, Pottery Barn-and on and on the list goes.
In other words, every time you make a purchase of merchandise you would buy anyway, you would be financially supporting ACT! for America!
All you have to do is log on below and follow the directions to create your account and download the iGive "button." (Note: downloading the "button" is key).
When I was first informed of iGive, I was skeptical. I've seen these ideas come and go. Often, they're too good to be true. Or there are all kinds of glitches and problems.
So I spent hours researching.
I looked at online customer reviews (which were very good). I read all of iGive's fine print, such as Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. I signed up and even emailed two tech support questions to see how good their tech support was.
And the more I dug, the more I liked what I saw. For instance, both of my tech support questions were responded to within 60 minutes. How often does THAT happen?
As you know from our Patriot Partner program, we're all about encouraging a lot of people to each do a little-to do something. When everyone does a little, together we accomplish a lot.
So consider what could happen.
If just 1% of ACT! for America members each purchased just $400 in merchandise in 2013, from all the available outlets, and the average percentage donated to ACT! was 1.5%, the total amount donated back to ACT! for America would be...
...$15,000. That's a lot of money, wouldn't you agree?
And if you were one of those ACT! for America members, it wouldn't cost you one thin dime to help ACT! for America receive $15,000.
If this idea really caught on, and eventually 5% of our members made purchases with iGive, that $15,000 could explode to $50,000, $75,000 or more!
What's more, that 1.5% figure might be low. Many of the merchants offer percentage donations that are much higher. One printer inkjet company I looked at offered 13%!
Every merchant website you visit tells you right at the top what percentage of your purchase price will be donated to ACT! for America.
Just think what we could accomplish with an extra $15,000, $50,000 or $75,000 in our fight against radical Islam!
One of the things I most wanted to know was their Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Check it out for yourself. I confirmed the terms with a company representative. And I like what I learned. As security-conscious as I am, I have no hesitation using the service-and I'm already doing so.
I know there are many people out there who would love to support ACT! for America, or give more than they're giving, but in these tough economic times they simply can't.
Well, here's a way that everyone who believes in our mission can easily support what we're doing-at no cost to them.
It doesn't get any better than that.
There are already chapter leaders who have signed up for the program, and the feedback I have been getting from them has been all positive. They love the idea and many of them are already using it.
So please, join me and these ACT! for America chapter leaders who are already signed up and using the iGive service.
Christians United for Israel, (CUFI) is the largest pro-Israel organization in the United States with over 1,000,000 members and one of the leading Christian grassroots movements in the world.
Israel's time of need is now. There is a new Hitler in the Middle East - President Ahmadinejad of Iran - who has threatened to wipe out Israel and America and is rapidly acquiring the nuclear technology to make good on his threat. If we learned anything from the Holocaust, it is that when a madman threatens genocide we must take him seriously.
The RJC Southern New Jersey Chapter
Invites you to a Special
Meet-and-Greet Breakfast and Phone Bank with
Joe Kyrillos
GOP Senate Candidate
for New Jersey
Followed by a phone bank calling Jewish voters in Pennsylvania.
Sunday, October 14
Registration and breakfast at 10:00am
Program will begin promptly at 10:30am
Phone bank: 11:30am-1:30pm
Hotel ML
915 Route 73
Mt. Laurel, NJ 08054
Cost:
No Charge for Current RJC Leaders and Members
$10 for eTeam, Non-current, and Friends
Joe began his distinguished career of public service when he successfully ran for the New Jersey General Assembly. After two terms, he was elected to the Senate where he has served since 1992. In 2009, Joe served as chairman for Chris Christie's successful campaign for Governor. Please learn more about Joe Kyrillos by clicking here.
RSVP is Required
Please RSVP and indicate whether you are
interested to participate in the phone bank.
Call Scott Feigelstein at 610-667-1263 or emailpasnj@rjchq.org.
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SAVE THE DATE!
~Stay tuned for more details~
Exclusive event with Senator Pat Toomey
Leaders and Members Only
Followed by an RJC Phone Bank!
Bala Cynwyd, PA
Wednesday, October 17
Reception with Diana Irey Vaughan
GOP Candidate for PA Treasurer
Monday, October 15
Meet and Greet with PA Lt. Governor Jim Cawley
Bala Cynwyd, PA
Tuesday, October 23
For more information on these events, please call the RJC PA/SNJ Office at 610-667-1263 or email pasnj@rjchq.org.
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Announcing Sustainable Freedom Lab (SFL)
"Stopping Agenda 21 in Your Community" w/ Tom DeWeese, John Anthony & Guests
Web-TV Seminar on Oct. 9, 2012, 7 PM EST; Oct. 13, 10 AM; Oct. 14, 4 PM; Register here.
A brand new way to fight back!
Hello Linda,
Sustainable Freedom Lab is turning the fight against Agenda 21 on its head! Over the next several months SFL will produce a series of training programs over the Internet.
However, SFL is more than a webinar. It is a total process that trains and organizes activists and works directly with elected officials and planners to recognize and stop the threat of sustainable development.
We help elected officials deal with their struggle to manage legitimate duties while preventing the spread of Agenda 21. We even provide sample legislation and training to help them meet the growing challenge of sustainable development and protect their constituent's property rights.
In addition, SFL also provides planners with training leading to SFL certification. The SFL designation assures local residents and officials those planners will only offer plans that protect your property rights.
Learn all the details on how to use this exciting new tool on our first SFL webinar October 9th at 7PM (EST) Second airing October 13th at 10AM (EST) and the third airing on October 14th at 4PM (EST). Register here.
The first SFL Internet program, titled "Stopping Agenda 21 in Your Community" will include new approaches like these:
Quick ways to get the attention of your local officials and help set up a meeting for further talks.
A 3-step Introduction to Agenda 21 to present your case in a sensible manner that makes people want to learn more.
A new easy-to-do 10 minute Agenda 21 presentation that appeals to public officials.
In this first webinar you will see actual video of a county commission meeting featuring an SFL activist presenting an incredible new tool for property rights protection - the "Planners Resolution to Protect Property Rights." We'll show you how it's used and how it affected these County Commissioners. Our activist said they were like "deer caught in the headlights!" it's that effective.
These monthly Internet programs are designed to help activists from across the nation learn new winnable tactics in shutting down Sustainable Development in your town.
By registering for each SFL webinar you will be doing much more than training. You will be helping to provide the tools we've always needed to win. Here's how: Part of our plan (if enough people sign up) is to use the proceeds from your registration to:
Organize a network of elected officials to help them interface, share, and assist one another as they face those working to use them to enforce Sustainable Development.
Establish a legal defense fund.
Create "SFL Response Teams."
Create a network of trained field coordinators.
Provide your public officials with real community surveys that reflect what your neighbors want, not skewed questions and cherry-picked responses that support the schemes of the planners.
The more we have the more we can do.
Until now, we have been struggling to play catch-up to planners, NGO's and government agencies. The question we must ask now is - will we continue to accept business as usual or are we going to change the game? SFL has the answer.
Watch the program right in front of your own computer. But don't watch it alone! We urge you to invite 5 or ten of your friends and fellow activists. Share the registration fee. Make it part of your group's research and training. Use the program for your entire group to watch the seminar and then take action together.
There is only one connection fee regardless of the number of viewers!
Nothing like SFL has ever been possible before. We've heard the pleas for help, along with the growing frustration and despair from property owners. Now, with the creation of SFL, that's all about to change. We finally have the answers, the tools and the cadres of activists we've so desperately needed.
Together, Tom DeWeese and John Anthony have created a plan which will turn the tables on the Sustainablists and electrify our movement. Working together, we will win.
Do not miss this new and exciting opportunity to change the battle to restore American freedom. 2 Hours, $99/Connection
In Liberty, Tom DeWeese President American Policy Center
A new app called "In Obama's own words" is great. Right now it is only for the iPhone. If you are wanting for someone to hear something Obama said that really is awful for our country, and he has said a lot, this app is what you need on your iPhone. It is only $.99. It is well worth it. It is him talking and saying these things that other people can hear when you press the play button. Pass this information on. The guy who made this is had so many requests to make it for other popular cell phones now. He is just a great patriot who is a great computer nerd and did this after hundreds of hours ofwork on it.
Florida Family Association's webmaster American Family Online has produced the following remarkable product to protect children and adults from explicit material on cell phones and tablets.
According to our research at AFO, the largest growing group of smart phone users is the 12-17 year old age group. Unfortunately, also according to research, the largest viewership of pornography from the Internet on smart phones is 12 to 17 year old children. The impact is catastrophic. Desensitization, failed relationships, abuse of women are the results, nothing good.
Although there are other so called parental control functions and filtered browser apps available, none give the protection and full functionality of MobileWebGuard. We are most proud of the intelligent content scanning and the lock down so that it cannot be easily removed or deactivated. A filter that can easily be removed or bypassed is a placebo and will do more harm than good if a parent thinks the phone is filtered and it is not.
This app works on most Android and Apple (iOS) devices including smart phones and tablets! These are the fastest growing segments in consumer technology and thus the most exposed to the dark side of the Internet. For peace of mind online, a parent must insure their child has a protected mobile device.
Related Scripture Verses
1 Corinthians 6:18 Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a person commits are outside the body, but whoever sins sexually, sins against their own body.
Romans 1:24 Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another.
2 Corinthians 12:21 I am afraid that when I come again my God will humble me before you, and I will be grieved over many who have sinned earlier and have not repented of the impurity, sexualsin and debauchery in which they have indulged.
Philippians 4:8- Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable-if anything is excellent or praiseworthy-think about such things. 1 Peter 4:7-10The end of all things is near. Therefore be alert and of sober mind so that you may pray.8 Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins. 9 Offer hospitality to one another without grumbling. 10 Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others, as faithful stewards of God's grace in its various forms.
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Brigitte Gabriel to Speak at 2 Events in Pennsylvania!
Brigitte GabrielLeading Global Islamic Terrorism Expert
CLICK HERE to view Brigitte's special video invitation!
It is my privilege to invite you to a special event featuring Brigitte Gabriel, Founder and President of ACT! for America. These events are free and open to the public and will be held at the following:
Community Alliance Church 800 Mercer Road Butler, PA 16001 Sunday, October 14th at 6 PM
and Morning Star Fellowship 100 Limekiln Road Bechtelsville, PA 19505 Thursday, October 18th at 7 pm
Ms. Gabriel will speak on the rise of Islamic radicalism in your community and in our nation. Her story of survival as a persecuted Christian living in a bomb shelter for 7 years will have you captivated and inspired! She will share how the events of 9/11 compelled her to start ACT! for America, the largest national security grassroots organization in the U.S.
The recent assaults at our embassies have been a sobering wake-up call to America. The lesson is that we should be displaying strength to our enemies, not appeasement which only demonstrates our weakness. Without question, the threats of radical Islam to America have increased.
These are just some of the threats Brigitte will discuss:
Suppression of criticism of Islam
Homegrown jihad
Terrorists infiltrating our borders
The Muslim Brotherhood and creeping sharia law in America
Misrepresentation of history in our public education
You will hear first-hand how ACT! for America is successfully rolling back the tide of radical Islam...how we are winning legislative victories...how we don't have to live in fear or resign ourselves to the inevitability of the threats arrayed against us...and how we will prevail.
I encourage you to forward this email to everyone you know. For those who are not familiar with ACT! for America, please share this short video with them.
I know those of you who have heard Brigitte will agree, not only do you not want to miss this, but you will want to bring your relatives and friends with you. It will be an event people will be talking about for a long time to come!
Invite your friends and come join us in Butler and Bechtelsville, PA! We look forward to seeing you on October 14th and October 18th.
Yours for a Safe and Free America,
Guy Rodgers Executive Director
Don't miss the
The Valley Forge Patriots
October 12th meeting at the Phoenixville country Club
6:00PM to 9:00 PM
It is our last meeting before the election!
Mathew Brouillette, President of the Commonwealth Foundation will discuss the Nov. election as well as important legislative issues.
Warren Kampf, PA Representative of the 157th district will give his views on the Nov. election and a legislative update.
We also have "in meeting" GOTV activities planned to help defeat Barrack Obama and Bob Casey.
Food and drinks are available for purchase and parking is free
Don't miss this meeting!
VFP Debate Festival 2012. Come out and join other like minded conservatives as we clap and groan our way through the 2012 Presidential and Vice Presidential Debates. All debates start at 9-10:30 on dates below.
Come early and get fired up. Menu food and your favorite beverages available with cash bar.
October 11th: Topic: Foreign and domestic policy Air Time: 9:00-10:30 p.m. Eastern Time Location:Centre College in Danville, Kentucky Sponsor:Commission on Presidential DebatesParticipants: Vice President Joe Biden and Congressman Paul Ryan Moderator: Martha Raddatz (ABC News Chief Foreign Correspondent) The debate will cover both foreign and domestic topics and be divided into nine time segments of approximately 10 minutes each. The moderator will ask an opening question, after which each candidate will have two minutes to respond. The moderator will use the balance of the time in the segment for a discussion of the question.
October 16th:Topic: Town meeting format including foreign and domestic policy Air Time: 9:00-10:30 p.m. Eastern Time Location:Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York Sponsor:Commission on Presidential DebatesParticipants: President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney Moderator: Candy Crowley (CNN Chief Political Correspondent) The second [sic] presidential debate will take the form of a town meeting, in which citizens will ask questions of the candidates on foreign and domestic issues. Candidates each will have two minutes to respond, and an additional minute for the moderator to facilitate a discussion. The town meeting participants will be undecided voters selected by the Gallup Organization
I'm pleased to advise you that Montgomery County, PA-based Reform Congregation Keneseth Israel will be sponsoring a "Community Meeting" (open to the public), featuring former (2003 2009) MN Senator Norm Coleman, former George W. Bush Press Secretary (2000-2003) Ari Fleischer, and Executive Director of the Republican Jewish Coalition (and former Lower Merion resident) Matt Brooks.
As you will recall, on July 16th Dem. Nat'l Committee Chair, Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (D-FL), along with Rep. Allyson Schwartz and Montco Commissioner Josh Shapiro, and others, spoke at the same venue "insupport of President Obama and his relationship to the Jewish community and the State of Israel." This will be our turn to turn-out our 1,000 supporters, less than a week before November 6th Election Day!
The sponsors would like to have an idea of numbers, so please email Myron (mgoldman13@comcast.net) confirming you will be coming. CTRO feels so strongly about supporting this event that it is rescheduling the bag night meeting that was scheduled for November 1st.
A prompt response by 10/15 would be appreciated. This is an opportunity to make a statement to the Democrats in our area. Republicans are expected from all over the area. CTRO members, please attend if at all possible to do so.
Address: 8339 Old York Road, Elkins Park, PA 19027
Phone: (215) 887-8700
Dear Friend and Patriot Leader,
As you know too well, unless our friends who fear God, respect our constitution and love freedom unite now and vote in this upcoming election, we will lose the America we have known. Yet remarkably, 15-30% of self-identified Christians are not even registered to vote. If even a small percentage of those joined the fight, it could make the difference in the 2012 election. Making this happen is my highest priority, and once again I need your help.
At the Pennsylvania Pastors' Network (PPN), we have been working very aggressively with pastors across the commonwealth. We're calling on them to stand boldly at the pulpit, preach the truth, and teach the Scripture as it addresses the intersection of policy and Christian culture. At the same time, I'm encouraging them to urge their members to register to vote, and to vote biblically and constitutionally on Election Day. PPN has just embarked on a mass Christian voter registration effort, called "From Pews to Polls -An Initiative to Protect Religious Freedom in America." We want to reach into every church in Pennsylvania and enlist thousands of new voters. This is where you can help in an easy, but very big way.
First, I need your help to identify churches and pastors. If they believe in the authority of Scripture and that our rights come from God not government, we want to work with them. If you are able to make one or more recommendations of this sort, please click here to be taken directly to our website. Once there, simply supply the requested information, and if you include his or her phone number, we will personally call that pastoror church leader.
If you'd prefer to send information to a church or pastor, please feel free to forward the letter you'll find at the bottom of this email. I sent this letter last week to roughly 2000 pastors across Pennsylvania, but there are thousands and thousands more who need to know about this. As you help us find them, you help restore our foundation. We'll be able to discreetly and confidentially determine which members of each congregation are registered to vote. This information will be sent directly to the Pastoror another church member and we will assist them in the enlistment of his congregation in reclaiming a Christian founded America. It's easy, it's confidential, and may make all the difference.
Secondly, if you would like to help me by being a PPN volunteer or liaison in your church or county, please let me know by emailing me back at info@papastors.net. I need your help ongoing, and though it won't require much time, it will be a tremendous help toward renewing what we have lost. If you are not signed up for our PPN emails, please do so by visiting www.papastors.netand sign up.
You and I have worked together before. Let's engage again in this very important sprint to the polls. Others will encourage the GOTV, but we need to make sure the right people are registered. Now is the time to stand.
Yours in truth,
Sam
Rohrer
Dear Pastor and Church Leader,
As Americans, we have enjoyed the fruits of civic and religious freedom, prosperity, and abundance as promised by God to all nations that fear Him. Our Founding Fathers and clergymen cleaved to the knowledge that "blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD," and so they carefully framed our Constitutional Republic firmly atop a devout Biblical Foundation. It was a Republic secured by faith, morality and reverence. But that once secure Republic now sits vulnerable, attacked on all sides by doubt, debauchery and irreverence. So great is the threat that we are now confronted by the reality of Psalm 11:3: "If the foundations 'are being' destroyed, what shall the righteous do?"
I have never before seen an assault so aggressive against our foundation, and the question truly has become, "
what can the righteous do?" The answer is simple. The easiest thing we can do is vote! Our vote is our greatest weapon yet shockingly, vast numbers of Christians (30% in some cases) are not even registered to vote. We must turn this around if we want to maintain our freedom. It was Christians who built this great nation, and now we must stand up and save it.
For this reason, PPN has embarked on an extensive effort we're calling, "From Pews to Polls -An Initiative to Protect Religious Freedom in America."In addition to calling for dedicated personal and corporate prayer for our nation, we have initiated an effort to assist pastors and grassroots leaders in the facilitation of voter registration. We must enable Christian soldiers who understand that our freedoms come from God and that being the 'salt and the light' is most easily lived out by voting for candidates who are likely to share Biblical values. Voter registration for November 2012 must be completed by October 9th. The deadline is fast approaching. We must quickly move forward.
The next step will be up to you. We want to make it as easy as possible so we've done all the preparation and have absorbed all the cost in order to provide you the following:
Online Voter Registration Drive Kit - This kit has everything you need to plan and implement a voter registration drive in your church. September is the month to do this, as the deadline to register is the first week of October in most states. (Church organized voter registration efforts are completely legal and appropriate.)
Registered Voter Look-Up Service - We will confidentially identify those in your church membership who are not registered to vote and return that information to you.
Follow-Up Email - We will send or provide a template for a personal email from you or me asking unregistered members to register online or to register at a church registration drive during the month of September.
Early Voting Information - We will provide information and assistance in helping members of your congregation to vote by Absentee Ballot if they cannot be physically present on Election Day in November.
For more information about thePews to Polls Project, or to requestVoter Look-up Serviceplease send an email to:info@papastors.net, or call us at either 610-793-1800 or 610-584-1096. In addition, we are encouraging the approximately 1700 pastors and churches who are part of the PPN to preach on the cultural, moral issues of our day, using our sermon notes or thier own, during PA Pulpit Sundays, which are the first Sundays of the month.
The Pennsylvania Pastors Network is a network of Biblically-faithful clergy and church liaisons whose objective is to build a permanent infrastructure of like-minded clergy that:
Affirm the authority of Scripture
Take seriously Jesus' command to be "salt and light" to the culture
Want to encourage informed Christian thinking about contemporary social issues
Want to examine public policy issues without politicizing their pulpits, using well-prepared teaching and preaching resources
Want to engage their congregations in taking part in our political process on a non-partisan basis.
These are tough but exciting goals-and much-needed within the Churches of America regardless of denomination. I pray that we unite around them and claim victory over evil.
In the Defense of Truth and Freedom,Sam Rohrer, PresidentPennsylvania Pastors NetworkIn the Footsteps of the Founders610-793-1800 - office www.PAPastors.net
"The Hope and The Change" is set to air dozens of times, reaching 130 million cumulative households, over the next few months - an historic first for any political documentary.
This smartly produced documentary will be shown on HDNet Movies, AXS TV, RFD-TV, FamilyNet, and Rural TV. The film is also licensed to Lesea Broadcasting for World Harvest Television and their broadcast stations: WHMB (Indianapolis, IN), WHNO (New Orleans, LA), KWHB (Tulsa, OK), KWHE (Honolulu, HI), KWHS (Colorado Springs, CO) and WHME (South Bend, IN).
Please check local listings for channels: up-to-date information about showings will be added to www.TheHopeAndTheChange.com/TV as soon as it becomes available.
It is important to note that these distribution opportunities would have been against the law a mere three years ago. This is why I went to the United States Supreme Court in Citizens United v. the Federal Election Commission - to fight for the right to produce a political documentary.
"The Hope and The Change" exposes the hard truth that many Democrats and independents are suffering at the hands of President Obama's failed policies, and we will aggressively market this film so Americans can finally have an unfiltered conversation they deserve.
P.S. "The Hope and The Change" has the power to change many minds this fall. That is why it is so important for millions of Americans to see it. Please help us get this film out to as many people as possible by forwarding this email and spreading the world about the TV showings! --------------------------------------------------------------------
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."
With those immortal words, our Founding Fathers declared our independence from Great Britain. In doing so, the 56 courageous men who signed the Declaration of Independence pledged to each other "our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor."
Are we today a country that recognizes that level of commitment and sacrifice to the American ideal of liberty?
In Our Sacred Honor, former presidential candidate and Senator Rick Santorum asks this very question. The film presents a journey into our past that explores the meaning of our founding documents, the intentions of the drafters and signers, the origin of our rights, the differences between the French and American revolutions, and the relationship between the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution.
Through reenactments, interviews with historians, experts, and on-location shooting, viewers are taken back to the time of our founding to better understand the principles of government set forth in America's founding documents and how they enabled us to create the greatest nation in the history of the world.
During the presidential campaign, Senator Santorum often quoted the two founding documents that bind our nation together - The Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution. Our Sacred Honor goes into great detail about what those sacred documents truly mean and so it is appropriate that we begin the full promotion of this film on Constitution Day.
Senator Santorum will be appearing on Fox News' Fox and Friends on Monday, September 17th, at about 7:15am ET. Please turn in to hear him speak about this important movie!
This smartly produced documentary walks through the pivotal moments that led to our nation's independence and explains how, out of many, we formed a more perfect union. It was a pleasure making Our Sacred Honor with Senator Santorum, and I know patriots everywhere will enjoy it.
Today we are excited to announce that "Occupy Unmasked" will be made available on Video on Demand (VOD), on the heels of its successful limited theatrical release. "Occupy Unmasked" must be seen to be believed and now you and millions of others will have that opportunity right in your own homes.
The VOD providers carrying "Occupy Unmasked" include iTunes; Amazon; Charter; Comcast; Google Play; DirecTV; Playstation3; Suddenlink; Time Warner; Verizon FIOS; VUDU; Xbox Zune; AT&T UVerse; Cablevision; Cox; and Dish Network.
"Occupy Unmasked," takes viewers into the Occupy Wall Street camps across 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. Exclusive footage and first-hand 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.
Featuring the late conservative icon Andrew Breitbart, as well as former leftist radicals turned patriotic citizen journalists Brandon Darby, David Horowitz, Pam Keys, Anita MonCrief, Mandy Nagy, and Lee Stranahan, among others, this film delves beneath the surface of the Occupy movement to show its anarchist roots.
Registration for CPAC 2013 is now open! The American Conservative Union's legendary annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) is scheduled for March 14-16, 2013 at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center.
Register Now for CPAC 2013 Don't miss your chance to help take our country back to the right. To register now and reserve your space, visit conservative.org.
Join the Celebration In honor of CPAC's 40th Anniversary, we look forward to joining conservatives from across the nation for CPAC 2013, celebrating the accomplishments of the movement while also energizing the next generation of conservatives.
New Location CPAC 2013 boasts a new location at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center. Complimentary CPAC shuttle busses to and from the Gaylord Center will be available at convenient locations across the National Capitol Region. Details will be released in the coming weeks; please visit conservative.org for updates.
CPAC Past & Present The ACU has hosted CPAC in the Nation's Capital since 1973, and it now stands as the largest annual gathering of conservatives in the country. Additionally, the ACU this year hosted two regional CPACs designed to energize and mobilize Midwest and Mountain West conservatives, giving them the tools needed to defeat the liberal agenda in 2012 while also highlighting rising conservative stars and issues in the region. Stay tuned for details on 2013 regional CPAC locations!
Interested in Sponsoring CPAC 2013? National and local partners are critical to achieving a successful event. CPAC 2013 provides an excellent platform to promote your message and network with the leaders and activists who are on the frontlines of the conservative movement. We invite you to review the special opportunities available to join the action at CPAC 2013 by visiting conservative.org.
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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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Individuals sympathetic to the Muslim Brotherhood's sinister agenda have infiltrated the Obama Administration.
Brainwashed by the Muslim Students Association and then propelled in to the position of Deputy Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the David Horowitz Freedom Center tracks the path of Huma Abedin and other Muslim sympathizers who have navigated their way into positions of great influence in the Obama Administration. Everything is revealed in the explosive new Freedom Center pamphlet, "The Muslim Brotherhood in the Obama Administration," written by Frank Gaffney, national security expert who served as Assistant Secretary of Defense under Ronald Reagan.
The David Horowitz Freedom Center is committed to educating the public on the Muslim Brotherhood's sinister Agenda. That is why we are giving away this pamphlet for FREE.
"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.
Friday 10-11pm "Veterans' Weekly Forum" - Rich Davis and David Bellavia
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A private individual, Gary DuBois, is mounting a personal mission to cover the state with these signs. He is selling these at cost for $6.00 per sign. He has already printed and distributed more than 10,000 and they are going as fast as he gets money in to make them.
Gary is located in Waynesburg, Greene County in southwest PA, which has been hard hit by the coal mine closures and has made defeating Obama his priority.
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AMERICAN MAJORITY ACTION has opened three Liberty offices across Pennsylvania in order to Get Out the Vote by making phone calls and knocking on doors in support of Congressional candidates, Tom Smith and Romney/Ryan. They have already distributed more than 10,000 signs and ask that anyone desiring a sign commit to make at least 100 phone calls or door visits in their communities.
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DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz described the Medicare reforms proposed by GOP Vice-Presidential nominee and House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) as "literally a death trap for seniors." White House spokesman Jay Carney told reporters that Ryan's reforms would "change Medicare as we know it."
But it was Obamacare that already changed Medicare as we know it, transforming it literally into a death trap for seniors. Obamacare cut Medicare by $716 billion over the next 10 years alone, mostly by slashing Medicare payments to doctors and hospitals. And that is just a down-payment on what is to come.
I made up the following and have been distributing this to seniors. This is based on the above article.
Seniors better wake up to the dangers of Obmacare.
Carlo
From Forbes.com 9/27/2012 by Peter Ferrara
Why Senior Citizens Should Prefer Ryan's Medicare Plan to Obama's
"...Obamacare funnels $716 billon out of Medicare to pay for a new entitlement we didn't ask for..."
"...Medicare's Chief Actuary Rick Foster reports that by the end of this decade, Medicare will be paying less to doctors and hospitals for health care for seniors than Medicaid pays for health care for the poor..."
"...Under Obamacare, soon enough seniors will be lined up behind welfare mothers in trying to find doctors who will see them, and hospitals that will admit them..."
Because of the cuts "...In a few short years, hospitals that serve seniors in particular will begin closing, and retirees will have increasing difficulty obtaining access to care..."
"...And this does not even count any further cuts that may be adopted by Obamacare's Medicare death panel, the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB). That Board will be composed of 15 unelected, appointed, Washington bureaucrats with the power to adopt still more Medicare cuts that would become effective even without the approval of Congress..."
There is only one way to stop Obamacare and preserve Medicare for seniors :
VOTE OBAMA OUT and ROMNEY IN
Independence Hall Tea Party PAC
October 3, 2012 11 PM
Dear Friends,
Tonight, Governor Mitt Romney defied his critics on both the left and the right.
Since (at least) January, when our PAC became the first Tea Party in the nation to endorse Mitt Romney, he has been vilified as a wealthy, out of touch, unlikable cad who could care less about the problems of average Americans.
The Obama campaign has spent millions cultivating that negative image and the media has abetted in fostering it.
That image, however, was shattered during the debate, this evening, as Governor Romney connected not only with viewers at home, but with the (disappointed) media elites who had to admit the painfully obvious fact--Romney outperformed a sad and fledgling President.
The performance was reminiscent of Ronald Reagan's 1980 breakthrough
debate with Jimmy Carter. In that year, the Carter campaign, with help from the media, spent the entire summer depicting Reagan as a stupid, out of touch, and over the hill war monger.
But when Americans were able to see the two pols side by side, and discover the truth for themselves, Reagan emerged as the more presidential candidate--just as Romney has done tonight.
Praise the Lord!
Turning our attention to Voter ID, we were informed by Governor Corbett's Press Secretary, Kevin Harley, that the Governor's Office is still considering an appeal to the PA Supreme Court.
As the Governor had all but ruled out an appeal--one has to conclude that your phone calls are having an impact.
We have it on excellent authority that the Governor's office has been inundated with calls--thanks to you, the Pittsburgh Tea Party Movement,the Delaware County Patriots, the Tea Party Patriots of Lower Bucks, and all the other groups whose members made calls.
By the way, the ACLU is not stopping at an injunction. An ACLU lawyer told Dom Giordano, during this morning's WPHT 1210 broadcast, that they will now
challenge the Constitutionality of the law--despite Judge Robert Simpson's ruling that the law is Constitutional.
For the record, our group has supported the voter ID law since December, 2009, when we raised the issue with State Representative Steven Barrar at a Christmas Party. Rep. Barrar had been co-sponsoring a voter ID bill for five years.
It is very difficult for us to watch the law be dismantled without a fight (appeal). By giving up so easily, we concede far too much to the opposition.
Stay Tuned.
On behalf of the PAC Board of Delegates,
Don Adams
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Hillsdale's New FREE Online Course: The Progressive Rejection of the Founding and the Rise of Bureaucratic Despotism
Available to you, your family, your friends, and all Americans.
Dear Linda, In 2012 our Constitution is under assault like never before.
Even as I write, self-described Progressives are working to subvert the Constitution to replace it with an ever more expansive and intrusive bureaucratic despotism.
My name is Larry Arnn and I'm the President of Hillsdale College. You might have heard Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Mark Levin and other conservative radio hosts talk about Hillsdale College.
The ongoing radical Progressive agenda poses a serious threat to the survival of free government in our great nation. At Hillsdale, we believe that a massive, nationwide education project to promote America's founding principles is the only way to defeat this Progressive agenda.
As one of our most loyal supporters, you've been an important part of Hillsdale's effort to educate Americans on the importance of preserving our Constitution.
That's why I want you to be one of the first to know about our brand new online course:
The first class begins on Tuesday, September 4 and the final one will occur during the week of the national elections in November. I hope you'll sign up immediately.
In this no-cost, ten-week course, you'll learn from members of Hillsdale's politics department faculty - some of the nation's top scholars on the Constitution - about the history of Progressivism and how the movement has slowly chiseled away at our freedoms over the past century.
With Hillsdale's outstanding reputation as a leading academic institution, this course offers you a unique educational experience that you won't be able to get anywhere else.
Earlier this year Hillsdale offered its first online course on the Constitution. And in doing so it made a major impact with more than 275,000 Americans registering for "Constitution 101: The Meaning and History of the Constitution." We expect our newest course - The Progressive Rejection of the Founding and the Rise of Bureaucratic Despotism - to attract even more attention. And I hope you will be one of the registrants!
Here are the ten lecture topics for the course...
The Progressive Rejection of the Founding and the Rise of Bureaucratic Despotism
The Founders' Constitution and the Challenge of Progressivism Larry P. Arnn, Tuesday, September 4
Woodrow Wilson and the Rejection of the Founders' Principles, Part 1 Ronald J. Pestritto, Monday, September 10
Woodrow Wilson and the Rejection of the Founders' Principles, Part 2 Ronald J. Pestritto, Monday, September 17
Overview: Founders vs. Progressives Thomas G. West, Monday, September 24
FDR's New Bill of Rights Will Morrisey, Monday, October 1
Total Regulation: LBJ's Great Society Kevin Portteus, Monday, October 8
The Transformation of America's Political Institutions Kevin Portteus, Monday, October 15
Post-1960s Progressivism John Grant, Monday, October 22
Case Study: Religious Liberty in the Administrative State Thomas G. West, Monday, October 29
Restoring Constitutional Government Larry P. Arnn, Monday, November 5
Why is Hillsdale teaching a course on the Progressive movement?
Americans who believe in constitutional liberty and limited government need to understand what they're up against, so Hillsdale designed this course to teach Americans the history of Progressivism and how it continues to work to ignore and dismantle the U.S. Constitution.
From its intellectual origins in the late 19th and early 20th centuries with Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, to the massive government expansions under FDR's New Deal and LBJ's Great Society, to the third great expansion of big-government programs during the past three years, Progressives are making our country unrecognizable in comparison to the constitutional republic created by America's Founding Fathers.
To understand fully this attack on limited government constitutionalism, and thus to know what is needed to stem the tide, take Hillsdale's new online Constitution course, which starts on September 4 and concludes the week of the national elections in November.
AND, like all Hillsdale online courses, it will be archived online so that you can refer back to the lectures or access them at your leisure.
I have the privilege of delivering the first lecture, "The Founders' Constitution and the Challenge of Progressivism," and the final lecture, "Restoring Constitutional Government." All of the classes will be taught by Hillsdale College professors - the top teachers in their field and the same ones who instruct our students here on Hillsdale's campus.
I am proud, thanks to your past support and the support of many patriotic Americans, that Hillsdale College is teaching hundreds of thousands of Americans about the Constitution and its principles of liberty. This course is crucial for all Americans who want to understand the dangers confronting the Constitution and its principles today. I hope YOU will join us for this important course!
As President of Hillsdale College, I have devoted my life to education, and in particular to teaching about the American founding, its underlying principles, and subsequent constitutional history.
The last chapter in that history, covering the past century, tells a story about how the progressive movement has undermined the Constitution and replaced it with a bureaucratic despotism - if we are to recover the Constitution, that story must be understood.
That is why we are offering this new course, free, to all Americans.
The more than 275,000 who signed up for our first constitution course last spring prove that Americans are willing and eager to study and defend the Constitution and the principles that made our country the most free and most prosperous in human history!
I hope you will sign up for our new course and help continue this re-awakening of national interest in the Constitution.
This new online course, available at no charge to the public, is not without cost to Hillsdale. The College has already invested much to make this critical course a reality.
To make this course available nationwide will cost nearly $1,000,000. While a monumental expenditure for Hillsdale College, we consider it a duty to reach and teach as many students, citizens, and elected officials as possible during this year and beyond.
ACTION STEP #3: Please forward this email to friends and family and encourage them to enroll in this brand new course on The Progressive Rejection of the Founding and the Rise of Bureaucratic Despotism.
OUR CHALLENGE
With your help, Hillsdale College is dedicated to returning the Constitution to its rightful place at the center of American political life.
If our republic does not re-embrace the Constitution, we will not be able to reclaim the liberty that has been lost, and may yet lose the liberty we still have.
Hillsdale College has accepted this challenge, and our commitment to making this course available to citizens nationwide is proof. But we need you, as one of our best supporters, to help to make this possible. . .
As you may already know, in order to protect the integrity of its mission and prevent intrusive government regulation, Hillsdale College accepts no taxpayer funding whatsoever, even indirectly in the form of federal or state student grants or loans.
Your generosity at this critical time will not just help underwrite the cost of making this course available nationwide. It will also support all the other ways that Hillsdale College educates Americans to be defenders of liberty and self-government.
MY GIFT FOR YOU
In appreciation of your donation of $100 or more, I will send you a copy of the book used by our students in their one-semester course on the Constitution - The U.S. Constitution: A Reader.
This exhaustive, 790-page volume was compiled by our Politics Department faculty at Hillsdale. It's the perfect companion to all of Hillsdale's online courses on the Constitution. For a donation of $50, I'll send you a complimentary copy of my recently-published hardbound book. Its title is:
THE FOUNDERS' KEY: THE DIVINE AND NATURAL CONNECTION BETWEEN THE DECLARATION AND THE CONSTITUTION AND WHAT WE RISK BY LOSING IT
In this book I explain the unique connection between America's two most important documents, how that connection has been severed today, and why we must repair it for the sake of freedom.
With your gift of $25, I'll send you a custom-engraved blue and silver Hillsdale pen as a token of our appreciation for your support.
Your gift, of whatever amount you can provide, will help make it possible for us to offer this important course on the Constitution to all Americans. And for that I am grateful.
For liberty to prevail, Americans must understand and defend the U.S. Constitution.
And they must do so quickly and urgently.
Please help Hillsdale College educate all Americans - including our elected officials - on how to revive the Constitution and preserve individual liberty and limited government in 2012 and beyond.
Thank you for supporting Hillsdale College.
Yours for liberty,
Dr. Larry P. Arnn President, Hillsdale College Pursuing Truth and Defending Liberty since 1844
P.S. PLEASE REMEMBER to do these three important things:
Enroll NOW in our new online course offered free of charge: "The Progressive Rejection of the Founding and the Rise of Bureaucratic Despotism."
Make the most generous tax-deductible contribution to Hillsdale College you can afford. And remember, in appreciation for your gift of $100 or more, you will receive a copy of Hillsdale's indispensible 790-page book, The U.S. Constitution: A Reader. This book is the perfect companion text for Hillsdale's online courses.
Forward this email to any of your friends or family who you would think would enjoy this new online course on Progressivism and the Constitution.
Thank you so much for standing with Hillsdale and the Constitution . . . and for doing everything in your power to defend liberty in America in 2012.
The Constitution Reader is a free, interactive, searchable, and customizable website centered around The U.S. Constitution: A Reader. It contains the same material taught in the College's core course on the Constitution.
In addition to containing a fully digitized and searchable version of the Reader, The Constitution Reader also contains:
An illustrated Timeline of American constitutional history.
Thekey Debates between the Founders, the Progressives, and others.
Friends, first a bit of house keeping.As we do each year, we won't be sending out the Morning Briefing on Columbus Day.Second, you'll note the excessive length of the first post.I've been trying to be diligent to give you the meat, but encourage click throughs to the site.This one though, I feel very strongly, you need it here in its entirety.I think it is a major point missed in the conversations about Barack Obama's debate performance.I hope you agree. If so, I still encourage you to follow the link to the original post and tweet a link or get it to your friends on Facebook, etc.
Have a great weekend.
1. On Eye Contact and God-Kings
On Wednesday night, Mitt Romney was respectful of Barack Obama when Barack Obama challenged him. Mitt Romney looked Barack Obama in the eye when Barack Obama challenged Romney. He kept a smiling demeanor to his challenge in the room.
Wednesday night, Mitt Romney was the challenge in the room for Barack Obama and Barack Obama would not look at him. Barack Obama kept his head down, eyes fixed on his podium. This is a metaphor for the entirety of Barack Obama's Presidency.
Mr. Obama does not make eye contact with the challenges he faces. He looks down or away.
He came into the White House to dire fiscal times. No one denies it. But Barack Obama declared a recovery in June of 2009. Instead of looking the challenge in the eyes and staring it down, Barack Obama declared it no longer a problem and pivoted to healthcare. Even as the fiscal storm raged, Barack Obama said it turned out to be worse than he and his advisors expected, but he wouldn't make eye contact with the problem. He set about destroying our healthcare system instead in the name of reform.
In 2010, the Deepwater Horizon exploded off shore. It took the President almost two months to look the challenge in the eyes, address the nation, and tell us what he was going to do. In the meantime, his administration overreacted doing untold harm to the Gulf Coast economy. Still, the President refused to meet the challenge of our economic situation, pivoting from health care to Solyndra.
Now, we have another challenge. The Middle East is in chaos and our Ambassador is dead. The Presidential campaign went from "Osama is dead and Al Qaeda is on the run" to "Al Qaeda is alive and our Ambassador assassinated." But the President refused to face this challenge too. Instead, he blamed a YouTube video. We now know the President and his administration knew of the security risk. We now know the President and his administration were pretty sure, within twenty-four hours of September 11th, that we had yet again been attacked by terrorists on September 11th.
But the President refused to look us or the problem in the eyes. As his Press Secretary, Secretary of State, and Defense chiefs were beginning to acknowledge it was a terrorist attack, Barack Obama still refused to make eye contact with the problem. He refused to even acknowledge it existed, hiding still behind a YouTube video.
I have reservations about Mitt Romney. I'm a conservative. Of course I do. They are well known. But make no mistake about it - Mitt Romney will make eye contact with the challenges of the day instead of looking away at a podium, a desk, or a distraction. I may not always agree with him, but at least I know I can trust him to make eye contact with the challenges of our day and set about solving them, not looking for easy distractions and fleeting glories.
Barack Obama won't make eye contact with the challenges of the day and he won't accept responsibility for having to deal with them. Nothing is his fault. Nothing is his blame. Only credit flows to Barack Obama. Now more people are out of the job market than any time since the Carter recession, our Ambassador to Libya is dead, and the black flag of Al Qaeda rises from our own flag poles at our own Embassies in the Middle East.
For five years the left has told us Barack Obama came off Mount Olympus to be our God-King. Now they say the elevation in Denver, lower than that of Olympus, was too high for him. The god-king of the Cult of Personality bleeds. Pay no attention to any of it. Make no eye contact with reality - not to him being merely a flawed man in over his head, not to our dead Ambassador, not to the unemployed, not to Al Qaeda's black flag.
No, the god-King commands we pay attention to Big Bird and birth control - issues that, unlike Christopher Stevens and millions of unemployed, truly matter when staring down at the podium instead of making eye contact with the future.
2. Joe Biden Continues to Campaign for Romney/Ryan
A couple of days ago I posted on Joe Biden's unorthodox decision to slam the record of the Obama regime as a way of trying to inveigle voters into agreeing to four more years of the same.
Lest you think it was a fluke, or just another example of Joe Biden's propensity for letting stream of consciousness fill any pause in the conversation, I offer this evidence. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
3. Feeling Pumped After the Debate? Now Hit the Streets on Keep America Free Weekend
There's no denying that Mitt Romney took Barack Obama behind the woodshed last night and applied a good old beat down. Watching the gnashing of teeth and wringing of hands this morning by Lefties is somewhat humorous, but guess what, folks? Last night will mean nothing if conservatives don't volunteer and compete with the Left's ground game.
4. Joe Biden touts the fiscally progressive ideals of his Delaware homeland.
While I understand that it's absolutely fascinating to watch Joe Biden campaign on the unique message Let's have a trillion dollar tax hike! there's another piece of this puzzle that is, well, puzzling. It's Biden's comment at the end . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
Time to Fight William L. Gensert The "truth" can again be true -- it is time to fight. More
A Disengaged President Matthew Holzmann There has been a strange turn of events in the last few weeks as we have learned more about the political and personal isolation the president has created for himself. Wednesday's debate was dramatic evidence of his disengagement. More
Do We Want Mr. Nice Guy as President? Selwyn Duke Likeability can actually be a red flag. Why? Because projecting it is the specialty of the con man. He will tell you exactly what you want to hear; the good person tells you what you need to hear. More
Obama's Mask Slips Pamela Geller Obama is merely the pretty face for the über-left monster. Let's face it: Obama is merely a figurehead. A happy face for the anti-American, anti-individual, anti-capitalist revolution. More
A Wise and Frugal King Todd Keister The stark reality is that on November 6, Americans are electing a king to reign over a bankrupt country. More
Shut Up or Die, the Muslim Protesters Explained John T. Bennett No other group in American society benefits from the deference and kid-gloves treatment that this administration is extending to Muslim extremists. More
Building on a Kernel of Truth Michael Reagan While we are focused on the flash-bang pyrotechnics of the Libyan/North African debacles at the south end of the stage, the magician Mr. Putin will be working deftly to the north. More
Political Leaks Elise Cooper The leaks of the Obama administration are greater in magnitude and sensitivity than those of most previous administrations. More
Happy Anniversary, Mr. President October 5, 2012 While Wednesday was President Obama's wedding anniversary, it's the American people who received a wonderful gift. More
Judging Polls by the Company They Keep October 5, 2012 Why do so few people bother to respond to pollsters? Could it have something to do with national trust in the media? More
Does Obama want out? October 4, 2012 Is Barack Obama such a determined ideologue that he wants to win the presidency regardless? If so he certainly didn't convey that last night. More
Obama's Got The Blues October 4, 2012 The best part of Obama's first debate appearance was his dignified blue dot tie framed by a dapper gray suit. More
So, what does Obama do now? October 4, 2012 In the wake of his miserable debate performance last night, what does Obama do now? I mean, besides smoking a whole pack of cigarettes when he got back to his Denver hotel suite. More
The Obama Myth Will Not Survive the Debates October 4, 2012 After four years of hiding behind ads and speeches, fake polls and documentaries, and cheap slogans and divisive tirades, though, Obama had to come out of hiding for last night's debate. More
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"Frank," as he is referred to in Obama's memoir "Dreams From My Father," is mentioned multiple times in the print edition of the president's book, however, all references to "Frank" were purged from the volume's abridged audio version.
Of course, it would be instructive, if not entertaining, to imagine what the world would have been like had not Karl Marx, or Thomas Jefferson, or Immanuel Kant, or Martin Luther ever existed, or none of the other prominent thinkers and movers.
'the early information was enough to show that the attack was planned and the work of al Qaeda affiliates operating in Eastern Libya.' 'There was very good information on this in the first 24 hours...'
Had the Navy SEALs captured Osama bin Laden, the United States would have tried him in federal court, President Obama said in an interview published by Vanity Fair.
Recent news that the terrorist attack on the American consulate in Benghazi was led by a former Guantanamo detainee has underscored the dangerous profile of current detainees.
Jerry, "Moonbeam" Brown signed SB9, allowing for the possibility of parole for 309 murderers who were convicted as juveniles and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
These new non-noise locutions are the words of post-modernism and political correctness, and they no longer distort, mislead and generally obfuscate the truth and the quest for victimhood in the world.
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GOP: US Consulate received repeated threats, had requested more security
By Julian Pecquet - 10/02/12
Two House Republicans say they have been informed by whistleblowers that the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi was attacked and threatened 13 times before the incident last month that killed four Americans.
Reps. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) and Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) sent Secretary of State Hillary Clinton a letter on Tuesday that detailed the whistleblowers' allegations.
"Based on information provided to the Committee by individuals with direct knowledge of events in Libya, the attack that claimed the ambassador's life was the latest in a long line of attacks on Western diplomats and officials in Libya in the months leading up to September 11, 2012," Issa and Chaffetz wrote. "It was clearly never, as Administration officials once insisted, the result of a popular protest."
The congressmen said the consulate asked for more security to deal with the growing threat but was turned down by the administration.
Jihad interrupted: Texas Muslim arrested with fake military ID, weapons, access to chemical agents
TEXAS: SAUDI MUSLIM arrested with fake military ID, weapons, access to chemical agents Azeez Al-Ghazian, 29, a Saudi national from Fort Worth, TX, is in custody after authorities found counterfeit military identification documents and weapons in his wrecked truck behind Hurst shopping center, which prompted authorities to evacuate it.
A Fort Worth man was in custody Tuesday after authorities say counterfeit military identification documents were found in his wrecked vehicle behind a Hurst shopping center.
Two weapons and an air rifle also were found in the Chevrolet Silverado.
The discovery of the documents and weapons prompted authorities to evacuate the shopping center on Grapevine Highway for several hours Tuesday morning.
The U.S. government is about to add $450 million to its $16 trillion debt for the sake of Muslim Brotherhood-run Egypt. National Security Analyst Ryan Mauro explains what that aid will support. MORE...
Egyptian-American Mona Eltahawy, an outspoken commentator and journalist, publicly defaced one of the controversial posters now appearing in and around NYC's transit system, calling its message "hate speech." MORE...
The parade featured hate speech and dreams of the Islamic shehada flag over the White House. NY State Senator Tony Avella, a VIP marshall of the festivities, was so disgusted that he walked out of the event.
Hundreds of protesters marched yesterday in Tehran denouncing the government's policies which have led to severe deterioration in the Iranian economy. The West can take steps to support the Iranian people against their suppressive theocratic regime.
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Reviewing the various penal codes of Muslim-controlled countries, I stumbled across this from Pakistan! Now you understand the rioting sparked on 9-11-2012! This is what the Muslims want for America!
ACT III OF 1986 CRIMINAL LAW (AMENDMENT) ACT, 198
An Act further to amend the Pakistan Penal Code and the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 (Gazette of Pakistan, Extraordinary, part 1, 12th October 1986)
The following Act of Majlis-e-Shoora (Parliament) received the assent of the President on the 5th October, 1986 and is hereby published for general information:
Whereas it is expedient further to amend the Pakistan Penal Code (Act XLV of 1860) and the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 (Act V of 1893), for the purposes hereinafter appearing:
It is hereby enacted as follows:
1.
Short title and commencement
(1)
This Act may be called the Criminal Law (Amendment) Act 1986.
(2)
It shall come into force at once.
2.
Insertion of new section 295-C, Act XLV of 1860. In the Pakistan Penal Code (Act XLV of 1860), after section 295-B, the following new section shall be inserted, namely:
295-C.
Use of derogatory remarks, etc. in respect of the Holy Prophet. Whoever by words, either spoken or written, or by visible representation, or by any imputation, innuendo, or insinuation, directly or indirectly, defiles the sacred name of the Holy Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) shall be punished with death, or imprisonment for life, and shall also be liable to fine."
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Truth is stranger than fiction at one Virginia Chevy dealership, where a man purchased an SUV for $5,000 below cost and was later arrested for "stealing" the car. Read the unbelievable story HERE.
When someone reveals him or herself to you, believe them. A representative for the Ayatollah recently announced that all Iran needs is "24 hours and an excuse" to wipe Israel off the map. Learn more about the current state of affairs in Iran HERE.
5pm ET: The Glenn Beck Program: Erick Stakelbeck fills in for Glenn to take a look at Islamic extremism in the Middle East, how it is spreading, and TheBlaze TV's latest documentary, The Project.
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5 Reasons Romney Roasted Obama In Debate
Oct 04, 2012 02:40 pm 1. I'm not surprised Mitt Romney performed well (although he did better than I thought - more on that in a moment) with his proverbial back against the wall. This was a do-or-die moment for a guy that's been running for the presidency for five years, and saw his bid for the White House slipping [...]
Oct 04, 2012 02:31 pm Even more delightful than the Wednesday night whoopin Mitt Romney put on Barack Obama was the pain expressed by left-wing media and other pundits clearly in shock at what was universally looked upon as the president's disastrous performance. National Journal Editor-in-Chief Ron Fournier passed off the destruction of the Golden Boy as "the curse of [...]
Video: Chris Matthews Loses It After Obama's Poor Debate Performance
Oct 04, 2012 02:27 pm
Guess someone didn't have a tingling feeling up his leg tonight!!! Related posts: Sarah Palin To Chris Christie: Sometimes When Your Guy Loses You Get Your Panties In A Wad Establishment Republicans have circled the wagons against Newt Gingrich and... Chris Matthews: I Forgot Obama Was Black Tonight The tingle appears to be back for [...]
Oct 04, 2012 02:18 pm The conventional wisdom seems to be that, by selecting the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee - a veteran of more than 35 years as a Washington insider - as his vice-presidential running mate, Sen. Barack Obama has more than adequately compensated for his own total lack of foreign policy and national security experience. [...]
Video: Obama "Smirks" As Romney Destroys Him With The Facts
Oct 04, 2012 02:14 pm
What do you make of this? Me, I see it as a sign of arrogance. Related posts: Obama Smirks, Again Suggests Romney Wouldn't Have Killed Bin Laden At a press conference with the prime minister of Japan... Radio Host Destroys Romney Mouthpiece Mitt Romney was scheduled to be in studio with Ray...
Oct 04, 2012 01:53 pm In the first 2012 presidential debate, President Obama did his best impression of the scarecrow from The Wizard of Oz. Obama's campaign is built upon setting up straw men that stand in for perceived policies of the 'evil Republicans'. His stump speeches are filled with take-downs of these issues that are not really issues at [...]
The Debate: Obama's Affirmative-action Performance
Oct 04, 2012 01:44 pm Hey, just blame it on Bush. The consensus on the presidential debate last night is that Barack Obama could resurrect the Choom Gang and star in a remake of Dazed and Confused. Conservative pundits are all aflutter with praise and liberals are all on Twitter with groans. Andrew Sullivan wrote, "Obama looked tired, even bored; [...]
Why The "Swing State" Polls Showing Obama In The Lead Are Fraudulent
Oct 04, 2012 01:40 pm The 2010 election was an unmitigated disaster for the Democrats. Very few Americans alive today can remember the last time the Democrats had suffered such a humiliating defeat. The worst part of the 2010 election for Barack Obama is that, no matter how the Democrat-cheerleading media tries to spin it, the conditions that brought the [...]
Video: Romney Schools Visibly Uncomfortable Obama On The Deficit
Oct 04, 2012 01:10 pm
In this clip from last night's debate, the two candidates talk about deficit reduction...and one of then gets his backside handed to him! Related posts: Obama Challenged Over Promise To Cut The Deficit In Half During an interview with WAGA (Fox Atlanta) President Obama makes... Obama Campaigning In '04: Deficit Is "An Enormous Problem" Obama [...]
Video: Rubio: "The President Was Exposed" In Debate
Oct 04, 2012 01:04 pm Sean Hannity interviews Marco Rubio regarding Mitt Romney's debate performance. 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... Issa: We Will Make Sure The Terry Family Gets Their Answers Congressman Darrell Issa appeared on Sean Hannity's show the other...
Video: New Ad "New Normal" Blasts Obama's 4 Year Disaster
Oct 04, 2012 01:01 pm
From "Restore Our Future"... Related posts: State Of The Union: Mammoth Government Is The New Normal In his 2011 State of the Union Address, Barack Obama... Environmentalists' New Plan: Abolish Normal Cars By 2017 by Robert Werner ACT! for America recently sent out a...
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Video: Romney To Obama: You Don't Just Pick Winners And Losers You Pick The Losers
Oct 04, 2012 12:53 pm
Mitt Romney pounded Obama last night on his reckless spending on green energy. "You don't just pick winners and losers, you pick losers." One highlight from last night's debate... Related posts: Santorum Campaign Suggests Romney Will Pick Paul As VP After tonight's debate, in which Ron Paul and Mitt Romney... Why Romney Won't Pick Condoleezza Rice [...]
AARP Objects To Obama Invoking Group's Support During Debate
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Video: "Voices Without A Vote": A Powerful Message
Oct 04, 2012 12:44 pm
It is great to see this group of teenagers talk about wanting to vote for a candidate who would stand for America and her values. I wish more actual voters cared about what these kids care about! Related posts: Powerful Video Message To Obama ... Continue to Post... An Important Message For Christians Will you [...]
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Video: Bob Woodward Exposes Obama True Cuts To Medicare
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Oct 04, 2012 12:36 pm NEW YORK (OfficialWire) - Jim Lehrer may be regretting his decision to come out of semi-retirement and moderate his 12th presidential debate. The veteran PBS anchor drew caustic social media reviews for his performance on Wednesday, with critics saying he failed to keep control of the campaign's first direct exchange between President Barack Obama and [...]
A more accurate label than commander-in-chief, if you ask me... Related posts: RNC Chairman Calls Harry Reid A "Dirty Liar" RNC Chairman Reince Priebus called Harry Reid a "dirty liar"... Gingrich Calls Romney A Liar ... Continue to Post...
Video: Pulling The Curtain Back On Barack Obama's "Other Race Speech"
Oct 04, 2012 12:21 pm
A video that the mainstream media claimed had been around since 2007 was revealed on Tuesday. It was from a June 2007 speech that Obama gave before a contingent of black pastors, his own pastor (Jeremiah Wright) being in the audience. The same pastor he disavowed less than a year later. Except the video, as [...]
Video: New Navy SEAL Ad Ravages Obama: 'Politics Before Patriotism?'
Oct 04, 2012 12:19 pm
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Oct 04, 2012 11:41 am Trayvon Martin shooter George Zimmerman is suing NBC over the network's botched editing of his 911 tape, Page Six can exclusively reveal. We hear Zimmerman's attorneys are about to file a complaint against NBC and its top executives, naming news president Steve Capus and correspondent Ron Allen, who was the reporter on the scene for [...]
Fed Easing Has Little Impact So Far: Out Of Bullets?
Oct 04, 2012 11:39 am The Federal Reserve's latest easing program may be nicknamed "QE Infinity" on Wall Street, but it's having a very limited effect on the markets and economy so far. Stocks have been flat to slightly lower since the central bank announced the third round of its quantitative easing program - QE3 - while economists remain pessimistic [...]
Oct 04, 2012 11:33 am As I write this column, I'm waiting impatiently for the first debate between Mitt Romney and President Obama. More than 50 million Americans were expected to watch the debate in Denver on Wednesday night, and you have probably seen it by the time you read this. I don't know how it turned out, though [...]
Romney: Election Going To Be 'Close-Fought Battle'
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Oct 04, 2012 11:23 am WASHINGTON (OfficialWire) - Challenger Mitt Romney used Wednesday's debate to put President Barack Obama on the defensive on health care, jobs and other issues. The president's reluctance to fire back harshly gave new hope to Republican partisans. Romney managed to highlight his top campaign themes - calling for lower tax rates, less regulation, the repeal [...]
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Oct 04, 2012 11:00 am Bloodshed continues in Nigeria as a terrorist group continues to wage war on Christians in the northern part of the country. According to Open Doors USA spokesman Jerry Dykstra, members of the terrorist organization Boko Haram raided Federal Polytechnic College in the city of Mubi, a remote area of northeastern Nigeria. "[They] allegedly lined up [...]
Video: Bishop E.W. Jackson's Message To Black Christians
Oct 04, 2012 10:52 am
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Obama, Romney Spar Over Taxes, Jobs Plans At First Presidential Debate
Oct 03, 2012 11:09 pm Photo credit: Cain and Todd Benson (Creative Commons) Mitt Romney used his first face-off with President Obama on Wednesday night to try to chip away at the caricature that Democrats have been drawing of him the past two years, arguing that contrary to the president's claims he does not want a $5 trillion tax cut [...]
Halfway through, they should have stopped the fight.
Gov. Mitt Romney eviscerated a staggering and bewildered President Barack Obama tonight in one of the most lopsided presidential debates in American history. Throughout the debate, which focused on domestic policy, Obama looked shaken, rarely looking at the camera, reciting old talking points and filibustering as Romney gave a master class at the University of Denver.
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Romney Wins Round One
Governor Mitt Romney emerged from the first presidential debate as the clear winner. There were a lot of good moments in last night's debate, but the best part was watching the heads of liberal commentators explode. The poster boy of this phenomenon was "MSDNC's" Chris Matthews.
You may recall that Barack Obama once gave Chris Matthews a "thrill up my leg." Matthews also confessed that it was his job to make sure Obama succeeded. Last night the thrill retreated down his leg as Matthews gave "O's" performance a 0. You can watch his on-air meltdown here. Andrew Sullivan of the left-wing Daily Beast wrote, "This was a disaster" for Obama.
After a good night's rest, I was curious to see how the liberal media would spin the debate this morning. There was no change. Every liberal commentator on TV this morning was dumbfounded. Before last night they thought the election was over. Clearly it is not. They thought the cool Obama would easily beat the stiff Romney. He did not.
The most difficult aspect of last night's debate to explain is the body language. Obama constantly refused to look at Mitt Romney, and instead spent much of the time looking at his notes. One commentator asked, "What was he doing? Preparing for the next debate?" A columnist for the Washington Times put it well when he wrote:
"Bewildered and lost without his teleprompter, President Obama flailed all around the debate stage last night. He was stuttering, nervous and petulant. It was like he had been called in front of the principal after goofing around for four years and blowing off all his homework."
Romney, in contrast, was confident, prepared, in command of his facts, and he made several points each time he was given those precious few moments to speak to the American people. He wasted no opportunities to make his case that Obama has failed and that we can do better.
On the substance, there were several good exchanges with Governor Romney coming out on top in virtually every one. Here are a few examples:
Despite the weak economy and high energy prices, Obama couldn't stop himself from attacking American industry. He specifically went after $4 billion in tax deductions claimed by the oil industry. Romney pounced:
"First of all, the Department of Energy has said the tax break for oil companies is $2.8 billion a year. And it's actually an accounting treatment, as you know, that's been in place for a hundred years. ... And in one year, you provided $90 billion in breaks to the green-energy world. ... that's about 50 years' worth of what oil and gas receives. ... 50 years' worth of breaks -- into solar and wind -- to Solyndra and Fisker and Tesla and Ener1. I had a friend who said you don't just pick the winners and losers, you pick the losers. So this is not the kind of policy you want to have if you want to get America energy secure."
Obama also trotted out another of left's tired old lies when he said he wanted to end tax breaks for companies shipping jobs overseas. Romney replied: "Look, I've been in business for 25 years. I have no idea what you're talking about. I maybe need to get a new accountant. But the idea that you get a break for shipping jobs overseas is simply not the case." Watch it here.
When it came to job creation, Obama's big idea was to hire 100,000 teachers. The federal government does not hire teachers! Local school districts do that -- when and if their budgets (the taxpayers) can afford it. In contrast, Governor Romney emphasized his energy plan, which would allow private industries to create millions of new jobs.
Toward the end of the debate, the subject shifted to the role of government, and Governor Romney hit a home run. He said, "The role of government is to promote and protect the principles" found in the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. He continued:
"In that line that says, 'We are endowed by our Creator with our rights,' I believe we must maintain our commitment to religious tolerance and freedom in this country. That statement also says that we are endowed by our Creator with the right to pursue happiness as we choose. ...
"We're a nation that believes that we are all children of the same God... And we look for discovery and innovation, all these things desired out of the American heart to provide the pursuit of happiness for our citizens. But we also believe in maintaining for individuals the right to pursue their dreams and not to have the government substitute itself for the rights of free individuals." Watch their exchange here.
Going into last night's debate, the polls overwhelmingly predicted Obama would win. One national media poll released Monday found that 55% of likely voters believed Barack Obama would win the debate, compared to just 31% predicting Governor Romney would win. CNN did a snap poll of 430 adults who watched the debate and by a margin of 67% to 25%, they said Governor Romney had won. CBS polled 500 undecided voters after the debate and by a more than 2-to-1 margin, (46% to 22%) they also declared Mitt Romney the winner.
Thursday Column
Who Inherited What from Whom?
Countering Obama's Blame-Shifting Baloney
By Mark Alexander · October 4, 2012
"A few short weeks will determine the political fate of America for the present generation, and probably produce no small influence on the happiness of society through a long succession of ages to come." --George Washington (1788)
The first of the 2012 Presidential Debates is over. More than 60 million viewers watched as the undisputed champion of this round, Mitt Romney, towered like the brilliant, unyielding professor over a petulant, adolescent "community organizer."
The focus of the debate was domestic policy -- the economy, health care and the role of government. Chief among these topics was the economy, according to the conventional political wisdom that Americans vote first for their economic future and for the candidate who they believe will provide the greatest sense of individual economic security and prosperity.
The caveat here is the qualifier "who they believe," and that perception will be shaped by competing visions built on both truth and leftist deception. The vision that prevails will be determined by the ability of voters to distinguish the difference. Unfortunately, the election of Obama in 2008 provided ample evidence that the American electorate's ability has diminished in recent years, primarily because the spirit of Liberty has been eroded by decades of classist propaganda promulgated by the the Left.
Obama's re-election prospects depend entirely on his ability to deceive a majority of Americans with the same old blame-shifting blather that he used to dupe them in 2008: "It's Bush's fault." Obama can't effectively focus his campaign on the textbook pillars of socialist propaganda, race and economic disparity, if he has to spend airtime defending his ruinous economic policies.
Washington, D.C. (October 4, 2012) -- The Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) responded today to the first presidential debate of 2012. RJC Executive Director Matt Brooks said:
"Mitt Romney took control of the first debate and won it handily on both substance and style.
"Last night Americans saw the real Mitt Romney - not the caricature of the attack ads and biased media reports. They saw Romney in command of the facts, secure in his principles, and demonstrating the leadership and competence that have been missing in the White House for nearly four years.
"Romney made his case effectively on taxes, jobs, protecting the middle class, and health care. But he also gave voice to the enduring values of America, showed how far we have strayed from them under the Obama administration, and pledged to turn America back onto the path of economic growth and opportunity for all."
During last night's debate between President Obama and former Governor Mitt Romney, Heritage's domestic policy experts were live-blogging their analysis of the ideas discussed. Below are some of the highlights of our experts' reactions to the major points made.
We will be discussing the debate in a live Twitter chat with Heritage experts today at 10 a.m. ET. Follow @Heritage and join us by searching and using the hashtag #DebateChat2012.
Competing Tax Plans
Most of the time on taxes was spent on Romney's tax plan. Romney's plan, like most tax reform plans, would lower tax rates and make other changes to the tax code to encourage growth. The economy will not recover fully until we have tax reform.
Obama falsely claimed businesses can take a deduction for moving jobs overseas. No such deduction exists.
- Curtis Dubay
Education Spending as a Broad Answer on Jobs and Other Issues
Further increasing federal education spending will fail to improve academic outcomes. Policymakers need to trim federal spending-not increase it-and empower state education leaders with control over their share of education funding. And there is plenty of room to cut spending.
Since the 1970s, federal per-pupil expenditures have more than doubled (after adjusting for inflation). Those increases haven't all gone to the classroom or toward teacher salaries. Much of that money has gone toward expanding bureaucracy and non-teaching administrative positions in our nation's public schools.
A better prescription for improving educational outcomes is empowering states with control of education dollars and decision-making, giving them the ability to craft policies that allow parents to direct their children's education. Here's Heritage's plan for how to do just that.
- Lindsey Burke
The Contrast on Medicare
Obama has already made significant changes to Medicare through his health care reform law. He depends on failed government price controls to cut Medicare by more than $716 billion over the next 10 years, not to help shore up Medicare for future generations, but instead to help pay for Obamacare. Moreover, he depends on a board of 15 unelected and unaccountable bureaucrats to enforce more cuts. [To read more, see Obamacare Ends Medicare As We Know It]
Similar to the Heritage plan, Romney's plan restructures the Medicare program for future generations. His proposal, called premium support, would provide a government contribution toward the cost of a private plan or traditional Medicare. It also guarantees that seniors would have access to plans that cover the government contribution while ensuring plans meet the same level of Medicare benefits.
Premium support is not a "voucher" any more than is current law. It just says government will pick up a big part of the tab for your health insurance, and if you want to spend more, then you pay the difference. There's nothing exceptional about this. It is exactly what happens today under Medicare Advantage.
- Alyene Senger and J.D. Foster
Obamacare Raises Taxes on the Poor and Middle Class
Obama proclaimed that he reduced taxes for the middle class. What he failed to mention is that he also increased taxes on the middle class. Let's not forget that the President's health care law will raise taxes on the middle class and the poor in four years as reported by the Congressional Budget Office. For instance, a family of four making about $24,600 per year, the projected federal poverty level in 2016, could be subject to Obamacare's controversial individual mandate tax. This is only one of the 18 taxes and penalties imposed by Obamacare, some of which will hit Americans as early as January 2013.
- Romina Boccia
The Role of Government and the Ladder of Opportunity
When asked about the role of the government, Obama brought up his favorite metaphor, "the ladder of opportunity." And as usual, he incorrectly suggested that it's government spending that creates these ladders of opportunity.
In reality, while government has an important role to play in upholding the rule of law, ensuring access to education, and providing a safety net, it cannot compete with the free market when it comes to creating opportunities. That's why economic freedom-and not government spending-is one of the pillars of our American Dream.
Given the President's statist and egalitarian impulses, perhaps the "escalator of results" might be a more fitting analogy next time: Everybody just hops on and we all get to the same place with little effort on our behalf.
- David Azerrad
What We Didn't Hear Last Night
What wasn't said at tonight's debate spoke volumes. In an hour and a half focused largely on the economy, not a single mention was made about the importance that marriage plays in combating poverty. Not a single mention of how federal welfare programs can function as poverty traps, especially as the Obama Administration has gutted the work requirements that made welfare reform a success. As the debate turned to focus explicitly on health care reform and the role of government more generally, not a single mention of how the federal government under Obamacare, rather than protecting religious liberty, is actively coercing citizens to violate their consciences. The nuts and bolts of taxation, regulation, Medicare, Social Security, and other domestic policies are important, but so too are the ways that these and other government actions shape culture and interact with civil society. At the end of the day, culture and the institutions of civil society are what make America great. Our government shouldn't be weakening them.
- Ryan Anderson
For more analysis of the debate, video, a slideshow of photos, and a word cloud of Obama's and Romney's answers, visit our Debate 2012 page.
Posted by Daniel Greenfield @ the Sultan Knish blog
The debate, like the electoral college, is an outmoded institution dating back to another time when candidates for political office were capable of expressing ideas that could not be compressed into a misleading five word slogan.
The modern political debate is not a test of ideas, but of candidates. HD cameras and screens make it possible for us to see every wince and grimace, and to measure how slowly a candidate responds. The debate is not won by intelligence, but by a combination of populist empathy and low zingers. Those zingers are usually all we remember from past debates because the age of the public and politician that could participate in the marathon Lincoln Douglas debates is long over and everyone knows it.
The debates are rarely about a public interested in weighing and measuring ideas, but a reality show where the candidate who has one bad moment becomes fodder for the late night jokes of the next day. And if the candidates and the public are sub-par, the moderators are even worse appearing only to promote one candidate and one agenda.
I have been in the aviation maintenance industry since 1965. I have been repairing and overhauling airline passenger seats since 1994. They are all locked into the floor seat track in the same way.
We recently were told on the news that American Airlines had six airliners where passenger seats were loose in the floor seat tracks. We were told that the safety issue was caused by "mechanic negligence" in not installing the required locking "clamps" so the seats would not move forward or backward in the seat tracks. These seats were NOT accidentally "loose" - they were left loose on purpose!
American Airlines is in bankruptcy. Further, as a result of the bankruptcy, the company is in the process of renegotiating UNION contracts, especially with their mechanics. UNION airline mechanics have a history of sabotaging airline aircraft during contract negotiations to put pressure on management to accede to the UNION demands. In fact, when United's mechanics were on strike many years ago United had to hire ARMED GUARDS to guard parked airliners at Los Angeles to prevent threatened mechanic sabotage!
While seats installed in airline aircraft have differences in construction, they are all locked into the seat track the same way! Here is an example:
FROM THE AIRCRAFT MAINTENANCE MANUAL:
(4) Ensure the front leg locking plunger and rear antirattle nut are fully retracted.
(5) Position seat leg attachment studs in seat track openings ensuring that seat assembly is positioned
squarely across track axis.
(6) Slide seat forward or aft to align inboard front locking plunger with marker strip attached to floor
track while keeping seat assembly straight over tracks.
(7) Using phillips screwdriver or 3/8-inch wrench tighten plunger until seated securely in track.
(8) Tighten antirattle nut on rear leg stud.
If you refer to the diagram below directly from the aircraft maintenance manual you can see the seat track with the round openings for the hold-down studs, and the locking fitting on the rear leg. The Maintenance Manual procedure for installing and locking the seats is very clear. Further, airlines utilize JOB CARDS for the procedure, which includes signature blocks for both the installing mechanic AND the accepting inspector, both UNION!
The news reports that the "loose" seats was merely "mechanic negligence" is CRAP! It happened on SIX different aircraft, and NOT by the same mechanic!
BOTTOM LINE: DON'T FLY ON AMERICAN AIRLINES, OR ANY OTHER AIRLINE, WHILE THEY ARE IN BANKRUPTCY!!!
Suggestion: NEVER book on a bankrupt airline! If you can, fly SOUTHWEST! They have been profitable since day-one, and I know for a personal fact they do the maintenance!
Always remember, the airline industry is liability-driven! Would you book on an air carrier that had a crash once a month even if they had the lowest fare? The FAA refuses to advertise which air carriers have the worst maintenance record! Also, remember that US air carriers must compete with each other while most foreign carriers, such as Air France, British Airways, Lufthansa, and the like are subsidized by their governments due to the tourist dollars they bring in! Subsidized air carriers do the maintenance because cost is not a factor!
If you really want to research which US air carriers are the least maintenance violated go to
The first element that gets cut when airlines are in financial trouble is MAINTENANCE! I represented a family as their expert witness involved in the Alaska Airlines disaster coming out of Puerta Vallarta years ago when the stabilizer jackscrew jammed due to maintenance FRAUD! I have been overhauling these jackscrews for the military for nearly 20 years where the maintenance was done by the "book". These jackscrews were the ONLY ones flying with no inspection or maintenance problems. Alaska cheated on the maintenance so as not to ground the aircraft, and that caused the disaster, combined with morons in the cockpit who kept flying the broken aircraft to get it back into the US! They passed up at least FIVE airports where they could have landed safely. Instead they killed more than 100 people!
All airlines are NOT "equal" as the FAA would have you believe!
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SHOCK UNCOVERED: Obama IN HIS OWN WORDS saying His Health Care Plan will ELIMINATE private insurance
SHOCK UNCOVERED: Obama IN HIS OWN WORDS admitting his Health Care Plan will ELIMINATE private insurance
The 2010 election was an unmitigated disaster for the Democrats. Very few Americans alive today can remember the last time the Democrats had suffered such a humiliating defeat. The worst part of the 2010 election for Barack Obama is that, no matter how the Democrat cheer leading media tries to spin it, the conditions that brought the hammer down on the Democrats two years ago are very much with us today.
Those who argue that we are in appreciable better economic condition today than we were two years ago have a formidable task with not much chance of succeeding.
The National Journal (NJ) has done its part to make believe Barack Obama is leading Mitt Romney. Without regard for current realities they nonetheless pressed on but could not muster more than a 47/47 tie between the two. N J used 2008 as its projected turnout model as if 2010 never happened and we have all been in a state of suspended animation since November 2008. For liberals this is a comforting day dream but it has little connection to reality.
As per Rasmussen, in 2010 Republicans held a slim 1.3 point Party registration edge (not Party Identification - but actual Party registration). That election brought a historic beating for Democrats at every level from the Senate down to state assemblies. Rasmussen's current numbers show a 4.3 point registration edge for Republicans; more than THREE TIMES larger than their 2010 edge.
The number identifiers have changed but in the 2080 page monster that is Obamacare has a host of evil features in it. Here are some of the worst one:
Pg 30, Sec 123 : there will be a government committee that decides what treatments you are allowed and what your overall benefits are = DEATH PANEL.
Pg 29, lines 4-16 mandates the rationing of health care Canada style = DEATH PANEL.
Pg 42 a Health Choices Commissioner will determine your health benefits. You will have no choice =DEATH PANEL.
PG 50, section 152 free, taxpayer-paid health care will be given to the 30 million non-citizens even illegal aliens.
Pg 59, lines 21-24 gives government direct access to your banks accounts to compel you to pay what they think you should pay without your previous consent.
You've heard about Rev. Jeremiah Wright's "Down Low Club," part of a documented underground subculture in which black men who engage in homosexual activity were helped to marry to maintain respectability in public.
Here's how Barack Obama kept his respectability -- it's not the story he told at last night's debate when he said it was his wedding anniversary ...
Given the scorn aimed by the administration and the establishment media - and even establishment Republicans - at anyone who questions Barack Obama's nativity story, you might think birtherism is declining faster than the value of your 401K.
Not true.
The elites may have succeeded in shaming large numbers of Americans into not voicing their doubts, but those silenced Americans will be taking their doubts into the voting booth.
Secret negotiations between a representative of the Obama administration and a representative of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ... yesterday ... deal to make Obama look good before the election ... save Tehran regime from Romney.
Look what Obama's giving Ahmadinejad for helping his campaign ...
Americans in the private sector who have achieved financial success did so due to "blind luck" and a "generation of women doing someone else's laundry."
So said Barack Obama in a newly unearthed videotape ...
A judge has ordered custody of four children in a family be transferred to the state because the family's homeschooling practices fail to meet the government's demand for "integration."
Romney Won ... Big By Rich Galen We were reminded why the President needs a TelePrompTer. Obama seemed to be unfocused in many of his answers - he appeared, in fact, to be overwhelmed by Romney's command of the facts and the specifics of what he wants to do.
The Real Barack Obama By Ben Shapiro Barack Obama remains well liked because Americans want to like him. They're willfully blinding themselves to the radical Obama. And that's just the way he likes it.
In defense of President Obama, there is a more significant reason he did so badly in the debate than his own relative ineptitude and dyspepsia. Liberalism, his ideology, is economically indefensible. It doesn't work. He had, in reality, no response when confronted by Romney's positions. When it comes to liberalism, there's no there there.
The first 2012 presidential debate won't be remembered for any bombastic lines in the vein of Ronald Reagan or Lloyd Bentsen, or the perspiration visual of Richard Nixon. But it had even liberal pundits complaining about the performance of the president.
The Venezuelan election will have ramifications throughout Latin America and beyond. If Hugo Chávez is declared the winner, it will be a crushing blow to the forces of democracy. (You can read this article in Spanish here.)
Gov. Mitt Romney destroyed President Barack Obama in this first debate. The president should have skipped the trip to Hoover Dam and buckled down on his debate prep. Obama was overmatched, badly, all night. And while his energy and demeanor flagged, Romney's seemed to gather up and gain strength.
Romney wins the first debate so decisively, even liberals can't deny it.
How decisively did Mitt Romney win Wednesday night's debate? All you had to do was watch the most pro-Obama network to see it. "I personally do not know who won this debate," MSNBC's Rachel Maddow said as soon as the debate ended. She was obviously the only one who didn't know.
When Maddow brought on her colleague Ed Schultz, he moaned that President Obama "created a problem for himself tonight on Social Security. He agreed with Mitt Romney.... I thought he was off his game." Nor did the president's performance send a thrill up the leg of Chris Matthews. "I don't know what he was doing out there," Matthews complained. "He had his head down. He was enduring the debate rather than fighting it."
If ever there were a night when conservatives wanted to watch MSNBC, this was it -- an all-you-can-eat buffet of schadenfreude, as one after another of the liberal network's personalities tried to come to grips with what was perhaps the most one-sided presidential debate since JFK beat a shifty-looking Richard Nixon in 1960.
You've likely heard that reforming Medicare would cost seniors $6,400 out of pocket. President Obama mentioned this claim last night during the first presidential debate at the University of Denver in Colorado (see full debate analysis here). This charge is based on a Congressional Budget Office (CBO) analysis relating to an outdated version of Ryan's budget proposal.
This figure is meaningless and misleading for two reasons. Not only has Ryan's proposal changed significantly since then, but the CBO has also admitted that its estimates would be limited-because it cannot account for the effects of competition on prices.
As Heritage's Rea Hederman reports, "CBO director Douglas Elmendorf has publicly acknowledged that his agency does not have the methodological tools to accurately model Medicare premium-support plans and the impact of market competition."
The most recent academic analysis indicates that introducing premium support into Medicare could save 9 percent in annual costs. In addition to reducing Medicare spending across the board, the more important effect would be the competition between plans-giving people options for their coverage plans and saving individuals money.
Any claim, in the media or elsewhere, that uses the CBO evaluation of the 2011 Ryan plan is fundamentally flawed and erroneous. Furthermore, CBO's estimates are fundamentally flawed because the agency is unable to model market competition, the driver of virtually every other sector of the American economy. Medicare premium support would save money, and competition would ensure even greater savings for beneficiaries.
85 Million ENROLLED IN MEDICAID BY 2020Obamacare is pushing America closer to government-run health care. Learn More >>
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Update regarding Florida Family Association's billboard targeting CAIR officials teaching students in Tampa public schools.
Florida Family Association developed a billboard campaign to counter CAIR (Council on American Islamic Relations) officials who have been allowed to address students in Tampa public schools. The history on this issue is posted below.
The billboard has been up for thirty days and will hopefully remain up for several more weeks.
The media has totally ignored the billboard most likely because they don't want people to go to Welcometotampafl.org where they would learn about the Islamization taking place in the City of Tampa. However, as stated below in the history of this issue, 104,000 people drive by the billboard every day including teachers and students who are going to and from Steinbrenner High School.
Florida Family Association developed the billboard campaign after the Hillsborough County School Board ignored the public outcry of thousands of citizens for months regarding CAIR Executive Director Hassan Shibly teaching hundreds of students during an all day event at Steinbrenner High School on November 29, 2011.
November 29, 2011 was not the first time CAIR indoctrinated public school students regarding Sharia law and Islam.
The teacher wrote in her email invitation to CAIR Tampa "My name is Kelly Miliziano, and I am a World History teacher at Steinbrenner High School. Every year I invite a representative from CAIR to speak to our AP World History Students. For the past 2 years, Ramzy Kilic, spent the day at our school presenting to students, and answering questions....." Florida Family Association obtained this email in the public records request that provided the documentation needed to first break this story.
The school district claims they have no documents to provide regarding the prior years that Kelly Miliziano's email indicates CAIR officials addressed students. Additionally, the school district claims there are no documents available for production regarding any other religious speakers at that school during the prior two plus years.
Kelly Miliziano's email listed the following topics that she wanted Hassan Shibly to address:
The mission of CAIR
Basic beliefs, practices, history of....
Confronting stereotypes and misconceptions (a favorite of students)
Sharia
Why does Islam look differently around the world?
Human Rights and Islam
Women and Islam in different countries
Any other topic you think students should know about.
It is difficult to comprehend that CAIR officials taught these topics to students without causing concern to Hillsborough County School District officials.
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 , then 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.
Billboard campaign history
Billboard targeting CAIR in Tampa schools posted to sign on September 5, 2012. Billboard campaign with web site counters their propaganda.
Six of seven Hillsborough County School Board Members made it clear during several meetings earlier this year that they will allow Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR Tampa) officials to inform students about their abridged version of Sharia law and Islamic "human rights."
The Florida Family Association billboard campaign will counter that propaganda. Regardless of whether another CAIR official addresses public school students again or not Florida Family Association's web site Welcometotampafl.org posted on the billboard will reach far more people with the unabridged facts regarding Islam and Sharia law. One hundred four thousand (104,000) cars will see this billboard every weekday.
Florida Family Association sent out an email alert on August 21, 2012 which announced: 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. To read the full history click here.
Clear Channel Outdoor, Inc. posted the billboard on the morning of September 5, 2012 on Dale Mabry Highway, .4 miles south of West Lutz Lake Fern Road. This location was chosen because:
Steinbrenner High School, where CAIR officials addressed students over 3 school years, is located approximately 4.5 miles west of Dale Mabry Highway at 5575 West Lutz Lake Fern Road, Lutz, FL.
There are no major billboards located on West Lutz Lake Fern Road between the school and Dale Mabry Highway.
Other reasons specified in the August 21, 2012 email posted below.
The portion of the Clear Channel Outdoor, Inc. proposal which provides the demographics for this billboard is posted below.
Here is the final version of the billboard.
The Hillsborough County School Board in Tampa Florida appears to be the only school district in Florida and perhaps the nation which will knowingly allow 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, 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.
Thanks to the generosity of many supporters approximately $6,820 has been donated toward the cost of the billboard campaign which includes $4,072 for the billboard and $3,000 for the reward. Click here to see contract with Clear Channel Outdoor, Inc.
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.
Florida Family Association is planning more campaigns like this one. If the reward is not collected we will post rewards for other situations regarding Islamization in America.
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.
Email:ffa@floridafamily.orgFlorida Family Association, Inc.P.O. Box 46547, Tampa, FL 33646-0105Telephone 813-264-5888
Not Just An Oops
Was Ambassador Stevens' Death A Hit? By Erik Rush CanadaFreePress.com It certainly is a challenging time for President Barack Obama. He is in a desperate fight to hold his ill-gotten office against a capable opponent, and there is nothing whatsoever in his record to which he can point as redeeming. Some of his criminal activities are coming to light outside the sphere of his direct influence in the form of a recent exposé on the Fast and Furious scandal aired by the Spanish-language television network Univision.
Yes, it's controversial, but it could also set you on the path to conquer the weight and belly fat issues that will be caused by the foods you will eat over the holidays. Listen to what Isabel Del Los Rios says and pay particular attention to the 4 foods she says you should never eat. Watch this video now.
Obama Paints Whites As Uncaring
Obama: White People Not Overtly Racist: It's "Passive Indifference" America's Conservative News When it rains, it pours. Another Obama speech, dripping with implications of racism, has surfaced in which Obama affirms that George Bush, Karl Rove and white people in general aren't overtly racist but are simply guilty of "passive indifference."
There is a growing and erroneous belief these days that the Anti-Christ will be a Muslim. How does one go about providing a valid counter argument to this growing belief while examining the pivotal role that Islam will play as a driving force in the end times? A newly released 5-Volume Special Report, The Final Crusade, examines the history of Islam and authoritatively answers this nagging question. Read more and prepare to be shocked.
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Oh, By The Way, Turkey And Syria Are Teetering On The Brink Of War By John Hayward HumanEvents.com On Wednesday, Bashar Assad's forces got a little carried away trying to suppress the uprising against his regime, and sent a volley of artillery shells flying into Turkey. "The shells exploded after being fired into Akcakale from Tall al-Abyad in Syria, where forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad are trying to put down an 18-month-old insurgency," reports the BBC. "The dead are said to include a woman and her three children. Nine other people were wounded."
Is Obama Is Manufacturing A Crisis? Are You Prepared?
Are you prepared to rely on the largess of the Obama Regime for your basic needs? It's time to face reality and arm yourself with the vital information you need to survive any crisis. Don't put it off any longer. Watch this short video.
Sticks And Stones--Buck Up!
Left Wants Multiculturalism to Trump Free Speech By Victor Davis Hanson TownHall.com The American Left used to champion free expression. We were lectured--correctly--that the price of being repulsed by occasional crude talk and art was worth paying. Only that way could Americans ensure our daily right to criticize those with greater power and influence whom we found wrong and objectionable.
This first of the three scheduled presidential debates focused on domestic policy. Heritage's David Azerad commented on the candidates' ideas about the role of government:
When asked about the role of the government, Obama brought up his favorite metaphor, "the ladder of opportunity." And as usual, he incorrectly suggested that it's government spending that creates these ladders of opportunity... Given the President's statist and egalitarian impulses, perhaps the "escalator of results" might be a more fitting analogy next time: Everybody just hops on and we all get to the same place with little effort on our behalf.
Click here to read our other experts' analysis of the debate.
Heritage Foundation policy experts have been busy analyzing last night's presidential candidates' debate and exposing liberal myths.
The President argued, for instance, that "over the last 30 months we've seen 5 million jobs created." Heritage's Lachlan Markay clarifies this claim:
While [The President's statement] is true, the president's choice of the "30 months" time frame was deliberately chosen so that he could tout the largest number of jobs created. If measured from February 2009, the month Obama took office, the American economy has only created about 316,000 jobs.
These word clouds illustrate the top 50 words that were used by both candidates during the debate. The bigger the word appears on the cloud, the more often it was used by each candidate.
During a meeting of the Heritage Legacy Society last week in Washington, DC, attendees previewed a new ten-minute video profiling three Legacy Society members. Members of the Heritage Legacy Society ensure Heritage will be able protect and defend the American values you cherish for future generations. Watch the video here or find out how you can leave your own legacy of freedom.
Eight people were arrested in Texas and charged with attempts to smuggle cutting-edge microelectronics to Russia. These sophisticated electronics can be used to make weapons or as radar surveillance.
"The European Union is poised to ban imports of Iranian gas as part of a set of new measures to ratchet up pressure on the Islamic Republic over its nuclear programme," Reuters reports.
Gotta love those Taiwanese news folks for rendering the Romney-Obama debate in animated form. (You don't need to know Chinese to understand what's going on, though you can click in the upper right hand corner to get a YouTube version in English). I especially liked taking the chain saw to Big Bird while the Sesame Street cast looks on in horror. (By the way, looks to me like Big Bird is going to be the Amy Carter of this debate cycle, but in reverse: Obama is going to look dumb defending BB.)
Besides, we now know what Big Bird really thinks of Obama anyway:
Chip Cravaack scored the biggest upset of 2010 when he beat entrenched Democrat Jim Oberstar in Minnesota's 8th District. Cravaack's constituents like his pro-mining, pro-economic growth policies, but he is anathema to environmental extremists and the Democrats are coming after him hard this year. I attended a lunch for Cravaack last week and donated to his campaign; we followed up with this interview:
The 8th, which encompasses northeastern Minnesota, including Duluth and the Iron Range, has long been a union stronghold. Cravaack's military background as a Navy pilot and his history as a leader of the airline pilot's union opened doors for him in the district; he is a hard-working Congressman and has a good shot at re-election. Chip's American Conservative Union rating for 2011 was 88%, so he is winning with a solidly conservative approach to the issues. If you would like to donate to Chip's campaign-please do!-go here.
While everyone is pointing to reasonable factors explaining Obama's face plant in last night's debate (arrogance, coddled too long by the MSM, thin air, etc), there may be a deeper, philosophical explanation, which means it won't get any better for Obama even if he figures out how to stop his Teleprompter-deprived stammering by the next debate. In my post the other day on Lilla-Livered Liberals, I quoted Harvey Mansfield's remark from 25 years ago about "a liberalism that is politically exhausted and bored with itself." I think the "boredom"-at a deep philosophical level-may explain Obama's real problem.
Once again I turn for a witness to Charles Kesler's I Am the Change, where he notes the following about Obama's variety of liberal "Progressivism":
As Harvey Mansfield pointed out, a key to Obama's political success is the way he presents himself as somehow beyond or above ordinary politics, which he disdains as a self-interested scramble. He thinks of himself, and wants us to think of him, as a nonpartisan or postpartisan figure. To the extent he must indulge in partisanship now, it's for the sake of putting an end to it in the future. "His politics is apolitical," Mansfield argued. "It considers its measures to be progressive, and progress to be irreversible." In other words, Obama's postpartisanship is part of the great liberal double standard. Liberals cursed by such hubris imagine they have the keys to the kingdom of History; they alone get to bless or condemn forevermore.
In other words, the bubble Obama inhabits is much larger than just the media cocoon and the cloistered nature of sycophancy inside the White House. Once you assume that you are on "the side of History" that runs in only one direction, you become, first, intellectually lazy, and second, presumptuous, and unable to argue your position from the ground up. It's easy to win debates in your own mind if you simply assume that you are right about everything. And with the media telling you that you're so wonderful, why would you ever have second thoughts.
But just as the internet (and Fox!) have shattered the media monopoly, conservatives also shattered liberalism's intellectual monopoly, as Kesler goes on to explain:
The unquestionability of both progress and relativism died quietly in classrooms around the country. . . The developments in political philosophy challenged the ends of progressivism, proving far more damaging to it. In sheer numbers the academy remained safely, overwhelmingly in the hands of the Left, whose members in fact grew more radical, with some notable exceptions, in these years. But they gradually lost the unchallenged intellectual ascendancy, though not the prestige, they once had enjoyed.
The Left either can't or won't confront this defect in their position today. Obama shows liberalism's boredom with having to refresh and rearticulate its first principles. Or, to adapt a famous line in a movie, "Obama-you can't handle the truth!"
I would not have believed it if I hadn't seen this CurrentTV clip, but Al Gore really does think the thin air in 5,000-feet Denver might explain Obama's sorry performance last night. (But Al, I thought our air was getting thicker all the time from greenhouse gas emissions?) You know you're in trouble when Al Gore notes you stink at presidential debates.
But maybe Al is on to something here. Since Obama has been a lighter-than-air politician from the beginning, maybe he only floats at sea level (like Chicago, Columbia University, Cambridge, MA, Washington DC, etc)?
This photo pretty much says it all: Barack and Michelle Obama looking lost and forlorn, while a smiling, confident Mitt Romney collects his notes from the podium:
The verdict on last night's debate is unanimous. You can go to Drudge for a collection of reactions. The New York Post headlines, "Mitt Mauls O:"
The Daily Mail headlines: "The new Jimmy Carter? Obama slammed by media as even his own supporters trash debate performance after Romney's crushing win." Per Drudge, Michael Moore comments, "This is what happens when u pick John Kerry as your debate coach." Dennis Miller: "Obama better hope a kicked a** is covered under Obamacare."
So where do we go from here? My guess is that we will see a slight uptick in the polls for Romney, but don't expect anything dramatic. It takes time and reinforcement for people's perceptions to change. Last night was the beginning of a process, not the end.
The remaining debates will be important; more important, I think, than if the first one had not been such a blowout. The pressure will be on Obama to do better next time, and liberal moderators will do all they can to help him. (One reason last night's debate was so one-sided was that, with the exception of one or two rather feeble efforts to lend Obama a hand, Jim Lehrer stayed out of the way.)
So will Obama perform better in the remaining debates? He almost has to; unless he vomits on the stage like Justin Bieber, he won't do worse. But as last night's debate revealed, Obama has two intractable problems. The first is that Mitt Romney is much smarter, much more knowledgeable, and much more experienced than Obama. That isn't going to change, and it is going to be apparent any time the two men are on the stage together; it can only be a matter of degree.
The second problem is even more fundamental: as someone said this morning (if I could remember who, I would link), Obama didn't just have a bad night, he's had a bad four years. Last night was virtually the first time he has had to talk about his record-or, at least, stand on the stage and listen to someone else talk about it. The facts are grim, and no amount of preparation before the next debate, or spin after it, will make them go away. So last night began a process of evaluation that I hope and believe will culminate in a Romney victory on November 6.
Obama Sends Bizarre Fundraising E-mail After Debate Loss
By GOPUSA Staff October 4, 2012
Waking up this morning, I had a ton of e-mail in my inbox, but one really stood out. It was a fundraising e-mail for Barack Obama. Yes, even after his dismal debate performance against Mitt Romney, Obama was back to fundraising. But his e-mail message was one of the strangest I've seen.
First, let's start with the subject line. Again... this was an e-mail from Barack Obama's campaign. Supposedly, these are not a bunch of amateurs. Yet the subject line was simply: Hey. That's it. Just "Hey." They might have well just said Yo!
MSNBC on suicide watch, admits they are Obama propaganda machine
It was a long and miserable night for MSNBC's debate coverage crew. Maddow, Shultz, Matthews, and the rest of the "forward leaning" panel couldn't believe the moderator didn't spew Obama's campaign talking points to rebuke Mitt Romney. They were appalled Lehrer decided to ask actual questions about topics the American people actually care about, instead of pandering to the left by calling Romney a racist and talking about the war on women. Chris Matthews' epic meltdown was a top Twitter trend - find out why and watch it HERE.
It's unanimous: Romney KO's Obama in 1st debate
When Van Jones, Ed Schultz, James Carville, Chris Matthews, and pretty much everyone else on the left says Romney won decisively, you know it's a really bad night for Obama. This was exactly the performance Mitt Romney needed to have. He dispelled the liberal smears and his command on stage kept the President on defense all night. Glenn gloats...er, recaps HERE.
5pm ET - The Glenn Beck Program:Erick Stakelbeck fills in for Glenn to take a look at Islamic extremism in the Middle East, how it is spreading, and TheBlaze TV's latest documentary, The Project.
6pm ET -Real News: Kentucky Senator Rand Paul joins Real News to give his post-debate reaction.
7pm ET -Wilkow!: Will Cain fills in for Andrew and takes a look at the debate scorecard. What do the real economic numbers look like next to those the candidates used to support their campaigns?
Ann Coulter on last night's debate: "You want this man in the White House"
Ann Coulter was one of the first prominent conservatives to throw her support behind Mitt Romney and she's happily gloating about that fact today. She said the President looked lost and even seemed to be trying to communicate to America that "he doesn't want this job anymore" - and many on the left had similar comments. Check out the always poignant Ann Coulter's debate recap from radio today - WATCH.
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You won't believe Al Gore's explanation for Obama's big debate loss
After the shock of the brilliant orator's embarrassing defeat wore off, the left has stumbled back to their feet to offer excuses. He underestimated, he was tired, it was Jim Lehrer's fault and on and on. But the most unbelievable excuse of the night came from Al Gore, who blamed the altitude. Not kidding - see for yourself.
About last night...
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American Voices: TheBlaze's SE Cupp "When I got to college I realized I disagreed with just about everyone there." TheBlaze's SE Cupp discusses her politically ideology, her career as a writer and political commentator, and why voting is much more than a right - it's a responsibility - WATCH.
The liberal media had some entertaining reactions to the debate last night. Stu & Pat attempt to decipher Chris Matthews' hilarious meltdown - WATCH.
Sore loser: Spitzer tries to save face, fails yet again
The Dish Network debate between Glenn Beck & Eliot Spitzer did not go well for the former Governor. Despite weeks of painstaking preparation, Spitzer managed to lose badly to Glenn who wore a t-shirt and drew charts on his hand in sharpie. Clearly still steaming after the loss, he tried to save face on a lib site, but failed once again. Watch a full recap of Spitzer's latest failure.
Glenn's interview with David Barton: Today on radio Glenn talked a little about the debate with David but also about what David calls his 'most important' project yet: The Founders Bible. David calls it the Bible that built America - check out the conversation HERE.
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DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz described the Medicare reforms proposed by GOP Vice-Presidential nominee and House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) as "literally a death trap for seniors." White House spokesman Jay Carney told reporters that Ryan's reforms would "change Medicare as we know it."
But it was Obamacare that already changed Medicare as we know it, transforming it literally into a death trap for seniors. Obamacare cut Medicare by $716 billion over the next 10 years alone, mostly by slashing Medicare payments to doctors and hospitals. And that is just a down-payment on what is to come.