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Are Americans Finally Seeing the True Obama Presidency?
posted on by Giacomo
With only eight days before the elections, it seems that Americans are waking up and seeing the real President Barack Obama. His ratings are falling as are his standings in a number of the polls.
Last week, Obama's job approval ratings fell seven points in a short three day span. On Oct. 23, his job approval ratings according to Gallup were at 53%. It dropped to 51% on the 24th, then down to 48% on the 25th and further down to 46% on the 26th.
It seems the only thing Obama has accomplished last week, other than campaigning, was to lie about the terrorist attack on Benghazi and to re-iterate that he is holding all of America as hostages on the tax cuts. Obama, who constantly says that they tried so hard to sit down with Republicans to work out compromises, has emphatically stated that he will veto any tax cut legislation that does not meet his requirements. This is Obamas form of compromise - everyone has to compromise to his way of doing things, but not vice versa.
Obama Campaign Strategy: Vandalize Cars of Romney Supporters
I don't think this strategy will work to sway undecided voters or to get Romney supporters to vote for Obama. But, apparently some Obama supporters thought it might work in Alta Loma, California. Two owners' cars were hit by the vandals who keyed "OBAMA" into a couple cars and slashed the car seats. The cars were targeted because there were "Romney/Ryan" signs in the owners' front yards. Ironically, one of the victims Ken Slown is an Obama supporter whose family was staying with his Romney-supporting in-laws. I don't think he's feeling the love from his fellow Obama supporters. CBS reports:
"'I don't know if they were trying to get a point across, to vote for Obama,' said Slown, 'but to do something like this is not going to get the point across.' He estimates the damage to both of his vehicles at about $3,400. In addition to both cars being keyed, his wife's vehicle had her seats slashed, as well. Said Slown, 'They pretty much cut the backs of all of the seats.'"
Obama supporters engage in this kind of behavior because they think they are immune from national scrutiny. They know the mainstream media won't care that much. In fact, mainstream media might find it a little humorous. And we all know that if these acts of vandalism had been done by Romney supporters on Obama supporters, that would be news, and the pundits would be calling them racial hate crimes and evidence that whites hate Obama because he's black. If you support Romney, it must be because you hate blacks and women. Therefore, these vandals are simply teaching these haters a lesson.
Romney Delivers Hurricane Relief While Clinton Compares Him to Hurricane Sandy
On the eve of the biggest storm to hit the eastern seaboard of the United States in 100 years, Bill Clinton was delivering a speech revving up Democrat zombies for Senate candidate Chris Murphy of Connecticut:
"On the eve of a hurricane-induced break in the political season, Bill Clinton gave Democrats a 30-minute pep talk Sunday, framing U.S. Rep. Chris Murphy's race for U.S. Senate as an election of national interest."
"'We're coming down to the 11th hour. We're facing a violent storm,' Clinton said. He waited a beat, then added, 'It's nothing compared to the storm we'll face if you don't make the right decision in this election.'"
We've been in a four-year economic tsunami, and all Bill Clinton could say is, "We're moving in the right direction." I never knew that going over a fiscal cliff was the right direction.
On October 18, Clinton said the following to a crowd in Parma, Ohio: "It's very simple, we're not where we ought to be, middle class incomes are not yet rising but we are gaining jobs, and the last thing we should do is return to a strategy that got us in trouble in the first place, cut taxes on upper income people and de-regulate the economy."
It wasn't tax cuts and deregulation that got us into this mess; it was the government's manipulation of the economy by forcing lenders to loan money to people who could not afford to pay it back and used government agencies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to back up the defaults. It looked like a win-win for the lending institutions until interest rates started to rise and the economy slowed.
So what was Mitt Romney doing while the Obama Desperation Team was out politicking?
"The Romney campaign has canceled campaign events, commercials, and fundraising appeals in states that will be impacted by Hurricane Sandy, and is instead using a campaign bus to help deliver supplies to those who will be impacted by what forecasters are predicting may be a 'storm of the century.'"
Romney was first on the scene when hurricane Isaac hit.
Keith Rothfus (Photo: Newtimes.com) (Photo: Sean Carpenter)
October 29, 2012
Dear Friends,
We pray Hurricaine Sandy passes by all of you without incident.
As election day approaches, storm or not, we have much to accomplish--and it all
comes down to our ground game.
Right or wrong, in the winding days of the 2012 campaign, we are narrowing our
PAC's focus in the tri-state region to three elections--all in Pennsylvania.
Just today, the pro-Romney superpac, Restore Our Future, has announced a $2.1
million Romney/Ryan media buy which strongly suggests that PA is winnable.
(Major apologies to our friends in Delaware and New Jersey, but none of our
endorsed candidates in either state are in tight races. Two of our endorsed
Jersey candidates--Congressmen Runyan and Smith--will win by comfortable margins. The other candidates in DE and Jersey are long shots, incuding Governor Romney, who is not expected to win either state.)
Our intention is to assist the PA campaigns of Romney/Ryan, Tom Smith, and Keith Rothfus (PA-12). Rothfus is running to fill the old Murtha seat now occupied by freshman Congressman Mark Crist--who replaced the deceased Congressman John Murtha in 2010.
The PA 12th Congressional District is the only potential pickup in the tri-state area--which is why we endorsed Mr. Rothfus in April (several weeks before the PA primary).
We are confidant that all six of our endorsed PA incumbent Congressmen will win re-election.
Here is our 2012 ground game:
1. For those of you who are homebound, make Romney/Ryan GOTV calls from your living room or kitchen. Visit: www.MittRomney.com/call-home-landing.
The Call from Home system is open every day from 9 AM to 9 PM.
To learn more about the system, watch the instructional video on the website.
2. If you are Catholic, please place a Catholics for Romney/Ryan/Smith sign in your yard. We hope you're Catholic neighbors will see your sign and be encouraged to
support Romney/Ryan/Smith, too. (Obviously, wait until the storm has passed.)
3. Volunteer at a SE PA Victory Center near you to help with GOTV calls and door to door activities.
THE VALLEY FORGE PATRIOTS MONTHLY MEETING WILL BE HELD ON FRIDAY,
NOVEMBER 9TH AT THE PHOENIXVILLE COUNTRY CLUB STARTING AT 6PM
We sincerely hope that this will be a victory celebration.
Either way we must continue our mission for liberty and freedom in America
and your help is needed!
VFP is honored to have former PA Congressman Sam Rohrer as our speaker.
Sam now heads up the PA Pastor's Network, a project of Let Freedom Ring.
Stay tuned for more details in future emails.
Also, OPEN MIC NIGHT.
Tell us your war stories about the election, GOTV, and what you would like the VFP to do in 2013.
Bring your friends and family.
PLEASE PUT THIS DATE ON YOUR CALENDAR AND JOIN US!!
Free Parking, food and drink available for purchase.
There are only 18 days until the election
What are you going to do to make a difference?
We are planning a few events for you to get involved and get out the vote:
2016: Obama's America - Come make calls on Thursday and then watch the movie. Details below.
"Atlas Shrugged Part 2" Recruiters Needed: We printed up 4X6 cards inviting people to come to our headquarters to make calls and get involved in the Get Out The Vote (GOTV) effort. Click here for more information below.
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.
Parking Lot Literature Drop: Join the force of people placing campaign literature on car windshields in train station parking lots and other locations. Click here to send an email if you want to help with this effort.
Sign Blitzing: We have 1500 new signs anti-Casey signs (3 versions, 500 each, samples in the photo above). We will also be getting 10,000 Tom Smith signs next week. Between now and then, please come in and grab some of the new ones and plant them around the area. Next weekend we are hoping to have the "Liberty Van" back in action with a crew to pump up conservatives, annoy the liberals to their core and blitz the county with signs. To get involved, click here to send us an email and we'll keep you posted on all the plans. (Address, map links and contact information down below)
Would you please invite your pastor to this PA Pastors' Network Effort?
Just forward this email
Join with the PA Pastors' Network in 'Stand in the Gap' Pulpit Sunday
to Preach, Pray and Fast for America November 4-6, 2012
The PA Pastors' Network is engaging in a focused effort to preach, pray and fast for America and the Presidential election. For 48 hours from 6 p.m. on Sunday, November 4, 2012 through 6 p.m. on Tuesday, November 6, 2012 the PA Pastors' Network and affiliated churches will cover our nation in prayer, urging all to turn from their sin and to ask God to heal and forgive our nation. There are thousands of Christian churches in PA and we pray that at least 500 pastors will join us in this challenge. Once you register at www.papastors.net, you will receive a beautiful, leather Patriot's Bible, a Certificate of Faithfulness and be listed in PPN communications. Join us to Preach, Pray and Fast!
PPN is asking you and other pastors to do these 3 things:
Preach on the importance of prayer and repentance on Sunday, November 4, 2012 as the solution to the spiritual and economic troubles facing America. Connect God's promises of blessing to the obedience of His people.
Lead your congregation to "stand in the gap on behalf of the land" (Ezekiel 22:30) by entering into 48 hours of prayer and fasting from Sunday evening to Tuesday evening.
Seek a 90 percent voter turn-out among your congregation.
The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.
(James 5:16, KJV)
PA Pastors' Network 603 Fairway Drive West Chester, PA 19382
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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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.
Yours for a safe and free America
Guy Rodgers
Save the Date: Thursday, November 1
Join us for an important Town Hall Meeting
The Jewish & Pro-Israel Community at a Crossroads -
Critical Issues & Choices Facing the U.S. & Israel in 2012
featuring
Senator Norm Coleman
Former White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer
RJC Executive Director Matt Brooks
The RJC is proud to present this informative and thought-provoking Town Hall discussion of key issues and choices in the 2012 election, & what's at stake for the Jewish & Pro-Israel community.
Thursday, November 1, 2012
Registration begins at 6:30 pm
Program begins promptly at 7:00 pm
Congregation Keneseth Israel
8339 Old York Rd.
Elkins Park, PA 19027
Please share this invitation with your undecided & Democrat relatives, friends, & coworkers (especially those with "buyer's remorse" for their 2008 vote), & bring them with you to this important program!
Republican Jewish Coalition Pennsylvania/South New Jersey
111 Presidential Blvd., #245
Bala Cynwyd, PA 19004
Dear Friend,
We have an exciting new project, and with your help, we believe it can impact the future of this country.
We have just produced an exciting new 6-minute 'mini documentary' video based on my recent New York Times bestseller, No Higher Power, that we are distributing to as many national media outlets, bloggers, political organizations, and religious organizations as we can in the next few weeks. We realize that most Americans do not have time to buy and read my book, but by watching this 6-minute video, Americans can learn about President Obama's war on religious freedom and our Judeo-Christian heritage, and understand 'how' he is accomplishing it. This is important information that Americans need to understand NOW!
The video is produced, ready to go, and I need your help in three important ways . . .
Watch the video and learn what Obama is doing, and how he is accomplishing his secular agenda. The more Americans know and understand what is taking place, the easier it will be to inform others and fight against his anti-religious agenda.
Send this video to as many people in your personal network as you can ...
Post it on your Facebook page
Email the video link to your entire list of friends, family members, and those in your personal network
Make a Contribution - Donate a gift to help us with this campaign, and with our election efforts - any gift is appreciated. But if you can give a gift of $50 or more, we will send you your own personal copy of No Higher Power. This book reveals many of the important anti-religious activities of this administration that there is simply not time to include in a brief video; it will prepare you to share the truth with others.
We CAN make a difference in these next few weeks, but I can't do it alone. With your help we can inform the public, and set the stage for grass roots victories against this anti-religious agenda in the future. Please join me, and help us wage this battle today.
Faithfully,
Phyllis Schlafly
While the Progressive movement seeks to divide Americans-by income, race, or creed-we believe in an ideal that transcends any differences and unites all people: Freedom.
When FreedomWorks Foundation helped fund the powerful documentary Runaway Slave, the story of a former NAACP Chapter President turned Tea Party leader, that was the story we wanted to share.
Runaway Slave stars FreedomWorks Fellow Rev. C.L. Bryant, who discovers in the film that by buying into the entitlement mindset of Progressives, the black community has traded one form of tyranny for another.
Thanks to the outpouring of support for Runaway Slave, I'm pleased to share with you that this exciting film is now available through Video On Demand. Click here and watch Runaway Slave now!
Our friend C.L. is not only an electrifying speaker-one that has impressed FreePAC audiences around the country-but also a fantastic storyteller. If you are unfamiliar with Runaway Slave or his story, I encourage you to watch the trailer below:
"It's time conservatives take on Liberal Hollywood. You must see Runaway Slave, it's great!" - Glenn Beck
As we fight to reclaim our country we must restore the cultural heritage of America by supporting films, books, and songs that express our ideals. This is how we reach more people with our message and it's the reason Runaway Slave is such a critical project. Please click here now and get Runaway Slave through Video On Demand.
"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.
The Annual Jay Michael Swartz Memorial Lecture: An Evening with Michael Medved
For Men and Women Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2013 7:30pm *Pre-lecture dinner 6:15pm At the Glazier Jewish Center | 25 N. State St.
Fee: $36 *Pre-lecture dinner with Michael Medved (includes lecture): $100
AMERICAN JEWS AND CHRISTIAN EVANGELICALS: IRRECONCILABLE ENEMIES OR INEVITABLE ALLIES?
Michael Medved is a nationally syndicated radio talk show host and bestselling author. His daily show is heard by over 3.75 million people across the country. Born in Philadelphia, Michael won admission to Yale at age 16 as a National Merit Scholar. He majored in American History and graduated with honors, before attending Yale Law School, where his classmates included Bill and Hillary Clinton. Michael wrote his first bestseller at age 26 - "What Really Happened to the Class of '65?" - a skeptical reconsideration of the "counterculture" of the 1960's that became a weekly TV series on NBC.
Many American Jews distrust and even fear the rise of the evangelical Christianity. They see this religious movement as a threat to the survival of Judaism in the United States and to the continuance of a society that values pluralism and religious liberty. On the other hand increasing numbers of American Jews view evangelicals as natural allies, not just when it comes to support of Israel, but on a range of social issues here in the U.S. In this provocative presentation, Michael Medved will explain where Jews and Christians already agree, and where they can never agree, in their participation in the ongoing battles shaping American society.
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.
Order your copy of The Great Betrayal today by clicking here.
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.
Monday 3-4pm "Bordering on Insanity" - Sue Payne and Frosty Wooldridge
Tuesday 3-4pm "American Freedom Watch" - Karen Schoen with contributors John Estabrooks and Dr. Ronald Myers
Wednesday 3-4pm "Patriots Watch" - Billy Baer and Dan Haggerty
Thursday 3-4pm "America's Black Shield" - Ted Hayes and Terrance Lang
Friday 10-11pm "Veterans' Weekly Forum" - Rich Davis and David Bellavia
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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
September 2012
Matthew J. Franck The Witherspoon Institute
Individual, Community, and State: How to Think About Religious Freedom
MATTHEW J. FRANCK is the director of the William E. and Carol G. Simon Center on Religion and the Constitution at the Witherspoon Institute and professor emeritus of political science at Radford University. He received his B.A. from Virginia Wesleyan College and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Northern Illinois University. A regular contributor to the Washington Post, First Things, and National Review, he is the author of Against the Imperial Judiciary: The Supreme Court vs. the Sovereignty of the People and Strict Scrutiny: Sense and Nonsense on the Supreme Court (forthcoming).
The following is adapted from a lecture delivered at Hillsdale College on September 11, 2012, during a conference on "The Supreme Court: History and Current Controversies."
THERE IS A GROWING awareness among Americans that religious freedom in our country has come under sustained pressures. In the public square where freedom of religion meets public policy, it becomes clearer all the time that there is a high price to be paid for being true to one's conscience. This is no tale of Chicken Little-although a chain of chicken sandwich restaurants based in Atlanta is part of the story. Let me give you a few examples.
In our universities, those citadels of toleration, we find that toleration can be sharply limited. At the Hastings College of Law in San Francisco, the student chapter of the Christian Legal Society was denied any status on the campus because it would not abandon its requirement that members commit themselves to traditional Christian norms regarding sexual morality. The U.S. Supreme Court, in a 5-4 ruling in 2010, held that the student group's rights were not violated by a "take all comers" policy. Following this lead, Vanderbilt University has rewritten its student organizations policy and effectively chased every traditionally Christian student group off campus, denying them regular access to campus facilities. And at the University of Illinois, an adjunct professor of religion, hired to teach a course on Catholicism, was let go because a student complained about his patient explanation of the Catholic Church's natural law teachings on human sexuality. (He was later restored to his teaching duties, but at the expense of the Newman Center, not on the state payroll.)
Norman Podhoretz Former Editor-in-Chief, Commentary
Is America Exceptional?
NORMAN PODHORETZ served as editor-in-chief of Commentary magazine from 1960-1995. He was a Pulitzer Scholar at Columbia University, earning his bachelor of arts degree in 1950. He also holds bachelor's and master's degrees from Cambridge University, England, where he was a Fulbright Scholar and a Kellett Fellow. In addition, he has a bachelor's degree in Hebrew Literature from the Jewish Theological Seminary. He has written for most major American periodicals and is the author of twelve books, including My Love Affair With America and Why Are Jews Liberals?
The following is adapted from a speech delivered on September 20, 2012, in Washington, D.C., at Hillsdale College's third annual Constitution Day Dinner.
ONCE UPON A TIME, hardly anyone dissented from the idea that, for better or worse, the United States of America was different from all other nations. This is not surprising, since the attributes that made it different were vividly evident from the day of its birth. Let me say a few words about three of them in particular.
First of all, unlike all other nations past or present, this one accepted as a self-evident truth that all men are created equal. What this meant was that its Founders aimed to create a society in which, for the first time in the history of the world, the individual's fate would be determined not by who his father was, but by his own freely chosen pursuit of his own ambitions. In other words, America was to be something new under the sun: a society in which hereditary status and class distinctions would be erased, leaving individuals free to act and to be judged on their merits alone. There remained, of course, the two atavistic contradictions of slavery and the position of women; but so intolerable did these contradictions ultimately prove that they had to be resolved-even if, as in the case of the former, it took the bloodiest war the nation has ever fought.
Secondly, in all other countries membership or citizenship was a matter of birth, of blood, of lineage, of rootedness in the soil. Thus, foreigners who were admitted for one reason or another could never become full-fledged members of the society. But America was the incarnation of an idea, and therefore no such factors came into play. To become a full-fledged American, it was only necessary to pledge allegiance to the new Republic and to the principles for which it stood.
Thirdly, in all other nations, the rights, if any, enjoyed by their citizens were conferred by human agencies: kings and princes and occasionally parliaments. As such, these rights amounted to privileges that could be revoked at will by the same human agencies. In America, by contrast, the citizen's rights were declared from the beginning to have come from God and to be "inalienable"-that is, immune to legitimate revocation.
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McNally reached out to the Obama campaign, but he's still waiting for a response. He also talked with a representative from the Federal Election Commission. Read this article to find out what he learned.
Finally, be sure to follow "Vodkapundit" Stephen Green's wargaming of the Electoral College for updates on how the presidential election could play out. As of his latest update, it looks like a squeaker for Mitt Romney. You can read the most recent post here.
Stay tuned to PJMedia.com and PJTV.com for even more coverage of the 2012 election.
Senate Democrats are promising pre-emptive gridlock for 2013.
Even if Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan win on November 6, his agenda will be stymied if Republicans can't pick up at least three more seats than their current 47 and control the Senate. That's clear from the last two years, when Harry Reid's not-so-deliberative body became the graveyard for fiscal and other reform.
House Republicans won an historic midterm election in 2010, picking up 63 seats. They also gained six Senate seats, but a handful of weak GOP candidates (Sharron Angle, Ken Buck, Christine O'Donnell) cost them control of the upper body. Back in charge in 2011, Mr. Reid proceeded to stop nearly everything that House Republicans passed. President Obama hasn't even had to sweat a veto fight because nothing escapes Mr. Reid's lost world.
Consider the record. In 2011 and 2012 the House passed more than three-dozen economic or jobs-related bills and with only a few exceptions they died in the Senate without a vote. The bills dealt with regulatory relief, tax reduction, domestic drilling for energy, offshore drilling, a jobs bill for veterans, repeal of ObamaCare and many more. Many passed the House with significant Democratic support, as the nearby list shows.
Then there is the Democratic failure on their constitutional obligation of passing a budget. House Republicans passed their budgets in each of the past two years in the spring. The latest one, crafted by Vice Presidential nominee Paul Ryan, contained $4.5 trillion in deficit reduction-at least twice as much as Mr. Obama's budget proposal.
By contrast, the Senate failed to pass any budget in 2012. Or 2011. Or 2010. The Senate hasn't passed a budget in more than 1,200 days. Sorry, Harry, you can't blame that on a Republican filibuster, because it takes only 51 votes to pass a Senate budget resolution. In 2011 and 2012 the Senate Budget Committee never even drafted a budget, thus inspiring a House bill to dock the pay of Senate Budget Committee Members for not doing their job.
Mr. Reid even declared in 2011 that it would be "foolish for us to do a budget," no doubt because he thought that would allow voters to see that what Democrats really want is even more spending and higher taxes. This would have made life difficult for vulnerable Democratic incumbents who pass themselves off as moderates in election years, such as Pennsylvania's Bob Casey, Montana's Jon Tester and Florida's Bill Nelson.
So Democrats simply sat back and took shots at the Ryan budget. Meanwhile, these same incumbents are now campaigning at home as champions of domestic energy, lower taxes, spending restraint and regulatory relief-everything the Democratic Senate helped to kill.
The Senate also failed in 2010 and 2012 to pass a single appropriations bill. According to an analysis by Senate Republicans, that hadn't happened before in the 150-year history of the current spending process. This year the Senate even failed to enact a national defense authorization bill, which almost never happens.
The House passed a bill to avert the tax cliff looming in January, but the Senate failed to act on that too. Last week Mr. Reid's chief Senate lieutenant, Chuck Schumer of New York, warned that Democrats will stop any attempt at bipartisan tax reform next year, calling the idea "obsolete." He's essentially promising pre-emptive gridlock in 2013 no matter who wins.
Voters can be forgiven for not knowing all this because the media mostly ignore Senate obstructionism these days. Instead, they dutifully follow Mr. Obama's lead when he says of Congress that "I think the American people will run them out of town because they are frustrated and they know we need to do something big and bold." He means Republicans.
But if it's big and bold that voters want, House Republicans have passed it. What stands in their way are Senate Democrats. One reason the Reagan policy revolution became law in 1981 is because Republicans scared enough Democrats into cooperating by picking up a net gain of 12 Senate seats in 1980 to gain control 53-46.
If voters want to break the gridlock of the past two years and start addressing the country's urgent fiscal and economic problems, they're going to have to elect a Republican Senate as well as Mr. Romney.
"History 101: Western Heritage-From the Book of Genesis to John Locke" is a free, ten-week, not-for-credit online course offered by Hillsdale College. This online course covers such topics as Hebrew civilization, classical Greece and Rome, the advent and spread of Christianity, the Renaissance and Reformation, the scientific enlightenment, and the English Revolution of 1688, whose principles would later inspire America's founders. Lectures are delivered and Q&A sessions conducted by members of Hillsdale's history department faculty, and readings are drawn from Western Heritage: A Reader used in the Western Heritage core course taught on Hillsdale's campus.
Currently participating in Constitution 101 or Constitution 201? All History 101 lectures, once released, will be archived and available to view on demand.
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.
With Hurricane Sandy wrecking havoc in the Mid-Atlantic and New England now is a good time to give to the Salvation Army and other charities instead of, or in addition to, political campaigns. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
2. The Man Without A Mandate
Barack Obama is trying to do something no president has ever done: get re-elected without winning the national popular vote. If he were to somehow succeed at this, he would be the weakest elected president since Rutherford B. Hayes, and the lamest lame duck in American history.
Since popular vote totals were first recorded in 1824, four presidents have been elected while losing the popular vote (five, if you count John F. Kennedy in 1960). None were incumbents seeking re-election. And three of the four - George W. Bush in 2000, Benjamin Harrison in 1888, and John Quincy Adams in 1824 (as well as JFK) - could legitimately claim a different sort of mandate upon election: while they may not have won the popular vote, their parties won or kept control of the House of Representatives, the House of Congress that - unlike the Senate and the Electoral College - represents the people in roughly equal proportion. . . please click here for the rest of the post →
3.Colorado Early Vote Returns From Overseas Already Outnumber Totals From Last Two Election Cycles
Ballot requests and early voting returns among military and other overseas voters from Colorado already surpass 2008 and 2010 turnout numbers, the secretary of state's office announced on October 29.
To date, 19,055 military and overseas Colorado voters have already requested ballots, exceeding the 2008 presidential election totals by 2,804 ballots. Of the 19,055 ballots requested this year, 8,320 have been returned thus far from Colorado voters around the world. This is already 80 percent greater than the total number of ballots submitted from oversees voters in the 2010 election cycle. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
4.Thomas Friedman Defines Pro-Life As Life In Communist China
Over the weekend, New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman took a few minutes off from his slavish boosterism of totalitarianism and Communist China to tell us all what it means to be pro-life in a column modestly titled Why I Am Pro-Life. What we learn is that he really hasn't a clue on the subject.
This cri de coeur from Friedman comes from the success that social conservatives are experiencing in Republican primary elections. He takes aim at Richard Mourdock (who knocked of RINO Richard Lugar), Todd Aiken (who defeated two other pro-life candidates but has achieved notoriety with his unfortunate exegesis on human biology), and Joe Walsh (whose apparent sin is running against the rent-seeking Tammy Duckworth) and uses them as a point of departure to describe what being "pro-life" really means.. . . please click here for the rest of the post →
5. Egyptian Leader Calls For Sharia Law
In yet another triumph for Obama's support of the Arab Spring, Saad al-Katatni, the newly elected chairman of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood's political wing, the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), has called for the institution of Sharia law. The FJP is the majority party in the Egyptian parliament.. . . please click here for the rest of the post →
6. Is The Economy Moving Forward or Simply Stumbling?
Last week I wrote about the need to look beyond the headlines in order to have a more informed view on what is or is not going on with the domestic economy. Last Friday, we received the gross domestic product (GDP) figures for 3Q 2012 from Bureau of Economic Analysis, and once again the headline of 2% growth does not reflect what is really going on.
First off, the GDP headline of up 2% for the September quarter compares to 1.3% in the second quarter and 1.65% for the first half of 2012. To the casual observer, today's data would suggest an improving economy, particularly since the GDP figure was ahead of the 1.8% or so consensus forecast held by most economists. However, when we break the GDP data down we find the upside surprise was due an unexpected increase in government spending and defense spending in particular. This marked the first increase in government spending in the last 9 quarters. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
Critics are harping that Barack Obama is running a campaign that in its coarseness, smallness, and pettiness marks a new low in American politics. Why are they so outraged? He has behaved this way ever since he moved into the Oval Office....»
The left is already beginning to point fingers at those they believe are responsible for what is shaping up to be a decisive rout in the making for President Obama and the Democrats on Election Day....»
We've become such good sports at accepting low expectations for Democrat campaigning, and unrealistically high ones for Republicans, that any Republican's misstep is immediately pounced upon as hypocrisy, ignorance, or hate....»
Colorado's Amendment 64 is worse than crazy; it's actually a form of child abuse, since science has proven that marijuana can cause permanent damage to vulnerable young brains....»
The latest news coming out about the murder of our Ambassador and three other brave Americans in Ben Ghazi is so horrifying and shocking I can take no pleasure in writing about it....»
October 28, 2012
Ann Coulter Tells Piers Morgan He's a 'Sexist, Misogynist Pig' with a 'Teeny, Tiny, Male Ego'
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Posted by Daniel Greenfield @ the Sultan Knish blog
One-hundred and thirteen years ago, Rudyard Kipling wrote a poem about the American enterprise in the Philippines. The title of that poem has since become a byword for racist colonialism and yet its text is a sardonic recitation of the dim virtues of the "Savage wars of peace".
"Go bind your sons to exile, To serve your captives' need;" Kipling wrote. "To seek another's profit, And work another's gain. Fill full the mouth of Famine, And bid the sickness cease."
This moral imperialism has never gone away, though it is no longer thought of in racial terms. For over a hundred years, the United States has gone on trying to feed and cure the world, sacrificing for others and seeing nothing in return.
The burden has been internalized, its concept not racial, but moral. The lack of empire has not lessened it. That absence of a physical empire, of conquered provinces and colonies administered with the whip has only strengthened the might of the moral empire. And the savage wars of peace go on in places like Afghanistan and Iraq where we fight desperately to save the natives from themselves.
The liberal man's burden is the United Nations. It is the obligation to universalize national greatness by extending it around the world through a moral empire. An empire of the progressive spirit that sweeps aside the old for the new, that makes the world over in a liberal image and a liberal template. The moral empire with the world as its consensual subjects whose conquests are achieved through the transcendent superiority of its modernity and humanity.
OCTOBER 29, 2012CIA training includes Muslim Brotherhood leader
Our friend and colleague John Guandolo recently posted a column (see below, highlights added) on the Breitbart Big Peace website. Mr. Guandolo is a former FBI agent whose understanding and analysis of the Muslim Brotherhood in America is second to none.
When you read his column, ask yourself why the CIA is utilizing the president of ISNA, which was found to be a funding source for the terrorist organization Hamas, as one of its presenters at a "Countering Violent Extremism Workshop?"
As Guandolo notes, John Brennan, President Obama's top counter-terrorism advisor, has "scoffed at the idea the Muslim Brotherhood has penetrated the U.S. government."
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We will mail you a DVD called "Unmasking the Muslim Brotherhood." This DVD contains two presentations, one conducted by Mr. Guandolo, that document just how wrong John Brennan is. You will be shocked.
With Muslim Brotherhood entities and individuals burrowed deep into our government, is it any wonder we're seeing a purge of any references to radical Islam in our counter-terrorism training materials and lexicon?
Over the last several years, the presence of Muslim Brotherhood (MB) operatives working inside the federal government advising our senior leaders has been definitively documented (see articles here, here and here). This penetration of our system is shocking and constitutes an immediate danger for American citizens. The success of the MB's influence operation from within our government is now manifesting itself with national and global implications for the security of America and its citizens.
In July of this year, the CIA hosted a 2-day training program at its headquarters in Langley, Virginia entitled "Countering Violent Extremism Workshop for the National Capitol Region."
Present at this conference were local, state, and federal officials from nearly every law enforcement, military, and intelligence organization around the Washington Metropolitan area. In addition to the senior CIA, FBI, and DHS officials conducting the training, members of the Muslim community moderated and led the training throughout the 2-day program. Notable among these was Imam Mohammed Magid who participated in speaking about "Building Communities of Trust: A Local Example of a Partnership between the All Dulles Area Muslim Society (ADAMS) and Law Enforcement."
How was Imam Magid vetted to speak at CIA Headquarters? And who vetted him?
The ADAMS Center is a Muslim Brotherhood front organization. It was founded by some of the most senior Muslim Brothers in the United States, to include Ahmed Totanji, who still resides in Herndon, Virginia. Its website proclaims "[ADAMS] is a membership organization registered in the State of Virginia as a non-profit, tax exempt corporation and is affiliated with the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA)."
Imam Magid is the Executive Director of the ADAMS Center. He is also the President of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), the largest Muslim Brotherhood organization in the U.S. which was found to be a financial support entity for Hamas in the largest terrorism financing and Hamas trial in U.S. history (US v Holy Land Foundation, Dallas, 2008). Having Magid advise and teach U.S. intelligence and law enforcement officials can only be aptly described as insane. According to officials at Langley who were willing to speak on the condition of anonymity, this is an outrage - but none of the leaders on the inside seem to understand the gravity of this threat. To say the fox is in the hen house would be an understatement.
But the insanity does not end there. Imam Mohammed Magid continues to be a guest in the White House, works with the National Security Council, advises the Secretary of State, is on the DHS Homeland Security Advisory Working Group, and has received an award from the FBI. Magid continues to be treated by American leaders as if he is a friend, yet he is the leader of the largest MB front in the U.S. which financially supports the terrorist organization Hamas.
The question must also be asked - who vetted the other "leaders" from the Muslim community who moderated panels and led the training at CIA Headquarters? Are any of them Muslim Brothers or sympathetic to the MB cause?
When, over a long period of time, American leadership works side by side with and are advised by individuals and organizations who are proven to be hostile to the United States, it is no wonder the shooting at Ft Hood was called a "crime" by the FBI not an "act of terrorism" and why it was called "workplace violence" by Pentagon officials writing the after action reports. It is no wonder DHS and others in our government define the threat as "violent extremism" (which is actually a meaningless term) instead of calling it what it actually is - the Muslim Brotherhood's jihadi movement in the United States which is a support network for terrorists. And, it is no wonder that a military attack by Al Qaeda on an American consulate in Libya would be identified by the Obama Administration as the result of a YouTube video which was "offensive to Muslims" instead of what it truly was. Sadly, the amazing heroism of the men who battled over 200 Al Qaeda fighters for 6 hours is getting lost in the shuffle.
Recently, Counter Terrorism Czar John Brennan scoffed at the idea the Muslim Brotherhood has penetrated the U.S. government. At what point will Mr. Brennan be held accountable for willfully failing to perform his duty and uphold his Oath to the Constitution. When will the other leaders such as the Secretary of State, the Director of Central Intelligence, the FBI Director, and the President be held to account for this egregious and treasonous behavior?
The National Security apparatus of the United States is deeply penetrated and is being dangerously manipulated by a hostile foreign threat. This necessarily means that significant foreign policy decisions involving the Islamic world will not only fail to achieve their intended outcome, but they will serve to advance the cause of our enemies.
One can only hope that a Romney Administration will take bold and decisive actions to purge the government of our enemies and those who willfully and unwittingly support them.
Video: Obama Arming Islamic Jihadists
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Supreme Court To Decide If President Can Watch Americans' Every Move
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Video: Shocker: Obama Watched Benghazi Attack, Did Nothing
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Video: Father Of Slain SEAL To Obama: It's Better To Die A Hero Than Live A Coward
Oct 29, 2012 02:15 pm
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Oct 29, 2012 02:10 pm
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Video: Retired Military Heroes Call Out Barack Obama For Deserting Americans In Benghazi
Oct 29, 2012 02:00 pm
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Gallup Believes Turnout May Favor Romney In A BIG Way
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Could Hackers Decide The Election By Changing The Voting Results In Ohio?
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Barone: Changing Demographics Won't Mean The End Of Republican Party
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Secret Service Asks Americans To Report Tweets That 'Concern You'
Oct 29, 2012 12:30 pm (CNSNews.com) - The Secret Service has expanded its operation to Twitter, urging Americans to report on their fellow citizens whose tweets "concern you." "To report a tweet that concerns you, call the nearest field office in your state," the Secret Service tweeted on Oct. 23. The agency then links to a list of contact numbers [...]
Rep. Wolf: State Dept. 'Unable Or Unwilling' To Address Concerns Of Vulnerable Christians In Middle East
Oct 29, 2012 12:30 pm (CNSNews.com) - Contending that the "Arab spring" has made non-Muslim religious minorities in the Middle East more vulnerable than ever, Rep. Frank Wolf (R-Va.) is voicing frustration over the State Department holding up a Senate bill to appoint a special envoy focusing on the issue. "I am concerned that time is running out - both [...]
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Supreme Court To Decide If President Can Watch Americans' Every Move
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Rasmussen's Numbers And PPP's Romney +16 With Independents Puts Mitt Up 10.742%
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Video: Senator On Obama: "I Want To Forget That Word"
Oct 28, 2012 02:30 pm
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Video: Sean Hannity Rips Obama Not Releasing Records
Oct 28, 2012 02:11 pm
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God, The Gospel, And Government: Obama Vs. America
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"To be prepared for war, is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace." --George Washington
Re: The Left
USS Enterprise with escorts and an auxiliary
"[Barack Obama is] certainly not a very good debater. He showed it again [last] Monday night. Obama lost. His tone was petty and small. ... That spirit led Obama into a major unforced error. When Romney made a perfectly reasonable case to rebuild a shrinking Navy, Obama condescended: 'You mentioned ... that we have fewer ships than we did in 1916. Well, Governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets, because the nature of our military's changed.' Such that naval vessels are as obsolete as horse cavalry? Liberal pundits got a great guffaw out of this, but the underlying argument is quite stupid. As if the ships being retired are dinghies, skipjacks and three-masted schooners. As if an entire branch of the armed forces -- the principal projector of American power abroad -- is itself some kind of anachronism. 'We have these things called aircraft carriers,' continued the schoolmaster, 'where planes land on them.' This is Obama's case for fewer vessels? Does he think carriers patrol alone? He doesn't know that for every one carrier, 10 times as many ships sail in a phalanx of escorts? Obama may blithely dismiss the need for more ships, but the Navy wants at least 310 and the latest Quadrennial Defense Review Independent Panel report says that defending America's vital interests requires 346 ships (versus 287 today). Does anyone doubt that if we continue, as we are headed, down to fewer than 230, the casualty will be entire carrier battle groups, precisely the kind of high-tech force multipliers that Obama pretends our national security requires?" --columnist Charles Krauthammer
Government
"The Obama Administration's disregard for the law has struck again -- and this time, it's encouraging others to violate the law at taxpayer expense. ...
As Hurricane Sandy approaches the northeast United States, the left is attempting to politicize the storm, attacking Republican nominee Mitt Romney and his running mate, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), for wanting to shift more responsibility for disaster relief from the federal government to the states.
They ignore the fact that President Barack Obama's proposal for the upcoming budget sequester would cut nearly $900 million from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, including disaster relief, food and shelter, and flood management at both the federal and state levels.
When you ask people about Andrew Breitbart, more often than not, the word "inspirational" enters the conversation. One would be hard pressed to find someone within the conservative movement who doesn't have a story about Andrew...whether it was a brief stop and chat at a rally or a frenetic phone call received in off hours, where you could scarcely understand what he was saying through all his excitement, but you knew it was important. Unquestionably, he inspired us. But here's something that people don't always realize: we inspired him.
We now know the administration knew, in real time, while the Benghazi attack was happening on the eleventh anniversary of the 9/11 atrocities, that Ansar al-Sharia had claimed responsibility for what was obviously a coordinated pre-planned attack.
Treasury officials held backroom bailout meeting on Delphi pension plans for 20,000 nonunion Delphi retirees. Those retirees lost between 30 and 70 percent of their pensions and other benefits. Unionized employees working alongside them, however, saw their pensions and benefits made whole.
The Arab Spring was to the Middle East what the betrayal of Czechoslovakia to the Nazis and the betrayal of the rest of Eastern Europe to the Communists was to 20th Century European history.
Despite this victory for free speech with respect to Islam, briefs submitted by Geus' defense lawyers and a public declaration by a German Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) highlight various long-term issues still seeking ultimate resolution.
More than 3,000 young illegal immigrants are applying daily to take part in the administration's new deportation reprieve policy...roughly 200,000 people have applied since DHS began accepting applications two months ago.
The blast, which affected mostly women and children, killed at least 15 people and severely injured about150 including the parish priest, Rev. Fr. Bonet Micah.
How would you feel if it were YOUR family member who asked for military intervention three times but were denied it by this Administration - and then were slaughtered?
Once the hurricane hits and once the electricity goes out, you'll be thrown back in time. Here are some helpful hints if you are in the Hurricane's path.
On Sept. 17, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the United Nations that the world must draw a clear "red line" around the Iranian nuclear weapons program, and tell the Tehran regime that if that line is crossed, war will ensue.
Lyndon B. Johnson is likely recalled less for his "War on Poverty", a classic, liberal government program that to this day has not eliminated poverty in America.
The duplicity and hypocrisy of environmental pressure groups seem to be matched only by their consummate skill at manipulating public opinion, amassing political power, securing taxpayer-funded government grants, and persuading people to send them money and invest in "ethical" stock funds.
How would you feel if it were YOUR family member who asked for military intervention three times but were denied it by this Administration - and then were slaughtered?
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same." ~ Ronald Reagan
Hurricane Sandy is battering the East Coast this morning, expected to wreak havoc for millions of people from the Mid-Atlantic to northern New England. Our thoughts and prayers are with those who are affected by the storm. Please take care and be safe.
Because of Sandy's timing this late in October, the confluence of multiple items could make the hurricane a 100-year storm. Specifically, with colder air moving east and south from Canada along with a full moon over the weekend, the storm surge could be far larger than normal and the post-landfall storm could turn to snow and ice.
That means Hurricane Sandy brings three different potential problems: flooding in coastal areas and low-lying places, wind damage, and a strong likelihood of power outages in the Northeast.
Though the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) will notionally lead response and recovery efforts, the reality is that the power companies, local governments and community organizations will be the focal point of most response and recovery activities. FEMA can't turn the lights back on and it doesn't clear snow -- it just pays for some of those items after the fact.
So, if you live anywhere from North Carolina to Maine, here are some tips:
1) Watch, listen to, or monitor weather service updates on Hurricane Sandy to keep abreast of the latest path and any mandatory evacuations that have been issued.
2) Make sure you have a good supply of water and dry food that can keep you and your family fed for several days. If your power goes out, minimize opening the refrigerator to keep the cold air inside.
3) Have a radio and flashlights available with backup batteries so you can follow recovery efforts.
4) Locate the closest disaster relief center or evacuation site in case you need to leave your home.
5) Keep your cell phone plugged into the charger and use it wisely if the power goes out.
6) Fill your car and extra containers with gas, as power outages and debris could limit gas quantities at gas stations after the storm.
7) Finally, make sure to have all medicine in a go-kit (and a cooler ready for ice in case the power goes out) so you can leave quickly and not put your health at risk.
Being prepared for the worst ensures you don't become an unnecessary burden to first responders and allows them to focus on vulnerable individuals. The American Red Cross and federal government's Ready.gov websites offer good advice and information about disasters, including steps you can take to make your own emergency preparedness kit.
Remember also that in times of crisis, faith-based and community organizations are uniquely positioned to provide relief after a disaster. Hurricanes such as Katrina in 2005 and Irene last year reminded Americans about the importance of first responders and others on the ground who offered help and aid.
Heritage's James Jay Carafano and Jennifer Marshall have written that Americans can best prepare for disasters by building better individual-based programs, a culture of preparedness, and resilient and self-reliant communities:
In most disasters, the first few hours and days are critical, especially the first 72 hours. During this period, immediate life-threatening illness and injury must be addressed, and shelter and water must be provided. ... In addition, critical services and infrastructure must be restored or replaced so that disaster assistance can be rushed to the individuals who need it most. Because bringing in outside assistance during this period is difficult, the most effective responses come from those who are closest to scene.
Last year as many in northeastern Pennsylvania faced flooding from Irene and Tropical Storm Lee, private charities and local businesses provided an outpouring of food, furniture and housing repair assistance. While these stories rarely make front-page news, the same thing happened when deadly tornadoes ravaged communities in the Southeast and Missouri last year.
Now, with Sandy battering small towns and big cities along the East Coast, Americans must band together to help family, friends and neighbors once again.
Super-storm Sandy lived up to expectations yesterday and overnight, delivering a powerful punch with heavy rains, strong winds, and significant storm surge. After taking 69 lives in the Caribbean, Sandy hit the eastern United States, where at least 16 people have died. Our thoughts and prayers are with those impacted by the storm.
Millions of Americans on the East Coast are without power today as they begin to survey the damage and destruction of the monster storm. The Weather Channel is projecting that "This storm won't sweep out to sea quickly, but slowly, painfully wind down over the next few days."
Americans are already coming together to help family, friends, and neighbors. First responders are navigating dangerous conditions to rescue individuals in need. Other citizens are answering the call to lend a helping hand. State and local governments took a leading role to prepare their communities for the disaster and mobilize once the storm hit.
Today, as many communities begin to assess the damage, they'll need help to rebuild. While some will call for Washington to provide aid, individuals should look to faith-based and community organizations, which are uniquely positioned to provide relief in Sandy's aftermath.
Meanwhile, the Salvation Army has already deployed dozens of mobile feeding units in seven states to serve thousands of meals. The organization is working with local emergency management officials to determine where help is needed most.
In addition to the Red Cross and Salvation Army, local faith-based and community organizations will play vital roles in the emergency response to Sandy. Heritage's James Jay Carafano and Jennifer Marshall identified areas where these organizations can help Americans now and in the future: spiritual relief with depression and loss, public confidence, supplies and volunteers, and long-term rebuilding.
"Grassroots organizations can also provide aid that adapts as needs change," Carafano and Marshall wrote. "Because the likelihood of confusion and ambiguity increases with the scale of the disaster, improvisation is crucial for effective response. Research has found that the communities themselves are the best sources of innovation and ingenuity, and the stronger the communities, the more resourceful are their efforts."
Now is the time for those communities to come together. Sandy certainly packed a powerful punch that won't soon be forgotten. Fortunately, America is a resilient nation. Whether you were directly affected by the storm, know someone who was, or are watching from afar, there's a way to help. Consider a donation to the Red Cross, Salvation Army, or a local charity.
Fast And Furious In The Mideast
Benghazi: No Other Explanation Fits By Erik Rush CanadaFreePress.com On October 4 in Canada Free Press, I wrote a column entitled Was Ambassador Stevens' Death a Hit?, so suspicious did I find the circumstances surrounding the attack on the US embassy in Benghazi, Libya at that time. On October 25, I followed up with Obama's Feet of Clay, in which I discussed the likelihood that President Barack Obama failed to react to the attack despite real-time knowledge of developments in Benghazi because he wished to obscure or bury evidence of the administration's gun running activities to Libyan and Syrian rebels. Read the Full Story
Is This Video Controversial?
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's Ad Comparing Voting To Losing Virginity
Pro-Lifers: Practice Obama Abstinence LifeNews The pro-life community has reacted swiftly to the controversial Obama ad that likens voting to sex and first-time voting to losing your virginity.
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.
Stonewalling On Benghazi
WH: 'We Decline to Comment' On When Obama Learned Of E-Mails, Met With NSC On Benghazi By Fred Lucas CNSNews.com The White House is declining to say when President Barack Obama first learned of three e-mails that the State Department sent to the White House on Sept. 11, 2012, directly notifying the Executive Office of the President that the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi was under attack, that U.S. Amb. Chris Stevens was at the Benghazi mission at the time of the attack, and that the group Ansar al-Sharia had taken credit for the attack.
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.
Giving The Little Ones Warped Nightmares
Children Sing: Romney Will Let Sick People Just Die Daily Caller A new video from the founders of a celebrated advertising agency features children "of the future" singing about the aftermath of a Mitt Romney presidency: A world where sick people are required to "just die," the atmosphere is "frying," gays can be "fixed" and "oil fills the sea."
Grisly Details Emerge From Attack: A source told Fox News that a sizable number of US forces were told to �stand down� and avoid danger, rather than attempt to mount a rescue for the survivors of the Benghazi attack. See the reportHERE.
Sen. Portman Demands Answers: The Ohio Senator took aim at the Administration over recent revelations that the White House might have known about the danger to American assets in Benghazi, and might have decided not to send reinforcements. Watch the videoHERE.
Ret. Lt. Col. says Obama Watched Attack: On Saturday, retired Army Lt. Col. Tony Shaffer said President Barack Obama was in the room at the White House watching the assault on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi unfold. Watch Shaffer make his caseHERE.
Democrats are counting on their New England friends to help them pick up Senate seats and construct a barrier against losses in that could erase their majority. See how the math adds up for the DemocratsHERE.
The Romney campaign is reportedly using at least one of its campaign buses to provide supplies and relief for those who are likely to be hit by Hurricane Sandy in the coming days. See how you can helpHERE.
As we enter the final week of the electoral battle between President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney, keep your eyes peeled for the five things listedHERE.
The Associated Press reported that Madonna was booed and had several concertgoers walk out after she told a New Orleans crowd to vote for President Barack Obama. Get the full storyHERE.
Glenn Beck: Tonight's show will be a two hour special covering Hurricane Sandy and how it's changing the last week of the election, plus the latest on Libya. Tune in at 5pm ET or on-demand on TheBlaze TV.
Wilkow!: TheBlaze TV's newest host brings his unvarnished opinions on the news of the day. Watch Wilkow! at 7pm ET -- only on TheBlaze TV.
As the media reports on the projected impact of Hurricane Sandy� already being labeled by some as �the storm of the century�� it�s critical to remember what exactly your family needs to weather a natural disaster. The Marketplace by TheBlaze has a number of items that tackle emergency situations like Hurricane Sandy. Check our list of the five time-honored things you�d be foolish to neglect in preparingHERE. READ THIS |
Yesterday's Rasmussen report plus yesterday's Public Policy Polling (PPP) report provides us with a possible final margin of victory for Mitt Romney over Barack Obama. Rasmussen's survey shows a 50/47 lead for Romney and PPP says Romney leads among Independents by 58/42.
Rasmussen's Party registration breakdown shows there are 36.8% Republicans 34.2% Democrats and 29% Independents among each 100 registered voters. Rasmussen's latest report reveals 89% of Democrats will vote for Obama and 90% of Republicans will vote for Romney. Using these baseline numbers Romney gets 33.12 points from Republicans and an additional 16.82 from Independents for a total of 49.94%. CNN's 2008 exit polls showed about 10% of each Party's registered voters voted for the opposing candidate. This means an additional 3.24 for Romney for a total of 53.36%. Since there are several minor Parties adding up to about 1% that will likely take about an equal amount (.5%) from each ... Continue Reading:Rasmussen's numbers and PPP's Romney +16 with Independents puts Mitt up 10.742%
"At this point...Gallup Daily tracking of likely voter preferences suggests Obama has lost more support than he could afford to, given his current [51% to 45%] deficit to his Republican challenger, Mitt Romney." (1)
If this sounds like good news, the Gallup 7 day tracking poll has even better. Mitt Romney has been ahead of Barack Obama for the past several days with the October 27 result of 51-45 once again putting the challenger over the 50% level into territory which Obama has failed to approach for a very long time.
And now, according to Gallup's "demographics of likely voters," it appears the 2012 election will find more Republicans than Democrats heading to the polls on November 6th!
Over the past few years, more voters have been identifying themselves as Republican and fewer as Democrat. As Gallup sees it, this means that "...the party composition of the electorate ... Continue Reading:Gallup believes turnout may favor Romney in a BIG way
Is it treason when you put your own reelection above the good of your country and the lives of its citizens? If so, Barack Obama committed treason in leaving the four Americans to die in Benghazi.
We're a fractious people, and our politics have always been full of colorful language, but I can't recall the current depth of vulgarity. The "politics of personal destruction" have gotten uglier. Does it mean anything? Should we try to understand it?
While "economic development" sounds like a great idea, a fine way of making people happy, getting them to love America, and undermining radicalism, in practice it isn't so effective. Remember that the United States gave tens of billions of dollars in aid to Egypt without getting gratitude or popular moderation.
It's easy to feel superior to someone so damaged that he'd live in a cluttered pile of filth that most of us wouldn't let our dogs wander into, but there are actually some deep insights into human behavior that you can pick up from watching the shows, even if your house doesn't look like it was picked up by a tornado and dropped into the city dump.
Massive shift in political parties since Obama elected
Well, we've had four years of Barack Obama as president, and the Gallup polling agency has just released brand-new figures showing a massive swing in the political parties of registered voters.
They're apparently fleeing one party and flocking toward another.
Can you make an educated guess which one Americans are choosing?
One of the famous stories of Ronald Reagan as governor of California is the time his limousine was making its way through a crowd of hippie protesters, and one protester held up a sign to his window reading, "We are the future!" Reagan grinned, grabbed a piece of paper, scribbled a quick note and held it up to the window for the protester to see: "I'll sell my bonds!"
That's the first thing that comes to mind in viewing this Dunham-worthy (my new scale for cringe-worthiness by the way will be the Dunham Scale: 1 to 10-and this one here goes to 11) video about "Children of the Future." Have your airsick bag at the ready (and your bond broker on speed dial):
Shouldn't be surprised. The Left really does think the world works like this:
Very bumpy ride into Cleveland last night, as the periphery of Hurricane Sandy was already beginning to be felt here. Hard to guess what's happening on the ground here politically as the wind and rain, already considerable by last night, has blown down the lawn signs for both campaigns. The best place to judge Ohio is probably National Review Online's special "Battleground Ohio" tab, where the Ashbrook Center's Roger Beckett and the great Robert Alt are holding forth with updates and inside gossip.
Now, I moved out to California in part to get away from the mid-Atlantic climate, and the twice-yearly weather-related power outages. And also to get away from the predictable Times-Post headlines on Hurricane Sandy that "poor and minorities hardest hit." Oh, wait a minute, that might actually be true as least as far as the election is concerned. Given that low income and minority voters are lower-propensity voters, if large numbers are displaced, either in shelters because of flooding, or on account of extended power outages or other disruptions, then Democratic turnout could be slightly depressed in hard hit states. Good thing Sandy is hitting blue states hardest, where it is unlikely to affect the electoral outcome. (The global warming lab really needs to figure out a way to target these storms to swings states.) Still, this hasn't stopped Bill Clinton from politicizing Sandy, or the Obama campaign from telling its phone banks to keep calling (just what you want in a storm-another call from the Obama campaign), even as Romney has called off campaign events for the next 48 hours. (And oh yeah, my return flight to California on Wednesday has been cancelled.)
But the storm may also cause media overload. Even in our high tech, 24/7 media age, can the media overhype two big events at once? Already they're doing their best to meld them. Pretty soon I expect the clichés to be crashing ashore as high as Sandy's waves: you might even call it a perfect storm of tipping points, or maybe the perfect storm meets the Chick-fil-A election. It's enough to make Joe Biden's hair plugs stand on end, just before he pushes granny off the fiscal cliff. Maybe we can coax Dan Rather out of retirement for his precious similes, like how the election is "tighter than Scrooge's wallet on payday" or something.
Meanwhile, expect the charges and countercharges to come fast and furious . . . er, probably not the term the Obamanauts want to remind us about right now . . . between now and Tuesday. For a while this morning, the Wall Street Journal was reporting that the Bureau of Labor Statistics might not come out with the monthly unemployment report on Friday. Yesterday on ABC's This Week, former Obama economic adviser and current campaign surrogate Austin Goolsbee seemed to be hinting that the next unemployment report might not look so good for Obama. Does he have advance inside information perhaps? Latest word is that the numbers will come out on time as planned, but stay tuned.
To counter the severe slump in European sales, Marchionne is considering building Chrysler models in Italy, including Jeeps, for export to North America. The Italian government is evaluating tax rebates on export goods to help Fiat. Marchionne may announce details of his plan as soon as Oct. 30, the people said.
Betcha he gets a call from the White House and that October 30 announcement is put off a week.
Stay tuned. More from Ground Zero in Ohio tomorrow.
With eight days to go until the election, Barack Obama tweeted his five-point plan for a second term this morning. It sounds suspiciously like Romney's five-point plan:
Unfortunately for Obama, he not only has a plan, he has a record. There isn't much he can do to make his record go away in the next eight days.
Ohio has been neck and neck for quite a while, but it has been worrisome that Mitt Romney has never quite been able to pull ahead. That changed this morning; Scott Rasmussen now finds Romney ahead 50% to 48% in the Buckeye State. On the other hand, he also finds the race tightening a little nationwide, with Romney leading by only two, 49% to 47%.
Mark Steyn's excellent column on Benghazigate drew on news of the past few days. At several points Mark relied on Glenn Beck's interview with Charles Woods, the father of fallen former SEAL Tyrone Woods, who died fighting off the terrorists long into the battle at the consulate. Mr. Woods discussed the ceremony at which President Obama, Vice President Biden and Secretary of State Clinton received the bodies of the four Americans murdered in the attack.
Mark led his column with a quote from Secretary of State Clinton. Clinton sought to console Mr. Woods with a shocking assurance:
"We're going to have that person arrested and prosecuted that did the video."
Mark quoted Vice President Biden's tribute to Tyrone Woods:
Charles Woods says that at the ceremony Joe Biden strolled over to him and by way of condolence said in a "loud and boisterous" voice, "Did your son always have balls the size of cue balls?"
Mark then paused to pass judgment on Biden:
One assumes charitably that the vice president is acknowledging in his own inept and blundering way the remarkable courage of a man called upon to die for his country on some worthless sod halfway across the planet. But the near-parodic locker-room coarseness is grotesque both in its inaptness and in its lack of basic human feeling for a bereaved family forced to grieve in public and as crowd-scene extras to the political bigshot. Just about the only formal responsibility a vice president has is to attend funerals without embarrassing his country. And this preening buffoon of pseudo-blue-collar faux-machismo couldn't even manage that.
Beck's interview with Mr. Woods also includes a disparaging if less concrete description of his encounter with President Obama at the same ceremony.
Another Election By Rich Galen I've been here for two days as part of the International Observer Mission to watch the Ukrainian parliamentary elections. The Ukrainians appeared -- at least in the places we visited -- to take this election seriously, and the people with whom we spoke were proud of their gains, however modest they might be.
COUNTDOWN TO VICTORY: 8 DAYS TO THE 2012 ELECTIONS -- 62 DAYS TO TAXMAGEDDON
Suspend The Election?
Even though much of the East Coast is shutting down as Hurricane Sandy approaches, we are monitoring left-wing media and websites. I don't think this is serious, but I want to clue you in on an idea that has the left buzzing today.
No one in the federal government has suggested this yet, but some liberal commentators are raising the prospect that the damage from Hurricane Sandy could be so widespread in the Northeast that the election should be suspended.
There was a notable exchange this morning on CNBC between Andrew Ross Sorkin and New York Times columnist John Harwood. Sorkin asked Harwood if there was any precedent for suspending an election. Harwood responded that he wasn't aware of any for the presidential election. But primary elections in New York City were cancelled on the morning of September 11, 2001.
Again, I don't want to be alarmist. It's not clear to me who would benefit or who would be hurt by any delay. Obama's early vote in certain states has been strong. So much so that liberal commentators are suggesting it will make up any advantage Romney has on Election Day. From Obama's perspective, that argues for holding the election sooner rather than later.
The Romney/Ryan ticket certainly has momentum right now. Benghazi was starting to get the attention of more and more voters. Sandy may have stopped that.
I can't imagine a delay in the election. Any attempt to stall the voting would be fought in the courts and quickly rise to the Supreme Court.
But even with this major storm, we continue to be on the job. Our prayers are with those in the path of Hurricane Sandy, as well as the first responders in the affected states.
Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ) is one of the best friends pro-family, pro-life conservatives have on Capitol Hill. I have known Trent Franks for many years, long before he was elected to Congress.
He is also strongly pro-Israel, and has produced an outstanding video that highlights the importance of this election for America and for Israel.
Please take a few moments to watch his video. Be certain to share it with your pastor and with your friends and family members too.
Obviously, the drop in illegal immigration was too good to last! After the crash of 2008, thousands of illegal aliens returned to their home countries because they, like millions of Americans, lost their jobs here. Fewer would-be illegal aliens risked the uncertain trip to sneak into the country. Illegal immigration began dropping.
Now, however, with a slightly improving economy and with the open-arms welcome of the current administration, a just-released study finds illegal border crossings are back up.
We've got to fight back. We ARE fighting back. Read what Roy said in a USA Today article Friday:
"Illegal immigration is a market indicator,' said Roy Beck, CEO of NumbersUSA, an Arlington, Va.-based think tank that advocates lower levels of legal and illegal immigration. 'They all got gigantic networks of family and friends who are already here sending information back and forth.' "
Yet Roy lays much of the blame for the illegal immigration surge at a political door.USA Today continues:
"Beck said the renewed rise in illegal immigration is due partly to President Obama's immigration record. He said a new program that could allow up to 1.8 million illegal immigrants brought to the U.S. as children to have their deportations deferred sends a signal that the border remains open.
" 'The word has gone out that this administration is going to do all it can to keep you from having to leave the country,' [Beck] said."
We're outraged that the administration so casually set aside the U.S. Constitution to issue the DREAM Amnesty edict this summer. As we predicted when it was announced that most illegal aliens under age 31 would get work permits, there's been a surge in new illegal immigration. Word's out -- get to America, stay here long enough, and some politician will give you an amnesty.
This executive branch power grab has to be resisted. Congress must make immigration law, not the president. As you know, two months ago NumbersUSA agreed to pay for a federal lawsuit by 10 ICE agents, including the officers of the ICE agents union, against Janet Napolitano. Now, the state of Mississippi has joined the suit.
The plaintiffs' aim is to stop the DREAM amnesty in its tracks as unconstitutional and harmful to agents and whole states.
We've had huge news coverage of this lawsuit over the past two months. A couple of days ago,Business Week ran an article explaining how and why the ICE agent union president Chris Crane, and some of his fellow officers, were willing to anger the bosses of organized labor by suing the administration over the DREAM amnesty edict. The article also mentions our role:
"NumbersUSA, a group that works to reduce immigration levels and has opposed the AFL-CIO's push for immigration reform, is funding the lawsuit. Crane's lawyer is Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, a co-author of Arizona's punitive immigration law and an immigration adviser to Mitt Romney."
"Crane's lawsuit charges that the president overstepped his constitutional authority by changing federal immigration law without Congress's consent. To obey the president's orders, Crane says, agents must break the law."
Linda, I know you've been keeping up with the news about this lawsuit. And I know you are as upset as we are that the administration is ramming through an amnesty over the heads of Congress.
This lawsuit is as expensive as it is necessary. I know the upcoming election has dominated the attention of all of us... and many of our supporters' giving. But we mustn't forget this critical immigration issue. Please help us now as we work to keep America in balance.
I've printed the list below a couple of times now. Yet, if you've not read the "top 4 reasons the ICE agents sued," I urge you to do so now.
Top 4 Reasons ICE Agents and State of Mississippi Sued Janet Napolitano
1. Direct Violation of the Law.
The DREAM Directive orders ICE agents and officers not to put illegal entrants into deportation proceedings, which is a direct violation of the Immigration and Nationality Act.
2. Unconstitutional Breach of Duty.
The DREAM Directive is an unconstitutional breach of the Executive branch's duty to ensure that the laws are faithfully executed -- not systematically set aside.
3. Abuse of 'Discretion.'
Instead of giving law enforcement officers the ability to do their jobs, the DREAM Directive ties their hands and prevents the officers from removing illegal aliens.
4. Unauthorized Benefits to Illegal Aliens.
The DREAM Directive makes millions of illegal aliens eligible for government benefits they have no legal right to. They will be given work permits and be allowed to stay at least two years. Only Congress can grant these benefits.
Without this lawsuit, as many as two million illegal aliens will be given work permits, allowing them to compete for jobs with the 20 million Americans who cannot find full-time work. Without the financial support of NumbersUSA, this lawsuit would not have been possible.
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Jim Robb
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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.