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~ George Washington

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The Jihad and Christopher Stevens (Part II)

Part I 

To attempt to understand Christopher Stevens' long-standing interest in ben Qumu, the al Qaeda terrorist suspected of leading the Benghazi attack on September 11, 2012 in which Stevens and three other Americans were murdered, we must seek context in more of Stevens' cables. (Thanks be to Wikileaks.)

On February 15, 2008, Stevens wrote a lengthy cable titled EXTREMISM IN EASTERN LIBYA. On one level it confirms that Stevens was NOT some liberal naif when he docked in Benghazi in April 2011 to serve as point man to the so-called "rebels"-- that cutesy bluff of a name which disguises a movement better described by Clare M. Lopez as "individuals and groups that were, at a minimum, allied ideologically with Al Qaeda." No real stretch to simplify and call Stevens the Obama administration's point man to al Qaeda.

This early 2008 cable recounts the analysis of a US-Libyan dual national who regularly visited eastern Libya concerning the "social, political and economic factors that have contributed to and faciliated participation by a disproportionately large number of eastern Libya's native sons in `martyrdom acts' and other insurgency operations in eastern Libya."

Notice what's missing from the list -- Islam. It's not completely missing, of course. Stevens makes note of mosques and "radical" imams who use "phraseology urging worshippers to support jihad in Iraq and elsewhere through direct participation and financial contributions." Islam itself, however, never is discussed as the doctrinal motivation for jihad "martyrdom." The following line sums up how it is that the centrality of jihad in Islam is circumvented: "Citing conversations with relatives, [redacted] said the unemployed, disenfranchised young men of eastern Libya had `nothing to lose' and are therefore `willing for sacrifice themselves' for something greater than themselves by engaging in extremism in the name of religion."

The cable also opens a window onto the ordinariness of this hate-filled pathology among the people of the region. Stevens' source describes a large dinner he attended in Derna -- hometown of ben Qumu and hotbed, bar none, of jihad-in-Iraq recruitment -- hosted by a family friend. "Conversation among the mostly middle-aged male group of guests focused on news that two young men from Derna had recently killed themseles in suicide operations in Iraq. Dinner guests offered a mix of `condolences and congratulations.' " The source "said he was struck by the level [of] sentiment against Coalition forces in Iraq, and by the obvious pride the dinner guests took in the fact that two of their native sons had `struck a blow' against `occupying Crusader forces in Iraq.' He emphasized that the dinner was one of the relatively few occasions in Libya in which he felt uncomfortable by dint of having US citizenship."

Stevens later being point man to the "rebels" would mean being point man also to these dinner guests, still swelled with pride over maiming and killing American troops in Iraq. Such is the poisonous essence of "Arab Spring."

November 2, 2012

Why Obama Chose to Let Them Die in Benghazi

By Kara Seymour | November 4, 2012  

Supporters braved cold temperatures and long lines to hear the former Massachusetts governor speak.

Campaign officials said 35,000 tickets to the event were reserved online in advance. The crowd was estimated to be around 25,000.

Governor Tom Corbett introduced Romney. Senator Pat Toomey and Congressman Mike Fitzpatrick also spoke.

Doctors are under attack by democrats, just like some of the churches. Though none of my many doctors signed this open letter, I know for sure that all are in full agreement with everything it says.

It appears in the Sunday Inquirer (today), on the back page of section B.  If you know any undecideds, please show them this email or buy a copy of the paper to show them. It's very important to realize that the docs are now responding to the threats of this government.

Lou Flanagan

The General Wayne Tea Party

P.S. Thanks to Donna Baver Rovito, editor of "Liability and Health Reform Update" for the info below.

Today's Philadelphia Inquirer ad exactly as it appears as a PDF:

http://empstudios.net/2012-Doc-Ad/Doctors_Ads2.pdf

TEXT ONLY VERSION

PA and NJ physicians, if you agree with the message in this ad, you have permission to add your own names, specialties, and where you practice to this text-only version, and then to attach or copy it into email, blogs, social media, etc.  Please send it to EVERYONE YOU KNOW. 

You also have permission to run off copies and pass them out.  Please be certain to maintain the disclaimer about who paid for the ad.

And MANY THANKS to the doctors who supported this important statement.  Your participation WILL MAKE A DIFFERENCE.

Donna Baver Rovito

Editor, Liability and Health Reform Update

Coordinator, PA Health Care Professionals for Romney/Ryan 2012

If you need more information about how Mitt Romney plans to handle health care, please go to this page on the campaign website:

http://www.mittromney.com/issues/health-care.

Also, if you Facebook, please "like" our page! Health Care Professionals for Romney Facebook Page:

http://www.facebook.com/HealthCareProfessionalsForRomneyRyan2012?ref=hl.

TEXT ONLY VERSION:

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Dear Patients,

Vote for Mitt Romney
Tom Smith for Senate
                                                                                                  Your Doctors
                                                                                  in Pennsylvania & New Jersey

Insights from Practicing Physicians

Every doctor knows that for a treatment to be effective, an accurate diagnosis first must be made- not of the symptoms- but of the disease process causing the symptoms. For therapy to be effective, the treatment must be carefully targeted - and eliminate the cause. The cause of today's US health care crisis is not "too little government". It is "too much government" - and the wrong kind.

We write this letter to you and the other readers of this newspaper to express our *alarm* regarding the President's new health insurance law, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) known as ObamaCare.

We urge you to vote for candidates like Mitt Romney and Tom Smith who have vowed to repeal it and replace it with reform plans that evict the government from our medical offices and examination rooms.

SENIORS: Alarming Problems Made Life Threatening

There is already a looming doctor shortage of more than 100,000 physicians in the next ten years. Many of you on Medicare are already facing difficulty finding a doctor. Now it will become far worse.

The law takes $716 billion out of Medicare over 10 years to help fund a huge expansion of taxpayer subsidies for health coverage. Drastic , below-cost, Medicare cuts will force increasing numbers of doctors and hospitals to drop Medicare or unable to accept new Medicare patients.

Universal coverage is meaningless if you have to wait months for an appointment or can not find a doctor at all.

ObamaCare Fails its Primary Goal - Universal Coverage

For these and many other reasons, the physicians who signed this letter and thousands more across the nation believe that the PPACA (ObamaCare) must be repealed. It is dangerous to your health and the financial health and well being of this country.

It must be replaced with patient-centered (not bureaucrat-centered) reforms which will preserve the patient-physician relationship, and enhance high quality, affordable health care.

Detailed, alternative economically sound, responsible reform plans are available and would achieve these goals, but the law must be first over-turned by removing President Obama and all of his other supporters of this dangerous law from elected office and paving the way for real reform.

Some of the Worst ObamaCare Rumors are True

"Bureaucrats & Non-Physician Panels Dictate Health Care Policy" When fully implemented, ObamaCare will create a myriad of new federal boards, agencies, commissions and panels - 159 and counting- to over-see and which can over-rule our medical judgement and affect your care.

"Death Panels that withhold care from too old or too sick" The Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB): 15 unelected bureaucrats (who do not have to be medical professionals), will be tasked with reducing Medicare spending, mostly by determining payment cuts for seniors' care. These determinations cannot be challenged except by Congressional action, thereby making health care a political football every election, since their rulings will determine what procedures and care Medicare will fund - and, more importantly, what it will NOT fund.

After passing a 2,000 page law, writing over 12,000 pages of regulations (so far), and spending trillions of dollars over the next decade, the Government Congressional Budget Office (CBO) reports that 26 million Americans will still not have coverage.

Doctors & Politics Don't Mix

Doctors don't spend 13 years or more training to treat patients to offend half with our politics. Most of us have been silent.

Mountains of government regulations and restrictions piled on relentlessly over the past 50 years have driven up the prices of medical services, and the cost of health insurance beyond the affordable range for many. Most of us have been silent.

They have created protected monolithic in-state monopolies of third party payer companies employing armies of life time government and pseudo-governmental paper-pushing middlemen: billers, coders, and auditors who add to the cost, but not the quality of our medical services as doctors. Most of us have been silent.

The miracle of modern American medicine is directly tied to the miracle of America. The same freedoms that made the microwave oven, the iPad, and the internet created an enviroment that made American medicine the envy of the earth.

The free market combined with our hippocratic oath brought health outcomes to America that still draw the sick from around the world and fuel our armies of compassion with therapies and cures across the globe.

Silent No More...

The Democrats in this season of America's political life will not listen to the Physicians actually practicing medicine.

Your Doctors have come together - an unprecedented action - to ask our patients to vote them out of office - before it's too late.

We are asking you to vote ONLY for candidates that pledge to repeal ObamaCare.

For this election we are asking you to vote for:

Mitt Romney for President

Tom Smith for Senate in PA

Doctors are silent no more. We urge all those who read this letter to vote for candidates who have promised to repeal ObamaCare.

As your physicians, we wish you the best and the wisdom to choose wisely in the upcoming election. Your health and the future of this country depend on it.

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George Chovanes, MD
Neurosurgery, Paoli, PA

Bhaskar Deb, MD, Anesthesia, Reading, PA

Elizabeth Eelkema, MD
Diagnostic Radiology, Pittsburgh, PA

James C. Edwards, MD, PhD
Emergency Medicine, Clearfield,, PA

Cora Gemil, MD
Gynecology, West Chester, PA

Harold J. Goldfarb, MD
Opthalmology, Allentown, PA

Michael J Gratch MD
Orthopaedic Surgery, Willow Grove, PA

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Family Medicine, Aldan, PA

David M Junkin, MD
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Joel Kravitz, DO
Family Practice, Bensalem, PA

Herb Kunkle, MD
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Howard Lee, MD
Pulmonology, Langhorne and Philadelphia, PA

Richard Leshner, DO
Cardiology, Langhorne, PA

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Cardiology, Media, PA

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Orthopaedic Surgery, Reading, PA

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Radiology, Philadelphia, PA

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Endocrinology, Gettysburg, PA

Jose Moreno, MD
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Herbert J. Nevyas, MD
Opthalmology, Bala Cynwyd, PA

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Family Practice, York, PA

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Scot Paris, MD, FACS
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Alan Schorr, DO
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Radiology, Bryn Mawr, PA

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Rheumatology, Philadelphia, PA

Adarsh Soni, MD
Emergency Medicine, Langhorne, PA

Ajay Soni, MD
Ophthalmology, Langhorne, PA

Brad Stoltz, DO
Family Practice, Feasterville, PA

Craig M. Wax, DO
Family Practice, Mullica Hill, NJ

Scott Yarmark, DO
Family Practice, Norristown

The Blaze | by Jason Howerton | Posted on November 5, 2012 at 1:10am  

A scathing video review of President Barack Obama's first term is sweeping the internet less than two days before the most important presidential election in a generation. The video, titled "Conservatism Is Calling," outlines Obama's broken promise to bring "hope and change" to Washington D.C.

The video, which currently has more than 500,000 views on YouTube, also highlights a number of Obama's empty pledges he made on the campaign trail in 2008. Obama can be seen promising to "fundamentally transform the United States of America," pledging to cut the federal deficit in half, fix the economy and reign in unemployment in his first term. While he did make good on his promise to "transform" the nation, it wasn't in the way that many had hoped.

He called the Bush administration "unpatriotic" for running up massive annual deficits. However, as the YouTube video points out, Obama's deficit at $1.3 trillion in 2012 alone was more than four years under former President George W. Bush combined. The video also indicates that Obama missed his pledge to cut the deficit in half by 500 percent.

CONSERVATISM IS CALLING

Read More . . . 

ELECTION WEEK ON THEBLAZE TV!

TheBlaze TV is the network that you are building, with the Election Coverage that you need to see. Beginning THIS THURSDAY, TheBlaze TV will bring you special election programming. You aren't going to want to miss any of it!

As a subscriber to TheBlaze TV Plus, you will get EXCLUSIVE news and analysis and in-depth coverage of the election -- including the premiere of The Machine, Glenn's "America at a Crossroads" special, and MUCH more.

Grab on to the truth with this Election Week special programming, exclusively for TheBlaze TV Plus subscribers.

ATTENTION ALL PATRIOTS!!

THE VALLEY FORGE PATRIOTS MONTHLY MEETING WILL BE HELD ON FRIDAY,

NOVEMBER 9^TH 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.

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  

www.PAPastors.net 

Sam@PAPastors.com 610.584.1096 

 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.

( You can find more information please see http://mobilewebguard.com )

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, sexual sin 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 4:7-10 The 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.

  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.

  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).

Get Started Here!

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.

  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.

  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!

Get Started Here!

  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.

Guy Rodgers  

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!  

NO HIGHER POWER 'mini documentary' video

The video is produced, ready to go, and I need your help in three important ways . . .

1. 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.
2. 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
3. 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 film is also still available in limited theaters. Click here to see where it's playing.

Thank you.

In Liberty,

Matt Kibbe 
President and CEO, FreedomWorks

I am excited to announce that the new, highly acclaimed documentary "The Hope and The Change" will be broadcast on multiple cable and broadcast TV networks  - beginning tomorrow night, Tuesday, September 17th, on HDNet Movies at 7pm ET (click here for information on checking your local listings for the channel and schedule.)

"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.

Buy Our Sacred Honor on DVD right now at our website www.OurSacredHonorMovie.com!

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.

Our Sacred Honor is available right NOW on DVD - be the first to own this compelling historical documentary by ordering TODAY!

Sincerely,

David N. Bossie
President of Citizens United

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.

For more information on how to watch on VOD please click HERE.

"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.

Please check your local cable provider to see if "Occupy Unmasked" is available on demand on your TV or download and watch the film online.

Sincerely,

David N. Bossie

Memorial Lecture 

Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2013 

7:30pm 

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.

Dear Fellow Conservative,
 
Registration for CPAC 2013 is now open!  The American Conservative Union's legendary annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) is scheduled for March 14-16, 2013 at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center.    

Register Now for CPAC 2013
Don't miss your chance to help take our country back to the right.  To register now and reserve your space, visit conservative.org.

Join the Celebration
In honor of CPAC's 40th Anniversary, we look forward to joining conservatives from across the nation for CPAC 2013, celebrating the accomplishments of the movement while also energizing the next generation of conservatives.

New Location
CPAC 2013 boasts a new location at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center.  Complimentary CPAC shuttle busses to and from the Gaylord Center will be available at convenient locations across the National Capitol Region.  Details will be released in the coming weeks; please visit conservative.org for updates.

CPAC Past & Present
The ACU has hosted CPAC in the Nation's Capital since 1973, and it now stands as the largest annual gathering of conservatives in the country. Additionally, the ACU this year hosted two regional CPACs designed to energize and mobilize Midwest and Mountain West conservatives, giving them the tools needed to defeat the liberal agenda in 2012 while also highlighting rising conservative stars and issues in the region.  Stay tuned for details on 2013 regional CPAC locations!

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

Jul 18th, 2012 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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"Losing our Sons": Documentary looks at domestic Islamic radicalization and jihadization

Charles Jacobs at Americans for Peace and Tolerance announced today the release of a trailer for their upcoming documentary, "Losing Our Sons", featuring Melvin Bledsoe - father of domestic terrorist Carlos Bledsoe aka Abdulhakim Mohamed who gunned down US Army recruiter Pvt. William Long at an Army-Navy recruiting center in Little Rock, Arkansas in June 2009. Melvin Bledsoe testified at the House Homeland Security Committee hearing earlier this month.

The upcoming documentary discusses how Bledsoe was radicalized by the Muslim Student Association in Tennessee and sent to terrorist training in Yemen with the written recommendation of the imam of a Nashville mosque. It also discusses how the agents of radicalization in the Nashville Muslim community have been aided by collaborators in the establishment media, politics and the so-called "interfaith" community.

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Seniors better wake up to the dangers of Obmacare.

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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.)

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October 2012 

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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Stop The U.N. From Influencing Our Election!

The international community is thrilled with Barack Obama and the United Nations, especially, loves his weakness. They would love to see him in control for another four years. That is why the U.N. Special Rapporteur on Counter-Terrorism and Human Rights has warned Americans not to elect Mitt Romney because to do so would be "a democratic mandate for torture." Just as Obama uses "emergencies" to impose his radical agenda, the United Nations is claiming the American people will be much less safe if Romney is elected, because he has refused to rule out the use of waterboarding in interrogating terror suspects.

The U.N. apparently did not notice, or do not care, that our Libyan Ambassador and three of his American colleagues were recently killed because the Obama administration did nothing. To the U.N., the United States of America are the terrorists.

In all their actions, the U.N. has put us on notice that we are on the verge of a takeover by them. Little by little, global bureaucrats, emboldened by the encouragement of our current President, are looking for ways to regulate and weaken the American way of life. One of the first places they can start is by tampering with our elections!

The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) is running a "mission" to monitor our 2012 elections and report back to the international community about their security and integrity. These monitors from the U.N. were asked to be here by the ACLU, NAACP and The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights because these liberal groups are concerned about "a coordinated political effort to disenfranchise millions of Americans - particularly traditionally disenfranchised groups like minorities."

If they truly want to examine the voter suppression, they could talk about the voting machines in swing states that have been erroneously registering votes for Obama after the voter pulled the switch for Romney. But of course, they aren't interested in that; they only want Barack Obama to win. Freedom and democracy are not an issue. They have spent the year arguing against voter ID laws. And now the U.N. representatives sent to oversee our voting process hail from liberal and oppressed countries like France (which elected the Socialist Party this year) and "not free" or "partly free" countries like Belarus and Kazakhstan.

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The United Nations has no business butting into our affairs, but they continue to paint us as the enemy and remain quite disdainful of our capitalist society. Their definition of "social justice" is taking America's wealth and redistributing it around the world-and then, rearranging our society to ensure no one ever acquires wealth again! And, of course, they expect us to fund whatever program they come up with. Barack Obama believes wholly in this vision of redistribution.

Now, two weeks before our very important presidential election, the United Nations is weighing in on what THEY BELIEVE American voters should do. And they have sent representatives working hand in hand with far Left organizations to see that their interests are satisfied.

States like Texas and Iowa are fighting back, warning that OSCE observers will be arrested if they violate state election law and come within 100 feet of polling places (in Texas) and 300 feet (in Iowa).

Iowa Secretary of State Matt Schultz said, "Iowa law is very specific about who is permitted at polling places, and there is no exception for members of this group." And Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott said, "[G]roups and individuals from outside the United States do not have jurisdiction to interfere with Texas elections."

But Barack Obama's administration jumped in and said U.N. observers have "full immunity" from being arrested. Obama is more interested in protecting his job and the rights of international workers than he is a citizen of the United States. That is why he is enjoying very high approval ratings around the world, but not here at home where it matters.

Fax Congress Now! 

The United Nations is working behind the scenes of communities across America, with the support of George Soros, to fundamentally change the way you live. The U.N. passed their Small Arms Treaty weeks ago, which will disarm and weaken America. The International Telecommunications Union is going to meet next month to discuss an international Internet fee. Agenda 21 is being implemented now in many towns across America, forcing regulatory changes in the name of "sustainability" that will impact your property rights, your transportation options, and even how many children you choose to have. If we do not get Congress to act soon, we will witness United Nations rule!

It may seem crazy that our "leaders" would allow a world body like the United Nations to decimate our rights, but it is definitely not out of the question, especially with Barack Obama in the White House! He was raised by people who disliked what America stood for, and all his actions and associations since then have demonstrated that he does not identify with the United States, nor does he feel pride in the American culture.

Please help Conservative Daily fight for the passage of S. 2205 and H.R. 4846, bills that will protect our Second Amendment from any U.N. treaty and keep our sovereignty in place. We need to pass these bills and other legislation like it that keeps our Constitution the supreme law of the land and kicks international bureaucrats out of our government!

Our current President will not honor our Constitution or the Founders' ideals for America, and he will certainly not place boundaries on U.N. involvement in our affairs. He has proven that during this election season by backing up United Nations officials and not American states that are trying to run a fair, democratic process!

Congress needs to get engaged on these issues, and quickly. As proud citizens of this great nation, we must fight for our Constitution and remind our leaders to do the same.

Fax Congress Now! 

Sincerely,

Tony Adkins
Conservative-Daily

Union thugs arrested for theft of Romney signs 

PA Coalition members across Pennsylvania are reporting massive thefts of Romney/Ryan signs, in many cases directly out of private yards.

Folks,

Forgive my intrusion into your life on a weekend, but after mulling it over, I wanted to go on and send this to you.  Consider it, if nothing else, a weekend devotional.

I believe Mitt Romney will win on election day. I'm somewhat stunned to be writing that as I never really thought he could win until about the moment Clint Eastwood trotted out on stage at the Republican National Convention with that empty chair. Even now I waver by the hour, but if forced to predict, I think Romney wins Florida, North Carolina, Virginia, Colorado, Wisconsin, and even Ohio. I put the Electoral College at 285 to 253. Ask me tomorrow, though, and I could decide otherwise. I cast my absentee ballot last week and voted for Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan.

I write the rest of this now because if Romney loses, it will be viewed as "Erickson is trying to talk them off the ledge" and if Romney wins it will be viewed as "Erickson is rubbing salt in wounds." Neither is true, which is why this must come before the election and not after.

I get the enormity of what is at stake in the election. I get it. I really do. I get the passion. I get the excitement. But, and maybe I'm just too worn out, I don't get the anger, worry, and dread on either side. I have friends upset with me for not getting it and for not sharing it. "Don't you know what is at stake?" they demand.

Don't you know what is not at stake?

People on the left are convinced if Mitt Romney wins blacks will be put in chains out in cotton fields and uteruses will be locked up.

People on the right are convinced if Barack Obama wins the stars and stripes will come down, the red banner of communism will go up, and this American experiment will be promptly concluded.

My world view is pretty simple. I think this world is destined to go to hell in a hand basket by design. I think things are supposed to go to pot. So if Barack Obama wins, I won't be upset. If Mitt Romney wins, I won't be running through the streets cheering. I think, either way, it is all part of the design. The world is going down hill. Barack Obama re-elected just gets us down the slippery slope faster in my view. For others, it is Mitt Romney who does.

God is sovereign and He is in charge and He will return. That is my hope and my ever present expectation.

We often get so wrapped up in the view of things at ground level, we forget to look at the world from 50,000 feet. In the historic, grand scheme of things, this too will end.

Don't confuse me with a fatalist and don't confuse me with someone who does not really care about the future of our nation. I think we are the last best hope of mankind on this planet. But my destiny is not tied to this planet. While I am here, however, I have convictions that are greater than either candidate and either party and I fight more for a cause than a candidate. I expect, regardless of who is in the White House, I'll find myself at odds with them, though more so with Obama than Romney.

When I wake up on Wednesday morning, I'm still going to have my wife. I'm still going to have my kids. I'm still going to have my family. And I'm still going to have my God. So will you.

Some of you, on both sides, are convinced that the end of the world is nigh. It is. But not quite yet and no one really knows when.

What I do know for sure is that I'm headed home to eternity and this world is temporary. So while I like politics and have my side and want it to win, I'm not going to be partying in the street if my side does win and I'm not going to think the end of the world is upon us if my side loses.

You should not either.

Too many of my friends have gotten so focused on the outcome and are so convinced the country as they know it is over if the other side wins that they are joyless to be around right now. They are full of dread and worry and fear. They've lost their sense of humor. They cannot laugh at themselves, their side, or much of anything. They are mad at others, myself included, for not being as worked up as they are. The frenzy has become a purity test, not the conviction.

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For November 5, 2012

1. No, Independents Are Not Just Discouraged Republicans

2. An Election Night Primer on the House Races

There's been a lot of attention focused on the race for the Senate this year.  The House races, on the other hand, have become a forgotten footnote on the 2012 election map.  The reason is quite simple: Republicans will retain control of the House, irrespective of the outcome of the presidential election.

At present, Republicans control 242 seats and Democrats control 193 seats (a few of the seats are actually vacant due to early resignations.)  Democrats would have to enjoy a wave election in order to bridge the 25-seat gap, and at this point, the election is at best a wash.  Due to the aggressive redistricting efforts on the part  . . . please click here for the rest of the post →

3.  Private Emails From Texas Speaker Joe Straus's Office Reveal War Against Conservatives

RedState has uncovered never-before-seen, profanity-laden e-mails between senior staff and legislative lieutenants of Texas' liberal GOP House Speaker Joe Straus demonstrating disrespect for, and even hostility towards, grassroots activists and conservative lawmakers.

Tea party activists are called "idiots," allies of U.S. Rep. Joe Barton are called "mother f***ers," and decorated U.S. Marine and State Rep. Van Taylor is dismissed as "stupid," by a top Straus political strategist. . . . please click here for the rest of the post → 

4.  Wisconsin Early Voting Gains Solid in GOP Areas

Preliminary and limited data samples indicate that in Wisconsin early voting has tended to increase more in Republican leaning areas than Democratic leaning areas headed into the November 6th election. Wisconsin does not track voters with partisan voter registration and all early voting reporting is done at the municipal level, making it difficult to gather broad samples of early voting data headed into the final weekend of the campaign. What the limited data does show is that early voters in traditional GOP strongholds are turning out in higher numbers than in 2008, while Democratic strongholds are turning out a statistically smaller increase.  . . . please click here for the rest of the post → 

5. FieldWorks, SEIU, AFL-CIO, Colorado Civic Engagement Roundtable, and Colorado's ACORN Ground Game

A coalition of unions has coordinated with FieldWorks, a Washington-based consulting firm, to provide ground support for President Obama and liberal Colorado candidates. The Service Employees International Union (SEIU), AFL-CIO and the Colorado Civic Engagement Roundtable have retained FieldWorks, an organization with many similarities to the now-defunct Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), according to documents uncovered by Media Trackers.

FOX News is now reporting that Ohio officials are reviewing "roughly 200 voter registrations that election officials say were flagged as possibly fraudulent, forged, or duplicated by the group that collected them, FieldWorks, a private Washington, D.C. based firm."  . . . please click here for the rest of the post → 

6. 'Eco-Taxes' Planned for a Second Obama Term?

The issue of Climate Change has been a no-show in the 2012 election cycle; one would think that ManBearPig had been named an endangered species. But a two-year study commisioned by Barack Obama's Treasury Department will recommend ways to "green" the tax code by using it to craft disincentives for creating carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. . . . please click here for the rest of the post → 

7. So, The IBEW Really Did Put Unionization Ahead of Hurricane Recovery Efforts

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Reagan 2.0
Stuart Schwartz
By the end of the week, a thankful nation will settle down to anticipate the hope and change that will accrue from the presidency of a Ronald Reagan for a new generation: Mitt Romney. More

The Election Will Not Be Close
Monty Pelerin
This country may be down and its people hurting, but it is not out. People understand that conditions need not be this way, and they are about to impose their remediation on Washington. More

Stand Up for What America Has and Is
Miriam Adelson
Make no mistake: this election is for the future of the American family -- for values, for responsibilities, for hope for our kids. More

Obama: A Man Without a Conscience
Daren Jonescu
If a sane man lacks a capacity for stopping or rebuking himself, then we say he has no conscience. Barack Obama has long been a candidate for inclusion in the category of the conscienceless. More

A Day Away
William L. Gensert
On November 6, I will cast my ballot for Mitt Romney and the promise of tomorrow. Everyone who feels the same -- and we are legion -- should get up and out on Election Day. More

Politicians Promise to Help Israel: Will It Be Too Little, Too Late?
Steve Feldman
Defending Israel after the fact is simply no defense at all. Policy must be to pre-empt Israel's enemies and, beyond that, remove the threat to Israel in its entirety. More

The Malignant Narcissist and the Benghazi 'Snuff Film'
Fay Voshell
What sort of man could watch Americans fighting and dying while his administration gives the order for rescuers to "stand down"? More

Illegal 'DREAMers' Campaigning for Democrats
Tom Tancredo
Despite the fact that they face absolutely no repercussions for their illegal presence or their interference in our electoral process, illegal immigrants act as if they are the victims of terrible oppression because they cannot vote. More

Claire McCaskill: 'Other People's Money' and Marijuana
Jon N. Hall
That a sitting U.S. senator who has spent trillions of dollars we don't have would cheat on her taxes should be disqualifying. More

Some American Jews Have Short-Term Memory Loss
Jerrold L. Sobel
A large segment of the Jewish population either couldn't care less or does indeed have short-term memory loss regarding Barack Obama's dealings with Israel. More

A National Security Hybrid
Lee DeCovnick
B.H. Obama has issued 139 executive orders since becoming president. Some are fairly benign; many are deeply troubling, specifically as to the wholesale consolidation of emergency powers into the office of the presidency. More

Understanding the Right to Life
Paul Pauker
It seems that the only way to make the pro-life movement absurd is by getting everything about it wrong. More

The Worst News from Benghazi
James Lewis
The most damning Benghazi revelation is the Obama policy that led to the disaster: Obama's four-year policy of secretly supporting violent Islamists against civilized Muslims. More

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Choosing the Right Path
November 5, 2012
One of two Americas will emerge on 7 November, and I hope and pray that it is the right America. More

Debt and Deceit
November 5, 2012
Mitt Romney has actually balanced several budgets in his time. He was, in fact, so good at balancing budgets that he was hired to balance budgets and earned his living balancing budgets. More

Polls Schmolls -- There's a Better Way to Predict Presidential Election Results
November 5, 2012
All too often, polls no longer seem to reflect demographic reality or eventual election results. More

Skewed Polling Meets Energized Conservatives
November 5, 2012
When you dig into the poll numbers themselves, the president really is in dire straits. More

Viva Agustin!
November 5, 2012
You have probably never heard of Agustin Blazquez. It is way past time that you did, for Mr. Blazquez has been one of our cause's unsung heroes for decades. Agustin fled his native Cuba as a young man in 1965.... More

Swearing by Apollo
November 5, 2012
As is well known, the Hippocratic Oath forbids abortion. Heffernan does not deny this fact. She merely attempts to go deeper into the "proper context." More

A Question of Honor
November 5, 2012
Do you really think for one minute that any of those responsible for this fiasco cared more about the fate of four Americans than the negative impact it might have on their own political careers? More

Obama Lost the Battle of Benghazi
November 4, 2012
Hollywood is trying to really embellish President's Obama role in the SEAL raid that killed Osama bin Laden. Benghazi reveals a man personally paralyzed in action during a battle in which Americans were attacked, overrun and killed. More

It's second thoughts Sunday for 2008 Obama supporters
November 4, 2012
Today looks like a very bad day for President Obama's campaign, as former 2008 supporters are having second thoughts. More

'I believe that Obama murdered my son'
November 4, 2012
Mother of slain diplomat echoes charges made by murdered CIA operative's father. More

NAACP Takes Over Houston Polling Place
November 4, 2012
Clear violation of the law. More

New PA poll shows dead heat; Romney up in new MI poll
November 4, 2012
President fails to hit 50% in any national tracking poll. More

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Saturday Nov. 3, 2012 

The Obama Doctrine: American Lives Are Expendable

11-03-2012 02:04:50 AM

Denying air support is what we do under President Obama. The official American policy is to avert civilian casualties in Muslim countries at any cost....»

Cowardly Lying

11-03-2012 02:04:40 AM

Baghdad Bob had one big lie: Saddam was winning. Benghazi Barack has a myriad of little lies spinning a web of delusion and deceit with every telling....»

Obama's Appeal: Clueless Entitlement Addicts and Racists

11-03-2012 02:04:23 AM

Obama definitely has a never-give-up voting bloc, but those are not the people who define America....»

Unfolding Benghazi Disaster Destroying American Confidence

11-03-2012 02:04:20 AM

If you are an American warrior under Barack Obama, not only do you have to worry about the enemy, but you also need to wonder if the American government will have your back....»

How I Confronted Obama Biographer David Maraniss

11-03-2012 02:04:03 AM

There is something broken in America culture....»

General Ham Is Still Commander of U.S. Africa Command

11-03-2012 02:04:00 AM

But for how long?...»

Obama and the 'Repo Games' Voters

11-03-2012 02:03:56 AM

Once the repo man calms down these contestants, they seem like perfectly nice people, albeit without the social skills that exist among the middle class -- a term that in this sense describes certain cultural values and manners rather than a particular income bracket....»

The Class of the Race

11-03-2012 02:03:20 AM

Do Americans believe that it has taken four years to lay the foundation for success? Isn't that kind of hard to swallow when we have spent four years witnessing all the partying, campaigning, spending, vacationing, and golfing?...»

Has the 1% Caused Our Economic Woes?

11-03-2012 02:03:20 AM

Why this search for the rich bogeymen -- the so-called 1%? Even if there is some truth to the evil effects of wealth disparity, it obviously is only one of a complex of factors that have detrimental effects on the economy....»

Bloomberg's November Surprise

11-03-2012 02:02:50 AM

The multibillionaire mayor of New York City has combined bad climate science and bad politics, hoping to help swing the electorate toward re-electing Barack Obama....»

How Ideology Is Killing Education (and So Much Else)

11-03-2012 02:02:50 AM

Obsessing over the worst students in the education system is poison for our kids' development. And it's not an accident....»

Never Been So Happy to Be So Wrong

11-03-2012 02:02:50 AM

Obama's campaign is showing the signs of a presidency going down in flames: sputtering messaging, creepy ads comparing voting for Barack to losing your virginity, binders, Big Bird, polls collapsing, and a challenger who looks more like a president....»

Exceptional No More

11-03-2012 02:01:30 AM

America has been exceptional for prioritizing civil and political human rights over social and economic rights. But over the past four years, America's human rights engagement has ceased to be exceptional in this regard....»

The Second Chance President

11-03-2012 02:01:25 AM

What does Barack Obama have to offer? "Give me more time -- just one more chance. Please." Not very inspiring....»

Stranded New Yorkers Are Defecating in Apartment Buildings

You Picked a Fine Time .... Obama (sung by OSU Students)

Secretary Of Business

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Biden vs. Biden

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American Crossroads: "Debate"

 

Friday, November 02, 2012

5 GENERALS & ADMIRALS SUPPORT OBAMA - HOW MANY FOR ROMNEY? ONLY ABOUT 300!

Arab Spring Has Reached Kuwait

by DR. SAMI ALRABAA October 31, 2012

More than 10.000 Kuwaitis gathered on the 21^st of October 2012, in front of Qasr el Seef, the administration center of the Emir, demanding real democracy in Kuwait. They also objected to the electoral "reform", which are intended to come up with a government-friendly parliament.

Most of Kuwaitis are not demanding the removal of Al Sabah family as rulers of the country, like the Egyptians, Tunisians, and Libyans did. They simply want to have a functioning democracy, representative and transparent. The majority of Kuwaitis want the prime minister and cabinet be appointed by a freely elected parliament and not one selected and imposed by the Emir.

Waleed Al Tabtaba'i, an Islamist opposition leader, came up with the slogan, "Have the Emirate and leave us the government."

Thus the Arab Spring has also reached Kuwait.

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The New Sharia Egypt

November 1, 2012 By Robert Spencer

The Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt announced Wednesday, according to the Associated Press, that it was "committed to enshrining Islamic Shariah law as the main source of a new constitution, seeking to mollify ultraconservative Islamists who accuse the group of not advocating strongly enough for Islamic rule." It is hard to see how anyone can accuse the Muslim Brotherhood of not acting quickly enough to bring Sharia to Egypt, but if the group was indeed hesitating in any way, it is no longer. And thus we shall soon come to the crowning end of Barack Obama's "Arab Spring" foreign policy.

Obama, it must be recalled, applauded the "Arab Spring" from the beginning. He spoke with satisfaction in February 2011 about "the peaceful transition to democracy" that was taking place in Egypt, and said that he was pleased that "the change that is taking place across the region is being driven by the people of the region. This change doesn't represent the work of the United States or any foreign power. It represents the aspirations of people who are seeking a better life." He vowed that "throughout this time of transition, the United States will continue to stand up for freedom, stand up for justice, and stand up for the dignity of all people."

The one thing the President didn't explain was his justification for believing that the Egyptian people actually cared as much as he assumed they did in principles and rights such as the freedom of speech and the dignity of all people, both of which are mitigated under Islamic law. Nor did Obama touch on why he assumed that they held an understanding of freedom and justice that was remotely comparable to that of the American constitutional system.

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Several days after the NCW (Egypt's "National Council of Women) lodged its complaint about the prospect of child marriage being enshrined in Egypt's new constitution, the Cairo-based Association for Freedom of Thought and Expression held a press conference to protest against the arrest by Egyptian authorities of atheist activist Alber Saber.

Saber, according to Egypt Independent, "was originally arrested over claims that he published the anti-Islam film 'Innocence of Muslims' on Facebook, but when it emerged that there was no evidence to support the claim, he was later charged on the basis of an atheist video that he had made." After Saber's Muslim neighbors heard the claim that he had shared the video on Facebook, a mob stormed his house - whereupon police arrested not the rioters, but Saber himself. Saber's mother, Kariman Meseha, explained: "Police forces told me that he would be taken to the police station to protect him from the angry mob, and that I could come by the police station the next day to receive him." But when she did, she found that he was being held on charges of blasphemy.

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The Sound of Silence in Mali

November 1, 2012 By Faith J. H. McDonnell

Sharia enforcers bring ugly, angry noises: Cries of "Allahu Akbar" as a church is attacked. Slashes of swords and blood-gargling death. The throb of Antonovs circling in the sky. The delicate swoosh of a cluster bomb before impact and release of deadly shrapnel and ball bearings. They leave in their wake the sounds of their victims: Cries of anguish. Wails of desolation and grief.

But Sharia enforcers also bring ugly and angry silence: The silence of freedom suppressed. The deadly pall of dreams extinguished. The sealed lips of unwilling submission and of death. And, in the recently overtaken West African nation of Mali, Sharia has brought an unexpected silence. It has stopped the music that is the lifeblood and identity of the country.

An October 23 Guardian article about the actions of the jihadists that have invaded northern Mali begins with a truckload of militants driving to the northern Mali desert town of Kidal, home of members of "Tinariwen," a Grammy award-winning band. In a country famous for its contributions to West African culture, the Islamists had come to implement a ban on all Western music.

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PASTOR UMAR MULINDE - ATTACKED BY MUSLIMS

Powerful message from a former Muslim, attacked by his own Family.  He has a message for us that he has paid dearly for.  This is a warning for all of us! (click image, 12 minutes, and worth every minute, though you can safely skip the first 25 seconds)

Dave

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Unemployment Is Up -- Will Obama Be Out?

"No country upon earth ever had it more in its power to attain these blessings than United America. Wondrously strange, then, and much to be regretted indeed would it be, were we to neglect the means and to depart from the road which Providence has pointed us to so plainly; I cannot believe it will ever come to pass." --George Washington

Is Obama sunk?

The much-awaited and final pre-election Bureau of Labor unemployment numbers were released this morning, and, for what that malleable number is worth, the rate ticked back up to 7.9 percent, taking some of the wind out of Barack Obama's "road to recovery" rhetoric.

Though Obama will find a way to take credit for private sector job growth with his socialist "we've created jobs" mantra, the fact is that job creation is more accurately a reflection of how resilient the private sector is despite Obama's interventionist economic policies.

As you recall, a few weeks before the Republican Convention in Tampa, Obama declared, "The private sector is doing fine," and insisted that we really need more government [read "union"] jobs. His Senate lap dog, Harry Reid, reiterated, "It's very clear that private sector jobs have been doing just fine. It's the public sector jobs where we've lost huge numbers." Actually, it's the public sector that's "doing just fine." That unemployment rate has fallen precipitously this year, and is now just 4.2 percent.

And tell black workers that things are "just fine." Unemployment among blacks was 13.4 percent in September but jumped to 14.3 percent in October -- almost a full percentage point.

As more Obama supporters remove their heads from their, er, sandboxes, Obama's propaganda machine is running full steam, endeavoring to complete a colossal makeover to maintain his "jobs president" façade in the remaining days of the campaign. That pig will require a lot of lipstick, given that four years of Obama's "stimulus programs" have produced 23 million unemployed or underemployed Americans and tens of millions more who are working but haven't received sufficient pay increases to even keep up with inflation.

Of course, the real "Obama tax" on the middle class is the fact that median household income has declined by $4,520 (8.2 percent) since Obama took office, a trend that continued in October. (Memo to Mitt -- might want to mention that a couple times over the next few days.)

All of those economic indicators would be much worse if not for the aforementioned private sector resilience.

Last week, as part of his "jobs" charade, Obama unveiled his phony, glossy brochure, "The New Economic Patriotism," a "plan" for jobs that will most assuredly seal the fate of our economy if he is re-elected. He's calling on Americans to "embrace a new economic patriotism," while Joe Biden has declared paying higher taxes to be our "patriotic duty."

It seems we recall some other socialists in Germany and Russia early in the last century who equated "patriotism" with "statism."

This week, Obama released his second term plan to establish a cabinet level "Department of Business." (Seriously, this was not a joke.) Of course, there's already a Department of Commerce and a Department of Labor, both of which do nothing but impede job growth. We suppose the "Department of Business" will be Obama's final nail in the coffin of free enterprise.

According to him, the new secretary of business would consolidate several business- and trade-related government agencies into one entity, a "one-stop shop" for oversight and regulation. He claims that this new department would allow businesses an opportunity to seek redress with the government regarding regulations, taxation and oversight. Of course, many businesses have already tried to communicate their concerns to the Obama administration, and the White House has extended nothing but a stiff arm. It's not only unlikely that yet another level of bureaucracy will help their plight, it's virtually impossible.

Mitt Romney's campaign gave perhaps the best response to Obama's half-baked idea: "We don't need a 'secretary of business.' We need a new president who actually understands business and won't punish it with the job-killing regulations that have been imposed by the Obama administration."

It's crystal clear that the election Tuesday is not between Romney and Obama but, as Mark Alexander outlined yesterday in "The Tipping Point," between Liberty and tyranny. If Romney is elected, he will face a monumental task to avert the "debt bomb" Obama has dropped on the economy. If Obama is re-elected, that debt bomb will most certainly fulfill his promise of "fundamentally transforming the United States of America."

What do you think?

'No Red Tape'? New Jersey Turns Away Non-union Relief Crews

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Friday, November 2, 2012

To: Friends & Supporters

From: Gary L. Bauer


COUNTDOWN TO VICTORY: 4 DAYS TO THE 2012 ELECTIONS -- 58 DAYS TO TAXMAGEDDON


Obama Leaves Sandy Victims Behind

Barack Obama has had his two days of photo ops and effusive praise from the governor of New Jersey. He hugged a lot of people and announced that all the usual red tape and bureaucracy would be suspended so that people and communities impacted by Sandy could be helped. In other words, he adopted the GOP platform of sweeping away big government. Why not make these new rules permanent, Mr. President?

After all his showboating, Obama left the disaster scene and the victims behind and returned to the campaign trail. Meanwhile, the news from New York is terrible. Reports do not show a disaster response that is up to the task.

Major hospitals and gas stations are without power. Families are "dumpster diving" for food. Temperatures are falling into the 30s at night. There are thousands of people who are stuck in high rise apartments. These folks seem invisible to the liberal media.

The Wall Street Journal reports that FEMA officials reassured us before Sandy hit that they had 400 industrial-sized generators ready to go. Three days later, perhaps only 70 are in use.


Ideology Over Results

The response to this storm shows the failures of the big government ideology. Perhaps the most important thing these folks need are workers and crews who can get power, heat and gas restored. Unbelievably, New Jersey refused to allow power crews from Alabama to help because they were non-union workers.

Forget about getting the job done. Even in the midst of a disaster, left-wing ideology (union solidarity) comes first!

That pretty well sums up the Obama Administration. In the midst of an economic disaster, he bailed out the auto unions, funded green energy boondoggles, and then spent the rest of his time trying to socialize our health care system. The left got what it wanted, while the taxpayers got stuck with the bill.

One of the biggest complaints we have heard since Sandy hit is the desperate need for improved infrastructure. Remember Obama's $800 stimulus bill? Wasn't that supposed to go to "shovel-ready" infrastructure projects? As it turns out, "shovel-ready" wasn't quite so "shovel-ready." I wonder what a few extra billion dollars of storm surge infrastructure could have done for New Jersey and New York.

To top it all off, Mayor Michael Bloomberg endorsed Barack Obama yesterday citing Hurricane Sandy as an example of the imminent threat we face from climate change. And what is the left's solution for climate change? The same solution to every problem -- higher taxes and bigger government.

Sandy was a powerful storm. But, as a reminder, this was only a Category 1 storm. It was not the only major storm to ever hit New York. Add Mayor Bloomberg to the list of liberals who don't know history.

Dr. Roger Pielke had an outstanding column yesterday putting Sandy in perspective. Three hurricanes -- each twice as powerful as Sandy -- hit the East Coast from August 1954 to August 1955. Remember how Al Gore and others told us after Katrina that such mega-storms would become the norm as a result of climate change? Here are the facts: No Category 3 hurricane has hit the mainland U.S. in seven years. Such a "hurricane drought" hasn't happened in more than one hundred years! So much for climate change's "new normal."


Hurricane Obama

One of the ways we measure the impact of a storm is the economic damage it causes to property and the cost to clean up afterwards. By some estimates, Sandy may have caused $50 billion in damage. That's a lot of money. But consider the economic damage of "Hurricane Obama." His annual $1 trillion-plus deficits are the equivalent of 20 Hurricane Sandy's hitting us each year!

Speaking of Obama's economic damage, the unemployment rate went up today to 7.9%. For the record, the unemployment rate is higher today after four years of Barack Obama than it was when he took office in January 2009 (7.8%).


Adopt A Voter

The polls heading into the final weekend before this historic election show the candidates virtually deadlocked. Hurricane Sandy appears to have blunted Mitt Romney's momentum. If that holds, we could have a very, very long night Tuesday, November 6th.

On Fox News yesterday former Secretary of State James Baker, who led George W. Bush's Florida recount team in 2000, warned that several states require recounts in close elections. If the results on Election Day mirror the polls, there could well be recounts not in one state, but multiple states. Imagine what happened in Florida 12 years ago happening in Ohio, in Iowa, in Wisconsin, in Nevada, in Colorado, in Pennsylvania, in New Hampshire, etc. The resulting tension, law suits, apathy and cynicism would be terrible for our republic.

The best way to avoid that nightmare scenario is for every conservative and every man and woman of faith to vote so that the Romney/Ryan ticket wins a landslide victory on November 6th!

Please make every effort in these last few days to reach out to friends and family members, neighbors, fellow worshippers, business associates, etc. Don't waste your time with die-hard liberals. Focus on those who haven't made up their minds or who may be soft in their support for Obama. Find just one more potential Republican voter and bring him or her our way.

Contact your local Republican Party headquarters and ask how you can help. Volunteer for conservative candidates this weekend. Make that extra phone call. Knock on that extra door.

The campaigns have spent their war chests. They have run their ads. They are holding their last rallies.

The future of our country and our values are at stake. That future now rests in your hands.
 

Friday, November 2, 2012

To: Friends & Supporters

From: Gary L. Bauer


"Can An Evangelical Christian Vote for a Mormon?"

In a recent edition of Decision magazine, Reverend Franklin Graham addressed a question that has popped into my Inbox from time to time over the past few months. His column was excellent, and I want to share it with you as we head into the final weekend before this critical election. Here's why.

We have been hearing rumors that there will be a major effort this weekend by fake groups to exploit religious bigotry. One way this might happen is for left-wing activists to blanket church parking lots, particularly in rural areas where the media won't notice, with fliers aimed at dissuading Christians from voting for a Mormon.

We saw some of this in a recent CNN interview in which an Obama surrogate suggested that Billy Graham was senile and said that Christians who supported Mitt Romney were bi-polar.

If you experience anything like that this weekend, I want you to be prepared and be able to respond. A very easy thing to do is to forward this message to friends who have asked you this very question. Share it with your pastor. Print this message, make copies and take some to church with you this weekend.

Yes, my friends, prayer is important. But I strongly believe that God works through His people! That means we must take action too! So please pray that men and women of faith would be responsible citizens and vote to defend our First Freedoms!

Below is Reverend Franklin Graham's column in its entirety.

Can An Evangelical Christian Vote for a Mormon?

by Franklin Graham

This question has stirred much debate. Historically, Christians have voted for candidates of different faiths, including Mormons, based on how they live their lives and how deeply committed they are to upholding the U.S. Constitution. Remember, God ordained government, and we are not electing a pastor-in-chief, we are electing a commander-in-chief.

George Washington was Episcopalian, Abraham Lincoln had no religious affiliation while he was president, John Kennedy was Catholic and Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton were outspoken Southern Baptists. Over a period of 223 years, our nation's cities and states have been governed by people of many different faiths, including Mormons from both the Democratic and Republican parties.

Orrin Hatch, a Mormon, has served this nation as an effective senator and George Romney, Gov. Mitt Romney's father, was one of the great governors of Michigan. His religion never interfered with governing, but his personal faith did define his strong marriage, family values and personal integrity. I believe this is the same for Gov. Mitt Romney. While there are major differences in the theology of evangelical Christians and that of Mormons, as well as those who practice the Catholic faith or the Jewish faith, we do share common values that are biblically based.

Americans must remember that while our nation was founded upon godly principles, we do not have a state religion. Rather, our Constitution provides for the freedom to worship without interference of government. Our forefathers shed their blood to win this right. We must be committed to electing a commander-in-chief who will protect this liberty and uphold the Constitution as one nation under God, and who will ensure God's moral law will not be violated by changing the law of the land.

We are at a profound crossroads. Our secularized society has shaken its fist in God's face and rejected His very name. Like Joseph and Daniel, we must not compromise when government clashes with the worship of God. We must not silence our voices to God's law. We must use our influence to elect those who will govern with respect for the sanctity of marriage as between one man and one woman; the sanctity of life; and yes, the protection of God's beloved nation Israel.

We must not cast votes for officials -- whether candidates of the Democratic, Republican, or Tea Party, or of a religious persuasion -- that are against these principles of God. We have, in the past, elected Christians who have defied some of these very principles.

We need something like what Jerry Falwell did in the 1980s. We need a "moral majority" -- made up of Christians, Jews, Mormons, Catholics and many others of faith -- to come together to take a stand for our religious freedoms and rights.

In recent days, President Clinton said that President Obama "has a plan to rebuild America from the ground up." But God-fearing Americans have no desire to see America rebuilt -- but rather restored. To "rebuild it" would be to create a new nation without God or perhaps under many gods. This was never the intent of those who shed their blood for the freedom to worship as "one nation under God."

I pray that all Christians and God-fearing Americans will put aside labels and vote for principles -- God's principles -- that for many years have resulted in His blessing upon our nation.

So, can a Christian vote for a Mormon? The answer is yes.

Bishops Issue Call To Defend Life And Liberty

Billy and Franklin Graham are not alone in their unprecedented involvement in this election.  America's Catholic bishops are rallying the faithful to defend their values from an unprecedented government assault against the Catholic Church and other religious institutions.

Several bishops have issued strongly-worded letters to their parishes. Yesterday the Catholic bishops of Pennsylvania released this letter warning "Religious liberty itself -- 'our first, most cherished freedom' -- is no longer secure."

Paul Lovedre, Bishop of Arlington, and Francis DiLorenzo, Bishop of Richmond, issued this letter to Catholic voters in Virginia.

Bishop Daniel Jenky of Peoria, Illinois, has instructed all parish priests to read a similar letter at weekend masses.   Click here to read Bishop Jenky's urgent message to Catholic voters.