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912 Patriots of Lower Bucks - Your Daily Updates ALL in ONE Place!
November 21, 2012
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It was the hard work of our people, the freedom they enjoyed and their faith in God that built this country and made it the envy of the world. In all of our great cities and towns evidence of the faith of our people is found: houses of worship of every denomination are among the oldest structures. While never willing to bow to a tyrant, our forefathers were always willing to get to their knees before God. When catastrophe threatened, they turned to God for deliverance. When the harvest was bountiful the first thought was thanksgiving to God.
~ Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan's Thanksgiving Day Address, 1985
"Good morning, everyone. You know, the Statue of Liberty and this wonderful holiday called Thanksgiving go together naturally because although as Americans we have many things for which to be thankful, none is more important than our liberty. Liberty: that quality of government, that brightness of mind and spirit for which the Pilgrim Fathers braved the seas and Americans for two centuries have laid down their lives.
"Today, while religion is suppressed in perhaps one third of the world, we Americans are free to worship the Almighty as we choose. While entire nations must endure the yoke of tyranny, we are free to speak our minds, to enjoy an unfettered and vigorous press, and to make government abide by the limits we deem just. While millions live behind walls, we remain free to travel throughout the land to share this precious day with those we love most deeply - the members of our families.
"My fellow Americans, let us keep this Thanksgiving Day sacred. Let us thank God for the bounty and goodness of our nation. And as a measure of our gratitude, let us rededicate ourselves to the preservation of this: the land of the free and the home of the brave.
"From the Reagan family to your family: happy Thanksgiving and God bless you all."
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Voters approve Agenda 21/Sustainable Development style bill in central Pennsylvania
On election day I was surprised to find a referendum in Ferguson Twp (State College area) that called for the voters to approve an "Environmental Bill of Rights," that would actually amend the township's home rule charter and, in many cases, seek to trump private property rights. The measure passed in Ferguson Twp, 4272 to 3896. The township board of supervisors is very much against this measure because it likely is counter to State laws on private property use. This sure sounded like an Agenda 21 - style effort so I did a little homework. Here is what I learned (below). Am wondering of any of you know more and if we at freedom works have any initiatives to counter these efforts?
According to the Centre Daily Times:
1. The measure outlines citizen rights to things like clean air, clean water, and sustainable communities. It also declares a ban on natural gas drilling and all actions related to the fracking industry.
2. Township Supervisor Drew Clemson said the board will meet with legal counsel and determine how to proceed. "When you read through the referendum point by point, there are portions that can possibly be unlawful to enforce," he said.
3. Members of Groundswell PA, a group advocating for sustainable communities, successfully petitioned to get the environmental bill of rights on the Nov. 6 ballot. The group did the same in State College last year, and voters approved the provision.
4. The measure would amend the township's home rule charter to state that residents have rights to clean air and water, self-government and a sustainable energy future. It also would ban hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, the process being used across the state to produce natural gas.
5. When the petition first was presented for inclusion on the ballot, Ferguson Township officials planned to file an injunction in county court, seeking a ruling on the question's constitutionality. However, solicitor Lewis Steinberg advised that residents must first have their say. If the bill of rights is approved, the township may decide to challenge it, if deemed appropriate.
6. "If the proposed amendment were to pass, Ferguson Township's Board of Supervisors would be placed in the untenable position of having to go to the expense of attempting to defend a law which it knew was not enforceable," Steinberg said in a township news release Wednesday.
7. The township information tells voters that the amendment would change "landowner rights, opens the (t)ownship to lawsuits, and puts the future of our community in financial jeopardy."
8. The project is primarily being advanced by Groundswell PA - web site below.
Read more here: http://www.centredaily.com/2012/10/31/3388210/ferguson-residents-to-vote-on.html#storylink=cpy
http://www.groundswell.gs/2012/04/08/braden-crooks-awarded-2012-progressive-of-the-year/
From Ferguson's Website:
http://www.twp.ferguson.pa.us/vertical/sites/%7B05D3E5D2-3A6D-43C7-8973-CFACCAF8911B%7D/uploads/10BOS_Minutes_Oct_15_2012.pdf
A debate about the topic:
http://cnet.pegcentral.com/player.php?video=ecdfd1b04d957a3f9857158d670b25e5
Appreciate any feedback!
Thanks
Rob Shearer
Centre County PA
A referendum related to environmental rights set for a vote in Ferguson Township has drawn some controversy between the township and the provision's supporters.
Members of Groundswell PA, a group advocating for sustainable communities, successfully petitioned to get an environmental bill of rights on the Nov. 6 ballot for potential acceptance by residents. The group did the same in State College last year, and voters approved the provision.
The measure would amend the township's home rule charter to state that residents have rights to clean air and water, self-government and a sustainable energy future. It also would ban hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, the process being used across the state to produce natural gas.
When the petition first was presented for inclusion on the ballot, Ferguson Township officials planned to file an injunction in county court, seeking a ruling on the question's constitutionality. However, solicitor Lewis Steinberg advised that residents must first have their say. If the bill of rights is approved, the township may decide to challenge it, if deemed appropriate.
Read more here: http://www.centredaily.com/2012/10/31/3388210/ferguson-residents-to-vote-on.html#storylink=cpy
Read more here: http://www.centredaily.com/2012/11/06/3394304/ferguson-township-approves-environmental.html#storylink=cpy
Read more here: http://www.centredaily.com/2012/11/06/3394304/ferguson-township-approves-environmental.html#storylink=cpy
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Hi Patriots,
How do you like the email subject? I can't claim that as my own. I got it from Jennifer Stefano.
I'm forwarding her email from last Friday. Jennifer Stefano is the State coordinator for Americans for Prosperity. This will give you a better understanding of AFP's effort,s to to lead in stopping "Obamadon'tcare" in PA. As well as update you on this weeks next steps - Pam for Jim and Tim
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Dear Friends,
GREAT work today! Thank you so much for making all those calls! Do you know that because you made the calls and then blasted your groups we made over 1,000 calls to the Governor and legislators today? IS THAT AMAZING OR WHAT?????
Now I know some of you feel you are getting conflicting information from your legislators or the Governor. That happens alot...but with the 2700 page Obamacare and its ramifications at the state level? It's going to happen ALL THE TIME.
So here what's happening now:
1.) Governor Corbett said he would allow the federal government to set up an exchange (which is what we want...see ourFAQ for why we support that position) but he is open to have the state set one up too. We think he may want to do a joint federal-state exchange. All of these positions have different deadlines. We reject all them OTHER than to have Corbett refuse to set up a state exchange ever and work with leadership to pass HB 2655 to remove any Governor's power to ever do so.
2.) We have to make sure the House re-introduces HB 2655 in the January session. But we can't wait until January. We have to keep the pressure on these legisators clear through Christmas. So, for the three days before Thanksgiving, we are going to go after FIVE LEGISLATORS that we think can not only re-introduce the bill, but also get it passed.
Governor Corbett is asking for clarification from the federal government (good luck) and crunching the numbers. Maybe you could save him some time by telling him he will come up short because Obamacare is a failure, no matter which way you slice it. Let's not rest on our laurels.
So here is what you have to do:
a.) Follow b. and c. below and then ask two people to do the same.
Be sure to share this only with people who support this cause.
b.) Give Governor Corbett a call at 717-787-2500 and tell him
you DO NOT WANT him to implement the exchanges. Ask him to support HB2655.
It is time for the Governor to stand for Pennsylvania and reject the creation of this exchange.
c.) Our efforts to pass HB 2655will be focused in the House. Please call your representative in the house and here are the names and numbers of the leadership you need to call. Don't worry if they are not in your district, call them anyway. If they are leaders in the General Assembly, then they need to focus on how all of Pennsylvania feels about HB 2655, not just their constituents.
House Speaker, Sam Smith: (717) 787-3845
House Majority Leader, Mike Turzai: (717) 772-9943
Caucus Chair: Sandra Major (717) 783-2910
Caucus Secretary: Mike Vereb: (717) 705-7164
Appropriations Chair, William Adolph (717) 787-1248
And don't forget to thank the sponsors of the bill, including the only person in leadership to sign on, House Whip Stan Saylor: (717) 783-6426.
Step 2: Prepare for the Lame Duck
My friends, the left wing agenda is bad for America. Elections do not change the mandate for all Americans to do what is best for our country. That's why I want you to gird your loins for December. We will do whatever it takes to bring our country back from this Obama-induced downward economic spiral.
Click here to learn more about the Lame Duck agenda.
Once again, thanks for all you do...and remember, KEEP GOING!
In Liberty and Solidarity,
Jennifer Stefano
State Director
@stefanospeaks
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Was The Boston Tea Party Terrorism? Texas Schools Are Teaching Just That (And More)
The Blaze | by Mike Opelka | Posted on November 20, 2012 at 5:06pm
 In less than a month (December 16th), we will mark the 239th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party. This well-known protest against "taxation without representation" is almost universally recognized as the moment that sparked the American Revolution.
In many Texas public schools, the Boston Tea Party is now being taught as an example of an act of terrorism.
Here's an excerpt from a Texas school system's World History / Social Studies lesson plan. It purports to be helping teachers become more efficient, but many people are upset with the content of the lesson and the lack of parental review. In this specific instance, teachers are instructed to read the story to their classes as if it were a news report that had just happened within the past hour:
News report: New Act of Terrorism A local militia, believed to be a terrorist organization, attacked the property of private citizens today at our nation's busiest port. Although no one was injured in the attack, a large quantity of merchandise, considered to be valuable to its owners and loathsome to the perpetrators, was destroyed. The terrorists, dressed in disguise and apparently intoxicated, were able to escape into the night with the help of local citizens who harbor these fugitives and conceal their identities from the authorities. It is believed that the terrorist attack was a response to the policies enacted by the occupying country's government. Even stronger policies are anticipated by the local citizens.
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Dems Seek to Expand and Redeploy Obama's Voter Data Mine: 'The Most Sophisticated Voter List in American Political History'
The Blaze | by Jason Howerton | Posted on November 20, 2012 at 6:10pm
The president of the United States has amassed a massive voter data mine with "files" on millions of American citizens. The president's presidential campaign utilized this data, including voters' magazine subscriptions, car registrations, housing values and hunting licenses, to formulate scores that help identify and motivate likely voters.
Yes, that would make a fantastic plot for a political thriller novel, but Barack Obama's voter database is real - and it's growing in size and implementation. Even though Obama won the election less than a month ago, Democrats already want to "expand and redeploy the most sophisticated voter list in American political history," The Washington Post reports. The Left will apparently start by using the database in the Virginia and New Jersey gubernational races in 2013 and then in various campaigns in the future.
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History Of The Democrats And The KKK.....(Why the Democrats started the KKK)
Free Republic | by IrishMike | August 06, 2009
 The original targets of the Ku Klux Klan were Republicans, both black and white, according to a new television program and book, which describe how the Democrats started the KKK and for decades harassed the GOP with lynchings and threats.
An estimated 3,446 blacks and 1,297 whites died at the end of KKK ropes from 1882 to 1964.
The documentation has been assembled by David Barton of Wallbuilders and published in his book "Setting the Record Straight: American History in Black & White," which reveals that not only did the Democrats work hand-in-glove with the Ku Klux Klan for generations, they started the KKK and endorsed its mayhem.
"Of all forms of violent intimidation, lynchings were by far the most effective," Barton said in his book. "Republicans often led the efforts to pass federal anti-lynching laws and their platforms consistently called for a ban on lynching. Democrats successfully blocked those bills and their platforms never did condemn lynchings."
Further, the first grand wizard of the KKK was honored at the 1868 Democratic National Convention, no Democrats voted for the 14th Amendment to grant citizenship to former slaves and, to this day, the party website ignores those decades of racism, he said.
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Dear Patriots,
We would like to take a few hours at the end of this year between the holidays of Thanksgiving and Christmas to gather with all of you, our dear friends and grassroots warriors, to remember the best that we all were and find inspiration for the best that we will be in the coming months and years.
Happy Thanksgiving everyone. Enjoy the Holiday and reflect on what we all can be grateful for.
Please join us at:
The Standard Club (Formerly "The Moose")
Thursday, December 20, 2012
7:00PM
Tickets: $25.00 includes appetizers, beer, wine and soft drinks. This is to cover the expenses of the party. Please RSVP to thekitchentablepatriots@gmail.comPlease send your checks to: The Kitchen Table Patriots
PO Box 3, Doylestown, PA 18901
Yours in Liberty, The Kitchen Table Patriots Team
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Memorial Lecture
Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2013
7:30pm
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The Annual Jay Michael Swartz Memorial Lecture: An Evening with Michael Medved
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 For Men and Women
Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2013
7:30pm
*Pre-lecture dinner 6:15pm
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AMERICAN JEWS AND CHRISTIAN EVANGELICALS: IRRECONCILABLE ENEMIES OR INEVITABLE ALLIES?
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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.
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Shalom ZOA Members, Friends and Supporters of Israel,
Please join us in a public display of solidarity with the people of Israel
This Friday, Nov. 23, beginning at noon, 19th St. and John F. Kennedy Blvd. (southwest corner - very important), Center City Philadelphia.
Full details in the graphic below.
Please let others know about this event.
Bring Israeli flags.
Bring American flags (Israel is America's ally)
Bring signs with positive messages in support of Israel or calling for the Arabs to stop firing rockets and terrorizing Israel.
Below the graphic is an excellent video and a couple news articles and analysis.
We have much to be thankful for this Thanksgiving. Though each casualty is horrific, thank G-d "Iron Dome" has been largely successful and the murder victims, injuries and destruction have been comparatively low thus far. Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family.
Note: Even if there is a "cease-fire," the threat to Israelis does not go away.
Great video: Reporter interrogates Israeli spokeswoman. She handles him beautifully. One to watch and share with others: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSV176FaXG4 Hamas - godless killers By David Horovitz (Times of Israel) Who are these people? They are, as they showed on Friday, people with no compunction about killing absolutely anybody. In firing missiles toward Jerusalem - firing indiscriminately, pushing themselves to the very limits of their deadly capabilities - they showed utter indifference to the lives of their own brothers, sisters, parents. Those rockets could have gone anywhere. They could have killed anyone. They were aimed at areas filled with Israelis and Palestinians, with Jews, Christians and Muslims. So what. Those rockets could have slammed into places holy to Jews, to Christians, and to Muslims. So what. http://www.timesofisrael.com/hamas-godless-killers/ Syrian Massacre Photos Recycled as Gaza Tragedy By Anav Silverman (Algemeiner) The Arab news site Alarab Net released a photo on Nov. 18 which depicts three bloodied children and their mother lying on a floor, who were allegedly "massacred" in Gaza. Tazpit News Agency found that the photo originally had been published on the Dubai-based Moheet news site on Oct. 19 with a story about Syria. Last week, Hamas' Al Qassam Brigades uploaded a photo of a dead child in his weeping father's arms, which was alleged to be the result of an IDF strike in Gaza. The American news site Breitbart found that the photo had originally appeared in a slideshow about the Syrian conflict in October in the UK Guardian. http://www.algemeiner.com/2012/11/18/another-photo-of-syrian-massacre-falsely-recycled-as-gaza-tragedy/ You should know and tell others that Israel is still sending electricity, fuel, food, medicine and other supplies to Gaza despite the attacks against Israel, and Israel continues to let Palestinian-Arabs from Gaza into Israel for medical treatment. This site, which documents these facts, is updated daily: http://www.cogat.idf.il/894-en/Matpash.aspx Please pray for Israel's men and women in uniform (see below) as well as for Israel's leaders to have the wisdom of Solomon.
He Who blessed our forefathers Abraham, Isaac and Jacob --
may He bless the fighters of the Israel Defense Forces, who stand guard over our land and the cities of our God, from the border of the Lebanon to the desert of Egypt,
and from the Great Sea unto the approach of the Aravah, on the land, in the air, and on the sea. May the Almighty cause the enemies who rise up against us to be struck down before them.
May the Holy One, Blessed is He, preserve and rescue our fighters from every trouble and distress
and from every plague and illness, and may He send blessing and success in their every endeavor. May He lead our enemies under our soldiers' sway and may He grant them salvation
and crown them with victory. And may there be fulfilled for them the verse:
For it is the Lord your God, Who goes with you to battle your enemies for you to save you. Now let us respond: Amen. |
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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.
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Individuals sympathetic to the Muslim Brotherhood's sinister agenda have infiltrated the Obama Administration.
Brainwashed by the Muslim Students Association and then propelled in to the position of Deputy Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the David Horowitz Freedom Center tracks the path of Huma Abedin and other Muslim sympathizers who have navigated their way into positions of great influence in the Obama Administration. Everything is revealed in the explosive new Freedom Center pamphlet, "The Muslim Brotherhood in the Obama Administration," written by Frank Gaffney, national security expert who served as Assistant Secretary of Defense under Ronald Reagan.
The David Horowitz Freedom Center is committed to educating the public on the Muslim Brotherhood's sinister Agenda. That is why we are giving away this pamphlet for FREE.
Go here:
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RedState Morning Briefing
For November 21, 2012
Folks, have a wonderful and happy Thanksgiving. I'm taking the rest of the week off and will be back in your inbox Monday morning. -- Erick
1. I Believe and Am Thankful
Marco Rubio is getting beaten up by the press for not decisively and convincingly saying he thinks the world is billions of years old. The press gave Barack Obama a pass for largely the same answer. This issue has become the new litmus test in the media for conservative politicians. Believing what was believed to be literally true for a few thousand years is now nutty. Christian homeschool kids, often taught that the world is not as old as some believe and who routinely kick the rear ends of the ivy prep kids in academics, are considered stupid.
Truth be told, I think the world is billions of years old, but I have no doubt God created it. . . .
But let's not stop with creation. Because once every Christian politician in the country has answered that question, the secular set will just move on. Let me move on first.
Yes, I believe there was an Adam and I believe there was an Eve.
Yes, I believe there were two cities named Sodom and Gomorrah and yes I do believe they were destroyed for rampant sin including deviating from God's intentions sexually.
Yes, I believe there was a man named Noah who spent 100 years building a giant boat and I do believe there was a great flood and the survivors of which were all on that boat.
And yes, I do believe there was a man named Jonah who was swallowed up by a great big fish and survived.
Above all those things, I do believe God came down to Earth in the form of Jesus . . . . I absolutely believe it. I absolutely believe if by that time a person has not chosen Christ, he will end up in a very bad place. I believe in Heaven and Hell and the battle that rages between the two on a higher plane than we can often see.
Meanwhile, these secularists and atheists cannot even be honest about when life begins. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
2. Um . . . Heck Yeah We Are the Latter "A deliberate choice is going to have to be made," he said. "Is RedState a news and information website, or is it an activist partisan Republican website pushing specific politicians? Regrettably, right now I think it's more the latter than the former." RedState is probably the most accurate barometer of the conservative movement outside Washington, D.C. We remain one of the few sites on the right where any conservative activist anywhere can create an account, get a diary, and write about what's on their mind as a conservative in fly over country engaged in the fight for freedom. I think we have two or three of the front page writers who actually live inside the beltway. The rest of us are from all over the country, including me down in Georgia. With few exceptions, all of our front page contributors began as regular readers of RedState who were inspired to start writing as activists on the site. We certainly provide news and information, but it is news and information conservatives are interested in and relevant to our mission. The mission is pretty damn simple: educate conservative activists by providing news and information relevant to the conservative movement, motivate conservative activists to get involved in the political process, and activate conservative activists within the political battlefield. . . . please click here for the rest of the post → 3. Chemical Safety Board Subpoenas Black Elk Energy re: the West Delta 32 Explosion and Fire We mourn the loss of life and pray for the missing worker. We wish the injured a speedy recovery. I am dismayed by a new development . . . please click here for the rest of the post → 4. Obama's EPA Continues Handouts for Rich Ethanol Farmers on the Backs of Consumers Nothing exemplifies the failure of Republicans to communicate more than the exit polling data regarding the public's perception of the cost of living. A whopping 37% of voters selected 'rising prices' as their most important issue in the election, yet amazingly, they split their votes evenly between Romney and Obama. Hence, the arsonist behind the high prices for food, fuel, healthcare, and every other vital product and service affected by his tax and regulatory regime, was regarded as the firefighter by half the electorate. The single most regressive market-distorting policy to ever emanate from Washington is the absurd tendentious treatment of ethanol. Over the past decade, ethanol has been the poster child for the worst aspects of big-government crony capitalism. The ethanol industry has used the fist of government to mandate that fuel blenders use their product, to subsidize their production with refundable tax credits, and to impose tariffs on more efficient sugar-based ethanol from Brazil. These policies have distorted the market for corn to such a degree that 44% of all corn grown in the country is diverted towards motor fuel blends. If we would literally flush half the corn harvest down the toilet, we would be better off than using it to make our motor fuel less efficient. . . . please click here for the rest of the post → 4. The Golden Calf of Increased Tax Rates Let me open by saying that if economics is a religion for you and your golden calf is government than you are already immune to logic and continuing with this piece any further is a waste of your time. It is with regret that I must preface this writing in such a way but I found during my nearly two-year campaign for the U.S. Senate in Maryland that no matter how powerful the argument against liberal economic policies there are some that are simply calcified in their beliefs. It is disturbing to watch a growing number of politicians, who fully understand the consequences of detrimental tax policy, begin to cower to those who perpetually yearn for more of your money. The current fight to hike tax rates flies in the face of logic and in the interests of keeping the argument simple I want to address it from three fronts, tax rates and their effects on behavior, what the study of economics tells us about tax rates and the morality of increasing tax rates. . . . please click here for the rest of the post → |
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Heritage Hotsheet
Experts on the Day's Hottest News
Items for November 21, 2012
The Wisdom of Upholding Tradition
The Wall Street Journal
Administration unveils health care regulations
USA Today
Starting in January, insurers will be unable to charge consumers more based on such factors as health status and occupation -- but smoking may cost you.
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November 21, 2012
The Santa Monica Nativity Scene Case: Why We Lost
William J. Becker, Jr
Lead counsel for the plaintiff Santa Monica Nativity Scenes Committee explains the loss. More
...And Then a Miracle Occurs.
James Lewis
Valley Forge. Gettysburg. The Soviet Threat. Conservatives are living in mourning, but we have survived worse than this. More
The Commander in Chief's Lack of Military Awareness
Shoshana Bryen
As the IDF does what it must, Americans should be concerned that their commander in chief so profoundly misunderstands what soldiers do and why they do it. More
Whither America?
Steve McCann
when a nation embarks on the road to massive government and control of the day-to-day lives of its citizens, the outcome has always been detrimental to the individual. Liberty and freedom are the first casualties. More
The Benghazi Slingshot
Cindy Simpson
Through all the speculation on Benghazi, the most important consideration remains ominously unexplored. More
The Only Clear Road Back for Republicans
The Drive-By Pundit
The despair on the right is real, but it needs to be tempered with a little optimism from the knowledge that reality always in the end trumps fantasy. More
Appealing to Latinos
Elise Cooper
Since many Hispanics have the same values as Republicans, the million-dollar question is how do Republicans appeal to the Latinos, and tackle the complicated immigration reform issue? More
American Thinker BlogCeasing Fire
November 21, 2012
How, when, and why Israel should cease fire on Gaza. More Blood and Tribalism
November 21, 2012
Tribal blood-dipping, like "honor killings" of women suspected of "improper behavior" is not really an Islamic ritual but a vestige of pre-Islamic tribalism. More Magical thinking about Amnesty
November 21, 2012
If immigrants boosted the tax base, then California would be the most successful state in the nation. More Michael Ledeen guests on Moran's show
November 20, 2012
Rich Baehr co-hosts for a discussion about the prospects for a cease fire in Gaza and other related issues.. More Maine's Mysterious Black Voters
November 20, 2012
Do Democrats really have to worry about being brazen? After all, history has taught them that there's little chance they'll be held accountable for vote fraud. More The Ineffectual Great Middle of the Road King Makers
November 20, 2012
Lack of principles and knowledge. More What Israel Must Do
November 20, 2012
Israel must choke off the endless supply of weapons and missiles into Gaza by repossessing the Philadelphi Corridor -- the narrow strip of land separating Egypt from the Gaza Strip More Gaza terrorist leader: Hamas rockets 'Iranian made'
November 20, 2012
It's clear that the Iranians are offering Hamas far more than "spiritual support." More Secretary Clinton travels to Middle East in last ditch attempt for cease fire
November 20, 2012
Cease fire by tonight? More Another food fight at Harvard
November 20, 2012
The price of diversity. More Media coverage of Obama turned positive the last week of the race
November 20, 2012
They didn't even try to hide their partisanship. More More Obama gaffes on trip to far east
November 20, 2012
Once again, democracy advocates thrown under the bus by Obama. More
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Until Friday, there were two possible explanations for why the White House failed to immediately call the Benghazi attack an act of terrorism. One was incompetence, the other was worse.
by MICHELLE MALKIN
The Obamacare waiver winner's club now totals 2,000. Where are they now?
by PETER BROOKES
We don't have all the details of former CIA Director Petraeus' testimony to congressional Intelligence Committees, but it looks like the American people were grossly misled about the Benghazi attack.
by MEGAN FOX
Almost all of our Founding Fathers, the most brilliant authors and orators of all time, were home-schooled.
by JANET LEVY
When Islamic advocate Ahmed Bedier traveled to Santa Clara County a few months ago to lend support for a proposed Islamic center, he declared that opposition to the mosque was "Islamophobic" in nature.
by GREGORY D. LEE
The California Dept. of Corrections announced it planned to begin a review of more than 9,200 outstanding arrest warrants of parole violators to determine if pursuing these convicted felons would be in the "interest of justice."
by DANIEL GREENFIELD
Seven years ago the Israeli government decided to forcibly evict the Jewish residents of Gaza and withdraw all bases and forces from the area.
by CLAUDIA ROSETT
Finally, President Obama has confirmed it was specifically "at the request of the White House" that on the Sunday after the Sept. 11 terrorist onslaught in Benghazi, Susan Rice, appeared as the face of his administration on five TV news talk shows to discuss this debacle.
by ADAM TURNER
Having the American Ambassador in Benghazi with no American security guards, poorly-trained, largely unarmed, and possibly Islamist-if not-al-Qaeda supportive Libyan security personnel, and no real secure consulate, is nothing short of scandalous.
by ALAN CARUBA
The attacks on Israel were ordered by Khamenei and the support for Syria's dictator Bashar Assad come from Khamenei.
Florida's election procedures are - still - a disaster in the making.
by STEVE EMERSON
Violence between Israeli Defense Forces and Palestinian terrorist organizations in Gaza this week is prompting the usual outcry from Islamist groups in America and abroad.
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Posted by Daniel Greenfield @ the Sultan Knish blog
The endless wars with Israel are not really about the Jewish State. Nor are the wars about the Arabs living in the territories that Israel lost in 1948 to Jordan and Egypt and recaptured from them in 1967. The rest of the Muslim world cares no more about them than Hitler cared about the Sudeten Germans or Japan really believed in the rights of Chinese and Koreans. Israel is a sideline in a regional struggle by fractured populations, divided by ethnicity and religion, by language and natural resources, to unite into a single commonality. It is a natural target because its population consists of a people who are members of a different religious and ethnic group than the dominant religious and ethnic groups of the region. Unlike the Persians and Turks, the Jews are not Muslims, not even Shiites, and unlike the Christian Arabs, the Jews are not even of the same ethnicity as the regional majority. Jews are neither Muslims nor Arabs and that makes them unique and alien in a region where every country is dominated by either an Arab or Muslim identity. Or both. To the Arab Nationalist, the Persian and Turk is an alien, but the Christian Arab is a brother. To the Islamist, the Christian Arab is a Dhimmi or an infidel, but the Turk is a brother in faith. But to both, the Jew and the Jewish State are an alien presence in the region that must be removed for their own version of regional unity to flourish. The Post-Colonial contest in the Middle East has been over how to unite the fractured ethnic minorities and the religious splits together into a single region. What do the tribal oil monarchies have in common with the former colonies ruled by military strongmen? What do any of them have in common with the Persians and the Turks? Uniting behind something is difficult, as even the Islamists must admit. Islam split over issues of succession not too long after Mohammed's death. But uniting against something is fairly easy. The Jews are the most alien of all the groups in the region. Unable to unite on love, the Middle East unites on hate and hating Israel gives everyone in the region a feeling of having something in common.
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Over the last five days, Hamas militants in Gaza have fired over 800 rockets at Israel. These rockets have reached the outer limits of the densely populated cities of Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.
The rockets are believed to have been smuggled into Gaza from Iran, and as The Heritage Foundation's James Phillips explains, "the increasing range and sophistication of Palestinian rockets has expanded the reach of terrorists, who now can threaten up to half of Israel's population."
So far, Israel has successfully intercepted 302 of the rockets fired at the nation through the use of their Iron Dome missile defense system.
In a statement earlier this week, President Obama said Israel has the right to defend its citizens, but cautioned Israel from engaging in a ground assault in Gaza. Phillips explains how this public statement was detrimental to the future of peace in the Middle East:
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This public statement will only strengthen Hamas's determination to continue its rocket terrorism and reap the propaganda benefits from Israeli retaliatory air strikes, because the President's statement lowers the perceived risks of an Israeli ground intervention. Moreover, it is continued Palestinian terrorism that is the chief barrier to peace, not Israel's legitimate efforts to protect its own citizens from indiscriminate Palestinian terrorist attacks... If they genuinely wanted to stop the bloodshed, then these leaders should pressure Hamas to stop the bombardment, which triggered the crisis.
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The United States needs to show it will stand with its Israeli ally against terrorism, and President Obama should speak to restraining Hamas, not Israel.
Do you think President Obama should show more support for Israel?
The Department of Energy gives grants to companies that produce clean energy. Recently the department gave nearly $1 million in grant funds to a battery company on the very day the company filed for bankruptcy. And where do the funds for the grant come? Your taxes.
The Heritage Foundation's Lachlan Markay, investigative reporter for Heritage's Center for Media and Public Policy, explains this grievous waste of taxpayer dollars was given to the battery making company, A123 Systems Inc.
The DOE agreed to give the company a $249 million clean energy grant, of which, as Lachlan explains: "As of November 14, $115.8 million of the A123's grant remained outstanding."
Click here to read more alarming facts about this irresponsible use of tax-payer dollars.
Twinkies, Ho Ho's, Dingdongs and CupCakes might soon become a thing of the past due to a Baker Union strike. According to the Hostess website, "Hostess Brands, Inc. has been forced by a Bakers Union strike to shut down all operations."
The Hostess factories are just one high profile example of unions wielding their power and intervening in the free market. In addition to a lack of Twinkies and Wonderbread, union strikes are causing upsets in other industries as well.
President Obama has been a long time ally of union leaders and made a point of taking one of his first meetings after re-election with union leaders who spent heavily in the past election.
What do you think about the closure of the Hostess factory and union power?
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Heritage Work of Note
- Over the weekend, The Heritage Foundation's James Sherk was featured on Fox Business's Willis Report to discuss the connection between Hostess's collapse and its union affiliation. Click here to watch the clip.
- The Heritage Foundation's Peter Brookes was featured recently on Fox's Hannity to discuss the 9/11 Benghazi attacks that led to the deaths of four Americans.
Click here to watch the entire segment with Brookes.
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No Higher Power: The Treacherous Trio of Myths Spawned
by "Separation of Church and State," II
With their victories in the 2012 elections, Reconstructionists (Liberals/Humanists) may be expected to intensify their attacks on America's Judeo-Christian foundations and our Judeo-Christian Constitution. The recent elections therefore make it even more imperative (if possible) that we Constitutionalists understand, and are prepared to repel, a group of the Reconstructionists' most potent weapons - the "treacherous Trio of Myths" - which we introduced in our last "Court Watch Briefing."
Spawned by the mythical idea of "separation of church and state," this "Treacherous Trio" includes the following: (1) There are no absolutes and therefore no inevitable, fixed relationships between different worldviews; (2) America must be a "pluralistic" (i.e., "diverse") nation - a culture embracing all different views and values concerning worldviews; (3) given propositions (1) and (2), we must be tolerant of the "diversity" in America. "Relativism" is a belief; "pluralism" is a condition; and "tolerance" is an attitude. In our last "Briefing," we demolished Myth #1 with Constitutionalist arguments supporting the "Absolutism of Relativism." In this "Briefing," we tackle Reconstructionists' propositions #2 and #3. First, we consider the "Dogma of Diversity" (i.e., "pluralism"). Reconstructionists profess an undying loyalty to "pluralism" or "diversity" which they purport to define as the peaceful coexistence in America of views and values which are disparate and sometimes polemically opposed to one another.
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The Truth About Gaza
I was wrong to support Israel's 'disengagement' from the Strip in 2005.
By BRET STEPHENS | The Wall Street Journal | November 19, 2012
Sometimes it behooves even a pundit to acknowledge his mistakes. In 2004 as editor of the Jerusalem Post, and in 2006 in this column, I made the case that Israel was smart to withdraw its soldiers and settlers from the Gaza Strip. I was wrong.
My error was to confuse a good argument with good policy; to suppose that mere self-justification is a form of strategic prudence. It isn't. Israel is obviously within its rights to defend itself now against a swarm of rockets and mortars from Gaza. But if it had maintained a military presence in the Strip, it would not now be living under this massive barrage.
Or, to put it another way: The diplomatic and public-relations benefit Israel derives from being able to defend itself from across a "border" and without having to get into an argument about settlements isn't worth the price Israelis have had to pay in lives and terror.
That is not the way it seemed to me in 2004, when then-Prime Minister Ariel Sharon decided to pull up stakes, reversing the very policy he had done so much to promote as a general and politician in the 1970s. Gaza, I argued, was vital neither to the Jewish state's security nor to its identity. It was a drain on Israel's moral, military, political and diplomatic resources. Getting out of the Strip meant shaving off nearly half of the Palestinian population (and the population with the highest birthrate), thereby largely solving Israel's demographic challenge.
Withdrawal also meant putting the notion of land-for-peace to a real-world test. Would Gazans turn the Strip into a showcase Palestinian state, a Mediterranean Dubai, or into another Beirut circa 1982? If the former, then Israel could withdraw from the West Bank with some confidence. If the latter, it would put illusions to rest, both within Israel and throughout the Western world.
Finally, I argued that while direct negotiations with the Palestinians had proved fruitless for Israel, Jerusalem could use its withdrawal from Gaza to obtain political and security guarantees from the United States. That's just what Mr. Sharon appeared to get through an exchange of formal letters with George W. Bush in April 2004.
Things didn't work out as I had hoped. To say the least.
Within six months of Israel's withdrawal, Hamas won Palestinian parliamentary elections. Within two years, Hamas seized control of the Strip from the ostensible moderates of Fatah after a brief civil war.
In 2004, the last full year in which Israel had a security presence in Gaza, Gazans fired 281 rockets into Israel. By 2006 that figure had risen to 1,777. The Strip became a terrorist bazaar, home not only to Hamas but also Islamic Jihad and Ansar al-Sunna, an al Qaeda affiliate.
In late 2008, Israel finally tried to put a stop to attacks from Gaza with Operation Cast Lead. The limited action-Israeli troops didn't go into heavily populated areas and refrained from targeting Hamas's senior leadership-was met with broad condemnation, including a U.N. report (since recanted by its lead author) accusing Israel of possible "crimes against humanity."
Nor did the reality of post-occupation Gaza do much to dent the appetite of the Obama administration for yet another effort to broker Israeli-Palestinian peace. That included a settlement freeze in the West Bank (observed by the government of Benjamin Netanyahu, to zero benefit) and calls by President Obama for Israel to withdraw to its 1967 lines "with mutually agreed swaps."
In 2009, Hillary Clinton disavowed the Bush-Sharon exchange of letters, saying they "did not become part of the official position of the United States government." Even today, the Obama administration considers Gaza to be "occupied" territory, a position disavowed even by Hamas.
Put simply, Israel's withdrawal from Gaza yielded less security, greater diplomatic isolation, and a Palestinian regime even more radical and emboldened than it had been before. As strategic failures go, it was nearly perfect.
Now Israel may be on the cusp of purchasing yet another long-term strategic failure for the sake of a short-term tactical success. The Israeli government wants to bomb Hamas into a cease-fire-hopefully lasting, probably orchestrated in Cairo. That way Israel gets the quiet it seeks, especially on the eve of elections in January, and the Egyptians get the responsibility for holding the leash on Hamas.
That is largely how it played out during Cast Lead. But as one leading Israeli political figure told me in January 2009, just as the last cease-fire had been declared, "Notwithstanding the blows to the Hamas, it's still in Gaza, it's still ruling Gaza, and the Philadelphi corridor [which runs along Gaza's border with Egypt] is still porous, and . . . Hamas can smuggle new rockets unless [the corridor] is closed, to fire at Israel in the future."
That leading political figure was Benjamin Netanyahu, just before he returned to office as prime minister. He might now consider taking his own advice. Israel can afford to watch only so many reruns of this same, sordid show.
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Post Election Fireworks in the Middle East; DHS Promotes Benefits for Immigrants, and Much More
November 19, 2012
The Foundation"States, like individuals, who observe their engagements, are respected and trusted: while the reverse is the fate of those who pursue an opposite conduct." --Alexander Hamilton For the Record Jihadis with rockets"Even with the fighting in Syria, the hottest crisis spot right now is obviously Gaza. In the last two weeks the number of rockets and mortars fired from Gaza into Israel grew into the hundreds, something no Israeli government could tolerate for long. ... Hamas could have done more to repress the other groups and prevent them from firing into Israel; instead it joined the fray and officially claimed credit for some of the attacks. The Israelis do not seek another ground war in Gaza, but something had to be done. Their air attacks into Gaza in early November were meant to signal Hamas to knock it off, but failed; in the three-day period from Saturday to Monday, November 10-12, more than a hundred rockets were shot into Israel. Israel responded on November 14 with airstrikes that among other things killed the Hamas military leader in Gaza, Ahmed Jabari. ... The Israeli tactic is to make the Hamas leadership pay directly for these terror attacks on Israel rather than to make the population of Gaza pay. Israeli targeting was extremely careful, and by Friday afternoon there had been several hundred strikes by the Israeli Air Force but fewer than two dozen Palestinian deaths -- and very few accidental hits at civilians that Hamas could turn to propaganda advantage. ... Not only will there be Syria, the violence coming from Gaza, a Muslim Brotherhood government in Egypt whose commitment to democracy is at best unproved, and an increasing sense of instability in Jordan, but looming over all this will be Iran. ... The next three to six months in the Middle East will make Obama administration officials look back to 2012 with nostalgia as a quiet time when they were able to focus on the campaign. The coming year will be much tougher -- starting now." --The Weekly Standard's Elliott Abrams The Gipper"We are at war with the most dangerous enemy that has ever faced mankind in his long climb from the swamp to the stars, and it has been said if we lost that war, and in doing so lost this way of freedom of ours, history will record with the greatest astonishment that those who had the most to lose did the least to prevent its happening. ... If we lost freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on Earth." --Ronald Reagan The Patriot Post's Noble Cause"Our cause is noble; it is the cause of mankind!" --George Washington Our 2012 Annual Fund campaign is in full swing. In the wake of this year's disappointing election, The Patriot Post's voice is needed more than ever to help keep the great heritage of our constitutional Republic front and center. Please join us in this noble cause. Like many mission-based organizations, we typically raise most of our budget in the last two months of each year. We still must raise approximately $244,000 before year's end. These funds ensure that our dedicated team of editors, writers and support staff can continue to provide The Patriot Post, free of charge, to the kind of grassroots leaders that make our country great. And please remember that we did not raise our budget this year. We are not sustained by any political, special interest or parent organization. Nor do we accept any online or e-mail advertising. Our operations and mission are funded by -- and depend entirely upon -- the voluntary financial support of American Patriots like YOU! Please, if you have the ability, take a moment to support The Patriot Post online today by making a contribution -- however large or small. If you prefer to support us by mail, please send your donation with our printable donor form. 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We need you all more than ever." --Derrynger Government"'Welcome to USA.gov,' a website maintained by the Department of Homeland Security's U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), bills itself as the 'primary gateway for new immigrants to find basic information on how to settle in the United States' -- featuring a prominent section for new immigrants about how to access government benefits. 'Depending on your immigration status, length of time in the United States, and income, you may be eligible for some federal benefit programs,' the Web page reads. ... The DHS page offers links to government websites that explain how to access benefits including food stamps, Supplemental Security Income (SSI), Medicaid, Medicare, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) and the 'official website with information on all available federal benefit programs.' ... WelcometoUSA.gov also boasts to immigrants that '[f]ree public education for children is one reason many immigrants come to the United States.' ... A Republican Budget Committee staffer noted that the issue is not only the offerings without eligibility, but also the fact that the government is providing immigrants visas with the expectation that they will avail themselves of government assistance." --The Daily Caller's Caroline May Opinion in Brief"Thirty-nine percent of native households receive some form of government assistance. By contrast, 57 percent of immigrant households -- legal immigrants -- get government assistance. We can't do anything about the native population, but why on Earth is America taking in immigrants who require taxpayer support? ... It's not that poor immigrants think differently about most issues from the rest of us. ... Most recent immigrants oppose abortion, gay marriage and big government. The problem is that poor, uneducated people -- the Democratic base -- are easily demagogued into voting tribally. ... Noticeably, the No. 1 issue Obama had in his favor this year was not his policies. It was that a majority of voters agreed with the statement: Obama 'cares for people like me.' ... Their main beef with the GOP is that they think Republicans are 'the rich.' The only hope is to run another appealing Republican candidate in four years -- when we're not up against an incumbent president -- and return our immigration policy to one that helps America and not just the Welfare Party." --columnist Ann Coulter  Essential Liberty"For nearly 28 years [John] Kerry has been a senator.... West Virginia sent Robert Byrd to the US Senate for 51 years, and Daniel Inouye has represented Hawaii in Congress since it became a state in 1959. Charleston, S.C., has had the same mayor since 1975. No matter how unpopular Congress is said to be, more than 90 percent of House members seeking re-election generally keep their seats; in that respect Nov. 6 was absolutely typical. ... Far better for officials to come and go, serving a spell in government, then heading back to real life. 'Representatives ought to return home and mix with the people,' Rhode Island's Roger Sherman argued during the Constitutional Convention in 1787. 'By remaining at the seat of government, they would acquire the habits of the place, which might differ from those of their constituents.' George Washington could have been president for life, but he voluntarily stepped down after two terms. He could be trusted with power precisely because he could let it go. Politicians today can't bear the thought of giving up the power with which we cloak them. And we, to our discredit, are rarely prepared to take it away." --columnist Jeff Jacoby Political Futures"Governors are executives. Senators are legislators. Governors have to keep their states running. Senators have to negotiate semi-colons in legislation. As I have said many times, no Governor in the history of Governors has ever gone to the person running the Department of Motor Vehicles in their state and said: 'I understand we've been handing license plates out the long way to customers at the DMV office. I think we should hand them out with the wide side facing out. Don't you?' That is, effectively, what Senators and Congressmen do all day, every day. ... Governors have the responsibility of watching over the health, safety and welfare of every citizen in his or her state. They're used to the whole 'buck stops here' thing. The early line on who will run in the Republican and Democrat primaries for President in 2016 will be heavily weighted toward Senators and Congressmen. Why? Because they work in Washington, DC as do the national political reporters who make up the early lists. But, if you want to beat the odds, pick a Governor." --columnist Rich Galen Re: The Left"Conservatism can thrive without progressivism. Progressivism cannot survive without conservatism. In short, a progressive worldview built on redistributionism, must have something to re-distribute. Without the efforts of the makers, the takers and their enablers are dead in the water. The most remarkable aspect of this last election is that Democrats ran on a platform that amounted to biting the hand that feeds them, and still prevailed. ... [N]ow, more than ever, it pays to be prudent in choosing where one spends one's money. If the progressives can organize boycotts against those who offend their sensibilities, such as the one organized against Chick-fil-A this past summer, conservatives can certainly do the same. ... For those Americans who know what I'm talking about, my strategy amounts to a combo platter of Mahatma Gandhi and John Galt. Passive and active resistance to the dim-bulbs and the deadbeats on one end of the spectrum, and those who would impose tyranny on the other. For those Americans who don't have any idea what I'm talking about, trust me: you're part of the problem, not the solution." --columnist Arnold Ahlert Culture"It follows that just government should be limited to preserving a man's natural rights while leaving him alone to do with his unique abilities as he sees fit. The Progressives, on the other hand, had a very different political philosophy. They thought man, by nature, was an empty vessel and that it was society, not nature, that made the man. Accordingly, society was responsible for providing mans' needs, and if some men were needy it must be because society was not doing its job. In the Progressive view, justice required that everyone had not equal opportunity but equal outcomes. At root, then, what separates liberals from conservatives is their respective understanding of justice: The battle is between social justice and what might be called American political justice. Liberals defend their policy preferences by asserting their understanding of justice. Conservatives, on the other hand, do not respond with their own understanding of justice, thereby leaving liberals to define what, at the end of the day, is the most important determinant of policy." --columnist Linda Chavez Faith and Family"In 1965, Daniel P. Moynihan wrote a book called: 'The Negro Family Case for National Action.' At the time, 25 percent of black kids were born out of wedlock. Today, that number is 70 percent. Now 26 percent of white kids are born to unwed mothers. This is an indictment of the welfare state and a direct link to crime, drop-out rates and poverty. ... As I write in 'Dear Father, Dear Son,' my 'illegitimate' Republican father never knew his biological father. Raised by an irresponsible mother during the Great Depression in the Jim Crow south, my father was on his own from the age of 13. He worked two jobs as a janitor, and saved enough to open up a small restaurant in his late 40s, which he ran until his 80s. My dad's wisdom was simple. Don't play the victim: 'Hard work wins. Nobody owes you a living. You get out of life what you put into it. And no matter how you hard work or how good you are, bad things will happen. How you react will tell if me and your mom raised a man.'" --radio talk-show host Larry Elder The Last Word"One can hardly blame Obama for causing divisions. After all, he was desperately seeking re-election. ... You can, however, blame the media.... You can also blame parents who have reared the greediest, most self-indulgent, self-satisfied, bunch of hedonistic morons in this nation's history. I mean, it's not as if these youngsters who think that everything from a college education to cell phones and a lifetime supply of birth control pills are entitlements, were hatched from eggs, although they clearly have close ties to those, such as chickens and snakes, who are. The reason that the future looks so bleak is because, as I wrote prior to the election, America could probably survive four more years of Obama, but it can't survive a population that would re-elect him. It means that the takers now out-number the makers. ... In the aftermath of the election, I have tried to adopt a philosophical attitude. I tried to remind myself that this, too, will pass. But that's like saying this, too, will pass when referring to a kidney stone the size of Obama." --columnist Burt Prelutsky Semper Vigilo, Fortis, Paratus et Fidelis!
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Stalin Would Be Proud Of The Crooks Who Stole Allen West's Congressional Seat
Nov 20, 2012 01:27 pm
As reports flood the web about massive voter fraud in the presidential election, a statewide appeal in Florida is going out today to all Tea Party members, conservatives, and independents to contact Governor Rick Scott to urge him to NOT certify election results in tomorrow's deadline. Florida's U.S. 18th Congressional Race is still up for [...] Read More and Comment: Stalin Would Be Proud Of The Crooks Who Stole Allen West's Congressional Seat
Video: Obamacare And The Origins Of The Nazi HolocaustNov 20, 2012 01:25 pm
Here is some background on German Universal Healthcare of the 1930's and 40's...hopefully, you will see how it ties in to the current Obamacare debate... Related posts: Revealed For The First Time: Sordid Origins Of Obamacare Legislation Traced To Soros Group, Marketed By Slew Of Radicals. NEW YORK - A book released this week documents [...] Watch the Video and Comment: Video: Obamacare And The Origins Of The Nazi Holocaust
Video: Massive Voter Fraud Across The U.S.Nov 20, 2012 01:07 pm
Art Thompson, CEO of the John Birch Society, discusses voter fraud and why the Republicans are not interested in stopping it. Related posts: Poll Watcher: Massive Voter Fraud In VA Radio station WMAL listener Dara Fox talks about witnessing voter... Obama Stole The Election With Massive Voter Fraud Barack Obama won the election on November [...] Watch the Video and Comment: Video: Massive Voter Fraud Across The U.S.
Why Was David Petraeus Investigated At All?Nov 20, 2012 01:04 pm
What caused the Federal Bureau of Investigation to play the role of voyeur in the affair between David Petraeus and Paula Broadwell? We have been told that FBI agent Fred Humphries-the instigator of the original investigation into "threatening emails" sent by Broadwell to Jill Kelley-was concerned that secret documents might have been passed to or [...] Read More and Comment: Why Was David Petraeus Investigated At All?
Video: THE U.S. STOLEN 2012 ELECTIONNov 20, 2012 12:53 pm
Not only do we have to worry about the fiscal cliff, a European collapse, Japan running out of money, and a Middle East crisis; but now we have to worry about a government that has no regard for the rule of law. Related posts: Will The 2012 U.S. Presidential Election Be Stolen? Will The 2012 [...] Watch the Video and Comment: Video: THE U.S. STOLEN 2012 ELECTION
A Few Reasons For Optimism As We Look Toward 2014 And BeyondNov 20, 2012 12:46 pm
Make no mistake as the election results clearly say it; we got pasted. We can point fingers and wring our hands, but the truth is we got flogged. Nevertheless, there are no permanent winners or permanent losers in the American political system. Conservatism did not necessarily lose. We got about 48% of the vote, but [...] Read More and Comment: A Few Reasons For Optimism As We Look Toward 2014 And Beyond
Video: Judge Jeanine To Obama: You Either Sent Help Or You Didn'tNov 20, 2012 12:36 pm
A bold opening statement, if you ask me... Related posts: Judge Jeanine Rips Obama Administration On Benghazi-Gate Judge Jeanine eloquently states what all America has been thinking... Judge Strikes Down NDAA, Rules Obama Must Obey Constitution In a considerable setback for a president eager to ravage... Watch the Video and Comment: Video: Judge Jeanine To Obama: You Either Sent Help Or You Didn't
Questions We Should Ask Ourselves...Nov 20, 2012 12:31 pm
Ever since more and more facts have surfaced about the terrorist attack in Benghazi, reporters and citizen journalists have been making lists of questions that they want President Obama to answer. This begs me to question....are you people serious? I have a few questions that some of you should ask yourselves. First, and most important: Think [...] Read More and Comment: Questions We Should Ask Ourselves...
Video: Hillary Clinton Falls Asleep During Obama's Speech In BurmaNov 20, 2012 12:21 pm
Hillary sleeps during Obama's speech; can you blame her? Related posts: Obama And Hillary Apologize For Free Speech On Pakistani TV Obama and Hillary Clinton coddle the Pakistani people in deference... Why Hillary Clinton Has Chris Stevens' Blood On Her Hands According to reports, the Islamist animals who murdered J. Christopher... Watch the Video and Comment: Video: Hillary Clinton Falls Asleep During Obama's Speech In Burma
Why Did Romney Lose The Catholic Vote?Nov 20, 2012 12:13 pm
The election of New York's Cardinal Timothy Dolan, the bishop of the Archdiocese of New York, to lead the United State Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) was seen as a very hopeful sign by many who are concerned with the state the Catholic Church in America. I was one of those hopeful Catholics, but alas [...] Read More and Comment: Why Did Romney Lose The Catholic Vote?
Video: Rep. Paul Gosar On The Latest With Eric Holder And Fast & FuriousNov 20, 2012 11:57 am
Ginny Simone talks to Representative Paul Gosar (R-AZ). Related posts: Rep. Paul Gosar Asks For Floor Vote Of "No Confidence" For Attorney General Holder In an interview with Cam Edwards of the National Rifle... NRA President On Latest Developments In Fast And Furious Ginny Simone talks to NRA President David Keene about the... Watch the Video and Comment: Video: Rep. Paul Gosar On The Latest With Eric Holder And Fast & Furious
Video: Journalist Tossed From Marxism Conference At Northwestern Journalism SchoolNov 20, 2012 11:49 am
Jeremy Segal ("RebelPundit") of Breitbart.com was tossed from a Marxism conference at the Northwestern Journalist Center. Segal was a registered attendant of the event. Related posts: Sheriff Joe Arpaio March 31 Press Conference - Full Video Full video of Sheriff Joe Arpaio's March 31 Press Conference/Presentation... TSA Tracks Down, Harasses Citizen Journalist TSA agents tracked [...] Watch the Video and Comment: Video: Journalist Tossed From Marxism Conference At Northwestern Journalism School
Oklahoma Is Latest To Reject State-based Health ExchangeNov 20, 2012 11:47 am
Add Oklahoma to the list of Republican-led states that won't implement the key feature of President Obama's healthcare law. Gov. Mary Fallin said Monday that she won't set up a state-based insurance exchange - a new portal where people who don't get insurance through their employers can shop for coverage, often with help from a [...] Read More and Comment: Oklahoma Is Latest To Reject State-based Health Exchange
Video: Rand Paul Single-Handedly Tries To Stop NDAANov 20, 2012 11:38 am
Just days before Thanksgiving, the US Senate was planning on taking a vote on the National Defense Authorization Act; but there has been a slight delay. Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky has proposed an amendment halting the vote. Related posts: Rand Paul Is Launching A New Ad Campaign To Help Todd Akin Kentucky Senator Rand [...] Watch the Video and Comment: Video: Rand Paul Single-Handedly Tries To Stop NDAA
Guide Directs Shoppers To More Faith-Friendly CompaniesNov 20, 2012 11:31 am
There's another Christmas guide to consider in the upcoming shopping season. This guide is from Faith Driven Consumer, an online community forum that provides information resources to help faith-driven consumers understand who they are doing business with at Christmas time. The guide is available for download in a PDF format. Chris Stone, founder of the [...] Read More and Comment: Guide Directs Shoppers To More Faith-Friendly Companies
Video: Tempers Flare At Pro-Israel Rally In Los AngelesNov 20, 2012 11:26 am
Los Angeles police formed skirmish lines during a street clash yesterday between Palestinian supporters and a pro-Israel group staging a rally, but nobody was arrested. Related posts: Michele Bachmann Speaks At Anti-Obamacare Rally Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann (R-MN) speaks at the Washington DC "Stand... Hamas Leader: Our Goal Is To Destroy Israel At a ceremony marking [...] Watch the Video and Comment: Video: Tempers Flare At Pro-Israel Rally In Los Angeles
Why Savings Are Suffering: Fed QE3 Policy Costs SeniorsNov 20, 2012 11:18 am
Introduction With U.S. and global growth slowing, Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke is pumping more money into the banking system in an attempt to rescue the economy. This has lowered interest rates, reducing the return from savings. Seniors are particularly hard-hit, because 10 percent of their income comes from interest on savings. If interest rates [...] Read More and Comment: Why Savings Are Suffering: Fed QE3 Policy Costs Seniors
Iran Moving Sleeper Cells Into AmericaNov 20, 2012 10:50 am
A U.S. congresswoman is warning that while the world's eyes are on Iran's growing threat against Israel, the Islamic nation's terrorist surrogates may have already formed sleeper cells here in the United States. Rep. Sue Myrick, R-N.C., asserted in a radio interview today she believes it's possible that Hezbollah, the radical terrorist organization tied to [...] Read More and Comment: Iran Moving Sleeper Cells Into America
DNC Chair On GOP: 'They Got Whiter And More Male'Nov 20, 2012 10:37 am
(CNSNews.com) - Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman-Schultz said the Republican Party "got whiter and more male" while the Democratic caucus is "majority minority and female." "Take a good look when the House convenes after this next Congress is sworn in at what our side of the aisle looks like versus what the Republican side [...] Read More and Comment: DNC Chair On GOP: 'They Got Whiter And More Male'
GOP: Susan Rice Must Testify About Benghazi AttackNov 20, 2012 10:33 am
WASHINGTON - Two prominent Republican lawmakers, John McCain and Lindsey Graham, have not backed down from their statements to make Susan Rice testify before Congress about the disastrous Benghazi, Libya terrorist attack. The Benghazi attack left four Americans dead, including the U.S. Ambassador John Christopher Stevens. Stevens and the State Department team on the ground [...] Read More and Comment: GOP: Susan Rice Must Testify About Benghazi Attack
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How to Avoid the Fiscal Cliff
Having squandered most of 2012 with posturing and delay, Congress and the President are now careening toward a budgetary precipice of their own making. We will reach the fiscal cliff just after New Year's Eve-bringing a nearly $500 billion tax hike in 2013 and a devastating 10 percent reduction in national defense spending-unless Washington changes course.
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Sometimes in post-election America, there is excitement about what the future will bring. This time around, the prospect is rather horrifying. America is racing, pedal to the metal, toward the fiscal cliff. Pro-growth tax reform generates more revenue by economic growth alone.
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Increasing Tax Rates Does Not Necessarily Lead to Higher Income Tax Revenue Tax cuts can create incentives for individuals to work, save, and invest, which can generate more revenue. The most dramatic decline in the top individual income tax rate, from 70 percent to 28 percent, occurred during the Reagan Administration, during which tax receipts remained relatively constant as a share of the economy.
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How both parties can work together to restore US growth
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CNN has bought yet another Pallywood production hook, line, and sinker.
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News from The Hill:
Rules released requiring pre-existing conditions coverage
By Sam Baker
The Obama administration released new regulations Tuesday that require insurance companies to cover people with pre-existing conditions.
The new rules represent one of the first steps taken by the Health and Human Services Department to implement some of the most popular - and most expensive - provisions of President Obama's signature healthcare law.
HHS also began putting in place new limits on how much insurers can vary their premiums - for example, allowing them to charge older patients only three times more than younger customers. The law prohibits insurers from varying premiums at all based on some factors, including gender and health status.
Read the story here.
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MSNBC Did No Negative Stories About Obama or Positive Ones About Romney Last Week of Campaign
News Busters | By Noel Sheppard | November 19, 2012
This is all Americans need to know about just how disgraceful a "news network" MSNBC is.
A new study just released by the Pew Research Center found that in the final week of the just-ended presidential campaign, the "Lean Forward" network did absolutely no negative stories about President Obama or positive ones about Mitt Romney.
MSNBC's coverage of Romney during the final week (68% negative with no positive stories in the sample), was far more negative than the overall press, and even more negative than it had been during October 1 to 28 when 5% was positive and 57% was negative.
For Obama, meanwhile, the coverage improved in the last week. From October 1 to 28, 33% was positive and 13% negative. During the campaign's final week, fully 51% of MSNBC's stories were positive while there were no negative stories at all in the sample.
How disgraceful!
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Half Your Paycheck To The Government In 2013
Posted on November 20, 2012
The president is convinced Americans need to pay more in taxes. Here's what he said yesterday.
"I think everybody out there understood that was an important debate and the majority of voters agreed with me. By the way, more voters agreed with me on this issue than voted for me! So we've got a clear majority of the American people who recognize if we're gonna be serious about deficit reduction we gotta do it in a balanced way."
But let me tell you, come January 1, you're probably not going to be happy with the amount of taxes you're paying. That's because it's not just Federal taxes that you pay.
A middle class taxpayer pays 25% percent of their income in Federal Income Tax. Sounds, ok?
Then there is the Federal Social Security and Medicare payroll tax of 13.3%. You pick up 5.65% while you're employer pays 7.65%. Add them up and that's 38.3% of middle class family incomes going to Uncle Sam. But we aren't done, not by a long shot.
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I'd like to share two great videos that people can watch in less than 17 minutes that twill do much to share what Islam is all about.
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We are NOT engaged in a war on terror. Terror is a weapon.
We are in a 1,400 year-war with Islam itself.
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CBS News claims that Office of the DNI removed references to al Qaeda and terrorism
Posted: 20 Nov 2012 12:08 PM PST
(Paul Mirengoff)
Citing "an intelligence source," CBS News reports that the "Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI)" cut references to "al Qaeda" and "terrorism" from the unclassified talking points given to Ambassador Susan Rice on the Benghazi consulate attack, and did so with the agreement of the CIA and FBI. Neither the State Department nor the White House made these changes, according to CBS. But the DNI himself, James Clapper, has testified before Congress. Based on the comments of some of the legislators who were present at the hearing, it did not appear that Clapper changed the CIA's report or knew who did. Moreover, Gen. Petraeus reportedly testified that he had no idea who changed his report. It seems unlikely that the CIA would sign off on changes without consulting Petraeus. So there may be a disconnect here. Congress needs to find out who within the Office of the DIA made the changes and who within the CIA approved them, if in fact anyone did. Meanwhile, the reason offered up for changing the CIA's report makes no sense. Supposedly, the links to al Qaeda were deemed too "tenuous" to make public, because there was not strong confidence in the person providing the intelligence. Such lack of confidence, if any there really was, might suffice as a basis for removing references to al Qaeda. Congress needs to find out whether there really was a jutified lack of confidence in those who linked the Benghazi attacks to al Qaeda. Read More . . .
France loses top credit rating Posted: 20 Nov 2012 07:57 AM PST (Paul Mirengoff) There has been plenty of speculation that France may become Europe's next economic basket case. The Economist, for example, last week declared France a "time bomb at the heart of Europe." The French government responded by calling the Economist's crtique "sensationalist journalism" and claiming that it lacked "even-handedness." However, Moody, presumably an even-handed, non-sensationalist outfit, has just downgraded France's credit rating. It lowered the rating one notch, from Aaa to Aal. Read More . . .
Israelis support air attacks but do not favor an invasion Posted: 20 Nov 2012 06:47 AM PST (Paul Mirengoff)
The Israeli public overwhelmingly backs its government's decision to launch operation Pillar of Defense in response to Hamas' rocket attacks against southern Israel. A poll taken for the Israeli Center for Political Training found that 85 percent of Israelis believe embarking on the operation was the correct decision. Israelis divide, however, on the question of what should happen next. According to the same poll, 45 percent favor continuing the air strikes; 25 percent think Israel should commence a ground war in Gaza; and 22 percent want a cease-fire agreement. A poll taken for Ha'aretz found essentially the same thing. 84 percent support the military operation; 39 percent want it to be continued by air; 30 percent back a ground invasion; and 19 percent call for an immediate cease fire. These poll results help explain, I think, why Israel has not launched a ground operation even though, on the merits, it is probably the most sensible course.
Cold War history for left-wing dummies Posted: 20 Nov 2012 05:15 AM PST (Scott Johnson) I think that just about everything President Obama "knows" about American history comes from left-wing academics like American University professor Peter Kuznick, the co-author with Oliver Stone of The Untold History of the United States. The book is a companion to Stone's Showtime series. At American University, incidentally, Kuznick teaches the "path-breaking course Oliver Stone's America." On Showtime, Stone presents Peter Kuznick's America. They have got a circle of love kind of thing going between them. Last week Kuznick and Stone touted the book and the series on MSNBC's Morning Joe, where the worshipful hosts failed to notice that their guests are whackjobs. Maybe they were impressed by Mikhail Gorbachev's book blurb: "There is much here to reflect upon. Such a perspective is indispensable." In any event, cultural artifacts such as the book and the series have done a lot of damage. It is a mistake to ignore them. Read More . . .
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Today's Headlines: Tuesday, November 20, 2012
$135B in FY12 Disability Payments Exceeded $125B in Pentagon Procurement Payments
Michael Moore to Obama: 'Drive the Rich Right Off Their Fiscal Cliff'
DNC Chair on GOP: 'They Got Whiter and More Male'
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PETA: Handle Hunting Magazines Like Porn--Keep Away from Kids
Hollywood's 1954 Thanksgiving Prayer: 'We Thank Thee for the Privilege of Living as Free Men'
Ohio State Senator: 'G.O.P. Stands for Get Out of My Panties'
White House Announces $6 Billion to Promote Clean Energy - in Asia
Government's Home Loan Insurance Agency $16.3 Billion in the Red
97 House Republicans Warn Obama Against Nominating Susan Rice to Secretary of State
DNC Chair: 'We Were Clearly Helped by the Republicans'
63% of Solar Firms Report Difficulty Finding Qualified Employees
In Burma, Obama Adapts His Language to Suit His Audience
Obama Administration Again Caught Between Its Allies Israel and Turkey
Graham Warns Egypt it Could Lose U.S. Aid
COMMENTARY:
Mitt Wasn't All Wrong About 'Gifts'
By Patrick J. Buchanan
Hispanics constituted 10 percent of the electorate, up from 7.5 in 2008. But Mitt Romney got only 27 percent of that, the lowest of any Republican presidential candidate. This, we are told, was because of Mitt's comment about "self-deportation" and GOP support for a border fence and sanctions on employers who hire illegals. If only we embrace the Dream Act and provide a path to citizenship - amnesty - the GOP's problem is solved. The Republican capacity for self-delusion is truly awesome.
Democracy and Majority Rule
By Walter E. Williams
President Barack Obama narrowly defeated Gov. Mitt Romney in the popular vote 51 percent to 48 percent. In the all-important Electoral College, the difference was larger, with Obama winning 303 electoral votes and Romney 206. Let's not think so much about the election's outcome but instead ask: What's so good about democracy and majority rule?
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Can Hostess Save the Twinkies from the Union?
Taking down the Twinkie. Clogging Wal-Mart parking lots on Black Friday. Messing with a major airport on the day before Thanksgiving.
If unions are trying to be more popular with the American people, they're doing it wrong.
Americans have gone crazy over the possible loss of Twinkies, Ho Ho's, Ding Dongs, and Hostess CupCakes after the company said it was shutting down because its bakers' union opted to walk off the job for a strike. People are already asking exorbitant prices on eBay for boxes of the packaged treats.
Hostess and the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union (BCTGM) have agreed to enter mediation with a bankruptcy judge, who said there are "serious questions as to the logic behind the decision to strike." More than 18,000 jobs are at stake.
A Washington Post blogger says that "The AFL-CIO plans to try to turn this into a 'teachable moment' and a 'national discussion.'" Union membership has been declining in the private sector, and the groups are desperate to reverse that trend. But shutting down one of America's beloved brands certainly isn't going to win lots of friends.
Obviously, poor management helped get Hostess to this point, and contested payouts for managers are causing controversy. Megan McArdle explains that paying incentives to managers to stay on during a rough bankruptcy transition isn't unusual-it's hard to convince people to stay and steer a sinking ship. Unfortunately, sometimes that means senior leaders could try to take advantage of this situation to get more money for themselves on the way down.
But McArdle reports that the current management "opened the books to the unions, paid senior management virtually nothing, and tried to cut deals that would save the company and salvage something of the grossly underfunded multi-employer pension plans of which they were a part." The new managers did everything unions typically ask for in such situations.
It was enough to satisfy the Teamsters, who also represent employees involved in distributing the products. They came to a deal with the company to continue work.
Yet the bakers walked out. Their union didn't file any objections to the bankruptcy plan when the judge proposed it in August. Instead, the union's leaders called for a strike. The strike was authorized with a voice vote-a public vote in the union halls-and the union leadership refused the Teamsters' request for a secret ballot vote on returning to work.
Why would the union do this? James Sherk, Heritage's senior policy analyst in labor economics, says:
Either the union leadership was (a) utterly incompetent, or (b) was willing to sacrifice its members' jobs at Hostess in order to send a message to other firms that it would play hardball and they should not ask for concessions. Either way, it was not looking out for its members at Hostess.
Hostess is just the latest in the upward trend of labor strikes. After falling for decades, the number of strikes in the U.S. is climbing. In 2009, there were five major work stoppages (involving 1,000 or more employees). In 2011, there were 19.
Even when workers don't walk off the job, unions are looking to cause chaos. A union-backed group is planning to stage protests at Wal-Mart stores on Black Friday. And unionized workers with the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) are planning a protest at Los Angeles International Airport tomorrow-one of the busiest travel days of the year.
The aviation company in that case says the majority of its workers voted last year to leave the union. "Our employees are now earning more per hour than under SEIU and are happy to be free of them," said Joe Conlon, Aviation Safeguards' regional vice president.
Many Hostess employees probably wish they had the same opportunity to vote. However, they never got that choice. Once they're in, unions remain certified indefinitely; they do not have to stand for re-election. Instead, new workers must accept the union's representation as a condition of employment. Just 7 percent of private-sector union members voted to belong to their union.
The only way to get rid of a union is by filing for decertification-an extremely difficult legal process. Had Hostess workers gotten to vote, they might have opted for a more reasonable representative who would actually look out for them. This is why union representation should be voluntary-or, at the very least, unions should have to regularly stand for re-election.
Unfortunately, the Obama Administration is moving in the opposite direction. His National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) recently changed the rules so that unions can cherry-pick who gets to vote in union elections. This will allow unions to disenfranchise those workers who don't want to take the risk of strikes bankrupting their company, too.
When the President returned to Washington after the election, one of his first meetings was with union leaders. After spending heavily in the election, the unions are keen to use the political process to boost their ranks. Their membership may be dropping, but union power in Washington is growing.
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A few reasons for optimism as we look toward 2014 and beyond
Nov 20, 2012 05:13 am | Coach Collins
By Kevin "Coach" Collins
Make no mistake the election results clearly say it: we got pasted. We can point fingers and wring our hands but the truth is we got flogged. Nevertheless, there are no permanent winners or permanent losers in the political American system.
Conservatism did not necessarily lose. We got about 48% of the vote but there may be another 5% who understand economies and can be convinced to vote for a conservative Republican in 2016. We held the House and some observers are saying although our numbers are smaller we have a more conservative caucus than we had in the last Congress.
We have more governorship, (30) now which is more than we have had in a long time. This edge presents a possibility that they will hold the line on implementing state healthcare systems. If just a few refuse and force the federal government to set up these state level systems ... Continue Reading:A few reasons for optimism as we look toward 2014 and beyond
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Stalin would be proud of the St. Lucie County Board of Elections; they're his kind of crooks
Nov 19, 2012 12:31 pm | Coach Collins
Suzanne Eovaldi, staff writer
As reports flood the web about massive voter fraud in the presidential election, a statewide appeal in Florida is going out today to all Tea Party members, conservatives, and independents to contact Governor Rick Scott to urge him to NOT certify election results in tomorrow's deadline. Florida's U.S.18th Congressional Race is still up for grabs because reportedly the Golden Gate Precinct #93, a mobile home park on the border with St. Lucie and Martin counties, had some 900 votes cast with only SEVEN people registered to vote!
An over- night flash Email is stating that "In St. Lucie County, FL, there were 175,574 registered eligible voters but 247,713 votes cast." Volunteer recount watchers yesterday were upset when the delayed canvassing board recount missed the noon Sunday deadline, and Patrick Murphy was named winner.
Keep in mind that the recount was suspended late Saturday night and started up again with an over one ... Continue Reading:Stalin would be proud of the St. Lucie County Board of Elections; they're his kind of crooks
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GOP legally BARRED from fighting vote fraud
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It's perhaps one of the most outrageous rulings in history.
The Republican Party has been legally barred from fighting vote fraud, but the same rule does NOT apply to Democrats.
What in the world is going on here?
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Gun store has nasty message for Obama voters ...
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If you're in the market to buy a firearm, but you voted for Barack Obama, then you've got a big problem at one gun store.
Look what this fearless gun shop has to say to those who helped re-elect you-know-who ...
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| Top Israeli rabbi tweets key Bible prophecy |
| | As enemy missiles target God's holy city, you'll be amazed at the Bible prophecy a chief Israeli rabbi has just tweeted out. It has a connection to the most famous person EVER. | | Read the latest now on WND.com |
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| | Ron Paul is about to leave Congress, and now the honors for this American champion begin rolling in. | | Click here for details |
| Look what happens to girl for refusing spychip | An American schoolgirl says no to a spychip, fearing an "electronic concentration camp."
And look what school officials do to her.
Is this a sign of things to come? | | Read the latest now on WND.com. |
| Did White House just expose ANOTHER Rice lie? | What is it with U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice and the untruths being told concerning the 9/11 attack in Benghazi?
Did the White House just expose ANOTHER whopper? | | Read the latest now on WND.com. |
| Now Big Brother is REALLY watching you ... | It sounds like the plot to Tom Cruise's sci-fi thriller "Minority Report," but the federal government is creating this frightening system that can watch and predict your actions.
That means Big Brother will be watching you much more than now. Smile for the cameras :-) | | Read the latest now on WND.com. |
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Welcome to the Clarion! Even facing the opposition that we do today, the ACRU remains as active as ever in the fight to defend America's critical civil liberties. We are promoting a national dialogue on protecting voting rights, filing amicus briefs in key Supreme Court cases and championing constitutional liberties wherever they are challenged.
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Like most of you, we at the ACRU are still stunned by the election results and what they mean for our country. Now is not the time to retreat, however, but to redouble our efforts to bring America back to constitutional principles. The first order of business will be to truly secure the integrity of the ballot box.
It's imperative that we enact more safeguards, since vote fraud almost certainly played a role in the November 6 election in some jurisdictions.
The ACRU is co-hosting with the Heritage Foundation a strategic conference December 12 to 14 in Colorado Springs with several secretaries of state and experts who have been outspoken advocates for voter photo ID laws and other electoral reforms. Among the invited guests are John Fund, Hans von Spakovsky, Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler, Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach and ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell, a former Ohio Secretary of State. I'll let you know what transpired there in a future issue of The Clarion.
In Pennsylvania, a state judge issued a ruling in October blocking the state photo ID law. Maybe that's why 59 wards in Philadelphia, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer, reported a total of 19,605 votes for Barack Obama and zero for Mitt Romney. In Ohio's Cuyahoga County, 100 precincts reported more than 99 percent for Barack Obama, with some reporting 100 percent. I don't have to tell you that the odds of that happening are astronomical.
In Florida, Republican Rep. Allen West is contesting Democrat Patrick Murphy's razor-thin margin in the 18th Congressional District following a partial recount. As the Washington Times editorialized,
"On election night, Mr. West had maintained a district-wide lead of nearly 2,000 votes until the St. Lucie County Supervisor of Elections inexplicably 'recounted' thousands of early ballots, resulting in an awfully convenient 4,400-vote shift in favor of the challenger. Observers on the scene charged incompetence, intimidation and possible fraud...."
In Maryland, some voters reported difficulty with machines not allowing them to vote "no" on the same-sex "marriage" question. As reports keep coming in, we'll keep you apprised of what the "mainstream" media are ignoring.
By the way, given the media's liberal bias, you probably didn't hear that Ohio Republicans won 12 of 16 congressional seats, control the state Senate 23 to 10 and the state House 60 to 39, and hold all statewide elected offices. It's a bit early to declare our two-party system dead. |
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Lower federal courts erred in dismissing two colleges' challenges to the Obama Administration's contraception mandate, the ACRU argues in an amicus brief filed on Oct. 12 at the U.S. Supreme Court.
Written by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara, the brief in Wheaton College and Belmont Abbey College v. Kathleen Sebelius notes that the rulings place the colleges in "legal limbo" and "deny them a chance to question the constitutionality of the final regulation--all while facing immediate and undeniable harm." Oral arguments have not yet been scheduled.
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Court May Hear Obamacare Challenge
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In a case with profound implications, the U.S. Supreme Court is weighing whether to hear Liberty University's lawsuit against the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), which the Court upheld under Congress's taxing power in NFIB v. Sebelius.
ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski, who is on faculty at Liberty University School of Law, noted in a Breitbart.com column that the Justice Department voiced no objection, and that:
"Liberty argues that ... Obamacare violates its First Amendment religious freedoms through its funding of abortions and other practices that are contradictory to the religious mission of the university. The lawsuit also challenges one of the other major provisions of Obamacare - the Employer Mandate."
The Court is expected to decide whether to hear the case by the end of November.
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In another important case to be heard next year, the Supreme Court will revisit Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The law requires the U.S. Justice Department or a three-judge federal panel in the District of Columbia to approve any changes in election laws or districting in Southern states and in some local jurisdictions around the nation. Congress enacted the law to prevent racially-motivated voting rights violations.
In a 1966 case, South Carolina v. Katzenbach, "the Court held that the problems of racial hostility and voter suppression were so egregious and widespread in that part of the country that the Fifteenth Amendment permitted such an intense intrusion into state sovereignty," Mr. Klukowski wrote in a Nov. 9 column. "But it was also made clear in Katzenbach that if the facts involving racial equality significantly changed, Section 5 might no longer be authorized by the Fifteenth Amendment."
Citing the Voting Rights Act, the U.S. Justice Department under Eric H. Holder, Jr. blocked new photo ID voter laws in South Carolina and Texas.
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Stay tuned. The ACRU will be paying close attention to all these developments, file friend-of-the-court briefs as needed, and continue to fight for the integrity of the electoral process and our constitutional liberties.
We could not do this without your generous support. Take heart, and may God bless you and America.
Sincerely,
Susan Carleson
American Civil Rights Union
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Giving Thanks
There are plenty of things to be thankful for this week, and this year as well.
Yes, after our country's recent elections, big government remains the rule here in the United States and throughout the West. Yet the language used by the candidates (both talked of reducing federal spending and creating jobs, for example) and the closeness of the race proved that, in the U.S. at least, conservatism remains a powerful force.
Conservative thinkers present a compelling, principled alternative to liberal ideas. Right-leaning politicians retained control of the House of Representatives, where they'll control all spending bills and be able to push back against the expansion of government. GOP governors will run 30 states, and can use their offices to thwart federal overreach. Many governors, for example, have already announced they won't set up Obamacare insurance exchanges, which will save the states money and may doom the entire federal power-grab.
Rather than despair, conservatives should use this holiday season to count our blessings, review our plans, and further our agenda in 2013.
But the act of giving thanks requires someone or something to give thanks to. So it's also worth noting that Thanksgiving highlights the importance of religion in public life, and that our unique founding ensures that religion remains a key pillar of American greatness. President Abraham Lincoln created the modern Thanksgiving Day tradition when he announced, in 1863, that the third Thursday of November would henceforth be celebrated as an official national holiday.
Lincoln unapologetically cited "the gracious gifts of the Most High God, who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy." Long before that, President George Washington named Nov. 26, 1789 as a day of thanksgiving devoted to: "the service of that great and glorious Being who is the beneficent Author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be."
Famously, God went unmentioned last year. Yet President Obama has made it a point in years past to direct thanks to God. "As we stand at the close of one year and look to the promise of the next, we lift up our hearts in gratitude to God for our many blessings, for one another, and for our Nation," read his Thanksgiving Presidential Proclamation in 2010.
Regardless of whether God gets a shout-out this year, there's certain to be controversy. Some will surely cite a "wall of separation between church and state" that doesn't actually exist in the Constitution.
As Daniel Dreisbach explains in a First Principles essay, this figure of speech actually dates to a letter written by President Thomas Jefferson in 1802. In reality, the First Amendment didn't aim to protect people from ever being exposed to any religion. It only aimed to ensure that the federal government wouldn't establish a state-run church, such as the Church of England.
Dreisbach cites Jefferson's second inaugural address, when the third president declared: "In matters of religion, I have considered that its free exercise is placed by the constitution independent of the powers of the general [i.e., federal] government. I have therefore undertaken, on no occasion, to prescribe the religious exercises suited to it; but have left them, as the constitution found them, under the direction and discipline of State or Church authorities acknowledged by the several religious societies."
Although the First Amendment prevents Congress from establishing a religion or prohibiting its free exercise, presidents, as well as Congress, have always recognized the American regard for sacred practices and beliefs. Jefferson himself actively supported religious institutions. While in office, he personally approved federally funded programs that built churches and supported Christian missionaries who worked with the Indians.
This Thursday, instead of replaying our disappointments, let's focus on the great things about our exceptional nation. The American people are still self-governing citizens. Our Constitution is still the most successful constitution known to man. American churches continue to save souls and, along the way, save lives through good works, while Europe's state-supported churches struggle to fill its pews. That's worth pausing to give thanks for- this week and every week.
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It was the hard work of our people, the freedom they enjoyed and their faith in God that built this country and made it the envy of the world. In all of our great cities and towns evidence of the faith of our people is found: houses of worship of every denomination are among the oldest structures. While never willing to bow to a tyrant, our forefathers were always willing to get to their knees before God. When catastrophe threatened, they turned to God for deliverance. When the harvest was bountiful the first thought was thanksgiving to God.
~ Ronald Reagan
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So far there�s no confirmation that the photo posted online and alleging to show Mitt Romney pumping gas into an SUV is "actually" Romney � and the user could have simply posted the picture of a look-alike as a joke. See the picture and take our Blaze PollHERE.
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Over the weekend, Republican strategist Mike Murphy said that the GOP must reject radio host Rush Limbaugh�s approach if it wishes to regain power in DC. The commentator called for a �party view of America� that doesn�t come from �Limbaugh�s dream journal.� On Monday, Rush hit back, launching into a pointed, on-air response. Hear his tiradeHERE.
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Now on Sale! It's the terrifying, futuristic thriller Brad Thor called "the 1984 of this generation."And don't forget that your Agenda 21 purchase from TheBlaze Books grants you exclusive access to a special "read-along" with Glenn. Next week, Glenn will post notes and commentary about his new novel that you won't find anywhere else. Get a head start HERE.
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The United Nations 20-year-old program, Agenda 21, seeks to co-opt individual governments in order to eventually create a �one-world government" that will assign privately held land to the control of the collective, ensuring its �sustainability.� Worse still, the UN�s Agenda 21 has even laid out plans for �depopulation� or rather, �population control." Watch the segments from last night's Glenn Beck program HERE
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November 20, 2012
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On Today's Program
 Glenn's new thriller novel, Agenda 21, hits stores TODAY!
U.N. Agenda 21 is being implemented all across the country in your communities. Only a few have heard of it, but most have unknowingly voted for it - this is why Glenn wrote his latest thriller novel that was released in bookstores nationwide TODAY. It may be fiction, but it's based on very real policies that originate at the U.N. and limit our freedom. Everyone must be woken up to Agenda 21. Order your copy of Agenda 21 today!
Tonight's Primetime Lineup on TheBlaze TV
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Glenn's Special Video Message for Israel
Israel suffered its first military death today when a Hamas rocket killed an Israeli soldier. The entire region, including Egypt and Tunisia, are lining up behind Hamas, exactly as Glenn predicted they would. Old hatreds are rising again and the world is allowing it to happen. WATCH and SHARE Glenn's special message for Israel.
Glenn reviews Christmas Story Musical
A Christmas Story is an American classic during the holiday season. It's impossible to not see it on TV as it's run non-stop round the clock on Christmas Eve. Glenn went to check out the Broadway musical version of the hit classic - was it any good? Find out on radio today.
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45% of Americans want to skip Christmas?
It's Christmas time again and the usual war on Christmas has started up. Nativities are being taken down by atheists, crosses are being replaced with 'holiday trees' and on it goes. But a new poll out there raised some eyebrows when 45% of Americans said they'd rather just skip Christmas. And in some respects, Glenn agrees - why? The answer on radio today.
Forward: Boston Tea Party being taught as an act of terrorism
Progressives are apparently feeling quite emboldened after the 3 million vote win by Barack Obama because they're really trying to distort history now. Case in point: the new school curriculum that turns the Boston Tea Party on its head and labels the revolutionaries as terrorists. Glenn reacts, not kindly, on radio today.
Wondering how you'll have room for dessert at Thanksgiving this year? Pat, Stu, and Jeffy reveal their secrets for eating through the fullness.
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Rare: AP reporter absolutely grills State Dept over weak Israel stance This week, the Obama administration refused to denounce Turkey for referring to Israel's military response as "terrorism" and an attempt at "ethnic cleansing," despite the fact that Hamas is designated a terrorist organization. One AP reporter expressed frustration by the administration's silence on the issue and took them to task for it -- WATCH.
Marco Rubio grilled by GQ about... the age of earth?
The latest gotchya question from the left: 'Do you actually believe the Bible?' Yes, apparently liberals now believe if you catch someone admitting they believe what the Bible says, they are a crazy loon who must be defeated! Marco Rubio discovered this during a recent interview with GQ who felt the need to bring up one of the most irrelevant questions ever. His response was great - check it out HERE. Unelectable 2012 now available on DVD
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Who Is Fiscal Cliff?
MRCTV's Dan Joseph headed out to the streets of Alexandria, Virginia to see if people knew what the "fiscal cliff" is: Watch Video »
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