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Posted on November 26, 2012

Russian newspaper Pravda is blaming President Obama's re-election on an "illiterate society" who voted for him.
 
Putin in 2009 outlined his strategy for economic success. Alas, poor Obama did the opposite but nevertheless was re-elected. Bye, bye Miss American Pie. The Communists have won in America with Obama but failed miserably in Russia with Zyuganov who only received 17% of the vote. Vladimir Putin was re-elected as President keeping the NWO order out of Russia while America continues to repeat the Soviet mistake.

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More on this story at The Blaze . . . 

The Blaze | by Jason Howerton | Posted on November 26, 2012 at 5:56pm  

A painting that depicts President Barack Obama as Jesus Christ with a crown of thorns around his head and his arms outstretched like Christ himself when he was crucified is currently on display at a community college art gallery in Boston, Fox News Radio's Todd Starnes reports.

The painting is featured in a larger exhibit at the Bunker Hill Community College Art Gallery titled "Artists on the Stump - the Road to the White House 2012." The controversial painting will reportedly remain on display until Dec. 15. The painting is actually called "Truth."

The Blaze | by Jason Howerton | Posted on November 26, 2012 at 11:56pm  

During Monday night's "Hannity" on Fox News Channel, host Sean Hannity and his panel discussed the implications of Jamie Foxx's remarks at the Soul Train Awards in which he called President Barack Obama "our lord and savior."

Hannity said the comment is a "reminder of how obsessed left-wing celebrities really are with President Obama."

VALLEY FORGE PATRIOTS

THURSDAY (not Friday), DECEMBER 13^TH MEETING, 6PM

Phoenixville Country Club

IMPORTANT MEETING! UN Agenda 21

Please plan to be there. Put the date on your calendar now.

•          A "show and tell" with John Taylor who works with Tom Dewees, at the American Policy Center, a 15 year leader of exposing this UN scheme to take away your property rights and other American liberties, otherwise known as sustainable development.

Agenda 21 is the plan that is intended to take away the rights and liberties of all Americans. Currently, there is a big push to institute a global tax and make the UN the global IRS. If you think this is not possible, I challenge you to find out the real truth.

The UN Agenda 21 plan is also to take away your gun rights, control the sea, space and air (global commons), have financial regulatory authority, a global economic council, and a world monetary board. But one of the worst things for us, is the plan to take away our right of property ownership and turn much of our country into uninhabited wastelands. No roads, no transportation, no population.

If you think this is extreme and can't happen, you are wrong. This plan is so far down the road that we will have a very hard time stopping it. There are many counties and townships in our area that have already signed up and are involved, including the borough of West Chester. These communities and counties don't realize what they are signing up to support. The words they use are positive sounding, but the results are very ugly. Some municipalities in Maryland have fought and have won their way out of the program.

Everyone needs to learn about this plot. Please personally invite your supervisors, the RCCC, commissioners, and other legislators. Do this now! Plan to greet them, sit with them and follow up with them. They are so involved with other issues that Agenda 21 seems far off and impossible. Aware citizens must help them learn the reality!

We the People must defeat any treaty that promises to hand the UN global taxing powers or any other powers over our nation and our liberties!

Please join the VFP and participate - join like-minded patriots and learn how we can help stop this assault on America!

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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.

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 Florida Family Association's webmaster American Family Online has produced the following remarkable product to protect children and adults from explicit material on cell phones and tablets.

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According to our research at AFO, the largest growing group of smart phone users is the 12-17 year old age group.  Unfortunately, also according to research, the largest viewership of pornography from the Internet on smart phones is 12 to 17 year old children.  The impact is catastrophic.  Desensitization, failed relationships, abuse of women are the results, nothing good.

Although there are other so called parental control functions and filtered browser apps available, none give the protection and full functionality of MobileWebGuard.  We are most proud of the intelligent content scanning and the lock down so that it cannot be easily removed or deactivated.  A filter that can easily be removed or bypassed is a placebo and will do more harm than good if a parent thinks the phone is filtered and it is not.

This app works on most Android and Apple (iOS) devices including smart phones and tablets!  These are the fastest growing segments in consumer technology and thus the most exposed to the dark side of the Internet.  For peace of mind online, a parent must insure their child has a protected mobile device.

Related Scripture Verses

1 Corinthians 6:18 Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a person commits are outside the body, but whoever sins sexually, sins against their own body.

Romans 1:24 Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another.

2 Corinthians 12:21 I am afraid that when I come again my God will humble me before you, and I will be grieved over many who have sinned earlier and have not repented of the impurity, sexual sin and debauchery in which they have indulged.

Philippians 4:8^- Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable-if anything is excellent or praiseworthy-think about such things.

1 Peter 4:7-10 The end of all things is near. Therefore be alert and of sober mind so that you may pray. ⁸ Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins. ⁹ Offer hospitality to one another without grumbling. ¹⁰ Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others, as faithful stewards of God's grace in its various forms.

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Yes, it's true: You can support ACT! for America-at no cost to you!     An important message from
Guy Rodgers, Executive Director  

The next time you make an online purchase of almost anything, you could be helping ACT! for America-at no cost to you.

Sound too good to be true? It isn't.

All you have to do is sign up for "iGive"-a program that's been around since 1997.

The concept is as powerful as it is simple.

  And with the holidays just around the corner, you could be helping ACT! for America with every gift you buy!

The concept isn't new. In the mid-1990s many supporters of non-profit organizations signed up with long distance telephone programs where a percentage of their bill was donated to their charity of choice.

But our investigation of iGive has convinced us that this program has an ease of use and sophistication that we find remarkable.

  In other words, every time you make a purchase of merchandise you would buy anyway, you would be financially supporting ACT! for America!

All you have to do is log on below and follow the directions to create your account and download the iGive "button." (Note: downloading the "button" is key).

Get Started Here!

When I was first informed of iGive, I was skeptical. I've seen these ideas come and go. Often, they're too good to be true. Or there are all kinds of glitches and problems.

So I spent hours researching.

I looked at online customer reviews (which were very good). I read all of iGive's fine print, such as Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. I signed up and even emailed two tech support questions to see how good their tech support was.

  As you know from our Patriot Partner program, we're all about encouraging a lot of people to each do a little-to do something. When everyone does a little, together we accomplish a lot.

So consider what could happen.

  What's more, that 1.5% figure might be low. Many of the merchants offer percentage donations that are much higher. One printer inkjet company I looked at offered 13%!

Every merchant website you visit tells you right at the top what percentage of your purchase price will be donated to ACT! for America.

Just think what we could accomplish with an extra $15,000, $50,000 or $75,000 in our fight against radical Islam!

Get Started Here!

  I know there are many people out there who would love to support ACT! for America, or give more than they're giving, but in these tough economic times they simply can't.

Well, here's a way that everyone who believes in our mission can easily support what we're doing-at no cost to them.

It doesn't get any better than that.

Guy Rodgers  

Today we are excited to announce that "Occupy Unmasked"  will be made available on Video on Demand (VOD), on the heels of its successful limited theatrical release. "Occupy Unmasked" must be seen to be believed and now you and millions of others will have that opportunity right in your own homes.

The VOD providers carrying "Occupy Unmasked" include iTunes; Amazon; Charter; Comcast; Google Play; DirecTV; Playstation3; Suddenlink; Time Warner; Verizon FIOS; VUDU; Xbox Zune; AT&T UVerse; Cablevision; Cox; and Dish Network.

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

"Occupy Unmasked," takes viewers into the Occupy Wall Street camps across the country in New York, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., Portland, Denver and Oakland for an up-close look at what's happened there and who's at the heart of the movement. Exclusive footage and first-hand eyewitness accounts tell the story of the criminal activity and raw brutality in the camps - much of which has not been reported by the mainstream media.

Featuring the late conservative icon Andrew Breitbart, as well as former leftist radicals turned patriotic citizen journalists Brandon Darby, David Horowitz, Pam Keys, Anita MonCrief, Mandy Nagy, and Lee Stranahan, among others, this film delves beneath the surface of the Occupy movement to show its anarchist roots.

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

Sincerely,

David N. Bossie

Memorial Lecture 

Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2013 

7:30pm 

The Annual Jay Michael Swartz Memorial Lecture: An Evening with Michael Medved For Men and Women Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2013 7:30pm *Pre-lecture dinner 6:15pm At the Glazier Jewish Center | 25 N. State St. Fee: $36   *Pre-lecture dinner with Michael Medved (includes lecture): $100 AMERICAN JEWS AND CHRISTIAN EVANGELICALS: IRRECONCILABLE ENEMIES OR INEVITABLE ALLIES? Michael Medved is a nationally syndicated radio talk show host and bestselling author. His daily show is heard by over 3.75 million people across the country. Born in Philadelphia, Michael won admission to Yale at age 16 as a National Merit Scholar. He majored in American History and graduated with honors, before attending Yale Law School, where his classmates included Bill and Hillary Clinton. Michael wrote his first bestseller at age 26 - "What Really Happened to the Class of '65?" - a skeptical reconsideration of the "counterculture" of the 1960's that became a weekly TV series on NBC. Many American Jews distrust and even fear the rise of the evangelical Christianity. They see this religious movement as a threat to the survival of Judaism in the United States and to the continuance of a society that values pluralism and religious liberty. On the other hand increasing numbers of American Jews view evangelicals as natural allies, not just when it comes to support of Israel, but on a range of social issues here in the U.S. In this provocative presentation, Michael Medved will explain where Jews and Christians already agree, and where they can never agree, in their participation in the ongoing battles shaping American society.

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

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

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

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

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

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National and local partners are critical to achieving a successful event. CPAC 2013 provides an excellent platform to promote your message and network with the leaders and activists who are on the frontlines of the conservative movement. We invite you to review the special opportunities available to join the action at CPAC 2013 by visiting conservative.org.

See you at the National Harbor!
 
 
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Questions regarding CPAC 2013 may be sent to cpac@conservative.org.

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

Jul 18th, 2012 

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

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

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

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

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

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

Order your copy of The Great Betrayal today by clicking here.  

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

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

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

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RedState Morning Briefing

For November 27, 2012

1. A Primer for Rich Donors Who Got Taken to the Cleaners by Republican Consultants

When consultants told rich donors who were funding them that they were not making money off the Super PAC's that the rich idiots . . . er . . . donors funded, they were being honest. They probably were not.

But ad heavy Super PACs outsourced the ad buys, the mail, the data collection, etc. to other groups that got commissions and you can be sure that a lot of these supposedly noble consultants working for free were making a killing off of commissions, referral fees, etc. through their relationships with the commissioned vendors doing the actual work. Read this old post of mine for a sampling of how these consultants can make money without actually making money.

Just as important as making money for these guys was control over the data. In fact, in singular importance this campaign season has been the buzz word "data." But what the hell is that data and why is it so important?

Well, for starters, let me fill you in on one piece of technology that flew under the radar this season. It is called Gravity and it is probably the only major piece of campaign technology to come out of 2012 with a proven track record. About the only major donor on the right to have come into contact with it was Joe Ricketts. And Ricketts only came into contact with it because he was smart enough to direct Ending Spending, his group, to work with existing, small groups on the ground. About the only major group to use it was FreedomWorks, which, unlike a lot of other big groups on the right, decided not to go proprietary, but to go for winning at all costs.

It was the existing small groups like American Majority Action and the Madison Project using Gravity primarily and those groups were instrumental in its creation. With the exception of FreedomWorks, virtually everybody else went out to build their own thing. In fact, several of the very well known consultants as seen on TV and others you never see did their best to kill Gravity, stop it from being built, and convince donors who came into contact with it to defund the groups or pressure those groups to move away from Gravity.

Gravity, in fact, explains a lot about how the donors got so screwed in much the same way the RNC screwed itself with Voter Vault.

2. The Benghazi-Syria Connection

September 11, 2012, 8:30 PM: U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya.  All is quiet, Ambassador Chris Stevens has recently finished a meeting with the Turkish consul general.

9:40 - 9:42 PM: Alarms sound, indicating something is wrong.  The compound is under attack.  A senior State Department security officer at the consulate calls for assistance from the CIA base located less than 1 mile away.

9:59 PM: An unarmed drone is directed to fly over the consulate.

10:20 PM: First officers from CIA's Global Response Staff arrive at the consulate to assist against attackers.

10:32 PM: National Command Center at the Pentagon notifies the Office of the Secretary of Defense and the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the attack.  Secretary Panetta and General Dempsey are also informed of the situation.

11:00 PM: Panetta and Dempsey meet with President Obama for a previously scheduled meeting and discuss the attack.  . . . please click here for the rest of the post →

3.  Only in Washington

November 27, 2012   

Reversing America's Decline
Jared E. Peterson
The ongoing and not-so-gradual loss of American Civilization is the result of two related phenomena: the invasion of our country from the southern border, and our elites' culture of self-loathing More

How Traditional Values Shape the NFL
Jack Cashill
Although sportscasters have the unfortunate habit of stressing the presumed physical differences between black and white quarterbacks, they tend to overlook the cultural similarities. More

Taking Back the Academy
Robert Oscar Lopez
Liberals have a lot to answer for when it comes to higher education. But conservatives do, too, for not taking a stand. More

It Will Take a Moral Movement, Girls
Christopher Chantrill
When women awaken to the lie liberals peddle to them, that's when we'll have our next Great Awakening. More

What I Saw During Operation Pillar of Defense
Nira Lee
The eight days of Operation "Pillar of Defense" have been some of the hardest I have ever known physically and emotionally More

The Coming Fall and Eventual Rebirth of America
Frank Ryan
The basic framework of free enterprise once existed in United States and it is a principle which our people typically understand and embrace. More

Pillar of Defense and the Arab Amnesia Syndrome
Ari Lieberman
The latest conflict in the Middle East will serve as fodder for a mass Arab delusion. We've seen this many times. More

American Thinker Blog

The Destructive Status Quo in Washington
November 27, 2012
People seem to want more of the same in America. They don't seem to care that more of the same will destroy the nation. More

Let Them Eat Caviar
November 27, 2012
Just about when you think the "Let them eat cake" thing could not be "improved" upon, along come some daring Californians (who wouldn't have guessed that?) to upset the bread cart. More

Morsi-Supporting Al-Azhar Students: 'Egypt is an Islamic State'
November 27, 2012
Some professors joined them. More

A Tax on Carbon is a Tax on Life
November 27, 2012
Carbon is the essential building block for all living things. But life cannot exist without energy. More

Thousands of Rockets Rain on Israel, but not in the NY Times
November 26, 2012
Once again, the New York TImes fails to ask the obvious question. More

Fiscal Cliff 'downpayment' may be in the works
November 26, 2012
Too little, too late. More

GOP may go to the mattresses over filibuster reform
November 26, 2012
Will Republicans shut down the government if Reid uses the "nuclear option?" More

UN advances effort to grab control of the internet
November 26, 2012
Next week, the UN's International Telecommunications Union will convene a meeting Dubai aimed at grabbing control of and taxing the internet, all in the name of global peace, justice, and harmony. More

The nightmare of setting up state insurance exchanges
November 26, 2012
A guaranteed clusterfark. More

Egypt's Morsi facing backlash over power grab
November 26, 2012
Protests building over Morsi's decree that he is above judicial review. More

The sweet life of Bakery Union officials
November 26, 2012
Six figure compensation packages for union bosses. More

Peaceful Coexistence with Radical Islamists is Impossible
November 26, 2012
Any other conclusion is a manic delusion. More

November 26, 2012     Prosecutors ask permission to say "jihad"  

Just when you think you've seen everything when it comes to the absurdities of political correctness, check out the article below that was posted on Jihad Watch.

    Portland, Oregon: Prosecutors of would-be jihad mass murderer ask permission to use the word "jihad"     It is astounding, and indicative of just how much the public discourse has degenerated, that this is even an issue. Mohamud used the word "jihad," but prosecutors have to ask if they can please characterize his motives and goals accurately, at his trial.

"'Terrorist,' 'violent jihad' among words prosecutors want to use in Portland terrorism trial," by Nigel Duara for the Associated Press, November 7:

  Distort the facts? That's what Sady and Wax are trying to do, not anyone else. But their obfuscation is accepted practice and prescribed wisdom, so they will probably win the day.    

Hamas likes to ensure that their own people get killed, too, which is why they put their rocket launchers next to schools, hospitals, and playgrounds.

Susan Rice Chose 'To Be a Puppet' regarding Libya -She had access to all of the top secret classified info, and she knew the story she was giving out was not entirely true.

Deadly attack on Muslim Brotherhood building -Steve Harrigan reports from Egypt

Liberals and the Left Using 'Freak Show' Tactics to Control Senator Marco Rubio 'Image'

MEDIA WATCH: FOX's Juan Williams Bashes Israel's "Overkill" and Charles Krauthammer set Williams straight

Egypt's New Pharaoh -Protests continue in Cairo over Morsi power grab

The coming cost of health care reform - ObamaCare

Stakelbeck on Terror Show: Israel vs. Hamas

Ronald Reagan Thanksgiving Day Address 1985

Krauthammer comments on Israel cease-fire: Netanyahu is giving the cease-fire a chance because Iran is the bigger issue and Netanyahu doesn't want to upset his relationship with Obama.

Thanksgiving Video Flashback: President Bush Makes Surprise Thanksgiving Visit to Iraq, 2003

Rush Limbaugh: The True Story of Thanksgiving

Egypt's President Moves Toward Dictatorship

Egypt remains in turmoil after its president decreed last Thursday that he was no longer subject to the laws of his country-giving himself power over the judiciary and other branches of government.

Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi made his lunge for power shortly after helping to broker a fragile ceasefire in Gaza between Israel and Hamas, the extremist offshoot of his own Muslim Brotherhood. The Muslim Brotherhood's agenda includes imposing Sharia (Islamic law), curbing the rights of women and religious minorities, abandoning Egypt's 1979 peace treaty with Israel, and advancing Islamist causes around the world.

Reuters reports that about 370 people have been injured in clashes between protesters and police since Morsi issued his decree last Thursday. The president is meeting with judges today, supposedly on an agreement to amend his decree, but protesters say they want to see it reversed completely.

Morsi has set Egypt on a troubling new foreign policy course since coming to power in June. His government has distanced itself from Washington while cozying up to China, improving relations with Iran, and violating its peace treaty with Israel.

He has escalated Egypt's cooperation with Hamas, the Palestinian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood that controls Gaza and remains adamantly committed to Israel's destruction. Morsi's Islamist-dominated government has cracked down on Egypt's media and has announced that Egyptian journalists will be put on trial for "insults" to the president. Morsi's government is systematically clamping down on Egyptians' political, social, and cultural freedoms. Yet the Obama Administration naively continues to court it as a partner.

Morsi may calculate that his help in administering Band-Aids to the festering Israeli-Palestinian conflict will make the United States and others who give aid to Egypt think twice before trying to reverse his power grab.

The Obama Administration was working on an aid package to Egypt that includes forgiving approximately $1 billion of Egypt's debt to the United States. This is in addition to about $1.5 billion in annual U.S. foreign aid.

When protesters tore down the American flag at the U.S. embassy in Cairo on September 11, Morsi's public reaction was nonchalant. Instead of immediately denouncing the attack and taking action to upgrade security around the embassy-as Libyan and Yemeni leaders have done after similar events-Morsi waited a day before casually issuing a mild rebuke to the rioters via Facebook.

The Obama Administration should leverage U.S. aid to pressure the Egyptian leader to respect the rule of law, abide by the decisions of Egypt's courts, and abandon his drive for absolute power. Morsi has exploited external crises in the past to advance his own ambitions. In August, he used a Sinai terrorist attack that killed Egyptian soldiers as a pretext to purge the Egyptian army of its top Mubarak-era holdovers. Now he has done the same with the judiciary.

Egypt's judiciary also has pushed back against Morsi's power grab. The Supreme Council of the Judiciary denounced Morsi's unilateral assertion of power over the judiciary as "an unprecedented attack on judicial independence." The Judges Club, an association of judges made up of many appointees by the Mubarak regime, called for a strike by courts across Egypt.

But the judges alone will not be enough to reverse Morsi's power grab. The key vote will be wielded by the armed forces. Morsi appears confident that he can count on support from key military leaders, whom he hand-picked after purging the top ranks of Mubarak loyalists in August.

While the army's ultimate verdict on Morsi's power grab is not yet apparent, Egypt's investors voted with their wallets and withdrew their money from Egypt's stock market, which plunged almost 10 percent on Sunday.

The big losers here are the Egyptian people. Their aspirations for freedom and democracy will likely get lost in the shuffle as Egypt's "Arab Spring" descends into an Islamist winter. But the United States and its allies-particularly Israel-will also find their national interests undermined by the anti-Western drive of Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood.

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The BLT:  Blog of the LegalTimes

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

House Committee, DOJ to Face Off in Court Over 'Fast and Furious'

The lawyers tangled up in the dispute over access to U.S. Justice Department information about the gun investigation Operation Fast and Furious are set to meet in court in Washington tomorrow morning.

U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson wants the lawyers to address, among other things, whether there's a realistic possibility that DOJ and the House of Representatives oversight committee, which is seeking the enforcement of a subpoena, will settle the case.

The oversight committee sued DOJ in Washington's federal trial court in August after the full House voted, largely along party lines, to hold Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. in contempt of Congress. The committee wants to review information about the Fast and Furious gun probe-federal agents allowed firearms to flow into Mexico-and how the department responded to congressional requests about the probe.

DOJ lawyers contend that Jackson doesn't have a role in the dispute, which the department characterizes as a political tiff between Congress and the executive branch. President Barack Obama in June, at the request of Holder, asserted executive privilege over certain internal DOJ documents regarding the Fast and Furious investigation. The department's legal team in October asked Berman to dismiss the suit. "Judicial restraint, not judicial intervention, is warranted," DOJ attorneys said then.

Kerry Kircher of the House general counsel's office, in court papers filed November 21, questioned the assertion of executive privilege "over internal agency documents that reflect no advice to or communication with" Obama.

Holder "would prefer that this court not address this quintessentially legal issue-not surprisingly given that no court ever has held that Executive privilege extends anywhere near as far as the Attorney General now claims that it does."

DOJ's separation of powers argument, Kircher said in the papers, "reduces essentially to the proposition that the executive may not be called to account before the judiciary with respect to its dealings with the legislative branch."

"This extreme notion, if accepted, would significantly hamstring Congress's ability to oversee-and thus to guard against-malfeasance, abuses of authority, and mismanagement by the executive," Kircher wrote. "By advocating for this court to avoid reaching the merits here, the Attorney General really is asking this court to tilt the balance of powers between the two political branches radically in favor of the executive."

Kircher also disputed the DOJ notion that the clash is political in nature. Calling a dispute "political," Kircher declared, "is not a legal argument; it is a talking point masquerading (poorly) as an argument."

The conservative American Center for Law and Justice today filed a friend-of-the-court brief in support of the oversight committee. The brief said "there is simply no basis for believing that [DOJ's] preferred political negotiation strategy will yield any resolution, much less a constitutionally correct one."

Jackson, who joined the federal district bench in Washington in March 2011, has indicated she doesn't want the dispute to drag on.

In October, the judge said she'd rule on the DOJ request that the suit be dismissed, on jurisdictional grounds, before setting a schedule to address the merits of the case. Jackson rejected a proposed schedule that took the case in the spring of 2013.

Posted by Mike Scarcella on November 26, 2012 at 12:41 PM in Balancing Act, Crime and Punishment, Current Affairs, Justice Department , Points of View , Politics and Government | Permalink

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Liberal think tank "make believe" aside, the U-Haul index shows Californians fleeing to Texas

Nov 26, 2012 05:13 am | Coach Collins

By Kevin "Coach" Collins

Here's a bit of good news: California's economy is improving! Of course it is not true and this pronouncement comes from a liberal think tank, but hey it sounds so good doesn't it?

What's laughable is that The Rockefeller Foundation and Yale professor Jacob Hacker claim this "improvement" is proven by the fact that the percentage of California's families reporting a major economic loss last year dropped by 1.4% which is a whole .10% better than the national average. The fact that California is so economically distressed and has been for so long that there are few families left to experience economic losses doesn't seem to enter into Professor Hacker's formula.

Now for so reality: according to those who study the fiscal and economic health of a state, a much more honest measurement is the "U-Haul Index" which examines the cost of moving in or out of a given state. ... Continue Reading:Liberal think tank "make believe" aside, the U-Haul index shows Californians fleeing to Texas

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The Anti-Democratic Party 

Posted: 25 Nov 2012 08:48 PM PST

In one of the curious ironies of history, the Democratic Party, in its present form, is animated solely by opposition to majority rule; an obsession that it attempts to disguise with insincere attempts at class warfare.
 

 

Has Morsi softened his dictatorial decree? 

Posted: 26 Nov 2012 03:44 PM PST

(Paul Mirengoff)

There are conflicting reports as to whether Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi has softened the decree in which he exempted all of his decisions from judicial review. A television network allied with his party said Morsi has agreed that most of his actions will be subject to review by the courts after all. But Reuters later reported that a Morsi spokesman said the initial decree has not been amended in any way.

This much is for sure, though: if Morsi did soften his decree, it was no thanks to President Obama. White House spokesman Jay Carney said today that Obama has not spoken to Morsi about the Muslim Brotherhood man's power grab. Nor would Carney even say that Obama condemns it.

The mainstreaming of Hamas 

Posted: 26 Nov 2012 08:51 AM PST

(Paul Mirengoff)

Yesterday, I argued that one of President Obama's objectives in brokering a deal that enhances Hamas' status was to enhance Hamas' status. I noted that leftists in America and Europe have, for some time, viewed Hamas as the authentic representataive of Palestinians and, accordingly, have attempted to portray the terrorist outfit as "moderate." Obama's tilt towards Hamas, it seems to me, is a manifestation of this view.

With that tilt, the liberal foreign policy establishment can now be expected overtly to echo the mainstreaming of Hamas line. Indeed, the Washington Post article I linked to yesterday - "Hamas tactics garner support" -can be seen as part of this process.   

Today, Jackson Diehl, the Post's Deputy Editorial Page Editor, adds his influential voice to the mainstreaming chorus. Hamas, he declares, not only has "the support of region's richest and most powerful governments," but it is "preferable to the most obvious Gazan alternative, which is jihadist movements even more closely tied to Iran."

It seems absurd to distinguish between Hamas and "jidhadists movements even more closely tied to Iran." (One imagines that somewhere there is a terrorist operation more fanatical than al Qaeda.) But that's the exercise necessary to depict Hamas as an entity moderate enough for Israel to work with. It's the same line I heard from the very senior European diplomat I mentioned in my previous post.   

Diehl seems hopeful that, with the urging of Egypt, Hamas can be pushed into reaching an accord with Israel or, if not, at least a "modus vivendi that benefits both sides." As for who will push Israel, there's only one candidate - the Obama administration.   

But Diehl's scenario presupposes that Hamas is more than just fractionally less extreme than "jihadist movements even more closely tied to Iran." Unfortunately, Hamas isn't, and Diehl doesn't say otherwise.

Republican 2014 Senate prospects get a boost 

Posted: 26 Nov 2012 07:49 AM PST

(Paul Mirengoff)

As it stands now, Republicans will have to pick up six seats in 2014 in order to take control of the Senate. That's the bad news. The good news is that the Democrats will be defending a number of vulnerable seats.

One of the most vulnerable is the West Virginia seat occupied by Jay Rockefeller. Today, Republican Shelley Moore Capito is expected to announce that she will challenge the 75-year-old incumbent.   

Capito currently serves in the House, where she has a center-right voting record. Her lifetime American Conservative Union rating is 70 percent. That's far from ideal, of course, but it consititutes a good fit for West Virginia, which has become a center-right, but not truly conservative, state. Whether the missing 30 percent will give rise to strong opposition from a Tea Party type candidate remains to be seen.   

As John Fund points out, during Capito's congressional career, she has represented roughly 40 percent of the state's voting population. And, for what it's worth this early, she leads Rockefeller 48-44 in a poll taken a few months ago.   

Rockefeller voted for Obamacare and supports environmental regulations that are unpopular in West Virginia. Accordingly, if he runs again, the Senator will have much to explain to a skeptical electorate.

Thinkin' about "Lincoln" 

Posted: 26 Nov 2012 05:04 AM PST

(Scott Johnson)

We went to see the film Lincoln this past weekend. Until reading David Brooks's obtuse column about the film, I was unsure that I knew enough to comment intelligently about the film. I apparently know at least as much as Brooks, however, and therefore offer the following in the way of notes for interested readers.

Let me say up front that the film deserves to be seen and, in my view, makes an important contribution to understanding Lincoln. Directed by Steven Spielberg, with a screenplay by Tony Kushner, the film focuses on the brief period in January 1865 after Lincoln's reelection during a lame duck session of Congress when Lincoln moved heaven and earth to secure the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment in the House of Representatives (where it had failed once previously). The film purports to be based in part on Doris Kearns Goodwin's Team of Rivals, but it expands greatly on a tiny sliver of that doorstop of a book.

A.O. Scott's New York Times review describes the film with scrupulous accuracy, and I entirely agree with Scott's witty conclusion:

Anti-semitism rears its head in London 

Posted: 25 Nov 2012 08:55 PM PST

(Paul Mirengoff)

John wrote here about the display of anti-Semitism directed by fans of Lazio, an Italian soccer team, against Tottenham Hotspur supporters in Rome last week. Before the match, Lazio's "Ultras" attacked Spurs fans, sending one to the hospital with serious stab wounds. Then, during the match, they chanted "Juden Tottenham" - using the German word for Jew - and unfurled a "Free Palestine" banner. Tottenham, as John noted, is strongly supported by Jewish soccer fans in London.

Lazio, for its part, has long been supported by Italian fascists; indeed, was it was Mussolini's favorite team. So as atrocious as its fan's conduct was, it came as no surprise to me.

The same cannot be said with respect to West Ham United, the famous club from London's East End. During a match against Spurs today, West Ham fans taunted Tottenham about the stabbing. They chanted "Viva Lazio," and sang the name of former Lazio and Hammers star Paolo Di Canio. A self-proclaimed fascist, Di Canio epitomizes Lazio's "ultras" and twice delivered the fascist salute to celebrate goals.

Worst of all, on at least three occasions during the game, West Ham fans made a hissing noise. That noise was interpreted to mimick the sound of gas released into the death chambers at concentration camps during World War Two. In context, I'm not sure that any other interpretation is possible.

As John suggested at the conclusion of his Lazio-Tottenham post, anti-Semitism is widening in Europe. It seems to be as fashionable in London as in a hotbed of Italian fascism.

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COMMENTARY:

The Death of American Religion
By Ben Shapiro
In truth, Mitt Romney lost for the same reason that traditional marriage lost on Election Day: America is becoming a less religious country. And that bodes ill for the future of the United States.

Wal-Mart vs. the Mob
By Michelle Malkin
Attention, Wal-Mart directors: Mob appeasement never works. The retailer has  tried repeatedly to stave off union thuggery through political "partnerships" and capitulation. It has failed and failed and failed.

Is Middle East Peace a Mirage?
By Patrick J. Buchanan
Today, as President Obama is being pushed toward another futile round of peacemaking in the Mideast, prodded to intervene in the ethnic-civil-sectarian war in Syria and goaded to draw a "red line" for war on Iran, he should ask himself: How would America's vital interests be imperiled by staying out of this particular quarrel, conflict or war? Why are all of these crises somehow ours to resolve? What are the odds that we can resolve them?

The Pledge
By Rich Galen
Much was made over the weekend about cracks in Grover Norquist's "No Tax Pledge," stemming from comments made by Rep. Peter King and Senators Lindsay Graham (R-S.C.) and Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.). As the fiscal cliff looms, it is useful to remember that Congress did this to itself - and to the rest of us - because they refused to agree to anything that might have become a 30-second attack ad against them in their re-election campaigns.

Monday Brief

Who Needs God When You Have the State?

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"The hand of providence has been so conspicuous in all this, that he must be worse than an infidel that lacks faith, and more than wicked, that has not gratitude enough to acknowledge his obligations." --George Washington

Faith and Family

Contrast between our first and latest presidents "Yet again, President Obama's Thanksgiving message eschewed any direct reference to thanking God, making this the fourth straight year in which the President of the United States has ignored the central message of the holiday in favor of political grandstanding. This year, Obama's central message was that now that he's been re-elected, Americans should agree with all of his policies. His unity routine sounds strangely empty after a campaign in which he focused on dividing Americans. ... No mention of thanking God. None. But, of course, we're used to this. In 2011, there was no mention of God at all. In 2010, Obama was closer, but still missed the mark ('we'll spend some time taking stock of what we're thankful for: the God-given bounty of America, and the blessings of one another').

In 2009, Obama didn't thank God, either. Compare that to Obama's Thanksgiving Day proclamations, which he does not read or speak. Those are filled with God -- at least for the last three years. In his first year, filled with the vim and vigor of his original election, Obama preferred to eschew any direct thanking of God even in his proclamation. Of course, nobody sees these proclamations, so Obama doesn't have to be embarrassed about them. It's no wonder that this President's Democratic National Committee platform tried to remove God. He's not a big fan of the Big Guy. Even on Thanksgiving. After all, what need do you have for God when you've got the state?" --columnist Ben Shapiro 

Monday, November 26, 2012

To: Friends & Supporters

From: Gary L. Bauer


Egypt's New Pharaoh

Last week Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi was Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton's best friend. He was a "hero" because he brokered a cease fire between Hamas and Israel in Gaza. We were told Obama talked to him six times on the phone in order to make it all happen. Hillary went to Egypt and made it clear that Morsi's the man!

Whoops. Within hours of the over-the-top Obama/Clinton praise for the Muslim Brotherhood leader, Morsi seized dictatorial powers. Like a pharaoh of old, he issued a decree stating that any challenges to his decrees, laws and decisions were banned. Come to think of it, I understand why Obama and Morsi get along so well!

Demonstrators took to the streets of Egypt in protest, but there was silence in Washington. Obama said nothing about the power grab. Hillary's State Department issued a weak statement lacking any moral outrage. It is now more and more clear that Egypt is becoming an Islamic state governed by Sharia law.

It doesn't have to be that way, of course. The Obama Administration could announce that no more of your hard-earned tax money will go for Egypt's economic and military programs. We could refuse to do any debt forgiveness for previous loans to Egypt. In short, we could "turn the screws" the same way Obama did on the pro-America Mubarak. But don't hold your breath.


Obamacare: Killing Jobs, Cutting Wages

As the nation continues to digest the results of the 2012 elections, the stark reality of Obamacare is coming into sharp contrast with all the left-wing hype. The fears of conservative critics about job losses, bigger government and a weakened economy are being borne out, with many struggling families and hourly workers bearing the brunt.

Here's one example: The Orlando Regional Medical Center has begun its "largest staff reduction in its nearly 100-year history," according to the Orlando Sentinel. It is cutting hundreds of positions across "all departments and all eight of the system's hospitals."

The reason for the layoffs: Obamacare. According to ORMC's CEO, Sherrie Sitarik, "Health-care reform mandates and changes in reimbursement structures for Medicare and Medicaid are forcing health-care organizations ... to confront new challenges."

ORMC is not alone. The Sentinel wrote that "Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in North Carolina announced that it would cut 950 jobs by June. ... Louisiana State University announced it would cut 1,495 positions as well as programs across its seven hospitals."

Academia is now feeling the effects of Obamacare. Following the example of many large and small businesses, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported that the Community College of Allegheny County is cutting hours for 400 adjunct professors and support staff "to circumvent the national health care legislation that goes into effect in January 2014."

One adjunct biology professor said, "It's kind of a double whammy for us because we are facing a legal requirement [under the new law] to get health care and if the college is reducing our hours, we don't have the money to pay for it." Welcome to Obama's "brave new world," professor!

There's a lot of irony here given how so many left-wing academics overwhelmingly supported Obama.

Implementing Obamacare is proving to be a nightmare. So far at least 16 states are refusing to set up insurance exchanges, instead leaving the task to Washington bureaucrats. According to The Hill this is creating "major logistical and financial challenges" for the Obama Administration.

And here's another headache for the administration: Today the Supreme Court reopened a case by Liberty University against Obamacare's contraception mandate. Read more here.


Democrats Gearing Up For 2014

In the days since November 6th, I've heard from many good folks who said they are taking a break from politics or giving up altogether. While I share their frustration with the outcome of this year's elections, I know the left isn't taking a break.

The left didn't give up after it lost in 2000, 2004 or 2010. And even after winning just three weeks ago, Obama's liberal allies are not taking a break. In fact, they are already plotting their strategy for 2014!

Consider this excerpt from a Politico report today:

"Shortly after Election Day, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, New York Sen. Chuck Schumer and top White House aides spoke at a three-day secret meeting of major Democratic donors and officials from liberal outside groups gearing up for 2014...

"Some of those groups or their allies are considering expanding into state politics, policy fights or even primaries on both sides. And they have already gone back to their 2012 donors to ask for more cash while the euphoria from winning is still fresh."

I am optimistic about our chances in two years. But the left isn't waiting a year or more to start planning. It is planning now, and so are we.


Be Discerning

In recent days, I have gotten an unusual number of emails asking about various ideas and solicitations from groups all purportedly aimed at removing Obama from office. My friends, there is no quick fix that can replace the hard work of winning elections.

Barack Obama will not be impeached. Harry Reid and Obama's Democrat allies control the Senate. And it is unimaginable that anyone could prevent the Electoral College from meeting next month and performing its constitutional duties.

I deeply appreciate the support we receive from friends all over the country. But I urge you to be very cautious about donating to unknown groups promoting outlandish ideas. There is no substitute for hard work, common sense and well-earned reputations.

There are many good, established conservative organizations doing excellent work. If you don't support us, please support one of them. Don't be taken in by essentially "fly-by-night" operations hoping to exploit your conservative values for their own profit.


Whom Do You Thank?

For the fourth year in a row, Barack Obama failed to mention God in his Thanksgiving statement. This probably contributed to the confusion of comedian Jamie Foxx who said at the Soul Train awards, "First of all, give an honor to God and our lord and savior Barack Obama. Barack Obama." No he wasn't kidding.    

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