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TAUBE: Tea Party must accept partial blame for Romney defeat

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by Louis Flanagan 

Political Education Seminar

Monday, December . 3rd  @ 6:00 pm- 8:00 pm

Location Wegman's Restaurant

4401 Pottsville Pike

Reading Pa

Guest Speaker: Sam Rohrer

Topic of Discussion:  Post Election Analysis and Where we go from here

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Israel You're Not Alone - Rabbi Aryeh Spero

Spero: Liberalism is Paganism, Obama like Ahab

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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 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!

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  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.    

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

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

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

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

Jul 18th, 2012 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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The size of our state-based public pension liabilities is an enormous scandal... and it's flying under the radar. FreedomWorks would like to help reform these pensions before they bankrupt our states and local communities... but we can only get involved if there are enough citizens who are willing join together to fight for our future.

All told, state and local governments have four trillion dollars in unfunded liabilities thanks to overpromising government pensions and greedy government employees. For reference, four trillion dollars is larger than the entire U.S. budget last year. No amount of taxation can make up this shortfall.

Are you ready to save Pennsylvania?

The government unions are out of control, and we need a structural change for the corrupt process by which big-government politicians buy off their cronies in the unions. It's an endless cycle: unions elect liberal politicians to give them more taxpayer money, which allows them to elect more liberal politicians for even more spoils. It has to end.

One tool at our disposal is the ballot initiative process. Since politicians have continued to offer impossible promises to government employees instead of making tough decisions, the taxpayers will have to step in and do what is right.

Based on the response we receive and the number of patriots who are ready to go to the mat for pension reform, FreedomWorks may enter the fray.

We must keep Pennsylvania free from the crushing burden of debt and bankruptcy. Through the ballot initiative process, we can take back the power, end the cycle of corruption, and save our state.

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Items for Thursday, November 29, 2012

'No' to Palestinian Statehood  National Review Online

Brett Schaefer

James Phillips

The White House's Benghazi bungling is proving a disaster  The Telegraph

Nile Gardiner

Filibuster 'Reform' Is a Partisan Power Grab  US News & World Report

Brian Darling

Obama tax plan hashtag hijacked by conservative think tank  CNET

Ericka Andersen 

Unemployment benefits cost: $520 billion  CNN Money

James Sherk

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Five Lessons from Hurricane Sandy

November 29, 2012   

 

Conservatives Must Learn the Dark Arts of Image Manipulation

11-28-2012 01:04:59 AM

There are vast resources that remain unused in the image wars. We need to learn how to use them. There comes a certain point where you must take up the weapons of your opponent if you wish to survive. ...»

Fourteen Is the New Fifteen!

11-28-2012 01:04:00 AM

Big names in the global warming doomsday cult have quietly changed an important number to lend weight to their hysterical predictions....»

The Left's Scrooge McDuck Mythology of the Wealthy

11-28-2012 01:03:59 AM

Breaking up the class divisions requires debunking the Scrooge McDuck mythology of the wealthy and educating Americans about wealth, wealth creation, and how wealth creates jobs. ...»

Obama's Next Move: the Global Warming Tax

11-28-2012 01:03:50 AM

The "climate change tax" now on the table at the Doha, Qatar climate conference is shaping up more and more to resemble a global welfare progam. And guess who pays the bill? ...»

The Other Side of the Marriage Argument

11-28-2012 01:03:50 AM

If marriage is determined to be for everyone, what will happen to divorce?...»

Krugman's Howdy Doody Time

11-28-2012 01:03:49 AM

Of all the differences between the 1950s and now, Krugman concentrates on just two: top tax rates and unionization....»

Snookered on the Fiscal Cliff

11-28-2012 01:02:45 AM

Which is more effective: changing the rates people say you should pay in taxes, or changing what you actually pay?...»

How Not to Deter Hamas (and Iran)

11-28-2012 01:02:20 AM

If Israel can't deter a thuggish terror outfit like Hamas, how is it going deter its larger and infinitely more dangerous sponsor, Iran? ...»

Reversing America's Decline

11-27-2012 01:05:56 AM

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 ...»

How Traditional Values Shape the NFL

11-27-2012 01:04:52 AM

Fox News ends interview after Thomas Ricks criticizes network

Hurricane Sandy Victim Upset After Being Played By Obama

Tuesday, November 27, 2012

With Democracy For All and Freedom for None 

Posted by Daniel Greenfield @ the Sultan Knish blog

It would be tempting to attribute the disaster spreading across the Middle East to a brief flirtation with democracy snake oil, but for the better part of the last century the political class of the United States could talk of nothing else. Nearly every war was fought was to spread democracy, protect democracy or worship at the altar of democracy.

 

For much of the 20th Century it was the working assumption of the sort of men who got up to give speeches in crowded halls that it was democracy that made America special. But it is not so much that democracy made America special, as America made democracy special and workable. And that is because democracy only works when government is limited. When government power isn't limited, then democracy is just tyranny with a popular vote behind it.

In a poignant historical irony, American democracy went into a prolonged decline just as its political class was busy speechifying about the importance of exporting it abroad. Government authority was increasingly centralized and elections began to come down not to ideas, but to divided groups fighting it out in a zero sum struggle for total control of each other's lives. American democracy has been exported to Iraq. And Iraqi democracy was exported to America.

With unlimited authority vested in the government, we no longer have elections to decide policy, but to determine whether an oppressive social and cultural agenda complete with a loss of civil rights will be forced on the rest of the country. And our last election was as polarized as an Iraqi election and with a similar outcome.
 

Did Egyptian Dictator Morsi really invite U.S. troops into the Sinai?

Nov 28, 2012 05:13 am | Coach Collins

by Doug Book, staff writer

Is the Gaza cease fire agreed to by Benjamin Netanyahu based on an outright lie?

Egypt's president Mohamed Morsi should be forever beholding to Barack Hussein Obama. After all, Obama's calculated ouster of former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarek gave Morsi the job of ruling the Middle East's most populous nation. And ruling is the right word as Morsi has granted himself both dictatorial power and immunity from prosecution by Egypt's courts.

I "may take the necessary actions and measures to protect the country and the goals of the revolution," writes the Egyptian president in Article 6 of his power grab decree. Morsi also becomes the "Sovereign of the State" who can "claim exception against all rules." (There exists a similar situation in the United States, though it has yet to be put in writing.) (1)

Fortunately, no one in Egypt needs worry about the true intentions of their self-appointed pharaoh. ... Continue Reading:Did Egyptian Dictator Morsi really invite U.S. troops into the Sinai?

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Islamists Exploiting the Interfaith Racket   Nov 28, 2012 11:34 am

An Urgently Needed Amendment to Any DREAM Act   Nov 28, 2012 11:22 am

Don't blame Romney. Blame the New York Times   Nov 28, 2012 10:00 am

With Democracy For All and Freedom for None   Nov 28, 2012 09:55 am

Morsi's Dictatorship and the Gaza Ceasefire   Nov 28, 2012 09:33 am

Rock the Vote: How the Left is Winning the Culture War   Nov 27, 2012 08:22 pm

Can You Trust the President, Congress or the Courts to Protect Your Privacy Rights?   Nov 27, 2012 07:22 pm

Thomas Ricks: Apologist for the Sins of David Petraeus   Nov 27, 2012 07:18 pm

The Islamic Pharaoh Rises   Nov 27, 2012 02:33 pm

Gaza, Catalonia and Romantic Nationalism   Nov 27, 2012 11:18 am

Disabilities Treaty Just Another U.N. Power Grab

 International treaties sound like a good idea, especially when they claim to protect vulnerable people. The problem is, America already does more than any other country to ensure equal rights for its people-and the United Nations just wants the power to interfere in American law.

The Senate is now considering the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). President Obama signed this treaty in 2009, but the Senate has yet to agree to it. It needs a two-thirds majority of Senators to ratify it. In September, 36 Republican Senators signed a letter stating that they would oppose any treaties that came up for a vote during the lame-duck session of Congress. We will see now whether that promise holds.

>>> Watch our new video on the Zombie Congress returning for the frightening lame-duck session

Steven Groves, Heritage's Bernard and Barbara Lomas Senior Research Fellow, has explained that despite its name, the treaty will not help Americans with disabilities: 

The rights of Americans with disabilities are well protected under existing law and are enforced by a wide range of state and federal agencies. Joining CRPD merely opens the door for foreign "experts" to interfere in U.S. policymaking in violation of the principles of American sovereignty.

Human rights treaty committees have been known to make demands that fall well outside the scope of the subject matter of the treaty and conflict with the legal, social, economic, and cultural traditions and norms of states. This has especially been the case with the U.S.

certain economic, social, and cultural "positive rights," such as the right to education, health, and "an adequate standard of living for [persons with disabilities] and their families, including adequate food, clothing and housing, and to the continuous improvement of living conditions."

UN Resolution 181 - The Partition Plan  November 29, 1947

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General Assembly Resolution for Limited Palestinian Statehood Lacks Legal Authority

November 29, 2012 | Eli E. Hertz

A host of resolutions passing annually by the General Assembly are not legally binding documents by any measure. One needs only to read Article 10 of the UN Charter:

"The General Assembly may discuss any questions or any matters within the scope of the present Charter or relating to the powers and functions of any organs provided for in the present Charter, and, except as provided in Article 12, may make recommendations to the Members of the United Nations or to the Security Council or to both on any such questions or matters" [italics by author].

Professor, Judge Schwebel, the former president of the International Court of Justice, has written that:

"The General Assembly of the United Nations can only, in principle, issue 'recommendations' which are not of a binding character, according to Article 10 of the Charter of the United Nations."[1]

Schwebel also cites the (1950) opinion of Judge, Sir Hersch Lauterpacht, a former member judge of the International Court of Justice, who declared that:

"The General Assembly has no legal power to legislate or bind its members by way of recommendation." Yet, another former ICJ judge, Sir Gerald Fitzmaurice, has been just as resolute in rejecting what he labeled the "illusion" that a General Assembly resolution can have "legislative effect."[2]

Academics and renowned international law experts also agree. Professor Stone illuminates this subject by pointing out:

"In his book The Normative Role of the General Assembly of the United Nations and the Declaration of Principles of Friendly Relations, Professor Gaetano Arangio-Ruiz [3] is led to conclude that the General Assembly lacks legal authority either to enact or to 'declare' or 'determine' or 'interpret' international law so as legally to bind states by such acts, whether these states be members of the United Nations or not, and whether these states voted for or against or abstained from the relevant vote or did not take part in it." [4,5]

Certain General Assembly resolutions may be recognized as "declaratory," but no more. Among Schwebel conclusions:

"Certain resolutions of the General Assembly - viewed as expressions of the assembled States of the world community ... which treat questions of international law which are not the subject of principles found in the United Nations Charter may be recognized to be declaratory, though not creative, of international law, provided that they are:

(i) adopted with the support of all assembled States, or, at any rate, of all the groups of States represented in the General Assembly, including major States that are not members of a group, such as the United States of America and China."

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  The American Red Cross President and CEO Marsha J. Evans' salary for the 2011 was $951,957 plus expenses. 

  The  United Way  President Brian Gallagher receives a $675,000 base salary along with numerous expense benefits . 

  UNICEF CEO Caryl M. Stern receives $1,900,000 per year (158K) per month, plus all expenses including a ROLLS ROYCE.
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Wednesday, November 28, 2012

To: Friends & Supporters

From: Gary L. Bauer


Rice Bombs On The Hill

Susan Rice, the Obama Administration's ambassador to the United Nations, is making the rounds on Capitol Hill this week. It is widely expected that President Obama will nominate Rice to replace Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State. Part of Rice's mission to Capitol Hill is to introduce herself to the men and women who will be voting on her confirmation. The other part is damage control.

It was Susan Rice whom the Obama Administration sent out on five Sunday television shows after the Benghazi terrorist attack to deny it was a terrorist attack and to blame it on an obscure anti-Islamic film.

General David Petraeus testified that the CIA knew immediately that Al Qaeda jihadists were responsible. But Ambassador Rice's talking points were edited by top Obama officials. What we don't know is why those edits were made, and who in the administration made the decision to promote a fairy tale.

Republican Senators, led by John McCain (AZ), Lindsey Graham (SC) and Kelly Ayotte (NH), are demanding answers from Rice and threatening to block her confirmation if she is nominated as Secretary of State.

Yesterday, Rice met with Senators McCain, Graham and Ayotte after Sen. McCain said he was willing to hear her explanation for deceiving the public. It was assumed that Rice's GOP critics would be calmed by the meeting and that she would emerge in a stronger position.

But Rice bombed. Following their meeting, Sen. Graham said, "We're not even close to getting the basic answers. ...Bottom line, I'm more disturbed than I was before."

Sen. McCain told reporters, "We are significantly troubled by many of the answers that we got, and some that we didn't get." And Senator Ayotte went so far as to declare that she would "place a hold on anybody who wanted to be promoted for any job who had a role in the Benghazi situation."

One reason the meeting went so poorly was that the senators were given bad information, which had to be retracted later in the day.


Perception vs. Reality

There are a lot of good conservatives in and out of government who believe that blocking Susan Rice, if she is nominated to Secretary of State, is a fool's errand. They note that if she were successfully blocked, Obama would only nominate another liberal who could be worse. Senator John Kerry, the current chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, comes to mind.

They also point to Obama's fake indignation at his recent post-election press conference when asked about opposition to Rice. Obama said:

"If Sen. McCain and Sen. Graham and others want to go after somebody, they should go after me. ...But for them to go after the U.N. ambassador, who had nothing to do with Benghazi, and was simply making a presentation based on intelligence that she had received -- to besmirch her reputation is outrageous."

Some think Obama is looking for this fight in order to keep his liberal base riled up by once again portraying Republicans as racists and sexists. Obama will then be seen as defending a "vulnerable" minority woman, just like he defended Sandra Fluke from Rush Limbaugh. It's politics and perception over reality.

No one is trying to besmirch Rice's reputation. And Obama is the one who made Rice vulnerable in the first place by sending her on national television when by Obama's own admission she "had nothing to do with Benghazi and was simply making a presentation based on [the edited and bad] intelligence that she had received."

But as we just learned from the campaign, political perception trumps reality.


Religious Liberty & The Arab Spring

Here's more evidence of the bitter fruit of the Arab Spring: Reuters reports that an Egyptian court has convicted seven Egyptian Christians for their alleged role in the production of the anti-Islamic film that was used as an excuse for riots throughout the Middle East.

Judge Saif al-Nasr Soliman declared, "The seven accused persons were convicted of insulting the Islamic religion through participating in producing and offering a movie that insults Islam and its prophet." Their sentence: Death.

Remember, friends, this didn't happen in Iran. It happened in Egypt, a country that receives $1.5 billion of your hard-earned tax money each year. It happened under the leadership of Mohamed Morsi, who has been embraced by Barack Obama, and who has now claimed dictatorial powers.

The "good news" is that the seven Christians were tried in absentia because most of them now live in America, where they are free to speak and believe as they wish. This is why tens of thousands of Coptic Christians, perhaps as many as 100,000, have fled Egypt since the Arab Spring. But you will search in vain to find any significant statement or action by Barack Obama defending religious liberty in the so-called "Muslim world."

By the way, Coptic Christians have greater roots in Egypt than the Islamists. The Apostle Mark brought Christianity to Egypt and was martyred in Alexandria. Egypt was a largely Christian nation for hundreds of years prior to the birth of Mohammed and the 7th century Arab invasion.


You Like Rubio/Pence

We had a great response to yesterday's request for feedback. Thanks to everyone who responded and took the time to encourage me and our team. I appreciate that. I know how frustrating the world of politics can be, and the purpose of these reports is to educate and encourage others to get involved in the good fight for our values!

There was also a surprising amount of support for going off the fiscal cliff. Politico reported this morning that Speaker John Boehner urged House Republicans to hold their ground. Here's an excerpt of his remarks:

"It's important that everyone in this room continue to be clear with our constituents about what [our] position is. We're fighting for spending cuts. We're fighting against increases in tax rates that destroy jobs. And we're fighting for pro-growth tax reform and entitlement reform, the keys to economic growth."

As for 2016, some folks were understandably annoyed that we were already asking. But that's politics! Among those of you who offered a preference, Florida Senator Marco Rubio was the clear favorite with Indiana's Governor-elect Mike Pence finishing a strong second.
 

Maryland's Endemic Corruption: An Object Lesson for the Nation

Friday, 16 November 2012 05:48 James Simpson

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Maryland is one of the most corrupt states in our nation. Nowhere is this fact more evident than with the state's treatment of illegal aliens. Maryland politicians have literally become lawless in their efforts to cultivate illegals, and this lawlessness flows downhill from the very top. I will focus on a few of the more egregious examples.

In 2011, we published a report on CASA de Maryland, a Silver Spring-based illegal immigrant advocacy group that parrots ACORN in both its methods and associates-which include the Communist Party USA, FMLN, (a former Salvadoran communist guerilla group, now a political party), ACORN and others. Yet it is one of the most influential organizations in the state.

CASA receives significant state government funding, while Director Gustavo Torres and his wife, Sonia Mora both hold influential positions within that same government. Torres is a member of the Governor's Council for New Americans and served on Governor Martin O'Malley's transition team. Mora sits on the Governor's Hispanic Affairs Commission and manages Montgomery County's Latino Health Initiative. This is unseemly if not illegal. Torres' primary source of income is CASA de Maryland, and CASA owes its inordinate influence to its many supporters in state government.

There is no disputing CASA's influence. At a party to celebrate CASA's 25 years of operation, Maryland Comptroller Peter Franchot said, "I'd like to say I'm here for Mary Kay and Eliseo [the guests of honor], but when Gustavo Torres calls, I generally get in my car and go over and ask him what he wants."

Torres' influence extends to the White House. Former CASA Board member Cecilia Muñoz is President Obama's Domestic Policy Director. Muñoz, who also worked for the National Council of La Raza, has been a persistent advocate for illegals throughout her tenure. Former CASA Board member Thomas Perez is now Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights in the Holder Justice Department. Many of the odious lawsuits launched by the DOJ have been under Perez's pen, including suits against states' voter ID laws, Sheriff Joe Arpaio and Arizona's anti-illegal alien law.

As quoted by The Washington Post, Baltimore County Delegate Pat McDonough put it bluntly: "Gustavo has created a sanctuary state. The governor does his bidding. The politicians who control power in the State of Maryland do his bidding. ... And his success has caused financial and personal heartbreak for the State of Maryland."

When Frederick County Sheriff Chuck Jenkins cracked down on illegals flooding the county, CASA sued. They claimed that two of Jenkins' deputies violated an illegal's civil rights by questioning her, although she had an outstanding warrant and tried to run and hide when she saw them. CASA lost. Sheriff Jenkins stated:

I find it deplorable and disgusting that the groups involved in this lawsuit have tried to defame... the agency and discredit the two involved deputies and drag them through the mud for what is clearly their agenda in attempting to stop and derail the 287 program here in Frederick County.

Paulette Faulkner, an employee of Montgomery County's Office of Child Support Enforcement, sent an email to Governor O'Malley in 2009, describing routine cases of illegals attempting to collect welfare benefits. She received a stern warning from then Department of Human Resources Deputy Secretary Stacy Rodgers not to complain.

Rodgers, who shares a seat with Torres on the Council for New Americans, told Faulkner to accept CASA de Maryland ID cards as legitimate identification. Faulkner refused, knowing that to follow that order would break the law. A short time later she was fired. She found no support from any legislator and was refused unemployment compensation. In the meantime, an audit revealed some 52,000 welfare recipients using invalid or non-existent social security numbers. A 2011 audit found similar problems.

Last year, Delegate Tony O'Donnell (R-Dist. 29C) proposed HB-28, "Public Benefits - Requirement of Proof of Lawful Presence" which would have addressed the problems identified both by Faulkner and the two audits. The bill reasonably required welfare recipients to prove their eligibility with a valid ID. Help Save Maryland President Brad Botwin and Howard County resident Tom Young both went to Annapolis to testify on the bill's behalf, each taking significant time off from work to attend the hearing.

Protocol demands that those in favor of the proposed law testify first. In what was characterized as a deliberate slight, the committee chairman, Del. Norman Conway (D-Dist. 38B), instead called a long list of bill opponents, including CASA de Maryland, the ACLU and others. They testified for over an hour, whereupon Del. Conway abruptly ended the hearing and ran from the room, shutting out any possibility of allowing proponents to speak.

Walter Abbott Discovers the Vindicative O'Malley Government

Walter Abbott is another Marylander who learned how vindictive Governor O'Malley's state government can be. Abbott is a family man with two grown children and a wife of 29 years. Abbott lost his drywall business due to competition from illegals. He had written many letters to the governor and testified in Annapolis on the immigration issue.

In early 2008, he responded to an O'Malley campaign website, which featured a popup banner soliciting responses to the question: "How do you feel about the job Governor Martin O'Malley is currently doing for the State of Maryland?" He wrote in the response form, "If I ever got close enough, I'd wrap my hands around your throat and choke the life out of you, you piece of s*&t American sellout." He included his full name and address.

Within two hours, the state police were at his door. Abbott admits it probably wasn't the smartest way to express his opinion and issued an apology shortly thereafter. However that day he was arrested and jailed. A $2 million bond was imposed on him by an Hispanic court commissioner. For perspective, violent felons arrested for overtly criminal acts routinely get bond in the low thousands. Abbott spent four days in the county jail. Finally bail was reduced by another judge and he was allowed to go free on his own recognizance.

What followed was a four-year legal battle. The first trial led to a misdemeanor conviction, but only because Judge Dana Levitz refused to allow the jury to consider a First Amendment argument. The jury was left with no choice but to convict. An appeals court threw out the conviction because Judge Levitz had failed to explain the difference between a threat and First Amendment rights.

The state retried the case again in 2011 and lost in a mistrial. They retried it a third time and lost again in a mistrial. Finally in 2012 they decided to drop the case. It is worth noting that the original prosecutor, Leo Ryan, Jr., was an O'Malley crony. He is now a District Court associate judge.

Walter Abbott and his family suffered extreme hardship during this period. He has yet to be reimbursed for the $500 fine he paid, and the property seized the day he was arrested has not been returned. One writer characterized their saga as a "war on a working man."

For someone who wastes government resources for four years in an effort to destroy one hotheaded man, Governor O'Malley can be a hothead himself. Following a contentious in-person interview on the Chip Franklin radio show in 2002, then-Baltimore Mayor O'Malley bid his farewell on air, saying, "On that note, that probably is a good way to exit. And gentlemen, if you enjoyed that, come outside after the show, and I'll kick your ass."

But somehow, when Democrats make blatant, unapologetic death threats, which they do on a regular basis, all we get are "whatever" rolling eyes and yawns from their political patrons. The "tweet" along with the photo here was one of a stream of similar messages sent following Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker's recall victory last June. Expletives have been deleted.

The DREAM Act Providing In-State Tuition to Illegal Aliens

Maryland taxpayers currently pay $1.9 billion to support illegal immigrants. But according to Governor O'Malley, that's not enough. CASA de Maryland and Governor O'Malley's most recent assault on Maryland taxpayers came last year with passage of the DREAM Act, a multi-million dollar initiative that would provide in-state tuition to illegal aliens.

This law so outraged Maryland citizens that within three months of its passage, 132,000 signatures had been collected for a petition drive to place it on the ballot as a referendum in the 2012 election. Only 55,736 signatures were needed. Notably the most aggressive petition signers were legal immigrants, including Hispanics, Asians, Indians and others. According to Brad Botwin, president of Help Save Maryland and a key organizer of the petition drive, they were "angry that a group of illegal immigrants would come here and demand yet another service from the state, at their expense."

Because the radical left can rarely succeed with legitimate arguments for their policies, lawfare has become one of their favored tactics. Thus what followed was a relentless campaign of repeated legal challenges to the petition. For this effort, taxpayer-funded CASA brought in top DNC lawyer, Joseph Sandler, who has made a name for himself attacking conservatives. In the Maryland case:

• He demanded that the Maryland Board of Elections turn over the names and addresses of every petition signer. He got it.
• He sued the BOE to throw out the petitions, many of which were collected from the Internet due to an innovative website created by Delegate Neil Parrott, one of the petition's chief architects. Sandler lost.
• He sued to have the referendum denied on the basis that it was a spending bill, which by state law cannot be subject to referendum. He lost.
• He appealed and lost the appeal.
• Then he demanded an investigation of Delegate Parrott.
• Finally, he demanded an investigation of Help Save Maryland's Brad Botwin for posting ads about the DREAM Act. He will lose that one too.

Meanwhile, practically the entire Maryland media and leftwing support network got behind the effort to defeat the referendum, while CASA de Maryland and local politicians held rallies to push for the DREAM Act's passage and champion illegals.

CASA de Maryland hosted a National Immigrant Integration Convention in downtown Baltimore this past September. Its timing and location was no coincidence, and illegals turned out in force to vocalize their support for the DREAM Act. Yet, to read the press reports, one might be mistaken to think the conference had no relationship to CASA.

As a local CBS affiliate reported: "Tonight, Maryland's DREAM Act gets the attention of a national convention taking place in downtown Baltimore... Immigrant leaders and advocates from around the country are promoting higher education for undocumented students..." While showing a group of illegals in CASA t-shirts shouting "yes we can," CBS made no mention of CASA's sponsorship of this event, and only gave opponents a few seconds to express their views.

Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake signed an order in March 2012 preventing city law enforcement from questioning anyone's immigration status as part of an official effort to attract illegals-despite a 20 percent black unemployment rate in the city.

The Maryland Department of Legislative Services provided extreme lowball DREAM Act cost estimates of under $1 million, increasing in two years to $3.5 million. A more realistic estimate is $27 million per year.

Legislative Services assumed about 366 students would participate. They based this solely on participation at Montgomery Community College, ignoring the other 15 community colleges and all four-year schools. Given Maryland's estimated population of at least 275,000 illegals, that figure is extremely low. CASA de Maryland's Director, Gustavo Torres, estimated eventual participation of 8,000-9,000 students. In such a circumstance the cost would exceed $100 million per year, and reduce the number of positions available in four-year schools for legal Maryland citizens.

The governor and his allies claim that these "undocumented" workers are good citizens who file and pay all their taxes and comply with Maryland's small business regulations. This is simply false. Many run cash businesses, keep none of the requisite licenses, liability and unemployment insurance, and do not report taxes or pay market wages. They can and do undercut American employees. Illegals are hard pressed to protest this treatment precisely because they are illegal.

The DREAM Act requires illegal parents to have filed taxes for three years, but says nothing about paying taxes. Yet all of the DREAM Act promotional material deceptively claims these people are paying taxes. This is false. Filing and paying are not the same thing. And a nationwide scandal reveals illegals applying for and receiving $4.2 billion in fraudulent childcare credit tax refunds!

Meanwhile, O'Malley's campaign website continues to promote the lie that the DREAM Act only applies to taxpayers. It says. "It's simple. If you pay Maryland taxes, you should pay Maryland tuition. #Votefor4."

CASA de Maryland paired up with 7^th District Congressman Elijah Cummings to hold a pro-DREAM Act press conference at Patterson Park Public Charter School, a violation of the school's protocols, according to a spokesperson for the Baltimore school system. Del. McDonough called it "an unethical if not illegal way in conducting their campaign, and this incident is one of many."

Congressman Cummings waded into another controversy this year too.

Election Integrity Maryland and True the Vote

Following revelations of rampant vote fraud by ACORN and similar groups, voter ID laws have been passed in numerous states, and vote watchdog groups have sprung up all over America. The most well-known and effective of these is True the Vote. TTV has conducted poll watcher training nationwide and developed a proprietary database for checking voter registrations. It has had astonishing successes, especially in the Wisconsin recall, where TTV affiliates reviewed almost one million petitions in one month.

But the activities of TTV and the many independent state organizations that have undergone TTV training now pose a direct threat to vote fraud activities that previously passed unnoticed, and the Left has gone nuts over it. In a strategy developed over a number of years, all of the far-left voting organizations have built a narrative around "voter suppression," to blunt the effectiveness of TTV and groups like them, and provide pretext for legal challenges, when questionable voting activities come to light.

After Election Integrity Maryland (EIM) received TTV training this year, they began checking voter rolls. Of 35,000 registrations reviewed so far, they have found problems with 11,000, including 1,566 dead voters. These voter registration "challenges" were submitted to local election boards and the Maryland Board of Elections. Despite repeated queries about the status of these challenges, neither the local boards nor the MBE have responded in any meaningful way.

But Elijah Cummings did. Late on October 4, 2012, he fired off a threatening letter to TTV, accusing them of illegal activity, threatening an investigation and demanding that they turn over scads of documents. This was part of a coordinated assault against TTV by leftist groups nationwide. But even the liberal Baltimore Sun observed that Cummings had no legal right to demand anything.

Cummings claimed that Election Integrity Maryland had been "empowered" by TTV, as though there was something wrong with that. He also played dirty games, appearing on Soledad O'Brien's show on CNN the following morning, before TTV had a chance to respond, and falsely claimed they were under investigation.

TTV responded the following day, and offered to meet with Cummings to discuss the issue, but reminded him that he had no legal authority to make demands.

Cummings waited to respond until October 18, and then in a repeat of his earlier tactic, took to MSNBC's Ed Show, claiming disingenuously that TTV had not responded to his first letter and accusing them of engaging in illegal activities to "suppress" the minority vote.

Not a group to accept such accusations, TTV repeated its willingness to discuss the vote fraud issue with Cummings, but in a strongly worded letter, demanded a retraction of his statements, implicitly threatening a lawsuit should he not comply. Meanwhile J. Christian Adams, a former Justice Department voting rights lawyer who now advises TTV, responded on CNN, calling Cummings and other critics, "liars... and they should be ashamed of themselves.

Leftists like Cummings claim that vote fraud is not a problem. Yet the statistics prove otherwise:

• To date, 46 states have prosecuted or convicted cases of voter fraud.
• More than 24 million voter registrations are invalid, yet remain on the rolls nationwide.
• There are over 1.8 million dead voters still eligible on the rolls across the country.
• More than 2.75 million Americans are registered to vote in more than one state.
• True The Vote recently found 99 cases of potential felony interstate voter fraud.
• Maryland affiliates of True the Vote uncovered cases of people registering and voting after their respective deaths.
• This year, True the Vote uncovered more than 348,000 dead people on the rolls in 27 states.
• California: 49,000
• Florida: 30,000
• Texas: 28,500
• Michigan: 25,000
• Illinois: 24,000
• 12 Indiana counties have more registered voters than residents.
• The Ohio Secretary of State admitted that multiple Ohio counties have more registered voters than residents.
• Federal records showed 160 counties in 19 states have over 100 percent voter registration.
• The Florida New Majority Education Fund, Democratic Party of Florida and the National Council of La Raza are currently under investigation for alleged voter registration fraud.

This excludes the years of massive vote fraud conducted by ACORN and Project Vote prior to their exposure. More recently, Democrats have been caught willingly engaging in vote fraud in our neighborhood:

• Patrick Moran, son of Congressman Jim Moran (D-Va.), resigned after being caught on tape telling an undercover reporter how to forge documents to fraudulently vote in others' names.
• A Texas DNC staffer assisted an undercover reporter in voting in two states
• Maryland Democrat Congressional candidate Wendy Rosen resigned following allegations she voted both in Florida and Maryland in 2006 and 2008.

And despite the vilification from Democrats and leftwing activist groups, even the liberal Huffington Post ridicules the myth of vote watcher vote suppression. They've provided a handy mythbuster's guide titled "Reporters Beware: Election Observer Myths Are Easy to Spread, But Still False."

Democrats claim to represent minorities and increasingly "immigrants" in their efforts to stop groups like EIM and TTV. But this is a false assertion. Black citizens are not served by a system vulnerable to vote fraud. Such systems keep entrenched political machines, and the corruption they foster, in place. The poor city services, high crime and disrepair of inner city Baltimore is but one glaring example. Detroit is another.

Blacks are outraged at the special deals given illegal aliens at their expense. High rates of black unemployment can be directly tied to illegal aliens undercutting American workers. Thirty percent of DREAM Act referendum petition signers were Democrats. Eighty percent of the petition signers from Baltimore City were Democrats.

Legal immigrants don't appreciate it either. According to a Pew Research Center report, 71 percent of Hispanics support voter photo ID laws, almost the same proportion as the general public (77 percent). As is broadly recognized by everyone except leftists, Hispanics identify much more closely with the common sense values of the Republican Party, but like blacks, vote overwhelmingly Democratic because of the false perception leftist Democrats have been able to foment, that Republicans don't like minorities.

The truth is exactly the opposite. Both Hispanics and blacks share the conservative values of mainstream America. Democrats have gained support because they shamelessly promote taxpayer-funded giveaways to favored groups, and attack anyone who questions them.

The DREAM Act survived the November 6 referendum by a margin of 58.3% to 41.7% according to Ballotopedia. These results can only be due to the deceptive, heavily funded, relentlessly advertised effort on the part of CASA de Maryland and its Maryland allies, against a poorly organized opposition with little financial support.

This unfortunately has brought us to where we are in Maryland today, with its corrupt, spendthrift government, trampling citizens' rights in their unethical, illegal and self-serving efforts to coddle illegals. This situation will only change when enough people come to recognize this fact and decide enough is enough.

James Simpson is a former Office of Management and Budget (White House budget office) economist and budget analyst. He is currently a businessman and freelance writer. His blog is Truth and Consequences. Email James

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