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912 Patriots of Lower Bucks - Your Daily Updates ALL in ONE Place!
December 5, 2012
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"A just security to property is not afforded by that government, under which unequal taxes oppress one species of property and reward another species."
~ James Madison, Essay on Property, 1792
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WND EXCLUSIVE
Iran aims biological warheads at Israel
Source confirms missiles in underground silos target Tel Aviv\
by Reza Kahlili
Iran has 170 ballistic missiles aimed at Tel Aviv, many with biological warheads, WND has learned.
According to a source who served in Iran's Intelligence Ministry and who recently defected, the Islamic regime has armed hundreds of its ballistic missiles with biological warheads, and 170 of them are targeting Tel Aviv from underground missile silos.
The Islamic regime ruling Iran has prepared for the total destruction of Israel, he said.
As reported in the Washington Times in August, a commentary in Mashregh, the media outlet of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, confirmed that the Islamic regime not only has weapons of mass destruction but has armed its terrorist proxies with them, including Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad. The commentary warned Israel that if the fighting in Syria does not stop, an all-out attack on the Jewish state will be launched and that at zero hour, Tel Aviv will be the first city to be destroyed.
A senior Iranian cleric, Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami, warned then that Tel Aviv "will burn to ashes," and the regime's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, promised "the superfluous and fake Zionist regime will disappear from the landscape of geography."
The source, talking to WND, confirmed that Iran has made significant advances on several fronts - chemical, biological, nuclear and electronic warfare - and that the regime is looking at the deterioration in Syria and the possibility of an attack on Iran's nuclear facilities with the intent of setting Israel and the region on fire.
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Agenda 21: How Will It Affect You?
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A clean environment is important to us all. We have an obligation to maintain our resources and sustain our environment for future generations. Sustaining our environment has led us down the road to environmentalism. Then a strange thing happened. Environmentalism came to a fork in the road. While the rhetoric took one route, the agenda took another. Explore this topic and discover how Agenda 21 will affect you.
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Families want to know what happened in Benghazi
Obama administration not telling whole story, they say
The Washington Times | By Guy Taylor | Tuesday, December 4, 2012
 The father of a former Navy SEAL killed in the Sept. 11 terrorist attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, says he learned the details of his son's bravery not from the Obama administration, but in an email from an American whose life was saved by his son.
Tyrone Woods, 41, was found "slumped over his machine gun, which was caked with blood," Charles Woods, the former SEAL's father, said during a telephone interview from his home in Hawaii.
"He had continued to fire until he had no blood left and was unable to fire anymore," Mr. Woods said.
He did not identify the email's sender but said he later spoke with the person who "told me how Ty died."
Washington politics has largely shifted attention from what actually happened nearly three months ago in the Benghazi attack, in which U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens, former SEAL Glen Doherty and State Department officer Sean Smith also were slain.
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Christmas for Obama Bundlers
The Patriot Post | By Michelle Malkin | December 5, 2012
 Merry Crony-mas! It's time to pass out the goodies. While President Obama's lips champion the middle class, his administration's old hands are preparing to lavish rewards on the creme de la campaign creme: his wealthiest political donors.
Several media outlets reported this week that the White House is considering fashion doyenne Anna Wintour for a possible appointment as U.S. ambassador to Great Britain or France.
The rumored short list also includes Obama campaign finance chairman Matthew Barzun and investment banker Marc Lasry. The three share one common, er, "qualification": Each raked in more than $500,000 for Team Obama 2012.
As previously reported in this column, Wintour held multiple million-dollar fundraisers for Obama in Hollywood, New York, London and Paris -- raking in the fourth highest amount for the Man of the (Glamorous) People. Wintour's $40,000-per-plate dinners attracted Hollywood's biggest leftist celebs.
She went further than just passing around the fashion plate, though. Before Election Day, the fashion world buzzed over the British-born Vogue editor's behind-the-scenes campaign to intimidate designers into spurning GOP women. Such Chicago-style diplomacy will fit in perfectly with the brass-knuckle-wielder-in-chief.
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Fiscal Cliff Notes: Part II
The Patriot Post | By Thomas Sowell | December 5, 2012
 One of the big advantages that President Obama has, as he plays "chicken" with the Congressional Republicans along the "fiscal cliff," is that Obama is a master of the plausible lie, which will never be exposed by the mainstream media-- nor, apparently, by the Republicans. A key lie that has been repeated over and over, largely unanswered, is that President Bush's "tax cuts for the rich" cost the government so much lost tax revenue that this added to the budget deficit-- so that the government cannot afford to allow the cost of letting the Bush tax rates continue for "the rich."
It sounds very plausible, and constant repetition without a challenge may well be enough to convince the voting public that, if the Republican-controlled House of Representatives does not go along with Barack Obama's demands for more spending and higher tax rates on the top 2 percent, it just shows that they care more for "the rich" than for the other 98 percent.
What is remarkable is how easy it is to show how completely false Obama's argument is.
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FreedomWorks Chairman Dick Armey Resigns Over Internal Split - Group Clarifies $8M Contract
The Blaze | by Erica Ritz | Posted on December 4, 2012 at 4:50pm
Former Republican House Majority Leader Dick Armey says he has left the prominent conservative Tea Party group FreedomWorks because of what he calls an internal split over the group's future direction.
That split - which was made official in a resignation letter from November and obtained by the liberal outlet Mother Jones this week - is now focusing on an $8 million contract that FreedomWorks tells TheBlaze is being misrepresented.
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National Media outlets appear to have fixated on Armey's takeaway package, though, a Washington Post headline reading: "FreedomWorks Chairman Dick Armey quits Tea Party group in secret deal that pays him $8 million."
But TheBlaze spoke with a FreedomWorks representative Tuesday, who clarified that the $8 million sum is a contract between two private parties, and it is not coming from donations to FreedomWorks.
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News from The Hill:
Senate rejects UN treaty for disabled rights in 61-38 vote
By Ramsey Cox and Julian Pecquet
A United Nations treaty to ban discrimination against people with disabilities went down to defeat in the Senate on Tuesday in a 61-38 vote.
The treaty backed by President Obama and former Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole (R-Kansas) fell 5 votes short of the two-thirds needed for confirmation as dozens of Senate Republicans objected that it would create new abortion rights and impede the ability of people to home-school disabled children.
Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) argued the treaty would infringe on U.S. sovereignty, an argument echoed by other opponents.
"This unelected bureaucratic body would pass recommendations that would be forced upon the United States if we were a signatory," he said.
Supporters of the treaty argued that the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities would simply require the rest of the world to meet the standards that Americans already enjoy under the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act.
The treaty was negotiated and first signed under President George W. Bush and signed again by Obama in 2009. At least 153 other countries have signed it.
Republican Sens. Kelly Ayotte (N.H.), John Barrasso (Wyo.), Scott Brown (Mass.), Susan Collins (Maine), Dick Lugar (Ind.), John McCain (Ariz.) and Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) voted with Democrats in favor of the treaty.
Read the story here.
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Tell Governor Corbett NO to healthcare exchanges
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 The Corner States Should Absolutely Refuse to Set Up Obamacare Exchanges By Mario Loyola November 13, 2012
Proponents of Obamacare are making one argument that some conservatives may find appealing - namely that it is much better, from a states' rights point of view, to set up state-based exchanges than to let the feds come in and do it themselves. This argument is absolutely wrong. Allowing your states to be deputized as instruments of federal policy is just as bad as bowing to federal commandeering of state agencies, which is unconstitutional. Let's begin with the principle that the federal government is not allowed to command states or their officials to do anything. That was settled in the two modern commandeering cases, New York v. United States (1992) and Printz v. United States (1997). The federal government has gotten around that through a variety of schemes under the general category of "cooperative federalism." The Supreme Court has generally taken a permissive attitude of these schemes, only because the states supposedly retain freedom of choice, "both in theory and in fact." But it is increasingly clear that their choice is not really free, because they are penalized if they don't comply with the federal program. This problem is clear with programs like Medicaid: The feds tax money away from the states (or they borrow it from the capital markets) and then offer to give it back to the states on condition that they comply with federal preferences. In the Obamacare decision, the Supreme Court ruled that the feds can't present states with the "loaded gun" of losing existing Medicaid funds if they don't comply with the Medicaid expansion requirements. But states still lose the money Obamacare "offers" for the Medicaid expansion itself, hence there is still a draconian penalty. With the exchanges, there is also federal conditional "aid" in play, but the real penalty the states face if they don't bow to the will of Obamacare is that the feds will come in and take over the health-care market. But it's much easier for the feds to do that in a handful of states than for them to do it in most of the states. Feds might not be able to do it in a large number of states without asking Congress for more money or for amendments to the law. That would strengthen the position of the House of Representatives, and its GOP majority. State governors should be under no illusions: You are not preserving one iota of state autonomy by setting up your own Obamacare exchange. On the contrary, you are letting the feds deputize you as instruments of federal policy. Let the feds set up the exchanges themselves; they can pay for them and be accountable for the results. That will impose a real limit on federal power, and provide leverage for rolling back some of Obamacare. In the meantime the message of state governments to the Department of Health and Human Services should be an absolute and unequivocal "NO." Patriots,
Goal: 25 calls a day into all six offices (the Governor and five House leadership)
Next Action for You:
1.) Go to www.afp-pa.com
and sign up to "Adopt a Day".
Adopt A Day Commitment: You personally recruit 5 other people to make the calls with you and ask each of them to find 1 other person to also make a call that day. If you do that you personally will have been responsible for 11 calls into the Governor and House leadership's offices. That's amazing!
Next Action for AFP to support You on your "Adopt a Day":
1.) Once you sign up, Matt or Randy will be reaching out to you via email to confirm your date.
2.) Work with leaders on given day to maximize impact and total number of calls.
3.) Matt, Randy or Ed
Things to Keep in Mind:
1.) This is a "HELPING HAND CALL" and not a "PUNCH IN THE FACE CALL". As mentioned on the conference call, we are one step away from getting what we want...which is Corbett to FULLY close the door on the state exchange...and YOUR HARD WORK helped get him to where we need him to be. So use this opportunity to once again educate and ask Corbett to be a champion for us.
2.) The wheels of change, especially in government, turn very, very, very slowly. Don't be frustrated. Well...you can be frustrated...but don't give up and hold steady on the course. You are doing the right thing and it is making a difference.
3.) A recent news item has come out saying that the federal government and the insurance companies are saying that premiums for states that do not adopt the exchange will be increased. Here is a great way to answer this when speaking with the Governor or legislators:
"We understand the insurance companies are threatening to raise premiums on states that do not adopt exchanges...but let's not kid ourselves...premiums and everything else associated with healthcare are going to increase dramatically, now that Obamacare is law for the foreseeable future. That is a given...so this is nothing new. Furthermore, nothing will cost us more than having our state "own" this exchange when the federal funding runs out in 2015. It will cost the average family over $3000 a year. Do you want to know what $3,000 means for my family? It means I could pay for xxxxx (insert what you could or actually do do with $3,000 a year. For instance: it is a years worth of Catholic school education, it is a year's water bill, it is a year's IRA contribution etc)."
4.) When you make your calls, please make sure you mention you are working with Americans for Prosperity in Pennsylvania. It is so important to continue to build your group by showing that you are part of a larger coalition. AFP is working across the country to defeat the exchanges. In PA, we are working not just as activists, but within the Capitol and with our key donors. You want the legislators and the Governor to know that YOU and YOUR group are part of a very big, broad and powerful COALITION.
Below are a couple of links and other useful information to give to politicians and other activists re: the state exchanges. Myth Vs Facts on State vs Federal Obamacare Exchanges
Welcome to Obamacare, Part IX: Flexibility, what flexibility?
Which States are Standing Against the Exchanges?
Our Main website for all things Obamacare in PA: PennsylvaniaHealthcareFreedom.com
Thanks for all you do, Patriots!
In Liberty,
Jennifer Stefano
@stefanospeaks
Pennsylvania State Director
Americans for Prosperity (AFP) and
Americans for Prosperity Foundation (AFPF)
P.O. Box 843
Washington Crossing, PA 18977 In Liberty, Matthew M. Hissey (267) 838 2380 Field Director Greater Philadelphia Region Americans For Prosperity
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Shalom ZOA Members, Friends and Supporters of Israel,
Please join us next week on Wednesday, Dec. 5for our next quarterly meeting at 7:30 p.m. at Temple Adath Israel, 250 North Highland Avenue, Merion Station. Our guest speaker will be the renowned Rabbi Aryeh Spero, author of the new book Push Back: Reclaiming the Judeo-Christian Spirit. At our meeting, Rabbi Spero will discuss "Support for Israel in a Changing Political Climate."
This meeting is free and open to the public. Please encourage your friends, family, neighbors and colleagues to join you at this meeting. Forward the flyer (below and attached) to your contacts.
Rabbi Spero is also engaging and stimulating in his presentation, as you can see from the Youtube video clips below the flyer.
If you are available to volunteer at the meeting to help set up or help at the registration table, please let us know via email or by calling 610-660-9466. Thank you.
We look forward to seeing you next week.
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The David Horowitz Philadelphia Freedom Center
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Explore the idea of American Exceptionalism with historian Victor Davis Hanson.
On December 11th join Victor Hanson for dinner at the Philadelphia Ritz Carlton. For more information and registration please click here or go to phillyfreedom.org.
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Victor Davis Hanson is and American military
historian, columnist, political essayist and former classics
professor, a scholar of ancient warfare. He has been a
commentator on modern warfare and contemporary politics
for National Review and other media outlets. He was for
many years a professor of classics at California State
University, Fresno, and is currently the Martin and Illie
Anderson Senior Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover
Institution. His upcoming book, The Savior Generals (2013)
analyzes how five generals in the history of the West changed
the course of battles against all odds.
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VALLEY FORGE PATRIOTS THURSDAY (not Friday), DECEMBER 13TH 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! Free parking, food and drink available for purchase. |
Citizens for Liberty Presents: Health Care Town Hall Meeting - December 12, 2012
Hello patriot!
You're invited to our next meeting. ITS NEXT WEDNESDAY. We have organized a group of activists, professionals, and doctors to come to our meeting to speak with the community about why we must STOP ObamaCare and Governor Corbett's Health Care Exchanges. This goes beyond the 2 party system, it's not about democrats or republicans, its about doing whats right for America and shutting down this tyranny. This is 2 days before the states have to make a final decision. Come out, get educated, and get active! We will also be speaking about CFL Leadership positions. We need help!
Special guest speakers
confirmed so far are Katy Weber Abram from Americans for Prosperity, Dr Nick Pandelidis who is the VP of the PA Chapter of Docs4PatientCare, and William Taylor Reil who is an expert constitutionalist on Nullification.
WHEN: Wednesday, December 12th
TIME: Doors open at 6:30pm, meeting starts at 7pm
WHERE: St. Mark's Lutheran Church
508 Harry Street
Conshohocken, PA 19428
IMPORTANT DETAILS:
It's located one block in from Fayette Street on East Fifth Avenue, on the corner of 5th and Harry Street. A parking lot is across the street. We will be in the basement auditorium. Signs will be posted for your convenience
PLEASE RSVP SO WE KNOW HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE ATTENDING
Facebook Event Page: https://www.facebook.com/events/134031653413819
Meetup Event Page: http://www.meetup.com/CFLiberty/events/91473492
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 Dear Friends, Please join us at:The Standard Club (Formerly "The Moose")
Thursday, December 20, 2012
7:00PM
Tickets: $25.00 includes appetizers, beer, wine and soft drinks. This is to cover the expenses of the party.
Please RSVP by replying to this email.
Please send your checks to:
The Kitchen Table Patriots
PO Box 3, Doylestown, PA 18901
Yours in Liberty, The Kitchen Table Patriots Team
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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.
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Every time an iGive member makes an online purchase at over 1,000 brand-name stores, a percentage of that purchase is donated to that person's charity of choice.
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And with the holidays just around the corner, you could be helping ACT! for America with every gift you buy!
The concept isn't new. In the mid-1990s many supporters of non-profit organizations signed up with long distance telephone programs where a percentage of their bill was donated to their charity of choice.
But our investigation of iGive has convinced us that this program has an ease of use and sophistication that we find remarkable.
- Imagine booking a hotel room on Orbitz-and having 1.6% of that purchase price donated to ACT! for America.
- Or buying an Xbox at Best Buy-and having 1.2% of the purchase price donated to ACT! for America.
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The same goes for buying merchandise at Amazon, Bath and Body Works, Advance Auto Parts, Game Stop, Kmart, Home Depot, Holiday Inn, Old Navy, NASCAR Superstore, Overstock.com, Mattel, J.C. Penney, Office Max, QVC, Radio Shack, Shoe Carnival, Pottery Barn-and on and on the list goes.
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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.
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And the more I dug, the more I liked what I saw. For instance, both of my tech support questions were responded to within 60 minutes. How often does THAT happen?
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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.
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If just 1% of ACT! for America members each purchased just $400 in merchandise in 2013, from all the available outlets, and the average percentage donated to ACT! was 1.5%, the total amount donated back to ACT! for America would be...
...$15,000. That's a lot of money, wouldn't you agree?
And if you were one of those ACT! for America members, it wouldn't cost you one thin dime to help ACT! for America receive $15,000.
If this idea really caught on, and eventually 5% of our members made purchases with iGive, that $15,000 could explode to $50,000, $75,000 or more!
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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!
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One of the things I most wanted to know was their Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Check it out for yourself. I confirmed the terms with a company representative. And I like what I learned. As security-conscious as I am, I have no hesitation using the service-and I'm already doing so.
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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.
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There are already chapter leaders who have signed up for the program, and the feedback I have been getting from them has been all positive. They love the idea and many of them are already using it.
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So please, join me and these ACT! for America chapter leaders who are already signed up and using the iGive service.
Yours for a safe and free America
Guy Rodgers |
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Memorial Lecture
Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2013
7:30pm
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The Annual Jay Michael Swartz Memorial Lecture: An Evening with Michael Medved
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 For Men and Women
Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2013
7:30pm
*Pre-lecture dinner 6:15pm
At the Glazier Jewish Center | 25 N. State St. Fee: $36 *Pre-lecture dinner with Michael Medved (includes lecture): $100 |  |
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AMERICAN JEWS AND CHRISTIAN EVANGELICALS: IRRECONCILABLE ENEMIES OR INEVITABLE ALLIES?
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Michael Medved is a nationally syndicated radio talk show host and bestselling author. His daily show is heard by over 3.75 million people across the country. Born in Philadelphia, Michael won admission to Yale at age 16 as a National Merit Scholar. He majored in American History and graduated with honors, before attending Yale Law School, where his classmates included Bill and Hillary Clinton. Michael wrote his first bestseller at age 26 - "What Really Happened to the Class of '65?" - a skeptical reconsideration of the "counterculture" of the 1960's that became a weekly TV series on NBC.
Many American Jews distrust and even fear the rise of the evangelical Christianity. They see this religious movement as a threat to the survival of Judaism in the United States and to the continuance of a society that values pluralism and religious liberty. On the other hand increasing numbers of American Jews view evangelicals as natural allies, not just when it comes to support of Israel, but on a range of social issues here in the U.S. In this provocative presentation, Michael Medved will explain where Jews and Christians already agree, and where they can never agree, in their participation in the ongoing battles shaping American society.
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Lubavitch of Bucks County * 25 N State Street * Newtown, PA 18940 * 215-497-9925
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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!
Interested in Sponsoring CPAC 2013?
National and local partners are critical to achieving a successful event. CPAC 2013 provides an excellent platform to promote your message and network with the leaders and activists who are on the frontlines of the conservative movement. We invite you to review the special opportunities available to join the action at CPAC 2013 by visiting conservative.org.
See you at the National Harbor!
The American Conservative Union
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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Individuals sympathetic to the Muslim Brotherhood's sinister agenda have infiltrated the Obama Administration.
Brainwashed by the Muslim Students Association and then propelled in to the position of Deputy Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the David Horowitz Freedom Center tracks the path of Huma Abedin and other Muslim sympathizers who have navigated their way into positions of great influence in the Obama Administration. Everything is revealed in the explosive new Freedom Center pamphlet, "The Muslim Brotherhood in the Obama Administration," written by Frank Gaffney, national security expert who served as Assistant Secretary of Defense under Ronald Reagan.
The David Horowitz Freedom Center is committed to educating the public on the Muslim Brotherhood's sinister Agenda. That is why we are giving away this pamphlet for FREE.
Go here:
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News from The Hill:
McConnell declines to endorse Boehner deficit plan
By Alexander Bolton
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) on Tuesday declined to endorse a proposal issued the day before from Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) that would raise revenue by $800 billion.
McConnell kept his distance from a proposal that received a hail of criticism from conservatives, including Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.), a prominent voice in the Senate GOP conference.
Instead, McConnell praised Boehner for showing leadership and scolded the president for not taking a more active role.
"I have no particular observation other than that I commend the House Republican leadership for trying to move the process along and getting to a point where I hope we can have a real discussion," McConnell told reporters after the weekly Republican lunch.
McConnell said behind-the-scenes talks between Boehner and senior White House officials have stalled.
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House Speaker John Boehner and the failed political establishment are purging House Committees of fiscal conservatives.  So far, Reps. Amash, Huelskamp, and Schweikert have been removed from their respective committees for refusing to vote in lock step with the Republicans on endless spending. These members have been some of the most reliable votes for economic freedom and the Constitution, and they are now being punished for their loyalty to their Oath of Office.
Click here to call Boehner right now and tell him to restore these Members to their Committees. These statesmen have been fighting tirelessly for us, and now we must fight for them. Rep. Tim Huelskamp (KS) - Removed from the House Budget Committee (96% FreedomWorks Lifetime Rating). Rep. Justin Amash (MI) - Removed from the House Budget Committee (100% FreedomWorks Lifetime Rating). Rep. David Schweikert (AZ) - Removed from the House Financial Services (96% FreedomWorks Lifetime Rating). It's bad enough we have to fight the big-spending liberal Democrats. But with friends like Boehner, who needs liberals? Call Boehner Now! The Republican leadership is tired of principled fiscal conservatives fighting against their big-government agenda, and this is just the first shot. We need to send a message to Boehner that we will not allow our most valued Congressmen to be purged for upholding their commitment to economic freedom and the Constitution. In Liberty, 
Matt Kibbe
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RedState Morning Briefing
For December 5, 2012
1. Conservatives Actually Suck at This
John Boehner can do whatever the heck he wants to. The GOP could be making the argument that the White House has offered nothing on spending and the American people want spending cuts as much as they are okay with tax increases, but instead John Boehner will publicly negotiate with himself.
And he can. He can throw conservatives off fiscal committees without consequence.
Conservatives can complain, moan, wail, and scream all they want. They can call for third parties or no parties or sit at home.
2. Even an Ugly Cat Knows This When you come to RedState, you aren't charged. The Morning Briefing is free. You want a RedState account? You got one. You want to comment? Okay. We're free. Like listening to the radio, you don't have to pay. We make our money off of ads. It's simple. But you guys complain. Some of the ads are annoying. Okay - some of the ads are damn annoying. When I see my face pop up on my own screen, I just pretend I'm playing that old Ninetendo duck shooting game and click to make it go away. You should too. What's the point? Well, even an ugly cat knows you can't get something for nothing. . . . please click here for the rest of the post → 3. The Members Behind the Purge of Conservatives Yesterday, we noted that not only did House leadership select moderates to fill vacant spots on the top congressional committees, they made the unprecedented decision to banish conservatives already sitting on some important committees. All of the decisions related to committee assignments are decided by a Steering Committee. At present, the Steering Committee is comprised of 31 members, most of who are either members of leadership or pushed onto the committee by leadership. These are the men and women behind the decision to throw conservatives under the bus. . . . please click here for the rest of the post → 4. Workplace Freedom States Soared While Ohio and Michigan Economies Crashed Job creation in Ohio lagged far behind all 22 workplace freedom states from 1991 to 2011, according to U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) records. Without cherry-picking data as union bosses must in order to defend forced unionism, total seasonally adjusted non-farm employment growth shows a huge advantage for residents of right to work states. With the exception of Indiana, which passed a right to work law in February 2012, Ohio and each of its neighbors - Michigan, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Kentucky - allow unions to force workers to pay dues as a condition of employment. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
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December 5, 2012
Pentagon Peacocks
G. Murphy Donovan
Combat Petraeus-style doesn't presume to alter military doctrine; it presumes to alter the nature of war. War is a time-tested primal exercise, not a venue for intellectuals, polite politics, or poseurs. More
American Politics as a Confidence Game
Marvin Folkertsma
American con artists have gotten away with a lot in recent years -- probably because the system itself has been engineered to suit them. More
Republicans Should Use Targeted Marketing Strategies
Zach Krajacic
Businesses understand that no matter how good their product or service, some people will never buy. For this reason they target their marketing and advertising toward people who would likely be persuaded to buy their product. More
Jihad for Julia
Eileen F. Toplansky
It's time to call Barack Obama out on his alleged concern for women -- especially those in the Middle East, who are now under physical as well as psychological assault. More
Limiting Government
Sylvia Bokor
Today, violations of individual rights are so pervasive that many Americans are ignorant of what individual rights are and of the extent to which their rights are daily violated. More
Whatever Happened to Common Sense?
Dennis Lund
Common Sense elaborated on many subjects which became the principles upon which our nation was founded, including individual liberty as well as freedom from a tyrannical government. More
American Thinker BlogThe Ecological Incorrectness of 54 Christmas Trees
December 5, 2012
Is it appropriate for the "green president," the environmentalist-in-chief, to waste taxpayer money on the merciless slaying of 54 oxygen-producing trees? More The Imaginary Mahmoud Abbas
December 5, 2012
The nicest guy in the world...but you'll never meet or see him. You'll have to just ask the media about him. More Snap, crackle...racist
December 5, 2012
The Kellogg foundation funded anti-voter ID efforts around the country. More AT's J.R. Dunn guests on Moran's show
December 4, 2012
The GOP civil war and the fiscal cliff negotiations will be discussed. More Back to Being a 'Sh**ty Little Country'
December 4, 2012
Israel is again, in the immortal words of Daniel Bernard, a sh**ty little country. More Fiscal cliff negotiations the opportunity of a generation to stop further tax hikes
December 4, 2012
The GOP negotiates like clueless little girls. More Swiss spy agency suffers massive counterterrorism data leak
December 4, 2012
Walked out of headquarters with portable hard drives full of secrets in his backpack. More IRS issues new rules on Obamacare surcharge
December 4, 2012
159 pages added to the tax code. More Is Assad preparing to use chemical weapons against the rebels?
December 4, 2012
A scramble for WMD may ensue if Assad's fall is swift. More The effects of going over the cliff: An opposing view
December 4, 2012
Are we really headed for disaster? More The Boehner purge?
December 4, 2012
Independent conservatives lose influential committee seats. More Dick Armey out at Freedom Works
December 4, 2012
A matter of "principle." More
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Monster Sinkholes Indication Major Earth Changes on The New Madrid Fault?
Dec 04, 2012 11:40 am
An Examination Of Egypt's Draft Constitution Part I: Religion And State - The Most Islamic ...
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Regulations Squeeze Small Business as EPA Pumps out 15 New Regs
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The Middle East "Two State Solution" Delusion
Dec 04, 2012 12:29 am
Senator Kerry's Fallacious Emotional Appeal for a U.N. Treaty
Dec 03, 2012 09:12 pm
Immigration Reform News and Impact on US Homeland Security December 3, 2012
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Presidential Leadership Required on Entitlement Reforms Solving Fiscal Crisis
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Facing a triple threat: Doha, EPA and Congress
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Policing the Schutzstaffel
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How the Government Class Lives
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Who Will Liberate America?
Dec 03, 2012 10:10 am
Chris Knowles - Victim of a Political Purge?
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Here's an interesting article written by Valerie Jarrett's Father, Vernon Jarrett, a dedicated Communist, from 1979! It validates my research on Obama's Middle East connection attached! Now you know where Obama came from and who financed his rise to power! Remember, Valerie Jarrett was born in IRAN!!!
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From the St. Petersburg Evening Independent November 6, 1979. "Will Arabs Back Ties To Blacks With Cash?Vernon Jarrett What about those rumored billions of dollars the oil rich Arab nations are
supposed to unload on American black leaders and minority institutions?
"It's not just a rumor. Aid will come from some of the Arab states,"
predicted a black San Francisco lawyer who has close ties to officials of
the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC). "The first indications of Arab help to American blacks may be announced in
December." said Khalid Abdullah Tariq Al-Mansour, formerly known as Donald
Warden, of the Holmes and Warden law firm. Al-Mansour is the lawyer who filed a friend-of-the-court brief in support
of OPEC last winter when the International Association of Machinists and
Aerospace Workers (IAM) filed an antitrust suit against the 13 OPEC
countries in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles. The OPEC countries did not answer the price-fixing charges on the grounds
that a U.S. court did not have jurisdiction over a foreign country.
However, Al-Mansour argued for OPEC as chairman of the Concerned Black
Americans in Suppport of Africa and the Middle East. The suit was dismissed
on Aug. 22. Al-Mansour, 39, for several years has urged the rich Arab kingdoms to
cultivate stronger ties to America's blacks by supporting black businesses
and black colleges and giving financial help to disadvantaged students.
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 | | Socialism Rising in U.S. Analyzed by Sarah Palin - Sean Hannity - 12-3-12 |
Last night, Sarah Palin and Sean Hannity analyzed the rise of socialism in America. Palin is the best female speaker for the Republic ever. I hope she opens a talk show. Beautiful, heartfelt, articulate and knowledgeable on the issues. What more do we need in a real politician. People not understanding that socialism is communism.
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Read FamilySecurityMatters.org Contributing Editor J. Christian Adams' SHOCKING new book! Buy it here
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by MARK SILVERBERG
PA corruption and cronyism and its miniscule private sector together with its bloated public service are completely dependent upon Israeli largesse and international foreign aid much of which is paid as salaries to thousands of its civil servants and security personnel.
TEHRAN, Iran-Iran's state TV said Tuesday that the country's Revolutionary Guard has captured a U.S. drone after it entered Iranian airspace over the Persian Gulf.
by RAYMOND IBRAHIM
Last month, Zawahiri sent messages criticizing Morsi, especially for not helping "the jihad to liberate Palestine;" called for the kidnapping of Westerners, especially Americans and further incited Egypt's Muslims to wage jihad against America.
by GADI ADELMAN
After countries have been at war, normally the winner of that war commands the peace treaty as well as the final borders. This has been standard as far back as written history; some historians would even argue it goes further back as such evidence has been found on cave wall drawings.
by ASHRAF RAMELAH
Mr. Morsi's November 22nd Amendment to Egypt's constitution is illegitimate and concretes his authority. With it he places himself above Egyptian law.
Egypt's ruling party is paying gangs of thugs to sexually assault women protesting in Cairo's Tahrir Square against President Mohamed Morsi, activists said.
by DANIEL GREENFIELD
If you believe in the essential decency of people, then you are also willing to leave them alone. If you don't believe that people will make the right decisions on their own, then you reject limited government.
by CHARLES JACOBS
The Newton School Committee has decided not to be forthcoming about how they failed to prevent a Saudi-funded effort to defame Israel from getting into Newton classrooms.
by ALAN CARUBA
You don't have to be a meteorologist to connect the dots. It is getting colder in the northern hemisphere of the world.
U.S. agents on assignment in Mexico, where they are helping the local authorities go after violent drug cartels, are not allowed to carry weapons for their own protection, a situation that one lawmaker says could turn into "another Benghazi."
by SCOTT MCKAY
David Green is the founder and CEO of Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc., which is challenging the Obamacare contraceptive mandate. This letter is an excellent illustration of how stupid one-size-fits-all federal policies trample individual freedom.
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Analysis: Rahm Emanuel and electoral interference
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Well, that was a short honeymoon.
The honeymoon in question, of course, being the one between Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and US President Barack Obama that lasted for the duration of Operation Pillar of Defense.
Obama, in a move that surprised many who thought he would "take revenge" on Netanyahu for the widely held perception that the prime minister favored Republican candidate Mitt Romney in the US elections, backed Israel during the military operation, saying loudly that Israel had the natural right to defend itself from Gaza rockets.
Obama's rhetorical support was critical, setting the tone for others in the international community. Israeli officials said the support Obama gave Netanyahu over the phone was even stronger then what was heard in public. Despite reports to the contrary, the officials said Obama did not warn Netanyahu against launching a ground incursion into Gaza.
Barely a week passed and talk of a honeymoon has, at least in the media, turned into talk of a divorce. First came the announcement in Jerusalem Friday of construction in the settlements and planning in the E1 neighborhood, in response to the Palestinian's upgrade at the UN, and then came leaked comments by Chicago Mayor and former Obama chief of staff Rahm Emanuel.
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- The U.S. warned Syria Monday not to use chemical weapons against rebel forces amid intelligence reports indicating that the Assad regime could be preparing to do so. "I want to make it absolutely clear to Assad and those under his command - the world is watching," President Barack Obama said, "and you will be held accountable." (CNN)
See also The Real WMD Nightmare Is Syria - Charles P. Blair
Syria's chemical arsenal includes several hundred tons of blistering agents along with large stockpiles of deadly nerve agents, including VX, the most toxic of all chemical weapons. At least four large chemical weapon prod uction facilities exist. Syrian chemical agents are weaponized and deliverable. (Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists)
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ACTION ALERT!
VOTE FOR MALALA YOUSAFZAI AS
TIME MAGAZINE'S 2012 PERSON OF THE YEAR!
Time Magazine is currently accepting votes for their 2012 "Person of the Year." One of the nominees is fifteen-year old Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani student activist who was viciously shot two months ago by the Taliban's radical Islamists while riding her school bus.
Why? Because Malala fights tirelessly for young Pakistani girls to have the right to an education.
Amazingly enough, another of Time's nominees is Egypt's current President, Muslim Brotherhood-backed Mohamed Morsi, who is doing his best to turn Egypt into a hard line sharia-governed Islamist nation.
We think the right choice is abundantly clear and we need your help putting little Malala over the top and in the winner's circle. After all she has endured, it's the least we can do and it also will demonstrate to the world the type of character and individual who should be highlighted as a "person of the year"-and who should not.
The deadline for votes is at 11:59 p.m. (EST) on December 12th.
The winner will be announced on December 14th.
Will you help make Malala Time's 2012 "Person of the Year?" Here's how you can!
*** 2 Important Action Items ***
- Please take just one minute today to click HERE and cast your vote for Malala Yousafzai as Time Magazine's 2012 Person of the Year.
- Then, click HERE to vote "no way" for Mohamed Morsi's selection as Person of the Year.
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They say history repeats itself. The Western Center For Journalism
This is best illustrated by the life of Glamor Magazine's 2009 nominee for woman of the year, Susan Elizabeth Rice. In the late 1990s, Rice was working for Bill Clinton as the Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs. The African continent was hers to rule, and she put her foot down on the necks of her rivals on more than one occasion. One such foot to the neck was in regards to a little-known terrorist by the name of Osama Bin Laden. In the late 1990s, Bin Laden was living in Khartoum, Sudan. Although the Sudanese government was engaged in a long and bloody civil war, their intelligence service, the Mukhabarat, was exemplary and knew all about the terrorist activities of Bin Laden. They wanted to give the information to the United States and at one point wanted to turn him over. Who overruled this? Who plugged her ears and refused to hear about Bin Laden? How history has repeated itself is that Rice blamed bad CIA intelligence for not listening to the Sudanese. The CIA had wrongly stated that Sudan was sponsoring terrorism, so Rice refused to hear. Again, with the Benghazi attack, Rice has blamed the CIA for feeding bad information to her: that it was the CIA and not her who pointed the finger towards an obscure anti-Muslim YouTube video and subsequent "protest turned violent." Like her boss, she likes to blame others for her mistakes. Susan Rice is in effect partly responsible for 9/11. She let Osama Bin Laden get away. She truly has blood on her hands.
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"One Nation Under Obama"
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Posted by Daniel Greenfield @ the Sultan Knish blog
The age of the encyclopedia salesman and the vacuum cleaner salesman peddling heavy bundles of books and snakelike cables door to door is done. But the age of the democracy salesman has taken its place. No longer do bright young lads tote along everything there is to know about the letter E in one omnibus volume or demonstrate how the latest Suck-O-Zoom can get stains out of any carpet as an introduction to the wonders of free enterprise. Instead, if they haven't been sidetracked by the siren lure of the dot com or the minimum wage job, they, like the late Christopher Stevens, jet off to foreign climes with FDR's Four Freedoms under one arm and a local dictionary under the other to convince the natives that their lives will be freer, brighter and shinier with the Demo-O-Vote as the arbiter of their holy wars. Like a lot of salesmen, the democracy salesman has never really stopped to wonder why any of his prospective customers should want to buy democracy for only twelve easy payments of bloody civil war? Born in a society where democracy has been idolized for the last century, where cleanliness and godliness may have gone by the wayside, but democracy is still one of those faded old virtues that the arbiters of the Living Constitution haven't taken out back and put a bullet in its head in between elections and commercial breaks, they have never thought to consider that anyone might not want their democracy. In an amoral society, democracy is one of the few things left to us by dead white men that is held to be a virtue, rather than a vice. It goes unquestioned because to most people it represents the power of the common man over his rulers, even if the common man no more rules his rulers than he did some two-hundred years ago. But democracy for the grandfathers of the salesmen goes deeper than fact. It represents a classless society where one man is as good as another and there are no lords or kings.
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by Mike Flynn
For most of my adult life, there has been one thing I could rely on with the Republican Party; they weren't going to raise my taxes. Sure, President George H.W. Bush did it in 1990, but his shock reelection loss quickly taught the party a lesson. Tax policy was one clear issue advantage the GOP had over the Democrats. Yesterday, Speaker Boehner released a Democrat-inspired "fiscal cliff" offer that finally surrenders this advantage. The GOP is now the party of "slightly less tax hikes."
In 2012 exit polls, 63% of voters said taxes "shouldn't be raised to help cut the deficit." Romney won these voters by 24-points, 61-37. Over a third of voters, 35%, said income tax rates should not be increased for any taxpayers, even the "wealthy." Romney won these voters by 52-points, 75-23. Taxes were the third "biggest challenge" facing voters. Romney won this group by 34-points, 66-32.
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The "joys" of 21st century multicultural tribalism: Had I only changed my name to Thor Ragnar Hansson, I think I could have pulled off the Swedish exotic thing.
By now we've all seen NBC's Bob Costas pontificating in his smug lefty way about the danger of guns in reaction to the murder/suicide of a Kansas City Chiefs football player and his girlfriend. If Costas wants to consult someone on domestic double murder without a gun, he need to look no further than his former broadcasting partner at NBC. | | | | TOP STORIES ON PJ MEDIA | |
Wait, the president is risking war in the Middle East on the basis of "credible information" of WMDs? It's Deja Bush all over again!
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Obama's next targets: Your favorite stores?
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You already know Barack Obama is a one-man wrecking crew when it comes to the economy.
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Top conservatives unload on GOP
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Riot act read to school over mention of God in poem
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Deadly terror attacks by the so-called religion of peace are not few and far between. They're now being documented, and you'll be astonished to find out that a fatal Islamic attack takes place every ...
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A "Fast and Furious" culprit resigns from Justice Department
Posted: 04 Dec 2012 02:52 PM PST
(Paul Mirengoff)
Gary Grindler, Attorney General Eric Holder's chief of staff, has resigned from the Justice Department effective tomorrow. Grindler leaves after less than two years in that position.
Grindler oversaw the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, which led "Fast and Furious," the failed and criminally stupid "gun-walking" operation that allowed Mexican cartels to obtain hundreds of illegally purchased weapons. The DOJ's Inspector General faulted Grindler for hiding the connection between Fast and Furious and the murder of a Border Patrol Agent from Holder and from the Department of Homeland Security. Whether Grindler actually did hide the connection from Holder is questionable. In any case, the IG recommended that Grindler be disciplined.
Rep. Darrell Issa, chairman of the House Committee investigating Fast and Furious, has singled out Grindler for criticism, stating that he "passed the buck to underlings" and failed to take charge of the department. Naturally, Issa greeted Grindler's resignation with approval and said he expected more departures and/or discipline in connection with Fast Furious.
The resignation most urgently required is that of Holder. He has been a terrible Attorney General in multiple respects, one of which I will write about soon.
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Dumb and Dumber: The Stupid Party Marches On (with comment by Paul)
Posted: 04 Dec 2012 10:56 AM PST
(Steven Hayward)
At the RNC at least
In his Commentary cover story this month on "The Way Forward," John Podhoretz notes that the modern conservative movement comprises four parts: intellectuals, activists, media, and the Republican Party. "Of all these," he adds, "the least healthy is the Republican Party."
Almost as if on cue, David Welch, a former research director for the Republican National Committee, takes to the pages of the New York Times today to prove John's point. Reading Welch's supercilious article, "Where Have You Gone, Bill Buckley?", reminded me of why I never give money to the RNC.
Welch begins by celebrating Buckley's long-ago role of marginalizing the John Birch Society, something which, ahem, the Republican establishment of the time was utterly unable to do. Keep this sweet irony in mind as you take on board what's next from Welch:
Fast forward half a century. The modern-day Birchers are the Tea Party. By loudly espousing extreme rhetoric, yet holding untenable beliefs, they have run virtually unchallenged by the Republican leadership, aided by irresponsible radio talk-show hosts and right-wing pundits. While the Tea Party grew, respected moderate voices in the party were further pushed toward extinction.
Come again? "The modern-day Birchers are the Tea Party"?? I won't even bother debunking this.
It gets worse. For instance:
The absence of a Buckley-esque gatekeeper today has allowed extreme, untested candidates to take center stage and then commit predictable gaffes and issue moon-bat pronouncements.
This is brand new in the 21st century? Really? I guess Welch is too young to recall GOP Senate disasters like Max Rafferty in California in 1968, who could be said to have been the Tea Party candidate before there was a Tea Party. (Rafferty took out liberal GOP incumbent Senator Thomas Kuchel-the Richard Lugar of his time-in the primary and then lost badly to Alan Cranston in the general election, thus surrendering a GOP Senate seat to a left-liberal who lasted for two decades.) They probably don't remember this, and other inferior candidate debacles of the pre-tea Party Age, in the research department at the RNC.
More Welch's sour-grape juice: "Dare I say it, or should I just whisper the word? We need 'the Establishment.'"
Would that be "the Establishment" that gave us used-up, past-their-sell-by-date Establishment candidates like Tommy Thompson in Wisconsin?
I am generally a pro-establishment person, but not when it's a brain dead as this. The Stupid Party indeed. Maybe these guys should be installed to run the RNC:
PAUL ADDS: I agree generally with Steve's take down of David Welch, but want to say a word in partial defense of my one-time law partner, Tommy Thompson. In August, when Thompson was nominated by Wisconsin primary voters, most polls showed him to be at least as strong a candidate (and probably stronger) than all of his Republican rivals for the nomination. In fact, all published polls taken around that time showed Thompson to be ahead of Baldwin.
Thompson turned out not to be a great candidate. However, he did not underperform in relation to Mitt Romney, the way so many Republican Senate candidates in hotly contested states (e.g., Ohio, Florida, Virginia, Indiana, Arizona, and Missouri) did. In fact, he outperformed Romney, losing to Tammy Baldwin by 5.5 points, while Romney lost to Obama in Wisconsin by 6.7. And Thompson outperformed Romney even though Wisconsinite Paul Ryan was Romney's running mate.
So if the "establishment" can be said to have "given us" Tommy Thompson, I don't think it should take a hit for that particular selection.
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Thinking about the fiscal cliff, and the political one
Posted: 04 Dec 2012 08:53 AM PST
(Paul Mirengoff)
Each of the following 20 propositions are, I think, true:
1. Either there will be a deal between President Obama and the Republicans or there will be no deal and we will go over the "fiscal cliff." This choice can be postponed until next year, but it probably can't be avoided altogether.
2. In all likelihood, Obama won't agree to a deal unless the tax rates of very top earners are increased.
3. An increase in the tax rates of very top earners would likely would slow the economy down.
4. Voting to increase the tax rates of very top earners (or voting "present" on a proposal to raise these rates) would hurt Republicans because those who vote "yes" or "present" might well be challenged in primaries and the resulting division would be harmful to the Party.
5. Republicans should only accept (or permit) an outcome that that entails the negative consequences described in propositions 3 and 4 in exchange for very significant concessions from the White House on spending cuts and entitlement reform OR if not accepting that outcome would send Republicans over the political cliff.
6. Going over the financial cliff would be bad for the country because it very likely would slow the economy down significantly and because the resulting defense cuts would be harmful.
7. Going over the financial cliff might or might not hurt Republicans, depending on which party receives most of the blame for not having reached a deal.
8. The Republicans have a great deal to lose if the public assigns primary blame to them for not reaching a deal. In that event, the Republicans likely will lose control of the House in 2014, leaving the Democrats in control of the White House and both chambers of Congress.
9. The extent to which the public assigns primary blame to Republicans for not reaching a deal, and thus for going over the fiscal cliff, will depend on how reasonable the Republicans' last best offer seems to the public.
10. In the battle over public perception, the Democrats have a built-in advantage, thanks to media bias. But media bias is not necessrily a decisive advantage for the Dems, as we have seen with respect to Obamacare. Nor should Obama's electoral victory overly cow Republicans. It does not entail the kind of popularity that will convert a losing policy hand into a winning one, as we saw following the elections of 2004 and 2008
11. The public favors an approach to debt reduction that includes meaningful spending cuts. After all, Obama was reelected on a promise to reduce the debt through a "balanced approach."
12. Most Americans, including even a significant number of Obama voters, want to get control of the deficit primarily by cutting spending.
13. Most Americans also like bipartisanship and bipartisan commissions.
14. Bowles-Simpson is a bipartisan proposal that springs from a commission appointed by Obama.
15. Bowles-Simpson provides a balanced approach to debt reduction, and one that relies mostly on cutting spending.
16. Given propositions 11-15, there's a good chance that, if Bowles-Simpson is the Republicans' last best offer, the public will consider it a reasonable one, and thus place most of the blame for failure to reach a deal on Obama.
17. Because proposition 16 is by no means a certainty, and because going over the fiscal cliff would be bad for the country (see proposition 6), the number 1 option for Republicans should probably be a negotiated deal that raises tax rates for very top earners (but by less than what Obama proposes) in exchange for very significant concessions from the White House on spending cuts and entitlement reform.
18. Option 2 should be going over the financial cliff with Bowles-Simpson as the Republicans last best offer to avoid the cliff.
19. Option 1 is probably a non-starter for Obama.
20. Though far from ideal, option 2 probably would not be a bad place for Republicans to end up.
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Bob Costas on gun control - no big deal
Posted: 04 Dec 2012 07:42 AM PST
(Paul Mirengoff)
Three years ago, Brit Hume, speaking on Fox News, expressed his hope that Tiger Woods will convert to Christianity because it offers a forgiveness and redemption that cannot be found in Woods' religion, Buddhism. Hume's comments provoked an uproar the essence of which was that news commentators shouldn't use their network forum to express their view about the superiority of one religion over another.
I agreed with the sentiment but not the uproar. I argued that Hume's statement was "no big deal" because Hume does not regularly use Fox News to offer religious commentary. Rather, his statement about (or to) Woods was a one-off instance in which his heart poured over into his commentary.
I feel the same way about the comment this weekend by sports show host Bob Costas about guns. Addressing the murder-suicide involving Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher, Costas quoted with approval the following views of Kansas City sportwriter:
Our current gun culture simply ensures that more and more domestic disputes will end in the ultimate tragedy, and that more convenience-store confrontations over loud music coming from a car will leave more teenage boys bloodied and dead. In the coming days, Belcher's actions will be analyzed through the lens of concussions and head injuries. Who knows? Maybe brain damage triggered his violent overreaction to a fight with his girlfriend. What I believe is, if he didn't possess/own a gun, he and Kasandra Perkins would both be alive today. That is the message I wish Chiefs players, professional athletes and all of us would focus on Sunday and moving forward. Handguns do not enhance our safety. They exacerbate our flaws, tempt us to escalate arguments, and bait us into embracing confrontation rather than avoiding it.
Costas' comments were inappropriate. Obviously, a football telecast is not the place for commentary on political issues.
However, calls for Costas to be fired or reprimanded are silly. Television personalities are people too. Given enough appearances on TV, it is natural that, once in a while, in an emotionally charged situation, they will find themselves expressing a deeply held personal view that exceeds the bounds of what they should be talking about.
The appropriate response is to shake our head and make a note of the transgression, not to make a case out of it. Surely, we aren't so brittle as a nation that folks need to go on the warpath over a one-off inappropriately political expression like Costas'.
STEVE adds: I agree with Paul here, and have always thought Costas was a pretty good sports broadcaster. But I also can't resist adding this:
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Why Are Republicans Losing the Tax Debate?-Part 2
Posted: 04 Dec 2012 06:54 AM PST
(Steven Hayward)
Further to yesterday's post on Why Republicans Are Losing the Tax Debate ("It's the fairness, stupid"), let's take account of the best argument of the Left on the matter. In response to the data showing that tax rate reductions have shifted the income tax burden to the wealthy, the Left responds that the share of total income accruing to the richest 1 or 10 percent of Americans has soared, by so much that even with the total tax burden shifted, the rich are still woefully undertaxed. Their chief analysis is shown in this chart, which juxtaposes top marginal income tax rates with the share of national income going to the top 1 percent:
One can, and should, have a good argument here about what this chart actually proves. The Left points to an inverse correlation between low marginal income tax rates and high share of income going to the top 1 percent. But it could be used to demonstrate the supply-side argument that high rates (which few people actually paid anyway) cause high income people to avoid realizing income, by investing in unproductive tax shelters that artificially lower reported income, or other subterfuges. It was possible, for example, right up to the late Clinton years, for a high net worth person to realize huge gains with no income or capital gains tax liability at all, through the simple expedient of going "short against the box" on large stock positions. (A billionaire once explained this to me; it was lost on most journalists and people in Washington, and Clinton only moved to close the loophole when Robert Rubin told him about it and betrayed his Goldman Sachs pals.) Recognize that when you use tax shelters or other gimmicks, you skew the data that goes into this chart, because those gains don't count as "income" in the official statistics on which this chart is based. In other words, it is likely that this chart is completely wrong. Supply siders have always argued that lower marginal rates cause the wealthy to realize and report more income, and this chart offers evidence they are right.
Or you can ask yourself this question: Does anyone think the Kennedy family ever paid the 91 percent marginal income tax rate of the 1950s so beloved of Paul Krugman? Please. Or perhaps the Kennedy library would like to prove me wrong by releasing some old tax returns of Jack and Joe Kennedy from the 1950s. I'm not going to hold my breath. There's a reason, as Peter Schweizer explained in Do As I Say, that the Kennedy family has its assets domiciled predominantly offshore, though this only seems to be a political handicap if your name is Romney.
The ur-text of the Left
But this argument is beside the point as well as futile, because the Left's argument is that the high share of income earned by the 1 percent is unfair on its face, because it is more than they need. (I stress "earned" here because "distributed" is an insidious semantic base-stealing we need to stop the Left from using. But that's a separate post.) The theoretical argument behind the Left's crusade for taking the wealth of the rich and giving it to their clients is based on the ur-text of the contemporary Left, John Rawls' Theory of Justice. Press a liberal intellectual, and eventually they will repair to Rawls's "difference principle," which holds that inequality of wealth of income is only just if it benefits the less well-off. It may be an intelligible principle of justice in the abstract, but it is unintelligible in practice; one of the defects of Rawls is that in 600 pages he never moves from the abstract to an applicable rule of policy guidance, or even a vague framework for setting tax rates. There is no "Krugman-Rawls Curve" analogous to the Laffer Curve, for example.
John Rawls
And one of the oldest principles of justice, stretching back to Plato and Aristotle, and which Rawls accepts, is that justice must move beyond the abstract to particular situations and individuals. So let's see how Rawls's principle might apply to some real live individuals. Does Bill Gates's immense wealth violate the "difference principle"? It is not obvious what the answer is. It seems to me even Gates's extraordinary case can be reconciled with Rawls's difference principle. Didn't the means by which Gates rapidly gained his vast fortune involve improving the lives and productivity of millions of people around the world? Was his financial reward incommensurate with the benefits that accrued to the less well-off of the world?
Let's refine this further. Take Gates or Warren Buffett, the two wealthiest Americans who happen to be liberal Democrats. I'd like a liberal to explain in precise terms whether they acquired their fortunes unjustly? And if they didn't acquire their wealth unjustly, then a second query must be answered: at what point did the size of their fortunes go from just to unjust? Was it $1 billion? $10 billion?
I expect liberals cannot or will not give specific answers to these interrogatories, but will change the subject.
P.S. By the way, if you want to see Buffett change his tune on taxes, just borrow an old FDR idea and propose an undistributed profits tax on corporations that hoard their cash rather than reinvesting it or returning it to shareholders. I guarantee you Buffett will take his first private jet trip of the day to the White House to kill that idea.
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"It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry." ~ Thomas Paine
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BHO On His Way Out The White House Door While The Union Is Still In One Piece?
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Breaking Obama Eligibility News
America's Conservative News/WorldNetDaily
Not only may a major announcement be forthcoming but a previously dismissed Florida eligibility suit may now be gaining some traction. Watch the video for all the details.
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Will The Anti-Christ Be Muslim?
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There is a growing and erroneous belief these days that the Anti-Christ will be a Muslim. How does one go about providing a valid counter argument to this growing belief while examining the pivotal role that Islam will play as a driving force in the end times? A newly released 5-Volume Special Report, The Final Crusade, examines the history of Islam and authoritatively answers this nagging question.
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Benghazi Denial--A New Phase Of Obamamania
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Benghazi Denial Syndrome: Clinical or Cynical
By Shawn Mitchell
TownHall.com
To a large group of Americans, the Benghazi story looks simple. Only the fog of politics and the media's protection of the president obscure an ugly narrative. This article is long because the extent of denial, dissembling, and delusion is hard to describe briefly.
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Blind Chinese Right-To-Life Hero Says Situation In China Is Getting Worse
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Pro-Life Activist: Human Rights In China 'Getting Worse'
By Penny Starr
CNSNews.com
Chen Guangcheng, the blind Chinese activist who escaped house arrest in May and came with his family to live in the United States, has released a video condemning the human rights violations he claims are perpetrated by China's Communist government, including the disappearance of dissidents and a one-child per family policy that includes forcing women to have abortions.
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The Shameful Scourge Of Disability Fraud
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Men Find Careers In Collecting Disability
By Michael Barone
TownHall.com
Americans are very generous to people with disabilities. Since passage of the Americans With Disabilities Act in 1990, millions of public and private dollars have been spent on curb cuts, bus lifts and special elevators.
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Obama, Military Leaders Lied About Osama's Death Date
Dec 04, 2012 01:30 pm
Wagging The Dog (media, citizens) Operation Confirmed By CPT Pamela Barnett, USA Retired* (Author Obama Never Vetted:The Unlawful President) Copyright 2012 Obama lied to every American and the rest of the world about the date of the alleged Osama Bin Laden killing, according to recently released Department of Defense emails. (Email redactions by DOD) According [...] Read More and Comment: Obama, Military Leaders Lied About Osama's Death Date
Video: Finally, A Judge Who Can Save America!Dec 04, 2012 01:21 pm
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Exclusive: How We Can Stop Obama!!Dec 04, 2012 01:18 pm
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Video: "One Nation Under Obama"Dec 04, 2012 01:06 pm
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Even Murder Is Excused These Days: "The Gun Culture Did It"Dec 04, 2012 01:03 pm
The murder-suicide committed by selfish, coddled phony Kansas City Chief linebacker Jovan Belcher was a tragedy for two people. They include: his live-in girlfriend/murder victim, 22 year old Kasandra Perkins, of course, but more so their 3 month old baby daughter Zoey, who is now left an orphan because her father could not deal with [...] Read More and Comment: Even Murder Is Excused These Days: "The Gun Culture Did It"
Video: Will Obama's Presidential Library Be In Chicago Or In Kenya?Dec 04, 2012 01:01 pm
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Worldview Collision Portends Trouble For AmericaDec 04, 2012 12:55 pm
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Video: Obama Aide: With These Republicans, 'There'd Still Be Slavery' TodayDec 04, 2012 12:48 pm
Honestly, these guys don't know when to quit with the race-baiting... Related posts: Obama Aide: With These Republicans, There'd Still Be Slavery Chuck Todd relayed the comments of an Obama aide on... MSNBC's Bashir: GOP OK With Obama Building The White House, Not Living In It MSNBC host Martin Bashir took his race-baiting all the [...] Watch the Video and Comment: Video: Obama Aide: With These Republicans, 'There'd Still Be Slavery' Today
Charity Begins At HomeDec 04, 2012 12:39 pm
Black conservatives, traditionalists and other concerned stakeholders of all stripes have a golden opportunity now that Election 2012 has ended. Working in the inner city is our beach head. While I favor the GOP, my over riding concern is the moral and material resurrection of Black culture and the inner city. White sisters and brothers [...] Read More and Comment: Charity Begins At Home
Video: Palin: Obama A Socialist; After Socialism Comes CommunismDec 04, 2012 12:35 pm
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Where The Church Went Wrong... And How To Make It Right!Dec 04, 2012 12:23 pm
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Video: Clinton Needs Taxpayer Money For Propaganda?Dec 04, 2012 12:22 pm
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Coming To Lame Duck Tomorrow: Controversial UN Disabilities TreatyDec 04, 2012 12:19 pm
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Video: 'Hannity' Debate On Gun Control Turns Into Screaming MatchDec 04, 2012 12:11 pm
The murder-suicide concerning NFL linebacker Jovan Belcher has reignited the national debate over gun control, especially in the wake of commentary provided last night by NBC sportscaster Bob Costas. Radio host Leo Terrell and author Erik Rush appeared on Sean Hannity's show last night for an incredibly heated segment on gun control. Related posts: Trump [...] Watch the Video and Comment: Video: 'Hannity' Debate On Gun Control Turns Into Screaming Match
Boehner, GOP Leaders Purge Conservatives From Powerful CommitteesDec 04, 2012 12:08 pm
UPDATE: Boehner Spokesman Kevin Smith responds- "The Steering Committee makes decisions based on a range of factors." House Speaker John Boehner and GOP leadership have removed several conservative House members from their respective powerful committee positions, Breitbart News has learned. Effective next Congress, leadership pulled Kansas Republican Rep. Tim Huelskamp, Michigan Republican Rep. Justin Amash [...] Read More and Comment: Boehner, GOP Leaders Purge Conservatives From Powerful Committees
Video: Cheesecake Factory CEO Warns ObamaCare Will Cause Prices To RiseDec 04, 2012 11:51 am
Yesterday morning on CBS, Cheesecake Factory CEO David Overton spotlighted the looming economic impact of Obamacare's implementation, especially on small enterprises: Related posts: Gold's Rise Signifies America's Fall by Dr. Mark W. Hendrickson The price of gold has... ObamaCare's 7 Tax Hikes On The Middle Class And Poor By ruling that ObamaCare is constitutional, the [...] Read More and Comment: Video: Cheesecake Factory CEO Warns ObamaCare Will Cause Prices To Rise
Conservative Leaders Urge Tough Line On Fiscal CliffDec 04, 2012 11:43 am
(CNSNews.com) - Conservative leaders are urging the House Republican conference to take a hard line in fiscal cliff negotiations with the White House and Senate Democrats, insisting that they should not accede to President Obama's demand for higher taxes. President Obama is demanding $1.6 trillion in tax hikes on wealthy Americans over the coming decade, [...] Read More and Comment: Conservative Leaders Urge Tough Line On Fiscal Cliff
NRA CEO On Bob Costas Promoting Gun ControlDec 04, 2012 11:39 am
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Fiscal Cliff: House Republican Proposal Abandons Core Principles, Gains LittleDec 04, 2012 11:35 am
Photo Credit: Medill DC (Creative Commons) The House Republican leadership has offered a substantive counteroffer to President Obama's frivolous fiscal cliff proposal of last week. At first blush, it appears little more than categorical, pre-emptive capitulation. To be fair, the details of the Republican proposal are extraordinarily vague. Nor is much clarity or comfort gained [...] Read More and Comment: Fiscal Cliff: House Republican Proposal Abandons Core Principles, Gains Little
Another Victory For The Anti-Christian GrinchesDec 04, 2012 11:21 am
The Salvation Army has long been a holy-day season fixture in front of my local supermarket, providing some Christmas sounds and cheer as it raises money to serve the poor. But when I went grocery shopping a couple of days ago, a difference was apparent: there was an SA volunteer and collection pot on the [...] Read More and Comment: Another Victory For The Anti-Christian Grinches
The Ties That BindDec 04, 2012 10:50 am
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Don't Let Obama's "Fiscal Cliff" Become America's Slippery SlopeDec 04, 2012 10:47 am
(Editor's note: We here at the Western Center for Journalism are proud to be a signing participant.) CONSERVATIVE ACTION PROJECT MEMO FOR THE MOVEMENT ANY "GRAND BARGAIN" MUST INCLUDE: 1. NO NET TAX INCREASE 2. NO DE-COUPLING OF TAX RATES 3. NO SEQUESTER WITHOUT REAL SPENDING REDUCTIONS 4. NO TWO-STEP PROCESS THAT KICKS THE CAN [...] Read More and Comment: Don't Let Obama's "Fiscal Cliff" Become America's Slippery Slope
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Tuesday, December 4, 2012
To: Friends & Supporters
From: Gary L. Bauer
Obama Rejects House Offer
Yesterday afternoon, House GOP leaders sent a letter to President Obama offering a compromise on the fiscal cliff. House Republicans offered $800 billion in additional tax revenues achieved through tax reform, not higher tax rates. In addition, they proposed $1.4 trillion in savings through spending cuts and entitlement reforms.
The White House immediately rejected the offer. Press Secretary Jay Carney said, "[Tax] rates have to rise, and the Republicans have to acknowledge that." So higher tax rates, not necessarily higher revenues, appears to be non-negotiable for Barack Obama. Meanwhile, conservatives, including the Heritage Foundation and Senator Jim DeMint, criticized the House offer as giving up too much.
We have made this point repeatedly, but it cannot be stated often enough. We cannot tax our way out of this problem. The problem is too much spending.
As columnist Thomas Sowell wrote, "Raising the tax rates on everybody in the top 2% will not get enough additional tax revenue to run the government for 10 days. And what will the government do to pay for the other 355 days in the year?"
Nor are the Bush tax cuts the cause of this current crisis. For the record, federal tax revenues peaked in 2007. Let me restate that: Years after the 2001 and 2003 Bush tax cuts were enacted, federal revenues hit an all-time high. The deficit in 2007 was just $163 billion. That's a lot of money, but nowhere near Obama's 2011 deficit of $1.3 trillion or $1,300 billion!
Here's another point to keep in mind. The White House's $1.6 trillion fiscal cliff offer was modeled after Obama's February budget proposal. That budget plan got exactly zero votes in Congress. Not a single House or Senate Democrat voted for it earlier this year. Yet now we're supposed to accept it as a serious proposal? Only in Washington, D.C.
Now here's a bit of admittedly self-serving advice. With each passing day there is more uncertainty about the fiscal cliff. But it is certain that tax rates on dividends and capitals gains are going up. There is also serious talk about limiting deductions for charitable donations as part of any tax agreement.
As you are thinking about your year-end charitable donations, I hope you will keep my non-profit organization American Values in mind.
In fact, I would urge you to consider the example of Costco and other major corporations that are paying out special dividends this year in order to avoid higher tax rates next year. Your generous tax-deductible gift to American Values before the end of 2012 may be a good way to maximize future tax savings!
Cultural Chaos
The nation was stunned this weekend when news broke that Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher shot his girlfriend, the mother of his 3-month old daughter, nine times and then took his own life. Proving once again that there is no tragedy the left is unwilling to exploit, NBC's Bob Costas and other commentators have put all the blame on an inanimate object -- the gun.
According to a variety of reports, Belcher was apparently an alcoholic and drug abuser. He was not married to the mother of his baby, and had a very troubled relationship with her. In short, the life they were living was a reflection of the breakdown of the family that is the eating away at wide swaths of American society.
Our Second Amendment freedoms are not the problem. Rather it is a culture that says marriage is outdated.
Bullets are not the problem. It is a society that has so cheapened human life by elevating abortion that the taking of innocent life is now considered a constitutional right.
It isn't the gun. The problem is a society more upset by the possibility someone will see the Ten Commandments in a park or school than the fact that seven people were killed in random street violence in Chicago last weekend.
Liberals who think gun control and less freedom are the answer should consider the example of our nation's capital. For years the District of Columbia had the most stringent anti-gun laws. It also had the nation's highest murder rate. Why? Thugs knew that no law abiding citizen had a gun!
A few years ago the Supreme Court overturned those absurd laws. At the time, the same liberals who are exploiting this tragic murder/suicide were suggesting that D.C. would turn into a shooting gallery. The result has been the exact opposite -- murders are down to historic lows. They were wrong then and they are wrong now.
Either we will follow the path of the decline of Rome -- where every social ill led to bigger government and less freedom -- or we will follow the path of our Founding Fathers, who believed that only a virtuous people could remain free. The choice is stark and time is running out.
Lastly, here's some unsolicited advice to all my friends in Congress, on talk radio and libertarians far and wide: If the America you hope to someday govern or influence is the America that I described, of complete cultural and moral breakdown, good luck. It is doubtful you will ever win another election.
If you truly want to be the governing party of the United States, the last thing you should be doing is running away from values issues. Yes, America needs a strong, vibrant party that believes in individual liberty, competition and free markets. But there is no government program that can make up for the meltdown of the family. Strong, stable families are the best solution to the big government welfare state.
You can read more at my Human Events column.
Petraeus For President?
No, this isn't about 2016. According to a story in today's Washington Post, Roger Ailes, the chairman of Fox News, tried to persuade General David Petraeus to jump into the 2012 presidential race. During a 90-minute conversation in the spring of 2011, Fox contributor K.T. McFarland told Petraeus that Ailes wanted him to reject Obama's offer to lead the CIA and instead run for the White House. McFarland also implied that Rupert Murdoch would bankroll the campaign.
There was a lot of speculation in 2011 about Petraeus running for president. Today's report suggests there may have been more than mere speculation.
We raise this because it brings up another interesting angle given all that has happened to General Petraeus recently. There were rumors weeks ago that he gave misleading testimony to Congress because he was afraid that if he didn't Obama's henchmen would leak the news of his affair.
Given the way this administration operates, it does not seem at all implausible that it would offer him the directorship of the CIA in order to keep him out of the political arena. And now after the election, he's out of public service completely because of a scandal.
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by Nathaniel Ward
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On initial examination, the House Republicans' counter-offer to address the looming "fiscal cliff" tax hikes and spending cuts "appears little more than categorical, preemptive capitulation," Heritage Foundation experts Alison Fraser and J.D. Foster argue.
First, the proposal fails to address the real source of our nation's fiscal crisis: massive overspending, especially on rapidly-expanding entitlement programs like Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security.
"Beyond disappointing, the House Republican counteroffer appears at best to suggest incremental tweaks to these programs," Fraser and Foster write. "Without real entitlement reform-not just spending cuts-we will never fix the underlying problem."
Second, the program includes:
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An anti-tax reform program of reductions in the availability of certain deductions and exemptions-without offsetting reductions in rates. While preferable in general to raising tax rates, this proposal largely dooms future efforts at tax reform based on the sound principle of broadening the tax base to lower the rates. Instead, this proposal would broaden the base, not to lower rates, but to raise revenues. So much for improved economic growth.
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While the GOP plan does profess its continued support for the principled budget the House passed this year, Fraser and Foster deem it "a dud. It is utterly unacceptable. It is bad policy, bad economics, and, if we may say so, highly questionable as a negotiating tactic."
Tell us in the comments: What do you think of the Republican fiscal cliff proposal?
For three newly-elected members of Congress, this past weekend's Heritage Foundation briefings for freshmen lawmakers should have been a refresher. That's because they participated in Heritage's educational programs before.
- Rep.-elect Andy Barr (R-KY) was a Heritage intern in 1996 while an undergraduate at the University of Virginia. He worked for Heritage scholar Matthew Spalding before moving to the Hill to work for then-Rep. Jim Talent.
- Rep.-elect Tom Cotton (R-AK) interned at Townhall.com, which was then a Heritage project, in 1997 while an undergraduate at Harvard. Inspired by Heritage, he spent a year at the Claremont Graduate School, before going to law school and joining the military after 9/11.
- Rep.-elect Richard Hudson (R-NC) participated both in our educational programs for Congressional chiefs of staff and in our James Madison Fellows program while serving as chief of staff to Reps. Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and Mike Conaway (R-TX).
One of Heritage's chief missions is to educate rising leaders in the conservative movement. Our internship program, part of our Young Leaders Program, is just one part of what Heritage does to educate the next generation of policymakers.
That three freshmen lawmakers have links to Heritage indicates that our efforts truly pay off in the long run.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) is attempting to change the filibuster process, dubbing it "filibuster reform," in order to shut out the voices of the minority party.
Reid's "filibuster reform" would "allow less time for deliberation on legislation and nominations for Senators, meaning less time for the American public to view that deliberation," The Heritage Foundation's Brian Darling reports.
In addition, Darling explains, in trying to "squelch the rights of individual members of the U.S. Senate...Reid has to ignore the letter of the rules to 'reform' them with a simple-majority party-line vote."
Conservatives may be able to use Reid's plan to their advantage. Click here to find out how.
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Heritage Work of Note
- Over the weekend, The Heritage Foundation added its 500,000th Facebook fan.
Every day, Heritage updates our Facebook page with information about critical policy issues like the fiscal cliff, government spending, securing the nation and promoting our nation's founding principles.
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House Republicans Cave on Tax Increases and Punt Entitlements
When President Obama put forth his first offer on the fiscal cliff, House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) said, "You can't be serious." We could say the same thing to the Speaker after his counteroffer yesterday.
In a letter signed by House Republican leadership, including Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) and Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI), Boehner offered to raise taxes by $800 billion and cut spending by $1.2 trillion, with no substantive reforms to the entitlement programs that are driving U.S. spending and debt.
Heritage's Alison Fraser, director of the Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies, and J.D. Foster, the Norman B. Ture Senior Fellow in the Economics of Fiscal Policy, quickly responded that "the Republican counteroffer, to the extent it can be interpreted from the hazy details now available, is a dud. It is utterly unacceptable. It is bad policy, bad economics."
Boehner's letter to the President actually said that the Republicans were not going to make their more serious proposal, which has already passed the House.
If we were to take your Administration's proposal at face value, then we would counter with the House-passed Budget Resolution. It assumes an overhaul of our tax code with revenue remaining at historically normal levels and proposes structural reforms to preserve and protect the Nation's entitlement programs, ensuring they are sustainable for the long-term rather than continuing to grow out of control.
But, they said, "we recognize it would be counterproductive to publicly or privately propose entitlement reforms that you and the leaders of your party appear unwilling to support in the near-term."
This is precisely the time for laying out bold reforms, showing the nation the principles, vision and policies conservatives share to dig out of this budget mess, today and for the long term. Instead, the leadership pointed to a plan they said was suggested by Erskine Bowles, the co-chair of President Obama's debt commission and formerly Bill Clinton's White House Chief of Staff. It raises taxes, but not by raising tax rates-instead, by lowering the amount or number of tax deductions or exemptions available.
This misses the point of the tax reform America really needs, said Fraser and Foster:
While preferable in general to raising tax rates, this proposal largely dooms future efforts at tax reform based on the sound principle of broadening the tax base to lower the rates. Instead, this proposal would broaden the base, not to lower rates, but to raise revenues. So much for improved economic growth.
Essentially, it appears the Republican leadership caved on raising taxes and first steps toward fundamental entitlement reforms that are desperately needed to keep Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid going. To be sure, the Boehner letter is short on details. But, as Fraser and Foster put it, "Beyond disappointing, the House Republican counteroffer appears at best to suggest incremental tweaks to these programs. Without real entitlement reform-not just spending cuts-we will never fix the underlying problem."
Not only would this be the right course to take, but Americans polled just after the election have these priorities more in order than the President and Congress.
Just a few days after the election, Gallup asked people to rank a list of 12 issues by importance for the President's second term. Restoring "a strong economy and job market" was No. 1, with entitlement reform-"take major steps to ensure the long-term stability of Social Security and Medicare"-No. 2. "Make major cuts in federal spending" was No. 6 on the list, while raising taxes on people making more than $250,000 a year was way down the list at priority No. 10.
Now is the time for leaders to get serious. That means serious entitlement reforms that will deliver real savings and improve the programs. The President and House Republicans should both start over and work together toward solutions the nation truly needs.
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What the President Can't Do With the Debt
As the federal government once again approaches the debt ceiling, partisans are pulling out the heavy artillery: Don't bother negotiating with Republicans on taxes and spending, they tell the President, just declare the debt ceiling in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment and ignore it.
As a matter of law, that gambit is just as wrongheaded as it was when this came up last year. As Heritage explained at the time:
Section four of the Fourteenth Amendment provides, "The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned."
This clause simply means that Congress and the President cannot question the validity of debt that is already incurred, but it in no way requires the nation to incur more debt. Even if it precludes temporary default-which is far from clear-it could not authorize the President to incur additional debt.
At most, this clause might require the federal government to prioritize debt payments on existing debt, but no one doubts there is enough tax revenue to cover service on existing debt-without incurring more debt. Besides, the President's unilateral action to add new debt in violation of a debt limit would not be "authorized by law" and so would be the opposite of what the clause requires.
In addition, unilateral action by the President to take on additional debt would be a clear violation of the Constitution's separation of powers. After all, the Constitution vests in Congress-and withholds from the Executive-the power to commit to spending, to raise revenue by enacting taxes, and to incur public debt. The Fourteenth Amendment did not alter this. Congressional control of borrowing, through the debt limit, and section four of the amendment are in unison, not tension.
The law here isn't complicated, and, aside from a few rabid partisans, there's not even much disagreement on this point. Dean Erwin Chemerinsky, a reliable liberal on most matters, concedes, "there is no plausible way to read this provision [Section 4 of the Fourteenth Amendment] as providing the president the ability to increase the debt ceiling without congressional action."
Professor Larry Tribe, the constitutional litigator and treatise author who has regularly advised President Obama on matters of constitutional law, agrees, writing, "Nothing in the Fourteenth Amendment or in any other constitutional provision suggests that the president may usurp legislative power to prevent a violation of the Constitution," including a default.
Add to that list of doubters our Constitutional-Law-Professor-in-Chief: Obama says the Fourteenth Amendment is not "a winning argument." And the President's spokesman admits, "There are no tricks, there is no citing of the Constitution that suddenly allow us to borrow." (Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, too.)
More than bad law, disregarding the debt policy would be terrible policy. Perhaps the most risible preemptive justification comes from the Jamelle Bouie in The Washington Post, who cites "potential...damage to the economy" from another debt standoff as reason for the President to shrug off the debt limit. But any risk to the economy from a late-in-the-day debt deal would be counterbalanced, and then some, by the massive political, legal, and financial upheaval that would follow exercise of this nuclear option. Even among those who believe the debt-limit mechanism to be sometimes dysfunctional, does anyone really think that smashing it with a sledgehammer is somehow more responsible than just reaching a deal with Congress?
Tossing the text of the Constitution and centuries of constitutional practice by the wayside isn't something to be done lightly, and surely not for something so ephemeral as strengthening the President's "negotiating position" with Congress-which Bouie identifies as his chief object. And judging by their rhetoric-Members of Congress who seek to cut spending are "hostage takers" and worse-others in the smasher camp seem to share his focus on short-term political dividends, while paying little mind to the consequences.
For the sake of our Constitution and our finances, may cooler heads prevail.
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Even murder is excused when the killer is a coddled selfish athlete the: "gun culture did it"
Dec 04, 2012 05:13 am | Coach Collins
By Kevin "Coach" Collins
The murder suicide committed by selfish coddled phony Kansas City Chief's linebacker Jovan Belcher was a tragedy for two people. His live-in girlfriend murder victim, 22 year old Kasandra Perkins, of course, but more so their 3 month old baby daughter Zoey who is now left an orphan because her father could not deal with hearing the word "No."
Of course we don't know exactly what was being argued over when the frustration of being told "No" must have overtaken Belcher. Nevertheless, in the aftermath what we can see and hear gives us a fair idea of what we couldn't see or hear as the fatal argument unfolded in the couple's home last week. Ms. Perkins made the fatal choice to say "No" to Belcher and lost her life for it.
With the funerals not even held, we saw and heard the liberal media immediately seize the opportunity to cover for the selfish ... Continue Reading:Even murder is excused when the killer is a coddled selfish athlete the: "gun culture did it"
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