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December 6, 2012
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 | | NSA Whistleblower: 'Everyone In U.S. Under Virtual Surveillance' |
The FBI records the emails of nearly all US citizens, including members of Congress, according to NSA whistleblower William Binney. In an interview with RT, he warned that the government can use this information against anyone. This is what we get for sacrificing our liberty in the name of security, largely during the Bush administration (and of course continued by the hypocrite-in-chief Obama who campaigned on rolling back the surveillance state.)
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New York Times: Arms Shipments 'Secretly' Approved by Obama Admin. Ended Up in Hands of Islamic Militants
The Blaze | by Jason Howerton | Posted on December 5, 2012 at 10:10pm
 The Obama administration "secretly" approved arms shipments to Libyan rebels from Qatar last year, however, U.S. officials quickly became concerned as evidence suggested Qatar was handing the weapons over to Islamic militants, The New York Times reports, citing a number of United States officials and foreign diplomats.
There is no evidence available that suggests the U.S.-approved weapons were involved in the deadly terrorist attack on the U.S. compound in Benghazi, which left four Americans dead on Sept. 11. But the revelation is sure to ignite speculation.
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Dick Armey Resigns from FreedomWorks
by Michael Patrick Leahy
4 Dec 2012
In a surprise move, former House Republican Majority Leader Dick Armey has resigned as chairman of FreedomWorks, the conservative Washington based group that has been strongly identified with the Tea Party movement.
Based on early press reports, Armey's departure does not appear to be a harmonious one.
Armey resigned in an e-mail on Friday. Someone leaked the email to Mother Jones, a left wing publication. Mother Jones contacted Armey, who confirmed his resignation and offered these comments in a story that ran Monday afternoon:
The top management team of FreedomWorks was taking a direction I thought was unproductive, and I thought it was time to move on with my life. At this point, I don't want to get into the details. I just want to go on with my life. . . "Obviously I was not happy with the election results.We might've gotten better results if we had gone in a different direction. But it isn't that I got my nose out of line because we should've done better.
FreedomWorks Vice President Adam Brandon confirmed Armey's departure to CNN on Monday, saying "he did step down on Friday, and we wish him well."
Typically, the departure of a key leader of a high profile political organization is announced in a jointly issued press release, not in response to leaked stories.
Armey and FreedomWorks CEO Matt Kibbe, a former Congressional staffer, had previously appeared to have been on the same page ideologically and tactically. In fact, they co-authored a book together in 2010, Give Us Liberty: A Tea Party Manifesto.
David Corn, co-author of Monday's Mother Jones article, wrote a book published in March of 2012 highly critical of the Tea Party movement, Showdown: The Inside Story of How Obama Fought Back Against Boehner, Cantor, and the Tea Party.
Morning Jolt - December 5, 2012
By Jim Geraghty
You Go into Battle with, or Perhaps without, the Armey You Have So . . . this certainly seems sudden and odd: In a move not publicly announced, former Rep. Dick Armey, the folksy conservative leader, has resigned as chairman of FreedomWorks, one of the main political outfits of the conservative movement and an instrumental force within the tea party. Armey, the former House majority leader who helped develop and promote the GOP's Contract with America in the 1990s, tendered his resignation in an memo sent to Matt Kibbe, president and CEO of FreedomWorks, on November 30. Mother Jones obtained the email on Monday, and Armey has confirmed he sent it. The tone of the memo suggests that this was not an amicable separation. (See Armey's email below.) Armey demanded that he be paid until his contract ended on December 31; that FreedomWorks remove his name, image, or signature "from all its letters, print media, postings, web sites, videos, testimonials, endorsements, fund raising materials, and social media, including but not limited to Facebook and Twitter"; and that FreedomWorks deliver the copy of his official congressional portrait to his home in Texas. "The top management team of FreedomWorks was taking a direction I thought was unproductive, and I thought it was time to move on with my life," Armey tells Mother Jones. "At this point, I don't want to get into the details. I just want to go on with my life." The Washington Examiner's Charlie Spiering has a clue on one issue that might have been a point of contention: the leadership of House speaker John Boehner. Shortly after cutting ties with former Rep. Dick Armey R.-Tx., the conservative grassroots organization FreedomWorks issued a letter challenging Speaker John Boehner R-Ohio for eliminating some of the more conservative House Republicans from their Committees. The conservative grassroots organization specifically mentioned Rep. Tim Huelskamp R-Kan. and Rep. Justin Amash R-Mich. who were removed from the House Budget Committee and Rep. David Schweikert R-Ariz - removed from the House Financial Services committee. "House Speaker John Boehner and the failed political establishment are purging House Committees of fiscal conservatives," reads a letter sent to FreedomWorks activists by President and CEO Matt Kibbe. James Joyner writes, "It'll be interesting to see what led to this. Certainly, Armey has been the face of the organization, and arguably of the entire Tea Party movement, since it came into prominence." And to be honest, that never made that much sense to me. The tea parties were all about exhaustion with business as usual and refusal to accept the well-established Washington way of doing things; a longtime House leader seemed like an incongruent choice to be the public face of a group dedicated to reforming how Washington works. Then there's the occasional slipperiness Armey demonstrated in his congressional career. As Senator Tom Coburn writes in Breach of Trust, Armey was floating the idea of abandoning the term-limits pledge even before the 104th Congress was convened in January 1995. In his autobiography, The Prince of Darkness, columnist Bob Novak details Armey's offering a blunt, on-the-record criticism of Newt Gingrich's book contract, and then later insisting to other reporters that Novak had misunderstood him. Novak closes the story, "I never really trusted him after the Gingrich book incident." And allegedly Armey was all in favor of Bill Paxon's coup against Newt Gingrich in 1997 - right up until he learned he wouldn't be speaker in the aftermath. And this comment from Armey, expressed in defense of Doug Hoffman in the special House election in New York's 23rd congressional district in 2009, never sat well with me: Coming to Mr. Hoffman's defense, former House Majority Leader Dick Armey, R-Texas, who accompanied the candidate on a campaign swing, dismissed regional concerns as "parochial" issues that would not determine the outcome of the election. On the contrary, it is just such parochial issues that we expect our representative to understand and be knowledgeable about, if he wants to be our voice in Washington. Hey, it's only parochial when it affects someplace else. Considering how highly I think of everyone else involved in FreedomWorks, Armey always seemed like a strange outlier. I expect FreedomWorks will thrive in the post-Armey era. Which is certainly how they seem to see his departure: The top brass at the tea-party group FreedomWorks is anything but ruffled by the abrupt departure of former House majority leader Dick Armey, who founded the group and helped lead it for more than eight years. "I wish him well," said the group's president, Matt Kibbe, when asked about Mr. Armey's resignation as FreedomWorks chairman. "I've been in this town long enough to see people come and see people go, and Dick decided he wanted to retire."
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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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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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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
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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. |
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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
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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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December 5, 2012 11:30 AM
Dear Members and Friends,
In May of this year, Governor Chris Christie became one of the first governors in the nation to veto a bill establishing a statewide Health Care Exchange--a prominent provision of ObamaCare.
(http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/christie_chronicles/ChristievetoesObamacareprovision.html)
Since both Houses of the New Jersey Legislature are controlled by Democrats, it should be no surprize that, once again, a similar bill sits on the Governor's desk. He has until Thursday to dispense of it.
(http://articles.philly.com/2012-10-20/news/34585387_1_health-care-exchange-health-care-overhaul-health-care)
Normally, we would be confidant that the Governor would do the right thing.
The problem--a lot has transpired since the original veto, including:
1. The US Supreme Court upheld ObamaCare. (Thank you, Chief Justice Roberts!)
2. Obama was re-elected president--making the law's repeal impossible.
3. Christie embraced the President and seems to think kowtowing to him will bring riches to NJ in the wake of Hurricane Sandy.
Let us remind the Governor that a bad law deserves a quick death--and that ObamaCare will cost New Jersey dearly.
In the words of President Calvin Coolidge, ""It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones."
What you can do now if you reside in New Jersey:
T Action Alert: Please call Governor Christie and politely request that he veto the Health Care Exchange bill. Remind him that ObamaCare is
bad law on so many levels--and a costly one at that!
Governor Christie: 609.292.6000
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ObamaCare is Not a Sure Thing
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December 5, 2012
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by Phyllis Schlafly
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Those who thought ObamaCare was set in concrete by Chief Justice John Roberts' decision last June are in for a shock. December 14 is the new deadline (extended from November 16) for states to let the feds know, yea or nay, whether or not they will be setting up a health insurance exchange, which is the key to participating in the misnamed Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
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RedState Morning Briefing
For December 6, 2012
1. Reasonableness
The unreasonable Republicans in the House of Representatives are willing to raise taxes by $800 billion.
Anti-tax Republicans will raise taxes. I'm not happy about it, but that is what John Boehner and Mitch McConnell seem to be offering.
They want to raise that money by limiting deductions instead of raising rates.
They do not want to raise rates because that will impact many small businesses in America whose owners pay their taxes as individuals instead of corporations due to the unreasonable and costly compliance of the American corporate tax code.
Raising rates will affect small businesses. Limiting individual deductions related to state income taxes, charitable deductions, mortgage interest, etc. will not impact those small businesses.
2. Fire Boehner: We Only Need 16 Votes to Depose Boehner If conservatives want to keep the House and win the Senate, we need to fire John Boehner as speaker of the House. We only need 16 House votes to do it. As most conservatives know, Boehner and the House GOP Steering Committee decided to purge four conservative House members from their committee. Congressmen Justin Amash and Tim Huelskamp were removed from the House Budget Committee, and Congressmen David Schweikert and Walter Jones were cut from the Financial Services Committee. Amash, Huelskamp, and Schweikert were targeted because they were too fiscally conservative-all three have voted against Boehner's debt ceiling hikes. Amash and Huelskamp were the only two GOP votes against House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan's budget. Amash explained that vote at yesterday's Bloggers' Briefing at the Heritage Foundation, "It's unacceptable to have unbalanced budgets until 2040." For anyone outside of DC, this statement seems obvious. Only in Washington is balancing the budget radical. . . . please click here for the rest of the post → 3. Democrats poised to raise taxes... on their own voters. Let me sum up this New Geography article (via Instapundit): Top states with most $250K households: California, Connecticut, Hawaii, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Virginia, Washington DC. - Top metro areas with most $250K households: Atlanta, Los Angeles, New York City, San Francisco, San Jose, Washington DC.
- States with highest average housing values / mortgages: California, Connecticut, Hawaii, New York, Washington DC.
- Metro areas with highest average housing values / mortgages: Los Angeles, New York City, San Francisco.
- States with the highest percentage of people taking itemized deductions: California, Connecticut, New Jersey, New York, Washington DC.
You notice the trend? That's right: there's a lot of blue there. . . . please click here for the rest of the post → 4. Steve Scalise Fails the First Test for Conservatives Several weeks ago, Congressman Steve Scalise (LA) was elected chairman of the Republican Study Committee. Many of us felt a deep-rooted disquiet that Scalise would be too closely aligned with leadership. We feared he wouldn't properly defend conservatives and their policies. Well, his response to the recent leadership purge of conservatives from congressional committees has validated our fears. The fact that he was at the scene of the crime as a member of the Steering Committee makes his response even more troubling. On Monday, Congressman David Schweikert (AZ) was kicked off the Financial Services Committee, Congressman Justin Amash (MI) was kicked off the Budget Committee, and Congressman Tim Huelskamp (KS) was kicked off both the Budget Committee and the Agriculture Committee. They were unambiguously told that their conservative voting records and their dissent from leadership made them unqualified to sit on those committees. Outgoing RSC chair, Jim Jordan, delivered an appropriate response for the leader of the conservative caucus. "It's unfortunate and unhealthy for our party that principled conservatives are being punished for voting their consciences and keeping the promises they made to their constituents," he lamented. Incoming RSC chair, Steve Scalise, not only failed to call out leadership for their unprecedented purge, he denied the problem while concurrently driving a wedge between several conservative members. . . . please click here for the rest of the post → 5. Food Stamps: Supplemental Assistance or Way of Life From Katherine Rosario over at Heritage Action for America comes word that Newark (NJ) Mayor Corey Booker is trying to make the case that the government should increase food stamp benefits by means of a self-imposed challenge to rely solely on food stamps to purchase all of his food. The left has pulled this stunt before. Fortunately, Senator Jim DeMint's (R-SC) website explains the food stamp program is meant to be supplemental, not to pay for complete meal replacements. This type of liberal propaganda totally distorts the original purpose of the food stamp program or the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), which was "originally created to distribute surplus food as determined by the United States Agricultural Department and prevent malnourishment during the Great Depression." Today, liberals think that more and more money needs to be funneled into these programs. They - both the programs and the liberals' argument - are very flawed. In fact, Heritage explains, "If converted to cash, means-tested welfare spending is more than five times the amount needed to eliminate all poverty in the United States." Food stamp spending, the second most expensive means-tested aid program, has nearly doubled since President Obama came to office from roughly $39 billion in 2008 to an estimated $85 billion in 2012. And before that, it doubled under President George W. Bush. The program "discourages work, rewards idleness, and promotes long term dependence," Heritage's Robert Rector and Kiki Bradley explain. The Obama Administration's Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) waiver of the successful work requirement from the 1996 welfare reform law only made matters worse, since the work requirement was the reason for so many people, especially minority children and children in single-mother homes, moving out of a position of dependence to a position of self-sufficiency. Heritage's Ryan T. Anderson explains, "Overall assistance should be holistic, oriented not solely at meeting a material need but at transforming lives to be responsible, productive, and independent." It's simply not true that the left cares more for the poor. If they do care for the poor, and do not simply want to breed dependency so that they can stay in power, their political contributions have been totally misguided. From Mayor Booker's ridiculous self-imposed and totally distorted food stamp challenge to the much more egregious error of gutting the 1996 welfare of its successful work requirement, it's clear the political left is missing the point. Anderson continues, "Welfare programs should thus be structured in ways that encourage...productive activities, fostering norms of work, marriage, personal responsibility, and law-abidingness." That is certainly not what the liberals have in mind. Conservatives know that people deserve better than spending a huge portion of their life on food stamps.
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December 6, 2012
Ireland, Beware the 'Suicide' Exemption
Jack Cashill
Pro-abortion activists attempt to force Ireland, one of the few places in the western world where abortion is illegal, to show its modernity by signing on to the culture of death. More
Who elected Obama?
Paul Murphy
The reality of this election is that Romney/Ryan won an overwhelming majority among those who pursue the American dream -- and those people need representation, not compromise. More
GOP: Rebirth or Capitulation?
Marguerite Creel
An opportunity for Republicans to challenge the efficacy of national Democratic policies. More
'Are You Going to Keep It?': Getting Abortion on the Table
Faith Kuzma & Meredith Kuzma
What kind of society are we living in, where "Are you going to keep it?" is an acceptable question to ask an expectant mother? More
The Five Myths That Empower Hamas
Noah Beck
The world must move beyond the media-driven myths above and recognize Hamas for what it really is: an Islamist terrorist organization dangerously allied with Iran in its mission to destroy Israel. More
Deepwater Horizon: Who's Lying to Congress?
Bruce Thompson
It makes sense to examine the quality and veracity of the government's own witnesses that we might expect to be called to testify in hte Deppwater Horizon case. More
Global Warming Meets Economic Reality
Warren Beatty
If global warmists are correct, then the global population will die out until a warming equilibrium is reached. If they are incorrect, then we have nothing about which to worry. Either way, nature wins in the end. More
 American Thinker BlogATF Fires Managers over Fast and Furious, Obama and Holder Get Off Scot-Free
December 6, 2012
But this story isn't over. More Ghettoizing Israel in Australia
December 6, 2012
The left has taken over the academy not only in America, but almost worldwide. Antonio Gramsci's teachings were acted-upon relatively late in the United States More The Czech Republic: A Beacon unto Europe (but Don't Tell that to the New York Times)
December 6, 2012
The Paper of Record decides not to record one of the more significant votes against "statehood" for Palestinians. More Alarming reports that Syrian military is preparing to use chemical weapons
December 5, 2012
From the frying pan to the fire. More New York Post's subway death photo stirs debate over journalistic ethics
December 5, 2012
The "Genovese syndrome." More Isn't it awful that Fox News is so biased?
December 5, 2012
MSNBC hosts meet with Obama at the White House. More Egypt: Why It's Onward Muslim Brotherhood Soldiers
December 5, 2012
The failings of the Egyptian secularists and liberal west. More Influential Muslim seminary issues fatwa against...female receptionists?
December 5, 2012
Yes, but remember: Islam is compatible with the 21st century. More Pay no attention to those radical Islamists behind the curtain...
December 5, 2012
White House ignores Morsi power grab. More Beijing's South China Sea gambit: The view from India
December 5, 2012
China's announcement that it will board and search vessels in the disputed areas has most of east Asia on edge. More Explaining the Progressive attack on Charitable Deductions
December 5, 2012
Progressives enjoy herding people to the door step of governmental assistance. More The 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
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By Robert Spencer
Will pro-freedom protests be enough to stop Egypt's transformation into a Sharia prison?
By Daniel Greenfield
The fearsome weapon of terror -- that is an Israeli family moving into a new apartment outside of Jerusalem.
By Frontpagemag.com
Understanding the "fiscal cliff" and the dire road ahead.
By Ben Shapiro
The greatest hypocrisy of all.
By Ryan Mauro
King Abdullah may cave under pressure.
By Mark Tapson
No real-world enemies allowed.
By Joseph Puder
A glimpse into the dark world of Islamic tactics to exterminate the kafir.
By Jamie Glazov
Paul Crowshaw, Mike Finch and Dwight Schultz ponder whether God-fearing conservatives are on the losing side in this culture war.
By Fjordman
The Norwegian Left's perverted world of respectable standards.
By Michael Volpe
But who is leading the charge to pass the bill?
By Kerry Patton
Despite reassurances from the Obama administration, jihad is only growing.
By Frontpagemag.com
Robert Spencer mixes it up with callers on the turmoil in Egypt -- and much more.
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More to read:
Egypt and the Death of the 'Arab Spring'
Netanyahu Standing Firm
Courage and Conviction Award Winner Laura Ingraham at Restoration Weekend
Avaaz.org and the Left's Hall of Mirrors
A Sharia Financier in the TN Governor's Office
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by CYNTHIA E AYERS
Someone who sounds a great deal like Santa says that things are fine - there's nothing to see here - go to bed and dream of food stamps and welfare while the fruits of someone else's labor is whisked away in the dark of night.
Hasan appealed after Gross ordered that he must be clean-shaven or be forcibly shaved before the court-martial. Hasan says his beard is a requirement of his Muslim faith, but facial hair violates Army rules.
by HERBERT LONDON
While attention has given to Far Rockaway, Breezy Point and Staten Island, almost no one has noticed the devastation in lower Manhattan.
by EDWARD CLINE
But Islam has demonstrated repeatedly over fourteen centuries that it is not tolerant of other religions - because those other religions have threatened its political power.
Three conservative House deficit hawks were stripped of their committee seats for not being "team players" - a power move by John Boehner as he tries to quell dissension among rank-and-file members.
by ROBERT MAYNARD
Both the free market and the family unit form an interrelated foundation of a free and prosperous society.
by PETER BROOKES
We lost four brave Americans at the hands of a pro-al Qaeda group, Ansar al Sharia, and other extremists. In October, President Obama vowed to "hunt down the attackers."
by DARLENE CASELLA
Beloved by Palestinians, Yasser Arafat spent his life working towards the destruction of Israel. It is alleged that he died with a portfolio of $1.3 billion used to support a patronage system against Israel.
by DR. MICHAEL LEDEEN
The strategic importance of Syria is demonstrated by the surprising fact that supreme leader Ali Khamenei has given Assad a blank check.
In what one Republican calls an "unprecedented" move, an atheist group is advising all newcomers to the U.S. House of Representatives to stay away from the Congressional Prayer Caucus.
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.
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Posted by Daniel Greenfield @ the Sultan Knish blog
There are few weapons as deadly as the Israeli house. When its bricks and mortar are combined together, the house, whether it is one of those modest one story hilltop affairs or a five floor apartment building complete with hot and cold running water, becomes far more dangerous than anything green and glowing that comes out of the Iranian centrifuges. Forget the cluster bomb and the mine, the poison gas shell and even tailored viruses. Iran can keep its nuclear bombs. They don't impress anyone in Europe or in Washington DC. Genocide is equally not worthy of attention when in the presence of the fearsome weapon of terror that is an Israeli family of four moving into a new apartment downwind from Jerusalem. Sudan may have built a small mountain of African corpses, but it can't expect to command the full and undivided attention of the world until it does something truly outrageous like building a house and filling it with Jews. Since the Sudanese Jews are as gone as the Jews of Egypt, Iraq, Syria and good old Afghanistan, the chances of Bashir the Butcher pulling off that trick are rather slim. Due to the Muslim world's shortsightedness in driving out its Jews from Cairo, Aleppo and Baghdad to Jerusalem, the ultimate weapon in international affairs is entirely controlled by the Jewish State. The Jewish State's stockpile of Jews should worry the international community far more than its hypothetical stockpiles of nuclear weapons. No one besides Israel, and possibly Saudi Arabia, cares much about the Iranian bomb. But when Israel builds a house, then the international community tears its clothes, wails, threatens to recall its ambassadors and boycott Israeli peaches.
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Why Michelle Obama did not go to Saudia Arabia or Turkey with Obama
"If you check President Obama's last trip over-seas, his wife left just after their visit to France . She has yet to accompany him to any Arab country. Think about it. Why is Michelle returning to the states when 'official' trips to foreign countries generally include the First Lady." Here's one thought on the matter. While in a Blockbuster renting videos I came across a video called "Obama". There were two men standing next to me and we talked about President Obama. These guys were Arabs, so I asked them why they thought Michelle Obama headed home following the President's recent visit to France instead of traveling on to Saudi Arabia and Turkey with her husband. They told me she could not go to Saudi Arabia, Turkey or Iraq. I said "Why not,(?) Laura Bush went to Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Dubai." They said that Obama is a Muslim and therefore he is not allowed to bring his wife into countries that adhere to Sharia Law. Two points of interest here:
1) I thought it interesting that two American Arabs at Blockbuster believe that our President is a Muslim, who follows a strict Islamic creed.
2) They also said that's the reason he bowed to the King of Saudi Arabia. It was a signal to the Muslim world, acknowledging his religion.
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Disabilities Treaty Defeated!
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December 5, 2012
Yesterday the Senate, by a vote of 61-38, failed to ratify the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), which would have done nothing to help persons with disabilities, but would have diminished U.S. sovereignty by giving the United Nations unprecedented authority over American businesses.
Treaties require 2/3 of the Senators present to vote for ratification. Since 99 Senators were present for the vote, the treaty needed 66 yes votes but received only 61.
Take Action
If your Senator is one of the 38 listed below who voted against the Treaty, please take a moment to call and thank him or her.
This Treaty is likely to come to the Senate floor again in the future, so please urge your Senator to stand strong and continue to oppose it!
NAYs - 38
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Alexander (R-TN)
Blunt (R-MO)
Boozman (R-AR)
Burr (R-NC)
Chambliss (R-GA)
Coats (R-IN)
Coburn (R-OK)
Cochran (R-MS)
Corker (R-TN)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Crapo (R-ID)
DeMint (R-SC)
Enzi (R-WY)
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Graham (R-SC)
Grassley (R-IA)
Hatch (R-UT)
Heller (R-NV)
Hoeven (R-ND)
Hutchison (R-TX)
Inhofe (R-OK)
Isakson (R-GA)
Johanns (R-NE)
Johnson, Ron (R-WI)
Kyl (R-AZ)
Lee (R-UT)
McConnell (R-KY)
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Moran (R-KS)
Paul (R-KY)
Portman (R-OH)
Risch (R-ID)
Roberts (R-KS)
Rubio (R-FL)
Sessions (R-AL)
Shelby (R-AL)
Thune (R-SD)
Toomey (R-PA)
Vitter (R-LA)
Wicker (R-MS)
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Capitol Switchboard: 202-224-3121
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December 5, 2012
Obama Administration cooperates with the OIC's assault on free speech!
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Sec. of State Hillary Clinton delivers remarks at the December, 2011 meeting of the Istanbul Process
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If you cherish our First Amendment right of free speech, we urge you, as strongly as we can, to read the article below by Nina Shea about the Istanbul Process (highlights added), which was recently posted on National Review Online.
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For over 18 months now, the Obama administration has been working with the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on what is known as the Istanbul Process.
The Istanbul Process has evolved into an assault on our free speech so serious that next year ACT! for America will launch a national campaign to expose what is happening and fight back against it.
It's simply not possible to overstate how serious a threat this is to our First Amendment.
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You can also make a single gift by printing out a reply form here and mailing your contribution.
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We urge you, please, read the article below and help us prepare for next year's campaign to protect free speech with your most generous contribution.
Because even if America succeeds in preventing every future terrorist attack, if we lose our freedom to speak out against radical Islam, a central tenet of sharia law will prevail in America and put a dagger in the heart of the First Amendment.
Here's just one quote from the column below:
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Judging from the 2011 session I was partially able to observe as a commissioner on the official U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, the point of the Istanbul Process is for the governments of the developed West [to] give an accounting to the governments of Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Pakistan, Qatar, and other key Muslim states on measures taken to stop American and other Western citizens from disparaging Islam.
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America Again Submits to the Istanbul Process
Round three of the "Istanbul Process" opens today, December 3, and runs through Wednesday, at Canada House, in London, hosted by the U.K. and Canada. The Istanbul Process is Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's major transnational law initiative, undertaken in partnership with the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC). It was established last year to "implement" measures against speech and expression that negatively "stereotype[s]" Islam and Muslims, with a particular emphasis on enacting them in the West.
This initiative was started as an inexplicable, gratuitous gift to the Muslim world following the March 2011 adoption of a non-binding U.N. Human Rights Council resolution (16/18) on the same theme. While the Obama administration claims that it doesn't intend for the process to adopt regulations beyond the American free-speech standard, our partner, the OIC, is only too eager to do just that.
For over a decade within the U.N., the OIC has relentlessly pushed for a universal law to punish blasphemy, or "defamation," of Islam. This 56-member-state organization, an essentially religious body, is in fact chartered to "combat defamation of Islam." It issues fatwas and other directives to punish public expression of apostasy from Islam. Its current action plan calls for "deterrent punishments" in all states for "Islamophobia," a term that encompasses a broad range of constitutionally protected speech, judging from the OIC website's black list of Americans and other perpetrators of "Islamophobia." The OIC's stated understanding of the Istanbul Process is that it will "help in enacting domestic laws for the countries involved in the issue, as well as formulating international laws preventing inciting hatred resulting from the continued defamation of religions."
Corner readers will remember that the Istanbul Process's first conference was co-chaired by Clinton and the OIC secretary general in July 2011, in Istanbul, with the foreign ministers of the Muslim countries in attendance. The second was held over three days of closed-door meetings last December, at the offices of the U.S. Department of State in Washington. That meeting drew enough controversy within free-speech circles to raise questions about whether the process would continue. But thanks to a leak last week by OIC head Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, we now know the event will go ahead, even if its agenda is still being treated like it's "classified."
Judging from the 2011 session I was partially able to observe as a commissioner on the official U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, the point of the Istanbul Process is for the governments of the developed West give an accounting to the governments of Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Pakistan, Qatar, and other key Muslim states on measures taken to stop American and other Western citizens from disparaging Islam. This puts our diplomats in a tight spot: Unlike virtually every other country represented in the conference hall, America does not protect any religion or any other body of ideas from criticism and ridicule. However, when we're in the dock this time around, the U.S., represented by Dr. Suzan Johnson Cook, the administration's severely marginalized ambassador-at-large for religious freedom, will have some measure of "progress" to report.
For example, the U.S.'s top intelligence official and its top commander in Afghanistan were again deployed to suppress blasphemy against Islam in Florida and, this time around, they succeeded. Last year, the efforts of our top authorities to stop Florida micro-church pastor Terry Jones from desecrating a Koran ended in failure. But this year, their resort to the "good offices" of Tampa socialite Jill Kelley proved an effective strategy. Her persuasive emails resulted in Florida talk-show host Bubba the Love Sponge's standing down from deep frying a Koran, something he had threatened to do on-air. The OIC's Ihsanoglu would likely rule Bubba was about to "abuse" freedom of expression by not being able (incontrovertibly, I should note) to pass a "responsible use" test.
That leads to our next plea: The administration has also adopted the OIC's own standard of condemning the "abuse of free expression." Or at least that is what it appeared to do on the website of the pivotal U.S. embassy to Egypt on September 11 this year. Our embassy declared on its homepage: "We firmly reject the actions by those who abuse the universal right of free speech to hurt the religious beliefs of others."
But perhaps, the best evidence of America's "implementation" in response to the Istanbul Process is the Justice Department's dispatching the FBI a couple months ago to investigate Mark Basseley Youssef (a.k.a. Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, or Sam Bacile), the California Coptic filmmaker of "Innocence of Muslims," the YouTube trailer that blasphemed the Muslim prophet. As Ambassador Cook can point out, this investigation has resulted in a creative criminal conviction of Youssef, and his being sentenced by a federal court to a year in prison. All the better for the U.S.'s reputation as implementers is that it will be lost on the conferees that Youssef has been imprisoned on a probation offense, à la Al Capone - though, unlike Capone, his underlying offense, without which he would not have been investigated, was making a crude, insulting video, which is hardly equivalent in American law to gangland massacres or racketeering. It, in fact, is not a crime at all. Thus, most important, the OIC's take-away will be that in defense of Islam the U.S. government can and will regulate speech.
Nevertheless, none of this is likely to impress the Istanbul Process gathering. On its opening day last December, Saudi Arabia - headquarters to and godfather of the OIC - beheaded a Sudanese woman for "sorcery." Last week, Egypt sentenced to death Youssef, Terry Jones, and six other Americans implicated in the blasphemous YouTube trailer. For the Istanbul Process that's "best practices" for "implementation." Thus, again, America will be judged to have fallen short, indignation will rise, and the Istanbul Process will need to ramp up its pressure.
- Nina Shea is director of the Hudson Institute's Center for Religious Freedom and co-author with Paul Marshall of Silenced: How Apostasy and Blasphemy Codes Are Choking Freedom Worldwide
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The dilemma in Syria
Posted: 05 Dec 2012 02:41 PM PST
(Paul Mirengoff)
The Washington Post reports that the Syrian army is weakening and that the rebels are making gains. I don't dispute either proposition. However, we've seen variations on this story for more than a year, and Bashar Assad's regime still hasn't fallen.
Maybe the end is near, now that the rebels have gained the ability to counter the regime's air power by shooting down its helicopters and planes with shoulder-fired missiles. However, the Post acknowledges that that the fighting is likely to continue for months, if not years.
Read More . . . A fatuous defense of Susan Rice Posted: 05 Dec 2012 09:44 AM PST (Paul Mirengoff)
Kathleen Parker of the Washington Post rallies to the defense of Susan Rice with a column that rivals Dana Milbank's latest offering for fatuousness. Parker claims that the primary obstacle to Rice's confirmation as Secretary of State, should she be nominated, is the claim that she's unqualified. She then suggests that this view of Rice is sexist.
Parker is wrong on both counts. First, the primary objection to Rice is the fact that she provided the public with information about the Benghazi attack that she either knew (probably) or should have known was false.
Read More . . . The clown prince "assigns" Mitt Romney a fool's errand Posted: 05 Dec 2012 08:54 AM PST (Paul Mirengoff)
Dana Milbank, the Clown Prince of the Washington Post, assigns "a last public duty" to Mitt Romney. That assignment is "to step[] forward and to help find a way out of the fiscal standoff" by "return[ing] his party to reason."
Milbank doesn't define "reason." Instead, he ridicules Romney for accepting a position on the board of his longtime friend Bill Marriott, moving to California, and driving a foreign-made car.
There are several problems with Milbank's assignment to Romney. First, Romney's voice carries no weight with congressional Republicans. For Romney to act as if it does would be a fool's errand. The only impact would be to allow the likes of Milbank to attack congressional Republicans for not following the "voice of reason," suddenly represented by the recently-demonized Mitt Romney.
Read More . . . Summon this Posted: 05 Dec 2012 08:06 AM PST (Paul Mirengoff)
Ireland, Finland, and Egypt are the latest countries to "summon" Israeli ambassadors for discussions on Israeli settlement expansion plans. They join Brazil, Australia, Spain, France, Britain, Sweden, and Denmark.
I understand that, as a matter of protocol, an ambassador must show up when summoned. But is it okay for the ambassador to wear a bag over his head?
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Unbelievable: Detroit councilwoman to Obama: We voted for you, now bail us outDec 05, 2012 08:42 am Go To Full Post: Unbelievable: Detroit councilwoman to Obama: We voted for you, now bail us outReason TV: So What Does The Fiscal Cliff Mean To Us?Dec 04, 2012 08:36 pm Go To Full Post: Reason TV: So What Does The Fiscal Cliff Mean To Us?DeMint Blasts Boehner's $800 Billion Dollar Tax Hike OfferDec 04, 2012 06:32 pm "The DC political world thrives by obfuscating and making things seem more complicated than they actually are. The entire government edifice is built on buzz-words and euphemisms intended to obscure that's happening. When Speaker Boehner promotes a Democrat-inspired "balanced approach" that increases federal revenues he's doing one very simple thing; he's raising taxes. Thankfully, we [...] Go To Full Post: DeMint Blasts Boehner's $800 Billion Dollar Tax Hike OfferConservatives vs. the GOPDec 04, 2012 06:14 pm "Conservative groups are sending written warnings to both congressional Republicans and the Republican National Committee. If Republicans sign on to a deal that raises taxes, they risk an open break with large portions of their base. "This is a time of testing for you," more than 70 conservative leaders write in an open letter sent [...] Go To Full Post: Conservatives vs. the GOPFirst Posted In 2011 But Still Applies Today: Bill Whittle - Taxes can't Solve the Deficit (Mathematically Impossible)Dec 04, 2012 06:00 pm Go To Full Post: First Posted In 2011 But Still Applies Today: Bill Whittle - Taxes can't Solve the Deficit (Mathematically Impossible)Progressives/Democrat's Class Warfare Update: Insane Calif. Teachers Union Releases Cartoon Video Featuring 'The Rich' Urinating on the PoorDec 04, 2012 05:54 pm Go To Full Post: Progressives/Democrat's Class Warfare Update: Insane Calif. Teachers Union Releases Cartoon Video Featuring 'The Rich' Urinating on the PoorMilton Friedman - Collectivism/SocialismDec 04, 2012 05:44 pm Go To Full Post: Milton Friedman - Collectivism/Socialism
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"It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath." -Aeschylus
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Victory: UN Agenda 21 Treaty Squashed
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The United States Senate voted down the deceptively titled United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) treaty on Tuesday by a vote of 61-38.
As anticipated, the vote was close but the 66,000 faxes that GrassTopsUSA members faxed to the Senate over the past several months (including the 28,000 faxed sent over the past several days) played a major role in convincing 38 of the 34 United States Senators needed to squash this treaty to stand firm in opposing this horrendous United Nations power-grab.
Of course, the fact that all of the 53 Democrats and 8 Republicans-In-Name-Only [Ayotte (RINO-NH), Barrasso (RINO-WY), Brown (RINO-MA), Collins (RINO-ME), Lugar (RINO-IN), McCain (RINO-AZ), Murkowski (RINO-AK), Snowe (RINO-ME)] in United States Senate who voted to ratify a treaty that would have subordinated the sovereignty of the United States to the United Nations, is a sad sign that we have a great deal of work ahead of us as patriotic Americans seek to take back our nation, but a victory is a victory.
Those of you who participated in our Blast Fax initiatives on CRPD or made phone calls to your Senators deserve undying thanks; you are all great Americans and this country owes you a huge debt of gratitude.
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Is This Video Controversial?
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Yes, it's controversial, but it could also set you on the path to conquer the weight and belly fat issues that will be caused by the foods you will eat over the holidays. Listen to what Isabel Del Los Rios says and pay particular attention to the 4 foods she says you should never eat. Watch this video now.
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Teachers Propagandizing Our Youth
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[Video] Rich Urinate On Poor In California Teachers Union Animated Children's Video
Posted On America's Conservative News
In case you missed this piece of trash on FOX News, you can watch the entire video below. Narrated by socialist actor Ed Asner and produced for children by the California Teachers Union, it shows the rich "1 percent" urinating on the less fortunate.
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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. Read more and prepare to be shocked.
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Deportation Of Obama's Illegal Alien Drunk Uncle Omar On Hold Again
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Deportation of Obama's Uncle on Hold as Immigration Board Re-Opens Case
By Patrick Burke
CNSNews.com
The U.S Board of Immigration Appeals has agreed to reopen the immigration case of Onyango Obama, delaying the deportation of the 68-year old Kenyan who violated an order to leave the United States in 1992.
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Is Obama Is Manufacturing A Crisis? Are You Prepared?
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Are you prepared to rely on the largess of the Obama Regime for your basic needs? It's time to face reality and arm yourself with the vital information you need to survive any crisis. Don't put it off any longer. Watch this short video.
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Censorship In The Name Of Diversity
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Diversity Whims Fuel Campus Censorship
By George Will
NewsMax.com
In 2007, Keith John Sampson, a middle-aged student working his way through Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis as a janitor, was declared guilty of racial harassment.
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| Unemployment Benefits: No Free Lunch
Would spending more money on unemployment benefits create jobs? The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) thinks so.
According to a new CBO report, extending the current 73 weeks of unemployment insurance (UI) benefits would lead employers to create 300,000 new jobs.
This seems highly implausible. Economists widely agree that UI causes workers to spend more time unemployed.
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| Understanding American Prosperity
If there is one outcome of liberty that makes possible all the rights Americans hold dear, it is prosperity. Prosperity gives us the chance to thrive and enjoy the blessings of liberty. Its precondition is economic freedom, the ability to profit from our own ideas and labor as we choose. Not only Americans but all people enjoy a right to economic freedom and the prosperity it brings. No authoritarian government has ever succeeded in delivering prosperity to successive generations. Only societies that embrace open markets, the rule of law, and democracy have seen more people prosper beyond the privileged few.
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| Farm Subsidies Hurt the Poor
Got milk? The European Parliament sure does. European dairy farmers were in Brussels this week to protest proposed changes in dairy regulations. At the heart of both of these issues is the EU's massive and wasteful Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), which in the span of a week seems to have enraged both British Prime Minister David Cameron and bovines in Bordeaux. What is lost in all of this is just how selfish and wasteful these agricultural policies are. Subsidies and price controls are protectionist measures that insulate European farmers from the world market, raising prices on foodstuffs and distorting the market for goods.
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Video: Democrats To Strip Gun Rights From Military Vets
Dec 05, 2012 01:31 pm
Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) hopes to stop a major defense spending bill in its tracks now that Democrats have added an amendment that allows them to take away the guns of certain military veterans. Related posts: Two Smothered Stories: Vets Running Away From Obama; Even NPR Fans Not Happy With Illegal Aliens The battleground states [...] Watch the Video and Comment: Video: Democrats To Strip Gun Rights From Military Vets
Why ObamaCare Could Be Finished!Dec 05, 2012 01:20 pm
In an effort to intimidate states (that is, Republican governors) into setting up state-run ObamaCare exchanges, the leftist authors of the Affordable Care Act have opened the door to lawsuits that could prevent the federal government from selling health plans at affordable rates. A centerpiece of the ACA involves the offering of federal subsidies "...designed [...] Read More and Comment: Why ObamaCare Could Be Finished!
Video: Sheriff Joe Arpaio Interview: Investigating Obama's Records, Part 1Dec 05, 2012 01:12 pm
Sheriff Joe Arpaio talks to PolitiChick Ann-Marie Murrell about the media block regarding his investigation into President Obama's records. Part 1 of 2. Part 2 coming tomorrow! Related posts: Shocking Video: Andrew Breitbart's Last Interview Was With Sheriff Joe Arpaio About Obama Eligibility The news conference of Sheriff Joe Arpaio on Barack Obama's... Sheriff Joe [...] Watch the Video and Comment: Video: Sheriff Joe Arpaio Interview: Investigating Obama's Records, Part 1
The Transparent Failure Of Obama's Transparency PromiseDec 05, 2012 01:01 pm
One of President Obama's greatest assets is that he makes grandiose, bold commitments of what his administration is going to do for the American people and the nation. When he came into office, he promised to "usher in a new era of open government" and "act promptly" to make information public. One of President Obama's [...] Read More and Comment: The Transparent Failure Of Obama's Transparency Promise
Video: Detroit Councilwoman To Obama: We Voted For You, Now Bail Us OutDec 05, 2012 12:51 pm
The city of Detroit faces a major financial crisis and one member of the city council thinks Obama should step in and help. Fox 2 News Headlines Related posts: How Long Will It Be Until Detroit Blames Problems On Race? Remember Clint Eastwood's insulting Super Bowl commercial about Detroit's comeback?... Video: Bloomberg, Let Illegals Move [...] Read More and Comment: Video: Detroit Councilwoman To Obama: We Voted For You, Now Bail Us Out
Allen West Paid Price For Uppity PatriotismDec 05, 2012 12:40 pm
(Editor's note: In case one reading this is not aware, the author of this column shares the same skin color as Allen West.) Congressman Allen West made a big mistake! He thinks he's an American Black instead of a Black American. What's the difference, some ask? Plenty! If you're centrist right or left and of [...] Read More and Comment: Allen West Paid Price For Uppity Patriotism
Soaking The Rich Is Not The Answer. It's A Large Part Of The Problem.Dec 05, 2012 12:19 pm
In my last article, "The Fiscal Cliff Is Closer Than You Think", I pointed to reliable facts that show that successful US citizens are leaving the USA in record and growing numbers. I also asked you to look at those facts and then do the math. That's one of my favorite phrases... "Do the math." [...] Read More and Comment: Soaking The Rich Is Not The Answer. It's A Large Part Of The Problem.
Video: Crossroads Roars Back, Slams Obama Over Fiscal CliffDec 05, 2012 12:12 pm
After taking a time out after a disastrous loss during the election, Karl Rove and American Crossroads are back in the saddle!! Related posts: New Ad "Four More" Slams Obama Another one from Karl Rove's "American Crossroads"...... Continue to Post... Gingrich Slams Dem Scare Tactics On Fiscal Cliff Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich says that the [...] Watch the Video and Comment: Video: Crossroads Roars Back, Slams Obama Over Fiscal Cliff
Secular Humanists Bid All 'A Merry Un-Christmas'Dec 05, 2012 12:10 pm
That "most wonderful time of the year" has arrived, and with it, most predictably, another round of attacks (yawn) by Secular Humanists doing their best to destroy the season by removing the Christ child from the creche. Yes, these are the same people who think goodness exists without God (with a capital "G") and lose [...] Read More and Comment: Secular Humanists Bid All 'A Merry Un-Christmas'
Video: The Fiscal Cliff - Would Women Handle It Differently?Dec 05, 2012 12:09 pm
Laura Carno, founder of "I Am Created Equal", gives her take on the fiscal cliff. Related posts: Let Obama Drive Off The Fiscal Cliff America has been wringing her hands as a result of... Fiscal Cliff ©2012 Rick McKee, The Augusta Chronicle... Continue to Post... Watch the Video and Comment: Video: The Fiscal Cliff - Would Women Handle It Differently?
Video: NSA Whistleblower: 'Everyone In U.S. Under Virtual Surveillance'Dec 05, 2012 12:09 pm
The FBI records the emails of nearly all US citizens, including members of Congress, according to NSA whistleblower William Binney. In an interview with RT, he warned that the government can use this information against anyone. This is what we get for sacrificing our liberty in the name of security, largely during the Bush administration (and [...] Watch the Video and Comment: Video: NSA Whistleblower: 'Everyone In U.S. Under Virtual Surveillance'
20 Shocking Examples Of How Sadistic And Cruel People Have BecomeDec 05, 2012 11:56 am
How much sicker can people get? It seems like our world is becoming more sadistic and more cruel with each passing day. If you doubt this, just keep reading. Sadly, I could have easily included hundreds more examples just like these. Changes are happening to our society at a very deep and very fundamental level. [...] Read More and Comment: 20 Shocking Examples Of How Sadistic And Cruel People Have Become
Video: Mark Levin: "Who The Hell Does Boehner Think He Is?"Dec 05, 2012 11:54 am
Mark Levin has had enough...hopefully, he will realize once and for all the the Republicans are not our friends and never were. Related posts: Mark Levin: Why I Cannot Vote For Ron Paul Mark Levin explains why most conservatives prefer Newt Gingrich over... Mark Levin: "Obama Is A Serial Liar" Mark Levin on Fox & [...] Watch the Video and Comment: Video: Mark Levin: "Who The Hell Does Boehner Think He Is?"
Undermining Faith In Law Enforcement And National Security: The Legacy OF Eric HolderDec 05, 2012 11:52 am
I wrote here about the sustained persecution of CIA agents who protected America by obtaining information from terrorists in the aftermath of 9/11. The persecution culminated in a decision by Attorney General Holder to reopen cases against some agents that the Justice Department had already deemed unworthy of prosecution. I now know the "back story" [...] Read More and Comment: Undermining Faith In Law Enforcement And National Security: The Legacy OF Eric Holder
Video: What Is Really Going On In Syria?!Dec 05, 2012 11:45 am
Here, I try to make sense of it all... Related posts: Obama Admin Ditches Congress, Cites Int'l Permission, As Legal Basis For Action In Syria Obama and his one world government cronies has almost made... White House Covering Up Weapons Pipeline Supplying Arms To Al-Qaeda In Syria Is this potential scandal a Syrian version of [...] Watch the Video and Comment: Video: What Is Really Going On In Syria?!
Healthcare Absent Under Obamacare?Dec 05, 2012 11:37 am
One physician wonders if any doctors will be practicing once ObamaCare is fully implemented, and he continues to question the quality of care patients will receive. In an effort to provide comprehensive healthcare reform, Dr. G. Keith Smith, an Oklahoma-based board-certified anesthesiologist, says officials have failed to recognize human behavior. Lawmakers assume that doctors will [...] Read More and Comment: Healthcare Absent Under Obamacare?
Video: Entrepreneur's Efforts Sunk By RegulationsDec 05, 2012 11:35 am
A fish farm is being forced to foreign waters... Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com Related posts: Dick Morris: We Had 48 Hours' Warning Of The Libyan Attack And Obama Did Nothing Does the explosion of anti-American violence expose holes in Pres.... President Obama 'The Great Destroyer?' Author David Limbaugh appeared on Sean Hannity's show [...] Read More and Comment: Video: Entrepreneur's Efforts Sunk By Regulations
Deportation Of Obama's Uncle On HoldDec 05, 2012 11:31 am
(CNSNews.com) - The U.S Board of Immigration Appeals has agreed to reopen the immigration case of Onyango Obama, delaying the deportation of the 68-year old Kenyan who violated an order to leave the United States in 1992. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), a division of the Department of Homeland Security, confirmed to CNSNews.com on [...] Read More and Comment: Deportation Of Obama's Uncle On Hold
Video: Where Is The Hurricane Sandy Aid? NY Residents Speak Out!Dec 05, 2012 10:59 am
I have no sympathy for these morons. Shame on them for depending on government to help them in the first place. I might sound harsh, but I am not sorry at all. Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com Related posts: 2008 Obama Supporters Speak Out Last night on Sean Hannity's show, disenfranchised voters spoke out... [...] Read More and Comment: Video: Where Is The Hurricane Sandy Aid? NY Residents Speak Out!
Fox News Keeping Rove And Morris Off The AirDec 05, 2012 10:36 am
In the wake of the election, following predictions that Republican Mitt Romney would definitively beat President Barack Obama, commentators and politicos like Karl Rove and Dick Morris have received a great deal of criticism. And it seems, at least according to sources who spoke exclusively with New York Magazine, that Fox News is now intentionally [...] Read More and Comment: Fox News Keeping Rove And Morris Off The Air
The Members Behind The Purge Of ConservativesDec 05, 2012 10:21 am
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, [...] Read More and Comment: The Members Behind The Purge Of Conservatives
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According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, crude oil prices account for about 66 percent of the price of gasoline. It�s clear that the price of crude oil directly affects the price of gas; as crude oil increases in price, the price of gasoline tends to increase. Likewise, when markets are calm and the price of crude oil decreases, the price of gasoline decreases. With that in mind, take a look at the attached chart and try to make sense of what�s going on HERE.
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A 32-year veteran of the NSA quit the agency after he discovered that it started using programs developed to spy on foreign governments, to spy on Americans. Watch the chilling interview HERE.
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| Rep. Hensarling Throws Boehner Under Bus on Conservative Purge |
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by Matthew Boyle
A spokeswoman for incoming House Financial Services Committee chairman Rep. Jeb Hensarling told Breitbart News on Wednesday that her boss had nothing whatsoever to do with the conservative purge of his committee. Hensarling is slated to take over as the committee's chairman next Congress.
After conservative Republican Reps. David Schweikert of Arizona and Walter Jones of North Carolina were removed from their Financial Services committee slots this week, a GOP leadership aide tried to pin at least part of the blame on Hensarling.
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News from The Hill:
Boehner warns GOP rank-and-file that leaders are watching their votes
By Molly K. Hooper
Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) warned his conference on Wednesday that leaders are watching how the rank-and-file vote to determine committee assignments, according to sources in the closed-door meeting.
Boehner addressed the firestorm over the removal of four lawmakers from plum committee assignments at the weekly GOP conference meeting.
According to Rep. Tim Huelskamp (R-Kan.), one of the lawmakers denied a spot on his current committee in the next Congress, Boehner did note "that we [leadership] have punished four members, he claimed that it had nothing to do with their conservative ideology, but had to do with their voting patterns."
Huelskamp added that Boehner warned GOP lawmakers that "there may be more folks that will be targeted ... 'we're watching all your votes."
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ObamaCare could be finished thanks to strong-arm tactics of its authors
Dec 05, 2012 05:13 am | Coach Collins
by Doug Book, staff writer
In an effort to intimidate states (that is, Republican governors) into setting up state-run ObamaCare exchanges, the leftist authors of the Affordable Care Act have opened the door to lawsuits which could prevent the federal government selling health plans at affordable rates.
A centerpiece of the ACA involves the offering of federal subsidies "...designed to help low and middle-income individuals purchase health insurance." However, as the Act clearly states, "...subsidies may only be applied to insurance exchanges set up by individual states, not exchanges implemented by the federal government." Congress also denied federal exchanges the authority to provide tax credits to employers who offer federally approved insurance plans to their employees. (1)
ObamaCare revolves around the state-financed implementation of exchanges which the law claims will be one-stop shopping centers for healthcare plans approved by the Department of Health and Human Services. However as of November 28th, 17 states have responded ... Continue Reading:ObamaCare could be finished thanks to strong-arm tactics of its authors
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Obama Wants Power to Raise Debt Limit By Himself, Anytime
President Obama wants to do away with Congress when it comes to raising the country's legal debt limit. Instead of getting permission from the people's elected representatives to borrow and spend more money, he wants to do that all by himself.
It seems typical of the President Obama we know, but just a few years ago, he spoke vehemently against putting America in debt. Here is then-Senator Barack Obama on March 16, 2006:
The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the U.S. Government can't pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government's reckless fiscal policies.
Of course, in Washington, one's convictions can change with the electoral winds. And so this is the same man who today, as our President, is seeking unlimited authority to raise the country's debt limit anytime, anywhere, all by himself. No Congress needed.
This new power is part of the "deal" the President offered to House Republicans on the fiscal cliff. His "deal" is massive tax hikes, more government spending, and the ability for him to send that government spending skyrocketing through the stratosphere without any vote of Congress. One White House official describes this proposal as "resolv[ing] the debt limit without drama."
This issue has come up before. As Heritage's J.D. Foster wrote in 2011:
Congress could dispense with the periodic ritual of raising the debt limit. It could simply give Treasury the authority to borrow such funds as are needed to carry out the deficit consequences of current fiscal policy. This would be the easier course politically, but Congress has wisely chosen not to take it. The nation is far better served when Congress is forced to acknowledge the net effects of its policies as reflected in the necessity of raising the debt limit to maintain that course.
As unpleasant as it may be, congressional debate over increasing the debt limit is an opportunity for Congress to consider vital course corrections on federal spending, including entitlement spending, which is growing unchecked.
Just a few short years ago, Obama said, "This rising debt is a hidden domestic enemy" and that "interest payments are a significant tax on all Americans-a debt tax that Washington doesn't want to talk about."
>>> See the Congressional Record where Obama speaks against raising the debt limit in 2006
That's a great point. Today, U.S. interest on debt payments is already greater than spending on many major federal agencies. In just a few years, Obama's policies will mean the U.S. will be spending more on just the interest than on our entire national defense budget.
More recently, when he was running for President, Obama condemned George W. Bush for adding $4 trillion to the national debt over eight years, calling it "irresponsible" and "unpatriotic." Now-in the past four years-Obama's Administration has already added almost $6 trillion to the debt. That means he is on track to triple Bush's debt increase over eight years. But without congressional limits, who can say?
In 2006, Obama concluded:
Leadership means that "the buck stops here." Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better. I therefore intend to oppose the effort to increase America's debt limit.
We couldn't have said it better ourselves.
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Famous Fox News faces 'get dumped off air'
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Factor THIS! If you're a Fox News fan (and even if you're not), you've likely seen these faces on the popular cable network more than any other.
That is, until now, as new orders have apparently been issued to reduce their face time in a major way.
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America nears el tipping pointo
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I apologize to America's young people, whose dashed dreams and dim employment prospects I had laughed at, believing these to be a direct result of their voting for Obama.
On closer examination, it turns out that young voters, aged 18-29, overwhelmingly supported Romney. But only the white ones.
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Plan for multiple terror attacks in U.S. already in place
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This might make you stop worrying about the fiscal cliff ...
Terror cells already present in the U.S ... factions that normally hate each other united toward one end ... destroying the U.S.
Who these people are ... where, in your community, their base of operations is.
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Your worst fears about Big Brother are TRUE
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Big Brother is even BIGGER than you thought.
A former agent with the NSA is now spilling the beans, and says EVERYONE in America is under virtual surveillance.
Will you ever want to send another email again?
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Look who's turning up heat on Benghazi scandal
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They're perhaps the toughest guys who have served in the U.S. military, and they're fed up with the lack of answers from Obama concerning the attack in Benghazi, Libya.
Listen to what these American heroes have to say about this ongoing scandal.
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Can you guess this week's 'famous atheist'?
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Although atheists have done their godless best to destroy America, now there's a fun new way to help reclaim the greatest nation on God's green Earth.
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Christian's letter to newspaper gets her fired
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You won't believe the battle underway after a university teacher happened to express her personal, Christian opinion in a letter to a local newspaper. Is the First Amendment officially dead?
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You already know Barack Obama is a one-man wrecking crew when it comes to the economy. Now he's linked to a plan that could devastate these stores you know very well and at which you probably even shop.
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Today's Headlines: Wednesday, December 05, 2012
DHS Confirms: Deportation of Obama's Uncle on Hold as Immigration Board Re-Opens Case
CIA Makes History: Please Apply Here If You Are a Member of the LGBT Community
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Sen. Ron Johnson: 'We Haven't Made the Case for Economic Growth'
Bozell to NY Times: Buckley Would Want Bush, Christie, Rove 'Driven From Our Ranks'
At White House, Gov. Walker Dodges 2016 Intentions, Calls for Bipartisanship
Gun Rights Leader: 470 Murders in Chicago, Rahm Emanuel 'Has Some Blood on His Hands'
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Ronald Reagan: Progressive Taxation Came Direct From Karl Marx
By Terence P. Jeffrey
"We have a tax machine that, in direct contravention of the Constitution, is not designed to solely raise revenue but is used, openly and admittedly, to control and direct the economy and to equalize the earnings of our people," Ronald Reagan said in 1961, in one of his greatest and most prophetic speeches. "Governments don't tax to get the money they need," he said. "Governments will always find a need for the money they get."
The Costas Anti-Gun Lecture Series
By L. Brent Bozell III
On Saturday morning, Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher shot and killed his girlfriend, then drove to Arrowhead Stadium and shot himself in the head in the parking lot in front of his coaches. To liberals like NBC sportscaster Bob Costas, this was not just a crisis. It was also an opportunity to deliver a wholly unexpected and condescending lecture about how gun owners who harm America with their "gun culture" never learn. Can't they let us just watch football?
Christmas for Obama Bundlers
By Michelle Malkin
While President Obama's lips champion the middle class, his administration's old hands are preparing to lavish rewards on his wealthiest political donors.
Ambassadorships have long been used as patronage rewards for friends with deep pockets.
Better Storm Drains for All
By Rich Galen
If the nation does go over the fiscal cliff, it may give us an opportunity to consider which local projects should get federal funding -- and which ones should not.
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Protesters reach palace; Morsi flees; Tensions raise risk of civil war
For the poor, 'recovery' is a mirage
On shared stage, Sen. Marco Rubio and U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan take steps toward 2016
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Wednesday, December 5, 2012
To: Friends & Supporters
From: Gary L. Bauer
Big Government Meets Big Business
We're 26 days away from the fiscal cliff. Monday afternoon, the White House rejected a deal offered by the House Republican leadership. Not much happened yesterday. So you would think President Obama would be interested in talking with Speaker Boehner today. Nope.
Instead the president took his arguments for higher taxes to the Business Roundtable -- the presidents and CEOs of many of the world's largest multinational corporations. It was a meeting of big government and big business.
I know there is an assumption that big business is conservative, but that is not the case. Nearly half of the corporate sponsors to the Human Rights Campaign, the nation's largest homosexual rights lobbying group, are members of the Business Roundtable. Several also donate to Planned Parenthood.
The Business Roundtable was supportive of Obamacare. In fact, the big pharmaceutical companies were big cheerleaders for Obamacare. Several Business Roundtable CEOs backed Obama's cap and trade bill. And of course the stimulus bill was a major boon to Business Roundtable companies like General Electric, which landed big government contracts.
While President Obama was meeting with presidents of the biggest multinational corporations, House Republican leaders were sitting down with small business owners, many of whom file their taxes as individuals, not corporations. They are the real job creators who will bear the brunt of Obama's tax increases. The contrast is striking.
This is a good opportunity for Republicans to remind the American people that while they care strongly about pro-growth economic policies, they are adamantly opposed to crony capitalism. Nobody voted for the Business Roundtable last month. Its leadership should not sellout Main Street entrepreneurs and the taxpayers in order to feather their nests with future favors from Obama.
Taxes And Savings
It is widely agreed that the tax code is inefficient and in desperate need of reform. Republicans are eager to reform the tax code and would like to make tax reform part of the fiscal cliff deal. Unfortunately, higher tax rates have become a non-negotiable item for Barack Obama. But this insistence on higher rates has not always been Obama's bottom line.
Consider this excerpt from a New York Times report yesterday:
"But since 2010, Mr. Obama and lawmakers in both parties have promoted ... the idea that Washington could overhaul the tax code, strip out deductions, tax credits, exemptions and loopholes and use the resulting revenues to both lower tax rates and reduce annual budget deficits. That idea was the core of recommendations from the bipartisan Simpson-Bowles fiscal commission in 2010 that Mr. Obama created...
"Months later, when Mr. Obama was engaged in ultimately unsuccessful negotiations with Mr. Boehner on a debt-reduction deal in the summer of 2011, he recounted his pitch to Republicans for reporters: 'What we said was, give us $1.2 trillion in additional revenues, which could be accomplished without hiking taxes -- tax rates -- but could simply be accomplished by eliminating loopholes, eliminating some deductions and engaging in a tax reform process that could have lowered rates generally while broadening the base.'"
Friends, that was essentially the deal that Boehner offered Monday, and the White House flatly rejected it! Now, don't get me wrong -- I am not advocating for Boehner's deal. But I want you to understand what John Boehner and congressional conservatives are dealing with here. Negotiating with Obama is like trying to nail Jell-O to the wall! The deal Obama wanted last year suddenly isn't good enough this year.
This is why many conservatives are increasingly convinced that Obama and his fellow Democrats really don't want a deal. Even moderate establishment-types like David Gergen, who said the Democrats are trying to "humiliate" the GOP, can see it.
Meanwhile, the Washington Post Fact Checker is taking issue with the so-called "spending cuts" in Obama's plan. For example, the Post says that $61 billion in supposed savings really comes from a "financial crisis responsibility fee." $43.7 billion comes from increased IRS enforcement, meaning more audits.
And then there is $44 billion in "savings" from an "adjustment payment timing." Any idea what that means? The Post rightly describes it as "especially dubious," because it is merely delaying a $44 billion payment from one ten-year budget period into the next ten-year budget period and counting that as a "savings." It would be like delaying your $500 car payment this month until January and claiming you saved $500 in December. Only in liberal Washington!
The War On Christmas
What is wrong with America's elites? No doubt many of you will recall last year's spectacle in Rhode Island when Governor Lincoln Chafee caved in to political correctness and decided to call the state's Christmas tree a "holiday tree." When it came time for the official lighting of the state's "holiday tree," scores of irate citizens showed up and began singing "O Christmas Tree." Oh, the horror!
In order to avoid a repeat performance of "O Christmas Tree" at this year's lighting ceremony, Chafee devised a devious plan. His office provided the public just 30 minutes advance notice of the ceremony. What a scrooge!
Lincoln Chafee used to be a United States Senator and a Republican. His father was a senator too. But Chafee left the GOP, embarrassed by its conservatism, and is now a left-leaning Independent.
His blue-blood New England family no doubt named him after the country's first Republican president, Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln's second inaugural address was one of the shortest inaugural addresses in history, yet he included more than a dozen references to God and the Bible.
I wonder what Abraham Lincoln would think about a future namesake who was so committed to stripping religion out of the public square that he tried to light the "holiday tree" without anyone noticing?
I know it's easy to laugh at this kind of absurdity, but this cultural rot is really quite dangerous. A party, a movement, even a civilization that is afraid to defend its values will not survive.
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 December 05, 2012
On Wednesday's Program
Beck teams with Vince Vaughn, Peter Billingsley for new reality series
Glenn made a huge announcement on radio today, sure to stir conversation and cause the leftist basement-dwelling bloggers to freak out: TheBlaze is teaming with Vince Vaughn & Peter Billingsley to create a fantastic new series. Glenn talked to Billingsley, star of A Christmas Story and part of Wild West Productions, on radio this morning to discuss the new series. Watch the interview and check out the details for 'Pursuit of Truth' in today's press release.
Exclusive series on the future of the GOP continues: What's Next? Read the latest from TheBlaze HERE.
Tonight's Primetime Lineup on TheBlaze TV
- 5pm ET - The Glenn Beck Program: Pat & Stu fill-in for Glenn tonight. Egypt's runaway president, spending cuts and the California Teachers Union's offensive cartoon are on the rundown.
- 6pm ET - Real News: U.S. intelligence believes that the Assad regime is making preparations to ready its chemical weapons and could potentially use them against opposition forces and civilians in Syria. The administration has been very clear about the red line that would force American intervention in this protracted civil war...so, has the time finally come?
- 7pm ET - Wilkow! Be Scared or be prepared. A Former Navy Seal shows Andrew how to survive crises from hurricanes to getting stuck in an elevator to being attacked.
- Watch live or on demand - Start your free trial now!
People of Egypt stand against Muslim Brotherhood; WH does nothing
President Obama was quick to urge the overthrow of the Mubarak regime, but now that it's clear the new one is going to be even worse than the last, Egyptians are in the streets in defiance of tyranny once again. Where's the President this time? Completely silent. Glenn has more.
Terrifying video from teachers union
Ed Asner is a hack leftist activist - this much is a well known fact. So it should come as no surprise to hear he voiced a cartoon made by teachers unions, allegedly for teachers, featuring greedy rich capitalists urinating on the poor. It's a stunning - and stunningly stupid - cartoon. Glenn plays & reacts on radio today.
WATCH: Socialist Ed Asner helps Pat & Stu get into the holiday spirit with his heart warming performances in bad made-for-TV Christmas movies - WATCH. How much does the Obama family cost taxpayers? Another vacation coming up this Christmas for the Obama family will cost American taxpayers over $4 million dollars. So how much is it costing us to support the first family? The number is much worse than you could possibly imagine. Find out here. The Marketplace by TheBlaze is offering 41% off a gift package from small business Mavericks Coffee!
Glenn's Family Christmas! Next Thursday, On December 13th, Glenn invites you into his home with family and friends to enjoy holiday music and touching stories. Watch the children in a real-life nativity play and find out how this year Glenn discovers the true meaning of Christmas. It's a heartwarming Christmas special for the entire family -- get a sneak peek! Obama coaches MSNBC air staff on fiscal cliff Imagine the cries of terror that would be coming from the left today if all the Fox News hosts went for a nice special visit to the White House to get some talking points from a Republican president. It would be deafening. So, what happened when MSNBC's hosts attended a production meeting with President Obama? WATCH. Watch Glenn on DISH! TheBlaze, Glenn's TV channel, is available on DISH channel 212. Click HERE for more details. Glenn's e-book thriller series: Great news! The sixth episode in the WRATH & RIGHTEOUSNESS e-book series has been released! There are ten episodes in total (about 5-6 full books worth of content), and we're releasing them over the course of about one year. You'll find easy download links to all episodes HERE. Have a question or comment about the series? Visit our FAQ page.
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Forget the cluster bomb and the mine, the poison gas shell and even tailored viruses. Iran can keep its nuclear bombs. They don't impress anyone in Europe or in Washington DC. Genocide is equally not worthy of attention when in the presence of the fearsome weapon of terror that is an Israeli family of four moving into a new apartment downwind from Jerusalem.
