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February 22, 2013

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'Whose Side Are You On?' Columbine Survivor Blasts Obama

President Obama says he wants to restrict Americans' rights under the Second Amendment in order to "save lives," but Evan Todd isn't buying it.

Todd was one of the people injured in the infamous Columbine High School shootings, and in a recent open letter to President Obama, he pulled no punches.

"Why would you prefer criminals to have the ability to out-gun law-abiding citizens?" he demanded. "Whose side are you on?"

It's a question many people have wondered about.

The shooting survivor stresses that under Obama's proposals, law-abiding Americans would be put in danger by being restricted from owning certain weapons or having the amount of ammunition they can carry limited.

Todd points out that assault weapons bans have little effect on crime, and in particular he notes that the original federal weapons ban did nothing to protect him from being shot in 1999.

"It was during this time that I personally witnessed two fellow students murder twelve of my classmates and one teacher. The assault weapons ban did not deter these two murderers, nor did the other thirty-something laws that they broke," Todd wrote.

Todd takes particular exception to requiring universal background checks:

"A universal background check will ... arguably have the opposite impact of what you propose. ... With the conditions being set by this initiative, it will create a large black market for weapons and will support more criminal activity and funnel additional money into the hands of thugs, criminals, and people who will do harm to American citizens.

"... Is a universal background check system possible without universal gun registration? If so, please define it for us. Universal registration can easily be used for universal confiscation. ... It is not impossible to think that a tyrant, to the likes of Mao, Castro, Che, Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, and others, could possibly rise to power in America. ... It is safe to assume that this liberty that our forefathers secured has been a thorn in the side of would-be tyrants ever since the Second Amendment was adopted."

He also didn't mince any words about some of the shenanigans the Man Who Would Be King and his Administration have been up to.

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Group in favor of gun ownership draws hundreds in Bucks County

Author: Emily Thiel, WFMZ.com Reporter, news@wfmz.com
Published: Feb 19 2013

Gun owners rally in Bucks County

WARMINSTER TWP., Pa. -

Gun owners of Bucks County are rallying together against the White House's recent push toward tighter gun control laws and gun registration.

The pro-gun ownership group, which originally consisted of 10 concerned citizens, has drawn in hundreds of individuals who are ready to get involved, standing up for the rights our Founding Fathers have presented.

Tuesday evening, more than 200 gun owners gathered at the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) building in Warminster to discuss the Second Amendment, federal rights, and legislation regarding firearms.

President Obama has created 23 executive orders in direct response to the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School, which puts stronger enforcement on background checks for gun owners and gives more funding to researching gun violence.

The concerned group values their rights to bear arms, as is stated in the Constitution.

This was the second meeting of the group bringing out hundreds in favor of their right to own firearms.

Introductory speaker Steve Onufrey told those in attendance they are there to do two things: provide education to inform people about what is taking place and give ideas on what citizens can do to take action in addressing these issues.

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February 14, 2013

"Americans United to Defend
Free Speech"

Tune in to the webcast on March 11th

Your First Amendment right to express an opinion about Islam is under attack.

Not just from those who have no recourse but to call you an "Islamophobe."

But from the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC)-and our very own State Department.

On Monday night, March 11^th, in a two hour national webcast, ACT! for America will unveil a new campaign to push back against this threat.

You can tune in to this very important webcast by using this web address:

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/radical-islam-how-it-threatens-free-speech

The webcast will begin at 7:30 P.M. EST, and will feature Brigitte Gabriel, Executive Director Guy Rodgers, and Deborah Weiss, an investigative journalist, attorney and expert on the Istanbul Process and UN Resolution 16/18.

Tune in to this extremely important webcast to find out how UN Resolution 16/18 threatens your First Amendment rights and what ACT! for America plans to do to fight it.

You'll also have the opportunity to email questions.

This is a call to patriots everywhere!

If you don't want to see sharia law's prohibition against any speech that supposedly "defames" Islam or Muhammad gain a foothold in America, you need to tune in to this webcast.

If you cherish the right to free speech as much as we do, you need to tune in to this webcast.

For even if we win the war on terrorism, if we lose our freedom to speak out against the tyranny of radical Islam, we still lose.

Act for America

Announcing the 2013 National Conference

& Legislative Briefing!

June 19 - 21 we will convene at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, DC for our fourth annual National Conference & Legislative Briefing.

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We also offer again this year special benefits for Patriot Eagle and Patriot sponsors.

We have some exciting new wrinkles planned for this year's event, and our list of confirmed speakers already includes:

Steven Emerson - Journalist, author, and the Executive Editor of the Investigative Project on Terrorism. A. M. Rosenthal, late-managing editor of The New York Times, described Emerson as "one of the nation's best national security correspondents."
John Guandolo - Former FBI agent and one of America's leading authorities on the Muslim Brotherhood and its inner workings in America. Guandolo spoke at our conference in 2011 and received rave reviews from conference attendees!
Ezra Levant - Canadian lawyer, author, newspaper columnist with Sun Media, and former publisher of the Western Standard. Hauled before a Canadian "human rights commission" because he published the Danish cartoons that satirized Muhammad, Levant's personal account of a politically correct government inquisition is something you won't want to miss!

The National Conference & Legislative Briefing will begin on Wed. evening, June 19th, and conclude on Friday, June 21st at noon, with additional optional training sessions Friday afternoon.

It will again feature our very popular Capitol Hill Awards Luncheon and our signature gala banquet-and of course, our Legislative Briefing, where Members of Congress will brief you on various issues and answer your questions.

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We Were Warned in 1963: Has Communist Ideology Overtaken America?

Posted on February 1, 2013 by Dean Garrison

Has Communist Ideology Overtaken America? Education is crucial. Today I want to share two very interesting lists with you, and rather than adding an extensive amount of my commentary, I want to give you the chance to examine the facts for yourself. It is my opinion that many communist goals have already been accomplished. I also believe that advancement has been made in other areas. But, you owe it to yourself to do your own research. I believe not only in the freedom of speech, but also in the responsibility of free thought. So please don't take my word for it. Examine the facts for yourself.

Again, I want to share two lists with you. The first is a list that was entered into 1963 Congressional Record. The second is the 10 planks of The Communist Manifesto.

If you can't see this happening in America, and a ton of progress being made, then I offer two potential explanations:

You are one of the "useful idiots" of communist teaching.
I am one of the "village idiots" that your Mama probably warned you about.

Some of these points will be open for debate and some will not. In some cases it is blatantly obvious that they have achieved their goals. It is even rumored that our own President has deep communist ties. You might want to check that out as well but I will withhold my opinion at this point. Let's just lay it out and you can interpret it.

This list was originally printed in "The Naked Communist" by Cleon Skousen. It was entered into Congressional Record in 1963 as the 45 goals of "The Communist Takeover of America."

Idiots Converge on Freezing D.C. to Protest Global Warming

Obama Akbar: Libyan Supreme Court Allows Men to Take Second Wives

Turkish Muslim Trades Daughter for a Cow

Iranian Space Monkey Speaks: "The road to Jerusalem leads through Mars"

Guns Don't Kill People, Obama Voters Kill People

Infiltrated

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.

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Introduction: How to Think About American History
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Colonial Settlement
Mark Kalthoff Lecture Available March 4
Enlightenment and Natural Rights
Terrence Moore Lecture Available March 11
The American Founding
Paul Rahe Lecture Available March 18

Democracy: American Promise and its Dangers
Paul Rahe Lecture Available March 25
The Crisis of the Union
David Raney Lecture Available April 1
The Gilded Age and the Robber Barons
Burt Folsom Lecture Available April 8

Progressivism
Paul Moreno Lecture Available April 15
America as a World Power
Tom Conner Lecture Available April 22
The Reagan Revolution
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American Policy Center

Awareness about Agenda 21 is finally spreading throughout the country, due in no small part to your efforts. But knowing it is there isn't enough. Now we need to educate ourselves on how to combat it. That's where you come in.

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I wrote this 35 page booklet in order to give activists a succinct resource they can refer to if they suspect Agenda 21 or Sustainable Development is being implemented in their area. It includes my own research coupled with incredibly helpful graphics created by Carroll County, Maryland Commissioner Richard Rothschild.

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Morning Jolt - February 21, 2013

By Jim Geraghty

Heads up - this is the final Morning Jolt of the week. I'll be in Scottsdale, Ariz., for the next few days, at a journalism conference put on by the good folks at the Franklin Center for Government and Public Integrity.

Enjoy your Thursday Morning Jolt!

Jim

Is the GOP Botching the Sequester?

Our old friend Byron York makes some good points here, but I don't think the GOP's argument is quite as garbled as he suggests.

In a Wall Street Journal op-ed Wednesday, House Speaker John Boehner describes the upcoming sequester as a policy "that threatens U.S. national security, thousands of jobs and more."

Which leads to the question: Why would Republicans support a measure that threatens national security and thousands of jobs? Boehner and the GOP are determined to allow the $1.2 trillion sequester go into effect unless President Obama and Democrats agree to replacement cuts, of an equal amount, that target entitlement spending. If that doesn't happen - and it seems entirely unlikely - the sequester goes into effect, with the GOP's blessing.

In addition, Boehner calls the cuts "deep," when most conservatives emphasize that for the next year they amount to about $85 billion out of a $3,600 billion budget. Which leads to another question: Why would Boehner adopt the Democratic description of the cuts as "deep" when they would touch such a relatively small part of federal spending?

The effect of Boehner's argument is to make Obama seem reasonable in comparison. After all, the president certainly agrees with Boehner that the sequester cuts threaten national security and jobs. The difference is that Obama wants to avoid them. At the same time, Boehner is contributing to Republican confusion on the question of whether the cuts are in fact "deep" or whether they are relatively minor.

Here's the 3-by-5 index-card version of what the GOP's message on sequestration ought to be:

Our current level of spending is unsustainable. Spending must go down. Period.
This is a 2 percent cut.
Sure, if we in the Republican party had complete control of the government, we would be implementing the cuts differently. But we don't.
Congress can only appropriate funds; it doesn't run the departments and agencies that spend the money. That's the power and responsibility of the executive branch.
If the Obama administration's response to a 2 percent cut is really to let all the criminals out of the jails and end food-safety inspections, then it is no longer disputable that he's a Stuttering Cluster-you-know-what of a Miserable Failure.

I'm not exaggerating on Obama's doomsday talk:

President Obama on Tuesday painted a dire picture of federal government operations across the United States should automatic budget cuts hit on March 1: F.B.I. agents furloughed, criminals released, flights delayed, teachers and police officers laid off and parents frantic to find a place for children locked out of day care centers.

"Federal prosecutors will have to close cases and let criminals go," Mr. Obama said, flanked by law enforcement officers at the White House. "Tens of thousands of parents will have to scramble to find child care for their kids."

While the effects may ultimately be significant, many are unlikely to be felt immediately, officials said Tuesday after the president's remarks. Rather, they will ripple gradually across the federal government as agencies come to grips in the months ahead with across-the-board cuts to all their programs. . . .

But officials conceded that day care centers are almost certainly not going to be padlocked on March 1. Border patrols will be staffed throughout that day and the days to come. Federal agents will continue to conduct investigations, and criminals will not immediately be "let go," as Mr. Obama suggested.

This is the Washington Monument strategy:

Named after a tactic used by the National Park Service to threaten closure of the popular Washington Monument when lawmakers proposed serious cuts in spending on parks.

Roll Call calls it "an old legislative ploy where an agency threatens to close popular services first."

The strategy is used at all levels of government in an attempt to get the public to rally around government services they take pride in or find useful. Closing libraries on certain days of the week or reducing days of trash pick up appears to have the same effect.

Will some of these cuts stink? Yes. I dread 800,000 civilian employees of the Department of Defense working four days a week.

The GOP message is, and should continue to be, "Hate these cuts? Then let's take on the biggest issue, entitlement spending."

As Yuval Levin recently spotlighted, one tweak to the cost-of-living adjustment to Social Security effectively saves that program for the foreseeable future:

We might pay wealthier individuals with higher Social Security benefits lower annual cost-of-living adjustments than those receiving lower benefits. A progressive COLA could reduce high-end benefits by reasonable amounts in the near term while generating incentives - not disincentives - to work or save. A policy in which the highest third of beneficiaries received no COLA, the lowest third received a full COLA, and the middle third received half the current COLA would reduce Social Security outlays by around 12 percent over the first ten years. In fact, the savings from this measure alone would be enough to balance the program's finances over the long term.

Believe It or Not, the Establishment vs. Grassroots Fights Will Pass

Boy, Ace of Spades sounds a lot like the usually Eeyore-ish Allahpundit all of a sudden:

I think people in the party have resigned themselves to being a minority party for 8-16 years. Since they do not entertain any hopes of having actual political power, what's left is interparty jockeying for position in the pecking order.

We're obviously not going to win in this state. The smartest guys in the party, at least as regards retail politics, are broadcasting this to me. As they plainly believe it, I must take this seriously.

And I have. Apparently this is going to be a philosophical period, the political equivalent of a "rebuilding season" (well, like four to eight rebuilding seasons in a row).

We're not interested in going after Democrats, not really; that seems too out of our grasp. Victories over each other seem more manageable, more winnable. We've decided, collectively, that we can't go to market (that is, the greater political contest of Republicans vs. Democrats) until we've finished our playoffs of Grassroots vs. Establishment for 8-16 years.

Given that the party doesn't want to win, I don't see the point of pretending otherwise.

All of this Grassroots vs. Establishment conflict gets a lot of attention because A) it's easy to write about and talk about, B) everybody's got an opinion on it, and C) almost everybody's got a strong opinion on it. You don't have to review FEC records or do any policy research to write about this perennial fight. Write about it and the comments section bursts into flame; talk about it on the radio and the call lines light up; bring it up on TV and you've got instant passionate conflict.

(At this point, suspicious readers are furrowing their brow and asking, "Hey, wait a minute, doesn't Jim write about this topic a lot?")

And until we start seeing the lineup for the GOP primaries in the 2014 midterms, we don't even know if there are going to be a lot of great Grassroots vs. Establishment fights in the coming cycle. There certainly won't be that storyline in New Jersey's governor's race, and I'll talk about Virginia in a second. Maybe if the South Carolina special House election comes down to Mark Sanford and another Republican making his political debut, the Sanford challenger will attempt to position the race as Grassroots vs. Establishment . . . except that Sanford fought pretty often with the existing GOP establishment in both Washington and with the GOP legislature in Columbia. In Missouri, the local GOP already picked their candidate for their special House election, and in the special House election in Chicago, well . . . for there to be a GOP-establishment pick, there would have to be a functioning local GOP.

Until very recently, the folks demanding a primary challenger to Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell in Kentucky didn't have a candidate. Now they've got Louisville businessman Matthew Bevin. Most of us know little or nothing about him; the most extensive recent profile on him can be found in the Lousiville business press. There will be a lot of kicking the tires. Maybe he's a great challenger, or maybe he's a dud.

One thing we do need to establish going forward is that the right way to sort these divisions out is through primaries, and that this third-party spoiler crap has to end immediately. Here in Virginia, lieutenant governor Bill Bolling is the latest GOP lawmaker to flirt with the I'm-gonna-lose-the-party-nomination-so-I'll-leave Club. If Bolling bolts, he'll join Charlie Crist of Florida and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska; we can throw in Arlen Specter flipping parties, too.

Hey, guys, "if I stay in the party I'll lose the nomination, and I don't want to" is not a principled reason to leave the party.

A 'Lifetime Ban' for a Prominent Democrat

Pete Rose. Lance Armstrong. Jon Corzine.

A private regulatory body will consider on Wednesday whether it should ban former New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine from putting other's people money at risk by trading in the commodities market.

The highly unorthodox move is being contemplated by the National Futures Association in response to a perceived lack of action by the government against Corzine, according to one of the people who is pushing the action forward.

Corzine was CEO of commodities broker MF Global in October 2011, when the firm collapsed, causing about $1 billion in losses to consumers whose money should have been safely guarded in separate accounts. In spite of congressional testimony accusing him of breaking the law in the firm's final few weeks, Corzine has not been charged with any crime and is rumored to be raising cash to start a commodities-focused hedge fund.

Gee, why would the government seem to drag its feet in dealing with Corzine?

Oh, that's right. President Obama said he was an ally in developing the stimulus. Vice President Biden said he called on Corzine for advice on the economy. Obama called him his "Wall Street guy."

ADDENDUM: Jimmie Bise Jr.: "If you judge your success by how many people you tick off, you're doing it all wrong."

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2016 Election Central

Debate Commission co-chair says Candy Crowley was a "mistake"

Posted: 20 Feb 2013 09:22 AM PST

Here's a little blast from the past for you. Well, maybe not the distant past but think back to October, 2012 during the height of the Presidential Debates between President Obama and Mitt Romney. During the second debate it appeared that moderator Candy Crowley, of CNN, tossed a "flag" on the statement from Romney . . . → Read More: Debate Commission co-chair says Candy Crowley was a "mistake"

RedState Morning Briefing

RedState Morning Briefing

For February 22, 2013

1. The American Conservative Union's Embarrassing Scorecard

I had to look twice. Then I looked one more time.

The American Conservative Union ("ACU") has released its annual scorecard. It is supposed to be a scorecard for a measure of conservatism on Capitol Hill.

So you will be as surprised as I was to find that Mitch McConnell, the Senate Republican Leader with a history of undermining conservatives in the Senate, has a 100% score for 2012 - higher, in fact, that either Jim DeMint or Tom Coburn.

I had to laugh.

I have to hope someone on the ACU's Board has some sense of shame. Chairman Al Cardenas, in his letter introducing the 2012 scorecard, writes, "our ratings have become the most important conservative measuring stick in American politics."

Not after this. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →

2. ObamaNation: At least $177 Million In Tax Dollars Paid For Federal Workers To Do Union Business

Many taxpayers may not realize that their tax dollars are used to pay government workers to actually conduct union business-not the work of the government.

This practice has the official name of Official Time and is defined by the Office of Personnel Management as:

"Official time is time spent by Federal employees performing representational work for a bargaining unit in lieu of their regularly assigned work."

Unlike the private sector, where companies or unions pay union representatives to conduct "union business," our system of government unions allows union representatives who happen to be federal employees time away from their normal duties in order to conduct union business-all at taxpayer expense. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →

3. Santa Fe Releases Names of People who Participated in 'Anonymous' Gun Buyback

After the shooting in Newtown, New Mexico officials in a couple cities have supported a 'gun buyback.' Among cities coming up with their own plans are Albuquerque and Santa Fe.

People who participated in the Santa Fe buyback, which was dubbed "Operation Safe Streets" were given up to a couple hundred dollars per firearm they turned over. These citizens were lead to believe that their participation would remain anonymous. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →

4. Kasich Repeats Medicaid Expansion Lies in Ohio State of the State Address

Governor John Kasich forcefully repeated multiple falsehoods about expanding Medicaid eligibility in Ohio during his 2013 State of the State address on February 19. As he and his administration have done for weeks, Kasich falsely insisted that Ohio's promised federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) funding for expanding Medicaid will be sent to other states if Ohio rejects the expansion.

The Ohio Channel has the governor's entire speech; watch the segment in question to see Kasich pressure legislators by inaccurately asserting their rejection of Medicaid expansion would not prevent any of PPACA's new spending. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →

American Thinker

February 22, 2013

Today's Articles:

Hillary Clinton's Middle East Legacy
Thomas A. Oakes
Hillary Clinton fans continue to promote the false notion that she was a first-rate Secretary of State despite her four-year string of failures involving Russia, East Asia, and particularly the Middle East. More

The Feds Want Your Retirement Accounts
John White
Quietly, behind the scenes, the groundwork is being laid for federal government confiscation of tax-deferred retirement accounts such as IRAs. Slowly, the cat is being let out of the bag. More

A New Understanding of the Trauma of Abortion
Charles T. Kenny, Ph.D. and Paul Swope
Has the importance of tailoring a proper message to women caught in the crisis of an unwanted pregnancy been overlooked? More

Take the 'Kick Me' Sign off the Defense Budget
Alex VanNess
The sequestration cuts would hollow out an already slashed defense budget, limiting the military's readiness and hampering its ability to deploy forces to crucial parts of a world growing increasingly dangerous. More

How Democrats Sponsored Illegal Immigration
Michael Bargo Jr.
For decades, government entities from the municipal to the federal levels have been directly involved in enabling and promoting illegal immigration. More

The Delinquent Twins of Financial Ruin
Mike Razar
Two sets of twins have helped put the United States in deep financial distress, with no end in sight. More

Fix the Law to Fix America
Robert Potts
Our freedom will remain jeopardized until we are empowered with the tools to read and understand the law on our own. The solution is correction of a mistake made 87 year ago. More

American Thinker Blog

New Words for the Media
February 22, 2013
The gun-controllers have telegraphed their next punch More

To the Lesser Crime
February 22, 2013
The Jackson saga continues. More

Coordinating Their Stories?
February 22, 2013
The Benghazi story, version 593. More

Defining Deviancy Down in Germany
February 22, 2013
Germany, leading the way into social chaos. More

Grow Up, S. E. Cupp
February 21, 2013
"Hip" will only take you so far. More

Violence escalates in Damascus
February 21, 2013
Terrorists target Baath party headquarters. More

Kerry promotes climate change in first speech
February 21, 2013
Priorities? We don't need no stinking priorities. More

The upside to sequestration?
February 21, 2013
Taking government programs that protect our health and safety for granted. More

How about a little march saying that GITMO and drones recruit terrorists?
February 21, 2013
The Euro-left is silent about Obama's Bush-like policies. More

Lars Hedegaard in the Wall Street Journal
February 21, 2013
"I am determined not to be silenced, come what may. I refuse to live in a world ruled by the gun." More

'Obamastration' is premeditated incompetence
February 21, 2013
Unlike cuts made in business, with a focus on eliminating nonessentials, government bureaucrats begin their cuts with the essentials. More

Marco Rubio is still drinking water
February 21, 2013
Water will indeed prove to be a potent life source for the Senator. More

"Obama Is 10 Yrs Ahead Of The Republican Party" Newt Gingrich

WH Asked About Middle Class Jobs Lost In Corporate Aviation Industry

February 20, 2013

Governor Christie's Popularity Soars To New Heights

Biden: I Tell My Wife To Get The Shotgun Ready

Justice Clarence Thomas visits HLS

Australia Welcomes Geert Wilders 2013

Right Side News

Property Rights: Fauquier Board of Supervisors Scores with Popular Vote

Feb 21, 2013 07:41 am

The Rise of a New Nigerian Militant Group

Feb 21, 2013 06:53 am

Islamic Butchery Manifests in America with Muslim immigrants

Feb 21, 2013 06:13 am

After Afghanistan

Feb 21, 2013 05:23 am

Media Black Out: Muslim's Rampage of Hate,Against Hindus Burning Alive a Child and 200 Homes

Feb 21, 2013 05:02 am

United States and Israel: A Shared Strategy for the Challenges of the Middle East

Feb 20, 2013 10:12 am

Frontpage

China Weaponizes Cyberspace

By Arnold Ahlert

A dire threat of the 21st century -- and the unwillingness of the Obama administration to confront it.

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John Kerry's Peculiar Priorities

By Joseph Klein

Debut speech as Secretary of State pushes foreign "investment" and global warming action in a world saturated with Islamic jihad and totalitarian danger.

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After Afghanistan

By Daniel Greenfield

What comes next for America in the War on Terror.

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Swedes Propose Open Borders & Polygamy

By Bruce Bawer

Even the center-right faction is jumping on the Sharia bandwagon.

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The Humiliation of Egypt's Grand Mufti

By Raymond Ibrahim

In Morsi's new Egypt, even the jihad-preaching mufti is not Islamic enough.

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John Brennan's Islamic Conversion Moment? - on The Glazov Gang

By Frontpagemag.com

A former FBI agent makes some troubling allegations about how Obama's CIA nominee spent his time in Saudi Arabia.

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Israel and the Sad History of Jewish Property Rights

By Benjamin Manaster

The anti-Semitic legacy behind the rejection of the Jewish homeland.

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The Truth about Abraham Lincoln & Slavery

By Walter Williams

Breaking through the mythology.

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Wednesday, February 20, 2013

After Afghanistan

Posted by Daniel Greenfield @ the Sultan Knish blog

Some wars are lost in a matter of moments, others stretch on indefinitely. The defeat in Afghanistan crept up silently on the national consciousness and even though we are negotiating with the Taliban, the "D" word is hardly used by anyone.

According to Obama, in one of his interminable speeches which all run together and sound the same, there really isn't a war, just a mission, and the old mission is now becoming a new sort of mission, and the missions, all of them, whether in Afghanistan or Iraq, have been successful which is why we are wrapping them up, except that we aren't really. And that's about as clear as the message from the big white building with the neatly mowed lawn out front gets, except for the part about how its occupant singlehandedly parachuted into Pakistan, killed Bin Laden, and then stopped off for some curry and a humanitarian award.

Had McCain won in 2008, we would no doubt he hearing a lot about the "D" word and the quagmire in Afghanistan. But the "Q" word doesn't really get mentioned either. No war has been lost. Only a mission is ending. And missions, unlike wars, can be defined in so many creative ways that it's hard to know what to make of them. It's easy to tell when a war has been lost, but a mission can never be lost, only renamed. And renaming is what Obama did to the Iraq War and the War in Afghanistan. Those wars weren't lost; they're only hiding out in the history books under new names and identities.

Wars are usually remembered according to the proclivities of their historians. The history books tend to record the Republican presidents of the last hundred years as either losing wars or winning wars that weren't worth winning. Democrats however usually win every one.

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Thursday, February 21

GOP Senators Urge White House to Withdraw Hagel Nomination

by Mike Flynn

The acrimony surrounding Chuck Hagel's confirmation to lead the Defense Department has caused a handful of Senators to formally ask the White House to withdraw his nomination. The almost unprecedented step has capped weeks of debate over Hagel's fitness for the job. In an effort led by TX Sen. John Cornyn, 11 GOP Senators have signed a letter asking the White House to drop Hagel's nomination.

While other Senators are likely to add their names to the letter, the current 11 signers make a symbolic point. In the history of the office, no Defense Secretary has taken office with more than 11 votes against their nomination. In the last 50 years, no Secretary has taken office with more than three votes in opposition. Even if he limps to confirmation, Hagel is already a failed nominee.

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February 21, 2013 Dear Friends, Thank you for calling your Senators and urging them to oppose Chuck Hagel. Last week's failed cloture vote on Hagel's nomination was a temporary victory, but unfortunately several Senators who voted against ending debate on Hagel's nomination are indicating that their position is weakening. We need your help to encourage Senators to stand strong. Harry Reid chastised Senate Republicans for their unprecedented opposition to a Cabinet nomination, but Hagel is a spectacularly bad nominee who proves the need for the Senate's constitutional advice and consent duties to check Presidential power. Senators were wise to proceed cautiously. Hagel's abysmal performance during his nomination hearings and his radical positions have embarrassed liberals, and reports indicate that liberal Senators in conservative states, particularly those facing re-election in 2014 are urging President Obama to get Hagel to withdraw, because they don't want to be saddled with such a bad vote. We need to keep up the pressure! *Just some of the reasons we oppose Hagel are:* Hagel would be our first "anti-military" Secretary of Defense. He has consistently declared that he believes in a "pared down" Pentagon. He voted no on a measure requiring separate barracks for men and women during basic military training. He is a director of an elitist globalist movement called "Global Zero," which advocates full-scale nuclear disarmament, a philosophy President Obama agrees with. This is especially dangerous at a time when North Korea is testing nuclear missiles. Hagel serves on the board of the Ploughshares Fund, a George Soros-funded group that advocates getting rid of our nuclear weapons, opposes U.S. development of a missile-defense system, and promotes global governance. Hagel believes that a U.S. missile defense system should only be deployed with the cooperation of Russia; he does not consider such cooperation from Russia as important when it comes to reducing nuclear weapons. He has called for "sharply reducing the number of U.S. nuclear weapons, possibly without equivalent cuts by Russia," according to the Associated Press. While Hagel wants to pare down the U.S. military and voted for legislation that is detrimental to U.S. military readiness, according to his nomination questionnaires, he advocates that the U.S. and the U.S. military have much more involvement with the United Nations. In his 2008 book, America: Our Next Chapter, Hagel wrote: The United Nations can play a central and critical role in forging connections. The global challenges of terrorism, proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, hunger, disease, and poverty require multilateral responses and initiatives. The United States should therefore take every opportunity to help strengthen global institutions and alliances, including the UN.... No international conflict is simple or easy to deal with, but each requires attention and the United Nations is the only international organization that can help bring the consensus that is indispensable in finding solutions and resolving crises. Hagel's internationalist philosophy also led him to support the discredited Law of the Sea Treaty which would diminish U.S. sovereignty, and amnesty forillegalaliens which weakens national security. Chuck Hagel is a threat to America's strength and safety, and his nomination must be defeated. Take Action! We need you to keep up pressure on your Senators whether they are conservative or liberal - all need to hear from you! Please take a moment to e-mail and call your Senators. Senators are in their home districts until Monday, February 25th, so please contact the district offices today and tomorrow. Here is a link to the Senate directory that will take you to your Senators' home websites. Their district office phone numbers are listed on these websites. Further Reading: The Wrong Man for Defense Secretary, Phyllis Schlafly, February 6, 2013 The wrong man to be defense secretary, by Senator Jim Inhofe, January 25, 2013 Press Release Announcing Opposition to Hagel Nomination, by Senator Jim Inhofe, January 15, 2013 Chuck Hagel's Troubling 'Global Zero' Nuclear Arms Stance, by Peter Huessy, January 15, 2013 Hagel hearings should focus on Pentagon mission, by Elaine Donnelly, January 14, 2013 Senators voice concerns on Hagel's Global Zero anti-nuclear views, by Bill Gertz, January 10, 2013

Let Freedom Ring

President Obama's nominee to be the next CIA Director, John Brennan, believes that we are NOT at war with violent jihad. Brennan should try telling that to the terrorists killing Americans who believe they are in a violent jihad against us.

If we don't recognize why our enemies are killing us, as Brennan does not, how can we possibly defeat them?

To read more about Brennan's dangerously ignorant worldview, you may find of interest my editorial in The Washington Times today. Click here to read it now!

Sincerely,

Alex Cortes, Executive Director

News from The Hill:

Inhofe lobbies senators to block Hagel again
By Jeremy Herb

The top Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee is calling for Republican senators to block former Sen. Chuck Hagel's (R-Neb.) confirmation once again when the Senate returns next week.

Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) sent a "dear colleague" letter to senators Thursday lobbying for them to vote against cloture on Hagel, saying that voting to end debate is the equivalent of voting to confirm Hagel for the top Pentagon post.

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New Hagel controversies cloud confirmation prospects

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid will continue to press for a final vote on this controversial nomination next week when the Senate returns from recess. The drum beat against Chuck Hagel's bid to become secretary of defense has increased in volume with each passing day. Here is a round-up of the top stories:

Pressure is mounting on the White House: Democrats ask White House to pull Hagel

15 GOP Senators ask Obama to withdraw Hagel nomination

More damaging Hagel statements come to light:
Hagel said Israel is headed toward apartheid

Hagel said America is not "fair and credible" in the Mideast because it "tilted very much to the Israeli side on settlements"

Hagel withholds access to video and transcripts from controversial speeches:

Despite controversy, Hagel's archives are sealed

Hagel stonewalls on archive access

RJC continues to speak out and other Jewish groups chime in:

Schumer claimed that not a single major Jewish organization opposes Hagel... [and ignored] the Republican Jewish Coalition's nonstop lobbying against Hagel...

This Local Gun Ad Was Banned By Comcast - And We Found It's a New Widespread Policy

Feb. 19, 2013

NBC Comcast Drops Advertisements From Companies Promoting Guns, Firearms, Fireworks | Michigan Companies Respond

In this Thursday, July 26, 2012 file photo, an AR-15 style rifle is displayed at the Firing-Line indoor range and gun shop in Aurora, Colo. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Comcast, which recently acquired NBC Universal, has quietly decided to remove advertisements promoting firearms from its cable network, and gun retailers aren't happy about it.

A Michigan company that handles the advertising for Michigan-based Williams Gun Sight and Outfitters contacted TheBlaze regarding the change, stunned that it couldn't re-air a commercial they played last fall due to the new policy.

John Kupiec, president of the advertising agency Canadian American Corp., told us over the phone Monday that when they recently tried to buy ad time, a Comcast representative informed them that as of February 8 of this year, the network would no longer accept advertising from companies promoting firearms or fireworks on any network, during any time period.

"They've been a longtime advertiser [but] they said it doesn't matter who they are," Kupiec related, "if they sell firearms they will not be allowed to advertise firearms on their airwaves."

He noted that the change doesn't just impact local companies, but business like Cabela's, Walmart, and others.

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Betrayal Sufficient To Unite Conservatives

Karl Rove Secretly Working For Team Obama?
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Obama is unabashedly killing off America. Rove and Company are killing off the only chance America has to fight Obama: small-c conservatives who present the only real resistance to the White House Marxists.

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Conspiracy To What End?

CAIR: War On Terror Is Made Up
By Ryan Mauro
RightSideNews.com

On February 11, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) sent out a newsletter with the subject line, "Creating America's War on Terror." The message is that the U.S. government is victimizing Muslim Americans under the guise of a made-up war on terrorism.

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Obama Contribution To Benghazi Lame YouTube Excuse?

WH: Obama Called Hillary At 10PM On Night Of Benghazi Attack--About Same Time Clinton First Publicly Linked Attack To YouTube Video
By Fred Lucas
CNSNews.com

President Barack Obama called Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at approximately 10 p.m. on the night of the terrorist attacks on the U.S. facilities in Benghazi, Libya, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney told CNSNews.com.

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TSA Strips Handicapped 3-Year-Old Of Dignity

TSA Detains 3-Year-Old In Wheelchair
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A Missouri couple is furious after the Transportation Security Administration detained their wheelchair-bound three-year-old daughter, took away her stuffed doll, and refused to allow them to videotape agents patting her down.

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Video: Obama Caught In Bald-Faced Lie On Sequester

Feb 21, 2013 01:34 pm

Greta Van Susteren played a montage of political statements on the sequester. From the video, it is clear that the sequester cuts were a product of the White House. It is also clear that Obama continues to get away with a bald-faced lie that the idea was something Congress proposed. Related posts: Sen. Rand Paul: [...]

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Disarming America's Heroes

Feb 21, 2013 01:31 pm

How would you feel if you received a letter from the U.S. Government informing you that because of a physical or mental condition that the government says you have, it is proposing to rule that you are incompetent to handle your own financial affairs? Suppose that letter also stated that the government is going to [...]

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Liberalism: The Ultimate False Positive Paradox

Feb 21, 2013 01:30 pm

The liberal ideology is based on a philosophy that liberty and equality must exist. In theory, it touches on many parts of humanity. In reality, liberalism is nothing more than a concocted theory that edicts a False Positive Paradox and ultimately casts a net of disaster for everything in its wake. "The false positive paradox [...]

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Video: Whole Foods' Ad Uses Obama's Pic To Advertise Sale On Chicken

Feb 21, 2013 01:27 pm

A Whole Foods supermarket in New York has removed a sign that used a drawing of Obama to advertise a sale on chicken after complaints that the ad was "offensive". Related posts: Huffington Post Not For Sale, Co-Founder Says The Huffington Post is not for sale, despite recent rumors... Free Speech Tastes Like Chicken Chick-fil-A [...]

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Video: DHS Supplier Provides Shooting Targets Of Gun Owners, Pregnant Women

Feb 21, 2013 01:17 pm

Law Enforcement Targets, Inc., a provider of shooting targets to the Department of Homeland Security, has admitted that targets depicting pregnant women were "requested" by law enforcement agencies. Related posts: Sandra Fluke: Paul Ryan 'Would Allow Pregnant Women To Die In Our Emergency Rooms' (CNSNews.com) - When she attended Georgetown law school, Sandra Fluke... Lawsuit [...]

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Alec Baldwin Uses "C-Word!"

Feb 21, 2013 01:15 pm

Liberal heartthrob Alec Baldwin allegedly had a world-class Dem Crow attack where he recently called a Black New York Post photographer, among other things, a "coon." As if "drug dealer" and "crackhead" weren't enough to call an American Black who's also a retired NYPD officer? Alec Baldwin used the "C-Word!" Will Obama and the Congressional [...]

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Video: Cop-Killer Christopher Dorner Gets Love From CNN

Feb 21, 2013 12:59 pm

Molotov Mitchell says Christopher Dorner took irony to a whole new level... Related posts: Christopher Dorner: Liberal Extremist? Imagine that a nominally liberal Black former cop and Naval... Christopher Dorner: Racist Time Bomb In declaring his one-man war against the LAPD, etc. Christopher...

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Jim Wallis And All The Liberal Lukewarm Christians

Feb 21, 2013 12:49 pm

"So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth." Speaking as a conservative Christian, I've grown weary of the activist agendas of liberals who turn the Gospel and Biblical truth upside down while promoting secular progressive candidates/causes that undermine the Constitution and a country founded [...]

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Video: Jesse Jackson Jr. Could Do A Stretch Of Five!!

Feb 21, 2013 12:43 pm

His daddy must be so very proud of him; Jesse Jr. is following in the footsteps of many previous Chicago politicians. Related posts: CNN Anchor Challenges Jesse Jackson On Chicago Gun Ban Rev. Jesse Jackson on CNN Friday morning was asked to... Jesse Jackson Threatens Gun Shops Jesse Jackson talks about wanting more jobs, yet [...]

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Teachers Union Says Testing Serves "Corporate Interests"

Feb 21, 2013 12:35 pm

With student performance steadily declining in America's public schools, standardized testing is one of the few methods available through which we can gauge the efficacy of our teachers. Unwilling to have their own abilities as instructors measured through the performance of their students, several teachers unions have called for the discontinuation of such tests. Among [...]

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Jesse Jackson Jr. Pleads Guilty

Feb 21, 2013 12:34 pm

CHICAGO- Residents in this swath of sprawling Chicago neighborhoods and suburbs have brimmed with loyalty to Jesse Jackson Jr. over the past 17 years, giving him an enthusiastic majority each election - even after questionable links to ex-Gov. Rod Blagojevich, reports of an extramarital affair and a bizarre five-month medical leave. But the former congressman's [...]

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Millions Of Voters Orphaned As Country Club Republicans Link Up With Dems

Feb 21, 2013 12:28 pm

On January 1, 2013 one third of Republican congressmen, following their leaders, joined with nearly all Democrats to legislate higher taxes and more subsidies for Democratic constituencies. Two thirds voted no, following the people who had elected them. For generations, the Republican Party had presented itself as the political vehicle for Americans whose opposition to [...]

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Video: NRA Stand And Fight: We Are America

Feb 21, 2013 12:25 pm

Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, and all other elite politicians trying to marginalize the law-abiding, average American must never forget that they work for us! Related posts: Fight Back, America! Liberals have nearly destroyed this country socially. Disloyal corporations have... Obama Will Bang On Bain Capital As Fight Heats Up A lot of political insiders in [...]

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State Farm To Leave Illinois, Move To Texas

Feb 21, 2013 12:22 pm

State Farm, the nationally-known insurance chain headquartered in Bloomington, Illinois, has apparently had its fill of "The Land of Lincoln's" confiscatory taxes. The 800 million dollar company is reported to have purchased "substantial workspace" in the Dallas, Texas area. The giant insurance firm's workers are being kept in the dark reportedly to avoid "alarming them"; [...]

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The Real Answer To The Immigration Question

Feb 21, 2013 12:20 pm

America has almost 12 million illegal immigrants. Many of them came here on visas and never left. But about 60 percent of them walked in from just one country - Mexico. Though the stalled Obama Economy has caused about 900,000 to go home since 2007, there are still about 6 million Mexicans living in the [...]

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Video: Former Secret Service Agent On The 2nd Amendment

Feb 21, 2013 12:17 pm

Excellent short speech by a former secret service agent about the realities of gun control: "We live in a society of wolves. You do not fight back by creating more sheep!" Related posts: 'I Was Really Checking Her Out': Married Secret Service Agent Joked About Sarah Palin On His Facebook Page (and Posted This Picture To [...]

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Group Likens Soda To "Bioweapon"

Feb 21, 2013 12:09 pm

The Center for Science in the Public Interest has made ludicrous claims in the past and consistently seeks legislative action to limit the food choices of supposedly free citizens. The agency recently joined other radical progressives by setting its sights on soda and piling on even more hyperbolic rhetoric aimed at irreparably tarnishing the entire [...]

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Networks Promote Fearmongering On Sequester Cuts

Feb 21, 2013 11:58 am

The NBC, ABC, and CBS evening newscasts on Tuesday all recited the same White House talking points as anchors and correspondents wrung their hands over the upcoming sequester budget cuts set to take effect on March 1. While all three broadcasts touted President Obama using "dire language" to warn against the cuts - only [...]

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Left Howls Against Rick Perry's Texas

Feb 21, 2013 11:16 am

Taxation: Governor Rick Perry took a lot of ridicule for his efforts to lure California's tax-strangled businesses to his home state of Texas. If that's so ridiculous, how come it's his leftist critics showing all the hysteria? Perry's state is an undisputed economic success story and has been a magnet for businesses from all over the [...]

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The Presidential Blame-Game

Feb 21, 2013 10:58 am

Editor's note: A longer version of this article first appeared at American Spectator. February is the month of presidents. It includes Washington's birthday, Lincoln's birthday, Ronald Reagan's birthday, and, of course, Presidents Day. Given that I teach and write about presidents, this time of year always prompts me to strange musings. This year is no exception, as I'm thinking about [...]

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GOP Opens 2013 With Money Advantage Over Democrats

Feb 21, 2013 10:56 am

WASHINGTON - The Republican National Committee is starting 2013 with a financial advantage over its Democratic rivals. The RNC raised $6.9 million in January and ended the month with $7.1 million in cash - along with no debt. Read More at OfficialWire . Photo Credit: Donkey Hotey (Creative Commons) Related posts: Talk Of GOP Primaries Follows [...]

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O'Reilly Book On Jesus Killing Coming In September

Feb 21, 2013 10:53 am

NEW YORK - After million-selling books on the assassinations of Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy, Fox News host Bill O'Reilly is turning to the most famous killing of all. O'Reilly's "Killing Jesus: A History" will be published on Sept. 24. Read More at OfficialWire . Related posts: Stewart And O'reilly Get Ready To 'rumble' NEW [...]

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Egypt's Brotherhood Still Operates Secretively

Feb 21, 2013 10:51 am

CAIRO- Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi says he has firsthand knowledge of opponents allegedly plotted against him at a meeting. A few months earlier, the most powerful man in his Muslim Brotherhood group, Khairat el-Shater, said he had access to recordings of former military rulers and electoral officials engineering his disqualification from last year's presidential race. [...]

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Indiana Teacher Suspended Over Anti-gay Remarks

Feb 21, 2013 10:46 am

FARMERSBURG, Ind.- An Indiana school district reeling from the uproar over a teacher's comments that she believes gays have no purpose in life suspended the woman Wednesday. Superintendent Mark Baker of the Northeast School Corp. in western Indiana's Sullivan County issued a statement saying the teacher has been placed on administrative leave out of [...]

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The Next Sunrise -- The Light of Liberty

Illegitimi non Carborundum!

By Mark Alexander · February 21, 2013

"No morn ever dawned more favorable than ours did; and no day was every more clouded than the present! Wisdom, and good examples are necessary at this time to rescue the political machine from the impending storm." --George Washington (1786)

Dawn or Dusk?

From our family home in the mountains of East Tennessee, a sunrise has many of the qualities of a sunset. Indeed, when looking at a photograph of light over the Smoky Mountains, it can be difficult to discern whether it's dawn or dusk. That's in the eye of the beholder.

I enjoy both the morning and evening skies, but I'm a "sunrise" person. I live in anticipation of the light of the next sunrise, not the darkness of the last sunset.

I inherited that propensity from my father, tempered as a child of the Great Depression and a Naval Aviator during World War II. After the war, he returned home to grow a small business through innovation, dedication and hard work, and he raised a family through the turbulence of the '60s and the malaise of the '70s. He's in retirement now -- more active than many half his age -- and he celebrates his 90th birthday in two weeks.

My father has seen the best and worst of times. Given the wisdom of age, he clearly acknowledges the current threats to Liberty and the challenges facing our generation. He saw similar threats and challenges from FDR's New Deal and LBJ's Great Society. But his concern about the current manifestation of socialist ideology notwithstanding, he is an eternal optimist -- living for every new dawn, every rising sun.

In my line of work -- as an analyst of political, social and economic trends, and a forecaster of their consequences -- sometimes it's difficult to hold fast to the "sunrise" perspective. But I can't help but see opportunity in any crisis, including the present. In addition to this predisposition for optimism, I'm also grateful for the example set by another eternal optimist and mentor, Ronald Reagan.

I wasn't around for the New Deal, of course, and I recall little of the Great Society years, but I do clearly recall the Great Malaise of the 1970s, with high unemployment and interest rates to match, runaway inflation, energy shortages, menacing threats from abroad, and a president who, though a man of good character, was wholly unequipped to handle the job. Then came President Reagan, who ably led our nation's about face, restored our national dignity, and seeded the longest economic expansion in history.

Ronald Reagan was a sunrise president. He heralded Morning in America. He focused on all that was good and right with America, the bright days ahead. In his farewell address, he assured, "America's best days are yet to come. Our proudest moments are yet to be. Our most glorious achievements are just ahead."

Reagan's spirit shines today in stark contrast to the darkness our adversaries promote. They appeal to the worst in their constituents -- their fears, doubts, greed, envy, brokenness, pessimism and dependence on the state.

Indeed, light is the mark of Liberty while darkness is the result of statism. But a physicist will tell you that darkness does not exist -- it is only the absence of light. So it is with the hearts and minds of men.

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More Gun Companies Step Up For The Second Amendment

Last Friday TheBlaze reported on a growing list of gun manufacturers and retailers who had stopped selling to law enforcement in states that were enacting stringent new gun laws. There are many new additions to our initial list published late last week. See which companies have stepped up to support an individual's right to own a gunHERE.

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Campus Rape Victim Says Gun-Free Zones Empower Criminals

On Wednesday, NRA News host Cam Edwards spoke with Amanda Collins, a woman who was violently raped in 2007 at the University of Nevada. Aside from lambasting Salazar�s statements, she defended the concept of concealed carry permits and proclaimed that a gun would have stopped her attacker. Listen to the powerful interview HERE.

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What was supposed to be a relaxing day on the ski slopes turned into a nightmare for one person after he fell 45 feet from a ski lift. The video describes the victim as a �kid� though his actual age is unclear. The boy managed to survive the fall, but had to be airlifted to a hospital. See the harrowing clipHERE.

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Sheriff In The Ohio 'Smart Meter' Story Speaks To TheBlaze

The Ohio sheriff involved in the smart meter incident where a handicapped woman had her power cut told TheBlaze the situation probably would have ended differently had he personally responded to the power company�s call for an escort to the residence. Meet Sheriff Sam Crish and get his very unique perspective on the "smart meter" storyHERE.

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Sen. Rand Paul cut a six-figure check to the U.S. Treasury on Wednesday in an effort to do his part to put a tiny chip in the federal debt. The Kentucky Republican returned $600,000 in funds he saved from his Senate office budget in the last year. Learn how he accomplished this HERE.

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Obama Solicits Stories of "Gun Violence"

Posted: 21 Feb 2013 11:02 AM PST

(John Hinderaker)

To further his gun-ban efforts, President Obama is using his permanent campaign organization, Organizing For Action, to solicit stories about "gun violence." Some of the stories are no doubt sincere, some-since they are anonymous-are likely fabricated, and some are merely political, like this one from "Keith K.":

As a high school teacher, my students ask me why their lives are not as important as an NRA money. "that's just the way it is" is a terrible answer to have to give kids. so we can make a rational decision about guns.

Is he really a high school teacher? I hope not.

OFA posters don't necessarily have any idea what they are talking about. Matt W. writes:

Given the increase in gun violence and mass shootings in the last two decades it seems unbelievable that we can't agree on some form of legislation to monitor and regulate the purchase and use of firearms.

Actually, homicides, and homicides using firearms, have been cut almost in half in the last 20 years. And there is already an enormous amount of "legislation to monitor and regulate the purchase and use of firearms" at both the state and federal levels.

I wondered whether Obama had gotten any gun stories from my home state of South Dakota, where just about everybody is armed. Despite all those guns, so far there is only one, from "Jared L.":

Living in South Dakota I have the luxury of enjoying a lifestyle free from fear of violence as many inner-city neighborhoods experience on a daily basis. I also have the luxury of having grown up on strong traditions which includes hunting and know what it takes to be a responsible gun owner and say definitively that what we need in this country to reduce gun violence isn't needless legislation, but a comprehensive approach that examines whether or not current laws are being properly enforced, digging into the underlying issues that lead to increases in violence, and a focus on providing adequate healthcare coverage to those with mental health issues so that no one seeking help is turned away at the door when the clock hits 5PM. This is the approach that will have the greatest impact on violence in our country, everyone needs to be sure to let their legislatures know that this is the approach to reduce violence in our communities.

Sensible thoughts, but probably not quite what Obama had in mind. It would be nice if lots of gun owners submitted "gun stories" to the OFA site. Who knows, the liberals who frequent that site might actually learn something.

The Democrats must know that they have zero chance of getting a gun ban through Congress; they probably can't even get it through the Democratic Senate. So what is the point of this kind of effort? Like so much that the Obama administration does, it is not intended to achieve any practical goal, but rather is designed to keep the party's base in a state of hysteria to maximize turnout in 2014. A perpetual campaign with no apparent objective other than to achieve perpetual power; that is today's Democratic Party.

Markey's Malarkey

Posted: 21 Feb 2013 11:02 AM PST

(Steven Hayward)

Ed Markey

Massachusett's Democratic Rep. Edward Markey is currently a front-runner to succeed John Kerry in the Senate from the Bay State, and he's perhaps the only candidate who can make Elizabeth Warren seem intelligent and probative by comparison. I've always thought Markey's advocacy of low-wattage light bulbs is obviously congruent with his low-wattage intellect, and who can resist thinking of him as Rep. Malarkey? He's one of those kind of politicians who will say anything to try to win the day.

Markey has always hated all fossil fuels, and is the kind of person who has said many times that we need more wind and solar to help get us off foreign oil (there is zero connection between the two), but a few days ago he said that one problem with the sequester is that it would . . . slow domestic oil and gas drilling! And we're really supposed to take this guy seriously? If he meant that, you'd think he'd be for the sequester.

But Malarkey has now outdone himself, comparing the Citizens United decision to Dred Scott. Great Scott!! "The Constitution must be amended," Markey said; "The Dred Scott decision had to be repealed, we have to repeal Citizens United." GOP spokesman Brad Dayspring had a good reply:

"Out-of-touch statements like these simply reinforce the fact that Ed Markey has been hibernating in Washington back rooms since Carlton Fisk was behind the plate for the Red Sox and disco ruled the world. If Ed Markey really believes this to be the modern equivalent to slavery, he'll quickly return the millions that he's raised from PACs over his career."

It should be understood, however, that the Left's outrage over Citizens United actually goes far beyond the old-fashioned, and not entirely unreasonable, concern about the potential corruption involved with large campaign contributions (though for the record I think this is overblown: whenever anyone is ever challenged to connect a single changed congressional vote to campaign cash, the response is always chirping crickets). Markey is not the first lefty to compare Citizens United to Dred Scott; his usage just shows he gets all of his ideas second hand. Beyond campaign cash, the Citizens United outrage is connected to the larger Marcusian/Chomskyite critique of "corporate control" of media. In other words, public opinion is "enslaved" by the corporate control of mass media, just like Dred Scott, QED. The Left's remedy would involve not just government control of campaign finance, but "redistribution" of free speech rights and mass media. The inimitable Cass Sunstein explicitly calls for this in his book Democracy and the Problem of Free Speech. In other words, get ready to be forced to watch Amy Goodman on "Democracy NOW" TV. Can't wait for that blessed day.

I doubt Markey has much of a clue about the deeper background of the Left's thought on this subject. Perhaps he should be asked about whether he thinks the government should "redistribute" speech rights along the lines Sunstein suggests. I imagine the answer will be occasion for further hilarious Malarkey.

A fitting legacy for John McCain

Posted: 21 Feb 2013 09:04 AM PST

(Paul Mirengoff)

The Washington Post (per Jason Horowitz) makes John McCain an offer he's unlikely to refuse and, in fact, has already accepted:

McCain's most probable avenue back to the land of mavericks and media adulation runs through immigration reform. The Republican base may hate him for it, but the country and a GOP whose unpopularity with Hispanic voters has prompted an existential crisis may end up owing him, as they say in Senate parlance, a debt of gratitude.

That's a shameless piece of advocacy journalism even taking into account that it appears in the Style section of the Post, the left-most precinct of a left-wing newspaper.

But a path to citizenship for ten million or so illegal aliens would, indeed, be a fitting legacy for John McCain. For it eventually would mean the demise of American conservatism as we know it and, quite possibly, a split of the Republican Party.

Signs of intelligent life in the House

Posted: 21 Feb 2013 08:22 AM PST

(Paul Mirengoff)

I have it on excellent authority that, with the sequester looming, House Republicans will pass a bill to provide the various federal departments and agencies with the power to prioritize where cuts go in each organization. The total amount of cuts within a department or agency would be the same, but the cuts could be made on a more rational basis.

I've been advocating this sort of legislation for some time. It has two virtues. From a policy standpoint, it will improve the sequester (if that's what we end up with) by making it less of a blunt instrument.

From a political standpoint, it improves the Republicans' position. Senate Democrats and President Obama will push for alternative legislation that substitutes higher taxes (through the elimination of some deductions) for a significant amount of the spending cuts. When this legisation fails to get off the ground, the Dems will accuse Republicans of forcing draconian cuts in services in order to protect the rich. And the charge will carry force.

But having passed legislation that allows flexibility in the cuts, and having seen that legislation die in the Senate, Republicans will have a forceful charge of their own. They can point out that the Democrats are so opposed to spending cuts that they refused to accept a compromise that would have enabled the government to function better. And when this or that public inconvenience arises, Republcans can attribute it to the Democrats' unwillingness to adopt legislation that could have prevented it.

It's possible that, in a pinch, the Democrats might agree to legislation giving the government flexibility in making cuts. If so, great - we'll get spending cuts that may tend to be more rational.

If inconveniences arise nonetheless, the Dems will say they did everything they could to prevent this, but the cuts are just too deep to manage. Republicans will counter that the cuts are only around 6 percent, and that, with competent management, the inconvenience in question could have been avoided. This debate would probably be a draw.

I'm also informed that after the House passes its sequester legislation, it will move quickly to pass its budget resolution, doing so before end of March. This would be earlier than required, and earlier than ever before. In addition, there apparently is a strategy in place to deal with the debt ceiling and the continuing resolution, though I haven't heard what that strategy is.

The good news is that, if what I'm hearing is true, the House is thinking strategically and, it seems, soundly about how to conduct the ongoing battle royale over the budget and the debt. Let's hope so, for we know that Obama and the Senate Dems are.

Leverett's lesson

Posted: 21 Feb 2013 04:38 AM PST

(Scott Johnson)

Steve recently recalled the name of former Massachusetts Senator Leverett Saltonstall with fondness. Steve's recollection prompted this first-hand account by attorney and Power Line reader Bill Levin in which Saltonstall, or at least one of his life lessons, makes a cameo appearance:

It is not every day that you get to share a Leverett Saltonstall story involving Eliot Richardson and Judge Bork.
During the Bork confirmation hearings, working in the Department of Justice's Office of Legal Counsel under Chuck Cooper and Mike Carvin, I reviewed Judge Bork's Watergate-era history. While it is widely known that Judge Bork fired Archibald Cox, it is practically unknown that Eliot Richardson, before resigning as Attorney General, called Bob to his office to beg him to perform his constitutional duty of firing an executive branch officer pursuant to the President's lawful direction. Otherwise, argued Richardson, there would be a true constitutional crisis.
The story of the meeting was told to us in vivid detail by Judge Bork. It was confirmed in discussions with Eliot Richardson during our interviews related to the nomination process. Shamefully, Eliot Richardson never came forward publicly, when it mattered at the time or in subsequent historical accounts, to absolve Judge Bork of his supposed infamy in executing the Saturday Night Massacre. At the same time, all those years later, Richardson agreed to testify in favor of Judge Bork's nomination before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Which brings us to Leverett Saltonstall. I am standing alone with Eliot Richardson off-stage as he is about to be called to testify. Richardson is, to put it charitably, in a rambling mood, not at all eager to focus, or be focused, on the events and chronology of the long passed Watergate era. He turns to me and says, apropos of nothing, "It reminds of old Leverett Saltonstall. He taught me you can go right to the line, but you cannot cross it." There was no obvious response, but there was true dread that he was about to give incoherent testimony.
Leave it to the old pros. Richardson marches off to the witness chair and, with the cameras rolling, shakes off the cobwebs and gives dead perfect testimony. Perfect in every respect, except one. Even then, he did not publicly disclose his role in the firing of Archibald Cox.

Thanks to Mr. Levin for permission to publish his recollection.

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Why Celebrate Washington's Birthday?

This column by former federal judge and ACRU policy board member Richard Bender Abell was published in the Mount Vernon Gazette

A great nation - a great democracy - needs heroes to set an example - a paradigm for conduct, a coalescence of our own defining traits.

Currently we live in an anti-heroic age. Egalitarianism presides. The great American Revolution was about Liberty - not egalitarianism. The latter was part and parcel of the French and Soviet Revolutions. We sought Liberty as God given - Liberty under God; the French and the Soviets sought freedom from God. Their legacy is that of a hecatomb of death and violence.

To be subordinate to God suggests inequality. Despots have always understood this. Despots have always sought to banish God from the social equation. If there is no personal God, then we can all be ideologically equivalent and if we are all the same then the concept of the heroic ... or the inexplicable appearance of great men and women in history, is an inconsistent chink in the armor of the Brave New World--the hydra head of collectivism. It would be an admission that some men are simply unlike others; that some men are different.

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The Kidnapping Lobby Is at It Again

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published February 18, 2013 on The Washington Times website.

What's the real message behind Barack Obama's call in his State of the Union speech for taxpayer-funded "universal" preschool and his trip to a Georgia preschool last Thursday for photo ops?

It's that the government wants to get its hands on our children even earlier.

From the time children are 5 or 6 years old up through their senior year of high school, government schools run by left-wing teachers' unions have them at least seven hours a day, five days a week during most of the year.

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Lars Larson: MO Gun Control Proposal Raises Constitutional Problems

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published February 16, 2013 on Breitbart.com.

Missouri Democrats are trying to join New York, California, and Illinois as states that oppose gun rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution. National talk-radio host Lars Larson--who is not a lawyer--understands the relevant provisions of the Constitution better than many lawyers I know.

One television personality referred to the proposed Missouri ban as going after assault weapons and guns with assault-weapon features. That's half-right: there is no such thing as an assault weapon; it's not a class of firearms. It's a made-up term by anti-gun politicians to scare ordinary Americans into thinking there is some evil type of firearms that must be banned.

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Federal Court Dismisses Lawsuit against Ten Commandments Display

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published February 15, 2013 on Breitbart.com.

The Ten Commandments won in federal court this week in Dixie County, FL, which adopted a policy that allows any of its citizens to erect a display atop the county courthouse's steps. A local Christian man paid to put a six-ton (12,000 lbs.) stone Ten Commandments display there in 2006.

The ACLU sued on behalf of an anonymous North Carolina ACLU member who said he planned to buy property in that area and had to see the display when he went to the county courthouse. Some doubted his claimed intentions, as there was little evidence to support the idea that he seriously planned on making such a purchase.

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Campaign for Working Families

Thursday, February 21, 2013

To: Friends & Supporters

From: Gary L. Bauer

So Much For "Universal" Coverage

Socialized medicine, with the promise of universal healthcare coverage, is the crown jewel of the left's big government agenda. In 2007, as he was preparing his campaign for the presidency, Barack Obama told a union convention, "We can have universal health care by ... by the end of my first term." Obamacare did not achieve universal coverage by 2012. In fact, it is costing more and more people the coverage they currently have.

Tuesday we told you that the CEO of Kroger grocery stores acknowledged that his company was contemplating dropping its health insurance because of Obamacare. This week it was reported that Universal Studios in Orlando, Florida, will no longer be offering health insurance to its part-time employees as of December 31st of this year.

Why not? According to the Orlando Sentinel, the policy Universal offered its part-time employees "will no longer be permitted under the federal Affordable Care Act."

Let me repeat that so no one is confused or tempted to blame "corporate greed" for hurting the "little guy." According to the Orlando Sentinel, the policy Universal offered its part-time employees "will no longer be permitted under the federal Affordable Care Act."

As many as 500 Universal employees stand to lose their current health insurance because of Obamacare. The Sentinel also reports that Walt Disney World is currently evaluating the impact on its 1,400 part-time employees who currently have health insurance policies that will be banned by Obamacare.

This is happening all over the country, and, again, it's not because of "evil" Big Business. Small businesses and the self-employed are getting slammed too. This week I received the following email from a supporter:

"Dear Mr. Bauer,

I just wanted to let you know that my husband and I have recently received a termination letter from our insurance company. We are self-employed and are covered by private insurance... The letter stated they will no longer be offering our plan in California and suggested we sign up in October with a state exchange. Nice, huh? What happened to "If you like your health plan you can keep it"?

As time goes on and the onerous burdens of Obamacare increase, remind your friends and family members that it was Obama and his party that created this mess. Remember that when it comes time to go to the polls in 2014.

Obamacare's "Death Spiral"

Many conservatives warned that Obamacare would not work. Even liberals complained it did not go far enough. Some have speculated that it may have been designed to fail, setting up the left to push for its real goal -- a single-payer, socialized system -- when it finally collapses.

In that same 2007 speech, Barack Obama also said, "I don't think we're going to be able to eliminate employer coverage immediately. There's going to be potentially some transition process." Obamacare is that "transition process."

A column this week in Investor's Business Daily explains why. Obamacare is actually making private health insurance more expensive, dramatically so for younger workers, and creating a "death spiral" for the private insurance industry. Consider these excerpts:

"But as ObamaCare's official launch date approaches, even its backers are beginning to admit that the law could actually create powerful incentives for millions of people and thousands of businesses to drop their coverage, despite the mandate. There is growing concern, for example, that the law's market reforms will cause a huge 'rate shock,' particularly for those young and healthy.

"A February survey of major health insurance companies in five cities across the country found that they expect premiums for this group to climb an average 169%. Aetna CEO Mark Bertolini said late last year that he expects premiums to double for some small businesses and some individuals as a result of the law. ...

"The problem is that if the young and healthy drop coverage, the result would be what the industry calls a 'death spiral.' Premiums will climb as the pool of insured gets sicker, causing still more to cancel their policies."

As insurance costs skyrocket and more and more Americans remain uninsured, Democrats will never admit they were wrong about Obamacare. The left will simply contend that it wasn't allowed to go far enough, and the push for a full-fledged socialized healthcare system as the only alternative will begin in earnest.

Cornyn To Obama: Withdraw Hagel

Kudos to Senator John Cornyn (R-TX). Senator Cornyn sent a letter to President Obama today urging him to withdraw the nomination of Chuck Hagel to be Secretary of Defense. Contrasting the Senate's unanimous support for current Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, Senator Cornyn noted that it would be "unprecedented for a Secretary of Defense to take office without the broad base of bipartisan support."

Cornyn also slammed Hagel's performance at his confirmation hearing as "deeply concerning, leading to serious doubts about his basic competence." You can read the letter here.

Senator Cornyn's letter was signed by fourteen of his GOP colleagues: Marco Rubio (R-FL), Jim Risch (R-ID), Dan Coats (R-IN), David Vitter (R-LA), Roger Wicker (R-MS), Tom Coburn (R-OK), Jim Inhofe (R-OK), Pat Toomey (R-PA), Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Tim Scott (R-SC), Ted Cruz (R-TX), Mike Lee (R-UT), Ron Johnson (R-WI) and John Barrasso (R-WY).

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The  congressional formula that determines the annual Medicare payment update for  physicians, the sustainable growth rate (SGR), was supposed to cut Medicare  doctors' pay each year starting in 2002. But that congressional formula is so  flawed and unworkable that every year since 2003, Congress has stepped in to  stop it from going into effect. In 2013, without another congressional "doc  fix," the physicians would have had a pay cut of 26.5 percent.

The  formula is called the sustainable growth rate because it links Medicare  physician pay increases to the performance of the general economy, not to the  market-based conditions of supply and demand that would determine the price of  medical services. So if Medicare physcians' pay in any given year rises faster  than economic growth, then their pay is automatically reduced the following  year.

There's an added dimension to this problem: Every year the pay cut  is delayed, the size of the cut the following year is bigger.

So, instead  of abolishing the formula, Congress sets off an annual panic among Medicare  physicians. It's a classic example of the fundamental foolishness of imposing  administrative prices, plus price controls, that are divorced from economic  reality. The annual congressional panic is proof that this approach doesn't  work.
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Heritage Culture Watch

February 21, 2013

Honoring the Courage of Fatherhood
by Derrick Morgan, Vice President, Domestic and Economic Policy

The most fundamental form of government is the family and it is falling apart. Americans across the political spectrum are beginning to recognize it.

President Barack Obama, in this year's State of the Union address, said he wanted to work to "strengthen families by removing the financial deterrents to marriage for low-income couples, and doing more to encourage fatherhood - because what makes you a man isn't the ability to conceive a child; it's having the courage to raise one."

He is exactly right. Obama's own marriage, of course, provides a shining example of a strong family. But he comes from a broken family himself, and knows what it is to have an absent father.

Until recent human history, the vast majority of children lived with their fathers.

Today, according to the Family Research Council's Marriage and Religion Research Institute, less than half of 17-year-olds have always lived with their intact biological family.

Shockingly, that figure is only 17 percent for African-Americans, compared to 1941 when it was 90 percent. For the vast majority of those not living in intact families, their biological father is gone.

As Robert Rector of The Heritage Foundation has shown, the best anti-poverty program is marriage: When a child's father is married to his mother, the probability of the child's living in poverty drops by 82 percent.

Absent fathers don't just harm their children economically. A father's influence on children is documented and widely accepted. Adolescents without dads in their lives tend to exhibit more anti-social behavior. To be blunt, they get into trouble. Social science indicates that fathers play a different and complementary role to mothers in raising children, particularly sons.

All of this is not to blame single mothers, many of whom are doing the best they can under difficult circumstances. They would be the first to say how tough it is to go it alone.

Again, the president's life story is an example of escape from the disadvantages of broken families. It is especially important for civil society groups, congregations and extended families to do their best to support single parents. Mentoring from older men can be a great encouragement to young men whose fathers aren't around.

Instead of relying on backup plans, though, we'd all be better off with more fathers and intact families. Those of us who are fathers must realize we are the first line of defense and, along with our wives, the most important people in the lives of our children.

If American culture doesn't honor the role of fathers, young people won't understand the importance of young men growing up in responsibility - and young women won't understand what to look for in a mate. Rather than honoring fatherhood, though, too often our society minimizes the importance of fathers in the home. So much so that a live-in dad is seen, at best, as optional.

Over time, what President Obama calls the courage of fatherhood could inspire generations of young men to make family a central part of their goals, hopes and dreams.

Even as TV and other aspects of pop culture belittle or ignore the importance of fathers, though, America's parents, educators and other cultural leaders should explain why dads are so invaluable.

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Marriage Reduces Child Poverty

Single-mother families are more than four times more likely to be in poverty than married-couple families. Fewer than one in 10 married-couple families with children live at or below the federal poverty level.

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Why a Car Commercial Can Make You Cry

Is there a veteran of the U.S. Armed Forces in your life? If so, tears likely came to your eyes when you saw Jeep's Super Bowl commercial. Oprah Winfrey's voice-over was a moving tribute to those who fight for us: "In your home, in our hearts-you've been missed. You've been needed. You've been cried for, prayed for."

For those of us who have had loved ones in harm's way in Iraq, Afghanistan, or other overseas bases in the past few years, the ad acknowledged that desire above all others: to bring them home safely.

"When you're home, we're more than a family. We are a nation that is whole again."

Our 22 million veterans are indeed part of the whole that is America. But after they've gone through hell on the battlefield, they come home-and then what? Home looks different from the home they left. After seeing what they've seen, feeling what they've felt-they will never be the same again.

At Heritage's Bloggers Briefing this week, Colonel David W. Sutherland, U.S. Army (Ret.), talked about that difficult transition from fighting for his life in Iraq to driving calmly down a road in Texas.

>>> Watch Col. Sutherland describe the experience of saying things your family doesn't understand

Col. Sutherland, executive director of the Dixon Center for Military and Veterans Community Services, was introducing the audience to the driving force behind a new documentary called Veteran Nation that seeks to empower Americans to support service members at home. "There is an overarching desire by the American people to want to help," he said. "They just don't know how. And it's this film, the understanding of how, that builds public awareness."

If you search for an organization that helps veterans, you can find 400,000 websites. So where do you start? Both the Pentagon and the Department of Veterans Affairs have concluded that linking those who want to help with veterans and their families is the single greatest and most important challenge they face.

That's where Veteran Nation comes in-to educate people on these efforts and prompt discussions of where each of us can fit in. Sutherland said these connections are important because this support and integration is an undertaking for communities, not the government:

I fought for my family, my neighbors, my community, and my buddies on my left and my right. And I come home to my family, my neighbors, my community. I look for new buddies on my left and my right, and I don't come home to big-government organizations. And that recognition, that ability to articulate that, is told so well in Veteran Nation.

The film is a 30-minute documentary that goes inside the war stories-and the homecomings-of our fighting men and women. It was produced by filmmakers at ColdWater Media and by volunteers from Esprit de Corps, a non-profit group led by Heritage's vice president for foreign policy, James Jay Carafano.

Carafano, a West Point graduate, is a 25-year Army veteran who rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel, serving in Europe, Korea, and the United States. He was inspired to make Veteran Nation after learning about a group in Bozeman, Montana, that provides a healing environment for wounded service members. Warriors and Quiet Waters uses its community's resources-in this case, fly fishing-to connect veterans with each other and support them.

"While not every town in America is blessed with rivers and scenery like in the movie A River Runs Through It, every town could muster what it does best to serve those who served," Carafano has said. "All it takes is a commitment of contact, comradeship, and community to make a difference."

Today, The Heritage Foundation will host a screening of Veteran Nation. But this is just the beginning-the movie was made to send into communities across the country. Esprit de Corps will provide you with a DVD of the film if you would like to host a screening wherever you are. Please visit www.servingourvets.org for information.

Senator Chuck McIIhenney

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February 21, 2013

McIlhinney Bill Would Require Financial Transparency of Political Party Leaders

HARRISBURG -- Statewide and county political party officers would be subject to greater transparency under legislation introduced by Sen. Chuck McIlhinney (R-10).

McIlhinney's legislation would require any individual who holds a statewide or county political party office of chairman, vice chairman, secretary or treasurer to file a Statement of Financial Interests with the state Ethics Commission. The statements must include all direct or indirect sources of income, gifts received, creditors, transportation and lodging expenses, as well as all real estate, financial and transferred business interests.

Elected officials, candidates for public office, political subdivision solicitors, public officials and many state employees are already required to file a Statement of Financial Interests under current law.

"The General Assembly has made significant strides in improving oversight and accountability of the use of tax dollars, but very little has been done to provide transparency of the political system," McIlhinney said. "A stronger system of checks and balances is needed to ensure these individuals cannot abuse their power as political leaders."

McIlhinney introduced similar legislation during the previous legislative session, but noted that action on his proposal is even more urgent in light of recent allegations of improper conduct by the Bucks County Republican Party Chairman.

"County and statewide political party officers can wield a tremendous amount of power and influence without the slightest hint of accountability," McIlhinney said. "Disclosing the financial interests of party leaders is one of the surest ways to prevent them from overstepping their authority."

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