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April 11, 2013
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WEDNESDAY CHRONICLE
President Goes Wobbly on Nuclear Weapons
April 10, 2013
The Foundation
"National defense is one of the cardinal duties of a statesman." --John Adams
Editorial Exegesis
"President Obama came to office in 2009 promising to negotiate with America's enemies and create a world without nuclear weapons. Four years later, North Korea is threatening America with nuclear attack, Iran is closer to its own atomic arsenal, and the world is edging ever closer to a dangerous new era of nuclear proliferation. The promises and the reality are connected. ... All of this is occurring even as Mr. Obama has pursued the most aggressive nuclear arms control agenda since the 1970s -- or more likely because of it. In April 2009, the President famously declared that reducing U.S. nuclear stockpiles 'will then give us a greater moral authority to say to Iran, don't develop a nuclear weapon; to say to North Korea, don't proliferate nuclear weapons.' Mr. Obama has since cut the U.S. arsenal in the Start treaty with Russia and he's negotiating more reductions that he may not submit for Senate ratification. None of this 'moral authority' has had the least deterrent effect on Iran or North Korea. The truth is the opposite. The world can see the U.S. has acquiesced in North Korea's weapons program and lacks the will to stop Iran. It can see the U.S. is shrinking its own nuclear capacity through arms control, even as rogue threats grow. And it can see the U.S. is ambivalent about its allies getting nuclear weapons even as it does little to shore up the U.S. umbrella or allied defenses. Above all, the world can hear Mr. Obama declare for domestic American audiences that 'the tide of war is receding' despite the growing evidence to the contrary. On present trend, the President who promised to rid the world of nuclear weapons is setting the stage for their greatest proliferation since the dawn of the atomic age." --The Wall Street Journal
A Form of Gun Confiscation Has Reportedly Begun in New York State - Here's the Justification Being Used
Apr. 9, 2013
Update: Hear an interview with the lawyer representing some of the New Yorkers who were forced to surrender their guns and permits (at the end of this story).
Despite promises from the president and a host of other politicians who are pushing for more gun control that nobody is coming for your guns, the confiscation of guns and gun permits has apparently started in some form in New York State. One attorney representing several people who have been forced to surrender their guns spoke with TheBlaze and alerted us to some disturbing facts:
Gun owners are losing their 2nd Amendment rights without due process.
HIPAA Laws are likely being compromised and the 4th and 5th Amendments are being violated in some of these cases
How did confiscation start happening so quickly? Apparently the gun grabbing was triggered by something inside the NY SAFE Act - New York's new gun law - that has a provision apparently mandating confiscation of weapons and permits if someone has been prescribed psychotropic drugs.
This is curious because in his January 9th address, Cuomo specifically addressed the issue of confiscation:
Ahead of Sen. Toomey's announcement with Sen. Manchin on a proposal to expand background checks I wanted to reach out to you to with as much information as possible. There will be a lot of misinformation floating around about the bill and Sen. Toomey specifically asked that I email each one of you to bring you up to speed. Below is a short-snapshot of what the bill does. An expanded overview is attached. Please do not hesitate to call or email me with any questions.
Overview of the Toomey/Manchin Proposal
Sens. Toomey and Manchin (D-WV), 2 A rated NRA members, have done their best to find a common sense middle ground on how to protect the 2nd amendment while keeping guns out of the hands of criminals and the mentally ill.
Their proposal will be offered as an amendment to replace a background check bill currently pending on the floor introduced by Sen. Chuck Schumer which goes much further.
The bill has 3 main components;
National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) Update:
Compels states to provide all available records to NICS or face a loss in criminal justice grant funding.
Shortfalls in state reporting to NICS system was widely acknowledged as one of the precipitating factors that led to the Virginia Tech massacre, where the shooter passed several background checks despite being adjudicated mentally incompetent by a state court.
Expansion of Background Checks:
Requires background checks for sales conducted online and at gun shows.
In Pennsylvania, the practical effect is that background checks would need to be performed for long gun sales at gun shows and intrastate sales done over the internet or other forms of mass communication. Currently, all sales at gun shops and all handgun sales (with few exceptions) require background checks.
We know roughly 1.7 million criminals and mentally ill people have been stopped from buying a gun by a background check since 1999. What we don't know is how many of them got a gun anyway at a gun show or different private sale. 91 percent of checks are instantaneous.
No background checks needed for sales or transfers between family and friends.
Commission on Mass Violence:
This section of the bill creates a commission to study the causes of mass violence in the United States, looking at all aspects of the problem, including guns, school safety, mental health, and violent media or video games.
The press now reports Senator Pat Toomey is the top Republican working for a deal to pass Obama's gun control. Not only is Toomey REFUSING to support Senators Rand Paul, Ted Cruz and Mike Lee's filibuster of Obama's gun control package; he's actually working behind the scenes to help Obama PASS new gun control. And his action is critical because a dozen or so weak-kneed Republicans and squishy Democrats wait in the wings, ready to pass this anti-gun nightmare if Toomey will lead the surrender. No wonder insiders are starting to call Pat Toomey "One Term Toomey" and "Benedict Toomey." While Toomey may try to talk like a conservative, he has a history of compromising away your Second Amendment rights.
* In 2011, he voted AGAINST Senator Rand Paul's amendment to the Patriot Act that would have protected gun owners from warrantless searches. * He's also supported BANNING private firearms sales at gun shows (Roll Call, H.R. 2122, June 18, 1999). Yvonne, that's not even the part that makes my blood boil.
You see, without Pat Toomey and other weak-kneed Republicans trying to compromise with President Obama's gun grabbers in the Senate, Obama's gun control legislation would very likely be dead already.
In fact, if Toomey and 40 other Senators stand with Rand Paul and Ted Cruz in the filibuster, Obama's gun control is dead. 100%.
But instead of standing firm, Pat Toomey is breathing new life into Barack Obama's gun grab!
If that makes you mad, please take five minutes and take action below.
Call Toomey's office and give him an earful.
Let Senator Toomey know you're disappointed that he's considering selling-out gun owners, and INSIST he support Rand Paul's pro-gun filibuster instead.
Then forward this e-mail to EVERY single person in Pennsylvania you know and ask them to please take action IMMEDIATELY to help stop Toomey's gun grab.
LibertyNEWS TV - "Guns 'n' Poses, Obama Style"
Check out the trailer to an important new movie, Silent Conquest: The End of Freedom of Expression in the West
Announcing - Women On Target, Getting Comfortable With Firearms
Place: Wicen's Shooting Range, 3179 Mozart Road, Furlong, PA 18925
Date: April 26-27.
This is a 2-day class, 4 hours total. You may attend Day 1 classroom only, or you may attend both Day 1 classroom & Day 2 shooting event. You may NOT attend Day 2 shooting event without attending the Day 1 classroom portion. (Some students may choose not to attend the shooting portion, but we will encourage them to do so.)
Day 1 Classroom (40 people maximum): Friday, April 26, 2013 from 7-9pm Day 2 Range: Saturday, April 27, 2013 Two sessions (20 people each maximum): First come first serve 9 am -11 am 1 pm - 3 pm
Cost: Each Day is $25.00. Total cost if you attend both Day 1 and Day 2 will be $50.00 per student. You must make payment in the form of check or cash.
On Day 1 students will take an after-hours range tour, learn firearm safety, reasons to own a firearm, and have the opportunity to handle and ask questions about various pistols, rifles and shotguns.
On Day 2 students will split into 3 small groups, and have the opportunity to shoot pistols, rifles and shotguns, with an NRA Certified Instructor coaching them through each safety step.
All firearms and ammunition will be supplied. Up to 50 rounds per student will be allocated.
This will be performed by Lori Wicen of Wicen's Range (not CGOBC):
Email will be checked each evening and respond accordingly. Please note how many ladies will be attending this course in your email. (Lori will answer and allocate spots according to the time stamp on the email from you.)
Lori will keep a chart of interest, and then highlight when their check is received.
Lori will let us know (via the the Facebook post) when she has 15 in either Saturday session so we know when one class is almost full.
Check must be at least $25.00 (per person) .. you may pay the entire $50 (per person) if you want to lock in both days. If you only pay $25 (per person) then your Saturday class will not be locked in and you risk not getting the time slot you desire.
Please make check payable to: Wicen's Shooting Range Mailed to: Wicen's Shooting Range 3179 Mozart Road Furlong, PA 18925 note in comment area or enclose a note: WOT April 26, and specify morning or afternoon Saturday session, put their telephone number on the check ***You must submit payment (cash or check only) no later than close of business Saturday April 13th or your spot will be released.
contact info: loriwicen@yahoo.com Telephone at the range: 215-598-3534 leave a message!
************************************************ There will be a raffle on day one where four lucky women will receive their $25 "DAY 1" payment refunded and on day two there will be a raffle where four lucky women (two in each session) will receive their "DAY 2" payment refunded. ************************************************ As an added bonus through the generosity of Tanner's Sport Center, Ray Tanner is offering 5% off a gun purchase to attendees of the course after completion of the full course.
***Please refer all questions pertaining to this course to Lori Wicen. loriwicen@yahoo.com 215-598-3534
Gun Owners of America
Gun Control can be Passed Only If Republicans Sell Out
Tell them Gun Owners oppose "universal" background checks
"Gun-control measures that seemed destined to become law after the school shootings in Newtown, Conn., are in jeopardy amid a fierce lobbying campaign by firearms advocates." - The Washington Post, April 1, 2013
We realize that you have been receiving several emails from Gun Owners of America in recent days. And while we apologize for filling your inbox so frequently, we hope you realize that we are in an all-out fight to stop Congress from infringing upon our liberties.
Your activism is making a difference, but we need to keep the pressure on!
As so, as we approach "gun control Armageddon" next week, we are faced, not surprisingly, with "sell-outs and rumors of sell-outs."
But we can conclude that all gun control will die UNLESS Republicans flinch. And this is why, now that anti-gun Senator Chuck Schumer is on the verge of a humiliating defeat, he's scrambling for some feckless Republican who will help him turn GOP victory into GOP defeat.
Anti-gun columnist Ruth Marcus spoke for Schumer last Wednesday morning when she suggested that, as a desperation measure, anti-gunners might have to drop recordkeeping from the universal registry bill.
But even if ALL recordkeeping were dropped, which is doubtful, background checks would mean that:
Americans would still have to get the government's permission to own a firearm from whatever source.
Americans in rural areas without access to the Internet could be barred from gun ownership.
The Brady Check system would break down on weekends even more often than it currently does.
Eight percent of all applicants would still be illegally denied the right to purchase firearms through "false negatives."
Schumer would still claim that he "broke the back of the gun lobby."
The universal registry bill would still be nothing but a vehicle for consideration of other gun control now - and a platform for gun control demands in the future.
The solution to all of this is easy, and it's for Senators to support the Paul-Cruz-Lee filibuster! Tell them not to let Congress sidle up to the gun control buffet and to defeat the motion to proceed to gun control.
ACTION: Click here to contact your Senators. Demand they support the Paul-Cruz-Lee filibuster and oppose the motion to proceed to any gun control vehicle.
The system will automatically select a pre-written editable response, depending upon whether your Senator is a Republican or Democrat.
VALLEY FORGE PATRIOTS APRIL MEETING
FRIDAY, APRIL 12, 6pm AT PJ RYANS
BRIDGE ST. PHOENIXVILLE
We will have an organizational meeting with members. The VFP wants to talk with our members to review how the organization is structured, what kind of help we need to be successful and to discuss our plans for 2013. We also need to discuss meeting location(s) and what amenities you want.
There will be no formal speakers, however, Paula Stiles will fill us in on the latest with Smart Meters and state legislation dealing with them.
We really need your thoughts and ideas about how you want your organization to function and what you think we should focus on. We have learned that we can't do everything because there is so much going on at all levels.We must focus on a few most important issues.
Should we work on projects at the local level, the state level, and/or the federal level? Or, should we pick several focal points that could be worked on at all levels? Voter ID would be one of these issues. Should the VFP continue its legislator visit program. This would be another program that would involve all levels of government. How about UN Agenda 21? School Board?
The VFP Steering Committee wants your ideas, your help, and your involvement in continuing to make our programs successful.
PLEASE COME OUT AND JOIN IN THE DISCUSSION!
P.S. Since we are having the meeting at a commercial establishment, and since the room is free, we are expected to buy our food and drink at PJ Ryans. No outside food or drink please.
SAVE THE DATE: APRIL 16th CITIZENS FOR CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT
Tuesday, April 16, 2013, 6:30-8:30 pm
Quakertown Library, 401 W. Mill Street, Quakertown
hosts PEG LUKSIK -
"EDUCATION: From the 3 R's to the 3 P's"
(The Federal Government Takeover of Education)
Founder & Chairman Pennsylvania Parents Commission and National Parents Commission - to give parents a voice in education and public policy: State-wide leader in successful effort to stop implementation of Outcome Based Education
Founder, CEO, Chair Board of Trustees of Mom's House - service network assisting single parents and children in completing education to become employable
State Chairman, Constitutional Party of Pennsylvania 1995
T.V. host "The Learning Curve"
Co-author "Outcome Based Education: The States Assault on our Children's Values"
WHO CONTROLS THE CHILDREN??For a preview of this fantastic speaker, watch this dynamite YouTube video
Peg Luksik "Who Controls Our Children" How Public Schools Dumb Down Kids
Our meeting for April is TUESDAY April 16 (not Thursday like usual) at 7pm at Rock (857 Main St Harleysville). We have Leo Knepper from Citizens' Alliance of Pennsylvania. He will talk about PA state issues. Please come!
Here are action items Pam wanted to forward to you. 1. Members of PA Tea Party Patriots are working on a plan to get our State legislatures to pay attention to how our schools are implementing curriculum to conform to Common Core. http://nopacommoncore.com/
PA state education department agreed to implement the Common Core Curriculum before it was written.
Antithetical to our principles: 1) Limited govt: Obama admin enlisted private organizations to create standards which are replacing the PA standards. We don't know who these orgs are and have no recourse to contact them. We're on the hook for federal education $ to teach curricula to meet the standards. Should remain state issue. 2) Fiscal Responsibility: $645 million to implement in PA. 3) Is also invasion of privacy: Looks to implement a student tracking database which includes metrics like health histories, disciplinary record, family income range and religious affiliation.
2. Ungag the Benghazi 33 - The American people deserve the truth! Sen. Lindsey Graham is the only voice speaking out on the Benghazi cover-up. Attached is a .txt letter for you to address, sign, print and send to your representative or senator.
3. Election Laws We're not affiliated with John Birch Society but the info below, when combined with "immigration reform", welfare/medicaid expansion/Obamacare, student loan forgiveness, etc, looks an awful lot like a well-orchestrated plan to secure voter blocks and the voting system in the Progressive's favor. This from the JBC::
Stop the Federal Power Grab of Our Elections
No fewer than five bills to increase federal control over American elections have been filed in the 113th Congress. The Obama administration has appointed a bipartisan presidential commission supposedly for the purpose of streamlining election procedures and reducing the long lines. However, even a cursory review of the bills already proposed reveals that passage of these bills would enable an unconstitutional federal power grab over American elections accompanied by drastic reductions in the safeguards against electoral fraud that remain in at least some of the states. The bills submitted so far are:
H.R. 50 - Streamlined and Improved Methods at Polling Locations and Early Voting Act of 2013 (SIMPLE)
H.R. 280 - Same Day Registration Act of 2013
H.R. 281 - Voter Access Protection Act of 2013
H.R. 289 - Value Our Time Elections Act of 2013 (VOTE)
The Founding Fathers of our republic knew how dangerous to freedom centralized control over elections would be. But they also feared opponents of the proposed U.S. Constitution might try to undermine the new form of government by failing to call elections. That's why they put a provision in Article I, Section 4 saying Congress may alter the states' voting laws. The purpose of this grant of power was explained in Federalist Paper #59 as only to be used to address specific extraordinary situations and would be temporary. Further confirmation of this explanation can be inferred by its placement in Article I, Section 4 and using the word "may." The ongoing permanent powers for Congress are granted in Article I, Section 8 using the word "shall" in listing those powers under the phrase "Congress shall have the Power To."; History has proved the dangers of centralized control over a country's elections. Witness those of modern-day, third world dictatorships or those of an earlier day in Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. United States Ambassador Arthur Bliss Lane documented the fraud in the Polish election in 1947 where he quoted reliable estimates that 60 percent of the Polish voters voted for the Polish Peasant Party and its freedom agenda, but that the Stalin-controlled, centralized elections bureaucrats counted the votes behind closed doors and declared the Communists the winners. We urge contact with members of Congress to alert them of this danger and ask them to pledge to block the dangerous centralized control over our elections that would be enabled by the five bills mentioned above. The ability for us to cast our ballots in free and unfettered elections is at stake.
Click here to send a message to your representative and senators to alert them to this danger and to request that they block this legislation.
5. Smart meters - This from our friends in central PA Tea Party Patriots:
SMART METER update is as follows: REP ROBERT GODSHALL could be the nail in our coffin if we don't act fast. Please call him and ask that he does these two things. First, ask him to bring Reese's three Stop Smart Meter Bills out of committee and ask him to vote "yes" for all three bills. The bills are as follows: HB 902 which is "Consumer Opt Out". HB 899 which is "Repeal a mandate to install smart meter technology on the buildings of their customers". HB 906 which is "Consumer Consent to share smart meter information". PLEASE CALL GODSHALL NOW! Rep. Robert W. Godshall (717) 783-6428. Fax: (717) 787-7424 TTY: (855) 282-0614
Thanks, See you on Tuesday for our meeting with Leo Knepper! -Jim, Pam, Tim
Updated PA Leadership Conference Agenda Released
The conference which will be held April 19-20, 2013 at the Radisson Penn Harris Convention Center in Camp Hill (Harrisburg), PA.
Registration includes admission to all conference functions EXCEPT the pre-dinner reception. Registration DOES include the Friday evening dinner with speaker Steve Hayes of Fox News/The Weekly Standard (do not register separately for the dinner); the Saturday breakfast with John Gizzi and Saturday lunch with pollster/commentator Scott Rasmussen. It also includes all panels, workshops and speakers. The only function NOT included in the registration fee is the pre-dinner reception with Steve Hayes, which is priced separately.
Depart: Doylestown Library When: 8 AM Rally at the Capitol followed by lobbying visits 12noon Returning to Doylestown 8:30
Cost is Free To reserve your spot
Please Call Anastasia at 215-534-1851
April 23rd-Bus Trip-2nd Amendment Rally
Depart: Doylestown Library When: 7:30 a.m. Arrive: Harrisburg, PA Depart: 2:30 p.m. Cost: $50.00 due ASAP to reserve bus(es) Includes: Shirt, Drink
Please mail your check payable to CGOBC as follows:
CGOBC PO Box 745 Doylestown, PA 18901
Come join the Concerned Gun Owners of Bucks County (COGBC) on their bus trip to Harrisburg to promote H.B. 357. Plan on entering the capital to meet with your legislators and to support your 2nd Amendment Right!
We are so blessed that over the last four years thousands of churches in over 60 countries have stood in solidarity with Israel through CUFI Sunday. From the largest cities to the smallest towns, from mega churches in the American heartland to underground churches in China, Christians have come together to express their love and support for Israel.
We pray that your church will participate in the fifth annual CUFI Sunday on May 5, 2013. CUFI will provide you with all the materials you need to implement a successful CUFI Sunday, including videos, literature and Pastor John Hagee's personal sermon notes for your use.
Please click hereto participate in CUFI Sunday. As you'll see, you don't have to be a pastor to ensure that your church stands with Israel on CUFI Sunday.
The date we've chosen for CUFI Sunday -- May 5th -- is close to Israeli Independence Day. As the Jewish State celebrates her 65th birthday, there is no better present we can send than the news of thousands of churches standing in solidarity with her!
We look forward to uniting in action and prayer on behalf of Israel with you and your congregation on May 5, 2013.
May God Bless You and Those that You Love,
Pastor John Hagee National Chairman
David Brog Executive Director
Brigitte Gabriel to Speak
in Baltimore, MD!
Brigitte Gabriel
Leading Global Islamic Terrorism Expert
CLICK HERE to view Brigitte's special video invitation!
It is my privilege to invite you to a special event featuring Brigitte Gabriel, Founder and President of ACT! for America. This event is free and open to the public and will be held at the following:
Central Christian
7411 Rossville Blvd. Baltimore, MD 21237
Monday, May 6th at 7 pm
Ms. Gabriel will speak on the rise of Islamic radicalism in your community and in our nation. Her story of survival as a persecuted Christian living in a bomb shelter for 7 years will have you captivated and inspired! She will share how the events of 9/11 compelled her to start ACT! for America, the largest national security grassroots organization in the U.S.
The recent assaults at our embassies have been a sobering wake-up call to America. The lesson is that we should be displaying strength to our enemies, not appeasement which only demonstrates our weakness. Without question, the threats of radical Islam to America have increased.
These are just some of the threats Brigitte will discuss:
Suppression of criticism of Islam
Homegrown jihad
Terrorists infiltrating our borders
The Muslim Brotherhood and creeping sharia law in America
Misrepresentation of history in our public education
You will hear first-hand how ACT! for America is successfully rolling back the tide of radical Islam...how we are winning legislative victories...how we don't have to live in fear or resign ourselves to the inevitability of the threats arrayed against us...and how we will prevail.
I encourage you to forward this email to everyone you know. For those who are not familiar with ACT! for America, please share this short video with them.
I know those of you who have heard Brigitte will agree, not only do you not want to miss this, but you will want to bring your relatives and friends with you. It will be an event people will be talking about for a long time to come!
Invite your friends and come join us in Baltimore, MD! We look forward to seeing you on May 6th
Guy Rodgers Executive Director
$25 OFF Bus if you register before April 22 $25 OFF Participation if you register before April 22
June 19 - 21 we will convene at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, DC for our fourth annual National Conference & Legislative Briefing.
And here's some really great news: This year's registration fee is only $229! Register by April 15th and you'll receive our "Early Bird" rate of just $189!
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.
So make your plans now to join us in our nation's capital for what promises to be our best National Conference & Legislative Briefing ever!
More details to come!
As Israelis celebrate their 65th Independence Day this year, we should all take time out to reflect on the miracle of Israel's independence. We must also ask ourselves the question, "What can I do to ensure that this miracle of Israel survives and thrives?"
We announced earlier this week that we'll be headed to New Orleans the first weekend in August for this year's RedState Gathering. As a member of our RedState family, we'd like to extend exclusive Early Bird registration and pricing to you (just use the promo code EARLYBIRD on the registration page).
The 2013 RedState Gathering will be held August 2-3 at the Westin Canal Place in New Orleans, LA. We'll have two full days of speakers and activities and you can expect a good mix of elected officials and potential candidates for the 2014 cycle (we'll keep you informed as additions are made).
The Gathering has always been a unique event, in that all speakers, even the most in-demand and influential, pay their own way and make their own travel arrangements. This helps keep our costs low, a savings we are happy to pass along to our conference attendees. Additionally, we strive to get you up close to the speakers, ask them to take your questions, and we take care of nearly all your meals during the conference. Bottom line: fewer frills, more thrills and access.
We are thrilled to once again be joined by Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, who will be hosting a reception for all attendees and appear at the Gathering podium as a keynote speaker. A huge hit in 2012, we're looking forward to Gov. Jindal playing an even larger role this year as he welcomes us to his home state.
Now, more than ever, true conservative activists must come together to exchange ideas and strategize for the future. That's what this year's Gathering is all about. We hope you'll join us.
P.S. Don't delay! You'll receive 20% off if you register today - just use the promo code EARLYBIRD. Click here.
From a trusted friend:
As some of you may know, I am associated with Coventry Christian Schools as a parent of a graduate (2010) and as member of the Board of Trustees. Last October we spent a wonderful evening honoring Mark Niehls at our revitalized Founder's Dinner and celebrated our shared heritage in the remarkable community that is Coventry Christian Schools. Our vision for future Founder's Dinners is to inspire and inform not only our alumni and current CCS families but to inspire and inform the Tri-County Area and even our region by hosting speakers and artists who can uniquely assist us in celebrating the heritage, core values, and mission of CCS while also lifting our vision for an even greater future built upon the foundation of our past. The caliber of our speakers and guest artists should provide us with wonderful opportunities to share our CCS story with new partners in Christian education. Proceeds from the dinner will be applied to our annual Coventry Kids Fund for CCS scholarships.
This year we are proud to announce that our distinguished guest and speaker is Dr. Benjamin Carson, and our dinner's theme is "Faith of Our Fathers: The Role of Faith in American Schools." Please join us as we welcome Dr. Carson to the Tri-County Area and celebrate the great things God is doing at CCS!
Dr. Carson is a highly regarded neurosurgeon and motivational speaker who has addressed various audiences across the country. He is one of the most honored and recognized physicians in the world and holds more than 60 honorary doctorate degrees along with hundreds of awards and citations. He is a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor in the United States. He is the author of five books and is the founder of the Carson Scholars Fund. The 2009 award-winning movie entitled Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story, starring Cuba Gooding, Jr. as Carson, premiered on TNT and is based on his memoir. Dr. Carson is an authentic disciple of Christ, has been married to his wife Candy for more than 37 years, and is the father of three sons.
The 2013 Founder's Dinner, which will once again be a part of our Homecoming festivities, will be held at the historic Sunnybrook Ballroom in Pottstown on Sunday, October 13th, 2013. Doors will open at 4:30pm, followed by dinner at 5:15. Dress will be business/professional. Tickets will be priced at $100 until May 15th, then will be $125, so reserve your tickets for the reduced price.
Due to Dr. Carson's international reputation and recent prominence in the media, including his recent speech at the 2013 National Prayer Breakfast, we fully anticipate that this event will sell out quickly once advertised to the public. Tickets go on sale to the public April 15. If you are interested in attending, tickets can be purchased online. I will send the link out to those who wish to go on April 15
th
. While online reservations are preferred because they facilitate efficient event planning, you may also complete a paper order form, which I can forward to you as well.
All of us at Coventry Christian Schools, look forward to sharing this very special evening with you and acquainting you with the school and its mission!
Blessings,
Christine Gordon
Sponsorships are available as well and are as follows:
Gold Sponsor $3,000
Two tickets at Speaker's Table
Two tickets at Headmaster's Table
Listed as sponsor on school website through 12 months post event
Listed as sponsor on pre-event print marketing
Mentioned by name at event
Full Page ad in Dinner Program
Silver Sponsor $1,500
Two tickets at Speaker's Table
Listed as sponsor on school website through 12 months post event
Half page ad in Dinner Program
Bronze Sponsor $500
Two tickets at Headmaster's Chairman's or Founder's Table
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·Quarter page ad in Dinner Program
Glenn: Help us get in millions of home
Why should you support the "Get TheBlaze" movement to get TheBlaze in millions of homes across the country? For starters, how about a network that will cancel out the damage Al-Jazeera will be doing in America as it replaces Current in your lineup? Check out Glenn's "why" in this exclusive letter HERE.
Ready to take action? Click here to contact your TV provider and urge them to add TheBlaze.
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Sirius XM adds TheBlaze Radio News to Patriot channel
Sirius XM Radio announced today that TheBlaze, Glenn Beck's multi-platform news, information, and opinion network, will produce 24/7 hourly radio newscasts on SiriusXM Patriot, SiriusXM's conservative talk channel. DETAILS
If you're like most of TheBlaze TV community, you watched the first episode of For the Record when it premiered and immediately wanted to share the truth about how the NSA has turned America into a surveillance state. Now, due to popular demand, we have made this must-see episode available on DVD.
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Hi All - I just spoke w/ Lisa Lnancollas@aol.com (717 437 1327) who lives in Lewistown, Pa and is majorly involved in fighting the smart meters............and it's more than just electric, it's water, furnaces/ac's and wells too
We need to share this information. I asked her if she'd speak to groups in our area and she said yes, but would like to include Mike Reese who's written several bills that we want to get out of committee and approved:
2.signs in our yards saying NO SMART METERS......put them around like election signs
3.Let our State Reps know how you feel ie Warren Kampf....tell him you're in favor of the bills against smart meters
4.Do neighbor alerts........call your neighbors if you see trucks coming into the area
5.Write letters to the editors....remember if they get several letters, they're more likely to put at least one in.....educate the public
6.Prepare handouts
7.Send certified letter to electric company and get return receipt of name of person who signed for it
Be aware:
Water Smart Meters.........(IF YOU LET THEM IN, you're giving permission.) YOU DO NOT HAVE TO LET THEM IN
Well Smart Meters......are coming and will limit the amount of water you use.
If you get someone knocking on your door asking if you want to save money on your heat/ac, do not say yes or they'll put a clip on your unit that will limit your usage of air conditioning. The fan will work, but your usage will be CONTROLLED.
IF you get a new wall mount (thermostat & it may be required w/ a new ac unit because of the wiring) for your AC DO NOT GET ONE WITH A GPS in it........there is a cheaper model that has no GPS........ask questions BEFORE you start or consider any changes!!!!!!!!
Important Announcement from SFL
Across America, state and local officials are writing bills and resolutions to protect citizen's from Agenda 21's policies. Because many people do not recognize Agenda 21 in action, property owners still remain at risk.
To help officials recognize Agenda 21's footprint, SFL created a document in a Q&A format that answers:
How do I know Agenda 21 exists in the U.S.?
What does Agenda 21 have to do with sustainable development?
What is wrong with the Brundtland Commission's definition of sustainable development?
How do I know the UN's sustainable development is the same one in our community?
I thought sustainable development is good, what makes you think it is so bad?
How can something like this happen in America?
How will I recognize Agenda 21?
The document has a lot more information for community members and officials, including a brief history of Agenda 21 and actions to take to have safe planning without top-down intervention.
Grants issued in conjunction with government 'sustainability initiatives' contain stipulations or implementation practices that are the primary doorway for Agenda 21/sustainable development to enter your community. These stipulations often require no growth boundaries, income integration through low-income housing demands, reduced vehicle usage, healthy cities, livability principles and other forms of social engineering.
Other grants issued by non-profit groups such as the Packard, Pew or Carnegie Foundations, frequently promote Agenda 21. Often this happens when HUD or some other federal agency funds the foundation with the money they in turn offer as a sustainability-related grant.
Non-governmental organizations:
Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) including ICLEI, the Nature Conservancy, American Farmland Trust and the American Planning Association have close ties to HUD-EPA-DOT sustainability initiatives and promote Agenda 21 through their regional and community work, conservation easements and funding.
Federal agencies:
Federal agency Acts including the Clean Water Act, Clean Air Act and Endangered Species Act have so expanded, that individual's rights are losing way to unfounded and often exaggerated endangerment findings. The solutions to their findings invariably require fines, taxes, property rights' infringements or the outright transfer of private lands to the government.
Preservation programs, National Parks, Historic Places and Byways, Heritage Sites and Legacy Forest programs have exceeded prudent land and species' protection and are now confiscating massive quantities of the U.S. land mass in alignment with Agenda 21 principles.
The planning process:
Planners' surveys - contain unfair questions that do not express all of resident's options
Consensus meetings - are conducted in ways that elicit responses that support the planner's goals rather than genuine community desires
Visioning sessions- may be over-conducted to the point that the vision belongs to the facilitator and only appears to be that of the community.
Stakeholder meetings - can produce misleading results when the stakeholders do not represent the average community member. Frequently the "stakeholders" have a financial or ideological interest in implementing the plan.
Zoning regulations - originating with the American Planning Association (and others,) contains language that establishes the legal framework to implement Agenda 21 in communities. HUD, other federal agencies and firms such as Siemens funded the development of the APA's Growing Smart Legislative Guidebook, 2nd ed. These supporters all have a stake in Agenda 21's implementation.
Conservation easements - often contain undiscussed clauses that severely restrict property owners' rights, reduce property values and favor the land trust for future contract changes.
Regionalism:
Regional councils replace much of the local officials' authority with unelected boardmembers.
As the regional council matures, local rule diminishes, leaving citizens with more distant and reduced representation.
Once a region is formed, the ability to oppose sustainable development is limited.
Generally, when the regional council accepts grant monies, all tethered communities are bound by the grant stipulations.
Regional planning often includes tax base sharing which promotes wealth transfer by forcing community members to pay for services in other locations.
Regional planning often includes "no growth boundaries" that force housing into urban and inner ring suburban areas. This reduces homebuyers' choices and artificially inflates the value of some properties, while reducing it for others.
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.
American Policy Center has recently released a booklet that explains everything you need to know to start fighting back against sustainable programs both locally and nationally. The booklet is called Special Report: Agenda 21 and How to Stop It and is available in the APC store for only $5.95.
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.
In the booklet you will find answers to several roadblocks that grassroots anti-Agenda 21 activists often face, including a definition of property rights and "Resolution to Protect Citizens' Property Rights," which many concerned citizens are already using to tie the hands of power hungry politicians.
This booklet is a great resource for anyone interested in preserving their property rights. It includes all the information to put up a first line of defense and step by step instructions for how to proceed from there. If you face Agenda 21 or Sustainable development in your area or are simply concerned with the national fight this booklet is a must read.
P.S. - The American Policy Center store has recently updated our inventory to include everything you need to fight back against Agenda 21. The revamped catalogue includes the "Stop Agenda 21 Action Kit", which provides users with everything they need to know about Agenda 21 in their own living room, as well as ways to share it with other concerned activists and critical knowledge on how to fight back. The store also offers DVDs of past successful conferences and symposiums, books and articles that deal with the issues of sustainability and Agenda 21 and individually packaged manuals and workbooks to aid you in your activism. You don't need to look any farther than the American Policy Center Store for everything you need to combat Agenda 21 and Sustainable Development in your area.
Common Core goes SOCIAL MEDIA!!! Please share with everyone you know and help us make this a huge success. MARK YOUR CALENDAR!!! Not a TWITTER person.....grab a kid and have some fun.
Parent-Led Reform (@ParentLedReform) will host a Twitter Rally on April 16, 2013 which will start will go from 12:00p-2:00p (EST). We will discuss how the Common Core State Standards effect your family, community and schools? We invite you to participate.
There will be an expert panel and several organizations that will discuss#StopCommonCore. So far I know the panel will consist of:
I'll update with a live link for the Twitter Rally (or you can just follow the hashtag #StopCommonCore) and as the expert panel is finalized.
Update: Be sure to RSVP with the Facebook event invite, this will help keep you up to date with pertinent info.
The whole story on Common Core
Read the sourced and footnoted response to the National Review Online and get all the facts you need to know about Common Core HERE. Compiled by American Principles project and Glenn's research team.
Common Core is the new set of federal education standards being pushed by the Obama administration and several leftist organizations but it's even seeing some support from some conservatives.
defending Common Core, and Glenn gave the definitive response on radio today."Common Core is something that we didn't really get for quite some time and again it's something we've learned from the 9/12 project and concerned parents all around the country that have been bringing this to our attention. When we started in on this work, we thought it was pretty bad. The more we do, the worse it becomes," Glenn said.
Below are some of the points made by the National Review Online in defense of Common Core, followed by Glenn's response.
Today on radio, Glenn gave the definitive response. See that and get all the sources to back it up HERE.
A concerned parent tipped off TheBlaze to the disturbing fact that NY public schools are teaching the U.N.'s Socialist-leaning Universal Human Rights. We also discovered that the schools are delivering this indoctrination using videos made by the Church of Scientology. Learn what our investigation revealedHERE.
TheBlaze has been at the forefront in uncovering the disturbing details of the nationalized curriculum standard known as Common Core. One of the most troubling aspects of this federal program is that government bureaucrats are currently mining sensitive and highly personal information on children through Common Core's tracking system. Watch the powerful segments from The Glenn Beck Program HERE.
Pennsylvanians Against Common Core Facebook page has nearly 450 "friends" which is 8 times that of the pro-Core Facebook page!
Pennsylvanians Against Common Core website has had incredible traffic
We have been contacted by email by many interested parties looking for help and materials in getting the word out and in fighting Common Core. Below are some items that should be of interest to you:
Speakers - Cheryl Boise of the Commonwealth Education Organization will be coordinating speakers that can be available to speak to groups around the state on the subject. You can contact her at: ceb@ceopa.org
Flyers - We have designed an informative flyer for handout at school board meetings, political events and to your friends that should be ready in 10 days. We have ordered 10,000 of these flyers and can mail them out to you upon request when received (be patient). Attached is a one page flyer for your use now that you can print out for distribution.
Suggestion on Curriculum - Many people are telling us that their legislators are arguing that Common Core does NOT control curriculum it only sets standards. We will shortly have a piece debunking that, but in order to not to get lost in a hopeless argument you may just want to call them "national standards" when writing letters to the editor or communicating with your legislator rather than stating that Common Core determines curriculum.
Rallies - Stay tuned, they will be coming at the appropriate time...
State Board of Education Meetings - Please be advised that the PA State Board of Education did hold meetings that technically were open to the public to discuss Common Core prior to voting to enact CCS, but were not well publicized and in some cases were held in buildings with restricted access.
Petition and Passion - the comments that are posted by petition signatories tell a great story of the passion generated by this usurpation of our local and states rights.
Gennell from Reading says: Our family stands firmly against Common Core. Please be advised that our votes WILL depend on your vote against this education standard that would destroy education as we know it.
Amanda from Montgomery County says: Stop this NOW!
Deborah from Dauphin County says: "Stop Common Core and let the local authorities and the PARENTS decide how to educate their children. This is morally wrong."
Susan from Mount Holly Springs says: "Governor Corbett, We do not need Common Core in our schools. Please leave the education of my children alone. "
Michael from Pittsburgh says: "This is an absolute outrage and a violation of our parental rights and state sovereignty."
John from Erie says: "Common Core secondary math education is substandard. Classical literature is being left out in a mad attempt to teach to the test."
Action items:
Contact Secretary of Education Ronald Tomalis at rtomalis@pa.gov and 717-783-6788 and ask him reconsider advancement of Common Core and to hold open well publicized meetings to discuss. Contact your legislator in the PA House and Senate Education Committees and ask them to hold hearings on CCS and to oppose. Please pass on the links to our website and Facebook page to all of your contacts Print and pass out our one page flyer to friends and at meetings. in your area
What information is being collected on your kids through Common Core?
TheBlaze TV subscribers can watch past episodes covering Common Core and CSCOPE. The March 14th episode focused on Common Core and the March 7th episode focused on CSCOPE. Not a subscriber? Sign up HERE.
Glenn has spent a lot of time over the past few weeks exposing some of the education initiatives in states across the country that are indoctrinating kids into the radical progressive agenda. Today, Glenn discussed an issue tied into Common Core that many people aren't aware of: data mining.
"We cover many important stories and topics on this program, but I don't think any could be more important than what we are covering tonight: the progressive takeover of America's schools,"
OK....when they look at you like you have a tin foil hat on your head......take some of this information with you. It is 126 pages. I have not read through the entire document (YET) but what I have read is enough to blow off the top of your head. I have highlighted some stuff. KIPP (Charter Schools) has a CHARACTER REPORT CARD on Page 39. So for now start on page 39 and work your way through to page 45. Remember FERPA laws were changed last year and I am sure not one parent is aware that permission to share information about our children no longer requires parental consent. Obama just slipped all these new changes in and I don't believe any parents were ever asked their opinions about these changes. And where was our Republican Congress when this happened???
AGENDA 21 is: The complete control and inventory of every human activity. After your friends read some of this information ask them if they still believe A21 is not real. Chapter 36 of A21 document is devoted to education.
Our government forgets there are still people alive that can think and see through their garbage.
Print this document and get a highlighter...........then start visiting your neighbors, school boards, elected officials and start screaming. GET COMMON CORE AND THE GOVERNMENT out of our class rooms. I think it is time to start a MASS movement for Home Schooling. I know Home Schooling will not be spared. This should be a movement to bring education back to the local level and DESTROY the Federal Department of Education. If our kids are not in school it will create an uprising at all levels. We should not settle for shutting down Common Core because they will masquerade it....they are already doing this in VA. VA supposedly never signed on to Common Core but GUESS WHAT........they ARE implementing Common Core and disguising it from the citizens in VA....of course they aren't doing a good job of hiding it and people in VA are catching on. Our schools have been in the process of a government take over (in earnest) for more than 20 years. If we don't shut down the Department of Education it will never stop. We have to cause a citizen uprising!!
Here is the U.S. Department of Education - Office of Educational Technology document:
"The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government - lest it come to dominate our lives and interests"- Patrick Henry
To fix "THE SYSYEM" We must become "THE SYSTEM" - k. bracken "The change we seek has always required great struggle and great sacrifice." - Barack Hussein Obama "The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters. And intends to be the master." - Ayn Rand
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."
If I Were the Devil - (BEST VERSION) by PAUL HARVEY audio restored
Yes, it's true: You can support ACT! for America-at no cost to you!An important message from Guy Rodgers, Executive Director
The next time you make an online purchase of almost anything, you could be helping ACT! for America-at no cost to you.
Sound too good to be true? It isn't.
All you have to do is sign up for "iGive"-a program that's been around since 1997.
The concept is as powerful as it is simple.
Every time an iGive member makes an online purchase at over 1,000 brand-name stores, a percentage of that purchase is donated to that person's charity of choice.
And with the holidays just around the corner, you could be helping ACT! for America with every gift you buy!
The concept isn't new. In the mid-1990s many supporters of non-profit organizations signed up with long distance telephone programs where a percentage of their bill was donated to their charity of choice.
But our investigation of iGive has convinced us that this program has an ease of use and sophistication that we find remarkable.
Imagine booking a hotel room on Orbitz-and having 1.6% of that purchase price donated to ACT! for America.
Or buying an Xbox at Best Buy-and having 1.2% of the purchase price donated to ACT! for America.
The same goes for buying merchandise at Amazon, Bath and Body Works, Advance Auto Parts, Game Stop, Kmart, Home Depot, Holiday Inn, Old Navy, NASCAR Superstore, Overstock.com, Mattel, J.C. Penney, Office Max, QVC, Radio Shack, Shoe Carnival, Pottery Barn-and on and on the list goes.
In other words, every time you make a purchase of merchandise you would buy anyway, you would be financially supporting ACT! for America!
All you have to do is log on below and follow the directions to create your account and download the iGive "button." (Note: downloading the "button" is key).
When I was first informed of iGive, I was skeptical. I've seen these ideas come and go. Often, they're too good to be true. Or there are all kinds of glitches and problems.
So I spent hours researching.
I looked at online customer reviews (which were very good). I read all of iGive's fine print, such as Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. I signed up and even emailed two tech support questions to see how good their tech support was.
And the more I dug, the more I liked what I saw. For instance, both of my tech support questions were responded to within 60 minutes. How often does THAT happen?
As you know from our Patriot Partner program, we're all about encouraging a lot of people to each do a little-to do something. When everyone does a little, together we accomplish a lot.
So consider what could happen.
If just 1% of ACT! for America members each purchased just $400 in merchandise in 2013, from all the available outlets, and the average percentage donated to ACT! was 1.5%, the total amount donated back to ACT! for America would be...
...$15,000. That's a lot of money, wouldn't you agree?
And if you were one of those ACT! for America members, it wouldn't cost you one thin dime to help ACT! for America receive $15,000.
If this idea really caught on, and eventually 5% of our members made purchases with iGive, that $15,000 could explode to $50,000, $75,000 or more!
What's more, that 1.5% figure might be low. Many of the merchants offer percentage donations that are much higher. One printer inkjet company I looked at offered 13%!
Every merchant website you visit tells you right at the top what percentage of your purchase price will be donated to ACT! for America.
Just think what we could accomplish with an extra $15,000, $50,000 or $75,000 in our fight against radical Islam!
One of the things I most wanted to know was their Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Check it out for yourself. I confirmed the terms with a company representative. And I like what I learned. As security-conscious as I am, I have no hesitation using the service-and I'm already doing so.
I know there are many people out there who would love to support ACT! for America, or give more than they're giving, but in these tough economic times they simply can't.
Well, here's a way that everyone who believes in our mission can easily support what we're doing-at no cost to them.
It doesn't get any better than that.
There are already chapter leaders who have signed up for the program, and the feedback I have been getting from them has been all positive. They love the idea and many of them are already using it.
So please, join me and these ACT! for America chapter leaders who are already signed up and using the iGive service.
Yours for a safe and free America
Guy Rodgers
Now Available: Week Six "The Crisis of the Union" Featuring David Raney
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The sectional divide that led to the outbreak of the Civil War was rooted in fundamentally opposing interpretations of the principles of the Declaration of Independence in addition to diverging perceptions of the institution of slavery. Slaveholders and non-slaveholders alike at the time of the Founding generally agreed that slavery was unjust and an evil that ran counter to the ethos of the Founding, even while countenancing it in practice. By the 1850s, prominent men such as John C. Calhoun and Alexander Stevens argued that slavery was a positive good, and that liberty and equality, far from being natural rights belonging to every human being, were privileges to be earned.
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Wednesday, April 10, 2013
To: Friends & Supporters
From: Gary L. Bauer
More Anti-Christian Bigotry In The Obama Military
Yesterday we reported on the outrageous briefing an Army Reserve unit in Pennsylvania received that labeled "Evangelical Christianity" and "Catholicism" as examples of "extremism." The Army said it was an "isolated incident." Sadly, it isn't.
Today there is news that Army Lt. Col. Jack Rich of Fort Campbell, Kentucky, sent an email warning of behaviors inconsistent with "Army Values" and warning about various groups that "do not share our Army Values."
Among those groups listed in his email were neo-Nazis and the KKK. So far so good. But also included were pro-family Christian organizations like the Family Research Council and the American Family Association.
As many of our readers know, I served as president of the Family Research Council after leaving the Reagan White House. It is a tremendous organization that should never be included with the likes of the KKK. The same goes for our good friends at the American Family Association.
Sadly, this is more evidence that left-wing activists who equate traditional Biblical values with bigotry and extremism have burrowed their way into the government bureaucracy and are even moving up the ranks of Obama's military.
Let me venture a guess as to why this is happening. It is the result of repealing the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy. As the Obama Administration began to demand tolerance for alternative lifestyles, the word quickly went out from the top that tolerance had its limits. Lieutenant General Thomas Bostick, then the Army's deputy chief of staff in charge of personnel, said, "These people opposing this new policy will need to get with the program, and if they can't, they need to get out."
Just 18 months after the repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," we have gone from tolerance for homosexuals serving in the military to intolerance for men and women of faith serving in the military.
Once again, I must urge pastors and those in elected office to speak up against this assault on religious liberty. There is no equality or tolerance in equating Christian pro-family ministries with the KKK. It is blatant anti-religious bigotry that seeks to force men and women of faith into the closet.
Obama FINALLY Submits His Budget
President Obama finally submitted his budget to Capitol Hill today. He's only 65 days passed the February 4th statutory deadline, and both the House and the Senate have already passed their own budgets.
Some believe the White House waited so long to submit its budget in order to avoid another round of embarrassing votes. Last year Obama's budget failed to get a single vote in either the House or the Senate.
But here's what we know: In addition to spending $3.8 trillion, Obama demands another massive tax increase. Obama's budget aims to raise revenues by $580 billion through a variety of tax hikes. For example:
Obama is once again proposing to cap deductions for top earners at 28%, even though they are taxed at 39%. Obama claims this is in the interest of fairness, but he is effectively imposing a tax on charity.
His budget imposes limits on how much can be in your retirement account. When did it become the government's business to set arbitrary limits on how much people can save?
He also included something called the "chained CPI." It changes the way inflation is calculated so that it cuts spending on Social Security benefits while at the same time pushing Americans into higher tax brackets. Even the White House admits this amounts to a middle class tax increase.
Keep in mind, friends, that Obama's latest call for even higher taxes comes just three months after the fiscal cliff deal, which raised taxes by $600 billion, and that was on top of another wave of Obamacare tax hikes, which kicked in at the beginning of the year!
Meanwhile Big Government Wastes Billions
The Government Accountability Office released a report yesterday identifying scores of redundant programs across the massive federal bureaucracy. Just how bad is the waste? Consider these few examples:
The GAO identified 679 "overlapping" renewable energy programs. (Remember Obama's stimulus-funded green energy boondoggles?)
There are 76 programs in 15 agencies to combat drug abuse.
The GAO found 47 job training programs.
There are six programs at the Department of Defense working on camouflage uniforms. One previous uniform redesign turned out to be a $5 billion disaster.
Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) told Fox News that the waste identified in the report amounted to $250 billion a year. He added, "That's three times what the sequester was just in waste, in duplication, in stupidity, and lack of efficiency and effectiveness by the federal government. (It) makes you want to pull your hair out."
Obamacare Buyer's Remorse
After their sweeping victories in the 2008 election, Barack Obama and his left-wing allies in Congress went on a legislative binge -- passing the massive stimulus spending bill and seizing control of our nation's healthcare sector. Yesterday Senator Jay Rockefeller, a liberal West Virginia Democrat, appeared to be having a "morning after" moment.
Rockefeller joined the growing ranks of Democrats who are increasingly worried that Obamacare is turning out be a bureaucratic nightmare. During a Senate confirmation hearing for the new administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Rockefeller said Obamacare is "so complicated and if it isn't done right the first time, it will just simply get worse."
"I believe that the Affordable Care Act is probably the most complex piece of legislation ever passed by the United States Congress. ...up to this point it is just beyond comprehension," Rockefeller added.
It may not be polite to say it, but I will: "WE TOLD YOU SO!"
If the GOP were smart, it would start running ads featuring Rockefeller's sound bite in key House districts and Senate races. Remind the voters that this is what happens when Democrats win elections. Your taxes go up, government gets bigger and more complicated, our values are assaulted and our freedoms are eroded.
On April 8, Senator Sessions of Alabama issued a press release that contained a list of ten questions for the "Gang of eight" that makes it clear that his goal is to enable the immigration system to succeed in those primary goals I noted previously- protect the lives and jobs of American workers.
Here is a link to his questions as they were posted on the website "Limits to Growth:
1.The Toomey-Manchin Proposal Will Allow Doctors to Block Your Right to Guns
The proposal will allow a doctor to add a patient to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) without ever telling the patient he or she has been added.
There would be no due process requirement. Not all doctors will be able to do it with the same ease, but many will. Knowing a doctor could add him to a federal database as mentally ill without his knowledge could potentially dissuade a patient from going to the doctor in the first place to get help.
Worse, if the doctor does so and makes a mistake, the patient would have to actively work through the system to get himself removed - guilty before being proven innocent. In some states, should a doctor flag you as having mental illness without your knowledge, you may very well see the state come collect your previously purchased guns.
Activist mental health providers will probably be overly aggressive in adding people to the list. Give it five years in liberal areas and people who believe in the physical resurrection of Christ will probably get automatic entry onto the list. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
2.Missouri Secretly Shares Entire CCW List With Feds Against State Law
Missouri State Senator Kurt Schaefer confirmed yesterday that the Missouri Highway Department did in fact share confidential CCW lists with the federal government in violation of Missouri law. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
3.The Busch League Campaign of Elizabeth COLBERT!!!!! Busch Goes Straight to Race Baiting
Elizabeth COLBERTBusch, who if you must know is like OMG Becky she's Stephen Colbert's sister!!!!!!!!!!!!!, is taking money from groups who are opposed to Boeing making the 787 in South Carolina.
That's not playing well. She tried to deflect it by pointing out Mark Sanford got contributions from the same unions. Except . . . well . . . it was actually Sanford Bishop of Georgia and not Mark Sanford.
She's also basically hiding behind her brother instead of actually campaigning because, OMG her brother is famous!!!!!!!
Until recently, taxes and guns were the two issues that served as the glue to bind together Republicans of all stripes.They were the two issues that even feckless elected-Republicans could be counted on to hold the line and stand with conservatives.But over the past few years, Obama and the Democrats have gotten Republicans to break their impervious opposition to tax increases by supporting "increased revenue" and closing "loopholes."Now they are doing the same thing with guns.. . . please click here for the rest of the post →
5.Why am I Paying for Obama's Budget?
In his own words, President Obama said, "We don't have a spending problem," and "We do not have an immediate debt crisis." No wonder his budget proposal continues the same old government gravy train with absolutely no regard for the next generation of taxpayers.
The nation is $17 trillion in debt. Under President Obama's budget, we'll see deficits increase close to $100 trillion over the next 75 years. Before the President asks me to put this irresponsible budget on my credit card, I've got some questions.
Does Obama's plan fix our broken entitlement programs that will bankrupt my generation? Nope, just window-dressing.
Does Obama's budget include any meaningful program cuts or agency consolidations? No, it includes a 6.6 percent increase in spending under the guise of "investment." . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
Perhaps the ultimate explanation of every progressive atrocity, real and prospective, from the Communist Manifesto to Bill Ayers' projection of the need to kill twenty-five million Americans who resist re-education...»
We just can't be this important. We few simply can't be the lynchpin of what heterosexuals do. We are not responsible for any of this irresponsible procreation or social ills of the broken family or abortion. ...»
Pressing for a bill whose ultimate goal is to curtail gun ownership because children die from gunshot wounds would be like lobbying for a bill to outlaw household cleaning products because every year thousands of children die as a result of accidental poisoning...»
Free speech and a vet's tattoo: What we can learn about threats to free speech from the incident at the skydiving center
by Guy Rodgers, Executive Director
Wow! So many of you called and emailed the skydiving center at Lake Wales Monday and Tuesday that their voice mail box completely filled up and their phone was constantly busy.
But some of you did get through, and you emailed us regarding what you were told by the center.
Yesterday morning, I decided to call the center myself, because some of what you were told differed with the blog account we posted yesterday. This email is a little longer than normal but I'm persuaded you'll want to know what I learned.
I talked to two people for more than an hour, one of whom was the manager who handled the incident in question. I asked a lot of questions in order to better understand their perspective on what happened.
Here's what I was able to confirm.
1) A Qatari military officer complained to someone on the skydiving center staff about the vet who had the tattoo that said "infidel."
2) The person who received the complaint brought the vet back into the office of the manager, where the three of them met privately.
3) The vet was asked to cover up his tattoo, with duct tape if necessary.
4) The vet refused.
At this point the stories differ. The vet claimed on his blog he was told to leave. The manager claims she never told the vet to leave, that he voluntarily decided to leave and said he would take his business elsewhere.
With no other witnesses it's impossible to know which version is correct. Perhaps the manager implied to the vet that it would be better if he left. Perhaps the vet misunderstood what the manager was saying.
Someone posted on our Facebook page that he has asked repeatedly if the vet was allowed to "manifest a load," but has not gotten an answer from the business. His point was that the vet may not have been asked to leave but if he wasn't allowed to do a jump that amounts to the same thing.
But actually, whether the vet was told to leave or left voluntarily isn't the issue.
The issue is this: The vet was asked to silence his freedom of speech because a Muslim soldier from another country was "offended."
I asked the manager if she ever considered going to the Qatari officer and calmly saying something like, "I'm sorry you're offended, but here in America people say and do things all the time that offend others. And that's protected speech under our first amendment."
She said she never talked to the Qatari officer, that "it never got that far." The reason it didn't is because the manager's first-and only-response was to deal with the vet, not talk to the Muslim.
Unfortunately, this is a typical Western response to these kinds of situations. It's a common way to try to keep peace, and this is a single, small example of a very big problem. Rather than explaining to Muslim immigrants how free speech works, Europeans have practiced this kind of capitulation for decades-and today European countries have hate-speech laws that criminalize words that Muslims deem "offensive."
I'm assuming the manager meant well, that she was just trying to keep the peace between two customers. I've owned businesses so I get that. But the first problem is her solution for keeping the peace was to silence the vet rather than educate the Muslim.
Another thing she said to me, coupled with something the man I talked to said, reveals a second problem that demonstrates why we must aggressively fight to protect our free speech rights.
The manager compared the vet's tattoo to a member of the KKK taunting a group of African-Americans. She asked, "If that happened here at my business, shouldn't I step in and stop the KKK person?"
This is the kind of faulty analogy that is at the heart of accusations of "racism" leveled by groups like CAIR. To compare the actions of a KKK member to a vet wearing a tattoo that says "infidel" is not only absurd. It is reinforcing the propaganda and name-calling tactics employed by the Muslim Brotherhood and its legacy organizations to silence anything deemed "offensive" to Islam.
The man I talked to explained to me that one time a Qatari soldier wore a T-shirt that was offensive and that he was asked to remove it, and did so. The man used this as a justification for why the manager asked the vet to cover his tattoo.
I asked him what the shirt said. While I don't recall the specific wording, it was something to the effect of "What happened to New York shouldn't have stopped there."
The meaning was crystal clear: The shirt was glorifying 9/11 and was an implicit support for more terrorist attacks. This was why the Qatari was asked to remove the shirt.
Again, comparing that shirt to an "infidel" tattoo is absurd.
My purpose in writing this today is not to heap more criticism on this business or its manager, or to ask you to continue contacting them. Believe me, the ACT! for America grassroots responded and the skydiving business got the message that people were upset!
My purpose is to point out, using this example, that freedom of speech is in peril here in America, in many ways, both great and small.
The man I talked to claimed the vet was deliberately trying to provoke the Qatari soldiers. I don't know if that's true or not. But whether he was or not is pretty much irrelevant. I know for a fact that some people sport tattoos to be deliberately provocative, and even offensive.
Most of us ignore them. Even is someone complains, it's rare that a business owner will side with the complaint and ask the person with the tattoo to cover it up. Would a business ask someone to cover a tattoo that said "atheist" if a Christian objected? Even if it did, we know what the ACLU would do if the business tried.
I'm sure there are those who would say the Qatari soldiers are guests in our country and we should accommodate them. When it comes to hospitality, I agree.
But when it comes to our fundamental freedoms, I don't.
I grew up understanding that being a guest meant I had a responsibility to shape my behaviors to fit those of my hosts-not the other way around. In this case, the Qatari soldiers had a responsibility to accommodate our rules and customs-just as they would expect us to accommodate theirs if we were guests in their country.
No doubt there will also be those who read this who will argue we're making too big a deal of this incident.
There were those who said the same thing in colonial America, that the taxes imposed by Britain on the American colonies were too small to be concerned about.
And it's true, the initial tax levies were actually pretty small.
But the protestors, men like Sam Adams, said the issue was not the size of the tax but the precedent established by the creation of the tax.
Every time an American surrenders the right of free speech in order to avoid doing something deemed "offensive" by a Muslim, a precedent is established in the mind of both the Muslim and the non-Muslim. This is true when the President does it and it's true when a business does it.
What we need to do is simply, politely and clearly say "no." No, we will not give up our rights to express our opinions. We don't need to be belligerent, obnoxious or combative about it, and we should do so in a way that educates Muslims who don't understand what free speech means in America.
But silencing ourselves in order to keep peace is to follow the path Europe has already trod. Just ask Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Woolf, our chapter leader in Austria who was convicted of violating "hate speech" laws, how that has worked out.
The late Margaret Thatcher had a singular and tenacious ambition: to free Britain from statism. John Blundell's book throws an illuminating light on this remarkable woman.
A liturgy was being held for eight murdered Christians resulting from a bloodthirsty rampage by Muslim vigilantes three days earlier on Friday afternoon.
During his unannounced trip to Baghdad John Kerry met with Iraqi Nouri al-Maliki to seek greater assistance in monitoring flights from Iran to Syria flying through Iraqi airspace.
It is difficult to know if MOOC's (Massive Open On-line Courses) are a conspiracy to undermine the Academy or mankind's final redemption, a way to open the avenues of higher education.
The killings in Colorado and at Sandy Hook school were committed by certifiably insane individuals. No background check can determine a person's sanity.
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"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same." ~ Ronald Reagan
Yesterday, North Korean officials warned foreigners in South Korea to leave that country. Today, the foreign ministers of the Group of Eight (G8) countries-the United States, Britain, Russia, Japan, Canada, France, Germany, and Italy-are meeting in London to discuss North Korea's threats.
Americans are taking notice. CNN reports that "more than four in 10" Americans in a new poll say "they see the reclusive nation as an immediate threat to the United States...That's up 13 percentage points in less than a month."
Heritage's experts have been following the threats closely-in fact, senior research fellow Bruce Klingner, formerly the CIA branch chief for Korea, warned of the growing risk of a clash in late March.
Klingner says in his latest paper this week that the escalating threats are new and "more dangerous":
Perhaps most worrisome is that the regime's threat du jour is occurring so rapidly. In the past, Pyongyang would issue a threat and then allow Washington and its allies time to respond, preferably by offering benefits to buy its way back to the status quo ante. The current rapid-fire threats conflict with previous North Korean behavior and reduce the potential for de-escalating the crisis.
A few things to note:
North Korea is capable of firing missiles.
Heritage's Michaela Dodge warns that "North Korea can already hit Hawaii, parts of Alaska, and California. It can also hit U.S. forward-deployed troops in South Korea, Japan, and Guam...While the Obama Administration does not believe that North Korea is capable of hitting the U.S. with a nuclear weapon, the U.S. has a history of underestimating North Korea's ballistic missile and nuclear weapons programs."
The U.S. has already responded to the threats-but more commitment to missile defense is needed.
The United States has sent nuclear-capable B-2 and B-52 bombers, F-22 fighters, and Aegis destroyers to South Korea. The Obama Administration reversed just a few of its harmful cuts to missile defense, now that the President realizes those defenses might be needed. But at the same time, the Administration has cut half a billion dollars from missile defense. This is the wrong direction to take.
Diplomacy doesn't work with Kim Jong-un.
Klingner recommends tough sanctions against North Korea and others violating U.N. resolutions. The U.S. should "resist the siren song" of engaging North Korea in talks, while backing up our allies with a sustained show of force.
North Korea is easy to ridicule...Its leader could well play the villain in a James Bond or Austin Powers movie. Self-appointed ambassador Dennis Rodman's visit affirmed the image of the reclusive regime as the ultimate reality show. As such, the tendency has been to dismiss all North Korean threats as bluster. That would be a mistake.
Posted by Daniel Greenfield @ the Sultan Knish blog
The BBC's Panorama series has gone undercover at Sharia councils where Islamic law is doled out in the state within a state within the multicultural bureaucracy to discover that the dispensers of Islamic law have failed abused women. Failing abused women is the nice genteel way that lefties use to mean that the judicial system of a religion built on abusing women is perpetuating those abuses in the UK.
Similarly Comrade Delta failed the woman he raped. And the Socialist Workers Party failed her by putting the rape to a vote. Jimmy Savile failed a great many children and Islam has failed to uphold the standards that the defenders of multiculturalism somehow expect from religious leaders out of Pakistan and Saudi Arabia.
According to the head of the UK's 'Equality and Human Rights Commission', Muslims "are doing their damnedest" to develop an Islam compatible with liberal democracy. And if you don't believe him, then just ask Tony Blair who not only reads the Koran every day but also marvels at how progressive it is.
Forget all the fussing over Muslim immigration and terrorism. The future looks bright for Britain. We're probably only a short while away from the first female Imam and drive-through abortion clinics in local mosques. Mecca is going to host its first swimsuit competition on its black rock and Ramadan will unite with Gay Pride Day for a parade that no one will ever be able to forget.
At The Guardian, where left is always right, Musleh Faradhi assures us that Sharia courts are not about to displace English law or flog Prince Charles as an adulterer in front of Buckingham Palace. "Women who come to this country with little or no English and are then discriminated against by their own husbands or relatives has nothing to do with sharia, but rather with traditions and culture," says Faradhi. "This should not be used as a stick with which to beat sharia councils."
That sounds fair enough except when you remember that Sharia councils are usually the ones who beat women with sticks, rather than the other way around.
Publius Huldah Explains Why Islamists Don't Have the Right to Build Mosques, Proselytize Or Institute Sharia Law In America
Publius Huldah, a retired attorney, Constitutional scholar and a gracious contributor to Freedom Outpost, addressed the Act for America Chapter in Fayetteville, Tennessee recently and demonstrated that the First Amendment does not give Islamists the right to build mosques, proselytize, and institute Sharia law in the United States. She also took time to point out that multiculturalism is not and that Islam is not a peaceful religion.
Hitler Said It First: The Children Belong to the Community
Posted on April 9, 2013 by Gary DeMar
First it was Hillary Clinton's It Takes a Village to raise children by community effort and cost. Now it's über-leftist Melissa Harris-Perry who says it takes a "community" to care for children. By "community" she means the State. She teaches at Tulane University, and before that she corrupted the minds of young people at Princeton and the University of Chicago. She also has a television presence on MSNBC. She's a menace to society.
Like all good liberals, Harris-Perry believes that she and her cadre of social do-gooders are better equipped to raise other people's children, the ones that survive abortion, that is. Prior to the collective taking over the care of our children, according to Harris-Perry, you can kill them at will. They are "things" until the State says they are beneficial to the State and should live.
Former Texas Republican senator Phil Gramm tells the story about the time he was on an interview show with an educational elitist who held to a worldview similar to that of Harris-Perry. He told her, "My educational policies are based on the fact that I care more about my children than you do." She said, "No, you don't." Gramm replied, "Okay: What are their names?"
That pretty much sums up the liberal mindset today. Check it out:
Mother Jones released leaked audio Tuesday from a campaign meeting of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) revealing political campaigns actively research and discuss ways to attack their opponents.
The audio was about 14 minutes of conversation between McConnell and close advisers on the potential vulnerabilities of Ashley Judd, the liberal Hollywood actress who flirted with the idea of running against McConnell in the 2014 Kentucky Senate race.
However, the Mother Jones "scoop" elicited a collective yawn from jaded Beltway media.
If your child's school allows 'Day of Silence' propaganda, keep your child at home April 19
Let your school officials know that if they are going to allow social and political action in class, your child will not be there.
April 10, 2013
Dear ##FirstName[AFA Supporter]##,
The Day of Silence, which is sponsored by the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN), fast approaches. This year it will take place in most public schools on April 19. On this day, thousands of public high schools and increasing numbers of middle schools will allow students to remain silent throughout an entire day-even during instructional time-to promote GLSEN's socio-political goals.
Parents must actively oppose this hijacking of the classroom for political purposes. Please join the national effort to restore to public education a proper understanding of the role of government-subsidized schools. You can help de-politicize the learning environment by calling your child out of school if your child's school allows students to remain silent during instructional time on the Day of Silence.
Parents should no longer passively countenance the political usurpation of public school classrooms through student silence.
If students will be permitted to remain silent, parents can express their opposition most effectively by calling their children out of school on the Day of Silence and sending letters of explanation to their administrators, their children's teachers, and all school board members. One reason this is effective is that most school districts lose money for each student absence.
School administrators err when they allow the classroom to be disrupted and politicized by granting students permission to remain silent throughout an entire day.
Visit www.doswalkout.net for complete information on opposing the Day of Silence.
TAKE ACTION
1. Call your local schools and ask whether they permit students or teachers to remain silent in the classroom on "Day of Silence." IMPORTANT: Do not ask any administrator, school board member, or teacher if the school sponsors, endorses, or supports DOS. Schools do not technically sponsor the Day of Silence. Technically, it is students, often students in the gay-straight alliance, who sponsor it. Many administrators will tell you that they do not sponsor the DOS when, in fact, they do permit students and sometimes even teachers to remain silent during instructional time. Also ask administrators whether they permit teachers to create lesson plans to accommodate student silence.
2. Find out what date the event is planned for your school. (The national date in 2013 is April 19, but some schools observe DOS on a different date).
3. Inform the school of your intention to keep your children home on that date and explain why.
For more information or questions, visit Day of Silence Walkout.
It is very important that you forward this alert to your friends and family members.
Sincerely,
Tim Wildmon, President American Family Association
PATRICK BRENNAN: Paul Krugman inadvertently demonstrates why Thatcher's reforms can be thanked for much of Britain's economic success. 'Did Thatcher Turn Britain Around?'
MICHAEL TANNER: The president has some decent proposals, but his budget is still far from what we need. Obama's Baby Step.
MARC SIEGEL: Over-the-counter sale of the morning-after pill puts teens and preteens at risk. Plan B Needs a Doctor.
KEVIN D. WILLIAMSON: Spare me the phony outrage about Mitch McConnell's considering how to use Ashley Judd's loopiness against her in an election. Ashley Judd's Batty Beliefs Are Fair Game.
Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid is threatening anew to change the chamber's filibuster rules if the pace of confirmations for nominees to the federal judiciary, often the targets of Republican stalling tactics, doesn't speed up.
Attorney General Eric Holder began his tenure by calling Americans cowards regarding racial issues. Newly released documents reveal that Holder's schedule shows a preoccupation with racial issues: he spends an inordinate amount of time meeting with race-centered organizations.
"Counter-revolutionary" is an apt term for these days: President Obama has promised to make a fundamental transformation, a veritable revolution in American society and culture. Those who oppose such an ongoing agenda are suspected of all sorts of racism, nativism, misogyny, homophobia, and general counter-revolutionary activity. So, here are some thoughtcrimes.
What began as a Western-backed chance to assist Libyans in gaining freedom from an oppressive dictator has resulted, according to some reports, in nearly the entire population of 100,000 Libyan Christians leaving the country. The rising power of numerous radical Islamist militias, which have recently launched a low-scale terror war against Christians, is increasingly being felt throughout the country.
Despite promises from the President and a host of other politicians who are pushing for more gun control that nobody is coming for your guns, the confiscation of guns and gun permits has apparently started in some form in New York State. See the reasons being cited by the state that allows police to demand gun owners to surrender their permits and weaponsHERE.
On Tuesday night, Sean Hannity invited former Obama economic advisor Austin Goolsbee to respond to President Obama�s latest music party (called a �Memphis Soul� night) at the White House. Hannity called the party a �sequestration celebration� and Goolsbee took exception. Watch the segmentHERE.
After proudly teaching at New York�s Westhill High School for 27 years, Gerald �Jerry� Conti decided it was time to retire. It�s not that he didn�t have anything left in the tank, rather, he feels the education system has �failed� America�s children and the teachers who desperately want to teach them. Watch the interview described as "withering" and "scornful"HERE.
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Last week, MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry appeared in a promotional video for the network where she argued that we have to �break through our kind of private idea that kids belong to their parents� and recognize that �kids belong to whole communities.� The ad was greeted with alarm on the right. See Ms. Harris-Perry's Bible-based reply to her critics and learn more about her association with the controversial Liberation Theology HERE.
A Colorado sheriff�s claim that a recent police training he attended included a warning against Bible-believing Christians has created some intense questions for the Colorado State Patrol (CSP) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) surrounding the public institutions� views on people of faith. On Tuesday, TheBlaze spoke with Ron Trowbridge, undersheriff of Prowers County, Colorado, who attended the training; he confirmed the troubling allegations he previously outlined in a letter surrounding the incident. Later in the day, representatives from CSP and DHS also responded to the controversy. Get the latest update on this controversial storyHERE.
A report from the Daily Caller suggests that MSNBC host Tour� has long seen the world through a racial lens. The story says, "Tour� founded a student newspaper dedicated to black liberation theology while he was a college student attending Emory University from 1989 to 1992.� Get the rest of this shocking storyHERE.
Police One is a law enforcement website with more than 1.5 million unique visitors per month and 400,000 registered members. The site asked more than 15,000 verified active and retired law enforcement personnel more than 20 questions about how they believe stricter gun control will impact the community. See the very enlightening results from this survey HERE.
Could the much trumpeted goal (by many on the Left and some on the Right) of universal background checks for gun sales be one step closer to being met? Apparently, according to the Washington Post, it is. The Post reports that a bipartisan group of unnamed US senators has struck a deal on the policy. Learn which senators are leading the compromise and see what's different about this proposalHERE.
The supposed humanoid in the photo to the left is said to have been found in Chile�s Atacama desert. It is shown in the trailer for �Sirius,� a documentary led by Steven Greer, a former physician. The press release for the film claims the being's DNA has been sequenced. See the trailer HERE.
A family that went fishing for striped bass over the weekend might have expected to reel in a few unwanted sunfish, but what they caught instead was not even a water-dwelling animal. It was a bald eagle. Watch the "catch and release" videoHERE. (The family says the eagle was unharmed.)
During a recent Nevada Assembly Education Committee hearing a liberal Democrat woman proudly announced she had an abortion when she was 16. In doing so she reminded us that liberals are basically anti-social psychopaths.
A review of available literature shows that, as a group, liberal Democrats display a large number of personality traits found among those who have been clinically diagnosed as psychopaths.
While there are approximately 21 identified traits of a psychopath (and she might display even more of these benchmarks) Nevada Democrat Lucy Flores, who made that proclamation is proudly devoid of regret over having murdered her baby through an induced abortion.
Flores' actions and words suggest her personality includes the following dangerous traits as well.
The amnesty bill that the Gang of Eight has been working on in secret has sprung some leaks so we can identify several major flaws. The Senate Budget Committee reports that there is nothing in the plan to comply with the federal law that states that any immigrant is "inadmissible" who is "likely at any time to become a public charge."
If Kim Jong-Un's Wishes Were To Become Flying Horses, We Would All Be Sky High
North Korea To Launch Missile: Warns Foreigners To Evacuate South Korea Posted On America's Conservative News North Korea intensified threats of an imminent conflict against the United States and the South on Tuesday, warning foreigners to evacuate South Korea to avoid being dragged into "thermonuclear war".
Obama--Who Pays Men 13% More Than Women--Proclaims 'Equal Pay Day' By Fred Lucas CNSNews.com President Barack Obama designated April 9 as National Equal Pay Day, even though 70 percent of White House staffers in the top-salary bracket were men, and male White House staffers earn on average 13 percent more than female staffers.
Palin, Beck Flip Out Over MSNBC Ad By Garth Kant WorldNetDaily.com MSNBC is airing a provocative message for parents: Your kids belong to the community - not to you.
Tennessee Grabs Lead in States' Rights Fight By JB Williams RightSideNews.com The United States Patriots Union and The North American Law Center (NALC) have been working since the 2011 state legislative sessions to enact a broad-based State's Rights bill titled The Balance of Powers Act.
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Homosexual Bullies Try To Force Priest From University
Apr 10, 2013 01:00 pm Two outspoken gay advocates are doing their best to coerce George Washington University to remove Father Greg Shaffer from campus, based on his adherence to Biblical teachings. Damian Legacy and Blake Bergen, both seniors at GWU, made it clear they think Shaffer's rhetoric is hateful and have staged a protest set to last until he is [...]
Apr 10, 2013 01:00 pm WASHINGTON- Senate Democrats set Congress' first showdown vote on new gun restrictions for Thursday as a small but growing number of Republicans appeared willing to join them in opposing conservatives' efforts to block debate from even starting. Making it personal, relatives of victims of the Connecticut school shootings lobbied senators face-to-face at the Capitol on [...]
Video: "We Wish We Could Protect Ourselves With Guns"
Apr 10, 2013 12:52 pm
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White House Admits Obama Budget Has Middle Class Tax Hike
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Video: Michael Savage On Sickening Obama And Sequester Soul Show
Apr 10, 2013 12:35 pm
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Top Teachers Union Apologist Sends Her Children To A Private School!
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Apr 10, 2013 11:25 am WASHINGTON - Vice President Joe Biden says he refuses to believe a small group of senators will block a vote on gun legislation. The vice president says it would be "embarrassing" if a filibuster would be the climax of a national tragedy like the shooting at Connecticut's Sandy Hook Elementary School. Read More at OfficialWire . [...]
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Apr 10, 2013 10:36 am After the Obama Administration publicly blamed the U.S. Military for "amping up" North Korea's boy-leader last week, it is continuing its deferential posture toward the reclusive country. Today, the Pentagon announced that it is canceling a previously planned Minuteman III ballistic missile test to avoid upsetting 'Supreme Leader' Kim Jong Un. Despite the arrival of [...]
The Associated Press reports that Pat Toomey and Joe Manchin have agreed on an approach to expanded firearms background checks. Having Toomey and Manchin on board will certainly increase the odds of such a provision making it through the Senate, although at this point it is not clear how many votes there may be for their proposal, or even what, exactly, it is. This is how the AP describes the Toomey/Manchin agreement:
Currently, the background check system covers sales only by licensed gun dealers. The compromise would apply the system to all commercial sales, such as transactions at gun shows and online. The sales would have to be channeled through licensed firearms dealers, who would have to keep records of the transactions.
Private transactions that are not for profit, such as those between relatives, would be exempt from background checks.
I have no idea what "not for profit" means. If I sell one of my guns to my buddy Mitch Berg for $300, do I have to run a background check on him first? I think the answer is yes, but we will need to see the specific language of the bill.
So how significant an impact would such an expansion of background checks have? The answer is, not significant at all. Most firearms sales are by licensed dealers (i.e., stores), and they already are required to run background checks, using the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS). There are two problems with NICS as it currently exists. First, it does little or nothing to keep guns out of the hands of criminals. Criminals do not buy guns at stores. They get them in one of three ways: 1) They steal them; 2) they buy them from a fellow gang member in an alley; or 3) they send a girlfriend, who is a legal purchaser, to a store to buy the gun. Under current law, the gang member who sells a gun to a fellow gang member in an alley isn't required to run a background check first. Under the proposed new law, he would be. But, of course, he won't do it.
The second problem with NICS is that it is not effective at keeping guns out of the hands of the dangerously mentally ill. The reason for this is not a flaw in NICS per se, but rather the fact that most states do not put adequate data into the system in the first place. As long as that remains true, and as long as we have essentially no system for taking the dangerously mentally ill off the streets, expanding background checks won't do any good.
So a "universal background check" system-universally complied with, that is, by the law-abiding-is a feel-good measure that can't be expected to have much practical effect. That said, it isn't a horrible idea. There is a huge secondary market for used firearms; they are widely available on the internet, and gun owners like to buy, sell and trade guns with their friends. It has been alleged that 40% of firearms sales are by persons who aren't licensed dealers and therefore are outside of NICS, but that figure is so unreliable as to be meaningless. The real number is unknown, but unquestionably there are a great many such sales. Under the proposed legislation, the individual gun seller would go to a dealer to run the NICS search and keep a record of the transaction. That would be inconvenient and would involve a small fee, but neither the inconvenience nor the cost would be a heavy burden.
The main reason why many gun owners oppose this proposed expansion of the background check system is that if the federal government starts tracking all sales of both new and used guns, it will soon have, in effect, a registry of American gun owners. Such a registry could be the basis for a comprehensive gun confiscation program, once the liberals believe they have the political power to override the Second Amendment. How real is that danger? In the short term, not very. But gun owners are correct in believing that confiscation is the end toward which progressives are striving.
So those are the pros and cons of "universal background check" legislation. I don't think it would be a disaster if such a law passed, but it is not an effective way to reduce violent crime, either.
Bowdoin College government professor Jean Yarbrough takes up the case of Bowdoin College philosophy professor Sarah Conly in the RCP column "Zero calories to zero population." In her RCP column Professor Yarbrough responds to Professor Conly's New York Times column "Three cheers for the nanny state," defending Mayor Bloomberg's attempt to ban super-size sodas within his jurisdiction. I think it's fair to say that Professor Yarborough gives Professor Conly three raspberries, on a scale of 1 to 3.
Conly is a philosopher for the Age of Obama, out to teach us that we are too foolish (i.e., cognitively inept) to take responsibility for our own choices. Despite what you may suspect, Conly's column is lacking in any hint of irony or satirical intent. She is not out to raise questions about the nanny state utopia. She is out to serve as its philosopher king.
Professor Conly has devoted a whole book to the justification of "coercive paternalism." Former Obama regulatory czar Cass Sunstein, you may not be surprised to learn, has warmly praised Conly's book in the pages of the New York Review of Books. (Conly nevertheless goes too far for Sunstein.)
So what's wrong with "coercive paternalism," or its application to supersize soda? Professor Yarbrough comments:
Conly's argument does raise important questions about liberty and dignity. For if we are so cognitively impaired that we cannot make wise choices about such minor matters, how can we be trusted with more important decisions? The logic of her argument points toward ever more intrusive government.
In her essay, Conly anticipates the objection that banning large size sodas is just the beginning; tomorrow these same bureaucrats will be telling you to "eat your broccoli, floss your teeth, and watch 'PBS NewsHour' every day." The reason this won't happen is because sensible paternalism is based on a "cost-benefit analysis; if it's too painful, it's not a good law." Should we be reassured?
Conly's own research agenda is frightening. On the Bowdoin College Philosophy Department website, Conly states that her next project is tentatively entitled "One: Do We Have A Right to More Children?" In it, she proposes to argue that "opposition to population regulation is based on a number of mistakes: that the right to have a family doesn't entail the right to have as many children as you may want; that the right to control one's body is conditional on how much harm you are doing others; and that nothing in population regulation entails that those who break the law can be forced to have abortions, or subject to any sort of punishment that is horrific. If population growth is sufficiently dangerous, it is fair for us to impose restrictions on how many children we can give birth to."
"Coercive Paternalism" may start with soda, but its reach extends to matters at the core of our understanding of liberty and human dignity.
Like the storied liberals of Bill Buckley's ideal type, Professor Conly wants to reach into your shower and adjust the temperature of the water. It's only for our own good. At the least, I should think we ought to be able to take a look at the MMPI on Professor Conly and on those who assume responsibility for the management of our lives.
I've long been impressed by Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, and consider him a top-tier prospect for the GOP presidential nomination in 2016. But recently I noticed that Jindal's approval number in Louisiana shows him, at this time, to be highly unpopular. For example, a March poll from Southern Media & Opinion Research put Jindal's approval rating at 38 percent, against 60 percent disapproval.
Would this level of unpopularity, assuming it persists, injure Jindal's prospect of being nominated for president? One would think so.
But Nate Silver suggests otherwise. He notes that Mitt Romney had similar numbers by the end of his time as governor of Massachusetts. In October 2006, a Boston Globe poll put his favorability rating at 34 percent against a 54 percent unfavorable rating.
There's an obvious difference between Jindal and Romney, and Silver points it out: "it is much more difficult for a Republican to be popular in Massachusetts than in Louisiana."
But, for Silver, this distinction isn't necessarily fatal for Jindal. What matters, he says, is how GOP insiders and conservative news outlets react to Jindal's home state problems.
I don't how they will react. My reaction is that, although the reasons for Jindal's unpopularity matter, the GOP should be extremely reluctant to nominate a governor who is badly under water in his own conservative state. But it's not time to nominate anyone, so let's wait a while and see whether Jindal remains badly under water.
"Courts Without Judges" reads the headline of an attack on Senate Republicans by the New York Times editorial board. Bemoaning the fact that there 85 vacancies in the federal judiciary, the Times asserts that "by far the most important cause of this unfortunate state of affairs is the determination of Senate Republicans, for reasons of politics, ideology and spite, to confirm as few of President Obama's judicial choices as possible."
However, as Ed Whelan points out, in the second-to-last paragraph of the editorial we learn that "62 district and circuit court vacancies have no nominees." Thus, the cause of three-quarters of the 85 vacancies is that President Obama hasn't made nominations.
In addition, as Whelan notes, the editorial, apparently relying on numbers supplied by Senate Democrats, uses the odd measure of "[a]verage wait for nominees from committee approval to confirmation," instead of the more sensible benchmark of overall time from nomination to final Senate action, to create the false impression that Obama nominees are faring worse than Bush 43's.
Meanwhile, there is one less judicial vacancy today. The Senate has confirmed Patty Schwartz to serve on the Third Circuit Court of Appeals (by the way, this was "not a court without judges" - Schwartz joins 13 judges on the Third Circuit, and 10 more with senior status, on that court). Although Democrats are complaining that her confirmation took too long, Jonathan Adler reminds us that Democratic Senator Robert Menendez was initially responsible for holding up her confirmation.
The Times also follows the partisan Democratic line when it insists that, unlike Bush's judicial selections, Obama is sending the Senate "decidedly moderate" nominees. Thus, whereas the Democrats "felt compelled to filibuster" Bush nominees, Republicans are filibustering "for reasons of politics, ideology, and spite." The Times' concept of judicial moderation is about as reliable as its claim that Republicans are mostly to blame for the fact that Obama isn't nominating judges.
For a more honest perspective on this issue, see this editorial in today's Washington Post. It criticizes Republicans for blocking Caitlan Halligan's nomination to the D.C. Circuit and urges the Senate to confirm principal deputy solicitor general Sri Srinivasan to that court. But the Post has the decency to add that "Democrats denied the well-qualified Miguel A. Estrada a spot on the court, to which Republicans reacted with understandable outrage." The Post spoke up in favor of Estrada's confirmation at the time.
Juxtaposing the two editorials provides a useful illustration of a liberal editorial board with scruples and a leftist editorial board that lacks them.
Liberals Go Crazy for the Mentally Ill
Dear Fellow Conservative,
Obama has been draping himself in families of the children murdered in Newtown.
MSNBC's Martin Bashir suggested that Republican senators need to have a member of their families killed for them to support the Democrats' gun proposals. (Let's start with Meghan McCain!)
In a bizarre version of "A Christmas Carol," CNN's Carol Costello fantasized about "a mother who lost her child," showing up and knocking on Sen. Rand Paul's door, saying, "Please don't do this!"
The victims of gun violence are the left's latest "human shields" -- a term coined by me in Godless: The Church of Liberalism -- for their idiotic ideas. At least it's not the godawful Jersey Girls this time.
MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry worshipped with President Obama at the controversial Trinity United Church in Chicago, WND has learned. Harris-Perry was also an associate of Obama's when both taught at the University of Chicago in the early 2000s, and she eventually became a regular commentator on Obama to the news media.
The military officer charged with monitoring North Korea at a time when the rogue nation is threatening to unleash missile attacks worldwide has used a Senate hearing to double down on his claim that it is global warming that is the real danger.
Man angry about regulations threatens to bomb White House By Julian Hattem
A man arrested on Wednesday morning for making bomb threats near the White House was angry about regulations, according to published reports.
Around 5 a.m. Wednesday, Kryzystof Wasik, 44, approached a guard office near the White House and claimed to have a bomb in a nearby truck, according to reports.
The Secret Service and police closed down nearby streets for two hours, investigated the truck and found no cause for concern. Police arrested Wasik on charges of making felony threats.
Should the federal government break up America's big banks? Once confined to the populist fringes of policy debate, the idea has developed surprising momentum in recent months, with a number of conservative voices jumping on the bank breakup bandwagon.
The Obama Administration is reportedly pushing banks to increase mortgage lending to people with relatively weak credit in hopes of boosting home sales. But the very same policy under Presidents Clinton and Bush contributed mightily to the housing bubble that ultimately devastated millions of families in mortgage default.
Job creation is currently the Holy Grail for Washington policymakers. In order to craft better job policies, it is valuable to understand when, where, and by whom jobs are created. Rigorous data analysis tells us that start-up firms are disproportionate job creators and that new firms tend to appear in cities with smaller incumbent firms. Policymakers should keep future job-creating start-ups in mind whenever they hear an argument to protect the economic status quo.
About The Heritage Foundation Founded in 1973, The Heritage Foundation is the nation's most broadly supported public policy organization. Heritage created the Center for Legal and Judicial Studies in 2001 to educate government officials, the media and the public about the Constitution, legal principles and how they affect public policy.
When Government and Health Care Converge, Socialism Begins By Terence P. Jeffrey The most ominous trend in America's employment data is not the number of people who have left the labor force, but the number who are now working either for the government or in the as-yet-still-private sector of the health care industry.
No Tears for Lynne Stewart By Michelle Malkin The jihadists' favorite American lawyer, Lynne Stewart, reportedly has stage-4 breast cancer. Her radical friends want her freed from jail. There's only one decent response to this criminal-coddling demand: Hell, no!
Throwing in the Towel on Obama By Rich Galen Barack Obama's second term is off to a very bad start. Even Liberal commentators - at least those with any credibility - are suggesting it may be time for him to lead more and campaign less.
Counter the Pro-Amnesty March with Calls to Congress!
Friends,
Today, tens of thousands of pro-amnesty activists will be walking the halls of Congress before converging on the west lawn of the U.S. Capitol for a rally this afternoon.
IF YOU MAKE ONE CALL TODAY, PLEASE CALL YOUR 2 U.S. SENATORS AND URGE THEM TO OPPOSE AMNESTY!
We've se t up a special toll-free number for you to use today --
(888) 978-3076
Here is the talking point for today's calls:
"Whatever you do on immigration, don't give out work permits to millions of illegal aliens to do construction and service jobs while there are millions of unemployed Amer icans who are standing in line for just those kinds of jobs."
We've also posted a phone note on your Action Board:
Our hope is that when the pro-amnesty activists visit a Senator's office they have to wait because the staff is busy fielding your phone calls with your anti-amnest y message!
WE'RE WEBCASTING FROM RALLY
We'll be at the Capitol this afternoon capturing the sights and sounds of today's rallies. Roy and I will provide video reports from both the pro-amnesty rally as well as a few of the counter rallies that are taking place in Washington today.
We'll start posting video at 3 p.m. Eastern this afternoon on our special web page https://www.numbersusa.com/stopamnesty. All you need to do is follow the link b elow and then click on the videos from the video playlist.
On Sunday, Gang of Eight Members, Chuck Schumer and Lindsey Graham, appeared on NBC's "Meet the Press" to discuss their efforts. Schumer said a bill would be introduced some time this week, while Graham said it may be a few more weeks.
Yesterday, we learned that one of the bill's sticking points - a new guest-worker program for agriculture - had been worked out. Moments later, Sen. John McCain said he expected the Gang to introduce the bill TOMORROW. Some sources close to the negotiations, however, said it's more likely that the introduction will come next week.
We also learned yesterday that Sen. Marco Rubio would not sign off on the final legislation until he reads the full 1,500-page bill. One of his aides hinted that that could take weeks, but obviously that's not going to happen if a bill is introduced by early next week.
St ay tuned to our front page as we continue to keep you up to date on all the latest news.
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A recent survey was conducted featuring America's law enforcement officials. The survey sought to find out what those trying to stop violent crime think about gun control. Turns out the numbers don't exactly add up for the gun control proponents - see the shocking results HERE.
It's here: Pre-order Control
After the Sandy Hook tragedy, it didn't long for the left to ramp up anti-gun efforts. Glenn's latest book, Control, carefully and skillfully dismantles the arguments utilized by the administration and others on the left. Want to have a handy, ready-to-use reference for any gun argument? This is it: Pre-order your copy right now!
When will we ban assault knifes?
Yesterday, a bizarre attack happened on a college campus in Texas. A deranged student ran through the halls stabbing people at random with what reports indicate was a small 'razor type' knife. 14 individuals were injured. When hearing the news, Glenn did what any self-respecting progressive would do: Blame knives and immediately push for a knife ban. WATCH
If you've taken a psychotropic drug the govt can take your guns
The left is happy to use the 'mental illness' excuse when it comes to gun control. Why? Partially because 'yeah, we don't want insane people with guns.' Good safety tip. However, who gets to define what is insane? If you take any of these medications, guess what, no gun for you? MORE
The Wonderful World of Stu is back! Tired of those greedy capitalists and their evil capitalist ways? Stu's not! He loves capitalism, and he'll show you some of the good things we have in America because of it. He takes on progressives and liberals by dismantling their phony statistics and misleading claims. The Wonderful World of Stu is the perfect mix of humor and news that drives the left crazy and leaves the right laughing out loud. This Saturday, April 13th, at 10:30pm ET, don't miss a brand new episode of the Wonderful World of Stu! Not a subscriber? Start a 14 day FREE trial of TheBlaze Tv to watch!
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Is Glenn better than Obama at basketball?
Over Easter weekend, Obama had one of his most embarrassing moments as President when he bricked 2o shots and only made 2 before leaving the court. Glenn is arguably the worst athlete in American history - but even he thought he could beat the President's performance. So he tried today during radio - could he beat Obama's total? First, take the POLL, then see Glenn's performance HERE.
Don't miss Penn Jillette TOMORROW on the Glenn Beck Program!
If there's one thing that Americans understand, it's freedom. That's how America has solved problems and conflicts for much of history. But lately, government has been using regulations and restrictions to try to control decisions and "solve" problems both economically and socially. It doesn't work. TOMORROW at 5pm ET, Penn Jillette will join Glenn for the full hour to discuss why the answer should always be more freedom, and how we can bring disparate ideas together to work towards liberty. Not a subscriber? Start a 14 day FREE trial to watch!
#AskGlenn and Penn Jillette! Glenn wants to answer YOUR questions! And this week, he'll be joined by Penn Jillette. If you have a question for Glenn or Penn Jillette tweet it using #AskGlenn or email AskGlenn@theblaze.com by tomorrow afternoon. Tune in Friday to see if your question gets answered on the air!
Glenn wins...TriBeCa Film Festival award?
Yep, you read that headline correctly. Glenn actually won a TriBeCa Film Festival award - in the category of innovation, to those who 'disrupt' the normalcy of the world and forge ahead into uncharted territory. Other winners in that category include PSY's Gangnam Style. Does this mean we'll see Glenn go Gangnam Style on YouTube? WATCH
Common Core: It's not always good to try hard
Glenn spoke with Nic Anderson of NC Anderson Consulting about a piece of Common Core that is particularly interesting. There is a section dealing with FMRI and FCAT testing - why in the world would the administration want students to incorporate that into the classroom? Here are the creepy answers from radio today.
Is Glenn a better "thrower" than Pat? Glenn joined Pat & Stu to make excuses for his earlier basketball shots. WATCH
Is Joe Biden drunk again? Mocks "Black Helicopter stuff"
Joe Biden has already been caught several times contradicting himself on his administration's gun policy. Yet he was completely shocked to learn that the American people aren't buying it. Since flat out lying didn't work, he tried mockery instead. Hear the pathetic slam and Glenn's reaction on radio today.
Tonight's primetime lineup on TheBlaze TV
5pm ET -The Glenn Beck Program: How do we deal with social freedom in the political sphere?
6pm ET - Real News: Guns and the consequences of...something!
7pm ET - Wilkow!: David Webb fills in for Andrew tonight on Wilkow!
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OK....when they look at you like you have a tin foil hat on your head......take some of this information with you. It is 126 pages. I have not read through the entire document (YET) but what I have read is enough to blow off the top of your head. I have highlighted some stuff. KIPP (Charter Schools) has a CHARACTER REPORT CARD on Page 39. So for now start on page 39 and work your way through to page 45. Remember 
Parents must actively oppose this hijacking of the classroom for political purposes. Please 
The gun poll libs don't want you to see 
