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"The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose."
-Frederick Douglass
VOL. 15, NO. 4
May 23, 2013
Back to the Basics: Straightening Up America, IV: Remembering the Faith of Our Fathers
As we celebrate this Memorial Day and those who have fought to protect our country and our Constitution, the enemies of our venerable Judeo-Christian Constitution continue to pommel us with their Reconstructionist/Humanistic attacks. In so doing, they force us to continue asking, "How far can you make a man bend over backwards before he breaks?" This anguished cry was heard in one of the most widely acclaimed musical productions of the Twentieth Century, "Fiddler on the Roof." And it is the thought with which we have begun our latest Court Watch Briefings. We are asking, "Has America bent over backwards too far in its spiritual, moral, and constitutional life - too far from our Constitution and its Judeo-Christian roots? Are we as a nation in sore need of "a fundamental straightening up process"? Going "back to the basics" gives us the answer.
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Wednesday, May 22, 2013
THE FRIEND OF BOSTON JIHAD BOMBERS WHO WAS KILLED TODAY IN VIOLENT CONFRONTATION WITH FBI IMPLICATED HIMSELF & BOSTON JIHADIST IN 9/11 ANNIVERSARY MURDER OF JEWS
More proof of the jihad against the Jews back on the tenth anniversary of the September 11 attacks. Three Jewish boys nearly decapitated by the Boston Muslim bombers.
If law enforcement had taken this ritual islamic slaughter seriously when it happened, there would have been no Boston bombing. If I were a family member of a Boston bombing victim, I would file one big, fat lawsuit.
Friend of Boston jihad bomber implicated himself & Boston jihadist in 9/11 anniversary murder of Jews (thanks to Robert Spencer)
At least two of the victims were Jews, and were brutally murdered on September 11, 2011 by having their throats slit. The Qur'an designates the Jews the worst enemies of the Muslims (5:82) and directs believers to "strike the necks" of the unbelievers (47:4). "Ibragim Todashev implicated Tsarnaev, himself in triple homicide before FBI shooting," from CBS News, May 22:
A friend of Boston bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev implicated himself and Tsarnaev in an unsolved triple homicide before authorities say he instigated a violent confrontation that resulted in his death early Wednesday morning, CBS News correspondent Bob Orr reports.
TEL AVIV - In a largely unnoticed speech to a think tank seven months before the Benghazi attack, a top State Department official described an unprecedented multi-million-dollar U.S. effort to secure anti-aircraft weapons in Libya after the fall of Muammar Gadhafi's regime.
The official, Andrew J. Shapiro, assistant secretary of state for the Bureau of Political-Military Affairs, explained how U.S. experts were fully coordinating the collection efforts with the Libyan opposition.
He said the efforts were taking place in Benghazi, where a leading U.S. expert was deployed.
Shapiro conceded that the Western-backed rebels did not want to give up the weapons, particularly Man-Portable-Air-Defense-Systems, or MANPADS, which were the focus of the weapons collection efforts.
The information may shed light on why the U.S. special mission in Benghazi was attacked Sept. 11, 2012.
According to informed Middle Eastern security officials speaking to WND, the Benghazi mission was a planning headquarters for coordinating aid, including weapons distribution, to the jihadist-led rebels.
After the fall of Gadhafi, the arming efforts shifted focus to aiding the insurgency targeting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime.
Two weeks after the Benghazi attack, WND broke the story that murdered U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens himself played a central role in arming rebels and recruiting jihadists to fight Assad's regime in Syria, according to Egyptian security officials. In November 2012, Middle Eastern security sources further described both the U.S. mission and nearby CIA annex in Benghazi as the main intelligence and planning center for U.S. aid to the rebels that was being coordinated with Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar. Many rebel fighters are openly members of terrorist organizations, including al-Qaida. Speaking to WND yesterday, Middle Eastern security officials further stated that after Gadhafi's downfall, Stevens was heavily involved in the State Department effort to collect weapons from the Libyan rebels. The weapons were then transferred in part to the rebels fighting in Syria, the officials stated.
You are invited to join a conference call with Glenn Beck on Wednesday, May 29 at 12:00 PM Eastern (11:00 AM Central, 10:00 AM Mountain, 9:00 AM Pacific). Glenn will address the mounting threats to Israel and what we can do to stand with Israel today.
We are only able to reserve a limited number of lines for this conference call. Please click herenow to sign up before the call is filled. We are providing access to this call on a first-come first-serve basis.
Memorial Day Parade!
Monday, May 27th starts @10:00 am
Meet at CB West HS between 9-9:45am
We are in Red staging area, group #29
Bring your American and Gadsden Flags!!
Party at Anastasia's House following the parade
17 Meadow Lane, Doylestown
Please RSVP so we know how many people to expect!
Patriotic Summer Movie!
FROM THE DIRECTOR OF GODS AND GENERALS AND GETTYSBURG COMES THE LIBERTY MOVIE OF THE YEAR
RON MAXWELL'S COPPERHEAD
For anyone who reveres and believes in the preservation of the Constitution of the United States, Copperhead is a must see this summer!
Copperhead is unlike any Civil War movie to date. It is a film of the war at home - of a family ripped apart by war, of a community driven to an appalling act of vengeance against a man who insists on exercising his right to free speech during wartime. A story of the violent passions and burning feuds that set ablaze the homefront during the Civil War, Copperhead the movie is also a timeless and deeply moving examination of the price of dissent, the place of the individual amidst the hysteria of wartime, and the terrible price of war - a cost measured not in dollars but in fractured families, broken loves, and men dead before their time.
Based on the extraordinary novel by Harold Frederic, who witnessed these conflicts firsthand as a small child, Copperhead tells the story of Abner Beech, a stubborn and righteous farmer of Upstate New York, who defies his neighbors and his government in the bloody and contentious autumn of 1862.
May 21, 2013, 11 AM
Dear Members and Friends,
We extend our heartfelt prayers to the victims of yesterday's tornados that devastated a suburb of Oklahoma City. While the death count is uncertain at this time, it is believed that at least 50 people, many of them children, have perished in the disaster.
As soon as relief efforts are announced, we will forward the information along to you.
IRS Scandal Smoking Gun?
Never did we imagine that a smoking gun--directly linking President Obama to the IRS scandal--would emerge so soon. But that seems to be the case.
The American Spectator is reporting that the 'smoking gun' link between the IRS scandal and the Obama administration--including President Obama himself--is an IRS employee named Colleen Kelley, president of the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU).
Ms. Kelley, who met frequently with the President and his staff, visited the White House the day before the IRS began clamping down on Tea Party and other conservative organizations.
The following American Spectator articles tell the story:
And now, we have just learned that IRS official Lois Lerner will plead the 5th when she testifies before the House Oversight Committee tomorrow!
Also, in our last email, we mentioned that since the Association's 'first in the nation'
call for a special prosecutor, many other prominent local and national figures have joined the call--that list includes WPHT's Rich Zeoli, Peggy Noonan, and Governor Mitt Romney.
In addition, most of the region's Republican congressional delegation, including Congressman Mike Fitzpatrick--and the area's dean of talk radio, WPHT's Dom Giordano are also calling for a Special Prosecutor.
Our region's Republican congressional delegation--Pat Meehan, Jim Gerlach, Joe Pitts, Mike Fitzpatrick, Chris Smith, and Jon Runyan have done a stellar job in trying to get to the bottom of the both the IRS and Benghazi scandals.
Association Editorial
Jenny Beth Martin and the national Tea Party Patriots should study the law of diminishing returns.
Today, they held poorly planned, poorly timed protest rallies at IRS offices across the nation. The media is reporting that 10 people attended the rally in Pittsburgh and 15 people attended the rally in Philadelphia. (See news story below.)
Every time Tea Party Patriots hold protest rallies, fewer and fewer people turn out--whether in DC or nationally.
We have to be smart, careful, and tactical about why, when, and where we hold rallies or we will no longer be considered relevant.
Holding rallies for the sake of getting attention is not sound strategy. There must a purpose--such as a call for Special Prosecutor.
Reminder: PA Primary Today
PA municipal and judicial primary elections are taking place today. Even though many of these races are uncontested, we urge you to vote anyway.
DE, NJ, PA Legislative Alerts
In Delaware and New Jersey, we are on the defense regarding 'gun control' legislation.
After passing a 'gay marriage' bill earlier this month, the Delaware Legislature will take up gun control issues dealing with magazine capacities, mental health, and school zones when it returns from recess the first week of June.
The New Jersey Senate is expected to vote on separate bills limiting magazine capacity and banning .50-caliber weapons on May 30. Please call your State Senator ASAP and urge him/her to vote no!
To find your Senator and his/her contact information, please visit:
In PA, we are on offense. Two extremely important issues demand immediate attention.
The PA House has passed both an Abortion Opt Out of ObamaCare bill and a Liquor Privatization bill. The Abortion Opt Out legislation would stop taxpayer funding of abortion in the Commonwealth. Nearly 90% of Pennsylvanians oppose taxpayer funded abortion. This bill has been voted out of committee in the Senate and awaits a full floor vote, which could occur any day.
Please call your State Senator and urge him/her to pass the Abortion Opt Out bill. To locate your Senator and his/her contact information, please visit:
Last but not least, the Liquor Privatization bill is being held up in committee by State Senator Chuck McIlhinney (R-Bucks). Both Senator McIlhinney and Senate Majority Leader Dominic Pileggi (R-Delaware, Chester) will decide whether the bill makes it to the Senate floor for a final passage.
If you live in PA, please flood these two Senators with calls. Urge them to support the Liquor Privatization bill: Senator McIlhinney, 717.787.7305; Senator Pileggi, 717.787.4712.
Pot of Gold Money Drop
Our April/May Pot of Gold Money Drop has passed the half-way mark!
We hope to continue our efforts to restore limited government and free market
principles--despite the opposition of the IRS, President Obama, and his allies--but we need your help!
Many thanks to those who have already "dropped a donation!" So far, we have raised $3,100! If each of you gave just $5, we would surpass our goal many times over.
$5000
As an extra incentive:
* Those giving a $25 donation will receive an Independence Hall Tea Party t-shirt as our thank you.
* Those giving a $50 donation will receive one Independence Hall Tea Party golf shirt or two t-shirts as our thank you.
* Those giving a $100 donation will receive two Independence Hall Tea Party golf shirts as our thank you.
The next airing of the PBS series will be Tues., May 21 (tonight) at 8 PM (EST). Let us know your thoughts regarding PBS's presentation of our beloved Constitution.
Great May Events
There are still a couple of terrific events in the remaining days of May--including a major national Pro-Second Amendment rally on Independence Mall, Saturday, May 25.
Tomorrow morning (Wednesday, May 22), Governor Tom Corbett (R-PA) will be holding a press conference at the National Constitution Center.
Later in the day, Drexel University College Republicans will be hosting Brooke Goldstein--author, filmmaker, and human rights attorney--in MacAlister Hall on Drexel's Campus. Ms. Goldstein's documentary, The Making of a Martyr, will be shown prior to her talk.
Also on the horizon: the Association will sponsor its 5th Annual July 4th Celebration on Independence Mall. This year's theme: Preserving America's Heritage.
1. Save the 2nd Rally
When: Saturday, May 25, 12 Noon
Where: People's Plaza, 5th and Market Streets, Independence Mall, Philadelphia
2. Preserving America's Heritage--Independence Day 2013
When: Thursday, July 4, 1-3 PM
Where: Independence Mall, 5th and Market Streets
Free and open to the public. Many more details to follow.
Sponsored by the Independence Hall Tea Party Association.
Hope to see you soon!
On behalf of the Association Board,
Teri Adams
On Thursday, May 30, the organization Friends of Israel will celebrate its 75th anniversary of helping Jews and the Jewish State of Israel with a gala in Voorhees, N.J. We hope you will attend their reasonably priced dinner as a show of support and unity.
As you will note, this Christian Zionist group began its mission 10 years before Israel was re-established. They were originally known as "The Friends of Israel Refugee Relief Committee." To this day they continue to be advocates for Israel throughout the world and lead an annual mission to Israel. Though this group is international in scope, it is based in South Jersey.
Friends of Israel leadership have attended our Philadelphia ZOA Gala each year and last year we honored its immediate past executive director, William Sutter, and his wife, Annette. We see Bill (who is still quite active) and his successor, Jim Showers, at nearly every pro-Israel event in the region. They truly are, as their name indicates, "friends of Israel."
Tickets are just $45. The event takes place at The Mansion on Main Street, on May 30, beginning at 5:30 p.m.........
Kosher meals are available
Please call me at our Office for all of the details at 610-660-9466. I hope you will be able to attend.
Thank you,
Steve
Americans for Prosperity-Pennsylvania would like to invite you to join us for a
Lobbying Day at the Capitol on Tuesday, June 4that 10am.
Several important pieces of legislation have been introduced that will begin to restore Pennsylvania to its rightful place as a leader in innovation and provide the opportunity to bring our cash-strapped state budget back to fiscal health.
If we are going to change our state, we have to join together and let our elected officials hear from us!
The legislative session is quickly coming to a close. This may be our last chance to make our voices heard on the issues that impact our families.
Please plan to join us in Harrisburg on Tuesday, June 4th!
Buses will be coming from Pennsburg, Allentown, and Reading as well as Media and King of Prussia and Doylestown and Langhorne.
After a morning welcome gathering, please join AFP-PA to lobby your representative and senator about issues that are of vital importance to the future of our state including: Pension Reform, Common Core, Prevailing Wage, a Tax Cut for Job Creators, Right to Work, Employee Paycheck Protection, Liquor Privatization, Death Tax Elimination, and halting the Obamacare Medicaid Expansion.
A legislative lunch panel will follow with state legislators, as well as break out sessions on how to effectively influence government policy,and a presentation about the problems with Common Core by grassroots leaders and former gubernatorial candidate Peg Luksik!
WITH TRADITONAL VALUES, STRONG CONVICTIONS & FAITH IN OUR CONSTITUTION, HEAR MICHELLE BACHMANN'S VISION FOR OUR NATION.
In 2006, Congresswoman Michele Bachmann became the first Republican woman to be elected to represent Minnesota in the U.S. House of Representatives. As a self-proclaimed "Constitutional Conservative" she is committed to fixing Washington's broken ways by advocating for America's adherence to the Constitution. As a believer in the traditional values upon which this country was founded, Bachmann consistently defends America's religious liberties and the importance of family as the first unit of government. As the federal government continues to grow under the current administration, Bachmann was honored to establish the Tea Party Caucus in July 2010. She is proud to stand with the Tea Party to call for lower taxes, renewed focus on the Constitution and smaller government.
Reception: 11:30 am * Luncheon/Speaking Engagement: Noon
Price: $50.00 inclusive
For additional information please call 484-380-2549 or log on to www.phillyfreedom.org.
Announcing the 2013 National Conference
& Legislative Briefing!
June 19 - 21 we will convene at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, DC for our fourth annual National Conference & Legislative Briefing.
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!
2013 RedState Gathering -- Early Bird Special
Dear RedStater,
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
Listed as sponsor on school website through 12 months post event
·Quarter page ad in Dinner Program
Heritage Foundation weighs in on Common Core
By Rachel Sheffield April 11, 2013: Policy Analyst, The Heritage Foundation (courtesy of Citizens' Alliance of Pennsylvania)This coming school year, Pennsylvania public schools will begin implementing the Common Core education standards. Like many other states, Common Core standards are quickly making their way into the classroom. While proponents of the standards continue to champion their predicted benefits, there is significant cause for concern.First, the standards represent a massive federal overreach. The Obama Administration jumped on board from the get go, promoting national education standards, via policy and federal taxpayer dollars, as part of their education agenda. Billions of federal dollars have gone towards and are continuing to fund, the promotion and implementation of these standards nationwide. The federal government's involvement with the standards should be alarming. Pushing state and local leaders away from classroom curriculum is not only a breach in federalism but gives parents, teachers, and communities less say over what children learn in school. Education experts have also raised alarm over the quality of the standards. Sandra Stotsky, Professor of Education Reform at the University of Arkansas, has particularly expressed concern over the English Language Arts. Common Core's ELA standards reduce emphasis on literature by promoting the study of "informational texts." Stotsky says
, "A diminished emphasis on literature in the secondary grades makes it unlikely that American students will study a meaningful range of culturally and historically significant literary works before graduation. It also prevents students from acquiring a rich understanding and use of the English language. Perhaps of greatest concern, it may lead to a decreased capacity for analytical thinking."
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.
Students in some Albany High School English classes were asked to participate in the unthinkable this week as part of a persuasive writing assignment. The objective? Prove why Jews are evil and convince the teacher of their loyalty to the Third Reich in five paragraphs or less. See the actual lessonHERE.
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.
We all know how tough it is to maintain your morals in today's media world. Here are two gifts from the AFA to you, each meant to help you navigate your way through media today:
The article discusses how far TV has fallen in recent years and outlines some practical steps you can take to protect your family.
And the free movie guide is a great way to find movies for family night that the whole family can enjoy.
I hope these tools are a blessing to you!
Sincerely,
Tim Wildmon, President American Family Association
America needs a history lesson
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AGENDA 21 RESOURCE PAGE
From Right Side News
Agenda 21 and the impact on personal property rights and land rights content, This page is updated often, last update was May 3rd, 2013 about conservation easements by Rick Buchanan The most recent updates are first, but the foundational video series are below. under the Taking Liberty Video Documentary. We have had several hundred thousand visitors to this page due to its indepth resources on Agenda21 and property rights. You can also search our database of over 15,000 content news and commentary articles for more information. Use the search box in the upper right corner above the newsletter subscription button. Recently the UN website removed some long standing links to the 351 page document on Agenda21 (link below) Just a note: Don't be fooled by the term "non-binding", as that can be easily edited by the removal of 3 letters.
Donna Holt from Campaign for Liberty has also written extensively on this issue and her research provided valuable information both to James Simpson and Right Side News, and most importantly, the citizens of Virginia to get them involved at the local level.
Following is a list of all members representing Pennsylvania in the United States House of Representatives. Their name, party affiliation, office number, phone number and Congressional assignments are listed. You can print this list for immediate reference. If you wish to have the email address of your representative, type in "United States House of Representatives," click on 'Members" and then search for your Congressman's name. Go to his web page, where you will find his email contact page, regional office phone numbers and addresses and, hopefully, other information regarding what he is doing to preserve the Constitution. Please note the committee assignments of each representative. They are very important.
Please pass this information to all those on your list! Thank you.
The public debate over the Common Core Standards is intensifying as parents and teachers learn more about the changes to our educational system.
When the proponents of the standards mention them, they always begin with the word "rigorous". The word is always used, and there is never a synonym. This is marketing at its finest.
Who could ever be opposed to rigorous standards that would make America's children college and career-ready?
Then the definition of "rigorous" began to emerge. To quote the training materials being used with teachers across Pennsylvania, rigor does not mean "difficult, as AP Calculus is difficult". Rigor meant...
LibertyNEWS TV - "More Evidence Obama DID Know About IRS Targeting"
RedState Morning Briefing
For May 24, 2013
1.I Have No Problem With the Boy Scouts' Decision
The Boy Scouts of America have decided to keep the ban on gay scout leaders, but allow gay young men to participate in scouting. The vote was not even close. More than 60% voted to end the ban.
I have no problem with this. While I would have voted against it, if a majority of scouts want that, that is fine with me. Their institution is allowed to evolve as they see fit. My father was in the Order of the Arrow. He spent a number of years fundraising for the Boy Scouts. I was in the Boy Scouts growing up in Dubai. It has been a wonderful organization.
Nate Silver kicked up a minor fuss last Friday with yet another NY Times column deriding the Wall Street Journal's Peggy Noonan. There's less than meets the eye to the specifics of this particular dustup, but what's interesting is Silver's ongoing critique of Noonan and what it says about both of them. For today, I'll focus here mainly on Noonan. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
3.Left Blames NLRB Delays For Teamster Rep Losing Home Without Asking: Where Was His Union?
Now that Barack Obama's union appointees at National Labor Relations Board have been found to be unconstitutionally appointed by two Circuit Courts of Appeal, union bosses are apoplectic at the possibility that the NLRB will be effectively shut down in August when union attorney Mark Pearce's term as Chairman of the NLRB expires. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
4.Welfare, opportunity, and assimilation
Every participant in the immigration debate agrees on the importance of assimilation.(In public, anyway.Privately, I suspect some of the open-borders folks could not care less about it, or are actively hostile to it.But everyone says they hope immigrants assimilate and become fully invested, patriotic American citizens.)
What is the best way to encourage assimilation?It's not an individual process that can be applied to specific people and evaluated with tests.Cultural assimilation doesn't work like Borg assimilation.Like many other social and economic concepts, it must be envisioned in the context of a large population growing generally comfortable with their new home, and becoming productive citizens.Some individuals may embrace their new nation with unbridled enthusiasm; others might live there for decades without ever truly seeing themselves as fully naturalized citizens.But the host nation has a clear interest in encouraging large numbers of people to integrate as smoothly and fully as possible.A permanently alienated population of millions is nothing but trouble. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
5.Securing Our Borders With Open Borders
Every sane person in the country aka most people outside of the DC beltway, is asking the million dollar question of the immigration debate: why don't we just implement the enforcement measures that actually work before risking another wave of illegal immigration by granting amnesty now?The issue would largely dissipate if they would merely begin enforcing the laws on the books.
But when you listen carefully to the fatuous arguments propagated inside the beltway, you will discover the answer.These people believe that building a fence and monitoring visas will not help end illegal immigration.In their estimation, the only thing that will end illegal immigration, to the extent that they desire to do so, is unlimited legal immigration.In other words, in their view, there is no way to establish sovereignty over our own land unless we invite every individual in the world who would like to move here.Hence, our immigration policy should not be dictated by what benefits the country at large, but by the level of worldwide demand to immigrate to America.#DCbackwardlogic. . . please click here for the rest of the post →
6.Google Needs Extra Time to Spy on Your Kids
It seems that Google is constantly falling afoul of conservatives, consumers, pundits, regulators and really everyone else on earth (except for the Obama campaign) for its privacy-infringing tendencies.
It got hammered for "alleged" spying in the Safarigate scandal, where it wound up agreeing to a record-breaking $22.5 million fine in connection with charges it surreptitiously tracked Apple Safari users who Google had said could opt out of tracking, and did what Google said was necessary to opt out. This spying of course enabled Google to grab data it shouldn't have had, to improve its highly profitable targeted ad business, and do it in a way that amounted to a violation of its contract with users. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
"We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender..."
These were words President Obama never used during his speech at the National Defense University yesterday. Rather, he said anything
but
anything that sounded like Winston Churchill's immortal speech about defiance in the face of the march of tyranny.In large part, there was nothing new in the counterterrorism strategy the President announced. Flash back to 2011-that was the real turning point. Before then, Obama really followed what was called "Bush-lite," pretty much the same tactics as the previous Administration-just dropping all the rhetoric.
The war of ideas was completely banned
from the Obama lexicon. Islamist terrorism became "violent extremism." Terrorism became "senseless violence." In 2011, however, Obama shifted course dramatically. More than dumping the war of words, the White House signed off on a new counterterrorism strategy that amounted to running away from Iraq and Afghanistan as quickly as possible and limiting the offensive campaign to whacking top-level al-Qaeda with drone strikes.The new strategy was
bound to fail, fighting the last war while al-Qaeda evolved into a global insurgency that has spread from Pakistan to Nigeria.
It appears the Republican Party establishment and some conservative commentators have come up with another mistaken tactic to woo the low information and undecided voters....»
When a character in a movie places self-serving career interests over the life of another human being, it is a great morality tale. When the president of the United States displays the same behavior, it is frightening....»
On one thing the British liberal class is certain - the hacking to death of a soldier in a Woolwich street yesterday had absolutely nothing to do with religion. The murderers screamed 'Allahu akhbar' as they tried to decapitate the soldier (a barbaric hallmark of Islamic terror), announced proudly that 'We swear by almighty Allah we will never stop fighting you' and quoted the Koran as religious justification. But the atrocity, we have been repeatedly told, had nothing to do with religion. Ever since 9/11, the UK and US political and media establishment, along with much if not most of the British security service and increasingly the US security establishment, has repeated this mantra. Killing in the name of Islam is a warped hijacking of the religion, a perversion of the religion, the very antithesis of the religion. But based on the precepts of the religion itself? Good heavens, no. For more than two decades, the British political and security establishment has gone to extreme lengths to deny the true religious nature of the Islamic jihad, or holy war, against the free world and 'backsliding' Muslims (who are the jihad's most numerous victims). There are several reasons for this state of denial, of which in my view the key is that to the official mind a holy war is such a fearsome prospect - it's uncontrollable, can last for decades, is driven by wholly irrational motives immune to negotiation and is characterised by unmitigated savagery -- they cannot admit that this is what it actually is. So instead they come up with absurd statements like the one made to me some years ago by a very senior security official, who said this couldn't be an Islamic religious war because to say it was would demonise all Muslims.
The horrific killing in London, where a man believed to be a soldier based at the nearby barracks was beheaded by two machete-wielding assailants, has all the hallmarks of an al-Qaeda attack.
If Islam isn't Islam, what is it? What is it about Islam that prompts jihadist violence? Can it be "reformed" without turning it into another California cult?
The British government has called an emergency meeting of its highest-level anti-terrorism task force after a serving soldier was hacked to death on a busy London street today.
"Osama bin Laden is dead. And the remaining leadership of al Qaida is on the run, but the ideology of violent Islamist extremism is rapidly spreading."
"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
Peaceful, tolerant, socialist Sweden has been stunned by four nights of rioting in predominantly Muslim neighborhoods of Stockholm. One police spokesman said, "We have never had this kind of riots before in Stockholm, not this amount of riots and not this number of hot areas."
According to a BBC report, mobs of youth are starting fires, burning cars or shops, and then waiting "for emergency services to attend a fire before attacking them." That is a tactic commonly used by Palestinian jihadists.
We reported yesterday about the incredibly barbaric attack by two British-born Muslims who decapitated a British soldier at a base near London. They stayed at the scene for a considerable period of time while horrified onlookers listened to them spout the rhetoric of jihad.
Of course, following the predictable pattern, the British government and various news outlets were hesitant to describe this as Islamic terrorism "until there has been a full investigation."
But outraged Brits took to the streets chanting, "Enough is enough!" There were what appeared to be a few retaliatory incidents at several mosques. One mosque leader condemned the beheading, saying, "It was an appalling act of terror -- but it wasn't Islamic in any way. I wish it wasn't described like that."
This is the pattern we have seen time and again throughout the Western world. After every atrocity -- 9/11, the Fort Hood shooting, the London subway bombings, the Bali bombing, the Beslan school attack and a long litany of attacks in Israel -- we are told it had nothing to do with Islam. But go through the list of names of the murderous thugs who committed these atrocities and you will not find a Presbyterian among them.
Western governments and Muslim leaders are lecturing the wrong audience when they chant this almost magical incantation, "It had nothing to do with Islam," to those of us who are witnessing all of this horror. If it has nothing to do with Islam then there must be a lot of confused Muslims, because they almost always make sure to tell us it had everything to do with Islam.
Witnesses to yesterday's London beheading said the murderers shouted, "Allahu Akbar" -- "Allah is greatest." They stated, "We want to start a war in London tonight." Like the Tsarnaev brothers, they claimed the attack was in revenge for the war in Afghanistan, saying, "I killed [the soldier] because he killed Muslims and I am fed up with people killing Muslims in Afghanistan." (By the way, no one in the world -- not America, not England, not Israel nor any other Western nation -- kills Muslims more than other Muslims.)
One of the attackers even threated to kill children, saying, "You think [Prime Minister] David Cameron is going to get caught in the street when we start busting our guns? ...No, it's going to be the average guy, like you, and your children."
Let me say the required politically correct statement: Not every Muslim is a terrorist, nor was every German a Nazi. But it is true that virtually every terrorist who attacks the West is a Muslim.
"Swearing In The Enemy"
Ayaan Hirsi Ali experienced Sharia law firsthand while growing up in Muslim communities in Africa. She took refuge in the Netherlands, where she worked to expose Sharia's barbaric treatment of women. But radical Islamists there forced her to flee to America. She gained her citizenship last month and wrote a stirring column about her revulsion at the news that the Boston Marathon bombers were naturalized citizens like her.
Ali noted that data from a 2011 Pew survey suggests that "more than 180,000 American Muslims regard suicide bombings as being justified in some way." Meanwhile the political elites in Washington are engaged in a debate over immigration reform that appears to do nothing to make sure we do not allow in more people like the Tsarnaev brothers.
Ali wrote that the process of becoming a citizen was entirely bureaucratic. Never once was anything done to determine whether she or any of the other 1,834 people naturalized during her ceremony had the appropriate love for and knowledge of what America stands for to justify citizenship. She added, "I believe that we are entitled to filter out would-be citizens who are ideologically and morally opposed to the U.S. and pose a threat to its population."
How come it takes a naturalized American citizen, who grew up in Islamic countries and saw firsthand the horrors of Sharia law, to promote this commonsense idea?
Speaking of Understanding America...
There was a breathtaking exchange on the Constitution yesterday between Rep. Kerry Bentivolio (R-MI) and former IRS Commissioner Doug Shulman. It was troubling to watch Commissioner Shulman. He said he went to law school and believed he took a course in Constitutional law. Yet this man, who was in charge of an incredibly powerful agency, appeared to be clueless about the owner's manual of the United States.
From now on I think all nominees for top level posts should be quizzed at their confirmation hearings about their knowledge of the Constitution. Maybe that would help curtail some of these scandals! Perhaps we could get some of the groups whose nonprofit status was delayed by the IRS for wanting to educate the public about the Constitution to offer remedial courses to the Obama IRS and Justice Department!
Don't Drop Values!
What irony! Just as GOP elites are convincing themselves that they should stop talking about values, a new Gallup poll finds that 72% of Americans believe the nation's moral values are getting worse.
When we say values, we generally think of the sanctity of life and normal marriage. But there are a lot of other values issues. Why is the American family disintegrating and why don't we hear politicians addressing it?
When Major Hasan receives over $270,000 in salary while awaiting trial and the people he maimed and wounded are denied the help they need because their wounds were "workplace violence," that is a reflection of a value judgment. (Republicans should be holding hearings about that too!)
Here's another one: President Obama is dipping into a values issue today by making a speech about why Gitmo should be closed. That is an expression of his values. He appears to get up in the morning worried about the constitutional rights of terrorists who try to kill American soldiers. Republicans should be pointing out every day that Obama's values are way out of step with those of the American people.
If Republicans leave all these issues off the table they will never capture the hearts and minds of the American people. If all they talk about is balance sheets and accounting issues, they will never be a majority party again.
That said, my friends, there are many very good conservatives in Congress who are fighting for our values every day. One of them is Rep. Jim Bridenstine, as you can see from his speech on the House floor defending the Boy Scouts and our traditional values.
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Conservative commentator Michelle Malkin had some tough words for British progressives during an on-air debate last night with television host Sean Hannity and liberal radio personality Leslie Marshall. In discussing the horrific machete attack that left one man dead in London yesterday, Malkin blamed liberals, in part, for facilitating an environment that allows these attacks to occur. Watch the fiery exchange from Wednesday nightHERE.
New questions are being raised about Lois Lerner and the attitude she's taken in the past regarding conservative and Christian groups. The Weekly Standard is pointing to the questioning of people related to the Christian Coalition in the 1990s when Lerner was the head of the Enforcement Office at the Federal Election Commission (FEC). Read the shocking questions about faith and prayer that were asked of Col. Oliver NorthHERE.
It doesn't look like conservative commentator Dana Loesch will be appearing on CNN's "Piers Morgan Tonight" anytime in the near future. Following a Twitter spat, the controversial host derided Loesch, then publicly banned her from his television show. See the tweetsHERE.
On Wednesday, 26-year-old Samantha Minehart was just trying to spend some time with her horse. But an attacker with a knife had another idea. Fortunately for Samantha, she did too. It all happened around 11 am, in broad daylight. While tending to her horse, a man wielding a knife came up behind Samantha, put the weapon to her throat, and told her "don't do anything stupid." See the very smart thing she didHERE.
This past weekend, HBO aired highlights from the latest induction ceremony for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The one speech that stood out came at the end of the acceptance speeches from the three members of the band Rush. Watch the band's guitar player Alex Lifeson deliver a one-word speech that lasted over two minutesHERE.
For TheBlaze Magazine's June cover story, Assistant Editor Sharon Ambrose dug into the history and success of - and Progressive attacks on - home-schooling.She found that, despite a history of proven great accomplishment in the home-education movement, the Left continues to wage war on home-schoolers. And these attacks aren't new. Check out the story and learn how you can get a FREE issue of TheBlaze MagazineHERE.
South Carolina Congressman Trey Gowdy showed up to Wednesday's House hearing on the IRS scandal in a fighting mood. As the day wore on, Gowdy only became more fired up, culminating in a heated exchange between former IRS head David Shulman and Mr. Gowdy. Watch the six minute clipHERE.
If there are any up and coming bands in need of a lead guitarist, take a look at this 14-year-old girl. We're not being sarcastic or overly complimentary. This girl's guitar skills are unreal. Watch her rip through Van Halen's "Eruption"HERE.
For years, Dee and Leo Samad of Ohio have kept a small refrigerator stocked with drinks in their backyard. But lately, they noticed beers were disappearing from the fridge at night. The Samad's thought neighborhood kids were responsible for the thefts. And then they found an envelope with money and an emotional note you can readHERE.
"Don't use training premised on theories with little or no evidence to support them. Examples (from the report "Manufacturing the Muslim Menace") of unsubstantiated theories include:
a. Many mainstream Muslim organizations have terrorist ties.
b. Mainstream Muslim organizations are fronts for Islamic political organizations whose true desire is to establish Sharia law in America. Muslim Americans are using democratic processes, like litigation and free speech, to subvert democracy and install Sharia law."
So states the Department of Homeland Security report titled "Manufacturing the Muslim Menace." See the Clarion Project story by Ryan Mauro below, which states that the report "defends the Brotherhood, saying it is a moderate group that wouldn't use front groups in America."
Don't worry everyone. All this stuff about the Muslim Brotherhood, its front organizations in America (which our government treats as "mainstream Muslim organizations"), unindicted co-conspirators in the Holy Land Foundation terrorism financing case, organizations with ties to Hamas established by our own Justice Department...
...it's all a "manufactured menace."
One of the primary goals of the Muslim Brotherhood is to deceive and then co-opt our nation's political and law enforcement leadership.
You have to hand it to the Muslim Brotherhood-connected leaders in America. That they can refrain from breaking out into hilarious public laughter at the gullibility of our Department of Homeland "Security" leadership demonstrates extraordinary discipline.
Shame on those in leadership who have willfully and blindly fallen for this massive deception.
Our work has never been more important. All of us, working together, need to expose the dangerous fraud that has been perpetrated on the American people!
Shockingly, the advisory committee that likely influenced these guidelines includes numerous individuals affiliated with the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood.
The document says it is a list of "tips for federal, state and local government and law enforcement officials organizing CVE [Countering Violent Extremism], cultural awareness, counter-radicalization, or counterterrorism training." It was produced by the Department of Homeland Security Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties in cooperation with the National Counterterrorism Center.
The DHS suggestions in the document include:
"Don't use training premised on theories with little or no evidence to support them. Examples (from the report "Manufacturing the Muslim Menace") of unsubstantiated theories include:
a. Many mainstream Muslim organizations have terrorist ties.
b. Mainstream Muslim organizations are fronts for Islamic political organizations whose true desire is to establish Sharia law in America. Muslim Americans are using democratic processes, like litigation and free speech, to subvert democracy and install Sharia law."
The "Manufacturing the Muslim Menace" report cited depicts concerns about the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood as the fabrications of anti-Muslim bigots. Moreover, it defends the Brotherhood, saying it is a moderate group that wouldn't use front groups in America.
The Federal Government Itself Provides Evidence to the Contrary
In reality, solid evidence exists to the contrary - evidence ironically from the federal government's own determinations as well as documents from the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood itself including a 1991 U.S. Muslim Brotherhood explanatory memorandum that explicitly states: "[O]ur work in America is a kind of grand jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within."
Posted by Daniel Greenfield @ the Sultan Knish blog
After telling the story of Mohammed's boast that he would make the mountain come to him, only to be forced to go to it, Francis Bacon observed, "If the mountains will not come to Mohammed, Mohammed will go to the mountain."
Americans, Englishmen, Frenchmen and countless others went to the Muslim world hoping to turn it into another Boston, another London and another Paris. Instead Boston, London and Paris are turning into another Kabul, another Islamabad and another Mogadishu. Mohammed has come to the mountain.
Five years ago, the sight of Muslim terrorists beheading British soldiers was a horror that could happen in Afghanistan or Iraq. Now it has happened in broad daylight in the capital of the United Kingdom.
In a decade, 600,000 white Londoners have fled the city. Those are the sorts of numbers you would expect from the Syrian civil war. Their place has been taken by the million Muslims occupying the city.
Woolwich Common, adjacent to the area where the attack too place, is described as an "inner-city multicultural neighborhood" which is to say that it is more ethnically diverse than the London average; it has more violent crimes than average and is among the 5% of poorest neighborhoods. Only 58% of its population was born in England and a quarter of its residents immigrated in that same dreadful decade.
Multiculturalism has enriched the area with the Woolwich Manz, a Somali Muslim gang whose antics have led residents to fear walking the streets at night. The Royal Borough of Greenwich's Social Inclusion and Justice Division informs us that there are thousands of Somalis in the borough, most of whom live in Woolwich Common and Woolwich Riverside.
Gang wars over the lucrative drug business have broken out between the Woolwich Manz and other African gangs. Already in 2007, the London Evening Standard said that area residents were describing the Woolwich Common Estate as a "war zone" with stabbings and shootings and a new generation of child soldiers being recruited into the war. It was a little piece of Somalia in the United Kingdom.
The two men who butchered a British soldier are believed to be Somalis. Last year it was reported that dozens of Muslims in the UK were being trained to fight for Al Qaeda in Somalia. There were concerns over what those men would do once they returned to the United Kingdom.
"Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our gallant ancestors, and which our innocent posterity have a right to receive from us. We cannot endure the infamy and guilt of resigning succeeding generations to that wretchedness which inevitably awaits them if we basely entail hereditary bondage on them." --Thomas Jefferson (1775)
This week, I have received numerous "Memorial Day Sale" promotions by post and email from vendors who should know better than dishonor a day of reverence with advertising.
I've responded to each vendor with the following message:
To ... VP of Marketing,
I know that it is now common to commercialize national holidays celebrating faith or honoring military service, but I ask that you not use Memorial Day for marketing. It is completely inappropriate to promote this day of reverence for anything other than honoring fallen veterans. How fitting it would have been for your company, if you had sent an email promoting the proper observance of Memorial Day, rather than using it as fodder for profiteering. Memorial Day is NOT on sale -- millions of Patriots have already paid the full price.
Needless to say, I have never received a response.
Since our nation's founding, more than one million American Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, Marines and Coast Guardsmen have paid the ultimate price in defense of our nation, and it is their final sacrifice that we honor with solemn reverence.
As Memorial Day honors so many American Patriots, it may suffer some dilution for those who have no direct connection to a fallen veteran, or to those who served with them.
Thus, I wanted to focus this essay on just one individual veteran -- William Crawford -- who survived his combat trials, but whose service and life exemplified the character of so many in his generation who did not return. His story is their story.
With many friends who have served our nation in the air from World War II to the present, and as the proud parent of an Air Force Academy cadet, I invite you to take a moment and read the story of Bill Crawford, a man who went from sweeping combat fields in search of the enemy, to mopping halls and picking up trash for his fellow Americans. He was known only as a squadron floor janitor at the Air Force Academy until his heroic acts were rediscovered by an AFA '77 cadet and then properly acknowledged by President Ronald Reagan in 1984.
For the future of the American enterprise, it does not matter if Obama and his colleagues deliberately set out to create a Tocquevillian American tyranny, or if it is simply a hell that grew out of good intentions. It's there, and it's getting worse. We need to block and undo it, which requires that we have a full picture of it.
It's well known that whenever jihadis attack and slaughter innocent people - especially Christians - the Obama administration tries to ignore or whitewash. Lesser known, however, is that whenever foreign governments try to subdue the jihadis, the Obama administration objects and calls for the "human rights" of the terrorists.
More than one million foreign visitors who remained beyond the expiration of their visa may still be in the U.S., and immigration officials are having a tough time tracking them all down. The failure to address the issue could carry "catastrophic consequences," asserts one congresswoman.
Cleta Mitchell has prepared this comprehensive guide to the IRS abuse of election-integrity and Tea Party groups. It has everything you need to know to understand the legal environment which sprouted this scandal. Pay attention to the emerging fringe narrative of the speech regulators: the Tea Party deserved it. You'll learn much about the people who want to further restrict your political freedoms.
Daily Email - May 23, 2013 Top StoryThe Smoking Gun in the IRS Scandal, Part Two By Cliff Kincaid | May 22, 2013 Republicans are getting tripped up by the media when challenged about evidence of President Obama's personal involvement in the IRS scandal. Rep. Dave Camp of Michigan, who chairs the House committee looking into the IRS, "admitted there was no evidence" linking Obama to the IRS scandal, as MSNBC described his appearance on NBC's "Meet the [...] From the AIM Blogs Jay Carney Accuses GOP of Politicizing Scandals-Brings Up Birtherism [Video] By Don Irvine | May 22, 2013 Guest ColumnHypocrisy As Policy By Herbert London | May 23, 2013 Rarely in the history of this republic has hypocrisy been a public policy position. As Rochfoucaud noted hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays virtue. But suppose virtue has nothing to do with it. Suppose hypocrisy becomes a way to deceive and deflect criticism. Two recent examples prove this point. Recently President Obama argued that there [...] AIM Newswire Apple's Irish tax loophole leaves D.C. mad
The Senate will finally confront one of the architects of the subprime mortgage crisis today, hauling a tax-dodging, union-busting, bank-breaking, billionaire member of the "one percent" before the Senate Commerce Committee... to consider her confirmation as Secretary of Commerce in President Barack Obama's Cabinet.
In the same week that the Senate grilled the CEO of Apple, Inc. about the low taxes it pays due to maintaining large cash deposits overseas, the Senate will roll out a warm welcome to Chicago heiress Penny Pritzker, who runs what Forbes called "one of the grandest and most successful family tax-avoidance schemes ever."
MSNBC Anchor: 'Everybody Knew About' IRS Scandal 'Long Before the Election' More
"I am a mortal enemy to arbitrary government and unlimited power. I am naturally very jealous for the rights and liberties of my country, and the least encroachment of those invaluable privileges is apt to make my blood boil." ~ Ben Franklin
The Game Is Afoot!
Issa Vows To Haul IRS Official Back Before Congress Posted On America's Conservative News House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa said embattled IRS official Lois Lerner waived her Fifth Amendment rights and will be hauled back to appear before his panel a gain.
$287,967 Fed Study Developing 'Virtual Woman' Who 'Will Agree to Some Sexual Activities and Refuse Others' with Drunk Men By Eric Scheiner CNSNews.com The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism has awarded $287,967 to a study that will develop a virtual woman who will agree to some sexual activities and refuse others requested by "intoxicated" men.
"The Smart Meter Is A Propaganda Device To Benefit Utility Companies, The Electronic Industry, And The Global Government."
The Smart Meter Cost By Dr. Ileana Johnson Paugh CanadaFreePress.com I devoted four chapters to Smart Meters in my book, "U.N. Agenda 21: Environmental Piracy," showing the deleterious effects they have on humans in terms of health, privacy, fires, higher electricity costs, and how other states and countries have dealt with the forced installation.
Iran Fears Growing Israel-Azerbaijan Cooperation By Lt. Col. (ret.) Michael Segall RightSideNews.com The visit to Israel in April 2013 by Azeri Foreign Minister Elmar Mamadyarov intensified growing Iranian concerns over the tightening ties between Jerusalem and Baku, both of which view Iran as a threat. Iran's progress in its nuclear program and the failure of the nuclear talks with the West have raised Tehran's threshold of sensitivity about a military attack on its nuclear facilities, and it increasingly fears that Azerbaijan is turning into a base for such a strike.
May 23, 2013 01:15 pm Under the Marxist rule of President Barack Hussein Obama, Uncle Sam morphs day by day into 'Uncle Satan'. Ironic when contemplating that Iran has long called America "the great Satan". Far more wily than Uncle Sam or Uncle Sugar, 'Uncle Satan' lures scores of U.S. citizens motivated by entitlement mentality with food stamps, free cell [...]
May 23, 2013 01:10 pm Do You Know How To Deal With Long-term Care Under Obamacare? We face some dire changes in the world of health care. I want to share with you what to do to insulate yourself against the effects of Obamacare. I'm going to explain the Achilles Heel of Obamacare and why preparing for long-term care should [...]
Video: Rep. Trey Gowdy: "That's Not The Way It Works..."
May 23, 2013 01:05 pm
Congressman Gowdy raises his voice and relevant issues when IRS executive Lois Lerner refuses to answer questions. Related posts: Rep. Trey Gowdy Explodes At Libya Hearing Congressman Gowdy demands to know "why we were lied to."...... Top IRS Official Will Invoke 5th Amendment WASHINGTON - A top IRS official in the division that...
May 23, 2013 12:55 pm President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden met with three people at the White House Tuesday who are in the country illegally but received "deferred action" that allowed them to stay in the country under a memorandum issued by administration unilaterally last June in a memorandum issued by Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano. While [...]
Video: Speaker Boehner On IRS Scandal: "I'm Interested In Who's Going To Jail"
May 23, 2013 12:50 pm
Boehner thinks IRS has "something to hide". Related posts: Speaker Boehner Bails On Obama Investigation Sheriff Joe's Lead Investigator: John Boehner Not Allowing Congress to... Speaker Boehner Uses Rove-like Strategy To Hold House Majority Speaker John Boehner has implemented a Karl Rove-like campaign strategy...
New details coming out about DOJ seizure or press phone and email records Related posts: Free Press Is Now Under Attack By The Obama Administration ... Continue to Post... Obama Hailed 'World Press Freedom Day' As His DOJ Was Seizing AP Phone Records (CNSNews.com) - President Barack Obama issued a statement heralding World...
May 23, 2013 12:40 pm The Washington Post narrative surrounding the IRS' targeting of conservative groups is that it began as a scandal involving low-level employees at a Cincinnati office, the "Determinations Unit," a natural outgrowth of an increase in political activity by these groups. This belies other reporting by the Post's Fact-Checker, which indicates that there was little growth [...]
Ft. Hood Terrorist Still Drawing Full Pay Thanks To Obama
May 23, 2013 12:35 pm On Nov. 5, 2009, Army Major Nidal Hasan went on a shooting spree at Fort Hood, Texas where he was stationed. Witnesses said he was making Islamic statements as he shot one serviceman/woman after another. By the time Hasan was taken into custody, he had killed 13 people and wounded 32 others. His guilt is [...]
Video: Obama's Big Government: Not Accountable For Anything
May 23, 2013 12:30 pm
This just shows you how bad and insane big Government is... Related posts: Romney Holding Obama Accountable The Republican National Committee released this rapid response web ad... Congress Needs To Hold Obama Accountable And they need to do it NOW!!... Continue to Post...
"So Help Me God", Words That Mean Nothing In Government Anymore
May 23, 2013 12:25 pm Have you ever wondered why there is such a war on Christianity in the US today? Well, ponder this thought. Our country has become infested with Communists and Muslims at an alarming rate, including the Communist/ Muslim plant who sits in the oval office. Communists,on one hand, are mostly athiest non-believers, while Muslims have their [...]
Obama Administration Acknowledges Drone Strikes Killed 4 Americans Since 2009
May 23, 2013 12:20 pm Four American citizens have been killed in counter-terrorism drone strikes since 2009, the Obama administration acknowledged for the first time Wednesday. Attorney General Eric Holder disclosed the previously classified information in a letter to a top senator that also included the names of those killed and the revelation that only one was directly targeted in [...]
Biometric Database Of All Adult Americans Hidden In Immigration Reform
May 23, 2013 12:15 pm The immigration reform measure the Senate began debating yesterday would create a national biometric database of virtually every adult in the U.S., in what privacy groups fear could be the first step to a ubiquitous national identification system. Buried in the more than 800 pages of the bipartisan legislation (.pdf) is language mandating the creation [...]
May 23, 2013 12:10 pm Progressivism thrives best when truth is suppressed, but suppressed truth is still truth. You can try to sink it, shred it, cover it and destroy it, but truth eventually rises to the surface. Truth floats. Always. Currently, the various scandals within the Obama administration have put Progressives in defensive mode to protect an ideology built [...]
May 23, 2013 12:05 pm The IRS has admitted to harassing conservative groups seeking tax exempt status, singling out for extra special scrutiny organizations which featured "patriot" or "tea party" designations in their name. We now know that a number of these groups were forced to withdraw their applications, being unable or unwilling to continue what in some cases had [...]
May 23, 2013 12:00 pm From the outset, Internal Revenue Service lawyers based in Washington, D.C., provided important guidance on the handling of tea-party groups' applications for tax-exempt status, according to both IRS sources and the inspector general's report released in mid May. Officials in the Technical Unit of the IRS's Rulings and Agreements office played an integral role in [...]
Senate Votes to Continue Sugar Subsidies Free-market arguments aren't enough to overcome the political clout of the favored class receiving sugar subsidies from the federal government.
World Bank Insider Blows Whistle on Corruption, Federal Reserve A former insider at the World Bank says the global financial system is dominated by a small group of corrupt, power-hungry figures centered around the privately owned U.S. Federal Reserve.
True the Vote Files Suit Against the Internal Revenue Service True the Vote filed suit in federal court against the IRS, asking the court to grant its long-awaited tax-exempt status, and is seeking damages for delays in the processing of its application.
Boston Bombing: The Action Is in the Reaction None of the police-state measures in the wake of the Boston Marathon bombing made Boston-area residents safer. But that hasn't stopped new proposals to expand government.
Leaders of the 27 European Union countries met yesterday to discuss energy issues. The meeting, as described by AFP, represents a turning point in European energy policy. Europe's leaders are ready to join the shale oil and gas revolution to avoid being left behind economically:
EU leaders agreed Wednesday to face up to the challenge posed by the shale oil and gas revolution which has slashed US energy prices, undercutting Europe's competitive edge.
"All leaders are aware that sustainable and affordable energy is key to keeping factories and jobs in Europe," European President Herman Van Rompuy said.
"Industry finds it hard to compete with foreign firms who pay half the price for electricity, like in the United States," Van Rompuy said at the close of an EU summit focused on energy and tax evasion. ...
The EU's 27 heads of state and government met amid fears the US-led shale boom will reshape the global economy and leave Europe far behind.
Stuck in the doldrums, the European economy has lost nearly all momentum, with growth hard to come by and rising energy costs a real concern.
"We need to secure good value energy supplies ... (which) involves making most use of indigenous resources, such as shale," said British Prime Minister David Cameron. "We need to ensure that the old rules do not hold us back ... regulation must not get in the way" of developing such resources, he added.
This graphic circulated widely at the EU meeting, and apparently persuaded many in attendance that it is time to forget about "green" energy:
Factory production is moving from Europe to the United States, in part as a result of America's vastly cheaper electricity. Watts Up With That? compiled some reactions to the EU meeting. Some samples:
The portion of Wednesday's EU summit that will be devoted to energy policy could be boiled down to a single, eye-popping chart that has been making the rounds in Brussels over the last week. It tracks electricity prices - excluding taxes - for industry in the EU, US and Japan. From a common point in 2005, three lines diverge widely to reflect the fact that prices in Europe are now 37 per cent higher than those in the US, and almost 20 per cent higher than those in Japan. That chart captures a growing fear in Europe that rising energy prices now pose a threat to the industrial competitiveness of a region mired in recession. It has been driven home by a steady stream of announcements from European manufacturers about plans to build new production facilities in the US. -Joshua Chaffin, Financial Times, 22 May 2013
Europe's plan to decarbonise its economy by 2050 could be turned on its head at a summit today if EU heads of state and government sign off on measures prioritising industrial competitiveness over climate change in draft conclusions seen by EurActiv. One high-profile German MEP Holger Krahmer (ALDE), hailed the end of "climate hysteria" in a jubilant press statement. -EurActiv, 22 May 2013
The naive faith of policy makers that Europe's main competitors would follow this shift from cheap fossil fuels to expensive green energy has gone up in smoke. In reality, most nations are completely unimpressed by Europe's approach. Europe, the Washington Post recently warned, "has become a green-energy basket case. Instead of a model for the world to emulate, Europe has become a model of what not to do." EU leaders are beginning to wake up to the enormity of the green energy fiasco. They will meet in Brussels for an energy summit on May 22 to discuss how to respond to the crisis. -Benny Peiser, Financial Post, 14 May 2013
Soaring German energy costs in the wake of the country's transition to renewable energy have seen more and more firms thinking abut relocating their operations. German industry lobby associations on Wednesday sent a warning shot towards the government in Berlin, saying that rising energy costs in the country would drive away more and more German companies. -Deutsche Welle, 22 May 2013
It's tempting to say we told you so, but...ah, what the heck: we told you so.
With so many scandals in the picture or looming, it's easy to miss the fact that President Obama may soon become one of the most successful presidents in American history. I'm defining success as fulfilling Obama's mission of substantially transforming America.
The Obama administration scandals matter because, to one degree or another, they involve scandalous conduct. But step back for moment. In 20 years, very few people will remember any of them.
By contrast, in 20 years - assuming that Obamacare sticks and Schumer-Rubio style immigration reform is enacted - Americans will constantly experience the impact of the Obama presidency.
Obamacare is an enormous deal. It directly affects about one-sixth of the U.S. economy. It directly affects not just our well-being, but also life and death. Arguably, it provides the most significant entitlement in American history, and certainly one of the top three. No entitlement enacted since 1964 comes close to matching it.
Enacting Schumer-Rubio style immigration reform would be just as impactful. It would radically transform America by ultimately leading to citizenship for (an estimated) 30 million or more Mexicans, nearly all of whom will be low-skilled individuals, and many of whom violated American law as their very first act in this country.
It is highly unlikely that these new citizens will assimilate successfully. Thus, America will be a far less unified country than it is today.
It is overwhelmingly likely that the vast majority of the new citizens will vote consistently for Democrats. It is virtually certain that they will not vote for conservative Republicans, as that designation is currently understood. Thus, America will not be anything close to a "center-right" country. If we are a "center" country, it will only because the center moved significantly to the left.
The economic impact of Schumer-Rubio is subject to legitimate debate, so I'm not going to include it in my analysis. But quite apart from immigration policy, the U.S. almost surely will either have an enormous debt problem or will have taxed the relatively well-to-do to the breaking point.
Either state of affairs will reflect another Obama administration "success" - its ability to fend off Republican efforts to reform entitlements and to bring about substantial cuts in government.
And, with so many new underclass voters, it will be nearly impossible to reverse the rot.
Name a U.S. president since Lincoln who has had more of an impact on America than that which I have just described. You could make a case for Reagan, but FDR is the only one I would agree on.
The Daily Caller reports that White House Counsel Kathryn Ruemmler had three unprecedented one-on-one meetings last year with the Treasury Department's chief lawyer, Chistopher Meade. The meetings were in September and December of 2012. Meade had known about the inspector general's investigation of the IRS's targeting of conservative nonprofits since at least June 2012.
According to the Daily Caller, Ruemmler had never previous met with Meade one-on-one.
Meade and Ruemmler also were involved in a larger meeting on July 2, 2012 and another one on July 17, says the Daily Caller. These meetings occurred soon after Meade became acting general counsel of the Treasury Department in June. At that time, if not before, Meade found out about the IRS audit. Meade had been at Treasury since March 2010.
Ruemmler says she didn't learn about the audit until last month. But the timing of her meetings with Meade casts suspicion on that claim. Ordinarily, one would expect that the blockbuster IRS audit would a topic, if not Topic A, in any discussion between the top Treasury Department lawyer and the top White House lawyer.
As an aside, and for what it's worth, let's look more closely at these two lawyers. Ruemmler has an excellent reputation in Washington. You can get a sense of it from this Washington Post story, which includes praise not just from liberal lawyers but from John Dowd, a Republican and a partner at my former law firm.
The Washington Post isn't above shamelessly puffing favored Washington insiders. But a friend who is a leading conservative lawyer has spoken well to me of Ruemmler.
Nonetheless, Ruemmler has some questions to answer.
Meade is a former Ivy League radical. Not there's anything horribly wrong with that - John and I plead guilty to the same charge.
But Meade wasn't protesting the bloody Vietnam War or racial segregation. According to the Daily Caller, Meade was arrested in February 1990 for disorderly conduct after disrupting Vice President Dan Quayle's speech to Congressional Republicans. Meade's beef with Quayle? The U.S. military action in Panama!
Meade was something of a Whiz Kid at Princeton. "Give me any issue," he boasted to the school newspaper, "and I'll tell you why we're protesting the Bush administration's policy on it."
There's an old adage in the public relations trade that if you're on the defensive, you're losing the PR battle. And so it is rather delicious to watch Obama's defenders on the left furiously spinning that no, no-no way is any of this like Nixon! Scott already took down Steve Chapman's "false equivalence" column; the Washington Post editorial board-and who is more authoritative on Watergate than them??-thinks the comparison risible. But the sober Carl Cannon finds the demurrals unconvincing and thinks the comparison fits, while Al Hunt, my museum-grade exhibit for the mediocrity of modern journalism, says Obama is "no better than Nixon" and that John Mitchell must be smirking somewhere about Eric Holder.
I protest. Will no one stand up for Richard Nixon? Richard Nixon was a combat veteran, a staunch and brave anti-Communist, a man who took on the liberal establishment and at times his own party's as well, a leader who often thought for himself and had the courage of his convictions, a president who assembled a first-rate Cabinet and one who-while flawed both in character and in policy judgment-usually tried to confront the real problems and deal with challenges of his times. Richard Nixon led neither the country nor his own administration from behind.
Hear, hear! Of course, as my old mentor M. Stanton Evans liked to say, a true conservative is someone who didn't support Nixon until after Watergate. Or, as he claimed at the time, he called the White House in 1973 to say, "Gosh, if I'd known you guys were doing all of this neat stuff I wouldn't have been so hard on you." Stan was among the conservatives who broke publicly with Nixon in 1971, saying at the time, "There's only two things I don't like about the Nixon administration-its domestic policy, and its foreign policy."
But this raises a point: Prior to these scandals, unlike conservatives under Nixon, hardly anyone on the left raised his voice in opposition to things like drone warfare and Gitmo that had them marching in the streets under Bush. Because power is more important than principle. If Obama's support from the left really does begin to break seriously, it will be because he threatens to take down the left's hold on political power.
I've had occasion to write before about my enviro-dissident pals Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger of the Breakthrough Institute in Oakland (here, here, here, and here, and also in National Review), describing them on one occasion as "my existentially-challenged progressive pals." Well, now they've really done it: a piece in today's Wall Street Journal on why environmentalists should support nuclear power.
Along the way, they really deliver some well-deserved smack on Robert F. Kennedy Jr and Bill McKibben:
The same environmental leaders point to Germany's solar program as a model for effective action on global warming. Mr. McKibben describes Germany as "the only major country that's really pursued renewable power at an appropriate pace" and points out that its state of Bavaria boasts more solar panels than the entire U.S. Germany's solar panels were "enough to provide close to 50 percent of the nation's power," Mr. Kennedy wrote in an op-ed in the New York Times.
All of this has led many to conclude that electricity from Germany's solar power is far cheaper than Finland's new nuclear power will be. The opposite is the case.
The cost of building and operating the Finnish nuclear plant over the next 20 years will be $15 billion. Over that time period, the plant will generate 225 terawatt-hours (twh) of electricity at a cost of 7 cents per kilowatt hour.
Since 2000, Germany has heavily subsidized electricity production from solar panels-offering long-term contracts to producers to purchase electricity at prices substantially above wholesale rates. The resulting solar installations are expected to generate 400 twh electricity over the 20 years that the panels will receive the subsidy, at a total cost to German ratepayers of $130 billion, or 32 cents per kwh.
In short, solar electricity in Germany will cost almost five times more for every kilowatt hour of electricity it provides than Finland's new nuclear plant.
This is all prelude to the release next month of a documentary movie entitled Pandora's Promise, in which a number of leading environmentalists will tell how and why they have changed their mind on nuclear power. The film played well at the Sundance Film Festival recently (I guess Robert Redford was asleep at his solar-powered switch when the application came in that day). Here's the trailer:
And is you have another five minutes, here's the director Robert Stone explaining some background to the film.
Morning Jolt. . . with Jim Geraghty
May 23, 2013
So, Media, When Will You Stop Giving Obama the Benefit of the Doubt?
There are plenty of juicy targets for investigators in the IRS scrutiny of conservative organizations that applied for tax-exempt status, but the most dangerous for President Obama is this: Did bureaucrats in Cincinnati create this mess on their own? Or did someone in the White House give the marching orders to target the president's enemies?
The Treasury Department's inspector general asked that latter question of the IRS brass, and they said no - but he didn't demand their emails and phone records.
So Congress is demanding them now. On Monday, Sens. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and Orrin G. Hatch(R-Utah), the top members on the Senate Finance Committee, asked the IRS for all records of communications with "any and all White House employees - including, but not limited to, the president."
Obama shouldn't merely allow the IRS to cooperate; he should order the IRS to cooperate fully and enthusiastically. Meantime, the White House staff should also begin combing their own records to see if there's anything else they need to fess up. Under the doctrine of executive privilege, internal White House records are normally immune from congressional probing, but it would benefit Obama to be forthcoming.
The reason is simple: The president needs to prove a negative. He needs to show that there was no political influence over the IRS decisions. Proving a negative is never easy; it's doubly difficult when others are beginning to doubt your word.
The White House hasn't done much to bolster the president's credibility so far. While Obama himself has said the right things, his aides have sounded grouchy and grudging about cooperating with congressional investigations.
When spokesman Jay Carney was asked whether the White House would disclose emails to Congress, he refused to say - beyond a general promise to cooperate with any "legitimate congressional oversight."
White House advisor Dan Pfeiffer was downright pugnacious. "This is a Republican playbook," Pfeiffer charged during one of his Sunday TV appearances. "When they don't have a positive agenda, [they] try to drag Washington into a swamp of partisan fishing expeditions, trumped-up hearings and false allegations."
It is time for the political press corps to open themselves to the possibility that this administration is being run just the way President Obama wants it. Enough of this "if only the czar knew "/"if only Stalin knew" excuse-making, and the notion that all of this malfeasance, intimidation, harassment, cover-ups, story-revising, lying, blame-shifting, prosecutorial wild abandon, and strategic leaks are somehow occurring every time Obama leaves the room, perpetuated by a cabinet and staff that nefariously betray the good example he sets.
If Obama continually fails to take actions to suggest that he wants to cooperate, it's time to recognize that maybe he doesn't want to cooperate.
Obama may very well want a war with congressional Republicans on these matters. His poll numbers haven't suffered much because of these scandals so far. (See more on this topic below.) He may be very eager to re-play the 1998 midterm election playbook: "I'm trying to get things done on the real priorities of the American people, while the congressional Republicans waste time on this partisan witch hunt." Remember, Jay Carney asserted that the Benghazi attack occurred "a long, long time ago." How long until he and other administration officials try the same defense on tax shenanigans that occurred before Benghazi?
A Delayed Reaction to Obama Scandals, or No Reaction at All?
Will the scandals hurt President Obama's approval rating? National Journal's Michael Catalini looks at polling history and suggests we may see a delayed reaction within a few months:
A CNN/ORC poll showed that 53 percent of Americans approve of the job he's doing. That is about where he stood in April, when the same poll found he had a 51 percent approval rating. A Gallup poll showed 49 percent approved of the job he's doing, and a Washington Post /ABC survey had his approval rating at 51 percent, nearly the same as his 50 percent rating in April...
The break-in at the Watergate occurred in June 1972, five months before Nixon rode to a landslide reelection, but the scandal did not damage his approval ratings until after two aides were convicted of conspiracy in January 1973. Between January and August, his approval rating dropped from 67 percent to 31 percent after the resignation of his top staffers, attorney general and deputy attorney general...
Ronald Reagan's approval rating dipped from 63 percent in October of 1986 to 47 percent in December 1986, a month after Reagan organized the special commission to investigate whether arms were traded for hostages as part of the Iran-Contra affair.
I'd note that I'm not sure we can or should compare the media environments of 1974 or 1986 to today. At first glance, you would point out that we're no longer in an era where the Big Three evening newscasts and the Associated Press wire service dominate the news coverage. Newsweeklies had much bigger influence; Newsweek isn't even around today.
So perhaps we shouldn't be surprised that it took two months for Watergate or Iran-Contra to be "digested" by the electorate.
Now there are millions of outlets, ranging from 24-7 cable news channels to talk radio to a million sites and blogs on the Internet. This means that news events and developments are brought to the public's attention faster, but those events also get overridden and overshadowed by new developments and other news quickly. (The Boston bombings were five weeks ago - doesn't it feel like it was a long time ago?)
The news cycle moves so quickly, The Flash has trouble keeping up. The argument under the Faster-Feiler theory is that the public is getting better at processing the information quickly. But perhaps that assessment is mistaken. Perhaps the decline of the 1970s and 1980s-era dominant media institutions, and the explosion of other media, haven't resulted in a uniformly better-informed public. We now seem to be in an era of at least three tiers of news consumption.
News junkies - which probably includes you and me - are aware of what Mickey Kaus called "undernews" - stories that never quite break out of the blogs. John Edwards's scandal was well-known to most in the political press, but a lot of mainstream-media institutions averted their eyes for a long time from the evidence. ( Working in the news-gathering profession does not necessarily expose one to under-news, as shown by the woman who didn't understand why President Obama was joking about eating a dog in his 2012 White House Correspondent's Dinner speech.)
A new survey's findings show many of the people who say they haven't decided who to vote for in the race for president are either uninformed or uninterested.
A study by YouGov.com has found only 40 percent of undecided voters know that John Boehner is the Speaker of the House.
A whopping 31 percent don't know who Vice President Joe Biden is.
In one focus group, one undecided voter said he thought President Obama made a mistake not visiting New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, when in fact President George Bush was president at the time.
Good to know that every once in a while, the dolts end up preferring our guy, huh?
So the "undernews" crowd may use these recent scandals in deciding what they think of the president, but the other two groups may not be connecting these stories to the president yet.
During the 2012 filing season, 90 percent of returns claiming the refundable adoption credit were subject to additional review to determine if an examination was necessary. The most common reasons were income and a lack of documentation.
■ Sixty-nine percent of all adoption credit claims during the 2012 filing season were selected for audit.
■ Of the completed adoption tax credit audits, over 55 percent ended with no change in the tax owed or refund due in fiscal year 2012. The median refund amount involved in these audits is over $15,000 and the median adjusted gross income (AGI) of the taxpayers involved is about 64,000. The average adoption credit correspondence audit currently takes 126 days, causing a lengthy delay for taxpayers waiting for refunds.
While many returns had missing or incomplete information (more on that in a moment), what was the outcome of this massive audit campaign? Not much:
Despite Congress' express intent to target the credit to low and middle income families, the IRS created income-based rules that were responsible for over one-third of all additional reviews in FY2012.
■ Of the $668.1 million in adoption credit claims in tax year (TY) 2011 as a result of adoption credit audits, the IRS only disallowed $11 million - or one and one-half percent - in adoption credit claims. However, the IRS has also had to pay out $2.1 million in interest in TY 2011 to taxpayers whose refunds were held past the 45-day period allowed by law.
So Congress implemented a tax credit to facilitate adoption - a process that is so extraordinarily expensive that it is out of reach for many middle-class families - and the IRS responded by implementing an audit campaign that delayed much-needed tax refunds to the very families that needed them the most. Oh, and the return on its investment in this harassment? Slightly more than 1 percent.
This audit wave got almost no media coverage, but what was the experience like for individual families? In a word, grueling.
Boy, I'm glad we have the IRS around to save us from the scourge of . . . adoptive parents.
Considering the enormous social good that adoptive parents do, and the enormous expenses involved, they probably ought to be allowed to cheat on their taxes.
ADDENDUM: Amy Holmes of The Blaze writes in to share a rather glaring contradiction to Jay Carney's latest spin.
Carney, Tuesday afternoon: "Republican obsession with the talking points surrounding Benghazi is provably and demonstrably political and has focused on talking points instead of the tragedy that happened in Benghazi, the need to find those responsible for the deaths of four Americans and hold them to justice . . ."
AP story breaking at that precise moment: "The U.S. has identified five men who might be responsible for the attack on the diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, last year, and has enough evidence to justify seizing them by military force as suspected terrorists, officials say. But there isn't enough proof to try them in a U.S. civilian court as the Obama administration prefers."
NRO Digest - May 23, 2013
Today on National Review Online . . .
THE EDITORS: Congress calls in America's most successful company for following the law. Targeting Apple.
Lois Lerner, the IRS official who headed the tax-exempt division when the targeting of tea-party groups took place, plans to invoke her Fifth Amendment right to refuse to answer questions before Congress on Wednesday.
But Republican Rep. Darrell Issa, the chairman of the House oversight committee where Lerner was to appear, has issued a subpoena to Lerner anyway.
The subpoena was delivered after the committee received the letter from Lerner's attorney, a committee aide said.
Her attorney, William Taylor, said in a letter obtained by National Journal, that Lerner had "not committed any crime or made any misrepresentation" but that she would decline to testify at a House hearing on Wednesday.
Now, my impulse for accuracy compels me to emphasize that "I plead the Fifth" is not a synonym for "I'm a criminal." In Slochower v. Board of Higher Education (1956), the Supreme Court held: "A witness may have a reasonable fear of prosecution and yet be innocent of any wrongdoing. The privilege serves to protect the innocent who otherwise might be ensnared by ambiguous circumstances."
So "I plead the Fifth" means, "I will not answer because I'm afraid that by testifying, I will put myself in danger of prosecution for a crime; I'm afraid I will look guilty." Of course, in both our culture and our politics, pleading the Fifth looks really, really guilty.
But no point trying to spin this.
John Harwood: "Lerner taking 5th is worst hearing outcome for WH: hint of potential criminality to screw-ups IG didn't find partisan, much less criminal."
Hugh Hewitt: "Lois Lerner taking 5th is a huge deal. She should be obliged to invoke it repeatedly on all relevant subjects, including her tenure at FEC."
Rep. Vern Buchanan: "Pleading the fifth is a direct slap in the face of every American taxpayer betrayed by the IRS's gross abuse of power."
With two winning presidential campaigns built on successful grassroots fundraising, with a former White House counsel (in 2010-11) who is one of the Democrats' leading experts on campaign law (Bob Bauer), with former top campaign officials having been ensconced as staffers in the White House (David Axelrod, who left for the reelection campaign in early 2011, and Dan Pfeiffer among others), it's hard to imagine that the Obama inner circle was oblivious to the issue of what the IRS was doing in Cincinnati.
That may well be true. Maybe they didn't care one whit what the IG was going to say. But they sure haven't been behaving that way in the last week.
Meanwhile, our Eliana Johnson provides another scoop undermining the "rogue branch office" excuse:
Officials in the Technical Unit of the IRS's Rulings and Agreements office played an integral role in determining how the targeted applications were treated, provided general guidelines to Cincinnati case workers, briefed other agency employees on the status of the special cases, and reviewed all those intrusive requests demanding "more information" from tea-party groups. At times, the Technical Unit lawyers seemed to exercise tight control over these applications, creating both a backlog in application processing and frustration among Cincinnati agents waiting for direction.
An IRS employee who asked not to be identified tells National Review Online that all members of the agency's Technical Unit are based in Washington, D.C. A current list of Technical Unit managers provided by another IRS employee shows that all such managers are based at the agency's headquarters on Constitution Avenue in the District of Columbia, and the IRS confirmed, in a testy exchange with National Review Online, that the Technical Unit is "based in Washington."
Benghazi: The Story the Obama Administration Would Prefer We Forgot About
The U.S. has identified five men who might be responsible for the attack on the diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, last year, and has enough evidence to justify seizing them by military force as suspected terrorists, officials say. But there isn't enough proof to try them in a U.S. civilian court as the Obama administration prefers.
The men remain at large while the FBI gathers evidence. But the investigation has been slowed by the reduced U.S. intelligence presence in the region since the Sept. 11, 2012, attacks, and by the limited ability to assist by Libya's post-revolutionary law enforcement and intelligence agencies, which are still in their infancy since the overthrow of dictator Col. Moammar Gadhafi.
The decision not to seize the men militarily underscores the White House aim to move away from hunting terrorists as enemy combatants and holding them at the military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The preference is toward a process in which most are apprehended and tried by the countries where they are living or arrested by the U.S. with the host country's cooperation and tried in the U.S. criminal justice system. Using military force to detain the men might also harm fledgling relations with Libya and other post-Arab-Spring governments with whom the U.S. is trying to build partnerships to hunt al-Qaida as the organization expands throughout the region.
Anyway . . . now Obama gets gun-shy on droning bad guys who kill Americans? Now?
The Heritage Foundation has a good Ben Howe-produced video that points out how the Obama's claim that "we have been very clear about, throughout, that immediately after this event happened, we were not clear who exactly had it carried out, how had been, how it had occurred, and what the motivations were" just doesn't match the facts at all.
Speaking of Libya . . .
Anthony Bourdain visited Libya as part of his Parts Unknown documentary series for CNN. I'm usually a fan of Bourdain's, but I thought his move to the news network seemed like a strange one. Most "Parts Unknown" episodes are indistinguishable from his old travelogue show, "No Reservations," which aired on the Travel channel.
For the first few weeks, Bourdain's CNN effort felt like a strange transplant for a news network still searching for an identity between Fox News and MSNBC. Koreatown in Los Angeles, Quebec in Canada - these are fascinating corners of the world, particularly with Bourdain's chef-buddies as your hosts, but the show offered some pretty thin "news hooks'"for the trips - 20 years after the Rodney King riots, the current state of Quebecois separatism.
The Libya episode was the first one where Bourdain's here's-what-life-is-like-on-the-streets style seemed to really add to an understanding of a place in the headlines.
The upside of Anthony Bourdain is that his show always looks fantastic and you wish you could hang around him on any one of these multi-day journeys in far-off lands. He's funny, he picks up quite a bit about a culture from its culinary traditions, and yet he's the opposite of a know-it-all host; he's modest.
Maybe a little too modest. During a barbeque in Misrata, Bourdain is with a group of former freedom fighters; a woman doctor who performed 60 to 70 surgeries per day during the war is relegated to the "kiddie table." Bourdain notes this, and after noting that progressive-minded folks might disagree with this arrangement, summarizes it with a quick, "I don't know."
Come on. We know Bourdain probably has a strong opinion on this, and is biting his tongue in an effort to not offend his hosts - who, by the way, are carrying Kalishnikov rifles. But if there's one continuing irritant to Bourdain's series, it's that he'll go right up to the edge of making a profound or significant statement about a culture or country, and then laugh it off with a "hey, what do I know?" remark.
Mrs. CampaignSpot rolled her eyes when Bourdain quickly dismissed what was before his eyes, that the "free" society emerging in post-Qaddafi Libya was one where separation of the sexes was so culturally intractable that a surgeon wasn't good enough to dine next to the kind of men she sewed up in wartime. (Segregated dining facilities are a rather key cultural marker to any American who remembers the 1960s.) But . . . at a time when foreign news gets little or no time on the evening news, and the morning shows focus on Botox, and the cable-news networks go bonkers for Jodi Arias, Anthony Bourdain actually gets to spend an hour painting a portrait of a place like Libya. It's not perfect, but it does give an American (and worldwide) audience a better understanding of a country beyond the wartime footage.
Journ-O-List Lives!
"The scandals are falling apart." - Ezra Klein, last week.
"[Talking Points Memo blogger] Josh Marshall, [Washington Post editorial board member] Jonathan Capehart, [Washington Post columnist] Ezra Klein and other lefty columnists headed into West Wing as a group." - NPR White House correspondent Ari Shapiro, 3:25 Tuesday afternoon.
ADDENDUM: Well, this is reassuring: "President Barack Obama believes firmly in freedom of the press and does not want journalists to be prosecuted for doing their jobs, the White House said on Tuesday."
NRO Digest - May 22, 2013
Today on National Review Online . . .
ELIANA JOHNSON: IRS specialists in Washington were closely involved in the Cincinnati office's scandalous behavior. Oversight from Washington, All Along
The number of scandals and the speed at which they are both multiplying and growing in seriousness portends difficulties for Democrats in the near future. Nevertheless, they are a slippery bunch and never without a trick or two up their sleeve.
All indications are that these scandals will end Democrat dreams of having useful idiots like Marco Rubio and Paul Ryan help them erase our borders thus giving them a fresh supply of voters. When that scheme ends, they will have to look elsewhere and that elsewhere is Statehood for Puerto Rico.
A movement for statehood for Puerto Rico is perfect trap for feckless Republicans who, after defeating Rubio - Schumer amnesty bill, will be looking for a way to apologize to Hispanics. There is no doubt that Chuck Schumer and Bob Menendez will take weak-kneed Republicans by the hand and lead them to the ... Continue Reading:Make Puerto Rico a state handing Dems 4 new House seats and 2 new Senate seats forever? No thanks
The full face of political evil and arrogance showed its ugly features when progressives went up against the folks. And what we saw were the cruel, prideful, insensitive machinations of an Obama administration whose mantra involves the ends justifying any of their means. Showing no interest in their oath to maintain the public trust, these progressives revealed in real time television their demonic minds at work. When the outgoing IRS chief smirked at one Congressman's question, hid behind the bureaucrat's trompe l'oeil of "I don't know," and then used the intellectual's latest, snarky transitional word "So," we saw how he and his comrades regard the common folk.
We now know the IRS planted the Lois Lerner question-answer at the American Bar Association's meeting to get the news of targeting out ahead of an internal audit which revealed the corrupt use of IRS power against ordinary Americans. When ... Continue Reading:The hateful essence of the left a constant threat to the US
After yesterday's horrific beheading of a British soldier on the streets of London by home-grown Muslim terrorists, perhaps it's time to take a closer look at just how successful multiculturalism and massive welfare transfers have been.
Careful, now ... our destination is currently ablaze as these recipients of publicly funded health care, schooling, higher education and various types of financial support express their gratitude with rocks and Molotov cocktails ...
A top State Department official's largely unnoticed speech to a think tank seven months before the Benghazi attack may provide the key to understanding why the attack took place and give us the clearest picture of what was transpiring inside the doomed compound ...
If there's one delicious aspect of the scandals swirling around Barack Obama, it means bad news -- REALLY bad news -- for the minion news media that fawn all over him.
Obama-Republican John McCain is working with his Big-Government allies in the Senate to ram through a hike in the national debt ceiling. They don't even have the courage to do it out in the open.
Luckily, consistent defenders of fiscal sanity Senators Mike Lee, Rand Paul, Ted Cruz, and Marco Rubio are trying to stop this secretive deal.
The American people want transparency and openness from their government. John McCain's support of this secretive and disastrous debt hike is just Washington as usual. He should know better than to sell future generations into the poor house.
McCain needs to stand for fiscal responsibility, not backroom debt hikes.
In Liberty,
Matt Kibbe, President and CEO, FreedomWorks
Taxing the Credulity of the Americans
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published May 20, 2013 on The Washington Times website.
Barack Obama says he is angry about the Internal Revenue Service singling out conservative and Tea Party groups for rough treatment, even though it may or may not have something to do with an anti-Muslim video.
He might want to check with Hillary Clinton again. There are so many scandals breaking over the White House that confusion is understandable.
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published May 19, 2013 on Breitbart.com.
Several major cases will be decided by the Supreme Court over the next six weeks, including historic issues such as gay marriage and affirmative action. These cases make the remainder of the Court's term--which ends in June--one of the most carefully watched terms by millions of Americans.
In addition to several significant cases that have already been decided this year, the justices of the High Court have at least ten important issues to decide before adjourning for the summer.
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published May 15, 2013 on Townhall.com.
Brothers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who are accused of setting the bombs that exploded at the Boston Marathon, attended the University of Massachusetts. Maybe they hated our nation before college, but if you want lessons on hating America, college attendance might be a good start. Let's look at it.
"We need to think very, very clearly about who the enemy is. The enemy is the United States of America and everyone who supports it." That's taught to University of Hawaii students by Professor Haunani-Kay Trask.
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Welfare Reform (CCWR) Peter Ferrara was published May 15, 2013 on The American Spectator website.
Health policy economists are puzzled by a persistent slowdown in the growth of health care spending that seems to have started in mid-2005, and accelerated since then. The Wall Street Journal summarized it on Monday, saying, "The health [spending] growth rate has flattened out at about 3.9% over the last three years--a record low since the 1960s and down from the old normal of 6.2% to 9.7% in the 2000s."
Economists thought at first that the slowdown in spending was due to the recession, when people didn't have the money to continue to increase health care spending as much as in the past.
Congress Investigating Obama Admin's Hostility to Religion in the Military
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published May 13, 2013 on Breitbart.com.
Following 59 Members of Congress sending a letter to Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel regarding Pentagon officials meeting with an anti-Christian extremist, another group of 72 House Members has sent a second wide-ranging letter, exploring whether these infringements on religious liberty violate both federal law and the Constitution.
The first letter demanded that Hagel explain why Pentagon brass met with anti-Christian extremist Mikey Weinstein. It highlighted various disturbing statements Weinstein has made--most of which were first reported by Breitbart News--such as calling Christians "monsters," and claiming sharing the gospel of Jesus Christ an act of "treason" and equating it with "rape."
59 Congress Members Demand Hagel Explain Meeting with Anti-Christian Extremist
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published May 13, 2013 on Breitbart.com.
Monday morning, Congressmen Steve Scalise and John Fleming--both Republicans representing districts in Louisiana--sent a letter signed by 59 Members of the U.S. House of Representatives to Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel at the Pentagon, demanding answers regarding Pentagon officials' meeting with an anti-Christian extremist.
This story began two weeks ago when Breitbart News reported on at least one such meeting. Since that time it has become a growing controversy, as Breitbart News reported additional disturbing details. Now Congress is weighing in.
What is it about the homosexual movement that it has such incredible political power? Again and again, politicians, business, organization and religious leaders, educators and others succumb to this agenda. All this despite the dangerous suppression of traditional social morality and freedoms that we have now seen always follows. What kind of pressure is put on them? And pressure it must often be in many cases because nothing else makes sense to cause otherwise intelligent people to make such dreadfully bad decisions.
This is an international trend, backed by powerful international forces, that is trashing cultures and corrupting the social and political foundations of free, stable and prosperous nations. As we have warned many times before, those with homosexual dispositions and those who are convinced to experiment with or at least fully support this unhealthy social aberration, are being used. They are being used for other agendas. And they will be abused once the objectives are achieved.
The only ones who really care for them are those who are willing to tell them the truth about the consequences of involvement in homosexual activity. It's not rocket science and most of it has been known for millenia.
"You will know you have [the baby's head] when you crush down on the clamp and see white gelatinous material coming through the cervix," said former abortionist Anthony Levatino.
When I walked into this year's Oregon Adolescent Sexuality Conference in Seaside, Oregon, one of the first things I encountered was a table manned by three young teen boys.
established a clinic dispensing the abortion-inducing drug misoprostol in rural Tanzania despite what one staffer called "the restricting legal context."
The former Attorney General of England and Wales is trying to erase the Central American nation's longstanding moral convictions based on a nebulous standard of unwritten rules.
"We would like to see the Fatima shrine become a place that is consecrated to the defense of the cause of Life," Luis Botelho, leader of the Committee and president of Portugal Pro Vida, told LifeSiteNews.
"The speakers and workshops at Women Deliver advocate practices, like unlimited abortion' and infanticide "that will increase maternal and newborn deaths," said Wendy Wright of C-FAM.
"We believe it is possible to win this vote in the [House of] Lords, and we would encourage Christians throughout the nation to pray for that result," the Coalition for Marriage said following the vote.
The evidence shows the international community is trying to legalize abortion "at the expense of women's lives and health," said Jeanne Head, R.N., National Right to Life vice-president for international affairs.
It was clear from the start that the Gang of Eight's bill was heavy on amnesty, light on enforcement. When given the chance to improve their bill, the Gang proved that they are all talk and no action.
Just take a look at some of the amendments voted down in committee:
Require the Southern border be under "effective control" for at least 6 months before amnesty applications can be processed. VOTED DOWN.
Require illegal aliens pay all back taxes, penalties, and fines before being handed legal status (amnesty). VOTED DOWN.
Require all businesses use a system (like E-Verify) to ensure that all new hires are legally able to work in the U.S. within 18 months. VOTED DOWN.
Affirm that state and local law enforcement can assist in the enforcement of federal immigration law (like Arizona). VOTED DOWN.
Time after time FAIR's allies in the Senate offered amendments to strengthen border security, enhance enforcement efforts and improve the bill. Time after time these efforts were VOTED DOWN.
FAIR has been working on Capitol Hill to minimize the damage this bill would cause if passed. After these amendments were flat out rejected, it's clear that we cannot allow this bill to become law. FAIR needs to run ads nationally to oppose this bill. The cause is urgent.
Will you help us put a stop to this bill that would legalize millions of illegal aliens before a finger is lifted to prevent more from coming? Will you stand with FAIR to protect the integrity of our immigration system by making a generous tax-deductible donation to FAIR right now? Your financial support will help us continue this critical fight to prevent a devastating amnesty -- far worse than any in American history.
Obama: America Racist, Sexist, Homophobic By Ben Shapiro The true American experience, according to Obama - the shared experience that forges a unified view of our country - is marginalization. And marginalization justifies massive government interventionism to foster e pluribus unum.
Late yesterday, news broke of a gruesome and bizarre terror attack in downtown London. Two men armed with knives, axes and a machete brutally killed a 25-year-old British soldier who was described as a funny, witty man who loved his 2-year-old son Jack. More on the attack from radio today.
Ted Cruz: I don't trust republicans
Ted Cruz has been declared enemy #1 by the left. Cruz recently had some harsh words for the establishment GOP, namely he said he doesn't trust republicans. That's quite a statement for a sitting politician to make and shows that Cruz is not afraid to stand on his own. The audio on radio today.
NYC getting worse than it deserves? Anthony Weiner throws hat in the ring to replace Bloomberg with world's worst campaign vid
What has NYC done to deserve an Anthony Weiner comeback? Surely even the worst elements in NYC don't warrant the suffering and pain that comes along with having a Weiner run for Mayor. Whatever the reason, Weiner is back - and he created a horribly cheesy video to kick off the campaign. Brace yourself - Weiner humiliation in 3, 2, 1...CLICK.
Oh well: Dana Loesch banned from Piers Morgan's show
Dana Loesch elicited the ire of Piers Morgan after tweeting about the London attack and tying it to gun control. The ever humble Piers Morgan just had to punish Dana for making such a good point. He actually thought he taught her a lesson by unfollowing her on Twitter and banning her from his show that no one watches. LOL. WATCH
This morning, The Morning Blaze with Doc Thompson and producer Skip Lacombe kicked off a broadcast for 24 hours to raise money for Mercury One's Midwest Tornado Relief Fund with support from TheBlaze Radio Network's Glenn Beck, Jay Severin, Buck Sexton, Pat & Stu and other special guests. Join in HERE.
Glenn on the ground in Oklahoma with stories of hope and inspiration: WATCH
Dems politicize tornado
Didn't take long for sleazy politicians to jump right in and and politicize the devastating tornado that hit Moore, OK. From Global Warning to the sequester to scandals, the left showed no tact in using the tragedy to promote their pet agenda of choice. WATCH
Calling All History Buffs!
Glenn's looking for some GREAT untold (or misunderstood) stories from American history for an upcoming project. The stories can be from any era, but they should be things that will amaze, inspire or educate. Know of one that fits the bill? Click the link below & tell us all about it!
This weekend join TheBlaze for the award winning documentary: Veteran Nation
Veteran Nation honors the courage and heroism of our veterans from Bunker Hill to Baghdad. See how they have been treated throughout history, the challenges they face returning home, and what we can do to serve them. Veteran Nation - Watch live or on demand this Saturday at 12pm ET, on TheBlaze.
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Tonight's primetime lineup on TheBlaze TV
5pm ET -The Glenn Beck Program: What if they're telling the truth about the scandals? Why is the President being kept out the loop and how is he making decisions?
6pm ET -Real News: More on the London terror attack - is rogue Jihad on the rise?
7pm ET -Wilkow!: Is the President's speech on drone strikes just a diversion to take attention off the IRS scandal?
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Cray Cray: Shocking London terror attack 
