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Benghazi... Obama's 10PM Call to Clinton Was About Crafting a "Cover Story" While 2 Victims Were Still Alive

Posted by Dean Garrison

Once again, this time with feeling... 

...just WHOSE side is Barack HUSSEIN Obama on really?

First, Let's Look at Syria.    

Syria's Assad 'confident in victory' in civil war

By ZEINA KARAM and BASSEM MROUE | Associated Press   

[Excerpt.]

BEIRUT (AP) - Syrian President Bashar Assad said in an interview broadcast Thursday that he is "confident in victory" in his country's civil war, and he warned that Damascus would retaliate for any future Israeli airstrike on his territory.

Assad also told the Lebanese TV station Al-Manar that Russia has fulfilled some of its weapons contracts recently, but he was vague on whether this included advanced S-300 air defense systems...

Source-

YahooNews.

Read more:

The Blaze | Christopher Santarelli | May. 30, 2013 8:50pm  

With the continued Benghazi investigation, IRS political targeting and DOJ press surveillance, could a scandal at the EPA be the next shoe to droop for the Obama administration?

The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) been closely following the EPA's misuse of private communication to conduct public business, and fees the agency has placed on conservative groups seeking information that they usual waive for media and watchdog groups. After successfully gaining access to former EPA Chief Lisa Jackson's emails, CEI is now suing to gain access to the text messages of Gina McCarthy, the senior EPA official the President has nominated to now run the agency.

CEI's Chris Horner joined "Wilkow" Thursday to discuss his organization's request to access text messages sent by Jackson and McCarthy, and what they're looking for.

"Where are these text messages? Are they really engaging in serial, coordinated, systematic document destruction in violation of criminal law?" he asked. "Because I have an affidavit in one of my lawsuits from NASA admitting that they are. OK, so this is not far-fetched, this is rather near-fetched."

Please stop using Gmail.  Gmail is part of Zgoogle and Google sits on the right hand of President Obama.  They track everything that you do.  James Rosen of Fox News used Gmail.

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 →

On Thursday, May 30, the organization Friends of Israel will celebrate its 75^th 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

CLICK HERE to register NOW.

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 4^th!

Buses will be coming from Pennsburg, Allentown, and Reading as well as Media and King of Prussia and Doylestown and Langhorne.

CLICK HERE to register and for more details.

When: Tuesday, June 4^th

Time: 10:00 AM

Where: Harrisburg, Pennsylvania capitol steps

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!

CLICK HERE to register for our Lobbying Day NOW.

I look forward to seeing you in Harrisburg on June 4. Together, let's change PA!

In Liberty,

Jennifer Stefano

State Director

Americans for Prosperity - Pennsylvania

@StefanoSpeaks

ANNOUNCING VALLEY FORGE PATRIOTS JUNE MEETING

NEW LOCATION AND NEW TIME (SEE BELOW)

• Friday, June 14, 2013

7:00 PM to 9:00 PM

• Phoenixville Senior Center

153 Church Street, Phoenixville, PA (edit map)

• Meeting will start at 7:00 PM at the Phoenixville Senior Center

As part of our youth outreach program we have invited the Young Republicans of Chester County to meet with the VFP. The YR's Chairman, Rick Loughrey will be our main speaker and he expects to have several of their members also join the meeting. Rick is also the elected Recorder of Deeds for Chester County.

Valley Forge Patriots would like to learn more about the YR Organization, their mission and goals and to see what we can do to support each other.

In addition we will have committee reports and announcements.

The Senior Center does not serve food or drink. You may bring food and drink of your own as long as you clean up after yourselves.

Light refreshments will be served.

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.

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:

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.

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!

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.

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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,

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

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:

1. Free Article: How to Watch TV Without Compromising Your Values  2. Free Guide: 300 Family Friendly Movies

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!

At the Boston Marathon we all witnessed what happens when people become radicalized by an extreme Islamic ideology.

IT IS TIME THAT EVERYONE GET EDUCATED ON THIS ISSUE.

Watching The Third Jihad is the ultimate way to share this knowledge with other Americans.

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AGENDA 21 RESOURCE PAGEs

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.

Pennsylvania

THURSDAY COLUMN

Political Agendas and Half-Staff Flags

Why Obama Honors the Memory of Some and Not Others

"My anxious recollections, my sympathetic feeling, and my best wishes are irresistibly excited whensoever, in any country, I see an oppressed nation unfurl the banners of freedom." --George Washington (1796)

Our noble United States flag has been on my mind and in my heart this week.

At sunrise last Saturday, I took my 90-year-old father, a World War II Naval Aviator, to place flags at National Cemetery here in Chattanooga.

For many years, I have been humbled to join with other veterans, families and Scout Troops ahead of Memorial Day as we post some 50,000 flags on grave markers. We complete our work in about an hour, and the result is a remarkable transformation of this beautiful expanse of hallowed ground.

The morning starts with a moving tribute to generations of warriors who, in defense of Liberty, gave their lives on beaches and battlefields, high seas and skies. They are saluted with 21 guns, and then Taps.

It was the first time my father had attended this event, and the old warrior was moved to tears. This was apparent to all when he was interviewed by NBC. He was the oldest veteran participating that day.

The final flags I place each year mark the graves of two Vietnam-era F-105 wingmen, one KIA and the other shot down three months later, who then spent five agonizing years as a POW. The latter, Roger Ingvalson, was a life-mentor to me.

On Memorial Day morning, I rose well before sunrise, went to The Patriot Post's publishing office and lowered our flag to half its 40-foot staff. I did the same at our local elementary school, and then returned to my home where I lowered our flag. Then, as with most mornings, I retreated to our back porch for morning prayers and to watch the sun rise above the trees, before charging into the day.

In the quiet of that moment, I recalled a question I was asked last December, when Barack Obama ordered flags to half-staff -- and we did not comply.

There are five perennial Presidential Proclamations ordering flags to half-staff. Beyond those, presidents traditionally order flags to half-staff at the death of notable politicians or other national figures.

Embattled Attorney General Eric Holder, facing at least three scandals, and calls for his demise, still promises Gun Control! Eric Holder may be under intense scrutiny for his department's part in wiretapping AP phones, seizing phone records, allowing IRS persecution, and gun-running, but that doesn't mean his goal of gun control is in the backseat.  During an interview with NPR, Holder repeated his desire for gun control by focusing on impeding access and drying up the supply of guns and/or ammunition. President Obama received his first stinging defeat of his second term by the United States Senate voting down a bipartisan compromise to expand background gun buyer checks!  Obama declared the vote as "a pretty shameful day for Washington." President Obama vowed that the disappointing vote to him would NOT end his fight for stricter gun laws.  He called his initial defeat...just "round one."  That means that we must remain firm in our commitment to defeat gun control at every turn. The battle is NOT over.  We must continue to contact every Congressman to vote against all 2ndAmendment limiting gun controls!  Of course, Harry Reid will reintroduce gun control with "different" language in the bill.  We will not let him get away with it.  Please let Congress know how most Americans feel about their Second Amendment rights! PLEASE FAX NOW! Holder stated that although the White House lost the battle over expanding background checks for gun purchasers, the administration will be trying again later to push gun control in Congress and using their "regulatory power to make smaller changes in the meantime."   Confirming the administration's unrelenting commitment to what many believe is an infringement of the Second Amendment, Holder declared that the goal is, "moving the needle in the way in which the American people want, which is to make guns less accessible to people that should not have them." If Holder moved in a way "in which the American people want," he'd leave well enough alone. Gun crime is down (if you don't count the 300+ body count from Team Obama Holder's Fast and Furious experiment) and people are more interested in jobs and energy. One of the Sandy Hook parents said they were: "disappointed but not defeated!" President Barack Obama continues to use the parents of slain Sandy Hook students as "political props". The Second Amendment, as written by our founding fathers, literally guarantees Americans the right to own and bear arms, guns.  We much continue the "heat" and pressure on Congress!  Please fax Congress to let them know that they must do everything possible to PRESERVE our Second Amendment.  Tomorrow will be too late! Your faxes with help every Congressman to preserve our freedoms---TO SAVE OUR UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION! Your fax is urgently needed today...right now, before Harry Reid and his colleagues take away our Second Amendment freedoms. After years of debate back and forth, right now, your Constitutionally-guaranteed rights in the Second Amendment are in grave danger! Join the conversation on Facebook It is not about gun control. It is not specifically about gun confiscation (though that would be an ultimate goal). It is about control of the people...YOU! "Round One" was won by patriots such as you.  But there are still more votes on this important issue.  Please fax right now.  If you value your Second Amendment Constitutional rights, You MUST fax today. Fax Congress NOW! Sincerely, Conservative-Daily P.S.  REMEMBER:  THIS GUN CONTROL LEGISLATION WOULD NOT HAVE PREVENTED THE NEWTOWN MASSACRE!!

Obama Signing United Nations Anti-Gun Treaty June 3rd

RedState Morning Briefing

For May 31, 2013

1.  The Truth May Hurt, But Is Not Mean       

I feel the need to add to this post as it is obvious a lot of people take up this topic with some heavily preconceived notions and biases. I am shocked to learn I think women cannot be breadwinners. That is what the left says, but it is not so. Even now I am getting beaten up for suggesting women should stay home with their kids. While I think it is preferable, I also know it is often impossible. I know from first hand experience.

Prior to having kids, Christy and I both worked. Once we had our first child and I was making a full time go of RedState, Christy had to work if we were to have insurance. Frankly, we could not make ends meet on my salary alone and, even after the cost of day care, had to have the remainder of Christy's salary to help make ends meet. We still struggled.

At one point I had to contemplate being a single dad, but thank God I did not have to be. When we made the decision that Christy would stay home with the kids, we did so contemplating I would have to get one or more additional jobs in order for her to do it. God truly blessed us in how he arranged it, but we had made the decision to make the leap to her being a stay at home before those blessings even arrived. I work three jobs rather constantly, but am fortunate to do most of it from home.

All of this is to say there are many people who've heard what I said and think I'm judging them. I am not. In my own family we've been there and struggled. But just because the world has moved on and seems to think the two parent nuclear household with a stay at home mom is no longer necessary or useful does not make it so.

Ladies, if you want to work that's fine. If your position in life makes it advantageous for you to be the primary bread winner, that's fine. But your individual circumstances and mine should not hide the fact that there is an ideal and optimal family arrangement whether we in our own lives can meet it.

We should also, as a society, recognize that many single moms are in that position because the men in their lives abandoned their obligations. We should work on all those fronts to put the pieces of the nuclear family back together.

Having said all that, now on to the main point wherein all the controversy lies. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →

2.  The eternal system

"We've got a politics that's stuck right now," this great Man of the People declared.  "And the reason it's stuck is because people spend more time thinking about the next election than they do thinking about the next generation."

The irony of this bitterly divisive, politics-obsessed President making such a pronouncement at an event dedicated to raking in cash for the 2014 midterms, in which he won't even be a candidate, was doubtless lost on both Obama and his adoring audience.  They'd all better hope to God that Obama supporters don't start thinking about the mountain of debt they're dropping on the next generation, or his entire Party is finished.  Obamanomics is all about selling the future down the river in exchange for enough Big Government swag to buy the next election. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →

3.  NC House Speaker Thom Tillis to Announce Run for Senate

Sources in Raleigh are confirming that NC House Speaker Thom Tillis will be announcing a bid for the United States Senate some time tomorrow.

The potential for Tillis to run has been rumored for some time, enough so that a Super PAC, Grow NC Strong, recently filed paperwork in anticipation of his announcement.

The announcement will likely wet the appetites of Democrats in DC ready to pounce on recent scandals that have plagued his office, including multiple staffers that had inappropriate romantic relationships with lobbyists which resulted in resignations and negative media coverage for the Republican. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →

4.  Was It Worth It? After 10 Years On Strike, Hotel Union Throws In The Towel

After 10 years of picketing and rowdy rallies outside a downtown Chicago hotel, UNITE-HERE has decided to call off its decade-long strike.

On Father's Day, 2003, UNITE-HERE went out on strike against the Congress Hotel when the hotel's owner refused to agree to the union's demand to accept the same (pattern) contract it demanded of all Chicago-area hotels.

During the ten years the union was on strike, the union engaged in a vicious campaign to try to get the hotel's owner to capitulate. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →

5.  Google Chairman Bankrolls Tech Shop Exclusively for Democrats

I've written previously about how embedded Google, Inc., is with the Democratic Party and the Obamasphere in particular.

I was told by many that it was the stuff of tin-foil hats to believe that Google was in the tank for Democrats. They're just working with clients after all! Why, Romney and Republicans could've just as easily worked with them! This isn't partisan!

May 31, 2013   

Trayvon, George, and the Homeless Man
Jack Cashill
A biased judge has managed to keep practically all evidence harmful to Trayvon Martin out of the case -- but that didn't stop George Zimmerman's attorney from slipping a bombshell into the public record. More

Shielding the Enemy
Janet Levy
Even after twenty years of open Jihadi terrorism, many sections of government fail to grasp the danger. Why? More

When You Have to Shoot, Shoot; Don't Talk
William A. Levinson
It may go against everything you see in the movies and hear from idiotic gun-grabbing politicians, but this advice will keep you alive. More

Science in the Service of Ideology: The National Climate Assessment
Norman Rogers
As far as I know, there are no Ph.D.s offered in the study of junk science. Maybe there should be. More

Barack Obama, George Orwell, and Terror
Michael Widlanski
A classic case of using debased language to distort perception of the real world. More

The Spending Cuts that Never Were
Jonathon Moseley
The sequester: yet another fraud to throw onto the pile. More

Woolwich Incident Reveals a Difference in Cultures
Elise Cooper
The UK public response to terror distinctly varies from our own. What can we learn from this? More

American Thinker Blog

The Devil We Know
May 31, 2013
Is it time for another proxy war between the United States and Russia? More

Let's start telling young people the truth about college and jobs
May 31, 2013
A little realism, please. More

Former Chicago gang leader, now congressman, racially smears US senator
May 31, 2013
Senator Mark Kirk's proposal to curb gang violence "an elitist, white boy solution." More

Obama approval slips in new Quinnipiac poll
May 30, 2013
Bi-partisan support for the appointment of a special prosecutor. More

IRS chief visited White House more than any other cabinet member
May 30, 2013
Douglas Shulman visited with White House officials 157 times during the Obama administration. More

Surprise! Most Syrian rebels don't want democracy
May 30, 2013
Islamists have "other aspirations." More

Can Eric Holder survive?
May 30, 2013
Pressure building on all sides for the AG's resignation. More

NY Times, AP refuse to meet with Holder 'off the record'
May 30, 2013
Holder's attempt to schmooze the media a bust. More

The Massachusetts Posthumous Benefits Program
May 30, 2013
So committed to the cause of compassion that even death hasn't stood in the way of bureaucratic benevolence. More

The Message Stinks!
May 30, 2013
What do you expect? It's the GOP. More

Disturbing Pattern: Obama Puts Our Enemies above Us
May 30, 2013
Despite the Ft. Hood shooting, the attack on our consulate in Benghazi, and the Boston bombing by Islamic terrorists, Obama persists in playing the role of defense attorney for those seeking our demise. More

Dear Maureen and Margaret: You saw the Potemkin village in 2008
May 30, 2013
Yes, the dream is over. More

 

Nixon and Obama: Like Brothers from Another Mother 

Many pundits and journalists, including CBS' Bob Schieffer, have drawn parallels between the Obama White House's handling of scandals plaguing the administration and Former President Nixon's management of Watergate. RevealPolitics looked back in the archives to see just how close they were.
 

 

 

'Crazy' - D.C. College Students Praise End of Bachmann 

Campus Reform's Katherine Timpf asks students at George Washington University in Washington, DC what they think about Michele Bachmann's decision not to run for Congress again.
 

 

 

Transvestite Superhero Cartoon For Kids 

Mark Dice slams the media and our culture for pushing out a new transvestite superhero cartoon for kids age 2 to 11. Even better, Hasbro may release some related toys too!

Watch and then tell us what you think about this being marketed to children.
 

 

 

Caught on Tape: Homeless Hypocrisy 

This is priceless. California politicians are caught on tape rejecting the same policies they force on other citizens. See what happens when they use police and Homeland Security agents as enforcers to intimidate the undercover journalists...

What do you think about the abuse of power in this video?
 

 

 

Ann Romney Goes Solo on Post Election 

In her first solo TV interview since the 2012 elections, Ann Romney talks to the "CBS This Morning" co-hosts about her thoughts on the presidential race and what she and Mitt Romney have been doing since then.
 

 

Every Common Core Conversation Just Goes In Circles... 

See the many clear examples of indoctrination in a Common Core ELA Texts and share this video so others know what is going on also. Maybe then you can help break the circular talking points used by those pushing it...

Tell us what you think of Common Core.

Whistleblower Exclusive: Benghazi Cover-up Is The Proxy Battle With The War With Iran

Announcing the availability of
Guy Rodgers for public events

We're pleased to announce today that Guy Rodgers, ACT! for America's Executive Director, is now available to speak at church, tea party, and similar events.

Guy is a dynamic, compelling public speaker who over the past 30 years has given speeches and presentations to tens of thousands of people across nearly every state in America.

A recipient of public speaking awards, he has also been a guest on hundreds of news and talk television and radio programs since the mid-1980's.

Guy has an extensive knowledge of all dimensions of the threat of radical Islam. And his 27 years of experience in the political arena as a strategist, consultant and grassroots organizer gives him a unique perspective on how to strategically and effectively combat this threat.

If you are interested in having Guy speak at a church, tea party, or similar event in your area, with projected attendance of 250 or more, please email us at:

events@ActforAmerica.org

Turkey Stakes Claim In America With $100 Million Mega-Mosque

The building of this center takes Turkey's "outreach" in America out of the realm of the subtle.

MORE...

U.S. Gov't: Radical Muslims Approved, Moderates Shunned

Counterterrorism trainers are told that U.S. Brotherhood groups' are not tied to terrorism. Yet the federal gov't has proved they are.

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ISNA Reinvents 'Sharia' For Western Consumption

Instead of using the U.S. as a model for reform in Islam, Islamists view Islam as a model for reform in the U.S.

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Top Story: Holder a Portrait of an Abomination   Published 2013-05-30
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 Belgian Muslims: "We Believe Sharia Will Dominate Worldwide"

The graffiti on a building in Belgium says it all: "Welcome to 'Belgistan." In fact, some are now calling it the Muslim capital of Europe. A CBN correspondent interviews a representative from Shariah4Belgium. He argues that Muslims will take over country in a few years - we have many wives and have many children. He states that they fully intend to enforce Shariah law when they have a majority.


 

A tale of two hearts- Op-Ed in The Times of Israel by CUFI's Executive Director David Brog

Last week, a disturbing video made the social media rounds. It shows an armed rebel dismembering a dead soldier's body. He then extracts and eats the soldier's heart. According to Human Rights Watch, the cannibal is a Syrian rebel leader named Abu Sakkar. His snack was a Syrian government soldier.

While cutting away at his victim, Sakkar says, "We swear to Allah that we will eat your hearts and livers, you soldiers of Bashar the dog." Bashar Assad is the Syrian President the rebels seek to topple.

We've seen this movie before. We've seen the bloody beheadings of Daniel Pearl and hundreds of others. We've seen the lynching of Israeli soldiers by men who then held up their blood-drenched hands in celebration. We've seen the blood lust of Assad himself, who's already killed tens of thousands of his citizens in his effort to cling to power.  

Read more:

Thursday, May 30, 2013

To: Friends & Supporters

From: Gary L. Bauer


Media Turn On Holder

Attorney General Eric Holder's attempt at damage control appears to be backfiring. Holder was scheduled to hold "off the record" meetings with key members of the media today and tomorrow to repair frayed relations stemming from the Associated Press and Fox News scandals. But leading outlets are refusing to attend.

Yesterday the Associated Press and the New York Times announced they would not attend any "off the record" meetings with Holder given that he is now a huge part of the story. CNN, Fox News, CBS News, Reuters, and the Huffington Post also turned down Holder's invitation.

It's not surprising that Fox and the AP would refuse to go given that they were targets of Holder's probes. But the Huffington Post and the New York Times? Perhaps some dormant "journalistic gene" long suppressed in the liberal media has finally started to reassert itself!

Meanwhile, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney (a former reporter himself) was peppered with questions during yesterday's press briefing about the fact that Attorney General Holder is being investigated for perjury by the House Judiciary Committee.

As you may recall, Holder told the committee that the prosecution of journalists was "not something I've ever been involved in, heard of, or would think would be wise policy." And yet Holder signed off on a warrant labeling Fox News reporter James Rosen a potential criminal co-conspirator under the 1917 Espionage Act.

Carney asserted that because Rosen was never formally charged or prosecuted, Holder did not technically commit perjury. That explanation doesn't pass the straight face test. In fact, it makes the scandal even worse.

At least one reporter reminded Carney that the warrant is a legal document. If the Justice Department never intended to prosecute Rosen and made up the charge in order to get a judge to sign off on the warrant, then the so-called "Justice Department" lied to a judge and Holder approved it!

So, did Holder lie to the House Judiciary Committee or did his Justice Department lie to a judge? Perhaps the best answer is for Mr. Holder to resign quickly before this gets any worse.


Obamacare: You Can't Keep Your Policy

In a story headlined, "Like Your Health Care Policy? You May Be Losing It," the Associated Press is finally acknowledging what critics of Obamacare have warned about for years: Obamacare will cause many people to lose their existing health insurance coverage.

In the coming months, millions of Americans will be told that their current policies are being cancelled. Why? Because "their current policies aren't up to the basic standards of President Barack Obama's health care law."

So here we go with the Big-Government-knows-best approach. And so much for the president's promise, "If you like your health care plan, you'll be able to keep your health care plan, period."


The Real Benghazi Scandal

Yesterday we reported that the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee had issued a subpoena to the State Department demanding "all documents and communications referring or relating to the Benghazi talking points." On Fox News last night, columnist Charles Krauthammer offered his thoughts on the possible origin of those talking points. Here's what he suggested could be the real scandal:

"The biggest scandal of all, the biggest question is what was the president doing in those eight hours. He had a routine meeting at five o'clock. He never after during the eight hours when our guys have their lives in danger, he never called the Secretary of Defense, he never calls the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, he never called the CIA Director. ...

"But five hours in he calls the Secretary of State. And after the phone call she releases a statement essentially about the video and how we denounce any intolerance. It looks as if the only phone call is to construct a cover story at a time when the last two Americans who died were still alive and fighting for their lives. There's the scandal and that has to be uncovered."

"Obamagate"

A new Quinnipiac poll provides fresh evidence that the scandals swirling around the Obama Administration are taking a toll on the president's support. At the beginning of the month, the president enjoyed a net positive rating of 48% approval to 45% disapproval. Today it is flipped: 49% of voters disapprove of his job performance and 45% approve.

The president took the biggest hit among independent voters: Only 37% of independent voters approve of Obama's job performance, while 57% disapprove. Just a few weeks ago, the president was down only six points with independent voters. Now he's down 20 points!

Here are some other numbers that should concern the White House: Two years ago, 63% felt Obama was "honest and trustworthy." Today voters are divided 49% to 47%. And when asked whether a special prosecutor should be empowered to investigate the IRS scandal, 76% of voters said "Yes!"

As we have noted before, there are numerous comparisons in the current IRS and media scandals to the Nixon Administration. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell is running a new web ad hitting the president hard for the "culture of intimidation" that has permeated Washington.

And there is this video that compares Obama's reactions to the scandals and Nixon's responses to Watergate. The similarities are stunning! It's almost as if the Obama press office deliberately decided to emulate Nixon's media strategy.


"Breadwinner Moms"

A Pew Research report released yesterday found that women are the primary earners in 40% of American homes today. That is a huge cultural shift. Fifty years ago, women were the breadwinners in just 11% of homes.

Most of the media have seized on this report as a triumph of modern feminism. While it is certainly laudable that more women are graduating college and making gains in the workforce, the underlying facts in this report do not suggest a "feminist triumph."

One reason many women today are earning more than their husbands is because the Great Recession disproportionately affected men. By some estimates, jobs held by men accounted for 70% of the losses from 2007 to 2009, leading many economists to label it a "mancession." In these households, working women are earning more, but the family is by no means better off.

Here's something else to keep in mind: 63% of the "breadwinner mom" households are led by single mothers. The Pew report only underscores the staggering breakdown of the traditional family in America.  

The IRS and FBI: Breach of Faith

By JEFFREY LORD on 5.30.13 @ 6:10AM

Two more unlikely people it would be hard to imagine.

One consorts with a man who heads a country the State Departmentdescribes as having "repeatedly provided support for acts of international terrorism." This man is also the half brother of....the President of the United States.

The other? The other is a woman who with her husband built a small manufacturing business in Houston and decided to start a couple of local Tea Parties.

And whom does the IRS target? Whom does the FBI Domestic Terrorist Unit target?

That's right, the woman in Houston. The woman who is not related to the President of the United States. The woman who has zero connections to terrorists.

And Catherine Engelbrecht was far from alone.

Earlier this week we wrote up Part One of what was termed a timeline of tyranny - "The VanderSlooting of America." A timeline that focuses not just on the Treasury IG report of IRS abuses or the birth of the Tea Party and the struggle ignited by battles over massive government spending and health care but expands outward to illustrate the mindset of the Left at work. Using Big Left Money (i.e., George Soros) and/or the power of government to go after conservatives in religion (Bill Donohue's Catholic League) or in the media (Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Bill O'Reilly, Lou Dobbs) or, as revealed the last few weeks, just plain ordinary American citizens across the land.

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IRS Union Chief Stonewalls

By JEFFREY LORD on 5.21.13 @ 6:10AM

Why liberals insist living in our cities is better and safer than suburban living

May 30, 2013 06:13 am | Coach Collins

by Emma Karlin, staff writer

One constant we have experienced under the reign of Barack Obama has been government and non-governmental agency (NGO) lies and distortions about the statistical state of our nation. Believing the unemployment numbers, for instance, has become an exercise in suspension of disbelief. The Bureau of Labor Statistics has used a fabricated dysfunctional formula for counting our unemployed neighbors for so long that people have forgotten they are being lied to, if they ever knew the difference.

Recently a new insidious lie was quietly slipped into the public area. Under cover of Obama's multiple scandals the Brookings Institute, a reliably liberal NGO, proclaimed there are now a million more poor people in our suburbs as compared to our cities.

Our suburbs are being called "ghost towns" to make the lie work and give the appearance that Americans coming back to our cities. This and the other lies ... Continue Reading:Why liberals insist living in our cities is better and safer than suburban living

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Militant Agnostic: I don't know & you don't either (Bumper sticker)

May 29, 2013 03:24 pm | Michael D. Shaw

At first blush, this seems mildly confusing. "Agnostic" implies maintaining a continuing doubt as to the existence of God, whereas "atheist" affirms that there is no God. One would think that in taking a "militant" position, a person would be sure, rather than doubtful. Then again, the exhibitor of the sticker could be sure that he is doubtful, I suppose.

But there is much more here.

The main conceit is that the exhibitor is not prone to mere exercises of faith. Whatever he believes to be true must be proven, and be based on reason. However, as you will see, he falls into a fatal contradiction.

Any fact the exhibitor feels comfortable as being "known" was first learned at some time in the past. When that particular fact was being learned, there were already certain fundamental assumptions being made, that cannot be proven:

A certain sequence of letters signifies a specific word Any word that is learned refers ... Continue Reading:Militant Agnostic: I don't know & you don't either (Bumper sticker)

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Morning Jolt  . . . with Jim Geraghty

May 30, 2013

BOOM: Quinnipiac Sees Obama's Approval Take a Sudden Tumble

For a couple weeks, Obama fans have been high-fiving each other, looking at polling numbers and concluding the public didn't really blame the president for any of the scandals engulfing his administration.

Well, looks like they celebrated too early:

American voters say 76 - 17 percent, including 63 - 30 percent among Democrats, that a special prosecutor should be appointed to investigate charges the Internal Revenue Service targeted conservative groups, according to a Quinnipiac University national poll released today.

President Barack Obama gets a negative 45 - 49 percent job approval rating, compared to 48 - 45 percent positive in a May 1 survey by the independent Quinnipiac (KWIN-uh-pea-ack) University, conducted before the IRS allegations surfaced.

The president's biggest drop is among independent voters, who give him a negative 37 - 57 percent score, compared to a negative 42 - 48 percent May 1. He gets a negative 9 - 86 percent from Republicans and a positive 87 - 8 percent from Democrats, both virtually unchanged. Women approve 49 - 45 percent while men give a negative 40 - 54 percent score.

Americans are divided 49 - 47 percent on whether Obama is honest and trustworthy, down from 58 - 37 percent, the last time Quinnipiac University asked the question September 1, 2011.

Eric Holder to Media: Come On, Baby, Let's Kiss and Make Up, Off-The-Record

When Obama administration officials make decisions that blow up in their face, isn't it fascinating how their spin playbook often requires them to go before the press - often on background - and recline like in a therapist's office and begin talking about how bad they feel about it all? Or more specifically, isn't it fascinating how often they seem to believe that expressing emotional distress about a bad decision insulates them from the consequences of making that bad decision?

John Sexton:

President Obama is outraged over the IRS scandal. Attorney General Holder is remorseful over the James Rosen subpoena. Former Secretary of State Clinton is exasperated by Benghazi. Lois Lerner is apologetic for the targeting of Tea Party groups. An unnamed White House adviser is chagrined by his own idiocy.

All of these emotive responses to scandal have in common that they help insulate the person doing the emoting from any real responsibility. Holder feels bad about what he has done but that's it. He's not leaving office.

Secretary Clinton is frustrated that people working for her denied additional security, rewrote talking points and blamed everything on a You Tube video. But "What difference does it make?!" she blurted out during her appearance before Congress. She feels terrible, just don't hold it against her in 2016.

President Obama has been on an emotional jag lately. He was outraged by the IRS targeting of his political opponents, is shocked by the subpoena of James Rosen's emails and (implicitly) repulsed by the drone strike that killed a 16 y.o. American citizen on his orders. It's all very shocking and he knew nothing (except when he did) but in those cases he's going to make sure it never happens again.

Matt Welch:

As I said yesterday, President Barack Obama's big War on Terror speech will be praised by those "who like words." Sure enough here comes The New Yorker's Jane Mayer, who knows all about "the dark side" of the WoT, with an almost perfect encapsulation of the mindset that perpetuates the very conservative warmaking liberals spend so much energy claiming to loathe:

One first impression left by President Obama's much-anticipated speech re-casting U.S. counter-terrorism policy is that of the contrast between Bush's swagger and Obama's anguish over the difficult trade-offs that perpetual war poses to a free society. It could scarcely be starker. While Bush frequently seemed to take action without considering the underlying questions, Obama appears somewhat unsure of exactly what actions to take.

War, extraordinary rendition, indefinite detention and extrajudicial assassination are just so much better when the president is conflicted about it all!

Hey, the president is brooding over all of this, man, isn't that punishment enough?

Now Eric Holder wants to chat with Washington-bureau chiefs to smooth everything out.  You see, his aides have been telling the Daily Beast that he's been feeling a "creeping sense of personal remorse."

Holder wants to discuss this mess and his views on snooping on the press . . . off the record, of course.

The New York Times is starting to realize how manipulative this process can get:

New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson has announced that her paper will not attend an off-the-record session with Attorney General Eric Holder to discuss the Justice Department's monitoring of reporters, due to the fact that the meeting is to be conducted "off the record."

"We will not be attending the session at DOJ. It isn't appropriate for us to attend an off the record meeting with the attorney general. Our Washington bureau is aggressively covering the department's handling of leak investigations at this time," Abramson said in a statement.

"Evidently, there will be a future session with department officials on the substance of how the law should be applied in leak cases and I am hopeful that our counsel, David McCraw will be able to participate in that meeting," she wrote.

Now, the problem is not off-the-record talks per se; the problem is that Holder has some sort of argument that he wants to make to the reporters that he doesn't want to share with the public at large. He wants to assure them of his respect for their "unfettered" ability to report the news, in a meeting in which they cannot report on anything he says or does. Mind you , he's been caught  setting the table for a future prosecution of a reporter for  publishing classified information and perhaps committing perjury before Congress, testifying on May 15 that prosecuting a reporter is "not something I've ever been involved in, heard of, or would think would be wise policy." Of course, subsequent revelations about the Rosen case appear to be a blatant contradiction of that testimony. Now Holder wants to get the press to take it easy on him, and he doesn't want his arguments quoted in the papers.

Allahpundit at Warmer-than-warmAir.com writes, "How many off-the-record, on-the-QT, and very-hush-hush meetings have Obama or his lieutenants scheduled with favored members of the media lately? There was the one with the White House press corps on May 10 to talk about the IRS scandal that began as off-the-record but ended up as 'deep background' after people started murmuring about it on Twitter. There was the instantly-infamous one on May 21 in which online Obama-water-carrying glitterati were called in for a consultation on Scandalmania. There was another onelast Thursday with foreign-policy reporters after O's big speech in which he tried to B.S. them about his drone policy having changed when, evidently, it really hadn't. And now here's Holder, willing to talk to the press about how sorry-ish he is for rifling through their phone records and e-mails in pursuit of leakers but not willing to do it in a forum where anyone outside the room will know what he said. Free idea for the media: Why not insist on a televised Holder press conference instead? This whole 'remorse' shtick is pure theatrical garbage designed to save his job. If he's determined to perform, make him perform in front of an audience. Let's see what sort of crocodile tears he can muster when the camera's on."

Ace: "Think about the point of a Secret Briefing. By definition, reporters are not permitted to report on it. Right? So what is the purpose? The purpose is to *influence* their reporting, only. To provide background spin. The spin will not be reported, but it will show up in copy."

The Bachmann Departure: Addition by Subtraction?

With Representative Michele Bachmann of Minnesota not running for reelection, perhaps it's time to take a second look at James DeLong's May 22 NRO piece pointing out that the Congressional Tea Party Caucus, founded by Bachmann, withered on the vine for much of the past two years:

The IRS's targeting of conservative groups raises many questions.

Mine is: "Where the heck was the Congressional Tea Party Caucus while this was going on?"

The answer is: "Nowhere." And the obvious conclusion is that the present CTPC should disband and clear the field for others.

The CTPC was formed in July 2010, with Michele Bachmann as the spark plug and chair. Some tea-party activists were suspicious, fearing that the caucus represented an effort to ride the coattails of the tea-party movement, or maybe to co-opt it rather than help it, and they turned out to be right.

The caucus issued fewer than a dozen press releases between its founding and July 2012, after which updates became even rarer. Its website has little content and does not even list current members...

As the IRS revelations grow more appalling, the torpor of the CTPC becomes more baffling. As early as 2010, Democratic senator Max Baucus urged the IRS to investigate 501(c)(4)s, and in February 2012 seven more senators wrote the IRS. Both referenced conservative groups, though not specifically the tea parties.

For the past two years, though, tea-party stories from the grassroots have been accumulating. In 2012, IRS officials went before congressional committees and lied. CTPC did nothing.

All of this mattered. One of the stories of the 2012 election was the superior ground game of the Democrats, whose voters turned out while many Republican sympathizers stayed home. And who were these Republican absentees, by most accounts? They were working-class people and small-business owners, the demographic groups most in tune with the tea parties. These voters could have been reached by the education efforts of the 501(c)(4) organizations that the IRS was aborting.

Looking back on Michele Bachmann's four terms in the House . . . What is her legacy? How did she move the ball forward on the issues she cares most about? Because we know she was very, very good at promoting Michele Bachmann.

Our old friend David Freddoso is now at the site Conservative Intel, and he summarizes how Bachmann's departure from the 2014 field will free up a lot of conservative donors' cash that was, he argues, not well spent in previous cycles:

• In 2012, she raised $14 million for her House race, nearly all of it from small individual conservative donors. That's nearly ten times what the average winning House candidate raised.
• Bachmann spent $12 million of that to win re-election (just barely) to a completely safe House seat that Mitt Romney was in the process of carrying by 15 points. Think about that: She outspent her opponent six-to-one and still won by only 1.2 percentage points in a 15-point Romney district. (Update: It's also worth noting that neither the DCCC nor the DNC reported spending a dime against her in 2012.)
• This was not the first time Bachmann has spent big money on a seat that shouldn't be competitive. In 2010, she raised $13.6 million and spent $11.7 million to keep the seat (also safe then at McCain +9), winning with 52.5 percent over a fractured field.
• Aside from John Boehner (who gave away most of the money he raised to the NRCC and other candidates) and Allen West (who at least was running in a competitive seat), Bachmann raised and spent more money than any other candidate for the House in 2012. (That's not counting the $9 million she raised for her presidential bid.) She was also the record-holder in 2010.
• Bachmann has never received more than 53 percent of the vote, despite having ample resources for party-building and a very Republican district. Eighty-six percent of her campaign donations in 2012 came from out-of-state - a sharp contrast to other House conservatives who might come to mind, such as Steve King, Tom Price, Tim Huelskamp, or Steve Scalise, who all take most or nearly all of their money from local sources.

In a bit of coincidental timing, Bachmann faces a lawsuit that could be nothing or could be something to keep an eye on:  "A trial date has been set in an Iowa lawsuit alleging that Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., stole and misused an e-mail distribution list maintained by an Iowa home school group during her failed 2012 presidential campaign. This morning, the seven-day trial in Heki v. Bachmann was scheduled for May 14, 2014, court records show."

News Junkie Hipster-ism and 'The Real Scandal'

If you'll allow me  to quote Matt Welch twice, he articulates an irritation buzzing around the back of my head: pundits' all-too-frequent declaration that whatever scandal is in the headlines is an obviously frivolous and inconsequential distraction, and that they've figured out what we really ought to be talking about if we're serious, thoughtful people. You know . . . "the real scandal," as they incessantly declare.

But the real party comes when you search on "the real scandal." So much to choose from!

There's "child poverty" (Jesse Jackson, Chicago Sun-Times), "political gridlock" (Ned Barnett, Charlotte News & Observer), "the Republican party's devotion to grandstanding over governance and its preference for slime over substance" (Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., The Huffington Post), "secret money influencing US elections" (Ari Berman, The Nation), "that 501(c)(4) groups have been engaged in political activity in such a sustained and open way" (Jeffrey Toobin, New Yorker), that "they let General Electric not pay any taxes" (Michael Moore, HuffPost Live), sex abuse in the military (Katrina vanden Heuvel, Washington Post), and even "the IRS itself" (John Tamny, Forbes).

This is like news junkie hipster-ism. "Oh, you're following that news story? Pshaw. I was following that story years ago. The really important story now is [some obscure story they're fairly certain you haven't read about yet]."

Now, some of those items are real problems, e.g., child poverty and sex abuse in the military. But only a fool would argue that the existence of one problem automatically de-prioritizes any other problem. Maybe there's a lot of big problems in our government and society that the American people should be concerned about and try to solve or improve. Maybe we really have a lot of scandals going on.

The real scandal, you could say, is that we have so many real scandals going on.

ADDENDUM: Arthur Kimes spots a bit of a hitch in the arguments of conservative lawmakers who retire before their time: "A. 'Government is too powerful!' B. 'I can be more effective in our effort to limit the power and size of government by working outside of government.'"

NRO Digest - May 30, 2013

Today on National Review Online . . .

Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Death of a Naked Liberal

Posted by Daniel Greenfield @ the Sultan Knish blog 

In 2010, Newsweek was sold for a dollar and it has been devalued since. Its corporate owners have called buying it a mistake and a fool's errand. Around the same time last year, Newsweek marked a major milestone. The loss of 2.5 million readers in ten years. Since then it lost another million leaving it with about the reading population of a small city.

Meanwhile MSNBC isn't doing any better. It lost a fifth of its viewers since last year and it still can't decide if it's a network of angry idiots screaming at the camera (Chris Matthews, Al Sharpton, Ed Schultz and Lawrence O'Donnell) or snide aging college kids making wisecracks about Republicans (Rachel Maddow, Chris Hayes). Neither format is working all that well and at this rate MSNBC may want to look into bringing Keith Olbermann, who combines both demographics, back for another run.

Newsweek and MSNBC will both attribute their bleeding readership and viewership to the internet, but that doesn't explain why they're both doing badly there as well. MSNBC was caught hiring bots pretending to be young women to pump up hashtags for its hosts and Newsweek's fusion with the Daily Beast didn't save it either. Its final print issue carried a hashtag implying that the web had done it in, but the internet wasn't to blame. 

Neither do Newsweek and MSNBC suffer from a surplus of class. Newsweek's desperate covers last year amounted to a formerly respected magazine descending into outright trolling. It was no longer possible to tell the difference between Newsweek covers and Newsweek parody covers. And certainly Tina Brown has never been accused of a surplus of restraint and good taste. On the MSNBC front, no news network which includes Al Sharpton trying to read from a teleprompter can be accused of betting on class. 

MSNBC tried to be FOX News for liberals and Newsweek tried to be the Huffington Post with a print edition. They didn't outright fail at the job, but they couldn't succeed well enough either.

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  Kerry, Obama, and the $4 Billion Bailout Plan for PLO/Hamas  Secretary of State John Kerry, Robert Hormats, and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair are leading the globalist charge with the latest Middle East bailout proposal.
  Syrian Rebels Massacre Christian Village  While the Obama administration praises the Syrian rebels, the rebel army is allegedly carrying out massacres similar to those attributed to the regime they would overthrow.
  Obama vs. GOP on Judicial Nominees  Obama has launched a new attack on the opposition party - using Senator Harry Reid as his proxy - in an effort to target what he views as Republican "obstructionism."
  "Conservative" Magazine Counsels Rand Paul to Join the CFR  A senior editor of the National Interest magazine recommends Rand Paul join the Council on Foreign Relations if he wants to be president.
  Planetary Resources Announces Plans for Crowdfunded Space Telescope  Planetary Resources, one of two private concerns hoping to someday mine near-earth asteroids, announced plans for the first-ever crowdfunded space telescope.
  Interview With Ron Maxwell on His New Civil War Movie Copperhead  Copperhead, scheduled for release June 28, is about a peace Democrat in the North who opposes Lincoln's war.  

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Obama Declares War on Terror Over
By Ben Shapiro
What justified Obama's announcement? Nothing, except his need to pacify his leftist base. With scandals brewing on the home front, Obama must shore up his liberal base or face the prospect of being an early lame duck.


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