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Federal Attorney Warns Negative Posts Against Islam Could Get You Prosecution & Imprisonment
If you have seen the stories around the globe of how cartoonists, journalists and people simply posting tweets or Facebook posts has gotten them in hot water with Islam and even the government, then you have probably said, "That can't happen in America," right? Well hold on to your seat my friend because you are in for a rude awakening.
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Barack Obama's Attorney for the Eastern district of Tennessee Bill Killian and Kenneth Moore, special agent in charge of the FBI's Knoxville Division, want Americans to know that if you say something negative towards Islam or Muslims, the Federal government may imprison you. They will be having an event called "Public Disclosure in a Diverse Society" on June 4, the same day Obama is scheduled to sign the United Nations Small Arms Treaty. The Tullahoma Times reports, Killian and Moore will provide input on how civil rights can be violated by those who post inflammatory documents targeted at Muslims on social media. "This is an educational effort with civil rights laws as they play into freedom of religion and exercising freedom of religion," Killian told The News Monday. "This is also to inform the public what federal laws are in effect and what the consequences are." Killian said the presentation will also focus on Muslim culture and how, that although terrorist acts have been committed by some in the faith, they are no different from those in other religions.
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Officials instructed Benghazi hospital to list Stevens as "John Doe"U.S. officials gave instructions for Benghazi Medical Center to use a "John Doe" pseudonym on the death certificate of Ambassador Christopher Stevens after he died of asphyxiation in the Sept. 11, 2012 terrorist attacks on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya. That's according to a U.S. official speaking on condition of anonymity because the official isn't authorized to speak publicly on the matter. The reason for the pseudonym, says the official, was to avoid drawing undue attention to the importance of the victim as Americans rushed to figure out how to recover Stevens' body and return it to the U.S. The official provided the most complete accounting yet of Stevens' whereabouts and passing in the eight and a half months since his death. According to the official, U.S. officials aren't certain to this day whether Stevens was still alive when local Libyans made cell phone video recordings of his body being carried or dragged from the U.S. mission, possibly by looters. And they still don't know exactly who transported him to the Benghazi Medical Center where they say medical personnel attempted resuscitation, unsuccessfully, for about 40 minutes (90 minutes, according to published accounts from a Libyan doctor). When pieced together with previously provided information, this is how the search for Stevens is said to have unfolded, according to the official: Read more: |
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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 →
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June 3rd - Meeting
Senator Marco Rubio
One Year Anniversary of The Villages Tea Party - Come Celebrate
- Speaker: Marco Rubio - Will be joining us for the evening by Skype
- NO ID - Open Meeting
- Location - Savannah Recreation Center
- Topic: Scandals in DC ..... IRS, Benghazi, AP Media & much more - Q & A
- Doors Open at 6:00PM
- Submit your questions in Writing at the May 27th meeting. - Index cards will be provided.
- Cupcakes and coffee will be served.
Watch The Villages Tea Party Meeting LIVE:
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June 1, 2013 6:30 PM
Dear Members and Friends,
Since our first in the nation (May 13) call for a Special Prosecutor in the IRS Scandal (see press release below), we have been joined by an expanding chorus of talk show hosts, political pundits, and elected officials--one of the latest being our own US Senator Pat Toomey.
(Two weeks ago, the Association asked Senator Toomey, through his aid James Fitzpatrick, to press for a Special Prosecutor. We are thankful for the Senator's response.)
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In addition, a recent Quinnipiac University Poll found that 76 percent of Americans also support such an appointment. Peggy Noonan's recent column argues the case brilliantly:
But the Obama Administration continues to stonewall. On Air Force One late last week, White House Deputy Press Secretary Josh Earnest ruled out any chance that a Special
Prosecutor will be appointed.
Please read (below) our Friday press release response to the Obama Administration.
On Monday, please call the White House comment line @ 202.456.1111 and request that the Obama Administration appoint a Special Prosecutor and fire Eric Holder.
Update: April/May Money Drop
Our April/May Pot of Gold Money Drop has reached the 75% mark! (In the last 12 hours, we have raised nearly $300.)
With your help, we will continue all of our efforts--including pressuring the Obama
Administration to appoint a Special Prosecutor in the IRS Scandal and rallying legislative support for limited government, lower taxes, and free enterprise in Dover, Trenton, Harrisburg, and DC.
Many thanks to those who have already "dropped a donation!" So far, we have raised
$3,755! If each of you gave just $5, we would surpass our goal several times over.
As it now stands, we must raise $1245 to reach our goal of $5000! We have a little over
36 hours to retire this fundraiser.
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.
(Allow 4-6 weeks for delivery.)
By clicking on the above link, you have the option of sending a check or contributing online.
On behalf of the Association Board,
Teri Adams
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For Immediate Release
Contact: Don Adams, 215.620.3055
Cort Rosholt, 609.354.8767
First Group to Call for Special Prosecutor Says White House Now Stonewalling in IRS Scandal; Says
Administration and IRS Lack Credibility to Investigate
Philadelphia, PA (May 31, 2013) -- The Independence Hall Tea Party Association, the largest and oldest independent Tea Party group in the Tri-State region and the first conservative group in the nation to call on the Obama Administration to appoint a Special Prosecutor to investigate the IRS scandal, is accusing the White House of stonewalling. (See original press releases and news story links below.)
The Washington Post reported late yesterday that on an earlier flight
aboard Air Force One, White House Deputy Press Secretary Josh Earnest said the Administration will not appoint a Special Prosecutor in the matter despite the fact that a recent Quinnipiac University Poll found that
76 percent of Americans support such an appointment.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2013/05/30/white-house-no-special-prosecutor-for-irs-scandal-despite-public-support/
"Incredibly, Mr. Earnest announced, yesterday, that the IRS and the Obama Administration will lead its own investigation into the IRS scandal despite the wishes of the American people," said Association President Teri Adams.
"You can't allow the accused to investigate themselves in such a highly explosive scandal.
The Obama Administration knows that a Special Prosecutor would have a greater ability to get to the bottom of the matter, because unlike Congress, the prosecutor would be able to grant immunity to informers, initiate grand juries, and criminally indict anyone guilty of violating the law.
"By delaying a serious targeted investigation, the Obama Administration is
allowing several competing investigations, including those conducted by Congress, to wander and drift in various directions," said Ms. Adams.
"Its clear to us that the White House is intentionally stonewalling for the purpose of covering up and obfuscating the truth in a Nixon-esque abuse of power."
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For Immediate Release
Contact: Don Adams, 215.620.3055
Cort Rosholt, 609.354.8767
First Group to Call for Special Prosecutor,
Reiterates its Demand; Says Attorney General
Eric Holder Cannot Conduct a Credible Investigation
Philadelphia, PA (May 17, 2013) -- The Independence Hall Tea Party Association, the largest independent Tea Party group in the Tri-State region and, as of this past Monday morning, the first conservative group in the nation to call on the Obama Administration to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the IRS scandal, is reiterating its demand today--especially in light of what has been learned since the news story surfaced last Friday. (See original news stories links and press release below.)
http://www.breakingnews.com/item/ahZzfmJyZWFraW5nbmV3cy13d3ctaHJkcg0LEgRTZWVkGNOd-A4M/2013/05/13/independence-hall-tea-party-association-calls-on-white-house-to-appoin
http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2013/05/13/tea-party-pushes-back-against-irs-intimidation/
"Late Monday afternoon, the public learned that the Obama administration, with Attorney General Eric Holder's approval, wiretapped the Associated Press and, perhaps, other news organizations," said Association President
Teri Adams.
"On Tuesday of this past week, the Treasury Department's Inspector General disclosed, in his report, that nearly 500 conservative groups who applied for tax-exempt status dating back to March, 2010, many of them Tea Party and Patriot organizatios, had been targeted for harassment by the IRS with burdensome delays and inappropriate inquiries."
"The following day, Eric Holder said the Office of Attorney General would
lead an investigation into the brewing IRS Scandal.
"That's just not acceptable," said Ms. Adams. Mr. Holder, as a representative of the Obama Administration, which could possibly be implicated in this scandal and one involving the wiretapping of various news organizations, has a serious conflict of interest.
"While Congressional hearings are also taking place in the House of Representatives, those proceedings are subject to criticism, legitimate or not, that they are partisan in nature.
"That is why a special prosecutor or counsel should immediately be
appointed to investigate this highly explosive scandal," said Ms. Adams.
"The appointment of a special prosecutor is the only serious way to get to the bottom of this mess."
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For Immediate Release
Contact: Don Adams, 215.620.3055
Cort Rosholt, 609.354.8767
Group Demands Special Prosecutor Be Appointed in IRS Scandal; Suggests Obama Administration Could Be Implicated
Philadelphia, PA (May 13, 2013) -- The Independence Hall Tea Party Association, the largest independent Tea Party group in the Tri-State region, is calling on the Obama Administration to appoint a special prosecutor to get to the bottom of the recent IRS scandal.
A rather peculiar and curiously-timed statement issued this past Friday, by mid-level IRS administrator Lois Lerner, said that the agency had been singling out Tea Party and Patriot groups who filed for 501c tax-exempt status by forcing them to undergo additional burdensome scrutiny above and beyond the standard application process.
IRS intimidation of conservative groups has been ongoing since 2010.
"None of this is news to the Independence Hall Tea Party Association," said Association President Teri Adams. "Due to our concerns with the Obama Administration's influence over the IRS, the Association decided not to file for federal tax-exempt status."
"In addition, unlike most Tea Party groups across the nation, we formed a federal PAC to handle political endorsements and activities--making it less likely that we would become targets of an IRS inquiry.
"The harassment of conservative groups by an arm of the US government is frightening, un-American, and Nixon-esque," said Ms. Adams.
"We call on the Obama administration to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the IRS and any other government entity or official linked to this brewing scandal. This would include anyone directly or indirectly connected to the Obama administration.
"As for the IRS, the Association, like everyone else, is waiting for the full report of the Treasury Department's Inspector General--which is expected in the next few days.
"The Inspector General's report, we insist, should signal the beginning of a more thorough investigation--not the last word in this highly explosive affair."
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The Independence Hall Tea Party Association is a regional, tri-state (DE, PA,NJ) grassroots organization officially formed in May, 2009 after a successful Tax Week Tea Party . Its mission is to educate the general public regarding the principles of limited government as enshrined in the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution. Visit us @ www.IndependenceHallTeaParty.com.
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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.
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Americans for Prosperity-Pennsylvania would like to invite you to join us for a
Lobbying Day at the Capitol on Tuesday, June 4that 10am.
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 4th!
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 4th
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
@AFPFPA
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THE UNION LEAGUE PUBLIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE and
PHILADELPHIA FREEDOM CENTER
present
Michele
Bachmann
United States House of Representative for Minnesota
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Friday, June 7, 2013 at 11:30 AM (EDT) at the Union League of Philadelphia.
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER
($50 INCLUSIVE)
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WITH TRADITONAL VALUES, STRONG CONVICTIONS & FAITH IN OUR CONSTITUTION, HEAR MICHELLE BACHMANN'S VISION FOR OUR NATION.
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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.
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ANNOUNCING VALLEY FORGE PATRIOTS JUNE MEETING
NEW LOCATION AND NEW TIME (SEE BELOW)
7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
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.
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"The Dangers of 'Land For Peace', and What Price Appeasement?"
Are America and Europe Betraying Israel, and the Importance of Geography, Topography and Water Supply in the Peace Process.
Please join us for the next Philadelphia ZOA meeting
Featuring the dynamic father-and-son team of William and Mark Langfan
Tuesday, June 18, at 7:30 p.m., at the Congregations of Shaare Shamayim, 9768 Verree Road, Philadelphia 19115
This event is free and open to the public
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Announcing the 2013 National Conference
& Legislative Briefing!
June 19 - 21 we will convene at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, DC for our fourth annual National Conference & Legislative Briefing.
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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!
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We also offer again this year special benefits for Patriot Eagle and Patriot sponsors.
We have some exciting new wrinkles planned for this year's event, and our list of confirmed speakers already includes:
- Steven Emerson - Journalist, author, and the Executive Editor of the Investigative Project on Terrorism. A. M. Rosenthal, late-managing editor of The New York Times, described Emerson as "one of the nation's best national security correspondents."
- John Guandolo - Former FBI agent and one of America's leading authorities on the Muslim Brotherhood and its inner workings in America. Guandolo spoke at our conference in 2011 and received rave reviews from conference attendees!
- Ezra Levant - Canadian lawyer, author, newspaper columnist with Sun Media, and former publisher of the Western Standard. Hauled before a Canadian "human rights commission" because he published the Danish cartoons that satirized Muhammad, Levant's personal account of a politically correct government inquisition is something you won't want to miss!
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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.
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It will again feature our very popular Capitol Hill Awards Luncheon and our signature gala banquet-and of course, our Legislative Briefing, where Members of Congress will brief you on various issues and answer your questions.
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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!
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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.
Click here to learn more and register.
Sincerely,
Erick Erickson
Editor-in-Chief, RedState
P.S. Don't delay! You'll receive 20% off if you register today - just use the promo code EARLYBIRD. Click here.
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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
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. 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
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MAY 29, 2013 * BY JAMIE GASS AND JIM STERGIOS
When President Obama unveiled his Race to the Top initiative in 2009, the idea was to award $4.35 billion in federal grant money to states to replicate policies that boosted student achievement. That quickly changed and the federal money was instead used to persuade states to adopt administration-backed nationalized K-12 English and math standards and tests. By last year, most states had adopted the standards, known as Common Core, and it seemed a foregone conclusion that the United States would join countries like France in having a uniform curriculum.
But what a difference a year makes. Today, a full-blown epidemic of buyer's remorse has taken hold. Popular resistance is rampant and bills to pull out of Common Core are making their way through multiple state legislatures.
Had the Obama administration been interested in policies with a proven record of improving students' academic performance, it would have looked to Massachusetts. In the early 1990s, Massachusetts was an above average but unremarkable performer on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) and SATs. After enactment of the Bay State's landmark 1993 education reform law, SAT scores rose for 13 consecutive years. In 2005, Massachusetts students became the first state ever to score best in the nation in all four categories on the NAEP's fourth and eighth grade reading and math assessments. The next three times the tests were administered-in 2007, 2009, and 2010-this feat was repeated.
Read more:
'Common Core' Nationalizes and Dumbs Down Public School Curriculum
by Ron Paul: In addition to shredding civil liberties, launching a utopian global war for democracy, and going on a spending spree that would make LBJ blush, the so-called "conservative" Bush administration dramatically increased federal control over education via the "No Child Left Behind" act. During my time in Congress I heard nothing but complaints about this law from teachers, administrators, and, most importantly, students and parents. Most of the complaints concerned No Child Left Behind's testing requirements, which encouraged educators to "teach to the test." Sadly, but not surprisingly, instead of improving education by repealing No Child Left Behind's testing and other mandates, the Obama administration is increasing national control over schools via the "Common Core" initiative. Common Core is a new curriculum developed by a panel of so-called education experts. The administration is trying to turn Common Core into a national curriculum by offering states increased federal education funding if they impose Common Core's curriculum on their public schools. This is yet another example of the government using money stolen from the people to bribe states into obeying federal dictates. Critics of Common Core say it "dumbs down" education by replacing traditional English literature with "informational texts". So students will read such inspiring materials as studies by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, the EPA's "Recommended Levels of Insulation," and "Invasive Plant Inventory" by California's Invasive Plant Council. It is doubtful that reading federal reports will teach students the habits of critical thinking and skepticism of government that the Founders considered essential to maintaining a free republic. Like Obamacare, Common Core (now dubbed "ObamaCore" by some) has sparked a backlash in the states, leading some to propose legislation forbidding state participation in the scheme. I hope these efforts lead to states not just opting out of Common Core, but out of No Child Left Behind and all other federal education programs as well. Parents can also effectively "opt out" of programs like Common Core by seeking alternatives to government education. It is no coincidence that, as federal control over education increases, the quality of public education has declined and more parents have chosen to homeschool.
 Push Against Common Core Gains MomentumAs parents, citizens, and legislators learn more about Common Core, some are deciding it is not the best means of improving American education. Parents in many states are mounting grassroots campaigns against Common Core's standardization of learning and federal testing of students. In April, the Republican National Committee issued a resolution rejecting Common Core, saying it is a "plan [that] creates and fits the country with a nationwide straitjacket on academic freedom and achievement." Critics of Common Core say it is an untried experiment that lacks legitimacy and empirical study and is now being foisted upon the entire U.S. school system. It has the potential to waste billions of dollars, multiple years of education efforts, and the learning potential of all schoolchildren. Several state legislatures are considering withdrawing from Common Core (CC), delaying or not funding implementation, or withdrawing from national testing by government-funded consortia. Four states never adopted CC: Alaska, Nebraska, Texas, and Virginia. Minnesota accepted CC English standards, but rejected CC math. Private organizations developed CC; it was neither debated in public nor enacted by state legislators. Certainly many Common Core promoters believe further centralization of education will improve educational outcomes, but power and cash may also be motivating some supporters. There is an immense amount of money flowing to public education because of Common Core implementation, and also to specific companies that are CC public-private partners that develop curriculum, create tests, and train educators to teach Common Core. Read more:
 Common Core: Communism Re-Packaged The COMMUNIST Core Curriculum. This is a 5 video series, each video is 5 to 10 minutes long. They explain in great detail what Democrats/Liberals are DOING TO ourEducation system. If you can't watch them all in one setting then watch one a day. Take notes. Then take the ACTION prescribed at the bottom. One.  | | Part 1 of 5 Stop the Common Core |
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I wonder what it is going to take to make our legislators step back and really look at what Common Core is presenting to our children and listen to the TRUE facts. They want to raise our scoring levels up so the "states" are first - not giving any thought as to what they are being taught by using something that is going to dumb them down to the Skinner and Pavlov type of indoctrination. Please share these videos with anyone you know that has children in school - as I stated before - the combination of what they are being presented through the ELA books and the added effort of making them study informational and technical textbooks and as this video reports - the book they are talking about is "Voices" - Example: the book asks the question - "Your mother ___________ you to clean your room and the choices for the answer are "tells" or "nags" implementing a negative attitude with the parent which is part of this goal. These video's have been done by UTAHANS Against Common Core! |
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Three of the four part series by James Simpson
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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.
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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.
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Brady, Robert
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102 CHOB
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Armed Services
House Administration
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Fattah, Chaka
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D
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2301 RHOB
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202-225-4001
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Appropriations
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Kelly, Mike
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1519 LHOB
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202-225-5406
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Ways and Means
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Perry, Scott
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R
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126 CHOB
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202-225-5836
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Foreign Affairs
Homeland Security
Transportation and Infrastructure
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Thompson, Glenn W.
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R
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124 CHOB
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202-225-5121
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Agriculture
Education and the Workforce
Natural Resources
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Gerlach, Jim
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R
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2442 RHOB
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202-225-4315
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Ways and Means
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Meehan, Pat
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R
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204 CHOB
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202-225-2011
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Ethics
Homeland Security
Oversight and Government Reform
Transportation and Infrastructure
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Fitzpatrick, Michael G.
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R
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2400 RHOB
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202-225-4276
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Financial Services
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Shuster, Bill
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R
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2209 RHOB
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202-225-2431
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Transportation and Infrastructure, Chairman
Armed Services
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Marino, Tom
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R
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410 CHOB
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202-225-3731
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Foreign Affairs
Homeland Security
Judiciary
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Barletta, Lou
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R
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115 CHOB
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202-225-6511
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Education and the Workforce
Homeland Security
Transportation and Infrastructure
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Rothfus, Keith
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R
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503 CHOB
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202-225-2065
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Financial Services
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Schwartz, Allyson Y.
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D
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1227 LHOB
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202-225-6111
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Budget
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Doyle, Mike
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D
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239 CHOB
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202-225-2135
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Energy and Commerce
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Dent, Charles W.
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2455 RHOB
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202-225-6411
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Appropriations
Ethics
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Pitts, Joseph R.
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420 CHOB
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202-225-2411
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Energy and Commerce
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Cartwright, Matthew
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1419 LHOB
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202-225-5546
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Natural Resources
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Murphy, Tim
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Gun Owners of America
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Toomey Tells Reporter:
He is Open to Destroying the Second Amendment Again
To review the bidding: You remember the beginning of April, when it appeared that the pro-gun movement would achieve a definitive victory which would send anti-gun crazy Mike Bloomberg into hiding for another decade?
Then, straight to the aid of people like Bloomberg who want to eliminate gun ownership in America, came Pennsylvania Senator Pat Toomey.
The so-called Toomey-Manchin "compromise" was actually drafted by New York Senator Chuck Schumer, and earlier versions still had his name at the top.
The Toomey proposal would create a national gun registry, and give the gun-grabbers and Barack Obama a huge victory from which they could make their next round of gun demands.
The "weasel-words" which purported to prohibit a gun registry were actually full of loopholes. For example, Attorney General Eric Holder is authorized to prosecute himself (and his subordinates) for creating a gun registry. But after Holder's performance on Fast & Furious and the IRS scandal, does anyone trust him to do that?
Since the defeat of Schumer-Toomey-Manchin, Toomey has normally tried to tamp down efforts to get the gun control debate jump-started again.
But now, Toomey has told reporter Jonathan Tamari that he is "open to reviving the background-check bill."
Toomey's statement, of course, will be used to resume a feeding frenzy to destroy the Second Amendment.
Toomey has made it quite clear to the Associated Press and others that he believes his role in trying to destroy the Second Amendment has been a political benefit for him in Pennsylvania.
You need to convince him differently.
ACTION: Contact Senator Toomey. Tell him how you feel about his efforts to further his political career by attacking gun ownership.
You can call Senator Toomey at 202-224-4254If it is not possible for you to call, then e-mail him by using his webform at
http://www.toomey.senate.gov/?p=contact. Select "Gun Rights" as the Topic.
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I see that you told an Inquirer reporter that you are "open to reviving the background check bill."
You are reported to think that destroying the Second Amendment is good politics in Pennsylvania.
Arlen Specter thought the same thing. Remember him?
Make no mistake about it: We know that the so-called Toomey-Manchin "compromise" was actually drafted by New York Senator Chuck Schumer, and earlier versions still had his name at the top.
Your proposal would create a national gun registry, and give the gun-grabbers and Barack Obama a huge victory from which they could make their next round of gun demands.
The "weasel-words" which you use to purport to prohibit a gun registry were actually full of loopholes. For example, Attorney General Eric Holder is authorized to prosecute himself (and his subordinates) for creating a gun registry. But after Holder's performance on Fast & Furious and the IRS scandal, does anyone trust him to do that?
Please cease and desist in your efforts to destroy gun ownership for your own political gain.
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Irony: Couple Cuffed For Engaging In Free Speech In Front Of Independence Hall
A video that runs approximately 13:00 minutes records an ironic incident that took place on Saturday May 18 documents the incident of Mark and Barb, a couple who were engaged in handing out flyers and talking about ending the Federal Reserve system in the City of Brotherly Love, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. They were detained and hand-cuffed for passing out flyers and engaging in free speech.
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IRS Employee: D.C. Ordered Targeting Of Tea Party
Darrell Issa (R-CA), Chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, brought to light new testimony from Internal Revenue Service (IRS) employees on Sunday. On CNN's State of the Union Issa pointed out the that the Obama administration's claim about "a few rogue agents" being the ones guilty of targeting political enemies is patently false and his committee provided transcriptions, in which a Cincinnati IRS employee was clear in stating that they were ordered by Washington, D.C. personnel to heavily scrutinize Tea Party groups. After providing transcripts, Issa gestured towards the image of White House Press Secretary Jay Carney and called him a "paid liar."
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The Medicare program that provides health insurance to seniors faces a dire financial future. And Obamacare is making it worse.
Medicare's Part A trust fund is projected to be insolvent by 2026 and the total program has a long-term unfunded obligation of more than $35 trillion. This means the government has made $35 trillion worth of benefit promises to current and future seniors that are not yet paid for -- a staggering amount that is more than double the nation's total current debt.
Despite the fact that the Medicare trustees have been warning of this financing disaster for many years, President Obama's massive health care law makes the matter much worse, not better.
>>> VIDEO: Ann Lorenz, who has Parkinson's disease, worries about Medicare's future
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Ignore the political rhetoric of keeping Medicare "as we know it." Obamacare has already made significant changes to Medicare, namely through provider reimbursement reductions and the creation of an unelected board of bureaucrats, the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB).
Here are three examples of Obamacare's impact:
1) Huge payment reductions that reduce access to care. According to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), Obamacare will reduce Medicare reimbursements by $716 billion over 10 years. These cuts will hit Part A providers such as hospitals, nursing homes, skilled nursing facilities, and hospices, along with Medicare Advantage plans. The trustees predict that if Congress allows these cuts to go into effect, 15 percent of Medicare providers would go in the red by 2019, 25 percent by 2030, and 40 percent by 2050.
This will absolutely impact seniors' ability to access medical care. As the trustees explain: "Providers could not sustain continuing negative margins and would have to withdraw from serving Medicare beneficiaries or (if total facility margins remained positive) shift substantial portions of Medicare costs to their non-Medicare, non-Medicaid payers." (Emphasis added.)
2) Medicare "savings" are spent on other parts of Obamacare. Obamacare's Medicare "savings" and increased Medicare payroll tax are often touted as increasing the solvency of the Part A trust fund, but that simply is not true. The money is counted as paying for new entitlement spending in Obamacare.
As CBO plainly states, "CBO has been asked whether the reductions in projected Part A outlays and increases in projected [hospital insurance] revenues under the legislation can provide additional resources to pay future Medicare benefits while simultaneously providing resources to pay for new programs outside of Medicare. Our answer is basically no."
3) The ominous and looming power of IPAB. The board will consist of 15 unelected and unaccountable bureaucrats, charged with meeting a newly created budget target in Medicare. When Medicare spending surpasses the target, IPAB will have to make recommendations to lower Medicare spending. The trustees project the much-hated IPAB will need to step up and make recommendations for the first time in 2016.
Obama's Medicare agenda falls far short of what is necessary to put the program on a sustainable path, and his law's negative impact on seniors is yet another reason the law must be repealed in its entirety before its most egregious provisions (Medicaid expansion and exchange subsidies) begin in 2014.
LEARN MORE:
Heritage experts' analysis of the recent trustees report
The Obama Medicare Agenda: Why Seniors Will Fare Worse
Quick Hits:
- More than 1,700 people have been arrested in Turkey during anti-government protests in 67 cities over the past few days.
- Don't be fooled by the "farm" bill, says Heritage's Daren Bakst. Nearly 80 percent of the cost is attributed to food stamps and nutrition programs.
- Do you know someone looking for a fall internship? The deadline to apply to The Heritage Foundation is coming up July 1!
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RedState Morning Briefing
For June 3, 2013
1. WANTED: Disruptive Candidates
This year will be the 5th RedState Gathering. We will meet the first weekend in August in New Orleans, LA. Five years ago we introduced the nation to Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, Pat Toomey, Nikki Haley, Michael Williams, Ken Cuccinelli, Karen Handel, and more.
In 2010, we worked hard for Rand Paul, Mike Lee, Ken Buck, and others.
This year I am struggling to find good, disruptive candidates to challenge the established ways of Washington. The 2012 defeat, which some of us had predicted back in 2011, has gone exactly as I thought it would. Good candidates have turned their backs and gone to focus on their families and what's left of their businesses.
We're going to have awesome speakers: Bobby Jindal, Nikki Haley, Ted Cruz, Ken Cuccinelli, Jim Bridenstine, and more. But they are elected already. Where are the disruptive outsiders who want to join their ranks? They are much harder to find now than in 2010 or even 2012. (By the way, have you registered for the Gathering yet?)
Most of the candidates running in 2014 are running because they want to go to Washington, not because they want to go blow up the system.
The secret of Washington, DC is that the leadership of both parties collaborate within the same system. Both parties are tools of big business. Both parties are tools of banks. Both parties want to pick winners and losers. The rhetoric of the Republican leadership in Washington is that the problem is Democrats in charge of government and not government itself.
The ideas peddled by the Republican leadership in Washington are small and unoriginal. Their preference in policy and politics is for the voters to let Republicans manage the leviathan that Democrats create, instead of slaying the leviathan. There are multiple paths forward as conservative populists, but the GOP would rather manage than lead.
The only way to change this is to find disruptive candidates. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
2. The Annual Birthday Request
Today is my 38th birthday. Every year I put up a post like this. Short of filling in behind the golden EIB microphone or getting one of those Ralph Lauren Writer's Chairs with accompanying ottoman, there isn't much I want. But people ask and here's what you can do if you want to make an impact to better the country today.
Give to one or more of these groups, all of which I support myself, and all of which seek out and support disruptive candidates:
Senate Conservatives Fund Heritage Action for America
Madison Project
Club for Growth
and then make a commitment to some self-education and subscribe to the Transom. Put it to you this way - it's so worth it that I had a complimentary subscription and still paid to subscribe just to ensure it can keep going. It is that worth it.
If you donate and subscribe, you can be confident that today you advanced freedom.
Oh, and lastly, consider going to the RedState Gathering.
Thanks in advance. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
3. White House: Will no Democrat ask us to fire this meddlesome AG?
This is what we in the business call a hint. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
4. The paranoid style of Obama politics
Eyebrows have been raised by the announcement that US Attorney Bill Killian, in the company of FBI Special Agent in Charge Kenneth Moore, will soon address a Muslim council in Tennessee about "how civil rights can be violated by those who post inflammatory documents targeted at Muslims on social media."
"This is an educational effort with civil rights laws as they play into freedom of religion and exercising freedom of religion. This is also to inform the public what federal laws are in effect and what the consequences are," Killian said ominously. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
5. Shale Oil Boom Rattles OPEC
At a critical Friday meeting in Vienna, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) will set production policy. For the first time, they will be grappling with the challenges of shale oil, even none of the member states are major shale oil producers.
The shale boom began in the U.S. as a ripple in North Dakota and Texas. Some thought its impact would be limited and regional, not global. Now that uptick on our domestic production curve has triggered a tsunami with geopolitical implications. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
6. A Note on Bridging the Gap Between Conservative Theory and Practice
"I blame conservatives-ourselves-myself. Our failure, as one Conservative writer has put it, is the failure of the Conservative demonstration. Though we Conservatives are deeply persuaded that our society is ailing, and know that Conservatism holds the key to national salvation-and feel sure the country agrees with us-we seem unable to demonstrate the practical relevance of Conservative principles to the needs of the day. We sit by impotently while Congress seeks to improvise solutions to problems that are not the real problems facing the country, while the government attempts to assuage imagined concerns and ignores the real concerns and real needs of the people." . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
Sincerely yours,
Erick Erickson
Editor-in-Chief, RedState
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June 3, 2013
Today's Articles:
The Smoking Gun in Plain Sight
06-03-2013 02:04:59 AM
A relationship that no one voted for, saw coming, or imagined could happen so quickly and so quietly....»
Kindergarten and the Kafkaesque
06-03-2013 02:03:30 AM
Hard as it may be to believe, there is a method behind current educational system madness. ...»
Why Iranian Elections Won't Matter this Time
06-03-2013 02:03:20 AM
... thanks to Obama....»
Russia up in the Air over Syria
06-03-2013 02:03:10 AM
What is the purpose behind Russian intransigence as regards Syria? ...»
Eric Hoffer Revisited
06-03-2013 02:03:10 AM
The late pre-eminent American philosopher had some choice words about the fate of Israel....»
Fixing our 'Mickey Mouse' Copyright Laws
06-03-2013 02:03:10 AM
The time has come to straighten out Sonny Bono's legacy. ...»
Amnesty will Lead to More Affirmative Action
06-03-2013 02:02:35 AM
Racial preferences will worsen if amnesty passes. "Open borders" Republicans have the enormous burden of proving otherwise....»
Larry King Carrying Soviet Water
06-03-2013 02:02:25 AM
...while Vladimir Putin sheds Russian blood....»
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 | | Allen West Talks Possible Obama Impeachment |
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Russian President Vladimir Putin (left) with Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu (right) in Israel. Photo: Facebook.
During a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made it clear that Israel would destroy a Russian delivery of S-300 missiles to Syria before they become operational, Maariv reports.
According to diplomatic sources, those present at the meeting, which took place in Russia last week, were "shocked" by Netanyahu's frank language.
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Colonel David Hunt blames President Obama for Benghazi
LOS ANGELES, May 31, 2013 While many people have blamed President Obama for the Benghazi scandal, none of his critics have the gravitas of retired Colonel David Hunt. A thirty year veteran of America's armed forces, Hunt is a man's man and a soldier's soldier. In a scathing editorial, he lays the blame for Benghazi straight at the feet of where the buck should stop. Hunt is no partisan gunslinger. His first book "They just don't get it" is a blistering indictment of politicians and civilians of all stripes who through ignorance or willful blindness refuse to acknowledge radical Islam. In Benghazi, radical Islamists murdered four Americans including Ambassador Chris Stevens and two Navy SEALs. The murders occurred on the eleventh anniversary of the original September 11th attacks, rendering the administration's claim about an anti-muslim video ludicrous. Obama pays lips service to "accountability" and "responsibility." Hunt demands action. While much remains murky about the night of the murders, whistleblower Greg Hicks stated before a congressional committee that a rescue attempt was canceled. Colonel Gibson was given an order to "stand down," and nobody in the administration will say who gave that order. As Hunt explains, the answer is crystal clear anyway.
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BSA changed its homosexual scout policy on urging from the loathsome scum at NAMBLA
Jun 02, 2013 06:13 am | Coach Collins
By Kevin "Coach" Collins
For many years the North American Man Boy Love Association (NAMBLA) has been licking its lips at the thought of legalizing sodomy with little boys. Raping little boys with impunity is all these loathsome scumbags think about day and night. Unencumbered by the responsibilities of living a normal life, NAMBLA members are able to put all of their efforts, time and money into bringing about the satanic kingdom they long for. They will do anything to get their way.
NAMBLA follows a kind of paraphrase of the famous bank robber Willie Sutton who once said he robbed banks "because that's where the money is." For NAMBLA finding a way into the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) is "going where the little boys are." It's not surprising then that NAMBLA sent a letter to the BSA urging it to, "cease its discrimination against openly gay or lesbian persons in the appointment of its ... Continue Reading:BSA changed its homosexual scout policy on urging from the loathsome scum at NAMBLA
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SSgt Bales will plead guilty to Afghan killings, hope to avoid death penalty
Jun 01, 2013 06:13 am | Coach Collins
by Jim Emerson, staff writer
In a plea agreement revealed on Thursday, Staff Sgt. Robert Bales has agreed to plead guilty to the killing of 16 Afghan Civilians last year. Bales hopes to avoid the death penalty with the deal. The plea hearing is set for June 5th and the deal has yet to be accepted by the presiding judge. Army prosecutors are seeking the death penalty and from the beginning, Afghan citizens have demanded that Bales be executed. They see the plea deal as breaking a promise. (1)
The deal requires SSgt Bales to present a full account of the murders he committed and prove to the presiding judge that he clearly understands the consequences of the charges against him and of the plea deal. (2) There is no guarantee that the deal will be accepted by the court-martial justice, though at the time of this writing it has been accepted ... Continue Reading:SSgt Bales will plead guilty to Afghan killings, hope to avoid death penalty
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Saying "husband and wife" is now hate speech to sick Leftist
May 31, 2013 05:32 pm | Coach Collins
Absolutely nuts logic from liberal psychopaths [Video content---click on article title to display]
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Time running out for Illinois' gun grabbing politicians
May 31, 2013 06:13 am | Coach Collins
by Doug Book, Editor
If Illinois lawmakers cannot pass a concealed carry law acceptable to the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals by June 9th, the constitutionally prescribed right to keep and bear arms will immediately take effect in the Prairie State. That is, just as codified in the 2nd Amendment, all Illinois gun owners will have the right to bear a weapon, anywhere they wish in the state. (1)
On December 11th of last year, a 3 judge panel from the 7th Circuit ruled Illinois' near total ban on the carry of firearms unconstitutional. The 47 page decision in Moore v Madigan gave the Illinois legislature 180 days to craft legislation "...consistent with the public safety and the Second Amendment as interpreted in this opinion..." (2)
Last week the Illinois House voted 85-30 in favor of a new concealed carry statute which would institute both a "shall issue" provision and ... Continue Reading:Time running out for Illinois' gun grabbing politicians
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Obama and Nixon two of a kind
May 30, 2013 06:42 pm | Coach Collins
Obama is a loathsome liberal and Nixon was paranoid. See it here.
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Hillary: Beauty's only skin deep, but ugly goes all the way to the bone
May 30, 2013 04:49 pm | Michael D. Shaw
Should be on continuous loop, if she ever runs for president. [Video content---click on article title to display]
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The McCarthy-VDH Reader A digest of the latest commentaries from Andrew C. McCarthy and Victor Davis Hanson.
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Eric Holder Misled Congress? Surely You Jest . . . His nomination should have been rejected.
Read "Eric Holder Misled Congress? Surely You Jest . . ."
May 29, 2013, The Corner
Islam's Parallel Emirate in the U.K. The West's cravenness has invited aggressive Islamic supremacist immigration.
Read "Islam's Parallel Emirate in the U.K."
May 29, 2013, The Corner
Obama's Cynical War Speech Islamic supremacism is not based on a lie.
Read "Obama's Cynical War Speech"
May 25, 2013, NRO Article
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The End of the Old Order The well-intentioned social programs of the 1960s make no sense today.
Read "The End of the Old Order"
May 30, 2013, NRO Article
Western Cultural Suicide We are blind to the contradictions in welcoming an immigrant but not making him one of us.
Read "Western Cultural Suicide"
May 29, 2013, NRO Article
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Posted by Daniel Greenfield @ the Sultan Knish blog
Like a band that only knows one song, politicians only know one response to Islamic terrorism. They wall off that vast majority of Muslims who did not actually come down to Woolwich and hack at a soldier with a machete and did not fly two planes into the World Trade Center from those who actually did those things using action and inaction as the defining line between the extremists and the moderates. The couch potatoes watching at home and cheering them on are moderates.  That might be fine if we were discussing an individual crime, like a gas station robbery in Cleveland. But Islamic terrorism isn't like that. To Muslims, Jihad isn't an act of violence; it's an act of faith. Islamic terrorism isn't a crime. It's a form of religious warfare that goes back all the way to its founding. Islam sanctifies crime and violence and elevates them to acts of worship and that is why its acts of terror cannot and do not occur in isolation. It is never the act of a single madman, because its intents and ambitions are communal. When a Muslim kills a Non-Muslim for the religious reasons of Jihad, whether he is a lone wolf or a member of a large cell, the act cannot be divorced from its goals for the larger Islamic community. No Muslim terrorist is an island. His terrorism is a communal activity that takes place within the context of an Islamic manifest destiny. He does not kill for himself. He takes the lives of others and offers his own life in the name of a historical idea of theocracy and supremacy.
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While President Obama Parties, Soldiers Suffer from Sequester Cuts
This is one of the best videos I've seen in a long time. (Democrats: You won't like it.)
While President Obama continues to party, campaign, and fundraise, our troops suffer from sequestration...
See video here:
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I've really come to look forward to Judge Jeanine's monologues because she is one of the few who will tell the brutal truth no matter how politically incorrect or sensitive. And in this week's monologue she takes on America's top law enforcement agent and head of the DOJ, Eric Holder, and rakes him across the coals for the lies he has told and how he is running the DOJ. She calls him a political operative and says he needs to be indicted - and then she writes the actual indictment. Fantastic!
This is a MUST WATCH:
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But but but but but there were no WMDs in Iraq, right?
This is not the first time that we have seen Muslims use the remote control plane tactic; before, they tried a planned C4 explosive payload. Massachusetts Muslim Rezwan Ferdaus got 17 years in prison in a plot to fly remote-controlled model planes packed with explosives into the Pentagon and the U.S. Capitol.
Iraq uncovers al-Qaeda 'chemical weapons plot' BBC, June 1, 2013
The authorities in Iraq say they have uncovered an al-Qaeda plot to use chemical weapons, as well as to smuggle them to Europe and North America.
Defence ministry spokesman Mohammed al-Askari said five men had been arrested after military intelligence monitored their activities for three months.
Three workshops for manufacturing the chemical agents, including sarin and mustard gas, were uncovered, he added.
Remote-controlled toy planes were also seized at the workshops.
Mr Askari said they were to have been used to release the chemical agents over the target from a "safe" distance of 1.5km (0.9 miles), reports the BBC's Rami Ruhayem in Baghdad.
All of the arrested men had confessed to the plot, and said they had received instruction from another al-Qaeda offshoot, he added.
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Frankly, the over 20,000 deadly Islamic attacks since 911 are evidence enough. This beheading is but one of thousands of jihadi attacks. Better late than never, but Rigby is not the proof. Tens of thousands dead, governments overthrown, and Islamic supremacists in our midst have been proof for decades. 9/11 was proof, 3/11. 7/7, Mumbai, Israel, Indonesia, Malaysia, Libya, Thailand and on and on ...
Blair said:
'There is a problem within Islam - from the adherents of an ideology which is a strain within Islam,' he writes. Of course there are Christian extremists and Jewish, Buddhist and Hindu ones.
Nonsense. None of these religions are slaughtering, oppressing and persecuting to impose Christian, Hindu or Jewish law. The adherents of these religions are not causing havoc across the world to impose their totalitarian ideology.
Perhaps the newly enlightened Blair should apply this knowledge to his delusional "two-state solution" for Israel. And as for Syria, Blair should be mindful that turning that country over to the jihadists would be an unimaginable horror.
Blair would do well sharing this with his devout Muslim sister-in-law. Family dinners at their house must be real knee slappers.
"Tony Blair says murder of Lee Rigby PROVES 'there is a problem within Islam' Ex-PM says" Daily Mail, June 1, 2013
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Nearly 20 years after a Hasidic Jewish boy was killed by a Muslim fighting jihad, a British soldier was hacked to death and reportedly beheaded on the streets of London by Muslims fighting jihad.
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"Administrations have always done exactly what Obama's has: condemn leaks in public while leaking for its own benefit..."
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Europe has welcomed immigrants with the idea they would become part of the established culture but some groups are taking advantage of the largess.
by NORMAN SIMMS
Yet rather than a panic in a crowd, it seeks to make citizens wary of walking on the streets, to be afraid less of "stranger danger" than of ordinary-looking men and women, neighbors.
by MICHELLE MALKIN
This nanny-state navigator corps is the Mother of all Community Organizing Boondoggles.
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Fracking offers case study of propaganda by environmentalists, teachers and fellow students.
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Too bad you are not Lois Lerner, the director of the IRS's exempt-organizations office in Washington, D.C. She now has America's easiest job.
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10 of 12 Rebel Groups in Syria Are Islamist
The leader of the Free Syrian Army long warned the West that foreign-backed extremists would take control on the ground.
By Ryan Mauro
Sun, June 2, 2013
The Economist has published an informative chartabout the different Syrian rebel groups and the results aren't encouraging: Ten out of 12 groups are Islamist, though there is some overlapping in leadership. One of the non-Islamist groups is an offshoot of a Kurdish terrorist group, leaving only one potentially Western-friendly rebel force.Two of the three "main fronts" are Islamist. The only major secular entity on the chart is General Salim Idriss' Supreme Military Command. The SMC is part of the Free Syria Army. Idriss is the rebel leader that Senator John McCain (R-AZ) recently met with. The Free Syria Army was founded by Riad al-Assad but his title as commander-in-chief is
mostly symbolic.It is important to note that Riad al-Assad long warned the West that if his Free Syria Army was not supported, foreign-backed extremists would take control on the ground. And a look at the rest of the chart proves him right.
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Rapidly Re-Islamicizing Turkey Rewrites History
Raymond Ibrahim
by Ralph Sidway, guest contributor
There's an old saying about history: It's written by the winners.
Judging from the posturing and remarks of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey, he must either believe they have already won, or are so close as to confidently begin rewriting history even before the United States and Europe formally surrender.
Here is the article to which I am referring:
ERDOGAN CALLS CHRISTIAN BYZANTIUM "A DARK CHAPTER" IN HISTORY
Istanbul, May 30, 2013
Pravoslavie.ru The prime minister of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called the time of Christian emperors in Byzantium "a dark chapter" in history. In Erdogan's view, in the fifteenth century, after invasion of Constantinople by Muslims, began "the time of enlightenment," reports Kath.net. The speech of the conservative Turkish prime minister was made during the laying of the foundation of the new road bridge over the Bosphorus in Istanbul that took place on May 29-the anniversary of Ottoman invasion of the Byzantine empire 1453.
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7 Reasons Why the Media Shouldn't Keep Eric Holder's Secrets
What "off the record" means and why it matters to you.
by Ron Fournier
Updated: May 30, 2013 |
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The dustup over whether journalists should meet privately with Attorney General Eric Holder is a forest-for-the-trees flap.
The existential issue still tangling Washington in knots a dozen years after 9/11 is how to balance our primal need to protect U.S. security with our fundamental belief in civil liberties.
Six months into a second term, President Obama seems to realize that he and his predecessor let the pendulum swing too far. The president is recalibrating the so-called war on terrorism and reconsidering its shadowy tactics, including the use of drones and the methods for investigating people who leak national security secrets.
That brings us to the Holder-media issue. While being the ultimate inside-baseball story, it does highlight the Obama administration's ignorance of the media's role in Washington as well as the malpractice that permeates its communications operation.
How the administration handles a micro issue like this may have a negative impact on the existential struggle. A forest, after all, is a gathering of trees.
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Special Forces Take On Domestic Enemies Promoting Gun Control In Letter
 More than 1,100 retired and current Army Special Forces troops, Green Berets, have put their names to a letter that condemns the efforts by Washington politicians to restrict in any manner gun ownership, following the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Their 2,900 word letter has been distributed to media outlets and was originally posted at Professionalsoldiers.com.
According to the post at Professionalsoldiers, "1100 Green Berets Signed this Letter. We have a list of all their names and unlike any MSM outlets we can confirm that over 1100 Green Berets did sign. The list includes Special Forces Major Generals & Special Forces Command Sergeants Major down to the lowest ranking "Green Beret"."
The letter begins by those citing their oath to ""...support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same...."
"We have witnessed the insidious and iniquitous effects of tyranny and oppression on people all over the world," the letter continues. "We and our forebears have embodied and personified our organizational motto, De Oppresso Liber [To Free the Oppressed], for more than a half century as we have fought, shed blood, and died in the pursuit of freedom for the oppressed."
The letter conveyed the emotions and expression of sympathy from these brave men. "Like you, we are also loving and caring fathers and grandfathers," the letter reads. "Like you, we have been stunned, horrified, and angered by the tragedies of Columbine, Virginia Tech, Aurora, Fort Hood, and Sandy Hook; and like you, we are searching for solutions to the problem of gun-related crimes in our society. Many of us are educators in our second careers and have a special interest to find a solution to this problem."
They continue in the letter to make the case that the term "assault weapon" and "assault rifle" is a political term, which began to be used around 1989. Its use has been clear and that is to be used by anti-gun lobbyists against the Second Amendment.
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Morning Jolt . . . with Jim Geraghty
May 31, 2013
Who Saw This Coming? A Lot of Liberals Seem Depressed and Uninterested Right Now
My thought was that every politics-focused news-media entity is going to see their audience shrink after an election year. But ratings and audience size of three of the four cable news networks are actually up in May, compared to a year earlier.
Guess which one is limping along?
HLN's wall-to-wall coverage of the Jodi Arias trial has had substantial ratings legs. Surging around the time of the May 8 verdict, the network notched an extremely rare monthly victory: It topped MSNBC in total day and primetime. And with CNN posting its second consecutive month as a distant primetime runner-up to Fox News Channel, MSNBC is in a very precarious fourth place.
Averaging 539,000 viewers in primetime and 175,000 viewers in the adults 25-54 demographic, MSNBC suffered double-digit drops from last May -- down a respective 20 and 19 percent. Losses were less substantial in total day, down 10 percent to an average 346,000 viewers and down 7 percent to 115,000 adults 25-54, while all other nets pulled growth in multiple categories.
The soft start for All In With Chris Hayes has not helped. Hayes, down 32 percent in total viewers from The Ed Show last May, has offered a poor lead-in for MSNBC's primetime flagship, The Rachel Maddow Show, at 9 p.m. The show delivered its lowest-rated month since it debuted in September 2008 (717,000 total viewers) and its second lowest with adults 25-54 (210,000). Maddow was topped by typical time slot victor Sean Hannity and CNN's Piers Morgan.
Read the complete rankings, May 2013 versus May 2012, via Nielsen:
Total Day
FNC: 1,246,000 total viewers, up 24 percent (236,000 in 25-54, down 5 percent)
CNN: 465,000 total viewers, up 61 percent (161,000 in 25-54, up 92 percent)
MSNBC: 346,000 total viewers, down 10 percent (115,000 in 25-54, down 7 percent)
HLN: 494,000 total viewers, up 111 percent (175,000 in 25-54, up 90 percent)
Primetime
FNC: 1,973,000 total viewers, up 17 percent (308,000 in 25-54, down 6 percent)
CNN: 660,000 total viewers, up 70 percent (225,000 in 25-54, up 97 percent)
MSNBC: 539,000 total viewers, down 20 percent (175,000 in 25-54, down 19 percent)
HLN: 624,000 total viewers, up 91 percent (209,000 in 25-54, up 97 percent)
Over at Breitbart, John Nolte is gloating:
As we saw during the Boston Marathon Bombing, when people want actual news, they do not turn to MSNBC. What good is liberal-talk-radio-with-pictures hosted by unlikable hipsters who all share the same pair of glasses, when you want news, facts, and information? It is no good whatsoever. This is why, for the second time this year, the bottom has fallen out of MSNBC's ratings.
Last week, between May 13-17, MSNBC averaged 350,000 overall viewers and only 94,000 in the all-important 25-54 demo. One day last week, in that demo, MSNBC averaged only 83,000 viewers, a low not seen since July of 2006.
But the phenomenon may extend well beyond MSNBC's ratings.
There's some anecdotal evidence that a significant chunk of the Left's rank-and-file started tuning out shortly after Obama's second term began, and they're not re-engaging. Let me point to Digby, a liberal blogger:
The online left has seen a steep decline in traffic since the election as well, which indicates to me that our audience in general is simply not interested in following politics at the moment . . .
My impression is that liberals are either bored or disillusioned right now for any number of reasons, not the least of which is the fact that a liberal majority has been effectively obstructed and the president seems to be ineffectual. (I realize that political scientists tell us that the presidency isn't very powerful, but most people don't believe that since we've extolled the office as the most powerful on earth for decades.)
We've been through a number of elections, crises, other ups and downs over the past decade but I've not seen anything like the drop in interest over the past few months. If it was just me I'd attribute it to my little project having run its course but it's happening across the liberal media spectrum. I don't [k]now what the answer is, but it isn't that there isn't a permanent audience. There was until very recently. It's that the liberal audience is tuning out and one can only assume it's because they don't like what they see in our politics.
It makes me a little bit more concerned for 2014/2016 than I otherwise would be.
A lot of possible reasons for this - scandal disillusionment, the crash after the high of Hope-ium, a public starting to feel like they've heard of all of Obama's rhetorical tropes before, overall exhaustion and boredom with politics as a whole - but this is not a development that the Washington conventional wisdom has even noticed, much less even begun to analyze or explain.
Hey, Try Not to Need an Emergency Room in 2014, Okay?
Maybe the depression on the left relates to their increasingly hard-to-deny, well-founded sense of foreboding about Obamacare, as evidence mounts that once this space station dizzyingly complicated regulatory labyrinth is fully operational, American health care is going to stink to high heaven:
On any given Saturday night, all 36 beds at UC San Diego Medical Center's Hillcrest emergency room are likely to be occupied, and incoming patients can often be found lying on gurneys in the corridor. A grimacing patient with a gaping knee wound holds the screen of his mobile phone over the gash for extra illumination one weekend this spring as a doctor stitches him up. "There's nothing more appalling than being treated in a hallway," says James Dunford, medical director of the city of San Diego's Emergency Medical Services system, who also works at Hillcrest. "Soon," he says, "it's going to be worse."
Dunford anticipates that the Affordable Care Act will bring a surge of patients to his ER and those around the country-the opposite of what's supposed to happen. The law's backers argued it would help alleviate stress on overcrowded emergency rooms. The 25 million people expected to receive insurance under Obamacare, they reasoned, would make appointments with a doctor instead of turning to ERs for care.
Yet a nationwide shortage of primary-care doctors, especially in poor and rural areas, will make it difficult for many of the newly insured to find a personal physician. ER managers say they're bracing for previously uninsured patients who came to the hospital when they needed acute medical attention to begin showing up, insurance cards in hand, for routine medical care. The overcrowding "we see now is going to pale in comparison with what we'll see" once the health-care overhaul takes full effect starting in 2014, says Ryan Stanton, director of emergency medicine at UK HealthCare Good Samaritan Hospital in Lexington, Ky.
Dear Americans: You remember which party passed this monstrosity, right?
Hail to the . . . Well, You'll See
I have voted for a few Democrats in the past; one of my favorites was voting to re-elect the relatively competent and un-corrupt Tony Williams for Mayor of Washington, D.C., over his (effectively token) Republican rival, Carol Schwartz, was asked about her top priorities and she included changing the name of the Washington Redskins football team. If I were interviewing a candidate and they offered that response, I think I would have exploded from incredulity. I just think that this ought to be nowhere near the top 100 priorities of a mayoral candidate, never mind among their top five or six. It's not like the schools were achieving or crime was off the streets, you know.
Anyway, now some members of Congress are making another push for the team to change its name:
Ten members of Congress are urging the Washington Redskins to change their name because it is offensive to many Native Americans.
The representatives said Tuesday that they've sent letters to Redskins owner Dan Snyder, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, Redskins sponsor FedEx, and the other 31 NFL franchises.
The letter to Snyder says that "Native Americans throughout the country consider the 'R-word' a racial, derogatory slur akin to the 'N-word' among African Americans or the 'W-word' among Latinos."
Among the group sending the letters are the leaders of the Congressional Native American Caucus, Tom Cole, R-Okla., and Betty McCollum, D-Minn.
Granted, this is a silly topic for members of Congress to spend much time on, and a relatively small problem for football fans, Native Americans, or the country at large. (Richmond Times-Dispatch columnist Paul Woody reached out to the chiefs of the Patawomeck, Pamunkey and Rappahannock tribes in Virginia and found they didn't mind the name, and are, in fact, Redskins fans.)
Having said that . . .
If you were starting an expansion NFL team in Washington, D.C., today, you would never pick the name "Redskins", right?* It's different from the Kansas City Chiefs, the Cleveland Indians, the Atlanta Braves, the Florida State Seminoles, or most other team nicknames based on ethnic groups because "Redskins" is clearly a slur. There is no tribe called "the Redskins."
So if there was no tradition with the name, there would be a broader consensus to change it, right? Yet as any sports fans knows, football fans love their team, and they recoil and deny the notion that they've been rooting for an ethnic slur since childhood.
So, let me offer a solution. Keep the name "Redskins" . . .
. . . and bring in a potato mascot. Idaho's got one already:
Thus, they remain the "Washington Redskins" . . . but the name refers to redskin potatoes.
But Jim, what about the Native-American-head helmet logo? Simple: Go to the throwback uniforms of 1970-1971, with a burgundy "R" on a yellow background (and trim the feather).
The team gets to keep the "Redskins" name, nobody gets to claim it's offensive, the team's heritage is honored by using the throwback uniforms, and Dan Snyder continues to make gobs and gobs of money.
Boy, Washington has some generic team names, huh? Bullets/Wizards, Nationals, Capitals, United . . . The only D.C. team whose name is a noun associated with the city is the Washington Generals, the designated punching bags for the Harlem Globetrotters.
Don't get me wrong, I've grown attached to the Caps and Nats by living here (and notice they're usually referred to by their abbreviated nicknames) but they almost sound like generic placeholders. Think about the names you could have used for Washington-based teams if you started over: the Defenders, the Dukes (for Duke Ellington), the Fightin' Bureaucrats, the Beltway Bandits, the Agents, the Auditors . . .
ADDENDA: In the latest issue of NRO, Jonah reviewed Kevin Williamson's The End Is Near and It's Going to Be Awesome.
Finally, Naked DC presents, "Behind the Scandalabra." Warning: It includes Photoshopped graphics that depict Eric Holder as you've never seen him before .
NRO Digest - May 31, 2013 Today on National Review Online . . .
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JONAH GOLDBERG: The State faces humiliation and bankruptcy, and that's the good news. Leviathan Fail.
THE EDITORS: The governor of Arizona's blackmailing the state legislature over implementation of Obamacare is unbecoming a chief executive. Brewer's Tantrum.
RICH LOWRY: The faceless shock troops of the bureaucracy march on and on and on. The Lois Lerner State.
CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: Declaring the War on Terror over won't make it so. Obama's Dorothy Doctrine.
ANDREW STILES: Obama bypassed Congress to implement another policy, and the GOP has given up on fighting it. DREAM Act Full Steam Ahead.
PATRICK BRENNAN: Republicans should not sell out their base on immigration for hope of electoral advantage - because it's probably not there. The Gang of Eight's Electoral Fraud.
W. BRADFORD WILCOX: The latest Pew report does not show that we're an androgynous utopia (even if we wanted such a thing). The Rise of the Breadwinner Moms.
MONA CHAREN: The Pew study points to the breakdown of the family more than anything else. Breadwinner Moms.
DANIEL FOSTER: Felon Harvey Whitmore fraudulently funneled money into the Senate majority leader's campaign. Harry Reid's Friend.
RICK SCOTT: Florida should be as proud of providing affordable higher ed as it is of its low business tax. Raising College Tuition Is a Tax Increase.
JONAH GOLDBERG: "Could so-and-so make it in today's Republican party" is a silly exercise. Bob Dole's Parlor Game.
KATHRYN JEAN LOPEZ: In On Heaven and Earth, then-Cardinal Bergoglio discusses the need for dialogue about life and religion. Pope Francis vs. the Devil.
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The Origins of Political Correctness
Bill Lind, February 5, 2000
An Accuracy in Academia Address by Bill Lind
Variations of this speech have been delivered to various AIA conferences including the 2000 Consevative University at American University
Where does all this stuff that you've heard about this morning - the victim feminism, the gay rights movement, the invented statistics, the rewritten history, the lies, the demands, all the rest of it - where does it come from? For the first time in our history, Americans have to be fearful of what they say, of what they write, and of what they think. They have to be afraid of using the wrong word, a word denounced as offensive or insensitive, or racist, sexist, or homophobic.
We have seen other countries, particularly in this century, where this has been the case. And we have always regarded them with a mixture of pity, and to be truthful, some amusement, because it has struck us as so strange that people would allow a situation to develop where they would be afraid of what words they used. But we now have this situation in this country. We have it primarily on college campuses, but it is spreading throughout the whole society. Were does it come from? What is it?
We call it "Political Correctness." The name originated as something of a joke, literally in a comic strip, and we tend still to think of it as only half-serious. In fact, it's deadly serious. It is the great disease of our century, the disease that has left tens of millions of people dead in Europe, in Russia, in China, indeed around the world. It is the disease of ideology. PC is not funny. PC is deadly serious.
If we look at it analytically, if we look at it historically, we quickly find out exactly what it is. Political Correctness is cultural Marxism. It is Marxism translated from economic into cultural terms. It is an effort that goes back not to the 1960s and the hippies and the peace movement, but back to World War I. If we compare the basic tenets of Political Correctness with classical Marxism the parallels are very obvious.
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Judge To Border State Gun Dealers: Report Buyers To ATF
It was in 2011 that the Obama administration issued a regulation that required gun dealers in California, New Mexico, Arizona and Texas to notify the ATF of anyone who purchased at least 2 semi-automatic weapons in a 5-day period. A gun trade group as well as 2 gun dealers in those states sued the administration over this regulation, saying that they overstepped their legal authority.
The 3-judge panel ruled unanimously yesterday in favor of the ATF requirement, stating that the Gun Control Act of 1968 "unambiguously authorizes the [ATF's] demand letter." And to concerns by the challengers that the requirement is creating a national gun registry, the judges said that since only 7% of gun dealers are being told to report a relatively small number of people to the feds, it can hardly be considered a "national registry."
So, gun dealers in those states are supposed to be OK with this, because it applies to only a small percentage of buyers. For now. Maybe next they'll expand the requirement to states bordering the border states.
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U.S. Attorney: Anti-Muslim Speech May Be A Civil Rights Violation
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A U.S. attorney in Tennessee is reportedly suggesting that anti-Islam postings on social media could actually be considered civil rights violations. Bill Killian, U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Tennessee, told the Tullahoma News that inflammatory or hateful posts could potentially run afoul of the law. See the Facebook post that triggered Killian's comments HERE.
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Homeowner To Burglar: Move And You're Going 'To The Morgue'
Thursday morning, Tammy Takach was sleeping when a noise in her home woke her up. She grabbed her gun and went downstairs to find an intruder. He begged her not to call the police and said, "I'm just going to go. I'm sorry." That's when Tammy informed the crook that if he moved, he was not going anywhere...except the morgue. Watch the local TV report HERE.
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Why Did A New Ad Force Cheerios To Shut Down Web Comments?
Cheerios new 30-second commercial features a little girl asking her mom if the cereal is really good for your heart. After the mom says yes, the little girl runs away with the cereal box and a sleeping dad wakes up with a pile of Cheerios dumped on his chest. So why did the company shut off the commenting section of their YouTube channel? Watch the commercial and learn the disturbing reason that Cheerios had to close off commenting HERE.
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Allen West: Impeaching Obama Should Absolutely Be On The Table
Former Florida Congressman Allen West, who lost his bid for re-election in November, said he "absolutely" agrees that all options - including impeachment - should be up for consideration for President Barack Obama. Watch the interview with Mr. West HERE.
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Iraq Claims It Has Foiled A Large Al-Qaeda Terror Plot
According to a BBC report, Iraq officials say they have thwarted an Al-Qaeda plot to use remote-controlled toy planes to drop chemical agents, including sarin and mustard gas, over Europe and North America. An Iraq defense ministry spokesman said five men were arrested after military intelligence tracked them for three months. Get the rest of the story HERE.
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Wife Of Former IRS Chief Is An Exec With Left-Wing Political Group
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Former Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Douglas H. Shulman is married to an executive with Public Campaign, an unabashed left-wing organization "dedicated to sweeping campaign reform that aims to dramatically reduce the role of big special interest money in American politics." Get the latest on this new twist in the IRS intimidation story HERE.
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Pittsburgh Steelers offensive lineman Mike Adams stands 6'7" and weighs over 320 pounds. He is quite an imposing figure. But that did not stop three men, one brandishing a knife and one armed with a handgun, from trying to mug Adams as he was standing near his truck shortly after 3 a.m. According to police reports, Adams was stabbed twice and is in stable condition. The thieves left with nothing. Get the rest of the story HERE.
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Farewell 'Edith Bunker' - Showbiz Legend Jean Stapleton Passes Away
Jean Stapleton, the stage-trained character actress who played Archie Bunker's far better half, the sweetly naive Edith, in TV's groundbreaking 1970s comedy "All in the Family," has died. She was 90. Read our tribute and watch the touching TV farewell to her character HERE.
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Meet 'Chris P. Bacon' - The Handicapped Pig With A Book Deal
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Chris P. Bacon, a pig born without the use of his hind legs has become an internet star with a Facebook and Twitter presence that most people would envy...and he's about to become an author (sort of). Watch the recent Associated Press interview with the veterinarian who couldn't bring himself to put down the little pig - and see just how well Mr. Bacon is doing HERE.
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Dramatic video uploaded to YouTube on Friday, was reportedly captured by a team of storm chasers in Union City, OK. The clip takes you extremely close to a violent tornado. For the storm chasers, it was almost too close. Watch the harrowing experience HERE.
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Author Stephen King believes in God � and he also thinks that the universe is built in a such an organized manner that the notion of �intelligent design� is wholly supportable. Read what the often-controversial master of horror told an audience during a recent NPR interview HERE.
On Friday, The National Security Agency (NSA) confirmed to TheBlaze it held a small ribbon cutting ceremony for its Utah Data Center � also dubbed a �spy center� by the likes of Wired magazine. An NSA spokesperson told TheBlaze that Thursday�s event was a briefing � not open to the public or media � just for state and federal authorities. Get the full story HERE.
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On Friday, Fox News host Megyn Kelly ripped network colleagues Lou Dobbs and Erick Erickson over their apparent horror at a new study that women are increasingly becoming the primary breadwinners in their families. Adding to the fire, Dobbs sarcastically kept referring to Kelly as �oh dominant one.� Dobbs antics were not received lightly, to say the least. Watch it all unfold HERE.
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On Friday, the Internal Revenue Service received another black eye. The agency provided Congress with another video featuring its employees, this one showing about a dozen of them line dancing on a stage. No additional enticement is required, just click HERE.
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Arvind Mahankali had never eaten a knaidel, a word for matzo ball, but he knew how to spell it, earning himself the top spot in the Scripps National Spelling Bee. Watch the final moments of the big competition HERE.
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| Obama's Next Scandal Could Come From The EPA | | | With the continued Benghazi investigation, IRS political targeting and DOJ press surveillance, could a scandal at the EPA be the next shoe to drop for the Obama administration? Last night, Andrew Wilkow's show featured a segment about practices at the EPA that might be illegal and that could cause some serious problems for the former EPA Chief and her replacement. Watch the video HERE. | | | READ THIS | TWEET IT | LIKE IT | |
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| | | | | | 5-Yr-Old Interrogated About A Cap Gun, Until He Wet His Pants | | | | | | A five-year-old Maryland boy was interrogated until he wet himself and then suspended for 10 days after school officials caught with playing with a "cowboy-style cap gun." Read the report from the boy's parents and their lawyer HERE. | | | | | |
As reported by the Concinnati Enquirer, Melowese Richardson of Madisonville, Ohio was accused of eight counts of illegal voting in the 2008, 2011 and 2012 elections. The news paper reported she pleaded no contest to four counts in exchange for prosecutors dropping the remaining charges. A judge immediately convicted Richardson, who now faces up to six years in prison. See the full story HERE.
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Police in Miami say they felt so threatened by a 14-year-old boy's "body language" and "dehumanizing stares" that they had no choice but to put him in a choke hold and arrest him. According to reports, Tremaine McMillian was "roughhousing" with a friend when Miami-Dade Police officers approached them and ordered them to stop fighting. Watch video from the incident HERE.
The United Kingdom is often held up as a successful example of gun control by those on the left. But a recent poll by the Daily Telegraph, one of England's most widely-read publications, shows Britons themselves are far from sold on their own ban. See the overwhelming evidence that Brits want to own guns again HERE.
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If you're a Hybrid or electric car owner living in North Carolina, you could end up paying a lot more than you bargained for. The idea is pretty simple: Hybrid and electric cars use little to no gas, meaning the owner pays little to nothing in gas taxes. Check out the proposal that many people shaking their heads in disbelief HERE.
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Athletic wear manufacturer Under Armor might have created a running shoe that will revolutionize footwear - not by adding many fancy features to it, but by changing the very way it is manufactured. Check out the new "Speedform" shoe HERE.
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Remember little Titus Ashby? He's the trick-shot toddler who took the country by storm in February. Well, now he is back with a dazzling new basketball shooting video. On Thursday, Titus's dad, Joseph Ashby sent us a link to his son's latest video. Check out this future NBA hopeful HERE. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Does This New Image Show Amelia Earhart's Plane? | | | | | |
Researchers and aviation enthusiasts have long been fascinated by the mystery of what happened to Amelia Earhart's plane and where exactly it went down as she was attempting to be the first woman to fly around the world in 1937. New sonar images could show the lost plane. See them HERE.
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WHO IS NOT TO TRUST? WHY TED CRUZ IS RIGHT
 So Ted Cruz doesn't trust the Republicans. Imagine that."Let me be clear" he said on the Senate floor the other day. "I don't trust the Republicans, and I don't trust the Democrats." And why not? The last four years have given us all ample reason not to trust the Democrats, as $1 trillion deficits have become the new normal and the national debt has zoomed toward $17 trillion, all under the Obama-Pelosi-Reid team's watch. But what about the Republicans, who so often claim to be the party of limited government? The truth is, the GOP's record is seldom as grand as its rhetoric. Aside from a few Tea Party stalwarts, plenty of Republican senators are ready to throw in the towel on the debt ceiling, let it go up, and get a few scraps from the Democrats in return. "Here is the dirty little secret about some of those on the right side of the aisle," Cruz wasquoted in the New York Times. "There are some who would very much like to cast a symbolic vote against raising the debt ceiling and nonetheless allow our friends on the left side of the aisle to raise the debt ceiling. That, to some Republicans, is the ideal outcome." He is right about that. Senior Republican staffers in Congress tell me that members of the Republican Leadership in both houses of Congress are terrified of not raising the debt ceiling, having been convinced that calamity will ensue if we don't. But the alternative? Senate Majority Leader McConnell would, I am told, be happy to see the debt ceiling raised with no Republican votes. Then Republicans can beat up Democrats for raising it, while knowing that the economy won't explode as Paul Krugman has warned it would. And if House Speaker John Boehner had to choose between a clean debt ceiling increase (one with no limits, allowing Obama to keep raising it ad nauseum) and no debt ceiling increase at all, I am told he would take the former by conservatives in the House of Representatives. So the establishment Republican mind-set says, "More debt is better than a melt-down, but at least get something in return, even if it doesn't mean much, we have something to run against the Democrats with." What do they want in return? They know they don't have the votes to get much in the way of budget cuts, so they can at least keep the base happy with talk about "economic growth." When Cruz, who is anything but your traditional freshman back-bench Senator, said he didn't trust Republicans, the party establishment, led by John McCain, howled in response. But where is the Republican leadership's credibility? When they last held real power, these Republicans goosed up domestic discretionary spending faster than it rose under Bill Clinton and piled on the debt. Read more:  | | Sen Cruz (R-TX) On Plan To Abolish The IRS In Wake Of Scandal & Responds To "Wacko Bird" Comment |
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President Snickers Loves the IRS
May 31, 2013
"The natural cure for an ill-administration, in a popular or representative constitution, is a change of men." --Alexander Hamilton
Asked on Wednesday if the White House is "satisfied with the responsiveness" of IRS officials testifying before Congress, Press Secretary Jay Carney answered, "Well, that's a broad question, but the answer is yes." Of course Barack Obama and his mouthpiece Carney are satisfied -- the IRS targeted Patriot and Tea Party groups (and possibly pro-Israel groups) helping to swing the 2012 election in Obama's favor, and then IRS officials either pleaded complete ignorance of the doings of their subordinates or took the Fifth Amendment in order to avoid questions. They might be satisfied, but this is a serious abuse of power, not a Snickers commercial.
June promises to be a busy month for those investigating the IRS. The House Oversight Committee, the House Ways and Means Committee and the Senate Finance Committee are all probing for answers. Rep. Charles Boustany (R-LA), chairman of the Ways and Means Subcommittee on Oversight, obtained all communications using the terms "tea party," "patriot" or "conservative" from former acting IRS director and first sacrificial lamb Steven Miller. Boustany now knows the names of others involved and will be pursuing them. Oh, and the IRS is investigating itself, so there's that.
This week, Jay Sekulow, chief counsel for the American Center for Law & Justice (ACLJ), filed suit against the IRS on behalf of 25 conservative groups, saying, "The IRS and the federal government are not going to get away with this unlawful targeting of conservative groups." Ten of the organizations he represents still have not been approved for tax-exempt status. Sekulow provided letters to NBC News revealing that the extra scrutiny didn't originate in the IRS's Cincinnati office as we were told at first. Indeed, one letter bore the stamp-signature of Lois Lerner -- the same official who last week claimed innocence before pleading the Fifth. Letters came "from four different offices, including [the] Treasury [Department] in Washington, DC," Sekulow says.
As for how high up the ladder this scandal goes, former IRS commissioner Douglas Shulman visited the White House an astounding 157 times during his tenure -- which happens to coincide with the targeting in question. His successor, Steven Miller, visited numerous times as well. But Shulman's predecessor in the Bush administration, Mark Everson, visited the White House just one time. So what gives?
Shulman's first answer was, "Um, the Easter Egg Roll with my kids." Cute, but that doesn't explain why he visited the White House more than any cabinet member. He says he has "no memory" of discussing it and contends "it would not have been appropriate to have a conversation with anyone at the White House" on political audits at the IRS. Shulman further denied ever being told to scrutinize conservative groups. Then again, this is the same man who denied in March 2012 that the IRS was even targeting these groups. Can he be trusted now?
In the end, we don't expect anyone to truly be held accountable for this serious breach of trust by the Obama administration. In fact, one IRS official was promoted. The IRS has inordinate power as the agency with first dibs on your paycheck and the arbiter of tax status for political groups. And the IRS is beholden to a corrupt and thuggish administration run by a former community organizer from Chicago. As long as Barack Obama is in the Oval Office, there's only so much house cleaning that can happen. Besides, he's "satisfied" with how things are going.
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Obama's Agenda Depends on Packing the DC Circuit Court
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published May 29, 2013 on Breitbart.com.
President Barack Obama is finalizing an aggressive strategy to pack a court. It's not the Supreme Court; it's the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Whether Obama's agenda succeeds or fails turns on whether he remakes that court in his image, and Republicans are preparing for battle.
Last week, Breitbart News reported that Sri Srinivasan had been unanimously confirmed as a judge on the D.C. Circuit, and that half the justices on the U.S. Supreme Court came from that court. There are eleven judgeships on the D.C. Circuit, three of which are still vacant.
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SCOTUS Denies Review in Planned Parenthood Funding Case
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published May 28, 2013 on Breitbart.com.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to take a case where a federal appeals court struck down an Indiana law denying Medicaid funds to abortion provider Planned Parenthood.
Medicaid is a federal-state partnership where government pays for healthcare for low-income Americans. It has become increasingly one-sided to the point where now the federal government dictates most details to the states; it's a partnership in name only. In 2011, Indiana enacted a statute denying future Medicaid funds to Planned Parenthood, the largest abortion provider in the United States.
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Striking a Sour Note on the Boardwalk
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published May 28, 2013 on The Washington Times website.
What do you do if you're a street fiddler who wants to play as loud as you want, and the cops tell you to pipe down?
Well, you could make a federal case of it.
On April 10, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Maryland against Ocean City, Md., on behalf of William F. Hassay Jr., who has earned money playing his violin on the boardwalk seasonally since 1995, according to the suit.
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Senate Confirms Rising Star, Could Be Next SCOTUS Nominee
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published May 26, 2013 on Breitbart.com.
The U.S. Senate on Thursday unanimously confirmed Sri Srinivasan to be a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit by a vote of 97-0, and he should already be considered someone on President Obama's short list for the Supreme Court.
Srinivasan has a spectacular legal resume that looks much like John Roberts a decade ago. In 2003, Roberts was a graduate of Harvard and Harvard Law, clerked for a top federal appeals judge and then a Supreme Court justice (William Rehnquist), later served as chief deputy solicitor general, then after years as a distinguished private-sector lawyer, Roberts was appointed as a D.C. Circuit judge while in his 40s. After two years as an appeals judge, George W. Bush nominated him for the Supreme Court.
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To the Horror of Global Warming Alarmists, Global Cooling Is Here
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Welfare Reform (CCWR) Peter Ferrara was published May 27, 2013 on Forbes.com.
Around 1250 A.D., historical records show, ice packs began showing up farther south in the North Atlantic. Glaciers also began expanding on Greenland, soon to threaten Norse settlements on the island. From 1275 to 1300 A.D., glaciers began expanding more broadly, according to radiocarbon dating of plants killed by the glacier growth. The period known today as the Little Ice Age was just starting to poke through.
Summers began cooling in Northern Europe after 1300 A.D., negatively impacting growing seasons, as reflected in the Great Famine of 1315 to 1317. Expanding glaciers and ice cover spreading across Greenland began driving the Norse settlers out. The last, surviving, written records of the Norse Greenland settlements, which had persisted for centuries, concern a marriage in 1408 A.D. in the church of Hvalsey, today the best preserved Norse ruin.
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Turning the Tables on the IRS
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published May 27, 2013 on The Washington Times website.
It's pretty clear that the Internal Revenue Service acted illegally in its abuse of Tea Party and other conservative groups and individuals since 2009.
Why else would Lois G. Lerner, director of the IRS' division of exempt organizations, take the Fifth Amendment before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee?
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Blogging from the 51st State: Day 1 - Making the Blind See By Roger L. Simon
"Israeli scientists develop bionic eye for those born blind." The blind can be made to see? In the Holy Land? Watch out for the Jerusalem Syndrome, I tell myself during my visit to Israel.
Misguided Energy Policy: Alone, Enough to Cause American Failure By Tom Harris
Instead of promoting coal, the cheapest and most abundant energy source available, to help provide the power the United States needs to prepare for such deadly events as this month's tragic tornadoes, Democratic Senators Barbara Boxer (CA) and Sheldon Whitehouse (RI) took advantage of the tragedy to boost their nonsensical climate change plans.
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Reid Claims He'll Gain More GOPs Than Lose Dems on Immigration Bill By Bill Straub
Pushing immigration legislation through the Senate Judiciary Committee may wind up being the easiest job reform proponents achieve during what promises to be a long, drawn-out process.
Advice for Grads: Stop Working So Darn Hard By Hannah Sternberg
This week, I'd like to offer some advice to recent college graduates. Here are some pointers, practical and spiritual, on how to cope with adult life. Share them with a grad you know and it might actually get him or her to stop bugging you with questions about how to be a grown-up.
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Tom Brokaw did his very best to contextualize the numerous scandals pummeling the Obama Administration by saying they don't rise up to the level of Watergate, Iran-Contra or even Abu Ghraib.
"I was covering Iran-Contra during the Reagan administration when [Peggy Noonan] was working for that president, in which we were funding a war illegally. We were trying to make a deal with the Iranians at the time. That was a pretty big damn scandal."
Brokaw seems to be employing a tactic common among has-been journalists these days. They seem to be afraid that any story seen as "bigger" than the stories they covered in their day somehow diminishes their life work, and therefore any suggestion to this effect must be smacked down immediately.
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Something Rotten In Benghazi From The Get-Go
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Benghazi Bombshell: Officials Instructed Benghazi Hospital To List Stevens As John Doe
Posted On America's Conservative News
If the following report from liberal CBS News is correct, the implications are staggering and it is within the realm of possibility that the Obama Regime attempted to cover-up as many aspects of the Benghazi tragedy as possible even as events were unfolding...
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The Dupes That Make Possible The Deeds
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The Tables Have Turned on "Useful Idiots"
By Dr. Ileana Johnson Paugh
CanadaFreePress.com
According to the Washington Post, it is "the rise of the fourth branch." A large chart pictured the "imbalance of power;" at the top is the Executive that implements laws, below are the co-equals, the Legislative that makes laws and the Judicial that interprets laws. Underneath all, in a huge bubble, is the "Administrative state that makes, implements, and interprets its own rules without any accountability."
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Jobs Bouncing To Areas Where People Willing To Work
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By Wynton Hall
Breitbart.com
On Friday, Boeing announced plans to transfer 300 engineering jobs from Washington state to nonunion locations in Long Beach, California and North Charleston, South Carolina.
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Freedom's Watch Attorney: I Tried to Warn the IRS
Newsmax.com
The attorney who represented Freedom's Watch in its two-year battle with the IRS on Saturday tells Newsmax that he tried to alert officials back in 2011 that the tax agency was unfairly targeting his conservative client and its donors.
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New World Order Power-Brokers: "Pregnancy Is Not Natural"
Posted On America's Conservative News (Life News) Drawn by the promise of helping poor women, over 3,000 power-brokers, policy-makers and aid workers gathered in Kuala Lumpur this week for Women Deliver, a global conference on women's health.
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NRA Supports Child With Scary Pop-Tart
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Eight Year-Old Suspended for Gun-Shaped Pop-Tart Gets Lifetime NRA Membership
By Gregory Gwyn-Williams, Jr.
CNSNews.com An eight year-old boy who was suspended from school for shaping a gun out of a Pop-Tart has been given a lifetime membership to the National Rifle Association (NRA).
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CTA and NEA Embrace Progressivism, Celebrate Everything But America
By Larry Sand
CAPoliticalReview.com "Each teacher shall endeavor to impress upon the minds of the pupils the principles of morality, truth, justice, patriotism, and a true comprehension of the rights, duties, and dignity of American citizenship, and the meaning of equality and human dignity, including the promotion of harmonious relations, kindness toward domestic pets and the humane treatment of living creatures, to teach them to avoid idleness, profanity, and falsehood, and to instruct them in manners and morals and the principles of a free government."
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IRS Commish Had A Close Relationship With White House
By John Hayward
HumanEvents.com In the early days of the IRS scandal, Douglas Shulman--who was IRS Commissioner during the period when the abuses of power against conservative and Tea Party groups began--was asked why he spent so much time at the White House.
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Friday, May 31, 2013
To: Friends & Supporters
From: Gary L. Bauer
IRS Scandal Grows
Earlier this month, Washington was rocked when the IRS admitted to and apologized for targeting Tea Party and Patriot groups. But a report from McClatchy Newspapers suggests that the IRS effort to target conservatives may have been much broader.
As we have previously reported, Christian ministries, such as the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and Samaritan's Purse, were also hit with IRS audits. Morton Blackwell's Leadership Institute went through an audit that lasted 13 months!
But this latest report notes that the IRS also went after several pro-life groups. In one case, an IRS official demanded that every board member on Coalition for Life of Iowa sign a statement pledging not to protest Planned Parenthood clinics. The IRS also demanded to know the content of their prayers.
This is beyond outrageous! But more to the point, such systematic and widespread targeting does not happen by accident. Nor could it have been the work of just a few "rogue agents." (By the way, investigators with two key House committees are conducting interviews with IRS officials in Cincinnati, Ohio, this week and next.)
What is even more astonishing is how many liberals are actually encouraging the IRS. When Bette Midler heard about the scandal, her reaction was, "I love the IRS!" Believe it or not, Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) fretted that all the attention created by the scandal would have a chilling effect on the IRS agents!
It is really shocking how the left has allowed authoritarianism to become part of its culture. We've seen it over the decades in the left's accommodation of the Soviet Union, its moral equivalency between Israel and radical terrorists, the demands of the militant homosexual rights movement and Hollywood's love for dictators like Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez. Now many liberals seem perfectly happy to impose Stalinist tactics against conservatives here in America.
Obama Avoids Filling Critical Posts
We have learned a tremendous amount about these latest Obama scandals thanks to the work of various inspectors general. These are critically important positions throughout the government charged with internal policing and exposing waste, fraud and abuse.
It is very hard to play politics with inspectors general. They are one of the crucial checks built into the system. Obviously members of Congress can't patrol the halls of the vast federal bureaucracy. But according to Breitbart.com, many of these vital positions are vacant.
The Pentagon IG position has been vacant for a year and a half. And if you think that's bad, the State Department hasn't had a confirmed inspector general since 2008. A skeptic might think that Hillary had insisted that no one look over her shoulder while she was there.
Whenever there is a cabinet post, Supreme Court vacancy or some other position Obama wants filled with a loyal crony, he has not hesitated to demand quick confirmation from the Senate. Yet when it comes to naming inspectors general, he seems to have a hard time making up his mind.
Stop The Insanity!
Today's headlines bring us several disturbing examples of the bizarre world politically correct liberals are trying to create.
The Washington Post reports that a five year-old boy in Calvert County, Maryland, has been suspended for 10 days for bringing a "cowboy-style cap gun" on a school bus. According to the boy's mother, her son was just really excited to show his new toy to a friend.
I understand the sensitivity about guns in school. But it was a toy! The left erupts in fits of rage when it comes to keeping the country safe from terrorists, but loses all common sense when it comes to kids and toys.
The boy was hauled into the principal's office and interrogated for more than two hours, during which time he wet his pants. Not satisfied with terrorizing this child, school officials also called his older sister in for questioning too.
The family has hired an attorney to contest the absurdly harsh punishment and to get the child's permanent record expunged.
Where is the ACLU? If a GITMO detainee were interrogated to the point of wetting himself, the left would be up in arms. But thanks to the left's perverse worldview, we are turning little boys into criminals and coddling alleged jihadists. This is insanity!
Speaking of insanity, Chicago suffered another horrendous shooting spree over Memorial Day weekend. Six people were killed and 11 were wounded. Like most reasonable people, Senator Mark Kirk (R-IL) is fed up with the gangbangers who are terrorizing the city. He said, "I think it's completely within the capability of the United States government to crush a major urban gang. Just think of what the greatest generation did here in Chicago, pretty much crushing the Capone organization."
So what is the response of Rep. Bobby Rush (D-IL)? The former Black Panther accused Kirk of racial insensitivity, saying, "I am really very upset with Mark," adding that his plan was an "upper-middle-class, elitist white boy solution to a problem he knows nothing about." People are dying and this liberal Democrat appears to be sympathizing with the murderers!
But wait, there's more. From America's Left Coast, a super-majority in the California State Senate approved legislation Wednesday stripping the Boy Scouts of its tax-exempt status because it does not permit homosexuals to be adult leaders. The bill also targets any youth organization that does not embrace the "gender identity" choices of every individual.
In other words, if a girl decides she feels like a boy, a majority of California state senators believe the Boy Scouts should be forced to admit her.
Pastors, are you paying attention? Today it's youth groups that don't embrace homosexuality. Tomorrow it could be churches.
And to the Boy Scouts, we told you so. Liberals rejected your recent compromise and won't stop until the ban on gay scoutmasters is lifted too. The sponsor of this outrageous bill said that the BSA has "a central flaw so profound that until it is fully fixed it means they are out of line with the values of California."
Obamacare Will Cost You!
Yesterday we reported that millions of Americans are about to learn that they can't keep their current health insurance plan because it doesn't meet the "one size fits all" Big Government standard that Obamacare demands. To add insult to injury, the new plans you will be forced to buy starting next year will cost you a lot more too.
According to Forbes, individual insurance plans in California, which just set up its Obamacare state exchange, will increase as much as 146%.
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Video: "If You Don't Like Obamacare, You Are Racist"
Jun 01, 2013 01:40 pm
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Video: BREAKING! Mike Zullo Reveals MEDIA THREATED Over Obama Birth Certificate!Jun 01, 2013 01:24 pm
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For An Academic, Obama A Lousy Student Of HistoryJun 01, 2013 01:16 pm
Barack Obama was 11 years old in 1972, and had just returned to Hawaii from living in Jakarta when five burglars were arrested at the Watergate headquarters of the Democratic National Committee in what Richard Nixon's press secretary, Ron Ziegler, called a "third rate burglary". Had little Barack been paying attention, he would have seen [...]
Video: DOJ Policy: Every Employee Must Praise HomosexualityJun 01, 2013 01:02 pm
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Cartoon To Feature Gender-swapping ProtagonistJun 01, 2013 12:43 pm
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IRS Executives do the "cupid shuffle dance" in a video they paid $1,600 to produce... Related posts: Big Spenders Will Win The Debt-Ceiling Dance by Dr. Mark W. Hendrickson Once again it's time to... "What Difference Does It Make?" - Aka "The Hillary Shuffle" More buzz- and tweet-worthy words Hillary Clinton has never spoken....
Clinton Supporter Gets 2 Years For Funneling CashJun 01, 2013 12:25 pm
ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A northern Virginia businessman was sentenced Friday to more than two years in prison for illegally funneling nearly $200,000 to Hillary Clinton's political campaigns in 2006 and 2008. William Danielczyk, 51, of Oakton pleaded guilty in February to violating campaign-finance laws by reimbursing employees of his company, Galen Capital, and others who [...]
The Chinese Elephant In The RoomJun 01, 2013 12:20 pm
Over the past couple of years, Obama and his administration have allowed the Communist Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) to hack into our military computer system and steal virtually all our military weapons designs. (He's supposedly "Commander-in Chief" and thus responsible for all national security issues, including breaches.) What Obama got in return is not clear, [...]
"No Greater Love..."Jun 01, 2013 12:10 pm
John 15:13-Jesus said... "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.." No man or woman goes into our Armed Forces for the money. Sure, they are enticed by great recruiters with education grants and the glory of it all; but they know, or at least they [...]
When Light Shines Out Of DarknessJun 01, 2013 12:03 pm
"Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God."- Aeschylus In the clutter of all the bad news that is reported in our country on a daily basis - namely the things that [...]
Paul: GOP Needs To Become A 'bigger' PartyJun 01, 2013 11:53 am
WASHINGTON - Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul said Friday that Republicans could appeal to a broader electorate in blue states like California by connecting with voters who have shunned the party in the past and by being big enough to agree to disagree on some issues. Paul, who is considering a presidential campaign in 2016, said [...]
Poll: 42 % Say Holder Should ResignJun 01, 2013 11:52 am
A new Rasmussen Reports poll finds that only 25 percent of likely voters have a favorable opinion of Attorney General Eric Holder and 42 percent would like for him to resign. The telephone survey of 1,000 likely voters conducted on May 29-30, also revealed that 47 percent of those polled have an unfavorable opinion of him. But [...]
Video: Krauthammer: Obama Is A Fraud
May 31, 2013 01:32 pm
Charles Krauthammer recently appeared on Dennis Miller's radio show to say how he REALLY feels about Obama... Related posts: Krauthammer - Obama Lost The Gun Control Fight During a discussion on Fox News Thursday afternoon that linked... Krauthammer: Obama " Isn't Half As Intelligent As He Thinks He Is" Fox News contributor Charles Krauthammer comments [...] Watch the Video and Comment: Video: Krauthammer: Obama Is A Fraud
Teacher Faces Dismissal For Teaching Bill Of RightsMay 31, 2013 01:30 pm
Just days after IRS executive Lois Lerner improperly invoked her Fifth Amendment right not to answer questions about Tea Party intimidation, the often misunderstood amendment is reportedly facing another attack at an Illinois high school. Social Studies teacher John Dryden said he checked his inbox shortly before class recently and noticed a stack of surveys [...] Read More and Comment: Teacher Faces Dismissal For Teaching Bill Of Rights
Video: Obama Brother In Bed W TERRORISTS Granted TAX-EXEMPT IRS STATUS!May 31, 2013 01:23 pm
Whenever an uncomfortable truth for the Obama administration rears its head, pleas of ignorance always seem to follow... Related posts: Media Matters Puts Tax-Exempt Status In Jeopardy David Brock, chairman and chief executive of Media Matters for... IRS Battling Conservatives Over Tax-exempt Status The Internal Revenue Service is battling tea party and other... Watch the Video and Comment: Video: Obama Brother In Bed W TERRORISTS Granted TAX-EXEMPT IRS STATUS!
Obama's Embarrassing Impersonation Of Julius CaesarMay 31, 2013 01:19 pm
The Roman Empire was the leading powerhouse of ancient times - a larger-than-life story with a massive fall. But the vast empire didn't just come crashing down in one day. It ended in a steady decline that lasted for centuries, largely caused by a declining economy and military. Now think to today. Does this sound [...] Read More and Comment: Obama's Embarrassing Impersonation Of Julius Caesar
Video: Holder Mixed Up In Ohio Voter Fraud?May 31, 2013 01:15 pm
Eric Holder and the tons of bogus voters in a key swing state, plus the IRS practically sets up shop in Obama's White House... Related posts: Holder Dodges Voter Fraud Question Congressman Steve King (R-Iowa) asks Eric Holder a good question... Holder Upholds Voter Fraud On Monday, the U.S. Department of Justice, operating under antiquated... Watch the Video and Comment: Video: Holder Mixed Up In Ohio Voter Fraud?
Arpaio Recall FAILS In Arizona!May 31, 2013 01:07 pm
PHOENIX - A campaign to force a recall election against the polarizing sheriff of metropolitan Phoenix failed on Thursday after recall organizers said they couldn't collect enough voter signatures to bring the lawman to the ballot again. Organizers of the recall effort against Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio needed to turn in more than 335,000 [...] Read More and Comment: Arpaio Recall FAILS In Arizona!
Video: Obama Admin: If You Aren't Going To Love Me, Fear Me!!!May 31, 2013 12:55 pm
Here is the bottom line for all of Obama's scandals... Related posts: Obama's 2012 Strategy: Fear, Fraud, And A Cowardly Republican by Doug Book, CoachIsRight.com With little more than a year... Obama's 2012 Strategy: Fear, Fraud And A Cowardly Republican With little more than a year remaining before the 2012... Watch the Video and Comment: Video: Obama Admin: If You Aren't Going To Love Me, Fear Me!!!
Time Running Out For Illinois' Gun Grabbing PoliticiansMay 31, 2013 12:50 pm
If Illinois lawmakers cannot pass a concealed carry law acceptable to the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals by June 9th, the constitutionally prescribed right to keep and bear arms will immediately take effect in the Prairie State. That is, just as codified in the 2nd Amendment, all Illinois gun owners will have the right to bear [...] Read More and Comment: Time Running Out For Illinois' Gun Grabbing Politicians
Video: CBS: IRS Scandal Has "Taken A Toll" On Obama's Approval RatingMay 31, 2013 12:41 pm
A new poll out today spells bad news for Obama... Related posts: What Is Really Behind Obama's Approval Ratings? Your nightly news won't lead with this story. Even at... Poll: Trust In Government, Obama Approval Slip WASHINGTON - A new Associated Press-GfK poll finds that President... Watch the Video and Comment: Video: CBS: IRS Scandal Has "Taken A Toll" On Obama's Approval Rating
Craven Cowards In The SenateMay 31, 2013 12:39 pm
It has been clear for the past five years that conservative politicians are a bunch of craven cowards. Fear of being called racists (or even "mean-spirited") sets them to whimpering, trembling, and hand-wringing, eyes rolling as they desperately search for the nearest hole to hide their heads in. They have lost the ability to use [...] Read More and Comment: Craven Cowards In The Senate
Video: MSNBC Uses Ricin Letters To Demonize Gun Rights AdvocatesMay 31, 2013 12:37 pm
MSNBC didn't take long to politicize the ricin-laced letters addressed to President Obama and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg as emblematic of the "dark side of the pro-gun movement," among other observations. Related posts: Ex-NYC Mayor Koch: Ban Popcorn, Milkshakes In a contentious radio interview today, former New York Mayor... Is Mayor Bloomberg Losing [...] Watch the Video and Comment: Video: MSNBC Uses Ricin Letters To Demonize Gun Rights Advocates
Government Run WildMay 31, 2013 12:27 pm
The Declaration of Independence states that our citizens are "endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights.' Well folks, those rights are rapidly diminishing; and we're definitely headed down the slippery slopes to a Nanny State. It's not a pretty picture (and many are still in denial); but our Government is out of control, corrupt, [...] Read More and Comment: Government Run Wild
Video: Illegal Immigrant Mother Of Seven Given Food StampsMay 31, 2013 12:19 pm
Illegal immigrant and mother of seven Marita Nelson receives $240 in food stamps, medications, and $700 in Social Security and housing allowance. She entered the US by swimming the Rio Grande. Now she's on a crusade to help other illegals sign up for their free stuff. Related posts: USA Today Changing Use Of "Illegal Immigrant" [...] Watch the Video and Comment: Video: Illegal Immigrant Mother Of Seven Given Food Stamps
"True The Vote" Files Suit Against The IRSMay 31, 2013 12:14 pm
HOUSTON, TX. - True the Vote (TTV), the nation's leading voters' rights organization, filed suit in federal court in Washington today against the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), asking the Court to grant its long-awaited tax exempt status and seeking damages for the unlawful actions by the IRS in the processing of its application for exempt status. ActRight Legal Foundation, a 501(c)3 fundamental rights and [...] Read More and Comment: "True The Vote" Files Suit Against The IRS
Video: Former Clinton Aide Lashes HolderMay 31, 2013 12:08 pm
Appearing on WOR 710 radio, Lanny Davis, former special counsel to President Bill Clinton, said that Attorney General Eric Holder's labeling of Fox News reporter James Rosen as a "co-conspirator" was a "politically brain-dead" move. Related posts: Holder Personally Authorized Fox News Surveillance It's going to be hard for Attorney General Eric Holder... Shocking Video: [...] Watch the Video and Comment: Video: Former Clinton Aide Lashes Holder
Cancerville, D.C.May 31, 2013 12:03 pm
Washington, D.C. is booming. And that's a problem. America is still sick. Its economy, and indeed that of the world, struggles on in a sorry state of disrepair. The much-awaited recovery is finally here, and it's nothing to get excited about. Frustrated millenials have even taken to cracking jokes about how easy it was for [...] Read More and Comment: Cancerville, D.C.
Video: "IRS Showdown"May 31, 2013 11:58 am
It's time to bring down the most brutal collection agency in the world... Related posts: Cartoon Of The Day: ObamaCare's Thanksgiving Showdown ... Continue to Post... House Showdown Looms Over Indefinite Detention A showdown looms in the House over whether to end... Watch the Video and Comment: Video: "IRS Showdown"
Free Kate - Sexually Enslave The RestMay 31, 2013 11:51 am
"If I were to see the case of a boy aged ten or eleven who's intensely erotically attracted toward a man in his twenties or thirties, if the relationship is totally mutual, and the bonding is genuinely totally mutual...then I would not call it pathological in any way"-Professor Emeritus (Johns Hopkins U.) sexologist Dr. John [...] Read More and Comment: Free Kate - Sexually Enslave The Rest
Video: London Beheading Solves Nothing For Black Muslims And Activists!May 31, 2013 11:43 am
While the Brits are known for their "stiff upper lip" (calm in the face of danger), the coolness displayed by these meat cleaver wielding attackers and onlookers was surreal by histrionic American standards. Another profoundly disturbing element was how the pair of British attackers of Nigerian ancestry held an impromptu press conference despite being bloody [...] Watch the Video and Comment: Video: London Beheading Solves Nothing For Black Muslims And Activists!
Abolish Corporate Income Tax!May 31, 2013 11:34 am
Sen. Carl Levin was aghast. Before his committee sat, unapologetic and uncontrite, Apple CEO Tim Cook, whose company had paid no U.S. corporate income taxes on the $74 billion it had earned abroad in recent years. "Apple has sought the Holy Grail of tax avoidance," said Levin. "Apple has exploited an absurdity." Actually, Apple had [...] Read More and Comment: Abolish Corporate Income Tax!
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Daily Email - May 31, 2013
Top Story On or Off the Record, Obama Administration is in Damage Control Mode
By Roger Aronoff | May 31, 2013
The media had their big off-the-record meeting with Attorney General Eric Holder and his staff on Thursday, and immediately turned around and talked about what was discussed at the meeting. In effect, Holder threw sand in the eyes of the journalists who attended, and put himself in charge of fixing whatever they think needs fixing.
From the AIM Blogs
May Day! MSNBC Ratings Sink To a Six-Year Low
By Don Irvine | May 31, 2013
Newsweek Confirms Sale Rumors
By Don Irvine | May 30, 2013
From Accuracy in Academia Shielding the Enemy
By Ali Swee | May 30, 2013
A full-out attack on the University of Buffalo Students for Life has been launched, by faculty members. It turns out they are only pro-choice when their own viewpoint is chosen.
What NCLB Left Behind
By Isabel Mittelstadt | May 30, 2013
A recent report released by the American Enterprise Institute reveals both the achievements and failures of the No Child Left Behind Act, while outlining needed changes for future education-based legislation.
Guest Column UB Faculty Opposes Choice
By Janet Levy | May 31, 2013
One year ago, in June 2012, the "National Security Five"-five members of Congress led by Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.)-called attention to U.S. government infiltration by Muslim Brotherhood (MB) operatives. Based on disturbing information from court evidence and documents, correspondence, media reports, congressional briefings, and public statements, they found that individuals with questionable loyalty to the United [...]
AIM Newswire
Amazon's German workers go on strike...for 1 day
Euro Bank to France: Cut Spending Now!
Fox News: We never received DOJ subpoena records
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The Editors' Top Picks
Oops! Sen. McCain Met Syrian Rebels Accused of Kidnapping Sen. John McCain and his goal of openly intervening in the Syrian conflict on behalf of the rebels suffered a major setback this week after a public relations stunt backfired.
Behind Eric Holder's Closed Door, News Execs Plead Case for Free Press Officials of major news organizations held closed-door talks with Atty. Gen. Eric Holder Thursday on DOJ searches of news media phone records and e-mails.
IRS Wastes Millions on Unneeded, Unused Mobile Devices, Audit Finds According to a Treasury Department audit, the IRS spent about $2 million in 2011 on aircards and smartphones that either went unused or were issued to employees who weren't eligible to have them.
GOP Congressmen Urge DOJ to Grant Asylum to German Homeschool Family A group of GOP congressmen wrote Attorney General Eric Holder asking him to intervene on behalf of a German homeschool family seeking asylum in the United States.
Calif. Senate Votes to Drop Boy Scouts' Tax Exempt Status As churches begin their mass exodus from the Boy Scouts, the California Senate has voted to drop the organization's tax-exempt status over its refusal to welcome homosexual scout leaders.
High School Teacher Disciplined for Reminding Students of Their Rights An Illinois high school teacher was disciplined for reminding students they had a right not to answer drug and alcohol questions on a school survey.
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IRS actually fears this man who DOESN'T file taxes
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Finally, there's at least one businessman in America who's "manning up" to take on the dreaded IRS.
And despite years of not filing tax returns, he says the IRS actually FEARS taking him to court.
He proudly declares, "There is so much information there that would blow them out of the water if this became public knowledge."
We've got his surprising and inspiring story ...
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Did you know THIS about news legend Matt Drudge?
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He's the mysterious news reporter who singlehandedly took on and beat the buffoons in American politics and media.
Now, WND goes behind the scenes to reveal juicy details about the publisher of the Drudge Report ...
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Illegal flirting? Feds try again on 'sex harassment'
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If you thought the U.S. Department of Education's recent re-definition of actionable sex harassment -- any unwanted conduct of a sexual nature, even date requests -- sounded like they were just making it up as they went along, wait until you hear how they try to explain what they "really meant."
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Democrat nemesis talks smack about Bachmann
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The Democrat gearing up for a rematch against Michele Bachmann is talking smack about the congresswoman's decision not to run for re-election.
He just made a big announcement too.
See what all the fuss is about ...
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Happy holiday! Let the violence begin
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You probably enjoyed your three-day weekend.
And you're looking forward to the next one.
But the businesspeople and residents in these destination locations aren't -- their property gets trashed and they are endangered by people who come to riot and destroy, not enjoy the sun, surf and festivities.
You would already know that if the establishment press wasn't censoring the news ...
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Signatures in a recall effort against Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio in Arizona are set to be counted.
Did his enemies pull it off by yesterday's deadline?
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Notes on the IRS 88
Posted: 02 Jun 2013 02:16 PM PDT
(Paul Mirengoff)
We have a faithful reader who spent a long career at the Criminal Investigation (CI) Division of the IRS. Our reader prefers to remain nameless but he knows whereof he speaks and he has been supplying us with a steady stream of commentary on the IRS scandal, expanding like the universe. He writes to comment on today's update to the scandal:
An administrative note about today's news and the 88 IRS employees involved in the targeting. It's already been reported that employees who signed off on letters or made inquiries reported to four or five different managers. The Service does things by "group," with employees - Revenue Agents, Revenue Officers, and Special Agents assigned to groups under a Group Manager. That's now a Supervisory Special Agent in CI, but everybody still uses the Group Manager title in conversation. Groups are usually 10 - 15, with 11 or 12 agents being pretty common. So, having five different managers would imply that at least 50 and as many as 75 agents were involved at some point. Over time, with people coming and going, 88's not unreasonable. What this means, though, is that policy was spread over five groups. This isn't just something that happened with one or two people in one group, or even a "rogue" GM. Somebody set a policy for an entire office, and made sure at least five Groups got the word. That could only have happened in writing, and must have come from at least two levels above the GM. The level above is a Branch Chief, and Branch Chiefs don't make policy either. Neither does the level above that. Again, I don't know exactly how Exempt Organizations is structured, but in CI, a Branch Manager (the Assistant Special Agent in Charge) wouldn't have more than four groups. Policy comes from DC. Plus, IRS tries very hard to make policy uniform, so people in New York can't point to Minnesota and say, "you're treating those gophers differently." That's practically the whole justification for the otherwise completely useless Department of Justice Tax Division. Somebody in DC made this particular policy, passed it down, made sure that every EO Group in Cincinnati was treating every Tea Party/Patriot/etc. applicant the same way, and every employee got the word.
For DC, incidentally, read "District of Columbia."
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In Obama's cave
Posted: 02 Jun 2013 01:36 PM PDT
(Scott Johnson)
In Book VII of the Republic Plato's Socrates presents the Allegory of the Cave. In the Allegory of the Cave, Socrates portrays men mistaking the shadows on the wall for the real deal. The philosopher emerges from the cave to see the forms casting those shadows.
Team Obama inverted the allegory. They called the den of their data analysts the Cave, but the men of the Cave had a handle on the political reality of 2012. The rest of us contended with shadows, in some cases shadows thrown up by the men of the Cave themselves.
Joshua Green has previously reported on the science behind those Obama campaign emails. Using rigorous trial-and-error methodology, the men of the Cave perfected the science of the campaign's fundraising emails. If there is such a thing as political science, they were practicing it. In this inversion of the Allegory of the Cave, however, the philosophers lead the rest of us astray, or at least enough of us to win the election.
Green now returns to give us another view from inside Obama's Cave. Green provides a chart based on Cave data showing how the Obama campaign's swing state model performed against the Gallup poll over the last several months of the 2012 campaign, based on a nightly survey of 10,000 people. Green comments:
Gallup indicates that the selection of Paul Ryan as running mate hurt Mitt Romney, but Obama's model really doesn't; Gallup suggests, incredibly, that the "47 Percent" flap hurt Obama and moved the race back in Romney's direction; and, biggest of all, Gallup shows a huge drop for Obama-really, an outright collapse-after the debacle of the first debate. At the time, Obama's staffers were claiming to the press that, yes, their internal numbers showed the president's weak showing had hurt his support, but that the fall was brief and quickly stabilized right about where his level of support had been all along. As a reporter, you never know if you're just being spun when campaigns tell you this, because even if they really were collapsing the way Gallup suggests, they'd probably lie about it and say everything was fine, so as not to feed the panic. Based on th[e] data, though, the Obama campaign looks to have been telling the truth.
With Green, I think the data are of interest regardless of issues that one might raise and I want to post the chart without further comment. Here it is:
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The Power Line 100: Gary Saul Morson
Posted: 02 Jun 2013 07:27 AM PDT
(Steven Hayward)
Gary Saul Morson
A reader tip brings Gary Saul Morson of Northwestern University to the list of candidates for the Power Line 100 Best Professors roster. Morson is the Frances Hooper Professor of the Arts and Humanities and professor of Slavic languages and literature at Northwestern University, where, according to one recent profile, he is considered "a throwback," because "he believes his most important job is to teach undergraduates. His Introduction to Russian Literature course regularly attracts up to 500 students, making it one of the most popular elective courses at Northwestern."
I'm going to have a whole lot to say about this "teaching undergraduates" idea (imagine!) in a few months, but our eyes perked up when we saw that Morson was the pseudonymous author of And Quiet Flows the Vodka, or When Pushkin Comes to Shove: The Curmudgeon's Guide to Russian Literature and Culture,and that he also turns up from time to time in The New Criterion and The Weekly Standard. What put Morson over the top to reach the Power Line 100, however, was this tidbit:
The few hundred students who have signed up for Morson's spring quarter Tolstoy class listen politely as he talks, seemingly off the cuff, about topics ranging from Napoleon Bonaparte to Tolstoy's critics to the British cult TV show Doctor Who.
Okay, anyone who can work Doctor Who into a classroom lecture stands a pretty good chance of making our cut.
Here's a look at Morson in action, responding to a talk from the distinguished theologian N.T. Wright at Northwestern. The whole program is long; you can skip ahead (though if you have time it is well worth taking in Wright) to about the 40 minute mark to hear Prof. Morson:
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News of the Weird: Gitmo Edition
Posted: 01 Jun 2013 08:57 PM PDT
(Steven Hayward)
About the only thing worth reading in all those "alternative" free weekly papers that line birdcages and clog recycling bins in every crunchy burgh is the "News of the Weird" feature, syndicated by Chuck Shepherd for the last 21 years. Things like this:
Dateline Saudi Arabia: (1) A newspaper in the capital city of Riyadh reported in April that three men from the United Arab Emirates were booted out of a religious festival by Saudi morality police because they were thought to be "too handsome" and would make Saudi women improperly attracted to them. (2) Another Saudi daily reported in April that a schoolteacher had agreed to marry her suitor but only provided that the man take on two of her colleagues as extra wives. (Saudi Arabia allows men as many as four.) The newspaper reported that the woman had rented three apartments in the same building, signaling that the deal had perhaps been sealed. [ArabianBusiness.com, 4-16-2013] [Gulf News, 4-21-2013]
Well, here's one that definitely makes Power Line's News of the Weird: an American guard at Gitmo . . . converting to Islam, and demanding release of the detainees:
Death threats are just another part of life for Terry Holdbrooks Jr. The ex-U.S. Army employee converted to Islam in 2003, inspired by the faith of the Guantanamo detainees he was charged with watching. Since then, he says he has lost his friends, received violent threats, and been labeled a "race traitor" online. But he hasn't gone quietly. The 29-year-old has done his fair share of media and has even signed on for a job as a speaker for the Muslim Legal Fund of America. Now the devout Muslim is racking up frequent flyer miles and touring the country with what he calls the "truth about Gitmo." "Gitmo was supposed to be a cushy deployment since we were just going to babysit detainees," Holdbrooks said. "But it changed me."
It sounds like the military may not have screened this guy very well:
As a teenager, Holdbrooks had searched for truths in several different religions. He came to Guantanamo convinced that all monotheistic religions were evil. But over the course of several months, as Holdbrooks started speaking to the detainees and reading the Quran, he began to find some truth in Islam. "The Quran is the simplest book in the world to read. It doesn't have magic. It doesn't contradict itself," Holdbrooks said. "It's simply an instruction manual for living." The faith lives of the detainees seemed to be proof that the instruction manual could work.
Has the world gone completely mad?
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Commence This
Posted: 01 Jun 2013 06:44 PM PDT
(Steven Hayward)
Our friends at the Young America's Foundation note that there are exactly zero conservatives among the commencement speakers at Ivy League universities this year, though this shouldn't surprise anyone by this point. I have a theory on this: the Ivy League is still reeling from Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's 1978 Harvard commencement address, "A World Split Apart," which was a fulsome attack on everything that Harvard stands for. It could well have been called "A World Split Apart-By Harvard." If you're old enough to remember, it caused a huge ruckus. Won't ever let that happen again.
So who did Harvard honor at commencement this year? Oprah. Need I point out that she's attained the dimensions of people who only need to be referred to by a single name. Like Bono. Or Prince. Or Cher. Or Yanni. Though-sorry-I think Oprah, as a commencement speaker, could well deserve the nickname "Yawnie."
Anyway, of all the places one would least have expected criticism of Oprah at Harvard, Time magazine would be high on the list. In fact it wouldn't have even made my list. Yet here is Time, suggesting that Harvard is embracing a devotee of "phony science":
It's possible to admire Oprah Winfrey and still wish that Harvard hadn't awarded her an honorary doctor of law degree and the coveted commencement speaker spot at yesterday's graduation. . . Oprah's passionate advocacy extends, unfortunately, to a hearty embrace of phony science. Critics have taken Oprah to task for years for her energetic shilling on behalf of peddlers of quack medicine. Most notoriously, Oprah's validation of Jenny McCarthy's discredited claim that vaccines cause autism has no doubt contributed to much harm through the foolish avoidance of vaccines. . . This vote of confidence in Oprah sends a troubling message at precisely the time when American universities need to do more, not less, to advance the cause of reason. As former Dean of Harvard College, Harry Lewis, pointedly noted in a blog post about his objections, "It seems very odd for Harvard to honor such a high profile popularizer of the irrational. I can't square this in my mind, at a time when political and religious nonsense so imperil the rule of reason in this allegedly enlightened democracy and around the world." . . . Oprah Winfrey's honorary doctorate was a step in the wrong direction.
Good for Time.
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The Weekly Winston: Thoughts on Prohibition
Posted: 01 Jun 2013 02:35 PM PDT
(Steven Hayward)
Will Rogers quipped, "Well, Prohibition is better than no liquor at all." Churchill took a similarly jaunty view of this ridiculous experiment in progressive legislation (which is making a comeback today with people like Nurse Bloomberg). Anyway, a couple of Churchill's observations on the matter:
It is possible that the dry, bracing electrical atmosphere of North America makes the use of alcohol less necessary and more potent than the moist, humid climate of Britain. . . I must confess that on one occasion I was taken to a "speakeasy." I went, of course, in my capacity as a Social Investigator. . .
It was explained to me that nothing in the laws of the United States forbids the convivial consumption in a private house of any stores of liquor which happened to be in the host's private cellars before Prohibition became effective in 1920. Many people must have had very large and well-stocked cellars in those distant days, and these supplies have lasted extremely well. Indeed one might almost believe that, like the widow's cruse, they miraculously replenish themselves.
Heh.
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From the Climatefail Files
Posted: 01 Jun 2013 09:03 AM PDT
(Steven Hayward)
As a follow up to yesterday's Green Weenie about the feckless downhill ski industry, several Power Line readers have directed me to news stories about how late snow has kept many ski resorts open this year long after their usual closing dates. Aspen Mountain reopened its upper slopes for skiing and snowboarding over Memorial Day weekend, while over in France, a ski resort has reopened following heavy snow this past week.
In other climate news there is the madcap headline that "Scientists Plan to Reduce Greenhouse Gases by Breeding Fartless Cows." Well okay, but it better not affect the taste of my cheeseburgers. (It's called the "RuminOmics Project," and I'm wondering what might happen if we cross-bred it with supply-side economics. Paul Krugman might go out of his mind. Oh, wait. . .)
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The Week in Pictures
Posted: 01 Jun 2013 07:07 AM PDT
(Steven Hayward)
Even a holiday-foreshortened week can't keep Power Line from gathering up the best images and memes for our weekend collection. Be sure to stay tuned to the very end, where we share the very latest IRS video. You remember the last one where the fine thespians of the IRS spent $60,000 to try out their best Star Trek imitation? This time, they try out their dance moves. Anyway, enjoy!
Finally, here's the latest IRS video from one of their "conferences." Apparently they only spent $1,600 on this one. With moves like this, who needs Broadway musicals?
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NixBama
Posted: 31 May 2013 09:58 PM PDT
(Steven Hayward)
So what's that old Santayana line about those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it? Can we mix that in with Karl Marx's line about history repeating itself as farce? Either way, this video juxtaposition of Nixon and Obama, from RevealingPolitics.com, is sure to leave a mark:
And just for extra grins:
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Does This Ad Make Me Look Racist? (Chapter 3)
Posted: 31 May 2013 09:44 PM PDT
(Steven Hayward)
We have commented before about the Sensitivity Police who use electron microscopes to spot the most minuscule trace of racism wherever it can be found, such as this Volkswagen ad, and this ad for the Discovery Card. Here's the latest entry in the Racism Overreaction Playbook: a Cheerios ad featuring a mixed-race couple (below), which you would think would receive the approval of the Multidiversiculturalites. But apparently it has caused a ruckus. The whole scene is confusing: it is not clear whether the upset is from lefties who think the ad is making fun of the mixed race daughter (in which case: get a grip), or supposedly old Confederates who disapprove of miscegenation (in which case: this is a false flag operation).
Can we please bring back some TV ads for Fruit Loops? The possibilities are endless.
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The Weekly Winston: Thoughts on Prohibition
Posted: 01 Jun 2013 02:35 PM PDT
(Steven Hayward)
Will Rogers quipped, "Well, Prohibition is better than no liquor at all." Churchill took a similarly jaunty view of this ridiculous experiment in progressive legislation (which is making a comeback today with people like Nurse Bloomberg). Anyway, a couple of Churchill's observations on the matter:
It is possible that the dry, bracing electrical atmosphere of North America makes the use of alcohol less necessary and more potent than the moist, humid climate of Britain. . . I must confess that on one occasion I was taken to a "speakeasy." I went, of course, in my capacity as a Social Investigator. . .
It was explained to me that nothing in the laws of the United States forbids the convivial consumption in a private house of any stores of liquor which happened to be in the host's private cellars before Prohibition became effective in 1920. Many people must have had very large and well-stocked cellars in those distant days, and these supplies have lasted extremely well. Indeed one might almost believe that, like the widow's cruse, they miraculously replenish themselves.
Heh.
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From the Climatefail Files
Posted: 01 Jun 2013 09:03 AM PDT
(Steven Hayward)
As a follow up to yesterday's Green Weenie about the feckless downhill ski industry, several Power Line readers have directed me to news stories about how late snow has kept many ski resorts open this year long after their usual closing dates. Aspen Mountain reopened its upper slopes for skiing and snowboarding over Memorial Day weekend, while over in France, a ski resort has reopened following heavy snow this past week.
In other climate news there is the madcap headline that "Scientists Plan to Reduce Greenhouse Gases by Breeding Fartless Cows." Well okay, but it better not affect the taste of my cheeseburgers. (It's called the "RuminOmics Project," and I'm wondering what might happen if we cross-bred it with supply-side economics. Paul Krugman might go out of his mind. Oh, wait. . .)
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The Week in Pictures
Posted: 01 Jun 2013 07:07 AM PDT
(Steven Hayward)
Even a holiday-foreshortened week can't keep Power Line from gathering up the best images and memes for our weekend collection. Be sure to stay tuned to the very end, where we share the very latest IRS video. You remember the last one where the fine thespians of the IRS spent $60,000 to try out their best Star Trek imitation? This time, they try out their dance moves. Anyway, enjoy!
Finally, here's the latest IRS video from one of their "conferences." Apparently they only spent $1,600 on this one. With moves like this, who needs Broadway musicals?
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NixBama
Posted: 31 May 2013 09:58 PM PDT
(Steven Hayward)
So what's that old Santayana line about those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it? Can we mix that in with Karl Marx's line about history repeating itself as farce? Either way, this video juxtaposition of Nixon and Obama, from RevealingPolitics.com, is sure to leave a mark:
And just for extra grins:
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Does This Ad Make Me Look Racist? (Chapter 3)
Posted: 31 May 2013 09:44 PM PDT
(Steven Hayward)
We have commented before about the Sensitivity Police who use electron microscopes to spot the most minuscule trace of racism wherever it can be found, such as this Volkswagen ad, and this ad for the Discovery Card. Here's the latest entry in the Racism Overreaction Playbook: a Cheerios ad featuring a mixed-race couple (below), which you would think would receive the approval of the Multidiversiculturalites. But apparently it has caused a ruckus. The whole scene is confusing: it is not clear whether the upset is from lefties who think the ad is making fun of the mixed race daughter (in which case: get a grip), or supposedly old Confederates who disapprove of miscegenation (in which case: this is a false flag operation).
Can we please bring back some TV ads for Fruit Loops? The possibilities are endless.
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The Weekly Winston: Thoughts on Prohibition
Posted: 01 Jun 2013 02:35 PM PDT
(Steven Hayward)
Will Rogers quipped, "Well, Prohibition is better than no liquor at all." Churchill took a similarly jaunty view of this ridiculous experiment in progressive legislation (which is making a comeback today with people like Nurse Bloomberg). Anyway, a couple of Churchill's observations on the matter:
It is possible that the dry, bracing electrical atmosphere of North America makes the use of alcohol less necessary and more potent than the moist, humid climate of Britain. . . I must confess that on one occasion I was taken to a "speakeasy." I went, of course, in my capacity as a Social Investigator. . .
It was explained to me that nothing in the laws of the United States forbids the convivial consumption in a private house of any stores of liquor which happened to be in the host's private cellars before Prohibition became effective in 1920. Many people must have had very large and well-stocked cellars in those distant days, and these supplies have lasted extremely well. Indeed one might almost believe that, like the widow's cruse, they miraculously replenish themselves.
Heh.
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From the Climatefail Files
Posted: 01 Jun 2013 09:03 AM PDT
(Steven Hayward)
As a follow up to yesterday's Green Weenie about the feckless downhill ski industry, several Power Line readers have directed me to news stories about how late snow has kept many ski resorts open this year long after their usual closing dates. Aspen Mountain reopened its upper slopes for skiing and snowboarding over Memorial Day weekend, while over in France, a ski resort has reopened following heavy snow this past week.
In other climate news there is the madcap headline that "Scientists Plan to Reduce Greenhouse Gases by Breeding Fartless Cows." Well okay, but it better not affect the taste of my cheeseburgers. (It's called the "RuminOmics Project," and I'm wondering what might happen if we cross-bred it with supply-side economics. Paul Krugman might go out of his mind. Oh, wait. . .)
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The Week in Pictures
Posted: 01 Jun 2013 07:07 AM PDT
(Steven Hayward)
Even a holiday-foreshortened week can't keep Power Line from gathering up the best images and memes for our weekend collection. Be sure to stay tuned to the very end, where we share the very latest IRS video. You remember the last one where the fine thespians of the IRS spent $60,000 to try out their best Star Trek imitation? This time, they try out their dance moves. Anyway, enjoy!
Finally, here's the latest IRS video from one of their "conferences." Apparently they only spent $1,600 on this one. With moves like this, who needs Broadway musicals?
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NixBama
Posted: 31 May 2013 09:58 PM PDT
(Steven Hayward)
So what's that old Santayana line about those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it? Can we mix that in with Karl Marx's line about history repeating itself as farce? Either way, this video juxtaposition of Nixon and Obama, from RevealingPolitics.com, is sure to leave a mark:
And just for extra grins:
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Does This Ad Make Me Look Racist? (Chapter 3)
Posted: 31 May 2013 09:44 PM PDT
(Steven Hayward)
We have commented before about the Sensitivity Police who use electron microscopes to spot the most minuscule trace of racism wherever it can be found, such as this Volkswagen ad, and this ad for the Discovery Card. Here's the latest entry in the Racism Overreaction Playbook: a Cheerios ad featuring a mixed-race couple (below), which you would think would receive the approval of the Multidiversiculturalites. But apparently it has caused a ruckus. The whole scene is confusing: it is not clear whether the upset is from lefties who think the ad is making fun of the mixed race daughter (in which case: get a grip), or supposedly old Confederates who disapprove of miscegenation (in which case: this is a false flag operation).
Can we please bring back some TV ads for Fruit Loops? The possibilities are endless.
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The Weekly Winston: Thoughts on Prohibition
Posted: 01 Jun 2013 02:35 PM PDT
(Steven Hayward)
Will Rogers quipped, "Well, Prohibition is better than no liquor at all." Churchill took a similarly jaunty view of this ridiculous experiment in progressive legislation (which is making a comeback today with people like Nurse Bloomberg). Anyway, a couple of Churchill's observations on the matter:
It is possible that the dry, bracing electrical atmosphere of North America makes the use of alcohol less necessary and more potent than the moist, humid climate of Britain. . . I must confess that on one occasion I was taken to a "speakeasy." I went, of course, in my capacity as a Social Investigator. . .
It was explained to me that nothing in the laws of the United States forbids the convivial consumption in a private house of any stores of liquor which happened to be in the host's private cellars before Prohibition became effective in 1920. Many people must have had very large and well-stocked cellars in those distant days, and these supplies have lasted extremely well. Indeed one might almost believe that, like the widow's cruse, they miraculously replenish themselves.
Heh.
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From the Climatefail Files
Posted: 01 Jun 2013 09:03 AM PDT
(Steven Hayward)
As a follow up to yesterday's Green Weenie about the feckless downhill ski industry, several Power Line readers have directed me to news stories about how late snow has kept many ski resorts open this year long after their usual closing dates. Aspen Mountain reopened its upper slopes for skiing and snowboarding over Memorial Day weekend, while over in France, a ski resort has reopened following heavy snow this past week.
In other climate news there is the madcap headline that "Scientists Plan to Reduce Greenhouse Gases by Breeding Fartless Cows." Well okay, but it better not affect the taste of my cheeseburgers. (It's called the "RuminOmics Project," and I'm wondering what might happen if we cross-bred it with supply-side economics. Paul Krugman might go out of his mind. Oh, wait. . .)
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The Week in Pictures
Posted: 01 Jun 2013 07:07 AM PDT
(Steven Hayward)
Even a holiday-foreshortened week can't keep Power Line from gathering up the best images and memes for our weekend collection. Be sure to stay tuned to the very end, where we share the very latest IRS video. You remember the last one where the fine thespians of the IRS spent $60,000 to try out their best Star Trek imitation? This time, they try out their dance moves. Anyway, enjoy!
Finally, here's the latest IRS video from one of their "conferences." Apparently they only spent $1,600 on this one. With moves like this, who needs Broadway musicals?
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NixBama
Posted: 31 May 2013 09:58 PM PDT
(Steven Hayward)
So what's that old Santayana line about those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it? Can we mix that in with Karl Marx's line about history repeating itself as farce? Either way, this video juxtaposition of Nixon and Obama, from RevealingPolitics.com, is sure to leave a mark:
And just for extra grins:
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Does This Ad Make Me Look Racist? (Chapter 3)
Posted: 31 May 2013 09:44 PM PDT
(Steven Hayward)
We have commented before about the Sensitivity Police who use electron microscopes to spot the most minuscule trace of racism wherever it can be found, such as this Volkswagen ad, and this ad for the Discovery Card. Here's the latest entry in the Racism Overreaction Playbook: a Cheerios ad featuring a mixed-race couple (below), which you would think would receive the approval of the Multidiversiculturalites. But apparently it has caused a ruckus. The whole scene is confusing: it is not clear whether the upset is from lefties who think the ad is making fun of the mixed race daughter (in which case: get a grip), or supposedly old Confederates who disapprove of miscegenation (in which case: this is a false flag operation).
Can we please bring back some TV ads for Fruit Loops? The possibilities are endless.
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Green Weenie of the Week: The Downhill Skiing Industry
Posted: 31 May 2013 09:50 AM PDT
(Steven Hayward)
Talk about going downhill fast: 100 ski resorts have signed on to a Climate Declaration calling for "action" on climate change. In typical hokum, this declaration suggests that "climate action" represents "one of America's greatest economic opportunities"-a claim about as credible as a women's Spandex apparel concession in Saudi Arabia.
This deserves a whole case of Green Weenies, along with the buns. My old partner-in-climate-crime Ken Green of the Fraser Institute in Canada beats down as only he can:
Now this is corporate cronyism at its finest: ski resorts and corporations asking for climate change legislation. With respect to my skiing friends...
Skiers use energy to haul mass uphill, only to slide back down hill, over and over again. They fly or drive long distances to get to places that are cold (requiring heated facilities). While there, they consume goods that are hauled long-distances and up hill. The perishable goods have to be refrigerated (think about that for a minute). Virtually everything they wear (and their gear) is made from petroleum. From a thermodynamic perspective, you would have a hard time designing a more greenhouse-gas-intensive activity than skiiing. Vanity space flight, perhaps.
But the companies involved would like some green-washing courtesy of the government: they want legislation that would let them claim they're doing good ("We're paying our carbon tax!") when in reality, they'll pass their direct costs onto the skiiers (who can afford it), while the majority of the costs of carbon control imposed on the general public would land squarely on the poor, who are most affected by high energy prices.
(NB: You should hear Ken beat down on Star Trek: The Next Generation sometime. It isn't pretty.)
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When Ted Williams didn't eject
Posted: 31 May 2013 08:35 AM PDT
(Paul Mirengoff)
Colonel Jerry Cadick's recounting of some of his "ejection" experiences reminds me of a story about Ted Williams that John McCain told a group of us one New Hampshire day aboard the "Straight Talk Express." McCain, a Boston Red Sox fan and (of course) an ex-fighter pilot, greatly admired Williams, who served as a fighter pilot in two wars.
During a mission in North Korea, Williams' fighter plane was crippled by a strike that knocked out its hydraulics and electrical systems. The plane already was on fire when an explosion rocked its undercarriage as it approached the landing strip.
Williams pulled off a wheels-up "belly" landing, skidding along the tarmac with sparks flying for almost a mile before coming to a stop. The nose burst into flames, threatening the cockpit. Williams blew off the canopy, struggled out of the plane, and, after limping clear of it, hit the ground.
He received the Air Medal.
McCain once asked Williams about the incident. Why, McCain wondered, didn't Williams eject rather than attempting such a dangerous landing?
Williams explained that, at six feet three inches tall, he believed he would have blown out both knees had he ejected himself from the cramped cockpit. And that would have meant the end of his baseball-playing career. Therefore, he decided he had to land the plane.
At age 33, and married with a child, Williams probably shouldn't have been called up for the Korean War; nor was he happy about the call-up. Yet, although he hadn't flown any aircraft for eight years, he turned down opportunities to avoid combat by playing on a service baseball team. Instead it was off to Korea to fly combat missions.
Williams would later say that the Marines he encountered in Korea "were the greatest guys I ever met." One of those guys, future astronaut John Glenn, described Williams as one of the best pilots he knew.
Ted Williams: an American original.
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The ubiquitious Tom Perez
Posted: 31 May 2013 07:32 AM PDT
(Paul Mirengoff)
At PJ Media, Christian Adams points out that former IRS Commissioner Doug Shulman "isn't the only non-cabinet member from the Obama administration to visit the White House an extraordinary number of times." Tom Perez, assistant attorney general for civil rights, made 83 visits during the period covered by White House logs examined by the Daily Caller.
This makes Perez the third most frequent visitor to the White House. Only Shulman and Deputy Commerce Secretary Rebecca Blank visited more often.
What was Perez discussing at the White House? We don't know. But Adams notes that during the period when these visits occurred, Perez allowed the nation's voter rolls to swell with millions of dead voters by refusing to bring any cases under Section 8 of the Motor Voter law. That law requires states to maintain clean voter rolls before federal elections. Instead, thanks to Perez, millions of dead and ineligible voters remained on the rolls for the November 2012 election.
Here, then, is a common thread - both Perez and Shulman headed governmental units performing tasks that served the political interests of President Obama and his party. Did this work help them become frequent White House visitors? Or is Perez another Easter Egg Hunt enthusiast?
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When "Diversity" Means Conformity
Posted: 31 May 2013 07:11 AM PDT
(Steven Hayward)
I wrote here the other day about how "diversity" has become a latter-day Stalinist concept, when it doesn't imply downright hate from the left, just as "multiculturalism" is cover for self-loathing of Western civilization rather than a genuine curiosity about what might be learned from other cultures. (I think it was Allan Bloom who pointed out, for example, how few of the devotees of "multiculturalism" actually bother to learn a foreign language.) Above all, the "diversity" mongers demand absolute conformity to their creed, making a hash of an otherwise worthy concept.
More evidence of the complete fraud of "diversity" comes this week out of Massachusetts, where Gov. Deval Patrick is being slammed for appointing a white person to be chairman of the trustees for Roxbury Community College in Boston. The Boston Herald reports:
A community activist is challenging Gov. Deval Patrick's pick for board chairman at the troubled Roxbury Community College because the new leader is white, but the administration is standing by the appointment.
Sadiki Kambon, who said he represents a group called Friends of Roxbury Community College, sent Patrick a letter Monday demanding that Gerald Chertavian, who was named board chairman last week, be replaced by "another qualified candidate (Black)." . . .
The letter labels the governor's selection of Chertavian, who is white, "insulting" because the college is a "predominantly Black institution."
Good to see that the old spirit of segregation is still alive on the left. By the way, it is not as though Roxbury doesn't have minorities represented in its management: the president of Roxbury is black.
As it happens, I've lately been re-reading, for the first time in almost 30 years, John Stuart Mill's On Liberty, which these days can be read as a conservative treatise. (Indeed, William F. Buckley Jr. did so in Up From Liberalism, to the dismay of the critics.) The closing passage of chapter 3 ("On Individuality") is worth recalling in connection with the mania for "diversity" in higher education today:
The demand that all people shall resemble ourselves, grows by what it feeds on. If resistance waits till life is reduced nearly to one uniform type, all deviations from that type will come to be considered impious, immoral, even monstrous and contrary to nature. Mankind speedily becomes unable to conceive diversity, when they have been for some time unaccustomed to see it.
(Hat tip: Glenn Reynolds.)
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Unintended consequences: Ejection seat edition
Posted: 31 May 2013 04:56 AM PDT
(Scott Johnson)
The legendary Colonel Jerry Cadick (USMC, ret.) writes to comment on Steve Hayward's meditation on unintended consequences. This is too good to keep to ourselves:
Your article reminded me of some personal experiences I had in 26 years as a Marine fighter pilot. Not with seat belts, airbags and red light cameras, but with ejection seats.
I became a naval aviator on 6 October 1964. This was a time when ejection seats ranged from technology of the late 1940s to Martin-Baker modern ejection seats that could be used at zero airspeed and zero altitude. I flew jet aircraft with both capabilities (...I also flew prop aircraft that pilots had to bail out of, as in WWII...)
I had two experiences that involved "unintended consequences."
The first one: Mid-70s I was a staff officer at Headquarters Marine Corps in Washington, DC. Aviator staff officers had to fly 110 hours annually to rate flight pay. I chose to fly the T-33 jet at Andrews AFB and the T28 prop aircraft at Quantico, Virginia.
I took Wednesday off to fly a T-33 jet on a round-robin flight to Georgia, then to Wright-Patterson AFB at Dayton, Ohio and back to Andrews AFB.
Climbing to 30,000 ft on the leg to Wright-Patterson, the engine rpm suddenly dropped from 100 percent to 90 percent on its own! I went through all engine emergency procedures but nothing seemed to fit this unusual loss of power. So I proceeded to Wright-Patterson, requested a practice instrument approach to a full stop landing. With landing gear extended, flaps full down and on landing speed about 800 ft above ground, the FIRE warning light came on and smoke entered my cockpit through all the air vents. A couple of seconds later, the engine exploded and blew out the left side!
The old ejection seat in my T-33 required 1000 ft above ground (...1940s technology...) in order to have the altitude to deploy a full parachute. With no engine and a fire, I spotted a muddy cornfield ahead, blew off my tip tanks and declared an emergency. I had 13 seconds left before touchdown... As I approached the corn field I spotted telephone/power lines and had to glide under them, which put my touchdown just in front of a hog fence around the corn field. I went through the fence, tearing off my flaps, landing gear doors and speed brakes. I rolled across the muddy cornfield about 800 feet when the nose landing gear broke off, so the T-33 came to an abrupt halt. Opened the canopy, unstrapped, looked behind the cockpit and saw nothing but flames 20-30 feet high!
I have since maintained that I set the world`s running record for about 220 yards, running across a muddy cornfield in full flight gear!
Air Force flight surgeons gave me a flight physical, pointed out that there was an Air Force passenger plane leaving shortly for Andrews AFB and put me on it. Once there I drove home and the next morning was back at my desk in HQMC as if nothing unusual had happened.
The second one: Fast forward two years and my staff tour long over, I am a Major and operations officer of an F4J Phantom squadron at Marine Corps Air Station, Beaufort, South Carolina. But, as a TopGun instructor, I am also checked out to fly the A-4 Skyhawk as an aggressor pilot. (...The A-4 closely matched the flight characteristics of the Russian MiG-17.
The A-4 squadron had a "14 year long accident free record"; the longest of any squadron in the Marine Corps! I am scheduled to fly a 2v1 air combat flight against 2 Phantoms. I launch first to go 50 miles out to sea to reach my station. It is winter. I reach my station, establish radio contact with the ground radar control and with the 2 Phantoms. We commence our first run to engagement.
Within seconds, my A-4 engine starts making explosive sounds! A quick scan of my instruments reveals the *oil pressure* is at 5 psi, way lower than normal 30 psi! I declare an emergency, knock off the dogfight, ask the F4 Phantoms to join up on me and head for MCAS Beaufort. My engine ran, roughly, until I got overhead the beach, at 16,000 ft and 10 miles from the base. Then it quit and went to zero rpm; indicating an engine seizure .
I deployed an emergency ram air turbine for electricity to my radio. I called the Beaufort tower and requested to be cleared to land on runway 21, a 10,000 ft runway. They cleared me. Now, the A-4 Skyhawk had a modern ejection seat that was zero/zero capable! However, US Navy aviation policy was "NO deadstick(...no engine...) landings! Pilots were to eject from aircraft....
It took me only about a *nanosecond* to decide that "this Marine fighter pilot was NOT going to end the longest safety record in the history of Marine aviation..." I had already deadsticked a T-33 into a cornfield 2 years prior, under worse circumstances than this. And reasoned that would be viewed in my favor....
I glided over the air base at 10,000 ft and lowered my landing gear, maintained 195 knots airspeed (...best glide speed for a Skyhawk...). I had no flaps because they were electrically activated and the ram air turbine could not provide that much electricity.
I glided to a touchdown on runway 21 with a centered *meat ball*, the normal touchdown point, and dropped my tail hook to catch the rollout end of runway 21`s arresting gear. I hooked the arresting gear and came to a full stop.
The commanding officer of the A-4 squadron was there on the runway, helped me unstrap and then shook my hand for saving his squadron`s "historic record"!
Two days later, all Hell broke loose! The Navy Safety Center got the message--and- demanded that I go before a flight performance board, who would remove my Naval Aviator Wings of Gold, for deadsticking that A-4 Skyhawk!
UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES: The Navy Safety Center *used* my mandatory deadstick landing in the T-33, two years prior, as evidence that I apparently had a *fear of ejecting*....
I wrote letters back and forth to the Navy Safety Center explaining that in the T-33 landing, I had no choice and that in the A-4 landing I was driven to not have my name associated with ending the longest safety record in the history of the Marine Corps. {...Besides, what I did not say and could not prove, was that I was a natural fighter pilot who had no fear of living on the edge, in the world of aviation combat...)
Long story, short. My Marine Aircraft Wing commanding general, while stationed at MCAS Beaufort, was my squadron commanding officer in Vietnam, where I flew 192 combat missions in the F-4B Phantom. I went up to his base at MCAS Cherry Point, N.C. and met him at the officer`s club one Friday evening. Now a Major General, I appealed to him to stand between my decision and its rejection by the Navy Safety Center.
I still have no idea what he did, BUT, the threats from the Navy Safety Center simply ceased!?!?
How is that for unintended consequences?
Semper Fidelis,
Jerry R. Cadick
Colonel USMC (ret.)
PS: Pilot callsign awarded me from that A-4 squadron commanding officer was: "Kamikaze." Which I kept through five commands, the last being the largest Marine Air Group in the USMC. Nine squadrons, 300 officers and 4000 Marines.
Colonel Cadick, we salute you.
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The Weekly Winston: Thoughts on Prohibition
Posted: 01 Jun 2013 02:35 PM PDT
(Steven Hayward)
Will Rogers quipped, "Well, Prohibition is better than no liquor at all." Churchill took a similarly jaunty view of this ridiculous experiment in progressive legislation (which is making a comeback today with people like Nurse Bloomberg). Anyway, a couple of Churchill's observations on the matter:
It is possible that the dry, bracing electrical atmosphere of North America makes the use of alcohol less necessary and more potent than the moist, humid climate of Britain. . . I must confess that on one occasion I was taken to a "speakeasy." I went, of course, in my capacity as a Social Investigator. . .
It was explained to me that nothing in the laws of the United States forbids the convivial consumption in a private house of any stores of liquor which happened to be in the host's private cellars before Prohibition became effective in 1920. Many people must have had very large and well-stocked cellars in those distant days, and these supplies have lasted extremely well. Indeed one might almost believe that, like the widow's cruse, they miraculously replenish themselves.
Heh.
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From the Climatefail Files
Posted: 01 Jun 2013 09:03 AM PDT
(Steven Hayward)
As a follow up to yesterday's Green Weenie about the feckless downhill ski industry, several Power Line readers have directed me to news stories about how late snow has kept many ski resorts open this year long after their usual closing dates. Aspen Mountain reopened its upper slopes for skiing and snowboarding over Memorial Day weekend, while over in France, a ski resort has reopened following heavy snow this past week.
In other climate news there is the madcap headline that "Scientists Plan to Reduce Greenhouse Gases by Breeding Fartless Cows." Well okay, but it better not affect the taste of my cheeseburgers. (It's called the "RuminOmics Project," and I'm wondering what might happen if we cross-bred it with supply-side economics. Paul Krugman might go out of his mind. Oh, wait. . .)
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The Week in Pictures
Posted: 01 Jun 2013 07:07 AM PDT
(Steven Hayward)
Even a holiday-foreshortened week can't keep Power Line from gathering up the best images and memes for our weekend collection. Be sure to stay tuned to the very end, where we share the very latest IRS video. You remember the last one where the fine thespians of the IRS spent $60,000 to try out their best Star Trek imitation? This time, they try out their dance moves. Anyway, enjoy!
Finally, here's the latest IRS video from one of their "conferences." Apparently they only spent $1,600 on this one. With moves like this, who needs Broadway musicals?
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NixBama
Posted: 31 May 2013 09:58 PM PDT
(Steven Hayward)
So what's that old Santayana line about those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it? Can we mix that in with Karl Marx's line about history repeating itself as farce? Either way, this video juxtaposition of Nixon and Obama, from RevealingPolitics.com, is sure to leave a mark:
And just for extra grins:
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Does This Ad Make Me Look Racist? (Chapter 3)
Posted: 31 May 2013 09:44 PM PDT
(Steven Hayward)
We have commented before about the Sensitivity Police who use electron microscopes to spot the most minuscule trace of racism wherever it can be found, such as this Volkswagen ad, and this ad for the Discovery Card. Here's the latest entry in the Racism Overreaction Playbook: a Cheerios ad featuring a mixed-race couple (below), which you would think would receive the approval of the Multidiversiculturalites. But apparently it has caused a ruckus. The whole scene is confusing: it is not clear whether the upset is from lefties who think the ad is making fun of the mixed race daughter (in which case: get a grip), or supposedly old Confederates who disapprove of miscegenation (in which case: this is a false flag operation).
Can we please bring back some TV ads for Fruit Loops? The possibilities are endless.
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by Timothy Watson
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A startling lack of accountability inside the IRS should make Americans focus on the effects of a large and intrusive government. As The Heritage Foundation's John Von Kannon writes, "even after the current scandal is cleaned up, the IRS' built-in bureaucratic problems will remain."
Revelations that the IRS unfairly targeted conservative organizations reveal a disturbing amount of discrimination and negligence inside the agency. This takes on even greater significance given the expanded power the IRS was granted to implement and oversee key parts of Obamacare.
In a recent report, Heritage's Christopher Jacobs points out that:
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Obamacare is so complex that auditors cannot agree on how many provisions the IRS is charged with implementing . . . the law's massive changes led the IRS' National Taxpayer Advocate to worry in 2010-well before the current scandal became public-that she was "concerned about [the IRS'] ability to administer the new health care credits and penalty taxes in a fair and compassionate way.
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This concern is justified. The IRS has a lot of explaining to do. The scandal raises serious doubts about the IRS' ability to handle its additional powers under Obamacare. The tax code is already too complicated to fairly administer, and Obamacare will make these problems worse.
Do you think the IRS' powers should be limited, or do you think they should be expanded as Obamacare requires?
Heritage Foundation President Jim DeMint appeared on Fox News' "On the Record with Greta Van Susteren" this week to warn about the new powers granted to the IRS as a result of Obamacare.
"Obamacare puts the IRS on steroids," DeMint said. "It opens the door for the IRS to come into all of our lives.
Watch the whole interview and tell us what you think in the comments.
The farm bill currently being debated isn't really a farm bill at all. It's more than 80 percent food stamps.
But even the farm portions of the bill aren't what they seem. Heritage Foundation experts made this infographic to expose the truth. Share it on Facebook!
To build the conservative movement, The Heritage Foundation focuses considerable attention on educating and training rising young leaders.
For example, we have identified more than two dozen promising young professionals working on Capitol Hill or in other public policy roles for a workshop this week on foreign policy and national security. The program-developed, organized and run by our very own young professionals here at Heritage-aims not only to educate participants on policy but to teach the next generation how to lead, motivate, and influence their peers.
Programs like this one allow young conservatives to develop critical skills they can use to advance principled solutions now and in the future. Equally importantly, these programs allow young conservatives to connect and build important relationships.
How else do you think we can build the conservative movement among young people?
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Heritage Work of Note
- During a debate on immigration this week at the Bipartisan Policy Center, Heritage Foundation expert Robert Rector warned about the high cost of amnesty to American taxpayers.
In the video here, Rector questions the fairness of an approach like the Senate's Gang of Eight amnesty bill.
Today the government spends close to $1 trillion each year aiding low-income individuals with nearly 80 different welfare programs, Rector pointed out. Providing amnesty to an estimated 11 million illegal immigration would cost taxpayers trillions more over their lifetimes.
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Outside the Beltway
Heritage Action launched a new series titled "Sentinel Stories". Posted on our blog, The Forge, these stories will highlight conservative activists and combat the liberal media's unfair and harsh treatment of conservative across the county. We believe it is important to know that this army is composed of patriots like Octavio Sanchez, who lawfully immigrated to the United States for a shot at the American Dream. Read Octavio's full story on The Forge.
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Q&A on Scandals and Eric Holder
05/31/2013
Attorney General Eric Holder is head of the Department of Justice-in charge of enforcing the nation's laws. So what happens when the head law enforcer gets caught up in questionable conduct?
The Obama Administration is under scrutiny for the scandals of the IRS targeting conservative groups and the Justice Department investigating journalists, and Holder's role is the focus of a lot of speculation. We sat down with Heritage senior legal fellow Hans von Spakovsky to get some context.
A number of news organizations including the Associated Press, CNN, and The New York Timesjust refused to meet with Eric Holder "off the record" about guidelines for investigating journalists. Have we even begun to get to the bottom of this?
A soured relationship with the press over the subpoenas of AP and Fox News phone records is just one of the problems that Holder faces. When he was asked about the AP investigation during an oversight hearing before the House Judiciary Committee on May 15, he told the committee that he could not provide them with information because he had recused himself from being involved in the case.
"Recusal" is the legal term lawyers use when they remove themselves from having any involvement in a case because of an actual or perceived conflict of interest. In the AP case, Holder said he had removed himself because he had been interviewed by the FBI about the leaks, although he testified that he told the FBI that he had not leaked any classified information.
So was he involved in obtaining the Fox News reporter's phone records?
At the time of the oversight hearing I just mentioned, information about the investigation of the phone records of James Rosen of Fox News was not yet public. But in answer to a question from Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA) about investigations of the press, Holder said, "with regard to potential prosecutions of the press for the disclosure of material, that is not something that I have ever been involved, heard of, or would think would be a wise policy."
Yet we now know that the Attorney General "personally approved a decision to subpoena Fox News telephone records." In fact, the affidavit that supported the subpoena request referred to Rosen as a possible "aider, abettor and/or co-conspirator" in the national security leak.
What's being done about Holder's inconsistent answers?
The discrepancy between Holder's testimony and what actually happened at the Justice Department prompted the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, Bob Goodlatte (R-VA), to send a letter to Justice on Wednesday expressing "great concern" over the fact that Holder's testimony "appeared to be at odds" with the approval of the Fox News investigation and search warrant "at the highest levels" of the Justice Department.
This is a very polite way of raising the possibility that Holder may have misled the committee. Goodlatte asks for an explanation of the discrepancy and whether the "investigation of Mr. Rosen as a potential co-conspirator or aider/abettor was a 'wise policy'?"
Our government should investigate the leak of classified information, especially any leak that endangers national security. But it appears, at least at this point, that the Attorney General's actions and sworn testimony are not the last word on this saga.
Let's not forget the IRS targeting of conservative groups trying to obtain tax-exempt status. Should Holder appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the IRS?
There have been some calls for Holder to appoint a special prosecutor, something that he has refused to do. The independent counsel statute, which was used to investigate prior scandals like Whitewater, has expired, so the only alternative to a normal investigation authorized by the Attorney General is for the AG to give a Justice Department attorney full authority to investigate and prosecute a case without going through the usual process of having the AG review and approve his decisions.
It is questionable whether such an appointment of a special prosecutor, like a U.S. attorney-all of whom are all political appointees just like Holder-would make any real difference in the investigation conducted by the Justice Department.
In any event, however, DOJ's opening of a criminal investigation should not inhibit Congress from exercising its oversight function and conducting an extensive inquiry into why and how the IRS was targeting conservative organizations.
Read the Morning Bell and more en español every day at Heritage Libertad.
Quick Hits:
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The IRS, Obamacare, and You
"Among the questions [Administration] officials expect people to have about [Obamacare] are...How can they fill out their tax forms correctly?" -The Washington Post, article on March 22, 2010, the day Obamacare was signed into lawOf all the provisions in Obamacare the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) oversees, the most far-reaching is the mandate for all Americans to purchase government-approved health insurance. Unprecedented in its scope-forcing all Americans to buy a product, and taxing them due to their very existence if they do not-the mandate will require Americans to submit their insurance information to the IRS. Section 1502 of Obamacare includes pages of requirements that insurers will have to submit to the IRS documenting people's health coverage, including individuals' names, Social Security numbers, whether or not the health plan is "government-approved" coverage complying with the mandate, and "such other information as the [Treasury] Secretary (i.e., the IRS) may require." Individuals will also get copies of these forms, and have to submit them to the government with their tax returns.
The IRS has yet to release the official copy of the mandate compliance form, but Americans for Tax Reform (ATR) prepared a projection of what the form might look like. Sadly, the ATR estimate of a one-page mandate form may actually underestimate the scope of the paperwork involved. Consider Massachusetts's real-life example of the paperwork burdens necessary to ensure compliance with the mandate: "A new three-page schedule had to be completed and filed with...the state tax return. In addition, a 10-page booklet with instructions and worksheets accompanies the other instructions and worksheets for the state income tax return." If the IRS mandate form is three pages long, it will be longer than form 1040, which most Americans use to file their taxes. Read the rest of this post, and more in this series, covering the IRS's role in Obamacare Taxes, Spending, and Complexity. 
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News from The Hill:
Trustees: Social Security insolvent by 2033, Medicare by 2026
By Erik Wasson and Sam Baker
Social Security's two trust funds will become insolvent by 2033, the program's trustees reported Friday, while Medicare will reach insolvency by 2026.
Unless Congress acts, Social Security will no longer be able to pay full benefits to retirees after 2033. Only three-quarters of benefits will be delivered after the projected insolvency date.
Medicare's trust fund will become insolvent in 2026 - two years later than previously estimated. By that date, the fund that covers Medicare's hospital benefit will begin to spend more money than it takes in.
Read the story here.
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Today's LifeSiteNews blog posts:
President Obama's motorcade confronted with large, graphic images of abortion - John Jansen
Pope Francis says, Baptize babies of unwed mothers, because they chose life over abortion (Video) - John-Henry Westen
Gallup: Support for assisted suicide fluctuates based on the wording of the question - Alex Schadenberg
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Rather than the help they sought, two former Planned Parenthood nurses say they were met with either indifference, incompetence, or what had all the appearance of outright corruption.
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The lopsided vote comes just days after Vermont legalized physician assisted suicide.
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'It's pure bulls**t,' the former Planned Parenthood abortionist said after being told about the complaint.
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"African-American religious leaders may have convinced enough IL Dems to oppose" redefining marriage, an angry Democrat writes.
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This vote marks the 14th year in a row that the company has refused to cave in to the demands of gay activists for special rights for homosexuals.
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"Does the board support graphic lessons on oral sex, the kind that use lewd language and is meant to be posted in a gay bar bathroom?" asked Brian Lilly.
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Even then the press release read, "This case has become the latest battlefield in the abortion debate, but it is unclear why."
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According to a recent survey, more than two-thirds of Chinese men do not make enough money for women to consider marrying them.
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Father Andrew Greeley has died at the age of 85 which brings to mind again the issue of homosexual clergy in the Catholic Church.
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Law in 15 EU countries on abortion, gay marriage, and "hate speech" suppress Christian's rights in the West, as well.
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"In terms of gravity, the sin of homosexuality is comparable to that of murder," Patriarch Sviatoslav told the journalist.
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"Suction so powerful, it's scary," reads the unfortunate sign in Brisbane, Australia.
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The most beautiful pro-life moment in the Gospel unfolds as the two pregnant women greet one another.
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The problem is that one cannot grant the legal right to assisted suicide to any group without at the same time removing legal protection from other similar people.
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As one scientist put it, their "achievement" has "no clinical relevance."
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ICLEI stealth tactics exposed
Friend,
We're at the big ICLEI forum in Bonn.
For years ICLEI has been flying under the radar -- inserting their agenda into local governments while escaping the notice of taxpayers.
Efforts to expose ICLEI"s strategy appear to be paying off.
Local governments have begun to say, 'no!" to ICLEI, once taxpayers get to know what ICLEI is, what they're up to and learn more about UN agenda 21,
The Green campaigners in Bonn are frustrated. That shows that the work of all of us who have labored to educate the public about their tactics are bearing fruit.
Take a look at our new press release below. We'll keep you posted.
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Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Saturday, June 1, 2013 Property rights vs. UN Agenda 21 ICLEI attendees dismayed over growing grassroots opposition (Bonn) For years Green campaigners have been quietly waging an effective campaign to advance the more radical aspects of the UN's Agenda 21 at the local government level, but the stealth phase of their effort appears to be over. Delegates gathered for the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI) in Bonn, Germany, are expressing anxiety over the effectiveness of free market and property rights groups like CFACT and the Tea Party in calling attention to their activities. By sounding the alarm at city planning meetings, in the media, the internet and at grassroots rallies, property rights activists are successfully hampering ICLEI's UN Agenda 21 program for local government and, as CFACT staff has learned, these challenges have them worried. CFACT attended a reception for ICLEI hosted by the city of Bonn at the Bonn Art Museum, where ICLEI members shared with CFACT staff their frustration with conservative legislators, free market and Tea Party activists, and even Glenn Beck. Michael Schmitz, Executive Director of ICLEI USA, admitted to CFACT staff members that while the council has been able to get "roughly 450 communities" in America to join ICLEI, they are predominantly in liberal states. In more conservative states where the Tea Party is active, he confessed and lamented their inability to implement UN sustainable development programs. ICLEI was formed in 1990 for the purpose of promoting the UN's vision of "sustainable development" as embodied in a document called Agenda 21. It now counts more than 1200 cities in its membership, the vast majority of whom use taxpayer money to pay membership dues to participate. The ICLEI conference in Bonn was coordinated with a meeting of New York mayor Michael Bloomberg's C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group, as well as the UN's Climate Change Conference next week, also in Bonn. ICLEI members from other countries also expressed their frustration with the growing opposition. Beth McLachlan, Senior Sustainability Officer for the City of Melbourne, Australia, and former employee at the Australian EPA, said that critics of climate change policies, headed by Tony Abbott, appear to be headed for electoral victory in her country. The political shift away from Julia Gillard's global warming policies is why she left the Australian EPA, she confided. If the climate realists succeed on the national stage, she sees her mission as "carrying on the fight" at the local level. "This reveals the persistence and determination of ICLEI," said CFACT Executive Director Craig Rucker, "to use unelected, local government bureaucrats to implement the most radical and unpopular aspects UN Agenda 21 policies regardless of the political winds." - # # # - 
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Rubio-Ryan Radio Ads: How Stupid do you Think We Are? Ads featuring Senator Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) shilling for amnesty and pushing for major increases in guest workers are now blanketing the talk radio airwaves.
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Ron Unz: Raise the Minimum Wage As Part of Amnesty Only the power of the federal government can halt this downward spiral into national impoverishment for most Americans by setting a reasonable floor on wages.
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Hatch-Schumer Deal Sells Out American Workers, Infuriates Unions During the Gang of Eight amnesty legislation debate in the Judiciary Committee last week, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) cut a deal to "reform" the H-1B visa program in order to gain Hatch's support for the bill.
Full Story Immigration Issue Spells Trouble for Rubio Despite the belief in some quarters that immigration will be a less potent issue among Republican voters this time around, so far it appears to be having a serious effect on Rubio.
Full Story Conservative Groups Push Amnesty While Proclaiming Financial Doom Three right-of-center policy groups rushed to remind taxpayers that America's fiscal situation is unsustainable while trumpeting the Gang of Eight's amnesty plan despite estimates that amnesty will cost trillions.
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 We asked, and you made the calls! Thousands of phone calls poured into Congress this week from NumbersUSA activists across the country. Many of you responded to Roy's action alerts, and many others responded to some very targeted calling campaigns throughout the week as well. From what we're hearing through our Capitol Hill Team, you're calls are having a major impact! In just 10 short days, the Senate will begin consideration of the Gang of Eight's amnesty bill that would grant work permits to 11 million illegal aliens and begin a process that would result in 33 million new green cards over the next decade. So over the next 10 days, we'll need more and more of your calls to your two Senators. While the Senate was out this past week, the hype over the Gang of Eight's bill continued. There were a few encouraging signs that we think will ultimately help derail the bill when the Senate begins debate on June 10. First, Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders, who caucuses with the Democrats, made some very critical statements regarding the Schumer/Hatch guest-worker co mpromise agreed to during the Senate Judiciary Committee's markup of the bill. Sen. Sanders said: "[W]e remain in the midst of a severe recession. Real unemployment, once you consider people who've given up looking for work, is close to 14 percent, and in some parts of the country is even higher. ... yet we're talking about expanding visas so that young people from abroad can serve as life guards, become ski instructors, become front desk people, when young people in this country desperately need jobs to pay for a college ed ucation." Sanders' quote was followed later in the week by an op-ed published in USA Today written by AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka who also criticized the guest-worker compromise. Trumpka has been a supporter of the bill since its introduction, but his op-ed combined with Sanders' statement is not good news for the Gang of Eight. Then, the International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers sent a letter to Congress stating their opposition to the bill. Like San ders and Trumpka, the tech workers are concerned about the impact the bill's provisions would have on American tech workers and their wages. Finally, news broke this morning that former Pres. George W. Bush, who led the charge the last time Congress tried to pass a mass amnesty, is concerned about what may be behind the Republicans' renewed interest in passing immigration reform. He told the Huffington Post that politics shouldn't be the motivating factor in passing immigration reform. Next week , the Senate will be back in Washington and immune to the local pressure they've dealt with over the past week. It'll be our job to make sure they don't forget how the Gang of Eight's bill will affect their constituents back home. Be on the look out for more action opportunities throughout the next week and a half. WEBCAST NEXT WEK Please join us Tuesday (6/4) for a very special webcast. NumbersUSA will host leaders from other organizations to discuss the Gang of Eight's immigration bill and to answer questions from activists. The live webcast will air at StopAmnesty.com beginning at 4 p.m. ET. More details to come... | chris Chmielenski | | Fri, May 31st |
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 Former President Bush Questions Vote-Seeking Impetus for Immigration Reform In an interview with the Huffington Post, former President George W. Bush questioned pursuing immigration reform based on political motives. During his presidency, Bush had actively pushed for amnesty-based immigration reform but did not primarily sell it as a political imperative. Read more: |
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 Sen. Sanders: Gang of Eight Bill is an 'Attempt to Attract Cheap Labor' In 2007, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) voted against amnesty for illegal aliens. Last Friday, in an interivew with the Washington Post, he expressed major concern with the Gang of Eight's bill after it was passed by the Senate Judiciary Committee. |
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 Tech Engineers Union Announces Opposition to Gang of Eight's Amnesty The International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers (IFPTE) has written a letter to members of the U.S. Senate asking them to oppose the immigration bill, S. 744. Specifically, IFPTE opposes the Schumer/Hatch amendment that passed during the Senate Judiciary Committe mark-ups earlier this month. The Schumber/Hatch amendment would increase the annual numbers of H-1B Visas. Read more: |
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 Over Half of All American College Graduates are Underemployed Half of all grads from four-year colleges are working in jobs that don't require a four-year degree, according to a McKinsey study cited by Forbes. The McKinsey report is backed by a similar study from the Bureau of Labor Statistics that found 48% of U.S. college grads are underemployed. Read more: |
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Today: 24 million immigrants came 1890-1950 but Senate ready to vote on giving 33 million green cards in just the next ten years!
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FRIENDS,
You've seen the pictures and read about the gigantic migrations of the world into the U.S. during the long Ellis Island era.
Can you even imagine what it will be like if the Senate passes S. 744 and gives green cards to that many and many more in just the next 10 years?
Later in this email, you will see more astounding comparisons of our immigration history with the radical immigration policy being pushed through the U.S. Senate.
Most Americans are asleep about this bill and have no idea how their entire way of life may be about to change forever.
- Will you please share this email with others to educate them and warn them?
- Will you let them know that they can join more than 2 million other Americans who are mounting opposition to S. 744? And that they can do it by going to www.NumbersUSA.com where they will find free tools to use to easily contact their Senators?
- And will you please contact every talk show on radio and TV that you follow and ask them to read the information in this email and to talk about it on air? Look up their websites, post comments, send them emails, phone them. Most hosts have been so busy with the scandal s that they haven't yet focused on the magnitude of 33 million.
You can start doing these things this weekend.
Rumors are that Senate Majority Leader Reid may file this next week to put the bill on the floor on Monday, June 10. We have very little time left to generate the massive public outcry that is necessary to defeat this bill.
The Oversized Amnesty & Immigration Super-Surge Bill
Don't be fooled that this amnesty is like the one the public defeated in 2006 and the other one in 2007.
S. 744 is far worse and far larger, big enough to capsize our society as we have known it.
I am not over-stating the case.
Consider these per/decade immigration numbers that are our country's immigration tradition:
2 -- Do you think your Senators realize that, in the hundred years between our country's first Census in 1790 and 1890, the numerical level of that incredible flow of immigration from Europe that filled the Eastern Seaboard and spread out across the continent was 2 million per decade?
The world had never quite seen a movement like that of masses of people fleeing a crowded continent and completely taking over another. That human flood so covered the land that the U.S. Census Bureau in 1890 declared that there was no more true frontier left in a country that in 1790 had been almost nothing but frontier.
It took 2 million immigrants per decade to do that.
33 -- The Senate is expected in little more than a week to take up S. 744 which would offer lifetime work permits and residency to 33 million citizens of other counntries in the first decade alone -- about 11 million of them being current illegal aliens and another 22 million of them being new immigrants.
Has somebody discovered a new frontier to occupy?
And, yes, if you are able to quickly multiply by 10 decades you see that Senators Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Rubio (R-Fla.) want to cram far more immigrants into our country in the next 10 years than came during the entire century after 1790..
4-- Ellis Island operated primarily through the 1890-1950 period when 4 million immigrants came per decade. This is the immigration that so colors most Americans' sense of our im migration tradition. The frontier and free land were gone, but the number of foreigners arriving here doubled. Sailing into New York harbor past the newly installed Statue of Liberty by the millions, immigrants just kept piling on top of each other in cities across America whose infrastructures were overwhelmed and poverty soared.
Yes, multiply by six decades and you will note that far fewer immigrants arrived during the entire Ellis Island era than Senators Menendez (D-N.J.) and Flake (R-Ariz.) are insisting on adding in just a single decade.
2.5 -- around 2 .5 million immigrants arrived in the decade of 1950s. Labor markets were tight. Businesses innovated to produce more per worker. Wages rose rapidly. America became a true middle-class society. When Congress didn't meet demand for labor with more foreign workers, employers turned to the country's historic underemployed Black population, enabling the great successes of the Civil Rights movement in this and the next decade.
3.3 -- around 3.3 million immigrants arrived in the decade of the 1960s. In the middle of the decade, Congress changed immigration laws to give every country equal access to the system but promised that the numbers would not rise more than a half-million for a decade.
4.5 -- around 4.5 million immigrants arrived in the decade of the 1970s as chain migration categories produced increases far above the promises of those who pushed the 1965 law.
7.3 -- around 7.3 million immigrants were given green cards in the decade of the 1980s. In the middle of the decade, Congress passed an amnesty for some 3 million illegal aliens and promised enforcement to stop future illegal immigration. The enforcement never really happened, but employers got another big increase in the legal workforce.
10 -- In 1990, Congress approved a surge in green cards at the request of businesses who warned that they faced labor shortages in a couple more decades. But the 1990 law provided for a bi-partisan U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform to study the surge to see if it had any negative impacts on American workers as the opponents of the bill argued. In 1995, the commission concluded that the surge was depressing wages and harming the most vulnerable member of the national community and recommended cutting immigration to something like 5 million a decade. Under great pressure from business lobbyists, Congress in 1996 turned down the recommendations and has kept the 1990 Immigration Surge in place, on a pace of adding more than 10 million immigrants per decade (1990-2012).
33 -Shall I remind you that even in light of the constant increases in immigration from traditional numbers,Senators Durbin (D-IL) and Graham (R-S.C.) are iinsisting on a SUPER SURGE over the 1990 Immigration Surge?
They and their Gang of Eight pals Sen. Bennett (D-Colo.) and Sen. McCain (R-Ariz.) argue that the reason the 1986 amnesty didn't work is that Congress didn't increase legal immigration to handle the demand for extra labor.
Would you help me get the above numbers to these Senators?
Congress has done nothing but increase immigration every decade for a half-century. This is a truth that almost nobody in the news media will let the public know. In fact, many reporters simply quote the Gang of Eight and their supoorters as they say that we have a big illegal immigrant population because Congress in recent decades has been becoming increasingly restrictive on lawful immigration!
LOOK AT THE NUMBERS! The immigration numbers shown above don't lie. And it is because le gal immigration has been growing so rapidly over the last half-century that the most popular answer for Americans on the standard question about immigration is that the numbers are "too high."
This S. 744 Oversized-Amnesty & Immigration Super-Surge bill would give out nearly half as many green cards in a single decade as every person who has permanently settled in this country over the previous FOUR CENTURIES -- since the founding of Jamestown in 1607.
If you have a Senator who is on the fence about whether to vote for this bill, make sure he/she understands THE MAGNITUDE.
Ask the Senators' staff if they know how many green cards are being offered by this bill. Are they really stopping to count the cost before deciding how to vote? They can't evaluate the costs without realizing what 33 million really looks like.
HERE IS WHAT ADDS UP TO 33 MILLION Because the Gang of Eight say they never took time to add up how many green cards would be handed out under S. 744, many people are skeptical that the 33 million can be right.
Check out the detailed analysis of 26 immigration categories at: https://www.numbersusa.com/content/files/10-Year_LPR_Numbers.pdf
The 33 million green cards offered by S. 744 in the first decade would go to:
- around 11 million for illegal aliens (could be millions more if the official estimate is wrong)
- around 11 million in continuation of elevated flows from 1990 surge policy
- around 5 million from end of numerical limits on people waiting in line (mostly chain migration)
- around 6 million from new and expanded categories
Here's the 30-second video raising deep moral questions about what kind of national community we are going to be.
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This video has been running on local TV news in 16 states.
Help spread the message by sharing this email with others.
Will we abandon 20 million of our fellow Americans who need a job by allowing lobbyists for wealthy special interests to persuade the Senate to pass the immigration bill?
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Today's Headlines: Friday, May 31, 2013
State Dep't.: Al-Qaeda Headed for 'Defeat', But Arab Turmoil Helping Other Terrorists
U.S. Finds 'Marked Resurgence' of Iranian Sponsorship of Terrorism
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Ohio State President: 'You Just Can't Trust Those Damn Catholics'
ExxonMobil Shareholders Again Refuse Special Protection for Homosexual Employees
California Senate Approves Background Checks, Permits and Fees for Ammunition Purchases
Sebelius to Class of '13: Good News, Obamacare Gives You Free Birth Control
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Gov't Spending $32M on Housing for 1,300 AIDS Patients: Average $24,874 Each
Feds Will Pay $40,267 for Unwanted Tortoise Drop-Off
$1.3M Grant for Newtown Schools Includes Funds for Creative Expression, Wellness Activities
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Protests Grow Amid Discovery of Genetically Modified U.S. Wheat
Kids Who Planted Michelle's Garden Rewarded with Snap-Pea Salad
Brokaw: Obama Scandals Not Comparable to Watergate
Liberal Prof on Amnesty of 11 Million Illegal Aliens: 'They'll Be Supporting All of Us In Our Retirement Age'
Poll: Democrats Flip Flop on Gitmo to Support Obama
COMMENTARY:
Viewing Cultural Collapse at Cannes
By L. Brent Bozell III
Decadence dominated the publicity oozing out of the Cannes Film Festival in France, as the festival's highest honor, the Palme d'Or (or Golden Palm) went to a movie that drew most of its buzz from an explicit 10-minute lesbian sex scene.
Abolish the Corporate Income Tax!
By Patrick J. Buchanan
From 1865 to 1914, America had 10 Republican presidents. All believed in financing government by taxing imports, not the incomes of U.S. citizens or the U.S. companies that employed them.
Who's Tracking Your Children?
By Michelle Malkin
Two days before Memorial Day weekend, students from at least three different public schools in Polk County, Fla., were subjected to iris scans without their parents' knowledge, so the school could create a database of biometric information for school bus security. This should worry all parents.
On the Record
By Rich Galen
Eric Holder is participating in an Obama Administration-wide charm offensive with the national media in an effort to try and get back to what President Obama considers to be the normal state of affairs: The press fawning over his every word, and every deed.
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On Today's Program
 Holder to press: We won't spy on you any more...we promise
Eric Holder held a meeting with the press to assure them that the DOJ's days of spying on the press are totally over. It's akin to Cookie Monster vowing to never eat cookies anymore, but the press bought right into it hook, line and sinker. WATCH
Ohio State President slams Catholics
The President of Ohio State University is in some hot water after making what he called a 'bad joke'. His insult was directed at Notre Dame, but did he cross the line? Find out what he said and get Glenn's reaction HERE.
Glenn on RGIII: He is in control
Glenn happened to catch an article about Washington Redskins star QB Robert Griffin III and the new house he just purchased. Glenn knows nothing about sports but commended the NFL quarterback on radio this morning. Find out why HERE.
Piers Morgan vs. Jay Carney
Piers Morgan wants nothing more than to be loved by Barack Obama, Hollywood, and any of the other notable lefties he worships. So it was no surprise that Piers sucked up big time when Jay Carney appeared on his program. (Yes, the same Jay Carney who has been getting hammered by the press lately for his horrible attempts to cover for this scandal-ridden White House). If Piers can ignore the latest round of scandals to score points with his idols on the left, is there anything this White House could do that he wouldn't ignore? Stu has the answer on this epic portrayal of Piers Morgan interviewing 'Jay Carney.'
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Out of touch? Obama forgets Moore, OK While giving a speech in New Jersey, President Obama botched the name of tornado ravaged Moore, OK by referring to it as Monroe, OK. If this happened to George W. Bush the press would have hammered him for being out of touch. Try not to be surprised that President Obama got a pass. MORE
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TheBlaze iOS App is your direct portal into "the network that YOU are building". Get access to live and on demand video from TheBlaze TV, listen to TheBlaze Radio Network, and much more! Plus, with the new TheBlaze newsreader, access to breaking news from TheBlaze.com is easier than ever! Download TheBlaze iOS App HERE. Here it comes: Common Core & unapproved iris scans Glenn has been warning about the centralized national curriculum that would be the new standard if Common Core was implemented by all 50 states. The depth of overreach in this education plan is stunning, as evidenced by what happened recently at 3 Florida schools. Without parental permission, students were subjected to iris scans. Glenn has more on the story HERE. ATTENTION Verizon FiOS Subscribers Thank you for your efforts to get TheBlaze added to TV lineups across the country. TV providers are starting to listen, but not all are taking action. If you're a subscriber to Verizon FiOS they've made it easy. Fill out THIS FORM to request TheBlaze. Make your requests public to spread the word by posting on their Facebook page. Glenn's attending another graduation
Glenn is preparing to attend the graduation of his daughter Mary. He spoke on radio today about how excited he is for Mary to graduate, explaining how she has batteled and overcome self-doubt in order to get to this day. Glenn says he's learned more from Mary than anyone else, and explains why today on radio.
Man in the Moon Collector's Coin Now Available
The limited edition 99.9% pure silver collectors coin is now available to pre-order at 1791.com. Hurry, this coin is only available for a very limited time.
Did you read THE SNOW ANGEL?
Glenn's co-author on that incredible book was a woman named Nicole Baart. Nicole, who somehow finds time to write in between running a charity and adopting children from Liberia, has a new novel out called SLEEPING IN EDEN. Early reviews ("intense and absorbing"..."moving"..."gripping"..."a masterful story of love") have been terrific. SLEEPING IN EDEN is available in paperback or eBook from any major retailer, including Amazon.com.
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