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June 6, 2013
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"On the other hand, the duty imposed upon him [the president] to take care, that the laws be faithfully executed, follows out the strong injunctions of his oath of office, that he will "preserve, protect, and defend the constitution." The great object of the executive department is to accomplish this purpose; and without it, be the form of government whatever it may, it will be utterly worthless for offence, or defence; for the redress of grievances, or the protection of rights; for the happiness, or good order, or safety of the people."
~ Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution, 1833
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WND EXCLUSIVE
FBI EXPERT: QURAN IS 'REVEALED WORD OF GOD'
Agency sterilizes records to satisfy Muslim critics
The FBI has censored and modified hundreds of pages of materials to satisfy Muslim critics, including a change that was made because an agency "expert" insisted the Quran "is the revealed word of God."
The details come from Judicial Watch, which obtained documentation of the hundreds of pages of FBI memos, training documents and other paperwork that the agency purged on the demands of Muslims.
"The FBI is rewriting history in order to help al-Qaida," said Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton. "This shows that the law enforcement agency is in need of serious top-to-bottom reform."
Fitton said a lesson learned from the Boston Marathon terrorist attack is that the country is less safe when it allows radical Muslim organizations to tell the FBI how to train its agents and do its job.
"The FBI's purge of so-called 'offensive' material is political correctness run amok, and it puts the nation at risk," he said. "The Obama administration needs to stop putting the tender sensibilities of radical Islamists above the safety of the American people."
NSA collecting phone records for millions of Verizon customers, report says
FoxNews.com | Published June 06, 2013
A British newspaper is claiming to have evidence that the National Security Agency is currently collecting the telephone records of millions of U.S. customers of Verizon under a top secret court order.
The order, a copy of which was reportedly obtained by The Guardian, was reportedly granted by the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court on April 25 and is good until July 19.
It requires Verizon, one of the nation's largest telecommunications companies, on an "ongoing, daily basis" to give the NSA information on all telephone calls in its systems, both within the U.S. and between the U.S. and other countries.
The newspaper claims the document shows for the first time that under the Obama administration the communication records of millions of U.S. citizens were being collected indiscriminately and in bulk, regardless of whether they were suspected of any wrongdoing.
Apparent 'Top Secret' Court Order Reveals Alarming Scale of Domestic Surveillance in U.S. (And It Might Involve Your Phone Records)
The Blaze | Jason Howerton | Jun. 5, 2013 8:29pm
Millions of Americans' phone records are being indiscriminately collected every day by the National Security Agency (NSA), according to a copy of an alleged "top secret" court order leaked to The Guardian. The alarming discovery seems to reveal the scale of domestic surveillance under the Obama administration.
The alleged order, reportedly issued in April, demands that Verizon give the NSA information on all telephone calls in its systems on an "ongoing, daily basis" over a three month period. This includes calls made both within the U.S. and between the U.S. to other countries.
Last month, State Police stepped up patrols at public water supplies after seven Muslims were caught trespassing at the Quabbin Reservoir in Belchertown. State Police are investigating, though they say "there is no evidence of any crime other than vandalism." Huh? Isn't cutting the locks from three separate access hatches located at approximately half-mile intervals along the aqueduct a crime? Police say that there is evidence of an attempt to cut a fourth lock.
Here's the thing -- if a group of Muslim were were caught trespassing at the Quabbin Reservoir as recently as a month ago - chemical engineers, no less - shouldn't they have stepped up patrols already and surveillance euqipment installed at points of entry? Or is that expecting too much from our sharia complaint national security agencies?
The padlocks to hatches of an aqueduct outside of Boston that supplies drinking water to the metropolitan area were found cut Monday, leading to local concerns after there was a trespassing incident.
Officials say the drinking water does not appear to have been tampered with.
Water has not been altered says Boston authorities after finding several locks to the aquaducts cut open photo D. Sharon Pruitt from Hill Air Force Base, Utah, USA
The CBS affiliate is reporting the details, noting that three padlocks were cut from separate access hatches located at approximately half-mile intervals along the aqueduct. Police say there is evidence of an attempt to cut a fourth lock.
State Police are investigating, though they say "there is no evidence of any crime other than vandalism."
The MWRA says it doesn't appear anyone tried to tamper with the water supply and there does not appear to be any contamination or changes in water quality.
Last month, State Police stepped up patrols at public water supplies after seven people were caught trespassing at the Quabbin Reservoir in Belchertown.
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 →
Patriotic Summer Movie!
FROM THE DIRECTOR OF GODS AND GENERALS AND GETTYSBURG COMES THE LIBERTY MOVIE OF THE YEAR
RON MAXWELL'S COPPERHEAD
For anyone who reveres and believes in the preservation of the Constitution of the United States, Copperhead is a must see this summer!
Copperhead is unlike any Civil War movie to date. It is a film of the war at home - of a family ripped apart by war, of a community driven to an appalling act of vengeance against a man who insists on exercising his right to free speech during wartime. A story of the violent passions and burning feuds that set ablaze the homefront during the Civil War, Copperhead the movie is also a timeless and deeply moving examination of the price of dissent, the place of the individual amidst the hysteria of wartime, and the terrible price of war - a cost measured not in dollars but in fractured families, broken loves, and men dead before their time.
Based on the extraordinary novel by Harold Frederic, who witnessed these conflicts firsthand as a small child, Copperhead tells the story of Abner Beech, a stubborn and righteous farmer of Upstate New York, who defies his neighbors and his government in the bloody and contentious autumn of 1862.
THE UNION LEAGUE PUBLIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE and
PHILADELPHIA FREEDOM CENTER
present
Michele
Bachmann
United States House of Representative for Minnesota
Friday, June 7, 2013 at 11:30 AM (EDT) at the Union League of Philadelphia.
WITH TRADITONAL VALUES, STRONG CONVICTIONS & FAITH IN OUR CONSTITUTION, HEAR MICHELLE BACHMANN'S VISION FOR OUR NATION.
In 2006, Congresswoman Michele Bachmann became the first Republican woman to be elected to represent Minnesota in the U.S. House of Representatives. As a self-proclaimed "Constitutional Conservative" she is committed to fixing Washington's broken ways by advocating for America's adherence to the Constitution. As a believer in the traditional values upon which this country was founded, Bachmann consistently defends America's religious liberties and the importance of family as the first unit of government. As the federal government continues to grow under the current administration, Bachmann was honored to establish the Tea Party Caucus in July 2010. She is proud to stand with the Tea Party to call for lower taxes, renewed focus on the Constitution and smaller government.
Reception: 11:30 am * Luncheon/Speaking Engagement: Noon
Price: $50.00 inclusive
For additional information please call 484-380-2549 or log on to www.phillyfreedom.org.
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.
"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
Announcing the 2013 National Conference
& Legislative Briefing!
June 19 - 21 we will convene at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, DC for our fourth annual National Conference & Legislative Briefing.
And here's some really great news: This year's registration fee is only $229! Register by April 15th and you'll receive our "Early Bird" rate of just $189!
We also offer again this year special benefits for Patriot Eagle and Patriot sponsors.
We have some exciting new wrinkles planned for this year's event, and our list of confirmed speakers already includes:
Steven Emerson - Journalist, author, and the Executive Editor of the Investigative Project on Terrorism. A. M. Rosenthal, late-managing editor of The New York Times, described Emerson as "one of the nation's best national security correspondents."
John Guandolo - Former FBI agent and one of America's leading authorities on the Muslim Brotherhood and its inner workings in America. Guandolo spoke at our conference in 2011 and received rave reviews from conference attendees!
Ezra Levant - Canadian lawyer, author, newspaper columnist with Sun Media, and former publisher of the Western Standard. Hauled before a Canadian "human rights commission" because he published the Danish cartoons that satirized Muhammad, Levant's personal account of a politically correct government inquisition is something you won't want to miss!
The National Conference & Legislative Briefing will begin on Wed. evening, June 19th, and conclude on Friday, June 21st at noon, with additional optional training sessions Friday afternoon.
It will again feature our very popular Capitol Hill Awards Luncheon and our signature gala banquet-and of course, our Legislative Briefing, where Members of Congress will brief you on various issues and answer your questions.
So make your plans now to join us in our nation's capital for what promises to be our best National Conference & Legislative Briefing ever!
More details to come!
Dear RedStater,
We are excited to announce that Governor Nikki Haley will be attending this year's RedState Gathering!
We'll be in New Orleans August 2nd and 3rd with an all-star line-up to celebrate our Fifth Annual event. Nikki Haley hosted us two years ago in South Carolina where she hosted a great welcome reception and gave a fantastic speech that really got the crowd fired up on Saturday morning. We are thrilled to welcome her back to the RedState Gathering in New Orleans.
Confirmed speakers include:
Ted Cruz
Ken Cuccinelli
Nikki Haley
Bobby Jindal
Jim Bridenstine
Speaker invitations have also been extended to:
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Gov. Rick Perry (TX)
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Sen. Marco Rubio (FL)
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Liz Cheney
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Rep. Mick Mulvaney (SC)
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Sen. Tim Scott (SC)
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Rep. Steve Scalise (LA)
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And more!
We'll have plenty more speaker announcements coming shortly, but we're guaranteed to have a good mix of elected officials, potential 2014 cycle candidates, and other RedState friends. Remember, the Gathering is unique in conservative events in that speakers pay their own way and are required to take questions from folks in the audience.
What better excuse for a trip to New Orleans? And, don't forget, your registration even includes most of your food, as well as access to deeply discounted hotel rooms.
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
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.
'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.
As 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.
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
Part 2 of 5 Stop the Common Core
Part 3 of 5 Stop the Common Core
Part 4 of 5 Stop the Common Core
Part 5 of 5 Stop the Common Core
Interview with a Clinical Mental Health Therapist
Indoctrination in Common Core ELA Texts
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!
We all know how tough it is to maintain your morals in today's media world. Here are two gifts from the AFA to you, each meant to help you navigate your way through media today:
The critically-acclaimed film, The Third Jihad - Radical Islam's Vision for America educates about the nature of radical Islamic ideology. Law enforcement agencies across the country have used the film in their counter-terror training.
Understanding the threats of terror is the first step in preventing deadly attacks.
Please consider supporting our efforts
AGENDA 21 RESOURCE PAGEs
Agenda 21 and the impact on personal property rights and land rights content, This page is updated often, last update was May 3rd, 2013 about conservation easements by Rick Buchanan The most recent updates are first, but the foundational video series are below. under the
Taking Liberty Video Documentary. We have had several hundred thousand visitors to this page due to its indepth resources on Agenda21 and property rights. You can also search our database of over 15,000 content news and commentary articles for more information. Use the search box in the upper right corner above the newsletter subscription button. Recently the UN website removed some long standing links to the 351 page document on Agenda21 (link below) Just a note: Don't be fooled by the term "non-binding", as that can be easily edited by the removal of 3 letters.
Donna Holt from Campaign for Liberty has also written extensively on this issue and her research provided valuable information both to James Simpson and Right Side News, and most importantly, the citizens of Virginia to get them involved at the local level.
Sustainable Development is code for a policy designed to transform human society, essentially eliminating individual life decisions and replacing them with top - down, one-size-fits-all government control. In steady fashion, the agenda for this new policy, designed at the international level, is put into place piece by piece with a new government council here, and new regulation there, each designed to appear as a "local" development program. Like the proverbial frog in the slowly boiling pot, many Americans fail to notice the rise in government heat.
The main course of action to impose the new agenda is through the pretense of environmental protection; "Sorry about your rights, but if we don't save the planet, then we will all perish!" And so with the devastation of a thousand pin pricks, America and its form or government is being changed through the creation of non-elected boards, councils and regional governments, designed to enforce the new regulations and "assure that we protect the environment."
The pin pricks come disguised as such issues as controls on community development; controls on use of private property; controls on use of open space; creation of development areas, many times under the excuse of historic preservation; communities designed on the blue print of pack and stack housing; making it harder to drive as roads are narrowed, even forcing cars to share the road with bicycles; the enforcement of expensive mass transit boondoggle projects; and the never ending spending spree on inefficient, unworkable alternative energy, such as wind and solar power.
In fact, control of energy and water are the two most effective tools in the enforcement of the Sustainable Development agenda. Without energy and water, human society stops. Using strict controls on how, or even if, energy and water can be used provides government with the power to dictate every aspect of society.
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!
The Gang of Eight can't defend the Gang's own amnesty bill, S.744, or even explain it to public or TV audiences. The Gang's premier salesman, Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL), admits that it isn't acceptable in its present form and must be amended on the Senate floor.
June 5, 2013 Abortion is not Healthcare: Senate Passes Bill to Prevent Taxpayer Funding of Abortions Harrisburg, Pa. The Pennsylvania Senate today approved House Bill 818, a measure that would ensure that no taxpayer funds are used to subsidize abortion coverage in health insurance plans mandated by the new federal healthcare law. Final passage was a bipartisan vote of 31-19. Michael Geer, president of Pennsylvania Family Council, said: "This new law is necessary to keep our insurance laws consistent with Pennsylvania's Abortion Control Act." "Abortion is not health care. Pennsylvania does not use taxpayer dollars to fund abortions and we need to make sure it stays that way. "The bill respects the conscience and respect for life of millions of Pennsylvanians, and ensure that their tax dollars do not subsidize abortion coverage through the back door of the new health insurance exchanges." Pennsylvania is among 20 states which have already enacted a similar law.
Pennsylvania Family Council thanks House sponsor, State Rep. Donna Oberlander (R-Clarion) and Senate sponsor Sen. Don White (R-Indiana) for their work in introducing and passing this important bill, and looks forward to Gov. Tom Corbett's signature on this important new law.
Please thank your senator if they voted for HB 818:
Becky Gerritson gives testimony to Ways and Means Committee on IRS targeting her Tea Party group
Paul Ryan responds to liberal congressman.
Congressman Reacts To Outrage Over Suggestion That Groups Invited IRS Targeting - Megyn Kelly
LibertyNEWS TV - "Obama's 'In Your Face' Personnel Changes - Curious Connections"
RedState Morning Briefing
For June 6, 2013
1.Saxby Chambliss Did Not Blame Sexual Assault on Hormones
It is amazing this headline must event be written. Two days ago Senator Saxby Chambliss (R-GA) made a rather innocuous remark at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing. Because the political left has decided to take every possible statement from every possible Republican that might be used to perpetuate the idea the GOP is at war with women, the statement has taken on a life of its own devoid of its context and meaning. Saxby Chambliss, who in reality attacked the military for lax standards which have led young men to think they can engage in sexual harassment and assault, is now cast as excusing young men's behavior as hormone driven boys being boys.
It had been confined to liberal blogs and MSNBC and local news, but CNN has now stepped into the mix and, like so many others, has ignored relevant and necessary context to get the full picture of his remarks. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
2.Is "IRS" The New "N-Word"?
There is nothing, nothing, in politics more infuriating than the Democrats' relentless use of racial division to cement the kind of thinking Courtland Milloy illustrated in his latest Washington Post column. The ever-expanding list of things that are considered racist to criticize so long as Obama is president is perhaps the most absurd manifestation of this line of thinking. Nearly all of these fail "the John Edwards test" for things Republicans would quite reasonably have been expected to say if Edwards rather than Obama had been the next Democratic nominee and president. But even in that context, Martin Bashir of MSNBC has reached a new low. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
3.Beware the Rubio-Cornyn Amnesty Rope-a-Dope
The most dangerous thing for supporters of open borders is public scrutiny of their plans.They have already noted that the administration's endless scandals have provided them with cover to slip into the amnesty end-zone without anyone noticing.Fortunately, despite the divided attention of the conservative movement, most of the egregious provisions of the amnesty bill have been thoroughly exposed and disseminated throughout talk radio.With the understanding that this bill cannot pass sans support from representatives of conservative-base constituencies, the lobbyists for foreign interests are now employing a rope-a-dope strategy. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
4.Lawless aristocracy for a dominated people
A few weeks ago, as the Senate Judiciary Committee was debating immigration reform, Senator Charles Grassley (R-IA) told everyone the story of Candida Gutierrez, a Houston schoolteacher whose identity was stolen by an illegal alien named Bentia Cardona-Gonzalez.This was a big-time identity heist, as Cardona-Gonzalez opened bank accounts and secured credit cards, a drivers' license, employment, a mortgage, and health care with her stolen identity over the course of 12 years.Gutierrez' stolen name even wound up on the birth certificates of the illegal alien's U.S.-born children.The authorities didn't catch her; Gutierrez' husband (the one thing Cardona-Gonzalez didn't steal!) tracked down the thief and turned her over to the feds. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
5.The Real Danger of Liberal Bias
I'm going to tell you what media bias is really all about. It's about a dying, 10 year-old girl and a sexagenarian, politically connected trial lawyer. It's about official malfeasance treated as human error when a Democrat is President. It's about power and systemic corruption that is unremarkable to people offended that George W. Bush didn't call his advisers liars to their face.
Kathleen Sebelius Advocates for GaybamaCare Jeannie DeAngelis Get your Louboutins or Doc Martens ready, along with a member of the same sex, because you're going to have a hard time getting health care without them. More
What to Do with the Power of the IRS Greg Richards The IRS's targeting of conservative groups was not "mismanagement"; it is the leftist project come to fruition. More
On Not Knowing What to Look For Dennis Hale When it comes to preventing another Boston Marathon bombing, is it really more Russia/U.S. cooperation that we need? More
Repeal the wheel! June 6, 2013 Instead of quarreling endlessly over minutiae of this dangerous device vs. that unacceptable pollutant, here's a modest proposal that can curtail all industrial sins in a single stroke More
Obama: The Ghost of Columbia University June 5, 2013 Why does no one attending the thirtieth reunion of Barack Obama's graduating class at Columbia University remember meeting him? More
As a writer for FSM, I thought it might be a good idea to talk about the family... one specific family and ultimately take action as members of an enlightened society to make our home, our community, our family safer and a better place to live.
My mother told me that it isn't polite to discuss sex, money, or politics. I have minded all her other admonitions, but these topics are the fodder of historians and columnists, and I am both.
According to Islamic law, the word of inferior Christians cannot stand against that of superior Muslims-even if they are resentful or confused children.
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"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same." ~ Ronald Reagan
Posted by Daniel Greenfield @ the Sultan Knish blog
Few figures in American political life have been as consistently wrong as often as John Kerry. The former Senator bet on every Communist leader and Middle Eastern tyrant he could find only to watch the wheels of history roll over his mistakes. And now as Secretary of State, Kerry is at it again.
In between peddling a Syrian peace process that no one but him believes in, he took a break to peddle the even more discredited peace process between Israel and the terrorists.
In a speech to the American Jewish Committee, Kerry invoked the litany of failures, "Madrid to Oslo to Wye River and Camp David and Annapolis", but urged his audience not to pay attention to history and "give in to cynicism".
"Cynicism has never solved anything," he said. But then again neither has the Peace Process. And while cynicism isn't likely to usher in an era of peace or grow money on trees, it offers you the power to extract yourself from bad situations instead of taking refuge in more of the same wishful thinking that got you into them.
If you find yourself mailing your tenth check to that Nigerian prince, cynicism won't get you a 200 percent return, but it will keep you from losing more money.
"Why should any Israeli start giving in to that cynicism now?" Kerry asked. Perhaps because it's been twenty years. Or because thousands of Israelis have been killed and wounded. Or because there isn't a single piece of supporting evidence to show that the other side is interested in any kind of final peace agreement.
The only sure things that have come out of the Peace Process in two decades are terrorist attacks and increased demands by the terrorists. There has been no final status agreement for the simple reason that the terrorists can only get the best possible deal by never coming to an agreement. The longer they hold out, the better the offers that the likes of John Forbes Kerry extract from Israel are. And the offers keep getting better so there is never any reason to actually make a deal.
BELGIAN DEPUTY TRASHES ISRAELI FLAG BY STOMPING ON IT
Europe reverts: Belgian deputy trashes Israeli flag by stomping on it and embraces Hezbollah banner, June 2. There's a petition for his removal. Google translate: (thanks to Diana)
"FREE SPEECH RALLY IN TENNESSEE PUSHES BACK AGAINST DOJ THREATS TO 'ANTI-MUSLIM RHETORIC' ON SOCIAL MEDIA"
Scan the media on the loss of free speech. Unbelievable. They are the enemedia. They think they are safe because they are puppets of the Obama regime? Just wait.
Freedom lovers, today is historic. It's the line in the sand. Fight for your freedom.
Free Speech rally in Tennessee pushes back against DOJ threats to 'anti-Muslim rhetoric' on social media Global Dispatch, June 6, 2013
Reacting to reports that the US Department of Justice may prosecute those who write and post articles offensive to Muslims, Pamela Geller of the American Freedom Defense Initiative has vowed, "We will fight you on this every step of the way. We will drag your dhimmi asses all the way to the Supreme Court. This is Sharia enforcement, and we are not going to stand for it."
Geller, who also co-founded Stop Islamization of Nations (SION) with Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch, has endorsed a rally for free speech on June 4 in Manchester, Tennessee, to protest anti-free speech comments by Bill Killian, U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Tennessee.
A special meeting has been scheduled for the stated purpose of increasing awareness and understanding that American Muslims are not the terrorists some have made them out to be in social media and other circles.
The "Public Disclosure in a Diverse Society" will be held from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. on Tuesday, June 4, at the Manchester-Coffee County Conference Center, 147 Hospitality Blvd.
Killian, U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Tennessee will be joined by Kenneth Moore, special agent in charge of the FBI's Knoxville Division, speaking at this event.
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. (emphasis added - BBJ, The Dispatch)
Morning Jolt. . . with Jim Geraghty
June 5, 2013
Susan Rice, Hero of the Sunday Shows, Promoted Again
The Associated Press reports this morning that Susan Rice will become President Obama's next national-security adviser.
Rick Wilson: "Rice falls up, again . . . If you're wondering, Obama is using her to troll the GOP, as always."
Republican Ekes Out a 40-Point Margin in Missouri Special House Election
Not surprising news, but this is what happens when national Democrats pretend a special U.S. House election isn't happening:
Conservative Republican state Rep. Jason Smith, whose steep rise in Jefferson City coincided with Missouri's sharp political move rightward, is headed for Congress.
Smith, 32, of Salem, easily won Tuesday's special election for the vacant 8th Congressional district seat in southeastern Missouri, beating fellow state Rep. Steve Hodges, D-East Prairie, by a more than 2-to-1 ratio.
With 446 of 462 precincts in, Smith led Hodges by 41,413 votes to 16,847, or about 67 to 27 percent.
Smith said in an election night interview with the Associated Press that he planned to fly to Washington today with the hope of quickly taking the oath of office.
"We've been without representation in the 8th District the last 134 days, and I'm going to stay up there until the speaker of the House will swear me in," Smith said.
The Disintegration of Syria, and Obama's Very Quiet Atrocities Prevention Board
Remembrance without resolve is a hollow gesture. Awareness without action changes nothing. In this sense, "never again" is a challenge to us all -- to pause and to look within.
Is "never again" really a challenge to us all to pause and to look within? Isn't it a challenge to those with the authority to prevent, interrupt, impede, or stop mass killings to do something about it?
He declared in that speech, "Last year, in the first-ever presidential directive on this challenge, I made it clear that 'preventing mass atrocities and genocide is a core national-security interest and a core moral responsibility of the United States of America.'"
That presidential directive came on August 4, 2011; four months into the Syrian conflict, where the brutal tactics of the Assad regime were clear.
It was at that 2012 event that President Obama announced he was forming a "new Atrocities Prevention Board, to bring together senior officials from across our government to focus on this critical mission." (Because there's nothing like a board of senior officials to prevent an atrocity.) Obama emphasized, "This is not an afterthought. This is not a sideline in our foreign policy."
Here's a list of what the board has done in the past year. I'm pleased to learn that "the intelligence community is finalizing the first-ever National Intelligence Estimate on the Global Risks of Mass Atrocities and Prospects for International Response, which will provide a rigorous analytical framework for anticipating and preparing for mass atrocities over the coming years." It will make fascinating reading for our foreign-policy professionals.
Back in college in the mid-90s, I remember some colleague on the school paper expressing incredulity that so many Americans in the 1930s remained oblivious to the threat of Hitler's Germany and the horrors it was perpetuating. In true progressive fashion, he remarked on how much more aware and moral "we" were now. I asked if he had followed the news in the Balkans lately. This was, I'm pretty sure, before we learned about Rwanda.
Above: what happened in Rwanda.
We say "never again". . . and then the "ethnic cleansing" of the Balkans occurs (estimated 40,000 civilians killed). And then we see what happens in Rwanda (500,000 dead). And then Darfur, Sudan (between 178,258 and 461,520 dead, mostly from disease).
We say, "never again," but the evidence of history is "again and again and again and again, in slightly different ways, as long as they're relatively far away."
We're all supposed to tip-toe around how things really are, aren't we? We talk a good game about how much we would have opposed those horrible massacres of the past, but we're not often that motivated the next time one comes around. The administration, and the vast majority of the American people, want nothing to do with the maelstrom that is what's left of Syria. That may even be the wise course considering how neither side appears to be aligned with our interests and both sides have proven capable of brutality.
But polling indicates that public opinion shifts if chemical weapons get used: Support for involving the U.S. military in general rises to 63 percent if Syria's government uses chemical weapons on its own people. If the Syrian government lost control of their stockpile of chemical weapons -- known to be among the world's largest -- 70 percent would support U.S. military action.
So a whole lot rides on whether or not the Western public sees evidence that the Assad regime used chemical weapons.
"These results show the presence of sarin in the samples that are in our possession," Fabius said. "In view of these elements, France now has the certainty that the sarin gas was used in Syria several times and in a localized manner."
The announcement did not say when, where or by whom it may have been used in Syria, where rebels have been fighting the regime of President Bashar al-Assad in a civil war.
The announcement coincided with the release of a draft report posted on the website of the U.N. Human Rights Council that concludes: "There are reasonable grounds to believe that chemical agents have been used as weapons. The precise agents, delivery systems or perpetrators could not be identified."
The administration says, "well, we're not quite sure." Maybe that "red line" is still intact and the president doesn't have to do anything.
In Washington, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said the United States was working with the French and other allies as well as the Syrian opposition to determine those answers.
"We need to expand the evidence we have," he told reporters Tuesday. "We need to make it reviewable; we need to have it corroborated before we make any decisions based on the clear violation that use of chemical weapons would represent by the Syrian regime. So, we will continue in that effort."
Asked how long that might take, he said, "I don't have a timetable for you."
Let's not kid ourselves about what's happening here. Assad's regime is periodically using chemical weapons, but not on a large scale, and testing to see what the U.S. reaction is. Our government is looking for any thin reed of plausible deniability, any gray area, any way to avoid acknowledging that the "red line" is getting crossed more frequently than a crosswalk in Times Square.
By avoiding any action beyond garden-variety sanctions and nonlethal aid to the rebels -- does anyone think a regime willing to use sarin will be deterred by sanctions? -- we're declaring to every leader, present and future, that you can use chemical weapons against your opponents as long as you don't use them too broadly. The world hasn't changed that much since Saddam Hussein gassed the Kurds in Halabja in 1988.
We'll tell ourselves that this won't come back to bite us at some point in the future. We'll tell ourselves that "blowback" only comes from action, not from inaction.
What should be obvious today is that we are at the dawn of a much wider Shiite-Sunni war, the one that nearly materialized in Iraq in 2006 but didn't because the U.S. was there, militarily and diplomatically, to stop it. But now the U.S. isn't there. What's left to figure out is whether this megawar isn't, from a Western point of view, a very good thing.
The theory is simple and superficially compelling: If al Qaeda fighters want to murder Hezbollah fighters and Hezbollah fighters want to return the favor, who in their right mind would want to stand in the way? Of course it isn't just Islamist radicals of one stripe or another who are dying in Syria, but also little children and aging grandparents and every other innocent and helpless bystander to the butchery.
But here comes the whispered suggestion: If one branch of Islam wants to be at war with another branch for a few years -- or decades -- so much the better for the non-Islamic world. Mass civilian casualties in Aleppo or Homs is their tragedy, not ours. It does not implicate us morally. And it probably benefits us strategically, not least by redirecting jihadist energies away from the West.
Wrong on every count.
He cites the Iran-Iraq war as the most recent comparable large-scale Sunni-Shia bloodbath:
The 1980s were the years of the tanker wars in the Gulf, including Iraq's attack on the USS Stark; the hostage-taking in Lebanon; and the birth of Hezbollah, with its suicide bombings of the U.S. Marine barracks and embassy in Beirut. Iraq invaded Kuwait less than two years after the war's end. Iran emerged with its revolutionary fervors intact -- along with a rekindled interest in developing nuclear weapons.
In short, a long intra-Islamic war left nobody safer, wealthier or wiser.
Wanting to ascertain whether the board was actually doing anything to help prevent crimes against humanity, some 60 scholars of genocide studies and human-rights activists from across the globe sent a letter to Samantha Power, then-chair of the board, in December. Power never responded. They sent her a second letter in January, and again received no response.
When Power resigned in late February, they sent a letter to Steven Pomper, who assumed Power's position as senior director for Multilateral Affairs and Human Rights. He, too, never replied. On March 28, a letter was sent to another member of the board, Donald Steinberg, deputy administrator of USAID. Again, no response. In early April the scholars wrote to U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice about this situation. To date, she has not responded . . . .
The board does not have a website, a Twitter account or even list email addresses for its main office or its members.
ADDENDUM: David Freddoso passes along some Nebraska polling: "In the race to succeed retiring Senator Mike Johanns, Republicans hold a considerable advantage over Democrats. Fifty percent of likely voters in Nebraska prefer to be represented by a Republican in the U.S. Senate; 30% prefer a Democrat."
NRO Digest - June 5, 2013
Today on National Review Online . . .
RICH LOWRY: The conservative case against Lincoln is tendentious and wrong. Lincoln Defended
CHARLES C. W. COOKE: Marco Rubio unveils what he hopes will be America's 28th constitutional amendment. Marco Rubio's Eleventh Right
BETSY WOODRUFF: Virginia's lieutenant-governor candidate is a fire-and-brimstone preacher. From the Pulpit to the Ticket
IAN TUTTLE: It's not just Gosnellian houses of horrors that endanger women and kill viable babies. Gosnell: No Outlier
National Security Advisor Tom Donilon, who is widely suspected of being the source of critical leaks from the White House, is resigning and will be replaced by UN Ambassador Susan Rice, who played a key role in misleading the American public about the Benghazi terror attack in Sep. 2012. The NSA post does not require Senate confirmation; Rice withdrew her candidacy as Secretary of State due to the difficulty of confirmation.
The Associated Press reported the shuffle early Wednesday morning, based on an anonymous official source within the White House, who also indicated the change would happen after President Barack Obama met with Chinese President Xi Jinping and returned from his three-country visit to Africa in late June and early July.
Tuesday, Glenn Beck dedicated the entire hour of his television program on the topic he says got him into "so much trouble" during the so-called Arab Spring. He talked about a chalkboard that predicted the protests would cascade and that radicals would work with Islamists to overturn stability. Watch the videoHERE.
During a Tuesday House Ways and Means Committee hearing on the IRS' targeting of conservative groups, Rep. McDermott said that Tea Party groups wouldn't have been scrutinized if they didn't apply for tax-exempt status and engage in the activities they did. Rep. Paul Ryan took exception with that statement and the crowd in the gallery reacted with spirited applause. See the clipHERE.
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Wednesday morning it was announced that President Barack Obama will nominate foreign policy confidant Samantha Power to replace Susan Rice as the United States ambassador to the United Nations. But, who is she? If you've been a long-time Blaze reader, you are likely familiar with the controversial figure. If not - or if you'd simply like a refresher - allow us to provide an overviewHERE.
On Tuesday, First Lady Michelle Obama was heckled by an LGBT activist during a speaking event. According to a pool report, the heckler was demanding that President Obama issue "an executive order banning federal contractors from discriminating against LGBT employees." Listen to leaked audio from the event HERE.
Ever since he was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2012, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) has become a lightening rod for media criticism. On Tuesday, Cruz had a message for the media that is "so hysterical" over what he is doing in the Senate. Listen to Senator Cruz's commentsHERE.
Emergency crews are at the scene of a building collapse in Philadelphia, and the fire commissioner has announced that they believe as many as 10 people could currently be trapped in the rubble.Fire Commissioner Lloyd Ayers says search and rescue teams are on the scene working to find those trapped. Check in for the latest developments in this breaking storyHERE.
A "weapons expert" with al-Qaeda is claiming that slain U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens was killed by lethal injection after plans to kidnap him during the deadly Sept. 11 attacks in Benghazi went awry. Could this possibly be true? Get the full storyHERE.
A fisheries survey vessel for the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration launched in the Menominee River at the border of northern Wisconsin and Michigan's Upper Peninsula on June 16 last year. So why is it making headlines now? Watch the clip and find outHERE.
Roy Costner IV, a former public school student from South Carolina, stunned the audience at his high school graduation last weekend when he ripped up his previously-approved valedictorian speech, going on, instead, to speak about God - and then deliver the Lord's prayer. See how the crowd reactedHERE.
Even though America's home-schooled students have proven that they are accomplished and successful, the Left continues to wage a battle against home education. And these attacks aren't new. Progressives first made the case in the early 20th century that government control trumps the rights of parents. What will the assault look like in the 21st century? This exclusive report on the Progressive attack on home education rights is available only in TheBlaze Magazine. Want to read more? Click here to get the rest of this article and the entire issue absolutelyFREE!
The President's signature legislation, ObamaCare, had threatened states with the loss of federal funding if they refused to expand Medicaid. Thankfully, the Supreme Court struck down the legislation's coercion, which made the expansion optional for the states-a battle governors and legislatures nationwide continue to wage. But as is true of pretty much all government programs, Medicaid needs to be reformed, not inflated. We reveal the 10 states that stand to be the biggest losers under the current Medicaid expansion plan. The full list is in the next issue of TheBlaze Magazine. Subscribe Now and get the June issue FREE!
Why did the Pentagon block military members' access to a Southern Baptist website? That is the question that some are asking after military members on U.S. bases were blocked from visiting SBC.net, the official website of the Southern Baptist Convention. Find out the full story in the newest issue. Get it for FREE, click HERE.
Sherri Shepherd, co-host of the daytime ladies gabfest "The View," recently told viewers that, following a recent event at her home, she and her family decided to get a gun to protect themselves. Not surprisingly, co-host Barbara Walters tried to talk her out of it. However, you'll never guess who came the defense of private gun ownership. Check it out in the June 2013 issue of TheBlaze Magazine HERE.
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Recently, although he failed to return a Marine guard's salute, Barack Obama later approached the Marine and "shook hands" with him had a brief conversation with him. The follow up "handshake" part of the story was not reported and many on the Right mistakenly howled at the "insult."
This brief and otherwise meaningless "gotcha" moment allowed a half-witted liberal blogger named Charles Johnson to gloat and laugh at conservatives who had jumped on the story. Score one for the Left. Nevertheless, the genuine insults Obama heaps on veterans each day far out-number this small minded "victory" in the Left's war to smother the truth about how veterans are really treated by Obama.
Under Obama, veterans' claims take an average of more than six month to be processed.
Samantha Power, Obama's pick as America's Ambassador to the UN, will fit right in
Ed Lasky
Samantha Power has been a notorious critic of Israel for years and that, naturally, makes her well-qualified under President Obama's criteria to serve in such a crucial post. She will be welcomed with open arms at the United Nations.
But her bit of nastiness seems to be tinged with a bit of anti-Semitism as well.
When concerns arose in 2008 regarding Barack Obama and his views towards Israel it generated wrath from Ms. Power, who was a key foreign policy adviser to candidate Obama. She let loose in a radio interview while in Europe, "So much of it is about: 'Is he going to be good for the Jews?" Her writings and sayings are laced with more of anti-Semitism.
Power writes of her willingness to impose solutions on the Israelis and Palestinians and that she would be willing to:
"alienat[e] a domestic constituency of tremendous political and financial import; it may more crucially mean sacrificing...billions of dollars, not in servicing Israel's military, but actually investing in the state of Palestine."
RJC Statement on the Nomination of Samantha Power to be U.N. Ambassador
Washington, D.C. (June 5, 2013) -- The Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) released a statement today in response to the announcement that President Obama intends to name Samantha Power as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
RJC Executive Director Matt Brooks said, "Samantha Power has a record of statements that are very troubling to Americans who support Israel. We urge members of the U.S. Senate to question her closely about her past statements and writings. She must respond to the strong doubts about her views raised by that record. Senators should also examine her tenure as head of the President's Atrocity Prevention Board to see what results, if any, came out of her time there.
"The U.S. has an important role to play in the United Nations to defend freedom, Western values, and our democratic allies. We need an ambassador who will fight for U.S. interests in the international arena. Samantha Power must show the Senate and the American people that she can fill that role."
Background:
In 2008, as an academic who taught at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, Samantha Power suggested that the U.S. should invade Israel militarily to impose a settlement to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and protect "a new state of Palestine." Her writing and public appearances reflected her views that special-interest lobbies in this country (read, the "Israel lobby") have too great an impact on our foreign policy in the Middle East.
More recently, she served as the first director of President Obama's new Atrocity Prevention Board. In her months in that role, the APB was silent about the thousands of civilians killed by the Syrian government, the attacks by the Sudanese government of the Nuba tribes in South Sudan, and other crises around the world. The APB has no web site or social media presence, and has not responded to letters from human rights activists and genocide scholars regarding ongoing atrocities.
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The RJC is the national grassroots organization of Jewish Republicans.
News broke this morning that National Security Advisor Tom Donilon will resign next month. President Obama will be promoting U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice to replace him.
You remember Susan Rice, right? She was picked by the White House to go on five national Sunday talk shows and mislead the American people about the Benghazi attacks. "What sparked the violence was a very hateful video on the Internet," Rice said. "It was a reaction to a video that had nothing to do with the United States."
Many believe Rice was simply reciting heavily-edited talking points, and was probably the one senior-level person who didn't know better. Nevertheless, her promotion says a lot about the Obama mindset.
It's an indication of Obama's arrogance. Even James Carville said, "...this is kind of an in your face appointment." Obama initially tried to promote Rice to Secretary of State when Hillary announced she was leaving. But outrage on Capitol Hill was overwhelming and Rice withdrew. There is nothing anyone can do about this appointment. The National Security Advisor does not require Senate confirmation.
In addition, Obama announced today that he was naming Samantha Power to replace Rice as U.N. Ambassador. Like Rice, Power is an Obama loyalist. In fact, she was forced to leave the 2008 Obama campaign after referring to Hillary Clinton as a "monster" during the primary. Her controversial views on Israel provide an insight into the direction Obama is likely to pursue on the Middle East.
No doubt Eric Holder is breathing a sigh of relief. These promotions are a clear signal that loyalty to Obama will be rewarded. By the way, Rice and Power are not the only ones getting promotions.
Last month, the Obama White House announced it was promoting the State Department spokeswoman who had a major role in editing the CIA's Benghazi talking points. And one of the "rogue IRS agents" who wrote threatening letters to various Tea Party groups was also recently promoted.
No wonder it has been so difficult to get IRS agents to talk about exactly who ordered the harassment of conservative organizations and Christian ministries!
Put yourself in the position of the wounded survivors of the Benghazi attacks, who recovered at Walter Reed Hospital but were kept away from members of Congress. They woke up this morning and saw that Susan Rice was being rewarded for being "a good soldier" who did what she was told.
So far the lesson for federal employees is to stick with Obama and you'll be taken care of. Cross Obama -- like Joe the Plumber or the Tea Party or James Rosen or Franklin Graham -- and you'll be in trouble.
Now here's the lesson for the GOP: Do not let up! Abuse and corruption in this administration absolutely cannot be tolerated.
The American people care about these scandals. (See next item.) Obamacare is going to dramatically expand the power of the IRS. Be the party of government reform. Connect the dots between good government, which we all want, and smaller government, which we desperately need.
Scandals Hurting Obama
The IRS, Benghazi and media scandals have begun to erode the public's trust in the Obama White House. Here's how the numbers breakdown in the latest Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll:
58% of adults said that the administration's handling of the Benghazi attacks has raised doubts about the Obama White House's honesty and integrity.
58% also said that the Justice Department's seizure of phone records from various media outlets made them question the White House's honesty and integrity.
55% said the same about the IRS's targeting of conservative groups.
Clearly Americans are concerned about how this Chicago gang is conducting itself. Not surprisingly, a recent Rasmussen poll found that 56% of voters feel the government is a threat to individual rights. This is the time to make government reform a major issue.
Obama's Confirmation Hypocrisy
Yesterday President Obama nominated three left-wing judges to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. During his Rose Garden statement, Obama demanded their quick confirmation.
On cue, Senate Democrat Leader Harry Reid once again threatened to eliminate the filibuster unless Republicans acquiesced to Obama's demand. This is yet another example of the "culture of intimidation" that has become so pervasive under Obama.
Today's Wall Street Journal editorial reminds us that Democrats routinely filibustered George W. Bush's judicial nominees, including women and minorities such as Miguel Estrada, Pricilla Owen and Janice Rogers Brown. And then-Senator Obama was instrumental in the unprecedented filibuster attempt against Justice Samuel Alito.
But here's the key point: The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals is an incredibly powerful and important court, second only to the Supreme Court. Currently it is equally divided between Democrat and Republican appointees and it is has been a thorn in Obama's side. It was this court that declared unconstitutional Obama's recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board. Now Obama wants to "stack the deck."
Senate Republicans should be firm. Here's a suggestion: They should refuse to move any judicial nominees until Obama nominates responsible appointees to fill all the inspectors general vacancies.
Kathleen Sebelius: Obamacare's Death Panel
Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius was on the Hill to answer questions about her efforts to pressure companies to donate money to a non-profit group supporting Obamacare. Of course, she insisted she did nothing wrong and strictly followed every regulation.
During the hearing there was an emotional exchange literally about life and death and the strict adherence to regulations. Several House Republicans begged Sebelius to intervene in the case of Sarah Murnaghan, a 10 year-old Pennsylvania girl who will die within weeks without a lung transplant.
Unfortunately, pediatric lungs are not available. But even though her doctors believe adult lungs could save her life, regulations do not permit the transplant of adult lungs to anyone under the age of 12.
Rep. Lou Barletta (R-PA) said to Secretary Sebelius, "I'm begging you. Sarah has three to five weeks to live. Time is running out." Sebelius responded by saying that she had ordered a review of the policy.
Rep. Tom Price (R-GA), a doctor by profession, told Sebelius, "It simply takes your signature. A study will take over a year. This young lady will be dead."
But Sebelius stood her ground, saying that Sarah Murnaghan's case was a tragic situation in which "someone lives and someone dies." It seems Secretary Sebelius is a "death panel" of one.
Doesn't that just make you feel warm and fuzzy? Just imagine the same agents at the IRS now harassing conservatives and Christians getting ready to implement Obamacare!
The question the FBI must get to the bottom of is: Who hatched the policy of targeting Tea Party groups? For that they should look to Bauer because he had the motive, the opportunity, and the means to do it.
Michigan Democratic Rep. John Conyers, ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, told PJ Media that Attorney General Eric Holder has been put in a "bad fix" but remains a "pretty good guy on most of the issues." Conyers also said he does not view Holder as a "liability" for Democrats.
The gradual weakening of a once-robust conservative consensus has begun to exert its influence even on those commentators and analysts whose acumen and traditional allegiances we have previously trusted. According to the swelling legion of accommodationists, we must under no circumstances offend the community of "moderate Muslims."
A review of the new issue of al-Qaeda's Inspire magazine shows that the terror organization is seizing on the success of the Boston Marathon bombing to not only encourage Muslims in America to rise up, but also to shape its support system for the "lone mujahid."
When my (millennial) editor suggested I write about my favorite (fellow) Generation X-ers, it took me four days to think of one name.Then the rest of the week to come up with the rest. The people on this list are the closest thing I have to a "group identity," but I can still only count the number of great Generation-X-ers on the fingers of one hand.
Top Story Backlash to Obama's Gay Rights Agenda By Cliff Kincaid | June 5, 2013 An Obama-allied group that is at the center of the scandal over IRS harassment of conservative organizations was the target of a protest outside its own headquarters. "The escalation of homosexual activist power is bad for America, and American liberty," declared Peter LaBarbera of the group Americans for Truth outside the headquarters of the Human [...] From the AIM Blogs MSNBC President Phil Griffin: We're "Not the Place" For Breaking News By Don Irvine | June 4, 2013 Guest Column Obama-Red Lines and Red Herrings By Michael Widlanski | June 5, 2013 A person who thinks and observes seriously can usually tell the difference between a red line, a red herring and a red alert. But President Barack Obama's speech last month on terrorism and his policies over the last four years, make it clear that he is color blind about red lines and red alerts, though he is [...] AIM Newswire Iraqi violence leaves 1,000 dead in May
"Man, once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without rudder, is the sport of every wind." --Thomas Jefferson
Editorial Exegesis
Shulman has no idea why Cutter was there.
"A clue as to whether the targeting by the IRS of Tea Party and other conservative groups was discussed at the 157 meetings that former IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman had at the White House may be found in remarks by Stephanie Cutter, deputy manager for President Obama's 2012 reelection campaign, in a recent appearance on Jake Tapper's show 'The Lead' on CNN. ... Cutter attempted to dismiss charges they were political meetings but admitted she had attended meetings with Shulman at the White House. ... Well, if they were not political meetings, why was she there at all? Was she there to offer her health care or tax code expertise? ... When she appeared on CBS' 'Face the Nation' to defend the president's new campaign slogan 'Romnesia,' she went on to say that Republican nominee Mitt Romney was 'severely conservative' and had run as the 'ideal' Tea Party candidate. She said this as she was sitting in meetings with the head of an IRS that was charged with implementation of ObamaCare as it was targeting groups that were created to oppose ObamaCare. Though she denies it, Cutter was also deeply involved in the ads run by the pro-Obama super-PAC Priorities USA in which steelworker Joe Soptic recounted how his wife died of cancer after he lost his health insurance when his plant was shuttered after a takeover by Bain Capital and other companies working with Romney's private equity firm. ... Cutter should be called to testify under oath before the House Oversight Committee to explain why a key Obama campaign operative was in on meetings to discuss ObamaCare implementation with an IRS official whose agency was targeting groups opposed to it." --Investor's Business Daily
Upright
"The New York Times is reporting that 'some in the West Wing privately tell associates they wish [Attorney General Eric Holder] would step down, viewing him as politically maladroit. But the latest attacks may stiffen the administration's resistance in the near term to a change for fear of emboldening critics.' Study that quote -- both sentences. The stated reason some in the White House want Holder to go is not because he has engaged in corruption or lied to Congress or any other of the myriad complaints that have been lodged against him, but because they see him aspolitically maladroit. ... But in the second sentence we learn that the White House will probably keep Holder because it believes dumping him would empower its critics. Again, the determining factors are not Holder's integrity, the rule of law, the importance of the nation's chief attorney adhering to the principle of equal protection under the laws, or anything else involving the national interest. It's all about President Obama and his image and agenda, and Republicans are not to be seen as scoring any victories." --columnist David Limbaugh
"Too much of our current immigration controversy is conducted in terms of abstract ideals, such as 'We are a nation of immigrants.' Of course we are a nation of immigrants. But we are also a nation of people who wear shoes. Does it follow that we should admit anybody who wears shoes? The immigrants of today are very different in many ways from those who arrived here a hundred years ago. Moreover, the society in which they arrive is different. ... Not only the United States, but the Western world in general, has been discovering the hard way that admitting people with incompatible cultures is an irreversible decision with incalculable consequences. If we do not see that after recent terrorist attacks on the streets of Boston and London, when will we see it? 'Comprehensive immigration reform' means doing everything all together in a rush, without time to look before we leap, and basing ourselves on abstract notions about abstract people." --economist Thomas Sowell
"A reader sent me a question he wished somebody would ask Obama: 'Why is it that Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood get free F-16s, but law-abiding Americans can't be trusted with hunting rifles?' Another reader pointed out that if you cross the North Korean border illegally, you'll be sentenced to 12 years hard labor. If you sneak across the Afghan border, you'll be shot. If, on the other hand, you enter the U.S. illegally, you get a job, food stamps, a driver's license, a place to live, health care and an education. Some would suggest that proves we are better than North Korea and Afghanistan. Others would suggest that what we are is a nation of suckers and screwballs." --columnist Burt Prelutsky
"Clearly, Obama wants to have it both ways, claiming to be an in-charge leader one moment, then a powerless bystander the next, based on crass political considerations, not his actual involvement in any activity. Given that Oklahomans are benefitting from federal disaster response, some will no doubt argue we should ignore this administration's failures elsewhere. But Americans have a right to expect competence and ethics in all parts of government at all times. In Moore, Obama declared, 'When we say that we've got your back, I promise you, we keep our word.' The value of this promise shouldn't be tied to which of the two Obamas stands behind the podium at the time. Given what happened to four Americans in Benghazi who had reason to think the government really had their backs, skepticism is justified." --The Oklahoman
Josh Kraushaar has an interesting National Journal column on Obama's appointments of Susan "it was the YouTube video" Rice and Samantha "let' invade Israel" Power today. Borrowing from the title of Power's Pulitzer Prize-winning book, I think of these ladies as "a problem from hell," but that's unfair. They reflect the boss.
Here is the opening of Kraushaar's column:
A hallmark of the Obama administration is its imperviousness to conventional Washington wisdom, a brash confidence that their way is the best way - critics be damned. As a resident contrarian, that type of independent thinking can often be refreshing and liberating. But there's a thin line between confidence and cockiness - and the White House is treading awfully closer to the latter.
Now I think that Kraushaar is guilty of a failure of nerve here. He intimates that Obama has crossed the line between confidence and cockiness, but asserts only that he's nudging up to it. Say it, man.
Even more troubling (to me) is the inscrutability of the second sentence of Kraushaar's opening: "As a resident contrarian, that type of independent thinking can often be refreshing and liberating." Who is the resident contrarian? The subject of the preceding sentence is the Obama administration. Is Kraushaar referring to Obama, or the Obama administration?
We can guess from the context, but the modifier "as a resident contrarian" is left dangling in the sentence. It doesn't modify anything.
Kraushaar's failure of nerve really leads to confusion. Is the Obama administration really impervious to conventional Washington wisdom? If so, the entire administration is full of like-minded contrarians. The concept loses its meaning.
I think Kraushaar wants to say that Obama's appointments represent an arrogance with which we have all become painfully familiar. Obama could use a contrarian voice! Why not just come out and say it?
"Ideas have consequences" is a favorite conservative slogan. It comes from, or is embodied best in, Richard Weaver's book by that title, where he launches a spirited attack on the nominalism that pervades modern science and social science alike, at the expense of humane learning and judgment. In my experience very few conservatives have actually read Weaver's book-I'll be interested in hearing from Power Line readers who have to see how many will prove me wrong.
There's a good reason few people today have read Ideas Have Consequences: it is a densely written book, not easy to get through. And the title alone contains a sound and useable teaching in three short words: "Ideas have consequences" directly confronts the modern reductive ideologies that attribute or explain all human thought as epiphenomena of material or sub-rational forces. The late sociologist Robert Nisbet was right to call Ideas Have Consequences "one of the few authentic classics in the American political tradition."
Richard Weaver
I have to confess to never having made it very far through Ideas until very recently, when I picked it up again and found it utterly compelling. Partly this has to do with my current concentration over my upcoming sojourn to full-time university life, and figuring out a way of explaining in an early lecture why conservatives tend to disdain the social sciences. And here, in Weaver's book published way back in 1948, is a perfect takedown of the problem of the narrow specialization of modern, value-free social sciences. A few samples:
By far the most significant phase of the theory of the gentleman is its distrust of specialization. It is an ancient belief, going back to classical antiquity, that specialization of any kind is illiberal in a freeman. A man willing to bury himself in the details of some small endeavor has been considered lost to these larger considerations which must occupy the mind of a ruler. . .
To regard these as exhibitions of priggishness is to miss the point entirely; they are expressions of contempt for the degradation of specialization and pedantry. Specialization develops only part of a man; a man partially developed is deformed; and one deformed is the last person to be thought of as a ruler; so runs the irresistible logic of the position.
[Social] science is therefore not a pursuit for such a one. Because it demands an ever more minute inspection of the physical world, it makes an ideal of specialism, and one may recall Nietzsche's figure of the scientist who spends his life studying the brain of a leech. Is it necessary to press further the point that, when such matters come to be pursued as knowledge, the task of synthesis approaches impossibility? . . .
It should be plain from the foregoing that modern man is suffering from a severe fragmentation of his world picture. This fragmentation leads directly to an obsession with isolated parts. . .
The theory of empiricism is plausible because it assumes that accuracy about small matters prepares the way for valid judgment about larger ones. What happens, however, is that the judgments are never made. The pedantic empiricist, buried in his little province of phenomena, imagines that fidelity to it exempts him from concern with larger aspects of reality-in the case of science, from consideration of whether there is reality other than matter.
There's lots more terrific stuff like this in Ideas. I may well make this a new Power Line serial like my long-ago sequence on Hayek.
It was always just a matter of time until President Obama, once elected to a second term, handed a major position to his favorite foreign policy analyst, Samantha Power. Now, with Susan Rice moving from the U.N. to the White House as National Security Adviser, Obama is set to nominate Power as ambassador to the U.N.
Power's selection for a highly visible position had to await Obama's second term because Power is virulently anti-Israel, even more so than Chuck Hagel whom Obama, once safely reelected, appointed Secretary of Defense. And her selection for a position like the U.N. ambassador had, I assume, to await the exit of Hillary Clinton from the administration. Power once called Clinton a "monster."
I documented Power's anti-Israel positions in a series of posts which I summarized here. We'll have more to say about this as her nomination moves through the Senate.
The Senate process will be uncomfortable for Power, but I expect her to be confirmed. At worst, she may have to spend some quality time with Chuck Schumer, so he can vouch for (or, to be more accurate, fabricate) her pro-Israel credentials. In any case, it should be fun watching Power try to explain away her vicious utterances about the Jewish State.
Unlike Hagel, Power won't be able to do much harm in her new perch. At the U.N, Power will defend Israel (or not) from the usual vicious assaults to precisely the extent that Obama directs.
At the end of the day, this is a perfect fit - Israel-hating Samantha (Soft) Power and the U.N.
With the Obama IRS scandal news and other above-the-fold stories dominating our attention, it is easy to miss some one-offs that deserve notice. Such as the Germans doing away with the longest word in the German language.No- it isn't Kissingerischebombischechileanundnorthvietnamungennachtlebensraum; rather, it is Rindfleischetikettierungsueberwachungsaufgabenuebertragungsgesetz, and it is a word that came about because of-you guessed it-government regulation:
Rindfleischetikettierungsueberwachungsaufgabenuebertragungsgesetz - meaning "law delegating beef label monitoring" - was introduced in 1999 in the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.
It was repealed following changes to EU regulations on the testing of cattle. The 63-letter word came into being as a result of efforts to combat BSE, or "mad cow disease," and was given the abbreviation RkReUAUG - itself something of a tongue-twister. But with the EU calling a halt to the testing of healthy cattle at abattoirs, the need for the word vanished. I'll resist the temptation for a lot of good and bad jokes here.
I like this detail from the story: "The [fire] chief wasn't sure whether the truck's fuel or the Scotch ignited." If it was a diesel truck, I think I know the answer.
Two distinguished law professors and star bloggers - Jonathan Adler and Orin Kerr - have, in separate posts, argued that there is no case for the proposition that Eric Holder lied when he testified to Congress that he has never been "involved in" "potential prosecution of the press for the disclosure of material." Many, including meand John, have suggested that Holder's testimony doesn't square with statements in an affidavit, filed in court as an attachment to an application Holder signed, stating that there is probable cause to believe that Fox News correspondent James Rosen had violated the law.
Prof. Kerr goes so far as to call the case that Holder lied, "not just weak [but bordering on silly." Kerr contends that when Holder gave his testimony to Congress, he was simply making a statement about prosecutorial discretion. In Kerr's account, Holder was telling Congress that, although in certain situations probable cause may exist to believe that a reporter such as Rosen committed a crime, Holder believes that the government should exercise its discretion and decline to prosecute such reporters.
In the abstract, Kerr has come up with a plausible construction of Holder's testimony under which no lie has been told. But by examining specific representations in DOJ's submission to the court, Bill Otis casts serious doubt on Kerr's construction.
First, Bill notes that the affidavit to the court asked that it, and Holder's accompanying application, be sealed because, if they became public, it "may cause [the] subjects to flee." Why would Rosen think about fleeing other than to avoid prosecution?
I suppose that Rosen's (alleged) fear of prosecution might be baseless - he might think that the government intended to prosecute him even though it did not. But the affidavit also expressed the view that Rosen had illicitly obtained, or at the minimum was "an aider, abettor and/or co-conspirator" in obtaining, national security materials from a government official also under investigation.
Thus, Bill concludes:
When an officer of the Department of Justice tells a court that a search warrant target probably either committed, or aided the commission of, a very serious federal felony, and that extraordinary means are required forthwith to investigate the target's activities in that he is a risk to flee, the idea that the officer is not asserting the basis of a "potential prosecution" is. . .bordering on silly. It can only be defended by re-defining, or more precisely by defining out of existence, the word "potential." ...
Whether there is a potential prosecution does not depend on Holder's state of mind, or the state of mind of anyone currently in power at DOJ; the notion that psychology is everything is, while unfortunately widespread, complete baloney. When the Department goes on record with a court as being of the view Mr. X is at the minimum an aider or abettor or co-conspirator in a federal felony, and must immediately be investigated through extraordinary means because of, among other possible reasons, the risk that he'll flee, then it is nothing more than blinking reality to say that there is no potential prosecution of Mr. X.
I agree. And remember John's point that the affidavit also refers to Rosen's "own potential criminal liability in this matter."
Although Kerr's "innocent construction" is probably sufficient to prevent a conviction for perjury - a hard rap to prove, as Richard Nixon famously said - it is not a persuasive defense of the honesty of Holder's representation to the court.
And not just because Holder failed to tell Congress the whole truth, as Adler concedes. But also because it appears that Holder lied by telling Congress he was never involved in, and never heard of, the potential prosecution of the press for the disclosure of material.
Obama's latest atrocity a giant '[bleep] you' to America
By now, you're likely accustomed to Barack Obama shoving his atrocious policies in your face with little you can do about it.
But one of the most powerful voices in America says Obama's latest actions today are one massive "[bleep] you" to all of us ...
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published June 4, 2013 on Breitbart.com.
Last week we reported that President Obama's agenda may depend on how many judges he can appoint to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Today Obama nominated three legal heavyweights to fill every vacancy on the D.C. Circuit, potentially setting up a historic battle over how the Senate confirms judges.
There are eleven seats on the D.C. Circuit, which hears most challenges to agency actions (the primary focus for Obama's agenda since he cannot move major liberal legislation through Congress). There were four vacancies until a couple weeks ago, when the Senate confirmed Sri Srinivasan 97-0. That left the court with four Republican nominees and four Democratic nominees. Adding three more judges with a liberal-leaning judicial philosophy would effectuate a wholesale change in the balance of that critical court.
Scalia Dissents on SCOTUS Decision Upholding DNA Samples of Arrestees
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published June 3, 2013 on Breitbart.com.
Constitutional protections do not forbid police from taking DNA samples from those arrested for serious crimes, according to the Supreme Court in its 5-4 decision Monday in Maryland v. King.
If someone is arrested on suspicion of having committed certain felonies (not lesser crimes), Maryland law authorized police using a cotton swab to take a DNA sample. Police would then check to see if that DNA matches unsolved crimes in other cases.
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published June 3, 2013 on The Washington Times website.
As a longtime, ink-stained wretch, I'm actually glad that some of the Obama administration's bombs targeting our essential liberties found their way out of the Tea Party kill zone and were dropped instead on the Fourth Estate.
Most of the media are the Obama administration's most loyal constituents. In fact, they may be the most loyal constituents after the reliable voters in Chicago's cemeteries.
Pentagon Denies Relationship with Anti-Christian Extremist; Instantly Complies with His Demands
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published June 2, 2013 on Breitbart.com.
One month ago the Pentagon assured the public it was not being advised by anti-Christian extremist Mikey Weinstein. Yet two days ago Weinstein called the Pentagon demanding that a Christian painting be removed from a dining hall in an Idaho Air Force base, and the Pentagon complied with his demand--in less than one hour.
On Apr. 28, Breitbart News reported that Pentagon brass met with Weinstein and his Military Religious Freedom Foundation. That was shortly after Weinstein published an article in which he called observant Christians "fundamentalist monsters" who seek to impose "a rapacious reign of theocratic terror" in the military through their "putrid theology."
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Jan LaRue was published June 2, 2013 on Townhall.com.
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, a former prosecutor and judge, is pleading ignorance of the law as his excuse for criminally accusing a journalist of being a journalist. Holder wants Congress to pass a law to shield the press from him.
There are some laws that the nation's top law enforcement agent ought to have written on his heart. Take the First Amendment, for example. It's included in that oath Holder swore to God to uphold.
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Video: Why Is Leftist Media Going After The IRS Victims?
Jun 05, 2013 12:30 pm
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Obama Declares Open Warfare On Senate GOP With Judicial Picks
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Toll-free Hotline Seeks To Assist Fledgling Atheists
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Video: Will Gay Activists Launch A "Blitzkrieg Against The Church"?
Jun 05, 2013 11:59 am
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Video: IRS Dance Party Looks Like Communist Dance Party
Jun 05, 2013 11:19 am
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"I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. In my youth I travelled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer." ~ Benjamin Franklin
Somebody Needs To Go Jail
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IRS Employees Held 4 Conferences at Vegas Casinos; Cost: $671,990 By Michael W. Chapman CNSNews.com A new Inspector General report on Internal Revenue Service (IRS) conferences and costs shows that among 225 conferences held around the country between 2010 and 2012, at least 4 events took place at luxury hotel-casinos in Las Vegas at a cost to taxpayers of $671,990.
Iran And The Nouveau-Commies--No, It's Not A New Band
Iranian Terror Cells Infest South America By Arnold Ahlert RightSideNews.com Last Wednesday, Argentine prosecutor Alberto Nisman accused Iran of "infiltrating" South America and establishing intelligence networks Hizbballah South America aimed at carrying out more terrorist attacks in the region.
John Bolton: Christie Decision To Hold Special Election 'Mind-Boggling' By Bill Hoffmann Newsmax.com Former Ambassador John Bolton says he's perplexed at New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's surprise decision to hold a special election to replace late Sen. Frank Lautenberg instead of appointing a Republican.
The Senate is preparing to vote on the confirmation of Richard Cordray as director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). This is no routine matter. The bureau is one of the most powerful-and least accountable-regulatory agencies in government. No vote should be cast without consideration of substantial reforms to the CFPB..
With talk heating up for Congress to create an Internet sales tax, Heritage pulled in leading telecommunication and tax experts yesterday for a Capitol Hill briefing on the potential fallout that the misnamed Marketplace Fairness Act (MFA) could have on e-commerce.
Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell (R) has consistently spoken about making his state the energy capital of the east coast. And indeed, Virginia has the potential to be exactly that with oil and gas resources on and off its shores and significant coal deposits in the state's southwest. It also has the largest uranium deposit in the nation located on private property in the south-central part of the state.
About The Heritage Foundation Founded in 1973, The Heritage Foundation is the nation's most broadly supported public policy organization. Heritage created the Center for Legal and Judicial Studies in 2001 to educate government officials, the media and the public about the Constitution, legal principles and how they affect public policy.
In a shocking revelation in his opening remarks, the bishop told the crowd that his former secretary was brutally murdered by a gay activist simply for suggesting that he change his lifestyle.
The findings showed that despite casual sex with multiple partners becoming commonplace and even societally accepted, in everyday practice, women don't want to associate with other women who get around.
"For too long, the health concerns of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) individuals were pushed to the side," Sebelius said in a statement.
Asked where he believe Pope Francis would lead the Church, Weigel replied, "I think he's going to call the people of the Church to radical discipleship.
Richmond police say 27-year-old Shavaughn Robinson gave birth, then wrapped her baby girl's body in a trashbag and threw her into the trash bin behind her workplace.
While Basco was not involved in Santiago's death, he was found to have engaged in other dangerous conduct that could have resulted in grave injury or death of other abortion clients.
For the first time, anyone can see the discolored, dilapidated, and dirt-caked tables, recliner, and tubes Gosnell used to harm Philadelphia's inner city women.
Landolt explained that "gender identity" is a catch-all phrase that could be interpreted by activist courts to legitimize "any kind of sexual deviancy". "This could include pedophilia."
An ultrasound technician told a La Presse reporter that she would have to have the ultrasound within two weeks, or else it would be too late to have the abortion.
"I think it's a positive development that states are free to open up civil marriage for gays if they want," the cardinal told the Dutch language newspaper De Tijd.
Fears that the bill might be defeated with the help of the bishops were unfounded. The bill passed overwhelmingly in its first vote, 390 - 148 in favor.
The doctors said the bill confuses the deliberate killing of a patient through euthanasia with the withdrawal and withholding of treatment at a patient's request.
The Gang of Eight bill, S. 744, guarantees that illegal aliens who have used stolen or fraudulent Social Security numbers will not have to reveal those numbers when they ap ply for amnesty. Jeffrey reports a revealing exchange between Senator Grassley and Senator Schumer in which Schumer makes it clear that the bill rejects helping victims of identity theft because that would slow down the legalization process for illegal aliens.
The fundamental flaws of S. 744 are so deep they cannot be fixed.
Schumer: Put Aliens Who Forged Documents on Path to Citizenship By Terence P. Jeffrey Americans might generally think that if someone forges a document and uses a Social Security number that does not belong to them, they should go to jail. Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., believes if you are an illegal alien and you do these things, you should become a U.S. citizen.
Where's Holder on Team Obama's Leakers? By L. Brent Bozell III The national media have evinced some outrage over the Obama Justice Department's aggressive persecution of investigative journalists. But not enough.
The Most Transparent Administration Ever, LOL By Michelle Malkin Media lapdogs are finally, finally arriving at the conclusion that maybe this isn't the most transparent administration in world history, after all.
Protecting Chinese Oil By Rich Galen What has happened to all the oil in Iraq over which, according to many, we had gone to war to protect for our own use? China's getting it.
President Obama, in a press release this morning, revealed that he was "surprised" to discover that he has apparently been married for quite some time.
"The first I heard of it was when I saw a CNN report on my wife... uh... "Michelle," apparently... delivering an address to the National Coalition of Lobster Producers," said the President. "This was as much a surprise to me as discovering rogue agents in the IRS was when I found out about that by watching CNN too."
World War 3: Who are the players and how is it happening?
World War 3 could be right around the corner. Glenn laid out how and why it's going to happen based on the news in the Middle East and around the globe on Tuesday's TV show. DETAILS
Tea Party leader gives epic testimony before Congress
How is she not on the front of every paper in America? If this was any other movement, the testimony this week given by a local Tea Party leader targeted by the IRS would be everywhere. She gave such solid, emotional & brave remarks that spoke truth to power - Glenn has the audio on radio today. WATCH
Really really bad idea: Cass Sunstein's wife tapped to replace U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice
The fact that Samantha Power is Cass Sunstein's wife is reason enough for concern, but her views on Israel are even more troubling. She believes America should stop funding Israel and send that money to Palestine instead, and use it specifically to fund a 'massive' military force. Oh, and proven liar Susan Rice is being promoted to National 'Security' Advisor - welcome to Obamaland! Glenn reacts on radio - WATCH
This finger is loaded Fed up with the way people are complying with the suppression of free speech caused by the left, Glenn opened up the program today challenging the audience to stop backing down. After more young school kids were punished for making gun shapes out of their finger, Glenn couldn't hold back. Check out the fiery rant on radio today. WATCH
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Rachel Maddow baselessly ties Glenn to conspiracy theories. FAIL:WATCH
Paul Ryan slams Rep McDermott After the emotional testimony from a Tea Party leader, a Democrat representative tried to point the finger right back at the Tea Party. The accusations were so outrageous it prompted Glenn to urge America to 'fumigate' Congress of the infestation happening. Paul Ryan was not having any of it and gave a pretty solid response to the Democrat. Hear Ryan's response & Glenn's reaction HERE.
Glenn's interview with Senator Rand Paul From the IRS scandal to Samantha Power to the new immigration reform bill, Glenn spoke with Senator Rand Paul on radio today about a number of issues. Senator Paul explained why he believes Obama has lost the moral authority to lead America and the latest on the immigration bill. WATCH
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