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912 Patriots of Lower Bucks - Your Daily Updates ALL in ONE Place!
July 8, 2013
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"It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood; if they be repealed or revised before they are promulgated, or undergo such incessant changes that no man, who knows what the law is to-day, can guess what it will be to-morrow."
--James Madison
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Seventy-two killed resisting gun confiscation in Boston!
Boston - National Guard units seeking to confiscate a cache of recently banned assault weapons were ambushed by elements of a Para-military extremist faction. Military and law enforcement sources estimate that 72 were killed and more than 200 injured before government forces were compelled to withdraw.
Speaking after the clash, Massachusetts Governor Thomas Gage declared that the extremist faction, which was made up of local citizens, has links to the radical right-wing tax protest movement.
Gage blamed the extremists for recent incidents of vandalism directed against internal revenue offices. The governor, who described the group's organizers as "criminals," issued an executive order authorizing the summary arrest of any individual who has interfered with the government's efforts to secure law and order.
The military raid on the extremist arsenal followed wide-spread refusal by the local citizenry to turn over recently outlawed assault weapons.
Gage issued a ban on military-style assault weapons and ammunition earlier in the week. This decision followed a meeting in early this month between government and military leaders at which the governor authorized the forcible confiscation of illegal arms.
One government official, speaking on condition of anonymity, pointed out that "none of these people would have been killed had the extremists obeyed the law and turned over their weapons voluntarily."
Government troops initially succeeded in confiscating a large supply of outlawed weapons and ammunition. However, troops attempting to seize arms and ammunition in Lexington met with resistance from heavily-armed extremists who had been tipped off regarding the government's plans.
During a tense standoff in the Lexington town park, National Guard Colonel Francis Smith, commander of the government operation, ordered the armed group to surrender and return to their homes. The impasse was broken by a single shot, which was reportedly fired by one of the right-wing extremists.
Eight civilians were killed in the ensuing exchange.
Ironically, the local citizenry blamed government forces rather than the extremists for the civilian deaths. Before order could be restored, armed citizens from surrounding areas had descended upon the guard units. Colonel Smith, finding his forces over matched by the armed mob, ordered a retreat.
Governor Gage has called upon citizens to support the state/national joint task force in its effort to restore law and order. The governor also demanded the surrender of those responsible for planning and leading the attack against the government troops.
Samuel Adams, Paul Revere, and John Hancock, who have been identified as "ringleaders" of the extremist faction, remain at large.
And this fellow Americans, is how the American Revolution began, April 20, 1775.
 On July 4th, 1776 these same extremists signed the Declaration of Independence, pledging to each other and their countrymen their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor. Many of them lost everything, including their families and their lives over the course of the next few years.
Lest we forget...
Let us not forget!
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Palestinian jihadist group claims credit for Arizona wildfire
By DAVID BARNETTJuly 3, 2013
A Palestinian jihadist group, Masada al Mujahideen, recently claimed credit for ongoing wildfires in Arizona in a statement posted to jihadist forums today. The statement, titled "Masada al-Mujahideen Fulfilled its Promise and Attacked America Again After the Expiration of the Period with Fires that Achieved Historic Results," was obtained and translated by the SITE Intelligence Group.
"We had previously announced an unconventional war against the occupation state of Israel, and then we escalated this war to reach its main supporter, America, so that it receives a major share of it, which will destroy their flora and fauna, with permission from Allah and then with our hands," the group said.
The statement further said that the group targeted the United States "in order to make it clear and to make it know we can reach it when we warn it, and to make it certain that our hands don't just reach it but also strike it."
The group warned that the attacks "will not be the last...if America does not respond to our demands." The statement boasted that 19 firefighters had been killed in the fires.
Contrary to the claims of Masada al Mujahideen, authorities have said that they believe the fires were started as a result of lighting.
Today's statement was not the first highly dubious claim by the jihadist group related to fires in the US. In January 2012, the group claimed credit for wildfires in Nevada.
According to SITE, in addition to claiming responsibility for fires in the US, the jihadist group has claimed credit for more than a dozen fires in Israel since 2010.
Masada al Mujahideen
Masada al Mujahideen announced its formation in April 2008 and said its leader is Abu Omar al Ansari, according to SITE. The terror group has claimed numerous attacks against Israel, including rocket and mortar attacks.
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US Ambassador to Egypt Vows to Apply Pressure to Support Muslim Brotherhood
There are always two stories in America. There is the one that comes from Obama's mouth and then there is the truth. The truth of the matter is that this administration was "all in" on a Muslim Brotherhood controlled Egypt. You can't trust a word they say now that Morsi has been overthrown. Although I have little doubt that Obama would gladly throw Morsi, or anyone else, under the bus for his own benefit, we should not be so sure that this administration is done with The Muslim Brotherhood. There are reports coming from a very respected journalist in the Arab world that Anne Patterson is turning up the heat and vowing to apply pressure:
Evidence that the Obama administration is unhappy with the Egyptian people's liberation from Muslim Brotherhood rule continues to emerge. As reported today by Youm 7, according to Muhammad Heikal - "the Arab world's most respected political commentator" and for some 50 years a political insider - soon after the overthrow of Morsi, U.S. ambassador Anne Patterson assured Hisham Qandil, who hours ago was Egypt's Prime Minister, that "there are many forms of pressure, and America holds the keys to the Gulf." Such blatantly pro-Muslim Brotherhood assurances by Patterson are consistent with many of her other actions in Egypt, which have led most Egyptians, including politicians and activists, to refer to her as a Brotherhood stooge. Among other things, in the days leading to June 30, she called on Egyptians not to protest - including by meeting with the Coptic Pope and asking him to urge the nation's Christian minority not to oppose the Brotherhood, even though Christians have naturally been the most to suffer under Morsi, especially in the context of "blasphemy" accusations. Thus, and once again, the Obama administration makes indubitably clear that its primary interest in Egypt is to see the Muslim Brotherhood stay in power, the Egyptian people's will - the will of tens of millions of secularists, liberals, moderates, and Christians - be damned.
News from the Arab world last week was that Anne Patterson was accused of being part of a Muslim Brotherhood "sleeper cell."
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Forget Monopoly there's a new game in town! Now you can learn the Constitution in new board game
|  If your family loves playing Monopoly, here's a new board game that can help adults and children learn about something more important than money - the Constitution.
It's called "Constitution Quest."
It's all made in America, designed for two to four players or team play. It's great for teens and adults. The directions are simple. It's fun and engaging. It includes 223 game cards with information about the Constitution, including:
- 3 branches of government
- Powers granted and denied
- Checks and balances
- Laws from the Articles
- The Bill of Rights and other Amendments
- Historical facts and dates
- Play in less than an hour
- Learn the Constitution as you play ... the more you play, the more you learn
- Includes a complimentary copy of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence
- Fun and educational for the classroom environment
- Fantastic for home schooling
- Great for entertainment for adults and teens who want to learn the Constitution
Get Constitution Quest now from the WND Superstore - which is always on the lookout for redemptive, educational and fun products for discerning minds. The WND Superstore - it's about more than books.
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FROM THE DIRECTOR OF GODS AND GENERALS AND GETTYSBURG COMES THE LIBERTY MOVIE OF THE YEAR
RON MAXWELL'S COPPERHEAD
For anyone who reveres and believes in the preservation of the Constitution of the United States, Copperhead is a must see this summer!
Copperhead is unlike any Civil War movie to date. It is a film of the war at home - of a family ripped apart by war, of a community driven to an appalling act of vengeance against a man who insists on exercising his right to free speech during wartime. A story of the violent passions and burning feuds that set ablaze the homefront during the Civil War, Copperhead the movie is also a timeless and deeply moving examination of the price of dissent, the place of the individual amidst the hysteria of wartime, and the terrible price of war - a cost measured not in dollars but in fractured families, broken loves, and men dead before their time.
Based on the extraordinary novel by Harold Frederic, who witnessed these conflicts firsthand as a small child, Copperhead tells the story of Abner Beech, a stubborn and righteous farmer of Upstate New York, who defies his neighbors and his government in the bloody and contentious autumn of 1862.
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SAVE THE DATE: Tuesday, July 9, 6:30-8:30pm
CITIZENS FOR CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT hosts
Financial Analyst RICH SHUKER of Eyes on Pennsylvania (www.eyesonpa.com)
PROPERTY TAX ELIMINATION BILL WORKS!! No more government threat to our right to property through unaffordable property taxation!
** Did you know that almost 10% of Bucks County homes are right now either in foreclosure, under income tax liens, or up for Sheriff's sale?
** Did you know that Bucks County with an average annual property tax of $4090 is the second highest in the state?
** IF CITIZENS CAN LOSE THE PROPERTY FOR WHICH THEY WORKED AND SACRIFICED TO GOVERNMENT TAXES, ARE WE SECURE IN OUR RIGHT TO OWN PROPERTY??
NEW SUMMER LOCATION: Latvian Baptist Church of Bucks County, 1142 Apple Rd., Applebachsville (Quakertown mailing address), PA Go to our website www.CCG-PA.org for Mapquest link.
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Valley Forge Patriots July 12 Meeting Valley Forge Patriots - Tea Party Conservatives Friday, July 12, 2013
7:00 PM Phoenixville Senior Center
153 Church Street
Phoenixville, PA 19460 Come on out for movie night. We'll be watching "Hating Breitbart" and learning how to be citizen activists. Free popcorn. More details to follow. Our regular meetings are on the second Friday each month.
Learn more
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Philadelphia Tea Party Patriots
ACTION ALERT FOR PENNSYLVANIA
DC MARCH FOR JOBS
Monday, July 15th America needs your help and active support*Contact Don Reimer by email donpreimer@gmail.comto reserve your seat on a pre-paid bus or Register on website for bus ridewww.dcmarchforjobs.com
DC MARCH FOR JOBS (nation-wide participation)
Pre-paid same day round-trip bus ride in six buses reserved - bus info below:
Western PA (two buses),
Central PA (two buses)
Eastern PA (two buses)
- · Stop the Gang of 8 Amnesty Bill!
- · Show opposition to the Amnesty Bill S744 that will put millions of Americans out of work!
- · Protect American Jobs for American Workers!
- · Join us for the March on Washington July 15th
Pennsylvanian's Join the Black American Leadership Alliance & Other Concerned American Citizens
Monday, July 15, 2013 March to the Capitol
Bus information as of 06/24:
Western PA (two buses reserved starting from Pittsburgh to DC)
Allegany/ Pittsburgh - Ross Towne Center (7219 McKnight Rd, Pittsburgh
Central PA (two buses reserved starting from Harrisburg, to York to DC)
Harrisburg, PA - Harrisburg Mall, 3501 Paxton Street, Harrisburg, PA
(At Light Pole 32 - out by the Toys R Us Store)
York, PA - Galleria Mall (Between Boscov's and JC Penney's), 2899 Whiteford Road, 17402
Eastern PA (two buses reserved starting from Bensalem,to King of Prussia,to Philadelphia to DC) Bensalem, PA - Neshaminy Mall (located at U.S. Route 1 & Bristol Road) Valley Forge/ King of Prussia, PA - Wachovia/Wells Fargo Bank, Route 202 and Mall Blvd, King of Prussia, PA Philadelphia PA - SEPTA Suburban Station 16th and JFK Blvd.Contact Don Reimer by email donpreimer@gmail.comto reserve your seat on the bus or Register on website for bus ridewww.dcmarchforjobs.com See Flier DC MARCH FOR JOBS
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Upcoming Dates- hope to see you at one of our events!
July 20- GRAA Unite the Fight Picnic
August 24- Point Pleasant Sportsmans Show
September- stay tuned for details on an exciting event we have planned!
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Unite the Fight Pennsylvania 2013
2nd Amendment Picnic and Networking Event
Hosted by : Gun Rights Across America PA and Concerned Gun Owners of PA
When: Saturday July 20 2013 11 AM- 6 PM
Where : Gifford Pinchot State Park, Lewisberry PA
It is time for sportsmen, shooters, 2nd Amendment (2a) supporters and freedom loving Pennsylvanians to unite in protecting gun rights in Pennsylvania, and PEACEFULLY draw a line in the sand. The other side is relentless in their organizing against us. If we are more organized and collaborate, we will be stronger in our battle to defend and preserve our RKBA in Pennsylvania and across America.
We have little time to waste in pulling together our resources to preserve and expand our RKBA in Pennsylvania. Recently we have had our AG Kane revoke the reciprocity with FL permits, seen the stalling of HB357 Federal Nullification bill, and various attacks by Bloomberg financed anti-gun groups pushing for gun control legislation. There is an alarming prospect of having a liberal anti-gun Governor for the next term. We need to join forces now!
This will be a fun event for the family. Gifford Pinchot State Park is located centrally and is just south of Harrisburg with easy access from the PA Turnpike. Two pavilions are reserved and there will be horseshoes and baseball (bring your own equipment). We will have hamburgers, hot dogs and drinks for those who sign up. Feel free to bring along your own sides (e.g. chips, pretzels).
To sign up and for more information use the link below to sign up on our Eventbrite page- free of charge!
http://utfpa.eventbrite.com/
Spread the word and pass this along. Lets make this a watershed event and send a strong, no-compromise message in support of the 2nd Amendment in Pennsylvania.
If questions, please contact Eric Stone at etp2adfndr@hotmail.com
We are also looking for sponsors to help offset the costs, if you head up an organization, own a business or know someone who does please contact Eric.
Concerned Gun Owners of Pennsylvania www.cgobc.org
Gun Rights Across America http://www.gunrightsacrossamerica.com/
"Shall Not Be Questioned" - PA CONSTITUTION
" Shall Not Be Infringed"- US CONSTITUTION
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CGOPA Press Release June 25, 2013
Concerned Gun Owners of Bucks Co (CGOBC) was a grassroots group quickly formed in the wake of renewed calls for infringement on our guaranteed Civil Liberty to bear arms in defense of our persons under the PA and Federal Constitutions. There was such intense response and passion from all walks of
life and we found the growing pains rapid.
In the face of very well funded and organized opposition from out of state anti-liberty groups we ultimately decided together that the best course of action was going around that wall instead of over it, and to that end we decided to morph into 2 specialized groups with the same end goal of preserving our inherent rights. One would focus solely on legislative action tactics and outreach aimed at a target audience (PA4SP) and the other on public awareness events and energizing the core (CGOPA), and they would both work together as one towards the ultimate goal of stopping statist infringement on our rights.
While CGOBC was always neutral on open carry at events, PA4SP feels that it is not the best tool for their approach. CGOPA on the other hand will utilize it at public events to demonstrate to the public that firearms are merely inanimate tools and are more often used to deter crime merely by their presence.
Our rallies are held to gather the support of local gun owners to strengthen our cause. Pennsylvanian's right to open carry is recognized by our state government and our state constitution. It is not our prerogative to dictate law, or tell Pennsylvanians they cannot exercise their rights. We are a firearms rights organization; we support not some of those rights, but all of them.
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I want to remind all of you that our PA Unite The Fight Event at Gifford Pinchot State Park(click on the events tab above) is just 14 days away. We are looking for a little help to pull this off from our members. We are looking for any groups or individuals who can assist with the necessary provisions (for a couple hundred people) for the event. For instance Concerned Gun Owners of Pennsylvania will be providing Hot Dogs and Hamburgers for that day.
We will still need some help with the list below.
- Ice and coolers
- Charcoal and lighter fluid
- A couple of larger portable grills to supplement the ones provided
- Soda
- Water
- Paper Goods (plates, napkins, utensils, tablecloths)
- Condiments (mustard, ketchup, relish)
- Chips and Pretzels
- Cookies, and or Brownies
If you can help with any of the above, or have an idea for something else we haven't thought of, please email me directly at etp2adfndr@hotmail.com
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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:
| - | Gov. Rick Perry (TX) | | - | Sen. Marco Rubio (FL) | | - | Liz Cheney | | - | Rep. Mick Mulvaney (SC) | | - | Sen. Tim Scott (SC) | | - | Rep. Steve Scalise (LA) | | - | 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.
2013 RedState Gathering
Where: New Orleans, Louisiana
When: Friday, August 2nd and Saturday, August 3rd
Click here to learn more and register now
Sincerely,
Erick Erickson
Editor-in-Chief, RedState
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From a trusted friend:
As some of you may know, I am associated with Coventry Christian Schools as a parent of a graduate (2010) and as member of the Board of Trustees. Last October we spent a wonderful evening honoring Mark Niehls at our revitalized Founder's Dinner and celebrated our shared heritage in the remarkable community that is Coventry Christian Schools. Our vision for future Founder's Dinners is to inspire and inform not only our alumni and current CCS families but to inspire and inform the Tri-County Area and even our region by hosting speakers and artists who can uniquely assist us in celebrating the heritage, core values, and mission of CCS while also lifting our vision for an even greater future built upon the foundation of our past. The caliber of our speakers and guest artists should provide us with wonderful opportunities to share our CCS story with new partners in Christian education. Proceeds from the dinner will be applied to our annual Coventry Kids Fund for CCS scholarships.
This year we are proud to announce that our distinguished guest and speaker is Dr. Benjamin Carson, and our dinner's theme is "Faith of Our Fathers: The Role of Faith in American Schools." Please join us as we welcome Dr. Carson to the Tri-County Area and celebrate the great things God is doing at CCS!
Dr. Carson is a highly regarded neurosurgeon and motivational speaker who has addressed various audiences across the country. He is one of the most honored and recognized physicians in the world and holds more than 60 honorary doctorate degrees along with hundreds of awards and citations. He is a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor in the United States. He is the author of five books and is the founder of the Carson Scholars Fund. The 2009 award-winning movie entitled Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story, starring Cuba Gooding, Jr. as Carson, premiered on TNT and is based on his memoir. Dr. Carson is an authentic disciple of Christ, has been married to his wife Candy for more than 37 years, and is the father of three sons.
The 2013 Founder's Dinner, which will once again be a part of our Homecoming festivities, will be held at the historic Sunnybrook Ballroom in Pottstown on Sunday, October 13th, 2013. Doors will open at 4:30pm, followed by dinner at 5:15. Dress will be business/professional. Tickets will be priced at $100 until May 15th, then will be $125, so reserve your tickets for the reduced price.
Due to Dr. Carson's international reputation and recent prominence in the media, including his recent speech at the 2013 National Prayer Breakfast, we fully anticipate that this event will sell out quickly once advertised to the public. Tickets go on sale to the public April 15. If you are interested in attending, tickets can be purchased online. I will send the link out to those who wish to go on April 15
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. While online reservations are preferred because they facilitate efficient event planning, you may also complete a paper order form, which I can forward to you as well.
All of us at Coventry Christian Schools, look forward to sharing this very special evening with you and acquainting you with the school and its mission!
Blessings,
Christine Gordon
Sponsorships are available as well and are as follows: Gold Sponsor $3,000 - Two tickets at Speaker's Table
- Two tickets at Headmaster's Table
- Listed as sponsor on school website through 12 months post event
- Listed as sponsor on pre-event print marketing
- Mentioned by name at event
- Full Page ad in Dinner Program
Silver Sponsor $1,500 - Two tickets at Speaker's Table
- Listed as sponsor on school website through 12 months post event
- Half page ad in Dinner Program
Bronze Sponsor $500 - Two tickets at Headmaster's Chairman's or Founder's Table
- Listed as sponsor on school website through 12 months post event
· Quarter page ad in Dinner Program
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WHAT IS COMMON CORE?Common Core, or the Common Core State Standards Initative (CCSSI), as it is known at the State and Federal level, is a set of national education standards that will fulfill the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act, through a waiver system. (The NCLB Act was put into place by Congress in 2001 and signed into law by President George W. Bush). Many states were failing to meet the NCLB Act requirements and, therefore, wanted something to replace NCLB.Common Core is part of the UN's plan for complete federal control over our education systems and the "Dumbing-down" of America. Common Core State Standards Initiative (CCSSI) are not state standards in the first place, and are nothing more then further federalization of our state education systems. COMMON CORE IS A TROJAN HORSE AND TIED TO THE UNITED NATIONS (UN)If you cannot see that Common Core is tied to the United Nations you have not done your homework! The major funder of the Common Core Movement is the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation which has pledged $60 million dollars to this effort. Bill and Melinda Gates are tied to UN through-and-through and have spent money in America and overseas for UN programs in Africa and all over the world for decades.
From the Conservative Teachers of American organization, they wrote an article entitled: "Common Core Standards and the Federalization of Education." In this article we read: "Many are concerned that the Common Core Standards, once successfully implemented, will provide unfettered access of our educational system by the United Nations. Some textbooks and curricula for our public schools have already been written by the [United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization] UNESCO and the International Baccalaureate program, that is currently in many school districts, across the United States. Grabbing additional access is a natural next step. Once they write the curricula, they must have authority to develop all testing tools."
The UN involvement in the American educational system has already been facilitated by treaties signed by American presidents from both parties. Those documents include but are not limited to: Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Treaty on the Rights of the Child, Civic Education: Classroom Connections, and Agenda 21. The US Partnership for Education for Sustainable Development (since 2003), is the nexus of the UNA-USA and Global Leadership Coalition at the Department of Education, which altogether leverages the UN Decade on Education for Sustainable Development 2005-2014. UNESCO, the lead agency of the Decade, defines Education for Sustainable Development as "education for everyone everywhere" for the "lifelong learning" of "present and future generations". The UNA-USA sponsors Model UN across America and tailors its Global Classrooms curricula to whichever setting the kids happen to be participating. Children are unknowingly trained to respond with prescribed consensus to the situations, simulations and stimulation's of the particular activity (Delphi Technique). Global Kids is the CFR arm of Connect All Schools Consortium, a new Department of Education network, led by Independent Sector and The White House via United Planet Partners. Global Kids is preparing children for Agenda 21. The White House, NSA and CIA now have website divisions aimed at kids. The Public Education Network is a national association funded by Independent Sector donors: plus Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the Department of Education "Funders" of the Rockefeller Foundation-backed International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI), "Members" of the the Sustainability Consortium, backed by the EPA and BSR (Rockefeller Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, State Department) and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation-backed International City/County Management Association (ICMA): Center for Sustainable Communities (an ICLEI "Partner") are "partnered" with local schools and governments. From the Partnership for 21st Century Skills aligning the Common Core State Standards with "professional development" content for teachers and principals and Lego Robotics curricula for students (Carnegie Mellon/Lego Education); to software curricula through websites like: cyberschoolbus.un.org, icivics.org, atomiclearning.com, renlearn.org, brainpop.com and ttl4.sunburst.com; to the weekly deliveries of Time for Kids magazine and textbook curricula into classrooms; kids are programmed with UN-defined values. State Governors administer Federal funds to "Community-Oriented Policing" systems like Crime Stoppers (The UN, FBI and other law enforcement and corporate partners administer Crime Stoppers International), the local student-equivalent of the Department of Homeland Security's' "See Something, Say Something" campaign; whereby children see hand-drawn posters of child characters on school walls displaying "Eyes Looking", "Ears Listening", "Mouth Reporting" with a hotline to call. Presidents Bush and Obama have personally followed the George H. W. Bush/Clinton trail of the Agenda 21/ Sustainable America megabanks-maze in "bipartisan" fashion. UNESCO PLEDGES SUPPORT OF COMMON COREFrom UNESCO's document "The Vision of Education Reform in the United States" it states: "My department has been pleased to partner with the US Agency for International Development to help ensure that our best domestic practices are shared world-wide. The United States provides over a billion dollars annually to partner countries working on educational reform. Our goal for the coming year will be to work closely with global partners, including UNESCO, to promote qualitative improvements and system strengthening....Ultimately, education is the great equalizer. It is the one force that can consistently overcome differences in background, culture, and privilege." THE UN'S AGENDA 21- COMMON CORE IMPLEMENTER!In the United Nations Agenda 21 (Guide for the 21st Century), Chapters #25 and #36 specifically talk about education of our children: Principle #25- "Children and Youth in Sustainable Development." In the "Activites 25.9.d" it states: "Ensure access for all youth to all types of education, wherever appropriate, providing alternative learning structures, ensure that education reflects the economic and social needs of youth and incorporates the concepts of environmental training, implementing innovative methods aimed at increasing practical skills, such as environmental scouting." Principle #36- "Promoting Education, Public Awareness and Training." In the Activities Section of this document in "36.5.g" we read: "Within two years the United Nations system should undertake a comprehensive review of its educational programmes, encompassing training and public awareness, to reassess priorites and reallocae resources. The UNESCO/UNEP International Environmental Education Programme should, in cooperation with the appropriate bodies of the United Nations system, Governments, non-governmental organizations and others, establish a porgramme within two years to integrate the decisions of the Conference into the existing United Nations framework adapted to the need of the educators at different levels and circumstances. Regional organizations and national authorities should be encouraged to elaborate similar parallel programmes and opportunies by conducting an analysis of how to mobilize different sectors of the population in order to assess and address their environmental and development education needs." In the Activities Section of this document in "36.5 h" we read: "There is a need to strengthen, within five years, information exchange by enhancing technologies and capacities necessary to promote environment and development education and public awareness. Countries should cooperate with each other and with the various social sectors and population groups to prepare educational tools that include regional environment and development issues and initiatives, using learning materials and resources suited to their own requirements." Sounds just like PARCC and SLDS. ASU's Institute for Global Sustainability and their "Sustainable Cities Network" is doing a fine job "brain-washing" our students in our high schools on sustainability, global warming (aka climate change), etc. Go here to meet the ASU sustainability schools! COMMON CORE SCIENCE STANDARDS TEACH GLOBAL WARMING!The new Common Core Science Standards that are up for review teach Global Warming (aka Climate Change)! Here is Research and Commentary on the Common Core Science Standards" from The Heartland Institute.
Please spread the word to all AMERICAN PATRIOTS!
Reality Check.....COMMON CORE EDUCATION = COMMUNISM IN AMERICA!
Common Core Education is the INDOCTRINATION of our CHILDREN.
DO NOT LISTEN TO THE GOP ESTABLISHMENT RHETORIC FROM MIKE HUCKABEE!!!
Reality Check- just in case you ever had a doubt......MIke Huckabee is a typical GOP Establishment person.
Mike Huckabee is now championing Common Core Education on Fox News for the GOP! How disgusting is that?!?!? "Mike Huckabee Urges Conservatives to Back Common Core Standards"
This is another reason why Constitutional Conservatives MUST leave the GOP and beware of what you hear on Fox News. Fox News continues to move to the left - to the liberal progressive side of issues. That is the very very sad but true fact. Mr. GOP Huckabee....."It's disturbing to me there have been criticisms of these standards directed by other conservatives including the RNC," Huckabee wrote. "The truth of the matter is, these criticisms are short-sighted." see attached article from Sunshine News. Send a message to Mr. GOP Huckabee at http://www.mikehuckabee.com/masterfeedback and send a loud message to the every more liberal progressive Fox News!
Americans that believe in our Constitution must not be silent about this!
Do NOT let Fox News get away with promoting the very liberal progressive Common Core Education that promotes the ideology that American Children are Common/Community Property!
Do NOT let Fox News get away with promoting the loss of state's rights and the federal government taking over Education. WE NEED TO ABOLISH THE FEDERAL DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION - NOT EMPOWER IT!
If you support SOCIALISM AND COMMUNISM FOR THE U.S.A. then COMMON CORE EDUCATION IS FOR YOU. If you believe in the U.S.A. CONSTITUTION....then YOU WILL LOUDLY AND OPENLY REJECT AND OPPOSE COMMON CORE EDUCATION AND ANYONE THAT PROMOTES IT!!
Common Core Education is the indoctrination of American Children. This is NOT acceptable if you still believe in FREEDOM!!
Sally Baptiste
www.blogtalkradio.com/americanstatesman
The proponents of Common Core say that the standards ARE state led because they were developed by The National Governors' Association.
Well, perhaps this is true in a way that is very disturbing! Listen to this speech at the 1989 NGA conference on education (at 12:48).
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The video says this is a clip from the 1989 National Governors'Assoc conference on Education: Sr. Director of Mid-Continental Regional Education Laboratory, Dr. Shirley McCune She says about education: #1) Total transformation of our society #2) Teaching of facts and information (knowledge) is no longer the primary purpose of education #3) Close connection between economic (sustainable) development and human capitol (human resource labor for a planned economy)
A group that allowed this kind of rhetoric to be said at their meeting? I don't think I want them developingeducational standards! Please read to the bottom for transcripts from the 1987 NGA meetings chaired by Bill Clinton. These transcripts are eye-opening. They are clearly more concerned with workers for the manufacturing. They seem to have concerns that we have students who can't read well enough (non-English speaking especially) to function in the manufacturing plants, and then on the other end of the spectrum... too many with higher ed degrees who don't WANT to work in the manufacturing. So... what to do about all this? Hummm.... standards! Make sure they read well enough to function as the industrial workers, but not so well that they don't want to!!! This is the John D. Rockefeller goal of the early 20th century when he started pushing for compulsory government schooling and funding the building of government schools.
NOW.... review the transcripts below of the conferences chaired by Bill Clinton:
National Governor's Association website (find all annual meetings here with transcriptsm- )
1986-87 NGA Chair Gov. Bill Clinton's Initiative Making America Work: Productive People, Productive Policies March 25, 1986
1987 Winter Meeting with Bill Clinton as chair, you will find on page 12 that the governors unanimously adopted a policy to adopt an INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION POLICY. http://www.nga.org/files/live/sites/NGA/files/pdf/1987NGAWinterMeeting.pdf
1987 Annual meeting. See page 34of this document to see how those governors seem to be concerned that we aren't training our students for the "workforce." They are concerned that the professors of higher ed are telling students to strive for more than the job of working in the manufacturing plants. On page 40 they start talking about standards needed in education. " See page 42 with this statement by Governor Sinner (great name!) to Lee Iacoccoa: "But you also made a point about the terrific cost to industry of the disparity between states in these regulations and I wondered, with all the fuss and the furor that we make over states' rights...." http://www.nga.org/files/live/sites/NGA/files/pdf/1987NGAAnnualMeeting.pdf June 11, 2013: Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA) leads the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee in a markup of the Strengthening America's Schools Act of 2013, an education initiative to replace No Child Left Behind. http://www.c-spanvideo.org/event/220036
At the June 10 Common Core forum in Fayette County, Superintendent Barge stated over and over again that if Georgia wants to change these standards at any time, we have the ability to do so. The testimony below contradicts this belief by Superintendent Barge and confirms that states who adopted the Common Core standards DO NOT have the ability to change the standards in any way on their own.
2:23:00 - Rep. Tim Scott discusses his amendment to Harkin's bill. Instead of states being forced to adopt blanket standards like Common Core as a prerequisite for funding, let's put decision-making back in the hands of parents and teachers in our communities."
2:31:00 - It is admitted that states who want to change the CC standards,the Secretary of Education would have to approve it. States DO NOT have the ultimate decision making abilities!
2:39:00 - Alexander reads page 89 of the bill stating that any changes to standards MUST go through the Secretary of Education for approval.
As are most of the amendments offered by Republicans to this education bill, the Scott Amendment is defeated 12-10.
DATA COLLECTING: Senator Burr at the 1:00:00 mark reveals information about ADDITIONAL data points that this legislation will add to the data mining. He says that his count is now 500 data points.
TEACHER EVALUATIONS: Senator Alexander at 2:00:00 mark discusses his amendment to end federally mandated school and teacher evaluations. He says states had a "gun to their head" to adopt the teacher evaluations because they were desperate for NCLB waivers. He makes the charge that the Harkin bill creates a "NATIONAL SCHOOL BOARD." The Gates Foundation involvement is mentioned frequently.
Harkin says over and over "this is voluntary." If states don't want to implement the programs in the bill we just don't accept the money!" More strong evidence that our states need to "just say no" to all federal education dollars. As is pointed out in this debate: Any private business that entered into a partnership where the partner who contributed 10% funding got 80-90% of the control (as is the case with education funding under NCLB and Common Core) the partnership is DOOMED TO FAIL!
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We all know how tough it is to maintain your morals in today's media world. Here are two gifts from the AFA to you, each meant to help you navigate your way through media today: 1. Free Article: How to Watch TV Without Compromising Your Values 2. Free Guide: 300 Family Friendly Movies The article discusses how far TV has fallen in recent years and outlines some practical steps you can take to protect your family.
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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.
United Nations Links and 351 Page Agenda 21 Sustainable Development (PDF)1.04 MB United Nations Conference on Environment & Development Rio de Janerio, Brazil, 3 to 14 June 1992
Sustainable Development, Human Settlements and Engergy
UN Search Results, Keyword "Agenda21"
UN and Sustainability
UN Publications, like GAP.
Right Side News
Three of the four part series by James Simpson
DC Examiner: More Critical Evidence from the Land of Fruits And Nuts, orginallly published in the DC Examiner where James has a column
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.
Rick Buchanan | Fauquier Free Citizen (NEW!)
Tom DeWeese:
The Growing Threat of Smart Meters
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.
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The Cornwall Alliance
The DVD from the Cornwall Alliance: Resisting the Green Dragon: Video clips and trailer
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Mandatory Biometric Enrollment
Lawsuit - UPDATE
(fingerprinting, facial recognition, iris scan, DNA, etc.)
By Mark Lerner: Co-Founder Constitutional Alliance
If you value liberty and understand how dangerous government mandated biometric ID is to our freedom, you need to read and understand every word of what I am writing about today. Something very important is happening so stay with me.
Over the years, the Constitutional Alliance has consistently fought against mandatory biometric ID and for the right of all citizens to be free of it. Government mandated biometric ID is the lynchpin of the modern surveillance society. The amount of control this system gives government over individuals is an anathema to a free society and we oppose it being imposed on anyone - period. You cannot reconcile a free society with a surveillance society.
The founders of this country called religious freedom "the first freedom" because it is a precondition for other important rights.. Try to imagine the value of freedom of speech, or freedom of association without religious freedom and you will quickly see why religious freedom, also referred to as 'freedom of conscience' is so important.
Here is the Big News
This past week, 19 June 2013, a Motion for Summary Judgment was filed in Kaye Beach's lawsuit in the state of Oklahoma (You can read it here). This is a pre-trial motion that presents the undisputed facts of her case and makes the strongest assertion based on those facts, that her rights are being violated. The Motion for Summary Judgment asks the Judge, based on these undisputed facts, to rule in her favor. Kaye fully expects a favorable ruling on this Motion but in the event that this doesn't happen, her lawsuit will continue on. You need only to read the first 30 pages of the Motion to understand the arguments Kaye and her attorneys have made. If you choose to read further you can read about the answers the Department of Public Safety (the department that oversees the issuance of driver's licenses) gave to Kaye's "Discovery Motion".
Kaye Beach's lawsuit, is the only substantial challenge to government mandated biometric ID, to my knowledge, that exists anywhere in our country.
Here is a brief recap of the issue and basis for Kaye's legal challenge;
Kaye is opposed to mandatory biometric identification which is required of her if she wishes to have a state issued driver's license or ID card. As we know, the ability to drive a vehicle and also banking, many financial transactions, as well as a host of other necessary daily activities are dependent upon having a government issued photo ID most commonly presented in the form of state driver's license or ID card. Try to go without one and you will soon find (like Kaye has!) that not having a valid ID is no small matter.
In September, 2011 Kaye filed a lawsuit against the state of Oklahoma for the unwarranted collection of her biometrics and for violating her religious freedom, both of which are protected under Oklahoma law. Kaye is a born again Christian.
Here is why this case is important for everyone
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We must stop the call for a Constitutional Convention!
Article V of the Constitution:
- Gives NO guidelines for how to conduct a Con Con.
- NO rules on how delegates will be eligible or selected
- States have NO Guarantees they will even be represented
- Con Con could result in a COMPLETE CHANGE of our way of government
- There simply are NO controls over the delegates once selected.
We must stop the call for a
Constitutional Convention!
I have enclosed a vitally important petition.
I desperately hope you will immediately sign. I am not exaggerating when I say the future of our nation is at stake.
I am becoming more alarmed by the day.
Because the drive to force a Constitutional Convention (Con Con) is growing stronger.
I am getting phone calls and notes from APC supporters telling me that they are receiving appeals asking them to support a Con Con.
I am seeing more and more articles in Conservative publications supporting the call for a Constitutional Convention.
The Internet is full of such messages. Many in the Tea Party are beginning to support the idea of a Con Con.
Those pushing the idea are powerful and well funded. Every single state government and all state legislators in the nation have received very expensive, professionally-produced packages detailing how a Con Con could be called and controlled for a Conservative agenda.
This is an outright lie. A Con Con can not be controlled and there can be no guarantee that delegates will do anything they are instructed to do.
By calling a Con Con our precious Constitution will be placed on an operating table and cut to ribbons. Nothing is more dangerous to our Republic.
But the movement for a Constitutional Convention is gaining strength. Conservatives are being targeted because of our love of the Constitution and our frustration over how it is being ignored by those leading our government.
The effort is misguided, dangerous and just plan wrong.
We must stop this movement now.
Urgent: I have enclosed a petition to your state's Governor asking him/her not to sign on to the Con Con movement.
You and I must deliver thousands of these petitions to every single Governor as fast as we can. They must know that Americans across the nation do not support this certain destruction of our Constitution.
Please sign your petition and we will email it immediately to your state governor.
This new Con Con effort is very serious. The organizers are misguided in thinking they can control a Con Con once it has been called.
But that's what they are telling state legislators and Governors. And many who truly want to fix our problems are starting to believe it.
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ImmigrationCounters.com provides the key numbers and events related to illegal immigration in the United States. Using the latest government and private sources, research and analysis trending data is factored at their individual rates of increase. For information about the research behind the individual counters clickhere Data Sources. ImmigrationCounters.com supports legal immigration and respect for all humanity yet highlights the significant impact of illegal immigration in America.
ImmigrationCounters.com informs the public of the realities of illegal immigration while challenging the myths and misinformation surrounding it. After decades of passively watching this problem grow, most Americans are now more aware of the severity of this issue. Our government has demonstrated a complete lack of urgency to control illegal immigration both on the borders and within the interior. Because of this large failure that which traditionally had been the American way of welcoming immigration is now dividing the country because of one word, illegal. Opposing illegal immigration and wanting the laws enforced is not un-American. It is time to set the record straight on what is un-American, illegal is un-American.
The issue of illegal immigration doesn't need more laws, studies or debates, it needs leadership and enforcement. America doesn't need immigration reform, it needs leadership reform. Because our government has failed to enforce the existing immigration laws, why should anyone be confident they will do so with expanded immigration reform? Because of these failures, legislators have been addressing the problems at their local levels with bills to manage it incrementally, piece-by-piece, rather than trying to fix the national problem at once--an impossible task. What most Americans expect is to have our borders secure, enforcement of the existing laws within the interior, meaningful punishment of employers who hire illegally and removal of incentives such as birthright citizenships and public school enrollments without status verifications. We must also address the fact that we're soft on criminals caught in crimes and aren't deported. No other country would allow this to continue. 40% of them entered the country legally and overstayed their visas. Yet there's still no reliable method to verify if Visa overstays have left the country. Another incentive that must be addressed is the birthright citizenship program that has resulted in millions of children and parents receiving instant rights and benefits. Some have called them "GPS babies" and this certainly cannot be what the authors of the 14th Amendment intended to occur. Public housing and other benefits are provided for the illegal parents through their 'anchor children' while citizens are turned away because of limited resources. This antiquated program must end. Government agencies and officials at all levels must address the costs associated with this kind of abuse. Past mistakes have been made in attempts to fix illegal immigration and our communities can no longer afford these kinds of mistakes.
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FRIDAY DIGEST
The Biggest Waiver
July 5, 2013
"It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood; if they be repealed or revised before they are promulgated, or undergo such incessant changes that no man, who knows what the law is to-day, can guess what it will be to-morrow." --James Madison
 The problems with ObamaCare should be terminalWhen it comes to ObamaCare, Nancy Pelosi has a way of putting things that, in a roundabout and unintended way, sheds light on reality. For instance, before the law passed, she told us, "We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it." Then last week, she declared, "[W]hen we celebrate Independence Day we'll also be observing health independence. ... It captures the spirit of our Founders."
Memo to Nancy: There's a difference between dependence and independence.
Just in time for Independence Day, Barack Obama announced that he would use his despot-like executive power to delay for one year the employer mandate until 2015. That, of course, just happens to be after the 2014 elections, thereby sparing Democrats much inconvenience. So much for their month-old 2014 strategy to "own ObamaCare."
The mandate requires that businesses with 50 or more employees provide government-approved health insurance for their employees or pay a penalty of $2,000 per employee. The requirement is already costing businesses and thereby creating unemployment. On the other hand, the individualmandate, which the Supreme Court upheld as a "tax," remains in effect for 2014. The mandates are the heart of the law -- the reason Obama can claim "universal coverage." How can one work without the other?
In short, the law isn't even fully in effect but has become exactly what one of its authors, Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT), labeled it earlier this year: "a huge train wreck." Or as Chris Jacobs of the Heritage Foundation put it, "It is hard to understate the impact of today's devastating admission from the Administration that, after three years, it still cannot implement Obamacare without strangling businesses in red tape and destroying American jobs."
In related news, the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last week that the federal government infringed on the religious liberties of the Green family of Oklahoma by forcing their company, Hobby Lobby, to comply with ObamaCare's contraception mandate. The Obama Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), unmoved by such trivial things as the constitutionality of its actions, finalized the mandate the same day the ruling was handed down, compelling the Tenth Circuit to issue a restraining order preventing the government from enforcing its mandate against Hobby Lobby.
The HHS mandate, supposedly rewritten to provide broader religious exemptions, was finalized in almost the same form in which it was originally presented two years ago. There are currently 60 lawsuits that challenge the mandate, and 21 temporary halts to its enforcement have been granted.
None of this, however, stopped the American Library Association from willingly becoming a mouthpiece for ObamaCare, agreeing to use 17,000 public libraries as information centers and way stations for uninsured individuals to sign up for the program. This tragic conversion of America's public library system into a political tool to promote an unpopular government program shatters the concept of an institution dedicated to the free and open dissemination of knowledge. Further demonstrating that their shamelessness knows no bounds, Team Obama also attempted to recruit several professional sports organizations as ObamaCare propagandists. The NFL has, wisely, refused to sully its brand.
And, finally, in case you forgot just how expensive ObamaCare will actually be, a recent analysisconducted by The Wall Street Journal of insurance coverage to be sold in the law's new exchanges revealed that few low-rate policies currently available for healthy people will still be available once the law is fully implemented, thus forcing individuals to pay more for their health insurance.
It would seem Nancy Pelosi's idea of celebrating ObamaCare dependency couldn't be more wrong.
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Free the People
Last Friday, tens of thousands of patriots came together to celebrate the American dream with Free the People.
If you missed the show, don't worry!
You can watch video of Free the People.
And be sure to check out some photos from the event:
At Free the People, we celebrated patriots like you who don't let big government get in the way of their great American dream.
Our founding fathers knew all too well the price of freedom was eternal vigilance. As long as patriots, entrepreneurs, and liberty lovers stick together, we will take our country back and preserve the American dream for future generations.
Check out some of the video from Free the People.
Support the LIBERT-E Act
The NSA spying scandal is one of the biggest in this country's history. Innocent Americans are being spied upon, with no recourse.
Thankfully, some lawmakers are standing up the Obama administration's trashing of the Bill of Rights.
Lead by Representatives Justin Amash and Jon Conyers, the Limiting Internet and Blanket Electronic Review of Telecommunications and Email Act (LIBERT-E Act) has been introduced with thirty-seven co-sponsors. Now it needs your support to get passed.
Tell your Representative to support the LIBERT-E Act.
Our liberty and privacy should not be subject to government snoops. The LIBERT-E Act will restore Constitutional protections to our private data.
End ObamaCare Now!
Every week, we receive more news on why ObamaCare is truly a "train wreck." And now the Obama Administration has announced that it is unilaterally delaying the employer mandate for a year.
ObamaCare is clearly falling apart at the seams.
Now is our chance to strike, and end ObamaCare once and for all. Ask your Representative to support Tom Price's bill that removes the IRS from enforcing ObamaCare.
 This week's video features footage from the Fourth of July parade in Provo, Utah. Thousands of patriots came out to celebrate our nation's founding. FreedomWorks staff was on sight celebrating the values that make our country great.
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Common Core Update
 Pennsylvanians Against Common Core is committed to providing improved communication with members and regular updates concerning the fight against this one-size-fits-all national education standard. Leadership of PACC has been busy behind the scenes orchestrating opposition and working in Harrisburg to lobby legislators and make them aware of the negative consequences of Common Core to great effect. We continue to rely on the power of the grass roots opposition (you) that we have seen can mobilize when necessary to significantly impact legislators.
As reported last week, due to input from citizens across the Commonwealth, there has been significant movement in Harrisburg towards stopping Common Core. We strongly recommend that you click here to view the press conference on June 28th held by four education Patriots; Representatives Bloom, Tallman, Kauffman and Lawrence. These guys really "get it" and we should back them and all other opponents of Common Core.
The following bills have been introduced:
HB 1551 - Legislation to repeal the State Board of Education Pennsylvania Common Core Standards.
HB 1552 - Exempting private, religious and home-schools from Common Core Standards
HB 1553 - National Standardized Assessments and Surveys
HB 1554 - Prohibition of individual student data transfer to the Federal Government
HB 1555 - Advisory Committee to conduct a study of Common Core Standards prior to any implementation
Please note that other anti-Common Core groups are rising up across Pennsylvania including the latest Pittsburgh Catholics Against Common Core.
Great new link:
The Development of Common Core, Explained by Michael Chapman Agenda 21 this is long, but full of good information that connects a lot of dots.
If you have a group that will be holding informational meetings on Common Core, please let us know at contactpacc2013@gmail.com.
Please continue to promote the Pennsylvanians Against Common Core on-line petitionand Facebook page. If you would like to have a spokesperson speak to your group concerning the problems and questions concerning Common Core, please contact us at contactpacc2013@gmail.com.
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RedState Morning Briefing
For July 8, 2013
1. Barack Obama Wants Your Mom To Nag You To Buy Insurance
Once upon a time, young voters, you remember Barack Obama: cool, hip, The Future. But not anymore. Now, he's just a guy who wants your mom to nag you to buy the insurance policy he's having trouble selling.
Democrats are hopeful that a nagging mother will be hard to say no to.
But "[m]others, however, have been turned off by the divisive nature of the debate over the law, Lake said. Even for mothers engaged in politics, the law's close association with President Obama is not always a plus."
That's right: Mom finds the guy a little too pushy, too. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
2. How you will know when #obamacare is doomed.
Semantically speaking, this interview with AMA President Dr. Arvis Hovenon the AMA's future relationship with Obamacare is pretty much a null value exercise - here's a sample, so that you understand what I mean . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
3. I am of two minds about this John Kerry Nantucket story.
You see, on the one hand: John Kerry went yachting, instead of getting involved in the Egypt none-dare-call-it-coup. On the other hand: John Kerry went yachting, instead of getting involved in the Egypt none-dare-call-it-coup. And on the gripping hand: I had and have precisely zero confidence in Susan Rice when it comes to any sort of foreign affairs involving the continent of Africa. To use the classic military formulation*: John Kerry is Stupid/Lazy; Rice is Stupid/Energetic. Which is to say: Kerry can be counted on at least to generally not deliberately go out and do something (and thus mess things up); you would have been able to count on Rice to do precisely that. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
4. Lamar Alexander Fishing for Distraction from Amnesty Vote
What happens when you bring a Lamar Alexander to a Chuck Schumer fight? He turns around and becomes a weapon for Chuck Schumer and his allies, albeit an ineffective one.
In 2007, before running for a second term, Alexander rightfully noted that "to regain the public's confidence, we ought to scale it back and fix the problem step-by-step by absolutely securing our borders first, then enforcing our laws without amnesty." Now, after years of voting for more spending, higher taxes, more debt, expanded government healthcare, massive energy regulations and subsidies, and liberal judicial nominees, the former third ranking Senate Republican has become a Chuck Schumer Republican. He led the fight, along with Bob Corker, to push a fledgling amnesty-first bill across the finish line. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
5. Dear GOP: Don't Get Cute With This
The President has decided to scrap the employer mandate in Obamacare. It is questionable if he actually can do this without Congress okaying it. But no one will challenge him. The scrapping is really a delaying until after the election.
Republican strategists are already opining that we should fight to repeal the individual mandate too. What's good for employers should be good for people after all.
Republicans, please take note - that's stupid. It won't stop Obamacare. It simply gives the Democrats an out that will make the overall law both more expensive and less onerous to the American public. Do not get cute here. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
Sincerely yours,
Erick Erickson
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Obamacare's Dirty Dozen Implementation Failures
07/08/2013
Last week, the Obama Administration attempted to spin its announcement of a one-year delay in Obamacare's employer mandate as an effort to implement the law "in a careful, thoughtful manner." Don't be fooled. Even Democrats have admitted the law has turned into a massive "train wreck," with delays, glitches, and problems aplenty. Here are a dozen more Obamacare implementation failures.
1. The CLASS Act: ABANDONED, THEN REPEALED
One Democrat famously called this new long-term care entitlement "a Ponzi scheme of the first order, the kind of thing that Bernie Madoff would have been proud of"-and so it proved. In the fall of 2011, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) admitted CLASS could not be implemented in a fiscally sound manner-and Congress eventually repealed the program outright.
2. Exchanges: MISSED DEADLINES
Most states resisted Obamacare's call to create insurance exchanges, choosing to let Washington create a federally run exchange instead. However, a Government Accountability Office report released last month noted that "critical" activities to create a federal exchange have not been completed, and the missed deadlines "suggest a potential for challenges going forward."
3. HHS mandate: DELAYED; UNDER LEGAL CHALLENGE
Last year, the Administration announced a partial delay for Obamacare's anti-conscience mandate. However, many employers have filed legal actions against the mandate, which forces them to fund products they find morally objectionable or pay massive fines.
>>> Get the latest on Hobby Lobby's case against the HHS mandate
4. Small business plan choice: DELAYED
The Administration announced in April that workers will not be able to choose plans from different health insurers in the small business exchanges next year-a delay that liberal blogger Joe Klein called "a really bad sign" of "Obamacare incompetence."
5. Child-only plans: UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES
A drafting error in Obamacare has actually led to less access to care for children with pre-existing conditions. A 2011 report found that in 17 states, insurers are no longer selling child-only health insurance plans, because they fear that individuals will apply for coverage only after being diagnosed with a costly illness.
6. Basic health plan: DELAYED
This government-run plan for states, created as part of Obamacare, has also been delayed, prompting one Democrat to criticize the Administration for failing to "live up" to the law and implement it as written.
7. High-risk pools: UNDERPERFORMING; FUNDING LOW
This program for individuals with pre-existing conditions faced higher costs and lower enrollment than advertised. Though it was originally projected to cover up to 700,000 individuals, only about 110,000 have enrolled-yet the Administration had to halt new enrollment and take other radical measures to prevent the $5 billion program from running out of money.
8. Early retiree reinsurance: BROKE
The $5 billion in funding for this program was intended to last until 2014-but the program's money ran out in 2011, two years ahead of schedule.
9. Waivers: UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES
After the law passed, HHS discovered that some of its new mandates would raise costs so much that employers would drop coverage rather than face skyrocketing premiums. Instead, the Administration announced a series of temporary waivers-and more than half the recipients of those waivers were members of union health insurance plans.
10. Co-ops: DEFUNDED
Congress blocked additional funding to this Obamacare program in January, and with good reason: In one case, a new health insurance co-op was called "fatally flawed" by Vermont's state insurance commissioner.
11. "Employee free choice": REPEALED
This provision, which would have allowed certain workers to use contributions from their employers to buy exchange health plans, was repealed in April 2011, as businesses considered it too complex and unworkable.
12. Medicaid expansion: REJECTED BY MANY STATES
Last year, the Supreme Court made Obamacare's Medicaid expansion optional for states, ruling that Obamacare as written engaged in "economic dragooning" that puts "a gun to the head of states." Many states are resisting Obamacare's call to expand Medicaid, knowing that expansion will saddle them with additional, unsustainable costs.
As these examples demonstrate, it's not just the employer mandate that's flawed-it's the entire law. Recognizing these myriad, massive failures, Congress should hold the line and refuse to spend a single dime on Obamacare implementation.
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July 8, 2013
Today's Articles:
Is Marco Rubio the New Charlie Crist?
07-05-2013 02:04:10 AM
An all-too-common transformation in today's GOP, unfortunately. ...»
The Not-So-Untouchables
07-05-2013 02:03:40 AM
Republican governors have produced all-stars for the GOP, but some duds as well ...»
Pelosi's 'Dependence Day' Pitch
07-05-2013 02:03:40 AM
Nancy P. explains why we ought to be happy to pay the Stamp Tax. ...»
How Democrats Exploit Minorities
07-05-2013 02:03:40 AM
The Democratic Party is the greatest criminal enterprise this country has ever seen. ...»
Two Competing Political Philosophies
07-05-2013 02:03:30 AM
Both exist in the United States today. Neither can coexist for long. Which will prevail?...»
Civil Liberties and the Civil War
07-05-2013 02:02:55 AM
The idea that the federal government is the best vehicle for protecting civil liberties is a ridiculous myth that dates back to the 1860s....»
To Profile, or Not to Profile
07-05-2013 02:01:00 AM
Bizarre waffling from a Washington State representative....»
Obama's Rhetoric Little Noted nor Long Remembered
07-04-2013 02:04:30 AM
His collected speeches are in danger of being shelved while he is still in office. The binding would read: Presidential Addresses to the People. Or, for short, P.A.P....»
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 The McCarthy-VDH Reader A digest of the latest commentaries from Andrew C. McCarthy and Victor Davis Hanson.
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Posted by Daniel Greenfield @ the Sultan Knish blog
PERSONAL UPDATE It's been a very long month. Thank G-d things are better now and there are some days when I even feel halfway human. And one day I may even be able to get a full night's sleep. It's a nice dream to have at any rate. I appreciate all the support, especially from those who have come forward to help, more than I can say. There weren't that many articles this week. But 3 out of 4 of them were newly written articles. EGYPTLAND On to current events, I predicted a counterrevolution last year in Egypt and Tunisia. And those seem to have materialized. But predicting revolutions in unstable societies is not that great a leap. In Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood has resorted to Mubarak's old tactics of using violent attacks against protesters, particularly female protesters. Unlike Mubarak, the Muslim Brotherhood doesn't care what anyone thinks of it, but the escalation of that violence may lead somewhere they don't expect.
Tahrir Square is once again turning into a protest ground, this time for Anti-Brotherhood activists who were the players in the original revolution. The confrontations between liberal protesters and government thugs is playing out a lot like the way the old revolution did. And while the Muslim Brotherhood reaped the rewards of that revolution, Mubarak was not removed by an election and there's no reason to think that the same thing cannot also happen to Morsi. And it did. But it's not the end of the game. Morsi's big mistake was in alienating too many groups at the same time. He alienated the military by making too many sudden moves against it and alienated the liberal opposition by breaking all his promises to them. He didn't expect that the military and the liberal opposition would join forces against him. He was wrong. The Egyptian military has bypassed him assembling a coalition of religious and political leaders to sideline the Brotherhood. And even if the military and the liberal opposition succeeds in their political judo move, they inherit a disastrous economy and a wave of popular anger over it. The Brotherhood can stage another revolution or a counter-revolution or a counter-counter-revolution after a few months of El Baradei running Egypt into the ground. If the military doesn't remove him first.
Posted by Daniel Greenfield @ the Sultan Knish blog
"Today, people are more persuaded than ever that they have perfect freedom, yet they have brought their freedom to us and laid it humbly at our feet."
The Grand Inquisitor
 Freedom exists by virtue of an independence from the powers that might take that freedom away. Rights exist to fence out authority from the space allotted to freedom. The more leverage the citizens have over the authorities, the more they can prevent those rights from being trampled upon. The problem begins when people begin to assume that the rights they enjoy are inherent to the system, so that they don't have to worry about them. As long as the system exists, so do their rights. Many Americans assume that as long as the flag waves and everyone celebrates the 4th of July, then their rights are safe. But it is entirely possible to have an America in which the flag still waves and people still go to see fireworks on the 4th of July, and in which there are no more rights or freedoms left. This can happen when people forget what the flag means and what the 4th of July means; the symbolism of a flag composed of individual states, and a holiday celebrating the Declaration of Independence, which holds that a people may overthrow a government when it violates their rights. It is dangerous to celebrate symbols while forgetting what they mean. Because a nation's fundamental symbols are the keys to its power. They are its scepters and thrones. And when people forget what the symbols mean and begin bowing to the symbols themselves-- a tyrant can take the symbols and have people bow to him, even as he desecrates what those symbols actually stand for. Obama's rise to power could not have taken place except through a forgetfulness that has been with us for some time now. And Obama has been quite talented at manipulating symbols, posing in front of half a dozen flags, a Superman statue, glowing halos, historic sites and documents. That these symbols have no meaning to him except as tokens of power, that his very presence next to them or adjacent to them, should be anathema because of the profound gap between the ideals they represent, and the agenda he represents, is obvious to those who remember that symbols also have meanings. But Obama's success is due to those who do not remember. To whom the flag represents America, but who do not understand that it is not a random selection of shapes meant to look pretty against a blue sky. To whom the Constitution is a document that protects their freedoms, without understanding how it does that and what part their active participation must play for it to work. Obama exploits symbols, while the media warns about the dangers of anyone literate enough to understand their meanings. In the kingdom of the blind, the one eyed man is a dangerous extremist. Because he can see what those in power can't.
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by KRISTINA WONG
Egypt's military continued cracking down on the Muslim Brotherhood after swearing in the chief justice of the Constitutional Court as the country's interim president, a day after overthrowing their first democratically elected leader.
by ROGER ARONOFF
The facts don't quite add up in the case of Cartwright, whom NBC News described as a four-star general with a "close working relationship" with Obama.
by LT. COLONEL JAMES G. ZUMWALT, USMC (RET)
Ahmadinejad predicted the return of Islam's 12th Imam or "Mahdi" -- a 5-year-old religious leader who disappeared more than a millennium ago...
by HERBERT LONDON
Presumably what is good for the goose may not be good for the gander. One could argue, as Justice Kennedy did...
by FRANK SALVATO
It wouldn't be a stretch to say that the United States of America has become something other than what our Founders and Framers would have envisioned.
by ALAN CARUBA
In 2013, our happiness is muted by fears of eroding freedoms; corrupt and incompetent governance.
by DR. LAINA FARHAT-HOLZMAN
We can laugh at this, but a Russian labor camp for "insulting Putin and the church" is no laughing matter for these girls.
by ASHRAF RAMELAH
Morsi's plea to the U.S. leadership no doubt includes his political backers as well, the Muslim Brotherhood.
by TOM MCLAUGHLIN
Our country was founded on the belief that our rights come from God, but it looks like Americans today don't believe that. They tend to believe instead that our rights come from government. Is this what we want American to be?
by PAM MEISTER
Should we forget the flag, Mom and apple pie and behave more like the "citizens of the world" the Left so desperately want us to be?
by RONALD R. CHERRY, MD
As stated in our Declaration, the purpose of secular law is to secure our sacred, equal, individual human rights to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness - private property honestly earned through creative labor.
by FSM NATIONAL SECURITY TEAM
The 4th of July is the time when we celebrate our nation-- a time to reflect on the freedoms which we believe are not granted by our government, but are self-evident rights for all humankind. Time for the Independence Day Quiz which asks, "How much do you really know?"
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| Egypt Awaits 'Friday of Resistance,' Muslim Brotherhood Backlash |
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by Joel B Pollak
Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, which governed the country through the Freedom and Justice Party until a coup July 3, called for nationwide protests and a "Friday of Resistance" following weekly prayers at the country's mosques.
In 2011, similar protests, then called "Day of Rage" demonstrations, helped topple then-president Hosni Mubarak's regime.
The Egyptian military has indicated it would tolerate peaceful protests.
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Big Government
Conservative Group Seeks Challenger to Lamar Alexander over Amnesty Vote More
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Big Journalism
Piers Morgan Laments King George III Couldn't Prevail in Revolutionary War More
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By CJ Ciaramella
The Treasury Department on Wednesday refused to confirm or deny the existence of an inspector general report investigating whether or not former White House economic adviser Austan Goolsbee illegally accessed tax information on the Koch brothers.
By Sonny Bunch
The Lone Ranger follows a formula that director Gore Verbinski, star Johnny Depp, and producer Jerry Bruckheimer perfected with the Pirates of the Caribbean series: one part humor, one part horror, one part slapstick, 10 parts over-the-top-CGI.
By Jack Butler
In a 1962 column, humorist Art Buchwald, dryly noting the growing importance of political polls, wondered "what would have happened...if there were political pollsters in the early days of this country?"
By Lachlan Markay
An environmentalist group copied language directly from a previous petition into a new petition asking the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to more heavily regulate a proposed mine.
By Lachlan Markay
A New Yorker magazine reporter on Monday quoted from a nonexistent political pledge to attack libertarian billionaires Charles and David Koch and a group with which they are involved.
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Today, ACLJ Executive Director Jordan Sekulow interviewed Middle East experts Dr. Zuhdi Jasser and Dr. Walid Phares on Jay Sekulow Live! about the dangerous situation developing in Egypt. Both Doctors Jasser and Phares explain how the Obama Administration's policies are hindering our priorities in the Middle East and allowing human rights violations to continue to spread. Dr. Jasser also spoke about the dangerous situation in Syria.
Listen to this in-depth analysis of the Obama Administration's failures in the Middle East.
Listen to the interview with Dr. Zuhdi Jasser here.
Listen to the interview with Dr. Walid Phares here.
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Daily Email - July 5, 2013
Top Story Democrat Feinstein Confounds Media on the NSA
By Cliff Kincaid | July 3, 2013
With a few conservatives, such as Senator Rand Paul, on board, the radical left is gearing up for a replay of its 1970s campaigns against the intelligence gathering activities of the U.S. Government. Back then it was the FBI and CIA. This time, the target is the National Security Agency (NSA). But the left is [...]
From the AIM Blogs
CBS: Obamacare Delay a "Major Setback" for White House-Gives Impression It's "Barely Operational" [Video]
By Don Irvine | July 3, 2013
Guest Column One More on Zimmerman and 'Depraved Mind' Murder
By Andrew McCarthy | July 4, 2013
I am a fan of Bill Jacobson's Legal Insurrection (legalinsurrection.com) and as such I am not surprised at the stellar job LI's Andrew Branca has done covering the George Zimmerman trial in Florida. (Mr. Branca's most recent update is here.) I am only surprised to find myself in a disagreement with Mr. Branca - or at [...]
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Iran exploiting Sanctions Loophole to get missile materials
Where will Snowden hide? Nowhere, it seems
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Mafia-Style Government Gone Wild Or Wild Allegation?
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Did Obama Threaten Chelsea Clinton's Life Over Birth Certificate?
This Hollywood producer is renewing her allegation that Team Obama threatened the life of Bill and Hillary Clinton's daughters over the birth certificate issue...
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The Thugocracy Strikes Again?
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Impeach Obama Protesters Threatened By Authorities
These patriots claim that when Occupy Wall Street protesters held a demonstration on the same highway, authorities blocked off the street for their "safety" but apparently the rules are different for peaceful patriots who want to see Obama impeached...
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Hell Hath No Fury Like A Clintonista Scorned
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Clinton Friend Killed Over Obama ID Fraud Issue?
This Hollywood producer and Clintonista is not only claiming that Team Obama threatened the life of Chelsea Clinton, he's also claiming that Team Obama bumped-off a close Clinton friend to send Hillary a message...
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Are The Pieces Starting To Come Together?...
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Does The New CIA Director Have Obama's Fraudulent Records?
Freedom Outpost is insinuating that John Brennan got the job because he has the records showing Barack Obama is ineligible to be President of the United States...
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Whatever Happened To Hate-Speech Prohibitions?
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Kill George Zimmerman Facebook Pages Going Viral Twitter posts and Facebook pages threatening to kill George Zimmerman, or just about any random "white people" for that matter, are going viral on the Internet... so much for acceptable use policies prohibiting racism and "hate-speech"... (Warning: this post contains profanity).
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Calling Mr. Holder...
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Fast And Furious Guns Kill Mexican Police Chief Another weapon lost in the Obama administration's failed Fast and Furious gun-tracking operation has purportedly been traced to two more killings, including the fatal shooting of a police chief in Mexico.
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The Golfer-in-Chief Strickes Again
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Obama Plays Golf As Unrest Unfolds In Egypt As the Egyptian military begins to exert itself amid escalating violence in that country and the crisis drives up the price of crude oil, the president hit the golf links on Friday.
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Oh What A Tangled Web We Weave...
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Hillary's State Department Buys 630K In Phony Facebook 'Likes' You read that right, in what might amount to the weirdest example yet of government gone wild, Hillary Clinton's State Department spent 630,000 of your hard-earned tax dollars to buy phony Facebook "likes."
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"Democracy will soon degenerate into an anarchy; such an anarchy that every man will do what is right in his own eyes and no man's life or property or reputation or liberty will be secure, and every one of these will soon mould itself into a system of subordination of all the moral virtues and intellectual abilities, all the powers of wealth, beauty, wit, and science, to the wanton pleasures, the capricious will, and the execrable cruelty of one or a very few." ~ John Adams
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The Liberty Tree Is Getting Parched From Benign Neglect
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The Revolution Must Continue
By J. D. Longstreet
RightSideNews.com [T]he more I think about it, the more I become convinced that rather than grilling hamburgers and hotdogs we ought to be grilling our nation's leaders. Instead of staying in our backyards comfortably around the pool and/or picnic tables, we ought to be in the streets demanding that our freedoms and liberty be restored!
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Straw Boogey Men
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Liberals Vs. Imaginary Monsters
By David Harsanyi
HumanEvents.com New York Times columnist Paul Krugman recently informed us that a national movement is afoot "to punish the unemployed."
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Soros' Partner Favored As Egypt's Interim Prez
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Billionaire's 'Crisis' Group Has Deep Ties To Middle East Revolutions
By Aaron Klein
WorldNetDaily.com Mohamed El-Baradei, the favored candidate to head a transitional government in Egypt, was a longtime member of a George Soros-funded "crisis" group with deep ties to the Middle East revolutions.
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US Sovereignty At Stake In Appointment
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Gen. Boykin: U.N. Ambassador-Nominee Samantha Power A Threat To America's Sovereignty
By Penny Starr
CNSNews.com Joining other conservatives who oppose President Barack Obama's nomination of Samantha Power as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Retired Lt. Gen. William G. "Jerry" Boykin said Power's "track record" shows that she would like to "cede our sovereignty" to that globalist institution.
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Americans Can Stop ObamaCare By Targeting Its Achilles Heel
Jul 06, 2013 01:20 pm
ObamaCare exchanges, the online marketplaces for health care in the states, are due to begin enrolling applicants on October 1st of 2013. It's a date that should begin a most satisfying period in the lives of those who feel for... Continue to Post Read More and Comment: Americans Can Stop ObamaCare By Targeting Its Achilles Heel
How America Got To Its Current StateJul 06, 2013 01:18 pm
Your huge, bloated government is out of control; and not enough people are willing to actually speak out against it or bring it under control. This is the result of over-regulation from many, many years ago (possibly starting with Wilson... Continue to Post Read More and Comment: How America Got To Its Current State
ACLU Threat Prompts School To Ban Postgame PrayerJul 06, 2013 01:11 pm
A Michigan high school recently joined the long list of organizations unwilling to stand up to bullies on the godless left. The Lahser High School football team has a long tradition of leading an invocation, which is open to anyone on either... Continue to Post Read More and Comment: ACLU Threat Prompts School To Ban Postgame Prayer
Video: Hollywood Producer: Clinton Threatened Over Obama ID Fraud Issue (Part 1)Jul 06, 2013 01:09 pm
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Buyer's Remorse: The Reality Of The Arab SpringJul 06, 2013 01:07 pm
The removal of "duly elected" Muslim Brotherhood President Mohammed Morsi represents an instance of the Egyptian Military supporting the will of the people. The military suspended the constitution and appointed the Supreme Justice of Egypt's Supreme Constitutional Court, Adly Mansour,... Continue to Post Read More and Comment: Buyer's Remorse: The Reality Of The Arab Spring
10 Point Plan To Reform America's EconomyJul 06, 2013 01:06 pm
1. Reduce welfare spending by 50%. 2. Reduce military spending by 50%. The US should only at most spend five times the amount the next-highest spending military is spending, not ten times. We'll be plenty safe with that amount of... Continue to Post Read More and Comment: 10 Point Plan To Reform America's Economy
The Atrocities Of Men And The Wrath Of GodJul 06, 2013 01:03 pm
"He will avenge the blood of his servants, and will render vengeance to his adversaries" A disturbing video capturing a vicious beheading of a defenseless priest in Syria has compelled me to illustrate how 'Jesus-hating evildoers' will be made to... Continue to Post Read More and Comment: The Atrocities Of Men And The Wrath Of God
Video: The Obama Jobs Plan: Hire CriminalsJul 06, 2013 01:02 pm
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It's Not Obama's Fault-It's YOUR FaultJul 06, 2013 01:00 pm
Two things can be taken away from the Supreme Court's recent decisions on the question of gay marriage. First, the majority of the court sees it as a state's rights issue. And, second, just as in Obamacare, they are reaffirming... Continue to Post Read More and Comment: It's Not Obama's Fault-It's YOUR Fault
Doing The Benghazi Shuffle (Part I) ...Jul 06, 2013 12:58 pm
Whilst our beleaguered non-commander-in-no-chief used his teleprompter early on to vow to "not waver in our commitment to see that justice is done for this terrible act," Americans are still waiting to find out who actually orchestrated the September 11,... Continue to Post Read More and Comment: Doing The Benghazi Shuffle (Part I) ...
Video: Michael Savage Challenges Socialist To Global Warming DebateJul 06, 2013 12:55 pm
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Obama Golfs, Kerry Kayaks, Egypt ImplodesJul 06, 2013 12:51 pm
With Independence Day falling on a Thursday, President Obama looks to be making a long weekend out of the holiday. As the Egyptian military begins to exert itself amid escalating violence in that country and the crisis drives up the price... Continue to Post Read More and Comment: Obama Golfs, Kerry Kayaks, Egypt Implodes
Video: Sheriff Joe Obama ID Fraud Presentation - 6/1/2013Jul 06, 2013 12:45 pm
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Video: MSNBC Cheers As Motion For Zimmerman Acquittal Is DeniedJul 06, 2013 12:29 pm
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"You Have The Right To Remain Stupid"Jul 06, 2013 12:26 pm
After hitting the ground running in Berlin at the beginning of the new year on his "inaugural" Secretary of State trip, John Kerry told the world that "in America, you have a right to be stupid." Given his legal education... Continue to Post Read More and Comment: "You Have The Right To Remain Stupid"
Clerk Fired For Heroic DeedJul 06, 2013 12:16 pm
Convenience store clerks are at a uniquely high risk of victimization at the hands of armed robbers. In many cases, these employees are literally put in a life-or-death situation without moving from behind the counter. When 7-Eleven clerk Edward Vaught... Continue to Post Read More and Comment: Clerk Fired For Heroic Deed
The Rapid Collapse Of ObamaCareJul 06, 2013 12:13 pm
Washington is riven by conflict and deep-seated division. It is rare indeed when both sides can agree on anything consequential. Therefore it is incredibly heartening that there is now bipartisan agreement that the implementation of Obamacare is a mess. Republicans... Continue to Post Read More and Comment: The Rapid Collapse Of ObamaCare
George W. Bush Expected To Push "Immigration Reform"Jul 06, 2013 12:08 pm
Former President George W. Bush is expected to make a rare policy address next week talking about how immigration reform will be good for the country, The Dallas Morning News reported. Bush will speak at a citizenship ceremony at the George... Continue to Post Read More and Comment: George W. Bush Expected To Push "Immigration Reform"
Huma Stonewalls Senator's InquiryJul 06, 2013 12:05 pm
Huma Abedin, the photogenic aide to Hillary Clinton with strong family connections to the Muslim Brotherhood, married to New York City mayoral candidate and sexting devotee Anthony Weiner, is back in the news. Dan Friedman of the New York Daily News writes: Huma... Continue to Post Read More and Comment: Huma Stonewalls Senator's Inquiry
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Video: NSA Wiretapped Obama!
Jul 05, 2013 01:57 pm
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Video: Texas Abortion Supporters Chant 'Hail Satan!'Jul 05, 2013 01:48 pm
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A Nation Of DummiesJul 05, 2013 01:26 pm
I've seen the future of America - and it's going to be dumber. I saw a glimpse of where America is headed last week when prosecutors in the George Zimmerman case put Trayvon Martin's "not-girlfriend," Rachel Jeantel, on the stand.... Continue to Post Read More and Comment: A Nation Of Dummies
Video: Nancy Pelosi: Founding Fathers Would Love ObamaCareJul 05, 2013 01:20 pm
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Obama Will Make Blacks Vote RepublicanJul 05, 2013 01:11 pm
Back in 2008, a black conservative friend, a college professor, said he voted for then-Sen. Barack Obama for president. "Obama," he said, "is post-Jesse Jackson. No more race card. And, with a black president, young blacks will start hitting the... Continue to Post Read More and Comment: Obama Will Make Blacks Vote Republican
Who's Gonna Pull The Wagon?Jul 05, 2013 01:07 pm
Years ago, I saw a political cartoon that showed a little red wagon. Inside the wagon were as many children as it could hold. Beneath the picture was this caption: "Who's gonna pull the wagon when everybody wants to ride?"... Continue to Post Read More and Comment: Who's Gonna Pull The Wagon?
State Department Blows $630k Buying Facebook "Likes"Jul 05, 2013 01:05 pm
I've long been fascinated by the business of manufacturing popularity, which has become much easier thanks to the Internet. It's very easy to cook up favorable reviews for an item, create zillions of phony Twitter followers, and otherwise create the... Continue to Post Read More and Comment: State Department Blows $630k Buying Facebook "Likes"
Cereal Brand Proudly On Board With Gay MarriageJul 05, 2013 01:00 pm
General Mills' cereal brand Lucky Charms is hoping to ride on the coattails of the U.S. Supreme Court in light of its recent rulings on the subject of same-sex marriage. In a recently announced campaign, the company said the social... Continue to Post Read More and Comment: Cereal Brand Proudly On Board With Gay Marriage
54 Months: Longest Stretch Of 7.5%+ Unemployment On RecordJul 05, 2013 12:57 pm
Since January 2009, when Barack Obama was inaugurated as president, the United States has seen 54 straight months with the unemployment rate at 7.5 percent or higher, which is the longest stretch of unemployment at or above that rate since... Continue to Post Read More and Comment: 54 Months: Longest Stretch Of 7.5%+ Unemployment On Record
Obama's Global-Warming FollyJul 05, 2013 12:52 pm
The economy stagnates. Syria burns. Scandals lap at his feet. China and Russia mock him, even as a "29-year-old hacker" revealed his nation's spy secrets to the world. How does President Obama respond? With a grandiloquent speech on climate change.... Continue to Post Read More and Comment: Obama's Global-Warming Folly
Video: New Orleans Teen Murdered Over Cold CupJul 05, 2013 12:42 pm
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Children's Entertainer Faces Onerous Red TapeJul 05, 2013 12:40 pm
Bureaucrats effectively form a separate branch of government in today's America as oppressive restrictions and regulations stifle the entrepreneurial spirit responsible for the nation's unparalleled prosperity. No one, it seems, is beyond the reach of the regulatory class. Marty Hahne... Continue to Post Read More and Comment: Children's Entertainer Faces Onerous Red Tape
How America Eavesdrops On AlliesJul 05, 2013 12:39 pm
The shock being registered by various European foreign ministries over the revelation that the United States has been intercepting their communications, both public and governmental, is in reality a bit of a theatrical performance to soothe the nerves of their... Continue to Post Read More and Comment: How America Eavesdrops On Allies
Jeb Bush Disqualifies Himself As 2016 GOP NomineeJul 05, 2013 12:37 pm
Election years that have no incumbent president make for crowded Democrat and Republican primaries. Consequently, the quicker a Party settles on a nominee, the quicker it can start to coalesce behind the person they want to put in the White... Continue to Post Read More and Comment: Jeb Bush Disqualifies Himself As 2016 GOP Nominee
Video: Alan Grayson Calls Republicans "Callous Bigots"Jul 05, 2013 12:32 pm
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Video: Look Who Called The Kettle Black!Jul 05, 2013 12:17 pm
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Conservative Christians And The SCOTUS Decisions On Gay IssuesJul 05, 2013 12:15 pm
I find it both amusing and pathetic that our Supreme Court saves their most controversial or divisive cases for the last minutes of their current session before going on break. That happened with the decision on ObamaCare (I still think... Continue to Post Read More and Comment: Conservative Christians And The SCOTUS Decisions On Gay Issues
Video: Jihadists Execute Sisters And Mother For Dancing In The RainJul 05, 2013 12:09 pm
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Video: Rush Limbaugh: Media Montage On Zimmerman TrialJul 05, 2013 12:03 pm
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Freedom And Our Constitution This July 4thJul 04, 2013 01:20 pm
I watched the ceremonial folding of the American flag as a lone bugler played taps in the distance. A member of the honor guard took a knee in front of my 90-year-old mother-in-law and softly said to her: "On behalf... Continue to Post Read More and Comment: Freedom And Our Constitution This July 4th
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| | | | | | Boeing 777 Crash Survivor Says Flight Crew 'Fell Out' Of Plane | | | | | | A survivor of the Asiana Airlines plane crash at San Francisco International Airport said flight attendants "fell out" of the back of the plane after the tail section broke off. The survivor said he was able to evacuate safely because he was seated in the middle of the Boeing 777, but the flight attendants seated in the back "got hammered, because we landed short." He added, "And then they all fell out -- and it was just the most terrible thing I've seen." Get the rest of the account from this witness HERE. | | | | | |
Police say enraged spectators invaded a soccer field, stoned the referee to death, and quartered his body after he fatally stabbed a player. An official statement said that it all started when a referee expelled player Josenir Abreu from a game. The two got into a fistfight, then the ref took out a knife and stabbed Abreu, who died on his way to the hospital. Abreu's friends and relatives immediately "rushed into the field, stoned the referee to death and quartered his body." Get more on how this ugly scene unfolded HERE.
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Michelle Malkin and David Barton engaged in the history and current state of education reform during a Man in the Moon event. During her remarks Malkin said "It's because of [Glenn Beck] that I believe that in this room we have amassed the most effective and informed group of people to help stop Common Core," she said. To show how much the education system has changed, Barton indicated that 200 years ago, "You could not get into the U.S. as a territory if your schools were not teaching religion, morality and knowledge." Get the rest of the remarks from these two heavy hitters HERE.
Egyptian activists posted video on YouTube Saturday purporting to show Egyptian youths being thrown off a high wall situated on the roof of a building then being beaten in the head with sticks. Reports say that one youth was killed during the conflict. According to Al Arabiya, the incident took place during clashes between supporters and opponents of ousted President Mohammed Morsi. You can watch the video of this violent conflict HERE.
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Bestselling author Brad Thor made a bold suggestion while closing out the Independent Speaker series at Man in the Moon on Saturday: It may be time for the Tea Party to drop the title "Tea Party," he says. Find out why Thor, who describes himself as "a Tea Party guy through and through," thinks conservatives need to learn a lesson from the left HERE.
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CNN analyst David Gergen said Secretary of State John Kerry should be given a break for being on his yacht while crisis was unfolding in Egypt. Gergen said the State Department "blew it" by first denying a CBS report that Kerry was on his boat, only to have to turn around and admit otherwise. "It was not right to do it that way, but to be fair to Secretary Kerry, he has been going through a grueling time," Gergen said. "He just came back from a 15-day trip to the Middle East," he added. Watch the entire interview HERE.
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Graphic Video: Attacker Shown Brutally Kicking Woman In The Face | | | | | |
San Francisco police are asking for the public's help in identifying a robbery suspect caught on video kicking a woman in the face so hard she was knocked unconscious. The attack took place around 2 a.m. Sunday, June 30. A female victim was robbed by a group of suspects. The eight-second surveillance footage shows the woman on the ground, struggling to get up before a male suspect brutally kicks her directly in the face, knocking her motionless. Watch the video of this horrific attack HERE.
Glenn Beck chose an intriguing way to raise the flag during the opening of his innovative Man in the Moon event on Saturday. Rather than taking the traditional route, two men dressed in soldier's garb who were suspended in the air upside down actually "lowered" the American flag. Watch the stirring video HERE. | | | | | | | | |  | | | | | | 'Walk for Hope' Attendees Share Their Stories With TheBlaze | | | | | |
Scores of people graced Liberty Park in Salt Lake City, Utah, Saturday morning for the "Walk for Hope," an initiative aimed at fighting cancer. TheBlaze was on scene to interview participants about the experience and to learn more about their reasons for participating in the 5K. From a personal connection to the tragic disease to a heart-felt belief in helping those in need, their motivations differed -- but the participants stories were all equally touching. Read their touching stories HERE.
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| | | | | | How Was Brad Thor Able To Predict The NSA Scandal Last Year? | | | | | | Author Brad Thor's highly successful thriller from last year "Black List" is creating a buzz again because the book warned of one of this year's biggest scandals: the NSA spying story. "This is not only real stuff, but it chilled me to the bone," Thor told TheBlaze. "This" is the NSA's capability to surveil its own citizens -- but not just its capability, also its willingness and practice. Find out how Thor was able to make such an accurate prediction in the rest of his interview with TheBlaze HERE. | | | | | |
Islamic militants attacked a boarding school in northeast Nigeria before dawn Saturday, killing 29 students and one teacher. Some of the pupils were burned alive in the latest school attack blamed on a radical terror group, survivors said. Parents screamed in anguish as they tried to identify the charred and gunshot victims. TheBlaze has the latest on this heartbreaking story HERE.
A man caught on video repeatedly punching a Christian street preacher near a Seattle gay pride event had previously been arrested 29 times. The raw video shows a man holding a sign reading "Repent or Else" being pursued and surrounded by several people during Pridefest on June 30. Get the full details on this attack and watch the video HERE.
The unemployment rate has been 7.5 percent or higher for 54 straight months, coincidentally since President Obama was inaugurated in 2009. It is the first time that the unemployment rate has ever stayed at 7.5 percent or higher for that long ever since the Bureau of Labor Statistics began calculating the national unemplotment rate in 1948. Find out when the country last experienced 53 straight months of 7.5 percent or higher unemployment HERE.
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Medical officials say at least 12 people have been killed in clashes between supporters and opponents of the ousted president in the coastal city of Alexandia, bringing the nationwide death toll to 30. An emergency services offical said that the 12 died when hundreds of Islamists decended on a rally by opponents of ousted President Morsi, opening fire with guns. Get the latest updates on this story HERE.
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As millions of Egyptians rose up to depose the Muslim Brotherhood-backed Mohamed Morsi, Secretary of State John Kerry was on his private yacht, the State Department finally admitted Friday. Yes, after vigorously denying reports that Kerry was on his private yacht during the uprising Wednesday, the State Department has issued a somewhat sheepish retraction. See the embarrasing response HERE.
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Ungrateful Bride Sends Rude Note To Guest Over Wedding Gift | | | | | |
A new bride apparently unhappy with the $100 cash wedding gift from one of her guests sent an appalingly ungrateful note to complain. The offended guest published the "non-thank you card" online and it has since gone viral. Caution -- this bride's attitude may have you seeing red. You can read the note for yourself HERE.
Okay, so someone with a camera decided to quiz a bunch of drunken college kids in Isla Vista, Calif., on American history. The results are pretty cringe-worthy. Watch the video HERE. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Couple Explains How To Recover From Plane Crash 'Beautifully' | | | | | |
Stephanie and Christian Nielson have become well-known in the wake of a horrifying plan crash nearly five years ago that killed their pilot and left them both with severe, life-long injuries. But unlike many, they choose not to focus on the crash. Rather, they speak about how much they grew in their faith and their relationship after it, despite unbelievable obstacles. Get all the details on the crash, the couple's recovery and their inspiring attitudes HERE.
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Friday of Rage' - Islamists threaten violent action. Get the details HERE.
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Two words that could stop the U.S. aid flowing to Egypt. Learn what those two words are, HERE.
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Learn why the Egyptian Army declared a 'State of Emergency' in the South Sinai' HERE.
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| | | | | | 'People Were Screaming' -- 28 Injured At California Fireworks Show | | | | | | More than two dozen people were injured when a wood platform holding live fireworks tipped over, sending the pyrotechnics into a crowd at an annual 4th of July celebration just northwest of Los Angeles. Watch several different eyewitness videos of the disaster HERE. | | | | | |
Since reports broke on Wednesday claiming that Secretary of State John Kerry was allegedly spending time on his yacht while Egypt's former President was ousted from office-there's been a flurry of denials and explanations. Still, the CBS reporter who first noted the story refuses to retract it - and there could be evidence that backs up his claims. Get the latest details and see the evidence HERE.
Thursday evening, Michelle Malkin rallied a standing-room-only crowd during her speech at Glenn Beck's Man in the Moon Independence Speaker Series. From lambasting Democrats' attempts to offer "amnesty," to discussing her own family's immigration story, the author mixed quips with passionate commentary. But the big surprise was when Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) stood up during the question-and-answer portion of the program and praised Malkin. Watch the exchange HERE.
On Friday morning, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that U.S. employers added 195,000 jobs in June, leaving the unemployment rate unchanged at 7.6 percent. The U-6 unemployment rate, considered to be a broader measure of the actual unemployment situation in the U.S., jumped from 13.8 percent to 14.3 percent. Get the rest of our analysis on the unemployment numbers HERE.
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On Friday, Pope Francis cleared John Paul II for sainthood, approving a miracle attributed to his intercession. The ceremonies are expected before the end of the year. The date of Dec. 8 has been floated as a possibility, given it's the feast of the Immaculate Conception, a major feast day for the church. Get the rest of the details HERE.
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Thursday brought patriotic Americans from every corner of the country - and a few from across the ocean - to Salt Lake City for the first official day of Glenn Beck's "Man in the Moon" events. See our recap coverage of all of the events (including photos of something from Moore, Oklahoma that is on display and defies description) HERE.
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From TheBlaze Radio - What's Happening At 'Man In The Moon' | | | | | |
"Man In The Moon" is about magic and hope...light and dark...family and God...history and the future. It's a story of struggle and triumph, good and evil, and simple people finding a better way. It's going to be an incredible experience. Can't make it to Salt Lake City for the big event? Find out how you can be part of the experience on TheBlaze Radio Network HERE.
Baptist Pastor Jim Standridge has made a name for himself after a video of one of his sermons, showing him yelling criticisms at some of his members, went viral. Watch the clip and be glad you're not the subject of this pastor's outrage HERE. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | See How Many People Attended Pastor's 'Line In The Sand' Event | | | | | |
Since TheBlaze reported Pastor Robert Dekker's planned "Line in the Sand" July 4 service on Rehoboth Beach, Del., the story has gained national attention. On Independence Day, the service happened as planned, with around 1,500 people showing up for what Dekker called a Freedom Rally. The event included music, speeches and prayer. Watch local video coverage HERE.
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Kumbaya! Look who agrees on coming end times
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Two groups with very different views of God, the end times and their respective places in history are coming together, merging their scriptures and strongly suggesting their prophecies converge and predict the same messiah.
Is this an ominous turn of events, or is it time to look up, "for our redemption draweth nigh?"
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'Congratulations, you're having a lesbian!'
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Opposed to same-sex marriage? Burned out on the issue? Just want it all to go away?
Fat chance!
Here's the latest barrage unleashed against those who believe in traditional marriage ...
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New York Times scrubs inconvenient truths for Obama
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If you fancy yourself a "progressive" president, having a top aid who's a neighbor and friend of leftist terrorists and whose family is up to its neck in communists might be an advantage to forwarding your agenda.
But that's true only if you can keep those facts from the American people.
That's where the New York Times comes in ...
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Move over Jesus: New 'savior of humanity'
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Twice, the apostle John -- once in his gospel and once in his first epistle -- refers to Jesus as "Savior of the world."
And, for the past two thousand years, Christians have thought Jesus had that title locked up.
Wrong, say these Muslims, and they're taking to the airwaves with their challenge ...
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'Gay' pride? Who could be proud of THIS?
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If you think "gays" and their supporters exhibit a certain flamboyance -- just witness the so-called pride parades -- wait until you see how out and over the top they can be when expressing hatred and violence toward Christians.
This assaulted pastor never saw what was about to hit him ... but the camera did!
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Your neighbors have a domestic dispute, so the police come to your house, break down your door, point guns at you, cuff you and arrest you, commandeer your home ... and, for good measure, arrest your parents and commandeer their home, too.
As the Founders would say, There's an amendment for that ...
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TV station to broadcast Muslim call to prayer
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Barack Obama called it "one of the prettiest sounds on Earth."
Is that how you would describe the Islamic call to prayer if one of the national television networks decided to begin broadcasting it daily in the middle of your favorite programs?
Here's the West's latest accommodation to Islam ...
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Trouble brewing for godless beer
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If the Boston Tea Party was replayed today there's a good chance angry patriots would be dumping beer, rather than tea, in the harbor.
What makes it so ironic is the beer being targeted bears the name of the very man who organized that 1773 act of rebellion.
Here's what the brewer left out that has people so mad ... and the excuse they're not accepting.
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Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood has another trick up its sleeve
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President Mohamed Morsi may be out, but members of his Islamist Muslim Brotherhood aren't taking his ouster lying down.
Here's what senior Egyptian security officials know about what the group is plotting -- and it's bloody.
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Rock star eyes run for White House
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This legendary rocker is turning up the volume on talk of a presidential run.
Find out why he considers it his patriotic duty to right Barack Obama's wrongs.
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Even devil worshippers can't stomach THIS ...
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You know you're in trouble when even those who idolize Satan think you've gone off the rails.
Look what has devil worshippers appalled now ...
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Liz Cheney For Senate?
Posted: 07 Jul 2013 12:06 PM PDT
(John Hinderaker)
I admire Liz Cheney as much as anyone, but I can't claim to be pleased to learn that she has moved from Washington to Jackson Hole, Wyoming, and has told Senator Mike Enzi that she may run against him in next year's GOP primary. In my view, Republicans (and conservatives) spend much too much time and energy attacking each other, rather than going after the Democrats. That doesn't mean, of course, that Republicans should never mount primary challenges.
But when do such challenges make sense? If an incumbent Republican is not a conservative (Susan Collins, say) and a more conservative challenger has a good chance of winning the general election, then a primary challenge is in order. But that isn't the case here: Enzi is a solid conservative with a 93% lifetime American Conservative Union rating (92% in 2012). He recently voted against the Gang of Eight's immigration bill. Cheney may well be a little more conservative than Enzi, but going after a 90+% conservative is fratricide.
Another situation where a primary challenge makes sense is when the incumbent Republican is a solid conservative, but for whatever reason, not a strong politician, and is likely to lose the general election. In that scenario, a primary challenge by an equally sound conservative with better general election prospects is also appropriate. But that scenario doesn't apply here, either. Wyoming is a solidly Republican state, and either Enzi or Cheney would be the overwhelming favorite to win the seat next year.
A third possibility should also be considered: there may be situations where the incumbent is a good conservative as well as a good bet for re-election, but due to advancing years or ill health may no longer be an effective senator. (Think, on the other side of the aisle, Tim Johnson.) In that situation, it may make sense to try to nudge the incumbent off the stage and get the seat into the hands of someone younger and more vigorous. But that situation doesn't obtain in Wyoming, either. Enzi is 69, by no means elderly for a senator, and to my knowledge his health is fine.
Perhaps, if Ms. Cheney decides to seek the Wyoming seat, she will be able to articulate a compelling rationale for her candidacy. But for now, this looks like exactly the kind of primary challenge that conservative Republicans should not be mounting. Cheney is neither significantly more conservative than Enzi nor significantly more electable; her real advantage as a primary candidate is that she is significantly more glamorous. That isn't enough.
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Most interesting man in the world accused of sex harassment
Posted: 07 Jul 2013 09:28 AM PDT
(Paul Mirengoff)
No, I'm not talking about the guy who plays the most interesting man in the world on television in beer commercials. I'm talking about Colin McGinn.
He's a philosopher (he thinks, therefore we are), surfer (when he catches a wave, the wave is sitting on top of the world), and tennis enthusiast (the net exists, but only for others, not for him). And, of course, the most interesting man in the world blogs.
McGinn doesn't shrink from his status as the world's most interesting man. He described himself to the Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription required) as "the most enlightened person in the world" and not necessarily arrogant, but "superior." He added that he's a "ladies' man."
It is this self-image, perhaps, that led McGinn into his current difficulties. A graduate student at the University of Miami, where McGinn taught until recently, has accused him of sending her sexually explicit and other inappropriate emails and text messages.
Although there no claim of any physical relationship, the student's allegations, if true, would raise a colorable claim of sex harassment, and certainly describe a course of inappropriate conduct.
The student was McGinn's paid research assistant on a project relating to the evolution of the human hand. McGinn, who is 63, admits to engaging in sexual banter with his assistant. He notes, however, that the subject of his study, the human hand, tempted such banter. Maybe so, but it's a temptation that "the most enlightened person in the world" would want to resist.
McGinn describes his relationship with the student as an "intellectual romance." But the student says she received an email from him saying that the two should have sex in his office during the summer when no one else is around.
McGinn denies sending such an email. However, he admits sending an email that said "had a hand job imagining you giving me a hand job." (This was, after all, an "intellectual romance"). According to McGinn, though, he was referring to a manicure.
The Chronicle suggests that the McGinn affair is emblematic of a larger tale in the world of academic philosophy. It claims that stories of sex harassment "have long plagued the discipline in which fewer than one in five full-time professors are female." Indeed, the American Philosophical Association has established an ad hoc committee on sexual harassment.
Having litigated sex harassment cases, and read the case law, I understand that this form of discrimination can be a particularly big problem in certain traditionally male jobs where female employees are essentially pioneers. Examples include police officer (at one time) and coal miner.
I wouldn't have thought to add philosophy professor to the list, but why not?
The Chronicle says that a sex harassment charge against a tenured professor, whatever the department, almost never results in the accused's departure. But it did in McGinn's case. He resigned from the University of Miami faculty because, he says, it became apparent to him that the University's president, Donna Shalala, was determined to drive him out.
McGinn modestly predicts that his departure will lead to the demise of the U's philosophy department within three years.
Should McGinn have been driven out, assuming that's what happened? His admission of engaging in sexual banter with a student, coupled with the "hand job" email, are enough to show inappropriate conduct that justifies discipline. And if McGinn suggested having sex with a graduate student in his office, the discipline should be severe.
But whether McGinn deserved to be sacked (assuming this is what Shalala wanted) is less clear. Steven Pinker, a professor at Harvard, contends that "the punishment is ludicrously disproportionate to the alleged offense."
I'd feel a bit sorry for McGinn, but how can you feel sorry for the most interesting man in the world?
Stay thirsty, my friends, but mind your manners.
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Too Many Notes?
Posted: 07 Jul 2013 08:14 AM PDT
(Steven Hayward)
Moviegoers may recall the absurd scene near the beginning of Amadeus where Emperor Joseph II (played exquisitely by Jeffrey Jones, perhaps better known as the principal in Ferris Bueller's Day Off) tells Mozart that one of his compositions contains "too many notes." Who knew that the Emperor would be on to a tic of modern liberalism.
When the Reagan Administration arrived in Washington DC in 1981, they found an ongoing Federal Trade Commission antitrust action against the major breakfast cereal companies for the alleged sin of offering . . . too many choices. Reagan's appointees to the FTC took one look at this, said "This is stupid," and dropped the case immediately. The theory behind the case was that the big three cereal companies (Kellogg, General Mills, and Post) constituted an oligopoly that prevented new entrants to the consumer market through the simple expedient of crowding shelf space with endless permutations of Cap'n Crunch. Today, of course, you can find any weird cardboard-and-kitty-litter based cereal you want-and even blend your own-at both regular and at health food stores.
But that's exactly the problem now for the always-dyspeptic Left, which increasingly appears to be "pro-choice" about one thing only. The complaint now is that consumers are offered "too many choices." Matt Ridley points to this TED talk where some nitwit I've never heard of says our surfeit of choices is causing us "anxiety":
In our post-industrial capitalist age, says Salecl, choice, freedom and self have been elevated into an ideal - the ideal. But the flip side are increased feelings of anxiety, guilt and inadequacy at facing the possibility of not "making it" - that is, not reaching the ideal. What's strange, says Salecl, is that increasingly people turn this anxiety inward, indulging in self-critique, rather than social critique. Ultimately this has made us unable to move toward social change; our abundance of choices has made us politically passive.
To paraphrase the old Marxian saw, who knew that existentialism would repeat itself first as a Woody Allen film, and then as postmodern babble. Or, to paraphrase Gabby Johnson from Blazing Saddles, this is some authentic postmodern gibberish. (The phrase "post-industrial capitalist age" is a dead giveaway, isn't it? It's getting so "late" for capitalism that one expects Yogi Berra's old line about it "gets late early" out in left field to be of use in this domain instead of Yankee Stadium.)
Or you can just take in Matt Ridley, who dispatches this nonsense with his usual clarity and directness:
Now, I don't know about you, but last time I was offered blue-cheese, Ranch, French or thousand-island dressing for my salad, I don't remember having a panic attack, or even needing therapy at all. I don't generally find my heartbeat racing or my palms sweating as I contemplate the rows of different brands of toothpaste on the shelves. And I am rather relieved at having been allowed the choice of whom to marry. There are poor teenagers in Indian villages who have none of these choices: I do not envy them.
TED, by the way, stands for "Technology, Entertainment, Design." I think it's time for someone-perhaps Power Line at our long threatened first annual Wine Summit-will innovate with TADD talks: "Totally Awesome Departures from Dimwittery." It's about time.
Meanwhile, Matt Ridley is giving up his Saturday Wall Street Journal column, which was always the first thing I turned to on Saturday mornings. (I was always glad it didn't run Friday, since it would present a dilemma, as Friday's WSJ means one thing: getting my real estate porn fix with their "Mansion" section.") Anyway, Matt's signoff article yesterday lays down a nice hit on "consensus" science, and why it is a corrupt idea. He explains in just a few paragraphs how he went from being a convinced global warming believer to a skeptic. Worth reading the whole thing, but this graph conveys the essence of the problem of appeals to scientific "consensus":
[S]cience does not respect consensus. There was once widespread agreement about phlogiston (a nonexistent element said to be a crucial part of combustion), eugenics, the impossibility of continental drift, the idea that genes were made of protein (not DNA) and stomach ulcers were caused by stress, and so forth-all of which proved false. Science, Richard Feyman once said, is "the belief in the ignorance of experts."
If you'd like your memory filled in, here's the "Too Many Notes" scene from Amadeus:
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Sunday morning coming down
Posted: 07 Jul 2013 06:15 AM PDT
(Scott Johnson)
Solomon Burke - "the King of Rock 'n Soul" - was one of the last great exponents of the pinnacle of Western civilization known as soul music. Burke died in an Amsterdam airport in 2010 at the age of 70.
Burke was the surprise hero of Peter Guralnick's Sweet Soul Music and the subject of a brilliant chapter of the book. (Guralnick named songwriter Dan Penn the "secret hero" of the book. Why? As KFAI's Pete Lee patiently explained to me: "Because he wrote the songs.")
Guralnick quoted the judgment of Atlantic Records mogul Jerry Wexler - a man who worked with Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, Otis Redding and others - when asked to name the greatest of the great soul singers: "Solomon Burke with a borrowed band." John Hinderaker and I saw Burke perform at a fundraising concert at the Fine Line club one evening in downtown Minneapolis in 1990 or so. Burke had a borrowed band that night; I thought we had the privilege of hearing Wexler's judgment vindicated.
Burke's aptly named Soul Alive! recording of 1984 (remastered and reissued in expanded form in 2002) displayed him in his element while providing a moving overview of his career. In one of his latter-day recordings - Nashville, produced by instrumental virtuoso Buddy Miller - Burke recalled the beginning of his career with a return to the country music scene. He was joined by such appreciative artists as Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris, and Patty Griffin in a memorable outing.
Early in his career, in "Everybody Needs Somebody To Love," Burke preached: "There's a song that I sing, and I believe that if everybody was to sing this song, it would save the whole world." It's the spirit that informs most of his work. In the video below Burke is backed by a church-inflected organ while he sings the title song Dan Penn contributed to 2002's Don't Give Up On Me.
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An invitation to fraud
Posted: 07 Jul 2013 05:43 AM PDT
(Scott Johnson)
Over at NRO, Yuval Levin pursues a basic issue raised by the Obama administration's delay of Obamacare's employer mandate, announced this past Tuesday. Following up on the final version of a 600-page regulation released on Friday, Levin observes:
In 2014, applicants can more or less be deemed eligible for subsidies in the state-run exchanges if they say they are eligible. If it has no external sources of information regarding what insurance employers offer, the rule states, "the exchange may accept the applicant's attestation regarding enrollment in an eligible employer-sponsored plan and eligibility for qualifying coverage in an employer-sponsored plan for the benefit year for which coverage is requested without further verification." In fact, the exchanges are not only released from the obligation to verify whether applicants are eligible for employer coverage, they are also released from the obligation to confirm applicants' statements regarding their household incomes before providing them with what is supposed to be an income-based benefit.
Levin adds:
[A]s with the employer-mandate delay, the suspension of verification requirements was justified in the administration's announcement by pointing to the administration's inability to pull off what the law requires. Doing so, the rule states, "would involve a large amount of systems development on both the state and federal side, which cannot occur in time for October 1, 2013." I suspect we'll be hearing more of that in the coming weeks and months.
Levin draws inferences regarding what is happening outside of public view:
The administration's contortions in implementing Obamacare have to be understood in light of the fact that only the administration itself really knows how implementation is going. No one else has anything approaching a complete picture, and particularly not regarding the development of the exchanges. The status of the federally-run exchanges, even more than those to be run by the states, remains simply a mystery. The administration has shared scant little information with the public, and even an investigation by the Government Accountability Office (an arm of the Congress) concluded last month that the likelihood that the exchanges will be ready to launch in October as required by law "cannot yet be determined." The various delays and rule changes announced by the administration are responses to problems they are finding in the process of implementation, and the shape of those responses is among the only clues we have to the shape of the problems they see.
The delay of the individual mandate announced on Tuesday and the delay of the verification requirements for eligibility announced on Friday both suggest the same two kinds of problems: logistical difficulties with getting complex systems into place, and the fear of ending up with too few people in the exchanges.
Thus the invitation to fraud:
Opening the door wide open to fraud could well increase the number of people in the exchanges, but it will also make that number far less meaningful-casting a shadow over whatever is achieved by the enrollment effort set to launch in the fall. It will also, needless to say, increase the cost of the exchange subsidies. The administration is clearly worried enough about enrollment to take that risk and bear that cost. It seems to be operating under the assumption that the way to secure Obamacare's future is to get as many people as possible into the system and receiving subsidies. Maybe they're right, and maybe they're wrong, but they certainly seem increasingly desperate.
Whether Levin's speculation is correct or not, his understanding of the invitation to fraud extended by the Obama administration appears, as they say, to be on the money.
NOTE: With a nod to this Washington Post article, Avik Roy is covering the same territory in a post with four updates that include a citation of Levin's post. Roy's post dives into the regulatory thicket to define the scope of the potential for fraud.
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Who Reads Power Line?
Posted: 06 Jul 2013 03:46 PM PDT
(Steven Hayward)
Marc Landy, that's who. Marc is professor of political science at Boston College, co-author (with Sid Milkis) of one of the best books on the presidency (Presidential Greatness), but is of course best known for his membership in the elite Power Line 100 Best Professors in America roster. We caught up with him in a limo yesterday (yes, a limo-we academics live well . . . sometimes), and here's what he had to say:
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The Weekly Winston: Vindicating the British Empire
Posted: 06 Jul 2013 10:56 AM PDT
(Steven Hayward)
In place of the traditional Churchill meditation that usually appears in this space on the weekends, let's take a detour to one of the areas which contemporary liberals hold against Churchill: the British Empire. For a long time I've been predicting that sooner or later revisionist scholarship would be begin to contest and eventually reverse much of the cliché-ridden leftist line that "colonialism" should be summed up purely as racism, conquest, and exploitation. Here and there revisionist books have appeared, and then there's Harry Crocker's splendid Politically Incorrect Guide to the British Empire, and also Kirk Emmert's fine but out-of-print and hard to find defense of Churchill's humane imperial views, Churchill on Empire.
Bill Kristol writes in to direct our attention to a story appearing in The Express by an Indian author on "The Remarkable Raj: Why Britain Should Be Proud of Its Rule in India."
The period of colonial rule, spanning some 200 years, is routinely depicted as the systematic plundering of a nation. The popular view is that the Empire stripped India of its natural resources and gave little in return, leaving the place all but destitute when independence was finally granted in 1947. Now, however, a new book written by an Anglo-Indian challenges this notion. It asserts that in fact Britain laid the foundations for modern-day India and the prosperity that it enjoys today. The girders for every bridge, the track for every mile of railway and the vast array of machinery required for India's infrastructure were all carried there by the same ships that helped exploit a land thousands of miles away. The engineers who laid the cornerstones for India's development from Third World nation to burgeoning industrial superpower were British. "The indisputable fact is that India as a nation as it stands today was originally put together and created by a small, distant island country," says Dr Kartar Lalvani, founder of the vitamins company Vitabiotics and a former Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year, in the book he has spent the past eight years writing, The Making Of India: A Story Of British Enterprise. It comes out later this year. He adds: "The 'sins' of the Empire have been widely and frequently written about while the other positive side of the imperial coin, of which Britain can be proud and which laid the foundations for modern-day India, has always been overlooked. This is the first book of its kind to recognise Britain's vast contribution to India's social, civil and physical infrastructure provided during two centuries of colonial rule."
If Dr. Lalvani keeps this up, he won't be able to get tenure at an American university.
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The Week in Pictures: Walk Like an Egyptian
Posted: 06 Jul 2013 06:55 AM PDT
(Steven Hayward)
Obama began his week at the wrong end of the African continent from where the really important action is taking place, which is emblematic of his entire presidency. Where's his faculty room confidence about being on "the right side of history" now? Maybe the time has come for Americans to start to "Walk Like an Egyptian."
"I was told William Shatner would be sitting in this seat."
I definitely want these. . .
. . . to go along with this. It's covered by Obamacare!
And finally. . .
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The road to Obamacare, cont'd
Posted: 06 Jul 2013 06:18 AM PDT
(Scott Johnson)
This week the Obama administration announced that it is delaying the implementation of Obamacare's employer responsibility provision. Now employers won't have to worry about compliance with the provision until 2015, after the midterm elections.
The announcement followed best scandal management practices. It was posted without fanfare on the Treasury Department Web site. It was released on the eve of a long holiday weekend. The story was designed to escape the attention of all but those with a legal need to know, almost as though it was something to be ashamed of.
The Wall Street Journal explains the delay in a knowledgeable editorial: "This is probably an admission that Treasury's information technology isn't ready to process and cross-check paperwork across the 5.7 million businesses in America, especially the pass-through S-corps and partnerships that file under the individual tax code. This is more than a typical government snafu. It relates directly to the design of the law, which was thoughtlessly written and rammed through Congress with instructions for the bureaucracy to figure it all out."
There is a larger point to the announcement, referred to in the Journal editorial as its "dubious legality." The road to Obamacare is the road to serfdom.
The announcement fits into the larger pattern of lawlessness with which we have become familiar in the Age of Obama. It has become something of a defining characteristic, an aspect of what Michael Barone first identified as "gangster government" in a May 2009 column on the Chrysler bankruptcy. Mario Loyola observes:
During the presidency of Barack Obama, we've learned something about our Constitution that we did not know: The president can simply refuse to enforce whatever laws he doesn't like. Not as a matter of prosecutorial discretion, mind you, but in general, as to whole categories of people. First it was DOMA, in a sop to the gay lobby. Then it was the immigration laws, which the president has decided not to enforce against young illegal immigrants. Now it's the crucial employer-insurance mandate in Obamacare, which is "suspended" for a year, because the president feels like it. I say "crucial" because, absent the employer mandate, the official estimate of how much Obamacare is going to cost, and how it's going to affect the number of uninsured, is no longer valid.
George Will puts it this way:
Although the Constitution has no Article VIII, the administration acts as though there is one that reads: "Notwithstanding all that stuff in other articles about how laws are made, if a president finds a law politically inconvenient, he can simply post on the White House Web site a notice saying: Never mind."
Loyola elaborates on the point:
The Constitution states that the president "shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed." Not "shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed if he feels like it," which is how the Obama administration apparently reads the provision. Rather, he must see that the laws are faithfully executed, period. Otherwise, there's no point to the veto power. The president can simply decide, by his sole imprimatur, to nullify any law he doesn't like. Alas, there is no way to enforce the president's obligation to see that the laws are faithfully executed. The courts will not issue a mandamus - it is a "political question." It's probably not a "crime or misdemeanor" for him to fail to enforce a law, so he probably can't be impeached for it. The reason presidents have enforced the rule of law is, generally, the people's expectation that they will. But if the president simply ignores the Constitution, and the people cheer him on (as happened during the administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt), then where does that leave us? In the middle of a wide-open Pandora's box, that's where.
This is is a point to which we will undoubtedly have occasion to return in coming days.
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Reading Obama
Posted: 06 Jul 2013 05:49 AM PDT
(Scott Johnson)
ON Wednesday night the White House issued President Obama's statement on events in Egypt including the removal of President Morsi from power. The statement is posted here. Please check it out.
As we have been noting, President Obama early on staked his claim to support of the Muslim Brotherhood as the wave of the future in Egypt. He is therefore disappointed in Morsi's removal and vaguely threatening about the consequences. Here is the operative passage:
[W]e are deeply concerned by the decision of the Egyptian Armed Forces to remove President Morsy and suspend the Egyptian constitution. I now call on the Egyptian military to move quickly and responsibly to return full authority back to a democratically elected civilian government as soon as possible through an inclusive and transparent process, and to avoid any arbitrary arrests of President Morsy and his supporters. Given today's developments, I have also directed the relevant departments and agencies to review the implications under U.S. law for our assistance to the Government of Egypt.
As for the rest, Obama comes across as something of a prim schoolmarm of the kind you loved to hate in grade school. He is long on advice but utterly clueless. It is no accident, as they say, that Obama has made the United States an object of contempt and derision on all sides. Among those who agree on nothing else, this is common ground.
Jonathan Tobin gives Obama's statement a fair reading. Richard Fernandez usefully adds to it. Caroline Glick previews the road ahead.
In his weekly column, Mark Steyn takes the long view, going back, as is Mark's wont, to the CIA's Project Fat F***er. Quotable quote: "Morsi is a good example of what happens when full-blown Islamic rule is put into effect in a country without the benefit of oil. He's your go-to guy when it comes to ramping up the clitoridectomy rate, but he's not so effective when it comes to jump-starting the economy."
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The Times Does Geography
Posted: 05 Jul 2013 03:31 PM PDT
(John Hinderaker)
From today's New York Times Corrections section:
A map on June 22 with the Mount Airy Journal article, about efforts in that North Carolina town to transform it into Mayberry, the fictional town created by Mount Airy's native son, Andy Griffith, labeled incorrectly the state to the immediate west of Virginia. It is Kentucky, not West Virginia.
The map is now gone from the corrected article, but via the Wayback Machine we can recover it. Here it is:
Heh. You can imagine the Times guy: "Hmm, there's Virginia. North is at the top, that means west is to the left, right? Must be West Virginia!" Sure, what we see on the map is just a part of the long West Virginia-Tennessee border.
Always remember: you are smarter than they are.
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State Department denies that Kerry was on yacht during Morsi's ouster
Posted: 05 Jul 2013 03:14 PM PDT
(Paul Mirengoff)
Mosheh Oinounou of CBS has tweeted a photo of John Kerry's yacht, the "Isabel," and claimed that a CBS producer spotted Kerry on board Wednesday, the day of Mohammed Morsi's ouster. According to Oinounou, when the producer shouted "Morsi," she received no response.
However, the State Department denies that Kerry was on his yacht during the crisis. And it insists that, although he wasn't in Washington at the national security team meetings on Egypt, he participated "by secure phone and was and is in non-stop contact with foreign leaders, and his senior team in Washington and Cairo."
Such participation is not inconsistent with yachting. Thus, it doesn't matter if Kerry was on the "Isabel," though the idea is amusing.
Indeed, it doesn't really matter whether Kerry participated in the Washington meetings. We're not talking about William Seward, John Hay, or Dean Acheson here.
Nor is it likely that even these giants could have contributed anything of consequence. By Wednesday, the U.S. had already sidelined itself due to the previous poor decisions of the Obama administration.
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The end of Obama's Egypt amateur hour
Posted: 05 Jul 2013 08:52 AM PDT
(Paul Mirengoff)
David Goldman shows, among other things, that the Egyptian coup signals that Saudi Arabia, not the U.S., will have the leading foreign role in Egypt's affairs going forward. At the risk of sounding unpatriotic, that's probably a good thing for Egypt under the present circumstances.
I have suggested, and Goldman goes a long way toward demonstrating, that the Egyptian turmoil is more about economics than politics. The Saudis might just be able to keep Egypt financially afloat and better fed.
Moreover, even from a political point of view, Egypt is probably better off taking its cues from the Saudis than from President Obama. As Goldman says: "The notion that [the Muslim Brotherhood's] band of Jew-hating jihadi thugs might become the vehicle for a transition to a functioning Muslim democracy was perhaps the stupidest notion to circulate in Washington in living memory."
But military control propped up by Saudi economic support is not a long-term answer. For one thing, it's far from clear that the Saudi regime will remain in power over that term.
In my opinion, the long-term answer, if Egypt has one, resides in the rise of freedom and democracy as Islamism recedes (waves of that sort of religious fanaticism tend to). Unfortunately, with the Saudis behind them, it's far from clear that the Egyptian military will take even baby steps in the direction of freedom and democracy.
We see here another significant failure of the Obama administration. Instead of trying to work with the military - the only force capable of countering the Muslim Brotherhood - to ease Egypt down the road to freedom and democracy, Obama bet on the Brotherhood, a losing horse and an evil one.
Presumably, he thereby earned the contempt of the military, which is now in charge. At a minimum, he ensured that the military will take its cues from the anti-democracy Saudis.
But as I said, this may be better, all things considered, than the alternative right now. It's not easy to disagree with Goldman's assessment that the judgment of Prince Bandar is preferable to that of John Kerry, Susan Rice, or John McCain.
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What patriotism is not
Posted: 05 Jul 2013 07:54 AM PDT
(Paul Mirengoff)
Dana Milbank defends the patriotism of Samantha Power which, he says, was publicly questioned the other day by Frank Gaffney, Allen West, and others. The quotations Milbank cites do not use the word "patriotism," but they scathingly imply that Power lacks that attribute.
Milbank assures us, however, that he knew Power in college and "was unaware that she was un-American." I wouldn't put much stock in this, though. John Hinderaker was my best friend in college during the late 1960s-early 1970s, and I was unaware, back then, that he was pro-American (and he certainly could say the same thing about me).
On a more serious note, Milbank claims that Gaffney and the others are conflating the advocacy of policies one opposes with lack of patriotism. But Milbank's analysis is too facile.
There are some policy disagreements that bear on one's patriotism. If one were to argue that the U.S. should give up its independence to a foreign power, that position would be unpatriotic.
There might, in the future, be defensible policy reasons for such a move (we might be financially broke and the foreign power might offer us a great deal; see the former East Germany), just as there seemed to be defensible policy reasons for disagreeing with the first American patriots when they fought for independence from Great Britain.
But it would still be unpatriotic to want to cede control over our lives and national destiny to foreigners.
Samantha Power hasn't called for the U.S. to become subordinate to another nation. But to the extent that she wants the U.S. to cede to an international body the right to decide (not to influence, but to decide) matters that Americans now decide, she is - other things being even close to equal - considerably less patriotic than those who want Americans to make their own decisions.
And the same would be true of President Obama, who plucked Power from academic obscurity.
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Mr. Solomon's wisdom
Posted: 05 Jul 2013 05:20 AM PDT
(Scott Johnson)
Attending the Upper Midwest Employment Law Institute in St. Paul this past May, I was only seeking to fulfill my continuing legal education requirement. I wasn't looking for politics, but at the institute's plenary morning session I found myself listening to NLRB acting general counsel Lafe Solomon. Solomon is a newsmaker worthy of general attention, a perfect representative of the lawlessness at the heart of the Obama administration.
Representing an agency that is in legal limbo as a result of Obama's putatively unconstitutional appointments to it, Solomon is carrying a heavy load. In his remarks before the employment law institute in May, Solomon conveyed a mournful angst and subliminal anger about the situation in which the board finds itself. I failed to capture that spirit in the photograph Solomon let me snap before his remarks at the breakout session.
In her weekly Wall Street Journal column Kim Strassel now finds Solomon to be "The lord of U.S. labor policy." Strassel explores the deepening legal limbo of the board and the shenanigans of its combative acting general counsel. Solomon is flailing manfully in a bad cause:
Right now, the NLRB is the only weapon the administration can wield on behalf of Big Labor. The need to placate that most powerful special interest was behind Mr. Obama's decision to install his illegal recess appointments in the first place, and it explains the NLRB's continuing defiance of courts and Congress. Mr. Solomon's wisdom is the Obama philosophy of raw power, in all its twisted glory.
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Obama's tax holiday for employers
Posted: 04 Jul 2013 01:01 PM PDT
(Paul Mirengoff)
A friend offers the following observations about President Obama's decision to delay the implementation of Obamacare's employer responsibility provision:
The "delay" in Obamacare doesn't amount to anything that one can take legal cognizance of. PPACA provides that, beginning in 2014, employers with more than 50 full-time employees must provide them health insurance or else the employer is subject to a penalty (really a tax per the Roberts court). What came out [on Tuesday] was a statement by the Administration that we're not planning to "enforce" this statutory requirement - that is, we're not going to "collect" that tax - until 2015. But what does this "representation" by the government actually amount to? Nothing, it seems to me. If, at the end of 2014, the feds turned around and told all the big companies to "pay up, you didn't provide X number of your employees with health insurance in 2014," what relief would the employers have? None, it seems to me. Estoppel doesn't run against the government. [The] announcement doesn't constitute anything, really. I take this a step further. How can Obama decide for the "independent" IRS what tax laws it will and will not enforce? Hasn't he just thrown a lot of gasoline on the fire that is his administration's politicization of the IRS?
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Reporting From the Land of the Free [UPDATED With Firearms and Fireworks]
Posted: 04 Jul 2013 07:47 AM PDT
(John Hinderaker)
Power Line has a 4th of July tradition: Scott writes moving and profound meditations on the Declaration and the Founding, while I go to South Dakota and blow things up. Today finds me, once again, in my home town. This year we have firearms as well as fireworks on the agenda, so we will enjoy gunpowder in its manifold forms. I will update this post, or add new ones, over the course of the day. Happy Independence Day!
UPDATE: We began the morning at Lew's, a fireworks emporium on the outskirts of town. You can buy pretty much anything there. Here are two of my daughters with our shopping cart, about to check out:
Here they are in the sparkler/parachute aisle:
One innovation this year is a line of fireworks honoring the local high school sports teams, the Arrows. Their colors are purple and gold:
As in prior years, the centerpiece of our fireworks purchases was a large box that contains a reloadable mortar and 24 shells. As we were checking out, we chatted with the people behind us in line. We mentioned that we were going to shoot this afternoon, and set off fireworks tonight. They thought that sounded like an excellent plan. The girl who was ringing up our fireworks volunteered that her family had done its shooting last night: long guns and handguns, the calibers of which she rattled off. Sadly, the odds would be against this kind of conversation where we live in the Minneapolis suburbs.
So we picked up my brother and one of his .22 rifles and headed for the outdoor public range where we shot last December. Unfortunately, it was closed from July 1 through July 15, so we went with Plan B: a wood pile in a meadow near where my brother lives. We started with the rifle:
Then we moved closer to the targets and broke out the handguns: my brother's .22, my Sig .22, and my Armalite AR-24 and Sig P938. My 16-year-old hit the target's bulls-eye with one round:
Daughter number two with a semiauto pistol
The girls were rather proud of their shooting. Here they have finished and are checking out the targets:
So now we are back at the lake. First, some rib eye steaks; then, when it starts getting dark, we will start in on the fireworks.
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July 4, Ashbrook Style
Posted: 04 Jul 2013 05:40 AM PDT
(Steven Hayward)
So I'm team-teaching an intensive (six hours a day in the classroom, which is one reason posts are erratic this week) course on the Cold War this week at the Ashbrook Center at Ashland University. But all is not spies and beatdowns on the Soviet Union. Here's how we roll at the Ashbrook Center (at least at last night's warm-up party at Roger Beckett's well-stocked house):
Stephen Tootle (College of the Sequoias), Moi, and Marc Landy (Boston College):
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The eternal meaning of Independence Day
Posted: 04 Jul 2013 05:07 AM PDT
(Scott Johnson)
On July 9, 1858, Illinois Senator Stephen Douglas gave a campaign speech to a raucous throng from the balcony of the Tremont Hotel in Chicago. Abraham Lincoln was in the audience when Douglas prepared to speak. Douglas invited Lincoln to come join him on the balcony to watch the speech. In his speech Douglas sounded the themes of the momentous campaign that Lincoln and Douglas waged that summer and fall for Douglas's Senate seat.
Douglas paid tribute to Lincoln as a "kind, amiable, and intelligent gentleman, a good citizen and an honorable opponent," but took issue with Lincoln's June 16 speech to the Illinois Republican convention that had named him its candidate for Douglas's seat. In that speech Lincoln had famously asserted that the nation could not exist "half slave and half free." According to Douglas, Lincoln's assertion was inconsistent with the "diversity" in domestic institutions that was "the great safeguard of our liberties." Then as now, "diversity" was a shibboleth hiding an evil institution that could not be defended on its own terms.
Douglas responded to Lincoln's condemnation of the Supreme Court's Dred Scott decision - a condemnation that was the centerpiece of Lincoln's convention speech. "I am free to say to you," Douglas said, "that in my opinion this government of ours is founded on the white basis. It was made by the white man, for the benefit of the white man, to be administered by white men, in such manner as they should determine."
Lincoln invited Douglas's audience to return the next evening for his reply to Douglas's speech. Lincoln's speech of July 10, 1858, is one of his many great speeches, but in one respect it is uniquely great. It concludes with an explanation of the meaning of this day to Americans with matchless eloquence and insight in words that remain as relevant now as then.
Now, it happens that we meet together once every year, sometime about the 4th of July, for some reason or other. These 4th of July gatherings I suppose have their uses. If you will indulge me, I will state what I suppose to be some of them. We are now a mighty nation, we are thirty-or about thirty millions of people, and we own and inhabit about one-fifteenth part of the dry land of the whole earth. We run our memory back over the pages of history for about eighty-two years and we discover that we were then a very small people in point of numbers, vastly inferior to what we are now, with a vastly less extent of country,-with vastly less of everything we deem desirable among men,-we look upon the change as exceedingly advantageous to us and to our posterity, and we fix upon something that happened away back, as in some way or other being connected with this rise of prosperity. We find a race of men living in that day whom we claim as our fathers and grandfathers; they were iron men, they fought for the principle that they were contending for; and we understood that by what they then did it has followed that the degree of prosperity that we now enjoy has come to us. We hold this annual celebration to remind ourselves of all the good done in this process of time of how it was done and who did it, and how we are historically connected with it; and we go from these meetings in better humor with ourselves-we feel more attached the one to the other, and more firmly bound to the country we inhabit. In every way we are better men in the age, and race, and country in which we live for these celebrations. But after we have done all this we have not yet reached the whole. There is something else connected with it. We have besides these men-descended by blood from our ancestors-among us perhaps half our people who are not descendants at all of these men, they are men who have come from Europe-German, Irish, French and Scandinavian-men that have come from Europe themselves, or whose ancestors have come hither and settled here, finding themselves our equals in all things. If they look back through this history to trace their connection with those days by blood, they find they have none, they cannot carry themselves back into that glorious epoch and make themselves feel that they are part of us, but when they look through that old Declaration of Independence they find that those old men say that "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal," and then they feel that that moral sentiment taught in that day evidences their relation to those men, that it is the father of all moral principle in them, and that they have a right to claim it as though they were blood of the blood, and flesh of the flesh of the men who wrote that Declaration [loud and long continued applause], and so they are. That is the electric cord in that Declaration that links the hearts of patriotic and liberty-loving men together, that will link those patriotic hearts as long as the love of freedom exists in the minds of men throughout the world. [Applause.] Now, sirs, for the purpose of squaring things with this idea of "don't care if slavery is voted up or voted down" [Douglas's "popular sovereignty" position on the extension of slavery to the territories], for sustaining the Dred Scott decision [A voice---"Hit him again"], for holding that the Declaration of Independence did not mean anything at all, we have Judge Douglas giving his exposition of what the Declaration of Independence means, and we have him saying that the people of America are equal to the people of England. According to his construction, you Germans are not connected with it. Now I ask you in all soberness, if all these things, if indulged in, if ratified, if confirmed and endorsed, if taught to our children, and repeated to them, do not tend to rub out the sentiment of liberty in the country, and to transform this Government into a government of some other form. Those arguments that are made, that the inferior race are to be treated with as much allowance as they are capable of enjoying; that as much is to be done for them as their condition will allow. What are these arguments? They are the arguments that kings have made for enslaving the people in all ages of the world. You will find that all the arguments in favor of king-craft were of this class; they always bestrode the necks of the people, not that they wanted to do it, but because the people were better off for being ridden. That is their argument, and this argument of the Judge is the same old serpent that says you work and I eat, you toil and I will enjoy the fruits of it. Turn in whatever way you will-whether it come from the mouth of a King, an excuse for enslaving the people of his country, or from the mouth of men of one race as a reason for enslaving the men of another race, it is all the same old serpent, and I hold if that course of argumentation that is made for the purpose of convincing the public mind that we should not care about this, should be granted, it does not stop with the negro. I should like to know if taking this old Declaration of Independence, which declares that all men are equal upon principle and making exceptions to it where will it stop. If one man says it does not mean a negro, why not another say it does not mean some other man? If that declaration is not the truth, let us get the Statute book, in which we find it and tear it out! Who is so bold as to do it! [Voices---"me" "no one," &c.] If it is not true let us tear it out! [cries of "no, no,"] let us stick to it then [cheers], let us stand firmly by it then. [Applause.]
Thank you, Mr. Lincoln. Let us stick to it then. Let us stand firmly by it then. (Posted annually since 2004.)
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Up in my Grill
Posted: 04 Jul 2013 04:18 AM PDT
(Steven Hayward)
In addition to observing our civic obligation to meditate on the Declaration of Independence, it's also a prime day to celebrate the Great American Barbecue. And just in time, our pal Remy Munasifi is out with a brief video (just over a minute long) observance of how the government is out to screw that up too:
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More Obamite Hypocrisy
Jul 07, 2013 06:13 am | Coach Collins
By Bruce Karlson, staff writer
In 2009, Manuel Zelaya, a leftist thug, thief and "business partner" of Cesar Chavez was president of Honduras. He had long been mismanaging the nation via payoffs to supportive unions (sound familiar?), and was planning an illegal election to cement his power.
There being no Constitutional method to remove him, both the Congress and the Judiciary asked the Military to assist in said removal. This they did and Vice President Roberto Micheletti took power as required by their Constitution. At no time did the military have power...not one second.
The craven Obamites and all allies, SEIU, etc. demanded that the odious Zelaya be returned to power or they would starve the country, which is rarely very far from starvation in normal times. Along with their buddy Cesar and other "democrats", the Obama/Clinton regime had no difficulty calling it a coup. There was enormous suffering, particularly among the poor; hunger and sickness were more ... Continue Reading:More Obamite Hypocrisy
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These morons gave us Obama and are too stupid to realize how screwed they are
Jul 06, 2013 01:13 pm | Coach Collins
Watch as a bunch of drooling half-witted college students proudly display their ignorance of why we celebrate Independence Day. They seem to be trying to prove how Un-Old-White-Man they are by laughing at questions about American history because "it's meaningless dude." These morons worked and voted for their own enslavement under the reign of "Cool King Barack" and have no idea who King George was. Let's hope they enjoy it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UoM3MAHxcs
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Buyer's Remorse, The Reality of the Arab Spring
Jul 06, 2013 06:13 am | Coach Collins
by Jim Emerson, staff writer
The removal of "duly elected" Muslim Brotherhood President Mohammed Morsi represents an instance of the Egyptian Military supporting the will of the people. (1) The military suspended the constitution and appointed the Supreme Justice of Egypt's Supreme Constitutional Court, Adly Mansour, interim president until the next presidential election. And in view of the western media predictably screaming "Coup d'état" because a Democrat favored dictator was forcibly removed, the military showed a lot of restraint. The facts were clear: Morsi failed, a lousy economy was growing worse and the implementation of Sharia law didn't sit well with the pro-democracy movement. The Egyptian military has evolved from its pro-dictator roots to become the guardian of the people. How disappointed Mr. Obama must be that his favorite Islamic dictator was removed and arrested.
Muslim Brotherhood
The terror-sponsoring power which seeks the overthrow of Arab governments is the Muslim brotherhood. Founded in Egypt ... Continue Reading:Buyer's Remorse, The Reality of the Arab Spring
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Americans can stop ObamaCare by targeting its Achilles Heel
Jul 05, 2013 01:38 pm | Coach Collins
by Doug Book, editor
ObamaCare Exchanges, the online marketplaces for health care in the states, are due to begin enrolling applicants on October 1st of 2013. It's a date which should begin a most satisfying period in the lives of those who feel for Barack Obama the same overarching contempt he harbours for us. For neither Regime apologists nor media lackeys will be able to prevent the American public witnessing first hand the stunning train wreck that is the Affordable Care Act.
Exchanges are the lifeblood of Obama's namesake healthcare plan. In each state, it will be the job of an online exchange to enroll applicants, offer comparison shopping for plans, dole out subsidies and tax credits and impose penalties. According to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) "exchanges will make it easier for consumers to compare plans on the basis of price, quality, and benefits." (1) In fact, without these 1 stop shopping centers, the Affordable ... Continue Reading:Americans can stop ObamaCare by targeting its Achilles Heel
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Jeb Bush disqualifies himself as GOP nominee in 2016: That's one down and a dozen or so to go
Jul 05, 2013 06:13 am | Coach Collins
By Emma Karlin, staff writer
Election years that have no incumbent president make for crowded Democrat and Republican primaries. Consequently, the quicker a Party settles on a nominee the quicker it can start to coalesce behind the person they want to put in the White House. When a potential candidate disqualifies himself early on, it is very helpful. Jeb Bush the former Governor of Florida has disqualified himself and therefore has become helpful to the Republican selection process.
Bush has co-authored an opinion piece urging House Republicans to do Chuck Schumer's bidding and pass an amnesty bill. Making baseless claims that adding as many as 40 million unskilled and disinterested people will somehow make America better and stronger, Bush reminds us of why he should never be president.
Following the RINO/Democrat mantra of blame America first Bush makes the totally illogical assertion that, "Illegal immigration results now because there are too few lawful low-skill job opportunities for immigrants."
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Watch a Democrat congressman remind us of why we have to fight these people
Jul 04, 2013 02:13 pm | Coach Collins
Alan Grayson is many things, a bigot a fool a vicious anti-American swine, but watching him does serve an important purpose. He reminds us of why we cannot EVER let these people rule us again.
http://shark-tank.net/2013/07/03/bonilla-blasts-alan-graysons-bigotry-double-standard/
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Today's LifeSiteNews blogposts:
Pro-abort mom on IUD shocked to find out she's 6-months pregnant: what happens next is amazing... - John Jalsevac
What Joyce Arthur wants to hide - Jonathon van Maren
Encyclical shows seamless transition from Benedict to Francis - Elise Hilton
All Ireland Rally for Life in Dublin on July 6 - BE THERE! - Hilary White, Rome Correspondent
Who is going to join the Duggars at the pro-life rally in Texas Monday night? - John-Henry Westen
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One mom, present with her 11-year-old Girl Scout daughter, described the occasion as "historic."
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"Those people who have already ruined their society...let them not become our teachers to tell us where to go," said Cardinal John Njue, Archbishop of Nairobi and president of the Kenyan Episcopal Conference.
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Titled Lumen Fidei (The Light of Faith), the encyclical, which was released this morning, is known to have been authored mainly by Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI.
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"We thank Governor Walker for signing this important piece of legislation into law," said Susan Armacost, Legislative Director of Wisconsin Right to Life.
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"She took you from me before I even existed...before I could do anything."
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Bishop John Paprocki of Springfield, Illinois, invoked the Roe v. Wade decision in his statement on the high court's decision to strike down a portion of the federal Defense of Marriage Act.
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Jacqueline C. Harvey, Ph.D., has launched the Reproductive Research Audit to fact-check the abortion lobby's research.
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"The connection between Jesus and a person's life was not clear," said one atheist named Stephanie.
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In other words, if Catholics fail to clean up their own healthcare houses and abide by Church teaching in every aspect, then we deserve to live under the oppression of Obama and his cronies.
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"The UN was created to solve world problems like hunger, education, medicine, survival and security, and it's really sad that almost every debate devolves into controversial sexual rights," The president of Family Watch International, told LifeSiteNews.
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This isn't your typical beauty pageant.
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LifeSiteNews.com has obtained an e-mail saying that Cardinal Sean Brady assured that no such interpretation "could be taken from his first letter and reminding him of the relevant aspects of Evangelium Vitae."
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The conservative justices' dissents are like flares signaling the path that marriage proponents must take from here.
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UNICEF defines adolescents as minors between 10 to 19 years of age.
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Earlier this month the Vatican celebrated the remembrance of Pope John Paul II's signature encyclical the "Gospel of Life."
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The CCNE is in favor of "passive euthanasia": withdrawing hydration and nutrients at the request of an individual facing the end of his life.
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The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) spent $4,861,000 in China last year for "population dynamics programs," "family planning," and other population control programs.
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July 05, 2013
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On Today's Program
 It's here! Man in the Moon is less than 24 hours away!
Will you be attending Man in the Moon? Share all your photos and tweets using #ManInTheMoon. GlennBeck.com will highlight some of this content throughout the weekend. Not able to make it to Salt Lake City? For all the latest news and updates make sure to connect with the Man in the Moon social hub for exclusive stories, pictures, and tweets from TheBlaze team and attendees HERE.
Get LIVE coverage of Man in the Moon from TheBlaze Radio Network
Not in Salt Lake City? Get complete coverage of Man in the Moon from TheBlaze Radio Network. TheBlaze Radio Network is on the ground in Salt Lake City and will be broadcasting all of the Man in the Moon festivities LIVE beginning at 10am ET/8am MT tomorrow, Saturday, July 6th. Don't miss a minute of the action. Listen for free HERE.
Egyptian Army declares state of emergency
Many are refusing to call the Egyptian Military's ousting of President Mohammed Morsi a coup, but one thing is certain, the situation in Egypt is anything but stable. The Egyptian Army has now declared a state of emergency in South Sinai and Suez after an airport in El Arish was attacked by armed Islamist gunmen. MORE
Man in the Moon: Glenn Beck unplugged
This morning, Glenn spoke to a packed house in the Grand Ballroom at the Grand America Hotel in Salt Lake City, Utah. The event was an unplugged Q&A session between Glenn and the fans who traveled from all over the country to attend the Man in the Moon. Glenn spoke candidly about the movement he hopes this event will spark and the future he sees for the American Dreams Lab. Get a full recap of the Q&A.
Man in the Moon is sponsored by Food Insurance, FreedomWorks, Solutions from Science, Target Focus Training, and Liberty Alliance.
Zimmerman Trial Day 9: Trayvon Martin's mother testifies
Forensic experts and voice-analysts have already said the screams from the 911 call on the night of Trayvon Martin's death could not be accurately attributed to either Trayvon Martin or George Zimmerman, but that didn't stop Trayvon's mother from testifying that the screams were in fact those of her late son. But what did Trayvon's brother say? WATCH
Educational, informative and exciting! Learn more about the history of the nation we all call home with the U.S. History 5 DVD pack.
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Limited Time Offer: Sign up for TheBlaze TV and get the Man in the Moon DVD! Today thru Friday, July 12, purchase an annual subscription to TheBlaze TV for $99.95 and you'll receive the Man in the Moon DVD as soon as it becomes available later this year, absolutely free! Man in the Moon takes place this week in Salt Lake City and promises to be a can't miss event. Since the event will not be televised, this is your chance to get an up close look at the making of and execution of the event. Take advantage of this special limited time offer HERE. You won't believe how many people showed up for the 'Line in the Sand' rally On Monday, Glenn interviewed Pastor Robert Dekker of the New Covenant Presbyterian Church in Lewes, Delaware who was denied permits to host a Sunday morning service on Rehoboth Beach because of 'separation of church and state.' Pastor Dekker decided to stand his ground, planning a service, aptly named 'Line in the Sand' in 'defiance of tyranny' for July 4th. Well, the service happened as planned yesterday, and the crowd was nothing short of remarkable. Get the full story via TheBlaze HERE. PHOTO DIARY: What's it like working for Glenn during Man in the Moon? Paige Perry, a producer for the Glenn Beck Program, has been in Salt Lake City all week, capturing some amazing photos of Glenn and the team as they gear up for tomorrow's big event. Paige shares her photos and insights from the week HERE. Join Glenn at a Walk for Hope: Mercury One Raising Awareness for Huntsman Cancer Foundation Join Glenn in supporting Mercury One's second annual "Day of Service." On Saturday, July 6th Mercury One will be holding a 5k walk/run called Walk for Hope. Your participation will help raise awareness for the vital work supported by the Huntsman Cancer Foundation. We will meet you at Liberty Park in Salt Lake City and show our support together. Register for the event HERE. All the news you need, delivered right to the palm of your hand! Download TheBlaze iOS app to watch live and on-demand video from TheBlaze TV and much more! Plus, with the new TheBlaze newsreader, access to breaking news from TheBlaze.com is easier than ever! Download TheBlaze iOS App HERE. WATCH: Congressman praises Michelle Malkin during Independence Week speech in SLC Michelle Malkin rallied the crowd during her speech at the Man in the Moon Independence Speaker Series last night. From lambasting Democrats for their attempt to offer "amnesty," to discussing her own family's immigration story, the commentator mixed quips with passionate commentary. But the big surprise was when Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) stood up during the Q&A portion of the program to praise Malkin. Watch the exchange. This is what the Obama recovery looks like? The Bureau of Labor Statistics released the June employment statistics this morning, and despite adding 195,000 jobs last month, the unemployment rate remains stagnant at 7.6%. What does this mean for the economy? READ PHOTO DIARY: See the incredible items that didn't make it into the 'Independence Through History' museum Glenn has worked long and hard to curate the spectacular items now on display at the 'Independence Through History' museum in Salt Lake City, but you might be surprised to see what incredible artifacts missed the cut. Jon Miller, a producer for the Glenn Beck Program, shares his photos from the museum setup HERE. Want up to the minute news & analysis from TheBlaze? Connect with us on social media. FOLLOW TheBlaze on Twitter and LIKE TheBlaze on Facebook to get the latest news updates directly in your newsfeed. Backstage at Man in the Moon: David Barton talks about Man in the Moon TheBlaze TV's Liberty Treehouse is on the scene in Salt Lake City, with host Raj Nair providing behind-the-scenes video updates as Glenn and the team prepare for Independence Week and Man in the Moon. Raj caught up with David Barton outside the 'Independence Through History' museum to get David's thoughts on the week and tomorrow night's show. WATCH Follow all of Raj's behind-the-scenes updates from #ManInTheMoon HERE The sequel to The Overton Window has finally arrived! Glenn's blockbuster novel from 2010 now continues with The Eye of Moloch - a thriller that's seemingly been ripped right from today's headlines. Follow Molly and her group of 'Founders Keepers' as they work to expose the secrets of a government that wants them dead. If you're looking for a summer beach read or just something to help you get even less sleep at night, The Eye of Moloch is a perfect choice. Buy a copy now and get an invite to an exclusive online event with Glenn. Get all the details HERE. Tonight's primetime lineup on TheBlaze TV: - 5pm ET - The Glenn Beck Program: With just one day to go before Man in the Moon, Glenn looks back at last year's big event, Restoring Love.
- 6pm ET - Real News: Real News highlights the 'game changers of history' on this Real History special.
- 7pm ET - Wilkow!: Join Andrew for his unvarnished take on today's headlines.
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UESDAY HUMOR
Obama Beauty Pageant Questions
July 2, 2013
Caleb Bonham took to the streets and asked Obama supporters the same questions from infamous beauty pageant viral videos. Were Obama supporters able to give coherent responses?Watch Video »
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